I’m Tired Of These Soul Ties // Relationship Goals: In Real Life (Part 7) // Michael Todd

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God will transform your life. Do today's message.

It's been seven weeks of us going through relationship health,

trying to give you biblical standpoints of you actually having

healthy relationships. And I really don't want this series to end,

but I believe that we're gonna pause on it right now.

But I have to end this with something that's gonna

help you. Watch this walk in freedom because it's not

enough to just no information. The Church is full of information.

We live in the most informed age with the most

dumb people. Now, do y'all understand what I'm saying? I

was looking at something the other day It's like most

children can't spell. Now, y'all know that they can't spell,

because when it's time to spell something, all they do

is say, Siri, how do you spell?

Incredible? And the reason I'm saying that is.

Because we have access to information, but is it really

yours if you can't access it whenever you need it

without something else. That's why the Bible says that word

I have hidden in my heart. We all use technology

to help us, but I'm asking you what scriptures do

you got memorized?

Which ones are written on your heart?

Which are the ones that you can say when you're

a little out of it. Yeah.

The reason I'm saying this is.

Because right now, having information doesn't mean anything if you

cannot actually use it in real life. And so today

I just want to walk us down the end of

this section of the Relationship Goal series, and I believe

it's gonna bring healing to so many people. So somebody

asked me, what is the goal? What is the relationship goal?

Somebody say, what is the goal? I've said it from

the first week, but I'm gonna say it again. The

goal is healthy relationships. How many people want healthy relationships?

Just by faith? Put your hand in the air. That's

everybody in the room.

Okay.

Healthy relationships with your family, healthy relationships with your coworkers,

healthy relationships romantically.

You want healthy relationships. Watch this.

Healthy relationships come from healthy individuals.

It's not them, it's you.

Now.

I need to say this this clearly because when I

said that, everything in you is like you don't know

who I'm messing with.

Number one, you picked them, you did, okay.

The other thing is there is never a time or

a place that you can't keep developing. And what pride

has to work in somebody that thinks they're finished. I

was talking to an older gentleman the other day who's

having marriage problems, and I have one of my honors

in life is getting to counsel with people who are

double my age and using not my wisdom but the

wisdom of the world of God to help lead them.

And this man begin to tell me is like, I'm

seventy years old. I ain't trying to change nothing, da

or all.

And I was like, hmm, And I just let him

keep talking, because a fool will expose himself.

And he just kept talking and he was like, I

don't want to change. I've been this way for years.

She liked it back then, and I mean he is.

I mean, when I tell you, he's talking with conviction,

I don't want And I just said, I said, sir,

I said, respectfully, you are dealing in a level of

pride that is hard to even talk to. Because when

somebody is convinced, they are known and they're done growing

and this is it.

And the sweet lady was like, what should I do?

How can I do? I said, you need to pray.

First off, you need to pray because that level of

pride only God can break. This is why the Bible says,

humble yourself or be humbled. And today I'm asking everybody

to approach what I'm about to talk talk about.

With everybody, say humility. Let's just act like.

You don't know everything about relationships. Let's just act like

you don't have all perfect relationships. And let's approach this

with health as an individual. Why Because healthy individuals are

built through self awareness and surrender.

So, oh, that's something I can work on. Oh, that's

something God's trying to change in me.

Oh that's something that I learned a long time ago

and I'm still working it. But it doesn't serve me anymore. Oh,

and I'll give it to you God. I'll go to counseling.

Wife. I'm sorry, husband, I'm sorry.

I'll surrender how I've been to pick up a new

level of living. Last part, self awareness and surrender are

the substance or the essence of a healthy soul.

And that's what everybody in this life is striving for.

A healthy soul. Casta Charles said it so beautifully last week,

but I want to illustrate it for you.

Didn't Casta Charles preach so good last week. Man, I

ain't letting like having a dog who can go like fock.

This is you, This is your body. This is what

everybod he sees. This is what everybody is trying to

beautify and take care of. One of the most neglected

places in our life, though, is our soul, which is

housed inside of our body. And then the realist version

of you is spirit. This is the pneuma. This is

the breath of God that when he took dirt, he

took it and he blew into this.

And what happens is all of us are these three

parts in a reflection of the three parts of God, Father, Son,

Holy Spirit.

And what God is wanting to do is let you

know how these work. And I've been in jurch for

years and people don't explain this to you. When you

get saved, your spirit is the only one that gets saved.

Your spiritish, your spirit ish shouting and singing hallelujah.

But your soul is being saved. Oh God, That's why

you could be like God.

I give you everything.

Your spirit is like weird, who's been so many years

not eating spiritual food and not being nourished, And.

Your soul mind will.

Emotions like what were we doing now because we've been

doing other things for a long time. Oh we read

the Bible now, Okay, we like reading.

Oh we go to church now.

Oh we try to change our thoughts now when we no,

I'm thinking of fighting, Okay, we.

Pray for them. It's being saved.

Your flesh or body. The Bible says, it's enmity against God.

Your flesh hates everything God likes. God says, do it

in moderation. You want to do it in excess. God says,

take just one. You take ten, prove it all.

The way back to the garden.

You can eat out of it, off of any twee.

It'd be different if there's only one tree. But was

the one tree they ate off of the one they

wan't supposed to. So what I'm telling you is your

spirit and your soul have to team up on your body.

This is why these two gotta become strong. And he

was like, soul, okay, you go to the back and

hit him in the legs, and then I'm gonna jump

on his head.

And bopo like do you know understand? Like you gotta

be cause this body is strong.

The flesh is pulling you to things like why am

I watching this?

Why do I want to do that? And your spirit's

like no, no, no.

And your soul is like, I know it's wrong, but

that looks kind of interesting. Come on, y'all, and that's

why you gotta suplex your body. I'm trying to give

you a very funny but real because at the end

of the day, what everybody wants you to do is

just put your spirit man back inside, put your soul

back inside, and live only out of what your.

Flesh wants to do. Your flesh can go to church

and walk right out of church. Oh come on, y'all.

You can be making the plans to sing while in church.

Hold on one second, I'm doing something. You're at the altar.

You're at the altar singing. I wanna be altered. Give

me fifteen minutes. I'll be outside.

Oh, come on, y'all.

That's how ratchet our flesh is. You can commit to a.

Fast if you know what, I'm gonna be fast and

then go to the buffet. It be at your fle.

Okay, your flesh just don't care nothing about doing what

God calls.

You to do.

This is why we have to actually take care of

our soul, because if you've come to Christ, your spirit

man's ready, but you don't have usually enough power to

do what you need to do because your mind, will

and emotions.

Have not submitted to God yet either.

And I know people have been in church for thirty

years and are still led by their flesh. So when

it comes to relationships, it's the same thing. That's why

third John one, verse two says, beloved, I pray that

you may prosper. Everybody say prosper in all things. And

be in health. Everybody say health, just as.

Your soul prospers.

So what if the rest of this year, how you

are gonna be moving forward would be to make sure

your soul is growing. My spirit is ready at all times,

because when I become a new creation in Jesus, my

spearman gets fully renewed. Your spirit man ain't gonna become

more spirit man than it is right now. It is

now saved, redeem righteous, It is ready to go.

