Cuffed to Comfort // Cuffing Season (Part 2) // Michael Todd

well welcome to week two of a series we're calling cuffing season let's give god some praise right there yo i'm excited for today's message because this series is about the things that we love that don't love us back and the truth of the matter is this series takes a lot of self-awareness as well as a lot of humility and the reason i'm gonna be doing this series for probably the next eight to ten weeks is because it's gonna be about week four before some of y'all even think this series is for you the truth of the matter is many of you come to church and you'll be thinking about how this applies to everybody in your life except you but on this mother's day i need everybody to take inventory of your own life what are the things that you love that do not love you back last week we looked at a bunch of things in the life of samson where he laid his life in the lap of something that did not love him back and that decision ended up taking his not just vision but it ended up costing him his everybody say life and the thing i like about this series is it's a disguise deliverance series see some of y'all don't know that word is too it's too old and churchy for you but but but god does desires to deliver you out of everything that has had you cuffed he desires it's his mo all through the word like he goes on and goes in and finds people who are chained broken lost slaves and he tries to free them into something that is greater than anything they ever experienced before god wants to deliver you i don't know if you haven't heard it because people want you to feel good in 2022 but deliverance is still right god loves you too much to leave you but he loves you too much to leave you the same [Applause] [Music] and that's why it's a conundrum to me that after 15 years of walking with god you still act the same how you had a decade with god and nothing has changed except your waist size okay you used to be little mike now you big mike but all i'm saying to you is maybe the reason why the change hasn't fully happened is because we're cuffed to things that keep us in the same pattern and i want to let you know that god wants you to be delivered no no no let me tell you something about deliverance because this is one of those things that a lot of churches and a lot of people think differently on but the bible is very clear on this whole thing and i want to let you know that um deliverance starts with a decision most people want a pastor or somebody to pray for them and like oh i've been delivered no no okay hold on wait deliverance starts with your decision to repent [Music] so if i'm going this way it's not working for me it's not doing the thing the pattern i've been in the principles i've been watching the things that i've been doing is not working when i repent that is the first step of deliverance and most people want to be forced to do what they have to choose to do this is why you should stop working praying and toiling with people who have not decided you are going to work yourself into a frustration and take away the oil that god has given you wasting it on somebody who still hasn't decided some of y'all you've been dating him for nine years nine years of day baby you're not his decision [Applause] why why are you still going into business with the people who won't put up none of their money they have not decided delivering i'm coming for everybody this morning y'all just buckle up let me say it in a point deliverance is god's desire but our decision god always wants to deliver he always wants to set you free he always wants to pull you to another level of faith he always wants to take you out of that situation but he is bound to our decision that's why salvation is a choice he wants you to everybody say decide ask the children of israel it was god's plan to deliver them out of slavery to egypt talks to moses moses says come and let my people go they start moving and god's literally telling them the whole time the reason i'm taking you from this place is to take you to a promise the whole reason i sent the frogs and the blood in the water and the plague on the suns is to get you to the promise i want to take you from prison to the promise i want to deliver you from the pain to the promise i want to take you from the perversion to the promise so it was god's desire but this is the one thing i want everybody to understand god's plan is always the promise but our patterns delay deliverance i'm gonna say it again god's plan his plan was to take an 11 day journey with the children of israel out of their pain their perversion their their their their a prison and bring them to a promise but it was their patterns in the wilderness that delayed their deliverance this is why i'm talking to you about what are you cuffed to because everything the children of israel did in the wilderness it didn't start there they did it when they were in bondage and when god took them out of bondage they had a pattern of how they did things so it kept them out of the promise and i know this is a bible story but i can't help but think that this looks like so many of our lives that god has a plan for us and the problem is we're being prevented because of our everybody say patterns god wants you to be set free from the addiction god wants you to be set free from all of the past the pain he wants to deliver you that's what first timothy chapter 2 verse 4 says it says this is good and pleasing in the sight of god our savior who wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth or be delivered the truth is you're healed the truth is you're whole the truth is you're healthy the truth in god is he wants you to be helping he wants you to be serving others but the truth of the matter is that our patterns have kept us in a place where we have not reached the problem promise so watch this write this point down i'm just setting you up this is all framework to get to where we're going deliverance isn't just walking out of something it's walking into something else it wasn't enough for the children of israel to come out of egypt they were not delivered until they got into the promised land okay it's not enough for you to just not be greedy you have to get into being generous it's not enough for you to get out of perversion you have to be into purity and i find that so much of the body of christ is in this in between place they're cuffed to things that they used to do back here but they're not fully in it like they used to be so they in this kind of middle place this decision play i might act like my family but not today but when i get back around him i'll cut up with him but then i'll go you're in this middle place and god's saying deliverance is not true deliverance not just when you walk out of something but you got to be fully in to what i've wanted for you to be in the promise and the reason that i keep saying this is because when somebody is in a desert a wilderness a place that they don't have a home they're not settled yet you know what people are called that don't have a home nomads and the reason i'm preaching this series to you today is because i'm finding there's a problem it's problematic to be spiritually nomadic if you haven't found your home yet in the promise there's a problem and what i found is that this area is literally the thing that's killing so many people you walked out of comparison but you have you you you don't compare yourself no more to them but you still don't celebrate them either how did you walk out of this thing but you can't fully walk into this thing and y'all know y'all be doing it y'all be ghosting people on instagram and facebook they had another baby you didn't even say congratulations thank you didn't say nothing but you you didn't compare like you used to but you haven't walked in the celebration yet i'm trying to confront this whole series i've amen myself 1700 times this whole week because i don't need your amen this week i'm gonna keep telling you the truth until something on the inside of you unlocks you walked