Fast Forward: Let's Get To The Good Part //. Forward (Part 1) // Michael Todd

Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to

the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so

glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe

God will transform your life to today's message.

Well, today we are starting a brand new series entitled Forward,

and I believe that it is God's idea, his design,

and his will for us to not stay in the

same place.

Who's sick of the same.

I just got a real question. I need you to

be honest with me. If you are sick of the

same thing, what is going to change? Because most people

complain about what they will never change. Come on, let's

be honest. I'm sick of having all this weight on me.

Won't go walking. I'm sick of these relationships that are

frustrating me. You won't let them go. I'm sick. Just

think about it. What are you sick of that you

still decide to be connected to today?

I'm asking you to be one of the.

Ones who have faith to move Everybody shout at me forward,

say it with some.

Faith, Say forward today.

I'm gonna introduce you to the anchor scripture for us

this entire year, and I want you to be able

to put this in your heart in your mind as

we move forward. And I'm gonna ask you to do something,

because this is the first time we're ever doing it.

Would you stand up for me all over the place,

even if you at home, stand up and we're gonna

read this thing together. Philippians, chapter three, verse thirteen. Put

it on the screen from me, And I don't know

if everybody got they buy vocals on, but I hope you.

Can see that. Okay.

I want you to read this with me Philippians three

thirteen and fourteen. No, dear brothers and sisters, come on read.

I have not achieved it, but I focus on this

one thing forgetting the past and looking shot it forward

to what lies ahead. I press on to reach the

end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for

which God through Christ.

Jesus is calling us. May the God of our word?

What may God at a blessing to the reading of

His word? Amen, y'all can take a seat shot at

me forward. I love the end of that where it

says God's calling us, He's calling He's called what a

lot of people when your phone rings, it has a

visceral reaction in your body. You can literally be almost

asleep in your phone rings and because there's something in

you that doesn't want.

To miss the call. If you're expecting something and you.

Can't find your phone, I've seen people rip up.

The bedroom, they living room.

Have you ever heard it but didn't know where it was?

And then people are retracing their steps. Has anybody ever

left their phone like in an airport or something the

most devastating moment of your life, especially if.

You leave it on the plane.

I've done it twice where you leave it on the

plane because I.

Go to sleep.

When I get up in the air, when I get

close to God, I find deep rest, and so literally

I find and I go sleep, and then I might

have it in my pocket or I might have it

on my lap, and then I get up because they're

like it's time to go, and I get up in

the fast and the phone falls.

It's happened two times.

One time it happened at the DFW airport and the

woman would not let me back on the plane. And

I said, ma'am, he's calling it right now. And when

I said, I said, I said, he's my friend is

calling the phone. If you would just go back on

the plane. Well, we don't know where it is. If

you would just get in the vicinity of where it is,

I promise you you will here because he's and I

don't know, but I feel like in twenty twenty six

some of you have been away from what God is

telling you. But right now there's something that you're starting

to hear in your spirit, hear.

In your mind.

There's a frustration with all the noise that has gone around.

You're telling it to quiet down. And God is calling you.

And anytime that God is calling you, he's calling you forward.

He's not calling you to something in the past. That's

why this scripture is in Philippians three. I need you

to meditate on it. It's so beautiful because when God

gave me the word of the year forward, I begin

to search the scriptures. And this is so good of God,

just to give me a little bit of confirmation that

I heard him clearly that the word of the year

last year was focused. And then he put both of

these words in two sentences.

Just right after the other.

He said, but I focus on this one thing forgetting

the past and looking forward to what lies ahead. What

would happen if every day all you did was look

forward to what.

God has ahead of you.

What would happen to your psyche, your emotions, your faith,

what would happen to your speech? Even after a failure,

you'd be like, well, there's some good stuff ahead, and.

Too many of us. The plan of the enemy is

to keep us in the past. But today, by.

Faith and through this entire series, you do not want

to miss one message because you are moving by faith.

Say it forward. Forward literally means write this definition down.

It means onward so as to make progress towards a

successful conclusion. When I was praying through this, the Holy

Spirit told me, he said, Michael, forward is the direction

of your destiny. There is a destination that I have

for you that is forward. And you have to make

sure or watch this that you do not become in

love with today.

You're not in love with this season.

You don't become in love with the comfortability of what

has been built, because if you do, you will forfeit

forward by staying in what this is today. Why do

people get divorced after twenty five years raising their kids

and everybody because.

They have nothing to look forward to.

They focused on them, kids, focused on the kids, focused

on the kids, focused on the kids, and now the

kid's gone, and me and you stop talking ten years ago.

We've been business partners for the last twenty six months.

And now when there's nothing holding us together, we forget

the love that we used to have and we don't

look forward today. There are people that are under the

sound of my voice, that are in a space where

God by faith is calling you forward. Holy Spirit dropped

it in my heart like this, He said, everything is ahead.

Everything you believe in, for everything that you're gonna rejoice in,

everything that you're gonna overcome, it's ahead of you. There

is nothing that I have behind you except testimonies of

my goodness to you.

Everything somebody shot of me. Everything is ahead.

You have been stuck in a place that you're trying

to figure out what the future looks like. And God says,

I'm in your future and I have good for you.

Everything is ahead of you. And as I move forward,

as this church moves forward, we have to.

Have our faith in the forward position.

