Under Doesn't Mean Over // Planted Not Buried (Part 1)

I'm home and I'm ready to preach I've been stopped up for six weeks so all I'm gonna tell you is get ready because I think this may be one of the best series we ever do because of the revelation God has given me on this topic right here if you're taking notes on once you get out your your notepads and your smartphone your dumb phone whatever you have in we're gonna start I want to say hi to transformation nation we have literally thousands of people watching with us right now can we give it up for everybody watching online we love you you're a part of what we're doing here today we are starting a brand new series called planted not buried and I'm a hike because there have been so many people who have been in a season where they don't know which one of these they are the subtitle of this series is what to do when you're under and I started to think about it is that as I polled people and I asked where people are in their life and in their relationships what's going on in their business and what's going on in their hearts and what's going on a lot of people I started to talk to they were under they were under pressure they were undervalued they literally had a sense of being under qualified people are under attack they're underpaid how many people are underpaid in the place right now somebody say is me Oh Lord some of them are under fire under acquit underestimated some people are under funded and even there are some that feel like they're just underground like nobody even knows what God's place on the inside of me in that I could be more than do more and I just want to encourage people's faith that there is a place that you can live in God that no matter what you are under that your faith will be able to take you to place that you can rise sustained and watch this make it through see everybody wants God to magically deliver them from something but what if God's plan was for you to make it through it see see all of us would you God save me now he said I'm gonna sustain you now like I'm I'm gonna take you through it and most of us want to give up at that point because that's not the easy way but God wants you to know that growth and comfort can never go together those two things are arch enemies and will never be able to produce at the same time and many of you want to be comfortable watch all your Netflix shows still hook up on the side do all of these other things and still see everything God has for you and growth and comfort do not mix and so what I want everybody to understand is that if you're under in any area of your life this series is for you if you're under depression if you're under attack if you're under what people are saying about you even family members God is coming to revive and give your faith in IV and I'm telling you I don't know how long this series is gonna be I must confess because as God keeps revealing to me he's trying to get something to you so you do not quit prematurely so that you don't give up on the marriage and you don't throw in the towel and you don't go back home from college just because it's in a hard season God said and I want you to write this down cuz this is point number one under does not mean over see a lot of people think if you're under pressure it's over we should give up if we're under attack if we're under the the the strain or for under pay there's no way the vision can happen what are you talking about this is God we're talking about and you're God's child under does not mean over somebody say that under does not mean you didn't even say with your chest you said it just under I want somebody's faith to be awakened today because you've come in here numb to life because you thought this was your lot in life but I came to revive your faith today I did somebody with to say it with everything and you say 'under does not mean over here we go go to Psalms chapter one verse three by the end of this service somebody's gonna get your life back so somebody's vision is going to be restored your marriage that is shaky right now you know we made it this far what doesn't kill us makes us stronger baby come on let's do it I'm just saying because it's all about perspective and where you're at and where you see yourself and so I want to read you a scripture that for many of us is like one of those scriptures like if you could pick a scripture to happen to you you will want Psalms chapter one verse three to happen to you like this is like one of those that's like yes sign me up I want to do this and I want us to read this but I want us to take it a little deeper than what we probably would just in reading for a devotional I want us to study it and see what the Word of God has to say look what it says in Psalms chapter one verse 3 it says they are like trees everybody shot at me planted but like like like this is what God wants for every believer for your relationship with him - after maturity look like a tree that has been planted no now tell me the name of a big tree what's a big tree an oak tree we already know y'all done studied huh and uh an oak tree it's not a small thing if you've ever come in contact with an oak tree these things can be hundreds of feet high you literally can walk around the the bark of the tree these things provide shade they can provide shelter they can provide nourish there's so many things a tree can do and out of everything David the who's right this to compare our relationship with God with he compares it to a tree that is planted by rivers of living water now I just want you to get this image of you being a tree plane oh I know you weak right now I know that you don't really have you don't have a good self-esteem in your visual image and you've been cut down and chopped on and and all these other things but just for a second I want you to see vision right I want you to see your best self I want you to see yourself with an AB one that's all I'm believing God for I just want in my lifetime I want one AB I just I can just sit right there like I want