September 21, 2025 • 64 mins
Is your lack of emotional capacity shrinking your calling?There are people you are called to reach, but if your emotional capacity doesn’t make room for their differences, faults, and issues, you could be forfeiting your calling. In Week 2 of Triggered, Pastor Michael illustrated the need for believers to expand their emotional capacity so we can truly care for others and not be triggered by trivial things or personal pet peeves. Our goal is to grow in emotional maturity and make space for the people God has called us to. Remember: your triggers and your emotional capacity are calling you daily. Your capacity is your call!
Scripture References:
John 16:33 NIV
Matthew 11:28-30 NLT
Ezra 3:10 NIVRomans 12:15 NIV
Hebrews 6:1 NIV
1 Corinthians 13:11NIV
Ephesians 4:2-3 NIV
Scripture References:
John 16:33 NIV
Matthew 11:28-30 NLT
Ezra 3:10 NIVRomans 12:15 NIV
Hebrews 6:1 NIV
1 Corinthians 13:11NIV
Ephesians 4:2-3 NIV
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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.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Do today's message turn to John sixteen, verse thirty three.
John sixteen, verse thirty three. This word gonna be tight,
and it's gonna be right. I'm gonna get you out
of here, but I gotta deliver this word because some
of y'all are very triggered. After all that praising, after
all that worshiping, one thing could happen after this that
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turned all that shouting into sinning. Y'all want to be honest.
I don't want to I don't want to kill your joy,
but I want to be real about it. Okay, how
many people have just finished reading a Bible, just finished print,
and then thirty minutes later, it ain't even thirty minutes later,
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and you in some foolishness you ain't supposed to be in.
You're watching something that got you feeling some type of way.
You're saying some things. Where's the authentic church? This morning?
All right? Has anybody had a great Sunday morning and
a wild Sunday night, not on Sunday. Has anybody just
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finished telling your kids how much you love them? And
then they do one thing, turn over one cup with
liquid in it, do whate and literally the whole tide
can change. It's because what I've found out is that
many of us are living our lives very close to
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the edge. We don't have much margin. Watch this for
anybody's mess ups. If you don't bother me, I'll make it.
And if I'm not late, I'll make it. And if
you tell me my outfit is nice, I'll make it.
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And if you lie to me when I tell you
to tell me the truth, I'll make like. It exposes
that as believers, I'm not even talking about people who
don't know God. I'm talking about people who have a Bible,
listen to podcasts, worship to elevation worship. Why are you
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so close to the edge? Why are you so triggered?
Why are you so close to a crashed out? And
most of us have not taken a pause? Somebody say pause,
We haven't taken a pause for his presence to shine
a light on what he needs to change in us.
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We are so ready for others to change that we
will not say, God, I know them, but what about me?
And so in John I see God being as real
as he can be with his sons and daughters, and
he's talking to the disciples and talking to all the
people at the time. And I love this about Jesus
because he does not want to bait and switch us.
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He doesn't want to paint this picture that everything's gonna
be perfect and everything's gonna be fine. I'm doing worry.
I'm gonna save you from everything. He says. I rather
tell you the truth so you can learn how to
handle it. And this is what he says. He says,
I have told you these things so that you may
have peace. So the whole reason God is about to
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say what he's about to say in human form as Jesus,
it is because he said the outcome is peace. But
let me tell you the truth. In this world you
will have trouble. It could be said, in this world
you will be triggered. In this world you will deal
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with trauma. He is being honest. Watch this so that
we learn how to handle You cannot handle anything you're
not honest about. There's some of us that won't admit
there's a problem. So we never ever deal with it.
Some of y'all so scared to go to the doctor
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because you thought that prayer healed you when you actually
could be healed by something that God created to help you.
But you don't want to know the truth. I bind
hot blood pressure in the name of Jesus. You still
about the dog like just because you bind it doesn't
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mean that them levels a But you won't be honest.
So you would rather live in an illusion and delusion
than be delivered. So today search in week two of
this triggered series where we're putting Christ in the middle,
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in the center of our crash outs, I want to
just lay a little more foundation so you can know
what to do if you find yourself watch this in
the middle of a crash out. Crashing out right now,
are about to walk into a crash out, he says.
I'm telling you you're gonna have trouble, but take heart,
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because I've overcome the world. Write this down as a point.
Exposing the problem is a prerequisite to true peace. You
will never have true peace until we expose the problem.
You can keep going to those family gatherings and act
like that uncle is not an issue, and nobody in
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the family's gonna talk about it, and we just that's
just uncle JJ and that's just Uncle j J and
not just uncle JAJA. And we've excused it for years
after years after years after years. But until there's actual
conversation about the problem, there won't be any true peace
until you deal with the issues that you are feeling
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and the anxiety that you're walking into. When you walk
into certain you can act like you have true peace,
but not the one that God's given because he's saying,
what the trigger's not supposed to rob your peace. The
trauma's not supposed to rob your peace. It's not supposed
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to take it away. And that's why we're saying this
as the premise of this entire series. Unaddressed triggers usually
lead to a crash out. Some of y'all been holding
on for thirty two years. You ain't crashed out for
thirty two years, and you think for some reason that
it will never happen because it haven't happened yet. Have
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you ever heard of a midlife crisis that is also
a crashout? When you literally take everything that you've been
working for building towards and people, there's an epidemic of
men and women just leaving their relationships thirty eight years married.
It's like, dang, you should elite you are you close
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to the end? You should really stay to see what
the end gonna be. But they're having these crash outs
in these moments of losing it because it's watched this
unaddressed today, I'm asking you what are you carrying that
you've never addressed? You don't got to tell me. But
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I have a one more follow up question. Is it heavy?
Is it making you slower? Does it make you hesitate
when it's time for you to step into what God says?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I don't know? Do you have to drag some more
stuff in? Well, let me give you the promise of God.
In Matthew, chapter eleven, verse twenty eight, it says, then
Jesus said, come to me, all of you who are weary,
that means full of toil, full of tension, full of
back and forth, he said, And those who carry heavy burdens,
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which means unwarranted thought patterns. How many of us have
unwarned in thought patterns? Why am I even thinking that?
Why am I even going down that trail? I heard
last night a little kid in our church saw the
lightning and their parents had to convince them for tons
of minutes that they weren't gonna die because they went
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down a whole trail of how that lightning's gonna kill
them in that house. And it may be trivial, but
how many of us go down unwarranted. Probably they don't
even like me. They didn't even know you was there. Cappy,
y'all understand what I'm saying. How many stories have we
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told ourselves? How many things have we disqualified ourselves from
because of our own insecurity? God said, if you're doing
all that stuff, come to me and I'll trade you.
I will give you. Say this word with me, it's
a four letter word, say rest. Take my yoke upon you.
Let me teach you because I am humble and gentle
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at heart, and you will find rest for your souls,
that your mind will and emotions. For my yoke is
easy to bear. And the burden I'm gonna give you
it's like, so if you're walking around heavy, God says, today,
I want you to trade me. This week has been
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a week full of evaluation. For anybody who was here
or watched last week's sermon, how many people been evaluating
your triggers this past week. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, and
we're gonna keep doing it for the next nine ten weeks.
We not letting. I'm pushing the gas on this thing
until somebody gets transformed. Okay, but this is the first
point that I would want to make to everybody in here,
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as you've been talking about your triggered all week, and
you've been telling your kids stop doing that because I'm fired,
and some of y'all been telling your coworkers and even kids.
My kid's been using it all week, Dad, that triggers me. Okay, cool,
you listen to the message. Let me say this. Everything
is not a trigger now. No. I just introduced the
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concept last week, and I'm not gonna tear the whole
thing down, but I need us to bring us into
some clarity. Everything is not a trigger. Me and my
wife was talking and she was like, Mike, some people
aren't triggered, they just have a pet peeve. And I
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was like, m girl, you look fine when you start
defining my message as well, and she said, like, smacking,
that is not a trigger. Smacking is a pet peeve
because a pet peeve is about preference. I would rather
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you not do that, but it's not really attached to
a trauma. And some of us have been asking God
to deal with a pet peeve when he's requiring maturity
from you. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Let me say it
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like this. Many of the things you're labeling a trigger
are actually trivial. This ain't no trigger, an this is
an exposing of your lack of emotional maturity. You're not triggered.
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You just ain't got no room for nobody else to
do something you don't like. You are living with no
capacity in your life. So when they do something that
is a different preference than you, it kits you over
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and I'm triggered. No, you're emotionally unstable.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
You don't have any maturity.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
We can disagree on a movie. I know people who
will crash out over the rating of a movie. You
didn't think Black Panther was the best movie you ever made. No,
this is not me, because don't in the comments. I'm
not saying that. I'm just saying and at the moment
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of a preference difference, because I have made no room
for you to have a difference of opinion, I let
my pet peeve be the thing that causes division. So
watch this pet peeve is just an invitation for me
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to emotionally mature. If they do something that is not
my preference, I do not have to respond in a
way that ruins my witness. Hear what I just said.
If what they do is not my preference, I do
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not have to respond. I can have the emotional and
spiritual capacity to let you do that and not get
a rise of me that ruins my witness. And there
are too many people right now that are letting their
preference wouin their future purpose. Some of y'all need to
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scrub your whole social media accountants because somebody's gonna pull
them back up one day when you have another level
of platform, and they're gonna be like January sixth, two
thousand and two, this is what Jerry Heismeyer said and
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a moment Wouins are witness for a lifetime. Passor Mike,
why are you saying this? Because there are real things
we need to deal with and they are the triggers.
