Don’t Fall For The Trap // Triggered (Part 1) // Michael Todd

Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to

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

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

God will transform your life.

Do today's message, and today I have an assignment, and

so I need everybody to buckle up because I want

to let you know that God gave me confirmation of

this message I'm about to speak to you. Seventy eight

days ago, I was in a conversation with Pastor Bris

before I headed off to sabbatical, and God told me

the series that we are starting today was supposed to

be my first series, first message coming back off of sabbatical.

This series is.

Prophetic because when God gave it to me, the climate

of our culture was not as sensitive, electric and divisive

as it is just seventy eight days later.

I don't know if you've been watching the.

News lately, and I don't know what's been coming up

on your Instagram feeds, but all the fun TikTok videos

seem to be dolled down a little bit, and it

feels like there's the vision and angst and worry and

pain and pressure and hurt, and there's all kinds of

things that the enemy is trying to use at this

current moment to watch this break the soul of people.

Y'all didn't hear what I just said. He's trying to

break your trust in good. He's trying to break your

trust and the things that God gave his son for.

And you may not be seeing it yet, But today

I stand in this prophetic assignment being obedient in the moment,

we're cold, sure needs a solution. Christians need a solution,

The Church needs a solution, and most of us will

be okay letting somebody else be a part of the solution,

and we stand by in comment on it. Oh, I'm

gonna tread real lightly for the next five minutes and

then I'm gonna kick you.

Okay.

I just need you to understand we all got to

get in the same story right here. What if nobody

else is coming. What if your side comment to your

cousin is not enough to see what God wants to

see on this earth. What if you have to get

active and be a part of what God wants to do.

In the earth right now?

What if this last week was the demarcation line of

you being a passive believer.

What if it's no longer.

Okay for you to have an opinion without affiliation. Okay,

today I have to walk us into what I believe.

And I told our team this might be one of

the most transformative series that I've ever preached because we

got to do some work on us. I got four amen's.

I said, we got to do some work on us.

Where are all the people that know that everything ain't

like it like you're showing it on Instagram? How many

people know you need God to do some work on you? Okay,

by the end of it, we'll get all of them, Kaylee,

don't worry. We're gonna get all of them. This week,

the news has been filled with things that have been tragic.

This is not the meat of my sermon, but I

have to address things that are happening so that you

can see how God wants you to position yourself in

the midst of culture.

Can I tell you something.

God is not taking culture away from you. You can't

just avoid what's going on, and some of you that

is your mission.

Stay away, dodge on new matrix all you're trying to do.

I don't talk about politics, I don't talk about race,

I don't talk about people being big.

I don't talk about people being skinny. I don't talk.

About ice cream, I don't talk about lactos.

I don't talk about going through the mood.

All you do is spend your whole life dancing around

things that puts you at the mercy of other people

instead of being the change agent in every environment you

go into. And so I'm going to make a few

statements to let you know where we're atting culture is

re what we're dealing with is watch this word evil.

The evil displayed in the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the

evil displayed in the fatal stabbing of a twenty three

year old woman that is literally getting off of work

and going home on a train.

The evil displayed.

In the Evergreen High School shooting, which is the forty

eighth mass shooting in America this year.

The evil that is on display and all the.

Inhumane experiences that are happening all over the world. In

Sedana and in Congo and Afghanistan. There are children caught

in conflict and toil. I'm talking about your grand babies.

There are people that look just like your grand babies

that are walking around in the street while rockets are

going over their head and people aren't dropping aid from

any sky.

They are literally trying to survive. That's happening right.

As you're complaining it's too cold or too hot in

this arena, okay, as you're trying to figure out where

you're gonna DoorDash and how quick you're gonna get out

of here so you can make it to brunch. Somebody

hasn't eaten in fourteen days, okay, And the situations that

we are scrolling past on social media are somebody's real

life today. I need the church to recognize that we

are in a season that the front newspaper is reading

like a page right out of revelations. I mean, word

for word wars and rumors of wars.

Do y'all hear what I'm saying to you today? Earthquakes

are happening.

The whole earth is groaning, earthquakes in Afghanistan, tsunamis all

kinds of things happening that we.

Don't know how to explain.

And what I've come to the conclusion of as I

wrestled with standing in this position, I was like, Lord,

could you have let me not come back.

Two weeks ago?

That would have been an easier entury, like first week back. Wow,

he said, get in your spot. He said, tell the

people what I told you to tell them seventy eight

days ago. He said, I'm that good that I gave

you foresight for where you're gonna be right now. I

gave you a word for where the people would be

right now.

This is not you, this is me.

Yeah, And I have to acknowledge the humanity. It feels

heavy right now.

Can we be honest? It feels heavy.

People are hurting, people are angry, People are watch this worried.

I've heard people say in my whole lifetime, I've never

seen it be like this. I've never seen people come

like this. I've never seen these things happen. And people

aren't just worried. There's something worse. Many people are weary.

But Matthew eleven twenty eight is going to be our

anchor scripture for today. And if you are any of

those things, this is the response of our savior. If

you're watching online, get ready, I need you to take.

Good notes today.

It says, then, Jesus said, not one of his disciples,

not one of his homies, not one of the followers.

Jesus said, this. Come to me, all of you who

are weary, and every person that's carrying a heavy burden.

I want to trade you. If you come to me

with it, I will give you what rest. Say it again, Rest,

say it one more time. How many people could use

some rest? I didn't say sleep. Some of y'all just

need to turn off the fight and turn off Netflix

and turn off you could get sleep, okay, But the

truth of the matter is people get sleep and still

don't have God says, I want to offer you something

better than sleep. I want your anxiety to go down

because not the situation changed, because you know who's.

In control of it. Somebody shot at me one more time.

Rest, he said, I will give you rest. And he said,

check me out, Take up on my yoke, take my

yoke upon you. Let me watch this word teach you,

which implies to me that in all of your educations,

and you having more degrees than a thermometer, in all

of the chat GBT and you do as well as

the Google YouTube search that you have saved in your phone,

there are some things you still don't know.

If we do not.

Approach what God desires to do in our life with

the level of humility, we will not be able to let.

Watch God teach us.

And I'm asking all of us to allow Jesus to

teach us, he said, because I am humble and gentle

at heart, and you're gonna miss it.

So I'm gonna tell you again. And when you let

me do this, you will find.

