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I’m Tired Of These Soul Ties // Relationship Goals: In Real Life (Part 7) // Michael Todd
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God desires for you to prosper in your soul, your mind, will, and emotions, but sometimes footholds and strongholds keep us from moving forward. In Week 7 of Relationship Goals: In Real Life, Pastor Michael Todd exposes how the enemy tries to gain a...
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from 2311 Racing, Victory Lane. Yeah, it's even better with Chumba by my side. Racetochumbacasino.com let's Chumba. No purchase necessary VTW group void where prohibited by law. CTNCS21+ sponsored by Chumba Casino welcome to Transformation Church Podcast where we represent God to the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe God will transform your life through today's message. Been seven weeks of us going through Relationship health trying to give you biblical standpoints of you actually having healthy relationships. And I really don't want this series to end, but I believe that we're going to pause on it right now. But I have to end this with something that's going to help you watch this walk in freedom. Because it's not enough to just know information. The church is full of information. We live in the most informed age with the most dumb people. Do y' all understand what I'm saying? I was looking at something the other day. It's like most children can't spell. Now y' all know that they can't spell because when it's time to spell something, all they do is say, siri, how do you spell Incredible. And the reason I'm saying that is because we have access to information. But is it really yours if you can't access it whenever you need it without something else? That's why the Bible says thy word I have hidden in my heart. We all use technology to help us. But I'm asking you, what scriptures do you got memorized? Which ones are written on your heart? Which are the ones that you can say when you a little out of it? The reason I'm saying this is because right now having information doesn't mean anything if you cannot actually use it in real life. And so today I just want to walk us down the end of this section of the Relationship Goals series. And I believe it's going to bring healing to so many people. So somebody asked me, what is the goal? What is the relationship goal? Somebody say, what is the goal? I've said it from the first week, but I'm going to say it again. The goal is healthy relationships. How many people want healthy relationships? Just by faith? Put your hand in the air. That's everybody in the room. Okay? Healthy relationships with your family, Healthy relationships with your co workers. Healthy relationships romantically. You want healthy relationships. Watch this. Healthy relationships come from healthy individuals. It's not them, It's you. Now, I need to say this, this clearly, because if when I said that, everything in you was like, you don't know who I'm messing with. Number one, you picked them. You did. Okay. The other thing is there is never a time or a place that you can't keep developing. And what pride has to work in somebody that thinks they're finished. I was talking to an older gentleman the other day who's having marriage problems. And I have. One of. One of my honors in life is getting to counsel with people who are double my age and using not my wisdom, but the wisdom of the word of God to, to help lead them. And this man began to tell me, it's like, I'm 70 years old. I ain't trying to change nothing. Da, da, da. And I was like. And I just let him keep talking because a fool will expose himself. And he just kept talking and he was like, I don't want to change. I've been this way for years. She liked it back then. And I mean, he is. I mean, when I tell you, he's talking with conviction. I don't want. And I, and I just said, I said, sir, I said, respectfully, you are dealing in a level of pride that is hard to even talk to. Because when somebody is convinced they know and they're done growing and this is it. And the sweet lady was like, what should I do? How can I do it? I said, you need to pray. First off, you need to pray because that level of pride only God can break. This is why the Bible says, humble yourself or be humbled. And today I'm asking everybody to approach what I'm about to talk about, talk about with everybody. Say humility. Let's just act like you don't know everything about relationships. Let's just act like you don't have all perfect relationships. And let's approach this with health as an individual. Why? Because healthy individuals are built through self awareness and surrender. So. Oh, that's something I can work on. Oh, that's something God's trying to change in me. Oh, that's something that I learned a long time ago and I'm still working it, but it doesn't serve me anymore. Oh, and I'll give it to you, God. I'll go to counseling. Wife, I'm sorry, husband, I'm sorry. I'll surrender how I've been to pick up a new level of living. Last part. Self awareness and surrender are the substance or the essence of a healthy soul. And that's what everybody in this life is striving for, a healthy soul. Pastor Charles said it so beautifully last week, but I want to illustrate it for you. Didn't Pastor Charles preach so good last week? Man, ain't nothing like having a dog who can go like, this is you. This is your body. This is what everybody sees. This is what everybody is, is trying to beautify and take care of. One of the most neglected places in our life, though, is our soul, which is housed inside of our body. And then the realest version of you is spirit. This is the pneuma. This is the breath of God that when he took dirt, he took it and he blew into this. And what happens is all of us are these three parts in a reflection of the three parts of God, Father, Son, Holy Spirit. And what God is wanting to do is let you know how these work. And I've been in church for years, and people don't explain this to you. When you get saved, your spirit is the only one that gets saved. Your spirit is. Your spirit is shouting and singing hallelujah, but your soul is being saved. Oh, God. That's why you could be like God. I give you everything. Your spirit is like we here. Oh, it's been so many years. Not eating spiritual food and not. Not being nourished. And your soul, mind, will, emotions like what we doing now because we've been doing other things for a long time. Oh, we read the Bible now. Okay. We like reading. Oh, we go to church now. Oh, we try to change our thoughts now when we. No, I'm thinking of fighting. Okay. We pray for them. It's being saved. Your flesh or body. The Bible says it's enmity against God. Your flesh hates everything God likes. God says do it in moderation. You want to do it in excess. God says, take just one, you take 10. Prove it all the way back to the garden. You can eat out of off of any tree. It'd be different if there was only one tree. But what's the one tree they ate off of? The One they weren't supposed to. So what I'm telling you is your spirit and your soul have to team up on your body. This is why these two got to become strong. And he was like, so, okay, you go to the back and hit him in the legs. And then I'm going to jump on his head and bop, bop, bop, bop. Like, do you understand? Like, you gotta. Because this body is strong. The flesh is pulling you to things. Like, why am I watching this? Why do I want to do that? And your spirit's like, no, no. And your soul is like, I know it's wrong, but that looked kind of interesting. Come on, y'. All. And that's why you gotta suplex your body. I'm trying to give you a very funny but real because at the end of the day, what everybody wants you to do is just put your spirit man back inside. Put your soul back inside and live only out of what your flesh wants to do. Your flesh can go to church and walk right out of church. Oh, come on, y'. All. You can be making the plans to sin while in church. Hold on one second. I'm doing something. You're at the altar. You're at the altar singing, I want to be altered. Give me 15 minutes. I'll be outside. Come on, y'. All. That's how ratchet our flesh is. You can commit to a fast if you know what I'm gonna be fasting and then go to the buffet. It be that your fl. Okay. Your flesh don't care nothing about doing what God calls you to do. This is why we have to actually take care of our soul. Because if you've come to Christ, your spirit man's ready. But you don't have usually enough power to do what you need to do because your mind, will and emotions have not submitted to God yet. E and I know people have been in Church for 30 years.
