Subtle Until Suddenly | Sarah Jakes Roberts

Summary

The Potter’s House Podcast: “Subtle Until Suddenly”

Speaker: Sarah Jakes Roberts
Date: February 15, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this powerful sermon, Sarah Jakes Roberts explores how God often works in ways that are “subtle until suddenly.” Through a deep dive into Acts 17 and other biblical passages, she unpacks the unpredictable, multifaceted methods in which God reveals Himself and orchestrates transformation in believers' lives. Roberts weaves personal reflection, prophetic encouragement, and scriptural exegesis to inspire listeners to trust God’s process—whether change comes in big, dramatic moments or through slow, incremental growth. The message challenges listeners to remain sensitive and open to God's pace and to embrace both subtle and sudden breakthroughs as meaningful parts of their faith journey.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Historical & Scriptural Context

• Thessalonica’s Religious Diversity: Roberts sets the backdrop in Acts 17, noting how Christianity was not the dominant religion in 50 AD, but considered a “mystery religion” (04:20).
• Paul’s Journey & Boldness: Paul continues preaching the Gospel even after being beaten and imprisoned, showing faith despite adversity (06:00-07:55).

2. God’s Unpredictable Ways

• Desire for Consistency vs. God’s Methods: Roberts draws parallels between human relational patterns and the desire to define God, highlighting the danger of limiting God to expected ways based on past experiences (08:30-11:30).

  “If we restricted God to our paradigms on how people show up, we would be in trouble because his methods are often changing. Not his essence, but his method.” (10:15)

• Flexible Faith: Emphasizing Isaiah 55:8, she urges believers to release their grip on how God “should” act and be open to divine interruption (13:45-15:00).

3. Embracing Spiritual Detours

• Detours Aren’t Cancellations: God altering your path doesn’t mean the destination has changed; it just means there’s another route to get there (16:14-17:36).

  “Rebuke the mentality that a detour is a cancellation of your destiny… I may change the course of action, but I didn’t change the destination.” (16:24)

• Grieving Expectations: It’s important to acknowledge and grieve when things don’t go your way to prevent distance or passive aggression in your relationship with God (18:19-19:58).

4. Unlocking God’s and Your Own Potential

• Limits on God & Self: Placing limits on what God can do also limits your own growth and potential (20:00-22:00).

  “If you cannot unlock the limit on God’s potential, you will never fully unlock the limits on your potential.” (20:36)

• Aligning with God Over Imitating Others: True fulfillment and effectiveness come from following God’s example and ways, not from emulating other people’s success or personas (22:32-23:02).

5. Suddenly and Subtly: Two Sides of the Same God

• Examples of Sudden Moves: Moses’ burning bush, Mary’s angelic visitation, and Paul’s Damascus conversion illustrate God’s capacity for dramatic, life-changing moments (34:21-35:05).
• Examples of Subtle Moves: God shows up as a still small voice with Elijah; Jesus’ quiet upbringing in Nazareth; gradual deliverances and incremental transformation (35:05-39:26).

  “Suddenly builds momentum for suddenly. A lot of times we say that people are like overnight successes, but we only think they’re overnight successes because we didn’t see the subtle moments that led to the big moments.” (39:26-40:31)

• Valuing the Subtle: Small, private acts of obedience and quiet growth are just as vital as visible, miraculous events (41:58-44:12).

6. Transformation Over Conversion

• Conversion = Turning; Transformation = Becoming: Roberts distinguishes between a momentary turn towards God (conversion) and the process of deep, lasting change (transformation) (56:43-57:42).
• Transformation Changes Senses: God wants to alter how you see, hear, touch, taste, and perceive, enabling you to engage with the world more like Jesus (59:40-63:24).

7. Sustaining Suddenly with Subtle Obedience

• Maintaining Breakthrough: Sudden moments require continued care and subtle, daily obedience to be sustained and fully integrated—momentum is built and maintained between the sudden breakthroughs (47:48-50:59).
• Paul’s Example: After his sudden conversion, Paul spends years in relative obscurity, nurturing what God has done before returning to public ministry (55:07-56:19).

8. Transformed Identity and Endurance

• Walking Into Adversity: Transformational change enables believers to persist even in hostile or discouraging environments—like Paul preaching after beatings and imprisonment (66:27-68:27).

  “If you have just been converted, you will let the threats run you out of position. But when you have been transformed, you will see the threat for what it is.” (68:27)

9. The Power and Threat of Subtle Obedience

• Subtle Upsets the System: Even quiet acts of faith threaten oppressive structures and are noticed by spiritual opposition, proving that “subtle” carries world-changing authority (75:53-77:33).

  “Subtle turns into suddenly. And when suddenly turns into suddenly, it will turn the world upside down.” (77:20)

10. Personal Application & Prophetic Prayer

• Prophetic Challenge: Listeners are invited to embrace subtle obedience if sudden isn’t available, with the promise that both are instrumental in God’s work (77:36-79:05).
• Prayer for Sensitivity & Transformation: Encouragement to seek transformation in all senses, to “fit” in God’s plan, and to be bold in occupying assigned territory, whether change comes subtly or suddenly (88:26-100:46).
• Corporate Prayer & Altar Call: Roberts leads the audience in a powerful, extended time of prayer, calling for both sudden breakthroughs and willingness to walk out subtle change (88:26-100:46).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “I don’t question whether or not he’s coming. I’m sensitive to see how he’s going to come. One thing about him that I know is that my God is on the way.” (14:36)
• “Just because I changed the road doesn’t mean I changed the destination. I got a million ways to get you there.” (15:48)
• “Suddenly builds momentum for suddenly… but then suddenly moments are sustained subtly.” (46:18)
• “You may not have the strength you once had… but if you cannot do it with intensity, you must do it subtly.” (77:39)
• “This is not just religion. Miss me with religion. We’ve had enough of it. I need some people in this room who want to be in relationship with God.” (25:08)
• “Transformation is when you take on a new form. …There are moments when we have people who have been converted, but not transformed.” (56:49)
• “If you were anointed in your younger years, that same anointing is in your latter years, because you can’t help but be who you are.” (72:28-73:22)
• “I hear God saying that this is a message for those who are not overcomers. This is a message for those who are overturners. …The world is overturned when believers refuse to process it in the old way, because my senses have been changed.” (82:44)

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Important Segments & Timestamps

• Acts 17 Context and the Nature of God: 02:04–15:34
• Letting Go of Expectations & Trusting the Detour: 13:45–17:02
• Unlocking God’s Potential & Aligning with His Ways: 20:00–25:36
• Suddenly vs. Subtly—Biblical Examples and Practical Application: 34:21–44:12
• Subtle Change Leading to “Sudden” Breakthroughs: 39:26–43:04
• Conversion vs. Transformation—Changing Your Senses: 56:43–66:29
• Enduring Threats & The Power of a Transformed Identity: 66:27–73:22
• Subtle Obedience as a World-Changer: 75:53–77:33
• Prophetic Prayer and Commissioning: 88:26–100:46

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Final Takeaways

• Subtle steps and incremental change are just as essential as sudden, dramatic breakthroughs. God values small, consistent obedience, which prepares and sustains the way for the extraordinary.
• Transformation goes deeper than conversion: God seeks to change not only your direction but your perception, identity, and way of being—so you can “turn the world upside down” even (especially) when it feels like your efforts are subtle or unnoticed.
• Embrace the detour and trust God’s process, whether breakthrough is gradual or instantaneous.
• A fully transformed identity enables you to stand strong in adversity, carrying the power of God into any territory you step into.

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“Subtle until suddenly”—trust the process, lean into the small things, and anticipate that your subtle obedience is building momentum for the world-changing suddenlies God has in store.

