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Big Steppa // Mustard: The Seed That Can Change Everything (Part 6) // Pastor Michael Todd

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  1. Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to

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

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

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

  5. We are in week six of a series that we're

  6. calling let's get real loud, real quick. Help me? What's

  7. the series called? Muster? Somebody had to do it? All right, y'all,

  8. y'all quit, y'all, Quinn, thank you. Next week is our

  9. last week of this series, and I believe that the

  10. conclusion of the series is going to be an on

  11. time word for probably one hundred percent of us. And

  12. God's given me the title of next week's message, or

  13. at least the topic, and I'm gonna just tell you,

  14. I feel prophetically to tell you the name of it.

  15. Next week we're gonna be talking about the faith to rest. Yeah,

  16. because some of y'all believe God big in faith to

  17. do something that now you've become a slave to the

  18. thing that you put your hand on, you won't take

  19. your hand off. And I feel prophetically that I need

  20. to speak life into the power of rest. And next

  21. week it is a do not miss message because it's

  22. going to set the pattern for you to be able

  23. to watch this word last. Some of you have a

  24. good ten more years to do what God's caused you

  25. to do, when he's actually put thirty more in you.

  26. But you're using the energy of thirty years in the

  27. span of ten because you will not rest. All right,

  28. And so next week, for all my workaholics, for all

  29. my control freaks, for all of the people that say

  30. I'm just grinding, I'm just hustling, I ain't never going

  31. back there you every day, Well, I got it. Well,

  32. every day I'm grinding. Every day. I'm whustling with every deal.

  33. When you're saying when you plan all of those anthems

  34. in your head that culture gave you, I just want

  35. you to know that that goes directly against the design

  36. of God. Nobody's created anything greater than creation. And even

  37. in the Plan of Creation, he puts a day in

  38. there where he tells us this is for rest and

  39. everybody in this room, I'm not even supposed to be

  40. saying this, but y'all pulling on me today. Everybody in

  41. this room would tell everybody else in this room, don't murder,

  42. don't sleep with your Homeboy's wife, because these are commandments.

  43. But if somebody came up to you and say take

  44. a day off, it would be the only commandment that

  45. you could excuse day after day after day after day,

  46. and some people might even praise you for it. Look

  47. how hard they work, God sees, Look how hard they're

  48. disobeying me. Right, No, that's next week, next week, next week,

  49. next week. Okay, but I cannot watch this. I can

  50. not talk about rest until I properly and adequately explain

  51. to you work because there's another group of people that

  52. have got on the rest wagon without the work. You

  53. always need a personal day. You all mays need a

  54. mental health break. Oh, come on. There is an abuse

  55. happening in the world today for people being in uncomfortable

  56. situations and saying it's affecting them negatively. But what they

  57. don't understand is the pressure, the challenge, the opposition is

  58. the only the resistance is the only thing that builds

  59. you to actually get any better. There is no growth

  60. without discomfort. There is no growth without being uncomfortable. And

  61. most people want their walk with Jesus and the plan

  62. and the purpose that the Key has for their life

  63. to actually be something that is You don't say it

  64. out loud, but you think it in your heart. You

  65. want it to be easy, but I cannot get up

  66. here in my right mind and with conviction of the

  67. Holy Spirit, and let you know that when you follow Jesus,

  68. it's gonna be It's not gonna be easy. It's gonna

  69. be work. And this is where I have to speak

  70. to us actually putting our faith, our mustard seed faith

  71. into action, because there are so many people that need

  72. a break from doing nothing. Okay, you need a vacation

  73. and you haven't put in any work. What do you

  74. need a break from? What do you need to step

  75. back from? You have done nothing in the last seventeen

  76. months that requires there's you to actually stop thinking about something.

  77. Prove it to me. Where's the plan? Where's the step?

  78. Where's the proof? Where's the concept? Where's the tape? Where's

  79. the CD? Where is the thing that God has been

  80. telling you to put your hands on? I didn't say

  81. is it finished? I said is it worked on? Have

  82. there been revisions? How many versions of it do you have? Okay,

  83. how many people have you cut on it? How many

  84. times have you submitted it? How many times have you

  85. put in the application. How many times have you knocked

  86. on the door. How many times have you gone past

  87. your own insecurities and stepped into a place of work

  88. that might be uncomfortable. Many of us are needing a

  89. revelation of work. They don't want this. If it was

  90. up to you, half the animals wouldn't have names. Yeah,

  91. all of them is giraffes. All of them giraffes, elefis alligators.

  92. Think about it because the first thing God gave Adam

  93. before he gave him Eve, he gave him work, he

  94. gave him responsibility, He gave and watched this a problem

  95. to solve. What problem has God given you to solve

  96. that you are daily waking up with the intentionality to

  97. actually put your work, mind, thoughts, hands to every day.

  98. And so I would be out of order to talk

  99. to you about rest next week, which many of us

  100. need who do work. But there is another group of

  101. people who have not been working. Watch this on maybe

  102. the right thing. So maybe there is work happening, maybe

  103. there's motion, maybe there's energy being expended, but you're not

  104. doing the right work. Tuser Micha. Why you keep talking

  105. about work? Because in the end, when we stand before

  106. Jesus at the Great White Throne judgment. The Bible tells

  107. us that He's going to put on the big screen

  108. of Heaven every work that we ever do on this earth.

  109. And I just don't want your slide show to be short.

  110. Y'all ever seen the slides shows in high school and

  111. they supposed to give a whole presentation and it's like

  112. this is an amba. Thank you. My name is Charles, Like, hey,

  113. I'm sorry, you're just their yellow hat. God shows you.

  114. What I'm saying is what I'm saying is when we

  115. get to Heaven, I want you to be able to

  116. sit down and watch all of the people you fed,

  117. all of the conversations, all of the encouragement, all of

  118. the text messages, all the revisions that nobody will see.

  119. But God saw all of the paintings that aren't in

  120. art studios but are in your children's bedrooms, the work

  121. that God requires. Watch this takes faith. It's gonna take

  122. you using what you have right now, which for many

  123. of us, and the thing that God's called us to do. Amuch,

  124. how many people really think right now, if God gave

  125. me a little more in this area, I probably would

  126. do more like come on, just like, if God gave

  127. me a little more money, then I could step out

  128. and do this. If God would give me just at

  129. least two plugs, like two people that could help me

  130. know what to do, I would do more. Come on,

  131. if God would just how many Okay, let's just be honest,

  132. let's be humble a how many people have thought that,

  133. Like God has asked you to do something, and you're like, God,

  134. could you just give me a little more help? Every

  135. time I've asked God that question, this is what he

  136. speaks back to me in my prayer time. Have you

  137. done everything you can with what you have? Have you

  138. done everything you can with what you have? And the

  139. truth of the matter for most of us is we

  140. don't have faith to do the work that we don't

  141. know if it's gonna get the result. Did you hear

  142. what I just said. We only want to do the

  143. work if we know it's gonna produce a result. Like

  144. if I know it's gonna work, then I'll do the work.

  145. But you don't understand that the product that God is

  146. working on is not what you have your hands on.

  147. The product that He's working on is you. And so

  148. I find so many times in the Bible that God

  149. puts work as the actual process to get you to

  150. the product he wants. Okay, Holy Spirit, help me say

  151. it better. Sometimes God will call you the work that

  152. will not end up in good results because the work

  153. he wanted was not on the thing you were doing.

  154. The work he wonted was the work and the wrestle

  155. and the transformation and the toyo and the emitting and

  156. the confession and the transparency that had to happen in you.

  157. God has asked me to do some things that He

  158. set me up to fail. Y'all don't believe in this God,

  159. because I know you think everything is up into the right.

