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This Job Isn’t Working: What To Do When Purpose Isn’t Paying // Six Figures (Part 2) // Michael Todd

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  1. Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to

  2. the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so

  3. glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe

  4. God will transform your life. Do today's message.

  5. I want you to realize that prayer works, and a

  6. lot of you haven't seen it work in your life

  7. because it's easy to believe God by committee, like everybody

  8. can believe when everybody believed in But I want your

  9. faith to grow to where you can believe that nobody

  10. else is believing. And this is why I want you

  11. to come into this.

  12. Environment to learn.

  13. I want to tell you a testimony. It's testimony time.

  14. Look at you're not gonna say it's testimony time now.

  15. Some of y'all ain't never been in church where they

  16. had testimonies. And you know what I'm saying. And testimony

  17. time can go real wild. Do you understand what I'm saying?

  18. People can get up and tell too much business.

  19. But today I'm gonna give you a testimony time. There

  20. was a church that came here in crazy faith about

  21. a month and a half ago, and some of y'all

  22. were gone, but after service, the presence of God was

  23. moving and this church and this pastor were believing God

  24. for a miracle for a building in Kansas. And they

  25. came here on a Sunday morning with crazy faith shirts

  26. and they were believing God, and they sold a seed

  27. into this house and they were just believing for their

  28. own thing. And at the end, in a time of worship,

  29. we just prayed for this church. I just want you

  30. to go back to this moment real quick, and I

  31. want you to see because I got a testimony on

  32. the other side of our prayers working.

  33. Check this out real quick.

  34. Father, I pray for the church that came from Kansas

  35. that's believing.

  36. Everybody in the arena just point to them.

  37. Father, I declare, and I believe as they're believing for

  38. a crazy faith building.

  39. Pastor Orlando and his wife.

  40. I believe they came with seventeen people in faith. And today, Father,

  41. I declare, and I believe, Father God, that you are

  42. about to move mountains for this church and the name.

  43. I need y'all to pray.

  44. We're standing in a miracle right now. I pray, Father God,

  45. that you would move everything that needs to be moved

  46. for them to walk into that school. And Father, not

  47. just enough, but more than enough. In the name of Jesus,

  48. I thank you that it's only crazy until that happens.

  49. And Father, I thank you for an impartation of faith.

  50. We declare and we believe, Father God, that eyes have

  51. not seen, the ears have not heard, and neither has

  52. it entered into the hearts of man, the things you

  53. have planned, Father God, for faith Walker's Church.

  54. We declare it, we believe it, and we thank you.

  55. This moment happens in service.

  56. What most people don't know is the night before my

  57. wife sent me to the mall on a missions trip

  58. to get mad I don't go to the mall, un listen,

  59. I have a mission, and I went for a missions

  60. trip at eight thirty to get one of my kids

  61. a piece of technology. I had no reason to be

  62. in the mall on Saturday night, and I run into

  63. this group of people in the mall on Saturday night.

  64. You can see it in the middle of the mall.

  65. Right here, we begin to have a prayer service in

  66. the middle of Woodland Hills mall. People are stopping. He said, Pastor,

  67. we're coming to church tomorrow. You don't know me from anybody,

  68. but I just want to let you know we came

  69. to sit under the same grace that caused this miracle

  70. to happen here, and right there in the mall we prayed.

  71. And once we prayed in the mall, then they came

  72. to church and we prayed for them again.

  73. And then they went back to Kansas.

  74. As they were believing God for a certain building. It

  75. came up to the day where the building was about

  76. to be auctioned off by the city. And literally there

  77. were four people in the running and God brought this

  78. whole thing together for them to get here and them

  79. to award the building to an apartment complex. Kassa, Mike,

  80. why are you telling this story because I need you

  81. to know when it doesn't happen how you think it

  82. should happen, it doesn't mean that God has not stopped working.

  83. This building that they were gonna go into was going

  84. to cause them to have to have hundreds of thousands

  85. of dollars worth of renovation, but they had faith to

  86. believe God. Well, two weeks later, they got a call

  87. from the church that they had been partnering with to

  88. use their facility in the afternoon, and the pastor said,

  89. God is transitioning me to another place.

  90. So we've talked to the board of elders.

  91. And we just did a brand new renovation and we

  92. want to give you the building that you have been We.

  93. Want to give you and everything that's in it.

  94. Y'all don't know when a shop, but God did more

  95. than they could even believe.

  96. Hey, the story's not over.

  97. So the building that they've been partnering with somebody to

  98. be in, it's now their building. They left all the

  99. children's equipment, all the technology, redid the bathrooms.

  100. Y'all don't hear what I'm saying.

  101. So I facetimed Pastor Orlando, and I said, God is

  102. not just good, He's also kind because the blessing of

  103. the Lord maketh rich. But Addath knows if they would

  104. have got the other building they were believing for the

  105. pressure of trying to outfit it, they wouldn't have been

  106. able to be in there until some years later. But

  107. they have their first service in their new building May seventeenth.

  108. Can we shut in the shop.

  109. With the voice of trust? Prayer? Worse? Now?

  110. You know it just a little crazier than that.

  111. Because this church is transitioning. The pastor on the board

  112. of elders said, we want the investment of the people

  113. who have been in this church to stay in this city.

  114. So we're not just giving you the building. We're giving

  115. you the church account. Chaddy, We're giving you the church

  116. account and every bit of money that was in it. Y'all,

  117. don't hear me.

  118. Eyes have not seen, tears, have not heard the good.

  119. Things that God has planned for you. It's only crazy

  120. until it happens. Prayer works. So today we just wanted

  121. to celebrate with this amazing church.

  122. And since y'all are getting a.

  123. Brand new account, I would just like you to know

  124. we're in a series talking about financial stewardship, generosity, and abundance,

  125. and because of the faithfulness of the people here at

  126. Transformation churching around the world. I just wanted to let

  127. Pastor Orlando and Adriaan know you can tell your church

  128. on May seventeenth.

  129. The account's gonna be full.

  130. I need y'all to shout with me because on the

  131. behalf of God and the generosity faith Walkers outreach. There's

  132. a check for one hundred thousand dollars coming to your church.

  133. To God, how dare you to shout and rejoice?

  134. This is the Church, this is the Kingdom, this is

  135. the body of Christ, And it's only crazy until it happens.

  136. Y'all better not let this become normal. Y'all, better not

  137. let this become normal. This is a miracle of God's faithfulness.

  138. And look at your neighbor and say, it's just the beginning, y'all,

  139. and it's crazy right now.

  140. It's just the beginning. It's just the beginning. Some of

  141. you are going to be able to do that personally.

  142. I don't know where the faith is in the room,

  143. but some of y'all are about to be able to

  144. do that personally. Past some Mike, why are you even

  145. saying that? Because somebody can? Why not us abbe will?

  146. Why can't God let us see a need to meet

  147. an needing? Hows some Mike, why are you talking about this?

  148. Because brentam we are joint heirs with Christ, and until

  149. we individually can live our lives in abundance, we always

  150. live our lives in need. But I believe the tide

  151. is shifting. Somebody say, suddenly you missed it. Okay, the

  152. message has already started, y'all say suddenly toss Some mike,

  153. why are you saying this? Because I remember being a

  154. church y'all always thought transformation was like this, y'all don't

  155. realize when we were in in fifteen nineteen, in twenty fifteen,

  156. and literally we were sitting there believing God for a

  157. new camera system, Like we were believing God that we

  158. could pay the employees. We were believing God that we

  159. could clean the carpet. Y'all don't understand the miracle working

  160. power of God.

  161. Darren, you remember where we was at. Some of y'all was.

  162. There when we was like, this is impossible with man,

  163. but with God.

  164. And it was in a series just like this where

  165. I was teaching about.

  166. Stewardship, generosity, and a blessed life in abundance. And let

  167. me be clear to you, I had not fully embraced

  168. the truths that I needed to teach. Oh, can I

  169. be real? You know when you know something but you ain't.

  170. Lived it yet. And so I had the humility.

  171. To tell my church guys, I know this is what

  172. we need, but I don't.

  173. Got it yet fully.

  174. So I'm going to sit here with you every Sunday

  175. and we're gonna watch another man of God in another church.