Now.

The thing that's got to be saved is my soul.

How I'm thinking.

That's why Romans twelve two says, don't follow the customs

of the world, but be transformed by the renewing of y'all.

He's trying to get to your soul, and that's why

we say not my will, but your will. He's trying

to get to your soul.

And that's why it tells you when your emotions.

Are out to you gotta take captive every vain imagination

that would exalt itself against the knowledge of God.

He's trying to get you to get watch this control

of your soul.

And once you get control of your soul, it's easy.

Your body is no longer the master.

It serves what the spirit wants you to do.

And so today that's like, how does this how does

this go with relationships? I'm gonna show you because Ephesians

four eighteen gives us a beautiful picture.

And I'm gonna read a little lengthy portion of scripture.

But we're in church, so this is good.

And I'm gonna read it from the message version because

it really blessed me. And now I'm gonna get into

the meat of what I gotta say. And it says,

this is Paul talking, and so I insist, and I

think God backs me up on this, that there be

no going along with the crowd anymore. The empty headed,

mindless crowd. They refuse for so long to deal with

God that they have lost touch not only with God

but with reality itself. Have you ever met somebody like that.

They've lost touch with reality. It says, they can't think

straight anymore, feeling no pain, they let themselves go in

sexual obsessions, addicted to every sort of perversion. So it's

not just sexual perversion. Perversion just means twisted. It's just

anything that's supposed to be one way you twist it.

So people are giving themselves to all types of perversions.

But that's no life for you.

Somebody say that's not my life, saying with faith, that's

not my life.

You learn Christ. My assumption I love how Paul says that,

My assumption is you've been listening.

My assumption is that you have paid careful attention to him.

Christ been well instructed in the truth precisely as we

have it in Jesus. Since then, we do not have

the watch this excuse of ignorance. Look at your neighborhood

and say, we do not have the excuse of ignorance.

I know that's a weird thing that you're saying to

your neighbor right now, but I need you to hear this.

When you find out about Jesus, you no longer watch this,

have the excuse of ignorance. And there are too many

people that are sitting under the sound of my voice

that are just saying, well, I didn't know, Yes, you did.

You chose not to obey it. You chose to ignore it.

You chose not to Has anybody ever said in the

exit ro seting on an airplane, why do you sit

in the exit row? What is the advantage of sitting

in the exit row? More leg room? Everybody more leg room?

You four four and you want more leg room? It

doesn't even matter. Okay, so let me help you.

Do you know what the.

Requirements that they ask you for for sitting in.

The exit row to help in case.

Of an emergency, But because there hasn't been an emergency

that you've been a part of, most of us do

not do what the stewards ask us to do.

Do you know what they ask you to do? They

ask you. Somebody's like, nah, I don't need what were

supposed to do. You're supposed to read the manual to

actually figure out.

Watch this how to open the door at thirty three

thousand feet in the air while it's going down. Now,

I've played this out in my head several times because

I had been on many flights sitting in the exit row,

and then I sat next to somebody. It was their

first time sitting in the exit row. And when I

tell you they studied that pamphlet.

It convicted me. Because I knew about sitting in the

exit row. I had no idea how to open the door.

And I thought, because it's a door, hit the handle,

it opens. But because of the certain pressure that that

would be released in I had to listen not be

ignorant of the usage of this door. What I'm saying

to you is I'm trying to draw a parallel that

many of us think we know how God's word works

because we've heard it said in church. But there is

a time where God is calling all of us to

no longer have.

The excuse of ignorance.

What you gonna do with it? This is what he's saying.

He says, you no longer have the excuse of ignorance. Everything,

and I do mean everything connected with the old way

of life has to go.

It's rotten through and through. Get rid of it.

And then take on an entirely new life, a new

way of life, a God fashioned life, a life renewed

from the inside, working itself into your conduct as a

God accurately reproduced his character in you. What this adds

up to is this, no more lies, no more pretense,

telling your neighbor the truth in Christ, this body. We

are all connected to each other, after all, so when

you lie to others, you end up lying to yourself.

This is Bible, y'all. So go ahead and be angry.

I'm good with that.

You do well or be angry, but don't use your

anger as fuel for revenge.

And don't stay angry. Don't go to bed angry, so.

You can be angry until it's time for night night.

That's what the that's what it's saying. This is the

part I read all of this scripture for. And don't

give the devil that kind of foothold in your life.

Don't give the devil a foothold in your life. The

word of the year at Transformation Church is what forward

say it with faith full. I believe God wants to

take everything forward. But the thing that's stopping you from

going forward is a foothold. And most of us don't

understand what a foothold is, so let me give you

a definition. A foothold is a secure strategic position from

which an enemy can advance.

This term is usually used in war.

This would be like you being on this side and

somebody being on that side, and your enemy setting up

camp secretly on your side.

So they could tell the people that.

They're working with what you're doing, so that they can

execute you faster. A foothold is a place in your

life where you have given the.

Enemy access.

And in relationships, is the enemy's one of the enemy's

biggest footholes in everybody's life that he will set up

around your emotions, around your heart, around your trauma, and

he will use those things to try to.

Actually take you out. Watch this.

A foothold begins as seemingly minor issues. It can be

something as subtle as resentment, fear, grudges, bitterness, or unchecked pride. However,

if it's left unaddressed, a foothold can grow into something

much more dangerous.

Write this point down. Satan is looking to establish a

strategic position in your life. That's some Mike, Why are

you saying that? Number one?

It's in the Bible, and I'm about to educate you

on how you.

Can kick the enemy out of your life. But most

of you won't kick somebody out that you don't know.

Is there so many of you don't even think? I mean,

I feel like I'm good. I feel like everything's good,

And you don't.

Understand the enemy has camp in your life, in your

cell phone, in your feed. There's one account that you

post that they can post something and it changes your

psychological thoughts about yourself.

In your day.

Oh, y'all, don't play with me, because I'll start pulling

up some of the accounts. I see your little bubble on.

Y'all know that they telling on y'all. It shows when.

You liked it.

It shows where you was at. It's leaving a trace

of what has a f.

Hold on the inside of you. Okay, all right, let

me just keep going. Stay to your notes, Michael. If

we get Satan a foothold in our lives, he will

have an easier time watching this attacking us in other areas.

So when an enemy is in.

Your life in a place you don't understand, or don't

want to acknowledge. It's easier to attack other things that

they wasn't even coming for. Once Satan establishes a foothold,

he always looks to make further advances. Watch this, he

will continue to spread his lies and multiply temptations. Ultimately,

his foothold wants to become a stronghold.

So I'm trying to.

Explain these big biblical terms that if you read the

Bible you'll see, but nobody really explains them.

The enemy wants a foothold.

I want something that they don't even really recognize is

a problem, and I just want to be in their

territories so I can be able to use it at

any moment. But I'll keep it until I can build

up a fence, so it's a stronghold. And when something

becomes a stronghold. Let me just held you help you

write this down. The goal of the enemy is to

turn a foothold into a stronghold. I want you to

know that because this is going to help you be

able to see the plan of the enemy.