out of narcissism but didn't walk into humility [Applause] and god says i want to deliver you i don't want to just do half of the process i don't want half-baked believers you ever put something in the oven and then you stuck your finger in there and it it was warm and bubbling on the top but it was cold and soggy in the middle that's what a lot of christians are looking like today hot on the top cold in the core and i'm coming to help somebody uncuff from the things that have kept the patterns going that have kept you out of the promise this literally is the definition of being lukewarm this is stuff people don't talk about no more because they don't want to offend nobody i want to help you transform and the truth is the only thing that transforms you okay so so so everybody knows john 3 16 what's john 3 16 y'all for god so loved the world that he gave his only son that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish but have whatever left that's the most famous scripture but the second scripture that should be the most famous is revelations 3 16. anybody know that one okay okay let's start at verse 15. i know your deeds you are neither cold nor hot how i wish you were one or the other i wish you would completely wild out or completely sell out to the vision i have for you i would rather you not walk with me so i can have a assault of paul conversion with you on the road of damascus or serve me fully because you lukewarm you are nomadic spiritually [Music] you want a club over here and then christ over here and then be faithful on this thing but be freaky because [Music] because you're lukewarm neither hot nor cold i'm about to vomit you out my mouth oh my gosh y'all thought spit hits the fan with something [Applause] no demonstration coming for that okay you only throw up things that are not pleasing if god's going to throw something up he said i would rather i could much more take yeah yeah you being fully away from me but this little hmm [Music] no today is sunday um so i hate that crap go somewhere with that get out of my face with that like i'm just trying to put it in like regular terms like take all that facade and take it some i would rather you come to me whole and messed up and smelling like everything and saying i can't do this on my own i'd rather you go have a pig's pen experience prodigal son and realize how good you have it in my grace but this staying in the middle and now you got people thinking this is how i am all these people claiming christ lukewarm got people thinking well what's the reason why should i even they do everything i do they there's no difference and today i'm coming to confront it and the reason i have to confront it is because i hear uh elijah in first kings 18 21 i'm just giving y'all a lot of bibles so we can get to where we're going he literally says how much longer will you waver hobbling between two different opinions if the lord be god follow him get cuffed to him but if baal an idol something that culture made up this idea this american dream if that's what you want to be talked to go on do it follow that but this little lukewarm stuff get that out of my face and look at the people's response they were completely silent i don't i don't know they didn't have a made up mind they didn't have a conviction they were actually debating maybe i want to live for god maybe i want to do everything my flesh does and some of y'all have been in this debate for a decade serving on the praise team the whole time giving me you feel like it going off do you bet not touch me i'll beat you turn the other cheek girl you really should be nicer to them how is this coming out of this i love you but i got to tell you the truth because at the end of the day it's becoming your pattern and the reason i'm so scared for you is because when people say practice makes perfect that's not what practice makes practice makes permanent and some of you have been practicing the same pattern to where the more you keep doing it the harder it's going to be to reverse that thing that's why people start saying stuff you can't teach a old dog new trick that's a lie that's that's a lie it's just that they don't want to do the work to change the pattern and until you listen to god's principles you're cuffed to something that god doesn't want for your calling so for you to reach the promise today i have to confront what you are cuffed to and today i'm not even going to tell you what we're going to confront let me just give you the definition of cuffing season y'all i'm about to explode cuffing season a season where because of loneliness and desperation you settle for a relationship that is way beneath your standards and that's why god tells us hey how you're going to get a different pattern is by doing romans 12 2. he says do not conform to the patterns of this world this culture but be transformed by the renewing of your mind then you will be able to test and approve what god's will is his good pleasing and perfect will your mind is renewed by god's principle i'm going to say it every week because i need you to know how we break the pattern the pattern is broken by god's principles if you have a bad pattern go to the word of god and i promise you there is a principle that can break bad patterns i don't care how bad your parents were i don't care how bad that your upbringing was god's principles can break bad patterns the truth of the matter is you will not ask for the word of god's opinion on something you have not confronted so so god's principles always come with parameters he's trying to give us hey do this don't do this and then i want you to hear this god's parameters are made for your calling not your comfort are we going to talk about it this message um this message is really uh it is close to home because for the past three decades i've been trying to cater my christian life to one word comfort and today i'm coming for your comfort you might want to turn it off if you want to stay comfortable because as i have gone through the different places moments leadership positions of my life what i'm fighting for is not my calling many times why i'm doing what i'm doing why i'm trying to climb the ladder why i'm trying to make more money while i want more people to see me why all the things all the secret motivation behind all of that [Music] is one word comfort and the problem with me and many of you i ain't going to really put you out there but i'm going to put myself out there i have been cuffed to comfort and today i gotta expose this thing that has been coming after the calling of god on your life you have the ability the availability you have the anointing but you are too comfortable so let's go let's be honest we're a humble open and transparent church how many people love being comfortable come on hands lifted hands lifted okay like we want our car to be comfortable we want our clothes to be comfortable we want come on what else do we want to be comfortable put it in the temperature oh jesus if you marry you know that's a problem i want to comfortable what is the most comfortable temperature to keep at your house what is it 71 73 68 77 70 what in the hell literally that is hell 77 you sleeping 77 degrees oh my gosh see that is hell pastor natalie i don't know when it happened but she loves the temperature on antarctica it literally doesn't have a number anymore it literally just has an iceberg but that for her is and the truth of the matter is none of us want to live work eat sleep in anything that's on comfortable so we'll go into buildings and walk two steps in what happened i thought we was gone it made me uncomfortable you'll join a church and they'll ask you to serve but i got to be there at what time i just worked the whole i liked the church the pastor was good but their requirements made me uncomfortable [Music] comfort is killing our callings what if i told you that comfort is not christian [Music] now i don't know where you picked it up at i don't know if it came from your family or it was a trauma response that everything was so out of control and