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My spirit is ready at all times because when I become a new creation in Jesus, my spirit man gets fully renewed. Your spirit man ain't gonna become more spirit man than it is right now. It is now saved, redeemed, righteous. It is ready to go. Now. The thing that's got to be saved is my soul. How I'm thinking that's why Romans 12:2 says, don't follow the customs of the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your he's trying to get to your soul. And that's why we say, not my will, but your will. He's trying to get to your soul. And that's why he tells you when your emotions are out of you got to take captive every vain imagination that would exalt itself against the knowledge of God. He's trying to get you to get watch this control of your soul. And once you get control of your soul, it's easy. Your body is no longer the master, it serves what the Spirit wants you to do. And so today, Pastor Mike, how does this, how does this go with relationships? I'm going to show you because Ephesians 4:18 gives us a beautiful picture and I'm going to read a little lengthy portion of Scripture, but we're in church, so this is good. And I'm gonna read it from the message version because it really blessed me. And then I'm gonna get into the meat of what I gotta say. And it says, this is Paul talking. And so I insist, and I think God backs me up on this, that there be no going along with the crowd anymore. The empty headed, mindless Crowd. They refuse for so long to deal with God that they have lost touch not only with God, but with reality itself. Have y' all ever met somebody like that? They've lost touch with reality. It says they can't think straight anymore. Feeling no pain. They let themselves go in sexual obsessions, addicted to every sort of perversion. So it's not just sexual perversion. Perversion just means twisted. It's just anything that's supposed to be one way. You twist it. So people are giving themselves to all type of perversions, but that's no life for you. Somebody say, that's not my life. Say it with faith. That's not my life. You learn Christ, my assumption. I love how Paul says that. My assumption is, you've been listening. My assumption is that you have paid careful attention to him. Christ been well instructed in the truth precisely as we have it in Jesus. Since then, we do not have the. Watch this excuse of ignorance. Look at your neighbor and say, we do not have the excuse of ignorance. I know that's a weird thing that you're saying to your neighbor right now, but I need you to hear this. When you find out about Jesus, you no longer watch this. Have the excuse of ignorance. And there are too many people that are sitting under the sound of my voice that are just saying, well, I didn't know. Yes, you did. You chose not to obey it. You chose to ignore it. You chose not to. Has anybody ever sat in the exit row seating on an airplane? Why do you sit in the exit row? What is the advantage of sitting in the exit row? More leg room. Everybody, more leg room. You four. Four. And you want more leg room? It doesn't even matter. Okay, so. So let me. Let me help you. Do you know what the requirements that they ask you for for sitting in the exit row? To help in case of an emergency, but because there hasn't been an emergency that you've been a part of. Most of us do not do what the stewards ask us to do. Do you know what they ask you to do? They ask you. Somebody like, nah, I don't need. What are we supposed to do? You're supposed to read the manual to actually figure out. Watch this. How to open a door at 33,000ft in the air while it's going down. Now, I've played this out in my head several times because I had been on many flights sitting in the exit row. And then I sat next to somebody. It was their first time sitting in the exit row. And when I tell you, they studied that pamphlet. It convicted me because I knew about sitting in the exit row. I had no idea how to open the door. And I thought because it's a door, hit the handle, it opens. But because of the certain pressure that that would be released in, I had to listen, not be ignorant of the usage of this. What I'm saying to you is I'm trying to draw a parallel that many of us think we know how God's word works because we've heard it said in church. But there is a time where God is calling all of us to no longer have the excuse of ignorance. What you gonna do with it? This is what he's saying. He says you no longer have the excuse of ignorance. Everything, and I do mean everything, connected with the old way of life has to go. It's rotten through and through. Get rid of it. And then take on an entirely new life. A new way of life. A God fashioned life, a life renewed from the inside, working itself into your conduct as a God, accurately reproduced his character in you. What this adds up to is this. No more lies. No more pretense telling your neighbor the truth in Christ's body. We are all connected to each other after all. So when you lie to others, you end up lying to yourself. This is Bible, y'. All. So go ahead and be angry. I'm good with that. You do well to be angry. But don't use your anger as fuel for revenge. And don't stay angry. Don't go to bed angry so you can be angry until it's time for night night. That's what the best. That's what it say. This is the part I read all of this scripture for. And don't give the devil that kind of foothold in your life. Don't give the devil a foothold in your life.
