good morning transformation Church
hey in your home right now I want you to
clap your hands I want you to give God a
shout of praise come on right there in
your home man today I feel the presence
of God in this place and I know it’s in
your place and this is what I want to do
I want you to text in the comments I
want you because there’s thousands of
you watching right now where are you
watching from I’m seeing it right now
there’s Texas in Houston and Africa and
and there’s there’s Kansas and
California in New York come on I want to
know where you’re watching from the
reason I want to know that it’s because
in this moment right now there is unity
happening all over the world and as we
get into the Word of God today I just
want to let you know that what God is
doing right now in this season as
everything seems like it’s going crazy I
really do believe that God is bringing
you into a place where he’s trying to
speak to you he’s trying to join us as a
church and allow us to be everything
that God called us to be and so I am so
excited that you are here today because
we are starting week two of a series
that we’re calling help me who’s the
minister here come on I want you if
you’re watching with somebody say you’re
the minister pointing at somebody right
now and say you’re the minister here and
if you’re by yourself I want everybody
to say I’m the minister here come on say
it one more time I’m the minister here
and I really do believe that that is
what God wants all of us to know is that
no matter what sphere of influence we
are in no matter what God has done in
the past and what he wants to do in the
future he has put you in that place at
that job in that school because you’re
supposed to be his minister right there
and today I want to take this thing one
step further we’re about to go and I’m
pumped up right now because I am about
to preach to you with everything I got I
need everybody to know if this your
first time on the live stream there’s
nobody in this big ol auditorium and the
word the word that is God has given me
and that’s brewing in my heart right now
is about to come into your house so if
you hear something or feel something
that’s good I want you to talk out loud
okay
the technology worked last week and I
felt your prayers I felt you know a
man’s I felt it and we gonna do it again
because the kingdom of God is
voice-activated and I am so excited
because it’s not about a building it’s
about what God is building in you and so
today as we go further in this series I
want to say thank you to every minister
that took the call to be ordained
earlier this week we did something kind
of fun on Friday night we had fun online
and a lot of people join me for
ordination service but though there was
a lot of fun things that happened the
one thing that I know is number one
people got saved that night and number
two thousands tens of thousands of
people said I’m going to step up and be
the minister now as a pastor as the
ministers mr. miyagi the one who’s
supposed to help you I want to go back
to Ephesians chapter four verse 11 and I
want to see if we can’t take this thing
a little bit deeper that we don’t just
answer the call but then we walk worthy
of the calling that God has placed on
our lives and this is what I want to say
to everybody who’s watching for the
first time and maybe you’re feeling like
what you’ve done and who who you’ve been
and who you’ve been with has
disqualified you no I want to tell you
right now that God is looking at you and
said I factored in all your flaws and at
the moment that you repent and turn back
to me that’s the moment I can use you
somebody needs to hear that somebody’s
pulling on me right now
that’s the moment I can use you to do
everything that I called you and created
you to do so this is for you repent turn
that’s all that means
and God says and I will use you and this
is how I want to use you I want to use
you to be my minister so Ephesians
chapter 4 is going to teach us go to
that and today I want to read it out of
the message version because the imagery
the graphics were so vivid in this and I
think it will help us get it it says and
he handed out gifts above and below this
is God he filled heaven with gifts and
then he filled earth with his gifts he
handed out gifts of these are the gifts
of apostles prophets evangelists pastors
and teachers now a lot of times we’ve
made those the goal but those are just
gifts
like being the apostle the pastor those
are gifts that God wants us to have to
be able to serve people that’s not the
goal the goal is not to be Bishop
Michael Todd the goal is not to be
apostle Natalie the goal is not to be a
Archbishop Charles no no no the goal is
to be a gift to other people so I just
need to talk to some people right now if
you carry the title a pastor apostle
teacher bishop you’re supposed to be
serving not be served oh oh you want to
ask about it ask Jesus the greatest one
in the world and his words were I did
not come to be served but I came to
serve and this is what I’m saying if
you’re in a place of prominence if
you’re a CEO if you’re a father if
you’re the mother of the house whatever
you are your biggest qualification is
not being served it is being one who is
a gift that serves others and that’s
what God says right here so he said I
handed all these gifts for one reason to
train Christ’s followers or ministers in
skilled what servant work with each
other
it says working within Christ’s body the
church not the organization but the
organism he said until we’re moving
rhythmically I love that and easily with
each other efficient and graceful in
response to God son look at this fully
mature adults fully developed within and
without fully alive in Christ
no prolonged infancy my god we got to
come back to that in just a second among
us please will not tolerate babes in the
woods because woods for babies are
dangerous and we’ll talk about that in a
minute
small children who are an easy mark for
imposters or the enemy God wants us
watch this watch this to grow up to know
the whole truth and tell it in love like
Christ in everything what area do you
need to be like Christ in in every area
what area do you need Christ to be
modeled in your life in your business
and how you talk to people how you love
other people how you forgive people it’s
got to be like Christ
that’s our example and then it says to
us he says we take verse 16 our lead
from Christ who is the source not a
resource and I have to stop there
because many of you this week had just
got real it got real that what you
thought was your source is now drying up
and you’re waiting on a stimulus package
to be able to give you hope but the one
thing that you got to understand is that
$1200 is not going to sustain you but
the god of the universe will
he’s Jehovah Jireh he is my source he is
not my resource he made Birds feed
Elijah when there was a famine in the
land and God saying if famine comes I’ll
still provide for you when famine comes
I’ll still be your God in the middle of
nothing I can bring water out of rocks
I can provide manna from heaven I that
God somebody say I serve Jehovah Jireh
somebody needs to know that I serve
Jehovah Jireh and he says that Christ is
