Dating Distractions // Death To Distraction: Week 4 // Michael Todd

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Well, today, I have an assignment and I'm gonna get

us out of here in time enough for you to

put them little wings on the barbecue grill. But I

really do believe that the most powerful thing that happens

today won't be the game. I want you to enjoy it.

I want you to have fun with your people. But

I believe when God speaks and we hear him, it

has the opportunity to transform our entire life.

So today, for.

Everybody that put church and God and your relationship and

gathering community as a priority, even when things in culture

are pulling you away, I'm telling you what you're doing

is focusing. The word of the year for Transformation Church

is what I'm not saying other things can't be around.

I'm just saying, what are you focusing on? And one

of the signs of spiritual maturity is to be able

to focus while distractions are there. Can I help you

understand that God is not removing distractions. He's putting it

on you to be empowered, to stay focused.

On what the thing is he's calling you to do.

And so many of us are believing for God to

do a magic trick. Abracadabra, take them away, take it away.

Maybe I can move, maybe I'll get a new job.

And God is saying, this is not my formula anywhere

in the Bible. I don't ever change the whole scenario

for then.

You to focus. He said, I'm asking.

You right now to put your eyes on me and.

To stay focused. Look at Peter.

He literally is able to do what no other human

being recorded is able to do, which is walk on

water when he was focused. What may you be forfeitting

right now? Because you continue to look around. You could

have walked on what others drown in if you would

stay focused. Oh my goodness, everybody else is drowning in debt,

drowning and frustrations, drowning in confusion. And God say, keep

your eyes on me, keep your eyes on me, keep

your eyes on me, Keep reading that bird, keep reading

the word, keep praying, keep listening, keep and you like

but santating them going out this week and I gotta

go to the Super Bowl partying, and you know, I

gotta look good as my birthday and taxi season coming up.

And yet distractions.

And the reason I'm methodically going through this series because

i know some of y'all been wanting me to move

since week one. I ain't. I'm gonna stay right here

until you start to evaluate dis sermon to actually put

it in play in your life. The last three weeks

you thought it was for somebody else. And God is

coming to say you're not focused yet.

And I'm saying this in all of us.

We have an area because what I used to do

is when I'm doing good in the area, I focus

on the only area I'm doing good in.

Okay, y'all wanna be.

So God, but I've cleaned up my eating and I

cleaned up my health.

Lord, and I you know what I'm.

Saying, God, come on, look at me, eat what's up?

And he said, I'm not negating the work you have done.

All I'm saying is there's more work to do. This

is the process of sanctification, becoming like Him daily, and

the church doesn't talk about it because we stop at salvation.

I'm saved. I know my eternity is the ture.

Some of y'all don't have to go to hell because

y'all living in it.

Y'all, Misterod, you worried.

About it, is there heaven a hell.

Just look at your life.

You're living misery, frustration, paycheck to paycheck, always worried all

the things.

God said we don't gotta do. You doing it.

Every day of your life, and God saying I came

that you might have life and life to the that ain't.

What I've paid for.

And it's not until we get understanding of why our

distractions are taking us on detours and delays that we

actually can focus. So I'm telling you every week of

this series, we probably got four to five more weeks

because I'm loaded. I'm loaded to help you live a

life that is somebody shot at me focused. So I'm

gonna take you to Hebrews twelve to one, which is

our scripture of the year, and I'm gonna read it

to you until that thing becomes sin your heart. I

want you to hide this word in your heart. It

says therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great

cloud of witnesses, that means.

Y'all, I stop.

I just every week I try to read through, but

it starts speaking to me differently every week. So I

must stop and give you what the Holy Spirit just said.

Other people have made it.

Since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of.

We did this, We lived this.

Life of fact, we went through the temptations. There is

proof that somebody can make this their lifestyle. God is

putting this in the Bible, so you know you ain't

the only one that has faced these things. Since we

are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let

us throw off one translation says every weight, everything that

hinders us, and the sin that so easily watched this word.

I want you to hear me say that.

Has anybody ever gotten a spider web on them before?

That is one of the most frustrating things to touch

or to get on you, because first off, you you

probably didn't see it, and and you about to go

reach for something, and then you reach through this invisible thing.

And then the first thing you're looking at spider is

because some of y'all start shipping. Y'all see anything that's

your birth mark?

But why you.

But the thing if you've ever been entangled in a

spider web, is it sticky? It wraps itself around whatever is.

That's what sinin does. It never is.

Something that that that that tries to overtake you.

It just slowly entangles you.

And God says, I don't want you to be entangled

by anything. He says, so let us run with perseverance.

The race marked.

Out for somebody, say, I have a race.

Watch this.

Here's our anchor scripture fixing our eyes, shout at me, focus.

On Jesus, Focus on Jesus.

If I looked at your calendar right now, would your

calendar substantiate that you focus on Jesus? If I look now, y'all,

this ain't me. I'm just asking you. If I looked

at your wallet, what you spend money on? What would

your money tell on you that you focus on. If

we took a catalog of all the words you spoke

this week, would your words give us data back that

you focus on Jesus. If we were to take all

of your text men, messages, whether that.

Be in your phone, online, on anything.

You typed, would there be proof to substantiate that you

focus on If we were to open your mind, because

some of that I didn't say nothing, I ain't do nothing,

nothing but what did you think?

Come on, some of y'all in whole other lands.

If we were to put your thoughts on the screen,

would there be anything to substinc I don't care if

you work for a church, that don't mean you focused

on Jesus.

Okay, I don't care.

If you leave the prayer ministry, that don't mean you

focused on You prayed to.

Them, you didn't focus on them. No, do you hear

what I'm saying.

I'm trying to make sure that our lives are focused

on Jesus.

Why?

Because if not, we are distracted?

Can I that clear? If you're not focused.

On Jesus, you're distracted by something?

What is it?

Will somebody be real with me in this place and

yell out your distraction? Woo? That one got scary right there.

Hold on, I heard a safe one. Somebody said an iPhone?

iPhone?

How many people? Your phone is a distraction to you? Okay,

that's good. Somebody go a little deeper for me, thank you,

she said?

Men?

How many? Okay, y'all all right?

How many people is being in a relationship and wanting that?

And even the ones you in, how many of you

have had a distracting relationship.

Come on, let's be honest.

I was hoping somebody would say that, and I need

a fella to somebody in here to say the opposite. Look, dang,

we have a hot church here.

Humble upen in trust.

Lust is a distraction, and lust is not just sexual.

I don't be lusting. The way that you drooled over

that muffin.

That's lust.

The way you acted for that doughnut, you shook a

little something, you did something strength, for a piece of change,

You did something.

That that's lust.

The only reason, the only reason I'm trying to normalize

us talking about this is but because you can never

deal with something you won't reveal. And I think so

many times we think we can shout it away, we

can pray it away, we can come to the altar

and we can we.

Can be.

In the vicinity of change and not actually transform. And

I just want us to be real. This is what

you need to know about a distraction. Write this down.

A distraction is something intended to take your focus only

for a moment. A distraction is not meant to like

take you can turn you around.

It said, I just need your attention. Has anybody ever

seen something they.

Wasn't supposed to look at but they looked at it twice.

