Capacity Is Calling // Triggered (Part 2) // Michael Todd

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Do today's message turn to John sixteen, verse thirty three.

John sixteen, verse thirty three. This word gonna be tight,

and it's gonna be right. I'm gonna get you out

of here, but I gotta deliver this word because some

of y'all are very triggered. After all that praising, after

all that worshiping, one thing could happen after this that

turned all that shouting into sinning. Y'all want to be honest.

I don't want to I don't want to kill your joy,

but I want to be real about it. Okay, how

many people have just finished reading a Bible, just finished print,

and then thirty minutes later, it ain't even thirty minutes later,

and you in some foolishness you ain't supposed to be in.

You're watching something that got you feeling some type of way.

You're saying some things. Where's the authentic church? This morning?

All right? Has anybody had a great Sunday morning and

a wild Sunday night, not on Sunday. Has anybody just

finished telling your kids how much you love them? And

then they do one thing, turn over one cup with

liquid in it, do whate and literally the whole tide

can change. It's because what I've found out is that

many of us are living our lives very close to

the edge. We don't have much margin. Watch this for

anybody's mess ups. If you don't bother me, I'll make it.

And if I'm not late, I'll make it. And if

you tell me my outfit is nice, I'll make it.

And if you lie to me when I tell you

to tell me the truth, I'll make like. It exposes

that as believers, I'm not even talking about people who

don't know God. I'm talking about people who have a Bible,

listen to podcasts, worship to elevation worship. Why are you

so close to the edge? Why are you so triggered?

Why are you so close to a crashed out? And

most of us have not taken a pause? Somebody say pause,

We haven't taken a pause for his presence to shine

a light on what he needs to change in us.

We are so ready for others to change that we

will not say, God, I know them, but what about me?

And so in John I see God being as real

as he can be with his sons and daughters, and

he's talking to the disciples and talking to all the

people at the time. And I love this about Jesus

because he does not want to bait and switch us.

He doesn't want to paint this picture that everything's gonna

be perfect and everything's gonna be fine. I'm doing worry.

I'm gonna save you from everything. He says. I rather

tell you the truth so you can learn how to

handle it. And this is what he says. He says,

I have told you these things so that you may

have peace. So the whole reason God is about to

say what he's about to say in human form as Jesus,

it is because he said the outcome is peace. But

let me tell you the truth. In this world you

will have trouble. It could be said, in this world

you will be triggered. In this world you will deal

with trauma. He is being honest. Watch this so that

we learn how to handle You cannot handle anything you're

not honest about. There's some of us that won't admit

there's a problem. So we never ever deal with it.

Some of y'all so scared to go to the doctor

because you thought that prayer healed you when you actually

could be healed by something that God created to help you.

But you don't want to know the truth. I bind

hot blood pressure in the name of Jesus. You still

about the dog like just because you bind it doesn't

mean that them levels a But you won't be honest.

So you would rather live in an illusion and delusion

than be delivered. So today search in week two of

this triggered series where we're putting Christ in the middle,

in the center of our crash outs, I want to

just lay a little more foundation so you can know

what to do if you find yourself watch this in

the middle of a crash out. Crashing out right now,

are about to walk into a crash out, he says.

I'm telling you you're gonna have trouble, but take heart,

because I've overcome the world. Write this down as a point.

Exposing the problem is a prerequisite to true peace. You

will never have true peace until we expose the problem.

You can keep going to those family gatherings and act

like that uncle is not an issue, and nobody in

the family's gonna talk about it, and we just that's

just uncle JJ and that's just Uncle j J and

not just uncle JAJA. And we've excused it for years

after years after years after years. But until there's actual

conversation about the problem, there won't be any true peace

until you deal with the issues that you are feeling

and the anxiety that you're walking into. When you walk

into certain you can act like you have true peace,

but not the one that God's given because he's saying,

what the trigger's not supposed to rob your peace. The

trauma's not supposed to rob your peace. It's not supposed

to take it away. And that's why we're saying this

as the premise of this entire series. Unaddressed triggers usually

lead to a crash out. Some of y'all been holding

on for thirty two years. You ain't crashed out for

thirty two years, and you think for some reason that

it will never happen because it haven't happened yet. Have

you ever heard of a midlife crisis that is also

a crashout? When you literally take everything that you've been

working for building towards and people, there's an epidemic of

men and women just leaving their relationships thirty eight years married.

It's like, dang, you should elite you are you close

to the end? You should really stay to see what

the end gonna be. But they're having these crash outs

in these moments of losing it because it's watched this

unaddressed today, I'm asking you what are you carrying that

you've never addressed? You don't got to tell me. But

I have a one more follow up question. Is it heavy?

Is it making you slower? Does it make you hesitate

when it's time for you to step into what God says?

