Don’t Fall For The Trap // Triggered (Part 1) // Michael Todd

We all have triggers rooted in trauma. When our triggers are unaddressed, they usually lead to a crash out. As Pastor returns from his sabbatical for  Week 1 of the Triggered: Finding Christ in the Crash Out sermon series, he shows us how our triggers are an invitation by God to transformation. In a world that has become great at confessing our issues, we must be ready to change them as well. We pray this message causes you to not fall for the traps of your triggers but lean into the transformation from your traumas.

Scripture References:
Matthew 11:28-30 NLT
Matthew 7:3-5 NLT
Genesis 3:9 NLT
Mark 4:38-40 NLT

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Do today's message, and today I have an assignment, and
so I need everybody to buckle up because I want
to let you know that God gave me confirmation of
this message I'm about to speak to you. Seventy eight
days ago, I was in a conversation with Pastor Bris

(00:34):
before I headed off to sabbatical, and God told me
the series that we are starting today was supposed to
be my first series, first message coming back off of sabbatical.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
This series is.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Prophetic because when God gave it to me, the climate
of our culture was not as sensitive, electric and divisive
as it is just seventy eight days later.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
I don't know if you've been watching the.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
News lately, and I don't know what's been coming up
on your Instagram feeds, but all the fun TikTok videos
seem to be dolled down a little bit, and it
feels like there's the vision and angst and worry and
pain and pressure and hurt, and there's all kinds of
things that the enemy is trying to use at this

(01:26):
current moment to watch this break the soul of people.
Y'all didn't hear what I just said. He's trying to
break your trust in good. He's trying to break your
trust and the things that God gave his son for.
And you may not be seeing it yet, But today

(01:49):
I stand in this prophetic assignment being obedient in the moment,
we're cold, sure needs a solution. Christians need a solution,
The Church needs a solution, and most of us will

(02:13):
be okay letting somebody else be a part of the solution,
and we stand by in comment on it. Oh, I'm
gonna tread real lightly for the next five minutes and
then I'm gonna kick you.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
I just need you to understand we all got to
get in the same story right here. What if nobody
else is coming. What if your side comment to your
cousin is not enough to see what God wants to
see on this earth. What if you have to get

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active and be a part of what God wants to do.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
In the earth right now?

Speaker 2 (02:57):
What if this last week was the demarcation line of
you being a passive believer.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
What if it's no longer.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Okay for you to have an opinion without affiliation. Okay,
today I have to walk us into what I believe.
And I told our team this might be one of
the most transformative series that I've ever preached because we

(03:32):
got to do some work on us. I got four amen's.
I said, we got to do some work on us.
Where are all the people that know that everything ain't
like it like you're showing it on Instagram? How many
people know you need God to do some work on you? Okay,
by the end of it, we'll get all of them, Kaylee,
don't worry. We're gonna get all of them. This week,

(03:56):
the news has been filled with things that have been tragic.
This is not the meat of my sermon, but I
have to address things that are happening so that you
can see how God wants you to position yourself in
the midst of culture.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
Can I tell you something.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
God is not taking culture away from you. You can't
just avoid what's going on, and some of you that
is your mission.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Stay away, dodge on new matrix all you're trying to do.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
I don't talk about politics, I don't talk about race,
I don't talk about people being big.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
I don't talk about people being skinny. I don't talk.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
About ice cream, I don't talk about lactos.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
I don't talk about going through the mood.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
All you do is spend your whole life dancing around
things that puts you at the mercy of other people
instead of being the change agent in every environment you
go into. And so I'm going to make a few
statements to let you know where we're atting culture is

(04:59):
re what we're dealing with is watch this word evil.
The evil displayed in the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the
evil displayed in the fatal stabbing of a twenty three
year old woman that is literally getting off of work
and going home on a train.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
The evil displayed.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
In the Evergreen High School shooting, which is the forty
eighth mass shooting in America this year.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
The evil that is on display and all the.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Inhumane experiences that are happening all over the world. In
Sedana and in Congo and Afghanistan. There are children caught
in conflict and toil. I'm talking about your grand babies.
There are people that look just like your grand babies
that are walking around in the street while rockets are
going over their head and people aren't dropping aid from
any sky.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
They are literally trying to survive. That's happening right.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
As you're complaining it's too cold or too hot in
this arena, okay, as you're trying to figure out where
you're gonna DoorDash and how quick you're gonna get out
of here so you can make it to brunch. Somebody
hasn't eaten in fourteen days, okay, And the situations that

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we are scrolling past on social media are somebody's real
life today. I need the church to recognize that we
are in a season that the front newspaper is reading
like a page right out of revelations. I mean, word

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for word wars and rumors of wars.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
Do y'all hear what I'm saying to you today? Earthquakes
are happening.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
The whole earth is groaning, earthquakes in Afghanistan, tsunamis all
kinds of things happening that we.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
Don't know how to explain.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
And what I've come to the conclusion of as I
wrestled with standing in this position, I was like, Lord,
could you have let me not come back.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Two weeks ago?

Speaker 2 (07:22):
That would have been an easier entury, like first week back. Wow,
he said, get in your spot. He said, tell the
people what I told you to tell them seventy eight
days ago. He said, I'm that good that I gave
you foresight for where you're gonna be right now. I

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gave you a word for where the people would be
right now.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
This is not you, this is me.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yeah, And I have to acknowledge the humanity. It feels
heavy right now.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Can we be honest? It feels heavy.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
People are hurting, people are angry, People are watch this worried.
I've heard people say in my whole lifetime, I've never
seen it be like this. I've never seen people come
like this. I've never seen these things happen. And people
aren't just worried. There's something worse. Many people are weary.

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But Matthew eleven twenty eight is going to be our
anchor scripture for today. And if you are any of
those things, this is the response of our savior. If
you're watching online, get ready, I need you to take.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
Good notes today.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
It says, then, Jesus said, not one of his disciples,
not one of his homies, not one of the followers.
Jesus said, this. Come to me, all of you who
are weary, and every person that's carrying a heavy burden.
I want to trade you. If you come to me

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with it, I will give you what rest. Say it again, Rest,
say it one more time. How many people could use
some rest? I didn't say sleep. Some of y'all just
need to turn off the fight and turn off Netflix
and turn off you could get sleep, okay, But the
truth of the matter is people get sleep and still

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don't have God says, I want to offer you something
better than sleep. I want your anxiety to go down
because not the situation changed, because you know who's.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
In control of it. Somebody shot at me one more time.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
Rest, he said, I will give you rest. And he said,
check me out, Take up on my yoke, take my
yoke upon you. Let me watch this word teach you,
which implies to me that in all of your educations,
and you having more degrees than a thermometer, in all
of the chat GBT and you do as well as

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the Google YouTube search that you have saved in your phone,
there are some things you still don't know.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
If we do not.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
Approach what God desires to do in our life with
the level of humility, we will not be able to let.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
Watch God teach us.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
And I'm asking all of us to allow Jesus to
teach us, he said, because I am humble and gentle
at heart, and you're gonna miss it.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
So I'm gonna tell you again. And when you let
me do this, you will find.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
Let me tell you where rest happens in your soul.
Sleep is what happens for your body. Rest is what
happens in your Your mind is tired, your will is
worn down, your emotions are exasperated, And God says, I

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want to give your mind, will and emotions rest. I
want that pressure, that anxiety, that always feeling like something
else gotta change.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
I need you to just.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Everybody, take a deep breath in, let it out, say rest,
he said. The only reason I can promise you that
is for my yoke is easy to bear, and my burden.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
I give you is light.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
The one thing that I want to say in this
is that you will still have.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
A burden when you come to Jesus.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
A lot of people come to Jesus and they're like,
I thought I wasn't gonna have to do nothing. No, no, baby,
he said, my burden is.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
It's light.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
It means you still gonna have it, but you're either
gonna have more strength than you need to carry it
or it's not gonna be too heavy to.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
Weigh you down.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
And some of us are carrying burdens that are who
told you you had to live in that neighborhood? That's
a heavy You don't even look happy come into that house.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
Every time you get there, the glass needs to be cut.
Look at the pegoone.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Gifts you comparing with the neighbors you Looking at the garage,
I really want to glass garage. And and I'm using
this as one example. Why is the burden so heavy?
Then you bring that energy into the house. Oh, the
creaky door, I need some WD.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
Can you get some WD forty for these doors?

