here we go take really good notes first note of the day you ready the enemy fights anointed people differently the enemy fights anointed people differently if you don't want the level of fight you get forfeit your anointing the anointing attracts a different type of fight put this in your notes you're not dealing with obstacles when you're anointed you're dealing with opposition you're not dealing with obstacles you're dealing with opposition and the greater your calling listen to your pastor the more strategic the attack the greater your calling the more strategic the attack the enemy doesn't use the same tactics on everyone he tailors his attacks based on your put this in your notes gifts purpose weaknesses what you're going through right now is Tailor Made For You based off of your gifts your purpose and your weaknesses this is why help me Holy Ghost you can't compare your battle who going to help me Preach Today to somebody else's here it is you can't compare your trial to their trial maybe you catching more hell because you possess more anointing I'm preaching to three of y'all already and you fight different your fight is different because your Future's different oh please tell me you put that in your notes your fight is different because your future is different that's why every now and again you got to get yourself together and not allow people to convince you that something is wrong with you people will try to make you believe something is wrong with you because every time they turn around you going through but they not going through so then they look at you and say the fact that you always going through may be because something is wrong with you but you going to have to look back at them and say maybe I'm going through not because something is wrong with me but because something is right with me I don't know who I'm preaching to and sometimes the hell you catching today ain't got nothing to do with who you are it's about who you getting ready to be in your future I got to separate the real from the fake my next shout ain't for a house my next praise ain't for a car my next praise ain't for an engagement ring but I'm praising God cuz I believe my future is about to get greater as a matter of fact you ought to just bust a 360 and tell them take a picture of me cuz what I look like now won't look like in 6 months what's in my banker C now won't look like that in 2 years my future is get ready to be put scripture on it what eyes have not somebody say future future put this in your notes here it is put this in your notes the Future Let's Define it I didn't say this at the nine it was messing with me in the back cuz I say things and I go back and ask myself would that make sense to me so the Future Let's Define it the future is the unfolding of time that has not yet occurred shaped by decisions Divine Purpose and preparation that's a heavy definition Pastor Mike what's the future here's the definition the future is the unfolding of time that has not yet occurred but it is shaped this is heavy in your notes by decisions Divine Purpose and preparation the future is not just something you enter it's something you create through faith wisdom and strategic movement are we going there today the future is not just something you enter don't let your mind tell you when I get to the Future I'll be in the future no you don't enter the Future No you create it how do you create it through faith wisdom and strategic movement please put this in your notes the future is not a a mystery to fear it's a reality to prepare for some of y'all keep saying like I'm I'm I'm afraid of the future I don't know what the future holds I do know what the future holds it holds whatever you decided to do today the future is the Harvest of your present decision if you decide not to go to class and act of foood this week your future going to be failure and you're not going to be able to look at God in 2026 and be like why I don't get to go to school God's going to look back at you and say no you told me you didn't want School in 2026 by how you acted in 2025 which is why some of y'all need to wake up you don't have six months to waste on somebody who don't know if they want you this year or next year you don't have another seven months to be on a job where they work you like the janitor and just T to tie you out why cuz what I do today going to determine what I be tomorrow and your future Michael is not waiting for you that's stuff we say your future ain't waiting on you it's waiting on what you do next I'm going to run I'm sorry I'm F to run Zander your future ain't waiting on you it's waiting on what you do next which means I hope seven of y'all can catch this your next move you going to eventually see if you stand still you going to see it if you stand in faith you're going to see it this means your future is not a place you randomly arrive at it's a product of your put this in your notes decisions discipline and obedience your future is a product of your decisions discipline obedience if you get into your future and don't like it blame you if you get in your future and don't like it blame you some of you need to get out of church don't even leave the parking lot or leave your house you need to look in the mirror and say I want to make a bit make