Transcript

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This is the Potter's House Podcast. We're here to keep you filled with the Spirit and guided by the scriptures. I'm in Acts 17 if you like to take notes. The topic that God has given me is subtle until suddenly. Subtle until suddenly we are in Acts 17. If you have your Bible, say I got my Bible, you got your real Bible. I'm not saying y' all phone not a real Bible, but I'm just, I'm gonna give you those who got the words that you got to flip through. I'm gonna give you some time to get to Acts 17. And for those of you who have an app, I'm gonna get you time to close out of Instagram. That's a distraction. Don't check your mail. Make your way to Acts 17. I say this all the time, but I've been using my Physical Bible for a few years now. I'd gotten into the habit of using my phone. And, you know, I grew up. We were forced to go to vacation Bible school. And you knew the books, had a Bible and you had Bible trivia and you flipped the Bible open. Child, I must have went to go look for something one day and couldn't remember. I said, I need to bring my Bible out because technology is trying to ruin my witness. So I like bringing my words so that I can just continue to really develop in the Lord and know where I want to find what I'm looking for, when I'm looking for what I'm looking for. Amen. Somebody caught that in the Spirit for context. The year most theologians believe that this has taken place is 50 AD. Paul, who will be our communicator of God's truth for this morning, has left Macedonia and he's made his way to a town called Thessalonica. Thessalonica is the town in which the letters that are written to the Thessalonians, this is their city. And Thessalonica is a place that is religiously diverse. All of the Roman Empire was religiously diverse. They had pagan gods, they were polytheistic. And so it wasn't uncommon for them to serve many different gods. There was Zeus, who they believed was one of the gods, and there was Dionysus. There were many, many gods. And then they also worshiped the emperor. And so there are all of these different religions. And I give you that context to understand sometimes we're so used, especially in America, though, we have people watching from all over the world to Christianity being the dominant religion. But at this time in 50 AD, it is not the dominant religion. As a matter of fact, some would call it a mystery religion because it wasn't like any of the pagan worship that the Romans were used to at that time. And so when we find Paul in the text, he is beginning to evangelize about Jesus the Christ, the Messiah, the chosen one, the king of kings. To say that he was the king of kings when there was a Roman emperor who was supposed to be the only king was a dangerous thing to say, but he's saying it anyway. And he left Macedonia in which he cast out a spirit out of a girl. And when he cast this spirit out of the girl, it caused an issue within Macedonia, and so he ended up being beaten and imprisoned. Imprisoned. And yet he is in Thessalonica doing the same thing that got him in trouble. In Acts 16, says then Paul, as his custom was, went into them and for three Sabbaths reason with them from the Scriptures. He's gone into the synagogues in Thessalonica and he is explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead and saying, this Jesus whom I preach to you is the Christ. And some of them were persuaded. And a great multitude of the devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women joined Paul and Silas. But the Jews who were not persuaded, becoming envious. They're envious because he's converting those who were non believers and those who were Jews into believers of the way they went and they grabbed some of the evil men from the marketplace and gathering a mob, set all the city in an uproar and attacked the house of Jason. That's where they felt like the apostles were staying and sought to bring them out to the people. But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason. Because if we can't get you, we'll take whoever's connected to to you and some brethren to the rulers of the city crying out, these who have turned the world upside down have come here too. Spirit of the living God, I need you. I ask that you would rest in me, God, that you would allow me to become one with you, that I may deliver only what you desire to be saved. Said, I've done my studying, but this is your people, this is your moment. And so I ask that you would align my heart with what you want to see happen in this room. And God, I pray that you would open the hearts of those who are meant to receive what is in this room. That just for a moment you would silence, doubt, worry and distraction, and that you would allow them to receive from you, that it would be healed, healing, that it would be challenging, that it would be transforming. And I thank you, God, that as you do that, that we will be radically changed, to go out into the world and be like these who turn the world upside down. Have your way in this room as only you can do in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. You can be seated. Say something nice to the person before you sitting down. Go to work. I hear you. Here we go. You know, this weekend we had Make It Last. Make It Last was phenomenal and Make It Last was our marriage weekend, though we have marriage community groups and ways for married couples to be encouraged throughout the year. Make It Last was just a weekend where you could come together and have fun and hear from other married couples in different seasons and stages of life. And it falls on Valentine's Day weekend, which is a time where we Begin to reflect about relationships and love. And most of the time, it's romantic relationships. But I feel like, for me, I try to consider the different expressions of love that exist in my life. Even outside of romantic love, though. My man, my man, my man, my man. Okay. And one of the things that I have had to recognize about myself in the pursuit of relationships is that I. The way that my mind works is that I really desire to get to know a person so that I can know what to expect from that person. I think that that is the dance of relationships. It's trying to figure out, who are you, what can I expect, what I shouldn't expect from you. And once I know that, I know the best way to engage. And I feel like that dynamic of my personality is part of what made my relationship with God so complicated growing up is because I was trying to figure out what to expect from God. You know, there's such a complex nature of his being. He is the same yesterday, today, and forevermore. But who he is in his essence, I didn't always understand. It's almost like, you know, how you meet someone and it seems like they have, like, an attitude, like, you got you a little spicy, and then you spend a little bit more time with them, and you're like, oh, that's just how they are. You know, there are some people in our life, it's just. It's just how they are. We recognize that maybe they're boisterous, and at first it takes us by surprise, but then we realize, oh, that's just how they are. When we are able to create a baseline for the people who we engage with, we know what to expect from them. But what do you do when you can't create a baseline for God? If we restricted God to our paradigms on how people show up, we would be in trouble because his methods are often changing. Not his essence, but his method. That means that if we were to take this idea that he only communicates through bushes because we saw him communicate with Moses through a bush. Anytime we drive by a bush, we'd be looking at a bush. Oh, well, that's what I've come to expect from you. And I think that that is the beauty of God, is that he never wants us to just be able to expect the same thing from him from season to season. We have to keep our relationship with him sharp. Because if I expect him to speak from a bush, I may miss the moment where he's actually calling me to the mountain. I want to speak to you from the mountain. This time it's not from the bush. Adam and Eve must have only perceived him to be a creator God because he created the heavens and the earth and he created me. They didn't know that he's not just the creator God, but he's also the communion God. That means that when the serpent came to Eve and asked her, did God really say, she had the opportunity to ask God herself. But she must have only seen him in one capacity, because sometimes we create a baseline for who God is, and then we limit him to that baseline. It's no wonder then why sometimes there were people in Scripture who didn't always know how to expect God. They didn't know how to perceive God. They found out after the fact that they were talking to God. I'm thinking about Mary Magdalene, who the last time she saw Jesus, he was beaten and on the cross. And then she sees him after the resurrection, and he doesn't look like what she thought he was going to look like. It wasn't until after that she realized that she was actually talking to Jesus. Because the last time I saw you, you were here. But now you've changed your expression. We don't get to create a baseline for Jesus. We got to stay flexible and sensitive and nimble enough to understand that he could show up anyway in any form. Let's take it to Isaiah 55, Isaiah 55:8. You've heard it said before, but I want to read it to you with this perspective in mind. Isaiah 55:8 says, for my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways. That word, ways is a Hebrew word that means Derek. It is from 1869, and it means it is a road or a course of life or a mode of action. So the text is saying to us that the road that I take is not the road that you would take. That my course of action is not always your course of action. Which means that if you are going to walk with the Lord, and we always talk about let go and let God, I have to let go of this idea that it has to go my way. Oh, I wish I could say that real good. Everybody says, let go and let God, but nobody really talks about what that means. I'm going to tell you what it means to let go and to let.

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God means that I'm going to let.

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Go of this idea that it has to go my way so that I.

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Can be open to the way that.

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You want to take so that I.

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Can be open to the course of.

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Action that you want to see happen.

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I'm going to let go of it going my way.

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That means that my baseline for trusting God is not necessarily, necessarily limiting him to showing up in one way. My spirit has been trained to know that he's going to show up.

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And my mind knows that I may.

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Not know how he's going to show up. Oh, I wish I could say that real good. I don't question whether or not he's coming. I'm sensitive to see how he's going to come. One thing about him that I know.

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Is that my God is on the way. As a matter of fact, my God's.

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Not just on the way the way.

