Keep The Window Open: Increasing The Window Of Tolerance // Triggered (Part 3) // Michael Todd

Welcome to Transformation Church podcast, where we represent God to

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

Would you get your Bibles out and would you go

with me to Ephesians chapter four?

And we're going to start.

Today I believe in We'll just start at verse one.

And this is the start of week three of a

series we're calling Triggered. Has anybody been blessed by this

series so far?

All? Right?

So, in a world where everybody seems on age triggered

about to crash out, I felt like we needed to

as a church figure out what does Christ have to

say about.

Our crash outs?

Where is Christ in the middle of all the crisis

that's going on?

And God has.

Taken me on a unique journey to lead us as

a church. Watch this not into them discovery but self discovery.

Did you hear what I just said?

Because everybody is trying to figure out how to change

somebody outside of themselves. If those people would just, if

my family would, just if my husband would just and

let me just tell you something, you can't change them

the only person that you can control is.

You.

And until we stop putting the magnifying glass on everybody

else's issues, we will miss the transformation that God is

inviting us all into if we were.

Just look in the mirror.

So this entire series is not about changing them.

I'm so sorry.

People been having the same complaints since Jesus.

Left the earth. Y'all know, there's nothing new under the sun.

The disciples argue, read each other, the government's argue.

All of this is the same.

It's just the first time you're feeling it like this

in your lifetime.

But this is the same rerun.

That God's saying, I'm giving my people a way to

actually manage their minds, emotions, and wills in the middle

of this, and this is what I want us to

progress through today. Ephesian chapter four, Verse one. Therefore, I

a prisoner for serving the Lord. Think about that phrase.

Literally.

He's saying, I'm gonna serve the Lord no matter what

I'm chained to this and most of us don't want

to be chained to nothing. But if you're gonna be

chained to something connected to something eternally, okay, he says,

I beg of you to lead a life worse.

Of your calling.

Last week we talked about our capacity with was calling.

God wants us to expand he said, for you have

been called by God, always be watch this humble, underline it,

and gentle be patient with each other.

Watch this. This is some heavy scripture.

Making allowances for each other's not gifts, not talents. We

always make room for people's gifts. And tell oh, you

know little bag bak, she is so good at sink.

Have you made an allowance for their faults?

Okay, this is you, He said, make allowance for each

other's faults because of your love. Make every effort.

To keep yourself united in the spirit, binding yourself together

with peace, for there is one body and one spirit,

just as you have been called to one glorious hope

for the future. I started to look at this Ephesians

for and I was like, Yo, this could be a

checklist for our every day, like how we leave the house.

We could have an Ephesians for a checklist. So I

want you to write this down the Ephesians for checklist.

This is in order.

Number one, You got to answer your call. Every day

you wake up, answer the call that God has put

on your life. If he told you to go and

be the light in an area and you're like, but

I'm sick of this.

Job, answer the call still okay.

If he told you to go into that school and

actually show love to people that other people have forgotten about.

Do not hang up on God because you're uncomfortable. Somebody

say answer the call. Second thing, walk humble. I think

it was Prophet Kendrick Lamar that said hold up, sit down,

be humble. Then it says live gentle, How do you live?

And would it be described as gentle? I'm not gonna

preach through all these points, but i just want you

to know when I wake up, do I answer the call?

Walk humble, Live gentle? Watch this and be patient. Some

of us got the fuse that's so short that as

soon as anything or anybody does anything or anything, y'all

know what I'm talking about. And God saying, hey, it's

a characteristic of mine that you be.

Patient. Then it says give love.

Fight for unity, find peace, and think of eternity.

Every day. You could give yourself.

A little checklist, put it somewhere on your phone. Today,

I'm gonna answer the call, walk humble, Live gentle, Be patient,

give love, fight for unity, fine piece and think of eternity.

And if you would just set that framework for you every.

Day life, a lot of the craziness that you go

through would be eliminated immediately. You don't need no more Bible.

Do this for the rest of the year. No I

need a fresh word. You ain't do the old one.

It's still and I think some of us have become

so intoxicated on consumerism that we don't put anything into implementation.

We can just do Ephesians for today. I'm gonna answer

my call.

And today, when i know I'm right and they talking crazy,

I'm gonna sit there and I'm like, that's good, that's good,

and I'm gonna walk humble instead of walking in every

room and telling you I'm the man.

Or I'm the woman. I'm gonna live gentle, and I

hear the men like I ain't know. I'm a man's man.

The greatest thing about a man, especially when you start

to walk into who God's created you to be, is

that people rely on you because they can come to

you at any moment. Our Father, God is the one

that says, come to me.

Not all who got it together that are weary that

are heavy burden. He said, I'm the God.

That can, with my mighty hands, who created the entire universe,

still holds you and bottle every tear.

Look at that dynamic. Look at the dynamic.

Of our God who can call mountains out of dust,

but still carve you in the palm of his hand.

Live, gentle, be patient.

This is going to keep us from many of the

crash outs that are right around the corner. Pastor Mike,

what are you saying? Tomorrow, somebody gonna do something. I

just want to prophesy tomorrow, somebody's gonna do Hold.

On, I feel the un m today after this service, somebody, oh,

somebody you love. It's potentially what just happened. I went underwater.

It's something happened a little bit. Look, yeah, just give

it to me. I'm going check check check chick, check

check check. Can y'all hear me today.

That that that could have took me out? Did you

hear that that the enemy was like?