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Jump in@chumbacasino.com let's shamba. No purchase necessary. BTW group void. We're prohibited by law. CTNC21+ sponsored by Chumba Casino. The word of the year at Transformation Church is what foe. Say it with faith. Fold. I believe God wants to take everything forward, but the thing that's stopping you from going forward is a foothold. And most of us don't understand what a foothold is. So let me give you a definition. A foothold is a secure, strategic position from which an enemy can advance. This term is usually used in war. This would be like you being on this side and somebody being on that side and your enemy setting up camp secretly on your side so they could tell the people that they're working with what you're doing so that they can execute you faster. A foothold is a. Is a place in your life where you have given the enemy access. And in relationships is the enemy's. One of the enemy's biggest footholds in everybody's life that he will set up around your emotions, around your heart, around your trauma, and he will use those things to try to actually take you out. Watch this. A foothold begins as seemingly minor issues. It can be something as subtle as resentment, fear, grudges, bitterness, or unchecked pride. However, if it's left unaddressed, a foothold can grow into something much more dangerous. Write this point down. Satan is looking to establish a strategic position in your life. Pastor Mike. Why are you saying that? Number one, it's in the Bible, and I'm about to educate you on how you can kick the enemy out of your life. But most of you won't kick somebody out that you don't know. Is there so many of you don't even think. I mean, I feel like I'm good. Like, I feel like everything's good. And you don't understand. The enemy has camp in your life, in your cell phone, in your feed. There's one account that you post that they can post something, and it changes your psychological thoughts about yourself in your day. Oh, y' all don't play with me, because I'll start pulling up some of the accounts. I see your little bubble on. Y'. All. Y' all know that they telling on y'. All. It shows when you liked shows where you was at. It's leaving a trace of what has a foothold on the inside of you. Okay. All right. Let me just keep going. Stay to your notes, Michael. If we give Satan a foothold in our lives, he will have an easier time watching this, attacking us in other areas. So when an enemy is in Your life in a place you don't understand or don't want to acknowledge. And it's easier to attack other things that they wouldn't even come in for. Once Satan establishes a foothold, he always looks to make further advances. Watch this. He will continue to spread his lies and multiply temptations. Ultimately, his foothold wants to become a stronghold. So I'm trying to explain these big biblical terms that if you read the Bible, you'll see, but nobody really explains them. The enemy wants a foothold. I. I want something that they don't even really recognize is a problem. And I just want to be in their territory so I can be able to use it at any moment. But I'll keep it until I can build up a fence so it's a stronghold. And when something becomes a stronghold. Let me just help you write this down. The goal of the enemy is to turn a foothold into a stronghold. I want you to know that because this is going to help you be able to see the plan of the enemy. We're going somewhere. An example is a foothold. Could be a grudge that you may feel warranted to have because they did me wrong. How many people been done wrong before? Okay, cool. Yeah. I don't like you no more holding a grudge. But it opens up the door. Watch this for bitterness. And if bitterness can grow into a stronghold, it grows into a stronghold of unforgiveness. You see how easy it just happened? I feel justified. I'm bitter. I don't like that I'm holding a grudge. Now it's bitterness. Now it's unforgiveness. And now I don't trust nobody. And it starts affecting all my relationships and my. My ability to experience God's grace. That's why James4.7 says this. You need to submit yourselves, then to God. Resist the devil and he will flee. Resist. Now, a lot of people don't understand what resist. They just. They just try to run away. Resist means you got to know the power you have. You have to put up some type of resistance. If I don't want something coming into my yards, into my yard, I put up a gate. That is an act of resistance. We had a raccoon that was coming to our trash can and trying to literally destroy our backyard by going through and having a feast in our trash can. So we resisted him by putting bungee cables on our trash can. And guess what? He don't come back no more because we resisted him. And now he fleed. What have you put up As a guard and a gate over your mind. What have you put up as a guard and a gate over your ears, over your eyes. What have you. How have you resisted the devil? You keep falling into temptation because there's no resistance. The Bible is giving you. Resist, and he'll flee. He'll go find the other person that's open, he'll go find the other couple that's open. He'll go find somebody else. But if you put up a resistance and some of the believers biggest battle is you just didn't try. You did not try to resist. You literally was like, oh, the devil's here. And like, well, come on in, bud. What you've been doing, it's like, no, you can't come here. You're not welcomed here. I know what you're trying to do to me. Back up. Like, okay, some of y' all gotta resist the devil in your family. I see depression trying to come on my family. This family is full of joy. I resist you. Matter of fact, let's have a dance party right now. No, see, y' all don't see. Joy is an act of resistance. Y' all don't hear me when stuff is going crazy in my house, I'll put on music. Bella, Ava, mj, We start dance. I trade. I'm talking practical now. I trade that heaviness, and I take that garment off and. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Confusion is trying to come in here. What's your name? You are called. You are special. Where is your act of resistance as a believer? The enemy only responds to resistance. And this is why I'm saying, some of y'. All. He's got a foothold. And all you need to do is resist. Resist that a foothold, and it doesn't become a stronghold. Did y' all hear what I just said? The Bible says it's the little foxes that spoil the whole vine. It's the stuff that you're not paying attention. I don't like her, but, I mean, I'm good. No, kill it now. Kill it now. Kill that thing now. Forgive now. Give grace now. Because it's. It's harder to take a foothold that has turned into a stronghold. And now you've passed it on to generations. Okay, let me keep going. Okay, so that's what. But we have good news. With the word of God, we know how to defeat a foothold. We know how to Defeat a stronghold. 2 Corinthians, chapter 10, verse 4 and 5. I'm just teaching you the Bible. I need you to understand the weapons of our warfare that we fight with are not weapons of this world. Another translation said, they're not carnal. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. So I want you to understand what's happening in your life, because everybody acts. Remember, spirit and the soul and the body. We just talk in body terms all the time. I don't feel good. That's your body, but the spirit, something is really happening. He's saying, the wrestle you're going through is you're dealing with strongholds and footholds, and you got to know how to fight those. He said, we demolish arguments and every pretentious thing that sets itself against the knowledge of God. And we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. How do you destroy a stronghold? You take the thought and you put it up against God's word. You're gonna be. You're gonna. You're gonna live in poverty. Do you know what's going on with the government and the oil prices? And do you know what's happening to your 401k? He is Jehovah Jireh, my provider. Every need that I have will be supplied. If the birds don't worry about what they gonna eat and the flowers do not worry about how they're gonna be dressed, how much more does he care? You take strong. Y' all don't hear me. You got to take strongholds and put them. But most believers don't know how to fight. You getting whooped by foot holes and getting pummeled by strongholds, and then you barely come in here and just like God, please do a work on the inside of me. And God's saying, I. I need you to resist the devil and he will flee. And I need you to bring every vain imagination and put it under the word of God. Find you a scripture. That's my whole thing, whatever you're thinking about, find you a scripture that's the exact opposite. And just say that scripture. You ain't got to go deep, you ain't got to do. Just find a scripture that says the exact opposite. My marriage is going to fail. I'm so glad that thought is now in my hands. What God has put together, let no man let no. Y'. All Just letting them thoughts fly around you, just letting those thoughts go. But I miss them. I'm grieving. That's fine. But I don't grieve as one that does not have hope. Because my hope is in Jesus. I'm just so anxious. Be anxious for Nothing but in everything through prayer and supplication. Make your requests. I'm trying to teach y'. All. This is because the footholds and the strongholds are beating up on God's children. And he's saying, fight, fight, fight back. I can't do what. Do what you was trained to do. Okay, y' all gotta give me 10 extra minutes because this about is. I'm. Okay. Okay, Easter. I promise we're gonna be out, but this one, I got to give it to you. Watch this. Don't be discouraged if you have footholds or strongholds, because freedom is found in Jesus. I need everybody to write that big on your paper. Freedom is found in Jesus. I love God that he never lets you go through something, that he doesn't give you a way of escape. He never lets you go through anything. That there is not a way to be able to get out of that thing.
