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Joshua 6:2 I want to start a fresh
Series today entitled it's own look at
what it says the Lord said to Joshua
this is enough to tell the whole church
up see what do you want me to see I have
delivered
Jericho into your hands along with its
king and his fighting men I want to talk
today from the topic real simple it's on
it's on in this Vision series whenever I
teach I teach in series why is that
Pastor Mike I want to make you an aidite
well-learned congregation uh growing up
I didn't learn like everybody else
learned I was even labeled a problem
child I talked too much in class I was
the class clown but when it came down to
it we discovered I was bored because if
you handed me a sheet of paper and told
me to read it I just couldn't comprehend
it but if you were I was more of a
visual learner more of a visual learner
I had to learn like that so I didn't get
things in one sitting and I and I just
don't believe that when it comes to our
walk with God one 30 minute message
going to equip you for 30 years of
fighting did you catch what I just said
right there so so I want to do a vision
series if you put that in your notes a
vision series I want to pause and
parenthetically digress because I
believe what I teach from the pull pit
you can take and make applicable to your
life make it applicable what does that
mean pmj even in your circles put this
in your notes your relationships your
friendships and your business
Partnerships I believe those
relationships should be buil in
serieses that's rich I believe you
should get your close friends together
and say Hey I want to do this for the
next 3 months we worked hard let's just
have some fun and if it's some stuff
that's stressing us out let's learn how
to communicate that but then coming off
you might need to say hey for these next
three months ain't it ain't play time
let's lock in by November all of us need
our vision for
2024 did you catch what I just said
right
there no I've discovered that it's
crowded when it's time to par party but
it's empty when it's time to
plan no if you going to be in my life
you don't have to say anything but you
don't you going to have to have a vision
to be in my life why in this Vision
series what's my goal Pastor Mike my
goal is to unpack how and it's right
there on your screen it's on what does
in it's on mean it's on is not just a
statement but a commitment to taking
your life this is good from expectations
to
execution that's critical I want to take
you from expectation to execution it's
on so when I say it's on I'm not just
talking about a building opening cuz we
not going to play that game that the
moment the doors open it's open no no
it's not just a moment it's a movement
that's happening in your life so when we
say it's on I like to give you verbage
colloquialisms that you can take and
just flip your life with what does its
on mean I am moving from expectation to
execution expect patient to execution
all right I'm going to tell you why
Church get on my nerves cuz if I was to
shout who's expecting it the whole room
would go crazy but if I said who's
executing
it I wouldn't find that many people and
this is where you got to be careful
because this is why people who never got
to know you didn't like you when they
saw you it's because they quickly
realize you're not just
anator you're an
executioner what does it mean to shift
from expectation to ex ution here it is
I Am shifting I'm going to run from
waiting on it to walking in
it I I don't think you heard what I just
said I Am shifting from waiting on it to
walking in it I Am shifting this year
from praying about it to protecting what
you prayed
about y'all don't hear what I just said
I Am shifting from Vision to
Victory this is critical and and what
I'm telling you now is in this season of
your life you got to have Vision you
have to have Vision why is that
important pmj cuz the problem is most of
us have sight not Vision sight is what
we see with our eyes open vision is what
we see with our eyes
closed sight is what I see with the eyes
on my head vision is is what I see with
the eyes in my heart this is why you be
trying to fix people that everybody else
can clearly see are broken it's because
they're looking at them with the eyes in
their head but you're looking at them
with the eyes in your and your circle
looking at you like you can't tell they
a snake you can't tell they using you
you can't tell they ain't no good and
the problem is I was cursed with this
blessing that I don't see people with
these eyes
I see people
with and that's why so many times your
heart get
broke Michael sight helps you see today
Vision helps you see
tomorrow and I want to free you real
quickly cuz the question I need you to
ask today is do you have sight or do you
have
Vision do you have sight or do you have
Vision y pmj put this in your notes the
poorest person in the world is not the
person without money but the poorest
person in the world is the person
without
Vision oh I got Vision pray for me I got
Vision I got Vision oh pray for me Joe I
got Vision no I would sit in the lobby
of this building four years ago I would
call the realtive ask him if he would
unlock the door they would leave the
door in that Hall crack open I would sit
in there by myself and do all my work
and write my sermons then he would come
back and say what you doing I said I'm
planning what I'm going to preach when I
get
here y'all y'all don't hear
me that's Vision no that's Vision I was
able to tell my girl now this what we
going to do we going to move to this
Extended State about seven years we're
going to move to this extended state and
this what we going to do we're not going
to buy nothing do me a favor baby girl
do you believe huh do you believe do do
you believe I believe this what we going
to do this is Vision go get your hair
braided cuz if you get your hair braided
you don't have to get it done every two
weeks okay so I need you to get some
braids and I need you to rock them
braids for about 4 months if you don't
mind edges may be coming out but just
greas them down for me cuz if you buy
into the vision if we do what we have to
now we'll be able to do what we want to
and this is why you got to do an
inventory of your circle because it's
hard to fulfill your vision around Sight
people
[Applause]
Michael I'm sorry but you don't see what
I see I'm preaching to three of y'all I
see goodness and mercy I see businesses
I see books I see more in you than
sometimes you see in yourself cuz I got
vision and the only thing worse than
being blind is having
sight okay okay okay okay okay the only
thing worse than being blind is having
sight okay oh my God that's what my
professors at y Divinity call theom
musis on the spot Revelation this going
to blow your mind who remembers
baras who remember barus okay you
remember barus what was
he all right he was blind and he heard
that Jesus was what
and he thought to himself all right he
starts
screaming
Jesus
Jesus Jesus and the people who had sight
told the brother who had
Vision y'all missed it y'all missed it
Bara was blind he heard that his
solution was in the area so he put a
plan together in his blindness he had
Vision he said what I'm going to do is
start screaming as loud as I can cuz my