  160. But there are sometimes that God will give you an

  161. assignment that you cannot accomplish so he can kill pride

  162. in you. Yeah no, no, no, no, I'm gonna give him that

  163. job that they think they the man six figure making

  164. it happen. You don't know how to read the document

  165. of your job description. You sitting there looking at him

  166. like I know some of these words like like and

  167. many times watch this. The stretch that he makes you

  168. take is so you can fail at that, but be

  169. prepared for something else. And what you don't understand is

  170. all the time. This is why y'all don't read y'all

  171. Bible and believe in all things all of them are

  172. working together for my good. But if the things are

  173. working together for my good, but I'm not working, my

  174. faith is anything working. So today I just I'm coming

  175. to encourage you to work your faith like actually plant

  176. the mustard seed. Don't just hold it and be like

  177. I got a mustard seed of it. Don't just do that.

  178. Put it in the ground, water it, check on it,

  179. put some fertilizer on it. Don't just plant one seed. Okay,

  180. don't don't just do it one time. You got all

  181. this space and opportunity twenty four hours in every day

  182. God has given you another day. You just scream, I'm

  183. still here doing nothing. Okay. I'm just trying to let

  184. you know you have so much on the inside of

  185. you riding away at the job you complain about every day.

  186. I'm not telling you to leave the job. I'm just

  187. telling you don't spend the time after the job mindlessly

  188. giving your time, energy and effort to things that aren't

  189. a part of the purpose and planning your if God

  190. in your life. And so today I want you to

  191. tell your neighbor. All I need you to do tell

  192. them is work your faith. Now, look at the neighbor

  193. you didn't like as much because you did make a choice.

  194. Look at them with conviction and say, all I need

  195. you to do it's worth your faith. Okay, all right,

  196. all right, Joshua. Chapter one, I Love my Church. It says,

  197. after the death of Moses, the Lord's servant, the Lord

  198. spoke to Joshua. Who did the Lord speak to Okay,

  199. the Lord spoke to Joshua, son of none. Moses is assistant.

  200. So I want you to realize who this is. This

  201. is josh He was Moses's right hand man. Okay, But

  202. after the death of Moses. So where's Moses right now?

  203. I just love a class who pays attention. Where's Moses

  204. right now? Moses is dead. God's fixed to josh and

  205. he was Moses's assistant. Verse two, This is God speaking Moses,

  206. my servant is dead. Now that's crazy because Joshua know

  207. he did, he was, He know that he's dead. But

  208. many times God has to come and speak to us

  209. about dead things, even though we know the life has

  210. left them. And my question is why, why is God

  211. telling you the relationship is dead and you saw it die.

  212. Why is God telling you to stop following that dream?

  213. And you know that well has been dry for years.

  214. You still trying to be a rapper at sixty four

  215. him see two French, Stop, go help somebody else. All

  216. I'm saying to you is much of the time that

  217. we need a word from God. He's having to speak

  218. stuff that is already common sense because for some reason

  219. we won't acknowledge what it actually is. Look what he says, Moses,

  220. my servant is dead. Therefore the time has come for

  221. you to lead these people, the Israelites, across the Jordan River,

  222. into the land I am giving them. I promise you

  223. what I promise Moses, wherever, oh I love that word,

  224. wherever you step foot, you will be on land that

  225. I have given you. I want you to know how

  226. exciting this is for a child of God. Wherever these

  227. size twelves, yell out what size shoe you wear, wherever

  228. these sides, wherever, wherever the size of your feet find

  229. to set foot. He said, that's the land that I'm

  230. giving you. This is the level of faith that I

  231. believe God wants us to have the audacity to begin

  232. to walk in that whatever neighborhood, I say, my family

  233. will live in this neighborhood. That there is a process

  234. that you can believe that He's giving wherever you step

  235. in that school, in the government, wherever you step in

  236. the entertainment industry. The thing is, y'all don't believe it.

  237. No no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. About

  238. six of y'all do. But there's another three thousand that

  239. have taken the stance of the people who died in

  240. the land that God was bringing them through. See, the

  241. only reason that Joshua, I just need to give you

  242. context has to become the leader is because Moses died

  243. in the place that was supposed to be a pass through.

  244. He brings the children of Israel out of slavery into

  245. the wilderness for a process. They begin to complain. God says,

  246. you're complaining. Your disobedience, You not doing what I asked

  247. you to do, is going to keep you in a

  248. holding pattern. And he literally says, none of y'all are

  249. going to get into the place I promised you, but

  250. your children will. And so he says, only two people

  251. are gonna be able to walk into the promised land,

  252. the people who had the faith to believe me. Watch

  253. this when I said it the first time. Okay, I

  254. need to tell you there is an exception for people

  255. who actually are naive enough to believe what God says

  256. the first time. He literally gives Moses the same promise.

  257. Take these people into the Promised Land. It's the whole

  258. reason I brought them out of slavery. It's the reason

  259. I parted the sea drown their enemy. It's the holy

  260. enough for them to stay in a wilderness, in a desert.

  261. I brought them out to take them to God never

  262. brings you out to leave you. He brings you out

  263. to take you too. And so if you feel in

  264. a place like you're going around and around, there may

  265. be a hint of disobedience in the camp. That's why

  266. you gotta start asking yourself, what did God really say?

  267. Am I making any idols? Am I worshiping anything that

  268. I'm not supposed to be worshiping? Am I listening to

  269. something that's keeping me in the wilderness? Am I watching

  270. a TV program and watching the third season of the

  271. ninth episode of something that's keeping the cycle? The wilderness

  272. was not a place to park, but an entire group

  273. an entire generation died. So now God has to tell Joshua,

  274. who was already supposed to be in a promise, that

  275. get out of this park because he almost thought that

  276. God wanted him to stay there too, the way that

  277. some of y'all think that this is it. Let's just

  278. put all the effort and energy into my kids, children

  279. and my grandchildren. And God said, now it's time for

  280. you to lead. Now it's time. I know you've already

  281. retired from one job. Now it's time for you to

  282. go into this calling. Oh God, I know you're ready

  283. to do what your friends are doing. And just be

  284. on a boat every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. That's my dream,

  285. just to be on the boat fishing, Just to be

  286. on the boat with me and God, me and the

  287. great outdoors and God saying like, yeah, I have work

  288. for you to do. I'm not saying that the boat

  289. is not even a vehicle that he'll use. But what

  290. I'm saying is if you are in the mindset that

  291. because you've made enough resources to not have to work,

  292. then you have finished the purpose of God. So you

  293. don't have to work. You are out of line. And

  294. today I just want to engage everybody to work their

  295. faith again. Joshua, I need you to know, Moses, my

  296. servant is what is he? Okay, write this point down.

  297. God not on that, No Mo. I don't know who

  298. needs to hear that. But some of us are praying

  299. about things that God's not on. No Mo, God, would

  300. you just please just open up this door and would

  301. you just please he ain't on that no more? God,

  302. would you just please turn his heart so that he

  303. loved me. I know he's been in three relationships, but

  304. I'm waiting on him. God, I'm waiting on this man.

  305. You showed me in a dream that he was the

  306. one and Juday, God coming for you. Daddy, God, Daddy God.

  307. I'm right here praying. This is the picture. This is

  308. us together, the ones I glued together and put it together. Lord,

  309. And this is what. He ain't on that no more.

  310. You still laying hands on something that he's moved on

  311. from you still telling people he's not on that. And

  312. there is a such thing as the timing of God.

  313. And a lot of people try to extend the seasons

  314. that God gives special grace for. If I wouldn't have

  315. gone into youth pastoring in the season that I did.

