Reset: Stop Tripping // Pastor Michael Todd

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

Today. I feel like I have an assignment to help

some people get ready for what God's going to do.

It's a prophetic assignment as well as a pastoral assignment

because I believe that many of us drug ourselfs into

this year. I believe there was a drag into twenty

twenty five. Many of us did not come into this

year with expectation. You came into this year actually with trepidation, fear, anxiety.

Hopefully it don't go like it went the last time.

And today you came to the House of Hope so

that I could prophetically and through scripture, encourage you into

a new season. Today. I'm not going to I'm not

gonna play Kate or speak directly to your pessimism. I'm

not trying to convince anybody who's already convinced to not

believe God. Today. I'm coming for the people on the

fringes that know that deep down, on the inside, there

is an expectation that God hasn't done everything he promised

you yet. Okay, I don't know where y'all are right here,

But if it's three of y'all that you know that

this movie is not over, there's some more scenes to

this thing. That you know that you have not read

the final chapter of the book that God written for you,

and there's something that God wants to do on the

inside you wear the five people that need to act

believe that there is more for you. Yeah, that this

marriage is not over, that my kids are not how

they gonna be, that there are salvation still coming to

my household. Yet that the addictions that I still struggle

with right now will no longer be the stronghold that

I'm carrying next year, I need at least ten people

to believe with me that the grief that I'm sitting

in will not be a chain, but it will become

a medallion that I can testify of the goodness of God.

I need six people. God is not done with us yet,

I feel that thing. And and for all of the

people like y'all just screaming hear me, let me hear you,

Let me hear what you're saying. And then you hear

what I'm singing out of the abundance of the heart.

The mouse speaks. This overwhelming joy and expectation doesn't mean

that I don't have things that I'm looking at, Like God,

what is up with this? Come on you we be read.

Come on? How many people got some Lord? Oh excuse me,

all of us got those things. But the Bible tells

us that we do not react to what we see.

We react to what we believe. You miss me, And

I know some of y'all are deconstruction, and you're too

sophisticated for that. But there's some people that are desperate

in this room right now, and there's some people that

know how good God has been. And I just need

to find a hundred of y'all that will help me

on the first Sunday of this year, give God a

praise that's not indicative of the situation I'm in right now.

I need at least fifty of y'all to praise God

with me based off of what we believe God is

about to We're looking at his record, we're looking at

his character. I'm gonna give you five seconds to give

God the greatest praise you God, give him glory right now.

It's for him, Yes, hallelujah, you saying he's worthy of

it all. Give it to him. Yip, cut it on,

Hold on, hold on, let me help some young people

in here. Your cool ist not gonna get the miracle word. Now.

I'm trying to tell you I'm trying to give you.

I'm trying to give you a secret to the heart

of God. Who you're trying to impress can't move your situation.

Who you're trying to stay cool for cannot change your heart.

And I spent too many times in church services trying

to impress somebody who didn't even care that I was

there when God was putting me in a position requiring

something different from me. You want to grow in your

relationship with God, stop being ashamed of Him in front

of people. Today. You got to come out and say,

for God I live and for God I'll die. Y'all

don't want to play with me on the first Sunday

of twenty twenty five. If you're Ayn's shamed of your

relationship with Jesus, why don't you give him a praise

in this place? But I know, Oh, we came. We

came to see God do a miracle. Hey, HOLLYO. All right,

all right, all right, all right. I had to find

the faith in the room. I told my staff earlier

last year, I said, I'm not dragging anybody into twenty

twenty five. I'm telling our church, We're not dragging nobody.

You're gonna have to get up and walk. I'm gonna

just tell you a little bit of this story. My daughter, Heyva,

she she loved being with her daddy, and she she

she she she carries that into places she's not supposed to,

like my bed. She she's not supposed to sleep in

my bed. That that bed is for me and Natalie.

And what she's realized is is that many times if

she gets in my bed and falls asleep, she has

a better chance. Some of y'all appearance in this room

at the end of the day, you tired, and you're

looking at this dead weight and just like, just don't

touch me, but stay right there. But I made a

decision that she's at the age right now that she's

got to get up and walk. And I felt the

Holy Spirit tell me, some of y'all want me to

end this year after your big age. Y'all know what

I'm talking about. At your big age, and with all

the wisdom you know you want me to take you

and pick you up and drop you off at destiny.

This is the year that I don't care if you

sleepy and you drowsy. Get up. Some of y'all hurt.

I love you, but get up and wha. This is

the year your steps are about to be ordered by God.

And what used to be something that would turn you

off from walking in the thing that God told you.

You're about to get up. Somebody take a step from me.

You're about to get up, and you go walk. Yes, yes, yes,

somebody say, get up and walk? All right, all right,

all right, let's get into it. Let's get into it.

Somebody said, we already into it. Just wait on me.

It's reset Sunday. And I believe the Holy Spirit is

requiring us to do something new. The definition of insanity

is doing the same thing expecting a different result. I'm

gonna say it again, the definition of insanity is doing

the same thing expecting a different result. And so there

are a couple of things that we are gonna decide

to as believers, to do differently this year. And if

as your pastor, is part of my job to lead

you into that, not to make you do it, but

to show you the path through the word of God

of what we can do. And so I'm letting everybody

know part of us getting up and walking is actually

taking our spiritual journey seriously this year, our relationship with

God is not in addition to everything else we have

going on in our lives. I want you to hear

me say this very clearly. For many years I tried

to add God to what I had already planned. I

know most people won't say that, but it's like, God,

bless this relationship, Bless this little sin I'm doing, Bless

me in spite of this issue. Come on, let's be

honest this year. Let's try something different. Let's put God

in the center of everything we're doing and work everything

else around what God says. I'm telling you this is

the thing that caused the most transformation in my life,

in my family and my marriage in this church is

when I said, all right, God, I know I got

some plans, and I think they could work out if

you just sprinkle a little anointing on them. But they

always seem to fail because many are the plans of

a man. But it's God's purposes that prevail. And so

I'm asking everybody as a spiritual step, everybody says step,

because this year we're gonna do a lot of walking.