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While sometimes positive, like through marriage or a great friendship, they are frequently associated with unhealthy, addictive or toxic dependencies, making it hard for people to move forward. Soul ties. Now, I know nobody in here has any soul ties, but today I want you to be able to understand the enemy's plan to keep you tied up is so that he doesn't have to come back and check on you because you've already been neutralized. The reason you put a dog on a chain is because you don't have to wonder where it goes after that. Once you put it on a chain, it only can go so far. And there are too many believers that are tied to things that are keeping them from moving forward. There are too many people that can speak in tongues and prophesy and quote scriptures that cannot move forward. And the reason is maybe because you let a foothold turned into a stronghold, and now it's become a soul tie. And as we end this relationship series, I want you to understand something about relationships. This is why it's important, the ones you pick, because all relationships are the fabric or the breeding ground of souls being tied together. There is nobody who has a soul tie that doesn't have some type of relationship with the thing that they are being tied to. So today I want to give you the understanding of what God wants to provide for everybody by exposing four things that create soul ties. I'm going to give you four things that create soul ties. And this I wanted to help people be able to understand where they are formed. Because if you can't kill it at the root, you only deal with the fruit. And a lot of people are dealing with the fruit of soul ties, but they don't know where it came from. So I wanted to study this thing so you can understand it, those emotional connections, how you had sex with them one time and now you look like them, talk like them, smell like them, walk like them. And now you in your third relationship. But it ain't just y' all two, it's y' all six. And everybody is trying to figure out, why can't I move past this? I didn't even used to like that. I never was this angry. I didn't even listen to this type of music. Why are these things? Because it's a soul tie. That foothold turned into stronghold, that turned into a soul tie. And now you're like, why can't I move forward? Because you're tied to something that is. Watch this. An anonymous anchor. An anchor gets dropped, so something can't move forward. And there are too many people that are walking around anointed but tied to anonymous anchors can sing and prophesy. But that. That anchor got you you at this level and nobody can fit you. Ever met somebody's like, they got the talent and everything to go to the moon. It's like, why are they still in Kawita? What I found out is there's a lot of anonymous anchors that it doesn't matter how much talent you got. It doesn't matter how many people think you're great. There are things that are tying us down that watch this many times we don't even acknowledge. So I'm gonna expose the devil today, and I can't wait. He been fighting me all week to give you this, but I'm gonna give it to you. Four things that create soul ties. These are the ties that get created. Number one, initial ties. Now, this one is the one that you have really no control over when you're young, because your initial ties are your family. It is your house of origin. It is your uncle who raised you or your grandmama who raised you. Whatever house you might have been adopted, whatever house adopted you, you. That is your initial ties. And watch this. However healthy or unhealthy they are, they are your first forming soul ties. That is why doctors tell fathers and mothers, when the baby comes out, put them skin to skin. Your. Your. Your body innately knows that this is the person who's supposed to nurture me and make sure that my soul is safe, soothed, seen and secure. All those things your soul needs that we talked about in week one that we're trying to build, it's supposed to come from our parents. But the enemy tries to make fractured homes. He tries to pervert what our parents think and how they raise us. They raising us the way they was raised. They didn't get no education on certain things. They're fighting their own battles, dealing with their own drama. It's all these things. And your first tie are the initial ties. Watch this. That form how you grow. And many of you may have not considered, but some of you are being held back by the culture you were born into. You've always lived in poverty because you were born into it. And I'm not talking about an amount of money. I'm talking about a way of thinking. I know people that have their kids filling their pockets with ketchup at restaurants. You laughing, but we come to your house too, because. Because we're gonna take it. Well, we pay. We ate here. We did this. And they're filling their house with pocket. And you go to their house and they have a jar full of ketchup that they basically took from restaurants they ate at because we shouldn't have to pay for a text. This is Heinz. This is Heinz. And it's funny to some people. For some people, they face it straight. Cause it's at their house right now. Look at him. My man was scratching, like, here, here. What up? Hear what I'm saying to you. That even if your lights never got cut off is a poverty mindset. But if you were taught that that tie has you now telling your kids, eat all that food. You don't know what I did to pay for this food. Eat all that food. I'm not hungry no more. Watch this. Watch this. And that same principle transforms and shows up in your house differently. And I don't know if you've ever considered it, but some of you are being held back. Watch this. By just the ties that were formed from the family you were born into. Some of you, your family did nothing for nobody. So you were born into a house of greed and selfishness. So when somebody tries to ask you to do something for somebody else, like, what did they do for me? And I mean, this is after knowing what God has said for us to do. And that Jesus came to serve and not be served. That's good for him. But have you ever considered the ties that were here before you got to choose? What I found out is that blinders from birth become binders from birth. Like, if you won't ever acknowledge it, it'll be the thing that some of y' all are only children. Some of you had all the brothers and sisters in the world and got forgotten. What are those things that developed on the inside of your watch? This soul, they attach to your mind, will, and emotions to the point where you can't move forward as a grown adult because of what happened back there. Watch this. And nobody ever acknowledged it because they were doing the best they could with what they had. But have you ever stopped to evaluate how it affected you and how it's watched is affecting you? Obeying God's word. Okay, I'm gonna keep moving. The first one is initial ties. Second one, influential ties. So. So you can't help the family you're born into. But then as you start to develop. I remember, for me, it was in sixth grade, I had a young friend that took me into the sixth grade boys locker room, and he was influential in my life and told me everything about sex, told me everything about. I didn't learn it in church. I didn't learn it from My parents, I