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ask you a question I want you to put it in the comments I want you to talk about it put it in your notes as a reminder I want to ask you a very simple question but one that I think is very effective have you ever lost something Have you ever lost something I'm not trying to be funny losing stuff whether it's important or unimportant can be one of the most frustrating things in your life I'm going list a couple things I've lost recently and I'm going to see if it'll bless you have you ever

lost your keys and it's like you lose them every time you running late don't you then you get mad I know I always sit my keys right here who touch my keys you live by yourself who touched my keys oh my God have you ever lost your phone then you pinging your phone and you hear it and it's in this room is it in this room is it in the couch is it not in the couch uh-oh have you ever lost a remote oh my God I don't watch Law and Order six times one day

cuz I couldn't find a remote losing stuff can be so frustrating the question I want to ask is not have you lost your keys not have you lost your phone not have you lost your remote but the real question I want to ask you is have you ever lost yourself yeah it's one thing to lose things but it's a sad thing to lose you please put this in your notes today losing things is about finding where something is losing you is about remembering who you are losing things is about finding where something is losing you

is about remembering who you are see when you lose stuff you try to locate it when you lose you you need to remember remember please put that in your notes remember from the original language on the text when the the the the the thief is on the cross he says when you come into your Kingdom remember me that is not a uh 21st century statement when we say remember we're talking about think about me re which means to do over members which are parts of your body your arms your legs are members so when I

say remember what I'm saying is in order to find yourself you have to start by putting yourself back together question ain't how did you lose you sometimes the question is who took that part of you I'm preaching already if you receive that cuz the truth of the matter is some of us are shouting and bragging that we are survivors but can I preach and summarize some of your testimonies yes I'm a Survivor but I don't know all the time did every part of me survive just because you surviv don't mean all of you survived Michael

just because you survived don't mean all of you survived Pastor Mike that relationship could have broke me I made it out you made it out but your peace didn't you made it out of that that bad job but your dream didn't see every time you go through yes you come out but when is the last time you stop to take inventory on what all stayed oh y'all ain't got to say Amen to me today I'm only preaching to three of y'all who if you was to sit back and take inventory of your life your attitude

ain't been the same since that past relationship your patience ain't been the same since that last trial see I thank God see we make church so cute don't we we have testimony service we all make catching hell seem fun don't we yeah God took me through but I made it out no no no no no no no there are seasons of my life well yes I survived but parts of me didn't watch this and the parts of me that didn't I didn't know it till I reached for it and it was missing y'all don't hear

what I just said right there yeah just when I got ready to get my faith the last failure took it please write this in your notes the greatest enemy to your identity is not the enemy but idolatry Michael yeah this is as loud as I'm going to get today Church the greatest enemy to your identity is not the enemy it's idolatry make that make sense put this in your notes idolatry is the worship or excessive Devotion to a person place or thing that is not God that's heavy idolatry is the worship or excessive Devotion to

a person place or thing that is not God let me break it down in other words idolatry is when we change the source of our satisfaction my son want to be a ball player so bad they some dogs I love them and they got all these lofty goals and I'm going to give them all they need to succeed you know that's what I'm going to do they want trainers I'm going to get them trainers if they need me to go outside and throw the ball with them I'm going throw the ball with them I'mma come

to every practice I can just stand out outside the gate and look and cheer them on hear me when I say this but when I see that their excessive Devotion to being a baller has taken priority over their Devotion to be a child of God they have just made ball an idol so now how do I know it's an idol because it becomes the source of my satisfaction which is why when you don't get it you feel down some of y'all depressed about stuff you should have never been impressed with Michael some of us are

depressed by stuff and people we should have never been impressed with why is why are they the source of your satisfaction when they are also the source of your frustration you can't frustrate me and satisfy me at the same time and whenever you put something please put this in your notes I've said it once a year for the last 13 years and this my first time saying it this year God does not want exclusivity he wants priority God wants you to be a baller PR because I I'm seeing you run that rock he wants you

to be a baller if that's what you want to be God loves you enough that he gave you that gift when you run the ball you running with a gift God gave you when you throw the ball you throwing the ball with a gift God gave you when you sing when you write your book when you do all this stuff that God you're doing it with a gift God gave you God does not mind you having stuff he does mind stuff having [Applause] you am I preaching to anybody so what am I trying to get

you to realize idolatry is when we change the source of our satisfaction the world is not what it should be because Believers are not who they should be that's rich ain't it that's rich ain't it that's rich ain't it they they told me they came and got me in the back they said Pastor Mike both of the overflows downstairs jam-pack ain't no telling how many people online this crazy I said awesome but I really want you to catch this but the Pastor Mike you get when it's three people sitting here versus when it's three overflows