But please don't get caught up on the petty because
some of y'all been all week I'm triggering. Stop is
it really attached to a trauma or is that an
opportunity for you to mature? Okay, all right, they don't
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want to hear the real today, so I'm gonna have
to keep going. Okay. Ezra Chapter three, verse ten, I'm
gonna share a story with you, and I hope it
leads into the next layer of our transformation. It says
when the builders laid the foundation of the Temple of
the Lord, the priests and their vestments and their trumpets,
and the Levites the sons of Asaf were symbols, took
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their places to praise the Lord, as prescribed by David,
the King of Israel, with praise and thanksgiving. They sang
to the Lord, he is good, his love towards Israel
endures forever. And all the people gave great shouts to
the Lord. Because the foundations of the House of the
Lord was laid. But many of the older priests watched this,
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and the Levites and family heads, the Ojs, who had
seen the former temple had seen what it used to be,
wept aloud when they saw the foundations of this temple
being laid, while many others shout voted for joy. No
one could distinguish the sound of the shouts of joy
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from the sounds of weeping. Some were weeping, some were shouting,
some were celebrating, others were crying. And it said you
couldn't distinguish them because the people hadn't made so much noise,
and the sound was heard far away. I want to
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start with this thought, two things can be true at
the same time. I'm trying to increase your capacity today.
Two things can be true at the same time. Say
it with me. Two things can be true at the
same time. The ogs who had been in the Promised
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Land doing everything that God had called them to do,
then were taken out of this place of home and
drug to Babylon, and they were there for seventy years
and had to literally lose their language, lose their culture,
lose their names, and conform to this new way of living.
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They get freed and go back to the beautiful place
that they used to live in, But it didn't look
like what it used to look like. Y'all remember Solomon's temple.
It was so beautiful and so intricate, and certain types
of wood and gold. It was so beautiful that when
people came it took their breath away. Now they're coming
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back to a place that used to be a sign
of beauty, and now the foundation is being laid again.
Follow me, I'm going somewhere. The young men who were
born in captivity, their parents and friends might have died
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in captivity in Babylon. This is the first time they free.
So they come and they're seeing Solomon's where Solomon's temple
was for the first time. This is the first time
they able to turn up without nobody's They are celebrating
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because it's true what I've heard about all these years.
I've never seen with my own eyes. But this is
where my ancestors were. This is where David was and
his son Solomon. This is beautiful and one moment triggered
two responses. Have you ever been in a moment where
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everybody else's response wasn't your response? Have you ever been
in a moment where somebody is shouting for joy while
you are weeping about what it used to be. I
want to let you know that this is a principle
that God wants to teach us about capacity. Because some
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were triggered to cheer while others were triggered to cry,
Some were filled with celebration while others were filled with sorrow.
You want to see this in real time? Just turn
on football today and when one of the teams scores,
half the stadium is like God, and there's a guy
with the beer belly and he has his shirt off
and he has the team painted on it. And then
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on the other side they're like, oh no, you can
see it in real time. And what we hear on
TV is just cheers. But some are crying and some
are filled with sorrow. Because two things can be true
at the same time. And what I want to let
you know is the goal of the Christian life. Watch
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this is to grow in our emotional capacity. What if
the ogs started crying and the young people is like,
what's wrong with y'all? Man? Shut up, bro. We made
it out. They had to have capacity to celebrate and
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let their tears still fall. They're the same people group,
but they're looking at something and it triggers two different emotions.
Please don't let your celebration rob them of their tears.
I'm trying to teach y'all. If y'all can read between
the lines, I need y'all to know this is a
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word for our culture right now. Don't let their tears
rob you of your celebration because two things can be true.
That just went over everybody's head. That's why Romans twelve fifteen.
I'm about to teach this thing. It says, as a believer,
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we should rejoice with those who reach you. I don't
even gotta be happy about what you're rejoicing with. But
I have the emotional capacity to rejoice with you, because
my Christian life is not at the edge. I'm fool
enough to have room to rejoice with you. I didn't
get the blessing, but you did. Glory to God. Thank you,
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Jesus God, I know you on my street. I thank
you that you're doing a miracle, and that you have
the emotional capacity to rejoice with those who rejoice. And
if you're always mad that God bless somebody else, your
emotional capacity is too small as a believer. And it says,
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don't just rejoice with those who rejoice. Watch this one.
It's gonna take big boy drawls. Here we go mourn
with those who I ain't got nothing to cry about,
but somebody I love, somebody I see. If you don't
see those children in the Third World countries out there
begging for food, and if something in your heart is
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not broken. You don't have enough emotional capacity. Okay, yeah,
well that ain't happening to me. We need to pray
God break our heart for what breaks yours. Today. I
want to let you know that your capacity is calling.
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Matter of fact, make that the title of a discernment.
Your capacity is calling, because some of y'all you are
ruining the calling of God on your life because you
don't have enough capacity. You would never talk to somebody
who differs from you. You don't have enough capacity to it.
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That's what's killing Christians today that you can't sit across
for somebody that lives different than you and sit and
listen today's story for fifteen minutes. You ready to interrupt them,
proselytize them. They're just trying to tell you their story
and you have such a little emotional capacity that now
you've listened to them and you're angry it didn't even
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happened to you. They're telling you why they don't believe
in God. They're telling you why you why they have
chosen a same sex marriage. They're telling you why they
drink the joy and you getting infuriated why because you
have low emotional capacity and the very person that God
has called you to, he has to rip you away
from because you would do more damage in their life
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than bring healing, because you have not expanded to the
place where God could call you into a dark place
so that you could be the light. But I'm telling
you God is about to expand his church. I don't
know who I'm talking to today, but God is saying
it's time that somebody say, stretch. How we gonna reach
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the world and we can't stand them? How in the
world are you going to minister to somebody you can't
even take a picture with, You can't even sit across
a dinner table from We're crashing out because our emotional
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and spiritual maturity is so fragile. We don't have the
capacity to make room for they issues. I'm not even
saying I want you to stay there. I am a
living witness of what God can do to transform somebody's life.
But I won't even call you back because it's like
I can't talk to them no more. What God sent
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you in there to actually be the change agent that
you're getting so triggered, getting so mad, You're getting so frustrated,
and so I just want to show you that it's
time for you to stretch. Most Christians have this level
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of emotional capacity. I don't know if you see this
rubber band right here, but this is the rubber band
that keeps my little daughter's braids together. If y'all know
anything about Black Girl magic, these rubber bands right here
are the real MVP. How does that stay together like that?
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This right here? But the truth of the matter is
it's very small. This doesn't have much capacity. So when
you come and you get triggered and there's something little
that happens, it's little, but it's still really tight. And
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if this is where you live at the emotional capacity,
when something real happens, when I really need to deal
with an issue, there's nothing that can happen except it break.
Y'all didn't even see. It was so small you couldn't
even see it.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
If this is the issue, and I gotta get it
to here, and it doesn't matter how much I try,
how much I pull, as soon y'all can't even see
it on the camera, because as soon as I do it,
it's so small.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
And most people are trying to raise their kids with
this much emotional capacity, trying to lead a church with
this much emotional capacity trying to save their neighborhood. With
that much emotional capacity, why can nothing be held together?
Is because you need to You need to increase your
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ability watch this to be moldable, flexible, elastic around situations
that you may not prefer. And some of y'all may
have just a little bit bigger. I don't know if
you can even see this. It's a clear it's a
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clear rubber band. Because some of y'all be trying to
hide how you really trying to do stuff. Oh, y'all
will undercover. Christians been at that job for sixteen years.
Nobody know you a believer. You ain't pray for nobody
in sixteen years at that job. Let your light shine right, Okay,
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So you same thing. And then what happens is some
of us, you know, we believe in the Word, and
we start doing what God says for us to do,
and we get a little more regular looking. This is
about the standard size of a Christian life. We should
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be able to get around some papers. We should get
around a poster too. And it works until God calls
us to something bigger than what we've been used to,
and that tension begins to make us be just a
little more, oh irritated, and just oh shoot. It used
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to work at my family church. But I don't like
big churches. It's a mega church. White this it's a
mega so it must be a mess because it's no
your capacity to deal with people and to communicate and
to email. At the family church, you would just do
whatever you wanted to do, and that's why they wanted
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you out of there. And then you came here thought
you could do what you did over there here and
we don't play like that. And now, oh excuse, oh dang,
where did that come from? You making a YouTube about
your issues, not mine? You triggered because you haven't learned
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that there's protocols and procedures and you need to talk
to people and you need to forgive and you need
to have grace. And so as soon as somebody tries
to I'm not even cutting it. I want you all
to see the blades, not even doing this. All it
has to do is touch, boom boom boom, touch. I
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love my church. And then some of us start reading
the Bible and do the twenty one days of praying, fasting,
and we stretch out a little bit. But there's somewhere
around this Christian walk that you start to get comfortable
and you say, man, I got enough to deal with
most things. And then you get that diagnosis that actually
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challenged your faith. One of your kids stopped serving God.
You was raised in church, you know the things of God.
You got all things all over your pillow. Y'all know
what I'm talking about. Dad, Am I dying? Sorry? That's
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my own trauma. Brenda Todd is my mother. You could
be in the middle of the night having a sweet dream,
is it bit? What is happening then? And when it
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gets tight, crash out, crash out, crash out, crash out,
And then some of us graduate. Now we're leading others.
