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Welcome to Transformation Church. I am so.
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Excited that you decided to join us today in the building,
and I have to say a special happy Father's Day.
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If you're a father in the.
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Building, let us make some noise for all.
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Of the fathers. Hey, listen, we love you, we need you.
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I know usually Father's Day is second to Mother's Day,
but today at Transformation Church we turn it up for
Father's Day.
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I appreciate every.
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Bit of impact that you are having on your children,
even if you're not fathering them in the home right now.
And for every man that is literally being a father
figure to somebody else, we want to say thank you.
This is a church where we appreciate, we love, and
we celebrate every father.
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Can we give it up for every father? Oh?
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Come on every service, every location, give it up. We
love you dad. Well, today I got a word for you.
We are in part eight of a series that we
are calling help Me Mark, because we believe that every
person in this room is marked by God. Now, I
wanted to do a message in this series that was
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an affirming message because I think one of the things
that is so broken in the church and in the
world today is that people do not have the affirmation
that they need to be able to step out and
do the courageous things that they are called to do.
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And it's crazy that I'm talking about this on Father's.
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Day because this has been the enemy's plan from the
very beginning to get fathers out of the picture, so
that children would not have the affirmation they need to
be all that God has called them to be.
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It's so funny. I'll talk about my.
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Kids all the time, but one of the things that
all of my children do is they look for their
father's affirmation.
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It doesn't matter what they are doing.
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Mommy can celebrate and my babies would be like, but
that dad, And I'm like, why is that? It's because
anate built on the inside of all of us. We
are looking for our father or somebody that is in
that role to say you can do this and let
me help you. You may have not had the best
natural father, but you have a heavenly father that is
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standing on the balcony of heaven and he's saying you
can do this.
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Somebody say I can do this, No, say it like
you mean it. I can do this.
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Do you know why you can do this? Because before
you were formed in your mother's womb.
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You were marked. God has marked you for greatness, marked
you for purpose.
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And so today the title of the message is probably
the most affirming a message that I'm gonna speak. And
I'm hoping that people who are waning in their faith
and their on life support when it comes to hope,
that you would be able to walk out of this
place feeling that you are called and that God is
backing you.
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Today, I want you to write this down. You are
enough now. I know.
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I know for a lot of y'all, you haven't even
thought that way for a long time. We're always maximizing
on our deficiencies. What I don't have, what I didn't
grow up with, what I don't got in my bank account.
Who doesn't co sign what God has called me to do?
But I came to tell you you are enough if
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you've been called and marked by God. He factored in
your deficiencies when he called you, like all of your
flaws were factored in when he said I'm gonna use you.
I'm gonna bring you, I'm gonna allow you to have
a child, I'm gonna allow you to lead that group.
I'm gonna allow you. Somebody just reach over and tell
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two people you are enough. Come on, say you are enough.
Find one more person, tell him you are enough. And
the reason I'm saying that is because there's places in
you right now if we were all honest with ourselves
what we honestly feel, knowing who we are, that we
are not enough.
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If there's an area in your.
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Life right now that you feel, not anybody else projecting
on you, that you feel you are not enough. Hands
in this place. Okay, we're hot, chuck, humble up and transparent. Okay,
So you're in good company because it's a lot of
people who do not see themselves how God sees them.
And this is one of the most amazing things that
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David had that most of us don't.
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He had a sense that.
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Even though he was not trained for war, even though
he was not invited to the party when everybody was
about to be anointed.
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Even though he's back.
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Home while everybody else is at war, something in him knew,
I can do this.
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I'm enough.
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And so I want to pick up the story of
David after he comes and brings his grill chy sallences
to his brothers on the line and they hating on him,
and all.
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Of this stuff that's happening.
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Let's pick it up in First Samuel, chapter seventeen, verse
thirty two and see what we can learn from the
life of David. It says David goes up to Saul,
who sent for him, and he says, don't even worry.
I'll go fight the giant. I'll go fight the obstacle.
I'll go against that thing that everybody else is scared of,
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and that's bigger than me. But I'll go and I'll
fight him. Now, most people, after thirty nine days of
your whole army that's wearing your crest has punked out,
and nobody has fought this battle. If somebody stepped forward,
I would have been like, yes, thank you. We've been
waiting for one person to come up and actually have
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the conahs to be able to fight this thing. Look
what Saul says to David. Don't be ridiculous, dum uh
you crazy, don't be ridiculous. There's no way you can
fight this philistine and possibly win. You're only a boy,
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and he's been a man of war since his youth.
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See.
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I want you to remember that people's self view of
themselves will many times be the thing that they project
on you and try to get you to buy in
to what they feel about themselves.
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Now Saul's the king.
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He did not volunteer to go fight Goliath, but it
probably was from his own insecurity that thought he was
only ay. And we find this in the beginning of
Saul's story that when God picked him, he said, I'm
only a from the lowest tribe, and I didn't have
Saul did not think he was enough, so he enlisted
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an army of people who didn't think they were enough.
The side point right here is you only can reproduce
what's on the inside of you, and many of us
have been reproducing the fears in our children and the
people we work with, in the things that are around us,
because if we don't get our self viewed right, then
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we surround ourselves with.
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People with the same deficiencies that we have. And what's
ending up happening in many of our.
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Homes and many of our businesses and many of our
jobs is nobody has taken the moment to allow God
to correct your view.
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Somebody just say I am enough.
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Because Saul didn't think he was enough, he automatically projected
on David that he wasn't enough. But this is the
beautiful thing about somebody who's marked. When Saul said, don't
be ridiculous, I found through the scriptures, when you're marked,
write this point down.
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Ridiculous is required.
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Like when you're marked, there is gonna be something ridiculous
that God is gonna call you to do. That is
required God's glory to be seen in you. And let
me make it a spiritual term. It's the faith to
do the thing that nobody else will do. It's the
faith to step out and say, I'm gonna be the
first one in my family to finish college.
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It's the faith to.
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Step out and say, if God's telling me to downsize,
and I don't have a reason to be able to
do that, but I trust his voice.
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And this may seem ridiculous. And what people do.
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Is they stop doing what God asked them to do
because of the opinion of other people. And what if,
what if David would have heard the king of the
entire nation say this is ridiculous and said, you know what, Haha,
you're right. Who am I that I should be able
to do that? But the greatest thing about David is
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that the king of the nation was not his highest authority,
the king, the boss, the person in power, the celebrity
was not the highest authority that he was listening to.
He had already been told by God that with all
your deficiencies, you are enough. So when critics came to
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tell him that he wasn't enough, there was something on
the inside of him that was an anchor to believe
that he could still do it in the face of
people who said that he couldn't. When I look at
Hebrews chapter eleven, this is the hall of faith.
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Look what it says.
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It says faith shows the reality of what we hope for.
It is the evidence of things we cannot see. I
want you to know faith is ridiculous because it calls
things that nobody sees into existence.
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I need you to know that our whole faith in
Jesus Christ.
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Is built on a ridiculous belief. Man two thousand and eighteen,
nineteen years ago decided to take the sins of the
world on and because we.
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Believe in him, we have everlasting.
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Life and have been empowered to do something great in
this world.
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If you just walk up to a random person.
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And say that that's ridiculous, everybody say ridiculous. It's all
so ridiculous though, for Noah to build an arc when
it has never rained before, and through Noah and his family,
this ridiculous arc now becomes the saving grace to humanity.
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Everybody say, ridiculous, it's all so ridiculous for Enoch to
actually be brought up from heaven and he never died,
like he was walking with God and God was like
you ready to go, and he.
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Was like, elevate me, and he went to heaven and
never died.
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Everybody say Ridiculousulous to think that Abraham obegged God to
leave all of his comfort and went to a land
that he would not even know of until he got there.
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And then at the old age of one hundred.
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Years old, God promised him a son, and his wife
laughed at God because she said, I can't do it.
