A Distraction Named David // Death To Distraction: Week 5 // Michael Todd

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Get your Bibles out, get your notepads out, smartphones, dumb phones,

every phone is welcome here. We have been in a

series for five weeks now, and the title of this

series may be paramount, something that you need to go

back and watch every month this.

Week because the whole purpose.

Of this series is to help you figure out how

to put death.

To your distractions.

And the truth of the matter is, I've been talking

to some people and pulling them of what they're getting

out of the message, and.

It's so crazy that there are several people.

That have been around God long enough to think that

they don't need to zone in on what God's saying

to them about their distractions.

I have kept hearing.

How it's such a good series for people who are

distracted as if, and I'm talking about some of my staff,

some people that came in town like, oh my.

God, this is for those who are distracted. Hold on.

For those who are distracted, you know, for people who

deal and struggle and those type of cycles.

Do you know what pride will do. It will hinder

you from hearing God. And I just want to before we.

Go into this heat that's about to come here, I

don't want you to miss it because your pride makes

you deaf hear what I'm saying, spiritually not able to hear.

What God is trying to say.

Somebody say to me, So from now on, I do

not want you to think at all how anybody else's distractions.

Need to be changed through the word of God.

I only want you to think about the distractions that

have been keeping you from stepping fully into what God

has caused you to do. The distractions watch that you

have become so familiar with that you actually don't consider

them distractions anymore.

Yeah, I need you to be aware.

That certain things that you have deemed a part of

you are actually things that are keeping you from purpose. Today,

I want to tell you, scream to you, be your

alarm clock.

Focus focus on God, Focus on Jesus, Focus on his word,

focus on the instructions.

He gave you. Every thing else should be second. Is

it true? Plain?

Because the truth of the matter is there's a part

of me that desires to impress you and say it

in a brand new way so.

That it's like, oh, oh, that's deep. I can't because

it's so simple. Focus.

What happened to the thing God told you to do

during twenty one days of prayer?

We're only three weeks away from when it ended? With

three weeks.

Post twenty one days of prayer, fasting, you've gone back

on You've undone everything you did in twenty one days.

In three weeks? How lack of.

How did we get from where we knew God spoke

to us ten years ago to go into ministry and

go to this school and do what God told us

to do to now being like, I don't even know

what God's saying.

I don't even know if he hears me.

I'm talking about real things that I'm listening and watching

people somebody locked in when they're here in church, goes

off to school, don't even look like the same person

six months later.

How does that happen?

It's a lack, a loss or a distortion of focus.

And many of us watch.

This have lost our focus for so long it's become

a perspective.

You're not trying to focus anymore. This is just your perspective.

My perspective is that all people gonna do me wrong.

Because I didn't focus on mending that one relationship that

really had a tie to my heart. I never really

forgave them, I never really walked away from that.

I never did the counseling that I needed to do.

So now people are gonna do me wrong. Come on, y'all,

I'm telling you, if you don't focus, watch and fix

the things that God tells us in.

His word are important.

We will turn something that we have not focused on

intensely into a perspective about a whole group situation genre

all these things. God said, could you let me come

here and fix your focus?

How do we do that?

Pastor Mike, I'm glad you asked, because Hebrews twelve one,

our scripture of the year, says, Therefore, since we are

surrounded by such a huge croud of witnesses to this

life of fake, somebody say I live a life of faith,

say it like you mean it, life of faith. I

live a life of faith. I live a life of faith.

No matter what I see, I live a life of faith.

My faith will affect my life, my sath, my.

Prayer, my giving, my encouragement.

I live a life of faith.

Some of y'all need to say it.

By faith. I live a life of faith. I don't

know where I'm gonna live next year. I don't know

what's gonna happen down the road, but I live a

life of what say, I'm trying to inspire somebody to

stop living a life of fear, a life of failure.

When if you categorize your years by the failures that happened, Oh,

that's the year I lost such and such, and that's

the year that I didn't make it into this, and

that's the year they.

Left for me. And now you need to flip it.

That's the year that God let me survive that. That's

the year that God changed my perspective on that. It's

not that it didn't happen, but that's the year that

God made me in the something I wasn't.

That's the year I found out that I was built

like a dog. That's to hear, y'all gotta hear what

I'm saying. I live by.

Okay, So since I lived by faith, somebody say I

live by faith.

Some of y'all need to say that.

Every day you wake up thank you Lord for another day.

And today I'm gonna live by faith. Okay, So since

I lived by faith, I gotta undress some of this

stuff that tried to get on me. I know, culture

tried to tell me to put on this weight, my

family told me to put on this weight. I know

everybody's been trying to tell me to put on depressing

and anxiety and do all.

Of this other stuff.

But since I lived by faith, let us strip off

every way that slows us down, especially.

The sin that so easily trips usself.

Because the real reason I got to strip off the

WAI is because I got a race to run, and

I'm gonna run it with endurance. Not the race that

culture tells me to run, not the race that my

family laid out for me, not the race watched this

that I even laid.

Out for myself. This is where a lot of disappointment comes.

It's because you lay out somebody told you were beautiful

and you were tall, and so you should be a model,

and then somebody else like you should be a model,

and then somebody else, and you posed in the mirror

and you did a little thing, and you didn't and

you was like I do look like a model. No,

I'm just saying, I'm giving a very simple example of

how it happens. You get a couple of people to

confirm what they see in you. You never consulted what

God made you for. And now your disappointment. Fifteen years

in living in New York trying to be a model,

and the only thing you've done is walk up at

Madison Avenue looking at things in stories you could not buy?

Why don't?

And now you are disdained, frustrated, faith lost in God

because that's not the race. I mean, take some pictures,

but that's not the race. I mean walking to your

friends show, but that's not the race. I mean, model,

do do it, but it won't fulfill you, because I'm

not saying you can't do it, but just make sure

after you ran that practice round that don't count, still

have energy to run your race. So many people are

tired because they are running races that are.

Not actually qualified.

And right now, I'm just saying that sometimes that's where

distractions come from. Is us running the wrong race? He says,

He says, I want you to do this and run

your race that God has set before you.

Verse two.

And the only way We can do this by keeping

our eyes on Jesus.

Somebody shot at me. Focus the only way I can

do this.

With everything changing with a new trend, another reason to

be canceled another while everything going.

On, the only way I can do what I'm.

Supposed to do on this earth is focus on Jesus,

the champion who initiated. That means he started it and

perfects it. That means he's gonna keep doing it until

it's right.

He initiated it in me and perfects our faith. Hold on.

The only reason that I'm here is because I live

a life of faith. Then God is the one who

initiates and perfects my faith.

And he's gonna say the reason I can do this.

Is because I got proof because of the joy awaiting him. Jesus,

he endured the cross, disregarding it shame.

Now he rested, popped up in a lazy boy.

Not working, not moving, not trying to still do something

on earth.

That's the Holy.

Spirits job, now, he said, when he said it is finished,

he did. He is sitting there at the place of honor.

Besides God's thrown somebody shot at me one more time. Focus.

