What Can God Do With Damage? (Michael Todd)

0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:06.280 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:09.360 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:10.000 Be sure to. 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:13.720 Subscribe so we can get you these new sermons every week. 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:19.600 I hope you're blessed today. 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:22.279 I find your neighbor and say, today's gonna be a 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:26.119 good Sunday. Oh, come on, at every campus today is 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:29.440 gonna be a good Sunday. You may be seated. Oh 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:37.400 my goodness, it feels like I'm home today. I bring 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:43.000 you greetings from Tulsa, Oklahoma, where I get the privilege 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:45.519 and the honor to be the lead servant at a 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:49.280 church called Transformation Church. Shout out to Transformation Church right now, 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:54.440 Transformation Nation. They're joining us. It's Elevation and Transformation. 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:55.000 Right now together. 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:59.760 That's what we call Kingdom. At the end of the day, 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:02.640 it's not about a church or logo or anybody particular. 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:04.520 It's about Jesus and. 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:07.320 The Kingdom of God being advanced in this earth. And 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:12.280 so today, as this is Pastor's Appreciation Month, I have 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:15.360 to stop and thank God for two of the greatest 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:19.720 pastors in the world, Pastor Stephen and Holly Ferdick. At 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:23.959 every campus, y'all don't know what y'all have here? Can 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:26.399 we thank God for the man and woman of God. 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:28.959 Thank you. 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:34.000 Somebody got some sense, y'all. Y'all spoil y'all, don't let 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:39.480 them come to Tulsa. We'll treat them right. And for 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:44.399 every campus pastor, every children's pastor, every parent who's a pastor, 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:51.160 because you're parenting your home, we appreciate you. Today I've 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:53.040 been sent on assignment and they only gave me twenty 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:53.920 two minutes to preach. 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:59.560 I'm just playing, But this week. 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:03.480 I feel like I have a prophetic burden. This is 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:05.440 not a message that's warmed up and like I'm going 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:06.640 to Elevation Church, let's pre exist. 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:07.920 No no, no, no, no, no no. 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.280 I've been praying about the people who would be in 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:13.639 this room and be watching this on rebroadcasts and that 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.280 would be in Tulsa, and God gave me a burden 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:21.680 I've been carrying y'all all week because there's many people 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:30.440 in this room who have been hurting, distracted, and devastated 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:34.520 by damage that happened to you in another season. Now, 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:38.040 this message is not for everybody. It's only for people 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:43.520 who've experienced damage. 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:45.720 Somebody is like not me, liar. 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:50.560 Let's be hot, humble, open, and transparent. If you have 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:55.640 experienced damage in any area of your life, relationally, financially, physically, emotionally, 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:58.280 would you please just let everybody feel comfortable and raise 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:01.120 your hand right now, come on? Hand is not up? Lord? 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.560 And this week I released a brand new book called 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:10.960 Damage But Not Destroyed. And the reason I tell you 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:14.720 this is because I wanted people to understand the journey 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:19.560 of going from trauma to triumph. And right now, in 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:21.240 this day and age, a lot of people are staying 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:28.760 in the trauma. They're glorifying the trauma, they're making the 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:33.080 trauma the excuse. But my Bible says, when God gets 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:37.080 in the mix of something, it cannot stay the same. 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.920 And many of us have been working to keep our 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.400 excuses the same. And today I came to help you 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:48.560 be delivered. Today I need your faith and expectation to 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.440 go to another level. At every place that you are 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:54.440 listening to this on the treadmill in Tulsa, right here 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.280 in this room, God is coming to move you out 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:02.200 of the paralytic place you've been and by faith, your 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:06.200 damage will no longer define you. Okay, let me get 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:09.280 into this. My burden is to tell you write this down. 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:14.040 The value is still in you. I know that people 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:17.000 tried to tell you what you would never be. I 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:20.120 know that you getting denied from that school made you 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:22.880 feel something insignificant. I know when they didn't hire you 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:29.800 at Elevation Church, I felt that thing in here it 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:41.000 is you thought that their elevation was God's elevation for you. 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:44.440 And today I came to tell you, no matter what 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:49.000 you've lost, the value is still in you. Somebody say 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.960 the value is still in me. You didn't say it 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.680 with your chest. Say it with your chest. The value 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.599 is still in me. I need you to every campus 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:02.520 with they say the value it's still in me. So 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:08.160 act like it. Stop coming into the presence of God, 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:15.480 acting like he didn't put hisself. He put himself on 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:22.000 the inside of you. He said, Holy Spirit, Jesus, let's 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:27.479 make man in our That wasn't your body first, because 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:32.719 it was three spirits talking. So what did he make first? 