Overflow from Obscurity // Livin' In The Overflow (Part 9) // Michael Todd

Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to the lost and found

for transformation in Christ. We're so glad you're here and wherever you're listening from,

we believe God will transform your life to today's message. You're a father

to the fatherless. All right. First thing I have to say is I

love this church. There are a lot of places that would quench what the

Holy Spirit will want to do because they're trying to prove something to people.

But I can't change you. My words can't change you. It's when the

presence of God comes in and he speaks to your individual heart and your individual

situation. Sometimes he uses me, sometimes he uses the music. Sometimes he

uses a greeter. Sometimes he uses the person sitting next to you. Sometimes

he uses the person that's on the cat which you at the However God wants

to speak to me, I'm ready to receive it and for us to come

in here today. And God wanted to minister the fathers. That wasn't just

a heavy Father's day. Somebody's heart started to be put together again in that

prayer, and somebody else's healing journey began because they felt something that needed to

get out of them. Grateful for this house, grateful for this church.

I have twenty nine minutes to preach this message in now, and I can

do this. I do hard things every day. Welcome to week nine of

a series we're calling somebody say living in the overflow. Say it with a

little slat swag, y'all say, I'm living in the overflow. A burden

from God to teach you how to do this. I don't want us to

sing a song we don't live. I don't want us to proclaim things that

we have no idea how to possess. And I've been in churches for decades

who claim one thing that nobody in the church has. And I said,

that's stupid for us to come to this place every week and be declaring by

faith and we don't actually see it in our hands. And when I talk

about living in the overflow, I'm not talking about things. I'm not talking

about things watch this only. I'm talking about a mindset. I'm talking about

the ability to get everything in this life that God has ill marked with your

name on it. There are connections, relationships, ideas, books, gifting

that has your name on it, that are still sitting in places that God

has not been able to release to you because you not ready to live in

the overflow. You still dealing with things that are so beneath what God has

for you, and the enemy would love for you to get stuck. But

today, by faith, I came to encourage somebody and even maybe agitate you

out of that space. I need you to know that God's plan for you

is not necessarily what your life looks like. And I hate when people blame

God for their situation. Well, I guess if God wanted me to have

something different, he would have done it. He's sovereign. I know he

can do it. So I'll just sit here and do nothing until God decides

to bless me. May I submit to you that He has written a manual

called the Word of God that gives us the ability at any time to move

his hand by obeying him word. Oh my God. Okay, if you're

waiting on God, I got a secret for you. You can move him

if you follow the plays that he has written in his Word. You broke,

you ain't got nothing. The Bible has a play for that. Give

and it will be given back to you. Good measure, pressed down,

shaken together, And you could say overflow it will be put into your lap.

But you're waiting for somebody to give you something. And you could go

ahead and force God's hand right now if you would take them shoes off and

give them to somebody who are size thirteen. In here, anybody wears size

thirteen. Come here, these some shoes. I need God to do some

things in my life this week. You were side thirteen for real. Take

your shoe off and show me. I don't want you lying they were at

thirteen. Those are yours. God bless you. He tried to give me

a five. I can't do you like that. Can't do you like that.

I don't leave you hanging. I was just grieving a little bit,

Okay, I was grieving just a little bit. Just you saw that.

Huh. Okay, here's what I'm saying to you what I just did.

And some of y'all like what he's gonna preach the rest of the Yeah,

I don't Those shoes didn't have me. I had them, and now he

has them because the playbook works if I work it. And I have too

many people in the House of God right now waiting on God to do something

when he's saying I've already told you. You can live in the overflow if

you would just take my principles and work what you have. Right now,

somebody say, all I have is all I need. Say it again,

all I have is all I need. And this is what I found out

about living in the overflow. Romans fifteen, verse thirteen. It says,

I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with

joy and peace because you trust him. Not my job. Thank God for

my job, thank God for my pastor thank God for my church. That

is not where I put my trust. I put my trust in somebody,

say him. He said, once you do that, then you will everybody

shot at me overflow with confidence, hope through the power of Holy Spirit.

So today when I when I went to figure out how I'm going to teach

you the next layer of overflowing and how to apply the principles that God already

gives us. We don't need no new principles. These ones work if you

work them. Did you hear what I just said. I know it feels

redundant, but it's like somebody say, I ain't got nothing to eat,

but they didn't open the refrigerator, and you're going into debt to debt,

door dashing, but you just didn't open so many people. I just need

incourage, open, open the Bible. I'm just feeling lonely right now.