eyes don't work but my voice do and some
of y'all going to stay where you are cuz
you too busy crying about what don't
work when you should be working
what I'm preaching to three of y'all
already just look around you and tell
them I got Vision stay away from
me
Bara says Jesus
Jesus
Jesus Jesus and folk who had what he had
didn't have telling him to what be quiet
be quiet be quiet uh uh the only
thing
worse than being
blind is having sight
with
no Jesus turns around and says bring
him to me I'm F to run I'm sorry I'm
sorry if Jesus says
bring who is he talking
to the very people who was telling him
to be quiet and he will make your
enemies you so busy cussing folk out
when if you just stuck to your vision
the very people who was trying to kill
it going to have to help you in
it do me a favor I don't want you
fussing and cussing with nobody else
just get in your car and say to yourself
they going to be working for me in 6
months they don't even know it they'll
be back why cuz when God got his hand on
you it ain't a devil a hater a mean mama
a fake friend that can block your vision
it's all
night watch this what
good and baras says Jesus says bring
them to me and he gives him his what
sight here's what's crazy I want to ask
you this
question I want to ask you this question
I want to ask you this question I want
to ask you this question have you ever
stopped to
consider that barus
wasn't the only person who eyes got open
that
day I got to go I need a better church I
like this church but I kind of don't
like this church cuz y'all kind of too
young for me I want a old church now
when I was younger I wanted a young fly
church now that I'm kind of older I
think I want a old church cuz y'all make
me work too hard I be dropping so much
heat like I want let me do this better I
got to drop Vision I want an old church
with ghetto guys that's what I want I
want a church mother who going to say
thank you but then I want a hood dude
goingon to be like talk that talk like I
I I need a mix between battle rap and a
Baptist Church somewhere in there cuz
y'all be missing it what if I told you
that barus wasn't the only person who
got their eyes
open your family your friends and your
circle would treat you better if they
realize when God Did It For You it
opened their eyes to see he could do it
[Applause]
for watch this not now yet this is why
you've been saying if you ever want to
learn the secret to God look at what you
say
naturally the devil hides things in
plain sight when something when you hear
something that you didn't know you say
out your mouth oh that open my
eye that's a eye
open and this is biblical because
Proverbs 29:8 says if people can't see
what God's doing they stumble all over
themselves but when they
attend to what he
reveals
they Michael are the Most Blessed you
you missed it do I I need to read it
again if people can't
see what God is doing I'm oh my God oh
my God I need you to put this scripture
in your phone please if you don't do
nothing else put it in your phone put it
in your notes after you put it in your
notes every morning I want you to read
it and I need it in your heart all right
if you really H just get it tatted
somewhere like right here Proverbs 29:18
right here you know you you got worse
tattoos anyway let's not play games you
got a whole tattoo right here and we
don't even know what that really say if
we tell the truth Proverbs 29:18 cuz I'm
going to read it this should be your
prerequisite for
friendships business alliances
Partnerships and more if people all
right so if underline if if is a
conditional contract we going to break
this scripture down Roy it is a
conditional
contract if my people who are called by
my my name
would seek my turn from there then I
would hear from heaven and
what why do you get that if you do your
part so leave that scripture up there
underline if it is it is a conditional
contract a conditional contract my boys
tried to hold me to that right there
okay I tell boys I'mma do so and so so
and so if you do so and so so and so
they come back in there but Dad you said
no no no no no no no no no no no no no
no you ain't did nothing your momma
asked you
contract
voided and you sitting in church sitting
at home blaming God for certain doors
that didn't open for you when you broke
the
contract God you told me when I took
this job I was going to be blessed I
also told you stay away from certain
stuff if conditional contract people
underline people under people I want you
to put your circle your spere of
influence so let's read it we G to break
the scripture down here is if under if
here is a conditional contract for those
in my
life if you can't
see what God is
doing they
stumble all over themselves now go back
to people
and above the people in your life put
myself
included cuz many of you keep falling
cuz you don't see
it this what your life look January
February March April this is a whole
year you've been doing this and God like
that ain't even a
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devil you clumsy cuz you can't see
it no no who's ever been walking through
your house and hit your foot on
something that you didn't put
there it will make you almost
fight somebody don't step on a
toy no no don't let somebody leave some
out cuz you're so used to walking in
your area in the
dark that even in darkness you walk in a
type of boldness
cuz you know if I get out my bed take
six steps that's the door then you got
slick and
say you don't even look at the light
switch you
just and what I'm telling you is who
told you to
celebrate the fact that you are winning
in
darkness This Is My Season to stop
stumbling Michael
over myself why Pastor Mike here's the
condition cuz if I attend to what he
reveals help me God they I like this
phrase are the Most Blessed now you
didn't have church with me and it's cool
in the G I'm going to have church by
myself I want to declare everybody look
at your neighbor say neighbor neighbor
you're blessed you're blessed and I'm
happy for you but what I'm going for
what I'm going for is Most Blessed y y y
Miss what I just
said Michael Michael there are
levels levels this is why I need you
look at this phrase I'm I'm watch watch
this phrase it's on the screen when they
attend the vision attend to what he
reveals
attend attend now put this in your notes
attend can mean my presence or my
participation we don't talk like that
anymore all right we don't talk like
that anymore we don't say things like I
need you to to attend to your chores I
need you to attend to your health no no
so when I see the word attend biblically
that is two P's my presence and my
participation Michael that's why I'm so
proud and if you're watching from all
over the world and you're looking at the
people in the sanctuary and you're
saying to yourself who are all those
members that not just members this is a
room full of people who
attend all right did you put that in
your notes a 10 two P's come with a 10
what are the
P's
presence or particip participation now
with that said are you frustrated with
some of the people in your life because
they're in attendance but not
attending do I need to run that see
that's why I need a battle rap y'all
don't thank you will you tell me to run
that back do I need to run that back do
I need to run that back are you
