A SUDDEN SHIFT | Joshua 1:1–9 | Mike Todd

Now, I can't physically be pregnant, okay? But one of the things that God does when you minister to people often is He gives you something that you have to hold until a certain time. And when you're holding something for a certain time, you're waiting for the right people, the right faith mix, the right doubters, the right haters, the right everybody to be in the same room. Because in the right atmosphere, when you put something in the right atmosphere, it has nothing to do except go into the place it was meant to go into and grow. And I feel like the word that I have to release today is for this moment. Your pastor called me three weeks ago. I just got off of a sabbatical. I was gone all summer, spending time with my family and the Lord. And, um, and he called me, I'd just been back in my pulpit for one week. And was like, yo, bro, you think you could come to our church anniversary? And as I was praying, the Holy Spirit said, you're supposed to be there and you're supposed to release this word. Because New York, the company church is ready for what's next. Somebody say, what's next? You've been faithful over what's now. So now God can trust you with what's next. And so today I need you to listen with the ears and the eyes of faith. This is not a word for today. This is a word for your future, but you have to act today like it's happening. And so this is going to help you move into what's next. Now, the only way that I could actually come here is I had to ask not just the Holy Spirit, but I had to ask my wife. And my wife is here with me today. Passanataly, I love you. And the reason why it was such a big deal, because today, um, nine years ago, um,

we had our daughter, Ava. And today, Ava's here, it's her ninth birthday. Ava, would you stand up, Ava? Come on, stand up. Would y'all just shout for my baby right now that let me come and preach? So cute self, um, more than being a minister. I'm a father and more than being a father, I'm a husband. And so I take that, I take that very seriously. Thank you guys for letting me be here and deliver this word today. And I'm going to give it everything I got. Joshua chapter one. I'm going to read a Bible because we in church and if, if something happens in, in church that ain't in the Bible, then you got to question it. So today I want to read some scripture and then I'm going to give you the word that God told me to give you and then we go on home and we're going to eat some good food cause New York has some good food. My God, um, here we go. Joshua chapter one, after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua. So we talking about Joshua today. He was Moses his assistant. He said, Moses, my servant is dead. Now I need you to arise or shift positions. I need you to move and go over this Jordan. You and all these people into the land I am giving to them. There are some land that God has earmarked for you already. He said, but I need somebody to get up out of the position. They're in and I need you to go over to the land I am giving to the people of Israel, verse three, every place that the soul of your foot will tread. I have given to you.

If I was in my church, that's where people would start shouting. Cause some of you now, listen, don't shout now, but some of you have been missing the moment because you don't know the power that God has given you when you move. That's why the enemy has been fighting you so hard to stay in the same place, to stay with the same friends, to say in the same mindset. Cause if you move every place, your foot would step. Oh my, every time you were going to a new atmosphere, every time you entered into a new place, God says, if you would move out of the place of fear and into the place of faith, that place already has your name on it. Oh God, I'm just reading the Bible, y'all. It says from the wilderness and, and this Lebanon, as far as the great rivers to the Euphrates, he starts giving directions. He said, if you step north, south, east or west, if you step, I'll give it to you. And so many people are scared to step out. Cause what if I fail and what if this is not God and what if somebody makes fun of me and what if this doesn't work out and what if I have to start over? I came to tell you and push you prophetically. It's time to step. Well, what if I go this way? What if I go that way? At least God found somebody who would move. Now, I know everybody don't drive in New York cause yeah, but anyway, in Oklahoma, people run out of gas and when they run out of gas in their cars to get out of dangerous way in Oklahoma, there'll be a few good Samaritans that And then what they do is they come and push the car 'cause they're trying to get them out of the street. And what you know is that a moving car is easier to steer than one that's standing steel. The reason why God hasn't been able to give you any directions is because you won't step.

He said, if you're moving, I can redirect you if you go the wrong way. But you won't even step. But he's giving Joshua and the children of Israel promise right now, if you step, I'll give you the land. Oh my God. And then he gives them a promise. Now this is some gangster scripture right here and I don't know how you read the Bible. But when you got God back in you like this, you might as well do whatever he tells you to do. Verse five, no man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. When you step, I'll make sure they can't stop what I started in you just as I was with Moses. So I will be with you, I will not leave you or forsake you. Verse six, here's your encouragement. Be strong and courageous. Say that with me, be strong and courageous. One more time with faith. Be strong and courageous. This is your word, Pastor Chris, this is your word. Pastor Jarvis, be strong and courageous. For you shall cause the people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them. Oh my goodness, your life is generationally impacting other people. God's talking to Joshua, but he's saying these people won't see what I have for them unless you answer the call.

