WEBVTT - What Can God Do With Damage? (Michael Todd) 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:06.280 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:09.360 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:10.000 Be sure to. 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:13.720 Subscribe so we can get you these new sermons every week. 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:19.600 I hope you're blessed today. 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:22.279 I find your neighbor and say, today's gonna be a 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:26.119 good Sunday. Oh, come on, at every campus today is 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:29.440 gonna be a good Sunday. You may be seated. Oh 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:37.400 my goodness, it feels like I'm home today. I bring 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:43.000 you greetings from Tulsa, Oklahoma, where I get the privilege 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:45.519 and the honor to be the lead servant at a 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:49.280 church called Transformation Church. Shout out to Transformation Church right now, 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:54.440 Transformation Nation. They're joining us. It's Elevation and Transformation. 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:55.000 Right now together. 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:59.760 That's what we call Kingdom. At the end of the day, 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:02.640 it's not about a church or logo or anybody particular. 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:04.520 It's about Jesus and. 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:07.320 The Kingdom of God being advanced in this earth. And 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:12.280 so today, as this is Pastor's Appreciation Month, I have 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:15.360 to stop and thank God for two of the greatest 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:19.720 pastors in the world, Pastor Stephen and Holly Ferdick. At 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:23.959 every campus, y'all don't know what y'all have here? Can 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:26.399 we thank God for the man and woman of God. 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:28.959 Thank you. 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:34.000 Somebody got some sense, y'all. Y'all spoil y'all, don't let 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:39.480 them come to Tulsa. We'll treat them right. And for 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:44.399 every campus pastor, every children's pastor, every parent who's a pastor, 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:51.160 because you're parenting your home, we appreciate you. Today I've 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:53.040 been sent on assignment and they only gave me twenty 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:53.920 two minutes to preach. 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:59.560 I'm just playing, But this week. 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:03.480 I feel like I have a prophetic burden. This is 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:05.440 not a message that's warmed up and like I'm going 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:06.640 to Elevation Church, let's pre exist. 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:07.920 No no, no, no, no, no no. 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.280 I've been praying about the people who would be in 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:13.639 this room and be watching this on rebroadcasts and that 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.280 would be in Tulsa, and God gave me a burden 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:21.680 I've been carrying y'all all week because there's many people 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:30.440 in this room who have been hurting, distracted, and devastated 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:34.520 by damage that happened to you in another season. Now, 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:38.040 this message is not for everybody. It's only for people 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:43.520 who've experienced damage. 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:45.720 Somebody is like not me, liar. 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:50.560 Let's be hot, humble, open, and transparent. If you have 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:55.640 experienced damage in any area of your life, relationally, financially, physically, emotionally, 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:58.280 would you please just let everybody feel comfortable and raise 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:01.120 your hand right now, come on? Hand is not up? Lord? 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.560 And this week I released a brand new book called 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:10.960 Damage But Not Destroyed. And the reason I tell you 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:14.720 this is because I wanted people to understand the journey 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:19.560 of going from trauma to triumph. And right now, in 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:21.240 this day and age, a lot of people are staying 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:28.760 in the trauma. They're glorifying the trauma, they're making the 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:33.080 trauma the excuse. But my Bible says, when God gets 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:37.080 in the mix of something, it cannot stay the same. 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.920 And many of us have been working to keep our 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.400 excuses the same. And today I came to help you 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:48.560 be delivered. Today I need your faith and expectation to 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.440 go to another level. At every place that you are 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:54.440 listening to this on the treadmill in Tulsa, right here 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.280 in this room, God is coming to move you out 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:02.200 of the paralytic place you've been and by faith, your 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:06.200 damage will no longer define you. Okay, let me get 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:09.280 into this. My burden is to tell you write this down. 