A Good Word Gone Bad: The Problem With Prosperity // Six Figures (Part 1) // Pastor Michael Todd

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I want to pray, Father, anything I say does not

matter if we don't have hearts to receive it. So today,

give us hearts that are soft enough for the.

Right seeds to be planted. We've had hard weeks.

Some of us have been disappointed, some of us have

been confused about what's going on right now.

In your presence, I thank.

You that peace is here. It's the peace that passes

all understanding. And so Father, would you speak to us

so that we can actually live an abundant life away

in this place. It's my prayer, and all God's children

in this place say amen.

All right, let's do this thing.

Well, we're starting a brand new series today, and I

get excited about a brand new series because I've been

holding this one. Because the truth of the matter is,

this series has the opportunity to transform your mind around

something that all of us are thinking about.

Everybody's thinking about money. Oh no, not me, liar.

Some of you have checked your account three times today.

Some of us get notifications every time something shifts in

our account balance. Many of us right now are planning

our lives around what the decimals say in our bank account.

Some of us have joy right now because because of

how much we have, and some of us are in sorrow.

Okay, y'all, come.

On because of how much we don't have. Many of

us feel great on payday.

Come on, let's be honest.

How many people get an extra little peppine step When

that little chiching hears, You're like ah, And as soon

as that first payment comes out for the house you

live in, you're like God.

God.

Today, I want to let you know very clearly, we

are going to talk about money, but it's not the focus.

A lot of people don't understand and realize how important

it is to be able to bring God's truth around

things that we all deal with. But because there's been

people who have done wrong around the topic, people stay.

Away from it.

My job as your pastor, I'm not everybody shepherd, but

I'm yours it's to make sure you understand the things

that God says that you are supposed to have and

how you're supposed to interact and connect with them. So today,

this new series is called six figures.

Everybody say six figures?

How many people in here would love to make six

figures consistently monthly?

Oh?

Come on, I'm talking to somebody six figures weekly. Huh huh.

Somebody had the crazy fathure I make your daily. No, okay,

everybody wants to make six figures. It's like, last ten years,

it's been like a culturally coined phrase like I'm just

trying to give six figures or or what type of

man do you want?

He got to make six figures?

Come on, let's talk about it. Let's think about many

of us are trying to raise to a certain level.

But I started to think about this cultural plaze, and

I was like, I know a lot of people that

make six figures who aren't fulfilled.

I counsel plenty of people that have not just.

Six figures, seven figures, eight figures. And you were like,

I wish I could see what they talking about. We

can trade places, but the truth of the matter is

the number or the figure you have in your account

does not mean you will be fulfilled. And I thought,

what are the six figures that God wants to expand

and shape our faith around? And so for the next

few weeks, I'm gonna be talking about six figures that

shape your faith to live an abundant life. See, because

God doesn't want you to just have money.

He wants you to have an abundant life.

He wants you to be able to walk in a

lifestyle that.

Doesn't add sorrow with it.

And so in this series, I want you to be

able to listen because I'm gonna have to challenge watch

this some of your cultural constructs. I'm coming for some

of your family ideas. I'm coming for spirits that have

been on you that have been borrowed from people you

didn't even find out the source they got it from. Okay,

And today I want you to understand the six figures

God cares about so that you can live a life

of abundance. So these are the six figures we're gonna

talk about that are gonna shape your faith. We're gonna

talk about work three amens. But the truth of the

matter is most of you think your job and your

work are synonymous, and God gave Adam work even though

all his needs were supplied. We'll talk about it later.

We're gonna talk about rest. How many people can use

some more rest. We're gonna talk about it. We're gonna

talk about motives. We're gonna talk about multiplication, We're gonna

talk about priority, and we're gonna talk about generosity. And yes,

we're gonna talk about money. And the reason I say

this is because one third of all of the message

that Jesus gave publicly were about money, generosity, and possessions.

And the reason why Jesus talked about it so much

is not because he cares a lot about money.

He knows you do, He knows we do. He knows

it's the reason.

Why I can or cannot be a blessing on all occasions.

He knows that it changes my attitude. There are people

I don't like because I think they have.

More money than me. You don't even know.

And God's saying, your heart and resources are connected. And

what I want is to correct the thing that no

one can see.

This series is an inside job.

It's going to challenge the things that you think and

your neighbor ain't gonna know what's going on on the

inside of you the ten and that's going on the wrestle.

And God wants to reveal these things because I believe

he wants you to live in abundance. But the thing

that can mess up the money, the influence, the platform

he gives you is the mindset. And today I'm coming

to change and challenge the mindset of God's people around

this idea of living and abundant life.

John ten ten.

The thief, the enemy, our adversary, does not come except.

To do what steal, chill and destroy it.