The only reason that I'm spending so much time trying

to help you understand the value of focus is because

we give so much energy to our distractions that many

times we don't remember the focus.

Have you ever tried to stop doing things so much

that you forgot what you were supposed to be doing.

Have you ever walked into the kitchen.

And was like, I gotta I gotta get some I

gotta get something to drink. I gotta get some drink. No, no,

don't talk to me, don't talk to me. I'm getting

something to drink. And then you stand at the refrigerator

and then it's not until you're getting different in.

It's awesome. Then you go back.

Distraction, distraction, distraction, and you're trying to block out all

the distraction, and many times the fight against the distraction

makes us forget to focus.

So today I'm gonna.

Help you because the word has helped me remember to

eliminate a distraction that's probably plaguing all of us in

some way or another. And so I begin to think, like,

all right, Lord, how am I supposed to help these people?

Because I've been telling him about Samson Samsa got his

hair cut off last week. I need to finish the

story because my man, Delilah, she up there just swooning

my man and she must got that uhi wali wally

because what's happening is like.

Why is this man going through all of this stuff

and all that. No, I'm just this is me thinking.

Just stay with me and my thoughts. And I'm like,

why are you gonna do that?

He don't let her cut off his hair, he loses

the problems all this other stuff. He said, Michael, come

out of the story for a second and let them

see the distraction from another person's standpoint.

And I said, okay, God, what you want me to do?

He said, I want you.

I want you to go about three or four chapters

later in the first Samuel, and I want you to

find my man over there.

And I said your man.

He said, yeah, yeah, I want you to I want

you to find my man David.

And I was like, I was like, oh, I know,

I don't know. That's Shiva and David. He said, uh uh,

cause that was a distraction, right, He was like, yeah,

but that was later. I want you to find out

where David entered into the story. And this is what

the Holy Spirit said, And why why do we meet David.

He's most people's favorite Bible character.

The name David was the most popular in eighteen ninety nine.

Everybody name it is, no not eighteen nine, nineteen eighty nine.

The name David is everywhere. Everybody cousin named David. Your

middle name is David. How many Davids we got in

the room right now? Middle, first or last name? I

saw you. You definitely look like a David. And what

I'm saying. What I'm saying is we love David, but

David wasn't always loved. And today I want to teach

you something that I've never seen before that I think

a lot of believers are doing, and I want to.

Help us reverse it.

But first, I think it would be easier to show

you what I'm talking about than tell you.

So let me put this over here. How many people

drink dark drinks? Come on Coca Cola, doctor pepper, come

on root beer. Something is wrong with y'all insights.

Y'all know, y'all can put whatever this is on your

car battery and.

The asset in the mind. That's not my message.

But you put this into you, okay. Inherently having a

cup of this is not bad. How many people have

ever met somebody wear their breath stinks?

It is it's a sin.

And how many people have ever used a Mento's to

neutralize Satan's.

Dragon breath? Okay, let's leave it up there.

There's nothing wrong with a mento's. A Mento's honestly is

good in many situations. There's nothing inherently wrong with your

dark drink of choice and moderation.

Okay, But if I take the top off of this.

And I decide to take these little things that aren't

supposed to be with this thing, and I decide.

Ooh, ooh oh.

Something that was neutral becomes nuclear when it comes in

contact with the wrong thing. Why did it overflow at

just the contact?

Neither one of the things were bad. This is a

picture of what I'm about to show. You write this

point down. That did seem evil? Didn't it fractured focus?

Turn something neutral into something nuclear? Passor Mike, explain yourself.

There is nothing wrong inherently with the Internet. The Internet

is neutral. It's what websites you type in that makes

it nuclear. Money is not inherently bad. Money's neutral. It

turns nuclear depending on whose hands it's in.

I just want you to think about.

The things in your life that are okay.

Until they get into the wrong people's hands. Relationships neutral.

Until they get into an abusive person's hands. Nuclear power,

we've made power so bad. Power is not bad in

somebody's hands that.

Has the heart of God.

Power is devastating in the hands of somebody that is

only trying to look out for themselves. A title is

not bad. It's neutral. Everybody say a title is neutral,

but some people use the title to turn people.

Into things that are this.

Small pastor Mike, why are you telling us this today?

I'm trying to give you an example of where we

usually put our focus.

We put it on the thing and not the person

holding the thing. You missed it.

A platform is neutral, it's who stands on it and

how they use it. It's where it can become nuclear.

A promotion is neutral. What are you trying to stay?

Watch this?

All content is either messed or it's either a mess

or multiply by the hand that holds it and the heart.

That controls it. Anything you have.

Is neutral until it gets into the hands of somebody

with a bad heart, a greedy heart, a heart that

does not want to see God's will be done. And

the reason I'm bringing this is because too many people

focus on the thing and not the person who's holding

the thing. I can tell you so many stories that

I was warned in church against things.

But stay away from that.

The problem was is that the person who was telling

me to stay away from it had already had evil

in their heart towards that thing. They had experienced that

thing in a way that they didn't tell me that

they had an issue with that thing. So they tried

to make it something for everybody to stay away from

because it was their issue.

Now, I grew up not being able to.

Understand certain things because I was told stay away from it.

But I had.

To realize in my maturity with Christ is that there

are many things that people will stay away from because

they think it's bad. Social media is not bad. It's

neutral until you get in them comments.

And sliding them dms. It was new.

Yeah, it was neutral before your curiosity, Yeah, before your

deceit secrets taser. Mike Brow, are you bringing this up?

Because I gotta set the table for the distraction that

has been killing many of us, and we're gonna find

it here. In First Samuel eighteen five through nine, it

took me fifteen minutes just to get you to see

that the thing may not be bad that's around you.

It may be how you're viewing that thing. First Samuel,

Chapter eighteen, verse five. Whatever Saul asked David to do,

David did it successfully. So Saul made him a commander

over the men of war. Who made David a commander,

Who made him a commander, I just want you to

stay with me.

He made him a commander over the men of.

War and appointed an appointment that was welcomed by the

people and Saul's officers alike.

Take note.

When the victorious Israelite army was returning home after David

had killed the Philistines, women from all the other towns

of Israel came out to meet King Saul, and they

dance for joy with tambourines and cymbals, and this was

their song. Saul has killed his thousands and David his

ten thousand. This triggered Saul. This made Saul very angry.

What's this.

Y'all gonna credit David with ten thousand and me only thousands?

Next they'll make him their king.

Point.

So from that time on, Saul kept a jealous eye

on David today, I want to expose the distraction of comparison.

David was not Saul's problem. Saul was Saul's problem.

The title of my message is a distraction named David,

because all of us, somewhere in our life, has turned

something neutral to nuclear because of.

Our own issues.

That was never supposed to be a distraction from me,

and I made it one that was never supposed to

be an issue for me. And I made it one

that was never supposed to be a problem for me

to go into that store, or be around those people,

or eat dinner at this place. But because I put

my focus on the wrong thing, I ate a distraction

that was actually supposed to be something that helped me. Okay,

some of y'all don't know the story, so I have

to go back and tell a little bit of it.

