Hold On… There’s Another Chapter // Friends (Part 1) // Travis Greene

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Come on, all the lovers of Jesus in the room, give them a

great shout. Come on, Shout like you love him, Shout like he's

worthy, Shout like he brought you through it it had not been for the

Lord on our side. Do me a favor. Would you just lift your

hands for a moment in its presence? And let me tell you that's some

of the most dynamic worship you're gonna get in North America. But it means

nothing if you don't open up and join in and let the spirit of the

Lord do a work in your heart. So right where you are, would

you just worship him? Come on, tell him something. Sing to the

Lord a new song. We give you, Praise Lord, We give you

praise, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord. I

will bless the Lord, Oh my soul and all that is within me bless

his Oh, thank you Lord, lee name. It's my privilege. It's

not a burden. I will bless the Lord, oh my soul, and

all all that is within me bless is. Oh, yes, Lord,

Yes, Lord, Lee old man. And the reason I love this song

so much and it's my anthem, is because this next part. For he

has done great things. Come on, look back over your life for a

moment he has done. Come on, think about a fakfulness he has done.

Grace see blessed, bless he's come on church. Come on, I

fill him in the room, for he has done great things. Tell him,

boy, he has done. Yes, he he had done. Why

he has done? It's Holy name. All the people who got a reason

to praise, come on. That's the reason why. That's the reason I

clap my hands, move my feet. Come on, I gotta testimony.

I gotta testimony. Well, TC, it's good to be home. If

you don't know who I am, I mean, you just joined the church.

I'm gonna staff here at transformation. I'm the pastor of the South Carolina

campus. And I love this church, man, I love this church.

I'm telling you, I love mama. Be like she my mama. I

came over and gave her a hug and just let my mom. She wrapped

me up broke my neck, got some anointing in me before I came up

here. I'm gonna need a massage after this, and this decided I love

this church. Man. You guys are a part of an amazing, amazing,

amazing church with amazing leadership. In a day where leadership ain't that amazing.

God's giving you leaders with integrity and with courage. It's one thing to

be creative, it's another thing to have courage. I'm not afraid to talk

about the tough things, not afraid to deal with things beneath the surface.

And because of that, you and I Sunday after Sunday are being transformed.

I'm looking at Will. I'm like, what the Hollywood is going on up

in Tulsa. This man is ready for the bitch screens you hurt, And

just like he's been transformed to hear his testimony earlier nine years and transformed spiritually

and physically, all of us are the fruit, the product this great message,

the transformed the power of Christ. So can you help me praise God

for Pastor Michael and Natalie Todd come on the staff here, the leaders here

that cover you, that pray for you. And I'm excited. I gotta

work from God. If you got your real bibles. Anybody brought your real

Bible, Keith, and you can bring the keys down pretty aggressively. Anybody

got your If you got your real bibles, would you wave them in the

air. I have a thing that I do for our people at Ford City

in South Carolina, and those who bring their real Bible. I like to

treat you to lunch. So if you have your real Bible, let me

see it. It's a lot of real Bibles in here. Good God,

we in Tulsa. I forgot where I was at. I would like to

treat you to lunch on me join me after church at Chick fil A right

here, and I would like it's a joke that never runs dry. My

wife is so sick of that joke, but it works everywhere. Call me

Dave Chappelle and we're gonna be in first time. Hey, right before I

read that, let me tell you about something that God allowed me to do.

I wrote a book, Ladies and gentlemen. It's my first book.

I know your pastor wrote a bunch of them, but this is my first

one, and it's called are You Praying for the Wrong Thing? And it

got my face the cover, but it really could have your pastor's face on

the cover. And I'll tell you why. It's because he's lived the principles

that I placed in this book. This book was written because I found myself

being corrected by God, because I was, like many of us, praying

for things. Hear me, I wasn't prepared for. And the real proof

of your expectation is not your praise, it's your preparation. You know,

there's a lot of pastors, I mean a lot of people who find it

difficult to celebrate Pastor Michael Todd and find it difficult to celebrate transformation. And

I think the reasons why pastors and people find it difficult to celebrate what God

is doing here in Tulsa because some people think that Pastor Mike got lucky.

You know, they have the reasons. They're like, well, he just

at the right time, did the right thing. God. That's called magic.

This ain't magic what you're standing in hear me, this is both a

miracle and a product of management. I said, a lot of times,

you're praying for miracles but not shifting our focus to management. We're praying for

stuff without strategy. And the Lord corrected me. He said, Travis,

are you prepared for the harvest? You're praying for it? Because I love

you too much to give you what you're not prepared for. And so I

wrote this book are you praying for the wrong thing? And I attributed a

whole paragraph in the back to pass the night because it means that much to

me is my inspiration. And I'm so honored to be here, my wife

and I my wife is with me. Doctor Jackie is in the building and

the fairest of them all. And I was sitting next to her on the

plane and I looked over to her and I said, first of all,

you find Second of all, I said, man, it's a man.

