Count-It: Eliminating Joy Jackers // Receipts: The Proof Is In The Fruit (Part 5) // Michael Todd

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All right? I got fifty two minutes to preach to you,

and some of your like, fifty two minutes is gonna

go by like this because the ammunition that I'm loaded

with today is about to rock your world. Ah. It's

one of those things that sometimes it takes me a

few days to get out of the moment of preaching

to like, ask God, all right, what do you want

to say next week? Because this thing comes every week.

I don't know if you noticed, but I have to

give an oral presentation to tens of thousands of people

every week. And that's a pressure that you know what

I'm saying that I didn't. I didn't. I didn't expect

when I became a pastor. I thought it was gonna

be a few hundred people that came to the North

side of Tulsa, and that really wouldn't make no consequence.

I could still show up at Walmart and nobody would care.

What would happen? I go to Walmart now and people

like herd your message on Sunday past, which part like.

But I counted as a huge honor and the responsibility,

and so I take it seriously, Like God, what am

I gonna say to your people? Well? Last week when

I got off the stage, he didn't stop talking to me.

As soon as I Mema as my witness. As soon

as I got off the stage, I started getting a

download for this week and I said, Lord, you wanna

you want to go like that? Do you ready to

you ready to rip us up like that? And he said,

if my people don't get this concept, they're not gonna

be prepared for this next year. So I need you

to make sure it goes everybody say deep with inside

their hearts so that they will not forget it. Many

times you might not have a chance to open your

you version. Then what will you do when Instagram is gutching?

And that's where you usually get your scriptures? For that's

why the Bible says to hide the word in your heart.

I'm challenging everybody to start hiding the word. Not all this.

You ain't gonna know five million scriptures by tomorrow, but

find you two or three that you can recite like

you recite a Drake song. Oh, some of y'all Drake Drake,

who's dre okay? How you can recite a Lutha's song

or a journey song or an eagle song. Y'all hear

what I'm saying. Some of us don't even have to

think about it. And those songs we've hidden them in

our heart, but they don't produce fruit. When I'm asking everybody,

even if you got to put it to a song,

let's starting the word of God in our heart. And

one of them that I want you to hide in

your heart is found in Galatians five, chapter twenty two,

which is the anchor scripture of what we have been

studying through the Fruits of the Spirit. And I want

us to read this all together and see if we

can make it a little further in the list this

week Galatians five twenty two and week four of a

series we're calling show me the receipts. But the fruit

of the spirit is can y'all say this with me? Love?

Joy joy joy joy joy joy JOI I can't get

off of joy cause last week I preach the message

I'm gonna enjoy this. Somebody say I'm going to enjoy this.

Say it, I'm going to and God told me that

the joy of the Lord Lord would be our If

you're lacking strength today, you need joy. It's the antithesis

of what you feel like you need. You feel like

you need a break, but you actually need joy. You

feel like you need a vacation, You actually need joy.

You feel like you need them peels, but you actually

need what you need to enjoy this life that God

has provided for us. You need to be enjoy when

you go to work tomorrow. You need to be enjoy

when you raise those kids. When you correct, do you

correct your kids? Enjoy? Okay, I'm trying to actually let

you know we're not supposed to lay down the fruits

of the spirit when other emotions are involved. So you

can be disappointed in what your kids do and you

can still discipline them in but some of you enjoy it.

E en j oh, why because your parents abuse you?

I mean, and I know there's some old saints. I

can feel your scowl right now, especially for black people's

savory is not that far away. And how you were

raised and what was passed down and what was good

and the scripture says, and you do more emotional damage

to people. This is not in my notes, but the

Holy Spirit is telling me to go here. The Bible

tells us to train a child in the way that

they should go so that when they're old, they will

not deport parts from it. And what happens many times

is because we won't discipline our children in joy. I'm

not talking about enjoying punishing them. I'm talking about being

in joy so that the venom in your heart from

past trauma doesn't come out on your children. I just

said a whole bunch, But you not whooping them for

their offense. You're whooping them because you thought it was

unfair that you got whooped, and so now you have

an opportunity to change and transform the generational pattern. But

because you're not in joy, I don't know where that

came from. But what all I'm trying to say is

we should do everything that we do enjoy because the

joy of the Lord is our If you need reference

for that, that's found in Neamiyah. I want you to

go there. At some point this week. You might need

to write it, tattoo it, get get you the word

on the inside of you. And if it won't get

inside of you. Put it on the outside of you

until you can get it on the inside of you.

Nea mayah Aten. The joy of the Lord is my strength.

And the reason that this is important and I'm driving

this home and I want it to go deep into

your heart is because if you are not enjoy you

are usually in judgment. And I know that people are saying,

well the script, he says, we are supposed to judge.

Put it in context. You're supposed to judge their fruit.

He says. The reason that I'm asking you to be

a judge is not to come at people with a

critical spirit. Most people are approaching other people with critical spirits.

You're not trying to find out how you can help

them do better. You're trying to condemn them so that

they don't feel worthy to do what God's called them

to do. And what you are doing is being a

source of division, which is against what God has called

us to do as believers. We're not supposed to judge

with a critical spirit. Watch this. We're supposed to judge

with a nutritional spirit. The reason I'm judging this fruit

like when I go to the produce isles, because I'm

gonna see if I'm gonna be around this to eat it.