We're going somewhere.

An example, as a foothold could be a grudge that

you may feel warnted to have because they.

Did me wrong? How many people have been done wrong before?

Okay, cool, yeah, I don't like you no more holding

a grudge, but it opens up the door.

Watch this for bitterness. And if bitterness can.

Grow into a stronghold, it grows into a stronghold of unforgiveness.

You see how easy it just happened. I feel justified.

I'm bitter.

I don't like that now, or I'm holding a grudge.

Now it's bitterness. Now it's unforgiveness, and now I don't

trust nobody, and it starts affecting all my relationships and

my ability to experience God's grace. That's why James four

seven says this, you need to submit yourselves then to God.

Resist the devil and he will flee. Now a lot

of people don't understand what resists. They just try to

run away. Resist means you got to know the power

you have. You have to put up some type of resistance.

If I don't want something coming into my yards, into

my yard, I put.

Up a gate.

That is an act of resistance. We had a raccoon

that was coming to our trash can and trying to

literally destroy our backyard by going through and having a

feast in our trash can. So we resisted him by

putting bungee cables on our trash can. And guess what,

he don't come back no more because we resisted him,

and now he fleed. What have you put up as

a guard in a gate over your mind? What have

you put up as a guard and a gate over

your ears? Over your eyes? What have you resist? How

have you resisted the devil? You keep falling into temptation

because there's no resistance.

The Bible is giving you resist and he'll flee.

He'll go find the other person that's open, he'll go

find the other couple that's open. He'll go find somebody else.

But if you put up a resistance, and some of

the believer's biggest battle is.

You just didn't try. You did not try to resist.

You literally is like, oh, the devil's here and we'll

come on in bud What you be new?

And it's like, no, you can't come here. You're not

welcomed here. I know what you're trying to.

Do to me. Back up, Like, okay, some of y'all.

Gotta resist the devil in your family. I see depression

trying to come on my family.

This family is full of joy. I resist you.

Matter of fact, Let's have a dance party right now.

No see, y'all, don't see. Joy is an act of resistance. Y'all,

don't hear me.

When stuff is going crazy in my house, I'll put

on music, bella ava, mje, we start daing.

I trade. I'm talking practical now. I trade that heaviness

and I take that garment off.

And no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no confusion trying

to come in here.

What's your name? You are called? You are special? You?

Where is your act of resistance?

As a believer? The enemy only responds to resistance. And

this is why I'm saying, some of y'all, he's got

a foothold and all you need to do is resist.

Resist that a foothold and it doesn't become a stronghold.

Did y'all hear what I just said? The Bible says

it's the little foxes that spoiled the whole vine.

It's the stuff that you're not paying atten, y'all. I

don't like her, but I mean I'm good. No kill

it now, kill it now, kill that thing now, forgive now,

give grace now, because it's harder to take a foothold

that has turned into a stronghold, and now you've passed

it on to generations.

Okay, let me keep go aheading. Okay, so that's what.

But we have good news.

With the word of God, we know how to defeat

a foothold. We know how to defeat a stronghold. Tewo Corinthians,

Chapter ten, verse four and five. I'm just teaching you

the Bible. I need you to understand. The weapons of

our warfare that we fight with are not weapons of

this world.

Another translation said, they're not carnal.

On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

So I want you to understand what's happening in your

life because everybody acts.

Remember spirit and the soul and the body. We just

talking body terms all the time.

I don't feel good, that's your body, but the spirit.

Something is really happening. He's saying.

The wrestle you going through is you're dealing with strongholds

and footholds, and you got to know how to fight those.

He said.

We demolish arguments and every pretentious thing that sets itself

against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every

thought to make it obedient to Christ. How do you

destroy a stronghold? You take the thought and you put

it up against God's word. You're gonna be You're gonna

You're gonna live in poverty. Do you know what's going

on with the government and the oil prices? And do

you know what's happening to your four oh one k

He is Jehovah, Jirah, my provider. Every need that I

have will be supplied. If the birds don't worry about

what they gonna eat, and the.

Flowers do not worry about.

How they're gonna be dressed, how much more does he care?

He takes strong y'all, don't hear me.

You gotta take strongholds and put them.

But most believers don't know how to fight.

You getting whooped by footholds and getting pummeled by strongholds.

And do you barely come in here? And just like God,

please do a work on the inside of me.

And God saying I need you to resist the devil

and he will flee.

And I need you to bring every vein imagine that

and put it under the word of God. Finds you

a scripture. That's my whole thing. Whatever you're thinking about.

Find you a scripture that's the exact opposite, and just

say that scripture.

You ain't gotta go deep, you ain't gotta do it.

Just find a scripture that says the exact opposite.

My marriage is gonna fail. I'm so glad that thought

is now in my hands what God has put together.

Let no man, let nos.

Y'all, just letting them thoughts fly around you, just letting

those thoughts go. MA, but I miss them. I'm grieving.

That's fine, m But I don't grieve as one that

does not.

Have hope, because my hope is in Jeesus.

Yeah, I'm just so anxious.

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, through prayer and supplication,

make your requests nothing.

I'm trying to teach y'all, this is.

Because the footholds and the strongholds are beating up on

God's children, and he's saying.

Fight, fight, fight back. I can't do what you was

trained to do.

Okay, y'all, gota give me ten extra minutes because this

is about is I'm okay, okay, Eastern promise, we're gonna

be out with this one.

I got to give it to you. Watch this don't.

Be discouraged if you have footholds or strongholds, because freedom

is found in Jesus. I need everybody to write that

big on your paper.

Freedom is found in Jesus.

I love God that he never lets you go through

something that he doesn't give you a way of escape.

He never lets you go through anything that there is

not a way to be able to.

Get out of that thing. And this is why I

have to say this is because I'm about to expose

Satan's favorite stronghold. And this.

We've been in a fight all week about it, but

this one is gonna help set you free.

Satan's favorite stronghold is a soul tie. Satan's favorite stronghold

is a soul tie.

Pas to Mike, what is a soul tie? I'm glad

you asked. Let me give you a definition. A soul

tie is an intense, spiritual, emotional, or physical bond connecting

two people, often described at times as unbreakable attachments.

While sometimes positive.

Like through marriage or a great friendship, they are frequently

associated with unhealthy, addictive, or toxic dependencies, making it hard

for people to move forward. Soul ties. Now, I know

nobody in here has any soul ties. But today I

want you to be able to understand the enemy's plan

to keep you tied up is so that he doesn't

have to come back and check on you, because you've

already been neutralized. The reason you put a dog on

a chain is because you don't have to wonder where

it goes after that.

Once you put it on a chain, it only can

go so far.

And there are too many believers that are tied to

things that are keeping them from moving forward. There are

too many people that can speak in tongues and prophesied

and quote scriptures that cannot move forward. And the reason

is maybe because you let a foothold turn into a

stronghold and now it's become a soul tie. And as

we end this relationship series, I want you to understand

something about relationships. This is why it's important the ones

you because all relationships are the fabric or the breeding

ground of souls being tied together. There is nobody who

has a soul tie that doesn't have some type of

relationship with the thing that they are being tied to.