Oh God. Some of y'all been thinking this is just about your situation, but there is a bloodline attached to your obedience. Nobody in this land is gonna inherit what God has for them if Joshua doesn't obey God. Who are you stopping from their promised land? 'Cause you won't obey God instead. He said, that's why I need you to be strong and courageous. Only be strong and courageous being careful to do according to all the law of Moses, my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left that you may have good success wherever you go. Verse eight, this book of the law or the word of God will not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will have your way be prosperous and you will have good success. How many people want good success in all they do? Okay, that means we have to obey the word of God. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Say it one more time, be strong and courageous. I'm speaking to you right now. Do not be frightened and do not be dismayed for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. The title of my sermon today is a sudden shift. I believe that God came to tell me

that there are things in your life that are about to change and it's not going to take long. One amen. And that's fine because the word of the Lord is gonna come true and I'm trying to prepare you for what's about to happen. Some of you by this time next week, the thing that you've been believing God for is about to shift. I just need 15 people with faith. Some of the battles that you've been going up against over and over and it's never gonna break. God said by this time next month, you're gonna look up and that whole situation is gonna be dissipated. All those tears you cried over that broken relationship and God's gonna replace it with somebody who thinks that. Fine. And he's gonna make you forget about all of the sorrow of yesterday. I'm telling somebody by faith it's gonna happen just like that. It's a sudden shift. We serve a God who does sudden shifts. And the problem with us is we like the comfortable that we have developed. So when God does something suddenly, we think something's wrong. But I just wanna show you in scripture right here that the precedent of what God is about to do

and Joshua's life, I believe he told me to come tell you in good company church that there's a shift that's about to happen and you need to partner with God and not work against him. Okay. Pastor Mike, why are you saying this? Because the victory, write this down. The victory that God wants to give you is in your next version. The victory's in the next version. I'm glad you got all your systems and you got your logo and I'm glad that you've just now made your friend group good and I'm glad you've just now come at peace with your schedule. And God said, I had to do all of that to get you here. But the victory you've been believing for, it's in the next version, though. If iPhone can upgrade 18 times, don't you just want one? Okay, come on. They about to come out with a duo and you steal the same. The victory that God wants in your family is in the next version. That means you have to divorce here. And you like it here and you find we're here and you got all your stuff together here and and and and and you're just in front just enough or you have your personality or this is how far and God has a tendency of calling people outside of their comfort zone to answer their calling. Did you hear what I just said to you? You will not be able to be comfortable and answer the call. Well, God, couldn't you just do how I like it?

No, because you're not going to become more like him. It's only an adversity. It's only in in in the uncomfortable. It's it's making you into something that reflects him. He wants to see his image in you. And that's why your next version is the version you should be going after. And Joshua is in this moment right now because I need to set cultural context to for what's happening right here. Moses is the man. Moses is the one that got these people. That was just the Holy Spirit. Moses. Moses is the one that got these people out of Egypt. They were in slavery. Let my people go. The sea split, they saw miracles. Pharaoh's army got drowned behind them. They're like, whoa, Nemo and Shamu on the side, the whole family going through. Like this is miracle stuff. And then they get stuck in the wilderness. Watch this because a three 11 day journey turned into to a 40 year death. Because the people were disobedient. God only meant for the wilderness to get Egypt off of them. Because he wanted to take them into something new, the promised land. So a whole generation dies in a place that was supposed to be a pass through. And God's saying, all right, Moses, you did your best. And now I need you to come and visit me on Mount Moab. You got to read your Bible. I'm going through chapters of the Bible, but I need you to see the context of what's happening right here.

He said, you've gotten so frustrated that you started disobeying me. You were my man of God, but you started letting the people in the situation change your obedience. And so now he got frustrated. He struck the rock two times when God said only striking one time that people got the miracle, but he got disqualified. Be careful when you're doing things for people to please them and makes you miss what God told you to do. So he said, Moses, you don't get to see the promise and then come on up here to Moab. And the Bible tells us that he goes up there and he takes Moses. Moses is dead. The people don't know it. Now I need you to put yourself because we read these Bible stories and I'm like, oh, yeah, that's, oh, wow, Moses is gone. No, get it. This is great. This is Moses, Moses. Like this is like the most popular famous person in the world. This day, what are we talking about? Moses goes up to mountain. Okay, Moses is going to go pray again. Moses don't come back. And they're like, Moses has been gone a while. Has anybody heard from Moses? And he's gone so long that the Bible tells us in Deuteronomy that the people start mourning and they mourn for 30 days. So everybody like Moses, look out. Moses, we miss you. Like they're. And then God comes to Joshua and this is the only announcement he gets.