frustrated I say
yo are you
frustrated
because you have people who are in
attendance but
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not it's probably a fight at my house
right now truth you I I don't have it's
probably a fight at my house right now
uh because I got three big boys 16 15 14
only one of them are in attendance and
attending I'm walking through hey boys
make sure y'all take that trash out feed
the dog and do so and so so and so and I
notice that Mike is the only one doing
everything Mason Superstar football he
thinks he's Above the Law Xander went to
homecoming yesterday he still got on his
tuxedo
pants right so Xander walking around
shirt off tuck seeda pants like he he
don't want to take it off you remember
them days right he got to go back to day
so he better get his money's worth so he
still and I noticed Mike taking out
trash Mike feeding the dog so I told
everybody before I love hey boys get in
here get in here get in here get here
y'all good love y'all Mike here you go
and I slipped him some money openly Mike
here you go baby keep doing your
thing whoa whoa whoa what's going what's
going what's going whoa whoa whoa whoa
and that's how you've been looking all
year you could have prayed in February
been tithing in March living right this
summer now you in a panic because you
got a deadline attached to what God
already prophesied over your life Dad D
what what what's I said no I said I've
been asking y'all to do stuff wo wo I
said but Mike been the only one doing it
I'm not going to reward you for
attendance because partial agreement is
still
Rebellion Michael if you ain't going to
do your part I rather you not even show
up so I don't even expect you to be what
you should be I need the people in my
life this year to be present and
participate that when I'm weak be a
shoulder but when I'm strong keep
fighting with I need you to look at your
neighbor and say neighbor you done
messed around and sit next to the right
person somebody in the chat ought to
just type here I go cuz I will be
present and I will participate I will
pray for you and help pay a bill if I
have to you don't find too many people
like
[Applause]
I'm
different I'm different y'all don't hear
me this morning I'm different I'm
different that's why you don't have to
chase nobody in your life well I just
think this ain't going to work out for
me okay God bless you no I'm Different
baby it's going to hit you in 6 months
what you had cuz it's a whole lot of
people who will be present when you got
it but will leave you when you don't I'm
the type of a person that I will be
present and I will
po now hear me hear me James this is
cold R Stefano this is cold I do not
think I'm so cold of a pastor that
people going to come to church cuz I
preach I want to say something that you
may never hear Pastor say I am nothing
without two entities
heaven and
y'all no no erase that erase that it's
three entities Michael I am nothing
without three entities Heaven y'all the
ones who are present and participating
and
[Applause]
hell I've learned more from my
hell than I learned from a blessed from
heaven when God opened the door I praise
my way through it when the devil slammed
the door I had to pray my way
through am I preaching to anybody you
ought to look at your neighbor and say I
got two guns praise and prayer and if
you mess with me both of
[Applause]
them
that's why people don't know what to do
with you cuz you be shouting when you
get the job then you know how to pray
when they hate on you on the job you
shouted when you closed on the house and
then praised when the mortgage got
behind you shouted when you got the
relationship then Pray when they lost
their mind look at your neighbor say
neighbor I'mma praise them you pray and
if we work together God's getting
ready to turn it
[Applause]
around
Vision somebody say Vision Vision so
look at s this is why I
need
participation and presence to every man
who was standing outside today and it
started drizzling thank you
thank you thank you thank you that's
participation and presence to every
person who was standing in the lobby
loving on people thank
you that's
participation and presence to every
person who sung up here today I know
certain days you don't feel your best
thank you that's
participation I wish that boy right
there lived in Birmingham cold blooded
but do you know he drive from Atlanta
every Sunday morning I whole church y to
look at him and say thank
you here's your homework for this week
you done spent 40 weeks talking about
your
haters this week on your story or
somewhere you ought to just Poe thank
you and start thanking the
ones who stayed in attendance and stayed
attending now put this in your notes put
this in your notes you are a hypocrite
if you judge people who don't have
perfect
attendance well they left me for three
months so you left God for three
years sometimes you have to
disconnect cuz there's something God got
to do in them and it's something God got
to do in
am I preaching to
anybody that ain't God I I don't get
that that ain't God that ain't God okay
okay in the Book of
Malachi God tells His prophets I'mma
turn the hearts of the sons to the
father and the hearts of the fathers to
the son then he's quiet
for 300 400 years a couple hundred years
Heaven don't
speak the next time we hear from God
Jesus is being baptized and he says
this is my beloved
Son so should we not serve a God who was
silent or in your opinion
missing I don't need when it comes to
your vision perfect tendance is a a
prerequisite no I need you to catch this
why that's why I'm telling you right now
to the people in this room I need you I
need you there are thousands of people
getting ready to descend on Birmingham
Alabama I can't do it by myself I need
you and I don't want you to think that
what you do is
insignificant oh I need you to every
teenager in this room right now
especially my young Brothers I need you
I got I we did a survey and it's close
to almost 6 700 young boys 7 8 nine 10
11 12 I would love for them to see young
Brothers doing it the right way I need
you every man listen to me right now
every man listen to me right now you
have no idea cuz I don't hide nothing
from my church having slept probably in
four days from the moment I sent that
text it's on it's like something been
trying to torment me in my sleep I've
been waking up out my sleep anxiety okay
this this done okay is this done I hope
they don't okay God God God God God God
and yesterday I had the opportunity just
spend the whole day with my
daddy and I'm sitting there this morning
and hit me as much as I've done in my
life life Awards great church music all
this stuff I need that man he brought a
level of Peace affirmation and so every
man listening to me I know that
relationship may be crazy but I need you
to go to bed tonight and wake up in the
morning and realize they need
me they need me they need my presence
and my
participation mil cut a fool every
morning that I don't wake up y'all Miss
what I just said right there every
morning he wakes up if I don't get out
the bed it's almost hell trying to get
him dressed trying to get him ready
trying to get him right it only take me
I don't even get out the bed most days
ask me what I say
hey y'all don't y'all Miss what I just
