Big Steppa // Mustard: The Seed That Can Change Everything (Part 6) // Pastor Michael Todd

WEEK 6: MUSTARD: The Seed That Can Change Everything // BIG STEPPA
The time for you to lead is NOW. After Moses’ death, Joshua didn’t just inherit a position—he received a promise. “Wherever you set your foot, I’ve already given it to you.” But to walk in it, Joshua had to rise up and step out. He had to become a BIG STEPPA. In Week 6 of the Mustard Series, Pastor Michael Todd shows us what it looks like to walk with bold faith while letting God lead every step. This message will teach you how to See Big, Talk Big, Execute Big, and Pace for Big.
Scripture References:
Joshua 1:1-3 NLT
Romans 12:6-18 NLT
Joshua 1:4-11 NLT
Matthew 14:22-33 NLT
Proverbs 11:14 NKJV

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to
the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so
glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe
God will transform your life. Do today's message.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
We are in week six of a series that we're
calling let's get real loud, real quick. Help me? What's
the series called? Muster? Somebody had to do it? All right, y'all,
y'all quit, y'all, Quinn, thank you. Next week is our

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last week of this series, and I believe that the
conclusion of the series is going to be an on
time word for probably one hundred percent of us. And
God's given me the title of next week's message, or
at least the topic, and I'm gonna just tell you,
I feel prophetically to tell you the name of it.

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Next week we're gonna be talking about the faith to rest. Yeah,
because some of y'all believe God big in faith to
do something that now you've become a slave to the
thing that you put your hand on, you won't take
your hand off. And I feel prophetically that I need

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to speak life into the power of rest. And next
week it is a do not miss message because it's
going to set the pattern for you to be able
to watch this word last. Some of you have a

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good ten more years to do what God's caused you
to do, when he's actually put thirty more in you.
But you're using the energy of thirty years in the
span of ten because you will not rest. All right,

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And so next week, for all my workaholics, for all
my control freaks, for all of the people that say
I'm just grinding, I'm just hustling, I ain't never going
back there you every day, Well, I got it. Well,
every day I'm grinding. Every day. I'm whustling with every deal.
When you're saying when you plan all of those anthems
in your head that culture gave you, I just want

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you to know that that goes directly against the design
of God. Nobody's created anything greater than creation. And even
in the Plan of Creation, he puts a day in
there where he tells us this is for rest and

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everybody in this room, I'm not even supposed to be
saying this, but y'all pulling on me today. Everybody in
this room would tell everybody else in this room, don't murder,
don't sleep with your Homeboy's wife, because these are commandments.
But if somebody came up to you and say take

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a day off, it would be the only commandment that
you could excuse day after day after day after day,
and some people might even praise you for it. Look
how hard they work, God sees, Look how hard they're
disobeying me. Right, No, that's next week, next week, next week,

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next week. Okay, but I cannot watch this. I can
not talk about rest until I properly and adequately explain
to you work because there's another group of people that
have got on the rest wagon without the work. You

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always need a personal day. You all mays need a
mental health break. Oh, come on. There is an abuse
happening in the world today for people being in uncomfortable
situations and saying it's affecting them negatively. But what they

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don't understand is the pressure, the challenge, the opposition is
the only the resistance is the only thing that builds
you to actually get any better. There is no growth
without discomfort. There is no growth without being uncomfortable. And
most people want their walk with Jesus and the plan

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and the purpose that the Key has for their life
to actually be something that is You don't say it
out loud, but you think it in your heart. You
want it to be easy, but I cannot get up
here in my right mind and with conviction of the
Holy Spirit, and let you know that when you follow Jesus,
it's gonna be It's not gonna be easy. It's gonna

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be work. And this is where I have to speak
to us actually putting our faith, our mustard seed faith
into action, because there are so many people that need
a break from doing nothing. Okay, you need a vacation

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and you haven't put in any work. What do you
need a break from? What do you need to step
back from? You have done nothing in the last seventeen
months that requires there's you to actually stop thinking about something.

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Prove it to me. Where's the plan? Where's the step?
Where's the proof? Where's the concept? Where's the tape? Where's
the CD? Where is the thing that God has been
telling you to put your hands on? I didn't say
is it finished? I said is it worked on? Have

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there been revisions? How many versions of it do you have? Okay,
how many people have you cut on it? How many
times have you submitted it? How many times have you
put in the application. How many times have you knocked
on the door. How many times have you gone past
your own insecurities and stepped into a place of work

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that might be uncomfortable. Many of us are needing a
revelation of work. They don't want this. If it was
up to you, half the animals wouldn't have names. Yeah,
all of them is giraffes. All of them giraffes, elefis alligators.

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Think about it because the first thing God gave Adam
before he gave him Eve, he gave him work, he
gave him responsibility, He gave and watched this a problem
to solve. What problem has God given you to solve

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that you are daily waking up with the intentionality to
actually put your work, mind, thoughts, hands to every day.
And so I would be out of order to talk
to you about rest next week, which many of us
need who do work. But there is another group of

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people who have not been working. Watch this on maybe
the right thing. So maybe there is work happening, maybe
there's motion, maybe there's energy being expended, but you're not

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doing the right work. Tuser Micha. Why you keep talking
about work? Because in the end, when we stand before
Jesus at the Great White Throne judgment. The Bible tells
us that He's going to put on the big screen
of Heaven every work that we ever do on this earth.

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And I just don't want your slide show to be short.
Y'all ever seen the slides shows in high school and
they supposed to give a whole presentation and it's like
this is an amba. Thank you. My name is Charles, Like, hey,

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I'm sorry, you're just their yellow hat. God shows you.
What I'm saying is what I'm saying is when we
get to Heaven, I want you to be able to
sit down and watch all of the people you fed,

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all of the conversations, all of the encouragement, all of
the text messages, all the revisions that nobody will see.
But God saw all of the paintings that aren't in
art studios but are in your children's bedrooms, the work

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that God requires. Watch this takes faith. It's gonna take
you using what you have right now, which for many
of us, and the thing that God's called us to do. Amuch,
how many people really think right now, if God gave
me a little more in this area, I probably would
do more like come on, just like, if God gave
me a little more money, then I could step out

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and do this. If God would give me just at
least two plugs, like two people that could help me
know what to do, I would do more. Come on,
if God would just how many Okay, let's just be honest,
let's be humble a how many people have thought that,
Like God has asked you to do something, and you're like, God,
could you just give me a little more help? Every

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time I've asked God that question, this is what he
speaks back to me in my prayer time. Have you
done everything you can with what you have? Have you
done everything you can with what you have? And the
truth of the matter for most of us is we

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don't have faith to do the work that we don't
know if it's gonna get the result. Did you hear
what I just said. We only want to do the
work if we know it's gonna produce a result. Like
if I know it's gonna work, then I'll do the work.