of people sitting here don't change I don't go home and be like man we didn't have a thousand people in church some of y'all remember that the services that were the most emptiest were the most powerful see because attendance is not the source of my satisfaction if I go to my account right now and it's negative I'm going to be mad are you thought I was going to say I was going to thank God no I'm not that saved I'm going to let you be that who else who you going to praise God for an

empty account no no the Devil is a Lie I'm going be mad Apple had to take that app out today but I will bless the Lord at all times see I'm going to be mad because I'm human I am not going to allow that to break me because it's not the source of my satisfaction watch this satisfaction satisfact satisfied satisfaction satisfactory satisfied whatever you become whatever becomes listen to this one word the source of your satisfaction other stuff is going to bring you satisfaction it just can't be the source see cuz if my car brings

me if the car yeah that's good if my car is the source of my satisfaction when the car breaks down that means I can't be happy about nothing else because the source is gone but if God is the source of my satisfaction when all this stuff break down put scripture on it this Joy I'm a preach to another church you caught me up there girl this joy that I have bro the world didn't give it and the world Michael can't take it away this is why your co-workers and your cousins don't know what to do

with you cuz they know what you going through and they also know the stuff you've lost yet when they see you no face your face don't look like what you going through because that was the source of my satisfaction that's for three of y'all who going through something right now but you woke up this morning wipe the crust out your eye got the steak out your breath put your hair on put your clothes on matter of fact you ain't feel like getting dressed your shirt wrinkle right now but you said I'mma go to church because

you are the source of my strength the strength of my life I lift [Applause] my what's your Source okay what's your Source I so if you ever if this is your first time I try my best to preach to everybody in the room okay so if I don't close this million dooll deal am I depressed or can I thank God that he brought me that close to it if we start busing a lot am I now depressed or can I say God I know this is just a momentary season hear me if I don't start

this week and I got to stand on the sideline and watch somebody else score a touchdown that I feel should have been mine do I now become a hater and speak negative or can I say God I'm thankful I'm on a team that's winning see see see when stuff becomes your source that Source becomes your idol and whatever you put in God's position becomes God's opposition did you hear what I just said whatever you put in God's position becomes his opposition make that make sense if you put something before God it makes God fight it

and you wondering why it won't live because you got it trying to fight something that don't [Music] lose if you don't clap for what I just said me and you going to be in opposition sometimes your relationship broke because you put that woman before God you put that man before God you put that job before God you put the bag before God but this year nothing is going in between me and my relationship I'm sorry high five somebody and Shout get your priorities together God over everything God over everything God over everything I am done

making Idols out of stuff that don't even have the power to fix the problem I'm tripping over I one of the greatest forms of idolatry am I doing okay overflow am I doing okay one of the greatest forms of idolatry is people pleasing ooh o I'd be setting y'all up I'd be setting y'all up y'all be in church I be like can't nothing come before God yeah it's just your season yeah it's going to be good for you yeah but you a people [Applause] pleaser put this in your notes you ready you ready you ready

people pleasing is when we put the opinions of people above of our obedience to God oh Michael [Music] Michael people pleasing is when we put the opinions of others above our Obedience of God to God who you going to listen to and who you trying to please Pastor Mike but I I want to fit in I do too but not above God Pastor Mike I don't want to be a longone wolf me either but I'll go if I have to go by my no Pastor Mike but what if they what if they get upset this

might be worth riding or shouting about I don't know when people don't get what they want watch how they act [Music] Michael when people don't get what they want watch how they get no if if your connectivity to me is tied to a yes then our relationship is not authentic some of you are going crazy because you exuding all your energy trying to please people who wouldn't be pleased even if you did the exact thing they ask you to [Applause] do watch this this is good this it's good this good listen to me never confuse

people loving you with people using [Music] you I be laughing you want to know one of the lessons I pray a lot of you learn this year is that everybody who listening don't care I'm going say that to y'all yeah they missed it over there everybody who listening don't care there are certain people who will sit and listen to your problems and that's all they do if I'm sharing something with you and there is not a reciprocal action that you try to bring to help me in the situation then why was I talking to you

about it have you ever stopped to consider people know because of who you've been sharing it with watch this watch this watch this watch this I learn to stop benting when I realize Vent go to other rooms [Music] hear me I learned to stop benting how you think your air you got one unit that hit six rooms it's because they hooked up vents so when I vent I send it to Rooms I'm not even in which is why I got to make sure I'm sharing my heart with people who have my heart did you catch

