Something Is Always Off Limits In The Overflow // Livin’ In The Overflow (Part 8) // Michael Todd

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we believe God will transform your life. Do today's message. We're so

glad that you came, and we've been praying that you'd be blessed. The

one thing that we don't take for granted is that God meets us here every

time. And it may come in a song, it may come in the

word, it may come in a hug in the lobby, but we know

God's gonna show up. And so today I have a word that I think

is going to correct all of us. I know that's not a good way

to start the message, but I like to I like to tell you,

like straight up front, get ready for this whooping. I ain't gonna do

it because I already already got whooped, like the Lord been really working on

me with this word. And that's the one thing that you gotta believe.

Every time I get up here, I'm never gonna preach something to you that

God is not working in me. I will not be your fraudulent pastor who

tells you to love they wife and I'm treating my bad it won't be incongruent.

I won't tell you to give and I ain't already gave everything. Do

you understand what I'm saying so you can trust? Like I'm just not fake

like that. So like if I get up here and I'll tell you something,

either I've already done it or God's working on me and pushing me and

into me and cutting off my flesh to actually do this. So this word

already whooped me. And I need my brothers and sisters to join me in

this and love lash shing. Do you hear what I'm saying? And this

is what I want everybody to Like, God wouldn't do that. The Bible

says he chastens, corrects, disciplines the ones he loves. If you don't

get corrected, they don't love you. I used to have friends whose parents

let them do anything. And now what I found out being a parent is

those parents actually didn't care enough to put in the energy and effort to try

to give their kids parameters to live in. And what it ended up doing

is it trained them and put them in positions that they were worse off than

if somebody would have set a limit for them. See what you don't understand

is I'm already preaching because my message today is about limits. The one thing

you think is a cuss word, the thing that you believe there should be

no limits. Because I'm grown, You know how old I am. I've

already seen this, already done this, I already been here, I've already

experienced that. I got the T shirt and a picture. And but my

question to you is what is the last limit that God set for you that

you overstepped? Today we're talking about living in the overflow. Somebody say I'm

living in the overflow. But in week eight of living in the overflow,

I want to tell you the title of my message, something is always off

limits in the overflow. God always makes something off limits when he begins to

pour out his spirit, when he begins to bless you and give you influence

and give you money and give you connections, there will always be something that

he says, I'm taking you to another level, but I'm giving you a

new limit. Uh oh. And the problem with many of us is we

have not connected that God's limit actually is his love. See, at every

level of blessing, write this down. There will be a new boundary.

God gives you kids, that's a new level of blessing. Guess what,

you have a responsibility now to protect him. You have a new boundary that

you need to set in what they watch, what time they go to bed,

how they do certain things. And many of us think that new levels

come with new levels of freedom and not new boundaries, and you end up

cutting your overflow short because you think that the boundary is something that God is

doing to you instead of something he's doing for you. Okay, I see,

I'm gonna have to work today. As God increases my increased my influence.

Something that I've never been able to articulate is the thing that has kept

me for the past ten years of a steady incline of influence, resources,

connections. The thing that changed my life is that I realize that there is

a limit that is set by God for every next level. So when God

upgrades you, are you looking for the new limit? Oh okay, some

of your conversations in friends need to be limited. You're believing for a level

and want to take everybody with you. And he said, at this level,

they don't even have the decorum to be able to handle the level of

intimacy that we're gonna have at this level. They gotta stay right there.

What they my best eat stay on the level then, and many of us

would rather lower the limit God has for us to go to because we don't

want to limit access to others who aren't supposed to be there. Oh,

there are opinions and friendships. And watch this television series. Oh I'm gonna

see the sixth season of Melissa's Way. I'm just making up a show because

I don't want some of the people may be watching. Hey, what I'm

telling you is, every time you watch that show, you get fill in

the blank, hot and bothered, frustrated, discontent with your season. You

start comparing fictional characters to your real friends. Oh somebody made that up in

their bedroom, and now you're mad at people. And what I'm telling you

right now is maybe God wants you to cut that service off, because now,

God, use me speak through me, help me lead these young ladies,

help me walk into business and be a light for you. But you're

still consuming everything that everybody else is. There is no difference, there is

no separation, And God's saying for the overflow, some thing's got to be

off limits. Okay, they don't believe me, So I'm gonna show you

that it is time for believers to start to look for the limit, learn

the limit, listen for the limit, and love the limits. My best

version of myself is when I started to love limits. I'm up here today

with my pants with no belt. Ha ha ha. The only thing that

was overflowing three years ago was my belly over this waistline. Because I would

not embrace the and at the moment I said, this is not for me

to lose anything. It's for me to gain everything. Gain health, be

able to throw my son when we connect through wrestling and playing gold tickle,

be able to have energy to fly from here and fly from there, and

have a word in season and out of season. If I did not love

and embrace and learn the limits, I would stop the overflow. And many

of us because we won't embrace the limit of a budget. Well, I

mean it's on sale, it's always gonna be on Well, I've been looking

at this for years and it'll be there another two years from now in multiple

colors. But you won't embrace the limit of this season, and so you

continue to put yourself in captivity. You continue to look for a different season.