You will not be in the same place spiritually at

the end of this year that you are right now.

I'm declaring that by faith for every person that will

have ears to hear I'm talking about. God is going

to show you a different you that is anchored in Him.

But the only way that we can do that is

not by magically becoming something different. We gotta take everybody

say steps. One of the steps I'm asking everybody that

calls Transformation Church their home or God is allowing you

to hear this today, I'm asking you to take the

spiritual step of going on a twenty one day fast

with us. I'm not trying to sugarcoat it. I'm not

trying to bait and switch you. I'm asking you right

now to do something that watch this will be hard.

I'm so sick of the church acting like some of

the things that God is asking us to do are easy.

You prepare yourself to be weak in the field if

you never train hard behind closed doors, and that's why

the enemy whips up on so many of us, because

when we're supposed to be in training for what God

has called us to do, training for reigning, we don't

actually do the work today. I'm asking everybody to go

on a biblical fast with your church, and it's easier

to do stuff in community. Yes, I said, it's going

to be hard, but it's easier when you do it

with your friends. I'm asking everybody to do this, and

I know some of y'all the enemy that has your

belly on lock right now, your attitude has already changed.

That's a stronghold. I did a series called Cuffing Season,

and there was one message in there called cuff to Cake.

You should go back and listen to that because some

of y'all demons is coming up right now. I just

want to I want to help you understand that there

are a few things in the Bible that Jesus did

and he commanded, and he had the disciples do and

it grew them in their spiritual journey. I'm asking you

if you've never done it. You know people in this

church that have been a part of this twenty one

days and prayer and faster than every year, and they

lie about doing it every year. Oh, no, no, no, no,

I see you, I know you. What I'm asking you

to do is, don't fool anybody. Make a commitment to

set aside this first twenty one days starting tomorrow, and

go to God more than you go to anything. Hear

what I just said, because a lot of people make

it legal. Well, I'm not eating this, and I eat

this and at seven o'clock and at this and I

only drink water. And you're trying to do something that

your flesh is a little uncomfortable, but then you can

still wiggle your way. I'm asking you to go to

God more than you go to anything. Go to God

more than you go to food. Go to God more

than you go to TV. Go to God more than

you go to Instagram. Go to God more than you

go to them. For the next twenty one days, your

first response is God, what am I supposed to do

in this situation? And I'm telling y'all, if you take

this step, everybody says step, I promise you there's gonna

be clarity, There's going to be direction, and there's going

to be vision. Everybody say vision. I don't want to

go through twenty twenty five and not know what God wants.

I hate going places and I don't know where I'm going.

Is there anybody else like just at least tell me

where we're going. Let me give you one of the

greatest things that I found out. God wants to tell

you where you're going, but you have to make time

to hear the directions. And when we start this twenty

one days of praying fasting tomorrow, I want you to

go ahead and do this one word right now, prepare tonight.

Some of y'all are gonna have to empty out, give away,

throw away the temptation that is in your face at

all moments. Y'all see how quiet it just got in

this hole antuary. Some of us are going to have

to change how we do things to be able to

honor God in this way. And this is not about

guilt and combination. I'm trying to teach you. Nothing has

transformed me more than prayer and fasting. Even Jesus said

when the disciples went to cast out a certain devil,

and it didn't work. When they came, Like Jesus, we

did the thing, and we sighed out out all our costs,

and we did everything, and it didn't come out. He said,

the certain kind. Certain things only get transformed by what

prayer and fast. So today I'm inviting you. This is

an invitation into another step, another journey of transformation for you.

And so we're gonna take this together. Twenty one days

of prayer and fasting starts tomorrow. We will have scriptures

every day and even look at this. We're a family church.

So if your kids are in TC kids, we made

a twenty one day prayer and fasting journal for them

that breaks this down in their language and gives them

stuff to color and different Bible devotions. And if and

if reading the Big Bible too much for you, no, no, no, y'all,

y'all's eh, stop it. The kid version helps me. Day

one put God first. It feels like, well we need

to be doing Day two. God is good, something like

we need to recognize. I'm just saying whatever works. But

I promise you this will be the best year of

your life if it's your best year spiritually. I'm gonna

say it one more time, this will be the best

year of your life if it is your best year spiritually.

So as we walk into this excited to see all

of the things God does, as we continue to push

away our plates and get closer to who God is,

what God is, and what He wants to do in

our life. Amen, even if you don't like it, gona

clap your hands right there, come on, just come on, Yeah,

Today I have clear instructions to preach to you around

the topic of reset, because I believe God wants to

do something. But next week is a monumental week in

our church every year because it is Vision Sunday. And

if you've not been around here for a long time,

you'd be like, oh, okay, you're gonna tell us what

God's saying. Well, there's a couple of things that you

have to know about this church is this church is

led by God. So like I don't just come up

with stuff, I go away. I ask God, what do

you want to do in your church for this calendar year?

And usually He gives me a word to gather our

faith around. And literally those words have guided us, brought

us into new season, and been a prophetic forecast of

what God was gonna do, even when we didn't know

he was gonna do it. And next Sunday, God has

given me the word for twenty twenty five. And y'all,

this one's gonna shift everything that's going on right now.

And I just want you to see how important vision is.

Take a look at this real quick vision. You can

write that down in your lot. You can write then

that many tattoo you get. The vision is more valuable

than anything. But has vision shaped your personal reality? If

it has not shaped your personal reality, it may be

because you don't know how valuable vision is. Twenty fifteen,

God gave us a word when Bishop and Pastor Debi

handed us to Baton survived twenty sixteen. The prophetic word

that he gave us maintaining. And the word for two

thousand and seventeen was beyond. But in twenty eighteen, I

want you to strive. In twenty nineteen, God said, this

is the year of release. Twenty twenty he said stronger.

