Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast.
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Speaker 3: I find your neighbor and say, today's gonna be a
Speaker 3: good Sunday. Oh, come on, at every campus today is
Speaker 3: gonna be a good Sunday. You may be seated. Oh
Speaker 3: my goodness, it feels like I'm home today. I bring
Speaker 3: you greetings from Tulsa, Oklahoma, where I get the privilege
Speaker 3: and the honor to be the lead servant at a
Speaker 3: church called Transformation Church. Shout out to Transformation Church right now,
Speaker 3: Transformation Nation. They're joining us. It's Elevation and Transformation.
Speaker 1: Right now together.
Speaker 3: That's what we call Kingdom. At the end of the day,
Speaker 3: it's not about a church or logo or anybody particular.
Speaker 1: It's about Jesus and.
Speaker 3: The Kingdom of God being advanced in this earth. And
Speaker 3: so today, as this is Pastor's Appreciation Month, I have
Speaker 3: to stop and thank God for two of the greatest
Speaker 3: pastors in the world, Pastor Stephen and Holly Ferdick. At
Speaker 3: every campus, y'all don't know what y'all have here? Can
Speaker 3: we thank God for the man and woman of God.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Somebody got some sense, y'all. Y'all spoil y'all, don't let
Speaker 3: them come to Tulsa. We'll treat them right. And for
Speaker 3: every campus pastor, every children's pastor, every parent who's a pastor,
Speaker 3: because you're parenting your home, we appreciate you. Today I've
Speaker 3: been sent on assignment and they only gave me twenty
Speaker 3: two minutes to preach.
Speaker 1: I'm just playing, But this week.
Speaker 3: I feel like I have a prophetic burden. This is
Speaker 3: not a message that's warmed up and like I'm going
Speaker 3: to Elevation Church, let's pre exist.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 3: I've been praying about the people who would be in
Speaker 3: this room and be watching this on rebroadcasts and that
Speaker 3: would be in Tulsa, and God gave me a burden
Speaker 3: I've been carrying y'all all week because there's many people
Speaker 3: in this room who have been hurting, distracted, and devastated
Speaker 3: by damage that happened to you in another season. Now,
Speaker 3: this message is not for everybody. It's only for people
Speaker 3: who've experienced damage.
Speaker 1: Somebody is like not me, liar.
Speaker 3: Let's be hot, humble, open, and transparent. If you have
Speaker 3: experienced damage in any area of your life, relationally, financially, physically, emotionally,
Speaker 3: would you please just let everybody feel comfortable and raise
Speaker 3: your hand right now, come on? Hand is not up? Lord?
Speaker 3: And this week I released a brand new book called
Speaker 3: Damage But Not Destroyed. And the reason I tell you
Speaker 3: this is because I wanted people to understand the journey
Speaker 3: of going from trauma to triumph. And right now, in
Speaker 3: this day and age, a lot of people are staying
Speaker 3: in the trauma. They're glorifying the trauma, they're making the
Speaker 3: trauma the excuse. But my Bible says, when God gets
Speaker 3: in the mix of something, it cannot stay the same.
Speaker 3: And many of us have been working to keep our
Speaker 3: excuses the same. And today I came to help you
Speaker 3: be delivered. Today I need your faith and expectation to
Speaker 3: go to another level. At every place that you are
Speaker 3: listening to this on the treadmill in Tulsa, right here
Speaker 3: in this room, God is coming to move you out
Speaker 3: of the paralytic place you've been and by faith, your
Speaker 3: damage will no longer define you. Okay, let me get
Speaker 3: into this. My burden is to tell you write this down.
Speaker 3: The value is still in you. I know that people
Speaker 3: tried to tell you what you would never be. I
Speaker 3: know that you getting denied from that school made you
Speaker 3: feel something insignificant. I know when they didn't hire you
Speaker 3: at Elevation Church, I felt that thing in here it
Speaker 3: is you thought that their elevation was God's elevation for you.
Speaker 3: And today I came to tell you, no matter what
Speaker 3: you've lost, the value is still in you. Somebody say
Speaker 3: the value is still in me. You didn't say it
Speaker 3: with your chest. Say it with your chest. The value
Speaker 3: is still in me. I need you to every campus
Speaker 3: with they say the value it's still in me. So
Speaker 3: act like it. Stop coming into the presence of God,
Speaker 3: acting like he didn't put hisself. He put himself on
Speaker 3: the inside of you. He said, Holy Spirit, Jesus, let's
Speaker 3: make man in our That wasn't your body first, because
Speaker 3: it was three spirits talking. So what did he make first?
Speaker 3: He made your spirit. He made the thing that will
Speaker 3: never change. He said, I'm in you, and if I'm
Speaker 3: in you, there is nothing anything and nobody can do
Speaker 3: to you in this world that takes away your value. Oh, okay,
Speaker 3: And the lie of the enemy, listen to me, is
Speaker 3: that the more life you live, the more value you lose.
Speaker 3: We act like our lives is like a car going
Speaker 3: off the car line that as soon as we drive
Speaker 3: it off, it depreciates. But I came to tell somebody
Speaker 3: right now who has been in a place of wondering
Speaker 3: if God still wanted to use you. The person with
Speaker 3: the two divorces, the value is still in you. You
Speaker 3: lost your second business. The value is still in you.