Y'all ever seen that Michael Jackson video where he leans.

One day, I'm gonna have the I'm gonna.

Have the effects to be able to ae nah I'm

a fall today, but that's the direction that you need

to be leaning with your faith.

It don't look good.

I'm still here, But God, what you about to do tomorrow?

I have expectation to see what you're about to say

and what you're about to do and some of your

God saying forward. And you're doing this. You're doing what

Fat Joe said, you.

Leaning back, lean back, lean bad. I'll see you. And

God said, would you come in the direction that I

have peace? Joy?

Would you come in the direction that, Yeah, there's challenge

up here too, but I'll have you overcome all of

those challenges. Would you come shout at me one more time?

Forward coaster, Mike. Why are you telling me this?

Because if the direction of destiny that you have is

up ahead of you, that means you're actually going to

have to find your direction in the word of God.

Why do we come to church, why do we believe God?

Why do we read this thing? Why do we fast

and pray? It's because our destiny is found in His word.

Let me read it to you in Psalms one nineteen,

verse one oh five. This scripture will transform your life.

The Bible says that your.

Word is a lamp to my feet and a light

unto my path. God's word is a what lamp unto

my feet and a light unto my path? Has anybody

ever been in darkness in your life?

Now?

Right now, as I am in complete and total darkness,

I hold the Word of God in my hand. At

this moment, I want to give you a picture that

I hope you never forget that when you are in

a moment of darkness and nothing can be seen, if

you would just open the word of God, if you

would just put your.

Mind to what he has already said.

This will light up everything that is around me.

It then presents a way. It says, the Word of God.

Is a lamp unto my feet and a light onto

my path.

Now I know which way to walk. Now, I know

how to deal with hurt.

Now I know how to go through and forgive because

I found it in his word. But as soon as

I close it, as soon as I walk away from it,

it's dangerous for me to walk up on this platform

right now, and I don't got no light.

There are pitfalls all around me.

There are people that should actually be able to help me,

but I don't know somebody that's supposed to help me

could hit.

Me because I can't see nothing. But as soon as

I open the Word of God, I feel this thing.

Right now, there is a light.

That comes and a path that is straight.

Behind your self in the Word of God.

And what happens is the more word that gets in me,

then it gets in you, and then it gets in you,

and then this whole room begins to light up.

Turn it on, Turn on the light.

Anytime you want to you open this word, it turns.

The light on.

You're confused about your relationship, it turns.

The light on.

You're confused about how to raise your kids, turn turn

the light on, Turn all the lights on.

That's what I'm asking you.

I'm asking you at the Soundproof to turn the lights on,

literally like turn them back on.

But I can preach it like this too.

What I'm saying to you is this will always be

able to be seen. This will always be able to see.

Where in your life has it been dark? Where in

your life has God not been able to speak to

you because of a fence and hurt? Where in your

life have you been so unwilling to move When God

saying I have better for you, He's saying would you

just please find yourself in my word? And if you

would find yourself in the Word, it would change everything

about you. The Word of God is a lamp unto

my feet and a light until my path. We could

stop there because this week you're going to face some

dark things. And my question is what do you run to?

Do you run the more darkness? Do you run to

a feed? I heard my friend Paul Doherty say it

like this. He said, the feed, it's literally called a feed.

It's feeding you something. Have y'all thought about that. I'm

on my Instagram feed. What comes out of you is

because of what you put.

What are you feeding? What are you feasting on?

What I'm saying to you church is today you need

to feed and feast on the Word of God, Amen,

cause it's going to move you forward. So this week,

as I was preparing for this message, I had a

moment of reminiscing and I started to think about my childhood,

the good old days for me and I don't know,

it was about eight or nine years old, Me and

my brother Gabriel.

We shared a room.

We got bunk beds, and I don't know if you

were a kid and you ever got bunk beds. But

when you got bunk beds, it was like built in

monkey bars almost. It was like something you could climb

off of. And then my dad took it to the

next level. And my dad got me and my brother

a color TV. And he didn't just get us a

color TV. He got us a color TV that had

the VCR built into it. Y'all know what I'm talking about.

Matter of fact, I brought it today now. Now, I

don't know if any of you youngsters know what this is.

This right here got me through a mini of weekends.

This right here blessed my life and there was no

higher level of excitement.

And fun then getting out of school on a Friday and.

Knowing that we were going to Blockbuster Friday night. Do

I got these saints that remember Blockbuster? So what we

would do at Blockbuster is we would go to Blockbuster

and we would rent a VHS. See y'all don't know

nothing about that, y'all streaming and and god asps and

can watch it when you won't didn't have that when

I was a kid, and we didn't get the truthfuld

movies and if they had a double special. You know

what I'm saying, like you get one, and then they

did anybody remember this childhood?

That I'm okay? And so we would pick a movie

and I remember.

Nineteen ninety four, Yine, I think nine. There was something

ancestral that came out of me when I seen The

Lion King. And and what we would do is we

would we would take the.

Movie and many times we.

Would watch the movie because you only had it for

forty eight hours or you was getting charged, and some

of y'all them bought more blockbuster movies.

But what ended up happening is we.

Will watch it several times and once we found me

and my brothers because it's I'm one of five, we

would find our favorite part. And what would ended up

happening is we would take it and then we would

we would put it in. And when we would put

it in, everybody would be like, let's watch it, let's go,

but they would say, let's fast forward to this part.