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.000 He made your spirit. He made the thing that will 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:40.600 never change. He said, I'm in you, and if I'm 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:45.039 in you, there is nothing anything and nobody can do 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:48.480 to you in this world that takes away your value. Oh, okay, 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.400 And the lie of the enemy, listen to me, is 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:55.240 that the more life you live, the more value you lose. 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:59.360 We act like our lives is like a car going 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:02.159 off the car line that as soon as we drive 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:06.760 it off, it depreciates. But I came to tell somebody 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:09.960 right now who has been in a place of wondering 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:13.320 if God still wanted to use you. The person with 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:17.320 the two divorces, the value is still in you. You 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:20.599 lost your second business. The value is still in you. 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:22.560 Y'all better help me in You've been in the same 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:26.080 cycle for fifty years. The value is still in you. 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:28.680 The woman who's been promissed you, it's send a young 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:31.520 man that has a body count more than we can count. 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:37.040 The value is still now. I know there's a brick 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:38.960 wall that I'm talking to right now because some of 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:40.800 you have believed that lies so long. You don't see 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:44.320 yourself how God sees you. And today I'm about to 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:47.120 shake you up. I'm ready to fight the devil, for 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:54.120 I'm tired of seeing God's people, the same ones that 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:58.120 come in here and sing these beautiful songs walk out 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:02.000 and feel that God has no purpose for them and 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:04.440 that they can't move forward, somebody say the value is 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:09.840 stealing me. Okay, So Ephesians two ten, don't just put 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:13.600 this on an Instagram post. Believe it for your life, 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:22.560 for we are God's masterpiece. That's nasty Bible right there. 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:26.760 I want you to think about something that you think 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:30.680 is beautiful and the creator of the universe says, out 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:36.800 of everything I made, I'm gonna call you my masterpiece. 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:43.920 If we got paintings in Paris and in museums that 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.360 I don't even know how to say the words of 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:52.600 where they're from, and they call them priceless, how much 0:07:52.680 --> 0:08:03.560 more if something a creation made is priceless, how much 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:10.120 more are you worth to God? Okay, key, this is 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:12.880 the tension I need us to be able to wrestle 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:13.600 with this morning. 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:19.240 I am valuable, but I am damaged. 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:25.360 This is the tension because I know God thinks I'm 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.680 his masterpiece. Creator to Brantain new and christ Ricky tak them. 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:34.560 But every time I get mad, I still want to cuss. 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:39.480 Are y'all gonna be fake? You was in traffic this 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:45.880 morning saying some stuff. You better quit it. I am 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:48.120 the right of tones of Jesus Christ, but I still 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:55.040 get mad at my kids. Okay, God, I gotta go 0:08:55.120 --> 0:09:01.080 back home because this section is acting bougie. I'll do 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:07.600 anything for you, Lord except give up the cake. Your 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:08.559 sin is not lust. 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:09.120 This gut me. 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:19.280 Okay, can we be Does anybody that loves Jesus still 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:20.320 have some I steal? 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.640 I still deal with comparison. 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:36.800 I still. 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:39.000 Look at what. 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:45.440 I've done and disqualify myself from what God wants to do. 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:47.640 Somebody say I steal. 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:54.040 This is the tension of being hauled by God. Is 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:57.839 that I know I'm valuable, but I still have some 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:01.640 things that God's healing on the inside of. And what 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:03.680 the enemy would try to convince you is that you 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.560 are too damaged to be able to do what God 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:12.080 said because you steal, have some areas that God is 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:14.320 working on you for all the perfect people, raise your hand, 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.400 because the only person that would be perfect on this 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:23.000 earth is Jesus. And if you're waiting for everything to 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.120 be perfect before you start doing what God's called you 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:28.680 to do, You're gonna be waiting forever. God is saying 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:29.760 to us, right. 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:33.439 Now, would you bring me your damage. 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:36.360 This is the journey I've been on for the past 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.160 four years. I was here five years ago Since then, 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:45.079 I've learned I'm damaged, and if I just. 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.320 Sit in that, I get defeated. 