  316. I would not be here in this capacity right now

  317. preaching to you if Bishop Macintosh wouldn't have said to

  318. me and then I would have received the word, hey,

  319. I believe there's something on your life to do this

  320. and go to a whole other level. It doesn't mean

  321. I wouldn't be used by God. But if I was

  322. trying to go into youth pastoring right now, I don't

  323. even know half of the sayings the language. I was

  324. talking to me the other day and she was explaining

  325. to me Riz. And when Miah was explaining to me Riz,

  326. and then she said, Riz, what was the other one? Riz?

  327. You said, Riz something? What was it? You don't even remember?

  328. And I was like, Oh, you mean charisma, said somebody

  329. in the audience, like, oh, and so the word is charisma.

  330. But like you have written, what I'm saying is I

  331. could spend all of my energy and effort trying to

  332. figure out how to be that. That's why Ties the

  333. youth pastor. He's back here explaining it right now. He's like, oh, yeah, Riz,

  334. you know what I'm saying. Like, that's why Heter you've

  335. passed because he watched Because in this time and season

  336. he has been given, not that I can't speak a word,

  337. not that I can do what God's called me to do,

  338. but I don't have all of the now, don't get

  339. it twisted. Your boy got rised. Don't get it twisted, huh, Natalie.

  340. Tell them about your boy, tell him, Tell them what

  341. I do know. I'm the watch this. It's because we

  342. serve a god. Listen, I want you to apply this

  343. to your life. We serve a God of time and season.

  344. And I don't care how much you yell. It's summer

  345. in December and Tulsa, you better have a coat because

  346. the time and the season. And I just came to

  347. tell somebody I'm not gonna spend too much more time

  348. right here. But there are some things that you are

  349. believing for that God's not on no more. That thing

  350. is dead, that relationship is dad, that building that you're

  351. trying to buy now has no more grace for the

  352. assignment he called you to do six years ago. And

  353. too many people are finding themselves in a spot that

  354. God used to give them instructions about. But I just

  355. came to tell somebody he ain't on that no more.

  356. Can I say it a different way? The grace has lifted,

  357. the grace is lifted. Some of y'all are friends with

  358. people that you used to could spend days with, and

  359. now at their text message, it sucks energy from you.

  360. All they have to text is hey, and you're like,

  361. oh ooh, wasn't expecting that today. Y'all know what I'm

  362. talking about and what we have not done. Has realized

  363. that the season of our connection. And I love them

  364. and we love the same things, and our kids now

  365. around the same age. But I have to come to

  366. grips with that. I only have so much energy to

  367. do what God has called me to do. And if

  368. I'm trying to manage something that actually is not even

  369. a part of what I feel God is doing, I

  370. gotta realize He ain't on that no more. This is

  371. what calls for emotional maturity. This is why you can't

  372. pray everything away. You got to learn to communicate because

  373. some of us will not say to somebody, hey, my

  374. life set up is a little different right now. I

  375. love you, I'm praying for you, but I don't want

  376. us to have any unspoken expectations. So literally, I love

  377. you and I'll see you when I see you. And

  378. they might be mad for a moment. They may be hurt.

  379. They may be, but what you did was walk in

  380. integrity to be able to report. At least they told me.

  381. They didn't just ghost me, and like, oh, they ain't

  382. never invite me to Christmas. They don't invite me. And

  383. you on Instagram, and you now afraid for people to

  384. see your stuff. You're afraid to show up places because

  385. they're usually there. You don't switch gyms now because you

  386. don't want to work out with them no more. But

  387. you never had a conversation. And all I'm saying to

  388. the people of God that maybe God's not on that

  389. no more. Joshua had to learn that, and and that's

  390. why I want to let you know. The way may change,

  391. but the waymaker doesn't. The way may change, but the

  392. waymaker doesn't. So he tells Joshua, all right, Moses is dad.

  393. Therefore it's time for you to work. It's time for you.

  394. You to get up off of the excuses of the

  395. last generation. Stop blaming them for what you're not in now. Oh,

  396. stop talking about the trauma of the past. They dead now,

  397. they've chosen what they want. Their marriage was, what it was,

  398. what's yours gonna be? Oh God, I said it in

  399. my book, damage but not destroyed. But it may have

  400. not been your fault, but it is now your responsibility.

  401. And I believe God is calling some of us to

  402. a new level of work. He's saying, Moses is dead,

  403. the last generation is dead. The time has come for

  404. you to lead. I came to speak to every leader

  405. in this room that God wants you to walk in

  406. another level of faith and it's going to take you

  407. first accepting watch this. You're the leader. Me and now

  408. he was talking the other day and you know, we

  409. was fine somewhere talking about something, and we looked at

  410. each other and was like, we're the adults. I don't

  411. know if you've ever had that moment before. Okay, come on,

  412. get out who let's be will how many of us

  413. ever had that moment, some of us fifty eight years

  414. old being like, I'm not good. I'm making the decision.

  415. You can stay naive in that place, or you can

  416. make the decision. No, I'm the adult. I'm the leader here.

  417. I get to set the culture here. I get to

  418. decide what I pay money on. I get to decide what.

  419. And God is calling some of us to say, hey,

  420. there's not another pastor coming to lead the generation. You're

  421. the leader now. There's not another nonprofit, there's not another

  422. book that somebody else is gonna write. He said, you

  423. are the leader. Now, Joshua has to breathe this in me.

  424. I've been the assistant the whole time. He said. That

  425. was preparation for where I was gonna put your feet,

  426. and you would love to stay in what was just training.

  427. Some of you have been on the sidelines, been behind

  428. the scene. I don't like this. No, that's just where

  429. God's placed you for training. But now he's calling you

  430. to lead. And as he calls you to lead in

  431. your home, has he calls you to lead in that

  432. PTA meeting, as he calls you to lead at the

  433. gym or with your group of friends. I need everybody

  434. to hear me say this. The time is now. I imagine

  435. that Joshua in twenty four hours goes into an entire

  436. like question about his whole life because one day he's

  437. sitting with all of these people and they still in

  438. the wilderness, and then God comes to him and says,

  439. get up, time to work. You're the leader. Now Moses

  440. is dead. Get them prepared. I didn't plan for all

  441. of this, Lord, can we talk. This wasn't what week,

  442. this wasn't on my daily planner. And God's saying, right now,

  443. you're the leader. And this is why I want to

  444. encourage you. With Romans twelve six. For every person who's

  445. about to take a big step, somebody say a big step,

  446. You're about to take a big step into leadership. I

  447. want to encourage you that God has gifted you to

  448. do this. Romans twelve to six. It says, in his grace,

  449. God has given us different gifts for doing certain things. Well.

  450. So if God has given you the ability to prophesied,

  451. the time is now speak out with as much faith

  452. as God has given you. If your gift is serving others,

  453. the time is now serve them well. If you are

  454. a teacher, the time is now teach well. If your

  455. gift is to encourage others, the time is now be encouraging.

  456. If it is giving, the time is now give generously.

  457. If God has given you leadership ability, the time is now.

  458. I don't care if you're thirteen, Lead now, Timothy. Don't

  459. let them despise you because you're young. Actually be the example.

  460. In integrity, it says, if you've been given the leadership ability.

  461. The time is now take the responsibility. Oh my God, seriously,

  462. and if you have a gift for showing kindness to others,

  463. guess what the time is now? Do it gladly. Don't

  464. just pretend to love others. The time is now to

  465. really love them. My God, hate what is wrong, hold

  466. tightly to what is good. Love each other with you affection,

  467. and take delight in honoring each other. Never be lazy,

  468. because the time is now put in that work work hard.

