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well I have a word in the house today if
you’re ready for the word I need you to
put some likes and some comments and
some praise hands and some amens and
make some noise now I need to let you
know that um I’ve worked on some new
technology that there’s nobody in the
room right now except like my mama and
Charles and the worship team but but I
can feel your holler back at me okay I’m
spiritually ask the Holy Spirit to let
me be able to feel because there’s some
of y’all watching in Africa right now in
Georgia right now Dallas is in the in
the building right now Houston is in the
building Cali it’s here right now
wherever you’re watching from all I’m
asking you to do if something is good if
it agrees with you I need you to act
like you’re in the building
cuz I can feel it and the better you
help me the better i’ma preach right now
okay so can I get one big Amen from
everybody come on can I get one more big
Amen from everybody that’s what we’re
saying so being well we are starting
week one of a brand new series that I’m
entitling who is the minister here and
the honest-to-god truth is I’ve been
planning this series for two years and
there is no way that I would have known
that we would be at this crossroads in
society this moment but God did and and
he wanted me to challenge every person
that is watching and hearing this
broadcast this message this playback to
really evaluate if you have truly
answered the call that God has brought
you to this earth for and I know some of
you right now your job you thought was
your calling but when they laid you off
last week you found out that you were
expendable there that’s not why God
called you
that wasn’t your source that was a
resource but at the moment where
everything is scaled back and movie
theaters are closed and and sports are
shut down and all of our honestly
distractions to our purpose have now
folded up in one week God’s asking now
can I have your attention so that you
can do what I created you and since you
here for I’m about to come all in your
business today so let me okay we’ll stop
Mike okay let’s bless
let’s get them started let’s play a
little game right now and I want to play
a little game called who’s the minister
okay and I’m gonna put a picture on the
screen and I need you to see if you can
identify the minister in the picture
let’s try this who’s the minister does
anybody know who that is okay
some of y’all said TD jakes okay I hear
you some of y’all like I don’t know who
is that all right let’s try another one
who’s the minister here okay does
anybody know who the minister is okay I
hear somebody saying Joyce Myers and and
other people said that’s my Aunt Sally
okay that ain’t John Salley okay let’s
look who’s the minister here now some of
you said Pastor Steven Furtick okay
others of you are saying that’s the guy
who does my laundry every week okay here
we go who’s the minister here now now
some of y’all be like that’s you and um
when I think about the question of who’s
the minister here many of you if you
knew the people in the pictures you
identified the pastor or the teacher in
the picture you did not identify the
minister see because if I was to ask you
right now and if you were in this
building with me and I said hey who’s
the minister here four thousand five
hundred hands would point at me and at
that moment I would say and your own see
I’m not the minister here write down
point number one of this series you are
the minister here and see some of you
are saying Pastor Mike no I can’t be the
minister cuz you don’t know what I deal
with you don’t know what I’ve done you
don’t know where I come from you don’t
know what things I’m still fighting with
but the problem is that I see in the
body of Christ right now is the body of
Christ is so fragile because the weight
of the whole of the purpose that God
wants to do has been resting on a few
let me give you an actual picture of
this see because what’s happening right
now is this as many of the people that
you think are ministers or that’s Pastor
Mike that’s passed the TD jakes oh
that’s my past that first community
church that my pastor had first ever
needs a Baptist that’s my my pastor and
um number one called your church okay
whatever your church is I don’t care
about denominations but we think it’s
the pastor the Prophet the Apostle the
teacher
and then something happens in culture
and society where the church is supposed
to hold the weight but when you put it
on somebody like this they get crushed
they can’t hold it up and then something
else happens and they get crushed it’s
because there’s not enough people who
are full that are able to hold up the
weight when society has questions when
people are saying where is God there’s a
few people standing up but God said
every child that was born of me should
be standing up and not ashamed of the
gospel but there’s too many people who
have not been identified or accepted the
call that they are the minister what
would happen if people that are working
at the school system and people that are
arts and entertainment and people that
are working at the bus stop and people
that are working at the at the daycare
and stay-at-home moms and all of these
people would take their place as
ministers of the gospel of Jesus Christ
when society comes to crush we would be
ones that are able to stand
somebody say I’m the minister here and
what happens if you get in your place
and when somebody has a question at your
school at your job not they gotta come
to the church but we are the church I
feel this thing and we step into their
world then you get some other ministers
to come up in their spot in finances in
the stock market and when other
situations come that we will be able to
be the ones no matter the situation to
be able to stand and then we can teach
our children how in the midst of a
pandemic we don’t lose our faith in the
midst of being laid off we understand
that that job was a resource but God is
my source he was Jehovah Jireh my
provider all the way back to Moses he
brought water out of rocks and what you
don’t understand about this example is
these ministers that have been holding
all the weight they’re actually empty
but if ministers would take their place
and be full of the holy spirit it would
give people who are empty the
opportunity to stay in a place long
enough where they could heal and still
be a part of what God wants to do but
