We all have wanted to get “there”. We’ve all wanted to escape our present circumstances and move on to what we think is better. But what if “here” is right where God wants us to be? In our new series Here Is Holy, Pastor Mike shows us how to ignore “there”, and focus on the here and now.
00:00 – Intro
07:06 – Here: in this place, locally, as opposed to there
08:10 – Holy: set apart, other than, declared sacred
08:56 – Here Is Holy definition
17:48 – James chapter 1 verses 2 through 4
20:35 – Sanctification is the action of making or declaring something holy
23:35 – Matthew chapter 6 verses 31 through 34
27:42 – I can love it here, because I’m loved here
31:19 – Romans chapter 8 verses 35 through 39
38:13 – Exodus chapter 3 verse 1
39:29 – God specializes in making regular spectacular
42:09 – God will use a common situation to invite YOU into an extraordinary calling
44:23 – God will test your willingness in the wilderness
49:00 – Exodus chapter 3 verse 2
52:42 – The place that is on fire in your life is a meeting place with God
56:38 – Exodus chapter 3 verse 3
58:23 – Confusing situations are many times God confronting you with your calling
01:00:37 – Stay curious even when you are confused
01:02:11 – Exodus chapter 3 verse 4
01:03:17 – When you step, God speaks
01:04:47 – Exodus chapter 3 verse 4
01:05:06 – Don’t doubt your calling here
01:09:10 – Here I am is the proper response when God calls you
01:10:58 – Exodus chapter 3 verse 5
01:20:20 – What kept you back there is not allowed here
welcome to week one
of a series we are calling here is holy
if you’re excited let’s give god some
praise right there
hallelujah
all right
so i’m about to walk you through
how we got to this phrase of the year
that god is allowing us to gather our
faith around if you’re new around here
we want to say welcome we want to say
we’ve prayed for you this week we want
to say that we don’t care what you were
doing yesterday last night or what
you’re planning to do tomorrow we
believe that this has been a divine
interruption of your life to give you
divine revelation you are not too bad
you have not gone too far to get outside
of the grace and the love of god and the
one speaking to you has jacked up and
messed up thousands of times but somehow
god has seen in his love to continue to
use me over and over and over and over
again and today i’m letting you know
that i’m living proof that you are not
too damaged for god to use what’s left
i need to let you know somebody’s
tugging on me this is not even where i
was going to go but god told me to tell
you that you feel like damaged goods
right now but the value is still inside
of you and god is going to do something
so strategic and unusual with your life
if you would just give him a big yes
today my prayer is that for whoever you
are and for all of us who are playing
church
and being religious and lukewarm
that we would give god a complete shout
at me yes
um i feel like what my assignment is
today
is going to be more um
of a diagnosis of where we are
so that we can actually get the right
prescription next week
and we can actually start a process of
healing after that
the problem with the church is a lot of
time we heal what’s not broken
we’re prescribing medicine
that doesn’t actually touch the
pain and i believe that god has has like
a doctor a physician shown me where we
are and show me what we need to do for
the rest of 2022 so that we can
understand the purpose that god has
called us to and that means that we have
to recognize some things everybody say
here
that’s going to prepare us for there
so let me just run this thing all the
way back to december 11 2020.
i didn’t think that this was going to be
uh uh an amazing day or anything i just
woke up thinking it was going to be
another day that god’s faithfulness is
good and
we gathered in an airbnb right here in
tulsa with some of our worship team and
staff
and god told me he said this is the
season when i want you to begin to write
songs that the world will sing but i
want you to write them for your church
and i want you to write songs for your
church that speak to where the church is
don’t think about any charts don’t think
about any any other worship bands don’t
think i just want you to write what i
give you
so we got in that room and we begin to
pray
and literally the first song that came
was here is holy
the song you just heard was the first
song that god gave us and i’m not really
thinking much about it because that was
one of ten songs that we wrote and i’m
talking about good songs we wrote ten
songs in two days and anybody that’s
heard it already know is fire
transformation nation wait on us
because here is holy
um
and so i didn’t think anything of it but
what it was was a seed that god knew i
would need
he gave me something in a season that i
was not even paying attention
that i would need 408 days later
we are 408 days
from when god first said here is holy to
me
and i was like okay but every year i go
on a sabbatical and i begin to ask god
what are you saying for the church for
the next year because you know this
church is built on strong vision because
where there is no vision the people
perish the cast offers strength and
we’re going to be focused on the vision
that god has called us to do so i said
what are you saying this year and if you
don’t know anything about us every year
god gives us a word and we center all of
our faith all of our giving all of our
instructions around that word and god
begins to speak and for seven years it
has been spot on
and literally god said i i’m giving you
um what i already gave you
and i was like god i don’t want no
warmed up word i don’t want no
microwavable leftover word he said no no
he said you’ve never eaten this one
before
he said i showed you what it was but you
haven’t you haven’t digested this
he said the word for this year is here
is holy i said god there’s a problem
with that
it ain’t a word
that’s a phrase
that’s more than one word and god
honestly for what you’re doing is some
out of the norm because you see the
other words have been really able to
work good for promotion and they’ve been
able to work good for for the branding
you know i’m saying release and beyond
and he said do you want
my words
or do you want your word
so i’m okay okay i got you i’m gonna
take your words and he said here
is
holy
i tried to ignore it
tried to hope that god would give me
something else sexier to brand
because you know everybody like what
y’all talking about here is holy uh
what
people don’t even have concept
and god said i’m about to make an
example out of people’s lives who get
the words that i speak
it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t work
branding wise
it works for transformation
not the church
your life
and i said okay god here is holy in
september he confirmed it
i was in a hotel
fasting and praying
and god said this is how strong it was
to me y’all he said if you ask me again
what the word of the year is
and i’ve already told you
it’s not going to be good
i called brie at that moment i said the
word of the year
has just been upgraded to a phrase
here is holy and she said oh yeah and
she acted like she knew what it meant
but she didn’t
cause i didn’t
the thing i want to let you know is that
god is not committed to you
understanding he’s committed to your
obedience
and somebody needs to hear that very
clearly right now at the top he will
reveal understanding
if you will be
obedient
it was getting on it was getting printed
on shirts
for staff advance
before i had full revelation
of what god wanted to do through this
and then he started walking me through
this and i need you to write down these
definitions y’all we’re going to class
today and i promise you if you take good
copious notes today you’re going to get
a fast pass in heaven that’s what pastor
charles says and and you’re going to be
able to understand and come back to the
instructions that god gives at the
beginning for the rest of your year
here the definition of here check this
out
in this place
locally
my favorite definition right here watch
this
opposed
to there
here
is the enemy of there
if i’m focused on here
i don’t give any attention
to there
it is the opponent the opposite the
antithesis of their you cannot be fully
committed to hear when you’re giving
your attention to there
somebody shot at me here
oh i’m about to preach this thing
and then he said is holy
okay holy
it means set apart
completely other than
declared
sacred
like like if something is holy
it is set apart you cannot be liked by
everybody and be holy
uh-oh
you cannot get committee agreement
for all of your
ideas
situations
assignments
and be completely set apart
he said i’m declaring this year
everybody shouted me holy
so so let me give you the working
definition for here is holy for this
series you need we’re going to come back
to this every week here is holy
it’s the awareness
that your current situation is sacred
and being intentionally used by god
to prepare you for your purpose
it’s opposed to there
here
is
holy
i’m aware that no matter what my current
situation is
god
is using this situation
sacredly
intentionally
to prepare me
for the purpose he called me for that i
don’t know about yet
[Music]
you will not
know your purpose before you’re prepared
for it
the training comes before the reining
we’re looking to have a position and we
have a lack of preparation
and what god is saying is i want you to
consecrate all of 2022
separate it
declare it sacred
move yourself and remove yourself from
thinking about there and focus on
here
because if you do not focus on here
you will not be ready
for there
and the truth of the matter is i’m
coming to prophetically tell you that
many of you are praying for what you
will never be prepared for
you’re believing for what your character
does not have the ability and foundation
to be able to hold up i’m telling you
right now that god is so good that he is
trying to give us a pause
can i say it how i feel it
god wants to take the hustle out of his
house
this thing that’s always trying to
hustle because my my next thing and my
next thing and when i get here and i
when i when i get there and then when i
got that and all and god says i have
never ever
been in a hurry to do anything
i have always been strategic
about my movements
