God wants to take us from HERE to THERE. But we can’t do that if we fight to stay HERE. We don’t need to fight God this year. If God said it… here we go! Pastor Mike shows us how we can commit ourselves to our assignment HERE so we can be equipped to go THERE.

um this is the last week

of this series we’re calling here is

holy week six

but this is not the last um sermon

that is going to confront what god’s

doing in us and through us everybody say

right here

this is the phrase for the entire year

so in the next series

we’re going to be talking about what

god’s doing in our generosity and

stewardship right

here

and then when we go after that

and then we start talking about what god

wants to do and our relationships i

think i’m going to do i’m not sure right

now but i think i’m going to do a series

called cuffing season

after the finance series and after

easter because

what i’m finding is people are in

relationship

and cuffed to things that are taking

them in the wrong direction

and i i just find everybody know a

relationship goes this gonna be a little

different

i i really feel like you’re in

relationship with whatever you’re tied

to

and i just feel like we’re not going to

be talking about the future of our

relationship we’re going to be talking

about what you cuffed to right

here

and i don’t know what all the other

sermon series are i i have an inkling of

them

but i just feel like god all of 2022

he wants to do a work within us right

here

and um for for those of you just joining

this series

welcome

god’s doing something really really

special here at transformation church if

you’re excited to be a part of a church

that’s led by the holy spirit could you

just give god some prayer i just need to

know i love it here you understand i

love it here but do you love it here in

the chat in the comment in the room can

we give god some praise that he’s

actually doing this right now

amen

so write it down here is holy

this phrase is something that we have

coined um for what god is saying to us

in this season of life that needs to

apply to every area of your life

here is holy is the awareness that your

current situation everybody say where

i’m at

is sacred

uh oh

where i’m at

is sacred

it it’s not asking you do you like where

you’re at

it’s making a declarative statement over

where you’re at where i’m at is sacred

somebody just say that where i’m at

is sacred

and it’s being intentionally used by god

to prepare me

for my purpose

and it’s opposed to there

it means

that there is no longer the goal

i’m going to say this again because it’s

going to go against everything you wrote

in your vision planner

there

is no longer the goal

here is the gift of god

there

is not the goal

here

is the gift of god and until you divorce

the theology of there you will always be

frustrated about here

you will always devalue here

i i heard somebody say the other day

they have small children and and and we

have small children and we were talking

back and forth and they said i can’t

wait till they get older

but at the moment they get older you’re

going to be wishing

that they were little again any parents

in the house oh god they can talk and

talk back and they drive and i wish i ah

and you wish they could go back to the

place why and many times people have

more children because they didn’t value

the here they were in

uh-oh i’m going to real stuff

and so they keep having children trying

to get back a moment that they didn’t

value and maybe it’s not children but it

may be boyfriends

because you’re trying to find a feeling

that you had at one moment when it was

good and godly but you didn’t like the

package god sent them in

so you started talking to your

girlfriends and you let their opinion

divorce you from your

future

and it may not be a relationship but it

may be a business

and you didn’t value the time when

nobody knew you and you could actually

greet every customer

and actually go out to dinner with

people who wanted to invest now you’re

so busy you keep praying for god to take

away what you fasted for

and when you do not value everybody shot

at me here

dare

is never fulfilling

cause dare

turns into

here

you never get there and it stays there

every time you get there it turns into

here

and if you were not

content

with the here you were in you will not

be content

in the here you go to

they tell me

that the average satisfaction of

people’s life

does not go up drastically after you

make seventy five thousand dollars

did you all hear that and i know some

people like well test me like let me see

let me see what could happen

but they literally say

that your joy happiness and vigor for

life

increases very little

after you make seventy five thousand

dollars

so but when i get there when i make two

hundred thousand

when i make 250 when i make a million

and god said but you weren’t satisfied

at 35 000.

so you can put 3.5 in the books and

still be

frustrated

hurting

broken

and god is saying could i teach you a

principle that will allow you to enjoy

the rest of your life

valuing

here

and so

i want you to write it down in a point

obedience here

always takes you there

most people

are not obedient

immediately here

so they delay there

and that what makes them frustrated

about here because i thought god was

going to do it here

and god said you didn’t obey here

well i thought you was going to change

my situation i thought you was going to

listen

like what if god said what it really was

i thought you was gonna give me a

relationship i wanted a relationship

with you first

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i thought you were gonna make my church

known i see your church it is known

uh-oh

he’s literally saying would you please

obey me

here

because when you obey me here it always

takes you

there could you put here and there on

the screen

i want everybody to see this and i want

you to see it very clearly matter of

fact i’ma move this out the way because

i want you to see this i got this

revelation this week that literally

god can take you

on a journey from wherever you are if

you just obey god says step

my one obedience step

i didn’t have to run

the here took me there okay

give him the crazy faith offering well

god i don’t well

promotion

love on that person that doesn’t like

you

favor

stop

committing

to people who are not

committed to your purpose

[Applause]

