Michael Jr. - The Father's Voice - Life.Church

welcome to Life Church where we are one church meeting in multiple locations and reaching around the world through our network churches and church online if you have any questions you'd like to learn more about us you can always visit us online by going to Life Church today Life Church welcomes back our friend and stand-up comedian Michael jr. as he teaches us to weed through all the voices in our life and listen for the one that truly matters in his message the father's voice hey everybody at Life Church and all of our network churches those of you all over the world at church online you're gonna be extremely excited here great news today so many people are still talking about earlier before we had Michael jr. come and minister to our church and you guys absolutely loved them well guess what we are thrilled to have him back again today before you welcome him if you're new maybe you've never heard of Michael jr. before this guy is one of the greatest comedians alive I don't know about you but I love to laugh and I think it's okay to laugh in church as well I'm thrilled today to introduce one of the greatest men of God I know he's a fantastic husband to his wife an amazing dad to five kids Michael jr. has been on The Tonight Show The Late Late Show Jimmy Kimmel Comedy Central he's played in clubs all over the world and he's ministered to our church in an amazing way what I love most about Michael jr. is his passion for Jesus his comedy has a message would you please join me in welcoming again to Life Church Michael jr. all right Dallas fun thanks a lot pastor Craig or as I call my book look so it is really really cool to be here like I'm excited to Pastor Greg's a good dude I remember I don't know if he can recall this or not but I actually remember first of all you every time I call him me at the gym for some reason Oh Mike calm down dude anyway so I remember the first cuz he wanted me to he was he approached me we actually did a selfie together the first time we met I think we have the selfie the picture of it yeah there it is so I think I got that picture of us together so yeah just memories so cool man so I'm glad everyone is here I'm glad you guys are out at all the other locations I'm so pumped to be a part is you've decided to actually come and get fed this morning and hopefully we'll laugh as well we're gonna have a great time it's coming fun and stuff this is what this is the saying I love to say is if you buy a man a fish he'll eat for a day but if you teach them how to fish then you gotta buy them some bait some tackle fishing pole we got driving back and forth to the lake get them a license sometimes you just get that dude a fish sandwich it's okay but if you show him his reason for fishing he'll probably figured out himself she was just happening got deep in laughing it that's that's a snapshot of what could go on today she let me tell you about me I got five kids um yeah and I travel a lot you know so I can see them all oh yeah so I'm just playing I don't see him I don't see oh I do have five kids and we have a big family I have to figure out ways to save money pastor Craig knows this so what we did one of our our family pictures taken and that stuff was really really expensive so we did to save money is we all got in the front seat of the car look both ways and rent a red light yes we did two weeks later the picture came in the mail but my son blinks we had to do it again as I was crazy my youngest is uh is now five years old and she um every Tuesday we go out and we get hot chocolate together but there's one Tuesday in particular that I had a meeting afterwards I don't want to rush it so I went to her this is when she was three years old I said listen can we go today which was Monday instead of Tuesday because I don't want to rush our time together and she said so do you want to talk today she said he asked a hot chocolate so I took her to get hot chocolate and underweight it there I gave her a life lessons we actually stopped a feed the ducks and I was like ducks are like bad friends as soon as you out of bread watch what's gonna happen and anyway so we get the hot chocolate next day rolls around she wakes up she's like dad what's today I was like it's Tuesday she's like we get hot chocolate I was like no I'll remember we we said we was gonna get we already got hot chocolate we and she looked at me for real she said I changed my mind so we got hot chocolate again my daughter she uh she had a hamster at one point I say had a hamster because we're in the backyard playing and um a hawk or something Shh she's like dad we're a mr. Jacobs go how's that um he went hang gliding we're gonna pick him up later at the pet store he might look different when we pick him up though my kids just wondered they want an animal any animal cuz we didn't have we didn't we don't have a dog I had a dog when I was a kid we didn't like some people ludie dog and then and then we just had a dog like we don't even know where he came from this is a dog man so they want a dog this is our relationship with our dog when I was a kid this is our whole relationship we had a dog took him to the vet got the bill left him there we never saw that dog again man I care about no dog man cats though they're awesome something is okay if you if you love your dog as long as you know your dog don't love you back it's just a dog people I know since she got hurt she loves me I had a lady standing an autograph line for like 45 minutes because she wanted to prove to me her dog loved her she started reaching her persons like you got a love note