not be thrown off because they don’t
have enough in them what I’m saying to
everybody that’s watching me right now
is God’s saying will I have to look for
another or can I use you to be my
minister at that soccer field on that
campus online right now as social
distancing is taken over could you use
your text message thread not to sext
people but to actually aloha to lift up
the name of Jesus could you use it not
to complain and gossip but could you
spread the gospel with it
could I get somebody to be my minister
somebody said I’m the minister here come
on somebody say I’m the minister here
and that’s what I want everybody to know
so I want us to go to Ephesians chapter
4 verse 11 I’m preaching harder than
y’all was in the building I feel this
thing right now I see God doing
something in somebody faith is coming
alive in somebody right now you’re
realizing that the reason God hasn’t let
you off that job was because he sent you
in there as a secret agent you were the
minister at that place the reason you’re
trying to step into this other Lane and
God says I need you right there it’s cuz
if I could get enough of my ministers
spread out all in government and I could
get enough of my ministers spread out in
every mountain of society that may be
her banner could be lifted up in the
kingdom of God we’d be expanded somebody
just shot at me I’m the minister here
look at Ephesians 4:4 11 cuz some of
y’all like that doesn’t make sense
Rev you to Minister Bishop you to
minister I think that this has been a
misnomer in the body of Christ that is
jacked up people’s theology and jacked
up people’s responsibility
cuz what ends up happening is you leave
the four walls of the church and you
think that oh this pandemic is happening
I hope the pastor’s doing something oh
wow there’s a crisis in the land
I hope those people are praying and God
said hold on what I’ll let you see that
post I’ll let you come in contact with
that homeless person I’ll let you be
born into that family to stand up and be
the minister there see some of y’all are
mad right now but I’m trying to call you
to another level of responsibility and
calling look what Ephesians 4:11 says it
says now these are the gifts Christ gave
to the church now listen to what he gave
to the church he gave the Apostles the
prophets the evangelists and the pastors
and teachers now watch their
responsibility is to equip God’s people
to do his work and build up the church
the body of Christ another translation
says their job is to equip the Saints
for the work of ministry so my job as
your pastor is not to minister to you
it’s to equip you to minister to others
did you just read it in the word you’ve
been thinking I’m cold yesterday pass oh
he just ministered to me hey he did it
work it was God no no no baby you were
here supposed to be taking notes you
were here trying to you needed to take
the scriptures I said translate them in
your mind and how you do it cuz you got
to give that away and minister to
somebody else God said the reason I gave
pastors prophets apostles was not to be
glorified it was to glorify me and equip
others and that’s why I gotta come
against this religious spirit that tries
to make pastors and prophets and all
these people on this pedestal like they
boo boo don’t sting listen to me their
greatest role is a servant we are built
and called to equip people to be able to
go out if you’re a pastor a prophet and
you’re the only one can do what you’re
doing you need to move because the goal
is that other people would be able to do
greater works even our jesus said
greater works now if Jesus the only man
that lived a sinless life
had a plan for the ministers to do
greater than him why are you the
greatest person in your organization
ministry and church and you’ve been
there for 20 years I’m gonna get hate
mail for this one but it’s the word
anyhow and some of y’all are sitting
there like ok so a pastor’s job a
teacher’s job is to equip me yes you’re
the minister I’m the minister’s mr.
miyagi now I don’t know if y’all ever
watched Karate Kid but in my heart in my
mind when I get up here when I study all
through the week when I’m trying to get
a revelation it’s not because I’m about
to have to go fight the owl remember
Karate Kid where Daniels son and mr.
Miyagi was there and and mr. Miyagi was
teaching Daniel how to wax on and wax
off and it didn’t look like it had
anything to do with the battle that they
were about to face and the opposition
they were about to come up against but
what he was trying to do is give him
reps in something that he know he would
be able to use later and I think that’s
what I’m supposed to do is tell you yeah
keep honoring God first in tithing even
dura pan Demick wax on and wax off stop
down stopping when you come around your
family come on I want you to keep on
reading your word and meditate on my
word day and night and I want you to
turn off Netflix and and be able to get
in my presence all I’m trying to do is
teach you the principles that when you
come up against a pandemic or you come
against your aunt Pam I don’t know I
don’t know what’s worse for some of
y’all some of y’all it’s a pandemic and
some of y’all y’all scared more of your
aunt Pam but whatever you come up
against what God is saying is the things
that you do and you learn from the
Apostles and the prophets and the
teachers those are the very things that
are gonna allow you to get in the middle
of a battle and win the war I don’t know
I see myself as mr. Miyagi
I’m the minister’s help and until you
get in your place I don’t have anybody
to actually equip we have a whole bunch
of people that are tuning in right now
at the tombs of hundreds of thousand
people but I wonder how many people have
answered the call of
Minister I wonder how many of you are
still sitting there like oh he’s saying
some good stuff but what I’m trying to
do is push you out of your place of
complacency and let you know that in the
the gated neighborhood that you live in
you’re the minister there huh and so I
need you to understand this my job is to
equip God’s people to do his work and
build the church I like that equip God’s
people do his work and build the church
what’s my job what’s my job I said equip
God’s people do his work and build his
church come on pastor someone was sick
equip God’s people do his work and build
the church so we need to break those
three things down because with without
understanding you don’t know what that
really means so let’s answer those
