The Danger of Decisionism: Why ‘Shifting’ Cannot Save

• The Call to Shift [00:09:56 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor defines the main theme as a 'shift' from existing in comfort to actively moving into God's purpose, using the death of Moses as the catalyst for Joshua's leadership.
• God's Sovereignty and Timing [00:08:57 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor asserts that God is not waiting for human readiness or resources, but is calling people to act now ('It's time') regardless of their current situation.
• Complacency vs. Action [00:02:07 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor challenges the congregation to recognize that they have been 'existing' in permanent fixtures where God only intended a season, urging them to stop waiting for God to do something and start moving.
• Scriptural Foundation ([Joshua 1](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joshua+1&version=KJV)) [00:04:28 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor reads and interprets Joshua 1, highlighting the transition from Moses' death to Joshua's leadership, emphasizing that God gives the land to those who step forward.
• The Necessity of Shifting [00:13:33 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor argues that God is not negotiating and that believers must 'shift' into what God has called them to, rather than waiting or making excuses.
• The Suddenness of Divine Shifts [00:15:18 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor explains that a 'shift' is sudden, using the example of Moses and the Israelites to illustrate how God changes seasons quickly.
• The Danger of People-Pleasing and Disobedience [00:17:24 ▶️ 📄]
  > Using the story of Moses striking the rock twice, the pastor warns against letting people pressure you into disobedience, which can disqualify you from God's promises.
• The Transition from Moses to Joshua [00:20:36 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor describes the moment God tells Joshua that Moses is dead, signaling the end of one generation's leadership and the beginning of another's.
• Faith and Expectation [00:26:16 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor encourages the congregation to wake up with expectation, believing that God is actively shifting things in their lives.
• Divine Access and Trust [00:28:06 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor speaks prophetically about God giving access to those who have been denied, emphasizing that God wants to prove He is God by shifting things in the believer's life.
• Sensing the Shift [00:31:37 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor concludes by emphasizing that the shift is always sensed before it is seen, urging the congregation to trust their sense of God's presence.
• Divine Shift and Personal Sensing [00:36:46 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor argues that God's shifts are personally sensed before they are publicly seen, contrasting this with societal expectations of visible proof.
• New Dimensions vs. Levels [00:38:23 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor distinguishes between moving up 'levels' (step-by-step) and moving to 'new dimensions' (skipping steps via faith), using the analogy of an elevator versus stairs.
• Dead Stuff vs. Living Faith [00:40:50 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor warns against 'dead stuff' (old ways, dead relationships, insecurity) and encourages shifting to purity and integrity.
• Faith Agitating Snakes [00:42:52 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor explains that when a person shifts, their faith will 'agitate snakes' (people with fangs) who try to poison or discourage the new version of themselves.
• Shaking Off Venom [00:46:40 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses the analogy of a snake bite to explain that bitterness and unforgiveness act as venom that paralyzes a person, preventing them from moving forward into God's next season.
• Sequence of Obedience [00:50:58 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor emphasizes that God provides a specific sequence for shifting, citing Joshua's preparation for the crossing of the Jordan River as an example of following instructions before acting.
• Corporate Shift [00:53:31 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses the analogy of the band at Jericho marching around the wall to illustrate that a 'shift' requires collective movement and sound, urging the congregation to physically and spiritually move together.
• Personal Application [00:56:27 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor issues a direct call to action for individuals to 'shift' by leaving their seats or changing positions, linking personal obedience to the deliverance of others.
• Divine Timing and Obedience [00:58:04 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor contrasts Joshua's delay in responding to God with the current congregation's need to 'shift' from hesitation to action, emphasizing that God's promise is contingent on individual obedience.
• Corporate Impact of Individual Faith [00:58:36 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor argues that individual decisions ('your yes') directly affect the spiritual state of others ('somebody else's deliverance is waiting on you to shift'), using the metaphor of a family line depending on one person's response.
• Prayer for Transformation [01:00:17 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor leads the congregation in a prayer asking God to change 'no's to yes's, 'maybes' to action, and 'hesitation' into 'holy momentum,' specifically targeting heart, mind, and will.
• Declaration of Momentum [01:01:36 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor issues a prophetic declaration commanding 'momentum' into marriages, families, and ministries, rejecting lies that seek to pause progress.

• Sermon Illustration [00:10:04 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses the physical act of the congregation shifting their seats to illustrate how a collective 'shift' changes the atmosphere and forces interaction, mirroring the spiritual shift required from the listeners.
• Sermon Illustration [00:11:20 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor references the biblical narrative of Moses' death and Joshua's succession, noting that God did not give Joshua time to process or negotiate, but commanded an immediate shift.
• Sermon Illustration [00:14:10 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor mentions that three generations of Israelites died waiting for God to act while they remained in their comfort zones, illustrating the cost of complacency.
• Sermon Illustration [00:15:40 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor recounts the biblical story of Moses leading the Israelites, their rebellion, and God's frustration with them. He details how Moses struck the rock twice instead of once as commanded, leading to his disqualification from entering the Promised Land.
• Sermon Illustration [00:20:36 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor describes the death of Moses and the transition to Joshua, using the metaphor of a 'shift' to explain how God moves from one leader to another, and from one generation to the next.
• Sermon Illustration [00:22:49 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor shares a personal anecdote about a woman named Dang who was worried about her car payment, and how God suddenly paid her next two months, illustrating a sudden 'shift' in her life.
• Sermon Illustration [00:17:24 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses the analogy of Moses striking the rock twice to illustrate the danger of people-pleasing and disobedience, noting that Moses was disqualified from the Promised Land because he let the people pressure him.
• Sermon Illustration [00:20:36 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor recounts the story of Moses' death and Joshua's succession, highlighting the suddenness of the transition and the need for Joshua to 'shift' into leadership.
• Sermon Illustration [00:38:43 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses the analogy of an elevator versus stairs to explain the difference between moving up 'levels' (step-by-step) and moving to 'new dimensions' (skipping steps via faith).
• Sermon Illustration [00:44:01 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor shares a personal story about his daughter Gigi, who is a 'scientist' interested in snakes, and how he rebuked Satan regarding her interest in snakes, noting that snake venom is primarily to paralyze, not kill.
• Sermon Illustration [00:44:15 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor shares a personal anecdote about his daughter Gigi, a five-year-old who loves science and asked for a book about the esophagus. He describes her excitement over National Geographic books and his initial hesitation to let her read about snakes, which he overcomes by realizing snakes are God's creation.
• Sermon Illustration [00:46:02 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor references the biblical account of Paul in Acts 28, where a snake bit him after a shipwreck. He notes that Paul shook the snake off, using this as a metaphor for shaking off negative influences.
• Sermon Illustration [00:52:37 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor references the biblical story of Joshua and the crossing of the Jordan River, noting that God gave Joshua a sequence of instructions (three days to prepare) before the actual crossing, illustrating the need for orderly preparation.
• Sermon Illustration [00:53:31 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor references the biblical story of Jericho, where the Israelites marched around the wall six times and shouted on the seventh time, using this to illustrate the concept of 'shifting' in a sequence.
• Sermon Illustration [00:58:04 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor references the biblical figure Joshua and the death of Moses, noting that Joshua took time to 'shift' his heart after Moses died, using this as an analogy for the congregation's need to respond to God's call.
• Sermon Illustration [00:58:28 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses the metaphor of 'people all in the aisles and all up the stairs' to illustrate that the congregation is physically present but spiritually stagnant, waiting for a 'magical moment' that requires their own action to unlock.

• Pastoral Charge [00:07:34 ▶️ 📄]
  > Give God a shout of praise and say 'it's time'.
