Change Church Miracle Week | Dr. Marcus Dudley and Pastor Dashawn Robinson

((music playing)) [laughter] >> Put some fire in the chat this morning if you have a testimony. Hey, we overcome by the blood of the lamb and by the word of our testimony. Our testimony, watch this, doesn't just declare God's goodness to others. Watch this. It declares God's goodness to us. Sometimes you and I need to be reminded of how faithful he is by remembering how faithful he's been.

And I believe on this fourth day of Miracle Week 2005, we can all admit that God is faithful. When you look back through seasons and circumstances, when your back was against the wall, where you where you felt shrunken, where you felt scared, where you felt stuck, where you where you felt disappointed, where you dealt with seasons of despair, somehow, someway, in the words of David, God brought you out of the pit.

And a pit simply represents a low place. And many of us have been in low places financially and emotionally and relationally and spiritually. But God brought us out. And I want to pause and I want to speak right now. I believe somebody right now may be experiencing a low place.

I want you to know that God is faithful. Listen to this. And he is still in the lifting business. If you will lift up your heads, he can lift you out of the pit. Lift up your heads, oh ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the king of glory shall come in.

Who is the king of glory? The Lord God strong and mighty. The Lord who is mighty in battle. Man, welcome to Miracle Week 2025. I'm incredibly excited about day four. This is the day the Lord's made. We're rejoicing. We're we're expressing gratitude for this day. And we're so grateful.

I want to thank each and every one of you that have been tapping in each and every morning. Particularly those of you that are doing this that are able to do this live. I want to thank you for that. The collective faith in the virtual on this virtual platform.

The collective faith is felt. The energy is different when you're able to contribute to it live. And I just think, man, um we're going to talk a little bit about this in some of our conversation today. I just think at times many people don't experience miracles because they're addicted to convenience.

Opportunity is inconvenient. The one with the issue of blood, that miracle was not convenient. The um the man the the man who was either he was a paraplegic or he was dealing with some illness that had him immobile. And his friends took him to the house where Jesus was and dug a hole on the roof and let him down through the roof.

Nothing about that says convenient. Dipping in the dirty Jordan River, Naaman, that is not convenient. And um and I think uh our consistency is something God is going to honor. He's going to do something in us and through us as a result of it. You know, well, this is um the Advent season for Change Church, I mean Advent season for the Christian liturgical calendar, and Change Church observes the Advent season.

And Advent comes from the word adventist. It means coming. It's a time of reflection and commemoration and celebration of the coming of Jesus, which we say is the greatest miracle in human history. It's called the incarnation, how this God become a man. Wow. And so, as we reflect on the miracle of Jesus, it's not just a time of appreciation.

It's a time where we cultivate expectation, where we are reminded that God still does miracles. It's not that he has to wait until the Christmas or Advent season to do miracles. It is that we strategically use the Christmas and Advent season as a reminder to us that he's in the miracle working business.

And part of the way we do that is not by expressing faith in terms of what we believe God to do for us, but also what we want God to do through us, through miraculous generosity. And we've got our miracle offering coming up this Sunday at all of our locations.

And we're asking every single partner, supporter, observer, anybody who gleans from this house to ask God how he would have you in your generosity do the best you can, the greatest sacrifice you can make to help Change Church continue to be an instrument through which God does miracles in the lives of others.

And this generosity is an expression of your faith in terms of what you're believing in terms of your belief that God honors and rewards generosity. We don't buy blessings, but God does respond to faith, and generosity is one of the ways. It's not the only way. It's one of the ways we can express our faith.

So, we've been having conversations for the purpose of elevation this week. And we've had some incredible guests, but it is always it's been our custom, my custom at least, to include sons and daughters of the house as a part of this conversation. People that are not only um people who see this church from afar, such as some of my friends and colleagues who've been with us this week, but also people who are up close.

And they are part of the spiritual family, not just adjacent to it, but a part of it. And we need to hear from them as well. So, we got a a few friends that are with us today. Um you know them. I'm not even going to introduce them.

If you're part of the family, I'm just going to have them come up live. You know who they are. Drop some fire in the chat right now for some of the greatest individuals in the kingdom, some of our greatest leaders of Change. Dr. Marcus Dudley. What's up, family? >> from the metropolitan city of Coffeeville, Mississippi.