and i’ve always thought about every step
because the steps of a good man a good
woman are ordered by the lord he says
step here
and then step
here he’s not worried about bear because
if you take care of here you’ll end up
there
somebody shouted me here is holy
and see i have a problem honestly with
this in the natural i’m talking about as
pastor michael right now but michael
can’t stand here
can i be honest with you
my whole life i’ve hated here
am i the only one
that that when you get in a situation
it’s good for 30 seconds and it’s like
all right
come on listen to the left to the left
like i’m trying to like give me
something else give me a new goal give
me something else to attain let me go to
the next level
and the problem is i hate it here
and the truth is most of us
hate it here
if you look at your real situation all
the stuff you’re trying to do right now
is to get you there
but you tolerate here
you’re you’re not you’re not excited
about here you’re not you’re not you’re
not joyful about here you tolerate my
whole life
i’ve just tolerated here
i want to go to the next i want to
upgrade how many people like upgrades
come on come on listen
yeah how many people how many people
okay when you were young how many people
wanted to be adults because they thought
they could make their own decisions and
do what they want to do and
now that i’m here
adulting sucks
like
but how much did we miss
some of us were open too early
let me
some of us were exposed and
violated and
indoctrinated
because we were trying to get there
and now we’re working through problems
and issues and generational cycles
that were built up because we went there
too early
we went we went there because they went
there
we went there because it looked like the
cool thing to do and god said i’m trying
to do a work on you
here
see
ah let me just go ahead and say it the
problem is the church has done a bad job
at indoctrinating all of us
with the theology of there
my situation turned around today
god is about to turn it
right now
what if we said what he really about to
do
god’s gonna turn this in seven months
would you still shout
would you steal praise
see the problem is we’re so worried
about getting out
that we do not consider what god is
trying to bring out of us
here
this is for the big boy table
this the meat
this year we’re gonna mature
when i get there
how much money i’ll have there
what house
will i be living in there
what my network will look like there
these are the relationships that i’m
gonna have there
i can’t wait till i get married because
this is what we gonna do
there
and god says
michael
i need you to stop
escapism evangelism
[Music]
what we’re trying to teach people
is to escape here
and we’re evangelizing people
no no no no no no we’re not even going
to act like it’s a problem
you don’t need counseling
you need deliverance
come here
you’re healed
that may have been the seed of my
healing
that’s really real
but it took me 35 years
to walk in this level of dysfunction
it may take me a little time
to walk up out of it
and the problem is
if we do not stop
evangelism of escapism
we never will sit
and let god do the work
here
what if you had to go in for major
surgery
and you slayed on the table
and at the moment it got
uncomfortable
you had a section of people saying you
ain’t got to stay there
claim
your
victory
run up out of this place
stand up and walk
begin the ship
you would literally
kill yourself
trying to escape
what is meant watch this to heal you
[Music]
the adversity is meant
to heal you
the pain is meant to heal you i know you
don’t hear preacher like this all the
time but i’m in a whole new place right
now
right where you are and you hate it
may be the very operating table
that god is using
to heal you of pride
to heal you of comparison
to heal you
of insecurities
but you gotta stay
here
james 1
verse 2
dear brothers and sisters when troubles
of any kind
any kind any kind
come your way consider it
an opportunity for what the
i thought i needed to consider this an
opportunity to go off on somebody
but you said in your word considering an
opportunity
for great joy
for you know that when your faith is
tested
your endurance has a chance to grow
this the part i don’t like
so let it grow
stay here
and let it grow many of us are potted
plant christians
god would love for us to stay somewhere
long enough to actually get roots
look at your neighbor and say let it
grow
type it in the chat let it grow
you can’t grow it on the move
you can’t grow it
i was in this church for six months then
they didn’t do with me right so i was in
this sir you ain’t been around nobody
long enough to see you
you get to represent yourself
every time you go to a new group of
people because nobody knows the last
struggles you went through stay there
long enough
[Applause]
to grow
and many of us
are in a season in a place right now
where it’s uncomfortable to stay planted
you are trying to get out of that job
with all your might
and god says the reason no doors is open
for you
is because that place
is holy
no no no no no it’s not lucrative
it’s holy
it’s not comfortable
it’s holy
you’re going to look back at this moment
and say that’s where god made me
that’s where he did the work that would
never be undone
that’s where god changed my name
and this is why i’m telling everybody
listen to me here
is a prerequisite for
there
you gotta go through here
to get there
here is preparation for
there
here is a qualification
for
that you will not be qualified for there
if you do not let god do the work
everybody shout at me here
okay
here this the one i really want you to
get this the one he’d been working on me
all week here
is sanctification
for there now this is a word we don’t
use in church that much anymore but it
actually means something very very
powerful to your life sanctification is
the action of making or declaring
something holy i do not become holy
unless
i go through whatever god has for me to
go through here
if i ignore marriage counseling
my relationship does not get there where
i want it to be because i don’t know how
to communicate
so for us to get there
god said
every week
come
here
can i watch a video
take an elixir
is there a mix that i can get can i
all of all of society today especially
is trying to find a shortcut
[Applause]
but
here
sanctifies me for there and the truth of
the matter is the problem with their i
know i’m setting this whole thing up and
it’s going to make sense to you in just
a second the whole problem with there
everybody shout at me there
the whole problem is there devalues here
if i focus on there it makes me think
this is trash
if i focus on there
i i i don’t value what god is doing here
there
distracts from here
god wants me to do something powerful
right here but if i’m always focused on
there i’m distracted they’re
discourages here
i’m trying to show you why there is not
where we want to be focused in the
season especially when god is saying
here is where i’m at here is where i
want to change you here is where i want
to develop you here is holy so there
diminishes here
their dilutes here
their diverts you from here
y’all are so
excited about opportunities
that’ll make you
go there and god said i don’t care about
opportunities i want you on assignment
don’t divert from here
there watch this
when i become a better leader when i get
this when i have this when i’m when oh i
got a one when i weigh this much
when my body
you better love
what god has given you
he i’m not singing
i’m not saying
devalue
the temple that god has given me but
some of y’all are being robbed of life
because you will not accept
where you are
right
here
matthew 6 31 34. so don’t worry about
these things saying what will we eat
there
what will we drink there
what will we wear there these things
dominate watch this the thoughts of
unbelievers
unbelievers focus on there
because they gotta escape here
i gotta pop a pill so i can go there
i gotta drink that alcohol so i do not
have to be here
i gotta go to pornography cause i can’t
deal with my lust here i can’t go back
to that home so i get a mistress so i
don’t gotta be
here
i serve my church more than i serve my
family
because i can’t deal with failing
here
unbelievers
allow
what dare
looks like
to dominate
their thinking
but your heavenly father already knows
what you need there
he knows what you need up there so seek
first
the kingdom of god
here you cannot sink the kingdom from
there
the only way you can see god
is from where you’re at
as broken as you are
as busted as you are
the liar that you are
the proud person that you are god said
just see me from there
like like
here is holy
i’m not asking you to become a future
version of yourself to then start to
seek me
you only can seek me from shout out me
here
and he says
above all else
and live righteously here
and he will give you everything you need
hold on
there is taken care of
if i live righteously not perfectly
here
so don’t worry about tomorrow which is
there for tomorrow there will bring its
own worries today trouble is enough for
you right here
dealing with them kids right here
working that job right here is enough
you can’t even deal with tomorrow
stop even thinking about there
because you don’t have it in you to deal
with there you have to be focused on
here
okay
so if you want to walk in crazy faith i
want you to say this statement with me
um
and it’s going to be a crazy faith
statement because some of y’all this is
not how you feel but this is how i pray
that you will feel by the end of this
series we probably got four five six
weeks in this i don’t know we gonna go
until this is so deep in us that we can
look at any situation that looks busted
and disgusted unfavorable or
uncomfortable and be able to declare
this statement right here i love it here
say it like you mean it i love it here
some of y’all lied
but i love it here
is a statement of faith in god
i love it here
it’s uncomfortable here
but i love it here because you allowed
me to get here do you know how many
people didn’t get here uh-oh
do you know how many people did not make
it here
do you know how many that wish they
could have had another day to do
something here
but i love it here
this is a hard statement to say
can i be
for me that was a hard statement to say
all week
and y’all know i can’t i can’t preach
