It's Time To Ride: Tag! You're It // It's Time (Part 5) // Michael Todd

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We're about to end this series, It's Time. Somebody say,

It's Time. It's Time.

Yeah. And this one I've been saving since the beginning

of the series.

Oh, yeah.

I had to sequentially let you know it's time to shift.

Somebody say, It's Time to Shift.

It's Time to Shift.

And then secondly, I have to tell you, it's time

to get in the house. And then I had to

let you know. Anybody remember the third one?

Oh, come on. Somebody said it's time to purify.

And then last week, Pastor Charles, let us know it's

time for miracles again.

So powerful.

And today I'm going back to Joshua chapter one, because

sometimes When God is ending things, he takes you back

to the beginning. And so if you got a Bible,

pull out your Bible right now. I'm about to preach

in this place. I'm literally trying, y'all see how I'm

gripping this thing right here? This thing is shut up

in my bones. Because somebody's about to get their fight back.

You've been getting punked too long by the enemy. Some

of y'all been on the defense so long, getting pushed back,

and is another thing.

Going to happen? What's going to happen next? God, I can't.

But somebody's about to put your foot down. And you

about to pick up your backpack.

Yeah.

Somebody said it's about to be time to ride. I

don't know who I'm talking.

To today, but somebody's about to put some Vaseline on.

Some of y'all who know how to fight know what

I'm talking about. You're about to start putting some Vaseline on.

Y'all know what I'm talking about. You're about to get

your gloves, and you're about to fight the.

Enemy that's been coming after your family, coming after your mind,

coming after your peace.

Coming after your joy, coming after your vision. Today is

the day.

That God is saying that he's backing you.

Oh my God. Somebody shout at me, it's time.

Just think of me as your corner man today. You're

in a boxing match and I'm coming to hype you up. Everybody,

stand up real quick, all right?

Come on, we're going to read this scripture. Joshua chapter one.

After the death of Moses, the Lord's servant, the Lord

spoke to Joshua, son of Nun, Moses' assistant, and he said, Moses,

my servant is dead.

Therefore, it's time the old way is dead. Therefore, it's time.

It's time for you to shift. And it's time for you.

Joshua, to lead these people, the Israelites, across the Jordan

River into.

The land, whoa, I am giving them.

You know you got stuff that already got your name

on it? No, y'all don't hear what I'm saying to you.

This is a foreshadowing of what God wants for all

of his people.

He's saying, I'm giving you things you.

Don't currently have possession of. It already has your... Somebody say,

it has my name on it. Right now, some of

y'all are door dashing your lunch right now.

I know you. You're trying to beat the lines at Kaaba.

And watch this. They're going to make your food and

they're going to put your... It's already sitting there with

your name.

All you have to do is go possess it. He said,

I am giving them all of this land because I

promised it to Moses.

And wherever you set your foot, wherever you.

Have the crazy faith to step, Wherever you have the.

Courage to put a claim in that area. He said,

I have already given you that land. Somebody say, it's

already mine. Say it with faith, it's already mine.

He said, from the Najee wilderness in the south to

the Lebanon mountains in the north, from the Euphrates rivers

in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.

God said, north, south, east, west. If you step, you

can have it. Some of y'all don't believe the Bible.

It's right here.

Look at verse five. Most gangster scripture in this whole thing.

Let's go. No one will be able.

To stand against you as long as you shall live.

I'm going to read it one more time so it

hits your soul. If you have the courage.

To step, no one, somebody say nobody.

Nobody.

Nobody.

Will have the ability to stand against you as long,

not just for this one battle. Not just for this year.

Not just for this season. No one will be able

to stand against you as long as you draw breath.

Why? Not because you got a good plan. It says,

for I will be with you.

Just as I was with Moses and I was with

your mama and I was with those who went before you.

I was with your bloodline.

Yeah. He said, I will not fail you or abandon you.

This is where I want to start today. Verse six,

be strong and courageous. Say those two words strong and courageous.

One more time.

I will be strong and courageous for you.

Are the one.

I'm not looking for nobody else. I'm not trying to

get nobody else to answer this call. I'm not putting

out an alarm. I called you. This ain't a mass

text message. This is not a post on Instagram. I

sent this to one person.

Oh my God. God said, I called you. And you're

the one who will lead.

These people to possess all the land I swore to

their ancestors I would give to them. This ain't even

about you. I called you, but it ain't about you.

I called you, but this ain't even about you. If

you don't do it, they don't get.

What they need. Okay.

He says, so be very strong and very courageous. Be

careful to obey all the instructions Moses gave you. Do

not deviate from them. This means that the old way

may not have worked for them because you don't know

fully what their obedience was like, but we're not supposed

to throw away everything old. The reason I need to

say this to you because sometimes we feel like we

get a new assignment and so that means we get

new instructions. But this is saying new assignment, same instructions. Okay,

so prayer is not something that old folks do.

Okay.

Worship is not something for women.

There are certain.

Things that were a part of what God called all

of us to do. And even though we get new assignment,

we still got to obey the old instructions.

Okay, here we go.

Do not deviate from them, turning either to the right

or the left. Then, if you do this, you'll be successful.

In, whoa.

The Bible sometimes, boy, just be reading me. Like, I'll

be reading it, but it be reading me. He said,

if you do what I tell you, you'll be successful

in things you didn't even pray about. See, you think

your prayer, what you said, is connected to what he does.

Sometimes you're praying about this, and because you obey him

in this.

He does all that.