Uh huh, but today, but but how how do we

live determines? Watch this?

If we actually know him. Don't tell me you're a Christian,

Show me you're a Christian. Don't post that you're a

Christian live. Okay, I'm already out and already offended some people,

so help me by writing this down. This series is

to encourage watch this mental health through spiritual help. The

reason I have to talk about you being triggered because

I think your mental health is suffering because of your

spiritual immaturity.

So I have to I.

Have to challenge you to grow up or you will

always be fighting with the same cycles. This is not

the enemy trying new things on you. This is the

same cycle since high school. This has been the same

cycle he's been running on you since middle school. You

got more money, more gray hairs, you got more investments,

same cycle. And it's because you can mature numerically and

not mature spiritually. How old are you spiritually? I didn't

say I'm a grown man, no no, no, no, no, no,

I know, but I'm saying in maturity spiritually.

Do people know.

You as you still pop off at the moment, or

maybe you don't pop off because all the crash outs

aren't explosive, some of them are impulsive.

Do you shut down?

I think shutting down is even worse sometimes than exploding,

because nobody knows where you're at and Some of us

don't even realize that we are walking around with people

and we don't even know what triggered him. We don't

even know what change. But literally emotions, in words, in isolation,

in and what ends up happening is that still exposes

our lack of maturity, because what you cannot communicate with

your words will come up out of you.

With your actions. Are you missed it? So past, Mike,

what are you saying? This is all introduction? Get ready.

Unaddressed triggers usually lead to a crash out. Everything you're

avoiding right now is a ticking time bomb.

Everything that you don't bring to.

God and say here, I am still struggling with comparison.

I know at my big age, I should be over this,

but I don't like that my sister keeps getting these

promotions and it seems like I'm stuck in the same place.

God is fine with the truth of where you live

and until you.

Can be honest and acknowledge that many of us are

literally setting ourselves up for something that God wants to

protect us from. So put the definition of crash out.

On the screen real quick.

This is some nudes vocabulary that has come.

To us in the last few years.

And I know some of my older saints think crash

out and they think go to sleep. But this is

a new dispensation. As the youth would term it. A

crash out is when a person can be suddenly uncontrollably

angry or act impulsively, potentially leading to negative consequences. This

many times shows up as emotional or physical shutdown, usually

from burnout or over stimulation or being overwhelmed. Has anybody

been overwhelmed the last six months at any time? Okay,

let's be honest. It somebody's like six months? How thought

you mean six minutes? The act of surrendering. Watch this

all reasonable control of your emotions and response in order

to react to how you are currently feeling.

It could be.

A strong indicator that they are struggling with their mental health.

Watch this and need support today, Pastor mic is just

trying to be support to you. All I'm trying to

do as a pastor is be support. Why because the

church usually don't talk about this. What we do is

we pray for the symptoms of people, and we hope

that they don't come back and ask for.

Prayer next week. Okay, okay, I'm gonna tell you the

real deal.

Hopefully the symptom of that situation I don't ever have

to deal with again, and hopefully your faith is encouraged.

But some of these people don't just need prayer, they

need therapy. We believe in theology and therapy some of

y'all because y'all think people, some of you you you need.

To unpack the trauma.

Watch this with somebody with tools you didn't get, and

you sitting up there bound right now, it's like this

is for somebody else. Hear me when I tell you

that the impact Do y'all know the word trauma is

also used, not when we're just talking in the mental

health field. It's used when somebody has taken blows in

like a car crash, a boxer when he gets hitting

the head, they call that trauma. It's the impact of something.

Watch this that many times you had nothing to do with.

It just happened to you. And my my desire is

that you wouldn't be stuck in the fact that it happened,

that you would honestly become one of those that say,

because this happened, now I'm gonna let God you to

transform me into another version of who I was created

to be.

And I just see too many people in.

The body of Christ under the sound of my voice

right now.

They're stuck.

And today I feel an assignment to get you unstuffed

from what has been keeping you in a cycle. Somebody

shot at me, a man. So this is how it

happened for me. Last week I preached to you about

your capacity being expanded, and how God, if he's calling

you the great things, that means you got to expand

your capacity.

Why.

I have a beautiful sister in love that is a

counselor and a therapist.

And she said, Mike, I was screaming in the.

Inside while you was preaching, because what you were talking

about was the window of tolerance.

And she sent me a.

Graph with all of these words around it. Y'all, I've

been the reason I look like a college professor at

an HBCU today is because I've been studying.

This week.

I went down this rabbit hole of figuring out the

window of tolerance, and I started to study in and

as I was studying and reading stuff and listening to

the gods, who I couldn't pronounce half the words that

they were saying. When I was doing a ted talks

and everything. The Holy Spirit tapped me on the shoulder.

He said, Michael, I have windows too, And I was like,

what do you mean? He said, look up Malachi and

see when I talk about a window. And watch this, y'all.

I got some revelation for you. Okay, Malachi three ten.

Now warning, this is a scripture that is usually used

to teach people about tithing and offering. Today we're not

taking those second offerings. We don't ever take second offerings.

If people want to give, they give like this is

not I want you to catch the principle that's buried

in this scripture. Okay, so don't think money yet. It

applies to that.

It has so.

Many facets to this scripture. But I saw the principle.

I'm getting excited like I never saw it before. Watch this.

It says, bring all the times into the storehouse so

that there will be enough food in my temple.

If you do.