Do you?

I don't know? Do you have to drag some more

stuff in? Well, let me give you the promise of God.

In Matthew, chapter eleven, verse twenty eight, it says, then

Jesus said, come to me, all of you who are weary,

that means full of toil, full of tension, full of

back and forth, he said, And those who carry heavy burdens,

which means unwarranted thought patterns. How many of us have

unwarned in thought patterns? Why am I even thinking that?

Why am I even going down that trail? I heard

last night a little kid in our church saw the

lightning and their parents had to convince them for tons

of minutes that they weren't gonna die because they went

down a whole trail of how that lightning's gonna kill

them in that house. And it may be trivial, but

how many of us go down unwarranted. Probably they don't

even like me. They didn't even know you was there. Cappy,

y'all understand what I'm saying. How many stories have we

told ourselves? How many things have we disqualified ourselves from

because of our own insecurity? God said, if you're doing

all that stuff, come to me and I'll trade you.

I will give you. Say this word with me, it's

a four letter word, say rest. Take my yoke upon you.

Let me teach you because I am humble and gentle

at heart, and you will find rest for your souls,

that your mind will and emotions. For my yoke is

easy to bear. And the burden I'm gonna give you

it's like, so if you're walking around heavy, God says, today,

I want you to trade me. This week has been

a week full of evaluation. For anybody who was here

or watched last week's sermon, how many people been evaluating

your triggers this past week. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, and

we're gonna keep doing it for the next nine ten weeks.

We not letting. I'm pushing the gas on this thing

until somebody gets transformed. Okay, but this is the first

point that I would want to make to everybody in here,

as you've been talking about your triggered all week, and

you've been telling your kids stop doing that because I'm fired,

and some of y'all been telling your coworkers and even kids.

My kid's been using it all week, Dad, that triggers me. Okay, cool,

you listen to the message. Let me say this. Everything

is not a trigger now. No. I just introduced the

concept last week, and I'm not gonna tear the whole

thing down, but I need us to bring us into

some clarity. Everything is not a trigger. Me and my

wife was talking and she was like, Mike, some people

aren't triggered, they just have a pet peeve. And I

was like, m girl, you look fine when you start

defining my message as well, and she said, like, smacking,

that is not a trigger. Smacking is a pet peeve

because a pet peeve is about preference. I would rather

you not do that, but it's not really attached to

a trauma. And some of us have been asking God

to deal with a pet peeve when he's requiring maturity

from you. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Let me say it

like this. Many of the things you're labeling a trigger

are actually trivial. This ain't no trigger, an this is

an exposing of your lack of emotional maturity. You're not triggered.

You just ain't got no room for nobody else to

do something you don't like. You are living with no

capacity in your life. So when they do something that

is a different preference than you, it kits you over

and I'm triggered. No, you're emotionally unstable.

You don't have any maturity.

We can disagree on a movie. I know people who

will crash out over the rating of a movie. You

didn't think Black Panther was the best movie you ever made. No,

this is not me, because don't in the comments. I'm

not saying that. I'm just saying and at the moment

of a preference difference, because I have made no room

for you to have a difference of opinion, I let

my pet peeve be the thing that causes division. So

watch this pet peeve is just an invitation for me

to emotionally mature. If they do something that is not

my preference, I do not have to respond in a

way that ruins my witness. Hear what I just said.

If what they do is not my preference, I do

not have to respond. I can have the emotional and

spiritual capacity to let you do that and not get

a rise of me that ruins my witness. And there

are too many people right now that are letting their

preference wouin their future purpose. Some of y'all need to

scrub your whole social media accountants because somebody's gonna pull

them back up one day when you have another level

of platform, and they're gonna be like January sixth, two

thousand and two, this is what Jerry Heismeyer said and

a moment Wouins are witness for a lifetime. Passor Mike,

why are you saying this? Because there are real things

we need to deal with and they are the triggers.

But please don't get caught up on the petty because

some of y'all been all week I'm triggering. Stop is

it really attached to a trauma or is that an

opportunity for you to mature? Okay, all right, they don't

want to hear the real today, so I'm gonna have

to keep going. Okay. Ezra Chapter three, verse ten, I'm

gonna share a story with you, and I hope it

leads into the next layer of our transformation. It says

when the builders laid the foundation of the Temple of

the Lord, the priests and their vestments and their trumpets,

and the Levites the sons of Asaf were symbols, took

their places to praise the Lord, as prescribed by David,

the King of Israel, with praise and thanksgiving. They sang

to the Lord, he is good, his love towards Israel

endures forever. And all the people gave great shouts to

the Lord. Because the foundations of the House of the

Lord was laid. But many of the older priests watched this,

and the Levites and family heads, the Ojs, who had

seen the former temple had seen what it used to be,

wept aloud when they saw the foundations of this temple

being laid, while many others shout voted for joy. No

one could distinguish the sound of the shouts of joy

from the sounds of weeping. Some were weeping, some were shouting,

some were celebrating, others were crying. And it said you

couldn't distinguish them because the people hadn't made so much noise,

and the sound was heard far away. I want to

start with this thought, two things can be true at

the same time. I'm trying to increase your capacity today.