• Pastoral Charge [00:02:46 ▶️ 📄]
  > Get a real Bible, put marks in it, write next to it, underline stuff, circle it, and say 'I believe this for my family'.
• Pastoral Charge [00:03:59 ▶️ 📄]
  > Get ready to listen to the sermon on Joshua chapter 1.
• Pastoral Charge [00:07:34 ▶️ 📄]
  > Shout 'it's time' by faith, start speaking God's word, start a business, or start a Bible study on campus.
• Pastoral Charge [00:11:20 ▶️ 📄]
  > Get up, shift, and move; do not remain in the current state.
• Pastoral Charge [00:12:43 ▶️ 📄]
  > Say 'shift' and accept that God is not negotiating; move forward despite feelings of unpreparedness.
• Pastoral Charge [00:13:42 ▶️ 📄]
  > The congregation is asked to verbally affirm their readiness to shift their mindset and actions.
• Pastoral Charge [00:13:59 ▶️ 📄]
  > The congregation is instructed to write down the truth that God does not negotiate with human excuses.
• Pastoral Charge [00:15:01 ▶️ 📄]
  > The congregation is encouraged to loudly affirm the need to shift.
• Pastoral Charge [00:30:18 ▶️ 📄]
  > The congregation is asked to verbally declare that it is time for a shift.
• Pastoral Charge [00:29:37 ▶️ 📄]
  > Stretch hands towards God in the name of Jesus, declaring that delays are removed and God is bringing the believer into promise.
• Pastoral Charge [00:30:18 ▶️ 📄]
  > Shout to God with a voice of triumph.
• Pastoral Charge [00:30:39 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor declares he is sowing seed to bless the congregation, implying a call to receive this blessing.
• Pastoral Charge [00:45:17 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor rebukes Satan regarding the fear of snakes, using a personal anecdote about his daughter to illustrate that snakes are God's creation, not demons.
• Pastoral Charge [00:46:22 ▶️ 📄]
  > Ignore negative criticism and social media attacks.
• Pastoral Charge [00:56:36 ▶️ 📄]
  > Move to the altar or change physical position to signify a spiritual shift.
• Pastoral Charge [00:57:04 ▶️ 📄]
  > Online viewers are instructed to change their physical position.
• Pastoral Charge [00:59:48 ▶️ 📄]
  > Lift hands in prayer for God to change hesitation into obedience.
• Pastoral Charge [01:00:44 ▶️ 📄]
  > Pray online to shift personal desires.
• Pastoral Charge [01:03:11 ▶️ 📄]
  > Lift hands and make a specific declaration of surrender.

[00:00:00] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:00:00] Transformation Nation, I love you. If this is your first time watching, I want to say hello. My name is Michael. I get to be the lead servant here at Transformation Church. And if you've been rocking with us for a while, I'm back. I am so excited to be preaching today in your homes, at your offices, while you're on your walk or at the gym.
[00:00:20] This is one of my favorite things to do is literally tell people about Jesus, shift them into their purpose and help them to transform.
[00:00:29] And I've been on a sabbatical, but this is my first Sunday back and we are preaching a series called It's Time.
[00:00:39] Y'all, this series just literally let off a huge explosion of expectation in our church.
[00:00:46] And I believe it's going to do the same thing for you and your family.
[00:00:51] So I want you to open your hearts and get ready because there's a shift that's about to happen in your life.
[00:00:56] And I believe somewhere in this message, God is going to do something on the inside of you that changes everything in your world.
[00:01:03] It's time. I'll see you on the other side of this message.
[00:01:08] This is what I've been waiting on for a long time, because today we're starting a brand new series.
[00:01:16] and I'm going to tell you what the series is in just a minute, but I have to give you a prophetic proclamation over your life. I have to speak into your future today. Today I'm speaking to you,
[00:01:29] but I'm speaking to the future you. Today I'm talking to you, but something on the inside of you is going to hear… They're going to hear where you need to be, not where you are. Some of you
[00:01:42] have just been existing, but God has sent me to, in the next 40 minutes, give you a prophetic push.
[00:01:49] I'm about to try with everything in me to push you out of complacency.
[00:01:57] I'm going to be your anointed agitator today.
[00:02:02] I'm going to mess with you in the spirit until you got to start moving something.
[00:02:07] Some of y'all have been in the same place for so long, you think that's where God wants you.
[00:02:14] You have started to put permanent fixtures where God had just had you for a season.
[00:02:21] You thought it's always going to be like that.
[00:02:23] God said, who told you that? This is the season I have to speak to your soul so you can be able to hear the Word of God in a fresh new way. This is going to make sense in a minute,
[00:02:35] but I want everybody to stand up as I read the Bible this morning. Come on. We're going old school church. Get on your feet. I want you to turn in your Bibles to Joshua 1. If you don't
[00:02:46] have it on your iPhone or you don't have a physical Bible, don't worry. It'll be on the screen, okay? But today, two things I'm going to challenge you. Number one, I'm challenging everybody to get a real Bible, not because it's better, but because you don't always charge your
[00:03:02] phone. I'm going to tell you that God challenged me. He said, Michael, I want you to have this Bible. You can use your Bible app as well. You can use all the technology. I'm for technology,
[00:03:14] but some of y'all need to put some marks in your Bible. You need to write next to this, this is for me. You need to underline some stuff and say, I believe this for my family.
[00:03:25] you need to circle it you need to be able to say something because sometimes you're going to be in places and that cell phone going to be dead and you're going to need to figure i know i put this
[00:03:34] somewhere and you're going to be able to scroll through this bible god has been challenging me to read the word because the end goal is that the word would be written on our hearts and in the
[00:03:46] world where we ask chat gpt everything ain't nothing wrong with it all i'm saying is if it don't work, what word do you have written on your heart? I'm challenging you to begin to get
[00:03:59] your face in the Bible, but Joshua chapter 1 is where we're starting today, and it's been wrecking me. I'm going to say what God said today. Are y'all ready? Your pastor has been gone for almost
[00:04:11] three months, and I'm about to preach my face off. Okay, here we go. Okay, I'm going to preach my hair off. That's what I'm going to do. Here we go. Joshua chapter 1. It says,
[00:04:28] after the death of Moses… I didn't even say none. I love the church. Well, I love my church.
[00:04:38] They will hype you up on nothing. I love it. After the death of Moses, the Lord's servant, the Lord spoke to Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses' assistant, and this is what he said, Moses, my servant, is dead. Therefore, the time has come. Everybody say,
[00:04:57] the time has come. Switch it. Say, it's time. The time has come for you to lead these people, the Israelites, across the Jordan River into the land that I am giving to them.
[00:05:12] I promise you what I promised Moses. Wherever you set your foot… This makes me happy every time I read it. Wherever you set your foot, you will be on land I have given to you. From the Najeeb
[00:05:27] wilderness in the south to the Lebanon mountains, he's saying, whichever direction you decide to go, if you step in that direction, I'm giving you the territory. Y'all, I'm about to preach this.
[00:05:41] Verse 5, if you step, this is the promise. Verse 5, no one will be able to stand against you as long as you live. I will be with you as I was with Moses. I will not fail you,
[00:06:04] nor I will abandon you. So, be strong and courageous, for you are the one. Somebody say, I am the one. Say it like you have faith. I am the one. It says, For you are the one who will
[00:06:17] lead these people to possess all the land that I swore to the ancestors I would give to them.
[00:06:23] Be strong and very courageous, but be careful to obey the instructions Moses gave you. Do not deviate from turning either to the right or to the left. Then you will be successful in everything you do. Study this book of instruction. Study the Word. Get in it. Listen to it. Read it. Digest it.