We got words for that. Open. I'm just dealing with ANX like you

would rather listen to somebody with a podcast, microphone and an led light behind

them on social media who has no credentials to be leading your life and then

send it to other people because you like their glasses in the video. When

God has given us a playbook that has worked for centuries, and so when

I said God, what do you want me to talk about? He said,

Michael, I want you to tell them that they need to embrace obscurity.

I said, hold on, wait a minute, wait, no,

this is a generation that want to be on the platform. This is a

generation that wants to ten X everything. This is a generation that needs spotlight.

This is a generation that needs everybody to know they win in And God

said, I want you to tell the people that many times you're going to

have to overflow from obscurity. Overflow from obscurity. I believe that God is

about to start moving on people, and in situation that nobody knows who they

are right now, how do you know that, pastor Mike, because that's

who I was. See you met me when some spit hit a fan,

and you met me when I got the keys, the keys the keys,

and you met me on relationship goals. But what you don't know is that

for a very long time, with no social media, no spotlight, nobody

checking for me one hundred pounds heavy year, I was in obscurity with God

and everything you see in my life right now, that is an overflow.

It's linked back to a season of obscurity that I have never gotten rid of.

You missed it. What you don't understand is the overflow for me and

for Kingdom, kids and people who are connected to God. It's always connected

to something that nobody sees. And most people today have forsaken the secret place,

the place that I don't instagram, the place that nobody's gonna get me

setting up my phone just in case you can see I'm talking about. Where

is the place that even the closest people to you don't know what's happening except

you and God. And if you cannot start to embrace obscurity, you will

miss some of the instructions that only come in one on one conversations. God

is not going to broadcast your specific instruction for your life through a big platform

because he wants there to be something intimate with just you and him. And

there are many times that we would rather God stand us up in front of

a thousand people and prophesie something to us, then give us a word that

is sure in the secret place where nobody else hears it. Okay, all

right, All I'm telling you right now is what's obvious usually starts off in

obscurity. Every company, every brand, every famous basketball or football star.

You don't know them until they get to a platform. But there's no way

they started there. It started in some backwoods high school that nobody ever heard

of. Do y'all hear what I'm saying? And I'm scared for our generation

that we want the things that look opulent, but we don't guard the things

that happen in obscurity. Okay, let me show you how many people in

this place got an iPhone right now, or any type of Apple product.

Okay, let me show you where Apple started. Put it on the screen.

Apple started in obscurity in a garage. Do you know how many people

probably passed this garage? Do you know that the person that was probably the

neighbor to Steve Jobs now feels like I really should have brought him cookies,

Like do you understand what I'm saying? Like, but what he was building

in obscurity has now spanned the globe, and my question to you is what

would have happened if he would have never started where nobody could see it?

Oh God? People most notably know me outside of our Transformation nation world for

a little book that we wrote called Relationship Goals. Now. This book was

a brainchild of our chief of staff, Brie Davis, who told me coming

off a sabbatical, I was like, I don't know. I came into

the office, I was like, I do not know what I'm gonna prease.

He's like, Mike, you've never done a series on relationship. You

and Natalie's relationship is okay? You should probably. No, she didn't say

that, but that's how I felt. She was like, you should probably

do a series on relationship. I go to Dallas with Charles Medcalf and we

go to this coffee shop in Dallas because Charles loves coffee. I don't drink

coffee, but we went there because the swag was right, And I want

to show you where relationship goes started. It was in obscurity. Will you

put that on the screen. This is where relationship goes started. It didn't

start with nine different languages that the book is published in that right now,

it's published in languages I don't know on the map where the country is.

I was a C student in geography. I it but but it's gonna turn

into a movie with Amazon next year now, Like, but where did it

start? In obscurity with a notepad and me not knowing what I was going

to preach? So I for the first time in my ministry career, I

love this picture because this is the first time I broke the religious spirit of

hiding my sermons. And nobody talks about this. But in church there's this,

this, this, this prevalent prideful. Really it's a trap that tells

you you the man of God, and so you need to just hear from

God and nobody can see it. You won't even share it with the people.