Moses is dead. Get up. Feels a little insensitive to me, God. This is our guy, Moses. He doesn't even give Joshua a verse to mourn. This is how fast he's shifting to the next thing because the promised land is more important than the person. Oh my God. He literally comes to him probably tears still in his eyes, my mentor, Moses. He said, just real quick, Moses dead. Get up. Shift. Move. Go from this place. What if God's not going to let you watch this get closure on the last season? Oh, here I come. Here I come. What if they're not going to apologize before you have to obey? What if they're not going to say they're sorry? What if they're not going to do it? Could it be that God is trying to override your need for people to put a period where he's already put a comma? He's saying, I need you to get up and move somebody. And this is what happens in our lives. I feel the presence of God right now 'cause somebody's about to move into their next season. Stop waiting for closure to obey God on what he's saying to do right now. They might not recognize what God is doing. They might not get it.

This is not a billboard that comes to the whole two million children of Israel. Moses is dead. No, no, no, it comes to one man. I'm done doing it that way. That way is dead. I'm doing something else. And this is the crazy thing. So many believers play with dead things. You still letting him text you? That relationship is dead. You still working with those people for that money? That little $3,000, God is not blessing that no more. That way, oh yeah, I'm in somebody's business right now. You said, oh, they'll just came in. I'm, I'm telling you, you gotta stop playing with dead things because when you play with dead things, it gives you dis-ease. And some of you are like, why am I feeling like this? And why doesn't it feel like because you're playing with what God has moved away from? Moses is dead. That job is dead. That way of doing it is dead. Lying about that is dead. Watching that television series is dead. You going to that place is dead. I'm over here. So shift right now. Somebody say shift by faith.

No, no, no, I meant to say, say shift. And I was saying to say it by faith, but I can get how that was confused. Everybody say shift. You said that by faith. Okay, here we go. Pastor Mike, why are you saying this? This is the thing that I found out in this little piece of scripture is God was not negotiating with Joshua. He was commanding him. This is dead. Move now. Write this down as a point. God's not negotiating what's next. I know that your opinion is very valuable to you. But I want you to know what your opinion means to God. No thing, nothing. He doesn't consult your opinion because he knows that you don't know what's up ahead. He already seen the people in the promised land, but he needs Joshua obey right now. This is why your faith is important. That's why Hebrew says now faith. It doesn't say tomorrow faith. A next week faith, it says now faith. 'Cause I got to believe it right now. I got to obey right now. I got to let them go right. And so many of us use our opinion

to justify why we are in slow obedience. Which slow obedience is no obedience and no obedience is disobedience. Did y'all hear what I just said? No, God, I just need another week. I just, God, if you would just give me one more week, I find, yeah. And God said, who promised you another week? Okay. What we do is we come into these situations and we take God's grace for granted. And because he let us make it through the last time and because we didn't really do it that good, but it's better than I thought it was gonna be. And we keep doing this and God is saying, I'm shifting and I'm not negotiating with you. If he tells you to move from the Bronx and go to Staten Island, well, I was raising a breath. Dismark, he's not negotiating. I don't know who needs to hear this, but some of you are playing with your destiny because what you are doing is you're trying to convince God that you know better. You have better timing than him. You know that, you know what I'm saying, God, you probably haven't taken in consideration all the family dynamics by me doing this. And God's saying, I know the end from the beginning. We sang it in worship.

I'm Alpha and Omega. That means I work the middle and I need you to shift right now. Joshua comes into this moment and has a decision to make. So I'm gonna give you four things you need to know about the shift coming in your life. Four things, because I believe that after this message, some of you are gonna be so agitated with staying in the same place that you're going to have to move into what God has called you to. I'm praying that that job you've been keeping as security so you don't step out in what he told you to do. (congregation laughing) It don't have to if you obey. It doesn't have to, but some of you won't move on a word. Joshua, his faith is proven because he moves on the word. He moves because God said to. Everybody don't even know it yet. But he says, this is what I'm supposed to do. So the first thing you need to know about the shift that's coming, it's in my title, but I want you to understand what I'm saying that the shift that is coming is gonna be sudden. Some of y'all right now get into the email. Some of y'all this week, something's gonna happen and you're gonna be like, and you're gonna be like that. Okay, that's what Pastor Mike was talking about. Do not be afraid. Do not be scared. Do not be dismayed because on the other side