[00:06:47] It says meditate on it day and night, so you will be sure to obey everything written in it.
[00:06:54] Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do. This is my command. Be strong and courageous.
[00:07:03] Look at your neighbor and say, be strong and courageous. Find the other neighbor you didn't like as much and tell them, be strong and courageous. It's okay. You chose. You picked.
[00:07:15] Okay. And do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord your God is with you. Look at your neighbor and tell them the title of our brand new series, It's Time. If somebody knows that there are some
[00:07:34] things in your life that it's just time for it to change, I dare you to give God a shout of praise in this place and say, it's time. You may be seated. It's time. It's time. What time is it?
[00:07:56] It's time. Right now, as I'm saying that, if something is bubbling up on the inside of you that you know it's time, it's time to move, it's time to change, it's time, I need you to know that you don't need me to preach today the fact that that's the sermon title
[00:08:13] that the fact that that's what God told me to come back and tell you as a prophetic proclamation you don't got to hear nothing else guess what it's time it's been time for you to
[00:08:24] start speaking God's word oh oh it's been time for you to start that business it's time for you to start that bible study on your campus it's time somebody shout at me by faith it's time
[00:08:36] No, I don't have all the resources.
[00:08:38] No, I don't know nobody.
[00:08:40] No, nobody's asked for me, but guess what God said?
[00:08:44] Y'all don't.
[00:08:46] I came to let you know that you have been waiting on God to do something, and he came to let you know today.
[00:08:55] Guess what, baby?
[00:08:57] It's time.
[00:08:58] Well, God, I wish I had more time.
[00:08:59] Oh, you do.
[00:09:00] It's time.
[00:09:02] It's your time to step into everything that God has called you to.
[00:09:07] And as we start over the next six weeks leading up to conference, God told me to tell every person that tunes in, I'm not giving you more time than now. Because some of y'all heard me say,
[00:09:27] it's time, and you're like, at the beginning of the year, I promise, God, January 1st, that's when I'm really gone. It's time now. Did y'all see where it happened for Joshua?
[00:09:41] I want you to put into context what's happening right now, because this is the title of today's sermon, and every sermon is going to have its time in it. Today I want you to know it's time to shift.
[00:09:56] Whatever position you've been in, it's time to… Everybody change the way you're sitting right now.
[00:10:04] Just get on one other butt cheek. Lean up in it. Move. No, no, no. I just wanted you to experience… Watch this. I wanted you to experience what happens if a group of people make one move at
[00:10:19] the same time. The atmosphere changed. The sound changed in the room. People had to move. People's elbows touched each other, because you were just perfectly positioned. You're like, these seats are so close together. Oh, my God. When you shifted, you touched somebody you never
[00:10:34] touched before, because a shift requires you to divorce here. Some of y'all are so comfortable would hear. I just got here. God said, but I'm moving to something else, so you can stay there without me or you can move with me. I'm telling y'all right now I'm in my prophetic bed. God told
[00:11:01] me to tell you it's time now. All right, this is for the 14 people that came with an expectation today. I need you to see what God says to Joshua in verse 2. This is his communication to
[00:11:20] Joshua. Watch how clear it is. Moses, my servant, is dead. Now, get up. Shift. Move. Don't be here no more. Now, I have to put myself in the human position of Joshua just for a second,
[00:11:43] because I don't know if everybody understands the backdrop that we're set in right now.
[00:11:48] Moses is Moses. I just want everybody to know in the Bible, there's only a few characters that are staple pillars. This is Ten Commandments Moses. Y'all know what I'm saying? This is part the Red
[00:12:05] Sea Moses. This ain't Mitch from around the way. This is Moses. There are some people who are like, yo, Moses is dead? Give me a minute. Let me grieve. Let me have some time to process.
[00:12:26] What I've found with many Christians is you've been disobeying God for closure.
[00:12:30] You've wanted closure in a season.
[00:12:33] You want somebody to come and apologize.
[00:12:36] You want everybody to recognize they were wrong about you, and God said, I've moved on, and I need you to as well.
[00:12:41] Oh, y'all don't hear what I'm saying.
[00:12:43] It's time to shift.
[00:12:45] Think about it.
[00:12:51] Joshua is sitting here, and God does not give him even a verse to process.
[00:12:58] It's a comma.
[00:12:59] Moses is dead shift because the shift that God wanted to happen was not something that he was going to negotiate with Joshua oh God and I know your opinion is so precious to you but let me tell
[00:13:20] you what your opinion means to God no thing he does not care about how you even see yourself when he puts his voice and his call on your life well God I'm not ready to do this I didn't ask
[00:13:33] were you ready to do this, but before you were formed in your mother's womb, I knew you. I put something on the inside of you that you haven't even tapped into. It's time for you to, somebody
[00:13:42] say, shift. It's time to shift. This is what I need everybody to know. Write this down. God's not negotiating what's next. You can keep telling him why you can't, and he's going to move on to
[00:13:59] somebody else. God, just give me a little more time. He said, we ain't got time for all that.
[00:14:06] These people have been waiting to see what I said to them for 40 years.
[00:14:10] Generations have died because they wouldn't do what I asked them to do.
[00:14:14] The promise still stands. I told their parents and grandparents that they were going to eat in a landfill with milk and honey, and now three generations are still sitting on the other side of what I promised them because people won't shift into what I called them to.
[00:14:33] You're worried about what your family is going to think. God is calling us to shift.
[00:14:43] Today I'm going to give you four things you need to know about the shift that is coming in your life. Somebody say, it's coming. How many people have already been sensing that something is changing in me, around me, for me? Even the way I'm talking and the stuff I used to do
[00:15:01] dude don't feel comfortable no more. I used to watch that, but now it gives me… I used to be able to go around them, and every time I'm around them, I'm like, this is immature. What are we talking about? Somebody yell at me, shift. It's time to shift.
[00:15:18] The first thing I need you to know about a shift is that a shift is sudden. A shift happens just like… You see how quick that was? That's how fast God can change your season. Y'all didn't see it.
[00:15:40] Let me give you cultural context. Moses is sick of leading these people. Let me just give you context. They're rebellious. They'd be building golden idols when they were just supposed to be praising. They're pressuring him. They're emailing him all the time, talking about,
[00:16:00] I wish you would preach a better sermon. They're doing a lot of things, and it's two million of them. But he has a love-hate relationship with the people, because what ends up happening, if you read Deuteronomy and you read Exodus and you read all of this stuff, God was done with the
[00:16:14] people too. Now, I ain't seen this a whole bunch of times, but God was like, all right, let's just kill them and start over. No, y'all got to read the Bible. It's amazing. Then Moses was like,
[00:16:25] hold up. I know they're crazy. They get on my nerves too, but spare the people.
[00:16:33] So God's like, Moses, because you're my dog, Mo, I'm going to do it this time.
[00:16:37] Then what ends up happening is Moses gets so frustrated at the next time because they're in the desert, and they're complaining, and they needed water, and they're seeing all these miracles that God has done with water through Moses, and so they needed water. God told Moses,
[00:16:49] strike the rock one time. He struck the rock. Boom, waterfall. Got nice Dasani, Aquafina water coming out of the rock. But then God wanted to do it a different way. I'm just giving you the
[00:16:58] MAT version, the Michael Alexander version of the Bible. Then what ends up happening is he comes back, and the people are pressuring him. They're like, we need some water. We parched. We parched.
[00:17:09] we thirsty. He got so frustrated that he disobeyed God. Be careful when you let people push you to the point where you don't do what God asks you to do. God said, don't strike the rock again.
