Michael Todd: Your Pain Prepares You for Your Purpose | FULL EPISODE | TBN

maybe you need to rename your storm yeah it sucks but this is going to be sanctifying yeah it's hard but somehow healing's coming out of this mark 36 part b it says leaving the crowds behind see when you're going to not be impressive that means you're going to have to divorce your identity from the crowd leaving the crowds behind i need to give you this point because some of you won't be able to make it past this moment if i don't give it to you if you're going to dwell in the deep your boat is not built for everybody [Music] leaving the crowds what did i say behind the bible says distinctly that other boats followed but it said that the boat that jesus had started them out on everybody was not able to get on that boat i bet there was a lot of people in the crowd that wanted to get on the boat when jesus said hey i got a mission for us let's go to the other side and literally they said they moved out leaving the crowd behind i keep saying leaving the crowd behind because i believe that god is asking some of you to do that very thing if you're going to dwell in the deep leave the crowd behind who is on your boat who's weighing you down everybody's not going to the deep with you and you will delay your destination trying to bring a committee to what god called you to [Music] do you know where i would be right now if i waited for everybody that i thought was supposed to be with me to come with me on this journey do you know how many people would still be wandering and drifting if i needed the cosine of everybody else when i already had the cosine of heaven your boat is not built for everybody and the most spiritual thing that you may do this year because you're going to the deep is delete them i'm not talking about if you see them out you don't you don't say hello and be cordial and i'm not talking about cancel culture i'm talking about concentrated culture do you know that if you are distracted you cannot reach your destiny in adequate time and so what god is telling you right now is i don't want you to be into cancer culture i need you to be in concentrated culture do you know when a horse a thoroughbred runs in the indy uh not indy 500 what do they call it the preakness or the um um what is it called the kentucky derby those horses are worth millions and millions and millions of dollars they have a 15 piece of equipment that they put on their eyes to allow the peripheral vision to be cut off so that they can be concentrated on their lane and the finish line and i believe that in this year god is asking us to be concentrated on our lane and the finish line and that means that everybody can't get on the boat and go to the deep what would i do pastor mike i thought i thought bobo nem was going to come with me i thought tremaine was going to be able to make this trip i already got a ring i already got a ring i bought a ring already pastor mike are you asking me to get on this boat and go alone are you asking me to actually wait on you hello hello hello anybody out there anybody out there i will trust you i don't trust you i will trust you this sucks this sucks this sucks eenie meenie miney mo catch a tiger by his toe miss mary [Music] [Applause] so you came from heaven to earth to show me something cause the deep feels stupid the deep doesn't have friends the deep is calling me to be separate consecrated refined sanctified see these are these are words in the bible that we skip over like these are when we talk about the blessings we talk about all that but then when he says that he will be the one to take us through every storm of life can i ask you a question have you ever been in a storm before when you were waiting on god doing the thing he asked you to do and then out of nowhere a storm happens can i ask you this question how many people can we be honest we're hot at this church humble opening transparency how many people in some area of your life are in a storm right now come on hands lifted all over the world you're in a storm right now what happens when mark 4 37 comes up that i left the crowd i decided to go to the deep and this should be easy now because you are with me right and look what verse 37 is the whole point of this message but soon a fierce storm came up no no that's that's no no no no no no no that's not possible it's not possible that i obeyed god it's not possible that the season was just calm that's not possible that i trusted god i gave him the crazy faith offering i keep showing up and then jesus is the one that told me to go to the other side he is the one that told me to move to tulsa he's the one that told me to go to that school he's the one that told me and then under jesus's instructions a fierce storm came has your life ever looked like a storm because right now in many of your lives that's what it feels like and that's what it sounds like it sounds and feels like how am i out here and how i'm going to do what god asked me to do and what is going on in my life and i'm out here and it's dark now and i'm out here and there's nobody helping me and i'm out here and i don't hear a word from god what are you saying to me pastor mike something you need to know if you're going to dwell in the deep is the anchor does not excuse the storm this is the lie that so many churches and people have told you for years and i'm gonna shoot it to you straight you can have jesus and have a storm [Applause] it's better to see it coming than to allow yourself to be fooled and then walk away the storm is coming whether you have jesus or not your marriage will be tested whether you pray in tongues or not your children will have to be taught whether you fast or not i feel god right now you will have a challenge that you're going to have to believe god for whether you read the word every day or not i'm going to keep the storm going because this is what many of your whole last year look like and what we try to do is get down and make a better situation for ourselves let me roll my way into another another school let me roll my way into a better relationship let me roll my way let me roll my way into a new church you've been to 42 churches and the storm has not subsided it might mean because god's trying to teach you something in the storm i need to be even more transparent with you because i feel like many people have never done this for you so i'm going to do it for you jesus does not excuse the storm but can i tell you jesus usually escorts you into the storm [Music] god i thought