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:50.960 But if I bring my damage to the only one 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:55.520 who can handle it, he will turn my damage into 0:10:55.600 --> 0:11:00.160 something that pushes me to everybody say destiny. Okay, So 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:02.800 today I'm gonna title this message. Oh, I'm about to 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:06.120 preach to you in the next fifteen minutes. I don't 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:08.840 know why I started jumping l like Tigger. I'm telling you, 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:12.520 I'm gonna preach a message, and this is what we're 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:17.800 gonna title it. What does God do with damage? What 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:23.280 does God do with damage? The first thing I want 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:26.120 to tell you that God does with damage. I'm gonna 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:30.200 use this Old Testament character that a lot of people 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:33.040 don't talk about because simply they can't say his name. 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:38.840 His name is Maphibi Chef. I know, I don't know 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:42.280 what his parents was thinking, But there are a lot 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:44.560 of Davids around here and a lot of Phillips, ain't 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:49.120 a lot of Mophibi Chefs. In two thousand and twenty three, 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:52.840 this young man named Maphibis Chef was in line to 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:56.360 be the king of the entire country. 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.120 But I need to set a little backstory. 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:02.200 So you understand where maphibus Chef's damage came from. Okay, 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.040 so I'm about to show you some pictures because I 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:08.199 like to make stories come alive in the Bible. This 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:14.360 is by no means biblically accurate because the church folks, 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:20.560 but I'm gonna just try to make it coming alive. 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.520 There was a there was a king named Saul. Could 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.079 you put them on the screen in my mind in 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:26.280 the movie of my mind. 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.480 This is what Saul looks like. 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:35.200 And he was anointed by God, but he stopped obeying 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:39.720 the commands of God. He wanted the position, but he 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:43.560 did not want to follow in obedience. Be careful when 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:48.120 you're walking in a position and you stop obeying. God 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.400 took his hand off of his life and he had 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:53.440 to raise up another king. Okay, we're just gonna walk 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:57.160 through this. But then Saul had a son named Jonathan. This, 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:02.880 in my mind is what Jonathan looked like. This was Jonathan. Okay, ladies, 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:07.240 calm down, that's just seeing. Oh you're laughing too hard 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:12.240 over there, that's just interest. But in my mind, this 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:16.079 is what Jonathan looked like. And Jonathan was with Saul's son. 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:19.400 He was in line to be the heir of the throne. 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:24.559 But when Daddy disobeyed, it took away the son's inheritance. 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.240 The reason we gotta deal with our damage is because 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:34.040 what's not transformed its transferred. The reason we gotta go 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:38.600 to counseling, and we believe in theology and therapy. Uh oh, 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:40.559 I'm gonna just pray about it. You need to pray 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.320 about it and go to a practice. You need to 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:45.720 get in an e group and community, and you need 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.640 to go to counseling. You need to worship and do 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.199 the hard work. That's what some of y'all came for. 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:59.679 Right there. Jonathan now has a son, and his son's 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:05.560 name is Maphibi Chef. Okay, So Mamphibis Chef is crippled, 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:08.480 and I'm gonna I'm gonna show you a picture of 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:10.240 what Mamphibis Chef looks like in my mind. 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:10.600 Okay. 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:16.040 So what's Saul is Jonathan and it's Maphibi Chef. Okay. 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:19.800 Now what somebody's like is that my brother I saw 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:24.800 you him. There was one more character in this story. 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:25.840 His name was King David. 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.160 And this is what King David looked like in the 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.800 movie of my mind. Right now, okay, King David put 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:32.080 him on the screen for me real quick. 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:37.280 I don't know. It's just strong life, okay. 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:42.320 Now that everybody has this movie in their head, this 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:47.240 sets the story for where we find King David after 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:52.520 Maphibis Chef is now in a place where he's been damaged, 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:54.880 watched his second Samuel chapter. 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:56.920 Nine, verse three. One day, David asked, he's king. 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:02.080 Now, is there anyone in Saul's families alive? Anyone to 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:05.440 whom I can show kindness? For Jonathan's sake? Because Jonathan 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:11.120 and David were boys. Zibba replied, yes, one of Jonathan's 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:14.280 sons is still alive. He is crippled in both feete though, 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:19.440 where is he, the King asked in Lodobar. Ziba told 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:23.040 him at the home of Maker's son of Emil. So 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:27.640 David watch this sit for him and brought him from 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.600 Maker's home. Now I want to point out the hater 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:35.520 in this story. His name is Ziba, and Ziba has 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.400 the ear of the king. The king asked, is there 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:41.360 anybody left that I can show kindness to? And he 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:44.920 says yeah and does not say his name. 