uncomfortable you said i'ma take control and everything i do i'ma make it comfortable but when you gave your life to christ i need to tell you something that that idea of comfort is not christian when i look through the scriptures and just a few just perusing i see words like sacrifice die daily carry your cross deny your flesh lay down your life turning cheeks no that didn't sound right oh jesus turning the other cheek [Laughter] bearing one another's burdens casting your crowns these are we do you all know that the symbol of our faith is a crucifixion how comfortable do you think the cross was for jesus yet somewhere along the way we developed this idea and convinced ourselves that being christ-like should somewhere really transform into being completely comfortable that's why you don't share your faith you don't share your faith because it makes you uncomfortable literally when the great commission to everybody whether you in the white house or you in the trap house is to go into all the world and make disciples teaching them and you won't even share with the person you've been neighbors with for 14 years that you believe in jesus christ because you don't want to make them [Music] the truth of the matter is comfort is killing our callings and if i don't come and talk to you about how we are all cuffed to comfort then we will stay there thinking that we are doing something that god has asked us to do and comfort is not christian when it comes to your comfort you only have two options write this down cause we bout to go deep and we bout to go deep fast when it comes to comfort you can either confront it or cater to it two options either i'm gonna confront this crap that has me comfortable and wanting to be so cozy and comfy and have and have it how i want it or i'm going to actually cater to it and set up things to make sure i stay like that and make sure my whole friend group only does things that make us comfortable [Laughter] my question is which are you doing currently are you confronting your comfort or are you catering to it silence to cater to comfort you got to work and you got to work to confront it choose your heart the same work it takes to drink water and stay in the bed is the same work it takes for you to get out of your bed at midnight with a bonnet on in your pajamas wearing a jacket so nobody sees if you get cold or not to go up to the convenience store and to buy a pine and ice cream chips m m's and snickers bars somebody said you ain't my business it took work it robbed you of sleep it it took away the goal that you were trying to set that you told everybody on facebook that you was working for and now it makes you be incongruent with yourself cause the worst person not to trust is you and some of you can't keep your commitment to others because you can't keep your commitment to yourself and it's not because you don't want to it's because you're cuffed to comfort it's going to be a rough one today and see the crazy thing about comfort is comfort shows up every day it don't matter what you did yesterday you get the option to choose to confront your areas of comfort every single day let me put it in a point yester yesterday's accomplishment doesn't count for today's commitment so because we're cuffed to comfort sometimes like forget this i'm gonna do it today i'm gonna freaking work out today i'm gonna do it and you go in there and you give it your good hour and a half and you feel good about yourself and you make it happen and you walked you did all that other stuff and be like yes see you tomorrow jim see you tomorrow see you tomorrow see you tomorrow i see you tomorrow you walk out of there and you pass the first fast food restaurant oh come on y'all the second fast food restaurant not today popeyes pass the third one and just before you hit a right to the house the christian chicken [Applause] that chick-fil-a i'm just gonna get a salad and you get that salad that cobb salad with the chicken in it [Applause] two packets of avocado lime ranch i'm in your business not a large lemonade i get the medium and i'm just you know i'm just saying because it's not bad i'm not eating bread so i'm gonna get a medium fry and somehow on the way home you've convinced yourself because you worked out you deserve oh y'all know y'all we living the same life you deserve [Music] because i'm definitely going back tomorrow i mean this ain't nothing if i'm gonna just put it back in tomorrow comes and it go why because now when i wake up the next morning i'm sore oh my god i got a wipe but i can't you ain't never really worked out if wiping ain't an issue joy if you ain't if you ain't ever had trouble wiping you ain't never worked out if getting up don't feel like an exercise you ain't never worked out can i get some help in here come on if you ain't never done like oh oh oh oh oh [Applause] [Music] you ain't never worked out with you [Applause] but what i accomplished yesterday does not count for today's commitment and many times after we do our commitment once we then cater to our comfort [Music] okay so today i had to find somebody in the bible a mighty man of god who had consistently up into this point confronted his comfort but then he took a season off and he got real comfortable and i don't know who i'm talking to but there's some saints that have taken a season off you used to really pray you used to really be concerned you used to really do what you said now it's just all lip service there's nothing behind it there's nothing in the core and god's saying i'm calling my church back to live comfortably uncomfortable i'm calling my church back to do something even when it doesn't advance you okay let me stop second samuel chapter 11 verse 1-27 i can't go through all of it but i'm going to try to walk through it because today we're talking about david yes shepherd boy david killing the guitar david david that was marked david that defeated the bear lion and goliath see everybody stops at his story right there but i'm talking about the david who had tons of victories i'm talking about the david that went from the the pasture to the palace and king david i found this story in second samuel 11 that showed me where david after all god had done in his life had a season where he catered to his comfort it says in the spring of the year that's a season when kings normally regularly usually go out to war david sent joab and the israelite army to fight the ammonites they destroyed the ammonite army they won and laid siege to the whole city however david stayed behind in jerusalem however david stayed comfortable however david didn't want to do what it took no more to go out and do what would win the victory he felt like yesterday's accomplishments could roll over okay y'all remember roll over minutes some of y'all too young for rollover minutes but but there used to be this thing that you didn't get unlimited everything and so so so so so you have a certain amount of limit of minutes but but if you didn't use them all they would roll over to the next month and some of y'all never talk to anybody y'all bragging i got 5 000 minutes nobody likes you but at the end of the day ain't got nothing to do with my message here we go um isn't it funny that they won the war i won the battle but david lost the war because he catered to his com comfort everything outside that had his name on it was victorious that means you can show something you're not actually living late one afternoon watch this at his midday rest where he should be confronting somebody he's resting david got out of bed and was just walking the rooftop of the palace and he looked out over the city that god had given him and he noticed a woman of unusual beauty but naked taking a bath split splash she was taken about he said once someone i arrive do you see what thou lordest has created the hills and the valleys go find out who that is she's bathsheba the daughter of alien and the wife of uriah the hittite the conversation should have been over the crazy thing about being cuffed to something is we entertain conversations even