What an honor to be trusted by the Todds and by the leaders here.

I told her that, you know, it's not normal to me. Still

I ap preach her now multiple times, but it's still not normal, because

this is a sign of trust, you know what I mean. It's one

thing to like people, and it's one thing to use people like I like

my cousin them, I use a plumber. But I don't mean I trust

them with my amex. Hello, And this what God has done, this

covenant relationship is built on trust, and it's such an honor for us to

be trusted with this moment, to be trusted with these people, and I

don't take it likely. So I prayed, and I do have a word

from God for you, if you're ready for it. So we're gonna be

in First Samuel. I'm not gonna be too long because I do want to

pray at the end of this and activate something, because I believe I came

to preach to a specific person. First Samuel, chapter thirty. For the

Bible people, you already know what time it is. First Samuel, chapter

thirty. I'm gonna start in verse three. If you haven't say read,

that's old school right there. Baby David and his men came to the city.

They fountain, it burned with fire. Imagine that their wives, their

sons, their daughters taken captive. So David and the people that were with

him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no strength in them.

Till we imagine crying so hard that your strength leads to you. Come down

to verse six. David was greatly distressed for the people taught to stoning him,

good Lord, because all the people were bitter in spirit. Gotta be

very careful. If you don't control your emotions, they'll control you. And

their sadness heard the madness. Have you ever been sad about something and then

eventually you got mad about it? At first she was sad. They left.

They were like the audacity to leave me with this dog. I didn't

ask for the tool. I went, now, I gotta raise them.

You get mad. They got mad, each over his sons and daughters.

But David, that's my part, encouraged, good God, all the Mighty,

encouraged himself in the Lord, his God. And David said to it,

being the priest, the son of ahimelect, please bring me the ephot

so a bathor brought the epho to David. David inquired at the Lord,

saying, should I pursue after this rating party? Hey? Would I overtake

them? And he answered him the Lord, the Lord to answer you.

I feel like preaching up in Tulsa today. Anybody know the Lord that answers

come on, He'll answer you. And they answered them, pursued them,

for you will surely overtake them and will surely recover. Oh, do me

a favor, help me preach. I needn't know what section I'm preaching to

is a lot of people in here today. I need to make sure I'm

not preaching to the Pouji people. I need the church of people. Would

you look at somebody telling them you're about to recover all. You're about to

get it all back. You about to recover all, recover all everything.

The devil's told everything, The devil took every night of sleep. You losso

recover. The devil gonna regret coming against you and your kids, and your

family and your man. You shall recover. Oh, you shall recover it.

Oh, I need about one hundred people to throw your head back and

sean, I want it all. I want it all, not half of

it, not some of it, not ten percent of it. I want

it all. Everything that double stole from me. I'll walk it. Oh,

you shall recover, You shall recover. I can't hear your tosa.

You shall recover cc nation type it like your fingers doing war on the computer.

You shall recover. Oh all means all and nothing. All that all

means you shall recover all. But that's not my message. I can't with

a word simply entitled hold on, there's another chapter. Would you do me

a favorite turn and tell three people. Hold on, there's another chapter.

Find somebody else, tell them hold on, Come on, keep the there's

another chapter. Tell somebody else. Hold on. There's another chapter. Hold

on, there's another chapter. Hold on. The worst thing you can do

is give up. It'll take you longer to go back to the wild and

mork forward. Hold on, there's another eyes haven't seen, he's haven't heard

what God got a store for you. If you just hold on, you'll

be glad you held on. There's another chapter. The Lord Jesus breathing your

word fire and wind, come and do it again. Open up the gates,

let he it on in. We give you credit and advance for your

move and ge this name. Hey man, if you're a sided for the

word of God, give him a good praise. Hold On, there's another

chapter. You could take your seats. Hold on, there's another chapter.

Hold on, there's another chapter. Hold on, there's another I'm so glad

Pastor Michael Todd didn't quit when he wanted to. There was another chapter.

And the question I have for you today is who's waiting on your endurance?

Did you hear what I just said? What is on the other side of

your endurance Gallation six nine. Be not weary in well doing for induce season.

You will reap if you faint. Not notice. The reaping is not

tied to your righteousness. The reaping is not tied to your perfection. There

is reaping that is tied exclusively to your endurance. That's why the devil wants

you to quit. He don't mind you tripping, he don't mind you feeling.