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:46.560 He says his condition. 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:54.720 Be careful when people describe you by your condition and 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:59.560 not your name. He said, there's yeah, there's somebody left, 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:00.520 but he's rippled. 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:03.200 There's somebody left, but they're a liar. 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:09.040 There's somebody left, but they they're not faithful. And the 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:12.720 reason that this young man was crippled, Mashibis Chef, was 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:14.240 not his own fault. 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:15.880 And that's why I want to let you know. 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:19.760 You have to make sure you don't allow people to 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:25.240 make your issue your identity. No, hear me, you did it, 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:30.680 you are not it. Can we be honest. Some of 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:34.880 us have done some dumb things, but do not let 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:39.400 your issue or anybody else make your issue your identity. 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:42.840 And he tries to describe him, and the truth of 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:45.760 the matter is, like most of us, Maphibi Chef was 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:51.160 damaged not because of his own fault. When I think 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.440 about most of the places in my life, I'm gonna 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:55.640 just be real about me that I got damaged. Most 0:16:55.640 --> 0:17:00.960 of it happened before I was a teenager. The insecurity 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:03.040 did not start when I was twenty eight. 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:08.480 It started at twelve. See how quiet it is. 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:13.320 That drive to go and go and perform and excel. 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:15.359 That's because they didn't see you unless you got a 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:19.800 trophy so at six years old, you knew you couldn't 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:21.399 just say what you need. You needed to prove you 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:27.960 were worse than looking at you stuck. The greatest time 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:34.119 to kill a king is when it's a kid. The 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:36.320 reason the enemy's been after you since you were a 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:40.080 young child, it's because there is a king in you. 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:45.760 And the greatest time to kill a king is when 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:46.280 it's a kid. 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:48.359 It's what they tried to do to Moses. 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:51.199 Kill every child under the age of two. That's what 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:54.520 they tried to do to Jesus. And some of us 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:56.840 have been dealing with our damage since we were young. 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:00.399 And this is what I need you to know. You 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.000 are so special. You've always been a threat to the devil. 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:07.920 No hear what I'm just saying. The attack on your 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:11.679 life from a young age has been because if you 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.800 ever walked fully in the dominion that God has given you, 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:18.760 if you ever were fully free from the insecurity, well 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:20.680 I can't do that and I'm not like them. And 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:23.520 if you ever just said, but he is with me, 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:30.639 and if he is with me, who everybody say? 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:35.720 Who I like that? Who can be against me? Tewod 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:36.680 Samuel chapter four. 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:38.600 I got a move, saw son Jonathan had a son 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:40.880 named a Phibish chef who was crippled. I'm gonna show 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:43.800 you where his damage happened. He was five years old 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:47.240 when he got damaged, and the report came from Jezreel 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:48.720 that Saw and Jonathan had been. 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:49.399 Killed in battle. 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:53.240 When the child's nurse heard the news, she picked him 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:57.240 up and fled, But as she hurried away, she dropped 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:01.359 him and he became crippled. What happens when the person 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:05.440 who was supposed to care for you damages you. I'm 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:07.199 not gonna get too much in your business, but some 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:12.120 of your issues is your mama, and some of your 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:14.960 issues is your daddy, and some of your issues it's 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:17.080 the people who are supposed to care for you. 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:25.119 They drop you. Uh huh uh huh. 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:28.280 I'm about to deal with it because the damage is 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:30.320 no longer going to define us. I feel the presence 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:34.040 of God already. If there's anybody that feels like your 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:36.200 damage is too big for God, let me just run 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:39.639 a list down for you of people that God used 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:42.840 who were damaged. Noah was a drunk, Abraham was too old, 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:46.280 Isaac was a day dreamer and a wanderer. Jacob was 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:49.439 a liar. Leo was ugly, Moses was a murderer with 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:55.040 the stutter. Gideon was afraid. Samson was a flirt. Let's 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:59.560 be real, politically correct. Rayhab was a prostitute. David was 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:04.720 an adult, Anna murder, Elijah was suicidal. Isaiah preached naked. 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:08.880 Jonah ran away from God, joke with bankrupt and lost everything. 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:13.840 John the Baptist ate bugs, that's just weird. Peter denied Jesus. 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:17.480 The disciples fell asleep while Jesus was praying. The Samaritan 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:20.520 woman was divorced five times and had a sex addiction. 