God is removing people from your life!

This is a message about God cutting people out of your life. Listen, if they've got the scissors in their hands, stop apologizing for why they're not in your life. You get what I'm saying? It's freedom time, and God, God has a way. And I'm not gonna—I'm just gonna blame it on God. God has a way of taking people out of your life, and He will do it, and it'll feel like He's—it'll feel like it's uh, not Him, but He's doing it.

I need you to stay on this entire broadcast to get this message today, and I want to just tell you some of your problems are the result of people—people that God is moving out of your life. The right relationships in your life will produce the kind of future that you envisioned. The right relationships in your life will take you where you could never go on your own. God has a way of removing people to save you from their influence. He has a way of removing you because sometimes when God removes a person, He's actually removing the demons behind that person. Can I just get real today? I'm just going to say it again: sometimes deliverance comes in the form of God removing demons from you, but then sometimes God will remove a person, and by removing the person in your life, He's removing the demons too. And I'm just saying that because you can't be friends with everybody to go where God's called you to go. You can't be in a relationship with everybody to go where God's called you to go. And God will remove people from your life to remove the demons that are behind that person so that you can walk in freedom. I'm just telling you like it is today. I'm only three minutes in. Is this a good word? Is this a good word today?

If you're watching on YouTube, I need you to hit the like button, because the more times we can get people to hit the like button, the more people will see this broadcast. Okay, so after you hit that like button on YouTube, make sure that you hit subscribe as well. Let me show you in the Bible today, as we do this—this very rich Bible study—because I want to take you through the scriptures and show you that God has always been the kind of God that will remove people from your life so that He can take you into your destiny. And I want to show you this because when you have Abraham and Lot, the Bible actually gives an account that Abraham and Lot were in relationship, but Lot's cattle and his herd were eating more than their fair share, and it was taking up too much bandwidth. You know, let me give you an example: when you have Wi-Fi routers in your house, the Wi-Fi routers in your house can only support so many devices before too much bandwidth is eaten up. And have you ever gone to a house and—and you—you're watching something and it's like, man, uh, it's going too slow? Well, why is it going too slow? It's going too slow because too many devices are connected on the—the router. And so you've got to disconnect devices to open up bandwidth. And let me just tell you this: your mind can only handle so much. Your emotions are like a Wi-Fi router, and if you have too many people connected to that router, it slows you down. And so God is getting ready to disconnect. Come on, Margie, thank you for sharing. I see in the comments. Come on, I see it all over. People are saying, "I feel this word." If you feel this word, hit that like button right now. And you—some of the fatigue that you've been experiencing might not even be from demons that you're dealing with in your personal life, but second-hand demonic attack because you're connected—people with people that their drama has become your drama. Come on. They're—they're because they're holding hands with the devil, and you're holding hands with them, then by proxy you're holding hands with the devil. Come on, somebody. Do you hear what I'm saying?

Let me give you another analogy because the Lord is speaking so clearly right now. Here in the United States, we have ground beef. And you go to a beef factory—stay on with me, don't leave this broadcast because God's got a word for you. When you go into a beef manufacturing factory and they do what's called ground beef, they take the—the meat and they put it through these grinders. And there are times where they have to do a national recall because one batch was infected. But because it goes through the grinder and it comes out on the other side, there's no way of them differentiating what is infected with bacteria and what's not. So the whole thing's got to get thrown out. And see what happens is the more you come into deep relationship with people, you can't even tell the difference of what's bacterially infected and what's not infected. And so the whole thing's got to be thrown out. And I—and I—some of you need to hear the Lord saying this to you: you are trying to save pieces of a relationship, but it's almost like trying to take ground beef and saying, "Well, I'm gonna try to save what's been infected and what's not been infected," but once that thing went through the grinder, it's all one. You can't separate it anymore. And some of you, your relationship has—has already gone through the grinder. You're so close, you're—you've—it's—you can't separate what's infected and what's not infected, so the whole thing's got to be cut out. Oh, man, I'm telling you, I came correct.