question who are God’s people what is
his work and how do you build the church
let’s start with number one who are
God’s people look at Romans 10:9 it says
if you openly declare that Jesus is Lord
and believe in your heart that God
raised him from the dead you will be
saved you just became God’s people and
some of y’all admit like that’s too easy
they need to change they like that was
smoking yesterday hold up one second
just hold up back up for one second this
is the same way that every one of us is
saved if we was out clubbing last night
if we was drunk or high last night if we
were lying last night if we were in our
alternate lifestyles sexually last night
it doesn’t matter because at the moment
you do what Romans 10:9 says God says
it’s even at the foot of the cross and
Christians and believers try to make
there be big sins and little sins but
everybody is even and he says all you
got to do is believe I sent my son he
died for you and he rose again and it
said you are saved and I know I’m
fighting that religious spirit right now
that’s telling people that ain’t what I
believe but I got a scripture for you
too so look at it in mark chapter 2
verse 16 because religious people who
are judgmental aren’t new that’s been
around since Jesus was walking the earth
and there were some teachers of
religious law who were Pharisees and
they saw him that’s Jesus eating with
tax collectors
and other sinners which all of us are
without the grace of God and then they
went up to not even Jesus they went up
to his disciples and they asked him why
does he eat with such scum I don’t know
why my voice just went to that right now
but that’s what it felt like they just
bougie and got high voices and it says
Jesus overheard them and look what he
did he said y’all need to know one thing
about your boy I’ve come to call not
those who think they are righteous oh
they’re good
cuz some of y’all right now are sitting
next to people that you would consider
yourself better than but God says our
righteousness is like filthy rags in his
presence that’s why we need God he said
literally I didn’t come to call those
who think they’re righteous but those
who know that they are sinners this is
the good news for everybody that knows
you’ve been Wilin out you know it and if
you know that you’ve been far from God
and that he’s calling you to another
place and you don’t want to keep living
your own life the way you’ve been living
it cuz it’s not gotten you the results
that you think you needed and want it he
says come to me and all you have to do
is receive what I have done through my
son by faith everybody say by faith this
is not by works this is not about how
many times I do good deeds or how many
times I didn’t cuss or how many times
this is by faith everybody say by faith
when you receive by faith you’re God’s
people so who are God’s people
I’m gonna give you the MLT just real
definition real quick sinners who
receive Jesus as their Savior
point-blank period if you are a sinner
and you have received Jesus as your
Savior you’re God’s people and that is
why this church exists to represent God
to the lost-and-found
for one reason transformation in Christ
and everybody may not have the the right
view of this but I want you to see
something that the found are God’s
people but just as important are the
lost who are God’s
passion that’s why the Bible says he
would leave the ninety-nine of the ones
who are God’s people who already been
found to go after the one and I don’t
know who you are but I feel like there’s
some ones watching right now that
there’s some people right in how you
said I’ve done too much my track record
is too long my body count is up I can’t
do certain things because of what has
happened to me and God says I will leave
God’s people to come after my passion
which is you and all I’m saying to you
is you can be a minister by the end of
the day like if you receive Jesus today
I feel the presence of God
because somebody’s wheels are turning
right now that maybe I don’t have to
live my life how I’ve been living it
maybe I can be a minister and God says
that is what I want
you’re my passion so not no matter if
you’re God’s people are your gods
I’m passion you’re a GP it reminds me of
an old Kirk Franklin song don’t leave me
hanging out here CP are you with me oh
yeah we got detention we ain’t going a
GP are you with me oh we got the one
more time
so GP are you in man oh yeah we got the
church we ain’t going nowhere what I’m
saying is God’s passion and God’s people
are supposed to be found in God’s church
and today you can make sure that happens
let’s look at the second question what
is his work because it said that the
pastor’s job is to equip ministers to be
able to find out if they’re God’s people
and to do his work so what’s his work
Matthew chapter 28 verse 18 this is
Jesus talking to his disciples before he
ascends to heaven he says Jesus came and
told his disciples I have been given all
authority in heaven and on earth so so
so he’s the man he could say this
therefore the one instruction that I
want to give to all my ministers is to
go and make disciples of all the nations
baptizing them in the name of the Father
the Son and the Holy Spirit teach these
new
disciples to obey all my commands that I
have given you and be sure of this one
thing I am with you even to the end of
the age do y’all know that when you’re a
minister of Jesus Christ it doesn’t
matter if it’s ours if it’s Ebola if
it’s covet 19 when you’re a minister and
you’re going out and you’re telling
people about the good news of Jesus
Christ he says I will be with you to the
end of the a somebody needs to get
excited about that right now because
you’ve been walking in fear and God says
why are you walking in fear I’m with you
the one thing about my daughter Isabella
is we’ve been going through this stage
where she likes to sleep in my bed and I
need everybody to pray for me because
you know it’s hard but what’s ended up
happening is I found out that sometimes
she gets scared of the dark
and so she’ll come into my room and what
I used to do is I used to turn all the
lights on in the house all the way back
to her room because that would allow her
to be able to see where we were going
and then I said no no she’s got to know
that she’s okay
so the other night when we were going to
the room I kept all the lights off and
she said daddy I can’t see I said it
doesn’t matter that you can’t see I’m