That's crazy. I was like, Oh, you ain't seen nobody
stretch that far. Isn't it amazing when people actually have
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the capacity to deal with others. What I'm trying to
show you is that all of us should be trying
to grow in our ability to stretch because in this
world we will have trouble. And He's saying, could you
handle it? But then I saw this, God said, what
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if I could get a church full of believers that
could have this level of spiritual, emotional elasticity that you
had enough to handle a situation that went from the
top all the way to the bottom. What if you
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had enough grace not to just go that way? But
what if, oh, y'all ain't seen nobody stretch out and
be a real believer? But what if I didn't have
to give up and crash out when the situation got tight?
What if there were some believers who had enough emotional
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capacity to deal with other people's false troubles, mess ups, shame.
What if we matured and people could tell us to
our face who they voted for and it wouldn't change
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the way that you treated them. Oh, but you ain't
got no capacity for nobody else. As soon as you
know who they voted for, I can't fool with them
no more. You know what they believe? No, they just
told you who they voted for. Honestly, they don't know
any of the laws. The truth of the matter is,
when you're getting that voting box, you'd be like many
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money mother kids talking about I know, I know Governor's
susans thing did It's like you don't know who that is?
Is that just me? Or have anybody else just been
like I like that name? I had an odd name. Okay, Hammah,
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write this down. I'm almost done. Emotional capacity is fueled
by spiritual maturity. I'm gonna say it again. Your emotional capacity,
how much you can have room for others, is based
on how you let God grow you up. I mean,
Jesus literally had enough emotional capacity to let a thief
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roll with him. If y'all knew Judas was a thing,
he already knew what he was gonna do when he
was like, yeah, you can come and you can take
care of the money. Y'all can't stand somebody that he's
in your family taking five dollars from you. You'd be like, no,
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I can't go to their birthday party. They don't need
six dollars seventy six cents. No, tell no, We're not
buying Junior a gift until they Mama take me back.
It's like, dang, but do you know how much emotional
capacity you have to have to share dinner, use your
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connections to let them come in, take them into places
with you, and you know they a thief. He knew
Peter was gonna cut off in the ear. You're making
more work for me, Peter. You think you're doing the
right thing. I'm gonna do a whole sermon on it,
because God corrects Peter in the crash out, and some
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of us won't be corrected. And he literally is like,
bro I'm about to go to the cross. I'm sweating blood,
and now I gotta put the man. Sorry about that,
Broo put his ear back on. Where's your emotional capacity
for the children you ask God for? You? Pray God,
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if you would just give me these kids, God, I'll
serve you. I'll do this. And and now they ask mom, mom, mommy, mother,
my mom, mother, momsie, And how many moms said, I'm
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changing my name. I'll tell you that these are the
ones you asked for. Can I really tell you what
we're losing as a church because we don't, We're letting
our triggers control us. Is the lack of emotional capacity
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in the church is killing evangelism. Do y'all know what
the great commission is to go into all of the
world and do what make this? You cannot disciple somebody
you won't even have a discussion with. So many of
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us are divided by what we don't want to discuss,
that we are killing the one thing everybody needs. Jesus said,
tell everybody the gospel, tell them about me, and it's
like us telling God. Yeah, but I'm triggered by the
way they think. I'm triggered by that little you know,
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like slang that they talk like when they start like
clockhead and like ugh, and they're two little gangster and
I don't like all the and it could be little things.
I feel unsafe. Really, do you feel unsafe? Are you uneducated?
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Some things aren't about feeling unsafe. That's lazy to say
you don't know these Half of these young black dudes
that look like thugs is raised in gated neighborhoods. How
you know I was one? Do y'all understand what I'm saying.
All they're they're trying to culturally sit in And so
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the reason I could buy a platinum food boom, which
was not tea some of y'all'm dating myself the play
y'all remember that in Fat Albert Foobi. Y'all, come, don't
leave me up here, y'all remember the only reason. But
it may be uneducated. You may not have enough emotional
maturity to say, oh, they're still finding themselves. I remember
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when I was searching. I remember when my identity wasn't
in Christ yet. Oh God. So my question for everybody
to go home and reflect on for real today is
your lack of emotional capacity? Shrink you're calling? Is God
going to have to disinvite you to rooms because the
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packaging of who's in there it does not fit the
description of who you can connect with. Is God gonna
have to say, uh, not Jen, It's got to be
all upper middle class white women, because she won't be
able to connect with that young Latina who's struggling because
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she just had a baby out of wedlock, knowing that
Jen had a baby out of wedlock. But the Louis
and Gucci is covering it up. Now, Okay, it was
nineteen years ago and their kids are now at private school.
But how quickly do we forget that God puts us
together in situations not because of where we are, but
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where He sees us being and where he wants us
to be and how he wants us to connect. And
this is why I'm asking us as a church, it's
time for us to increase our capacity. You're so triggered
by your own stuff that you won't even be able
to move past you to the real reason God placed
us here for others. Do y'all hear what I'm saying
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to you? And so I'm telling you today your capacity
is calling. This is my triggered phone, and this is
my mature, emotional, mature phone. Every time you're triggered, you
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get to pick up one of these phones. You know
what today is? Today? I got time. Hello, you cheated.
I saw you out at the mall. Another woman. I'm
telling pastor Natalie, that's you alone down, n I got video,
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I got receist. Oh, I hope you got no I'm
let me put this. Oh, y'all gonna leave me up here? Broma.
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That was edited for some of y'all. I can't pick
that phone up often. Yeah, I'm telling you the truth,
because if I pick up the phone and I act
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out of my flesh, uh uh, my capacity is calling.
These are both trigger phones. They both have the capacity
to get a different response out of me. But if
I pick up emotionally mature Hello, passor Michael, I'll see
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you again at the mall. And I'm telling you right now,
I got video. It's in three D. How about the
metal glasses? I've seen everything. God bless you, ma'am. That
is not the truth, and I would I would act. No, yeah, no,
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I understand what you what you think you saw? I understand,
but please lose my number. No no, no, no, no, no,
no no. I'll tell Pastor Natalie myself that I was
at the mall with her sister. No, no, no, thank you?
No no? Oh yeah, God, bless you transform church out us.
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I could have responded an entirely different nothing out on
that call ruined my witness, who knows that she might
be showing up here six months from now, broken and
ready for transformation. Do y'all hear what I'm saying? But
your capacity is calling? Will you grow? Oh? No, hold
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on one second. Hello, Hello, You're a false prophet. Excuse me.
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You're a false prophet. You're leading people astray. You do
not preach with the word of God. You are a
liar and manipulator. Let me just hang this phone up.
Not even gonna respond. The only way I could put
that phone down. So I've been answering this phone a
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lot more. Matter of fact, what some of y'all need
to do? You need to break that phone? That's mike.
Why Because if I don't even have the option to
respond to it, and then why says this is gonna
be hard no matter what they say.
Speaker 4 (43:41):
Okay, you're a false prophet, you're leading people astray.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
Hey man, all I'm trying to do is obey God.
And I know you might not understand it. And I
promise you I get some things wrong. But would you
pray for me? No? No, no, not later. Right now.
It's a lot of pressure, it's a lot of eyes.
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Most sundays, I don't want to do it. I didn't
ask for this, I was called. All I'm saying is
your capacity is called. If I couldn't handle the persecution,
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if I couldn't handle the comments, if I couldn't handle
I'm still human, it's still it's still more. If I
could just once a year pick up the other phone
and get it out of me, I'd be good. So
I'm gonna end us with this Hebrews chapter six, verse one.
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Because your capacity is calling, pastor Mike, why are you
going this hard on this? Because you are forfeiting the
next level of your promotion, because you will not grow
in emotional capacity. God said, I can't put you there,
because as soon as somebody disagrees with you, you gonna lose
your witness. Will you let me change the DNA of
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how you respond? Will you stop reacting because of the
trigger and then respond in a way of transformation because
you dealt with the trauma Hebrew six'. One this is
for all of. Us, therefore let us move beyond the
elementary teachings About christ and be taken forward into what
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is this? Word? Mature can we stretch out beyond this little?
Well i'm A baptist And i'm A, methodist and my
families of, this hey. Stop the only way The bible
tells us that they will know that we Are his
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it's because of our love for One of'm not does
it look like any of us belong To god the
way that we love in each other right? Now could
it be because our emotional capacity and spiritual? Capacity, watch
this is too low for Where god's calling? Us one
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More scripture One corinthians thirteen. Eleven And i'm gonna end with,
this and next Year i'm gonna tell you what to
do with. It BUT i felt like we just needed
a little more. Understanding it's time for us to, Grow
it's time for us to, Stretch it's time for us to.
Mature it says WHEN i was a, CHILD i talked
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like a, CHILD i thought like a, CHILD i reasoned
and responded like a. Child but WHEN i became a,
MAN i had to make a decision to put the
ways of childhood behind. Me, church we have to mature
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so that we have the capacity to go to the
Places god has called. US i can't tell you how
many ROOMS i find myself in that nobody believes LIKE i,
believe and they Know i'm a, pastor and their countenance don't,
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change AND i don't encourage them to BECAUSE i believe
That god changes the authentic version of. You and it's
funny to watch people, like, oh he a. PASTOR i was, like,
bro do what you. DO i want you to be
who you are SO i can see the real transformation
That god's about to do in your. Life LIKE i,
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Know i'm in certain rooms BECAUSE i was called. There
CAN i can handle people squirming in their. STUFF i
can see. Them AND i can't tell you how many
texts and CALLS i had BECAUSE i had emotional maturity
and the capacity to allow somebody to be where they
are but not lose my conviction not conformed to their.
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Standards are we going to this after. This, no, no, no,
No i'm good. Man it was good to meet, you.
Bro here's my. Number call. Me i'm not about to
get stripped. Up jesus was hanging with, sinners but he
wasn't changed by. Them he was around, them but he
was the change agent in those. Environments but watch he
had the emotional capacity to be at that kiss his.