But Jesus is talking, and he said, but I've come

that you may have life, and that you may have

life more. Watch this word abundantly. Jesus is saying, my

whole reason for coming. There's gonna be a lot of

details that come, but my whole reason, if I can

sum it up in one thing, I want you to

live an abundant life.

What like that's what you won't for me? Yep? What

about grace and mercy and it's.

All wrapped up in an abundant life? What about resources

and blessing others and being able to walk in.

The fruits of the spirit.

Is all wrapped up in an abundant life, and.

God wants your life to be Watch this fool.

Some of us have lived the most empty, barely making

it at the bottom, just enough to get by lives.

That's not why God gave up his only son and

so you could survive.

He wants your life to be just Somebody say abundant,

Say it like it's a big word. Abundant. What if

every area of your life was more than enough. Oh,

y'all didn't hear me.

Think about your marriage been like girls, I'm kissing me, dang.

Our love is so abundant. It's more than enough. Think

about every time you get ready to bless.

Somebody, you gotta tell yourself, I don't know if they're

ready for that.

That might be too much for them to handle. What

if every time you looked at.

Your health, you'd be like, man, I've never been more healthy,

have more energy. I don't even need those things to

stay up no more. I'm living an uh.

What if when you prayed, you were praying to see who.

God wanted you to answer their prayer, not just that

God would answer their prayer.

Abundance.

What if you didn't have to be seen and you

were still fulfilled. Oh, I'm talking about abundance. I'm talking

about I'm not on the GRAMD. I'm not showing you

what I'm doing on Facebook, and I'm actually happy abundance.

And this is what I on everybody listening to me

to know, because I'm reversing some of the lies that

you have believed. God desires for his children to live

an abundant life. Why, pastor mic Because it's a reflection

of him. If you read all the characteristics of God,

He's the God that owns the cattle on a thousand hills.

He's the God that pours out his grace unending. There's

no sin you can do where.

The grace is not great. He is abundant. And then

you look at his kids. Okay, y'all ever met somebody

who got it all?

Gucci, Louie down, got got all the things, got all

the Lulu limb and got all the Awlo, got everything.

And then the kids walk up. Oh, y'all know what

I'm talking about. It changes the way you looking at them, because,

oh them, you those your kids. Why Because the reflection,

many times is the way people get to understand who

the person is.

I believe that this is an area that needs to

be represented.

That's why in this church, during this series, we're not

taking any offerings that are outside of what we normally do.

There will be no second offerings, there's no building campaign

as in fact, during the series, we're gonna give money away.

Fessor Mike, why are you saying this because most people

who have an aversion to resources, they like the church,

just want my money.

You ain't gave it no way.

So first off, let's let's be clear we've been able

to survive without some money. And number two, the enemy

is trying to keep you from a principle that will

change your legacy. And today I have the authority I

live this. I started out in poverty. I started out

with a poverty mindset. Oh you couldn't tell about what

I had owned. But I had a poverty mindset, not

because it's what I was exposed to, not because it

was because of what I adopted. And the Holy Spirit

after salvation had to break off of me a mindset

that was keeping me. Watch this from his best for me.

And I'm believing through this series by faith that many

people are about to walk out of the idea of poverty.

I'm not just talking about money.

Some of you are poor relationally, some of you do

not have enough emotionally. God's going to allow you to live.

Say it with me one more time, abundantly. Let me

help you understand what abundantly is. Abundantly is spiritual fullness,

material provision, generosity, and God's overflowing grace. When God says

I want you to live abundantly, he says, I want

you to be spiritually fool. I want you to have

whatever material provision you need. I want you to have

generosity to be able to be a blessing to others,

and I want you to experience God's overflowing grace. Write

this down because I believe it's going to be an

anchor in this entire series. Abundance is fueled by the

principle of proper management, not from endlessly pursuing more. I

need to give this to you very clear right now,

because a lot of you think abundance is a lot.

Having a lot does not mean you're in abundance most

of the time. Having a lot means you're overwhelmed. Come on,

let's be honest. God says, I want you to properly

Stewart over what you have. When you become a good steward.

You live in abundance.

Right now, some of us have more clothes and more

shoes than we know what to do with. Right now,

we can't even get to our bathroom because we got

to step over mountains, hills and valleys. Come on, let's

be honest. Some of us got storages for our storage.

Y'all got what I'm saying.

What I'm telling you is a lot does not equal abundance.

Proper stewardship does. And we're gonna talk about that as

we go. Today is just a foundation because I believe

that God wants you to live a life of abundance.

So just write this point down, very clearly, very simple.

I've said it several times, but God desires for me

to live an abundant life. That's what he desires for you.

A lot of people I've heard it said like this,

love God, love people, use money. But a lot of

people mix those up. They use God, love people and

love money, or they love.

God, use people and love money. Oh, come on, y'all.

But the proper order for everything that we have to

do when it comes to resources is we love God.