Twenty twenty one, guess what the word was anchored? And

I said, okay, Lord, we're anchored. What's the word for

the next year? Here is holy? And in twenty twenty

three he gave us a word is about the entire key.

So when we came to twenty twenty four, God said,

very simply, this would be the year that we didn't

have to talk about it. This would be a year

of fruit. This would be our faith repeating until it

was transformed. I don't want you to think that all

of these words go away when the new one comes.

They build on top of each other. So the word

of the year from twenty and twenty five is very simple.

One word. Next Sunday, I will be revealing the word

of the year. Yes, yeah, you thought I was no

next Sunday, y'all like they was like, what is ooh

the spin foo the bird saying foo next Sunday. Get

your bibles out. I'm gonna do this with precision and

quickness because I feel like this this message is surgery.

And so I don't want you to move much. I

don't want you I don't want your attention to be diverted.

I need you to hear what I believe God told

me almost three months ago. When I told the team,

I said, hey, the first sund of the year I'm preaching,

and the first sund of the year I'm gonna be

speaking about resetting. And I was like, all right, I've

never told them that early what I was speaking on.

But God spoke to me very clearly. He said, the

first Sunday of twenty twenty five is reset Sunday. And

I begin to pray and ask God, what do you

want to do? And he told me this little phrase

that I put in a point. He said, if you

don't reset, you will repeat. I need you to hear

me say it right now. If you do not reset

right now, you will repeat. And I don't know what

area of your life that impacts and what just came

to your mind, but the one you said, ooh no,

that's the one. If you don't like what's happening in

your relational life, if you do not reset with God

in your relationships, you will repeat the same thing. I

don't know if it's in your finances where it's barely

just enough and everything's not going around and all the

things are crumbling around you. If you do not reset

with God, you will repeat. I'm not telling you this

to scare you. I'm telling you this to prepare you

that he really wants you to hit reset on everything

that was established without him. Think about the areas of

your life that are just common practice for you because

you've been doing it that way. Some of y'all cuss

just because you've been cussing. I'm just gonna use a

real practical examp. You grew up because you're mother nim cuss.

God says, to take account of all the words that

come out of your mouth. You use them to emphasize,

You use them when you just you know, when I

get past my line. Now, there's only a couple I

only use the D in the s y'all. Have you

ever heard them people that justify the words that they

say that ain't even the CoP's in the Bible. Okay,

But when the scripture says, let everything that come out

of your mouth be edified to the hearer, I'm using

a very small example because we all got issues that

I know some of y'all tight right now, because you

just like he gonna just come off the clussing like that.

It says, calm down. I'm just saying, it's just been

a habit that God said, I could reset your speech.

I could reset it if you would allow me, If

you would allow me to reset some things in your life.

Would if you would be available or watch this word

surrender it. See what I could do with it. See

what I could do with your gift. If you reset

your life and gave me your gift. That business has

had your gift hostage. You'll do anything for the money.

But what would happen if you reset? Because God said

to me so clearly that I have to tell you.

If you do not reset, you will repeat me. So

then I begin to look up scriptures that just kind

of hit me in the chest, and I'm gonna give

you all about three jabow that just let me know.

I don't want to repeat this. Proverbs twenty six eleven.

It says, as a dog returns to its vomit, so

a fool repeats his foolishness. Now, I don't want to

get to graphic, and I told them to take down

the picture that I found, But I just want you

to picture your cute little puppy throwing up, come in

licking you in the face, Uncause some of y'all nasty

like that. Some of y'all nasty like come here, snuffy.

That's the nat it's nasty going to the vomit and

then coming back to you. God says, people who do

the same thing are like a puppy that goes to

the throw up. And if you don't reset, you're gonna

do what read Okay, look at this other one. Hebrews

twelve twelve. So take a new grip. Somebody say, take

a new grip. Some of y'all have been tired, and

God says, hey, don't give up. Reset. Some of us

have been playing tugo war in situations, and if you've

ever played tugle war, some of the greatest moments of

momentum are when somebody gets a new grip. When you, oh,

and you, and you, some of you don't need to

give up. You need to get a new grip. So

take a new grip with your tired hands and strengthen

your weak knees. Mark out a straight path for your feet,

so that those who are weak and lame will not

fall but become stronger. This year, God is saying, new grip,

Get a new grip. Get a new grip on what

God is saying for your life, a new grip in

planting yourself in the house of God, a new grip

on what community looks like for you. A new grip

of doing what God has asked you to do. Somebody

shot at me, a new grip. It's time to reseat

Matthew ten fourteen. If any household this is Jesus, and

I love this because He sent them out on an

almost impossible journey to spread the gospel to people who

probably didn't even want nothing to do with them. And

some of y'all have tried the things that God said,

and you've got rejected, You've been denied. Things didn't work

out the way that you wanted it to work out.

And God had something to say to you. As he

said to the disciples, he said, if any household or

town refuses to welcome you or listen to your message,

shake it's dust from your feet as you leave. What

he said is if they don't get it, reset, go

to another town. If that group didn't accept what I

called you to do. I think it was a prophet

JC that said, get that dirt off your souldier. And

all I'm saying to you is the discouragement of yesterday

will keep you from resetting today. And many of you

are trying to figure out a way to escape the

call of God on your life. You're trying to figure

out a way to like God, maybe not that, maybe

not me, maybe not. And God said this is not

a time watch this to retreat. This is a time

to reset. So I said, all right, God, some people

are gonna be scared when I say it's time to reset.

Some people are going to be intimidated when I say

it's time to reset. Some people are gonna be afraid

of what that means it's gonna take for them when

it says that it's time to reset. And so I

began to think of what is a what is an

easy illustration that many of us would know in this

room that would help you understand the power of a reset.