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Coming into the energy is like hello, hey, how you doing?

Speaker 3 (12:37):
Nothing works? This toilet don't plush? I need better water
press all of these things. And I'm giving you an example.
But have you ever considered that.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
The burden may be too heavy?

Speaker 3 (12:51):
Today?

Speaker 2 (12:53):
In this series, I've learned that we don't look like
this scripture.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
Most of y'all.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
I want to tell you look cute, but the heavy
on you.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
I can see the burden.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
I know your kid got every Jordan, but the burden
of keeping.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
Up with that I know. I know you keep climbing
the corporate ladder, I know.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
And then you just got a promotion, and you just
get a person and a man just got another promotion.

Speaker 4 (13:27):
But it doesn't seem.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
Like that's light enough for you.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
It seems like every time I talk to you.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
You weary.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Have you ever met anybody that's like living the life
but wearydoing it? It's like you just got off a trip, yes,
and I gotta pack again.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
It's like, hold on, we can switch. See y'all know
what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
Like, oh my God, and I ts say like, wait,
hold on, I don't even got pre checked.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
I'll stand in the line.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
Beware when the blessing feels heavy. And what's happening here
is the reason why our culture doesn't look rested, our
souls are not rested. Why in some of the best
seasons of my life on paper, I was unrested in

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my soul. It's because I was not acknowledging something that
was happening on the.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
Inside of me.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
I would not admit that I was triggered the sermon
series that we are going into is called triggered because
everybody in this room has something that if it happened
right now, we would see a different version of you.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
I mean, it could just be a person walking in here.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
And you would turn into It could be me bringing
up a certain topic, and if I bring up that topic,
it's gonna send you into a place that loses all
recollection of where you at right now. There are certain
things in your life that are triggering to you that

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you are not acknowledging that they're affecting you in a
way that is taking you out of rest. Okay, You've
become so used to dealing with them that you.

Speaker 3 (15:40):
Have now started to use them.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
As excuses to act the way that you act. And
God told me, he said, Michael, I want you to
start a series called trigger Finding Christ in the crash Out.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
Finding Christ in the crash Out about.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
Finding crash in a crash out. I know we are
trying to find who Christ in the what? How many
people that ever crashed out before crashed out? Okay, we're
a multi generational church and and a multi ethnic church,
and I know there were some people that were looking
like crashed out and depending on how old you are

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right now if somebody was like, man, I'm gonna crash
out there like you sleepy, because in a certain generation
it was like I'm gonna lay right here and I'm
gonna crash out, and it was like, oh, he's asleep.

Speaker 3 (16:36):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
But part of the advantage of being a father of
young children is every two to three years I start
to learn new language. And this week my Bella turns
twelve years old, Lord Jesus, and I remember her coming
to me telling me about an incident with some of

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her friends.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
And I was following, and she.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Was like, and such as such was doing this, and
such a sigh was doing that, and such as sids
and such a SuDS, and then she says, and she says,
and when she said that, she was about to crash out.
And I was like, I had everything up until crash out.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
What does that mean? Oh, that's when somebody's about to
go crazy.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
They're gonna lose it, They're gonna do something uncharacteristic.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
Now let me re ask the question.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
I'm gonna give you an official definition, but has anybody
in this room ever crashed out before? Done something you
don't want to be remembered?

Speaker 3 (17:42):
Text? Something you wish you couldn't fool. Y'all know what
I'm talking about. I don't know every husband in this room.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
You ever said something that you wish you could.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
Have been, like, disappear, rewind, turn it up? Did it
this week?

Speaker 2 (18:02):
And many times what people don't understand is their triggers
immediately lead to a crashout. There is not much time
between something setting you off and you doing something crazy.
Some of y'all been doing it all this week. You've

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been dming people all kinds of videos. You've been commenting
on your fensta. Oh that's your fake Instagram account.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Oh yes, fensa.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Huh Okay, you didn't put it online, but you texting
the people you know will agree with you. You're developing
things in your What I'm saying to you right now
is many of us are getting triggered.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
And the beautiful thing about triggers is that our triggers
are unique. The thing that triggers you.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
Is not necessarily the thing that triggers me. And if
you're gonna write down a definition, let me give you
a poor man's definition of trigger. A simple definition. A
trigger is something that sets you off.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
What's something that sets you off. Talk to me? Bad drivers?
Somebody said, clock that teak, clock that tea? Like, did
I saw you off? Salving? Whateut? Come on, y'all, talk
to me. What sets you off? Liars? You're a liar?

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What else? What sets you off? What did you say?
Dirty dishes? There was a mother was like, oh my god,
Glory to God.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Nasty food, bad service?

Speaker 3 (19:54):
Come on, talk to me. What's a trigger? What do
you say? Disrespect?

Speaker 2 (20:00):
How dare you say that to me? You don't know
me like that. If you knew me like that, you
would have done something different because you don't know what's
about to come next. You see how I start talking
about your trigger, you start getting different, amens. There was
a woman in back when I was doing that.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
She was like, yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Yeah,
like what you want to look like? She was ready
to fight just off of a trigger. Now all of
us need to start making.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
A list of the things that trigger you. Some of
you have so many. It is just your life existence.
Oh y'all, don't play with me. You walk around all
day every day just waiting for somebody.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
But this term triggered is also used by psychology.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
Let me give you the psychological definition, it's a term
used to describe someone having a strong emotional reaction, often anger, frustration,
or offense in response.

Speaker 3 (21:14):
Watch this to something.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
They hear, see, or experience. Some of us have seen, heard,
and experienced things that we said, We'll never experience that again,
or if I make it out of this, i will
never bring my kids back to this situation, Or if
I ever have enough money, I'll never eat at this

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place again.

Speaker 3 (21:37):
Y'all ever ate somewhere, It's like I'll never.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
And yet, if you walk into a certain environment and
smell something, a smell.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
Can be a trigger.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
It can take you back to a place, and that
place then changes your emotion. Sometimes, if you grew up
in a physically abusive house, hearing a door slam can
be a what trigger?

Speaker 3 (22:11):
Your kids was just shutting the door? Don't you shutting
my don't you slam my dow? It was like, Mama
closed it. Something's going on with you. You need help.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
That wasn't my father. It was that the doors had need.
But that trigger. Watch this is attached to a trauma.
Right down this point I'm about to teach you through
this whole series. Every trigger is attached to a trauma.
Every trigger is attached to a trauma.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
You don't recognize it.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
You don't go slow enough to understand it. You don't
even think that it's a real thing. I don't got
no trauma in my life. But the reason you mad
that your kid took the last of the juice.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
Don't you ever take the last of the juice? It's
my mouth. You open the refrigerator, you see all this
stuff in there. I bought that.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
When I go to work, I go to work to
put this in the refrigerator for who?