And God's saying, if you would love the limits, I'll put you

in right now. If you would embrace what I'm saying, this is off

limits. They are off limits. That show us off limits. That group

of people is off limits. Right now, you would begin to unlock.

Somebody say the overflow. Yeah, write this down. Every person needs to

recognize the boundary. Respect the boundary, remember the boundary, because you are

now responsible for the blessing anytime God blesses you. He says, I'm going

to actually give you a boundary with this so that you never forget who gave

it to you one and you never think that this is where I want to

end it. I need to give you parameters so that you can prosper parameters

for prosperity. And people have hijacked that word like they're the prosperity. God,

shut up. Prosper means to actually see the fullness of something. We're

not taking no offering from nobody. God says in his word that he wishes

that our sole prosper like he wishes that we actually find the flourishing, like

actually multiply. And what God wants to do is give you parameters to prosper

in and most people don't prosper because they do not embrace the parameters that God

sets for them. And so today I just want to teach you that this

is God's pattern. And if you're going to live in the overflow, you

got to know there's some things that are off limits to you. Just say

it, I can't do everything. I won't No no, no, no

no. You didn't even say it like you meant it. Just say it,

I can't do everything that I won't see some of you can't do it

because you actually don't have the resources too. But my question is will you

not do it if you could do it? So some people don't go buy

all kinds of stuff because they can't. But if God puts you on a

budget and you bawling and he tells you to give and top twenty percent instead

of the ten, everybody be like jen, that's just the beginning. Okay,

y'all. Did y'all hear people? Could God bless you so much that

fifty percent of your income went to kingdom work. I'm not saying that's what

you need. I just want to drop the seed that you could be so

living in the overflow, that half of everything that you make from your business

and your investments and went to bless other people. You can't even think like

that because you're so bogged down by culture's idea of getting my own. And

today I'm trying to push you to be able to live in the overflow.

But that means in every level of overflow, God is going to present something

that he says, not that that's off limits. Prove it to you.

Genesis, chapter two, verse fifteen. The Lord God play, Do y'all

know? This is in the first story of the Bible, in the very

first thing God wants everybody to know. In Creation, he says, the

Lord God placed the man in the garden of Eden to tend and watch over

it. But the Lord God warned him, you may eat freely from all

the fruit in every tree in this garden, except the tree of the knowledge

of good and evil. If you eat it's fruit, you are surely going

to die. Get the picture. Adam and Eve are sitting here, the

most beautiful, luscious garden created crafted for them. Nobody else is coming,

just them and God. They got fruit, They got more fruit than they

can eat. But God blesses them, and then presents them with a what

boundary? This is all yours except not that tree. No, the one

behind it, the one on the side of it, the one in front

of it, not that one. And it's so crazy that many times when

God gives us a boundary, that's all we become focused on all of this.

Don't look at the camera. I'm trying so hard not to look at

the camera. But when you told me to not look at the camera,

I just made me want to look at the camera. And it has a

little red light on it. And isn't that when he tells you be single

in this season? But he looks so good. Lord, y'all know what

I'm saying, save the money. I give you all my money. Why

is it that when God gives a boundary, our flesh wants to go towards

it? Am I the only one? But the truth of the matter is

watch this. God's pattern is to bless you, then give you a boundary.

I want you to hear me say this. The next time God blesses

you, I want you to look for the boundary he gives you a promotion.

Who where what am I supposed to not do? No more? What

am I supposed to not watch where am I supposed to not go? Fellas,

if God gives you a wife, you can't hang with all your single

partners. No more AREM in your business today because the things that y'all talk

about in those forms, if they're not men of God and men of valor,

are the things that are going to jeopardize your blessing. The Bible says,

a man that finds a wife finds a good thing and finds favor with

God. And man, you ain't that good by yourself. You got better

when you got her. But the problem is the problem is you want the

same bro time with people that don't have boundaries. You don't think that that's

gonna creep in to your heart and your situation. You take that wife.

You got to get new boundaries, get a new house, new boundaries.