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He's already in the midst. I may miss him if I'm looking for him in a bush, but I know he's already in the midst. So I got to let go of this idea that you were going to.

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Show up a certain way so that.

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I can be sensitive enough to see how you're showing up right now. You are never outside of the presence of God. You are never outside of the will of God. If you are willing to fix your sensitivity to say, I know the will of God is running adjacent to my will. So I'm laying down my will and stepping into his wheel. And now I'm exploring what his will looks like. What does it look like for you to restore me? What does it look like for you to heal me? What does it look like for me.

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To see how you're going to show up in this season? I hear God saying prophetically that I changed the road, that somebody's been taken and they didn't realize because they thought I was going to keep them on a certain path. But I changed my course of action.

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But I didn't change my mind about who's you are. I didn't change my essence. I'm still good. Even if I change the road, it don't mean that I change my essence. I'm still good, I'm still faithful. I still have a desire to bring you to an expected end. Just because I changed the road doesn't mean I changed the destination. I got a million ways to get you there. That word that I said, I don't.

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Know who you are, but I feel it prophetically.

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You were going down a certain path.

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And you thought to yourself, this is the path that leads to the thing that everything God said.

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Then all of us sudden there seems.

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Like there's been a detour.

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But like Any good detour, it may change the way you thought you were going to go, but it doesn't change the destination that you're headed to. You may take a little bit longer than you thought. It may happen with a different set of friends. It may not happen with a partner, but it does not change the destination. I want you to rebuke the mentality that a detour is a cancellation of your destiny. I came to speak to to somebody's spirit in this room to remind you that I may change the course of action, but I didn't change the destination.

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I don't know whose word that is, but I'm gonna give you five seconds to worship into it before the enemy.

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Tries to come and snatch it from you. Because sometimes we let the word go in one ear and out the other. But I'm gonna give you five seconds.

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To worship the God of detours, the.

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God who took your path and made it merge with his path. He had to detour the road you were taking because the road you were taking had some potholes along the way. The road you were taking was going to bust you up. God says I gotta detour it this way so your heart won't get broken in the process, so you don't catch a disease, so you don't end up aligned with the wrong people. I gotta detour your path because you would have settled for less than what I had for you. I had to detour your path so that you can see that I can still be with you. Even if your friends left you, even if you had to bury your mother. I had to detour your plan so that I could reveal my faithfulness to you. Sometimes we thank him for making a way out of no way. I thank him for detouring my way. I thank you for changing my path.

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So the job of us as believers is to expand our mentality to make room for the endless possibilities of what God can do. Expand my mentality for the endless possibilities of what you can do in this season. Grieve it if you have to. Not asking you to spiritually bypass it. Grieve it. You wanted things to be a certain way. Admit that. Oh, because that'll keep distance in your relationship with God, y'. All. Not passive aggressive, but people who watch online, when things don't go their way, they don't just say. They don't just say it, but it shows up passive aggressively. And sometimes we can be passive aggressive in our relationship with God. I'm here, but I don't trust you fully because things didn't go my way, I'm here. I'm still showing up. Maybe I'm watching online. I'm kind of. I'm one foot in, one foot out. Because some things happen that set myself spirit back. You have to acknowledge that you were grieving, that things did not go the way that you anticipated so that God can meet you in this space of your grief and order your steps to this space of his grace. If I didn't say nothing else, we could say the benediction and leave.

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Because the enemy will get you trapped.

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And regret and remorse and distrust and create distance in your relationship with God. You must find a way to unlock the limits that you have placed on God's potential. Oh, if you're taking notes, I need you to write that down. You must find a way to unlock the limits that you have placed on God's potential. Part of the reason why you need to do this is because it does not just limit you, it doesn't just limit him, it limits you. Because if you cannot unlock the limit on God's potential, you will never fully unlock the limits on your potential. Can we go to John? I want to go to John, chapter five, verses 19 through 20. In John, chapter five, verses 19 Through 20, they're upset with Jesus because he's healing on the Sabbath and he's making himself equal with God. They're trying to figure out who he is and how he's doing what he's doing. And he says, most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do. For whatever he does, the Son also does in a like manner, I only do what I see My Father in heaven do. And then it says, for the Father loves the Son and shows him all the things that He Himself does. That means that Jesus has such a close and intimate relationship with God that He understands the capacity of God's potential in any given moment. And because he understands the capacity of God's potential in any given moment, he is aligned so perfectly that his potential has become God's potential. I wish I could say that real good. That means I only see what I see My Father in heaven do. Because my Father has shown me some things. Because I. I was willing to take the limits off of what God could do.

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Jesus understood the fullness of who God was.

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This is why he is our model and our example. He understands the fullness of what God can do. And because he understands the fullness of.

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What God can do, he operates in.

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The fullness of that knowledge.

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And when you Operate in the fullness of that knowledge. It disrupts other people. It irritates other people, because they want you to stay limited to a certain version of what they understand. But, you see, I'm not trying to do you. I'm trying to do him. I only do what I see. I only do what I see my Father in heaven do.

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See, that's what we need to understand.

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When we have a generation of people.

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Who we're trying to emulate and imitate, that's where we miss the mark.

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Because we make them our idol. They are not your idol. I don't care how good they look on Instagram. I don't care how good they do what they do. Can't nobody do what God has called you to do but you. And you can't do what God has called you to do looking at them. If you're going to do what God has called you to do, you will have to look to him because I got to be so aligned with him.

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That's a good word to me. Huh? That's a good word to me because it speaks to what's possible when we are aligned fully with who we know God is. Oh, if you know who your God is, you'll never doubt who you are. If you know who your God is.

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You'Ll never doubt what God can do.

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Through you, because you'll know.

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He's not doing it with me. He's doing it through me. All the Word comes through me. The execution comes through me. I couldn't do it in my own strength, but God is working through me. My potential became his potential.

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Oh, God, I wish I could say this. Real good me and my own strength.

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I have no potential to heal. I have no potential to deliver. But because I have accepted Jesus as my Lord and savior, and he is the. The way, the truth and the life. It expanded my capacity, you're right, to have imposter syndrome, because there are some things you could never do in your own strength. But when the King of Kings stepped down on the inside of you, he said, where you're an imposter. I can be the real deal. And together, me and you can shake things up. So when you read this book, make.

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Sure that you unlock the potential of who your God is so that you.

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Can unlock the potential of what you.

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Can do in the earth. This is not just religion. Miss me with religion? We've had enough of it.

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It has gotten on enough people's nerves. I need some people in this room who want to be in relationship with God. I want to know your heart. I want to know your ways. I want to know what's possible when I'm in relationship with you. I want to know your faithfulness.

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Oh, let me tell you. I'm supposed to move on, but I feel this. I hear God saying that if you would start praying to know his way, that he will show you how to navigate the multiple ways in front of you. We're in Texas. You're watching online. We're in Texas. I'm gonna tell you something. You get on a Texas highway, you got to have the Holy Ghost. They not in church because they say they're in church because they got to get on Texas highways when they leave here. And when you get on the Texas highways, there's so many different ways that you could take that.

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If you don't know where you're headed and you don't have somebody telling you.

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How to get there, you could end up lost.

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But if you know where you're supposed to go and you have the right.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

Navigator in your head, you don't have.

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To worry about missing an exit because I got the right person leading and ordering my steps. I hear God saying that what you see in the. The physical, it is what is happening in the spiritual. And there are people in this room who do not know which way to take.

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And I hear God saying, stop asking me which way to take and just start asking me for my way.

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Because if you ask me for my way, all the other ways will fade away, and it will be clear that.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

There'S only one thing.