Speaker 4 (23:20):
For me?

Speaker 3 (23:21):
Right? Because I can't work.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
There's shot labor laws against that, right, And your kids
just sitting there. I was just thirsty, and you go
on this whole spiel, but you crashed out because you
were triggered because they took the last.

Speaker 3 (23:40):
Of the juice.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
But you didn't stop long enough to acknowledge that it
was attached.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
To a trauma.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
That in your house you never got juice, and they
used juice as a celebration for the child that did good. Oh,
come on, y'all, Like, I don't know what it is.
But if you stop long enough to recognize that every
trigger is attached to a trauma, you not resting in

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God's rest because you're so triggered. Everything in everybody and
the color they wear. Some of y'all used to be
gang members. Anytime you see red, you triggered.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
We can't wear red, nobody could. Well, it's it's on
hoof over here, it's on grib over here. It's what
color can we wear?

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Which color in the primary colors does not trigger?

Speaker 3 (24:33):
Bro?

Speaker 2 (24:33):
I'm sorry, almost clock clocked on you be cuz.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
You rolled up here here in Bro. It's a color.
Some of y'all know what I'm talking about. There are
certain colors.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
Right now you save, healed and redeem, certain colors you
don't got in your closet at all.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
Okay, y'all, I'm not all right.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
I'm gonna act like I got a real safe search.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
Let me put my glasses back on.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
Certain things that you were delivered from that you actually
don't have freedom from. You just stay away from.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
I don't want to get into it. But the truth
of the matter is the only way that you are
in this utopia of freedom is.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
You've never been confronted with it.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
And so at the moment you get around weed smell,
it triggered the moment around you get around the alcohol,
the moment, the moment you start smelling the Chinese buffet.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
Oh, hold on, that's my own.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
Who that's my own situation, Scott, take me straight home
after this.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
I can't stop at the Chinese. I'm telling you.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
When I go to a dirty Chinese food restaurant, I
don't want to eat there, but I want to get
it and I want to go and as soon as
I mail it, it's like, be fat forever, Mike.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
No, I'm serious. I make two plates. I'm just like,
just give it all the way, sell the gym.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
Equipment, open a Chinese restaurant. Bro, you can't have your
own Chinese restaurant.

Speaker 4 (26:14):
It's like, but for years of my life, watch this.
That trigger of food.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
Was attached to a trauma of not being able to
handle emotions. So if I can't control that, I know
I can control what.

Speaker 3 (26:35):
I put on this plate.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
And I'm a pilot high and I'm gonna sit there
long enough to get a second.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
Helping and a third.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
But if you never confront it, that trigger is attached
to a trauma. And if you do not allow Christ
to get into this with you, I'm here to tell
you you're gonna continue to crash out. What are you saying,
Pastor Mike, You'll no longer be in control. You will
only be reactive, never be able to give a response.

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There's a difference between a reaction and a response, and
most of us are reacting because we're triggered. And God
wants us to respond to culture, respond to our family
members with his love, with his care, with his kindness.

Speaker 3 (27:25):
But the problem is you keep crashing out.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
You're creating so much carnage that the very people that
you are going to be responsible for helping bring to
Christ in a different season, you've already alienated them.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
What if the very.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
People you arguing with are the people that God has
on his list for you to reach. I know you
don't see it now, but you know you have no
idea how God is connecting people right now.

Speaker 3 (27:53):
And so what I need everybody to do is write
this down.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
Unaddressed triggers usually lead to a crash out. Today is
gonna be my introduction because I got sixty pages of
notes and you're not gonna be able to digest all
of this. So we're gonna give it to you in
little bites, and you're gonna pray about it, and you're
gonna be exposed to it all week and you're gonna
start to see things that trigger you. Please be warned,

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after hearing this message, you are going to go outside
of here and something is going to happen as you
will be the sermon illustration and you're going, for the
first time in your life, be able.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
To recognize it's happening.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
I'm going from the trigger into a trap. And I
think this is what Pastor Mike was talking about. I'm
about to crash out. Let me give you a definition
of crash out. Put it on the screen. This is
a long definition, but it's gonna help us through this
entire series because we want to find Christ in the
middle of our crash out.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
Do y'all know that everybody want Christ after the crash out?

Speaker 2 (29:00):
Why do it be when somebody barely escaped being addicted
to all of this stuff in jail for forty two
years and now they've become a pastor.

Speaker 3 (29:14):
It's like at the end of the Behind the True
Lie story.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
It is always like and now I'm on a journey
of sobriety and stability.

Speaker 3 (29:26):
There's nothing wrong with that.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
I'm just saying was Where was that energy before the crashout?
And usually it's never there because we don't acknowledge.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
That it is even an issue.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
Right now, I've been talking for twenty four minutes, and
some of y'all still think this message is for somebody else.
I've been sitting here talking to you like these young people.

Speaker 3 (29:46):
Show me this.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
You've been mean your whole sixties, you sixty nine, You've
been mean since fifty nine. Nobody wants to be around you.
You think it's because you wholy know your mean. They
sense the glory, We sense your mean. I'm trying to

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get you to look at you right now. Somebody say
this message is for me? Say it again, this message
is for me. What are your triggers? What's making you
crash out? Y'all know what I'm saying. Because the thing is,
y'all think these are big things. You think these are
things like being fired from my job. I'm about to

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crash out. Do y'all know one of the greatest triggers
in me and my wife's marriage. I'm gonna just put
it all out there. When I do this, no words exchanged.

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I didn't say nothing bad to her. She look at
her right now, say movement, calm your neck down, calm
your net.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
But she'll be talking, Mike, can you pick up the
da da da da? And Saturday no da? And it
went a part of my plan and I.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
It literally sucks all the thoughts out of her mind,
and all she can focus on.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
Is the fact that my breath.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
And I'm telling you, there have been moments that have
wouin days. Okay, I'm gonna tell on myself. It's win days.
What'd you say, tell on yourself? That's what I'm doing.
You want me tell on you?

Speaker 3 (31:39):
I got the mic. You want what you want to do?
Never min never, ma never mina. Would y'all pray for me?
I think the message is wing a little.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
And so many times after those moments it was almost
as if listen to me, I wasn't in control of
that moment. It was almost like I did it without
even thinking. It was watch a reaction, not a response
to what she was saying. She triggered me because she
was talking and talking in circles and talking about stuff

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we already talked about and talking about and just talking.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
I mean, you was just she alty told me that
I already said I'm going already did and what she
was trying to do. Y'all pray for me.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
That's my wife in the red over there, y'all.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
I don't know what direction.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
Okay, but but but but there were times I do
that breath and literally in the moment be like, why
did I do that? Now I'm about to be undoing. Yeah,
that one breath for the rest of the week, y'all

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know what I'm talking Married people, y'all better say something
to me. That one breath, that one roll over in
the bed.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
That y'all know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
They talking about something and you don't want to hear it,
And that's the sign I'm going to sleep. Why does
it happen so quick? Why do you snap on your
kids so quick? Why wouldn't the white cop pull you over?

Speaker 3 (33:43):
You ready to.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
Why wouldn't the black cop pull you over? You ain't
got no respect? Why Why wouldn't the teacher asked, hey,
did you do this?