Somebody say, if you do, that's a condition, says the

Lord of Heaven's army. Just in case you forgot who

I was, I'm.

About that light. I'm him. That's what he said. Right there.

He said, I will open the windows that no windows

Heaven had windows, But right here says it, I will

open the windows of heaven for you, and I will

pour you out a blessing so great you will not

have enough room to take it in. Somebody should just

thank God right there that that's even in the Bible like.

And then he gets gangster with it and says, put.

It to the test. I dare you to do it.

I dare you to tithe. And what I saw here

is I've only.

Seen this scripture as a tithing scripture. But God said,

look deeper, Michael, and so I just read it over

and over and over again. And what I found out

watch this is the window of blessing is.

Opened by obedience.

God could have said anything before that, but this particular time,

he says, tithe, and if you do that, I'm gonna

do this, he said, I bless when people obey.

Okay, stay with me.

The window of heaven is opened every time we do

what God says for us to do.

Love your enemy.

If you do that, God says, time to open window.

God says, hey, take a day off rest on the sabbath.

Some of y'all ain't rested in sixty nine years.

Did you know you were sinning, it's the longest commandment

with explanation, and he says, I can do more with

six of your days than you can do with seven.

But when we obey what he says, windows open, blessings

coming through. I started looking through the scripture, y'all.

I don't have time to go through all of it.

All of the places where God gives a command, a condition,

and a consequence.

Write that down.

A command, condition, consequence, he says something, says a condition,

if you do this, I'll do this, And then whether

we do it or not is our choice. But if

we do, we get the consequence of our choice. In

what he commanded, a command, a condition, our choice, a consequence.

Let me help you understand.

Because some of us were bad, us me, some of

us were bad when we were little, and anytime we

heard the word consequence, it meant bad. But when I

looked up the word consequence, consequence actually only means it

is the response of what has happened. So you can

have a good consequence. If you invested your money in

Apple in nineteen seventy eight, the consequence of that is bullied,

Like do you understand what I'm saying? You paid right now,

so I don't want you to think consequence bad. I

want you to think consequence outcome. So in Malachi three,

God says the window of blessing is opened by your obedience.

You can use that anywhere.

So if God says anything in his word when you

obey that, imagine God going to a window with your

name on it and saying, yep, I can bless them.

Now there's more. I can actually do what I promised them.

I can do.

Because they watched this. Weren't just a good person, didn't

just go to church watch this. They obeyed what I

said to do. This is a message of maturity. It

doesn't do anything to just be a hero of the word.

You must be a doup. Okay.

So this is what I want to help everybody understand

is that as I was studying through this and I

thought about it, and I was talking to some of

my brothers about it, every window that can be open

also can be club. And I started to think about

how many times I did what God said to do

but I didn't see the blessing. How many times that

God told me to do something, I did what he

said to do, but there didn't seem to be no

blessing on the other side of what he said to do.

And God was continuing to challenge me that maybe it

wasn't him who stopped the blessings from coming. Because each

window has two sides. That the same way that God

could open it from this side is the same way

that I can close it from this side. Kay, two

sides of the same window. I obey God. He opens

the window.

I don't see the blessing because I closed the window.

God, I did what you said yep, about to bless you,

but I don't like the people you did it.

You said you was gonna do it with, So I'm

gonna close the window.

Watch God, thank you for blessing me with these kids.

I thank you, but I don't have the emotional capacity

to talk to them.

You want to use me in mighty ways for your kingdom.

He starts to open up the windows.

But because our watch, this window of tolerance is so low,

we start to close the very place that God wants

to provide a blessing for us. So walk with me

for a second. The window of blessing is opened by obedience.

The window of tolerance is expanded by opposition or opportunity. Okay, Pastor, Mike,

what are you talking about. You're using a lot of

heavy language. I know we don't use this all the time,

but hear what I'm saying. Your window of being able

to tolerate things, things that are not favorable, has to

grow or you will not be able to live a

full Christian life. I don't know if I can say

it any planner than that. You will not be able

to help who you need to help. If you can't

get over Petty's stuff. You will not be able to

speak a word with a pure heart if you do

not mature and be like I already got grace for that.

Remember the scripture said make allowances for each other's I

know this is tough for you to hear right now,

but God is not gonna put you into utopia.

Then to be a Christian.

He's not going to take all the bad people, crazy people,

messy people, sloppy people away to then be like now,

you have a perfect environment to serve me. He said,

I need you to mature so that you have an

increased window of tolerance.

It's because when I get.

Ready to open up the windows and bless you, if

you do not have a wide window, you will shut

the blessing down that I was trying to provide for you.

Okay, I'm gonna have to walk them all the way

through this.

So how God expands the window of tolerance is by

sending somebody annoying. You're praying for peace, He's gonna send

a storm. God, why does this feel like aha?

Moment? You want? You want joy in your life.

Grief usually comes because you have nothing to authenticate what

you're asking for.

If you do not have opposition, you.

Are not a winning team playing nobody.

Oh my, what if.

Somebody we're champions, We're champion. You didn't face an opponent.

How are you a champion if you didn't have opposition?

And how are we Christians if we don't have opposition?

Help me? This last season of my life has been

about me learning to not despise opposition because opposition is

the authenticator of what is really on the inside. You

have no idea if you have peace until you're in

the middle of a stoop.

You have no idea.

If you truly have love when hate is all around you, you.

Have no idea. If you really believe God, tell everything says,

don't believe him. This is the mark of a Christian.