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That's what I speak prophetically over whoever is in this room that God would make clear to to you the path in which you are supposed to take. In this season. Do I leave or do I go? Do I register or do I take a nap? I pray that God would make that path clear to you the moment you begin praying, God, what is your way? I pray that the doors start flying open. I pray that some doors start closing so that you understand, without a shadow of a doubt, I am exactly where God has called me to be. You think I'm in. In Dallas because I didn't have nowhere else to be. I am in Dallas because I kept praying, God, do you want me to go back home or do you want me to stay in Los Angeles? And when I stopped praying, God, just make me comfortable and instead start saying, God, show me your way. It became increasingly clear that the next dimension of my destiny would be unlocked at 6777 West Keith Boulevard. I said, but, God, Bishop Jakes preached there. Don't nobody in their right mind want to preach in the same place every Sunday where Bishop Jakes preached. God said, if you get in my way, it won't matter who came before you. It won't matter who came after you. I will anoint you and appoint you for such a time as this. I want you to live for an audience of one. I am not living to feel God's. To feel that man's footsteps. I'm living to take the ordered steps of the Lord and Lord. If you take me to Dallas, I'm going. And if you take me to Miami, I'm wherever you take me. If I got to leave some people behind, if I got to change what makes me comfortable, wherever you leave me, wherever you got me, whatever you say, God, I'm going to do it. Because I trust your ways over my ways. I did it my way. I needed a tree. I needed to sense. I did it my way. It left me dead. It left me broken. But here I am with resurrecting power.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

Yeah, Okay, So I wasn't supposed to say that, but I guess the Holy Ghost needed somebody to know that what.

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He starts cannot be stopped. What he starts cannot be stopped.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

This is not in my notes, but.

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I hear God saying, I didn't take.

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You back backwards, man.

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I don't know who you are. And maybe because it's telling.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

I'm telling my own story, but I.

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Thought, God, are you taking me backwards by taking me back to Dallas? And I hear God saying, I would never take you backwards. I only go from glory to glory to glory. There's something in this season of your life that is meant to make you look more like God, not more like man. You don't need to be more popular. You don't need no more more money. God says, if you seek ye first the kingdom of God and all other righteousness, I'll take care of the rest. God, what is happening in my life that you want to make me look more like you? Make me think more like you?

[Pastor Mike Todd]

Okay, Okay, okay. Here's the thing. Because there are moments where God's way confuses us for a minute. Everyone, we talk about Abraham and Isaac. When we talk about Abraham and Isaac, we're like, God can't believe that you would ask him to sacrifice his only son. And we talk about it like the faith that it took for him to give up his only son. And that's, like, one way to look at it. But if you look at it within context, what is most perplexing about God asking Abraham to sacrifice his son not because he loved him so much. It's because child sacrifice looked like an ancient Near Eastern religion where child sacrifice was normalized. So why would you call me out of my father's house and into a new country just to do something that.

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Looks similar to what you called me out of?

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Oh, I wish I could say that.

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The sacrifice one.

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The problem is that I stepped into something new.

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But now it looks like you're calling.

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Me into something familiar. The test of faith was, if I.

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Called you back to something I called you out of, would you still trust me and my ways in the middle of what looked like you're going backwards.

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I don't know who you are, but I'm reading your mail.

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Because it feels.

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Like you've been going backwards. You trusted God, you obeyed God. But now it looks like you're getting called back into something he called you out of. Faithfulness is not just for the moments when things are going your way. Can you be faithful? Can you trust them? Can you still believe them when it looks like things are shifting in a direction you didn't anticipate? So I have spent my time, especially more so recently, fascinated by the ways of God, trying to stretch my mind to understand the different ways he shows up in scripture, the different ways that he communicates, the different ways that he engages with his people. And in the process of studying God's ways, I noticed something that was a little perplexing at first, because you know how my mind works. I wanted to say, okay, that's who you are, and lock him in there. But I noticed that God is the God of both. Suddenly and subtly, Moses is minding his business, and all of a sudden a bush is consumed with fire suddenly. Because that's the kind of God we serve. We serve as suddenly God. Mary, for some reason, is minding her business. Then suddenly an angel of the Lord appears to God. And I love this attribute of God because it says to me that God can just interrupt the program.

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We don't know who Abraham is. We don't know why he chose Abraham. We just know that suddenly he says.

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To Abraham, get out of your father.

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Father'S house and out of your country to a land that I will show.

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Suddenly he shows up, and.

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And I would say, well, maybe he's.

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Just the God of suddenly in scripture.

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But I have been in rooms where.

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There has been sudden deliverance, where someone came in addicted, and suddenly God showed up and took the addiction out of.

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Their mouth, where hands were laid upon them. And suddenly Someone was delivered.

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He is the God of suddenly.

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And you can got to know that.

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In your relationship with him, because you.

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Got to know at any given moment this could change. He is the God of suddenly. That means I'm going my path, but I'm also prepared for change to happen.

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At any given moment because he is the God of suddenly. But he's also the God of subtly, which means that there are moments where he moves obviously loud and intensely, and then there are moments where he moves subtly. Elijah was going through a difficult season. If he was living in this modern culture, we would say he was going through a depression. He was on the top of the mountain one day and on the run the next. And he was used to big, grand gestures from God. He needed a touch from God in that moment. And in that moment, there was an earthquake, but my Bible says I'm not in the earthquake. And then there was a wind that came, a violent wind. He said, no, no, no, no, I'm not in the wind because I'm looking for big gestures from God. And then there was a fire. And certainly Elijah must have thought he.

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Must be in the fire. But no, no, my Bible says he.

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Was in the fire. He was in a still, small voice.

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So as much as Elijah knew Him.

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As the God of suddenly, he had to learn that he was also the God of suddenly. What does this mean to you as a believer?

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It means that there are moments where we are looking for God to do.

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Something big and intense and loud and noticeable to remind us that he is with us.

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And we miss that he is with.

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Us because he's not doing it in.

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The suddenly way that we anticipated.

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He's doing suddenly in ways that we miss. When the King of Kings was born, he was born in a manger in Bethlehem because God is the God of suddenly and subtly. He was raised in Nazareth in a place where someone said, can any good thing come out of Nazareth? But God used subtle movement in order to help us cultivate proximity and intimacy with him, so that we have to be intentional about leaning in to the endless possibilities of how God could do something. That means right now in your midst, God is either moving suddenly or subtly. You understand? So maybe part of what we pray tonight is God, help me to not miss the subtle ways that you're showing up in my life. Help me to not miss the subtle ways in which you're transforming me.

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Because the same way I have seen.

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Instantaneous deliverance, I have seen subtle deliverance. I don't know who this is for. I love that God told me to tell you this. Sometimes we think that if we aren't delivered suddenly that there's something wrong with us. But if we had testimony service in this church, there would be some people in this room who told you my deliverance didn't happen overnight like it did for some people.

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As a matter of fact, I kind of thought that it was wasn't working.

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At all, but some kind of way.

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I looked up and I just wasn't who I thought I was anymore. It just happened suddenly. I once was blind, but now I see. But I can't tell you the defining moment when my life changed. I just know that there was momentum. There were subtle moments along the way until I was completely transformed.

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It happened subtly.

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And the enemy will make you think.

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That slow progress is no progress.

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But I hear God's saying, I don't.

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Care how you're delivered.

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It could happen subtly. It can happen subtly. All that matters to me is that who the son has set free gets free indeed. You may have to go to therapy to get rid of that depression for you. It may not happen with the laying on of hands. But just because the laying on of hands didn't kick that devil out doesn't mean that that devil doesn't have an eviction notice. When you settle in your spirit. That I can't keep living the way I'm living. I got to change everything around me until I get the deliverance that I know God has for me.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

Oh, man. Subtly over suddenly receive that. You're changing subtly. I know you wanted it suddenly. But in this season, there are subtle changes that are taking place. And those subtle changes still matter. Those subtle changes still lead to deliverance. Those subtle changes still lead to new life. If you're writing down notes, I want you to write this down. Suddenly builds momentum for suddenly. A lot of times we say that people are like overnight successes, but we only think they're overnight successes because we didn't see the subtle moments that led to the big moments. Oh, I wish I could say that real good. The reason why people were so perplexed about Jesus being the King of kings.

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Is because they thought, he's going to.

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Come in on a chariot.