a conversation with you and make it very clear tomorrow you going to get yourself together whether you want to get out to bed or not it's some stuff we got to do now cuz I refuse for my New Year to look like God I'mma say this only three of y'all going to catch it God has a future for you but it is activated by what you do today yeah yeah this means I need you to catch this the future is not something you wait for it's something you walk into your next mood determines your next season you don't pray for a future you're not preparing for yeah and faith without action is a fantasy your future isn't on hold it's in motion the question is are you moving with it Michael your future is not on hold see see this is the problem because we preach the gospel of no accountability you think everything that goes wrong is the devil and everything that goes right is you so here's what you think and you this here here's what you believe and you don't realize you believe you believe that 2029 is already prepared and whatever you doing now don't matter because when you get to 2029 that's going to be the future when you don't realize your future is being created as we speak every message you respond to shapes a future every decision you make shapes a future David oh my God that was good David David never would have fought Goliath if he didn't decide to take his brother's lunch God didn't tell David when you wake up this morning your future is prepared by the time 3:00 hit you going to fight Goliath and everybody going to see how amazing you are no David woke up got ready to go to his regular job his daddy said take your brothers some lunch had David decided to be disobedient he would have forfeited his meeting with Goliath if he forfeit his meeting with Goliath he never becomes king and some of you blaming the devil for blocking you when your decision your worst [Applause] enemy y'all ain't got to like me it's cool in the game talking about some pray for me I don't need to pray for you we need to sit down and probably fight you for two days and make you realize that you can't keep making dumb decisions and blaming dumb decisions on a good God if you want better you got to do am I preaching to anybody who want better so if you want better put this in your notes you got to understand the difference between obstacles and opposition it's going to take me four weeks to preach this message it's 30 pages deep and I'm still adding I was at the church early this morning I couldn't sleep it's been in my hear me you going to have to understand the difference between obstacles and opposition put this in your notes a lack of spiritual intelligence will cause you to confuse obstacles with opposition I need you to get used to that word you goingon to hear me say that a lot all March spiritual intelligence spiritual intelligence a lack of spiritual intelligence will cause you to confuse CH obstacles with opposition which leads to either unnecessary frustration or wasted energy I'm going say this you may be in the Overflow you may be online or you may be in the balcony or on the floor I do not have no more time for Unnecessary frustration and wasted energy do you hear what I just said unnecessary frustration because when you lack spiritual intelligence it causes you to be confused with what's obstacles Michael and what's opposition y pmj because not everything in your way is the enemy who not everything that's in your way is the enemy this is good some things are meant to develop you and some things are designed to destroy you some things are meant to develop you certain things are designed to destroy you which is why you need spiritual intelligence cuz if you don't have spiritual intelligence you going to be loving on something that's trying to kill you and killing stuff that's trying to love you that's why seven of y'all frustrated in your relationship because just because your assignment was attractive God didn't called you to love them he called you to lead them and if you ain't careful you going to be fighting something that can make you better you going to be loving stuff that's making you worse and the problem with some of us is do you know which one it's which make that make sense make it make sense because there's a difference between obstacles Michael and opposition put on the screen I want them to see this I want them to see this okay obstacles and opposition this really good really good so I want you to take really good notes okay obstacles versus oppositions oh you thought I was playing no we're going to work we're going to be better right so obstacle what's the definition of obstacles obstacles are challenges that test your ability to persist grow and develop what's opposition opposition attacks specifically designed to stop or derail you from fulfilling your purpose so what's the source of a obstacle the source of a obstacle is life God's process or natural circumstances what's the source of opposition the enemy spiritual warfare people used by the enemy or systems set up against your purpose I got to pause and parenthetically digress please leave that chart up there so they can see it do you see the difference an obstacle comes to test your ability because they really want you to do what grow a opposition comes because they want you to