Life, opposition is not our enemy, it's our authenticator. And

people have been telling you this fairy tale that somehow

God has left you. If you're in the facing opposition,

and it is a signed that He is actually with you.

He said, I'll never leave.

You, or for sake you, I'll be with you until

the end of the age. And if we don't have

the right perspective, we're calling things that God could use

the end. Write it down in a point. Some of you,

this is going to trigger you. But our relationship with

discomfort has to develop. If you don't develop your relationship

to discomfort, you will be under developed when your season

comes to be useful. Have you ever seen somebody with potential, like,

let's just even think of sports, like a young like

in middle school, they dunking on people six point nine

in middle school, poor baby like dunking on people like

potential scouts everywhere, people giving them Adidas and Nikes and

and they're doing that based off of potential.

But then you take that same child.

That doesn't even know how these long limbs were yet

and you put them with college players. It doesn't matter

their potential. They are about to get mollywomped. Not because

they aren't good and could be good, they're just under.

Could it be that some of the things.

You've been walking through you talk about I.

Take authority over everything that.

Yeah, I feel that that is what the word says.

But you can't even have a conversation with the children

you birthed.

You've never said I'm sorry.

You have the authority to command angels and you don't

have the authority to say sorry. You hear what I'm

saying to you, It's because there's some place in your

spiritual walk that is under.

You're not a bad person.

If you're underdeveloped, you're you're You're not a You're not.

You're not I'm off. It just needs to.

Be recognized because until you recognize it, watch this, you

will never work on. What you don't recognize is even

an issue.

Pessor Mike, why are you talking this straight to us?

Because some of y'all really think you okay, like you

really have brought your own like lie, I'm fine, I'm

an independent woman.

I do my own thing. I n d ed you

know how to saying I don't need no man, I

don't mean no man.

I'm you're doing all that on Instagram and TikTok looking

for like and really what you want watching Ruth and

bow as seven times shout out to Von Franklin number

one on Netflix. Good job, buddy. But they at home,

that's why they're watching it because what they really want

is bow hass.

Do you understand me?

But without acknowledgment, without self awareness, without coming to God

and say if there's anything in me that's not like you?

And that means that our window of tolerance many times

is too small. And so Church, I need to talk

to you about tolerance because it's very simple definition.

I want you to write this down. Tolerance.

Watching this, this blessed me is the capacity to endure.

I need to increase my ability to have the capacity

to endure things. Some of us, at the first sign

of it not going good, we out cut off games

so strong and we hide behind statements that have been weaponized,

like I'm protecting my peace, and I'm not saying that

you shouldn't protect your peace, but could you be protecting

it so much that you don't build up any resistance

against anything. Because you're so protected, nothing is actually helping

you become anything. And I see so many of this

so many people weaponizing language. That is for listen to me,

severe cases of trauma, not regular life. In regular life,

somebody's going to try to rob you of peace as

long as you wake up. So what is your solution

not interact with the people that God tells you to reach,

go into all the world and make How will you

make a disciple of somebody you won't have a discussion with.

While I'm protecting my peace.

So now you're being disobedient, protecting something that God never

wanted you to protect because he said, I am your peace.

I'm the prince of peace. I need you to get

some endurance. I need you to be able to stand

in there and then talk to you crazy and you say,

I love you anyway, and I'm praying for you.

Matter of fact, I'm gonna prayer for you right now.

Can I hold your hand? You don't want me to

hold your hand? Well, Father, in the name of Jesus,

I thank you that there's no distance in prayer.

And I give this person. When are you going to develop?

And you will never develop? If you're running from resistance,

you will never develop.

Watch this. If you're running from I'm critique Church.

People can't take the truth, y'all. Tell everybody that get

up and sing saying.

Little Ronnie, saying little Ronie, you get so good.

Ronie sucked. And we know, y'all this starts a little

and I understand encouragement. But little Ronie's thirty nine now,

and all he's heard all his life is effort equals excellence.

I'm gonna tell you, I'm sorry.

Effort does not equal excellence. And all these people out

here getting a feelings hurt because somebody actually told him

the truth. You are not good. You're not good. That

is an opportunity with the truth, It is an opportunity

to come to another level.

Of the battle hand. Just let me just tell a

story on myself.

I was I've been playing drum since I was two

years old, and as a young man, I had a

natural gifting to play the drums. My mom and dad

supported me in that, they bought me drum sets, they

did all kinds of stuff, And when I got twelve

years old, I started feeling myself. Now I'm being honest, twelve,

I was my mom and dad. We would travel all

over the country, and I was sitting grown men down

off the drum set like you don't understand how it

feels as a twelve year old to walk into a

church and you look over and you see the drummer.

He's like, mm hmm, I have to eat him alive.

I'm just telling you musicians understand what I'm talking about.

And my mom saw that.

Pride in me and she said, the next five cities

we go into, no matter.

What is happening, you will not play the drums.

I was like what.

I was like, she can't.

She's not gonna do that because she really loved the

drummer to be.

You know, she's luning dott if y'all know, ma'mna be

She's okay.

So we go in the city of the city and

she wouldn't even look in my direction.

I'm like, oh my god, she's serious.

And what that taught me was humility and what it

honestly opened the door to watch. This was my development.