We'll talk about it later. He said you'll be successful

in everything you do. Verse eight, study the book. Study

this book of instructions continually. Meditate on this. I think

it was prophet Kid Cudi that said day and night.

Yeah, you see, y'all too safe, y'all too safe. I

meditate on the word day and night. Okay, stop. It

gets me through when I don't know what to do. No,

let me stop. Somebody say day and night. Day and night.

Do you do that? We got real quiet.

I would dare you for one week to read your

Bible as much as you open social media.

One for one.

If you open the app, you open the book. I'm

not saying you can do it all day, but it'll

be boom, boom.

Boom, boom. I like that. Boom, boom. Day and night.

Because if you meditate on it day and night, what

he's trying to do, watch this, what God is trying

to tell you is I need to occupy more of

your brain space. You make bad decisions when other thing

is occupying your brain space. So it won't be the

only thing there, but it needs to be a lot

of what's there. Because this can transform your life. He

said if you meditate on it day and night and

do everything that is written in it and obey those things,

only then You will prosper and succeed in all you do.

Watch this.

He wants to make this super clear. This is my command.

What is the command? Not to just read the word.

Watch. It comes after it. Be strong and courageous. Don't

be afraid or discouraged. Because I'm with you. I'm the Lord,

your God.

And I will be with you. Watch this. Wherever you go.

Look at your neighbor and tell them the title of

this last sermon in this In It's Time series.

Tell them, it's time to ride.

Oh, come on, look at your other neighbor and say,

it's time to ride. And if you know that you're

going to ride into everything that God has called for you,

just give him one more shout of praise on your

way to your seat. We sang it earlier that we've

been talking about it's time to do something. And eventually,

we got to stop talking. A lot of lip service.

A lot of, yeah, we're going to obey God. Yeah,

we're about to do this. And at some point, look

at your neighbor and say, it's time to ride. The

young lady that wrote that song, I just found out

that she was a part of Greenwood Christian Center a

long time ago, Bishop. I remember her and She was

at ORU and I looked at the thing as I

was getting ready to preach this week and the young

lady said, lace up your boots, put on your backpack,

it's time to ride. Now I don't know exactly what

was in her mind when she wrote this and where

she was going.

But there's something about the imagery of.

You putting on boots When you're about to go into combat, warfare,

a street fight. See, some of y'all have been saved

and protected all your life, but anybody know that you

might have to stomp somebody out, you put on boots.

I just want to be clear. You do not wear Birkenstocks.

I'm just letting everybody know you don't wear Uggs. Those

are not, you need some Timberlands. You hear what I'm saying?

If you, okay, excuse me. If you don't fight, where

are we going? What are we doing? What's happening?

I can tell I'm in a room full of a

lot of people who never fought. So you might be

qualified for this next question I'm going to ask. Right

now in the mind of your imagination, if you knew

you had to fight somebody for whatever reason, you didn't

even want to.

Let's just say you didn't even want to, but you

know it's going down.

It's happening.

It's happening.

But you could call somebody to help you.

Usually you think about.

The person you want in your corner, but today I

want you to do something just a little bit different.

I want you to think about the person in your

mind right now that if your help showed up and

it was them, you would be like, oh my God,

I'm about to get beat. Think about that right now.

No, come on.

I need you to think. Get them in your mind.

You might be sitting next to them. You might be

married to them. But all I'm saying to you is,

who is the person that you'd be like, yeah, I

got back up.

Yeah, I got back up. And then they roll up

and you're like, no, no, no. If you don't know,

it's you. If you're like, I don't know. I don't know.

Because the truth of the matter is when you're going

into a fight, you got to be with somebody.

They don't even got to be good if they got

the gas. Y'all know them people is like they not

really about to.

Do nothing, but they hyping me up to do what

I got to do.

What are we talking about?

This whole section is like, I'm getting beat up. Like, no,

I'm just playing, I'm just playing, I'm just playing, I'm

just playing. The reason I'm bringing this up is because

we find Joshua in a time where God has shifted him,

called him, and God from heaven says, it's time to ride.

40 years, we've been sitting in park. For 40 years,

we've been in the wilderness. For 40 years, we've been

messing with these generational patterns. For 40 years, we've been

standing in the same place.

Moses is dead. It's time to ride. And I believe

the same way.

That God is telling Joshua that I think there's some

areas in your life where God's saying we have been in.

Park too long. Somebody say it's time to ride. See,

this is what people don't get. And it irks me.

That people think that the kingdom of God and being

a Christian is a defensive belief system.

That we're just trying to play defense with the devil.

Hopefully he doesn't do anything this week that messes up

my peace.

Hopefully the devil doesn't get his way. The devil is

a liar. I hope he doesn't. I don't know anybody

who actually does that, but that's how I feel. The

devil busy, he's so busy.

Just think about the language of that, like, the devil,

he just at work, what are you doing? Greater is

he that lives on the inside of me than he

that's in, I'm trying to get you to understand that

it is the enemy who tries to make you feel

like you playing defense instead of playing offense. I wake

up every morning and say, devil, you lost again. I

got breath in my body.

I have peace.

I have God on my side, okay? And the reason

I'm saying this is because the kingdom of heaven is not.

A passive kingdom.

God is trying to advance his kingdom and populate heaven

every day. We wake up every day with the office.

How much territory are we going to take today?

How many people going to run into me today?

How many people are going to get saved because of

my love and kindness?

How many people are going to.

Get blessed because they just happen to.

Be next to me at Quick Trip?

And what we're doing is looking for the $ 20 instead

of giving it. That went over some people's head. We're

always looking to be blessed and to be the blessing.

