I want to start today move different part three no weapon that is formed against you will prosper are you taking good notes let's jump right back into what we picked off last week the enemy fights anointed people what differently I told you on last week that the enemy fights anointed people differently this is why you cannot get caught in the cancer of comparison you cannot get caught in the cancer of comparison make that make sense Pastor Mike you look at your neighbor you look at your cousin you look at your friend and you say why I'm the one who always got to go through stuff it's because you going to something they may not be going to the hell hit different when you're different that'll hit you Thursday don't it hits different so what did we discover the enemy fights anointed people differently we're not just dealing with obstacles we had to learn the difference between what obstacles and opposition obstacles and opposition obstacle and opposition and I told you about two weeks ago a lack of spiritual intelligence will cause you to confuse obstacles with what opposition which leads to either unnecessary frustration or wasted energy that's so important I gave you a chart and that chart is is so critical it's so critical who's been enjoying the graphs and the charts I've been giving you who been applying them who's used my sermon in an argument already throw your hand up you know what I'm not going to slap you cuz you obstacle who changeed somebody name to opposition in your phone I felt you in my spirit right there both of y'all I felt you so so I gave this chart on the difference between obstacles and opposition obstacles Challenge and test so you persist and develop while opposition attacks you and tries to derail you so how do I know if it's an obstacle or an opposition if it's trying to develop me and make me better it's God if it's trying to derail me and stop me it's the devil and the reason you need spiritual intelligence I told you because some of y'all are asking God to deliver you from development I don't think you heard what I just said right there I'mma say that slow if it's trying to develop you it's what it's God I'm going say it again class if it's trying to develop you it's who God if it's trying to derail or stop you it's who the devil so if it's trying to develop you and it's from God that's label what obstacle if it's trying to derail you it's from the devil that's label what opposition so what am I realizing when I'm in opposition I go get God the reason some of you are stuck in this season you're in is because when you don't have spiritual intelligence you are asking God to get you out of an obstacle he sent did you catch what I just said put this in your notes this just hit me Theus on the spot Revelation put obstacle equals obstacle course opposition put prison so the the object of an opposition is to trap you the object of an obstacle or obstacle course see the obstacle course is difficult but it has an exit y y'all missed what I just said right there is see the obstacle course isn't designed to keep you trapped it's designed to enhance your critical thinking so you can learn how to get out of difficult situations meaning if I'm going through an obstacle I can't call God on God Pastor Mike I've been praying all week and it's like ain't nothing changed God ain't going to change it God won't take you out of some he can develop you in did you hear what I just said come here Jonah who's in a storm and everybody's praying to their gods they look at Jonah and tell Jonah to do what they're doing they say Jonah you need to wake up and call on your God no matter how much Jonah called on his God his God was not going to stop the storm because the storm was sent as an obstacle to get him in purpose some of your hell ain't hell it's a detour God said I'm trying to get you to the mountain but you too comfortable in the valley so I'mma put a lion in the valley that'll make your scary butt run up a mountain some of y'all would have been stuck where you are had the last season you went through not been as painful as it was you don't want to be honest with me tell the truth you would have never broke up with them until you found out what you found out what if that was God dropping something in your spirit cuz he knew I'm going have to make you hate them in order for you to leave them because as long as you don't have spiritual intelligence you going to be sleeping with your enemy y'all y'all Miss what I just [Applause] said don't cry about being laid off do you know give me a little bit up here I got fired on my off day you better not laugh at me I'm at the house chilling get a phone call from Brian ran calls me Mike come on up to the hotel real quick we need to meet real quick I'm so naive I don't even know what's happening I show it to the hotel get in the office they look at me and say well we're going to have to let you go I'm sitting there everybody's in the office my eyes are watering up I had never been fired in my I'm like did I do something wrong man we just want to go in a different direction he's then he then he messed around and said and and if I'm be honest with you it's like all of the notepads that you're supposed to give the guest we keep finding them and you just writing stuff on them you costing us money see I would be at the front desk of the hotel writing songs writing sermons practicing my signature you ain't never did that before so they would find no PA with pmj all up pmj pmj pmj I'm over there writing song writing stuff he said and it just don't seem like you focused I don't know how I knew this at 24 I before that it was right you ever got to the point where you about to cry and you you sucking that cry in so hard that your your voice start getting like this and right before the first teer fell I said well I want to thank y'all so much they said why I said I think this might be the last day I ever have a boss and my God Mama t w was sitting right there and she just shaking in her seat see cuz I knew God called me to do everything I'm doing now but I was so afraid if I didn't have a check coming in how would I sustain myself so God said I tell you what since you won't step out on faith I'll just push you in and I don't know who I'm preaching to but seven of y'all feel Faith on you that where I am is not where I'm about to finish that eyes have not seen and ears have not heard it's just an obacle so look at this now with your notes so look at this so what do I need let's go I need EQ SQ IQ that's good EQ SQ IQ I need emotional intelligence spiritual intelligence natural intelligence why is that important put this in your notes you should already have it IQ helps you think clearly EQ helps people say that better IQ helps helps you think clearly EQ helps you handle people