Did You Catch The Correction? // Triggered (Part 5) // Michael Todd

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for what God is doing today. Today is week five

of a series we're calling everybody say triggered, and I'm

not letting off of this because this series actually is

a trigger. The series is the series is meant to

make you have a reaction. If you're in a church

or with a preacher or somewhere that don't get no

reaction out of you, you may be in a space

that you are not submitted enough to hear the words,

or something in you is not alive. Today I'm coming

to trigger you with the word of God so that

there is a response or a reaction that actually causes

you to watch this change.

And so many people were like after.

The conference, what's the new series? Trigger? Thought you was

going into a fire series? Or no, no, no, the

Holy Spirit has not released me from helping you deal

with your crash outs. You need to put Christ in

the middle of every single one of your crash outs.

Holiday season is upon us, or we could call it

crash out season. So many family issues come up during

this time.

Can I get an amen?

You? You you really playing? And right now who not

to invite? Come on, y'all, how how to get how

to get around what you already said, we're right now

in the season where traffic and gifts and and children

plays and yeah, children's plays.

I got stuck there.

My daughter told me this week she's married in in

in a in a play at her school. That means

I gotta remember lines. That means. That means we got

to figure out costumes.

That that means.

And I'm saying little stuff, but I don't know what's

going on in your life. But there are things that

we face daily that have the opportunity to trigger us.

And what I found about the things that trigger me,

that get a reaction, that get an impulse response, is

that before I reach I need to everybody say pause.

And this is what we don't do. We don't take

time after we're triggered. We react to something. And this

is what I found, that every trigger is an invitation

by God to transform. It seems simple, but every time

I get triggered, God saying, hey, do you want to

act the way you did the last nineteen types or

do you want to use some of the Bible you've

been reading. Would you like to actually apply some of

the book of notes. You have the journal that you got,

Open a page fourteen and let's see if we can

respond differently than how we respond it last time. The

sad truth is most Christians are good with information, not implementation.

Most believer would rather it be in their notebook or

a screenshop that they can post than a life that

they actually live. And what I'm telling you is, many

times things are allowed to trigger us as an opportunity

for you to prove that God is actually in you.

How do you know that you actually believe what you

believe until you're in a situation where you need to

use it. You talk about peace, but you cannot honestly

stand flat footed and say you have peace until you

have peace in a storm. Peace doesn't even exist outside

of a storm because there's nothing to authenticate the peace,

Oh God. And so I would just like everybody to

examine in your own life, am I actually possessing the

things that I say that I have? Or am I

just being triggered reacting and playing the same scenario over

and over. And Christians have become addicted to cycles. Some

of you are planning your cycle right now of getting

in a relationship with somebody through the holiday season. You'll

be at somebody's house for Thanksgiving and you'll be on

somebody's secret Santa for Christmas, and you'll be joining us

for twenty one days of prayer and fasting single in

January every year. Go to here my heart. Hold on? Wait,

would you step back for a second and see? Hold on?

Is this fool coming into my life right now? Is

this the thing that triggers my insecurity of not being

wanted by a man? And should I before I'd be like,

oh my God, be daddy, you want to take me where?

Before I do that? Before I do that again again?

Let me Paul, everybody say pause, let me step back

and see. It's this an invitation by God to transform

because many of us don't realize it, but each one

of our triggers is attached to a trauma. And until

we deal with the trauma, we actually will never transform.

We will play this over and over and over and

over and over and what again? And today God has

sent me as a coach, as a counselor, as a pastor,

as a divine interruption, to divinely interrupt the cycle that

is about to passive happen again. It's so subtle. Some

of y'all about to go. You just got out of

debt and You're about to go back into it for

children who not even gonna like what you get them anyway. No,

I'm you're about to go back into impressing a family

that does not even want to see you differently. But

again that trigger. Oh, I gotta get Sally a present,

and I gotta go.

I gotta do this, and I gotta show up for this,

and I gotta go to all the balls.

Then I gotta do all You don't even want to

be there, But that trigger has hit the trauma of insecurity,

of when they didn't invite you when you were in

middle school.

And so because you won't deal with that.

The cycle starts again. And today is a divine interruption,

because if you do not deal with the situation at

its root level, your unaddressed triggers. Write this down will

usually lead to a crash out. Your unaddressed triggers will

lead to a crash out. And some people are saying, past, Mike,

tell me what a crash out is. I'm gonna put

this big definition back on the screen again, and I

want you to listen to it, and I want you

to think about watch this. Does this apply to me

in any way? How have I crashed out recently? Am

I in the middle of a crash out? Or am

I planning my next crash out right now? A crash

out is when a person can be suddenly uncontrollably angry

and act impulsively. How many people have ever bought something impulsively?

Instagram and TikTok make it so easy, and then you

get the little shop thing and it's already got all

your information in it. Why do I have four of

these little bears that hold my cell phone? Why did I?

It's just so fast. You ordered the shirt, don't even

know if it's right sizes, and you got a shirt

it's two eggs, but it's Chinese size, and so it's

y'all okay, some of y'all know what I'm talking about, Like, yeah,

two eggs and I'm a dis bed made for MJ impulsive?

How many people have decided to do things impulsively? A

crash out is something that happens Watch this almost without

a thought it said, It potentially leads to negative consequences.

This many times shows up as emotional or physical shutdown,

usually from burnout, over stimulation, or being overwhelmed. The act

of surrendering all reasonable control of your emotions and response

in order to react to watch this how you are

currently feeling. How many people can honestly say that sometimes

their feelings lie to them.

I would dare say all the time.