Speaker 3: Y'all better help me in You've been in the same
Speaker 3: cycle for fifty years. The value is still in you.
Speaker 3: The woman who's been promissed you, it's send a young
Speaker 3: man that has a body count more than we can count.
Speaker 3: The value is still now. I know there's a brick
Speaker 3: wall that I'm talking to right now because some of
Speaker 3: you have believed that lies so long. You don't see
Speaker 3: yourself how God sees you. And today I'm about to
Speaker 3: shake you up. I'm ready to fight the devil, for
Speaker 3: I'm tired of seeing God's people, the same ones that
Speaker 3: come in here and sing these beautiful songs walk out
Speaker 3: and feel that God has no purpose for them and
Speaker 3: that they can't move forward, somebody say the value is
Speaker 3: stealing me. Okay, So Ephesians two ten, don't just put
Speaker 3: this on an Instagram post. Believe it for your life,
Speaker 3: for we are God's masterpiece. That's nasty Bible right there.
Speaker 3: I want you to think about something that you think
Speaker 3: is beautiful and the creator of the universe says, out
Speaker 3: of everything I made, I'm gonna call you my masterpiece.
Speaker 3: If we got paintings in Paris and in museums that
Speaker 3: I don't even know how to say the words of
Speaker 3: where they're from, and they call them priceless, how much
Speaker 3: more if something a creation made is priceless, how much
Speaker 3: more are you worth to God? Okay, key, this is
Speaker 3: the tension I need us to be able to wrestle
Speaker 3: with this morning.
Speaker 1: I am valuable, but I am damaged.
Speaker 3: This is the tension because I know God thinks I'm
Speaker 3: his masterpiece. Creator to Brantain new and christ Ricky tak them.
Speaker 3: But every time I get mad, I still want to cuss.
Speaker 3: Are y'all gonna be fake? You was in traffic this
Speaker 3: morning saying some stuff. You better quit it. I am
Speaker 3: the right of tones of Jesus Christ, but I still
Speaker 3: get mad at my kids. Okay, God, I gotta go
Speaker 3: back home because this section is acting bougie. I'll do
Speaker 3: anything for you, Lord except give up the cake. Your
Speaker 3: sin is not lust.
Speaker 1: This gut me.
Speaker 3: Okay, can we be Does anybody that loves Jesus still
Speaker 3: have some I steal?
Speaker 1: I still deal with comparison.
Speaker 3: I still.
Speaker 1: Look at what.
Speaker 3: I've done and disqualify myself from what God wants to do.
Speaker 1: Somebody say I steal.
Speaker 3: This is the tension of being hauled by God. Is
Speaker 3: that I know I'm valuable, but I still have some
Speaker 3: things that God's healing on the inside of. And what
Speaker 3: the enemy would try to convince you is that you
Speaker 3: are too damaged to be able to do what God
Speaker 3: said because you steal, have some areas that God is
Speaker 3: working on you for all the perfect people, raise your hand,
Speaker 3: because the only person that would be perfect on this
Speaker 3: earth is Jesus. And if you're waiting for everything to
Speaker 3: be perfect before you start doing what God's called you
Speaker 3: to do, You're gonna be waiting forever. God is saying
Speaker 3: to us, right.
Speaker 1: Now, would you bring me your damage.
Speaker 3: This is the journey I've been on for the past
Speaker 3: four years. I was here five years ago Since then,
Speaker 3: I've learned I'm damaged, and if I just.
Speaker 1: Sit in that, I get defeated.
Speaker 3: But if I bring my damage to the only one
Speaker 3: who can handle it, he will turn my damage into
Speaker 3: something that pushes me to everybody say destiny. Okay, So
Speaker 3: today I'm gonna title this message. Oh, I'm about to
Speaker 3: preach to you in the next fifteen minutes. I don't
Speaker 3: know why I started jumping l like Tigger. I'm telling you,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna preach a message, and this is what we're
Speaker 3: gonna title it. What does God do with damage? What
Speaker 3: does God do with damage? The first thing I want
Speaker 3: to tell you that God does with damage. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: use this Old Testament character that a lot of people
Speaker 3: don't talk about because simply they can't say his name.
Speaker 3: His name is Maphibi Chef. I know, I don't know
Speaker 3: what his parents was thinking, But there are a lot
Speaker 3: of Davids around here and a lot of Phillips, ain't
Speaker 3: a lot of Mophibi Chefs. In two thousand and twenty three,
Speaker 3: this young man named Maphibis Chef was in line to
Speaker 3: be the king of the entire country.
Speaker 1: But I need to set a little backstory.
Speaker 3: So you understand where maphibus Chef's damage came from. Okay,
Speaker 3: so I'm about to show you some pictures because I
Speaker 3: like to make stories come alive in the Bible. This
Speaker 3: is by no means biblically accurate because the church folks,
Speaker 3: but I'm gonna just try to make it coming alive.
Speaker 3: There was a there was a king named Saul. Could
Speaker 3: you put them on the screen in my mind in
Speaker 3: the movie of my mind.
Speaker 1: This is what Saul looks like.