hold on god i thought you was doing something i thought she was oh no no no no i'm in the middle hold on no i'm in the middle how do i get out of here i'm your anchor trust and know that i am god be still and wait on me [Music] god i can't i can't see daylight i don't understand why you didn't just tell me to stay on the shore because god said the blessings in the deep can i prove it to you jesus after he was baptized in water what ended up happening is that god came down and said this is my son and who i'm well pleased and then guess what happened he was led by the holy spirit into the wilderness he was escorted by god some of y'all been calling your storm a devastation and god said that this is just the destination that i have to create in you or i feel this thing the character the stamina the wherewithal the stick to additiveness that you need to be everything i've called jesus [Applause] and right now i bet on day 21 jesus was like yo is the storm over yet and i bet on day 31 he said is the storm over yet and some of you have been living in this place in your life is the storm over yet is the storm going to subside and for some reason god doesn't take you out of the storm he sustains you in the middle of it i'm trying to show you a practical example of what having an anchor does and can i tell you something if you're going to dwell in the deep listen and write this point down the deep is not for devastation it's for preparation the darkest and deepest places of my life have prepared me for the greatest victories of my life i remember when me and natalie had good credit and we were in a place to be able to buy our first home and it was sunny sky everywhere and we got hooked up with a bad contractor and what ended up happening is we found ourselves in the smack dab middle of a storm and for three years my credit went down we were drained of tens of thousands of dollars nobody knew pastor mike i didn't have no books i didn't have no nothing i felt like every day god was letting the storm continue to pound on my life and i was like god why i'm praying i'm fasting i'm giving i'm serving the youth i'm serving bishop and god said this is not a place of devastation this is a place of preparation it was in those moments that i learned the tools and the trades that i needed to be able to purchase the spirit bank event center that we sit in right now he knew that if i went through the storm in a season where it was inconsequential that he would sustain me and i would come out better and at the other side it would be the very thing i needed to reach purpose maybe you need to rename your storm yeah it sucks but this is going to be sanctifying yeah it's hard but somehow healing's coming out of this john 16 33 said i have told you these things so that in me you may have peace in this world you will have trouble can i say it a different way in this world you will have a storm but take heart i your anchor have over pumped somebody better help me shout in the place today if you know that our anchor has overcome the world so dear brothers and sisters james one verse two and four when troubles or storms of any kind oh that means i can have a storm in my marriage any kind of storm a storm of insecurity any kind of storm a storm of financial poverty any kind of storm dear brothers and sisters when storms or troubles of any kind come your way uh-oh you want to reframe it consider it an opportunity for great joy hold on is my storm a joyful situation according to the word of god my storm should bring me joy because if i know when your faith is tested your endurance has a chance to grow so let me admonish you like james let it grow for when your endurance is fully developed you will be perfect and complete needing nothing what i started saying to myself in the midst of the storm because what happened is sometimes you think like i got used to the storm and then the lights go dark and then the stuff that used to be very very clear and that you could see then it gets it gets a lot darker yeah yeah turn all of this off turn this yeah yeah cause cause what you think is that now i've learned how to deal in the storm and now i've learned how to communicate and and work in the storm but then it gets darker and then come on keep going like then all i see and hear is the voice of the enemy and i see how they're doing good and i see their marriage succeeding and this little light of mine is not shiny and then mark 4 37 said high waves were breaking into the boat and it began to fill with water so the storm got more intense and the lightning started to go and the things started to begin to be more and i'm about to lose my house and my family doesn't want to invite me places anymore and things are starting to rock and starting to reel and things are not looking brighter but it's looking darker and i don't know what's happening where is jesus have you ever said where is jesus look what verse 38 tells us jesus was doing give me a little light on myself jesus was at the back of the boat with his head on a cushion no jesus was sleeping this greatest storm of my life is happening and jesus had a flintstone pillow and took residence i i i need you to see this in the midst of a shaky situation y'all know when the storm is happening nothing's sure where's jesus no matthew mark luke and john matthew mark luke and john holy holy holy yeah that's gonna be a hit that's gonna be a hit what happens when jesus has decided to sleep what happens when jesus has decided to sleep in the midst of your storm do you still trust him will you still wait on him and people are saying yeah right now but there's a lot that goes into trusting a god who seems idle when your situation is so dark the disciples woke him up shouting teacher don't you care that we're going to drown don't you care that everything around me is shaking and jesus wakes up is this what y'all woke me up for who told you to go to the other side y'all missed it is this what you woke me up for the storm that when i told you we were going to the other side i'm the god of all knowing so i knew there would be a storm and i decided to sleep in it friends with your faithful partnership tbn is reaching over 175 nations that's why for your gift of support any amount this month we are excited to offer you michael w smith's heartwarming book the way of the father take a moment to visit tbn.org the father thank you

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Length: 20min 59sec (1259 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 13 2021