Do y'all hear what I'm saying to you right now? And many of us

have been living watch this without limits? And what you do when you live

without limits? You limit what God can do in your life because he loves

you, because he knows if you won't embrace the limit, you are up

for destruction. So he puts you in a place that you can handle and

it usually is out of his favor and his actual will for your life,

because you couldn't handle that platform. If God gave you ten thousand more followers,

those little rants you be going on Facebook and Instagram, you would infect

all kinds of people. And God said, no, we don't want them

to hear that foolishness, So be quiet. Uh, twelve followers, and

you be doing all that work for all twelve of your followers because God seese,

can y'all hear me? Because some of us we be cause we can't

control. And you can't vent on that platform because it's gonna hinder the people

you're supposed to help. He says, I got to keep them limited because

they won't set a limit. They won't go to counseling. They want Facebook

to be their Counselor anybody ever felt like this slapping a thank you Lord for

helping me. I feel like slapping a and then what God said, you

need to take that childhood trauma to a place that can help. But see,

you're at a new level and you won't set a new limit. You

won't embrace what God's trying to do in your life. You won't embrace another

limit of transparency. I said this at two mended mends ago. But I

said, I don't trust any man that has a privacy screen on his phone

because I used to live in secret. And I know somebody's booty just got

tight now because you was reading your Bible on your privacy screen. But what

I'm saying to you, what I'm saying to you is when I was in

darkness, I had something to hide. Because I'm in the light, I

don't slip up on websites, and if I do, I want to be

found out because at the end of the day, if I don't set that

limit, my life has the codes to everything. Everybody around me has the

coldes to everything. My kids be having. I want to live open trench.

But when you come into another level of influence, my question is have

you embraced the limits? Pastor Mike? Why are you continuing to say the

same thing, Because I believe many of us are cutting off the overflow that

God wants to pour out. He wants to do the unthinkable in your life,

but you won't embrace the new limit. He literally puts Adam and Eve

in the garden and says, all of this is yours. You are living

in the prototype of overflow. But this one thing is off limits. Why

pastor mic write this down Because a blessing without a boundary becomes a burden.

Anytime you have a blessing without a boundary, it will eventually become a burden.

Right now, you got all the money in the world, but you

don't store it properly. That's how people fly here, fly their drugs,

this, parties, that lust, this night, that, and then end

up committing suicide because the blessing had no boundaries and it ends up becoming a

burden. I can't tell you how many times I've counseled people and walk with

people who literally thought their life was gonna change if they just came into an

abundance of something and they came into that abundance without the character to handle it.

And they're like, Oh, I just got so much meetings, so

many meetings. I can't take it. I'm overwhelmed. And it's like,

did you pray that God would bless your business? I can't stand employees,

but didn't you pray? But what it tells me is when God blesses you,

you didn't put boundaries in place, then it becomes a burden. Some

of y'all families are a burden because you have not put in place. Mom,

I'm not talking to you about what's going on with my wife because you

didn't like her. Today. She came in and you're gathering intels so that

you can convince me to leave her. I don't know who I'm talking to,

but some of y'all need to set boundaries. You're not married to your

mother. The Bible says leave and cleave. Y'all make a decision. She

don't got to know it's tight, but it's right. And so many times

because you haven't set a boundary, every time it comes holiday time, why

is there a burden on your marriage because you won't set a boundary? Have

a great Christmas break? I can't stand Christmas break. So much stress,

so much pain is because you didn't set a boundary. That cousin deserves no

more money. She said the Markoh you ain't getting nothing this year? See

that fail? You felt that? Then you they got to go home out

of here. She felt that. She ain't said, ain't man the whole

surface, but I said that shit and I but you're emotionally drained because you

are blessed. But you didn't set a boundary, and so it becomes a

burden here. In about three weeks, I'm going on sabbatical. I'm out

of here, Audios, migos. I don't hide it. Most pastors hide

leaving the church. But if I don't take this time every year to go

heal. I told somebody this the other day. Pastoring is the only full

contact sport without an off season. People can get online and make stories about

me. Half of the members in here and talked about me. They had

an influence. Some of y'all live in this community over here, and y'all

friends with the people who don't want us to be here. But you won't

say nothing all kinds of things. And I gotta still pray with you and

believe for you, and go to God and ask the Holy Spirit. I

need I need off. And the reason I'm saying this to you, I

had to at the beginning. I was told by my mentor. He said,

you got to create a boundary or people will take everything from you and

you will have nothing to give to the people that will be there. If

everything leaves, Natalie, if those four kids and the new dog Honey are

gonna be the only thing they'll be the only thing there if all of this

goes away. And if I don't set the boundary, watch this, watch

this, write this down. It's not a point. But nobody else can

set the boundary except you. So you hear it from God, but then

you have to set it. Oh my gosh, revelation. He tells Adam

and Eve what the boundary is. They had the boundary, they didn't set

it. They knew it, but they didn't. If you know the boundary

but don't set the boundary, you are suscepted the book to the lies of

the enemy. And many of you know things you need to do right now,

but you have not set the boundary. In this house, we pray

together. In this house, we don't talk to each other like that.