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:24.159 That Chios was too small and stole money. Paul was 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:27.560 too righteous, Timothy had an ulcer, Lazarus was dead, and 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:35.040 Michael was addicted to pornography. And my God stills used 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:39.000 all of us. Oh, oh, you about to make me run, 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:42.960 because there's some people that know that God can do 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:46.840 his best work with damaged people. If you believe it, 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:50.760 gift God a shout of prayer. I feel my health 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:51.159 coming on. 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:56.480 Write it down in the point. 0:20:56.520 --> 0:21:02.879 God does his best work with damaged people because his 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:07.679 strength is made perfect in r So why won't you 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:11.879 show him your weakness? Been trying to keep it together 0:21:11.920 --> 0:21:13.720 for everybody, and God says, if you want to hold 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:16.880 it up, do it. I'll be here when you want 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:22.879 to actually come clean. So what can God do with 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:29.040 your damage? First point? He calls for it. Everybody that's 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:30.280 trying to hide your damage. 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:30.480 Good luck. 0:21:32.720 --> 0:21:36.480 When maphibis Seth is in a place called Lotabar, a 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:40.000 place of nothing, no pastor no fruit growing, the King says, 0:21:40.080 --> 0:21:42.359 is there anybody I can say? Yeah, this one dude, 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:48.080 he said, go get him. I'm calling for the damage. 0:21:48.600 --> 0:21:56.840 You're broken. I like that your fraction. Come on, he calls. 0:21:56.960 --> 0:21:59.040 What can God do with damage? He calls for it? 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:04.520 And some of y'all have not been answering the call. No, 0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:06.320 I'm just going to be a businessman, he said. I 0:22:06.359 --> 0:22:09.080 want you to be in that field, but I want 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:12.080 you to bring all your damaged areas to me so 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:15.000 I can raise you up as a testimony in that area. 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:19.119 And some of you today, all God's saying is I 0:22:19.160 --> 0:22:26.760 want your damage. Stop hiding it, Stop acting like it 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:28.800 didn't happen. You were abused when you were young and 0:22:28.880 --> 0:22:30.120 your family doesn't even know it. 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:32.880 You've blocked it. 0:22:32.800 --> 0:22:35.520 Out, you suppressed it, and you're wondering why you're dealing 0:22:35.520 --> 0:22:38.520 with anxiety so much because it was never meant to 0:22:38.560 --> 0:22:45.280 stay on the inside of you. I want your damage tonight, 0:22:46.440 --> 0:22:49.399 when you're in your bed and the Holy Spirit begins 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:52.920 to start whispering to you, and he reminds you of. 0:22:52.920 --> 0:22:53.680 Things that happen. 0:22:54.080 --> 0:22:58.920 What he's doing is he's calling for the damage. 0:22:59.359 --> 0:22:59.879 I want it. 0:23:00.680 --> 0:23:02.360 I'm the only one that can do something with it. 0:23:03.440 --> 0:23:05.520 What does God do with you with your damage? He 0:23:05.840 --> 0:23:08.040 calls for it. The second thing that God does with 0:23:08.080 --> 0:23:09.000 your damage wants this. 0:23:09.160 --> 0:23:13.720 He carries it. Oh, this makes me happy because my 0:23:13.840 --> 0:23:17.679 Fibi Chef was crippled. I need you to understand. Just 0:23:17.680 --> 0:23:22.480 imagine with me. They come to his door, knock, Dodd, Hello, 0:23:24.040 --> 0:23:25.080 is my Phibbi chef there? 0:23:29.000 --> 0:23:32.120 Yes, what a horrible name. Come with me. 0:23:34.720 --> 0:23:39.680 Now. Watch when they say come with me. He does 0:23:39.720 --> 0:23:44.520 not have the power on his own to get to 0:23:44.640 --> 0:23:49.160 where he has been commissioned or destined to go. He's 0:23:49.200 --> 0:23:50.120 in a place. 0:23:49.840 --> 0:23:53.440 Of nothing, and they want him in the palace. 0:23:54.560 --> 0:23:57.080 So the King, Oh, I feel the presence of God, 0:23:57.880 --> 0:24:00.399 will never ask you to come to a place that 0:24:00.480 --> 0:24:05.320 he won't carry you too. Scott, Come help me real quick, Scott, 0:24:05.359 --> 0:24:05.679 I need a. 0:24:05.680 --> 0:24:07.399 Couple of strong guys, come on, help me. 0:24:07.920 --> 0:24:14.160 He's sitting down and he's like, hey, you're not gonna 0:24:14.200 --> 0:24:17.520 kill me, because it was custom back then to anybody 0:24:17.560 --> 0:24:19.840 that was in line before you killed their whole family. 0:24:20.920 --> 0:24:23.080 So when the king's guard came to him, he was like, 0:24:23.560 --> 0:24:24.640 I'm about to die. 0:24:25.240 --> 0:24:29.080 That's what Christianity sometimes makes people think that when God 0:24:29.119 --> 0:24:32.200 comes to them, he's ready to smite them and punish them. 0:24:32.480 --> 0:24:35.600 The king was wanting to show favor, but he says, 0:24:35.640 --> 0:24:39.040 come with me to the palace. But he still does 0:24:39.119 --> 0:24:43.360 not have the ability to get there on his own. 0:24:44.600 --> 0:24:48.240 So the king sins power that is not his own. 0:24:49.920 --> 0:24:56.200 You want me to come? Oh God, these brothers are song. 0:24:57.920 --> 0:25:02.280 Take me over to the King's palace over there. All 0:25:02.440 --> 0:25:06.959 the fibbus Chef had to do. It's surrendered, so he 0:25:07.000 --> 0:25:07.920 can be taken. Now. 0:25:07.920 --> 0:25:09.800 Don't drop me, just let me down. 0:25:09.960 --> 0:25:14.480 Let me down. What are you saying to me, pastor Mike. 0:25:15.359 --> 0:25:17.240 God will never call you to a place that he 0:25:17.280 --> 0:25:21.000 won't carry you to you. The problem is most of 0:25:21.080 --> 0:25:24.159 us have not surrendered. Let me show you. Zachariah four 0:25:24.240 --> 0:25:25.639 to six. It says this is a word of the 0:25:25.640 --> 0:25:31.360 Lord to Zaruba bel not by my not by power, but. 0:25:31.359 --> 0:25:34.359 It's going to be by the spirit of God. Where 0:25:34.359 --> 0:25:34.800 you're at. 0:25:34.800 --> 0:25:38.320 Right now, God saying I'm calling for your damage, but 0:25:38.400 --> 0:25:42.480 if you would surrender, I'll carry you. I will carry 0:25:42.480 --> 0:25:44.800 you to the place I want you to be Philippians 0:25:44.880 --> 0:25:47.520 one six. And I am certain that God, who began 0:25:47.640 --> 0:25:51.359 the good work within you, will continue his work until 0:25:51.359 --> 0:25:56.199 it's finally finished on the day of Jesus Christ. What 0:25:56.240 --> 0:25:58.159 will God do with your damage? He calls for it, 0:25:58.960 --> 0:26:03.720 he carries it, and then why he covers it. When 0:26:03.720 --> 0:26:07.320 the Phibish chef gets to the palace, he comes in 0:26:07.359 --> 0:26:09.679 and he thinks he's dead. I mean, look at it. 0:26:09.680 --> 0:26:12.720 In the scripture, literally, King David has to say, don't 0:26:12.720 --> 0:26:17.320 be afraid. I intend to show you kindness this verse seven, 0:26:18.240 --> 0:26:20.720 because of the promise I made to your father Jonathan. 