The problem with this is that David was sent by

God to torment all the things that were tormenting Saul.

Saul had done some things to get out of right

standing with God. We're gonna talk about him in just

a moment. So he now was able not able to sleep,

He had insomnia. Things were going on. He says, is

there anybody? First, Even before he.

Was having insomnia.

There was a philistine giant Taunt in his whole army.

None of his boys would fight him.

David comes along, kills his greatest enemy. Now comes to

a place where everybody like yo, Jesse boy, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He was fine with that. Then he was getting tormented.

He said, can.

Anybody play the same? Dude who killed Joe? Giant plays

a mean guitar.

He begins to play his liar, and the evil spirits

go away.

The Bible tells.

Us, hold on, he done killed two giants in this

king's life, and.

Up until this point he good.

But it was after watch he put him in a position.

David did not position himself. After Saul put him in

a position, he goes and wins more victories.

Now watch this give me more context. Oh my god,

Saul is the first king of Israel. He has no

one to be compared to.

Abstraction of comparison is illegitimate because.

He only made one of you.

Oh my god, he only made one of you.

You're out here.

Comparing your eyes and your shafe and your status to

everybody else, and they cannot be compared because you're only

one of one. Saul is out here with nobody to

not a king.

Ever, yet.

His kingdom is expanding, His giants are being fought without

his hands. He is in a place where everything that

concerns his name is going to another level, and he

puts his focus on the song of some women that

he don't even know. Now you're saying it like it's.

Like, oh, yeah, that's so crazy.

But have you ever been in a place in your

life where things are actually good, where you felt good

about the staycation you had until you went on Instagram

and you saw that somebody went to Dubai on a wheel.

Y'all know what I'm talking about, social media influencer.

Somebody just paid for me to go to the Rits

calling in Dubai and you.

Was good, what your courtyard stay? You just told somebody,

You just told somebody how refreshed you were, and I

needed that and I had a long time. I got

to catch up on my series and he was like, yeah, I.

Know, I'm not gonna post that. And then.

To Loon, where the heck is Salon had nothing to

be compared to. But as soon as you put yourself

in a place, the distraction of comparison took your joy,

took your peace took.

It took your contentment.

And I'm just coming today to ask you, are there

things in your life that were never meant to be

a distraction but they are now because you have embraced comparison.

Saul listened to a song that made him sacrifice everything.

One song, one song by people who weren't in his

inner circle, one song not from his core, one song

from the crowd. One song made him sacrifice everything. If

you go on to read it, Saul spends the rest

of his life attacking the thing sent to attack the

things sent to attack him.

Run it back, it'll make sense. He spends the rest

of his life attacking David, the thing that was sent

to attack the things goliaths, Philistine's.

That he was trying to attack him. He used all

his energy, all his effort, all his power on a

distraction that was actually supposed to make him better. Okay,

the reason I'm bringing this up is because when most

of us get triggered, we focus on the wrong thing too.

Did y'all hear when he got triggered?

He heard them singing this so and he didn't think,

oh my.

God, this is what perspective is so key. He didn't

think I'm a good leader. Yeah, yeah, David, he did

ten thousands, that's all, did thousands. That's about of thousands.

I don't know how many thousands it is, but we're

in the thousands.

Because the kingdom was not.

Credited to David, the only king with no one to

compare himself to, so any credit.

Still gets counted for Saul. But his insecurity I got

goosebumps saying this. His insecurity took a song saying by

somebody on their first time coming.

Through, and all he did was focus on that. Y'all

gonna bring all tambourines out here. That's what I said,

is tambourines and you gonna sing this little who made

the song?

Who wrote it? Then? Can you give me? I want

to show them what it sounded like. This is what

it sounded like right here, Turn it up, Turn it up,

DJ he coming into town.

Song Kitsen tis the David two thousand, stalk killed two

thousand David two thousand. They not like, uh, they not

like y'all. Y'all say what I'm saying that like they

not like uh, y'all.

I'm just saying, think about it.

Thousand David ten thousand song kill a thousand David in

ten thousand.

They not like Uh, Okay, you can say that, but

I'm just I'm just saying culturally relevant. Saul sitting there,

I'm gonna sue whoever made that song. What I'm saying is,

what I'm saying is.

Instead of thinking, instead of thinking, man, we did that,

the chorus should have.

Been they not like us. He should have been able to.

I don't know what walking would have been.

I would the g walk, they'd be Goliath. Okay, they

should have been able to. They should have been able

to sing the chorus. He should have been dapping them up.

They not like uh, they not like us. They not

like us.

But because of comparison, all he heard is he's not

like me. I'm the king. He's not like me. They

didn't grow up in the family that I grew up there,

He's not like. Why did they get that? Why is

Michael Todd's ministry He's out. I'm just saying, we may.

Be supposed to be teammates. We may be the answer

to a prayer in the future that you need us

to win.

You need God to continue to bless this. You need,

but you will turn the blessing that God wants to

bring into your.

Life into something that becomes a burden. You chase for

them the rest of your life because you saw it.

Through the lens of comparis. I know I'm Pretcian.

Today, it's important for us as a church to realize

that this is the enemy's covert way of desensitizing the

body of Christ, because it's happening not from outside only,

it's happening within. It's happening in the same city. It's

happening down the street. It's happening. Let me tell Transformation

Church something. Whenever somebody speaks of another church in this city,

you speak well of them.

Look at me.

I don't care what they said about us. We are

on the same team. It's kingdom here. It doesn't matter

the insinuation. If somebody speaks negative about us, God bless somebody,

because at the end of the day, God fights for us.

Do you hear what I'm saying?

And maybe we were trusted enough to be used a

part of their growing process, But don't ever let me

hear you say I'll mess with that church because shut up.

Then if your heart has not grown to the place

where you can bless people that you know, potentially don't

share the same views as you.

It exposes our lack of spiritual maturity. He said. The

only way that the outside will know that your mind

is because.

For our love, our good words are encouraging words one

to another. The enemy don't got to do nothing about that,

because all you got to do is start comparing what

they did versus what you did. With siblings and parents,

y'all don't make it better. Don't ever say be more

like your brother. That is that's lazy parenting number one.

Okay, I'm gonna get in trouble.

You should be more like your sister, But I'm not them,

So it's lazy parenting to say because they have a

propensity to do these type of things, that doesn't mean

that I can't. I just may need to be motivated

and courage corrected a different way. And if you think

you're gonna copy and paste all the same parenting skills

to all five of the kids, you needed to stop

having us because this is the truth of the matter.

You're being lazy right now.

And I need something different than Gabriel. Gabriel needs something

different than Raphael rapti'l needs something different than do y'all

see what I'm saying. And many times, many times, we

sow the seed of comparison into our own children.

Why can't you, why can't you just.

You?

And then huh? And then to the oldest children.

We put an unrealistic expectation on them.

To be perfect.