Let me tell you where rest happens in your soul.

Sleep is what happens for your body. Rest is what

happens in your Your mind is tired, your will is

worn down, your emotions are exasperated, And God says, I

want to give your mind, will and emotions rest. I

want that pressure, that anxiety, that always feeling like something

else gotta change.

I need you to just.

Everybody, take a deep breath in, let it out, say rest,

he said. The only reason I can promise you that

is for my yoke is easy to bear, and my burden.

I give you is light.

The one thing that I want to say in this

is that you will still have.

A burden when you come to Jesus.

A lot of people come to Jesus and they're like,

I thought I wasn't gonna have to do nothing. No, no, baby,

he said, my burden is.

It's light.

It means you still gonna have it, but you're either

gonna have more strength than you need to carry it

or it's not gonna be too heavy to.

Weigh you down.

And some of us are carrying burdens that are who

told you you had to live in that neighborhood? That's

a heavy You don't even look happy come into that house.

Every time you get there, the glass needs to be cut.

Look at the pegoone.

Gifts you comparing with the neighbors you Looking at the garage,

I really want to glass garage. And and I'm using

this as one example. Why is the burden so heavy?

Then you bring that energy into the house. Oh, the

creaky door, I need some WD.

Can you get some WD forty for these doors?

Coming into the energy is like hello, hey, how you doing?

Nothing works? This toilet don't plush? I need better water

press all of these things. And I'm giving you an example.

But have you ever considered that.

The burden may be too heavy?

Today?

In this series, I've learned that we don't look like

this scripture.

Most of y'all.

I want to tell you look cute, but the heavy

on you.

I can see the burden.

I know your kid got every Jordan, but the burden

of keeping.

Up with that I know. I know you keep climbing

the corporate ladder, I know.

And then you just got a promotion, and you just

get a person and a man just got another promotion.

But it doesn't seem.

Like that's light enough for you.

It seems like every time I talk to you.

You weary.

Have you ever met anybody that's like living the life

but wearydoing it? It's like you just got off a trip, yes,

and I gotta pack again.

It's like, hold on, we can switch. See y'all know

what I'm saying.

Like, oh my God, and I ts say like, wait,

hold on, I don't even got pre checked.

I'll stand in the line.

Beware when the blessing feels heavy. And what's happening here

is the reason why our culture doesn't look rested, our

souls are not rested. Why in some of the best

seasons of my life on paper, I was unrested in

my soul. It's because I was not acknowledging something that

was happening on the.

Inside of me.

I would not admit that I was triggered the sermon

series that we are going into is called triggered because

everybody in this room has something that if it happened

right now, we would see a different version of you.

I mean, it could just be a person walking in here.

And you would turn into It could be me bringing

up a certain topic, and if I bring up that topic,

it's gonna send you into a place that loses all

recollection of where you at right now. There are certain

things in your life that are triggering to you that

you are not acknowledging that they're affecting you in a

way that is taking you out of rest. Okay, You've

become so used to dealing with them that you.

Have now started to use them.

As excuses to act the way that you act. And

God told me, he said, Michael, I want you to

start a series called trigger Finding Christ in the crash Out.

Finding Christ in the crash Out about.

Finding crash in a crash out. I know we are

trying to find who Christ in the what? How many

people that ever crashed out before crashed out? Okay, we're

a multi generational church and and a multi ethnic church,

and I know there were some people that were looking

like crashed out and depending on how old you are

right now if somebody was like, man, I'm gonna crash

out there like you sleepy, because in a certain generation

it was like I'm gonna lay right here and I'm

gonna crash out, and it was like, oh, he's asleep.

I get it.

But part of the advantage of being a father of

young children is every two to three years I start

to learn new language. And this week my Bella turns

twelve years old, Lord Jesus, and I remember her coming

to me telling me about an incident with some of

her friends.

And I was following, and she.

Was like, and such as such was doing this, and

such a sigh was doing that, and such as sids

and such a SuDS, and then she says, and she says,

and when she said that, she was about to crash out.

And I was like, I had everything up until crash out.

What does that mean? Oh, that's when somebody's about to

go crazy.

They're gonna lose it, They're gonna do something uncharacteristic.

Now let me re ask the question.

I'm gonna give you an official definition, but has anybody

in this room ever crashed out before? Done something you

don't want to be remembered?

Text? Something you wish you couldn't fool. Y'all know what

I'm talking about. I don't know every husband in this room.

You ever said something that you wish you could.

Have been, like, disappear, rewind, turn it up? Did it

this week?

And many times what people don't understand is their triggers

immediately lead to a crashout. There is not much time

between something setting you off and you doing something crazy.

Some of y'all been doing it all this week. You've

been dming people all kinds of videos. You've been commenting

on your fensta. Oh that's your fake Instagram account.

Oh yes, fensa.

Huh Okay, you didn't put it online, but you texting

the people you know will agree with you. You're developing

things in your What I'm saying to you right now

is many of us are getting triggered.

And the beautiful thing about triggers is that our triggers

are unique. The thing that triggers you.

Is not necessarily the thing that triggers me. And if

you're gonna write down a definition, let me give you

a poor man's definition of trigger. A simple definition. A

trigger is something that sets you off.

What's something that sets you off. Talk to me? Bad drivers?

Somebody said, clock that teak, clock that tea? Like, did

I saw you off? Salving? Whateut? Come on, y'all, talk

to me. What sets you off? Liars? You're a liar?

What else? What sets you off? What did you say?

Dirty dishes? There was a mother was like, oh my god,

Glory to God.

Nasty food, bad service?

Come on, talk to me. What's a trigger? What do

you say? Disrespect?

How dare you say that to me? You don't know

me like that. If you knew me like that, you

would have done something different because you don't know what's

about to come next. You see how I start talking

about your trigger, you start getting different, amens. There was

a woman in back when I was doing that.

She was like, yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Yeah,

like what you want to look like? She was ready

to fight just off of a trigger. Now all of

us need to start making.

A list of the things that trigger you. Some of

you have so many. It is just your life existence.

Oh y'all, don't play with me. You walk around all

day every day just waiting for somebody.

But this term triggered is also used by psychology.

Let me give you the psychological definition, it's a term

used to describe someone having a strong emotional reaction, often anger, frustration,

or offense in response.

Watch this to something.

