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What's going on, family? I am so excited you're here. And it's a good day because three reasons. Number one, you're here. I'm here. God's here. Uh-huh. Number two, I have a message today that is about to help you. But before we get into that, number three, we are releasing a brand new podcast this Friday called Pop. June 5th. Progression over perfection is coming to every streaming platform. And I want you to be a part of this new journey we're going on to help people understand the reality of following Christ, walking in purpose, and understanding the concept of progression over perfection. This is going to help you because if you're filled up with the right thing, you have no other choice but to elevate. And I can't wait for you to pop.
I need you to know today's message is going to help you pop if you listen to the words of God. Hear me. Many of you are tired. Matter of fact, let me just ask you the question. Are you tired? Are you overwhelmed? Are you exhausted? Are things coming into your life in your sphere that have you just wanting to go to sleep? May I submit to you, you might not just need more sleep. You might need rest for your soul. And today's message, I believe, is going to transform your life if you would humble yourself and be ready to learn something brand new. I'm not talking from speculation. I'm talking from transformation. And I believe that rest is actually a weapon. So listen, this message is what you've been praying for. Are you tired? Win the wrestle with rest. I'll see you on the other side.
Today is going to be the last installment in a series we've been in called six figures, which are six figures that I believe God uses to expand our faith and grow us in a life of abundance. And today's message is going to be good because it's going to help everybody.
"How many people is it going to help?"
"Everybody."
"Not everybody. It's going to help everybody. And that includes you. Now, right now, if your heart is like, 'Prove something to me, Pastor Mike.' You not going to get this. You got to open up your heart to be able to receive. And so, what I thought about what would be the best thing to open up the heart of people about a subject that they already are wrestling with. I said, I got to put it in a package that they can receive it in. Cuz today I'm talking to the people of God about rest."
"Rest."
"And I look at your face right now and know you tired."
"I can see by how you respond that you're tired. Some of y'all's Facebooks and Instagrams are telling on you. You tired. There are things that God suggests in his word. And then though there are things that he commands in his word."
"And one of the commandments that is most ignored by people who claim to know him and love him is the commandment of taking a Sabbath."
"The commandment of resting. And right now I feel people clenching. You don't know my story. You don't know how much responsibility I have. You don't know where I came from. I got it out the mud. You don't understand. I'm a blueco collar worker. You don't understand that I have so much to provide for. You don't understand. You don't understand how much God loves you."
"God loves you so much that he gives us the gift of rest. But if you don't have the revelation of it, you never open the gift."
"So today, I know it's hard right now. Some of y'all, I feel the resistance. I feel the resistance. So I wanted to put this message in a package that you could receive it. Today, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to welcome to the stage preaching his first message, my junior preacher today, Mr. Arlo Phoenix Medaf. Would y'all give it up?"
"Oh, you can do better than that. What's up, big dog? Arlo has a message. Would you please get your notes ready?"
"Go ahead, Arlo."
"Hello, my name is Arl Phoenix Metaf and I'm going to preach today. Everyone turn to your neighbor and say 67."
"67."
"Turn to your other neighbor and say 67."
"67."
"Um, Genesis chapter 1, God creates everything in six days. The sixth day he creates man. The seventh he rest. That reminds us we need rest. Um Jesus asks all of us a question. Are you really tired? Um he won't only give you rest for six days but seven. Six seven."
"HEY, CAN WE GIVE IT UP FOR ALL OF"
"So proud of you, buddy. High five. We can go home."
"Some of y'all was smiling so much y'all didn't hear what he said. What he said"
"was that God worked for six days,"
"but on the seventh day he rested."
"And it's crazy that at 7 years old, Arlo has a revelation that most 67 year olds don't have."
"The the truth of the matter is um rest is something that is necessary. So, I'm going to title today's message, Are You Tired?"
"I don't know what that message just did to somebody, but somebody's telling on themselves. The rumbles in the crowd. Look at your neighbor and just ask them the question, 'Are you tired?'"
"If you have the faith, you can answer them. Come on."
"Look at your other neighbor. Come on, say other neighbor. Are you tired?"
"Today I got to talk about the wrestle that you're having with rest."
"Some of y'all are wrestling with rest. Now I don't want anybody to confuse this with laziness."
"I got to say this up front because somebody's like perfect the message. No,"
"I'm going to I'm going to give you context to this. But some of you are really wrestling with rest. And today, I hope that this message by God's grace gives you a revelation of rest. Matter of fact, just just to let everybody calm down, everybody take a deep breath in, let it out, and say, 'Relax.'"
"Relax."
"I'm not about to condemn you. I'm not about to try to make you change today. I'm going to just present some things to you that God presented to humanity. And then I want you to make a decision. Do you want to live the abundant life that God provided or do you want to live this ghetto life that culture is giving you? I have no idea what's happening right now. It's ghetto down here. I"
"want you to live in freedom. I want you to enjoy the abundant life. Life and life to the fool."
"And if you only hear things in memes or or or captures, I want you to catch this little the whole message I put in a meme. I'm trying to break this big thing down to something simple. Arlo was first. This is my second attempt to just make you relax with this. I want to give you my message in a meme. Will you play that video real quick?"
"Did you have a nap today?"
"I did."
"But you need one."
"No, I don't."
"Did you take a nap today? No, I didn't. you need one."
"What did What was her response?"
"What if God was coming to you today and saying, 'You need a nap.' Would you tell him, 'No, I don't. I have too many bills to pay.' No, I don't. I got to be outside. Oh, y'all know what I'm talking about. No, I don't. I have too many emails to answer. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. And um I think God's coming to you today through your pastor and saying, 'You need one.'"
"Have you had a nap?"
"Watch this. Not today. Have you had a nap this week?"
"Have you had a day off this week? Have you had a day off this month? Have you had a day off this year?"
"The reason I'm asking this is not because I, as much as I love you, I just want you to be healthy. and um um and thriving in all of the latest things that culture is telling you. This is an ancient principle"
"that our God put in place because he wanted us to work, not work, but he wanted us to function properly. So, because God wanted humanity, his creation to function properly, he knew what they needed before they ever went to work. My daughter Gia's birthday is coming up. And one of the things as we had her birthday party yesterday, one of the things that I learned is that there are a bunch of toys that say they work, but they don't work until you put batteries in them."
"Yeah."