didn't learn. I learned it in the 70s 6th grade boys locker room by somebody who had influence in my life. And I don't know if you think about in your formation years, even when I'm talking to my high school students and my middle school students. The influential ties are your friends and coaches and teachers and big cousins. I don't know why so much happened with cousins. I don't know is anybody's cousins in their story. Because cousins, I'm telling you. But it may be somebody who's influential or they look a certain way or they. And they start to influence the way that you do things. And those are relational ties. Watch this. That start to form how you believe. I remember I had a big cousin that always had polo boots. Y' all know the duck boots that was black on the top and then they had the thing. And his pants was always creased. This before we. This one we used to iron clothes. And then his pants was always creasing. He always had the polo on. I was like, I. I. And I'm telling you, he had more influence the two times that I saw him a year. I only saw him two times at Thanksgiving and Christmas. But the influence that he had on me and I think had me going back trying to be like him because there was a tie that was based on his influence in my life. Who are those ties that tied to your mind, will and emotion, those soul ties that have nothing to do with your family, but they were influential in that way. What word did that coach speak over you or how did that coach illegitimately touch you? That tied to your soul to where you can't trust authority ever again. What I'm saying is you were violated in a moment and it now has tied to you never trusting anybody with authority. They always have bad intentions. These are things we have not considered. But the influential ties along with those initial ties may be holding you back. Let me give you the third one and this one you're not going to see coming. It's the idol ties. See, when you get into the formation of your identity and trying to become who you want to be. A lot of times we see people and things that look like the future we want to be. I know people who started dressing like Eminem, talking like Eminem, started saying, hello, my name is and all of that other stuff because watch this. They on my staff too. And this is what I'm trying to say. What I'm. What I'm trying to say. What? What I'm trying to say. What? What I'm trying to say is all of us have people that we begin to look to. And we start to idle. And our soul becomes tied to them so much. So we start walking like them, talking like them. Listening to the things they listen to, finding out about their past, going to the town that they were born in. What? I remember a girl I met one time, she loved Bob Marley so, so much. Ain't never been to Jamaica. Ain't never been to an island. Don't know how to speak none of the language. But started only wearing certain colors and getting dreads. And your hair don't even do that. Don't even do that. Got your hair stanking and long and. But y' all know what? But people become so upset. And your idol doesn't have to be somebody who's famous. It could be somebody that, that you just saw. A business person, an athlete. What do you think happens when we start to form these soul ties? Watch this with artists and musicians and actors, okay? Y' all don't want to hear me. Idle ties happen through fascination, fame and future. I could see my future in them. That's the type of family I want. That's the type of things I desire. So initial ties, influential ties, idol ties. And this is the one everybody talks about. But it is the most powerful one. It's the illegitimate intimacy ties. These ties are formed through sex, fantasy and fornication. Now the beauty on this is most people start and stop with this one. You got soul ties only with all the people that you have sex with. Yes. And it is a very hard bond to break. That's why God put sex inside of the marriage container. So that it can be beautiful in there. But if it's gets outside of there, it can burn everything down. Does everybody understand what I'm saying?
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Why can you. Why can you be thinking, I won't do this? But then as soon as something comes on to trigger your soul, you go, right? There's certain cities when you go into. You know what it is. There's certain place you can't go to Atlanta, you shouldn't go to Atlanta. Now, I'm not saying you. I'm saying you know who you are that shouldn't go to Atlanta. You understand? You. Some of y' all should never go to Miami. And they don't got to be a. A city that, you know, some. Some of y' all should never go to certain apartment complexes. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. I'm here. I'm here. Why? Because the vicinity, the atmosphere, that term. Y' all know that turn. Some of y', all, it's one turn. It's like, oh, no, oh, no. Some of y', all, you have cars that you should never get in again. They don't want me to tell the truth. It's. Your soul is tired and you watch this. You went away from things that you never severed, okay? Oh, God. And let me help somebody that thinks that, you know, one night stands and doing things like that is okay. Because culture, everybody do it. Help me, let me help you. That you're not just sharing a night with that person. You're sharing your future. Hear me? I'm. I'm trying to give you. I'm trying to give you the keys that's going to help you not be held back. Okay? I Think some of y' all are hearing me, but you. You're not seeing it. So. So my family. I need y' all to bring me this stuff. Yeah, because. Because. Because y'. All. Some of y' all have had ties going on in your life for years, and you had a cousin and a family member. Come on, y'. All, take a seat. This is the family of my life. And the thing that you don't understand is all of these people have access to me. See, relationship watch. This is everybody say access, and the only person that can give them access is you. In this first part of it, you have initial ties. I got people all around me. I got people that are walking into my life, walking out of my life, what school I went into, where I might have been an army brat, and we moved from place to place to place. I don't have any control over things when I'm young a lot of times. And so what ends up happening is I have to decipher what's happening after it happens. But many times we're in such a pattern where the foothold becomes a stronghold and we become comfortable, they become soul ties, and we walk in it that then we end up 40 and don't realize why we can't move forward. Because I had a dad. Come on, Dad. I had a dad who was there. He was there for me physically, but he wasn't there for me emotionally. And so every time I try to go forward and now I got kids, and, I mean, he provided for me, you know, I'm saying. And he. He. He was there, but he was absent, present. Y' all know what I'm talking about. The present absent father, the one that got to work so much to make sure you're provided for, but it's never there for the pivotal moments. And because he was there, I had a baby out of wedlock, and this was my daughter out of wedlock. And so we more like friends than we are dad and daughter. Because now she doesn't know this, but I resent her. This is my first baby, but I resent her because. Because I didn't really know