after there is there was parameters already this is her daddy this is her husband hands off she beautiful god bless that brother that's nice for them but god told me i can't [Applause] [Music] whoa if i had an opportunity but i'm supposed to be serving here like if the story should have been over at this moment but he found out she was married and this is where casual turns into catering remember what he was doing it's beautiful he was being casual it's not that you're always looking for something i'm not always just but you can't whistle you start like wow seeing it wasn't the problem noticing it wasn't the problem it was a casual yeah yeah it was catering to it that's like how did he cater to it look at verse four then david sent a messenger to get her that's it i hear all you talking about with the parameters but that is going to make me comfortable let me make provision for that let me cater no matter how much i want to do something with bathsheba if she's over there and i'm over here there is no way that anything can actually happen but to get her over here i gotta cater to my comfort she comes to the palace and he slept with her watch this comfort is never casual it's catered to comfort is something that you love that doesn't love you back i i'm tired of standing and preaching to y'all this is exhausting i would rather be more comfortable preaching could somebody bring me a chair so that i can be comfortable as i give the people of god the word of god this whole standing thing who made this up anyway well i got a standard y'all get to see it my mouth is not affected by what i'm where my legs are let me be more comfortable and deliver this word to y'all yeah i'll read the bible still yeah the holy bible the paper bag huh makes me more holy yes god yes you're a good god this feels a little unnecessary i know enough scripture i've been studying the word for a long time i i know enough these young kids out here getting platforms and doing all this other stuff i know god know how to pray matter of fact let me relax more in my faith god said that he's going to give us rest thank you jesus for your comfort there's nobody like jehovah yeah turn the lights back up they can't see me i want them to see me still yeah i want them to see me be comfortable i want them to think that serving jesus the higher you get the less you have to do the man of god don't you ever say that to the man of god i have books i have accomplishments people know who i am so today i want you to know go after god [Music] sacrifice it all for him give make sure you give because it'll help me be comfortable this is what many pastors are doing all over the u.s they're they're preaching revelation reclined haven't invited nobody to church haven't saved nobody outside the pulpit and what that makes you start doing when i should be going to war when i should be confronting my pride when i should be doing the things uh carter carter carter um i need you to help me cater to my comfort go get me a tv and something i can control because if if if i can't be in an environment where they recognize who i am and what i've been given i'm gonna just go to enviro i'm gonna make up environments where i'm in control yeah yeah i'm gonna make up environments where i'm in i am in control here matter of fact i got to control them and this is the thing that we're cuffed to like like like a lot of our issue is that we're trying to have control of something and if we're not in control we're not comfortable so we will only do things that ensure we are in control so that we can be comfortable and and some of us this keeps us paralyzed i got to talk to my fellows today this controller is killing your calling [Music] [Applause] you have more hours logged your wife sitting there begging for you to see her no no no no my guys are on call of duty they don't want to see me in madden and your kids don't know you in real life this is comfortable this is how you escaped when you were 12. see it all goes back to our trauma this is what you were good at when you weren't good at school so you said i'ma put all my effort and energy and now you're 40 years old and you will stay up and lose sleep over playing a tournament on a game with people over the internet that you can't see and won't play in a date night [Music] cuffed to your comfort carter bring me some bring me some comfortable clothes take my shoes off blessed are the feet of those who provide the gospel put the fear of god on my feet please glory i feel more anointed even right now yes throw the i don't yeah just put it behind me i don't actually want it on me kind of like a james brown vibe yeah so i can throw it out whenever i want to hey carter go get cake for me go get me some cake and bring me my foot yes thank you thank you ah thank you carter carter i'm glad you brought your friend see because when i start catering to myself and my issues i can't just have one person cater to me carter's not enough i need cameron to cater to me too cameron and carter catering to me this is cozy this is yeah this is no this is why i'm not going to do what they asked me to do because i'm comfortable right now and matter of fact uh what is this is that my is that ice cream yes wow and yeah doritos and chips and you know you know carter i've been thinking i i wanted to do a fast just put that i wanted to do a fast [Music] but fasting let's carter stop moving get on my face [Music] your character starts changing [Music] when you get too comfortable thought about fasting but the truth of the matter is this is this is good cake who would waste a perfectly good cake that says cuffing season on it been working out and some of y'all are thinking about this like it's food there's only there's not just one type of cake the reason y'all been working so hard at that job is because you're trying to get money or cake carter bring me money yeah not that crap bring me money it starts off as a bite oh and you bought me a little gambling situation too okay cool tithing no i'll give my tithe to the casino because they have a better chance oh let me stop this is our christian experience reclined catered to comfortable and some of y'all don't want the cake but you do want the cookie i'ma let your mind go everywhere it wants to what makes you comfortable is being at somebody's house in a bed and then you go find somebody else and give them yo [Music] and then you find somebody else in their vulnerable moment and you take their jesus jesus you can't hear me and the truth of the matter is you're now in a pattern you don't even want them you bite it and spit it out but you're just used to having pieces of people comfort i'm just using a bunch of analogies to ask you to confront what have you been catering to what have you been dibbling and dabbling in i don't want people to see my real face oh shoot i got a little bit on me well i might as well i might as well it don't matter no more nobody sees me it doesn't matter matter of fact all this stuff is getting whack i need some real comfort can you bring me something else to come for me what used to come from me doesn't work anymore some condoms some lotion where's my laptop oh here it is now i know some christians are uncomfortable right now but spiritually this is what you look like nobody will see and these are the same holy hands we're going to lift tomorrow and these the same ones we're going to pray for people with and [Music] obama make sure and you know what now the the the pain of being incongruent and catering to my comfort has me wanting to escape charles somebody bring me something to dream because i can't i can't actually be in this situation and be in my right mind so i need to make sure i got something strong to pop off when it gets wrong wine never hurt anybody jesus first miracle he turned water into help me it's spiritual not when you're doing it for comfort [Applause] don't tell me the scientific benefits this ain't been scientific since you started it it was relational you felt bad because somebody left you and now you're going after something okay i'm getting