said I I don't go in there I don't put
no clothes on I just roll over and Shout
hey one hey from me tells him in another
room don't make me come that might be
why they said your praise is a
weapon seven of y'all might just need to
shout hey get your hands off my mind hey
get your hand off my children hey get
your hand off my vision
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hey you need it to every person who
wakes up this why I'm telling you I need
more people on dvo energy dvo energy
starts at 721 central time that means
they have to be up at 6:30 a.m. every
morning just to present that Daily
Devotional we should thank them for
that to every person who's ever put
anything in the offering if you sold if
you tied if you ever just said Thank you
hear me when I say this I heard Dr
Darius Daniel say this and I never
forgot it he said Mike vision is a
picture of God's Preferred Future for
your life you might want to put that in
your notes vision is a picture of God's
I'm probably not going to finish this
Preferred Future for your life now I
want you to understand that because I
didn't say vision is the future of your
plan it's God's plan
yeah God's plan look at this look at
this throughout history God has been
cast his Preferred Future over people
watch this he did it with Abraham in
Genesis 12 Samuel he walks up to Gideon
who's never fought a day in his life and
he tells Gideon oh Valiant
Warrior he gives him a vision of his
Preferred Future and in today's text he
walks up to Joshua now keep in mind
Jericho is a city surrounded by a huge
wall a wall was to protect the city from
Invasion I want to play on words y'all
know I'm a battle rrap in my head y
y'all know I love it then the the most
brilliant Brothers on the face of the
planet he me you ever want to see
Brilliance personified don't just listen
to what they saying because you may not
be able but if you just listen how they
approach words and metaphors and triple
and Tundras so when if you ever want to
know how I preach I learned from my dad
I listen to comedians like Steve Harvey
uh cuz they Bernie Mack was really good
at driving a point home I ain't scared
of
y'all I ain't scared of y'all I ain't
scared of y'all that ain't nothing but
good preacher God's going to do it and
get ready cuz God so so I I processed
and battle wrapped the way they would
say stuff like use your real eyes to
realize
realize that's a triple un Tundra y'all
missed that use your real eyes to
realize real life that's a triple un
Tundra so so I want to give you how I so
when I approach
Vision sometimes I approach my thoughts
from a battle standpoint I want to free
you free you real quick why did they
build the city wall of Jericho
to protect from Invasion I want you to
write the word
Invasion okay I can tell how some of
y'all looked at me you don't know how to
spell it okay I'm going spell it for you
I know that look I have that look a
whole lot when I be in church so I just
write the first letter then I just write
it out like curs like I
am I know what it means forget y'all
Invasion i
n VA
a
I I am hey this my church
I wish y'all would embarrass me in front
of all my online members y'all just nod
your head like like I was
right hey it's hard reading in front I
was that kid who get mad I had to read
in front of the class all right y'all
ready and better I knowbody say help
them Lord like it's an Easter speech
Invasion i
n v a
s i o
n no y'all ain't clapping like I'm
[Applause]
boy forget y'all I'm proud of
myself did you spell
it so Invasion Pastor Mike Jr's approach
to Invasion I'm going to Define it how I
see
it
Invasion always takes place in vision
an
invasion is when enemies and
distractions try to overtake your
vision Michael and what happens right
here I need you to catch this in verse
two it says the Lord said to Joshua I'm
trying not to run I'mma save my shout
for next week the Lord said to Joshua
see Michael I have delivered Jericho
into your hands now I want to pause and
parenthetic digress you might want to
underline that see comma I have
delivered underline that I have
delivered God tells Joshua the vision as
if it's already
happened he tells Joshua what he's going
to do while Joshua's outside the wall
before he made
it but thing you know I have delivered
somebody say I have delivered I do I
have any English majors in the chat any
English majors in here okay cool y'all
can't spell either so all my English
Maes will attest that this is past tense
I know that
much I have delivered is past tense
meaning it's already done now this is
where I find tension in the text because
the people have yet to even enter
Jericho so today I want to give you a
new part of
speech if I have delivered his past
tense which means means it's already
done but the children of Israel have not
even entered Jericho yet I want to
introduce a new part of speech called
the prophetic perfect
tense past tense means it's already
happened God talks to Joshua in past
tense about something that has not
happened as if it has already happened I
want to introduce something we like to
call prophetic
perfect tense revealing a future result
in a way that suggests it's already
done what is prophetic perfect tense
okay here it is who's believing God for
something what you believ in God for my
marriage your marriage okay all right so
so so so what's your first first name
government name
Alexis the marriage is
successful and driving and you guys are
mentoring young couples but then you go
home and y'all probably still fussing
but God told you see prophecy is past
tense in the present tense that we now
have to call prophetic perfect tense
meaning Michael I'm going to run Joshua
even though you haven't completed the
vision I have already giving you the
victory I'm telling you the end before
you get frustrated in the middle
Michael
Michael so so so he said I'm telling you
the
end
victory at the beginning cuz you going
to catch
hell y y' y'all y'all slow y'all slow
y'all slow y'all slow this is why some
of y'all are being crybabies I'm not
even going to play with you today let's
not play with it stop being a baby right
now I can't believe go back to the
vision
put this in your notes because Vision
provides the push through
trauma Vision you don't you have to hide
your praise brother get your praise on
Vision provides the push through of
trauma it provides you want to know why
I didn't mind staying at the rhyme
Garden in of exit 133 Kilgore Memorial
having a roll quarters every Friday to
pay that Extended Stay listening to that
lady talk to me like I was trash you
want to know why when I had to file
bankruptcy and I was standing in there
and if you ever had to do it they make
you come into an open room and they say
all your business in front of every do
you want to know why I let them take my
car back about seven eight nine years
ago let them had a car back and said
it's cool I hit like you want to know
why I still don't necessarily even get
paid what I should get paid now that if
you come to this church tomorrow the
sanctuary got lights the wall Lobby got
everything but if you went to my office
it ain't nothing in it right right now
but a fold down table you want to know
why cuz I got the vision I knew that I
may be struggling in the middle but if I
remember what he told me at the