you I want you I want you to see yourself free from depression I want you to see yourself not worrying about finances because God is just supplier I want you to see yourself literally being blessed to be a blessing I want you to see your self free from everybody who hurts you that's the tree that's you somebody say that's me like like like he wants us to be a tree put it back up there planted everybody say planted along the riverbanks the reason why he puts the metaphor of it being a tree planted by riverbanks is because then you don't have to depend on rain because it's planted so close to water no matter if it rains or not this is why when you're planted close to God when you're when you because out of our bellies should show some flow straight y'all I'm stuck out of your belly it was so good I just did like like out of your belly will flow rivers of living what that's the living water of God when we're close we don't have to depend on what's happening in the atmosphere we can we don't have to depend on what's happening in government we don't have to depend on what's happening on our job we can take from the living this is what God wants for your life he wants you to be a tree planted by the rivers of living water check this part out bearing fruit in each season do you know why this is significant because no tree bears fruit in every season but God is saying he wants your relationship with him to be able to bear fruit no matter what season it is summer fruit winter fruit spring fruit fall fruit lay me off my job fruit leave me fruit I lost a loved one fruit it doesn't matter what you throw at me I'm still gonna bear fruit and see so many of us are just so satisfied with the one time we had fruit the one time God came through we still praise him for the one miracle that happened when we seventeen and God said did you not know that I wanted you to be so connected with me that your relationship look like a tree planted by me that bear fruit no matter what happens somebody say fruit like late so so let's go back your relationship with God should be like a tree everybody said planted along the riverbanks bearing fruits everybody say fruit in each season check this out their leaves never wither now this is crazy because the natural cycle of trees we're about to hit the fall right now and every tree in Tulsa all the leaves are gonna start whittling up and turning a different color and eventually they're gonna fall off the reason that that happens as a study is because there's a season that the tree has to go into for stalling its nutrients to be able to survive the winter so it stops supplying nutrients to the things that are on the outside God's saying because you're planted near me you will be able to get everything you need so you don't have to save anything you don't have to hold nothing back oh come on some of y'all been holding stuff back from God trying to wait on reserve he said cuz you planted me I don't want other ideas your most creative idea hasn't come to you yet the business idea the thought the thing that I'm gonna do it you ain't even seen it yet cuz you're planted next to me and it says you will keep leaves in every season so it doesn't matter if everybody around you is withering up and dying when you're connected to the the source you will produce look and actually be healthy in every season because you know everybody try to look healthy but but but God is saying this is what your relationship should look like one more and this is the best one they are like trees everybody say planted along the riverbanks bearing fruit to everybody said true in each season and their leaves everybody say never wither this is you this is you this is the image that God sees of you this is the image that you should see of yourself this is the image you should see of your relationship and your kids this is you I'm always bearing fruit I'm always green I'm always giving nourishment to somebody else I'm always say I'm always looking good I'm always and then it says and this type of person they prosper in all they do do you all know how crazy that is that everything that you even think about doing works like God wants to co-sign all of your ideas that line up with his will just just imagine how that feels God I wanna I wanna I want to touch this school and buy backpacks for the whole school well you're a single mother uh you're planted next to me I'm the supplier of all your needs I'll send somebody in to pay for the whole like like this is the thing that you got to understand everything you can do with God can prosper the problem is most of us aren't planted in a place that we can grow roots we're potted plants and we put ourselves and confined small spaces and we move from place to place trying to look good and be seen instead of getting in a place where God can keep us there long enough for us to get the roots to be able to go high and so we use that this is what potted plants look like it's well my family only did this much or I only went to this college or I was abused and and and and my start won't be I'm old and and I'm black and I'm and the man is against me all y'all are potted plants you've let a limitation define how high that you could go but today through this series I want you to understand that God is here to break all of your limits and anybody that will allow him he will get you to the place where you can be planted and a spacious place where you can become everything that God has called you to be I want to show you a picture because everybody wants this to happen everything I do works I'm planted I'm bearing fruit I'm always green that's what I want God but I realized something as I was studying this like and it hit me trees are not planted seeds are God's never planted a tree he's always planted a seed so what you're discounting because it's so small God is counting on to become tall oh yeah yeah my little gift my little family my my little and God says you don't see what I see I gave it to you in that form so that they couldn't destroy it before you