Here I Am // Here Is Holy (Part 1) // Michael Todd

welcome to week one of a series we are calling here is holy if you're excited let's give god some praise right there hallelujah all right so i'm about to walk you through how we got to this phrase of the year that god is allowing us to gather our faith around if you're new around here we want to say welcome we want to say we've prayed for you this week we want to say that we don't care what you were doing yesterday last night or what you're planning to do tomorrow we believe that this has been a divine interruption of your life to give you divine revelation you are not too bad you have not gone too far to get outside of the grace and the love of god and the one speaking to you has jacked up and messed up thousands of times but somehow god has seen in his love to continue to use me over and over and over and over again and today i'm letting you know that i'm living proof that you are not too damaged for god to use what's left i need to let you know somebody's tugging on me this is not even where i was going to go but god told me to tell you that you feel like damaged goods right now but the value is still inside of you and god is going to do something so strategic and unusual with your life if you would just give him a big yes today my prayer is that for whoever you are and for all of us who are playing church and being religious and lukewarm that we would give god a complete shout at me yes um i feel like what my assignment is today is going to be more um of a diagnosis of where we are so that we can actually get the right prescription next week and we can actually start a process of healing after that the problem with the church is a lot of time we heal what's not broken we're prescribing medicine that doesn't actually touch the pain and i believe that god has has like a doctor a physician shown me where we are and show me what we need to do for the rest of 2022 so that we can understand the purpose that god has called us to and that means that we have to recognize some things everybody say here that's going to prepare us for there so let me just run this thing all the way back to december 11 2020. i didn't think that this was going to be uh uh an amazing day or anything i just woke up thinking it was going to be another day that god's faithfulness is good and we gathered in an airbnb right here in tulsa with some of our worship team and staff and god told me he said this is the season when i want you to begin to write songs that the world will sing but i want you to write them for your church and i want you to write songs for your church that speak to where the church is don't think about any charts don't think about any any other worship bands don't think i just want you to write what i give you so we got in that room and we begin to pray and literally the first song that came was here is holy the song you just heard was the first song that god gave us and i'm not really thinking much about it because that was one of ten songs that we wrote and i'm talking about good songs we wrote ten songs in two days and anybody that's heard it already know is fire transformation nation wait on us because here is holy um and so i didn't think anything of it but what it was was a seed that god knew i would need he gave me something in a season that i was not even paying attention that i would need 408 days later we are 408 days from when god first said here is holy to me and i was like okay but every year i go on a sabbatical and i begin to ask god what are you saying for the church for the next year because you know this church is built on strong vision because where there is no vision the people perish the cast offers strength and we're going to be focused on the vision that god has called us to do so i said what are you saying this year and if you don't know anything about us every year god gives us a word and we center all of our faith all of our giving all of our instructions around that word and god begins to speak and for seven years it has been spot on and literally god said i i'm giving you um what i already gave you and i was like god i don't want no warmed up word i don't want no microwavable leftover word he said no no he said you've never eaten this one before he said i showed you what it was but you haven't you haven't digested this he said the word for this year is here is holy i said god there's a problem with that it ain't a word that's a phrase that's more than one word and god honestly for what you're doing is some out of the norm because you see the other words have been really able to work good for promotion and they've been able to work good for for the branding you know i'm saying release and beyond and he said do you want my words or do you want your word so i'm okay okay i got you i'm gonna take your words and he said here is holy i tried to ignore it tried to hope that god would give me something else sexier to brand because you know everybody like what y'all talking about here is holy uh what people don't even have concept and god said i'm about to make an example out of people's lives who get the words that i speak it doesn't matter if it doesn't work branding wise it works for transformation not the church your life and i said okay god here is holy in september he confirmed it i was in a hotel fasting and praying and god said this is how strong it was to me y'all he said if you ask me again what the word of the year is and i've already told you it's not going to be good i called brie at that moment i said the word of the year has just been upgraded to a phrase here is holy and she said oh yeah and she acted like she knew what it meant but she didn't cause i didn't the thing i want to let you know is that god is not committed to you understanding he's committed to your obedience and somebody needs to hear that very clearly right now at the top he will reveal understanding if you will be obedient it was getting on it was getting printed on shirts for staff advance before i had full revelation of what god wanted to do through this and then he started walking me through this and i need you to write down these definitions y'all we're going to class today and i promise you if you take good copious notes today you're going to get a fast pass in heaven that's what pastor charles says and and you're going to be able to understand and come back to the instructions that god gives at the beginning for the rest of your year here the definition of here check this out in this place locally my favorite definition right here watch this opposed to there here is the enemy of there if i'm focused on here i don't give any attention to there it is the opponent the opposite the antithesis of their you cannot be fully committed to hear when you're giving your attention to there somebody shot at me here oh i'm about to preach this thing and then he said is holy okay holy it means set apart completely other than declared sacred like like if something is holy it is set apart you cannot be liked by everybody and be holy uh-oh you cannot get committee agreement for all of your ideas situations assignments and be completely set apart he said i'm declaring this year everybody shouted me holy so so let me give you the working definition for here is holy for this series you need we're going to come back to this every week here is holy it's the awareness that your current situation is sacred and being intentionally used by god to prepare you for your purpose it's opposed to there here is holy i'm aware that no matter what my current situation is god is using this situation sacredly intentionally to prepare me for the purpose he called me for that i don't know about yet [Music] you will not know your purpose before you're prepared for it the training comes before the reining we're looking to have a position and we have a lack of preparation and what god is saying is i want you to consecrate all of 2022 separate it declare it sacred move yourself and remove yourself from thinking about there and focus on here because if you do not focus on here you will not be ready for there and the truth of the matter is i'm coming to prophetically tell you that many of you are praying for what you will never be prepared for you're believing for what your character does not have the ability and foundation to be able to hold up i'm telling you right now that god is so good that he is trying to give us a pause can i say it how i feel it god wants to take the hustle out of his house this thing that's always trying to hustle because my my next thing and my next thing and when i get here and i when i when i get there and then when i got that and all and god says i have never ever been in a hurry to do anything i have always been strategic about my movements and i've always thought about every step because the steps of a good man a good woman are ordered by the lord he says step here and then step here he's not worried about bear because if you take care of here you'll end up there somebody shouted me here is holy and see i have a problem honestly with this in the natural i'm talking about as pastor michael right now but michael can't stand here can i be honest with you my whole life i've hated here am i the only one that that when you get in a situation it's good for 30 seconds and it's like all right come on listen to the left to the left like i'm trying to like give me something else give me a new goal give me something else to attain let me go to the next level and the problem is i hate it here and the truth is most of us hate it here if you look at your real situation all the stuff you're trying to do right now is to get you there but you tolerate here you're you're not you're not excited about here you're not you're not you're not joyful about here you tolerate my whole life i've just tolerated here i want to go to the next i want to upgrade how many people like upgrades come on come on listen yeah