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But you don't understand that the product that God is
working on is not what you have your hands on.
The product that He's working on is you. And so
I find so many times in the Bible that God
puts work as the actual process to get you to

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the product he wants. Okay, Holy Spirit, help me say
it better. Sometimes God will call you the work that
will not end up in good results because the work
he wanted was not on the thing you were doing.
The work he wonted was the work and the wrestle
and the transformation and the toyo and the emitting and

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the confession and the transparency that had to happen in you.
God has asked me to do some things that He
set me up to fail. Y'all don't believe in this God,
because I know you think everything is up into the right.
But there are sometimes that God will give you an
assignment that you cannot accomplish so he can kill pride

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in you. Yeah no, no, no, no, I'm gonna give him that
job that they think they the man six figure making
it happen. You don't know how to read the document
of your job description. You sitting there looking at him
like I know some of these words like like and

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many times watch this. The stretch that he makes you
take is so you can fail at that, but be
prepared for something else. And what you don't understand is
all the time. This is why y'all don't read y'all
Bible and believe in all things all of them are

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working together for my good. But if the things are
working together for my good, but I'm not working, my
faith is anything working. So today I just I'm coming
to encourage you to work your faith like actually plant

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the mustard seed. Don't just hold it and be like
I got a mustard seed of it. Don't just do that.
Put it in the ground, water it, check on it,
put some fertilizer on it. Don't just plant one seed. Okay,

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don't don't just do it one time. You got all
this space and opportunity twenty four hours in every day
God has given you another day. You just scream, I'm
still here doing nothing. Okay. I'm just trying to let
you know you have so much on the inside of
you riding away at the job you complain about every day.

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I'm not telling you to leave the job. I'm just
telling you don't spend the time after the job mindlessly
giving your time, energy and effort to things that aren't
a part of the purpose and planning your if God
in your life. And so today I want you to
tell your neighbor. All I need you to do tell
them is work your faith. Now, look at the neighbor

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you didn't like as much because you did make a choice.
Look at them with conviction and say, all I need
you to do it's worth your faith. Okay, all right,
all right, Joshua. Chapter one, I Love my Church. It says,

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after the death of Moses, the Lord's servant, the Lord
spoke to Joshua. Who did the Lord speak to Okay,
the Lord spoke to Joshua, son of none. Moses is assistant.
So I want you to realize who this is. This
is josh He was Moses's right hand man. Okay, But

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after the death of Moses. So where's Moses right now?
I just love a class who pays attention. Where's Moses
right now? Moses is dead. God's fixed to josh and
he was Moses's assistant. Verse two, This is God speaking Moses,
my servant is dead. Now that's crazy because Joshua know

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he did, he was, He know that he's dead. But
many times God has to come and speak to us
about dead things, even though we know the life has
left them. And my question is why, why is God

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telling you the relationship is dead and you saw it die.
Why is God telling you to stop following that dream?
And you know that well has been dry for years.
You still trying to be a rapper at sixty four
him see two French, Stop, go help somebody else. All

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I'm saying to you is much of the time that
we need a word from God. He's having to speak
stuff that is already common sense because for some reason
we won't acknowledge what it actually is. Look what he says, Moses,
my servant is dead. Therefore the time has come for

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you to lead these people, the Israelites, across the Jordan River,
into the land I am giving them. I promise you
what I promise Moses, wherever, oh I love that word,
wherever you step foot, you will be on land that

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I have given you. I want you to know how
exciting this is for a child of God. Wherever these
size twelves, yell out what size shoe you wear, wherever

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these sides, wherever, wherever the size of your feet find
to set foot. He said, that's the land that I'm
giving you. This is the level of faith that I

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believe God wants us to have the audacity to begin
to walk in that whatever neighborhood, I say, my family
will live in this neighborhood. That there is a process
that you can believe that He's giving wherever you step
in that school, in the government, wherever you step in

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the entertainment industry. The thing is, y'all don't believe it.
No no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. About
six of y'all do. But there's another three thousand that
have taken the stance of the people who died in
the land that God was bringing them through. See, the

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only reason that Joshua, I just need to give you
context has to become the leader is because Moses died
in the place that was supposed to be a pass through.
He brings the children of Israel out of slavery into

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the wilderness for a process. They begin to complain. God says,
you're complaining. Your disobedience, You not doing what I asked
you to do, is going to keep you in a
holding pattern. And he literally says, none of y'all are
going to get into the place I promised you, but

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your children will. And so he says, only two people
are gonna be able to walk into the promised land,
the people who had the faith to believe me. Watch
this when I said it the first time. Okay, I

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need to tell you there is an exception for people
who actually are naive enough to believe what God says
the first time. He literally gives Moses the same promise.
Take these people into the Promised Land. It's the whole
reason I brought them out of slavery. It's the reason
I parted the sea drown their enemy. It's the holy

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enough for them to stay in a wilderness, in a desert.
I brought them out to take them to God never
brings you out to leave you. He brings you out
to take you too. And so if you feel in
a place like you're going around and around, there may
be a hint of disobedience in the camp. That's why
you gotta start asking yourself, what did God really say?
Am I making any idols? Am I worshiping anything that

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I'm not supposed to be worshiping? Am I listening to
something that's keeping me in the wilderness? Am I watching
a TV program and watching the third season of the
ninth episode of something that's keeping the cycle? The wilderness
was not a place to park, but an entire group

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an entire generation died. So now God has to tell Joshua,
who was already supposed to be in a promise, that
get out of this park because he almost thought that

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God wanted him to stay there too, the way that
some of y'all think that this is it. Let's just
put all the effort and energy into my kids, children
and my grandchildren. And God said, now it's time for
you to lead. Now it's time. I know you've already
retired from one job. Now it's time for you to

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go into this calling. Oh God, I know you're ready
to do what your friends are doing. And just be
on a boat every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. That's my dream,
just to be on the boat fishing, Just to be
on the boat with me and God, me and the

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great outdoors and God saying like, yeah, I have work
for you to do. I'm not saying that the boat
is not even a vehicle that he'll use. But what
I'm saying is if you are in the mindset that
because you've made enough resources to not have to work,
then you have finished the purpose of God. So you

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don't have to work. You are out of line. And
today I just want to engage everybody to work their
faith again. Joshua, I need you to know, Moses, my
servant is what is he? Okay, write this point down.