nothing that god’s not walking me
through it’s been the same since there
was 300 people here god was walking me
through
i was in a place with some of my friends
and they was like how do you feel and
god said declare you love it here
i said i really have it
he said mike say it like you mean
so i love you here
i was like i love you here why do you
say i love it here and this is what god
whispered to my heart
he said you can say i love it here
because you are loved here
i need everybody to hear me say this i
know this is not probably what you were
thinking
but the reason i can stay here is holy
because i know the one who sent me here
allowed me to come here and sustaining
me here and then walk me out of here
i can say i love it here
because i am loved
right
here
and somebody needs to hear me say that
because you’ve been trying to
polish yourself up and get yourself in a
place to be presentable to god and
others and all this and god says stop
all of that
you wearing yourself out
he said even though your situation is
unfavorable you are my favor
i’m looking at you dead in your eye with
the baby out of wedlock
with the miscarriage
with the third failed business
and you can literally say on your way to
bankruptcy court
i love it here
because i’m loved here
this is the humans greatest need
to know that wherever they are
they are actually
loved
and i came if you turn this segment off
and you never watch again the one thing
i hope that you get is that you
are
loved you are loved by god
he loved you so much that he made a plan
to reconcile you back to the father and
give you eternal life with all of your
flaws with all of your mess-ups with all
of the broken pieces in your life you
are
loved i love it here
even though it hurts
even though it’s frustrating
even though it’s not true
i love it here because you put me here
and i’m loved
right here somebody say that i’m loved
here
say it like you mean it i’m loved right
here
just one more time faith is coming to
somebody somebody say i’m loved right
here
see i’m loved right here that’s why i
love it here because i’m learning here
and
i’m
and i’m living here and i’m losing
everything that can’t go with me
y’all missed it
see the reason i got to stay here is
because i am losing here
i’m losing everything here
that cannot go with me
into the promised land you know that’s
why the children of israel had to go
into the wilderness
is because they had to lose
everybody talking about that’s that
escapism thing that’s the evangelism of
escaping we always win no no no no no
the bible tells us
that we’re gonna have to lose some
things
to possess the promise
they don’t like this
you gotta lose your attitude
to be able to actually deal with the
people over there
you gotta lose your pride
to be able to actually ask for help over
there some of y’all be running out of
gas won’t even ask your brother or
sister for gas money walking all the way
home cause your pride
my question to you today is what do you
need to lose here
well this just me
that’s you here
but you’ll stay here
until you lose it
because you can’t take that over there
okay
romans
chapter 8 verse 35 can anything separate
us from christ’s love
does it mean he no longer loves us
if we have trouble calamity or are
persecuted or hungry or destitute or in
danger or threatened with death go to
verse 37 no
despite all these things
overwhelming victory is ours through
christ who loved us our victory is in
his love
now i know you want the victory to be in
your works
but the victory that you’re gonna have
the way you never lose is find yourself
lost in his love
if i succeed i’m loved
if i fail i’m loved
if i mess up i’m loved and if i’m on a
mountaintop i am love verse 38 and i’m
convinced that nothing can ever separate
us from the love of god neither death
nor life neither angels nor demons
neither our fears for today
nor our word worries about
tomorrow there
not even the powers of hell
can separate us from god’s love no power
in the sky above or in the earth below
indeed nothing and all creation will
ever be able to separate us from the
love of god that is revealed in christ
jesus our lord
you have to see yourself
here loved here
the reason i’m telling you this is
because the training and the preparation
will make you think you’re not loved
the trick of the enemy
all the way back to the garden
was to trick adam and eve that god was
keeping something from them
he was keeping them for something he was
making them holy
but they were convinced by the enemy
that this place ah
i’m not loved here if he really loved me
he would let me eat from this tree
if he really loved me i would be able i
wouldn’t go through this
i remember being in basketball
and um
when we played basketball the first few
um weeks of basketball
they called hell weeks
and i didn’t really understand it until
i started participating in it because
what happens in hail week is you don’t
really play basketball
week has nothing to do with basketball
we honestly never even touched the
basketball
hell week was about conditioning us
and preparing us
for when we had to endure and actually
play basketball
when we went through the training of
suicide i hate suicides
and burpees burpees are from the pits
of hell y’all know what a burpee is like
the
height
show us no
not today
i already worked out this morning i’m
already sore up here
but but
i questioned my coach’s love for me
because of how he prepared me
could it be
that our preparation
the season of training
the uncomfortable places and spaces
are
are uncomfortable on purpose because the
coach god
knows what’s up ahead
and if we look at how we feel
while we’re being trained
we could be lied to that somehow god
doesn’t love us
because this training sucks
god doesn’t love me because i lost the
family member
or i want to come to real stuff
god doesn’t love me why did he even let
me get pregnant
why would he even let us have a son
if he was going to be diagnosed with
autism
and we would have to daily go through
therapies
and teach him how to do things
why
why
why
this is the question of humanity
why
why am i here
why am i 36 single
why am i here
why why did i give my life for that
church
and i’m not even seen as somebody who’s
valuable why am i here
why why in the world would you have me
go and apologize to my father
and not even respond to me
i was hurt as a child and you’re gonna
allow me to be here again
why am i here
this
can only be solved here
it doesn’t change when you get there
the only thing you take with you
everywhere
is you
so if you’re broken here
you’ll be broken there
if you’re frustrated here
you’re gonna be frustrated there is no
amount of money
that takes away the anxiety of here
you got to let god
and therapy
and community
and the word wash over you got to do it
here because at some moment
there turns into here
i know i’m over i’m in the matrix right
now i know somebody else like what is
heaven there they’re here here or there
they’re here and everywhere like i know
i know that’s what you’re thinking right
now but but at some moment the
revelation is going to click to you
because any time i come from here i take
all of me with me
and whatever i was trying to get to
turns into here
[Music]
so why don’t we just deal with it
right
here
why don’t we get whole right here why
don’t we walk in purity right here why
don’t we become generous right why
don’t we start loving people
right
here
not when they apologize
[Music]
we go love them
right
here
this is personified in our text exodus
chapter 3 verse 1 through a man named
moses
moses um is about to have a
life-changing experience
um
this is why we titled the whole thing
here is holy because moses has one of
these moments which i’m believing every
one of us is going to have as we open
our hearts in this series it says in
verse 1 um one day everybody say one day
say it again one day
one day moses was tending the flock of
his father-in-law jethro the priest of
midian he led the flock far into the
wilderness oh don’t like that word and
came to sinai the mountain of god
everybody say one day
this is wasn’t a spectacular day
this wasn’t a day where something
amazing it wasn’t a festival it wasn’t
anything that happened it was just
one day
like i like that it said one day
because
you never know when god’s about to move
in your life
it could be today tomorrow the next day
but it’s just
one day it’s not on your birthday it’s
not on new year’s eve i know that we
always talk about 2022 god’s gonna come
through
it could be literally
june 22nd
everybody say one day
oh the reason this is important for you
because god specializes in making
regular spectacular
he can take a regular day
and turn it into the thing that’s going
to be the catalyst for every miracle
that you’re remembered for
one day
i’m prophesying over you that your one
day is coming
that there is something that’s about to
happen in your life
everybody’s not gonna be around moses is
in the wilderness right here this is not
something on instagram this is not
something on a platform this is on the
back side of the mountain and one day
god turns the regular
into the spectacular and how do we know
it’s a regular day it says because he
was just tending to the sheep
he was doing what he normally he was
just taking his kids to school
i want to bring it to real situations he
was just checking his emails
like one day
he was just
going to pick up dinner
and god takes a common situation watch
this
to invite him into an extraordinary
calling
what god’s trying to do this year you
have not seen anything yet with your
life uh i just need somebody to hear me
say this your greatest win
looks like nothing compared to what god
has planned for your life somebody needs
to receive this by faith
this man grew up in a palace and god
said you ain’t seen royalty yet i’m
about to do something in your life and i
know it seems like a far cry from what
you’ve been through and many of us have
been trying to live in the glory days
because there is not just forward there
is back too
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god said i need you to focus on here
because there was not the good old days
dare was not the pinnacle of your
ministry dare was not the greatest song
you ever wrote there is not where god
was really using you
here
is holy you have to divorce yourself