So Abraham and Lot—Abraham had such a heart of kindness for Lot. Abraham wanted to see Lot fulfill his destiny. But see, Abraham, when you read the scriptures, was eventually going to be one of the reasons why Sodom and Gomorrah happened. And so his heart was a heart for sin, not salvation. His heart was, "I want to be right; I don't want to be righteous." His heart was, "I want to do my own thing; I don't want to do God's will." His heart was, "I want my will, not Thy will." And because Lot was wired that way, the only thing that could happen was a separation between Abraham and Lot. And see, God has been trying to do this to you. Listen, God didn't start the global pandemic, but He did know it was going to happen, and He tried to use it divinely in your life. See, what the enemy meant for harm, God will turn it around for your favor. And there's a favor and separation, and He's tried to use even this uh, pandemic to separate you, but you keep picking your phone back up, and you try to keep making a call with the dead and the dying. And God wants you to hook up life and life more abundantly, but you're going to have to let this thing play out. And I'm just telling you right now, Michelle from Plymouth, Massachusetts, who's tuning in: "I'm okay with being alone because I would rather be alone with peace of mind than be together with people and deal with chaos I didn't create." Is that a good word? In South Africa, I'd be here—I'd rather be alone and be at peace. Some of you are like, "Why don't I have a mentor?" And God's saying, "Because they were going to mentor you into the same madness that their mind has been manipulated with." I'm actually giving you peace instead of giving you a mentor. The person that you think you want to speak in your life—what if I told you they don't even have anything to offer you because they're just as confused as you are? Some of you are seeking people more than you're seeking the Holy Spirit. The scriptures say that the Holy Spirit will teach you all things. How quickly we forget that the first-century church after Acts 2 didn't have a physical Bible. They were right in the Bible out loud with their lives. They didn't even have—they only had the Old Testament scriptures, the prophets and the Torah. They didn't even have a New Testament Bible because they were living it. And they said the Holy Spirit will teach you all things. And some of you have forgotten that the Holy Spirit wants to mentor you more than the person that you wish would mentor you. Stop waiting for them to call you and start calling up the Holy Ghost! [Laughter] Come on now.