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It was ridiculous to think.
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But after nine months after God's promised land, here comes Isi.
Everybody say, ridiculous, Pastor Mike, why are you saying this so?
Because what God has called you to do will probably
sound ridiculous until it's reality.
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It'll probably sound ridiculous until it's what reality.
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Do y'all know how ridiculous a moving vehicle on four
wheels sounded in seventeen hundred, but now there's a car
dealership on every street. But it took somebody with ridiculous
faith to believe that's.
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Something that was not here. What's possible to come into
the earth. Somebody say, ridiculous.
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See when you're marked, ridiculous is required, And so many
of us are trying to play it safe.
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And God said, you're enough.
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You're enough to stand in the face of people and
banks and family members who will say, why in the
world would you even start that business, Why in the
world would you go back to school for that Why
in the world would you take your kids to that place?
And it may seem ridiculous until it becomes reality. I
just came to tell somebody you're enough. Reach over and
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tell one more person right now, you are enough, Okay.
So that's why in one Corinthians two nine, this is
a scripture. I have to go back too often because
for me, what we're doing here in North Tulsa is ridiculous.
Like if you look around in your area right now,
there's white people, there's black people, there's Hispanic people, there's
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older people, there's younger people, there's people with criminal pass
there's people who are trust fund babies. There are people
all around this place that most people say, the only
place we could intersect like this is at something where
we're selling goods, like at a mall, or at a Walmart,
or at something like this. But this is the house
of God, and it looks like revelations when John said
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every tribe.
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Every tongue, every race.
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But this is ridiculous because I stood on this very
platform almost five years ago when.
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It did not look like this, and I had to
speak in faith.
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What people who love me and believed in this ministry
said was ridiculous. Nobody's about to drive twenty five miles
past the mike to come to church out here, Nobody
passing Mike.
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You're gonna have to change up everything.
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You're at least gonna have to get rid of these
green chairs before people start coming out.
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The green chairs are still here, baby.
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And God is doing something that is defying the godds.
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Somebody shot at me one more time. Ridiculous.
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Your ridiculous faith is going to produce ridiculous results. I'm
here to encourage somebody. You're enough and wants David recognized
who actually called him. He was able to say first
Corinthians two nine to himself. No eye has seen, and
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no ear has heard, nor has it even entered the
mind of anybody's imagination what God has prepared for those
who love him. Some of you need to recognize that
the reason you're enough is because God wants to be
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strong through your deficiencies. Like you think that you have
to have everything, God says, no, everything, you're not.
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I am.
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So when you begin to believe ridiculously like no, God
called me to this, I'm marked for this. I if
he called me to it, He's going to produce everything.
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That I need.
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And this is what David said, I'm enough, just one
more time. And faith, because I feel like somebody's faith
is rising right now. Somebody say it, you are enough.
Now make it personal. I am enough. Okay, So let
me tell you my next point. When you're marked, because
sometimes the enemy will try to distract you when you're
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walking through a season of your life. The preparation rarely
looks like the platform. Your preparation to where God's called
you to is usually never gonna look like the end result.
Let me prove it to you. First Samuel, chapter seventeen,
verse thirty four. David said, no, no, no, no, I'm enough,
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he said. David persisted. Everybody say persisted, he said, King,
with all due respect, I've been taking care of my
father's sheep and goats.
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When a lion and a bear comes to steal a
lamb from the.
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Flock, I go after it, and I go after it
with the club, and I rescue the lamb from its mouth.
If the animal turns on me, I catch it by
the jaw and I cove it to death. How gangster
is that? It said, I've done this to both the
lions and the bears. I've done it to Simba and
to Ballu, and I'll do it to this pagan philistine.
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I'll do it to this new giant too, for he
has defied the armies of the Living God, the Lord.
Watch this, Watch where his faith comes from. The Lord
who rescued me from the claws of the lion and
the bear, will rescue me from this philistine.
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Now. I want you to see where his confidence is.
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Because God was preparing him in a place that did
not look like the platform he would be on. And
so many people get distracted because they're like, well, God,
this isn't it dumb?
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Like I need everybody to.
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See what I'm frustrated in the place I am dum
because God is trying to teach you something in a
place that will not look like the platform he's going
to take you to. Do not be distracted by the dojo.
Has anybody ever seen Karate Kid? Okay, so one of
the crazy things about the Karate Kid, this young man
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wants to learn to do taekwondo, and so he's thinking
that he's going to be going to this amazing dojo
with all of this equipment and look a certain way
and all this stuff, and mister.
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Miyagi, he's kind of like God.
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He takes him out to his busted car and tells
him to wax song, wax off. Now, God, mister Miyagi
is giving instructions that do not look like a real.
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He's telling me to just keep doing.
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This motion, and then to keep doing this motion. And
every time I get frustrated and say, when am I
going to get to the thing I really want, he says,
go back and do the thing that you don't know
yet is preparing you for the thing I've called you to.
And too many of us are frustrated with the learning
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environment that God has chosen, and we're walking away from
it unprepared for what God is calling us to. The
only way that David is able to stand up to
the highest official of the day and say, hey, I
can do this, even though none of y'all think I can,
is because he allowed God to prepare him in a
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place that looks nothing like the platform he just stepped on.
And I feel like this for so many people is
because you think you have to do more than you
need to do for God to get you where He's
called you to. And I'm telling you where you are
is enough. Well, Pastor Mike, I can't believe for more.
Yeah you can believe for more, but obey where he
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told you.
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To be, because if David leaves the pastor prematurely, he
does not have the skill or the weapons to be
able to do what God's called him to do on
this platform now.
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And David stands here and he said, hold on, I'm
facing a giant I've never seen before. But God has.
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Somehow toold me for this fight, and I've never seen
anything on this level.
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Let me just give you a practical example.
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I had never preached a message in front of anybody
until seven years ago, like your boy didn't go to seminary,
your boy wasn't raised during youth minister camps, your boy
didn't do more, none of that stuff. I had never
spoken a message in front of anybody until about seven
years ago. But then as I started to look at
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what God was preparing me for, I didn't understand it
at the time.
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But when I was in.
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High school, for some reason, they always asked me to
lead the pep rallies at Edison High School. And I
would go in front of this mixed group of people
of every ethnicity, of young and old ages. It would
be about twenty two hundred of them, and I would
go out there and I would lead our entire pep
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rallies from start to finish every Friday. And if I
looked on the natural I was not prepared for this
platform from all the natural things that I thought I needed.
But God said, I'm too good to bring you to
a place that's gonna give me glory. And I did
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not somehow prepare you for what I've called you too.
The problem is most of us are looking for the
wrong qualifiers. We're looking for the things that qualify us
in man's eyes, and God says, I'll use wax solem
and wat soft techniques to make it plain that when
you get in the fight of your life, you won't
be prepared. Somebody needs to give God glory right there,
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because you are enough. And I don't know who I'm
talking to, and I don't know who's pulling on me
right now, but somebody in this woomb needed to know
that what God put in you, what He's placed in you,
that burden you have, you are enough. David was able
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to step on that platform because he did not despise
his preparation that didn't look anything like it. And so
when I found out that David's standing up in front
of the king, I said, Michael, no matter what comes
your way, if God brought you to it, he's prepared
you for it. No, I need you to hear me
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say that again. If God brought you to it, He's prepared.
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You for it.
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And I mean in some stuff, it ain't gonna come
out until it's time to use it.
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Like there are some things.
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That God has placed on the inside of you.
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This is something I truly believe.
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The Bible tells us that we are supposed to be
able to devour the things of the Word and the
things of God, and and and then the Bible says,
at just the right time, the Holy Spirit will bring
it back to your remembrance. Now, this is some theology
I'm throwing in for free, because this is things that
I personally believe. I do not believe that you have
to remember all of the Bible. I believe you need
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to get it all into you and then at the
right time that you need it. The Holy Spirit said,
you put it in there. You don't even know you
read that verse, and that things don't regard y'all. Don't
hear me, that things don't come back up out of you.