beginning I remember what the end going
to look like I don't know who I'm
talking to it here but anybody can shout
on the end of a thing it takes another
level of praise to shout in the middle
of it I'm going give you 30 seconds it
may be rough right now it may be crazy
right now
but if you got Vision you ought to
shout look at somebody tell them it's on
now I got Vision baby the fight is fixed
I'mma say it again the
fight cuz if we shout we gonna miss it
what I'm telling you is to every
entrepreneur
stop judging people's end when you're in
the
middle oh my God you got 5 million
followers you just sold bet New York's
best time seller you just got a gramy
you you you on the fors 100 list oh my
God so and so just got another promotion
were you
present for their middle
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season I want to ask you a question oh
my God I pray I don't scare people what
is this
considered what is this
considered what is this
considered what is this finger
considered the
middle which
one is the
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[Applause]
longest
so you want to be great with a pinky
season but but look at this I want to
ask you this question I want to ask you
this question is that middle finger the
longest because it's naturally longer or
is it situated
higher cuz the pinky low if you judge by
the knuckle the pinky low the thumb on
the bottom but at the top of my hand
is my middle finger which means even
though the Middle season is longer it's
a whole lot
further then where you come from and I
need you to catch this I need you to
catch this he said and I want you to put
this scripture on the thing he says to
Joshua
see I'm I'm trying to be dignified I
even wor my little blazer today cuz I
was going to try to look pastoral but I
had to keep my jeans on so you can see
I'm kind of gangster down here here but
then I'm I'm a pastoral up here but it's
one thing I can't take it's good
scripture the Lord said to Joshua
see y y y'all y'all I don't think y'all
see what I'm saying I have what do you
do when God tells you to see something
that you cannot
see here's a wall that ain't nobody ever
made it through the wall that nobody's
made it through the deal that ain't
nobody like you closed the next level
that nobody in your family has ever made
it to see that wall just ain't physical
cuz it's a whole lot of Jericho walls in
some of our
Lives look at
this God I hear you but all I see is
walls and God said Mike cuz you're
looking at
it see sight you caught that James sight
see sees the
wall vision sees through the
[Applause]
wall I'm giving you permission this week
to go to that building that everybody
else said is abandoned and ugly and I'm
giving you permission to go see it y'all
missed it y'all missed it I'm giving you
permission right now to go see it cuz
certain people going to look at and say
you want that that raggedy broke down
building but you got Vision you going to
be walking through it like no I'm going
to put the stuff over here and I'mma
knock this wall down and do I need you
to walk to the dealership this week and
I know your credit saiding no but I need
you to walk with d and be like yeah 24
months this done right here I already
see it the matter of fact go ahead and
put your children in the back seat and
act like you dropping them off at school
like stop don't waste nothing take one
of your messy friends and put them in
the passenger seat and say don't eat
nothing in my car why cuz I see what you
don't
Michael oh hear me this is why some
people are confused about your praise
cuz they can't see what you
see Visionaries may look at the same
thing but they don't see it the same way
I'm going say it again Visionaries may
look at the same thing but they don't
see it the same way you see a
wall I see a
way you see a family that ain't got no
millionaires I see an opportunity to be
the
first you see a bad doctor's report I
see a testimony that's going to tell the
church up in six months I need you to
touch your neighbor and say neighbor do
you see what I
see he says I got to go y'all tired of
me we in church long hear me hear me
hear me he
says March around that City
once
sit down y' y'all scaring me just a
little bit sit down sit down all right I
got to be I don't want to see if we just
shout right here you go you going to go
home thinking that the only reason God's
giving you vision is so you can have
something God does not give you Vision
so you can have something he gives you
vision for he can so he can have
you I need to say that I got to say that
better God does not give you Vision so
you can have something he gives you
Vision so he can have
you God got me
trapped the vision too big for me to
leave he got me trapped he got me
trapped I said certain stuff out my
mouth I said bro man bro I I said too
much stuff out my mouth I'm trapped now
turning down engagements not performing
places I really want to perform not
being able to do what I need to do etc
etc I'm missing out on opportunities
that my whole team telling me I'm crazy
for but the vision I set before my boys
was that hey Dad going to go hard as he
can January through August my church
know this before the whole world knew
who we were January through August we
would have all these crazy events we
would get to the madness behind the
mascara thousands of women would come to
our Women's Conference after that y'all
barely saw me I would preach on Sunday I
had stopped doing Bible study why I made
my boys a promise I would coach flag
football with them I wouldn't miss
nothing and I believe because I've been
honoring that Vision God's been faithful
did you catch
that let me free you the moment you say
out your mouth God say it he going to
test
it hear me one of my anxieties was my
boys in high school you know just so
much happen in football locker rooms and
in certain cultures and living out here
sometimes it's a they have to walk a
fine balance sometimes to be
African-American uh in this context
means you have to be hyper visible and
invisible
which means often times they don't see
you till you do something then the
moment they see you you just look like
everybody else so you want know what I
started doing three month three years
ago interceding and praying that God
would send
Administration who look like them and
served where we
serve
vision and what I'm trying to get you to
realize now is I need you to catch this
he tells him March around the city once
with all the armed men underline that
I'm going to go armed men this is good
baby girl armed men girl look at this
what does armed men mean armed men is an
example of
intercession armed men is an example
Michael of
intercession a metaphor for the road
that prayer plays in The Vision you
can't just work you also need to pray
because if you just work that is the
equivalent of trying to push the
wall no so he says I need you look what
he says and and it's right there on your
screen leave verse three four up there
for a second March around the city once
with all the armed men he says take
prayer with
you take prayer with you y'all gonna do
some incredible things score movies do
all type of stuff play on major stages
hear me when I say this I've been in
rooms and I never name drop ever in life
that ain't what I do but I've been
sitting in rooms recently that I don't