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It'll make a big loud noise, everyone.

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Will know it was him.

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But it happened so subtly that they didn't realize that there was going to be a moment when he turned 30 years old. And they would realize that the king of kings has been within my proximity for 30 years. I just didn't realize that he was who he was. And then Suddenly, he steps into ministry, and demons start trembling and disease gets out of the way. Because what happened suddenly built momentum for sudden.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

Suddenly builds momentum for suddenly. That means that if you cannot do it with intensity, but you can do it subtly, it can still lead to sudden momentum. The woman with the issue of blood, she touches the hem of his garment. And when she touches the hem of his garment, it says that she. The flow of blood stopped immediately. It seemed suddenly. But when Jesus has a dialogue, a communication with the woman, what we learn is that what happened suddenly was actually building momentum subtly to the moment she touched the hem. How do we know this? Because Jesus goes out of his way to let her know that it wasn't the touch that healed you, it was your faith. Faith is not built suddenly.

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Faith is built suddenly. For 12 years, she had a flow of blood, but she also must have had a momentum of faith being built. I don't know who you are, but I hear God saying, I've been building your faith subtly so that when it's time for you to touch, you'll step into it suddenly. Let's take five seconds and praise God for that. My faith is being built suddenly, for the moment that I step into it.

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Suddenly, It's happened subtly. He's building my faith subtly.

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I'm learning to trust you more and more. I'm learning to believe in you more and more. I'm learning to use my voice more and more. And when God opens that window of opportunity, other people will think it will happen overnight. But me and God will know that I've been building this for decades. I've been building this for a long time. I've been subtly changing my spirit. I've been subtly changing my diet. I've been subtly changing what my intake is.

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Settle.

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My faith is being built subtly. No big gestures. Just me in my prayer closet. No big gestures, just me in worship. Suddenly, he's changing me. Suddenly he's transforming me. I don't talk the way I used to talk. I don't walk the way I used to walk. And it didn't just happen in a moment.

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It happened subtly. My husband. I'm not on social media, so my husband showed me the revival that's taking place at seu. There's a revival taking place where students are worshiping and repenting and calling on the name of Jesus. And one of the representatives of the campus put a video up. Thank you, Jesus. Put a video up on social media. And on the video, everyone's trying to figure out, how did this happen? What did you do, because it just happened out of nowhere. What'd you do? What'd you do? And he said, we've been praying for this. This didn't just happen. He said, we've been praying for revival to come. Oh, God.

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When revival hits our nation, people will be wondering, where did this come from? We didn't see it coming. The headlines were saying that the nation was headed in this direction. The headlines were saying that the globe was headed in this direction. But there will be some intercessors who know that what happens in this nation did not happen overnight. It happened because there was somebody in their prayer clock. I want to talk to somebody who's raising children. And you've been waiting for that moment where they stepped into who God knows they can be. I came here to tell you as a living witness that all of a sudden I came to myself. I know my mother had been praying. I know my father had been pleading the blood of Jesus. And all of a sudden, what they had been praying for. Suddenly, I stepped into a suddenly moment. Let this be a word to you as you build that business, as you grow that ministry, as you raise those babies. That it may be subtle at first, but when God gets finished with it, it will be undeniable that I am not just the God of overnight. I am the God of subtlety as well. God says, learn your lesson, Talk your talk, walk your walk. If they don't see it, it don't matter. This is between me and you, God. It may be subtle right now.

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Okay.

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And when that sudden moment hits this room, I hear God saying, anyone who has an ear to hear better, make sure that they align their spirit with what takes place in this room. Because I hear God saying, I'm raising you up.

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If suddenly builds momentum for suddenly, and I see it in Scripture and I see it in my own life, there is another truth that I must accept, and that is this, that suddenly moments are sustained subtly. See, this is. This is where a lot of us miss out on being on relationship with God. Because we're so. I'm going to use the word addicted to suddenly moments. That if it's not sudden, we don't take care of it. So subtle builds momentum to suddenly, but then suddenly moments are sustained subtly. Okay, I'll prove it to you. So let's go back to the woman with the issue of blood. We have this woman with the issue of blood whose faith built momentum for when she touched the hem of his garment. Y' all know I love this text so much. So she touches the hem of his garment. She's go back. She goes back into hiding. But the Lord goes out of his way to find her one to let her know that it was her faith that actually made her well. But then he says he calls her daughter. Now, that is a paradigm shift. That is an invitation for the Lord to change her identity. Because as a woman with an issue of blood, she would have been outcast, untouchable, would have had no sense of belonging.

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But right there in front of everyone.

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Thronging him, he says, I call you.

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Daughter because I want to change your identity. Which means that she's got to go back and take care of what God just said about her so that she doesn't lose it looking for another suddenly moment. God gave her homework. I want you to step into the identity of a daughter. I hear God saying that too many.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

Of us make the suddenly moments what we long for. And we miss how we're supposed to take care of what God said suddenly, suddenly. I wish I could say that. I hope I said that, because I don't think I can say it any better than I said it. Stop asking God for another suddenly and ask God, how do I take care of what you just gave me? Listen. How do I nurture what took place suddenly? I want to feed into it. I want to take care of it until it becomes a part of my identity, because it needs to become a part of my identity. Because God doesn't just want to give us encounters. God wants us to have transformation. And if you're going to have transformation, it's not going to be because you sat up and just waited for suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly. It's going to be because suddenly was bridged with suddenly and suddenly was bridged with suddenly over and over again. That means God gave me something and I took care of it and it.

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Built momentum for this suddenly. And then I took care of that and it built momentum suddenly, with no audience, with no more microphone. The most important part of what I do is not when I get up here on Sunday, it's what I do in my prayer closet when you are not here, when my bonnet is on, when there are no eyelashes, this should be the easy part. If I take care of what I'm supposed to do week in and week.

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Out.

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This should be the easy part. When you step into your suddenly moment, you won't be shocked you won't feel like an imposter. You will know that you are right where you are supposed to be. Because what I've been doing in quiet has qualified me for what I'm doing in public, what I've been doing in private and getting my thoughts together and getting my life together. It qualified me for the moment I stepped in. That would cure so many of us.

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Of imposter syndrome if we weren't getting.

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Up and faking it until we make it. But if we knew without a shadow of a doubt that I've done everything I can do to make sure that my heart and my words and my language and my friendship and my actions and behaviors are aligned with who I need to be in this moment.

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I am fully who I am supposed to be.

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I am fully who I have the capacity to be. And when God highlights something else that needs to grow in the develop in.

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Me, I surrender to that. Because what's more important to me than being known is being aligned. So the suddenly moments are bait to make you hungry for how you take care of what happens suddenly. Suddenly. I know this because in Acts 9, when Paul has an encounter on the road to Damascus, he experiences a conversion. A conversion is a Latin word that literally means turns towards. And because some of you guys, you've been in church, you've heard this a lot of times, you'll notice that I try to explain things because there are some people who don't have this knowledge. So I want you all to know. And then I have to say it, like, I gotta. I can't say it, like, academically, because we don't have time for that. Because I ran out of time talking, hooting and hollering with you all. So excuse this breakdown I'm about to give you about Acts 9. But Paul, they used to call him Saul. Saul was his thug name. You understand what I'm saying?

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He was the one and never the two. He didn't play when it came to Judaism.

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And he wasn't trying to hear about Jesus. He was chief thug.

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It was gang in, blood in, blood out.

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And he was upset because these Jesus talkers was out here messing with his clique.

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I said, forgive me.

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So Saul is out here waging war with whom?

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Waging war with his clique.

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So he, on the road to Damascus, looking for somebody fight, you know what I'm saying? Who wanted with a boss? You know what I'm saying? Like who?

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Oh, everything's fine.

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And all of a sudden, while he was on his way, a light shone from heaven and a voice that only he could hear. And all of a sudden, when he was headed one way, the Spirit of God, Jesus himself interrupts his path. And he says, you've been kicking up against the wrong system. I want you to turn in my direction. I want you to have a conversion and turn your direction.