And I don't know because y'all skip stuff and do stuff.

But like when it all show, this brings back good memories.

But what what I usually had to do is run

up there and stop it because there was no remote

What always happened to the remotes. So I was the

one designated to go up and this is the thing.

They would say, fast forward to the good part. And

what would end up happening is I would push play,

but I also would have to come up here and

see where it was at, to see where it was.

I love this, And.

Then it was like no, no, no, no, no, not that park.

And then I would push a button that says fast forward.

And when I pushed that park, I would find myself

watching everything in a fast pace. I couldn't skip it,

but I could go fast.

I'm gonna say it one more time.

There was no part of the movie back here that

I could skip, but.

I could go forward faster. I believe that there.

Is a time that God is calling his church to

to know that there are some things in this Christian

life that you're not gonna be able to skip. There

are some hardships and some frustrations, there are some pains

and some and some points you're gonna have to come to.

But I'm telling you right now that you cannot skip it,

but you can go forward faster. Somebody by faith needs

to understand that God is calling.

You into a place of acceleration.

You are about to walk into something that other people stayed.

In and wandered in for forty years, the thing they

died in. You're gonna walk right past.

The thing that they could not figure out how to quit.

You're gonna figure out how to go through faster. By faith,

God is about to give you the grace to go forward.

Today I came to preach a message call fast.

Forward, skip to the good part. I'm telling you right now.

Some of y'all been in seasons when you've been asking God,

when is.

This gonna be over?

He said, if you listen to my word, we can

fast forward.

Through some of this stuff. You can't skip it, but

we can go forward faster. Oh y'all, don't hear me.

Right now, God is about to bring a good part

to your marriage, the good part to your family, the

good part to your finances, the good part to this church.

But he's not gonna let you skip no parts. And

what you've been trying to do is skip it. And

this Christian walk, there are things that you will never

be able to skip if you follow Jesus. That's why

he came to this earth to show us the pattern,

the way to be able to walk. He said, You're

gonna deal with temptations. You can't skip it. God, You're

gonna de you with people misunderstanding you. You can't skip it,

but you ain't gotta get stuck. And too many people

in the Body of Christ are stuck in a place

where God's saying, can.

We go forward faster? Today?

I'm gonna give you practical handles with this. Write that

point down. You can't skip it, but you can fast forward.

Who I feel this thing in my spirit because some

of y'all, your year is about to be accelerated.

By the end of this month.

There is gonna be so much forward acceleration. I'm only

talking to people with faith. There's gonna be so much

forward acceleration in the first quarter of this year. You

gonna feel like you live the entire twenty twenty six

and God saying to you, this is what's available to

anybody that will walk by my spirit.

You ain't skipping it.

You can learn the lessons, but you can go forward fast.

Somebody shout at me, forward.

But let me help you. It's not forward if there's

not opposition. I want to give you the reality of

walking with God that there will always be an adversary

to you moving forward. Some of them are generational mindsets

that when you try to move forward, you hear your

family and your big mama and your great grandmama say,

ain't nobody in our family ever? And you're fighting general

Come on, y'all, how many of y'all are fighting generational things.

Ain't nobody stay married in our family. Ain't nobody being

delivered off of alcohol? This is just who we are.

And they may be in the grave right now, but

you're fighting those demons trying to move forward. There's always

opposition when the goal is to move forward. It's only

practice when there's nobody trying to stop you. In the

real game of life, there's another team. The Bible calls

it our enemy, the adversary, the one that it comes

to slow us down and keep us from going forward.

You gotta know that it's not forward if you don't

have opposition. Moses had opposition named Pharaoh. David had opposition

named Goliath. Daniel had opposition name ops.

They were just haters.

Jesus had opposition named religion. When Jesus came, his opposition

was the religious governmental set of the day, and he

was trying to move everybody forward.

But this is the thing about forward. I need you

to know. Write this down. Forward goes through, not around.

Forward goes through it, not around it.

And that's why I had to tell somebody today that

has been trying to avoid things.

You are a professional avoid.

What you are doing is saying that you're not actually

moving forward.

You're actually going around the thing. You're making a circle. See.

For me to actually go forward, I have to move

beyond the sphere of this podium. But a lot of

people are calling this forward. You're calling movement actual motion.

And this has been twenty seven years of your life.

And now you're dizzy because your equilibrium is off because

you've been doing the same thing and everybody thinks you're moving.

You post pictures like you move in. You show it

like you move in every time you go and see

your family at Christian Christmas.

You tired.

Because you've been moving, but you haven't been moving forward. Today,

God's inviting you into going a different direction. And this

means that if you are going forward, if you have opposition,

you have to be ready. Listen for your bounce back.

Time to get quicker. Some of y'all don't bounce back

your bounce back is slow. Somebody offends you, you're hurt

for the month. They misunderstood you, and you out.

For the day. When you could go straight to that

person and.

Say, hey, don't know what that little nsuit us back there.

But I just wanted to make sure me and you.

Were good because when I said that, I was working

towards the project that you gave me to do, and

I want to make sure that we're in alignment because

I love team marking unity. You could go right to

the person, but instead you talking at the lunch room.