from there in the future and there in
the past how do i come in here and
minister with this much fervor
transformation church’s best days are
here they’re not oh god they’re not when
relationship goals went viral and
they’re not in the future with something
that god is gonna do it’s right
here
here is holy
my faith is that god is with me
here
and that’s why i write this down
god will you con god will use common
situations to invite you into
extraordinary callings
write it down
god will use
common situations
to invite you into extraordinary
callings you know how i became the
pastor of the church
a very common situation
i produced music for greenwood christian
center’s big idea conference
this is how he started inviting me
into this extraordinary calling
it wasn’t oh god oh
i see
myself on a platform
preaching to that
it was common
it was turn the mic up
y’all missing it
roll up the cables
make sure the drums are tuned
this was my invitation
into an extraordinary i didn’t see
when i would tony mason was telling me
to turn the reverb up
i didn’t see what god was doing
i didn’t see but he used a very common
situation
what could you be missing
that is god calling you into something
extraordinary
but you won’t stay here long enough to
even notice it
there’s relationships right around you
that are going to be pivotal to the next
decade of your life but you think
because of their title right now that
they have no value in your life you
better look around
you better look around and see who’s
around you because god may be putting
something very common in front of you
inviting you into an extraordinary
situation it says moses was tending to
the flock of his father-in-law jethro
the priest of midian he had the flock
he led the flock far into the wilderness
and came to sinai
hold on
a desert place
an isolated place
a wilderness
why in the world would god use a
wilderness
let me help you
god will test your willingness
in the wilderness
i’m i’m not telling you
from an idea
the fact that i’m standing here today
is god testing my willingness mike
he played back for me all the things i
said
mike you said you would serve me
no matter what
you said you were here to represent me
to the lost
and the found
for transformation in christ
you said that nothing will stop you
from ministering
to my people
you said you would do anything short of
sin
to reach
those who are far from god
you said last week you don’t care if
anybody comes back
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
so now i’m gonna test you
now i’m gonna test you
i’m gonna test your willingness
to be faithful
in the wilderness
i’m gonna strip you
of everything that insulated your eye
identity
i’ma say that again
i’mma strip you of everything that
insulated your identity
and now i want to see are you willing to
serve me
what’s in you
when they don’t see it
[Music]
see many times we think the wilderness
is a punishment
and it’s honestly a test for our
willingness
you cannot actually see
somebody told me it ain’t love
until it’s tested
like
everybody be talking about i love god
you don’t love god what’s wrong with you
like they always be talking about that
but you only know if you love god
when you go through a situation
where it’s like um
i don’t know i don’t know
oh
no this ain’t fair
this ain’t right
but do you still love me
the rest of this year
your wildernesses
are not punishments
they’re tests
some of y’all gonna play this back every
week
because you’re gonna need to be reminded
that here is holy and god will take you
into a space to test you ask jesus
jesus our example
literally whole town comes out baptized
by his cousin john
the holy spirit literally ascends like a
dove they hear audibly this is my son
and who i’m wealthy he’s affirmed
confirmed verified all that and then the
bible says that he is led
into the wilderness
by
the holy spirit
not the devil
he was led by the holy spirit into the
wilderness to be tested
what if
this year
you’re going to be tested
by the holy spirit
the reason i’m smiling
is because some of you are about to
leave here right now
and god’s trying to give you instruction
here
and because you don’t like
what
it looks like here
you’re about to leave and and
there’s somebody that’s about to log off
i’m telling you right now
get this instruction
here
is where god’s gonna test you
because it’s gonna prepare you for there
do you know what moses goes on to do
moses goes on to confront culture
she goes to the highest
person
in the land pharaoh
and has to tell pharaoh what god said
the only way he could tell pharaoh what
god said there
is that he got confirmed in his calling
here
there was an angel of the lord verse two
that appeared to him in the blazing fire
from the middle of the bush the bible
tells us um as you study out scripture
and theologians agree that this was
jesus in the old testament he was the
angel of the lord and it says moses
stared in amazement
though the bush watch this was engulfed
in flames
it didn’t burn up put me a fire in a
bush up here
um
this is what a bunch of our situations
look like
on fire
families
finances
internally
but moses is watching
this bush burn and i need you to
understand this was common in the desert
there were brush fires all the time
the difference about this thing
is when it was burning
it still had full leaves
it still
had fruit
it still
was not
disintegrating it still was standing
even though it was on fire
hear me because this encouraged me when
i listened to this story
if god is in the fire that’s what it
tells us that god was in this fire if
god is in the fire you won’t look like
what you’ve been through
if if if this was another
situation
the leaves would have burnt up
everything would have been crumbling and
falling but because god was in it it was
sustaining
the thing that was supposed to be
burning i’m about to preach this thing
when it looked like it was supposed to
be gone and ashes god was sustaining it
and i don’t know who you are but i’m
preaching to you from my experience when
god is in the fire
you will not look like
what you’ve been engulfed by
asked shadrach meshach and abednego
when culture told them to bow
and they said we will not bow and what
did they do they took oh i loved they
stands they were so gangster they said
we know our god can deliver us but even
if he don’t do you know how gangster
that is
even if he don’t do it it says doesn’t
but they don’t
we won’t bow
they threw him in the fire
he said turn it up
turned it up so hot
that the people who threw him in dropped
dead come on
but when they stood there they said
check on him
what you see
uh
the fire the fire is on yes the fire is
on
it’s really big we threw a couple extra
yeah yeah yeah
but i see
one
two
three four
ricardo how many people did we throw in
to the fire
it was three right three okay one
two
three
four
um
i see i see four people in the fire
and one looks like
god
because when god’s in the fire
oh y’all better help me when god’s in
the fire he will sustain what should be
burning he will keep preserved what
should be desecrated
god is in
the fire
[Applause]
what are you trying to say pastor mike
the place that is on fire in your life
is actually a meeting place with god
[Applause]
god uses every burning bush
to get your attention he’s trying to
show you something
i don’t fully know what god’s trying to
show me in the situation that’s happened
in the last week but i
am fully attentive
that this burning bush
is a meeting place for me and god
passed my break that down to me
practically you know in the bible when
it says and jesus withdrew often
what i did as soon
as as soon as the spit hit the fan
and it started going everywhere
i told my wife we were in a hotel last
week on sunday afterwards just to rest
without the kids i talked to some people
in my community and they said let’s go
let’s get out of here
turn your social media off and let’s go
get with god
huh
see if you stayed
in this
place and listen to them
you’re gonna get distracted
of what god wants to do
here
so what you gonna do
is withdraw and meet with god
the whole thing burning and i’m praying
the whole thing
and i’m worshiping
the whole thing i don’t even know all
the news media outlets we was on i don’t
even know
and i don’t need to
let it play on all of them
but what i did
is i got
in a place
where the fire could consume me
see i’m looking at my situation on fire
and i need there to be a fire
that consumes me that consumes my pride
we sing the song all consuming fire
but what happens when you say god burn
it up in me anything that’s not like you
show me my error show me what you want
to do
burning me god
[Music]
and moses
sees this fire
and it was a meeting place
can i tell you
any area in your life that’s on fire
god’s trying to talk to you through it
relationships on fire he’s trying to
tell you something
your business is not working he’s trying
to tell you something
your family’s on fire you ain’t been
able to get along for years he’s trying
to tell you something
and the crazy thing is
that when god wants to talk to you he
doesn’t just want a transaction
he wants relationship
this is the hard part because especially
in our social media age everything is
transactional it’s not relational
back in the day you used to have to go
sit down and talk with somebody
like you used to have to go meet with
them and like make time now i could just
dm whoever i want to and see if they hit
me back see if they don’t and god’s
saying you can’t dm me
i i’m not i’m not i’m not trying to be
transactional god if you could just
bless my situation and then i’ll hit you
up when i accept the word word award
i’ll say all praises and glory to god he
said i’m not transactional
i’m relational
i want a relationship and the problem
with that is people want his provision
and not his person
see because i want to go there i just
need what i need real quick so i can get
there
i just need to move from here so i can
get there
they want its resources and not a
relationship
but god wants a relationship and god
wanted to meet with moses
and so what happened in verse three
moses said this is amazing
why isn’t this bush burning up
i must go see it moses went black
um
was not black um he might have been i
don’t know but he was
confused at this moment
because if i see a confusing situation
i’m not
let’s go through it like what