know how I'm in
it how I'm in it and I just sit quiet
cuz I realize this is above me and I sit
quiet but as I'm looking at it the whole
while I'm in there I'm
intercede I'm only preaching to three of
y'all who don't have to pray under your
breath
before hey how you
doing
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I'm only taking the three of y'all who
don't went into a full-fledged tongue
full see you ain't stepped into a big
opportunity till you ratchet and right
I'm I'm talking about you in the car on
your way like
hey then the closer you get there cut
cut that off right now father God in
Jesus
name I'm only preaching to five y'all
who don't have to call on father God
right now father God in Jesus name I ask
that you move like never before God I'm
getting ready to go to this job
opportunity God and Lord knows I just
need favor here's where it get real God
hide what on my background checking
Jesus armed men that's a metaphoric
euphan ISM I got to stop arm man a me
metaphor euphan ISM for
prayer so as we prepare to come to
church next
week I need y'all
praying now I want to do this I need men
joining the prayer
team we need some praying
men arm man all right so listen to me
this is good this is good I need you to
catch this all right this is really
really good okay really really good
really really good I have to I have to
perform at the Dove Awards this week all
right so so when I do that before I
leave
today I'm going to send Tristan Elder
Tristan about three or four
things I need you to catch this cuz you
should never pursue a vision without
prayer a lot of what Pastor Tiffany does
for our church on the financial and
business side is
dope but I I can find somebody to do
books way better than her I can find
find way better I can find people who
from around the world I can't find their
discernment so so there there have been
times in this process where I'm dropping
vision and she'll just write something
then she'll wake up at 4 in the morning
and start
praying then she'll wake me up and say
hey Holy Spirit just told me to go get
so and so so and so check I don't know
why I'm like go do it then out of
nowhere that inspector would pull up
yeah and say I need to check the
elevators and y'all ain't see look
here's the email right here where we
just approved the pay for every and I
look at us like see watch this Harvard
don't do
that prayer do
that prayer do that what am I trying to
get you to
realize forget who fighting with
you who praying for
you
right cuz if we ain't careful we going
to assess our friends with who clap back
with
you oh they messing with my friend let
me go on live right now let me be very
clear I don't play about this one no I
need somebody going to say let me be
very clear to the devil I don't I pray
about this one I need one friend who
don't play about me but I also need one
friend who pray
about hey how you doing I don't want
nothing I don't have to know what's
going on Holy Spirit just told me
whatever mean you going to move
slow love you kill
it he says no I want you to March around
the
city once with armed men do this for how
many days six days verse four have seven
priests carry trumpets of ram thorns in
front of the Ark so if armed men are
metaphor for prayer carrying the ark was
a metaphor for carrying the presence of
God the praisers were in front of the
Ark I'm going to run this going to mess
you up why would he put the praisers in
front of the Ark if the ark represents
the presence of God it's because When
Praise comes his presence
[Applause]
[Laughter]
follows if you ever want God to step in
your
situation start praising him I got to go
I got to go I got to go and when you
hear the sound of the loud blast of
trumpets the whole city have the whole
Army give a loud shout then the wall of
the city will collapse and the Army will
go up everyone straight in some Visions
don't manifest because people
shout but do not
hear y'all Miss what I just said do I
need to run it back okay so my issue Rod
my issue with 21st century preaching is
not that we preach it in inaccurate
gospel we preach an incomplete gospel we
are slaves to response we so ready to
shout and that's because we want likes
and shares and all that so we say stuff
like and that midnight Paul and Silas
prayed and sing praises and the doors
open no it says they sang praise at
midnight and God caused the earthquake
if you holler and God don't do his part
you just
screaming so what happens here is
because we preach this incompletely we
say stuff like they marched around that
wall for seven days and then they Shout
it and the walls came tumbling down and
I got to get out of here but I wish I
had somebody who could just
shout cuz the
walls are coming down and that's good
that feels good but that ain't
complete cuz here it is it says when you
hear them sound along blast have the
whole Army give a loud shout what's the
issue with this if we're speaking in the
context of
vision Joshua when you hear the horns
you give the signal he never said when
y'all hear the horn y'all
shout some of your vision not going to
work cuz don't nobody want to submit to
who's in
charge at a certain level we all came be
equals and I'm not talking about being
in charge to from a bragging standpoint
I'm talking about from an accountability
standpoint y'all y'all Miss what I just
said he says when you hear them sound a
long blast on the trumpets have the
whole Army give a loud shout have the
whole Army give a loud shout which means
in certain circles in your life it's
your responsibility to hear and signal
and in certain circles it's your
responsibility to wait and
Shout
Jesus if if the armed men represent
prayer and the Ark represents the
presence of
God sound of the trumpet is associated
with
Victory God said the weapon that I'm
going to use or the instrument I'm going
to use to tell you to
start is the same instrument you use
once you've completed
it I want to drive into your
mind you already
won I'm going say this you ain't got to
receive
it you already
won you already won look at
me but Pastor Mike what if I don't move
my whole family out and do so listen to
me after what you
survived after after the after the
organized attack to kill your
name and your
vision after the divorce that tried to
drive you
crazy hear me when I say this you done
done more with little
than people have done with a
lot you've already
won and here's the part that we don't
get oh that hit me I'm sorry I
I
sh
God why did that just
happen you already
won you already
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won the devil tried to drive into my
mind that when we got this building we
would never have money to fix it I would
go to sleep certain nights and hear a
voice in my head literally saying they
going to be laughing at you for years
that boy went over there and did all
that and it still look what happened to
Central Park knowing good and well that
had nothing to do with me completely out
of my control and I would sit right here
on the floor and be like
God if not one Soul ever sits in this
building we already
won if you never get a
mansion you've already
won if you never be a
millionaire how you take care of your
mama and you take care of your nieces
and
nephews who in this room right now your
whole family think you got something you