"And the thing that I realized is most toys don't come with batteries. So, we ordered a ton of batteries that allowed us to do something before it actually produced. God is saying, 'I want to put something into you before I require anything out of you.'"
"You missed it."
"All right, let's go back to Arlo's illustration in Genesis. God created day one. God created day two. God created day three, day four, day five. Day six, what did he create?"
"Man,"
"and on day six we get with God in connection. The first day we experience with God is a day of"
"rest,"
"not a day of work."
"Your first DAY IN EXISTENCE AS HUMANITY was not a day of work."
"It was a day of"
"Okay. And this is the problem with most of us. We do not have a revelation of rest."
"So today I'm going to try to give you some revealed truth. And when I say revelation of rest, it's like something is there but you can't see it. And a revelation is like, 'Oh, I can see it.' One of my friends said it like this. A revelation is something that comes from north south. It comes from God. A lot of our change and and good information comes east west from friends and pastors. But you need a revelation to come from God to you. And that's what I'm praying for you today is that for the first time and the last time you get a revelation of how po important rest is to God and to you. Matthew 11 28 are you tired? This is Jesus Jesus's response. Then Jesus said come to me all you who are weary. Another translation says tired. and all of you who carry a heavy burden. And I will give you,"
"say it out loud,"
"say it strong."
"SAY IT LIKE YOU CAN TAKE THE NEXT WEEK OFF."
"Jesus response to weariness and to people carrying a heavy load was not prayer. I'm about to mess with your religion. It wasn't a worship service."
"His response to your tiredness"
"was not a meeting with the pastor."
"The response to your heavy load and weariness"
"was what?"
"And some of you think I'm saying sleep."
"Sleep. You can do that and still wake up tired."
"Okay."
"Okay. I need to find the real people in here. How many people sleep and still wo out? Come on now. Come. Rest. If you read down, and we're going to read, it's rest for your soul."
"Is your mind"
"at ease?"
"Is your will at bay?"
"Are your emotions tamed? Some of you are literally sleeping to escape reality."
"Going through stuff. I just need to sleep."
"Come on. Okay. Come on, y'all. I just need to sleep. You'll take things to do it."
"I got to I got to shut my mouth my mind down. I got to shut I got to You'll watch certain stuff. I got to numb out."
"These are all terms and you may have different ones, but what I'm saying is what you're doing is sleeping. What God provides is rest."
"And so today I want to give you the revelation of rest because this is God's gift to us. Rest is not a luxury. It's a necessity."
"So then when you look at this in verse 29, it says, this is Jesus talking, take my yoke upon you"
"and let me teach you how to rest."
"So this IS BEAUTIFUL BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO do it ON OUR OWN. THIS IS WHY JESUS SAYS, 'LET ME TEACH you how to rest. Let me teach you what you don't know naturally. Let me teach you what your nature goes against.' It says, 'Let me teach you because this is my character. I'm humble"
"and gentle at heart.' That means I'm thinking about you."
"Think about this. If people think God is mad at you still, like he's a God that's mad at you. There's no other God in any other religion that thinks about your rest. IF GOD WAS REALLY, IF YOU WAS MAD AT SOMEBODY, DO YOU WANT THEM TO GET REST?"
"DO YOU KNOW THAT KEEPING PEOPLE UP IS A FORM of torture?"
"Used in warfare."
"IT'S LIKE, HOW DO I TORTURE THIS PERSON? Keep them awake."
"And what God says is, I'm a God that cares about you so much. My spirit is humble and I have a gentle heart. I'm asking you, have you rested lately? I know you're doing all of these things to to prove to your childhood self that you're actually significant, but I'm asking you to come to me because you're weary."
"You're heavy."
"I want to give you, say the word again, rest."
"This is a new four-letter word that you need to say a lot."
"Rest. Say it one more time."
"Rest."
"It says if you let me teach you, it says you will find rest. Oh, I like that. When God says, 'I'm going to find something,'"
"he says, 'I you will find rest for your souls.' He says, 'For my yoke is easy to bear,"
"and the burden I give you is light.' To receive a revelation of rest, you're going to have to be humble and teachable. And this is why I need everybody to understand the character of our God. God's trying to tell you what you heard about me has been misrepresented."
"I actually love you. I care about you. And I want you to be okay. Not just today, but forever. So, I'm not going to just give you a miracle. I'm gonna give you a pattern."
"Right now, there are people who need money in your life, and if you give them a $100, they're going to come back next week and ask you for $100. And then they'll come back two months from now and ask you for $100. But if you give that person a skill set"
"and you give them a job or you give them a thing, then they can actually learn a pattern that will produce what they need. God is saying, 'I didn't want to just give you a magic rest pill.'"
"I wanted to give you a pattern of a Sabbath so that you could always have everything you need to do what I'm asking you to do."
"It's a gift. And as we look at scripture today, I realize that there is no other religion in the world where the deity does not demand work from them."
"If you search every other religion, I'm just trying to give you a revelation. I'm talking to your mind so that it can drop to your heart and then it'll actually appear in your life. There is no other religion that says you don't got to work for this."
"How many times do you need to pray? What where do you need to turn? How many sacrifices do you need? All of these things is work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work. They demand work for stuff. God gives rest for your soul."
"This is the God we serve. So why will you not receive this gift of rest?"
"Other religions offer a ladder to climb. Jesus offers a refuge of rest."
"And this is why he does it. Write this point down because rest is a weapon. Rest is a weapon. If you actually were rested, how good would you be"
"if you actually were rested? I'm talking about in your soul, your mind, your will, your emotions, and your body was rested. How how would you handle hard situations? If you were actually rested, how many more good ideas could come through you? You've done what you've done. Wo out."
"Not wore out."
"You've done what you've done in life. All this is says woe out."
"You can't EVEN ENJOY"
"WHAT GOD HAS BLESSED YOU WITH CUZ YOU TRYING TO KEEP UP WITH IT. SO, DID God bless you with it? Because the blessings of the Lord make it rich and addeth no. Uh-oh. Let's just put the scripture out there. SOME OF Y'ALL IS WOE OUT CALLING IT A BLESSING but losing your marriage."
"YOU GOT 10,000 SQUARE FEET, no peace. YOU YOU GOT CARS TO CHOOSE FROM, BUT NO vehicle to find safety in your soul."