what are you gonna show me and she pulls out an article where it talks about how her the dog saved her life apparently her house caught on fire and the dog she said would not leave her side it kept barking and barking and barking - finally she woke up and they got out the house safely I was like man that is amazing I'm just saying I think the story would have been looked different um if the dog knew how to turn a doorknob never put that doggie door and did you yeah procrastination saved your life so what I'm talking about today a lot of times I get a lot of comedians from different places and don't ask me about doing comedy and what they need to do to to pursue a career in comedy or people no matter what the profession is I'm sure pastor Craig is people who walks up to him on a regular basis say hey what can I do to become a pastor people are always acting on what can I do the key isn't what you do the key is why people always want to know their what but the truth is is all you have to know is your why when you know your why you have more options as to what you do an example is this um I am actually called to comedic ly my why is to comedic ly inspire people to walk in purpose my what looks like stand-up comedy it looks like movies it looks like being on late-night TV have my own TV show I have a lot of options for what but my Y never changes and when you understand clearly when you understand your why your what has more impact I have an example uh one of my website I'm currently doing is I have a webseries out called a Michael jr. breaktime it's on YouTube we throw them out on Wednesdays and basically what break time is it's one of my live stand-up comedy performances whenever I'm doing a concert anywhere in the country in the middle of my show I will stop doing what I'm doing and just talk to audience members and comedy just kind of happens well we're in winston-salem I'm about to show you a clip we're on winston-salem and this guy I talked to him he said he's a teacher and it's break time we're sitting down he said he was a teacher and he teaches music and I was like well uh you know can't you sing and check out what happens so a musical director yes sir all right so um let me get a couple let me get a couple bars of like a Amazing Grace key to the first part and go ahead Oh Maisie grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me that baraka see no I'm saying all right now what you give me the version is if your uncle just got out of jail you got shot in the back when you as a kid I'm just saying let me see the hood version real quick or you know over for another time I'll just see if that exists let me see what you got Amazing Grace how sweet the Sun let's say babe Reds like me Oh Oh No ha ha ha I see so the first time I accidentally saying he knew what he was doing the second time I actually missing he knew why he was doing it when you understand your why your what has more impact because you were walking in or towards your purpose the key is to understand the why so now I'm doing new sports these days because uh you know after a certain age you got for instance growing up in the hood the only sport we played was water polo and stuff so um it's not I'm doing new sports ah some friends took me a ball hunting you ever go ball hunting some people call it golf or whatever first of all it took all day and then my friends lied to get me to go there's like Yoda greens are awesome I was like ooh I showed up with some cornbread I like man sent me out I don't get that joke you turn to the black person in yo section like hey with what does he do with the cornbread I don't understand so I'm doing who's first now um I actually went to a baseball game recent I had some friends who played Major League Baseball and I had never been to a baseball game before ever I just hadn't been and uh first of all some things I didn't understand like when I when I get there I notice everyone in the stands it seems like they might be a little tipsy I'm not sure I'm not I'm not positive but it seems like it we get to the seventh inning and everyone starts singing a song what's the song take me out to the ball game um we are at the ball game you don't know where you are you're drunk for sure kid sports is a lot of fun coaches are hysterical coaches all over the place the good coaches always say something like this you've heard this before they look at you to look at the whole team they say listen the stuff I'm teaching here is not just about this game you can apply it to life it's not true at all check it out read out high school I got a job parking cars one of the cars was really nice I took it for a little spin the company found out and my boss lost the account he was yelling at me screaming I didn't know what to say or do I thought back to my high school football coach I looked at my boss sounds like you know what man you win some you lose some man you can't let this one loss get you down the important thing is I went out there and I have fun yeah then I got fired then I got fired right after that so that worked out this one I think was so cool about life church is how you guys are just I think I think it's just way different from any church that I had grown up around like I remember going to churches and they wouldn't you ever go to a church where they won't let you in while people are praying like you try to walk in and they like you can't go in right now they praying all right is God gonna lose focus I don't understand why I can't this makes no sense whatsoever and I'm actually on the prayer team at my church which I'm excited about and a couple weeks ago this dude came