  469. Did it say work hard? Not skip out, not leave

  470. thirty minutes early, not show up late, and expect PTO.

  471. I'm just trying to tell you how believers are supposed

  472. to work hard and serve the Lord enthusiastically. Rejoice in

  473. our confident hope, which is Jesus. Be patient and trouble

  474. because the time is now. Keep on friend. When God's

  475. people are in need, be ready to help them. Always

  476. be eager to practice hospitality. I'm gonna speak a whole

  477. message on that. Some of y'all just not nice to people.

  478. It says you should be ready to practice hospitality at

  479. any moment. Okay, let's lead that alone. But somebody needed

  480. that fourteen Bless those Ooh, this one a hard one.

  481. Bless those who persecute you. Don't curse them out, don't

  482. say curses over them. Instead, use your tongue for something productive. Pray.

  483. Oh that God, when the last time you actually prayed

  484. for God to bless the people that's talking bad about you? God,

  485. I thank you that you will bless them with a

  486. car wreck today, Lord, that you would. That's not that's

  487. not blessing them. Y'all hear me, that person that you know, Father,

  488. I thank you that God. I don't have a lot

  489. of nice words. Oh he's fine with honesty. God, I

  490. don't have a lot of nice words, but I pray

  491. that they would have an encounter with you. I pray

  492. that the spaces and places where they are empty, that

  493. you would fill them up. God. At this moment, I

  494. want to fight, but I thank you that you fight

  495. for me. And so at this moment, Father, whatever has

  496. led them to be in that position, I thank you, Father, God,

  497. that you would prosper their heart, their mind, their family,

  498. and that you would get the glory out of their

  499. life at some point, in some way, and somehow I

  500. can't see it right now, I know your ways are

  501. not my ways, and your thoughts are not my thoughts.

  502. In Jesus' name, practice praying for people you don't like.

  503. Be happy with those who are happy, and weep with

  504. those who weep. Live in harmony with each other. This

  505. is for every leader. They're supposed to get into the

  506. action right now. Don't be too proud to enjoy the

  507. company of ordinary people. To the religious who think you're

  508. supposed to only hang out with Christian people, who going

  509. to shout every time somebody say hallelujah, don't be too

  510. proud to hang out and enjoy. Enjoy, actually like talking

  511. to company who are just ordinary and don't think, oh

  512. I love the Bible. Don't think you know it all.

  513. Never pay back evil with more evil. Do things in

  514. such a way that everyone can see you are honorable.

  515. Do all that you can to live in peace with everyone.

  516. What am I trying to say, It's time for you

  517. to lead. Leader. And you know why Joshua could lead.

  518. It was because he became the title of my message.

  519. Write it down a big stepper, y'all know what I'm

  520. talking about. Like you know somebody who walks into the

  521. room and they take up space. He said, every place

  522. that your foot treads. He said that this place would

  523. be yours. Could you bring up that little example real quick,

  524. because I want to show you how to be a

  525. big stepper real quick. Write this down. We got just

  526. a few minutes and we're gonna get out here. I'm

  527. gonnaive y'all a couple points and then we're going here

  528. we go. Yeah, just bring that for me, and yeah,

  529. just set it up like right about here. Okay, Oh

  530. what are these? These are size eighteen shoes. This is

  531. a big foot. I want I want everybody to see

  532. the ratio of this shoe to my face. This is

  533. gonna represent God's step, and I'm gonna just this is

  534. gonna represent my footstep. Now, most of us are thinking

  535. when God says take a step, we think he's telling

  536. us to take a step on our own, to take

  537. a step. That makes sense for us. But what God

  538. wants everybody to know is that when he calls us

  539. to take a step, he's not asking us to step

  540. without him. He's asking us to step with him. So

  541. if I step into this piece of clay, it leaves

  542. watch this my footprint. But when you step in the

  543. lane and the place that God has called you to

  544. walk in. This is his promise and his life. And

  545. what you don't understand is I can still move in

  546. his step. It looks funny to you. This looks unproportionate.

  547. Let's be clear. No, no, no. If I walked up,

  548. what's up? My name is pasted somebody. I want to

  549. minister the word of God to you. You wouldn't hear

  550. anything I said because of how big these white shoes

  551. are down here. Look at from the side, look at

  552. it from the side. But I want you to see something.

  553. I want you to see that. Put put the camera

  554. on right here. I want you to see. Do y'all

  555. see my footstep? Anytime God is asking you to go

  556. into land that he's called you to the end should

  557. not be your imprint. People shouldn't be saying how great

  558. you are. People shouldn't be talking about how much you

  559. kill it and how there's nobody else like you. They

  560. should be able when they step out of what God

  561. has done. It should be so him that the lasting

  562. impressed of his foot. You are no longer able to

  563. see that it was me in step with God. The

  564. only thing you're able to see is that God was here. Yes,

  565. and some of you need to get excited about being

  566. in the plan of God, because it will not be

  567. able to trace back to you. It will not be

  568. because of your education, It will not be because you

  569. were born into the right family. It will be because

  570. you obeyed God. Somebody say, I'm a big stepper. Okay,

  571. I'm coming back to this. So the first thing that

  572. you do to become a big stepper write it down.

  573. You have to see big. Somebody says, see big. This

  574. is what I call walking in crazy faith. Joshua is

  575. about to take two million people into a land that

  576. only two people from that tribe have ever been to

  577. him and one other person and everybody else that had been.

  578. There were ten other spies that were sent back in numbers.

  579. They all died because they didn't have the faith to

  580. believe what God said. Joshua was. Oh, I love this.

  581. Joshua was preserved because he believed he believed God. God

  582. preserved him, and now he's about to do something that's crazy.

  583. What I'm asking everybody to do is, if God has

  584. given you a promise, I want you to do some

  585. work that seems crazy. Let me tell you about a situation.

  586. Me and my wife were believing God for a house

  587. back in twenty and twenty two, and God provided this

  588. really beautiful home that we wanted to move into. We

  589. needed more. Jia was about to be born or was

  590. just born, So this is twenty twenty three. Jia was

  591. born and we didn't have enough space in the house

  592. that we were at, but we were content being there.

  593. And then I was like, ah, we need to believe

  594. God for something. And God told me, he said, Michael,

  595. step into what you want. We started looking for houses.

  596. We found a house that we wanted. The person that

  597. was building the house walked into the house while we

  598. were looking at it. We had a great relationship that happened,

  599. and he gave me the cold to get into the house.

  600. Now I don't know why, like we don't know each other.

  601. This is not somebody I'm friends with. But he just

  602. was like, yeah, if you want to come by and

  603. bring your wife and dah da da nah, you guys

  604. can just get in and see the place. He did

  605. the wrong thing. He didn't know I was a man

  606. of crazy faith. We went into the house. I said, Natalie,

  607. do you want this house? She said, yeah, I think

  608. I want this I said I do too, and I

  609. want to be in here by Christmas. This is November

  610. like twenty seventh, like they still putting stuff in. And

  611. then my wife she want to change stuff. She's like,

  612. I don't like the backsplases. I't want to change the backsplans.

  613. I don't like this. I want to do this. I said,

  614. it's gonna all be done by Christmas. And I walked

  615. in there and I was gonna leave, and the Holy

  616. Spirit said, do something that makes everybody know that you

  617. believe this is your house. I said, this about to

  618. be crazy. Now what did we do? We went to

  619. home depot and brought a Christmas tree. You remember this.