too real here god's saying i i have a huge calling for you i want you to do something that changes the world but you're gonna have to get up out of the seat of comfort carter bring me more comfort and this is what the american western church looks like bring me more comfort the scale some weights what the hell that's not comfortable [Music] i'ma look at something that i'm that would make me have to confront everything this one thing would make me have to confront everything i would have to get up i would have to leave this behind i would have to change my outfit i would have to i would have to decide to do something different and many of us are sitting here with different options available but we ignore it because of our comfort why am i going so slow in this why why am i taking all of this time why am i sitting here messed up my mother's day suit because it actually doesn't matter what you're being comforted by i want you to know it's killing your calling the whole time that i'm sitting here the whole thing that i'm losing is the opportunity to actually be impactful on what god asked me to do and i let myself be susceptible to things that can literally take my life away ask david at the time when he should have been out confronting things he was sitting in the recliner of the revelation that he already had saying i'll be fine and that's when he found delilah now let me let me teach y'all stay right here i mean uh delilah but she but that's what he found let me stay right here and now i got to come up here and preach to y'all and now i need to try to cover up what i've been through hopefully hopefully they can't see hopefully let me get back in my spot glory to god second samuel chapter 11 verse four she had completed her purification rights after having her menstrual period then uh she returned home later when bathsheba discovered that she was pregnant we only did it once we only catered to the comfort one one time hold on when i cater to my comfort one time we can conceive this wasn't supposed to i didn't want no consequence i just wanted to be comfortable yeah but my comfort has now made me conceive something that i have responsibility for it literally says oh my gosh when bathsheba discovered that she was pregnant she sent david a text message in my mind david what's up girl how you like it i'm pregnant by who like you wasn't there like you didn't cater to this right at the point catering to comfort always comes with consequences if i stay there brother delano for the next 30 days and preach and eat and eat and preach and and eat and preach and be in control and do this i am going to blow up no amount of prayer can take away what is the consequence of my pattern i cannot pray away what i've already decided is my pattern so if your pattern is blowing up and get angry nobody can pray that away if you've already decided don't push me to this limit i'm gonna ex like nobody and god is saying to all of us that when you conceive something out of your comfort then you start the great cover-up goes all the way back to the garden what was the first thing adam and eve did after they gave in to their comfort they became designers fashion first fashion designers adam and eve oh shoot let me cover up why would you cover up to a god who saw it anyway accept the guilt and the shame that comes from catering to your comfort do you know the fact is that adam and eve weren't hungry they had food to eat this would have been a completely different situation if they were starving and the only thing to eat was on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil they had an entire forest of fruit but they wanted to cater to their comfort and this is where this story goes downhill quick second samuel 11 6 then david sent word to joab send me uriah the hittite that's that's about she is bathsheba's husband because he's trying to cover it up now so joab sent him to david he comes back in woo yeah yeah yeah oh king i honor you i serve you i love you not knowing that the king's comfort had already violated his covenant [Applause] he's serving something that wasn't even set up to protect him okay let me stop when your writer arrived david asked him how's everything going out there are we doing good verse eight then he told you alright man go home and get comfortable go home and relax do what i've been doing you were out at war but i called you back in so you could do what i was doing go relax david even sent him a care package after he left the palace point comfort always wants company so his cover-up was to get uriah to come back quickly and sleep with bathsheba so when the baby comes it will be able to be covered up because of the time period that it happened in watch this verse 9 but uriah didn't go home he was called he slept that night at the palace entrance with the king's palace guard when david heard that uriah had not gone home he summoned him and asked hey bro what's the matter your wife is at home she beautiful i know by experience why didn't you go home last night after being away so long uriah replied the ark and the armies of israel and judah are living in 10th and joab and my master's men are camping on the battlefield they actually out there doing the work they confronting stuff how could i go home to whine and dine and sleep with my wife i'm called how am i gonna cater to my comfort yeah with this great of a calling on my life there's a mission at hand and i'm about to just sit here and do what i my flesh wants i'm too cold and i'm too committed to cater to my comfort uh i feel this i swear that i would never do such a thing being committed to your calling makes you deny your comfort the reason that many of us will never deny what's comfortable the reason why you won't go to the gym the reason why you won't go into that bible study class the reason why you will not submit yourself to authority let somebody know what's going on the reason why you won't go to counseling is because you have not fully committed to your calling when you when you realize it's above me now there's certain stuff can i tell you about my my fitness journey for the past year i've been on a journey to to get in shape and get healthy and what ended up happening was god told me in a time of prayer he said michael i'm only going to bless transformation church to the level your body can take it so you want to sit up all night and eat french fries and wing stop and do all the different things that you love that's comfortable there is nothing more comfortable to me than after a great sunday and god moved and people powerful and all this other stuff that me going home me and my wife connecting in our covenant me getting some cookies and cream ice cream and eating some wings stopping watching the game and falling asleep with some ranch dribbling there's there's no i haven't done that in over a year in that sequence now watch it's not because i didn't want to it's because the calling i'm connected to is so much greater than my comfort and if you've been stuck in a comfortable situation i have a question what calling are you connected to what has god called you to do now it's not just making money it's not just being successful and i'm asking you because everybody sitting in here conviction is falling on your heart right now because there is something that is comfortable to you that you know is not god's best for your calling and the truth of the matter is being committed to your calling makes you deny it the reason why i haven't had cookies and cream ice cream is not because i don't want it i want it every day daily i want it but daily i deny it the church has been been in a place where we almost try to just tell you like the desire is bad the desire is not bad the decision after the desire this is where i'm coming to help uncuff you there will not be a day that i don't desire things that go against my calling i know nobody's going to tell you this there will never be a day that i won't be interested in what pornography could look like i'm a human being and if i am curious about something that i don't deny