0:26:20.800 --> 0:26:23.680 I will give you Woo all the property that once 0:26:23.760 --> 0:26:26.960 belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will eat here 0:26:27.520 --> 0:26:32.200 with me at the king's table. But watch this, this 0:26:32.240 --> 0:26:35.680 is our response usually because of our Damageibish if bowed 0:26:35.720 --> 0:26:39.400 respect Leon exclaimed, who is your servant that you should 0:26:39.680 --> 0:26:47.439 show such kindness to a dead dog like me? Be 0:26:47.520 --> 0:26:52.119 careful when Shane starts talking, He's in the presence of 0:26:52.160 --> 0:26:54.320 the King, and many times God is wanting to use 0:26:54.400 --> 0:26:56.919 us at a higher level. And our shame starts talking, 0:26:58.480 --> 0:27:02.359 why would you even consider a dead dog like me? 0:27:03.640 --> 0:27:09.040 But the King ignores his ignorance because the King knows 0:27:09.119 --> 0:27:12.000 the value that's on the inside of him, just like 0:27:12.080 --> 0:27:15.560 the King knows the value that's on the inside of you, 0:27:15.680 --> 0:27:19.159 and he invites him to eat at his table. 0:27:19.200 --> 0:27:21.760 Now, the reason why this blows my mind. 0:27:21.600 --> 0:27:23.600 Is because when you think about where Mam phippas Cheff 0:27:23.680 --> 0:27:29.120 was damaged, where was his damage at his legs? When 0:27:29.160 --> 0:27:33.240 you pull up a seat to the King's table, when 0:27:33.280 --> 0:27:36.240 he sits and he looks over the landscape of everybody else, 0:27:37.200 --> 0:27:42.480 the thing that damaged him is now covered. Let me 0:27:42.560 --> 0:27:45.720 introduce you to the grace of God. When you come 0:27:45.760 --> 0:27:49.399 into a loving relationship by faith with God, the grace 0:27:49.440 --> 0:27:52.639 of God covers your damage area. Somebody said, get excited 0:27:52.680 --> 0:27:55.840 about that, because what the enemy was shining to you 0:27:55.920 --> 0:27:59.200 said disqualify you. It is the very thing that God says, 0:27:59.240 --> 0:28:03.560 I know it, but I'll cover it. And we have 0:28:03.680 --> 0:28:06.639 to begin to rely on the grace. 0:28:06.720 --> 0:28:07.520 Somebody shot at me. 0:28:07.600 --> 0:28:11.920 Grace the unmerited, unearned, undeserved favor and kindness of God. 0:28:12.560 --> 0:28:14.760 And some of y'all think y'all built y'all own table, 0:28:17.480 --> 0:28:20.040 and you covering yourself, you're trying to have money cover it. 0:28:20.080 --> 0:28:25.280 We still see you. You getting flown out, We still 0:28:25.320 --> 0:28:30.960 see you. Mac makeup, Louis Gucci, findy down, We still 0:28:31.000 --> 0:28:33.920 see you. It's not until you get covered with the 0:28:34.080 --> 0:28:38.960 grace of God. I got to move. I came to 0:28:38.960 --> 0:28:41.320 tell somebody, pull up a chair to the table of God, 0:28:41.960 --> 0:28:44.360 pull up a share to where God has for you. 0:28:44.760 --> 0:28:47.400 Listen to me. What does God do with your damage? 0:28:47.560 --> 0:28:48.160 Say it with me. 0:28:48.200 --> 0:28:53.320 Say he calls for it, he carries it, he covers it. 0:28:54.480 --> 0:29:01.640 Number four, he converts it. He flipped that thing. God says, 0:29:01.640 --> 0:29:05.080 if you give me your damage, I'll flip it. If 0:29:05.120 --> 0:29:07.239 you give me everything that you've been ashamed of, and 0:29:07.280 --> 0:29:09.840 you let me cleanse you and purify you and wash 0:29:09.920 --> 0:29:13.040 you and change you and transform, I'll flip this thing 0:29:13.160 --> 0:29:18.360 so cold my phibus chef in one day goes from 0:29:18.480 --> 0:29:23.120 crippled to covert. Everybody say one day. I don't know 0:29:23.160 --> 0:29:26.800 if today is your one day, but by saith, I'm 0:29:26.840 --> 0:29:30.040 prophesying that God is about to turn your season around 0:29:30.200 --> 0:29:33.240 very quickly. This thing what it looked like last year, 0:29:33.280 --> 0:29:34.040 It's gonna look. 0:29:33.960 --> 0:29:35.240 Like something else this year. 0:29:35.720 --> 0:29:37.640 Some of y'all don't have faith to believe it, but 0:29:37.720 --> 0:29:40.440 I need a few people. What crazy take that mas 0:29:40.560 --> 0:29:44.240 situation can flip when God gets in the midst of it. 0:29:45.960 --> 0:29:48.920 If you believe it. At every campus, give God a 0:29:48.960 --> 0:29:53.760 shot of pray, or I feel this sat he can 0:29:53.800 --> 0:29:59.960 confirt this Jjay crippled to cover shame, to having a seat, 0:30:00.960 --> 0:30:05.320 no identity, to a full inheritance. He went from pain 0:30:06.360 --> 0:30:13.120 to a platform. His damage was turned into destiny. His 0:30:13.200 --> 0:30:18.000 trauma became triumphed. He went from separated to being a son. 0:30:19.240 --> 0:30:23.800 This is the gospel. This is the good news. Call 0:30:23.920 --> 0:30:30.360 everybody y'all know a song. That's what Jesus did for me. 0:30:31.160 --> 0:30:33.120 The only reason I'm standing on this stage is not 0:30:33.200 --> 0:30:36.720 because I did everything perfect. It's when I messed stuff, 0:30:37.120 --> 0:30:40.000 when I did the wrong thing, when I was damaged. 0:30:40.080 --> 0:30:45.120 I did not run from my father. I ran to him. 0:30:45.280 --> 0:30:48.479 I have four children, and all of them break stuff. 0:30:51.200 --> 0:30:54.720 They don't know how much stuff costs. They have no clue. 0:30:54.920 --> 0:30:59.040 But my children have all broken expensive things. But the 0:30:59.080 --> 0:31:01.600 one thing I love about all my kids is when 0:31:01.640 --> 0:31:03.840 they break something that they know they cannot pay for 0:31:04.680 --> 0:31:08.160 and they do not have the intelligence to fix, they 0:31:08.160 --> 0:31:12.720 bring it to their father. Now, if a four year 0:31:12.720 --> 0:31:14.360 old and a five year old and a seven year 0:31:14.360 --> 0:31:19.000 old has the sense to bring their damaged things to 0:31:19.080 --> 0:31:21.800 their father, what's our excuse? 0:31:23.240 --> 0:31:23.480 Church? 0:31:23.560 --> 0:31:26.800 What I'm asking you today is to bring your damage 0:31:26.800 --> 0:31:28.400 to God, because he's big enough to handle it. 0:31:31.360 --> 0:31:32.800 What does God do with damage? 0:31:33.200 --> 0:31:37.080 He calls for it, He carries it, He covers it, 0:31:37.200 --> 0:31:40.560 this is good news. He converts it last one, he 0:31:40.600 --> 0:31:45.240 commissions it. God doesn't want you to hide your damage. 0:31:45.960 --> 0:31:48.600 He wants to heal your damage, and then he wants 0:31:49.000 --> 0:31:52.360 you to take it and use it to share with 0:31:52.440 --> 0:31:55.640 everybody else. How good God has been. I recall a 0:31:55.760 --> 0:31:57.960 story in John chapter five, verse eight. There was a 0:31:58.000 --> 0:32:00.200 man that was a paralytic sitting by the pool for 0:32:00.240 --> 0:32:03.360 thirty eight years, and Jesus asked him a question, the 0:32:03.400 --> 0:32:05.960 same question I'm going to ask you today. Do you want. 0:32:07.400 --> 0:32:08.160 To be made whole? 0:32:08.320 --> 0:32:10.880 See, this is the thing that everybody has to real life. 0:32:10.920 --> 0:32:14.520 Getting healed from your damage is a decision. Some of 0:32:14.600 --> 0:32:17.280 y'all been holding onto the thing that God said. 0:32:17.080 --> 0:32:19.160 Give me that, and you plan tugle war with God. 0:32:19.560 --> 0:32:20.640 He said, keep it if. 0:32:20.480 --> 0:32:22.160 You want it. You want to have low self esteem 0:32:22.160 --> 0:32:24.040 for the rest of your life, keep that. That's less 0:32:24.040 --> 0:32:26.040 than what I've called you to in the kingdom. You 0:32:26.080 --> 0:32:27.800 want to keep having it. I put the whole to 0:32:27.880 --> 0:32:29.960 you on my back, he said. My burden is easy 0:32:30.280 --> 0:32:32.400 and my yoke is light. If you want to put 0:32:32.440 --> 0:32:34.760 the whole thing on your back, go ahead. But when 0:32:34.760 --> 0:32:43.720 you get sick of carrying it, I'll be here. This man, 0:32:44.760 --> 0:32:47.760 he answers, I want to be made whole. Jesus heals him. 0:32:48.120 --> 0:32:50.680 Man pops up and he about to run off, and 0:32:50.720 --> 0:32:54.560 jes said, hold on, come here, come here, take this man. 0:32:56.320 --> 0:32:57.880 And I bet the man was like, I don't want that, 0:33:00.000 --> 0:33:04.680 don't want to remember any thing from back there, And 0:33:04.800 --> 0:33:09.000 Jesus tells them, no, no, no, you need this. This 0:33:09.080 --> 0:33:14.360 is I'm commissioning you to go everywhere. I want you 0:33:14.440 --> 0:33:19.480 to see walk. Hey, hey, I want you to see walk. 0:33:19.760 --> 0:33:24.000 But make sure you holding that man, because I want 0:33:24.000 --> 0:33:29.200 all the people who passed you to remember that it 0:33:29.280 --> 0:33:33.200 was not their effort or their energy. It was nothing 0:33:33.400 --> 0:33:35.240 but the power of God. 0:33:35.360 --> 0:33:37.800 Somebody, I don't know what I'm talking about. 