down for prayer and I was like yo what you want pray Bob I didn't say yo that's unprofessional I was like what's on your mind would you like to pray Bob he said a phrase I had never heard before he said unspoken have you have you heard type of unspoken it I don't know what to do I've never heard before so I was like all right God um please forgive this man for this unspeakable thing he's done Laura um I hope it's not contagious lower oh I love seeing comedy funny stuff like that when I don't see it I just make it up like this next thing um I met a family from Africa uh who came to America to adopt a white kid oh yeah her name was Emily and uh they changed it to a bootay and they don't know how to do her hair it's crazy some people are extremely politically correct I'm not that good at it but I notice it when it happens I'm at a coffee shop and uh the white guy in front of me and he orders a coffee and the lady is like how do you want it and he looked back at me it was like um African American I was like cool let me get the Caucasian mocha with that that'd be great I'll get the Caucasian mocha I'm also an early person I love getting up early uh least 11:30 or so I got be up gonna be sleeping around missing the whole day so I know some people get up earlier than that and I always got those sayings - it's the early bird gets the worm you know what I don't even like worms yeah I'm gonna get up later and have some sausage let's think about that phrase for a second it's the early bird gets the worm you know what the worm got up early to look what happened to him or you hear sayings like I hear this a lot boy I wish I could have been a fly on the wall every time someone says that I look at him I'm like and then what no no you want to be a fly on the wall so you can hear the information that was in the room well guess what I did the research flies don't have ears yeah you need to be a fly on the wall that could read lips and there and then when you get the information what are you gonna do with it nobody listens to a fly yeah a bird maybe a fly no you're making bad choices some people predict the end times why would you ever predict 10 times because if you're right you can't be like see I told you like like it's over I'm on social media um there's a book out there's really cool like one of my favorite messages that has ever come out of Life Church is the struggles message they had that is like a really good quote on one second okay yeah that's a really good message like it's later on favorite I'm actually I'm on social media but not too much because I have five kids my kids come way before anything socially outside of the group but I am on social media and I do notice that some people have a really hard time communicating when they're on social media too much this guy walks up to me after an event and he said uh he's excusing Michael jr. um can you like me my own oh man do any BIOS like it feels like we're not as many people as I want like it might be your approach he was like well can you like me will you get home as I um if I don't like you now why would I like you when I got home are you gonna follow me or something here's like a will if you like me it's like that's why I don't like you that's why I don't like you and I go I'm gonna do a public service announcement um just cuz I feel like I should every once in a while this is mainly for all my white friends and when I say white friends talk about you guys and I do jokes about different nationalities I'm gonna be clear I'm not racist so my best friends are black just want to throw that out there just a public service announcement there's something that my white friends do that I want to release you from having to do it anymore sometimes you do it cuz you don't know what else to do it's weird that you don't know what to do or sometimes you do it and you don't even know you're doing it so I want to let you know tit exists and I want to free you from ever having to do it again okay here it is um this is my mom my white friends the next time you meet a black person for the first time you don't have to let that black person know that you know another black person it's okay really you don't have to do it you don't have to do it you try to slip it in like we're not gonna notice we always notice you this is great weather we're having what my friend shaquita would love this weather I'm excited about the fact that uh I'm assured it's with you guys uh I'm excited I can stand here and tell you guys it's uh it's been over two years since I've had a cigarette so you have I'm excited that ya actually know what um it's been a little longer uh I've never had a cigarette before so I do want throw that out there interesting how everybody can clap for two years but um nothing for a lifetime awesome great thanks Christian's my comedy that's what I do I always sit back and pay attention to people mainly because when I was a kid I had such a hard time reading out struggle on my reading my friend bought me this book called reading for dummies like what you want with that what am I was that gonna do I'm married there's a few things that I don't understand about women I'm gonna mention one in particular heels I think wearing heels is kind of like doing drugs hear me out ladies first of all you do it to get hot you feel great while you're up there when you come down it hurts you regret it but then you do it all over again don't you I really think you have a problem I really did you ever go shopping at a second chance store not a secondhand store a second chance store a second chance store is like Ross or TJ Maxx let me explain why I call