I'm not just pointing bad fruit, bad fruit, bad fruit,

bad fruit, bad fruit, bad fruit. That is not this

friend group. I'm around to judge what has happened, because

if I'm around this, this can actually infect me. So

the only Hey, I love you, and I love actually

hanging out with you, and I actually my flesh loves

the vibe. Can we be honest. My flesh likes that

we gossip. My flesh loves that we talk about people

and drag people down. My flesh enjoys sending the means

about sexual things that we're probably not supposed to talk

about as married people. Ooh, did y'all see? How quiet?

Oh God? But for the fruit I want to produce

in my life, I pray that y'all get that right.

And I'm not about to make a blog about it

because I'm gonna let God deal with his people in

the way he wants to deal with him. Because I

am not to judge, but I had to judge the

fruit of this season. Okay, y'all gotta hear what I'm

saying right here. Fruit is seasonal. So many believers try

to judge somebody's fruit in one season and act like

that's all they're gonna bear. Oh my god. So if

you see me in one season and my fruit was

not ripe, please don't think when you find me two

years from now, it's still gonna be the same level

of wrong. Baby, you got me confused with the other

people you're around every season of my life saying, God,

do something new in me, change me from the inside,

Prune me. If you have to cut off things that

are not like you, purifies me, squeeze me, put me

in a process. But be careful if you judge somebody's

fruit in one season and then you try to introduce

them like that in another season. Okay, okay, me put

my glasses on an act dignified. I was talking to

somebody on this week after the message and they were like, well, past,

I'm like, I'm not really in judgment. I don't be

judging people. I don't even be worried about people. And

I was like, that's good. But if you're not enjoyed,

you might be in judgment of yourself. Oh come on,

some of us don't need anybody else to talk crazy

about us, because the person who hates us the most

is us. Every time God tells you to do something,

you talk yourself out of it. Every time that the

Lord gives you an encouraging word through somebody else, you

remind yourself of how unqualified you are. And so many

of us like I'm not in judgment for others. You

don't got time because you're in such judgment of yourself.

I'm a bad mom, I'm a bad father, I'm a

bad And God said, I extended grace to you. Why

wouldn't you give yourself the same thing I gave you.

But it's the lies of the past that we begin

to believe that make us be in judgment of ourselves.

And I just need you to evaluate. I wrote it

down like this. They are not assuming what we're assuming

of us. Let me say it again. They whoever they are,

they don't want me to win who they don't want

to see me. They hat nobody. We do. We want

to see you are you are in need of another?

But the assumptions of others have many times put beliefs

on the inside of us that now we take on

as truth. And today I need us to stop being

critical of lies that are not found in the word

of God. You are a good person. You might have

done bad things, but when you're washed in the blood

of Jesus, something in you begins to change. So when

God says you can do this, stop telling yourself you can't.

Somebody else said, well, I mean, you know what I'm saying.

I'm good with not judging others, and I don't really

judge myself. I love myself. But then a lot of

us move into judgment. For God, God, I don't think

it's fair. How you did this? Come on, we don't

say these things out loud, but we think them. Why God,

if you're so good? See, I had like thirty six

hours of feeling like this when I found out that

my son was diagnosed with autism. Like I was like, God,

this is not fair, this is not this, And everybody

has their own journey. And then I was taken to

the scripture in Job, where Job was checked by God

in the most gangster way I had ever seen in history,

And it was almost if the Lord was saying, do

you want to have a conversation? And I felt all

of these things. But Job lost a lot. Don't know

if you've ever read Joel, but Job had a bad

week that was kind of unparalleled lost everything, kids, houses,

laying money, everything, and it was allowed by God. Okay,

now I'm messing with some people's theology because the enemy

came to God and said, I have searched to and

fro to seak that somebody will not trust you. Somebody

is gonna fail you. And God brought up Job. Why

didn't you bring up Jody or Joe Rod or Jesse Summer.

He literally said, have you checked out my servant, Joe?

I know Job is just down there. We were Holy

Louja and God's in heaven, like, go hit Job's house.

Have you ever thought that sometimes God allows certain things

to prove you are made of what you're made of?

Y'all didn't hear what I just said. Fire is the

only thing that reveals gold, and some of us know

we're gold on the inside, no proof on the outside.

So God has to put us in some fire. Job

goes through fire and he has this thirty six hour

delusion like I did. And look what he says to

Joe and Job thirty eight one through four. It says,

then the Lord answered Job from the world when he

like swung it, He was like, I don't know if

that was unnecessary. He said, who is this that questions

my wi He forgot his name, Joe. I'm like, this

ain't fair. Who is this that questions my wisdom? Who

is this that questions my wisdom with such ignorant words?

Brace yourself like a man? This is what God says.

If God ever told me, Michael, breaks yourself like a man,

I'm just like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Brace

yourself like a man. Because I have some questions for

you and you must answer them. This is God talking

to Job after Job had everything taken from him and

he's just complaining to God. And God says, oh, Bet,

got a couple questions for you, bro. Where were you

when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me

if you know so much. What God is basically saying

is I know you're going through the worst time of

your life, but it's obvious by your reaction that you

don't trust that I actually have everything under control. So

since you don't think I have it under control, tell

me where you were when I formed all of this. No, no, no, no,

I don't wait. When God puts you on silent treatment

waiting for you to answer, and as I begin to

read through this. It begin to let me know that

the only way I can live in joy is if

I trust God. I hate this, This is uncomfortable. I

don't want to be here, but you told me to

wait in this season enjoy. Why would you do that

to me? Maybe because what's produced out of that is

greater than what you're going through. Okay, okay, So since

we've made a decision to live in joy, somebody say

I'm gonna live in joy, say it with faith, I'm

gonna live. Then I want you to go to James

chapter one, verse two and buckle up, because this one

took me out as soon as I got right around

the back James, chapter one, verse two. My Brotherren, count it, oh, joy,

when you fall into various trials. Wait, the only way

I can have joy like you want me to is

trials have to be attached to it. He said, count

it all joy? When do I want to count it

all joy? When you feel trials, when you see trials,

when you face trials, when trials are going on in

your life, when trials are going in your marriage, count it.