I've been in business meetings with CEOs and presidents and
I said words that I didn't even know I knew
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and used them in the right context. They were like, oh,
my God, no, that'sn't my dubiously And I was like, yeah,
but somewhere somewhere before I got it into me. And
I think the Church has been so misconstrued on trying
to prove what I know instead of getting what God
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knows into me so that what I needed, Ah, he
can pull it back up out of me.
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That's why I came.
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To tell every believer, no matter if you just started
in the faith yesterday or you've been here for one
hundred years, you are enough when you believe it, when
you live like that. Well, pastor, I've never seen anybody
be a good father. It's okay because you can learn
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by knowing, or you can also learn by something not
being there. And many times God will use the name
negative spaces in our life to say I.
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Needed that, I needed that, I needed that, I needed that.
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And what God can do is take all those pieces
and he can work them together. I think that's what
Romans eight twenty eight says, that all things can work
together for the Let me say at this plane, you
can be what you didn't have. You can be what
you didn't see. You can live what you didn't learn.
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I'm telling somebody something right now. You can portray what
you never saw modeled to you because the greater one
lives on the inside, and you are enough.
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Okay.
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So David he feeling himself right now, but he's not
feeling himself because of his own abilities.
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I want you to pay attention to what he said.
He started off saying by what he did, he defeated
the bear.
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He defeated the lione, but the end of that statement said,
the same God who delivered me from the lion and
the bear, My question is are you enough? And now
you started feeling yourself like have you been enough in
a season to where you're like, ah, that was me,
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don't miss it. David said, I did it, but it
was him who actually wrested me from that. I understand
that it's me that you see, but it's God that
you feel.
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I understand.
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I understand that I'm being a father that I never had,
but it's because I'm having a father tell me and
give me wisdom of how to do this.
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And David brought their credit back to God.
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And then what he said at the end of verse
thirty ninety said, so far Saul finally considered. He said,
all right there, go ahead, kill yourself and may the
Lord be with you. They didn't believe in him, but
look what David did in verse thirty eight in the
face of facing a.
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Giant that was bigger than him, and.
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The only person that knew he was enough was him
and God, I need you to see this. You may
never get anybody physically, spiritually, or emotionally to cosign the
greatness God put on the inside of this is deep stuff,
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because in a society where we need everything we're doing
to be validated and co signed, there are some situations
you will walk into and all you got is I
think it was prophet as Beyonce said me myself and
I it's all I have in the end.
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I mean, it's one of those things.
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But that should not distract you or distract you from
what God called you to do.
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So look what Saul does, it says.
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So then Saul said, this boy gonna need all the
help that he can get. He gave David his own armor,
a bronze helmet and a coat of mail that's like
the mesh like chain that they used to have in
medieval times. He gave him a big armor, and look
what happened, it says, And David put it on. He
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strapped the sword over himself, and he took a step
or two to see what it was like, for he
had never worn such things before. Write this down. When
you are marked, your anointing is inauthenticity. So I want
you to imagine the pressure that's on David right now.
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I'm going to fight the thing that nobody in the
country is about to fight. Nobody's done this before, but
I probably should have the best gear I could have.
And the king has been nice enough to give me
all his tools and all his armor, and he's standing
there and they probably had it built out of the
best material and everything. And David puts it on respectfully.
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But then he takes a couple of steps in it.
And what I found out, because I've heard people preach
this a whole bunch of times, but they'll be like,
but it didn't fit David, and so David had to
be himself.
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And so you got to be you boo, don't do
anything not nobody else tell you to do, and be
like all of that stuff. Like but but but there's
there's an arrogance with that.
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There, there's something that comes with that, like like I
gotta do my own thing.
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There's an unsubmitted spirit right there.
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This is the armor that David will wear one day,
but it does not fit him yet.
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And and so this is the thing.
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A lot of people are despising the level of leadership
that they will be in one day because they're not
in it right now. And so you, hey, I would
if I was in leadership. I never do die ouah
dah dah dah. Maybe you don't need nothing yet and
until until you get into that weight and into that glory,
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you could appreciate. Many of us need to not be
disrespectful of the next season because we're not there. Yes,
and this is what I'm saying. The reason I said
that is because you're enough today. But there are new
journeys and new milestones and new responsibilities coming up the road,
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and you'll be enough then. But many times we try
to discount this season and who came before us, or
what examples or leadership we had, because it doesn't fit today.
David wasn't disrespectful, but he knew his anointing was in
his authenticity. And I came to tell you your anointing
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is in the DNA, the corny jokes, the way you wear,
you'll hear the things you like that your anointing is
in your specific DNA. I can't be nobody else then me.
I can try. But the problem with that is God's
approval comes off of everything that He did not create
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in me. Right now, iPhone has a feature that you
can unlock your phone by.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Just reading the authenticity of your faith.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
And if I put your face up to my phone,
my reserves, my accounts, the things that they can do.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
It's a lot to you.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
That's the same thing with your purpose when you are
putting on a mask to be somebody else. I want
to preach like Pastor Mike, or I want to lead
like this person, or I want to be prospected like
this person. God said, I can't bless that I can
unlock what I have for you, But there is an
anointing in you being authentically you.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
And what David had to realize, I love this.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
David developed one of the most undeveloped areas that I
believe in the body of Christ. And because I'm your pastor,
I got to tell you this. And if you don't
get anything else out of anything that I'm saying, like,
I pray that this thing sticks with you for the
rest of your life. David developed the spiritual discipline of
self awareness. Most of y'all don't know why other people
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don't like you.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
You see how quiet it is it here, Like you
don't know you talk too much.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Everybody else around you knows you talk too much, but
you don't know you talk everybody.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Okay, let me do it like this.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
There was this dude in our school because everybody just
got up tight there with like what if pess, I'm
like just coming at me. There was this dude in
our school that did not know his breath stump, but
he always decided to have close conversations. Has anybody met
anybody like that? If you haven't, it's you. But but
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this is the thing that I'm telling you. The worst
thing is there to be something wrong and you don't
have an inkling.
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Of what is wrong. Look what happened to David.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
David took a couple of steps in this armor, and
he respectively turned to the king and because he was
self aware, said I can't go.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
In these I'm not used to them, and he took
them off. Do you know how much.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Self awareness you have to say to have to walk
up to somebody who's giving you what seems to be
an upgrade and say I can't take that offer.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
I'm not ready to lead this type of person.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I can't move into that house because I don't have
the financial discipline to pay for these bills. I'm so sorry,
but I can't take that investment yet because I need
to work on some things. Back here, David was self
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aware enough not to go out there in front like
he could wear the king's armor and try to defeat God. Like,
let me tell you this, he would have lost the
battle trying to be somebody who was never created to be.
My question is what have you put on that it's
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time for you to take off?
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Like? What have you put on the expectations of other people?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Or I'm this type of leader because my leader was
this type of leader.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Your anointing is in your authenticity.
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The one thing that I probably respect more about Bishop
Gary Macintosh, which is the founding pastor of this church,
is that he never made me try to be him
stepping into leadership at this church. This man is the
complete opposite of me. He's older, I'm younger. He's white,
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I'm black. He claps on one in three, I clap
on two and four. He's very structured and punctual and
all those things. I'm very creative, loose, flowing, all this
other stuff. It was almost from outward appearance, oil and water.