Gotta put the slides on the screen. You just you wanted to feel

like you and God in the Holy Spirit said everything I did, I did

in collaboration. When I sent the apostles out. I sent them two by

two. There was a reason why I did this, And this is a

picture of the first message ever I collaborated to write. And that message was

the first message that millions of people have seen in relationship goals. But it

started in a security my relationship with Natalie. This Wednesday we celebrate fourteen years

of marriage. I love you girl, You my everything. I got something

special for y But this relationship started in obscurity, white Side Park, forty

first between Yale and Sheridan. This is the first picture we ever took.

Yes, I was in pleather pants and a very hot red sweater. She

was fourteen right there. I was fifteen. Where that started and what we

had to go through to get to where we are, y'all, wouldn't let

me be your pastor if you was in our counseling sessions. Because we deal

and work through and pray through and cry through the things that make us us

in front of people, we get the power in obscurity. Okay, I'm

just trying to paint a picture for you today that your greatest moments will not

come on a large platform. The things that God will do in you that

will actually last will probably happen where nobody sees it, and most of us

are running from those places. But if you're gonna really overflow, you're gonna

have to overflow in obscurity. We're standing in this building right now. But

let me show you where my ministry started. It started in a circle on

thirty first in Garnet at Spirit and Truth Praise and Worship Center, a church

that my parents started. In a circle with me wearing suits that were too

small and us talking to a bunch of young people. Nobody was checking for

Pastor Mike Todd, But I was being faithful. I was staying up and

praying for young people that I knew was gonna go have sex. Right after

I prayed for purity, John said talk about it because he was one of

my eleven youth leaders. Now he wasn't no one going and doing that.

He was helping me. No, no, nobody, nobody. Nobody was

calling me for speaking engagements. Nobody was trying to see if they could take

a picture with me so it could boost a No, I was being faithful

to the assignment in obscurity. Watch this with no guarantee or desire, Watch

this of a platform. I'm not doing this to get that I'm doing this

because you said too. And my question to you in this moment right now,

no matter how old you are, no matter how much money you have,

no matter where God is taking you or where you've been, do you

have a place that's obscure enough for God to give you new instructions and you

would obey him with no guarantee in the future. It's quiet in here,

It's okay because you want to live in the overflow, and God saying,

will you be faithful if the overflow that everybody sees is ten years away?

Could you overflow in obscurity? Because you could feel all that God was moving

so powerfully in these rooms, the deliverance, the chilling. Nobody knew.

So was God showing up? Yes? Was he moving powerfully? Yes?

Was God doing things that I never thought of? Yes, it's just that

y'all didn't know. And many people get off the mark of God because they

will want the crazy, amazing blessing that God's doing in a season to be

broadcasts. And if it's not broadcast, then we make a move to get

out of the will of God. I'm not telling you what I think.

I'm telling you what I know, and I'm asking you today, will you

be able to overflow in obscurity? Last piece I'm gonna give you showing the

crazy face paper real quick, because everybody's seeing the lights and the led and

all this other stuff. I'm just trying to paint a real picture for everybody

today. This is me holding a piece of paper that I wrote in my

laptop thirty seven days after I became the lead pastor of this church, and

we were in the north side of Tulsa, and God said, I'm about

to give you a vision that is bigger than anything that anybody around you has

ever seen. And I'm gonna give it to you in your daughter's room at

seven thirty nine in the morning, and I only want you to share it

with five people. I'm gonna give you this in obscurity, but I need

you to believe me in faith out loud. And it's so crazy that there's

thousands of us sitting in this building at this current moment because I obeyed God

when I was in an obscure season. Do you hear what I'm saying to

you? There's no fancy point to this. Today. I'm asking you,

do you have a secret place well, no, no, no, I

mean I mean literally my secret place from six fifteen to six twenty two,

right before I take the dog out to walk, and right before I go

to the gym, and right before and we have scheduled our life so full

of what we call blessings that we don't have a place we go and withdraw

to. If I look at your calendar, if I look at your priorities,

if I look at where you spend your time and your money, would

it tell me that you have a place that you withdraw to to just be

with the Father. Because if you don't, what I'm telling you is the

greatest things that will ever happen in your life. God's not giving them in

a mass email. He's not sending them to your family members to tell you

these things are so unique to your DNA that he wants to speak through his

word to you with impressions in your heart and your spirit and through the Holy

Spirit. He wants to speak just to you. But if you do not

make space and time to actually have a place that is obscure, you will

miss the instructions. Watch this and the preparation that it takes to rule in

front of everybody you're believing for and overflow that you have the character not to