Nobody knows where that is. >> [laughter] >> Coffeeville standing up. Hey, Pastor, we got some Coffeeville in the chat, sir. Coffeeville standing up. >> Coffeeville in the chat? Okay. >> some Coffeeville in the chat. >> Yeah. Yeah. And we've got the biblical Brooklynite. >> [laughter] >> I like the alliteration, Bishop.

It is the biblical Brooklynite. >> Brooklynite. I love it. Listen. They used to get me together in Jersey. We would have people and we do where people come from New York and all different parts of the New York. And I would get the people from Brooklyn and the Bronx confused.

And they would be like, "No, Pastor, >> [laughter] >> I'm from the Bronx, not Brooklyn." I get it. >> It's different. Come on, y'all drop some fire in the chat for Pastor Marcus Dudley and Pastor DeShawn. Man, so grateful to have you guys. You know, one of the things that we say a lot here is that in the New Te- we say a lot around Change.

In the New Testament, one of the dominant metaphors used to describe the church is family metaphor. Mhm. Um God's church is called household of faith. People are referred to as brothers and sisters. And so, um Psalms even says he takes the lonely and sets them in family. You know, I think it's one thing for us to hear from people who are family adjacent.

It's another thing for us to hear from people that are actually part of the family, living, breathing body into what God's doing here at Change Church. And I want I want to have a conversation around something today. But before we do that, I just think as sons of this house and as part of this family, I want to hear from both of you.

I want the chat to hear also. What does Miracle Week mean to you? To you. What does Miracle Week and Miracle Sunday mean to you? Mhm. Well, Pastor, I would say you you you started speaking about it in in your intro when you talked about convenience. Um See, inconvenience is sometimes an invitation.

That's right. >> Many people that we see get miraculous breakthrough in the Bible went through inconvenience, but they became invitations to deeper revelation about who God is. That's right. >> And Miracle Week is not not merely just about what God wants to do and get you out of, what crisis he wants to get you out of, or what mess he wants to get you out of, but it's actually what he's inviting you into.

That's right. Deeper revelation about him. That's right. And Miracle Week is a time that I don't believe God just wants to do something for our church, but it's also how he wants to elevate and enrich your relationship with him. That's right. That's what it means to me, Doc.

That's strong. That's strong. Dudley. Pastor, I heard you say something earlier this week. You said that um one of our philosophies for Miracle Week is we want to watch God work. Mhm. >> And for me, Miracle Week is a reminder that God still works. Yeah. >> [laughter] >> It is It is a reminder that God still works.

And it is also a reminder because faith has the tendency to settle. So, it has to be stirred. So, Miracle Week for me is a stirring of my faith because this is what faith does. Faith doesn't make God able, it makes us available. That's it. That's it. That's it.

That's it. Yeah, we're going to go deeper on that in just a second. That's strong. That's strong. That's right, Dudley. That's right, DeShawn. That's right. It It is It's an in like miracle week for me like here's what I think. For me personally, miracle week is and it's almost like a com- compilation of what you both said.

It is a It is It is a pre-planned cuz it happens every year season of stretching. Mhm. >> [laughter] >> Yes. Yeah. I see and when I say a season of It is a pre-planned season of stretch like miracle week is where God stretches me. And he stretches me differently during miracle week because my faith is stretched as an act of obedience.

Mhm. Not faith being stretched as a reaction to adversity. Right. Right? Yeah. So if I'm if I'm dealing with something Yeah. I could be like, yeah, God's stretching my faith cuz like I I got to believe God. If I'm dealing with some adversity or some challenge, God stretches my faith that way.

Right? But then there are times like miracle week where each year it seems um it it seems like there's always something that makes the generosity less convenient than it was the year before. Mhm. Yes. You understand what I'm saying? Yes. Like Yes. All right. And so it's always like at the beginning of miracle week it's like I'm a little like that number is like it feels like a safe number cuz it's that's more convenient.

But then by the time I get to the end of miracle week, it's like, okay, now God, you are stretching my faith as an act of obedience. Not in response to adversity. So it's an invitation Yeah. >> to trust you on a greater level. It's an invitation for me to experience you on a greater level.