how many people how many people okay when you were young how many people wanted to be adults because they thought they could make their own decisions and do what they want to do and now that i'm here adulting sucks like but how much did we miss some of us were open too early let me some of us were exposed and violated and indoctrinated because we were trying to get there and now we're working through problems and issues and generational cycles that were built up because we went there too early we went we went there because they went there we went there because it looked like the cool thing to do and god said i'm trying to do a work on you here see ah let me just go ahead and say it the problem is the church has done a bad job at indoctrinating all of us with the theology of there my situation turned around today god is about to turn it right now what if we said what he really about to do god's gonna turn this in seven months would you still shout would you steal praise see the problem is we're so worried about getting out that we do not consider what god is trying to bring out of us here this is for the big boy table this the meat this year we're gonna mature when i get there how much money i'll have there what house will i be living in there what my network will look like there these are the relationships that i'm gonna have there i can't wait till i get married because this is what we gonna do there and god says michael i need you to stop escapism evangelism [Music] what we're trying to teach people is to escape here and we're evangelizing people no no no no no no we're not even going to act like it's a problem you don't need counseling you need deliverance come here you're healed that may have been the seed of my healing that's really real but it took me 35 years to walk in this level of dysfunction it may take me a little time to walk up out of it and the problem is if we do not stop evangelism of escapism we never will sit and let god do the work here what if you had to go in for major surgery and you slayed on the table and at the moment it got uncomfortable you had a section of people saying you ain't got to stay there claim your victory run up out of this place stand up and walk begin the ship you would literally kill yourself trying to escape what is meant watch this to heal you [Music] the adversity is meant to heal you the pain is meant to heal you i know you don't hear preacher like this all the time but i'm in a whole new place right now right where you are and you hate it may be the very operating table that god is using to heal you of pride to heal you of comparison to heal you of insecurities but you gotta stay here james 1 verse 2 dear brothers and sisters when troubles of any kind any kind any kind come your way consider it an opportunity for what the i thought i needed to consider this an opportunity to go off on somebody but you said in your word considering an opportunity for great joy for you know that when your faith is tested your endurance has a chance to grow this the part i don't like so let it grow stay here and let it grow many of us are potted plant christians god would love for us to stay somewhere long enough to actually get roots look at your neighbor and say let it grow type it in the chat let it grow you can't grow it on the move you can't grow it i was in this church for six months then they didn't do with me right so i was in this sir you ain't been around nobody long enough to see you you get to represent yourself every time you go to a new group of people because nobody knows the last struggles you went through stay there long enough [Applause] to grow and many of us are in a season in a place right now where it's uncomfortable to stay planted you are trying to get out of that job with all your might and god says the reason no doors is open for you is because that place is holy no no no no no it's not lucrative it's holy it's not comfortable it's holy you're going to look back at this moment and say that's where god made me that's where he did the work that would never be undone that's where god changed my name and this is why i'm telling everybody listen to me here is a prerequisite for there you gotta go through here to get there here is preparation for there here is a qualification for that you will not be qualified for there if you do not let god do the work everybody shout at me here okay here this the one i really want you to get this the one he'd been working on me all week here is sanctification for there now this is a word we don't use in church that much anymore but it actually means something very very powerful to your life sanctification is the action of making or declaring something holy i do not become holy unless i go through whatever god has for me to go through here if i ignore marriage counseling my relationship does not get there where i want it to be because i don't know how to communicate so for us to get there god said every week come here can i watch a video take an elixir is there a mix that i can get can i all of all of society today especially is trying to find a shortcut [Applause] but here sanctifies me for there and the truth of the matter is the problem with their i know i'm setting this whole thing up and it's going to make sense to you in just a second the whole problem with there everybody shout at me there the whole problem is there devalues here if i focus on there it makes me think this is trash if i focus on there i i i don't value what god is doing here there distracts from here god wants me to do something powerful right here but if i'm always focused on there i'm distracted they're discourages here i'm trying to show you why there is not where we want to be focused in the season especially when god is saying here is where i'm at here is where i want to change you here is where i want to develop you here is holy so there diminishes here their dilutes here their diverts you from here y'all are so excited about opportunities that'll make you go there and god said i don't care about opportunities i want you on assignment don't divert from here there watch this when i become a better leader when i get this when i have this when i'm when oh i got a one when i weigh this much when my body you better love what god has given you he i'm not singing i'm not saying devalue the temple that god has given me but some of y'all are being robbed of life because you will not accept where you are right here matthew 6 31 34. so don't worry about these things saying what will we eat there what will we drink there what will we wear there these things dominate watch this the thoughts of unbelievers unbelievers focus on there because they gotta escape here i gotta pop a pill so i can go there i gotta drink that alcohol so i do not have to be here i gotta go to pornography cause i can't deal with my lust here i can't go back to that home so i get a mistress so i don't gotta be here i serve my church more than i serve my family because i can't deal with failing here unbelievers allow what dare looks like to dominate their thinking but your heavenly father already knows what you need there he knows what you need up there so seek first the kingdom of god here you cannot sink the kingdom from there the only way you can see god is from where you're at as broken as you are as busted as you are the liar that you are the proud person that you are god said just see me from there like like here is holy i'm not asking you to become a future version of yourself to then start to seek me you only can seek me from shout out me here and he says above all else and live righteously here and he will give you everything you need hold on there is taken care of if i live righteously not perfectly here so don't worry about tomorrow which is there for tomorrow there will bring its own worries today trouble is enough for you right here dealing with them kids right here working that job right here is enough you can't even deal with tomorrow stop even thinking about there because you don't have it in you to deal with there you have to be focused on here okay so if you want to walk in crazy faith i want you to say this statement with me um and it's going to be a crazy faith statement because some of y'all this is not how you feel but this is how i pray that you will feel by the end of this series we probably got four five six weeks in this i don't know we gonna go until this is so deep in us that we can look at any situation that looks busted and disgusted unfavorable or uncomfortable and be able to declare this statement right here i love it here say it like you mean it i love it here some of y'all lied but i love it here is a statement of faith in god i love it here it's uncomfortable here but i love it here because you allowed me to get here do you know how many people didn't get here uh-oh do you know how many people did not make it here do you know how many that wish they could have had another day to do something here but i love it here this is a hard statement to say can i be for me that was a hard statement to say all week and y'all know i can't i can't preach nothing that god's not walking me through it's been the same since there was 300 people here god was walking me through i was in a place with some of my friends and they was like how do you feel and god said declare you love it here i said i really have it he said mike say it like you mean so i love you here i was like i love you here why do you say i love it here and this is what god whispered to my heart he said you can say i love it here because you are loved here i need everybody to hear me say this i know this is not probably what you were thinking but the reason i can stay here is holy because i know the one who sent me here allowed me to come here and sustaining me here and then walk me out of here i can say i love it here because i am loved right here and somebody needs to hear me say that because you've been trying to