whole new friend group

see a lot of us will not obey god for

the first step

so now we’re trying to work our way to

somewhere god would carry us to

i’m not using any energy except the

energy to step

but it’s because i’m obeying the step

everybody shot at me here

that when i do it

say yes to serving

and this is what many of y’all do

god i’ll say yes

but i don’t really like it

i don’t really um

that’s not my group of people

that i i i really thought you were going

to do it in a different way

god i i really thought you were going to

use them and not me god i actually do

not and god said if you don’t stop

fighting against the current

of the vision i have for your life then

you would actually be able to get what i

have for you

but you know what if you just stop even

if you turn the wrong way

if you would just stop

you could go with what god is trying to

do in and through you

he can take you from here to there

from broken

and deliver you to

whole

he can take you

from a poverty mindset

and allow you to live in wealth and

abundance

with generosity he can take you i’m just

trying to get somebody to see

hear always turns into there

if

if

you’re obedient everybody say here yeah

if if this whole year

we would just make the next obedient

step

you’ll end up

there

now the crazy thing about this is

sometimes this goes fast

and sometimes

it goes slow could you speed it up just

a little bit for me

see because

i’m expecting a certain tempo right now

but what ends up happening is as you

know

and flow with god

things that used to take a long time

it begins to take less time

because you have developed the muscle of

quick obedience

and i don’t know who needs to hear this

today but god is saying that you need to

stop thinking about there and you need

to live your life and what bishop calls

continual hears

because i’m no longer looking at from

going from here to there i’m looking at

going from here

to here

and then when he does that i go from

here

just here it doesn’t matter how long it

takes and it doesn’t matter if i look

dumb i’m not using my energy to make

this happen this is god uh oh

he paused me

stopped me

i was i was in a rhythm

in the last five years

every time we did something you just

took us from here to here

wasn’t expecting that one god

do you get off when you don’t expect it

wasn’t expecting that one god oh dang

and now it’s going way faster whoa hold

on lord

hold on i need to brace myself for some

of the transitions

you’re making in my life right now i

need to

i need to be able to get in position to

do everything you’ve called me to do it

does not matter what it looks like

it matters that i’m everybody shy to be

obedient

because when i follow the steps god

gives me everybody shout at me here

it always

takes me there

now can you do something cameraman

put it

to where you can’t see the treadmill but

you can see me

yeah yeah yeah right there right there

make it where you can’t see my feet

either

just come up a little bit

yeah just come on up when my feet get

right here yeah right there right there

right there

see

the crazy thing about it is

it doesn’t matter if others can see

what’s under you

making you move when you see me

all you see

is it looks like i’m gliding

through situations other people’s

stumbling

this

is what the church should look like when

you follow the power of the holy spirit

on your life when everybody else is

going down you follow the spirit and it

takes you

up it takes you from here

to here

and it don’t i’m gonna do this all

service

and it doesn’t matter

if they see

what’s powering it

because at some point

they’re gonna come through and ask

how

how did you lose your loved one

and i saw you when you got the call

but grief and shame didn’t stay

all long you were able to minister to me

at the cubicle the next day how

everybody say how

how were you able to go into that

situation that looked like you were at a

disadvantage

and walk in there with the favor of god

and be able to stand and declare what

god said

and see your family and others you don’t

even know blessed it’s because i have

something powering me

that is not of this world

this is how we go from here

to here

or if that’s too much from you for you

put the cross in front of here

and guess what it spells

there

so every time

i get here

before i see there i need to see the

cross

matthew 6 33

seek first

the kingdom

its agenda

its plan

and everything else

will be what i should be going towards

every time is the cross

every move i make

from my marriage

from my money from my mindset

i should be going towards the cross and

this is for everybody who’s not been

going towards the cross and you’ve been

this what you look like in your everyday

life

how you doing blessing holidays i’m

doing good girl

everything good how’s that relationship

you know we you know

we’re in a situation shift i mean but it

was just valentine’s day and he bought

me some good chances a little leon

saying

but does he commit to you know it’s only

been nine years but i just know that

god’s gonna the only thing you have to

do

is repent

do you know what repent means

turn

i’m preaching this treadmill right now

all i’m telling you

is that if you turn towards the cross

if you turn towards what god

wants for you

it takes you from here

to there

let’s keep that running

we’ll see what happens

you know what

i started to think about

how god doesn’t want us

to stay here

past our assignment

but most people don’t know the

expiration date to hear

and so at the moment they get there and

they don’t like it they try to run from

it

some stuff was only supposed to last 11

days

ask the children of israel

it had an expiration date of 11 days in

the wilderness but as soon as they

tasted manna for the first time and was

like what is it their heart

lengthened the time

let me come preach to y’all

if your heart posture

is not proper

when god’s trying to do something in you

here

you will make the clock

longer

because the whole reason for the

wilderness

the whole reason for here

is to work out of you what cannot go

into the promised land

and there are so many things that we

carry on the inside of us that we feel

will be permitted in the promised land

and god’s saying that will get your

access denied so i gotta take you the

long way

to work on your attitude to work on your

thoughts to work on your character to

work on your people skills i gotta do

that so that you do not disqualify

yourself when we get to the place that i

promised you he promised them i’ma take

you to a promised land

but their heart condition

lengthened an 11-day expiration date to

a 40-year death

no longer

do we need to be worried about

there i really believe they probably had

meetings about what it was going to be

like in the promised land

instead of focusing on what god told

them to do right here they were like yo

but when we get over there i

heard and i bet you know what and once i

and god was like man

if you always just focus on what i’m

trying to do and building you right

here

it would change everything

so last week

god invites moses into this amazing call

and moses

he had internal limitations

that would not allow him to fully obey

what god was asking him to do that’s why

i said if you make the first step and

obey god he’ll take you from here to

there he will feel your mouth he’ll give

you what to say he’ll educate you as you

go but most of us want to fight with god

instead of have faith in god

i’m going to say this again

most of us want to fight with god

instead of have faith in god

and so um

i’ve been enamored at moses’s story

reading it for this series

and seeing how much

he argued with god

about what god called him to do

and i know

none of y’all argue with god

as soon as he says it yes lord here i am

your humble servant i know

but for the few of us

that might have a little moses mentality

no no i know y’all heard of the mamba

mentality y’all know kobe bryant like

like he had this thing that they said on

the court that he would literally turn

on this instinct and have this mama

mentality a mama is a snake and it would

literally if any opponent was in front

of him he would strike fear and

insecurity into them

now most of us don’t have the the mamba

mentality