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House he was eating a meal paid for with stolen.
Money some of y'all couldn't. Handle where is? This where
is this bread? From you know he's a. Thief you
know he's an unjust tax collect because you just have
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a meal with him by the end of the. Meal
because Jesus is emotional capacity went beyond, race when beyond,
religion when beyond the cultural norms of the. Day because
he had, capacity he was able to see people. Transformed
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what does it look like for you to make room
for people's? Faults it's a SCRIPTURE i read last? Night
what was? It was it a? Second was It? Ephesians
what's the one of making room for people's? Shortcomings somebody
find it for me real? Quick ephesian, four wasn't? It
somebody give it to me and my? MOTHER i forgot
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My bible to get A. CHARLES i want to read
this because THIS i think It's aphesian or something. Too, yeah, yeah,
yeah that's what it. Was this is How i'm gonna end,
us BECAUSE i just don't want your rubber band to
be so. Small, jesus thank you for your. Conviction it,
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says always be humble and. Gentle we could stop right.
There has your reactions and your response has been humble and.
Gentle even if you know the, answer have you shut it? Up?
No none of you yo know What i'm. Saying is
it okay to be right and not and it not be?
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Known can you be right and nobody? Knows sometimes that's
what humility looks. Like you, know you don't always have to.
Say that's WHAT i was trying to tell you when
you went out there the first, Time, like be humble
and be. Gentle then it says be patient with each,
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Other oh My, god making allowances for each other's. Faults
when's the last time you increased your capacity not for,
you but for. Them when was the last time you, Said,
god give me more patience SO i can deal with
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the people at my, workplace not take me out of this.
Workplace that's usually the Prayer, god get me out of.
Here and he, SAID i called you. THERE i didn't
put you there for the. MONEY i put you there For.
Michelle michelle was your assignment. There and that's why the
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enemy always comes in to make you mad In, michelle
Because michelle is your. Assignment and you being messy and
telling about how being out last weekend and you being,
petty somebody's getting convicted right. NOW i see. You i'm
not gonna look at. You i'm looking straight right. Now
i'll see you in the. Black but this is What
i'm telling, you he. Said the assignment is getting forfeited
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because of the lack of our. Capacity he, said make
allowances for each other's faults because of your. Love and
then it, says make every, effort how many, efforts one or,
two every effort to keep yourselves united in the, spirit
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binding yourselves together with watch this word again, Peace for
there is one body and one, spirit just as you
have been up there to word is called to one
glorious hope for the. Future there is One, lord one,
faith one, baptism One, god and One father of, all
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who is overall in. All and watch, this living through.
All i'm gonna read. It, however he has given each
of us a special gift through the generosity Of. Christ
that is why the scripture saying When he ascended to the,
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heights he led a crowd of captives and gave gifts
to his. People notice that it's said he. Ascended this
clearly means That christ also descends to our lowly. World
he comes to meet us in our crash. House and
the same one who descends is the one who ascends
higher than all the, heavens so that he might feel
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the entire universe with his. Glory it's time for us
to grow. Church maybe you've been letting your pet peeves
rob you of your. Peace maybe it's not that big
of a deal that they be smacking put on some,
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headphones or maybe you just wait to. Eat, No i'm
talking about like practical. THINGS i Know i'm being like,
really but like maybe it's just, like oh, man that's really,
annoying and you can live your life being annoyed for
just a little bit so that you can connect with
somebody or keep peace in your. Home one of the
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biggest things that annoyed my wife is WHEN i leave
the toilet seat. Up you, KNOW i gotta talk About
i'm gonna talk about me, Now, Lee i'm talking about me. Today,
okay that's my. Issue and at, first WHEN i first got,
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MARRIED i was, like just put it, Down, mike some
of the guys Like dug, like BUT i didn't think
about it from the other. SIDE i could Just i'm already,
Closed i'm. Flushing and how many times something just that
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small could change the way somebody feels cared for this?
Week what if we just grew in our capacity just
a little. BIT i, mean if the standard of stretching
is pray for our, enemies if that if that's, like
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that's that's the standard Of. God we gonna admit today
most of us ain't there. Yet, Lord but what if
we just stretched out a little? Bit what If BECAUSE
i just want you to, know all the STRETCHING i,
did it didn't happen all at. Once it was a. Progression.
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Today are we forfeiting our calling because we have low? Capacity?
Today it's time for us to? Stretch would you stand
all over this? Place god has a great calling for
all of, us and our calling requires that we don't
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crash out all the. Time you're going to have to
Put christ in the middle of it so right, now
if you know that you need to expand in your emotional,
capacity would you lift both of your hands in the.
Air come, on, y'all we're about to go. Home but
here it. Is it's Me, So Father, god here we
are Another, sunday not hiding from, you but asking you
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for your help all around this, world as people are
watching this live and on, rebroadcast and as the people
are in this, Room, GOD i think you that Your
Holy spirit is here right now increasing our ability to
handle what is not always. Easy, father your word says
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that we make room or allowance for other people's, fault, shortcomings, issues, corks,
preferences And, father that you would keep us in perfect
peace in the middle of. It, so in the name Of,
JESUS i thank you that in this place we pray
Tewod peter three to, nine and we remember that over
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our lives That, lord you're not being slow and keeping
your promises as some would understand, Slowness But, father you
are being patient with. Us thank you for your patience with.
Us thank you that you didn't just expect us to
do what you told us, yesterday and every time we messed,
Up Father, god you threw us. Away thank you for
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your grace that let us progress to the place we are.
Today And, God i'm asking that you would let us
remember your graces we deal with. Others increase my capacity
to love, somebody say. That increase my capacity to. Love come,
on say increase my capacity to forgive say It cocrease
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my capacity to forgive one. More increase my capacity to
Say i'm. Sorry. Sheeees, god let us be connectors of.
Unity let us not be so. Triggered, Father, god let
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us put you in the middle of anything that even
looks like a crash out so that we can increase our.
Capacity hear me say, This look at me real. Quick
we're going. Home god can use. You this may be
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controversial to, some BUT i need you to hear me say.
This how Much god can use you in this. Lifetime
it's not up To, god it's up to. You If
he would supply you with everything you, need if he
would take you into the places and give you what you,
need you still would have to say. Yes and SO
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i KNOW i titled this thing capacity is, Calling but
what if we said it like. This as you go
home and, meditate your capacity is your. Call you want to,
Grow you can, Say, god increase my measure of. Faith
you want to go to another, Level you can, Say,
GOD i thank you that you make me more. Generous
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you want to be able to stop crashing out and
cussing everybody. Else, god, Say, father put a bridle on my.
Tongue so WHEN i want to say this, Thing, Father,
GOD i can say something that is uplifting your. Capacity
it's your. Call stop blaming the, man, culture your parents
for what you do not. Have now it may have
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not been your, fault but it is now your. Responsibility
it's time to say. Yes CAN i get one more big? Yes?
Hollylujah before everybody starts, leaving listen to. ME i need one.
Minute if you're in this room and you've never said
yes To, JESUS i need the church to start praying right. Now,
FATHER i thank you right now that eternity is in
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the balance and somebody's about to say yes To. JESUS
i don't care where you. ARE i don't care how
broken you feel right. NOW i don't care what you
have done last, night, yesterday or what you're planning to do. Tomorrow,
Today Jesus christ is here to save your. Life he
increased his capacity by stretching one arm on a cross
and taking the another arm and putting it on the other.
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Cross and he let people, know accuse, him be him
for our sins so that we could walk in. Freedom,
today all you have to do is say yes to
What jesus has already done for. You it's the one
decision that could transform your whole. Life it took me
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from being a, liar a, manipulator somebody who was addicted to,
pornography had all types of confusion and messing my, life
and it transformed me not into a perfect, man but
a progressing. Man WHO i am today is not Who
i'm gonna, be but WHO i am is way better
than WHO i used to. Be and that's because of one.
Name his name Is. Jesus. Today if you are in,
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here don't care how you got, here who bribed you to.
Come that's a good. Friend by the, WAY i don't
care how you in here. Today god wants to transform
your life on account of Three if you want to
Make Jesus christ your Personal lord and. Savior whether you're
in this, room or you're watching, online or you're watching
in the, gym or you're watching on rebroadcast on another.
Day god wanted this to find you right, now because
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today is the day of your. Salvation. Amen on account of,
THREE i want you to shoot your hand up in the, air,
bold proud and. Loud. One god is about to transform your. Life.
Two you're making the greatest decision of your. Life, three
shoot your hand up if you want to Receive. JESUS
i see, YOU i see. YOU i see. YOU i see.
You god sees. You come on the hands At Home Transformation.
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Church let's Praise. GOD i see. You. Sister, hey, Listen
we're gonna pray this prayer as a family for the
benefit of those who are coming To. God and if
you have the capacity to just stretch your hand towards
those people you saw the hands raised around, them and
the hundreds that are. Online and let's pray this. Together Say,
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god thank you for Sending jesus just for. Me. TODAY
i repent AND i turn to. You you, lived you,
die and you rose again from my. Freedom here's my.
Life change, me renew, me transform. Me i'm yours forever
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In jesus'. Name. Amen, Hey heaven is throwing a. Party
can we shout the biggest shout of the day for
those whose eternities have been. Transformed glory To. God the
altar workers are coming right, now and if you're watching,
online there are people and team on the chat to
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pray with. You we always want prayer to be an
option for you when you come to The house Of,
god because The bible tells you where two or three
are gathered In his midst in his, Name he is
in the. Midst so if you need prayer for a
struggling situation or an, addiction or a frustration or, SOMETHING
i want you to come. Down the worship team is
about to, sing and if you're on line right, Now
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i'm coming to praise spare than for you until next.