polish yourself up and get yourself in a place to be presentable to god and others and all this and god says stop all of that you wearing yourself out he said even though your situation is unfavorable you are my favor i'm looking at you dead in your eye with the baby out of wedlock with the miscarriage with the third failed business and you can literally say on your way to bankruptcy court i love it here because i'm loved here this is the humans greatest need to know that wherever they are they are actually loved and i came if you turn this segment off and you never watch again the one thing i hope that you get is that you are loved you are loved by god he loved you so much that he made a plan to reconcile you back to the father and give you eternal life with all of your flaws with all of your mess-ups with all of the broken pieces in your life you are loved i love it here even though it hurts even though it's frustrating even though it's not true i love it here because you put me here and i'm loved right here somebody say that i'm loved here say it like you mean it i'm loved right here just one more time faith is coming to somebody somebody say i'm loved right here see i'm loved right here that's why i love it here because i'm learning here and i'm and i'm living here and i'm losing everything that can't go with me y'all missed it see the reason i got to stay here is because i am losing here i'm losing everything here that cannot go with me into the promised land you know that's why the children of israel had to go into the wilderness is because they had to lose everybody talking about that's that escapism thing that's the evangelism of escaping we always win no no no no no the bible tells us that we're gonna have to lose some things to possess the promise they don't like this you gotta lose your attitude to be able to actually deal with the people over there you gotta lose your pride to be able to actually ask for help over there some of y'all be running out of gas won't even ask your brother or sister for gas money walking all the way home cause your pride my question to you today is what do you need to lose here well this just me that's you here but you'll stay here until you lose it because you can't take that over there okay romans chapter 8 verse 35 can anything separate us from christ's love does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble calamity or are persecuted or hungry or destitute or in danger or threatened with death go to verse 37 no despite all these things overwhelming victory is ours through christ who loved us our victory is in his love now i know you want the victory to be in your works but the victory that you're gonna have the way you never lose is find yourself lost in his love if i succeed i'm loved if i fail i'm loved if i mess up i'm loved and if i'm on a mountaintop i am love verse 38 and i'm convinced that nothing can ever separate us from the love of god neither death nor life neither angels nor demons neither our fears for today nor our word worries about tomorrow there not even the powers of hell can separate us from god's love no power in the sky above or in the earth below indeed nothing and all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of god that is revealed in christ jesus our lord you have to see yourself here loved here the reason i'm telling you this is because the training and the preparation will make you think you're not loved the trick of the enemy all the way back to the garden was to trick adam and eve that god was keeping something from them he was keeping them for something he was making them holy but they were convinced by the enemy that this place ah i'm not loved here if he really loved me he would let me eat from this tree if he really loved me i would be able i wouldn't go through this i remember being in basketball and um when we played basketball the first few um weeks of basketball they called hell weeks and i didn't really understand it until i started participating in it because what happens in hail week is you don't really play basketball week has nothing to do with basketball we honestly never even touched the basketball hell week was about conditioning us and preparing us for when we had to endure and actually play basketball when we went through the training of suicide i hate suicides and burpees burpees are from the pits of hell y'all know what a burpee is like the height show us no not today i already worked out this morning i'm already sore up here but but i questioned my coach's love for me because of how he prepared me could it be that our preparation the season of training the uncomfortable places and spaces are are uncomfortable on purpose because the coach god knows what's up ahead and if we look at how we feel while we're being trained we could be lied to that somehow god doesn't love us because this training sucks god doesn't love me because i lost the family member or i want to come to real stuff god doesn't love me why did he even let me get pregnant why would he even let us have a son if he was going to be diagnosed with autism and we would have to daily go through therapies and teach him how to do things why why why this is the question of humanity why why am i here why am i 36 single why am i here why why did i give my life for that church and i'm not even seen as somebody who's valuable why am i here why why in the world would you have me go and apologize to my father and not even respond to me i was hurt as a child and you're gonna allow me to be here again why am i here this can only be solved here it doesn't change when you get there the only thing you take with you everywhere is you so if you're broken here you'll be broken there if you're frustrated here you're gonna be frustrated there is no amount of money that takes away the anxiety of here you got to let god and therapy and community and the word wash over you got to do it here because at some moment there turns into here i know i'm over i'm in the matrix right now i know somebody else like what is heaven there they're here here or there they're here and everywhere like i know i know that's what you're thinking right now but but at some moment the revelation is going to click to you because any time i come from here i take all of me with me and whatever i was trying to get to turns into here [Music] so why don't we just deal with it right here why don't we get whole right here why don't we walk in purity right here why don't we become generous right why don't we start loving people right here not when they apologize [Music] we go love them right here this is personified in our text exodus chapter 3 verse 1 through a man named moses moses um is about to have a life-changing experience um this is why we titled the whole thing here is holy because moses has one of these moments which i'm believing every one of us is going to have as we open our hearts in this series it says in verse 1 um one day everybody say one day say it again one day one day moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law jethro the priest of midian he led the flock far into the wilderness oh don't like that word and came to sinai the mountain of god everybody say one day this is wasn't a spectacular day this wasn't a day where something amazing it wasn't a festival it wasn't anything that happened it was just one day like i like that it said one day because you never know when god's about to move in your life it could be today tomorrow the next day but it's just one day it's not on your birthday it's not on new year's eve i know that we always talk about 2022 god's gonna come through it could be literally june 22nd everybody say one day oh the reason this is important for you because god specializes in making regular spectacular he can take a regular day and turn it into the thing that's going to be the catalyst for every miracle that you're remembered for one day i'm prophesying over you that your one day is coming that there is something that's about to happen in your life everybody's not gonna be around moses is in the wilderness right here this is not something on instagram this is not something on a platform this is on the back side of the mountain and one day god turns the regular into the spectacular and how do we know it's a regular day it says because he was just tending to the sheep he was doing what he normally he was just taking his kids to school i want to bring it to real situations he was just checking his emails like one day he was just going to pick up dinner and god takes a common situation watch this to invite him into an extraordinary calling what god's trying to do this year you have not seen anything yet with your life uh i just need somebody to hear me say this your greatest win looks like nothing compared to what god has planned for your life somebody needs to receive this by faith this man grew up in a palace and god said you ain't seen royalty yet i'm about to do something in your life and i know it seems like a far cry from what you've been through and many of us have been trying to live in the glory days because there is not just forward there is back too [Music] god said i need you to focus on here because there was not the good old days dare was not the pinnacle of your ministry dare was not the greatest song you ever wrote there is not where god was really using you here is holy you have to divorce yourself from there in the future and there in the past how do i come in here and minister with this much fervor transformation church's best days are here they're not oh god they're not when relationship goals went viral and they're not in the future with something that god is gonna do it's right here here is holy my faith is that god is with me here and that's why i write this down god will you con god will use common situations to invite you into extraordinary callings write it down god will use common situations to invite you into extraordinary callings