our source of everything we do he keeps
us in step with each other
his very breath and blood flowed through
us nourishing us so that we here’s the
reason we will grow up healthy in God
robust in love that is some good Bible
right there I don’t know what you like
but I like good Bible Bible I don’t even
really have to preach but I got about 35
more minutes so I’m gonna go ahead and
priests this today now I’ve never seen
verse 14 before and it and it messed me
up because it like hit me the word said
that if we’re gonna be God’s ministers
if we’re going to answer the call if
we’re actually going to go into the
spheres of influences that God has
called us to go into we can have look
what verse 14 says no prolonged infancy
the crazy thing about it is most people
in the body of Christ after they get
saved they stay in the infancy of their
salvation for decades uh-huh they stay
in the place where they’re just trying
to see it’s this sin or not can i
Netflix and chill with them and still
yeah it’s this sin or not we’re staying
on the edge and God saying
would you live your life in the infancy
of salvation in the infancy of
Christianity he said I don’t want my
ministers to live in a place of
prolonged infancy I don’t want no old
babies and the problem is you think that
your age means that you’ve matured but
you are an old Christian baby
they M&E security people people are
going to have to understand that it’s
time for us to mature it made me think
about this old um song that I used to um
hear all the time and literally he got
stuck in my head this may this may date
me a little bit but before Amazon and
before uh all of the online shipping if
you were a kid and you wanted a toy
there was only one toy store that you go
to does anybody know what it is come on
say it out loud
Toys R Us you already knew like Toys R
Us was the best for all the young people
that don’t understand what a Toys R Us
was before Amazon killed all the big box
stores of you used to go to this
warehouse like Walmart but there was
nothing there except every toy you’ve
ever seen on Nickelodeon Disney and
everything and you could play with them
you could try them out you could play
video games it was like the free version
of going to do some amusement park or
something like that it was amazing and
the thing I remember about toys r us the
most is their theme song and this theme
song had a very distinct melody but the
words were even more powerful and it
made me and reminded me of this thing no
prolonged emphasis everybody just listen
to the words of this theme song
[Music]
[Music]
the words were I don’t want to grow up I
just want to be a kid cuz if I grew up I
couldn’t be a Toys R Us kid that
reminded me of many believers that they
feel like I don’t want to grow up I
don’t want to go to the next level I
don’t want to actually have to forgive
those people who did me wrong I want to
stay in a place where I can be and throw
tantrums when I don’t feel it oh I want
to be in a place where I can act like
I’m not responsible when I break things
like some of y’all are breaking
relationships and breaking trust and
break things and you want to be
unresponsible for that thing and God
told me he said all that is Michael is
prolonged infancy they’re trying to hold
on to a season that I’ve already allowed
them to have the power to grow up grow
up out of but they’re deciding I don’t
want to grow up I just want to be a kid
I don’t want to grow up I don’t want to
have to take responsibility I don’t want
to grow up I don’t want to read my Bible
I don’t want to grow up I don’t want to
have to make time to pray I’m preaching
right now I don’t want to grow up I just
want to have my attitude and say that’s
just how I am and God’s saying if you’re
gonna be my minister I can’t have you
being a toys-r-us minister matter of
fact that’s gonna be the title of my
message write that down
Toys R Us ministers cuz I want to make
it very clear that God in this hour is
not looking for us to stay in the place
where he saved us he’s looking for us to
mature past that place so we can reach
back and get other people who were in
that place but it’s hard to take
somebody where you have not gone and
it’s hard to lead somebody to a place
that you have never ever dove yourself
into and God is calling us too much
sure and I know this is a heavy word and
I know there’s some of us that are being
like oh I don’t like that but but but I
want you to see both sides of it because
okay let me ask you I need interactive
in your home watching on rebroadcast
right now how many people like promotion
come on hands up in the air
you like promotion you like going to
another level I don’t know anytime when
we used to fly airplanes
I loved win so I said when we used to
fly I love the wind I was in a coach
seat and I paid for a coach seat and
then they came up and be like mr. ty
you’ve been upgraded you’ve been
promoted to first class and boy that
that stroll from from a f/32 up to the
front seat is like a gangster stroll I
don’t know what you’re talking about but
how y’all doing how y’all doing like
like you go up there and you’ve been
upgraded everybody loves upgrade
everybody loves promotion but they love
the idea of it more than responsibility
of it everybody wants to be a minister
they love the idea of that more than
they love the responsibility of that I
think about moments where I was promoted
I want to show some of y’all because
we’re a hot church we’re humble open and
transparent and I remember one of my
greatest promotions was when I graduated
high school when I graduated high school
y’all I shouted I danced I did
everything and it was a promotion and I
remember being in school thinking like
when I get out of high school life is
changing when I get out of high school
everything’s gonna be fine and literally
when I got out of high school I realized
that that promotion came with other
responsibilities that promotion to get
out of one level came with a whole
nother responsibility that I had to take
care of let me tell you another one of
my promotions one of the greatest
promotions degrade his promotion other
than being saved was when I married my
wife Natalie okay
this was this was my boo boo that was my
upgrade but I did not realize all of the
responsibilities that would come with my
greatest promotion let me tell you about
another promotion that I had when I
became the lead pastor of transformation
Church this was an amazing promotion and
when Bishop Gary handed me the baton I
didn’t know
that I was getting a whole bunch of
responsibility too and what I had to
decide is that I wasn’t going to be a
Toys’R’Us minister that I was going to
step into the calling and not just take
a title but take the responsibility at
every level God is requiring more and
when you get more that means you have to
mature and that’s why I’m telling
everybody right now being in high school
was harder than being out of high school
being married is harder than being
single
some of y’all right now are in this
single phase I just want to be married
baby listen to me this is the last
season of your life that you get to
dictate everything you do without
considering somebody else you better