Oh God, I'm I'm, I'm, I'm.

Up here with the holies of holies today.

Huh.

But if there would be some real people? How many

people have seen something? You saw it? But your natural

reaction wants to be like, did I see what I

just saw?

And then you go back. There's people who who will.

Drive back around if you see some drama about to happen.

Y'all know what I'm talking about. On the way I'm dying.

Why did you just turn around? It's because of distraction.

Does it need your attention forever? It only needs your

attention for a moment. So with that devination of a distraction,

how many of us are living in a world full

of things fighting for your focus? Maybe if I don't

say distraction, you'll be a little better with it. How

many of you are dealing with stuff fighting for your focus? Okay,

all right.

Let me tell you something.

You have an adversary and the enemy wants your attention.

How do you know that, Pastor Mike, because it was

his plan from the garden the first humans that had

a word from God. All the enemy wanted was their

attention for a second, so that they could doubt what

God had said to them, and because the garden whole

story would have been over if the snake would have

and Adam or Eve would have said, God, you know,

I don't do snakes.

Just think of.

But it was like, is that a snake?

What you're doing? Missus?

Snake? And then the native tongue of the enemy, did

God really say? I wasn't even thinking these thoughts before.

I didn't even have I didn't even doubt. But because

the enemy took my attention for a moment. And so

today I feel compelled, in the season that we are in,

to challenge you to stop praying immature prayers. God take

it away is an immature prayer.

Hear what I'm saying, God take this away.

Sometimes he will, but most of us use that as

an escape hatch for what God is using to make

us into something we couldn't be without it. An immature

prayer is take this away. And I get it. And

I love the Bible because even Jesus prayed it. Y'all

remember in Gysemite he was about to get He was like, y'all,

if there's any other way this cup is to take it.

But what was his response after he expressed he said, nevertheless, God,

don'g it not my wheel, But I'm gonna let this

make me, and You're gonna give me the stremth to

go through it. Somebody needs to hear that right now,

you're not about to be taken out.

God is gonna give you the strimp to go through it.

I feel that thing right now.

Some of y'all are about to give up, and some

of you are about to throw in the towel, and

God came to let you know today that he will give.

You the strimp to go through it. God, I feel that.

All right. So that's why First Corinthians ten thirteen says

this no temptation has overtaken you. That is not regular.

It's common to man. So any temptation you're going through,

it's not special, y'all.

There is a solution for it.

And so today I felt very very impressed to make

a public service announcement.

And this is gonna seem.

A little out of left field for some of y'all,

but I feel like this was my assignment today and

write this point down. It applies to everybody. But you'll

see here in a minute how it does.

Write this.

Dating is not demonic. No disappoint some of y'all not

writing it down.

Write it down. Here we go.

Dating is not demonic. It's for data.

Tonight.

I gotta walk. I gotta walk down a path that

most churches veer away from because a lot of our

distractions come in the area of relationships. And I don't care.

If you're married, I'm gonna talk to you. I don't

care if you're single, I'm gonna talk to you. If

you're young, I'm gonna talk to you. And you're gonna

let a playbook on how to do this thing right.

Dating is not problem my words dating in the Bible.

The word was courting in the Bible. The concept is

still the same.

Okay.

Dating is not demonic. And I gotta say it just

like that, because.

We have more single people in church that are weird. Now,

y'all are weird.

And we have a bunch of married people that don't

want to be married, okay, and we got a bunch

of confusion going on in the church.

With the Holy Spirit will.

Lead us and God us into all truth, yet we

are confused.

People can't find a mate.

Where all the good guys at where all the good

women at Why is my husband looking at them?

Why?

I believe I believe we've done a service as a

church theologically by by.

Being extreme on one end or the other.

And so today I'm gonna clear up some things and

I'm gonna tie it to Samson's story because I saw

a pattern in his story that's.

Gonna help all of us do this. But dating.

Is say it with me, so y'all so scared. Dating

is not demonic some of y'all, that's the message you needed.

Dating's not demand. And the reason I have to say

that because it becomes such a big distraction in people,

your loneliness, your singleness, your togetherness, you're wanting your all

of these things, It's because the pattern was probably not

put in perspective right. And today, with Valentine's Day being

on Friday, your pastor felt it very intentional that I

bring this word to you and some of y'all like

I need the word.

Wait on me, I got something for yo. But here

we go.

Your pastor is giving you permission if you are not

married to date. I don't know how plain I can

say that. If you are married, I am getting listen.

That was for the single people. If you are married,

your pastor is giving you permission to date. Some of

y'all married people have the crustiest relationships. No passion, just feals,

no communication, just kids. The love is leaped out. Won't

wear nothing to you for each other. Sweats every day,

Hold on, be quiet, don't get in trouble.

Take take it, write it in. You're not bad brother.

Okay, all I'm all I'm saying is if you're single,

go on a date. If you're married, go on a date.

If you're under eighteen and you live in your mama's

in them house, I don't got control whatever they set

for you on that.

That's you know what I'm saying. But parents, let's have

a conversation.

You might want to start having dialogue about dating because

if you are not in the mix, they are making

up the cake without you. And so many Christian parents

are not in the mix of what their children are

gonna do. And you and tell you eighteen you ain't

gonna date. They already talking to people at school. They

don't already tell somebody's private parts.

They don't already.

See oh this is too much. No they didn't. What

did you do so what I'm what I'm saying is

we're talking about this stuff.

My daughter's seven, sitting on the front road.

We talk about it because if you don't they making

a cake already.

If you not in a mix, that's a bar. If

you not in a mix, they making a cake.

I like that.

I like that.

Let me let me help you. Dating is an event,

not your eternity. It is an entry, not the end.

If we if we if we define dating properly, if

we define making a connection with somebody properly, if we

if we put it in a view of God, then

we realize that it's not the end of anything.

It's just the entry to it. And I'm talking to multiple.

Different types of people because some people's like I'm just

talking to the young single people. No, there are people

that have tried relationship, been married, it failed, and now

they're in the season of wondering. There are many people

that I know that either because of a tragedy, lost

the loved one or a spouse, or it didn't work

out and they're divorced now and they're trying to figure

out in this nebulus of how to do this again.

I ain't dying sis. It was eighty two and.

Now you want now you own these apps, trying to

figure out how to pick and now you're gonna pick

somebody your daughter's age and trying to figure out.

No, I'm no, y'all, I'm I'm.

Trying to help you understand what's happening. And I'm not

saying that the age ain't nothing but the number. I'm

not hope, But where is he at? All I'm saying

to you is is we gotta make wise decisions. Somebody say,

whyse wisdom? Wisdom I'm not talking about y'all. I'm being funny,

but I really want you to use And when I

look at Samson's story, the thing that he's lacking everywhere.

Is wisdom.

Like like when I see how many times God made

a way of escape for him, it was like this, dude,

ain't God. No, It's like the friend that keep running

into the same issue. And today I just want everybody

to know that it's when it comes to dating, everybody's

dating something.

Oh, the whole front part was a set of.

Because all y'all dating something, all of us are communicating

with something, all of us are catering to something, all

of us are making and setting a table for two,

for something, and many of you as we come to

this Valentine's Day season, you're gonna be looking for a table,

not just for yourself, but you will be doing what

my sermon title is today, dating distractions.