with you and she said daddy I can’t see
I said but you feel me right here with
you don’t you and she said yeah I do and
so the next night she went to say it
again I feel the Spirit of God he’d be
talking through stuff and she said daddy
I feel you she was about to go back to
her natural reaction is I can’t see
what’s happening I don’t know what’s up
ahead I don’t know it’s dark in this
season but instead of saying I need to
see it she just said I need to feel you
I just need to know you’re around I need
to know that you’re a close and what God
is saying is my work is that you would
go out and make disciples and the thing
you need to know that no matter what
season you’re in I am with you somebody
say God is with me come on somebody
needs to believe that in faith God is
with me so what is his work spreading
the good news of Jesus Christ so
every minister that’s anybody who’s
accepted Jesus as their personal Lord
and Savior has a job to do not the one
that pays you on the 1st and the 15th
the one you were coated with with
purpose before you were in your mother’s
womb he said when you took that vow to
be covered by me he said you got a new
responsibility as a minister of Jesus
Christ and that’s to share the good news
he took into the fact that you’re an
introvert he took into the fact that you
don’t like public speaking he took into
the fact that you break out in cold
sweats when you have to do something you
didn’t know you have to do and he said
and I still built you with the ability
to share the good news that Jesus has
come to seek and save those who are lost
and hurting and that is his work so now
it’s our work somebody just say again
I’m the minister here I’ll fill this
thing but you know what in this season
right now the whole nation literally the
whole world is focused on containing
something but God is focused on
spreading something he wants his news
right now while everybody’s in fear and
wondering he said this is the perfect
time for the Prince of Peace to invade
situations this is the perfect time
where people don’t know where money’s
coming from that Jehovah Jireh your boy
it’s running to show up on the scene the
one who is the one who goes before you I
want to be there but how will they know
unless somebody tells them and so many
times we’re so selfish and focused on
what God is doing in our life that we
won’t share the joy that we already have
I do not know how people that are not
walking with God are making it through
this season do you know how much fear
and anxiety is coming from CNN MSNBC Fox
News your local television station your
Instagram feed but as believers we have
our hope anchored in Jesus Christ and
the thing that you need to do is tell
somebody else now I can’t believe this
but y’all y’all y’all may be able to
identify especially some of the ladies
and yes I’m a man but I do like shopping
okay so let me just put it out there
this
jacket is bad and I found it on my own
as I was shopping the one thing I want
you to know is that anything about a
real shopper not a stingy shopper
because some of y’all are stingy
shoppers and you you you find a sale but
you won’t tell nobody about it because
you want to be the only one to wear it
don’t even look that good on you any Hey
no I’m just playing I’m just playing you
look beautiful what I’m saying to you is
that when somebody’s a real shopper and
you love to see people get deals when
you find something the first thing you
do is tell other people when you really
find the 50% off the 70% off the 80% off
you’ll be taking pictures for other
people like this ain’t my size but this
looked cute on you and you’ll be able to
send it to somebody else what I’m saying
is if sale shopping is good news why
isn’t the fact that God’s redeemed
humanity much better news that you don’t
have to be in the place that you’re in
and stay there and live there we have
good news and it’s our job as ministers
to share that good news but you cannot
spread what you haven’t caught and you
cannot give what you don’t got and you
cannot omit what you don’t own and
that’s why I’m preaching this series
because too many people think that I’m
the minister the person on the platform
is the minister and you haven’t owned
that you’re a minister at that job with
that with your kids on that soccer field
on that basketball court you are the
minister and God is trying to equip you
to not have to be confined to a building
he’s giving you a free pass to use your
authority wherever you are and until you
get this we don’t get to be the full
expression of the body of Christ so the
last thing question we got our answer is
how do you build the church and I want
to camp out here for just the next 10
minutes so that you can understand that
I think there’s a fundamental problem of
how people have viewed the church see
people think that the church
this building is the thing that God
cares about but right this point down
the church is not an organization the
church is an organism the church
is you and until you get this in
Ephesians chapter 4 and he said the
pastor’s job the prophets job the bishop
job is to acquit the ministers his
people to build the church it wasn’t
talking about building buildings it was
talking about building people so that’s
why it doesn’t matter if this building
God gave us never opens back up the
church is still expanding when you look
at acts 2:42 it said they were meeting
home from home sharing meals sharing
everything they had and their numbers
were growing daily because they weren’t
building brick and mortar they were
building mines bodies and souls and what
I’m asking you is if if you stop
focusing on the organization for a
second because honestly the organization
has been a lot of our excuses well that
church hurt me why never doing no
because they just want my money
and we’ve blamed organizations and if we
can be honest it was one or two
organisms who really messed over you it
was some people who hadn’t given God
full control and on behalf of those
people who were pastors and leaders and
people in your life who you thought was
the church and that’s why you haven’t
come back to church because you saw
somebody do it wrong and they fell short
of the glory of God I want to apologize
because I know that has hurt you because
the only thing that can hurt another
organism is an organism and and we’ve
blamed it on the church but now we can’t
blame it on an organization that was a
person would you please not hold all of
