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welcome to transformation church where
we exist to represent god to the lost
and found for transformation in christ
my name is amber lee bell and i have the
honor and privilege of serving as one of
the executive pastors here at tc
we are so honored that you’ve decided to
join us today
get your phone your notebook whatever it
is that you take notes with and get
ready for today’s message
come on somebody let’s give god a shout
of praise all over the world god we love
you
you’re amazing and you’re wonderful
hey the the spirit of god is so
evident in this room right now
and he’s so evident and present in your
room wherever you are
um i feel led to do this i i saw
um something that came through on
instagram pass me my phone mo
um i need i need to do this and this is
the stuff that when the spirit says to
do something you need to do it
um right before i came out here i took a
screenshot of a young lady
she doesn’t know me or anything like
that her name is
leslie and she’s in fort worth texas
she said tonight i sit on a hospital cat
couch watching your sermons for strength
i continue to ask myself how and why
and i’m trying to find strength right
now my seven-year-old son
leon was diagnosed with cancer this week
i’m sitting here he started chemo on
friday
and i don’t i don’t understand why god
is letting me go through this
last week my baby boy was running and
jumping
and this week he’s telling me i’m tired
mommy
fix me
he’s brought me to a point of weakness
and i know i’m in
in the deep and i’m losing my mind
honestly i’m losing my strength
and this feels too hard for me to handle
i’ve been a part of tc nation for three
years now
and i need my church family
you probably will never see this but i’m
writing you
because i need god to see me leslie
as a church we’re about to pray for you
and i don’t know why the holy spirit
dropped that on me
five minutes before i walked out here
but we’re not just gonna pray for leslie
if you need healing for anything
i need you to join your faith right now
the holy spirit he’s not just here he’s
in that hospital room with leon
and leslie he’s with you and your family
church can we pray
i know i know there’s a lot going on
right now but by the power of the holy
spirit the same
power that raised jesus christ for the
dead
can find the cancer in leon’s body it
can find the tumors
in your mom’s body it can heal the
depression that you’ve been working
through
church god said that my house should be
called a house of prayer
and before we get a message that we can
re-teach we need the power of the holy
spirit to invade real situations
so we don’t know how to pray as we ought
but the holy
spirit he begins to intercede on our
behalf
and so i need us to pray if you have a
heavenly language begin to speak in that
and i’m going to speak out father in the
name of jesus we pray for healing in
your children right now if you need
healing lift your hands
by faith i want you to receive this
father we speak
to everybody to every mind to every
soul and we declare that by the power of
the holy spirit
that the healing virtue of god will
begin to flow
i declare and i believe sickness was
birthed
out of the place of sin but father we
are not of this world
father god we are ambassadors from the
heavenly kingdom
so we need the power that is available
in heaven
to invade earth right now i declare
that disease and sickness and tumors and
cancer and pain and hurt
and feelings father god have lost
i declared that by the power of the holy
spirit
that you would begin to go in move like
only you can move
god transform like only you can
transform god
renew restore rejuvenate
rebuild re ah
regenerate in the name of jesus
we specifically send prayers to fort
worth right now
and we i need y’all to pray this is this
the holy spirit highlighted this on
purpose
we pray for leslie and leon and father
we declare and we believe
that it’s about to take over your
healing virtue is taking over that
hospital
i need you to pray like that’s your
little boy i need you to pray like
that’s your cousin
i need you to pray like that was mj god
we’re crying out to you
father we don’t know why a
seven-year-old would get cancer
but father we know the god who can heal
cancer and father we’re asking you give
the doctors wisdom
give the mama strength let leon know
that he was built for such a time as
this and father you’re gonna use his
life as a testimony
god has believers all over this world
we cry out heal our land god
i need you to just begin to pray heal
our land god
father we’re we’re we’re interrupting
our service in our plan
because what we got to say has nothing
in comparison
to if you just heal our land if you
touch our hearts
if you mend the marriage god
[Music]
we send prayer to paris bowen’s family
father god
a musician that lost his life this week
father god
people are hurting everywhere father we
send prayers
to his family his wife and his children
we send prayers to dmx’s family
we said no i need y’all to pray we’re
not just talking
about something that affects us father
we send prayer i need y’all to pray
y’all
i feel this thing from my soul father
for every person we don’t know their
name
but holy spirit you know their situation
we send your word
to heal we send the word by your stripes
father god you can heal depression you
can heal anxiety
you can heal father god every lie of the
enemy
that has come to say this is how it is
[Music]
we trust you god and as a church
it will always be said that this is a
house of prayer
interrupt whatever you want to interrupt
god change whatever you want and change
god
we want to hear from you
today as miracles are starting all over
the world some of y’all need to even
check yourself right now
some of the pain that you were feeling
before this prayer y’all playing y’all
don’t believe in miracle signs and
wonders
but i’m telling you somebody right now
under the sound of my voice
the healing virtue of god go back to the
doctor and let them
check it go back and see if the pain is
still there
god is healing
said i am the lord
that healeth thee
he says i am the lord your healer
i sent my word and healed your disease
i am the lord your healer
i just hear god saying that he said
don’t think of me as somebody
that is sitting idly by the side waiting
for a doctor’s report i
fashioned informed you i know everything
about you
he said i am the lord
that healeth thee
said i am the lord
your healer
i sent my word
and healed your disease
i am the lord your
healer see a lot of you when i say
disease you think it’s some
terminal illness but if you break those
two words down it’s
this ease what has
disrupted your ease in life
and he says i am the lord
that healeth me said i
am the lord your healer i feel this so
strong
said i sent my word
to heal your dis-ease
i am the lord your healer
[Music]
heal deliver
set free change
renew transform
redo regenerate
remake heal everything
that no man could do that no pills could
do
that no amount of sex could do that no
amount of money can do do it only you
can do holy spirit
heal us
[Music]
and when the testimonies come in
and when the reports come back different
and when the bank account is full
and when everything in our family has
turned around
we will not say it was because of our
goodness
and our giving and our positioning
but it will be all for the glory of god
if you’re gonna give god all the glory
why don’t you go ahead and start now
come on all over the world give god a
shout of praise oh i feel this thing
i said give god a shout out praise
glory to god
[Music]
somebody there’s a praise swelling up
because you know everything is about to
change
we honor you lord we worship you father
there’s nobody like jehovah there’s
nobody like our god
[Music]
[Music]
some of y’all haven’t had permission to
give god the praise that he deserves
but i’m telling you you got five seconds
right now you better ask the fool
make them call the apartment landlord
i dare you right now to lose your
dignity
and to give god the praise that he
deserves
hallelujah your good
father your great holy spirit there’s no
one like you jesus
oh y’all ain’t seen a pastor do this in
a while but it don’t matter what you
think about me
he’s been way too good
y’all better stop playing with god out
here
he’s ready to heal he’s ready to deliver
he’s ready to set free
every addiction every pain
every decision
[Music]
[Applause]
if y’all thought y’all knew what god was
about to do
if you knew what god was about to do you
would start praising god right now
[Music]
if you knew what god was about to do
you and start praising god right now
if you knew what he was working on in
the background
if you knew
