It's Time To Shift // It's Time (Part 1) // Michael Todd

Pastor Mike here, and I've been on a sabbatical, and I'm back now, and I believe the word that God has given me is about to shift you into a brand new place in your life. Listen, this series is about to literally, I believe, move you into your prophetic destiny, and I want you to get ready with expectation. The series that I'm about to start, and that's about to rock your world, is called It's Time, 'cause I believe it's time for you to walk in to everything God has for you. I can't wait to hear the stories, get the letters, hear the testimonies of what God's doing in your life as you shift into your next season. I love you, enjoy this message. This what I've been waiting on for a long time, because today, we're starting a brand new series, and I'm gonna tell you what the series is in just a minute, but I have to give you a prophetic proclamation over your life. I gotta speak into your future today. So today, I'm speaking to you, but I'm speaking to the future you. Like today, I'm talking to you, but something on the inside of you is going to hear, they're gonna hear where you need to be, not where you are. And some of you have just been existing, but God has sent me to in the next 40 minutes, give you a prophetic push.

I'm about to try with everything in me to push you out of complacency. I'm going to be your anointed agitator today. I'm gonna mess with you in the spirit until you got to start moving something. Some of y'all have been in the same place for so long, you think that's where God wants you. You have started to put permanent fixtures where God had just had you for a season. You thought it's always gonna be like that. God said, "Who told you that?" And this is the season that I have to speak to your soul so that you can be able to hear the word of God in a fresh new way. This is gonna make sense in a minute, but I want everybody to stand up as I read the Bible this morning. Come on, we're going to old school church. Get on your feet. And I want you to turn your Bibles to Joshua chapter one. And if you don't 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 gonna challenge you. Number one, I'm gonna challenge everybody to get a real Bible. Not because it's better, but because you don't always charge your phone. (congregation laughing) I'm gonna 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." 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." You need to circle it. You need to be able to say something 'cause sometimes you're gonna be in places and that cell phone gonna be dead and you're gonna need to figure out, I know I put this somewhere and you're gonna 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 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? And so I'm challenging you to begin to get your face in the Bible. But Joshua chapter one is where we're starting today and it's been wrecking me. And so I'm gonna say what God said today. Are y'all ready? Your past has been gone for almost three months

and I'm about to preach my face off. (congregation cheering) Okay, here we go. Okay, I'm gonna preach my hair off, huh? That's what I'm gonna do. Here we go. Joshua chapter one, it says after the death of Moses, I didn't even say nothing. I love the church, well, I love my church. 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 none, Moses is assistant and this is what he said. Moses, my servant, is dead. Therefore, the time has come. Everybody say 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. I promise you what I promise Moses, wherever you set your foot, this makes me happy every time I read it. What? From the Najeev 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. 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, for I will be with you as I was with Moses. I will not fail you, 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 got faith, I am the one. It says for you are the one who will lead these people to possess all the land that I swore to the ancestors I would give to them. 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. It says, "Meditate on it day and night, so you will be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do." This is my command. Be strong and courageous. 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. 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's some 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? It's time. And 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, 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 start speaking God's word. Uh-oh, uh-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 shouted me by faith. It's time. No, I don't have all the resources. No, I don't know nobody. I don't know nobody's asked for me, but guess what God said? Y'all don't... I came to let you know that you have been waiting on God to do something, and He came to let you know today. Guess what, baby? It's time. Well, God, I wish I had more time. Oh, you do. It's time. It's your time to step into everything that God has called you to. 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 it's time, and you're like, "At the beginning of the year, I promise God." January 1st. That's when I'm really going. It's time now. Did y'all see where it happened for Joshua? I want you to put in the 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. Whatever position you've been in, it's time to... Everybody changed the way you're sitting right now. Just get on one other butt cheek. Just lean up in it like 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 the same time. (cheers and applause) The sound changed in the room. People had to move. People's elbows touched each other 'cause you was just perfectly positioned, like these seats are so close together. Oh my God. And when you shifted, you touched somebody you never touched before because a shift requires, watch this YouTube divorce here. And some of y'all are so comfortable with here. I just got here. And God said, but I'm moving to something else. So you can stay there without me or you can move with me.

