what's up friends welcome back to another episode of The Steve Weatherford show got a little sneak peek for you actually more than a sneak peek I'm going to give you the whole thing but I want to give you a little context for what I'm going to share with you just recently I was out in Arizona to host one of the events that we normally host at my house it's called the launching pad experience it's the live experience of A 12we discipleship program that we do at Champions in Christ Ministry we were hosting out in Arizona at a friend's house named Joe palon and while we were out there I got a DM and opportunity to sit down with a guy named Andy Elliott and if you don't know who that is he's really been blowing up on Instagram in the last like year or two and he's a really inspirational really passionate motivational sales trainer he throws these events and uh workshops at his HQ out in Arizona and so he invited me over to do a podcast and I don't think he knew too much about me and so we sat down I'm like hey Andy how long do you want the podcast to be he's like man give me like 30 minutes of like your your best stuff and I thought to myself I said well my stuff is my testimony I just began to share my testimony and about 15 minutes into to me sharing my testimony I looked over at my new friend Andy Elliott and I could see the Holy Spirit Just landing on top of him and the rest of the podcast was really powerful so instead of going for 30 minutes we went for like an hour we ended the podcast episode with an invitation to Jesus and then after the podcast he's like man I was not expecting that he's like you know what man I feel like you need to stay one more day in Arizona because I've got 500 entrepreneurs and sales trainers that are coming in this weekend and they need to hear that radical story that you just shared with me and so the video that you're about to share is what God did when I stayed and I shared my testimony and took that opportunity the reason I want to share this with you is this is the first time that I've ever shared my testimony where every single person inside of that venue raised their hand and gave their life to Jesus it was unbelievable and so I just wanted to share this with you that God would get all the glory that it would increase your faith that you would pray prayers that God would have you in the right place at the right time with the right people so the right things would happen and this just increased my faith and I'm praying and believing that it will increase your faith if this is the first time you've listened to the Steve Weatherford show make sure that you give us a thumbs up and hit the notifications on YouTube so you can make sure that you get an alert every single time that we come out with an episode every Wednesday morning I've only got an hour with you guys and I wasn't actually planning on being here um I actually came in town to uh do some some coaching and some teaching and I knew I was coming into Arizona and I know Andy and I had messaged a few times and so I said I think I'm supposed to meet Andy on this trip so I messaged him when I was on finalizing my trip plans and he said hey I want you to come up here and and I'd love to meet you and I didn't know we're going to sit down and do a podcast or anything I just felt like him and I were supposed to connect and we sat down um I might maybe talk to him I don't know Andy where you at Andy you know what where where's he at would you come sit up here with me man I want to do this with you man I'm addicted to being in the yeah come on come on I'm always learning I feel like over there I'm just like like I'm watching it but it it'll bless you I know that you don't like you're like me man I've gotten up like four or five times in the last two hours just cuz I like to move around so thank you everybody for for your attention I just want to kind of set some context like who am I and why am I here and then I want to get into sharing something with you that I believe is absolutely going to change your life and it's very actionable it's very practical but I want to share with you how I met Andy so I came up here we talked for maybe five or 10 minutes and we sat down for a podcast and I said Andy how long do you want this to go and he said man um give me like 30 minutes of your greatest stuff your best fire and uh and I thought to him I said man I've got I've got a lot but I feel like the greatest thing that I can share is my testimony right and so I told I told Andy I said man I would just love to share my testimony and who I am with you and I don't know I haven't said this to Andy but it was about 15 minutes into that 30 minute show where I was sharing my testimony and Andy I looked at you and and I could feel the presence of God just fall on you as I was sharing my testimony and I could see a supernatural conviction come over you um of just love and Excellence but wanting to be more and and Andy and I got done with the podcast ended up being about an hour and I can't wait to share it with you guys it was amazing it was such an honor to sit with you um I just admire you so much and we went up to his office and I got a chance to meet Jackie and um you know have seen their stuff on social media for a couple of months and um and Andy's like man I've been with you for two and a half years I have or two and a half two and a half hours I haven't heard you say a curse word and he said do you cuss and I was like well you know every once in a while I make a mistake but it is my aim to not to not curse with my mouth and he goes why and I said it's not a heaven or hell thing it's a Excellence thing and it's a discipline thing because there's a lot of people that God has put in my Sphere for me to lead and what I do in moderation my followers may do in excess and so I say those things to say thank you for allowing someone to come alongside of you and here's the deal I never even challenged Andy so I'm saying these things to honor him he just asked something about me and he saw excellence and he saw he saw discipline show up in a different type of way and so for that reason I didn't even say anything to him two days later he texts me or or he calls me he goes you're never going to believe this man and it was preceded by me texting him the next morning I said Andy when I was praying with you did you feel the presence of God and did did God give you like a picture in your mind and he replied back right away he goes bro I feel the presence of God right now and God gave me a picture of you in my life and the reason that I say that is not to bring glory to myself it's it says in scripture it's the blood of the lamb and the word of Our Testimony that sets the captives free and I believe that God is showing you a picture of possibility and the thing that I love about Andy is he's as I'm noticing like he wants to walk it out right he's not a guy that's going to just give you words I didn't even challenge him but he saw an area where he could be more excellent and it wasn't just about him he told me he's like man if I become more excellent and I discipline my tongue I'm going to be able to reach more people and impact more lives and that's going to open me up to a whole faction of of a a new age group and a new different types of person because there are people Andy that as soon as they hear the f word they're turning the channel right so thank you for letting the Holy Spirit convict you into just excellent leadership and followable leadership in every every single [Applause] area because that takes humility right I mean think about this we're all on the internet interwebs right and I'm watching Andy's account go up by like 30 and 40,000 people every single day it is no question that God has anointed you it is no question that God has placed influence on you it is no question that God has put you on the earth not to just influence inuence people and to be a fisher of men but you're so dynamic because you're a disciplemaker man you are men that are bringing families and men and women in and you're teaching them how to live an excellent life and you're not hitting them over the head with the Bible with it and I believe that the change that you're making in your life right now Andy is going to bring you to your next level and what do I mean when I say that everybody that walked in here I believe that we were all praying and believing and investing this money that if we come in here we're going to learn something and we're going to begin to do something different and when we begin to do something different it takes it to our next level right right and I'll agree with you however what I've noticed in the last four to five years in my walk in my faith walk I have noticed God also take my influence and qualify me into rooms onto stages that I don't deserve that I'm not qualified for but it hasn't been because of things that I started doing my next levels have actually been un Ed Andy by the things that I stopped doing and that's what you noticed In Me Is You spent time with me and you said hm there's something that this guy is not doing and it's inspiring me it's making me want to be better not just for