How To Prevent A Heart Attack // Six Figures (Part 3) // Pastor Michael Todd

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Well, I have an assignment today.

Get out your notepads because we're about to go crazy

today on Mother's Day. One of the things that we

do at Transformation Church, if this is your first time,

is I always feel like I have an assignment that

helps people move forward in their transformation journey. And the

word of the year at Transformation Church is say it

like you got faith, Say it like that's where you're moving.

We're moving forward.

And I don't know about you, but I have since

a shift in my life since that prayer conference a

week ago.

And if you haven't, it's okay.

You can jump on this train right now. We're moving.

Everybody shot at me forward And one of the areas

that we need to move forward in is in the

area of how we deal with finances. The reason I

have to say this is because God talks about finance's

generosity money in the scriptures almost one third.

Of the time he speaks publicly. It's about these issues.

Because he knows it's the issue of the day. Because

the truth of the matter, your attitude is actually good

or bad based on that account you just checked. Some

of y'all didn't come to church this morning because you

checked your tank.

Come on, come on.

Last night you got home and I was like, that's

got the last meet till Wednesday. And the way these

gas prices are set up right now, I'll catch it online.

Some of us in the room right now, we have

everything we need financially, but we are very There are

things that are happening around us watch that are affecting

how we live. And it has to do how we

see finances, generosity and stewardship.

And so today I'm gonna.

Walk us in week three of a series we're calling

six Figures how to Live a Life of abundance.

How many people when I.

Just say that desire to live a life of abundance,

I need hands in the chat or in the room

you desire Okay, So if you desire to live a

life of abundance, I want to give you the key

to understanding abundance.

Watch this.

If you don't get anything else I say, I need

you to get this word right. Here humility. If you

think you know everything, you can't learn anything. I'm telling

you right now, humility is the way to gain a

life of abundance. But the problem is, there are people

in this room right now. What this little boy gonna

tell me about some money? I've been grown and doing

my budget since before he could say good, good God, God,

look at him up.

No, I know.

I see how you're looking at me. I get the comments.

I see what's going on. And the truth of the

matter is this is not my playbook. This is God's playbook.

And you gotta realize no matter the vessel God uses,

he may be trying to give you a new vision

for your life. So today I'm not gonna ask you

to believe me because it's me.

Now. I do got some proof.

I just want to say in my own life I

got I used to be greedy, stingy, broke and impoverished.

Oh y'all, okay, I thought we were in a humble, opening,

transparent church. I thought we was hot. Let me take

you one step further. I used to be all of.

That as the pastor of this church. Oo, look at you.

I just I want to let you know I did

not understand how to live a blessed life, an abundant life,

a life that was watch this not centered around me

when it came to finances and generosity. And so instead

of acting like I had it all together, I.

Have proof in the room.

When I became the pastor of Transformation Church February first,

twenty fifteen, my first series was a series about how

to break poverty off of our church.

And I did not teach it.

I found somebody else who had great teaching on it,

and we watched the video on Sunday morning together.

Am I telling the truth?

I would say, hey, y'all, he's your pastor.

And you know what, I really want all of us

to live a blessed life. And notice how I said

all of us, and I don't have this revelation yet.

So I found the revelation and I I would pray

you would be humble.

Enough for us to learn it together.

And I would say play the video and come sit

on the front row. Now, most of y'all would leave

if I did that today, because you want your pastor

or whoever's leading you to know everything instead of taking

a posture of humility. But I would rather give you

the right content. Okay, then act like I have the

I could get up here and yeah and this is

what but knowing that wasn't real in my life.

And for three years.

We did this every single year, and every year I

was like, God, you think I could teach one now?

He said, nope, sit yo, butt down. I'm not making

this up, y'all. And it was the third year of

the series. God said, you can preach one message, and

I preached one, and I said for the next six weeks,

come for movie time. And there were a group of

people that came consistently and faithfully since that moment that

I was humble enough to say, I'm not gonna front

in front of the world. And really it was only

like two hundred people in my mom's prayer group, but

at that time, but I'm not gonna front in front

of the world. I'm gonna be humble enough to actually

learn it. God said, that's something I can work with.

And what God has done since then has allowed my

life to expand because I actually got the principle. So

what I'm saying to you for the next four weeks,

I want to give you what I got. This is

not just a series of information it's a series of impartation.

If you will hear what I'm saying.

To you practically and prophetically, this could actually change your

entire life and your relationship with finances, stewardship, generosity, giving

all of it. You will never be scared when it's

time to give, and you will never be manipulated when

it's time to give. You will be steady and steadfast.

God will speak to you.

You will have investments going over here, you will have

blessings coming over there.

The reaping will overtake the swing.

Somebody should be shouting right now because I want you

watch this to understand that giving is all about the heart.

It's not even about money. God just uses money as

a tool to expose what's in your Okay, So today

I just need to stop and acknowledge that many of you,

depending on where you came into this Christian journey, there

may have been some abuse and manipulation around how finances

were taught to you watch this, or the manipulation around

how they were trying to get it from you, and

for that I want to apologize. There is nothing in

the Bible that tells us to form one thousand dollar lines.

The Bible says like each man should give in his

heart what he's already decided. The problem is most of

us don't pray about what to give before we come.

So it's a twofold thing.

I can't be convinced if I've already gone to him,

But if i haven't gone to him about what I'm

supposed to give, then when somebody says we're reading Psalms

one hundred and three, I just feel like you need

to give one hundred and three dollars times ten.

And everybody. I can do that, getting the line right here.

And then I'm gonna pray for you because you're given

that's the money.

Okay.

What it does is I understand the concept, but it's

a lack of teaching. And so that's why I've decided

during our series we don't ask for any money. You

don't have to give a don We actually give money away.

Last week at the end of service on Profit Sherman

Doomis that was here we were able to send one

hundred thousand dollars to their Oh come on Transformation Church,

to their church and bless them. They had a tragedy.

But that's because there are people who have already understood

the figure of.

Faith that it takes to.

Give, because giving is all about the heart. Okay, So

maybe you never taught, and maybe you were taught wrong,

and maybe there's some cares of this life that have

really been weighing you down.

And I want to let you know I see.