Week week three is gonna be better than all the other.
Weeks NOW i can preach WHAT i meant to preach
since week. One y'all hear. Me BUT i want you
to come back and bring somebody and until next week
go out and live a transform. LIFE i love you so,
Much glory To. God thank you for joining us.
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Life
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.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Do today's message turn to John sixteen, verse thirty three.
John sixteen, verse thirty three. This word gonna be tight,
and it's gonna be right. I'm gonna get you out
of here, but I gotta deliver this word because some
of y'all are very triggered. After all that praising, after
all that worshiping, one thing could happen after this that
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turned all that shouting into sinning. Y'all want to be honest.
I don't want to I don't want to kill your joy,
but I want to be real about it. Okay, how
many people have just finished reading a Bible, just finished print,
and then thirty minutes later, it ain't even thirty minutes later,
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and you in some foolishness you ain't supposed to be in.
You're watching something that got you feeling some type of way.
You're saying some things. Where's the authentic church? This morning?
All right? Has anybody had a great Sunday morning and
a wild Sunday night, not on Sunday. Has anybody just
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finished telling your kids how much you love them? And
then they do one thing, turn over one cup with
liquid in it, do whate and literally the whole tide
can change. It's because what I've found out is that
many of us are living our lives very close to
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the edge. We don't have much margin. Watch this for
anybody's mess ups. If you don't bother me, I'll make it.
And if I'm not late, I'll make it. And if
you tell me my outfit is nice, I'll make it.
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And if you lie to me when I tell you
to tell me the truth, I'll make like. It exposes
that as believers, I'm not even talking about people who
don't know God. I'm talking about people who have a Bible,
listen to podcasts, worship to elevation worship. Why are you
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so close to the edge? Why are you so triggered?
Why are you so close to a crashed out? And
most of us have not taken a pause? Somebody say pause,
We haven't taken a pause for his presence to shine
a light on what he needs to change in us.
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We are so ready for others to change that we
will not say, God, I know them, but what about me?
And so in John I see God being as real
as he can be with his sons and daughters, and
he's talking to the disciples and talking to all the
people at the time. And I love this about Jesus
because he does not want to bait and switch us.
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He doesn't want to paint this picture that everything's gonna
be perfect and everything's gonna be fine. I'm doing worry.
I'm gonna save you from everything. He says. I rather
tell you the truth so you can learn how to
handle it. And this is what he says. He says,
I have told you these things so that you may
have peace. So the whole reason God is about to
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say what he's about to say in human form as Jesus,
it is because he said the outcome is peace. But
let me tell you the truth. In this world you
will have trouble. It could be said, in this world
you will be triggered. In this world you will deal
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with trauma. He is being honest. Watch this so that
we learn how to handle You cannot handle anything you're
not honest about. There's some of us that won't admit
there's a problem. So we never ever deal with it.
Some of y'all so scared to go to the doctor
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because you thought that prayer healed you when you actually
could be healed by something that God created to help you.
But you don't want to know the truth. I bind
hot blood pressure in the name of Jesus. You still
about the dog like just because you bind it doesn't
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mean that them levels a But you won't be honest.
So you would rather live in an illusion and delusion
than be delivered. So today search in week two of
this triggered series where we're putting Christ in the middle,
(05:21):
in the center of our crash outs, I want to
just lay a little more foundation so you can know
what to do if you find yourself watch this in
the middle of a crash out. Crashing out right now,
are about to walk into a crash out, he says.
I'm telling you you're gonna have trouble, but take heart,
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because I've overcome the world. Write this down as a point.
Exposing the problem is a prerequisite to true peace. You
will never have true peace until we expose the problem.
You can keep going to those family gatherings and act
like that uncle is not an issue, and nobody in
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the family's gonna talk about it, and we just that's
just uncle JJ and that's just Uncle j J and
not just uncle JAJA. And we've excused it for years
after years after years after years. But until there's actual
conversation about the problem, there won't be any true peace
until you deal with the issues that you are feeling
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and the anxiety that you're walking into. When you walk
into certain you can act like you have true peace,
but not the one that God's given because he's saying,
what the trigger's not supposed to rob your peace. The
trauma's not supposed to rob your peace. It's not supposed
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to take it away. And that's why we're saying this
as the premise of this entire series. Unaddressed triggers usually
lead to a crash out. Some of y'all been holding
on for thirty two years. You ain't crashed out for
thirty two years, and you think for some reason that
it will never happen because it haven't happened yet. Have
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you ever heard of a midlife crisis that is also
a crashout? When you literally take everything that you've been
working for building towards and people, there's an epidemic of
men and women just leaving their relationships thirty eight years married.
It's like, dang, you should elite you are you close
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to the end? You should really stay to see what
the end gonna be. But they're having these crash outs
in these moments of losing it because it's watched this
unaddressed today, I'm asking you what are you carrying that
you've never addressed? You don't got to tell me. But
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I have a one more follow up question. Is it heavy?
Is it making you slower? Does it make you hesitate
when it's time for you to step into what God says?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I don't know? Do you have to drag some more
stuff in? Well, let me give you the promise of God.
In Matthew, chapter eleven, verse twenty eight, it says, then
Jesus said, come to me, all of you who are weary,
that means full of toil, full of tension, full of
back and forth, he said, And those who carry heavy burdens,
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which means unwarranted thought patterns. How many of us have
unwarned in thought patterns? Why am I even thinking that?
Why am I even going down that trail? I heard
last night a little kid in our church saw the
lightning and their parents had to convince them for tons
of minutes that they weren't gonna die because they went
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down a whole trail of how that lightning's gonna kill
them in that house. And it may be trivial, but
how many of us go down unwarranted. Probably they don't
even like me. They didn't even know you was there. Cappy,
y'all understand what I'm saying. How many stories have we
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told ourselves? How many things have we disqualified ourselves from
because of our own insecurity? God said, if you're doing
all that stuff, come to me and I'll trade you.
I will give you. Say this word with me, it's
a four letter word, say rest. Take my yoke upon you.
Let me teach you because I am humble and gentle
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at heart, and you will find rest for your souls,
that your mind will and emotions. For my yoke is
easy to bear. And the burden I'm gonna give you
it's like, so if you're walking around heavy, God says, today,
I want you to trade me. This week has been
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a week full of evaluation. For anybody who was here
or watched last week's sermon, how many people been evaluating
your triggers this past week. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, and
we're gonna keep doing it for the next nine ten weeks.
We not letting. I'm pushing the gas on this thing
until somebody gets transformed. Okay, but this is the first
point that I would want to make to everybody in here,
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as you've been talking about your triggered all week, and
you've been telling your kids stop doing that because I'm fired,
and some of y'all been telling your coworkers and even kids.
My kid's been using it all week, Dad, that triggers me. Okay, cool,
you listen to the message. Let me say this. Everything
is not a trigger now. No. I just introduced the
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concept last week, and I'm not gonna tear the whole
thing down, but I need us to bring us into
some clarity. Everything is not a trigger. Me and my
wife was talking and she was like, Mike, some people
aren't triggered, they just have a pet peeve. And I
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was like, m girl, you look fine when you start
defining my message as well, and she said, like, smacking,
that is not a trigger. Smacking is a pet peeve
because a pet peeve is about preference. I would rather
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you not do that, but it's not really attached to
a trauma. And some of us have been asking God
to deal with a pet peeve when he's requiring maturity
from you. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Let me say it
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like this. Many of the things you're labeling a trigger
are actually trivial. This ain't no trigger, an this is
an exposing of your lack of emotional maturity. You're not triggered.
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You just ain't got no room for nobody else to
do something you don't like. You are living with no
capacity in your life. So when they do something that
is a different preference than you, it kits you over
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and I'm triggered. No, you're emotionally unstable.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
You don't have any maturity.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
We can disagree on a movie. I know people who
will crash out over the rating of a movie. You
didn't think Black Panther was the best movie you ever made. No,
this is not me, because don't in the comments. I'm
not saying that. I'm just saying and at the moment
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of a preference difference, because I have made no room
for you to have a difference of opinion, I let
my pet peeve be the thing that causes division. So
watch this pet peeve is just an invitation for me
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to emotionally mature. If they do something that is not
my preference, I do not have to respond in a
way that ruins my witness. Hear what I just said.
If what they do is not my preference, I do
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not have to respond. I can have the emotional and
spiritual capacity to let you do that and not get
a rise of me that ruins my witness. And there
are too many people right now that are letting their
preference wouin their future purpose. Some of y'all need to
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scrub your whole social media accountants because somebody's gonna pull
them back up one day when you have another level
of platform, and they're gonna be like January sixth, two
thousand and two, this is what Jerry Heismeyer said and
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a moment Wouins are witness for a lifetime. Passor Mike,
why are you saying this? Because there are real things
we need to deal with and they are the triggers.