us responsible or even hold God
responsible for what somebody did and
would you allow forgiveness to flow
through your heart I feel this thing
deep down in my spirit right now there’s
somebody right now who’s getting healed
because you’re realizing the church
wasn’t this big organization who forgot
about you or isolated you or downcast
you when
you had a baby out of wedlock or when
you had the abortion uh it that that
wasn’t the church that was a person or a
couple of people or a group of people
I’m asking you let him go cuz that
poison is killing you right now and what
God wants to do is he wants to heal you
and look at the greatest thing he wants
to make you a minister so you can go
back to the very people who feel like
how you felt and you know that deep
despair in that isolation and go back
and share the good news that God took
away grief and he took away shame on the
cross and that you can walk free and be
his minister somebody needs to thank God
with me
I feel healing flowing in this room
right now so how do we build the church
how do we build people I want to show
you a story where Jesus does this with
one of his staples Matthew chapter 16
verse 13 it says when Jesus came into
the region of Caesarea and Philip I feel
this thing he asked his disciples saying
hey I got a question for everybody y’all
coming around here who don’t mean say
that I am but what are the people saying
in the streets uh I think some people
are saying uh that you John the Baptist
and then another one says ah you know
what Jesus some people saying you Elijah
I don’t know why everybody’s forget it
right now
and others are being like no sir
everybody’s saying you’re Jeremiah
you’re the Prophet and then Jesus
switches it up on everybody and I think
this is the question that kovat 19 is
making everybody have to answer right
now and then Jesus said but who do you
say I am yeah I know what the government
is saying and they’re saying we can be
in this you’ve heard everywhere from 18
months to three months to two weeks and
all this says stuff yeah yeah and I know
what you say that they can do for you
and what a vaccine could do for you and
what these people could do for you and
help and aid and all this stuff but who
do you say I am right now in the midst
of this what are you saying because it
really doesn’t matter what everybody
else is saying it matters what you
believe and what you’re standing on
right now and he asked him who do you
say that I am and look at one disciple
who could have been quiet and shrunk
back in the background like many
believers do when they’re in a group or
an organization but he stepped forth as
an organism
look what he said Simon Peter he
answered and said you’re the Christ son
of the Living God and and it hit me
right here because if you are going to
be the minister you have to be write
this down be open see there’s many
people in this room that are not open to
God making you a minister like in the
crowd you would rather stay back but for
him to answer as an organization or not
an organization but as an organism he
had to step forward and be open to give
an answer and it hit me right now that
some of you are so set in your careers
some of you are so set in your plans
that God is asking you I want to make
you a minister to go into places that
people have not even been able to go in
and represent me right or represent me
right and he said but are you even open
to it are you open to going into crafts
and arts and be my minister there are
you open to going into the music
industry and being my minister there are
you open to going into the judicial
system and be my minister there I feel
this thing because somebody’s faith is
right are you even open to stepping from
amongst the crowd or are the people who
are in the organisation of Christians
and believers and would you step forward
and be open to me doing something
through you and Simon was open somebody
say I’m open no say it again I’m open
because if you are going to be a
minister you have to be open and this
response Thrones Jesus off look what it
says and it says Simon Peter answered
said you were the Christ the Son of the
Living God verse 17 jesus answers say
you say what hold on blessed are you boy
you bless the simon barjona look at the
name you call them for flesh and blood
or your experience or you just being
here right now hasn’t revealed this to
you but it was my father who is in
heaven who divinely inspired you because
you were open
what I’m trying to tell you is all
throughout history God is just looking
not for people who are perfect he’s
looking for people who are open he’s not
looking for people of extraordinarily
extraordinary ability he’s looking for
people of availability it goes back to
Moses when Moses had a sister sister
sister speakings problem and he said I
can’t talk for you and God said if you
open your mouth if you’re open to me
using you I’ll feel your mouth and
you’ll be my minister at the highest
level of government and this is why if
you’re open and you step from around the
organization and you see God you can use
me if you can use anything Lord you can
use me then God will start revealing
stuff to you that your education
couldn’t see – that’s your pedigree
couldn’t teach it do know I’m a pastor
with six months of high quality Tulsa
community college education the
revelation that I get is not because of
something that man gave me it was
because I was open when God visited me
in a Hampton Inn in Baton Rouge
Louisiana at 4 a.m. and God called me
into ministry and I was open to it and
he said as long as you’re open I will
reveal what I need you to do when you
get there I need somebody to be excited
because God’s saying if you’ll be open
to be my original to be my my minister
he said then I’m gonna do something for
you so write this down if you are going
to be the minister you have to hear from
the originator and too many people are
not doing what this disciple did he was
open but then he only said what God told
him to say Jesus says it my father in
heaven revealed this to you and too many
people are self proclaimed ministers not
hearing from God just because you got a
Facebook camera don’t mean that let me
stop it the truth is that I would be not
being effective if I walked up here and
said my opinion the reason that I’m
effective is because I spend time with
God and I hear from the originator and I
hear from God that’s why in this time
where many of you have more time than