Somebody say love, God, love people use money. It's a tool.

It's just a tool. This is not the thing I

live and die for. It's the thing that I use

to live. Okay, I'm gonna walk you through this, and

many people have gotten that out of order. So as

I teach you this series, I'm teaching from a place

that I have walked out of poverty into a level

of purpose that allows me to understand the concept. So

I'm going to identify with every person in this room

to be able to help us walk into a brand

new mindset and get a revelation.

And what is a revelation. It's just revealed truth.

It's a truth that's already there, but we don't see

it yet. And I believe God is going to allow

so many people to see the truth that God wants

you to live.

An abundance life. Can I get one big amen? All right?

So there's this thing that's been happening to me lately

as I'm getting a little older.

I'll be forty this year.

And uh yeah, I'm excited about being forty, Like it

feels like my life is just beginning. I Mean, I

don't know what seventy five feels like, Bishop, but forty

feel good.

You know what I'm saying. I know what to and

what to what not to do for me.

I understand how my body works now, and I'm figuring

out what I like to.

Do and what I don't like to do.

I sometimes, you know, get it wrong of how athletic

I still am. I've had a nagging injury that has

gone from my ankle to my knee now to my brain.

But but I consider myself a pretty relevant person, and

I was I give compliments. I'm an encourager, so like,

if you know me, you're around me, I'm gonna tell you, like, man,

you look nicer, da.

Da da da. So I was talking to a god

the other.

Day and I said, man, you're handsome, and out of

the blue, I heard somebody say, hey, yo, Pauls.

And I looked at him, all like, heyo, Paul's. What

do you mean Paul's. I've been getting paused a lot,

and I wasn't clear.

What pausing was until I asked my daughter. I was like,

what is Pauls. It's like, it's like, you know, when

you probably like what you said meant one thing, but

because of the cultural definition of it, it now means

something else.

And so I was like, so I can't tell another

man he handsome, and it was like hey, yo, pause,

And I was like, what hold on? What are you

talking about?

And I'm confused, I'm frustrated.

Some of the older people are looking at me like

I still don't get it.

What they're saying is if I tell another man he's

hands in, somebody might think that maybe I like.

Him in a way that I don't like him.

And it's not just a compliment, it's more than a compliment,

and maybe this could escalate to something. And I was like, up,

I said, I'm a double down. You're not just handsome,

You're God's masterpiece.

Like whoa, hey yo? Pause, Like why can't I give

somebody else to come? Why can't I do it? And

what I realized.

That pause idea, that pause perception is fueled by ignorance

and many times immaturity. I just want to say, I

know the youth section, y'all be pausing all day pause.

Like what I'm saying is when something has a meaning

but it gets twisted. You can be saying one thing,

but somebody take it as something else. And what I

figured out is that in twenty twenty six. There are

some phrases that God gives us that have been hijacked

because of ignorance, and today I just I feel like

it's part of my job in the beginning of this

series to literally dismantle one of them so you can

receive what God has called you to receive in this series.

And as a pastor, this is my job. So I

stand flat.

Footed ten toes down today to tell anybody and everybody

that God has watching this, that we have to come

out of ignorance. Ignorance translated in the Greek actually comes

down to darkness. Wherever there is darkness in your life,

you're ignorant in that area.

You can't see it.

And when you begin to study out scripture, I need

everybody to understand that understanding actually means light. So when

you're ignorant, you're in darkness. When you get understanding, you're

in light. That's why the Bible says and all you're

getting I need you to get an understanding.

That's why we.

Can't take TikTok clips and create.

Theologies around them.

Because you didn't even get an understanding. You didn't check

the source, you don't know who them. People are just

because the lighting was good and the video was high

quality and the voice sounded convincing doesn't.

Mean it's truth.

This is why you can't believe everything you hear about

me online.

Well, isn't here? Is it here? You ain't never met me,

You ain't even been around me.

You think I'm short in real life. I can't tell

you how many people when they meet me in real

life they're like, dang, you're.

So tall this screen line to you, I'm almost six

y two.

What I'm telling you is you cannot form things in

your conscience off a clip.

This is a dangerous time in church. In life, people.

Are putting things in their body because of a clip.

Y'all.

Don't ordered stuff off of Amazon because somebody was selling

something on TikTok shop.

They ain't never take it. They just get paid for it.

You want they results, they don't even do it.

Okay, And today I have to go in and I

believe it's part of my pastoral responsibility to help you

be able to redeem a word that has been hijacked

that if I was to say it in Christianity, a.

Lot of people would say, pause, can I give you

the word? Y'all? Ready?

For it. Prosperity a your pause, because right now in

the world, if I say the word prosperity and then

I put the word gospel behind it, there are people

who have no idea what it actually means, but they

stay away from it. Prosperity pause, or that's a prosperity church,

or they teaching a prosperity gospel.