Like it's it's a season of stretching for me. And I think I think as I'm looking at the chat here, there's so many people that are resonating with some of the things that we're saying. It's It's It's It's It's where God stretches us. Yeah. Yeah. I I think about Pastor I think about um you sparked Matthew 14 when when Peter gets out of the boat, right?

To walk on water when Jesus bids him to come. And the the thing about that text is like logic would say the boat is the safe place. That's right. But wherever But but but our spirit man knows it's wherever Jesus is that's the safe place. >> That's right.

So even if Jesus is on something and he's inviting us and stretching us to a place that seems unstable like water Yes. he's saying, where I am is real is the real ark of safety. Yes. So when we get stretched in this season is is almost like righteous risk.

It's like >> I'm I'm taking this risk hoping that I am am growing in richer revelation of our Rabbi and enriching my relationship with the Rabbi and seeing him work in a new way in my life even if it means I step out of the place that I was told is safer.

Yeah. Yeah. Boat The boat Watch this. Not even just told safer that DeShawn it feels safer. Yeah. Yeah. >> [laughter] >> It feels safer cuz everybody's in the boat, you know what I mean? Right. But But Peter and I'm going to talk a little bit about this Sunday. I cannot wait to deal with this rationalism thing I'm getting ready to talk about, but We can't wait either, Doc. >> [laughter] >> But like what Peter did actually made more sense.

Mhm. Like when we look at it, we like, that didn't make sense. >> [snorts] >> But what he did actually made more sense. Yeah. >> Because it's actually safer wherever Jesus is. Wherever Jesus is. Right. That's it. >> [laughter] >> Wherever he tell you to come, that's actually safer. Yeah. >> So it's like it feels like, man, keeping this like God's prompting me toward supernatural generosity or uncommon generosity.

It's almost like keeping this and holding this it feels safer. It's like, God, I need this. I Something like something's coming around the corner like But what's actually safer is obeying Jesus. That's right. That's right. And Pastor, this this speaks to me. This speaks to um how miracle week also for me is dealing with faulty faith.

Because sometime life can give you faulty faith. And we see this in Mark 9 when the father comes to Jesus and asks Jesus to help him with what the disciples couldn't help him with. And this is what he This is what he told Jesus, if you can. Mhm.

And so what faith does for us is it cancels the if you can. That's right. Yeah. And I think knowing that Jesus can helps us get out of the boat and operate in the safety that you all are talking about. But what faith does is it has to cancel the faulty faith that sometimes makes us [clears throat] wonder if Jesus can.

Cuz Jesus corrected that man, didn't he? He corrected him. Yes, sir. He said He rebuked him. If I can if you can believe No, it's not if I can, it's if you can. That's right. And that's what miracle week is about. Miracle Miracle week So here's the invitation, DeShawn.

Miracle week is an invi- It's like Jesus like passing the book of responsibility from off of him to us. >> That's right. That's right. It's not if I can, it's if Yes. if you can. Yeah. If I can if you can believe, all things are possible. You Not just this thing.

Not just Not just this thing. He says, all things are possible to them that believe. It's So the question isn't can God? The question around miracle week is will you? Will you? Yeah. >> [laughter] >> I want somebody to just put in the chat right now, I will. I will.

Wow. I will. I will. Yes, Lord. And and and what I love, PD and Dr. Dudley is extending, you know, this conversation about that Matthew 14 story like when they get when Jesus and Peter get back to the boat the [laughter] what we got to understand is our miracles or encounters that we have are not just for us.

Because [snorts] what happens is it says the disciples then worship him and say, truly you are the son of God. And and I'm I'm just wondering who's been watching all week >> [laughter] >> who's been tuning in and tapping all week who know what God is about to do through them is not just for them, but there are some people they're connected to that will also That's right. be inspired be inspired and ignited by what they just saw you have God do in your life.

That is right. And that is that's a perfect segue to the vein I kind of want us to have some conversation around today because DeShawn, there is I think undeniable evidence in scripture and that uh God is a God who wants to regularly do the miraculous. Mhm. Like it is it is And when I say miraculous, Dr.

Vernon said something I think so important on Monday. And what he said is I'm using my words to describe what he said. What he said is the conditions and the context determines the way God expresses his miraculous power. That's right. Yes. So in the Old Testament I mean in the New Testament and in the Old Testament, you see certain types of miracles that you may not see the same way today because the context and the conditions are different, but God still does the same thing.