Two things can be true at the same time. Say

it with me. Two things can be true at the

same time. The ogs who had been in the Promised

Land doing everything that God had called them to do,

then were taken out of this place of home and

drug to Babylon, and they were there for seventy years

and had to literally lose their language, lose their culture,

lose their names, and conform to this new way of living.

They get freed and go back to the beautiful place

that they used to live in, But it didn't look

like what it used to look like. Y'all remember Solomon's temple.

It was so beautiful and so intricate, and certain types

of wood and gold. It was so beautiful that when

people came it took their breath away. Now they're coming

back to a place that used to be a sign

of beauty, and now the foundation is being laid again.

Follow me, I'm going somewhere. The young men who were

born in captivity, their parents and friends might have died

in captivity in Babylon. This is the first time they free.

So they come and they're seeing Solomon's where Solomon's temple

was for the first time. This is the first time

they able to turn up without nobody's They are celebrating

because it's true what I've heard about all these years.

I've never seen with my own eyes. But this is

where my ancestors were. This is where David was and

his son Solomon. This is beautiful and one moment triggered

two responses. Have you ever been in a moment where

everybody else's response wasn't your response? Have you ever been

in a moment where somebody is shouting for joy while

you are weeping about what it used to be. I

want to let you know that this is a principle

that God wants to teach us about capacity. Because some

were triggered to cheer while others were triggered to cry,

Some were filled with celebration while others were filled with sorrow.

You want to see this in real time? Just turn

on football today and when one of the teams scores,

half the stadium is like God, and there's a guy

with the beer belly and he has his shirt off

and he has the team painted on it. And then

on the other side they're like, oh no, you can

see it in real time. And what we hear on

TV is just cheers. But some are crying and some

are filled with sorrow. Because two things can be true

at the same time. And what I want to let

you know is the goal of the Christian life. Watch

this is to grow in our emotional capacity. What if

the ogs started crying and the young people is like,

what's wrong with y'all? Man? Shut up, bro. We made

it out. They had to have capacity to celebrate and

let their tears still fall. They're the same people group,

but they're looking at something and it triggers two different emotions.

Please don't let your celebration rob them of their tears.

I'm trying to teach y'all. If y'all can read between

the lines, I need y'all to know this is a

word for our culture right now. Don't let their tears

rob you of your celebration because two things can be true.

That just went over everybody's head. That's why Romans twelve fifteen.

I'm about to teach this thing. It says, as a believer,

we should rejoice with those who reach you. I don't

even gotta be happy about what you're rejoicing with. But

I have the emotional capacity to rejoice with you, because

my Christian life is not at the edge. I'm fool

enough to have room to rejoice with you. I didn't

get the blessing, but you did. Glory to God. Thank you,

Jesus God, I know you on my street. I thank

you that you're doing a miracle, and that you have

the emotional capacity to rejoice with those who rejoice. And

if you're always mad that God bless somebody else, your

emotional capacity is too small as a believer. And it says,

don't just rejoice with those who rejoice. Watch this one.

It's gonna take big boy drawls. Here we go mourn

with those who I ain't got nothing to cry about,

but somebody I love, somebody I see. If you don't

see those children in the Third World countries out there

begging for food, and if something in your heart is

not broken. You don't have enough emotional capacity. Okay, yeah,

well that ain't happening to me. We need to pray

God break our heart for what breaks yours. Today. I

want to let you know that your capacity is calling.

Matter of fact, make that the title of a discernment.

Your capacity is calling, because some of y'all you are

ruining the calling of God on your life because you

don't have enough capacity. You would never talk to somebody

who differs from you. You don't have enough capacity to it.

That's what's killing Christians today that you can't sit across

for somebody that lives different than you and sit and

listen today's story for fifteen minutes. You ready to interrupt them,

proselytize them. They're just trying to tell you their story

and you have such a little emotional capacity that now

you've listened to them and you're angry it didn't even

happened to you. They're telling you why they don't believe

in God. They're telling you why you why they have

chosen a same sex marriage. They're telling you why they

drink the joy and you getting infuriated why because you

have low emotional capacity and the very person that God

has called you to, he has to rip you away

from because you would do more damage in their life

than bring healing, because you have not expanded to the

place where God could call you into a dark place

so that you could be the light. But I'm telling

you God is about to expand his church. I don't

know who I'm talking to today, but God is saying

it's time that somebody say, stretch. How we gonna reach

the world and we can't stand them? How in the

world are you going to minister to somebody you can't

even take a picture with, You can't even sit across

a dinner table from We're crashing out because our emotional

and spiritual maturity is so fragile. We don't have the

capacity to make room for they issues. I'm not even

saying I want you to stay there. I am a

living witness of what God can do to transform somebody's life.