And I thought about the first game system my dad

bought me and my oldest brother, Gabe, and it was

a Nintendo original gray Nintendo y'all know what I'm talking about,

that had the Duck Hunt gun. It was it was

gray and orange. Some of y'all too young for this,

but I mean it was beautiful. Mario Brother was the game,

and then you had the Extender series where you could

get Mario, and then you had Duck Hunt and then

there was some sports game on it that we never played,

but and there was there was many times that as

I was beating Gabe in so many of the games

that somehow, mysteriously there was two buttons on the front.

If you remember, could you put a picture of this system,

because some of the people don't understand what I'm talking abot.

How many ever played the original Nintendo? Right here? Okay,

there's two buttons on the front, and does anybody know

what the two buttons say? One says power and the

other one says reset. Now the power button. Everybody understood

why you had to have the power button because that

was the one that gave it the energy the game

came on and all that other stuff. But if you

were ever losing, some of y'all know there was one

way to quickly change the tide of everything that was happening.

All you had to do. And it was so responsive too.

I don't know if anybody remembers how fast it would

do it, but if you barely touched the reset button,

the whole game boom would start over. And if you

were winning, you're like, oh, show what happened? I never

made it to that level before, And the person who

was losing me like, oh my god, that's so unfortunate.

But what ended up happening is that reset gave two

different people two different reactions. One the reset was a

new chance, the other one the reset exposed that they

were very attached to the progress they had made, and

many times exposed if they didn't know if they could

get back to that place. And I remember so many

times gave hitting the reset button. So many times he

would just accidentally bump into the thing and hit the

reset button. But the truth of the matter is, many

times it was the thing that gave both of us

the opportunity to prove what was in us. And many

times God hits reset not because you did something wrong.

Many times God hits reset because he wants to ensure

what's in you. Okay, okay, here we go, Isaiah forty three,

verse eighteen. Reset. But forget all that, Forget everything he

did in twenty twenty one two three four five. Forget it,

just forget it. Forget it, because it's nothing compared to

what I'm going to do. Somebody better hear this, prophetically,

I'm calling a reset for I'm about to do something.

Shout at me. Now, see I've already begun it. You

don't see it. The reset that God is doing today

is going to be something that he's doing not on accident.

This reset is not something that God didn't already plan

before you we formed in your mother's womb. He saw

this day and he said, today I am going to

give them the opportunity to, with my help, go into

places that they thought this thing was on autopilot, to

go to places that they thought I was no longer

looking at. And I'm causing a reset in your emotions.

I'm causing a reset in your unforgiveness. I'm calling for

a reset in the perversion that has been y'all don't

hear what I'm saying. I'm calling a reset in your appetite.

I'm calling a reset on what fees you. I'm calling hey,

shot at me. Reset. I want to do something new,

but it's not going to happen from this level. Need

us to start over and watch this set something new.

The only reason you need a reset because it wasn't

set many times, the way that we go, the things

that we've done, the ways that we've lived. They are

calling for a reset because what was set wasn't Godly,

let me just explain to you what a the actual

definition of a reset is. A reset button is included

on devices to allow users to quickly restore the system

to the original state, essentially rebooting it in case there's

been malfunctions, freezes, or errors, effectively giving the user a

way to regain control by clearing any temporary glitches that

have been in the way or anything that has been

in an incorrect setting. Y'all, I felt the Holy Spirit

tell me, he said, tell my people, today is the

day of reset. Where there has been glitches in glitches

in your attitude, Yeah, glitches in your self esteem. There's

been incorrect systems downloaded into your brain of insecurity. There's

been stuff you picked up from that soul time, the

laying down with that person one time, that's been on

you for ten years. God said today, spiritually, we're hitting

somebody shout at me, reset generational poverty that has been

going through your mindset, of a scarcity mindset. God said,

today we're hitting reset. We are not gonna stay in

the place that has produced all these glitches in our lives.

Some of y'all still trying to get it. So I'm

gonna keep going because I found out in my own house.

I'm a homeowner. A lot of people praying to be

a homeowner, but a lot of work people don't tell

you this. I'm believing God for a house, Believe him

for some extra hands too, Because when I became a homeowner,

a lot of stuff became. I became aware of that

I had no clue of before. So I found out

that in most houses there's one panel of electricity two

hundred amps from most large houses. And so you know,

we moved in and we had this little patio area

and that was like, I really want this to be

like indoor outdoor. This would be great, like if it's

like it feels like outside like it feels inside. And

me being a good husband, I'm trying to figure out

how do we uh accommodate this. And I found these

these heaters that that you can turn on outside, and

I found these uh little phantom shades that keep in

the heat. And so we got them and we hooked

them up, paid the electrician to come do it and

did it. The mo had a cousin that was gonna

do it for half off box and now I said,

we got to get somebody legitimate in here. We're a

multiethnic church, don't worry about it. And so we got it.

We got it done right. And so what ended up

happening is as soon as we busted them things on,

it shut down the power to the whole house. I said,

what what happened? Did somebody hook it up incorrectly, and

so we went to the breaker and the breaker tripped,

so we had to read the breaker so that we

could receive power again. And so I was like, hey,

I right, everybody in the house. Unplugged everything, y'all know

sometimes take ah that iPhone, get that out of here.

And and we unplugged everything and we turned on the

heaters again. Poo power out. I said, more, what's going on, brother,

what's happening? And he said, there's not enough power coming

to the house to run what's in the house, y'all.

This was the prophetic picture God showed me. He said,

you're praying, you're fasting, you're declaring things, you're claiming things,

but there's not enough power coming to the house to

run what I've said in the house. And there's some

of y'all that God is saying, stop tripping, stop tripping.