And I came today, I'm telling y'all right now, I'm in my prophetic bank. God told me to tell you, it's time now. All right, this for the 14 people that came with an expectation today. I need you to see what God says to Moses in verse two. I mean, says to Joshua in verse two. This is his communication to 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 because I don't know if everybody understands the backdrop that we're setting right now. Moses is Moses. Like I just want everybody to know in the Bible, there's only a few characters that are like staple pillars of like, this is 10 Commandments Moses. Y'all got what I'm saying? This is like part the Red Sea Moses. This ain't Mitch from around the way. This Moses, y'all got what I'm saying? Like there's some people that's like, yo, Moses is dead, give me a minute. Let me grieve. Let me have some time to process.

And what I found with many Christians is you've been disobeying God for closure. You've won it closure in a season. You want somebody to come and apologize. You want everybody to recognize they were wrong about you. And God said, I've moved on. And I need you to as well. Oh, y'all don't hear what I'm saying. It's time to shift. I mean, think about it, Joshua is sitting here and God does not give him even a verse to process. It's a comma, 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 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 were you ready to do this, but before you were formed in your mother's womb, I knew you. I put some on the inside of you that you haven't even tapped into. It's time for you to somebody say shift. It's time to shift. And this is what I need everybody to know.

Write this down. God's not negotiating what's next. You can keep telling them why you can't and he's going to move on to somebody else. God just give me a little more time. He said, we ain't got time for all that. These people have been waiting to see what I said to them for 40 years. Generations have died because they wouldn't do what I asked them to do. 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. You worried about what your family going to think. (audience cheering) And God is calling us to shift. So today I'm going to just give you four things that you need to know about the shift that is coming in your life. Somebody say it's coming. Some of y'all have already since, how many people have already been sensing that something's changing in me, around me, for me? Even the way that I'm talking and the stuff I used to do and I feel comfortable no more and I used to watch that, but now it gives me, like I used to be able to go around

with them and every time I'm around them, I'm like this is immature. What are we talking about? Like yum. Somebody yell at me shift. It's time to shift. The first thing I need you to know about a shift, the shift is sudden. That's how fast God can change your season. Y'all didn't see it. Let me give you cultural context. Moses is sick of leading these people. Let me just give you context. They rebellious. They be building golden idols when they were supposed to be praising. They pressuring him. They emailing him all the time talking about, "I wish you would preach a better assignment." Like, 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 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." And then, no, y'all got to read the Bible, it's amazing. And then Moses was like, "Hold out! Don't do it! I know they're crazy. They get on my nerves too, but spare the people." And so God's like, "Moses, because you my dog, Mo, I'm going to do it this time." And then what ends up happening, Moses gets so frustrated at the next time because they

end the desert and they be complaining and they need water and they see all these miracles that God has done with water through Moses and so they need water. And God told Moses, "Strike the rock one time." He struck the wall. Boom, waterfall. God nice the sunny, aquafina water coming out of the rock. But then God wanted to do it a different way. I'm just giving you the MAT version, the Michael Alexander version of the Bible. And then what ends up happening is he comes back and the people is pressuring him. And they're like, "We need some water. We parched. We parched. We thirsty. We thirsty." And 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. So God said, "Don't strike the rock again." And Moses was like, "But I'm sick of them." Boom, boom. And he struck the rock walk 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 to 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? Moses strikes the rock. Watch this. I just 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?" And Dad comes in and he's like, "Come here." You already know it. Moses walking up, mow out, by y'all. Because what Moses knows is he disobeyed God and him's coming in. And what God was about to do, watch this, was take him. And when I say take him, I don't mean on a trip, on a little rocket ship. I mean, he's about to die because he disobeyed God. I know this is heavy for some of y'all. This is why I need you to understand the ship. Now, Moses goes up the mountain and the Bible tells us that God buries him. He says, "Your disobedient means you're not going to see the promised land. I buy Moses. You're going to come to heaven, but I'm going to bury you where nobody can find you." And my friend passed the brandon clock. He says something that messed me up. He says, "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." Can somebody thank God for the grace of God? Okay. And what the people would have done was made a monument to Moses when he wanted them to shift into the promised land. So God said, "Moses, you come up with me. They still can't find the body to this day." The people start mourning because they're like, "Moses, I've been gone a long time. Where is Moses?"