because it would have played out of your

life somehow

but a lot of us have the moses mentality

look what the moses mentality is moses

mentality fights the instructions of god

due to fear and insecurity

god says go to that place well god i

don’t know them

and who am i

and in there somebody and i got a

stutter and i got a lisp and i got this

and god’s like i

did not ask you for your moses mentality

he spends over two chapters

arguing with

god

god’s saying i want to use you i can’t

be used like that

i want people to be changed by you i

don’t know if i can change

i want to transform a nation which

nation i don’t even know nations

and i don’t i don’t know why

our insecurities and fears get so big at

the moment that god is saying i want to

use you

but we have to get this moses mentality

out of our head when god is saying here

is holy and i want to invite you into a

call and it’s going to be bigger than

anything else you’ve ever done and it’s

not going to look like your last season

moses spent 40 years in a desert place

with sheep

and then god comes out of the blue and

says now you’re going to culture

and i’m going to use you as my

mouthpiece to the entire nation of egypt

that don’t look like my last season god

says it doesn’t have to

because i’m

leading you and this is why i’m asking

everybody as we in this series

don’t fight with god this year

i just want to end this whole series

saying if god says here is holy and then

he starts giving you crazy instructions

do not fight him

what if

moses would have had the right attitude

the first time god said i want to use

you

what if it wasn’t two chapters of back

and forth

what if it wasn’t oh but i need a

hearing too

he literally put his purpose and destiny

we thank god that aaron came along and

helped but what if aaron

was reluctant

to do what god called him to do now my

purpose is waiting on somebody else to

say yes when god never even required

them to do it in the first place

you’re waiting on a committee of people

when god said there’s enough in you to

do this just with me and you

but your insecurities and fears are

saying but i need somebody else

and god said i’ll i’ll let you have

them if that’ll make you move

but you didn’t even need them

that was a request you asked for

but my plan for you

was for you to stand flat-footed

and do the purpose i called you for when

i let you live when they were killing

all babies

this is the attitude we should have

this year

my attitude will agree with the

anointing of god on my life

no that’s nasty

everybody say this year

my attitude

will agree

with the anointing of god

on my life

it doesn’t matter if it’s comfortable

i’m going to agree with what god is

saying about me

so i’m going to be a book writer

can’t really spell

but i agree no y’all don’t hear me

okay i’m gonna use real real examples

i failed ninth grade english

ap english

like like and my parents are looking at

each other confused on the front row

right now

i was a manipulator back then

they didn’t know

but but i failed

ninth grade english now watch

this is when natalie came into my life

and she it was really really sweet and

it hurt my feeling she said you’re

smarter than that don’t be dumb

and that’s all i needed

i needed her i was like hold on i am

smarter than that

and i went back and asked the teacher

could i take all the tests over again

i took all the tests over again and i

and i graduated with a c in english ap

english and then i was ap classes the

rest of the time in high school but i

needed that moment it never showed up on

my uh report card because i went back

and you know what i’m saying made it

happen

but the but the truth of the matter is

like the truth of everything that i’m

saying to you

is that there was an anointing on my

life

that i didn’t agree with yet

and it followed me even after 9th grade

because part of my hesitation to going

to college

i tell the start the part of it that is

like i wanted to do music and all that

other stuff but there was another

hesitation there

of the academic side of it

being too daunting for me

and god was like no you’re an academic

like you can get this stuff you can do

it but i hadn’t agreed

with the anointing all my god’s

literally telling me i can do it

and i’m telling them all the reasons why

i can’t do it

and it’s just like god

to allow me

to become an author

of books

not one book

but currently two and there’s more on

the way right now

[Applause]

and then he uses the foolish things to

confound the wise he said i’m not just

gonna let it be a book

that you wrote

i’ma let your first book just so you

know who’s god

i’ma let it go new york times bestseller

and i’m going to make it sell over a

million copies

in less than three years

i really should have agreed with you

earlier

if i would have known

what you could do

with all that i have

i would have agreed earlier uh-oh

i came to tell somebody you should agree

now

because it’s going to take you to the

place you’ll end up eventually if you

want to get there faster agree

now

or let me say it a different way agree

here

moses didn’t agree when god said it

after he took off his shoes and did all

this stuff god said i know the plans i

have for you you don’t

so why would when i say something to you

you start questioning me

this year

we’re not gonna fight god

my attitude will agree with the

anointing of god on my life why pastor

mike because obedience equips you for

your assignment

when you obey that’s how you get

equipped

it’s not let me get equipped and then

i’ll obey that’s being disobedient

but if you just obey god

he will equip you along the way to do

the assignment he’s called you to do so

i made a decision that all 2022 i have a

brand new attitude when god says

something about me says something about

this church says something about my

family when god wants me to go to

another level when god wants to take me

somewhere and i don’t even feel fully

secure and where we’re going i have a

new three-word phrase

here we go

yeah this needs to be the biggest faith

statement that you say all year god says

i’m gonna use you in this way i don’t

even get it but here we

go god you’re gonna do this from this

converted grocery store even after you

gave us the arena but you’re not

allowing us to be in there right now so

you got us right here well here we go

you’re gonna allow me to forgive people

that have used me in a wrong way and

bless them i don’t want to but

here we

i’m telling you

that these three words

are going to guide you all year because

what it’s doing is it’s aligning your

attitude

you don’t have to know everything to say

here we go

you just have to obey somebody shot at

me obey

shout at me real good here we go

that’s the title of my message today

here we go

and and this brings me back to several

moments in my relationship with my wife

natalie um

natalie um

tries to

um let me finish the statement but i’m

gonna say how i feel she tries to kill

me once a year

with some type of outlandish activity

that puts me and my body and my limbs in

a very um compromised state

let me explain

for my 26th birthday

she blindfolded me

drove me to the middle of the country in

somewhere oklahoma

and

said we fell in love

this many years ago

so today for your birthday let’s fall

from 10 000 feet

and go skydiving

what

i don’t i don’t even like at this moment

i’m paralyzed in fear

i start thinking about how much i weigh

[Music]

i start thinking about the last time i

used the bathroom because it would be

very devastating to pee in the air and

i start like every my life is flashing

before my eyes and she’s just sitting

over there like i was like what

possessed you like why

we get into the hangar

and the dudes are so excited because

it’s like their six thousandths jump

so you can tell they’re skipping through

stuff

i wish i was lying they’re like yeah

yeah you get it bro like don’t even

worry i was like no no no no this my

life

that’s my life

we get in a plane that literally is from

like it’s 10 feet like this plane is so

little

i’m crunched up in the front of the

plane with the pilot and the other

people out there natalie they talking

and laughing and all i can see

is jesus

i was like i’ma meet him today i said

three salvation prayers i ain’t even

gonna lie to you

[Music]