wisely SQ helps you move according to God's plan that's good that's good I told you you got to develop all three last week I gave you a chart on how to develop all three who has that in your notes already who doesn't have it take a picture of the screen you ready hear this right here watch this natural intelligence what's the focus knowledge and logic emotional intelligence this really blessed a lot of people last week emotions and relationships can I free you your current relationship not working right and your next one ain't going to work right if you don't grow emotional intelligence see a person who lacks emotional intelligence this very critical a person who lacks emotional intelligence will always be stuck in their feelings meaning when you stuck in your feelings you will only hear what offends you and responds to what triggers you so a person can look at you say I love you with my whole heart I don't want to spend my life with nobody but you but you got to stop being so mean and always coming at me like that but because you don't have any emotional intelligence all you heard was so you saying I'm a mean person so you didn't hear I love you you didn't hear I want to spend my life with you because a person who Max lacks emotional intelligence meanings they don't know how to primary use navigate human interactions it impacts your leadership communication and conflict resolution you fuss a lot cuz you ain't got no emotional intelligence you so busy addressing how it made you feel so so what am I saying I gave you all this last week my goal is for my church to do what move different that's so important to me move different why Pastor Mike because if you mislabel obstacles as opposition you'll become bitter at God instead of learning from him if you mislabel obstacles as oppositions you will become bitter at God instead of learning from him I want to take that a step further put this in your notes put an addition to that in your notes if you go back for me team if you mislabel obstacles and opposition you'll become a hater of who you could be learning from you become a hater of who you should be learning from yep some of of you right now are so mad that it ain't you you missing that the person whose season it is has nuggets that can help you become you put this in your notes if you don't mind it's not on the screen experience isn't the best teacher it's the hardest teacher experience isn't the best teacher it's the hardest teacher hear me when I say this so so when I sit down when I sit down when I sit down um when I sit down with the pastor who's been doing it 40 years he can tell me in 10 minutes what it took him 40 years to learn which mean he has now blessed me with speed I can now move faster cuz it didn't have to take me 40 years to get it but you so busy being jealous of who could deposit in you y'all y'all don't like me so so let's talk about this so what so what do I need say this with me say Lord Lord give me the wisdom to discern the difference between obstacles and opposition give me the strength to endure obstacles and the strategy to overcome opposition I would love for you to say that every day put that in your prayer and I told some of you what am I doing in 2025 I'm actually writing my prayers I've been doing that lately I know people people keep journals and people bro I've been writing my prayer so I don't miss nothing and I've been ending my prayer with that statement so so let's look at this let's see if we can finally get to this no weapon Michael no weapon that is formed against you will prosper all right so let's do this again you put that in your notes Isaiah 54:17 no weapon that is formed against you will prosper it doesn't say that the weapon won't form it says it won't Prosper it doesn't say the weapon won't hurt it means it won't Prosper okay I want to give you a different take on it okay I I want to do this okay if I climb to the top of that balcony and scream no weapon formed against me shall prosper and I jump off that balcony break both legs but don't die did it prosper I want to get you critically thinking cuz some of you think the weapon's working because you're hurting no hurting isn't an indication that the weapon's working surviving it is the indication y y'all don't hear me today some of us are panicking because we see the attack but seeing the attack is just proof that the enemy is threatened by what's on on your life I'm going to read that for the people in the back and the people in the chat some of us are panicking because we see the attack but seeing the attack is proof that the enemy is threatened by what's on your life I'm going to make this statement and only five of y'all going to receive it and the rest of y'all can just watch us praise God about it you're a threat you caught that right there that's three of y'all that's four of y'all that's two in the back you you are a threat this is why the Devil comes at you the way he comes at you can I preach the three folk who your whole life you've been trying to figure out what is it about me that make folk don't folk don't even like you don't know you cousins be treating you different family members be lowkey jealous of you and you you lowkey the nicest person in the world it's because they realize you are no we're not doing that today sit down no no no no sit down see cuz this is why I could tear the church up I could get everybody shout right now this is why your boss don't like you see but see but that's silly because you're going to be shouting about something you don't have a definition for and if you can't Define it you shouldn't praise God for it so what's the threat put this in your notes a threat this is good is someone who lives with so much purpose power and faith that hell has to pay attention to their movements I'm must say it again it is somebody who moves with so much purpose power and faith that hell and all its demons take notice every time you move I'm not a threat cuz I'm cute I'm not a threat cuz I got long hair and a thin waist I'm not a threat cuz I got some money in the bank I'm a threat because when I wake up hell be like a hell y'all Miss what I just said right there y'all Miss what I just said right there the whole while you asleep the devil was saying don't let them wake up don't let them wake up don't let them wake up don't let them wake up cuz they may not be what they think they're going to be yet but I can tell by the way they moving that they about to be everything God called touch three people and tell them I'm a threat I'm a threat I'm a threat that's the wrong neighbor find another neighbor say I'm a threat find another neighbor tell them I'm a threat reach over that hater H find somebody say I'm a threat [Music] how do you know you a threat cuz you're broke with expensive