But the anointing that was released on his life to
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start a ministry in North Tulsa and keep it running
for fifteen years, and then to pass it on to
somebody that was completely different. But see the anointing transfer
to be able to do more. It was not in
our sameness, it was in our authenticity. And I just
came to encourage somebody who's been trying to contour your
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character to somebody else that you are enough. God called you,
which a weak humor you with your funny dress, He
called you, and I don't want you to get stuck there,
because David would not get stuck in that. He would
upgrade and one day he would fit that armor to
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be the king. But he did not prematurely discount where
he was today because God knew that.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
The anointing was in his authenticity.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
So if you're marked my last point today, you must
be you.
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You gotta be you like.
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And I know some of y'all's like, that's what I'm
talking about pasting somebody. I've been telling everybody from about
fifteen years that I'm.
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A baby, I'm de mate.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Yeah no, no, no, no, no, no, no, there's that's not no,
no stop, that's not what I'm talking about. I'm not
saying being different for attention, because a lot of people
are different because they're trying to feel an insecurity on
the inside of themselves. Oh come on, let's be honest.
You everybody say this guy is blue? You like I
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see red, baby, it's blue.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
The problem is, though, what God naturally has given you
that's different, you can't apologize for that, you can't back
up off of that. I don't know how to preach
regular like I don't know, like when I study and
try to go and find hermoneutics and all of the
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different things, I'm like, that sounds great. All I know, though,
is to pray, to open my Bible, to study, to
show myself a proof, to ask people who know better
than me, and then to never preach nothing that I
haven't gone through. And the anointing has been in my authenticity.
It's been in me being me. I use cultural references
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when I do things, and that may not be anybody's
cup of tea, but for me, that's what God's called
me to do. And all I'm telling you is that's
not what he called you to do. So you must
be you because you are enough. Look what David did
first Samuel seventeen, chapter forty. It said after he took
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off what Saul was trying to give him. I think
it was offset that said masks off. I think it
was him. Some of y'all like offset onset. I have
no idea, but some of you need to take the
masks off, the pressure off, the performance off, and then
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you need to pick up something that's familiar.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
It said.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
He picked up five smooth stones from a stream and
put them into his shepherd's bag. Now I just want
to just go there for one second and see all
of these warriors, these big three hundred movie looking guys
with swords and clubs, and David walks over to a
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stream and says, Lord, I'm gonna do this for your glory,
but I can't do it being something that I'm not.
So I'm gonna humble myself and bend down in front
of everybody looking at me, and I'm gonna grab the things.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
That I'm used to.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
The question is, what are the things in your bag
that you're used to? The things should be stuff like prayer,
reading the word, spending time in worship. I'm gonna just
go back to the basics of what I'm used to using,
encouraging people even when I don't feel encouraged. I'm gonna
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go back to those regular things. And I believe the
fundamentals of what you taught me and the pastor are
going to be the fiercest weapon I could use on
the platform where people are watching. And look what happens
right here, he said, He picked up five smooth stones,
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put him in his shepherd's bag. I love this. Then
armed only with his shepherd's staff and sling. All he
had was a stick and a sling shot.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Do you know how ridiculous this looks?
Speaker 2 (39:23):
And the Bible says that he started across the valley
to fight the philistine. I want you to get the
picture of you with all of yourself, the flaws, the mistakes,
the hurts, the unpreparedness, and God saying you're enough, do
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the things that I've called you to do, and head
towards the enemy.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Well, God, I don't.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
I didn't ask you all that you're enough. Well what
if I didn't ask you all that you're enough? Well
I haven't had it. I didn't ask you about that
ether you're enough? Well what if they it doesn't matter,
you're enough. But I can't get over that is the past.
But right now you are enough. And I came to
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tell somebody, so it's time for you to stop being
the JV version of somebody else and be the varsity
version of you.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
You are enough.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Next week I'm gonna talk to you about what happens
when you actually kill the giant.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
But on this.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Father's Day, somebody needed to hear this resounding.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Consistent message.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
He didn't bring you this far to let you fail
in front of everybody. When he called you, he knew
your needs would be shaken.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
He knew that your past would have criminal record in it.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Me when he called you, he knew what your struggles
were gonna be, and he still wrote from the beginning,
you are enough. I want to pray for every person
in this room has been struggling with feeling like they
were enough to do what God called him to do.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Maybe you're a father in here and you haven't been
in your children's life, and you're saying I can't go
back now. They're ten, they're eleven, they're thirteen, they're seventeen,
they're twenty eight, and God's saying today this whole message.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Was for you. You're enough.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
There's something that can still be done, whether they don't
want to accept it or night. But you could write
a note every month and apologize and speak life, and
you're enough. There's a single mother in this room right
now who's saying, God, I cannot do this anymore. And
God's saying, when I let those kids beep sent to
you and for them to come into this earth, I
equipped you with everything that you needed.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
You are enough. There's a high that's been in a
family of abuse and you don't know if you're gonna
make it out. God says to you today, prophetically, you
are enough.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
If you're in this building or you're watching online and
there's an area that you have been deficient and feeling
that you had enough, I want you to stand up
all over this building. Come on, right now. I want
you to stand up. Even at your house. I want
you to stand up. Why don't you just go ahead
and lift your hands right now. I know that there
are people that are trying to figure it out, but
I want to pray for you.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Father. I thank you that.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
You have marked these who are listening, and you have
marked these father who are in this building, and Father,
on this day, on Father's Day where we worship you,
our father God, today I'm thinking you from a spiritual
affirmation to all your children that lets us know that
we are enough. You did not create mistakes, you did
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not create accidents. You did not leave us here to struggle,
but you said in the midst of struggle you would
walk with us. So today we affirm and confirm every
area of our life that.
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Has been missing.
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I thank you, Father that right now, by your presence,
you are allowing confidence and hope and joy to arise
on the inside. I thank you that there'll be strict
like never before. They'll be peace like never before. Father,
There'll be boldness, the type of boldness that David had
to be able to be.
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Himself but still slay the giant.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Today, Father, give us that type of faith and let
us know that we are enough because we have put
our trust in the one who has been enough. We
thank you, We honor you, and we bless your name
in Jesus' name. Amen, come on, let's give God some praise. Oh,
come on, like you know that God, may you enough.
Welcome to Transformation Church. I am so.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Excited that you decided to join us today in the building,
and I have to say a special happy Father's Day.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
If you're a father in the.
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Building, let us make some noise for all.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Of the fathers. Hey, listen, we love you, we need you.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I know usually Father's Day is second to Mother's Day,
but today at Transformation Church we turn it up for
Father's Day.
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I appreciate every.
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Bit of impact that you are having on your children,
even if you're not fathering them in the home right now.
And for every man that is literally being a father
figure to somebody else, we want to say thank you.
This is a church where we appreciate, we love, and
we celebrate every father.
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Can we give it up for every father? Oh?
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Come on every service, every location, give it up. We
love you dad. Well, today I got a word for you.
We are in part eight of a series that we
are calling help Me Mark, because we believe that every
person in this room is marked by God. Now, I
wanted to do a message in this series that was
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an affirming message because I think one of the things
that is so broken in the church and in the
world today is that people do not have the affirmation
that they need to be able to step out and
do the courageous things that they are called to do.
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And it's crazy that I'm talking about this on Father's.
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Day because this has been the enemy's plan from the
very beginning to get fathers out of the picture, so
that children would not have the affirmation they need to
be all that God has called them to be.
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It's so funny. I'll talk about my.
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Kids all the time, but one of the things that
all of my children do is they look for their
father's affirmation.
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It doesn't matter what they are doing.
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Mommy can celebrate and my babies would be like, but
that dad, And I'm like, why is that? It's because
anate built on the inside of all of us. We
are looking for our father or somebody that is in
that role to say you can do this and let
me help you. You may have not had the best
natural father, but you have a heavenly father that is
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standing on the balcony of heaven and he's saying you
can do this.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Somebody say I can do this, No, say it like
you mean it. I can do this.
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Do you know why you can do this? Because before
you were formed in your mother's womb.
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You were marked. God has marked you for greatness, marked
you for purpose.