But please don't get caught up on the petty because
some of y'all been all week I'm triggering. Stop is
it really attached to a trauma or is that an
opportunity for you to mature? Okay, all right, they don't
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want to hear the real today, so I'm gonna have
to keep going. Okay. Ezra Chapter three, verse ten, I'm
gonna share a story with you, and I hope it
leads into the next layer of our transformation. It says
when the builders laid the foundation of the Temple of
the Lord, the priests and their vestments and their trumpets,
and the Levites the sons of Asaf were symbols, took
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their places to praise the Lord, as prescribed by David,
the King of Israel, with praise and thanksgiving. They sang
to the Lord, he is good, his love towards Israel
endures forever. And all the people gave great shouts to
the Lord. Because the foundations of the House of the
Lord was laid. But many of the older priests watched this,
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and the Levites and family heads, the Ojs, who had
seen the former temple had seen what it used to be,
wept aloud when they saw the foundations of this temple
being laid, while many others shout voted for joy. No
one could distinguish the sound of the shouts of joy
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from the sounds of weeping. Some were weeping, some were shouting,
some were celebrating, others were crying. And it said you
couldn't distinguish them because the people hadn't made so much noise,
and the sound was heard far away. I want to
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start with this thought, two things can be true at
the same time. I'm trying to increase your capacity today.
Two things can be true at the same time. Say
it with me. Two things can be true at the
same time. The ogs who had been in the Promised
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Land doing everything that God had called them to do,
then were taken out of this place of home and
drug to Babylon, and they were there for seventy years
and had to literally lose their language, lose their culture,
lose their names, and conform to this new way of living.
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They get freed and go back to the beautiful place
that they used to live in, But it didn't look
like what it used to look like. Y'all remember Solomon's temple.
It was so beautiful and so intricate, and certain types
of wood and gold. It was so beautiful that when
people came it took their breath away. Now they're coming
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back to a place that used to be a sign
of beauty, and now the foundation is being laid again.
Follow me, I'm going somewhere. The young men who were
born in captivity, their parents and friends might have died
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in captivity in Babylon. This is the first time they free.
So they come and they're seeing Solomon's where Solomon's temple
was for the first time. This is the first time
they able to turn up without nobody's They are celebrating
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because it's true what I've heard about all these years.
I've never seen with my own eyes. But this is
where my ancestors were. This is where David was and
his son Solomon. This is beautiful and one moment triggered
two responses. Have you ever been in a moment where
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everybody else's response wasn't your response? Have you ever been
in a moment where somebody is shouting for joy while
you are weeping about what it used to be. I
want to let you know that this is a principle
that God wants to teach us about capacity. Because some
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were triggered to cheer while others were triggered to cry,
Some were filled with celebration while others were filled with sorrow.
You want to see this in real time? Just turn
on football today and when one of the teams scores,
half the stadium is like God, and there's a guy
with the beer belly and he has his shirt off
and he has the team painted on it. And then
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on the other side they're like, oh no, you can
see it in real time. And what we hear on
TV is just cheers. But some are crying and some
are filled with sorrow. Because two things can be true
at the same time. And what I want to let
you know is the goal of the Christian life. Watch
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this is to grow in our emotional capacity. What if
the ogs started crying and the young people is like,
what's wrong with y'all? Man? Shut up, bro. We made
it out. They had to have capacity to celebrate and
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let their tears still fall. They're the same people group,
but they're looking at something and it triggers two different emotions.
Please don't let your celebration rob them of their tears.
I'm trying to teach y'all. If y'all can read between
the lines, I need y'all to know this is a
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word for our culture right now. Don't let their tears
rob you of your celebration because two things can be true.
That just went over everybody's head. That's why Romans twelve fifteen.
I'm about to teach this thing. It says, as a believer,
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we should rejoice with those who reach you. I don't
even gotta be happy about what you're rejoicing with. But
I have the emotional capacity to rejoice with you, because
my Christian life is not at the edge. I'm fool
enough to have room to rejoice with you. I didn't
get the blessing, but you did. Glory to God. Thank you,
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Jesus God, I know you on my street. I thank
you that you're doing a miracle, and that you have
the emotional capacity to rejoice with those who rejoice. And
if you're always mad that God bless somebody else, your
emotional capacity is too small as a believer. And it says,
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don't just rejoice with those who rejoice. Watch this one.
It's gonna take big boy drawls. Here we go mourn
with those who I ain't got nothing to cry about,
but somebody I love, somebody I see. If you don't
see those children in the Third World countries out there
begging for food, and if something in your heart is
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not broken. You don't have enough emotional capacity. Okay, yeah,
well that ain't happening to me. We need to pray
God break our heart for what breaks yours. Today. I
want to let you know that your capacity is calling.
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Matter of fact, make that the title of a discernment.
Your capacity is calling, because some of y'all you are
ruining the calling of God on your life because you
don't have enough capacity. You would never talk to somebody
who differs from you. You don't have enough capacity to it.
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That's what's killing Christians today that you can't sit across
for somebody that lives different than you and sit and
listen today's story for fifteen minutes. You ready to interrupt them,
proselytize them. They're just trying to tell you their story
and you have such a little emotional capacity that now
you've listened to them and you're angry it didn't even
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happened to you. They're telling you why they don't believe
in God. They're telling you why you why they have
chosen a same sex marriage. They're telling you why they
drink the joy and you getting infuriated why because you
have low emotional capacity and the very person that God
has called you to, he has to rip you away
from because you would do more damage in their life
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than bring healing, because you have not expanded to the
place where God could call you into a dark place
so that you could be the light. But I'm telling
you God is about to expand his church. I don't
know who I'm talking to today, but God is saying
it's time that somebody say, stretch. How we gonna reach
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the world and we can't stand them? How in the
world are you going to minister to somebody you can't
even take a picture with, You can't even sit across
a dinner table from We're crashing out because our emotional
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and spiritual maturity is so fragile. We don't have the
capacity to make room for they issues. I'm not even
saying I want you to stay there. I am a
living witness of what God can do to transform somebody's life.
But I won't even call you back because it's like
I can't talk to them no more. What God sent
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you in there to actually be the change agent that
you're getting so triggered, getting so mad, You're getting so frustrated,
and so I just want to show you that it's
time for you to stretch. Most Christians have this level
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of emotional capacity. I don't know if you see this
rubber band right here, but this is the rubber band
that keeps my little daughter's braids together. If y'all know
anything about Black Girl magic, these rubber bands right here
are the real MVP. How does that stay together like that?
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This right here? But the truth of the matter is
it's very small. This doesn't have much capacity. So when
you come and you get triggered and there's something little
that happens, it's little, but it's still really tight. And
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if this is where you live at the emotional capacity,
when something real happens, when I really need to deal
with an issue, there's nothing that can happen except it break.
Y'all didn't even see. It was so small you couldn't
even see it.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
If this is the issue, and I gotta get it
to here, and it doesn't matter how much I try,
how much I pull, as soon y'all can't even see
it on the camera, because as soon as I do it,
it's so small.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
And most people are trying to raise their kids with
this much emotional capacity, trying to lead a church with
this much emotional capacity trying to save their neighborhood. With
that much emotional capacity, why can nothing be held together?
Is because you need to You need to increase your
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ability watch this to be moldable, flexible, elastic around situations
that you may not prefer. And some of y'all may
have just a little bit bigger. I don't know if
you can even see this. It's a clear it's a
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clear rubber band. Because some of y'all be trying to
hide how you really trying to do stuff. Oh, y'all
will undercover. Christians been at that job for sixteen years.
Nobody know you a believer. You ain't pray for nobody
in sixteen years at that job. Let your light shine right, Okay,
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So you same thing. And then what happens is some
of us, you know, we believe in the Word, and
we start doing what God says for us to do,
and we get a little more regular looking. This is
about the standard size of a Christian life. We should
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be able to get around some papers. We should get
around a poster too. And it works until God calls
us to something bigger than what we've been used to,
and that tension begins to make us be just a
little more, oh irritated, and just oh shoot. It used
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to work at my family church. But I don't like
big churches. It's a mega church. White this it's a
mega so it must be a mess because it's no
your capacity to deal with people and to communicate and
to email. At the family church, you would just do
whatever you wanted to do, and that's why they wanted
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you out of there. And then you came here thought
you could do what you did over there here and
we don't play like that. And now, oh excuse, oh dang,
where did that come from? You making a YouTube about
your issues, not mine? You triggered because you haven't learned
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that there's protocols and procedures and you need to talk
to people and you need to forgive and you need
to have grace. And so as soon as somebody tries
to I'm not even cutting it. I want you all
to see the blades, not even doing this. All it
has to do is touch, boom boom boom, touch. I
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love my church. And then some of us start reading
the Bible and do the twenty one days of praying, fasting,
and we stretch out a little bit. But there's somewhere
around this Christian walk that you start to get comfortable
and you say, man, I got enough to deal with
most things. And then you get that diagnosis that actually
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challenged your faith. One of your kids stopped serving God.
You was raised in church, you know the things of God.
You got all things all over your pillow. Y'all know
what I'm talking about. Dad, Am I dying? Sorry? That's
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my own trauma. Brenda Todd is my mother. You could
be in the middle of the night having a sweet dream,
is it bit? What is happening then? And when it
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gets tight, crash out, crash out, crash out, crash out,
And then some of us graduate. Now we're leading others.
That's crazy. I was like, Oh, you ain't seen nobody
stretch that far. Isn't it amazing when people actually have
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the capacity to deal with others. What I'm trying to
show you is that all of us should be trying
to grow in our ability to stretch because in this
world we will have trouble. And He's saying, could you
handle it? But then I saw this, God said, what
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if I could get a church full of believers that
could have this level of spiritual, emotional elasticity that you
had enough to handle a situation that went from the
top all the way to the bottom. What if you
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had enough grace not to just go that way? But
what if, oh, y'all ain't seen nobody stretch out and
be a real believer? But what if I didn't have
to give up and crash out when the situation got tight?
What if there were some believers who had enough emotional
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capacity to deal with other people's false troubles, mess ups, shame.