"All I'm ASKING YOU IS, ARE YOU RESTED? And the truth of the matter is the culture we live in today is offering the opposite, promising the opposite. It's saying grind, HUSTLE, DO ALL OF THIS, DO ALL THIS, and then you'll have money to take a vacation. And then you'll have money to buy a second home, and then you'll be It's grind, hustle."
"Get it? All of these things are deceptions from the enemy"
"because I heard it said one time, what the enemy can't get in front of and stop, he gets behind and pushes. And some of y'all are being pushed to the brink."
"You're being pushed. You're so exhausted that you cannot even sense the presence of God. God's got you in a good situation right now and you calling it bad because it's not moving fast enough."
"Okay, All right, I'm Am I just talking about my own issues? Okay. I'm telling YOU, GOD HAD TO TEACH ME. He said, 'I slowed this thing down. You think the the company's going down?' HE SAID, 'I'M SAVING YOUR LIFE.'"
"All delay, all backup, ALL DEALS NOT WORKING ARE NOT FROM THE DEVIL. SOME OF THE THINGS THAT GOD IS DOING IS BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH SENSE TO PRESERVE OURSELVES. YOU KNOW, IF THAT DEAL ACTUALLY WENT THROUGH, YOU WOULD HAVE LOST YOUR MARRIAGE. If if if you actually would have made it in that field, you would have lost your mind."
"Okay, let me stop."
"Part of what I know with my literal makeup is that I can go go go. God has had to teach me Michael,"
"just because you can doesn't mean I want you to."
"Uhoh. Uhoh."
"Just because you can, watch this. Here's my insecurity. Mine. Just because you can doesn't mean that you should do it. Cuz how many people if it makes us feel good and it scratches some childhood wound of feeling significant or or people are going to praise me for this or"
"I'm being too honest up here. Okay, let me let me go back to the scripture. Um, what I'm trying what I'm trying to tell everybody is the same faith it takes you to believe for miracles, it takes that faith to rest. And most of y'all have faith to praise God and not faith to walk away from the desk."
"You won't shut the laptop."
"You won't stop checking the email and the Dow and you won't see, oh, it oh. Oh, it's going. It's crazy. If How in the world is a little ticker controlling your peace?"
"It's It's quiet in here. And it's okay. I get it because because what's happening is that the mindset of culture is a mindset to keep you enslaved."
"Y"
"okay the problem is right now is that you think you're free but you're enslaved. That was the same problem with the children of Israel. They when when they were enslaved,"
"they had no days off. The proof you were a slave is you didn't get to rest. So when God brought them out from under Pharaoh's rule and they were in the wilderness, one of the commandments that God made sure to on the top 10 list put on there is you should observe the Sabbath. Why? Because the Sabbath was only reserved for sons."
"Only sons got to take a rest. So the Sabbath proves your freedom."
"Oh God, I'm going to need a whole series."
"When you can take a break, it means you know who got it. When you can walk away from being God, then you have a God. When you walk away from BEING PROVIDER, THEN HE'S JEHOVAH GYRA, YOUR PROVIDER. WHEN YOU CAN STEP BACK AND MOONWALK OUT OF HAVING to literally"
"do everything for yourself,"
"it means you make room for God to step in. Many of us still have our Egypt mentality. If it's going to happen for me, I got to get it out the mud."
"Hold on. Wait."
"Did you not come into the kingdom economy?"
"Did you not believe Jesus when he said, 'You are no longer a slave. The curse is broken off of you. Whom the sun sets"
"is free.' And we don't think about that. You're free to rest."
"God."
"Oh, God."
"Whom the sun sets free. and you think you're noble. I'm just, you know me, I'm going to just put in that extra. And God said, I I didn't ask you for all that."
"I didn't."
"Actually, I call it disobedience."
"You actually think you're doing something noble, it's sin."
"Did y'all hear what I just said? Yes."
"When you don't observe a 24-hour period where you walk away from your work every week, God's like, 'Why do they disobey me all the time,"
"grace, grace after grace, mercy after mercy, day after day, provided for them. They in that little house that they didn't think they could ever get. And I did that"
"with the job they didn't never think they was gonna be able to get. And I did that"
"and I provided and I restored and I was and they still don't trust me. I gave him the blessing of the book."
"I gave him the blessing of the business. I gave him the blessing of the thing and they still won't trust me. What do I have to do to let them unwrap this gift that would relieve their soul of weariness? Some of you don't need a new career. You need to take a day off."
"You're so overwhelmed. Life is just No, you're disobedient. What is a Sabbath? It's a pause. It's a pause. It doesn't mean I'm not coming back to this. It means I have to stop right now."
"And it takes faith to pause. A 24-hour period, write this definition down. A Sabbath is a 24-hour period that God gifts humanity with to refrain from work, remember him, and rest your soul. Amen."
"Every week, God wants to give every person under the sound of my voice a 24-hour period that God gifts you with to refrain from work, to remember him, and to rest your soul. I'm going to read it one more time so your soul can hear it. Every week, God wants to gift you personally with a day to refrain from work, to remember him, and to rest your soul. Even in the ancient times, this was a radical innovation at the time cuz everybody was working. We I mean, they didn't have buildings and they didn't have bulldozers. They didn't have all everything they did, they had to make. They didn't have Amazon. They couldn't order nothing. You want a purse? Go kill something. Dry out the skin. Sew it together. You got some more fig leaves over there. Like you had to make everything."
"So think about all of the work that was happening in God saying, 'Hey, take the day off. Come walk and talk with me.'"
"Beautiful."
"Remember how good I am."
"Look at those trees. Are they worried? You don't have to either."
"Look at those birds. I know you've missed them every day because you've been so occupied, but they've been here every day. They don't worry about what they gonna eat or drink. You see them liies over there? Look how beautiful those colors. Don't those colors make you feel something? They didn't dress themselves. I did that."
"I'll do that much more"
"for you"
"if you would rest. I said it before, but slaves never rested. Only sons did. And this is where I have to bring this up because culture is feeding us a lie that I have to correct with the word of God. Culture says rest is a reward for work."
"Hear what I just said to you. Culture says"
"you better work and you better work until you earn a rest."
"God says rest is a requirement for work. First full day rest. And the PREREQUISITE WAS BECAUSE GOD knew Adam was about to work. I'mma give him rest cuz he about to put in that work."
"Rest should be a SIGN THAT GOD WANTS YOU TO WORK. It is not, oh, I'm not going to work cuz I just need to rest. It's like, no, you better get this rest cuz after this rest, we about to put in this work. You can't even feel rested IF YOU DON'T FEEL WORKED."