Speaker 3 (34:03):
Why are you assuming that I? Why did that?

Speaker 2 (34:06):
They were just asking you, did you turn your work?
And why you assume I didn't turn my Why did Why.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
Did it go there? So fact? When? When? When when
they say it's offering time you like the church just
want my money? Why did it go there? You never gave.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
I mean, it's it's so crazy to me, Like the
people who have never given anything to a church are
the ones that are always talking about the church.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
Just want my money.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
It's so the pass can drive and look at that suit?

Speaker 3 (34:37):
Do y'all pay for that suit?

Speaker 2 (34:38):
And what?

Speaker 3 (34:43):
But why? But but this is the question. But why.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
It's because that trigger is attached to an unaddressed.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
If the church could learn that you're not just.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
Doing that because you just doing that, you are acting
out of something that is real that you may not
have acknowledged. The reason why you always get mean when
your account gets to that certain number. Oh y'all know
that number. All y'all got that number. All you got

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that number that when it gets to that number, don't
talk to me.

Speaker 3 (35:24):
I'm having a bad day. I don't know what's going on.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
It's like you get paid tomorrow, but for that sixteen hours,
if anything happens.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
You just in the house eating Raymond Noodle. Is just
waiting for that deposit to come in.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
I can't have no accidents, no slip us, no mess up.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
All gonna be a good series.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
It is triggering because you were at a point one
day that you said, I'll never be poor again, or
I'll never have to want for them or watch us,
You'll never have to ask for help, because asking for help.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
Is triggering for some of y'all. Oh, I'm in your
business now.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
The reason that everything is so heavy is because you
don't do life in community. You won't invite anybody into
what's happening. You won't let nobody that know that you're
actually struggling and you need prayer, and so everything to
you has to be done on your shoulders.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
You're triggered, and that trigger is gonna lead to a
crash out.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
I'm just telling you right now, I'm not gonna be
surprised at what happens in people's lives over the next
six months as we end this year, if they don't
put Christ in the middle of this crash out, y'all
think the stuff is about to subside now, and everything's
about to get better in culture, and everything's about to
go away, and nobody else gonna.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
Do nothing stupid. It's eight billion people in this world.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
Somebody about to do something stupid this week. Will you
be tossed and turned by everything that happens in culture
or will you be built on the foundation of Jesus Christ. Okay,
so let me give you this definition of crash out.
Some of y'all have been up there a long time.

(37:16):
Y'all see how big it is. You should have been
writing already, but here we go. A crashout is when
a person can be suddenly uncontrollably angry or act impulsively,
potentially leading to negative consequences. This many times shows up
as an emotional or physical shutdown, usually from burnout or

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over stimulation or being overwhelmed. The act, oh my God,
of surrendering all reasonable control of your emotions and response
in order.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
To react to how you are currently feeling.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
It could be a strong indicator that they are struggle
with their mental health and need support. You keep blowing
up at that family gathering, you keep causing drama at
that workplace. All crash outs aren't created equally. Some of

(38:24):
y'all are explosive crash outs. You turn it over tables,
you getting loud in public places. And it's so crazy
because that's what we think crashing out is. It's the
ones that are explosive, the one that it's like, oh,
I can record that I can get that on. But

(38:45):
do you know there's also people who crash out implosively.
When you crash out, you don't come outside, you don't
post nothing, You go inward. You crash out, and you
get that Ben and Jerry's and that blue bar and
some oreos and go to your room. Y'all know what
I'm talking about, and you destroy your temple trying to

(39:06):
chase a feeling who's quiet in here? You go to
negative self talk. You'll never be married.

Speaker 3 (39:18):
Hold on what that was? Just one bad day?

Speaker 2 (39:21):
But because you didn't address the trauma of perceived rejection.
Any time anything doesn't work out, you think the people
are rejecting you. And it could be that God's protecting you.

Speaker 3 (39:33):
They ain't for you anyway.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
But because it's perceived for rejection, you didn't crash out
and you've never addressed that. Why do I feel better
doing these things that I know tear me down, that
I'm saying things to myself.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
I lean into.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
Addictions and depression and gossip.

Speaker 3 (39:54):
I lean into these things.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
Why because I haven't even acknowledged I'm triggered. Some of
y'all church is triggering. That's why you sit way up there.
That's why you come after praise and worship because you
used to serve on a worship team and you have

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a gift that's so big, and you could run all
of this, but that one experience that took your joy
and how they abused you and did not see your value.
It made you say, you're doing a good job just
to be here. And I appreciate you for being here.
But what if God has called you to more and
some of y'all at home right now. The only reason

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you're not here is because people are here. You would
do church if it didn't have people. Oh, come on, y'all,
it's the people who trigger you.

Speaker 3 (40:50):
You walk in and you like people, people, people, people.
I'm triggering going home? Sleep?

Speaker 2 (40:56):
And what if the very place that God wants you
to actually have dominion is the place that the enemy
is trying to delete you out of. What if the
trigger is not supposed to be a place you crash out?
What if the trigger is the starting point watch this

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of your transformation. What if every trigger is not supposed
to be left as a trigger. What if every trigger
is supposed to be the starting point of your transformation?
What if the place that you get so frustrated is
the very.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
Place that God is trying to say, if.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
You drop down and deal with the trauma, I'll take
that thing and lead it to transformation for you.

Speaker 3 (41:46):
Okay, let me give you an example.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
All of your triggers are attached to a trauma. Okay, Okay,
that's not too bad.

Speaker 3 (42:01):
I can live with that. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
And every time they say they're gonna be on time
and they late, that's a little tighter. And every time
my family asks for money but don't pay me back. Whoo.

(42:24):
I ain't snapped yet, I ain't crashed out yet. But
if they do it again, come on, this is how
we live. Yeah, my kid better say thank you three
hundred times for that gift.

Speaker 3 (42:39):
That that work for.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
That because because you know, some people's trigger is the
lack of appreciation. How many times can they say thank you?
It's still not gonna fill that hole in your soul.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
You haven't.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
You haven't acknowledged that you're you're still triggered because you
didn't get the affirmation from your father. So you're making
your kids pay for what you didn't get from somebody
they don't even know. Okay, week three, we'll talk about
Week three.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
We'll talk about week three yep, trigger.

Speaker 2 (43:13):
Ooh yeah, forgiving people. Uh uh no, I know it's
what the Bible says, but try Jesus. Don't try me
because I throw hands. One songwriter said, can y'all see
how we have cultural ideals but we know Christ's principles.

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And what ends up happening is when we come in
and anybody gets close to us, anybody gets sharp with us.
Anybody's having their own traumas as soon as they get
close to us because of the tension between.

Speaker 3 (43:55):
Our trigger.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
And our trauma, crash out, crash out.

Speaker 3 (44:06):
Why did I cheat on them? How quickly?

Speaker 2 (44:13):
Because the tension has been y'all ain't been communicating. Okay,
y'all don't want to talk real y'all ain't been communicating.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
And the woman at work be saying, how good? Tell me?
How good?

Speaker 2 (44:30):
Are you?

Speaker 3 (44:31):
A good daddy?

Speaker 2 (44:34):
I see your little pictures with your son at his
football games.

Speaker 3 (44:37):
That's so cute.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
I wish my son had a zaddy. You see that tension,
it's so it can make sounds now and as soon
as that one argument goes the wrong way, and it's

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just like, hey, let's go out for some drinks and
you become inebriated, and now you have less.