Your feelings are a current indicator of the moment. They

are not a dictator of how you move. And so

right now, the crash out that you're in is because

I felt a certain way. It could be a strong

indicator that these people who are crashing out are struggling

with their mental health and need support. This whole series

is to support you. Your pastor is trying to come

and support you as people have been furloughed and the

government is shut down, as people are trying to figure

out their family drama. As people, I'm trying to help

you right now. This is spiritual support. I want your

mental health to be able to be in good shape

because of spiritual help. This is what we have in Jesus.

But most of us are going to things that didn't

create you to figure out how to help you in

a situation that you don't know how to get out of.

And so today I'm gonna teach you about something that

God likes to do. In the crash out. Now, this

is gonna be a curve ball for most of you.

But what I found out is then when a situation

that when a situation is going bad, wrong, unexpected, God

is not waiting for us to figure out why the

situation happened to us. God many times in the middle

of the crash out corrects you, and most of us

are missing the correction in the middle of the crash out.

Pastor Mike, why are you talking about this because this

is going to repeat if you do not learn the lesson.

I have a prophetic word for you. This is going

to repeat if you do not learn the lesson. Pastor Mike,

can you give me a word. I'm so glad that

you need a word from God. This thing you're dealing

with is going to do what repeat if you do

not learn the lesson. This doesn't seem fair that in

the middle of a situation that is going on that

I cannot understand why it's happening. Why my job is

going like this, Why my relationship is falling apart like this,

Why my kids won't listen, why all of this is happening.

Why in the world would God try to correct me?

Why are you trying to do this ain't fair already, God,

Why are you trying to give me a lesson while

it feels like my life is falling apart. God, I

already don't have enough money. Now you want me to

start a budget. Ah y'all, I'm in the middle of

losing everything, and you want me to write the vision

and make it plain. You want me to put out

this one hundred and twenty two dollars in columns. We

got three columns, Like, God, why are you trying to

correct how? I talk to them? And they started it,

they approached me. This is just not if they would

have stayed over there, if they would have never came

over here.

Don't start no stuff.

Why are you talking about? Why are you talking to

me about forgiveness? God? They actually were the ones who

are disrespectful to me. I'm trying to decide if I'm

gonna stay at this job, and you're telling me them apollot,

You're telling me to apologize. Why are you trying to

correct me in the middle of this crashout?

Why are you hold on my wife did that.

I didn't do that. My wife did that, And you

want me to take responsibility and step up and lead

our home out of the situation that she Why are

you trying to correct I'm trying to talk about real

situations right now that pastor fumbled me and my gift

and what I brought to the table, and you're telling

me don't stop leading that team and don't spread the

gossip of my feelings in this moment to them and

infect them. Why are you correcting me in the middle

of this moment where I feel justified to have a

response that lines up with the situation that happened to me.

And I've just found out that God is so good

watch this that he doesn't waste anything either we believe

Romans a twenty eight, or we don't. All things work

together for the good. So in a bad situation, God's like,

I'm not wasting this, y'all think about to waste this. Yes,

they started talking about you. Now, I'm gonna use this

to make you more like me. And the problem right

now and why some of y'all look at me right

now like you want to fight me, is because your

transformation will not happen outside of you. You are waiting

for God to change the job, change the husband, change

the friend, change the situation, and God saying I ain't

doing that. I'm starting with you. And the reason why

people become unwavered in their ability to continue to trust

God and they begin to be shaky is because they

want God to do it another way. But what I

found out is that when you come to God, he

never starts with them.

He always starts with you.

And I came to tell you for real that in

the middle of the situation that you could crash out

in and feel justified and get applause from your friends,

God said, did you catch the correction? Most people are

missing it. You're missing the whole point of why God

allowed that situation to happen. You. God allowed you to

be able to get kicked out of that school, and

you so disappointed and embarrassed. You ain't even told nobody.

It's been six years and you acting like you got

your degree and it ain't no degree. You won't even

talk about it, you won't even share your testimony because

in the middle of the crashout you did not catch

the correction. The problem is you weren't even supposed to

go to that school anyway. You followed somebody there that

was not God, and so He let that fall through

to teach you something and you ain't even you haven't

even stepped back to examine it. Could I have missed something?

It's God gonna use this. Okay, Today I got a

sh show you two people who were in the middle

of a situation that was a crash out situation, and

how God tried to use the situation and in the

middle of it he tried to correct them. And there

were two different responses to the correction, and how one

of them ended up differently than the other because of

watch how they caught the correction. Simon Peter, y'all remember him,

the one who walked on water, the one who was

so told like what man, man, that revelation that didn't

come from you. I'm gonna build my church on you.

Like Simon Peter. Let me tell you about him. Simon

Peter was a crash out. He had a whole bunch

of situations happened in his walk that was like, man,

we gotta get this dude under control. He is impulsively

moving by his emotions. One of the greatest examples of

this is found in Matthew twenty six, verse fifty, when

Jesus had just finished praying in the garden of simony,

and now Judas had sold Jesus out, and they're coming

now to pick Jesus up so that they can take

him to the cross. Matthew, Chapter twenty six, verse fifty.

This is where we pick up. Jesus replied to the people,

do what you came to do.

Do what you got to do, my friend.

He's talking to the people who are coming to take

him out, and Jesus replied, do your thing. Man. Then

a man stepped forward to seize Jesus and arrest him.

Once that happened, one of Jesus's companions, Pee Doll, reached

for his sword, drew it out, shank shank, and he

struck the servant of the most high, cutting off his ear.

I just want you to paint the picture right now.

I don't know who your friends are, but there are

some people that roll with me that if we all

walk in together and your step to me is wrong.

I don't know what they carrying, but but but but

sometimes the reaction comes out faster than the thought. Peter

has just watched Jesus, I need you to get this sweat,

blood cry out in agony. And now people are coming

to take him away, not my dog, not my man's

jac I roll with this man? Who are you?

And at the moment Peter.