Somebody yell at me, count it. See. This took me

back to when I used to play basketball, and you know,

yeah used to these thirty eight year old knees is

doing other things these days. But I used to go

to the hole strong. And when I would go to

the hole strong and somebody acted like they was going

to block my shop, they didn't understand the strength that

I rose up with, and they would come with a

little weak, little am and I rise up on them

and they found me, and then I would actually still

be able to score. And there's something that right. Anybody

that's a hooper understands what I'm about to say. Something

rises from your toes and you'd be like, eh, lot,

count it. What that means is even though I was

face with adversity, it wasn't the thing that was able

to stop me. I'm actually gonna get something on the

back end. I'm gonna get a free throw up ahead

because what happened in my life did not stop me

from scoring. So I'm about to get something for this.

And I want you to count that you did foul me,

and I'm about to win a victory that most people

would have fumbled. Okay, somebody shot at me. Counted when

I when I read that, the Holy Spirit brought to

my attention that joy now is a responsibility of the believer,

because if you don't call your foul, you don't get

the free throw. I don't know if any y'all have

played basketball without a ref, but they tell you you

gotta call, you gotta call, you, gotta call your own fouls.

This is what God is saying to all of us.

Do y'all, did y'all read what it said, my brethren,

count call your own fouls on the devil. Count call

your own fouls on those people who left you high

and dry. He said, count it, oh, joy, when you

fall into various trials today, I am now igniting the

body of Christ to stop looking at failures, disappointments, set backs,

and situations as something that happened to you. If the

devil or the people, or the man, or the government

or anybody tries to fail you, I'm not just gonna

take this, yeh, count it, count it. I bet you

this ain't where I'm gonna stay. Count it. I bet

you the enemy thought when he gave us that diagnosis

on MJ that I was just gonna bout up, back up, no, no, no, no,

count it. I bet you that divorce was the thing

that he thought was gonna take you out, but somebody

helped me say count I am about to go to

another place at looking at every adversity that has ever

happened to me as a win on the back end. Y'all,

don't hear what I just said. Everything that the enemy

throws at me, it's gonna be a win on the

back end. I feel this stinct when MJ graduates from

high school. I'm a laugh at the devil, and it's

gonna be a win on the back end. Somebody shot

at me, count it. I'm not just about to take this.

I'm not just about to sit here and be sad.

God tells me to count it. Oh so he don't

just say count it. Count it all, count at all.

Count the big things, count, the little things, count the setbacks.

This is about to be a win on the back end.

Write that down. This is about to be a win

on the back I came to encourage somebody who's taken

loss after loss that is felt like failure after failure.

It's felt like win. Is this ever gonna let up? Baby?

You're being prepared. Oh God, this week, when something bad

goes wrong, you're not even gonna get frustrated, counting, Oh no, no, no,

you're not accepting my application. No, I got it in

in time. Oh the computer had a glitch, Counting, No, no, no, no,

no no. My kid wasn't the only one that started

to fight. No, that baby's kid. They started. They should

sposed to be suspended. But you're just gonna suspend my kid.

Count y'all got to hear me. Y'all, y'all, y'all put

them two figures out. Count I'm telling you right now,

it's about to be a win. On the back end.

I got an unnecessary bill and I already paid it,

but somehow your computer glipse and I only got forty

two cents left in my bank account, and you want

to overdraft me, and I can't get no pore about chicken. Yeah,

I feel that day. There's nothing be fun today. Change

your perspective that the bad things that happen to you

are working for you. It's only when you give away

your joy. It's only when you don't call your foul,

and that's how you start feeling abused. That's how you

think God is not playing fear. He said, I gave

you authority as a believer. Call it and count it today.

I want to title the message. In a few minutes,

I have left count it eliminating joy Jackers, because I

gotta teach you how to count everything that is negative

in your life as an opportunity for God to redeem

it into a story that makes you makes you the

winner in the end because of what He did in

your life. Okay, So so I need to back us up.

And Okay, I have to be honest and empathetic because

sometimes when I get on these rants, I've been I've

been going with this all week and all year, and

it's kind of the disposition of my life to live

in joy and and and I have to bring myself

into real situations. I have friends and people, and and

and you are dealing with situations where it feels like

joy is so far away. Can we be honest? You

hear me up here? It's like great for you, you're happy.

I get great that everything's going good in your life.

Oh it's not. But I've decided to count it all joy.

But that may feel ridiculous and impossible for you. And

I want to let you know that when this statement

was written by James, it would have felt the exact

same way to the group of people he was writing

it to. These people were being persecuted, separated from families,

They were be driven out twelve tribes be driven out

of their homelands where their mama and their mama's mama

had been able to set up camp. They were literally

being killed and destroyed. And Paul writes them literally picking

up a scroll and reading, Oh, we got instructions. I mean,

we got instructions from James. What did he say? Count it?