What if we matured and people could tell us to
our face who they voted for and it wouldn't change
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the way that you treated them. Oh, but you ain't
got no capacity for nobody else. As soon as you
know who they voted for, I can't fool with them
no more. You know what they believe? No, they just
told you who they voted for. Honestly, they don't know
any of the laws. The truth of the matter is,
when you're getting that voting box, you'd be like many
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money mother kids talking about I know, I know Governor's
susans thing did It's like you don't know who that is?
Is that just me? Or have anybody else just been
like I like that name? I had an odd name. Okay, Hammah,
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write this down. I'm almost done. Emotional capacity is fueled
by spiritual maturity. I'm gonna say it again. Your emotional capacity,
how much you can have room for others, is based
on how you let God grow you up. I mean,
Jesus literally had enough emotional capacity to let a thief
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roll with him. If y'all knew Judas was a thing,
he already knew what he was gonna do when he
was like, yeah, you can come and you can take
care of the money. Y'all can't stand somebody that he's
in your family taking five dollars from you. You'd be like, no,
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I can't go to their birthday party. They don't need
six dollars seventy six cents. No, tell no, We're not
buying Junior a gift until they Mama take me back.
It's like, dang, but do you know how much emotional
capacity you have to have to share dinner, use your
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connections to let them come in, take them into places
with you, and you know they a thief. He knew
Peter was gonna cut off in the ear. You're making
more work for me, Peter. You think you're doing the
right thing. I'm gonna do a whole sermon on it,
because God corrects Peter in the crash out, and some
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of us won't be corrected. And he literally is like,
bro I'm about to go to the cross. I'm sweating blood,
and now I gotta put the man. Sorry about that,
Broo put his ear back on. Where's your emotional capacity
for the children you ask God for? You? Pray God,
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if you would just give me these kids, God, I'll
serve you. I'll do this. And and now they ask mom, mom, mommy, mother,
my mom, mother, momsie, And how many moms said, I'm
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changing my name. I'll tell you that these are the
ones you asked for. Can I really tell you what
we're losing as a church because we don't, We're letting
our triggers control us. Is the lack of emotional capacity
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in the church is killing evangelism. Do y'all know what
the great commission is to go into all of the
world and do what make this? You cannot disciple somebody
you won't even have a discussion with. So many of
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us are divided by what we don't want to discuss,
that we are killing the one thing everybody needs. Jesus said,
tell everybody the gospel, tell them about me, and it's
like us telling God. Yeah, but I'm triggered by the
way they think. I'm triggered by that little you know,
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like slang that they talk like when they start like
clockhead and like ugh, and they're two little gangster and
I don't like all the and it could be little things.
I feel unsafe. Really, do you feel unsafe? Are you uneducated?
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Some things aren't about feeling unsafe. That's lazy to say
you don't know these Half of these young black dudes
that look like thugs is raised in gated neighborhoods. How
you know I was one? Do y'all understand what I'm saying.
All they're they're trying to culturally sit in And so
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the reason I could buy a platinum food boom, which
was not tea some of y'all'm dating myself the play
y'all remember that in Fat Albert Foobi. Y'all, come, don't
leave me up here, y'all remember the only reason. But
it may be uneducated. You may not have enough emotional
maturity to say, oh, they're still finding themselves. I remember
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when I was searching. I remember when my identity wasn't
in Christ yet. Oh God. So my question for everybody
to go home and reflect on for real today is
your lack of emotional capacity? Shrink you're calling? Is God
going to have to disinvite you to rooms because the
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packaging of who's in there it does not fit the
description of who you can connect with. Is God gonna
have to say, uh, not Jen, It's got to be
all upper middle class white women, because she won't be
able to connect with that young Latina who's struggling because
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she just had a baby out of wedlock, knowing that
Jen had a baby out of wedlock. But the Louis
and Gucci is covering it up. Now, Okay, it was
nineteen years ago and their kids are now at private school.
But how quickly do we forget that God puts us
together in situations not because of where we are, but
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where He sees us being and where he wants us
to be and how he wants us to connect. And
this is why I'm asking us as a church, it's
time for us to increase our capacity. You're so triggered
by your own stuff that you won't even be able
to move past you to the real reason God placed
us here for others. Do y'all hear what I'm saying
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to you? And so I'm telling you today your capacity
is calling. This is my triggered phone, and this is
my mature, emotional, mature phone. Every time you're triggered, you
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get to pick up one of these phones. You know
what today is? Today? I got time. Hello, you cheated.
I saw you out at the mall. Another woman. I'm
telling pastor Natalie, that's you alone down, n I got video,
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I got receist. Oh, I hope you got no I'm
let me put this. Oh, y'all gonna leave me up here? Broma.
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That was edited for some of y'all. I can't pick
that phone up often. Yeah, I'm telling you the truth,
because if I pick up the phone and I act
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out of my flesh, uh uh, my capacity is calling.
These are both trigger phones. They both have the capacity
to get a different response out of me. But if
I pick up emotionally mature Hello, passor Michael, I'll see
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you again at the mall. And I'm telling you right now,
I got video. It's in three D. How about the
metal glasses? I've seen everything. God bless you, ma'am. That
is not the truth, and I would I would act. No, yeah, no,
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I understand what you what you think you saw? I understand,
but please lose my number. No no, no, no, no, no,
no no. I'll tell Pastor Natalie myself that I was
at the mall with her sister. No, no, no, thank you?
No no? Oh yeah, God, bless you transform church out us.
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I could have responded an entirely different nothing out on
that call ruined my witness, who knows that she might
be showing up here six months from now, broken and
ready for transformation. Do y'all hear what I'm saying? But
your capacity is calling? Will you grow? Oh? No, hold
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on one second. Hello, Hello, You're a false prophet. Excuse me.
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You're a false prophet. You're leading people astray. You do
not preach with the word of God. You are a
liar and manipulator. Let me just hang this phone up.
Not even gonna respond. The only way I could put
that phone down. So I've been answering this phone a
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lot more. Matter of fact, what some of y'all need
to do? You need to break that phone? That's mike.
Why Because if I don't even have the option to
respond to it, and then why says this is gonna
be hard no matter what they say.
Speaker 4 (43:41):
Okay, you're a false prophet, you're leading people astray.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
Hey man, all I'm trying to do is obey God.
And I know you might not understand it. And I
promise you I get some things wrong. But would you
pray for me? No? No, no, not later. Right now.
It's a lot of pressure, it's a lot of eyes.
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Most sundays, I don't want to do it. I didn't
ask for this, I was called. All I'm saying is
your capacity is called. If I couldn't handle the persecution,
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if I couldn't handle the comments, if I couldn't handle
I'm still human, it's still it's still more. If I
could just once a year pick up the other phone
and get it out of me, I'd be good. So
I'm gonna end us with this Hebrews chapter six, verse one.
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Because your capacity is calling, pastor Mike, why are you
going this hard on this? Because you are forfeiting the
next level of your promotion, because you will not grow
in emotional capacity. God said, I can't put you there,
because as soon as somebody disagrees with you, you gonna lose
your witness. Will you let me change the DNA of
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how you respond? Will you stop reacting because of the
trigger and then respond in a way of transformation because
you dealt with the trauma Hebrew six'. One this is
for all of. Us, therefore let us move beyond the
elementary teachings About christ and be taken forward into what
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is this? Word? Mature can we stretch out beyond this little?
Well i'm A baptist And i'm A, methodist and my
families of, this hey. Stop the only way The bible
tells us that they will know that we Are his
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it's because of our love for One of'm not does
it look like any of us belong To god the
way that we love in each other right? Now could
it be because our emotional capacity and spiritual? Capacity, watch
this is too low for Where god's calling? Us one
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More scripture One corinthians thirteen. Eleven And i'm gonna end with,
this and next Year i'm gonna tell you what to
do with. It BUT i felt like we just needed
a little more. Understanding it's time for us to, Grow
it's time for us to, Stretch it's time for us to.
Mature it says WHEN i was a, CHILD i talked
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like a, CHILD i thought like a, CHILD i reasoned
and responded like a. Child but WHEN i became a,
MAN i had to make a decision to put the
ways of childhood behind. Me, church we have to mature
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so that we have the capacity to go to the
Places god has called. US i can't tell you how
many ROOMS i find myself in that nobody believes LIKE i,
believe and they Know i'm a, pastor and their countenance don't,
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change AND i don't encourage them to BECAUSE i believe
That god changes the authentic version of. You and it's
funny to watch people, like, oh he a. PASTOR i was, like,
bro do what you. DO i want you to be
who you are SO i can see the real transformation
That god's about to do in your. Life LIKE i,
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Know i'm in certain rooms BECAUSE i was called. There
CAN i can handle people squirming in their. STUFF i
can see. Them AND i can't tell you how many
texts and CALLS i had BECAUSE i had emotional maturity
and the capacity to allow somebody to be where they
are but not lose my conviction not conformed to their.
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Standards are we going to this after. This, no, no, no,
No i'm good. Man it was good to meet, you.
Bro here's my. Number call. Me i'm not about to
get stripped. Up jesus was hanging with, sinners but he
wasn't changed by. Them he was around, them but he
was the change agent in those. Environments but watch he
had the emotional capacity to be at that kiss his.
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House he was eating a meal paid for with stolen.