myself but for my wife for my sons for other people's wives and Sons and so I'm believing that in this room and on this weekend that you've already taken down some notes of some things that you need to start doing and I'll 100% agree with those I told Andy after he got done with this to our session I'm like Andy I've never seen you present before buddy I am blown away there was so much value that you just blurted and like fire hosed out onto everybody here and I am so impressed I can't wait to see where God is taking you with the gifts that you've been given because it's going to blow people away man there was a text message that I sent him after that day that we spent together and I think it was something along the lines of what God is going to do in you is going to change the population of Eternity and it's going to create a wave of disciples for Jesus Christ and I just know that that's in your future man so thank you for this honor of speaking into this tribe man one of the things that Andy said earlier and I wrote it down is he said remove the amager from the way that you speak and I believe that my assignment here today isn't just to impact the way that we speak although that I think that that's incredibly important as Andy was saying it's communication it's how we create connection it's how we create relationships it's how we create results and sales but what I want to do today is yes I want to take your language and your communication from amateur to Pro but I actually want to take your marriage from amateur to Pro I want to take your lifestyle from amateur to Pro I want to take your relationships from amateur to Pro so if there's any anybody in here that wants to go from amateur areas of your life and Andy will tell you I was an amateur with the way that I was speaking and then I got convicted and now I'm in my process of reconditioning my tongue if you want to go from amateur to Pro in one or multiple areas of your life I want you to raise your hand up right now Andy this is the whole room this whole room is fertile soil that's what I told Andy he said man would you stay would you stay one more day because I was supposed to fly home yesterday and I thought to myself he said' I've got 500 people and they are hungry man and if you come I'll give you one hour and you can take them to church and so the reason that I'm here is because the only way that I know to take you from amateur to Pro is to share this testimony that I'm about to share with you because it is it is radical so before I do that I want to show you guys a picture of my family I think they have a I text the the AV Department a picture of my family so this is my family these are the [Applause] Weatherford so eight days ago on February 10th I I celebrated 18 years with my wife uh I've got six children thank you uh I've got four daughters I've got two sons you can hold your Round of Applause man thank you I appreciate it but God did that I just wanted to introduce your F my family to you and the reason that I I'm I'm doing that is because I'm saying no to the to one of the number one things in my life and I'm investing another 24 hours in a strange city that I'm not from with people that I haven't met and the reason that I'm doing that is because this matters so much to me I remember where I was at 5 years ago because four years and 11 months ago I had a radical encounter with God's presence and I'm going to pray for us would that be okay if I pray for us so before I pray for us I want to share with you guys a scene from one of my favorite movies I played football in New York for eight years for the Jets and the Giants and I got really into like mafia movies and there's this movie called The Bronx tail have any of you guys seen The Bronx tail before man I love this tribe man these are my people nobody ever raises their hand that much so there's this scene in The Bronx Town their main character his name is sunny he's like the main mafia guy that kind of holds it down in that small Italian block Sunny Sunny's got Authority right when he speaks people go he establishes the rules and the standards of the neighborhood in this one scene the Hell's Angels come into to the Bronx and they Park all of their bikes right in front of Sunny's bar and Sunny's bar is the place where all the Wise Guys hang out so these Hell's Angels about a dozen of them come into the bar and they start breaking bottles and grabbing the bartender by the Scruff of the neck and telling him give us all these free drinks and Sunny's sitting in the back of the bar see drinking his cappuccino and he sees this he stands up and he walks up to these guys he said I'm glad that you guys are in my bar and I want you to have a good time and have some drinks but we have standards inside of this place that you will maintain there are things that are allowed and there are things that are not allowed and what you're doing right now it's not allowed so he goes back he sits in his chair two minutes later people mothering each other you know abusing his staff so Sunny gets up he walks to the front of the bar he walks past the bar walks to the front and he locks the door he looks at his friends in the back they lock the door and then they start to come out of the kitchen with bats and sticks and chains and they beat the snot out of those Hell's Angels then they unlock the door and then they throw him out and the reason that I shared that with you before I [Applause] pray is the door sealed okay good before I pray I want to tell you why I want to pray before I pray I want to give you an opportunity to like to let the Holy Spirit to let God convict you with some of the things that you've been carrying around that have been tormenting you that have been stopping you that have been limiting you that have been keeping you in a cycle and I'm going to read some of them off these are notes that I wrote about 45 minutes ago I didn't know what God wanted me to share here so I just listened I listened to what was shared and I listened to the experience of this morning with K and this is what God is telling me he's telling me that people have walked into this place today and they have so much Shame about the divorces that they've been through they have so much shame and guilt about depression anxiety I believe that unforgiveness the reason some of you guys can't go to your next level is because you don't forgive yourself you've made mistakes in the past and so the way that you look at yourself you could never cast big Vision like some of the way that Andy's doing or some of these other people that come in here and have done really amazing things you have to be able to see yourself as worthy to do worthy things addiction has walked in here today Suicidal Thoughts have walked in here today I know I know that there are people that are in here who maybe have achieved some things that they thought would fix that hole inside of their chest and it didn't and then they did another thing that they thought would fix it maybe they they got their body strong maybe they made a lot of money maybe they said when I marry this person or live in this neighborhood I'm going to feel okay and then they get there and then the elephant that was on their chest is still there man I seen this one thick earlier Andy where's my friend Travis at the Vivant guy yeah he's he's licking his wounds right now right and you want to know why it's not because he can't sell it's because when he got up here the fear of failure it gripped him and he forgot what to say and for the men that have gotten up here fear of rejection But ultimately I believe what's walked in here is the fear of man we have let so many of us have let the fear of what Dad would say the fear of what our friends would say the fear of what Andy might say if I like right we can laugh about it but that's the reason that he says this is so intense why because when you fail you'll fail in front of everybody I believe that idolatry has came come in here today and the only reason that I can have eyes to see idolatry not adultery not cheating on your wife that's in here too idolatry that means you have other Idols that are above God the only reason I can say I got eyes to see man that was me my body was my idol my bank bank account was my idol my brand was my idol my finances were my idol and I always told myself well when I get this right I think I'll feel okay how about lust and perfectionism how about procrastination how about accepting average that's walked through the door today how about rejection how about abandonment those have walked in here today so I'm going to pray a prayer and before I pray this prayer I want to share a Bible verse with you that means so much to me it's Romans 8:28 I want you guys to all write it down just write down Romans 8:28 you could look it up later but in Romans 8:28 it says that God will take all things from our past use them together for our good for those that love him and those that are called according to his purpose so in that promise it says if you release it and give it to God everything that's happened in the past that gives God permission to use it together for good for those that love him