Mhm. For an example, there's no Tylenol in the New Testament, right? So how you get a fever down? >> [laughter] >> This is why Jesus had to work a miracle to break a fever. That's right. You got me? >> Yeah. Okay. So what does this mean? Does this mean Jesus doesn't break fevers now?

No, it means that through the miracle of medicine and things of that particular nature God has miraculously provided that way, but there are still some fevers that medicine won't break. Come on. Come on. That's it, Pastor. That's it. >> with that kind of fever the same God that broke it in the New Testament will work Am I making sense there?

Yes, sir. Yeah. Okay. So I think it's it's it's like God regularly wants to move supernaturally for his people. And so the question is this and Dudley, you you you set this up perfectly. Uh It's not if God can, it's if we will. Mhm. So what I want to talk about today really quick is miracle blockers. >> [laughter] >> He can.

He can. >> [snorts] >> I want to talk about So I'm going to just throw out a few of these. We're going to try to get through some of them. Um One is I don't want us to talk about this. It's pretty obvious. Unbelief, right? Yeah. Unbelief like that's what Matthew 13:58.

He could not do many miracles there because of their unbelief. The God you see is the God you get. And so that's kind of what miracle week does is it stirs our faith in God's ability. But here's what I just hit I I talked about a little bit yesterday, guys.

I want to hear y'all thoughts on this. Unworthiness. Mhm. My God. >> It's almost like you feel like you got to earn miracles, right? That's right. That's right. What are your thoughts? How does a person's feelings of unworthiness cuz there's somebody in the chat right now right? That feels like I need a miracle, but I don't deserve one.

Mhm. Jesus. Somebody speak to that real quick. That's good, pastor. You know, this is what I will say too, pastor. And I don't want to get us off track, but I think it's important. You shared with us in another space that God's miracle is not always a response to you being in crisis.

But sometimes God's miracle is a response to his personality and his nature. And there is nothing we can do to [laughter] earn God's love. They missed it, doc. I I called it I called it I called it I called it I called it I called it right there. You teach us well, sir.

You teach us well, sir. It's not always the crisis. Yes, sir. And so just because you're not in crisis doesn't mean you don't need a miracle or that God is not willing to do one in your life. Sometimes God's miracle is an extension is an extension and a divine disclosure of who he is.

At his core he's a miracle working God. At his core he's good. And so if God at his core is good, there's nothing that we can really do to merit his goodness. Yeah. 100%. That's so good, doctor. I think I think what we misunderstand is that sometimes we don't realize pride can work in two ways.

Like in two extremes. Like we can have >> [laughter] >> the type of pride that thinks we don't need God and we did it all ourselves. We got it out the mud, right? Self-made. But there's also a pride in our opinion about ourselves. There's a pride that exists that says I'm not worthy even if God says I am.

Gosh. So so we can we can have pride in in polar opposites of of the spectrum of worthiness where we think we're too worthy of something that we don't deserve. We can have pride in our opinion. And it hypnotizes our hearts that even if God says we're worthy, we resist it.

And we don't realize that's pride. If we don't call it pride, we won't fight it like it's pride. [laughter] You just hit something. This has nothing to do with miracle week, but we we want to we want to flow in the stream and follow what I feel to be the stream of thought the conversation is leading us in.

I just want to make sure I don't ignore this. This is the difference between being forgiven and feeling forgiven. Come on. That's good, pastor. That's it, pastor. There are many people that are walking around and that's the that that's ultimately what condemnation is, right? It is your your inability or your unwillingness to accept the forgiveness that God's already given you.

So you're feeling something that's different than what God feels about you. >> [laughter] >> So that difference that that that it's it's a refusal to accept God's decree that you're forgiven. And that's that is an expression of pride. And I think what you both said is so important because Dr.

Dudley what what you mentioned is basically this. If you understand that miracles are demonstration of God's nature. Come on. Come on. Not just a means for provision, but a demonstration of his nature. Come on. It's him showing this is who I am. >> [laughter] >> Then you get miracles because of who he is.

Yes. Come [laughter] on. Yes. Not just because of what you've done. Yeah. Yeah. You understand? Yeah, so it's like God says yeah, I do this cuz this is who I am. I I heard and it's become a life mantra of mine. It helped me so much. There's a gentleman named Ryan Leak.