Yeah, just waiting waiting for my distraction to show up.

I've prepared a time for us, I've prepared a place

for us. I've got some of their favorite things here.

Got me feeling warm and cozy because I know what

happens when I get comfortable with my distraction. Who sits

in that seat for you? What sits in that seat

for you? Some of you? Your distraction is your insecurity.

God's telling you you can do it. But you're sitting

at the table. Feed your insecurity. Every no, no, no,

no no no insecurity. No no, no no right here,

right here, no no no, no no no no no oh.

You want the candles lit?

Insecurity? We need another lighter. No candles right now? The

light off your eyes is enough.

See y'all don't know. Y'all don't know how to do it.

Who who's sitting here for you? Who's the distraction?

Is it?

Is it a word that was spoken over you? By

a loved one, and every time that you feel like, God,

I'm gonna.

Do what you.

But nobody's ever done that in our family.

And I no, I didn't do good at school, and

so maybe I can't do what God's calling me to do.

All of us are dating some distraction. Can you identify it?

Can you be honest with me at your age and

your stage? What it is some of us are dating

the opinion of man. My distraction is if I do it,

will they like it? And I feed this daily. That's

why places like Instagram are a sesspool for my vice,

because I won't even do what God wants me to

do unless I get a hundred likes, thousand lights, ten

thousand lights.

What did I do wrong? Nothing?

You're just feeding something that has no ability to take

you to destiny, passor Mike.

How do you know? Because we see it in Samson's life.

If you go to Samson's story and I want us

to start at let's start at Judges, chapter sixteen, verse four.

It says sometime later, Oh, I.

Didn't tell y'all the subtitle of my message, it's dating distractions.

The ignorance of dating in Delulu, y'all.

Know what that is, Delulu, is the new way the

young kids say, delusion, You, Delulu, and many of us

will never see what God wants us to have because

we're in delusions. You think, you think feeding this distraction,

catering to this distraction, becoming okay with distraction is somehow

gonna take you to the place you.

Want to go.

And you're delusional right now because for me, many years,

what I pulled up to the table with and what

was my distraction is other people's success.

So if they do good, I gotta do better.

And if they if they go on a vacation, I

gotta go on to vacations. Oh, y'all gonna play me

like I'm the only one. They got three kids, I'm

gonna have Dang, I'm gonna have four kids. I'm just saying,

you can act like it's not a real thing. They

put an album out, I gotta put an album out.

They working on a book, I'm working on a book.

They got an ear ring. I need an ear ring. No,

it'd be like that little but I'm catering. You need

anything you want, you want something to dream, Hold on,

hold on, distraction. I know I'm thirsty, but you're thirsty too.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, man, it's been like sixteen hours since

we've been here.

Yeah, No, I know.

I had to go to work and then I went

to church, and yeah, I led the small group too.

But no, I know they didn't know that. Half the

time they was talking, I was judging them. I was

just making sure none of them were doing better than us.

You look good, You look good, You look good. No,

I could never know.

I will never tell anybody about us because what we

have is special. You've helped me in so many different seasons.

I wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for you.

Yeah, no, I mean.

Enjoy your food e ee. I got something special for

us later. And how many of us think I'm crazy

up here talking to nobody yet on your car ride home?

Yet at the gym tomorrow? Yet as soon as you

get on Instagram? Many of us are actually feeding our distraction.

I'm gonna read this scripture to y'all because Samson.

Gave me a playbook that allows me never to fall

into this, and I want you to never fall into

this either. Sometime later, Samson fell in love with a

woman named who Deliah, who lived in the valley of Siret.

The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said,

entice Samson, because we know he fell in love with you,

to tell you what makes him so strong and how

he can be overpowered and tied up securely. Then each

of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.

So Delilah will.

Us gang Tail said to Samson, Samson, please tell me

what makes you so strong and what it is. You know,

I'm just saying hypothetically what it would take to tie

you up.

So curly, Samson replies, coming alive for you.

If I were tied up with seven new bow strings

that have not yet been dry, baby, I would become

as weak as any of these other foods around here.

So the Philistine rulers brought Delilah seven new bout strings,

and she, Delilah did it this first time, tied Sampson.

Up with them. She had hidden some.

Other men in one of the inner rooms of the house,

and she cried out, fair fan, the Philistines have come

to cassure you. But Sampson got up and snapped the

bow strings as a peace. Piece of string snaps when

it is burned by fire. So the secret of his

strength was not discovered. Now at this moment, right her,

the story of Samson and Delilah should have ended. I mean, okay,

how would you know? I mean, I didn't know this

was a distraction. Haven't anybody had had something that started off.

Pure and and and.

Was not bad but it turned bad. Come on, y'all,

like every distraction doesn't start out as like.

I'm a big distraction.

But after you make a decision, after I just told you,

this is how I lose my strength, tied me up,

tried to.

Take my power. Hey, it's not you, It's no, it

is you. I got to go. Do you under say

what I'm saying. But Samson was dating Delulu.

It wasn't dating Delilah, really, he was dating his delusion.

He thought somehow he could.

Continue to be around something with the ability to kill

him and have enough power and enough strip to make

it out again.

I need somebody to hear me. Take it out of

the analogy.

You'll think you got enough power to keep staying around

that thing, to keep staying around those people, to still

be around that knowing you've been tied up by it before.

And it should have ended when.

God allowed Ah the distraction to be exposed. There are

so many times that we ignore when God exposes the distraction.

And for some reason, Samson decided to steal date Delilah.

And this is why I want to tell you and

teach you. Write this down the dating dynamic. This is

Wisdom's way of dating, okay, because.

I want to give you practical tools of how to

do this. Okay.

The first thing about a date is a date is

for connection. Everybody say connection, The connection is just for discovery.

Let me find out what do you like. I don't

know what do you like where.

You grow up? I grew up in Tulsa. Where you

grow up? I grew up in New York. Like it's in,

It's fine, it's okay.

So many people think, like, if you date somebody, now

you gotta marry him.

Look at me. A date is an event.

But this is the problem that I found out with

Facebook and Instagram and all these other things, we put

so much onus on when we actually go on a

date that it feels monumental, It feels like something that

should be more. No, maybe some of y'all shouldn't even

post who you went on a date with, post you

in the corner too, but don't put them in the

picture because I'm so many times we try to make

public what is still so many times we try to

make public, what is just the precursor.

I'm trying to figure it out. I'm just trying to

I'm trying.

To see and so so the first rule of dating

with wisdom and somebody. Parents, you're gonna take this down

to teach to your kids. I'm a single people, you're

gonna use this. Husbands and wives, y'all gonna see where

maybe you missed it. It's the first part is connection,

and this is for discovery. The second part is communication.

The reason you communicate is for discernment. I can tell

by what how you answer question some of the things

that you think, see and feel.

So so, how you feel about going to church? I

mean church is cool. I'm not you know what I'm saying.

I'm not religious, but I am spiritual. Me and God

got our own connection, you know what I'm saying. He talk,

I talk, and I mean I'll throw it up and

then he speak to me like I got this little

I got this little DreamCatcher thing that kind of does

this little thing, and and you ain't even got it.