but there was a moment

that something

switched in my head

the pilot literally said look down at

the

at the

i don’t know why he said

look down

at the cars

he said how high you think we up

because we had to go to ten thousand

feet

i said i don’t know

nine thousand feet

he said you’re two thousand feet off the

ground

and then something changed in my mind

well if i’ma die today

here we go

now

somebody said person like why do you

cause at this point

i’m i’m in the air

at this point

i gotta trust

at this somebody say at this point i’m

about to

at this point

there’s no turning back

so i might as well agree

with the situation i found myself would

i have ever put myself in this situation

hell to the number

but since we

here

here we go

and i got outside that plane

and that man said on the count of three

we gonna jump

and i’m literally i’m just

i’m just shaking

my legs shaking my hand shaking

everything shaking

and he said one

two

three

and we did like this

and i froze

and he said bro

you’re too big not to go

said the next time we do this

you gotta go

and i had to remind myself

i said i was gonna do it

i don’t get it i understand

but here we go

one

two

and i’m telling you with everything in

me i jumped and literally it felt like

this

i didn’t move a lot

i didn’t put all my effort into it

but i just leaned in the direction uh-oh

i just leaned in the direction of

obedience i just leaned in the direction

of the favor i just leaned in the

direction and the momentum of my

obedience

[Applause]

somebody shot at me here we go

if you would take that attitude for

everything that god places in front of

you this year

you will find yourself having

experiences

and and moments

that will never be taken away from you i

will never go skydiving again

but can’t nobody take it from me

that i have had that experience

and what god is saying to many of us

right now is lean the direction

of obedience

you may not be fully

ready to hit a jump out of there i

didn’t he was like

like that’s why my guy was

me

i just everybody say lean

just lean right now just lean just lean

lean lean lean

if you do this with god all year

i’m gonna fight you

i’m not gonna work against you

but i am going to lean in the direction

of obedience and that’s why my new

phrase for the rest of this year is what

here we go

so so so let me say it to you like this

um

you don’t just say here we go it has to

be in your heart

a lot of people have lip service

but they don’t have obedience

it’s out of the abundance of the heart

that the mouth speaks and then the body

acts

like like like if you want to really

know it like you say it before you do it

and and we got to get it in our hearts

so i want you to write down here we go

heart is what i want like yeah yeah i

want to hear we go heart

like so when god says forgive them

your response is here we go

and that actually has to be in your

heart when god tells you to shut up and

stop complaining

and your mo is to talk about everything

invent and let people know your truth

when he tell when he muzzles you

your response is

here we go or maybe mm-hmm

like like when god asks you to serve in

a department

that you do not have

any expertise in but you would be a

savant in a different area but god calls

you to a place where you have to learn

again

instead of fighting like why why do i

need to be in this place

[Music]

we are agreeing with the assignment and

the anointing that god has placed on our

life at transformation church and so our

response is here we go

yeah yeah you need to write that

somewhere in your in your binder on your

mirror when you get up to go to that job

every day

and you know that you’re not functioning

at your highest level but god’s trying

to teach you something here you need to

say to yourself every day

here we go

you can use me

you can do whatever you want to do

through me you can change me you can

transform me everybody shout at me here

we go the reason i’m trying to say this

over and over and over and over again is

because when you get to hear we go heart

the only way you can say that is because

you actually trust god

see a lot of people get exposed in their

obedience because if god said it

we should trust him

but the truth of the matter is we don’t

so a lot of times when god says go here

and that’s going to be your next level

to what you’re going to when you get

there and you don’t like it there you

stop trusting god

and you blame other people but it really

is nobody told you to come here god did

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you couldn’t open them doors for