I'm playing off it. I'm going out for him. I

am his partner. I have been deputized to take up

territory in every place that I stand. I expand his kingdom.

I can tell some of y'all ain't taking a ride

in a while. Because the truth of the matter is

life has been beating you up to the point that

you feel like, just let me just survive this.

I don't feel like riding. I honestly don't feel like

getting in the car, Pastor Mike.

Today I actually came to help you get your fight back.

Because the promised land is on the other side of

this obedience step.

Somebody say it's time to ride.

I'm going to give you scripture to let you know

that we are not a passive people anymore. Matthew chapter

Matthew 11:12

11 verse 12, it says, and from the days of

John the Baptist until now.

Everybody say until now.

The kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take

it by force.

No, no, no, there's no negotiation. Oh God.

The subtitle to this series is God's not negotiating with next.

He's already told the enemy, I'm about to send Michael.

I'm about to send Sarah. I'm about to send Brenda.

I'm about to send Will. I'm about to send Charlie.

No, wait a minute.

You stay right there, devil. I'm about to go get

my kids to fight you. Y'all ever seen them parents?

It's funny and kind of sad at the same time.

You ever seen them parents on social media? They do

this thing where they come in the house and they

tell their daughter, hey, hey, such and such daughter, she

out there talking crazy to me.

And I told them you would fight them.

And you see these kids that ain't never been in

a fight in they life be.

Like, who?

Me? Me?

And she's like, I told them that you're

going to beat their tail. told them.

And it's funny to watch these children literally say, I

don't even want to be your child anymore. But when

God tells the enemy that I'm about to send Stephen,

And then God comes in and says, hey, I told

the devil that you were going to praise me anyhow,

even though you're going through that situation. Most believers be like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

not me. I don't really want to play. And God's saying,

hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm the

one that has empowered you, taught you, and given you

the victory in every battle.

All I need you to do, watch this, is show up.

And there are many people that will not show up

for what God is calling us to.

And that's why I need to tell you this.

And this may make sense to you today or may

make sense to you two weeks from now.

But I want you to write this down.

God's kingdom is advancing and its arrival is creating intense opposition.

And response.

And because of that arrival of God's kingdom, it demands

a radical response from us. Do you know the devil

hates that this church is here? Do you know that

the enemy speaks to people? I'm like, go write a

story about that church. Go talk about this for them.

People and like he hate if we wasn't doing nothing,

not making no impact. not blessing people, not robbing people

from hell. We are a threat to the devil. Because

every time I wake up and every time this theme

gets together and every time this church gathers and says

hallelujah anyhow, we are forcefully advancing the kingdom of God.

I'm trying to act civilized. But what you have to

understand is That is our God-given assignment to literally take

territory for God every day. And so as I sit

here thinking, okay, God, you want us to be picking fights.

Okay.

When I read the scripture, I like try to break

it down to like regular stuff. Like you want me.

To go pick a fight.

Like after the worst day I've had, you want me

to be like.

Glory to God. There's nobody like Jehovah.

Because your praise, the Bible says, confuses the enemy.

How in the world?

After they lost that relationship and they got that job

situation that's not working out.

And they feel lonely right now. How in the world

do they still have joy? My question is.

When's the last time you picked a fight with the

enemy with your praise?

If it's time to ride, you like David. Who is

this uncircumcised Philistine?

A whole army is sitting there watching, playing defense with.

Goliath, and little Uber Eats David comes up and is like,

y'all hear this? Here, here, take this grilled cheese out.

Do you....

That's like somebody talking about your mama. Like me and

my mama, we might be having.

Some issues, but who? Okay, y'all don't. Who? I don't

know why.

Anybody got that type of energy if they start talking

about you?

I can talk about my family, but. What are you?

Shut up.

Then why can people talk about your God like that?

Why you let people communicate? And I'm not saying go

back at them. You got to go back at the

originator of the lies. And I'm just trying to encourage

somebody to get your fight back because it's time to ride.

God's saying we got a promised land to go get.

Next year, if it ain't your year, it ain't because

I didn't do it. It's because you wouldn't show up

to fight. Okay, you don't want to hear this word.

But the truth of the matter is God's trying to

advance us. He's trying to take us on a trip

on a little rocket ship. And you got to get

in this mug and ride. So what am I supposed

to do, Pastor Mike? Well, God gives Joshua two words

that he says to him three times. Now, anytime that

God says something over and over, when you read the scripture,

you're supposed to pay close attention to it. Because he's

trying to reiterate and push a point into your heart

and into your soul. He tells Joshua three times in

this one chapter, be strong and courageous. He said, I'm

speaking over you what you may not be right now.

But for you to see the promised land, you have

to be these two things, strong and courageous. I thought

he would say smart. He didn't say smart. He didn't

say witty. He didn't say cunning. He didn't say pretty.

He said, all I.

Need you to do is be strong and courageous.

So when I started to look up those two words,

I started to realize that that the church has a

strength and courage problem. Because too many of us aren't

in the promised land. We're not walking in dominion. We're

not having peace. We're not walking in joy. The fruits

of the Spirit seem like something we're still trying to

go pick up from the grocery store. When he literally

says to us that when you get the Spirit on

the inside of you, you have love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, self-control.

And we're still.

Trying to find it. There must be something we're missing.

And the Holy Spirit said, my church does not understand

why I said courage and strength and why both of

them are so important together. Listen to this word. This

is revelation. Courage can be given, but strength is built.

I'm saying this because I'm about to break this down.