what I just said right there but the problem is we're people pleasing we're people pleasing put the thing notes people Pleasers suffer abuse from the very people they're trying to assist how you mad at me cuz I won't let you quit how you got an attitude with me cuz I'm trying to get more out of you how you mad cuz I won't say yes to your dumb stuff see the problem is they really want a yes man or a yes woman but you ain't built like that so now people pleasing is when you always give

people what they want while abandoning what you need that's crazy and that's the form of idolatry would you consider yourself a loyal person what about would you consider yourself a loyal person who considers yourself a loyal person who thinks you'll betray somebody at the drop of a DI anybody okay cool all right so so let me free you let me free you all of y'all betray people cuz when you put them before you you just betrayed you you told you you was going to do better this year but because you trying to satis them you

betrayed the promise you made to yourself to keep them happy so the same energy you got for the folk who don't like you maybe you are as mad as you are at them cuz you don't even realize you secretly mad at yourself because you ain't doing to yourself what you promised yourself you would do but you got all the energy for people but ain't got no energy left for you so how about for the next 4 months you be to you what you been to them Michael I ain't trying to be funny but if you

get a me in your life I knew y'all was going to feel that see if you get a me in your life a me will flip you in a way you never imagine I'm a rider I'm an intercessor I'm a fighter I'm a prayer I'mma hold it down for you the problem ain't that I can be that to you who going to be it but since won't nobody be it to me I'll just be it to [Music] my M go hear me so I'm encourag me think about how hard you go for other people and

how weak you go for you you will get out your bed in the middle of the night to make sure they there you be on the phone for 3 hours have sleep making sure they hear you you take your last and make sure they got something God said for this next season I want you to be to yourself what you been to other people and the folk who call you selfish are just the people who don't like the fact they can't benefit from all you've been doing if I've been holding it down for you all

this time you should be happy I'm taking time to to do something for me because people pleasing is the ultimate betrayal of self I am not giving you a Credence to go be mean no that ain't what I'm saying cuz I can see it in some of your eyes soon as you leave here today I want to be very clear don't ask me for nothing else my pastor said who heard that's what you heard raise your hand see look at this what I need a whole new church show them Dre show everybody hand who's up

right now look at you right there no that's why I need a new church right there that's what you heard ain't it yeah no hey girl you'll take me to the mall see that's what that's what he was talking about right there God dang it every time I need to do something here you come you ask me to do something my pastor just said you know what I'm not going to be a people pleaser can I have something to eat ain't fixing you nothing ate I ain't even ate yet you they mama you you whoa

time out you taking this too far I'm done people believe in my kids like whoa whoa whoa no no back it up back it up back it up no no no no no the reason you're as blessed as you are is because of how you love people what I'm saying is the reason you're as stressed as you are is because who you love your problem ain't what you do it's who you're giving it to put this in your notes I've said it once said it 10 times I've said another hundred parasitic versus symbiotic is the

relationship parasitic where it just sucks the life out of you or is it symbiotic symbiotic spell symbiotic you ready I don't know how to spell it I can't spell I be done spelled symbiotic s i m s y m b i o I'm not pleasing y'all whether I can spell or not ain't between me and you if I got to spell symbiotic the wrong way as long as I got it y'all just turn me into a spell pleaser no but here s y thank you Leslie s y m b i o t i c symbiotic

symbiotic parasitic they just take symbiotic is give and take Michael Michael Michael text me the other day yesterday matter of fact he text me it was so so simple he said dad do you need anything that just messed me up just real quick just so simple Dad you need anything I was like no buddy I'm good man just in here watching the game all right cool so where you at I'm in my room watching TV I said all right cool cool cool I just felt so good you know you want to know what mace text

me can you take me to dick and good I got a game in two weeks I need these sleeves I want to be pre-prepared no but seriously one thing about my kids I do love is their ability to almost sense when we empty I can't I can't speak it's it's just real subtle you good you need anything cuz it's symbiotic because if you're not careful we will make these babies our idols Galatians 1:10 put scripture on it obviously I'm not trying to win the approval of people this is Paul talking when they hating on Paul

Paul said let me clap back in biblical terms obviously I'm not trying to win the pre-approval of people but of God if pleasing people were my goal I would not be Christ servant that can preach right there boy Paul got the best clapbacks in the Bible I promise he do hear me when I say this why is that important pmj please write this please type this somebody put this in the comments because sometimes pleasing God will require disappointing people Miss Mel you'll never forget this you was an elder at my dad's church you never forget

when the word got out I dropped out of college oh my God oh my God that was World War I at my house I'm in college at a frat party on the microphone y [Laughter] I'm in the club in the club right I hear the Lord say right crowd wrong place in the microphone I say what I hear it again in the club Oak Tree Lounge in Livingston Oak Tree Lounge never forget the name of it tears flow down my eyes I walk out the club that night get in my car go to my apartment