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God not on that, No Mo. I don't know who
needs to hear that. But some of us are praying
about things that God's not on. No Mo, God, would
you just please just open up this door and would
you just please he ain't on that no more? God,
would you just please turn his heart so that he

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loved me. I know he's been in three relationships, but
I'm waiting on him. God, I'm waiting on this man.
You showed me in a dream that he was the
one and Juday, God coming for you. Daddy, God, Daddy God.
I'm right here praying. This is the picture. This is
us together, the ones I glued together and put it together. Lord,

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And this is what. He ain't on that no more.
You still laying hands on something that he's moved on
from you still telling people he's not on that. And

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there is a such thing as the timing of God.
And a lot of people try to extend the seasons
that God gives special grace for. If I wouldn't have
gone into youth pastoring in the season that I did.
I would not be here in this capacity right now
preaching to you if Bishop Macintosh wouldn't have said to

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me and then I would have received the word, hey,
I believe there's something on your life to do this
and go to a whole other level. It doesn't mean
I wouldn't be used by God. But if I was
trying to go into youth pastoring right now, I don't
even know half of the sayings the language. I was
talking to me the other day and she was explaining
to me Riz. And when Miah was explaining to me Riz,

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and then she said, Riz, what was the other one? Riz?
You said, Riz something? What was it? You don't even remember?
And I was like, Oh, you mean charisma, said somebody
in the audience, like, oh, and so the word is charisma.
But like you have written, what I'm saying is I

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could spend all of my energy and effort trying to
figure out how to be that. That's why Ties the
youth pastor. He's back here explaining it right now. He's like, oh, yeah, Riz,
you know what I'm saying. Like, that's why Heter you've
passed because he watched Because in this time and season
he has been given, not that I can't speak a word,

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not that I can do what God's called me to do,
but I don't have all of the now, don't get
it twisted. Your boy got rised. Don't get it twisted, huh, Natalie.
Tell them about your boy, tell him, Tell them what
I do know. I'm the watch this. It's because we

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serve a god. Listen, I want you to apply this
to your life. We serve a God of time and season.
And I don't care how much you yell. It's summer
in December and Tulsa, you better have a coat because
the time and the season. And I just came to

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tell somebody I'm not gonna spend too much more time
right here. But there are some things that you are
believing for that God's not on no more. That thing
is dead, that relationship is dad, that building that you're

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trying to buy now has no more grace for the
assignment he called you to do six years ago. And
too many people are finding themselves in a spot that
God used to give them instructions about. But I just

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came to tell somebody he ain't on that no more.
Can I say it a different way? The grace has lifted,
the grace is lifted. Some of y'all are friends with
people that you used to could spend days with, and
now at their text message, it sucks energy from you.

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All they have to text is hey, and you're like,
oh ooh, wasn't expecting that today. Y'all know what I'm
talking about and what we have not done. Has realized
that the season of our connection. And I love them

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and we love the same things, and our kids now
around the same age. But I have to come to
grips with that. I only have so much energy to
do what God has called me to do. And if
I'm trying to manage something that actually is not even
a part of what I feel God is doing, I
gotta realize He ain't on that no more. This is

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what calls for emotional maturity. This is why you can't
pray everything away. You got to learn to communicate because
some of us will not say to somebody, hey, my
life set up is a little different right now. I
love you, I'm praying for you, but I don't want

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us to have any unspoken expectations. So literally, I love
you and I'll see you when I see you. And
they might be mad for a moment. They may be hurt.
They may be, but what you did was walk in
integrity to be able to report. At least they told me.

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They didn't just ghost me, and like, oh, they ain't
never invite me to Christmas. They don't invite me. And
you on Instagram, and you now afraid for people to
see your stuff. You're afraid to show up places because
they're usually there. You don't switch gyms now because you
don't want to work out with them no more. But
you never had a conversation. And all I'm saying to

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the people of God that maybe God's not on that
no more. Joshua had to learn that, and and that's
why I want to let you know. The way may change,
but the waymaker doesn't. The way may change, but the
waymaker doesn't. So he tells Joshua, all right, Moses is dad.
Therefore it's time for you to work. It's time for you.

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You to get up off of the excuses of the
last generation. Stop blaming them for what you're not in now. Oh,
stop talking about the trauma of the past. They dead now,
they've chosen what they want. Their marriage was, what it was,
what's yours gonna be? Oh God, I said it in

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my book, damage but not destroyed. But it may have
not been your fault, but it is now your responsibility.
And I believe God is calling some of us to
a new level of work. He's saying, Moses is dead,
the last generation is dead. The time has come for
you to lead. I came to speak to every leader

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in this room that God wants you to walk in
another level of faith and it's going to take you
first accepting watch this. You're the leader. Me and now
he was talking the other day and you know, we
was fine somewhere talking about something, and we looked at
each other and was like, we're the adults. I don't

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know if you've ever had that moment before. Okay, come on,
get out who let's be will how many of us
ever had that moment, some of us fifty eight years
old being like, I'm not good. I'm making the decision.
You can stay naive in that place, or you can
make the decision. No, I'm the adult. I'm the leader here.

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I get to set the culture here. I get to
decide what I pay money on. I get to decide what.
And God is calling some of us to say, hey,
there's not another pastor coming to lead the generation. You're
the leader now. There's not another nonprofit, there's not another
book that somebody else is gonna write. He said, you

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are the leader. Now, Joshua has to breathe this in me.
I've been the assistant the whole time. He said. That
was preparation for where I was gonna put your feet,
and you would love to stay in what was just training.

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Some of you have been on the sidelines, been behind
the scene. I don't like this. No, that's just where
God's placed you for training. But now he's calling you
to lead. And as he calls you to lead in
your home, has he calls you to lead in that
PTA meeting, as he calls you to lead at the
gym or with your group of friends. I need everybody
to hear me say this. The time is now. I imagine

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that Joshua in twenty four hours goes into an entire
like question about his whole life because one day he's
sitting with all of these people and they still in
the wilderness, and then God comes to him and says,
get up, time to work. You're the leader. Now Moses
is dead. Get them prepared. I didn't plan for all
of this, Lord, can we talk. This wasn't what week,

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this wasn't on my daily planner. And God's saying, right now,
you're the leader. And this is why I want to
encourage you. With Romans twelve six. For every person who's
about to take a big step, somebody say a big step,
You're about to take a big step into leadership. I
want to encourage you that God has gifted you to
do this. Romans twelve to six. It says, in his grace,

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God has given us different gifts for doing certain things. Well.
So if God has given you the ability to prophesied,
the time is now speak out with as much faith
as God has given you. If your gift is serving others,
the time is now serve them well. If you are
a teacher, the time is now teach well. If your