you know how i became the pastor of the church a very common situation i produced music for greenwood christian center's big idea conference this is how he started inviting me into this extraordinary calling it wasn't oh god oh i see myself on a platform preaching to that it was common it was turn the mic up y'all missing it roll up the cables make sure the drums are tuned this was my invitation into an extraordinary i didn't see when i would tony mason was telling me to turn the reverb up i didn't see what god was doing i didn't see but he used a very common situation what could you be missing that is god calling you into something extraordinary but you won't stay here long enough to even notice it there's relationships right around you that are going to be pivotal to the next decade of your life but you think because of their title right now that they have no value in your life you better look around you better look around and see who's around you because god may be putting something very common in front of you inviting you into an extraordinary situation it says moses was tending to the flock of his father-in-law jethro the priest of midian he had the flock he led the flock far into the wilderness and came to sinai hold on a desert place an isolated place a wilderness why in the world would god use a wilderness let me help you god will test your willingness in the wilderness i'm i'm not telling you from an idea the fact that i'm standing here today is god testing my willingness mike he played back for me all the things i said mike you said you would serve me no matter what you said you were here to represent me to the lost and the found for transformation in christ you said that nothing will stop you from ministering to my people you said you would do anything short of sin to reach those who are far from god you said last week you don't care if anybody comes back [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so now i'm gonna test you now i'm gonna test you i'm gonna test your willingness to be faithful in the wilderness i'm gonna strip you of everything that insulated your eye identity i'ma say that again i'mma strip you of everything that insulated your identity and now i want to see are you willing to serve me what's in you when they don't see it [Music] see many times we think the wilderness is a punishment and it's honestly a test for our willingness you cannot actually see somebody told me it ain't love until it's tested like everybody be talking about i love god you don't love god what's wrong with you like they always be talking about that but you only know if you love god when you go through a situation where it's like um i don't know i don't know oh no this ain't fair this ain't right but do you still love me the rest of this year your wildernesses are not punishments they're tests some of y'all gonna play this back every week because you're gonna need to be reminded that here is holy and god will take you into a space to test you ask jesus jesus our example literally whole town comes out baptized by his cousin john the holy spirit literally ascends like a dove they hear audibly this is my son and who i'm wealthy he's affirmed confirmed verified all that and then the bible says that he is led into the wilderness by the holy spirit not the devil he was led by the holy spirit into the wilderness to be tested what if this year you're going to be tested by the holy spirit the reason i'm smiling is because some of you are about to leave here right now and god's trying to give you instruction here and because you don't like what it looks like here you're about to leave and and there's somebody that's about to log off i'm telling you right now get this instruction here is where god's gonna test you because it's gonna prepare you for there do you know what moses goes on to do moses goes on to confront culture she goes to the highest person in the land pharaoh and has to tell pharaoh what god said the only way he could tell pharaoh what god said there is that he got confirmed in his calling here there was an angel of the lord verse two that appeared to him in the blazing fire from the middle of the bush the bible tells us um as you study out scripture and theologians agree that this was jesus in the old testament he was the angel of the lord and it says moses stared in amazement though the bush watch this was engulfed in flames it didn't burn up put me a fire in a bush up here um this is what a bunch of our situations look like on fire families finances internally but moses is watching this bush burn and i need you to understand this was common in the desert there were brush fires all the time the difference about this thing is when it was burning it still had full leaves it still had fruit it still was not disintegrating it still was standing even though it was on fire hear me because this encouraged me when i listened to this story if god is in the fire that's what it tells us that god was in this fire if god is in the fire you won't look like what you've been through if if if this was another situation the leaves would have burnt up everything would have been crumbling and falling but because god was in it it was sustaining the thing that was supposed to be burning i'm about to preach this thing when it looked like it was supposed to be gone and ashes god was sustaining it and i don't know who you are but i'm preaching to you from my experience when god is in the fire you will not look like what you've been engulfed by asked shadrach meshach and abednego when culture told them to bow and they said we will not bow and what did they do they took oh i loved they stands they were so gangster they said we know our god can deliver us but even if he don't do you know how gangster that is even if he don't do it it says doesn't but they don't we won't bow they threw him in the fire he said turn it up turned it up so hot that the people who threw him in dropped dead come on but when they stood there they said check on him what you see uh the fire the fire is on yes the fire is on it's really big we threw a couple extra yeah yeah yeah but i see one two three four ricardo how many people did we throw in to the fire it was three right three okay one two three four um i see i see four people in the fire and one looks like god because when god's in the fire oh y'all better help me when god's in the fire he will sustain what should be burning he will keep preserved what should be desecrated god is in the fire [Applause] what are you trying to say pastor mike the place that is on fire in your life is actually a meeting place with god [Applause] god uses every burning bush to get your attention he's trying to show you something i don't fully know what god's trying to show me in the situation that's happened in the last week but i am fully attentive that this burning bush is a meeting place for me and god passed my break that down to me practically you know in the bible when it says and jesus withdrew often what i did as soon as as soon as the spit hit the fan and it started going everywhere i told my wife we were in a hotel last week on sunday afterwards just to rest without the kids i talked to some people in my community and they said let's go let's get out of here turn your social media off and let's go get with god huh see if you stayed in this place and listen to them you're gonna get distracted of what god wants to do here so what you gonna do is withdraw and meet with god the whole thing burning and i'm praying the whole thing and i'm worshiping the whole thing i don't even know all the news media outlets we was on i don't even know and i don't need to let it play on all of them but what i did is i got in a place where the fire could consume me see i'm looking at my situation on fire and i need there to be a fire that consumes me that consumes my pride we sing the song all consuming fire but what happens when you say god burn it up in me anything that's not like you show me my error show me what you want to do burning me god [Music] and moses sees this fire and it was a meeting place can i tell you any area in your life that's on fire god's trying to talk to you through it relationships on fire he's trying to tell you something your business is not working he's trying to tell you something your family's on fire you ain't been able to get along for years he's trying to tell you something and the crazy thing is that when god wants to talk to you he doesn't just want a transaction he wants relationship this is the hard part because especially in our social media age everything is transactional it's not relational back in the day you used to have to go sit down and talk with somebody like you used to have to go meet with them and like make time now i could just dm whoever i want to and see if they hit me back see if they don't and god's saying you can't dm me i i'm not i'm not i'm not trying to be transactional god if you could just bless my situation and then i'll hit you up when i accept the word word award i'll say all praises and glory to god he said i'm not transactional i'm relational i want a relationship and the problem with that is people want his provision and not his person see because i want to go there i just need what i need real quick so i can get there i just need to move from here so i can get there they want its resources and not a relationship but god wants a relationship and god wanted to meet with moses and so what happened in verse three moses said this is amazing why isn't this bush burning up i must go see it moses went black um was not black um he might have been i don't know but he was confused at this moment because if i see a confusing situation i'm not let's go through it like what like like i would have dipped out like and i say this because uh we're a multi-ethnic church here and we have a lot of white people a lot of hispanic people come to church let me tell you something about