But I won't even call you back because it's like

I can't talk to them no more. What God sent

you in there to actually be the change agent that

you're getting so triggered, getting so mad, You're getting so frustrated,

and so I just want to show you that it's

time for you to stretch. Most Christians have this level

of emotional capacity. I don't know if you see this

rubber band right here, but this is the rubber band

that keeps my little daughter's braids together. If y'all know

anything about Black Girl magic, these rubber bands right here

are the real MVP. How does that stay together like that?

This right here? But the truth of the matter is

it's very small. This doesn't have much capacity. So when

you come and you get triggered and there's something little

that happens, it's little, but it's still really tight. And

if this is where you live at the emotional capacity,

when something real happens, when I really need to deal

with an issue, there's nothing that can happen except it break.

Y'all didn't even see. It was so small you couldn't

even see it.

If this is the issue, and I gotta get it

to here, and it doesn't matter how much I try,

how much I pull, as soon y'all can't even see

it on the camera, because as soon as I do it,

it's so small.

And most people are trying to raise their kids with

this much emotional capacity, trying to lead a church with

this much emotional capacity trying to save their neighborhood. With

that much emotional capacity, why can nothing be held together?

Is because you need to You need to increase your

ability watch this to be moldable, flexible, elastic around situations

that you may not prefer. And some of y'all may

have just a little bit bigger. I don't know if

you can even see this. It's a clear it's a

clear rubber band. Because some of y'all be trying to

hide how you really trying to do stuff. Oh, y'all

will undercover. Christians been at that job for sixteen years.

Nobody know you a believer. You ain't pray for nobody

in sixteen years at that job. Let your light shine right, Okay,

So you same thing. And then what happens is some

of us, you know, we believe in the Word, and

we start doing what God says for us to do,

and we get a little more regular looking. This is

about the standard size of a Christian life. We should

be able to get around some papers. We should get

around a poster too. And it works until God calls

us to something bigger than what we've been used to,

and that tension begins to make us be just a

little more, oh irritated, and just oh shoot. It used

to work at my family church. But I don't like

big churches. It's a mega church. White this it's a

mega so it must be a mess because it's no

your capacity to deal with people and to communicate and

to email. At the family church, you would just do

whatever you wanted to do, and that's why they wanted

you out of there. And then you came here thought

you could do what you did over there here and

we don't play like that. And now, oh excuse, oh dang,

where did that come from? You making a YouTube about

your issues, not mine? You triggered because you haven't learned

that there's protocols and procedures and you need to talk

to people and you need to forgive and you need

to have grace. And so as soon as somebody tries

to I'm not even cutting it. I want you all

to see the blades, not even doing this. All it

has to do is touch, boom boom boom, touch. I

love my church. And then some of us start reading

the Bible and do the twenty one days of praying, fasting,

and we stretch out a little bit. But there's somewhere

around this Christian walk that you start to get comfortable

and you say, man, I got enough to deal with

most things. And then you get that diagnosis that actually

challenged your faith. One of your kids stopped serving God.

You was raised in church, you know the things of God.

You got all things all over your pillow. Y'all know

what I'm talking about. Dad, Am I dying? Sorry? That's

my own trauma. Brenda Todd is my mother. You could

be in the middle of the night having a sweet dream,

is it bit? What is happening then? And when it

gets tight, crash out, crash out, crash out, crash out,

And then some of us graduate. Now we're leading others.

That's crazy. I was like, Oh, you ain't seen nobody

stretch that far. Isn't it amazing when people actually have

the capacity to deal with others. What I'm trying to

show you is that all of us should be trying

to grow in our ability to stretch because in this

world we will have trouble. And He's saying, could you

handle it? But then I saw this, God said, what

if I could get a church full of believers that

could have this level of spiritual, emotional elasticity that you

had enough to handle a situation that went from the

top all the way to the bottom. What if you

had enough grace not to just go that way? But

what if, oh, y'all ain't seen nobody stretch out and

be a real believer? But what if I didn't have

to give up and crash out when the situation got tight?

What if there were some believers who had enough emotional

capacity to deal with other people's false troubles, mess ups, shame.

What if we matured and people could tell us to

our face who they voted for and it wouldn't change

the way that you treated them. Oh, but you ain't

got no capacity for nobody else. As soon as you

know who they voted for, I can't fool with them

no more. You know what they believe? No, they just

told you who they voted for. Honestly, they don't know

any of the laws. The truth of the matter is,

when you're getting that voting box, you'd be like many

money mother kids talking about I know, I know Governor's

susans thing did It's like you don't know who that is?