And the Bible says that the people were mourning for 30 days. "Moses, Moses, where is Moses?" And I want you to see that they're in this moment. He's the same disobedient people that when he told them to do stuff, that's the people who cry over you and never listen to you when you're alive. But this is the crazy thing. I missed him. Listen. God. Leave. What ends up happening is Joshua, watch this, it's probably mourning. God comes to Joshua in his own private time. And this is the context in which he says, Joshua chapter 1 verse 2. Hey, guess what? Josh. Yes, God. God. Hold on, wait. What does that mean? I'm not explaining it. We get no more context. We get no more explanation. No more consulting. That's dead. Shift. I was doing it through him. I ain't no more. 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? 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." 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." 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's the people with faith to believe it? Another level of clarity, and it's going to happen like... Who had trouble making a car payment this month? First person, what's your name? What did you say? "Gemaya, how much do a car payment?" 500 and what?

Five hundred and three? Five hundred and thirty. I just want the hang. I'm far away from her, guys. How are you? Five hundred and thirty. I just paid the next two months of your 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 been... God was talking about this to me early this morning, and the shift happened. Somebody should praise God because if he's doing it for her. A shift can happen just like y'all don't hear me. Just like that. 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. And some of y'all are about to get happy. God has spoken a word over your life. And you 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. Oh. One word. One word from God. One obeyed instruction. 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 got faith, you better grab this right now. Some of y'all going to get a call this week. That's going to shift everything. Oh, I feel this. One call. One select. And the shift happens just like. Shut, sudden shift. Suddenly God's gonna do it, suddenly somebody's gonna do it, suddenly somebody's gonna do it. Suddenly, my marriage is about to get better. We was on the brink of divorce, and you just started looking good to me. 'Cause this tells us that it doesn't take long for God to shift things. Suddenly, God can change all that anger into joy. (audience cheering) 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.

(audience cheering) People around you're gonna be like, "What's wrong with you?" I ain't never seen you smile this much. And you gonna say something happened to me, and it was just like, y'all don't hear me. Somebody, that's your word today. You better wake up every morning with expectation. What about to shift in my life today? God, I sense your presence. I know you're doing something. Okay. All right. 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. Who couldn't make their house payment this month? I saw you in the bag with the white jacket. Right there, right there. Yeah, yeah, you, you. How much your house payment? (audience cheering) You got to yell it loud, baby. It's changed. It's zero for this month. I just paid it. (audience cheering) This is the part where you should be shouting with her. We rejoice with those who rejoice. (audience cheering)

Y'all, y'all haven't learned nothing. If God's the whole service can turn into this. (audience cheering) Okay. (audience cheering) And it happened just like. Okay. Some of y'all don't 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 gonna be shifted some things in you. Sifted some things in your family. Shifted some things in your finances. And if God plays right now, if you sense the shit, not do that. Oh my, my, my, my, my. It's a sudden shit. It's about to change. You've been denied. You're about to get access. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Access, access, access. Open the doors. Let me in. God's about to do it in my life. (audience cheering) Some of y'all hear me. I prophetically speak. Some of y'all been knocking on doors and it's been closed to you perpetually.

But go back and knock again. There's about to be a sudden access that God gives to you for the thing He told you to do. It's time. It's time. Shout out somebody and say, it's time. Y'all sit down and I gotta get through this. (audience cheering) It's time. It's time. Look at your neighbor, it's time. It's time for you to come out of the back. God's gonna use you in the front. It's time, it's time, it's time. It's time. My bald-headed brother right there in, yep, right there, right there. God's about to use you in a way. That literally has never been seen by your wife or anybody else. He's been speaking to you about things that only you could know. And He told me to interrupt this sermon to tell you it's time. 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 in our field of presence of God. He's shifting it.

Right now stretch your hands 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 His feet tread, that you are literally bringing Him in to promise and He's not going alone. There's a generation behind Him that you're about to see, save, heal, deliver and set free. If you believe it, shout out to God with the voice of Christ. (congregation cheering) I said shout out to God with the voice of Christ. All right. One more time, we'll say somebody say it's time. bless you because God is literally about to, he's, I'm so in seat, I'm not just giving you something. I'm not supposed to say the amount, but I have to bless you because God, God is about to teach you how to handle resources that you didn't have to work for. I see you to spend, I'm sorry, y'all, God is, he's highlighting him for a second. He's literally going to give you the ability to be trusted. I keep seeing the big word trusted, and there's some things he's shifting in your life because he wants to prove he's God, not anything else. Okay, okay, we're still on point one and, okay, here we go, point two, okay, it's time. Point two, write it down real quick because I got to get this fully out. The shift is always since before it's seen. Now 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. So he had to sense the shift before the people he even was going to lead would be able to see it.