like
like i would have dipped out like and i
say this because uh we’re a multi-ethnic
church here and we have a lot of white
people a lot of hispanic people come to
church let me tell you something about
black people black people when we start
running
other black people don’t know have to
know why we’re running
we just were all hit or run
if somebody everybody like where we
going where we what what like
it don’t matter what it is somebody
screaming the right way
we are whoa whoa whoa whoa
this would have been the moment if it
was michael and not moses
i would have seen the bush burning
and not being consumed
oh i’ve been like hold up
[Laughter]
worthy is the lamb but um
but moses
shows us a pattern
that when you’re recognizing that god is
doing something
that you might need to take note of
see he was in a confusing situation why
is this not burning up why is this still
sitting here okay
write this point down
confusing situations
are many times
god confronting you with your calling
why is this happening
why did they leave
why did that get exposed
why is this situation burning up
but not being consuming
god used confusing situations
to start confronting your calling have
you ever been mad about something
in life and how people do things why
won’t they just
fix this and this and then it would be
fine
that confusion
that contradiction
that frustration is an indicator light
you’re called to that
you’re called to help that
you’re called to solve that
the things that bother you bother you on
purpose
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the things that get under your skin get
under your skin on purpose that is god
confronting you
with the great calling he’s put on the
inside of you i can’t stand when people
treat people bad like that and bully
people that
is the god nature on the inside of you
the reason why you watch that movie
about slavery or or or the um the
penitentiary system and you’re so
bothered it’s because it’s god
confronting you
with the piece of your calling
and the reason why most people never
ever get it
is because of the fear of here
they have the fear of here so what ends
up happening is
we like michael instead of like moses
michael
because i seen something confusing or
contradictory
i walk away
from here
i leave here
but moses does something very strange
and i believe it’s a sign to all of us
in this season where we’re going through
situations that are on fire where god
takes us to the wilderness where it
doesn’t look like everything we thought
it was going to look like watch this
stay curious even when you’re confused
stay curious
this week
i’ve been saying
okay god
since i’m here
what are you trying to teach me
leaning in
lean in
what are you trying to change in me
what are you trying to expose about me
what are you trying to show me i don’t
care what everybody else thinks i care
what you think
show me
show me me
most of us do not stay curious when
we’re confused
when we’re confused we try to solve it
when we’re confused we try to get out of
it
moses doesn’t bring water to the burning
bush
he doesn’t try to play god
because this ain’t his moment
he didn’t say you know what this poor
bush and start put
he said let me just get a little closer
and be curious about why
god called me to this church
and why
god stripped me from all of the things
that i was good at
to tell me to learn a new skill
why didn’t god use none of my degrees
i got more degrees than a thermometer
and he won’t let me you why did god
allow me to go through that situation
but still remember
and asked me to write a book
stay
curious
even though
you’re confused this is what moses does
right here it says and when the watch
this oh i love this
when it’s confusing
because you’re curious
look for confirmation
look for god to say something to you
watch this
when the lord saw moses
coming to take
a closer look
then he spoke
god’s not speaking
until you step
towards what
he’s already showing you
he literally burns up a situation and if
moses stands there god shuts up
but it literally says
when the lord saw moses coming his
curiosity what are you trying to teach
me here what are you trying to show me
when he went to take a closer look
that’s when god spoke write this point
down when you step god speaks
i’m trying to help you deal with right
here
step towards the thing that you don’t
understand step towards the people that
you don’t usually hang out with step
towards the the thing that makes you
uncomfortable but you know it’s the
thing that god’s called you to
i’m telling myself
meetings and business stuff
i’ve hated for a long time
i’m a creative
so so
when you start talking to me about
numbers and paragraph and if the whole
paper is black and you all got no
pictures no color
at the moment i stepped towards
but god why would you call me to be the
pastor of this church
and why would you call me to
lead
multiple million-dollar organizations
when i started stepping towards it
god starts speaking to me
he starts showing me i had a genius in
it he started revealing to me the
calling that he has given me to help
restore things in this city and in
others that have been broken down it
wasn’t until i stepped towards it
that he started speaking to me
what instructions are you missing
because you are not stepping in
curiosity towards what god is doing
okay i gotta get out of here
god called him
from the middle of the bush moses moses
say your name twice
i said say your name twice
yell it out
the reason why god called his name twice
is to confirm that it was him he was
talking to
what i’m telling you in in this place
where we’re going to be here
don’t doubt your calling
don’t doubt it somebody say i’m called
some of y’all didn’t believe that
somebody say i’m called
god called moses twice
and the reason he had to call him twice
is because moses had insecurities
he had
what some people would call deformities
he made
big mistakes
and usually when god calls most of us do
this michael
he must be
and god’s so good
that’ll say
no no no
michael
michael
with all my stuff
i used to be addicted to pornography
i was a liar i was a manipulator
i don’t know if you heard last
uh last week i had a little incident
with saliva
me
you still have a call for
me
you still want to do something with
me
michael michael say your name twice
one more time
god is saying don’t doubt your calling
don’t doubt what i put on saturday you
didn’t make you you don’t even know
what’s in you
i have made you
don’t doubt your calling but look at
moses’s response
this is the title of my message today
here
i
am
the reason
why this is the most profound response
to what god invites moses into
is because many times god will call your
name specify it’s you and we still
do not surrender
to what god wants to do in our lives
this whole week
my whole confession has been
here i am
whatever you want to do
i’m available
i’m usable
they can walk on me if it’s for your
namesake
i said if you can use anything lord you
can use me i didn’t know it would feel
like this
here i am
this really feels unfair but
here i am
i haven’t cried in a long time
here i am
however you want to do it
whatever you want to do in me
if i’m a small piece
or a big piece
here i am
see this was not a statement of location
this was a statement of heart posture
you want to take me from making this
much a year to this much a year
here i am
people wanted to be me two weeks ago
now you don’t want to be seen with me
here i am
now this is this is
if you don’t
get that level
of availability in your heart
you will always
negate the power of here
here i am somebody say here i am
here i am is the proper response when
god calls you
and some of you god has been calling you
and you’ve been saying stuff like wait a
minute
god’s been calling you by name and
you’ve been saying just let me get a few
things together
let me have one more wild night
god’s calling you by name and you’re
saying give me till next year
he’s saying i want you right now and
you’re saying god
[Music]
i don’t want to be uncomfortable
but as for myself and transformation
nation
our response
this entire year will be what here i am
verse five
this is all my introduction to this
whole series so come back next week
because i’m going to
preach this story into the ground
but i had to set up why here is holy
god speaks now
when he okay thank you lord
in this year
you don’t respond
no no no excuse me in this year you
respond you don’t react
reaction is different than response
god says to him michael michael moses
moses he said he responds he doesn’t
react
he says here i am
and i just hear this for so many people
you have been reacting your whole life
and god said would you stay here long
enough
to respond to me
and this is how you respond when when
god gets you in this place you wait for
him to speak again and look what it says
do not come any closer the lord warned
him hold up this guy serious real quick
take off your sandals
for you are standing
on holy ground or in other words here
is
holy
see see the thing about this
that really bothered me
is that god
showed me so clearly he said michael
um
you got to take off your protection in
this season
see sandals or shoes were the thing
that protected them
as they walked on all different terrains
and so
the shoes would keep them
from experiencing thorns and sticks and
rocks and all different type of thing
and god says stop
take off
your protection
because i need you to feel this
what i got to take off my shoes
because there is something
in between you and the ground that’s got
you too high
so i need you to take that thing off
and i need you
to let me
touch your soul
you know what they call the bottom of
the shoe
the soul
s-o-l-e
but i believe spiritually god is saying
as we declare that here is holy
we’re going to begin to take off our
protection mechanisms
the people the places the things we’ve
run to
and we’re going
to begin
oh
hold on
no i can’t do that
i can’t expose my vulnerable areas
see the thing that you don’t know about
my feet
they ugly
i mean they’re the only ones i got
they’re the only ones i got they served
me well
but i don’t want anybody else to see
the vulnerability
of this next season i’m walking
i don’t want you to judge me based on a
vulnerable area
that’s why i always got on good shoes
and cool shoes cause you know the feet