I think I picked up the wrong scroll, y'all. We

need to find where's the knuck if you buck scroll?

I need I need to kill somebody. I need to

go in the middle of losing everything. Count it all.

You want me to count this? Let's fast forward to

another scene. But this also gets counted. God says, your

valley season is still counted towards the glory that will

be revealed in your life. Okay, I gotta keep moving.

Somebody shot at me. Counted And I want to let

you know that Paul, That's who I was about to

reference just a second ago. Do y'all know that Paul

wrote Ephesians, Galatians, first and second Corinthians Colossians for Lehman

and Thessalonians from jail. No, no, no, I just want

you to imagine that you're celebrating with people from prison,

writing literature to encourage them, to lift them up and

tell them it's gonna be all right. You should be

enjoy right now, and your situation is on lockdown, your

money ain't moving, your family is getting worse seemingly, and

he's that lets me know something. I need to let

the body of Christ know today. Everybody write this down.

Joy is not an emotion. It's a spiritual decision. No.

I have to say this because most of us don't

understand that we have been taught through cartoons and children's

teachings and our family like, oh you woke up with

such joy today. That's an emotion, and joy many times

produces happiness. But if your understanding is that joy is situational,

then you place your joy into things. The wrong definition

has been applied to joy. Everybody listen to me, follow

with me. Okay, Happiness many times comes when you are

feeling joy, but other emotions come when you feel joyful too.

When you feel joyful, A lot of times when I

feel joyful, I get gratitude a lot of times when

there's joy. Watch this, I develop patience and I'm about

to show it and prove it to you in the scripture.

But if you think that joy is an emotion, you're

gonna have to deprogram that happiness is an emotion. Joy

is a decision. Hear what I'm telling you. How can

people with stage four cancer been given a life expectancy

date say at the end of their life that it's

the best season of their life. How can they be

encouraging somebody else because they made a decision to live

in And this is what I'm gonna say. Joy equals Jesus,

and Jesus equals joy. If you're trying to find joy

outside of him, it will be a counterfeit. I'm gonna

just tell you straight up, because Mike said, we're supposed

to get joy. So today I'm gonna get high and

I'm gonna I'm gonna allow God to take me higher

into the joy that he wants for me. And I

feel I see a funnel of joy as I'm going up,

And I'm not mad at you. You're smoking weed, Okay,

God bless you all the different things. And I pray

that God continues to work on you to the point

where you need nothing else to find a actual fulfillment

in life. But some people are like weed, uh huh,

and you eat to get joy. Stop it. A Krispy

Kreme donut will send you into happy vio. Come on,

let's be honest, let's stop judging. Oh there we go.

We just exposed some critical spirit because the weed is wrong,

but the wings are. And I'm in your business right

now because right now you wouldn't sit next to somebody

that smelled like that, But you're gonna be smelling like

chicken at four pm. Ah. That's where the religious comes in.

You don't spend that much time on no video games.

You spend it on football. We all have different idols

in different gods. Come on, and our God says, let

there be no other God before me besides me. So

I just want to I just want to make sure

our judgment we get enjoy and we're not critical in judgment. Okay,

because I felt the Christians coming for me. If you're

trying to find joy outside of Jesus, it's going to

be a lost cause. Because I put it like this,

there's a joy cycle. Okay. I want to teach you

the joy cycle, and this helped me understand how I

can stay in enjoy. Somebody say I want to stay enjoy.

Wouldn't that be amazing that if the whole week you

stayed enjoy like nothing could take you out of being

enjoyed this week. Let's just decide right now, Let's just

decide I'm gonna stay enjoy all week. Yeah, let's not

try forever because y'all get so ambitious, y'all get so

like un kill Chris. Let's just try a week. Let's

just shrit a week. We've been trying to drink water

for the whole year. Let's just try. Let's just try

a week. What if what if you decided I get

pulled over, I'm gonna stay enjoy. Hello, officer, he pulled

me over because he was white. No, you was speeding.

See I'm gonna just say you was going too fast

and your license light is out? What and you gotta

crack mister man? No, it's you. He wouldn't even know

to pull you over if your head light wouldn't like

y'all know, going seventy five on the highway, head light

looking like els look up like what is happening? I'm

just saying, but if that happens this week, I'm gonna

stay in or y'all didn't know. I changed outfits, but

I didn't change character. I'm gonna stay in. So let

me teach you the joy cycle. So if we're gonna

stay in joy, joy is attached to Jesus. Okay, So

if I'm gonna stay in Joy, I gotta attach my

joy to Can't attach joy to money, cannot attach joy

to success, cannot attach joy to fame, Cannot attach joy

to a relationship, cannot attach joy to a platform, cannot

attach joy to this church. I cannot attach joy to

my favorite pastor or my favorite podcast. I cannot attach

joy to my favorite artist. The only place you find

joy is in how come that stuff never goes viral?

Joy is only found in But if you're gonna go

and be in relationship with Jesus, let me give you

the secret. Jesus always gonna take you on a journey.