taste how you know you a threat cuz you take care of your raggedy stuff like it's brand new stuff how you know you a threat cuz you ain't got that title or their money yet they always concerned about you how you know you a threat cuz every time you open your mouth you start seeing stuff you spoke I just need you to grab somebody and say wake up it's got wake up wake up wake up you I I got to stop I'm a threat I'm a threat I'm a threat look at that definition a threat is someone who lives now baby girl you got to catch this cuz I didn't say someone who has I said someone who lives with so much purpose so much power and so much faith that hell has to pay attention to their movements that's why even when you try to downplay you who done never said you know what I'mma just fall back I'mma just chill I'mma just I got this new job I ain't going to go through on this new job what I did on this old job so what I'm going to do is when I get there I'm not even going to beat my face to the Full Beat I'm not even going to put on the fit I could have put on when I get there I'm like hey man what's up God bless you [Music] that see when you a threat they don't speak words to you they speak sounds to you all right because it's not what you got on it's not what you got in the bank a threat is someone give me my next slide I want them to see this now look at what it says being a threat to the enemy doesn't mean you're just a Christian it means you're active engaged I'm in the wrong church already and strategic sit down sit down I'm not going to let y'all pull me into that nope sit down that's why I've been having a put two sermons on YouTube every week cuz y'all each service be taking me somewhere else look at this you ready you ready girl you got your notes being a threat to the enemy doesn't mean you're just a Christian it means that you are active engaged now here's a word I want here's a word I never talked about cuz I I didn't want to be spooky so in my early years of pastoring I I stayed away from what I would consider spooky unfriendly land I would I didn't say like Kingdom who grew up in the church where all they talk about was Kingdom okay so so so what's Kingdom pmj that's the way God operates that's his Dominion you're not just a strategic mover you are a strategic can you put this in your notes it's not on the screen the devil don't care about your church attendance well you know I go to church every week so the devil do too y'all Miss what I just said well you know I go to church every week the devil like so I was in heaven I was in Heaven on stage Church attendance don't scare me I don't care about your attendance I get scared when you get active hey hey on my Suburban Highway 280 Alabaster um um Hoover Hoover is Saints I'mma come back and get your to my downway members okay so there's a word to all my suburbian rock cians there's a word that we used in the hood call oh they get active I see H people I already know look at that boy hit me with that all right all right so you got to be so so get active means watch what you say watch what you move how you move because at any moment they'll pop off hey they a they don't play the radio they ain't like hear me you better watch them because they get active can I ask you a question does Hell think you get active what time is it 9:56 a.m. so let's say tonight you get out of church you on fire you post about it you get in your group text about like girl I SW man bro I swear to God he'd be saying everything we just talk about all right so then I'm say around 9:45 you still pumped oh was on then then the demon who surveiling you cuz you got the feds on you demons right you got the feds so the demons peeping in he like hey what's going on with Mark hey I don't know man Mark went to church his Pastor talking about he a threat and like I ain't trying to be funny but it's like a light bulb went off he kind of he kind of looked different like hold on real quick Now by Tuesday he'll be back in the streets he ain't active hey hey hey hey report back what how H H they somebody inboxed me and said I'm always talking about Kesha and they name kha stopped saying kha can y'all get what's another name I could say huh Lexi okay so she said is that you is your name Lexi she want you want me to talk about you okay here we go hey hey what's up hey ain't trying to be funny Pastor Mike was talking about obstacle opposition and he Sleeping with the Enemy and you know old boy been coming coming back and Lexi Lexi looked at his text didn't respond she ain't respond left him on red she done deleted the name and all that he got he won't even have a name now he just got six emojis that's when you know you on your way out when they start changing your name he like ohn hold let me let me check her report we got to watch Lexi why what what's different she actually came to Seekers prayer hey hey hey look she she not quite tithing but she giving so that's a step like she just joined the 12 she volunte she don't like kids and she back there with people kids hey cold red she trying to get active cold red cold red we got to stop them we why why pmj cuz once you get active stuff get active who am I preaching to so now that you moving out of sudden now you praying for people you feel anointed you saying stuff feeling who never got active then messed around and start feeling prophetic like you know not what you need to see what the Lord told me you don't never scar yourself this is important why look at this a threat is someone who is not just saved but dangerous coach you dangerous anybody can coach anybody anybody can go to a power school sem school full of talent and win championships everybody can't go to Woodline where you don't have the resources you need but all the expectations now your graduation rate higher your kids doing better not a being mannerable not a asking you see you are a threat see see this is why we are not the same because you win cuz you got everything you have I win cuz I know who have me did you hear what I just said I know why I'm a threat now I ain't got your budget I ain't got your last name I ain't got your connections I ain't got your resources but some kind of way God always breathe on my life watch this put this in your notes a threat is someone who is not just saved but dangerous let me give you three things someone who you ready to write knows their identity in Christ yeah so so so in your notes I want you do this knows their identity in Christ in parenthesis so I can't be manipulated it's certain people in my life I told them at 20s something everybody you look up to gonna need you they older than you but they Ain got your oil you just don't see it yet it's certain people I used to tell oh you're going to be a problem you're going to be a problem you just don't know