it second chance or the items here used to be at the mall but nobody wanted them not our Ross and I get a second chance you can find a few good things at Ross but you gotta be careful because there's always something a little wrong like just a little like something's not quite like I bought a Nike shirt dear the back of his head just try it it was it was a size extra medium actually being kid just having kids is really really phenomenal I didn't show what you guys just told you I have five kids but um I have five kids who I used to be like a single dad of three yeah let me explain to you ha got my kids well you know how I got him I'm gonna explain that part but I used to be a single dad of three and what happened was my uh the kids mom she God just told me to go get my kids he was like you need to you need to go get your kids and I lived in California they were in Michigan and he said go and I just went to got him I was in a Gallo hostel at first everything is great now but I was like oh yeah one of the kids come live with me and then she said okay and I was like what would okay and being a single dad any single parents out there wow that sounds a lot a lot of work I got much much love for single parents like a whole bunch of look like my son four years old we're sitting in the doctor's office and his lady across from her she starts nursing her baby and my son is looking at her day look at me he's looking at her and he looking at me and I noticed not gonna be cool cuz he don't know how to whisper he looks at me he's like um he said dad what is the lady doing to the baby why are you so loud right now I tried to explain to him it's natural see what you saw is completely natural see women have these uh these disease breasts and down he said what's the breast you lower your voice a little bit dude I said like it's like a container did I like a container to hose milk and for real he was like you mean a jug I was like no not what I mean that is not what I mean but I wrote it down though I was already down because that is hysterical and in math my daughter will come home with math homework and she's like and I don't know how to do like any we have met we had multiplication and subtraction and all those really complex things she came home she's like dad I got calculus calculus it sound like a disease I was like no you don't we gonna pray once I got this from your mother's side her family I love love love love love being a dad so I put some comedy in between some truths because this is why what you understand a moment ago we talked about how most people are trying to figure out their what when the truth is what you need to do is figure out your why but the only way you can know your what is by knowing your why but you don't get any of that unless you know who the who is the key to all of this so not too long ago me and my wife we were looking at some video footage of our youngest daughter she's five now being born and I had never seen this footage from this perspective before like like ever I took the video myself but I hadn't looked at it and absorbed it in this way so what I'm about to show you it's a clip she's probably two minutes old at this point she's crying she's on it she's on the table the nurses about to take care of her and I want you to pay attention to what happens when she hears my voice Hey okay boy look all right here it's okay it's okay I'm right here coming out here we're doing just fine it's okay it's okay I'm right here right here yeah it's okay so when I saw that I was overwhelmed Wow awesome that is so it's a few minutes later uh the nurse has cleaned her up a little bit and uh she had she stopped crying but then about three minutes or so into that she starts crying more and then I speak up and she stops crying again what I want you to notice I want you to notice how she responds when I tell her I love her Portland okay okay it's good it's good it's good I'm right here I'm right here I am right here I love you I love you I'm right here I'm right here it's okay it's okay so there's going to be times when you're trying to figure out what your what is and what your why is there's going to be times where things are not comfortable even to the point of Tears the key thing to do in those moments is to just be still and listen for the father's voice because he is talking to you and what he wants you to know is that he loves you all you have to do is open your eyes I'm Michael jr. I love you ha ha the guys are awesome thank you so much it's a great message to date all of our churches let's take a moment and absorb that truth and prayer father thank you so much that you show us your love in so many different ways God if we can see you in the beauty of creation we can find you even in moments of laughter and God I pray today that everyone who's in your presence would be very sensitive God that you would not only show us the what but God show us the why why it is that you have allowed us to go through what we're going through why you've given us the gifts that you've given us and got even more than the why I pray that we would embrace the who God that you are with us that you love us and that you're calling us to use our gifts to make a difference in this world all of our churches those of you I want to just pray today especially for those who may be going through a difficult time I just have this on my heart I know that there are different seasons in life and some of you right now you may be in a more difficult seat and if that's you at all of our churches just between you and God would you slip up your hands right now if you're going through something