They hear, see, or experience. Some of us have seen, heard,

and experienced things that we said, We'll never experience that again,

or if I make it out of this, i will

never bring my kids back to this situation, Or if

I ever have enough money, I'll never eat at this

place again.

Y'all ever ate somewhere, It's like I'll never.

And yet, if you walk into a certain environment and

smell something, a smell.

Can be a trigger.

It can take you back to a place, and that

place then changes your emotion. Sometimes, if you grew up

in a physically abusive house, hearing a door slam can

be a what trigger?

Your kids was just shutting the door? Don't you shutting

my don't you slam my dow? It was like, Mama

closed it. Something's going on with you. You need help.

That wasn't my father. It was that the doors had need.

But that trigger. Watch this is attached to a trauma.

Right down this point I'm about to teach you through

this whole series. Every trigger is attached to a trauma.

Every trigger is attached to a trauma.

You don't recognize it.

You don't go slow enough to understand it. You don't

even think that it's a real thing. I don't got

no trauma in my life. But the reason you mad

that your kid took the last of the juice.

Don't you ever take the last of the juice? It's

my mouth. You open the refrigerator, you see all this

stuff in there. I bought that.

When I go to work, I go to work to

put this in the refrigerator for who?

For me?

Right? Because I can't work.

There's shot labor laws against that, right, And your kids

just sitting there. I was just thirsty, and you go

on this whole spiel, but you crashed out because you

were triggered because they took the last.

Of the juice.

But you didn't stop long enough to acknowledge that it

was attached.

To a trauma.

That in your house you never got juice, and they

used juice as a celebration for the child that did good. Oh,

come on, y'all, Like, I don't know what it is.

But if you stop long enough to recognize that every

trigger is attached to a trauma, you not resting in

God's rest because you're so triggered. Everything in everybody and

the color they wear. Some of y'all used to be

gang members. Anytime you see red, you triggered.

We can't wear red, nobody could. Well, it's it's on

hoof over here, it's on grib over here. It's what

color can we wear?

Which color in the primary colors does not trigger?

Bro?

I'm sorry, almost clock clocked on you be cuz.

You rolled up here here in Bro. It's a color.

Some of y'all know what I'm talking about. There are

certain colors.

Right now you save, healed and redeem, certain colors you

don't got in your closet at all.

Okay, y'all, I'm not all right.

I'm gonna act like I got a real safe search.

Let me put my glasses back on.

Certain things that you were delivered from that you actually

don't have freedom from. You just stay away from.

Okay.

I don't want to get into it. But the truth

of the matter is the only way that you are

in this utopia of freedom is.

You've never been confronted with it.

And so at the moment you get around weed smell,

it triggered the moment around you get around the alcohol,

the moment, the moment you start smelling the Chinese buffet.

Oh, hold on, that's my own.

Who that's my own situation, Scott, take me straight home

after this.

I can't stop at the Chinese. I'm telling you.

When I go to a dirty Chinese food restaurant, I

don't want to eat there, but I want to get

it and I want to go and as soon as

I mail it, it's like, be fat forever, Mike.

No, I'm serious. I make two plates. I'm just like,

just give it all the way, sell the gym.

Equipment, open a Chinese restaurant. Bro, you can't have your

own Chinese restaurant.

It's like, but for years of my life, watch this.

That trigger of food.

Was attached to a trauma of not being able to

handle emotions. So if I can't control that, I know

I can control what.

I put on this plate.

And I'm a pilot high and I'm gonna sit there

long enough to get a second.

Helping and a third.

But if you never confront it, that trigger is attached

to a trauma. And if you do not allow Christ

to get into this with you, I'm here to tell

you you're gonna continue to crash out. What are you saying,

Pastor Mike, You'll no longer be in control. You will

only be reactive, never be able to give a response.

There's a difference between a reaction and a response, and

most of us are reacting because we're triggered. And God

wants us to respond to culture, respond to our family

members with his love, with his care, with his kindness.

But the problem is you keep crashing out.

You're creating so much carnage that the very people that

you are going to be responsible for helping bring to

Christ in a different season, you've already alienated them.

What if the very.

People you arguing with are the people that God has

on his list for you to reach. I know you

don't see it now, but you know you have no

idea how God is connecting people right now.

And so what I need everybody to do is write

this down.

Unaddressed triggers usually lead to a crash out. Today is

gonna be my introduction because I got sixty pages of

notes and you're not gonna be able to digest all

of this. So we're gonna give it to you in

little bites, and you're gonna pray about it, and you're

gonna be exposed to it all week and you're gonna

start to see things that trigger you. Please be warned,

after hearing this message, you are going to go outside

of here and something is going to happen as you

will be the sermon illustration and you're going, for the

first time in your life, be able.

To recognize it's happening.

I'm going from the trigger into a trap. And I

think this is what Pastor Mike was talking about. I'm

about to crash out. Let me give you a definition

of crash out. Put it on the screen. This is

a long definition, but it's gonna help us through this

entire series because we want to find Christ in the

middle of our crash out.

Do y'all know that everybody want Christ after the crash out?

Why do it be when somebody barely escaped being addicted

to all of this stuff in jail for forty two

years and now they've become a pastor.

It's like at the end of the Behind the True

Lie story.

It is always like and now I'm on a journey

of sobriety and stability.

There's nothing wrong with that.

I'm just saying was Where was that energy before the crashout?

And usually it's never there because we don't acknowledge.

That it is even an issue.

Right now, I've been talking for twenty four minutes, and

some of y'all still think this message is for somebody else.

I've been sitting here talking to you like these young people.

Show me this.

You've been mean your whole sixties, you sixty nine, You've

been mean since fifty nine. Nobody wants to be around you.

You think it's because you wholy know your mean. They

sense the glory, We sense your mean. I'm trying to

get you to look at you right now. Somebody say

this message is for me? Say it again, this message

is for me. What are your triggers? What's making you

crash out? Y'all know what I'm saying. Because the thing is,

y'all think these are big things. You think these are

things like being fired from my job. I'm about to

crash out. Do y'all know one of the greatest triggers

in me and my wife's marriage. I'm gonna just put

it all out there. When I do this, no words exchanged.

I didn't say nothing bad to her. She look at

her right now, say movement, calm your neck down, calm

your net.

But she'll be talking, Mike, can you pick up the

da da da da? And Saturday no da? And it

went a part of my plan and I.