it yet see see you are a threat because you know your identity in Christ and because you know your identity in Christ you can't be manip manipulated watch this number two you walk in authority so you can't easily be defeated I'm talking heavy today I'm talking heavy today when I tell you something shifted in me around August when I took them six weeks off church and was almost on the point of a mental breakdown that tour and some of the drama I was dealing with in industry and in life was weighing on me so much people who didn't know me was looking at my post saying you need a break I can see it on your face your countenance and I only planed to take three and I just couldn't find my rhythm I would look at the Bible and the words just felt blurry and the Holy Spirit was like Mike I had to take you through some real opposition so you could come into the realm of your identity you are not an artist you are not a pastor pastoring is what you do singing is what you do you are mine and because you're mine if you decide in the morning to go be a comedian you going to flip that industry if you decide to be a chef you going to be the first chef in the country who thousands of people ask for burnt food from cuz it ain't your skill it ain't your gift I can't even sing that good if you really listen I'm singing Talking it ain't about the melody it's about the messenger and if the messenger is right the melody will flow and the Miracle will happen so watch this he disrupts Darkness so look at this that's number three so look at this you a threat because you watch this know your identity you can't be manipulated how you going to tell me I'm not who I am when God told me who I am that's why I can't stand church sometimes we confuse confidence with arrogance oh he arrogant I'm not arrogant I know who I am so I'm arrogant cuz I don't bow down to who you used to be you were the man I am the man it disrupts Darkness wherever they go so watch this that's the third one so what's the first one know your identity what's the second one walk in authority what's the third one disrupts Darkness wherever they go so the enemy has to strategize against you I need my church to wake up I need you to wake up it's crazy like out of nowhere the job just got crazy he's strategizing against you he's strategizing against you I've been praying in intensively that God will send other races and nationalities to our church there's something that God wants to break in this region watch this now and what I've been saying is Lord I pray that the Strategic weapon that the devil uses to make people who do not look like us feel insecure and out of place it's broken so we can see Heaven on Earth so so watch this so so how do I know I'm a threat put this in your notes number one a threat knows I already told you who they are and if I know who I am that's what the enemy's biggest fear is a Believer who knows their Authority in Christ I'm going to say something to you that I pray blesses you all right it's very simple I pray you can receive it here's the reality if you don't know your in here's the reality if you don't know your identity put this in your notes ignorance is expensive that was a strong statement ignorance is expensive the enemy profits of believers who don't know their AU Authority watch this Luke 10:19 I'm going to put on the screen I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy nothing will harm you now I want to do this before I teach this okay did you write that scripture so I want to do this before I teach because I need you to catch this why is this important I really need you to catch this why Pastor Mike cuz this what's important okay he says I've given you this Authority but it's tension in the text because he says in verse 19 I have giv you authority to trample snakes verse 20 however see here's where I've matured verse in my 20s I would have read verse 19 and had you run around a church you got the power see but at 40 now I understand verse 20 however do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you but Rejoice that your names are written in heaven so what he's saying is you can walk in your swag but don't fall in love with the fact that you got power fall in love with the fact that when you leave here you got a reservation did you catch what I just said now now now go back go back cuz we're going to work this thing let's work it okay so look what it says he says I've given you Authority it's so so I want you to put this in your notes oh I got 15 minutes okay Luke 10:19 put this in your notes you ready this isn't just a verse it's a legal document you do know you in a war so so you got to remember scriptures like this and you got this your hey I got a okay okay okay either you went to law school or you super Hood cuz I don't know why all Hood people know all the laws all right who ain't that crazy how they know every law no that's a that's a that's a three to 5 s six like like what okay so so watch watch watch this okay do do do do do do do do do pmj open the door we want to search the place your man been like search warrant not if you ain't got what is a search warrant a legal document so when the devil do do do do do do do let's we came to tell your life up uh Open Door hey how y'all doing real quickly according to Luke chapter 10 verse 19 God has given me Authority now I need you to put this in your notes I need you to put this in your notes I need you to put this in your notes put this in your notes put this in your notes you ready you ready you ready G this is Jesus talking it's in Red so watch this Jesus is saying I have given Authority you missed it you missed it you missed it he didn't say I will he says I have so so so with that in mind put this in your notes power unused is power forfeited if you choose not to use it you lose it no that's wrong don't write that that's wrong that's wrong cuz he don't the gifts are without repentance so forget I said that I was wrong that sound good but you can't do that if you don't use it you forfeit it so there's a difference between losing it and forfeiting it so what happens is in this particular situation you give up Victory by default cuz you won't walk in your purpose who feel prophetic you forfeit it if you ain't walking in it who feel Evangelistic you forfeiting it if you don't walk in it who's been watching the devil just run in and out of people life you love yet you ain't stepped up in boldness and laid hands on the situation you let them lose see a forfeit means you didn't even play Michael a forfeit means you didn't even play hey God bless you we're going to have to Forfeit this game they don't have enough players the bus never got there they never showed up so here you are in my church watching me online with a record of five and 12 when you could have