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And so today the title of the message is probably
the most affirming a message that I'm gonna speak. And
I'm hoping that people who are waning in their faith
and their on life support when it comes to hope,
that you would be able to walk out of this
place feeling that you are called and that God is
backing you.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Today, I want you to write this down. You are
enough now. I know.
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I know for a lot of y'all, you haven't even
thought that way for a long time. We're always maximizing
on our deficiencies. What I don't have, what I didn't
grow up with, what I don't got in my bank account.
Who doesn't co sign what God has called me to do?
But I came to tell you you are enough if
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you've been called and marked by God. He factored in
your deficiencies when he called you, like all of your
flaws were factored in when he said I'm gonna use you.
I'm gonna bring you, I'm gonna allow you to have
a child, I'm gonna allow you to lead that group.
I'm gonna allow you. Somebody just reach over and tell
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two people you are enough. Come on, say you are enough.
Find one more person, tell him you are enough. And
the reason I'm saying that is because there's places in
you right now if we were all honest with ourselves
what we honestly feel, knowing who we are, that we
are not enough.
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If there's an area in your.
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Life right now that you feel, not anybody else projecting
on you, that you feel you are not enough. Hands
in this place. Okay, we're hot, chuck, humble up and transparent. Okay,
So you're in good company because it's a lot of
people who do not see themselves how God sees them.
And this is one of the most amazing things that
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David had that most of us don't.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
He had a sense that.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Even though he was not trained for war, even though
he was not invited to the party when everybody was
about to be anointed.
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Even though he's back.
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Home while everybody else is at war, something in him knew,
I can do this.
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I'm enough.
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And so I want to pick up the story of
David after he comes and brings his grill chy sallences
to his brothers on the line and they hating on him,
and all.
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Of this stuff that's happening.
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Let's pick it up in First Samuel, chapter seventeen, verse
thirty two and see what we can learn from the
life of David. It says David goes up to Saul,
who sent for him, and he says, don't even worry.
I'll go fight the giant. I'll go fight the obstacle.
I'll go against that thing that everybody else is scared of,
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and that's bigger than me. But I'll go and I'll
fight him. Now, most people, after thirty nine days of
your whole army that's wearing your crest has punked out,
and nobody has fought this battle. If somebody stepped forward,
I would have been like, yes, thank you. We've been
waiting for one person to come up and actually have
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the conahs to be able to fight this thing. Look
what Saul says to David. Don't be ridiculous, dum uh
you crazy, don't be ridiculous. There's no way you can
fight this philistine and possibly win. You're only a boy,
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and he's been a man of war since his youth.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
See.
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I want you to remember that people's self view of
themselves will many times be the thing that they project
on you and try to get you to buy in
to what they feel about themselves.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Now Saul's the king.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
He did not volunteer to go fight Goliath, but it
probably was from his own insecurity that thought he was
only ay. And we find this in the beginning of
Saul's story that when God picked him, he said, I'm
only a from the lowest tribe, and I didn't have
Saul did not think he was enough, so he enlisted
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an army of people who didn't think they were enough.
The side point right here is you only can reproduce
what's on the inside of you, and many of us
have been reproducing the fears in our children and the
people we work with, in the things that are around us,
because if we don't get our self viewed right, then
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we surround ourselves with.
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People with the same deficiencies that we have. And what's
ending up happening in many of our.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Homes and many of our businesses and many of our
jobs is nobody has taken the moment to allow God
to correct your view.
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Somebody just say I am enough.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Because Saul didn't think he was enough, he automatically projected
on David that he wasn't enough. But this is the
beautiful thing about somebody who's marked. When Saul said, don't
be ridiculous, I found through the scriptures, when you're marked,
write this point down.
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Ridiculous is required.
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Like when you're marked, there is gonna be something ridiculous
that God is gonna call you to do. That is
required God's glory to be seen in you. And let
me make it a spiritual term. It's the faith to
do the thing that nobody else will do. It's the
faith to step out and say, I'm gonna be the
first one in my family to finish college.
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It's the faith to.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Step out and say, if God's telling me to downsize,
and I don't have a reason to be able to
do that, but I trust his voice.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
And this may seem ridiculous. And what people do.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Is they stop doing what God asked them to do
because of the opinion of other people. And what if,
what if David would have heard the king of the
entire nation say this is ridiculous and said, you know what, Haha,
you're right. Who am I that I should be able
to do that? But the greatest thing about David is
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that the king of the nation was not his highest authority,
the king, the boss, the person in power, the celebrity
was not the highest authority that he was listening to.
He had already been told by God that with all
your deficiencies, you are enough. So when critics came to
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tell him that he wasn't enough, there was something on
the inside of him that was an anchor to believe
that he could still do it in the face of
people who said that he couldn't. When I look at
Hebrews chapter eleven, this is the hall of faith.
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Look what it says.
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It says faith shows the reality of what we hope for.
It is the evidence of things we cannot see. I
want you to know faith is ridiculous because it calls
things that nobody sees into existence.
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I need you to know that our whole faith in
Jesus Christ.
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Is built on a ridiculous belief. Man two thousand and eighteen,
nineteen years ago decided to take the sins of the
world on and because we.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Believe in him, we have everlasting.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Life and have been empowered to do something great in
this world.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
If you just walk up to a random person.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
And say that that's ridiculous, everybody say ridiculous. It's all
so ridiculous though, for Noah to build an arc when
it has never rained before, and through Noah and his family,
this ridiculous arc now becomes the saving grace to humanity.
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Everybody say, ridiculous, it's all so ridiculous for Enoch to
actually be brought up from heaven and he never died,
like he was walking with God and God was like
you ready to go, and he.
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Was like, elevate me, and he went to heaven and
never died.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Everybody say Ridiculousulous to think that Abraham obegged God to
leave all of his comfort and went to a land
that he would not even know of until he got there.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
And then at the old age of one hundred.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Years old, God promised him a son, and his wife
laughed at God because she said, I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
It was ridiculous to think.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
But after nine months after God's promised land, here comes Isi.
Everybody say, ridiculous, Pastor Mike, why are you saying this so?
Because what God has called you to do will probably
sound ridiculous until it's reality.
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It'll probably sound ridiculous until it's what reality.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Do y'all know how ridiculous a moving vehicle on four
wheels sounded in seventeen hundred, but now there's a car
dealership on every street. But it took somebody with ridiculous
faith to believe that's.
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Something that was not here. What's possible to come into
the earth. Somebody say, ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
See when you're marked, ridiculous is required, And so many
of us are trying to play it safe.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
And God said, you're enough.
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You're enough to stand in the face of people and
banks and family members who will say, why in the
world would you even start that business, Why in the
world would you go back to school for that Why
in the world would you take your kids to that place?
And it may seem ridiculous until it becomes reality. I
just came to tell somebody you're enough. Reach over and
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tell one more person right now, you are enough, Okay.
So that's why in one Corinthians two nine, this is
a scripture. I have to go back too often because
for me, what we're doing here in North Tulsa is ridiculous.
Like if you look around in your area right now,
there's white people, there's black people, there's Hispanic people, there's
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older people, there's younger people, there's people with criminal pass
there's people who are trust fund babies. There are people
all around this place that most people say, the only
place we could intersect like this is at something where
we're selling goods, like at a mall, or at a Walmart,
or at something like this. But this is the house
of God, and it looks like revelations when John said
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every tribe.