When I came back home off the road that year,

my dad asked our former minister of music, pastor David

Smith at the time, he said, do you know anybody

that can teach Mike something? Because he's good at the drums,

but he there's another level. And literally he gave him

a number to a guy named Arthur Thompson, and Arthur

Thompson would would would play drums for Wayman Tisdale and

all these other big people. And he had this drum

studio in the basement of the of a building downtown,

and my dad took me there and Arthur put me

on the drum set, beautiful drum set. He was like,

let me see what you got, your little fella, And

I showed out I did. I hid every drum three

thousand times. Do you hear what I'm saying? I was

the animal in this moment, and he said, cool, yep,

a lot of potential. He said, for the next six months,

we're not gonna play the drum set at all. And

he gave me a pillow. You're gonna learn the fundamentals

on this pillow. And it almost broke me. I was

trying to convince my dad, why are you paying forty

dollars every time I come here.

To torture me.

He's not even teaching me the drums. I'm practicing on

a pillow. I could do that at home. I was

literally at the point of breaking until I didn't realize

it at the time, but every rudiment. Every pair of

did on every single role was the conditioning that I

needed to actually put it into play on the drum set.

One day, when I was sitting behind the drum set,

because I endured the process, it was like an entirely

different world opened up to me on the drum set.

I was like, I've never been able to do this before.

Where did this come from? It's because through opposition, my

window of tolerance was expanded.

Church, When are you gonna develop?

When are you gonna stop saying that just coming to

church is not enough?

I go to church. There are some devils that go

to church too. Okay, let me stop.

Somebody say, increase me Lord, Let me be clear, because

I don't. I don't want the word tolerance or our

capacity to endure be confused with abuse. Because I know

somebody was like, he's saying the tolerance not you getting

punched in the face. The metric for this is we

tolerate everything Jesus tolerated. So if you want to know

what Jesus tolerated, that means we're gonna have to go

to his book. But what you tolerate needs to be

defined by the truth of God's word.

Write that down.

What I tolerate needs to be defined not by culture,

not by my family, but by the truth of what

God's word says. So we have to tolerate what Jesus tolerated.

And here's a.

Good word that can help you understand it. Embrace what

leads to eternity. So let's talk about it. Take a

second and think about what Jesus tolerated. Just walking with

his twelve disciples. Jesus tolerated a liar being in his group.

Judas was lying from again, but he did not kick

Judas out on day one. He literally let him have

a position. He actually gave him watch this opportunity to change. See,

depending on where your perspective is right now, you thought

Judas being a part of the group was.

A bad week called by.

Jesus as a leader, because if you knew he was

gonna sell you out, you should have just took him.

Out before he took you out. Stop.

The Bible tells us that Jesus's character is I'm pretty

sure I know what you're gonna do, But on a

slim chance that something in you could change, I'm gonna

still give you the opportunity, and I'm gonna believe for

your transformation. Every single day. He literally tolerated somebody who

knew was gonna portray him walking with him daily. Who

have you cut out? Who have you totally disconnect?

I'm not saying you.

Don't draw boundary, But what I am saying is maybe

some of the very things and people God's called you

to you are disconnected from because your window of tolerance

is too Jesus I can't go through all this stuff,

but Jesus was okay with conversing with sinners.

Christ Man one two three online.

It just seems like you have no tolerance for somebody

who's lost.

Duh. They don't believe what we believe.

Duh.

They blasphere like guys.

But we can't have lunch with them, we can't have

dinner with them. This exposes the weakness of our faith

when your conversation with somebody that doesn't follow Christ makes

you wobbly about your stance.

Was it even a stance in the first place. If

being around a.

Drink makes you think you got to get lit, as

the young people would say, did you ever.

Really have freedom from it in the first place?

If conversating with the opposite sex makes you think that

you're gonna be in a compromising position. Chris, you gotta

increase your window, because if you don't increase your window

of tolerance, you don't give others the time.

You needed succeed.

See, everybody selectively forgets or has selective amnesia. And you

remember all the good things God did for you, and

you remember how many times you did the Bible study,

But do you remember.

Climbing out of windows?

Speaking of windows, do you remember what you needed to do?

You remember how.

Many times you said yes, I'm all in.

God and went all backwards? Has anybody ever been in

the state of like I'm trying? But WHOA? And I

don't know.

Maybe it's just the human experience that God doesn't let

us walk away from who we used to be without

bringing somebody in our future like how we used to be.

And I have.

Found some of the most intolerant people are people who

get around versions of themselves from the past. You see

that pride in them, and because you know what that

did to you, you don't speak to.

It as somebody who's been to it.

You outcast them like something's wrong with them, knowing that

that thing was in your DNA and what I'm saying is,

if you could ever get a window of tolerance bigger

than you being okay with them still in the mess,

you could be the key to their transformation.

You could save them some steps. You could tell them don't.

Step here, because if you step there, there's danger right there.

But with a low window of tolerance, you throw out

who you supposed to help. Galatian six, I gotta end y'all, y'all, y'all.

Window of tolerance for this type of teaching is low.

I got to I'll try again next week. This is

why it says, dear others and sisters, if okay, let

me just say this. Oh oh Jesus, this might be triggering,

might mess with your theology, but Jesus.

Tolerated sin. He hates it, can't stand.

It, wants to be far from it. But he tolerated

it so that me and you could actually be redeemed.

Think about it, So, why can't you tolerate knowing somebody's

in sin?

Why?

Why why can't you? If Jesus, remember, we're only following

our Rabbi, We're only following I'm not clapping forward, I'm

not celebrating it, but I don't have to run away

from you because I know.