black people black people when we start running other black people don't know have to know why we're running we just were all hit or run if somebody everybody like where we going where we what what like it don't matter what it is somebody screaming the right way we are whoa whoa whoa whoa this would have been the moment if it was michael and not moses i would have seen the bush burning and not being consumed oh i've been like hold up [Laughter] worthy is the lamb but um but moses shows us a pattern that when you're recognizing that god is doing something that you might need to take note of see he was in a confusing situation why is this not burning up why is this still sitting here okay write this point down confusing situations are many times god confronting you with your calling why is this happening why did they leave why did that get exposed why is this situation burning up but not being consuming god used confusing situations to start confronting your calling have you ever been mad about something in life and how people do things why won't they just fix this and this and then it would be fine that confusion that contradiction that frustration is an indicator light you're called to that you're called to help that you're called to solve that the things that bother you bother you on purpose [Music] the things that get under your skin get under your skin on purpose that is god confronting you with the great calling he's put on the inside of you i can't stand when people treat people bad like that and bully people that is the god nature on the inside of you the reason why you watch that movie about slavery or or or the um the penitentiary system and you're so bothered it's because it's god confronting you with the piece of your calling and the reason why most people never ever get it is because of the fear of here they have the fear of here so what ends up happening is we like michael instead of like moses michael because i seen something confusing or contradictory i walk away from here i leave here but moses does something very strange and i believe it's a sign to all of us in this season where we're going through situations that are on fire where god takes us to the wilderness where it doesn't look like everything we thought it was going to look like watch this stay curious even when you're confused stay curious this week i've been saying okay god since i'm here what are you trying to teach me leaning in lean in what are you trying to change in me what are you trying to expose about me what are you trying to show me i don't care what everybody else thinks i care what you think show me show me me most of us do not stay curious when we're confused when we're confused we try to solve it when we're confused we try to get out of it moses doesn't bring water to the burning bush he doesn't try to play god because this ain't his moment he didn't say you know what this poor bush and start put he said let me just get a little closer and be curious about why god called me to this church and why god stripped me from all of the things that i was good at to tell me to learn a new skill why didn't god use none of my degrees i got more degrees than a thermometer and he won't let me you why did god allow me to go through that situation but still remember and asked me to write a book stay curious even though you're confused this is what moses does right here it says and when the watch this oh i love this when it's confusing because you're curious look for confirmation look for god to say something to you watch this when the lord saw moses coming to take a closer look then he spoke god's not speaking until you step towards what he's already showing you he literally burns up a situation and if moses stands there god shuts up but it literally says when the lord saw moses coming his curiosity what are you trying to teach me here what are you trying to show me when he went to take a closer look that's when god spoke write this point down when you step god speaks i'm trying to help you deal with right here step towards the thing that you don't understand step towards the people that you don't usually hang out with step towards the the thing that makes you uncomfortable but you know it's the thing that god's called you to i'm telling myself meetings and business stuff i've hated for a long time i'm a creative so so when you start talking to me about numbers and paragraph and if the whole paper is black and you all got no pictures no color at the moment i stepped towards but god why would you call me to be the pastor of this church and why would you call me to lead multiple million-dollar organizations when i started stepping towards it god starts speaking to me he starts showing me i had a genius in it he started revealing to me the calling that he has given me to help restore things in this city and in others that have been broken down it wasn't until i stepped towards it that he started speaking to me what instructions are you missing because you are not stepping in curiosity towards what god is doing okay i gotta get out of here god called him from the middle of the bush moses moses say your name twice i said say your name twice yell it out the reason why god called his name twice is to confirm that it was him he was talking to what i'm telling you in in this place where we're going to be here don't doubt your calling don't doubt it somebody say i'm called some of y'all didn't believe that somebody say i'm called god called moses twice and the reason he had to call him twice is because moses had insecurities he had what some people would call deformities he made big mistakes and usually when god calls most of us do this michael he must be and god's so good that'll say no no no michael michael with all my stuff i used to be addicted to pornography i was a liar i was a manipulator i don't know if you heard last uh last week i had a little incident with saliva me you still have a call for me you still want to do something with me michael michael say your name twice one more time god is saying don't doubt your calling don't doubt what i put on saturday you didn't make you you don't even know what's in you i have made you don't doubt your calling but look at moses's response this is the title of my message today here i am the reason why this is the most profound response to what god invites moses into is because many times god will call your name specify it's you and we still do not surrender to what god wants to do in our lives this whole week my whole confession has been here i am whatever you want to do i'm available i'm usable they can walk on me if it's for your namesake i said if you can use anything lord you can use me i didn't know it would feel like this here i am this really feels unfair but here i am i haven't cried in a long time here i am however you want to do it whatever you want to do in me if i'm a small piece or a big piece here i am see this was not a statement of location this was a statement of heart posture you want to take me from making this much a year to this much a year here i am people wanted to be me two weeks ago now you don't want to be seen with me here i am now this is this is if you don't get that level of availability in your heart you will always negate the power of here here i am somebody say here i am here i am is the proper response when god calls you and some of you god has been calling you and you've been saying stuff like wait a minute god's been calling you by name and you've been saying just let me get a few things together let me have one more wild night god's calling you by name and you're saying give me till next year he's saying i want you right now and you're saying god [Music] i don't want to be uncomfortable but as for myself and transformation nation our response this entire year will be what here i am verse five this is all my introduction to this whole series so come back next week because i'm going to preach this story into the ground but i had to set up why here is holy god speaks now when he okay thank you lord in this year you don't respond no no no excuse me in this year you respond you don't react reaction is different than response god says to him michael michael moses moses he said he responds he doesn't react he says here i am and i just hear this for so many people you have been reacting your whole life and god said would you stay here long enough to respond to me and this is how you respond when when god gets you in this place you wait for him to speak again and look what it says do not come any closer the lord warned him hold up this guy serious real quick take off your sandals for you are standing on holy ground or in other words here is holy see see the thing about this that really bothered me is that god showed me so clearly he said michael um you got to take off your protection in this season see sandals or shoes were the thing that protected them as they walked on all different terrains and so the shoes would keep them from experiencing thorns and sticks and rocks and all different type of thing and god says stop take off your protection because i need you to feel this what i got to take off my shoes because there is something in between you and the ground that's got you too high so i need you to take that thing off and i need you to let me touch your soul you know what they call the bottom of the shoe the soul s-o-l-e but i believe spiritually god is saying as we declare that here is holy we're going to begin to take off our protection mechanisms the people the places the things we've run to and we're going to begin oh hold on no i can't do that i can't expose my vulnerable areas see the thing that you don't know about my feet they ugly i mean they're the only ones i got they're the only ones i got they served me well but i don't want anybody else to see the vulnerability of this next season i'm walking i don't want you to judge me based on a vulnerable area that's why i