If God is saying over and over, be strong and courageous,

you got to understand the nature of how these things

are given to people. Courage can be given. Somebody could

give me courage right now to do something. They'd be like, jump,

Pastor Mike, jump, jump, jump, jump into the crowd, jump

into the crowd. And if they made a good enough case,

and I saw some kind of strong people in this area,

that woman standing on the front row said, do not jump.

We're going to drop you, Pastor. That will be the end.

Look at her. I'll see you. You ain't even going

to help me.

But I could get courage to do something. But the

difference is the strength to actually carry something out over time,

it's not built the same. Nobody can give you strength.

You have to build strength. So the church many times

gets a lot of courage in church.

Courage at the altar. Courage from a song.

But they don't have the other ingredient to actually possess.

They have not developed any strength. And that's why the

enemy comes to pick you off and you be so

discouraged because you got courage or in courage. Somebody put

courage in. You stepped out.

You got hit because you didn't have no strength.

You had no spiritual strength. You had no emotional strength.

You had no physical strength. So the temptation, all he said, well,

what's up, baby?

Pregnant. You ain't got no strength to say, no, you

ain't fine. Pregnant, again. Six kids later, no strength. Do

y'all understand what I'm saying? Because you had the courage.

I ain't going to answer. Knock, knock, knock. Hello, the client.

And you can apply that to any situation. Some of

you have courage to pass by McDonald's, but no strength

not to door dash it. I ain't going through the drive-thru.

I ain't going through the drive-thru. Bing bong, they pulled up.

Why are you saying this, Pastor Mike? Because courage, listen

to me, can be given.

And you need courage.

And you need people around you to encourage you.

Put courage in.

But what most of the believers that I'm talking to

need right now, they need strength.

You need strength. Somebody say strong and courageous.

Okay, Pastor Mike, so if I need to be strong

and courageous to actually see the promised land, make that

make sense to me. Write this point down. Your strength

and courage come from your care and consistent systems.

Oh, y'all want to be spiritual today?

Nope, I'm going to be very practical to get you

to the spiritual in your life. If you want courage,

your courage is connected to your care. Just ask any mom.

People will do stuff as a mom that they will

never do if you mess with their baby.

And all the moms say, amen. Look, that woman said.

I mean, I have seen moms, Natalie at one point,

and Aaron can literally give testimony to this. Natalie stopped

a car with her body.

Baby, you remember this?

And she said, stop telling my story.

She literally, one of our babies, she put her.

Body in front of a car and stopped it long

enough to get that baby out of the way. Now,

if I was about to get hit by a car,

I'm telling you, she would have.

Been like, watch out. Babe! I love you! Y'all would

have been doing my funeral.

But that baby, who was defenseless, that she cared for, that.

Baby said, hmm. Why?

Because my courage It's connected to what I care about.

So my question to you, if you need to build

your courage, what do you care about? And some of

us are caring about things that aren't things that actually.

Produce any life in our world. I can't care about

your opinion.

You getting courage to respond to somebody that you'll never

meet online. That's called sideways energy. You ain't never going

to see these people a day in your life, but

you actually need courage to actually mend that bond between

you and your family member. But sometimes we care more

about the opinion of somebody we don't know than healing

the thing that's been a breach in our family line

to actually change our bloodline.

What I'm saying to.

You is you may need to reexamine what you care about.

Because the only way you get courage is if you

actually care about it. Here's the next one. How do

I get strength, Pastor Mike? Why don't you ask me that?

How do I get strength, Pastor? I'm so glad you asked.

You get strength through consistent systems. You cannot get strength

by wanting it.

You do not get strong in any area by knowing

how to do it.

You do not get strength unless you have a consistent

system that delivers strength.

So if you are weak in.

Your mind, what is your consistent system to strengthen your

mind daily? For me, I get in the mirror every

morning and I say, you are Michael Todd. and you

are confident, you are courageous, you are satisfied, you are healthy,

you are whole, you are a man of integrity, you

love one woman, you take care.

Of all four of your kids, and I just go,

and I just be, yes, I am. Because of all the.

Attacks that come against me, all the things that the

enemy would try to love to get into this mind, no, no, no, no, no.

I have to build a consistent system to build my

mental strength. People come up to me, how do you

do it? How do you do it? Because I'm in

the gym.

I'm working. I'm clocking in spiritually.

If you ever just come around and put a camera

on me, you will see me walking around doing regular stuff.

You want two double Gs? No, no, no, no, no.

I'm going to go get them, baby. I'll get them.

I need my edge up to be real nice, though.

Put my edge up right here.

Why? Because I'm spiritually....

I'm building my faith in that moment. And too many

people want what they won't work for. I'ma just tell you,

you're never going to be strong in integrity if you're

always watching porn. There's no way you will be able

to look at a woman or a man with any

type of purity if you keep consistently feeding that system.

You will never be able to manage millions if you

cannot manage hundreds.

I'm going to be a millionaire, not for long. If

it happens, it will be very short-lived.

Why? Because you do not have a consistent system. If

I'm going to build strength, I can trace my strength

to my system. If y'all can see how y'all looking

at me right now, One dude looking at me cross-eyed

right now, he's like, I don't even know if I'm

supposed to be here. The reason I'm saying this is

because I'm trying to give you practical steps to be

what God told Joshua he had to be to possess

the land. Strong and courageous. Strong and very courageous. My

command is be strong and courageous. So you got to

care and have a consistent system. That's enough revelation for

you to chew on for the rest of the year.

But most of us want to come back and get

a shot next week of faith so we can do

what God told us to do.