Speaker 3 (45:10):
Control of your senses. Drinking ain't no sin.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
I hear y'all Christians. But you already make dumb decisions.
You do dumb stuff without alcohol.

Speaker 3 (45:27):
Okay, let me you want you want to be worse.

Speaker 2 (45:33):
Ofus with between your trigger and your trauma is so tight,
explosive crash out. Now your kids are picking up these pieces.
Now your church is picking up these pieces because you
wouldn't go to therapy, because.

Speaker 3 (45:55):
You wouldn't talk to nobody.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
See what God wants us to do is not not
have triggers.

Speaker 3 (46:07):
He just wants the tension between them to not be
so tight.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
My daughter, I asked bella earlier, I said, what's one
of your triggers?

Speaker 3 (46:17):
He said, smacking.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
She said it with a conviction and then looked at
us as to Ava, and then Ava looked at hers
like it's Yodad beast man, and it was a whole situa.

Speaker 3 (46:30):
I was like, hey, hey.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
Come back, Goda gotta But the thing about it is
for somebody smacking because of the trauma it's attached to,
could be something that's this type in their life. But
God's saying, I know you you ain't never gonna like smacking,
but maybe I can change your character to where it

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doesn't affect you the same way like when they start
smacking and they do the trigger.

Speaker 3 (47:05):
I didn't crash out.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
I may have communicated now, I may have moved.

Speaker 3 (47:11):
To the other side of the room. I may have said,
you know what, that was a good conversation.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
I'll text you like you might. But the crash out
does not have to be inevitable. If you would allow
God to be in the middle Church, need you to
come to a place where we can all acknowledge that

(47:39):
we all have triggers that we are.

Speaker 3 (47:42):
Being controlled by.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
Today, I just want acknowledgement. I don't got enough time
to go through all the things I got, graphs and
pictures and everything. I'm just saying, some of y'all are
not gonna make it through this week without crashing out.
Your poor kids are going to be in therapy because
of you. No, no, no, I'm telling you right now,
they are going to be. The problem is some of

(48:08):
the stuff doesn't have to be a trauma for them
if you deal with what's really going on in Yeah, Okay,
So this is what I'm gonna say as I begin
to do my study on my own life. Y'all know,

(48:29):
I can't preach nothing that God has not started working
on meeting. And I've just realized there's some stuff that
just oooh, for no reason, it's too tight in my life.
That should not frustrate me like that.

Speaker 3 (48:50):
That should not make me want to move. Y'all know.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
Crashouts are extreme, like you do something, somebody do something'
is like I'm moving. It's like, wait, what, No, I'm
moving to Africa.

Speaker 3 (49:04):
No, you thought I was talking about Texas Africa. I'm
out of here, Like y'all know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
Like, have y'alls anybody ever had wild like thoughts before?

Speaker 3 (49:13):
And it's like I'm leaving.

Speaker 2 (49:21):
What I found is that every trigger is an invitation
by God to transformation. I'm gonna show you one more
image and then we're gonna go because it's gonna be
enough for today, because you're gonna be triggered all week,
and then you're gonna come back here and figure out
what we're gonna do with it. Because God doesn't bring

(49:43):
us out to leave us the same. So let me
show you in a picture real quick. Put the trigger
axis on the screen for me.

Speaker 3 (49:52):
Real quick.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
Just the one that says trigger and the one that
says trap. If you got it so so, I'm gonna
just show you this picture. Every person in this room
has a trigger, okay. And if you do not acknowledge
that it can trip you up, you will be deceived
and fall into a trap. There will be something that

(50:15):
enemy convinces you to do, or you do just because
culturally that's what we did.

Speaker 3 (50:19):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
Let me just give you all some examples, because y'all
still looking at me. There are songs that are triggers
for you, am I.

Speaker 3 (50:28):
In the church. How many no, If I.

Speaker 2 (50:32):
Start playing certain songs right now, tinglely start happening some
of y'all, some of y'all. If I knuck, if you bug, knuck,
if you bug, we knuck, and we look at you,
Look at you.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
Look at you. Brie. I'm proud of you.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
You didn't even move right there, and you didn't. God
has done a transformation. When I tell you, Brie is
a y'all think she's.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
All calm and silence and peaceful nuhing.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
Okay. There are songs that could play right now and
it would be a trigger. You would be fighting lust, anger,
You would be fighting. Watch this, loneliness. You walk into

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the to the store and they just playing it on
the loud speaker.

Speaker 3 (51:25):
Why are they playing this song?

Speaker 2 (51:31):
And what the enemy wants you to do is watch
this with no time, go from the trigger to the trap.
You don't even know why.

Speaker 3 (51:41):
You just text him.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
You walked into the store, you heard the song, You
started feeling a type of way, and you was like,
what you doing, big head? Knowing in your conscious mind,
you like, I don't like him. This is gonna end bad.
This is not a man of God. This is now
who I want?

Speaker 3 (52:01):
What you're doing.

Speaker 2 (52:03):
I'm at the store, you want anything, y'all gonna act
like it ain't happened to you. You watching a movie
and a scene comes up that makes you.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
It triggers you back to a.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
Moment of hurt or loneliness or pain, and now you
cancel the plans. No, no, no, I'm not You know I can't.
You can't even fake cough good. I came down with something.
And you will watch this. You will sabotage your future

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being one that is trapped by the trigger of your past,
and God saying don't fall for it. He said, don't
fall for it. Write this down. The place of your
most sensitive trigger can also be the place of your
most say.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
Transformation.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
The thing right now that you feel like, oh I can't,
God said, if you would allow me, I'll use that
to transform.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
You put that other axis up there real quick.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
So if you get triggered, don't fall into the trap.
Look at your neighbor and say, don't fall into the trap.

Speaker 3 (53:19):
Don't crash out. Come on, tell them, don't fall into
the trap. Do not crash out. Just hold on. There's
a better option.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
Because so fast, trigger to the trap, trigger to the trap,
trigger to the trap.

Speaker 3 (53:32):
I should stop saying that.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
So fast, trigger to trap, trigger to trap. Some of
us have ruined relationships because the friend we prayed for
when you told them, be honest with me, girl, like
be honest whenever like.

Speaker 3 (53:53):
I'm tripping, be honest. And when she told.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
You Jerome is not good for you.

Speaker 3 (54:02):
You said, that's why I don't even have friends.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
I hang out with God better than I do girls
any way.

Speaker 3 (54:08):
And now you fell for the trap.

Speaker 2 (54:11):
You sent the text, you sent the DM, you did
the thing, and you fell for the trap because you
didn't even think about it. And now you're lonely. But
there's a different option. Put the other one. If you
acknowledge today that your trigger is attached to a trauma
right in the middle, you get an intersection.

Speaker 3 (54:33):
And the intersection.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
Between your trigger in the trap is that you got
to drop down into the trauma. Where did it happen?
Where did it start? Why do you not like being invited?
Why do you feel so mad when they don't invite you?

Speaker 3 (54:52):
You be on Instagram?

Speaker 2 (54:53):
Fuman I was sitting right here and I got a
red dress too. I could have gone, But what happened
is that there was a trauma from you not being
picked in middle school.

Speaker 3 (55:09):
Come on, y'all, and some of y'all right now, I
hear my old folks lead the past in the past.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
No, keep your past keep showing up in your future
because you won't handle what God keeps watch this, keeps
allowing you to be triggered by He's not taking the
trigger away.