  620. We bought a Christmas tree and went to that house

  621. because I had the cold. I'm not condoning people to

  622. break in the houses and put up Christmas trees. I'm

  623. just saying for me, I knew that the worst thing

  624. that could happens I lose a Christmas tree because the

  625. man changes the code or they tell me never to

  626. come back for trespassing or something. But there was something

  627. in me was that I needed to do something to

  628. put my mind to see my family being in that

  629. house to see. And I put that Christmas tree up,

  630. plugged it in and I'm telling you that me and

  631. my family celebrated our first Christmas in that we moved

  632. in on December eighteenth. Y'all don't got a clap with me.

  633. They told me it was no way it could happen.

  634. But when I stepped I saw big. And it may

  635. not be putting a Christmas tree in something. But some

  636. of y'all need to go to a bank and tell

  637. them that I'm starting a business. It's the name of

  638. the business. It's big business, and you need to open

  639. up the account and you need to go ahead and

  640. put the one hundred dollars you got in it. I'm

  641. so on the first seed into this million dollar company.

  642. It's only crazy. Somebody says, see big. But every time

  643. you see big, this is the other thing I want

  644. you to know. You need to see the flip side

  645. of it, see a boundary, because most people see big

  646. and then don't see god giving boundaries. But but verse

  647. four of Joshua one, it says, I'm giving you all

  648. of this land, but I'm giving it to you within parameters.

  649. Everything from the Najeev Wilderness in the south to the

  650. Lebanon Mountains in the north, from the Euphrates River in

  651. the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west, including

  652. all the land of the Hittites. Everybody just reads over this,

  653. But what God was giving was parameters. I'm telling you,

  654. big step everywhere you put show foot within this category.

  655. Did you just see that? Take all the space up

  656. that God has given you. Do everything He's called you

  657. to do. Somebody say, big step up within these borders.

  658. And so many people take God saying do what I

  659. told you to do, and you stepping into a relationship

  660. with a married man. Hold on, we're so hold on, wait,

  661. how did y'all even get close enough to know each

  662. other like that? You went outside of boundaries. I'm telling

  663. you God's love is many times shown in parameters, and

  664. so I want you to see me. Somebody say, see big,

  665. but see boundaries all right. Then the second thing I

  666. want you, if you're gonna be a big stepper, I

  667. want you to talk big too. Who Joshua I told

  668. you back in numbers fourteen he would sit with twelve

  669. other spies into the land because they was gonna go

  670. forty years earlier. But they got a bad report from

  671. ten people and a good report from two people. The

  672. fear of the ten people spread to two million, and

  673. literally the two people were drowned out even though they

  674. had the right answer. Don't think numbers or popularity means right,

  675. Oh God, don't think because the majority is going with it,

  676. it means that it was God. And I look about

  677. I look at numbers fourteen and six when they ask

  678. him to report back. And look how Joshua was talking.

  679. He said, they said to all the people. He said,

  680. the land we traveled through and explored is a wonderful land.

  681. He's talking big, and if the Lord is please with us,

  682. he will bring us safely into that land and give

  683. it to us. It is a rich landflord with milk

  684. and honey. He was talking big to everybody who didn't believe.

  685. God's gonna heal my family and bring us back together.

  686. And I don't know how he's gonna do it, but

  687. I see it in the future. God's gonna save that

  688. loved one. God's gonna deliver me out of this addiction.

  689. I know I'm going to the liquor store right now,

  690. but one day I will not be addicted to this bottle.

  691. I will not be dripped. Y'all, don't hear what I'm

  692. saying right now? Some of you need to start declaring,

  693. I will not be bound by fear for the rest

  694. of my life. I will not be staked in depression,

  695. even though you're under a cover and don't want to

  696. get off. Life and death is in the power of

  697. this tongue. Some of y'all needed to clo I will

  698. not be angry another year. I will not be led

  699. by rage anymore, even though you're about to break something

  700. right now. You can speak in faith, even though you

  701. live in the lie. I'm living in the lie right now,

  702. but I still can speak in faith. Sometime my word

  703. is the thing that hooks me to the future, and

  704. I'm just trying to pull my way out of this.

  705. But I've spoken so many times, I've said it so

  706. many times. I believe it so many times. And if

  707. you're gonna be a big stepper, sometimes you gotta go

  708. from one step and you gotta say, you know what,

  709. this is not how far God wants me to go.

  710. He wants me to step in a certain and so

  711. I'm about to talk about what God's gonna do. I

  712. met with about four hundred people that have sold significantly

  713. into the progress and accelerating the vision of transformation. Church yesterday,

  714. and these people came from all over the world, from California,

  715. from Dallas, from Miami. These people transformation is they church.

  716. He ain't never been here before. They have stepped into

  717. this place this weekend. And I shared vision, and I

  718. shared about what we're about to do, and I shared

  719. about what God is about to tell us as a church.

  720. And I'm scared to share it with all of y'all

  721. because it's big. It's big. Step in it's scary. Like

  722. when I start talking about how we're going to impact

  723. this city in the world, it might make some people

  724. want to take a step back. But I've seen what

  725. God has done back here. Yes, let me put your

  726. footprint back on here. Lord, it's all you got, It

  727. was all you. I give you all the glory, honor

  728. and praise. Step in here into this new thing. Watch.

  729. This means that I have to praise God for what

  730. he did back there, but I can't stay there. Praise

  731. God that he delivered you, Praise God that he brought

  732. you out of poverty. Praise God that he gave you

  733. a fresh mind. But you can't stay there. But you

  734. know what the beautiful thing about this is every time

  735. that I think it's about me, because I'm right now

  736. trying to figure out how I'm gonna get out of this.

  737. I'm starting to cramp up a little bit, like just

  738. right here, I realized, just in this moment, and I

  739. believe it was God, that this is not me, this

  740. is Him, and I can thank God and praise him

  741. for the step. God, I thank you for making this

  742. steff God, I thank you for doing what I couldn't do.

  743. I've talked about the spirit of Bank of Vincenter being

  744. transformation struct but I couldn't make it happen. Thank you

  745. for doing what you said you was gonna do. But

  746. this is the place where many people make a moment

  747. an idol. So I can't just talk about big faith.

  748. I gotta step back into it. Did y'all hear what

  749. I just said. Some of you have thanked God because

  750. he did it, and now you got to step back

  751. into it. And this is what I want to say

  752. to you. You don't just you don't just talk big.

  753. Watch this. You need to talk back. You need accountability.

  754. How to be a big stepper. You see big and

  755. you also see boundaries. You talk big, but you also

  756. need talk back. Who around you can talk to you

  757. about the big thing that you were about to do

  758. and tell you maybe that ain't it. So many people

  759. fall off the cliff of sanity and right thinking because

  760. they won't listen to nobody during the process. You almost

  761. got it right, but something was just a little off.

  762. That's why the Bible says in Proverbs eleven fourteen, where

  763. there is no counsel, the people always fall Were you

  764. not talking to nobody about what God has told you?

  765. And some of y'all, like y'all believe this cultural life

  766. move in silence another way to say that is moving

  767. secret if nobody knows. I'm not saying everybody should know,

  768. but I'm just telling you somebody should know the big

  769. thing that God's asking you to do. They might not

  770. even agree. And sometimes the friction is to refine, and

  771. sometimes you're like, h they just don't believe. No, they're

  772. trying to make you think about something that you don't

  773. see right now, and you're about to go jeronimo and

  774. jump off and give away everything that you built back here.

  775. And God's saying, I put them there as a buffer,

  776. I put them there as a redirector. I put them

  777. there to help you do it. But don't do it

  778. how you were gonna do it. So you need talk

  779. back so that you can actually have safety. It says,

  780. where there is no counsel, the people fall, but in

  781. the multitude of counselors there is everybody say safety. Okay,

  782. number three, if you're gonna be a big step, if

  783. somebody say big step, ball, here we go, you gotta

  784. execute big. This is where the work comes in. I'm

  785. not just gonna see it, and I'm not just gonna

  786. talk about it. I'm actually going to execute do it. Dud.