Speaker 3: And he was anointed by God, but he stopped obeying
Speaker 3: the commands of God. He wanted the position, but he
Speaker 3: did not want to follow in obedience. Be careful when
Speaker 3: you're walking in a position and you stop obeying. God
Speaker 3: took his hand off of his life and he had
Speaker 3: to raise up another king. Okay, we're just gonna walk
Speaker 3: through this. But then Saul had a son named Jonathan. This,
Speaker 3: in my mind is what Jonathan looked like. This was Jonathan. Okay, ladies,
Speaker 3: calm down, that's just seeing. Oh you're laughing too hard
Speaker 3: over there, that's just interest. But in my mind, this
Speaker 3: is what Jonathan looked like. And Jonathan was with Saul's son.
Speaker 3: He was in line to be the heir of the throne.
Speaker 3: But when Daddy disobeyed, it took away the son's inheritance.
Speaker 3: The reason we gotta deal with our damage is because
Speaker 3: what's not transformed its transferred. The reason we gotta go
Speaker 3: to counseling, and we believe in theology and therapy. Uh oh,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna just pray about it. You need to pray
Speaker 3: about it and go to a practice. You need to
Speaker 3: get in an e group and community, and you need
Speaker 3: to go to counseling. You need to worship and do
Speaker 3: the hard work. That's what some of y'all came for.
Speaker 3: Right there. Jonathan now has a son, and his son's
Speaker 3: name is Maphibi Chef. Okay, So Mamphibis Chef is crippled,
Speaker 3: and I'm gonna I'm gonna show you a picture of
Speaker 3: what Mamphibis Chef looks like in my mind.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: So what's Saul is Jonathan and it's Maphibi Chef. Okay.
Speaker 3: Now what somebody's like is that my brother I saw
Speaker 3: you him. There was one more character in this story.
Speaker 1: His name was King David.
Speaker 3: And this is what King David looked like in the
Speaker 3: movie of my mind. Right now, okay, King David put
Speaker 3: him on the screen for me real quick.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's just strong life, okay.
Speaker 3: Now that everybody has this movie in their head, this
Speaker 3: sets the story for where we find King David after
Speaker 3: Maphibis Chef is now in a place where he's been damaged,
Speaker 3: watched his second Samuel chapter.
Speaker 1: Nine, verse three. One day, David asked, he's king.
Speaker 3: Now, is there anyone in Saul's families alive? Anyone to
Speaker 3: whom I can show kindness? For Jonathan's sake? Because Jonathan
Speaker 3: and David were boys. Zibba replied, yes, one of Jonathan's
Speaker 3: sons is still alive. He is crippled in both feete though,
Speaker 3: where is he, the King asked in Lodobar. Ziba told
Speaker 3: him at the home of Maker's son of Emil. So
Speaker 3: David watch this sit for him and brought him from
Speaker 3: Maker's home. Now I want to point out the hater
Speaker 3: in this story. His name is Ziba, and Ziba has
Speaker 3: the ear of the king. The king asked, is there
Speaker 3: anybody left that I can show kindness to? And he
Speaker 3: says yeah and does not say his name.
Speaker 1: He says his condition.
Speaker 3: Be careful when people describe you by your condition and
Speaker 3: not your name. He said, there's yeah, there's somebody left,
Speaker 3: but he's rippled.
Speaker 1: There's somebody left, but they're a liar.
Speaker 3: There's somebody left, but they they're not faithful. And the
Speaker 3: reason that this young man was crippled, Mashibis Chef, was
Speaker 3: not his own fault.
Speaker 1: And that's why I want to let you know.
Speaker 3: You have to make sure you don't allow people to
Speaker 3: make your issue your identity. No, hear me, you did it,
Speaker 3: you are not it. Can we be honest. Some of
Speaker 3: us have done some dumb things, but do not let
Speaker 3: your issue or anybody else make your issue your identity.
Speaker 3: And he tries to describe him, and the truth of
Speaker 3: the matter is, like most of us, Maphibi Chef was
Speaker 3: damaged not because of his own fault. When I think
Speaker 3: about most of the places in my life, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: just be real about me that I got damaged. Most
Speaker 3: of it happened before I was a teenager. The insecurity
Speaker 3: did not start when I was twenty eight.
Speaker 1: It started at twelve. See how quiet it is.
Speaker 3: That drive to go and go and perform and excel.
Speaker 3: That's because they didn't see you unless you got a
Speaker 3: trophy so at six years old, you knew you couldn't
Speaker 3: just say what you need. You needed to prove you
Speaker 3: were worse than looking at you stuck. The greatest time
Speaker 3: to kill a king is when it's a kid. The
Speaker 3: reason the enemy's been after you since you were a
Speaker 3: young child, it's because there is a king in you.
Speaker 3: And the greatest time to kill a king is when
Speaker 3: it's a kid.
Speaker 1: It's what they tried to do to Moses.
Speaker 3: Kill every child under the age of two. That's what
Speaker 3: they tried to do to Jesus. And some of us
Speaker 3: have been dealing with our damage since we were young.
Speaker 3: And this is what I need you to know. You
Speaker 3: are so special. You've always been a threat to the devil.
Speaker 3: No hear what I'm just saying. The attack on your
Speaker 3: life from a young age has been because if you
Speaker 3: ever walked fully in the dominion that God has given you,
Speaker 3: if you ever were fully free from the insecurity, well
Speaker 3: I can't do that and I'm not like them. And
Speaker 3: if you ever just said, but he is with me,
Speaker 3: and if he is with me, who everybody say?