do y’all feel that that’s the freedom of
the lord
and where the spirit of the lord is
there
is freedom
[Music]
some of us about to be messed up all
week
see we can’t stop talking about the holy
spirit
and not realize where the spirit of the
lord is
the bible says there’s liberty or
there’s freedom
what that means is as you continue
to allow the holy spirit to do what only
he can do
there’s a freedom somebody shouted me
freedom set it at me again
say freedom
god told me there’s a freedom coming to
this house
[Music]
if you’re looking for three points in a
poem
this is not gonna be the place for you
for the next few weeks
because whatever god says if we go two
hours we go two hours
if we go 30 minutes and cut it off we go
30 months and cut it off
where the spirit of the lord is there is
free
uh-oh i think the spirit of the lord is
where you’re at too
and i think there’s a freedom coming to
your house of freedom coming to your
worship
a freedom come into your life
somebody shout at me freedom
there’s a freedom coming i feel that
thing is strong
[Music]
y’all get ready freedom is here
y’all get ready the freedom is here
yeah yeah
thank you lord
[Music]
thank you lord i know you want me to
rush and get to the point
but you can’t move when god’s not moving
you just gotta wait say loud pause and
think
thank you lord we invite you
in this place come on i want everybody
to say that out of your mouth say i
invite you
and then put your hands on yourself in
this place
just say it one more time holy spirit i
invite you
in this place and wherever you are
there’s freedom
some of y’all been so bound and such so
in bondage to what people are thinking
of you and
so on bondage to to things in the future
that haven’t even happened yet that’s
where anxiety comes from you’ve been so
in bondage
to where’s the next meal coming from or
where’s my money come from and god said
i live in you
and wherever i am there is freedom
thank you lord for the freedom that’s
coming to your people
we trust you we believe you and we thank
you
in jesus name we agree somebody say amen
amen let’s give god one more shout of
praise all over the
oh you can do better than that let’s
give god one more shot of praise all
over the world
[Music]
let me try let me try to start this
thing off
but god already been doing something in
the building
we only in week two yo
[Music]
well i want to welcome everybody to week
two
of a series we’re calling help me the
upgrade
and y’all if you can’t sense what god’s
trying to do he’s trying to
release his power in our life see a lot
of people don’t understand but the whole
reason we’re doing this series is
because
i believe there is a portion of the
godhead specifically the holy spirit
that has been marginalized not talked
about deemed weird
and and has literally made whole groups
of people
think that it’s not even something we
should be messing with today
and the thing that i came to tell you is
that the holy spirit is not just weird
or or he’s he’s not just a part of the
godhead
he’s the upgrade like what you don’t
understand
is this is the part of scripture and the
part that
jesus tells us out of his all mouth this
is not a pastor apostle
a bishop a minor prophet a major prophet
this ain’t none of them this is jesus
himself our example
telling us that the holy spirit is the
one
that has come to help us i just see so
many people in need of help right now
and they’re looking to men to do what
only god can
and in this series i want to refocus us
back to god
and god the holy spirit so in the next
six weeks
i’m going to be your teacher i’m your
professor i want my lab coat today
okay i’m going to be your professor and
what we are going to do is we are going
to walk systematically
through scripture to see what it says
about the holy spirit just say it out of
your mouth say holy spirit
yeah i just want you to get used to
saying it because you’re going to be
saying that name
a lot more just say it one more time say
holy spirit
and i want you to realize that there’s
something that i’m even trying to break
my myself out of is saying the holy
spirit
because holy spirit is his name not the
holy spirit you don’t say
the michael you don’t say the tommy
the tommy we want you to come no no we
would say tommy we want you to come
this is something your pastor’s going to
mess up but y’all know we live
transparent
and humble open and transparent i’m
showing you in front of you
that god is still working on me he
showed me that last week he said my name
ain’t the holy spirit
my name is holy spirit and i started to
think about like oh snap
i’ve relegated to like when you know how
people say the walmart
they get on my nerves on people like the
youtube like no it’s just
youtube the holy spirit is saying the
same thing it’s holy spirit
even my points that are going to come up
today they’re going to have the in front
of them
because i i prepared this a week ago i’m
telling you transparently
that god is revealing himself to all of
us
in real time and if you think you know
everything there is to know about god
baby you’re fooled
he is unexplainable
i’m doing my best over seven weeks but
i’m telling you
that there are mysteries of god that we
will not ever be able to explain
and that’s why we have to continue to
talk about
the god head of the holy spirit
everybody just say it one more time say
holy spirit
all right so let me help you i want
everybody to experience
a new version of god wherever you are
right now i want you to have
the upgrade some of you have only
experienced version 1.0 of god
that means you recognize god and
everybody does that they
all the big man upstairs you know what
i’m saying the the
the guy in the sky and all of these like
generic things that we say
but there are a lot of people the bible
tells us he’s like they’re going to be
many people that said they knew me
they’re going to act like lord lord we
did this in your name he was like bro i
don’t even know you
because recognizing somebody doesn’t
mean that you have a relationship with
them
and if you’re at that point it’s all
good that you just recognize god i’m
glad that you’re watching today what i
want you to do in this series is go from
recognizing god
to receiving jesus the whole reason this
church exists is to represent god to you
no matter if you’re lost or found for
one reason we want you to receive jesus
we want you to be transformed in christ
and that’s the thing that changed me
and so if you’re at the place of
wondering do i really want to give my
life fully to god
and not just make them savior but make
them lord of my life i’m telling you
at the end of this service you’re going
to have an opportunity to upgrade
and the crazy thing about it is there’s
been over 16 000 people
that have upgraded this year through
transformation church
oh y’all didn’t hear me i said over 16
000 people
have gone from recognizing god to
receiving jesus
that’s why we give that’s why we serve
that’s why we
share that’s why we invite because we
want people to make sure that their
eternities are secure
but can i tell you the saddest truth
about version 2.0 of god
is most people stop at receiving jesus
and they struggle for their whole
christian life
is if they’re saved or not or have they
gone too far from god or not
and what i’m telling you is there is an
upgrade everybody say an upgrade
and the upgrade is not just to go from
recognizing god
to receiving jesus but the third upgrade
is to release
the holy spirit and right now i want to
let you know
that you don’t have to feel weird or
crazy about everything that’s going on
right now
i’m a regular person that has been
transformed by the power
of god in the person of the holy spirit
and i’m gonna walk you through this
for the next six weeks so that we can
get this together i’m gonna answer your
questions
i’m gonna talk about tongues i’m gonna
talk about people falling out and
shouting
i’m gonna talk about the gifts of the
spirit i’m gonna talk about i’m gonna
talk about all of it
so at the end of this my prayer is you
would be able to exhaustively watch all
of this stuff
and say you know what i want to release
the holy spirit in my life
i’m telling you my prayer for you right
now because this
is what jesus told to his disciples
john 14 15 and 16 we’re about to go
there in our bibles but i want you to
know
that jesus they most theologians believe
this was 12 to 15 hours before jesus
goes to the cross
and if i only had 12 to 15 hours left
with the people who are supposed to
carry everything on
that i’ve ever done what would i be
talking about
to them most people would be like hey go
take care of this
hey the money’s hidden right there look
what jesus
is telling his disciples in john chapter
14 verse 16.