  787. You ever seen a fight where all like back in

  788. high school, where all they doing is and like everybody

  789. that's watching like all shoe, all shoe. But after like

  790. six minutes, uh, you wanna throw a punch to get it?

  791. Start you at bat oo oo, like at some point

  792. if you'll fight. I'm not condoning fighting either, I'm just

  793. saying that that there would be a point where I'd

  794. be like, do if if you're gonna open the daycare,

  795. just do it. Move back in with your mom, use

  796. the house that you have now, go to dhs get

  797. the thinks you like, just the worst that can happen

  798. is it don't work. But who you became and the

  799. process of trying a big step into God's plan for

  800. your life. It's the next step to the journey of

  801. who God's trying to make you. Nike just and the

  802. church may be the biggest talkers with no execution. The

  803. church is here for the world, you mean, the organization,

  804. and God's calling you because you the church, feed the homeless,

  805. make six extra sandwiches every time you pack your lunch,

  806. and go find the execute. Somebody should start a nonprofit

  807. to give people their basic need. You got seventeen lotions,

  808. Go get some travel sized lotions and your extra tooth

  809. past and go ahead and pump some of that big

  810. old lotion and thing that you got into each one

  811. of those things. Take some three dollars tooth brushes, go

  812. get some travels, and go be the church. Execute. That's

  813. why God says, go into all the world and make disciples.

  814. He didn't say before you went to seminary. He said,

  815. go to seminary first, and then go make a disciples.

  816. He said, you can take the one scripture you know

  817. and the testimony you've lived, and you can somebody shot

  818. at me, go execute. I'm not saying you won't become

  819. better and evolve and get I'm just saying, there will

  820. never be a perfect time to start. And you're waiting

  821. for enough cachet and enough backing and enough UGH to go,

  822. and God's saying, go now, go execute Joshua. Verse one

  823. five and six says no one will be able to

  824. stand against you if you go. If you execute this plan,

  825. I'm telling you, ain't nobody gonna be able to stop

  826. you as long as you live, for I will be

  827. with you as I was with Moses. I will not

  828. fail you or abandon you. So this is everybody who's

  829. gonna execute encouragement right now. Be strong and courageous, for

  830. you are the one. Ugh. It feels like God chose

  831. me in a different way. In two weeks, Pastor Charles

  832. is gonna preach a message series called God Chose Me.

  833. And I'm telling you this thing is going to bless

  834. your life because you need to know you are the one.

  835. God is saying, come on, man, I put you here

  836. on this earth for such a time as this. If

  837. it's time to open the therapy for men, do it.

  838. If it's time, if it's time to start the hair business,

  839. do it. If it's time to start the gym wheel

  840. do it. I'm okay, let me see. I'm only talking

  841. to big steppers. Here we go. He says, for you

  842. are the one Ah who will lead these people to

  843. possess all the land I swore to their ancestors I

  844. would give to them. What God is saying is you

  845. stepping in big faith and executing. Ain't even about you.

  846. This is about me keeping my promise to your grandma.

  847. This is about the prayers that your grandfather prayed. This

  848. is about the prayers that they prayed on a plantation,

  849. in the house as well as in the field. Oh God,

  850. y'all not ready. This is about me keeping my promise.

  851. So I need you to execute. I need you to

  852. do what God said because other people are waiting to

  853. actually be in the place that they're supposed to be

  854. in because you led them there. Okay. God's word has

  855. to outweigh the fear in your life. And this is

  856. why I'm giving you Joshua's example for you to execute.

  857. So we're gonna execute big. Somebody say execute big, But

  858. the other part of that, the backside of that is

  859. execute before it's big. Because everybody wants to execute big,

  860. but not do the stuff to get there. So in

  861. verse seven, it tells Joshua will be strong and very courageous.

  862. Be careful here before you do this. Be careful to

  863. obey all the instructions Moses gave you, which means you

  864. need to study. Do not deviate from them, turning either

  865. to the right or the left. Then you will be

  866. successful in everything you do. This is a promise, And

  867. then it gives a word that a lot of us

  868. don't like with chat chat GPT running the world right now. Study.

  869. I just want to say, the word of God still

  870. requires you to study. I'm saying it because this is

  871. an age where we're getting so addicted to answers without

  872. research that this ancient book is still calling us study

  873. not everything. But this book ain't that what it's said,

  874. Study this bok book of instructions called the Bible. Continually

  875. meditate on it day and night, so you will be

  876. sure uh to obey everything written in it. Only then

  877. will you prosper and succeed in all you do. What

  878. he was saying is you're about to go into a

  879. big space and you gonna see it, you gonna talk it,

  880. you gonna take it. But I want you to know

  881. the preparation beforehand is imperative for you to have the

  882. victory in it. So there is two things you need

  883. to do. Have spiritual preparation for the big place that

  884. God is bringing you, and this is the other thing.

  885. You need to have practical preparation. Talk to me, pastor Mike.

  886. Verse ten, it says Joshua then commanded the officers of

  887. Israel go through the camp and tell all the people

  888. get they stuff ready. There is provisions that are needed

  889. for us to go to the Promised Land. Prepare practically

  890. because in three days, in three weeks and three months

  891. for you, some of us are about to cross into

  892. the Jordan River and take possession of the land the

  893. Lord is giving you. All I'm telling you is get

  894. your house in order, get your money in order, get

  895. your relationships in order, because God's gonna say it's time

  896. and no no, no, no, no, no last one. If you're

  897. gonna be a big stepper, I want you to pace

  898. for big What's a pace? A pace is the tempo,

  899. the timing. Everybody say, snap with me, Snap with me,

  900. Snap at the top, gonna snap with me, Snap with me,

  901. stat with me, stat with me. The just feel like

  902. two thousand. Okay, now watch the only reason everybody was

  903. able to snap in Unison, it's because I set the pace.

  904. If I told everybody just a snap, it would just

  905. have been a whole bunch of just It would have

  906. been confusion. But because I set the pace. When you

  907. set a pace, you have to set margin. The only

  908. thing that makes a tempo. Watch this is the space

  909. between the snaps. It's not the snaps, it's the space

  910. between the snaps. So when I snap, everybody snap with me.

  911. Pace pace pace. If I make that shorter, it's not

  912. unusual if I make that. But did you see the

  913. only difference watch this? The only difference was the margin

  914. in the middle. Same snap, different margin. Most of us

  915. are not making margin for what God's gonna do. You Like,

  916. God said, he gonna do this. We come into a

  917. brand new land. I'm taking over everything, and I'm saying,

  918. put a little more margin in there, because you just

  919. know what he said already. You don't even know that

  920. when you get in the land. You don't know that

  921. God does exceedingly abundantly above all we can ask think,

  922. are imagine you planning just to do one book? He said, Oh,

  923. make a little margin you just trying to get through

  924. this one assignment, and God said, you're gonna be a professor, Like,

  925. make a little more margin. I had no idea what

  926. God was gonna do when he asked me to be

  927. a lead pastor of a church. I thought we was

  928. gonna be in North Tulsa for the next fifteen years.

  929. I had no idea. And God said, hey, make a

  930. little room for me. I'm gonna give you a book

  931. that you didn't even think you could write. That's gonna

  932. go number one New York Time bestseller, and people in

  933. different countries are gonna be speaking about what God gave

  934. you in North Tulsa and how it transformed their life.