sustain. And today I just came to tell him. Maybe this messaging for

everybody. I'm being obedient today. So I'm just telling you. And when

I get off of this thing, I'm gonna get a Father's Day gift and

a kiss, and I'm gonna feel good about myself. But I need somebody

to hear me. The next elevation may not be in front of everybody.

The next elevation may not be a blow up. Man ten thousand subscribe?

What if you gain one follower but have the approval of God? Oh?

Did you hear what I just said? Mo? What if the business does

not blow up how it did for them right in the middle of the will

of God for your life? Do you want them to know you? Or

do you want him to know you? Do you hear me? And what

I'm telling you right now as I'm preaching to you in these socks to have

my baby's face on them, Hey, Aba, I want you to realize

that this next overflow may happen in obscurity. Let me tell you about a

young man named David. If you go to First Samuel, you'll find his

story, but he was in the field in an obscure place when Samuel came

looking to anoint the next king of Israel. Y'all want to go to the

Bible real quick. Okay, let's just see because I feel you right now,

because some of y'all are offended by the even notion of obscurity. Not

after all these degrees. I've been in school for sixteen years, they gonna

call me doctor. Come on, let's be honest. Not after what I

gave up, not off to starting three businesses, not after having all these

kids. It's my chid. I'm gonna live my life. I'm gonna do

my thing, and God saying well, if you want to do that,

go ahead. I'll be back here until you're ready to obey. Because anything

you make up outside of God you have to sustain outside of him. And

I just came to tell you you ain't built like that. See what some

of y'all need to know Instead of being offended, you need to look at

obscurity like this, write this point down. Obscurity is an opportunity from God.

I can't tell you how many times I wish y'all didn't know me.

I am not even playing with you. I can't tell you how many times

it was like I would oh, okay, I would give this back.

I would really love to just not even have to worry about if a phone

is up. I think they record me. Like I would love to be

able to go to the pool with my kids and film it, put it

on Instagram, and people don't call me a false prophet because I have my

T shirt off. Nobody cared when I was fat. When I had my

T shirt off, they was like, poor baby, he's a good preacher

at all. He's a fat preacher, but he's a good Like now I'm

starting to get a little bit of definition and I'm a false prophet because I'm

in the pool with my shirt off. I would you can have that.

The reason I'm saying this is because I did not value I'm trying to teach

you from my experience. I didn't value obscurity until I didn't have it.

And some of y'all are praying for something you really don't want. You're you

think that it will provide something. But my brother Darius Daniel says, there's

always a backside to the blessing, and if you do not calculate what you

need for the backside of the blessing. What turns what starts as a blessing

turns into a burden. Okay, oh God, can I have five more

minutes, y'all? Can I please? Y'all? Just okay, somebody needs

this. Any time God doesn't let you shine, he wants to refine something.

I'm telling you by what I know. If he's not letting you shine,

if he's dimming the light. He was like, no, you have

the gifting, but you don't have uh huh. You're like, I'm better

than all of them. Yeah, that's true. But uh, when he

puts a dimmer on the light, it's because there's something he wants you to

work on. And so instead of trying to fight to get in there,

go back to obscurity and say, God, what is it? If there's

anything in me that's not like you? Father? Today, I pray like

David creating me a clean heart, renewing me the right. If my motive

has gotten off, if my talking, if I've started focusing on what they

have instead of what you've given me. God, Today, here I am.