you’ve ever had it’s so important that
you start your day in the Word of God so
you can increase your faith faith comes
by hearing and hearing the Word of God
but faith increases by whatever you
focus on so if you focus on the fear
it’s only going to enhance your faith in
fear but if you focus on the promises of
God it’s gonna enhance your faith and
that’s why I’m asking everybody even in
this time of corona we are praying every
single day at noon and I want to thank
you cuz tens of thousands of you have
been joining us all every day that we’ve
done it but we’re gonna keep going until
we see a miracle cuz we need to hear
from God and if you’re gonna be his
minister you got here from the
originator look what it says in verse 18
and he says and also I say to you watch
this he switches up his name you’re
Peter yeah no no that’s who you are no
Peter now I know they’ve been calling
you simon barjona but i’m switching your
name or I’m calling you something
different and Peter means Petra or the
rock and on you I’m a bill my church
this hit me because up into this point
he had been called one thing but when he
got open heard from the originator his
name changed and what God says is can I
call you something different and you own
your calling
see right now you’ve been successful in
business but what if God wants to change
your name right now would you own it and
that’s what I want to give you as the
third point right here if you’re going
to be the minister you have to own your
calling so many of you are going back
and forth and vacillating what
my family think if I really start doing
this and one of my friends say you might
lose them you might actually have to
leave people to become something and
then come back and get them some of
y’all are so worried about going to
where God has called you to be with all
of the homies that being with you
there’s some time where you’re gonna
have to step out and be open to what God
wants to do and him changing your name
and you get a word from him and you walk
and you own it I think about it in my
own life man when God called me and I
had been in the music industry and I was
doing stuff there that’s what I thought
my identity was in and when I started
working in ministry I didn’t want to
hold a religious stigma and I started
doing youth ministry and it was like are
you our youth pastor are you Pastor Mike
and I felt a little tinge of like
sarcasm they were saying with it and so
out of my need to really want to be a
you know I’m saying relatable I was like
nah no no no call me pastor might call
me big brother Mike so the whole time I
was a youth pastor everybody called me
big brother Mike well many of you know
my story that eventually I became the
executive pastor of our church and then
I became the lead pastor and when I
became the lead pastor and God called me
to lead the church not that I wanted to
just do something he called me to do it
I didn’t accept or own the calling and
so there would be people that would be
coming around and be like big brother
Mike big brother Mike big brother Mike
and God said you better stop answering
to that cuz that’s not what I called you
I called you Pastor Mike and not that I
needed somebody to validate and call me
pastor Mike that wasn’t the thing I
hadn’t owned it you can call me Michael
but I I still would own my calling and I
was allowing the title to keep me away
from owning my calling and God says if
you don’t own it imma find somebody else
and I don’t know who I’m talking to
right now but there are things that God
has been trying to give you and there’s
faces that he’s trying to call you to
minister in but you’re saying I don’t
really do that and I don’t want to be
known for that and I don’t want to do
that and God said I factored in all of
your falls all of your courts all of
your nuances and I still called you my
minister
you better own the calling and I’m just
making a decision right now and I
believe that I’m speaking faith into
somebody who God’s already given a
vision that he’s already given you a
dream he’s already told you to write it
down and you’ve been shying back because
of what others done and God has changed
your name
he called Simon something different he
said Peter and he had to answer to the
call I think about it like this that
when I was young my mom’s in the room
right now
praying me through right now I love you
baby girl and and and what’s happening
right now it is that God I feel his
spirit translating through this screen
right now I feel this thing so strong
when I was young my mom made a nickname
up for me calling and she called me
Mookie ha ha ha ha ha ok um but but the
crazy thing about it is all in my life
because she was the one who gave me the
name because she called it to me first
when she called me that name I would
answer but if anybody else called me
that name like my brothers would always
try to make fun of me like Mooji Mookie
all that other stuff when they called me
I didn’t respond and and one of the
things that God was telling me even in
this he said I’m calling you something
different but it doesn’t matter about
what I call you as much as it matters
what you respond to so some of you have
been responding even if they’re calling
you out of your name calling you not
what God called you you’re still
responding to it so they can keep
calling you that and you keep walking in
that thing until you stop responding to
it some of you have been responding and
anger calls out to you and you answer
and God says you need to stop answering
to anger and you need to start answering
to anoint it when you hear that name
that’s what you need to respond to some
of you right now have been answering too
mad but you need to answer to
masterpiece some of you have been
answering to hole but God wants you to
know that you’re holy you need to answer
to the right thing and some of you have
been settling for a little below what
God has been calling you you’ve been
answering to average and God wants you
to know you’re accepted that’s why my
favorite part of this scripture
tells us how we’re supposed to live once
we own it once we once we once we’re
open and if we’re gonna be his minister
that we hear from the originator and
because we’re gonna be the minister
somebody say I’m the minister here come
on just say it I’m the minister here
when you get open when you hear from the
originator when you’re one of those who
says I’m on my calling then you start
living offensive go with me if you are