[00:17:24] Moses was like, but I'm sick of them. He struck the rock two times, and that act for not even himself. Some of y'all are doing stuff for people that God has not told you to do, and you're going
[00:17:37] disqualify yourself from the promised land, messing around being a people pleaser. I don't know if I can say it that clear, but you trying to do what your dead auntie told you to do, she would be so disappointed. What did God tell you to do? Okay, let me see. Moses strikes the
[00:17:56] rock. Watch this. This ain't even my message, but literally the people get water. Moses gets disqualified. What happens when the people get what they want and it keeps you out of what you've been working for. So, now Moses… God says, come here. You know when your kids get in trouble
[00:18:17] and dad comes in and he's like, come here, and you already know it. Moses walking up, Moab. Bye, y'all. What Moses knows is he disobeyed God and his covenant, and what God was about to do was take him. When I say take him, I don't mean on a trip,
[00:18:38] on a little rocket ship. I mean, he's about to die because he disobeyed God.
[00:18:47] Oh, God. I know this is heavy for some of y'all. This is why I need you to understand the ship.
[00:18:52] Now, Moses goes up the mountain, and the Bible tells us that God buries him. He says, your disobedience means you're not going to see the promised land. Bye-bye, Moses. You're going come to heaven, but I'm going to bury you where nobody can find you. My friend, Pastor Brandon
[00:19:16] Clark, said something that messed me up. He said, sometimes the grace of God will bury your body where nobody can find you because people will try to remember you by the worst parts of you.
[00:19:28] Can somebody thank God for the grace of God? What the people would have done was made a monument to Moses when he wanted them to shift into the promised land. God said, Moses, you come up with
[00:19:41] me. They still can't find a body to this day. The people start mourning because they're like, Moses has been gone a long time. Where is Moses? The Bible says the people were mourning for 30
[00:19:51] days. Moses, Moses, where is Moses? I want you to see that they're in this moment. These are the same disobedient people that when he told them to do something, that's the people who cry over you
[00:20:04] and never listen to you when you're alive, but this is the crazy thing. I missed him. Listen.
[00:20:13] Golly. What ends up happening is Joshua… Watch this. It's probably morning. He's probably like, yo, what's about to happen with the people? God comes to Joshua in his own private time, and this is the context in which he says, Joshua 1, verse 2,
[00:20:36] Hey, guess what, Josh?
[00:20:38] Yes, God.
[00:20:42] I need to hear from you.
[00:20:45] I got a word for you.
[00:20:47] Moses dead.
[00:20:47] What?
[00:20:48] Hold on, wait.
[00:20:53] What does that mean?
[00:20:54] I'm not explaining it.
[00:20:56] We get no more context.
[00:21:00] We get no more explanation, no more consulting.
[00:21:07] Moses dead.
[00:21:09] Shift.
[00:21:11] I was doing it through him.
[00:21:13] I ain't no more.
[00:21:14] you shift i was using that job i ain't using that job no more you shift oh god i was in that relationship that's dead shift because a shift happens like he said i need you to shift why
[00:21:42] watch this and i need you to go over the thing that has been the boundary for the generation before. He said, Moses is dead. Shift now, because I want you to go through the Jordan.
[00:21:59] The stopping point for the last generation is the beginning point for you. He doesn't tell Joshua he has to earn his way up in the ranks. He doesn't say, go back to start and don't collect $200.
[00:22:15] He says, from right here, shift. Everybody just slap your fingers like this. It's going to be that fast. Some of y'all literally are going to wake up tomorrow, and there's going to be another level of leadership, another level of wisdom, another level of understanding. Where are the
[00:22:33] people with faith to believe it? Another level of clarity, and it's going to happen like… Who had trouble making their car payment this month? First person. What's your name?
[00:22:49] What did you say? Jemiah. How much is your car payment? $500 and what? $503? $530. I just want Dang. I'm far away from her, guys. God, really. 530. I just paid the next two months of your
[00:23:10] car payment. Done. Don't worry about it. Y'all should be shouting, because a shift can happen just like… Y'all missed it. Y'all missed it. Something she was worried about, something that should have… God was talking about this to me early this morning,
[00:23:38] and the shift happened just… Somebody should praise God, because if he's doing it for her, a shift can happen just like that. Y'all don't hear me. Just like that.
[00:23:54] Now, I need everybody to hear me. She's crying right now, but the problem is y'all missed the greatest part. She's emotional and praising God not based on having it in her hand. She believed the Word. Some of y'all are about to get happy. God has spoken a word over your life, and you
[00:24:23] might as well start praising right now, because if he speaks a word over your life, the shift can happen just like… I feel the presence of God. One word. One word from God. One obeyed instruction.
[00:24:43] one email, one video, one post. Y'all don't hear me. One call. Some of y'all, you're going to get a call this week. If you have faith, you better grab this right now. Some of y'all are going to
[00:24:59] get a call this week that's going to shift everything. Oh, I feel this. One call, one selection, and the shift happens just like a sudden shift. Suddenly, God's going to do it.
[00:25:20] Suddenly, something is about to change. Suddenly, my marriage is about to get better.
[00:25:25] We were on the brink of divorce, and you just started looking good to me.
[00:25:33] This tells us that it doesn't take long for God to shift things.
[00:25:41] Suddenly, God can change all of that anger into joy. You've been mad for 15 years, sick of getting up every morning, and suddenly a joy is about to raise up on the inside of you.
[00:25:57] People around you are going to be like, what's wrong with you?
[00:26:00] I ain't never seen you smile this much.
[00:26:02] And you're going to say, something happened to me, and it was just like… Y'all don't hear me.
[00:26:13] Somebody, that's your word today.
[00:26:16] You better wake up every morning with expectation.
[00:26:18] We're about to shift in my life today.
[00:26:21] God, I sense your presence.
[00:26:22] I know you're doing something.
[00:26:24] Okay.
[00:26:25] All right.
[00:26:28] The second thing I need you to know about the shift that's about to happen to you… Ooh, I feel the presence of God.
[00:26:38] Who couldn't make their house payment this month?
[00:26:59] This is the part where you should be shouting with her.
[00:27:03] We rejoice with those who rejoice. Y'all haven't learned nothing. The whole service could turn into it is. It happened just like… Okay. Some of y'all are going to go through this week thinking it's about to be a regular week, and by the time you get back here next Sunday, God's going to be
[00:27:38] shifting some things in you, shifting some things in your family, shifting some things in your finances. Give God praise right now if you sense the shift. It's a sudden shift. It's about to change. You've been denied. You're about to get access. Open the door. Let me in. God's about to
[00:28:06] do it in my life. Some of y'all… Hear me? I prophetically speak. Some of y'all have been knocking on doors, and it's been closed to you perpetually, but go back and knock again.
[00:28:24] There's about to be a sudden access that God gives to you for the thing he told you to do.
[00:28:30] God is about to use you in a way that literally has never been seen by your wife or anybody else. He has been speaking to you about things that only you could know. He told me to interrupt this sermon to tell you it's time,
[00:29:22] that he is about to give you access. I have no idea what's happening in your life, but somebody should begin to rejoice around him, because everything in your life is about to shift right now. I feel the presence of God. He's shifting it right now. Stretch your hands
[00:29:37] towards him father in the name of jesus every delay everything that has kept him out of what you have called him to do i declare and i believe that the seas part for him that everywhere that
[00:29:50] his feet tread that you are literally bringing him into promise and he's not going alone there's a generation behind him that you're about to see saved healed delivered and set free if you believe shout unto God with a voice of triumph. I said shout unto God with a voice of triumph.
