Did You Catch The Correction? // Triggered (Part 5) // Michael Todd
Recognizing God’s Correction in Your Most Triggered Moments
Today’s message has the power to change your life, because we’re diving into a truth that most people never recognize: God often brings correction right in the middle of our most triggered, emotional moments. This is Week Five of our “Triggered” series, where we learn how to put Christ at the center of every meltdown, every reaction, every crash-out moment that tries to pull us off track.
We all have triggers—stress, fear, insecurity, family tension, holiday pressure, financial strain, or that one person who knows exactly how to get under our skin. But when Jesus is present in the middle of the trigger, He is not just trying to calm you down—He is trying to transform you.
Before today’s message, Pastor Mike shared exciting updates about Transformation Worship’s new album Faith in the Fire, a tour reaching cities around the country, and the upcoming V5 Conference. Thousands of lives are being changed. Even in correctional facilities, more than 8,500 men and women have given their lives to Christ this year. God is moving everywhere.
But today’s focus is this simple question:
“Did you catch the correction?”
Most of us don’t.
Instead, we react.
We snap.
We shut down.
We get overwhelmed.
We crash out.
A crash-out is when emotions override wisdom, boundaries, and spiritual maturity. It’s when you react without thinking, impulsively and destructively—emotionally, financially, relationally, or mentally. And if you don’t deal with the trigger underneath it, the cycle repeats every time.
We are experts at gathering information—scriptures, sermons, quotes for Instagram—but not so great at actually applying it. And God will continue allowing certain situations because each trigger is an invitation to grow.
Every trigger is connected to a deeper trauma.
Until you face the trauma, the trigger will keep controlling you.
Many of us are entering “crash-out season”—the holidays—where family drama, financial pressure, loneliness, old wounds, and emotional expectations rise to the surface. And if we don’t slow down and pause, we will fall right back into the same cycles we promised God we’d never repeat.
But here’s the revelation:
In the middle of your worst moment, God is trying to correct something in you—not to punish you, but to heal you.
And correction never feels fair.
You wonder:
“God, why are You dealing with me when they were wrong?”
“Why correct me while my life is falling apart?”
“Why convict me to forgive while they disrespected me?”
“Why tell me to apologize while they started the problem?”
“Why speak to me about stewardship when I barely have enough?”
Because God never wastes a crisis.
Romans 8:28 isn’t just a quote—it’s the strategy of Heaven.
He uses everything—even the unfair, unexpected, painful moments—to make us more like Him.
The hard truth is this:
You are waiting for God to change the situation.
God is waiting for you to change through the situation.
Your transformation will never begin with them.
It always begins with you.
Pastor Mike uses Peter as an example—the disciple who constantly reacted emotionally. In Matthew 26, when soldiers came to arrest Jesus, Peter drew his sword and cut off a man’s ear. He wasn’t aiming for the ear—he was aiming to kill. He was triggered. He reacted. He was about to derail God’s entire plan out of raw emotion.
But Jesus corrected him in the moment, because even in crisis, God’s correction leads to divine purpose.
And that is the message today:
Before you crash out again—did you catch the correction?
Did you pause long enough to recognize what God is teaching?
Did you step back and ask, “Lord, what are You showing me about myself?”
Did you notice how He’s trying to interrupt your repeated cycles?
Because the truth is prophetic:
This will repeat if you do not learn the lesson.
God may have allowed the disappointment.
He may have allowed the loss.
He may have allowed the closed door.
Not to destroy you—but to correct your direction.
If you miss the correction, you miss the transformation.
If you miss the transformation, you repeat the crash out.
And the cycle continues.
But today, God is giving you a divine interruption—an invitation to pause, listen, and let Him do the deep work inside your heart.
Because your next level won’t come from avoiding triggers…
It will come from learning through them.