Pulls out his knife and cuts off his hit. Now

watch who goes to a fight to cut off an ear? Okay,

if I'm pulling out my knife, it's like, what am

I to do? Uh? Stab him? Uh? Cut off a finger? No,

let's go for his ear. I think that he was

trying to kill the dude. It just so happened that

he only Peter is about to make a decision that

would alter everything, the plan that was set up so

Jesus could actually go to the cross. It looked unfavorable,

but it says in the Bible that it had to

happen like this. So at the moment that Peter cuts

off my man Malcous's ear, that's his real name, y'all

thought I made that up? Y'all gotta read your Bible.

Malchus he cuts off his ear. Watched the correction in

verse fifty two. He doesn't first speak to the man

with the ear on the ground. He speaks to Simon, Peter,

put your sword back in its place, He corrects them

in the middle of him emotional crash out which he's

kind of justified. For if somebody came against the people

you love, some of y'all be like, you could do whatever.

You can, call me whatever.

But if you say anything about my baby, y'all know

how y'all if you say anything about Okay, same type

of energy, Why wouldn't God correct to God coming to

take him? Why wouldn't God correct all of the situation

that's happening. He goes for Simon Peter and he.

Literally says, put it back.

Jesus said to him, for all who draw the sword

will die by the sword. Do you not think that

I'm cold enough to handle this myself? Do you not

think I can call on my father and he will

at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions

of angels. With the legion it's usually six thousand, so

seventy two thousand angels will pull up.

You don't think if I wanted to change this situation,

I couldn't.

But the only reason I'm not because if I did,

how then would the scripture be fulfilled that says it

must happen this way? How many situations have happened that

you were trying to figure out an alternate reality or

way that it could do, and God's saying it must

happen this way. So at this moment, Jesus picks up

my man's ear pops it back on, and the only

person that was corrected was Peter. You gonna correct me

in the middle of this crash out.

Let's look at another.

Guy turn into the Old Testament. This goy's name is Saul,

and Saul has a crashout, and first Samuel thirteen, Today,

I just want to help you because God's going to

correct you in some things and most of us don't

know how to handle it. First Samuel, verse thirteen, Chapter thirteen,

verse eight, it says, let me just set a little context.

They're at war. Saul is leading the army. Is supposed

to actually wait for Samuel the prophet to come because

they were going to make a sacrifice and God was

going to bless their victory that they were going to have.

But Saul started getting impatient, and we're going to see

this right here, It says. Then Saul waited for seven

days according to the time set by Samuel, but Samuel

did not come to Gilgal and the people were scattered

from him. So Saul said, you know what, forget this.

The pressure is too much. Bring me to burnt offering

right now. I ain't waiting for nobody and the peace offer.

Bring it to me right now. And he offered the

burnt offering. Now it happened. As soon as he had

finished presenting the burnt offering, then Samuel came and Saul

went out to meet him that he might greet him.

And Samuel said, what have you done? Said Saul, well, okay,

I know, okay, when I saw the people that were

scattering from me, and that you did not come when

you had said that you was gonna be here at

the appointed time, I know you here now, but you

I mean thirteen minutes ago would have been really good,

and that the Philistines gathered to come to mick Mass

to Big Bass. Then I said, the Philistines will now

come down on me at Gilgal, and I have not

made a supplication to the Lord. So who am I

not to make a supplication to the Lord.

So I thought, since you wasn't here.

I should make the supplication. Therefore I felt compelled. That's

a good churchy word, huh. I felt compelled and offered

the burnt offering. And Samuel said to Saul, you have

done something so foolish. You have done foolishly. You have

not kept the commandment of the Lord, your God, which

he commanded you for now. The Lord would have established

your kingdom over Israel forever. But now, since you made

that rass decision, because you were triggered by everything you saw,

your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought for

himself a man after his own heart, and the Lord

has commanded him to be commander over his people. Because

you have not kept what the Lord commanded you. The

crazy thing is, I get it. Sauls under pressure people

coming from the left to right.

All his people who.

Is down start scattering. And if you telling me this

is the way we gonna get victory.

And I don't see the prophet.

Nowhere, nobody's is where he at? He ain't there. I'm

gonna just do it myself. Has anybody taken matters and

to your own hands? Before you know, God told you

to wait. Okay, you know God told you don't move

into that apartment. You know God told you not to

date them. You know God told you not to open

the business. Yet, you know God told you wait. But

the situation started speaking to you louder than God, and

so you decided to take matters into your own hands.

He canceled out a legacy that was supposed to still

be experienced to this day because he could not.

Wait in a state where he was triggered.

Samuel comes to correct him, and I just came to

tell everybody whose potential in a situation that seems like

you're justified to make a critical decision while the situation

feels confusing, write this down. Be careful making quick decisions

in the middle of crisis. This is not the season

where you do knee jerk reactions without going to the father.

This is not the season where, oh it makes sense

on paper. The Bible says in Proverbs three five, acknowledge

God in all your ways, and He will direct your path.

Some of you are the director of a movie that

you did not fund. God is supplying everything for this movie,

and you're telling.

Him no, no, no no, but I don't need to do

it your way. This is how I see the movie ending.

And he said, you have no clue what I'm trying

to do in this thing. You will not let me

direct this thing, and you will not let me guide

you into all truth. And I'm telling you this because

when you're in confusion, you're not seeing clearly. Saul was

confused and he was not seeing clearly. And what God

sends when you're confused is a word before the confusion.

The question is will you remember and listen to the

world when the confusion comes. That's why the word of

the Year at Transformation Church this year is what. So

he's saying, you have to kill the distractions because you're

confused in a season where you should be sure. He's

already told you what he wanted to do. He told

you to stay faithful, he told you to keep giving,

he told you to keep serving, He told you to

stay submitted in that house, and then you got offended. Now,

since you got offended, confusion setsin. Why am I supposed

to listen to somebody who's just gonna say something crazy

to me like that? Am I supposed to stay in

a house where I don't feel like I'm getting fed?