been 10 and two but you didn't even show up to the battle talking about I ain't strong enough based off of whose perception all right let let me free you all right here it is you ready s father God in the name of Jesus oh they got power but they crackheads alcoholics loud sleeping with everybody half crazy and the messiest one sometimes but they perfected the performance of power now here's some somebody else God according to Isaiah 54:1 17 Lord we decree see I ain't got enough so volume is power theatrics is power I got to be loud and spooky for you to think I'm [Applause] anointed y'all don't like me the enemy isn't afraid of Believers he's afraid of informed Believers boss man the enemy ain't afraid of Believers he's afraid of informed Believers when you recognize what's been deposited in you you stop negotiating with what you've called to dominate when you recognize what's been deposited in you you stop negotiating what you've been called to dominate some of y'all prayers ain't dominate prayers you negotiating with the Enemy I'm going say this in six messing with your family messing with your children messing with your mind messing with your career and you praying stupid stuff like Lord just give me a week a week I ain't negotiating a good week I'm telling the devil get out of my life this is still going to be my year put this in your notes the enemy thrives on Deception yes sir if he can make you think you still have to fight I'm going say that again the enemy thrives on deception if he can make you think you still have to fight for something you've already have he'll keep you stuck in fear doubt and insecurity did y'all catch that he said I've given you the authority I have given which mean it's already yours so what does the devil do he he he he specializes in deception he convinces you that you have to fight for what's already yours you want to know my problem can you put this in your notes if you don't mind I need my church to shift from fighting for victory to fighting from Victory Pastor Mike what's the difference no there's a difference between fighting for victory and fighting from Victory look at Luke 10:19 for I have given what does this mean pmj this means you're not fighting to defeat Satan he's already defeated that's why some of us can't walk in authority you actually think you trying to beat the devil he beat he beat all right so put this in your notes according to Colossians 2:15 he's already a defeated devil why you trying to beat him the enemy convinces that you're not trying to earn Victory no Jesus already secured Victory on the cross according to John 1930 I'm giving you game if you catch it so according to John 19:30 you already got the victory according to Romans 8:37 you are not a victim you are a Victor but what does the devil do he convinces you he convinces you here's what I want you to do okay who has a house anybody got a house all right I want you to do me this favor okay I want you to go to your bank and ask them can you finance it that's stupid right cuz it's already yours right now you can refinance it but but I didn't say refinance I want you to go sit at the bank all day and convince them that you should buy that house they're going to call the police on you and put you in a special jail ja it cuz they going to look at you and say ma'am sir it's already yours see CU I was on the phone I was on the phone with my friend and they trying to buy a house and it's just so hard out here some of y'all keep adopting other people's trauma and don't realize now you going backwards cuz now you're fighting battles that you never were called to fight all my people who who are dating right now all my engaged couples stop listening to some of the toxic married people get off social media yes your marriage will have obstacles but here's what you do right here cuz we look look let's to your conversation yeah we excited I love him and he L me I love her she love me and we know it's not going to be easy what you mean how about you just say no we declare like what they that ain't our portion y'all don't hear me in here many people are under attack not because of their current position but because of their potential so number number two put this thing notes a threat walks in obedience I ain't got but seven minutes y'all better come on if you're going to be see you was just shouting see you see why I couldn't just let you shout some of y'all cuz now you starting to see I'm not really a threat I'm some like one but I'm not a threat yet I'm too disobedient to be a threat the devil ain't scar of nobody who won't [Music] listen no no you don't have no obedience so hear me when I say this I need to catch this now a threat walks in obedience which means they know their purpose your Yes to God disrupts the enemy's plan is she a yes Jesus watch this put this in your notes the moment you start obeying fully you start advancing rapidly that should have tow the whole church up right there the moment you start obeying fully you start advancing rapidly notice I said fully cuz delayed obedience is still Disobedience partial obedience is still Disobedience no so look at this so so Pastor Mike what do you mean when you say the moment you start obeying fully you started advancing rapidly Peter was fishing all night remember Jesus tell him to do a cast your net and then Peter hesitates he says man we've been out here all night bro but then what does he do he obeys and then what does he get the miraculous catch so much fish he don't know what to do with he obeyed fully and advanced rapidly I need you to kiss this cuz every time in scripture whenever someone obey fully God moved suddenly I don't know who's going to receive this but 10 of y'all going to lift your hands and say I receive this I speak us suddenly over your life I don't know what you need God to do I don't know what you waiting on but I speak because of your obedience God's about to do it sly yeah so watch this now obedience isn't just about compliance it's about unlacing I'mma say this better it should be on the screen obedience isn't just about compliance it's about unlocking rapid advancement in your purpose to all my young people I want you to hear me somebody told me the other day I want to be like Pastor Mike he just do whatever he want to do that's not true it looks like that that's not true it looks like that part of that is what I do because I wanted to look like oh he just out but hear me when I say this I'm very obedient very obedient I didn't go to B well till I got a blessing from my pastor yep before we signed on this I walked my daddy through it daddy's gonna be so and so so and so I he like no like this God on your life I'm very obedient very obedient very obedient which I spent the week working on new music and working on some