So today I want to give you the.

Understanding of what God wants to provide for everybody by

exposing four things that create soul ties. I'm gonna give

you four things that create soul ties and this. I

wanted to help people be able to understand where they

are formed, because if you can't kill it at the root,

you only deal with the fruit. And a lot of

people are dealing with the fruit of soul ties, but

they don't know where it came from. So I wanted

to study this thing so you can understand it. Those

emotional connections, how you had sex with them one time,

and now you look like them, talk like them, smell

like them, walk like them, and now you and your

third relationship. But it ain't just y'all to it's y'all

six and everybody is trying to figure out, why can't

I move past this?

I didn't even used to like that. I never was

this angry. I didn't even listen to this type of music.

Why are these things? Because it's a soul time that

foothold turned in a stronghold that turned into a soul tide.

And now you're like, why can't I move forward?

It's because you're tied to something that is watched this

an anonymous anchor. An anchor gets dropped, so something can't

move forward, And there are too many people that are

walking around anointed but tied to anonymous anchors can sing

and prophesy, but.

That anchor got you at this level.

And nobody can bet you ever met somebody's like they

got the talent and everything to go to the moon,

and it's like, why are they still in Kuita. What

I found out is there's a lot of anonymous anchors

that it doesn't matter how much talent you got, it

doesn't matter how many people think you're great. There are

things that are tying us down that watch this many

times we don't even acknowledge. So I'm gonna expose the

devil today and I can't wait. He's been fighting me

all week to give you this, but I'm gonna give

it to you. Four things that create soul ties. These

are the ties that get created. Number one initial ties. Now,

this one is the one that you have really no

control over when you're young, because your initial ties are

your family.

It is your house of origin.

It is your uncle who raised you, or your grandmama

who raised you, whatever house you might have been adopted,

whatever house adopted you, that is your initial ties. And

watch this, however, healthy or unhealthy.

They are. They are your first forming soul ties.

That is why doctors tail fathers and mothers when the

baby comes out, put them skin to skin.

Your body innately knows that this is the person who's

supposed to nurture.

Me and make sure that my soul is safe, soothed,

seen and secure. All those things you're so old needs

that we talked about in Week one, that we're trying

to build. It's supposed to come from our parents, but

the enemy tries to make fractured homes. He tries to

pervert what our parents think and how they raise us.

They raising us the way they was raised. They didn't

get no education on certain things.

They're fighting their own battles, dealing with their own drum.

It's all these things, and your first tie are the

initial ties.

Watch this that form how you grow. And many of

you may have not considered, but some of you are

being held back by the culture you were born into.

You've always lived in poverty because you were born into it.

And I'm not talking about an amount of money. I'm

talking about a way of thinking. I know people that

have they kids filling their pockets. We catch up at restaurants.

You laughing, but we come to your house too, because

because we're gonna.

Take it when we pay.

We ate here.

We did that, and they're filling their house with and

you go to their house and they have a jar

full of ketchup that they basically took from restaurants.

They ad act because we shouldn't have to pay for

a tech.

This is hines, this is times, and it's funny to

some people from some people.

They face is straight because it's at their house right now.

Look at it. My man was.

Scratching and they're like, I'm hear what I'm saying to

you that even if your lights never got caught off

is a poverty mindset.

But if you were taught.

That, that tie has you now telling your kids eat

all that food.

You don't know what I did to pay for this food.

Eat all that food, and I'm not hungry no more.

Watch this, Watch this, and that same principle transforms and

shows up in your house differently. And I don't know

if you've ever considered it, but some of you are

being held back watch this by just the ties that

were formed from the family you were born into. Some

of you, your family did nothing for nobody. So you

were born into a house of greed and selfishness. So

when somebody tries to ask you to do something for

somebody else, like what did they do for me? And

I mean this is after knowing what God has said

for us to do, and that Jesus came to serve

and not be served.

That's good for him.

But have you ever considered the ties that were here

before you got to choose? What I found out is

that blinders from birth become binders from birth. Like if

you won't ever acknowledge it, it'll be the.

Thing that some of y'all are only children.

Some of you had all all the brothers and sis

in the world and got forgotten.

What are those things that.

Developed on the inside of your watch this soul? They

attached to your mind, willing emotions to the point where

you can't move forward as a grown adult because of

what happened back there. Watched this, and nobody ever acknowledged

it because they were doing.

The best they could with what they had.

But have you ever stopped to evaluate how it affected

you and how.

It's watched this affecting you? Obeying God's word?

Okay, I'm gonna keep moving. The first one is initial tie.

Second one influential ties, so you can't help the family

you're born into. But then as you start to develop.

I remember, for me, it was in sixth grade. I

had a young friend that took me into the sixth

grade boy's locker room, and he was influential in my

life and told me everything about sex, told me everything

about I didn't learn it in church, I didn't learn

it from my parents. I learned it in the sixth

grade boy's locker room by somebody who had influence in

my life. And I don't know, if you think about

you in your formation years. Even when I'm talking to

my high school students and my middle school students, the

influential ties are your friends and coaches and teachers and

big cousins.

I don't know why so much happened with cousins.

I don't know as anybody's cousins in their story because cousins,

I'm telling you, But it may be somebody who's influential,

or they look a certain way, or they and they

start to influence the way that you do things. And

those are relational ties. Watch this that start to form

how you believe. I remember I had a big cousin

that always had polo boots, y'all know, the duck boots

that was black on the top, and then they had

the thing and his pants was always creased. This when

we used to iron clothes, and then his pants was

always creasing.

He always had the polo on.

I was like I and I'm telling you he had

more influence than two times that I saw him a year.

I only show him two times at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

But the influence that he had on me and I

think have me going back trying to be like.

Him because there was a tie that was based on

his influence in my life.

Who are those ties that tied to your mind, will

and emotion, those soul ties that have nothing to do

with your family, but they were influential in that way.

What word did that coach speak over you? Or how

did that coach illegitimately touch you that tied to your

soul to where.

You can't trust authority ever again?

Oh God, what I'm saying is you are violated in

a moment and it now has tied to you never

trusting anybody with authority.

They always have bad intentions.

These are things we have not considered, but the influential

ties along with those initial ties may be holding you back.

Let me give you the third one, and this one

you're not.

Gonna see coming. It's the idle ties.

See, when you get into the formation of your identity

and trying to become who you want to be, a

lot of times we see people and things that look

like the future we want to be. I know people

who started dressing like Eminem, talking like Eminem, started saying hello,

my name is and all of that other stuff. Because

watch this, They on my staff too. And this is

what I'm trying to say. What I'm trying to say.

What I'm trying to say, what I'm trying to say

is all of us have people that we begin to

look to.

And we start to idle, and.