Speaker 1: Who I like that? Who can be against me? Tewod
Speaker 1: Samuel chapter four.
Speaker 3: I got a move, saw son Jonathan had a son
Speaker 3: named a Phibish chef who was crippled. I'm gonna show
Speaker 3: you where his damage happened. He was five years old
Speaker 3: when he got damaged, and the report came from Jezreel
Speaker 3: that Saw and Jonathan had been.
Speaker 1: Killed in battle.
Speaker 3: When the child's nurse heard the news, she picked him
Speaker 3: up and fled, But as she hurried away, she dropped
Speaker 3: him and he became crippled. What happens when the person
Speaker 3: who was supposed to care for you damages you. I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna get too much in your business, but some
Speaker 3: of your issues is your mama, and some of your
Speaker 3: issues is your daddy, and some of your issues it's
Speaker 3: the people who are supposed to care for you.
Speaker 1: They drop you. Uh huh uh huh.
Speaker 3: I'm about to deal with it because the damage is
Speaker 3: no longer going to define us. I feel the presence
Speaker 3: of God already. If there's anybody that feels like your
Speaker 3: damage is too big for God, let me just run
Speaker 3: a list down for you of people that God used
Speaker 3: who were damaged. Noah was a drunk, Abraham was too old,
Speaker 3: Isaac was a day dreamer and a wanderer. Jacob was
Speaker 3: a liar. Leo was ugly, Moses was a murderer with
Speaker 3: the stutter. Gideon was afraid. Samson was a flirt. Let's
Speaker 3: be real, politically correct. Rayhab was a prostitute. David was
Speaker 3: an adult, Anna murder, Elijah was suicidal. Isaiah preached naked.
Speaker 3: Jonah ran away from God, joke with bankrupt and lost everything.
Speaker 3: John the Baptist ate bugs, that's just weird. Peter denied Jesus.
Speaker 3: The disciples fell asleep while Jesus was praying. The Samaritan
Speaker 3: woman was divorced five times and had a sex addiction.
Speaker 3: That Chios was too small and stole money. Paul was
Speaker 3: too righteous, Timothy had an ulcer, Lazarus was dead, and
Speaker 3: Michael was addicted to pornography. And my God stills used
Speaker 3: all of us. Oh, oh, you about to make me run,
Speaker 3: because there's some people that know that God can do
Speaker 3: his best work with damaged people. If you believe it,
Speaker 3: gift God a shout of prayer. I feel my health
Speaker 3: coming on.
Speaker 1: Write it down in the point.
Speaker 3: God does his best work with damaged people because his
Speaker 3: strength is made perfect in r So why won't you
Speaker 3: show him your weakness? Been trying to keep it together
Speaker 3: for everybody, and God says, if you want to hold
Speaker 3: it up, do it. I'll be here when you want
Speaker 3: to actually come clean. So what can God do with
Speaker 3: your damage? First point? He calls for it. Everybody that's
Speaker 3: trying to hide your damage.
Speaker 1: Good luck.
Speaker 3: When maphibis Seth is in a place called Lotabar, a
Speaker 3: place of nothing, no pastor no fruit growing, the King says,
Speaker 3: is there anybody I can say? Yeah, this one dude,
Speaker 3: he said, go get him. I'm calling for the damage.
Speaker 3: You're broken. I like that your fraction. Come on, he calls.
Speaker 3: What can God do with damage? He calls for it?
Speaker 3: And some of y'all have not been answering the call. No,
Speaker 3: I'm just going to be a businessman, he said. I
Speaker 3: want you to be in that field, but I want
Speaker 3: you to bring all your damaged areas to me so
Speaker 3: I can raise you up as a testimony in that area.
Speaker 3: And some of you today, all God's saying is I
Speaker 3: want your damage. Stop hiding it, Stop acting like it
Speaker 3: didn't happen. You were abused when you were young and
Speaker 3: your family doesn't even know it.
Speaker 1: You've blocked it.
Speaker 3: Out, you suppressed it, and you're wondering why you're dealing
Speaker 3: with anxiety so much because it was never meant to
Speaker 3: stay on the inside of you. I want your damage tonight,
Speaker 3: when you're in your bed and the Holy Spirit begins
Speaker 3: to start whispering to you, and he reminds you of.
Speaker 1: Things that happen.
Speaker 3: What he's doing is he's calling for the damage.
Speaker 1: I want it.
Speaker 3: I'm the only one that can do something with it.
Speaker 1: What does God do with you with your damage? He
Speaker 1: calls for it. The second thing that God does with
Speaker 1: your damage wants this.
Speaker 3: He carries it. Oh, this makes me happy because my
Speaker 3: Fibi Chef was crippled. I need you to understand. Just
Speaker 3: imagine with me. They come to his door, knock, Dodd, Hello,
Speaker 3: is my Phibbi chef there?
Speaker 1: Yes, what a horrible name. Come with me.
Speaker 3: Now. Watch when they say come with me. He does
Speaker 3: not have the power on his own to get to
Speaker 3: where he has been commissioned or destined to go. He's
Speaker 3: in a place.
Speaker 1: Of nothing, and they want him in the palace.