Is that just me? Or have anybody else just been

like I like that name? I had an odd name. Okay, Hammah,

write this down. I'm almost done. Emotional capacity is fueled

by spiritual maturity. I'm gonna say it again. Your emotional capacity,

how much you can have room for others, is based

on how you let God grow you up. I mean,

Jesus literally had enough emotional capacity to let a thief

roll with him. If y'all knew Judas was a thing,

he already knew what he was gonna do when he

was like, yeah, you can come and you can take

care of the money. Y'all can't stand somebody that he's

in your family taking five dollars from you. You'd be like, no,

I can't go to their birthday party. They don't need

six dollars seventy six cents. No, tell no, We're not

buying Junior a gift until they Mama take me back.

It's like, dang, but do you know how much emotional

capacity you have to have to share dinner, use your

connections to let them come in, take them into places

with you, and you know they a thief. He knew

Peter was gonna cut off in the ear. You're making

more work for me, Peter. You think you're doing the

right thing. I'm gonna do a whole sermon on it,

because God corrects Peter in the crash out, and some

of us won't be corrected. And he literally is like,

bro I'm about to go to the cross. I'm sweating blood,

and now I gotta put the man. Sorry about that,

Broo put his ear back on. Where's your emotional capacity

for the children you ask God for? You? Pray God,

if you would just give me these kids, God, I'll

serve you. I'll do this. And and now they ask mom, mom, mommy, mother,

my mom, mother, momsie, And how many moms said, I'm

changing my name. I'll tell you that these are the

ones you asked for. Can I really tell you what

we're losing as a church because we don't, We're letting

our triggers control us. Is the lack of emotional capacity

in the church is killing evangelism. Do y'all know what

the great commission is to go into all of the

world and do what make this? You cannot disciple somebody

you won't even have a discussion with. So many of

us are divided by what we don't want to discuss,

that we are killing the one thing everybody needs. Jesus said,

tell everybody the gospel, tell them about me, and it's

like us telling God. Yeah, but I'm triggered by the

way they think. I'm triggered by that little you know,

like slang that they talk like when they start like

clockhead and like ugh, and they're two little gangster and

I don't like all the and it could be little things.

I feel unsafe. Really, do you feel unsafe? Are you uneducated?

Some things aren't about feeling unsafe. That's lazy to say

you don't know these Half of these young black dudes

that look like thugs is raised in gated neighborhoods. How

you know I was one? Do y'all understand what I'm saying.

All they're they're trying to culturally sit in And so

the reason I could buy a platinum food boom, which

was not tea some of y'all'm dating myself the play

y'all remember that in Fat Albert Foobi. Y'all, come, don't

leave me up here, y'all remember the only reason. But

it may be uneducated. You may not have enough emotional

maturity to say, oh, they're still finding themselves. I remember

when I was searching. I remember when my identity wasn't

in Christ yet. Oh God. So my question for everybody

to go home and reflect on for real today is

your lack of emotional capacity? Shrink you're calling? Is God

going to have to disinvite you to rooms because the

packaging of who's in there it does not fit the

description of who you can connect with. Is God gonna

have to say, uh, not Jen, It's got to be

all upper middle class white women, because she won't be

able to connect with that young Latina who's struggling because

she just had a baby out of wedlock, knowing that

Jen had a baby out of wedlock. But the Louis

and Gucci is covering it up. Now, Okay, it was

nineteen years ago and their kids are now at private school.

But how quickly do we forget that God puts us

together in situations not because of where we are, but

where He sees us being and where he wants us

to be and how he wants us to connect. And

this is why I'm asking us as a church, it's

time for us to increase our capacity. You're so triggered

by your own stuff that you won't even be able

to move past you to the real reason God placed

us here for others. Do y'all hear what I'm saying

to you? And so I'm telling you today your capacity

is calling. This is my triggered phone, and this is

my mature, emotional, mature phone. Every time you're triggered, you

get to pick up one of these phones. You know

what today is? Today? I got time. Hello, you cheated.

I saw you out at the mall. Another woman. I'm

telling pastor Natalie, that's you alone down, n I got video,

I got receist. Oh, I hope you got no I'm

let me put this. Oh, y'all gonna leave me up here? Broma.

That was edited for some of y'all. I can't pick

that phone up often. Yeah, I'm telling you the truth,

because if I pick up the phone and I act

out of my flesh, uh uh, my capacity is calling.