knew how to work it but I'm telling you that that little will become much if you put it in a place where it can be everybody shout at me planted but will you stay in the same place long enough to let God do the work I know you trying to get out of that job but what if that was the ground that God was trying to make you in ooo I'm coming for you today cuz I know some of y'all been praying all week Lord just if you would burn the place down it's okay with me no I could just get the insurance change disability Oh I'm hurrying now like like like you and what if God said I put you there I allowed that because that was the environment that your seed would become a tree ah I know I know because all of us specially in our Instagram fast microwave generation we want our seed to just hit that miracle girl overnight and we want it to be a forest but God said it's seed time harvest those are three different things it's seed and then time and then put that picture on the screen because I want everybody to see what you look like right there that's you that's what God has planted in you a seed and I want you to look at how much God does under the surface before he does anything that people can see I mean nature is speaking to us right now it literally at the moment the seed wants to go up what does God say it has to do don't get humility oh I know you want to be the CEO right now I know but God says I can't take you up if you don't have any roots to hold what we're gonna build the only thing that can take a tree out and its own volition is it not having roots that were dug deep enough to withstand what God was trying to build and some of us have been so frustrated with the season we've been under and we've been looking at it as God punishing us or this is negative but what you don't understand is this is the place where you're developing roots can I be practical with you what a roots Pastor Mike character integrity humility Jam crazy Jay a natural job she's there to teach you humility because the old you would have cussed out every day at 8:45 Jan come here let me catch you out later that would have been the old shoe but something that God is doing in you at that same job at that same place why you're still under that wrong leadership that leader who discriminates against you that leader who you know is doing the wrong thing God has you there not because he's punishing you because he's building your ropes and some of y'all have had the wrong perspective you thought that what was happening was to take you out and God says what's happening I'm making you right now and I can't allow everybody to see it because if they saw it they try to put you pull you up and put you in a pot they would try to take what you have and put it on display until you were no longer valuable to them but God said what I'm building in you it's gonna be something that goes deep and that when it is time it's gonna go high put that picture back on I'm about to preach the fool out this picture look at this look at this look at the fourth picture do you see how much God has been doing but how little it looks on the surface most of us would overlook that oh oh yeah look at you your little business huh look at that you're selling it all what ebay oh that's so cute what they don't understand is that's the seed with deep roots that is gonna be a fortune 500 company that they'll work for one day see but but God's not gonna allow them to see that do you understand oh you're just saying holy you're saving yourself till you get married okay you ain't even that cute and God said no no they don't understand that what what he has for you requires purity like there's somebody on the other side of this that is doing the same thing and equal has to meet equal cuz we're gonna behold going into this marriage anyway and so he said you keep doing it and all people can see is discount what looks a little but they don't know what's happening under and I came to encourage somebody and change your perspective and sweat out of this suit because I need somebody to understand that God does not have you in that place to take you out he has you in that place to make you and this is the hard thing about this is because when you're planted it's dark when you're planted if you're a seed that gets planted in the ground it's lonely but matter of fact if you want to be completely transparent about it it's a season that's hard like like why and many times you just ask them got why like why isn't this working I thought I obeyed you I thought I did what's happening why why why why like why is this Keith why does this same situation keep happening why do I go to the altar and repent and want a better relationship in the same knucklehead keeps coming into my life with a different name and I keep falling for it and I don't want to why is this marriage not working and we've been to every counselor I can think of why can't I kick this addiction like like I don't know about you but these are these are the things that happened in me like I'm not I'm not talking about oh no no no I pray it happens forget you like like like like for me there are things that is so why is this so dark I'm going to church every Sunday I'm paying my time steal bro Oh y'all want to be fake this morning like I gave on the first faster my life's got going on a second where is God has anybody ever just sit and in any single oh come on y'all we're humble open and transparent in this church has anybody ever been in a place and you said where is God come on where's God thank you the reason why this is so beautiful is point number three the place of death and the place of destiny look the same for a season let me explain it to you if I take a seed and I dig up the dirt and I put it in the ground and I cover it it is the exact same process to take a dead body dig up the dirt put it in ground and cover it and so what ends up happening is if depending on our perspective and what we're filled with if we're if we're filled with faith and and we know that God has a plan for our life and