are there but you never see them
because i don’t want to get that
vulnerable
to be able to show you and god is saying
but here
it’s don’t come another step if you’re
not gonna be vulnerable
do not move
unless you’re gonna expose the areas
that you’ve been trying to protect for
the last 35 years
here
here is holy
damn
now the thing about my feet
i’m gonna go ahead and let everybody
know since i’m out here
um
so my feet um
they they’ve been through a lot
like um
my my my feet um
actually
um i’ve played drums since i was two
years old
and um
the way i was not professionally trained
until i was 12. so when i played drums
the front of my foot on the kick pedal
and
and the hi-hat pedal i would push
against
like my foot to kick and it literally
laid all my feet have this little like
bunion thing that is like
what you call it
hammer head toast
first time that made me feel bad
first time i ever heard that damn
[Music]
[Applause]
yikes
and um
which side okay y’all see that pinky
right there
that’s kind of cocked up in the air
i’m just being vulnerable you see this
one right here it’s this one right here
ain’t nothing ain’t never touch the
ground look at that
that mug don’t touch nothing
[Applause]
this
was another traumatic experience in my
life
where my mom told me to stop chasing my
brother around the living room
and um moment of prayer woman of faith
powerful prophetess
i hit the side of the chair
and my pinky went straight up
and it’s been like this
she laughing on the front row this ain’t
funny
cause when i went to her crown like mom
my foot my dad she said you shoulda
listened to me
and didn’t even pray for me
and i lost feeling in my toe obviously
and now put put it back on put it put it
back on people don’t know this unless i
show them
people would never see this
this toe
has been in the air
for over two decades
it’s a part of me now
[Music]
it didn’t have to happen and it
shouldn’t have happened
i could have got it corrected but now
it’s who
it’s who i am
i know me more with my toe in the air
then i do without it
this this this part of my toe is rubbed
off
because
due to the fact that my pinky’s up in
the air now
all my shoes
feel different
when they’re on this foot
and when they’re on this foot
this foot
hurts in certain shoes that this foot
feels comfortable
there are moments where there are areas
in our life where it feels comfortable
to do it this way
but this way because of the injury or
the trauma or the hurt
and god’s saying take your shoes off
this is where i want you
because here
it’s how this is the vulnerability i
want
this is where this is where i need to
touch i don’t bless who you pretend to
be in them shoes
i’ll bless who you really are
this is where i’m loved
pinky in the air
that’s how god sees me
and says that’s my child
that’s the one i love
and this is the thing i need you to
understand
when moses took off his shoes
i need you to understand what he was
saying
he was saying every step i took to get
here
doesn’t matter anymore
because where i’m at now
it feels different than every other
place i’ve stepped
see
if he stepped in donkey poo or sheep
poop or or or or in grass or or went
through dirt it was all on the soles of
his feet
or the soles of his sandals
but when he took them off
it was a new beginning
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it’s a representation of salvation
this is something new i’ve never been
this open before
i’ve never been this sensitive before
it’s actually scary to be out here
this vulnerable
but here
is help me
bring it out
i think i’m gonna preach the rest of
this sermon series
barefoot
when i was in those shoes i didn’t feel
the stage
there’s all kinds of crevices and nicks
and cuts and it’s actually making me
feel good because it’s colder
than being in my shoe i miss a lot when
i’m not vulnerable
i miss a lot here
i miss the reality of what i am actually
standing on
if i don’t get in a vulnerable
place
see because what kept you back there
is not allowed here
when god told me here is holy take off
your shoes he said everything you took
off
is not allowed here anybody got a house
where you got to take off shoes to come
in
yeah some of y’all know like
when you take off your shoes it’s
because this is a home this is the place
that’s sacred
and here i want you to feel
i got to talk to some people who’ve been
so calloused
by church by community
by christians
by people who are supposed to love you
that you have not been able to feel
and god says here is holy
take off
the offense
that’s on your soul
take off the offense that’s on your mind
will and emotions that’s what your soul
is
take off the unforgiveness on your soul
take off
the bitterness
that is tried to convince you that it’s
protecting you
get
in a vulnerable place
and declare
here
is
holy
hey brent charles come here real quick
charles take off your shoes here is holi
yeah yeah yeah take off your shoes
here’s holy
break keep your shoes on
um y’all y’all come here
to to the land of your life
see on the land of your life
there’s obstacles that will come
on the land of your life it may seem
like kitty things uh-huh
but that stuff that happened to you when
you were a kid
that stuff that they didn’t affirm in
confirming you
it creates things
that we try not to feel
so what ends up happening
when we start trying to move from here
to there
is brent
go ahead and walk from here to there as
fast as you can
it doesn’t matter
what happened
because
he’s still protected
but when god says charles
go from here to there
watch this now stop
he has to be so much more
intentional
and careful
and slow
because wherever he steps
could potentially
damage him
for life
are you saying oh it’s just kiddie
things go go go back charles come back
run back
run back
see don’t get surprised
when people are running past you
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[Applause]
they’re so protected
that they don’t even feel the success
that’s why they keep running after every
other success
they don’t even feel the joy they have a
mansion as a house but they don’t have a
home because they can’t feel
oh but i put away the childish things
what are these
oh i like these
captain crunch
so now
when i’m walking
bring come across
see what you can’t hear is every step
he’s making is crunching wow
that means
that everything he’s doing is loud
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everything god may be trying to hide him
but he can’t hide
god may be trying to preserve him but he
can’t because he starts stepping with no
care for here
but when charles has to step
he has to watch every
movement and be intentional brent
run back
and make charles feel insecure about
where he’s at
because this is what we do on instagram
we see people running
and god’s saying charles right right
here is holy
the step that you made right here is
hold just stay right there because then
what we do
is we
we get the nasty stuff
syrup
yeah
and we get into lust and perversion
and delusion and confusion
oh yeah
this is what it looks like when we have
the seeds of unforgiveness and
bitterness
and they surround us because our family
was like that for our whole life
and it seems like something that has us
trapped hey brent
show everybody how you run through a
sticky situation when you’re not
vulnerable to god
now the bottom
of his shoes
bear the marks
of what he’s been through
but he still can’t feel it
so then he has kids
and says you wear the same size as me
and they put shoes on
children
because they never dealt with the soul
of the issue
and now you’re talking about
generational habits and generational
cycles and generation it’s because y’all
been wearing the same dirty shoes
and god is trying to get you to
understand if you’re going to get out of
these sticky situations you got to
acknowledge here take a step charles
without stepping in what’s been there
yeah don’t step in it
go over it oh my goodness now watch this
stay right there you have to be in in
in tuned
with every step
because if i if i carelessly start
stepping at any moment
i can potentially damage
ruin watch this not even where i’m at
right now
see the next season
[Applause]
is about you giving it away to somebody
and so now you’ve been in sticky
situation after sticky situation
and god calls you to lead people
lead a family lead a business hey brent
run across here
hey brent
it looks like
we can tell where you’ve been
because of what’s on you i wasn’t there
when it happened
but now you talk like it happened you
act like it happened you love like it
happen
[Applause]
and we can all see
where you’ve been
and see it’s not all fun things
sometimes it’s rocks and glass
stuff that cuts you
that looks like the kitty stuff that was
already there
see it’s hard to tell the difference
between this glass and rocks
and the captain crunch
but this stuff can get stuck in your
feet
this stuff can cause you to bleed the
words of people can cause you to bleed
the opinions of others
let me just say it real the opinions of
your family members
that father and mother
that abuser
that coach
and god’s saying
i need you to recognize every place you
step
because here
is
holy bring run across here
matter of fact back pedal
do a dance do do a dance like yeah
shimmy yeah
yeah
yeah okay
[Applause]
culture
thinks brent’s doing better
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[Applause]
culture
will tell you
that he’s up
he’s winning
we can see him winning we can see him
dancing while the only thing god is
pleased with he’s not even paying
attention
to what brennan’s doing because he
hasn’t even got vulnerable enough to
feel what’s here
god’s going to let brent continue
to run across here all 2022
until he gets vulnerable enough
to take off his shoes
and he was going to
before the incident
i can’t follow that pastor no more
he was helping me grow spiritually but
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he was about to take his shoes off
and get vulnerable with god
the culture started speaking
i can’t give there i can’t serve there
i’m gonna just go back and do my own
thing
and god’s saying hold on hold on hold on
don’t forfeit
me bringing you to this place where i
want to talk to you
because of others that don’t understand
the wilderness
i told you here
is holy say it with me here
is oh
can you bring this
cause now
it’s random stuff