Am I supposed to do this? With all this other stuff?

And God saying, hold on to the word I already

gave you. And Saul doesn't hold on to the word,

so he goes ahead and doesn't heed the correction. Like

many of us, and this is what this is what

it kind of painted a picture in my mind. How

many people like football? Like just just hands? How many?

How many people don't understand football at all? Like just okay,

we love you too, Okay. One thing that most people

understand is that there's a quarterback and there's these little

guys on the end called receivers. And the quarterback's job

is to to throw the ball to the receivers. And

what's the receiver's job class.

Catch the ball?

Mo? Could you be my quarterback for a second? And

and and and Mo, yeah, you're just come come stand

up here for me. You've never seen a hispanic five

to two quarterback, but we have one today. We have

one today. What would end up happening in a in

a football game is the quarterback would be here and

the receiver they would say hut, and I would run

as a receiver and he would throw me the ball. Now,

I don't know if you saw what happened.

I don't somebody saw it.

Hut.

What what do you what did you say?

Oh?

No, no, no, y'all.

No, I'm I'm a great receiver. I'm a great receiver.

I'm a I'm a great Christian, I receive what the

word says. Are you seeing what's happening right now? I'm

in a position. God give me clarity. Some of y'all

still ain't got it. This is what we do every

Sunday we come. Oh Gloria, God, use me give me

a prophetic word. I'm not doing what. I'm not receiving

the correction that he's throwing my way. When God is

passing you correction. You don't even got your hands up.

How long would I be in the game if every

time God calls a play for me, y'all looking at me.

Get him out the game. Take him out. Get him

out here, little boy twelve years old, them out because

it doesn't make sense to keep running the same play.

It doesn't make sense to keep running the same play.

And you're never in a position to receive doing all

that zigzag and all that praying, all those all night prayers,

all of those supplication, prophesying to yourself, got everything written

down and God saying and every time, if you cannot

receive correction, you are a liability to the Kingdom of God.

I cannot have you on my team if the can't

tell you you said that with the wrong spirit. You

sent that in anger. That was a sarcastic response to

a real issue. And your boss, nor your leader, your husband,

nobody can correct you. Hey man, God keep using me.

Keep I mean, I feel a fresh fire. I'm giving you.

You're giving me direction, and I'm not listening this time.

I'm gonna listen now. I went to conference and oh

my God, faith in the fire shut up in my bones.

I got it. So when you, when you, when you,

when you, when you tell me to do it again,

I'm gonna I'm gonna listen. You want me to go

five and then in okay, cool, I was supposed to.

I was supposed to go the other way, that was

five and out, But I like it out here. But

this is where people see me at This is where

I get recognized. You wanted me to go five and

into my prayer closet, but I wanted to go five

and outside for people to see me. I wanted to

be And how many times have we not caught the correction? See?

Because anytime you actually catch the correction in correction, God's

trying to do something to shape our character. So when

he's correcting us, he's shaping our character. When we catch correction.

I'm trying to tell you why you should catch it.

Then God is trying to do something for our confidence. See.

The more I get character like Christ, the more confident

I am that hold on when he calls me to

a war, even if I have opposition. We've run this

play before. It don't matter who's standing in front of me.

They don't know the play. They don't know what God's

called me to do. So I'm confident that God will

see me through this. See when I catch correction, it

makes me Christ like. I've become more like the one

throwing me the ball. We have the same mind. Let

this mind be in you, which is also in Christ, Jesus.

When a quarterback and a receiver get on the same plane,

I don't even have to understand what he's up against.

If he just goes like this, I already know because

we have the same And the only reason that there

is a correction is because you have a calling. And

how many believers every Sunday, every Monday, every Wednesday.

God use me, God, use me, God, use me.

Man. Why won't you throw the ball better? God? Why

wouldn't you put me in a better situation? God? Why

was I born into this family. God, why wouldn't you

put me in Dallas or Atlanta or La Why would

you put me here? And because I can't catch calling,

because I can't catch correction, I start complaining to the

one who threw the ball.

God, if you would do it like I told you to.

God, if you would give me my wife, I wouldn't

be out here sleeping with everybody. If you would give

me a job where I could actually provide, I would

stop pushing that word, I would stop lying, I would

stop stealing food stamps.

If you would actually provide for me.

Amen. And some people have the nerve to be upset

with God because the entire time he's been letting you

stay in the game by your own credentials, you should

be out because you judge the other receivers when they

don't catch the ball like you would. He said, I'm

letting you stay in the game, and you steal. You

still won't hear the correction. And this is what happens

to all believers. And I'm telling you today point one

of this, were almost done. Catch the correction. You have

to be a receiver of correction. God's gonna correct you

in the middle of a crash out. It's gonna be

when you are already stressed about money, that God's gonna

say you need to start tithing. Y'all saw how there

was no Amen's right there because He's going to use

the moment of a crash out. He said, I can't

rebuke the devourer. I already told you in my word.

The people who honor me with their wealth, that's who

I protect their finances. You want me to change and

let you hit the lottery and do all this other stuff.

But right now, why you still need a miracle. I'm

gonna correct you. Your money will never be right. It

doesn't matter how many zeros you put in the account.

You have too much wisdom to keep disobeying me. Well, God,

I'll make it up at the end of the year.

And he said that means you don't trust me daily.

So you need your money to be able to make

rent now And God saying with that twenty.

Five dollars cents belongs to me, He's gonna correct you

in the middle of the crush now.

And right now, some of y'all are in this exact situation,

and God's saying, hut, and you like, ah, that must

be for somebody else. He can't be talking about me.