Speaker 3 (55:32):
Pastor my Bible.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
Said, uh, he lets the friction be there so that
he can lead you to transformation.

Speaker 3 (55:41):
You've been getting mad about.

Speaker 2 (55:42):
Bad drivers for fifteen years, and as long as you
keep driving, there's gonna be bad drivers. But will it
always have that control you in the car with your kids.
Just lease, listen to the forest front. God is good.
Now you chasing down a Toyota Corolla flipping them.

Speaker 3 (56:03):
Off and tell them this is America, buddy, Like, what
are you doing? What are you doing with a honk?

Speaker 2 (56:12):
If you love Jesus on the back of your car?

Speaker 3 (56:20):
How did that happen so fast?

Speaker 2 (56:24):
It's because there was no pause between the trigger and
the trap. Today, I'm asking you Church, before you post
anything else, pause between.

Speaker 3 (56:39):
The trigger and the trap.

Speaker 2 (56:42):
Before you call a family meeting to give a dissertation
on why you are changing your last name.

Speaker 3 (56:50):
Y'all to y'all crazy, You done crashed out.

Speaker 2 (56:52):
I no longer am going to be a Williams Like,
what what is happened?

Speaker 3 (57:00):
You're a wucking you? What everybody say? Pause?

Speaker 2 (57:06):
Because there's an intersection that God wants you to acknowledge today.

Speaker 3 (57:11):
Drop down.

Speaker 2 (57:15):
If I was if I was in fifteen nineteen, I'd
say drop it, love, Drop down and start to go
to the place where you know there's something there I
really probably don't want to touch. Every time you leave
town it makes me feel insignificant.

Speaker 3 (57:38):
It's not you, it's me.

Speaker 2 (57:42):
Every time that you pick them, it makes me feel
like you don't value my contribution that's attached to a
trauma where people abused and used me and didn't give
me credit. It's not you, it's me or hey, you
keep using me, and I'm creating a boundary because I

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have a trauma of people pleasing.

Speaker 3 (58:10):
And I was only liked.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
When I did what people wanted me to do. So
instead of me feeling empty because I'm around you, I
drop down and recognized that my trauma is making me
fall into the trap. And I can't give you no
more money, won't.

Speaker 3 (58:30):
Be financially supporting you anymore. We were we about to
lose the house man.

Speaker 2 (58:37):
I'll see some of y'all right there. That was a
trigger because you asked somebody for help one time and
they didn't help you. See, triggers are unique, but if
you don't bring them to God, then you suffer from
what all humanity is suffering from right now, a lack
of self awareness. The enemy is the one who wants

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to keep you in the dark, and God wants you
to live in the What if you are not self aware,
you do not know why your.

Speaker 3 (59:14):
Triggers are always putting you in a trap.

Speaker 2 (59:18):
And today I'm just asking you the same question that
God asked the first human on earth. It was a
question of location, Adam, where are you? Adam was triggered.
Adam just did some he wasn't supposed to do. God

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didn't lose Adam.

Speaker 3 (59:44):
There's only two people on earth at the time.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
That he created and put them in the garden.

Speaker 3 (59:53):
He didn't lose Adam. Why did he ask Adam, where
are you?

Speaker 2 (59:59):
Not? Because God needed to know where Adam was. He
wanted to know if Adam knew where Adam was. Today, Church,
do you even acknowledge that you've been triggered?

Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
Do you even acknowledge that your.

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
Relationship with money is because of something that happened in
a trauma? Do you even acknowledge the reason why you
won't give to people, or the reason why you won't
help nobody, or the reason why you are gonna affiliate
with this party or that party or that team or
this team is because there's a trauma attached to watch

(01:00:38):
this the truth. There's a truth in there that most
of us don't want to face. And today I believe
that God needs all of us to say, all right,
you got me, I'm triggered. All this politic talk triggering,

(01:01:00):
all this racist stuff, triggering, all these people asking me
to lose weight.

Speaker 3 (01:01:05):
I'm triggered.

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
I tried one time, and when I tried that time,
I lost.

Speaker 3 (01:01:10):
Weight and then I gained it back. And when I.

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Gained it back, I felt so low that I said
I'll never try again. And so now, any time anybody
says something to you about getting healthy triggered, guys, today,
you may be falling for the trap, even with people
you love. I can't tell you how many times this
week I done have to apologize to my wife. I

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didn't need to say it like that, I'm sorry. Oh
you know, you catch yourself like I just don't breathe
no more. And the thing that I had to start acknowledging,

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I started being transparent with her about where the trigger was.
And when you're transparent about the trigger, empathy comes. There's
been moments that having been like, I was mad because
I really wanted this to happen, and I felt disappointed

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that it didn't happen. And when I feel disappointed, I
automatically go to anger because I haven't developed my emotional
catalog to figure out any other emotions. So as soon
as I get disappointed, I don't say I'm hurt or
I'm disappointed, because man don't say that you're the man
at a house man up. That phrase man up has

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taken more men down because they won't be vulnerable and say,
hey man, I don't feel like I got it right now.
I'm supposed to be the provider of this household and
I feel like aluhu their her. But that empathy, that

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that transparency of where my trigger is coming from would
actually bring empathy when I get up here and tell
y'all I've dealt with pornography and.

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All this other stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:03:17):
It's me being transparent about my triggers that bring people
into transformation. Help everybody around you. Just start saying I'm triggered,
and before I fall into the trap, put that cross back.

Speaker 3 (01:03:35):
Up there for me, real quick.

Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
I'm triggering, and before I fall into the trup, I'm
gonna go down.

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I'm going to humble myself.

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And I'm gonna go down to the trauma and admit
there's something there that I don't even fully have language for.
There's something there that I don't know how to fix.
And that's when you can hear this God is close
to the crash outs the Bible tells us that he's

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close to those who are broken in spirit. He's close
to those that feel like I don't know what I'm doing.
He said, you dropped down and figured out the trauma.
He says, that's the only road to true change or
true transformation. When you see this, you should see the
picture of the Cross.

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You should see that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
God says, I'm not taking away triggers in this world.

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You will have trouble.

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He literally tells us it could be remixed. In this world,
people will trigger you. But take heart, because I've overcome
the world. If I've overcome the world, you just have
to learn how to manage.

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Yourself in it.

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And if you don't learn how to manage yourself in it,
then it will feel like the world will have you
out of control. You be uncrashed out, acting out of character,
not doing what God's called to do. And worship them
all forfeiting your calling. There are more people forfeiting the
reason God put them on this earth because they crashing
out over a post, crashing out over a relationship, crashing

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out over they dishrespected me. You're willing to go to jail.
You're gonna go to jail. And leave your three children
without a parent because you don't let nobody disrespect you.

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My daddy taught me where is he at? Let's talk
to him? Do you want that reason?

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But many times when we hit that trigger, if we don't,
everybody say pause, the pause is for his presence. When
I pause, it's like, all right, God help me, because
I'm about to He's okay with that.

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Lord.

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
How many people have made drafts of text messages and
emails they were about to send.

Speaker 3 (01:06:06):
Come on?

Speaker 2 (01:06:06):
How many people have drafted, drafted, fool And God said,
I'm okay with the drafts because sometimes you got to
get it up and out of you. This is why
some of y'all need to go to all y'all need
to go to therapy. I was about to say some
of y'all, all y'all excuse me. All of us at

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this church we believe in theology and therapy because there's
some stuff we can pray away and there's some stuff
you gotta talk about. Okay, I'm asking everybody in this
world that's listening to this message, where are you? Because

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this whole sermon series is for people who've already crashed out,
people who are in the middle of a crash out
are people who are headed for one And.