You've been praying things you don't even have the connection

to the power source to run in your life. You

cannot handle a relationship right now because if that level

of energy was having to come off of your house

right now, you don't pray enough to actually be there

for that person. Oh, the CEO mentality that you're believing

God for there's not enough power being drawn into the

house to run what he's commanded in the house. So

I said, mo, how do we solve this because I

don't paying too much money for these heaters and the

winners are coming. He said, the only option is not

just to reset the breaker. He said, we need to

reset the power system. I said, okay, don't know what

that means. He says, you have two hundred amps running

to the house, but we have to call the city,

right and we got to ask the city to go

to the line where the electricity comes from. Dig up

the ground. I just got my grass done. He said,

there's gonna be a sacrifice, y'all, don't hear me. You

want more power. You want to be able to do

everything that God's called you to do. You want to

be able to lead that family, and you want to

be able to hear from God and speak accurately. You're

gonna need more power. He said. You're gonna have to

dig up this ground. Yeah, he said, We're gonna have

to cut a hole in the wall. We're gonna have

to pay for an entirely new panel. We're gonna be

shut down in the house for at least two to

three days, he said, And we're gonna have to rerun

all the power in this house to separate breakers, and

it's gonna take four months before they're ready to do it.

He said, give me the yes or no. At that moment,

I'm trying to figure out is it worth it? At

that moment, I'm trying to figure out, like I mean,

we're gonna give some out there maybe and are almost

forfeited the comfortability of a new space in my life

running with it. We did it, and it worked so

good that at Christmas time, because the Brenda as a witness,

she said, what's the setting out here? Hell? She was

so hot. It was cold on Christmas in Tulsa, but

the shades were up and outside was there. But we

were in a place where you could not even feel

the season that was happening all around us. Oh, because

we had power coming, Oh God, from a place that

had plenty. Somebody shot at me, reset, you need more

power to be in that ma. You need more power

to raise them kids. You need more power to say

no to that temptation. You need more power to actually

represent God on that campus. You need more power to

not steal that money when it's been your habit. You

need more power. And so today I just told you,

I just wanted to come to tell you this is

the day we're going to reset and stop tripping. Look

at your neighbor and say stop tripping. To tell your

other neighbors stop tripping. Because a reset is the only

way to restore power. Hear me say this. A reset

is the only way to restore God's power to a situation.

And today there are many things that I really want

to say, but I got to make sure all four

of the people that are in this room, dealing in

different seasons of their life, know why we reset. I

believe that God has given us indications of things and

shown us certain things and given us clues to how

and why and when we need to reset. Number One,

you may need to reset if you're in a season

of frustration. Frustration is not a bad thing. It's an indicator.

The thing that you are frustrated about may be the

exact area that God's saying I want to reset to

you in that area, so it's no longer a frustration,

it's something that you're actually called to confront. And most

people when they come encounter with frustration. They're trying to

figure out how to get out. But I'm asking all

of the frustrated people, can we be hot, humble, open,

and transparent. How many people have an area of their

life that if it was just you and God and

you was being for real, for real, honest, humble, open

and transparent. You say, I'm frustrated about that. Come on,

hands and okay, come on, we're in the right place today.

You may need to reset in that area. Write on

your paper I'm frustrated in and fill in the blanks. See,

you won't be able to do all this here today,

but I'm giving you practical application that you can walk away.

I'm frustrated in communication with my kids. I'm frustrated in

my job situation, all of it. I'm frustrated in the

way that I'm still single. I need you. I need

you to be honest because God may want to reset

your mindset, perspective, ideas, even your prayer life around it.

Let me talk to another person. You may need to reset.

If you're in a season watch this of desperation. So

many times God uses frustration and desperation to reveal there

needs to be a reset and some of us aren't

just frustrated, We're desperate. And desperation is a dangerous thing

because desperation can either lead us to the right thing

or anything. Oh my god, hear what I just said

to you. Desperation is very dangerous because when you're desperate,

it might lead you to the right thing or may

lead you to anything. You feel. You ever seen somebody

like how did they get with them? How in the

world today? I mean, dang, desperation will make you drink

dirty water. Do you hear what I'm saying? Okay, let

me get off of this because some of y'all, uh huh,

watch this. You may need to reset if you're in

a season of frustration, a season of desperation, or watch this.

This one is the one that I wish everybody under

the age of twenty five would hear me say for real,

you can reset out of preparation. Everybody talks about repair,

not prepair, And I want to raise up a body

of believers in this church who is more concerned with

prepair then repair. What if you could reset right now

that it would prepare you for the level of money

you want to have. It would prepare you for the

level of relationships you need to manage. It would prepare

you to not give up when it's hard. So today

some of your reset is not out of frustration or desperation.

It's out of preparation. And this last one is my

favorite because this one has transformed my life almost more

than any of the other ones. And let me be clear,

I've been in all of the categories, and there's certain

let me be honest, I'm in all the categories right now.

Can I be honest. There are some things I'm frustrated

about I need to reset. There's some things that I'm

desperate for that I need to reset. There's some things

I'm preparing for. But this is the one. Sometimes you

reset because you're in a season of revelation. I believe

that God wants to reset some of you because you're

here today and you had no clue what God was

gonna say on the first year. But you're getting revealed

truth right now. Oh the thing I've been sleeping, God's

trying to wake me up in right now, and he's

trying to give me a key to what I'm about

to do. Here the word of the Lord. It is

time for you to shout at me resets. All right,

here we go, Luke, chapter fifteen. Many of us know

this story, but this is where God gave me one

of the greatest revelations I've ever gotten. Jesus is trying

to explain to people who are haters, like this is

just what they are, why he hangs out with sinners,

and why he does what he does. And he begins

to tell some stories, some parables, their truths mixed with stories,

and then he gets to this one called the prodigal Son.

And most people hear this story and all they think

about is the salvation and how good the father is

and he accepted them back, but they miss the actual

reset of the prodigal And today, I just want you

to just visualize with me the power of the reset

to the one who was doing the wrong thing. It

wasn't just the father doing what he did. Something happened

to the son in the middle that made him remember

who he was. Y'all remember the story, right, you can

go read the whole thing. But there was a man

that had wealth and he added for his sons, and

one soon was like give me what you got now,

and Pops was like, hold on, son, like stay close

to me. If you. Hear it, bro, I got you.