he says and i will pray and that word
right there means ask
and i will ask the father and he will
give you another everybody shout at me
helper
that he capital h may abide with you
forever the spirit of truth
whom the world can’t receive right now
because it neither sees him nor knows
him but you know him
for he dwells with you and will be in
you
i will not leave you as orphans i will
come to you
if you have ever felt in this life like
you are alone
jesus promises you i’m not going to
leave you as an
orphan i’m going to send you help
and his name is holy spirit
i’m going to show you a bunch of
scriptures right now to see
to let you see how valuable having the
holy spirit active and alive in your
life is today
go to john chapter 14 verse 26 but the
helper
the holy spirit so so just so we know
who the helper is
it puts it in there the helper who the
holy spirit
whom the father will send in my name he
will
watch this teach you all things and
bring to your remembrance
all things that i said to you hold on
write this point down because this made
me really excited
the holy spirit is my teacher
you need to understand that you can walk
into any situation and not know what to
do
and if you have the holy spirit on the
inside of you
he will teach you what to do i got to
keep going
i i found another one in there the holy
spirit is not just my teacher
it says he will bring to your
remembrance all the things that i said
to you
hold up the holy spirit is better than
just my teacher
he’s also my hard drive
the holy spirit is my hard drive you
know why you have a hard drive right
to store everything that you have on a
computer or a device
so that when you need it you can recall
that thing that’s why
i read the bible not just to memorize it
because i can’t remember all of that
stuff
but if i put it in it goes on to the
hard drive
and i’ll be in a moment and i won’t know
what to say and the holy spirit says oh
i got exactly what you should say in
this morning
because i am your hard drive the holy
spirit will teach you
and he’ll help you remember everything
that you need john chapter 15 26
i’m just trying to give you some perks
of having the holy spirit in your life
it says but when the helper comes we
know who the helper is that’s the holy
spirit
whom i shall send to you from the father
the spirit of truth
who proceeds from the father he will
testify
of me the message version says he will
confirm that i exist
so if you’ve ever had a question is
jesus really real the holy spirit says
ask me
i’ll be your assurance write this point
down the holy spirit is my assurance
when you don’t know god is this you he
said i’ll testify
and i’ll tell you i’ll confirm it i’ll
show you i’ll make you aware should i
marry them i’ll tell you
i’ll confirm it i’ll show you should i
move there i’ll tell you
i will be your assurance that this is
god so hold on the holy spirit is my
teacher
he’s my hard drive and he’s my assurance
i got one more for you john 16
13. however when he the spirit of truth
has come
he will guide you into all truth
for he will not speak on his own
authority
but whatever he hears he
will speak say that with me
he will speak just one more time
he will that settles every argument does
the holy spirit speak
jesus said he will
speak and he will testify and tell you
of the things to come
your gps in your car when you type in
directions
it tells you of things to traffic ahead
you want to struggle through life
you want to go through broken and failed
relationships
do you want to have to go through the
path that’s going to cause you pain
if you would get in relationship with
the holy spirit he can save
bad friends ahead
huh he could say years of addiction
ahead it says that he will testify and
tell you of the things to come
he’ll say you won’t get paid there but
you’ll develop your purpose there
the holy spirit speaks
and the problem with most of us
is we would rather hear a person speak
than the holy spirit
y’all be on clubhouse all the time
listening to people who don’t have any
proof
oh i’m i’m in somebody’s business just
because they write
millionaire success tips bro show me
your account i
don’t care if you have a credential
you can’t tell me what’s up ahead
so when i realize who the holy spirit is
he’s my
teacher he’s my hard drive he’s my
assurance
the holy spirit speaks to me
so why wouldn’t you accept the upgrade
why are you
fighting so hard to release
the holy spirit why are you fighting so
hard to not release
the holy spirit in your life the reason
why i’m so passionate about this
the reason why i’m sweating up here and
i decided we were going to do this long
series on the holy spirit
and the reason why i want you to have
the upgrade
is because where i am today is a direct
result
of me listening to the holy spirit
i’ve been interviewed by all types of
people and they try
to quantify what god is doing through my
life
oh it must have been because and oh okay
your
social media marketing and oh you came
out of nowhere but that was
then you put a win no bro
all of that that’s man’s way of
describing what only the holy spirit did
i’m an equation that you won’t be able
to solve
[Applause]
my life is a testimony you will not be
able to say one plus one
equals two see my testimony
is 30 minus negative five carry the a
to the z minus a quotient i don’t even
know the math terms
and then it comes out like this that
could only be described as
the holy spirit
[Applause]
and in an age where we all need to
figure it out
and we’re trying to figure out formulas
and we’re trying to get
the exact um quotient of what will
produce success in my life
i want you to have what i have
and his name is holy
spirit
how do i have only six months of tcc
education but what i say is studied in
colleges around the world
how did i have a potentially
potential felony case for insurance
fraud
on my record and now i help pay off
people’s cars
see y’all think y’all think it’s got to
add up but how in the world
was i addicted to pornography and now i
helped snatch people
out of addictions
[Applause]
how did i almost ruin the relationship
between me
and pastor natalie and now i’ve written
the number one new york times
best-selling books about relationships
it don’t add up baby look at my life
it don’t add up but when you throw in
the holy spirit i am getting
excited right now they will not be able
to figure out
how you went from that to this and they
don’t have to
as long as all you know is it was the
holy
spirit
[Applause]
how in the world did i not take any
business classes
but i am the ceo of an organization
that didn’t get a building on the block
but we bought the whole block
[Applause]
he got a name his name is the holy s
[Applause]
y’all better hear me
the holy spirit is my
advantage
i have an advantage
[Music]
every christ follower that releases the
power of the holy spirit in your life
you can walk into any room and they can
call you the underdog
but it don’t matter baby cause i have
an advantage you can take me to any
classroom
any boardroom any negotiating table and
i have never
seen this language in my life but baby
you can talk circles around me
but i have the advantage
and the advantage his name is holy
spirit
[Music]
i can’t tell you how many times
i’ve left this platform and said i’ll
never be able to do that again
and somehow i get in prayer
and i crack open my bible and i listen
i tell charles all the time i was like
how in the world did it happen
again y’all don’t know every sunday i
get up here
and 30 40 000 of y’all tune in
y’all be up like lord i’m ready for the
word and i’ll be like lord
what is the word like i need to can i be
hot like
but every week
every week
he does not run out
some of y’all have been holding back
your creativity
you’ve been holding back your wisdom
you’ve been holding back your words that
means you think it’s in you
but the reason i can give everything
that i got is because it ain’t coming
from me
the same god that was there at creation
hovering over the deep
go back and say genesis 1 he is the same
god
that is sitting with me standing up
strong in me
i have the advantage
[Applause]
[Music]
count me out if you want to don’t add me
if you want to
but i have the advantage
his name is what holy spirit
and people ask me all the time how do i
walk so confidently
because i know who’s in me
[Applause]
there is no how do i say it clearer
there is no situation you will ever walk
in
with the holy spirit that you can be
played in
now i’ve walked into situations by
myself
and played myself y’all know how you act
like you know something you don’t know
him
you know how you act like you’ve been
there and you ain’t been there you had
you know how you act like you’ve been
through marriage counseling but you
ain’t really been through marriage
counseling so when you hit a bump in the
road you act like you don’t want to go
to counseling but you actually need the
wisdom of the holy spirit
because it’s not going to happen with
just your knowledge and watching people
on instagram yeah i’ve been there you
played yourself
but there’s no situation that i let the
holy spirit lead
and he left me out there hanging
i have the advantage and i want you to
have it
and the truth is you already have it you
just haven’t muzzled
you just act like he ain’t there and