It literally sucks all the thoughts out of her mind,

and all she can focus on.

Is the fact that my breath.

And I'm telling you, there have been moments that have

wouin days. Okay, I'm gonna tell on myself. It's win days.

What'd you say, tell on yourself? That's what I'm doing.

You want me tell on you?

I got the mic. You want what you want to do?

Never min never, ma never mina. Would y'all pray for me?

I think the message is wing a little.

And so many times after those moments it was almost

as if listen to me, I wasn't in control of

that moment. It was almost like I did it without

even thinking. It was watch a reaction, not a response

to what she was saying. She triggered me because she

was talking and talking in circles and talking about stuff

we already talked about and talking about and just talking.

I mean, you was just she alty told me that

I already said I'm going already did and what she

was trying to do. Y'all pray for me.

That's my wife in the red over there, y'all.

I don't know what direction.

Okay, but but but but there were times I do

that breath and literally in the moment be like, why

did I do that? Now I'm about to be undoing. Yeah,

that one breath for the rest of the week, y'all

know what I'm talking Married people, y'all better say something

to me. That one breath, that one roll over in

the bed.

That y'all know what I'm talking about.

They talking about something and you don't want to hear it,

And that's the sign I'm going to sleep. Why does

it happen so quick? Why do you snap on your

kids so quick? Why wouldn't the white cop pull you over?

You ready to.

Why wouldn't the black cop pull you over? You ain't

got no respect? Why Why wouldn't the teacher asked, hey,

did you do this?

Why are you assuming that I? Why did that?

They were just asking you, did you turn your work?

And why you assume I didn't turn my Why did Why.

Did it go there? So fact? When? When? When when

they say it's offering time you like the church just

want my money? Why did it go there? You never gave.

I mean, it's it's so crazy to me, Like the

people who have never given anything to a church are

the ones that are always talking about the church.

Just want my money.

It's so the pass can drive and look at that suit?

Do y'all pay for that suit?

And what?

But why? But but this is the question. But why.

It's because that trigger is attached to an unaddressed.

If the church could learn that you're not just.

Doing that because you just doing that, you are acting

out of something that is real that you may not

have acknowledged. The reason why you always get mean when

your account gets to that certain number. Oh y'all know

that number. All y'all got that number. All you got

that number that when it gets to that number, don't

talk to me.

I'm having a bad day. I don't know what's going on.

It's like you get paid tomorrow, but for that sixteen hours,

if anything happens.

You just in the house eating Raymond Noodle. Is just

waiting for that deposit to come in.

I can't have no accidents, no slip us, no mess up.

All gonna be a good series.

It is triggering because you were at a point one

day that you said, I'll never be poor again, or

I'll never have to want for them or watch us,

You'll never have to ask for help, because asking for help.

Is triggering for some of y'all. Oh, I'm in your

business now.

The reason that everything is so heavy is because you

don't do life in community. You won't invite anybody into

what's happening. You won't let nobody that know that you're

actually struggling and you need prayer, and so everything to

you has to be done on your shoulders.

You're triggered, and that trigger is gonna lead to a

crash out.

I'm just telling you right now, I'm not gonna be

surprised at what happens in people's lives over the next

six months as we end this year, if they don't

put Christ in the middle of this crash out, y'all

think the stuff is about to subside now, and everything's

about to get better in culture, and everything's about to

go away, and nobody else gonna.

Do nothing stupid. It's eight billion people in this world.

Somebody about to do something stupid this week. Will you

be tossed and turned by everything that happens in culture

or will you be built on the foundation of Jesus Christ. Okay,

so let me give you this definition of crash out.

Some of y'all have been up there a long time.

Y'all see how big it is. You should have been

writing already, but here we go. A crashout is when

a person can be suddenly uncontrollably angry or act impulsively,

potentially leading to negative consequences. This many times shows up

as an emotional or physical shutdown, usually from burnout or

over stimulation or being overwhelmed. The act, oh my God,

of surrendering 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 struggle

with their mental health and need support. You keep blowing

up at that family gathering, you keep causing drama at

that workplace. All crash outs aren't created equally. Some of

y'all are explosive crash outs. You turn it over tables,

you getting loud in public places. And it's so crazy

because that's what we think crashing out is. It's the

ones that are explosive, the one that it's like, oh,

I can record that I can get that on. But

do you know there's also people who crash out implosively.

When you crash out, you don't come outside, you don't

post nothing, You go inward. You crash out, and you

get that Ben and Jerry's and that blue bar and

some oreos and go to your room. Y'all know what

I'm talking about, and you destroy your temple trying to

chase a feeling who's quiet in here? You go to

negative self talk. You'll never be married.

Hold on what that was? Just one bad day?

But because you didn't address the trauma of perceived rejection.

Any time anything doesn't work out, you think the people

are rejecting you. And it could be that God's protecting you.

They ain't for you anyway.

But because it's perceived for rejection, you didn't crash out

and you've never addressed that. Why do I feel better

doing these things that I know tear me down, that

I'm saying things to myself.

I lean into.

Addictions and depression and gossip.

I lean into these things.

Why because I haven't even acknowledged I'm triggered. Some of

y'all church is triggering. That's why you sit way up there.

That's why you come after praise and worship because you

used to serve on a worship team and you have

a gift that's so big, and you could run all

of this, but that one experience that took your joy

and how they abused you and did not see your value.

It made you say, you're doing a good job just

to be here. And I appreciate you for being here.

But what if God has called you to more and

some of y'all at home right now. The only reason

you're not here is because people are here. You would

do church if it didn't have people. Oh, come on, y'all,

it's the people who trigger you.

You walk in and you like people, people, people, people.

I'm triggering going home? Sleep?

And what if the very place that God wants you

to actually have dominion is the place that the enemy

is trying to delete you out of. What if the

trigger is not supposed to be a place you crash out?

What if the trigger is the starting point watch this

of your transformation. What if every trigger is not supposed

to be left as a trigger. What if every trigger

is supposed to be the starting point of your transformation?

What if the place that you get so frustrated is

the very.

Place that God is trying to say, if.

You drop down and deal with the trauma, I'll take

that thing and lead it to transformation for you.

Okay, let me give you an example.

All of your triggers are attached to a trauma. Okay, Okay,

that's not too bad.

I can live with that. Yeah.

And every time they say they're gonna be on time

and they late, that's a little tighter. And every time

my family asks for money but don't pay me back. Whoo.