and those that are called according to his purpose so let me ask you this question this is a qualifying question let me do little sales real quick let me get you into a qualify if things have happened in your past and you're noticing as I'm saying it dang I've been addicted dang I've been divorced dang I've been bankrupt dang I've been depressed man I've I've you even had a suicidal thought before and you want to give all of that up and you want God to use it together for good I want you to close your eyes right now and I want you to raise your hand and I want you to say that's me everything from my past that's like 30% of the room so you're telling me there's only 30% of us inside of here that have something heavy that we're that we're carrying that's right that's the rest of our room dear heavenly father thank you for this day God before we ask anything of you cuz God we're going to ask a lot today God we just Proclaim that you're King God we thank you for your awesome power Your Glory your mercy God we thank you for each and every one of your sons and your daughters that are here sitting in the seats right now God we know that it's a Divine it's a Divine appointment today that every single one of these people are are exactly where their feet are at so God we thank you for this moment and we just ask that your Holy Spirit would go before us God that today would be the day God when generational curses things that were given to these men and these women that they didn't agree to God that they have been put on them God we just pray that you would take those things away every single person in here said God I give you permission by raising their hand so God we just ask that you would take everything from our past God that you would use it together for good for those that love love you and we love you I need everybody to say God I love you God I love you God I love you God I love you God you hear that thunderous noise in Fountain Hill Arizona God we just ask that you would open Heaven up God that the words that come out of my mouth God that they would be hearing from God and not from a man God that you would convict them in their spirit and they would know the things to lay down that would take them from amateur to Pro the self-limiting beliefs the the the the the cycles of addiction God we thank you that your Miracle working power is available and every single one of them the people that are in this place right now God they've given you permission that your favor can fall down in this place God that signs Miracles and wonders are something that we believe in if you believe in it say I believe I believe I believe I believe God your sons and your daughters are ready for more I want you guys to say more of you and less of me more of you bless and it's in Jesus name I pray amen come on all right [Applause] okay so before I get into my testimony I feel like there's a specific word that I'm I'm supposed to release and I captured it from my friend Dylan yesterday I had some quiet time this morning I said God what's the word like what's the intention what's the thing that I'm going to impart into this room and I feel like what God said to me is God said that they must ex excavate before they can Elevate and I want you to write that down God wants the next 45 minutes to be excavation time God wants you to dig deep God wants you to be willing God wants you to in the next 45 minutes if you're not already there God wants you to get to the end of yourself he wants to dig up all of the past just like we talked about in Romans 8:28 give God your past quit carrying it around because he wants to give you hope in a future so there's going to be three steps that I'm going to ask everybody remember I said this is going to be practical tactical and sometimes when people talk about God it's just kind of like it's all over the place I want to be actionable and I want to be practical I'm going ask you guys to take three steps say one two three ready one two three three steps and in those three steps you're going to get three things and so I want you to write these three things down that you're going to do and three things that you're going to get today today you're going to release you're going to receive and you're going to commit you're going to release things that don't belong to you and I want you to write this scripture down too Romans 12:2 and in that scripture it sayso not be conformed to the patterns of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind and I believe that that's that's really what this week weekend is about Andy Elliott has gathered people together so he can interrupt your life and interrupt the way that you think and I believe that God sent me here to confirm that and to plant a seed right so in the release in the receive and in the commit we're going to get these three things we're going to get Freedom there's a lot of bondage that walked in here and I believe that free men and women are going to walk out Freedom you're going to get identity and I believe that a lot of identity that have walked in is the identity of the world meaning the world has conformed you the world has convinced you that you can't do some of the things that in your heart and your belly you know you're meant to do but you keep stumbling over yourself and then you view yourself as your results and so your your identity is completely busted and then we're going to get Authority Andy say authority authority Authority say it again authority authority authority authority okay so the way we're going to get Authority right the way that we're going to step into Authority the way that Sunny stepped into an authority and he says this doesn't belong here it has to go we have to make a decision write down the word decision the root of the word decision means to cut off and so so at the end of our time here today I'm going to ask I'm going to ask you to pray a prayer with me and in that prayer we're going to make a decision to cut things off the same way that Andy said I'm not saying the f word ever again right he has made a declarative statement and he is going to recondition himself that he will not curse with his mouth anymore but he will create because in Scripture it says death and life is in the power of the tongue and I know that he's a Creator I know that you're a Creator but in order for us to go from amateur to Pro we have to stop making decisions based upon our flesh right that's why a lot of us me included that's why I got into porn that's why I got into that's why I got into cursing that's why I got into making money my identity that's why I got into drugs because I would achieve things and then it didn't make me feel the way that I thought it was supposed to make me feel and so part of the coping mechanism was alcohol all drugs are porn My Flesh was running the show but in order for me to go from amateur to Pro in every area of our life because if you look at my Wikipedia page I'm a Super Bowl champion I'm the NFL's fittest man twice I was a Walter pton Man of the Year award played for 10 years Super Bowl champion but what y'all didn't know about me is I was addicted to porn I was addicted to pills that I was sexually abused when I was 12 years old and it created it created like a perspective shift in me and I looked at my identity and I'm like man if if God is if God is real how could he let something like this happen to me does this make me gay and because I didn't have intimacy with my father to know what my real identity is I got conformed to this world so I thought the only way that I can be worthy is if I achieve a lot of things so as you guys see me and you stand up you're be like man this guy's really Jack this was born out of massive insecurity and now I use it for the glory of [Applause] God so there's four verses I want y'all to write down you've already written down two of them you wrote down Romans 8:28 you wrote down 12 Romans 122 I want you to write down John 10:10 John 10:10 says the enemy comes to steal to kill and to destroy and it says Jesus has come to give you life and give it to you abundantly so in this scripture I believe that the enemy has stolen your freedom and I believe that he's killing he's killing your identity and then he's destroying your inheritance because I believe that a lot of the reason that men and women are in this room right now isn't just for themselves and of you how many of you have families that depend on you this is a room of chain Breakers man this is a room of generation ones I love and I honor my father but what I'm doing with my last name is next level how many of us want to have a next L that because of us we take it next level it's time for us as a tribe in the earth to go from amateur to Pro but until we get clear on what our commitments are we can never be a pro because amateurs make decisions on their feelings and pros make decisions based upon their commitments and before I came into Andy Andy Elliott's life he hadn't made a commitment to disciplin his tongue so what does it look like for us to leave this place so clear on who we are who we are and then we're going to know what to do next because I believe a lot of people have