yourself god did that

god that you had them kids god allowed

you to do that and when we stop trusting

god

it shuts down our heart god i thought

you said we were going to be able to be

generous

and god said trust me

because if you trust me

i promise you it’s going to happen maybe

not when you wanted to

and maybe not even how you want it to

but i am a god who does not lie

and this is why isaiah 45 verses 3

through 6 really helped me out anytime

i’m like here we go but god are you sure

watch this it’s this is god and i will

give you treasures hidden in the

darkness

secret riches

i will do this so you may know that i am

the lord he says the god of israel the

one who calls you by name and why have i

called you this is what we want to know

why have i called you for this word why

did i call you by name when you did not

know me

it is for the sake of jacob my servant

israel my chosen one it’s the for the

sake of others i am the lord there is no

other god i have equipped you for battle

oh i love this part right here

god has equipped me for battle

though you don’t even know me

so all the world

from the east to the west will know

there is no other god why does god

choose us

because he knew he was weak

the only way he gets

the glory

and looks real strong

as he doesn’t pick the biggest

strongest

most qualified person

he usually finds the most broken person

and says if i do this through them

the whole world will know from the east

to the west

that i am god

what a great privilege it is

to be used by god

in my weakness

see people talk about paul saying in my

weakness he is

that’s god’s preference

to be strong

in somebody’s weakness

and your proclivity is to always act

strong and actually be weak

and god said would you please just admit

you not a good person at organizing

and stop acting like you you got every

app and still can’t be on time

can we just acknowledge

this is a struggle for me and god says

finally

now i can be strong

in the middle of your weakness but you

only can do that when you trust god

somebody say here we go

okay so how do we have a here we go

heart three points and we out of here

for the day god’s already met us matthew

28 18. oh i love the word of god matthew

28 18. this is jesus everybody say here

we go

say one more time here we go

um jesus came and told his disciples

i’ve been given all authority in heaven

and on earth therefore what is the next

word go say it loud go

hold on

jesus establishes his authority

then he gives us an instruction and the

instruction is go

go where jesus

and make disciples of all nations

baptizing them in the name of the father

and the son and the holy spirit teach

these new disciples to obey all of my

commands i’ve given you and be sure of

this i am with you always even to the

end of the age jesus’s last instructions

to his disciples

were to go

but do you know what happened right

before this

he says you’re gonna go

and i came to tell somebody right now

you mad because the word in the phrase

of years here is holy

i just came to tell you you’re gonna go

go is coming

because hear and go are always connected

so his last instruction was what go

okay

but before that

do you know what he told his disciples

to to do

he told them to stay here

pastor mike what are you talking about

go to acts chapter one

once when he was eating with his

disciples he commanded them do not leave

here

don’t leave jerusalem

until the father sends you the gift he

promised you

as i told you before john baptized you

with water but in just a few days

you will be baptized with the holy

spirit hold on

jesus

tells them

to go

but before he tells them to go he tells

them stay here

here

go

my here

is connected

to my assignment

to go

if i don’t wait

to be empowered

here

it will be pointless for me to go

there

if i don’t forgive

here

my heart will not be malleable for god

to use me

there

like like

hear

and go

are the tension

of true believers

thank you

those are my two executive team members

there’s like that’s good

why are they saying that because they

know that’s where i’m at

i can’t preach nothing to you that god’s

not

taking me through right now

god has told me all 2022 wait here

when i have so much go vision

i got so much go ability right now

i got so much gold resources

i got so many go connections

i could go through my phone right now

eight years ago i had to obey god

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i have nothing

i didn’t have no connections i didn’t

have and a lot of people like i’m just

waiting on god you ain’t got no other

choice

you don’t got no options you really

don’t know if it’s god

until you have the options not to obey

him

i got so much go ability i just made

that word up

i got go ability and god’s saying here

and what i’ve made a decision is

that hear and go

are exclusively tied together

what i do here qualifies me where i get

to go there

how i handle people here

determines what rooms i get to go into

up there

how i stood over my body here

gives me the stamina to go do y’all know

that most of y’all would be dead all my

musicians if you actually went on tour

if you actually had to sing every night

sign autographs

get on a plane

private

then you take your instagram picture you

won’t have a voice tomorrow

because you have not conditioned

yourself

here

you carrying 40 pounds of extra

mcdoubles

here

you love sonic’s new mcflurries

here

you can’t get enough of krispy kreme

donuts

and so what you’re praying for

god keeps delaying your goal

because you will not be

intentional and steward

over

hear and go

are connected

and until you do these three things

you’ll never get to see where god wants

to take you on the go

number one you need to value here

i’ve said it in every way i can know how

to say it throughout the series

value

here

why are you valuing here because here

equals position

if you’re in the right here

the right position it’ll take you there

remember my example earlier yo

all we have to do is be in the right

position

and it delivers me

to where god wants me to be

stop devaluing the place that god has

assigned to you imagine the disciples

telling

jesus

jerusalem

man i thought we was about to really

just i thought we was headed to caesarea

i got some i got some homies up in

session that i told that we was gonna

roll through

and i told him that and and and my mans

wanted to go to capernaum

and i thought we was gonna visit i

thought we was gonna visit uh uh corinth

you know what i’m saying

oh that

well i’m about to move to l.a

and they told me that there were better

opportunities in new york

this is the jargon and the language of

people who do not value

here

you think that your favor is in a

different city

wherever i go

the favor is on people

you’ll never hear a god about anointing

the land

he anointed the people and he said

whatever your footsteps

like like what i’m trying to get you to

understand is if you value here

god will take you there

but if you are not in position this year

you will delay your goal

god

somebody’s going to watch this back

and you’re going to be at 2023 like that

gummit

if i would have just gotten position and

sometimes the positions are not seeing

positions

sometimes the positions you can’t post

about

sometimes the positions they take

anonymity

you know what that is

that means that people can’t even know

that are around you what god’s doing in

you because the position requires a

level of just being here

and literally some of the work that

god’s doing in me right now

is frustrating

because

because i wish

people could at least see what god’s

doing

because it would give me encouragement

to keep doing it

and god said you’re gonna have to

encourage yourself

david said it like that

sometimes i got to encourage myself in

the lord

do you know what that’s doing in me it’s

building stamina

it’s building endurance

and i don’t know what’s ahead i don’t

know what there is i don’t know what

happens when we open our church back up

i don’t know but whatever god’s doing

here

i’m valuing it

if you don’t stop devaluing the position

you are in god can definitely take you

to a different one that you don’t like

even worse

how you say what are you saying pastor

mike god told me one time he said

michael

he said you better start enjoying

where you are

because this

can either be the last time we do this

or it can be

the thing that you learn to enjoy

because you need it for everything i’ve

called you to do

i’m trying to say it without saying it

can i say it

you don’t even know what you need up

there

and if you don’t let god do the work in

you right here

you will be not equipped

you won’t have the instruments or the

tools

so i’m asking you

for transformation church

value here everybody say here

but then there’s a we

and i like we

cuz cause

let me go back i forgot something here

is where you hear

the reason why you stay here

is it’s because where you hear god and

when you hear god then everything

changes i know i’m right in the middle

of where god wants me right here because

i’ve heard him clearly and that’s when

you hear him you better make sure you

have the right we

so you need the value here

and then you need to value the we

what are you saying the people

who are you around

and who’s around you

and are they the right we for here

they might have got you through the last

season

but are they the right people

for everybody say here

that’s why when i say here we go

it’s not here i go

it’s here we god always chooses to do

things in community

he never asks for a solo project

he wants a collaborative work

of people that are going the same way

with the same heart and the same mind

who’s your we

this is what you have to value in 2022

and some of you i’m gonna just say where

i feel like god has dropped the burden

for me today some of you do not have

friends because you’re not friendly

you’re mean

you make people prove to you that they

should have your time

like they should be grateful to be

breathing your air like if you text them

back or respond back to them somehow

they’ve been chosen in a lottery to be

able to speak to you today

the reason you don’t have encouragement

and down times is because you literally

repel

the people who are supposed to be a

resource to you

you are so insecure

in the areas of life that are deficient

to you in this season that you will

literally isolate yourself from the

people who are supposed to give you

courage that’s why they call it

encouragement

somebody’s supposed to be putting it in

and if you do not have community around

you

to encourage you

you may need to ask yourself who are you

encouraging

because you reap what you s

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you won’t friends be a friend

you hear about a problem somebody’s sick

do like do what you will want somebody

to do we talk about it in finance and we

talk about it in serving we don’t talk

about it in friendship i might have to

revisit this in cuffing season but what

i’m talking about if if you really want

best friends who are you a best friend

to

[Applause]

you don’t got to call me a best friend

for me to be your best friend

you can deny the title but you can’t

deny how i’m functioning in your life

[Music]