do what stall so what's the source of an obstacle God what's the source of opposition the enemy who sends the obstacle God who sends opposition the enemy this is why you got to discern a difference because you going to end up like Jonah Jonah gets a word from God God tells him to go to Nineveh Jonah runs from Nineveh and God causes a storm so now the storm tearing the boat up and Jonah is saying God stopped the storm why didn't God stop the storm because the storm was an opposition the storm was an obstacle who sends obstacles and God won't take you out of what he put you in that's why some of exhausted right now cuz you telling God I need you to fix this and God like why would I fix what I broke I'mma preach to y'all they sleeping me sleeping on me over there no and the problem many of us have that we're missing is you don't realize obstacles develop you while opposition distracts you obstacles develop you while opposition distracts you so look at this the purpose of an obstacle it's right there on your screen throw the chart up the purpose is to prepare strengthen I'm going to run for your next level yeah am I the only person hearing this message today I wish I can put seven of y'all in overflow and bring seven other overflow people upstairs cuz y'all a having no church with me today no obstacles what's the purpose of it to prepare strengthen you for what the next level what's the purpose of opposition to intimidate distract destroy before y'all y'all ain't hearing me today y'all ain't hearing me today I'm going to free you you want to know why I need you to get spiritual intelligence cuz if you keep misdiagnosing what you're going through you're going to always be where you at put this in your notes because if you are as gifted as you say you are sometimes God gives the gifted gifts that don't look like gifts until you got spiritual intelligence do I need to say that again sometimes God Michael gives you gifts that don't look like gifts until you get spiritual intelligence okay y'all Ain y'all y'all don't get what I'm saying okay I thank God for gifting me failure my first service I ever did I'm 25 years old God told me I was going to have a big minist he said he going to save a lot of lives I put 1,200 chairs out 12 people show up every person who stands on this stage if they walk from behind that door the picture from my first service is on the wall I don't want nobody to stand on this stage without them seeing the obstacle yeah so God gifted me a empty service yep when I tried to buy the church in in West End like going to a poly and it was empty and I walked around the building I preached in it it was a hole in the ceiling I told the reala God told me this my church we laid hands on it walked around it like it was Jericho still didn't get it he gifted me failure when I tried to buy the strip mall next to fars Dale the owner gave me the keys and said this your building it didn't pass no inspections I couldn't get my earnest money back I didn't even have legal representation didn't even know how to do it I was so embarrassed I just left it lost it I was gifted failure when I got Central Park and I thought we had the biggest church in the world then the roof fell in the flow fell in the water fell in all the life's broke and I'm sitting in there like God what is this he gifted me Brokenness I thought all of that was a problem till I negotiated this once I got to this I'm sitting to meet with them like no I need to do a full inspection let's make sure we check this I want to do some we're going to put our earnest money in escrow my lawyers going to do so and so we got 90 days to do this once I do this right here I want to have a period where I can research something they looking at me like what school you went to failure what school you went to Hard Knocks I madej it in problems and trials and tribulations but because I didn't look at it like a problem I knew God would give me pain in this season so I could prosper in this season I just need you to touch somebody and Shout you got a gift and don't even know it sometimes God givs you a dumb X so he can show you the gift you going to be to somebody in the future I thank God for the seed that he GI me poverty so I would know how to balance prosperity in my future that's why the Bible says and we know that God causes all things to work together but if you ain't got spiritual intelligence you will be looking at a gift saying I don't want this yeah see God will put you on a job with a nasty boss he gifted you a nasty boss cuz he knew you were going to have your own business in the future so he said I'mma gift you a nasty boss so when you become a gift you'll know what not to become I'mma gift you some crazy parents so you'll be a way better parent than your child than you ever had I'mma gift you this problem cuz when you walk in the future when Goliath show up you're going to be like oh it's on now I wish I had 10 folk who can look at your current problem problem and Shout it's just a gift it's just y'all don't like me y'all don't like me today obstacles you taking notes where your notes at obstacles oh you really takeing notes obstacles develop you put that in your notes while opposition distracts you that's the wrong slide on my back screen so look at this now go back to