If God doesn't let you shine, he's trying to refine. And this

is what happens when we see first Samuel chapter sixteen. It says, then

Samuel ask, are these all your sons? Jesse? He said, well,

there's still the youngest boy. He crazy. He out in there in

the field watching the sheep and the goats. Can I just this ain't a

point, but somebody needs to hear this. Yeah, yeah, like overflow

usually starts as overlooked. Did y'all hear what I just said? His own

daddy didn't even consider him, literally said there is Jesse, but he's out

in the field. And Samuel, a man of God, sin for him

at once, and we will not sit down and eat until he arrives all

his brothers. Was like, God, God, we can't eat until he

get here, which tells me that God will hold up other people. Y'all

didn't hear me. He will hold up other people's access to the next until

you get there. So Jesse sit for him. Ooh, I like this

too. I'm gonna have to do two weeks of this because because because Jesse

sit for him, that means when you're in obscurity, you do not have

to see if they're calling for you. You can keep your hand to the

plow because they're gonna say, Jesse boy, if you don't hear that,

David, if you don't hear that day, big day, they will send

for you. And so many times we be working and be like you do

your work and you're seeing. If anybody notices, which takes your eye off

of the work, okay, let me stop. They send for him in

verse twelve. And they said he was dark and handsome with beautiful eyes.

And I'm just fun and the painter picture. I'm a painted miss Chloe.

And the Lord said to him, this is the one anoint him. Everybody

say anoint A lot of times this is used as a like really spooky scriptural

like pentecostal word. But let me just tell you what this word means,

God's approval. He literally picked him out of his all his brothers and said

with him in front of everybody, this is god'sm But let me tell you

what he does. God usually annoints the opposite. He usually picks the person

that don't want it. You being so ritchy, so thirsty. They used

to say, what's another way of saying this desperate? We can smell the

desperation you want to be like by them that bad you want to be accepted

into that club that bad and God says, yeah, I'm gonna pick the

person who don't want it. I'm gonna pick the one who didn't try to

make this happen through connections. I'm just gonna pick the one who's been watched

this faithful and obscurity. I'm coming in and do two things today. I'm

coming to encourage the person who hasn't wanted the spotlight and you've been being faithful,

to tell you get ready. God's about to approve you to do something

you never thought you was gonna do. And I came to tell the person

who's been real thirsty after opportunities that God hasn't called you. It ain't over

for you. But this is a warning. Get back into the place of

obscurity. Step out of the spotlight until he calls you into it. Get

out of the mentions until he mentions your name. Okay, I know everybody

wants Tom You're the next. No no, no, no no, Because

when God gives you a burden, it'll be something you don't even think you

can really do. This is why you need his power and his strength and

his wisdom to actually do it. And I'm just trying to I'm trying to

empower a generation to embrace obscurity. Why pastor mic because it's what Jesus did.

Y'all know what he did after every time he did major miracles, he

was like, yeah, feet all these people, Yeah, all right,

did everybody enjoy their fish and chips? Okay, John, just go ahead

and tell the people what to do. Father. I have no idea what

I'm doing, but thank you for that miracle. And I'm gonna just sit

here in your presence until you give me my next instruction. They said I

should go back and try to run for government. They said I could actually

have a really good rapport with the people after I did the miracles like that,

And I do think it would be a good pr move to actually,

you know, make your name famous. You want me to stay here,

you want me to pray. It's making the people uncomfortable, Lord, that

I'm not out there with them. Yeah, even in this moment, they

don't know what to do when they look at a platform and nobody's on it.

Wake up, walk walk walk to a boat in the middle of the

lake. Okay, yeah, what's some disciples? Oh? Sure, who

is that? Peter is like Lord, if you bid me to come come.

Peter walks on water? What was Jesus doing right before Peter walked on

water? He was in obscurity. All I'm saying to you is that uncomfortable

moment y'all just had trying to figure out where I was gonna pop up from,

trying to figure out how long is he gonna do this? This is

a little uncomfortable. Never seen the screen that big before, Like you were

just sitting here. You notice things differently when somebody's not always the focused point

of what needs to happen. And I'm saying to you, where is the

moment of obscurity that you are embracing and protecting so that God can give you

what only he can give you for the assignment that was given by him.

I'm gonna have to go to week two next week because I have eight more

pages of notes. We'll pick up right here. But I believe you're about

to live in the overflow. But it won't be because you tried. You're

gonna be faithful where God has you, and he's gonna call you up out

of obscurity and he's gonna say it's time for you to do what you did

when nobody was looking in front of everybody. And it's gonna be so easy

for you because it's going to be watched this automatic. It's easy for me

to get up here and talk to this many people because when I was in

high school at Edison Preparatory School, God was training me. Why are you

calling my teacher's names, Miss Maxwell's be quiet, Mama, Chloe, you

got to sit there. I love having senior saints. Senior Saints will say

whatever, no matter. I'm in a very deep moment and I'm trying to

minister, and she's like Miss Maxwell dressed like a princess, sofa there.