  935. Make a little space because it ain't gonna be one book.

  936. It's gonna be three in four years. Make a little

  937. space because then I'm gonna take it. I'm gonna make

  938. it into a movie. Make a little space because I'm

  939. giving you songs now for it, and I'm telling you

  940. and if I would have stopped believing at the place

  941. that he first said, I didn't pace myself for big.

  942. And many times, when you only make this much room,

  943. when God's playing is this big, you become overwhelmed. By

  944. the blessing you prayed for. All right, all right, So

  945. if you're gonna pace for big, this is the last

  946. thing you have to pace for bringing, pace for bringing

  947. who's coming along with you. This whole story was not

  948. about Joshua getting to the Promised Land, because if it

  949. was about Joshua, he would have went forty years earlier.

  950. Jesus held him back so that he could bring people

  951. with him. Sometimes, when God's saying not yet, not yet,

  952. it's not because you've been disobedient, not yet, not yet.

  953. It's not because you don't have the skills. Not yet,

  954. not yet. It's not because you're not qualified or you

  955. won't be okay in the Promised Land. The reason is

  956. you're the only one qualified to bring them into the

  957. Promised Land. And if you don't factor in others into

  958. the plan of God in your life, then you will

  959. selfishly think that you're punished in a season that God

  960. is just being patient with everybody else to catch up to.

  961. I've had to face this reality in my life several

  962. times where God saying to me, Michael, is not happening

  963. right now because there's other people that have to get

  964. on this boat before I do this. And I'm like,

  965. I'm ready to go now out, Let's do this now. JG.

  966. Windwerk eight seven seven cash. Now that's come up two

  967. weeks in a row. All I'm saying is I want it,

  968. And God saying, if you go now, you leave them now.

  969. And I'm the one who waits, who will let you

  970. stay here and go back and get one. And I'm

  971. just telling you, if you're going to be a big

  972. step or no, that it won't be only your steps.

  973. There are children, family members, coworkers, watch this. People you

  974. don't even know. I heard a testimony yesterday from a

  975. gentleman here who told me he started watching our messages

  976. in twenty seventeen, and when he started watching the messages,

  977. he was twelve thousand dollars in debt. And how God

  978. through him listening to Transformation Church, reading the word and

  979. following the steps that God has given him. I'm not

  980. gonna put in them on blast right now because y'all

  981. be trying to talk to him after this. But what

  982. I'm saying to you is he's in this room right now,

  983. and he followed the steps that I was telling people

  984. to do on this platform and had never been here.

  985. And God gave him witty inventions and ideas and connections

  986. as he followed in steps. And he told me that

  987. this Mother's Day he paid off his mama's house. Y'all,

  988. don't y'all don't hear what I'm saying to you. He said,

  989. God took me from twelve thousand dollars in debt to

  990. having a multi million dollar company. I ain't even thirty

  991. five years old. God, he was telling me all these things,

  992. and he said, just wanted to thank you for doing

  993. what you do because I've been following in your And

  994. this is why Jesus says follow me as I follow Christ.

  995. I want you to know that when you follow Christ,

  996. you can be confident that other people can follow you God.

  997. When I take my steps off this path, y'all see

  998. that my foot is not over here, my steps aren't

  999. over here. I'm putting my feet in the place that

  1000. has been designated. At the moment I get off of

  1001. this path, destruction is inevitable. There is no print of God.

  1002. And this is why I need the church to realize

  1003. when God does it, it's about his imprint, not them

  1004. being impressed. I want you to see God in this step.

  1005. It may not make sense to you right now. It

  1006. may not be cool right now. What I'm doing is

  1007. not what I want to do. It's where He's called

  1008. me to do what He's called me to do, and

  1009. I'll obey, and I'll even like tremble this thing, keep trembling.

  1010. I don't know what it is about this step right here,

  1011. but I worked out this morning. This is uncomfortable to

  1012. stay here. But what if He tells you this is

  1013. a step I have you at? Well, God, it would

  1014. be much easier for me to go to that step now.

  1015. But what if being a big stepper is staying where

  1016. He has you until he says step again? And so

  1017. many people are eager to go to the next step,

  1018. and God say, pace yourself. Everything is going to happen

  1019. in time. And I know, as I'm saying this, there's

  1020. some people that are thinking, Pa, pastor Mike, what if

  1021. I missed the step? What if I made a misstep,

  1022. what if I took a step off the path? Well,

  1023. I'm glad that God gives us examples in his word

  1024. about how to step and Matthew fourteen twenty two. It's

  1025. a famous verse that most people don't see the power

  1026. in what God really does. Peter takes a step off

  1027. of a boat into uncharted territory, which is a water,

  1028. which just at the thought of it makes no sense.

  1029. It's crazy faith. But the only reason I want you

  1030. to see all of these steps in Peter's story again,

  1031. the only reason he actually steps off the boat is

  1032. because Jesus told him to come. So again he saw big.

  1033. He talked big, Jesus. If that's you call me out there,

  1034. Jesus responds to him. He then says, come. So what

  1035. does Peter do? And as long as Peter was focused,

  1036. that's the word of the year, right. As long as

  1037. he was focused not distracted, he was able to walk

  1038. on with other people drowned in. But at the moment

  1039. the situation begin to uh oh, what they're saying about me?

  1040. Uh oh? Who left? Uh oh? Did I get water

  1041. on my hair? Oh? Oh? Can I swim? He's walking

  1042. on something and then maybe things? Can I swim? And

  1043. at the moment he's distracted by what he's already overcoming,

  1044. he begins to do what say, Okay, so he made

  1045. a misstep watch this verse twenty seven of Let's Go

  1046. Matthew fourteen, verse twenty seven. But Jesus spoke to them

  1047. at once. Don't be afraid, he said, here's that word again,

  1048. take courage. Why can't you take courage, he said, because

  1049. I am here, I'm even in your misstep. I don't

  1050. know who I'm talking to right now, but some of

  1051. you have made a mistake. Some of you have said

  1052. or done something that you know wasn't godly for you.

  1053. Some of you haven't hidden back, you haven't taken up

  1054. your space. You might have felt that, oh no, God's

  1055. done with me. And God's saying to you, I'm even

  1056. here with you in this misstep, he said. Then Peter

  1057. called to him, Lord, if it's really you, tell me

  1058. to come walk on the water. Come, Jesus said, so

  1059. Peter went over the side of the boat walked on

  1060. the water towards Jesus. But when he saw the strong

  1061. wind in the wave, he was distracted. He was terrified

  1062. and begin to sink. But what did he say? Save me, Lord?

  1063. Some of you. Your next big act of faith is

  1064. just to say save me. I messed this up. I

  1065. got in debt over, I stopped hearing, I stopped obeying,

  1066. I got out of accountability, I stopped going to counseling.

  1067. I'm hanging around the save me Lord, And when he

  1068. said save me, Lord, Jesus, I love this word, immediately

  1069. reached out and grabbed him. He said, you have such

  1070. little faith. Boy. I've been trying to teach you this

  1071. for a long time. Why did you doubt me? When

  1072. they climbed back into the boat, the wind stopped, which

  1073. means the wind was on assignment. The storm had a

  1074. time limit. The storm was a part of the theatrical

  1075. platform that God was trying to use to affect Peter's faith.

  1076. He said, y'all cut it. He didn't get it. Stop

  1077. the lights, stop the We'll try again later, he said.

  1078. Then the disciples worshiped him. You really are the son

  1079. of God Jesus, like the watch this last point. Because

  1080. of Jesus. This is the encouragement for anybody who's made

  1081. a misstep. Because of Jesus, when your big step turns

  1082. into a misstep, you're still kept today. I don't care

  1083. if you've gone off the path and you stepped out

  1084. and tried to do what God said and it ended

  1085. up in you losing something, losing confidence, losing courage, losing focus.