some people have weak wease

yo we is weak

i just i can’t take it no more and when

you fall

you hit

the ground

because you don’t have

no

wheeze around you or you it’s just your

weeds are weak

because you got them

they just don’t have the capacity to

hold you up

zoe come here kaylee come here uh

jennifer come here real fast

just real fast just

memes come here

okay yeah just come here i know y’all

wasn’t ready to be on platform today but

just come here okay just come here

uh i’ma fall

i’m gonna jump

i’m gonna jump

and fall

i don’t know where i’m gonna jump and

fall

but i don’t have enough in me to stay up

no more

so i’m about to yeah only one of them

was ready

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kaylee looking at me like pastor mike i

just had a baby please just

the problem is i don’t feel secure near

the day

let me say it again i don’t feel secure

and neither do they

because they are not built for this

weight

even if we have great conversations and

we laugh at the same jokes and we watch

the same tv shows and we go to the same

they’re not my we will come here brinson

come here um scott come here uh will

heckenbock i mean uh will dale come here

like okay so what ends up happening

is very easily

there’s some security that comes to my

life

when the wrong we steps to the side

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and the right we

get now it’s not that i still won’t be

heavy

and it’s not that it might not actually

be difficult

but i know they’re built

you got to hear me they’re built to hold

me up

and even when i look like it and i’m not

prepared

they’re built to hold me up even in the

moments where it doesn’t look like

they’re built

todd

[Applause]

if i would have done that with these

babies

watch

they would have been hurt

and i would have been

if you don’t get the right group of

people around you hurt is inevitable

you’ve got to get a strong we a strong

community a strong church

[Applause]

[Music]

hey will

brent

scott

i thought i was done

see

i didn’t even tell them what i was doing

but the right community can hear my tone

they they can

they can hear

in my tongue

i can say i’m not good

i’m cool bro

i don’t need none man

i’m good i’m chilling but look what

they’re doing

they walking with me

they’re following me around because they

know at any moment

i might need

some support

and it’s the crazy thing

brent might be going through a situation

and we switched places and he might need

us to hold him up i don’t get him

and after brent gets held up we’ll may

need some you ready will i’m lying let’s

go

listen

see in my community

and when wheels done scott may need

something and when scott needs it

this is what our community looks like

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[Applause]

until we get the right we here

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pain

hurt

discipline that’s why most people leave

the church

because i was getting a divorce

and i was going to fall flat on my face

and nobody caught me

so now i’m dealing with the pain

of my mouth

and my face

and my heart

being broken because i didn’t have the

right we around me

people who were strong enough in prayer

when i didn’t have the words

people that were able to give me words

of encouragement it some some of these

people have vulnerable parts of me

i’m not worried where none of their

hands are right now

i’m just grateful i’m off

of the ground

and someone don’t touch that don’t do

this don’t do that no no no baby

when you get in community that’s humble

open and transparent

you don’t care what they see

you just care that they’re holding you

up i’m preaching right now

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somebody say we

if you don’t get the right we here

and this this all i’m saying to you in

this moment is

it may not even feel like you need them

now

but you have no idea

what is up

when me and natalie got the diagnosis

for mj

there was no there was no warning to

that

if i didn’t have the right wii around me

i wouldn’t be standing on this platform

today

when the spit hit the fan

if i couldn’t have called a couple of my

friends and said let’s go to napa

california actually i didn’t say it they

had already had a trip planned there and

i was like y’all just come with us i

looked at natalie i said i got to get up

out of here i need to disconnect from

social media i need to be around people

and we set every night on the balcony

overlooking some great fields of

vineyard

and we talked about the purpose of god

in the moment where i already felt watch

this

i already felt

like i was on the ground this is what a

good we will do they’ll come

get down in your situation

and when you don’t have the strength to

pick yourself up

they will be ones

that will pick you up

until and then i get a little strength

back and i start feeling it but i can’t

do it without them yet i set up but i’m

not ready to put my feet on the ground

yet i can listen during praise and

worship but i haven’t raised my hands in

a way and they’ll still stand there with

you and still believe with you and still

sin it and i’m like i got a little

stream but don’t leave me yet just put

me on the ground and they’ll stay with

me

and walk with me

oh can i say this

your we should look multi-ethnic

[Applause]

[Music]

i got a white brother on my on my left

side and a black brother who didn’t like

white people most of his life on my

right side one day you’ll get to hear

scott’s testimony i got will behind me i

wish i had an asian brother michael ty

where you at brother i need somebody

else here all i’m saying is

when you get it doesn’t matter at this

moment their background doesn’t matter

it’s their strength

and my time of need

this year

when god says here is holy

and we say here we go

make sure you have the right

we

so that you can do everything that god

has called you do somebody give god some

praise right here thank y’all

hey y’all turn around

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i just wanted to make sure all right

all right

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but look what happened

it was a situation

that they were able to catch me in that

they were unprepared for

that makes them stay closer

look at look at all of them put the

camera on

look at them don’t look at me look at

them

if your wii is not ready

and some of y’all have been committed to

people

you’re committed to a we

that resourced you in your last season

and you and you’re you’re expecting

that they’ll actually help you now

but they’re actually awake

i’m good for real this time

acts chapter 2 verse 1.