Now I want to show you though in scripture where this is very important, okay, because I'm just going off today. I go—I don't know if you can tell, but this is a very passionate topic. The person that you spend the most time with will be the person that you act the most like. The person that you spend the most time with will be the person that you act the most like. So I make it a priority to spend the most time with Jesus because that's who I want to talk like, that's who I want to love like, that's who I want to walk like. I want to be mentored by Jesus, so I make it a priority to spend more time praying without ceasing, reading the Bible, studying. Anybody who says that I'm not being discipled because I don't have a discipler has forgotten that we have the Holy Spirit. And we constantly want man to do the thing that God desperately wants to do in our life. And I'm here to tell you, I show up six days a week online, but the Holy Spirit will show up seven days a week in your life. And I need to know who this word is for today. [Laughter] Spend time with the Holy Spirit. Good morning, Holy Spirit. Good night, Holy Spirit. Good afternoon, Holy Spirit. Teach me Your ways. Melissa Ann says, "Wow, mind blown." Come on. I'mma feature that comment. Look at this. Somebody says, "I'm screaming." Go ahead and scream at your screen. Listen, here's the thing: you are about to become so confident in your relationship with God that you walk with the wisdom of God because you start sounding like Him. You know what I mean? If you repeat a fool, you will be thought of as a fool, but if you repeat a wise man, you will be thought of as wise. If you hear anything coming out of my mouth that sounds like wisdom, you best believe it came from my relationship with Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit and scripture. To repeat a fool is to be made a fool, but to repeat a wise person is to become wise. If you're ready for this, tell me in the chat: "I'm ready." I'm ready because some of you got deliverance; you vomited. Come on. You broke the generational curses. Why are you going to be in a relationship with somebody that won't even have the discipline to maintain the deliverance that you have in your own life? Get out of here with that! [Laughter] You're the one who vomited the demons out. You're the one who did the financial course. You're the one who—who read the book. You're the one who disciplined yourself. How—why are you going to stay in a relationship with somebody that doesn't match your level of discipline anymore? Because now you're asking the question: "Do—do I want to lower myself to be in relationship with them, or do they want to come up to my level to stay in relationship with me?" This is a whole word today. Look! [Laughter] That's what you're—if you stay in a relationship with someone that doesn't match your level of discipline, the only question you're asking is, "Do I want to lower myself again, or will they raise up their level to match my level of discipline?" That's where we're going. And some of you, the reason why you found this broadcast is because you are going to get so depressed because of your loneliness that God had to prove to you that there are thousands of people just like you. You just might not know them in Massachusetts. You might not know them in Indiana. You might not know them in Michigan. You might not know them in Seattle. You might not know them in Australia. But just because they're not in your neighborhood doesn't mean that they're not in the kingdom. Don't lose your sense of worth. Stop having friendships at the level of your self-esteem. Stop having dating relationships at the level of your self-esteem. Stop having business partners that make you feel comfortable to your level of self-esteem. Stop—stop going to churches that match your level of self-esteem. I'm telling you, you got to see yourself the way that God sees you. You got to see yourself the way that God destined you, and then you got to start putting yourself in relationship with people that match the identity that you have in Christ, not the low self-esteem that you have in your lack of confidence. I'm spitting wisdom bricks today, y'all. If the Lord's not proving to you how much this word is for you right now, I don't even know what to say. I wish somebody would share this enough to go viral. And just Jessica says, "You're rude." [Laughter] Listen, they are rude to you every single time they treat you like your past instead of treating you like your future. They're rude to you when they take from you more than they give to you. They're rude to you when they expect for you to work for them and to invest in them, but they don't reciprocate it. That's rude. Rude is not—is them not reciprocating. And you know what? I'd rather offend some of you out of a relationship that is a blood-sucking leech on your life. I'd rather offend you right out of that relationship because you will thank me once you got healed. I have had people who have hated the word of the Lord that I gave them in the moment and then came back to me and said, "Pastor Mike, I am sorry because I couldn't see it then, but you saw it for me." And that's a good pastor! [Laughter] And I—so let me be rude. I'm rude because I see the true you. I