I met Ryan years ago. He used to be a teaching pastor at a church my uncle used to go to. Marcus Michael Steve used to go to his church out in I think it was in Carrollton, Texas. I can't remember the name of it, but Pastor Mike Casey used to pastor there and anyway, so that's where when Steve kind of got gave his life to the well, recommitted his life to the Lord, he went there.

So I think Ryan Leak used to be like a staff pastor there and I met him at this thing. And so now he's doing a lot of work with John Maxwell. And he tells this story. And the essence of the story is this. He says, you know, he was dealing with some a server that may not have been great at a airport or something like this.

And he said, you know, I don't match the energy. I set the standard. Come on. Yeah. Just because you're one way to me doesn't mean I'm going to be that way to you. I'm not going to match your energy. I got a standard. God doesn't match the energy.

He sets the standard. >> [laughter] >> Standard. Doesn't match energy. I love it, pastor. Doesn't I'm glad he doesn't match the energy because he sets the standard. Sometimes I feel so untimey and I'm not as consistent and I'm I'm not as appreciative and I'm not as grateful for the stuff that he's already done.

I'm glad he didn't match that energy. Right. Right. >> [laughter] >> Okay. All right. All right. And pastor, I I was I was thinking this term this this theological theological term imputed righteousness. And when it comes to imputed righteousness, I think it also works the same way that it is God's imputed worthiness.

He gives us what we don't have. He imputes it to us. He gives us what we don't have. And and I think when it comes to worthiness, God gives us. Yeah. But it's up to us to put it on. For anybody this week that is feeling like unworthy, we want you to know that through Christ yes, God's made you worthy.

That's it. Does that make sense? So worthiness is worthiness is not a blocker unless you let it block your faith. >> [clears throat] >> And here here's here's the one I really wanted to get to today and we'll wrap up with this one. And Deshawn, you mentioned it. So you got unbelief, you got unworthiness.

You got entitlement. >> [snorts] [laughter] >> It's irresponsible not to talk about this. >> [snorts] >> It's irresponsible not to talk about this. Entitlement is an expression, Deshawn, Dr. Dudley, of two things. One, it's a expression of pride. You mentioned that. Yeah. Or it's an expression of wrong priorities. And when I say wrong priorities, it means you putting you where God should be. >> [clears throat] >> Matthew 6:33 gives us a order.

Yes, that's right. You seek the kingdom first. Right. And its righteousness and then all of these things will be added. Sometimes when we feel entitled to the things, I love it, pastor. You put the pursuit of the things first and then the pursuit of the kingdom second. And so here here's the way this can show up and we push back against this.

This is this is why I think generosity is important to tie generosity to miracle week. Here's why. Because entitlement can make you and I obsessed about what the miracle we want God to do for us. And we are not open to the miracle God wants to do through us.

Come on. My God. >> [laughter] >> And the way you get the for you is to put is to put the through you first. Yes. Yes. So this is why we say, hey, we're going to write prayer cards and we're going to we're going to pray over our prayer wall.

We're going to be very specific about what we believe in God to do, but we're also going to give very generously realizing that my generosity is me being an instrument that God uses to be a miracle for somebody else. That's right. >> [laughter] >> So this I I know this this like a complex subject, but let's What are you guys' thoughts on that as we prepare to wrap up?

Yeah. I I it's it's funny, PD, cuz you talk about God being a miracle through you. And I don't know why I went here, but but in Mark 2 when the paralytic man is being carried by his four friends and brought to Jesus, I remember a couple Sundays ago you preached about these these these like uh primary issues, right?

And then you have like these secondary issues. And and what's primary to us may not be primary to God. And when that man is brought to Jesus by his friends, they break open the roof, they lower the man down, right? And then Jesus says, your sins are forgiven.

They're there for the miracle of his healing. However, the conversation that now starts to rise, not just in that time, but now for future, right? For even generations to come is is this a moment where Jesus declares he's God. So there's something that gets exposed about Jesus because he now heals sins.

And that becomes the primary thing. What happens in that moment that now we're having a conversation of is Jesus God? And and that's what I think happens when God uses us or uses miracles through us to to to do something for others. It's I'm not just trying to rescue you from something.