You in it.

If he tolerated people's sin, why can't you No.

I really want you to think about this.

Why can't you know somebody is cheating on their spouse

and still I know somebody. Oh oh, whoa, whoa, oh wow.

Some of the most saved people in the room. Hear

what I'm telling you. Hear what I'm telling you. I'm

not saying we condone it, but can you commune with

them in it? And most believers can't. Most believers would

have never ate at zach Kias's house. Most believers don't

have the anointing of Anonius. Y'all remember Anonius right looking

at me, Like Anonius, It's okay, you don't have to

know the Bible. Yet we were progressing, okay. And Annius

was the guy who was commissioned by God because I

believe he had a high window of tolerance because Saul

was killing Christians. He was a Christian assassin. He was

literally getting government contracts to go into areas and kill Christians.

He literally is known for this.

Has a encounter with God on the road of Damascus.

He goes blind and God is saying, Paul, why are

you doing this to me?

He like, O Lord, who He's blind? And then God,

at the moment of his.

Transformation, God speaks to Anonius and literally Anonius is praying

and God's like, hey, I need you to go lay

hands on that dude who's an assassin. That's where he

would have lost most of us. That's where he would

have been like, yep, never mind, God, I heard you,

but I ain't doing that. He literally says, God, Okay,

I'll do what you asked me to do. It's okay, baby,

it's just a baby in the back, y'all. All right,

come on, I'll do what you.

Asked me to do.

And Annius has an anointing that is able to lay

hands on somebody whose hands killed his brothers. He was

able to have enough tolerance to say, in three weeks ago,

without a word from God, I killed you. But right now,

instead of killing you, I'm gonna be a part of

your deliverance. Instead of being the one to take you out,

I'm be a bridge.

To help you transform.

Without a word from God, I beat your tail, But

with a word from God, I'm gonna help you reach your.

But the only reason he can do that is because

he had enough tolerance right.

In order to increase your window of tolerance, you're gonna

have to tolerate principles, perspectives, and people in process.

I'm gonna say it one more time.

If you're gonna increase your window of tolerance so that

the window can stay open for your blessings, you're gonna

have to tolerate principles, Principles that you did not create.

God created these. He said, to love your enemy. If

I was righting it, it'd be something different. Slap your

enemy three times on the left side, then slap them

again on the right.

You know I'm saying like, but I didn't create it.

He didn't just say love me, He said, pray for

him that despitefully you, I have to embrace.

I have to endure.

I have to wrestle with the tension of not liking

you because I know.

What you said. And I still have to say, Father,

give me a second, Lord.

Because sometimes you got to take a second because I

can purify my mind. But if all you can say

is Father, bless them, I'm y'all.

I'm trying to make it as simple as God.

M touch on, Come on, God.

Be God in their life.

Y'all, God be God, whatever you want to do, from

success to smite.

I'm down.

It's hard, but remember what I said. It's commands, it's conditions,

and then it's consequences. He gave the command to do it,

there are conditions that happen when we do it.

And then there's consequences.

And that's why I'm telling everybody that's here, this is

time for us to keep the window open. Charles, come

help me real quick. Keep the window open. So let's

just go to that this time. I'm ending because I

don't want you to ever forget this.

Okay.

God is coming to all of us. Yeah, I'm good.

God's coming to us because we obeyed. And He's saying,

I got blessings that you don't have. Women, you can

take the whole thing off God, blessings for you. I

got things I want you to have. I want you

to hear me differently. Get them headphones.

I want you to hear me differently. But at the

moment of God. Is God scared at this moment? No, no,

no no.

But God's wanting to hand the blessing through and He's like, man,

thank you Lord, I can hear you differently. Thank you

Lord that there's something you want to do. He wants

to give us protection. Give me that cover, that hat

right there. He wants to give us protection. He wants

to the windows still open. When the windows open, there.

Is a free flow of blessing.

Because I have the capacity to receive. God wants to

change my motor transportation.

But I can still see the blessing. I know that

God hasn't for me. I didn't even have to pay

for it.

But because I have disobeyed him, because I.

Want do what he says, but I act.

Like I do, and then when I do, he opens it.

But I say God just to so it's still open.

And the Christian life makes us feel like as long

as it's open a little bit, but you're missing.

The blessing, it's still not room enough, and it's not

until my obedience. It's inner act all. So I can

still get the little stories for my pimples, for my blemishes.

Look what, That's why many times blessings are still coming.

But depending on our window of tolerance. I'm praising for

this when something else was available. I'm thanking God for

the chapstick. But there's a vehicle available, And God says

I'm not going to keep playing with them, so I'm

only going to give them what they can handle at

the level of God. But I'm not ready to say fully, Yes,

I know I wrote it down on my crazy faith card,

and I know I'm believing you for more, but I.

Can't stand people.

So you can give me the book and get it to.

The world, but I don't want to promote it. God,

give me the message for the world. I obey you.

I open, but I don't want to talk to people

about it. And so what God will do is He'll

be like, well, let me see if I can get that.

I can't give him that. Yeah, I can give them

some nerds. Thank you Lord, whole time. Hold time, listen, God,

expand my business.

Expand my business.

God, I'm gonna saw a crazy faith offering seed that

you told me this is crazy.

I'm gonna expanding.

God said, you obeyed me and you started tiring. I'm

gonna open the windows of heaven and he starts to

expand you and you like, God, thank you so much

for all of these people, and thank you for the

insurance I have to pay, and thank you for the

taxes I have to.