the Chart I want to show you something something I want to show you something what's your response if the definition put the chart on the screen I want them to see this if the definition of obstacles challenges you is sent from God to prepare and strengthen you this can preach for your next level what should your response to a obstacle be you see it you overcome obstacles through wisdom patience Deliverance how do you respond to opposition you discern opposition and fight it with spiritual strategy not strength can you put that in your notes not strength baby girl that's crazy cuz some of y'all taking on your pastor's characteristics I'm strong I can be catching hell being lied on talked about going through stuff broke beat up slapped jumped hungry homeless and when you see me hey what's up man you good now some of us got that type of gift where everybody around you know you're going through then when you get ready to show that they come let they come then by the time you leave they be looking back at them like you sure they going through cuz you what now let me free you here's what the Lord told me being strong ain't healthy all the time you want to know why I found out being strong ain't healthy it's okay to be strong when you're dealing with an obstacle put it on the screen here's the chart but when you dealing with opposition you can't outr strong a spirit y'all Miss what I just said right there you can't outstr strong a spirit no here you it's talking I'mma Be Tough put this in your notes it's going to bless you the devil and demons have stamina y'all missed that the devil and demons have stamina don't forget I said this I'm going to come back and say it again in 20 minutes Jesus fasted for 40 days 40 nights and the devil showed up and tempted him which means he was waiting out his fast the devil got stamina I know you on fire right now I know you not missing church I know you excited you want to know what the devil doing give them three months everybody's saved in the winter it's cold wait till it get hot no they doing good they having staff meeting about you right now no they doing good this year they not even outside it's cold don't nobody want to be outside when it's cold the moment it turn 80 let's see if they still saved y'all don't like me it's cool in the game cuz I want you to catch this obstacles are placed before you as a part of the process to strengthen you that's on the screen obstacles are placed before you as a part of the process Dre to strengthen you what does that mean opposition is sent against you to prevent your progress Tony this is important why is this important I'm going to say it again obstacles are placed before you as part of the process to strengthen you what is opposition Pastor Mike sent against you to prevent your progress okay okay what did David kill who did David kill see you did you made the same mistake I'm ask again who did David kill no he killed lions and bears you just make the same mistake you so busy to talk about his opposition you ignore his obstacle see because the lions and bears he killed that nobody saw was the obstacle Goliath was the opposition see CU in 1st Samuel 17: 34-36 we see obstacles he had to feel kill lions and tigers why was that important if he didn't know how to kill that he would have ran when Goliath showed up I'm going to say this to this side cuz they may take out running over there that's why people can't figure out how you stand up to the stuff you stand up to too that's why people be looking you up and down like if I was you I would have broke right now no see you would have broke cuz you see my opposition you didn't see my obstacle you see my Goliath no you don't see the nights where I didn't have nobody and I had to pray myself through I'm not preaching to anybody so hear me when I say this I need you to catch this put this in your notes opposition so in your notes I want you to type make it look like this put opposition and then just put a equal or a dash opposite let's make it make sense opposition let's just say opposite so let's make that make sense so opposition is opposite all my fellas all my ladies who like ball if I'm on offense and I have a opposition they're called what defense okay so my obstacle would be offense so if I'm playing ball put this in your notes and I'm on offense the op obstacle is can I run the play did you catch that the obstacle is can I run the play the opposition is the defense that's trying to stop me one is on my side one is working against me I'mma say that better one is working with me one is working against me this is why you got to have spiritual intelligence cuz some of y'all fighting your teammate [Applause] no so you on the phone arguing with people talking about they in your business they're in your business cuz they love you and they're actually trying to help you overcome this current obstacle but what you do when you don't have spiritual intelligence you fight who's helping and then love on who's killing y'all y'all don't like me today it's cool it's cool it's cool hear me when I say this if David had confused his obstacles with his opposition he would have quit before he got to Goliath do me a favor in your notes I want you to draw a box if you're writing draw a box if you're on your iPhone or