Do this one. Just do this one.

If you would do this one and build your strength

and understand your care, it would change everything.

In your life.

Let me give you a practical example. I've been on

a challenge that I gave myself. Something wrong with me.

But I gave myself a challenge. to do 200 push-ups

every day until my birthday, which is November 15th. I

am on day 46 right now. And I have not

missed a day. If some of y'all... Cool, I don't.

Need your encouragement. My wife said I look good. Thumbs up, baby?

Thumbs up, okay. I have seen, I have seen over

the last 45 days.

My strength build in ways I didn't even understand until

it was tested. Like, I've been doing 200 push-ups before

I go to bed every single day for 45 days.

I have done 9,000 push-ups in the last 45 days.

Now, let me tell you, it hurts.

Let me tell you the days that I have forgotten

to start until 10 p.m. Because I was doing things

I was responsible for. And there was nobody that was

going to do anything to me if I didn't do them.

Except I knew I was training for something that I'm

not yet in yet. Today, before I came out in

the back, y'all were singing on time, God. And on beat,

I was like, one, two, three, four. Because I got

to get these pushups in before tonight.

Why?

Because I'm building strength. But the only way I'm building

strength is through a system. I have an app on

my phone. It's a little beta stride app I'm testing

for everybody in the world right now.

But I'm literally counting by fives.

Up to 200 every day because I will never see

the strength if I do not develop the system. Pastor Mike,

why do you keep saying this? Because you don't need

a miracle. You need a system. You want to develop

a prayer life?

Create a system. You want to tarry for 12 hours,

12 minutes. Let's do 12 minutes for a year.

12 hours one time.

It's just going to be like, I'm never doing that again.

But 12 minutes every day.

Consistently making time.

It's compounding interest on the same thing over and over again.

And I'm begging you, church, to stop trying to be

impressive and explosive.

Just be consistent. All right, three claps. It's all good.

For the three people that want to know what to do,

because this is why you're scared to ride, because you

don't believe in your own strength.

You don't believe in you. You say, God called me.

I don't believe he called me. I don't know what

he's talking about. I'm not the one. But he tells Joshua,

you're the one.

So I'm going to give you three things you need

to know If you're going to be ready to ride,

y'all ready for them?

Okay. And then we're going home. All right, here we go.

If you're going to be strong and courageous, you have

to know why. And let me say this to you,

because I want somebody to hear me say this. When

you lose your why, you lose your way. If your

why is not strong, some of y'all forgot why you

fell in love with your spouse.

Some of you have forgotten why you moved to Tulsa.

You forgot why God called you to this church. And

when you lose your why, you lose your way. Today,

I'm going to give you three reasons why you need

to be strong and courageous.

Okay? Y'all ready?

First point, you have to be strong and courageous.

Because tag, you're it.

Tap your neighbor on the shoulder and say tag. Tag.

You're it. Come on, high fives in the chat right now.

Find your other neighbor you didn't like as much and

say tag.

You're it. That's awkward, ain't it? Here we go. Tag.

Does anybody ever remember playing tag as a kid?

No, it's crazy that I just thought about this playing

tag with my kids is that playing tag, the object,

if you're not the one tagging, is to run away.

Which I think we've never reversed that when God says tag,

you're it. When God's chasing after us, we're like, yeah, I.

Know this game. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.

And most of us spend most of our life running

from the one who chose us.

We spend most of our life.

Going away from the one we need to put his

hand on us.

And he's saying, I'm choosing you.

And you're like, uh-uh, let me run away from this call.

Let me run away from this expectation. Let me run

away from this responsibility. I don't want to be responsible

like that. And God's saying, I'm not going to tag

nobody else.

Tag. You're it. You want to see it in the scripture?

He tells Joshua in verse six, be strong and courageous

for you're the one.

Tag. You it.

Two million people with the children of Israel. He could

have tagged anybody else. And he came to Joshua. Moses

is dead.

Tag, you it.

And when I started thinking about tag, three things came

to my mind. This is my imagination. The first thing

I thought about is playing tag as a kid. The

second thing, mama, I'm sorry about this, but you told

us not to watch.

Wrestling, but all your boys watched it anyway.

And we used to watch wrestling. WWF, and then it

turned to WWE, and one of the greatest tag team

teams was this thing, y'all too safe for this, they

were called the NWO, and it was the New World Order,

and this was back when Hulk Hogan had already passed

his heyday, but then somehow he came back, and it

was Hulk Hogan, and who was the other two? Steve Nash,

and what was the other guy?

Scott Hall, that's who it was with the slick back.

Y'all remember what I was talking about?

And one of the things that I loved about them

is they never fought alone. Even when they were up

in the ring by themselves, they would run down to

the ring right when somebody was about.

To get beat.

And they would put their hand over the rope. And

what they would do is they would tag each other.

And when you would, oh, there they go. They would

tag each other. And when they would tag each other,

the one would go through the thing, and then they

would come out. And it was a lot of foot stomping.

Y'all know what I'm talking about. What does it look

like when God says, I'm not just tagging you, but

I want you to be my partner?

Like out of everybody he could pick, He wants to

get his will done on earth through you. What a

privilege for.

God to look over the rafters of heaven and put

out his hand and put out his hand and literally say, Tag,

you're it, Daya. Tag, you're it, Matt. Tag, you're it, Alex.

Today I came to tell you, it's you. Turn that

music off.

Turn that off. I'm not done. Thank you. Tag.

He's partnering with you right now.

2026 is the year that you.