Never mind because there's two sides to every blessing.

Pasadarius Daniel calls it the backside of the blessing. And

many times because our window of tolerance.

Watch this.

You didn't know when you prayed for a million dollar

income that that meant forty percent was for taxes. Now

you're in tax evasion, praying for God to deliver you

from something you could have actually been prepared for.

And now you're living a life of secrets.

But then God says, hey, be honest, just obey what

I said to do. And then you obey and and

he opens the window of heaven again. You're like donuts, God,

I thank you for donuts. I know this example is

going kind of long, but I want you to realize, oh,

thank you.

Makeup what else is there to whom much is given.

To who I have not increased my window of tolerance.

I don't have what's required for that type of blessing.

Church. It's time for us to expand.

Everything shouldn't take us over the edge.

Every time you see something on the news, you shouldn't

be like n.

I have developed my window of tolerance for people talking

about me.

It's okay, now I understand it. This is what I

prayed for.

I prayed for impact, and at the moment of impact.

You also get.

Unwanted opinions, so I could when God's blessing us. Since

twenty nineteen, God has opened the windows of heaven for

our church, and literally the enemy three years.

Ago tried to get me to shut it. There was

a there was a they don't even know. There was

a couple of things.

I could have done that would have made my flesh

feel real good, but it would have shut the But

what I said was, I'm gonna keep the window open.

I know this hurts, but I'm gonna keep going because

somebody else gotta sit in a chair over here.

I'm gonna keep this window open. I don't care what

they say about me. I'm gonna keep this window open.

I don't care who comes and who leaves. Somebody's baby

needs some day person, I'm gonna keep this window. The

crazy thing is, with all that stuff sitting over there,

I didn't know if all this would fit.

Through this window.

But somehow God knew if I just keep if I

just kept the window open, there would be provision.

There would be.

Space for everything. I mean, hey, guys, what if none

of this stuff was for me. Is there a single

mother in this room right now here? I saw your

hand first in the back. Come here, a sweetheart in

the black. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right there. Yeah, bring

your baby.

Put the rest cup of there.

Hey, I need a couple of guys to help me.

I need a couple of guys over here to help me.

Oh yeah, you got a baby that's right at the age.

Here we go.

I want you to take this and take it back

to her seat right there. I want you to take this.

I need some more help.

This is this is more room than she has to receipt.

Sweetheart. I want you to come here. You you come here.

They know where your seat is.

Let's get that to me. Yeah, you come on up here.

You just come right here.

Hey, Charles, that's some money too, That some cash?

Huh yeah, yeah, give me that. Let me helding this

to you. You get that to her right there?

Yeah?

What if? What if.

The windows of heaven being open, that's pouring out a

blessing that I didn't have room enough to receive it

because I didn't need to receive it, since I don't

know what's been going on in your life. But that

was a sign that God is about to supernaturally provide

for all of your needs.

I dare somebody to rejoice with her out of some

of y'all. Don't forgot that child will not know lack.

That child will have everything that.

It needs, emotionally, spiritually, financially. Standing all over this place.

Cheap the window open. Say it with me, Keep the

window open. I gotta make allowances. I gotta give margin

for people to be crazy that can't rob my piece,

steal my joy because I'm not shutting the window. Because

my window of tolerance is too low. Cheap the window open.

If you know there's an area that you need God

to expand your capacity, would you join me in just

raising your hands right now, if you're online, if you're there,

may be a.

Coworker, a family member of a situation.

Today, we're going to ask our good God.

To come and help us where we are weak.

Father, I thank you for who you are today, and

I thank you Father God for giving us the ability

to admit where we are right now. We need your

help Father, from many of us, me included. Our window

of tolerance has been too low for certain things.

God. We've cut people off. We were supposed to.

Pray for we've severed relationships with people we were called

to serve, and Father, even many of us have disconnected

from places and people you wanted to give us dominion. Today, Father,

would you cause us to endure as a good soldier

so that as we endure, our faith may be expanded.

Father God.

Today, God, I'm asking you to do a work deep

down on the inside of me and everybody that's listening,

that we would not forfeit our calling because we don't

keep the window open.

Father, even for those in this room who.

Heard this message in Malachi that need to start putting

you first financially by tithing. God, I thank you for

the courage to move beyond Father fear and to obey

your word. The command has beautiful consequences. That you would

open the windows of heaven pour us our blessings.

That we do not have room enough to receive. God, just

give us the courage to obey you. Today, I pray

that my brothers and sisters are taking steps forward and

they're growing and their ability to trust you.

And to trust in your promises. There's a sweet presence

in this room right now. I'm going to rerun the

last scripture to you to let you know that tolerance

is not just enduring forever. Tolerance is about an appointed time,

and God sometimes needs you to last a little longer,

stay a little longer, pray a little longer, hold on

a little longer, because he's working something out, because he

did it with us. Two Peter, chapter three, verse nine

had said, the Lord isn't really being slow about his promises,

as some people think he is.

He said, no, he's being patient for your sake.

He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but he

wants everyone to repent. The reason God's given some of

us some more time is because he said, I can't

promise you you got a bunch of more days. The

reason why passing Mike go on so hard right now

is because this is your day of salvation. Today is

your day to repent. That means turned. Today is your

day to say I'm going all in for Jesus. Today

is the day saying I'm putting this down. This no

longer will be the place where I run to for peace.