myself access to i will cater to that comfort and it will forfeit my calling you want to hear about jesus i don't care if you've been married 40 years there's no way that could happen to me i don't care how much money you make money don't make me i make the money all these mantras don't change your patterns if you don't submit the thing to the calling of god that's why the safest place you could be successful is in community in the house of god serving other people making sure you're not catering to your comfort some of y'all money would be the worst thing that ever happened to you because if you could do everything you want to do when you want to do it you wouldn't even serve god let me stop second samuel verse 11. he says well stay here today david told him he's talking to uriah and tomorrow you may return to the army because you're really called to this i guess i guess you're really going to live a christian life i guess you're really going to live in integrity so uriah stayed in jerusalem that day and the next then david invited him to dinner and tried to get him drunk but even then he couldn't get uriah to go home to his wife again he slept at the palace entrance with the king's palace guard this story begins to really break my heart because this is the same david it's it honestly sobers me because this is the same david that stood in front of the whole army of israel and said today i'm gonna have your head and god's gonna give it to me it's the same one that on major platforms was used by god and now he's planning somebody else's assassination didn't know so since he was going back to the front lines you can read it he calls the captain and says go ahead and put uriah on the front line so that we can assure that he gets killed it happens he causes pain to the thing that brings him comfort wait a minute he was so selfish in his comfortability that bathsheba the thing that brought him comfort he's going to cause her to suffer so that he doesn't suffer the consequences of what he decided to cater to do you know how many people are getting hurt not because something happened to them but because somebody else is trying to cater to their comfort and you're hurting other people by the way verse 26 when uriah's wife heard that her husband was dead she mourned for him when the period of mourning was over david don't do it david no you sent for her right after she mourned david sent for her and brought her to the palace and she became one of one one of the things that comforted him not the thing that comforted him one of the many things that comforted him then she gave birth to a son this is the scariest part of this whole thing but the lord was displeased with david with what david had done catering to your comfort kills things that were supposed to live uriah was never supposed to die but but because david catered to his comfort instead of confronting his comfort uriah dies nobody talks about this but bathsheba becomes a side chick she had somebody's full attention [Music] godly she had somebody's it's kind of like when y'all be on these dating apps and in people's dms and i got to see who's out here can you put somebody on the screen for me because i want to be comforted put one of these girls on the screen so i can relax in my religion danny 27 miami florida long walks on the beach and i'm looking for what you looking for danny let me play with danny for a while let me make her insecure let me make her question her calling let me act like i'm gonna marry her because it makes me feel better about myself but then let me actually be talking to somebody else go to the next person please swipe i said swipe iphone lilly oh she cute paris france i like them internationals currently getting the nba abroad we could travel together oh this is good cause i can because i can't see her in person so we can start this long distance thing and i'm going to make people become my comfort go to the next one though because i'm kind of bored with that right now i want to go yes sarah i like sarah she down for whatever tokyo japan i love netflix and chill so do i one of the many i'm just putting it this plain cause some of y'all like i'm in a relationship i'm married i'm it don't have to be girls it don't have to be food i'm just asking you what are you catering to right now that is going to kill your calling i've had to confront this in my own life for the past five years to a point where it's almost one of those things where god doesn't let me be comfortable too long because if i get in that pattern i'm a recline on the thing that god's called me to do and i'm just telling you right now some of y'all not gonna come back for the rest of the series but a bunch more y'all are gonna actually get free because today [Applause] i i literally didn't even get through half my notes because it's going to take two weeks i'm coming back next week charlie and i got to finish this because i got to tell you and teach you how to confront it this week i need you to call it out that's it this week i don't care how saved you think you are many of you are participating in a ritual but you're not spiritual oh that's nasty it's a ritual of this stuff but you've been up here this whole time while i've been speaking you've been judging everything that i'm saying and god use god's saying right now you're so comfortable that you think you sit in the seat of judgment your comfort is killing your calling this week i need you to evaluate what have you been eating on what have you been devouring what have you been allowing to cover you what have you been entertaining and what have you been entertained by that is only for comfort god is asking you to sacrifice it pastor mike what i mean why because until you sacrifice everything that has made you comfortable in this season you will never be able to walk fully into the promise that god has for you in the next season david literally compromises everything that god wants to do with him but i love the story of david because at the end of his life god literally calls him a man after his own heart how in the world could i be in this level of comfort but then at the end of my life be known for being a man or a woman after god's own heart this is encouragement for all of us though no matter how comfortable you've been in the things that have been killing your calling it's not too late for deliverance what did i say the first step of deliverance was repenting turning and david would come to god and say god i'm sorry i messed this thing all the way up forgive me give me another opportunity see what i found is comfort it sounds good and it sells good i ask you in the front how many people love being comfortable and everybody raise their hand the truth of the matter is i've lost 50 pounds and not one amen thank you and not one day of working out was comfortable [Music] not one there was not one chicken and green bean meal that was more appetizing dirty chinese food i love me some dirty chinese food the egg rolls wontons the whole not one time it never was better to me but it was better for me see comfort last point is a counterfeit and it appears cheap but it cost everything [Music] your comfort seems so easy but that thing is costing you everything mom come here real quick somebody help my mom up here hey can you bring me out uh that little little box i got real quick yeah help her up come with the come with the quickness god bless you thank you oh thank you so much carter the thing about carter is he he caters to whatever i concentrate on so so so when i concentrate on moving into a level of generosity carter helped me do that the people around you the things around you should help cater to the things that are clearly like christ today's mother's day and i wanted to give you something okay now i've never been able to give you one of these now the truth of the matter i've had this box before and inside of a box that looked just like this was something that was a counterfeit now i don't know about you some of y'all carrying them today is okay no shame in the game but the thing about