that may be a little bit difficult there are so many of you and and I just want to pray especially for you father I lift up every person that's hurting right now we're facing some challenges and god I know that you know the intimate details of everything that they're going through sometimes god we know that in the middle of challenging seasons we just simply don't understand the why and we may not or we may experience those in in hindsight but I pray God right now that the who that you your presence would bring comfort to those who are hurting god we thank you that you are a good god that you can take what the enemy meant for evil and God that you can use it for good so I ask God now that your Holy Spirit would minister to those who are going through a trial and got even today that a little bit of laughter would be a gift from heaven to be a blessing to them more than even laughing god we pray that your presence would be everything that we need that you would give us the mind the peace of Jesus Christ that we would experience a supernatural peace that goes beyond our human ability to understand as you keep praying today at all of our churches here's what's amazing is that you just opened up your hearts today to laugh a lot in an amazing way and we believe with all of our hearts that joy is a gift from God but the reality is there are some of you you came here for a deeper purpose and that is because it's time for you to get to know the who as you look at your life right now you may have tried in all different ways to find meaning so hey I want to go make a name for myself or I want to make some friends I want to have a good time or I want to make some money and yet at the end of the day you still find yourself searching and longing for something more why is that because you're not looking for what you're actually searching for a who someone said that we're all created with a god-shaped void in our lives until we know God until we understand his love will always be searching and all of our churches there those of you you recognize yes you've been on a search your entire life and today you're going to meet the who the one who loved you so much that He gave His Son Jesus so that he but your sins could be forgiven and you could be made completely brand new it was the hoob's Jesus who changed Michael Jr's life it was Jesus who changed my life and it's Jesus who can change your life and all of our churches does you who say yes I've been on a search a quest a longing to find something that what whatever that is that I'm missing and you're recognizing it's not a what that you're missing it's a who you're missing a living relationship with a loving God and today you say yes I want it Jesus forgive my sins by faith I want to surrender my life to you that's your prayer would you lift your hands high right now and all of our churches say yes Jesus I want to know you those of you at church online if you'll simply click right below me I would love to invite all of you to join your hearts and praying with those around you simply pray Heavenly Father I want to know you I want to know you personally forgive me of every sin I've ever committed make me brand new fill me with your spirit so I could know you and so I could live for you my life is not my own today I give it to you thank you for new life God you have mine in Jesus name I pray would you all worship big and worship be loud today thanking God for his work in new life in Christ at Life Church we are honored to play a very small part and all that God is doing in and through your life and we would love to continue with you on that journey to find out what your next steps are just go to Life Church / next here at Life Church we believe technology is something to be used to reach the world for Christ in one of the ways we've done that is through the YouVersion Bible app that's been downloaded well over 200 million times around the world we recently had the chance to sit down with Grammy award-winning hip-hop artist Lecrae and hear how he sees technology and the Bible app changing the way people engage with God's Word I have used my music to explicitly just share the gospel share the story of it and I've used my music to demonstrate the implications of the gospel in my life and in the lives of others and also to demonstrate why we need the gospel by pointing out you know the brokenness of this world I think technology has helped within the church by just the spreading of information faster you know the Bible being digital is a huge game-changer it's convenient but then I think about even places where it may be illegal to carry a Bible or have it but you can now have it on your phone or something and look at it for me personally there's never now reason for me to not have access to my word you know when you're trying to find something you trying to look something up or you need to reference something you have it right there training tips you know the beauty of art is art gives you the opportunity to tell a story and and people connect and are drawn to stories and you know the gospel is a part of a story it's a story of the creation to fall in the redemption of mankind Manj is grateful for Life Church making the Bible available all over the world it's beautiful the accessibility of the Word of God it's beautiful thing to download the Bible app to your mobile device just go to Bible comm slash app here at Life Church it's our mission and our passion to reach people who don't know Christ because we believe whoever finds God truly finds life you

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Published: Sat Apr 23 2016