Can you believe Sally with that fake wig? Look how

heart it look? I can't stand her. Her edges ain't

even lad and anyway like. And then it goes around,

and then it goes around and it goes around. Y'all

been in families where there has been at a fence

for decades and those people don't even know that you

are hurting when you come around because you won't go

straight to it. You go a round it, and what

you avoid begins to plant stakes for a prison that

you will live in.

If y'all didn't hear what I just said.

If you avoid it, you keep setting up steaks and

you keep going around, and you keep building yourself into

a prison where God says now it's time to go forward,

and you're trapped. And this is why God said your

bounce back time has to be better.

Matthew Chapter ten, verse fourteen.

He told his disciples, I'm sending you forward to tell

people about me, to.

Do what I told you to do.

But I'm gonna give you a clause that you don't

got to stay in the same place and try to

get people to accept.

What you doing. I told you to go there.

If they don't accept it, if when you go into

that town they don't do it, you did what I said.

Now you can do something else. Watch this, he said.

If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words.

Lead at home, get out of that town and shake

the dust off your feet.

He said, instead of staying saying there, I want you

to go straight to another place.

Don't go around it, go to it and do it.

But if they don't accept it, if that family member

is like you crazy, if that coworker is like you

ain't da da da.

Da, God bless you, I'm gonna shake that thing off.

I think it was.

Prophet jay Z that said get that dirt.

Off your shoulder.

It was one of those things that helps us know listen,

why are you saying this? Because if the disciples bounced

back was slow, there would have been people who missed

the gospel because they were offended that somebody didn't accept it.

He was saying, I need you to keep moving forward.

He didn't want their velocity to be slowed down. And

some of y'all have turned the dial all the way

back on what God has called you to do because

you've experienced some opposition.

It's a part of going.

Dust your feet off, dust off the emotional residue, dust

off the unresolved resistance and that you have on the

inside of you.

Some of y'all are so angry.

Everything in you hates certain situations, and God says, let's

go to counseling, Let's go to therapy because.

You need to talk to somebody. Now, I ain't gonna

talk to Let's let why would Why would I? You

can't teach your old dog NU tricks. That's not true.

You can literally teach anybody who's willing, humble teachable. You

should say what it really is. I don't want to change.

I don't want to transform. I don't want to have

the hard conversation. I don't want to have to.

Talk to my mom.

I don't want to be able to express how much

that hurt me, because actually I have a hard exterior

that I'm known for, and if I ever admit that

that was painful, it will make me feel lower in

their minds and they'll have something against me. And God's saying,

if you want to go forward, We're going through it,

not around it. I just gave everybody the reason why

many of you will stay in the same place.

Because you're not gonna go through it.

At the moment that your knees are shaken and your

and your hands are sweaty, you're gonnae never mind, never mind,

never mind. No, it's not all that I can deal

with that. I can take care of myself. I'll be fine.

I'll just deal with it over here. And God said, no,

stop avoiding what I want to be healed.

Tutor, Mike, what are you saying? God will give you

the grace to move forward faster.

The shortest distance between two things is what a straight line?

If I'm going from here to right there, just walk straight.

But most of us were bouncing back and forth like

a running back. We we behind the line of scrimmage

and we booshing excooshin e scootionin, scootionhin scoo shin, scooshin

scoos and scoop ain't going forward. No, think about it.

This is what you look like in your life. Relationally,

husbands are like ecoo doing all that movement loss on

the play, getting tackled in the backfield because the best

way to move even if I'm gonna fail. They tell

you if you gon fall, if you if you go lean,

at least do it. And I just want to let

you know that you avoiding it doesn't make you stronger,

It makes you weaker. Hear what I'm saying to every

person under the sound of my voice. Avoidance strengthen strengthens

the fear circuits in your mind.

Let me say it again.

Avoidance strengthens the fear circuits in your mind.

It teaches your brain that the fear was justified.

So when you avoid something, you're amygdala gets rewarded with relief,

which cements the fear loop and makes a signal louder

next time.

And this is why many of you.

You you ignored it once and you avoided it once

and it's like, whooh, I missed that one, and I'm okay.

I'm still okay. And then you avoid it again and

it's like whoo, I'm good. I'm good. And so you

think you're winning by avoiding it. But the Bible says,

all you're doing is working against what I said in

two Timothy one seven. For God has not given us

a spirit a fear. That means we can go to

the thing, we can have an emotionally intelligent conversation. We

can walk through it and be spiritually aware, as well

as be able to communicate our feelings and our hurts

and our pains and our successes. He said, I'm not

giving you a spirit of fear, but of power, love,

and what a sound mind. So I want to teach

you the forward confession that I've been saying over myself.

Because I have power, because I.

Am loved, I have a sound mind, I can go

through what I used to avoid. I want you to

write that down, take a picture of it. I want

you to begin to confess this over your life. Because

I have power given to me by the Creator, because

I am loved, not that I gotta work for it.

Not that I gotta become it because I am loved,

Because I have a sound mind. You speak those things

that are not as though they were. This is faith

in action because I have a sound mind.

And go through what I used to avoid.

I believe by faith this is going to be your

testimony in twenty twenty six that the weights that have

been weighing you down are no longer gonna be the

thing that keep you from doing what God tells you

to do.

A man somebody shouting me forward.

So this is what I'm gonna do to leave us

because literally I got five more weeks of information that's

gonna be this practical for you to actually leave whatever

the situation you're in, to be able to get a

systematic way of moving into God's grace by walking forward.