see the you that nobody else sees. I'm seeing the you that maybe only your mama saw, but I'm speaking to those who want to go deeper. I'm speaking to those who want to be called to greatness. There's a reason why you didn't give up. There's a reason why you didn't give up after the divorce. There's a reason why that terminal illness wasn't terminal for you. There's a reason why that car accident wasn't fatal for you. There's a reason why you were born with something that had to require an immediate surgery, but you didn't go down or go out. There's a reason why. And I'm here to call it out. But I'll tell you what: if you keep surrounding yourself with Job's friends—because we got here's another biblical reference that you can take a little bit deeper—Job had friends that were not friends to his purpose. There are some people, I just want to warn you, they're only friends with you because they love talking about your problems with other people. Can I just tell you that in love? I just want to tell you that in love, they are friends with you because they need to be close enough to get the latest story so they can turn around and tell that story to their other friends. And so all you are to them is a walking tabloid. You're a newspaper, and they just—they want your life to be bad so they have something good to talk about. Can I just throw another wisdom brick? Okay, they want your life to be bad so that they have something else to talk about—something good to talk about. Good gossip comes from bad situations, and your bad situations are good gossip to bad friends. And God is removing them because they're not for you, and they love gossip. Actually, I'll give you another scripture: the Bible says that where there is gossip, there is every other evil work. And so let's talk about demons. Let's talk about deliverance. Let me just tell you right now, gossip is a gateway. It's a portal to demonic activity because where you have gossip, watch—you don't have the fruits of the Spirit, which is love, joy, patience, long-suffering, kindness, gentleness. You don't have the fruits of the Spirit where you have gossip. You have the fruits of the flesh, and the fruits of the flesh are always gateways to demonic activity. And so God—and here's when some of you have been praying, "God, remove the demonic attack in my life"—don't be surprised if He removes a person that's connected to the demonic. I'm being careful with my words though because our battle is not against flesh and blood, but I never said anything about fighting the person. I'm talking about letting them go. There's a difference. See, even Paul said, "Hey, there's some beef between me and Peter. He's leaning a little too much theologically into a works-based, you know, kind of Judaism-oriented gospel, and I don't know that that's the right thing, so we're gonna have to separate. And you go on your journey, you do your thing. And listen, let's—let's agree to disagree." And see, Peter had to go on his journey. Paul had to go on his journey. Sometimes this is not a salvation issue. Come on, am I teaching you the Bible today? Sometimes this is not a salvation issue. Sometimes this isn't a Christian versus a non-Christian. Sometimes it's a difference of opinion. Maybe they're leaning in a direction, and you're leaning in another direction. They say, "Why are you always caring about those things? Why are you always thinking about those things?" And instead of you trying to—to stop it, just embrace it and go your other way. Don't be surprised if you're saying, "God, save me from this demonic attack," and then He removes a person, but it's not that we're fighting against that person, but it's because He's removing the—the—the thing that's connected to them. Okay, He's removing the thing that's connected to them. Sabrina says, "The anointing is thick today. We can hear the Holy Ghost." Let me tell you what the anointing does and what it is for those of you don't understand. It's just simply the olive oil in—in the—in the time—in the ancient world. Shepherds would pour olive oil upon the head of the sheep that they were tending to to prevent against the infestation of gnats and bugs in the mucous membranes of the sheep, whether that's their eyes or their ears or their nose. And it's a protective layer upon them, okay? And that protected—so when—when people say the anointing is thick, you know how I hear that biblically is that I'm pouring a protective layer against those—those thoughts and those attitudes and those things that have been tried to embed themselves in your spiritual vision and your spiritual hearing and your—come on—in your spiritual senses and trying to remove them. The anointing is the burden-removing, yoke-destroying power of God, and it's so, so, so important for you to be covered with a fresh anointing because some of you woke up feeling lonely today, but I'm pouring an anointing of the Lord upon you. It's an anointing of gladness. It's an anointing of—of shepherding and covering you today so that you'll know you're not alone. Come on. Look at this. Janice from London—I love this—this comment in the chat. She says, "PM, you keep entering right into the bedroom of my situation with this word." Listen, God is always on time and faithful to speak. Drop