All that, But I believe this series is gonna help

you move forward and you're gonna be able to live

in a life of abundance. John ten ten This has

been my anchor scripture.

The thief does not.

Come except to steal, kill, and what but Jesus has

come that you might have life, and that you might

have life more abundantly. Write this down. God desires for.

Me to live an abundant life. God desires for you.

Put your name in there.

God desires for Michael to live an abundant life.

Let's write again.

God desires for Michael to live an abundant life. Some

of you have never said that, never believed it, never

even thought.

It was possible.

But God desires for all of us to live in

an abundant life. And abundant life is not just finances. It's

God's overflowing grace, spiritual fullness, material provision, and generosity. And

that's why I've told you every week of this series

you have permission to prosper. I'm speaking to your soul

right now. You're looking at all that debt piled up.

In them student loans that are looming over you.

You done deferred and deferred, and deferred and deferred and deferred.

You're waiting for Sally May to die. You're just deferred.

Hopefully she goes away. Y'all got what I'm saying.

But what I want you to understand is you have

permission to prosper. Just somebody say that over your life,

I have permission to prosper. So if you're gonna have

permission to prosper, I have to do a little representing,

or I'm gonna call it correction of how some scripture

has been presented to us. All my life, I've been

in church, and anytime I hear Luke six thirty eight,

give and it shall be given to you?

Are y'all bobski? Y'all know the rece good measure? First dan.

Shaken again and running of it's running over?

Will men give unto? Okay? All right?

The only time I've ever heard that scripture is that

offering time. Nobody will ever say it any other time.

It's give.

But what I found out is context this king.

So if you go to Matthew.

Chapter seven, I want you to see that this whole

verse is not in the context of giving. I want

you to just see if you see the word giving

or giving money anywhere.

In this verse.

Matthew chapter seven, Verse one, it says, do not judge,

or you too will be judged, for in the same

way you judge others, you will be Do you see.

The theme.

It says, and with the measure you use, it will

be measured back to you. Say that with me, With

the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.

One more time for the people in the back, with the.

Measure you use, it will be measured back to you.

Was the word giving in that at all? It was

in the context of judging. And if you read closer,

We're gonna go to the parallel passage and Luke six

thirty eight, and I'm gonna show you this whole thing.

And in the middle Luke puts something that we hear,

but I want you to get the context. Luke six

thirty seven, it says, do not judge, and you will

not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not

be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. And if

you skip down the thirty nine, it says, and with

the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.

But verse thirty eight, look at.

This one, give and it will be given to you.

Give what in this context is judgment, condemnation and forgiveness.

You give.

Judgment is coming back you give. Condemnation it's coming back.

You give. Forgiveness, it's coming back.

Give it. And then it says, like.

This, and with the measure you you, it'll be measured

back to you.

Not just measure back to you.

How good measure, press down, shaken together and running over.

Will men give judgment back to you, condemnation back to you,

forgiveness back to you. Now, the thing that I wanted

to bring to everybody's attention is that giving is the

main subject. It's not what you give that's the main subject.

It's the fact that you give it. So if giving

is God's theme of the Bible, for God so loved

the world that he we're the subject of the Bible.

But the theme of the Bible giving, Oh God, I heard

somebody ask a pastor how many times do you preach

about giving in a year? And the pastors say every week?

And a person said, you preach about giving every week?

He said, I think you meant to ask how many

times do I preach about giving money? Because I can't

talk about grace if I don't talk about Jesus giving

us grace, and I can't talk about us giving our

life to Him or salvation if we don't talk about giving.

I can't even talk about marriage because marriage takes two

people giving. If you're not a giver, your marriage won't work.

It's not fifty to fifty, it's one hundred, one hundred.

You got to all the marriage people just say, hey, man, okay.

So the theme of.

The Bible is what giving, and that's why the enemy

is playing you so hard to be stingy, plan you,

so hard to be your own source, plan you so

hard to think that God has forgotten about you and

what I need to let you know that God is saying,

I want you to be general. I want you to give,

and whatever you give is coming back. You give the comments,

you give opinions.

Okay, okay, okay, all right, some.

Of you are living in a harvest of what you've

already given.

Nobody's around me, but you're the best ghoster. You leave

people high and dry all the time. I'm not answering

that text message. And then when you and your time

and kne he's like, well's the one to hear from

me harvest time. Okay, y'all don't want to hear.

That it's harvest time. We want to stream harvest when

it's about something good. But when you stream harvest when

you've been sewing gossip for the last six years, I

don't even understand why they would make something up like that.

With me, it's harvest time. Okay. What I'm saying, if

it was me, if.

This principle really works, I'd be trying to give good things.

And that's why when.

People hear this, they don't understand. Write this down that

giving is big to God. Giving is big to God.

Giving is not a small thing. I'm not talking about

money yet, I'm talking about giving period. I'm trying to

separate this for you, you stingy with your fruit loops. Oh,

y'all know, y'all know, there's certain cereals you de tell

your kids, don't uh uh.

This is my seria. If you want, you get fruitios.

But the actual fruit the name brand wants them as mine.

Got your kids stealing through loops in your own house, No,

I'm saying, apply it where you are. Some of y'all

got cars, won't let your children or family members use them? Now,

some of y'all got good reason not to let your

family members use them. But some of y'all are stingy Okay.

You see people struggling have something to meet their need.

I guess they need to learn. Oh come on, I mean,

I guess God's trying to work on them.

What I'm saying is giving.

Is something that God presents to us all the time

to see if his reflection is in us.

You ever been somewhere and you heard that they were

some money short. You have the thing.

You see them struggling to pay the bill at the end,

and he's like, I.

Told them to come earlier. I'm trying to get out

of here.

And God somehow got you sitting there and it's your

waitress and the car. I don't know the car. Let's

try another card and they don't try seven cards and

you just sitting there.

Why might God let that happen? Right next to you.

But they don't know. They don't know. They don't, they don't,

they don't. They don't know what I got going on.

They have no idea what's coming.

And God's like, I'm looking for my reflection. I'm looking

for somebody to meet a need. When they see a need,

they don't know their salvation is attached to that seed

you're gonna pay for.

They sheddars and it's gonna lead them to me. You

don't know that.