enjoy your singleness you better wake up
at 10:00 take a two-hour shower then go
get your hair and nails done then come
back and read a book you better do that
right now because as soon as you get a
wife as soon as you get a husband all
that is out the window
as soon as you get kids that gets cut in
half again and what people don’t
understand it’s that in the moment that
they’re wanting something responsibility
comes with every upgrade and that’s why
I’m letting everybody know at each level
of promotion there is a higher
requirement to produce every time you
get a raise
there’s another level of responsibility
for every elevation there is a brand new
expectation passing like what are you
really trying to say write down my first
point being a minister demands maturity
if you’re gonna do and be everything
that God has called you to be I’m
begging you right now I’m pleading with
you
I’m trying to give you value right now I
want you to mature don’t be a Toys’R’Us
minister don’t be one of those that stay
at a low level don’t be one of those
that are prolonging your infancy and you
won’t talk about the things that really
are the issue in your marriage or really
the issue between you and your business
partner and really the issue just cuz
you’re trying to keep everything adults
mature people go towards the problem
they don’t run from it they don’t hide
from it because we know if we go through
everybody say through if we go through
this
we’re gonna be stronger on the other
side and I want everybody to remember
what the word God gave us for this year
was it’s stronger and there’s no way you
can get stronger by being immature
there’s no way huh there’s no way you
can get stronger by avoiding the
conflict there’s no way you can get
stronger by saying I don’t need
cancelling I’m gonna just work it out
myself there’s no way you can get
stronger around it you only get stronger
through it you cannot get stronger
around it
you only get stronger through it and
that’s why I want everybody in here to
know my only job is to prepare you to be
the minister that God has called you to
be in government the minister he’s
called you to be in the field that he’s
placed on your heart in education in the
financial ramp he wants you to be a
minister there but maturity maturity is
required for you to be the minister so
what are you saying Pastor Mike we have
to be maturing ministers who don’t fight
on Facebook about coronavirus we got to
be maturing ministers that don’t cheat
on our taxes see our actions have to
change when you start maturing you can’t
be maturing ministers that make advances
at people’s spouses cuz you’re not
getting what you want at home
uh-uh I’m talking about real stuff and
I’m talking about stuff that happens in
the church okay so you think I’m all
yeah that happens there I know I’m
talking about when y’all anyway let me
stop you got to be mature ministers that
don’t talk to your kids anyway but you
speak to them with value and correct
them you don’t punish them you
discipline them you need to be maturing
believers that don’t gossip and then in
the same week try to have a word for
that same person okay we need to be
maturing ministers that don’t hold
grudges but actually can live in freedom
we need to be maturing ministers who
aren’t scared to commit instead we’re
just Netflix and chilling you need to
put a ring on it bro you need to know
how to marry her you need to be able to
be the one to commit to the thing it’s
time for you to mature stop being on the
baby food stop being on the milk it is
time for you to mature you need to be a
maturing minister that doesn’t run to
substances for peace
you need to be a maturing Minister that
not just talks about God but actually
spends time with him
somebody just say that right now I have
to mature don’t click off of this this
may be the word that you were looking
for to be able to change everything in
your life somebody say I have to mature
and that just killed some of y’all right
now because a lot of times pride is a
trait of immaturity haha everybody that
just bucked up you don’t know me you I’m
saying you don’t know what I need to
mature you know hey baby
literally infant literally immature
person pride is the thing that’s raising
up on you but when you mature you walk
in meekness and meekness is power under
control meekness is being submitted so
when God reveals something to us in our
heart and I know I’m coming hard at you
but I’m really trying to raise up an
army do y’all know the days that we’re
living in right now do y’all know how
many people that are passing each day
it’s time for the Church of Jesus Christ
not the organization but the organisms
to stand in a place and make a decision
that I will mature and when you make
that decision God says okay okay we can
we can make something happen
I gotta get stronger I gotta move I
think about this story when I got my
first car and y’all know when you get 16
you you you think about like you know
I’m grown when I get my own car and I
can go where I want when I want to go
there and I’ma be who I want to say so
my parents they’re amazing people when I
was 17 I didn’t get when I was 16 but
when I was 17 my dad bought me and my
older brother a car to share and he
bought us a plum not purple a pom
chrysler sebring with the tan rag top
and I don’t care that my car looked like
Barney when I pulled up who couldn’t
nobody tell me nothing you hear me okay
and we will ride that car around and I
remember vaguely that the day my dad got
it we were so excited and he handed me
the keys and right as I fade Lee
remember because I was running to the
car he said son be responsible and I was
like yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I’m a boss
Bob be responsible but I didn’t really
understood what that meant
until I ran out of gas for the first
time and when I ran out of gas for the
first time I called my dad cuz he’s the
one who provided the car for me I was
like dad I ran out of gas he said son I
said be responsible and this was the
moment I was gonna mature he said if you
want to drive the car you got to put gas
in a car huh no I just thought I was
gonna be able to drive the car I thought
I was just gonna be blessed but that was
the moment where a maturing lesson
happened to me that would guard me even
today the blessing always comes with the
burden
somebody needs to hear me say that right
now every level you’re praying for every
blessing you’re going to the blessing is
always gonna come with a burden and I
didn’t know it at that time but that was
the moment I was going to decide to
mature that was the moment I was gonna
go from an adolescent who got rides
everywhere and I was gonna have to take
the responsibility to take on the burden
as well as the blessing I know ain’t
nobody preaching this I know ain’t
nobody talking about this but if you
gonna really be the minister in the
place that God’s called you to be
you can’t shy back because there’s a
burden with it you got to step forward
and say I’m mature enough for this I’m
responsible enough for this I can change
my life my schedule my attitude my
relationships to answer the call of God
and I’m gonna take this blessing but I’m