sit on the edge of the bed don't go to sleep that morning I'm convinced God told me to leave school I called Pastor Earl Dixon who's my Dad's friend I said God just told me to drop out of school but my dad going to kill me he said well your dad going to kill me for telling you this if you heard God and you believe it's God he said we know in to buy and buy but you got to trust God because sometimes pleasing God will require you disappointing people I come home and tell my

dad I done dropped out of college my dad has a conniption won't even look at me won't even look at me he wakes me up that's a Friday morning he wakes me up Saturday morning to go to leadership meeting at church opens my door turns on the like get your butt out of bed come with me snatch me out the bed I a have time to put clothes on for real I get in his car the whole car ride boom over tell we waste your money I ain't get to go to college M you said

boom you up there acting a fool the whole car ride from Forestdale to Irondale just hitting me in my boom and Monday morning you going to get your butt back in that car I'mma take you myself South I'm like Dad but God boom we get to church he make me sit in the corner of his leadership Mee 7 minutes into his leadership meeting one of his leaders stand up and tell my Dad we feel like you have us behind the eightball they said we've come together and decided to leave half of his leadership leaves his

church in that me I'm sitting in the corner looking he bypasses me Furious goes to his office the next morning is Sunday ain't nobody left to sing he's in his office I grabs the mic starts leading praise and worship he walks out his office looks at everybody in the church with their hands lifted mother Lucy May says to him maybe this why God [Applause] hear me I helped my dad build his church I build a youth ministry just like we doing here that youth ministry becomes one of the largest youth Ministries in the city I'm

now at Miles College and got a whole College Ministry then God tells me to start a church in Fairfield you are sitting in what disappointed others [Applause] [Music] [Applause] cuz sometimes pleasing God requires you I don't think y'all hear what I'm saying in here look at what it says it's unhealthy when what you think about me please put this in your notes screenshot it if you have to it's unhealthy when what you think about me matters more than what I think about me but it's spiritual suicide when what you think about me matters more than

what God thinks about me did you catch that it's unhealthy I say it again it's unhealthy when what you think about me matters more to me than what I think about me so if you want to put in your notes it's unhealthy unhealthy when what you think matters more but it's spiritual suicide when what you think about me matters more to me than than what God thinks about me you so busy trying to fit in you don't realize God called you to step out it's a beautiful phrase that Dr Michael Eric Dyson calls anesthetizing Conformity

anesthetizing Conformity anesthesia anesthetizing that comes from the word anesthesia what does anesthesia do it puts you to sleep what does conform mean you fit in many of us suffer from anesthetized inconformity we're so busy trying to fit in we sleep walking sleep at work just trying to look like everybody you on social media so now everybody getting this done and this done and this done and this done now you got to get it done now your page got to look like they page now you around them you won't even like what they like but you

do it because you want to be around them and you too afraid to be by yourself so all you do is conform Michael hear me when I say this and what I'm trying to get you to realize is God has something special for you and this is the problem in today's text 7 minutes and I'm going to get you out of here the problem in today's text is we see a sister who's wrestling with people pleasing this is critical cuz look at Genesis 29:31 when the Lord saw that Leah was not love he enabled her

to conceive and watch this this is critical cuz I'm going to read every scripture so you can see it all the way from 31 he able her to conceive but Rachel remained childish Leah became pregnant had a son named Reuben hopefully he'll love me now that didn't work there she had a son named Simeon maybe he'll love me now that didn't work there she had a son named Levi maybe he'll love love me now then that didn't work she kept having babies cuz she thought the more babies she had the more he would like her

come on but sometimes no matter what you do for them it will never work this this CR I need you to catch this y'all don't like me today but it's cool in the game Pastor Mike Jr watch this I want you to look at this look at verse 31 we GNA go line by line sentence upon sentence we GNA exag the text exag means to draw out which means there's something in every scripture that is hidden you have to draw it out okay look at verse 31 put this in your notes when the Lord saw

that Leah was not Lov he enabled her to conceive but Rachel remained childless leave that scripture up we're going to break down everything in that scripture that'll bless you okay when the Lord saw underline that I'm going to run when the Lord saw underline that I'm going to have old school church by myself when the Lord saw please underlying that why pmj cuz some of y'all going through some stuff and you actually think you in it by yourself but the thing that blesses me the most is that as miserable as she was God still saw

her I don't know who I'm preaching to in here but I wish I had seven people at the last service of the day who can say God even if you don't come through today I'm just grateful you still got your eye on me so do me a favor the Lord saw her with the sing notes he sees me that's critical Pastor Mike I hate this school at this school all these people mean I don't feel like I fit in with nobody it's like every day I go to school it's like H I know it's rough