Our soul becomes tied to them so much so we

start walking like them, talking like them, listening to the

things they listen to, finding out about their past, going

to the town that they were born in. What I

remember a girl I met one time, she loved Bob

Marley so much. Ain't never been to Jamaica, ain't never

been to an island, don't know how to speak, none

of the lanth but started only wearing certain colors and

getting dreads and your hair, don't even do that.

Don't even do that. Got your hair is thinking and long.

But y'all know what, But people become so upset and

your idol doesn't have.

To be somebody who's famous. It could be somebody that

you just saw, a business person, an athlete.

What do you think happens when we start to form

these soul ties? Watch this with artists and musicians and actors.

Okay, y'all don't want to hear me.

Idol Ties happen through fascination, fame, and future. I could

see my future in them. That's the type of family

I want. That's the type of things I desire. So

initial ties, influential ties, idol ties. And this is the

one everybody talks about, but it is the most powerful one.

It's the illegitimate intimacy ties. These ties are formed through sex, fantasy,

and fornication. Now, the beauty on this is most people

start and stop.

With this one. You got soul ties only will all

the people that you have sex with?

Yes?

And it is a very hard bond to break.

That's why God puts sex inside of the marriage container.

So that it can.

Be beautiful in there, but if it gets outside of there,

it can burn everything down. Does everybody understand what I'm saying?

But there's three other levels of soul tithes that happen

and have access.

Even before you get to this one.

So that means everybody in this room has ties that

you may have not considered an ungodly soul tie?

Do I have any soul tis?

Yeah, especially if you haven't considered it, you probably do

have some ungodly soul ties? Passor how do I know?

I could play a song right now and some of

y'all go back to a place. Don't make me turn

on the music because your body won't even you automatically.

You ain't said nothing all service. Come on, y'all, Why

is that? Why can you Why can you be thinking

I won't do this, but then as soon as something

comes on to trigger your soul, you go right. There's

certain cities when you go into you know what it is.

There's a certain places you can't go to Atlanta. You

shouldn't go to Atlanta. Now, I'm not saying you, I'm

saying you know who.

You are that shouldn't go to Atlanta. You understand.

Some of y'all should never go to Miami, and it

don't gotta be a city that you know.

Some of y'all should never go to certain apartment complexes.

Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, I'm here. I'm here why

because the vicinity, the atmosphere that.

Y'all know that urn some of y'all. It's one turn.

It's like, oh no, oh now, some of y'all you

have cards that you should never get in again.

They don't want me to tell the truth.

It's your soul is time, and you watched this.

You went away from things that you never severed.

Okay, Oh God, And let me help somebody that thinks

that you know, one night stands and doing things like that.

Is okay because Clzuer everybody dos it. And help me.

Let me help you that you're not just sharing a

night with that person, You're sharing your future. Hear me,

I'm trying to give you. I'm trying to give you

the keys that's gonna help you not be held back.

Okay.

I think some of y'all are hearing me, but you're

not seeing it. So so my family, I need y'all bring.

Me to stuff.

Yeah, because because because y'all, well, some of y'all have

had ties going on in your life for years, and

you had a cousin and a family member.

Come on, y'all, take a seat. This is the family

of my life.

And the thing that you don't understand is all of

these people have access to me.

See relationship.

Watch this is everybody say access and the only person

that can give them access is you. In this first

part of it, you have initial ties. I got people

all around me. I got people that are walking into

my life walking out of my life.

What school I went.

Into where I might have been an army brad and

we moved from place to place to place. I may

I don't have any control over.

Things when I'm young a lot of times, and so

what ends up happening is I have to decipher what's

happening after it happens.

But many times we're in such a pattern where.

The foothold becomes a stronghold and we become comfortable, they

become soul ties, and we walk in it. That then

we end up forty and don't realize why we can't

move forward because I had a dad. Come on, I

had a dad who was there he was there for

me physically, but he wasn't there for me emotionally. And

so every time I try to go forward, and now

I got kids, and I mean he provided for me,

you know what I'm saying.

And he was there, but he was absent present. You'll

know what I'm talking about, the.

Present absent father, the one that gotta work so much

to make sure you're provided for, but it's never there

for the pivotal moments.

And because because he was.

There, I had a baby out of wed lock, and

this was my daughter out of wed lock, and so

we're more like friends than we are dad and daughter

because now she doesn't know this, but I resent her.

This is my first baby, but I resent her because

because I didn't really know how to be a father,

she came and I like her, but she stopped my purpose.

And so I'm mad every time. And these are initial

times in my life.

Stuff that people didn't have any control over, but they

came into this world and now they tied me up.

And so when I was young, I used to leave

a house because my dad was never there, so he

couldn't stop me from leaving. And I got hooked up

with some friends and this was my friend and my friend,

you know what I'm saying. She's kind of cute too,

and we didn't really want to be together, but we

wanted to try things together. Oh it's quiet, and.

Did y'all did y'all?

I mean like she was more like my homeboy. But

she did have things that I did not have. I'm

in somebody's business, so I mean she cool like one

of the guys, you know what I'm saying.

Like, but for some reason, my dad wasn't there, and

we played, we hooped together, and.

She spent the night sometimes, and I mean when she

would spend the night, we would you know, watch old

uh basketball games. I love the dribbles, the dribbles, great dribbling. No,

but hear me, I'm talking real stuff. It never was, seriously,

we never gonna marry each other. We never gonna be together.

People asking y'all got gimbness. You We ain't trying to

do nothing. We were just friends with benefits. And this

is something I chose. And the reason I was able

to keep it up is because I was friends with

her brother, and because we was boys, it gave me access.

We knew what we had.

He didn't really.

Know, but he was the reason she could always come around,

and because he was doing some things with medicinal drugs

and trying to get away from the pain in his

own family. And I found a brothers and sister that

were my safe place because my pops wasn't there. And

I had an illegitimate child when I was young and

my parents had to raise her. So I'm feeling bad

about myself because I'm not even in my daughter's life

for real, because I'm too young.

I had this baby in high school. I don't know.

I don't know how to wipe myself.

I can't wipe her up.

Okay, y'all want to be I bet I still got streets?

How can I?

I'm being too real for y'all today. So so I found,

I found friends, and I did start going to church,

and I did start trying to figure out what was

going on. But every time I tried to move forward

felt like too much, felt like too much energy. I

ain't never had to work this hard for anything, Yes,

and what people didn't know.

So I thought that all I had to do.

Was become successful, because if I could become successful, then

I could provide for my daughter and I could get

my daughter back, and then I could find a woman

that I really want to be with, because I don't

want to keep calling her because we're not gonna really

be together. But this is the only way that I

know I can get my knees met. Right now, she

ain't gona say nothing. I ain't gonna say that. We're

not gonna say nothing. And then and then the truth

of the matter is her brother is getting further and

further into drugs, and I don't want to do that,

but he's my a one from day one, and so

I'm gonna.

Try it because he gives it to me.