I ain't snapped yet, I ain't crashed out yet. But

if they do it again, come on, this is how

we live. Yeah, my kid better say thank you three

hundred times for that gift.

That that work for.

That because because you know, some people's trigger is the

lack of appreciation. How many times can they say thank you?

It's still not gonna fill that hole in your soul.

You haven't.

You haven't acknowledged that you're you're still triggered because you

didn't get the affirmation from your father. So you're making

your kids pay for what you didn't get from somebody

they don't even know. Okay, week three, we'll talk about

Week three.

We'll talk about week three yep, trigger.

Ooh yeah, forgiving people. Uh uh no, I know it's

what the Bible says, but try Jesus. Don't try me

because I throw hands. One songwriter said, can y'all see

how we have cultural ideals but we know Christ's principles.

And what ends up happening is when we come in

and anybody gets close to us, anybody gets sharp with us.

Anybody's having their own traumas as soon as they get

close to us because of the tension between.

Our trigger.

And our trauma, crash out, crash out.

Why did I cheat on them? How quickly?

Because the tension has been y'all ain't been communicating. Okay,

y'all don't want to talk real y'all ain't been communicating.

And the woman at work be saying, how good? Tell me?

How good?

Are you?

A good daddy?

I see your little pictures with your son at his

football games.

That's so cute.

I wish my son had a zaddy. You see that tension,

it's so it can make sounds now and as soon

as that one argument goes the wrong way, and it's

just like, hey, let's go out for some drinks and

you become inebriated, and now you have less.

Control of your senses. Drinking ain't no sin.

I hear y'all Christians. But you already make dumb decisions.

You do dumb stuff without alcohol.

Okay, let me you want you want to be worse.

Ofus with between your trigger and your trauma is so tight,

explosive crash out. Now your kids are picking up these pieces.

Now your church is picking up these pieces because you

wouldn't go to therapy, because.

You wouldn't talk to nobody.

See what God wants us to do is not not

have triggers.

He just wants the tension between them to not be

so tight.

My daughter, I asked bella earlier, I said, what's one

of your triggers?

He said, smacking.

She said it with a conviction and then looked at

us as to Ava, and then Ava looked at hers

like it's Yodad beast man, and it was a whole situa.

I was like, hey, hey.

Come back, Goda gotta But the thing about it is

for somebody smacking because of the trauma it's attached to,

could be something that's this type in their life. But

God's saying, I know you you ain't never gonna like smacking,

but maybe I can change your character to where it

doesn't affect you the same way like when they start

smacking and they do the trigger.

I didn't crash out.

I may have communicated now, I may have moved.

To the other side of the room. I may have said,

you know what, that was a good conversation.

I'll text you like you might. But the crash out

does not have to be inevitable. If you would allow

God to be in the middle Church, need you to

come to a place where we can all acknowledge that

we all have triggers that we are.

Being controlled by.

Today, I just want acknowledgement. I don't got enough time

to go through all the things I got, graphs and

pictures and everything. I'm just saying, some of y'all are

not gonna make it through this week without crashing out.

Your poor kids are going to be in therapy because

of you. No, no, no, I'm telling you right now,

they are going to be. The problem is some of

the stuff doesn't have to be a trauma for them

if you deal with what's really going on in Yeah, Okay,

So this is what I'm gonna say as I begin

to do my study on my own life. Y'all know,

I can't preach nothing that God has not started working

on meeting. And I've just realized there's some stuff that

just oooh, for no reason, it's too tight in my life.

That should not frustrate me like that.

That should not make me want to move. Y'all know.

Crashouts are extreme, like you do something, somebody do something'

is like I'm moving. It's like, wait, what, No, I'm

moving to Africa.

No, you thought I was talking about Texas Africa. I'm

out of here, Like y'all know what I'm saying.

Like, have y'alls anybody ever had wild like thoughts before?

And it's like I'm leaving.

What I found is that every trigger is an invitation

by God to transformation. I'm gonna show you one more

image and then we're gonna go because it's gonna be

enough for today, because you're gonna be triggered all week,

and then you're gonna come back here and figure out

what we're gonna do with it. Because God doesn't bring

us out to leave us the same. So let me

show you in a picture real quick. Put the trigger

axis on the screen for me.

Real quick.

Just the one that says trigger and the one that

says trap. If you got it so so, I'm gonna

just show you this picture. Every person in this room

has a trigger, okay. And if you do not acknowledge

that it can trip you up, you will be deceived

and fall into a trap. There will be something that

enemy convinces you to do, or you do just because

culturally that's what we did.

Okay.

Let me just give you all some examples, because y'all

still looking at me. There are songs that are triggers

for you, am I.

In the church. How many no, If I.

Start playing certain songs right now, tinglely start happening some

of y'all, some of y'all. If I knuck, if you bug, knuck,

if you bug, we knuck, and we look at you,

Look at you.

Look at you. Brie. I'm proud of you.

You didn't even move right there, and you didn't. God

has done a transformation. When I tell you, Brie is

a y'all think she's.

All calm and silence and peaceful nuhing.

Okay. There are songs that could play right now and

it would be a trigger. You would be fighting lust, anger,

You would be fighting. Watch this, loneliness. You walk into

the to the store and they just playing it on

the loud speaker.

Why are they playing this song?

And what the enemy wants you to do is watch

this with no time, go from the trigger to the trap.

You don't even know why.

You just text him.

You walked into the store, you heard the song, You

started feeling a type of way, and you was like,

what you doing, big head? Knowing in your conscious mind,

you like, I don't like him. This is gonna end bad.

This is not a man of God. This is now

who I want?

What you're doing.

I'm at the store, you want anything, y'all gonna act

like it ain't happened to you. You watching a movie

and a scene comes up that makes you.

It triggers you back to a.

Moment of hurt or loneliness or pain, and now you

cancel the plans. No, no, no, I'm not You know I can't.

You can't even fake cough good. I came down with something.

And you will watch this. You will sabotage your future

being one that is trapped by the trigger of your past,

and God saying don't fall for it. He said, don't

fall for it. Write this down. The place of your

most sensitive trigger can also be the place of your

most say.

Transformation.

The thing right now that you feel like, oh I can't,

God said, if you would allow me, I'll use that

to transform.

You put that other axis up there real quick.

So if you get triggered, don't fall into the trap.