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gift is to encourage others, the time is now be encouraging.
If it is giving, the time is now give generously.
If God has given you leadership ability, the time is now.
I don't care if you're thirteen, Lead now, Timothy. Don't

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let them despise you because you're young. Actually be the example.
In integrity, it says, if you've been given the leadership ability.
The time is now take the responsibility. Oh my God, seriously,
and if you have a gift for showing kindness to others,

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guess what the time is now? Do it gladly. Don't
just pretend to love others. The time is now to
really love them. My God, hate what is wrong, hold
tightly to what is good. Love each other with you affection,
and take delight in honoring each other. Never be lazy,

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because the time is now put in that work work hard.
Did it say work hard? Not skip out, not leave
thirty minutes early, not show up late, and expect PTO.
I'm just trying to tell you how believers are supposed

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to work hard and serve the Lord enthusiastically. Rejoice in
our confident hope, which is Jesus. Be patient and trouble
because the time is now. Keep on friend. When God's
people are in need, be ready to help them. Always
be eager to practice hospitality. I'm gonna speak a whole

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message on that. Some of y'all just not nice to people.
It says you should be ready to practice hospitality at
any moment. Okay, let's lead that alone. But somebody needed
that fourteen Bless those Ooh, this one a hard one.
Bless those who persecute you. Don't curse them out, don't

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say curses over them. Instead, use your tongue for something productive. Pray.
Oh that God, when the last time you actually prayed
for God to bless the people that's talking bad about you? God,

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I thank you that you will bless them with a
car wreck today, Lord, that you would. That's not that's
not blessing them. Y'all hear me, that person that you know, Father,
I thank you that God. I don't have a lot
of nice words. Oh he's fine with honesty. God, I

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don't have a lot of nice words, but I pray
that they would have an encounter with you. I pray
that the spaces and places where they are empty, that
you would fill them up. God. At this moment, I
want to fight, but I thank you that you fight

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for me. And so at this moment, Father, whatever has
led them to be in that position, I thank you, Father, God,
that you would prosper their heart, their mind, their family,
and that you would get the glory out of their
life at some point, in some way, and somehow I

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can't see it right now, I know your ways are
not my ways, and your thoughts are not my thoughts.
In Jesus' name, practice praying for people you don't like.

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Be happy with those who are happy, and weep with
those who weep. Live in harmony with each other. This
is for every leader. They're supposed to get into the
action right now. Don't be too proud to enjoy the
company of ordinary people. To the religious who think you're

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supposed to only hang out with Christian people, who going
to shout every time somebody say hallelujah, don't be too
proud to hang out and enjoy. Enjoy, actually like talking
to company who are just ordinary and don't think, oh

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I love the Bible. Don't think you know it all.
Never pay back evil with more evil. Do things in
such a way that everyone can see you are honorable.
Do all that you can to live in peace with everyone.

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What am I trying to say, It's time for you
to lead. Leader. And you know why Joshua could lead.
It was because he became the title of my message.
Write it down a big stepper, y'all know what I'm

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talking about. Like you know somebody who walks into the
room and they take up space. He said, every place
that your foot treads. He said that this place would
be yours. Could you bring up that little example real quick,
because I want to show you how to be a
big stepper real quick. Write this down. We got just

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a few minutes and we're gonna get out here. I'm
gonnaive y'all a couple points and then we're going here
we go. Yeah, just bring that for me, and yeah,
just set it up like right about here. Okay, Oh
what are these? These are size eighteen shoes. This is

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a big foot. I want I want everybody to see
the ratio of this shoe to my face. This is
gonna represent God's step, and I'm gonna just this is

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gonna represent my footstep. Now, most of us are thinking
when God says take a step, we think he's telling
us to take a step on our own, to take
a step. That makes sense for us. But what God

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wants everybody to know is that when he calls us
to take a step, he's not asking us to step
without him. He's asking us to step with him. So
if I step into this piece of clay, it leaves

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watch this my footprint. But when you step in the
lane and the place that God has called you to
walk in. This is his promise and his life. And

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what you don't understand is I can still move in
his step. It looks funny to you. This looks unproportionate.
Let's be clear. No, no, no. If I walked up,
what's up? My name is pasted somebody. I want to
minister the word of God to you. You wouldn't hear

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anything I said because of how big these white shoes
are down here. Look at from the side, look at
it from the side. But I want you to see something.
I want you to see that. Put put the camera
on right here. I want you to see. Do y'all
see my footstep? Anytime God is asking you to go

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into land that he's called you to the end should
not be your imprint. People shouldn't be saying how great
you are. People shouldn't be talking about how much you
kill it and how there's nobody else like you. They
should be able when they step out of what God

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has done. It should be so him that the lasting
impressed of his foot. You are no longer able to

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see that it was me in step with God. The
only thing you're able to see is that God was here. Yes,
and some of you need to get excited about being
in the plan of God, because it will not be
able to trace back to you. It will not be
because of your education, It will not be because you

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were born into the right family. It will be because
you obeyed God. Somebody say, I'm a big stepper. Okay,
I'm coming back to this. So the first thing that
you do to become a big stepper write it down.
You have to see big. Somebody says, see big. This

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is what I call walking in crazy faith. Joshua is
about to take two million people into a land that
only two people from that tribe have ever been to
him and one other person and everybody else that had been.
There were ten other spies that were sent back in numbers.
They all died because they didn't have the faith to

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believe what God said. Joshua was. Oh, I love this.
Joshua was preserved because he believed he believed God. God
preserved him, and now he's about to do something that's crazy.
What I'm asking everybody to do is, if God has
given you a promise, I want you to do some

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work that seems crazy. Let me tell you about a situation.
Me and my wife were believing God for a house
back in twenty and twenty two, and God provided this
really beautiful home that we wanted to move into. We
needed more. Jia was about to be born or was
just born, So this is twenty twenty three. Jia was

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born and we didn't have enough space in the house
that we were at, but we were content being there.
And then I was like, ah, we need to believe
God for something. And God told me, he said, Michael,
step into what you want. We started looking for houses.
We found a house that we wanted. The person that
was building the house walked into the house while we

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were looking at it. We had a great relationship that happened,
and he gave me the cold to get into the house.
Now I don't know why, like we don't know each other.
This is not somebody I'm friends with. But he just
was like, yeah, if you want to come by and
bring your wife and dah da da nah, you guys
can just get in and see the place. He did

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the wrong thing. He didn't know I was a man
of crazy faith. We went into the house. I said, Natalie,
do you want this house? She said, yeah, I think
I want this I said I do too, and I
want to be in here by Christmas. This is November
like twenty seventh, like they still putting stuff in. And