And I'm really just trying to figure out, like my

dad's getting older and he's sick, but I can't talk

to him because I don't really have a real relationship

with him, and so I'm just now in a place

and so I need a mentor. I'll pay for it,

even I need somebody who's successful. I need somebody that's

that's made a few million, because yeah, oh, a bald

white man. Yes, let me find a bald white man

to mentor me named Gary. But now watch but I

find out that the success that he has on the

outside has been manipulated by compromise on the inside. And

so now I'll work for him for free. I'll be

a mentor. But he's showing me things and showing me

shortcuts and showing me cooked books and showing me how

to get what I want when they say I can't

have it, and oh, come on, y'all. And now I'm

walking into this new level of understanding. But I'm not

walking in freedom because God's trying to move me forward.

But every time I'm trying to move forward, I'm.

All tied up. God says forward, I'm going forward.

I'm going forward.

I'm sick of using all of this energy to do

what God said.

Well, if the initial ties can't get me free, and

influential ties can't get me free, and even the idol

ties looking at people that man seemingly are successful, well

you know what, No, I'm not gonna stop there because

I I really saw somebody who gave their life to

Christ and was walking this out. And she used to

be somebody that I looked up to when I was younger.

And you know what I want you to I want

you to help me.

I want you to give me wisdom, I want you

I want you to give me wisdom because we have

a Bible study at your house, and because of the

things that I used to do over here. When I

get in the environment alone with even a godly girl

Proverbs thirty one, a virtuous lineman. Come on, don't y'all

act like this. She wears skirts, easy access. You better

quit all. I'm saying, y'all know whole religions is formed

on skirts.

What are y'all talking about?

That's easier than anyway.

I'm trying to set somebody free and now and now

I've brought what was a foothold and a stronghold in

my life, and now I've infected.

And become tied.

To somebody who was walking with God, was doing the

right thing.

It started off with the right intentions.

But ended up.

In a bad place. And this is the thing.

Your soul ties will let you move forward for a season.

They'll let you go forward. They'll let you feel like

there's progress because you haven't acknowledged them. I'm older now,

and just right when you're about to walk into a

place of purity, it's.

What is this? Why can I don't know?

It's right there?

My future is there, My purity is there? Me actually

being a friend.

Is there.

Actually being able to love and not have to perform

its right there?

That's tiring. H What you doing for your birthday?

No?

Not you yet?

You watch Watch, Watch, Watch, So you'll take people who've

been out of your life for years, look them up

on Facebook.

How you been? I missed you? You were good? You

in a minute. I ain't seen you in a long minute.

You eating good? Watch Watch, and it'll be a connection.

Do you understand that?

But now that tire is stronger than ever, you can

go back to YOC. But it's just chucking on me.

I just heard a rip hold on, I just heard

a real why because the force of what I'm trying

to go after and what's trying to pull.

Me back is at war. How some Mike, Why are

you doing this?

Because I just want you to see Maybe you've never

acknowledged that these are the relationship ties that have you stuck,

and until you find your freedom in Jesus, this will

always be an issue. The beautiful thing right now is

you can see them. But every one of you in

this room, this room looks like a big spider web,

and for everybody online it's a big spider web.

There's webs.

You're in one city and there's a soul tie that's

literally in another country.

You don't even remember their name.

Just because you forgot them doesn't mean the soule tie

is not connected to you. And again, the illusion is

that you can be set free for a season and

it lets you go and let you keep going and

watch this. It'll even let you get to a point

where you can fake like keep going, let it go.

You can fake like you're in your right position. Glory

to God, He's so good to me. So how do

I break this? Write it down? And we're going home?

Because some of you feel the weight of what you

don't understand is I'm standing up here, but I'm having

to use energy to stay forward. I'm having to use

energy to stand because there's something that is pulling me

back right now that is reminding me that I couldn't

be fully honest with my wife and that weight of

not ever telling her that me and old girl. And

the reason I don't do taxes the way she did

is because I do some other stuff on our taxes

that she don't even know about. The reason that I

can't admit to my father that what.

He did hurt me.

Thank you for providing for me, but I needed you

to be there in a different way from me. Can

we start over from now the way that I need

to tell my friend who been with me for twenty

seven years that we can't be friends no more. All

of those things weigh on me. But the problem.

Is is that a lot of y'all get so fed

up that you find an illegitimate intimacy time.

And I'm gonna bring on y'all not expecting Come here, Tanya.

Some of these young dudes is going after older women.

Come here, sugar, mama, and she white, and she got

a big black, dark chocolate piece of coffee. I want

to talk about what it really is. I'm about to

live the soft life, missus.

Chloe puts your hands down, Mama, Chloe, sit down. What

I'm telling you. Watch what perversion will do.

Perversion is taking older women who are bitter or divorced

or left, but have success and have resources and know

how to nurture and getting these young boys who have

no desire for emotional connection but really need to be mothered.

Oh y'all, don't hear me, And they want a fun

night and they want somebody to take care of them,

and these one night stands, and these sugar mama setups

and these sugar daddy setups, and these people eight and

people thirty years younger than them, old enough to be

their kids. And I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm just

saying there may be a hole. There may be a

hole in your soul that I'm find y'all great, it's

your greatest marriage. I'm not saying it's bad. I'm just

saying what was not addressed, And maybe you need to

ask God to feel that, because it's what's happening.

And look at me, Look at me.

Up here, trying to teach y'all all tied up. The

truth of the matter is, I'm not in control.

Of my arms.

The truth is they can do whatever they want to

to me one post, one email, one text message, one truth.

About and they're literally putting me out here.

And I'm now maneuvering in my life and I'm trying

to build a family and I'm trying to teach my

children right and I listen, watch this.

My illegitimate kid doesn't know me.

But I got three other kids now, and I'm building

the family with the people that I love. The problem

is I have a daughter out here that is prayed

to everything else that's coming. Because I never went back

and apologized. I never said Daddy didn't know what he

was doing. And I regret with my heart this should

be the posture. I regret with my whole heart not

being able to be there for you.

And you've had to grow up and learn things in

a way that you were never supposed to see them.

I was supposed to protect you. I didn't.

I gave you to your grandparents. They were the source

of a lot of my heart, and I kept you

unprotecting and I wasn't mature enough to deal with it.

But today I'm telling you that I'm breaking every tie

that had me trapped.

To the old life, and I found Jesus.

And your daddy is about to become a man that

you never know. I know this is going to take

some time, but would you give me a chance to

restart with you, build trust with you?

Can I become something that you've never seen.

And that's gonna take a lot of work, And I

understand if you need time, but I'm gonna prove to

you every day that I become a different person. And

I want this relationship to be a reflection of how

God can change somebody. And I hope that you can

believe that I will change so that we can have

a relationship going forward.

Do you know how much healing would come to somebody?

But I don't even think that's necessary to most people.

I'm gonna just keep living, keep moving, and I'll make

slow progress. And God says forward, and I'll say, well,

I'm doing the best I can. I'm doing the most

I can. And this is the crazy thing about it.

There's inherited ties. There's some other ones I ain't even

talk about. Let me show you what inherited ties look like.

These are people in your past that you don't even

know about.

This is your great great great grandfather and his alcoholism addiction,

and your great great great great great grandfather brother.

Who literally talk him how to lie and be a

cheater and a manipulator, and watch what ends up happening.