They just prayed and asked God.

You have no.

Idea, But He's working with people who have not fully

bought into the heart of generosity. And that's why giving

is big to God. How we hear scripture is like this,

give money.

That's how we hear it. God wants us to give money.

That's mike, What does God want us to do? Give money?

The thing that's big in that is money, But switch

in the give gotta be big. What God is saying

is give money, give money, and then they'll say, give encouragement,

give encouragement. Oh y'all don't hear what I'm saying. You

think the money is big, The.

Encouragement is big.

It's the giving that he wants to be big on

the inside of you.

Whatever he says, give, that's what we should do.

Give time, help me yo, give give time?

Oh yeah, I like that one. Mama Clay, you said

give love. Let's try it.

Give love?

What about peace? Give peace? What would happen if the

give was big? What would happen? Is at that job

you went in there and they knew.

You as a giver of what needed to be given

at the time, it wasn't what you was given. It's

the give. Today I came to let you know that

the give is supposed to be the big. It don't

matter what comes after it.

It might be give of hair shoes, it might be

give some time. It might be give a donut, it

might be You'll know what I'm saying. But what is big?

Gif? And my question to you is the give big

in your life? Is there any evidence that giving is

bigger in your life than keeping?

Is there any evidence that giving is bigger?

And today I don't want to challenge you that God

is looking for people who would say, Hey, God, my

give is too small. I need you to help me

learn how to get my gift big. You want a

new prayer? God, help my gift get big. God, do

whatever you got to do on the inside of me

to help my give get big. Father, let me not

be somebody who hoards. Let me be a river, not

a reservoir. God, it can come through me. Father, God,

you don't have to stop it with me.

I get to touch it on the way through.

Father. God, give me this house so I can give

it away. Give me that cause so I can give

it away. Give me this business so I can give

it away. God, let my give get big. And you

don't have to hit the lottery for your give to

get big. You can start right here because whatever you give,

it is coming back to you good measure, first down,

shaken together and what running?

Will men not God?

God doesn't give back the blessing he uses men to.

Some of y'all are giving. It's like God's gonna know.

God's gonna speak to them, and they're going to y'all

not ready for this thought. Can I represent something to you?

What if you're the one that's not looking to receive,

but what if you're the one God's looking to give through.

Jared. They don't understand. That's my job.

See See, I'm trying to shift your mind transformation because

some of y'all all, wait, oh, I just can't wait

till it comes back.

What if you don't need it to.

So wright? What if I don't need it to come back?

Because everything that God's done, it's blessed so much that

when God says, men will give and put it in

your lap, you don't want to be like, Yeah, I'm

the man that puts stuff in the lap, I'm the

lap givel. Let's stay away from that.

Let's let's y'all got what I'm saying. Let's go the

other way. Here we go.

Giving is all about the heart.

Okay, So here we go.

I found out as I looked at this and I've

passored for almost eleven years. That's crazy to even say

I passed for almost eleven years. Amen, let's just pray

with making another three.

Okay, here we go.

Many people are suffering from heart attacks because your treasure

and your heart are attached. Today, I need to title

this sermon how to prevent a heart attack, because if

giving is all about the heart.

What's keeping you from giving is your heart is being attacked.

And what I've found out through my small study on

chat GPT about a heart and heart attacks is that

a heart attack is caused because there is a blockage

of flow. There's something that comes to block or make

a barrier, and flow stops, eventually stopping.

All life from coming.

Could it be that many of us have stopped the

flow in our life because something has gotten into the

ventricles of our thinking that has blocked us from understanding.

Hold on, this is what God wants me to do.

He wants me to be generous.

He wants me.

To be able to give on every occasion. He wants

me to even while I'm saving, even while I'm building,

even while I'm trying to get out of debt. He

wants me to honor Him with my resources. And today

I need everybody to hear me say this, because this

is going to change. You're like, this is things your

parents should have told you, but probably didn't have the

language to today. Generationally, you need to sit down with

your children and make them watch this so they can

get it in their spirit. I'm telling you, the understanding

of this revelation can change your world forever. The Bible

tells us you have to guard your heart above all else,

because out of that place flows every issue of your life.

You cannot guard from what you're not aware of.

Did you hear what I just said?

If the Bible says, remember givings all about the If

the Bible says, now guard your heart above all else,

because out of that place flows every issue of light.

You will not guard from what you're not aware of.

So today I want you to make you aware of

some things that come to attack your heart, because the

truth of the matter is Matthew six twenty one.

For where your treasure is there, your heart will be. Also.

This Bible is nasty, and it comes together like legos.

Y'all hear me. It's nasty.

So watch this guard your heart because out of that

heart everything flows. Then he says, you want to locate

your heart? Where's your treasure? Where have you put your money?

Because your treasure does not.

Follow your heart.

Your heart follows your treasure. You want your heart in

the kingdom. Put your treasure there.

You want your heart in your family. Put your treasure there.

You want your heart in the next generation. Put your

treasure there, not just your opinion.

This generation.

Don't did this generation.

Don't expose them to something.

Take them somewhere, teach them something, have enough grace to

impart into them.

But you want to judge from afar and never.

Give them anything. Okay, it got quiet, didn't hear Okay?

Wherever your treasure is, your heart will be also question

to everybody listening, whether you're in the penitentiary, you're watching

at a gym, you're in this room, where's your treasure?

Now?

No, I'm not talking about Ethereally, open up your bank account.

Some of your treasures in your stomach and it's in

their good measure. Press down.

And it's overflowing over that beltline. I'm telling you right

now what I'm telling you, y'all hear me? Where's your treasure?

Some of your treasures in your car, some of your

treasures on cosmetics.

I'm not here to judge you.

Some of your treasures on the lake house, some of

your treasures on the golf course. You live in an apartment,

but you have a country club membership. It's a word

called priorities. Brother, you, where's your treasure? Some of your

treasure is in your children. Some of your treasure is

in design or clothes.

Some of your treasure I just want you to Can

you locate your heart?

Because until you can locate your heart.

You cannot tell God he can have it. Okay, God,

you can have my heart? Where is it? Okay? So

today I want to teach you four This is what

I want to do.

