Building For The Future: The Church I'm A Part Of // Forward (Part 4) // Michael Todd

Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to

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

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

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

I have a lot of word to give to you

in a little bit of time. So I'm about to

open up a fire hydrant and I need you to

get ready to catch Okay, So I need you to

get I need you to get your smartphone, your dumb phone.

I need you to get your notepad out. I need

you to write on a piece of paper because what

I'm gonna share with you today is gonna teach you

how to watch this. Build for the future. Is anybody

planning to have a better future than they're living in currently?

Right now? I don't think you heard me. Is anybody

planning that this is the lowest, the worst, the smallest?

Is anybody planning that everything in your life is about

to transform and change? Okay, Today I'm about to teach

you how to watch this. Write down the title of

my message, build for the future, because most people only

know how to worry about the future. And today I believe,

through the word of God, he is going to give

us instructions how to what is it build for the future. Now,

I just got to give a little warning right now.

If you're allergic to work, this message is not for you, okay,

because some of y'all are trying to figure out how

to win something. You're figuring out how to be given something,

gifted something, and the things that God is bringing to

your life, you might have to watch this assemble it.

I need to let you know that God is not

a magician. He doesn't build chairs. He hands you trees.

Oh God, God's never built a caw ouch, but he

has supplied what was needed to build the couch. Can

I say it like this? God has never built the marriage.

He's given two people the ability to build, Okay, to

build themselves, and then they're gonna have to assemble. I'm

preaching already. Y y'all wanted to warm up, but I

need to help you if you're allergic to work. This

next season is going to be frustrating because God's calling

all of us to save the B word with me. Build.

You better not have said that other word. I promise

you you better not have And if you're gonna build

for the future, you have to have instructions or standards

to build by. And if you didn't listen to last

week's message, I need you to go back and watch it.

But we were talking about standards. And the thing about

a standard is a standard is something by which everything

else is measured. This is a standard for any construction.

Your going to do one foot is twelve inches. It

doesn't matter where you go and what you do, this

is going to be the standard. And this right here

is a standard. No matter where you go and what

you do, this will be the standard and which you

live your life by. Some of us have thrown this

away and this away and trying to build something. And

today I'm asking you, would you please embrace the standard

of God's word so that you can build something that

will everybody say. Last we just sang the song, the

wind came, the rain blew, But my life was built

on you. That means you have to have a firm foundation.

And today I want to teach Transformation Church how this

church is about to build. And I don't want to

say it with faith because I need you to understand

that this is the least impact that this church will

ever have. I don't need everybody to believe it. I

said it in a room of three hundred people, starting

from the bottom. Now we're here, you understand what I'm saying.

But I'm alla, this is the least. This is the

easiest you'll ever get a parking spot in this church.

You leaving fifteen minutes early right now because I gotta

beat the traffic. Baby, you're ready. Because there's a world

that is in need of a hospital. And Jesus said

I came to seek and to save those who were lost.

I want to let you know we're This is scary

to save for some of y'all, but we're about to build.

Look at your neighbord say We're about to build. We're

about to build. The truth of the matter is what

God is doing here has been a pre sir to

what He has desired and designed to do in our ministry.

And today I want to give you an opportunity to

be a part of that. And so the subtitle to

this message is the church that I'm a part of,

Because many people have gone to church all their life

and not known what type of church they're a part of.

You just went to the church your mama and then

told you had to go to or you just went

to the church where you knew your friend, or you

went to the church that your baby mama was going to,

or you went to the church that they had all

to fine gods, or you went to the church. See

you understand what I'm saying, But did you know the

type of church you are a part of? Today? In

this forward series, I want to give you a clarity

that's going to allow you to stand with faith and

take up your space a part of this vision because

we're about to build for the future by knowing the

type of church that were a part of. Why does

this make sense because Philippians three thirteen, this is our

anchor scripture for the entire series and this entire year.

As we are going forward, it says, no, dear brothers

and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus

on this one thing. It's not forward that I'm focusing on,

because I thought the scripture would have been like, focus

on one thing, go forward, But the Bible says, I

need to focus on this one thing. What is it forgetting?

All year? Some of y'all need to focus on forgetting

how they hurt you. That's what's keeping you from going forward.

If you just let them go, you could actually go forward.

But every time you smell burberry, you know what I'm

talking about. Every time you see a Krispy Krean, that's

where he left me. And I had a CHRISTH. Green

doughnut and that's why I'm big now. All I do

with it CHRISTHP Green? Like, do you understand what I'm saying?

If you would focus on forgetting? But most some of

us are dead set on remembering just in case I

ever get in that situation again. I don't trust God.

I trust what happened, and God is saying, if you

want to go forward, I need you to focus. Some

of you are been married for years and the reason

you can't find passion is because you won't focus on forgetting.