of this shift is the promised land. What you don't understand is God never moves you to move you back, he moves you to move you into what he has called you to be and to see. And this is why he's calling some of you in your marriages to shift. You're gonna shift from being competitors to being teammates. Oh, y'all didn't hear what I just said. You're gonna shift into unity. And this shift for Joshua is so fast because God wants the people to be actually moved, but he has to talk to one man to affect a group of people. All of you are affected right now because he talked to one man. What I'm saying to you is that you are not going to have committee approval to obey God. You may not even have nobody in your crew believe with you. I'll tell you a quick story. When I was in Tulsa, Oklahoma, I became the pastor of this church called Transformation Church and what ended up happening was 37 days after I became the lead pastor of the church, we were meeting in a converted grocery store. I'm sitting there, this converted grocery store is not the best, but it's like, God, this is what you're giving me, so I'm grateful for it. God gives me a dream in my daughter Bella's room at 730 in the morning. And he says, the biggest building in your city that's unoccupied is gonna be your church.

And I was like, God, that is called "Razy." And I had the faith, I knew Habekah 2.2 said, "Write the vision down and make it plain." So I wrote it down in "Crazy Faith." Nobody around me was like, God said that, Michael. This is good, we believe. They was like, woo. 'Cause we didn't have no money. I wasn't Mike Todd. Nobody knew us, but I had a word from God. Five years later, I'm saving a whole bunch of the story, but five years later, when we were at five services in that converted grocery store, when I was trying to kill me preaching, I said, read your Bible. There's too many services. God said, I already gave you the plan, but do you believe it? I said, God, I believe it. He said, so stop looking for other places. Oh God, see, there we go. Well, I just need a contingency. I just need to know God, and you know, and he said, stop believing for other buildings. Call the Realtor every week until they give you the building. They kept telling us it's under contract. There's a company that's about to buy it. Hey, it's getting sold this week. Come down to the day it's getting sold. The meeting's at nine o'clock.

I'm like, God, I did everything that you said all the way up until the last moment. It's in your hands now. Nine o'clock, they have the meeting with this big company that if I called their name, everybody in here wouldn't know it. They got money, but for some reason, the funding failed through. Because we had called every week at 915, our CFO gets a call and said, hey, the funding failed through on this building. Would y'all like to, y'all interested in it? Oh yeah, we went over there that day. I had never toured the whole building yet. 'Cause they had it under contract when God told me to do it. We put the $100,000 earnest money down on the building that day. And literally by that Friday, this is a Tuesday, by that Friday, the people came back with all of the funding. But they could not get the building because a little church with faith stepped right on in. I'm going somewhere with this. Those people got in contact with us and offered us a million dollars to walk away from the building. I said, man, God really told us 1.5. Lord, I said, nah, nah, nah, nah. We're not supposed to say that. We'll give you two million dollars to walk away.

Now, let me fast. I said, if I cannot go against the word God gave me. We walked into that building. It's a whole arena. See, 4,000 people were stated to ours, all kind of crazy stuff. It don't even make no sense. I don't know how we in that building. We ended up getting in that building and we paid it off in five months. Y'all don't know when to shout. We went from a converted grocery store in the hood. To an arena in the second highest rent district in our city. And it happened just like. Don't tell me the God we serve does not do sudden shifts in people's life. If you believe it, give God one shout of praise in this place. Somebody's situation is about to turn. Who had a hard time paying their car payment this month? No shame. Right here, how much is it? I just paid it. Y'all don't know when to shout. The Bible says rejoice with those who rejoice. Scott, after this, take care of it. God told me this morning before I got here that somebody needed their car payment paid. You raised your hand and your situation changed just like. Somebody's going to get it. This is the shift that God wants to do in your life. You don't know what God will do.

You don't know who he's speaking to right now. You have no clue what he has planned, but you have to obey right. So the shift is going to be sudden. Now some of y'all is like, I should have raised my hand. When you don't get the revelation of obedience, you get the revelation of regret. Some of y'all are going to obey because you're sick of leaving in regret. God, why didn't that happen for me because you obeyed slow? But what God is going to say is he wants to shift you right. The second thing you need to know about the shift. I don't see no time, Chris. So I need y'all. Does somebody better show me some time because I'll go till four o'clock. We will be up in here having a party. Watch this point number two about the shift that's coming to your life. And I need you to write this down because it's going to make sense as you begin to walk into these new things because a promise land is on its way for you. Y'all the shift is always sensed before it is seen. Joshua had to sense that God was changing him into the leader. He did not get a public confirmation from anybody. It was what he sensed before they even saw it. So imagine God telling you you're going to be the wealthiest broker in New York right now. Start acting like it and nobody acknowledges it. Nobody knows it, but you sense it. What I'm trying to tell you is when you sense what God is saying to you, when you sense it, you can take it to the bank because the word from God is stronger than an agreement from anybody else. Oh God, some of us want to obey God when everybody agrees with it, but Joshua has to agree with God when nobody else knows. What has God spoken over you that you're still debating about? What has he told you that you're still vacillating with because you have to make a decision because a double-minded man, a double-minded woman is unstable in all of their ways. Joshua had to believe God's word even if nobody else verified it. Moses did you the leader now take the people.