ain't bit more got what they think but
your heart so big you've already
won
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woo
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and here's what you
miss they shouted and we so busy having
good church we missed the real
lessons the Wall came Joshua F the
Battle of Jericho and the Wall came what
tumbling no it didn't that's not the
Bible nowhere in the scripture does it
say The Wall came tumbling down the
scripture says the wall fell
flat had it came tumbling down it would
have took them too long to invade
because they would had have been running
all over
rocks so what what used to be a wall is
now a
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road think about this if they running on
rocks they could just sit
there it says the wall fell
flat the Bible says walls didn't just
fall they fell flat sometimes you can be
around destruction but the destruction
doesn't destroy you because of how God
let it
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fall can I ask you a
question you prophesied your problem and
didn't even realize
it what happened with y'all man we just
fell out
y'all didn't fall
apart y'all just fell out cuz sometimes
when you won't remove
people and
situations so what do we need I've been
saying this man what's the
vision the vision isn't to get to
Valleydale and
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change it's our church when you pulled
up the sign don't say Rock City Church
Michael D MCL J but my name ain't on
that building it's God's
church so I'm telling you guys what's
the vision how y'all sing and
worship the sound of the rock is going
to lead people in the worship all over
this world so so missing rehearsal ain't
cuz you tired you got to make up in your
mind if I don't
[Music]
serve who am I
dropping I'm ask you this praise team
and everybody who works in the media
Department how many times s have you
been out in public and somebody walk up
to you and say you go to my
church seeing your face bring them
hope bring them hope they bring them
hope to every person who standing in
that Lobby what's the vision we want
them to feel God the moment they walk in
I want you to use
discernment it's going to be people who
walk through that door who don't have
nothing left in life somebody going to
walk through that door on the verge of
suicide conversely celebrities and NFL
players and NBA players going to walk
through that door we're not going to Fan
out that's what we here for we're safe
place come here what's up boy how you
doing I got players right now telling me
Pastor Mike soon as I get a by week I'm
coming to church like come on come
on the vision is not to get all this and
change but to show
God them same
people who had
nothing who made a promise promise to
God if you just trust me so what do we
need Rock City if you're watching me all
over the world we need strong
teams we need strong
teams I need more ushers I need more
greeters I need more men in the parking
lot all my rockefellas give me a what
what ain't nothing like
pulling ain't nothing in the world like
pulling up to a place and seeing some
good-looking Brothers like hey how you
doing God bless you come on come on we
need more of them watch this watch this
and parking Ministry just ain't
man I need a couple sisters who don't
mind getting in the so when they pull up
like hey come on baby come on hey how
you
doing strong
teams number two we need strong
systems that's why we're working hard
now if you're watching from all over the
world and you're coming to church next
week that's why starting Saturday Sunday
morning you'll be able to pre-register
your child for children's church imagine
getting up and on your way to church you
go ahead and check them in let me go and
check them
in cuz we're trying to build strong
teams strong systems because of the
vision I want to prophesy over your
life that God will fulfill his preferred
vision for
you so father in the name of Jesus I
come against distractions I come against
doubt God I come against against that
thought that I'm not
worthy God I come against those
generational curses of
almost for some of us God we come from
families sometimes that have a ceiling
on their head they get to a certain
point but never really progress past
that God I ask right now that you
continue to give us Vision Clarity I ask
that you would continue to give us
strategy God I thank you right now just
for being
God and I ask God God
publicly God let them be whole at home
before they try to be whole at
church God don't let us be preaching but
then hate going home don't let us
hugging people in a in the lobby and
won't even hug the people in your house
God don't let not one man park a car who
won't even put air in his girl
tires God what we do at church is a
reflection of who we are in
life God I want to pause and just say
thank you you brought us to this
point God you brought us to this point I
decree and declare every need is met
every door that's needed open is open
and every door that you don't want us to
walk through close it now God I'm might
pray a special prayer don't even give me
the option of praying about it if it
ain't you just go and close it and never
even let me know about it if it ain't
for me just slam that door and let me
just keep living my life being happy God
I think I give you complete
control you not my co-pilot that mean we
got equal Authority you are the pilot
God I'm getting in the backseat this
year and wherever you lead me I'm going
to follow God I give you glory I give
you honor I give you praise God I speak
by faith that this city this region and
this state will never be the same this
world will never be the same because of
the Revival that's breaking loose in
Rock City I decree and declare every
seat is filled not just with Spectators
but with people who are hungry for God I
decree and declare that you're doing
more than we ever expected God I
prophesy that on day one this building
is already too small I speak on day one
we got to start dreaming again but God
you're getting ready to prepare so much
for us in this season so God I thank you
for being God I answer is yes yes to
your will yes to your word yes to your
way God I pray for those who are
experiencing success right now God
people don't understand sometimes
success can be a trap cuz you're chasing
trying to sustain it you're chasing
trying to keep it you're you're chasing
trying to elevate it I speak peace over
their minds I speak strategy in their
life God I pray that you'll give them
Vision not just Sight Vision for their
families vision for their lives vision
for their finances vision for all the
entities they run God we thank you in
advance for being God it is in jesus'
name we pray can you give God a blessed
praise right there
man God you are so good
man God is so good man God is so good
all right guys I'm I'm so excited about
what God is doing are y'all excited
about next week are y'all excited about
next
week all right so every everybody don't
log off listen to me so what are we
doing next week we'll have two Services
9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. I know we
normally have a 10:30 but 9:00 a.m. and
11:00 a.m. do me a favor if you're
watching if you come to the 9:00 a.m.