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And in an instant, suddenly, suddenly he's converted. But he doesn't leave it as suddenly. Galatians tells me in 1:17. This is a letter that Paul wrote in Galatians 1:17. Put it on the screen for me, he says, when I receive this touch, I didn't do this, I didn't do that. He said, I didn't go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, he says, but I went to Arabia and returned again to Damascus. Why does it say that he went to Arabia?

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It says that he spent three years in Arabia with no one looking and.

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No apostles to, I won't say contaminate.

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But no apostles to speak into what God did in his life because he was trying to nurture what took place on the road to Damascus. I got to take care of this in a way that no one else could fully understand, in a way that no one else could fully speak to. Because I don't just want to be converted.

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I want to be transformed. I'm about to bring it home.

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Conversion is when you turn towards. But transformation is when you take on a new form. And I'm not one of those people.

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Who like to talk bad about church because the church has saved my life and she is flawed. She got a lot of issues, but she's been good to me in some seasons where I couldn't be good to myself. So I preface that by saying that there are moments when we have people who have been converted but not transformed.

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Which means they have turned to God, but they have not been transformed by God.

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Help me say it real good. Because they don't nurture what took place.

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Or as Jesus would say, that they weren't born again.

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I can turn towards God, but if.

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I don't do the work to be.

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Born again, then the Bible, Jesus literally.

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Says, you cannot see the kingdom of.

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Heaven unless you do this work of being born again.

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And in order to do the work.

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Of being born again, you have to submit to a process. Okay, in order to be born again, let's think about birth. That there's a suddenly moment when the baby is born. But what happens suddenly is actually subtle momentum built over a series of weeks. Because Jesus used that analogy, I want to use it with you. If you are going to be born again, there is subtle transformation that must take place in your walk.

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He says, if you're going to enter.

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The kingdom of heaven, it's not just enough to be converted. You can believe in God, but if you're going to be transformed, if you're.

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Going to be a part of the.

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Kingdom of heaven, you have to be transformed. If you're going to be transformed, you have to surrender to our process. And in surrendering to a process, you have to know that I want to change the way you show up. I want to change the way you speak. I want to change the way you think. Perception is experienced through senses. I'm about to land plane, I promise. Perception is experienced through senses. So when we talk about being born again, we have to realize that God is changing my perception. He's changing my heart, he's changing my mind. He's Changing my perception. So when Jesus blinds Paul on the road to Damascus, it is not coincidental because he wants to change the way he sees. Because I want to change your perception. I don't just want to convert you.

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Because if he just wanted to convert him, he could have had the moment.

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And moved on to somebody else. But he has a strategic assignment in.

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God's kingdom, and he cannot do this assignment and stay in the same shape that he was in.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

So he needs to be transformed so he goes blind. I want to talk to you a little bit about having the perception of Jesus. Our senses is how we see, it's how we hear, it's how we smell, it's how we touch and taste. Those are our senses. So Jesus, we know, wants to change the way that Paul perceives. Last week, in the last couple of weeks, PT has been talking about seeing. God told me that my assignment is to help you understand that it's not just seeing that is. It is a full transformation of all of your senses. I want to change the way you see for sure, says God, but I also want to change what you touch. Jesus touched lepers. That that was disorienting traditional Jews because their perception of lepers were that they were untouchable. But what Jesus has come to do.

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Is to upset the system. And if he's going to upset the.

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System, oh, God, help me, he's got.

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To make sure that it is perceived properly who he's come to touch.

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Oh, God, help me to say it real good.

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And he's got disciples watching.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

So he needs the disciples to understand.

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That if you follow in my footsteps, there will be things that other people are not willing to touch that I.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

Have anointed you to heal.

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And if you are unwilling to touch them, then they cannot be healed. So if you're going to take on the attributes of God, you can't just see the way that I see. You got to touch the way that I touch. You got to make sure that you got clean hands. Jesus wasn't just touching them to touch them. So God, make my hands clean so that when I'm raising these babies, I can impart healing in their souls. I raised them in a broken home, but they won't have a broken soul because God's going to change the way I touch. As I'm writing this book and building these businesses, God help me to change the way I touch.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

He's going to change the way you touch. He touches the lepers.

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Everyone else saw Zacchaeus and they saw a traitor. He calls him A son of Abraham.

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Because he sees differently than most people. See when the woman was caught in.

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The act of adultery, they said they.

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Caught her in the very act. But he heard something that they couldn't hear. He heard the shame that she would experience by being caught in the very act. See, when the Lord changes our perception.

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Where someone else may hear a true.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

Troubled kid, we hear a cry for help.

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When the Lord changes our perception, some hear a headline and get afraid, while others hear a headline and decide to start praying. Because I hear things the way God hears them. God, help me to hear the way that you can hear that I won't just hear a blind man begging on the side of the road. I'll see a demand for my anointing. Foolish of you to think that we're looking at headlines to be slowed into terror and lulled into fear. You ought to hear something on the news that makes you The God in me has got to stand up because I heard something. God, help me to hear my partner.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

The way that you hear them.

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God, help me to hear my children.

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The way that you hear them.

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I don't want to hear through the.

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Lens of my trauma.

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I don't want to hear through the.

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Lens of my expectations.

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I don't want to hear through the.

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Lens, lens of my fear.

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So many.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

So much of what we experience in relationships is a result of us hearing, seeing, touching, tasting and smelling with our own senses and not being born again in such a way that we are exchanging our senses for His. Jesus touches in a way that people didn't touch. He sees in a way that people didn't see.

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That woman at the well, she asked.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

For a clap of living. He asked her for a taste of water. He wasn't interested in water. He had a taste for deliverance. His taste was different.

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And what he wants to do with.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

Paul is to radically change his senses. And that's what he wants to do with us. I'm going to show you in Hebrews 5, 13, 14. I'm getting to the text. I'm going. Get out of here. I promise. Hebrews 5, 13, 14 says, for everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But solid food.

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Belongs to those who.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

Are of full age. How do we know who's a full age? Full age is those who by reason of use have their senses, senses exercised to discern both good and bad. When we exercise our senses, we can discern both good and bad. You want discernment? Look at your Senses interrogate them. Am I seeing this right? Am I hearing this right? Or is my brokenness and my ambition blinding me from what this moment is? Paul has a fully embodied faith. This is what I am asking you to make. Your pursuit as a believer, to have a fully embodied faith that Jesus senses would become your sense. And we see this happen with Paul. We see his sight change. We see his hearing change. He heard Stephen preaching and martyred him. But then he heard the Macedonians calling for his anointing after his conversion. We saw his touch change. He went from dragging people out of their homes to dragging devils out of people's body. We saw his touch change. And when we find him in the text, Paul has been transformed. He hasn't just been converted, he's been radically transformed. Listen, the reason why we can't just be converted and why we must seek transformation is because when you were transformed.

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You can't help but be who you.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

Are, no matter what happens. If we just stop at conversion, we could turn back or away as easily as we turned to God. And this is why sometimes we have a revolving door relationship with God because we think he's going to do something. He doesn't do what we think he's going to do, so we leave. But so our relationship with God is more like a genie, where we think that he's supposed to do for us instead of recognizing that his desire is truly to transform us. But Paul experiences the full transformation of God. And why is this important? Because his transformation must exist within a context where he will be beaten, imprisoned, God, help me say it real good. His identity is requiring him to walk into certain environments that will not honor who he is. Help me to say it real good, Lord. What God is doing in his life is requiring him to walk into a room where it could be a hostile environment. Some of us are not called to destinies where people are going to welcome us with open arms. Some of us are called into rooms.

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Where they will try and scare us out of position. This may not be for everybody, but there are some people in this room who, when you say you want to break a generational curse that has kept your family in bondage for generations, that all hell is going to break out against you. And because you recognize that your identity.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

Must exist within a context in which other people will be threatened, that's it. Sometimes God calls us into identities where we will be a threat to former systems, to former norms.