[00:30:18] One more time with faith. Somebody say, It's time.
[00:30:27] I don't know what's happening in your life, brother, but I'm supposed to bless you because God is literally about to… I'm sowing seed. I'm not just giving you something. I'm going to sow you seed. I'm not supposed to say the amount, but I have to bless you
[00:30:39] because God is about to teach you how to handle resources you didn't have to work for.
[00:30:49] I see you… I'm sorry, y'all. God is… He's highlighting him for a second.
[00:30:54] He's literally going to give you the ability to be trusted. I keep seeing the big word, trusted. There are some things he's shifting in your life because he wants to prove he's God, not anything else. The shift is always sensed before it's seen.
[00:31:37] I just need everybody to recognize Joshua didn't get this call from God from a teleprompter or a big screen that everybody could see. He had to sense the shift before the people he even was going to lead would be able to see it.
[00:31:59] What I'm telling you is your sense is many times stronger than what is seen.
[00:32:09] Society and culture would have you think, think, well, we'll believe it when we see it. God doesn't work like that. He said, I need you to believe it or you'll never see it. What he's saying to Joshua is, I need you to believe you're
[00:32:23] the leader now. I'm not telling anybody else you're the leader until you believe it. I'm not giving you a promotion that people can credit. I'm telling you you're promoted. I'm telling you you're the head. I'm telling you, and some of you would rather a person who didn't create you
[00:32:43] give you the credential than God who knows you. Okay. Pastor Mike, what are you saying?
[00:32:54] This is how Joshua gets installed as the new leader, privately. I know you want to Instagram post and say, I'm brand new, nobody messing with me, boss B, and all the other stuff you want to
[00:33:09] say. What God is saying is nobody else has to know. Do you believe I called you? Do you believe I'm not doing it like that no more. Joshua could have spent the rest of his life looking for Moses.
[00:33:29] God could have come to him and said, Moses is dead. He'd be like, No, never.
[00:33:34] We need to send out a search committee. Twelve tribes. We have to go look for Moses.
[00:33:41] He said, He's dead. I'm using you. You're promoted. Congratulations.
[00:33:48] You're promoted.
[00:33:56] Some of you… I need you to hear me say this.
[00:33:58] Nobody else has to agree with what God just shifted you into.
[00:34:04] I know there are 14 people.
[00:34:06] Somebody in this section needs to hear me.
[00:34:08] Nobody else has to agree.
[00:34:10] Your family doesn't have to agree.
[00:34:12] Your boss doesn't have to agree.
[00:34:14] Your girlfriends don't have to agree.
[00:34:15] As a matter of fact, they don't even pray for you, so this is what I'm saying to you.
[00:34:18] Y'all be acting like people pray for you. They don't pray for you. I'm praying for you. No, they're not. This is what I'm telling you. You need to trust what God told you in private,
[00:34:28] because two chapters later, the Bible tells us that the people are like, oh, Joshua is really doing some good work. It's two chapters after he already decided it was time to shift. What are you saying, Pastor Mike? The people will see what God already said.
[00:34:46] Oh, God. You don't need them to see it when he says it, but you have to believe it when he says it. A shift happens just like… Some of you are no longer employees. You're business owners.
[00:35:02] Y'all missed it. Watch this. Watch it go into embers. Some of you are no longer business owners.
[00:35:11] Y'all don't want this one. You're an employee. You were never meant… Somebody sold you on a dream. You have the gift of administration. You support things, and God says your limit is not going to be what they can pay you. I'll provide for you, but you're in the wrong spot trying to
[00:35:27] do the wrong thing with no grace and no oil. You need to know it shifted just like… Okay. You could be mad at me, but you need to put closed on you. Okay. Closed. Can I say it?
[00:35:43] some of you are in the wrong spot because of people-pleasing. I can't believe how many people want to be solo players on a losing team instead of a role player on a championship team.
[00:36:05] You ain't never going to win a ring over there, but you're the man.
[00:36:11] God is calling some of us to divine collaboration. Some of y'all, your competition is actually the person that's supposed to complete you. Jerry Maguire, you complete me. That is supposed to be a moment. I need you to hear me say this, because some of y'all are trying to prove something to
[00:36:28] somebody who did not call you. You need to believe what God said, because a shift can happen just like that. Do you sense it? Joshua had to sense it before he saw it. As Joshua sensed the shift,
[00:36:46] this is what you need to know. The shift is never publicly announced before it is personally sensed. This is the question I need you to ask yourself. What am I sensing? What's around me?
[00:37:02] What's not fitting no more? What am I sensing? To be able to sense something, you have to be still enough to be able to observe. Some of y'all busybodies doing everything. Y'all shaking everywhere, doing everything. Outside, and God says, sit down. Sense where I'm at. Sense how I
[00:37:23] want to use you a brand new way. Sense that your husband needs your encouragement. He needs his wife to speak life into him right now. My daddy never needed that. Your daddy was disappointed, too. God's trying to… Y'all don't hear me. You need to sense something different.
[00:37:43] Right now, he needs six months of encouragement. Big Daddy ain't nobody like you.
[00:37:47] he… Ladies, let me give you a tip. If you want to see your man turn into Superman, you start telling Clark Kent that he's Superman. Start telling that brother, ain't nobody strong like you, baby. His muscles may be this big,
[00:38:01] but that baby will get down and start giving you 20. You hear what I'm saying?
[00:38:11] Let's go. Pastor Mike, what are you saying? There's a shift coming. Watch this. Most of us want to shift on levels. The Holy Spirit told me to tell you this. A lot of times in church,
[00:38:23] we use this language as Christianism. It's like, we're going to another level.
[00:38:26] I'm like, yeah, but I see in the Bible a lot of times that God takes people to new dimensions.
[00:38:32] Now, watch. Don't just shout. Understand. Okay, watch this. On a level, if you go from the first floor to the second floor on an elevator, you go one to two, but if the elevator is not working,
[00:38:43] there's another way to get to the second floor, the stairs. When you take the stairs going from one level to the second level, what ends up happening is you have to go through every step.
[00:38:56] Some of y'all have been tired because God's calling you to another level, but you feel it at every step. At every step, I'm going through the same thing. At every step, somebody's leaving me. At every step, I feel like I can't. You've been fatigued because you've just been thinking
[00:39:12] that God can only do levels, but I found out in his Word, like Joshua, he can skip you from levels to new dimensions. When you go to a new dimension, you get to skip levels. Y'all didn't hear what I
[00:39:26] just said. The difference between a rocket ship taking somebody from the earth to the moon… You're not on steps. You're cracking atmospheres. I'm trying to tell some of y'all right now God's trying to take you into a different atmosphere of anointing, a different atmosphere of influence,
[00:39:47] a different atmosphere of finance, a different atmosphere of understanding the world and words of knowledge, a different atmosphere of being able to even know what's going on in your family.
[00:39:59] You're sick of going up these steps because you won't embrace the shift, but today I speak to somebody who is listening right now that it won't be step after step after step after step, that some of you are about to get an elevation that don't make sense to nobody.
[00:40:16] Joshua is about to take a leap that didn't make sense even to him. Have you ever done something in your life, and you'll be like, who, me? Why me? But you have to believe it for yourself.