He wants you to quit. He knows he can't stop you, so

he wanted to try to get you to stop you. But she got a

hold on. There's another chapter. I wanted to watch Avengers with my wife

and we didn't know what we was watching. I can't tell you which one

it was. It was the one when everybody started dying and evaporating and we're

sitting there like what in a rapture? My wife speaks in tongues at the

wrong times. I was on a roller coaster last week, I said,

baby, she said, I got a hold on. We was watching Avengers.

I don't know the people is dying disappearance. Spider Man was crying.

That was a sad part. I don't want to die. I don't want

any We walked into there, and there were grown men walking out crying,

not with kids by themselves, grown musty men dressed like incredible, heart wiping

out. Oh god, this bested up didn't do them like that. We

didn't know what was going on. We didn't know what we're getting ourself into.

And we went to watch the movie, and we didn't watch the movie

before that, so we didn't even know who the characters were. We didn't

know anyway, and they chose on this one to have Captain America. We're

all black, Sam. The only reason I know you is because of the

American flag, people clapping when he came on the screen. We're like who

that, We're asking questions. We get through the whole movie, the raps

to take place. Folks start the dmon got on the glove. Folks start

going left and right, and the movie was over. So we stood up.

But there was a white man on our room and this holy ghost field.

White man leaned over and said, no, my friends, you must

be new to this. He said, you might want to sit down because

just because this scene is over doesn't mean that the author has finished writing.

Can I tell you something just because the movie got dark in this season of

your life does not mean it's over. And the worst thing you can do

is walk out of this season, walk out of this theater too fast.

God is still up to something. There is more that's happening in the background

that you can't even imagine yet tell your neighborhood on that's another chapter. Another

chapter. I felt like I had to come to toast and be hot.

Pastor Mike and Pastor Natalie. It's taught me how to be a little hot,

terned, humble, open, transparent. I said, God, do

I have to be transparent? He was like, yeah, just open up

a little bit. So I want to tell you all the testimony. If

you judge me, I will be offended. The year was nineteen ninety five.

Let men talk to the nation because they're tripping up in here. And

I decided to play football. Now you can tell by my size, my

height, and my weight. This wasn't a good idea. Now, Roosevelt

was a really good football player. The name Roosevelt sounds like a good football

player. Travis sounds like a a model boy. If you don't get out

of here walking on the football field, this true story, I gotta show

you. This is me my first year in playing football right here. Put

up this, this is me. Wait a minute before you say, oh,

you need to recognize how old I am. And I said, ah,

like I'm five. I am all of thirteen right there, I'm grown.

I'm too old for kids Church. I'm thirteen years old. So this

is who you need to see in your mind as I tell the story.

I walk on the football fields. True story. Walk on the football field,

and I didn't know that everybody's going to be twice my size. I

had no idea. How was I supposed to know. I thought I was

a normal size. Said, I walked on the football field. Everybody massive.

This is in Georgia. Georgia is all about Georgia. Texas is all

about football. They make them different in Georgia. And these boys are grown,

meant full beers at eleven, they've grown. They make them different than

Georgia. I get out there, big boys out there, and so I

said, you know what, I'm gonna do my best. The coach give

me a football. I guess you thought I look fast, he said,

hey, Ron, score touchdown first. Literally, this is the true story.

I get a football, I start running. I turn around and I

see these big monsters coming behind me. True story. I threw the football

up in the air. I said, it's not worth it, y'all take

it. I gotta get out of here. And the coats hated me from

that day forward. He had this aught against me. And this is one

practice. Let's take them, let's take him a Listen to the football field.

I want to show y'all this is a football field that was just one

practice, because you got to see it. This is one practice. And

the coach said, I don't know what I did to irritate him so much,

but he said, everybody else can go. Travis, you stay and

just run around the trap till I say stop. It's a one hundred and

fifty eight degrees in Georgia running around the track. See something you need to

know about me and that I grew up in a single parent household. So

my mom, you know, she raises by herself. My dad died when

I was five. He was twenty eight, and so I'm sporied, the

only boy in the house. So my mama came. He pulled up to

pick me up, and I said, oh snap, it's all now here

comes with Dea. It's about to go down. Mama pulled up, and

so I said, you know what I need to put on. I need

to let mama know I'm about to die. I ain't got asthma, but

I act like I did my Tash, my Tess. Mama, Why is

this man doing this to me? My mom pulled up. She had no

pity on her face at all. My mama looked at me. I'll never

forget this. This scarred me. Ma. Mama looked at me. She

said, boy, your mama didn't raise no quitter. Keep running, you

gonna be okay. And I came to Tosa, Oklahoma to let somebody know

God didn't raise no quitter. Keep running, you gonna be okay. Yo.

We've been maying do it for tonight. But keep running. You gonna

be okay. People may leave you and talk about you, but keep running.