0:33:37.840 --> 0:33:40.640 But the fact that you're still here, it is nothing 0:33:41.080 --> 0:33:43.720 but the power of the fact that you still got 0:33:43.760 --> 0:33:53.360 so right mind, it was nothing but the power of God. Now, 0:33:53.400 --> 0:33:56.959 God is commissioning our damage. That's why every time I 0:33:57.000 --> 0:34:00.080 stand up, I tell people I was addicted to pornography 0:34:00.760 --> 0:34:03.000 the pastor. Yes, I was a person before I was 0:34:03.040 --> 0:34:08.719 a pastor, y'all so funny. I was a liar. I 0:34:08.760 --> 0:34:13.719 was a manipulator, not the man of God. Yes, And 0:34:13.719 --> 0:34:17.000 what did I do? I brought my damage to him 0:34:17.080 --> 0:34:20.200 because in the beginning, God said, I'm gonna use this 0:34:20.280 --> 0:34:22.839 broken vessel and I'm gonna change people's life. I'm gonna 0:34:22.840 --> 0:34:26.080 trans people, transform people's lives. But I need him to 0:34:26.120 --> 0:34:28.760 not be scared to take his damage when it's healed 0:34:28.880 --> 0:34:29.920 and share it with people. 0:34:32.280 --> 0:34:32.759 That's why the. 0:34:32.760 --> 0:34:36.000 Word says we overcome by the blood of the Lamb. 0:34:36.120 --> 0:34:42.880 That's what Jesus did. But the words of our testimony. 0:34:43.000 --> 0:34:45.840 That's why many people aren't overcoming because you are too quiet. 0:34:50.080 --> 0:34:52.000 The reason why that stuff can't come back in my 0:34:52.080 --> 0:34:52.719 life because. 0:34:52.520 --> 0:34:55.719 I say it all the time. This is just what 0:34:55.840 --> 0:34:56.600 God did for me. 0:34:58.719 --> 0:35:02.000 And today I just came with burning to let somebody 0:35:02.040 --> 0:35:05.840 know who's had many abortions, to let somebody know that 0:35:05.920 --> 0:35:09.440 has continued to have miscarriages, To let somebody know whose 0:35:09.480 --> 0:35:11.760 career has not gotten off the ground, To let somebody 0:35:11.800 --> 0:35:15.799 know who doesn't know who their real family is. To 0:35:15.880 --> 0:35:19.480 let somebody know who's made mistakes over and over. God 0:35:20.600 --> 0:35:27.440 can do something miraculous with your damage. Okay, let me 0:35:27.440 --> 0:35:28.920 explain it. Will you bring out my example, and then 0:35:28.920 --> 0:35:31.480 we're gonna go home. I want this picture to last 0:35:31.480 --> 0:35:36.759 in your mind. We are three parts, okay. We are 0:35:36.840 --> 0:35:41.480 a spirit okay, and then we are a soul mind, 0:35:41.520 --> 0:35:43.240 will and emotions, and then. 0:35:43.080 --> 0:35:43.800 We have a body. 0:35:43.920 --> 0:35:48.840 Okay. And the Holy Spirit showed me this. He told me, 0:35:48.880 --> 0:35:51.040 He said, Michael, people don't understand this. Write these three 0:35:51.080 --> 0:35:54.880 things down. You have a covering, you have a container, 0:35:56.200 --> 0:36:01.520 and you have contents. The spirit part of you is 0:36:01.560 --> 0:36:03.640 the realest part of you. It's what God said, let 0:36:03.719 --> 0:36:05.560 us make man in our image. It was a spirit 0:36:05.600 --> 0:36:10.880 part of you. He breathed into us, into dust, and 0:36:10.920 --> 0:36:14.160 then we came in with your lips and your hips, 0:36:14.200 --> 0:36:16.320 and your eyes and your eyes. 0:36:16.400 --> 0:36:16.799 It was. 0:36:18.680 --> 0:36:22.480 A creative miracle. Some of y'all like, could I have 0:36:22.560 --> 0:36:25.879 less of a miracle. Could you take off a little 0:36:25.880 --> 0:36:30.880 bit of this miracle? But what ends up happening is 0:36:30.920 --> 0:36:33.239 the covering is our soul, mind, will, and emotions. 0:36:33.719 --> 0:36:35.760 And in this life, a lot. 0:36:35.640 --> 0:36:40.680 Of times, through situations we can't control, our covering gets 0:36:40.760 --> 0:36:45.560 ripped and somebody says something to us that makes us 0:36:45.600 --> 0:36:49.680 feel not worthy. And then we come into contact with 0:36:49.719 --> 0:36:56.040 some other people and they start saying things about us, 0:36:57.600 --> 0:37:01.040 and we get marked up in our lives and our mind, willing, 0:37:01.120 --> 0:37:04.880 emotions get marked up. And then we get into that 0:37:04.960 --> 0:37:07.840 relationship that they find but we know they're not no good, 0:37:13.600 --> 0:37:18.000 and they start drilling on our identity and poking holes 0:37:18.040 --> 0:37:21.640 in our confidence, and we have soul ties with them 0:37:21.680 --> 0:37:24.480 because I need to feel something because nobody was ever 0:37:24.520 --> 0:37:31.840 there to show me nothing. And then we let success 0:37:34.960 --> 0:37:44.719 and our career come to poke holes in us. Does 0:37:44.719 --> 0:37:47.279 God want to do something with this? I don't know. 0:37:47.880 --> 0:37:50.000 There's so much damage I did it. 0:37:54.560 --> 0:37:57.239 Now you want me to think that God wants to 0:37:57.360 --> 0:37:57.640 use me? 0:37:59.520 --> 0:38:02.680 And every time I'm gonna come around people, I'm getting 0:38:02.680 --> 0:38:03.439 stabbed in the back. 0:38:03.480 --> 0:38:08.600 That's why I'm not joining those small group. There's people there. 0:38:14.560 --> 0:38:17.799 Come on, y'all, I'll come to worship. I was saying, 0:38:17.800 --> 0:38:27.359 this is it, Thank God? But people, I'm getting cut 0:38:27.400 --> 0:38:33.600 on and then stuff happens to me that stains me forever. 0:38:36.520 --> 0:38:40.200 God can't want to use something like this, and then 0:38:40.239 --> 0:38:40.880 life hits you. 0:38:46.440 --> 0:38:47.560 Isn't he the example? 0:38:47.680 --> 0:38:52.799 Guy? Oh? God, I know. But then God brings fire 0:38:52.840 --> 0:38:58.120 into your life and it starts burning places in you, 0:39:00.120 --> 0:39:03.880 and stuff starts catching on fire. And the truth of 0:39:03.920 --> 0:39:05.799 the matter is, I don't know if God can use 0:39:05.840 --> 0:39:14.400 me because I'm too damaged. Uh uh. This is like 0:39:14.440 --> 0:39:16.600 when me and my wife found out our son had autism. 0:39:18.920 --> 0:39:23.160 He started burning us and allowing the fear of the 0:39:23.239 --> 0:39:27.920 future to take us out, but then the Holy Spirit 0:39:27.960 --> 0:39:34.560 came and blew on us. But this still don't look good. 0:39:36.560 --> 0:39:40.600 Does anybody want this? But God said, what you don't 0:39:40.640 --> 0:39:45.359 realize is this was just your soul, your mind, willing emotions. 0:39:47.080 --> 0:39:49.360 The truth of the matter is, I'll take that and 0:39:49.400 --> 0:39:53.160 I'll heal it. I'll do something that nobody could do 0:39:53.239 --> 0:39:56.480 with it. Yeah, it's messy, yes, but the truth of 0:39:56.520 --> 0:39:58.920 the matter is when you get down to the container 0:39:59.480 --> 0:40:03.480 our body, it's been jacked up too, even to the 0:40:03.520 --> 0:40:05.280 point where it starts leaking through. 0:40:05.400 --> 0:40:07.400 And we say stuff like the value it's still ain't you. 0:40:09.200 --> 0:40:12.880 But I'm still missing something. But the truth of the 0:40:12.920 --> 0:40:16.839 matter is the most valuable part of this whole thing 0:40:17.920 --> 0:40:21.239 was not in the covering, and it was not in 0:40:21.280 --> 0:40:24.279 this container. Even though it's hard to get this out, 0:40:26.920 --> 0:40:31.520 it was in the thing that was covering it. The 0:40:31.640 --> 0:40:36.960 value of this There are some really expensive shoes, but 0:40:37.000 --> 0:40:41.400 the oh, even the stain that was on the outside 0:40:41.719 --> 0:40:45.960 did not get on the inside because the value, I 0:40:46.000 --> 0:40:50.319 need somebody to hear you, the value was in the 0:40:50.360 --> 0:40:55.959 contents that was put on the inside of me here 0:40:55.960 --> 0:40:59.960 in this room right now, and your covering has been damaged, 0:41:00.680 --> 0:41:03.440 and your container has been damaged. Standing at every campus 0:41:03.560 --> 0:41:05.840 right now. I don't want you to just shout at 0:41:05.880 --> 0:41:07.560 the end of this message. I want the spirit to 0:41:07.600 --> 0:41:12.000 speak to you. I want to let you know that 0:41:12.040 --> 0:41:18.000 the contents are still good. The value is still in you. 0:41:19.320 --> 0:41:22.200 If you've been damaged in any area of your life, 0:41:22.840 --> 0:41:25.960 and the enemy has been trying to convince you that 0:41:26.080 --> 0:41:30.919 you because you look like this, cannot be used by card. 0:41:32.000 --> 0:41:36.399 Today I came to speak to that lie and. 0:41:36.320 --> 0:41:38.920 I'm here to tell you that I'm a living witness 0:41:40.360 --> 0:41:44.959 that God can take damaged people who've messed up over 0:41:45.000 --> 0:41:51.360 and over again, who bring their damage back to him, 0:41:51.480 --> 0:41:54.720 and he can do a miracle that no man can stop, 0:41:55.800 --> 0:41:59.480 no scandal can stop, no spit can stop. 0:42:02.680 --> 0:42:04.399 So y'all, y'all do y'all want to be faith? 