"Oh god. I'm talking people who don't work. I'M ANYBODY WHO REALLY WORK"
"KNOW THAT THE ONLY WAY A REST IS GOOD"
"IF YOU DID GOOD WORK."
"SO, SO, so what I'm trying to tell you is God gave a six day work period and a one day rest. But I think a lot of us got the God complex. So what we did is we did what God did instead of what he said. Day one work, day two work, day three work, day four work, day five work, day six work, day seven rested. But then he told us, don't do what I did, do what I said. Rest. Day two work. Day three."
"Do you SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? Let me start it again. God worked on day one to day six. Then he rested. He made us and said, 'Rest on day one. Work the other six days.'"
"He was trying to say, 'I'm setting you up cuz you can't handle what I did. YOU NOT BUILT LIKE ME. YOU CAN'T WORK AND THEN REST. I'M GOD. I can do all things. I know everything. Omnicient. I know everything ALL AT ONCE. HE SAID, 'Because I love you, you rest first. I know you. I know your attitude. I know you get hangry. I know your habits. I know your temperament. I know you need to go to sleep first. You rest.' And then all the things that are there, they're going to be there tomorrow. Those contracts will be there tomorrow. Those those those emails will be there tomorrow. Some of y'all that don't have do not disturb on your stuff,"
"how do you function? The level of interruptions of your life that you allow in right now, how in the world do you have any peace? It's quiet in here today. Okay, so let's keep going."
"If you go to Exodus 5:7, I want you to look it up on your own time. Pharaoh's strategy was never to kill the children of Israel. It was to exhaust them."
"Y'all didn't hear what I just said."
"What if the enemy doesn't want to kill you? He just wants to exhaust you? What if What if your adversar's goal is never to take you out, just make you not strong enough to do anything?"
"Exhaustion is the new weapon of mass destruction. Have you ever been tired just scrolling?"
"Come on."
"Switch fingers. Y'all know"
"some of y'all on your pinky fingers scrolling. News on 24/7. Got four news channels on. What's Fox saying? What's CNN saying? What's MSNBC saying? What's the what exhaustion"
"news feed all the time and then don't get into your family group chat"
"the emotional dis disability of cousin Jerome"
"locked up again Stacy dating somebody"
"that dated your other COUSIN AGAIN LIKE Y'ALL KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING about Or"
"watch this, the exhaustion of silence."
"Cuz the manipulation that happens many time relationally cuz we not talking. Okay, let me I'm going too deep."
"What if what if there was a way to reset every week where all of that stuff lost its power in your life? What if God knew he wasn't going to take US OUT OF THIS WORLD, but he would give us tools in this world to actually live higher than this world? THIS IS WHAT THE SCRIPTURE MEANS WHEN IT SAYS WE are in it,"
"but not of it."
"But you in it and of it."
"JESUS DOING HIS GREATEST MIRACLES WITH A SHOT CLOCK ON. THREE YEARS LEFT. BIG MIRACLES. EVERYBODY COMING. WHAT DOES JESUS DO? ALL RIGHT, Y'ALL. All right. It's been fun. God bless you. He would withdraw often."
"On your greatest day of miracle impact money. Our our culture is like, 'Do it again. Run it up. WE CAN PACK IT OUT AGAIN. FOUR NIGHTS AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. BACK TO BACK TO BACK. LET'S GET ALL THIS MONEY.' AND GOD WAS LIKE, 'YEAH,"
"where's the limit? And some of us are so close."
"Why you telling me be careful?"
"You won't rest."
"Be careful."
"Be careful the decisions you make unrested. Be careful of the people you keep around your children unrested. Okay? Be be careful. Be careful of of of saying your opinion. I'm just being honest right now. Be careful of talking at all."
"Some of y'all Some of y'all just need to say, 'Can I respond to this tomorrow?'"
"Do do Why are you saying this, Pastor Mike? Cuz nobody makes their best decisions exhausted. Sabbath. The Sabbath or a day of rest isn't just rest from work. It is your proof of freedom."
"And I just want to let you know, Pharaoh is not dead. It just comes with push notifications. That algorithm, that for you page, that next deadline, that inbox, those emails, all it's doing is exhausting you to the point where you don't dream, you don't worship, and you don't fight back."
"This is why you are being beat up at the same level as people who don't know God. is cuz you're on the same training plan as them. You're exhausted."
"And so you're too exhausted to pray. Come on, let's be honest. God, do it. OKAY, Y'ALL GOING TO ACT LIKE I'M THE ONLY ONE THAT PRAYED A PRAYER LIKE THAT. Let your will be done. Bible talking about pray without ceasing. be like, 'Lord, if it if you don't do it, it won't be done. Why? You're exhausted. Are you tired? Why are you still wrestling with rest when it's the gift that God gives to you?'"
"Husband and wives, y'all haven't been able to have a civil conversation, not cuz you don't love each other, cuz you're tired. You're both tired trying to provide for a home that neither one of you like coming to right now. Not cuz the home is bad cuz y'all"
"you need to go get a one night stay and a holiday in."
"I'm not I'm trying to give y'all real secrets. Somebody needs a station at the Homewood Suites"
"and the other one at the Best Western"
"and then you need to talk after you're rested."
"All right."
"All right."
"Pastor Mike, why are you saying this? Because the lie is that I need to perform. And if I perform, then I'll get approval and praise. So the reason why people work is because if I if I work and I get this money or if I work and I get this accolade and I work and I get these grades and I work and I get this thing and I work and I get this compliment then I will be approved and praised. And the reason why this is important is because all people even down to children. The reason why we clap so loud for Arlo is because we innate innately know that a child needs to be approved and praised. Arlo could have got up here and said ABCD Jesus is Lord and everybody still would have like why?"
"Cuz you know"
"from a child you need if I'mma do this again if I'mma actually become everything. If he going to stand up HERE AND PREACH ONE DAY HE has to be approved and praised. So guess what the enemy tries to tell you? Work for it. work for it. And God says, 'I'll give it to you first.'"
"Can I give you an example? This is an eternal example that Jesus literally gets baptized by his cousin John. And the first thing that happens before he ever works a miracle, this is before he turns water into wine, this is before the fishes in the loaves. This is before he heals any blind eyes. BEFORE HE EVER STARTS WORKING,"
"he gets approved and praised."