something just create a chart try to create a chart if you can all right here's what I want you to write EQ SQ IQ EQ is emotional intelligence SQ is spiritual intelligence IQ is intelligence why is that important pmj because if you're going to thrive in 2025 you got to have spiritual intelligence know when it's Warfare when to discern when to pray when to fast you got to have emotional intelligence and intelligence and the problem with so many of us is you too emotional when you should be spiritual and some of y'all too spiritual when you should have just been intelligent y'all Miss what I just said Pastor Mike I'm dealing with Warfare let's pray about it we got to get spiritual what's your Warfare they over here trying to cut my stuff off that's not Warfare you didn't pay a bill we ain't got to pray about that how much you need you need 75 if I give you this 75 think about it if I pay the bill the de the devil gone right so stop trying to spiritualize your bad decisions I need you to pray with me Pastor Mike I need spiritual warfare what's going on my whole circle turning on me no we talk to them you messy you telling everybody business you always in something they ain't turning on you they just realize you may be the Ops position y'all Miss what I just said did you catch that and the problem is y'all in love with the Ops and then you over here trying to take out your obstacles am I preaching why pmj look at this because obstacles are test opposition is warfare that's rich obstacles a test opposition is Warfare what do obstacles test are you taking good notes obstacles are test of your ability endurance faithfulness oh that's rich teaching right there obstacles are test overflow you got to write this down of your ability endurance and faithfulness opposition is Warfare designed to break your faith confidence or commitment and is this helping anybody other than me do you see why I got out the bed I had something else planned to preach and I was doing my devotion time and I'm studying and it started blessing me I got out the bed drove all the way to church I said I've been here since 4 5 6 this morning saying Lord it makes sense now I am exhausted bro exhausted I'm not sleeping I'm picking up weight I'm overeating I can't get no rest at night I'm tossing and turning and the Holy Spirit said Mike you exhausted cuz you spending all your spiritual energy on obstacles and all your physical energy on oppositions you trying to be strong in a spiritual fight and being spiritual in a natural fight you don't need no more signs cut them off y'all Miss what I just said some of y'all praying for confirmation about stuff God already sent manifestation to our position is Warfare what is Warfare Pastor Mike and please stay connected when I tell you I'm going to overload y'all in March I'm telling you I'm going to overload you in March you're going to get random text blast he preaching ain't nobody going to be in here but me cuz the Lord is telling me I got to go overdrive right now it's too much noise it's too much noise you got too many people on IG saying I don't know what news outl is true I don't know which news site is true this news say I should believe this this news say I should believe that they telling me I should believe this this telling me I should believe that but whose report hear me so look at this look at this opposition is Warfare designed to break your faith confidence and commitment how do I know it's opposition cuz it's after my faith can I say something that'll help you you going to get your feelings hurt that's life when it start messing with your faith that's opposition Jason that's crazy you going to get your feelings hurt you going to have stuff that jump off that make you feel this big no no no no that's called life but when you start doubting God that's opposition and you want know what I discovered most of us don't have circles that are equipped to handle our opposition I got friends who help me with a bill obstacle I got friends that if I call right now and say they messing me will fight obstacle I got friends right now if I needed a place a lay down cuz I got put out obstacle I'm not sure you got friends that if depression hits you at 2:00 in the morning watch this other than holding the phone okay I'm going to mess you up I'm F cuz there are levels of friends you got one friend who will be on the phone no I'm going to stay on the phone it's going to be okay I need your presence okay then you got another friend who'll be like father in Jesus name just cover them I need your prayer but then you got another type of friend that when you call I was already up something hit my spirit two days ago did did you catch did you catch what I just said cuz we so in tune twin that I could tell you was moving different you started avoiding me you start kind of being short with me and I know you only get like that when you in something that you don't want me to know about cuz you already really know that you shouldn't even be in it so I wasn't even going to ask you cuz I didn't want you to lie to me two days ago I said father in Jesus name I just need you to look down your row and tell them I don't need none of your business right here tell them my next praise is for whatever opposition is in your life I just dare you