Some of us need to set Eden's full of everything. But money without a

budget is a burden. Fire without a furnace, it's a burden. That's

a burn, and then a burden a body without exercise. It's a burden,

sex without covenant. It's some of y'all walking around with so many people

on you, so many soul ties, so many people with a piece of

them on you. You weren't even angry before you got with them. But

that transfer, that connection, it's become a burden. Spirituality without love is

a burden. Watch this. Be careful when people who don't own it try

to override it. When God said it's off limits. I'm gonna say it

oneman time. This is what the enemy did the serpent. Be careful when

people who don't own it. He didn't own the garden, he didn't own

the tree, He didn't own Adam and Eve. He just slithered in there,

and he tried to override what God said when God already said it's off

limits. He didn't really say, that's Itdy what you weren't even there when

God told me I was supposed to be eating like this, or when God

told me I was supposed to stay focused like this, You wasn't even there.

But that's not what he meant. No, that couldn't have been how

God I wanted you to live. It's twenty twenty four. Do you speak

your truth? Live your truth? No? I live by the truth of

the Word of God. I can't. I can't supersede because I watched this,

feel like it. My feelings are real, They're not always true,

Okay, and many of us are doing what we feel and not what God

is telling us to do by faith. And that's why in Genesis chapter three,

verse one through five, it says the serpent was the shrewdest of all

the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day, he asked the

woman, did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of

these trees in the gordon? This is what to say that. I'm just

trying to bring it life. Of course, we may eat fruit from the

trees in the guard. That means Eve knew that she was not in the

deficit. Eve was not missing anything. She had everything that she needed.

Watch this, the woman replied, it's only the fruit from the tree in

the middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. That means

she knew the boundary. She didn't set the boundary. You must not eat

or even oh shoot, not just eat it. You can't touch it.

There are certain things that we're saying, Oh, I'm good because I didn't

devour it. God said you shouldn't even put your hands nowhere near that.

Okay, I can't stay there. If you do, you will die.

And because we don't like literally, sometimes I'll just be thinking like what if

that was literal, like like I sometimes that's what make it come to life

for me, Like like like if it's the young lady that I know has

like you know, there's vibes between people, and like, I'm married,

but I can tell when somebody has like I hate fake people. You know,

you can tell when somebody a little too long of a hug. You

look good, you look real good, You look really really good, and

that feels good to your flesh. But what if, like what if you

like went in and you're supposed to not even give a side hug or a

high fib or nothing. The Lord said, no, carrate that boundary,

don't touch her, and she real huggy and just putting all her grace and

blessings on Oh God, I'm gonna have to y'all know what I'm talking about,

putting all her goodness and mercy on you. And and what if what

if God said don't touch it and at the moment you did, you just

dropped dead. No, I'm like, I mean, think about it,

Like, what if it was just like, oh, what's up? Ship

light light? I bet you would be more. I bet you the next

dude after the Giroldo fell out, you'd be like, what's up? Yeah,

hey, you you run out of there. What if I told you

that maybe you don't actually physically die, but something does. What if something

God tegged for you said, because they keep touching and devouring things that are

not like me, something that I had planned for them, something that I

charted for them. It dies in that same way. And because we don't

see it physically like that, we think that it don't really matter. Oh

God, but the serpent will always convince you verse four. You won't die.

How you know the enemy's native tongue is lying. He's the father of

lives. That's all he can do. So if he does say it to

you, you should believe the opposite. You won't die, Yes, I

will, God said it, the serpent replied to the woman watched this.

God knows that your eyes will be open as soon as you eat it,

and you will be like God knowing both good and evil. See the enemy

how he deceives you is there's always a little bit of truth in it.