And you're like, I'm going to the club and I

want to go party and I want to go do

my thing. Get off of me, daddy. You not my daddy.

No more. Give me my money, and he's just going

off like young people do. He takes it and at

the time he goes to spend all that his father

had prepared for him. He didn't work for it. It was

his grace that he had it. Anyway. He then goes

away and the season and mixes with his silliness, because

the Bible says that at the season of his silliness,

the whole place came under a famine. Sometimes God allows

your silliness to meet a bad season. This man spends

all his money on wild living. The Bible says, so

just imagine whatever that is. And he comes to the

place where he was royalty in one place, and then

I'm gonna just look. I'm gonna look at it at

verse let's go verse thirteen, fifteen thirteen. A few days later,

the younger son packed all his belongings, moved distant land,

a distant land. He went away from the father, and

there he wasted all his money on wild living about

that time that his money ran out. A great famine

swept over the land, and he began watched this. He

persuaded a local farmer, far away from his father, so

he went to a farmer instead of his father to

hire him, and the man sent him into the fields

to feed the pigs. The young man became so hungry

that even the pods he was feeding the pigs look

good to him. Write this down as a point. The

further you get from the father, the worst your appetite gets.

This man is far from his father begins to starve.

He gets so far away from the father that he

literally starts to look at what the pigs eat and

be like, m that looks good. But this is the

funny part about the Bible. But no one gave him anything.

The pigs was like eh, but watch this. Watch the

point of reset verse seventeen, when he finally came to

his senses. Another translation says, when he finally came to himself,

he said to himself at home, even the hired servants

have food enough to spare, and here I'm dying of hunger.

Between verse seventeen and eighteen is where the war is

won or lost in your mind because he has this

moment where he decides to reset, but he has to

get the courage to make a step back home. And

I just wonder how many layers of lies the enemy

tried to attack him with after he decided I'm gonna

go home. I'm gonna reset, I'm gonna go back to

home base. I'm gonna forgive, I'm gonna ask for forgiveness.

I'm gonna say I'm sorry. I'm actually gonna go back

the energy probably give you, go back to what you

don't deserve, to go back all of the lies. Can

you bring that cake for me? Real quick? I saw

this thing in my head called the layer of lies.

And over this break there were a lot of cakes

around me, and I rebuked the devil several times. But

I saw this one cake that had layers. And when

I saw this cake that had layers on it, it

reminded me that for us to find the value in

certain things in our life, that we might actually have

to cut through the layers of lies we've believed. Hear

what I'm saying to you? What if I told you

I don't know what this is? A hintilly cake from

Whole Foods. I don't know if you know anything about this,

but this is a blessing. Okay. Now, somebody said, hell, y'all, Okay,

what I want you to know is that there is

value in this cake. No, no, no, I'm not talking

about the taste of the cake. There's two hundred dollars

in this cake. In the middle of this cake, there's

two hundred dollars buried in it. There's value in it.

How do I get it? Somebody said, just snatch it?

How do I get it? How do I get the

value out of this? I'm going to I'm going to

have to I'm going to have to be very careful,

and I'm going to have to cut out certain things

that used to define how I look. Oh no, the

cake is so beautiful. Oh I can't see it yet.

That's one, two, three, four, five, six. That's six layers

of lies. I believe. That's layers of people telling me

who I am and what I'm not, and how God

can't use me, and my testimony is too bad and

maybe I've messed up too much, And God said, would

it be okay if it gets a little messy? And

I peel back somebody saying, you're waisting the cake, this

costs thirty dollars. What's in here? It's more valuable than

the whole thing. I still don't see it. I still

don't see it. Somebody said keep going, But most people

would say that's enough, because the layer of lies that

you believed that actually have defined who you are. This

looks nothing like the cake that came up here. This

doesn't even look watch this appetizing anymore. The very people

who would have taken several slices of this don't want

it anymore. What happens when God's trying to reveal the

value that takes you actually transforming? Dang? Where is the value?

I know he put it in here, I know it's somewhere.

It almost feels like there's nothing left. It almost feels

like I've given everything. I mean, why would he hide

it so deep in me? Why would Why would he

put it? Why would why would he put the treasure

under all of the house. I was raised in the

experiences that I want the people I've lost? Why would

he put this so teep? God? Why didn't and he said,

just let me keep taking off the areas? Uh oh,

I feel like I see something came. Man, come in

close in the middle of everything, in the middle of

all the pain, in the middle of all the disappointment,

in the middle of all my failures, there was something

rolled up. Now it's a little dirty, but who would

still take come in? Who would still take a messy

one hundred dollar bill and go find somebody else and

bless them with that one? Now? Now watch now, watch,

come on, she said, give it to her right there,

give it to her right there. Watch right there, right there,

right there, right there. Now watch they got stuff on

their hands right now. That is residue of my past.

But it still was more valuable. And what happened to

this beautiful picture of my life? He reset it? And

it doesn't look like what I thought it would look like. Today, Church,

I'm needing somebody to look at this person in the mirror.

I need you to come to yourself, it said. When

this prodigal came to himself, he said, I gotta reset.

This is what my life actually looks like. And God

wants the value out of me. So today I'm gonna reset.

This young man takes his life and he he sets it,

and verse eighteen says, I will go home to my father,

and I'm gonna say, you know what I've sinned. He repented.

He said, I've sinned both of them to you and

to heaven, and now I'm no longer worthy to be

called your son. There goes that crazy lie. There goes

the layers of lies talking. He's trying to put words

in the father's mouth. He said, I'm no longer worthy

to be called your son. Please take me on as

one of your hired servants. So when he returned, his

father ran out with a robe and a ring and

some sandals and a cake, and he threw a party.

He threw a party for the son who said, I'm

gonna hit reset today, daughter, son, It's the day that

God says, I don't care where wild Living ended you up.