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:14.040 The value is still in you. I know that people 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:17.000 tried to tell you what you would never be. I 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:20.120 know that you getting denied from that school made you 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:22.880 feel something insignificant. I know when they didn't hire you 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:29.800 at Elevation Church, I felt that thing in here it 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:41.000 is you thought that their elevation was God's elevation for you. 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:44.440 And today I came to tell you, no matter what 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:49.000 you've lost, the value is still in you. Somebody say 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.960 the value is still in me. You didn't say it 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.680 with your chest. Say it with your chest. The value 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.599 is still in me. I need you to every campus 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:02.520 with they say the value it's still in me. So 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:08.160 act like it. Stop coming into the presence of God, 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:15.480 acting like he didn't put hisself. He put himself on 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:22.000 the inside of you. He said, Holy Spirit, Jesus, let's 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:27.479 make man in our That wasn't your body first, because 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:32.719 it was three spirits talking. So what did he make first? 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.000 He made your spirit. He made the thing that will 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:40.600 never change. He said, I'm in you, and if I'm 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:45.039 in you, there is nothing anything and nobody can do 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:48.480 to you in this world that takes away your value. Oh, okay, 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.400 And the lie of the enemy, listen to me, is 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:55.240 that the more life you live, the more value you lose. 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:59.360 We act like our lives is like a car going 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:02.159 off the car line that as soon as we drive 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:06.760 it off, it depreciates. But I came to tell somebody 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:09.960 right now who has been in a place of wondering 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:13.320 if God still wanted to use you. The person with 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:17.320 the two divorces, the value is still in you. You 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:20.599 lost your second business. The value is still in you. 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:22.560 Y'all better help me in You've been in the same 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:26.080 cycle for fifty years. The value is still in you. 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:28.680 The woman who's been promissed you, it's send a young 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:31.520 man that has a body count more than we can count. 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:37.040 The value is still now. I know there's a brick 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:38.960 wall that I'm talking to right now because some of 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:40.800 you have believed that lies so long. You don't see 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:44.320 yourself how God sees you. And today I'm about to 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:47.120 shake you up. I'm ready to fight the devil, for 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:54.120 I'm tired of seeing God's people, the same ones that 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:58.120 come in here and sing these beautiful songs walk out 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:02.000 and feel that God has no purpose for them and 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:04.440 that they can't move forward, somebody say the value is 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:09.840 stealing me. Okay, So Ephesians two ten, don't just put 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:13.600 this on an Instagram post. Believe it for your life, 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:22.560 for we are God's masterpiece. That's nasty Bible right there. 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:26.760 I want you to think about something that you think 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:30.680 is beautiful and the creator of the universe says, out 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:36.800 of everything I made, I'm gonna call you my masterpiece. 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:43.920 If we got paintings in Paris and in museums that 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.360 I don't even know how to say the words of 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:52.600 where they're from, and they call them priceless, how much 0:07:52.680 --> 0:08:03.560 more if something a creation made is priceless, how much 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:10.120 more are you worth to God? Okay, key, this is 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:12.880 the tension I need us to be able to wrestle 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:13.600 with this morning. 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:19.240 I am valuable, but I am damaged. 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:25.360 This is the tension because I know God thinks I'm 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.680 his masterpiece. Creator to Brantain new and christ Ricky tak them. 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:34.560 But every time I get mad, I still want to cuss. 