And this is where most people give up is because

I thought, when I went from joy to Jesus, it

was gonna be easy, it was gonna be okay, everybody

was gonna love me. Do you know when you really

make a decision for Jesus. That's when people say, stop

liking you. You different, you changed, you used to didn't

care nothing about that. But ill you think you the judgment? No, no, no,

no no. I'm just on a journey that's causing me

to have to reevaluate everything I used to do. And

if I'm honest, I hate it. But if I want joy,

I gotta be with Jesus. When I'm with Jesus, he's holy, separate.

Only certain things can walk with Jesus. And what he

wants me to do is go on this journey that

I've stopped four times. Oh can we be honest? It

seems like somewhere around my birthday every year, I'm going

to Cancun and thought just for a week, and God said,

I need you to be enjoy I need you to

take me with you. I need you to be make

a decision that you're not gonna live your life separate

or divided. A house divided against itself can't stand. And

many of us we want to be with Jesus and

we want to be judgmental and jacked up and crazy

and all that other stuff. And God said, would you

just choose me and go on this journey. When I

was a high school student, God asked me to go

on a journey with him. I was in high school

when the Holy Spirit asked me, my mama asked my

witness to fast my entire ninth grade year. Ninth grade.

Now my fast was a little wonky, but the heart

decision was real. My fast was not to eat any

meat for the entire like I'm at school. Not eating

no meat consecrated my life to God. I didn't know

I was going to be no pastor, but I knew

the Holy Spirit said no meat ninth grade. And so

guess what My plate was full of French fries. I

promise you I had a mountain of French fries with

ranch on them cheese. People would literally walk by and

just dumpt they fries on my plate. I probably gained

more weight on my fast fries. But God took the

decision of my heart when everybody else wouldn't even care

about God, and he said, I can do something with

that because I decided to go on a journey with Jesus.

And when you go on a journey with Jesus, watch this.

You're going to find out about junk. The journey is

to expose the junk. And this is where if you

don't give up and going in the journey, that's where

people quit when they find out the jump well that

passed that he was nothing but at thought, he's a

person with a bunch of junk. Well that boss, that business,

that person, that leader. If you go on a journey

with Jesus, you're gonna find out that everybody you thought

was great is regular. No, no, I'm telling you, everybody

that you think is great, it's very regular. And it's

not until they get introduced to the power of Jesus

that it transforms them into a version of themselves that

seems great, but they still gotta fight with regular. And

if you stay in the journey with Jesus and you

can make it through the junk, Jesus promises that will

produce joy. It's a cycle. Joy Jesus Journey, Junk Joy,

Jesus Journey.

Jump Joy, Jesus Journey, Jump Joy, Jesus Journey, junh Sory

Jesus Journey.

Chunk Dad. Y'all didn't even help me. I ain't even

gonna do it no more, y'all. Gon y'all just gonna

put me up here doing this let me prove it

to you, because in John fifteen, when we were talking

about this year at Transformation Church, this is the year

of what fruit. And we've been talking about getting fruit

and abiding and staying with God. He is the vine

and we are the branches, and anybody that stays planted

or connected to him will produce much fruit the whole.

If you read all of John fifteen, the last two verses,

the reason why it says you go through this journey,

the reason why you stay in it, the reason why

when it rains, when it floods, you stay connected to God.

Some of y'all just give up too soon. You tried

Jesus for six months and you've been crazy for sixty years. Now,

come on, you built up that tolerance of crazy for decades,

and you try Jesus for six months and you give up.

And what God is saying is I need you to

just everybody say abide, stay connected, stay planned, stay in

the church. If you only come to this church every

six weeks, that's like eating every six weeks, nobody sees you.

You get to change your face. And if somebody says,

how are you doing, and you can lie to them

because there's no real connection. We're gonna have a fall festival,

and some of y'all are so ready to leave right now.

You plan and how you're gonna dodge the community after church.

Yet you're gonna get home and post some weird thing

on your Instagram or Facebook about how long you've been

in this season with your dog rufus or your plant

that you've named. You've named your plant, but you won't

talk to people. Okay, I'm just what I'm saying is

right now, you're trying to dodge the answer. He wants

you connected, but you won't abide. You won't stay long enough.

And he says, if you stay in me, he said

these things I've spoken to you that my joy may

be in you. Uh oh, what kind of joy did

Jesus have? He said, I want you to abide because

I'm hoping that this joy that oozes out of me

gets into you and that your joy was this would

be made full. Anytime I hear the word joyful, now

I hear it like this. God wants my joy full.

Somebody say, I'm gonna live joy full. And that's why

you need to know. Joy is an internal disposition for

long term commitment and joy watch this. I'mone, write this down.

It's God, God. How many time I got Heather ten minutes?

All right, I need three extra minutes because somebody's got

to get this. Joy doesn't have to be suppressed by

any situation. I'm speaking to your soul today. How many

people can we be hot, humble, open and transparent. How

many people are in a situation, whether it's known or unknown,

that is uncomfortable to you? Right now? Come on, okay,

all right, we in the right room. Thank you Holy

Spirit for giving me this message and telling me to stay.

This is why I had to come preach this. It's

because your situation has nothing to do with your joy.