to stretch your hands and say Lord do it for them heal it for them break it for them strengthen it for them Grace it for [Music] them obstacles and obstacles and OPP oppositions and which one you dealing with right now Jesus fasted for how long 40 days and 40 nights this wasn't this was not about this was about discipline and preparation talk about this why opposition what's the obstacle if Jesus fast for 40 days and 40 nights and then Satan shows up and tempts him what's the obstacle good job what's the opposition the devil so Pastor Mike I quickly realized now the devil showing up that was opposition because that was Warfare so Pastor Mike what was the obstacle put this in your notes the fast Pastor Mike I I don't think you're right on that one no let me free you real quickly let me free you real quickly fasting for 40 days is a obstacle why is it an obstacle pmj it's going to prove if I'm disciplined and prepared the fast is meant to develop me and if it's developing me for my next level that mean it's a what obstacle what's the opposition Satan tempting him the enemy going to show up to Jesus and say what if you're really the son of man what do he want him to do turn these turn these stones into bread I'mma see if somebody in the back or in the chat can answer this right here why would the devil ask him to turn stones into bread cuz he was hungry the devil ain't complicated the devil is strategic he said I've been watching you for 40 days and you ain't ate nothing I've been watching you for 40 days you ain't ate nothing so I'm not going to ask you for so and so what I'm going to say is I need you to do what watch this I want you to offer you what your flesh need oh my god did you catch what I just said it ain't deep I'mma offer you something you need right now say that better Michael say that better Michael I'mma offer you something you need now praying you forfeit what you going to get later did you catch that I tell you what if you really the son of God turn these stones into bread what's the lesson in that pmj I hope you don't run you don't get opposed until you close to something powerful Jesus hear you boy you don't get opposed until you're close to something powerful I came to say something that I hope you can hear with your prophetic ears right now you're close to something ah you didn't hear what I just said you caught that in the middle right there you caught that I'mma say it again and seven of y'all going to put your faith on it God told me to tell you the reason the attack on your life has intensified it's because you are close to something and I don't know who this is for you not just close to something you are close to that thing that will flip everything you've been praying for I don't know who I'm preaching to right there that's why he's after your mind that's why he's after your spirit that's why your faith is under attack cuz the devil knows you are too close to give up now Jesus look at this so what's my spiritual IQ look at this opposition usually intensifies right before breakthrough I don't know who going through something right now I don't know who going through something I'm only preaching to three of y'all who lately been saying stuff like dang it's like every time I turn around it's something I'm only teaching the three of y'all who said if it ain't one thing it's another I'm only preaching to five of y'all who have literally said look I'm about to quit cuz I can't take it it's like I'm trying my best you want to know why the devil called The allout Blitz you don't call an allout Blitz let you on the goal line you don't call an all out Bliss unless you close to a first down the devil said if we don't take them out in March by the time this summer hit we ain't going to be able to do nothing with them I wish I had a thousand folk that would give God praise that I'm close to what I've been praying Touch Somebody and tell them you're closer than you think you're closer that's the wrong somebody reach over that neighbor touch another neighbor tell them you're closer than you think talking about you f to give up it's a promotion in the next 30 days you can't quit a check in the mail in the next 30 days you can't quit talking about you're not going to go to school this summer your tuition get ready to be paid I need you to touch five people and tell them I'm closer than I think [Music] I felt that in my [Music] spirit you're close when the devil start messing with your mind picking at your circle coming at your children you close to something and what he's hoping is you will quit cuz the devil knows if he can't make you extinct he will try to exhaust you but you ought to touch your spirit and say I just got my second win I just got my second win something in me just woke up now I realize no weapon formed against me shall prosper give me my joy back give me my peace back give me my P back give me my mind back give me my creativity back give me my position back give me my power back give me back my anointing [Music] hear me so opposition intensifies right before breakthrough you got to recognize the difference listen to your pastor between a process you need and an attack you got to endure I'm going say that again you got to recognize the difference between a process you need and an attack you going