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:39.480 Are y'all gonna be fake? You was in traffic this 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:45.880 morning saying some stuff. You better quit it. I am 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:48.120 the right of tones of Jesus Christ, but I still 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:55.040 get mad at my kids. Okay, God, I gotta go 0:08:55.120 --> 0:09:01.080 back home because this section is acting bougie. I'll do 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:07.600 anything for you, Lord except give up the cake. Your 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:08.559 sin is not lust. 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:09.120 This gut me. 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:19.280 Okay, can we be Does anybody that loves Jesus still 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:20.320 have some I steal? 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.640 I still deal with comparison. 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:36.800 I still. 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:39.000 Look at what. 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:45.440 I've done and disqualify myself from what God wants to do. 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:47.640 Somebody say I steal. 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:54.040 This is the tension of being hauled by God. Is 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:57.839 that I know I'm valuable, but I still have some 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:01.640 things that God's healing on the inside of. And what 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:03.680 the enemy would try to convince you is that you 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.560 are too damaged to be able to do what God 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:12.080 said because you steal, have some areas that God is 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:14.320 working on you for all the perfect people, raise your hand, 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.400 because the only person that would be perfect on this 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:23.000 earth is Jesus. And if you're waiting for everything to 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.120 be perfect before you start doing what God's called you 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:28.680 to do, You're gonna be waiting forever. God is saying 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:29.760 to us, right. 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:33.439 Now, would you bring me your damage. 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:36.360 This is the journey I've been on for the past 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.160 four years. I was here five years ago Since then, 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:45.079 I've learned I'm damaged, and if I just. 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.320 Sit in that, I get defeated. 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:50.960 But if I bring my damage to the only one 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:55.520 who can handle it, he will turn my damage into 0:10:55.600 --> 0:11:00.160 something that pushes me to everybody say destiny. Okay, So 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:02.800 today I'm gonna title this message. Oh, I'm about to 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:06.120 preach to you in the next fifteen minutes. I don't 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:08.840 know why I started jumping l like Tigger. I'm telling you, 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:12.520 I'm gonna preach a message, and this is what we're 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:17.800 gonna title it. What does God do with damage? What 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:23.280 does God do with damage? The first thing I want 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:26.120 to tell you that God does with damage. I'm gonna 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:30.200 use this Old Testament character that a lot of people 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:33.040 don't talk about because simply they can't say his name. 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:38.840 His name is Maphibi Chef. I know, I don't know 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:42.280 what his parents was thinking, But there are a lot 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:44.560 of Davids around here and a lot of Phillips, ain't 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:49.120 a lot of Mophibi Chefs. In two thousand and twenty three, 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:52.840 this young man named Maphibis Chef was in line to 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:56.360 be the king of the entire country. 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.120 But I need to set a little backstory. 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:02.200 So you understand where maphibus Chef's damage came from. Okay, 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.040 so I'm about to show you some pictures because I 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:08.199 like to make stories come alive in the Bible. This 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:14.360 is by no means biblically accurate because the church folks, 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:20.560 but I'm gonna just try to make it coming alive. 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.520 There was a there was a king named Saul. Could 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.079 you put them on the screen in my mind in 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:26.280 the movie of my mind. 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.480 This is what Saul looks like. 