Look at me. You can still have the best moment

of your life in this very uncomfortable, hard season. And

the Holy Spirit is the only one that can produce

this type of fruit in your life. So if you're

away from Jesus, you ain't gonna get it. If you're

away from letting the Holy Spirit do a work in you,

you ain't gonna get this. So you will endure a

season that you could be enjoying, and you could turn

this year that has not probably been the best in

optics for you into the best year of your life

because you live in show. Okay, listen to me, James

Shepton one verse two. I want to read the rest

of it, my brother. Count it all joy. Somebody say

count it now. Y'all got to do it right. Everybody

say count Everybody didn't do it in the bat Everybody

say count count it all joy. When you fall into

various trials, watch this knowing that the testing of your

faith produces patience. You want patience. He's gonna test you,

and he's telling you count it all joy. When I'm testing,

you're about to pass a test. Still be grateful. Right now,

they repossess your card. Thank god you got a car

to be repossessed because they didn't repossess your bus card.

It's a perspective shift. Somebody like what you ain't never

ride the bus, But if you ride the bus, you

know the bus cards they're not coming for that. So

thank god you had a card. God you mad because

you gotta walk now you had six months of dripping.

Do you understand what I Okay, I can't even mess

with y'all. He said, I'm about to produce patients in

your life. But let the patients have its perfect work

that you may be perfect and complete. Everybody say this

lacking nothing, point blank period. You're either gonna be on

Team Joy or team Judgment. Jersey you're putting on this week?

Put the scoreboard up there for me. Please, I want

you to look at your life like this from now on,

twenty four hours in a day. Which jersey you're putting on?

I said, which team are you about to play for? See?

It gets real simple when you actually get in the

jersey of Joy, when you actually decide this morning, I'm

gonna live in this and this is this is the

problem because anytime a bad thing happens, what are we

gonna say? No, no, no, y'all missed it. Thank you

the one person that you got me this week. When

your husband is talking crazy, look at hold on that

was that was too much excitement in that area, She said,

count count it, count it. When your husband talking crazy

and it's a little off center of what y'all agreed on.

You not gonna go take his Jordan's and burn them

and bleeve them or none of that, y'all crazy. No,

I'm just like you're gonna look at the enemy and say,

this house is a house of unity. Enemy you have

no jurisdiction here. And the fact that you came in

this house and trying to play with my family counted.

I bet you I'm gonna get you back. This is

how all the score changed. Something good didn't happen to me,

but my disposition about what happened to me made the

score go up in my favor. Somebody leaves my business

and talks bad about me counted. Somebody wants to go

and tell somebody that I am what. I'm not counted.

There are people that talk crazy about my kids and

try to make me act all out of character. And

y'all know, I see all the mamas that ain't run

Counted running up Counted, Jerome, Little daj Me, Kanyelle. I

love them. When you get a negative report in somebody

that you loved, you lost because all of them are

not gonna be easy. Some fowls that I took had

blood attached to them. There was sometimes I was trying

to elevate and when they hit me, it hurt. I'm

at the free throw line thinking about the pain I'm in.

But the truth of the matter is, I'm not gonna

leave these points on the table. I may be hurting

and I mean, you're gonna pay for this, I promise you.

You tried to touch, you tried to touch the innocence

of my children. You think I'm gonna sit here and

let you run rough shot in my house? Why do

I come to Wednesday night prayer? Why do I worship

God in the mornings in the noonday? And and because

I'm lett I'm building up my strength because I'm going

to tell the enemy and everybody else around nothing is

gonna happen to me that God, can't you charity? And

even while I'm sitting here talking, it started to offend

some people. They're very they're very quiet and very casual

right now, but they've they've already decided they're not coming

back next week. And and and the reason, the reason,

the reason is because our joy is offensive. Can I

give you all a point that you need to know

if you're gonna choose to walk in joy, is that

when your joy is genuine, it will attract those who

are annoyed by joy. There are people that don't like

me because I just enjoy my life. Nah, what's that funny?

Ain't nothing that funny in life? What kind of sick

do you have to be to look at somebody laughing

and there's some people looking at me right now. It's like,

I agree, I ain't nothing that funny. I have a

name for you. You're a joy jacker. It feels like your

aim in life is to bring people to the level

of your discomfort. I've been through it. I've been through

a file and you still don't have joy. It just

told us in James that that should actually work for us.

But you do look like what you've been through. I

wish I could go up to people and say that,

y'all knowing people like you don't look like what you've

been through like I wish I could go through him

and like you look exactly like what you've been through.

You sound like it too. Today For the people who

are deciding to run up the score and live in joy,

I need you to beware of joy jackers. Let me

just give you a couple identifying factors of a joy jacker.

A joy jacker tries to hand you their offense. Borrowed

offense is a is a literal trademark calling card for

a joy jacker. You've seen somebody that try to make

you mad at people that that they mad at you,

ain't never had a bad experience with them, And you're like, well,

they seem kind of I'm telling you right now, they

not like that. Whoa where did the hostility come from?

They fast? Why would you say they? Look how they dressed, sleazy,

hussy helful y'all them them old school like that. Y'all

know little helful like And it's a lot of assumption.

Never had a conversation, don't know if that's all they

got in their closet. Wouldn't even think to go take

them shopping. Ain't never crossed your mind to live in

joy and ask how you could help you look at

the same situation and make a judgment about it when

God said, I brought it to your attention so you

could actually be a part of the solution. Baby wasn't

even gonna come today because all she had was the

club outfit that she wore last night. She lives in

another state. And you actually are sitting up here as

a person of God judging how they came in. And

it was the witnessing that you didn't do, but somebody

else did at a quick trip at four am that

made them pull up in this church. And now they

gonna get the people who's supposed to be close to

you see them golf claps. Well, there's just a way

to present yourself in the house of God, and you

look ugly to him too. I'm gonna talk about love

in a couple of weeks. I'm sorry, but the reason

I said I'm gonna talk about love in a couple

of weeks because he said you can prophesy and you

can speak in the tongues of angels. But if you

do not have it's like a symbol that's just making noise.