That's why they call him a deceiver. He keep yeah, your eyes will

be open, but you will die too, And that's why in this season

when God says, Mike, I'm taking people into the overflow, but I

want you to remind them that there will be things at the next level that

I'm gonna say are off limits that don't make sense. You're not gonna know

why God's saying, never go to that store again. Well, God,

that's where I get all my clothes from. Not there no more, it's

closed. It is this. They know me, and don't go in that

store ever. That don't make sense. Y'all know how we donald don't make

It doesn't have to for you to be obedient. And that's why, you

know, if I can be transparent. Like the way I live my life

life is not because I'm a pastor. Because people think that I live my

life with discipline and a decision and I don't do certain things and I don't

drink and I don't do this. They think it's because I'm trying to prove

that, like I'm in a good place to be a pastor. I'm the

righteousness of Jesus Christ, like I when Christ accepted me, like he took

all of me, and I'm gonna be working out my salvation all the way

through. So that don't the reason I live the way that I live right

now is not because I'm trying to be a pastor. It's because I want

to be more like him. Okay, so watch this. So I have

certain things that God has convicted me on that have nothing to do with you.

And until we start embracing our convictions without judging other people's convictions, we

become We become more critical and judgmental of what they do compared to what we

do when we're on this journey of faith. And what I came to tell

everybody is my convictions are curated for my calling. So the things that God

says is off limits for me make me fine for you. But we don't

have the same calling. We don't have to say. Some of the stuff

may look similar, but it ain't the same. And so where you can

go out and party and do that stuff and then get up and sing Hallelujah,

when I do that, it jacks something up from the inside of me

to feel incongruent. So for my calling, I got certain convictions. I

won't be seen in certain places with certain people now because I don't think you

a good person. Is just for my calling, for what God has asked

me to do. I don't work so that I could just have a six

pack, abs and all that other. No, I'll work out because I

am convicted that God told me. He said, I only can bless the

ministry to the level your body can take it. So for your calling,

you need to get control of that fork. Now, if you want to

eat a double dip cake with with thrusting and ice saying, I'm not about

to judge you, I'm actually probably jealous. Let me be honest with you.

When y'all birthday caking it up, I'd be like, ah, But

the truth of the matter is for my calling, and my question is have

you stepped over limits that were set by the Holy Spirit that had to do

with your calling because you were comparing yourself to somebody else. One of the

greatest tragedies in the church today is comparing convictions. Can I say it in

a point, stop comparing convictions? Stop it because your call is different.

Okay, let me start. That's why I say people, I'm not better

than you, but I am different than you. I said it last week.

I'm gonna say it again. I'm not better, I'm different. So

God will encourage me to do things he may not say to you. But

it all is found in his words. Watch this. So when God says

it's off limits, watch this. You have to submit, especially when it

doesn't make sense. And most people don't know what submission is. But it's

not submission when you agree. It's only submission when you don't agree. So

when God says off limits and you say I don't think it should be,

then you say, but yes, Lord, I don't agree, but I

will obey. I want to move God, stay in that apartment. Why

I have the money to do it Cuz you don't see what's up ahead,

and many of us step over. When God set some limit and he said,

if you would just obey me, stay in the place I've asked you

to stay. He said, it's going to produce something for you. So

this is what I'm gonna do. I gave you an old Testament, first

book of the Bible. Example, let me give you a new Testament one

for all you extra saved believers. Here we go, Act chapter sixteen,

verse four. Paul's ministry is blowing up. He is literally living in the

overflow, and he wants to go and take territory for God. At chapter

sixteen, verse four, as they traveled from town to town. They delivered

the decisions reached by the apostles and the elders in Jerusalem for the people to

obey. So the churches here's the overflow, were strengthened in faith and grew

daily in numbers, blowing up everywhere. The Gospel is being expanded. He

was just killing Christians, got radically saved on the road of Damascus, and

now he's the biggest thing popping in the streets everywhere he goes, everybody getting

saved. It's a sold out who saved everywhere people. He's a literally taking

over for the kingdom. Verse six, Paul and his companions had a great

idea, let's travel throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia. And having been

kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the Word in the province of Asia,

hold on. Wait. They wanted to go to Asia, and the Holy

Spirit stopped them from preaching the Word in Asia. When they came to the

border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bathynia, but the Spirit of Jesus

would not allow them to go. Hold on, I'm doing something good for

God, off limits preaching. I'm in the overflow. Let me step across

the line and go into Asia and turn up for you in Asia. Lord,

I mean, by all men's accounts, this is a good thing.

And God says, stop, don't go preach there and no explanation. Yeah,

well, God, why don't you Why don't you want your word to

be expanded? It will be not through you off limits. Ro come here,

y'all, y'all, y'all, bring that and bring the statue. Have

you ever been in an event or or or something that was prestigious and they

had like stansions of people and they usually have security or something. Just just

put it right here, y'all. No, no, bring it, bring

it closer, bring it closure, like yeah, just put one right there

and then put one right here. Yeah, and then take that across.