also gonna steward over the burden what
are you trying to say all I’m trying to
tell you is that if we’re going to
mature the blessing of being the
minister has the burden of becoming
mature you’re gonna have to do some
other stuff you’re gonna have to you’re
gonna have to change some of your
conversations you’re gonna have to let
some of the friends go that that are
good for your that are good for your
flesh but are horrible for your faith
you’re you’re going to have to make a
decision that some of the things that
you watch and you see what would happen
if Pastor Mike Woods watched what you
watched all this week right before I
started ministering to you would you
trust the
I had heard from the Lord with you after
what you scroll through after the
website that you went to after the
things you were thinking the things you
stayed up late at night watching would
would that be the thing you would want
your minister to give to you remember
I’m not the minister here you’re the
minister here so at the time when we’re
filling ourselves with stuff and then we
go to the grocery store and God said I
was trying to use you right there but
there’s so much stuff infiltrating your
mind in your heart right now that you
can’t even see past he said it’s time to
mature it’s time to walk worthy of the
calling that I’ve placed on your life
feel the presence of God right now and I
want everybody to hear me I’m not saying
you’re immature but maybe you are and
I’m not going to tell you that I’m gonna
let you self-identify today okay so I’m
gonna talk about the difference in the
next few minutes about being a Toys’R’Us
mender minister a toys-r-us minister
that doesn’t want to grow up that wants
to stay comfortable and somebody who is
a maturing minister and my prayer is
that every person watching this would by
faith shift over into maturity not
perfect but progressing that you would
make a step towards what God has placed
you on this earth for so look look again
at Ephesians chapter 4 verse 12 he says
he handed out gifts apostles prophets
evangelists pastors teachers to train
Christ’s followers or ministers in
skilled servant work within Christ body
the church watch this until we’re all
moving rhythmically rhythm that means
everything is working together you see
my body is moving help me come on clap
my body is moving right now at the
rhythm that has been set and God says
until the church starts moving in rhythm
and easily with each other efficient and
graceful in your response to God son
until we get this thing a unity he said
you still not mature do you know some of
the greatest arguments me and my wife
have had never came to a resolution one
of us decided to be more mature
and at the moment one of us decided to
be more mature we came into unity it
didn’t matter if she was right it didn’t
matter if I was right the goal was that
in our household we would be walking in
unity so much of the arguing that’s
happening in the body of Christ so much
of the opinions that are floating
everywhere it’s a it’s a trap of the
enemy that is trying to keep us unyu
defied that’s why in the garden he did
not approach Adam and Eve and tell them
about the fruit he only approached Eve
because if he could get them out of
unity just for one second we can lose
eternity in paradise because of division
and God saying if you gonna be real
mature unity has to be more important
than you okay let me just tell you the
point so if you’re a toys-r-us minister
this is what you value you value being
the only one yeah I’m the only one that
does it like this like this is me this
is how I am this is the and that’s what
our culture is saying everybody be
yourself do you don’t nobody have to
agree with you that is directly against
the Word of God that says there is a
blessing of commanded blessing any place
there is unity and the reason why
people’s marriages and businesses and
ideas a lot of time aren’t working is
because you value being the only one
there’s like this badge you’re wearing
like I’m it’s me against the world and
God said where did you get that from
Jesus didn’t come with that attitude if
Jesus would have come with the me
against the world attitude he would have
just been going around like I’m Jesus
the Son of the Living God on April 12
i’ma do saw me
nobody ever seen before i’ma die I’m a
raise again I’m a heal people I’m like
it wasn’t about him when he came he was
trying to take others on the journey he
was trying to bring unity so that when
he was gone they could carry the message
further what I’m saying is if you’re a
toys-r-us minister you value being the
only one but if you’re a maturing
minister you value being one being
unified
that analogy of rhythmically working
together I thought about that cuz I’m a
drummer and one of the things that we
all are what the scripture says is we
are many members of the same body now
when I play the drums I have to use all
the members of my body after use both of
my hands and both of my feet now what
would happen if I sit down to this drum
set and all of my body’s umm parts are
not doing what they’re supposed to do
together so this is doing something this
is doing some the crazy thing about it
is this is what the church looks like it
sounds like because we’re all trying to
do our own thing I want to be the one I
want to be the one I want to be the one
but God says what would happen if you
got into unity somebody shot at me unity
and you started working together and
when you’re doing your thing I’m
supporting it and when you’re doing your
thing I’m supporting it
[Music]
unity what I’m telling somebody is God
is looking for his church to be in unity
God wants your marriage to be in unity
God wants your business to be in unity
God wants his church to function in
unity but if you don’t value being one
whole but you value being the only one
you’re still a toysrus minister and
that’s why John 17:20 Jesus is talking
and he’s praying to God and look what he
says I am praying like all the things he
could have prayed look what he prayed I
am praying not not only for these
disciples not only for the ministers but
also for all who will ever believe in me
through their message
so that’s everybody that’s watching look
what he pray for us I pray that they
will be one I pray that they will be in
unity just as you and I are one as you
are in me father and I am in you and may
they be in us so may all these ministers
and everybody they reach be unified in
us so look at the reason so that the
world will believe you sent me the only
way people know that Jesus is who he
said he is when people of different
economic backgrounds of different
ethnicities of people who have different
beliefs and certain things come together
around the one name of Jesus and they
say there’s no way they should be
working together but there’s unity there
because Jesus is there I’m asking you
right now to grow up I’m asking you
right now to mature and to get off of
this petty back and forth I’m right I’m
the one we’re the only ones no we want
to be one somebody shot at me unity okay
let me tell you another thing that I
found um in Ephesians chapter 4 verse 12
it tells you the difference between the
toys-r-us men a minister somebody who