y’all say stuff like this something told
me oh oh yeah yeah
yeah i just had this strong feeling
that’s the holy spirit like man
you’re going on a date with them in the
holy spirit like no
are you like living my best life i hear
about the kill up
about day night and holy
and you out here wondering why
god why didn’t you say something
i was trying
but you shut down your advantage
y’all think that i’m saying this y’all
think these are my words you think this
is just something clever so go to john
16
7. write the point down first the holy
spirit
is my advantage say it out loud with
faith
the holy spirit is my advantage when you
go to your workplace tomorrow
it doesn’t matter what the title is in
front of your name
well i ain’t gonna give my best until
they recognize that i’m the senior
lead this dad and
every position i’ve ever had they had to
make up for me
we’ve never done this before
why because the holy spirit was not
making me somebody who just got the job
done i was solving
problems that they didn’t even know they
had yet
see the holy spirit didn’t it say that
he’ll tell you of the things to come
he’ll he’ll show you if you would allow
him
yeah yeah i know they’re working on that
project but at home
i want you to dedicate two hours a night
well god that’s my netflix show yeah
yeah i know but you’re going to be broke
for the next five years
and asking where i am i’m trying to give
you the advantage right now
every night i need you to give two hours
to working on this well they didn’t ask
me for it what if they didn’t he said
baby
i’m in every room i’m in every meeting
i’m everywhere you want to be and i know
everything you need to know
i’m the holy spirit put some respect on
my name
work on this project every night
for two hours and it would be just like
god
that three months later they’re at a
crossroads in the company
and they call everybody in for a meeting
and the guy’s standing up there frazzled
the big boss never comes in
but somehow he’s there today i wanted to
call everybody in here because i need
fresh ideas what’s happening is not
cutting it
you what’s your name gerald where do you
work
too low for you to know
but in my spare time
i’ve been working on something that i
thought would lead us into the future
of this company and then you’d be like i
don’t know what to say and the holy
spirit stands up strong on the inside of
you
and as a matter of fact i need you to
recognize that friend yeah i’m telling
y’all
i have the ad faith
[Applause]
the only way i can explain it to you is
that jesus
told us that this is what would happen
john 16
7. nevertheless that word means that
jesus was even having to convince them
this is going to be hard for y’all to
believe because y’all walk with me
but i tell you the truth like
that’s like jesus saying i put this on
my mama
y’all know how when you was in school
and somebody like put that on something
maybe like i put this on my mama
jesus says nevertheless i tell you the
truth
it is to your
advantage that’s
bible it is to your advantage that i go
away
for if i do not go away the helper
the holy spirit will not come to you but
if i depart
i will send him to you and in
every room and every discussion at the
point of your failure
in the midst of your mistakes in the
greatest hurts you’ve ever experienced
the holy spirit
your helper is your advantage
somebody say i have the advantage
okay so so let me help explain this to
you in
a deeper way because um
let’s just say it like this the holy
spirit is god so i want to break this
down to you
god walks with you all the time
you don’t act like it
no i just want to be like for real i
want you to think
about shaquille o’neal walking with you
at security everywhere you went
you would have more confidence in a
retired nba star who’s seven whatever
walking with you feel more protected
with shaq walking with you and you have
god
the holy spirit walking with you
at all times at christmas time i ever i
hear everybody talking about emmanuel
amen you well but do y’all know what
emanuel means
god with us why do we only say that at
christmas
i call him emmanuel on monday
emmanuel we got to go to work today
emmanuel i got to go raise these kids
what does that mean
god with us and the problem is
we have not seen the holy spirit as god
and that’s why last week
i tried to normalize your understanding
of god god and god y’all remember that
last week
where i said it was god god put that
chart on the screen because i need
everybody if you’re just joining us go
back and watch the message but it’s
worth us going over again
that god is his name he’s god the father
jesus is god and holy spirit is god
three equal persons in one there is no
delineation
when one of them shows up all of them
show up but they have
different and specific functions
according to the bible
in our lives god the father is provider
he is set apart and he’s holy
and he has a residence of heaven jesus
is
god and he was our savior and now he is
seated at the right hand of the father
according to luke
and his residence is in heaven and god
the holy spirit is our helper
and he’s active and he’s alive right now
on earth he’s your advantage
right now it’s all good because it’s all
god now i need you to hear me say this
when god the father shows up he shows up
with himself his whole self
so i know a lot of y’all was like well
okay god the father so and then jesus
and then the holy spirit like i don’t
understand like how is he here and then
there there
listen this is beyond our comprehension
i need to let you know that this is what
we call
the mystery of god now i know don’t know
church talk about this because we’re so
intellectual
that we want to know everything about
everything that we use but the thing
about this
is in this faith journey that you’re
about to go on with god
you will not be able to explain a lot of
it
you see how quiet it is i need to know
really because there will be parts of
your christian walk that you will not be
able to explain
you will only be able to experience
i need you to hear me say this because
some of you who are so intellectually
deep
and you’re saying until i fully know
what
is going on i cannot serve god and i
can’t do this you don’t know how your
microwave fully works
but you still use it some of y’all had
30 seconds add 30 seconds after y’all
know who y’all are
popcorn that you only use four button
and it’s 32 of them
but you’re telling me because you don’t
know the ins and outs of everything that
comes with god
that you can’t serve him
you don’t know how math works
after algebra one and they started
adding letters and
they started adding different signs and
pie and
god bless y’all i like sweet potato pie
but i didn’t know pie was in
math you don’t know how it fully works
but you still use it
to count your money what i’m saying to
you
listen to this i heard this quote a god
that
is exhaustively understood by finite
human beings
is not a god that is glorious enough to
be worshipped
if you can explain everything about god
why are we not worshiping you
all i need you to know is that we
at transformation church embrace write
this phrase down
the mystery of god
apostle mike in first thessalonians and
this did this and you don’t know this
and you don’t know this i don’t
but guess who will tell you the holy
spirit
if you allow him he’ll tell you about
himself
do you know how many scriptures i come
to where i don’t understand the meaning
and then i say holy spirit you have to
give me revelation
and just like that as i began to pray i
might be walking out without
understanding and the holy spirit you
know it’s like this right
and i’ll be like oh my goodness that’s
what we call revelation
and he still speaks and if you need a
man to convince you
that means that you have not allowed the
holy spirit
to consume you
there are things that i don’t have to be
convinced of
because i was consumed by him
and i’m telling you right now just
because you don’t know the ins and outs
of how everything works doesn’t mean
that you don’t use it
except your advantage except the upgrade
except the holy spirit
y’all know when i say god shows up fully
y’all may
not get it like that so i’m gonna use a
real person
as an example so you can see exactly
what i’m talking about when i say
god um god god maybe you’d understand it
better if i said mike mike and mike
okay like like if i explain this to you
and it’s me
okay so if you were looking at my life
mike is my name mike is my name mike is
my name my
title is pastor
and my function as a pastor is what
put it on the screen leave me oh y’all
going
the other way all right we’ll do it that
way okay it’s the leader
and just build the whole thing out build
the whole thing out okay
and and no no come back bring it back
okay
my title is pastor my function is leader
my status is lead servant and my
location of lead serving is
transformation church
okay that’s one version of mike
the next version is father
so my title is father and i’m isabella
mj and ava ray and another little baby’s
father how did i get four kids y’all i
have to stop touching on personality
but it’s four no more it’s over now
but i’m a father and my function is
provider and in
my status in that household is lead
servant and my location is to be present