Speaker 3: So the King, Oh, I feel the presence of God,
Speaker 3: will never ask you to come to a place that
Speaker 3: he won't carry you too. Scott, Come help me real quick, Scott,
Speaker 3: I need a.
Speaker 1: Couple of strong guys, come on, help me.
Speaker 3: He's sitting down and he's like, hey, you're not gonna
Speaker 3: kill me, because it was custom back then to anybody
Speaker 3: that was in line before you killed their whole family.
Speaker 1: So when the king's guard came to him, he was like,
Speaker 1: I'm about to die.
Speaker 3: That's what Christianity sometimes makes people think that when God
Speaker 3: comes to them, he's ready to smite them and punish them.
Speaker 3: The king was wanting to show favor, but he says,
Speaker 3: come with me to the palace. But he still does
Speaker 3: not have the ability to get there on his own.
Speaker 3: So the king sins power that is not his own.
Speaker 3: You want me to come? Oh God, these brothers are song.
Speaker 3: Take me over to the King's palace over there. All
Speaker 3: the fibbus Chef had to do. It's surrendered, so he
Speaker 3: can be taken. Now.
Speaker 1: Don't drop me, just let me down.
Speaker 3: Let me down. What are you saying to me, pastor Mike.
Speaker 3: God will never call you to a place that he
Speaker 3: won't carry you to you. The problem is most of
Speaker 3: us have not surrendered. Let me show you. Zachariah four
Speaker 3: to six. It says this is a word of the
Speaker 3: Lord to Zaruba bel not by my not by power, but.
Speaker 1: It's going to be by the spirit of God. Where
Speaker 1: you're at.
Speaker 3: Right now, God saying I'm calling for your damage, but
Speaker 3: if you would surrender, I'll carry you. I will carry
Speaker 3: you to the place I want you to be Philippians
Speaker 3: one six. And I am certain that God, who began
Speaker 3: the good work within you, will continue his work until
Speaker 3: it's finally finished on the day of Jesus Christ. What
Speaker 3: will God do with your damage? He calls for it,
Speaker 3: he carries it, and then why he covers it. When
Speaker 3: the Phibish chef gets to the palace, he comes in
Speaker 3: and he thinks he's dead. I mean, look at it.
Speaker 3: In the scripture, literally, King David has to say, don't
Speaker 3: be afraid. I intend to show you kindness this verse seven,
Speaker 3: because of the promise I made to your father Jonathan.
Speaker 3: I will give you Woo all the property that once
Speaker 3: belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will eat here
Speaker 3: with me at the king's table. But watch this, this
Speaker 3: is our response usually because of our Damageibish if bowed
Speaker 3: respect Leon exclaimed, who is your servant that you should
Speaker 3: show such kindness to a dead dog like me? Be
Speaker 3: careful when Shane starts talking, He's in the presence of
Speaker 3: the King, and many times God is wanting to use
Speaker 3: us at a higher level. And our shame starts talking,
Speaker 3: why would you even consider a dead dog like me?
Speaker 3: But the King ignores his ignorance because the King knows
Speaker 3: the value that's on the inside of him, just like
Speaker 3: the King knows the value that's on the inside of you,
Speaker 3: and he invites him to eat at his table.
Speaker 1: Now, the reason why this blows my mind.
Speaker 3: Is because when you think about where Mam phippas Cheff
Speaker 3: was damaged, where was his damage at his legs? When
Speaker 3: you pull up a seat to the King's table, when
Speaker 3: he sits and he looks over the landscape of everybody else,
Speaker 3: the thing that damaged him is now covered. Let me
Speaker 3: introduce you to the grace of God. When you come
Speaker 3: into a loving relationship by faith with God, the grace
Speaker 3: of God covers your damage area. Somebody said, get excited
Speaker 3: about that, because what the enemy was shining to you
Speaker 3: said disqualify you. It is the very thing that God says,
Speaker 3: I know it, but I'll cover it. And we have
Speaker 3: to begin to rely on the grace.
Speaker 1: Somebody shot at me.
Speaker 3: Grace the unmerited, unearned, undeserved favor and kindness of God.
Speaker 3: And some of y'all think y'all built y'all own table,
Speaker 3: and you covering yourself, you're trying to have money cover it.
Speaker 3: We still see you. You getting flown out, We still
Speaker 3: see you. Mac makeup, Louis Gucci, findy down, We still
Speaker 3: see you. It's not until you get covered with the
Speaker 3: grace of God. I got to move. I came to
Speaker 3: tell somebody, pull up a chair to the table of God,
Speaker 3: pull up a share to where God has for you.
Speaker 1: Listen to me. What does God do with your damage?
Speaker 1: Say it with me.
Speaker 3: Say he calls for it, he carries it, he covers it.
Speaker 3: Number four, he converts it. He flipped that thing. God says,
Speaker 3: if you give me your damage, I'll flip it. If
Speaker 3: you give me everything that you've been ashamed of, and
Speaker 3: you let me cleanse you and purify you and wash
Speaker 3: you and change you and transform, I'll flip this thing
Speaker 3: so cold my phibus chef in one day goes from
Speaker 3: crippled to covert. Everybody say one day. I don't know
Speaker 3: if today is your one day, but by saith, I'm
Speaker 3: prophesying that God is about to turn your season around
Speaker 3: very quickly. This thing what it looked like last year,
Speaker 3: It's gonna look.