Got to understand that God is saying, I need you

to do it. And he's not looking for another one, Brittany.

He's coming for you. He's coming for you. He's coming

for you. The last thing that I thought about when

I thought about tag, I thought about a name tag.

Because a tag is something, a label that people.

Put on you.

And the truth of the matter is many times the

tag that we answer to is the tag that.

We actually believe in.

So right now, all over the room, if I tagged

you bold, who would want boldness in their life? Okay,

give that to her. Will, come run some of these back.

If somebody said tag satisfied, that was your name, you

want that tag, come on. Okay, somebody, take successful to somebody, Charles.

Who wants to be, here, I'm going to put that

right here for you. How about anybody want to be

tagged married? I'm going to let you take that one, PC.

Don't hurt Pastor Charles.

Joyful? Anybody want to be tagged joyful? Give it to

her right there. All right, I got two more tags.

Who wants to tag failure? Who wants to be tagged

a failure? Sit down.

No, you don't.

Who wants to be tagged frustrated? What I'm saying to you, listen, listen, listen.

Why would you choose to pick up these tags? Why

would you choose to be introduced as hello, my name is, frustrated.

Hello, my name is, failure.

Today, we're coming to rip up every tag. Oh, y'all

better hear me. Today, God's saying, I'm ripping up every

tag I didn't call you. It don't matter if your

parents called it to you. We're changing your bloodline. I

don't care if this is what your first husband said.

We're changing your bloodline.

I don't care if this is what you believe about yourself.

I'm changing your bloodline. I'm changing your name. We serve

the God that changes names. He takes you from.

Oh, my God. Takes you from Jacob to Israel. He

changes names. And so I just came to simply tell you,

be strong and courageous because tag.

Second reason that you need to understand.

That you need to be strong and courageous is watch

this because turning back will take too much. The first

song that we sing is called Forward. It's the word

of the year here at Transformation Church. And the bridge

of that song says, I have decided. to follow Jesus.

No turning back, no turning back. The reason why you

can't turn back, cause it's gonna cost you too much.

If you turn back now, I know it looks tempting,

I know Egypt looks tempting, I know slavery looks tempting,

but you have come too far to lose that much

that quick. That one call could set you back four years.

That one night could take away your joy for a decade.

Do y'all hear what I'm saying?

Today I'm coming to tell you turning back will take

too much. That's why in verse 7 it says, be

strong and very courageous.

Somebody say why.

Because you got to be careful to obey all my instructions.

Do not deviate from them turning to the left or

to the right. What the Holy Spirit said to me

through this, he said, Michael, I need my people to

have ferocious focus.

I need them to be focused.

Because the deviation makes them want to turn back. And today,

I need everybody to know that this previous generation died

because they would not listen to the word of God.

And I just need you to understand, God said, you'll

be successful in everything you do if you just stay focused.

How many people would just acknowledge, because we're a hot church, humble, open,

and transparent, that you are somebody who gets distracted easily?

Come on, let's just. Golly. Keep the camera right here.

Keep the camera right here.

May I submit to you, you're not strong in focus

because you don't have a consistent system to focus.

Do you practice focus?

Do you have any system that helps you say, I'm

going to focus on this?

Until you build that, it will.

Never be a trait that the Holy Spirit just gives you. Dang,

Pastor Mike, I just thought I was going to go

to the altar and he was going to touch me.

I'll fall out. I'll even fall out. I'll fall out

for focus.

Come on.

I hit the ground. Get up. Still distracted. Why?

Because you don't have a system to build your strength

in that area. And I'm just begging you, build the

system and care about it. Be strong and courageous, because

if you go back, it'll take too much from you.

Thank you, Holy Spirit. Last one. Verse nine, it says,

this is my command. Be strong and courageous.

Do not be.

Afraid or discouraged for the Lord God, watch this, is

with you wherever you go.

Watch this.

This is not just a promise for the promised land.

This is a promise for after the promised land. He said,

I'll be with you wherever you go. Which means, write

this down as a point, there is a future plan

that goes beyond the promised land. Most people are just

trying to get to that one thing. And God's saying,

I need you to build your strength and your care

in all these areas. Because before you were formed in

your mother's womb, I knew you. I had plans to

prosper you and not to harm you, to give you

a hope and a future. This is not the only

battle I want you to win. So I'm not promising

you I'm going to be with you in the promised land.

I said, wherever you go. What I'm trying to tell

everybody right now is this is God's ultimate idea. His

greatest plans for you, you haven't even thought of yet.

What he thinks about you has not even entered into

your mind.

There's so much more. We sang it in the worship.

There's so much more to this story. He's not done

with you. But the truth of the matter is you

got to stay focused. You got to develop your care

and your system. And watch this. You got to go

tag somebody else. See, the reason why God's choosing Joshua

is because his obedience is about to tag an entire

nation of people. These people are about to enter into

the place that their generations before them never got to

see because he said, this ain't just for me.

Tag, I'm in. Tag, you're in.

Right now, if I tag you, and you go tag PC, PC,

and PC, you go.

Tag somebody over there.

And then that person gets up and tags somebody behind them.

Tag somebody behind you. Tag somebody behind you. And tag

somebody behind them. And tag somebody behind them. Y'all keep

tagging people. Brother, tag them. Keep going. Let's see if

the tag can get up to the rafters. Tag.

Tag.

Tag. Come on. Tag.

Tag. You said in the back because you didn't think

we was going to notice you.

Tag that person right there. Stand up. You, stand up.

Last tag. Stand up. Hey, girl.

Or boy.

I can't even see you.