"He gets DUNKED DOWN IN THAT WATER, THE SKIES OPEN. AND the Bible says like a dove descending, it says, 'This is my son identity"
"in whom I'M WELL PLEAS. I'M APPROVING HIM and I'm praising him in front of everybody.' And from that place, he went to work."
"Oh, God."
"All right. So the lie is you need to perform so that you get approval and praise. But the truth is you're already positioned. This is my son. This is my daughter. I'm well pleased in them. You already got approval and praise. Now go work. What's your last name? Todd. Go put in that work."
"My daughters, they get I hype them up before they do anything. And it and and I mean it's at the borderline right now like maybe too much like but I hype them I hyped them up. What's your name? My name is Gia. What you do? Everything good. And I'll be like, ah, my Gia, she she wakes up in the morning. We had a birthday party yesterday. I said, how you feeling today? I feel great. Not good."
"I feel great. I SAID, I'M GLAD YOU FEEL GREAT. WHAT'S TODAY? IT'S my birthday party day. I said, what you what you mean? What you how you feel? She's like, people are coming over. We going to swim and I'm going to get some presents cuz I already know y'all got me some good presents. I said, 'How did you?'"
"But what what I'm saying to you is she lives from approval. My baby doesn't wake up in the morning be like, 'Daddy, hey, Dad. Hey. Um, how many dishes do you want me to wash? How what do you need me to do"
"to be called your own? What I'm saying to you is you're good enough right now"
"for God to approve you right now."
"Okay."
"Got to keep moving."
"All right. Here we go. If you need to check that reference, that's Matthew 3:17. I'm moving because there's so much that I have to say. Cuz there are people that are hearing me about the Sabbath and right now your mind's going to legalism. Well, okay. So technically, if I start my Sabbath at 6 PM and I don't check my email until then, well, what if somebody stop?"
"Since God has gifted us the Sabbath, people have tried to actually dip it in legalism. But the Sabbath is dipped in love. All he's saying, he said, I'm the Lord of the Sabbath. I g I gave this to you so you could be good. So don't if you there's a there's a story in the Bible that uh Jesus heals a man on the Sabbath and all the religious people got mad. Now first off the man was literally sick, blind, jacked up. If I was a religious person, I'd be like that is good for him. I'm Wow, that's awesome. What day is this? A Sabbath. Hey, don't tell nobody. My man can see like immediately"
"they were like you you are not good because you did on the Sabbath. Then he was like, 'Yo, what? How did y'all get this love gift confused"
"with all this legalism?' He said, 'If your if your ox falls into the ditch on the Sabbath, don't leave your ox there till tomorrow. It'll be dead. Pick it up. Get your friends. A couple of y'all going to have to work today.'"
"But this can't be the pattern. So, so, so, so, so, if it happens, just make sure it's not the pattern. If your aunt is falling in the ditch every time it's a Sabbath,"
"that's"
"you can't drive. Yeah. Like that's a pattern. But God's saying like if something happens, if they email you or if you got to go into work or you that like okay,"
"but every week,"
"every week on your off day, your boss want to have a meeting and you've never set any boundaries to be able to let them know, hey, I'mma just leave. I'mma back away from the camera. I mean, all I'm saying to you right now is if you get this revelation of rest, I'm almost done. Rest becomes a resistance."
"Pastor Mike, what are you talking about? It is the meakest, most power move you can ever make."
"IT'S NOT BIG AND BOISTEROUS AND NU. IT'S LIKE, NO, I'M ABOUT TO GO REST. Yeah, I'll be back for that. God, you see what's happening over there? I'm about to trust you at your word"
"right now. While worry is trying to creep up my back and fear is trying to make me intimidated and I don't know what's going to happen with all those people and what they talking about. Father, you said if I trusted you and I did what your word says, you would fight my battles. So, Father, what I'm about to do is go get a massage and play golf today. And I'm going, y'all don't hear me. And I'm going to trust that as I am resting, you're working. I'M GOING TO TRUST THAT YOU'RE PROVIDING FOR THE NEEDS THAT I can't even make HAPPEN FOR MY LIFE. WHAT WOULD HAPPEN?"
"WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF WE REALLY BELIEVED GOD?"
"WHAT would happen that you could be playing laser tag with your kids?"
"Developing a greater relationship that will last for decades. While God is telling those who have been enemies or adversaries against what you was working on, he was moving them out the way."
"Somebody say resistance."
"Exodus chapter No, I'm going to go James chapter 4 real quick cuz I got to give you this. This is the revelation I need you to see. Ooh, I've heard this scripture my whole life, but the Holy Spirit gave me new revelation on it. It said, 'And he gives grace generously as the scriptures say, God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.' Okay, verse seven, here it is. So, humble yourself before God."
"Now, the next part requires humility first."
"Okay? Humble yourself before God. Then what's the next part of the verse? Resist the devil"
"and he will flee from you. One of the greatest resistance"
"or resistances you can have against the devil is to rest in his faith. You want the devil to flee? Go ahead and rest."
"He's trying to keep you up in anxiety and depression. Rest. I'm telling y'all,"
"this right here has been one of my greatest tactics to fight the enemies in my mind,"
"the enemies that come from the outside is to say, you know what, God, if your word says to resist the devil and flee, what I'm about to do is about to be a lot of activity for no reason. I'm about to email this person, make sure these people know my point of view. I'm about to go here, do this, try to make this, get a fifth job, try to go do this."
"Do you know what I'm about to do? I'm about to trust you"
"and I'm about to resist the devil."
"Cuz the devil is, watch this. Watch this. Watch this. Thank you, Jesus. When the devil came to tempt Jesus, everything he was trying to get Jesus to do was activity outside of his purpose. The way he resisted the devil is he had to rest and remind the devil of the word. If you jump from this, if you go from this, I'll bring you. He was trying to create unnecessary activity. Do more work. Do more work. Prove to me. TURN THESE STONES INTO BREAD. DO MORE WORK. Prove to me. And"
"because he was approved by his father before he went into this wilderness."
"He said, 'I don't got to work for you to prove who I am. I've already been approved. I'VE ALREADY BEEN CALLED. I'VE ALREADY BEEN I'VE ALREADY been seated. So the next time you going to see me work is when God gives me approval to do these miracles.'"
"Okay. So rest is a resistance. Somebody needs to say, 'I'm ready because I'm rested.'"
"What if that was the truth?"