You gonna be okay. You may feel it in your chests up,

but hold yourself thing out there and keep running. You gonna be on.

This ain't your first time being broken, This ain't your first time being shaken.

This ain't your first time being alone. Keep running you gonna be okay.

Hold on, that's another chapter, but you gotta stay in the race.

And the enemy he wants you to back down. They wants you to

quit, and he don't want you to know how much help you got,

so he'll always highlight, hear me, who's against you. He'll always highlight

what's against you. But if you got God, you got the majority for

If God is for us, then who can be against us? And I

love this story and I chose first Samuel thirty on purpose because this whole story

is about the devil trying to get David to quit, and David had a

reason to want to quit. He gets to zick Lag, He gets all

the way to this place called zick Lag, and it's a gift given.

Come on, can you see it? Can you see zick Lad? Come

on, see zick Lad. It's a gift. What's this? What's this?

I'm gonna help you see zick Lad. Boy, I got some annointed

Mama, be you prayed that thing on me today. I never do this

that for a city. I got all kind of stuff here. Zig Lad

means a lot to David, as it should because it's a gift. It's

given to him by a Philistar king, and it's given a David because he's

on the run for over ten years, running from King Sauw and against zig

Lag and zick Lag is a place of stability. It's where he sets up

his military operations. The Bible says he's there for a year and four months.

It's a place of stability. Now, this word stability doesn't mean the

same thing to everybody. If you've all always have more bank than bills,

you don't really understand the word stability. If the place you always stood looks

like the prophecy you've received, If every relationship you've been in gave you a

return of your investment, stability ain't a big deal to you. But if

you've been through some seasons in your life, well the only source of dependability

you had was the God you served, then you know that stability is a

big deal. And to David's stability with everything finally just a magic. Finally

he has a place to lay his head and not look over his shoulders.

And it's such a big deal because he's been on the run from King Saul,

and finally he's protected by who used to be the enemy, protected by

the Philicizer, and finally he grated, he can raise his family and he

has stability. But why is it somebody helped me. Why is it that

God does not seem as concerned about our stability as we do. I was

praying about this last night, and I said, God, it seemed like

stability ain't that big of a deal to you, Because when I think about

you on the boat taking a nap, doing a tsunami on a boat,

some of y'all can't even take a nap when it's just raining outside and you

inside. I'm aa tossa. Y'all got all kind of little storms and stuff

out here. He on a boat, sleep on a storm. He can't

care less about stability. His mama is forty two weeks printing. It is

that how long y'all be printant? Jesus was overdue. You need to study

your theology walking forty two weeks retnant and has no place to get you.

Talk about instability, Abraham, go to a ladd. I'll show you mean

leave everything instability. Eli shall burn up your backup play and follow this crazy

man that just threw his mentle on you and do what go well, I'll

show you, Abraham, I ain't done with you. Take your son up

to the mountain and kill him. This sounds a bit unstable. God,

why is it? And I just ain't no WRM preaching too? Why is

it? As soon as you get stable, as soon as you find your

footing? Now, God, I none followed you all the way out here

to Tusa. I ain't got no family, Jay, don't answer the phone.

I ain't got nobody to go to Crave and get cookies with me.

And as soon as I feel like I'm finding my footing, here comes God

allowing the devil to mess with me. Are you ready? Here's what I

found out about the devil. He's powerful. You need to know that.

Some people be like deVie, ain't got no power. Well, you go

to the other side and play around if you want to. There's some spooky

stuff over there. He's powerful, but he has limited power. And what

I read about in Job is that before the devil can mess with God's anointed

he liked me in that picture, he gotta get a permission slip signed.

So the only reason the devil has been able to even mess with you,

mess with your health, mess with your money, mess with your marriage,

is because somewhere along the line, wait a minute, God gave him permission.

Can we go deeper? What really messed me up? Though it is

not just the fact that God gave him permission, but God brought Joe name

up, or it just got tight this whole section right here, just booty

cheese. Just I feel the tightness right here. It would be one thing

if the devil came and said, hey, I got an idea, let

me get Joe. That isn't what happened. The devil came for a check

in. God said, what you've been up to? You know, man,

you know, just trying to mess up folks doing what I do.

God said, cool, cool, cool. Have you considered my servant Joe?

Have you considered my servant Briing Aaron? Have you considered my servant Transformation

Church? Have you considered can I can I bring to your consideration? Can

I nominate for affliction? Somebody? See all we like to do is brag

on the awards, but nobody brag about the attack. Nobody want to be

trust You gotta be trusted with affliction. You gotta be trusted with pain.

You gotta be trusted with trials. You gotta be trusted with this level.

Have you considered Joe? Have you considered David? Have you considered Big lad?