[00:40:33] This is what I need everybody to understand. The promise didn't die with Moses. I just need you to understand this, that Moses is dead. The promise isn't. The way God was doing it is dead,
[00:40:50] but what he said he was going to do ain't dead. Some of you who watch this have been so discouraged because the way he was doing it, he's no longer doing it that way. But I love that way,
[00:41:03] and I wanted it that way. That's the way I found God, and that's the way I found this, and that's the way I found it. God's saying, oh, but that's dead. Why are you playing with
[00:41:19] dead stuff? When you play with dead stuff, you get dis-eased. You have to stay away from dead stuff. Some of y'all are in a dead relationship. You know that's not your wife, but she will hold
[00:41:36] you and cook for you. You know I'm looking at you, and you keep going to that safe space because you won't deal with the inside of insecurity, and you need to be held by somebody because you didn't
[00:41:51] get that affection from your mom, and so you've now found it in other people. God said you're playing with dead things. I got your wife on the wings, but I love her too much to trust her to
[00:42:02] somebody that's diseased. Y'all don't hear me. It's time for you to shift, man of God, shifting to purity, shifting to be a man of integrity, shifting to not hitting on every girl that's around you. I see you, boy. You have no intentions of marrying her, but you're being used by the
[00:42:23] devil to play with people's emotion, and God said it's time for you to shift, because the area that you're playing in is the area you're called to heal. Oh, God. Let me move. Let me move.
[00:42:37] This is why I have to say this, because you have to understand this. Write this down. Point number three, that when you shift, I need you to be warned that your shift will always agitate snakes.
[00:42:52] When you actually get out of the position you were in, snakes, people who don't have faith like you, people who want to be like, but didn't you fail last time? Wasn't your wig stiff last time? No,
[00:43:10] I'm just playing. Let me just say this to you. Listen to me. Your faith will bother people with fangs. When you have faith, you start seeing who has fangs. They try to poison the new version
[00:43:28] that God's trying to bring you into. I mean, you working out again? Didn't you do that last time?
[00:43:35] Weren't you on Jenny Craig for a little bit? Why, when you try to make a step, they always try to remind you of what didn't work? No, no, no. I'm just trying to be honest. I'm just trying
[00:43:44] to be—you told me to be real. Be real encouraging. I just told you I'm trying to work out. Don't invite me to go for donuts. Oh, y'all know what I'm talking about. The reason that this came up,
[00:44:01] and a funny story, and then we're going to get out of here. My daughter, Gigi, she's five, like Pastor Nat told you, and she's like a scientist. Her brain, she loves to learn about things that a five-year-old usually doesn't want to learn about. She wants to know how the body
[00:44:15] works, and she wants to know how do you sneeze, and what are boogers, and how are they made.
[00:44:20] and… No, I'm not even playing. She told her mom, can you buy me a book about the esophagus?
[00:44:25] I was like… The other day, her mom, being the great loving mom she is, bought her a whole collection of National Geographic for kids. You would have thought she just pulled up with 50 pair of Jordans or something, and it wasn't that. She sprawled them all out. She's looking at them
[00:44:48] like, oh my God, so much to learn. I was like, whose kid is this? That night I said, Gigi, which book do you want to read? Then she's looking at all of these books about volcanoes and
[00:45:02] tigers and all this. She's like, Daddy, can we read about snakes? The Brenda Todd in me rolls up. I said, I rebuke you, Satan. We are not the devils of snakes. I was like, hold on. A snake
[00:45:17] is a creature God created. I said, yeah, baby, we can read about the snakes. It was God, because before I preached this message, I was reading things I didn't understand. I started to read about a snake's venom. I always thought when you get bit by a snake, it's to kill you,
[00:45:31] but the primary purpose of a snake bite and then putting venom in you… Watch this. It's not to kill you first. It's to paralyze you. It's to keep you from shifting. What is happening for many of
[00:45:47] you is you're around people, and you say, I feel like this is what God is telling me to do.
[00:45:51] What they do is they put the venom in you, and it's to make you back up. Maybe God didn't say it, and maybe that's not God, but some of y'all have to remember what Paul did after he survived
[00:46:02] a shipwreck in Acts 28 when he actually got up on the paddles and made it, and he started a fire.
[00:46:09] As soon as he started the fire, the Bible said, a snake jumped out and bit him. But do you know what Paul did. At the moment the snake bit him, he began to shake it off. I'm about to say
[00:46:22] to 5,000 of y'all that this is the season. Let them talk about you. Let them write a blog about you. Let your family hit you in the group chat. Baby, it's time to shake it off. Some of y'all,
[00:46:40] by faith, just begin to shake it off. Every negative word, everything that I've been going to everything I believe. I'm shaking off all of those word curses that were spoken onto me.
[00:46:56] I'm shaking off all the lack and poverty. I'm shaking off this depression and anxiety that's been trying to take my sleep. Look at your neighbor and say, Shake it off.
[00:47:15] The reason you have to shift and you have to shake it off is because your life depends on it.
[00:47:20] If Paul doesn't shake it off, it stays in him.
[00:47:25] Ask me, Pastor Mike, why is this important?
[00:47:35] I'm glad you asked.
[00:47:38] You can't carry the vision and venom.
[00:47:43] This next season, you don't have enough room to be mad and see the miracle.
[00:47:52] The reason you have to forgive is not even for them.
[00:47:56] You can't carry this faith and that unforgiveness.
[00:48:00] This next season, you don't have the capacity to be mad at them and actually hate on them and see the healing.
[00:48:08] He said, you have to shake it off, because that venom can't go into this next version.
[00:48:16] Some of y'all are about to shift into a new version of you.
[00:48:19] You're about to reintroduce yourself.
[00:48:21] You're about to become a different version.
[00:48:22] The people at school… You're at your high school.
[00:48:24] You went in.
[00:48:25] You left one way on Friday.
[00:48:26] introducing yourself a brand new way on Monday or Tuesday, because we have a break. We have a holiday after Labor Day. Your labor is going to be like, I'm not going back in there the same way that I
[00:48:38] left there. This is why I need you to understand. This is why God is saying, that venom of bitterness, you have to let it go. You have to shake it off. They left you.
[00:48:49] This is why everybody who was a part of Transformation Church, and maybe you're back right now or you're watching online or you got offended by something or you didn't like how somebody said something or you got moved out of your post, hear me. Sorry. I apologize. I don't
[00:49:06] know what happened, but if you don't get in this house and shake off whatever tried to pause you, you're in danger of missing the shift into the promised land.
[00:49:21] What I'm saying is the venom and the vision can't go together. God is saying, heal. Let it go. Talk about it. Get therapy. Ask for prayer. Let's move from this place.
[00:49:32] Somebody say, shift. Last point that I want everybody to get in, and I'm going to keep going next week, okay? Because this next season will either be defined by instructions or infection.
[00:49:44] You will either listen to the instructions that God's saying, Hey, Moses is dead. Shift. Take these people into the promised land. Either you will live your life by the instruction. I don't care what it looks like. He gave me an instruction.
[00:49:56] I mean he told me what to do and when you shift because he told you what to do You can't take the infection of the things that they said and this is why everybody in this room
[00:50:10] That's sensing the shift today. I came to prophetically tell you it's time Stop cussing at them kids You have more language than that It's time for you to use self-control Okay, okay. See y'all thought it's time to get a new house. No, it's time for you to shut up. Come on y'all
[00:50:34] It's time for you to show up and work on time. Nobody else does it. You're holding up your own promotion, because God sees it. It's time for you to apologize. It's time for you to walk.
[00:50:53] Watch this in wisdom. This is what you need to know about a shift. Last point. Write it down.