Oh they are?

They all about prosperity. Have you studied it? Have you

checked the source? Do you know where it came from?

Do you have any context around that phrase? And right

now it's being not just hijacked, it's being weaponized. And

today I need us to pause, or let me say

say law, which actually means pause.

And you don't just need to pause, you need to pause.

In because if you say law and get the understanding

and then you come to the conclusion, I don't want

nothing to do with that. Cool, But many of us

have walked away watched this from a principle and a

promise of God because it has bad cultural connotation. The

word gospel means good news.

But I have to acknowledge that people have gotten involved.

So when somebody says, if you're new to church or

you've never heard this idea or this theme.

I'm gonna help you because you're gonna be so ahead of.

The game, because you're not gonna have to filter through

a bunch of toxicity and all kinds of stuff.

But I want to put everybody on the same playing field.

When people say prosperity gospel, it is culturally complicated because

what they mean by that is that this prosperity gospel

is centered around manipulation, around money, deceptive motives, an opulent lifestyle,

lot of reliving. I'm gonna give gods some it. He

gonna change change, hit me back with tenfold selfish, gain

a pyramid, skin, give ten, get twenty, give twenty, get

a thousand.

And it's been around.

Exploiting vulnerable peace people and praying on people's ignorance. You

got a church that ain't got no heir, but the

pastor has a private jet.

Come on, if we're gonna.

Talk about Okay, if we're gonna.

Talk about it, let's talk about it.

The building fund ain't nothing ever got built.

Come on.

People then gave their life savings Granny undone.

It but no actual evidence.

And because people have gotten involved, I want to give

you the title of my message today, A good word

has gone bad.

Today.

The title of the message is a good word gone bad.

The problem with prosperity I gotta help you, because if

you don't get your own understanding from God about this word,

you will let culture rob you of a promise that

God gave before.

Any of us was here.

Okay, you want to know the problem with prosperity, it's

three things.

Let me tell you.

The problem with prosperity is people, perception and perversion. When

you bring prosperity into it, people have manipulated people in

the name of a word that God gave us that

have nothing to do with him. And as long as

there will be people on this earth, somebody will try

to twist what.

God says is good.

Can I tell you all the way back in Genesis

when God told Adam and Eve, like, hey, you protected

you good. You can eat from any tree except this one.

What was the enemy's first conversation with man?

Did God really say?

He was trying to pervert what God said was good

into something that was bad. So anytime you see the

word prosperity, think about the people who are talking about it,

and then you have to think about the perception.

What is the.

Perception behind it and has it been perverted? Pastor Mike,

why is this important? Because prosperity is biblical. If I

said prayer was biblical, you'd be like, Amen, Glory to God,

pray for me.

Pastor.

If I said healing is biblical, everybody will want healing.

If I said love is biblical for God's oh love

the world, Oh God, that he gave prosperity is biblical.

Let me prove with you, because y'all look at like

give me Scripture Deuteronomy twenty eight eleven.

Listen to this. The Lord who will the Lord who

will do it? The Lord, the Lord will grant you

abundant prosperity. Therese are two words.

The Lord will grant you abundant prosper Stop. Think what

would abundant prosperity from God look like. The Lord will

grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your womb,

the young of your livestock, and your crops of the ground.

He's saying, your business will prosper in the land he

swore to your ancestors to give you. This is a

promise that.

Was started before you.

The Lord will open up the heavens, my God, the

storehouses of his bounty, to send rain on your land

in season, and to bless all the work of your hands.

You will lend to many nations, but will borrow from

none of them. The Lord will make you the head

and not the tale. If you pay attention to the

commands of the Lord your God that I give you

this day, and carefully follow them. That means there's obedience

attached to abundance.

Did you hear what I just said? Obedien is attached.

To oh bn Okay, it says if you do what

he says, you will always be at the top, never

at the bottom.

Bible.

That's not enough for some of you because you're a

skeptic Proverbs eleven twenty five.

A generous person will say the word with me, prosper.

I know it's like a cuss word. I don't want

to say it.

What if somebody sees me. What if God promised it

to you? What if it's a benefit of being in

the kingdom of God? Nobody no good father would ever

tell their child. I don't want you to prosper.

Okay.

I would never go to my children and be like

I hope you stay the same. I hope you really

hit a like loop in your life, like real cyclic,

real cycle cycle, son cycle child. Don't want you to prosper.

I want you to prosper in your thinking. I want

you to grow and your ability to perceive. I want

you to understand your emotions. I want you to be

able to manage things. I want you to This is

the same thing God saying about you because you're his child.

He said, if you're generous, you're going to prosper.

Whoever refreshes others will be refreshed God some Mike.

Both of those are Old Testament examples. We are under

a new covenant. Y'all want some new you want some

New Testament on that. I want you to understand we're

under a new covenant, but we serve a God with

the same character. Me and PC were talking about that

that the new Covenant does not demolish God's old character.