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then my wife she want to change stuff. She's like,
I don't like the backsplases. I't want to change the backsplans.
I don't like this. I want to do this. I said,
it's gonna all be done by Christmas. And I walked
in there and I was gonna leave, and the Holy
Spirit said, do something that makes everybody know that you
believe this is your house. I said, this about to

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be crazy. Now what did we do? We went to
home depot and brought a Christmas tree. You remember this.
We bought a Christmas tree and went to that house
because I had the cold. I'm not condoning people to

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break in the houses and put up Christmas trees. I'm
just saying for me, I knew that the worst thing
that could happens I lose a Christmas tree because the
man changes the code or they tell me never to
come back for trespassing or something. But there was something
in me was that I needed to do something to

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put my mind to see my family being in that
house to see. And I put that Christmas tree up,
plugged it in and I'm telling you that me and
my family celebrated our first Christmas in that we moved
in on December eighteenth. Y'all don't got a clap with me.

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They told me it was no way it could happen.
But when I stepped I saw big. And it may
not be putting a Christmas tree in something. But some
of y'all need to go to a bank and tell
them that I'm starting a business. It's the name of
the business. It's big business, and you need to open

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up the account and you need to go ahead and
put the one hundred dollars you got in it. I'm
so on the first seed into this million dollar company.
It's only crazy. Somebody says, see big. But every time
you see big, this is the other thing I want
you to know. You need to see the flip side

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of it, see a boundary, because most people see big
and then don't see god giving boundaries. But but verse
four of Joshua one, it says, I'm giving you all
of this land, but I'm giving it to you within parameters.
Everything from the Najeev Wilderness in the south to the

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Lebanon Mountains in the north, from the Euphrates River in
the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west, including
all the land of the Hittites. Everybody just reads over this,
But what God was giving was parameters. I'm telling you,
big step everywhere you put show foot within this category.

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Did you just see that? Take all the space up
that God has given you. Do everything He's called you
to do. Somebody say, big step up within these borders.
And so many people take God saying do what I
told you to do, and you stepping into a relationship

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with a married man. Hold on, we're so hold on, wait,
how did y'all even get close enough to know each
other like that? You went outside of boundaries. I'm telling
you God's love is many times shown in parameters, and

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so I want you to see me. Somebody say, see big,
but see boundaries all right. Then the second thing I
want you, if you're gonna be a big stepper, I
want you to talk big too. Who Joshua I told
you back in numbers fourteen he would sit with twelve
other spies into the land because they was gonna go

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forty years earlier. But they got a bad report from
ten people and a good report from two people. The
fear of the ten people spread to two million, and
literally the two people were drowned out even though they
had the right answer. Don't think numbers or popularity means right,

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Oh God, don't think because the majority is going with it,
it means that it was God. And I look about
I look at numbers fourteen and six when they ask
him to report back. And look how Joshua was talking.
He said, they said to all the people. He said,
the land we traveled through and explored is a wonderful land.

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He's talking big, and if the Lord is please with us,
he will bring us safely into that land and give
it to us. It is a rich landflord with milk
and honey. He was talking big to everybody who didn't believe.
God's gonna heal my family and bring us back together.
And I don't know how he's gonna do it, but

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I see it in the future. God's gonna save that
loved one. God's gonna deliver me out of this addiction.
I know I'm going to the liquor store right now,
but one day I will not be addicted to this bottle.
I will not be dripped. Y'all, don't hear what I'm
saying right now? Some of you need to start declaring,
I will not be bound by fear for the rest

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of my life. I will not be staked in depression,
even though you're under a cover and don't want to
get off. Life and death is in the power of
this tongue. Some of y'all needed to clo I will
not be angry another year. I will not be led
by rage anymore, even though you're about to break something

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right now. You can speak in faith, even though you
live in the lie. I'm living in the lie right now,
but I still can speak in faith. Sometime my word
is the thing that hooks me to the future, and
I'm just trying to pull my way out of this.
But I've spoken so many times, I've said it so

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many times. I believe it so many times. And if
you're gonna be a big stepper, sometimes you gotta go
from one step and you gotta say, you know what,
this is not how far God wants me to go.
He wants me to step in a certain and so
I'm about to talk about what God's gonna do. I
met with about four hundred people that have sold significantly

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into the progress and accelerating the vision of transformation. Church yesterday,
and these people came from all over the world, from California,
from Dallas, from Miami. These people transformation is they church.
He ain't never been here before. They have stepped into
this place this weekend. And I shared vision, and I
shared about what we're about to do, and I shared

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about what God is about to tell us as a church.
And I'm scared to share it with all of y'all
because it's big. It's big. Step in it's scary. Like
when I start talking about how we're going to impact
this city in the world, it might make some people
want to take a step back. But I've seen what

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God has done back here. Yes, let me put your
footprint back on here. Lord, it's all you got, It
was all you. I give you all the glory, honor
and praise. Step in here into this new thing. Watch.

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This means that I have to praise God for what
he did back there, but I can't stay there. Praise
God that he delivered you, Praise God that he brought
you out of poverty. Praise God that he gave you
a fresh mind. But you can't stay there. But you
know what the beautiful thing about this is every time

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that I think it's about me, because I'm right now
trying to figure out how I'm gonna get out of this.
I'm starting to cramp up a little bit, like just
right here, I realized, just in this moment, and I
believe it was God, that this is not me, this
is Him, and I can thank God and praise him

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for the step. God, I thank you for making this
steff God, I thank you for doing what I couldn't do.
I've talked about the spirit of Bank of Vincenter being
transformation struct but I couldn't make it happen. Thank you
for doing what you said you was gonna do. But
this is the place where many people make a moment
an idol. So I can't just talk about big faith.