it says on the day of pentecost

all the believers that means a we a

group

we’re meeting together in everybody say

one place

this is where jesus told him to wait

he said get in position stay here

and don’t leave don’t go

until you’re in one place with the right

we

so so here is position

we equals people but watch this last one

okay

goal

equals power

the whole reason jesus said go

and wait here

is because i’ma give you the power of

the holy spirit

to actually go and be impactful look at

it acts chapter 1 verse 7 he replied the

father alone

has the authority to set those dates and

times and they are not for you to know

so that means there’s going to be a

level of confusion whenever we are

walking with god

but you will receive everybody shouting

me power

say it with your chest power

but you will receive power when the holy

spirit comes upon you and you will be my

witnesses telling people about me

everywhere in jerusalem throughout judea

samaria and to the ends

of the earth

value

the power

of the holy spirit

it makes no sense

for you to say here we go

and you’re in the right position

and you have the right people

but you have no power

the disciples had walked with jesus all

of this time

but he still tells them go to this

specific place that i’m not going to be

at with you

and wait till you hear god

in that place

and then everybody who’s in your we

is going to get the same power

to be able to go out and do what i asked

you to do in the first place go into all

the world but stay here

with the right people

until you get the power of the holy

spirit to go out there and actually be

effective what are you trying to say

pastor mike don’t go without power

why would you go through this year

without the holy spirit leading and

directing you why in the world would you

make a plan for a business and the holy

spirit’s on the sideline and you were

like yeah just wait just wait i’ll ask

for you in a minute like no no no put

him in the game right now

and ask him

give me power

to do what you’ve asked me to do

leaving here and going there without

power is pointless

god’s not sending you to culture to get

beat up and sent back to the church

he’s not sending you to be the first in

your family to break generational habits

and cycles

for them to

uh swallow you and spit you back out and

you’re like yeah i just i think my

ministry is to people who are broken

like me and you don’t go to the place

that god called you to go to

the sad fact is there are many pastors

without power

there are many politicians without the

power of the holy spirit

there are many people parenting

without the power of the holy spirit

your parents did the best they could

but many of them did not do it

a kingdom way

and if you’re just following patterns of

broken people

you should allow the holy spirit well i

beat my kids you so i beat them you

spare the rod you spoiled the chop

that that was your situation

but you’ve never even asked god

how to discipline this child

you literally took the pain you

experienced

turned it into punishment for them

and somehow now you think

that everything’s gonna be okay because

you be you didn’t even talk to them

afterwards

you literally hit your kids

sent them into their room took away the

things that they enjoy

and say you better eat dinner

that’s trauma if i’ve ever heard it

and you didn’t know that god gave you a

compassionate child a sensitive child a

child that you never would have to hit

him if you actually took time to talk to

them and if you would have done that

what you’re doing is creating a wedge

between you and the person who going to

take care of you 60 years from now

and the reason you’re going to end up in

a home that nobody cares for you is

because you didn’t care for them when

they were in your home

and the thing i don’t know who this is

for right now but what i’m saying to you

is don’t parent

without the power

of the holy spirit

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don’t don’t

don’t

don’t go

without power

it’s better that you stay here

and wait for god to give you a

revelation

than for you to go out there without

power

and try to do it in your own strengths

apply it to whatever you want to

copy and paste

but you trying to live single and pure

without the power of the holy spirit

in 2022

that is a losing battle

but why why would you go to the fashion

industry

and not go

with the power of the holy spirit

why would you go into the school system

why would you go into sports why would

you go into education why would you go

there ill-equipped

to actually impact

that’s why god said it’s better for you

to stay here

and wait on me when we sing the song

wait on lord

wait on the lord what’s the next part he

will renew

your

that’s the power so way

i

say

wait on the lord because he wants to

give you something if you wait on the

lord he’s telling you you need power he

will renew

your

so wait so

if we would actually do that

we would go into places that used to be

a battle

and there would be no fight

when certain power shows up

certain conflict goes down

there’s a certain level of bart that

people have when somebody weak is in the

room

but when somebody strong steps in

it chan

let’s not lead this church

lead our small groups lead our

businesses

without the power of the holy spirit

what are you saying pastor mike god’s

saying here is holy last point write it

down

the holy spirit isn’t optional here

here we go but not without the holy

spirit

here we go but not until he gives us

power

so what do i do in the weight

what do i do here

get healthy here

get whole here

change your heart

here

and whenever god

decides to give you a word from his holy

spirit

an understanding of what’s happening new

language

for what god’s calling you to do then

you go

me becoming the pastor of this church

i would have never done it

unless god visited me

in a best western hotel in baton rouge

louisiana

at 2 30 in the morning

god said i’m about to do something in

you

but you got to obey me here

there was no spirit bank event center

there were no people

there were there were no crazy faith

offerings there was no book

god said on this

floor

i need you to obey me here

well god i don’t know i don’t know how

this is all going to happen and i don’t

know he i didn’t ask you all that

i did not ask you all that

all i ask you is for a yes

here

and on the floor with my wife in the bed

i said god i’ll do it

and what my life has been since

i obeyed god in that moment of here

all i can explain is when i step

it takes me

to my next tier

and every time

i get confused

and i don’t know what to do god says do

what you did last time

just acknowledge that here is holy

and because god is here

you’re gonna be all right

obey me

first year of ministry

i don’t know if that ever is gonna

happen again

second year of ministry

wow

god keeps doing this

third year of ministry

wow it goes viral

sun diagnosed with autism

write the book crazy faith

god it doesn’t make

okay

fifth year of ministry

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wife going through depression because of

the things happening with your son

god begins to start forming miracles in

the situation

[Music]

staff members change

spit hits the fan

it just seems like if i would get in the

rhythm of agreeing with god

get in the rhythm of staying on pace

with him

i would have gone further

obeying god

than i ever would

trying to figure out

everything that was going to happen

there

here

is help me holy

i pray

that from now on

you get this internal here we go

on the inside of your heart

god you’re going to do something crazy

this year yep am i going to know what it

looks like nope here we go

[Music]