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When God is asking you to do a new thing, it will be a threat to an old thing. And if you have just been converted, you will let the threats run you out of position. But when you have been transformed, you will see the threat for what it is. You will recognize that this threat is trying to come up against God. And because it's trying to come up against God, I know that I don't have to fight it on my own. So Paul let them beat him. Paul let them imprison him. But when he was in prison, he started praying because he recognized that all I have have to do is call on a name that is greater than any other name. All I have to do is remember that I didn't get myself in this mess, so I don't have to get myself out of it. Paul could have fought his way out of chains, but when you know who's fighting for you, you don't have to fight yourself out of chains. He let them take their best shot. And just when they thought he was one, there was an earthquake. You better read Acts 16. They thought that they was to going, going to have to let him out. But the ground began to shake and the prison doors were open. And all of a sudden everybody was wondering, oh, they must have ran away. But here Paul was sitting in an open prison so that they could see when they got back. I could have walked out of here. But I have decided that I'm not leaving this moment until God himself orders my next step. You shot your best shot. And look at me, still here. I may be beaten, but I'm still here. You put chains on me, but my God broke them off of it. I wish you could talk to your past and let your past know what the enemy meant for evil. My God meant it for good. I'm not chained the way I used to be chained. I may be bruised, but I'm not broken. And he that began to work in me is just getting started. Just getting started. You just getting started. Yeah, but I've been bruised. You still just getting started. Yeah, but I've been chained. But I'm just getting started. I'm tired, but I'm just getting started. Cause I'm not just doing this. I am this. You cannot change who I have become. This ain't something to do. This is who I am. And that's why you gotta be transformed so you can be beaten. But still at my core, I'm gonna prophesy through chains, I'm gonna prophesy. This isn't what I do. This is who I am. This is who I am. God changed my identity. God says this will be your Testimony that you can't help but be who you are no matter where you are. You anointed in the groceries door. You anointed with the microphone. You anointed in the cubicle. You anointed in the corner office. You anointed on stage, you anointed backstage. Cause I can't help but be who I am. This is not a performance. This is transformation. If you knew what God did to me. I don't see the way I used to see. I don't hear the way I used to.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

I've been trying to act more dignified lately, but.

[Pastor Mike Todd (Alternate Voice or Emphasis)]

And this is why the threat will always be over your identity. Because if the enemy can make you believe that you are not who God says you are, then you will not do what God has called you to do. But I want you to be like Paul, who is so radically transformed that the threats start shaking even when he's in bad condition. Because they know a bad Paul is still as bad as a healthy Paul. I want to talk to somebody who's aging, who thinks your best days are behind you. I need you to understand that if you were anointed in your younger years, that that same anointing is in your latter years. Because you can't help but be. You can't help but be who you are.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

And hallelujah. You can't help but to be who you are. When you let the Lord transform you. You can't help but be who you are. And in Acts 17, Paul has been beaten. The chapter before he's been in prison. He's not in the same shape that he was in before, because sometimes life happens to you and it hurts you and it bruises you and it wounds you, and you're no longer in the same shape you were in before. But Paul continues subtly, oh, can't do it with strength the way I once did because I took a few hits along the way. So he does what we see him do in the previous chapter. Suddenly he's doing it more subtly in Acts 17. Who are you in this room who thinks that subtle can't be impactful? Who are you in this room who thinks that the small, incremental subtle moments can't be as powerful as the big moments you had once before? He's reasoning in the synagogue. And I would wonder myself if subtle was effective. But his enemies, those who were threatened by him, teach us a valuable lesson about subtle moments of obedience. They're threatened by his subtle moments of obedience.

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Oh, God.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

Thank you, Jesus. You see, they were threatened in the previous Chapter because he cast out the devil of a girl who was following him in the marketplace. And that was big and that was loud. But. But his enemies do us a favor in this text by helping us to understand the way that they are experiencing his obedience. Because they try and gather a mob to cause a ruckus in the town. Because they want the Roman Empire to believe that he's causing a ruckus even though he's doing something subtly. Why do they want him to be imprisoned again? Well, verse six tells us that the reason why is because they recognize that who he is subtly is still potent enough to upset the system of oppression.

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The abuses of power, and the wickedness that exists within that region.

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They tell the rulers, these who have.

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Turned the world upside down have come.

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Here to subtly, but still with the power to turn the world upside down. His enemy lets us know, don't sleep.

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On what they do subtly, because subtly turns into suddenly. And when suddenly turns into suddenly, it will turn the world upside down.

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This is your word.

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If you cannot do it with intensity.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

You must do it subtly.

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You may not have the strength you once had. You may not have the courage you once had. You may not have the confidence you need to step into it with boldness. And so you've been waiting until you could do it suddenly. And God told me to tell you prophetically that he doesn't always move in suddenly moments, that God is the God of suddenly and subtly.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

And it will be declared of you. This is my prophetic word to you. It will be declared of you when you step into the region, the territory that God has assigned to your name. Let me define territory. For some people, it is a specific city. For some people it is a specific way of being. I hear God saying that when you step into that territory, once you have been transformed, that you can anticipate the world understanding the world around you understanding that you are one of these who have turned the world. You are one of these who have the potential to flip the narrative of.

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The territory where you have been assigned. I hear God saying, this is your.

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Identity as members of the kingdom of heaven.

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That when you step into a territory, that the enemy will whisper, oh God.

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I feel this, I'm coming home.

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That the enemy will whisper. You know that stronghold that we used to have on that family? We've got a problem. Because somebody who has been transformed has just stepped into a region where the enemy wants occupied. And because I know that they know a thing or two about being turned upside down, that hell will be nervous because they will recognize that you are these.

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[Pastor Mike Todd]

You are these. That is my word. When I was praying, God told me I'm the worst at titling messages. But initially I heard God say it must come down. This is it. These who have turned the city upside down. Paul the reason why he was able to continue even though he had been beaten and bruised is because he had a mentality. He had a perspective about the world, that there were powers, that there were strongholds, that there were principalities that were being exalted in the earth that must come down. And he was willing to do it suddenly or subtly.

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But regardless, he had a mentality that.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

It must come down. And I hear God saying, I don't know who this is for that. This is a message for those who are not overcomers. This is a message for those who are overturners. I need you to understand that the world is overturned when believers refuse to process it in the old way, because my senses have been changed. That's my word for you. Subtle until suddenly. Subtle until suddenly. If this has been your word, I want to pray with you. We usually do something different in which we ask, if you don't have to go, don't go. I'm gonna do something different.

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Different.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

If you don't feel compelled to stay, please go. And this is not a shade thing. You may have to go to work. This may not be your word. I'm not into shame. Not every word is for every person. And God will always have a word for you in different seasons. But I want to give you the opportunity to be dismissed if you have to go. Because there's a certain atmosphere that I want to create. And I don't want you to be worried about having to get to work or being late. I believe that what's for you is for you in this moment. And if you have to go, please do that. If you're here, it's because there was something in this message that was for.

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You.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

And only you and God know what that is. I'm gonna keep that here. Thank you. Yes. I believe now more than ever that we have been distracted by intensity, by suddenly and fooled into believing that settle doesn't matter. Fooled into believing that little things can't make a big difference. And because of that, the enemy has footholds and territories and our families in our government and our economies because we feel too small to make a difference. This may not be everyone's experience.

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But.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

I need you to understand that if you're in this room, that your God takes subtle and turns it into suddenly that subtle matter. What's interesting is I haven't called an altar call. But the altar is the place where we come to let go and let God. And it is fair. I'm over time. And if I were interested in trying to make sure that we had cute little church and you all could get out early so you could could go to brunch like I am interested in some Sundays. I would not do this because I know it's going to take a little bit of time. But I want to invite you to the altar anyway. If you're here and there is a way that you have been holding onto. A way for how you should show up. A way for how you think God could show up. Maybe he didn't show up in the way you thought. And maybe you can't show up in the way you want it. I want to offer you an opportunity to let go and let God. And I sense that there's someone in this room and there's a part of you that is nervous and afraid because you don't know if you can suddenly change overnight. I want to remind you that the point of this message is that some people will come here and suddenly they'll change overnight. Their marriages will change, their creativity will change suddenly. And then there are some where. This is the beginning of your subtly. This is the beginning of you saying, it may take some time, but I'm willing to walk it out. I may need some additional support.