I want to teach you how to prevent a heart

attack by giving you four conditions that attack your heart.

Okay, let's do this. Number one.

The first condition that comes to attack.

Your heart is greed. It's greed.

Now, most of us in this room would never ever,

ever admit to being greedy. But maybe greed is not

as demonstrative and overt. Maybe your greed is silent in

your head and comes out in very calm actions.

I mean.

Some symptoms of greed is you're never satisfied, constant comparison,

obsession with more identity tied to your success, inability to

celebrate others.

Some of y'all just greedy with celebration.

Oh oh they had another child, good for them.

May become ugly. Oh y'all know, y'all do it oohoo.

And instead of just celebrating, thank you God for life,

Thank you God that you give them more grace, God,

thank you for thank you. You might be dealing with greed.

Always watch this. Here's another symptom, always chasing the next thing,

contentment avoids you. As soon as you like your room,

you go to Pinterest and like, oh my God, I

gotta redo it.

Come on, could there be something in.

There is like I need more, I gotta have more.

And the reason I'm saying this is is you have

to understand that greed will stop up what God wants

to do in your life as far as generosity and giving,

and it blocks the areas that He wants to use you.

And that's why I'm telling you you got to understand this.

Every time you give, you remind your soul that money

is a tool, not a God. Every single time you give,

you're saying no, no, no, no, I use this.

This don't rule me, Oh God.

Deuteronomy fifteen, I want you to see how many times

God's directly trying to deal with our heart.

He says, if there is among you a poor man

or a.

Brethren within your gates in the land which the Lord

your God has given you. Notice that he's saying, the

Lord God has given you everything you've got. So even

though you claim in it, he's saying, the Lord.

Gave it to you.

He said you shall not harden your heart.

Say it with me, you shall not.

Harden your or shut your hand. That means your heart

in your hand are connected. If your heart becomes hard,

your hand becomes closed. Don't harden your heart, because at

the moment you harden your heart.

You close your hand.

Okay, it says, nor shut your hand to your poor brother.

But you shall.

Open your hand why to him willingly? So your giving

should be wide and willing. Okay, lend him sufficient for

his need, whatever he needs. Beware, let's there be a

wicked thought in your heart saying the seventh year, the

year of release is at him and your I'd be

evil against your poor brother and give him nothing, and

he cry out to the Lord against you.

It will become cinema among you. Let me explain this

to you.

God had an economic system in playback in this time

that said every seven years was the year of jubilee,

and on that seventh year all debts were released. How

many people wish that that could be the plan? Again, Trump,

go back to the Bible. We need that in the plan. Okay,

But hear what I'm saying to you. The Bible is saying,

don't get in the sixth year and somebody need to

borrow some money. From you and being like, hold on,

I ain't giving it nothing because next year is the

year of release, and if they don't pay me back

by that time, I'm not gonna be able to claim

my money no more. He said, don't have that thought.

Stop that, because that thought is a greedy thought. That

thought is a selfish thought. That thought is Watch this Wicked.

I heard the cast the Wicked is here. Shout out

to y'all, whoever y'all are, wherever y'all are.

I love you.

Okay, hey man, thank you for coming to church. Said that,

God bless you.

Wiz. It's a w the Wiz. Y'all here too, God

bless you. It's in the same, is it? The wis?

Is that y'all? What's up to the cast of the Wiz.

He's on down, He's on down the road. Y'all got

a part from me? Don't you care me? Okay?

Never let me stop, white people. The Wiz is great.

I want to let you know that too. Okay, it's

like the black version of Okay, never mind, we'll talk

about that later. I love our church. Okay, here we go.

I need everybody to eat. Everybody to hear me say this,

that the scripture says, greed turns into selfishness, and selfishness

turns into wickedness. I'm not wicked, are you greedy?

I'm not wicked? Are you selfish?

Because this is the natural progression of how you get

into wickedness? And look what the Bible takes it up

another level, he says, Then it becomes sin in the

eyes of God. So I just want you to think,

like if you've ever gone to get one donut but

you saw two, and you know you only need one,

but you end up taking the box anyway for later,

be careful because greed, watch this becomes selfishness. Selfishness becomes wickedness.

Wickedness getscounted as sin.

What's the point?

Take one donut. What I'm saying is take sufficient for

the moment.

Don't try to hoard everything.

Maybe somebody else needed their glue.

Close level to.

Go up in the office, and they needed a little

sugar high. They would be less angry. Y'all know what

I'm talking about, hungry and angry. And you could have

left that and you wouldn't have had the argument later.

But you two two donuts now that you're about to

get fired. Somebody asked me, what's an area pastor Mike

that you're still greedy in? See, I like the people

around me because we don't just preach about stuff. They

be trying to dig. They be like, so were you

still greedy?

Man of God?

And I took a second to think about it because

I invite those type of questions because I don't want

God to stop working on me. And they were like,

you're generous with finances, You're generous with this, like where

are you greedy? And I said, I found it. I'm

still having to kill the need for credit. Okay, I

may be the only one, but there's moments where.

I know I did something. I know I helped them.

I know I did something, and that thing.

In me will raise up and be like you did that,

and God will be like it don't matter, and I'll be.

Like yeah, yeah. Like even today, it's Mother's Day and

my children are gonna present my wife with some amazing

gifts and I have been diligent on asking them what

they want to get their mother. And there's gonna be

some a quandary of how Jia got her hands on

one hundred and forty doctors at five years old, And

I'm saying this to be funny, but they're gonna get

praised and they're momcoming. Oh my god, this is the

sadly way I wanted. Every father in here knows what

I'm talking about.

Wife, I just hope you remember tonight.

Okay, yeah, all right, work on me, Lloyd.

But let me give you. Let me give you a

new prayer. He's not done with me yet. All right,

here we go.

Let me give you a brand new scripture of break

Psalms one thirty nine, verse twenty three.

It says, search me, Oh God.

No, my heart, I still need some work on my

heart because there's areas in my light. I'm not just

greedy with money. I might be greedy with credit. I

might be greedy with my time. I might be selfish

with my desire to help you. Okay, he says, search me. No,

my heart tests me and know my anxious thoughts. See

if there is any offense or offensive way in me,

watch this and lead me in the way that's everlasting.