Look at your neighbor and say, don't fall into the trap.

Don't crash out. Come on, tell them, don't fall into

the trap. Do not crash out. Just hold on. There's

a better option.

Because so fast, trigger to the trap, trigger to the trap,

trigger to the trap.

I should stop saying that.

So fast, trigger to trap, trigger to trap. Some of

us have ruined relationships because the friend we prayed for

when you told them, be honest with me, girl, like

be honest whenever like.

I'm tripping, be honest. And when she told.

You Jerome is not good for you.

You said, that's why I don't even have friends.

I hang out with God better than I do girls

any way.

And now you fell for the trap.

You sent the text, you sent the DM, you did

the thing, and you fell for the trap because you

didn't even think about it. And now you're lonely. But

there's a different option. Put the other one. If you

acknowledge today that your trigger is attached to a trauma

right in the middle, you get an intersection.

And the intersection.

Between your trigger in the trap is that you got

to drop down into the trauma. Where did it happen?

Where did it start? Why do you not like being invited?

Why do you feel so mad when they don't invite you?

You be on Instagram?

Fuman I was sitting right here and I got a

red dress too. I could have gone, But what happened

is that there was a trauma from you not being

picked in middle school.

Come on, y'all, and some of y'all right now, I

hear my old folks lead the past in the past.

No, keep your past keep showing up in your future

because you won't handle what God keeps watch this, keeps

allowing you to be triggered by He's not taking the

trigger away.

Pastor my Bible.

Said, uh, he lets the friction be there so that

he can lead you to transformation.

You've been getting mad about.

Bad drivers for fifteen years, and as long as you

keep driving, there's gonna be bad drivers. But will it

always have that control you in the car with your kids.

Just lease, listen to the forest front. God is good.

Now you chasing down a Toyota Corolla flipping them.

Off and tell them this is America, buddy, Like, what

are you doing? What are you doing with a honk?

If you love Jesus on the back of your car?

How did that happen so fast?

It's because there was no pause between the trigger and

the trap. Today, I'm asking you Church, before you post

anything else, pause between.

The trigger and the trap.

Before you call a family meeting to give a dissertation

on why you are changing your last name.

Y'all to y'all crazy, You done crashed out.

I no longer am going to be a Williams Like,

what what is happened?

You're a wucking you? What everybody say? Pause?

Because there's an intersection that God wants you to acknowledge today.

Drop down.

If I was if I was in fifteen nineteen, I'd

say drop it, love, Drop down and start to go

to the place where you know there's something there I

really probably don't want to touch. Every time you leave

town it makes me feel insignificant.

It's not you, it's me.

Every time that you pick them, it makes me feel

like you don't value my contribution that's attached to a

trauma where people abused and used me and didn't give

me credit. It's not you, it's me or hey, you

keep using me, and I'm creating a boundary because I

have a trauma of people pleasing.

And I was only liked.

When I did what people wanted me to do. So

instead of me feeling empty because I'm around you, I

drop down and recognized that my trauma is making me

fall into the trap. And I can't give you no

more money, won't.

Be financially supporting you anymore. We were we about to

lose the house man.

I'll see some of y'all right there. That was a

trigger because you asked somebody for help one time and

they didn't help you. See, triggers are unique, but if

you don't bring them to God, then you suffer from

what all humanity is suffering from right now, a lack

of self awareness. The enemy is the one who wants

to keep you in the dark, and God wants you

to live in the What if you are not self aware,

you do not know why your.

Triggers are always putting you in a trap.

And today I'm just asking you the same question that

God asked the first human on earth. It was a

question of location, Adam, where are you? Adam was triggered.

Adam just did some he wasn't supposed to do. God

didn't lose Adam.

There's only two people on earth at the time.

That he created and put them in the garden.

He didn't lose Adam. Why did he ask Adam, where

are you?

Not? Because God needed to know where Adam was. He

wanted to know if Adam knew where Adam was. Today, Church,

do you even acknowledge that you've been triggered?

Do you even acknowledge that your.

Relationship with money is because of something that happened in

a trauma? Do you even acknowledge the reason why you

won't give to people, or the reason why you won't

help nobody, or the reason why you are gonna affiliate

with this party or that party or that team or

this team is because there's a trauma attached to watch

this the truth. There's a truth in there that most

of us don't want to face. And today I believe

that God needs all of us to say, all right,

you got me, I'm triggered. All this politic talk triggering,

all this racist stuff, triggering, all these people asking me

to lose weight.

I'm triggered.

I tried one time, and when I tried that time,

I lost.

Weight and then I gained it back. And when I.

Gained it back, I felt so low that I said

I'll never try again. And so now, any time anybody

says something to you about getting healthy triggered, guys, today,

you may be falling for the trap, even with people

you love. I can't tell you how many times this

week I done have to apologize to my wife. I

didn't need to say it like that, I'm sorry. Oh

you know, you catch yourself like I just don't breathe

no more. And the thing that I had to start acknowledging,

I started being transparent with her about where the trigger was.

And when you're transparent about the trigger, empathy comes. There's

been moments that having been like, I was mad because

I really wanted this to happen, and I felt disappointed

that it didn't happen. And when I feel disappointed, I

automatically go to anger because I haven't developed my emotional

catalog to figure out any other emotions. So as soon

as I get disappointed, I don't say I'm hurt or

I'm disappointed, because man don't say that you're the man

at a house man up. That phrase man up has

taken more men down because they won't be vulnerable and say,

hey man, I don't feel like I got it right now.

I'm supposed to be the provider of this household and

I feel like aluhu their her. But that empathy, that

that transparency of where my trigger is coming from would

actually bring empathy when I get up here and tell

y'all I've dealt with pornography and.

All this other stuff.

It's me being transparent about my triggers that bring people

into transformation. Help everybody around you. Just start saying I'm triggered,

and before I fall into the trap, put that cross back.

Up there for me, real quick.

I'm triggering, and before I fall into the trup, I'm

gonna go down.

I'm going to humble myself.

And I'm gonna go down to the trauma and admit

there's something there that I don't even fully have language for.

There's something there that I don't know how to fix.

And that's when you can hear this God is close

to the crash outs the Bible tells us that he's

close to those who are broken in spirit. He's close

to those that feel like I don't know what I'm doing.

He said, you dropped down and figured out the trauma.