wherever my kids are i need to be a
present father
let me show you this last version i am a
husband
and i’m a husband to one woman and i
need to be very clear about this
because i’ve seen some of your dms
pastor natalie
is not the first lady she’s the only
lady
so i need to be very clear auntie got
hands
so i just want to make sure that you’re
here for spiritual wisdom
and not a problem but i am
a husband to one woman and my function
is her partner
and my status is lead servant for all my
men that are out there can i give you
a key real quick that the status
wherever you are men of god you’re
supposed to be the lead servant there
so with your wife you’re supposed to be
the lead servant at your job you’re
supposed to be a lead servant
that’s a whole other message for a whole
nother day but i’ll teach about that a
little bit later
and where my location is is wherever
pastor natalie is at
is she in the tub i’m there is she at
the beach i’m there
is she in the bed i’m there okay that’s
how we got all them kids
anyway i want you to see
that mike the pastor when he shows up he
doesn’t show up without mike the father
and mike the husband
when mike the father shows up he doesn’t
show up without mike the pastor and mike
the husband let me help you
mike the pastor’s here you’ve seen mike
the pastor
here he is he’s the man gives you a word
but do you know what’s with me
everywhere that i go
it’s mike the father who at the moment
that i’m giving you a word if natalie
calls me
and tells me that my daughter fail
and has to go get staples in her head
which actually happened this week
mike the pastor was there
but he gone now
because family is my first ministry
god’s not gonna ask me what he what i
did with transformation church
while natalie and my kids sitting over
there all broke up he’s gonna say you
were supposed to love her
like i love the church then then you
come and love the church let me stop i
don’t this is not a marriage seminar
but i need to help y’all so so when the
when pastor father shows up my pastor’s
still there so while we’re at
the the emergency room getting staples
in my head the ladies take
not my head and bella’s head y’all pray
for my daughter that was so traumatic
but i’m sitting there and while i was
sitting there the lady said
i love your sermons
oh wow
god bless you
and then they said we’re gonna have to
put some staples in your daughter’s head
how many staples cause
the pastor showed up
but the daddy had to be priority so
while my daughter’s sitting there and
i’m holding her and she’s saying daddy
no
daddy and i’m holding her face i’m not
thinking about what i’m speaking on
sunday
but i showed up with the pastor and when
my wife
when we get home that night she’s in the
bed and she begins to cry
because the baby’s keeping her up and
she’s feeling bad for
bella and mj having insomnia
i do not bring yeah
well you know what the word says in
first thessalonians
some of y’all don’t know when to bring
out all of you
you just need to have crazy faith i
would
when my wife needed me
her husband michael held her all night
husband michael rubbed her feet
what i’m saying to you is just like the
godhead
when one person of me shows up
the other two are there too
i can’t separate
the father from the leader
to the husband so when i show up you
might
get a different version
but you always get me
when the holy spirit shows up god’s
there
and jesus is there when jesus was on the
cross
god was there and the holy spirit was
there at creation
when god was sitting there about to
create let us
you can’t separate him he’s everywhere
all the time well pastor i don’t
understand
remember it’s the mystery
of god and i just need to prove it to
you because i just heard a couple of
people in their spirits you know how
jesus sometimes like i heard what they
were thinking
let me give you bible on this i’m going
to show you through scripture
places where we see jesus
the father god and the holy spirit all
at the same verse
look at john 14 16 and i that’s jesus
highlight these in your bible
so that you can be able to be sure and
assured that the holy spirit is god it
says and i
jesus will pray to the father and he
will give you another helper that’s the
holy spirit
and that you may abide with him forever
that’s all three of them in one verse
let me give you another one
john 14 26 but the helper that’s the
holy spirit
whom the father that’s god will send in
my name that’s jesus’s name
he will teach you all things and bring
to your remembrance all things that i
said that’s all of them in one verse
let’s go to another one
john 15 26 it says but the helper that’s
the holy spirit
comes when he comes whom i jesus shall
sing to you from the father
the spirit of truth who proceeds from
the father he will testify of me
and just for those who are a little
skeptical and you’re like but they’re
not all at the same place at the same
time i’m glad you asked for that because
when jesus was baptized he’s getting
baptized by john in luke chapter 3 verse
22
and it says and the holy spirit
descended in bodily form
talk about the mysteries of god people
say he he he descended like a dove
yeah yeah or it was a dove he wasn’t a
dove it said he descended
in bodily form what does the holy spirit
look like
in a body like a dove upon him
jesus and the voice came from heaven
which said you are my beloved son that’s
the father talking
in whom i am well pleased god is
always three in one and the trinity
defers to each other i need to say the
father glorifies and magnifies the son
the son only does what the father wants
him to do the son tells the holy s
tells us that the holy spirit is coming
and we need to accept the upgrade
and the holy spirit guides you to the
son
they always you talk about the big three
y’all thought it was the wayne wade
lebron and chris bush
y’all thought the big three was was
kevin garnett
paul pierce and uh uh what’s his name
and rondo y’all thought the big three
was what
these team no no the original big three
it’s god the father god the son
and god the holy spirit all equal
but we’ll dunk on you in a second
i saw this picture that reminded me of
what it looks like when the holy spirit
god and jesus are all together deferring
to themselves can you put that on the
screen for me real quick
this is what it looks like god god and
god
it looks like them having a conversation
saying you’re wonderful
no you’re wonderful man i loved how you
led them to me
man i loved how you healed them man i
love how you created every like
they are all because they all come
together
pastor mike why are you spending so much
time giving
us this foundation because if your
foundation is 30 knowing that the holy
spirit jesus and god
are in the father are all god then what
i’m about to teach you next week
is going to transform your life but
without the right foundation
you can’t build up on it so we recognize
the holy spirit is god
i need to give him one more charles
because can i outright prove the holy
spirit is god
go to acts chapter 5 verse 3. this is
just for the skeptics just for a second
because some of y’all don’t have people
chair to talk in and clamor and i need
you to come back to this acts chapter
five verse three
in one verse i’m about to outright prove
the holy spirit is god but peter said
ananias why has satan filled your heart
to lie to the holy spirit
if you go to the end of verse 4 it says
you have not lied to men
but to god when you lied to the holy
spirit you weren’t lying to a man
you were lying to god and the holy
spirit
said don’t lie to me i want to be your
helper i want to be your friend
i want to be the one that helps you in
every area of your life
so the one thing that you got to
understand is that he’s not
just god the holy spirit is a person
write that down pastor mike you keep
saying the same thing
until you get it
he’s a person see the difference is most
of you are sitting in a chair right now
you would not consider that chair a
person
and some of you don’t know what makes up
a person but
i don’t have the time to go through the
whole thing but a person comes from
somebody or something that has a
personality
you can see that person is the root word
of it and if i want to go
more um theological the definition of a
person is someone who has a soul
that’s someone who has a mind will and
emotions
did you know that the holy spirit has a
mind will
and emotions he’s a person
and the thing is we think with our mind
we desire with our wheels and we feel
with our emotions i’m going to say it
one more time
so you have enough time to write it down
we think with our mind
we desire with our wheels and we feel
with our emotion
could it be that the reason the holy
spirit needs to be released in your life
is so that you can think what god thinks
desire what god desires and to
feel what god feels
when we prayed for leslie and leon at
the beginning of service
the holy spirit let me feel
what god i’m getting emotional again
he let me feel his heart for his
daughter
who felt like she was lost and broken
and why would this happen to my seven
year old
and i started feeling what god felt
interrupted our plan had people praying
for her
because i got on my own michael don’t
care that much
i’m an eight on the enneagram emotions
to me is
yeah that’s extra