0:42:05.719 --> 0:42:10.960 You can't cancel me because you didn't call me. Some 0:42:11.000 --> 0:42:14.200 of y'all ain't never walked through nothing. But God is 0:42:14.280 --> 0:42:16.799 doing something on the inside of my life. Do I 0:42:16.880 --> 0:42:21.800 do everything perfect? No? But I am committed to bring 0:42:21.800 --> 0:42:28.719 my damage to the foot of the cross. What does 0:42:28.760 --> 0:42:34.799 God do with damage? What can God do with my damage? 0:42:36.440 --> 0:42:39.880 I'm here as a living witness to tell you He 0:42:39.960 --> 0:42:48.400 calls for it, he carries it, he covers it, he converts. 0:42:47.920 --> 0:42:50.560 It, and then he commissions it. 0:42:51.840 --> 0:42:53.919 If you're ready for your damage not to be your 0:42:54.200 --> 0:42:57.560 definition anymore, but you want your damage to take you 0:42:57.600 --> 0:42:59.440 to your destiny, would you lift your hands all over 0:42:59.440 --> 0:43:01.520 this room to pray for you? Whoa, whoa, whoa. 0:43:01.560 --> 0:43:02.600 I feel the presence of God. 0:43:02.640 --> 0:43:05.600 Somebody's realizing the value is selling them that nothing the 0:43:05.719 --> 0:43:07.759 enemy has said, or nothing you've done to yourself is 0:43:07.800 --> 0:43:10.479 going to disqualify you. Because today here we are God. 0:43:10.520 --> 0:43:13.799 Come on, we are your children. Crying out to you, 0:43:14.000 --> 0:43:19.319 asking us to take everything that is not like you. Hey, God, 0:43:19.360 --> 0:43:22.920 would you take it, take our pieces and turn it 0:43:22.960 --> 0:43:27.960 into a masterpiece. Take our bad decisions, Father God, and 0:43:28.000 --> 0:43:31.400 flip that thing. Convert it, Father, into something that brings 0:43:31.440 --> 0:43:32.600 you glory and takes. 0:43:32.400 --> 0:43:33.240 Us to destiny. 0:43:34.000 --> 0:43:36.680 Today, Father God, we will no longer deny that. 0:43:36.560 --> 0:43:37.480 We've been hurt. 0:43:39.520 --> 0:43:44.840 Because you cannot heal what we do not reveal. So today, God, 0:43:45.000 --> 0:43:50.919 here we are as a church, elevation church, transformation church, 0:43:51.120 --> 0:43:53.279 your sons and daughters all over the world, and we're 0:43:53.320 --> 0:43:58.399 asking you, God, do something with this damage, use it 0:43:58.520 --> 0:44:02.640 for your glory. We will no longer be defined by it. 0:44:03.360 --> 0:44:07.040 We will only be defined by what you've done to 0:44:07.200 --> 0:44:11.600 your precious son, Jesus. The Spirit is speaking right now 0:44:12.760 --> 0:44:14.879 at every campus. You just need to ask the Holy Spirit. 0:44:14.920 --> 0:44:17.520 I see tears flowing right now. People are getting their 0:44:17.560 --> 0:44:20.000 faith back. Right now, You're gonna be able to go 0:44:20.000 --> 0:44:22.000 into this week and be the mom you really want 0:44:22.040 --> 0:44:23.799 to be. You're gonna be able to go into that 0:44:23.920 --> 0:44:26.359 job and actually make a difference for the Kingdom of God. 0:44:26.520 --> 0:44:30.160 Somebody's confidence is coming back. If you're in this room 0:44:30.280 --> 0:44:32.960 right now and you've been carrying your damage without the 0:44:33.000 --> 0:44:37.239 one who created you, Jesus. Today, if you want to 0:44:37.280 --> 0:44:39.600 give your life to Jesus Christ, I'm telling you it's 0:44:39.640 --> 0:44:42.600 the greatest decision you can ever make. It's the thing 0:44:42.640 --> 0:44:45.120 that took me from a liar, a manipulator, one who 0:44:45.160 --> 0:44:47.760 was addicted to pornography, had all kinds of bad things 0:44:47.760 --> 0:44:48.319 in my heart. 0:44:48.600 --> 0:44:49.440 God arrested for. 0:44:49.400 --> 0:44:51.799 Car insurance for all kind of stuff. And God said, 0:44:51.800 --> 0:44:55.000 give me that because he's the only one that if 0:44:55.000 --> 0:44:57.280 you give him your heart, he'll help you change your habits. 0:44:59.320 --> 0:45:02.120 If you're here today, you're not in a room with 0:45:02.160 --> 0:45:03.240 a bunch of perfect people. 0:45:03.239 --> 0:45:03.920 You're in a room with. 0:45:03.920 --> 0:45:06.720 A bunch of damaged people that have been saved by grace. 0:45:07.960 --> 0:45:11.160 And we don't forget what God has done. We're carrying 0:45:11.160 --> 0:45:14.400 our back today and we're saying you can be healed, 0:45:14.719 --> 0:45:17.839 you can be freed, and you can be changed with 0:45:17.960 --> 0:45:22.440 one decision of faith, asking Jesus into your life, it'll 0:45:22.480 --> 0:45:24.319 change everything. If that's you on the counter, three, I 0:45:24.360 --> 0:45:26.120 just want you to lift your hands. We're not gonna 0:45:26.120 --> 0:45:28.480 make you tell us everything you did. This is not 0:45:28.600 --> 0:45:31.000 what we're going to do today. That's what religion would 0:45:31.040 --> 0:45:33.040 tell you. But God is saying, just give me your heart. 0:45:33.360 --> 0:45:34.600 I'll get you with the right people. 0:45:35.760 --> 0:45:36.799 We'll talk, we'll heal. 0:45:38.360 --> 0:45:41.440 Religion says rush hurry, and God says, come to me. 0:45:42.880 --> 0:45:44.880 And if you're tired of carrying that burden by yourself 0:45:44.920 --> 0:45:46.279 on the counter. Three, I just want you to lift 0:45:46.280 --> 0:45:49.239 your hand at every campus, at Transformation Church, wherever you 0:45:49.280 --> 0:45:50.640 are around the world. I don't care if you're on 0:45:50.680 --> 0:45:52.799 the treadmill and you just walk in and then you 0:45:52.920 --> 0:45:55.279 just mmm and everybody's like, what just happened? It's a 0:45:55.360 --> 0:46:01.360 dance move called salvation. Okay, it doesn't matter. Forget them. 0:46:01.400 --> 0:46:04.800 Only you and God will stand in eternity and answer 0:46:04.800 --> 0:46:06.480 for what you're about to do. One. You're making the 0:46:06.480 --> 0:46:08.319 greatest decision of your life. Two. 0:46:08.360 --> 0:46:09.040 I'm proud of you. 0:46:09.080 --> 0:46:11.040 But more than that, your name is going to be 0:46:11.040 --> 0:46:13.920 written in the Lamb's Book of Life forever. Three shoot 0:46:13.960 --> 0:46:16.719 your hand up all over this campus. I'll see you, 0:46:16.800 --> 0:46:20.880 my brothers. Three. One everyone, oh, judge, how do we 0:46:21.080 --> 0:46:25.719 celebrate pleas that judge? How do we thank God? Hollo? 0:46:25.840 --> 0:46:26.680 Do you listen. 0:46:28.760 --> 0:46:30.320 At Transformation and Elevation? 0:46:30.560 --> 0:46:34.120 Nobody praise alone? So I want us all to pray 0:46:34.200 --> 0:46:36.319 this prayer for the benefit of those who are coming 0:46:36.400 --> 0:46:40.440 to Christ. Somebody say, God, here's my damage. You're the 0:46:40.520 --> 0:46:44.680 only one that can use it. Today, I give you 0:46:44.800 --> 0:46:49.600 my life. I believe you lived, you died, and you 0:46:49.760 --> 0:46:54.960 rose again. With all power Here I am. I'm yours. 0:46:55.600 --> 0:47:02.799 I'll serve you forever, Change me, renew, transform me. I'm 0:47:02.920 --> 0:47:04.960 yours in Jesus' name. 0:47:05.719 --> 0:47:06.160 Amen. 0:47:07.000 --> 0:47:09.520 Hey, I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, 0:47:10.120 --> 0:47:12.680 make sure to share it and subscribe so we can 0:47:12.760 --> 0:47:15.359 get you all of these new messages as soon as 0:47:15.360 --> 0:47:18.080 they're available. I also want to take a moment and 0:47:18.280 --> 0:47:20.000 thank all of you who are a part of Elevation. 0:47:20.560 --> 0:47:23.840 Whether you support us financially, or serve with us, or 0:47:24.280 --> 0:47:27.000 just share these messages, it's because of you that we're 0:47:27.000 --> 0:47:29.960 able to reach people all around the world. And if 0:47:29.960 --> 0:47:32.440 you want more information on how to be a part 0:47:32.480 --> 0:47:36.399 of Elevation, click the link in the description. Thanks again 0:47:36.440 --> 0:47:39.360 for listening. 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