all things are working together for depending on our perspective the enemy can convince you that the place where God is curating your destiny is the place that you should curl up and die oh yeah yeah no I know like like that's why you've been about to pull the plug on the very thing that he said for you to do that's why you won't stay plugged into church that's why you keep going from relationship and relationship and marriage to marry it's because the same place right when you get to the point to start getting some roots the enemy convinces you that that place means God is forsaken you that really means that's the place where God is making you and if you don't understand it you will uproot yourself from a place that God was using to make you who he created you to be Mike you better preach I will no no look it's dark in both places it's hard in both places it's isolated in both places and what you have to get the faith to believe though I'm under it's not over like like I know that the common person will look at my business and say it is over that is this is a memorial service for any business plans that this person would ever have and God says what did I tell you when you were writing in that journal what did I say to you he said no it's gonna look the same for a season but I'm the God who started something in you and I'm the God who's gonna finish it in you if you do not get up can somebody give God some praise in this place oh yeah because some of us I know it's taking a second because everything that's happened to you you've taken as a sign that you need to stop and maybe it's a sign that God's trying to start something you're under you're under the pressure you're under paid yes your undervalue yep yeah yeah yeah some of us are under depression under wrong thoughts under perversion you're under a whole bunch of stuff God says this is why I do my best work if I can find somebody to have faith when it looks dark if I could find somebody to have faith when it looks bad and this is the thing that Philippians 1:6 says because I know some of you are right here right now and you are under addiction you're under hurt I mean I was praying for somebody so free feverishly this week because I know how bad they're hurt and they can't even see that God's trying to use them right now because every area is sensitive you know when you get bruised in one area then it just like is you touch their finger like ah that hurts like it's and that's how many of you right now are that's why you can't get in any relationships with anybody just friends business partners it's cuz something hurts you so bad that when somebody just tries to reach out and touch your hand its callous everywhere and God is saying will you allow me to be the one to take you into a place and heal you and give you mend the broken pieces and give you roots that will allow you to withstand because God has something so big for you that takes you having to have deep roots and maybe maybe the problem is now on purpose maybe the hurt has an assignment maybe them leaving you has left you in the best place to become who God's created you to be what you have to get in your mind right now is it's not over I'm just under I want you to say that with me somebody say it's not over I'm just under see the beautiful thing about being under is that the work that God does only he can get the glory for many of us want our are our rise to be on insta stories we want what God does in our life to be something that's glorious and God says I want all the credit for this so I'm gonna put you in a season that looks like you should curl up and die but once you know that I'm for you and I'm with you look what Philippians 1:6 says and I am certain that the God who began a good work like with that little seed with that thing that everybody's calling insignificant with that little relationship with that little service with that little he said he who started a good work within who like like this is where people don't get it God's not trying to do something to bring his name glory outside of you like he wants to do the work everybody say in me that's why you have to stay planted because every time you uproot you start the process over again and that's why you're going from church to church to church to church that Pastor don't understand me that pastor don't better than a pass for them but and there's a problem at every church that you go to baby you are the common denominator you're the problem but God said could you stay planted somewhere long enough to build roots so that I can do what I want to do in you yeah you'll be offended yeah but you're gonna that's gonna happen everywhere yeah you're not gonna like something that's gonna happen everywhere yeah intimacy this is the thing where God's trying to teach you faithfulness and he's trying to get these things remember roots in you so that he can build what he wants to do building you he rarely ever builds what he needs you to have in the same atmosphere that's your in that's why when God's trying to teach you faithfulness he'll send you to the children's ministry work with these kids work work teach them love on them be there for them give them on and you like God I've been working in this area for seven years and he said I'm trying to teach you faithfulness because why you're single in this place right now and you're so ready to have a husband after those first few weeks you're gonna realize that you don't like him that much and you gonna have to be faithful to him even when it's bad for better or for worse and God said I was trying to teach you faithfulness for your marriage when you were faithfulness and serving but you'll never learn and get the roots if you won't stay everybody shot at me planted so when I started looking at this I said okay God if if this is what you really want to do in all of us then I'm gonna need some help like many of you are gonna need help cuz you're under right now you're under pressure you're under developed some of us are under qualified that's how the enemy