how can i lead people with empathy
i have the advantage see
some of y’all take all of these
psychological tests and all these
different things
and you put yourself in a box well i’m a
two and i’m a three and i’m this no
no no baby all of that is good for
information so i know exactly what to
ask the holy spirit
for that i do not have so i don’t have
empathy holy spirit
my advantage how can i counsel people
and i do not have empathy
how can i know the heart of god it says
you have the advantage
it’s not natural but i’m supernatural
you gotta stop using your natural state
as an excuse
for what god requires of you in this
next season
i’m gonna say it again to you you have
to stop
using your natural inclinations
as an excuse to not do what god’s called
you to do in this next season
well i’m more introverted
but god called you to talk to nations
so you have an advantage his name is
holy spirit ask the holy spirit
because you will no longer be able to
skirt by
in this next season saying what you
don’t naturally have
when god can give you anything that you
need
no no no no because i made the excuses
too
remember when you hear my testimony i
told bishop i can’t be the pastor of
that
of a church i don’t like people that
much
like that was my that was my natural
inclination
and now my staff and team when people
are in the building
they don’t want to let me out because if
i get out the back
and i get around people i will stay
for two three four hours
hugging kissing i mean
before i can run talking listening
intently to every single person why
because when i accepted this role god
wouldn’t let
my natural be my excuse he said when i
make you a pastor if you ask me i’ll
give you the advantage
and i won’t just take you from being
someone who doesn’t like people that
much
i will develop in you a love
for my people what have you been saying
you don’t have
that the holy spirit is willing ready
and needing to give you
it’s no longer an excuse you
have the holy spirit
you see that silence
that’s what we call conviction
because if i had the money if i had the
connection
if i if i if i had somebody that would
listen
the holy spirit said i’m your advantage
stop trying to network with them listen
to me
i can remember a time in ministry and
people in this room were ministered
i just thought i knew i can preach i
know i could do it if if pastor stephen
furtick just knew me
we would be friends and i would be able
and i remember
sitting behind him at victory christian
center in a conference
and paul gets up and says turn around
and greet your neighbor
and right before you say i said this is
my mom you know how slow motion it’s
like
like i felt that moment and the holy
spirit whispered to me
he said he’s not your comeup i am
don’t meet him turn around and meet
somebody
else and in that split moment
i turned around and met a woman named
susan
and the story that would go on to be
written
in the relationship that god gave me
with somebody who was a mentor to me
only he could have done it because
i listened to the holy
spirit the holy spirit has a mind
can i prove it to you john 16 13 but
when he
the spirit of truth comes he will guide
you into all everybody say truth
say it again truth how can the holy
spirit guide you into all truth
and he doesn’t know everything he knows
everything that’s why we say god is
omniscient that comes from two words
that’s omni which means all
and science which means knowledge god
the holy spirit has all knowledge you
have someone who knows
everything about everything that is a
living on the inside of you and he has
committed to being your teacher
why would you not use the upgrade
you’re a contractor in a business ask
the holy spirit
to help you in your business you’re a
law a lawyer and you don’t know how to
crack the case
ask the holy spirit of what you’re
supposed to do
the holy spirit has a mind guess what
else he has the holy spirit has a will
look at acts 16 6 this was paul he was
trying to go to a place
and now when they had gone through
phrygia and the region of galatia
they were forbidden by
the holy spirit to preach
in the word in asia now most of us would
trip out right there they just wanted to
preach the word
they just wanted to do god’s will it’s
helping people
and god says if you want to know my will
about it
i need you to follow my timing
do y’all know that the right thing in
the wrong season is a curse
no no no like i want you to realize like
it’s not that it’s bad it’s just bad
timing
and and the word forbid means to
exercise one’s will i have to forbid ava
all the time to eat candy
that girl will eat starburst skittles
slushies
she donuts she just has so much so i
have to literally tell her no no
you’re not eating any more candy until
next week
and then she looks at me and then i give
another starbucks but sometimes
it works but it’s exercising my wheel
the holy spirit has a will i’m trying to
show you that all of these things the
holy spirit being a person having a mind
will and emotion is an advantage for you
watch this the holy spirit has emotions
see we always talks about the fruits of
the spirit but have you recognized
it’s the fruits of the holy spirit
everybody like fruits and spirits love
joy peace those are all
traits of a person galatians 5 22
but the fruit of the spirit of the holy
spirit is love
a person has love not trees see because
a lot of people would say
like what qualifies you for being alive
and some people would say
or qualify you for being a person and
some people say being alive but trees
are alive but they’re not a person
and i want you to understand that you
have to have
characteristics mind will emotions he
said the fruit of the spirit is love a
person has love
joy a person has joy peace a person has
peace patience a person has patience
kindness a person has kindness a tree
can’t have kindness
goodness faithfulness gentleness and
self-control a person has those
against such things there is no law and
then ephesians 4 30 i’m just trying to
show you that he is a person
he is real he’s realer than me and you
it says
and do not grieve the holy spirit of god
who you were sealed for the day of
redemption grief
is an emotion joy is an emotion grief is
emotion
the holy spirit how could you grieve the
holy spirit
if he was not a person and do you know
what grieves the holy spirit
sin see the one thing that nobody told
me that i hope you get today
as you walk around with the holy spirit
as your advantage or you’re about to
accept him
as the advantage and you’re going to
release him into your life
is that what jesus did was provide for
your eternal salvation
and then he gives us the upgrade and
says it’s to our advantage
that the holy spirit we accept him
but what happens is he’s still god
and when we come down and we live our
life
and we sin we grieve the holy spirit
see grief is sadness watch this listen
it’s sadness you feel when you lose
intimacy with the person
so the holy spirit wants to walk come
here charles
the holy spirit wants to walk close with
you in
everything you do charles represents the
holy spirit but when i lie
what it does is it creates a separation
between the whisper of god in my ear
and what i want to do now watch this
my eternity is still
solidified we are saved by grace
through faith it’s not my works
that produce my salvation it’s what
jesus did
but when i sin i can no longer be
intimate with the holy spirit
so when i repent and when i say god i
don’t want to live like that
holy spirit come fill me again creating
me a new heart
creating me a clean heart renewing me a
right
spirit now i can hear again
and he says go this way and he says go
that way
and he says move and he says come
and he says go but then i get it
and then i start going back to old
habits because the pressure is so
so hard to be able to handle now at this
level
and so i need to go back to the bottle
and it wasn’t just a sip i got drunk
and from the drunkenness then i i
invited
it was one of them nice and then things
and then i didn’t know and then
and what i did is i just
distanced myself
from being able to be intimate
with the holy spirit and the worst place
to be in this world
is in a spot where you can’t hear god
can i be real can i no can i be real
real
when i first started pastoring that last
example wasn’t
uh a uh a made-up story
when i first started pastoring i i i
tell everybody very clearly most pastors
won’t share this because everybody’s
testimony
is 42 years ago and 98 years ago
back when flintstones ruled the earth
like what
for me that first year of pastoring
in youth ministry and we started going
and i wasn’t really taking it serious
and then pressure started to come and
then we was about to merge
with different people and i had a battle
with pornography for a decade
and when i felt the pressure coming in
of all the different things i started i
didn’t know how to handle certain things
and so i
was looking for a release valve and i
would try to pray and i would try to do
stuff and i didn’t have accountability
and i didn’t know in this stuff
and then god would move in a service and
young people would be getting saved
everywhere
and people be coming from everywhere and
then monday night i’d find myself at a
computer
it started off looking at tennis shoes
it started off looking at looking at