I will not stay here complaining about what God hasn't done.

I'm gonna work with him by faith, because we walk

by faith and not by sah. I'm going to go

the way Jesus has called me to go, and I'm

moving forward. So I want to be clear with you

on this journey because some of y'all about to start

big step in, big step in.

You can't skip anything but you can go forward faster.

So I'm gonna give you three things that you can't skip,

but you can go through.

Faster if you surrender to God. Is that okay? All right?

Here we go.

If you want to go forward, you cannot avoid watch

this discomfort.

You need to go ahead and give it up. I'm

gonna be.

Uncomfortable in some situation God allows me to be in.

There is no growth if there's no discomfort. I have

never seen anything grow that did not have to break

out of what it was in. I have not seen

a plant. I have not seen a muscle. I have

not seen a baby. I have not seen anything grow

that does.

Not have to shed what it's currently in.

And you're trying to go to another place but keep

the same cocoon. You're trying to go to another world

but stay in the same mood. God is calling you forward,

but that means there may be a season of discomfort.

So write this down. You can fast forward through discomfort

with surrender. You know what makes a hard situation worse

is a person actually fighting the situation.

I don't know about you, but I don't like needles.

Don't like needles.

Moe knows it, but since I've turned over the age

of thirty five, I've been introduced to more needles of

drawing blood and finding stuff.

And I don't I don't.

I don't like needles. I don't like the pokey. I

don't like seeing my blood gone. I don't like I

don't like none of it. But what makes it worse

is when the lady taps my veins.

Trying to find what stopped touching.

Me, ma'am, and then she ties something around my arm.

And then the first time.

I went to go do it, it was bad because

when she started to do it, I did like this.

She told me, relax, rest, don't look. I did everything opposite.

I was anxious looking.

Right at it.

And in that moment when I saw that she was

like one two and I seen and that woman stabbed me.

She stabbed me. But it wasn't because she wasn't trained.

It was because I knew I was about to go through.

Something that was going to be uncomfortable.

But I was fighting it as well. And some of

you are going through an uncomfortable season in a situation,

and it would be over faster if you.

Were just s do what you gotta do. A B C. D.

E f g H j k M. I had to distract.

Myself with something because I surrendered and it was she

said it's over. I said, that wasn't that bad. So

the next time I went in there to get poked

with a needle, ab c ain't hi JK.

I'm just trying to give you an example.

So then when my children have to go now, I

have a playbook to teach them.

Look at thatddy, look at that. Look at that. We're

gonna say our.

ABC's to a goove you ready, no, no, no, no, no,

don't worry about her.

A B C D E f g H hide. Yeah.

I have learned how to teach another generation surrender. Y'all

missed it. I've taught my children how.

To go through something uncomfortable because I'm teaching them not

to fight it, but to surrender. What are you fighting that.

God's been trying to get you to surrender for five years.

He's been trying to get you. Just let me do

what I want to do.

Let that go, Let that go, let that go.

And you're saying, but God, this is what got me

through the last season.

I'm taking you into a new season. I want to

move you forward. But you have to in any country

you go to.

If you are a fugitive of the law and they're

chasing you, the first thing they tell you.

To do freeze, put your hands up.

Why because this is the international sign of surrender. I

don't think it's strange that this also is the international

sign of worship. When we come into this arena and

we're singing songs about miracles, what do we do We

lift our hand. It's saying I'm not holding anything. I'm

not keeping anything away from you. I'm not gonna I'm

not gonna fight you. Right here, I'm surrendered to whatever

you want to do.

So you can't skip discomfort spoiler alert. If you're a believer,

if you're.

Gonna follow Jesus, you're gonna go through some uncomfortable things.

But you could change your perspective on it today. If

I know it's gonna be uncomfortable, I'm gonna just surrender

because that takes me forward fast.

Let me give you the second thing right here.

It's if you want to go forward, you cannot avoid

number two distraction.

You cannot avoid distraction.

There was a video that came out this past week

with a few one hundred million views, and some people

were trying to link it to me, and so I

watched the video.

It was hilarious, it was funny.

It was all this stuff, and then people started trying

to say different things.

And the thing that I was most taken aback by

was how much frustration.

It created in people, Like I was literally watching people

go back and forth with people and denounce people and

call people names and do stuff.

And I stepped back for a second.

I said, Oh, my gosh, all this was was an

attack on people's lives of distraction. Do you know how

many people didn't spend time with their kids this week

fighting with somebody they don't know in the comments? Do

you know how many people watch video after video after

video making decisions about what they wouldn't do and what

they will do? And if I ever, it was a

there were people that did not do what God said

to do this week because they needed to be in

the know of what was happening in culture. And you

thought it was some attack on the church. No, it

was attack on your focus. How you feeling past the mic?

I don't even know really what.

Happened because I've been off of social media. I had

a few people tell me what was going on.

I was like, that's crazy.

I don't even got a Rolls Royce what like, Like

I didn't, I didn't know, Like I like people AI

and pictures and doing stuff. I said, I don't remember

being that big, like.

Like I was big, but I don't remember being that big.

But you know what I'm saying, Like that was kind

of the vibe.

But the reason I couldn't get distracted is because I'm

building something. The reason that I cannot be moved off

from my post because what God has called me to

representing God to the loss and found for transformation in Christ.