Here we go, man, let me yeah yeah. And then and then

there's a limit. And then in front of uh the limit, there's usually

a bodyguard. And today for this example, we're gonna call the bodyguard the

Holy Spirit. God, I want to go into this area, O Holy

Spirit. He didn't have to say anything. The Holy Spirit should be big

enough in your life that the nudging the saint. But many times we be

like God. But if if only that, but I want to do it

for you. I want to I want to make your name great. You

got that, But you need me because you said, if you can use

anything, Lord, you can use me. But there's people, there's people.

God, I'm seeking you, and I just feel in my spirit that

I'm supposed to go to that side of town and start another nonprofit, no

matter that there's six nonprofits that I can partner with over there. I need

my own logo, so God, and no matter how many times I try

to ince my way, no matter how many times I tried. Paul tried

to go into an area watch this for a good reason. It was not

his assignment. It was just an an opportunity. And so many of us

are confusing an opportunity with an assignment. And the Holy Spirit is the only

one that can differentiate for you because they look the same. I'm preaching here,

so I should be able to go to Asia and preach. And he

said, that does not have your name on it. It's off limits,

even though it seems like everywhere you go there's an overflow. Watch this.

So Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having

been kept from the Holy Spirit from preaching the Word in the province of Asia,

he kept them. He kept them, which means that his limit was

not because I needed to lose something. His limit was because he was trying

to keep me or protect me from something. See, whenever the Holy Spirit

is saying no, it's because he loves you. Whenever the Holy Spirit is

saying that opportunity looks amazing, but you have no idea what you will lose

over there. If you go for the money, you might lose your motives.

If you go ah, if you go for the platform, you might

lose your peace. I need you to know I'm cheaping you. If you're

gonna live in the overflow, you gotta know some things or off limits.

So what does this teach me? Not all godly ambition is approved by the

Holy Spirit. So everything you think God would be glorified by, he don't

want you to do. Oh my goodness, y'all have churches you are pastoring

that God didn't tell you to start. That's why struggle at every angle.

Holy Spirit, come back. That's where to struggle at every angle. That's

why you seem like you're fighting so much. Because the Holy Spirit tried to

keep you from starting at church. But what the Holy Spirit will sometimes let

you do is when you are so adamant of getting into a position and a

place that you're not supposed to be in. The only thing that will bring

you out of that place is to let you have it. And the worst

place to be is where God is not. Oh my God, did y'all

hear me? I said the worst place to be is where the Holy Spirit

is not. And I think God that Paul had enough sense to say,

you know what, I am working in some godly ambition. I do want

to take over this territory for God. But if the Holy Spirit says this

is off limits for you, what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna take a

nap. That's what the Bible says. He did, y'all, don't be

reading the Bible. He takes a nap, he said verse nine. During

the night, Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging

him come over to Macedonia and help us. After Paul had seen the vision,

we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had

called us to preach the Gospel to them instead of going into Asia. Two

things I need you to know. A supernatural idea requires supernatural timing. So

it's not that the Word is not going to go to Asia. It's just

it wasn't time and he wasn't the carrier. And many of us are offended

if God chooses somebody else to do part of the mission. I can't even

stay there role, but a lot of us. If I'm not singing a

song, it's not anointed. That's not true. God will use somebody else

to sing that song. You need to turn around and obey the limits that

He has set for you so you can live in the overflow. Paul and

his posse's provision was where God told them to be, not where they wanted

to be. Oh God, if the Holy Spirit is a security guard,

if he's trying to lead us and keep us, it's for our protection.

And today I'm just asking everybody, as you're believing God to expand your business,

go from glory to gorge, take you to another level when he does,

because I believe he is. I'm asking you to look for the limits

because watch this last point. God's limit is his love. Just like a

good father. When I get my kids and we go into our neighborhood.

The first thing I tell them is, hey, don't go on the street.

The street, for some reason, looks so appealing to my children.

I don't know about your kids, but for my kids, it's like,

we got this big old driveway, we got all this other stuff, and

all they want to do is run to the street. And I have to

set limits for them because I know the dangers of people that are on that

main street that aren't looking out for them. They don't care about them.

They don't know what they smell like when they put lotion on, they don't

know what they sound like when they cry. I have an intimate relationship with

all of those children, and so what I love, I protect. And

if I didn't care, like the dog, I really don't care the dog

runs out in the street. At this moment, it's new to the household.