always got on good shoes and cool shoes cause you know the feet are there but you never see them because i don't want to get that vulnerable to be able to show you and god is saying but here it's don't come another step if you're not gonna be vulnerable do not move unless you're gonna expose the areas that you've been trying to protect for the last 35 years here here is holy damn now the thing about my feet i'm gonna go ahead and let everybody know since i'm out here um so my feet um they they've been through a lot like um my my my feet um actually um i've played drums since i was two years old and um the way i was not professionally trained until i was 12. so when i played drums the front of my foot on the kick pedal and and the hi-hat pedal i would push against like my foot to kick and it literally laid all my feet have this little like bunion thing that is like what you call it hammer head toast first time that made me feel bad first time i ever heard that damn [Music] [Applause] yikes and um which side okay y'all see that pinky right there that's kind of cocked up in the air i'm just being vulnerable you see this one right here it's this one right here ain't nothing ain't never touch the ground look at that that mug don't touch nothing [Applause] this was another traumatic experience in my life where my mom told me to stop chasing my brother around the living room and um moment of prayer woman of faith powerful prophetess i hit the side of the chair and my pinky went straight up and it's been like this she laughing on the front row this ain't funny cause when i went to her crown like mom my foot my dad she said you shoulda listened to me and didn't even pray for me and i lost feeling in my toe obviously and now put put it back on put it put it back on people don't know this unless i show them people would never see this this toe has been in the air for over two decades it's a part of me now [Music] it didn't have to happen and it shouldn't have happened i could have got it corrected but now it's who it's who i am i know me more with my toe in the air then i do without it this this this part of my toe is rubbed off because due to the fact that my pinky's up in the air now all my shoes feel different when they're on this foot and when they're on this foot this foot hurts in certain shoes that this foot feels comfortable there are moments where there are areas in our life where it feels comfortable to do it this way but this way because of the injury or the trauma or the hurt and god's saying take your shoes off this is where i want you because here it's how this is the vulnerability i want this is where this is where i need to touch i don't bless who you pretend to be in them shoes i'll bless who you really are this is where i'm loved pinky in the air that's how god sees me and says that's my child that's the one i love and this is the thing i need you to understand when moses took off his shoes i need you to understand what he was saying he was saying every step i took to get here doesn't matter anymore because where i'm at now it feels different than every other place i've stepped see if he stepped in donkey poo or sheep poop or or or or in grass or or went through dirt it was all on the soles of his feet or the soles of his sandals but when he took them off it was a new beginning [Music] it's a representation of salvation this is something new i've never been this open before i've never been this sensitive before it's actually scary to be out here this vulnerable but here is help me bring it out i think i'm gonna preach the rest of this sermon series barefoot when i was in those shoes i didn't feel the stage there's all kinds of crevices and nicks and cuts and it's actually making me feel good because it's colder than being in my shoe i miss a lot when i'm not vulnerable i miss a lot here i miss the reality of what i am actually standing on if i don't get in a vulnerable place see because what kept you back there is not allowed here when god told me here is holy take off your shoes he said everything you took off is not allowed here anybody got a house where you got to take off shoes to come in yeah some of y'all know like when you take off your shoes it's because this is a home this is the place that's sacred and here i want you to feel i got to talk to some people who've been so calloused by church by community by christians by people who are supposed to love you that you have not been able to feel and god says here is holy take off the offense that's on your soul take off the offense that's on your mind will and emotions that's what your soul is take off the unforgiveness on your soul take off the bitterness that is tried to convince you that it's protecting you get in a vulnerable place and declare here is holy hey brent charles come here real quick charles take off your shoes here is holi yeah yeah yeah take off your shoes here's holy break keep your shoes on um y'all y'all come here to to the land of your life see on the land of your life there's obstacles that will come on the land of your life it may seem like kitty things uh-huh but that stuff that happened to you when you were a kid that stuff that they didn't affirm in confirming you it creates things that we try not to feel so what ends up happening when we start trying to move from here to there is brent go ahead and walk from here to there as fast as you can it doesn't matter what happened because he's still protected but when god says charles go from here to there watch this now stop he has to be so much more intentional and careful and slow because wherever he steps could potentially damage him for life are you saying oh it's just kiddie things go go go back charles come back run back run back see don't get surprised when people are running past you [Music] [Applause] they're so protected that they don't even feel the success that's why they keep running after every other success they don't even feel the joy they have a mansion as a house but they don't have a home because they can't feel oh but i put away the childish things what are these oh i like these captain crunch so now when i'm walking bring come across see what you can't hear is every step he's making is crunching wow that means that everything he's doing is loud [Music] everything god may be trying to hide him but he can't hide god may be trying to preserve him but he can't because he starts stepping with no care for here but when charles has to step he has to watch every movement and be intentional brent run back and make charles feel insecure about where he's at because this is what we do on instagram we see people running and god's saying charles right right here is holy the step that you made right here is hold just stay right there because then what we do is we we get the nasty stuff syrup yeah and we get into lust and perversion and delusion and confusion oh yeah this is what it looks like when we have the seeds of unforgiveness and bitterness and they surround us because our family was like that for our whole life and it seems like something that has us trapped hey brent show everybody how you run through a sticky situation when you're not vulnerable to god now the bottom of his shoes bear the marks of what he's been through but he still can't feel it so then he has kids and says you wear the same size as me and they put shoes on children because they never dealt with the soul of the issue and now you're talking about generational habits and generational cycles and generation it's because y'all been wearing the same dirty shoes and god is trying to get you to understand if you're going to get out of these sticky situations you got to acknowledge here take a step charles without stepping in what's been there yeah don't step in it go over it oh my goodness now watch this stay right there you have to be in in in tuned with every step because if i if i carelessly start stepping at any moment i can potentially damage ruin watch this not even where i'm at right now see the next season [Applause] is about you giving it away to somebody and so now you've been in sticky situation after sticky situation and god calls you to lead people lead a family lead a business hey brent run across here hey brent it looks like we can tell where you've been because of what's on you i wasn't there when it happened but now you talk like it happened you act like it happened you love like it happen [Applause] and we can all see where you've been and see it's not all fun things sometimes it's rocks and glass stuff that cuts you that looks like the kitty stuff that was already there see it's hard to tell the difference between this glass and rocks and the captain crunch but this stuff can get stuck in your feet this stuff can cause you to bleed the words of people can cause you to bleed the opinions of others let me just say it real the opinions of your family members that father and mother that abuser that coach and god's saying i need you to recognize every place you step because here is holy bring run across here matter of fact back pedal do a dance do do a dance like yeah shimmy yeah yeah yeah okay [Applause] culture thinks brent's doing better [Music] [Applause] culture will tell you that he's up he's winning we can see him winning we can see him dancing while the only thing god is pleased with he's not even paying attention to what brennan's doing because he hasn't even got vulnerable enough to feel what's here god's going to let brent continue to run across here all 2022 until he gets vulnerable enough to take off his shoes and he was going to before the incident i can't follow that pastor no more he was helping me grow spiritually but [Music] he was about to take his shoes off and get vulnerable with god the culture started speaking i can't give there i can't serve there i'm gonna just go back and do my own thing and god's saying hold on hold on hold on don't forfeit me bringing you to this place where