come into this room wondering the what I came in here as my marketing am I in the wrong business how do I go next level I need a new what but I believe what you're realizing right now it's not about the what it's about the who because once you know who you are your identity once you know who you are and who you are that you belong to God you're always going to know what to do say this with me who who Who's Who and what and what that's what we're going to get clear on today I believe that if the only thing that I get you to do is agree with God's opinion of you if I can get you to agree with how God feels about you and you walk out of this door I know that you're walking in Freedom I know that you're walking in authority and I know that wherever you go that you are going to positively impact that place with the time the towns and the treasures that God has put in you can I get an amen am hey Andy I like your tribe man come on man you told you did in Jeremiah 29:11 I share this verse and then I'm going to get into some defining moments Jeremiah 29:11 and in that scripture boy like I anchor myself on this because sometimes there's there's things that happen in life and I can't see God's hand in it I couldn't see God's hand in in a teacher that really Built Me Up and encouraged me and made me feel special I didn't realize he wasn't he wasn't encouraging me he was grooming me I couldn't see how at 12 or 13 years old that God's got plans for me if he could let something like that happen but when I don't know what God is doing I re remind myself of the promise from God because these four things that I've shared with you those are four promises from God and in scripture there's 7,437 promises from God and I just shared four of them with you but these are my favorite in Jeremiah 29:11 it says for I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord plans to prosper you and not to harm you plans to give you a hope in a future so even though it was so hard guys it was so hard to look it back at what I experienced at 12 years old I know I'm not the only one in here that's experienced abuse of some kind it was so hard for me to think to myself if God is real and God is good how could he let something like that happen I had wounds I had wounds that made me feel different about myself I had wounds that wouldn't let me connect with love right because I I thought to myself man if these people they knew what I've been through the things that I've done the the lies that I've told the women that I've slept with the drugs that I've done Andy wouldn't love me you wouldn't want to be my friend and these people who think I'm this big shiny football guy that does entrepreneur they wouldn't love me they would they would turn their back and they would leave the room and that's exactly what the enemy wants to do is he wants to convince you that if you share that broken part of yourself if you share that wound then people will run away but you know what God has shown me he has shown me that that thing that happened when I'm 12 when I share that in a room it sucks the air out of the room and people all of a sudden are like oh my gosh this guy's not here to talk about his bright shiny trophies this guy is here to share his his darkest things with me and the reason I want to share some of the darkest moments of my life is because that wound is not a wound anymore it's a scar and when I pull it up and I show other people who have been through pain it gives them permission to heal and it gives them permission to talk about that thing that happened and what God did and what I'm doing now that that's a testimony so I know that I'm in a room I don't even have to ask you guys to raise your hand I already know that I'm in a room of Renegades I already know that I'm in a room of rebels I already know that I'm in a room of like Misfits and Lost Boys these are people that don't fit in and I that's why I knew that this would be such fertile soil right because there are some Churches guess what then we'll let a guy like me on the stage and I don't blame them cuz I don't do Church like normal people I'm here to burn f for the King of Kings there's a scripture in the Bible that says do not be ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and so when I get invited to a business seminar like this and I can see things walk into a room do you think I'm the type of idiot that's going to give you a Band-Aid for your gunshot wound I want to give you healing I want to give you transformation and the only way that that can happen is if you release things that don't belong to you and stop carrying them around and if you receive something that you could never earn and you commit to something bigger than you so my earliest memories I felt like a renegade and a Lost Boy kindergarten was my earliest memories where I was like dang man I'm Different I've got two brothers and I've got a sister and they're just they're good they don't they don't they've never done drugs they didn't have sex till they got married I've got parents that were the same way and then there's me right I love WWF and just radical things and I grew up in like a really religious church so I honor I honor my mother and my father they're amazing people they're still married to this day almost 50 years so like I am a product when I say I'm a gen one I think I'm like a gen generation one radical but I'm definitely not a generation one Faith I've been herited that from my family but there were 36 years guys as I speak to you now I've only really been saved for almost five years not even quite had a radical encounter four years and 11 months ago CU I grew up in the church but every time I went to church I'd get kicked out of Sunday school who gets kicked out of Sunday school man isn't that the place everybody's supposed to be welcome and then I go to kindergarten and there's 27 people in my class and I'm thinking to myself there's got to be at least one other weirdo in here so the first five days of kindergarten I'm the only one that got to the sent to the principal's office 5 days in a row and it was baton rge Louisiana where they could spank you without calling Dad so we can laugh right now right cuz I'm 41 years old and I'm walking in full full Freedom full security no fear of man no fear of failure because my ultimate goal is and ke kind of talked about it earlier I know that there's one day that I'm going to stand before God with my time three things and I want you to write these things three things down because Keaton talked about standing before God and I want to take that a little bit of a a layer deeper there's going to be three things that God is going to want to review with you your time your talents and your treasures and so I have a sense of urgency because I've tried everything else there is in the world for 36 years I was a ronin I traveled the earth going from mission to Mission make it onto the varsity team in high school develop my body from 100 pound to 225 lbs earn a college scholarship make it to the pros and with almost every single one of those achiev a ments I remember taking the achievement and going back to my Earthly father and bringing it to him and and ask him like Dad is it good the next defining moment I really feel like like sticks out to me so I talked to you guys about like five years old and honestly I started hating myself at five because I'm so different if you guys haven't noticed I got what the Educators call a a learning disability attention deficit I Hyperactive Disorder right they think I have an attention problem I have an attention problem I have an interest problem if it doesn't interest me I can't pay attention and I believe that the world tried to conform me to say I'm broken I can almost guarantee that this room is at least 50% ADHD 80% he knows better than I do right we're creators we're not built like everybody else and you know what it says in Scripture I shared this with Andy he was like I could see the blood your vascularity increased when I shared the scripture with him creation is groaning for the sons of God to reveal themselves the world is conforming us every single day we see Super Bowl commes and all the craziness is going on creation is groaning for men like us to stand up in our true identity according to Christ and to walk in a full freedom and Authority that sets other people free and I believe that's the activation that can happen inside of this room so at 8 years old I remember I remember scoring like five goals in a soccer game my dad was the coach and as I'm walking off of the field it was the first time that I remember being really encouraged there were three or four different parents that came up to me and they're like Steve you weren't on this team last year and we got beat three to nothing by these guys and we just stomped them five to nothing and you're the X Factor you're a Difference Maker I was like oh wow thank you then I walk a little bit further and then this next parent comes up to me and be like man I have never seen somebody with so much energy you are literally all over the field Steve you're amazing man I was like thank you because I grew up with a Clint Eastwood