You don't gotta proselytize them. You ain't gotta rebuke him.

You ain't got it in here, like girl, come get me. No.

But but y'all got what I'm saying though, Like how

many kids you want? I want ten kids?

You're like, I'm not the one for you.

Like like I'm just saying, like it's connection, that it's communication.

But so many times we go from connection to cuddling.

And when you go from connection to cuddling, your flush

takes over, your discernment is off. Yeah, your ability to

even see. So the Wisdom's way of dating this is

so good, y'all. I wish somebody would have set me

down at sixteen and told me this, because I had

no playbook. That's why I wrote Relationship Goals, and that's

why I'm even working on some new stuff. Because our generation,

you're not unless God wants you to or you want

to be You're not supposed to be alone for real.

There are people, There are people that God calls to

walk in a certain way. There are apostles and different

people that God I'm just glad he didn't call me

to do that, And some of us are thinking that's

our lot in life just because you've been hurt or

it's been done incorrectly. And today I feel like what

the church does not discuss.

Gets to be defined by the world.

Okay, So the dating dynamic, the ways of wisdom. Connection,

that's for discovery, communication, that's for desernment.

Watch this consulting.

So after I connect with them, I should be consulting

with those around me. I should be consulting the Holy Spirit.

Holy Spirit, what do you think? I think is fine?

I think our kids would beautiful and I think we

can actually make this happen. But Holy Spirit, what do

you see that I don't see? What do you know

that I don't know?

Father?

Where are the Where are the things that we couldn't

work through?

Because you see their heart?

And and and then John you soul boy?

What you think about him? He prideful, prideful, pride, He's proud.

Y'all know how I Wilson, this is proud, Cicily.

What you think I mean?

If girl, if you don't want them, I'll take them, y'all.

Y'all know it's real.

Girl. If you don't want him, I'll take him, girl, Mom, Dad,

What do y'all think he seems? He seems good at

face value, but you just need to You need to

just keep dating, connect, communicate, and then consult. The reason

I'm saying consult is because when your heart starts to

come out of its shell, you don't hear everything that

you feel. Y'all didn't hear what.

I just said.

You start feeling things that you didn't even hear them say.

They'll tell you like, I'm not into a long distance thing,

and you'll be like, he just ain't never met me.

Hold on, y'all, Oh, come on, y y'all live three

thousand miles apart.

I try a long this in one time. It didn't work.

It worked three weeks, and he'd be like, MM, well

we're gonna be so good together. Your dolulu because your

heart starts feeling things that they didn't even say.

Straight up told you they don't want to be married.

When it's consulting, Consulting is for dialogue. Somebody else should

be speaking back to you about what you're getting into.

The Holy Spirit should be speaking back to you. My family,

my community should be speaking back to my closest people

should be There is not anything that I do without consulting.

I'm always asking somebody what y'all think. How do y'all

feel like that?

Not because they need to control, But the Bible says

there is wisdom in the multitude of counsel. You might

see somebody don't see. So connection for discovery, communication for desernment,

consulting is dialogue, and then you get comfortable. Comfortable means

you disarmed, and that means that you may share.

A vulnerable secret or a vulnerable place of how you

got to how you got.

So the reason I have problems in relationship is because

I saw my parents get divorced at a young agent.

That really makes me leary about connection. See, when you're

with the right person, after you've discerned and discovered, and

those things bring you closer together. It's like, man, when

you said that, that makes me think about my father

ru when he was there, but he was emotionally unavailable,

and so it's hard for me to express my thot

and you can.

But people be disarming immediately.

First date, first date, disarmed and then this roamed o.

Don't wait, No, y'all gotta hit wise. We have stipped

too many stops. You y'all started disgusting.

And you de roving d.

But culture tells you it's normal. Oh, come on, let's

be honest. And I don't care what culture says. You

have not figured out how to do relationship God's way.

And I'm telling you this because we were looking to people.

There's no there's no reason.

Why we should look at culture and say this is

how you do relationships.

There is no proof.

The sad part is there's not much proof when you

look at Christians. That's why I gotta talk about it,

because somebody has got to.

Be a standard bearer for what.

It looks like to do relationship God's way. If you

believe it, could you make some noise in the building.

It's ah, I got so much? Okay? Is this okay y'all?

Is this okay? Okay?

So connection for discovery, communication for desernment, consulting for dialogue.

Being comfortable is when you disarm and then you get

a commitment.

That's when you decide.

The reason I'm saying this is because sometimes you have

to show people, Okay, I'm letting you into a vulnerable

place in me. How can you handle me? Some people

can't handle certain stuff. So when you disarm, then you

can figure and then you can be like, all right,

I can make a commitment to them, I can be

exclusive with them. I can actually see myself going somewhere

in this. And that's after commitment, when you decide it's covenant,

which leads you to destiny. That is dating with wisdom.

And bonus point. That's when you disrobe.

Okay, that's okay, Judge is sixteen ten. Afterwards, Delilah said

to him, this is after the first time she she

exposed herself and he keeps dating her.

He says, she says, you been making fun of me,

saying sin.

Telling me all these lies. Now, please, big strong men, shoo,

tell me how you can be tied up securely. Samson

replied if I were tied up with Brent. Samson replied,

why are you still talking to what has proven it

wants to take your life? Why are you still entertaining?

Why are you still at the table with.

What you nearly escaped last time and you're sitting back

at the table with.

It a DP?

Why is Samson reply?

Why are you replying to your distraction? And now we're like, yeah,

that's so stupid, that's dumb with Samson. Okay, but how

many times have we after we know we only escaped

by the hand of God. We know it was God's grace.

We know that he was trying to do something in us.

We come back and we sit to that same.

Table.

Oh God, I got so much to preed. I might

have to do part two of this. It says after

Delilah said to him, you've been making fun of me, Sam, say,

if I were tied up, da dada, verse twelve. So

Delilah took new ropes tied him up. The men were stick.

Where are these men coming from? I want you to know,

distraction always has friends. Your distractions always have a group

of people ready to entangle you. Have you ever done

one thing and found yourself and other things like like

one lie turned into stealing, like I was just lying

and now I'm stealing?

And then now how did all of this?

I'm a fugitive. The men were hiding in the inner

room as before, and again Delilah cried out.

The Philistines had cut to casture you.

Now this bothers me every time I read it, because

they're supposed to be together, right, But her cry is Samson,

the Philistines are coming to capture.

Now. Why in the world if we.

Was actually together and we actually had connection. The Philistines

have come to capture because your distraction is never loyal.

I need you to hear me say this.

Your distraction, you Chris Brown, these distractions, they are not loyal.

You will feed and cater to and set up for pornography.

You will feed and cater and set up for financial growth.

You'll feed and cater and set up for making your

way in ministry. O, because you know that can be

a distraction trying to grow in ministry. And God told

you to pass these few people. I don't care what's

sitting over there. Your distraction ain't my distraction. But if

you're catering to it, God saying it's time to put

death to it.

And your distraction not loyal.

Every time he was about to get captured, she would

always say, they come in to capture you.

But again.

Sampson snapped the rope from his arms.

As if they were thread.