  176. By video until we all get this. Mamma am.

  177. I telling the truth. And for two years I sat

  178. on the front row with my church, and I took

  179. notes and I said, God, one day, would you please

  180. allow me to live in the abundant life that you

  181. called me to live, not just financially, but in my relationships,

  182. in my health, in my spirits. And we learned as

  183. a church, and we gave a seed to the other

  184. churches in North Tulsa of eight three hundred dollars church.

  185. I want to let you know you were sitting in

  186. the benefit or the fruit of about three hundred people's

  187. faith who took the little that we did have and

  188. put seed in the ground.

  189. That one hundred thousand dollars we just gave away is

  190. a fruit of the seed.

  191. Tysaboke, what are you trying to teach me? It's not

  192. where you start, and it's not what you have now,

  193. it's what you will do with what God has placed

  194. in your hands. And today I am for the next

  195. six weeks going to chip away at all mindsets of

  196. greed and all mindsets of poverty that have literally bombarded

  197. people's mind And you may not call it greed, and

  198. you may not call it poverty. You can call it

  199. whatever you want. But whenever God gives you something, it

  200. stays with you. You are not a river, You're a reservoir.

  201. Everything that comes to you stays with you. And God says,

  202. I need something to pass through you. And until you

  203. get a heart and a mode of the generosity, until

  204. you get out of survivor mode, until you start thriving,

  205. you never get to embrace the principles of God.

  206. And so today, Church, I'm not just gonna shout with you.

  207. I'm gonna teach you.

  208. Is it okay if I teach you today, Church, Okay,

  209. get out your note past. I feel the presence of God, Charles.

  210. This thing about to go crazy. Okay, Oh, thank you Jesus.

  211. I get excited because I know somebody's mind is gonna

  212. shift today. Every time I get up here, I'm not

  213. getting up here to talk.

  214. I'm getting up here.

  215. To share what I believe God shared with me. So

  216. I'm just a messenger. So I'm just telling you what

  217. I'm about to say today. Don't get mad at me

  218. because I'm just a what messenger? Talk to him about

  219. what he told me to tell you. I don't know

  220. why he told me to tell you this, but you

  221. need it. And so today I believe, as we are

  222. in week two of a series we are calling six figures.

  223. And my daughter asked me earlier. She was like, Dad,

  224. what's six figures? And I said, well, six figures is

  225. the amount of money that has a one and five

  226. zeros behind it. And she was like, what does that mean.

  227. I was like, it just means you got a little

  228. bit of paper.

  229. And she was like, well, what do you mean by

  230. the series six figures?

  231. I said, a lot of people are trying to reach

  232. that one with five zeros behind it. But I believe money,

  233. if not put in the right frame, can corrupt people,

  234. no matter if it's six, seven, eight figures.

  235. You need to have the figures.

  236. That God wants to give you as principles to grow

  237. your faith, because the Bible tells us there is only

  238. one thing that can be compared.

  239. To God, and it's money.

  240. And you're saying, oh, no, no, no, no, no, only

  241. my God. But for many of us, all of us,

  242. at some point or another have said either I need

  243. God to come through or I need some more money. Okay,

  244. where's my church today? We're a humble, opening, transparent church.

  245. Has anybody ever thought said out loud or wrote down

  246. in your journey either I need God to come through,

  247. or I need some more money. The truth of the

  248. matter is if God does come through, or if you

  249. do have the money, you still need God to come through.

  250. And so this is why I want to teach these

  251. principles that are going to help us walk in to

  252. watch this balance grace and truth. I want everybody to

  253. understand what I'm teaching this whole series. This is going

  254. to be filled with grace, but it's also going to

  255. be filled with truth, because that's the only way that

  256. you transform. Okay, So as we move, I want to

  257. go to our anchor scripture John ten Ten. It says

  258. the thief does not come except to do what still

  259. kill and destory.

  260. But this is Jesus talking.

  261. He said, but I have come that you would have life,

  262. say it big life.

  263. And that you may have life more abundantly.

  264. Another translation says, I want you to have life to the.

  265. I don't know about you.

  266. But I like drinking cups of juice that are full. Now.

  267. I don't know about you, but when I pour my own.

  268. Juice, I like to have to sip off the top

  269. just a little bit to make sure it doesn't feel

  270. y'all know what I'm talking about. Y'all know what I'm

  271. talking about. Where you got ah, that's how you know?

  272. It's Does your life look like that?

  273. Do your relationships look like?

  274. Hold on? This thing is so full that I gotta

  275. take a little off the top before I move it.

  276. What if that was the picture of how God wants

  277. all the things in your life abundant? And when I

  278. say abundant, I need you to hear what I'm talking about.

  279. This is God's desire and design for you. Matter of fact,

  280. write that down. God desires for me to live an

  281. abundant life. Some of you don't believe it, and by

  282. the end of the series, I believe you will because

  283. it's going to be sown in God's word and it's

  284. going to be lived out in examples that you see.

  285. But God's desire for me and my family is to

  286. live in an abundant life. And when I talk about abundantly,

  287. let me give you definition. Abundantly means God's overflowing grace,

  288. spiritual fullness, material.

  289. Provision, and generosity.

  290. Sometimes I'm like, why are you talking about money? Because

  291. you care about it and it makes a lot of

  292. people watch this disobey God. Part of a lot of

  293. people's issue is not fornication. A lot of y'all issue

  294. is not lying. A lot of your issue is stealing.

  295. And I'm not talking about from the bank.

  296. They get theirs and I'm not talking for your car payment.

  297. They get theirs too.

  298. Matter of fact, y'all got it on automatic. Don't even

  299. Uncle Sam, He don't even ask you. Yep. But the

  300. reason God doesn't take anything from you is because he's

  301. a gentleman. He don't want it if you don't want

  302. to give it, even if it's connected to the promises

  303. of Him rebuking the devourer, the enemy and literally opening

  304. up the windows of heaven. But most people don't understand

  305. the principle. And let me say this very clear. You

  306. don't ever have to give an offering to this church.

  307. I want you to know that this principle is not

  308. about transformation church. This principle is about being a child

  309. of God. Whatever church you feel submitted to, whatever organization

  310. you feel is the place where you get fed. I'm

  311. telling you to work this principle there. This is not

  312. about me. This is about you, This is not about.

  313. TC, this is about your family.

  314. If you work the promises of God, God's.

  315. Promises work.

  316. Okay, this church is doing fine financially. We have people

  317. that have literally made it their job to honor God

  318. with their resources. So I'm not teaching this because the

  319. church needs money. I'm teaching this because you need an

  320. abundant life. And I wish somebody would have told me

  321. when I was frivolously spending resources on things that were

  322. feeding my insecurity and not eternity. I didn't even know it.

  323. I was buying things to make me feel better and

  324. vain ambitions around things because my confidence was low and

  325. I didn't know who I was in Christ and I

  326. was trying to wear chains.

  327. And I remember buying.

  328. The dumbest purchase of my life the first time I

  329. got paid for producing music from Wayman Tisdale. I got

  330. a sizable check at eighteen years old. And the first

  331. thing that I did is I went to CA's Jewelers.

  332. I'm telling on myself, and I bought a diamond. I'm

  333. so embarrassed about a I'm a necklace that literally the

  334. diamonds were so small in it or whatever those things were.

  335. And I paid this amount of money and I looked

  336. at that years later and I said, Michael, you were

  337. walking in ignorance. You just didn't have understanding of the

  338. promises of God. And what I want to provide for

  339. you today is another pillar in the abundant life that

  340. God has designed for you. Okay, so this is what

  341. I want to tell everybody. I brought this for you today,

  342. and I want you to go online and fill it out.

  343. This right here is called a permission slip, and some

  344. of y'all haven't had to use one of these for

  345. yourselves in many years. But today I'm giving you permission

  346. to prosper. I want you to know that this is

  347. God's promise for you. I wrote my name on it,

  348. I wrote all the things in and I want you

  349. to know that you have permission. Somebody say I have

  350. permission to prosper. We learned it last week and if

  351. you haven't watched the message, you need to go back.