[00:50:58] The shift is always in a sequence. God is so good that he says, guess what? I'm going to tell you Moses is dead. Get up. Obey my instructions. Do you see what he's doing? He's giving him sequence. He's saying, get in the Word. Don't turn to your left or your
[00:51:19] right. He's giving him a sequence. One, two, three, four. He's giving him instructions that when God tells you to shift, he's not saying, then just go do whatever. He tells you to shift, Then he says, keep listening for instructions. What I've seen with people who are happy and
[00:51:42] got crazy faith to shift, move to Tulsa. Yes, I'm moving to Tulsa! You didn't fill out one application for a job. There's power in priority, power in doing things organized and in order.
[00:52:04] I'm not saying he didn't tell you to move. I'm just saying living in the parking lot is not our responsibility. Many times when God tells you to shift, you have to do it in sequence.
[00:52:23] Some of you have been disappointed because you heard and sensed the shift, but you didn't follow the sequence. We'll learn later in the story, but he told him, you go and tell the people we're
[00:52:37] going. This is what the sequence is so beautiful. Joshua tells them, hey, y'all, in three days, we're about to make this move. God didn't tell Joshua three days. He knew to get all of them
[00:52:47] people up, packed up, and ready to move, it was going to take three days. We don't have three months. We have three days. Get your stuff in order, because we're about to move. I hear God
[00:53:00] saying, some of you need to come back and ask me, what's the sequence, God? How do you want me to shift? Where do you want me to move? Who do you want me to ask? What do you want me to do standing
[00:53:11] all over this place. Somebody say, shift. I feel this thing so deep in my soul, and the only thing that's going to allow you to shift is that you be strong and courageous. See, this is the thing.
[00:53:27] Before you leave, you're about to miss the best part. Hear what I'm about to say.
[00:53:31] Shifting has a sound. If you remember, there was a story where there were people that were marching around a wall that they didn't have access to. It was called Jericho. What they didn't know was how they were going to get in, but the reason this miracle happened was because
[00:53:53] they shifted in a sequence. God said, March around the wall six times. I don't want you to stand still and lay your hands on it. He said, I need you in movement. There's something I need you to
[00:54:05] do. He said, On the seventh time, I need you to change the frequency, and I need you to lift your voices and begin to shout. What I'm going to tell you is when there's a shift that happens,
[00:54:17] everybody can sense it. Zach, band, here in just about 10 seconds, I want y'all to shift up. Can you help me? Turn it up. Shift up. Go ahead. Did everybody sense the shift that just happened?
[00:54:32] When a shift happens, there's a sound. I want you to do it one more time. Shift up. Everybody shift up. Matt, you didn't shift up right. That's why that sounded off, because everybody else shifted, but one person didn't. This beautiful moment that was supposed to take us higher
[00:55:02] distracted us because a few people decided not to shift. The reason why you're here today It's because some of you have been the ones who decided, well, I'm not going to do what God told me to. They don't really need me.
[00:55:18] What I'm saying is the bass player is one musician in a whole band, but him not shifting into his next level hindered all of us from experiencing the sound that was supposed to happen.
[00:55:30] But what would happen if everybody at the same time shifted all together?
[00:55:35] I need you to feel this. There's something changing on the inside of us that as we shift together and your families shift together, there's going to be a movement and a sound. Can you shift one more time? Lift your hands all over this place. Father, I thank you
[00:55:52] that we sense your shift right now. The only reason they knew how to shift was because they were shifting in a sequence. They were going from A to Ab and Ab. They were shifting in a
[00:56:11] sequence. Today, if you're in this room and you're sensing a shift, today we're going to end this service at the altar. If that's you and you know there's a shift happening… Oh, there's a lot of
[00:56:27] people coming. I don't care about nobody else. If you know there's a shift that you're sensing, I want you to move out of your seat. I want you to shift in this moment. I want you to go from the
[00:56:36] top to the back. If you're at home watching online, get off the couch. Get out the bed.
[00:56:41] get on the floor. I want you to shift. I don't care if we're in every aisle. Some of y'all can use this time to leave, but others of you know that there is a shift that's happening. I don't
[00:56:50] care if you're a high school student. I don't care if you're a mother, a grandmother. If you need the shift, God's saying it's time. Come with your hands lifted up. Worship team, come.
[00:57:04] If you're watching online, I need you to shift to a different position. It's time. It's time.
[00:57:13] It's time. It's time. Come on. It doesn't matter. Well, I don't like being herded like this. Listen, the shift in your life may be uncomfortable to somebody else. You might have to scoot your way
[00:57:27] into the next season. Come on. Come on. Some of you, God is shifting all over this place.
[00:57:34] I'm asking for you to sense it right now. I'm not about to prophesy over you. God's already been talking to you, and all I'm asking you to do is sense. He has called me to do this.
[00:57:51] I don't have to fight it no more. I don't have to deny it. Nobody else has to acknowledge it, but I know, God, I can't deny this no more. I sense you. What Joshua needed was a moment
[00:58:04] for his heart to be changed. He was altered. I don't know where he was when God told him that Moses was dead, but it took him that long to shift into what his next was.
[00:58:19] Some of you have been waiting for this magical moment. Watch this. I'm going to tell you. Oh, I love this picture, because there are people all in the aisles and all up the stairs and all around.
[00:58:28] Hear me, what I say to you. Somebody else's deliverance is waiting on you to shift.
[00:58:36] Y'all didn't get it. Hear what I'm saying to you. God was not talking to the children of Israel.
[00:58:43] he was talking just to Joshua, and he said, If you shift, I'm going to give all of them what I promised their bloodline. Not if they shift. If you shift, I'm going to give all of them.
[00:59:03] There are people waiting on your word, Sophie. There are people waiting on your yes, Rich.
[00:59:10] There are people waiting on your obedience, Alex. There are people waiting that you don't even know yet. They're begging you to shift because their family depends on it. Where their kids' kids grow up, being able to see what God did, it depends on you saying yes. If Joshua doesn't
[00:59:34] say yes and shift in this moment, they spend another generation in the wilderness. But today, I believe under the sound of my voice, I feel the presence of God. I came to speak to your spirit,
[00:59:48] to tell you it's time. Hands lifted all over this place. Father, I pray right now that at this altar you change people's no's to yes's. You change their maybes into whatever you say I'll do. You change their hesitation into a holy momentum that they will not stay in the
[01:00:17] same place waiting for you to give them another sign. Today, you are telling them it's time.
[01:00:25] I pray that by your Spirit, you would begin to shift families, and you would begin to shift mindsets, and you would begin to shift even desires. Shift our desires. Come on. Some of y'all need to pray that right now online. Shift my desires, Father God. I did want to be in the
[01:00:44] back. I didn't want to do, but God, if you call me to lead, shift my desires, shift my ability to embrace what you're saying. God, you know me better than I know myself. Shift me. I want to
[01:00:58] be altered here at this altar today. Father changed my mind. Yes. And I thank you that there would be no more delay. I speak over your life. No more delay. Some of you, this will be the most productive
[01:01:18] week of your life because you just got the green light from heaven whoa no more delay it's time and i declare and i believe father god that every lie of the enemy all venom all venom
[01:01:36] everything that has tried to pause everything that has tried to pause the progress i command momentum into marriages right now momentum father god into families momentum father god into ministries there are pastors watching this right now there is a shift coming to your house believe it's a shift coming in your worship
[01:02:10] up. There's a shift coming to your mind. Today, we shake off every lie. I will not be defined by the words that people who loved me spoke over me. I am no longer limited by any lie.
[01:02:40] Today I want to be altered right here.
[01:02:44] Take my heart and mold it.
[01:02:50] Lift your hands.
[01:02:51] This is your prayer.
[01:02:52] Take my mind and transform it.
[01:02:56] It's time to shift.
[01:03:00] Take my will and shift it, God.
[01:03:04] God, I want to shift to yours.