This leads me to the contrast to dating in Wisdom's

way and then to dating in de Lulu, which is

Samson's way.

Let me tell you his progression. He meets.

Delilah connection, that's discovery.

He likes what he sees.

They start communicating that's desernment, but he leaves out the consulting.

He has nobody around him that he allows to speak

into this. His dad tried to at the very beginning,

and at the very beginning. This is, y'all know, this

is He's already had two wives by this time. You

gotta read the story that Samson's already had two wives.

Approsset too concubined. He didn't done, he didn't done it all.

But now he meets Delilah, doesn't use any wisdom from

before God's allowed him escape. This is not the first

time I showed y'all already and one, this is not

the first time he's faced these exact same things.

It just will be the last.

And the reason is is because he's working in a.

Delusional level of pride.

It's the reason why we keep sitting at the table

with things that we know have the ability to lead

us to destruction. So when there's nobody around to consult with,

that's why the Bible says, acknowledge God in all your ways,

and he'll direct your consult with him. Simpson is not

consulting with anybody, and this is what happened.

He gets a connection. Then there's communication.

Then he goes straight from communication to getting comfortable, and

he disarms.

And once he disarms, this.

Is where most of us this is the other word

for pride. He gets cocky, he's in delusion. I can't

handle this. I'm good. It's not even that big of

a deal. How many times do we get trapped by

it's not that big of a deal. How many times

that we can trap it's just a hug? How many

times we get trapped? It's not that much money. Do

you know how people get in debt buying it not

being that much money. A whole bunch of times. It's

not that much money. Got to sell your kids now,

if y'all hear what I'm saying, because becoming cocky, prideful,

it'll put you in a place of delusion where you

won't even ask for help. And this is where I

see the body of Christ is out of crossroads right now,

because everybody wants to present perfect to the point where

they won't even ask when they're in desperate need of help.

This is the place you come for help, This is

the place you ask. This is where God's saying, I'll

meet you there. But if you're a delusion and you're

be like, nah, I'm good, and you know your marriage

has been on life support for five years.

But you won't go to any counseling.

You won't come get prayer with her, You won't even

come to church with her. You watching at home right

now and she in the building. Why why in the

world wouldn't you get in a place and get around

other men of God or other women of God.

Why wouldn't you do that?

It's called pride, And the Bible says something very specific

about pride. He says, pride always is the preview before

the fall. He's doing it for Samson right here and

some of us. If you have an area of pride

that you are not submitting to the Holy Spirit or others,

I'm telling you, you're about to have an auci.

A fall is coming.

A fall is coming for those who do not heed

the words that I'm saying to you. This is God's

grace and kindness for him to actually give you warning

right now as I'm sitting here and you're listening to this,

and you're trying to ignore it right now, but something

in your spirit is rumbling.

It's because you know you.

Have been giving too much time and attention to a

distraction that God is saying, it's time to put death

to that, because if you do not walk into humility

and do what God is asking you to do, the

pride is going to lead you right into the fall.

I know this is strong.

I know it's strong, but I just don't I don't

want you to be ignorant in the dark about what

God is saying. This is so simple if you would listen.

And he gets cocky and waltks in delusion, he starts

to cuddle and becomes desensitized with Delilah, and then he

is in the worst place any believer could ever be

in compromise. Compromise leads to disaster. Let me prove it

to you Judges sixteen, verse thirteen. Then Delilah said, now

I just want to be very clear about this.

This is her thirty attempt.

Do y'all Does anybody actually like Delilah has done the

same thing.

Over and which.

Makes me think that Samson is now trying to set

the mood for his distraction passor row? Could the passer

row back there? Can you come up and could you

this this is too I need I need my distraction

to feel comfortable. Could you set the mood. Yeah, yeah,

I don't know what you got over there, mister piano man.

But me and my distraction. How you doing, baby. I've

been watching you for a while and I just see

how you're always there hearing my time of need. You're

right there for my weakness, and I just want to

sing this to you.

Because all of me love all.

Of you, Love your curves and.

All yours, all your purple and perfections.

Give you'all to me, give up to you.

You're my end and my beginning. Even when I'm lose,

I'm winning this.

I give you.

All, love me.

And you'll give me all.

Oh.

I love you.

Yeah, You're my perfect distraction.

You're the one that I'm so comfortable with because I

get an adrenaline rush almost getting caught.

I lost to adrenaline in this other thing.

But every time I'm with you, distraction, it's like just

in the nick of.

Time, everything is okay. And I've never felt this alive before.

I never felt this with anyone. Thank you for being

my favorite distraction. Mister piano man. Play me one more song.

This is for you.

You know we've done a lot of things, but.

This time say it slow.

We're gonna take it slow.

This time will take.

I got something for you.

Time, just for you.

Now.

Listen. As funny as this analogy is, it's what we do.

The Bible even says that many of us take our

resources that are supposed to be set out for the

tithe for God, and we use it to cater to

our sin.

Could it be said that we're taking the holy part of.

What God's asked us to return back to him and

giving it to something that is telling us it wants

to destroy us.

H It's time for us to stop catering to what

wants to kill us.

It's so crazy that you never hear about Daniel with

Lions ever again.

Y'all remember the story Daniel's in the lions Den. His

escape from the lions den.

Was the one time God provided power for that miracle.

Daniel is not known as Daniel and the Lion Tamer.

It wasn't his continued escape from lions. Come and see

Daniel's Sleep with Lions tonight. I bet that after Daniel

got out of that lion's den, he didn't want to

see a kiddie cat.

Y'all gotta hear me hit me out.

No, no, no, I don't do anything, lions, because many

times our pride will make us think what we escaped once,

we're supposed to.

Tame over and over again.

Many of us are playing with what God provided grace

for us to escape once, and now we're making decisions

to make it a spectacle and for us to be

around it over and over again.

Let me in this.

Turn the lights back up. Thank you, mister piano man.

That's a specific yeah, thank you. Then Delilah said, you've

been making fun of me telling me lies. This one

gets me. Now tell me how you can be tied

up securely. This is the third time, y'all. Samson replied,

if you were to weave the seven braids of my hair,

hold on, why are we talking about here? No, No,

he got what comfortable now out of every example, he

knows the powers in his hair.

It's in something very common. Make another riddle.

If you take my thumb and put it in some water,

or if you take my big toe and you why

did he have to get close to what actually had

the power? He said, If you would take seven braids

of my hair into the fabric and put it on

the loom and tighten it with the loom shuttle.

He's just playing.

I would become as weak as anyone else. So while

he slept. The reason I had to bring this message

to you today is because many of you are sleeping

on your distractions. While he slept, Delilah wove the seven

braids of hair into the fabric. Then she tightened it

with the loom shuttle.

Again.

She cried out, fad.

The fellastines have come to cap sir you.

But Samson woke up, pulled back the loom shuttle, and

yanked his hair away from the loom and the fabric.

This is the thing I want you to know. Your

distractions are always deliberate. When I get ready to go

on Netflix or any of the other programs and watch

a series when i know I do not have time

to do that and I'm wanting to just let my mind,

you know, relax from the actual assignment that I'm supposed

to do, it tells me this is nine seasons of

fourteen episodes, and this is a year of my life.