Speaker 3 (01:07:00):
My question to you, is Christ in it with you? Today?

Speaker 2 (01:07:05):
For everybody under the sound of my voice as we
in this service this week, as you're triggered, I want
you to know that God sends Jesus to be in
the crash out with you, but he will not act
until you invite him. In the pastor like that is

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not true, My God will step in and do everything.

Speaker 3 (01:07:28):
That he promised. Okay, cool. But the Disciples were on
a boat in Mark.

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And a storm broke out around them, and the disciples
were crashing out.

Speaker 3 (01:07:40):
We gonna die, Peter Casewell, this is about to be bad.

Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
Like picture the scene and Jesus is on the boat sleeping,
and I don't know if somebody got thrown over. I
don't know what happened, but at some point somebody's like.

Speaker 3 (01:08:03):
Somebody should go get Jesus.

Speaker 2 (01:08:09):
And what I'm saying to you is you can have
Christ and still crash out. He can be on your
boat and you still crash out. It's not until you
invite him. This is finding Christ in the crash out.
When the disciples said, Jesus weep about to drown he said,

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y'all got such a little faith, peace be still, And
it said the waves and the wind obeyed it. The
crash out stopped at his word. But his word was
dependent on their word. His word was only activated when

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they said, we need your help, and could you be
listening to this message right now? And you want God
to intervene? And he said, and I need your voice box.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
Say something.

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
Tell me you need me to come in standing all
over this building.

Speaker 3 (01:09:26):
If you know that's you.

Speaker 2 (01:09:29):
And you've been in a season of being triggered by something,
y'all know what triggers me. People leaving that salvation It's crazy.
It's like the most sensitive time of people being transformed.

Speaker 3 (01:09:45):
And you're like, ooh cause I need to get to
crackle barrel with the whole logo.

Speaker 2 (01:09:56):
And what I'm saying is, over the years, the tension
has gotten less and less. I said, when they kids
get saved, they would be more sensitive to the atmosphere
that people are giving over.

Speaker 3 (01:10:11):
When the loved one. So I just start believing.

Speaker 2 (01:10:13):
It went from something that made me mad to something
that's like, Lord, would you please do something in somebody's
life around them?

Speaker 4 (01:10:21):
Do y'all hear what I'm not saying it won't it
won't be triggering.

Speaker 2 (01:10:26):
I'm saying it shouldn't have the same effect. If you
know that's you and there's an area in your life
that you have just started being triggered by, or it's
been years of you being triggered, and you're saying, God,

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I want to transform.

Speaker 3 (01:10:49):
Today is a day of acknowledgment.

Speaker 2 (01:10:50):
If that's you watching online in your home, at the gym,
at the office.

Speaker 3 (01:10:54):
Or in this room.

Speaker 2 (01:10:55):
If that's you, would you just lift both of your
hands real big, like, Okay, all right, we are and
today I'm gonna pray for you because it's me.

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I gotta start this today, Father God, here we are. God.

Speaker 2 (01:11:11):
I'm not praying for them, I'm praying with them.

Speaker 3 (01:11:15):
We need your health. God.

Speaker 2 (01:11:21):
There are things that have happened to us, some that
we can't even speak about.

Speaker 3 (01:11:27):
Others Father God, that we have tried to forget.

Speaker 2 (01:11:31):
One's Father God, that we want to act like didn't happen,
and others Father that are so natural and common to
us that we don't even consider them something that is
taking from us.

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Today.

Speaker 2 (01:11:41):
We need you to illuminate through your word, Father God.

Speaker 3 (01:11:45):
That we can be ones that find rest.

Speaker 2 (01:11:48):
Come to me, all who are weary and heavy burden.

Speaker 3 (01:11:53):
Father.

Speaker 2 (01:11:53):
Today we are saying we are too tight in the tension. Father, God,
we are too stressed out by the true and the traps.
Today we want you to transform us. Today we are
doing what Proverbs three, five and six tells us to
acknowledge you in all of our ways. We're acknowledging God,

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it's us.

Speaker 3 (01:12:16):
We've been triggered and it said you will direct our path.

Speaker 2 (01:12:22):
So today, on this first week of triggered Christ, would
you step into our crash outs? Yeah, come on, right there, Jesus,
I need you to step in to the financial situation.
I need you to step in to my family situation.
Come on, I don't know what your situation is, but
I need you to talk to him right now.

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God, I need you to step in.

Speaker 2 (01:12:41):
Father, to this relational divide that me and my family
are having, or me and my husband are having. I
need you to step into my emotional pain.

Speaker 3 (01:12:49):
Father.

Speaker 2 (01:12:49):
My husband doesn't even know, my kids don't even know,
my parents don't even know. I need you to step
into this insecurity, to this frustration, to these lies that
I've elevated as the truth. Today, God, I don't want
to crash out.

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I want to transform.

Speaker 2 (01:13:15):
So here I am as we go into this seven
days of prayer and fasting. I don't think it's an
accident that God prophetically.

Speaker 3 (01:13:27):
Lined this up.

Speaker 2 (01:13:31):
That tomorrow at six point thirty, we're not just gonna
pray this one time in church. Every day, we're going
to set aside time watch. We're gonna pause what's the
pause for his presence in the midst of all of it.
Some of y'all don't just need the fast food. You

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need to turn off social media. Some of y'all so
addicted to it, though, it's like I'm gonna miss something.
What did what did you do? How much time did
you have before you fell into the trap? God's gonna
tell some of you turn it off. Some of you
is gonna turn you don't watch the game, don't go.

Speaker 3 (01:14:13):
Na, don't that.

Speaker 2 (01:14:15):
Your purpose is more important than that pig skin. And
it's not because that's bad. It's because it makes you
fall into the trap. You gambling with the money you
should be paying for Excuse me, You're you're on a
fantasy league and fan dueling. You're doing these things that
are you done? Fell into the you got triggered. And

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I'm not saying anything's bad.

Speaker 3 (01:14:40):
I'm saying that is it good for you?

Speaker 2 (01:14:47):
I feel the presence of God in here, and I
believe this is a divine pause.

Speaker 3 (01:14:53):
This fast is not a glorified diet.

Speaker 2 (01:14:59):
If you gonna see gossip and do all the stuff
that you're gonna crash out anyway, just eat.

Speaker 3 (01:15:05):
You're happier, Just eat. We don't.

Speaker 2 (01:15:08):
But for those of you who watch this, my last
point is the goal is to live consecrated, not to
crash out. It's not just to acknowledge.

Speaker 3 (01:15:21):
Oh I'm about to crash out. I know my triggers
because some of us.

Speaker 2 (01:15:24):
Have gotten so good at admitting things. We never changed them.

Speaker 3 (01:15:29):
Did y'all hear what I just said.

Speaker 2 (01:15:31):
I just want to tell you my issues and we
can list our issues, and we think the transparency is
good enough so we don't have to transform. And I'm
telling you right now, I want you to be transparent.

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But you can't stay there.

Speaker 2 (01:15:46):
God is calling me, calling us, calling the church, calling
the kingdom to transform into an image that looks like him.

Speaker 3 (01:15:58):
And so this whole week, I'm invite you.