There are children in here that've been mad at their

parents for fifteen years. They did the best they could

with what they had. They didn't have the emotional intelligence

to be there when you actually needed them. And now

you are therapized, and you got a better job, and

you made it out the hood and you got a

six figure job, and you still have no connection. And

they only got ten years left on this earth, and

you're gonna be standing at their gravesite, weeping tears, saying

things you could say to them right now. But that

means you're gonna have to focus on forget it. And

I know you feel justified, and I know it becomes

a shield. But God is asking, will you trust me

because everything is ahead? He said, forgetting the past and

looking everybody shout at me forward. You ain't shouted at me,

shout at me forward. There it is at what lies ahead.

This is gonna take a press Ain't no automatic doors

in this next thing. I'm gonna have to work at

some things, it says, I press on to reach the

end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for

which God through Christ Jesus is calling us. Somebody say forward,

I prophetically speak over your life that this will be

the last week that certain things occupy your mind's face.

There will be things that you will forget because you're

going to surrender them. You're not going to hold them.

You're going to say, God, I no longer want to

be angry when this topic comes up. God, I no

longer want to have rage when this God, I don't

want to be offended when my name is not called

Holy Spirit. I want to give over. Some of y'all

are doing it right now today. God, I'm surrendering every

piece of me that could be offended, every piece of

me that can have a right. I am giving over

because I desire to move and in this church during

my sabbatical, I had to do that as the pastor

of your church, of this church that has seen so

many great miracles. The thing that is so hard is

when you see God do great things, you're expecting him

to do it the same way again. And the Holy

Spirit told me very clearly. He said, Michael, you're looking

at the past for a projection of the future, and

I've moved on to something else. The scripture would say

it like this, the cloud has moved. Y'all know when

the children of Israel, their provision was provided as they

stayed and they followed the cloud. And many people they

would set up their tent and they would be like, whoa,

we get to stay here for a minute, and then

the cloud would move and they'd be like pack it up,

time to go, and be like, we ain't even been

here for no time, And they said, we have to

continue to follow the cloud. And some of us have

become obsessed with staying where God used to move. And

today I've had to hit delete on my memory bank. God,

I've had to clear my storage. I've had to say, God,

if you if you don't do it like this again,

I'm okay with that because as long as you doing

something and I'm a part of it, I'm okay with that.

And I'm telling you some of you, today is the

day I feel the presence of God that you are

going to move forward because God has something new that

is just up ahead. If you would let go of

what was let me say it to you how He

gave it to Isaiah and Isaiah forty three eighteen. I

feel the presence of God already. My help is coming.

It says, but forget all that? Can you forget the

greatest thing He's done in your life? And I'm not

saying don't reverence it. I'm not saying don't think about

it as something that you're grateful for. I'm saying, don't

idolize it. Make him the standard, not that the standard.

Did y'all hear what I just said. You can't make

what happened the standard. You have to make him the standard.

So I love God's variety of doing miracles. He never

did it the same way. Some people he told him

to go wash and they were healed. Some people he

took spit and put it on their eyes and they

was healed. Some other people he just spoke the word

and they were here. He never did the same thing

the same way because he wants to prove he can

do it anyway. Y'all missed it. I said to God,

I serve can do it anyway he needs to. The

situation can be dead and he can raise it back

to life. Oh God, But that means I can't be

obsessed with the method. And some of us have pledged

our allegiance to a way that God does it instead

of the waymaker. He says, but forget of that, forget

all that. Say that with me, but forget all that.

You could say that with a little attitude, with a

little hoods and be like, forget all that. Okay, Yeah,

I like that. It's nothing. Look at the promise. It's

nothing compared. Do you know? Do you know that God

is so good that he never tells you to forget

something that he doesn't plan to replace. He didn't say

forget all that because he said forget all that because

it's not worth being compared to the things that I'm about.

He's giving you a promise that's attached to you letting go.

It's like God's saying, I got something behind my back.

If you would give me what you hold it on to,

I will release what I have for you. But God

show it to me, for that doesn't take faith. That

means you don't trust me. Well is it bigger? Is

it better? Is it more? Is it? It's what you need?

And God said, it's not even worth being compared to

what I'm gonna do. For I'm about to do something new.

Do you see it? I have already begun. You do

not see it? Do you? I'll make a pathway through

the wilderness, and I will create rivers in dry wasteland.

Those two scriptures I need you to meditate and read

daily because some of you there have been scales on

your eyes and on your mind that have to be

washed over with the word of God. Some of you

are in a desperate situation that it feels like nothing

can change. I'm stuck. I owe them the money. This

will not be different. I'm grieving, I'm hurting, and God says,

even in that, I can bring rivers out of dry wasteland.

What you consider something that you would throw things away in,

I will allow it to spring forth and be the

thing that nourishes others. It's time for us as a

church to move forward. God. God has taken this church

into a season of forward momentum. And I'm telling you

this because there are some things that started at the

beginning of this year when we went into time of

prayer and fasting, and for everybody it's like, dang, this

feels serious. Dang, this is a lie. Dang, this feels

intense because this is the season. Do you not feel

the climate of the world. Are you spiritually numb to

what's happening right now? God is looking for somebody to

be the light in all places. Oh God, He needs

somebody that will not be thrown off by finances. Somebody

that won't compromise their integrity because of a pretty face.