other stuff and writing this and writing that and writing that and I'm in the room with people because there a certain sound I want in this next thing I'm doing I've never really done a lot of music where I'm singing a lot amen is pretty much the first song where the majority of the music is me all right so so now I'm kind of and but I want it sonically to feel a certain way so I'm in there singing it and dude it's called vocal production dude like I don't like how you sing that sing it a different way but it's the way I sing like no I want you drop squinch your eyes a little bit do it like this and I'm sitting in there and it's as irritating as it was if I wanted the result I had to have emotional intelligence to get out my feelings of thinking my way was good enough and be obedient now I need you to catch this now because according to Malachi 3:10 obedience to my giving what does giving what does tithing do three things for you it opens unexpected doors Michael so so so when I obey I unlock sudden sudden rapid advancement unexpected doors open number two promotions and opportunities accelerate number three Divine connections are made I may never stand in church and tell y'all I I need everybody to give no I may not never do that that's why we don't even really have a offering period because I've realized where I am in God and where you need to be that's a personal see see giving ain't about paying a church Bill if the church can't pay the bill then the church should close no if it's his will it becomes his bill so I'm not going to spend half my message and have I'm not going to create a portion of my service and there's nothing wrong with the people who do that this is my Revelation I'm not going to create a whole portion of my service solely geared toward what's in your pocket my father is rich in houses and land giving ain't about you helping me pay a bill giving is about your obedience why CU obedience isn't just about compliance it's about unlocking rapid advancement in your purpose everybody keep asking me everything you do you do fast cuz I'm obedient and when you are obedient it unlocks advancement now hear me when I say this I need to catch this right here it is number three a threat impacts other people I'm out of time a threat impacts other people what is that influence this is good teaching what's the biblical example of that Paul and Silas were beating impr prison in their Ministry was setting people free they in jail here's what messed me up see when I get to heaven I need a whole day bro I need a day like I need I need when I get to heaven y'all going to be trying on y'all wings and y'all crowns and all your robes you know what I'm saying I'm going to be like hey can I go to the room they gonna walk me in the room everybody gonna be in there waiting a m the Archangel Michael gonna be like Michael I'm like Michael Michael Michael gonna be like the Spider-Man meem like Michel right and Paul going to be in there and Peter going to be in there and John going to be in there David they all going to be in there I'm like Jesus that you oh man man what's up man I'm like all right before we go out here everybody knew y'all look good man um Paul you in jail right and everybody be like a here go this story they up there talking about it right I'm like all right so you beaten broken bruised blooded what did the other prisoners look like see that's the part see my imagination so crazy cuz it says and that midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sing praises everybody got an Open Door my question is were they in worse shape than the people who are in jail which makes me view my service different how you worse but worship harder no so what happens is they went through all that but what did they have they threat because they had influence they were beating cuz they were sing people free listen to you Pastor if your life is changing others that means you're on the enemy's [Music] radar and don't think you need a thousand members to do that you don't need a million followers to do that no I did an interview yesterday they was like oh my God you know we we was searching the internet we can't find four or five pastors who got 2 million Tik Tok followers you got 1.3 someone so I'm just sitting okay cool it's like so tell us what is it like I said I'm going show you this group thre that I'm in and it's me and four 10 to 12 year olds who didn't see that coming I was on tour met a kid in t oh my God we got the chips from the graos Cincinnati Ohio I remember places by food pray for me Cincinnati Ohio this little kid walked up to me he's like man his mom said he don't he don't even do Church don't even like church or none of that he be watching you on Tik Tok like I want to come and so he was like Hey man like this is this was like all right I said give me a cell phone put my cell phone my number and cell phone there another kid I know like just like three or four other ones and when I tell you they get on my last nerve literally past like look at this clip it is be clips of me you crazy look at a like they be sending me Tick Tock and I you know what I do oh that's crazy what y'all read today everybody drop your progress reports in here them two million followers is cool but real influence like like I want you to really catch this if the devil really wanted to Hur that see don't look at somebody with all these followers and say man I wish I was that if I ever make a mistake I see see when I see 2 million it scares me cuz I don't see two million followers I see two million Hearts I can break one wrong rumor about me now like ah man I thought he was the real one no real influence ain't changing the world it's impacting your world that's why some of y'all got to grow up you be following these and supporting these celebrities and won't support your [Music] cousin no hear me when I say this the greater your reach the greater your resistance it's crazy this is good a threat doesn't number four a threat doesn't just survive you're all I need god wow a threat doesn't just survive they take territory if I had time this would have told a whole church up because that's Kingdom expansion but my last four minutes and I got to stop you don't just want to get by you take over there's a level of bold you ain't catch that if you going to be a threat you don't J get by you take over your assignment is not just to exist it's to dominate whatever space you get in I'm talking to somebody dominate you caught that I'm not going to have a lot of friends it's hard to be friends with the goat y'all Miss what I just said I can't go out with y'all I'm too busy trying to get better I'm trying to dominate I need seven folk who know that it's something in your spirit I'm not trying to be equal I ain't saying I'm better than