  352. But I want to give you a scripture.

  353. In third John, it says, I beloved, I pray that

  354. you may prosper in all things and be in health,

  355. just as your soul prospers.

  356. You have permission to prosper.

  357. But do you know what I found in Deuteronomy chapter eight,

  358. verse eighteen. I found something else. You have permission to do.

  359. Look at the scripture. But remember the Lord your God,

  360. for it is he who gives.

  361. You the ability to.

  362. Produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant which he swore

  363. to your ancestors as it is today, Hasabich, what are.

  364. You trying to tell me?

  365. You don't just have permission to prosper, You have permission

  366. to produce. I'm telling you right now that there are

  367. things that God is requiring of you that you have

  368. not thought were a part of the call He's placed

  369. on your life.

  370. And today I'm telling.

  371. You we're not waiting on anybody else to do what

  372. God plays on the inside of us. You have permission

  373. to produce. Let's break this scripture down because a lot

  374. of people don't understand that God gives us the ability

  375. to produce wealth. So this, if we extract the truth

  376. out of it, a couple of things come out. God

  377. gives ability.

  378. God never gives wealth.

  379. Did y'all hear what I just said? You can pray

  380. for wealth.

  381. He never gives you wealth. He only gives you ability.

  382. Y'all saw it in the scripture, right, God and It's

  383. generous nature gives us the ability to produce Well, Okay,

  384. I want to put it on the screen. Let me

  385. put it in a matrix for you.

  386. It's ability.

  387. It's wealth on the other side ability, and then there's

  388. wealth on the other side.

  389. There's something that has to be in the middle.

  390. What is the missing ingredient between ability and wealth? What'd

  391. you say? Work? I think somebody has got it that

  392. between the ability and the wealth, you must it's spiritual,

  393. it's godly, it's his design you.

  394. Have to work. And most people think that this.

  395. Is a punishment. Oh, come on, since you were young.

  396. Oh my god, I'm gonna do this work. When am

  397. I going to be able to not work? Some of

  398. y'all have bought into the American dream that at some

  399. point you're supposed to retire from your work, and and

  400. I understand because you might have got the definition wrong.

  401. But today I'm going to explain to you how work

  402. is holy and if you're gonna live an abundant life,

  403. you might need to change your perspective on work because

  404. it's something that has been with humanity since the garden.

  405. Work came before prayer. Work in the Bible came before

  406. healing work. Y'all don't wanna, y'all, don't wanna y'all don't

  407. want to talk about it.

  408. Work came before worship.

  409. Nobody was singing songs, but work was a form of worship.

  410. So I want to help.

  411. You today frame your mind because ability, I need you

  412. to hear this is actually the power.

  413. That God gives you.

  414. So the gifting that you have, the thing that God's

  415. placed in you, that's power.

  416. And then after he gives.

  417. You power over here at the end, he gives you

  418. the ability to produce.

  419. But what we gotta fix is the perspective.

  420. If work is a punishment, if work is something you

  421. have to endure, if work is something that you can't stand,

  422. you will cut off the promise of God of living

  423. an abundant life. And I know this is going to

  424. frustrate some people because you wanted to come and hear

  425. something about your blessing and your greatness and how God's

  426. gonna heal you. And this might be the word you

  427. need because if you want to live a life that's full,

  428. you have to understand that God never gives the end

  429. result without you, you participating. All right, I'm gonna have

  430. to tread lightly. I need you to understand. Perspective is

  431. so important. I remember the story, y'all remember that story

  432. in the Bible whereas the woman at the well and

  433. God met her and he told her all the things

  434. that she was doing, and she said, even the man

  435. you we're right now, ain't even your husband.

  436. She was like, oh my God, how did you know?

  437. And then he said, if you drink from me, I'm

  438. gonna give you water that never run's dry. And people

  439. was mad because there was like, she's a different ethnicity

  440. than you. And God was healing, racial reconciliation, healing her mind.

  441. He was doing a lot right there. And if people

  442. don't get.

  443. One of the strongest parts of the story was she

  444. went back into the town to tell everybody as an evangelist, Yo,

  445. I met a man, come see a man named Jesus

  446. who changed my life. And guess who was mad about

  447. the whole thing? The disciples, the church people, the people

  448. who prayed and knew God. They first was like, why

  449. were we even talking to her? She votes differently than us, Okay,

  450. why are we talking to her?

  451. She listens to music we don't listen to.

  452. She goes, she eats others like, and Jesus is like,

  453. y'all being petty, But look what Jesus said in Matthew

  454. chapter nine, he said, when Jesus saw the crowds that

  455. were now coming because of the testimony of this one woman,

  456. they all knew her past, and now these people are

  457. coming to Jesus. It says he had compassion on them

  458. because the people who were coming were confused and helpless,

  459. like she without a shepherd watched the perspective. He said

  460. to the disciples who had the wrong idea of work,

  461. the harvest is great, but the workers are few. He

  462. didn't say the prayer warriors, he didn't say, the worshippers.

  463. He did not say.

  464. He said, I'm about to bring a harvest, and y'all

  465. seeing it wrong.

  466. You see all those people.

  467. I'm about to bring the greatest harvest this place has

  468. ever seen. And what I can't find is nobody to work.

  469. I don't need praise dancers, I don't need interourbagers. I

  470. need workers. Okay. And the disciples who had walked with

  471. him had the wrong idea of work. He was trying

  472. to change their perspective around work. He said, So pray

  473. to the Lord. He said, if you want to pray,

  474. pray this. Pray to the Lord who's in charge of

  475. the harvest and ask him not to send more money,

  476. send more What if the key to our city being

  477. saved is not more airtime, not more followers, not more plans.

  478. What if it was just more workers. I'll go where

  479. you want me to go. I'll say what you want

  480. me to say. I'll be embarrassed for the cause of Christ.

  481. I'll be the.

  482. One in this place to do the excellent thing and

  483. be able to get noticed, not because I abo showed

  484. because I did good work. Okay, y'all. The reason you're

  485. supposed to be the best at the place that you

  486. are employed right now is because your work could be

  487. assigned to people of worship.

  488. Yet you come in ten.

  489. Minutes late and leaving fifteen minutes early. If the only

  490. thing God can judge you by is your work, how

  491. would you grade? Okay, Okay, I need everybody to stay

  492. with me. I'll see some people getting mad and get

  493. flipping me off, so watch this state.

  494. Stay with me.

  495. The reason why some of you have been lost up

  496. until this point in the message is because your definition

  497. of work is conflicted with your definition of job. Today,

  498. I need to clarify for you that your work and

  499. your job are separate. They're two different things. And I'm

  500. telling you the revelation that I'm about to share. I

  501. need you to go over it several times until this

  502. sinks down in your soul because what we find out

  503. is what most people are experienced right now. The title

  504. of my message is, this job isn't working. How many

  505. people I have ever said that? How many people I've

  506. ever had a job and you went to that job

  507. and say, you.

  508. Know what, this job.

  509. Is not working. The subtitle is so special what to

  510. do when purpose isn't paying? Oh, I'm about to teach

  511. you today. Some of y'all are at a job right

  512. now that's not working, and some of y'all are working

  513. a job that ain't jobbing.

  514. Y'all hear what I'm saying.

  515. It ain't enough money coming from that job to even

  516. be a cunconsidered a job.

  517. This is a hobby. But this job isn't working.

  518. And the reason I have to talk to you about

  519. this because God his will for your life is for

  520. you to work what He places in you. But you

  521. got to understand the difference between work and a job.

  522. So I'm about to give it to you. Write every

  523. single thing that I'm about to say down, please. Your

  524. work and your job are separate. Your work and your

  525. job are what.

  526. They're different. This is separate things.

  527. This is not This is not a all in one package.

  528. When you live in this life, most of us are

  529. going to have to work, our work and our job

  530. postor Mike, Can you help me a little bit? Yes,

  531. I can help you just a little bit more. Let

  532. me give you a definition. Your job is what you

  533. do for pay. Your work is what you do for purpose.

  534. I'm gonna say it again, and I'm gonna say it's slow.

  535. Your job is what you do for pay. It's best by.

  536. It's you being a lawyer, it's you actually selling things

  537. on Amazon. It's you going and doing the lawn service.