These are both trigger phones. They both have the capacity

to get a different response out of me. But if

I pick up emotionally mature Hello, passor Michael, I'll see

you again at the mall. And I'm telling you right now,

I got video. It's in three D. How about the

metal glasses? I've seen everything. God bless you, ma'am. That

is not the truth, and I would I would act. No, yeah, no,

I understand what you what you think you saw? I understand,

but please lose my number. No no, no, no, no, no,

no no. I'll tell Pastor Natalie myself that I was

at the mall with her sister. No, no, no, thank you?

No no? Oh yeah, God, bless you transform church out us.

I could have responded an entirely different nothing out on

that call ruined my witness, who knows that she might

be showing up here six months from now, broken and

ready for transformation. Do y'all hear what I'm saying? But

your capacity is calling? Will you grow? Oh? No, hold

on one second. Hello, Hello, You're a false prophet. Excuse me.

You're a false prophet. You're leading people astray. You do

not preach with the word of God. You are a

liar and manipulator. Let me just hang this phone up.

Not even gonna respond. The only way I could put

that phone down. So I've been answering this phone a

lot more. Matter of fact, what some of y'all need

to do? You need to break that phone? That's mike.

Why Because if I don't even have the option to

respond to it, and then why says this is gonna

be hard no matter what they say.

Okay, you're a false prophet, you're leading people astray.

Hey man, all I'm trying to do is obey God.

And I know you might not understand it. And I

promise you I get some things wrong. But would you

pray for me? No? No, no, not later. Right now.

It's a lot of pressure, it's a lot of eyes.

Most sundays, I don't want to do it. I didn't

ask for this, I was called. All I'm saying is

your capacity is called. If I couldn't handle the persecution,

if I couldn't handle the comments, if I couldn't handle

I'm still human, it's still it's still more. If I

could just once a year pick up the other phone

and get it out of me, I'd be good. So

I'm gonna end us with this Hebrews chapter six, verse one.

Because your capacity is calling, pastor Mike, why are you

going this hard on this? Because you are forfeiting the

next level of your promotion, because you will not grow

in emotional capacity. God said, I can't put you there,

because as soon as somebody disagrees with you, you gonna lose

your witness. Will you let me change the DNA of

how you respond? Will you stop reacting because of the

trigger and then respond in a way of transformation because

you dealt with the trauma Hebrew six'. One this is

for all of. Us, therefore let us move beyond the

elementary teachings About christ and be taken forward into what

is this? Word? Mature can we stretch out beyond this little?

Well i'm A baptist And i'm A, methodist and my

families of, this hey. Stop the only way The bible

tells us that they will know that we Are his

it's because of our love for One of'm not does

it look like any of us belong To god the

way that we love in each other right? Now could

it be because our emotional capacity and spiritual? Capacity, watch

this is too low for Where god's calling? Us one

More scripture One corinthians thirteen. Eleven And i'm gonna end with,

this and next Year i'm gonna tell you what to

do with. It BUT i felt like we just needed

a little more. Understanding it's time for us to, Grow

it's time for us to, Stretch it's time for us to.

Mature it says WHEN i was a, CHILD i talked

like a, CHILD i thought like a, CHILD i reasoned

and responded like a. Child but WHEN i became a,

MAN i had to make a decision to put the

ways of childhood behind. Me, church we have to mature

so that we have the capacity to go to the

Places god has called. US i can't tell you how

many ROOMS i find myself in that nobody believes LIKE i,

believe and they Know i'm a, pastor and their countenance don't,

change AND i don't encourage them to BECAUSE i believe

That god changes the authentic version of. You and it's

funny to watch people, like, oh he a. PASTOR i was, like,

bro do what you. DO i want you to be

who you are SO i can see the real transformation

That god's about to do in your. Life LIKE i,

Know i'm in certain rooms BECAUSE i was called. There

CAN i can handle people squirming in their. STUFF i

can see. Them AND i can't tell you how many

texts and CALLS i had BECAUSE i had emotional maturity

and the capacity to allow somebody to be where they

are but not lose my conviction not conformed to their.

Standards are we going to this after. This, no, no, no,

No i'm good. Man it was good to meet, you.

Bro here's my. Number call. Me i'm not about to

get stripped. Up jesus was hanging with, sinners but he

wasn't changed by. Them he was around, them but he

was the change agent in those. Environments but watch he

had the emotional capacity to be at that kiss his.

House he was eating a meal paid for with stolen.

Money some of y'all couldn't. Handle where is? This where

is this bread? From you know he's a. Thief you

know he's an unjust tax collect because you just have

a meal with him by the end of the. Meal

because Jesus is emotional capacity went beyond, race when beyond,

religion when beyond the cultural norms of the. Day because

he had, capacity he was able to see people. Transformed

what does it look like for you to make room

for people's? Faults it's a SCRIPTURE i read last? Night

what was? It was it a? Second was It? Ephesians

what's the one of making room for people's? Shortcomings somebody

find it for me real? Quick ephesian, four wasn't? It

somebody give it to me and my? MOTHER i forgot

My bible to get A. CHARLES i want to read

this because THIS i think It's aphesian or something. Too, yeah, yeah,

yeah that's what it. Was this is How i'm gonna end,

us BECAUSE i just don't want your rubber band to

be so. Small, jesus thank you for your. Conviction it,

says always be humble and. Gentle we could stop right.