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I gotta step back into it. Did y'all hear what
I just said. Some of you have thanked God because
he did it, and now you got to step back
into it. And this is what I want to say
to you. You don't just you don't just talk big.
Watch this. You need to talk back. You need accountability.
How to be a big stepper. You see big and

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you also see boundaries. You talk big, but you also
need talk back. Who around you can talk to you
about the big thing that you were about to do
and tell you maybe that ain't it. So many people
fall off the cliff of sanity and right thinking because

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they won't listen to nobody during the process. You almost
got it right, but something was just a little off.
That's why the Bible says in Proverbs eleven fourteen, where
there is no counsel, the people always fall Were you
not talking to nobody about what God has told you?
And some of y'all, like y'all believe this cultural life
move in silence another way to say that is moving

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secret if nobody knows. I'm not saying everybody should know,
but I'm just telling you somebody should know the big
thing that God's asking you to do. They might not
even agree. And sometimes the friction is to refine, and
sometimes you're like, h they just don't believe. No, they're
trying to make you think about something that you don't

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see right now, and you're about to go jeronimo and
jump off and give away everything that you built back here.
And God's saying, I put them there as a buffer,
I put them there as a redirector. I put them
there to help you do it. But don't do it
how you were gonna do it. So you need talk
back so that you can actually have safety. It says,

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where there is no counsel, the people fall, but in
the multitude of counselors there is everybody say safety. Okay,
number three, if you're gonna be a big step, if
somebody say big step, ball, here we go, you gotta
execute big. This is where the work comes in. I'm
not just gonna see it, and I'm not just gonna

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talk about it. I'm actually going to execute do it. Dud.
You ever seen a fight where all like back in
high school, where all they doing is and like everybody

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that's watching like all shoe, all shoe. But after like
six minutes, uh, you wanna throw a punch to get it?
Start you at bat oo oo, like at some point
if you'll fight. I'm not condoning fighting either, I'm just

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saying that that there would be a point where I'd
be like, do if if you're gonna open the daycare,
just do it. Move back in with your mom, use
the house that you have now, go to dhs get
the thinks you like, just the worst that can happen

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is it don't work. But who you became and the
process of trying a big step into God's plan for
your life. It's the next step to the journey of
who God's trying to make you. Nike just and the

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church may be the biggest talkers with no execution. The
church is here for the world, you mean, the organization,
and God's calling you because you the church, feed the homeless,
make six extra sandwiches every time you pack your lunch,

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and go find the execute. Somebody should start a nonprofit
to give people their basic need. You got seventeen lotions,
Go get some travel sized lotions and your extra tooth
past and go ahead and pump some of that big
old lotion and thing that you got into each one

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of those things. Take some three dollars tooth brushes, go
get some travels, and go be the church. Execute. That's
why God says, go into all the world and make disciples.
He didn't say before you went to seminary. He said,

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go to seminary first, and then go make a disciples.
He said, you can take the one scripture you know
and the testimony you've lived, and you can somebody shot
at me, go execute. I'm not saying you won't become
better and evolve and get I'm just saying, there will
never be a perfect time to start. And you're waiting

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for enough cachet and enough backing and enough UGH to go,
and God's saying, go now, go execute Joshua. Verse one
five and six says no one will be able to
stand against you if you go. If you execute this plan,

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I'm telling you, ain't nobody gonna be able to stop
you as long as you live, for I will be
with you as I was with Moses. I will not
fail you or abandon you. So this is everybody who's
gonna execute encouragement right now. Be strong and courageous, for

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you are the one. Ugh. It feels like God chose
me in a different way. In two weeks, Pastor Charles
is gonna preach a message series called God Chose Me.
And I'm telling you this thing is going to bless
your life because you need to know you are the one.
God is saying, come on, man, I put you here
on this earth for such a time as this. If

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it's time to open the therapy for men, do it.
If it's time, if it's time to start the hair business,
do it. If it's time to start the gym wheel
do it. I'm okay, let me see. I'm only talking
to big steppers. Here we go. He says, for you
are the one Ah who will lead these people to

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possess all the land I swore to their ancestors I
would give to them. What God is saying is you
stepping in big faith and executing. Ain't even about you.
This is about me keeping my promise to your grandma.

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This is about the prayers that your grandfather prayed. This
is about the prayers that they prayed on a plantation,
in the house as well as in the field. Oh God,
y'all not ready. This is about me keeping my promise.
So I need you to execute. I need you to

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do what God said because other people are waiting to
actually be in the place that they're supposed to be
in because you led them there. Okay. God's word has
to outweigh the fear in your life. And this is
why I'm giving you Joshua's example for you to execute.
So we're gonna execute big. Somebody say execute big, But

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the other part of that, the backside of that is
execute before it's big. Because everybody wants to execute big,
but not do the stuff to get there. So in
verse seven, it tells Joshua will be strong and very courageous.
Be careful here before you do this. Be careful to
obey all the instructions Moses gave you, which means you

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need to study. Do not deviate from them, turning either
to the right or the left. Then you will be
successful in everything you do. This is a promise, And
then it gives a word that a lot of us
don't like with chat chat GPT running the world right now. Study.

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I just want to say, the word of God still
requires you to study. I'm saying it because this is
an age where we're getting so addicted to answers without
research that this ancient book is still calling us study

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not everything. But this book ain't that what it's said,
Study this bok book of instructions called the Bible. Continually
meditate on it day and night, so you will be
sure uh to obey everything written in it. Only then
will you prosper and succeed in all you do. What
he was saying is you're about to go into a

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big space and you gonna see it, you gonna talk it,
you gonna take it. But I want you to know
the preparation beforehand is imperative for you to have the
victory in it. So there is two things you need
to do. Have spiritual preparation for the big place that
God is bringing you, and this is the other thing.
You need to have practical preparation. Talk to me, pastor Mike.

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Verse ten, it says Joshua then commanded the officers of
Israel go through the camp and tell all the people
get they stuff ready. There is provisions that are needed
for us to go to the Promised Land. Prepare practically
because in three days, in three weeks and three months
for you, some of us are about to cross into

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the Jordan River and take possession of the land the
Lord is giving you. All I'm telling you is get
your house in order, get your money in order, get
your relationships in order, because God's gonna say it's time
and no no, no, no, no, no last one. If you're

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gonna be a big stepper, I want you to pace
for big What's a pace? A pace is the tempo,
the timing. Everybody say, snap with me, Snap with me,
Snap at the top, gonna snap with me, Snap with me,

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stat with me, stat with me. The just feel like
two thousand. Okay, now watch the only reason everybody was
able to snap in Unison, it's because I set the pace.

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If I told everybody just a snap, it would just
have been a whole bunch of just It would have
been confusion. But because I set the pace. When you
set a pace, you have to set margin. The only
thing that makes a tempo. Watch this is the space
between the snaps. It's not the snaps, it's the space

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between the snaps. So when I snap, everybody snap with me.
Pace pace pace. If I make that shorter, it's not
unusual if I make that. But did you see the

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only difference watch this? The only difference was the margin
in the middle. Same snap, different margin. Most of us
are not making margin for what God's gonna do. You Like,
God said, he gonna do this. We come into a
brand new land. I'm taking over everything, and I'm saying,

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put a little more margin in there, because you just
know what he said already. You don't even know that
when you get in the land. You don't know that
God does exceedingly abundantly above all we can ask think,
are imagine you planning just to do one book? He said, Oh,

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make a little margin you just trying to get through
this one assignment, and God said, you're gonna be a professor, Like,
make a little more margin. I had no idea what
God was gonna do when he asked me to be
a lead pastor of a church. I thought we was
gonna be in North Tulsa for the next fifteen years.
I had no idea. And God said, hey, make a

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little room for me. I'm gonna give you a book
that you didn't even think you could write. That's gonna
go number one New York Time bestseller, and people in
different countries are gonna be speaking about what God gave
you in North Tulsa and how it transformed their life.
Make a little space because it ain't gonna be one book.