doesn’t want to grow up doesn’t want to
mature or a maturing minister listen it
says until we are moving regular
rhythmically and easily with each other
a
fishing graceful in response to God son
look at this fully mature adults fully
developed watch this within and without
see I need everybody to understand that
God is not trying to do just a work for
people to see he would like the work to
start within and then be a product
without he wants it to be in you and
then he wants it to come from you he
wants it to be a night and then he wants
you to export it and this is what God is
saying toys-r-us ministers value how its
packaged the outward and maturing
ministers value what’s in the package
God wants you to be valuable on the
inside and out I was thinking about Toys
R Us and one of the greatest things that
they do at toy stores is they package
things well this thing cost like 80
dollars okay and every time that I have
two daughters okay and the crazy thing
about my daughters is they don’t pick
out stuff based on what’s actually in it
how cheap it’s made or what’s happening
because they are immature because they
don’t know how much stuff cost because
they are still at a smaller level of
understanding the only thing they pay
attention to is the packaging when they
walk around there but oh that looks nice
oh that could be cool I can’t tell you
how many dollars I’ve wasted on things
like this no no offense Barbie but
things like this that cost a bunch of
money because they spent a good amount
of money on the packaging but as soon as
we opened it up it was in pieces it
wouldn’t even put together the least
they could do is make it for me but what
happens is we get in a bunch of
relationships that look good on the
outside but there are in pieces on the
inside and we come in and we trying to
figure out how it works and then we have
insignificant parts and then we end up
losing pieces of ourselves because we’re
not worried about the value of the
contents on the inside as much as we’re
worried about the packaging on the
outside
God is saying that it is time for the
church to mature to the place where they
do not judge or prejudge or our
prejudice about who he’s using based on
the outward package maybe they don’t
have all of them the words right and
maybe they’re not as proficient and
maybe they don’t have network that was
your boy I didn’t come from anybody’s
camp I didn’t have nobody around me all
God said is yeah all my Dinks my dents
and dings we’re all still there but God
says I’m doing a work on the inside of
you and I don’t know who I’m talking to
right now
but you’ve been so worried about making
sure your Instagram was poppin and you
had your right friends and everybody saw
the packaging right and God says I would
rather you be more potent on the inside
then just look good on the outside this
right here is what I look like and what
many of you look like the packaging
doesn’t look like this there’s dents
rips and scrapes but when you spend time
doing what God’s called you to do and
actually being the minister the content
on the inside is much more valuable than
what it looks like on the outside
this cost so much more than this but it
was put in a package that didn’t look
like much and I don’t know about you but
some of y’all were born into packages
that didn’t look like much families that
didn’t look like much education that
didn’t look like much the first five
years of your marriage didn’t look like
much but God is saying if you let me
work it out
I’ll pull something out of you that will
be able to be more valuable and these
these ministers who are toys-r-us
ministers immature ministers they’re
gonna keep going for what it looks like
on the outside but I’m looking for a
group of ministers that say I might not
have it all together but I want God to
do a work deep within me and someone
it’s within me it can come out of me
somebody say get it in me so it can come
out of me ah I feel this thing right now
this is why it’s time for us as a church
to get from external projection and it’s
time for us to get to real power I’m
gonna say it again
don’t nobody need know like scripture
prayers that don’t work at this moment
ain’t nobody looking for somebody who
prays and they don’t even believe what
they saying ain’t nobody looking for
daughters no over dry run and then on
the next the next day you’re freaking
out about everything that’s happening
God’s saying I want to give you real
power but that work has to be done by
the Holy Spirit on the inside and I just
want to give you encouragement this is
not a new problem
even back in Ephesians 4:14 no if its
second Timothy let’s go 2nd Timothy 3:5
it says um they will act religious they
will act like they know me but they will
reject the power that I could actually
give them that could make them godly and
this is the warning that the word gives
us stay away from people who ain’t got
no power they may look good they may
project good but if they ain’t got no
power stay away from those type of
people and what I’m encouraging you is
right now and this time a quarantine
were the entire country and almost the
whole world is shut down make sure you
come out at this time with more on the
inside of you then what you’re showing
forget about an Instagram post in an
Instagram live is there something coming
alive on the inside of you is there
something that’s beginning to move are
you stirring up the gifts that are on
the inside of you and if you don’t use
this time for that you’re gonna come out
of this and you still gonna be the same
age spiritually you’re still gonna be
talking about I just can’t wait for the
weekend huh you got weekend everyday
some of y’all didn’t even know it was
Sunday today cuz you just been out home
everyday it’s just the days it’s just
running together you said what day is it
again God’s giving you a bunch of
weekends and you still aren’t maturing
and it says stay away from these type of
people do you know another group of
people that he tells us to stay away
from it’s in that verse I’m 14 it says
people who prolong their infancy we
can’t have them among us and then it
says please we can’t do that why because
toys-r-us ministers they value
playground companions see when you’re
immature you want to only deal with
people who are on the same level as you
so you can keep playing them same
childish games
uh-uh if you look at all of your friend
you’re trying to set up playdates to
gossip play uh-huh you’re trying to set
up playdates with people who are lower
the standard just enough for y’all to do
something illegal in business but both
of y’all are on the same page so y’all
keep it together you’re looking for a
playground companion and God said if
you’re gonna be a minister you got to
level up some of those relationships
some of those people some of the ways
you’ve been doing stuff that was Kitty’s
stuff but I’m asking that you would grow
up and mature and be able to represent
me the reason you got to get your taxes
right right now is because what I’m out
to bless you with in 2021 will expose
you and the level of money you’re gonna
make there the IRS is gonna come check
and so I need you to mature now when
it’s barely enough to uh when it’s very