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Every tongue, every race.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
But this is ridiculous because I stood on this very
platform almost five years ago when.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
It did not look like this, and I had to
speak in faith.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
What people who love me and believed in this ministry
said was ridiculous. Nobody's about to drive twenty five miles
past the mike to come to church out here, Nobody
passing Mike.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
You're gonna have to change up everything.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
You're at least gonna have to get rid of these
green chairs before people start coming out.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
The green chairs are still here, baby.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
And God is doing something that is defying the godds.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Somebody shot at me one more time. Ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Your ridiculous faith is going to produce ridiculous results. I'm
here to encourage somebody. You're enough and wants David recognized
who actually called him. He was able to say first
Corinthians two nine to himself. No eye has seen, and
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no ear has heard, nor has it even entered the
mind of anybody's imagination what God has prepared for those
who love him. Some of you need to recognize that
the reason you're enough is because God wants to be
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strong through your deficiencies. Like you think that you have
to have everything, God says, no, everything, you're not.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I am.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
So when you begin to believe ridiculously like no, God
called me to this, I'm marked for this. I if
he called me to it, He's going to produce everything.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
That I need.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
And this is what David said, I'm enough, just one
more time. And faith, because I feel like somebody's faith
is rising right now. Somebody say it, you are enough.
Now make it personal. I am enough. Okay, So let
me tell you my next point. When you're marked, because
sometimes the enemy will try to distract you when you're
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walking through a season of your life. The preparation rarely
looks like the platform. Your preparation to where God's called
you to is usually never gonna look like the end result.
Let me prove it to you. First Samuel, chapter seventeen,
verse thirty four. David said, no, no, no, no, I'm enough,
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he said. David persisted. Everybody say persisted, he said, King,
with all due respect, I've been taking care of my
father's sheep and goats.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
When a lion and a bear comes to steal a
lamb from the.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Flock, I go after it, and I go after it
with the club, and I rescue the lamb from its mouth.
If the animal turns on me, I catch it by
the jaw and I cove it to death. How gangster
is that? It said, I've done this to both the
lions and the bears. I've done it to Simba and
to Ballu, and I'll do it to this pagan philistine.
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I'll do it to this new giant too, for he
has defied the armies of the Living God, the Lord.
Watch this, Watch where his faith comes from. The Lord
who rescued me from the claws of the lion and
the bear, will rescue me from this philistine.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Now. I want you to see where his confidence is.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Because God was preparing him in a place that did
not look like the platform he would be on. And
so many people get distracted because they're like, well, God,
this isn't it dumb?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Like I need everybody to.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
See what I'm frustrated in the place I am dum
because God is trying to teach you something in a
place that will not look like the platform he's going
to take you to. Do not be distracted by the dojo.
Has anybody ever seen Karate Kid? Okay, so one of
the crazy things about the Karate Kid, this young man
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wants to learn to do taekwondo, and so he's thinking
that he's going to be going to this amazing dojo
with all of this equipment and look a certain way
and all this stuff, and mister.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Miyagi, he's kind of like God.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
He takes him out to his busted car and tells
him to wax song, wax off. Now, God, mister Miyagi
is giving instructions that do not look like a real.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
He's telling me to just keep doing.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
This motion, and then to keep doing this motion. And
every time I get frustrated and say, when am I
going to get to the thing I really want, he says,
go back and do the thing that you don't know
yet is preparing you for the thing I've called you to.
And too many of us are frustrated with the learning
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environment that God has chosen, and we're walking away from
it unprepared for what God is calling us to. The
only way that David is able to stand up to
the highest official of the day and say, hey, I
can do this, even though none of y'all think I can,
is because he allowed God to prepare him in a
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place that looks nothing like the platform he just stepped on.
And I feel like this for so many people is
because you think you have to do more than you
need to do for God to get you where He's
called you to. And I'm telling you where you are
is enough. Well, Pastor Mike, I can't believe for more.
Yeah you can believe for more, but obey where he
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told you.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
To be, because if David leaves the pastor prematurely, he
does not have the skill or the weapons to be
able to do what God's called him to do on
this platform now.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
And David stands here and he said, hold on, I'm
facing a giant I've never seen before. But God has.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Somehow toold me for this fight, and I've never seen
anything on this level.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Let me just give you a practical example.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I had never preached a message in front of anybody
until seven years ago, like your boy didn't go to seminary,
your boy wasn't raised during youth minister camps, your boy
didn't do more, none of that stuff. I had never
spoken a message in front of anybody until about seven
years ago. But then as I started to look at
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what God was preparing me for, I didn't understand it
at the time.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
But when I was in.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
High school, for some reason, they always asked me to
lead the pep rallies at Edison High School. And I
would go in front of this mixed group of people
of every ethnicity, of young and old ages. It would
be about twenty two hundred of them, and I would
go out there and I would lead our entire pep
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rallies from start to finish every Friday. And if I
looked on the natural I was not prepared for this
platform from all the natural things that I thought I needed.
But God said, I'm too good to bring you to
a place that's gonna give me glory. And I did
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not somehow prepare you for what I've called you too.
The problem is most of us are looking for the
wrong qualifiers. We're looking for the things that qualify us
in man's eyes, and God says, I'll use wax solem
and wat soft techniques to make it plain that when
you get in the fight of your life, you won't
be prepared. Somebody needs to give God glory right there,
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because you are enough. And I don't know who I'm
talking to, and I don't know who's pulling on me
right now, but somebody in this woomb needed to know
that what God put in you, what He's placed in you,
that burden you have, you are enough. David was able
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to step on that platform because he did not despise
his preparation that didn't look anything like it. And so
when I found out that David's standing up in front
of the king, I said, Michael, no matter what comes
your way, if God brought you to it, he's prepared
you for it. No, I need you to hear me
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say that again. If God brought you to it, He's prepared.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
You for it.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
And I mean in some stuff, it ain't gonna come
out until it's time to use it.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Like there are some things.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
That God has placed on the inside of you.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
This is something I truly believe.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
The Bible tells us that we are supposed to be
able to devour the things of the Word and the
things of God, and and and then the Bible says,
at just the right time, the Holy Spirit will bring
it back to your remembrance. Now, this is some theology
I'm throwing in for free, because this is things that
I personally believe. I do not believe that you have
to remember all of the Bible. I believe you need
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to get it all into you and then at the
right time that you need it. The Holy Spirit said,
you put it in there. You don't even know you
read that verse, and that things don't regard y'all. Don't
hear me, that things don't come back up out of you.
I've been in business meetings with CEOs and presidents and
I said words that I didn't even know I knew
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and used them in the right context. They were like, oh,
my God, no, that'sn't my dubiously And I was like, yeah,
but somewhere somewhere before I got it into me. And
I think the Church has been so misconstrued on trying
to prove what I know instead of getting what God
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knows into me so that what I needed, Ah, he
can pull it back up out of me.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
That's why I came.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
To tell every believer, no matter if you just started
in the faith yesterday or you've been here for one
hundred years, you are enough when you believe it, when
you live like that. Well, pastor, I've never seen anybody
be a good father. It's okay because you can learn
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by knowing, or you can also learn by something not
being there. And many times God will use the name
negative spaces in our life to say I.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Needed that, I needed that, I needed that, I needed that.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
And what God can do is take all those pieces
and he can work them together. I think that's what
Romans eight twenty eight says, that all things can work
together for the Let me say at this plane, you
can be what you didn't have. You can be what
you didn't see. You can live what you didn't learn.
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I'm telling somebody something right now. You can portray what
you never saw modeled to you because the greater one
lives on the inside, and you are enough.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
So David he feeling himself right now, but he's not
feeling himself because of his own abilities.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
I want you to pay attention to what he said.