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It's gonna be three in four years. Make a little
space because then I'm gonna take it. I'm gonna make
it into a movie. Make a little space because I'm
giving you songs now for it, and I'm telling you
and if I would have stopped believing at the place
that he first said, I didn't pace myself for big.
And many times, when you only make this much room,

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when God's playing is this big, you become overwhelmed. By
the blessing you prayed for. All right, all right, So
if you're gonna pace for big, this is the last
thing you have to pace for bringing, pace for bringing

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who's coming along with you. This whole story was not
about Joshua getting to the Promised Land, because if it
was about Joshua, he would have went forty years earlier.
Jesus held him back so that he could bring people

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with him. Sometimes, when God's saying not yet, not yet,
it's not because you've been disobedient, not yet, not yet.
It's not because you don't have the skills. Not yet,
not yet. It's not because you're not qualified or you
won't be okay in the Promised Land. The reason is
you're the only one qualified to bring them into the
Promised Land. And if you don't factor in others into

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the plan of God in your life, then you will
selfishly think that you're punished in a season that God
is just being patient with everybody else to catch up to.
I've had to face this reality in my life several
times where God saying to me, Michael, is not happening

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right now because there's other people that have to get
on this boat before I do this. And I'm like,
I'm ready to go now out, Let's do this now. JG.
Windwerk eight seven seven cash. Now that's come up two
weeks in a row. All I'm saying is I want it,

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And God saying, if you go now, you leave them now.
And I'm the one who waits, who will let you
stay here and go back and get one. And I'm
just telling you, if you're going to be a big
step or no, that it won't be only your steps.

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There are children, family members, coworkers, watch this. People you
don't even know. I heard a testimony yesterday from a
gentleman here who told me he started watching our messages
in twenty seventeen, and when he started watching the messages,
he was twelve thousand dollars in debt. And how God

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through him listening to Transformation Church, reading the word and
following the steps that God has given him. I'm not
gonna put in them on blast right now because y'all
be trying to talk to him after this. But what
I'm saying to you is he's in this room right now,
and he followed the steps that I was telling people
to do on this platform and had never been here.

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And God gave him witty inventions and ideas and connections
as he followed in steps. And he told me that
this Mother's Day he paid off his mama's house. Y'all,
don't y'all don't hear what I'm saying to you. He said,
God took me from twelve thousand dollars in debt to
having a multi million dollar company. I ain't even thirty

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five years old. God, he was telling me all these things,
and he said, just wanted to thank you for doing
what you do because I've been following in your And
this is why Jesus says follow me as I follow Christ.
I want you to know that when you follow Christ,
you can be confident that other people can follow you God.

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When I take my steps off this path, y'all see
that my foot is not over here, my steps aren't
over here. I'm putting my feet in the place that
has been designated. At the moment I get off of
this path, destruction is inevitable. There is no print of God.

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And this is why I need the church to realize
when God does it, it's about his imprint, not them
being impressed. I want you to see God in this step.
It may not make sense to you right now. It
may not be cool right now. What I'm doing is

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not what I want to do. It's where He's called
me to do what He's called me to do, and
I'll obey, and I'll even like tremble this thing, keep trembling.
I don't know what it is about this step right here,
but I worked out this morning. This is uncomfortable to
stay here. But what if He tells you this is

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a step I have you at? Well, God, it would
be much easier for me to go to that step now.
But what if being a big stepper is staying where
He has you until he says step again? And so
many people are eager to go to the next step,
and God say, pace yourself. Everything is going to happen

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in time. And I know, as I'm saying this, there's
some people that are thinking, Pa, pastor Mike, what if
I missed the step? What if I made a misstep,
what if I took a step off the path? Well,
I'm glad that God gives us examples in his word

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about how to step and Matthew fourteen twenty two. It's
a famous verse that most people don't see the power
in what God really does. Peter takes a step off
of a boat into uncharted territory, which is a water,

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which just at the thought of it makes no sense.
It's crazy faith. But the only reason I want you
to see all of these steps in Peter's story again,
the only reason he actually steps off the boat is
because Jesus told him to come. So again he saw big.

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He talked big, Jesus. If that's you call me out there,
Jesus responds to him. He then says, come. So what
does Peter do? And as long as Peter was focused,
that's the word of the year, right. As long as

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he was focused not distracted, he was able to walk
on with other people drowned in. But at the moment
the situation begin to uh oh, what they're saying about me?
Uh oh? Who left? Uh oh? Did I get water
on my hair? Oh? Oh? Can I swim? He's walking

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on something and then maybe things? Can I swim? And
at the moment he's distracted by what he's already overcoming,
he begins to do what say, Okay, so he made
a misstep watch this verse twenty seven of Let's Go
Matthew fourteen, verse twenty seven. But Jesus spoke to them

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at once. Don't be afraid, he said, here's that word again,
take courage. Why can't you take courage, he said, because
I am here, I'm even in your misstep. I don't
know who I'm talking to right now, but some of
you have made a mistake. Some of you have said
or done something that you know wasn't godly for you.

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Some of you haven't hidden back, you haven't taken up
your space. You might have felt that, oh no, God's
done with me. And God's saying to you, I'm even
here with you in this misstep, he said. Then Peter
called to him, Lord, if it's really you, tell me
to come walk on the water. Come, Jesus said, so
Peter went over the side of the boat walked on

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the water towards Jesus. But when he saw the strong
wind in the wave, he was distracted. He was terrified
and begin to sink. But what did he say? Save me, Lord?
Some of you. Your next big act of faith is
just to say save me. I messed this up. I

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got in debt over, I stopped hearing, I stopped obeying,
I got out of accountability, I stopped going to counseling.
I'm hanging around the save me Lord, And when he
said save me, Lord, Jesus, I love this word, immediately

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reached out and grabbed him. He said, you have such
little faith. Boy. I've been trying to teach you this
for a long time. Why did you doubt me? When
they climbed back into the boat, the wind stopped, which
means the wind was on assignment. The storm had a

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time limit. The storm was a part of the theatrical
platform that God was trying to use to affect Peter's faith.
He said, y'all cut it. He didn't get it. Stop
the lights, stop the We'll try again later, he said.