Catch the correction. You've been married to that man for

years and all you do is tear him down every

time he messes up. But the Bible tells us that

the faith of a woman can change a household. Right, Well,

I'm just telling it how it is.

I'm just telling you how it is.

And God said, yeah, he messed up again. Speak life over,

tell him who you see. So seeds of encouragement, No

corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, only that which

is edifying to the hearer. If you gotta walk around

me and God saying I know he messed up. I

know he did it. But I'm about to run another

play for you, and I'm gonna correct you in the

middle of this.

And we're standing out here.

Oh Lord, I can't stand your rome. It's been twenty years.

He ain't gonna change, neither are you. Would you catch.

The correction.

Proverbs three twelve. This is why you got to catch

the correction, and you have to have the right perception

on it. For the Lord corrects those he loves, just

as a father corrects the child in whom he delights.

The Lord says, I love you too much to have

you keep running the wrong route, So I need you

to catch this correction. When I was on the football team,

I could tell the people who was gonna play in

the game during on the weekend and who wasn't by

who the coach corrected. There were certain people on the

team that when they messed up, the coach didn't say nothing.

The reason he didn't say nothing to them because they

wasn't gonna play. Do you understand what I'm saying? But

it would be like the coach's son and the star

players like, hey, listen to me. When you do this,

go that way. You don't see the defense, And oh,

Bobo over here and he's like playing with flowers, drawing

stuff in the grass. Coach don't even care because the

investment of correction is proof of a future. The reason

God create corrects us is because he sees how he

wants to use us in the future. Stop sleeping with them,

Stop because I see in the future you are having

to explain that soul tie to the person I've created

you for. And you don't know why you're being pulled

at to stop because I see your future. Stop giving

that money to that family member who's just abusing it.

Stop because you're enabling them to continue in the destruction.

Your love should say no, okay, let me stop. But

that's my baby and he's manipulating you. You have funded

his foolishness in the name of love. Stop in the

name of love. Who said that? Wasn't that a uh

Diana Ross? Stop in name okay and let me help you,

because some of y'all are like, yeah, if God corrects me,

If God corrects me, I will catch his correction. God.

I'll just promise you right.

Now, whenever you throw correction my way, I'm catching it.

He's gonna use a person, an actual human, to provide

the correction. Can can you catch the correction if it

comes to a different vessel. God sent Samuel to correct Saul,

and he couldn't catch the correction. Tell you a true story,

Pastor Will the one that was up here doing all

of our announcements and leading us, our associate campus pastor,

it was about four years ago that we were at

Incredible Pizza and we were there for I think Ava's

birthday or MJ's birthday. We're there for MJ's birthday, and

the Holy Spirit told me that will had a huge

future in our church, but there was one thing holding

him back, and it was his fork. Will was three

hundred and fifty one pounds and was killing himself with

fast food in a fork. And so because I saw

his future, I saw what was in him. I saw

his loyalty and his ability to connect with people in

his study in the world. I saw him, and God said,

You're gonna have to be his pastor right now and

go correct him. This was a defining moment for our

relationship because I didn't know how he was gonna take this.

And right there in the hall of Incredible Pizza, I told, well,

hey man, you gotta lose weight. And right now some

of y'all are offended. And I didn't even say it

to you. You can feel the tension in the room

right now, because what does my spiritual life have to

do with my weights? You get one temple of the

Holy Spirit. And this was just something that I knew

was specific to him. I didn't give a prophetic word

to everybody. I wanted to talk to somebody who said

they were submitted to my leadership, and I corrected him,

and I said, Will, I said, I'm gonna help you

get started, and I said, I got kids, don't waste

my money. Said I'm gonna give you thirty days and

I'm gonna pay for it. And what you do after

that is on you. You know what Will did.

I corrected him. He caught it, and that boy ran.

Hold on. He took what I gave him in correction

and turned it into a testimony. How much what have

you lost? One hundred and forty one pounds? He about

to run in a high rocks and is about to

Kayley got a new husband. Most of you would have

left the church right now. You He knew it was

a problem before I corrected it. It's crazy that the

stuff we know, when somebody calls it out. Now I

have the.

Opportunity to be offended.

But when I corrected him, it's because I saw his calling.

When I corrected it is because I knew he wanted

to be like Christ. I needed him to have confidence,

and I wanted to help him build his character. And

what I'm telling you is, if Christ sends anybody to

correct you in the middle of a crash out, catch it.

All I came to say is it.

Will come at the most inopportune time. You're gonna be

in the middle of the thing, and God's gonna be like, hey,

put your hands up, because I'm about to throw you

some correction. Even why you have opposition, and the only

thing that allows you to really catch correction is when

you have these gloves right here on the back of them.

They got a word on him that the church is

not used to humility. If your hands and heart don't

have humility, you won't catch correction. That's why the Bible

tells us to actually be more humble than we are

anything else. Let me tell you, I can't you, Oh,

I can't grow hands of humility one Peter five to six.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, so

that at the proper time He may exalt you. The

reason why God's correcting you is because he loves you.

And if you put on humility, correction listen without love

creates rebellion, not repentance. The reason I need to tell

you God loves you is because he's correcting you. He's

telling you stop comparing yourself to them, your cut stop

following them. That's a smart correction. What God, why am

I from? I mean, they ain't doing nothing to me

because every time you see them, you compare yourself to them.

And what I'm trying to do is change in you

the ability to not see them and think something's wrong

with you. I want you to become content, and right

now you're comparing, so obey me and unfollow them. But God,

they give me creative juices. No, they give you comparison

and anxiety, and they give you a reason to not

do what I've called you to do, because four thousand

people like it when they do it, and four like

it when you do it. Stop and when he comes

to correct, because you've taken off humility and you're putting down,

put down your hands, and you're like, God, you know what,

I'm gonna do it my own way. Run the play.