That's what I'm supposed to do. And so somebody's obsessed

with what somebody made that didn't wasn't even directly pointed

at me, but it distracted them.

From what God told them to do. The enemy is into.

Releasing weapons of mass distraction, mass distraction, and the thing

you cannot avoid if you're on this Christian journey is distraction.

They're coming. She might be walking in and still let

us pumps and the club. Some of y'all ain't been

saved long, and I love my churches diverse. Your distraction

may be in a football uniform. Your distraction may be

a child that God gave you that you put too

much of your focus on instead of healing what God

has called you. Because they don't actually become what you say,

they become who you are. All I'm saying to you

church is that maybe you need to take a book

or a page from Nehemiah chapter six where Neamiyah had

a burden to build something and God told him to

build a wall. And what Neamiah said when people started

trying to distract them sam Ballad and people was trying

to get him to come down off the wall to

meet with him. He said, I am engaged in a

great work.

The reason why some of.

Y'all are so distracted is because you have not found

your great work yet. The reason why you get tossed

to and fro is because you don't put your hands

to something that God has called you to every day.

The goal for you this year is to find Joe

great work. He said, I cannot come down because I

am engaged.

I'm fully active.

My hands are too a great work, so I can't

come down. Why should I stop working to come meet

with you? Why should I stop building? All this controversy

came out while I'm doing twenty one days a prayer

and faster. Why I'm gonna stop getting up at five

forty five praying with people all over the globe from

a place that I ain't never been to and can

barely say, and people are joining us, thousands of people

to pray and seek God. I'm engaged in a great

Look at your neighbor and say I can't come down.

I can't come down, but listen to me. If you

haven't found your great work, it's easy to be distracted,

so you can't avoid distraction. Watch this, but you can

fast forward through distraction by being obsessed with obedience. If

you become obsessed with obedience, you will not give into

the distraction. So many people's like, I just need something

else to distract me. No, then that will become a

distraction too. What you need to be is obsessed with

what God told you to do this year?

What did he say?

Let that be the thing that you wake up doing.

An obsession is something that dominates your minds, schedule, and attention.

What dominates your mind, schedule, and.

Attention For most of us, it's social media, and that

for many of you is not your great work. Your

great work is not knowing who's in a relationship. Your

great work is not finding the coolest trend on Etsy.

Your great work is not putting together a fashion fit

that only thirty two people are gonna like. God has

called you to do something greater than that, and right

now you are distracted. And this is the season where

God's saying, I'm calling you forward. I need you to

dominate those distractions. I need you to find yourself in

my word. I need you to get in a place

and become obsessed with obedience. Cause until you do, distraction

is around every corner. And let me tell you church people,

you can't pray distraction away.

What theybody saying, no, no, no, no, shit about obo time, No

you can't. That does not pray away distraction. How do

you know Jesus.

Is literally in a time of prayer and fasting for

forty days and the devil himself shows.

Up to tempt him, not once, not twice.

If any time the savior of the world is in

a time of consecration and the devil show up, why

Because distraction is a part of living on this earth.

You can't skip it, but you can go through it faster.

I'm gonna just say this because it's actually true to me.

I'm one of those people if you go to amusement park,

me and my family like going and ride rides and

ride roller coasters and do stuff like that. If you

ever wonder why I'm in the little line on the side,

like not the main line, but the line on the side,

I'm in a fast pass line. I just want to

let you know right now, is that I will. I

will mow extra lines, I will I will take out trash,

I will get whatever I have to do to get

the money to get the fast pass, because what people

don't understand is that little forty two dollars does cost,

but if I don't pay it, it costs me in

a lot of other ways, and a lot of people

aren't willing to pay the cost to go fast forward.

I'm waiting in a line for an hour and forty

five minutes. It's one hundred and twelve degrees outside. Three

of my kids about to throw up, the fourth one

wants a hot dog. My wife looking at me like food.

We don't even want to ride this ride. And then

the person in the line behind me didn't put on deodorant,

and so there's an older filling the presence, and it's

been an hour and a half game. Nose hair singed off.

Everything is going bad, and it could have been all

avoided if I decided.

To pay the costs to go forward faster.

This is a spiritual picture. Some of y'all are going

through drama that you shouldn't be going through. Some of

y'all are working with people you shouldn't even have to

decide what's going on. But you will not pay the

costs to actually be humble enough to admit where you

are wrong. You won't go back and repent. You won't

say I'm sorry, you won't listen to the word of God.

And so you stand in line longer than you have

to because you won't sacrifice or pay the costs to

go forward faster.

It's time for you to skip to the good part.

It's time for God to say, you know what, you

don't have to live with rage and anger you don't have.

You can forgive them. We can go forward faster.

What would happen if you became obsessed with Jesus? What

if Jesus dominated your thoughts, your time, and your attention.

Last point, if you want to go forward. You can't

avoid watch this one disappointment.

This one's a.

Rough one, because if God disappoints you, then who could

ever keep their word to you? And this is one

of the things the Bible tries to tell us and

tries to level with us. He said, Hey, in this world,

you will have trouble.

It's the sin nature.

That entered in at the garden when I'm an eve

disobeyed God.

That it's a part of it. Why do bad things

happen to good people?

I don't know. I don't know why I have a

son that is on the autism spectrum for me and

my wife. That is disappointing. It's disappointing to know that

all the good that we have done in ten years,

on almost eleven years of ministry, people want to sum

it up as I'm a false prophet and I steal

money from the church.