So if he was good, he's still gonna be good.

If he did provide, he's still gonna provide. If he

did love you, he's still gonna love you. Third John

New Testament, Chapter one, Verse two, beloved it.

I pray that you y'all gotta say it with me,

y'all scared the cussing church.

I pray that you prosper in No, only some of them,

he says. I pray that you prosper in your business,

your family, your finances, your health.

I want your hair growth to prosper.

I want your eyebrows to be on flee. I pray

that you prosper in encouragement.

I pray that you prosper. And some of.

Y'all want to leave God's desire for us and his

design for us on the table because of somebody else's definition.

You gonna leave what God said on the table because

of what Gary said. I'm gonna choose another name. Bishop,

it's your birthday because of what Garrett said. Guys, you

cannot let culture define what God's already defined. So, Pastor Mike,

what's your whole point today today? If you don't get

nothing else, I want you to know this one thing.

You have permission to prosper. Somebody should get excited about that.

You have permission by God's word.

Not Pastor Mike's word, by God's word.

To it's good news.

You have permission to prosper. The Todd family has permission

to prosper. Transformation Church has permission to calf family though,

the Heck and Box family, the Great family.

We have permission to.

I tell my kids, you have permission to prosper. You

have permission to be everything God's called you to be.

My daughters today they brought a business to church.

The other day. My daughter's been into baking.

Eva been into bacon, and so she baked some rice

Chrispy treats.

And I don't know what kind of heaven.

That the Holy Spirit slipped into those Rice Christ retreats,

or it could just be I ain't been eating sugar

like that, but I bit into that thing. And you

know when you eat something and make your knees do.

A little ooh whoo. So me and me and her

mom was just hyping her up. Ah, these Rice Christ

retreat it's the ball. You should sell them, you should say.

And Ava's like me when I was little. She was

like hmm. So she employed her older sister and her

she has two employees.

Her, her oldest son, and Coco have baked up sixty

rice Crispy trees, packaged them, put pink bowls on them, done.

All this other stuff.

And brought them to church to use their nepotism to

make you buy them. They have fully taken advantage of

their last name.

You already bought some. Oh, they already bought something.

Hear me, and everything in me is saying, prosper, baby,

Take the little that God's given you. It may seem

like nothing to anybody else, but I want you to try.

You're only seven years old, but you're gonna learn things

right now. That's gonna set you up to be in

business and bless.

Other people later on. Now, we ain't just.

Gonna take all that money and go spend it.

We're gonna honor God with it. We're gonna teach them priority.

I want you too.

If me, as a father with human sin running through

my veins, wants my child.

To prosper, how much more you have permission?

I want you to feel that in your soul, he said,

Above all else.

I want, above all else, above praying for twelve hours,

Come on, y'all, we're gonna do it. But above that,

above spending all day in worship.

Above above I want you to prosper in all things

at the level watch this that your soul prospers, mind,

will and emotion. So he said, I don't want you

to just have all things. That's why you can have

all things and still not be fulfilled. And that's why

another scripture says, what does it profit a man to

gain the whole world and lose his God says, soul

needs to be wealthy and at the level of your

soul prospers. Let your money prosper, Let your relationships prosper.

You have permission to prosper. That's some way for real.

Yeah, because the truth of the matter is this term

was defined by God before we ever heard it. And

always check the source of the place you're finding out

your information.

I only chose three scriptures so.

That we could get out on time today. But through

this whole series, I'm gonna teach you that you're right

as a king's kid. It's to prosper in every era.

You should be the best at your job. Okay, I

have the advantage. I have the Holy Spirit. I can't

know what the meeting's gonna be about for our walk

in the meeting, y'all, y'all don't hear me. You have

somebody say I have the advantage. There are things in.

Wisdom and desernment, and.

Why would you leave the promises of God on the

table just because somebody else doesn't understand it, never experience

do or can't define it.

Do we just leave the Holy Spirit out of our.

Christian walk because certain groups of people don't understand the

Holy Spirit.

Before any of us was here, the Bible tells us.

Jesus says, it's better that I leave, because when I leave,

I'm sinning another one.

He's the Holy Spirit, the paraclet.

The one that will come alongside of you and help,

and he's gonna guide you in your day to day.

Into all truth.

That's why the truth is important, y'all. He sets you free.

So anytime there's a term in church that kind of

gets twisted, it's a good word that goes bad, I

want you to put it in this matrix. I want

you to put the term in, and then I want

you to define it by the truth of God's word.

Then I want you to see where the enemy would

try to twist it.

And then I want you to see where he's trying

to trick you.

Okay, just write that down term truth, twist trick because again,

the enemy's plan is to turn everything that God says

is good into something that you think is bad. Because

the enemy doesn't need to kill you if he makes

God's promises to you powerless.