  538. It's you making music and selling that music. It's what

  539. you do for pay. Your work is what you do

  540. for purpose.

  541. Does everybody hear me?

  542. Because this is important for you to understand. Every time

  543. I say work, from now on, I'm talking about your purpose.

  544. Every time I say your job, I'm talking about your paycheck.

  545. Does everybody got me? Okay, let's go a little further.

  546. Your work can be your job.

  547. And if your work is your job, let me tell

  548. you something that's special, that is not usual, that is

  549. not required, that is not a sign that God is

  550. with you. Okay, you're not better if your work and

  551. your job are the same. I am blessed that my

  552. work to minister the Gospel and to share it with

  553. people is intertwined with my job.

  554. I get a paycheck from this church.

  555. But when I stop being the pastor of Transformation Church,

  556. my job will change, but my work won't. I will

  557. still be responsible for representing God to the lost and

  558. found for transformation in Christ while I deliver your Amazon packages.

  559. Y'all. Don't hear me, y'all, don't hear me. I will

  560. be the most jolly dan sin.

  561. You'll see me on your ring camera. Today's gonna be

  562. a good day.

  563. Here's your new brawls like.

  564. I'm that's gonna be me.

  565. Hey, Susan, good to.

  566. See you the lawless right.

  567. That's gonna be me.

  568. Y'all. Hear what I'm saying, though, because my job may change,

  569. but my work will be the same. And some of

  570. you right now are frustrated because God has not made

  571. your job and your work's synonymous. You're mad at God

  572. and you don't want to do your work, and you

  573. don't want to do that job because it's not doing

  574. the same thing for you right now, Okay, so the

  575. principle here is if you're working, your job are the same.

  576. If you get paid to do what your purpose to do,

  577. that is just special.

  578. Thank God for it. Enjoy the season while it lasts.

  579. But do not think that somehow you are better or

  580. more called that you have somehow entered the special favorite

  581. club of God if you.

  582. Get paid to do what your purpose to do.

  583. So let's go. Your work and your job are different.

  584. Job is what you do for pay. Work is what

  585. you do for purpose.

  586. Your work can.

  587. Be a job, but watch this one. Your job can

  588. pay so you can do your work. Some of you

  589. have to have a job that pays so you can

  590. have the space to do the work God's called you

  591. to do. Some of you need to stop despising God's

  592. provision for you that job where you get paid more

  593. than you're qualified for. You know you shouldn't have a job,

  594. but Chad GBT really helped your resume, and somehow you

  595. got in that position and God provided for you that

  596. amounts you've never made before. But somehow you're still ungrateful

  597. to get up and do that every day, and you're

  598. so drained and so frustrated and so mad.

  599. And God said, you better stop counting my.

  600. Provision as something that you have to endure, because we

  601. can switch this thing all the way up. Okay, I'm trying.

  602. To give you the right perspective.

  603. Your job, the thing you get paid for many times,

  604. is the thing that God gives you so you can

  605. do your work. If you're called to the homeless ministry,

  606. how are you gonna pay for the sandwiches and so

  607. many people I'm winning on somebody to give me a donation.

  608. You could pay for it if you work your job. Well,

  609. I feel called.

  610. At risk you.

  611. How are you going to help them unless you become

  612. the best at this provision source that God gave me.

  613. This doesn't define me. That's why I can work any job.

  614. That's why a title doesn't define me, because I know

  615. this job is just helping serve my purpose.

  616. This job is helping me do the thing. You can

  617. say whatever you want that I.

  618. Work a second job at McDonald's, but the money I

  619. receive here is going to help somebody that is in need.

  620. Call me what you won't say what you want about me,

  621. But this job is a blessing so that I can

  622. do my work. And there are too many believers that

  623. are not doing the work that God has called them

  624. to do, that they've purpose to do, because they're waiting

  625. for somebody else to provide for them. But the Bible

  626. says that God gives us the ability to produce wealth, and.

  627. The missing link is work.

  628. Okay, here we go. Your job can pay you so

  629. that you can do your work.

  630. But watch this.

  631. If you do your work well, somebody will pay you

  632. to do your work.

  633. Did y'all hear what I just said?

  634. So the thing that your purpose to do if you

  635. get watch this the principle skilled, somebody will pay you

  636. to do what your purpose to Can I say something

  637. to you very truthfully, most believers aren't good enough in

  638. their actual work to be paid to do it. The

  639. Spirit is not helping you do a better job. He's

  640. helping you actually sit down and study. He's leading you

  641. to the truth. But you gotta read steal on purpose

  642. to be a singer, But you don't know how to

  643. sing on key. So the reason we're not paying you

  644. to be on the praise and worship team, it's because

  645. you can't sing and you're mad that you're still working

  646. at Costco and you're singing there and there's a few

  647. customers that tell.

  648. You you have a great voice. They haven't heard you

  649. at full volume. Come on, y'all.

  650. The truth is somebody should tell you in love you're

  651. not good, and maybe you're good for your family's talent.

  652. Show every all Auntie Jean, Oh my god, girl, you

  653. need to record that. She can listen to that. But

  654. until you get more skilled, stop believing that somebody's going

  655. to pay you to do your work. When your work's

  656. not good, you're not And I just wish we would

  657. be honest. There are people walking around that think they're

  658. good at things that they're not good at.

  659. And it's watch this.

  660. Not that you can't get good, but if you want

  661. to get good, guess what you're gonna have to do.

  662. And you're allergic to it. Ooh ooh, that's too much.

  663. We shouldn't have We shouldn't have to do all of that.

  664. That's a lot of time. If any of those things

  665. are phrases that you go to, especially.

  666. When you see somebody else working. Mmm, that's a lot really.

  667. Because anybody that works knows what work produces. Work produces

  668. everything everybody wants, but it requires what barely anybody will do. Kay,

  669. all right, right, Okay, here we go. Even if you

  670. don't need a job, you still need work. I pray

  671. as your pastor that one day you do not need

  672. to go to a job to pay your bills. Somebody

  673. should say a man, somebody, Okay, I don't know. I'm

  674. praying as your pastor that one day you have resources

  675. coming in residually, you make an invention, that somebody buys,

  676. that somebody leaves you an inheritance. Somebody needs to be

  677. like I'm praying that you get in a carcident with

  678. the right person. I know I'm not in mind listen,

  679. discresch happen. But what I'm.

  680. Saying is y'all knowing, ah mynn, I just.

  681. Ain't nothing like getting a carts desert with the person.

  682. I ain't got no insurance that it's horrible, get off

  683. the road. I know that was me anyway, only he

  684. can do that.

  685. He redeemed me.

  686. Oh, what I'm saying is, I'm praying. Listen to this

  687. very closely. I'm praying that sometime in your life, sooner

  688. than later, you don't need a job. But what many

  689. of you heard me saying is that you're not gonna

  690. have to work. And what I'm telling you to do,

  691. even if you don't need to go to that place

  692. for pay, you will still need to wake up every

  693. day and seek the Father of what you're supposed to

  694. do for your purpose. This is revelation, y'all. Okay, So

  695. this is the last thing that I need you to

  696. understand that principle. If you don't need a job, you

  697. still need work.

  698. That's scripture, kay.

  699. I want you to know this is not something I'm

  700. just making up, and you.

  701. Can be called to work and still need a job.

  702. I just want you to realize that it's okay that

  703. you have to end this world right now that was

  704. actually perfect at one moment and then Sin entered them

  705. and then we all had.

  706. To get jobs.

  707. I'll show you in a scripture in just a second,

  708. because y'all don't think it's there, and it's so there.

  709. I want you to know it's okay to have to

  710. do both to be able to make sure that you

  711. do what God has purposed in your heart to do.

  712. What if nobody's gonna pay for the book that you

  713. have to write, will you die with that on the

  714. inside of you and seventy pair of heels. Your book

  715. is literally sitting in your closet with shoes and purses

  716. and leggings you don't wear.

  717. But y'all, oh my.

  718. Gosh, and you're saying, God, I can't do what you

  719. asked me to do.