Speaker 2 (01:16:03):
To a point and access point that everything in your
life could change you triggered. God helped me deal with
this trauma and lead it to transformation. Tomorrow night. Meet
me online Wednesday night. I want all y'all in this building.

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We only praying in this building together twice this week,
Wednesday and Saturday.

Speaker 3 (01:16:29):
Get in here.

Speaker 2 (01:16:31):
Come, bring your family, bring your friends, bring people that
don't go to this church. And I want to let
you know my goal of praying online. The reason we're
not meeting here is because and God is so good
that he gave me this vision before I didn't know
what we would be in he said. Michael, I want
more than four or five hundred people praying. I want
thousands of people praying. If you tell them they got

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to come here, you cut the number down. When I
share the link on Facebook and Instagram and YouTube, I
want you to send it to people, text it to
They don't have to do anything but be listening in
their homes while they're making dinner at the soccer stadium.
I want us to get the church praying.

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Because if we forget the world.

Speaker 2 (01:17:11):
Changing, they can't change without Jesus. If we're expecting them
to lead the charge, Democrat, Republican.

Speaker 3 (01:17:20):
Independent, nobody can do it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
Accept the Church of Jesus Christ.

Speaker 3 (01:17:29):
The problem is you.

Speaker 2 (01:17:31):
Just as triggered as them, and until we transform, there's
no way we can talk to them about loving anybody
when right now you got pastors on your feed that
you can't stand. Were wearing the same jersey this next

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season Church, I'm being very passively. I know we gotta go.
It's not about more, it's about maturity. These next sermon series.
If you don't come back, you missing out. These seats
can be empty. Whoever's here about to get this fire
hydrant and you're gonna be able to walk away transformed.

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I'm not begging nobody to come to church. God bless you.
I hope that's feeding your soul. Whatever you're doing, I
hope that's sleep. Oh it can't, because the only thing
that gives you rest for your soul is Jesus.

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We're walking into maturity.

Speaker 2 (01:18:39):
Tie. I even prayed for all of my youth while
I was gone. God showed me y'all are about to
be a change agent.

Speaker 3 (01:18:47):
In this city.

Speaker 2 (01:18:49):
No hear me, you're about You're about to lead the charge.

Speaker 3 (01:18:56):
TDY.

Speaker 2 (01:18:56):
Don't don't talk to them like they're young, talk to
them like they're called this there is gonna be I'm
telling you, I'm talking to the youth, but everybody, bring
your youth, get everybody here, come to prayer. I'm telling
you God's about to do something in this church that
is going to turn everything that the enemy has been.

Speaker 3 (01:19:16):
Pulling on into a weapon.

Speaker 2 (01:19:22):
That same rubber band planet at the enemy. That's the
sling shot that David used to kill Goliath.

Speaker 3 (01:19:30):
Don't get me started. It was the same thing. It
was just pointed at the right thing.

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
The same thing pointed at the right thing, can actually
cause victory to come to families, can actually.

Speaker 3 (01:19:44):
Cause change to come to communities.

Speaker 2 (01:19:46):
Can actually bring transformation to this world.

Speaker 3 (01:19:51):
Let somebody say it starts with me.

Speaker 2 (01:19:57):
If you're in this room, you've never accepted Jesus, this
is how we're ending today. For all your triggers and
your trauma. There's a name who is not threatened by
any of it. As a matter of fact, the Bible
says it like this.

Speaker 3 (01:20:14):
That he was bruised and beaten for all of our iniquities.

Speaker 2 (01:20:21):
He was, He was stripped of all of his kingly.

Speaker 3 (01:20:28):
Prestige. He was. He was. He was battered so that
we could walk in healing.

Speaker 2 (01:20:36):
And today have you been heavy burdened and you want
to trade with Jesus, He says, I'll give you rest,
I'll give you something easy, I'll give you something light.
Today is your day of salvation, whether you're in this
room or watching online. I need the church to be
praying right now because somebody's eternity.

Speaker 3 (01:20:54):
Is in the balance right now.

Speaker 2 (01:20:56):
I don't care if a friend invited you and you
was like, I'll come because us, it doesn't matter. God
set this up for you. I don't want you to
think that we want something from you. God wants something
for you. And today, accepting Jesus Christ and growing in
his way and his world word, it will change everything.

Speaker 3 (01:21:16):
How do you know a poutor Mike. I'm living proof.

Speaker 2 (01:21:19):
I used to be a liar, a manipulator, addicted to pornography.
I used to be somebody with bad things in my heart.
I had car insurance fraud, and somebody tried to make
me feel bad online for telling my testimony.

Speaker 3 (01:21:31):
Let me say it again. I was shacked up. I
was broken.

Speaker 2 (01:21:36):
He admitted that he's dealing yes without Jesus.

Speaker 3 (01:21:39):
I was terrible. I was horrible. I was nothing. I
was hiding.

Speaker 2 (01:21:45):
I was broken, I was lost, I was triggered.

Speaker 3 (01:21:48):
I was trashed. But Jesus.

Speaker 2 (01:21:55):
He changed me, he renewed me, He made me whole.
He took me from being a man that was broken
and full of pain to somebody that's progressing.

Speaker 3 (01:22:12):
I'm not perfect. Nobody in this world is but the
perfect one. Jesus.

Speaker 2 (01:22:20):
He wants to invite you on a journey of transformation.
And if that's you in this room, I just want you,
on a counter of three to shoot your hand up.
I already see a hand over there. Today is your
day of transformation. One, two, three, Come on, just shoot
your hand if you want to accept Jesus. I see you,
my brother, I see you, I see you, couples, I
see you.

Speaker 3 (01:22:39):
In morning, I see you, my sister. God sees you. Hey, GC,
you already know. We're a family here.

Speaker 2 (01:22:47):
We're all gonna pray this prayer together for the benefit
of those coming to Christ.

Speaker 3 (01:22:51):
Somebody said, God, thank you for.

Speaker 2 (01:22:54):
Sending Jesus to transform my life. I am a sinner
and I needed a savior and I found Jesus.

Speaker 3 (01:23:05):
Thank you for living and dying just for me. Today.

Speaker 2 (01:23:12):
I give you my life, Change me, renew me, transform me.

Speaker 3 (01:23:20):
I'm yours forever in Jesus' name. Amen.

Speaker 2 (01:23:26):
Hey, can we thank God and turn up? Oh y'all,
come on, people, the eternities are changed.

Speaker 3 (01:23:35):
Hey, listen.

Speaker 2 (01:23:37):
As we leave here today, I'm inviting the worship team
back up.

Speaker 3 (01:23:40):
If you need prayer for anything. I want you to be.

Speaker 2 (01:23:43):
Able to come to the altar, cause some of y'all
is like, I'm not gonna make it another week. I
need to pray with somebody. The worship team is gonna
sing online. The worship team you can begin to put
in your prayer requests. I'm about to go to the
back and I'm gonna pray for everybody online and until
next week. Everybody coming back next week, I said, everybody.

Speaker 3 (01:24:02):
Come back next week.

Speaker 2 (01:24:04):
I got so much more to tell you because we're
gonna get transformed. I'll see you tomorrow night online at
six point thirty as we start our seven days of
prayer and fasting, and until then go out and live
a transform life.

Speaker 3 (01:24:19):
I love you so much, Church.

Speaker 1 (01:24:23):
Thank you for joining us today. If you said that
prayer and accept it Jesus into your heart, it's the
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for listening. Now go out and live a transform life.