you but as a kingdom advancer I'm called to what dominate hear me when I say this I'm going to stop watch this watch this watch this your assignment is not just to exist whatever space you come in dominate you're going to be a politician you be a kingdom politician and you dominate I ain't here to play friends I ain't here to take siid I'm not going to get people bless they can't bless threats they can't cosign threats they don't take photo ops with threats I've been places I never forget I cry I never been plac I was at one event and liter they say oh can we get so and so so and so so and so so and so so and so oh y'all come take a picture I'm sitting on the front row and I'm sitting there like they don't want me in the picture I promise you now I'm literally cuz I'm very sensitive which means I may have a villain in me too you got to watch I may I may heel turn like John Cena you got to pray for me now so CU got be sitting there and I'm sitting on the front row and I'm like and literally if you're him then take a picture like this and the Holy Spirit said mik you can't be in the picture they can't have evidence so what they do is they try their best to ignore you and keep you in a corner as if to suggest because they don't acknowledge your impact it ain't impacting this is why you are a threat now hear me when I say this I'm going to put this in your notes put this in your notes a threat doesn't just survive they take over now let me help you with something God didn't save you just so you could survive he saved you so you could take over you were never meant to just exist you were called to expand called to expand I'm going to give you this and if I go over we just going to have to leave the parking lot super fast number one can we make a deal just leave don't hang around just leave I need your parking space okay here we go all right so watch this watch this put this in your notes number one survivors versus territory takers yeah survivors versus territory takers you're not called to be a musician dominate don't wait on no freaking MD wait no I'm F to done everything I've been waiting on people to do I'm going to do I was never going to have a singing career I was a pastor when we sung Big randomly at the boww I inboxed that song to everybody I could I was never going to do it I went to a concert some of my older members remember this I took the whole church volunteer for us to a Travis Green concert literally took him to the concert I bought out the whole concert at Iron City they called me up to pre I came and said God's going to do so and so so and so and in the video they start playing music and I said and I look like he was like like I said you made away when that was nothing I started singing everybody start worshiping I walked off stage text himp I said I'm going to do it myself I said I'm going to do it myself went home didn't sleep laid on the floor for probably nine hours I said God give me the strategy he's like your sound going to break through it's going to be your anointing second thing was your look got to change I was three 34 lbs maybe said your look got to change your look got to change I want you to look and I want them to see you and see themselves I want you to do so and so so and so so I went and I started doing push-ups I started working out none of that work I just had to have surgery I'm not even going to lie to you I had to sleeve I had to get slim fast in Jesus name went to Mexico almost died but I'm still here in Jesus name I ain't lying some of y'all know the truth already I came back super slim like what you been doing you know God you know God God I'm too old to lie now some of y'all going to be at home I'm fasting like no I got I had the surgery I'm laughing but I'm telling the truth Holy Spirit said no you going to dominate dominate dominate so so watch me when I say this I need to catch this right I'm I'm going fast so if I'm shifting from survivors to territory takers look at this survivors think I need to make it through the week territory thinkers think how can I make the kingdom visible this week you know let's keep moving what's the example the Israelites in the wilderness versus the Israelites at the promised land survivors play defense territory takers play offense survivors manage problem territory takers manifest purpose survivors react takers initiate did you catch that you catch that put this in your notes I'm going fast Wilderness mindset versus Promised Land mindset the Wilderness mindset said God let me just get through today the promised land mindset is God how can I take new ground today number two you're an ambassador not a tourist too many of you live your life like a tourist y'all can't find me on them notes nowhere I'm on number two yep I'm on number two you're an ambassador not a tourist go back some more God didn't save you to visit the kingdom he called you represented you walk around this world like a tourist tourists look around oh my God that's nice ambassadors enforce Authority and expand influence my volunteers in here you're not a tourist oh this is so nice no hey excuse me we don't talk to people like that here we love people what our pastor put in our heart that ain't how we do it so please don't do that again hey how y'all doing at this job man it's so hey do heyy come here come here let's not spend our whole day being negative today let's just go and make up our mind we going to win today and you know what they going to say about you here they come you right my peace is too important to be in this toxic environment what's the example Pastor Mike watch this Joshua wasn't called Joshua wasn't called to observe Canaan he was called to occupy Canaan he didn't say we just going to go look at it said we came to take it and some of y'all don't have no logical you don't have IQ what's IQ you keep expecting people who see you as a threat to help you beat them I would have met with so and so and I thought they would no they not going to help you what they look like training they replacement Michael hear me number three number three stop just defending and start expanding the enemy J I'm going to say this better the enemy isn't just afraid of Believers he's afraid of believers who take action Kingdom expansion means you're taking Spiritual Authority over your family your industry and your city did you catch that I'm not going to have time to keep going today I'm going to do one more slide so look at this go back one go back one so they can get the notes no up one there it is all right watch this Kingdom expansion means you're taking Spiritual Authority over your family your industry your city that's why I'm praying that's why you going to hear us start asking people to get involved you're going to start seeing us doing stuff for the first time in