Remember his job is to steal, kill and destroy. Pastor

Charles said it a week ago. He said, he does

not have to kill you if he actually steals the

purpose and the use of the thing.

So your life will be destroyed if you don't think

that you can be abundant.

So all your prayers is about God. Could you just

please me by need? I think I want your needs.

I know God.

Sometimes if it was me, he what But because of

a mindset or a mind you can be healed, you

can be free. It's not just with the word prosperity.

It's with many words that we have in the church.

And the enemy has tricked us to make us feel

that we cannot fully believe in them, so that they're

powerless in our lives. This is why some people can

come into a service and get healed because they actually

believe God can heal. And there are other people that

will be in that same service and need the healing,

but they feel nothing.

Not because God's not moving.

It's because somewhere deep down that thing has gotten to

us where it's changed our mindset about what God can do.

And so what I'm telling you is marriages can be restored.

Do you believe it.

There's a story in the Bible where a man literally

went into the prostitution house to get y'all don't y'all

don't want to do that. It's too real. God said,

go get her out of the place of perversion, speak

words of life over her, restore.

Her, and their.

Relationship was reconciled. God can do these things. Question is

do you believe it? And has a good word gone bad?

Okay? Right now?

If I told somebody the term I'm about to use

is cold, Hey, man, she cold? Oh man, that dude

on the basketball court he cold? Or if I said, man,

it's cold in here, it's the same word. It's the

same word, but depending on who's using it, how they're

using it, where they're using it, it has totally different definitions.

Term cold. The truth it's a frigid temperature.

The twist could be all, dang, she look cold, she

looked good.

The trick is that in the wrong.

Situation, a compliment could be taken as an insult. Do

y'all see if we're not working from the same definitions

the right things you mean the wrong thing and get

a bad reaction. Let me use the inverse hot bro,

she's hot, Come on, my wife's favorite one. It's hot

in here like like same word, but depending on who's

using it, where the context, it can mean to if I'm.

In the hood and.

Somebody says the block is hot, some of y'all know.

Some of y'all know.

If somebody say the block is hot, the block, some

of y'all know, cash money for.

The nine nine two thousand. If I say the block

is hot, it doesn't mean we need a fan.

It means the popo is watching and you need to

calm down whatever activities you're doing. What I'm saying is,

if you don't define the term find the truth, you

can be tripped into compromise. And when it comes to

the term prosperity, what's the truth that God says Abundance

is what God wants in every area of your life.

That's what the scripture says.

The twist is perversion of a godly principle to leave

you powerless, and the trick is to leave you compromised.

So anytime you hear the word prosperity or somebody saying

that's a prosperity church or a prosperity gospel, or a

prosperity something. You don't even investigate more. You don't say, God,

what is the truth? You're trying to show me? What

is the thing? There are people that have told me, Oh,

I can't go to your church because you're a prosperity church,

because we're big. You don't say that about Amazon. Nobody

says that about Walmurter Costco.

They don't say I can't come to you because you're big, like.

But the truth of the matter is because of the

term and how people's mindset has been preferred, I ain't

never once say you have never heard me say we're

a prosperity You never heard me say that's not a

claim on anything.

What it is is when you live God's principles, though,

fruit starts happening.

If fruit is around me, it's a byproduct.

This is what we say.

It's not the focus, it's the fruit. This is what

God promises.

In our lives.

You will be like a tree planted by the rivers

of living water. You will be producing fruit and every

seat when everybody's in recession, when everybody's fearful, when everything

God said fruit abundance.

More than enough, more than enough, more.

Than enough, And you want me to wither up, You

want me to deny the fruit that God promises us. Now,

if at the moment you see some crooked, manipulative, jacked

up we've given millions of dollars away. One thing nobody

has ever said is that the check we promised.

Them did not clear.

You can say, you can say a lot of things,

and you can assume a lot of things.

But one YouTube.

Video that has never been created, it's that they promised

me an amount from the stage, did the check and

put it on the thing, and we weren't able to

cash it. Do you know we couldn't bless people if

we didn't prosper Oh God, if I was still in

a poverty mindset, we would be building buildings and shrines

to us. We've given away over thirty eight million dollars. Why,

because we live a life of abundance.

It's not just for us, it's for the whole kingdom.

It's not just for me, it's from my neighborhood. It's

not just for my it's for the generation.

And if prosperity is a promise of God, where has

it been perverted in you.

If it's just a semantic thing. Don't use the word prosperity,

use abundance.

That's why I titled the series six Figures how to

Live a Life of abundance, but it could very well

be titled six Figures how to live a life of prosperity,

because it's.

What God desired.

I came that you might have life, and a life

that prospers, or a life that is abundant.

You have permission to prosper.

Out of one hundred people, I pray at sixty two

of y'all get this. This is gonna break the mindset

that has kept you low. I need to shrink back.