Is now all of these tithes are pulling me in

different directions and I can't even see where they're coming from.

Oh God, do you know how tired it would be

to just stand up here trying to fight to live,

trying to fight forget doing God's will.

I'm just trying to survive. And if this is how you.

Look emotionally, spiritually, or even relationally, I need to let

you know it's time for you to get free.

Now.

Now it's possible. There's freedom in Jesus. Somebody say, there's

freedom in Jesus. Everybody, let it go just.

A little bit. Let it go, Let it go, let

it let it go. Yeah, it's just I gotta get

to my notes. Now.

Watch you see I'm bargaining. I'm asking permission. Hey, would

you would you give me just a little more slack

so I could get married? Would you just give me

a little more slack so that I could raise these goodness?

You just give me a little more slack. I'm gonna

teach you how to break the soul ties because somebody.

Said, how do I do this? Watch this. I'm gonna

teach you how to break it. Write these down, don't

ever forget this.

The first way that you have to break soul ties

through action is recognition.

The whole reason I did this example and took my

time is.

Because some of you, through this example, are now aware.

You're even thinking you know what, Yes, I do have

some ties that are ungodly, and if you recognize them,

I want you to call them out. Not call them,

let me clarify.

Call them out.

That could be writing them down, that could be confessing

to somebody, that could be actually jotting that. But like

I need you to acknowledge, this.

Was a soul tie. I had a soul tie to

this celebrity. Some of y'all have a soul tied to

a celebrity. That's that idol tie. Anything they do, they

can do no wrong.

Did every song that they come out with, no matter

what it says, you're singing it at the top of

your lungs.

You worship with them. Come on, y'all, because Mike, why

are you saying this?

Because these chords are strengthened through what you say.

Sing watch. But the first thing is you have to

be aware of it. This is a soul time. Second thing,

how you break soul tith is repentance.

So recognition is number one. Number two is repentance. That

means turn. How do you turn? You accept God's grace?

God literally said, you don't have to live like this.

You can live like this, but you don't have to

live like this. So I want you to everybody say repent.

This is God's whole message. Look at Acts three nineteen. Repent,

then turn to God. Do a one eighty, not a

three sixty, because if you do a three sixty, you'll

be back in the same spot. Do a one eighty,

he said, Repent and turn to God, so that your

sins may be wiped out and that times of refreshing

may come from the Lord.

Do you know what would be so good right now? Refreshing?

Like not all this pool intention just being refreshed.

Tewo Corinthian sevent ten says, Godly sorrow brings repentance that

leads to salvation and leaves no regret.

But worldly sorrow brings death.

So God, He's like, yo, I need you to have

some remorse for what happened, but not in a way

that you're defeated. I want you to understand that it

brings you to repentance and leads to salvation, and then

you'll have no regret. So the first thing is recognition.

It's awareness. We're breaking it because we're recognizing it. You

can't hide here no more. There's no more foothold, and

it can't be a stronghold.

I see you, I see you in amy, I.

See you, big cousin, I see you in Flacce. I

see you, father wound, I see you. Somebody say, I

see you.

There's tensions that you've never called out, and nobody's ever

said anything.

And then you repent and you accept God's grace. Number three, renouncing,

you gotta cut off access. Now, a lot of people

like renouncing. Well, what is renouncing? Have a word like

it is announcing. It's what you're using. We are together.

That's announcing we are together. So you need to renounce it.

We are no longer together.

The same level of energy use you used to announce it,

you need to use.

To renounce it. I used to have to go to

bed with a bottle. Only bottlenecks in my bed is water.

I am free.

From addiction, I am free from pornography.

I am free from bitterness. I but most people won't

renounce it.

You walk away from it, but you never confess that

that tie no longer is mine and the next step

to renouncing it. That's the spiritual side of repenting. But

the other side of it is renouncing is get rid

of everything that reminds you of it. Some of y'all

go to sleep in hoodies and jerseys of people that

have been the worst representation of love. You are abused

by the people you still driving the car. I'm saying

that you gotta trust that God's big enough to replace

anything that they gave you. Some of y'all still taking

money and still doing different things. I'm not saying your

child's support that he gotta pay for that jib pay

for the child. But what I'm saying, do y'all hear

what I'm saying?

But there are certain things, Well, he still give.

Me something for Valentine's Day because I am his baby mama.

Don't accept it no more. What the heck?

That's a tie and every two or three years between

every other girl he's doing y'all have one slip up.

What are we talking about? These are ties, And let

me say something to you.

You have to renounce these things because God wants you

to cut off it's.

Access with your power.

Because Proverbs eighteen twenty one says death in life are

in the power of the tongue, and those who love

it will eat its fruit. I want you to know

that God wants you to renounce these things. Tewod Corinthians

forward too I'm giving you scripture to stand on because

some of y'all going home to renounce things, to cut

the tithes off, the things that have been.

Really holding you back.

It says, but we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We

refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's words.

But by the open statement of the truth, we would

command ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God,

renounce it.

Number four recovery. So you don't. It's not just enough

to renounce it. You got to go through a season

of recovery. And people try to go from relationship to

relationship immediately. Well, I found somebody in God. It's just redeemed.

He resends everything. Baby, you're not heal.

You're about to mess that one up too, because when

you're with them, you're with them.

Like because there's still ties.

And this is why in recovery you gotta realign and

I would almost say recovering, because you never are just

fully recovered. I'm gonna keep being recovered like I'm recovering.

I'm gonna become healthy enough to do this. But this

is the thing that everybody understands. When you go into surgery.

Nobody hops up for surgery. That was a deep work.

They always tell you the plan for recovery. What is

the other word for recovery, healing? Ye, you need time

to heal. That's why James five sixteen says, Therefore, confess

your sins, the ties, the missteps, the mis marks, one

to another, pray for each other that you may be healed.

The prayer of the righteous person has great power, and

it's working the last one.

How do we cut these old ties? Let God restore you.

It's restoration, it's your ability to now go into another

level of usage.

I told y'all this a long time ago. My wife

I asked her one day what was her dream car?

And I thought she was gonna say something new and nice,

and she said a nineteen sixty five car. And I said,

neither one of us was alive. Why you want a

car that's older than both of us? And what I

did is I found that car for her thirty fifth birthday,

and I had it restored. And I'd seen that car

other places, but it wasn't in the place to be

able to drive, so it wasn't restored. It was the car,

but it wasn't restored. It was worth less because it

wasn't restored. But every time we drive her car, people

honking and what what years that? And I'm like nineteen

sixty five, Like it's like a whole like thing because

people are amazed in a world where everything is new

to see something old still running. That means that God

can preserve you, preserve your marriage, preserve your youth, preserve

you if you would let him restore you Psalm's twenty three.

I love it.

The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He

makes me lie down, hold on. That's recovery in green pastures.

He leaves me beside steal waters. Why because back then

Steel Waters was the only place you could see your reflection.

There were no mirrors on the wall. It was only

in Steel Waters that I could see who I really am.

And he restores my.

Church.