going to be the minister you have to
live offensive look at the next part of
the verse it says and also I say to you
that you are Peter and on this rock I
will build my church they need makes
this bold statement and the gates of
Hades or the gates of Hell shall not
prevail against it I’ve always had this
scripture messed up because what has
happened I got a gate here that
represents a gate of hell and what I
thought is that the church was inside of
a gate being protected and that all the
forces of the enemy is coming at you but
nothing can touch you because you’re
protected in the gate so the gates of
Hell won’t prevail but I figured that I
just couldn’t read and I didn’t
understand it because it says the gates
of hell that means hell is the thing
that has set up protection around
certain things hell has set up dates
around the entertainment industry hell
has tried to set up gates around the
education system Hale has tried to set
up dates around your family and keep
y’all in generational cycles hell has
tried to set up dates and music and keep
people in cycle and it said the reason
that the hell has gates is cuz it
doesn’t want God’s ministers to get in
cuz if God’s ministers would ever
penetrate the gates of hell
we could go in and have authority to
make a difference and what has happened
is because you haven’t owned that you’re
the actual minister you haven’t lived
offensive you’ve lived defense so you’re
just trying to make sure the enemy
doesn’t play me and make sure my kids
are ok and God says I invented you to
score I invented you to go into hell and
be able to get all of the things that
have been locked up movies and
entertainment and government the enemy
thought he had a gate set around it but
I’m about to release ministers in the
midst of everything that Hale has set up
against our gate around and it says and
the gates of Hell will not be able to
prevail the only reason it’s working is
because we haven’t gone up and tried to
go in who’s the minister here you and
you’re already in place but you’re not
living offensive enough and so when
somebody wants to tell you you can’t
pray here you back up off of it when
they tell you you can’t have a Bible
study here you back up off of it and God
says I am waiting for somebody to get
the keys that I already stole from the
enemy do you remember that the three
days when he was crucified I feel that
I’m about to preach I need an organ
right now the three days when he when he
was up there it says that he wasn’t just
sitting there it said that he went down
to the the place of Hades and he stole
the keys of death hell in the grave and
he gave all of us watch this I just need
you to see it Matthew chapter 11 verse
12 it’s telling us that we got to live
offensive ly it says and since John the
Baptist begin preaching until now
everybody say until now right now this
day that you’re watching this until now
the kingdom of heaven has been
forcefully advanced and violent people
are attacking hails gates
I’m tired of punk Christians who are not
answering the call of being a minister
where you are right now God says I don’t
have to move no pastor into
entertainment because you’re there I
don’t have to get somebody in the
financial institution cuz of ministers
already there but you gotta own it and
live offensively so so so what are you
talking about well then how do I have
the keys Matthew chapter 16 berth 19 I
love it he says and I will give you the
keys to the kingdom and whatever you
bind on earth will be bound in heaven
and whatever you loose on earth will be
loosed in heaven I’m ready for an army
of ministers after this message to take
the authority and the keys he already
snatched from every demon and devil and
he gives them to us so from now on in
the name of Jesus when we go into our
jobs when we go into social media when
we go into education it tells us that
the gates that are set up around it that
we have the key we don’t even gotta
fight for it all we got to decide to do
is take our authority and take it off
and everything that the enemy thought he
could use is no longer a place and we
can go in to every area in the
entertainment we can go and we can move
it Wow
we can take it by force we can invite
other believers into it I can say listen
government is open is there any
ministers who want to come and be a part
of what I hate hey every soccer mom you
can start that ministry right here get
other believers in
Peyman in government in our homes I know
that there are ministers but until we
live offensive come on I need some more
believers up here because this is what’s
supposed to to beat them the body of
Christ the picture is that when we walk
in this thing to church no more it’s
saying to church no more y’all stand
right there
now I want you in the midst of Education
in the midst of the entertainment and
arts industry in the middle I want y’all
to start praying right now get in a
circle and start praying right now
that’s what happens when ministers take
their place that then they’re open I
feel the presence of God and when
they’re open and they get in a place
together the Bible says where there are
two or three ministers gathered in my
name he said I’m in the midst and they
get into education and they get in to
the entertainment system it says the
gates of hell can’t keep us out if we
would own being the ministers and today
if you would take the keys that God has
given you and walking that Authority
whatever you bind whatever you loose has
to happen my last point thank you guys
if you’re gonna be the minister you have
to be ordained and all the word ordained
means it’s be officially given authority
to minister today at your home this is
not a church service this is an
ordination this as you have understood
what God is saying in your life I want
you to know the title of my message and
the charge of your life you are
officially ordained
to date you’re the minister today God
doesn’t have to look for another because
I’ma be open I’m gonna hear from the
originator I’m gonna hold my calling and
I am going to claim my ordination coming
a minister to others we’re not looking
for nobody else God’s not searching for
anybody else cuz he puts you there and
today we stop chasing things that are
distracting us from our calling he
called us to be his ministers to spread
the gospel to let people know that he
loves them and he lives and he can help
them right now and you are officially
ordained you don’t need a collar for