but he sees you and if he sees you oh my God he's setting some up oh my God if he sees you I was at my son miles football game all right he had his first tackle football game and they got this play they was running Beast right Beast right Beast right Beast right and I'm over here like oh my God and they was killing it then all of a sudden the other coach said hey shift shift shift and they would shift their whole team to right and we were still running Beast right and they

were just hitting my baby boom hitting Carter boom I walk out the stands I couldn't take it I'm not coaching this year I walk out the stands to the sideline I said goat I said run the counter he looks at me and says I'm saving it for the second half so what you me said if I run it now at halftime they can make an adjustment so I'm setting them up I I I know it may look bad here it is but I see what you see I want to preach to five people in this

room today and online who like God you don't see how these people treat me yeah I see it why you won't do nothing cuz I'm setting some up I want everybody in your life to think it's over I want everybody in your life to think you ain't got nothing left and just when they think it's over I'm getting ready to show out I came to prophesy to everybody listen to me that you get ready to experience a Divine setup and a Divine setup is a super natural reversal that what the enemy meant for evil oo

I don't know who you sitting next to but I need you to get on their nerves and just touch him and tell them he see you that's the wrong somebody they didn't Shout with you touch them and tell them he see you that find somebody behind you tell them he sees you the same prayer you praying God said I see you I see you need a promotion it's on the way I see that you need healing it's on the way I see you need a good Circle it's on the way I see it's time to

move it's on the way I need you to slap four people high five typ shout it's all the way I see you I see you hey hey so we at Spain Park we at Spain Park Hoover game Friday right one of the best high school games I ever been to in my life incredible Spain Park one by the way so hear me when I say this we at the boom and it's killing it I don't know who the rofo my boy Spain Park but I got all the members on Hoover team I'm like oh yeah

it's the best game ever miles is in the back playing football if you got any little boys they don't watch the football game they find the nearest open grass and they play 45 on 45 football it's just hundreds of kids all right so I look Miles said dad can I go miles champ chance they over there giving these kids the business I'm talking about interception pick six tackle all this stuff and then miles says to me when we get home thank you for letting me be a big boy and go play football it ain't no

all he's no we not going to do that no y'all pray for Miles all right so hear me so I'm like a that's what I'm talking about miles had no clue that I was sitting so high in the stands I could watch Mason watch Xander watch Ban Park but every now and then I can just peek and make sure he was good he thought that his Liberty was tied to his maturity his libert wasn't tied to his maturity it was tied to his proximity I was letting him do what he wanted not because I trusted

him but because I could still see him and some of y'all think you doing all this stuff cuz you got a degree and a little money and a 401k baby God letting you run like you run cuz he got your he got his eye on you when the Lord when the Lord Lord saw that's the first thing you should underline he sees me that just blessed me I'm sorry he see me I don't know who in something right now that got you crazy and anxiety and pressure your blood pressure up you've been stressing and you

trying to figure it out Holy Spirit said you got about a week and a half to get it fixed before stuff go left God told me to tell you I touch and agree he see you and because he see you he's getting ready to show up I'm good right watch this so put this in your notes I got to hurry up I'm out of time the Lord saw her all right so what's the next thing we see we should see in the text when he saw watch this that she was not loved oo that's good

when he saw that she was not loved can I ask you a question what does not what does love mean passion patient kind care for no record wrong prioritized okay so I want you to do me a favor take love out the scripture when the Lord saw she was not care for on put first on prioritized spoken well to nourished God says since won't nobody take care of you watch what the next sign says he enabled her to conceive all right let's let's change these words around when the Lord saw Leah was not cared for

prioritized made to feel valuable he made her produce something watch this go back but Rachel remained childless all right that's too spiritual when he saw would nobody love her he made her produce something and made the one who everybody loved watch her produce I'm preaching if you receive this and I know a everybody not going to say Amen cuz you sitting next to somebody and you don't like having people in your business and you was trained not to shout in church you're just too cool for that God bless all three of y'all but I came

to decree and declare over somebody's life that says won't nobody be to you what You' been to them God said your payback and your lick back going to be they going to have to watch you produce I wish I had a th folk who have just high five yourself and Shout I'm getting ready to produce something this year watch my business is go to another level watch my family be happy watch my body get whole watch my mind get free slap somebody high five and Shout I'm producing I'm somebody out of type I'm producing I'm

producing I'm getting ready to produce something watch this produce somebody say produce produce produce produce produce produce produce if won't nobody prioritize you love you care for you but Pastor Mike Pastor Mike you understand it's like it's like it's like won nobody ever help me have you ever stopped to think if they help you you going to have to testify about them for the rest of your life have you ever stopped to consider that if the same people you want to help you are the same folk who getting on your nerves so if they actually

help you you have to spend your whole life telling new people about how the Harse person did something for you who y'all ain't even cool with he said watch this I'mma make her produce here's the crazy part cuz I'm going to go back and see if you catch it when he noticed scripture on the screen that she was not loved he enabled her to conceive Grown Folk she was not L but she have a baby yeah I didn't give you context Jacob is her husband but Jacob don't want to be her husband Jacob saw her