Whoa, didn't see my elevation coming like this. In secret, no public platform, no pomp and circumstance, just the word from God and my obedience, this is the next season because in our generation, we think that every word from God needs a big platform. Starting my ministry, nobody cares. Come on, let's be honest, and now you hurt because you only have 14 likes on a post you wasn't even supposed to make because you wanted confirmation from people who didn't call you. Oh, God. Oh, God. That's too deep. Okay. I thought I was at home. They know praying for you. They love you, but they're not asking God, "God, is this really what you have for them, Father? Would you make it clear, Father?" They're not giving more than 30 seconds about the thing. They're like, "No, I don't think that's good. I don't think that. Did you ask the one who told me?" This is why we have to be careful where we get confirmation from. The reason why Pastor Chris called me, when God told him to actually start good company church is because I was going to tell him no matter what, do what God said. Look crazy, do what God says. It's hard to do a church in New York, do what God says. After all you've been through, do what God said. If you are not getting around people who are going to encourage you to do what God says, it will leave you in a place of watch this word, compromise. Too many people are compromised right now, because God has given them a word, but you still waiting on the confirmation from somebody who did not call you. That's why you have to pray this prayer, "God, let me sense you like never before." You know that song that says, "I'm Holy Spirit, you are welcome here. I'm flood this place and feel the atmosphere."

Your glory, God, is what my heart longs for, to be overcome by your prayer since the Lord. My favorite part, said, "Let us become more aware of your prayer." My senses go up, let us experience the glory of your goodness, let us become more aware of your, let my senses be able to know, let us experience the glory of your goodness. That means you're going to sense things before anybody sees it. Then, woman of God, you begin to sense where this church is going next. Start driving down streets looking for the building. This will not be able to hold you by Easter. I need somebody with faith to agree with what God is saying right now. We call that building in right now, in the name of Jesus. I believe as you step this week, there is a developer. There is somebody that has it and it's going to be a crazy faith miracle. They're going to give it to you for a price that nobody is getting. And Father, I call in their permanent building in the name of Jesus. I thank you Father that you are going to open space in New York and you're going to give them a place to plant. You don't have to believe it, we sense it. You don't got to see it yet. We sense it. Don't know church do this after one year, but we sense it. We sense the presence of God here. This is why you got to get involved in what God is doing here. You can't just be a common spectator. When you find where God is doing something, you got to get in the flow. For everybody that's a first time visitor, welcome home. This is your new church. You might have come because you thought I was coming here, but I came as bait to get you in a place that would get you in the place that you're supposed to be planted in. This is where you're supposed to give. This is where you're supposed to sow.

This is where you're going to find community. This is where you're going to shift. Somebody say shift. Don't you start. Don't you start over there. Don't you start. Pastor Mike, why are you saying this because the shift is never publicly announced before it's personally sensed. You are a man of integrity, even though everybody still thinks you're a player. You've already started to sense. I don't want this no more. I don't want this. Now you're trying to figure out how am I going to redo my image and how am I going to change your number. Oh, okay. Y'all don't want to be practical. You need to change your number. You need to lose that old life and you sense yourself being a man of purity. You sense yourself being a man that's going to be with one woman and you're going to protect that household and speak life over your children. That's what you desire and because you sense it, watch this. You don't got to prove it to everybody else. Now you can't show up in the same place as being like I'm different at the strip club. You got it. We talk about senses, common sense, come on. But God wants to do something in you. And this is why he's telling you that you got to go to another dimension, you got to go to another level. God is saying to Joshua, like he's saying to you,

