This is Transformation Church Podcast. Here at TC we represent God to the lost and found

for transformation in Christ. From wherever you're listening we hope you're encouraged

by this week's message.

Hello, hello, hello, hello, transformation church, how you doing?

Hey, listen, I am so honored and excited to be up here today and you need to know that

God solved this moment. The day you were born, the day I was born and I believe today is

purpose. It's not an accident, it's not random, regardless of how you got here. If you just

happen to stumble on to a link, you didn't stumble. It was God's sovereignness that lined

all these things up. And I'm just believing that he's going to meet you right where you

are today. And today is a special day and anytime I get the opportunity to speak, I just

have to stop and thank God. It's very strange. I told my wife I said I never thought I would

be a pastor. And then we were talking one day. She was like, you just always thinking

about sermons and things like that. And I wrote my first sermon when I was, well I say

wrote my first sermon. I had my first idea for a sermon. When I was like 12 years old

and I remember talking to my dad, I'm like, I think this would make sense. But I was

like, I'm not going to be a pastor. Obviously God had different plans. And then I got older

and I remember preaching my first sermon at 18 and then now almost 10 years later, I

stand in moments like this knowing that this was God's plan all along. And some of you,

man, I can feel you right now, you think there's something you can do to get outside and

you can, and I know it because it was me. I felt like God, there's no way I'll be able

to like, actually, I felt like there was something he wanted to do, but I didn't know. And

I'm just telling you right now, I am a living proof that if you just trust God, if you

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