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:35.200 And he was anointed by God, but he stopped obeying 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:39.720 the commands of God. He wanted the position, but he 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:43.560 did not want to follow in obedience. Be careful when 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:48.120 you're walking in a position and you stop obeying. God 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.400 took his hand off of his life and he had 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:53.440 to raise up another king. Okay, we're just gonna walk 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:57.160 through this. But then Saul had a son named Jonathan. This, 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:02.880 in my mind is what Jonathan looked like. This was Jonathan. Okay, ladies, 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:07.240 calm down, that's just seeing. Oh you're laughing too hard 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:12.240 over there, that's just interest. But in my mind, this 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:16.079 is what Jonathan looked like. And Jonathan was with Saul's son. 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:19.400 He was in line to be the heir of the throne. 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:24.559 But when Daddy disobeyed, it took away the son's inheritance. 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.240 The reason we gotta deal with our damage is because 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:34.040 what's not transformed its transferred. The reason we gotta go 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:38.600 to counseling, and we believe in theology and therapy. Uh oh, 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:40.559 I'm gonna just pray about it. You need to pray 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.320 about it and go to a practice. You need to 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:45.720 get in an e group and community, and you need 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.640 to go to counseling. You need to worship and do 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.199 the hard work. That's what some of y'all came for. 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:59.679 Right there. Jonathan now has a son, and his son's 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:05.560 name is Maphibi Chef. Okay, So Mamphibis Chef is crippled, 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:08.480 and I'm gonna I'm gonna show you a picture of 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:10.240 what Mamphibis Chef looks like in my mind. 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:10.600 Okay. 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:16.040 So what's Saul is Jonathan and it's Maphibi Chef. Okay. 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:19.800 Now what somebody's like is that my brother I saw 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:24.800 you him. There was one more character in this story. 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:25.840 His name was King David. 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.160 And this is what King David looked like in the 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.800 movie of my mind. Right now, okay, King David put 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:32.080 him on the screen for me real quick. 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:37.280 I don't know. It's just strong life, okay. 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:42.320 Now that everybody has this movie in their head, this 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:47.240 sets the story for where we find King David after 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:52.520 Maphibis Chef is now in a place where he's been damaged, 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:54.880 watched his second Samuel chapter. 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:56.920 Nine, verse three. One day, David asked, he's king. 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:02.080 Now, is there anyone in Saul's families alive? Anyone to 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:05.440 whom I can show kindness? For Jonathan's sake? Because Jonathan 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:11.120 and David were boys. Zibba replied, yes, one of Jonathan's 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:14.280 sons is still alive. He is crippled in both feete though, 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:19.440 where is he, the King asked in Lodobar. Ziba told 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:23.040 him at the home of Maker's son of Emil. So 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:27.640 David watch this sit for him and brought him from 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.600 Maker's home. Now I want to point out the hater 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:35.520 in this story. His name is Ziba, and Ziba has 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.400 the ear of the king. The king asked, is there 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:41.360 anybody left that I can show kindness to? And he 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:44.920 says yeah and does not say his name. 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:46.560 He says his condition. 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:54.720 Be careful when people describe you by your condition and 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:59.560 not your name. He said, there's yeah, there's somebody left, 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:00.520 but he's rippled. 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:03.200 There's somebody left, but they're a liar. 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:09.040 There's somebody left, but they they're not faithful. And the 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:12.720 reason that this young man was crippled, Mashibis Chef, was 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:14.240 not his own fault. 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:15.880 And that's why I want to let you know. 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:19.760 You have to make sure you don't allow people to 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:25.240 make your issue your identity. No, hear me, you did it, 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:30.680 you are not it. Can we be honest. Some of 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:34.880 us have done some dumb things, but do not let 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:39.400 your issue or anybody else make your issue your identity. 