So as soon as you tell them, be the example,

and now everybody's compared to you, they didn't start hiding

from you because they never want to disappoint your expectation

of them.

This is too much, Okay, let me go back to

the word. Let me just tell them what the Bible says. Jesus.

All I'm saying is comparison.

Is able to get into the households of believers, and

we don't even credit the enemy with it. We just

act like it's normal human behavior. I mean, I mean, yeah,

their marriage looks great, y'all know we do that. But

did you see how.

It can't be? There's no way, And.

Why couldn't you celebrate if it was? Why why couldn't

it be? Man? I really, I really pray that everything

that we see is actually man, that it's like that,

from the.

Root to the fruit. God, I bless that marriage. God. Man,

how inspiring father. Just thank you.

The problem with that is that takes humility to see

other people's greatness and still be able to celebrate it

when you're in a place where you don't feel that

same level of accomplishment.

Okay.

And what I know right now is comparison is killing Christians.

It's killing y'all. And it's not new.

It's all the way back when Saul, the first king

of Israel, comes in contact with one person who gets

a song made up about him.

What song.

Have you accepted as truth that it was just somebody's opinion?

How did those ladies know how many people were killed?

Okay, God, I just I just want us to.

Objectively think about this. How would they even know? Yeah,

so it just must have been their opinion of what

they did not see, but what they heard. And they

made up a creative lyrical poem set to tambourine.

In la.

And that's all it took to take a king to

a place of obsession. Yeah, Kings and queens deep in

the comments arguing we'll preach a man six one six.

No, no, no, I'm just you're the king of the race.

God has placed you in.

You now and down here talking about it. Ain't nobody

ever going to disrespecting me like that? And nobody because

watch this, Oh my god, Because of Soul's lack of focus,

he doesn't confront the young lady singing the song. He

confronts the one who's actually winning victories for him.

That makes no but distractions and comparison will leave you

in situations that are a conundrum.

Why am I even doing it? Why am I mad

at them? There are people right now you don't like,

just based off of assumption, you have no facts.

She just a hope.

You don't know that.

Look how she dressed. That means he a hope.

They're greedy? No, no, no, they were. They ate their food.

You didn't get food, and so now you're calling them

greedy when they were prepared the question And I'm saying

little things.

But how many times do.

We take something we assume and we turn it in

to watch this a truth?

Not the truth? A truth? That's the mike.

What can we do because we can't stop the things

from triggering us? Come on, let's be Are we a

hot church, humble, open and transparent? How many times you

can just walk into a place, see a type of

person and it's like, uh uh, trigger, ready to fight,

ready to cuss, ready to leave. Trigger doesn't always mean engaging.

Some of y'all get trigger when y'all see people and

be like, oh my god, a people, we gotta get

out of there.

Sometimes trigger makes you confident in one moment and you

get triggered in just how to protect yourself from comparison.

I'm gonna just give you four things that I learned

from Saul's life because he I should have titled it a.

Distraction made by comparison.

Yeah, because David wasn't supposed to be a distraction for him.

What distractions are you making right now?

What families are you supposed to be in relationship with

that you won't even go towards because of the way

y'all met, or you scrolling on.

Ig actually never having a conversation with them, but you.

Heard what somebody else said about them. Your business would

flourish if you teamed up with that other gym. But

because somebody who paid you for two weeks and then

went over there and paid them for two weeks, came

back and made a song.

There, Jim, don't have this.

I like being here with y'all because you da da

da da. And now you looking at somebody you never

met who's supposed to be the answer to your prayer

to actually take over the city.

In this area. You've made them into competition, comparison and distraction.

I'm just giving you all examples because the Holy Spirit

is really giving me a lot of them.

Married people, how in the world did you marry that person?

You loved them for years, and now they're your competitor

laying in the same bed because of the walls of

pride that have been built up. And now you compare

how much money they make versus how much money you make,

how much money they spend versus how much money I

seen you on Amazon, how much they hobby costs as

much as how much your nails and eyelashes.

And lipstick and collagen.

And okay, I'm just and you turn the person watched

this that was supposed to compliment you, you turn them

into competition. Let me tell you the first way that

I figured out that Saul got to this place of

making David a distraction. It was disobedience. Write this down.

Disobedience leads to insecurity.

A lot of.

Times people be like, don't disobey God, because when you

disobey God, things can happen. And it's like, yeah, but

we serve a gracious God. We serve a God that

pours out his faith on this and his mercy even

when we don't deserve it. God will take his hand

off of certain stuff. He's not gonna bless foolishness over

and over and over and over and over again until

we actually make a decision to repent. But what I

found out is even when I don't experience the consequences

of my disobedience on an outward level, my inward self

takes a hit. So when I disobey God, my insecurity

start to flare up because I know who I am

with God.

When y'all saw me do that, are got the keys,

the keys, the keys?

That wasn't Michael Todd the keys, the keys? I lose

my keys? Do you understand what I'm saying?

That that ain't that ain't like are got the keys

the key? The only way I was on top of

this build and say I got the keys, the keys,

the keys.

It's because of my relationship in obedience to God, And

as soon as I disobey God, all of my flesh

regular self shows back up.

Here. I am Lord.

That's why sometimes I be so shocked that he still

want to use me. And that's why God's saying, just

obey me, keep me close.

You look different. I got this picture in my head

like I'm iron man with God.

Did y'all like when I'm with God, you don't.

Even see me. I'm flying, y'all know what I'm saying.

I'm out of here with God. Huh, I'm here. But

when you walk around doing this with God not on you.

This is how much believers look. We disobey God. And

I'm like, no, I'm gonna pray for you. We're gonna

invite God's presence, no power. What I need, what I

need to be seen in at all times. It's the

obedience of God. But this is the problem with Saul.

Was he the second king? He was the first king.

Let's say it like this first and only, first and

only king. Yet he disobeys God, which leads him back

to his insecurity.

All of us start with insecurity.

Yeah, but when you step into God, it seems like

those insecurities don't define you anymore. Not that got him.

This is not the thing you notice about me. People like, man,

you're so confidence. No, actually, I'm scared. Come on, Oh

my god, Cousin'm like, do you ever get nervous every

time I get up here?

But as soon as I put.

My knees on that concrete and I say, Father, this

is not me speaking, but use me as an oracle.

Let your word come.

Out of me, take over all my faculties, Holy Spirit,

tag team back again.

Let's do what you do when I do that, Bob,

that's suited. Do you understand what I'm saying?

But what disobedience does disarms that I can act like

I'm standing in it.

No power and one Samuel thirteen.

If you go back, you gotta understand that Samuel was

a prophet and he's the one that anointed Saul is king.

Saw I didn't even want to be king. His securities

were so bad.

That when they went to acknowledge him as king before

the people, he was hiding in the luggage. He couldn't

He couldn't fathom that God wanted to use him that way.

He couldn't fathom that from his tribe and at his

age and with his issues, that God wanted to use him.

But my God has a way of taking people who

don't even view themselves.

As qualified for.