You just noisy. All I'm saying is when you're in joy,

it changes your perspective a joy jacker. Watch. This contaminates

the perspectives of others and situations, so they'll try to

tell you you can't do what God told you you

could do because of their own failures and false starts.

Please don't let anybody copy and paste their experience to yours.

After you have a word from God. Did y'all hear

what I just said, Well, I tried that when I

was twenty seven, and I'm just trying to give you

wisdom right now. No, you feared stepping out and obeying

God fully, so you kept some of your weight on

a backup plan, and that's why it didn't work out.

I'm just telling you, God gave me something and I

gotta try this. Joy Jackers they always maximize mess girl.

If anybody starts a sentence like that, girl, they might

be a joy jacker. Watch this one. It's a big one.

There are joyjackers that can't celebrate what they're not the

center of. Did y'all hear what I just said. You

might be around a joy jacker when it's time to celebrate,

and they bring the attention back to themselves. She just

got saved. I wonder how long that's gonna last. God

just paid off a house for them. I bet it's dirty.

Why why? Oh, it's because you don't live in have

no empirical data. That is dirty. You know what I'm saying.

We'll just be saying stuff. I bet it's what not

glory to God. Man. If God's doing it for them,

I wonder what he could do. Last thing I'm gonna

tell you today because I gotta move on. You can

tell if somebody's a joy jacker when being around them

feels like a weight and rather than wind. Can you

bring those if being around them feels like a weight

and not. It doesn't feel like when they should be

encouraging you, but it feels like they're holding you down.

I saw this in my head. Y'all can just bring this,

Just bring it all right here, bring it close to me. Yeah.

What I need you to understand is all of these

are supposed to be is yeah, bring them all, bring

them all right here, bring them all right here. Yeah,

all of these yeah. Yeah, this represents you full of

something that could propel you up to another atmosphere. But

right now, the only thing that's holding all of these

balloons down is what away. And when you are around

these people, you see their potential and you see what

could happen. But many of us walk around these people

as joy jackers. Don't try that. Don't try that. Nobody,

nobody with your qualifications, have ever done anything like that.

Instead of encouraging these people and setting them free from

the weight, do y'all see how simple it is? Because

if I encourage them and become win to them, they

get to go to atmospheres that everybody else doesn't get to.

The camera didn't even see it go up, but the

people in this room got a different view. But everybody

gets to see you bust something, and too many people

would rather weigh down what has the ability to fly

because maybe somebody did it to us. I came to

tell you were made to go higher. And the truth

is most believers get more enjoyment out of popping people.

You not saved enough, that little spit stunt that you

not you can't be a pastor false prophet. Y'all still

go to that church you used to, didn't go to

church they prayed for you. You still go to that

All this fruit around and you're not. And this is

what most churches look like. And all they're left with

is a weight and a remnant of what could have been.

And this is what we're inviting people to come to

my church, where we would destroy people's potentials. If it

doesn't have anything to do with the platform, Come to

my church. You don't like this style of music, we

won't like you. Come on, what if we advertise what

it really was? Come to my church. If you still

have an addiction, we'll judge you a lot and say

that you need to develop spiritually until you stopped coming

and we see you in the mall, and then we

act like we didn't know you. The only people who

do this is people who don't live in But what if,

what if? What if we could be a church that

put the razor away and picked up the scissors. And

some people are like, the scissors can do the same thing. Yeah,

they can. But what if we set whole groups of

people free. What if we went to the root of

the issue. What if this was a family, and what

if the generational weights that they've been going through, we

could say, I know exactly where you're at, and my

family went to the same exact thing. I know it's

hard to trust God with your finances, and I know

it's hard to get into community, but we did this before,

and so today as a church, y'all should be rejoicing

right now because once that family source, we find another

family and bring them to the House of God and

invite them and safe, be free, go to the heights

that God has called you to go. And some of

y'all worried of how they gonna come down. I hope

they don't. And what about me, Because the whole time

I've been setting people free, some of us are saying,

will you still do it for me? And God saying

I want to put you on display. The reason I

called you out of your family and I brought you

from that little, that little obscure place, it's because I

wanted you. I wanted you to actually be away from

the crowd, and I wanted people to see that. It's

joy in you. It's my joy. The helium, Laura, is

the joy in you. God say you were meant to fly.

This last season wasn't supposed to deflate you. It just

had to separate you from the bush the bundle because

God wanted everybody to see that. This next season, I

feel this thing in my spirit. This next season, when

God cuts me free from this this stuff I've been dinning,

I'm gonna go exactly where God called me to go.

I'm gonna do exactly what. Who am I talking to

right now? That this has been a season where you

stand all over this place, I feel the presence of God.

Cause fear is not my future. You are. Sickness is

not Just keep hearing that fear is not my fugure.

You are. Some of y'all have been so afraid to fly,

so you've allowed people to weigh you down. Oh my gosh,

the reason you became a joy jacker is because you're

scared that you can't control it up there. And so

since I don't know what's up there, I'll just stay

down here, and I'll keep everybody else down here. And

God says, you're about to get free, and everybody around

you is too, because fear is not my future. You

are if you have been held down by a joy jacker,

or you've been a joy jack of yourself today, I believe,

prophetically God wants to set you free. If that's you

all over this building, the carnival is about to happen.