He started off saying by what he did, he defeated
the bear.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
He defeated the lione, but the end of that statement said,
the same God who delivered me from the lion and
the bear, My question is are you enough? And now
you started feeling yourself like have you been enough in
a season to where you're like, ah, that was me,
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don't miss it. David said, I did it, but it
was him who actually wrested me from that. I understand
that it's me that you see, but it's God that
you feel.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I understand.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
I understand that I'm being a father that I never had,
but it's because I'm having a father tell me and
give me wisdom of how to do this.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
And David brought their credit back to God.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
And then what he said at the end of verse
thirty ninety said, so far Saul finally considered. He said,
all right there, go ahead, kill yourself and may the
Lord be with you. They didn't believe in him, but
look what David did in verse thirty eight in the
face of facing a.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Giant that was bigger than him, and.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
The only person that knew he was enough was him
and God, I need you to see this. You may
never get anybody physically, spiritually, or emotionally to cosign the
greatness God put on the inside of this is deep stuff,
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because in a society where we need everything we're doing
to be validated and co signed, there are some situations
you will walk into and all you got is I
think it was prophet as Beyonce said me myself and
I it's all I have in the end.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
I mean, it's one of those things.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
But that should not distract you or distract you from
what God called you to do.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
So look what Saul does, it says.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
So then Saul said, this boy gonna need all the
help that he can get. He gave David his own armor,
a bronze helmet and a coat of mail that's like
the mesh like chain that they used to have in
medieval times. He gave him a big armor, and look
what happened, it says, And David put it on. He
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strapped the sword over himself, and he took a step
or two to see what it was like, for he
had never worn such things before. Write this down. When
you are marked, your anointing is inauthenticity. So I want
you to imagine the pressure that's on David right now.
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I'm going to fight the thing that nobody in the
country is about to fight. Nobody's done this before, but
I probably should have the best gear I could have.
And the king has been nice enough to give me
all his tools and all his armor, and he's standing
there and they probably had it built out of the
best material and everything. And David puts it on respectfully.
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But then he takes a couple of steps in it.
And what I found out, because I've heard people preach
this a whole bunch of times, but they'll be like,
but it didn't fit David, and so David had to
be himself.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
And so you got to be you boo, don't do
anything not nobody else tell you to do, and be
like all of that stuff. Like but but but there's
there's an arrogance with that.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
There, there's something that comes with that, like like I
gotta do my own thing.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
There's an unsubmitted spirit right there.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
This is the armor that David will wear one day,
but it does not fit him yet.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
And and so this is the thing.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
A lot of people are despising the level of leadership
that they will be in one day because they're not
in it right now. And so you, hey, I would
if I was in leadership. I never do die ouah
dah dah dah. Maybe you don't need nothing yet and
until until you get into that weight and into that glory,
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you could appreciate. Many of us need to not be
disrespectful of the next season because we're not there. Yes,
and this is what I'm saying. The reason I said
that is because you're enough today. But there are new
journeys and new milestones and new responsibilities coming up the road,
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and you'll be enough then. But many times we try
to discount this season and who came before us, or
what examples or leadership we had, because it doesn't fit today.
David wasn't disrespectful, but he knew his anointing was in
his authenticity. And I came to tell you your anointing
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is in the DNA, the corny jokes, the way you wear,
you'll hear the things you like that your anointing is
in your specific DNA. I can't be nobody else then me.
I can try. But the problem with that is God's
approval comes off of everything that He did not create
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in me. Right now, iPhone has a feature that you
can unlock your phone by.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Just reading the authenticity of your faith.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
And if I put your face up to my phone,
my reserves, my accounts, the things that they can do.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
It's a lot to you.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
That's the same thing with your purpose when you are
putting on a mask to be somebody else. I want
to preach like Pastor Mike, or I want to lead
like this person, or I want to be prospected like
this person. God said, I can't bless that I can
unlock what I have for you, But there is an
anointing in you being authentically you.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
And what David had to realize, I love this.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
David developed one of the most undeveloped areas that I
believe in the body of Christ. And because I'm your pastor,
I got to tell you this. And if you don't
get anything else out of anything that I'm saying, like,
I pray that this thing sticks with you for the
rest of your life. David developed the spiritual discipline of
self awareness. Most of y'all don't know why other people
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don't like you.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
You see how quiet it is it here, Like you
don't know you talk too much.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Everybody else around you knows you talk too much, but
you don't know you talk everybody.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Okay, let me do it like this.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
There was this dude in our school because everybody just
got up tight there with like what if pess, I'm
like just coming at me. There was this dude in
our school that did not know his breath stump, but
he always decided to have close conversations. Has anybody met
anybody like that? If you haven't, it's you. But but
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this is the thing that I'm telling you. The worst
thing is there to be something wrong and you don't
have an inkling.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Of what is wrong. Look what happened to David.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
David took a couple of steps in this armor, and
he respectively turned to the king and because he was
self aware, said I can't go.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
In these I'm not used to them, and he took
them off. Do you know how much.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Self awareness you have to say to have to walk
up to somebody who's giving you what seems to be
an upgrade and say I can't take that offer.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
I'm not ready to lead this type of person.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I can't move into that house because I don't have
the financial discipline to pay for these bills. I'm so sorry,
but I can't take that investment yet because I need
to work on some things. Back here, David was self
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aware enough not to go out there in front like
he could wear the king's armor and try to defeat God. Like,
let me tell you this, he would have lost the
battle trying to be somebody who was never created to be.
My question is what have you put on that it's
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time for you to take off?
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Like? What have you put on the expectations of other people?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Or I'm this type of leader because my leader was
this type of leader.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Your anointing is in your authenticity.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
The one thing that I probably respect more about Bishop
Gary Macintosh, which is the founding pastor of this church,
is that he never made me try to be him
stepping into leadership at this church. This man is the
complete opposite of me. He's older, I'm younger. He's white,
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I'm black. He claps on one in three, I clap
on two and four. He's very structured and punctual and
all those things. I'm very creative, loose, flowing, all this
other stuff. It was almost from outward appearance, oil and water.
But the anointing that was released on his life to
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start a ministry in North Tulsa and keep it running
for fifteen years, and then to pass it on to
somebody that was completely different. But see the anointing transfer
to be able to do more. It was not in
our sameness, it was in our authenticity. And I just
came to encourage somebody who's been trying to contour your
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character to somebody else that you are enough. God called you,
which a weak humor you with your funny dress, He
called you, and I don't want you to get stuck there,
because David would not get stuck in that. He would
upgrade and one day he would fit that armor to
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be the king. But he did not prematurely discount where
he was today because God knew that.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
The anointing was in his authenticity.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
So if you're marked my last point today, you must
be you.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
You gotta be you like.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
And I know some of y'all's like, that's what I'm
talking about pasting somebody. I've been telling everybody from about
fifteen years that I'm.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
A baby, I'm de mate.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Yeah no, no, no, no, no, no, no, there's that's not no,
no stop, that's not what I'm talking about. I'm not
saying being different for attention, because a lot of people
are different because they're trying to feel an insecurity on
the inside of themselves. Oh come on, let's be honest.
You everybody say this guy is blue? You like I
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see red, baby, it's blue.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
The problem is, though, what God naturally has given you
that's different, you can't apologize for that, you can't back
up off of that. I don't know how to preach
regular like I don't know, like when I study and
try to go and find hermoneutics and all of the
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different things, I'm like, that sounds great. All I know, though,
is to pray, to open my Bible, to study, to
show myself a proof, to ask people who know better
than me, and then to never preach nothing that I
haven't gone through. And the anointing has been in my authenticity.
It's been in me being me. I use cultural references
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when I do things, and that may not be anybody's
cup of tea, but for me, that's what God's called
me to do. And all I'm telling you is that's
not what he called you to do. So you must
be you because you are enough. Look what David did
first Samuel seventeen, chapter forty. It said after he took
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off what Saul was trying to give him. I think
it was offset that said masks off. I think it
was him. Some of y'all like offset onset. I have
no idea, but some of you need to take the
masks off, the pressure off, the performance off, and then
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you need to pick up something that's familiar.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
It said.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
He picked up five smooth stones from a stream and
put them into his shepherd's bag. Now I just want
to just go there for one second and see all
of these warriors, these big three hundred movie looking guys
with swords and clubs, and David walks over to a
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stream and says, Lord, I'm gonna do this for your glory,
but I can't do it being something that I'm not.