There has your reactions and your response has been humble and.

Gentle even if you know the, answer have you shut it? Up?

No none of you yo know What i'm. Saying is

it okay to be right and not and it not be?

Known can you be right and nobody? Knows sometimes that's

what humility looks. Like you, know you don't always have to.

Say that's WHAT i was trying to tell you when

you went out there the first, Time, like be humble

and be. Gentle then it says be patient with each,

Other oh My, god making allowances for each other's. Faults

when's the last time you increased your capacity not for,

you but for. Them when was the last time you, Said,

god give me more patience SO i can deal with

the people at my, workplace not take me out of this.

Workplace that's usually the Prayer, god get me out of.

Here and he, SAID i called you. THERE i didn't

put you there for the. MONEY i put you there For.

Michelle michelle was your assignment. There and that's why the

enemy always comes in to make you mad In, michelle

Because michelle is your. Assignment and you being messy and

telling about how being out last weekend and you being,

petty somebody's getting convicted right. NOW i see. You i'm

not gonna look at. You i'm looking straight right. Now

i'll see you in the. Black but this is What

i'm telling, you he. Said the assignment is getting forfeited

because of the lack of our. Capacity he, said make

allowances for each other's faults because of your. Love and

then it, says make every, effort how many, efforts one or,

two every effort to keep yourselves united in the, spirit

binding yourselves together with watch this word again, Peace for

there is one body and one, spirit just as you

have been up there to word is called to one

glorious hope for the. Future there is One, lord one,

faith one, baptism One, god and One father of, all

who is overall in. All and watch, this living through.

All i'm gonna read. It, however he has given each

of us a special gift through the generosity Of. Christ

that is why the scripture saying When he ascended to the,

heights he led a crowd of captives and gave gifts

to his. People notice that it's said he. Ascended this

clearly means That christ also descends to our lowly. World

he comes to meet us in our crash. House and

the same one who descends is the one who ascends

higher than all the, heavens so that he might feel

the entire universe with his. Glory it's time for us

to grow. Church maybe you've been letting your pet peeves

rob you of your. Peace maybe it's not that big

of a deal that they be smacking put on some,

headphones or maybe you just wait to. Eat, No i'm

talking about like practical. THINGS i Know i'm being like,

really but like maybe it's just, like oh, man that's really,

annoying and you can live your life being annoyed for

just a little bit so that you can connect with

somebody or keep peace in your. Home one of the

biggest things that annoyed my wife is WHEN i leave

the toilet seat. Up you, KNOW i gotta talk About

i'm gonna talk about me, Now, Lee i'm talking about me. Today,

okay that's my. Issue and at, first WHEN i first got,

MARRIED i was, like just put it, Down, mike some

of the guys Like dug, like BUT i didn't think

about it from the other. SIDE i could Just i'm already,

Closed i'm. Flushing and how many times something just that

small could change the way somebody feels cared for this?

Week what if we just grew in our capacity just

a little. BIT i, mean if the standard of stretching

is pray for our, enemies if that if that's, like

that's that's the standard Of. God we gonna admit today

most of us ain't there. Yet, Lord but what if

we just stretched out a little? Bit what If BECAUSE

i just want you to, know all the STRETCHING i,

did it didn't happen all at. Once it was a. Progression.

Today are we forfeiting our calling because we have low? Capacity?

Today it's time for us to? Stretch would you stand

all over this? Place god has a great calling for

all of, us and our calling requires that we don't

crash out all the. Time you're going to have to

Put christ in the middle of it so right, now

if you know that you need to expand in your emotional,

capacity would you lift both of your hands in the.

Air come, on, y'all we're about to go. Home but

here it. Is it's Me, So Father, god here we

are Another, sunday not hiding from, you but asking you

for your help all around this, world as people are

watching this live and on, rebroadcast and as the people

are in this, Room, GOD i think you that Your

Holy spirit is here right now increasing our ability to

handle what is not always. Easy, father your word says

that we make room or allowance for other people's, fault, shortcomings, issues, corks,

preferences And, father that you would keep us in perfect

peace in the middle of. It, so in the name Of,

JESUS i thank you that in this place we pray

Tewod peter three to, nine and we remember that over

our lives That, lord you're not being slow and keeping

your promises as some would understand, Slowness But, father you

are being patient with. Us thank you for your patience with.