i want to talk to you because of others that don't understand the wilderness i told you here is holy say it with me here is oh can you bring this cause now it's random stuff situation circumstances i'm an adult and people still acting like kids obstacles problems situations and god's still saying here take two steps forward and one step to the left the steps of a good man are ordered by the lord stand on one foot for ten seconds nine eight it's uncomfortable it's not it's not what i thought i've been walking with two feet but you're gonna tell me three two one everybody might not have understand it stood it but that's where god said now take that foot don't put it back down and step forward now rest there rest here because for the next six months it'll look like no movement but what i'm doing is protecting you i'm protecting you from the love of money cause a lot of people are gonna start throwing money at you and if you step into it it's gonna ruin what you prayed for the money i told you seek first the kingdom and right standing and all of this is going to be added but i need you to stay right there even though it's available [Music] even though you could go make a bunch even though you could do what everybody else would do i told you six months and i'm gonna put the bucket in front of you don't move don't take none well i'm bout to lose my house lose it but obey me this is what it looks like to live a christian life this is walking in the ability to be available to the voice of god because what you don't understand is when the nails and screws of life come to really ravage and the crazy thing about it is the thing that can hurt you most is seeing the the least i can't see these as much as i can see the money i can't see these as much as i can see the toys but these can damage me way more run across there run back it doesn't even matter if he steps on anything may say it like this it doesn't even matter if he steps on anybody he can't feel he can't feel so you can go to the comments and talk about anybody because you don't know what it feels like you can write people off because you don't truly know what it feels like but at the moment charles steps on anything in here he will know what it feels like this is why jesus came to earth and downgraded himself to humanity because he wanted us to know that he knew what it feels like he wanted us to serve a god who knew what it actually felt like to be despised to be accused to have them one day screaming hosanna and the next day screaming crucify you [Music] hey charles take two steps in the blank areas and you may have to stay on your tippy toes yeah yeah and get to the end and avoid the pitfalls of your life no no no no come here because i want to use it as a testimony so so so he just went through it and and and and i want you to step up here real quick there may be something on his feet go go go to the camera and show them his feet he does not look like what he's been through i'm preaching to somebody right here that needs to understand that god is telling you here is holy [Music] because he wants to take you into a space for his glory that when you look at what you've been through your vulnerability before god your ability to feel now has given you the connection point with people who've never walked through what you've walked through and with people who have moses is job is to lead two million different people he had to go through this wilderness so he could relate the wilderness wasn't even for him it was for who he would lead when you stop worrying about your wilderness affecting you you've been qualified for it to transform others here is hey brent come here just come stand up here can you show them what you've been through go ahead put it on the screen this is what many of us look like as we come to serve god praise god give him our lives you can have everything except my vulnerability i've been hurt too much i got to keep protecting me but do you know the crazy thing about this situation is that when you come into salvation jesus gets in a low position and he begins to untie you from all of the situations things patterns everything you've been through everything that's tried to hurt you everything that's tried to make you embarrassed and he takes the shame and he takes the guilt and he says you know what you ain't got to deal with that no more and he said you may be ashy because you asked you and your feet might stink can somebody bring me some water please but what god does what god does when the world would humiliate you when the world would make you feel like something in the same platform that people tried to make you feel embarrassed when they spit on you then god will literally take you and in front of everybody lift up your feet he will begin to wash he will identify i feel the presence of god with your affirmative [Music] and he will he will clean up in a humble position with the world said it was humiliating because here is [Applause] here i am come on lift your hands all over the world here i am god if you tell me to take off my shoes you tell me to get vulnerable here i am here i am god i'm broken i'm embarrassed i don't know what to do here i am though i hear you calling me i'm not gonna keep on my protection i'm not going to act like i didn't feel it i felt it and it hurt but you said my steps are ordered by you so if you told me to walk through this crap here i am god when you say listen to me when you say here i am everybody say it here i am it is a declaration of availability my little daughter ava she don't know how to play hide and go seek yet she loves it though the reason why she don't know how to play is she don't understand that the point of the game is not to be found so she's little and she gets great hiding spots but if it's taking too long for somebody to find you or even if she hears you in the vicinity she jumps out and says here i am and god says that's how i want you to be all here when you feel me in the vicinity don't don't make me find you jump out and say here i am while i was trying to deal with your pride you ain't even got to come search for me i was prideful here i am [Music] god i'm not going to hide yeah there was wrong motivation in me doing that i wanted to go on that vacation and take them pictures to stun on people here i am change my motivation here i am help me love people who hate me here i am because i've never been disciplined in my life but i'mma finish this 21 days of prayer and fast and strong here i am when you say here i am say it one more time here it's a declaration of availability but when oh you take off your protection it is a sign of vulnerability you could hurt me now because my shoes are off if i had to go through this i would have to be very intentional on every step because i can feel you either protect yourself or feel [Music] but that means you don't just not feel the lows you can't feel the highs and that's where god is saying you don't get to live a full life if you can't feel you don't live a life faithful if you do not feel i had to feel what i felt this week to know how good god has been to me me feeling what i felt this week let me know how faithful he's been in every season because i'm vulnerable enough to feel i live a faith full life and the just shall walk by faith what good is faith if you can't feel so it's here i am availability take your protection off check your soul not just s-o-l-e but the s-o-u-l your mind-willing emotions feel that's vulnerability and the last one listen to this is when you become aware of his presence when you become aware of his presence this is what i told somebody the other day you don't ever have to say again god come field this place he already there it's our awareness of god being there it's our it's our availability our vulnerability and then is us being aware of what he is doing it's our awareness to his presence here is holy would you stand all over the world just put your hands out in a posture to receive what i want everybody to do where's my phone that's my phone what i want everybody to do is this week it's going to take some vulnerability but i want you to uh take your shoes off some of y'all can do it even right now i want you to take your shoes off and i want you to take a picture of where your feet stand [Music] and i want you to declare some of y'all are going to go to your job because that's the place of your frustration and you're going to get in your mirror i know this is unconventional this is crazy faith if you want something else you can go somewhere else but right now we're declaring for our soul mind willing emotion to line up your house has been a place of confusion i want you to take a picture and i want you to declare here is holy with all the dysfunctions put it back on my feet real quick with all of the look at that foot never that toe in hd i can put this phone under there and it ain't even touching but that's the only one i got that's the only pinky toe i got on that left foot i i don't want to get rid of it i i don't want to amputate it i still need it even though it may look dysfunctional here with all my flaws it's holy hands lifted everywhere holy hands sitting right here [Music] come on in this moment i want you to declare right here [Music] come on out of your mouth sit right here [Music] god i'm surrendered right here [Music] my words are weak my words are weak your word is enough somebody say your word is here my faith is fading my faith but i still feel your love you are loved right here i'm exchanging my burden for yours why so i can hear so i can't hear god in this moment you're inviting me into a major calling somebody sing the second verse say [Music] this is [Music] [Music] in this [Music] right here this [Music] my is in you my anchor my foundation i've built my life on it cause why [Music] [Music] god's ministering to somebody right now he's showing you the places where you need to get vulnerable stop waiting