Moses is dead, but my promise isn't. The way that you thought it was going to happen is dead, but what I'm going to do ain't dead. Who you thought was going to be riding with you the whole way. They off the train, but I'm still going to get you there with a whole new crew. You're crying over something that I already have your replacement ready. If you would stop mourning over that, you would meet what I have for you. And Joshua begins to walk into this next moment that everybody's going to face. As you make this shift, say shift one more time. Write this down. Your shift will agitate snakes. 'Cause your faith always bothers people with things. I have four children. My two oldest daughters are here with us, but my baby girl, Gia. Gia Simone Hope Todd. We gave her all the names 'cause she was it. She said you are it, so we're going to give you every name we like. She's five years old, she's a genius. And I wonder, I ask my wife sometimes, where does she come from? Because this baby likes to learn about the body and anatomy and space. And like four years old, five years old, she asked me the other day that,

why does Jupiter have 24 moons? I said, baby, I didn't know she had 24 moons, but I guess that's the way God wanted it. So her mom being a great mom, she bought her all of these national geographics for kids. And I mean, you would have thought she just hit the jackpotting. She laid all of them 24 copies of national geographics on the floor in her room. She's like daddy, whatever, this is so great. She got a little list, she's so cute. And she's like daddy, this is so great. I love this daddy. And I was like, which one are we gonna read tonight? And she said, I wanna read one about snakes. And my mom was old school Christian and I was like, the devil is a liar. We not reading about those snakes, the snake is out there. And I said, you know what baby, we real safe. So we gonna read about the snakes tonight. I started reading about the snakes and the snakes wasn't about anything that was bad. I needed to find something out because I found out that snakes, their primary reason for biting somebody is not to kill them. When fangs go in and they release poison, it's to paralyze them. And what the enemy has been trying to do with people's words over you

is to keep you from moving. He doesn't have to kill you if he can keep you steel. The snake, the words, the venom, you'll never be. You can't. Nobody in our family has. You don't have enough smarts. You don't got enough money. All of these words that we are going, it's to paralyze. No church, one year old could believe for that. Nobody's gonna come to that. All those things are is not to kill you, it's to paralyze you, to keep you from shifting. But then I found in the scripture where Paul, he survives a shipwreck in Acts 28. And he reached the island and there was a viper when he started a fire that came out and bit him. And at the moment that this viper, that snake bit him because he was shifting the atmosphere, Paul teaches us something that all of us need to know. If he would have just sat there, he would have been paralyzed and taken out from his purpose. But the Bible clearly says, when that viper, when those words, when these things come, there is a proper prophetic response, shake it off. It literally says that Paul begins to shake off the very thing, I feel this in the spirit, that it come to paralyze him. And I'm telling some of y'all, there are words that your mother or your father

or a coach or a business partner or somebody spoke of you or ex or a brother or a sister. And it's come to paralyze you, but today by faith, I feel the presence of God saying, this is the last day, somebody do like this. This is the last day that those words hold me still. I'm shaking off everything that has not been like God. I don't care what they said about me. happened to you? I'm shaking off every venomous word because the faith that you display in this next season when God says to shift, it will agitate people who are standing still. Who she thinks she is. Believe in God like that. I hope she heard from God to move to California. Come on y'all. I know that means something. And I'm telling you right now, as you shift into what God says every time a snake comes to bite you, you got to shake it off. Why? Because you cannot carry the vision and the venom. You do not have the capacity in this next season to be mad at them and see miracles. Hope. You do not. You got to forgive those last people. You got to let go of them. It's not worth the promise. It's not worth your ex-husband. Let him go. God bless him. Let him go because what God has for you cannot carry the vision into the next season and the venom. You don't have the capacity. Many of you have been standing still because you're saying, God, I want this season to be over in God saying, let him go. Let me handle that. I fight your battle. I am the Lord. I am your strong tower. I will be the one to vindicate you. You obey me now because the venom is killing you and the vision is bigger. I feel the presence of God right here, y'all. How's it like? What are you saying? The victory is in this next version. And so, so now you have to pay attention to make sure you be the thing that he says three times in this scripture. Be strong and courageous. Joshua is now about to lead people into a place that they have never been before. And God's continued instruction is for you, either leader that nobody even knows you are yet. You're going to have to daily wake up and tell yourself, baby, you're strong and you're courageous. Some of y'all got to get in the mirror and say, today, I'm going to walk in purity and I'm not going to have no alcohol. And when I'm in this arena where people are drinking and I'm going to be strong and courageous and Holy Spirit, you're going to empower me. There is something on the inside of me that is greater than anything that's around me. You're going to have to tell yourself and believe and