enough to count up because of what I’m
about to do but you don’t want to do
that some of you’re exposed and you’re
looking for all these playground
companions and God says but a maturing
minister a maturing minister is not
looking for playground companions
they’re looking for take ground
companions somebody that can walk with
them and say hey you see that over there
by faith we’re about to take this ground
hey do you see that right now that thing
is gonna be healed
the Bible said we can speak to that
thing y’all we got a take ground and if
you don’t have some people around you
that will take ground with you you need
to find some new friends that’s why I
tell people you got to get in small
groups you gotta get in belong groups
you gotta have community because until
you get into place where you got
somebody said come on let’s take that
let’s let’s let’s break that
generational habit in our family that’s
why you got to marry somebody that’ll
take ground with you when I got the
vision for this building I only told
about four or five people
I didn’t tell no playground companions I
only told people who had the faith to
believe we could take this ground when
it was impossible when nobody believed
it when we didn’t have the money I told
my wife I told my momma I told Bri I
told Bishop and all of them said if it’s
God’s will let’s take it and I’m
standing on a stage right now because I
have the faith to believe with some
people who has faith to believe with me
that’s why the Bible says iron sharpens
iron not plastic sharpens iron if your
iron and you’re around somebody who’s
plastic which most toys are made of you
end up damaging the plastic and dulling
the sharpness of the iron and some
people right now you’re becoming dull
because of who you’re rubbing up against
and some of you are becoming damaged
because of who you’re around and God is
saying right now it’s time to get off
the playground and it’s time to fund
somebody who will take ground somebody
needs to shout hallelujah
no more prolonged infancy and there’s a
reason for it it’s not because we don’t
just want to be around those type of
people it’s because it tells us he said
we can’t tolerate babes in the woods if
you took my two-year-old right now who
is unaware and immature in her
perception and you put her in the woods
that would be a dangerous place for her
because she doesn’t have the maturity or
the understanding we got to keep babies
out of the woods that’s what’s happening
in so many people’s lives
it says small children they’re an easy
mark for imposters
there are easy mark for the devil and
that’s why so many of us are going out
into the world into fields of influence
and they turn us out we get eaten up and
spit back out because we’re sending
babes who don’t know the word who don’t
have a conviction who don’t have an
anchor in Jesus who do not have the
maturity that they need out into the
music industry and they went in saved
and they come out to hug they went in
quoting scriptures now they’re cussing
you out they went in with the generous
heart now they’re selfish it’s because
if you’re not mature enough to go into
the woods where there’s wolves and bears
and an alliance oh my you understand
what I’m saying if you don’t go into
that space ready to be able to fight
mature enough to understand the
situation’s you’re walking in he said
you’re an easy mark for the enemy and
many times the church is full of people
who went out to immature they got a call
from God to be a minister but they
didn’t take the time to mature and so
they went out and they got hurt they got
scar
and many of us it’s been a lot of the
leaders faults because we haven’t
equipped you for the type of work that
you’re supposed to do that’s why I’m
preaching this series cuz I’m not the
minister here you’re the minister here
but then you got to come back and let me
teach you the word so that you can be
prepared for the fight that you’re gonna
have to give out there I’m not gonna
send you into the woods or into the
world or into your business or into
government unprepared not knowing the
Word of God because that’s the only
thing that’s gonna allow you to be able
to withstand the attacks of the enemy
and the crazy thing about it is
toys-r-us ministers are easy targets but
maturing ministers are taking shots and
I’m tired of believers and ministers not
maturing because when you mature you
know when to shoot your shot when you
mature and you understand what’s
happening God has spoke to you and you
know he tells you stuff like be strong
and courageous that’s your land possess
that land when we go back to this
building and they were trying to show me
other buildings to look at and I said no
no no no no God’s giving me a word I’ve
spent time with him I’ve been in his
face I’ve been holding on to this in
crazy faith and I told them don’t show
me no more Kmart’s I don’t want no poles
don’t call me until it’s about this
building I’m about to shoot my shot I’m
not gonna allow the enemy to make me
back up I’m going to advance the kingdom
of God but you only can advance
something that you are confident in and
too many believers have not taken the
time to mature so when we get out in the
world or in the woods we’re an easy
target but I’m telling you it’s time for
us to mature somebody say I’m gonna
mature something’s building on the
inside of you
Ephesians 4:14 huh then we will no
longer be immature that same verse in
the NLT says listen we will no longer be
immature like children listen we won’t
be tossed and blown about by every wind
of new teaching that’s where everybody’s
at right now we will not be influenced
when people try to trick us
when lie with lies so clever that they
sound like the truth see this is the
problem when you anchor your life on
Jesus Christ
and you mature in that and that anchor
starts going down you don’t have to be
tossed see right now every sailor
understands the the idea of an anchor
that when a storm comes and it’s blowing
and it’s making everything move
you dropped your anchor on the thing
that can keep you standing there and I
don’t know about you but some of us
haven’t matured enough to actually have
an anchor so we’re out on the boat
looking good cruising but when the storm
comes we capsized because we don’t have
anything there our god anything that’s
keeping us grounded but I declare by the
power of the Holy Spirit that this is
the time where ministers are gonna
mature and we’re gonna drop our anchor
on the Word of God coronavirus drop your
anchor financial problems drop your
anchor people leaving drop your anchor
we don’t have enough drop your anchor
and when you drop your anchor when you
drop your anchor it says that maturity
will allow different teachings to come
and they’ll go people will try to trick
you with schemes and gimmicks but
they’ll go and I’m telling you this is
why maturity is so important for every
Minister that’s watching this and
hearing this because God is saying I
want to take you out there but I don’t
want you to capsize I want to use you
and all those things I’ve shown you in
your heart but if you don’t spend this
time maturing it’s gonna damage you more
than you’re gonna reach destiny so