The cure. Here we go. We're not just gonna give

you the condition. The cure for the condition of a

greed is watch this generosity. Every time you feel greed

in an area give something in that area. Do y'all

hear me At the moment you feel like, ah, let

it go.

Oh, y'all don't hear me.

But I'm telling you this is why you have to

get give big, because the Bible says the world of

the generous.

Gets and larger.

How many people want to live in a large world,

Like I'm not just talking about the earth, I'm talking

about Your world is large, your relationships are large. You

can help people near and far, he said. The only

people that live that type of life are people.

Who are generous.

But the world of the stingy, or the greedy, or

the self indulged or the wicked, it gets smaller and smaller.

My question is will you grow your world this week?

You can grow your world this week by being generous.

You can go to lunch after church and grow your

world by leaving a tip for somebody else, and you

don't have to.

Let's the tip for you. You broke people like you,

y'all know that's how we do.

Look at you peasants eating here at Tennis Roadhouse.

All you came for was the rolls. Here is a

tip for you.

The best type of generosity is the one they don't

even know you did.

Well, hear what I'm saying.

Do you know how many times I've gone into Quick

Trip and gone up?

Watch this. I don't even have a car to eat gas.

So my intent was to go there to bless somebody,

and I.

Watched Scott know it.

We'll go into Quick Trip and I'll look out there

and see where there's cars on the thing, where people

are caring about gas, and where the prices are going

up and people are stressing all that.

Walk into Quick Trip.

This week with one hundred dollars and say, could you

put twenty on six, twenty on four, twenty on eight,

put forty on nine and walk away.

Don't go outside?

Hello all if you broke gas, people like, don't do that.

I love my church. The next condition that comes.

To attack your heart is watch this the wrong grip.

Some of y'all got a death grip on your stuff.

It's my house, it's my money, it's my time. Knowing

you didn't give yourself a breath today, the breath you

have is borrowed.

This is my church. Everybody knowing this church. I'll hold

this church just like this. Sometimes be trying to give

it away. No y'all don't hear me. I'll be like God,

damn was good. We met it end and.

God's like no, no, no no, Just keep holding everything like

this whole people like this. If you stay open handed,

that means I have your heart. But at the moment

your heart becomes hard, what if nothing else comes?

This is my idea. These are my kids. Some parents.

This ain't the point, but some parents are losing their

relationship with their kids because they won't loosen their grip.

You're a coach now, you're not the authority anymore. You're

supposed to cheer from the.

Sidelines, say don't do that. Ooh that hurt in it.

That's what you're supposed to do.

You're not supposed to bring respect and honor into decisions

they had to make to actually learn that God is

real in their own lives.

But you got the wrong grip, and some of.

Y'all have the wrong grip when it comes to finances, generosity,

your job, and stewardship.

Here are some symptoms that you may have.

Fear of not having enough anxiety around finances, constant control

issues where all the control freaks in the room, come on,

we're a humble opening transparent church.

All right, thank you, Lord, you saw them. Here we

go can help you with it.

People have a hoarding mentality, struggling to release anything, trusting

money more than they trust God, which in scripture is

called the spirit of mammon. But we see this in

Luke chapter fifteen, verse twenty. You can go read the

whole thing. But there was a rich, young ruler who

came to God enthusiastically.

God, what must I do to inherit the kingdom?

Verse twenty one of Luke fifteen, it says, looking at

the man, Jesus felt genuine love for him. Another translation

says he felt compassion for him. He said, there's still

one thing that you haven't done, or there's one thing

you haven't changed your grip on. Go ahead and sell

all your possessions and give the money to the poor,

and you will have treasure in heaven.

Then come follow me. At this, the man.

Was like, hold on, Jesus, you must not realize who

I am God. I've done all of these things. I'm

just saying I want to follow you. He said, Yeah,

you gotta change your grip. He said, you can't follow

me holding on to that that tightly. He said so

sell that, and it said the man watch this. The

rich young ruler didn't even try. The money had such

a grip on him that at the thought of the instruction,

he was like, well, I guess I'm want to be

following you.

He didn't even.

He didn't even bother to try, because it was so

ingrained in him to control this money. God didn't promise

him that he was not gonna give him something back.

He said, I'm gonna store up your treasure in heaven.

And that's where he tells us. He couldn't even get

the concept because of how he had such a hard grip.

What do you have such a tight grip on that

God's asking for? At this the man went away sad,

for he had many possessions. Watch this, write this point down.

You can have God and have the You can have

God and still be holding money the wrong way. Some

of y'all don't even think about tithing, don't even think

about honoring God with your possessions. Will pray and worship

and twirl and dance and.

No, no, no, no, no, no, I'm serious. I know you,

I hug you.

I love you, shot like you will do all the things.

But when it comes to the way you grip money.

God is not your supplier, He is not your source.

It's because you have the wrong grip. There's clear, like

over and over in the world. Word how he tells

us to handle our resources, he said, honor God with

your resources, with your wealth, he said.

Because he's the one that gets. He's all over the world.

And I'll teach you some of the scriptures.

But the truth of the matter is you not letting

go of that grip of that sixteen dollars an hour job.

The way you hold on to now that you.

Make over sixty k, over one hundred k, it's like

you got stingier the more money you've got.

How was you broken generous and now you've got a savings.

And stingy Because I'll never.

Be broken another day.

In my life. My mama's boke, my great grandmama broke,

my great gret great grandmama broke.

But We're not gonna be broke. The problem is the

grip is costing you. Watch this. The blessing.

God has more for you. Oh God, Okay, how are

you holding what you have? I can't answer that question,

but you can. Is there anything that you're trembling, like

if God came close to asking you for it, that

you would be like, God, I can't follow you no more.

Say la pause.

Think if he asks you to give your car away,

would you stop following him? God would never ask sheesh quiet,

there are some things. He asked some fishermen to give

their business away to follow him. Do y'all remember the

first disciples, throw.

Your net on the other side.

They did it biggest day, They company ten xt everything.

Next they would have been all over the fisherman news.

And Jesus said, now I'm gonna make you, fishers of men,

lead a business.

Follow me.