What I'm telling you is your sense is many times stronger than what is seen. And society would have you think and culture would have you 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. And what he's saying to Joshua is, I need you to believe you're 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 give you the credential than God who knows you, okay, okay, okay. Pastor Mike, what are you saying, this is how Joshua gets installed as the new leader, privately. I know you want to Instagram posts to say, I'm brand new. Nobody messing with me, boss B, and all the other stuff that you want to say. And 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. God could have come to him and said, Moses is dead and he'd be like, no, never. We need to sit out a search committee, 12 tribes, we got to go look for Moses. He said he dead. I'm using you. You're promoting, congratulations, y'all know what I'm saying, you're promoting. And some of you, I need you to hear me say this, nobody else has to agree with what God just shifted you into. Okay, I know there's 14 people, somebody in this section needs to hear me, nobody else has to agree.

Your family don't have to agree, your boss don't have to agree, your girlfriends don't have to agree. They don't even pray for you. So this is what I'm saying to you. Oh, y'all be acting like people pray for you, they don't pray for you. I'm praying for you, no they not. This is what I'm telling you. You need to trust what God told you and pride it 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. Whatever you say and pass the mic, the people will see what God already said. Oh, God, you don't need them to see it when he says it, but you've got to believe it when he says it and a shift happens just like some of you are no longer employees. You're business owners. Y'all missed it. Oh, watch this, watch it, watch it going to embers and some of you are no longer business owners. Y'all don't want this one. You're an employee. You will never miss somebody sold you on a dream. You have the gift of administration. But you're in the wrong spot trying to do the wrong thing with no grace and no oil. You need to know it's shifted just like. Okay, you could be mad at me, but you need to put clothes on your, okay, clothes. Can I say it? 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. You ain't never going to win a wing over there, but you the man. And God is calling some of us to divine collaboration.

Some of y'all, y'all competition is actually the person that's supposed to complete you. Jerry Maguire, you complete me, that is supposed to be a mama. I need you to hear me say this because some of y'all are trying to prove something to somebody who did not call you. You need to believe what God said because a shift can happen just like, okay, do you sense it? Joshua had to sense it before he saw it. And as Joshua sensed the shift, this is what you need to know. The shift is never publicly announced before it is personally sensed. So this is the question I need you to ask yourself, what am I sensing? What's around me? What don't, what's not fitting no more? What has to, what am I sensing? To be able to sense something you have to be still enough to be able to observe. And some of y'all busy bodies, don't, I'm shaking everywhere, doing everything outside and God says sit down. Sense where I'm at. Sense how I want to use you a brand new way. Sense that your husband needs your encouragement. He needs your work, no, he needs his wife to speak life into him right now. You've been trying, my daddy never needed that, your daddy was disappointed too. And God's trying to, y'all don't hear me, you need to sense something different right now. He needs six months of encouragement. Big daddy ain't nobody like you, he, ladies, let me give you a tip. 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. But that baby'll get down and start giving you 20, you hear what I'm saying. Let's go.

That's the mic. What are you saying? What are you saying? There's a shift coming. Watch this. And most of us want to shift on levels. And the Holy Spirit told me to tell you this, like a lot of times in church we use this language as Christian either, it's like we're going to another level. And I'm like, yeah, but I see in the Bible a lot of times that God takes people to new dimensions. Now, now watch, no one's 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's not working, there's another way to get to the second floor. The stairs. And when you take the stairs from going from one level to the second level, what ends up happening is you got to go through every step. And some of y'all have been tired because God's calling you to another level, but you feel it at every step. And every step, I'm going through the same thing. And every step, somebody's leaving me. At every step, I feel like I can't, and you've been fatigued because you've just been thinking that, oh, God can only do levels. But I found out in his word, like Joshua, he can skip you from levels to new dimensions. And when you go to a new dimension, you get to skip levels. Y'all didn't hear what I just said. The difference between a rocket ship taking somebody from the earth to the moon, you're not on steps, you're cracking atmosphere. And 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, a different atmosphere of finance,