how to be a father. She came, and I like her, but she stopped my purpose. And so I'm mad every time. And these are initial times in my life, stuff that people didn't have any control over, but they came into this world, and now they tie me up. And so when I was young, I used to leave the house because my dad was never there, so he couldn't stop me from leaving, and I got hooked up with some friends. And this was my friend and my friend. You know what I'm saying? She's kind of cute, too. And we didn't really want to be together, but we wanted to try things together. Oh, it's quiet. In. Did y'. All. Did y'. All. I mean, like, she was more like my homeboy, but she did have things that I did not have. I'm in somebody's business, so, I mean, she cool, like one of the guy. You know what I'm saying? Like, but for some reason, my dad wasn't there, and we played, we hooped together, and. And she spent the night sometime. And, I mean, when she would spend the night, we would, you know, watch old basketball games. I love the dribbles. The dribbles. Great dribbling. No, but hear me. I'm talking real stuff. It never was serious. We never gonna marry each other. We never gonna be together. People ask us, y' all got given shit. We ain't trying to do nothing. We was just friends with benefits. And this is something I chose. And the reason I was able to keep it up is because I was friends with her brother. And because we was boys, it gave me access. We knew what we had. He didn't really know, but he was the reason she could always come around. And because. And because he was doing some things with medicinal drugs and trying to get away from the pain in his own family. And I found a brother and sister that were my safe place because my pops wasn't there. And I had an illegitimate child when I was young. And. And my. My parents had to raise her. So I'm feeling bad about myself because I'm not even in my daughter's life for real, because I'm too young. I had this baby in high school. I don't know. I don't know how to wipe myself. I can't wipe her. Okay. Y' all want to be. I bet I still got streets. How can I? I'm being too real for y' all today. So I found friends. I did start going to church, and I did start trying to figure out what was going on. But every time I tried to move forward, it felt like too much. Felt like too much energy. I never had to work this hard for anything. And what people didn't know, I thought that all I had to do was become successful, because if I could become successful, then I could provide for my daughter and I could give my daughter back. And then I could find a woman that I really want to be with, because I don't Want to keep calling her because we're not going to really be together. But this is the only way that I know I can get my needs met right now. She ain't going to say nothing. I ain't going to say nothing. We not going to say nothing. And then. And then the truth of the matter is her brother is getting further and further into drugs, and I don't want to do that. But he's my A1 from day one. And so I'm gonna try it because he gives it to me. And I'm really just trying to figure out, like, my dad's getting older and he's sick, but I can't talk to him because I don't really have a real relationship with him. And so I'm just now in a place. And so I need a mentor. I'll pay for it even. I need somebody who's successful. I need somebody that's. That's made a few million because. Yeah. Oh, bald white man. Yes, let me find a bald white man to mentor me named Gary. But now watch. But I find out that the success that he has on the outside has been manipulated by compromise on the inside. And so now I'll work for him for free. I'll be a mentor. But he's showing me things and showing me shortcuts and showing me cooked books and showing me how to get what I want when they say I can't have it. And. Oh, come on, y'. All. And now I'm walking into this new level of understanding, But I'm not walking in freedom, because God's trying to move me forward. But every time I'm trying to move forward, I'm all tied. God says forward. I'm going forward. Going forward. I'm sick of using all of this energy to do what God said. Well, if the initial ties can't get me free and the influential ties can't get me free, and even the idle ties looking at people, that man seemingly are successful. Well, you know what? No, I'm not going to stop there, because I really saw somebody who gave their life to Christ and was walking this out. And she used to be somebody that I looked up to when I was younger. And you know what? I want you to help me. I want you to give me wisdom. I want you to. I want you to give me wisdom. But could we have a Bible study at your house? And because of the things that I used to do over here, when I get in the environment alone with even a godly girl. Proverbs 31, a virtuous woman. Come on. Don't y' all act like this. She wears skirts. Easy access. You better quit. All I'm saying, y' all know whole religions is formed on skirts. What are y' all talking about? That's easier than. Anyway, I. I'm trying to set somebody free. And now. And now I've brought what was a foothold and a stronghold in my life. And now I've infected and become tied to somebody who was walking with God, was doing the right thing. It started off with the right intentions, but ended up in a bad place. And this is the thing. Your soul ties will let you move forward for a season. They'll let you go forward. They'll let you feel like there's progress because you haven't acknowledged them. I'm older now. And just right when you're about to walk into a place of purity, it's. What is this? Why can't I go? No, it's right there. My future is there. My purity. Is there me actually being in freedom? Is there me actually being able to love and not have to perform is right things here. That's tiring. What you doing for your birthday? No, not you. Yet. You watch. Watch, watch, watch. So you'll take people who've been out of your life for years, look them up on Facebook. How you been? I missed you. You look good. You look good. Seen you in a minute. I ain't seen you in a long minute. You eating good. Watch, watch. And it'll be a connection. Do you understand that? But now that tie is stronger than ever. You can go back to your seat. But it's just tugging on me. I just heard a rip. Hold on. I just heard a rip. Why? Because the force of what I'm trying to go after and what's trying to pull me back is at war. Pastor Mike, why are you doing this? Because I just want you to see. Maybe you've never acknowledged that these are the relationship ties that have you stuck. And until you find your freedom in Jesus, this will always be an issue. The beautiful thing right now is you can see them. But every one of you in this room, this room looks like a big spider web. And for everybody online, it's a big spider web. There's webs. You're in one city, and there's a spider soul tie that's literally in another country. You don't even remember their name. Just because you forgot them doesn't mean the soul tie is not connected to you. And again, the illusion is that you can be set free for a season. And it lets you go and let you keep going. And watch this. It'll even let you get to a point where you can fake like, keep going, let it go. You can fake like you're in your right position. Glory to God. He's so good to me. So how do I break this?