It could maybe make it, maybe not. I Scott knows. I'm

telling the truth. My wife and them kids love the dog. But the

dog, you know what I'm saying. At the end of the day,

they'd be like, honey, honey, protect yourself. Brother. But if

Jia, if Jia starts to even inch outside of the garage. I set

limits because I love her. I'm asking you, as you go to another

level, not to miss what God wants to do in the place he's providing

protection. I said it like this, don't miss Macedonia trying to get to

the masses. He had to redirect him in his dream to go to the

place where he would be effective and protective. God doesn't just want you to

be effective. He wants you to be effective and protective. He wants you

to be covered and cared for. He wants you to walk in your fullness

and not lose anything. So he redirected Paul. I know Asia Minor would

be the biggest blow up of history for the gospel, but go back to

Macedonian instead of trying to go get the masses. I got that I need

you to take care of them. I had a friend who's prominent, and

if I called their name, you would know exactly who. They are,

huge, famous all over the world. And they were interviewed and they got

asked the question, did fame change you? Did the money change? You

did the platform change, you did the spotlight change you? And the interviewer

was stunned by his response. He said no, and it should have,

and I said what he said. No, I was trying to act the

same that I acted back there in this new level. And that's why I

lost everything. Because I was supposed to change the boundaries when I came to

this new level of blessing, but because I tried to keep my old boundaries

at a new level of blessing, it became a burden to my wife,

to my kids, to everybody I led. And so when people say this

transformation church everything, did it change you? Yes? It made me put

new boundaries in place. It made me put new accountability in place. It

made me say, God, if you're gonna take me up, show me

what else I need to cut off. Father, before you got to cut

on me, let me cut it off. I don't want to be humbled

by you. I'll humble myself before the mighty hand of God. So view

the boundaries as a blessing. If God says, don't watch that no more,

say oh, oh, God's trying to take me to a whole nother

level. When God says, stop binging on that, Oh, God's requiring

something else. And even when I want to go into the places that seem

good, when the Holy Spirit lovingly and kindly walks me back. He could

body slam me, come on, the Holy Spirit could be forceful with it,

but he lovingly redirects me into the space and the place where my provision

and protection is. I believe there's some areas that God's redirecting you through this

message and through his presence, that he's saying, I've blessed you, but

don't cut off the overflow because you won't embrace brand new boundaries. I wrote

this down as my last thought, and I really want to give it to

you because it really blessed me, and I hope it blesses you. Set

limits by faith today for the life you want to live tomorrow. What if

the limits you set are actually a sign of faith to God that I'm ready

for this next thing? Right? Oh no, no, no, no,

no, no, yeah, I'm budgeting off of this. I'm tithing

fifteen percent, not ten percent. God, I'm doing. I am living

my life in such a way that it tells you I'm ready. I'm setting

the limits today. I'm not gonna wait for the moment I gotta set them.

Let me set these relationships in order, now, let me set this

discipline in order. Now, let me set the limits by faith today for

the life I want to live tomorrow, because the boundaries actually are a blessing.

Would you stand all over this place? I feel the presence of God

in here. Proverbs twenty five to eight says a man without self control,

a man without boundaries, a man without a limit is like a city broken

into left without walls. Without the boundaries, you're going to lose what God

placed in there today. Would you lift your hands all over this place.

We're about to leave, y'all, But in this place, I believe God

is trying to remind you. The Holy Spirit is trying to lovingly remind you,

and I want you to live in the overflow. But listen to me

when I say something is off limits. I don't know what He's speaking to

you right now, but I want you to ask him, Holy Spirit,

what are you trying to say to me through this message? Come on right

there, just you, you and God, Holy Spirit? What are you

trying to say to me through this masat? What do I need to change?

What do I need to reevaluate? What do I need to recalibrate in

my life? Where are you trying to correct? Change? Convict? Where

are you trying to communicate. No, no, no, no, no.

I know I'm grown and I should. I could be at her house

until four o'clock in the morning. But God, I'm going to set this

boundary and I'm leaving at eleven. Not because I can't, but I don't

even want to be caught in that temptation. Come on, y'all, I'm

talking about where are the things? No no, no, no, no

no no. You can't have my personal cell phone number. I'll talk to

you through email. Come on, y'all, where are the places that God's

saying this is off limits? Today? Father, here we all are asking

you to do what you did for Adam and Eve. Would you make the

limit clear? Would you show us in the beautiful expansive overflow what you want

to be off limits to us? And Father, we won't compare it to

anybody else, and we won't complain. Father God that well they get to

and they get to because we know our convictions are based on our calling.