[01:03:10] Come on.
[01:03:11] All over this place, we're about to go home, but I need you to lift your hands and make this declaration.
[01:03:15] Say it.
[01:03:16] Take my heart, that you can shift my heart and mold it.
[01:03:25] Take my transforming.
[01:03:31] Take my will.
[01:03:35] I can be hard-headed sometimes, but today I surrender it to you, God.
[01:03:42] Said to y'all, shift me, God.

[01:03:52] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[01:03:52] I want to be altered here at the altar.

[01:04:04] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[01:04:04] Do the work on the inside of me.
[01:04:07] I've been wanting it to happen externally, but it's got to happen internally.
[01:04:13] Shift me, God.
[01:04:14] I feel the presence of God, y'all.
[01:04:21] somebody's changing listen to me this shift starts today it doesn't finish today okay i want you to know that many times when god does something he's saying to joshua like hey the shift is happening
[01:04:36] but this is about to be a sequence a process but it has to start watch this with a decision this next dimension is going to be a decision decide today i'll never be the same decide today
[01:04:48] i ain't letting him come over and and do what we was doing decide today i don't know i no longer need that to find joy. Decide today, I will speak life over people, even when it feels awkward.
[01:04:59] Decide today, I'm going to become better with my money so that God can trust me with what he's asked me to do. Decide. What is a decision? A shift, and it's time to shift. Let me say this
[01:05:12] before we leave, because I feel like God's about to start speaking. Your senses are about to be heightened. You're going to sense what God is doing. You're going to walk back into your business, you're going to be like, oh my God, I sense this is what God wants to do. Do y'all hear what I'm
[01:05:29] saying? Some of y'all are going to eat with your wife today or sit with your children, and you're going to sense the things you need to talk to them about. The Holy Spirit will lead you into all
[01:05:38] truth. You're trying to do it by yourself and chat GPT things that God will tell you, but do you sense it? Behold, I do a new thing. Do you not perceive it? I'm done with that. Do you
[01:05:55] not sense it today if you're under the sound of my voice you've never received Jesus I want you to sense that God has created this whole atmosphere for you to shift into grace shift into salvation if that's you this is a vulnerable place I
[01:06:18] made the decision and thousands of other people made the decision but this is the one decision that'll change everything in your life and today could be the greatest day of your transformation, where you go from depending on yourself to depending on the one
[01:06:31] who created you. Today, under the sound of my voice, whether in this room, watching in a jail cell, online, watching on rebroadcast 10 years from now, today is the day of salvation. Anybody who has already made that decision, I need you to begin to pray. If you want to accept Jesus as
[01:06:47] your personal Lord and Savior, on the count of three, I want you to shoot your hand up in the air. Proud, loud, excited to know that your name is going to be written in the Lamb's Book of Life.
[01:06:58] One, you're making the greatest decision of your life. I already see hands. Two, you are going to have your eternity secured. Three, if you want to make Jesus your personal Lord and say, I see you, brother. I see you, sister. I see you. Oh, come on, TC. I see you. I see you. But more
[01:07:14] than that, God sees you. Let's give him praise. Here, listen. If you're online, put a hand in the chat. We're cheering for you. It's time. At TC, we're a family. Nobody prays alone.
[01:07:32] So, everybody, would you just lift your hands for the benefit of those coming to Christ and say, God, today I give you my life. Here I am, all of me. I repent from everything that's not like you,
[01:07:51] and I turn to you. I believe you lived, you died, and you rose again with all power just for me. Today, I'm free. Today, I'm redeemed. Today, I'm shifting into your promise for my life. Change me. Renew me. Transform me. I'm yours in Jesus' name. Amen.
[01:08:25] Can we celebrate all over this room? Come on. This should be the loudest shout of the day.
[01:08:31] Heaven is voicing. Welcome to the family. Listen, if you just made that decision, I want you to text SAVE to 828282 or click the QR code on the screen, because we're about to start a journey.
[01:08:46] Everybody under the sound of my voice, listen to me. Next week is a must. It's more important than this week. Today, all I need you to do is shift, but where are you shifting to? Next week, I'm
[01:09:01] going to give you practical of how to shift. This is the time we're going to get baptized. This is the time we bring in our family. This is the time I want you to invite people and let them know that
[01:09:10] the house of God is the place where they're going to find their next answer. I want you to know that God wants to continue to do the shift on the inside of you.
[01:09:20] So even as the worship team, we dismiss service.
[01:09:22] There's going to be a party on the lawn.
[01:09:24] Don't just rush out.
[01:09:25] We have stuff for you.
[01:09:26] Meet people.
[01:09:27] Who knows?
[01:09:28] Your husband or your wife might be in here right now.
[01:09:30] There's a shift.
[01:09:33] Your next business partner, your friend group, we're here.
[01:09:37] Somebody shout at me, shift.
[01:09:40] But maybe the shift God wants to do is at the altar.
[01:09:42] So altar workers, I know this is a little different, but I sense the presence.
[01:09:46] If people are lingering up here and need prayer, I want y'all to just come and pray, and we're going to worship for a second, and you can go out there and celebrate the freedom that
[01:09:53] you missed.
[01:09:54] If you're watching online, this is your season.
[01:09:56] Get in the house of God virtually, and let's see God do something amazing.
[01:10:00] Lift your hands all over this place.
[01:10:02] God, I pray that today the shift has begun, and it is becoming to be our normal.
[01:10:09] Bless these people.
[01:10:11] I declare this will be the best week they've had, not because anything great happened to them, but something great happened in them. I thank you that you're shifting their mindset.
[01:10:21] They're going to see their house different, their business different. They're going to see obstacles as opportunities. I thank you, Father God, that today the blessing runs from the head all the way, Father, to every person in their family. Let them be overwhelmed with joy as they
[01:10:39] face everything that comes in their life. Today we are making a decision to shift into the promise that you've called us to. Father, as you do it, we will give you all the glory, all the honor,
[01:10:52] and all the praise. It's in Jesus' name we pray. Can somebody say amen? Would you give God one big shout of praise until next week? Go out and live a transformed life. I love you so much.
[01:11:07] If you need prayer, just worship him. Our team is coming.
[01:11:10] Do you sense what God is doing? Do you sense how he's trying to shift you? I'm telling you, there's a promised land waiting for you, and it can happen just like that. This is your sign. It's
[01:11:25] time. It's time to shift, and I believe that God is doing that on the inside of you, and I'm so excited for you. Listen, if this message blessed you, I need you to do something. I need you to
[01:11:35] share it with somebody. If you know somebody else that has been delayed, but it's time for them to step into the fullness of what God has for them, send them this. Say, put it in the family group
[01:11:44] chat. Share it with your gym bros. This is the season where we're all shifting together. And I want to ask you something. I want you to join us for the rest of this series. I want you to hear
[01:11:55] the sequence of what God wants to do. Next week, I'm preaching a message that's going to change everything. And if you're in Tulsa or around, we would love to host you and meet you because I
[01:12:06] believe that God is doing something and he's shifting the whole body of Christ. Last thing, If this ministry has been a blessing to you in any way, I want you to pray about partnering with us in generosity.
[01:12:17] It doesn't matter about amounts. It's obedience.
[01:12:20] If you pray and God says, give something to help us reach more people, take this into the jails, be able to meet personal and local needs, then obey God.
[01:12:29] And I'm telling you, we're going to transform this world together.
[01:12:32] Well, I love you. And I'm so grateful that you watched today's message.
[01:12:35] go back and watch more content. This summer, preaching was nasty, crazy, powerful. I want you to get that and join us right here next week for our brand new series, It's Time.