for something else to happen in the service right now god is saying i want to meet with you right here hands lifted right now three more minutes said why show me me i'm available i'm vulnerable god right here you can do it you can do the work right here this is where i need everybody to get to a place where they run to god it the bible says he that dwells in the secret place that's a separate place that's a holy place that's not an instagramable place that's not a facebookable place that is a place i had my friends tell me he said michael you're healing right now you don't have to teach people why you heal you you don't have to show everybody everything while you heal this is a place where god's gonna reveal as he heals that means i gotta call this place holy so i'm asking you this week [Music] as you watch this message back two or three times i'm i'm challenging everybody there's going to be new revelation every time you watch it new revelation as i'm snapping my fingers that's how the revelation is going to come you're going to see your life full throttle you got to watch this back at least two times this week because god is going to begin to reveal what he wants to do right here but it's about getting in his presence okay look he that dwells safe [Music] [Music] [Applause] of the [Music] just a couple more times received right here [Music] [Music] he's speaking to you right now earlier [Music] hands lifted everybody say holy holy holy sake [Music] merciful [Music] come on somebody say bless it [Music] oh god holy holy oh god we reference you right here god [Music] [Music] i'm giving you everything [Music] father son holy spirit [Music] [Music] thank god [Music] cause right here [Music] i can feel you god [Music] sent right some of y'all got to leave but this is a moment encourage them destiny that their storm will [Music] come on out worship team come on [Music] our foundation is sure me [Applause] [Music] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] hands lifted everywhere father here we are somebody say here i am here i am father i did what you asked me to do today now i'm thanking you that this seed goes down into the hearts of your people and you will reveal what it means for them for their individual life for their family that they'll be able to say i love it here because they're loved here that they'll be able to acknowledge by the end of this year you know what that was the most set apart that was the most god ordained that was the most strategic year of my life because right here here is holy [Music] god i thank you that transformation nation would mature this year and we will become the believers to be modeled after that people would follow us as we follow you but father that means we got to get vulnerable and we got to bring our feet our situations our vulnerability our availability we have to bring it to you and say right here um just for every person who um has never accepted jesus as your personal lord and savior the reason i'm here today is to introduce you to our anchor to the one who is speaking through the fire the the one who is the alpha and the omega the beginning and the end the one who's in the middle with you man i've been through some crappy situations in my life god has been through every one of them with me it's because i invited him in and many of you are about to take this journey on another year of putting god as a condiment to your life i sprinkle them on when i need them [Music] when the thrills of life aren't hitting me right i just put a little bit on god says i want to be the main course of your life i want everything to fit around me it was the greatest decision i ever made it was a holy moment a separating moment when i invited jesus into my life not on the play play not on the i need to do this so i feel better about what i did last night not that i'm available and now i'm vulnerable you can take everything you can change me you can renew me you can transform it you can take me from being a liar a manipulator somebody who is addicted to pornography a bad person had all kinds of evil things in my heart had car insurance fraud case against me all this other stuff and you could take all of that and you can give me a new life and today i'm telling you as sure as i'm standing here walking through the fire i would never ever want to take one step without jesus with me today i want to give you the opportunity to take your shoes off to get real in your soul your mind will and emotions and invite jesus to be your personal savior that's the first thing but then he wants to be your lord and when he's your lord that means he takes on responsibility that means he's gonna speak you gotta obey you gotta obey the steps but then he takes full ownership and he transforms your life in ways i can't even imagine and tell you about today i'm just living it if you're tired of walking alone here is holy this is your burning bush moment this is the moment where god says surrender and your response not your reaction but your response should be here i am somebody say here i am if that's you on the count of three i want you to lift your hands because we're about to say a prayer for the benefit of those coming to christ and even rededicating their lives to christ because today i feel mama this is going to be a demarcation for people this will be a different like oh i changed everything in me changed on this day i feel that so strong this is going to you're going to mark this this is going to be a marked date in your life what's today's date the 21st 23rd january 23rd 2022 and this will be a mark of where you stopped and heard god's voice and said here it's holy whenever you watch this on rebroadcast all through this week 10 months from now this your moment somebody say here is holy here we go if you want to give your life to jesus christ one i'm so proud of you two heaven is turning up over just one person that would give their life to christ three lift your hand up in the air right now there are hundreds if not thousands of people right now now listen let let me tell you you're in good company y'all get ready to clap right here since january 1st there have been over 4 200 people oh y'all missed it that declared here y'all better help me in less than 23 days over 4 000 people have said i'm giving my life to jesus and here is holy and we get to add to heaven we rob into hell [Applause] right now in this moment so if that's you let's pray and at tc we're family nobody prays alone so we all pray in this together for the benefit of those who are coming to christ everybody just say god thank you for seeing me here just like i am and giving me jesus today i believe that he lived he died and he rose again just for me i'm vulnerable so take me change me use me transform me i'm yours in jesus name amen can we thank god for the thousands of people y'all better help me [Music] y'all better help me let's give god grace cause here is holy [Music] transformation nation don't miss one week of this series this is a life transforming pivotal shift in our minds our hearts and our understanding i told y'all last week it was the ending of a volume [Music] and this is the start of something new [Music] 2022 god's intentionally limiting us it's the year of intentional limitation the limitations set this year will not be opposed on you they will be set by you you're gonna set time to spend with god you're gonna set time to exercise you're going to set time to foster those relationships you're going to set time to just here because here is holy i love you i'm praying for you i believe that this is going to be the best week of your life as you stop and declare here is holy we have seven more days of prayer and fasting and listen i'm encouraging you every night this week at six o'clock we're gonna be right here and the level of attack that's been coming we're not playing defense we playing offense we about to pray heaven down we're about to pray for the sick we're about to pray for our government we're about to pray for our leaders we're about to pray for the people who don't like us we are going to intercede and we want you to join us we want you every night tomorrow night i'm leading prayer tonight i'mma come in here the enemy thought he's gonna shut me up i'm about to pray heaven down i like like you messed up and chose the wrong one you poked me i'm coming back at you the enemy will pay for everything and we're not going to do it because it's not flesh and blood we don't wrestle against this some other stuff happening so we're gonna pray meet me here tomorrow night i want 10 000 people on on youtube tomorrow night we're going to stream this thing on youtube if one can put a thousand to flight and two can put ten thousand angels to move what type of multiplication happens when we get ten thousand people praying that's not multiplication that's compounding we believe that we're going to see god move heaven and earth [Music] share this with people that need to know that here is holy people who have been indoctrinated with the theology of their help them understand that what here is hope father thank you for this church thank you for this moment thank you for this movement thank you for your people god is your servant i humble myself no matter how i feel and i say here is holy you spoke it and now we're gonna walk by faith thank you that this word illuminates day by day to our community and to people who are around just watching i think that somebody is getting filled with your spirit even in this moment right now god i thank you that you're going to confirm and affirm this word and we will be declaring at the end of 2022 that here is holy father have your way in jesus name everybody say we agree we expect amen until next time y'all go out and live a transformed life i love you you

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Length: 128min 36sec (7716 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 23 2022