situation circumstances i’m an adult and
people still acting like kids
obstacles
problems
situations
and god’s still saying
here
take two steps forward
and one step to the left
the steps of a good man
are ordered by the lord
stand on one foot
for ten seconds
nine
eight it’s uncomfortable
it’s not it’s not what i thought i’ve
been walking with two feet
but you’re gonna tell me three
two
one everybody might not have understand
it stood it
but that’s where god said now take that
foot don’t put it back down
and step forward
now rest there
rest here
because for the next six months
it’ll look like no movement
but what i’m doing is protecting you
i’m protecting you from the love of
money cause a lot of people are gonna
start throwing
money at you
and if you step into it
it’s gonna ruin what you prayed for
the money i told you seek first the
kingdom and right standing and all of
this is going to be added but i need you
to stay right there even though it’s
available
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even though you could go make a bunch
even though you could do what everybody
else
would do
i told you six months
and i’m gonna put the bucket in front of
you
don’t move
don’t take none well i’m bout to lose my
house
lose it
but obey me
this
is what it looks like to live a
christian life
this
is walking
in the ability
to be available to the voice of god
because what you don’t understand
is when the nails and screws of life
come to really ravage
and the crazy thing about it is the
thing that can hurt you most is seeing
the the least
i can’t see these
as much as i can see the money
i can’t see these
as much as i can see the toys
but these can damage me
way more
run across there
run back
it doesn’t even matter if he steps on
anything
may say it like this it doesn’t even
matter if he steps on anybody
he can’t feel
he can’t feel
so you can go to the comments and talk
about anybody
because you don’t know what it feels
like
you can write people off
because you don’t truly know what it
feels like
but at the moment charles steps on
anything
in here
he will know what it feels like
this is why jesus
came
to earth
and downgraded himself
to humanity
because he wanted us to know
that he knew
what it feels like
he wanted us to serve a god
who knew what it actually felt like
to be despised
to be accused
to have them one day screaming hosanna
and the next day screaming crucify you
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hey charles
take two steps in the blank areas and
you may have to stay on your tippy toes
yeah yeah and get to the end
and avoid
the pitfalls
of your life
no no no no come here because i want to
use it as a testimony
so so so
he just went through it
and and and and i want you to step up
here real quick
there may be something on his feet go go
go to the camera and show them his feet
he does not look like
what he’s
been through i’m preaching to somebody
right here
that needs to understand that god is
telling you here is holy
[Music]
because he wants to take you into a
space for his glory
that when you look at what you’ve been
through
your vulnerability before god
your ability to feel
now has given you the connection point
with people who’ve never walked through
what you’ve walked through and with
people who have
moses is job
is to lead two million different people
he had to go through this wilderness
so he could relate
the wilderness wasn’t even for him
it was for who he would lead
when you stop worrying about your
wilderness affecting you
you’ve been qualified
for it to transform
others
here
is
hey brent
come here
just come stand up here
can you show them what you’ve been
through
go ahead put it on the screen
this is what many of us look like
as we come to serve god
praise god
give him our lives you can have
everything except
my vulnerability
i’ve been hurt too much i got to keep
protecting me
but do you know the crazy thing
about this situation
is that when you come into salvation
jesus gets in a low position
and he begins to untie you
from all of the situations things
patterns
everything you’ve been through
everything that’s tried to hurt you
everything that’s tried to make you
embarrassed
and he takes the shame
and he takes the guilt
and he says you know what you ain’t got
to deal with that no more
and he said you may be ashy because you
asked you
and your feet might stink
can somebody bring me some water please
but what god does
what god does
when the world would humiliate you
when the world would make you feel like
something
in the same
platform
that people tried to make you feel
embarrassed
when they spit on you
then god
will literally take you
and in front of everybody
lift up your feet
he will begin
to wash
he will identify i feel the presence of
god with your affirmative
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and he will
he will clean up
in a humble position
with the world
said it was humiliating
because here
is
[Applause]
here i am
come on lift your hands all over the
world
here i am god
if you tell me to take off my shoes
you tell me to get vulnerable
here i am
here i am god
i’m
broken i’m embarrassed
i don’t know what to do
here i am though
i hear you calling me
i’m not gonna keep on my protection
i’m not going to act like i didn’t feel
it
i felt it
and it hurt
but you said my steps are ordered by you
so if you told me to walk through this
crap
here i am god
when you say listen to me
when you say here i am everybody say it
here i am
it is a declaration of availability
my little daughter ava she don’t know
how to play hide and go seek yet
she loves it though
the reason why she don’t know how to
play is she don’t understand that the
point of the game is not to be found
so she’s little and she gets great
hiding spots
but if it’s taking too long for somebody
to find you or even if she hears you in
the vicinity
she jumps out and says here i am
and god says that’s how i want you to be
all here
when you feel me in the vicinity
don’t don’t make me find you
jump out and say
here i am
while i was trying to deal with your
pride you ain’t even got to come search
for me i was prideful here i am
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god i’m not going to hide yeah there was
wrong motivation in me doing that i
wanted to go on that vacation and take
them pictures to stun on people here i
am
change my motivation
here i am
help me love people
who hate me here i am
because i’ve never been disciplined in
my life but i’mma finish this 21 days of
prayer and fast and strong here i am
when you say here i am say it one more
time here
it’s a declaration of availability but
when oh you take off your protection
it is a sign of vulnerability
you could hurt me now
because my shoes are off
if i had to go through this
i would have to be very intentional on
every step
because
i can feel
you either protect yourself
or feel
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but that means you don’t just not feel
the lows you can’t feel the highs
and that’s where god is saying you don’t
get to live a full life if you can’t
feel
you don’t live a life faithful
if you do not feel i had to feel what i
felt this week
to know how good god has been to me
me feeling what i felt this week
let me know how faithful he’s been in
every season
because i’m vulnerable enough to feel
i live a faith full life
and the just
shall walk
by
faith
what good is faith if you can’t feel
so it’s
here i am
availability
take your protection off
check your soul
not just s-o-l-e but the s-o-u-l
your mind-willing emotions
feel
that’s vulnerability and the last one
listen to this
is when you become aware of his presence
when you become aware of his presence
this is what i told somebody the other
day
you don’t ever have to say again
god come field this place
he already there
it’s our awareness
of god being there
it’s our it’s our
availability
our vulnerability
and then is us being aware of what he is
doing it’s our awareness to his presence
here
is holy would you stand all over the
world
just put your hands out in a posture to
receive
what i want everybody to do where’s my
phone
that’s my phone what i want everybody to
do
is this week
it’s going to take some vulnerability
but i want you to uh take your
shoes off some of y’all can do it even
right now i want you to take your shoes
off
and i want you to take a picture
of where your feet stand
[Music]
and i want you to declare some of y’all
are going to go to your job because
that’s the place of your frustration
and you’re going to get in your mirror i
know this is unconventional this is
crazy faith if you want something else
you can go somewhere else but right now
we’re declaring for our soul mind
willing emotion to line up
your house has been a place of confusion
i want you to take a picture
and i want you to declare here
is
holy with all the dysfunctions put it
back on my feet real quick
with all of the look at that foot
never that toe in hd
i can put this phone under there and it
ain’t even touching
but that’s the only one i got
that’s the only pinky toe i got on that
left foot
i i don’t want to get rid of it
i
i don’t want to amputate it
i still need it
even though it may look dysfunctional
here
with all my flaws
it’s holy hands lifted everywhere holy
hands
sitting right here
[Music]
come on in this moment i want you to
declare right here
[Music]
come on out of your mouth
sit right here
[Music]
god i’m surrendered right here
[Music]
my words are weak
my words are weak your word is enough
somebody say your word is here
my faith is fading my faith
but i still feel your love
you are loved right here
i’m exchanging
my burden for yours
why so i can hear so i can’t hear god in
this moment you’re inviting me into a
major calling somebody sing the second
verse say
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this is
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in this
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right here this
[Music]
my is
in you
my anchor my foundation
i’ve built my life on it cause why
[Music]
[Music]
god’s ministering to somebody right now
he’s showing you the places where you
need to get vulnerable stop waiting for
something else to happen in the service
right now god is saying i want to meet
with you right here hands lifted right
now three more minutes said why