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Then the disciples worshiped him. You really are the son
of God Jesus, like the watch this last point. Because
of Jesus. This is the encouragement for anybody who's made
a misstep. Because of Jesus, when your big step turns
into a misstep, you're still kept today. I don't care

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if you've gone off the path and you stepped out
and tried to do what God said and it ended
up in you losing something, losing confidence, losing courage, losing focus.
God saying all I need you to do is call
out to me right now, save me, Jesus. I need

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you God, You're the only one that can pull me
out of this. And he says immediately, he keeps you. Today.
If you're in this room and you know that there's
some big step that God's calling you to or have
called you to, can you know there's some areas of

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your life that you have stepped in the wrong places,
or there's some steps you've made, and all you can
see is your feet and your steps and your imprint
and not his. Today I'm asking you, would you step

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into the grace and the love of God. Would you
allow Him to be the one that directs you, guides you,
loves you, transforms you, and brings you into the promise
that He didn't even just give to you. He gave
it to your mama's mama's mamas. Today, I believe the

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Lord by faith, with our mustard seed faith, wants to
redeem generational blessings because somebody's gonna obey God. Your family
never was able to do it, but God's gonna do
it through you. Your family line has never been able
to stay healthy or whole, or healed or financially free

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or whatever it is, what if it changes through you
Standing all over this place today, I'm praying that your
mustard seed faith would turn you into a big step
of that some of y'all are gonna step into places

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over the next few weeks with God's strength and his
help that you haven't even really got no business being in,
but you're gonna step in it in crazy faith. But
if you ever make a misstep, know that He's a keeper.
If anybody wants to actually walk in the crazy faith

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to step into the big things. And you feel like
this message is resonating in something that God's asking you
to do, would you just lift your hands all over
this room watching online, I want to pray for you, Father,
in the name of Jesus. You told me to preach
this message because your children needed to not just be inspired,
they needed to be encouraged. And so for every hand

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that is up, in every heart that is open, I'm
asking you right now, would you give us the faith
not just to walk on water, but last on the water.
Would you give us the faith, Father God, to actually
make it into the Promised Land with everybody that's supposed
to be there. Would you give us the faith God

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to step into city situations that look too big for
us to step into, but when the step is made,
all they see is your imprint. It's for your glory
that you want to use us, because your word says,
Blessed are the feet of those that spread the gospel

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and take the good news. Father God. The reason why
you want us to take up more spaces because everywhere
we step, you step, and everywhere you step becomes kingdom, territory,
and Father, there are people that need to know that
you didn't just bring them to this earth to live

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or to exist. You brought them to this world to
live and to represent you. So for every person who's
made a misstep, how thank you, Father God. Your redeeming
grace is available right now, for every marriage that has
gone off the tree, every heart that is addicted to

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something that's dangerous, for the eye of lust and the
thoughts of jealousy and envy and the comparison that drives us,
Father God, to be discontent. Today, Father God, we're all
asking would you save us from those distractions that are

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causing us to drown, Father God in places we should
be walking on today. I'm coming to you just as
Joshua would and I'm repeating the words that you said
to him, and we're saying, I'm back to us, Father,
I thank you that you've called us to be strong
and courageous today. Would you give us courage? Would you

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encourage us through your word and Father, would you give
us the boldness to walk into land that still has
giants in it and be ready to fight for what
you've called us to. Bless these people who are about

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to make steps into the world that the Church has
not been in in a long time. Give us audacity
to believe you that everywhere our foot would step, you're
giving that land to us for your glory, for your
kingdom advancement, and for people to be saved in Jesus' name.

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In the same moment right there, some of you are saying,
the next big step I need to make is say
Jesus save me. And you want to give your life
to Jesus Christ, whether you're in prison right now, you're
in this room, or you're watching online, if you want
to give your life to Jesus Christ. I'm about to
say a prayer and everybody here is going to say it,
because TC's a family. Nobody praise alone. And I don't

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care what you were doing last night. I don't care
what you're planning to do next week. I don't care
where your heart has been burdened. I was a liar,
a manipulator, addicted to pornography. I had bad things in
my heart. I had plans to walk away from God.
But God got in my way and said, step in
this thing with me, and I got transformed. Intoday, I'm

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asking you to follow me as I follow Christ. That
means you have to follow him. And if you're watching
this and seeing this, whether it's now on rebroadcast, pray
this prayer. Just say God, thank you for sending Jesus
just for me. Today. I give you my life. I

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repent from my old steps and I walk in a
new light. I believe you lived, you died, you rose
again to redeem my life. So transform me, change me,
renew me. I'm yours in Jesus' name. Amen. If you

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just prayed that prayer for the first time, or you
rededicated your life on the counter, three, I want you
to shoot your hand up. We all already cheering, and
Heaven is about to cheer for you. One two, three,
shoot your hand up. If you prayed that prayer. I
see you up there. If you prayed that prayer, I
see you, sir, If you prayed that prayer, I see
Come on church, I see you, my brother. And more

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than that, God sees you. Hallelujah. It's time for the
big steppers to get in and today I want you
to put your foot in something I don't know. I
go get some play though, like I had no footprint
in there. Today, if you just made that decision for Jesus,

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I want you to text saved to eight two eight
two eight two as the altar workers are coming. If
you need for anything, the Bible tells us we have
a secret weapon of agreement. If your marriage is going through,
if you're having wild thoughts, if you just feel down,
even after all that we said in the message, a
miracle can happen just and you touch it and agreeing

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with people. These aren't perfect people. If you need prayer
in the chat, put it in the chat. These are
people who believe God. And here in just a minute,
about fifteen twenty minutes next week, I'm telling you do
not miss the message. I'm gonna teach you to have
the faith to rest. But in just fifteen twenty minutes.
If you would like to meet me and some of

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the team, we're gonna be right across the hall. I
want to invite you to something we call meet the Pastors.
I want to hear your story. I want to hug you,
take a picture with you, and just see all the
good things that God is doing. So, if you're new
to Transformation Church and you want to meet somebody, come
meet us. I'll love to meet you. And I'm believing
that this week is gonna be the best week of
your life. That you're gonna walk into steps with courage,

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that God is going to use you to do something
that's gonna get his name glory right here on this earth.
There's a miracle emotion coming for you. Amen, Father blessed Him,
is my prayer. Let them step in everything You've called
them to step in. We give you glory, we give

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you honor, and we give you praise. In Jesus' name.
We agree, we expect, Amen, go out and live a
transformed life.