I need to not show nobody.

I need to not.

God says, let me check your heart, let me get

your motives right. Because there's one thing he won't compete

with money.

He says. You can't serve both God and money.

He says, so I'm not competing with that. And think

about it. God compares himself to nobody else in the

entire Bible except the idea of money, because he knows

it has the potential to take his place in our hearts.

So next week we gotta deal with that.

But that doesn't mean you throw away the whole principle,

and you don't throw away the whole promise.

Today you have permission to prosper envision your home being

a place of peace, with.

More than enough room to bring people in and host

them a long table.

That you can feed, and you don't got to ask

everybody to chip in ten dollars to pay for the meal. Well, no,

they're there. You still got a poverty mindset. I'm not

saying you don't do that why you have.

To, But what if you could bring people to your

home and it just be freely given to them, so

that you could do as the Bible says in Acts

two forty two, they met together and ate together, and

shared together, and they gave one to each other whatever

the other person needed. What if somebody came to you

and said I need a car, and all you had

to do is like what kind?

They don't want to live, They don't want to live

in a pundit light. And right now, some of you

greed just came up in you.

Because what just what's happened when I've talked about that

level of abundance, you started thinking about yourself. Well before

I get them another car. Let me figure out what

my car is doing. Because if I'll get in my

car and then I'll.

Go get a new car. What just triggered? What just

came up? That's what we have to address.

What if God told you to stay in the apartment

and help pay somebody's mortgage for a year.

Oh y'all don't want to live an ass two forty

two church. They gave whatever somebody needed.

Pessor Mike, why are you talking about this because I

live it. I can't prove it to you. I won't

that would be futile. But there are people around me

that know. I went from thinking about myself in every situation,

because that's what sin is, it's selfish. I used to

be so poor in my mindset, like I used to like,

you know, you go to something and like you make

a to gold plate before you eat the plate that

you y'all know what I'm talking about, Like, oh, there's

plenty here, so let me take it to the car

then come in with a fresh face. Poverty because I

was thinking, oh, this is this is free, somebody provided this.

How do I take advantage of it? How do I

get more from myself?

How do I make sure I have food tonight and

tomorrow and the next day.

I used to.

I used to wear stuff and place the tag gently

and then take it back. Oh oh, I didn't hear

some of y'all look convicted.

I just looked at somebody. Their eyes looked at me.

Big, use the stuff for the party, and then take

it back. Everything that you can that's stealing, know it ain't,

or they can resell it. It's got your germs on it.

And the reason I'm saying that is some people can't

divorce a lifestyle that that is somehow good stewardship instead

of stealing, and that God could bless you enough to

where you could just buy it and use it and

then give it away to somebody.

You ain't even thought about that. You ain't even thought like.

Oh, you just take it back, like yeah, take it

back if you don't use it, take it back if

it don't fit. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that.

But if you fully put your butt in it, wear it,

passed gas in it, use the rest of you. No,

I'm serious, and then.

You and then you take it back.

You're nasty and you have a poverty mindset, and God's

desires for you to go into the store and see

somebody looking at it and be like, let me get

that for you. Drea, I'm talking about living an abundant life.

I don't need this anymore. Well, it's exclusive. This is

tight on my feet. Some of y'all are in closed

right now that are hurting you. They're digging into your sides,

digging into your pinkies, digging into your head.

But because it's cool, because it makes you feel you

are in pain, you stop listening in thirty minutes. And

the truthful matter, it didn't fit when you bought it,

But the truth.

Is that there's something in your mind that says you

can't get another one. And so instead of being a

blessing to somebody, you could really be a blessing and

add no sorrow to.

You. Keep it, you hold it, you hoard it.

I just believe, by crazy faith, there are some people

under the sound of my voice that this is about

to unlock something in you.

That you have permission to prosper.

The abundant life is the fruit of focusing on Jesus

and obeying what he says.

I just want to clear this up. Two minutes and

we're out. Of here.

I want to take this good word prosperity that has

gone bad in this culture, and I want to just

clarify some.

Statements just for those who will.

Watch this and clip it up and try to make

something I didn't say be said. Let me just say it,

and I'm gonna put on the screen for all of

those that can't hear the words that I'm saying.

And you need proof in letters. Here we go. It's

having money prove you are blessed by God?

No?

Can having money be used to be a blessing? Yes?

Does faith always lead to financial blessing? No?

Do you need faith to live financially free, fulfilled and

be a blessing? Yes? Does God promise you riches if

you follow him? No, not one disciple got that promise.

But does God promise to meet all of your needs?

Yes? If you give, are you guaranteed multiplied personal wealth?

No? Does God say that being generous has a direct

impact on our lives? Yes?

Should you spend life focused on material things?

No?

Don't store upon this earth.