content for next week’s message
but can i be honest i went from looking
at content
about last next week’s message to
looking at pornographic material
and what the enemy did in that moment
was tricked me into believing that that
could bring me
what only the fruits of the spirit could
bring me
and so i settled for a cheap counterfeit
and the worst part about it is i
had to get up the next week in front of
those same young people
and say holy spirit come and it was
muffled
he was still speaking
but i couldn’t hear the same way
he responded every time i called but
it’s uh
so then i see everybody stand up
i think that’s what he said
[Music]
we’re gonna sing that again sing it
again
just sing it again our supply service
used to be like four hours long
it wasn’t because it takes the holy
spirit long to do anything
uh-oh let me stop some of the church
services we’ve been in
and some of the ways that we’ve done
ministry
is because the people who’ve been
leading the church and been leading the
worship
and believing the ban the holy spirit
was speaking but it was muffled
[Music]
and they’re going again and again and
again and again
trying to wait for a break or trying to
wait for this
up there he is he came no he was there
the whole time but your sin muffled him
he was there the whole time
but what you did before and why are you
touching people on the altar call and
looking at their cleavage
ma’am can i speak to you afterwards
god’s given me a word for you
you want to know how you grieve the holy
spirit
and the reason why we have to bring
reverence
back to the god person of the holy
spirit
is because he’s the one that’s going to
lead us into all truth
he’s the one when i stand up and i get a
prophetic word
he’s the one that’s telling me what to
say he’s telling me of the things to
come
and can i help you you can get a word
from god
in your one bedroom apartment
i’m going to say something that might
offend a lot of pastors and preachers
come close if you get a real
relationship with god
the holy spirit you only need me
to confirm what he already told you
the pastor should not be giving you new
information
the prophet should not be giving i never
oh my all they should be doing
is edifying and confirming
correcting little tweaks on what god
already told you don’t gotta pay 200 for
a conference
please don’t spend your money for a
prophetic word
i’m messing people up right now because
if you get a relationship with the holy
spirit
it is a free upgrade
with accepting the person
of jesus it’s better
it’s to your advantage that i go
because then i’ll send you the holy
spirit
the helper the advocate
the the the scripture literally uses
different words
and and that word helper is in um the
scripture
five times i believe and in the
scriptures we read we’ve already read it
four times
all of them are talking about the holy
spirit
and this word holy spirit it’s para
clatos
and para means to to alongside and
clatos means to come
what jesus said is i’m sending
someone to come alongside of you
in every situation you would ever go
through
you’re going through bankruptcy the
paraclete
or the paracletos will be there with you
he’s going to come alongside of you and
in every document
ask about that don’t sign that yet
asked him what that means five years
from now
do you know how many situations i’ve
been in
and i had no clue what to do and all i
had to say is
holy spirit help me
one of the words that is used
as a translation for the holy spirit
is the word comforter and when
i started looking at this word it’s in
john 14 16
and i will send you another comforter
i started thinking about what it looks
like to live in this world
and the truth is this world is cold
and there is nothing worse
than wanting to sleep
and you cold me and my wife have almost
had
arguments that ended it all
over the amount of times that she rolled
over and you know when they roll over
and they take that if you’re not married
you don’t know nothing about this but
all my married people in the comments
need to be saying hey man
because you know when they roll over and
then they take and then you be just
wanting to be like wow like just
there have been many nights
that i wake up frustrated
because i’m cold
one of the things i’m being light but
but i thought about comforter what would
it look like in a cold world
to be in the bed of life and it looks
good
i’m trying to get comfortable at the job
trying to get comfortable i got the
pillows i got the trying to get
comfortable
but i still have not accepted
the comforter this
is a picture of what many of you look
like in your daily christian life
let me just put the pillows
[Music]
you know what i got some tissue i got a
couple friends
i got some followers
if i could just get my followers up if i
could just get the right connection if
they would join my clubhouse or follow
me on twitter
this is not a comforter
your friend group is not
[Music]
your comforter no no no forget that i
don’t need no friends it’s just me
and my writer dying
i thought the relationship was gonna
make me feel warm
i thought the relationship was going to
take care of the emptiness that i felt
and some of us
in this cult world have settled
[Music]
no i’m gonna get a divorce i’m gonna go
through
i’m gonna go for success now as long as
my business
do i want my bottom half covered
or my top hat do i don’t do i want to
live in integrity
or do i want to be used by god
[Music]
and the whole time
the whole time the whole time
the whole time
the whole time
the comforter that was made
and fit for the bed of life
that i have to lay in
is waiting ready
and available why
wouldn’t you do you know how dumb it
would look that night after night
that i tried to cover up with things
that couldn’t cover me oh
oh you saw this one and he was like well
why don’t you cover up with this
see the thing of this is is fake
see what you don’t know is this is
supposed to be cashmere
it promised and looked and felt like
something
that could really keep me warm but if
you were to feel what i’m feeling right
now it’s very thin
it looks weighty
it looks good
but this is just like me
being with no blanket
what are you saying pastor mike
it’s time for us to get our weight up
[Applause]
and to stop settling for counterfeits
and to open and release
the power of the holy spirit
that has the weight that has the ability
that has the size the breath and the
depth
it can cover me whatever i go through i
can get all the way under it
hey i can get all the way under it
it has room for me and it has room for
my family
oh the holy spirit is the covering
that will make sure that we
are comforted
my advantage
is the comforter
in this cold world why
wouldn’t you receive the comforter
i got to be done for today
he’s available
know i thought about it
that when we were young
most of us had something that comforted
us
to bed a binky
a teddy and when we were young it was
okay to be comforted
like when we were young we knew like oh
he’s not gonna sleep if
he don’t take his little mean meat y’all
know that we make all these different
names for
even though he needs daddy he needs
because in that moment we knew for us to
actually rest
that we needed a comforter and somewhere
along
the way we were taught that it was no
longer okay for us
to use a comforter and
many parents have seasons of weaning
where you know they’re going to cry and
scream and then all this other stuff you
can’t be six years old
walking around with a daughter and we do
all of this stuff
so that people don’t think anything bad
about our kids could it be
that in that moment something get
that we need gets killed as well though
i’m not saying your kid needs to be 15
walking around with a pacifier
what i am saying is don’t just take it
away and not introduce them to another
comforter
i just feel like you don’t
i mean practically you don’t need that
blanket to go to to sleep baby the holy
spirit is here with you
mom what’s the holy spirit he’s god and
he’s your friend
and he’s gentle and he’s loving and
every evil spirit that will come he
beats him up and he fights them and he
he stands for you and he knows the
number of hairs on your head
and he thinks you’re beautifully and
wonderfully made and you’re the head and
not the tail and you’re above only
and not beneath it he has a great plan
before you even before you were in
mommy’s womb he knew you
he formed you
and instead of using this as your
comforter
i want to give you the holy spirit well
i can’t see him
but you don’t see wind and you don’t see
wi-fi but we use it on our tablets every
day
he’s more real than wi-fi baby
and he’s more real than wind
he is emmanuel god
with us and i don’t know
maybe some of god’s children
need to know that he didn’t
just send a savior he’s giving you a
comforter
and whatever’s going on in your life
right now
he’s ready to cover you in our household
we call the comforter
the cover pass me the cover
i don’t know where we got that from i
don’t know but he’s like hey go get the
cover
and it hit me that’s what the comforter
does
he covers
i have an imperfection that i need to
work out oh
[Music]
just jump in the presence of the holy
spirit
and he will
cover you
and i don’t know who i’m talking to
today
but this is the holy spirit
and he wants to comfort