this you don’t need a platform for this
you don’t need a building for this all
you need to know is as you step up and
be open God will fill your mouth he’ll
show you what to do he’ll show you where
to give he’ll show you how to love and
today if I’m a man of God I’m telling
you that a revival is about to break out
not because it’s happening in a building
I feel this thing so strong it’s gonna
have been because ministers are in every
gate that the enemy thought he had
locked and we go stand at the gates of
Hell will not free
against them somebody get back a shadow
praise in this building hallelujah it’s
hard work now it’s not my work alone
when I’m on this platform yes I’m your
mr. Miyagi
but when I come off this platform I’m
just a child of God who’s a minister too
so I gotta go and share the gospel I got
to teach my kids how to love God and I
decided as for me in my house we’re
gonna serve the Lord pastor I don’t know
how I’m gonna be able to do that listen
Matthew 28:18 he told him I’ve given you
all authority in heaven and earth
therefore go make disciples of all
nations do y’all know with this pandemic
happening and all of the gods of the
world being shut down like sports movie
theaters like think about all the other
God’s government finances
everything’s been shut down he’s saying
this is the perfect opportunity for you
to go and make disciples of all nations
and right now as I record this message
and I speak it life to people watching
and summer watch on rebroadcast and some
are watching right now in their cars
it’s in every nation and I’m telling you
you’re the minister in that nation he
said baptize them in the name of the
Father the Son and the Holy Spirit teach
these new disciples to obey all the
commands I have given you and be sure of
this this is the thing I want to end
with be sure of it I am with you always
dear coronavirus always during the
economic collapse always during the
great depression always during slavery
always
even to the end of the age if you’re
going to be the minister alone is never
an option
God’s saying I need you to answer this
call and I promise you you’ll never walk
alone that’s why it says even if I walk
through the valley of the shadow of
death
that’s how Bela was when we were going
down the hallway she thought it was a
place of scary and darkness he said I
don’t have to fear cuz you are with me
and that’s all I want to tell you is God
is with you he’s with you in the midst
of your hurt he’s with you in the midst
of your pain he’s with you in the midst
of the uncertainty he’s with you because
he’s not with the church the
organization
he’s with the church the organism and I
need you to declare by faith somebody
asked you and when you look around and
you’re trying to figure out who’s the
minister here who needs to pray who’s
who needs to do something who’s the
minister here you’ll be able to step
forward boldly and say I’m the minister
here somebody just say it in faith say
I’m the minister here come on one more
time say I’m the minister here and I
believe that the greatest revival the
church has ever seen it’s on the brink
of erupting because we will not be
lulled to sleep anymore
thinking it’s somebody else’s job do
y’all see this whole time I’ve been
preaching this thing has been standing
up because it wasn’t one or two
ministers in place it was multiple
ministers doing what God has called all
of us to do
and the weight of the world could be on
our shoulders but if all of us are in
our spot nothing can stop us I want to
pray for you right now because some of
you have just answered the call God has
changed your name hands lifted all over
this place in your living room right now
in your car some of y’all are on the
beach lift your hands right now Father
in the name of Jesus I pray that your
Holy Spirit is transmitting through
every device and it is bringing people
into the saving knowledge of who you are
father I thank you that they’re
answering the call to be a minister of
the gospel of Jesus Christ I come
against the lies that have tried to
disqualify people I come against the
pain that has tried to paralyze people I
come against father God even the
frustration that has tried to frazzle
people and I speak life and faith into
every minister right now in the name of
Jesus I declare and I decree that we
will be all been to You Father God that
we will hear from the originator God
that we will own are calling that we
answer and accept that we are ordained
and we will never walk alone today I
declared that something is rising in the
earth and the enemy has made a mistake
because this is the church and we are
built for this and the gates of Hell
will not prevail we trust you we believe
you and we thank you in Jesus name if
you agree with that say a man and give
God the biggest oh come on
give them the biggest shout of praise
you have
some of you right now are watching this
and you need to do the first thing
you’ve been gods passion far from him
but today you you heard God calling you
whispering you compelling you and I just
want to share good news with you that
you can become God’s people right now I
was in the same boat as you
I was a liar a manipulator I was
addicted to pornography I had all kinds
of things going on in my heart that were
bad and all I did was what Romans 10:9
said is I believed and I confess that
Jesus Christ lived died and rose again
just for me and that day I would say the
Bible says behold when you make that
declaration the oldest passed away and
I’m making everything new if you’re in
this room and you want to make the
greatest decision of your life by
becoming or switching your position from
God’s passion to now God’s people I want
you to pray this prayer with me you
don’t have to confess your sins to
everybody God’s saying is I hear you
when I see you right now and that
transformation church and in
transformation nation we’re one big
family nobody prays alone so everybody
that’s watching right now it’s gonna
pray this prayer with you but I want you
to mean it from your heart because today
their life is changing and you’re gonna
answer the call of God on your life
everybody just lift your hands and say
God thank you for being my lord thank
you for living and dying and coming
alive again just for me today I receive
salvation the old is passing away and
everything’s becoming new changed me
renew me transform me I’m yours in Jesus
name Amen
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