I'm about to give up, and I still push play.

That distraction is deliberate. It's not trying to you know

that you need to be given time spending with your kids.

You only got three more years before they're out of

your house. And they're in the other room doing the

same thing, getting taught by people, and you're in this

room trying to zone out, and you literally steal press play.

You know, you and your spouse need counseling, or you

and your kids need counseling, or just you need counseling.

Because everybody try to get somebody go with them. You

the crazy, go by yourself. Yet you will give hours

to watching somebody's story on TikTok who found a kiddy

and now the kidd's famous, And you'll spend hours on hinge.

Ain't there what it's called grason hinge swiping?

No?

He I mean he is looking for somebody, if anybody

young handsome black man with braids, I saw a hand

in the back grace you have afterwards? All right, Hey, listen,

I'm gonna have to start a dating that for something.

We're gonna have.

To We might have to do a singles conference or

something like that.

The time has come. The time has come.

Yeah, but we're gonna do it in God's way. All I'm

saying is we're doing so much giving to our distractions

that we do not cultivate who we are supposed to become.

For destiny, Samson is going to give away what God

has called him to be.

Because of a distraction.

You may not be dating right now, but are you

giving away what God has called you to be? What

He said before you were formed in your mother's roomb

because you are catering to a distraction. You won't even

go to something because you gotta be the flyest one.

We don't want you there because you look good. We

want you there because you are good like but my dress,

my aesthetic.

No, like you don't get it. That's not the best

part about you. But there's so many of us that

are so distracted by and today I just came to

challenge the church stop setting the table for two with

your distraction. The truth of the matter is that your

flesh never takes into consideration you're calling. There's not been

one time in my life where what my flesh wanted

to do was like But you know you're a man

of God, right, you know thousands of people will be

touched if you if you.

Actually stay pure.

Not one time has my flesh ever considered if.

You pop off on them and you dah da da dada.

That's fine because the calling of God on your life,

many can but you cannot. The saddest part of this

whole story is Samson knows his calling the whole time

that he's catering to it. And I'm all asking you is,

don't let your distractions stay around long enough for it

to become your desire. At some point, Samson started desiring Delilah.

He started being like, you know what I can be

after the third time in the baseball.

And is one, two, three strikeser around at.

The Oh, well, she hadn't done it.

Three times, and this dummy, But it's it's it's very

weak of me to just call him a dummy because

he actually thinks he can overcome it.

Again.

He's in pride. He's in pride.

I'm saying it again because I don't want to say

you're in pride, but there might be an area that

your pride is making you delusional because you've done it

so many times in the hand and the grace of

God has been over it so many times, and you're

still dating your distraction and you're walking in ignorance and

I'm just trying to be an alarm.

That's saying stop now, quit now, get out, now, move now,

do it now, get it now. But you're like, I'm

just whatever I gotta do. I'm just saying. The reason

I feel the burden to Prince this.

Is because your distraction is about to cost you something

that you don't even think it wants. Can I just

tell you next week's message as I'm getting in here.

They didn't want to strength. Everybody thinks that they Sampson's strength.

But when they finally catch him, do.

You know what?

They take his vision? The enemy doesn't want your strength,

he wants your vision. They could have killed him, but they.

Gounged out his eyes because where there is no vision,

people perish.

They didn't have to kill him. He didn't have no vision.

Fuck, your distraction is after your vision. You're making a

vision board, But are you making.

A distraction killing board?

I gotta these things correlate because I can't have that,

and I'm still focused.

On this.

Standing all over the place.

I'm gonna have to keep going next week. Just because

you beat it before doesn't mean you can tolerate it again.

I'm gonna say it one more time. Just because you

beat it before doesn't mean you can tolerate it again.

I don't know who this is for, but I'm gonna

say it one more time. Just because you beat it

before does not mean you can tolerate it again. I

feel a call for two specific things. We're about to

We're about to, that's the word. We're going to dismiss

our distraction, and we're gonna make room for the only

one who's worthy to sit at the table. It's so

prophetic that y'all started singing make room. The reason I

have to kill this distraction is because I gotta make

room for the only one who knows my future. I

gotta have a connection with the only one I feel this,

the only one who can speak life into me. This

is not me just given to it. It's it's it's him,

the Lamb of God, the son that was slain, the

one who actually already gave me everything before we came

to this table.

And that's why I say I will make room for you.

I will prepare for two who so you.

Don't feel that you can't live here, please live in me.

Sing that role.

Will make growl.

Fuck you see AH will.

Reread bad for to so you.

Can live focusing on you. GODZ you my focus. Come on,

lifting hands, listening that make gloom for you.

Make groom for you.

I will whatever that cost me down. It's you I'm

looking at.

I'm preparing my life for my Lord, for you to

be the priority.

You're making moon for you.

GA live Jesus feezely with me.

If you're in this.

Room, can you know that there have been some things

that have been taking the place of Jesus, some distractions

that have literally I mean as I'm talking to some

people like man, the game, the pre game, the game,

the game, the pre game, the game, And what I'm

saying is like who won seven years ago, who won

ten years ago? Who won thirteen years ago? The only

thing that you're going to be living with is all

of this that's going on. I'm not saying it's bad,

It's just not priority and maybe you need to make room.

The beautiful thing about that song is it says I will.

God is not dethroning your distractions.

You have to.

So at the end of the day, like you could

have heard this whole message like that was a great

word for them.

Y'all know how we do that? Wow? Powerful?

Did y'all feel that even the Beatrice the music and roses.

And the whole time. God saying that video.

Game system, that shopping tendency being on every board at

your kids school.

You pta President, pat President, you.

The I'm not trying to villainize anything. I'm just saying

the things that we very easily.

Say.

God scoot over so this can sit here. I have grandkids. Now,

I've always wanted to treat my grandkids. How I wasn't

able to treat my kids. But you're not treating your wife.

So the kids left. Now you skip to the grandkids,

and the one that you forsook all others for is

sitting here still looking for something. That's why I will

I will May God, you gotta be here. This is

the only place I gotta prepare for us. God, I

need you to do what nobody else can do.

Can Yeah, please see say please.

See that. Take yup.

Yes, sirs, shee.

Us take God place us say yo place.

See come on right here at my table.

Take God blaze SEUs, take up place, Jesus take.

I'm gonna continue next week.

I feel like God has given me more to say

about this, but I need you to.

I need you to process.

I need you to process what I said, so that

we can move on to actually implementing how we're gonna

walk this out, because there are a lot of people

that in this chair is this idea of success, and

I gotta hit it one more time because your distraction

is climbing this corporate ladder, this money, this decimal this,

and it's robbing.

You of your life.

The incomes on the other side of obedience. I'm not

talking about No, you can go make money, you wanna

have peace with it. I know people that are loaded

and lonely the blessings of the Lord. My Bible tells

me make it rich and addesth know you can tell there.

When there's sorrow with it. God wasn't with it. You

understand what I'm saying.

And I've never done this in the history of my ministry,

but I feel very led to do this today, and

I felt it earlier and God said he was gonna

make the moment for it. There are couples that are

living together, sleeping together, doing.

All the married things, and you're not married.

And I want to talk to you in love today. Okay,

I'm asking you to make a decision for your own safety.

