Keep The Window Open: Increasing The Window Of Tolerance // Triggered (Part 3) // Michael Todd

When God Opens Your Window: Expanding Your Inner Capacity to Live Free

Family, I’m so grateful you’re here today. Before we step into the message, I need you to know this: God is preparing something unforgettable. Thousands are gathering, worship is rising, and faith is being stirred. Wherever you’re coming from—driving, flying, even crossing oceans—bring your expectation. God meets us in every fire we walk through.

And yes, we’re stepping out beyond our walls. Worship is going on the road, new music is coming, and I believe God is using all of it to awaken something fresh in us. But today, we step into week three of a series that has become much more than a teaching. God has been exposing truths that are reshaping not only me, but everyone encountering His word.

Today’s message is called “Keep the Window Open.”
And trust me—you’ll understand why as we go.

Christ Meets Us in the Middle of Our Triggers

We’re living in a world that is tense, reactionary, and painfully on edge. People are triggered, exhausted, and ready to crash. And God has led me to teach something many of us avoid: self-discovery. Not “fix them.” Not “if only my spouse, my coworkers, or my family would change.”
God is calling us to look in the mirror.

Because the truth is simple: you can’t change them… but you can let God change you.

The same messes, arguments, dysfunctions, and attitudes that existed in Jesus’ day still exist today. They simply show up in your lifetime wearing new clothes. And God is giving His people a way—right now—to manage their emotions, their thoughts, and their reactions instead of being controlled by them.

A Daily Checklist for a Spirit-Led Life

Ephesians 4 gives us a framework that can literally transform how we leave the house each morning:

• Answer the call God placed on your life.
  Even when you feel tired, overlooked, or uncomfortable.

• Walk humble.
  Not loud, not proud—just steady.

• Live gentle.
  Strength under control. Softness is not weakness.

• Be patient.
  Even when the fuse feels short.

• Give love.
  Even when you don’t feel like it.

• Fight for unity.
  Because division destroys.

• Seek peace.
  Not chaos.

• Think of eternity.
  Because everything here is temporary.

If you practiced just this list, half the chaos in your life would disappear.

The problem isn’t that we don’t have a new word.
The problem is we haven’t obeyed the last one.

Emotional Immaturity Is Sabotaging Our Mental Health

This series exists for one purpose:
to strengthen your mental health through spiritual growth.

Some of us are stuck in the exact same cycles we battled in high school—not because the enemy is creative, but because we stopped maturing spiritually. You can grow older without growing wiser. You can appear strong while collapsing inside.

Some of us explode.
Some of us shut down.
Both reveal the same wound.

And what we don’t express with our words will eventually reveal itself in our actions.

Unaddressed triggers become ticking time bombs.

You may love Jesus with all your heart and still crash emotionally because you never brought your truth to Him. God isn’t intimidated by the real condition of your soul. He can transform it—but only if you acknowledge it.

You Need Both Theology and Therapy

The church often prays for symptoms and hopes the person doesn’t come back next week with the same issue. But some people don’t just need prayer—they need healing. They need someone with the tools they never received. Trauma isn’t only emotional; it’s impact. It’s the blow your soul took when something happened that you didn’t choose.

And God doesn’t want you stuck in what happened.
He wants to use it to shape who you’re becoming.