SI saw her sister Rachel Rachel was a dime oh my God Rachel was a seven plus one she ate Rachel Rachel was all that Jacob rose up on the scene he says hey where your daddy at he runs to her Daddy hey bro I want to marry Rachel she I do it that bit take her daddy is a scammer her daddy says I tell you what you want to marry Rachel work for me for seven years and after the seventh Year I'll give you Rachel Jacob works for seven years on the seventh year they have

a wedding Jacob gets drunk when he wakes up looks in the bed he's in the bed with Leah this some tea ain't it this will go viral on Tik Tok won't it I could do a whole six part Series right here right so imagine he wake up and Leah in the bed Leah ain't fine Rachel fine he like hold up he runs to her daddy and says hey you played me I asked for Leah he said I asked for Rachel he says yeah but you know the culture is the oldest has to get married first

you got married in order so even if you were the youngest you had to wait till everybody else got picked that's why six people can't stand you cuz they thought God was going to do it like this when God did it like this y'all Miss what I just said they thought God was gonna boom boom cuz you were six and they was 54 3 2 1 but God got a we going from 1 to six and they can't figure out why God would go from 1 to six is because the last shall be oh my

God so this is some good tea I got to go now so he like hey you played me bro you told me I was going to get uh I was going to get Rachel he said I tell you what if you really want Rachel work another seven years now I got to work 14 years you mean to tell me this brother worked for another man for 14 years to get her cuz if you really want me you'll do what it takes to be with me that's critical watch this but I got to free you oh

my God I'm out of time look at me look at me look at me no way in the scripture No Way in the scripture does Jacob complain that he had had to work another seven oh God I speak over your life God's giv you the strength for your second [Applause] seven Pastor Mike what that mean you've been working hard your whole life and the problem with some of you ain't the fact that you can't do it the problem with some of you is you're tired you don't know if you got the strength to do it

again but I speak by faith God's giving you your second win for your second seven that you about to put so much work in over these next figur of seven that you going to get the very thing you've been praying for you ought to shout I receive that so watch this so he's married I'm going to go he's married to Leah but he won't Rachel watch this he's working seven years for Rachel but every morning he wake up looking at Leah he won Rachel but he's looking at Leah can you imagine in the bed looking

at her and looking out your tent looking at her but that's how some of us feel cuz we own a job looking at this but when we go to bed at night we dream about that cuz what do I do when my prophecy don't match my reality oh that was it right there what do I do when my prophecy don't match my reality when what they spoke over me ain't what I'm under what you going to do yeah when you lay in that bed tonight and you look up at that ceiling and it's an apartment

that you don't want to be in but you know it's a house that you can make a home in your spirit are you going to sit in your present and cry or you going to lay in that bed and be like I see it I see it I see it I see it I see it so God going to give me strength for my second seven I'm preaching to somebody and look what he did he said no I don't want you but evidently he wasn't that mad cuz he was still sleeping with her and she

had a baby and she just didn't have a baby she had sons in the Bible to have sons literally meant you were valuable oh my God she got Sons so what does that mean Pastor Mike she has sons and when she has Sons oh my god look what he said yeah I'mma have his first son cuz I was born in misery and maybe he'll love me now and she named him Reuben that didn't work so maybe I have another son and I name him Simeon because each son represents a season y'all Miss what I just

said right there I said each son represents a season I'm going to give it to you quick put this in your notes Reuben represents a season of misery Simeon represents a season of rejection this is good today and Levi represents a season of loneliness she said maybe if I give birth God let me have a baby cuz he saw me in my misery it's crazy that's crazy that's crazy so what is she doing she's having baby after baby after baby trying to keep this man happy this is what we call this is very heavy put

this in the comments somebody performance-based relationships performance-based relationships Xander a performance-based relationship is when we attempt to earn love and acceptance based on how well we perform bra is so so that means I'mma keep doing stuff and if I keep doing they'll keep loving me so now their love isn't because of who you are it's because of what you do and the moment you stop doing it they start Ling stop loving you so watch this mean you're accepted because you meet other people's expectations Leah is trying to earn acceptance through accomplishments but yet her accomplishments

still leave her empty it's critical isn't it leave her empty why is that important Pastor Michael I need you to catch this I need you to catch this I need you to catch this because each sign represents a season Once she goes through her season of misery her season of rejection what's misery it's a type of Torment bro I'm G give you this definition I'mma say it but go back and read it and write it the best you can okay misery a state or feeling of great distress great comfort discomfort so what is misery I'm

going give you the quick version great distress great discomfort to my mind or body so misery is when mentally I'm stuck or physically I'm hurting you ever had something on your mind so heavy you couldn't function I'm talking about it just had you she was like I got to figure this out can you imagine her and her as us can you imagine her every day waking up okay hey how you doing fix my food and I just hurry up hey I put this outfit okay okay okay what can I do what can I do Rachel