  720. And he said, yes, you can if you understand.

  721. This is your work, and this is your job.

  722. All right.

  723. I got to give a more scripture. You need proof

  724. Genesis two, verse fifteen. I love the word of God.

  725. This is in the beginning. This is just adam. It said,

  726. the Lord God took the man and put him in

  727. the garden. Who put him in the garden? The Lord

  728. put him in the garden, he said, He put him

  729. in eating too.

  730. He didn't put him.

  731. In the garden to pray.

  732. He didn't put him in the garden to worship. He

  733. didn't put he said, he put him in the garden to.

  734. Not rest, not take a break, not have a mental

  735. health day. We're weaponizing things that are supposed to help

  736. us in a season to be the thing that we

  737. can't do.

  738. The work he called it.

  739. He put mankind in the garden to say work. He said,

  740. work it and that means, I think you could do

  741. it a little dance. Hey, he said, work it and

  742. take care of it. Now that the Lord God had formed

  743. out of the ground the wild animals and all the

  744. birds in the sky, he brought them to the man

  745. to see what.

  746. The man would name them. And whatever the.

  747. Man called each living creature, that was its name.

  748. So the man gave names to all the livestock.

  749. This was his work, the birds in the sky and

  750. all the wild animals. But for Adam there was no

  751. suitable helper that was found. Everybody goes to the relationship part,

  752. they're like, oh, that's what it is. Because he needed

  753. a helper before a relationship.

  754. God gave work.

  755. Fellas, I want a battie.

  756. You need to.

  757. I was about to go crazy.

  758. You need to work.

  759. Before everything else that you're doing. I'm fining at your

  760. hobbyist video games. I'm fine that your hobbyist pickaball. I'm

  761. fine at your but you should not be doing that more. Well,

  762. you don't know what I'll do. You don't know. You

  763. know every stat of lebron in the last sixteen seasons,

  764. and you arguing down somebody else's purpose and have no

  765. idea what God says about you, you dying on the

  766. heel of Lebron or Michael Jordan, And ladies, don't think

  767. I forgot about you. You got every shade of lip gloss,

  768. you know how to.

  769. Put in hair extensions.

  770. You know what eyebrow person will get your eyebrows perfectly right,

  771. and then take I'm not saying any of those things

  772. are bad. What I am saying is is it making

  773. your work be sacrificed. Okay, So let me give you

  774. three truths about work that we see right here in

  775. Genesis chapter two. Oh God, I feel your presence right now.

  776. Revelation is happening to people right now. The truth about work, Okay,

  777. God work.

  778. In this.

  779. Scripture, Adam was not searching for what to do. It

  780. literally said, God produced the animals, the life, starck, the

  781. bird out of the ground. Watch this. And Adam was

  782. placed in Eden, which lets me know when God purpose

  783. is something for you, there will be evidence by just

  784. your environment of what you're supposed to be doing.

  785. I'm purpose to create music. So there was evidence.

  786. From prophetic words to natural giftings to the way I hear.

  787. There was evidence in my environment.

  788. That it was like, man, I'm gifted to this is

  789. part of my purpose. I didn't get paid to do

  790. that for twenty five years, So did it make it

  791. less purpose?

  792. No, it just meant I needed to know what to

  793. do to be able to pay a car payment.

  794. Until my purpose started paying me. Okay, God, So God

  795. purposes work.

  796. It was part of the plan the whole time.

  797. Watch this. Let me just say it like this number two,

  798. and God provides work. Y'all didn't see it.

  799. It said God brought all.

  800. The animals to Adam. Adam wasn't out there trying to

  801. wrangle zebras. God brought the zebras to him, which means

  802. it's not your purpose if you have to chase it.

  803. Some of y'all are chasing stuff that is not a

  804. part of your purpose. Well, I want to be a

  805. pastor and I want to do this, and I want

  806. to be a billionaire and I want to.

  807. Be an entrepreneur. And God said, I ain't ask you

  808. to do all that.

  809. If you would stay in my face and know that

  810. I'll put you in the right environment even if it's

  811. not time yet, and I'll bring the work to you.

  812. Why did they ask me to oversee this little project?

  813. God's trying to reveal purpose to you. He's trying to

  814. bring you in, said, I don't even like people. He's

  815. trying to get you. Do y'all know how many things

  816. that are not natural that you're still purpose to do.

  817. It Being natural doesn't mean that it's the thing God

  818. requires you to learn and develop even to become what

  819. He's called you to be. I need you to listen

  820. to me, y'all.

  821. I'm telling you right now that part of.

  822. The problem with the Body of Christ is if it's

  823. not natural, we don't think it's God. But do you

  824. know how many skills I had to develop to lead

  825. this church? God called me to be the pastor, but

  826. he knew I was dumb?

  827. Okay, I was dumb. Wat's this and willing? I was

  828. dumb and humble. Let me say it better, because y'all can.

  829. I was ignorant in a lot of things, but I

  830. knew that if God gave me an opportunity, I would

  831. be enlightened. But I am not who I was, and

  832. I cannot be who I am to go to where

  833. He wants.

  834. Me to go. I still have to become.

  835. And what if I told you that everything that God

  836. promised you is on the other side of a different

  837. version of you. But the only way you get it

  838. is through so God purposes work. God provides work, you

  839. know what. I even see this in a lot of

  840. other people's lives, Like David never gets called to the

  841. palace if he was not working the field as a shepherd,

  842. never meets Goliath if he's not working when nobody looking. Okay,

  843. I just want to drop it for you. I'm gonna

  844. just keep moving.

  845. No, I can't.

  846. God's tendency is to pick people who have jobs and

  847. he calls them to work.

  848. Can I prove with you?

  849. You remember the first Disciples when he meets them there

  850. out on a bird they fished all night.

  851. The professional fish they had jop.

  852. This makes you know that there's something that God see

  853. when somebody is disciplined enough to do the job. He says,

  854. they've learned disciplined there, they've learned consistency there, they've actually.

  855. Learned to be submitted to authority.

  856. They've they've learned teamwork and and and and actual unity.

  857. They've learned following a plan. I'm looking for somebody that

  858. has a job and he calls them boys offered their

  859. job into their Okay, all I'm saying is Judas was

  860. a treasurer.

  861. He had a job before he stole from Jesus.

  862. Peter and Andrew, and James and John were fishermen professional.

  863. Matthew was a tax collector.

  864. Paul was a tent maker. God has a tendency to

  865. choose people who've been faithful on there.

  866. Because many times your development starts on your job and

  867. it overflows to your work.

  868. Oh God, okay, last thing I want to tell you

  869. about work. Three truths about work.

  870. I told you, okay. Last one is God personalizes work.

  871. He doesn't make you do it how everybody else would

  872. do it. He literally says that He calls all the

  873. animals to Adam and says to him, call it what

  874. you want. Adam was like, uh okay, h a rye rhinocerosts. Yeah,

  875. you're right now, said okay, what's this one? No a platypus, Adam,

  876. what about this one? Make that a hammer head shark,

  877. hammer head shock? And what about this one? An otdor.

  878. I need you to understand that God was proud of

  879. Adam's personality. He did not call him to do it

  880. in a certain way. He said, if you work, you

  881. can work it with your flair on it, with your

  882. DNA on it, with your ideas on it, with your

  883. creativity on it.

  884. Work it the way I called you to work it.

  885. I think in heaven, Missy Elliott was playing flip.

  886. It at my first set.

  887. Let me work it. Do you hear what I'm saying?

  888. I just need somebody to understand. He said, you can

  889. do it you way, but you still gotta do my work.

  890. Do my work your way. Oh my god, that's why

  891. I don't preach like other people, because this is the

  892. work I've been told to and I gotta do his

  893. work my way. Y'all. Gotta hear me. You want something else,

  894. go today work, but this right here is my swag, y'all. Okay,

  895. let me.

  896. I'm feeling my health coming home, all.

  897. Right, don't feel Bloxtand because the work has a different tone,

  898. a different dynamic, there's somebody that needs the work the

  899. way God.

  900. Gave it to you.

  901. And just because everybody doesn't accept it yet.

  902. Doesn't mean it's not the work he gave you. How

  903. I gotta get out of here? Is this helping anybody

  904. right now?