a comment if I confirm something. Just say "me," M-E, so I can see a visual representation that I'm speaking right into your situation. M-E. I'm telling you some of this—let me give you a couple of more analogies that God was showing me in the spirit realm. He's been giving me more pictures. Okay, one of the pictures that He gave me was of a Lego. And if you've ever used Legos to—Legos to build different things, you know how you would click in the Legos. On the underside of a Lego, there's only so many connection points, okay? And if you have the underside of the connection of the Lego is full, the only way you can build is you have to remove something to make it available. And so for many of you, it's almost like you can't even build the vision that God has for you to build because you have too many connections underneath your Lego. Come on. I see me, me, me. Come on, Rocco, Carol, Sabrina, Debbie, Melissa. Come on, just—if—if you haven't already, comment with "me" if this word is hitting you today. So God is actually going to free you to build, but the way that He frees you to build is by disconnecting something that was connected like the underside of a Lego so that you have the room or the bandwidth to build. Okay, look at this. I'm going to feature this comment: "Oh Lord, I've been already—" Somebody said, "I woke up today feeling lonely. This word is a confirmation. Thank you." And here's the thing: Job had friends that were not friends to his purpose. They were not friends to his future. They were friends with his drama. They were friends with the shortcomings and the failures that they saw physically and the tragedy that they experienced because it was good gossip. And see, some of you—man, I know this is—maybe you're like me—let me tell you—let me tell on myself because this will help—because Job—Job was like constantly being drawn in by his friends into their drama, into their bad thoughts and opinions, okay? And the thing I need you to understand is—you know, let me put it like this: I am a kind-hearted person. I show up every single day so that is to minister to people, to love on people. My wife and I—I mean, I'm not boasting, I just want you to hear my heart for a second because this is going to help connect with you—we sold our home to go into ministry. I mean, I had a half-acre backyard in a nice neighborhood. I had my own music venue. Life was set up. I was being successful by anyone's measurement, but I sold my house to go into ministry. I love people. I don't expect things from people, and people have taken advantage of me because they know I don't live with drama. I hate drama. I'm—I—I don't—I—I'm—man, I want to be in good standings with everybody. I—but you know what? I won't compromise the standard of the—of the word. I won't compromise the Bible. And so maybe you're like me, and—and you know, listen, there are some times where I've had interactions with people, and I've walked away from it. My wife Julie has told me, "Man, you are so—uh, you were so patient in that meeting. You were so kind." And I'm like, "Why?" And she's like, "Because they were—they were doing you dirty. They were taking advantage of you. Man, they were playing you." And I was like, "Really?" And it's not to say I'm not smart or that I'm not like—um—or that I'm not like, you know, I can't see when somebody's trying to hoodwink me or take advantage of me. It's just that I believe the best for people, and I see vision for their future, and I—I'm a loving pastor, you know, I—and—and so—um—you get what I'm saying? It's like I hate—I—I don't know—it's like—let me put like this—let me—let me give you another way of breaking this down for you because I'm going deep. I—a lot of times, like if you're in a relationship and you're a cheater, you're going to always blame your partner for cheating because you're projecting on them what you are. If you're always cheating, you're going to be like—you're going to always think that you're being cheated on because you're going to think people do what you do. And so—or if you're always gossiping about people, you're always going to think that everybody else is gossiping about you because you're going to project on other people what you are. So for me, it's like, honestly, the truth—I'm telling you the honest-to-God truth—I pray for people. I fast for people. I financially invest in people. I help people. So when people are doing me dirty, even to my face, it doesn't register because that's not who I am. Does anybody know what I'm talking about right now? Like you—you—and so there's been times where my wife or other people have been like, "Man, uh, you are so great about how they're doing you." And I'm like, "Well, what are they doing?" Because it's not even coming up on my radar because I don't think like that. And—um—the reason why—even for me—and I'm just going real deep, okay—even for me, I was in a situation where even when I was in sin, I didn't necessarily do sin to that hurt other people. I really just destroyed myself, and it affected other people. So even when I'm not trying to say I was a good sinner because that doesn't exist, I'm just trying to help you explain the way my mind worked like when I was an alcoholic, and this was over a decade ago, and I ruined