See this brings a whole new meaning to the text. Poor David,

David never asked for nothing this day. You know, David was minding his

own business at his daddy's house, content and stable with she and here come

this prophet. Poor all all, I'm getting them all olive. That's David.

He's in his father's field. God, I don't want to get stuck

right here. He's in his father's field, shepherd and sheep and mastering the

heart. He's mastering his instrument and mastering his weapon. And he masters the

sling not because he's practicing for Goliath, but because he's stewarding his current assignment.

And his stewardship gives him a harvest called preparation. Did you hear what

I just said? And next thing, you know, he steps into his

future prepared for it because he was practicing presence in the dark. Let me

talk to the people who are in love with the bright lights. If you

don't practice presence in the dark, bright lights were only exposed. Was not

there? And so God was teaching David how to practice presence in the dark.

He was becoming a warrior of worship and a worshiper of war. He's

watching sheep he's playing the harp, and he is entertaining and hosting the presence

of God. And while he's hosting God, his father overlooks him, but

God has his eye on him. Now, I have always read this the

wrong way because I thought David's father couldn't see him, because maybe he was

just rejecting them. And God reminded me that man's rejection is God's protection.

What if, hold on, what if God did not want Jesse to see

David. What if God wanted to keep David in the field and untain it

by the culture in Jesse's house. Come on, let's deal with father wounds.

What if God wanted you to have his DNA but not his dysfunction.

So there are times when God and his grace and his goodness will keep you

all to himself in order to cultivate something on the inside of you that's not

taint it. Come on here and order the steward and harvest something on the

inside of you. Watch me so that when you come forth, only he

can get the credit. And I came to look for twenty five people who

know that the reason you're standing on solid ground today is because God kept you

to himself. My God, he's a keeper, even when you don't want

to get kept, when you're trying to run shortly, Goodness and mercy will

follow me all the days of mine. I've just got. God kept me

to himself. And now David goes from Jesse's house to Saul's house, and

ladies and gentlemen, you gotta be careful who receives the rejected version of you.

He did treat me differently. There are people who can only tolerate the

version of you they can manage, and they can only manage the version of

you that's found in this chapter. They're not even grace for your next chapter.

And so now he's in this toxic relationship covenant with a madman who only

likes him when he does stuff for him. But as soon as David starts

getting elevated and evolution, the real Saul starts emerging. Jealousy was always there,

he just didn't have anything to be jealous about. And now that David

enters his next chapter, Saul can't take it. And Shaul said, I

gotta kill this man. So now here's David. He's on the run tour

before jay Z and Beyonce. David takest the on the Run tour. He's

on the run, but he's trusted to be on the run. Can God

trust you on the track called trial? Can God trust you? Here?

We go to maintain your worship on the run. And David is on the

run. And the Bible says, I talked about this last time I was

here. That the Bible says. He ends up at the philliside. Happen

and notice who he is. And so he starts acting crazy, throw me

at the mouth, clawing at the gate. And it's in this time that

he pitans Psalm thirty four. I will bless the Lord at all times.

His praise will continually be in my mouth. My soul makes his boasting the

Lord, the humble share here, Oh and be glad, Oh, magnify

the Lord with me, let us as at his name. Together he does

all this, hear me and become friends eventually with the king, whose name

happens to be King of Kish. Are you ready for this? And King

of Kish gives David zig lag. Don't just just love the Bible. You

can't just read the Bible. You gotta read the Bible. And now here's

the king. He gives David this lad called zig Lag and zig laggings everything

to do. And now David shows up and the place that was once stable

for him is being burned to the ground. Can you see it? Ziglag

on fire, being burnt to the ground. Look at that? Can you

see it? Imagine? Imagine your home being on fire. Truth is,

some of y'all are at church today because your house is on fire. There's

people walking online today because your house is on fire. And his home is

on fire. And he sees his kids toys, and he sees his wife

favorite bracelet, and not only is his house on fire, but now he

has six hundred loyal men who turn on him, ready to kill him.

But David teach us a lesson than when people turn on you, you better

turn to God. And this is my favorite part of the text. And

I'm so glad we're here now because this is my favorite part of the text.

My favorite part of the text is that the Bible says that David encouraged

himself in. I love that he encouraged himself. Have you ever been in

a season where you had to learn how to encourage yourself in? So he

encouraged himself in the Lord. What does this mean? This means that he

waited on the Lord. And when you wait on the Lord, you're not

waiting and looking at a watch. You're waiting like your waitress or waitur,

and you're serving the Lord. You're worshiping the Lord. You're hosting the Lord.

Isn't it amazing how David houses on fire? It's something his instinct kick

in and he says, this ain't my first time being on the outside.