decree that this next season, it's not by might nor by power, but it's going to be by the spirit of the living God. I came to tell you by faith that there's about to be a sudden shift and it's going to happen just like some of you. Just do it with me. It's going to happen just like that quickly, that quickly. You're going to look around and you're going to be like, oh my goodness, what I was crying about, I'm now rejoicing over because it shifted just like. Today, there's anybody under the sound of my voice that has been sensing a shift in your life. Maybe everybody doesn't know, maybe your spouse doesn't know, maybe your friend group doesn't, but you've been sensing a shift in your life and you need the prayer that allows you to be strong and courageous. I want you to stand all over this building. I don't care who you are, it's not for everybody, but it's for somebody. If you know there's a shift that's going to be difficult, that might have some different changes involved in it. Right now, I want you to stand. I feel that presence of God. If we had an altar, we'd all be at the altar, so we're going to make this whole place our altar. Would you lift your hands all over this place? Today, I'm going to pray for you. I'm going to pray like Joshua that you would be strong and courageous, that you would have the courage to let go of the places and the people. That means some of y'all going to have to walk away from money. That means some of you are going to have to walk away from things that you dreamed about. That means some of you watching this are going to have to walk away from people you actually love. Or you're going to have to put boundaries on it. Why are you saying this past am I? Because obeying God always takes a sacrifice. And I know churches don't talk about this right now. They want you to keep all your stuff and serve God. But the one thing that I found out about God is he always asks you for something when he's about to give you something. He always wants a sacrifice. And some of us want God's will until it comes time to pay the bill. That's wifey. No, it's not. Give it to me. Give me that business. Give me that idea. Give me that group. Give me that video game. Oh, I know that hurt somebody right there. He's oh God, not the video game. Give it to me. You're wasting time that I need you to be doing what I called you to do. I'm not saying anything's bad. I'm just saying maybe it's not time. Today's a shift. Hands lifted. Father in the name of Jesus. Oh, I feel the presence of God. On this one year anniversary of this good company church, I am asking you for a seismic shift in your people, in this church, in this group, in your sons, in your daughter's father. Here we are, like Joshua, Father, if you speak the word, we will obey. And I thank you that it's happening

all over this room, Father. You're making it clear to us what this means to us, Father God. Whatever you want to do, we say have your way, God. In the name of Jesus, I declare that every blockage and every burden and every venomous word that has been spoken over us. Father, today we thank you that we are moving from this place. I declare there is a shift coming in the name of Jesus. Father, whether this is somebody's first day in church, or they born in church, I thank you that we will not stay in the same place anymore. I declare that there is divine movement coming to our minds, our bodies, our lives, our emotions, our relationships. And I declare right now by your spirit that as we obey quickly, that there will be literal generations of people who will be affected by our obedience. I pray, Father, God, that people who have never met you will meet you in a way because we obeyed you today. And I declare, Father, God, that every person who is struggling or grieving what they may leave behind, that it is not worth being compared to the thing that you are about to do God. Because eyes have not seen. I feel this thing. And ears have not heard. Neither has it entered into the hearts of man, the things that God has prepared for you before you were formed in your mother's womb. God knew you. He had plans for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Behold, I do a new thing. And it's not even worth being compared to what was back there. So, Father, God, I pray a shift over your people and that they would be strong and courageous. I hear the Holy Spirit saying this. Look at me real quick. Look at me real quick. For this church, this week, this week is going to be paramount in the next six years of your life. I heard the Holy Spirit saying to me, what you do this week, don't approach it the same way. Sense God. Some of you don't need to go and watch your favorite program tonight. I'm not saying that for everybody. This is not an edict. This is not a law, but some of y'all are sensing that's just going to distract me. I'm going to be fighting with lust tonight when I should be getting visioned from God. Like I want you to be that sensitive. Like if this next seven days dictated the next six years of your life, what would you do? Some of you would fast. Some of you would get together with your friends and pray. Some of you, some of you would journal, some of you would listen to sermon. Some of you, like, do you understand what I'm saying? Like what if God sent me all the way here wearing a shirt of my daughter to tell you it's time to shift? What if that was all? What if that, what if God I need to work from you? Six one black man wearing Chelsea boots came to tell you.

You need to work from God? Shift. Whatever you've been doing that's outside of what God told you to be doing, shift into what he told you to do. If he told you to start the Bible study, what if nobody comes? Be there by yourself. Shift into what he said. God, I know there's a book in me. He told you to start writing it three months ago. I don't got a book publisher. Write the book. Shift. Start the makeup company. I don't have nobody. Get the one thing that you do have. Shift. And I'm telling you that when I come back here, Pastor Chris, Pastor Jarvis, you're about to see a wave of obedience come back 'Cause you're not supposed to draw their testimonies. God's about to send y'all, listen to the word I'm saying. God's about to send this church out to obey him. And because of the promise and the favor and the obedience and the things that begin to happen, people are gonna be like, what, what is going on? How in, and you'll be like, come to church with me. Come get in the group with me. And I'm telling y'all, mark my words. God's about to open up a venue that is gonna be so much better and bigger than this. But it's not going to be, listen, listen, listen. It's not going to be so that y'all can just have more space. 'Cause as soon as you get in there, that'll be full too. 'Cause God's calling his people. He's calling his people into a place where they can get fed and healed and loved on and find community. But this is the shift that many of us have to make today. You got a shift to being committed to this house in another way. Pastor Mike, why are you saying this? This is about me. Hold on, wait one minute.