Rachel beautiful Rachel beautiful she ain't got no kids bo hey I'm pregnant okay cool cool that's what's up hey I went to college and got my degree that's cool that's that's that's cool did you see what so so did see in some of our families it's like you the one in the family who actually making the family proud have you ever stopped to realize that you'll go to college come back and they'll say you changed but they go to jail and come out and say they kept it [Applause] real like what are you talking about

so now because you speak well and you don't want to act a fool oh you change and so what you do Mom I'm I got the degree oh that's good that's good have you checked on your brother Simeon means rejection she goes through misery rejection loneliness then we get to verse 35 verse 35 says she conceived again and when she gave birth to a son she said I'm going to run this time I don't know who that just touched and agree with right there she said this time I will praise the Lord she named him

Judah watch this and she stopped having children what does that mean she stopped trying to people please can I borrow seven minutes to give them back to you next week I want to give you three things number one it's on the screen if I'm not mistaken can you throw it up there for me Dre thank you son number one people pleasing in the heart impacts our our identity so people pleasing in the heart let me free you that's one of the things I just I don't know how to be anything other than me the same

me you see up here preaching is the exact same me you would see out I I don't know how to change it's just me this ain't a preacher voice this my regular voice cuz you know when God I I who talks like that Mike if you don't mind going to the kitchen and get your daddy some orange juice zand if your mind like no this this all it take you got me so it ain't no this it this it this it you see me out the football see me out but can I be honest the

first nine to 10 years of my Ministry was people pleasing matter of fact next Sunday Dre I want you to show all my looks I was wearing bow [Music] ties golf shoes then I went through a suit face with big knots I had the glasses that didn't have no prescription cuz I thought it make me look pastoral I cut all my facial hair off it was a huge miss this beer come off it get real funny looking under here so hear me I was bad like my son's joke all the time they see a be

like oh that's the Pastor Mike we know like no he not coming back cuz they said people grown people will never go to your church that's what they said to me I was 25 nobody grown will ever go to church anybody really serious about God just them young people who wow so I was trying to be what I thought attracted who I wanted you know I discovered once I became me who got an iPhone hold your iPhone up hold it up put it to your face no not on your face literally just look at it

look at it what happened it unlocked right can you lock it for me lock it put it to your neighbor face what happened it said enter cold it don't just don't open it makes it very clear if you want access it's a privilege [Music] there are certain blessings that won't come to you when you busy trying to be other people want you to be number one people pleasing does what throw it on the screen Dre so they can see it impacts our identity people pleasing in the heart number two people pleasing in the heart impacts

our increase That's Heavy ain't it past M how does people please un block my blessing look our increases side to our heart's ability to decrease Leah's people pleased and nearly prevented God's plan look at what 1st Samuel 16:7 says but the Lord does not consider his appearance of the height for I rejected him the Lord does not look at the things people look at people look at the outward appearance the Lord looks at the what so they're looking for a new king and the father brought everybody who looked apart Samuel said no they ain't it

God ain't looking at the outside he's looking at the inside number three people pleasing in the heart impacts our intimacy blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God our intimacy with God protects us from being manipulated by people you want to know when I get manipulated every time I get too far from God every time I ain't in my devotion like I should not praying praying praying and then once I start kind of operating on this whole I got this I'm not trying to have a church full of people I don't do

nothing for nobody that ain't what I'm saying y'all know that right what I'm saying is what's today's date of September wasn't it just February how much of these nine months have you actually spent working on you father I speak by faith discernment to know who to trust who to help where to go where not to go I speak a level of boldness to be who God called them to be God I hope that they realize that different is the New Normal nowhere in the Bible do you call us ordinary you use words like peculiar royal

priesthood light salt every adjective that you use to describe a child of God is different so God help me understand that I am who you called me to be that I walk in purpose and I walk in favor God I pray right now that you will surround us with people who give us reciprocal blessings who there are SE Seasons when I hold them up but there are also Seasons when they hold me up God I thank you in advance for never leaving my side it's in Jesus name we pray and everybody say it come on

