.

In this powerful message, Pastor Mike Darnell breaks down how love is more than emotion—it’s a governing force that shapes how you think, live, and identify yourself. From the book of Hosea, he reveals how God uses love not to comfort dysfunction but to transform identity and pull His people out of cultural conditioning and false relationships that have replaced Him.

This teaching exposes how generations have been programmed to love what God never intended—how wrong influences, cultural loyalty, and even family traditions can become spiritual adultery. Pastor Mike challenges listeners to recognize how race, culture, and belief systems are programmed patterns, not divine design, and how God’s love is calling us back to our original Kingdom identity.

Through this message, you’ll learn what it truly means to let God love you—to be reprogrammed by His Spirit, healed from false identities, and restored to purpose. Love doesn’t leave you the same; it changes everything about you.

If you’ve ever wondered why your past keeps repeating or why it’s hard to break away from certain cycles, this message will open your eyes to the deeper truth about love, influence, and spiritual inheritance.

🎓 Kingdom Mentorship & Excel University:https://courses.kingdommentorship.com⛪️ Visit Excel Church:https://www.excelchurchatlanta.com📚 More Kingdom Resources from Pastor Mike Darnell:https://linktr.ee/mikedarnell🎙️ Podcast Home:https://creators.spotify.com/pod/prof...

This message dives into John 3 and Jesus’ conversation with Nicodemus to uncover what it truly means to be born again—not a one-time prayer, but a Spirit-led re-training of the mind into Kingdom culture. Pastor Mike exposes how “darkness” often looks like familiar training—culture, traditions, preferences, even family norms—and why many reject the light because their deeds are shaped by those loyalties. You’ll hear why shouting can’t substitute for repentance and obedience, how real love functions as formation (whoever loves you shapes you), and why God’s Kingdom challenges every sphere of life—identity, money, relationships, education, and governance. If you’ve been trying to add the Kingdom on top of worldly ideas, this teaching calls you to let God’s love reprogram you, leave the old boxes, and live from the light that transforms everything.🎓 Kingdom Mentorship & Excel University:https://courses.kingdommentorship.com⛪️ Visit Excel Church:https://www.excelchurchatlanta.com📚 More Kingdom Resources from Pastor Mike Darnell:https://linktr.ee/mikedarnell🎙️ Podcast Home:https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/mike-darnell/

.

What is shaping you? What is shaping your life?

Who are you allowing to love you?
Do you truly understand love the way you need to?

In part one of the new sermon series What’s Love?, Pastor Mike Darnell lays the foundation of what love really is and reveals its impact on your life and your faith. It is vital that you fully understand the concept of love.

When people misunderstand love, they use it as a label to excuse or protect their lifestyles. But we must not think that our version of love is greater than God’s love. It’s time to awaken to true love and allow God to transform you.

Unless a person is born again—given a new nature and trained in it—they remain incompatible with the Kingdom. You must be reprogrammed, born of the Spirit, in order to live in the Kingdom and see it manifest in your life.

Understand this: whoever loves you shapes you. Whoever meets your needs becomes the one you grow loyal to.

Love can be deceptive, which is why you must learn how to discern it.

God is trying to give you your future, but you cannot receive it while clinging to an old condition. He loves you so much that He will allow everything to shake and even fail if that’s what it takes to get your attention.

Everything God has for you only works by His design. When you resist His love, you resist the very shaping that makes you able to receive what He has prepared.

So allow God to transform you through His love.
Listen to What’s Love? Part One now, and let God bring true transformation into your life.

🎓 Kingdom Mentorship & Excel University:

https://courses.kingdommentorship.com

⛪️ Visit Excel Church:

https://www.excelchurchatlanta.com

📚 More Kingdom Resources from Pastor Mike Darnell:

https://linktr.ee/mikedarnell

🎙️ Podcast Home:

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/mike-darnell/

.

This message closes the Bible School series by calling believers to grasp the intention of Scripture rather than inherit cultural or flesh-based worldviews. It exposes dualism, race/political identities, and influencer “church criticism” as barriers to truth, and re-centers the Kingdom: one King, one people, one power. Through John 16–17, Numbers 13–14, and the body metaphor, it shows how belief and expectation shape outcomes and why discipleship requires gathering in the assembly (ecclesia), reconciliation, and disciplined unity. The charge: drop offense, resist illegitimate “powers,” and advance the Kingdom through understanding and togetherness

Have you ever wondered why the world seems to be in crisis or filled with chaos? Have you asked yourself why people are constantly at war with each other?

The warfare ends when you understand the Word.

In Bible School Part 5, Pastor Mike Darnell teaches in great depth and detail the fundamentals of having God’s ideas. You’ve never heard Isaiah 40 taught like this before. It is imperative to understand that you must prepare the way for God to move. You can’t just desire God’s blessings—you must have His ideas. Unless your ideas align with the Lord’s ideas, you will not be able to receive all that He intends for you.

In the spirit realm, everything begins as an idea. Unless your ideas match the Lord’s ideas, you will not be able to receive as you should.

Any idea shaped by another worldview, or one that differs from a Kingdom perspective, will block God’s ideas and His Kingdom from manifesting in your life, your body, or anything else. The only reason certain things remain the way they are in our lives is because our ideas are wrong. We don’t truly have money problems or sickness problems—these are idea problems.

In order to have the right faith, you must first have the right ideas. Listen to Bible School Part 5 and allow God to reprogram your mind.

📍 Register for the 2025 Reprogram Conference:

https://brushfire.com/excel-church/reprogramconference2025

🎓 Kingdom Mentorship & Excel University:

https://courses.kingdommentorship.com

⛪️ Visit Excel Church:

https://www.excelchurchatlanta.com

📚 More Kingdom Resources from Pastor Mike Darnell:

https://linktr.ee/mikedarnell

🎙️ Podcast Home:

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/mike-darnell/