I'm trying to bring revelation, not just rescue. What will people say I am or converse about me? What will they say about me? What will be the discussion? how will my glory fill the earth because of what I did through you. Yes. >> have an issue that I don't mind taking care of.

But there is something you need to understand that my issues are primary. Yes. >> And what is with the entitlement, please? We submit what we want him to do for us under the sovereignty and authority of what's primary to him. And Pastor, listen, we feel entitled to be we feel entitled to be primary.

Yes. We want our issues to be primary. That's right. And God like Go ahead, Dudley. Now, you you said this when you opened up, you opened it was strong. You said some of us don't experience miracles because we are addicted to convenience and entitlement produces convenient Christianity. >> [laughter] >> It it it it it it produces convenient Christianity where we want convenience over what God has for us.

And I thought about this even in Mark 5 when we talked about Jairus and we talked about um entitlement, what he had to do and I believe this that um miracles are often on the other side of sacrifice. Yes. >> know anything about Jairus, he was he was a a temple worker, he had status, he had worth and what he had to do in order to get his miracle was he had to put his status on the altar.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He had to sacrifice his entitlement. Yeah. And for and for God to move in our life, sometimes we have to sacrifice those things that are blocking God from moving in our life. So it comes to do you want to hold on to what you got or do you want what God has for you?

Yeah. >> that's the tension that we wrestle with. Yeah. I want somebody in this chat to just drop some fire for these two brothers that are part of our house, these sons of our house. Listen, we will not let unbelief, unworthiness, or entitlement That's right. >> [laughter] >> We won't let it block We won't We won't let it block our miracle.

Hey, I'm in 1 Chronicles. That's the my the book of the Bible I'm reading my devotional devotion time. And in chapter 18, I think I think it's 18 18 or 19. Um Dudley, Joab Yes. Joab is fighting for David and um And Joab tells the men, he says this to him, Deshaun.

He says, be strong, fight bravely, and the Lord will do what's good in his sight. Come on. Yes. He said all we can do is be strong. >> Yes. Yes, sir. And all we can do is fight bravely. Come on. Yes. >> Come on. And then the Lord will do Hey. good in his sight.

Yes, sir. This week for miracle This week for miracle week? Come on. We're going to believe God. We're going to give generously. Yes. And the Lord will do Yes, sir. what is good in his sight. Yes, sir. Have your way, God. Have your way, God. Have your way. >> He will whatever is good in his sight is what he will do.

Well, brothers, listen, I want to I want to I want us to pray out today, but I want to publicly thank you guys for something. I want to thank you publicly. You both spoke on this past week >> [snorts] >> while I was out. So I'm not saying I wasn't I wasn't off.

I was working. >> [laughter] >> I just wasn't preaching, now y'all. I was wrote a curriculum. Deshaun, we talking about this yesterday. I wrote wrote a couple of them. I had to write all of Made Man 300. So I wrote that Sunday and then I wrote something else that I'm going to be spending a couple of hours later recording today.

Um anyway, but you both stood on that platform and you handled the platform like sons of a house, not preachers who are waiting for their turn. Mm. Jesus. Thank you, oh my God. >> You stood on the platform. Am I right, chat? Am I right about it? You stood on the platform and Teddy and Teddy.

Teddy did nine. He did [clears throat] nine. All three of you stood on the platform with a heart to serve, not like you had something to prove. Yes, sir. So I just want to publicly honor that and thank you guys for for demonstrating that that way. All of our sons all of our There there's when I think about everybody who kind of speaks, they they handle it that way at our church and that is that's rare.

I think all of us all three of us have grown up in church. Deshaun, you and I are PKs. Like we we we see we see the the associates waiting on on the pulpit, when's my turn? >> [laughter] >> And it and it and it and it feels like that.

They they feel like an evangelist in their own church. Mm. But um you you all you really you you stand up there and you speak like spiritual family. And so you did an amazing an amazing job. >> you, Bishop. Thank you for the opportunity. >> Yes, sir. We honor you always.

Always. So grateful. So um would you both just uh Deshaun, maybe Dudley, maybe you start and then Deshaun just just just a very briefly, man. Let's let's close this thing out in prayer today. Yes, sir. >> Amen. Heavenly Father, we're so grateful for this day. We're thankful for this opportunity.