He's saying, could you could you just give me your

life so then we can use it as intended. He said,

I'm being patient, and if you're in this room and

you've never accepted Jesus. There's thousands of us in this room,

and there's tens of thousands online.

Right now, I just want to.

Let you know that the reason you're here today is

because God's been patient with you.

Gesus.

The reason you still got breath in your body is

because God's been patient with you. And my Bible tells

us not to take the grace of God for granted.

Do we just go on sinning?

Of course, not thank you for your grace. But today

I'm gonna make a decision. If you're in this room,

and you need to decide to put your life in

the hands of the only one who can handle it, Jesus.

On the counter three, I just want you to lift

your hands. I don't care who you are, where you've been,

where you were last night, and what you were planning

to do tomorrow. Today is the day of salvation, and

I'm telling you this is the greatest decision that you

can make.

Putting your faith in Jesus Christ.

We're about to go home, but right now, this is

the moment that's more important than anything because it has.

Eternity in mind.

I know we're thinking about today and tomorrow and next week.

But God is thinking about.

Where will you spend forever, and he says, I want

it to be with me. And I'm excited about this

because it took me from being a liar, a manipulator,

somebody who was addicted to pornography, had very dark things

in my heart. I share my testimony openly because if

it had not been for the Lord on my side.

Where would I be? I do not know, but where.

God has brought me to us not because I'm perfect.

It's because I'm progressing. And today I want to offer

you the only religion that doesn't tell you to work,

so that God can potentially look at you. It says

that God already came and gave him self while we.

Were yet sinners.

He died just for us, and all we gotta do

is accept.

What He's already done.

On account of three, if you want to make that decision, bold, strong,

with courage, I want you to shoot your hand up

in the air. One you're making the greatest decision of

your life. Two, your name is gonna be written in

the Lamb's Book of Life forever.

Three shoot your hand up in the air.

If you want to make Jesus, your personal Lord and Savior.

I see you, brother, I see you, system, I see oh.

Come up, Transformation Church, I see you. I see you

up there in the balcony. And more than that, God

sees you. I see you, my man, it's your online.

Put your hand in the chat. I believe that God

is about.

To do something. A young lady.

I gotta I gotta mo, we gotta bless her more.

I don't I don't know what that means.

But after I'm and I just saw it as clear

as day. Yeah, you could go ahead and rejoice like

it happened to you, Like.

You could do that.

Yeah, there's a part of me that was like, why

did I do that in that moment? And then God

just literally told me. He says, that's what I do

for all my children.

I pay their debt, the debt that sin created. He said,

I pay that.

Ly. Everybody. We're at Transformation Church. We're a family worship team.

Y'all come back up here. Because I feel the presence

of God in this place right now.

Something is changing.

Hearts are moving, there are things that are about to

be rearranged. God's increasing some of y'all's window of tolerance

things that used to set you off. It ain't gonna

take you over no more. You're expanding, your heart is growing,

things are moving for you.

Ain't your Lord.

Okay, but we're a family at Transformation Church. So nobody

praise the prayer of Salvation alone. So could everybody out

loud say God.

Thank you for sending Jesus just for me today. I

give you my life. I believe you lived, you died,

and you rose again just for me. Today I repent

and give my life to you. Change me, renew me,

transform me. I'm yours in Jesus' name. Amen, Hey, can

we celebrate with the many? Heaven is staring a party,

and so do we listen to me? Listen to me.

I'm telling you God is about to start increasing you.

You need to get around other people. Listen to what

I'm about to say that you will allow to speak

truth to you. Healing comes in community, You got it.

Some of y'all run out of here so quick after church.

I'm not going off on nobody that's leaving right now,

not this week. But what I'm saying to you is

that part of your healing is in lingering.

Some of y'all.

Y'all need to chat offline with somebody that you see

and you love their comments.

Hey, DM them, text them. Why are you saying that?

Because God did not mean for us to live isolated lives.

He meant for us to live in community. And some

of this stuff is hard to wrestle with if you

don't got no friends. I can't tell you how many

times Brian Aaron and Jay and John and Charles a

Abbey we.

Wrestle with stuff together.

And I just feel a call for everybody to commit

a doing afresh to community. The rest of this year

can be the best of this year, but it happens.

In the context of other people.

I declare, you won't spend the holiday alone this year.

God's gonna give you community.

I don't know who I'm talking to, I don't know

why I'm saying it right now, but even husbands and wives,

you've been isolated. I don't want nobody in my business.

Part of your blessing is people being in your business.

Thank you for maturing us God. Next week, y'all we

going to another level. Watch this over again, Watch the

last three weeks over again. Send it to your spouse,

send it to your friends, send it to your family,

because I believe next week we're turning a corner into

something that I believe is gonna help all of us

live out what God has called us to.

Amen, Father, bless these people. I thank you that this

week we will keep the window open. We won't let

anything disrupt what you've called us to.

Give us grace, give us peace, and Father God, let

us serve you with our whole hearts.

We give you all the glory, all the honor, and

all the praise in Jesus' name. Somebody say, we agree,

we expect Amen.

Hey, if you need prayer for anything, come to the front.

If you want to stay and worship for a second.

The team is gonna lead us in a song, and

I'm telling you until next week go out and live. Hey,

if you're online, I'm about to come pray with you

in the back.

Stay on.

I want to pray for your specific situation. Go out

and live a transform life.

God bless you.