to have to endure I'mma say this Pastor Mike how do I know it's a process I need cuz it's making me better notice I didn't say a process you want who want to go through hell who want to deal with betrayal who want to deal with devils and demons I don't want it but Lord if that's what I got to go through to be better [Music] why Pastor Mike listen to me cuz obstacles require strength opposition requires strategy did you hear what I said obstacles require strength opposition requires strategy no fasting is an obstacle can I be strong enough to not eat tiing is an obstacle it's so much I can do with this money but will I be strong enough to put God first that's what I don't talk about tithing I don't raise offerings like that you want to know why cuz it hit me about 13 years ago giving is an obstacle that's something you got to decide if you strong enough to do and if I'm not careful if you're not spiritually intelligent enough every time you hear somebody talk about giving you're going to get offended when you don't realize that's just the devil using a spiritual Principle as opposition no so if I'm going to keep my fast that's an obstacle I said I wasn't going to do nothing when I was dating this person can you hold out that's an obstacle will I remain a tither that's the obstacle I said I wasn't going to smoke and drink and go out no more that's an obstacle that's proven if you are strong enough what's the difference pmj opposition requires strategy strategy hey this what we getting ready to do it's some stuff on my family some generational curses we got to break I'm not strong enough to outrun alcoholism that's why I don't let liquor in my house every man in my family before my dad's my two uncles they were alcoholics most of them were strung out on alcohol all the McLure men were alcoholics so that's why I don't have friends who drink I don't try to be around people who drink a lot I don't want alcohol in my house why pmj I don't like it but it's in me I'm almost scared that the moment I get a sip of it the spirit in my bloodline going to start calling for more so I come up with a strategy did you catch that a strategy so hear me when I say this not everything I'm F to run why is that important pmj because if obstacles require strength and opposition requires strategy put this in your notes strength is conviction opposition is that's conviction versus opposition so when I'm strong that mean I am convicted in such a way I can't stop no my conviction is heavy when it comes to that why is that important pmj because obstacles require patience resilience and skill opposition requires wisdom spiritual strategy and discernment you remember when Nehemiah was building the wall they came to him and said bro you ought to stop people want to meet with you come meet with us why didn't he stop with them cuz he realized this been a bless seven of y'all not everything deserves your energy not everything deserves your energy obstacles require your effort but opposition requires spiritual wisdom I'm F to run to know when to walk away I'm F to say this and I pray you can receive it some of you are in some situations where it's time to walk away why is that important Pastor Mike cuz obstacles are about you opposition is about your impact did you catch what I just said so what is that mean Pastor Mike I'mma stop the Lord's taking me in a different direction today remember when I say this because obstacles are designed to revine your skills say it better to refine your skills patience and character so so watch this opposition is a sign that what you're doing is a threat to something something bigger than you I'm in the wrong church now I feel prophetic now obstacles are designed to refine your skill patience and character leave that obstacle definition on the screen so they can see that obstacles are designed to refine go to oppositions for me real quickly oppositions is a sign go backwards obstacles are designed opposition is go back assigned go back obstacles are designed opposition is a sign did you catch that go back for Me obstacles are designed okay let me ask you a question if something is designed that mean it has a what a designer the outfit you wearing was designed by a designer you are wearing somebody's Vision somebody decided they wanted a Polo hoodie somebody decided they wanted a denim jacket the Dodgers decided they wanted a dad cap somebody said they wanted a PL outfit and because they decided they wanted it they designed it now you want to know what I discover as I meet more designers most designers are frustrated when they see you in their clothes why pastor mic cuz you ain't wearing it right who been to a store lately anybody okay okay boom all right soz cuz certain stores when you get there the mannequin is wearing how they want it to look what do we do when we see the mannequin I like the top don't like the bottom like the scarf don't like the jacket because you see what they designed but you know how you want to wear it so God sends a obstacle when you ain't wearing your anointing right he sends the obstacle when you ain't wearing your favor right God like oh my God I told them to put on the full armor and they walking around with no breastplate and no Shield so I tell you what hit him in the chest hit him in the