I don't care where the pigs pen has had you

thinking about things that are below what a father has

for his child. Today, through grace, I'm offering you the

opportunity to reset pastor mic practically, how do I reset?

Write this down? And we're going home When you reset

write this down? You have to make a decision. This year,

we're going to talk a lot about the power of

a decision, because nobody can make you do what you

won't do. Hear what I just said to you, I'm

gonna actually stop praying for people who aren't actually gonna

obey some of y'all, being pastor, I just need to

know what God wants. If I told you right now

what God wants, you ain't gonna do. What I'm saying

to you is I'm being facetied and I'm trying to

say something. Is like, there's no power if you don't

walk in obedience. And some of y'all just need to

decide you're gonna obey God this year. Everything's not a debate,

everything's not an option. I know we live in a

country where everybody thinks your opinion matters when it comes

to God. He said, either my way or do it

some way, good body. So this is where I want

you to know the power of a decision. Watch this

new decisions lead to deliverance. This prodigal made a decision

that led to his deliverance. Some of the things that

God wants to deliver you you from, it's not going

to come because you sit here and do all of

these things. Some of y'all, you decide, and God's gonna

begin to deliver you every single day. Now, watch this

that leads me to my second point of this. Daily

decisions lead to devotion. Today. It's not the day you

say God, I'm gonna do it and then tomorrow live

a different way. It's the daily. Why are we doing

twenty one days of prayer and fasting? There are a

couple of biblical reasons that we're doing it, but scientifically

to start a brand new habit to reset, they say

it takes twenty one days. Some of y'all, twenty one

days is gonna be the start of it. Last year

I went forty days vegan. The Holy Spirit said, twenty

one day, boy, the stuff I'm working out of you,

and keep going. Don't look at nobody else. Do it.

I ask you to do. Why am I saying that?

Because God was trying to develop something daily on the

inside of me that committed me to watch this word dvotion?

What does that mean? Pastor Mike? If you do it daily,

every day you do it, it takes away your vote

D vote. So every morning, am I gonna work out?

Do it daily and you'll stop voting about it? An?

Am I gonna forgive these people if you do it daily?

He even gives specifics in the Bible time seven. If

you forgive daily, you'll stop voting about it. And too

many of us, every time that God tells us to

do something, we're voting do it daily, and you stop devoting.

This is your reset. Lasting godly decisions lead to your destiny.

At some point, you got to stop lying to yourself.

And today God told me reset. Michael, tell the church,

this is not a time to think that this is

some spiritual activity or religious ritual. This is a moment

that is prophetically and spiritually about to reset everything in

your household, your mindset, and your perspective. And I begin

to think about sounds that help me think about reset,

and I thought this would be cool because there's so

many of them. I begin to think of out. But

I want you to tell me. We'll play a little

game to end. I want you to tell me what's

being reset once you hear this sound. Okay, so I'm

gonna play a sound, and then I need y'all to

yell at me what this sound represents, what it's resetting?

All right, do the first one? What is it? School?

Some of y'all just had to y'all, y'all just got

scared because it was always late. But that sound reset

the school day. That sound reset the class period. Okay,

tell me what this sound. I just want to talk

about the sound of a reset. Play the next sound anybody,

and some of y'all too young for this, Microsoft Windows XP.

This is with the dial up internet and everything. You know,

when you heard that, it was gonna be beautiful. Some

of y'all got in trouble after what you looked at

after that came on. But all I'm saying is it

was the sound of a reset. Play the next one,

a sound of a reset. Just somebody said PlayStation. That

wasn't PlayStation? What is it? That's a Mac computer? Somebody?

I was like, No, I was on Windows, I was

on PC. I didn't couldn't get the Mac. Okay, but

if if your if your your Mac restarted, that would

be the sound of a reset. I think everybody will

get this one. Play play that last one for me.

That's some of y'all favorite sound that What was that one?

What was that? Netflix? Yeah, y'all resett into that every

night it's asking you and the middle night are you

still watching? Do you know? The believer has a has

a sound that resets them. The sound that resets. The

believer is prayer. This is what Jesus said. You want

to reset, you pray Matthew six, verse nine. Jesus said,

pray like this our Father, which are in heaven, hollow

and holy would be your name. May your kingdom coming,

Your will be done here on earth as it is

in heaven. Give us watch this this day. Your prayer

life is not a weekly prayer life, he said. Give us.

This means you got to reset in prayer daily. Now

I pray for my food. No, no, no, no, you're missing it. No,

I pray for the beginning of the year. You're missing it.

He said, Pray like this. Give us this day our

daily bread. Forgive us in this day for the sins

that I'm gonna commit. Lead us not into today on

this day. The believers sound of a reset is prayer.

Why are we doing twenty one days of prayer and

faster because we're about to make a sound of a

reset in our homes, in this house, and most importantly,

in our hearts. All I'm telling you is that when

Jesus came, it was the ultimate reset from God. Remember

Adam and Eve messed it up, and God said, I'm

gonna have to reset this whole thing. Could we just

thank God for grace right now? No no, no, no, no, no,

y'all don't know why I'm clapping, Because God reset a

couple times without Jesus. Y'all remember Noah's ark in the flood.

That was God's first attempt at a reset. He said,

kill them off, woof, wipe them out where the one

man that trusts me wool, Thank you Jesus. He was like,

that didn't work as well as I thought it did.

He said, I'm gonna give you the rainbow to let

you know I'm never gonna reset like that again. But

I still gotta reset them because sin is separating us,

and it's sin in secret areas, not the stuff they

post on Instagram and Facebook. So what am I gonna

do to reset them? I got it. I'm gonna I'm

gonna send the ultimate reset. His name is Jesus, And

if they would receive Jesus at any moment, they can ask,

repent and return to the Father's house. Some of you

today have found yourself in a pig pin in an

area of your life, and God's saying is you are

not too far to reset and come back to the

Father's House. I'm not just talking to new believers, and

I need everybody to hear me say this. You can

be saved. Saved and in the pig pen in your thinking.