If you know, it's time to move forward, but you're

feeling all tied up, there was another.

Man that took this position. This is why we celebrate Easton,

this is why we worship the King. It's because he

took a stretched out position, and Jesus becomes the initial tie.

It says any man that be in Christ, he is

a new creation.

The old has passed away. Behold, he has made everything new.

I feel that somebody's ties are about to be broken

in this place, it says Jesus is the one that

can influence everything in my life.

That every tide that has come to kick me separate.

I feel a break coming for somebody.

That is about to be a season where everything that

has been tied to you is now gonna be loose.

And there is freedom in Jesus.

If you believe it, why don't you stand to your

feet and give God a shout of praise.

This is what freedom looks like. And somebody would say, well,

why don't you unhook them? I dare you to take

my testimony. This is how we overcome. Yeah, by the

blood of the Lamb.

You can look at it and the words of our testimony.

Somebody shot at me. Freedom.

If you're sick of the soul ties, if you're tired

of being tied up, here's your answer.

His name is Jesus. Hands lifted all over this place,

so I feel this.

See, Jesus is not just the initial tie or the

influential tie. He can be your idle tie too, because

every need will bound and every tongue will confess that

he will not be an illegitimate tie.

He'll be the legitimate tie to your future.

There's one more, He's the invincible tie. The Bible tells

us neither death nor light, neither death nor darkness, nor

separation nor hell can separate us from the love of God. Today,

here we are God, and we're asking for you to

break every change, break every tie, every soul tie. If

you know you're here under the sound of my voice

and there's been some things tied to you.

That are not like God, and you want.

Prayer, just at your seat or watching online, I just

want you to lift both of your hands high.

Just come on, I'm gonna pray for you. Yep.

Father, in the name of Jesus, I think you for

the courage.

To actually not just hear your word, but obey it.

God, I thank you that your people today are making

a decision to acknowledge the people that they have been

tied to.

That have formed ungodly soul tithes.

People who have been in marriages, but they've been in

marriages with several people that have not been contacted in years,

and they're holding on the ideas and thoughts and fantasies

and secrets, and even hurts and pains from a family

member or a aunt or an uncle or a people

that aren't even alive anymore.

God, I'm asking you to heal us and give us freedom,

because whom the sun sets.

Free is free indeed. But we cannot resist what we

don't know is there. So today we cut every foothold

and every stronghold and every soul time, and we will

walk in freedom.

I feel like this whole week God is gonna do surgery.

I don't try to preach messages where it started and

finished in the message. Today some of y'all are gonna

fill trash cans, de let accounts. Oh yeah, you don't

need to know anything that's happening with them.

So times, you don't need to know it's their birthday,

you don't need to know they got a promotion.

You don't need to You don't need to know if

they're alive. Pray for them, pray bless them. Lord howsa mike?

Why are you saying that? Because it's holding you back

from moving forward? Some of you, it's worth you moving.

You heard what I just said. That apartment is a

place full of memories. That continue to worth you downgraded.

To get into your freedom, it's worth you switching colognes.

I promise you there's something else that smells good. But

every time you smell that sin, Oh, I'm just there's

certain restaurants you can't go to no more.

There are certain movies you shouldn't watch.

Come on, y'all, how bad do you want your freedom?

The week before Easter, I wanted to preach this message

because I believe by this time next week there's another

level of freedom that you're going to experience that you're

going to have to run into every person in the

town until come meet a man. Hear what I'm saying.

There was a woman with an issue of blood, and

Jesus healed her to the place where she's said, y'all,

come me to man who told me everything that I did.

He knew all it is, and he still chose me,

and he still gave me a drink of living water.

And I'm not thirsty no more. Some of y'all got

to hear me.

And this is why you're going to invite people, because

you know they need to meet the man that took

the stripes and bear the scars for their salvation. Today,

freedom is coming in Jesus. If you've never accepted Jesus,

I want to give you an opportunity to make him

your personal Lord and savior. He's the only one that

can free you. He's the only one that gives us

power to do this. If that's you under the sound

of my voice, watching online or rebroadcast, or in this

room on account three, I just want you to slip

your hand in the air. I want you to be

bold about it. I want you to identify the Bible.

Tells us if we claim him here on earth, it

says he will claim us in front of the Father

in heaven.

This is our chance. Today is the day of salvation.

It's the greatest decision I've ever made. It took me

from being a liar, a manipulator, addicted to bornography, all

of this, and I share it with you every day

because I don't want to ever forget the grace of God.

And it turned me into a man that desires to

help other people as I progress from my journey forward

with Christ.

And today I believe it's your day of salvation. So

if you're in this room and you're ready to give

your life to Jesus Christ for the first time, or

give your life back to Him for the last time,

in the name of Jesus. On the count of three,

I want you to lift your hand. One.

You're making a decision that is going to transform your

life forever.

Two I'm proud of you.

But more than that, your name is about to be

written in the Lamb's Book of Life. Three, if you

want to accept Jesus, lift your hand in the air.

I see you, my brother. I see you, my brother.

I see you, my sister. I see you, I see you.

I see this couple. More than that, God sees you.

Transformation Church, how do we celebrate what God is doing?

I see you brother, I see you, my friend. Hey,

listen here. It is everybody standing in that Transformation Church.

Nobody prays alone. We pray for the benefit of those

who are coming to crazy. We are a family here.

You get new ties here, godly ties.

Just everybody say, Father, thank you for seeing me and

sending Jesus.

Today I repent and I turn to you. I believe

you lived, you die, and you rose again with power

over sin.

So today here's my life.

Change me, renew me, transform me. I'm yours.

Cut every tide that is not like you. I give

you my life in Jesus' nave.

Amen. Amen, all over this place.

Let's celebrate the God who breaks every time and.

Forms a tie that can never be broken.

As the altar workers come, I'm so proud of you.

If you made that decision for Jesus, I need you

to pull out your phone and text save to eight

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And I want to give everybody.

The opportunity to pray that James Scripture said, confess one

to another and pray for healing somebody. Today's your day

of healing. These altar workers are here, our staff, our

team is here. If you need prayer, the worship team's

gonna sing just for a moment. If you're online, I'm

gonna pray for you in just a moment. Just lift

your hands in a moment of worship. There are people

have to go and get their kids, but there's just

been a sweet anointing in this place. Next week, get

here early because we are gonna celebrate our risen savior.

The sun is coming and next Friday you can watch Ransom.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday is gonna be phenomenal.

And we're gonna see people saved. I said, we're gonna

see people saved join us at the Extravaganzone Saturday. But

before all of that, maybe you need to get altered

right here at this altered and so from all over

this place. If you want to just stay in worship,

if you need to leave, you can. But if you

need prayer, I want you to come and get the

prayer you need because God the surgery is.

God wants to do the surgery that your soul needs.

So today Father, we're open to you have your way

in this place.

In Jesus' snave, we pray. Come on, just lift your

hands right there. Thank you for joining us today.

If you said that prayer and accept it Jesus into

your heart, it's the best decision you could ever make.

We want to celebrate with you, and we have some

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