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:42.840 And he tries to describe him, and the truth of 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:45.760 the matter is, like most of us, Maphibi Chef was 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:51.160 damaged not because of his own fault. When I think 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.440 about most of the places in my life, I'm gonna 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:55.640 just be real about me that I got damaged. Most 0:16:55.640 --> 0:17:00.960 of it happened before I was a teenager. The insecurity 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:03.040 did not start when I was twenty eight. 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:08.480 It started at twelve. See how quiet it is. 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:13.320 That drive to go and go and perform and excel. 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:15.359 That's because they didn't see you unless you got a 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:19.800 trophy so at six years old, you knew you couldn't 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:21.399 just say what you need. You needed to prove you 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:27.960 were worse than looking at you stuck. The greatest time 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:34.119 to kill a king is when it's a kid. The 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:36.320 reason the enemy's been after you since you were a 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:40.080 young child, it's because there is a king in you. 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:45.760 And the greatest time to kill a king is when 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:46.280 it's a kid. 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:48.359 It's what they tried to do to Moses. 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:51.199 Kill every child under the age of two. That's what 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:54.520 they tried to do to Jesus. And some of us 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:56.840 have been dealing with our damage since we were young. 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:00.399 And this is what I need you to know. You 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.000 are so special. You've always been a threat to the devil. 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:07.920 No hear what I'm just saying. The attack on your 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:11.679 life from a young age has been because if you 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.800 ever walked fully in the dominion that God has given you, 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:18.760 if you ever were fully free from the insecurity, well 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:20.680 I can't do that and I'm not like them. And 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:23.520 if you ever just said, but he is with me, 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:30.639 and if he is with me, who everybody say? 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:35.720 Who I like that? Who can be against me? Tewod 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:36.680 Samuel chapter four. 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:38.600 I got a move, saw son Jonathan had a son 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:40.880 named a Phibish chef who was crippled. I'm gonna show 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:43.800 you where his damage happened. He was five years old 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:47.240 when he got damaged, and the report came from Jezreel 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:48.720 that Saw and Jonathan had been. 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:49.399 Killed in battle. 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:53.240 When the child's nurse heard the news, she picked him 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:57.240 up and fled, But as she hurried away, she dropped 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:01.359 him and he became crippled. What happens when the person 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:05.440 who was supposed to care for you damages you. I'm 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:07.199 not gonna get too much in your business, but some 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:12.120 of your issues is your mama, and some of your 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:14.960 issues is your daddy, and some of your issues it's 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:17.080 the people who are supposed to care for you. 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:25.119 They drop you. Uh huh uh huh. 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:28.280 I'm about to deal with it because the damage is 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:30.320 no longer going to define us. I feel the presence 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:34.040 of God already. If there's anybody that feels like your 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:36.200 damage is too big for God, let me just run 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:39.639 a list down for you of people that God used 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:42.840 who were damaged. Noah was a drunk, Abraham was too old, 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:46.280 Isaac was a day dreamer and a wanderer. Jacob was 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:49.439 a liar. Leo was ugly, Moses was a murderer with 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:55.040 the stutter. Gideon was afraid. Samson was a flirt. Let's 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:59.560 be real, politically correct. Rayhab was a prostitute. David was 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:04.720 an adult, Anna murder, Elijah was suicidal. Isaiah preached naked. 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:08.880 Jonah ran away from God, joke with bankrupt and lost everything. 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:13.840 John the Baptist ate bugs, that's just weird. Peter denied Jesus. 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:17.480 The disciples fell asleep while Jesus was praying. The Samaritan 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:20.520 woman was divorced five times and had a sex addiction. 