chest hit him in the chest father I did you put on the breast plate of right God I will be righteous hit them in the chest now they can go to the next level watch this because when God designed your obstacle he designed it from a prophetic standpoint make that make sense pmj he's Alpha and Omega what does alpha mean beginning what does omega mean and so what does that mean he's at the and the and it's impossible to be at the and the and don't know the so God was there in your beginning he's already at your end he knows where you are in your middle and God is like I know what level I'm taking them to they not going to survive that next level if I don't refine them on this level so I have to set an obstacle to prepare them put this in your notes I'm stopping I'm stopping play keys I'm stopping I pick up next week obstacles are Define to refine your skill put that in your notes all my entrepreneurs all my creators all my gifted everybody in this room obstacles are sent to refine your skill you want to know why I have such a heart for my young people why I was willing to almost take a pay cut just to bring in a good youth pastor why I make sure whatever they want on Wednesday nights they get I'm trying to make sure they got so and so so and so and so and so so and so you want to know why somebody say why why because he used my boys to refine that after you go downstairs and watching playing the game all day playing ball and hanging out you realize what are the kids who don't have a Pastor Mike in their house doing so I tell you what because I can be everything to them but they Pastor they need a pastor now you just mess me up that no it's hard for me to be a pastor after I just cave their chest in clean up John chapter 5 Noah brother no Mike got this little thing he doing to me now at home he doing to us at home he just walking around all right I'll see you Pastor Mike I see you lady Jay oh you trying to be funny huh it's hard to cuss your child out after he call you Pastor Mike ain't it I'm an obstacle but seriously but I or should I say but spiritually listen to me when I say this back the Obstacle of raising good young boys young men's rather refined my skill to realize it was a need gave me the patience to deal with it and the character to remain faithful to it but if you run from the obstacle on the next level you become [Music] underdeveloped but what is opposition Pastor May next slide opposition is a sign that what you're doing is a threat to something bigger than you I'm going say this and please if you're watching this message I'mma upload my 9:00 sermon I felt like I taught it way better you know but hear me when I say this you can't out knife being a threat to somebody you can't out nice it you can't out nice it some of you are exhausting yourself trying to dim a light that is becoming undable what more you want me to do I I took a step back I'm not talking I'm trying I'm promoting you now what else do you want from me I can't help it God has me undeniable and unignorable I'mma leave you with this example Joseph gets thrown in the pit what's the pit an obstacle what was the opposition his brothers hating him that means the pit was an obstacle he had to endure that was a process of his development father I pray right now that we get the spiritual discernment to know the difference between obstacles and opposition God I pray that we get the spiritual discernment to know what's develop in US versus what's designed to distract us God I pray in the name of Jesus that you will keep your hand on their life that no weapon formed against them shall be able to prosper God somebody just went to another level spiritually today cuz now they realize what's in front of them now they realize no this ain't nothing but an obstacle in the end this makes me better this makes me stronger this makes me wiser God also somebody realizes now that they dealing with opposition and they're going to have to get spiritual strategy on how to move for for God I thank you right now that in this season we will know how to move different it's in Jesus name jump on your feet with me all over the room clap your hands man I did you get anything out of that today anything out of it let me leave you with this note listen to this put this in your notes if you're watching why do I need spiritual intelligence here it is put this in your notes if you mislabel obstacles as opposition this the last slide of the day you can throw it on the screen if you mislabel obstacles as opposition you'll become bitter at God instead of learning from him did you catch what I just said if you mislabel it you become bitter about something that you could learn from what's the best quote I heard this week A lot of people are hating on who they should be learning from did you catch that you may be here and you don't know Jesus today you may be online and you don't know Jesus every head bowed every eye closed not going to put you on the spot but right under your breath you can just repeat after me and just say Lord come into my heart Make Me Over again I confess with my mouth I believe with my whole heart that you got out the grave with all power in your hand and right now by faith I am sa Clap Your Hands Church were you blessed today come on clap your hands again if you ref