  905. Your work is what you are purposed for. Your job

  906. is what you get paid for. Okay, so write this down.

  907. I'm about to do a scripture mashup. It is impossible

  908. to please God without what faith?

  909. Somebody said work? Read your Bible.

  910. Ah, it is impossible to please God without faith.

  911. Okay. Then there's another scripture.

  912. That says faith without works is dead. I'm about to

  913. put this thing together before you, so that means your

  914. faith takes work. There's another scripture says that it is

  915. impossible to please God without faith. So watch this.

  916. Pleasing God takes faith.

  917. So the end statement I want you to know is

  918. your work pleases God. It's impossible to please God without faith.

  919. Faith without works is dead. Your faith takes work. Pleasing

  920. God takes faith, So your work pleases God. What if

  921. your greatest worship song was how you worked? What if

  922. God hears how you produce what he called you to

  923. as the greatest Hallelujah you've ever sung. What if he

  924. doesn't hear us just screaming my miracles on the way.

  925. What if he sees your work is excellent?

  926. Has some Mike? I need some more SCRIPTU for this

  927. because this is very hard for me to understand, because

  928. I don't really know if I'm supposed to be working

  929. or if I'm supposed to be you know what I'm saying,

  930. waiting on the Lord Colossians three twenty three. Whatever you do,

  931. work heartily with your whole heart, as unto the Lord,

  932. and not for men. You no longer work for your boss,

  933. You work for God. Oh gosh, so many of us

  934. are giving poor performance to the thing God's called us

  935. to do, the thing He's purposed us to do, because.

  936. Of who else is attached to it.

  937. And God says, they just there because I'm working on them.

  938. It's above them. You do everything you do as unto

  939. me Proverb sixteen to three.

  940. Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will

  941. be established. Your plan is not working because your work

  942. is not submitted. Well, I just got this plan that

  943. by this time I'll be out of debt. And God's

  944. I said, you have not committed and submitted your work

  945. to me First Corinthians ten thirty one. So whatever you

  946. eat or drink, that means whatever you do, do it.

  947. All for the glory of God.

  948. Whatever you do includes your work. Proverbs eighteen nine. I

  949. like this, when you've listened to me, whoever is slack

  950. in his work.

  951. Gets destroyed.

  952. Like I need everybody to hear me say this. Your

  953. work will lead you to the enemy's playground of idle time.

  954. The times where I was most distracted, I was unaware

  955. or I was avoiding work. The thing that I knew

  956. God was telling me to do, I was not doing it.

  957. That's how I found pornography.

  958. The reason I found those friends is because there was

  959. work to be done, but I didn't feel like it

  960. took all of that to do to work or I

  961. had to come to another level and things found me

  962. that I had to fight off because I will not

  963. in the place that I needed to be to do work.

  964. Some of you are scrolling so much, are watching so

  965. many episodes of TV, are watching so many series that

  966. you are avoiding the work that God has called you.

  967. If he could just get the hours watch this that

  968. you stay entertained. God could do a work on this

  969. earth that he wouldn't need anybody else to actually come

  970. help with. The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.

  971. I'm glad you know how paradise ends. But what will

  972. the books record in paradise when you stand before him?

  973. Oh you need scripture for that.

  974. Revelations twenty twelve.

  975. You I came locked in load. Today.

  976. I give you everything all God, And this is the

  977. revelation John saw, and I saw the dead small and

  978. great standing before God. And books were opened, and another

  979. book was opened.

  980. Which is the book of life. And this is why

  981. he came in John ten ten.

  982. That we might have life and life to the full.

  983. And there's a book of life in heaven. And the

  984. dead were judged according to their works, by the things

  985. which were written in the book. When God places a

  986. purpose in you and he tells you to work it,

  987. he's recording every time in heaven in a book. When

  988. you do the work and when you get to heaven,

  989. he is not going to judge you on intention. He's

  990. not going to judge you on ideas. He's not going

  991. to judge you on what you was a b out

  992. to do when you got a little more money. Did

  993. you work what I gave you? Well, I only had

  994. two friends. Did you convince them two friends to roll

  995. with you to what God I talked? What did you

  996. do with what I gave you? I don't care what

  997. they have, what do you have? This is not about comparison. Well,

  998. if we were a church that had millions of dollars

  999. we would give to you, got four dollars, give four.

  1000. He's not judging you compared to anybody, but he is saying, will.

  1001. You work what's in your hand.

  1002. You can find this in the story of Talent to one,

  1003. he gave one, to one, he gave two, so another,

  1004. he gave five. All he was looking for was for

  1005. them to all work it. And the one with one said,

  1006. I knew you were a hard master. He said, you

  1007. don't even know me like that. Well, I dug it,

  1008. and I hid it, and I hid my gifts, and

  1009. I hid my ability, and I hid my faith, and

  1010. I hid the courage, and I hid the thing that

  1011. I could have done, and it could have failed, but

  1012. it could.

  1013. Have hit, and it could have expand it.

  1014. I hid that thing, and God said, ah, give it here. No,

  1015. I'm telling y'all the piper. He didn't say, oh, can

  1016. you get enough chance? He said, give it to me.

  1017. I'm gonna give it to somebody who'll.

  1018. Work it all right.

  1019. Tewod Thessalonians three ten. It says those who are unwilling

  1020. to work, don't eat. Some of y'all are eating too

  1021. much with no work. We'll just leave it right there.

  1022. So Adam.

  1023. Everybody, so Adam in the garden. He gets work before

  1024. he gets a wife. Okay, but then once he gets

  1025. a wife, he gets a job. And everybody know, once

  1026. you get a wife, you better have a job. I'm

  1027. gonna I'm making fun of it, but I want you

  1028. to see it. Genesis three seventeen. A serpent comes to

  1029. trick them. They eat the fruit. Sin enters into the equation.

  1030. Work was not a part of the fall. Work was

  1031. before the fall. A job was after the fall. Do

  1032. y'all hear what I'm saying. Nobody told me this. Nobody

  1033. told me this. If you want to live an abundant life,

  1034. there is going to be in a component where I

  1035. got a work and I may need a job. And

  1036. it's because of this sin filled world that we live

  1037. in that a job is actually not a curse. It's

  1038. actually a position of God's provision for us.

  1039. Okay, let me just go.

  1040. To the scripture Genesis, chapter three, verse seventeen. In chapter two,

  1041. he had work. In chapter three, he gets a job

  1042. watching and the man he said, and he said to

  1043. the man, since you listen to your wife and ate

  1044. from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat.

  1045. The ground is cursed because of you. Let me just

  1046. say this for all of the men that are watching this.

  1047. It was not Eve's fault. Is Adam's fault. I'm gonna

  1048. just say it real quick. Is this woman you gave me?

  1049. That was a sorry excuse that men are still making

  1050. to this day.

  1051. You didn't have to eat that.

  1052. That's why the man is supposed to lead his household.

  1053. And if your wife gives you something, you say, baby, no,

  1054. this is not what we do, and then we go

  1055. to God. God, she ate it, and I'm asking to

  1056. be the sacrifice for us.

  1057. You missed it.

  1058. That's what Jesus had to do. He went to the

  1059. cross for his bride when we messed up. Do you

  1060. understand if Adam would have winner?

  1061. Said? God, who messed up? And give me the punishment?

  1062. Y'all not ready for this, So I just want everybody.

  1063. Else se he is you?

  1064. No, it's you.

  1065. Okay, let me stop, he said, now, because y'all both

  1066. messed up.

  1067. The ground is cursed all your life.

  1068. You will struggle to scratch a living from it. Isn't

  1069. it funny that we even still use the term make

  1070. a living? He said? It will be a struggle to

  1071. make a living because you let sin in. It says

  1072. it will grow thorns and thistles, which means your work

  1073. can hurt you, though you will eat of its.

  1074. Grain, so it still will produce.

  1075. By the sweat of your brow, you will have food

  1076. to eat until you return to the ground from which

  1077. you were made. For you were made from dust, and

  1078. to dust you will return. Let me give you three

  1079. truths about a job. It includes sweat. I'm just telling

  1080. you right now. You might as well be willing to

  1081. sweat out your edges. You might as well be willing

  1082. to use deodorant. You might as well be willing because

  1083. because to have a job, it's going to require something.