Most of us couldn't see our businessness get ten x

in the next week walk away from it. For the

sake of Jesus, we gonna keep moving. Jesus looked around

at his disciples and said this verse twenty three. He said,

how hard is it for a rich man to enter

the Kingdom of God? This amazed them, but Jesus said again,

dear children, it is very hard to enter the Kingdom

of God.

In fact, it is easier for a camel.

Jesus was wild, and right here he just picked the

wildest example he could find. It would be easier for

a camel to go through the eye of a needle,

What then, for a rich person to enter the Kingdom

of God? Not because God had anything or any aught

against riches. It's because he knew that when you have

a lot, those riches usually have you. He said, That's

why we got to deal with the heart.

The heart.

The disciples were astounded. Then who in the world can

be saved? That asked Jesus looked at them intently and said,

humanly speaking, it is impossible, but not with God.

Everything is possible. With God.

Do y'all know that everybody uses this for miracle signs

and wonders that scripture right there. With man it is impossible.

But with God, all things are possible. He's talking about

being generous. Nobody wants to hear about that.

Lift your hands, I'm telling you. With God, he's gonna

move them out that. He said.

I'm telling you it's impossible to be generous and take

your hand off of stuff like this if that's your source.

But with Me, you ain't gotta worry. It's possible. We

can do anything if you have the right heart. That's

why generosity and giving is all about the heart. Writes

this the cure for the condition of the wrong grip.

Watch this. I got this from prophetess Elsa.

Let it go.

I don't know.

That's one of the most prophetic Disney movies I've ever seen.

That woman coming into her identity, icing up everything, and

she just said.

What let it go? No, I didn't ask you to sing, just.

What I'm telling you. What I'm telling you right now

is if you got the wrong grip, time to loosen

it and let it go. Some of y'all, I dare

you to ask God, what are you trying to say

to me at this moment? Some of y'all gonna be

scared of the answer. That's why don't pray this if

you're not ready to make a transformation. But God, watch this,

Where is my grip too tight? The next condition that

comes to attack your heart?

Watch this one. We're almost done grief.

So greed tries to get you before you give, and

the grip tries to get you to stay in the

same place. I can't can't trust God, can't give, can't tie.

But grief tries to come and attack you after you

actually give.

Has anybody ever given something and them is like ooh, shoot.

Trust to you. God really want you to be the

big one.

Do you got to do your big one on this one? Man? See,

grief tries to attack you after you obey God. Part

of my ministry of generosity that I started where I

was at when I didn't have nothing, was giving shoes away.

That that has always been a thing.

I used to go to Ross and find the best

shoes I could for twenty nine to ninety nine, and

sometimes they have Jordan's in there, and sometimes they be

having all this stuff that me and my brothers got

that honest from my dad. He used to go to

pawn shops and find stuff that cost a lot, but

he had an anointing to find it for it, so

that I think that got transferred in the blood lines.

So I used to have all kinds of shoes, and

God said, you want to be generous, start giving your

shoes away. So literally, people I would look at their

feet and I'd be like, man, I could help them,

I could bless them, I could upgrade ja.

And I was just asking, what's that shoe you wear?

And they tell me, and if they were my size,

I would just be like, stay right here, and I'd

have a pair in my car. I would This was

something I started a long time of go because listen

to me say this. You can get the spirit of

generosity right where you're at now. You don't need a

bigger paycheck, you don't need more money, you don't need

a new job. You need a heart posture. So because

this was my heart posture and I wanted to be

able to do this, I was not even sad when

I gave the people.

The shoes, the thing that grieved me the most.

And maybe this is just me venting because my spirit

is grieved at this current moment. But sometimes I would

give the too good of a shoe to somebody who

didn't know what to do with it. And there's certain

shoes that don't go with certain nowfish, y'all know what

I'm talking about. I needed my desernment to be higher

because I was like, maybe you, and then I would

see them in the shoes, and that would grieve me.

Oh God, what I'm saying. And the Holy Spirit, watch this.

The Holy Spirit checked me. He said, it's not even

yours to have an opinion on anymore. When it left

watched this, not when it left my hand, it was theirs.

When it was settled in my heart.

It was theirs. Oh my God, I need some of

y'all to hear me say this. Some of y'all need

to settle in your heart.

The car you're driving, you're gonna give it away.

You may not know where, you may not have figured

out the other thing.

But God, if you can get it in your heart,

He'll make it happen in your hand.

And many of us are.

Waiting to see how it can work in our hands.

To actually get in your heart.

That's too late. Today. I'm challenging you make the give big.

What is God requiring of you?

And some of you need to stop grieving because of

financial fear or a scarcity mindset that was passed down generationally.

Anxiety from your past experience is stressed around bill's and dead,

can't find a job, comparison, shame, even trauma connected to money.

What I'm telling you is you have to trust God.

I always see this meme and it always reminds me

of the time that God was asking me to actually

stop grieving over what I was giving him because He

always had something better for me. Can you put that

little meme up that I know some of y'all have

seen this somewhere, But it's like a picture of Jesus

and he has a teddy bear behind his back, and

then there's a little girl holding on.

Y'all seen this before today.

I brought this up because I believe this is a

prophetic picture of what God is asking you. Would you

give me what I'm asking you for so I can

already give you what I've already had in store for you.

But this means you can't grieve or keep the grip.

You gotta let it go, give it away.

And that's why Deuteronomy fifteen ten it says you shall

surely give to him. This goes back to the story

where God is saying, I don't want you to have

a selfish or greedy heart. I want you to develop

a generous heart. It says you should surely give to him,

and your heart watch this should not be grieved. What

shouldn't be grieved your heart. He's talking about the condition

of your heart, because giving is all about the heart,

and your heart should not be grieved when you give

to him. Because for this thing, Ah, the Lord your God,

will bless you in all your works and into which

He puts in your hand. What God is saying is like,

if you would do what he tells you to do

around giving, you cannot stop the flow of what God

will bless you with to do it again. So many

people teach you give and you'll get given. You'll get given,

you'll get that actually works greed into your heart. Part

of our culture code is we give just to give.

And not to give. Now you cannot stop the that's

at work. Watch this with the right motivation. So I

want to say this, and I'm gonna say his statement,

but I want.