The position Atohol, and he has a way of pointing

them out and saying you me.

Yes, you, I want to use you.

I want to I want to make you into what

you never thought you could be. I want to change

generations through your life. We hiding behind our luggage, our baggage.

He gets called out of that, gets anointed as king.

And then there was battles happening. And when the battles

were happening, God gave specific instruction through the prophet Samuel,

and he said, hey, listen, we're going to do a

ceremony that honors God, and it's going to cause you

to win victory.

I'm coming back. Do not do it without me first Samuel.

Thirteen eleven, Saul sees people in his army starting to

get killed. He sees people getting killed. He's focusing on

the wrong thing, and he.

Goes ahead, and he goes ahead and does the sacrifice

without Samuel. As soon as he finishes, Samuel walks up,

ain't that how it happened?

But Samuel said, what have you done? Saul replied, hey, hey,

don't even worry about it. I've seen you do it before.

I saw my men scattering from me, and you didn't

arrive watch this when you said you would. And the

Philistines are out Migmash, ready to big bash, so I said.

The Philistines are ready to march against us at Gilgall,

and I.

Haven't even asked for the Lord's hell.

So I was compelled to offer the burn off a

ya offer the burn offering myself. Try to make it spiritual.

I did what God told me not to.

Do, but I did it because I felt compelled. I

felt an unction hey to go and talk to her. No,

you didn't. God told you to be single in this season.

But I offered it myself before I know, I was

before you came.

Samuel, How foolish you have not kept the command the Lord,

your God gave you.

You did not obey. Watch this.

Had you have obeyed, the Lord would have established your

kingdom over Issuel forever.

Oh my gosh.

This means if he would have focused on the thing

God said and not got distracted by the people scattering,

we would have never met David. David is Saul's replacement

because of distraction.

Come close.

The only reason we know David is because Saul got distracted.

I hope we never have to meet your replacement because

you didn't fix your focus. I've decided I'm not meeting

my replacement out of disobedience for God. I could be

in the seat at Transformation Church talking about the band

this church is crazy, bar love this church, the music,

and da da dah sitting there because I did not

obey God when bishops said it's time for you to

relead this church.

I could be given big off friends and.

In full disobedience watching somebody else up heear doing what

God called me to do, and Saul didn't even recognize

that he didn't mess it up just for him. The

Bible says that the Lord would have established your kingdom

over Israel forever.

You just robbed your children and their children and their

children of royalty because you couldn't fix your focus.

He says, But since you didn't do this verse fourteen,

but now not, your kingdom must have a break. It said,

Now your kingdom must end, for the Lord has sought

out a man after his own heart. The Lord has

already appointed him to be the leader of his nation.

Dang didn't even give me thirty days. I mean, think

about it. My man is like saying you disobey right now.

The Lord has already sought him out.

Got your replacement. But the only reason is not because

you're a bad person.

It's just you didn't obey me. So write this down

so you can know.

Disobedience leads to insecurity costa mic. Why is that important?

Because insecurity leads to comparison. People who are secure don't

compare themselves. I'm not saying that they may have never

done it, but like there are people that walk.

Around like what did they have on? Is what I

got on? How does this look? How do I sound?

How do I die? They're always comparing themselves. But your

genius is you, Yes, your genius is who God created

you to be, even if people aren't accustomed to you.

So we usually.

Factor in our greatness by how people receive us.

I'm good whether you like me or not. Okay, I

know that's hard to.

Receive because I know we live in such a politically

correct thing.

I'm good.

I may not be your cup of tea when it

comes to preaching, but the proof is in the pudding.

If nobody what I was good at what God told

me to my race when I was in youth ministry,

Yes I was long winded. Yes, I'd say some things

that were questionable. Ye yes, no, no, no, let me

be I'm.

Not discounting that I don't have room to grow. But

please the lag like I was good. See, some of

y'all got to get a Holy Spirit confidence.

Back, that unshakable confidence. You understand what cause God called me?

And no, I've never done this before.

No do you know? Well?

Everybody else is that is good for them. And if

I would have judged what God was doing in me

by the response of people many times when the crowd

starts talking, so this comparison, they didn't like it.

So who should I be like if I was trying to.

Be Elevation, if I was trying to be Pasophertic, or

if I was trying to be Joe Oldsteining, or if

I was trying to be Tdjkes, or if I was

trying to be I would.

Be a horrible junior version.

Of all of them. But can't nobody beat me at

being me? You need to believe that right now, man,

somebody say, nobody tim beat me being me?

Come on one more time, nobody tim beat me being me?

So why don't you like you? If God loves you

and likes you. Why don't you if he called you

and chose you with all your flaws, Why do you

hate yourself? If He made you to have life and

life more abundantly, Why do you keep thinking of suicide?

It's because somewhere you started comparing yourself to something that

was not designed by.

The Creator for you.

And today I'm asking the church to put down this

distraction of comparison. Maybe I'm forty and I don't have

what I thought I was gonna have, But why would

I take away the joy I could have in this

season by looking at what I could have that they

have And I don't God, and don't know how I'm

gonna get When my insecurity starts to rise up that

was given to me by all of the distractions that

I believed that, that's when I get into comparison.

Look at this.

Samuel eighteen tells us that all of Saul's generals like David,

his son Jonathan, his family like David, and them ladies

like David. It was too much for Saul to handle

that he was winning in places that were more than

the authority he gave him. He was fine with him

winning on the battlefield, but when he started winning outside

of the place that he told him to win in.

He's like, no, no, not my family, not the generals,

not the other And these are all things watched that

turn people who are supposed to be your allies into

your enemies.

Hear what I'm saying.

Comparison turns your allies into enemies. He should have been like, great,

I made a great decision. They whoa My general was like,

I was scared about how my general is gonna accep

him because it's a new guy coming to end.

And all the other stuff. The general, my fam lossom

Jonathan losson. I mean the ladies let him. That's probably

good for promotion, Like we could get the word out

some more many we turned the song. I mean, he

could have spinned the whole thing. But all he saw

was watch this.

Oh my god. Okay, gotta go back, go thank you.

Okay, go back to where verse eight and first Samuel eighteen,

verse eight. It said it made him angry when he

heard the song. He said, what is this they credit David?

Comparison is usually fueled by credit. They credited him, They

don't know, but because they credited him with it, I'm

gonna start comparing myself, and watch this. Watch the jump

from the song to verse nine. Watch the extreme amount

of imagination that has to be injected.

Watch all of the assumption. He said.

They credit David with ten thousand and me with only thousand.

Next they'll be making him their king. That's two plus

two equaling a million fifty six thousand, seven hundred and

twenty eight.

How did we take that jump?

Comparison will make you jump to conclusions that don't make

sense to anybody. All Right, here we go. I told

you we're done. Disobedience leads to insecurity. Insecurity leads to comparison.