And he goes back to his default, and the field worshiper, who became

the feudital worshiper, is now the fire worshipper. And he stands there and

say, one thing I do know how to do is host his presence.

I do know how to worship him. I do know how to wait on

him. And I love this about the Bible, because the Bible says that

there's benefits to waiting. You can start waiting week, but you won't remain

weak, for they that wait on the Lord shall renew they're stripped. Something

happened today when I was being roads and the worship team and Christian were seeing,

you found yourself getting a little stronger because they that wait on the Lord,

she'll renew that thrift. They shall melt up. Oh waiting to ide

equals. They shall run here we go and not getn't wear ready, Mama,

I don't think I'm gonna make it. You gonna be okay, keep

running. I didn't rait no quitter. You shall run and not be weary.

You shall walk in and not faith Are any waiters in the room.

I promise you, if you lift your hands and you lift your boy,

sir, your fairite will find encouragement. Your soul will fight encouragement. Wait

on the Lord, come on, grab your Dahvid, tell him. Help

me wait, sir, help me wait, sir, help me wait,

sir. While I'm waiting, he's working it hold on, hold on while

I'm waiting. He's working. While I'm waiting. He's working. When I

worship, I need you to hear me, ladies and gentlemen, this is

not just exercise. I was thinking about Batman, and whenever Gotham is in

trouble, the commissioner goes and put up the back signal. And if a

fictional character conrrespond to a bat symbol, how much more will the armies of

heaven respond to my worship? I need one hundred people in this room and

watch it online. That would take twenty seconds to wait on the Lord.

When I lift my hands, I'm sitting in a signal. When I clap

my hands, I'm sitting in a signal. When I leave for joy,

sitting in the signal, I'm saying, God, fight for me. The

battle is in yourself. It belongs to the Lord. And he encouraged himself

in the Lord. He encouraged himself in the Lord. But that's not all.

The Bible says. Not only did he encourage himself, Mama, but

he inquired of the Lord. Now I don't like this. I don't like

this. Why did you inquire of the Lord? You had every right to

go and get your family. You are a skilled warrior. They got your

family. Though. I don't know how to shoot a gun, but i'll

try. I got some and I'll practice my family. David says, I

have a reason, but that does not mean I have permission, which teaches

me something. Just because you can do it doesn't mean you're called to do

it in this season, he says, Lord, shall I pursue? Are

you with me in this? This is your If this is your will?

Said me. If not, I'll say, And God said, go you

will recover. Oh, something else happens. The Bible says, the six

hundred men, two hundred drops out, two hundred men. That's a third

of the army. Now a third of my army. Leave me. God,

we need to talk again. Now I heard what you had said last

time. But David never praise again. David never praise again about the situation

because he understands somebody needs to hear this. That God meant what he said

the first time. Because God is not just Alpha, he's Omega. So

he knew your future limitations before he gave you a word. He said,

I knew who would leave when I told you to go. I knew who

would say no when I gave you a yes, sir, And I haven't

changed my mind. Even with less help, you'll still recover. All did

you hear what I just said? And some of our problem is we got

too much help. And so they go. The Bible says, let's verse

Mama's done. They run into an Egyptian. I believe it's in verse ten.

They run into an Egyptian, and this Egyptian is dying. They run

it to the Egyptian and David's like David Man's like who you with? You

crip you blood? Who you with? He said? Dog? You know

what I mean? He's dying because he hadn't eaten for three days, hadn't

drunk any water, and he's dying. And he tells David men, he

said, hey, I was with the raiding party. He said, y'all

a slave. I was with the raiding party that just burned out zig Lad.

He don't even know who he talking to. He said, we just

burned down, zick Lad. Dog And uh, you know, I mean

you got some bread or anything? And David says, this, look at

this wisdom. He says, hey, can you show me what is army

that? The Egyptian said? He said, I got wisdom two dogs,

he said, under two conditions. One you won't kill me, and two

hear this words, you will not give me back to the master that left

me. He said, because I was sick and they left me to die.

I was good enough to help them as long as my issue was covered,

But as soon as my weakness was its foes that left me to die.

He said. Not only do I not want you to kill me,

but I don't want you to give me back to hands that mismanaged me.

And if this Egyptian caprice today, He say, hold on, that's another

I know that, I know that Egyptian is glad. He held on pulling

that chapter. But that's one more thing I gotta tell you. And this

is crazy. Do you know why's it Glad burned down? That's certain things

in the Bible that frustrate me. That Glad burning down frustrated me because David

didn't ask for nothing. And when you don't come from nothing, man,

you're just glad to have anything to call yours. Come on, man,

when you come from abuse, you just glad that somebody smiling at you.

You don't care if they got out of teeth. You just glad somebody cares.