You to know the statement is not finished. Okay, stay

with me real quick. God does not let me say

it like this. God does not bless giving unless it's

with the right heart.

Did y'all hear me?

Or you could say it this way, God blesses giving

with the right heart.

He doesn't just bless giving.

He's like, if the motive is wrong, if the motive

is to manipulate the system, if the motive is to.

Give two and get ten, he said, you should just go.

To DraftKings and gamble, he said, But if the motive

is to trust me, it's the motive is to actually

have a heart like mine that will look at needs

and sow and share. He said, Ah, you got the

right motivation. That's why on the little thing. It's a heart,

but it say his motive behind it, because the motive

has to be This is.

My response to what I've already experienced.

For God so loved the world that he How many

people deserve to God's grace? How many people deserve the

second chance? And you on your nineteenth life in Mario, do.

Yall understand what I'm saying. But you're back again. God

has given you.

Another You didn't deserve it, though. My response is I

gotta continue to be more like him. We're almost done.

I was thinking about it after service. I know my

wife is gonna want to go somewhere to eat, and

I spent my last hundred. I spent my last hundred

this week on getting my kids gifts for their mama,

and I was wondering, what's.

Up, PC? You got this hundred from me?

WHOA, oh, PC, ro thank you. Don't even worry about

it now.

Watch she stood up and clasps. But this is.

The truth of the matter is PC is not grieving

this hundred dollars.

You know why because I gave it to him before

I came on the platform. I told him in the sermon,

I'm gonna say I need a hundred dollars.

Get up and give me this hundred dollars back. He

doesn't have to grieve what's not his.

What I'm saying to you is, if you think this

is yours, you don't think you're a manager, you think

you're an owner, then every time God asked you for

something back, it's like, oh man, God again, y'all know

what I'm talking about. Oh man, you act like your

bills come every surprise.

Muffl like it's like, oh bills, this it's the first.

And we do the same thing with God, and God

saying if you had just returned to me what I

already gave you, he said. This goes from grieving to

watch this.

This is the cure.

Gratitude. We'll take get at to arlow or something.

All right, here we go. Rload, that's yours. I'm saying

it publicly. Arload, that's your one hundred dollars. Oh, Abby said,

it's Mother's day. Here we go.

The cure for the condition of grief is gratitude. The

only way that I'm not grieving is that I remember

the good times. I remember man it's a blessing to

even it's a blessing to even have anything to be God,

I remember it is foo. I took somebody to fifteen

nineteen this past week, and I got emotional because I

for the first year and a half of being the

pastor of this church, while I was still learning generosity,

I did.

Not have a car.

I used to walk to church to preach to people

about being blessed. What do you want to talk about?

Humility is when your church members are passing you asking

you do you need a ride?

See? People think, oh, he's flashy. You don't know my story.

You have no clue what.

God has brought me through to develop the heart of generosity.

If I give away so much more than I have.

The truth of the matter is listen to me. What

I'm saying is the process.

God said, you're not generous yet, and you bought a

land Rover you couldn't pay to get fixed. So I'm

not supernaturally blessing you. I'm gonna let that car sit

in your driveway broke because of your disobedience. You should

have had a Honda Accord sitting up here in a

land Rover. Discovery worked for six months. So walk.

And believe me.

Walk and don't be ashamed. Walk and no one day

you'll give away cars.

Walk and don't think.

That this is where I'm leaving you.

This is where I'm starting you. So you never forget

who your supplier is. I'm telling you.

When I went back to fifteen nineteen and I was

showing in the building, I said, this is the sidewalk

I used to walk with my backpack to come preach

to people and tell them that Jesus loved them. I said,

when I go up to that building, that's almost two

thousand square feet, and we own all the land, even

the land Chick.

For Ley sits on.

And I said, I get overwhelmed because it was God.

Who changed my mind first by changing my heart.

And when my heart changed, I stood up in front

of our church and I rehearsed this story.

All the time.

We broke the seed of poverty over our church with

an eighty three hundred dollars seed. I stood up in

a series like this and I said, y'all, we're gonna

do something we probably have never done in our church before.

I said, we're gonna all take an offering. And this

entire offering is going to go to other churches in

this community. Eight three hundred dollars came in and we

took all of that money and we gave some of

the friendship in Metropolitan and First back.

We just gave it away and God said, I can

trust you.

And the amount of money, it doesn't even make the

amount that we've been able to give away to other nonprofits,

orphanages to widows, to girls' homes, to help people do

a God's place in their heart. And it wasn't alone,

It wasn't give it back when you get it because

of the generosity of these people and people like you

who have believed in this vision and honestly decided to

live an abundant life.

It didn't just translate to the church. It translated to

their homes.

And all I'm trying to do is put out an

invitation for everybody who's not yet subscribed to this level.

Of heart posture.

This is your chance to be a part of God's

plan for humanity to reflect him. Because God soul loved

the world that he would you stand all over this building.

I have to address this.

Please don't leave. We're going in five minutes.

But there are some people in this room that the

reason why this topic of generosity and finances hits you

so hard is because there's another g word that's coming

to attack your heart, and it's guilt. And I need

to address this right now, because the Bible says there

is for now no condemnation for those who are in

Christ Jesus. And maybe you've been on hard times and

maybe you once were really adamant about being generous to

God and the local church and others around you, and

maybe you stop for some reason, and maybe you just

decided I can't let go of his grip. And God's

saying it's time to do it. I come to rebuke

guilt and shame off of you right now. Yes, the

best time to plant a tree in a forest was

fifty years ago, but the next.

That's time today right now.

So if guilt has been on you, that's been trying

to attack your heart, let me give you the antidote

or the cure for guilt grace.

Today. Some of you just need to experience the grace

of God. He's saying, I love you so much that

I'm giving you another opportunity. Y'all.

Put past the mic in that whole sheep up there,

sheep jacket. This has been hot all day. I just

have to confess to you. I've been sweating like woo

and look all right, all right, thank you because I'm hot.

But he put me up here today. And this Mary

had a little lamb, the lamb that was slaying. I

gotta get off the stage. I'm feeling good. I'm getting

excited about my wife knowing I got her some gifts.

Okay, It's time for me to go.