He says, that's the only road to true change or

true transformation. When you see this, you should see the

picture of the Cross.

You should see that.

God says, I'm not taking away triggers in this world.

You will have trouble.

He literally tells us it could be remixed. In this world,

people will trigger you. But take heart, because I've overcome

the world. If I've overcome the world, you just have

to learn how to manage.

Yourself in it.

And if you don't learn how to manage yourself in it,

then it will feel like the world will have you

out of control. You be uncrashed out, acting out of character,

not doing what God's called to do. And worship them

all forfeiting your calling. There are more people forfeiting the

reason God put them on this earth because they crashing

out over a post, crashing out over a relationship, crashing

out over they dishrespected me. You're willing to go to jail.

You're gonna go to jail. And leave your three children

without a parent because you don't let nobody disrespect you.

My daddy taught me where is he at? Let's talk

to him? Do you want that reason?

But many times when we hit that trigger, if we don't,

everybody say pause, the pause is for his presence. When

I pause, it's like, all right, God help me, because

I'm about to He's okay with that.

Lord.

How many people have made drafts of text messages and

emails they were about to send.

Come on?

How many people have drafted, drafted, fool And God said,

I'm okay with the drafts because sometimes you got to

get it up and out of you. This is why

some of y'all need to go to all y'all need

to go to therapy. I was about to say some

of y'all, all y'all excuse me. All of us at

this church we believe in theology and therapy because there's

some stuff we can pray away and there's some stuff

you gotta talk about. Okay, I'm asking everybody in this

world that's listening to this message, where are you? Because

this whole sermon series is for people who've already crashed out,

people who are in the middle of a crash out

are people who are headed for one And.

My question to you, is Christ in it with you? Today?

For everybody under the sound of my voice as we

in this service this week, as you're triggered, I want

you to know that God sends Jesus to be in

the crash out with you, but he will not act

until you invite him. In the pastor like that is

not true, My God will step in and do everything.

That he promised. Okay, cool. But the Disciples were on

a boat in Mark.

And a storm broke out around them, and the disciples

were crashing out.

We gonna die, Peter Casewell, this is about to be bad.

Like picture the scene and Jesus is on the boat sleeping,

and I don't know if somebody got thrown over. I

don't know what happened, but at some point somebody's like.

Somebody should go get Jesus.

And what I'm saying to you is you can have

Christ and still crash out. He can be on your

boat and you still crash out. It's not until you

invite him. This is finding Christ in the crash out.

When the disciples said, Jesus weep about to drown he said,

y'all got such a little faith, peace be still, And

it said the waves and the wind obeyed it. The

crash out stopped at his word. But his word was

dependent on their word. His word was only activated when

they said, we need your help, and could you be

listening to this message right now? And you want God

to intervene? And he said, and I need your voice box.

Say something.

Tell me you need me to come in standing all

over this building.

If you know that's you.

And you've been in a season of being triggered by something,

y'all know what triggers me. People leaving that salvation It's crazy.

It's like the most sensitive time of people being transformed.

And you're like, ooh cause I need to get to

crackle barrel with the whole logo.

And what I'm saying is, over the years, the tension

has gotten less and less. I said, when they kids

get saved, they would be more sensitive to the atmosphere

that people are giving over.

When the loved one. So I just start believing.

It went from something that made me mad to something

that's like, Lord, would you please do something in somebody's

life around them?

Do y'all hear what I'm not saying it won't it

won't be triggering.

I'm saying it shouldn't have the same effect. If you

know that's you and there's an area in your life

that you have just started being triggered by, or it's

been years of you being triggered, and you're saying, God,

I want to transform.

Today is a day of acknowledgment.

If that's you watching online in your home, at the gym,

at the office.

Or in this room.

If that's you, would you just lift both of your

hands real big, like, Okay, all right, we are and

today I'm gonna pray for you because it's me.

I gotta start this today, Father God, here we are. God.

I'm not praying for them, I'm praying with them.

We need your health. God.

There are things that have happened to us, some that

we can't even speak about.

Others Father God, that we have tried to forget.

One's Father God, that we want to act like didn't happen,

and others Father that are so natural and common to

us that we don't even consider them something that is

taking from us.

Today.

We need you to illuminate through your word, Father God.

That we can be ones that find rest.

Come to me, all who are weary and heavy burden.

Father.

Today we are saying we are too tight in the tension. Father, God,

we are too stressed out by the true and the traps.

Today we want you to transform us. Today we are

doing what Proverbs three, five and six tells us to

acknowledge you in all of our ways. We're acknowledging God,

it's us.

We've been triggered and it said you will direct our path.

So today, on this first week of triggered Christ, would

you step into our crash outs? Yeah, come on, right there, Jesus,

I need you to step in to the financial situation.

I need you to step in to my family situation.

Come on, I don't know what your situation is, but

I need you to talk to him right now.

God, I need you to step in.

Father, to this relational divide that me and my family

are having, or me and my husband are having. I

need you to step into my emotional pain.

Father.

My husband doesn't even know, my kids don't even know,

my parents don't even know. I need you to step

into this insecurity, to this frustration, to these lies that

I've elevated as the truth. Today, God, I don't want

to crash out.

I want to transform.

So here I am as we go into this seven

days of prayer and fasting. I don't think it's an

accident that God prophetically.

Lined this up.

That tomorrow at six point thirty, we're not just gonna

pray this one time in church. Every day, we're going

to set aside time watch. We're gonna pause what's the

pause for his presence in the midst of all of it.

Some of y'all don't just need the fast food. You

need to turn off social media. Some of y'all so

addicted to it, though, it's like I'm gonna miss something.

What did what did you do? How much time did

you have before you fell into the trap? God's gonna

tell some of you turn it off. Some of you

is gonna turn you don't watch the game, don't go.

Na, don't that.

Your purpose is more important than that pig skin. And

it's not because that's bad. It's because it makes you

fall into the trap. You gambling with the money you

should be paying for Excuse me, You're you're on a

fantasy league and fan dueling. You're doing these things that

are you done? Fell into the you got triggered. And

I'm not saying anything's bad.

I'm saying that is it good for you?

I feel the presence of God in here, and I

believe this is a divine pause.

This fast is not a glorified diet.

If you gonna see gossip and do all the stuff

that you're gonna crash out anyway, just eat.

You're happier, Just eat. We don't.