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This is your great great great grandfather and his alcoholism addiction and your great Great, great, great, great grandfather, brother, who literally taught him how to lie and be a cheater and a manipulator. And watch what ends up happening is now all of these ties are pulling me in different directions, and I can't even see where they're coming from. Oh, God. Do you know how tired it would be to just stand up here trying to fight, to live, trying to fight, Forget doing God's will. I'm just trying to survive. And if this is how you look emotionally, spiritually, or even relationally, I need to let you know it's time for you to get free now. It's possible. There's freedom in Jesus. Somebody say there's freedom in Jesus. Everybody, let it go just a little bit. Let it go, let it go, let it, let it go. Yeah, it's just. I gotta get to my notes. Now. Watch. You see, I'm bargaining. I'm asking permission. Hey, would you. Would you give me just a little more slack so I could get married? Would you just give me a little more slack so that I could raise these kids? Would you just give me a little more slack? I'm gonna teach you how to break the soul ties. Because somebody said, how do I do this? Watch this. I'm gonna teach you how to break it. Write these down. Don't ever forget this. The first way that you have to break soul ties through action is recognition. The whole reason I did this example and took my time is because some of you, through this example, are now aware you're even thinking, you know what? Yes, I do have some ties that are ungodly. And if you recognize them, I want you to call them out. Not call them. Let me clarify. Call them out. That could be writing them down. That could be confessing to somebody. That could be actually jotting that. But, like, I need you to acknowledge this was a soul tie. I had a soul tie to this celebrity. Some of y' all have a soul tie to a celebrity. That's that idol tie. Anything they do, they can do no wrong. Every song that they come out with, no matter what it says, you're singing it at the top of your lungs. You worship with them. Come on, y'. All. Pastor Mike, why are you saying this? Because these chords are strengthened through what you say. Sing, watch. But the first thing is, you have to be aware of it. This is a soul tie. Second thing, how you break soul tie is repentance. So recognition is number one. Number two is repentance. That means turn. How do you turn? You accept God's grace. God Literally said, you don't have to live like this. You can live like this, but you don't have to live like this. So I want you to everybody say repent. This is God's whole message. Look at Acts 3, 19. Repent, then turn to God. Do a 180, not a 360. Because if you do a 360, you'll be back in the same spot. Do a 180. He said, repent and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out and that times of refreshing may come from the Lord. Do you know what would be so good right now? Refreshing. Like, not all this pool intention, just being refreshed. Second Corinthians 7:10 says, Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret. But worldly sorrow brings death. So God, he's like, yo, I need you to have some remorse for what happened, but not in a way that you're defeated. I want you to understand that it brings you to repentance and leads to salvation, and then you'll have no regret. So the first thing is recognition. It's awareness. We're breaking it because we're recognizing it. You can't hide here no more. There's no more foothold, and it can't be a stronghold. I see you. I see you, enemy. I see you, big cousin. I see you, influence. I see you, father wound. I see you. Somebody say, I see you. There is tensions that you've never called out and nobody's ever said anything. And then you repent and you accept God's grace. Number three, renouncing. You got to cut off access now. A lot of people like renouncing. Well, what is renouncing? Have a word like it is announcing. It's what you're using. We are together. That's announcing we are together. So you need to renounce it. We are no longer together. The same level of energy you. You use to announce it, you need to use to renounce it. I used to have to go to bed with a bottle. Only bottle next to my bed is water. I am free from addiction. I am free from pornography. I am. Am free from bitterness. I. But most people won't renounce it. You walk away from it, but you never confess that that tie no longer is mine. And the next step to renouncing it, that's the spiritual side of repenting. But the other side of it is renouncing is get rid of everything that reminds you of it. Some of y' all go to sleep in hoodies and jerseys of people that have been the worst representation of love. You are abused by the people you still drive in the car. I'm saying that you gotta trust that God's big enough to replace anything that they gave you. Some of y' all still taking money and still doing different things. I'm not saying your child support, that he gotta pay for that child. Pay for the child. But. But, but. But what? I'm. Do y' all hear what I'm saying? But there are certain things. Well, he still give me something for Valentine's Day because I am his baby mama. Don't accept it no more. What the heck? That's a tie. And every two or three years between every other girl he's doing, y' all have one slip up. What are we talking about? These are ties. And let me say something to you. You have to renounce these things because God wants you to cut off off its access with your power. Because Proverbs 18:21 says, Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit. I want you to know that God wants you to renounce these things. Second Corinthians 4, 2. I'm giving you scripture to stand on, because some of y' all going home to renounce things. To cut the ties off of things that have been really holding you back. It says, but we have renounced death. Disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth, we would command ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God. Renounce it. Number four, recovery. So you don't. It's not just enough to renounce it. You got to go through a season of recovery. And people try to go from relationship to relationship immediately. Well, I found somebody. And God is just redeemed. He redeems everything. Baby, you're not healed. You're about to mess that one up, too. Because when you're with them, you're with them, like, because they're still ties. And this is why in recovery, you gotta realign. And I would almost say recovering, because you never are just fully recovered. I'm gonna keep being recovered like I'm recovering. I'm gonna become healthy enough to do this. But this is the thing that everybody understands. When you go into surgery, nobody hops up for surgery. That was a deep work. They always tell you to plan for recovery. What is the other word for recovery? Healing. You need time to heal. That's what James 5:16 says. Therefore, confess Your sins, the ties, the. The missteps, the mismarks, one to another, pray for each other that you may be healed. The prayer of the righteous person has great power and is working. The last one. How do we cut these soul ties? Let God restore you. It's restoration. It's your ability to. Now go into another level of usage. I told y' all this a long time ago. My wife, I asked her one day what was her dream car. And I thought she was gonna say something new and nice. And she said, a 1965 car. And I said neither one of us was alive. Why you want a car that's older than both of us? And what. What I did is I found that car for her 35th birthday and I had it restored. And I'd seen that car other places, but it wasn't in the place to be able to drive. So it wasn't restored. It was the car, but it wasn't restored. It was worth less because it wasn't restored. But every time we drive her car, people honking and, well, what year is that? And I'm like, 1965. And like, it's like. It's like a whole like thing. Because people are amazed. In a world where everything is new, to see something old still running, That. That just means that God can preserve you, preserve your marriage, preserve your youth, preserve you if you would let him restore you. Psalms 23. I love it. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down. Hold on. That's recovery. In green pastures he leads me beside still waters. Why? Because back then, still waters was the only place you could see your reflection. There were no mirrors on the wall. It was only in steel waters that I could see who I really am. And he restores my. Church. If you know it's time to move forward but you're feeling all tied up, there was another man that took this position.