  1086. God saying all I need you to do is call

  1087. out to me right now, save me, Jesus. I need

  1088. you God, You're the only one that can pull me

  1089. out of this. And he says immediately, he keeps you. Today.

  1090. If you're in this room and you know that there's

  1091. some big step that God's calling you to or have

  1092. called you to, can you know there's some areas of

  1093. your life that you have stepped in the wrong places,

  1094. or there's some steps you've made, and all you can

  1095. see is your feet and your steps and your imprint

  1096. and not his. Today I'm asking you, would you step

  1097. into the grace and the love of God. Would you

  1098. allow Him to be the one that directs you, guides you,

  1099. loves you, transforms you, and brings you into the promise

  1100. that He didn't even just give to you. He gave

  1101. it to your mama's mama's mamas. Today, I believe the

  1102. Lord by faith, with our mustard seed faith, wants to

  1103. redeem generational blessings because somebody's gonna obey God. Your family

  1104. never was able to do it, but God's gonna do

  1105. it through you. Your family line has never been able

  1106. to stay healthy or whole, or healed or financially free

  1107. or whatever it is, what if it changes through you

  1108. Standing all over this place today, I'm praying that your

  1109. mustard seed faith would turn you into a big step

  1110. of that some of y'all are gonna step into places

  1111. over the next few weeks with God's strength and his

  1112. help that you haven't even really got no business being in,

  1113. but you're gonna step in it in crazy faith. But

  1114. if you ever make a misstep, know that He's a keeper.

  1115. If anybody wants to actually walk in the crazy faith

  1116. to step into the big things. And you feel like

  1117. this message is resonating in something that God's asking you

  1118. to do, would you just lift your hands all over

  1119. this room watching online, I want to pray for you, Father,

  1120. in the name of Jesus. You told me to preach

  1121. this message because your children needed to not just be inspired,

  1122. they needed to be encouraged. And so for every hand

  1123. that is up, in every heart that is open, I'm

  1124. asking you right now, would you give us the faith

  1125. not just to walk on water, but last on the water.

  1126. Would you give us the faith, Father God, to actually

  1127. make it into the Promised Land with everybody that's supposed

  1128. to be there. Would you give us the faith God

  1129. to step into city situations that look too big for

  1130. us to step into, but when the step is made,

  1131. all they see is your imprint. It's for your glory

  1132. that you want to use us, because your word says,

  1133. Blessed are the feet of those that spread the gospel

  1134. and take the good news. Father God. The reason why

  1135. you want us to take up more spaces because everywhere

  1136. we step, you step, and everywhere you step becomes kingdom, territory,

  1137. and Father, there are people that need to know that

  1138. you didn't just bring them to this earth to live

  1139. or to exist. You brought them to this world to

  1140. live and to represent you. So for every person who's

  1141. made a misstep, how thank you, Father God. Your redeeming

  1142. grace is available right now, for every marriage that has

  1143. gone off the tree, every heart that is addicted to

  1144. something that's dangerous, for the eye of lust and the

  1145. thoughts of jealousy and envy and the comparison that drives us,

  1146. Father God, to be discontent. Today, Father God, we're all

  1147. asking would you save us from those distractions that are

  1148. causing us to drown, Father God in places we should

  1149. be walking on today. I'm coming to you just as

  1150. Joshua would and I'm repeating the words that you said

  1151. to him, and we're saying, I'm back to us, Father,

  1152. I thank you that you've called us to be strong

  1153. and courageous today. Would you give us courage? Would you

  1154. encourage us through your word and Father, would you give

  1155. us the boldness to walk into land that still has

  1156. giants in it and be ready to fight for what

  1157. you've called us to. Bless these people who are about

  1158. to make steps into the world that the Church has

  1159. not been in in a long time. Give us audacity

  1160. to believe you that everywhere our foot would step, you're

  1161. giving that land to us for your glory, for your

  1162. kingdom advancement, and for people to be saved in Jesus' name.

  1163. In the same moment right there, some of you are saying,

  1164. the next big step I need to make is say

  1165. Jesus save me. And you want to give your life

  1166. to Jesus Christ, whether you're in prison right now, you're

  1167. in this room, or you're watching online, if you want

  1168. to give your life to Jesus Christ. I'm about to

  1169. say a prayer and everybody here is going to say it,

  1170. because TC's a family. Nobody praise alone. And I don't

  1171. care what you were doing last night. I don't care

  1172. what you're planning to do next week. I don't care

  1173. where your heart has been burdened. I was a liar,

  1174. a manipulator, addicted to pornography. I had bad things in

  1175. my heart. I had plans to walk away from God.

  1176. But God got in my way and said, step in

  1177. this thing with me, and I got transformed. Intoday, I'm

  1178. asking you to follow me as I follow Christ. That

  1179. means you have to follow him. And if you're watching

  1180. this and seeing this, whether it's now on rebroadcast, pray

  1181. this prayer. Just say God, thank you for sending Jesus

  1182. just for me. Today. I give you my life. I

  1183. repent from my old steps and I walk in a

  1184. new light. I believe you lived, you died, you rose

  1185. again to redeem my life. So transform me, change me,

  1186. renew me. I'm yours in Jesus' name. Amen. If you

  1187. just prayed that prayer for the first time, or you

  1188. rededicated your life on the counter, three, I want you

  1189. to shoot your hand up. We all already cheering, and

  1190. Heaven is about to cheer for you. One two, three,

  1191. shoot your hand up. If you prayed that prayer. I

  1192. see you up there. If you prayed that prayer, I

  1193. see you, sir, If you prayed that prayer, I see

  1194. Come on church, I see you, my brother. And more

  1195. than that, God sees you. Hallelujah. It's time for the

  1196. big steppers to get in and today I want you

  1197. to put your foot in something I don't know. I

  1198. go get some play though, like I had no footprint

  1199. in there. Today, if you just made that decision for Jesus,

  1200. I want you to text saved to eight two eight

  1201. two eight two as the altar workers are coming. If

  1202. you need for anything, the Bible tells us we have

  1203. a secret weapon of agreement. If your marriage is going through,

  1204. if you're having wild thoughts, if you just feel down,

  1205. even after all that we said in the message, a

  1206. miracle can happen just and you touch it and agreeing

  1207. with people. These aren't perfect people. If you need prayer

  1208. in the chat, put it in the chat. These are

  1209. people who believe God. And here in just a minute,

  1210. about fifteen twenty minutes next week, I'm telling you do

  1211. not miss the message. I'm gonna teach you to have

  1212. the faith to rest. But in just fifteen twenty minutes.

  1213. If you would like to meet me and some of

  1214. the team, we're gonna be right across the hall. I

  1215. want to invite you to something we call meet the Pastors.

  1216. I want to hear your story. I want to hug you,

  1217. take a picture with you, and just see all the

  1218. good things that God is doing. So, if you're new

  1219. to Transformation Church and you want to meet somebody, come

  1220. meet us. I'll love to meet you. And I'm believing

  1221. that this week is gonna be the best week of

  1222. your life. That you're gonna walk into steps with courage,

  1223. that God is going to use you to do something

  1224. that's gonna get his name glory right here on this earth.

  1225. There's a miracle emotion coming for you. Amen, Father blessed Him,

  1226. is my prayer. Let them step in everything You've called

  1227. them to step in. We give you glory, we give

  1228. you honor, and we give you praise. In Jesus' name.

  1229. We agree, we expect, Amen, go out and live a

  1230. transformed life.