type of Dad right loved me faithful but he didn't say I'm so proud of you Steve you're such a good boy and I know it's really hard for you to sit still but your effort inspired Ires me I love you you're a good boy I didn't hear those types of things from my dad you want to know he created a little bit of an identity issue I wasn't real sure who I was and I remember the next parent coming up to me and saying Steve thank you so much my chubby little son Jacob has never scored a goal in three seasons and because of you we're going to go have a pizza party Steve you're amazing teammate and I remember getting in the in the car with my dad and I'm like I'm feeling s foot oh I'm like Dad Dad am I those things that they say that I am and I remember because my dad was ill equipped because he didn't have a daddy that said proud of you man you're a good boy my dad put the car into reverse and I hear the crunching of the Rocks underneath the the the pavement and I remember him saying to me you need to just focus on what you can control and I remember in that moment at 8 years old that in that moment of me needing to I needed confirmation that I'm a good boy boy and that you love me I'm re- reminded of what I lack and that's what the world loves to do for us a lot of you all came in here because you think it's a lack or you think it's a weakness while you're not at your next level and that may be the case but I believe that you'll get over your weakness you'll get over your addiction if you know who you are right it's an identity issue it's not an addiction issue and so at 11 years old was the next like really big defining moment for me I mean radical I grew up up in like a really stiff Church 50 people stand up sit down if you talk you got smacked in the back of the head and I got invited to a different church this church this church I walked in and it was like people like you guys cut off t-shirts tattoos like real people muscles and I looked on the stage and there was fire on the stage there were steel bars on the stage and the main guy comes out his name is Keith craft and he comes out he says welcome to The Power Team have any of you guys seen The Power Team before there's a few hands so what the power team is it's like five or six or seven guys that look like me but even bigger they look like WWF wrestlers and they would go from City to city and they would do like high school events and go to churches and they would do these incredible Feats of Strength breaking bricks in Jesus name bending bars over their head taking handcuffs and busting them so I'd never seen anything like this in the church before so I walked in with my Dad I'm like is this legal dad and he was like yeah thinking to myself why don't we freaking go to church like this our church sucks so I I ran up to the front row and I'm like right there Andy and for the next 90 minutes it is the most unbelievable thing that I've ever seen because there's no there was no YouTube back then right so I had never seen people that big unless it was Hulk Hogan or the Ultimate Warrior and so I see these guys standing right in front of me that are literally Larger than Life and at the end of the the event the main guy Keith craft comes out and he shares his testimony and for my whole life up until that point I didn't want anything to do with church or God because when I went to my church if you drove a Cadillac everybody in the church would turn their nose up at you if you had if you were like strong and and and and assertive that wasn't very Christian you need to be humble and you need to be weak I'm like man like I I get this God thing but I don't want to be like that I want to be like Hulk Hogan like the Ultimate Warrior Man and I I came into this concert and I'm seeing somebody that looks like the Ultimate Warrior but he's talking about God and he gave me permission that I could be a bold strong and successful man of God I didn't have to do an either or remember that Mentor told you got pick one or the other buddy and I saw the Two Worlds come together and I was like I want that so he put on two pairs of handcuffs he counted down from 10 to one he said these chains represent the bondage that the enemy has on you and I'm going to break these to prove God's power and love but I want you to know if you feel like you've never fit in and you feel like you're just not enough you want to belong to God I want you to repent of your sins and I want you to raise your hand up and give your life to Jesus and so he broke those chains and I threw both of my hands up I'm like I want that and so I remember receiving Jesus feeling like going home floating on clouds my mom didn't have to tell me to read my Bible I belong to God you didn't have to tell me to say my prayers I belong to God and then six months later I had that teacher I told you about it really encouraged me had me stay after class so he could help me and then he sexually abused me he stole my innocence from me and I was just looking for a man to encourage me I I I experienced so much Darkness so much depression so much confusion I don't even know if I'm gay yet because I don't have a close relationship with my dad I can't say dad like you know that God they talk about at church why didn't he protect me I thought that you said he was good how could God use something like this for anything good I feel so broken I feel so dirty and so I went into high school and I started high school at 108 pounds and would it be okay if I go five minutes long okay I want to share this story with you the first time the first time that I ever played football I was 14 years old it was two years after this abuse and I was always a pretty athletic guy but the way that I played football and I believe that this story will resonate with you and maybe the first time you you did something that God was really calling you to do that would unlock your life so this this the football coach comes over to the soccer field in trood Indiana his name's Wayne stale he asked the coach he's like hey do you have a a kicker with a strong leg because we don't have one and he said yeah two two Fields over there's a guy named Steve Weatherford he's a freshman he's got a rock it for a leg so the coach walks over and he gets a little closer to me Andy at the time 108 PBS and he looks at me and looks back at the coach he's like this guy and the coach is like yeah yeah yeah have him kick the ball so he said hey take that ball and kick it so I backed up and like this guy's bigger than God at my school this is terod Indiana like the the football coach never comes on to the soccer field because that's where the fairies play so I'm so excited for my chance so I kick the ball boom and Coach looks back to the soccer coach he goes he'll do so the very next day go to practice and they go to try to put some football pads on me and they put one pad on too too big another pad another pad by the time they I got my pads I was wearing seventh grader pads in an XL helmet and I weighed 108 PBS so I kind of like waddle out to practice because I never wore pads like that before and Coach says hey bring it up he's like this is our new kicker Steve Weatherspoon and I'm like I'm so scared I'm 14 years old I'm so insecure I mean just and the the guys look at me and they they go oh to the coach and Coach is like no we're going right into field goal this guy can do it so I back up and the Long Snapper The Long Snapper is the biggest toughest guy in the school he looks like he'd hang out with you with the cowboy hat on his name was Mike Canada he was 275 lbs Barrel chested beer belly and he chewed tobacco during practice this guy was like the ultimate ba he ran the school so he's my Long Snapper biggest toughest guy in the school and then we have our quarterback his name's Chris far he's like the most handsome guy in school so I got the most handsome popular guy in school and the guy that runs the school and I'm standing in front of the varsity team so I'm like this is my shot this is my so I'm back here like a Raging Bull but I look like a golf ball on top of a te and I'm like this getting ready to kick trying not to fall over so I look at Mike Canon I'm like okay I'm ready so he looks at Chris far he snaps the ball my shot take a step in and I kick that ball boom and the next thing that I hear is Mike Canada go oh cuz the ball never got more than 2 feet off of the round and I gave a Wilson tattoo to Mike Canada's right butt she he jumps up his eyes are so red and he and this is a true story he chases me off of the field in terod Indiana into the locker room and I'm not kidding you I got the helmet I went back into the locker room I gave it to the manager I gave him my pads I said thank you so much for the opportunity and I left the and the reason that I tell you that is you're like wait a second you quit football I thought you went to the NFL and like you got a Super Bowl right now so I had somebody come up to me the next morning be like dude we got a game in four days we don't have a kicker and I'm like yeah but Mike Canon is GNA kill me he's like listen go across the street on Tuesdays there's this lady named Betty she'll share she'll