makes us feel my god God will never do anything with you imagine how Sara felt who God gave a promise to 25 years earlier than he fulfilled it she was under for 25 years not a sign of anything what she did is what most of us would do is we unpack ourselves we come undone planted and we try to do something in our own power you know what she did she said God I think you just missed it I believed you back in the day but you missed it so i'ma help you out cuz you forgot what you were doing this is a dusty old one that there's no milk here just air you hear what I'm saying I can't do this and imagine every year she's celebrating 70 years old happy birthday Sarah it probably was a reminder of all the time that God didn't do what he said he was gonna do 75 80 85 happy birthday just stop because I don't want to be reminded that I'm still under like like like I can't even praise with other people when God does good things because I I'm just been under so long I've become dead hurt but she tried she said God I may help you and she goes and get her servant Hagar and she says every Abraham come here sleep with Hagar he's like don't even play do not even do that I hate girl you know I ain't gonna do that she said oh we gonna get this baby this son is coming we're gonna force the promise of God but we're going to make an illegitimate seed and Abraham was like okay cool if you say so you know the sounds just gonna follow my wife I'm some idiot and they they create a baby that's illegitimate and probably somewhere around the time where they was in baby mama drama cuz they were having a Maury Povich episode every day you could read the Bible it's in there and like they she probably prayed this for your God I'm sorry for trying to do it my way god I'm gonna get planted back in what you've called me to be and she had to wait but isn't it like God to allow us to be under long enough for him to get the glory and at the age of nine this woman gets pregnant now do you know how hard it would look to somebody for somebody who's been under so long that everybody's counted them out for God to do now it becomes a miracle if he did it now it would be normal but if the odds are stuck if you're under some stuff and he still does it when time is out when nobody believes it can happen when it been over God says that's who I am I am the god of the impossible what the enemy has convinced you is your death it's just a place that I'm creating and cultivating your destiny you will have that business you will have that marriage your family will be say I need somebody to rejoice with me you will stand and declare God's mighty accident but you know what I know you've already given up you've already been convinced that you're buried I mean that's great for other people pass the mic but it's not gonna happen for me today I want you to realize something very significant that the only way that you can really tell if something is pent planted or buried it's not by something external because I could plant a coin right now but because there's nothing inside of a coin it would just stay buried but if I plant a seed today because of what is inside of it or maybe I should say what or who is inside of it because if you're the seed who is inside of you it doesn't matter how much dirt gets thrown on me it does not matter how on significant I may look as long as the greater one lives on the inside of me you can bury me six feet under and I am NOT buried I am planted I am gonna come up I'm gonna be strong I think John says it like this greater is He that is in me than anything that is in the world that's why you have to make sure that you're feeding on the Word of God that God is inside of you that faith is inside of you cuz pressure can be all on you and you can be under but if the greater one is in you I don't care if they have the Memorial one day you'll be able to stand tall as this tree and say y'all thought I was dead you missed it I was planted not buried I'm telling somebody today get your hope back get your faith back I know it looks the same as something that's dead but you have to choose to die you you're in this I know it's dark anon but you'll choose to die and God said that's the same place I was about to create your miracle that marriage don't get out of it work on it cuz I'm gonna make that a bigger testimony than anything you could ever don't don't quit don't quit the business cuz you failed three times do it again cuz I'm gonna get the glory out of this thing from beginning to the end hear what I'm saying to you the next how many ever parts of this series I do imma teach you what to do when you're under because the enemy has had his last day convincing any of us that we are buried Oh somebody should be able to rejoice right there this will not take you out somebody shot at me I planted not buried come on one more time say I'm planted not buried and maybe you're in this place you're saying pastor I feel all the weight of the world on me right now I'm under I'm really under it in it I if I had time I tell you all of it but I'm under all you have to do is worry about what's on the inside and you may be in this place you want to invite the God of the universe on the inside so that no matter do y'all realize this that even when crap happens some of y'all know where I'm going the very thing that's stinky inconvenient and disgusting I think Romans 8 says it like this all things work together for Micah so the very thing that you thought was gonna embarrass me and take me out becomes fertilizer and it'll be the very thing that accelerates what God is doing in my like I'm telling you you have to change your perspective today you are not buried you are not going to die just because you're under it is not over you are planted and God's about to get the glory out of your life can somebody give God praise oh come on like you're planted and you're not oh I dare you hallelujah

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Length: 39min 30sec (2370 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 13 2018