You might have kids together. No, no, no, no, don't clad,

don't claib, don't go.

To pray, because there's hearts involved, there's leases involved, there's

self phone payments involved.

This is not I'm not trying to be light.

I've never done this, but I heard the Holy Spirit said, Michael,

you cannot give that strong of a warning through the

word and then them miss it. There are people that

have been crying out for the blessing that God gives

in marriage, but they haven't decided.

And I'm telling you, I need you.

To go through that list and see if you can

commit to this person to be in covenant or I

need you to make a decision to let go of

that distraction. And as a church, we're not judging you.

We're not coming after you. We're praying for you, and

we believe that on the other side of obedience there

is going to be massive transformation. Oh come on, that's

where you clap, That's where we believe God. And I

don't know, I'm just calling this right now, Heather. If

that's y'all and you you have something, you know, y'all

are supposed to make it right. And this ain't for everybody.

Some of y'all, this is your time, Like Pastor said that.

We know we're not supposed to be together.

That's why we've been here seven years doing this. And

I'm like, I'm being honest, but we're gonna figure out

a way. I'm gonna tell y'all next week if y'all

want to do this. It's not gonna be money. It's

not gonna be all that. We're gonna figure out how

to marry these people too.

Okay, So like we're.

Gonna I don't know how we're gonna do it, but

we're in the next couple of weeks. I'm gonna figure

it out with the team. We're gonna have church and

then have to church. We're gonna have a big wedding ceremony.

And if it's ten of y'all, if it's twenty of y'all,

if it's two hundred of y'all, but we're gonna do this.

Think God's way. I need somebody to hear me say

that we're gonna help you. We're gonna make a decision.

We gotta move out of delusion, we gotta walk with wisdom.

I feel the presence of God.

Today.

I'm gonna pray for everybody because if I make an

altar call. Everybody's coming. No, I'm serious. So today the

alter is at your seat and at your home.

Lift your hands everywhere Jesus.

Today God, we are making a decision to stop dating

our distractions, to stop catering to connecting with cuddling with

the things, laying our head in the lap of the

things that desire to take the power You've given us.

Today I pray, Father God for the things that have

become so strong, so such a habit in our life.

Father God, that has not been able to break. Today,

I thank you by the power of the Holy Spirit. Father,

you are the one that tells us that the same

power that was found in Jesus Christ, the same power

that raised them from the dead, is the same power

that we have. So Father, I thank you that in

the name of Jesus, by your spirit and your power.

It won't be by might, it won't be be by power,

but it will be by your spirit. I thank you Father.

Today there is rearranging and transformation that is happening on

the inside of your children's hearts. Today there's a fresh surrender,

and we're deciding that we will make room for you. Father,

be who you've always been.

Comforter.

Yes, the one who actually leads us into all truth.

Father.

There are people that are confused and even grieving right now,

knowing that their distractions have literally defined their life. But today, God,

I thank you that you're giving of a fresh vision.

They won't lose their vision because of a distraction. They

are getting fresh vision from you about what their destiny

looks like. God, God, I thank you that whatever you

say we will obey. Speak, confirm it, show it to us.

You can speak to us. God, you know how to

get to us, and we will make room for you.

Have your way as our prayer.

In the same attitude, with your heads still bowed and

eyes closed, just focusing for a moment.

If you are under the sound of my voice, whether.

You're online or you're in this room, whether you're on

the worship team, or you're a servant leader or you're

working a camera, I need you to hear me. Right

now is the day that God is calling for salvation.

If you've been walking your own way, doing your own thing,

going wayward, today God says, come home. He is giving

you an opportunity of grace and mercy. And I am

begging you right now, this is not based off of fear.

This is based off of faith. I think I think

God has made a way to speak to you right

where you are saying, son, daughter, come home, Son, Daughter,

be made whole. Son, Daughter, live in the love that

I've already provided for you.

If today you're tired of doing it in your own way.

I need the church praying because somebody's about to make

a decision for their destiny. Yeah, somebody's grandmother's prayer is

about to be activated in their life today.

I need you all to pray right now.

I thank you that this is a moment of transformation

God for those who have been going their own way.

I thank you on the count of three. Father, they're

gonna identify today as my.

Day of salvation.

I am coming to the Lord, or I'm coming back

to the Lord. Whether you're in this room, you're watching online,

you may be incarcerated right now. Today is the day

of salvation. God is about to rejoice with everybody in

this room for your salvation. One you're making the greatest

decision of your life. Two, all of hell is trembling

because you're about to become who you're really supposed to be. Three,

if you want to make Jesus Christ, your personal Lord

and Savior. Lift your hand all over this place. I

see you right there. I see you, my brother, I

see you. I see you. I see you my brother.

I see you, my sister, I see you.

Come up. And if I don't see you, God sees you.

Transformation Church.

Let's give God a shot of praise, all home glory

of God at TC.

We're a family right there in the maroon.

Yeah, there's another one right over here, my sister.

There's another one. And the guy in the maroon, yeah,

him and my man on the end right there. I

don't want nobody to be missed.

I want you to get this Bible, but more than anything,

I want you to get God in your heart. So

we're a family. We're gonna pray this together. Say Father, God,

thank you for sending you Jesus just for me.

Today. I give you my life.

I repent, I turn from every distraction, from every sin,

and I turn to you today. I believe you lived,

you died, and you rose again just for me. Here's

my life. Take it, use me, renew me, transform me.

I'm yours in Jesus' name.

Amen. Can we celebrate? Oh?

Come on, I need the loudest roar up today Hallay Loujah.

Heaven is turning up and so are we. If you

just made that decision, I want you to text save

to eight two eight two eight two, and then you

can do the QR code on the screen at home

Transformation Church with anybody help today, like with anybody. Okay,

I need you to share this with somebody. I need

you to watch it again because it's gonna get you

ready for next week. If you're a first time guests

or you've been here for a while and you like

to meet me and the team, we're gonna be right

across the hall in the south ballroom in about fifteen minutes.

We would love to meet you, hug you, kiss you

if you need prayer.

Not kiss you.

Why don't keep saying that I'm not gonna kiss you.

I'm no kissing. I'm gonna hug you, though. If you

need prayer for anything, we have prayer right here at

the altar.

We have prayer in the back. I want you to.

Come and don't leave this house without getting touched for

your healing. The Bible tells us that our healing happens

when we gather together, and so Kasu Roll's gonna worship

for a second. Transformation Nation, don't leave. I got a

special message for you in the back, but I just

want to let you know God is gonna do something

special in your life. Father bless these people, and I

thank you Father that this week, as we lef our

distractions down, you would do something that we could never

imagine until next week. Go out and live a transform life.

I love you so much.

Please sleeve in me.

May grow for you. Ah we.

Flee bad for to sew. You don't that you can leave?

Please leave me. Ah we may grow for you.

Ah we read bad for two so you.

Don't fee can leave. Please saven me.

And let all the other namespade away. No, let all

the other namespade away.

I did.

That's only let all the other namespade away.

Geerrot's take up place, Geu's.

Take God place. Let all the other namespade.

Away, and let all the other names pay away to

this only that only others you.

Know what, Transformation Nation.