  1084. Let me say it a different way. Let me say

  1085. a churchy a sacrifice. I gotta get up at five

  1086. am to get the kids ready, to actually be able

  1087. to get to the job on time, to actually be

  1088. prepared to know what to do when it's when sin

  1089. entered in, sweat entered in the second thing, it's going

  1090. to be the truth about a job. It's going to

  1091. be a struggle. There will be times when you have

  1092. a job that it will include a struggle. That does

  1093. not mean it's demonic. The struggle actual job is not

  1094. a spiritual attack. I'm on the attack, y'all. Pray y'all

  1095. on the prayer line. There's warfare going on. No, you

  1096. have to answer your emails. I've been called in three times.

  1097. I'm telling you there's under demonics are being shot at me.

  1098. I need you to pray that the shield of faith. No,

  1099. it's just part of the struggle of having a job.

  1100. I gotta talk to difficult people. They're difficult, and some

  1101. of the breast think and some people will raise differently

  1102. than me, and they don't understand. This is not a

  1103. demonic attack. This is a result of the decision of sin.

  1104. So if your job is a struggle, don't think that

  1105. it's the point for you to run away from it, Okay,

  1106. because do you know there's many things that you ask

  1107. for prayer for that a job would solve. I'm not

  1108. gonna stay on it long.

  1109. But we're financially struggling because.

  1110. You don't have a job. You don't have a job,

  1111. and I'm not well. I have a felony passed. There's

  1112. lawnmowers and rakes.

  1113. There's there. You don't have to I mean, wheel's a pastor.

  1114. At the church. No, I just no, I just you

  1115. can get a job.

  1116. Neil is still the campus. Now, I'm just it's just processing.

  1117. As I'm saying, he has.

  1118. A felony pals. But if you let watch this, if

  1119. you let the perspective, well, everybody sees me.

  1120. No, you see you. Well, everybody's judging me. No, you're

  1121. judging you. If Paul can go from killing Christians.

  1122. To having a Damascus Road experience and then being the

  1123. biggest evangelist, God is saying I'll choose anybody who's willing

  1124. to do the work. Yeah, Now watch this last thing.

  1125. Truth about a job. It includes sweat, it includes struggle.

  1126. Watch this, but watch the grace of God. It also

  1127. includes supply. He said, you're gonna eat from this grain,

  1128. You're gonna get bread from this. But it doesn't take

  1129. away the sweat or the struggle. So even in our sin,

  1130. God still supplies our needs. The job that you hate

  1131. is actually a form of provision for you. And maybe

  1132. you should change your perspective on how you're looking at

  1133. what God has given you in this season. Maybe before

  1134. work on Monday, you pray God change my perspective to

  1135. go in here and actually do the work you've told

  1136. me to be as a believer, and be light and

  1137. salt and actually help people and encourage people even as

  1138. I do this job. God, like, let me be honest

  1139. that I don't like matter of fact, Can I be

  1140. real honest?

  1141. God, I hate it.

  1142. But until you move me from this place, until you

  1143. provide something else, I will not move off of a

  1144. revelation watch this of uncomfortability. I'm gonna move off of

  1145. the revelation of being consistent. And Father, God, I thank

  1146. you that you make my work so prosperous and I

  1147. don't need a job one day. But Father, I'm making

  1148. a commitment to you, I'll never stop my work. I

  1149. never stopped the work. I've never stopped doing what you

  1150. called me to do. And some of you, even I'm

  1151. talking to my senior saints. God has provided a way

  1152. where you do not need a job, and he hasn't

  1153. seen work for you in a decade. He has now

  1154. given you days to do what you are purpose to do.

  1155. And you're sleeping the days away, and you're going to

  1156. every grandparents thing, or you're going to every pickleball thing.

  1157. And God said, at the end of the day, if

  1158. you're not doing work. While I'm fine with you relax,

  1159. I'm fine with you.

  1160. Being on the boat.

  1161. I'm fine with you golfing.

  1162. But at the end of the day, I'm gonna have

  1163. to judge them works. And I put that book in

  1164. you ten.

  1165. Years ago, and I told you to go up to

  1166. that elementary school and mentor those kids. I have a

  1167. David in there, I have an Abraham in there, I

  1168. have a Daniel in there. Need somebody to speak life

  1169. over them consistently. And I asked you to do the work.

  1170. I need you to go feed those homeless people. I

  1171. need you to go find the orphan in the widow.

  1172. I need you to go ask to administrate that church

  1173. or that ministry and tell them you're taking no money

  1174. because I gave you still to produce administration. It's a

  1175. spiritual gift. But you want to get paid for that.

  1176. And I already provided for you. And they've been praying, God,

  1177. would you just send somebody to help me. I'm drowning, God,

  1178. I don't know. God.

  1179. If you don't send somebody in three weeks, we're gonna

  1180. have to shut this thing down.

  1181. And you are at the house sipping coffee and.

  1182. Not doing the work that God's called you to do today.

  1183. I just want our church to understand that a job

  1184. is not bad and a work is required. So passing

  1185. like what do I do? Last two points? Do your job?

  1186. If I could tell the church something, one of your

  1187. biggest witnessing tools is if you did your job well, y'all.

  1188. Remember Daniel what we call the Daniels Fast.

  1189. The reason why this is remembered is because they were

  1190. taken into captivity and God saw the skill level of

  1191. Daniel and his partners. And Daniel and his partners were

  1192. so favored that they came to the king's table and

  1193. the king said, eat whatever you want, because back then

  1194. food was the way that you actually exhibited status.

  1195. So the king was like, eat whatever you want.

  1196. But God had spoken to Daniel and said, Daniel, I

  1197. only want you to eat grains and fruit, what we

  1198. call the Daniel Fast.

  1199. And they were like, no, you can't do that, and

  1200. he said, test me.

  1201. If you let me do it God's way, I'll be

  1202. greater than every one of the people that eat at

  1203. this table.

  1204. And because watch this, not Daniel did the fast good that.

  1205. People recognized as God. It's because because his work was

  1206. good even when he did it God's way. It's why

  1207. they said, whoever the God is that he served, that's

  1208. what we're about to serve. His work was a testimony

  1209. of God's glory. Look at your neighbor and say, do

  1210. to work. Can I say it like this?

  1211. Worship God with your work Colossians three twenty three. Whatever

  1212. you do, work at it with all your heart as.

  1213. Working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you

  1214. know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord

  1215. as a reward.

  1216. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

  1217. Now. If you got through this whole message and you

  1218. don't understand the value of job work, I'm gonna leave

  1219. you with one picture. Our savior, Jesus Christ had a

  1220. job and had work. What was Jesus's job? Why do

  1221. you think it was important? Why do you think it

  1222. was important that it let us know that Jesus had

  1223. a job, because he's our rabbi, he's our example, he's

  1224. the one we follow. We know he only did work

  1225. for three years, but he lived for thirty three years,

  1226. which we can safely assume he did his work more.

  1227. He did his job more years than he did his work.

  1228. He was known for his job, he would be remembered

  1229. for his work. Y'all, y'all, I can't. I gotta stop.

  1230. What if you're known for your job but remembered for

  1231. your work? Standing all over this building, don't leave yet,

  1232. because I want to pray a prayer of impartation. I

  1233. believe something is going to shift on the inside of you.

  1234. Thank you Lord.

  1235. I want to put these clarifying things on the back

  1236. led just for you to hear me say it one

  1237. more time, and I may do it every week, just

  1238. so that the spirit of deception can't enter in as

  1239. you hear these truths. Because the enemy would love to

  1240. steal this from you. But I want you to understand

  1241. that this is what God has designed and desires for you.

  1242. Is having money prove you are blessed by God? No?

  1243. Can having money be.

  1244. Used to be a blessing?

  1245. Yes?

  1246. I need y'all to help me. Does faith always lead

  1247. to financial blessing?

  1248. No?

  1249. Do you need faith to live financially free, fulfilled and

  1250. be a blessing?