God, we're so grateful and thankful for the visionary leadership of Pastor Darius and Pastor Shamika, God, who are committed to the kingdom, God. And we thank you for the ways that he is committed to stirring our faith. Mm. [clears throat] So God, we pray that this week has stirred our faith to cause us to expect you to do exceedingly abundant above above all we may think or ask.

And God, we pray now that you help us to deal with the blessing blockers, the miracle blockers of unbelief, unworthiness, and entitlement. And God, we wait patiently for what you are about to do because we are obedient to your call this week. Hallelujah. Pastor Deshaun. Father God, your word says in Psalm 93 that you reign.

You are robed. You are robed in mercy, oh God. Yes, Lord. You are armed with strength. Yes. >> You are clothed in majesty. And Lord, we submit ourselves and we submit our petition to that sovereignty and that majesty. So I ask now in the name of Jesus Yes. >> that your glory shall fill the earth through everything that is done individually and collectively for our family, every congregant, every staff member of Change Church, even those who are just friends and cousins of the family who watch but who engage and will participate in this miracle week.

I pray now, God, that our giving of our resource is a sincere seed that is sown out of a revelation of your generosity. Yes, Father. You are abundant and we want to reflect you in the earth. You are generous. We want to reflect you in the earth You are benevolent.

We want to reflect you in the earth realm. Let thine will be done on earth as it is in heaven. And Father God, whether that miracle be financial, >> [clears throat] >> health related, whether it be a a transformation within our thinking and within our soul, whether it be family related, whether it's intercessory and we're sowing on behalf of someone we love, I pray that prick our hearts with the conviction that John wrote about that this is the confidence that we have that anything we ask in your name, you hear us and because you hear us, you grant our petitions.

This is the faith we come to your throne with. And [snorts] this is the belief that we have in our hearts, oh God. We consider these things done and we make ourselves available for what it is you want to do in addition to the things that we request in Jesus' name.

Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you guys so much. Hey, this is like when family get together. This has been the longest one all week. It went too fast for me. We honor you, Bishop. We honor you, Bishop. >> this is like family get together. We just get to talking.

I could have went a hour. I didn't even know we were going to get to miracle blockers. We got in Mark 14 Matthew 14. Lord have mercy. I said [laughter] you're not going to get out of here. Yeah, but hey, that is that's the DNA of our house, too.

We always We're going to tie it back to the book. Yes, sir. >> to tie it back to the When you hear any of any of Change talking, any of our sons or daughters talking, we're going to tie it back to the book. We can talk about spaghetti.

We're going to tie it back to that Bible, doc. Back [laughter] to the book. Back to the book. Hey, Change family, I'll see you this weekend Friday night 7:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time Change Night New Jersey Miracle Edition. I can't wait to be there. I'm getting ready to write that sermon in just a few minutes after I'm done working out.

And so I can't wait to share with you Saturday morning new Atlanta, Georgia the DeKalb location Gwinnett DeKalb coming together. Friday night you and your family coming together. Saturday morning Gwinnett DeKalb coming together. And yes, Saturday morning 10:00 a.m. I got to get up early on a Saturday.

Yes, he's worthy. He's worth it. So Listen, at least we know we know the the man of God we got coming. Yes, sir. >> [laughter] >> He walked with God. Pastor John Hannah is going to be in the building 10:00 a.m. and we're closing out strong miracle Sunday at all of our locations, all of our campuses, supernatural generosity.

Change family, we love you, man. Pastor DeShawn, Pastor Dudley, grateful for you. I'm grateful for our entire staff. We got We got a We got an amazing group, man. I'm so so so grateful for them. All right, everybody. We'll see you tomorrow morning. And I can't wait till tomorrow, guys.

Me and Pastor Shamika about to pull the curtain back. And I feel a prompting to be more I'm always honest, but to be more transparent and more vulnerable about the miracle steps and the faith steps we took. Yeah. Sometimes >> [clears throat] >> we've been talking in general terms. We've been talking in general terms.

Yeah. Tomorrow we we're going to get We We're going to get specific faith. Stay tuned in. Yeah. So, we're going to we're going to tell God the story of God's goodness in our life on tomorrow. All right, guys. We love you, Change. Take care. >> Good night. Coming soon.