God is gonna do something with you, but anytime he shifts you, it's for others. Did you hear what I just said? Anytime he shifts you, it's for others. He shifts Joshua for the whole nation of Israel. And he's shifting you in one of the ways that you're gonna help shift others is you gotta get here and serve. I heard there was a setup team here since 6 a.m. this morning. Shut it, can we give God praise for the people who set this up for you to be able to... (audience applauds) But I'm gonna challenge you, if you've never served, if you've never helped the kids, if you've never used, if you've never given, or you've given little, it's time to shift. I'm not about to take an offer, I'm not about to do anything. All I'm telling you to do is when God shifts a person, he's shifting a people. And some of you, God's hand is on your life to do something that is unprecedented. And today was your word, to shift into everything he's called you to, amen? Hey listen, hey listen, hey listen, I'm about to go. But before I do, I got to give somebody the opportunity to shift into accepting salvation. See, I was broken, jacked up, grew up in church, but was living wild,

addicted to pornography, a liar, manipulator. I had all kinds of negative and bad things in my heart. And one day, I heard about Jesus. Now I'd heard about him before, but I actually, you know when you hear something and then you actually start listening, I actually started listening. I was like, yo, I don't want to live this life no more. I need something to change it. And I asked Jesus to come into my heart for real. And I was like, whatever you want to do with me, I'm down. Like, I just don't want to live this no more. And I asked Jesus to come into my heart. And it's so beautiful because I was going to do one of those things like, but Lord, I need to get some things right before I come to you. And God was like, I'm the only one that can help you change your habits if you give me your heart. So I gave him my heart and he helped change my habits. And I'm not a perfect man, but man, I'm a progressive man. God has taken me from someone that I hated to someone that is helping people all over the world, not because I'm special, because I'm obedient. And today I want to give you the opportunity to make Jesus Christ your personal Lord and save your or rededicate your life and give your life back to him. It is the greatest decision I ever made. It changed me from the inside out.

Forget being a pastor, that's just me obeying my call. My life has been saved because of the blood of one man who poured out his life on Calvary so that I can have an option of maybe to choose him. And I'm telling you, you should choose him. (congregation applauding) And that good company, that good company, we pray for people to come to Jesus. So if you know Jesus already, I need you to just begin a prayer 'cause somebody's life is in the balance right now and you've been struggling and warned and you've been trying to fight and there's been a tension in God saying, "I brought you here so that you could accept me for real." And in this atmosphere right now, with everybody in here eyes open looking around 'cause at the end of the day, everybody's gonna know that you accepted Jesus 'cause your life is about to change. On the count of three, I just want you to slip your hand in the air and you say in the past, I want you to include me in that prayer. I want to give my life to Jesus. I want to accept Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior. One, you're making the greatest decision of your life. Two, your name is gonna be written in the Lamb's Book of Life. I already see a hand. Three, if you want to accept Jesus,

would you shoot your hand up in the air? Oh, good company, I see you, and more than that, God sees you. Can we give God a shout of praise in this place? Come on, there's a hand over here. Hand over here. (audience applauding) Glory to God. This is what a one year anniversary looks like. Real quick, if you raise your hand, lift it up real quick. The ushers want to give you something. There's a couple of people right here. There's some in the back. We don't want to embarrass you. We're not about to make you confess everything that you did, 'cause if we all had to confess, this would be a crazy reality TV show. Y'all hear what I'm saying? But thank God for His blood and His grace and His mercy. Today, today we're about to pray, and we're a family at Good Company, so we all gonna pray this prayer together for the benefit of those coming to Jesus. But I'm asking you to do two things. I want you to get in a good church. I think I know one, good company, and I'm gonna ask you to tell somebody that you made this decision. They gave you a piece of paper and they'll be a QR code, and we want to get you connected to what's happening. But more than anything,

we want you to get connected to Jesus. 'Cause when you meet Him, everything changes. So if you could all over this place, could you just lift your hands and just repeat after me? Say, "God, thank you for sending Jesus "to shift my life." Today, I believe that you lived, you died, and you rose again just for me. I repent of my sins, and I turn to you. I'm shifting into everything you have planned for me. Change me, renew me, transform me. I'm yours in Jesus' name. Amen. Can we hear the loudest shout in the building? Come on, all that heaven is rejoicing over one person. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! [MUSIC PLAYING]