Person. I want to let you know that God told

me to tag you and let you know that there's

a blessing that I'm supposed to give you today.

I'm not telling everybody.

But I'm supposed to give you a blessing because God

wanted to single you out and let you know he's

proud of you.

Today, this is just a sign in the back, all

the way in the back.

God just wants you to know he loves you and

he's proud of you.

Watch this. I didn't tag her. I only tagged her.

And it was the tag of every person that was

touched all the way up that allowed Kendall to walk

into her blessings.

I need somebody.

To hear me.

You've got to get in your place right now.

It's time to ride because somebody is.

Waiting on you.

Somebody say it's time to ride. Bonus point and we

out of here. You have to be strong and courageous.

because your shoulder is the setup. After Joshua allowed all

the people to cross because the presence of God was

in the middle of the water and they all crossed

before they came out of the water with the presence

of God, Joshua picked one person, he tagged other people.

He tagged 12 people that represented all the other bloodlines

in the tribe. He said, I need the 12 tribes

of Israel. I need one person from each of those

tribes to come and I need you to pick up

a big rock and I need you to put it

on your shoulder and I need you to take this

from here. I need you to bear the weight for

the generations to come. He said, because one day, this

water is going to be covering up this spot and

the proof or the evidence or the testimony that we

saw God do a miracle here is that we're going

to take a rock from the bottom of this water

and we're going to put it on our shoulder and

we're going to carry it to the next place. And

then we're going to set those 12 stones up as

a memorial for people who ain't even here yet.

And there were 12 men.

That actually took the weight of responsibility for a generation

that was not there yet. They were the ones that

were designated.

And picked to change their bloodline.

And as we're walking into this week in this conference,

I just believe that God is calling this church to

be the Aaron and the hers, the 12 people that

are saying, God, I'll do it. I bet there were

a few people that volunteered. They said, I don't know

what you're about to ask me to do, but.

I'll do it.

What happens when you stop running when God wants to

tag you and you start volunteering your services?

Here I am, Lord. Send me.

I could preach a whole nother message on this, but

this is what I want you to leave thinking. My

shoulders are built to transform my bloodline. You need to

say that over yourself. You need something to build your mind.

My shoulders are built to transform my bloodline. Why?

Because the Bible.

Says that the same power that raised Christ from the

dead is living on the inside of me. Now, for

every blood-bought believer in this place, you may not know this,

but you have supernatural shoulders. A rabbi, our example, Jesus,

did something before he was crucified to show us what

it looks like to bear a burden for a generation

that's not yet there. The Bible tells us that after

they cried,' Hosanna in the streets!' Then they started yelling

crucify him. And what they made him do is pick

up a cross. And the Bible tells us that this

cross that he would be hung on.

Was heavy.

And he had to carry his own cross on his

shoulders for a generation who would be plagued by sin.

And he carried it all the way to Calvary just

from you and me. And he was an eternal example

of what it looked like to shoulder the weight of

somebody else's sin So that one day, maybe they would

have the opportunity to be changed by the bloodline of

one man. And the Bible tells us that we're supposed

to pick up our cross, not yearly, not monthly, not weekly.

But I'm supposed to show, this is why I pray

for my daughters. This is why I pray for sent youth.

This is why I pray for my brothers. This is

why I stand in the gap and tell people, even

though culture thinks that's normal, this is not normal. I'm

trying to shoulder. I'm trying to build something that will

save another generation. Today, all I'm asking you is will

you shoulder something for somebody else to be saved? Will

you actually be the one to say it stops with me?

I'm gonna develop.

My consistent systems and my care because I have to

be an example to this next generation. The world is

getting darker and darker, but he is the light of

the world.

My shoulders were built to transform my bloodline.

Those 12 men, we don't know their names, but everybody

saw those stones. The Bible said they still stand to

this day. Those 12 men did something that literally stands

till this day.

Their shoulders were built for it.

And today, just as our rabbi had supernatural shoulders, I'm

here to tell you you can get through that addiction

you can be free from that depression you can walk

away from that jealousy and that you you can actually

not be religious and pharisaical you can actually celebrate people

You can actually be a part of this body and

live in peace. You don't have to.

You can shoulder this weight and let God.

Transform your life. Standing all over this building. Be strong

and courageous. Be strong and very courageous. This is my command.

Be strong. and courageous. What are you going to be?

Strong and courageous.

This week, what is your declaration over yourself? I am

strong and courageous. Before you leave in this place, I

need you to hear me say this. Today, I'm going

to pray that God gives you wisdom to build supernatural

strength through building practical systems. I'm telling you, some of you,

this is the breakthrough that's about to change everything in

your life because it's time to ride. Promised land is here.

God's got your back. All you need is two things,

courage and strength. And if you have not had courage today,

I'm going to encourage you. If you've been lacking courage

or strength all over this room and watching online, everywhere

is an altar. If that's you, lift your hands. I

want to pray for you right now. Strength or courage

or both, you've been lacking them. In some area of

your life. Father, in the name of Jesus, here it is.

I thank you that because of Jesus, we can all

have strength and courage. Today, God, I'm praying for every man, woman, boy,

and girl under the sound of my voice in this

room and online, in the prison system. God, I thank

you that strength and courage are literally going to be an.

Endless supply for them.