a different atmosphere of understanding the world and words of knowledge, a different atmosphere of it being able to even know what's going on in your family. And you sick of going up these steps because you won't embrace the shift. But today, I speak to somebody that 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, watch this, that don't make sense to nobody. Joshua is about to take a leap that didn't make sense, watch this, even to him. [BLANK_AUDIO] "Who me?" (congregation laughing) Why me? What do you think? This is what, but you have to believe it for yourself. And so this is, 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's dead, but what he said he was gonna do, I did it. And some of you 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. And I wanted it that way. And that's the way that I found God, and that's the way that I found this, and that's the way I found,

and God's saying, "Oh, oh." (congregation laughing) But that's dead. Why are you playing with that stuff? (congregation cheering) When you play with dead stuff, you get diseased. (congregation laughing) You gotta stay away from dead stuff. Some of y'all are in dead relationship. You know that's not your wife. You know that's not your wife, but she will hold you and cook for you. You know I'm looking at you. (congregation laughing) And you keep going to that safe space 'cause you won't deal with the inside of insecurity, and you need to be held by somebody, 'cause you didn't get that affection from your mom, and so you've now found it in other people. And God said, "You playing with dead things." I got your wife on the wings, but I love her too much. To trust her to somebody that's diseased. Y'all don't hear me. (congregation laughing) It's time for you to shift, man. A God shifting the purity, shifting to be a man of integrity, shifting to not hitting on every girl that's around you. If you, I see you, boy,

you have no intentions of marrying her, but you're using me, used by the 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. And this is why I gotta say this, because you gotta 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. When you add, when you actually get out of the position you were in, snakes, people who don't have faith like you. People who wanna be like, but didn't you fail last time? When you're wig stiff last time? No, I'm just like, I just, 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 tried to poison the new version that God's trying to bring you into. I mean, you working out again? Then you do that last time? When are you on Jenny Craig for a little bit? Why, why, why, why when you try to make a set? 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 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 in a funny story and then we're gonna get out of here, my daughter Gigi, she's five, like Pastor Nat told you, and she's like a scientist. She, her brain, she loves to learn about things that a five year old usually doesn't wanna learn about. She wants to know how the body works and she wants to know how do you sneeze and what are boogers and how are they made? And no, I'm not even playing like, she told her mama, can you buy me a book about the esophagus? I was like, I... (audience laughs) And so the other day, her mom being the great loving mom that she is, she bought her a whole collection of national geographics for kids. And you would've thought that 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 like, oh my God, so much to learn. I was like, who's kid is this? (audience laughs) And so that night, I said, Gigi, which book do you wanna read? And then she's looking at all of these books

about volcanoes and tigers and all this. And she's like, daddy, can we read about snakes? And the Brenda Todd and me rose up. I said, I would beat you, snake. (audience laughs) We are not the devils of snake. And I was like, hold on, a snake is a creature. God, create a grail, okay. I said, yeah, baby, we can read about the snakes. I was reading things that I didn't understand. And I started to read about a snake's venom, and I always thought when you get bit by a snake, it's to kill you. 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. So what is happening for many of you is you're around people and you say, I feel like this is what God is telling me to do. And what they do is they put the venom in you and it's to make you back up. And maybe God didn't say it. Maybe that's not God, but some of y'all gotta remember what Paul did after he survived the shipwreck in Acts 28. When he actually got up on the panels and made it and he started a fire. And as soon as he started to 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. And I'm about to say to 5,000 of y'all that this is the season. Let 'em talk about you. Let 'em write a blog about you. Let your family hit you in the group chat. Maybe it's time to shake it off. Some of y'all, my faith just begin to shake it off. Every negative word. Everything that I've been going to. Everything that I believe. (congregation cheering) I'm shaking off all of those word curses that was spoken on to me. I'm shaking off all the lack of 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. (congregation cheering) All right. The reason you have to shift and you gotta shake it off is because your life depends on it. (congregation cheering) If Paul doesn't shake it off, it stays in him. Pastor Mike, why is this important? Ask me, Pastor Mike, why is this important?