"What if it was the truth that every time something hard came, you were ready for it because you were rested?"
"Pastor Mike, are you serious about this? Is this like a message that you're I'm going to teach this every year"
"and I have been for the last almost decade. The reason I'm saying it is because most people are looking for a miracle when God wants to give them a method. He's trying to give you a principle that will allow this not to be a one-time thing for you."
"So rest is a resistance. And then watch this. Rest is a reminder. Exodus 20:10. But the seventh day is the Sabbath day. It's a day of rest dedicated to the Lord your God. On that day, no one in your household may do any work. This includes all your sons, your daughters, your male, your female servants, everybody work for you, livestock, foreigners, all of that. Don't do no work. And I started to think about that. And then I started to think about uh the Christian chicken place. And there's not too many companies that like publicly like like, 'Hey, we're closing down today because we're uh honoring our staff and honoring the Lord. Do you know the Chicken Christian Place?"
"Y'all know who they are."
"Until they sponsor us, I ain't saying their name no more."
"No, I'm just holler at me. Um,"
"but but I just want I want you to know every almost every other establishment is 24 hours, seven days a week. How many people are buying McDoubles at 3:30 in the morning? Somebody is, but not that many somebody's. I I just I want you to know like the idea is more time, more money,"
"more you know that Christian chicken place. They make almost five times per store"
"what all them other places make"
"being closed"
"more times than all them other places is closed"
"and having a full 24 hours where they do not bring in any revenue. Less footprint on the earth more productivity. Now, we could just act like it's coincidence, or we could say there's a blessing for following the principles of God? Exodus 20:10, but the seventh day is a Sabbath day. It's so you can rest. Exodus 23:10, it says, 'Plant and harvest your crops for six years, but let the land, watch this, be renewed and lie uncultivated during the seventh year.' God is so gangster about the Sabbath that he even wants the land to rest. He said, 'Plant and harvest for six years, but let the land be renewed and lie uncultivated. Don't plant nothing. Don't pick nothing for the seventh year. Then let the poor among you harvest what grows on it, and leave the rest for the wild animals to eat.' The same applies for your vineyards and your olive gardens. The children of Israel were in a place where God was like, 'Hey, I'mma let it be harvest for six years and then I need y'all to have a limit and let this land rest. You already got plenty. There's already enough. I need you to trust me and let it rest.' They didn't do it. They kept picking. They kept sewing. They kept harvesting. And what God had to do is he had to let them be taken into captivity so the land could rest. My question to you is what are you still working that God is requiring rest from?"
"The sad truth is God allowed all those people to be taken into captivity. And this is my point. Constant activity leads to captivity. If you're always doing something, something's going to trap you up. There shouldn't be this many energy drinks that are successful. core, rage, monster. Just say any kind of word and it's an energy drink. Don't give me no emails, but coffee shouldn't be making that much money. That coffee just cuz it tastes good. Stop it. Stop it."
"You're tired."
"Maybe not all of it, but some of it is. I got to do this because I got to stay up. I got to do this because somewhere in my life I'm not rested."
"Very good."
"There's pills, there's aderalls, there's all kinds of stuff. There's all People do all kinds of stuff to do what they think they need to do when God's already given us a gift. Very good. Very good."
"And today I'm asking you to activate your"
faith. If you have faith to pray, you have faith to come to salvation. If you have faith to believe in miracles, if you have faith for all these other things in our Christian faith, I'm going to ask you to add one more to that. Would you please have faith to rest? Matter of fact, you might need crazy faith to do this.
What would happen if our love was actually rested? How would we interact with our children and our kids and our neighbors? Oh, the people that we were called to help know Jesus. Some of us can't even interact with the people around us cuz we're just we're so unrested. And you know when you're not rested, you got one nerve.
I don't know where your nerve is, but like and then it just be like people get on your nerves. Somebody said my last nerve. Huh? The kids you made out of love. You start my wife. She says, "Go talk to your father." And it's like, "Your father? Ain't these our kids? Your dad will help you." Whoa. What she really does? She said, "Your daughter needs you." I'm like, "Hold on. Your daughter? Our daughter?" Why am I Why? It's because when you're unrested.
May maybe maybe this is my last point. Rest produces restoration. If you would rest, something on the inside of you would come back alive. If you would rest, that creativity that you I'm having writers brought. You're tired. And it's been tired. Listen, the children of Israel, he had to let the land rest. The equivalent, if you study it out, was the amount of Sabbaths they skipped that they had to let the land rest. Your body is keeping score and so is God.
I'm going to say something that's strong. I'm going to say something that's strong, but I need you to hear me say it. There are people that I know God had to sit down cuz they wouldn't sit down. Yeah, you can take that however you want to take it, but you shouldn't you that little boopy that little ankle sprain should not have taken you out for 6 months. But what I'm saying is God was like, you will not you won't rest. You won't sit down. You won't you won't stop. You won't reflect. You won't refrain. You won't repair. You won't restore. You won't renew. You won't revive. Y'all want a revival? I bet you it'll come if we start resting.
Then spending time with God. And in that prayer, we're not we're not struggling TO GET A WORD FROM GOD. HE JUST drops it cuz it's just the context of our relationship. He's like, "Oh, I'm Oh, yeah. Yeah, you've been resting all day. I know you're going to need this tomorrow." Do you know all of the things that have been most impactful in my life has happened after I've rested? The ideas, the books, relationship goals was the first series that I preached off a sbatical. So was Crazy Faith. So was everything else that ever was. And I'm just saying like I just feel like there's an impact that God gives.
I'll give you one last example. The children of Israel, they were supposed to pick up food for six days, but on the sixth day, he put double out. So on the seventh day, they didn't have to work. He's that good. He said, "Don't try to store it." He said, "If you store it and you try to harvest it, it'll rot." Amen. And some of you have been frustrated because what you've been working for has rotted. You thought it was going to be more for you. You thought it was going to create security and abundance. And God said, "That's got to rot cuz you're not obeying me. But if you would rest, let me work. I'll double it. I'll multiply it. I'll give you what your work did not deserve." Oh, why? Cuz it's my nature. I'm the God who does exceedingly, abundantly, above all you can ask, think, imagine, or work for. Come to me all who are weary, and I will give you. Say it with me. Are you tired? Are Are you tired?