Watch it, and comparison leads to fear. One Samuel eighteen,

verse twelve. Saul was afraid of David because the Lord

was with David but had departed from Saul. So he

sent David away from him and gave him command over

a thousand men, and David led the troops in their

companions in everything. Watch this he did. He had great

success because the Lord was with him. When Saul saw

how successful he was, he was afraid of him. When

you can't identify the root of your irritation with somebody,

it's usually your insecurity. Have you ever met somebody and

you can't tell why you don't like him.

I don't know. It's just some.

A And what happens in this leader's life is this

is all it's trying to do. Remember, they were trying

to take Samson's vision away. What comparison does is take

your vision away. So what happens is you start you

start getting just a little insecure about the people that

are around you. It doesn't take your vision away completely.

They don't take it away completely, but I shoul can't

see what's happening over here. When you're disobedient, you lose peripheral.

When you're disobedient, you gotta try to keep everything in

front of you. You ever been caught in a lie

and you forgot what lie you was telling? No, when

you're disobedient, you're trying to remember, like hold on, hold on,

ah ah, is there anything back there? And this is

what disobedience looks like. But what disobedience leads to is insecurity.

And when I get a little insecure, my vision is

just a little darker. So I can't see over here.

But what I could see is no longer clear, it's dim.

And what happens when I put on these glasses of comparison.

It leads to me walking in fear. And so now

I'm comparing. And when I see other people winning, when

I see God doing things in other people's wives, I

become completely blind to him. Lord, Lord, I can't see anything. Lord,

I don't know where the end of the stage is. Oh,

there it is, is.

The little step thing in front of me?

No?

Yes? Is it in front of me? Hold on? Wait?

Did somebody say I'm here?

Yes?

It's a no. Who wants to kill me?

I'm not telling me?

Okay, thank you, thank you, thank you. Okay, all right, cool,

don't move, don't move. Hold on. Now, I'm trying to

navigate my life off.

Of memory, off of past seasons, off of things that

I used to.

That's a lot more stage than I remember. Okay, there

we go.

What does it look like when I'm supposed to be

at battle fighting other things, finding generational patterns and fighting

fighting my own flesh, and fighting through the trauma that

I experienced, just living in a sinful world. And I

can't even see what God was trying to do through

my alliance with something that I turned into a distraction.

Right now, people may be getting up to leave. I

can't see people are leaving your life that you can't

even see. People are coming in that you can't even see.

People are aiming for you, and you can't even see it.

You can't even see. You went to that new job

and thought it was an upgrade, and that thing was

made in a decision of blindness.

You're in a relationship right now.

You can't even see that they do not love you,

don't care for you. They're using you at this current moment,

and you can't even see. You can't even see that

your kids are being distant from you. You can't see

that they're being influenced by everything else because you've.

Turned the road you're gonna be respectful to me.

Yeah, yeah, but now you've turned the one conversation that

they weren't respectful and they were being a kid into

something that actually has now fuelled a feud in between

you to where you won't even share with them vulnerably

no more. And in the years that they need you most,

you have been now focused on that moment of disrespect

that you won't let nobody just get out my house.

You sent them into a war, and you didn't just

because of your pride, and this is your.

Kid, this your this is your child. I don't know

who I'm pointing at, but I'm pointing at you. This

is your seed. That then you're gonna come to church

and say, but pray for my child. They're wayward. Hopefully

they find God.

That they were in a place of growing and they

tried to flex.

That every person does. But your spiritual maturity and your ability,

this is why we got to put away the distractions.

Because their their moment of a slip up or a

failure or even blakenet disrespect. It triggered you. And now

because you're triggered, you're insecure. And now you're starting compare

yourself to people who are dead, because now you're saying

that you're gonna be a parent that your parents worked,

or be a parent like they were, and you start comparing,

and that leads to all y'all, I'm just telling you,

it's a vicious cycle of the devil that has us

all walking around blind.

Now I have to be cautious.

Where I didn't think I didn't have to think about

stepping a moment ago fossor how long are you gonna

keep this thing on your head? How long are you

going to keep comparison.

As a distraction.

I've been preaching this series for five weeks and you

keep thinking this for somebody else. Somebody about to tune

off and go watch another minister because I'm hitting your

core and you're comparing it to how you felt last time. Listen,

whatever God's speaking to you right now, you better hear it.

Now.

My glasses all foggy. Now, I still don't have peripheral,

but I'm getting better.

Now. I have to readjust all I'm saying to a church.

It is that we have to set aside this distraction

of comparison because it's gonna rob us of allies and

make enemies standing all over this place. This is not

the moment to leave, because I want to pray for you.

I want to pray that the seed of the insecurities

will be the thing that the enemy would no longer

be able to attack because it starts as insecurities, and

then the enemy isolates, and then it infects your heart

and then it irritates you. And I just really do

believe that Saul's life is a picture for us of

how we have to make a decision today to stop

comparing ourselves to other moms.

You're those kids' mom.

God's equipped you with everything you need to raise those children,

and he'll give you everything you can.

So you stop breastfeeding.

But you're watching a mom have seven refrigerators full of

stored up breast milk, and that makes you feel bad

about your day. I'm trying to use real examples, y'all.

Now you don't think that you're doing good, and you

don't even have help, and God has blessed you, and

somehow you speak in life into those kids and you're

dealing with the thing. Stop looking at them. Some of

y'all may need to cut off access to people and

things that make you feel inferior and flare up your insecurity.

I don't know what it is for you, but some

of y'all watching football because you almost made it. And

if I wouldn't have turned my acl, I would have.

Been I would have been at the superball. Now I'm just.

And what I'm saying is every time you see that,

you see your failure.

And now you're comparing yourself to twenty six year olds

at forty eight, I mean, you're a delusion. You're delulum

for real. You barely can walk down the stairs and

you're thinking you're about to go out there and get hit.

But I'm saying, like, delusion will make you do that,

And you're turning something.

Football is nothing, it's not a it's neutral, yeah, but for.

You, because of the insecurities, it becomes nuclear. Now you're

mad at your wife and mad at your kid. Nothing

tastes good. You lost your How did all of that happen?

Because I was distracted by something that wasn't supposed to

be a distraction.

Today, I'm making a fresh commitment.

To put all of my distractions for the one the watch.

This the only one I should be comparing myself to.

Jesus knew we would have a struggle with this comparison thing.

Even the disciples that were walking with him, seeing all

the miracles they over there like, yo, okay, who's but

who's better than?

Who's better? Jesus?

Like where do I get to sit? Do I get

to sit at your right hand in heaven? Like when

we get there? Like look at this fool, Like they're

literally comparing themselves in the presence.

So he knew it was gonna be a problem.

So he said this all right, I'm gonna die and

I'm gonna but before I die, I'm gonna live, and

I'm gonna live perfect, and I'm gonna die knowing none

of them can do this.

So the only.

Person they should be comparing themselves to is me. Everybody

on this earth is not worth being compared to, he said,

unless they have ascended and sit at the right hand

of the Father.

All you need to do is fix your focus on

the one and only change.

Yeah.

So, yes they're beautiful, but they're not you. Yes they're

great at that sport, but they're not you. When you

become secure and who God's made you to be, watch this,

you can celebrate who God's made them to be.