sell you Copenhagen go buy five cans of Copenhagen go up to mik Canada and say hey I'm really really sorry can I be on the team and that's exactly what I did 4 days later later very first football game ever I had a 49 yard game winner to win the game and I say those things to you to say I don't know what special gifting has God has placed in your heart I don't know the treasures that he's bestowed upon you I don't even know how much time God has put on the Earth but I do know that the enemy wants to stop it before it starts and if I wouldn't have had had enough courage to try again I wouldn't have a Super Bowl ring I wouldn't be invited to come here and share defining moments for my life God has qualified me so many different into so many different rooms and opportunities because I didn't quit and so that's one of the lessons in the defining moments of my life that I believe I want that to speak to you I want that to speak to you in a deep deep way because I believe that this visit that I have with you can Dre can breathe life into dry I believe that there are actually things that you are meant to do that you quit on Andy was mentioning some of them he's like you think you need to be in a different business you need to do the business that you're doing now better you need to go from amateur to Pro and so I'll Zoom through High School in college I played Four Sports I graduated All State and all of them I remember going to my dad and telling my dad Dad I'm the first Weatherford that ever got a college scholarship man is that unbelievable he said hey that's great I think that's wonderful you're the first one in the the family but I want to remind you that if you get caught doing some of the stuff that you're doing right now drinking and running around he said they'll take that scholarship from you and you won't be the first one and so it's just so reminiscent of those different times when I bring this I bring this achievement to my Earthly father and and nothing goes down nothing changes in me and so in college I didn't it wasn't enough to play one sport I had to play two so I decided I'm going to run track too I became a decathlete right and I was just sharing this with Andy when we did a podcast and I want to speak on it because you spoke on it earlier about man you got to choose one or the other and I believe that I lived my life like there was only three events that mattered I want to show up for my career I want to show up for my finances I want to show up for my body and if I have time I'll show up for my wife and kids and I'll show up for God but there were really only three events that were important to me I was idolizing those three events but what I've realized since God's got a hold of me is there's 10 events there's 10 events in The Game of Life I'm not going to go through what they are but but I want I want that to be spoken as an analogy because what I learned in college because I got like I got like fourth or fifth place in every event I didn't win the high jump I didn't win the javelin I wasn't the best pole vter I wasn't very good at the 400 but I got fourth or fifth in every single event and when it came time to add all the point totals up I crushed everyone and I believe that's a picture for how we can be the world champion version of ourself I'm believing that this weekend allows you to get around some mighty men and mighty women of God so you can see what events am I not showing up for because you can get nine you can get first place in nine out of the 10 events but if you don't show up for your marriage you're going to lose because I I couldn't tell you how many people that that make it billionaire status you do too that make it billionaire status and their wife comes up to and said hey thank you so much for your sacrifice youve worked so hard the private jets the multiple homes thank you so much but I don't love you anymore and like I'm going to take the kids I'm going head a different direction that would crush me and that would crush all of us that's why we do what we do and that's why I'm here to put you on notice to start to show up in your relationship with your physical fitness start to show up with financial stewardship and quit blowing all your money show up as a pro in your relationship with God I'm going to give you an opportunity to step into that today show up for the event of your marriage show up for the event of your relationships every single one of these events matter and some of us disqualify ourselves from even showing up because we can't put up a good point total well I don't want to pray next to Steve like he's like a nine out of 10 in his faith so then you don't you don't even try you don't even show up because you're comparing your chapter 4 to somebody else's chapter 24 when God has gifted you special in a different area but you're disqualifying yourself from being a World Champ because you don't show up and I believe that that stops this weekend so the next really big defining moment of my life February 5th 2012 Indianapolis Indiana we're playing Tom Brady and the New England Patriots and I had the greatest game of my life it's 47 miles from my hometown I set a Super Bowl record for most punts inside the 10 yard line after my first punt the very next play was a safety In The End Zone on Tom Brady so I say those things not so like you guys think I'm amazing because some of those games as a punter I didn't impact them at all matter of fact some games that I played and I didn't even Punt and they gave me a paycheck and I'm like dude I'm freaking stealing you know but in this particular game my team needed me and I executed it literally couldn't have had a better game and I remember after the the party was over I go back to my hotel room at 2:00 in the morning and I walk Dro my bag and I hear a noise up at the window and I'm on the 17th floor in Indianapolis and I look down and it's an ocean of people and they're partying they're high five and they're taking selfies and I noticed they don't even have Giants jerseys on they're just happy to be in a place where something great happened and I'm 17 flights up had the greatest game of my life and the biggest game of my life I know that 3 weeks from from then I'm going to get a multi-million dollar deal and a Super Bowl ring a few weeks after that literally everything I ever could have wanted and I remember that realization but I didn't feel any different and this wave of depression came over me and I realized that there's nothing inside of the NFL that's going to fix this god-sized hole inside of me so I played three years of a 5-year deal retired out of nowhere my wife my mentors my friends are like what are you doing you're walking away from $2 million a year for punting it's punting but I knew that there was like a godsize hole inside of me and I knew that I had to figure out how to fill it so I retired I went out to San Diego California and this is where my story gets Supernatural so if you haven't listened to any other wisdoms that I've shared please lean into this this is unbelievable so I get to San Diego within two weeks of me getting there I got invited to this church at the time it was called C3 now it's called awaken I get there and I'm like on the verge of divorce my oldest son Ace resents me I'm addicted to Aderall to keep up with the workload of Entrepreneurship I'm smoking weed to go to sleep I'm chewing up Percocets when I'm sad and I'm lonely and I'm feeling rejected or depressed and I know the only solution is God but I just like I like like what about God so I got invited to this church and I showed up at this church 5 minutes late on purpose cuz I didn't want want people to recognize me I didn't want those you know those cheerful church people that meet you at the door hey how are you I didn't want none of that noise you guys are laughing CU you know I'm right so I showed up five minutes late and I walked in and as soon as I walked in but like like this energy and I was like and I look over it's about 400 people in there and there's like 150 people at the front of the stage they got their hands raised up some of them are crying and they don't care about what anybody thinks about what they look like they are just it looks like it's just them and God it's like what that's different so I end up finding like a dark corner left corner I walk up there with my wife and we're obviously not doing very good but we know that it's got to be God's for the solution so I sit there for the next two worship songs and I'm watching people cry out to God with no fear of judgment and I'm like man this is a different Church than I grew up in so then the pastor walks out his name's Dr Matt hubard and he walks out and he's talking for 60 seconds and all of a sudden he pauses he looks up into the top left corner where it is very dark he goes hey I don't know who you are but God's telling me right now that you've been gone for a really long time and God wants to tell you that you're home and that he's going to heal what's broken inside of you and he continued to talk and I looked around because I was like I wonder who you's saying that to Buddy there was nothing behind me but the