something like this is it can be cheaply replicated and it's not until you open the contents that you see what could be cheaply replicated is actually something that cost me everything today i want to give you your mother's day gift and i want you to open up here because i don't want too many haters but what i'm telling you is what was in here i could have cheaply [Music] i could have settled for the comfortable version of this and it would have been like it's the thought that counts [Music] today god's saying i want your calling to cost you something i want i want i want you to have to work for this thing that i don't want i don't want you to i don't want you to come cheaply to what i've asked for you to do i want your calling to cost you something when i give my mama this gift it it cost me it cost me something but do you know how worth it it is to stand up and call my mama blessed and to honor you for all the years and the service and the prayers and everything you've done for me and my brothers and my family and all of the things that you have sacrificed [Applause] so happy mother's day you can go in there you know i love you thank you see when i release this it's me walking in my calling cause it cost me my comfort today i'm asking you what are you standing by that cost you if there's nothing in your life that cost you anything maybe you're too stuck in your comfort and today if anybody is stuck in their comfort i want to pray for you there's a way out that's what i'm going to ask right now if you're stuck in your comfort in any area of your life i want you to be bold and i want you to get comfortably uncomfortable and i need you to stand up right now all over i don't care if you're watching this on rebroadcast i don't care if you're watching this there are people all over the world standing up in your living room in the cubicle some of y'all gonna pull over the car right now and you're gonna get out and you're gonna stand up this is a sign of being comfortably uncomfortable as a believer we're going to have to live comfortably uncomfortable i'm gonna pray for you today oh i feel the presence of god our comfort has been killing us but today we're coming uncuffed from this thing i feel the presence of god i know this was a lot but i needed to paint a picture for you to see that no longer will we be lulled to sleep by the things that comfort uh see okay the thing about this position that i was in in this recliner it's the easiest position to go to sleep in when i'm active it's hard for me i don't know how many people can go to sleep standing up or fighting but it's hard to go to sleep like that but when you're in those positions of comfortability it's very easy to go to sleep and i'm just saying that in a lot of areas in this world our church is asleep and i'm just saying i think maybe the reason is because we've been cuffed to comfort wake up and see that your calling is worth the sacrifice [Music] first corinthians 9 24 says so don't you realize that in a race everyone runs but one person gets the prize so run to win all athletes are disciplined in their training they're all uncomfortable when they're training they do it for a reason to win the prize that will fade away but we do this we live uncomfortable we become disciplined ones or disciples for an internal prize so i run with purpose in every step i'm not just shadow boxing this ain't no game i discipline my body i stay uncomfortable in these situations like an athlete training it to do what it should otherwise i fear that after preaching to others i myself might be disqualified hands lifted today here we are god and we're gonna choose not to cater to our comfort another week but we're choosing to confront it and god we're coming humbly and saying we need your help come on right now if anybody needs this help i need you to say god i need your help i need your help to be able to talk different i need your help to be able to say no to things that taste good to me but are bad for me god i need your help father god to walk out of relationships father god that i know are killing my calling i need your help father god somebody right now i i don't know what it is for you but i need you to pray god i need your help i need your help to stay disciplined i need your help father to live pure i need your help father god to forgive i need your help father god i need your help and the parts of me father that wants to rest when i should be at war god i thank you that you would reignite stir up the gifts on the inside of me stir up the gifts on the inside of your children father this week bring to our mind the areas that we have not actually been active in realizing we just gotten too comfortable father god forgive us whether we've used money or success or our age or our accomplishments to recline on the amazing calling that you've given us today we come uncuffed from comfort god today we commit and submit to you and we ask you to do a work in us new and afresh [Music] that's our desire god make us live teach us how to live teach us how to love comfortably uncomfortable something is happening right now somebody's mind is changing it's changing your perspective of being comfortable is changing father let our love for comfort that hasn't been loving us back [Music] let it die today and let us get a new desire god and let it be you you are our desire god who i feel the presence of god right now god is doing something right now yeah comfort no longer is the goal our calling is the goal whatever i got to do to reach my calling whatever i have to do to actually be who you've created me to be god because you are my desire somebody say oh oh oh i said you were mighty come on this is why we're worshiping just take a moment and ask the holy spirit what he's saying to you god we want to do and be cuffed only to you god we're uncuffing from comfort god [Music] you are mine come on just take a moment lift your hands and just talk to god [Music] because i want what you want for my life god don't want comfortability to kill my calling another day god i want i want your desires to be my desires god so you are my desire today god not [Music] everybody says [Music] [Music] god's [Music] i want to be everything [Music] many of us have desired comfort but we're changing that today we're gonna desire our calling not just walking out of one lifestyle we're gonna walk into the promise that god has for our life does anybody believe that i'm not just walking out of something i'm gonna walk fully into what god has for me [Applause] so i say oh [Music] not comfort anymore just somebody say say yo but i want the calling that you have for my life oh my god we're going to lift this thing out [Music] all right cool so this week we're leaving with the practical application we're ending service a little differently i need you to physically write down six areas that you have gotten comfortable and you know it's killing your calling [Music] and all week we're gonna pray every day that god would uncuff us from that area of comfort now the truth of the matter is statistics say only three out of ten of y'all are gonna do this and that's fine with me but it might cost you your calling if we don't take time and make margin to deal with the things that have come to actually hinder us that's why i said this series really should be called therapy and theology like we're doing both of those this week you gotta you gotta go back and do this work i can i can present it to you but now you and the holy spirit got to go to work he's the comforter wow hold on never thought about it before that out of everything that the holy spirit could be called he's called the the comforter [Music] so it's not that i can't be cuffed to comfort [Music] i have to be cut to the comforter oh my god when i am tough to the comforter whatever he gives me is real peace whatever he gives me is real joy you know the fruits of the spirit love joy peace pace everything i'm trying to be comforted by is a counterfeit version of what the comforter actually gives if you're tired of getting the cheap replica [Music] don't settle for comfort [Music] cuff yourself to the comforter and he's gonna help lead you and guide you into all everybody say truth this week six things six things that you have been comforted by that you know are killing your calling food people write their names down do wayne is a person of comfort i don't all know the way but like like write it down close shopping [Music] arguing fighting i don't know what it is for you oh being perfect never making a mistake i'm just giving you just a couple of things some of y'all not gonna have six you're gonna have 60. but how good resheena for us to start digging up the things that the enemy thought were going to stay on the inside of us forever and we were going to repeat the pattern but i declare there's a generational curse-breaking anointing in this series for deliverance it's not gonna hit my kids it's not gonna keep going down i'm gonna deal with [Music] so i'm uncuffing from comfort and next week you cannot miss it because i'm actually going to give you the practical tools that god has made for us to confront it and actually have victory and i'm telling you this message without next week's message it's incomplete because you're just gonna be in the in the limbo again i'm gonna give you the tools but god cannot heal what you won't reveal [Music] so i need at least how many okay for some of you you're saying pastor mike i've been so distracted today by the stains on your shirt i just really cannot move past the stains and you're just ministering and just acting like you don't see the stains and those stains are actually the thing that i notice most about you see the crazy thing is that these stains is actually a representation of what my soul and my spirit look like when i came to this earth and all the experience that i had all of those experiences in the chair those were real life experience for me i was raggedy stained up but god sent his son jesus to even when it looks like i have a stain on me he don't see me he sees his son because by faith everybody shout at me by faith i've received his son jesus the spotless land the one who has literally erased the sins of the world but you don't get seen like that you everybody sees this until you accept them and today i don't know i just feel like some people they look like spiritually what i look like publicly like you're walking around trying to cover up you don't wanna how you doing i'm good everything's fine just want to make sure you don't see that i'm really struggling i'm really hurt i really have pain and god's saying would you not just expose it just take off like don't even like just just actually like highlight it point at it [Music] i'm a liar i like having sex with people unmarried it makes the void of my heart of not having a father feel better like let's [Music] let's just put it this thing came because i was molested [Music] i i hurt people because i'm really hurting jesus says i want that i want to clean that i want to heal that and if you're listening i feel the prayer i need the church to begin to pray i feel the presence of god right now somebody is literally sitting here trying to hide what god wants to heal and today you have an opportunity to give your life to the only one who can clean you up and i even feel this there are some people in ministry i see i feel this so strong right now there are pastors leaders youth leaders praise and worship like it would almost be uncomfortable to admit that you're struggling with these things but god is saying to you today could you just come clean so that i can clean if you want to accept jesus christ as your personal lord and savior or recommit your life to jesus today on the count of three i'm gonna ask you to raise your hand and i want you to do it i want you to be a little uncomfortable i want somebody to look at you because this is what the christian life is going to be comfortably uncomfortable we are unashamed of the gospel of jesus christ because it is the power of salvation it doesn't matter what nobody else thinks as long as i know what he thinks about me so today if you want to take your stains and you want to give them to the master on the count of three just say pastor include me in that prayer and i believe there's hundreds if not thousands of people who are about to make this decision to walk into a new relationship with god one you're making the greatest decision of your life two i'm proud of you but more than that god is going to write your name in the lamb's book of life for all of eternity three shoot your hand up all over the world i see you i see you i see you can we give god praise right now glory to god glory to god you can put your hands down so i know in a lot of churches they want you to come to the front and confess everything that you did we ain't got time for all that cause you ratchet we don't have time for all that but the bible does say that you got to find somebody to to to confess to pray and then there's healing that comes but that thing only can happen when you've accepted jesus everybody say jesus that's the reason why we're here that's the that's the god that we serve and today he wants to come in and help you uncuff from comfort uncuff from control uncuff from all of those things that have made you critical he wants to be cuffed to you cuffed to christ now transformation church nobody prays alone here we all pray together for the benefit of those coming to christ and they are making the greatest decision ever so with faith can we all say this together together god thank you for sending jesus for all my stains today i'm deciding to live a whole life you can have all of me i believe you lived you died and you rose again with all power just for me and i give you my life take over change me clean me renew me transform me i'm yours in jesus name amen hey can we give god oh y'all better come on for all of those who are coming to a loving relationship with jesus christ hallelujah [Music] man i'm so proud of you so proud of you and i want to let you know we want to walk with you if you just gave your life to christ i feel the presence of god in this place you just gave your life to christ i want you to text the number on the screen and we're going to send you some resources and we're going to help you we have a team that's going to help you and walk with you and connect with you and i'm just asking you everybody that's watching go back and watch last week's message and then watch this message twice this week what i found out about counseling is that the depth of counseling is not in new realities it's in going over the things slower that you've already gone through and i found that it speak to me different it hit a little different how the young people say it hit different [Music] when you just take your time through this week let god reveal write down your sixth thing some of y'all gonna write your six things down it's gonna be like you know what i need to do something i got nine team [Music] and all i'm saying is i just wanna walk through this series osb i wanna walk through it with margin let's give god space to change us from the inside out is that all right i said is that all right thank you god thank you god thank you god thank you god thank you god thank you for being evident in every one of our services there are a lot of people that gathered today and you weren't there but god i thank you that every time we meet here with humble hearts [Music] you meet us here thank you for doing it again bless all the mothers and their families god thank you just for just a lot of great memories father god and i thank you that this week we would confront our comfort oh god that means i got to go to the gym on tuesday my god my calling is worth so much more so god i'm committed somebody say i'm committed come on say one more time i'm committed god we give you glory honor and praise in jesus name until next week i want you to go out and live a transformed life happy mother's day everybody i love you [Music] you

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Published: Sun May 08 2022