You're almost proud now that you're doing it your own way.

All I'm telling you right now Jesus, yeah, Jesus, yes, Sus.

I love our church. Catch the correction, all right. Once

you catch the correction, comply with the command. If God

tells you to go five and in, just do it. Well,

I don't know why I gotta do it. You don't

have to know why you gotta do it. You do

not have to understand to obey it takes faith to

follow Christ's command. When you feel something contrary, Just do

what God tells you to do. Now, you don't go nowhere, heyeseus,

you stay right there. Okay, God, you want me to

forgive Yes, it doesn't make sense, doesn't matter. Comply, comply

with the command that God gave you. The reason why

Saul cancels out the legacy of his children's children's children

is because he would not watch. This is another word

for comply. He would not obey. And when you don't obey,

you're always forfeiting something that God wanted to do. And

that's when you start complaining and you stop complying.

And this is where I got to read.

You just a little more scripture first Samuel, chapter fifteen,

verse ten. This is where the title of this in

the Bible is the Lord rejects Saul. Then the Lord

said to Samuel, I am sorry that I ever made

Saul king, for he has not been loyal to me

and has refused to obey my command. Samuel was so

deeply moved when he heard this that he cried out

to the Lord all night dropped down the verse twenty.

He's confronting Saul now and this is Saul's excuse. But

I did obey the Lord. Saul insisted, I carried out

the mission he gave. I brought back king a gag

when I destroyed everyone else. Then my troops brought the

best sheep and goats and cattle and plunder to sacrifice

to the Lord, your God at Gilgal. But Samuel replied,

listen to this. What is more pleasing to the Lord?

Your burnt offerings and sacrifice or your obedience to his voice?

Does God like you putting a spectacle on that I

obeyed God or actually obeying him? Listen, Obedience is better

than any sacrifice you can make, and submission is better

than any offering of a fat realm. Rebellion watch this.

This is strong Bible, y'all. Rebellion is as sinful as witchcraft.

Some of y'all scared a Halloween and he said, you

disobey me. You are a witch. You are moving in

witchcraft because you won't obey me. Oh God, they don't

want the Bible and stubborness as bad as worshiping idols.

So because you have rejected the command of the Lord,

he has rejected you as king. Write this down. Disobedience

doesn't look demonic, but is the invitation to your destruction?

You think, well, I just didn't do that one thing

God told me. You don't understand that that one thing

was the thing to lead to the thing that was

going to be the thing that does the thing you've

been praying the thing will do. What are you saying,

pastor Mike, You have no idea what's on the other

side of your obedience. In the same token, you have

no idea what's on the other side of your disobedience.

Jesus compares the disobedience to idle worship in witchcraft. So

the next time God says, hey, go talk to them

and share my love with them. I know you're busy,

and I know you're on your way to the movie

and you're gonna miss but I need you to go

tell them that I love them and pay for ten

dollars a gas for them. And the next time you

get in your car and act like that's nothing, he said,

you might as well worship the idol and participated in

a witchcraft ceremony. I want you to. We don't think

about it like that. We said, Ah, I didn't have

the time, I said, oh man, I promised my kids,

and he's like eternities in the balance, and you won't

obey me. I've been telling you for years to start

that LLC. You have no idea what resources I have

available for you to change the community that you're in,

But you just won't obey me. You won't o pay

me to tell that person that you're gonna work with

them for free. I know what you put on your

flyer and how much you charged, but I told you

you were supposed to sow into them. Why won't you,

oh pay me? I've told you to enroll in that school. Well, god,

I'm this old or I don't got them. Why won't

you just do what I asked you? And I found

that when God comes with the correction, most time our

hands are down, our hearts aren't open, and we won't

catch the correction. Peter, though catches the correction, cuts off

the ear. Jesus says, put your knife up. He's They

didn't take his knife, so he still has the same

opportunity to do the same thing again. If it was

some of the people that I run with, they would

have cut off one ear. Then would have went to

the homeboys start trying to cut his ear off they

would have. We don't hear about Peter putting up any

fight in that moment. Again he falls back. Why not

because the situation changed. He falls back at the command,

at the word of his savior. He obeyed. This is

why Peter gets used again and messes up one's wrong

route again. I'll never deny you. Before the lor rooster

crows three times, but he was still in the game.

He was still in the game because he could catch correct.

Have you been benched? Are you on your way out

of the game? God called you too? Because you won't

catch correction. Last thing I'm gonna tell you when you

find yourself in there, you gotta catch correction first, and

then every time you catch correction, you gotta comply with

the command. Last thing, you got to choose to continue

after the confrontation. This is where most people leave the church,

leave the marriage, leave the friendship. You'll cut off game

so strong at the time that there's a confrontation, then

you leave. What if Peter would have been like, never mind,

forget it, I'm domb following you because you didn't have

to call me out like that in front of you

everry body. While you do it like that, though you

didn't have my back, and Jesus like, because you caught

the correction, you fell back and you still stayed.

I'm gonna use you.

I'm gonna turn all of this into something that can

be put in eternity, because correction is a divine tool

by God, not a human insult, and most of us

think correction is something that God's trying to insult us

with the greatest moments of my growth has been when

God has corrected me and told me, watch this might

change course.

You were going this way, go this way, and even.

Sometimes when God calls the play, you're gonna miss. But

were your hands even up to receive the correction. I

promise you that when God calls this next play for me,

I don't know what's gonna happen, but my hands are

gonna be ready to receive the correction. And listen. It

doesn't matter who collapse. We just advanced. It doesn't matter who.