I love you, I love my shirts. Hear what I'm saying to you,

though, Like when I was in that high school, for some reason,

they asked me to lead the prep rallies and there would be two thousand

kids on a Friday that they would give me a mic and say lead this

for the next forty five minutes. And I would get up there and yell,

scream, do the Dougie. I mean, I have classmates in the

room right now, and I could not figure out why they were choosing me

to do this. But God knew that twenty miles away from that high school.

I would be in another auditorium with a microphone twenty something years later,

speaking to people of every different ethnicity, and he said, do there what

you did in obscurity today, I'm just I want to challenge you. If

you're not in a secret place working on something, you may be out of

the will of God. It's his formula to do the deep work. Watch

this, to do the deep surgery in private, in obscurity, and today

for even all the fun I'm asking you to do something a man of God

wants asked me to do. He said, go fight your battles with God

in a place where nobody can see, and then come out and teach your

children how to find a place with God so that they can always fight their

battles in the same way you did. And I didn't understand it at first.

I didn't understand it, and I was like, hold on, why

don't I just like do my thing and then show them that you can conquer

everything. And then I start living and realize there are certain things that only

God can change in my heart. There are certain things that I don't need

a sorry from Natalie. I need God forgive me for allowing that into our

marriage. Okay, I'm talking too big right now. The only reason is

it's a issue between us right now is because I stepped out of my place

and I allowed something you wouldn't allow him to this marriage. I allowed it

into this thing. I repent God for allowing us to talk to each other

like that. But where God fixed me, healed me of the addiction to

pornography, it wasn't on a platform. It was in obscurity where he told

me, Michael, you're gonna be generous and you're gonna give everything I tell

you to give whenever I tell you to give it. He didn't teach me

that on this platform. Somebody thinks I'm giving away them shoes. I don't

care about them shoes. I've been giving away shoes since I used to go

get them at Ross for fifteen ninety nine. None of y'all know about the

Ross come ups. I would go in Ross by six pair of shoes,

and I would have the ones that look most like knock the knockoff nikes.

I'd have them. All. Y'all know how you stand when you got some

real good shoes. What's up, fella? Yeah? What's up? And

the holy spirits, say, given to them, I don't like him.

If you gonna require me to give it, let me give it to somebody

I like, said right to them. And I remember time after time doing

that same thing I did at the beginning of this service, even down to

ask them, let me see your shoes, shies, let me make sure

you wear this side now. Back then it was a blessing for them to

take my shoes because they wasn't flying. But I I'm just being honest.

But what I just did, it's easy because I did on the platform what

I did in obscurity. If you don't pray in obscurity, you won't pray

when the president costs. If you won't share the gospel when it's one coworker,

you won't share the gospel on the platform receiving the award you won't give

with ten dollars, you won't give with ten million. I'm asking our church

to embrace what culture thinks is whack. Oh that little business you go to,

that little church? Are you going home? Now? Come hang with

us. I'm a doing obscurity in this family. What's gonna last forever?

That's for me and my house standing all over this building. I got so

much more to say. Can we just real quick before everybody leaves? Okay,

can we just lift our hands just right here, just a little.

And I just want to pray that watch this, this is not an end

all. You know. Sometimes they be trying to pray and then like be

done forever, Like, Lord, we make a faithful commitment to living obscurity

forever and Jesus and that, like, that's not what I want to do

today. I just want us to ask God to open up our hearts to

the idea that we can overflow watch this from here, Like if you don't

get another house, if you don't get the upgraded car, if you don't

like, could God make your world so fulfilling from here? If they never

recognize you, if they don't say that's your Like, could God allow you

to love your life and be fulfilled in your purpose? From everybody? Say

here, here we are God, me included with so many opportunities out there,

with so many things fighting for my attention, for so many things,

fighting for our allegiance. Today God, we are making a commitment to actually

come back to a secret place with you Father. For some they've never had

a time where they've carved it out just for you. God, would you

allow your presence to be attractive to us like never before, because in your

presence we can get something that social media can't do, what raises and bonuses

can't do. We get reminded of our identity in you. God. Would

you allow us to become content that you can do whatever you want to do

in our lives and our family and our business in this church from here,

when you want to call us up, God will be ready because in obscurity

we're going to be practicing. We One day you may ask us to do

on a platform, but if you never give us a big platform, Father,

you will find us faithful. Today. God, I'm asking that our

hearts would be turned back, our hearts would be turned back to you like

never before. Do or work deep on the inside of us, Father God.