And what I'm saying to you is God interrupted everything

to give you another opportunity to Hey, I want your

give to be big. I'm gonna give you grace for

another day for your give to be. Hey, even on

this Mother's Day, it would be probably for some of you,

a big deal for you to stop by and say

how to your mom? Give a video, give a call,

write a letter. I know everything's not resolved, and I

know you saying I can't be fake and I can't

Tha Da Da. You don't know how much time you

have with them. There are people going on to be

with the Lord. What if God, what if it would

be a big give for you to give a call.

I'm just saying, what if the giving's not just about money.

What if money's just a test of giving, But what

if giving's God's big deal. Today, I'm asking you if

you've been having the wrong grip, if you've been actually

being attacked in the area of greed, if you've been

attacked in the area of guilt, if you've been attacked

in any one of these areas. Today, I'm telling you

the cure for it is give. And I'm going to

impart and pray that a spirit of generosity would come

over you, that your eyes would be open to see.

How can I be like Jesus in any situation and give?

If you want to receive that, lift your hands all

over this place. Father, in the name of Jesus, if

you're watching online, this is for you. Father. I thank

you that your word is eternal, everlasting and strong, and

today I delivered your word. But God, I thank you

that it's going into people's hearts, because giving is all

about the heart.

Today.

We want a heart like yours. We want a heart

that sees the need and meets the need. We want

a heart that is not greedy. We want our heart,

Father God, that flows with abundance. We want a heart, Father,

that goes against the generational patterns that we may have learned.

Today.

God, I thank you that you're interrupting bloodlines right now

with revelation, and today we're asking start with us. Let

us pass down generationally a spirit of generosity. If our

children and our family know us for being a certain way. God,

I thank you that you would do the work so

deep on the inside of us that we would get

relabel the renamed in the people that are around us.

Father, I thank you that you can do the transformation today.

God, we are asking in the areas that people may

not see, would you search our hearts and would you

expose anything that may be offensive, creating us a clean

heart and renewing us the right spirit. Father, change our motives,

because once we can give, our world gets larger and larger.

And so today God I impart the gift of faith

around giving, we will have the faith to trust you.

You are the supplier of every one of our needs.

If the birds don't worry about what they gonna eat,

and that the flowers are not going shopping for what

they're gonna be dressed in, how much more for each

one of us, your children that you love today make

the give big in our life so that we never

have to have a heart attack. We trust you, we

believe you, and we thank you in Jesus' name. Listen

to me real quick. The place you need to let

Jesus into is your heart. He's the only one that

if you let him into your heart, he'll help you

change your habits. So some of y'all were about to

go at this and be like, all right, I got

my points, I know what to do. I'm about to

make this happen. And God's like, godly, they missed all

of it. All of it points back to me. I

want to be in relationship with you. I don't want

you to just see me once or twice a year

or call me when you're in need. I want to

walk and talk with you. I want to lead and

guide you. I don't want to just be savior.

I want to be Lord.

But you got to let me into your heart. And

today some of y'all have been feeling the spirit whispering

to you. Today's the day to come home. Today is

the day of transformation. All do it next week.

I gotta clean up.

God said, you can't clean up what I'm made to

clean up. If that's you and you want to let Jesus.

Into your heart. He already gave his son. All you

have to do is receive him. So watch this.

He gave his son, you get your life. You get

to practice giving right now. He gives away, you give

up your way. You get to practice giving right now.

If that's you, and you want to make Jesus Christ

your personal lord and savior. On the counter three, I

want you to lift your hands and we're gonna prayer

your same pastor include me into that prayer. I want

my name to be written in the Lamb's Book of life.

I want to give control over to God. I want

my eternity to be secure, and I want my history

to be healthy. This is what God gives us the

ability and passorm like, why are you so passionate about this?

Because it's the thing that took me from being a liar,

a manipulator, addicted to pornography, bad things in my heart,

stuff that nobody could see that was around me.

But I knew what's in there. And God said, I'm

not gonna make you perfect, Well, I'm gonna make you progressive.

And today that's somebody's future.

And if that's you, man, woman, boy, or girl, I

don't care how old, how long you've been around church.

You know God needs your heart. Today is your day one.

You're making the greatest decision of your like to Your

name is gonna be written in the Lamb's book of life.

I'm proud of you.

But more than that, Heaven is about to rejoice. If

you want to receive Jesus. Three, shoot your hand up

in the air in the room.

I see you. I see you. I see you, my brother,

Transformation Church. I see you, my sister. More than that,

God sees you. Come on CC, let's give God praise. Hey, listen.

As the altar workers come right now. As a family,

we're gonna pray. Nobody at TC praise alone. We're a

family and we all been there. Can we say this

prayer together? Say God, thank you for sending Jesus just

for me today.

I give you my heart. I admit I've sind, I repent,

and I.

Turn to you. Here's my life. Change me, renew me,

transform me. I'm yours forever.

In Jesus name. Amen.

Hey, can we celebrate with every person?

Oh? Come on, TCE.

All that happen is rejoicing right now.

Hey, listen, if you just said that prayer in the

room or watch it online line.

I want you to text saved to eight two eight

two eight to or click the QR code.

We want to send you some information.

We got some videos me and the team if made

to let you know what your next steps are and

how to go on this journey. And I'm telling you

get in a good Bible based church. TC will always

be here for you. If you're in the city or

anywhere around, come to church. Man.

This is not just Mother's Day. This is every Sunday

and we want to love on you and help you grow.

And for every person that's in this room that's dealing

with something, maybe grief, maybe greed, maybe something's going on

and you need prayer. God gives us the technology of

prayer that transforms our life. I'm telling you from all

over this room as the worship team sings, I want

you to come get prayer. And if you're online, stay

on where ship us with us for a minute. I'm

gonna come in the back. Go ahead and type your

prayer requests up there. The team is gonna feed them

to me. I'm gonna pray for you. But today I

believe God's gonna do something to change our hearts. Amen, Father,

bless this church. Give them hearts that are big enough

to receive all the blessing that you were giving them.

And today God alter us right here at this altar,

have your way.

In Jesus' name.

We agree, somebody say we agree, we expect.

Amen, go out and live a transformed life. Hollylujah.