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But.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

I'm willing to do what it takes. Because I don't want to just turn to God and be converted. I want to be transformed until all my senses look like He. Till I see the way he sees, hear the way that he hears. Till I taste and see that he's good. It may happen subtly. My spirit won't let me move on because I feel like there's somebody else I'm supposed to be waiting on. I asked God to let me see this room the way he sees it. That's okay. I'll wait for you. I see you. Thank you, Jesus. I see you. Thank you, Jesus. I see you. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Holy Spirit, come. Holy Spirit, come. Holy Spirit, come. We invite your presence, God. We invite your presence. Your mighty rushing wind, Holy Spirit, fill this atmosphere. These your sons and daughters, God, you know them better than I ever could. You've been with them, God. You've been with them every step of the way. You know every secret, you know every dream. Sometimes you showed up in big ways. Other moments they missed the subtle ways you were showing up. If you're here and you don't know Jesus, But you sense something happening in this room that you can't explain. What's happening in this room is happening as a result of our belief in Jesus. Our belief that he can save, our belief that he can heal, our belief that he can set free, transform and deliver. And we believe that. And because we believe that we have been changed and transformed, he has delivered us and saved us from sin. And he wants to get to know you, too. If you're here. I want to invite you to come to this altar. I want to pray with you. In your own way. For some, it may be more vocal, more loud. For others, it may be subtle. I want you to turn your heart towards God with your own words. Before I really began to develop my own prayer language, I would have moments like this and I would just say, Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus.

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Jesus.

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Jesus. Jesus. Jesus.

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Jesus.

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Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Break every stronghold. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Confront brokenness. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Let love fill this room, God. Love that heals, love that rest restores. Jesus. Jesus. Sometimes we ask you for power. Right now I'm asking you for your love. That it would cast out every fear. That it would confront wickedness. That shame would have to go scurrying. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Rest your eyes on our eyes. Rest your ears on our ears. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Give us a hunger and a thirst for righteousness. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus.

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May the aroma of our praise, the.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

Aroma of our worship find its way to heaven. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Spirit of the living God. I thank you, God, for your consistency and for your faithfulness. Thank you for being the God of Suddenly God. There's something you want to do for some people in this room and you.

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Said they cannot walk out of here.

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The same way they came in.

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For those people, I decree and declare right now in the name of Jesus. May the sudden power of God fall on them in this space. God. I decree and declare right now that the spirit of depression would be broken. I decree and declare right now that the spirit of pride would be broken. I decree and declare declare right now that addiction would be broken. I decree and declare right now that the plan of the enemy would go back to hell where it came from. Not tomorrow, not three months from now, but in the name of Jesus, I plead the blood of Jesus. Let it happen now. Let them reach up and grab it now. May they so be surrendered now. Deliver them in the name of Jesus. Come out of that woman. Come out of that man. Devil. You have no place here, demons. You must go. Get out of their house. Their house won't be the same when they go back. Their mind won't be the same when they go back. I decree it. I declare it. I establish it on earth as it is in heaven. In heaven they're free. In heaven they're whole. In heaven there is no brokenness. I rebuke generational curses. I rebuke inner child brokenness trying to ruin their adult lives. In the name of Jesus, heal that little child. In the name of Jesus, love that little child. In the name Of Jesus. Let it happen now. Let it happen now. Let it cancer gone now tumor shrunk now. I serve a God of suddenly. Let it happen now. Let the tears fall now. Let the pride be shattered now. Let them open up now. You've been guarded too long. Walls come down. This ain't Jericho. We not walking around these walls seven times I rebuke them right now in the name of Jesus, let the walls fall now.

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Suddenly, suddenly suddenly suddenly suddenly Strength for the journey suddenly peace suddenly came in.

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Here depressed now you got peace suddenly.

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The spirit of laughter suddenly suddenly, suddenly, suddenly. God, there are people here and you have anointed them for sudden breakthrough. And before I pray for everyone else, if that is you, I need you to lift up your arms and give.

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God a praise in this place. Because I hear God saying, I will inhabit your praises. And when I sit down in your praises, anything in you that is not of me will have to get up so I can sit down. I speak to the spirit of depression that has been sitting in your mind, suicidal thoughts that have taken up residence in your life. I serve you in a victory should notice you got to get up out of here. The king of kings has made my home.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

There are others. In this space. And I hear God saying that what I'm doing suddenly is overflowing into those who've been in a battle subtly trying.

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To find your way on the other side. And I hear God saying, I want you to know that I seen what.

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You'Ve been doing subtly and that that suddenly is going to be a part of your inheritance. Lord, thank you for allowing us to witness the sudden nature of God. Because God, I know that it is also your will to have people walk some things out. And if they're at this altar and suddenly is not their portion right now, may they not give up because it didn't happen suddenly where the enemy has been targeting them and making them feel ineffective. God, I ask that you would illuminate what you've been doing subtly in their lives that they would not miss that you're not just in the big moments, but that all of us have a responsibility to seek you in the subtle moments. So God, I'm praying that you would make our hearts sensitive to every way you're moving in this season and all the ways that we're changing in this season. May we master the art of subtle obedience, of subtle relationship with you.

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Where.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

It'S no longer clear where you end and we begin because we are so interconnected that we are one in the same. God, I thank you for those who are at this altar and for the first time they may be dedicating their life to you or maybe rededicating their lives. God, I thank you that you don't just ask us to to be converted, but to be transformed. Lord, change our perceptions that we may change the way we see this world so that we understand the place. That's it. Thank you Jesus. That we understand where we fit in. It felt that drop in my spirit. The reason why some of you are dealing with isolation, suicidal thoughts is because you don't know where you fit. But you don't know where you fit because you're not looking through the right sight. May your prayer be God, show me where I fit in this world and in your kingdom. Kingdom. I'm sorry you didn't fit in the places you were supposed to fit. I'm sorry, but I hear God saying if you would have fit there, you would have never come seeking me. And because now that you're seeking me, I can show you what I see and the way that you should take. Repeat after me. Heavenly Father, thank you for your love. I feel it. Thank you for this word. I receive it, Lord. Thank you for making him who had no sin all of mine, all of my weaknesses, weakness. All of my limitations, all of my insecurities, all of my fears. You placed it in his body and nailed it to the cross. And when he was raised up free and victorious, I was raised up too. With all of those things put to death and a new life ahead of me, I've been born again. Thank you Jesus. Now change me. Transform me. Make my heart, your heart, my ways, your ways. Until I see and perceive everything the way that you do. Thank you for the person beside me and the work you're doing on the inside. Continue to touch them, heal them and reveal yourself to them. And when you reveal yourself to them, reveal them to them too. That they may walk in a new identity with power and anointing and wholeness and peace. In Jesus name, Amen. Can you just touch or hug or love on the person beside you for me? Tell them happy birthday. Because you look born again. You look new. Thank you all for taking the time to intercede and cover and having this moment of encounter. If you're looking for a church home, we would love to be the place that you call home. Our house to be your house. There's a QR code on the screen, you can scan it and we can get all the of your information. But if you would rather have a personal touch and you don't mind staying, we've got pastors and ministers who will meet you down here at the bottom. All right, everybody's leaving, but I'm gonna say this anyway. Sorry, y'. All. Get your chicken and waffles. May the Lord bless and keep you. May make his face to shine upon you and be gracious towards you. May he lift up his countenance over you and grant you shalom. Shalom in Jesus name. I love you family. We will see you Wednesday night for Bible study. And Bishop is preaching next Sunday, so put on your good shoes. You've been listening to the Potter's House podcast. If this episode encouraged your faith, walk it out with authority. Until next time, Be blessed.

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