We're gonna have to fall fast, and there's beautiful things

that are about to happen in this service. But in

this moment, God wants somebody to fly again. It's already

in you. I just literally see it like this. I

see it like a scene from like a what's that movie? Up?

I wish I had a house full of balloons right now,

But this is going to have to do. This is you,

and this whole auditorium and everybody watching online is waiting

for me to cut what has the potential to go

very high right now? How long you think God's been

waiting at salvation? You got what you needed. Since I've

given you everything you need to live a godly life,

you can fly baby, look at your neighbor and say

fly baby. Like fly. This balloon was literally dilapidated and

in a strength position until it was filled up. It

represents the Holy Spirit coming on the inside of you

and giving you something. Last week we saw hundreds of

people allow the Holy Spirit free in their life, and

many of them got the benefit of speaking in tongues.

Fly baby. But how do we do this? The Bible says,

keeping our eyes on Jesus, I want you to lay

aside every Wait. This is a beautiful weight, but it

is still a I don't care how decorated your weight is,

how fine your weight is, how enjoyable your weight is,

how successful your weight makes you look. It says, the

way that you're gonna do this is you're going to

lay aside every weight, especially the sin that so easily

trips us up, keeping our eyes on Jesus, the author

and finisher of our faith, who had to do the

same thing. Watch this scripture last one. It says that

when he went to the cross, the only thing that

helped him endure was the joy that was set before him,

because of the joy set before him, he endured. I

guess the joy of the Lord gave Jesus strength too.

What made him endure joy? Despising its shame, he said,

how they made fun of me don't even matter, because

I got joy on the other side of this or

Jesus said, count it today. God wants to set you

free to live in joy. Who I had to do

this because this is what Joey jackers do. You've been

cut free from the weight. The weight no longer matters.

But somebody is holding you. An idea is holding you.

Somebody you love is holding you. And just said, the

moment they get ready to let you go, somebody else.

That's so, why are you saying this? Because today they

are not worth you, not going to the heights that

God has called you to whom the sun sets free.

It's free. Indeed, somebody should rejoice because that's a prophetic

picture of your future. I said, somebody should rejoice because

you're about to be set free in this place. Somebody

should rejoice because no longer will I stop. I'm gonna

count it. Oh you've never accepted Jesus, I'm gonna give

you joy. He has a name Jesus. Before everybody leaves,

listen to me. This is the most important part of

the service. If you're watching online, I need you to

know you can receive Jesus right where you're at. This

decision took me from being a liar, a manipulator, addicted

to pornography, had very dark things in my heart, and

it changed me and transformed me into a man that

is not perfect but progressing. I've become somebody I never

thought I could be. I have flown to places and

I'm talking about spiritually, emotionally and physically to places that

I never thought I could go because I let Jesus

in and Jesus took me on a journey. And I

don't experience some junk, but I have ended up in

joy and I want to offer that to you in

this room all around the world today on the counter three.

If you want to make Jesus the center of your

joy today, all you got to do is raise your

hand and identify. Remember, joy is a decision. It's a

decision for Jesus. That's why David, at his lowest moment,

said Lord, would you please restore me back to the

joy of my salvation. He put the location on joy.

It's at salvation. If you've been living foul, been living wrong,

been living for the wrong thing, been a good person,

but doing it without God. Today, I want to let

you know all of that doesn't matter unless you have

Jesus will pass some life. Prove it to me. I'm

a living testimony. And there's hundreds of people in here.

If I had time to go through, if I had

time to go through the audience, you would hear bad stuff,

but then Jesus, crazy stuff, but then Jesus addicted, strung

out in alternate lifestyle sexually, but then es And today

I want to offer you Jesus. If that's you, I

feel the presence of God in this room and online.

I need the church to begin to pray. This is

why the enemy's been warring against your life. Today, you're

about to come into a relationship with the undefeated Chamfian.

Nothing can beat him. He's already defeated death, Hell and

the grave.

One.

You're about to make the greatest decision of your life.

Get ready, because Heaven is about to rejoice. Two. I'm

proud of you. But more than that, your name is

about to be written in the Lamb's book of life.

I see hands going up three. If you want to

accept Jesus right now, I see you. I see you,

my brother, I see you, my sister, I see you,

I see you sister. Transformation Church. Can we thank God?

I see you, my sister. I see you more than

I see you, God says you online. Y'all, we need

to rejoice. Oh did you hear what I said? We

need to read. We need to rejoice and again. I

say that means I need to do that cycle every

I need to get my joy back again. If you

just pray that prayer, I want you to lift your hands,

and everybody at Transformation Church, let's lift our hands. Because

we're a family. Nobody prays alone. I don't want you

to repeat after me. Thank you Father for sending Jesus

to be the center of my joy. I believe you lived,

you died, and you rose again with all power for

every one of my sins. And today I surrender my life,

Change me, renew me, transform me. I'm yours Holy Spirit.

Come in and do your thing. I want fruit in

my life and I want to live. I choose to

live en joy in Jesus' name. Amen, all over this place.

Can we shout with Heaven. Oh come on, y'all, lest

shout unto God with the voice of Trium. Listen to me.

If you just made that decision, I want you to

text saved to eight two eight two eight two, and

we're gonna see you walk in joy.

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