So I'm gonna humble myself and bend down in front
of everybody looking at me, and I'm gonna grab the things.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
That I'm used to.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
The question is, what are the things in your bag
that you're used to? The things should be stuff like prayer,
reading the word, spending time in worship. I'm gonna just
go back to the basics of what I'm used to using,
encouraging people even when I don't feel encouraged. I'm gonna
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go back to those regular things. And I believe the
fundamentals of what you taught me and the pastor are
going to be the fiercest weapon I could use on
the platform where people are watching. And look what happens
right here, he said, He picked up five smooth stones,
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put him in his shepherd's bag. I love this. Then
armed only with his shepherd's staff and sling. All he
had was a stick and a sling shot.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Do you know how ridiculous this looks?
Speaker 2 (39:23):
And the Bible says that he started across the valley
to fight the philistine. I want you to get the
picture of you with all of yourself, the flaws, the mistakes,
the hurts, the unpreparedness, and God saying you're enough, do
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the things that I've called you to do, and head
towards the enemy.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Well, God, I don't.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
I didn't ask you all that you're enough. Well what
if I didn't ask you all that you're enough? Well
I haven't had it. I didn't ask you about that
ether you're enough? Well what if they it doesn't matter,
you're enough. But I can't get over that is the past.
But right now you are enough. And I came to
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tell somebody, so it's time for you to stop being
the JV version of somebody else and be the varsity
version of you.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
You are enough.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Next week I'm gonna talk to you about what happens
when you actually kill the giant.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
But on this.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Father's Day, somebody needed to hear this resounding.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Consistent message.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
He didn't bring you this far to let you fail
in front of everybody. When he called you, he knew
your needs would be shaken.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
He knew that your past would have criminal record in it.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Me when he called you, he knew what your struggles
were gonna be, and he still wrote from the beginning,
you are enough. I want to pray for every person
in this room has been struggling with feeling like they
were enough to do what God called him to do.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Maybe you're a father in here and you haven't been
in your children's life, and you're saying I can't go
back now. They're ten, they're eleven, they're thirteen, they're seventeen,
they're twenty eight, and God's saying today this whole message.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Was for you. You're enough.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
There's something that can still be done, whether they don't
want to accept it or night. But you could write
a note every month and apologize and speak life, and
you're enough. There's a single mother in this room right
now who's saying, God, I cannot do this anymore. And
God's saying, when I let those kids beep sent to
you and for them to come into this earth, I
equipped you with everything that you needed.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
You are enough. There's a high that's been in a
family of abuse and you don't know if you're gonna
make it out. God says to you today, prophetically, you
are enough.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
If you're in this building or you're watching online and
there's an area that you have been deficient and feeling
that you had enough, I want you to stand up
all over this building. Come on, right now. I want
you to stand up. Even at your house. I want
you to stand up. Why don't you just go ahead
and lift your hands right now. I know that there
are people that are trying to figure it out, but
I want to pray for you.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Father. I thank you that.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
You have marked these who are listening, and you have
marked these father who are in this building, and Father,
on this day, on Father's Day where we worship you,
our father God, today I'm thinking you from a spiritual
affirmation to all your children that lets us know that
we are enough. You did not create mistakes, you did
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not create accidents. You did not leave us here to struggle,
but you said in the midst of struggle you would
walk with us. So today we affirm and confirm every
area of our life that.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Has been missing.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
I thank you, Father that right now, by your presence,
you are allowing confidence and hope and joy to arise
on the inside. I thank you that there'll be strict
like never before. They'll be peace like never before. Father,
There'll be boldness, the type of boldness that David had
to be able to be.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Himself but still slay the giant.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Today, Father, give us that type of faith and let
us know that we are enough because we have put
our trust in the one who has been enough. We
thank you, We honor you, and we bless your name
in Jesus' name. Amen, come on, let's give God some praise. Oh,
come on, like you know that God, may you enough.
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The Burden
The Burden is a documentary series that takes listeners into the hidden places where justice is done (and undone). It dives deep into the lives of heroes and villains. And it focuses a spotlight on those who triumph even when the odds are against them. Season 5 - The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance On April Fools Day 1999, 26-year-old Yvonne Layne was found murdered in her Alliance, Ohio home. David Thorne, her ex-boyfriend and father of one of her children, was instantly a suspect. Another young man admitted to the murder, and David breathed a sigh of relief, until the confessed murderer fingered David; “He paid me to do it.” David was sentenced to life without parole. Two decades later, Pulitzer winner and podcast host, Maggie Freleng (Bone Valley Season 3: Graves County, Wrongful Conviction, Suave) launched a “live” investigation into David's conviction alongside Jason Baldwin (himself wrongfully convicted as a member of the West Memphis Three). Maggie had come to believe that the entire investigation of David was botched by the tiny local police department, or worse, covered up the real killer. Was Maggie correct? Was David’s claim of innocence credible? In Death and Deceit in Alliance, Maggie recounts the case that launched her career, and ultimately, “broke” her.” The results will shock the listener and reduce Maggie to tears and self-doubt. This is not your typical wrongful conviction story. In fact, it turns the genre on its head. It asks the question: What if our champions are foolish? Season 4 - The Burden: Get the Money and Run “Trying to murder my father, this was the thing that put me on the path.” That’s Joe Loya and that path was bank robbery. Bank, bank, bank, bank, bank. In season 4 of The Burden: Get the Money and Run, we hear from Joe who was once the most prolific bank robber in Southern California, and beyond. He used disguises, body doubles, proxies. He leaped over counters, grabbed the money and ran. Even as the FBI was closing in. It was a showdown between a daring bank robber, and a patient FBI agent. Joe was no ordinary bank robber. He was bright, articulate, charismatic, and driven by a dark rage that he summoned up at will. In seven episodes, Joe tells all: the what, the how… and the why. Including why he tried to murder his father. Season 3 - The Burden: Avenger Miriam Lewin is one of Argentina’s leading journalists today. At 19 years old, she was kidnapped off the streets of Buenos Aires for her political activism and thrown into a concentration camp. Thousands of her fellow inmates were executed, tossed alive from a cargo plane into the ocean. Miriam, along with a handful of others, will survive the camp. Then as a journalist, she will wage a decades long campaign to bring her tormentors to justice. Avenger is about one woman’s triumphant battle against unbelievable odds to survive torture, claim justice for the crimes done against her and others like her, and change the future of her country. Season 2 - The Burden: Empire on Blood Empire on Blood is set in the Bronx, NY, in the early 90s, when two young drug dealers ruled an intersection known as “The Corner on Blood.” The boss, Calvin Buari, lived large. He and a protege swore they would build an empire on blood. Then the relationship frayed and the protege accused Calvin of a double homicide which he claimed he didn’t do. But did he? Award-winning journalist Steve Fishman spent seven years to answer that question. This is the story of one man’s last chance to overturn his life sentence. He may prevail, but someone’s gotta pay. The Burden: Empire on Blood is the director’s cut of the true crime classic which reached #1 on the charts when it was first released half a dozen years ago. Season 1 - The Burden In the 1990s, Detective Louis N. Scarcella was legendary. In a city overrun by violent crime, he cracked the toughest cases and put away the worst criminals. “The Hulk” was his nickname. Then the story changed. Scarcella ran into a group of convicted murderers who all say they are innocent. They turned themselves into jailhouse-lawyers and in prison founded a lway firm. When they realized Scarcella helped put many of them away, they set their sights on taking him down. And with the help of a NY Times reporter they have a chance. For years, Scarcella insisted he did nothing wrong. But that’s all he’d say. Until we tracked Scarcella to a sauna in a Russian bathhouse, where he started to talk..and talk and talk. “The guilty have gone free,” he whispered. And then agreed to take us into the belly of the beast. Welcome to The Burden.