toys-r-us ministers they value what
sounds like the truth and maturing
ministers they value the only truth
which is the Word of God
I’m begging every person everybody they
say statistically have increased their
social media usage almost 50% since
Corona has come into our world I’m just
asking you to dial back what every other
word is saying and getting lost in the
Word of God why Pastor Mike because more
information won’t mature you only
revelation will
people have told me things for years
that I needed to do but when God told me
in his word when he showed me something
that convicted me when he gave me a
revelation that that’s you you’re acting
in pride or you’re walking in this or
this that revelation revealed truth it
changed or transformed my life it made
me mature there are many things I keep
talking about me and my wife cuz a lot
of y’all are in situations where this
the most time you spent with your spouse
in the years and you like who did I
marry oh my god but what I’m saying to
you is in this season you need to stop
fighting each other and you need to ask
God what does you want to change in you
yeah yeah the y’all are now forced to be
in each other’s space some of y’all this
is the exact thing that God needed you
to have because you’ve been able to
ignore what’s been festering in your
relationship out of busyness but God is
trying to not just allow you to heal he
wants you to be whole remember unity is
the first point of this whole thing when
you mature you want unity and what I’m
telling you is there sometimes that
you’re gonna communicate with your
husband your wife your children and
you’re gonna be able to say you know
what just talking to you is not gonna
change this convincing you about this is
not going to change this there’s many
times I’ve been stubborn about something
and my wife said Michael I don’t care
what you say I’m going to God about this
she liked telling God on me and I
promise you I’ll be stuck to my ways I’d
like ain’t never changed on our getting
pray or two days later in the Holy
Spirit saying like you’re prideful
you’re doing the wrong thing and I’m
gonna show you this in Scripture and I
come back to my wife and be like baby
I’m so sorry I’m so sorry I didn’t wanna
be where you are just hold me
like that’s what I do at that moment
because not because she changed me but
when I hold on to not what sounds like
the truth but I hold on to the only
truth
that’s the only thing that can mature me
and make me change and God saying I want
to send you I want to send you to be my
ministers in entertainment and
government in education in the finance
on Wall Street I want to send you in the
tech industry but I can’t have toys-r-us
ministers there I can’t have immature
ministers there
I gotta have maturing ministers there
and that’s why in verse 16 it says we
take our lead from Christ who was our
example who is the source of everything
we do
he keeps us in step with each other his
breath and his blood flowed through us
this is the reason why we have to mature
look at it right here the end of the
first it says it’s nurturing us so that
we won’t grow up everybody shout at me
grow up come on say grow up he doesn’t
just want us to grow up but he wants us
to grow up in a certain way grow up
healthy in God robust in love let me
give you my last point toys-r-us
ministers value staying the same I don’t
want to grow up I just want to be a kid
I don’t want to grow up I just want to
have my anger I don’t want to grow up I
just want to be an individual
I don’t want it and whatever you’re
immature statement is God’s saying
that’s just exposing that you’re a
Toys’R’Us Minister he said but maturing
ministers value growing up healthy and
today I’m just asking everybody not to
just accept the call to be the minister
here but accept the responsibility that
comes with this race
except the the promotion and except it’s
gonna have to change in your pride
I want everybody listening to me to
mature how do we mature by spending time
with God by cutting off distractions
look what John 3 says 1 & 2 dear friend
Arthur John it says different I hope all
is well with you and that you are as
healthy and body as you are strong in
the spirit what that means
is your spirit health and your physical
body should be equally as strong and I
know there’s people right here that do a
lot for their physical body and their
spirit man is scrawny and weak and
there’s a lot that do a lot for their
spiritual body I know people who can
pray the heavens down but will die 20
years early from diabetes cuz they won’t
make sure their soul is in health and
their body is in health what God is
saying for all of us he’s like I got big
plans for my ministers you’re gonna be
out in the world you gonna be changing
stuff you’re gonna do stuff but I need
something for you I need you not to
think immaturely about this we’re
playing for the long haul I want you to
be effective for so many years so I need
you to physically be healthy and I need
you to be spiritually healthy that means
anything that’s toxic anything that is
over sugared anything that is so good to
my flesh everything that i
love-love-love
in my actual flesh he’s saying that’s
the thing that’s going to cause you not
to be able to do everything I’ve called
you to do and I’m looking for ministers
that will accept the call to mature I
know this is a heavy word right now
but my greatest days of effectiveness
are right in front of me because I’m
deciding to put away the childish things
you know that description when it says
when I was a child I thought like a
child I talk like a child I spoke I
interacted as a child but when I matured
here’s the decision I put away childish
things why do you put away childish
things so you can fulfill the call that
is on your life I want to pray for you
right now hands lifted all over I don’t
care if you’re in high school middle
school I don’t care if you’re a senior
citizen or a senior Saint I need you to
know that the Word of God this is not a
sexy word this is a transformative word
this is a word that if it gets down in
your heart and you would stop doing the
things that a child is minister would do
would you put all of them up on the
screen for me see a toys-r-us minister
is being the only one only cares about
how it’s packaged the outside only cares
about and values the playground
companions what sounds like the truth
and staying the same God says by faith I
want you to ship and I want you to
become a maturing minister that is more
concerned and values being one or being
in unity concerned about what is in the
package not just what’s out it’s
concerned in values take ground
companions people that will have faith
with you and as valuing that the only
truth which is the Word of God
and values growing up healthy God says I
can take you to any sphere and use you
today I want you to lift your hands
because I’m about to pray that we would
answer the call to mature in the name of
Jesus father god I pray for every person
listening and watching right now I thank
you that right now in this moment you
are moving in their hearts father God
somebody’s heart has been closed this
whole time but right now a crack just
happened and I’m thanking you right now