That's disappointing.

We've seen one hundred and ninety one thousand people come

to Christ in the last decade, one hundred and ninety

one thousand people documented. Bishop, We've given away thirty six

million dollars.

To different organizations, Widows.

Orphans, housed, families, changed people, single moms, We have done

so much work for the cause of Christ, and it's

disappointing that there's pastors that would preach whole messages against

me today. That's disappointing. But in this life, it don't

matter how much I pray, how much I fast. No,

I'm trying to give you the real today. Y'all want

this fake pussy stuff, but nobody is exempt.

I don't get a get out of this line past

because I'm a pastor.

I have been disappointed, but I don't gotta stay in it.

I can fast forward through disappointment.

How do you do it past the mike? Come on, say,

how do you do it? Past the mic?

You can fast forward through disappointment if you dare again, dare,

I'm gonna give you an accurate acronymic. You can fast

forward through disappointment if you watch this dream again.

Some of you.

The enemy has been after your dreams, your hope.

Well, I'm too old.

I'll never be able to when they overlooked me, and

God is saying dream again. You can actually fast forward

if you would just close your eyes. God built in

everyone of you the anointing of imagination. You can be

in a broke situation right now, and see yourself in

a whole different situation, thriving, healthy, whole creative fund.

You can see.

Yourself in that place, and you can get an image

of that and start moving forward towards that image. Right now,

you need to dream again. The enemy has tried to

steal some of your dreams. I prophetically speak over you. You're

gonna dream again. You're gonna hope again, You're gonna see again,

You're gonna stand again, You're gonna go again.

You're gonna have faith for the future again. You are

gonna move forward. I'm gonna dream again.

If you wanna fast forward through disappointment, You're not just

gonna dream again, You're gonna ask again. There are a

lot of children that if they get disappointed when they

ask their parents for something, they never ask again.

I could tell you stories right now.

That if you thought it was gonna happen and it

didn't happen, and you got disappointed, and you're like, never mind,

I'll never ask in it.

I never want to feel that again. And some of

you have.

Been disappointed in God saying to you, come ask me again,

ask again.

I know it didn't happen that time. But I was

working some other things out. Ask again. You weren't ready

at that time.

Your character wasn't built enough to handle the blessing at

that moment. But right now you've done the work. You've

gone forward. You didn't go around it, you went through it.

And so I want you to what ask again. You're

gonna dream again. You're gonna ask again, and then watch

this one. You're gonna risk again. Some of you want

to see big things without any risk, but faith actually

begins where understanding ens. This is what God is calling

all of us.

Two.

Well, I don't know if it's gonna work out. You

know God is with you though. Everything you got right

now you can get again with God. Come on, you

holding on to that house, that apartment, you holding.

On to that.

God been done told you to move. God told you

to get into that place. God told you to start

that company. God told you to go and help that person.

You're trying to hold this thing. You need to move forward.

So it's gonna take a risk. That's why we walk

by faith.

You're gonna dream again, You're gonna ask again, You're gonna

risk again, and then watch the last one. You're gonna

engage again. The thing that Neemyah said is I am

engaged in a great work, and some of you have

taken your hands off of anything that wasn't a guarantee.

If I don't see how I benefit from it right now,

if I don't see how this is gonna help me

right now, some of my greatest training to stand before

you today were in places nobody saw.

I didn't get paid and I had no title.

But God allowed me to engage in being a youth

pastor in a group called Soulfly, And there are people

in this room that were transformed in that environment. I

didn't know how to breaze, I didn't know how to talk,

I barely knew how to do anything. But God put

me in a work, and me and my wife and

Breathe and Jay and John and all of us we

engaged fully in this thing that none of us was

getting paid for it. Jay, you said that, no, sir loud,

none of us.

Was getting paid. We gave our life to it.

We spent years of our life growing and learning together

and working through hard situations and crying together and fighting

with each other and then making up with each other,

and then literally helping each other become because God saw

this forward for us. He saw us leading a movement

of tens of thousands of people that would literally pattern

their lives after what we would do and what God

changed in us, and how he would take us through.

And he told us to be humble, open and transparent.

So don't hide it, don't act like you got everything together.

Show when you walk through grief, Show when you're going

through depression or disappointment.

Show it, but never stop engaging.

Today church standing all over this room. If you want

to go forward, you can't avoid disappointment.

But I dare you to go through it? How dare

you not to go around it? I dare you to.

Not stop doing what God called you to do?

How dare you to dream? Again? By somebody, what are

you trying to get me to do?

I'm trying to get you prepared for the velocity that's

come into your life. When I pray for this church,

I see a fast forward.

I see acceleration.

But I want you to know that when you meet distraction, disappointment,

even discomfort, doesn't mean God is not with you. What

the enemy would love more than anything is for this

season that God's putting me on public display in front

of people to cause me discomfort, distraction, and disappointment.

So I don't go forward. I go backwards.

But backwards there's no blessing back there. The scripture in

Philippian says forgetting the past, because I have to press

everybody shout at me forward, pastor Mike. What's the best

way that I can do this with clarity? How do

I get clarity? You shut off all the other noise?

How do I shut off the other noise? Biblically fast,

the best way to go forward is fasted.

The best way for you to.