But for those of you who watch this, my last

point is the goal is to live consecrated, not to

crash out. It's not just to acknowledge.

Oh I'm about to crash out. I know my triggers

because some of us.

Have gotten so good at admitting things. We never changed them.

Did y'all hear what I just said.

I just want to tell you my issues and we

can list our issues, and we think the transparency is

good enough so we don't have to transform. And I'm

telling you right now, I want you to be transparent.

But you can't stay there.

God is calling me, calling us, calling the church, calling

the kingdom to transform into an image that looks like him.

And so this whole week, I'm invite you.

To a point and access point that everything in your

life could change you triggered. God helped me deal with

this trauma and lead it to transformation. Tomorrow night. Meet

me online Wednesday night. I want all y'all in this building.

We only praying in this building together twice this week,

Wednesday and Saturday.

Get in here.

Come, bring your family, bring your friends, bring people that

don't go to this church. And I want to let

you know my goal of praying online. The reason we're

not meeting here is because and God is so good

that he gave me this vision before I didn't know

what we would be in he said. Michael, I want

more than four or five hundred people praying. I want

thousands of people praying. If you tell them they got

to come here, you cut the number down. When I

share the link on Facebook and Instagram and YouTube, I

want you to send it to people, text it to

They don't have to do anything but be listening in

their homes while they're making dinner at the soccer stadium.

I want us to get the church praying.

Because if we forget the world.

Changing, they can't change without Jesus. If we're expecting them

to lead the charge, Democrat, Republican.

Independent, nobody can do it.

Accept the Church of Jesus Christ.

The problem is you.

Just as triggered as them, and until we transform, there's

no way we can talk to them about loving anybody

when right now you got pastors on your feed that

you can't stand. Were wearing the same jersey this next

season Church, I'm being very passively. I know we gotta go.

It's not about more, it's about maturity. These next sermon series.

If you don't come back, you missing out. These seats

can be empty. Whoever's here about to get this fire

hydrant and you're gonna be able to walk away transformed.

I'm not begging nobody to come to church. God bless you.

I hope that's feeding your soul. Whatever you're doing, I

hope that's sleep. Oh it can't, because the only thing

that gives you rest for your soul is Jesus.

We're walking into maturity.

Tie. I even prayed for all of my youth while

I was gone. God showed me y'all are about to

be a change agent.

In this city.

No hear me, you're about You're about to lead the charge.

TDY.

Don't don't talk to them like they're young, talk to

them like they're called this there is gonna be I'm

telling you, I'm talking to the youth, but everybody, bring

your youth, get everybody here, come to prayer. I'm telling

you God's about to do something in this church that

is going to turn everything that the enemy has been.

Pulling on into a weapon.

That same rubber band planet at the enemy. That's the

sling shot that David used to kill Goliath.

Don't get me started. It was the same thing. It

was just pointed at the right thing.

The same thing pointed at the right thing, can actually

cause victory to come to families, can actually.

Cause change to come to communities.

Can actually bring transformation to this world.

Let somebody say it starts with me.

If you're in this room, you've never accepted Jesus, this

is how we're ending today. For all your triggers and

your trauma. There's a name who is not threatened by

any of it. As a matter of fact, the Bible

says it like this.

That he was bruised and beaten for all of our iniquities.

He was, He was stripped of all of his kingly.

Prestige. He was. He was. He was battered so that

we could walk in healing.

And today have you been heavy burdened and you want

to trade with Jesus, He says, I'll give you rest,

I'll give you something easy, I'll give you something light.

Today is your day of salvation, whether you're in this

room or watching online. I need the church to be

praying right now because somebody's eternity.

Is in the balance right now.

I don't care if a friend invited you and you

was like, I'll come because us, it doesn't matter. God

set this up for you. I don't want you to

think that we want something from you. God wants something

for you. And today, accepting Jesus Christ and growing in

his way and his world word, it will change everything.

How do you know a poutor Mike. I'm living proof.

I used to be a liar, a manipulator, addicted to pornography.

I used to be somebody with bad things in my heart.

I had car insurance fraud, and somebody tried to make

me feel bad online for telling my testimony.

Let me say it again. I was shacked up. I

was broken.

He admitted that he's dealing yes without Jesus.

I was terrible. I was horrible. I was nothing. I

was hiding.

I was broken, I was lost, I was triggered.

I was trashed. But Jesus.

He changed me, he renewed me, He made me whole.

He took me from being a man that was broken

and full of pain to somebody that's progressing.

I'm not perfect. Nobody in this world is but the

perfect one. Jesus.

He wants to invite you on a journey of transformation.

And if that's you in this room, I just want you,

on a counter of three to shoot your hand up.

I already see a hand over there. Today is your

day of transformation. One, two, three, Come on, just shoot

your hand if you want to accept Jesus. I see you,

my brother, I see you, I see you, couples, I

see you.

In morning, I see you, my sister. God sees you. Hey, GC,

you already know. We're a family here.

We're all gonna pray this prayer together for the benefit

of those coming to Christ.

Somebody said, God, thank you for.

Sending Jesus to transform my life. I am a sinner

and I needed a savior and I found Jesus.

Thank you for living and dying just for me. Today.

I give you my life, Change me, renew me, transform me.

I'm yours forever in Jesus' name. Amen.

Hey, can we thank God and turn up? Oh y'all,

come on, people, the eternities are changed.

Hey, listen.

As we leave here today, I'm inviting the worship team

back up.

If you need prayer for anything. I want you to be.

Able to come to the altar, cause some of y'all

is like, I'm not gonna make it another week. I

need to pray with somebody. The worship team is gonna

sing online. The worship team you can begin to put

in your prayer requests. I'm about to go to the

back and I'm gonna pray for everybody online and until

next week. Everybody coming back next week, I said, everybody.

Come back next week.

I got so much more to tell you because we're

gonna get transformed. I'll see you tomorrow night online at

six point thirty as we start our seven days of

prayer and fasting, and until then go out and live

a transform life.

I love you so much, Church.

Thank you for joining us today. If you said that

prayer and accept it Jesus into your heart, it's the

best decision you could ever make. We want to celebrate

with you, and we have some tools to help you

on your journey. Tech saved to A two eight two

eight two and to find out more about TC text

connect to A two A two A two. Be sure

to subscribe and share this podcast with your friends. Thanks

for listening. Now go out and live a transform life.