My marriage and all that. I really wasn't trying to hurt other people; I was just hurting myself, and that hurt other people. So when, so I when people are vindictive and mean and vengeful and murderous, I don't understand that. You get what I'm trying to say? That I don't understand that. So what I'm trying to say is not that I was a good sinner; I'm not trying to glorify. I'm just trying to help you understand me.

Because there's some people that are so sick that they love to see you sick. They—you know what I'm trying to say—they love to see you down. They love to see you fail. They celebrate when you fail. They celebrate when things don't work out. You don't even know that, but in their heart, when you have a bad day, they feel better about themselves because they're sick. They are sick. When you fail, they feel better. So when you come to them and you're like, "Oh man, you know, I just gained all this weight," they're like, "Thank God they gained all that weight," because even you losing weight would make them feel bad about themselves.

I just got to break this down, okay, and this because some of you don't understand this, and I'm trying to be for you. The Bible says, "Bless those who curse you. Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who despitefully use you." But what it doesn't say is that you gotta be their best friend. It doesn't say you gotta call them on the phone every day. It doesn't say that you gotta give them money hand over fist and financially support their life and support their laziness. It just says, "Bless them and pray for them," okay? And I'm trying to help somebody today because, yeah, I see the amens in the comments. Come on, talk to me today. Talk to me today. I'm trying to help you. We're only 30 minutes in. So many of you in the comments are like saying, "I needed this word. Break it down." [Music] Did you hit the like button? If you didn't, do it now. Show me some love, y'all. If you haven't subscribed, subscribe. We broke 3,000 subs last week. Let's do it again. Let me keep going though. And this is, this is like, yeah, so here I'm just reading the comments. I'm sorry, you guys are hilarious in these comments. Okay, um, somebody says, "What if that person is in your home?" Let me go deeper. Okay, what do we do when that person is in our home?

Well, you teach them how to treat you. Let me be honest with you, I'm Pastor Mike. I'm not—my church doesn't want to be friends with me; they need a pastor. I'm not their big brother; I'm not their friend; I'm their pastor, okay? And if people, if they're like, "Hey Mike, hey Mike, hey Mike, hey Mike," I'm going to teach you how to treat me because I'm not going to respond to Mike. Because if I'm like to you, you can choose to listen or not listen, but if I'm Pastor Mike to you, I can pastor you. So there's times where I have to teach people how to treat me, like I'll just ignore you until you say, "Pastor Mike," not because I need a title, but because you need a title. You need me to be Pastor Mike. And we live in a society that is constantly trying to remove authority, but in a kingdom there's authority, and so I don't care; that's old school; that's the way I am. People need a pastor; they don't need a—they already—you have a big brother; you're still in bondage; you're not free; you need a pastor. You know what I'm saying? You—you get what I'm saying? So you—I have to teach people how to treat me all the time, all the time. Here, and so sometimes what you listen and respond to conditions people that they can still keep talking the way they're talking, okay? And so if you live with somebody, you don't have to engage; you can stop listening to their madness; you can stop giving ear to it, and that will teach them how to treat you. This is a good word; people pay a lot of money for that. You can teach them how to treat you.

Here's another thing: you can schedule a discussion, and you don't have to have it in the moment. Not every argument has to happen in the moment, right? So they often say, "The higher the emotion, the lower the intelligence; the higher the intelligence, the lower the emotion." So when you are high emotion, you're low intelligence. Why would you have a discussion when your brain turns into the reptilian primordial brain? Why wouldn't you access the fullness of your brain when you're relaxed and inflammation and all and your blood pressure's down? Come on, somebody. So you can schedule it, and I had to learn that in my own house. My wife and I had to learn that. We have a safe word. You know, we haven't used this safe word in years and years, but I can tell you guys now, the—the safe word was Eskimo, because Eskimos live where it's cold, and so we would say, "Hey, things are heating up; we need to cool it down, Eskimo," and there would be some times where I would say—my wife would say, "Eskimo," I'm like, "What? Things are not heating up; I'm just getting started," and she's like, "No, I don't want to go there; this is not right." And so we had to learn that we could schedule—living in the same home—we could schedule a discussion; we could schedule an argument, because when emotions are high, intelligence is low. And so we would say, "Eskimo." We had a safe word. So you have to teach people how to treat you.

Listen, this is something to celebrate, God. If you're faithful to allow God to remove the people He's removing, then God is going to replace. Because I need you to understand, God—God never removes and leaves a gap. He removes and then replaces. He's a good guy. For example, He says, "Don't get drunk with wine." That's what He says. "Don't get drunk; don't get drunk." He forbids drunkenness, but people are like, "But man, it's kind of fun." He's like, "Okay, I know; I'm gonna remove the drunkenness that has a penalty of waking up, uh, you know, the next day hung over and physically affecting your liver. I'm gonna remove that because I don't want you to do that, but I'm going to replace it with the drunkenness and the new wine of the Holy Spirit, and you're going to be intoxicated with My spirit." He's so good. He never removes and leaves a gap; He removes and He replaces. That's why He's good. You don't ever have to worry; God's never going to take anything bad from you; He's always going to take things and then replace it with what's right. So God's not going to just be like, "I want to take your friends." He doesn't—He doesn't want you to be friendless; He's going to remove and He's going to replace.