god i’ll wait on you

here is holy

i want to pray for you

this sermon series will be a marker

for many of our lives over and over

again

this ain’t a one-time sermon series

god will bring you back here several

times

because you’ll go from here to here

and then from here to here

and people think you went from here to

there but it’ll be a bunch of obedient

steps and then you’ll get to a place

like i was at the beginning of the year

god what do you want to do

he said just obey me here

and he’ll take you to your next year

i know for some of you it’s like i

pastor mike i just don’t i don’t get it

you will

i promise of you if you walk with god

long enough

you’ll have to look at a situation he

doesn’t allow to change immediately

and declare here is holy

today in front of my whole church

in front of everybody that’s here i’m

declaring that where we are as a church

it’s holy

it’s uncomfortable

i don’t like it i wish we were back in

the arena i wish we could have people

all the different things that like i

miss y’all

as soon as we open y’all we might have a

10-day party i don’t even know

what’s gonna happen i might just be

there every night at six by myself

who everyone’s like but

i can’t even tell you a date

like i can’t even i can’t even

hint at anything

we didn’t have so many

potential grand open re-grand grand

grand

your great grand we had so many open i

just told the staff just wait

for some reason god has prophetically

paused us

not pathetically paused us

nothing has gone down more salvation i

think there’s been five thousand seven

hundred salvations since the beginning

of the year like there’s like

that’s how you know it’s pathetic when

the things that god cares about start

going down

but my feelings he don’t care about that

he cares about his will being done and

for some reason

he got us in this place and he’s saying

here is

holy i want you to look at every

situation that may not be as favorable

as you like it to be

and stop and hear god here

could you close your eyes everywhere

god i’m praying over these people

the same prayer father god

that i’ve been praying over myself

father let us

see you here

give us revelation revealed truth

show us

enough

for us to be content here

god we acknowledge that you are the king

of kings and the lord of lords

and father god we would like a lot more

answers

but god we want to fulfill the

assignment

so today

let us not have the moses mentality

father let us surrender

and agree

with what you want to do

in our lives in our family in this

church

here we go

however you want to do it god

we’re saying yes we obey

everything you want to do this year

our attitude will agree with the

anointing you have placed on our lives

here we go god

if it’s staying in this building for the

rest of the year here we go god

god i just want to be right where you

want me

so we’re saying here is holy come on say

that out of your mouth here it’s holy

just sing that one more time

just just let god minister to you right

here hands lifted yeah

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in your house just turn this moment into

an altar

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come on this is our heart posture right

here

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just one more time just receive it

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god’s speaking to you right here

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all year

we’ll revisit this moment dj

all year

steve right here

it’s holy

i don’t know what god’s gonna do the

rest of this year for us

but i promise you

our goal is connected to what we do

right here

promise you

get healthy here take care of your body

here read your word here

get the right we here

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for anybody that

needs to understand the holy spirit or

be filled with the holy spirit

this week i’m challenging you to go back

and watch a series that we did called

the upgrade

and i literally explained because some

of y’all want an experience but other

people need understanding and i think

it’s good to get both of them and i

literally walk you through what

what the holy spirit offers us because

it’s a person it’s a he

and when you when you get this

revelation

it’ll change everything don’t go

without the power of the holy spirit

god we thank you

for what you’re doing in us and through

us

oh i feel the presence of god

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just do it one more time yo

jeez

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come on let her minister to you right

there in your home

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here we go god come on somebody just let

that get in your heart

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here it is

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for some of you this is your moment of

salvation the reason this is holy

is because this is the day you’re going

to give your life to christ

yeah yeah like around here there’s no

secrets

like

what we want everybody to do

if you don’t do nothing else

is surrender your life

to the love

and the lordship of jesus christ

that’s why we exist

so people can be transformed in christ

all the examples all the stuff that’s

great but all i’m trying to do is get

you to have a real experience

with the only person that can change you

it happened for me

like like when i was at my worst here

when i was a liar a manipulator addicted

to pornography

i had a felony case against me

there was all kinds of different things

that were going on in my life

and god said yeah if you would surrender

right here

i’ll use you

and i’m telling you it’s the greatest

decision i ever made it changed me and

transformed me forever and now i’m not a

perfect man but i am a man that is

progressing and being used by god and i

can have an attitude that says god i

don’t understand but here we go like

whatever you want to do with me however

you want to use me and i want you to

experience that same thing

because it’s the reason why you were

even born

for purpose

to have relationship with god

so today on the count of three i’m about

to say a prayer but if you want to be

included in that prayer

and

and and be like the other 5 700 people

this year that have committed their life

to christ

today i just want you to slip your hand

in the air wherever you are it doesn’t

matter if you’re in this room if you’re

on your couch if you’re driving in the

car if it’s live or rebroadcast the holy

spirit is right there with you the bible

tells us it’s the holy spirit that draws

people to jesus you are at your day of

salvation and don’t let anybody distract

you

don’t let what you did last night

distract you don’t let what you planning

to do tomorrow distract you let god have

your heart right

here

one

you’re making the greatest decision of

your life

two your name is gonna be written in the

lamb’s book of life but more than that

you are going to be god’s child out loud

in front of everybody

and three you are going to be a witness

for his glory lift your hands in the air

if that’s you

yeah there’s hundreds if not thousands

of hands going up right now

at transformation church you already

know the deal we’re a family here nobody

prays alone y’all ready to pray with

these people who are coming into

relationship with god

it’s a holy moment

everybody just lift your hands and say

god

thank you

for meeting me here

today

i surrender

have your way in my life

i believe you lived

you died

and you rose again

with all power

just for me

and today

i give you my life

change me

renew me

transform me

on yours

here we go

into a new life

in jesus name

amen hey transformation nation can we

give god some praise oh y’all got to do

better than that

there are thousands of people that just

said here we go

they’re walking with god they’re going

to be

everything that god’s called them to be

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everybody’s standing we’re going home

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um i make a commitment to everybody

i’m gonna live this transformation out

that god’s doing in my life in front of

all y’all

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i just

i can’t do it fake

this generation has seen

too much

inauthenticity from platforms

i don’t know what that means i don’t

know where it’s taking me and i’ve i

already told you i feel all kinds of

vulnerable and i feel all kinds of

but but this is what i promised to do

this entire year

every series

i’m gonna take off my protection

i’m gonna take off

the things that keep people from seeing

the real me i’m gonna share real stories

i’m gonna get vulnerable and i’m gonna

stand up here

i even got crap from my socks and just

all kind of it don’t even matter here it

is

if the church would ever

become this

transparent

i think we could see the world changed

so for the rest of this year

i don’t need everybody

but i need at least 10 000 of y’all

to come with the attitude that whatever

god’s doing with transformation church

here we go

and if we can do that do i got y’all

with me i said can i get ten thousand

put it in the chat right now everybody

yell at me here we go

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i thought god was gonna do a miracle and

put it back on there thought he’s gonna

do a miracle during this series his

pinky toe still not touching the ground

but here

is

oh

that’s my how your situation looks it

may not be fixed yet

people don’t look at you kind of crazy

but it don’t matter i’ll put these in

the easy slides you can look at them it

don’t matter but i declare wherever i

stand

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i love you all so much father i thank

you

that this will be the best week

of us hearing you here

bless their families

bless their businesses

bless their contentment

and god i thank you as you bring us here

next week

it would be another day of progression

for us

that we would transform and become

everything that you called us to be god

we will agree

with the anointing that you have placed

on our lives this year we’re not

fighting you and we’re declaring that

here

is

holy in jesus name we agree

somebody say we agree

we expect

amen let’s give god one more big shout

of praise y’all go out and live a

transformed life

you