And God allowed the devil to burn down zick Lad. And God allowed

the devil to burn down zick Lad. I asked the book questions. I

said, God, why you let the devil burn down nick Lad? He

said, hold on, there's another chapter. In the next chapter, King

Saul dies. The only reason David was in zick Lad for sixteen months is

because he was on the run from King Saul. The reason zick Lad could

burn is because his running days were over. And you've been crying about what

God burned down, But you didn't know. God was trying to get you

to your next chapter to do hear what I just said. There was something

he's up to a background and if you just hold on, I can't even

tell you say that's so in tears. Should retain sure you're running days all

over? King Saw, it is the King Saul. It's that there's no

more running. And here's why zig Lack had to burn. Are you ready?

Zig Lack had to burn because sometimes the enjoyment of your comfort is the

enemy to your calling. What you call stability. God caused being stuck,

and you said, God, I just got stable. I just got comfortable.

God said, yep. So in order to get you out of this

season, I'm gonna burn down what you think you need. But you don't

even need anymore because it was always temporary. He wasn't annointed to be the

king of Zigeland. He was anointed to be the King of Israel. Quit

dumbing. Now you're anointing for what you think you can't handle. God said,

you forgot my promise, David, but I didn't. So Sometimes burned

down stuff in this chapter in order for you to be pushed out of it

and promoted into your next chapter. Last thought, and I'm gonna pray for

you. We'll just staying with me. Oh, asking God. I was

asking God. I said, Yo, this idea about being promoted, Charles,

will you have me real quick? I want to show them something,

this idea about being promoted. Many times when we think being promoted, do

you see what he just did? He came up, he got elevated,

and so we're like, God, give me a promotion, promote me,

Lord, take me up. But that's not the only definition of being promoted.

To be promoted, it's not only to be elevated. Hear me,

to be promoted means to be advertised. That's how promoters define being promoted.

They said, I'm going to market this. So when God promotes you,

he's not just calling you up. I need someone to hear this in the

spirit, he's pushing you out job, he's nominating you. He's advertising you

so that your resilience, in your endurance is bragging rights for him. Because

the devil is not omniscient enough to see the next chapter. So every time

the devil thinks he's winning, God turns the page and I came to Toso,

Oklahoma, to witness as somebody and tell you God is about the turn

the page. You be crying, But God about the turn the page.

They left you and you thought your life was over. But God about the

turn the pager. Through the divorce. God is about to turn the page.

I need somebody who's running for your next chapter to lift your hands.

Hey, give them a shout. Let you know you got a reason to

hold on. You got a reason to hold on. You got a reason

to hold on. You got a reason to hold on. There is another

chapter. There is another chapter. There is life after this. There's life

after there's life. I'm not telling you you're not gonna cry, not promising

you that we've been mayion to do it for a night. I will tell

you that if you hold on, and if you wait on the Lord,

he'll give you joy that you can't explain. He'll give you peace. That's

your past, your understanding, and you won't have to wait till the mountain

to find it. But you can find joy in the valley. You can

find encouragement in the valley. You can find strips in the valley. You

can find hope in the valley. There's two groups of people. I want

to pray for first, group of those who are far from them. You're

in this room, or you're watching online, and you want to give up.

Something calls you to stop on this YouTube page, or on this podcast,

on this Facebook or something calls you to stop. Today they come to

Transformation Church, you want to give up. I want to pray for you

first, to find the Savior who's here for you and loves you madly.

He's not mad at you, He's madly in love with you. Every eye

close because it's just you and God. And I want you to see him

picking you up like a child who's helpless. And if you won't reject a

baby, how much more or your father in heaven not reject you. I'm

counting to three. Hands are gonna go up in this room and around the

world saying I need this Savior. I want to give him my heart.

I want a fresh start. Hey, this maybe the first time or the

first time in a long time. It's a moment's sure day, a brand

new birthday, and we're gonna celebrate what God has done in your heart.

One I need a savior. Two I'm done with my ways. Three come

into my heart. Come on, lift that hand high. I want to

be saved the first time, first time in a long time. The hands

up everywhere, Come on, their hands up everywhere. I see you,

I see you. Come on, keep that hand lifted for a moment.

There's no reason to be ashamed. We've all been here and we're not looking

on you with judgment. We're looking on you with joy. We're so proud

of you. Heaven is proud of you. Come on. I see teenagers,

and I see fathers, and I see mothers, so beautiful. If

there's a handing up around you, we do this at Forest City in South

Carolina. But if there's a hand up around you, if you put a

hand on your on their shoulder, just a side of letting them know they're

not alone, We're gonna pray together. Thank you, Lord. Come on

repeat that to me, Lord Jesus. I give you my heart, I

give you my mind, I give you my soul. All that I am

belongs to you completely. Thank you for dying on the cross for my sins,

and thank you for getting up so I don't have to stay down.