Speaker 1: Like something else this year.
Speaker 3: Some of y'all don't have faith to believe it, but
Speaker 3: I need a few people. What crazy take that mas
Speaker 3: situation can flip when God gets in the midst of it.
Speaker 3: If you believe it. At every campus, give God a
Speaker 3: shot of pray, or I feel this sat he can
Speaker 3: confirt this Jjay crippled to cover shame, to having a seat,
Speaker 3: no identity, to a full inheritance. He went from pain
Speaker 3: to a platform. His damage was turned into destiny. His
Speaker 3: trauma became triumphed. He went from separated to being a son.
Speaker 3: This is the gospel. This is the good news. Call
Speaker 3: everybody y'all know a song. That's what Jesus did for me.
Speaker 3: The only reason I'm standing on this stage is not
Speaker 3: because I did everything perfect. It's when I messed stuff,
Speaker 3: when I did the wrong thing, when I was damaged.
Speaker 3: I did not run from my father. I ran to him.
Speaker 3: I have four children, and all of them break stuff.
Speaker 3: They don't know how much stuff costs. They have no clue.
Speaker 3: But my children have all broken expensive things. But the
Speaker 3: one thing I love about all my kids is when
Speaker 3: they break something that they know they cannot pay for
Speaker 3: and they do not have the intelligence to fix, they
Speaker 3: bring it to their father. Now, if a four year
Speaker 3: old and a five year old and a seven year
Speaker 3: old has the sense to bring their damaged things to
Speaker 3: their father, what's our excuse?
Speaker 1: Church?
Speaker 3: What I'm asking you today is to bring your damage
Speaker 3: to God, because he's big enough to handle it.
Speaker 1: What does God do with damage?
Speaker 3: He calls for it, He carries it, He covers it,
Speaker 3: this is good news. He converts it last one, he
Speaker 3: commissions it. God doesn't want you to hide your damage.
Speaker 3: He wants to heal your damage, and then he wants
Speaker 3: you to take it and use it to share with
Speaker 3: everybody else. How good God has been. I recall a
Speaker 3: story in John chapter five, verse eight. There was a
Speaker 3: man that was a paralytic sitting by the pool for
Speaker 3: thirty eight years, and Jesus asked him a question, the
Speaker 3: same question I'm going to ask you today. Do you want.
Speaker 1: To be made whole?
Speaker 3: See, this is the thing that everybody has to real life.
Speaker 3: Getting healed from your damage is a decision. Some of
Speaker 3: y'all been holding onto the thing that God said.
Speaker 1: Give me that, and you plan tugle war with God.
Speaker 1: He said, keep it if.
Speaker 3: You want it. You want to have low self esteem
Speaker 3: for the rest of your life, keep that. That's less
Speaker 3: than what I've called you to in the kingdom. You
Speaker 3: want to keep having it. I put the whole to
Speaker 3: you on my back, he said. My burden is easy
Speaker 3: and my yoke is light. If you want to put
Speaker 3: the whole thing on your back, go ahead. But when
Speaker 3: you get sick of carrying it, I'll be here. This man,
Speaker 3: he answers, I want to be made whole. Jesus heals him.
Speaker 3: Man pops up and he about to run off, and
Speaker 3: jes said, hold on, come here, come here, take this man.
Speaker 3: And I bet the man was like, I don't want that,
Speaker 3: don't want to remember any thing from back there, And
Speaker 3: Jesus tells them, no, no, no, you need this. This
Speaker 3: is I'm commissioning you to go everywhere. I want you
Speaker 3: to see walk. Hey, hey, I want you to see walk.
Speaker 3: But make sure you holding that man, because I want
Speaker 3: all the people who passed you to remember that it
Speaker 3: was not their effort or their energy. It was nothing
Speaker 3: but the power of God.
Speaker 1: Somebody, I don't know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: But the fact that you're still here, it is nothing
Speaker 3: but the power of the fact that you still got
Speaker 3: so right mind, it was nothing but the power of God. Now,
Speaker 3: God is commissioning our damage. That's why every time I
Speaker 3: stand up, I tell people I was addicted to pornography
Speaker 3: the pastor. Yes, I was a person before I was
Speaker 3: a pastor, y'all so funny. I was a liar. I
Speaker 3: was a manipulator, not the man of God. Yes, And
Speaker 3: what did I do? I brought my damage to him
Speaker 3: because in the beginning, God said, I'm gonna use this
Speaker 3: broken vessel and I'm gonna change people's life. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: trans people, transform people's lives. But I need him to
Speaker 3: not be scared to take his damage when it's healed
Speaker 3: and share it with people.
Speaker 1: That's why the.
Speaker 3: Word says we overcome by the blood of the Lamb.
Speaker 3: That's what Jesus did. But the words of our testimony.
Speaker 3: That's why many people aren't overcoming because you are too quiet.
Speaker 3: The reason why that stuff can't come back in my
Speaker 3: life because.
Speaker 1: I say it all the time. This is just what
Speaker 1: God did for me.