Us thank you that you didn't just expect us to

do what you told us, yesterday and every time we messed,

Up Father, god you threw us. Away thank you for

your grace that let us progress to the place we are.

Today And, God i'm asking that you would let us

remember your graces we deal with. Others increase my capacity

to love, somebody say. That increase my capacity to. Love come,

on say increase my capacity to forgive say It cocrease

my capacity to forgive one. More increase my capacity to

Say i'm. Sorry. Sheeees, god let us be connectors of.

Unity let us not be so. Triggered, Father, god let

us put you in the middle of anything that even

looks like a crash out so that we can increase our.

Capacity hear me say, This look at me real. Quick

we're going. Home god can use. You this may be

controversial to, some BUT i need you to hear me say.

This how Much god can use you in this. Lifetime

it's not up To, god it's up to. You If

he would supply you with everything you, need if he

would take you into the places and give you what you,

need you still would have to say. Yes and SO

i KNOW i titled this thing capacity is, Calling but

what if we said it like. This as you go

home and, meditate your capacity is your. Call you want to,

Grow you can, Say, god increase my measure of. Faith

you want to go to another, Level you can, Say,

GOD i thank you that you make me more. Generous

you want to be able to stop crashing out and

cussing everybody. Else, god, Say, father put a bridle on my.

Tongue so WHEN i want to say this, Thing, Father,

GOD i can say something that is uplifting your. Capacity

it's your. Call stop blaming the, man, culture your parents

for what you do not. Have now it may have

not been your, fault but it is now your. Responsibility

it's time to say. Yes CAN i get one more big? Yes?

Hollylujah before everybody starts, leaving listen to. ME i need one.

Minute if you're in this room and you've never said

yes To, JESUS i need the church to start praying right. Now,

FATHER i thank you right now that eternity is in

the balance and somebody's about to say yes To. JESUS

i don't care where you. ARE i don't care how

broken you feel right. NOW i don't care what you

have done last, night, yesterday or what you're planning to do. Tomorrow,

Today Jesus christ is here to save your. Life he

increased his capacity by stretching one arm on a cross

and taking the another arm and putting it on the other.

Cross and he let people, know accuse, him be him

for our sins so that we could walk in. Freedom,

today all you have to do is say yes to

What jesus has already done for. You it's the one

decision that could transform your whole. Life it took me

from being a, liar a, manipulator somebody who was addicted to,

pornography had all types of confusion and messing my, life

and it transformed me not into a perfect, man but

a progressing. Man WHO i am today is not Who

i'm gonna, be but WHO i am is way better

than WHO i used to. Be and that's because of one.

Name his name Is. Jesus. Today if you are in,

here don't care how you got, here who bribed you to.

Come that's a good. Friend by the, WAY i don't

care how you in here. Today god wants to transform

your life on account of Three if you want to

Make Jesus christ your Personal lord and. Savior whether you're

in this, room or you're watching, online or you're watching

in the, gym or you're watching on rebroadcast on another.

Day god wanted this to find you right, now because

today is the day of your. Salvation. Amen on account of,

THREE i want you to shoot your hand up in the, air,

bold proud and. Loud. One god is about to transform your. Life.

Two you're making the greatest decision of your. Life, three

shoot your hand up if you want to Receive. JESUS

i see, YOU i see. YOU i see. YOU i see.

You god sees. You come on the hands At Home Transformation.

Church let's Praise. GOD i see. You. Sister, hey, Listen

we're gonna pray this prayer as a family for the

benefit of those who are coming To. God and if

you have the capacity to just stretch your hand towards

those people you saw the hands raised around, them and

the hundreds that are. Online and let's pray this. Together Say,

god thank you for Sending jesus just for. Me. TODAY

i repent AND i turn to. You you, lived you,

die and you rose again from my. Freedom here's my.

Life change, me renew, me transform. Me i'm yours forever

In jesus'. Name. Amen, Hey heaven is throwing a. Party

can we shout the biggest shout of the day for

those whose eternities have been. Transformed glory To. God the

altar workers are coming right, now and if you're watching,

online there are people and team on the chat to

pray with. You we always want prayer to be an

option for you when you come to The house Of,

god because The bible tells you where two or three

are gathered In his midst in his, Name he is

in the. Midst so if you need prayer for a

struggling situation or an, addiction or a frustration or, SOMETHING

i want you to come. Down the worship team is

about to, sing and if you're on line right, Now

i'm coming to praise spare than for you until next.

Week week three is gonna be better than all the other.

Weeks NOW i can preach WHAT i meant to preach

since week. One y'all hear. Me BUT i want you

to come back and bring somebody and until next week

go out and live a transform. LIFE i love you so,

Much glory To. God thank you for joining us.

Today if you said that prayer and accept It jesus

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

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