jump on your feet give God a hand clap of Praise did you get anything out of that today come on clap your hands then man listen to me there is one person I want you to please and that's God you may be here and you don't know Jesus I'm going say say this I've said it falling in love with God is still the best thing I've ever done I mean this man and my relationship with God means the most to me my relationship with God is more than my family it's more than my career it's

more than anything I mean that cuz when all this stuff Fade Away God is still going to be there so if you're in this room and you don't know Jesus I'm not going to call you up in front of everybody put you on the spot right where you are you can whisper it under your breath you can just say Lord come into my heart Make Me Over again I confess with my mouth I believe with my heart you were raised from the dead with all power in your hand right now by faith I am save

that's all it take clap your hands [Music] [Applause] man let me free you you'll text home to 28950 you don't text home to 28950 to get saved we text home to 28950 to get secure to put you in a community of people who going to pray with you who going to check on you do our best you know what I'm saying I try my best we have a big church but I feel like in my heart it ain't that big it's just like it's us it's just this what we do and we just love people

we love God you know what I'm saying and that's what we're trying to be that's why you're going to see me over the month of September and October engaging more people than never CU there just so much work to be done you know every Friday this year we've beening trying to go to different football games he went to Moody's football game two Fridays ago we went to Spain Park this Friday uh we have a bye this week so we going to check out somebody else's football game I want my young guys to see see they

passed in the stands say hey how you doing we've been going to chili the meats and spelling beads and all type of stuff how special would it be everybody don't want to be a Usher everybody want to be a deacon but we all can be a representation of Jesus you know so how dope would it be if you went to the church website and here go some G games this weekend you just went we are I see you boy and they get to say hey man you don't know who dad didn't show up or who

Auntie didn't show up I went to one game he have nobody there his grandma was supposed to come didn't nobody come he looked over saw me didn't play not one down he kept looking in the stand that's right that's all it took you know what I'm saying saw my boy throw at a seven on S men I watched him he torched the team throwing s boom dime after dime he torching te look over there at me I like I see you I see you cuz that's what it's all about it's about Community I don't want

a big church I want big people I believe if we can be big people that's what to please God what does it profit to be a mile long and an inch deep no we going to be a strong church cuz we have strong people somebody say amen amen to all of my visitors who came from all over the world we love you guys so much we praying for each and every one of you father God if you're going to give today just give you know that's between you and God you can text irck with the

amount you want to give the two 28950 I tithe because I want to be in good standard with God and I firmly believe in the principles that it brings but that's you man you should be a giver if it's not your first time be your first time today it'll bless your life father God I pray a special prayer it's very simple and it's Lord your will nothing more nothing less nothing else it's in Jesus name and everybody said I love y'all so much I'll see y'all next Sunday we are [Music] [Applause] Rock City what a

powerful message entitled don't lose you so many ouch moments I hate i w my my open toe shoes because he was stepping all over my feet as we talk about people pleasing and I love that he made a point about sometimes pleasing God means disappointing people yes right and so I appreciate that today pmj got a chance to really slow walk that message and allow us to do inventory in our own lives what's stood out to you from today's message it made me think about when he said God over everything like nobody nothing else matters

nobody else matters we choose him before we try to please other people absolutely that was powerful and of course in choosing God you always make the right decision and so with that being said maybe you are making a decision today something that you heard resonate with you and you want to be able to take that next step well we want to do that with you you can text home to 28950 we see it more than 8,000 people have given their lives to Christ to date and we're excited to see that number grow as we are

on a mission to empty out hell right for every woo my god listen for every one that the enemy thought you know he got the song says the devil thought he had me but I got so text home to 28950 and then of course you want to get seed in the ground yes you want to get some seed in the ground and we always say we don't give to our church we give through our church um and if you want to do that you can text irck in the amount you wish to give to 28950

this is good ground yes as you can see God is doing something special here um even as we were preparing to do the close out I was loving just seeing the families together the young people the youth and the young adults who have just a renewed hunger and thirst for God and we're seeing that with Rock City Youth and the incredible work that they're doing so if you're interested in getting your young person engaged in Our Youth and Young Adult Ministry here you can text nextg to 28950 that's nextg to 28950 yes ma'am and speaking

of getting involved in the morning yes we have dvo energy can I get a good dvo energy one two three dvo energy yes she got it she got it over there if you got dvo energy we will see you bright and early as you stated at 7:21 on Facebook and on YouTube yes ma'am well yeah listen I think it's about that time I know you're headed to a cookout but listen we cannot close without saying on behalf of Pastor Mike lady Jay and the entire first family here at Rock City listen we love you we

are praying for you we believe that you're going to go on to be all that God has called you to be and until then we'll see you next time peace