Do y'all hear what I'm saying.

We got to celebrate what God's doing in other's way more.

But it's very hard to do that when you can't

see God hand on your own life. Today, I want

to pray for everybody who struggles in this area. I'm

the first one.

I can't tell you how many times the enemy tries

to wear me out with comparison. And when I read this,

when I got the revelation of this, I had to

come and lay my watch this. My excuses I made

for myself at the altar because I thought everybody comparison

themselves it's fine, and God said, you don't have to.

And today I'm telling you you don't have to. I

feel the presence of God.

You can stop comparing yourself to them, to it, to

a money number, to an apartment, to a home.

Stop because it's robbing you of victories that you could

be winning.

Right now. If that's you all over this place, would.

You with your hands if you want God to take

comparison and put it in its rightful place. Yeah, today, Father,

we're saying we're ready for change.

Come on online right now.

As you're sitting there pastor road, just seeing that just

one time for me received from God.

You love finds me when I.

No man, Hello, no mountains and done noting a. I

wanna be autant here ethy A. Oh no girl, no shame,

I lay down, prize God do a new thing leaving

in side.

I'm ready for change.

I wanna be autant here ethy too.

Father. Here we are.

We're bringing the distraction of comparison to the altar today

and we are sacrificing it before you. Father, got all

the things that we've picked up along the way from childhood,

from school, from sports, from television, from teachers and coaches

and bosses.

And from our own filter the lies we believed.

God, help us see ourselves like you see us, a

masterpiece made.

In your image. Father.

Yeah we have flaws, and yeah we have things that

we are working on. But God, you do not see

us through the lens of our working version. You see

us through the lens of what you've already made us

to be. Today, Father God, we are asking that you

would help us stop being a addicted to comparison.

Today.

Let our celebration for others go up as we become

okay with being in community and connection with those Father God,

who are great at things we are not, who have

different giftings and callings and and and and temperaments and

spiritual discernment. Father, let us let us be intrigued, Father God,

not isolated from.

Our brothers and sisters. I thank you that your word

says two are better than one. Father. Where there's unity,

there's a commanded blessing. Change our leans.

To see things the way you do, Father God, and

that means you're gonna have to heal some places in us.

That are fractured.

Our faith that has been fractured, our focus that has

been fractured. Today, God, I'm bringing everything to this altar.

Let me see you in a brand new way.

God.

I thank you, Father God, that fear will no longer

lead my life. The fear of somebody else's success, the

fear of somebody else getting the job, the fear of

somebody else being liked, the fear of somebody else, Father

God getting the promotion. Father, let fear no longer lead

my life. Today I declare I'm a person of faith.

I am a person of faith. What is for me

and my family and my generation and my line, I

will not forfeit it because of disobedience. Today, God, I

squarely put my faith back in you. I'm ready for

change and today, God, i want to be altered here, at.

This alter else, I'm ready put you.

Goodbye Yesterday, Goodbye Yesterday.

He's calling my name, he's calling. I want to be altered.

I wanna be all. Just take a moment.

Your hands and just say this together.

I'm ready for change.

Goodbye Yesterday, Goodbye Yesterday.

He's calling my name, he's calling. I wanna be yes, sir.

This lore time, somebody's getting killed. I'm ready for change.

Hold goodbye Yesterday.

I'm no Liverpool living in yesterday.

Day.

He's calling my name, He's call be all here.

I wanna be alter here at the.

If you want to make Jesus Christ your personal Lord

and savior, we're out of here in three minutes, y'all. Today,

I have no greater joy than to offer you a

way out of comparison. For the rest of your life.

You'll only have to be trying to be like our Father,

and he'll help you do it. He's the only one

that can help you change your habits once you give

him your heart. There's no judgment here because I am

as trash as your worst day in my flesh. But

all I keep doing is stepping into that iron man

suit and saying, God, leave me, guide me.

And you have the opportunity to do that today.

The Bible says, any man that be in Christ, he

is a brand new creation. The old has passed away. Behold,

I have made all things new. Today is your day

of salvation. On the count of three. Whether you are

in this room, all over the balconies in the middle,

or you are online, today is the day of salvation.

The Church is praying right now because they know how

monumental this moment is for you. I feel the presence

of God. Today is a day of transformation for you.

If you want to receive Jesus, I just want you

to slip.

Your hand in the air. One.

You are making the greatest decision of your life.

Two.

I am proud of you. But more than that, your

name is about to be written in the Lamb's Book

of Life. Three shoots your hand up all over this place.

I see you right there in the back.

I see you. I see you. Come on, I see

you all the way up there. Oh, Transformation Church, I

see you. And more than I see you, God sees you.

We believe that this is a day of change for

you at TC.

All the hands that went up online in the penitentiary today,

God's changing your life. At Transformation Church. We're a family.

Nobody praise alone. So today we all lift our hands

and say God, thank you for sending Jesus to be

my example, to be my savior, and to.

Be my Lord. Today I give you my life. Change me,

change me, change me. I believe you lived and you

die so that I could walk in victory.

I'm yours forever in Jesus' name. Amen, Hey, can we

turn up all over this place for the all?

Y'all can do better than that. Let's thank God for

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anybody wants to.

Meet me and our pastoral team.

And anything like that, right across the hall in the

south ballroom. We'll be back there in about fifteen to

twenty minutes.

And I'll hug you and kiss you.

No, I keep saying that I'm gonna hug you and

give you a fistball. Okay, and we would love to

meet you. God bless you. Until next week. Go out

and live a transform life.

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goodbye Yesterday He's called in my name. I wanna be

aught here, Ethy aught your love finds me when I

no ride love, no mountain, how I'm riding up it.

I wanna be alting here at the altar. No girl,

no shame, laid out fry, do a no thing leaving side.

I'm ready for a change. I wanna up be auting

here at the Aughts CD in me a clean ar.

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a clean ark. Wannap be auting here at the Transformation Nation.

I know that you can feel what God is doing

in this moment, not just in this room, but in

your home and your heart. I just I believe that

the Spirit of God is trying to do something brand new,

and what that starts with is us giving him our distraction.

And today I'm just so proud of so many of

you that we are seeing in the comments in the

chat that have decided to give the distraction of comparison

to our King, And for everybody who just decided that

I'm going to actually not just celebrate a moment of

giving my distraction away, I'm gonna give God my whole life.

I just want to say I'm so proud of you.

If you haven't had an opportunity yet, I want you

to take saved to eight to eight to eight too,

so we can send you resources so that we can

let you know how you continue to join on this journey.

And I've been coming here every.

Day after service because I feel like I.

Just want you to know that without.

The people in the room that I just see you,

I hear you, we're getting your names, praying for you,

and right now is just an extra time of prayer

and so as there are thousands that are still on

here right now, I want to pray for you. Whether

you're watching this live, you're watching the rebroadcast, this moment,

the Holy Spirit.

Is in it.