Speaker 3: And today I just came with burning to let somebody
Speaker 3: know who's had many abortions, to let somebody know that
Speaker 3: has continued to have miscarriages, To let somebody know whose
Speaker 3: career has not gotten off the ground, To let somebody
Speaker 3: know who doesn't know who their real family is. To
Speaker 3: let somebody know who's made mistakes over and over. God
Speaker 3: can do something miraculous with your damage. Okay, let me
Speaker 3: explain it. Will you bring out my example, and then
Speaker 3: we're gonna go home. I want this picture to last
Speaker 3: in your mind. We are three parts, okay. We are
Speaker 3: a spirit okay, and then we are a soul mind,
Speaker 3: will and emotions, and then.
Speaker 1: We have a body.
Speaker 3: Okay. And the Holy Spirit showed me this. He told me,
Speaker 3: He said, Michael, people don't understand this. Write these three
Speaker 3: things down. You have a covering, you have a container,
Speaker 3: and you have contents. The spirit part of you is
Speaker 3: the realest part of you. It's what God said, let
Speaker 3: us make man in our image. It was a spirit
Speaker 3: part of you. He breathed into us, into dust, and
Speaker 3: then we came in with your lips and your hips,
Speaker 3: and your eyes and your eyes.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 3: A creative miracle. Some of y'all like, could I have
Speaker 3: less of a miracle. Could you take off a little
Speaker 3: bit of this miracle? But what ends up happening is
Speaker 3: the covering is our soul, mind, will, and emotions.
Speaker 1: And in this life, a lot.
Speaker 3: Of times, through situations we can't control, our covering gets
Speaker 3: ripped and somebody says something to us that makes us
Speaker 3: feel not worthy. And then we come into contact with
Speaker 3: some other people and they start saying things about us,
Speaker 3: and we get marked up in our lives and our mind, willing,
Speaker 3: emotions get marked up. And then we get into that
Speaker 3: relationship that they find but we know they're not no good,
Speaker 3: and they start drilling on our identity and poking holes
Speaker 3: in our confidence, and we have soul ties with them
Speaker 3: because I need to feel something because nobody was ever
Speaker 3: there to show me nothing. And then we let success
Speaker 3: and our career come to poke holes in us. Does
Speaker 3: God want to do something with this? I don't know.
Speaker 3: There's so much damage I did it.
Speaker 1: Now you want me to think that God wants to
Speaker 1: use me?
Speaker 3: And every time I'm gonna come around people, I'm getting
Speaker 3: stabbed in the back.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm not joining those small group. There's people there.
Speaker 3: Come on, y'all, I'll come to worship. I was saying,
Speaker 3: this is it, Thank God? But people, I'm getting cut
Speaker 3: on and then stuff happens to me that stains me forever.
Speaker 3: God can't want to use something like this, and then
Speaker 3: life hits you.
Speaker 1: Isn't he the example?
Speaker 3: Guy? Oh? God, I know. But then God brings fire
Speaker 3: into your life and it starts burning places in you,
Speaker 3: and stuff starts catching on fire. And the truth of
Speaker 3: the matter is, I don't know if God can use
Speaker 3: me because I'm too damaged. Uh uh. This is like
Speaker 3: when me and my wife found out our son had autism.
Speaker 3: He started burning us and allowing the fear of the
Speaker 3: future to take us out, but then the Holy Spirit
Speaker 3: came and blew on us. But this still don't look good.
Speaker 3: Does anybody want this? But God said, what you don't
Speaker 3: realize is this was just your soul, your mind, willing emotions.
Speaker 3: The truth of the matter is, I'll take that and
Speaker 3: I'll heal it. I'll do something that nobody could do
Speaker 3: with it. Yeah, it's messy, yes, but the truth of
Speaker 3: the matter is when you get down to the container
Speaker 3: our body, it's been jacked up too, even to the
Speaker 3: point where it starts leaking through.
Speaker 1: And we say stuff like the value it's still ain't you.
Speaker 3: But I'm still missing something. But the truth of the
Speaker 3: matter is the most valuable part of this whole thing
Speaker 3: was not in the covering, and it was not in
Speaker 3: this container. Even though it's hard to get this out,
Speaker 3: it was in the thing that was covering it. The
Speaker 3: value of this There are some really expensive shoes, but
Speaker 3: the oh, even the stain that was on the outside
Speaker 3: did not get on the inside because the value, I
Speaker 3: need somebody to hear you, the value was in the
Speaker 3: contents that was put on the inside of me here
Speaker 3: in this room right now, and your covering has been damaged,
Speaker 3: and your container has been damaged. Standing at every campus
Speaker 3: right now. I don't want you to just shout at
Speaker 3: the end of this message. I want the spirit to
Speaker 3: speak to you. I want to let you know that
Speaker 3: the contents are still good. The value is still in you.
Speaker 3: If you've been damaged in any area of your life,
Speaker 3: and the enemy has been trying to convince you that
Speaker 3: you because you look like this, cannot be used by card.
Speaker 1: Today I came to speak to that lie and.
Speaker 3: I'm here to tell you that I'm a living witness
Speaker 3: that God can take damaged people who've messed up over
Speaker 3: and over again, who bring their damage back to him,
Speaker 3: and he can do a miracle that no man can stop,
Speaker 3: no scandal can stop, no spit can stop.
Speaker 1: So y'all, y'all do y'all want to be faith?