  1251. Yes?

  1252. Does God promise you riches if you follow him? No?

  1253. Does God promise to meet your needs?

  1254. Yes? If you give, are you guaranteed multiplied personal wealth? No?

  1255. Does God say that being generous has a direct impact

  1256. on our lives. Yes, should you spend your life focused

  1257. on material things? No? Are material things a tool to

  1258. bless others and glorify God? Yes? Does God guarantee perfect

  1259. health and wealth? No? Does God care about your health

  1260. and wealth? Yes?

  1261. Does the Bible teach the prosperity gospel?

  1262. No, is the story of the gospel God dying so

  1263. you can prosper in this life and the next. Yes.

  1264. It's that clear.

  1265. And you don't just have permission to prosper, You now

  1266. have permission to produce. God wants you to live an

  1267. abundant life. And if you're saying to.

  1268. Me passing mic, I want to sign up for that life.

  1269. I want to live this.

  1270. I want to work the things that God has placed

  1271. me on this life for purpose.

  1272. I want to do the work. I want to be.

  1273. Judged, and I want my works to last through the fire.

  1274. And even if I have to do a job until

  1275. I die, to do the work God, I'll do it.

  1276. Today.

  1277. If you want a new perspective on work and on

  1278. a job, I want to pray for you. I want

  1279. to pray that God would expand your.

  1280. Capacity to endure.

  1281. The seasons that feel frustrating, and I'm praying that God

  1282. will give you the willingness to do the work.

  1283. Even watch this if nobody affirms it.

  1284. Today.

  1285. If you want that, I want to give you an impartation.

  1286. Would you just lift your hands all over this place

  1287. if you're watching online. Father, in the name of Jesus,

  1288. I pray for my brothers and sisters who are right

  1289. now walking in a new level of revelation. Today, I'm

  1290. asking you that you would expand their minds to believe

  1291. that you don't just want them to prosper, but you

  1292. also give us the ability to produce. Today, I'm praying

  1293. that you bless their ideas, Bless their banks, Bless Father God,

  1294. their wisdom.

  1295. And their stewardship.

  1296. Bless Father God everything that concerns them. God, I'm asking

  1297. you that you would give them dreams with the inventions

  1298. and ideas. I thank you that you would give them

  1299. the ability to stick to the plan. God, I thank

  1300. you that you would give them the ability to trust

  1301. you even when they can't see what You're doing.

  1302. Today, expand our faith to not just prosper, but to produce.

  1303. I declare even in the next year, there will be

  1304. things that will come from your people that at this

  1305. moment seem impossible. But I thank you with man it

  1306. is impossible. With you God, there is nothing that cannot

  1307. be done. Today Expand our heart, our mind, watch this,

  1308. and our capacity to believe you. No matter what the

  1309. generational pattern has been. We're interrupting the bloodline right now

  1310. in the name of chees and we curse the spirit

  1311. of generational poverty, and we curse the spirit of generational greed.

  1312. How thank you Father, that we will live in abundance

  1313. through generosity, in stewardship, have your way in your people

  1314. in Jesus' name. Even as we're in this moment, there

  1315. are some people right now that don't understand the abundant

  1316. life because you're like the young rich ruler. He had everything,

  1317. but he had one thing missing, the ability to know

  1318. that all the things weren't as important as his soul

  1319. being in right relationship with God. And some of you

  1320. may be fine financially. You know how to work and

  1321. have a job. Some of you may be struggling in

  1322. that area. But the thing that the scripture said that

  1323. I want you to prosper and be in health at

  1324. the level that your soul prospers, and your soul cannot

  1325. prosper without the spirit of Jesus living on the inside

  1326. of you. So today, if you want to accept Jesus

  1327. as your personal Lord and savior, whether you're in this building,

  1328. you're watching in a jail cell, you're watching on rebroadcast,

  1329. somebody sent this in the family group text. I want

  1330. to let you know today is the day of salvation

  1331. in church. I need you to begin to pray. If

  1332. you have been far from God and you've never accepted him,

  1333. or you've been wandering, today is the day that the

  1334. prodigal comes home. God is not mad at you, He

  1335. is not gonna keep you in shame. He wants to

  1336. put a robe on you, put a ring on your finger,

  1337. he wants to put sandals on your feet, and he

  1338. wants to throw a party for you. But it's your decision.

  1339. And if you come back to the Father and today

  1340. I'm telling you this is the greatest decision I ever made.

  1341. It took me from being a liar, a manipulator, someone

  1342. who was addicted to pornography, had very dark and bad

  1343. things in my heart. And it didn't make me perfect,

  1344. but it made me progressing and Jesus is the only one.

  1345. If you give him your heart, he'll help you change

  1346. your habits. Don't clean up and come to him. Come

  1347. to him raggedy, jacked up, messed up.

  1348. Steal with the stuff in.

  1349. Your car, steal with the alcohol in the comforard, steal

  1350. with the plan on your phone. And God says I

  1351. can help you change all of that. What a mighty

  1352. God reserved. Today. I want to offer you Jesus, you

  1353. can be wealthy. At the end of this prayer, your

  1354. soul will be prospering. And today I want to offer

  1355. you Jesus. If that's you and your saying, Pastor, would

  1356. you include me in that prayer on the counter of Three,

  1357. if you're in the room or watching online, whether you're

  1358. in the balcony or you're in the back, I want

  1359. you to live your hands and lifted bold and high,

  1360. and I want you to say.

  1361. Include me in that prayer. Pastor.

  1362. One, you're making the greatest decision of your life.

  1363. Two, I'm proud of you.

  1364. But more than that, your name is about to be

  1365. written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

  1366. Three.

  1367. If you want to make Jesus Christ your personal Lord

  1368. and savior, today.

  1369. Lift your hands. I see you, I see you.

  1370. I see you in the back right there, Glory Transformation Church, Loujah,

  1371. I see you, my brother. You can put your hand

  1372. down at Transformation Church. We're a family. Nobody prays alone,

  1373. so for the benefit of those who are coming to Christ, well,

  1374. we all pray this prayer together.

  1375. Everybody, Just say God, thank you for sending Jesus just

  1376. for me.

  1377. Today.

  1378. I repent and I turn to you. I believe you lived,

  1379. you died, and you rose again with all power.

  1380. Just for me. Here's my life. Change me, renew me,

  1381. transform me. I'm yours forever in Jesus' name.

  1382. Amen. Can we celebrate with all of the people.

  1383. Oh, come on, Transformation Church. Can we celebrate with all

  1384. of heaven? Welcome to the family. And if you just

  1385. pray that prayer, I want you to text saved to

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  1388. There's some videos I want you to watch. I want

  1389. you to go on this journey because I believe God

  1390. is about to transform you. Next week, y'all, We're going

  1391. to another level. And you know why it's gonna happen

  1392. is because of the prayer that's about to happen this

  1393. week Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday. Bring your kids, bring

  1394. your people, bring your family.

  1395. They don't have to go to this church. It's completely free.

  1396. But join us Thursday through Saturday, and then back here

  1397. on Sunday as the altar workers come. I'm gonna have

  1398. the worship teaming for a second because God's transforming some

  1399. people's mind and some of y'all need to go to lunch,

  1400. and then others of y'all need to stay in.

  1401. Surgery for a second. You need to let God wash

  1402. over your mind.

  1403. And if you're watching online or you want to stay

  1404. and worship for a second and you need prayer, I

  1405. want you to come down to the altar and get

  1406. prayer agreement. Prayer works, miracles happen. And today, whether you're

  1407. dealing with something in your marriage, or in your mind

  1408. or in your heart, don't leave.

  1409. This place without prayer.

  1410. Let me pray for you as many of you leaving,

  1411. as some of you come down for prayer. Father, we

  1412. thank you that this week will be a week that

  1413. we prosper. We declare and we believe that your will

  1414. will be done and your word will be established in

  1415. our life. Give us wisdom to walk in your truth,

  1416. and we will give you all the glory, all the honor,

  1417. and all the praise and Jesus' name. Everybody say we agree,

  1418. We expect amen. Go out and live a transformed life.

  1419. Give God some praise in this place.

  1420. Thank you for joining us today.

  1421. If you said that prayer and accept it, Jesus to

  1422. your heart, it's the best decision you could ever make.

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