I thank you that husbands and wives are about to find Father God different

ways to appreciate what you've given them right now. Thank you, Father God,

that people who have their mindset on big things that they're trying to do,

Father God, will not get discouraged, but Father God will actually get

fortified in the secret place. Thank you that as a church we're making a

decision that we will value obscurity because it's the place you're making us. And

when you decide to ow, we're gonna praise you and thank you, but

we're gonna praise you and thank you in obscurity as well. Thank you for

speaking clearly today, and I thank you Father that we're going to live in

the overflow from here. Somebody say from here, I'm gonna live in the

overflow from here one more time. From here. Not a new marriage,

not a new place, not a new car. I'm going to do everything

that God has told me and placed in front of me from here. Thank

you for it. If you're in this room and you've never accepted Jesus today,

we're about to leave. But I don't want you to ever think that

this is about me or anybody in here. This is about you finding our

savior. And it took me from being a liar, a manipulator, addicted

to pornography. I share all my business because that's how you overcome by the

blood of the Lamb. That's what he did and the words of our testimony

today, I don't want you to walk in shame, guilt, condemnation today.

I want you to be free by the power of what Jesus Christ did,

and he lived his whole life in obscurity and then died on a cross

from my sin and your sin so that we could actually live in freedom.

Every week, hundreds of people give their life to Christ in this room,

online, in jail. And today I want to give you that opportunity.

This church, we begin to pray for people in this moment. I need

you all to pray because people's lives are in the balance. I want your

life to actually mean something on earth. And then I want you to as

you live every day on this earth, I want you to be secure that

your eternity is secure. How do you do that? You accept the finished

work of Jesus Christ. What do you mean finished work with Jesus Christ's giving

us a gift we could never earn. It's called grace, the unearned,

unmerited, undeserved kindness in favor of God, and it's available to you.

Religion makes you work for it, but relationship makes you receive it. And

today I want you to receive that on the count of three. If you

want to receive Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and savior, and I feel

just to say that, do not let fear of your past failures keep you

from this moment right now today, I want you to receive Jesus and it

changes everything in your life. One, you're making the greatest decision of your

life. Two, I'm proud of you. But forget that your name is

gonna be written in the Lamb's Book of Life. Three. Just shoot your

hand up all over this room. And I see you in the back right

there. I see you. I see you. I see Oh, y'all,

gotta praace God with me. I see you. Glory to God.

And if I don't see you, God sees you. I transfer church.

We're family. Nobody prays alone. Let's pray together. Somebody say God,

thank you for sending Jesus just for me. Today. I give you my

life. I believe you lived, you died, and you rose again with

all power just for me. Today. I say, use me, change

me, renew me, transform me. I'm yours in Jesus' name. Amen.

Can we celebrate with everybody? Oh? Come on, y'all, hey,

listen. If you just made Jesus your personal Lord and savior, I

want you to text saved to the number on your screen. Eight two eight

two eight two. Next week, I already got my message. I'm gonna

finish this and I want to let you know that that song that you heard

earlier today Dominion. Today at two pm, we're doing the world premiere on

YouTube of the music video. So I want you to turn it up,

play it in your house. I want you to go buy this song,

play it, use it as an anthem if you need prayer for anything.

We're here. The worship team is going to sing another song as people are

leaving. I just want to say one more time. Somebody that's a father

in this place needs to hear me say it one more time. Everybody,

y'all, Happy Father's Day. We love you so much, grateful for you.

Thank you for being a church that follows the Holy Spirit. If you

need prayer, there's prayer in the back. The altar is still open.

Go out and live a transform life. I love y'all so much. Thank

you for joining us today. If you said that prayer and accept it Jesus

into your heart, it's the best decision you could ever make. We want

to celebrate with you, and we have some tools to help you on your

journey. Tech saved to a two A two A two and to find out

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go out and live a transform life.