wall and I knew he was speaking to me so here I am I walk into this church and I'm searching for God I walk into this church trying not to be noticed just so I can kind of window shop and all of a sudden a spotlight that was on the pastor goes right up to the left corner and as this guy is talking to me he's everything he's saying is just speaking to my broken heart so Church gets over and I walk out 10 minutes early so nobody talks to me and I get into the car and I'm like babe did that guy like recognize me or did he hear from God she's like I don't know but that was wild so we continue to go back to that church two months later I got invited to this Men's Conference it's called a merge and I'm this is an open invitation for anybody that's here that wants to go to that event with me I have a team that I put together and this event changed my life so I I show up at this event and I bring my I got special permission for my 11-year-old son his name is Ace he's 16 now got special permission for him to come and we go out to this event and it's about 2,000 M men in the middle of the desert in San Diego and they gave us this board that had two holes on the end of it and they gave it to me and they gave it to my son they gave us a marker and they Saidi want you to write down everything on this board that you brought into the desert that you want God to take away and guys I took this thing and I went and sat alone and I wrote down porn I wrote down pills I wrote down impostor syndrome I wrote down depression I wrote down anxiety I wrote down suicide I wrote down impostor syndrome I wrote down lust I wrote down addiction I wrote down am my gay I wrote I was at the end of myself and I just wrote it all down I said God I just want you to take this so then they had a string that was attached to it and I put it on and we're walking to the circus tent to hear the first Speaker of a two and a half day weekend and I walk in and I felt that same energy I walked in I'm like there's 2,000 men with their hands raised up just crying out I'm like man this is different man this is not like a normal church so I sit down worship finishes and then this really big p P walks out and they announce him as the speaker big old guy wheh headed here and he walks up and he grabs a microphone and as and as soon as he speaks into the microphone I felt like I got hit by like a lightning bolt and my chest started to get hot and the hair on the back of my my neck stood up and I looked at my son to see if something was happening to him he was just sitting there and I look at my friend Nick unsworth and invited me and he's picking his nose and I'm like okay it's only me I feel like I'm levitating out of my chair I recognize that voice so he gets done preaching for five or 10 minutes and I look at my friend as I'm still like I still feel like I'm vibrating I'm like Nick what's this guy's name and he like Ruffles around with the program he's like uh Keith craft I didn't recognize the name so I'll Google it and the third image that pops up on Google is a picture of the guy that's standing before me in 1994 busting a brick in Jesus name with the mullet on the back of his head and I'm like that's the guy from when I was 11 years old and my mind is racing so he gets done preaching and I can't hear anything that he says have you guys ever seen the Muppet Babies you know the Muppet baby's mom when he talks to to to Kermit or Miss Piggy is wow wow wow wow I felt like I was hearing a sermon through water my whole body was still vibrating so he gets done preaching I run around the side of the tent and I'm throwing people out of the way in biblical fashion to get to the himy of the rabbi and I get up to him I I said Pastor Keith you're never going to believe this but when I was 11 years old I was in Baton Rouge Louisiana and you gave me a picture of possibility because of you I gave my life to Jesus and it hasn't been a good it hasn't been an easy road but man you unlocked me for possibility in my body in my finances and I just like vomited my entire Wikipedia page on him so he could hear everything that I did I'm like man thank you so much and he was probably like really weirded out so I walk back to my chair and I feel like I'm walking on clouds and I had three Revelations about God that were the biggest questions that I had I knew in that moment I knew that God was real I knew it I knew in that moment because of the joy and the peace and the love that I was feeling in that moment radiating from me I knew that God was good and I knew that God was operating outside of time for this moment so I walk back to my chair and I find my friend Nick unsworth and I'm like Nick you're never going to believe this story but right before I was about to unpack it to him I realized I lost my son I don't have my 11 year-old son where did he go and then he stops me goes dude I was going to tell you but the look on your face I've never seen you look this way he said look at the front and I go to the front of the I I look at the front of the event and my son is standing there just like this receiving Jesus at 11 years old for the first time and it was the same messenger that brought me to Jesus when I was 11 years old 25 years apart [Music] so my mind is blown yeah praise God so my mind is blown not only did God recapture and arrest my heart he captured my son but the only bummer is I still got questions like am I gay on my back I still got questions about impostor syndrome and depression and anxiety and here's the deal like I had I had nightmares I wake up sweating I would have anxiety like in big spaces like this so the very next day they had the biggest bonfire I've ever seen guys and in Scripture it says if any two of you touch anything on Earth that our Father in heaven will do it so we made a long line of the guys on our team and every person brought their burden board up to the front we had a team member placed their hand on that burden board and we prayed a simple prayer a prayer of repentance that God would forgive us for the mistakes that we've made right and for for me just screwing things up and ending up where I was and how I was not about guilt not about shame but God I just need you so God I Repent that I've missed the mark and I asked Jesus to come into my heart and I released I released those burdens and I went home from that event and God took away so many of The Temptations of the flesh that were just keeping me in bondage and keeping me with this broken identity of myself went home had a conversation with my wife I confessed some things and I said this is who I was and this is who I'm committed to being moving forward no longer will my flesh lead me no longer will The Feelings be the leader in the capacity for what the Weatherford family Legacy will do and I made a covenant promise with God when I got home from that event I said God I've never felt your presence the way that I felt at that event I know that you're real and I know that you're good for so for the next year I'm going to take all of these skill sets that I've acquired in the physical of discipline and focus and Obsession and God I'm going to place it all on you all on you everything that I have for one year and God even though I know you took so much away from me right away God I still feel like a little bit of depression a little bit of anxiety and I still have like tormenting thoughts so God I tell you what I'm going to do I believe that you took away away from me what I could not handle and I believe that over this next year that I'm going to recondition My Mind through your word through prayer and through getting around the right who and God if you can if you can renew my mind and if you can heal my heart in one year I will give you everything that I have and the reason that I'm standing before you today is not because anybody paid me I'm standing before you today saying no to my family because I'm saying yes to the Covenant that I made to Jesus Christ because he set me free and I will never pass up an opportunity to grab a microphone to talk about his goodness I will never pass up an opportunity to talk about how that price has already been paid and how how so many of us have already maybe when we were younger like me have said yes to Jesus but then mistakes have happened and and weight has been picked up and we've been conformed to the patterns of this world and we call ourselves Christians but we're not free and so I want everybody to close their eyes and you're going to have your your eyes closed for about five minutes and I want to explain to you with your eyes closed what the difference is between religion which is what man made and about relationship with God so when I was 16 years old my dad got me a 1986 Cadillac Fleet wood Broham and I want you to imagine yourself being in the car with me and we're driving down the road and I see one of my friends that's watching walking the opposite direction of us and we're in this big long car so I got to sweep it out to the right a little bit before I can hit a U-turn so you and I can go pick up our friend and as I'm taking the U-turn you and I hear the crunch of the metal and because you and I