don't stay for the 11:00 a.m. I'mma need
that seat I'm prophesying that I'mma
need that seat some of y'all slick some
of y'all going to bring two shirts go in
the bathroom come back out you know my
sister was at the
9:00 no man but I'm so excited if you're
coming from across the world we flipped
our web ite so if you go to the website
we're doing small things now now I don't
need y'all to do this cuz y'all come all
the time but if you're coming from
across the country starting after next
week you can plan your visit look how
dope this would be say you want to
invite one of your friends you can
invite your friends and you going to
plan the visit we going to have somebody
waiting on you when you get here so
imagine we'll send a you'll get a packet
from us and it'll be a little letter in
a p like hey Pastor Mike junr here can't
wait to see you this weekend y Yad y
here's your parking p has and then right
here on the front of the church you'll
pull up we'll have a little parking spot
for you in your circle and it almost be
like a host like hey y'all ready to go
into Sanctuary then we have a little
section for you to sit in and you'll be
able to say oh my God it was so great
then we'll go downstairs have
Refreshments for you all that you only
get that one time though you only get
that one time you have to say that some
of y'all be like you know I'm RSVP this
week no you going to sit up there in
that corner this
week no our church going to be like the
club McLure party of four right here
right right here no man but we just
really want to real soft R we just want
to show Excellence we want to show
excellence in all we do and we want
people to feel in love of God I met with
my parking team and I told them I said
we're going to another level I said if
y'all out there and you see somebody and
their tires of ball I said I'm giving
y'all stuff starting next week with a
nice letter say hey we notice that your
tires may be NE so I want you to email
or call this number this week and we may
be able to call and say I tell you what
in our discretionary fund here's a
certain level of amount we paid off
millions of dollars worth of medical
debt for people listen to this we
provided every school teacher with the
supplies they needed this year I told my
team for the next 15 18 months let's
keep this inhouse right now so let's
make sure the people who drive up here
four and five times and we got gas and
they got XYZ it's time to go to another
level man that's the
vision and I'm excited about that I love
each and every one of you I'm so proud
of who we are I'm so proud of what we
get the opportunity to do our church may
not necessarily be in the heart of
Birmingham anymore but the heart of
Birmingham will forever be in us that's
what we're going to do just because we
meet we meet here so we can go ye
therefore into all nations so wherever
you're watching from I can't wait to see
you I love you so so so much we're going
to be sending you an itinerary for the
week this this week so if you're coming
into the city you need some stuff to do
we going to give you all type of stuff
you can do where to eat if you go on the
website it's restaurants hotels yada
yada I'm coaching my son's flag football
game Saturday if you need something to
do come to the flag football game and
see coach Mike coach Mike Legend that's
my name Mike Legend I'm excited were
y'all blessed today come on clap your
hands
man father God our answer will forever
be yes we are so excited about this week
not just this week cuz so many people
get excited about an open but don't
carry that excitement into their future
God I'm excited about the start it's not
an opening it's a start the new start
the fresh beginning that you're sending
our way and we pray a special prayer
Lord your will nothing more nothing less
nothing else it is in Jesus name we pray
and everybody say it amen we
are I see you next week God bless
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you wow hallelujah what an incredible
word powerful word you know when you
think about it's on and the vision the
text that he came from today it was
absolutely lifechanging it was uplifting
if you were blessed just put something
in the comments to let us know that you
were blessed by Pastor Mike m it's um
the start of a new series as we're
walking into a new season and even as
you're talking about that this ideal of
vision right how so many of us have
sight but do you have Vision the Bible
says without Vision the people perish
and so we thank God for the visioner of
this house Pastor Mike and all that God
has um allowed him to do thus far but
all that God is getting ready to allow
him to do this I'm excited about our
future and you know someone is saying
you know what I've been blessed my life
has been changed uh maybe you aren't
saved you want to give your life to
Christ uh you want to become a part of
this ministry a part of this family of
Believers uh the information Tex home to
28950 that's home to
28950 we would love to welcome you as a
part of this Rock City and Christian
family absolutely and of course when you
hear a word like that you have to get
seed in the ground yes this is good
ground y'all the proof is in the pudding
is what the old Saints would say but I
believe that when you're connected to a
church like Rock City your life will
never be the same your your finances
will never be the same your children's
Children's children's life will never be
the same and so you get a chance to do
so you can text IR Rock in the amount to
28950 you can also give on the website
Pastor mentioned the website there's a
lot of good information that is there if
you are out of state and you would like
to plan your visit visit the site we
want to see you October 22nd all roads
lead to
255
you can go ahead and put it in your GPS
right now like don't even wait until
next week just GPS it right now go ahead
and do it now it's going down if you
cannot make it you can't make it here
physically you can see digitally will be
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said praying all week long that's
continue in prayer and praise going to
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cannot wait to see you next Sunday it's
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listen on behalf of Pastor Mike lady Jay
the entire first family and all of us
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