You can have walked with God for years and still

feeled that level of insecurity that got you so hungry

for man's attention. You're not obeing God today. I'm asking

every person under the sound of my voice, whether you

work at Transformation Church, come watching online, in watching on

the pandel, I want you to ask God revealed to

me right now, what areas of my life? I need

to reset with you because most of us have been

living our life on a preset that was given to

us by culture. Living on a preset. If you know

anything about games, the worst players of the preset once

the ones that aren't custom It's the one they just

give you and God saying will you allow me to

customize your life and bring something that I set just

for you. The reason I thank God for Jesus is

because with one reset, Jesus took a reset from an

outreach ritual that included four hundred laws to an intimate,

real relationship. The reset you need today, it's not based

on what you can bring to God. It's based on

receiving what God has already done for you. Would you

stand all over this building. I believe that God is

about to take many of us into a place in

a season of calling out what He no longer will

allow to be a part of our life. Listen to

me right now, hear me say this. Do not fight

for what God wants you to get rid of. Hear

me say this to you. I need you to listen.

Do not fight for what God wants you to get

rid of. This is not the season to hold on

to something that cannot go into the next season. It's

time for a somebody say reset. Hands lifted all over

this place. Father, I pray for my brothers and sisters

right now. That's something that was said in this atmosphere, Father,

through a man who is obeying your word right now

to reset and so many different areas. I thank you

that they didn't just hear me, they heard you, and God,

would you begin to illuminate in their hearts, their minds,

the areas Father, God, that you are doing a full reset.

So all the things that have been glitchen and all

the things that God downloaded illegitimately and all the things

that we've received from the layers of life. Father God,

would you be able to give us the power and

the stript to actually reset with you, not just reset

because it's a new year. God, give us the ability

to obey you at whatever the cost, because your way

is better, your plan is sure, and you are a

strong foundation and we can build our life on you. Father.

I'm praying for those who have been stuck that in

this atmosphere, in this twenty one days of prayer and fasting,

in this new fresh commitment to reset with you, I

think you that there would be forward movement in their life.

That you are bringing us from a stuck place, Father

God to momentum. I declare, Father God, that every area

that has been malfunctioning Father because of spiritual neglect, Father God,

are wrong decisions or just us running off the preset. God,

we thank you that you're transforming it right now. Father,

help us take a new grip, be able to be fit,

Father God for what you have called us to do.

Pray for every person that is discouraged, frustrated, desperate, preparing

or even hears your voice in this revelation. I thank

you Father that the reset will not be, Father God,

a one time thing. Give us the stamina to reset daily.

I'm praying for every person that's going on this fast

with us in the name of Jesus. I thank you,

Father God that right now there is power coming from

on high to help us stay till our commitment. Father God,

and hear you more than here we hear anything else.

Thank you for strength, wisdom, power, and I declare, Father God.

As many are making a decision to honor you in

this way, Father, I thank you that's gonna lead to

honoring you in so many other ways. I thank you

that transformation is happening. In Transformation Church, we won't be

conformed to the patterns of this world, but we're gonna

be transformed by the renewing of our minds as we

do something different today. God, reset me. Come on you

say that. God, Reset me. Come on you, this is

your prayer. God. Reset me. Reset my speech, reset my attitude,

Reset my eyes what I allow myself to see, Reset

my self esteem. Reset Father God, and remind me of

my calling. Reset my standards, reset my seek Father, the

areas of my life where I won't seek you anymore. Today, God,

I'm asking you reset my seek. I will not go

through this year wandering. I'm returning to you Father. If

you're in this room right now and you're one of

those people in this same attitude, nobody moving, we're about

to go home. But there's something wholly happening right now.

You're in this room, and you feel like the prodigal.

You've gone away from the Father, and you you're hitting

reset on your soul today. You're saying, you know what,

I've been playing out on these streets, and I've been

doing my thing behind the scenes, and I've been trying

to live for myself. But today I want to go

back to the Father's house. Sick of this pig slop.

I'm sick and to have to go to that addiction

of that website or that place or that person to

get a moment of relief. Today, I want to go

to the only well that doesn't run dry. If that's you,

and you want to receive Jesus our reset as your

personal lord and savior. If you're watching online, if you're

incarcerated right now, or you're in this room, today is

your moment on the count of three, All I want

you to do is lift your hands and I believe

that there are going to be hundreds of people that

make a decision for Jesus in a fresh and a

new way. If you need to rededicate your life, you

used to be with the Father, but you've walked away

from him, and you're saying, on the first Sunday of

twenty twenty five, I'm gonna give you my life for real.

I'm gonna lay down the things that have been Lord

and have been actually the idols in my life, and

I am putting all of those things under you God.

If that's you, on account of three, I want you

to raise your hand to one. You're making the greatest

decision of your life. Two. I'm proud of you. But

more than that, I see you, my brother. Your name

is about to be written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

Hands is going up already. Three. If you shoot your

hand up in the air, I see you. I sell you,

my brother, I see you, my sister. Transformation Church, I

see you in the balcony on the front, no matter

the age or ethnicity. Oh, come on, y'all, let's give

God praise for that. There are tons online. There are

tons watching on rebroadcast. Listen at Transformation church. I want

to let you know something. At the beginning of this year,

we're a family. Nobody prays alone. We're gonna pray this

prayer together for the benefit of those who are coming

to Christ. What everybody just say, Lord, thank you for

sending Jesus as my reset today. I give you my life.

I repent for everything I've done back there, I say

goodbye yesterday. Today's a new day. Use me, renew me,

transform me. I'm yours in Jesus' name. Amen? Can we

give God some praise for all y'all got to do

better than that? Can we give God some praise for

all those who have reset today?

Thank you for joining us today. If you said that

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

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