Today, God, would you allow us to embrace everything that you say is

off limits for us, because your will is to protect us and provide for

us. Forgive me for thinking I knew better than you. I know you

said not to be in that relationship, and I still did it. I

know you said not to spend the money on that, and I still did

it. I know you said, don't have that conversation yet, and I

still did it. Father, forgive me when I have tried to supersede what

you said was off limits, to make it work the way way I thought

it should work. Today, God, I'm coming back to you, submitted

and humbled, and I'm asking would you do a work on the inside of

me to not have to understand to obey because I got history with you,

and Father, you've been faithful and you've been good even when I haven't been

so. Today, God, as a church, as a community, today

we are humbly repenting. We are turning from listening to the serpents in our

life that try to tell us that you don't know best for us. And

Father, we're asking today that you would help us love limits. Father.

That even that sounds countercultural, but Father, God, it is when we

embrace those things that we actually get to live in true freedom. Thank you

that your word would be a limit for us, that we would know how

to handle situations, because we'll find the answers in your Word. Thank you

that our marriage will be founded by limits that are in the Word. Thank

you for your love limiting things that seem good but actually would be a burden.

Today, God, thank you for this correction and warning. As we

move into the overflow, I thank you that we'll embrace everything you have for

us. Today we leave this place encouraged that you love us that much,

you love us enough to set limits, and for that we say thank you.

Come on, say thank you God. If you're in this room and

you've never accepted Jesus, today I want to give you an opportunity to come

out of the burden of living a life without a savior. See, none

of us are good enough. The Bible says, our good works are like

filthy rags compared to what God has for us. So today, if you

want to accept Jesus, this is the only thing that can change your entire

life and literally bring you into a blessing that is gonna change your boundaries.

But it's gonna take away so much of the burden. It took me from

being a liar of manipulator, addicted to pornography, had so many dark things

in my heart, and God said, trade me Michael, and He's given

me joy and peace and understanding and community and a church home and an instruction

manual. I can live this life and actually be successful. And there are

people that are under the sound of my voice in this room and watching online

that need to make Jesus their personal Lord and savior today. And the reason

I'm speaking with passion because it's the greatest one thing I've ever done. And

today I want to give you that opportunity. If you're in this room,

I don't care what you've done. I don't care how bad you think you've

messed up. You have done nothing that will keep you out of the scope

of God's love. Today. Jesus wants a relationship with you. But he

doesn't know what I said, Yes he does. He doesn't know who I'm

with, Yes he does. He doesn't know what I have hidden in my

heart, Yes he does, and he's just waiting for you to bring it

to him. He's the only one that if you bring him your heart,

he'll help you change your habits. And today, on the counter of three,

if you want to accept Jesus all over this world, all over this

room and all over the world, I want you to just slip your hand

in the air. We're not gonna make you fess all your sins. We

do pray that you would get in a tribe or get in community to where

you can confess, because James says, the healing comes in the confession.

Jesus will take it all away. But there's some stuff you need to get

off your chest, and that's where we want to come in as a church.

But today your eternal salvation can be secure by the finished work of Jesus

Christ. One, you're making the greatest decision of your life. Two,

I'm proud of you. But more than that, your name is about to

be written in the Lamb's Book of Life. If you want to accept Jesus.

Three, shoot your hand up in the air right now. I see

hold on, there you go. I see a person right there, one

right there, and there's someone like come on, if one person, I

see you back there, Glory to God. I see you, my brother,

I see you, my sister. Hey. The thing that you got

to understand is in a place like this, we want thousands of hands to

go up. Heaven rejoices over one. The full turn up is over one

person that would give their life to Christ. And that Transformation church saw several

hands. This is the reason we come here, so nobody prays alone.

Would you lift your hands and just say, God, thank you for sending

Jesus just for me. Today. I cast my burdens onto you. I

believe you lived, you died, and you rose again just for me.

I give you my life, Change me, renew me, transform me.

I'm yours in Jesus' name a man? Can we turn up with heaven right

now? Oh? Come on, if you saw those people, give them

a hot five, give them a hot I'm so proud of you. God

is so good. Hey, listen, if you just got saved, I

want you to tax saved to eight two eight two eight two, and we

have something for you, and we want to welcome you to the Kingdom.

The altar workers are about to come and the worship team's going to sing one

more song. If you have to leave, we totally understand. We're so

grateful that you came today. We have so much in store for you this

entire summer. Next week we're going into part nine of this series, and

I'm telling you you don't want to miss what God's is. Anybody enjoying living

in the overflow in this place. Remember you can go by the album right

now and this Thursday night at midnight, Dominion comes out. If you need

prayer for anything, I just want you to go to the back or even

come to the front to worship, and we're just gonna allow God to do

whatever he wants because hearts are being transformed in this moment. We love what

God is doing here and we're so grateful that you come. Until next week,

go out and live a transformed life. If you love Jesus, would

you give them one more shout of praise in this place? 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

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