show me me
i’m available i’m vulnerable god
right here you can do it you can do the
work right here
this is where i need everybody to get to
a place where they run to god
it the bible says he that dwells
in the secret place that’s a separate
place that’s a holy place
that’s not an instagramable place that’s
not a facebookable place that is a place
i had my friends tell me he said michael
you’re healing right now you don’t have
to teach people why you heal you you
don’t have to show everybody everything
while you heal this is a place where
god’s gonna reveal as he heals
that means i gotta call this place holy
so i’m asking you this week
[Music]
as you watch this message back two or
three times i’m i’m challenging
everybody there’s going to be new
revelation every time you watch it
new revelation as i’m snapping my
fingers that’s how the revelation is
going to come you’re going to see your
life full throttle you got to watch this
back at least two times this week
because god is going to begin to reveal
what he wants to do right
here
but it’s about getting in his presence
okay look he that dwells safe
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[Applause]
of the
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just a couple more times received
right here
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he’s speaking to you right now
earlier
[Music]
hands lifted everybody say holy holy
holy sake
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merciful
[Music]
come on somebody say bless it
[Music]
oh
god
holy
holy oh
god we reference you right here god
[Music]
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i’m giving you everything
[Music]
father son holy spirit
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thank god
[Music]
cause right here
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i can feel you god
[Music]
sent right
some of y’all got to leave but
this is a moment
encourage them destiny that their storm
will
[Music]
come on out worship team come on
[Music]
our foundation is sure
me
[Applause]
[Music]
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is
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is
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hands lifted everywhere father here we
are
somebody say here i am
here i am
father i did what you asked me to do
today
now i’m thanking you
that this seed goes down into the hearts
of your people
and you will reveal what it means for
them
for their individual life
for their family
that they’ll be able to say i love it
here
because they’re loved here
that they’ll be able to acknowledge by
the end of this year
you know what that was the most set
apart
that was the most god ordained
that was the most strategic year of my
life because right here
here is holy
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god i thank you that transformation
nation would mature this year
and we will become the believers
to be modeled after
that people would follow us as we follow
you
but father that means we got to get
vulnerable
and we got to bring our feet
our situations our vulnerability our
availability
we have to bring it to you
and say right here
um just for every person
who um
has never accepted jesus as your
personal lord and savior
the reason i’m here today
is to introduce you to our anchor
to the one who is speaking through the
fire
the the one who is the alpha and the
omega the beginning and the end the one
who’s in the middle with you
man i’ve been through some crappy
situations in my life
god has been through every one of them
with me
it’s because i invited him in
and many of you are about to take this
journey on another year
of putting god as a condiment to your
life
i sprinkle them on when i need them
[Music]
when the thrills of life aren’t hitting
me right i just put a little bit on
god says
i want to be the main course of your
life
i want everything to fit around me
it was the greatest decision i ever made
it was a holy moment
a separating moment
when i invited jesus into my life not on
the play play not on the i need to do
this so i feel better about what i did
last night not that
i’m available
and now i’m vulnerable
you can take everything
you can change me
you can renew me you can transform it
you can take me from being a liar a
manipulator somebody who is addicted to
pornography a bad person had all kinds
of evil things in my heart had car
insurance fraud case against me all this
other stuff and you could take all of
that
and you can give me
a new life
and today i’m telling you as sure as i’m
standing here
walking through the fire
i would never ever
want to take one step
without jesus with me
today i want to give you the opportunity
to take your shoes off
to get real in your soul
your mind will and emotions
and invite jesus to be your personal
savior that’s the first thing but then
he wants to be your lord
and when he’s your lord that means he
takes on responsibility that means he’s
gonna speak you gotta obey you gotta
obey the steps but then he takes full
ownership and he transforms your life in
ways i can’t even imagine and tell you
about today i’m just living it
if you’re tired of walking alone
here is holy
this is your burning bush moment
this is the moment where god says
surrender
and your response not your reaction but
your response should be
here i am
somebody say here i am
if that’s you
on the count of three i want you to lift
your hands because we’re about to say a
prayer
for the benefit of those coming to
christ
and even rededicating their lives to
christ
because today i feel mama this is going
to be a demarcation for people
this will be a different like oh i
changed
everything in me changed
on this day
i feel that so strong this is going to
you’re going to mark this this is going
to be a marked date in your life what’s
today’s date
the 21st
23rd
january 23rd
2022
and this will be a
mark
of where you stopped and heard god’s
voice
and said here
it’s holy
whenever you watch this on rebroadcast
all through this week 10 months from now
this your moment
somebody say here is holy here we go if
you want to give your life to jesus
christ one i’m so proud of you two
heaven is turning up
over just one person that would give
their life to christ three lift your
hand up in the air right now
there are hundreds if not thousands of
people right now now listen let let me
tell you you’re in good company y’all
get ready to clap right here since
january 1st
there have been over 4
200 people oh y’all missed it
that declared here y’all better help me
in less than 23 days
over 4 000 people have said i’m giving
my life to jesus and here is holy
and we get to add
to heaven we rob into hell
[Applause]
right now in this moment
so if that’s you
let’s pray
and at tc we’re family nobody prays
alone so we all pray in this together
for the benefit of those who are coming
to christ everybody just say god
thank you
for seeing me
here
just like i am
and giving me
jesus
today
i believe
that he lived
he died
and he rose again
just for me
i’m vulnerable
so take me
change me
use me
transform me
i’m yours
in jesus name
amen can we thank god for the thousands
of people y’all better help me
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y’all better help me
let’s give god
grace cause here
is
holy
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transformation nation
don’t miss one week of this series
this is a life transforming
pivotal shift
in our minds our hearts and our
understanding
i told y’all last week
it was the ending of a volume
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and this is the start of something new
[Music]
2022
god’s intentionally limiting us
it’s the year of intentional
limitation
the limitations set this year will not
be opposed on you they will be set by
you
you’re gonna set time to spend with god
you’re gonna set time to exercise you’re
going to set time to foster those
relationships you’re going to set time
to just here
because here
is
holy
i love you
i’m praying for you
i believe that this is going to be the
best
week of your life as you stop and
declare
here is holy
we have seven more days of prayer and
fasting
and listen
i’m encouraging you every night this
week
at six o’clock
we’re gonna be right here
and the level of attack that’s been
coming
we’re not playing defense we playing
offense
we about to pray heaven down we’re about
to pray for the sick we’re about to pray
for our government we’re about to pray
for our leaders we’re about to pray for
the people who don’t like us we are
going to intercede
and we want you to join us we want you
every night tomorrow night i’m leading
prayer tonight i’mma come in here the
enemy thought he’s gonna shut me up i’m
about to pray heaven down i
like like
you messed up and chose the wrong one
you poked me i’m coming back at you the
enemy will pay for everything and we’re
not going to do it because it’s not
flesh and blood
we don’t wrestle against this
some other stuff happening
so we’re gonna pray
meet me here tomorrow night i want 10
000 people on on youtube tomorrow night
we’re going to stream this thing on
youtube if one can put a thousand to
flight
and two can put ten thousand angels to
move what type of multiplication happens
when we get ten thousand people
praying
that’s not multiplication that’s
compounding
we believe that we’re going to see god
move heaven and earth
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with people
that need to know that here is holy
people who have been indoctrinated with
the theology of their
help them understand that what here is
hope
father thank you
for this church
thank you for this moment
thank you for this movement
thank you for your people
god is your servant i humble myself
no matter how i feel
and i say here is holy
you spoke it
and now we’re gonna walk by faith
thank you that this word illuminates day
by day
to our community and to people who are
around just watching i think that
somebody is getting filled with your
spirit even in this moment right now
god i thank you that you’re going to
confirm and affirm this word
and we will be declaring
at the end of 2022
that here
is
holy
father have your way
in jesus name everybody say we agree
we expect
amen
until next time y’all go out
and live a transformed life i love you
you