Because they have gotten the revelation of understanding where strength

and courage come from. Father, let us have compassion or

care about what you care about. God, I thank you

that you would break our heart for what breaks yours,

my God. I thank you, Father, that we would stop

caring for the superficial and we would care, Father, for

the eternal. God, would you let us be able to

see and sense your heart everywhere we go. Father God,

increase our awareness of who you are. So that we

can be ones that are moved to courage because we

actually do care. God, I'm asking you for everybody that

has found themselves not being able to have strength. I'm

thanking you that you would reveal the supernatural system. that

allows them consistently to build. God, I'm thanking you that

people are getting smarter as they build these systems, Father God.

That people are walking into health as they build the systems,

Father God. That you are giving them ways that energize them,

make it fun, Father God. Give them a energy, Father God,

to do what you said. God, I thank you that

growth is happening everywhere in the name of Jesus. Families

are being changed because we will shoulder the weight of

transformation for our own lives. Today, I'm praying strength and

courage over this church, your church, the church of Jesus

Christ that is advancing. God, I thank you for what

you're about to do in this place, even in this moment,

that's about to carry over to bloodlines being changed over

this next week. Today, God, we're saying it is time.

It's time to shift. It's time to get in the house.

It's time to purify. God, it's time to see the

miracles again, and it is time to ride. The promised

land will be our home. I'm going to say it

one more time. The promised land will be our home.

I'm going to say it with faith. The promised land

will be our home. We will not wander another year

in this wilderness. We will not wander another year in

this wilderness. I'm saying it for somebody. We will not

wander another year in this wilderness, God.

We will answer your call.

And we will be careful to give you all the glory,

all the honor, and all the praise.

In Jesus' name.

Somebody say, it's time to ride. If you're in this

room and you've never accepted Jesus, this is the ride

of your life. It changes you from darkness to light.

It took me from being addicted to pornography, a liar,

a manipulator. It transformed my entire life. If you're in

this room and you've never accepted Jesus, today Guess what?

It's time.

This whole service has been constructed. Your whole week has

been constructed so you could get to this moment.

And today is the day of salvation.

Whether you're watching on the Pando app, you're in this

room or you literally.

Are watching online.

Today on the count of three, if you want to

be included in a prayer that makes Jesus Christ your

personal Lord and Savior, I just want you to slip

your hand in the air. One, you're making the greatest

decision of your life.

Two, I already see you, my brother. Three, slip your

hand in the air if you want to make Jesus Christ.

I see you. I see you. I see you.

Anybody else online? Glory to God, I see you. Listen,

so proud of you, my brother. So proud of you,

my sister. Today, this is what it's all about. It's

you accepting Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior. At

Transformation Church, nobody prays alone. Ooh, I'm emotional right now.

Because people's lives are being transformed because I got tagged.

He tagged me while I was still sinning. He tagged,

he tagged, he called me. He called me. He called

me when I wasn't even going to do it. I

wasn't even going to do it. I was going to

go do something else. I made my plan. I knew

that God wanted to use me, but I didn't want

to do it his way. And I stopped running. And

somebody's life is getting changed. Because he died. People are

coming from all over the world this week. What a privilege.

What a privilege to partner with God.

You see this young man holding his son. Is that

your son or your brother? Who's that? Your little brother?

Your cousin? That's your baby brother. The man raised his hand.

I'm not trying to single you out, bro, but.

When I saw you holding that baby, he's making a

decision and he's about to influence his baby brother. He's

about to change somebody's bloodline.

And I don't know everybody's story. I don't know what

everybody's going through, but he tagged me. He changed my name.

And now I get to have the privilege to tag

other people. And today, that's what we all supposed to

be doing. It's not because I'm a pastor. It's because

I'm his child. And so today, for all of those

receiving Jesus, can we just all lift our hands and

just pray this prayer together?

Just say, God, thank you for tagging me.

I'm it.

Thank you for sending Jesus to save my life. I

believe you lived. You died and you rose again just

for me. Here's my life. I repent from all sin

and I turn to you. Change me. Renew me. Transform me.

I'm yours in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Can we hear the biggest shout?

As the kingdom of God has just been advanced Glory

to God.

Jesus.

Be strong and courageous, church. This ain't a worship song,

but I hear it. Because God is fighting for us.

He's pushing back the darkness.

Sliding up the key that cannot be shaken. In the

name of Jesus, enemies defeated.

We will shout it out. Come on, let's do it

one time with faith. Just say, God is fighting for you.

That's why you can ride. He's with you wherever you go.

He won't let you fail, and he won't let you fall.

The enemy is defeated, and we will shout it out. Church,

as we get ready for this week, I just feel

to tell you, if you are a part of this

church locally and you feel that you're supposed to be

at the Bloodline Conference, I need you to go try to.

Get a ticket.

I'm telling you, something's going to happen in here. I

know the virtual is going on, but I'm going to

see if we can open up 100 more tickets. There's

somebody that's supposed to take off. PTO, this is a

bloodline change for you. And I just want to tell

you right now, you need to do whatever you need

to do to be able to get in this place.

Transformation Nation, I can't wait to see you this week.

If you have not or you can't come, get your

virtual tickets right now.

It's live. And if you need prayer.

For anything, our worship team is about to sing a

couple of songs for just a moment.

If you need to worship.

Our altar team is coming to the front, and it's

not a big altar today because we've been setting up

for everybody. But if you need prayer, you can come

get prayer right now. I'm going to pray that this

week you would be strong and courageous, that everything that

God has spoken to you, you will see in the

land of the living. that marriages are coming together, that

families are being reunited, that bloodlines are being changed and

that God's kingdom is being established. We will see all

that God has for us and we will give him glory,

honor and praise in Jesus name. Somebody shout amen. We

love you until next week. Go out and live a

transformed life.

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