I'm glad you asked because you can't carry the vision and venom. This next season, you don't have enough room to be mad and see the miracle. Oh, y'all don't hear me. The reason you have to forgive is not even for them. 'Cause you can't carry this faith and that unforgiveness. This next season, you don't have the capacity to be mad at them and actually hate on them and see the healing. He said, you gotta shake it off because that venom can't go into this next version. (congregation cheering) Some of y'all about to shift into a new version of you. You're about to reintroduce yourself. You're about to become a different version of people at school, you're at your high school, you went in, you left one way on Friday, you introducing yourself a brand new way on Monday or Tuesday 'cause we got a break, we got a holiday. After Labor Day, your labor is gonna be like, I'm not going back in there the same way that I left there. And this is why I need you to understand, this is what God's saying, that venom of bitterness. You gotta let it go. You gotta shake it off. They left you. 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 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 promise land. And what I'm saying is the venom in the vision can't go together. God's saying heal, let it go. Talk about it, get therapy, ask for prayer. Let's move from this place, somebody say shift. Last point that I want everybody to get in it, I'm gonna keep going next week, okay? Because this next season will either be defined, watch this by instructions or infection. You will either listen to the instructions that God's saying, hey Moses is dead, shift. Take these people into the promise land. Either you will live your life by the instruction. I don't care what it looks like. He gave me an instruction. Abby, 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, that's sensing the shift. Today I came to prophetically tell you it's time. Stop cussing at them kids.

Okay, okay, see y'all thought it was starting to get a new house. It's time for you to shut up. Come on, y'all. It's time for you to show up on work on time. Okay? Well, no, I mean 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 watch this in wisdom. And this is what you need to know about a shift. Last point, write it down. The shift is always in a sequence. So God is so good that he says, guess what? I'm going to tell you, Moses is dead. Get up, obey by instructions. Like, 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 for your 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, and then he says, keep listening for instructions. And what I've seen with people who are happy and God, crazy faith to shift, move the torso. Yes, I'm moving the torso. You didn't fill out one application for a job.

There's power and priority. Power and doing things organized in order. And I'm not saying he didn't tell you to move. I'm just saying, living in the parking lot is not our responsibility. Because many times when God tells you to shift, you have to do it in sequence. And some of you have been disappointed because you helped. 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 going. And 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 people up, packed up, and ready to move. It was going to take three days. We don't got three months. We got three days. Get your stuff in order because we're about to move. And I hear God 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? Who do you want me to do standing 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.

Before you leave, you're about to miss the best part. Here's what I'm about to say. 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. And what they didn't know is how they were going to get in. But the reason that this miracle happened was because 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. Something I need you to do. And 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, everybody can sense it. That band, hearing 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? The shift happens. There's a sound. I want you to do it one more time. Shift up. Everybody. Shift up. Everybody go. Hold on. Hold on.

Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. 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 distracted us because a few people decided not to shift. The reason why you're here today is because some of you have been the ones that decided, "Well, I'm not going to do what God told me to. They don't really need me." What I'm saying is the bass player is one musician. hindered all of us from experiencing the sound that was supposed to happen. But what would happen if everybody at the same time shifted all together? I need you to feel that there's something changing on the inside of us that as we shift together and your family shift together, there's gonna be a movement and a sound 'cause you shift one more time, lift your hands all over this place. Father, I thank you that we sense your shift right now. The only reason they knew how to shift is because they were shifting in a sequence. They were going from A to A flat and A flat. They were shifting in a sequence. Today, if you're in this room and you're sensing a shift, today, we're gonna end this service at the altar. If that's you and you know there's a shift happening,

oh, there's a lot of 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 top to the back. If you're at home watching online, get off the couch, get out on the bed, 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, others if you know that there is a shift that's happening. I don't 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 and lift it up. Worship team, come. If you're watching online, I need you to shift to a different position. It's time. It's time. It's time. Come on. It doesn't matter. Well, I don't like being hurt like that. Listen, the shift in your life may be uncomfortable to somebody else. You might have to scoot your way into the next season. Come on, come on. Some of you, God, are shifting all over this place. 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's called me to do this. 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 sent you. And what Joshua needed was a moment 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. And some of you have been waiting for this magical moment and 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. Hear me what I say to you. Somebody else's deliverance is waiting on you to shift. Y'all didn't get it. Hear what I'm saying to you. God was not talking to the children of Israel. 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. And there are people waiting on your word, Sophie. There are people waiting on your yes, Rich. There are people waiting on your obedience, Alex. There are people waiting that you don't even know yet. That 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 say yes and shift in this moment, they spend another generation in the wilderness. But today I believe under the sound of my voice, who I feel the presence of God. I came to speak to your spirit 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 nose to yeses. 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 same place waiting for you to give them another sign. And 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 wanna be in the back, I didn't wanna do it, 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 wanna be altered here at this altar. Today, Father, change 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 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, everything that is tried to pause, shiara makasi, on dala masi, everything that is 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, it's a shift coming in your worship. There's a shift coming to your mind. And today, we shake off every lie. Shiara, we shake off every, yep, right there. And then, I will not be defined by the words that people who loved me spoke over me. I am no longer limited. Yeah, I'm telling y'all, I am no longer limited by any lie. Today, I wanna be altered right here. Yeah, so take my heart and mow the, lift your hands. This is your prayer, take my mind and transform it. It's time to shift, take my wheel and shift it God. God, I wanna shift to yours. Come on, all over this place, we're about to go home, but I need you to lift your hands and make this declaration say it. Say take my heart, Father, you can shift my heart and mold it. And take my mind, every thought, transform it. God, and take my wheel.