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:24.159 That Chios was too small and stole money. Paul was 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:27.560 too righteous, Timothy had an ulcer, Lazarus was dead, and 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:35.040 Michael was addicted to pornography. And my God stills used 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:39.000 all of us. Oh, oh, you about to make me run, 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:42.960 because there's some people that know that God can do 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:46.840 his best work with damaged people. If you believe it, 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:50.760 gift God a shout of prayer. I feel my health 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:51.159 coming on. 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:56.480 Write it down in the point. 0:20:56.520 --> 0:21:02.879 God does his best work with damaged people because his 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:07.679 strength is made perfect in r So why won't you 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:11.879 show him your weakness? Been trying to keep it together 0:21:11.920 --> 0:21:13.720 for everybody, and God says, if you want to hold 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:16.880 it up, do it. I'll be here when you want 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:22.879 to actually come clean. So what can God do with 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:29.040 your damage? First point? He calls for it. Everybody that's 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:30.280 trying to hide your damage. 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:30.480 Good luck. 0:21:32.720 --> 0:21:36.480 When maphibis Seth is in a place called Lotabar, a 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:40.000 place of nothing, no pastor no fruit growing, the King says, 0:21:40.080 --> 0:21:42.359 is there anybody I can say? Yeah, this one dude, 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:48.080 he said, go get him. I'm calling for the damage. 0:21:48.600 --> 0:21:56.840 You're broken. I like that your fraction. Come on, he calls. 0:21:56.960 --> 0:21:59.040 What can God do with damage? He calls for it? 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:04.520 And some of y'all have not been answering the call. No, 0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:06.320 I'm just going to be a businessman, he said. I 0:22:06.359 --> 0:22:09.080 want you to be in that field, but I want 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:12.080 you to bring all your damaged areas to me so 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:15.000 I can raise you up as a testimony in that area. 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:19.119 And some of you today, all God's saying is I 0:22:19.160 --> 0:22:26.760 want your damage. Stop hiding it, Stop acting like it 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:28.800 didn't happen. You were abused when you were young and 0:22:28.880 --> 0:22:30.120 your family doesn't even know it. 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:32.880 You've blocked it. 0:22:32.800 --> 0:22:35.520 Out, you suppressed it, and you're wondering why you're dealing 0:22:35.520 --> 0:22:38.520 with anxiety so much because it was never meant to 0:22:38.560 --> 0:22:45.280 stay on the inside of you. I want your damage tonight, 0:22:46.440 --> 0:22:49.399 when you're in your bed and the Holy Spirit begins 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:52.920 to start whispering to you, and he reminds you of. 0:22:52.920 --> 0:22:53.680 Things that happen. 0:22:54.080 --> 0:22:58.920 What he's doing is he's calling for the damage. 0:22:59.359 --> 0:22:59.879 I want it. 0:23:00.680 --> 0:23:02.360 I'm the only one that can do something with it. 0:23:03.440 --> 0:23:05.520 What does God do with you with your damage? He 0:23:05.840 --> 0:23:08.040 calls for it. The second thing that God does with 0:23:08.080 --> 0:23:09.000 your damage wants this. 0:23:09.160 --> 0:23:13.720 He carries it. Oh, this makes me happy because my 0:23:13.840 --> 0:23:17.679 Fibi Chef was crippled. I need you to understand. Just 0:23:17.680 --> 0:23:22.480 imagine with me. They come to his door, knock, Dodd, Hello, 0:23:24.040 --> 0:23:25.080 is my Phibbi chef there? 0:23:29.000 --> 0:23:32.120 Yes, what a horrible name. Come with me. 0:23:34.720 --> 0:23:39.680 Now. Watch when they say come with me. He does 0:23:39.720 --> 0:23:44.520 not have the power on his own to get to 0:23:44.640 --> 0:23:49.160 where he has been commissioned or destined to go. He's 0:23:49.200 --> 0:23:50.120 in a place. 0:23:49.840 --> 0:23:53.440 Of nothing, and they want him in the palace. 0:23:54.560 --> 0:23:57.080 So the King, Oh, I feel the presence of God, 0:23:57.880 --> 0:24:00.399 will never ask you to come to a place that 0:24:00.480 --> 0:24:05.320 he won't carry you too. Scott, Come help me real quick, Scott, 0:24:05.359 --> 0:24:05.679 I need a. 0:24:05.680 --> 0:24:07.399 Couple of strong guys, come on, help me. 0:24:07.920 --> 0:24:14.160 He's sitting down and he's like, hey, you're not gonna 0:24:14.200 --> 0:24:17.520 kill me, because it was custom back then to anybody 0:24:17.560 --> 0:24:19.840 that was in line before you killed their whole family. 0:24:20.920 --> 0:24:23.080 So when the king's guard came to him, he was like, 0:24:23.560 --> 0:24:24.640 I'm about to die. 0:24:25.240 --> 0:24:29.080 That's what Christianity sometimes makes people think that when God 0:24:29.119 --> 0:24:32.200 comes to them, he's ready to smite them and punish them. 0:24:32.480 --> 0:24:35.600 The king was wanting to show favor, but he says, 0:24:35.640 --> 0:24:39.040 come with me to the palace. But he still does 0:24:39.119 --> 0:24:43.360 not have the ability to get there on his own. 0:24:44.600 --> 0:24:48.240 So the king sins power that is not his own. 0:24:49.920 --> 0:24:56.200 You want me to come? Oh God, these brothers are song. 0:24:57.920 --> 0:25:02.280 Take me over to the King's palace over there. All 0:25:02.440 --> 0:25:06.959 the fibbus Chef had to do. It's surrendered, so he 0:25:07.000 --> 0:25:07.920 can be taken. Now. 0:25:07.920 --> 0:25:09.800 Don't drop me, just let me down. 0:25:09.960 --> 0:25:14.480 Let me down. What are you saying to me, pastor Mike. 0:25:15.359 --> 0:25:17.240 God will never call you to a place that he 0:25:17.280 --> 0:25:21.000 won't carry you to you. The problem is most of 0:25:21.080 --> 0:25:24.159 us have not surrendered. Let me show you. Zachariah four 0:25:24.240 --> 0:25:25.639 to six. It says this is a word of the 0:25:25.640 --> 0:25:31.360 Lord to Zaruba bel not by my not by power, but. 0:25:31.359 --> 0:25:34.359 It's going to be by the spirit of God. Where 0:25:34.359 --> 0:25:34.800 you're at. 0:25:34.800 --> 0:25:38.320 Right now, God saying I'm calling for your damage, but 0:25:38.400 --> 0:25:42.480 if you would surrender, I'll carry you. I will carry 0:25:42.480 --> 0:25:44.800