Resources and treasure that's gonna rust, he said, send it

to the next life. Put your heart into things that matter.

But are material things a tool? To bless others and

glorify God.

Yes.

Does God guarantee perfect health and wealth?

No? But does God care about your health and wealth? Yes?

Does the Bible teach the prosperity gospel? No, he doesn't

preach the prosperity gospel in the definition that culture believes.

But is the story of the gospel God dying so

that you can prosper in this life and the next. Yes,

you have permission to prosper, standing all over this building.

If God doesn't give Jesus, and Jesus doesn't give his life,

we don't get to prosper.

I'm gonna say it one more time.

The whole gospel is that we was gonna be jacked up.

So God gave Jesus. Jesus gave his life so that

then we could give our life back to him. The

whole story of the gospel, the Good News, is about giving.

God gave, Jesus gave, we give. Did y'all just see

it that quit God gave Jesus. Jesus gave his life

so that we can give our life back to him.

So if we don't want to talk about giving and

generosity and prospering, how does our soul prosper.

If we don't give our life to Jesus.

Today, you don't just have permission to prosper in financial

things or material things.

That's low level. I want your soul to prosper today.

If you don't know Jesus, I want to introduce you

to the greatest gift that has ever been given. You

talking about giving money, try giving your only. That's what

God did for a chance at a relationship with me

and you and some of us are still holding onto

our lives because we want to do it our way,

and we want it to be on our terms, and

we want to make the own rules we're.

Figuring out that don't work anyway.

I need a church to begin to pray because there

are people right now that this message wasn't even about

anything material for you. It was for the one thing

that God has been after your whole life, your soul.

And today God wants your soul to prosper. Everything else

will come, everything else will come. But he's saying, my

father gave, and I gave my life.

Would you give yours?

Would you allow me to be the lord of your

life so that you could prosper in all things in

your marriage and your relationship and your ideas and your thoughts.

I want to give you these six figures, but if

you don't give me your heart first, you're not gonna

believe the things that I'm promising, because they're good and

they're scandalous, the gospel scandalous. How in the world do

I mess up and get the best reward? How in

the world can I still have a habit? And God

looks beyond my faults and says, Yeah, I'm not gonna

judge you on the habit.

If you give me your heart, I'll help you change

your habit.

Who racks up a bill and then the person who

owns the restaurant comes and say, I'll pay for it.

That's the God we serve. What a mighty God we serve.

What a grace fell God. What a prosperous God. What

a God that abounds in love? Or an abundant God.

He wants you to live an abundant life. But it

starts with an action of surrender. If you're under the

sound of my voice in this building, watching online, watching

in a prison cell, and you've been far from God,

or you've never given your life to him before, today

is the day of salvation. This is the step you're

about to make into an abundant life.

Your soul is about to prosper.

And I know their habits and cultural ideas and things

that you've been taught. Let God renew you, refresh you,

give you a brand new heart. Today is a day

that you've been praying for and you didn't know it

was gonna come today. But do not think that this

is an accident. Your whole life has been leading up

to this moment, and today all you have to.

Do is receive the free gift.

Of grace that God has given you for this abundant life.

John ten Ten says it's the whole reason.

He came that you could have life and life abundantly.

On the count of three, if you want to make

Jesus Christ your personal Lord and Savior and you want

to start walking into this abundant life, I just want

you to slip your hand in the air or put

a hand on the chat, because this is saying I

identify pastor I want to be added in that prayer church.

I need you to pray because somebody's life is in

the balance right now, and I believe they're about to

make the right decision. One you're making the greatest decision

you could ever make.

Two you.

But more than that, your name is gonna be written

in the Lamb's Book of life, and your eternity is

gonna be secure if you want to give your life

to Jesus and walk in this abundant life. Three, will

you shoot your hand up all over this place. I

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

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

see you. More than that, God sees you. Can we

give God praise right there? Glory to God who I

feel the presence of God. Hey, listen that Transformation Church.

Everybody's a family. We all been there. I've been there.

God is throwing a party in heaven over one person

that gives their life to Christ. I mean, it's a

turn up going on, y'all.

Think to whom the son says free.

I want to end on a praise party. I know

people need prayer, but I need to end on the

praise party because we're talking about being redeemed, redeeming the

word prosperity. We're redeeming life back to people who have

been dead.

Today is the day.

Something's about to change in you. And that Transformation Church,

World family. So everybody lift your hands for the benefit

of those who are coming to Christ. Say God, thank

you for sending Jesus just for me. Today, I give

you my life, and I repent from all sin, and

I turn to you. I believe you lived, you die,

and you rose again so that I could live an

abundant life. Change me, Renew me, Transform me. I'm yours

forever in Jesus' names.

Amen. Can we celebrate all?

Come on, TC, let's celebrate all the new family.

Welcome to the kingdom. You have permitson to prosper