Money some of y'all couldn't. Handle where is? This where
is this bread? From you know he's a. Thief you
know he's an unjust tax collect because you just have
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a meal with him by the end of the. Meal
because Jesus is emotional capacity went beyond, race when beyond,
religion when beyond the cultural norms of the. Day because
he had, capacity he was able to see people. Transformed
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what does it look like for you to make room
for people's? Faults it's a SCRIPTURE i read last? Night
what was? It was it a? Second was It? Ephesians
what's the one of making room for people's? Shortcomings somebody
find it for me real? Quick ephesian, four wasn't? It
somebody give it to me and my? MOTHER i forgot
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My bible to get A. CHARLES i want to read
this because THIS i think It's aphesian or something. Too, yeah, yeah,
yeah that's what it. Was this is How i'm gonna end,
us BECAUSE i just don't want your rubber band to
be so. Small, jesus thank you for your. Conviction it,
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says always be humble and. Gentle we could stop right.
There has your reactions and your response has been humble and.
Gentle even if you know the, answer have you shut it? Up?
No none of you yo know What i'm. Saying is
it okay to be right and not and it not be?
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Known can you be right and nobody? Knows sometimes that's
what humility looks. Like you, know you don't always have to.
Say that's WHAT i was trying to tell you when
you went out there the first, Time, like be humble
and be. Gentle then it says be patient with each,
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Other oh My, god making allowances for each other's. Faults
when's the last time you increased your capacity not for,
you but for. Them when was the last time you, Said,
god give me more patience SO i can deal with
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the people at my, workplace not take me out of this.
Workplace that's usually the Prayer, god get me out of.
Here and he, SAID i called you. THERE i didn't
put you there for the. MONEY i put you there For.
Michelle michelle was your assignment. There and that's why the
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enemy always comes in to make you mad In, michelle
Because michelle is your. Assignment and you being messy and
telling about how being out last weekend and you being,
petty somebody's getting convicted right. NOW i see. You i'm
not gonna look at. You i'm looking straight right. Now
i'll see you in the. Black but this is What
i'm telling, you he. Said the assignment is getting forfeited
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because of the lack of our. Capacity he, said make
allowances for each other's faults because of your. Love and
then it, says make every, effort how many, efforts one or,
two every effort to keep yourselves united in the, spirit
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binding yourselves together with watch this word again, Peace for
there is one body and one, spirit just as you
have been up there to word is called to one
glorious hope for the. Future there is One, lord one,
faith one, baptism One, god and One father of, all
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who is overall in. All and watch, this living through.
All i'm gonna read. It, however he has given each
of us a special gift through the generosity Of. Christ
that is why the scripture saying When he ascended to the,
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heights he led a crowd of captives and gave gifts
to his. People notice that it's said he. Ascended this
clearly means That christ also descends to our lowly. World
he comes to meet us in our crash. House and
the same one who descends is the one who ascends
higher than all the, heavens so that he might feel
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the entire universe with his. Glory it's time for us
to grow. Church maybe you've been letting your pet peeves
rob you of your. Peace maybe it's not that big
of a deal that they be smacking put on some,
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headphones or maybe you just wait to. Eat, No i'm
talking about like practical. THINGS i Know i'm being like,
really but like maybe it's just, like oh, man that's really,
annoying and you can live your life being annoyed for
just a little bit so that you can connect with
somebody or keep peace in your. Home one of the
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biggest things that annoyed my wife is WHEN i leave
the toilet seat. Up you, KNOW i gotta talk About
i'm gonna talk about me, Now, Lee i'm talking about me. Today,
okay that's my. Issue and at, first WHEN i first got,
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MARRIED i was, like just put it, Down, mike some
of the guys Like dug, like BUT i didn't think
about it from the other. SIDE i could Just i'm already,
Closed i'm. Flushing and how many times something just that
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small could change the way somebody feels cared for this?
Week what if we just grew in our capacity just
a little. BIT i, mean if the standard of stretching
is pray for our, enemies if that if that's, like
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that's that's the standard Of. God we gonna admit today
most of us ain't there. Yet, Lord but what if
we just stretched out a little? Bit what If BECAUSE
i just want you to, know all the STRETCHING i,
did it didn't happen all at. Once it was a. Progression.
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Today are we forfeiting our calling because we have low? Capacity?
Today it's time for us to? Stretch would you stand
all over this? Place god has a great calling for
all of, us and our calling requires that we don't
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crash out all the. Time you're going to have to
Put christ in the middle of it so right, now
if you know that you need to expand in your emotional,
capacity would you lift both of your hands in the.
Air come, on, y'all we're about to go. Home but
here it. Is it's Me, So Father, god here we
are Another, sunday not hiding from, you but asking you
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for your help all around this, world as people are
watching this live and on, rebroadcast and as the people
are in this, Room, GOD i think you that Your
Holy spirit is here right now increasing our ability to
handle what is not always. Easy, father your word says
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that we make room or allowance for other people's, fault, shortcomings, issues, corks,
preferences And, father that you would keep us in perfect
peace in the middle of. It, so in the name Of,
JESUS i thank you that in this place we pray
Tewod peter three to, nine and we remember that over
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our lives That, lord you're not being slow and keeping
your promises as some would understand, Slowness But, father you
are being patient with. Us thank you for your patience with.
Us thank you that you didn't just expect us to
do what you told us, yesterday and every time we messed,
Up Father, god you threw us. Away thank you for
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your grace that let us progress to the place we are.
Today And, God i'm asking that you would let us
remember your graces we deal with. Others increase my capacity
to love, somebody say. That increase my capacity to. Love come,
on say increase my capacity to forgive say It cocrease
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my capacity to forgive one. More increase my capacity to
Say i'm. Sorry. Sheeees, god let us be connectors of.
Unity let us not be so. Triggered, Father, god let
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us put you in the middle of anything that even
looks like a crash out so that we can increase our.
Capacity hear me say, This look at me real. Quick
we're going. Home god can use. You this may be
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controversial to, some BUT i need you to hear me say.
This how Much god can use you in this. Lifetime
it's not up To, god it's up to. You If
he would supply you with everything you, need if he
would take you into the places and give you what you,
need you still would have to say. Yes and SO
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i KNOW i titled this thing capacity is, Calling but
what if we said it like. This as you go
home and, meditate your capacity is your. Call you want to,
Grow you can, Say, god increase my measure of. Faith
you want to go to another, Level you can, Say,
GOD i thank you that you make me more. Generous
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you want to be able to stop crashing out and
cussing everybody. Else, god, Say, father put a bridle on my.
Tongue so WHEN i want to say this, Thing, Father,
GOD i can say something that is uplifting your. Capacity
it's your. Call stop blaming the, man, culture your parents
for what you do not. Have now it may have
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not been your, fault but it is now your. Responsibility
it's time to say. Yes CAN i get one more big? Yes?
Hollylujah before everybody starts, leaving listen to. ME i need one.
Minute if you're in this room and you've never said
yes To, JESUS i need the church to start praying right. Now,
FATHER i thank you right now that eternity is in
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the balance and somebody's about to say yes To. JESUS
i don't care where you. ARE i don't care how
broken you feel right. NOW i don't care what you
have done last, night, yesterday or what you're planning to do. Tomorrow,
Today Jesus christ is here to save your. Life he
increased his capacity by stretching one arm on a cross
and taking the another arm and putting it on the other.
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Cross and he let people, know accuse, him be him
for our sins so that we could walk in. Freedom,
today all you have to do is say yes to
What jesus has already done for. You it's the one
decision that could transform your whole. Life it took me
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from being a, liar a, manipulator somebody who was addicted to,
pornography had all types of confusion and messing my, life
and it transformed me not into a perfect, man but
a progressing. Man WHO i am today is not Who
i'm gonna, be but WHO i am is way better
than WHO i used to. Be and that's because of one.
Name his name Is. Jesus. Today if you are in,
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here don't care how you got, here who bribed you to.
Come that's a good. Friend by the, WAY i don't
care how you in here. Today god wants to transform
your life on account of Three if you want to
Make Jesus christ your Personal lord and. Savior whether you're
in this, room or you're watching, online or you're watching
in the, gym or you're watching on rebroadcast on another.
Day god wanted this to find you right, now because
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today is the day of your. Salvation. Amen on account of,
THREE i want you to shoot your hand up in the, air,
bold proud and. Loud. One god is about to transform your. Life.
Two you're making the greatest decision of your. Life, three
shoot your hand up if you want to Receive. JESUS
i see, YOU i see. YOU i see. YOU i see.
You god sees. You come on the hands At Home Transformation.
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Church let's Praise. GOD i see. You. Sister, hey, Listen
we're gonna pray this prayer as a family for the
benefit of those who are coming To. God and if
you have the capacity to just stretch your hand towards
those people you saw the hands raised around, them and
the hundreds that are. Online and let's pray this. Together Say,
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god thank you for Sending jesus just for. Me. TODAY
i repent AND i turn to. You you, lived you,
die and you rose again from my. Freedom here's my.
Life change, me renew, me transform. Me i'm yours forever
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In jesus'. Name. Amen, Hey heaven is throwing a. Party
can we shout the biggest shout of the day for
those whose eternities have been. Transformed glory To. God the
altar workers are coming right, now and if you're watching,
online there are people and team on the chat to
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pray with. You we always want prayer to be an
option for you when you come to The house Of,
god because The bible tells you where two or three
are gathered In his midst in his, Name he is
in the. Midst so if you need prayer for a
struggling situation or an, addiction or a frustration or, SOMETHING
i want you to come. Down the worship team is
about to, sing and if you're on line right, Now
(01:03:58):
i'm coming to praise spare than for you until next.
Week week three is gonna be better than all the other.
Weeks NOW i can preach WHAT i meant to preach
since week. One y'all hear. Me BUT i want you
to come back and bring somebody and until next week
go out and live a transform. LIFE i love you so,
Much glory To. God thank you for joining us.
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Today if you said that prayer and accept It jesus
into your, heart it's the best decision you could ever.
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