I can be hard-headed sometime, but today, I surrender it to you, God. Amen. Sit to yours, shift me, God. I wanna be altered here at the y'all's. God, do the work on the inside of me. I've been wanting it to happen externally, but it's gotta happen internally. Shift me, God. I feel the presence of God, y'all. Somebody's changing, listen to me. This shift starts today, it doesn't finish today. I want you to know that many times when God does something, he's saying to Joshua, like, hey, the shift is happening, but this is about to be a sequence, a process, but it has to start, watch this with a decision. This next dimension's gonna be a decision. Decide today, I'll never be the same. Decide today, I ain't letting him come over and do what we was doing. Decide today, I no longer need that to find joy. Decide today, I will speak life over people, even when it feels awkward. Decide today, I'm gonna become better with my money so that God can trust me what he's asked me to do. Decide. What is a decision, a shift, and it's time to shift. Let me say this before we leave, 'cause I feel like God's about to start speaking. Your senses are about to be heightened.

I sense like this is what God wants to do. Do y'all hear what I'm saying some of y'all gonna eat with your wife today or sit With your children and you're gonna sense the things you need to talk to them about the Holy Spirit will lead you into all truth You 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? Do you not sit I'm done with that do you 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 made the decision and thousands of other people made the decision but this is the one decision that will 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 who created you today under the sound of my voice Whether in this room watching in a jail cell online watching on rebroadcast ten years from now Today is the day of salvation and anybody who's already made that decision I need you to begin to pray, but if you want to accept Jesus as your personal or in 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 gonna be written in the lambs book of life One you're making the greatest decision of your life. I already see hands too 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 oh come on TC. I see you I see you for more than that God sees you. Let's give him praise Here listen if you're online put put a hand in the chat. We're cheering for you. It's time It's time and at TC. We're a family. Nobody prays alone 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 and I turn

To you. I believe you lived You died and you rose again with all power Just for me So 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, can we celebrate all over this room? Come on. This should be the loudest shot of the day heaven is rejoicing Welcome to the family Listen, you just made that decision. I want you to text save to a to a to a to or click the QR code on the screen Because we're about to start a journey everybody under the sound of my voice to 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 gonna give you practical of how to ship. This is the time we gonna get baptized This is a time we bring in our family This is the time I want you to invite people and let them know that the house of God is the place where they're gonna find their next answer And I want to let I want you to know that God wants to continue to do the shift on the inside of you So even as the worship team, we dismiss service. There's gonna be a party on the lawn. Don't just rush out We got stuff for you meet people who knows your husband and your wife might be in here right now There's a shift okay Your next business partner your friend group We're here somebody shot at me shift But maybe the shift God wants to do is at the altar so altar workers I know this is a little different But I sense the presence if people are lingering up here and need prayer

I want y'all to just come and pray and we're gonna worship for a second and you can go out there and celebrate the freedom that you miss If you're watching online, this is your season get in the house of God virtually and let's see God Do something amazing lift your hands all over this place God. I pray that today the shift has become begun and It is becoming to be our normal bless these people. I declare this will be the best week. They've had Not because anything great happened to them, but something great happened to end them. I Thank you that you're shifting their mindset their business different, their kids, they're gonna see obstacles and 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 face everything that comes in their life. Today we are making a decision to shift into the promise that you've called us to. And Father, as you do it, we will give you all the glory, all the honor, and all the praise. It's in Jesus' name we pray. Can somebody say, "Hey, man, would you give God one big shout of praise?" Until next week, go out and live a transformed life. I love you so much. If you need prayer, just worship him. Our team is coming. (bell chimes) [BLANK_AUDIO]