Every time you catch a ball in the opposing players stadium,

they boom. If I listen to the environment and the

atmosphere to get the chew. If I did a good job,

it's when I look at the quarterback and he's nodding

at me, and he comes to the place we advanced,

and then he runs another play and it doesn't make

a difference. I might have missed it. Okay, we get

another chance. That's where grace and mercy came in. But

I had an opportunity because of what Jesus did to

catch another ball, get tackled, get down. Listen. What I'm

telling you right now, Church, is if you're open to

correction in the middle of crash out, God will use

you in a way that you'd never imagine. Church. I

don't want to make you hype. I want you to

walk in humility. I can't tell you how much in

this last season God has corrected me when it felt unfair,

when it felt like I have every right to feel

this way, God said, call them, call them, call them,

y'all know them. This doesn't feel fair. I don't want

it to feel fair. I wanted to create faith, and

today my assignment was very simple. Catch the correction. I

don't care how old you are, I don't care how

long you've walked with God. Until you go and meet

with Him in heaven. He's going to be trying to

refine you and make you more like him catch.

The correction. Standing all over this place, I went.

And looked at what happened after Jesus dies and after

the disciples are trying to figure out how to take

the Gospel forward. I found this little scripture in Acts

three nineteen. That's Peter talking. Because when God throws correction

your way, you have two options. You can either repent

or rebel. That's it. You can either do what he's

saying and turn.

That's all. Repent means, turn the.

Direction he tells you to, or you can rebel and

go the direction that you want to.

Acts three nineteen.

This is the same guy who caught correction. In this moment,

he's saying to everybody, repent. That means turn and turn

to God so that your sins may be wiped out.

The times of refreshing may come from the Lord when

you repent and catch correction. The end result of that

is times of refreshing. How beautiful is it that God's saying, Golly,

they finally got it, They finally obeyed me. They actually

caught what I was trying to give them. I don't

have to run that same play again. I don't have

to keep taking them through that same cycle. They caught it.

It didn't feel good. It was frustrating. He had to

use my mom to do it. He had to use

my boss to do it. He had to use my

coworker to do it. He had to use opposition to

do it. But I caught the correction. You were You've

been trying to tell me for fifteen years. I talked

too much. Caught it. That's what it was. You were

trying to tell me to stop responding out of my

emotions and my childhood trauma. Caught it. Oh, you was

trying to tell me that I'm valuable without being associated

with them. Caught it. Oh, I'm actually chosen by you,

even when I'm not producing. Caught some of y'all working

five and six jobs and steal the ends. Ain't meeting,

and he told you just work those two your children

need you. Well, God, how is this gonna They won't

catch the correction? Let those three jobs go work the two.

I'm gonna give them a promotion. I'm gonna get this thing,

but they will today. Catch Will you be a receiver?

Open up your hands, Come on, open up your hands.

This is the only way you can receive anything. Hands down.

You can't receive anything now at this point, if you

looking at me, test you ready for this ball? Look

at her? See her hands is open. I can throw

this ball anywhere in this arena. Who own it? I

get through?

Whoa whoa, whoa, whoa?

Who want it's? Did you see hands went up in

the direction that I was looking you all ready? Because

you never know somebody's standing on their chair. There's a

there's expectation.

When you know who holds the ball.

I would never throw this ball to hurt you. I

would never throw this ball to hurts you. It's my

love for you. Catch hands up at the at the sign.

At the sign. So many people won't respond when God's saying, hey,

catch this God, I'm too old to go through that.

You've just never caught it before. Catch this correction. I

got something for you that's better and bigger than what

you what you catch this correct. The way you're talking

to your kids.

Is not like me.

Just because you got talked to like that, I'm trying

to Yes, they disobeyed, but they did not deserve that

language and that attitude. Catch the correction. But I'm supposed

to train them. You are training them. Okay, they're gonna

do the same thing you did to your grand babies

because you wouldn't submit. Catch you ready, big dog? Catch

the look at she said, me? You? You, me who catch?

And so many times in this moment somebody you called it?

Okay. Now look, five people went for the same correction,

did you Did you see in that moment they were

all reaching for because with understanding, when you know it's

his love, when God corrects me, when I know it's

his love, y'all ready, hands up, y'all. Look that whole section,

that one that that that lady's got so big. She said,

please don't throw it at me, passing, Please don't throw

it at me. What would happen if the whole church

was ready? What would happen? I know I'm taking a second,

but I just need you to see what would happen?

What would happen if you were ready? A nobody's caught

it yet, but they tried, not one time.

This is why grace and mercy.

This is why we serve God. It's because I may

miss it. I may miss it, But the truth of

the matter is I haven't thrown one ball of correction.

Oh I may miss it, but I haven't thrown one

ball of correction. Hey, listen, gyuess who else re choices

when you obey Heaven? Yes? Who else rechoices when you

do the will of your father Heaven? I saw a

whole section's hands go up because they were willing to

catch correct. When your boss comes and tells you you

could be on time.

Uh oh, it just got real.

When your person tells your attitude has been off this week,

don't automatically get offendi? Could that be the tool? When

your husband's saying, hey, it just doesn't feel like you're

communicating with me. What you mean you ain't. Ain't you

gonna mean me? Oh? No, no, no no? Catch hands lifted. God.

Today we need your help. Father.

There's so much that is going.

On, and there's so much we don't understand, and sometimes

it feels overwhelming that in the middle of our situation

and circumstance, you would still require us to catch correction. Father,

whether it's in our attitude and our conduct and our character.

Thank you for the grace that still keeps us in

the game, that allows us to have another opportunity to

try to catch the things you're trying to teach us.

Your word says.

You only correct those who you love. So today we

thank you for your love that sees us and a

better version than we are right now. Today we receive

your love. Ah, I receive your correction. Thank you that today,

Father God, that we won't be overwhelmed. You are the

only one who gives us the opportunity to turn right now.