the history of our church I'm hiring Ministry geared people administratively geared gifted people I'm putting certain stuff in place why pmj God did not call us to Valleydale y'all Miss what I just said no he didn't call us to gather here and stay here I'm speaking over the next 24 months expansion we're getting ready to stretch forth our tentacles and touch such places every person under the sound of my voice hands lifted I want you to speak this over your life next slide here it is I want you to speak this over my life say I'm an industry shifting indry sh generational curse breaking generational curse breaking culture redefining culture Kingdom advancing Kingdom advancing force force take over take clap your hands I receive that you may be here and you don't know Jesus right where you are you can just say Lord come into my heart Make Me Over again I confess with my mouth I believe with my whole heart that you were raised from the dead with all power in your hands right now I'm saved and the church said amen come on jump on your feet with me were you blessed today come on were you blessed today listen before you leave couple of announcements I need you guys praying Easter weekend will be at the BJCC my goal for that day is man to see the power of God like never before also if you're interested in being baptized here's a good place to clap I was talking with my brother and the team this week we're getting ready to plan baptism a message is going out this week about baptism uh and um I said man I'm so excited man how many people we got signed up we got close to 800 people signed up to be baptized can y'all clap your hands for that let me show you what just blessed me too we couldn't figure out how to to do it we was like and it's so crazy how the Lord speaks to me in my sleep he showed me baptism I woke up at like 4:00 a.m. and just put it in my phone um we've already kind of been cleaning out one of our dorms and so what happens is as long as we're doing cleaning and cosmetics we don't have to get certain permits the one right here we're going to have to get permits and do sheetrock Yad y well the other one we're already been cleaning it out and getting it sort of kind of not Rock City nice but nice enough and so what what the Lord showed me in my dream was that that dorm was already cleaned out already neat it's 57 bathrooms and rooms in there and so what the Lord showed me in my dream was everybody parked over here and that whole complex was nothing but a baptism site and there were baptism pools all over the parking lot it was music playing families were hugging it was crazy and so in my heart of hearts that's what I felt the Lord lead me so we're about to send out a message if you want to be baptized you can text Water Works Water Works don't laugh at that we're Rock City so I gave all our stuff public names so baptism is the Waterworks department so Water Works and so it's going to be a special day where we baptize one of the things I'm excited about is I don't know if I can baptize all 800 people I did that once before at the bwell but me and some of my leaders we're going to be baptizing and we're going to have worship plan you can invite your family it'll be an all day event one of the things we're trying to do is although we're a big church I personally don't like big church is not personal that's why in a lot of my preaching I try to point and look at you so you can feel a personal connection so instead of telling all 800 people to come at 11: I'm going to be baptizing for four hours so this age group this a let's say a to e will get their own hour that way is personal and and it's a moment for you and your family and it ain't congested Pastor I going to take you four or five hours that's the cost of what we do I want that moment to be special I don't want an assembly line of baptisms where you don't even remember it I want it personal I don't want to just say according to the confession of your faith I want our people to say uh Maryland according to the confession of your faith we baptize you and that means something to me so I'm super excited about that I really believe what God is doing is about to be special if you're giving a day that's between you and God I'm a tither I'm a giver I believe in it I accept random expansion and random doors open in my life I receive that if you're not at a place where you believe in giving don't give just keep coming i' rather have your heart than what's in your pocket and I believe by faith one day you'll get to the point where you honor God through your giving were you blessed today amen let me say this publicly I want to say this if you're ever in our facility and you see somebody kind of just driving crazy just kind of just do it like hey stop stop stop I really want a real soft band I really want to be a good neighbor to this neighborhood the growth that we we're experiencing is terrifying this neighborhood to the point where we have County Commissioners starting to show up on our doorstep all all type of legal stuff they're trying to put on us I don't want to be the person who plays victim and say oh see how they do this no if I lived in this neighborhood it may if I want to go to Walmart it took me two hours to get from this to Walmart so what I'm saying is let's try to be good neighbors at least you know what I'm saying there's something I want to do for Easter that I haven't even told my staff about when we were in Forestdale and in Central Park we used to walk the neighborhood just being a blessing I would love if I had three or 400 members come over on a Saturday that we picked and we make these gift bags and we just walk the neighborhood and drop gift bags on each door sorry for the inconvenience we love you here's a gift card here's a so and so here's it is uh one of the things I'm working on now I'm finding things that I have that I feel like can be a blessing there's no playground around here you know so one of the things we're looking now is can we take that middle part and turn it into a playground and that way the kids can come up here I don't want to just be in the neighborhood I want to be a part of the neighborhood and I want to show my entrepreneurs how to handle adversity that every thing isn't a hater you feel what I'm saying sometimes your growth scares people but we going to show people how to do things in love and do things with DC and order so I love you guys so much I'm going continue to pray for you I'll be right here next Sunday so so glad to see all that God is doing to everybody who came from far and wi we love you we're praying for you Lord I pray a simple prayer and is this Lord your will nothing more nothing less nothing else it's in Jesus name everybody everybody said I love y'all we are I see y'all Sunday God bless you