Today, God wants to give you rest. Many of you know that this is the time of the year, if you're new at our church, um that I take a time of rest since the beginning of our church. Um, my oversight pastor, Pastor Tim Ross, has told me, he's like, "You got to take a break every summer because I need to make sure that you don't need that like you think you need it." And I need to make sure that your family is a thing that lasts. And I've watched people give their whole life to ministry and lights and big and all this other stuff and gain the whole world and lose their soul. And every summer there's people like, "Well, I'm not going to church cuz Pastor Mike ain't there." Like, I'm not God. I I would really like you to know I love I'm human, too. I love that you like how I speak and all that other stuff, but God can use a donkey. And sometimes that's how I feel up here. Hehaw. Like sometimes that's exactly how I feel. Like he can use I'm just being real, man. Like like I much rather do some other stuff that was more low-key and different things like this is what he called me to do. So I stand up here every Sunday and do it to the best of my ability. Not perfection but progression. But one thing that I I am doing is I following the method. And so for the next couple of months, I'm not going to be here.
And I want to say this because most pastors hide it. They do. Y'all know y'all have made pastors in America so scared to even tell you that they not going to be there cuz you going to vote whether you come or not to hear from God if they going to be there. I'm not a slave no more. I'm free. So, I'm I'm just going I'm going to let you I'mma let you know right now. I'm not going to be here. I'm going to be with God. I'm going be with Natalie. I'm going be with them kids. I'm be I'm going to be praying every day for you. I can't take a break from that. That's my job as your pastor. I go to God on your behalf and ask God for wisdom. I'm asking God for what is the word of the year? Where are we going? What are you saying for us to do? Are we doing conference next year? Are we not? God, how I'm I'm putting everything on the table.
The reason I'm telling you this is because I want you to be this free in your own life to create some patterns that allow you. And listen, I just need everybody to hear me. I'm not going to speak for other people. I'm not now working working cuz I'm not working here. I am really trying to reset my soul. And if you love me and you love this church, pray for me. This has gotten to a place that was out of my sight. This is beyond my wildest dreams and imagination. I'm just out here trying to follow God. And I believe that we are called to represent God to the lost and found for one reason. What is it? Transformation in Christ. And so I would just ask that you pray for me.
And I want to let you know the one thing a good restaurant owner is never going to do is leave you out without a bomb chef. The one thing you going to do every Sunday here is you going to eat eat. You're not just going to eat, you going to eat, eat. You know, as you put it twice. Hey, so I just want everybody to know Pastor Charles is about to do a brand new series that's about to And then Pastor Tim Ross is going to come behind him and do a whole series like this summer. You about to e E cuz God can use anybody that's willing and open. What I'm asking us, let's grow. But I don't want this just to be for me. I've embraced this principle so much that there are people that leave the church every year. I take a sobatical. No pastor should hold Hold on. Wait a minute. Pastoring is the only full contact sport without an off season. People will cuss you, fuss you, talk about you, make YouTube videos about you, and you supposed to just get up there and pray for them. Sometimes we need time to heal here, be held. I'm being too vulnerable. Okay.
What I'm what I'm trying to tell you is this is so real that you need it in your own life. So, I'm just going to ask you, we get seven days before next Sunday. Pick a day. Pick a day that you're going to step back from the work. Step back even from social media. Cuz some of y'all, it's not even the work that exhausts you. It's the comparison that does. Comparison is exhausting. I I just pick a day. Talk to your spouse about it. Talk to your friend. If it starts at least coming out of your mouth, maybe that's evidence that maybe one day it'll happen. Come on. Let's be honest. Some of y'all it's just in your head. And some of y'all trying to figure out, so how do I do it? How do I got you? You're going to have to learn how to do this. You're gonna have to listen to this message every day this week. You're maybe going to have to go back and search the script. God, give me a revelation. North, south, give me a revelation so that I don't I don't break this standing all over this building.
The last thing I want to say to you just because I don't want you to get too spiritual and not realize the practical. I've tried to be practical through this whole message, but I want you to hear this last thing. Rest is good and you can have recreation. Did you hear what I just said? I don't want you in a room with a candle for 24 hours. No, hear me cuz I like go do something recreational. Amen. Go fishing. Go take a walk in nature. Go shopping within your means.
Also, I want to give you this cuz this is just my heart as I do this because people are about to try to do this and I want I don't want you to I want to give you all that I can right now. Also, if it starts off as rest and then it becomes work, it's no longer rest. Me and Charles talk about it all the time. When we start doing stuff, it might start off as rest and then we start dialing it in. He became he started riding a bike like what three or four years ago 3 years ago he started riding bikes and then now he's like a professional bike rider like he be coming to the house and full like gear and and stuff and I was like what is this and he said it used to be restful but then it turned into work so it no longer doesn't mean he can't do it. It no longer could be considered a part of his Sabbath. Unless he's doing it on a huffy. Unless only way if it's a pink huffy, I know you're not going hard. Okay. I cuz sometimes what's golf might start off restful and then you're in a competition. Cooking may start off rest. You know what? I'm going to bake today. And then it's like the rest of the red velvet. It's not right. No, you stressed.
The reason I'm saying this is because watch this. If you lie to yourself, you'll never live a right life. I'll never be there when you're doing what you're considering rest. You can convince your husband or your wife is restful, but you will be the only one that knows. Don't lie to you. Don't lie to your own soul.
Are you tired? cuz God wants to give you rest. If you need rest in an area of your life, whether you're in this room or online, would you just lift your hands? I want to pray for you. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. I thank you, Lord. God, today here we all are saying that we need your rest. Rest for our souls. Today, Father, many of us are admitting we're tired. Tired of how it's been done. Tired of how we've had to function. Tired of how we've chosen to live. And today we are coming to you and we're saying we want to do it your way. If you gave us a day of rest, a Sabbath as a gift, today we're going to unwrap that gift. And we're going to unwrap it every week. I'm praying for practical wisdom of how this applies to each one of our lives. God, for those of us who need to set boundaries, I thank you that you're giving us courage right now. For those of us who need to even figure out language, Father, to be able to renegotiate things that we've already put in place or contracted or said that we're going to do, Father, I thank you that when you see your heart, you begin to work on the hearts of man. So today, here we are. Father, many of us, the reason why we're working so hard is because we're trying to make ends meet. And today, God, I'm asking you that you would give us the ability to produce wealth, but not have to sacrifice our health. God, I'm asking you to help us as a body to embrace your principles that are countercultural. Yes, Lord. God, I'm going to go to Instagram today and ain't nobody going to be telling me the rest. But your word has told me that this is an ancient practice that produces eternal results. So today, I trust you. Lord, would you calm the inner critic in me that has judged others for not working hard enough? Would you would you would you calm, Father, and even forgive the inner Pharisee and Sadducee that have literally mocked other people, Father God, for doing too much. Today, Father God, I'm asking, I'm coming humbly asking you to give me grace to start a new pattern. Let my family benefit because of this new pattern. Let my soul be refreshed because of this new pattern. I trust you enough and I have faith enough to rest. Thank you, Lord.