Speaker 3: You can't cancel me because you didn't call me. Some
Speaker 3: of y'all ain't never walked through nothing. But God is
Speaker 3: doing something on the inside of my life. Do I
Speaker 3: do everything perfect? No? But I am committed to bring
Speaker 3: my damage to the foot of the cross. What does
Speaker 3: God do with damage? What can God do with my damage?
Speaker 3: I'm here as a living witness to tell you He
Speaker 3: calls for it, he carries it, he covers it, he converts.
Speaker 1: It, and then he commissions it.
Speaker 3: If you're ready for your damage not to be your
Speaker 3: definition anymore, but you want your damage to take you
Speaker 3: to your destiny, would you lift your hands all over
Speaker 3: this room to pray for you? Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1: I feel the presence of God.
Speaker 3: Somebody's realizing the value is selling them that nothing the
Speaker 3: enemy has said, or nothing you've done to yourself is
Speaker 3: going to disqualify you. Because today here we are God.
Speaker 3: Come on, we are your children. Crying out to you,
Speaker 3: asking us to take everything that is not like you. Hey, God,
Speaker 3: would you take it, take our pieces and turn it
Speaker 3: into a masterpiece. Take our bad decisions, Father God, and
Speaker 3: flip that thing. Convert it, Father, into something that brings
Speaker 3: you glory and takes.
Speaker 1: Us to destiny.
Speaker 3: Today, Father God, we will no longer deny that.
Speaker 1: We've been hurt.
Speaker 3: Because you cannot heal what we do not reveal. So today, God,
Speaker 3: here we are as a church, elevation church, transformation church,
Speaker 3: your sons and daughters all over the world, and we're
Speaker 3: asking you, God, do something with this damage, use it
Speaker 3: for your glory. We will no longer be defined by it.
Speaker 3: We will only be defined by what you've done to
Speaker 3: your precious son, Jesus. The Spirit is speaking right now
Speaker 3: at every campus. You just need to ask the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 3: I see tears flowing right now. People are getting their
Speaker 3: faith back. Right now, You're gonna be able to go
Speaker 3: into this week and be the mom you really want
Speaker 3: to be. You're gonna be able to go into that
Speaker 3: job and actually make a difference for the Kingdom of God.
Speaker 3: Somebody's confidence is coming back. If you're in this room
Speaker 3: right now and you've been carrying your damage without the
Speaker 3: one who created you, Jesus. Today, if you want to
Speaker 3: give your life to Jesus Christ, I'm telling you it's
Speaker 3: the greatest decision you can ever make. It's the thing
Speaker 3: that took me from a liar, a manipulator, one who
Speaker 3: was addicted to pornography, had all kinds of bad things
Speaker 3: in my heart.
Speaker 1: God arrested for.
Speaker 3: Car insurance for all kind of stuff. And God said,
Speaker 3: give me that because he's the only one that if
Speaker 3: you give him your heart, he'll help you change your habits.
Speaker 3: If you're here today, you're not in a room with
Speaker 3: a bunch of perfect people.
Speaker 1: You're in a room with.
Speaker 3: A bunch of damaged people that have been saved by grace.
Speaker 3: And we don't forget what God has done. We're carrying
Speaker 3: our back today and we're saying you can be healed,
Speaker 3: you can be freed, and you can be changed with
Speaker 3: one decision of faith, asking Jesus into your life, it'll
Speaker 3: change everything. If that's you on the counter, three, I
Speaker 3: just want you to lift your hands. We're not gonna
Speaker 3: make you tell us everything you did. This is not
Speaker 3: what we're going to do today. That's what religion would
Speaker 3: tell you. But God is saying, just give me your heart.
Speaker 3: I'll get you with the right people.
Speaker 1: We'll talk, we'll heal.
Speaker 3: Religion says rush hurry, and God says, come to me.
Speaker 3: And if you're tired of carrying that burden by yourself
Speaker 3: on the counter. Three, I just want you to lift
Speaker 3: your hand at every campus, at Transformation Church, wherever you
Speaker 3: are around the world. I don't care if you're on
Speaker 3: the treadmill and you just walk in and then you
Speaker 3: just mmm and everybody's like, what just happened? It's a
Speaker 3: dance move called salvation. Okay, it doesn't matter. Forget them.
Speaker 3: Only you and God will stand in eternity and answer
Speaker 3: for what you're about to do. One. You're making the
Speaker 3: greatest decision of your life. Two.
Speaker 1: I'm proud of you.
Speaker 3: But more than that, your name is going to be
Speaker 3: written in the Lamb's Book of Life forever. Three shoot
Speaker 3: your hand up all over this campus. I'll see you,
Speaker 3: my brothers. Three. One everyone, oh, judge, how do we
Speaker 3: celebrate pleas that judge? How do we thank God? Hollo?
Speaker 3: Do you listen.
Speaker 1: At Transformation and Elevation?
Speaker 3: Nobody praise alone? So I want us all to pray
Speaker 3: this prayer for the benefit of those who are coming
Speaker 3: to Christ. Somebody say, God, here's my damage. You're the
Speaker 3: only one that can use it. Today, I give you
Speaker 3: my life. I believe you lived, you died, and you
Speaker 3: rose again. With all power Here I am. I'm yours.
Speaker 3: I'll serve you forever, Change me, renew, transform me. I'm
Speaker 3: yours in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Amen.
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