I hope that you feel the presence that is in

this house. In your house, I'm telling you, there are

people at the altar. There are people actually confessing, There

are people worshiping God. And there are seventeen thousand of

you on here still with me right now, believing for

God to put death to your distractions. And I'm telling

you right now, if you have a prayer request, I

want you to put it in the chat.

I have the team here.

They are feeding me your prayer requests right now and

just the moment, we're going to pray because I believe

this is the season where God is going to have

us stop dating our distractions and we're going to make

room for the only one who can lead us to destiny,

and that's Jesus. If you are watching from anywhere in

this world, I want you to put it in the

chat because I want you to know what you bring

to this is some thing that I've prayed for and

today that's why I'm coming on here to believe for you.

So we're about to start praying. There are people that are.

Dealing with sicknesses and need healing for their life. Personality

is needing healing. Right now, we're about to pray. We're

praying for Kelsey in South Africa. We're praying Father for

anybody that needs healing. I want you to agree your

faith with this. We're praying for healing for her sinances.

We're praying Father God for healing in anybody that's dealing

with cold or flu symptoms. We're praying Father God for

anybody that is walking, Father God in a terminal illness, Father,

or had a bad doctor's report. I need, Father God,

You're healing. Virtue to flow right now for our partner's

Father God, who are believing you for breakthrough, Father God,

breakthrough in their mind, breakthrough in their body, even breakthrough

in their finances. We are praying right now for Baz

in the United Kingdom that needs breakthrough in her finances.

God.

I thank you, Father God, that you are doing a

work for anybody that needs a financial breakthrough. Come on, y'all,

I need you to pray with me, Holy Spirit. I

thank you that you are the one that produces, Father God,

the ability to get well.

Father. But then you give us stewardship.

So Father teach us how to do what is right

when it comes to resources, Father God, and open up doors.

Yes, open up doors that no man can shut.

Open up doors, Father God, that are not about anybody else,

Father God, but that are about your future and your

plan and your destiny for us, Father God, right now, Father, God,

we pray for Pauline for protection for her son and

godly men influences.

Father, I thank you that.

The men of God would raise up all over the world,

Father God, that would stand in the gap and be

who you've called them to be. I pray for every

single mother out there that is raising a child, Father God,

without the husband or the man in the house.

Father God number one. I'm praying Father that they're.

Going to go on some dates and there's a man

of God that is coming from the north southeast to west.

Father, we don't care.

We rip up our list and we thank you that

you will bring the ones that are supposed to be sent. Father,

that we will walk out of our shells and walk

into confidence of who you've created us to be.

Father.

I'm thanking you Father that Godly marriages are raising up

all over the world.

Godly relationships come on. You can believe for that, Godly relationships.

The ones that you have called for us to do

destiny together and Father impacting our children. I thank you

Father that families will be put back together. That you

are restoring that's better than before. God. We are believing Father,

that you're doing miracles everywhere. God we pray right now

for Katrina, Father God, who is asking for wisdom for

her doctors to know what to do concerning her body,

concerning weight loss, Father God, and for all of us

that are trying to live healthier lives. Today, Father God,

we are asking you that you would give us the wisdom, Father,

even the wisdom that we talked about, Wisdom's way. Father,

I thank you that there's a wisdom way to do everything.

Your word is the lamp unto our feet and the

light unto our path. Show us, Father, what to believe

for how to believe us, Send us to the right people.

And I thank you Father that you're giving us the

discipline Father, as well as the desire to do what

pleases you today Father, all over the world Father, from

Brianna and Sable, Father God, and Zoe, God, all those

that you know their prayer requests.

Miranda Father and the job that she needs, everybody that needs.

Freedom for addiction, jan and Iana, Father God who needs

strength for her mother. Father, Come on, keep putting your

prayer requests in the chat right now. Father, we pray

Father that you see and hear everything you see and

hear everything.

I got a burden right now, to pray for you.

You see and hear everything that concerns us as your children.

And today, Father God, I thank you that in this moment,

you are not asking us to do more to get

to you, but you're just asking us to make room

for you so that you can speak to us.

Father.

We are making a declaration. We will make room for you.

This week, we will make time. Father, we will keep

connection with you, Father God. And today God, we ask

that you would give us another revelation of who you are.

For all of those who.

Decide for Jesus today, Father, I thank you. I just

feel strongly to do this. If you didn't make the

decision in the room earlier today, but you know you're

supposed to give your life to Christ. I want you

to make a decision right now and say I'm giving

my life to Christ and I'm gonna pray with you.

Just pray with me, Everybody online, say, Father God, thank

you for sending Jesus today. I give you my life.

Take over, give me Jesus. I believe you lived. I

believe you died just for me. Here's my life, Change me,

transform me. I'm yours in Jesus' name.

Amen, Yo, If you just pray that prayer.

We are celebrating with you, and I want you to

take saved to eight two eight two eight two, and

we're we're gonna give you some information and we're gonna

see how we can help you walk this transform life out.

I'm so proud of you, yo.

I don't know if you can feel what's happening, but

this series is growing and God's giving deeper revelation and

at the end, I don't know if you heard my heart,

but there are some people that need to either get

married or let go.

Of the distraction.

And if you're interested in being a part of our impromptu,

holy spirit led wedding that we're gonna do for multiple people,

I need you to text married.

To eight two eight two eight two. We're believing that.

God's moving people out of the dysfunction that they're in

into a level of destiny that changes everything.

Married to eight two eight to eight two. And I'm

just so excited, y'all.

There's so many fun things happening at TC, and I

want to let you know we do our best to

try to make everything available for you so that you

can know that you are just as much a part

of this as everybody who is able to get here

in the building today.

As your pastor, you are this church.

And so I want to let you know that tribes

have started, and I want you to join a tribe.

There are tribes meeting all over the US and really

the world, and right now you can scan the QR

code and you can find a tribe near you, and

some of y'all you'll be like, there's no tribe in

my area, or you want to meet some people in

you can start to try. There's people in Dallas that

are TC Nation. There's people in Kansas City that are

TC Nation. There's people in London that are TC Nation.

Sometimes it needs a leader to actually multiply, and man,

I'm just grateful.

Next week we're going.

To a whole nother level.

If you missed the message today or you came in

on the tail end of it, I want you to

know we have a rebroadcast on Tuesday, and at five

o'clock today the sermon will be up. I'm asking everybody

that it's on share this message, share clips from this message.

Transformation many times starts with an invitation in and the

way that we do that in today's currency is through

social media.

Posting, texting.

I want you all to share this because there were

secrets that were shown in wisdom given from God's word

in Samson's story of what he didn't do that would

allow people to walk in wisdom.

And I want you to do that.

Wednesday, we got to dig in prayer and I just

want to let you know I love you. This has

been an amazing sermon. I need you to do something

for me. If this sermon impacted you, I need you

to pull out your phone and I need you to

let me know and let everybody know what part hits

you like I need to see. I need tag me,

tag transformation Church. The best advertisement is you transform lines.

So instead of me trying to tell people watch the message,

like you tell people watch the message. Tag me, tag

transformation Church. Let's get everybody into a season of transformation.

I love you.

Until next week, go out and live a transform life.

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.

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