So I want you to put your prayer request right

now in the chat. The team is typing them in,

they're sending me, they're showing it to me on the

screen as well as I have cards here, and we're

going to be praying and agreeing and celebrating with our

brothers and sisters from all over the world from places

that we will never be what God is doing. So

I want to get your prayer requests as we start

praying for you right now. Father, I thank you, Thank

You for all that you're doing. Thank you that right

now your heart, Father God is being implanted and grown

and believers all over the world, Father, that you created

us to be one of ones. That you have created us,

Father God, to run our race, our specific assignment. Father God,

being able to celebrate those to our left and right

and not comparing.

And so today I thank you for.

The deep work, the root work that you're doing on

the inside of all of us. And today Father God,

we make a special moment, special space for you to

continue to speak. It's not over with the service, Father God.

Our ears are open, our hearts are open, our minds, Father,

are ready to receive transformation as you point out the things,

Father God, that are not like you and that are

keeping us distracted. So today, Father God, we thank you

for every person all over the world, Father.

That needs healing.

Father God, we praise you right now, Father God, for

those who have experienced, Father God, something in their body,

but there is transformation and healing that has happened.

Father.

We pray for Heather that's in Tennessee, Father, that she

is celebrating being cancer free Holleylujah, Father God, And that

we pray Father that right now that those sales stay

in remission.

That Father, anybody who's struggling.

Through cancer right now, Father, that you would be their

strength and Father that you would work miracles. We pray

for Kiera in Texas that Father, even as she goes

Father God, through the hardest moment of her relationship and divorce.

I thank you that you are her strength. Father.

Your word says Father God, that the righteous running to

you and they are safe. So today, Father, we're praying

for strength for her children, if she has them. Father,

for all those who are around. We're praying even strength,

Father God. For her husband. I thank you for a

transformation in that whole situation, Father, whether they are to

be together or not. Father, I thank you God that

you will make them into who they are supposed to be.

Today we pray for Irene in Massachusetts, Father, that you

would give healing.

For her son.

Father God, and even as he has to go into

surgery this week, I thank you for a successful surgery.

Anoint the doctors for anybody.

Come on, if you have to go into surgery, there's

anything that you need a procedure done.

Right now, we're gonna pray.

We pray that the doctors would be guided by angels. Father,

that the nurses would be the point of strength and

contact that is needed.

Father. We pray, Father.

God that the nerves and the anxiety that would be

around this Father, it would be ease. Father, thank you

for peace in the middle of the storm. And we

pray for successful surgery. Father, that you would guide the

doctors and God the physicians, Father to do us right.

Even if it wasn't the plan, Father God, it would

be the procedure that is necessary for them to walk

into total and full healing. In the name of Jesus,

we pray for our sister Antoinette in Chicago, that you

would give healing for the friends she's standing in the

gap for Father, for all of our friends and our.

Communities that need you.

Come on, if you have some people around you that

need God, I want you to type their names into

the chat right now. We pray for Jesse. We pray

for Sarah. We pray for Chauncey. We pray Father God

for Kim. We pray Father for all those around us

Father who need you. Right now, Father God, if somebody

doesn't stand in the gap for them, will who wiel?

Father?

So today we stand and we pray for our friends.

We pray for our family.

Father.

We ask you, Father God, for them to be saved.

We ask you for them to be healed. We asked

that you would deliver them, that you would bring Father awareness.

Let the eyes of their understanding be enlightened.

Let them see you.

Let them have an encounter with you, Father God. We

pray for Wendel. Father, for courage and strength, te Father

God from all thoughts of depression and suicide. We speak

to those lies and those distractions to purpose, and we declare,

Father God, you have a sound mind.

You have a mind of peace. You have a mind

that thinks on.

The things that are good and not that which is evil. Father,

we walk through situations that are hard, but Father.

We do not walk alone.

We thank you, Father God, even for tragedies that try

to ravage our peace, and we pray for peace that

passes our understanding.

Father.

Right now, we send a special prayer to Monique in

Los Angeles, Father.

God, whose son was tragically murdered.

Father Today, Father, I don't even act to know what

that feels like. By Father, but your word says that

we weep with those who weep. We mourn with those

who mourn, Father God, and we pray and stand in

the gap for.

Those who need you to be a comforter. Father. We pray,

We pray in the spirit God, because there.

Are words that escape us many times. Father, but we

will keep her on our mind as we pray that

you do a work and her family, Father, God, to

hold together Father, what seems like should be falling apart. Father,

today we bring everything to you because you are the

God that can handle it all.

Father.

We trust you, we believe you, and we thank you

that the death of the distraction of comparison is happening today.

Have your wigh in us, have your way through us,

and we'll give you glory on her and praise for

it all the days of our life.

In Jesus' name.

Somebody say, amen, Hey man, I love you, and I'm

so excited about what God's doing in you.

Next week, I have a word for you. God's already

laying this thing out.

This series is so good to me because it's helping

me focus as I put death to distraction, and I

pray it's blessing you. If it is blessing you, I'm

going to ask you to do one thing. Would you

please share this message share this link with somebody else

this week?

Multiple people? Would you please?

Y'all did it last week and I'm so proud of you.

Would you get online and make a video about a

point or the message and how it impacted you, Because

the best advertisement is the words of real people.

I would rather not put up a graphic. I would

rather put up.

Your words and Transformation Church be able to get this

off because somebody that looks and sounds and is going

through similar situations, you can just tell them what this

message has revealed to you and tag Transformation Church.

Tag men.

We're gonna try to spread this message to as many

people until all of heard the gospel. And this is

how God does his work through us. Man, I'm excited.

Listen as we leave today, I just want to let

you know. If you're one of the ones who wanted

to be married at TC but you missed the deadline

for us to prepare in all those things, it's okay.

You can text.

Married to eight two eight two eight two? Is it

married or marriage? What is it? Is it married or marriage? Marriage?

I wanted to make sure I gave you the right

one marriage to eight too, eight too eight two.

And we're gonna still send you some resources and listen

to me.

Maybe you can't be married at TC, but you can

go to that courthouse and get married.

Come on, you can do it on the same day

with all of us. Come on, let us know. I

want you to live in covenant and we're gonna send

you resources and help you with this. I'm so excited

about next Sunday at six pm, we're gonna get to

marry fifteen couples and it's gonna beautiful if you want

of them. I want you to make some noise, tell

people to come. This is a beautiful way to get

people who don't believe into the house or watch it,

and we're gonna believe. God's gonna do something amazing this week.

Tuesday is the rebroadcast. You can watch the whole thing

with worship. And this Wednesday night we have the dig

that starts at six o'clock and we got our brand

new Youth sent Youth that for everybody here in Tulsa.

So we're not online yet for this. We're really wanting

to build this and make sure it's a good experience

before we release it to the world. But I need

you to be praying for the revolution that's gonna start

at six point thirty this week, and then we have

Bible study right after that at seven fifteen. And so

I love you, I am grateful for what God is

doing and I can't wait to see you next week.

Until then, go out and live a transform life.

God bless you.

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

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