and cover you hands lifted up all over
this building
all over the world watching a
rebroadcast wherever you come on hands
lifted hands lifted hands lifted
we’re going to invite the holy spirit
into this place come on right now close
your eyes and just say
out loud say holy spirit what are you
trying to say to me
through this message he’s speaking
we heard it he speaks some of y’all he’s
reminding you of stuff he told you years
ago
others of you he’s speaking to you for
the first time that little impression
that you feel
or that little thing you’re like no
that’s me no no no that’s the holy
spirit right now
some of you he’s convicting you or a
better way to say that he’s convincing
you
that you need a savior
some of you that have messed up he’s
convicting you or convincing you
that there’s nothing you can do to
separate yourself from god’s love
come on he’s doing all kinds of work and
all types of people
for some of you he’s telling you you
need to go apologize
let him do the work let him cover you
let her let him comfort you
come on just sing this out say holy holy
spirit you the comforter
you’re welcome here
[Music]
come on don’t rush this moment silence
the distractions
[Music]
the holy spirit is my advantage
[Music]
yeah he’s doing work
he’s doing surgery sing that again
[Music]
come on you’re inviting him do whatever
you want to do in my marriage
do whatever you want to do on my
attitude do whatever you want to do
in my anger come on you’re invited cover
me
comfort me help me advocate for me god
come on we’re gonna sing that one more
time somebody’s beginning to release the
holy spirit in your life
say holy
spirit
[Music]
take over me cover me god your glory
[Music]
let us know the comforter is here
let us know he’s here
wherever you are
[Applause]
trust the comforter
we hear you god we believe in you
you are god
holy spirit
[Music]
we need you
[Music]
as i was sitting there and we were
worshiping the holy spirit said go grab
the cover
one thing that my wife does when she’s
not decent
when something is not put in the right
place or space for somebody to see
i’ve seen her walk to the front door
completely covered
[Music]
and i don’t know who i’m talking to but
some of you haven’t been decent in a
while
and god is saying to you can i cover you
can i comfort that addiction
and help you until you’re healed
can i i know you smoke weed every day
and it’s all good i know the next three
months you’re going to keep smoking weed
but can i get your heart so i can help
change your habits i know you don’t want
to show anybody and i know
that’s why i shut down the whole world
and i brought the the church to you
online because i know you wouldn’t have
come into the church building
but now i’m saying let me in
though the holy spirit stands at your
door and he knocks
he’s a gentleman he’s not gonna bust the
door down
he’s gonna wait for you to let him in
and your response is gonna be
holy
[Music]
that’s all you’re going to say to him
that’s all you’re going to say to him
when he comes to you five minutes after
this goes out what are you going to say
to him you’re going to say
you get it
he’s going to tell you don’t go to that
thing
tomorrow i want you to just stay at home
you’re going to be like why
and then you’re going to say no you know
what
[Music]
there are some marriages right now that
you go out to eat
you go to the movies but you’ve never
sat down and prayed together
and this week you’re gonna do it for the
first time and say what
[Music]
some of my brothers and sisters in
singleness you would go to that website
or go to that friend group
but god’s gonna tell you spend some time
with me and your response is going to be
[Music]
you’re going to have to go to the doctor
and they’re going to give you a report
that you didn’t want to hear but in that
moment where you’re about to go down
into doubt you’re going to say no
[Music]
cover me comfort me
[Music]
if you’re in this in this moment
you’ve never accepted jesus the bible
tells us you can’t even
come to jesus except the holy spirit
draw you
he’s been drawing you your whole life
and today he’s drawing you
if you want to receive the free gift of
salvation
if you want to receive it today this is
your moment
it’s the one greatest decision you could
ever make
it took me from being a liar a
manipulator somebody
who was addicted to pornography had all
kinds of selfish and bad things in my
heart
and it didn’t make me perfect but it
made me a progressing man
who stands before you today still saying
the same thing holy spirit do whatever
you want to do with me change me
renew me transform me and today i want
to offer you
the gift of salvation see i know culture
and religion will tell you
now keep covering yourself and when you
get it all figured
out then come to god if you could have
done that you would have already done it
but what god says is i sent jesus
to be the atonement the payment for
every one of your sins
let me help you believe
that i sent my son and he lived and he
died so that you could have eternal life
[Music]
and i’m telling you once you get in the
door because there’s only one way in
through jesus but once you get in then
you get the upgrade
why wouldn’t you accept a life
that would change everything in just a
moment i’m going to pray but if you want
to be included in that prayer
i don’t care who you’re with i don’t
care what you did last night i don’t
even care what you were planning to do
after this service
right now god has divinely interrupted
your life
to give you an opportunity to be
transformed
and i’m telling you this will change
everything one
this is the greatest decision that you
could ever make two
i’m so proud of you but more than that
your name will be written
in the lamb’s book of life three if you
want to accept jesus as your personal
lord and savior
lift your hands all over the world yeah
yeah yeah
hands are going up the holy spirit is
drawing people i need everybody to start
praying right now
i need y’all to start praying there is
eternity
it’s war it’s a war some of y’all right
now you’re like should i but that means
and god’s saying tomorrow’s not promised
today is the day of salvation
you all know how we do transformation we
pray all together
for the benefit of those are coming
across i feel the presence of god
people’s lives are transforming right
now
people are renewing and recommitting and
giving their life to christ
we’re going to say this prayer all
together everybody say god
thank you for sending jesus
today i acknowledge that you sent him
just for me i believe he lived
and he died and rose with all power
for my freedom so today
i give you my life change me
renew me transform me i’m yours
in jesus name amen can we give god
praise
all over the world oh come on y’all
eternities and purposes have been
changed forever
let’s give god a shout of praise we’re
so proud of you
we’re excited heaven is rejoicing
so is about 30 000 other people
hear what i’m saying to you whether
you’re watching this live or on
rebroadcast
this was a day that you need to mark
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transformation would you text the number
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this will be your best year ever if it
is your best year spiritually
and what better series to get saved in
like do you know how many people been
saved and they just finding out about
the power of the holy spirit
you get to walk into salvation and not
live
a day without inviting the holy spirit
into you got access right now you didn’t
know what you were going to do before
this holy spirit what should i do with
the rest of my day
and he will speak to you so proud of you
and transformation nation i’m so proud
of you most churches stay away from
these topics
because we don’t want to hey we don’t
want to offend we don’t want to get it
wrong
the holy spirit know how to correct me
he know how to speak to me he knows how
to speak to this team and this
leadership
i have people watching every week making
sure we theologically sound and
i mean we we out here and i have no
problem if i get something wrong that’s
the best of my understanding to that day
and we’re on a journey of progression
not perfection
but we will not deny a part of god that
is sent here
to help us is our advantage
and is our comforter father i pray
that whatever you’re trying to do in us
god you will continue to do
father i declare this will be the best
week that we ever have as we allow you
to speak to us
so clearly you’re invited not in sunday
but in monday tuesday wednesday thursday
friday not
just in sunday you’re invited every day
of the week every moment that we live
father let transformation church get
anchored
in the holy spirit we give you glory
we give you honor and we give you praise
and bring us back here next
week with testimonies bring us back here
next week father god
with deeper revelations that came from
no pastor no leader nobody just straight
from you
god i thank you that we are being
upgraded all over
the world and we give you the glory the
honor
and the praise in jesus name we agree
somebody shout at me amen
i love you let’s give god praise go out
and live a transformed life we’ll see
you next week
[Music]
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