My life belongs to you completely. In Jesus' name, Hey man, come

on, would you rejoice in the Lord. Hey, there's a number and

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to help your life continue to move forward. If you need to leave,

you can. But there's one more group that I want to pray for in

the building, and those are people who came to church today. You didn't

just come out of routine. You came out of desperation and you actually really

feel like giving up. You feel like giving up, and you're like,

man, what's the use, what's the use of trying? What's the use

of staying? And you feel like you're at your end? When sometimes David

Got'll let you get to your end to find the beginning of Him and maybe

you're at your end so that he could turn the page to give you a

new beginning. But I want to pray with you and believe with God for

you. If you're in this room and you were even thinking about giving up,

and I'm talking about thoughts of suicide are sometimes just giving up on a

call or giving up on a promise from God. If you'll stay alive,

but you just won't trust or believe or have faith anymore in the impossible things

of God. I want to pray for you in this room and all life.

If that's you and you've been battling thoughts of giving up, would you

lift your hands where you are? Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord,

Thank you Lord. If you desire to come forth, we have people up

here to pray with you as well. You could come up or you can

stay you see either one. But if you want to come forward, just

as a sign of moving out of this stuck place, out of this dry

place, we love to touch and agree with you. Here, Lord,

we give you praise. Come on, Lord, we give you praise.

And I'm just gonna announce over you. You're this is not your end.

Come on, come on, this is not your end. It's not your

end. Your goodness is running after, running after me. It's not your

end. Your goodness is running after it's running out with my life, with

my life. Lady, your goodness is running aft running. Can we send

that again, your goodness, your good be not weary. You're gonna make

it. I know it's hard, but you're gonna make it. I know

it hurts, but you're gonna make it. Hold on, hold on,

Yes, Lord, this is right, it's right. Can you tell them

all my life, because all my life you have been faith Yes, Lord,

oh my life. If you have been so you were faithful, then

you'll be faithful. Now, Yes, Lord, I will see good.

Come on, lift those hands. Hold on, it's another chapter. Hold

on, there's another chapter. I'm so glad. After my dad died in

nineteen eighty nine and my mom and my dad were still in their twenties,

and my mom was left with three kids, and it was super unstable.

I'm so glad she held on. The only reason I'm here right now is

because my mother held on and believed God for another chapter. And she cried.

I'm telling you, she cried hard. Those are some dark nights,

but she held on for the next chapter. And I'm not telling you you

don't have a reason to cry. I'm not telling you you don't have a

reason to be afraid. But i am telling you that God is a sustainer

and he will keep you when you cannot keep your self. Hold on,

hold on, there's another chapter. Thank you, Lord, Come on,

lift those hands for a moment. I'm gonna pray for you. God.

I thank you for families that needs you. I thank you for single mothers

that need you, and single fathers and students and married couples who feel like

they're at their end. I thank you for those in this room who are

sick and they need a divine healer. I thank you for those watching or

in this room who've been overwhelmed by depression and anxiety. I thank you that,

you, oh Lord, are lifter of our hats. You are a

glory. You are stripped, you're chilled. Your name in the strong tower.

We could run it and find safety. I thank you, but you

God enough to take what the enemy meant for evil and turning around in our

favor. We won't give up, We won't bow out them, we won't

quit. I freak of fresh wind into your children today, for your Bible

said that they don't wait on the Lord. We'll get new shrimp and they're

mat up on the wing and eagles. They're runner not be weary. They're

walking and that faith. That's what happens them when we wait. And so

right now we lift our hands and holy expectation, knowing that you're got enough

for to fill us again. You're got enough to change us again. You're

got enough, and you're still in control. So we give you praise in

your temper. We shout with the voice of triumph, knowing that he who

had begotten a good worker, it's faithful to perform it unto the day of

Jesus Christ. Here we go. Lift your voice, shun, lift your

voice, shun, lift your voice. Go on, come on, lift

your voice in the room. Come on, give up prize hood, it

says, running down, wait on them, it's running up. I'm gonna

wait on you. I'm gonna wait on you. I'm tasting your glue,

gass, I'm run still in the upright man, I'm going away on you.

Come on, work up, team. Tell him I'm going to wait

on you. I'll taste it. I'll tasted, Yes, Lord, I

trusted the offer. I'm going away on you. Come on from the front

to the back. Tell him I'm going away on you. Yes, Lord,

how taste it and see Joe good and I trust it. I trusted

off on you. Come on, tell him I'm going away. I'm going

awa on you. Hi, I'll taste Joe Trumpty true right on the line.

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