And Father, for some of us who have been running

the wrong route for years, today we repent and we

come to you and we're asking you, what's the play?

What do you want me to run in this next season?

Who do you want me to play on the team

within this next season? What route am I supposed to

take for my career, for my children, for my marriage,

for my relationship? Father, how do you want me to communicate? Today? Father, God,

I'm letting you call the play, and whatever you say,

I will obey. And Father, even if it's hard to

receive it, I will not be stubborn or prideful in humility.

I will catch the correction in the middle of the

crash out. If you're in this room right now, and

you know that there have been situations where you have

purposely fumbled the season that God has called you in,

and today you're saying, God, I want to repent.

I need you to lift your hands. I want to

pray for you right now.

Yep, Okay, this is this is this is intentionally saying God,

I need you to come help me with this. Father,

you see the hands that are in this room and

that are lifted online all over the world today. I

thank you that the one thing that you cannot refuse

is a contrite spirit. A broken heart and a contrite spirit.

We are saying right now, we missed it God, and

we are turning to you. We're turning away from our ideas.

We are saying, not my will, but yours be done.

Give us direction, will run the place. Father. I'm thanking

you for supernatural rebuilding of things that we broke. Thank you,

Father that you can restore the years that are disobedience

has stolen. I thank you for mending relationships. I feel

your presence God. How thank you Father, God for canceling

out even the debt monetarily, emotionally that has been created

because we've been running the wrong play. Today, God, we

repent and we'll catch the correction. Sure. Yeah, thank you Lord,

that we won't be hard headed anymore, stubborn defiant if

you said it we believe it. And if you have

to correct us, it's not because you hate us. It's

because you see our future. Thank you, Lord that you

have plans for us, plans to prosper us and not

to harm us, to give us a hope and the future.

Thank you that relationships and marriages will be mended because

we won't look at each other's correction as an indictment.

I thank you that correction from my spouse is just

another love letter from God. Let me see them and

where you see them. God, I'll no longer have a

fence for the messenger, but God, I will receive your message.

God's doing surgery on people's hearts right now, y'all. He's

gonna start revealing to us areas that he is. Like, Yeah,

catch this correction. I want to be altered here at

the ault. God, you're gonna have to cut something off.

It's not gonna be an ear, but it might be

an attitude. I want to be all here at the ad.

Creating me a clean hut. Take me back to this.

Here's my offering.

It's me. I wanna be all here at the creating me,

create clean. Take me back to here I am. Here's

my it's me, just one more time. That's our prayer

creating and take me best. Here's my offering. Here, it's

me God, I want to be. If you've never received Jesus,

listen to me. This is the only way you'll even

catch the correction is you have to trust the one

who's thrown the past. He's already taken care of your eternity.

Let him actually help you live this life. It's the

reason he came, according to John, that you have life

and life to the fool. So today, if you want

to receive Jesus, I'm telling you, it's the greatest decision

you could ever make. It took me from being a liar, manipulator,

addicted to pornography, had so much dark stuff in my heart,

and it allowed me to see Him as the one

who knows the direction for my life. I can't keep

following them and think that I'm going to get to

where God's called me to be. I need to go

back to the creator and the designer, and today he

wants a personal.

Relationship with you.

We're about to go home. But I didn't preach this

whole message that somebody could go and not have the

opportunity to have their life completely transformed by meeting Jesus.

Today.

If that's you, on account of three, I just want

you to slip your hand up. And if it's for

one person, everything that has ever been done to get

us to this moment was all worth it, and all

of Heaven will begin to rejoice because of one person

that gave their life to Christ. That's how much he

loves you. If you want to receive Jesus, whether you

are in this room or watching online in your home

right now rebroadcast in a jail cell, today is the

day of salvation, and you've been going the wrong way

and it's time for you to catch this correction or

catch this compassion, because his correction is his compassion, and

it's moved him so much that before you even said

yes to him, he said yes to you. If that's you,

you know today is the day of salvation. I need

the church to begin to start praying because eternity is

in the.

Balance right now.

Today you are going to be transformed forever. Number one,

This is God's day of your transformation. Number two, your

name is gonna be written in the Lamb's Book of Life,

and your security is in heaven and in Jesus.

Three.

If you want to receive Jesus, lift your hand up

in the air. I see you, my brother, I see you,

my sister. I see the whole road right there. I

see you, my man. I see you. Come on, y'all,

I see you, my brother, all the way up. Transformation

in church, this is what we celebrate. Put your hands

up in the chat glory to God. Hey listen, hey, listen,

you just caught it. Salvation is a free gift that

you have to receive. Hands lifted all over this place.

We're going home. But this is the best part of

the service because Heaven's turning up right now and we

are too. This is the benefit of every believer.

That you don't have to worry no more.

You just have to receive and obey. A transformation church

where a family, everybody prais, nobody prays alone. So say God,

thank you for sending Jesus just for me today.

I admit I've sinned and I need a savior.

I repent and I turn to you. I believe you live.

I believe you died and you rose again with all

power so that I could live in freedom. Change me,

renew me, transform me. I'm yours forever in Jesus' naves. Amen, Hey,

can we sell it? Can we celebrate all over this place.

We want to say welcome to the family. And if

you just made Jesus your Lord in savi y, I

want you to text at save to.

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And next week God has given me the assignment to

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To be there.

And as we leave here, I just want to sus

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I just feel like God is gonna allow.

Us to catch some things this week that are gonna

change us forever. Amen. Hey, everybody walking out, turn around,

I'm about to tell you the ball.

Look.

Whoa whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa.

Do you see the response when you have an expectation?

What if part of how God loves us is correcting us?

You ready for it?

Hold on there it is by there, he got it.

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