both know that my dad's old school and my dad if you make a mistake you're going to pay the price you're going to pay the consequences and you and I at at the same time we hear the crunch of the metal we think to ourselves oh shoot I got to call my dad he's going to freaking kill me there's going to be a price to pay my life is going to get worse and that's what religion has taught each and every one of us that we have to pay a price for Freedom or authority but relationship with God relationship with God is making that same mistake guys hearing the crunch of the metal but thinking to yourself I got to call dad because he's going to know what to do he's going to he's going to know how to fix this situation he's going to give me grace and mercy and forgiveness and wasn't until I encountered the Holy Spirit God's presence that I knew that God was real that I knew that God was good and I knew that God wasn't a religion God is a relationship so with your eyes closed we're going to pray a prayer that's not about religion it's about relationship and also before we pray that prayer I want to give you another visual because there will come a day where each and every one of us our body will expire fire and we will die and our spirit will come out of our body and it will go up into a Heavenly place and there will be an angel holding a book and that book is called the Lamb's Book of Life and when you repent and you ask Jesus to come into your heart as your lord and your savior your your name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life in Jesus's blood which means it can never be taken out and then after that meeting so we're going to pray a prayer for those of you that are are not real sure if your name's in the Lamb's Book of Life we're going to pray that prayer and we're going to celebrate for the first time that you're going to give your life to Jesus and things are going to be different you're going to you're going to cut things off but then the meeting that I really want to talk to you about is the meeting that happens after that where you stand before God with your time your talents and your treasures and for 36 years guys I'm 41 for 36 years all I did was build my kingdom with my time my talents and my treasures and I was broken I was beaten and I was defeated but I was a millionaire and everybody knew me my entire life was about me before I pray this prayer I want to show you I want to show you in your mind a picture of this painting that I've recently saw it's called the allegory of long spoon it's a picture of hell and a picture of Heaven there's 12 people sitting around a table in both paintings and in both paintings there's a huge Thanksgiving feast on both tables but everybody sitting at the table has extraordinarily long spoons it's very difficult for them to get the the food and get it into their mouth and so when you look at a picture of hell it's gray people are depressed and emaciated because everybody is taking their time their talents and their Treasures trying to feed their own self and then if you take a picture of Heaven the circumstances are exactly the same but the people that are sitting across the table from you are taking their time their talents and their treasures and they're feeding you so part of me being here today with you is to feed you with my time my talents and my Tru Treasures so I want to pray a prayer with you where you can release the things that the world has placed on you and that you could receive something that you could never earn full forgiveness a new identity to be a new creation and then I'm going to ask you to do more than just ask Jesus to be your savior so you can go to heaven I'm going to ask that you would commit to him being your lord the same way I see Andy being so convicted to give more of himself to God because he's experienced enough of the world to say you know what can only be God I need to I need to bring myself closer to God and I want to bring other people closer to God so there's some music that I would love for you guys to pray or to play and then we're going to walk through a prayer and in that prayer we're going to release we're going to receive and we're going to commit and I believe that this is this is going to be a new birthday for so many different people a day where everything Chang changed a day where you become a dangerous man that's why I can stand here before you with no fear as the most dangerous man in the room because there's nothing that you can do to me I can't die people are saying well you fear death I welcome death I look forward to meeting God face to face one day and telling him thank you for choosing me thank you for creating me for such a time as this thank you for putting me in front of these 500 people so I could light myself on fire so they could see a picture of possibility so they could put down things that don't belong to them so they could step into a new Authority in Jesus Christ so repeat these words after me if you want to give your life to Jesus for the first time or you want to rededicate your life like me when you were 11 you're like man I gave my life to Jesus and the world killed me today's the day today the [Music] day dear heavenly father thank you for this day God we thank you for this incredible opportunity that we have on February 18th 2024 where your sons and your daughters have an opportunity to gather under your name God to pursue Excellence God to step into purpose and Authority if you want to give your life to Jesus right now I would love for you just turn the lights off off turn them all the way down Andy will you come up here with me with everybody's eyes closed we're going to dim the [Music] lights nobody's looking nobody's looking if you want to give your life to Jesus for the very first time I want you to raise your hand 3 2 one do it now be bold become a dangerous man praise God I know that there's more I know that there's more in here there's the fear of man can leave now if you feel like you're lost and you want more you want to become a dangerous man and go from amateur to Pro God's talking to you right now raise your hand 3 2 1 do it now Jesus Jesus now if you want to rededicate your life you said man I gave up you can put your hands down first timers praise God now if you're hearing me right now and you're like man I got to rededicate my life I thought I was coming down here for sales training I came down here for salvation I want you to raise your hand and rededicate your life to Jesus right now 3 2 1 do it now become a dangerous man or woman become the type of person that won't compromise be type become the type of person that can't die Jesus name I want everybody inside of here just repeat these words after me God I want more of you and less of me right now I Repent of my sins I've made mistakes I've got trauma God I release my addictions my trauma and my [Music] past God would you forgive me I want more of you and less of me Jesus I invite you into my heart not just for forgiveness for power and authority Power Glory so I can overcome My Flesh and step into the spirit of God right now I release my past I receive you King [Music] Jesus as my savior and I commit to you to be my Lord and I commit to you to be my Lord I commit to you to be my Lord now I want everybody to put two hands up because a lot of you guys have walked in here hanging on to yesterday and I see an entire room of 500 men and women of God who have released their past and they are ready to receive what God has for them so Holy Spirit we ask that you would fall we ask that your Holy Spirit your fire your peace your joy your love your patience your kindness your sound mind fall in in this place God that you would allow your sons and your daughters to experience you for the first time an encounter with the Creator God we thank you in advance for the Miracles that are going to happen to and through these men and women God right now we assign angels to their homes angels to their marriages angels to their businesses the god that you would deliver peace God that you would allow these men and these women to carry Joy with them everywhere that they go that they wouldn't operate by flesh God that they would operate by the spirit of the Living God that everywhere that they go the joy would spill out and it's in Jesus Christ name that we pray amen with your eyes closed with your eyes closed if you gave your life to Jesus or you rededicated your life to Jesus what I want you to do right now I want you to pull your phone out and I want you to turn your light on when I count to three pull your phone out if you give your life to Jesus and I want you to turn your light on Andy are you ready for this this is a picture of what heaven's going to look like 3 2 1 turn your lights on come on man come on man come on man come on light up this whole room light up this whole room for Jesus angels are in heaven rejoicing for every single one of those lights praise praise God right now I want you to put your hands up and I just want you to say God I thank you God I praise you God I make a decision to cut cut off the old me and to receive the identity that you have for me in Jesus Christ amen