I believe God's doing a work on the inside of some of you right now that won't be undone by hurry. I can even hear the single moms or even the people with young children like, "How am I going to do this?" God's going to give you wisdom. He's going to give you wisdom. Those nap times are going to turn into a place of rest for you. God's going to give you some people that can watch the children for a few hours to be able to do something. I'm telling y'all, and some of y'all are the answers to people's prayers. Some of you been like, "I don't know what to do with my time." And God's going to tell you, "Go get your nephews. Go get your nephews from your sister for a little bit. Take them out. Take them to the park." I just feel like God's going to give give all of us a piece to play and how we all are sustained here in this room under the sound of my voice and you're weary of life. I want you to know this. So, I was almost going to make it my last point, but I done gave you nine last points already. So, I I'm about to go on sobatical. God bless you.
Um, rest is a person. He said, "Come to me all who are weary and I'mma give you me. I'm going to give you rest. I'm rest. I'm peace in the middle of the storm. I'm the way out of now way. I'm the cornerstone. I'm the prince of peace. Rest has a name. Jesus. If you need rest, you actually need Jesus. This is why you can't get it in nothing else. This is why when people try to make false gods and all that stuff, they live their life working because he said, "I am rest. I'm the one that makes you stop working. I'm the eternal sacrifice." Listen to his language. It is finished. Think about the language Jesus talks about. He's like, "I'm the one that finished it all so you can rest." All you have to do is receive me. So today, your first step to walking into rest if you're tired of how life has treated you and what you've been going through is to accept Jesus. He is rest for your soul. Not just today, eternally. Your l name will be written in the lamb's book of life. Pastor Mike, how can you do this? Cuz he take people like me who were liars and manipulators and addicted to pornography. I had all kinds of bad stuff in my heart. And God said, I'll take you if you'll receive me. and I gave him all my heart and he helped me change my habits today. If that's you in this room or watching online, I don't care how you got here. Today is the day of salvation. And I need the church to begin to pray cuz somebody's eternity is in the balance right now. You may have been walking around God for a long time, but he wants you to walk with him today. I want to introduce you to rest. I want to introduce you to Jesus. In just a moment, I'm about to pray. And if you want to be included in this prayer, I just want you to slip your hand up on the count of three. You're saying, "Pastor, I want to be included in that prayer. I want to receive Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior online, YouTube. If you're watching on the Panda app right here in this room, everybody's included in this." If that's you, I want you to make that decision. And it's the whole reason that Jesus came so that you could have freedom in your own life. One, you're making the greatest decision of your life. Two, your name is about to be written in the Lamb's Book of Life. If you want to receive Jesus right now, three, shoot your hand up in the air all over this place. I want to see you. I see you. I see you. I see you. I see you. I'm so proud of you. I see you. I see you. I see you. And more than that, GOD SEES YOU ALL THE WAY IN the back. Transformation Church, CAN WE GIVE GOD PRAISE RIGHT THERE? Hear me. Hear me. We're leaving in two minutes. But at Transformation Church, nobody praise alone. Yeah. So, for the benefit of those who are coming to Christ, would everybody just lift your hands and pray this prayer with me? Say, God, thank you for being my place of rest. Today, I come to you. I believe you lived. You died. And you rose again. Just for me. Here's my life. I repent of the old way. And I turn to you. Change me. Renew me. Transform me. I'm yours forever. In Jesus name. Amen.
Hey, all over this building, can we join heaven and rejoicing for those who HAVE JUST JOINED THE FAMILY. Welcome to the kingdom family. If you just made that decision as the altar workers come, I want you to text save to 828282. If you're watching online, that's for you, too. Our team wants to send you some resources to help you walk this out. Remember, it is progression, not perfection. And if you're in this room and you need prayer, the worship team is about to sing one more song as people are going to grab their kids and leaving. And I want you, if you need prayer in this room, I want you to come get prayer. There are people that need agreement right now for things that are going on. A loved one, a child, hard time. time you need might need revelation in this resting. You need somebody to agree with you. Come up here for prayer and we want God to do the work that only he can do. I am so excited that this is my church and as you go through this summer, I just wanted you want you to know I'm praying for you and I believe the best is yet to come for us. Father, thank you for your people. Bless them to have a restful week. And we declare, Father God, that you will be lifted up as we live this life of abundance so people can know you and be transformed in Christ in Jesus name. Everybody say, "We agree." We expect. Amen. Go out and live a transformed life. I love you so much.
Are you weary? Are you heavy burdened? God says, "I will give you rest." The Sabbath is not for you just to sleep. It's for you to resist work, to rest and spend time with him for your soul and become everything he's called you to be. I'm praying that this week you pick a day. Pick a day and for 24 hours you do something that has nothing to do with the thing you got to do. Spend time with God. Recreate, rejuvenate, revive. And I'm telling you, you're going to see God do miracles, not just for you, but in you that nothing else can do. I'm so proud of you cuz some of y'all are about to take this journey. And I'm telling you, there's a revelation of rest that changes everything. Resist. Use rest as a weapon. I'm so fired up about it cuz I know how it's changed my life. And some of y'all is just tired. And you need to give God all that you are giving to everybody else by just having the faith to rest. All right, I'm done. I want you to do two things for me. Number one, if this has blessed you in any way, I need you to share it with somebody. If you know anybody else that's tired, if you know anybody that's overworked or overwhelmed, I need you to send this to them. Put it in the family group chat, email it out to them because this could be just what they need to be able to transform. And if this ministry and these messages are helping you in any way, I want you to pray about partnering with us and giving to this cause and this mission. God is doing some things to expand this vision that take resources and we don't ask anybody to do anything that God hasn't told them to do. So if he if you pray and he tells you to do something, obey that thing. And until next time, I'm telling you, I want you to go out and live a transformed life. This is your best season ever because you're going to live a life abundantly.