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from 2311 racing another checkered flag for the books. Time to celebrate with Chumba jump in@chumbacasino.com let's shamba. No purchase necessary. BTW group void where prohibited by law. CTNC21+ sponsored by Chumba Casino. This is why we celebrate Easter. This is why we worship the King. It's because he took a stretched out position. And Jesus becomes the initial tie. It says, any man that be in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, he has made everything new. I feel that somebody's ties are about to be broken in this place. It says Jesus is the one that can influence everything in my life. That every tie that has come to keep me severed. I feel a break coming for somebody. This is about to be a season where everything that has been tied to you is now gonna be loose. And there is freedom in Jesus. If you believe it. Why don't you stand to your feet and give God a shout of praise? This is what freedom looks like. And somebody would say, well, why don't you unhook them? I dare you to take my testimony. This is how we overcome. Yeah, by the blood of the lamb. You can look at it. And the words of our testimony. Somebody shout at me. Freedom. If you're sick of the soul ties, if you're tired of being tied up, here's your answer. His name is Jesus. Hands lifted all over this place. Oh, I feel this. See, Jesus is not just the initial tie or the influential tie. He can be your idol tie too. Because every knee will bow and every tongue will confess. And he will not be an illegitimate tie. He'll be the legitimate tie to your future. There's one more. He's the invincible tie. The Bible tells us neither death nor light, neither death nor darkness, nor separation nor hell can separate us from the love of God. Today, here we are, God, and we're asking for you to break every chain, break every tie, every soul tie. If you know you're here under the sound of my voice and there's been some things tied to you that are not like God. And you want prayer just at your seat or watching online. I just want you to lift both of your hands high. Just come on, I'm gonna pray for you. Yep. Father, in the name of Jesus, I thank you for the courage to actually not just hear your word, but obey it. God, I thank you that your people today are making a decision to acknowledge the people that they have been tied to that have formed ungodly soul ties. People who have been in marriages, but they've been in marriages with several people that have not been contacted in Years. And they're holding on to ideas and thoughts and fantasies and. And secrets and even hurts and pains from a family member or aunt or uncle or people that aren't even alive anymore. God, I'm asking you to heal us and give us freedom. Because whom the sun sets free is free indeed. But we cannot resist exist what we don't know is there. So today we cut every foothold and every stronghold and every soul tie, and we will walk in freedom. I feel like this whole week, God is going to do surgery. I don't try to preach messages where it started and finished in the message. Today, some of y' all are going to fill trash cans, delete accounts. Oh, yeah. You don't need to know anything that's happening with them soul ties. You don't need to know it's their birthday. You don't need to know they got a promotion. You don't need to. You don't need to know if they're alive. Pray for them. Pray. Bless them, Lord. Pastor Mike, why are you saying that? Because it's holding you back from moving forward. Some of you. It's worth you moving. You heard what I just said. That apartment is a place full of memories that continue. It's worth you downgrading to get into your freedom. It's worth you switching colognes, I promise you. There's something else that smells good, but every time you smell that scent. Oh, I'm just. There's certain restaurants you can't go to no more. There's certain movies you shouldn't watch. Come on, y'. All. How bad do you want your freedom? The week before Easter, I wanted to preach this message because I believe by this time next week, there's another level of freedom that you're going to experience, that you're going to have to run into every person in the town and tell, come meet a man. Hear what I'm saying? There was a woman with an issue of blood, and Jesus healed her to the place where she's like, y' all, come meet a man who told me everything that I did. He knew all of this, and he still chose me, and he still gave me a drink of living water, and I'm not thirsty no more. Some of y' all got to hear me. And this is why you're going to invite people, cuz, you know, they need to meet the man that took the stripes and bear the scars for their salvation. Today, freedom is coming in Jesus. If you've never accepted Jesus, I want to give you an opportunity to make him your Personal Lord and Savior. He's the only one that can free you. He's the only one that gives us power to do this. If that's you under the sound of my voice, watching online or rebroadcast or in this room, on account of three, I just want you to slip your hand in the air. I want you to be bold about it. I want you to identify. The Bible tells us if we claim him here on Earth, it says he will claim us in front of the Father in heaven. This is our chance. Today is the day of salvation. It's the greatest decision I've ever made. It took me from being a liar, a manipulator, addicted to pornography. All of this. And I share it with you every day because I don't want to ever forget the grace of God. And it turned me into a man that desires to help other people as I progress on my journey forward with Christ. And today, I believe, is your day of salvation. So if you're in this room and you're ready to give your life to Jesus Christ for the first time, or give your life back to him for the last time, in the name of Jesus, on the count of three, I want you to lift your hand. 1. You're making a decision that is going to transform your life forever. 2. I'm proud of you. But more than that, your name is about to be written in the Lamb's book of life. 3. If you want to accept Jesus, lift your hand in the air. I see you, my brother. I see you, my brother. I see you, my sister. I see you. I see you. I see this couple. More than that. God sees you. Transformation Church. How do we celebrate what God is doing? I see you, brother. I see you, my friend. Hey, listen, here it is, everybody standing at Transformation Church. Nobody prays alone. We pray for the benefit of those who are coming to Christ, who are family here. You get new ties here, Godly ties. Just everybody say, father, thank you for seeing me and sending Jesus today. I repent and I turn to you. I believe you lived, you died, and you rose again with power over sin. So today, here's my life. Change me, renew me, transform me. I'm yours. Cut every tie that is not. Not like you. I give you my life in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. All over this place, let's celebrate the God who breaks every tie and forms a tie that can never be broken. As the altar workers come. I'm so proud of you. If you made that decision for Jesus, I need you to pull out your phone and text save to 828282 and I want to give everybody the opportunity to pray. That James scripture said, confess one to another and pray for healing somebody. Today is your day of healing. These altar workers are here. Our staff, our team is here. If you need prayer, the worship team's gonna sing just for a moment. If you're online, I'm gonna pray for you in just a moment. Just lift your hands in a moment of worship. There are people have to go and get their kids, but there's just been a sweet anointing in this place. Next week, get here early because we are going to celebrate our risen Savior. The sun is coming and next Friday you can watch Ransom. Friday, Saturday and Sunday is going to be phenomenal. And we're going to see people saved. I said we're going to see people saved. Join us at the extravaganza on Saturday. But before all of that, maybe you need to get altered right here at this altar. And so from all over this place, if you want to just stay in worship, if you need to leave, you can. But if you need prayer, I want you to come and get the prayer you need. Because God, the surgery is. God wants to do the surgery that your soul needs. So today, Father, we're open to you. Have your way in this place. In Jesus name we pray. Come on, just lift your hands right there. Thank you for joining us today. If you said that prayer and accepted Jesus into your heart, it's the best decision you could ever make. We want to celebrate with you and we have some tools to help you on your journey. Text saved to 828282 and to find out more about TC Text connect to 828282. Be sure to subscribe and share this podcast with your friends. Thanks for listening. Now go out and live a transformed life. It's tax season, and by now, we're all a bit tired of numbers. But here's an important one you need to $16 billion. That's how much money in refunds the IRS flagged for possible identity fraud. But it's not all grim news. LifeLock monitors millions of data points per second and alerts you to threats you could easily miss on your own. If your identity is stolen, they'll fix it, guaranteed. Save up to 40% your first year. Visit lifelock.com iheart Terms apply.
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