Now watch, this is the big word though, okay? When He replaces, and this is what He told me to tell you—I'm just speaking on behalf of your Dad right now, okay?—because your Heavenly Father wanted me to say this to you: He is going to replace with people who are going to remind you of who you really are. And more specifically, I hear the Lord saying to many people, He is going to remove friendships—He's doing it already—but He's going to replace with people who remind you of the old you. Not—and some of you, this is—this word's not for everybody right now. This is—I know that there's people are saying, "I never want to go back; I never want to be the old me; there is nothing from my past I ever want to resurrect," but there's others of you who felt like you came out of touch with the old you, the best of the old you. Maybe it was—you used to be an artist and you stopped creating. You used to be a preacher and you stopped preaching. You used to be on the dance team and you stopped dancing. You used to be a preacher and you stopped preaching. Did somebody hear me? And God is going to replace friends that—you're going to leave hangout sessions with them; you're going to leave Zooms with them; you're going to leave—you're going to leave time with them, and you're going to say, "Wow, I feel like I'm 15 years old again. I feel like I'm 10 years old again. I feel like I'm 20 years old again. I feel like I'm 25 years old again," and you're going to leave it and you're going to feel—see, when the Bible says—"Man, I feel—I got chills all over me, guys"—when the Bible says, "I will restore the years that the locusts and the cankerworm have eaten," one of the ways that He restores years is He restores friendships that remind you of who you used to be and remind you of who you are, and—and it rejuvenates. When He says that, "I am going to renew your youth as the eagles"—what He says is, "Those who wait on the Lord"—what are you waiting for? You're waiting for new friends—"Those who wait on the Lord, I will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings as eagles." What are you waiting for? You're—what you're waiting for—God to remove old relationships and bring new relationships, and those new relationships will renew your strength because they'll encourage you; they'll remind you who you are. Come on! And they will turn it around for you. That's what He does. Come on, Jonathan Klein! He—you're waiting for him to come on. Now everybody has a good bowel movement. Don't get mad when God clears some things out of your life and some people out of your life. He will remove and then what? Replace. This is—this is the ways of God; this is the wisdom of God.

So here's the thing: God wants you to hear what I'm saying to you today. Man, this is good, man. This is good. Yes. And—and you know, listen, if you read Hebrews chapter 11 and you look at the—the hallway of faith and you walk down those corridors, you find men and women who are very misunderstood in one generation, but then very much celebrated in future generations and continue to be celebrated now. And so just don't listen—just because you're being criticized doesn't mean that the criticism is accurate. Just because you're being criticized doesn't mean that the criticism is valid, because you'll find that people who are criticized in one generation are celebrated in the—in the next generation, because it takes time for them to catch up to what God was doing. And some of you, you're just misunderstood. It doesn't even mean that what you're doing is wrong; it's just not understood what you're—what you're doing. Come on! What you're doing is misunderstood; it doesn't even mean that it's wrong. And you'll go from criticized to celebrated in one lifetime, but there's a messy middle, and I've been speaking to that messy middle, because that messy middle will make you feel like you're crazy. That messy middle will make you feel like you made the wrong decision. That messy middle will make you feel like you should turn back. That messy middle will make you feel like you should listen to their criticisms. That messy middle will make you feel like—like they're valid and you're not valid, but I'm here to vindicate you. Come on! God is calling you to keep walking forward because you're going to translate from criticized to celebrated if you'll keep walking.