Go forward fast is to go forward fasted. We have

seven days left on this fast, and some of y'all

want that acceleration to come to your life and your mind,

and your marriage, and your heart and your spirit. I

can't tell you I have moved forward in the last

seven days, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, more than I have in

my entire life. I have done things hard, things uncomfortable things.

I have grown in ways I can't even explain to

you right now, because I have been fasted. And if

you want to go forward, go forward fast by going

forward fasted. Matthew Chapter six, Jesus says, when you pray

when you give, and the last one is when you fast,

which means for a believer, it's not an option, it's

actually a prerequisite.

He said.

In points of your life, you're gonna be in seasons

where you gotta pray, you gotta give, and you gotta fast.

The wisdom is knowing when those seasons are. If the

only time you fast is when your church calls a

twenty one day prayer and fast, you are missing out

on your acceleration mechanism.

I fast often.

I don't just fast when it's time and everybody's doing it.

There are times I push my plate away weekly because

I got to get out of this place. I gotta

get out of this funk. I gotta get I gotta

I gotta accelerate out of this confusion or temptation or

these lies that I'm believing about myself. I gotta go

forward fast. So I'm going forward fasted. You want your

edge back, you want to hear from God.

Fast as a church.

I'm asking everybody for the climate that we are in

and culture in this world and in your life, to

join me in this community for seven days for real,

fasting forward, dream again.

Let God give you vision again, take off.

The weight of heaviness you've been walking in. And the

first way you do that is by coming to Jesus.

Come to me, all.

Who are heavy burdened, so much on you right now,

and Jesus promise for you is I will give you rest.

So I want to talk to two groups of people.

I want to pray for the people who have felt

like they've been stuck and they're ready to move forward.

I pray for you. But the first group.

Of people that I'm going to pray for is those

people who have not given their life to Jesus Christ

and you feel like I can't go forward because I

have not found the one to follow today. If you

want to make Jesus Christ your personal lord and save

you're right now, whether you're watching this on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook,

in this room right here, Today is the day of salvation.

And I need the church to begin to pray right

now because somebody's eternity is on the line. This is

the decision that took me from being a liar, a manipulator,

addicted to pornography, had very dark things in my heart,

to a man that is not perfect. But I am

progressing and I'm telling you every day, when I open

up that word, it becomes a lamp unto my feet

and a light unto my path. Today I am a

changed person because of Jesus Christ. And if you want

to accept them today, all you got to do is

repeat this prayer, hands lifted everywhere under the sound of

my voice.

A transformation church.

We're a family, So we say this for the b

benefit of everybody coming to Christ. Everybody say Jesus, thank

you for coming to save me. I believe you lived,

you died, and you rose again with all power just

for me.

Today I give you my life.

I repent and I turn to you, change me, renew me,

transform me.

I'm yours in Jesus' name. Amen. Can we celebrate for

every person? Oh? Come on, Church, you can do better

than that. Glory to God.

If you just gave your life to Jesus. I want

you to text saved to eight two eight two eight.

And if you've felt like this is my call forward,

God is calling me for it and you need prayer,

just lift your hands. I want to pray for every

person under the soul of my voice that knows it's

time to go forward. If you know it's time to

go forward for you what you're dealing with. I don't

care where you're at. I'm gonna pray for you, and

we're gonna go home. But I'm telling you, this is

the day everything changes. Father, in the name of Jesus,

I thank you that you would not call us if

you didn't have a greater future ahead of us. So

today we forget the past and we actually look forward

to what lies ahead. Father, change our perspective, even if

you don't change our situation. I am praying for marriages,

husbands and wives. I'm praying for children, I'm praying for singles.

I'm praying for your people to actually get so sick

of staying in the same place that they would seek

you to the point of transformation.

Today, here we are.

We're gonna dream again, We're gonna ask again, we're gonna

risk again, and we're gonna engage in whatever you tell

us to Today, let there be actual signs that we

have moved forward in this week.

We will give you glory, we will give you honor,

and we will give you plaise because it.

Is your will that we move forward. In Jesus' name,

we agree, we expect Amen. Come on, if you're moving forward,

will you give God a huge shout of praise?

Oh?

Come on church, if you're moving forward, Worship team, y'all,

come on up, listen to me. Next week, I am

preaching a message that will change your life. And I

do not want you to miss this because this is

playbook for what God's gonna do in your life. Transformation Nation.

Tomorrow morning at six am, I want you to join us.

For prayer to tomorrow night as we are going forward fasted.

Join me here. If you're in tuls or surrounding areas,

let's pray tomorrow. Tomorrow.

We're praying about vision. It's kind of weird how that

worked down that some of you need to go forward,

but you don't know which way to go, so you

need clear vision. Join us tomorrow right here. You're at

six thirty pm. And if you need prayer for anything,

because some people are dealing with stuff that's really hard

and heavy and you need agreement, our altered team is

up here. And if you want to stay and just

worship for a moment, this is the moment. If you're

watching online, I'm coming to pray with you. I want

you to start putting your prayer request in the chat.

Right now, I'm gonna pray specifically, and I'm I'm gonna

believe that.

God is moving all of us forward.

You gonna see progression, not perfection this week, but you're

gonna be see progression. Amen until next week. Go out

and live help me a transform life.

I love you so much, Church, thank you for joining

us today. If you said that prayer and accept it

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