in the name of Jesus that they are gonna
become the ministers you called them to
be your word says that it would be our
duty and our honor to walk worthy of
what you’ve called us to so I’m speaking
to every distraction I’m speaking to all
selfishness I’m speaking father to
everything that has given us excuses
father by your son and in
your blood we have been made new all
things have passed away and today father
I thank you that we step in and own are
calling as maturing ministers that we
will no longer be tossed to and fro but
what the news says and what Corona says
and what finances said but we would drop
our anchor on the Word of God and I
declare and I believe father that
families are getting stronger right now
that singles are getting stronger right
now that that that businesses are
getting stronger right now not because
of the work you’re doing on the outside
but because of the work you’re doing on
the inside to take God in our homes we
surrender to you on podcasts we
surrender to you taking a walk we
surrender to you god we stop and say
mature us God let us not be stuck in
prolonged infancy but today make our
marriages our lives our perspectives
mature in you we trust you we believe
you and we thank you that this will not
be by might nor by power but the only
way this can happen is by your spirit
God and so we need you we invite you in
in Jesus name Amen
hey listen everybody just watch him
right there in the comfort of your home
if you never invited the power source
into your life
remember incense people acted righteous
but they denied the power of God today I
want you to not just be a good person I
want you to invite the power of God into
your life and it’s so simple all you
have to do is ask God according to
Romans 10:9 to come in believe that he
saved you and sent his son repent like
and all that means it’s turn like I’m if
I was going this direction I’m just
turning and God says I want you to turn
to me today and all throughout this week
there will be people getting saved at
this moment there are family members in
the room with you right now and their
family members you sent this link to
that’s why it’s so important to share
what God is doing because this is the
thing that can change somebody’s
eternity today I want to pray for you
if you’re saying pass them I got no
longer want to be in control of my life
I no longer want to be the one that’s
controlling everything that’s happening
and I want the God of the universe to
get in the details of my life if you
want to pray this prayer with all of us
I want you to just slip your hand in the
air real quick it doesn’t matter if
anybody’s standing next to you it
doesn’t matter who’s around just slip
your hand in the air even if you’re in
the room by yourself just slip your hand
in the air you could put it down God saw
that you don’t matter if anybody else
sees it see this is the greatest
decision you could ever make it’s a
decision that take took me from being a
liar a manipulator one who was addicted
to pornography had a lot of darkness in
my heart was doing things wrong cheated
on my wife before we became married
caused all this pain all that stuff God
took all of that and when I made this
decision for real not for an outward
appearance but so God could do an inward
work on me it didn’t make me perfect but
boy I started progressing and that is
the promise that I gave you today
through this pandemic we’re walking
through God says you’ll never walk alone
I’ll go through it with you and today I
want to let you know that you just made
the greatest decision of your life
transformation Church all over the world
we’re about to pray this prayer together
and I want you to know that this is when
heaven rejoices this is when people
start their journey to becoming the
minister who’s the minister here the
people who are about to give God their
life come on all over this world let’s
pray this prayer to get together out
loud I want everybody to say it’s a god
thank you for sending your son Jesus
just for me today I relinquish control I
give it to you
I believe you lived you died and you
rose again just for me today
I make you my Lord and Savior change me
renew me
transforming I’m yours in Jesus name
Amen
hey listen there are thousands of people
who just made that decision in your
house right where you are come on right
now can we rejoice with heaven turn up
with heaven and let’s give God praise
for brand-new family
brand-new ministers can I tell you the
most exciting thing is that two weeks
ago over 570 people gave their life to
Christ you thought the church was closed
no baby the building is closed but the
church is wide open last week three over
350 people gave their life to Christ and
I’m believing right now that as you’re
gonna text this number that comes on the
screen I want everybody to do it who
just made that decision or rededicated
their life I want you to text this
number we’re gonna give you resources
we’re gonna help you we’re gonna be
providing content all throughout the
week we have a YouTube with tons of
resources go back and watch damaged
goods go back and watch grace like a
flood go back and watch crazy faith go
back and let that word saturate you so
you can begin to mature go back and
watch charged up I’m giving you these
resources because the one thing about it
baby is babies are fed adults find they
own food let’s stop right there I don’t
even need to do that but I’m just
encouraging you through the week don’t
wait for Sunday for me to feed you all
throughout the week be going to God fine
content allow him to feed you so that
you can mature the only way a baby can
grow is by eating
what I’m saying is the only way that you
can grow is by eating the Word of God
today I’m so proud of you love you and I
believe in you I’m gonna pray a blessing
over you and this is what I’m asking you
all through this week just ask the Holy
Spirit what are you trying to say to me
through this message
some of y’all gonna watch this back some
of y’all gonna send it to people what
are you trying some of y’all gonna meet
in groups over zoom and FaceTime but the
question is what are you trying to say
to me Holy Spirit father I bless you for
the word you gave today I thank you for
every person that came into salvation
god I feel your presence right now god I
thank you that in this moment that
everybody watching and everybody
listening father God that you are taking
them to another place in you that
workers not even worthy of being
compared so what you’re about to do god
I thank you right now that this will be
the best week of their life no matter
what comes
no matter father god what bad news comes
we drop our anger in you and father I
think of that transformation in crisis
happening all over the world right now
father we will continue to represent you
and be your ministers every place that
we go we trust you we believe you and we
thank you in Jesus name we agree
somebody say Amen
hey when they ask you who’s the minister
here you say I’m the minister here
somebody said I’m the minister here hey
we love you we’re praying for you and we
will see you right back here next week
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