Somebody that won't compromise what God has called them to

do because of an opportunity. He needs somebody, say us,

He's calling us. And the truth of the matter is

many people are scared to go forward because they're trying

to hold on to something in their past. But today

God is saying there is no more time because we

have to build for the future. So today I want

to give you just some key things that I need

you to value. Write down the word value, this, this,

this is. This is a money word right here? Value?

What do you value? But what do you value? Money?

Come on? Talk to me, y'all know this is talk back, church.

What do you value time? Relationships? Come on? Family? Results?

Talk to me church? What do you value? You not everybody?

What do you value? What'd you say? Peace? What'd you say? Mental? Health?

My calling? What'd you say? Worship? Ah ya, y'all? Asky tie?

What do you value? Sleep? Thank you? Somebody said something

he said sleep pass. I'm barely making it through. Hey,

help me? Fitness? What do you value food? Thank you?

Because all these people hungry, Let me ask you a question.

Whatever you value? How do you know you value it?

You spend time, You spend money. That's a good word.

You invest in it. How do you know what you value?

You protect it? How do you know what you value?

You honor it? Oh, somebody said the word you prioritize it.

Don't tell me you value it if it is not

a priority. You know what nobody said? God? Good night.

Nobody in this church. She said, Ida you ain't saying aloud.

He hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me,

hear me. Here hear me. It's very difficult to say

that you value God if you don't prioritize him. And

because he's such a big god, we think he'll understand

he's such a big god. Who's like, I'll get to that.

Or man, they don't take all of that. And the

fruit of our lives are showing what we value. Some

of us value knowing what's going on a lot more

than we should. Some of us value come on the

opinion of people that you don't even know. Come on,

think about it. And God's saying right now to us,

we need to get our values watch this and our

vision aligned. Values and vision has to be aligned. What

do you see for yourself? If you value it, then

you prioritize it. Cause a lot of people they come

to me like Paus I, Mike, I got the vision,

I wrote the vision down. I know what God's said,

and they do not prioritize what it takes to see

that vision come to past. Do you know how many

people tell me they want to get healthy. Do you

know how many people tell me they're gonna write the book.

Do you know how many people tell me like, I

promise you give me your email because I'm gonna send

you the san and there is no fruit because there's

no priority. Do you know how many relationships tell me

that they love each other, but they're business partners. They

don't prioritize learning each other, learning how to communicate with

each other. Do you know how many people have kids

and don't prioritize them. Oh God, you had them, but

you don't value them. What I'm telling you is the

vision you have for your family, your business, your relationship,

your mind, your spirit has to align with values. And

that's why most people have a vision with no values,

a mission with no method, a dream with no devotion,

direction with no daily practice. What are you trying to say,

Pastor Mike? Is good to see it, but sight with

no standard leads to self sabotage. Some people in this

room are so frustrated because they see the future. They

see what they could be, They see what God is saying,

They see themselves being generous, They see themselves walking in

their calling. They see themselves out of that addiction. But

they do not have any standards. So my sight without

standards makes be like, well, forget it, I'm gonna just

try it one more time, and it leads to self sabotage.

But today I believe the spirit of God is going

to allow you to move forward and give you the

ability to build for the future. I've been thinking about this,

and the easiest way to interrupt a house being built

is to not give the work site something. It would

be to take something away from the work site. If

you want to ruin any house being built, just take

away the standard. I don't care how good you can hammer,

how good you can cut. You want to ruin and

have a lopsided house, steal all the standards. Okay, what

if I told you the enemy is not trying to

steal your sight as much as he's trying to steal

your standards. He wants your house, your life, your mind lopsided.

So what he's trying to do is not no you

can see it. You can have vision, but steal your standards,

no character, no integrity. Anybody can run in and anybody

can run out. Anybody can steal your peace, anybody can

take your joy. If he wants to take away the

thing being built. He's taking away the standards. Where have

you let the standard go? Pastor Mike, why are you

talking about this? Because God wants to give you standards

to build this next season of your life. That's what

he gave Moses when he took the children of Israel

out of slavery. He put them in the wilderness to

give them the ten Commandments or the ten standards they're

supposed to live by, because it would have been the

quickest way for them to get in the Promised Land.

But what did they do. They rebelled against the new standard,

and they didn't want to do it so bad that

they wished to go back to slavery. How many times

have we asked for peace but started chaos. God's telling

you bridle your tongue. But they ain't gonna never just

smork me like that, you know what I'm saying. They're

messing with a real one right here. So if they're

gonna come in and then you just come on, y'all,

I just blacked out. We got that one word if

they say that one word, and I just blacked out,

And God saying, hold on, can we have a new

standard there? Could you let that be in the past. Oh,

because you're thinking about me just telling you to hold

on the people in the past and all these things

in the past. God said, there's some habits that you

have married to your character. Oh God, there are some

things that you have claimed out of your mouth demonically.

This is just me. You've made a covenant with the

areas of your life that are chosen habits that God's saying.

You need to let that go. Forget that old thing.

You don't got to get mad every time somebody says

something crazy to you. You can actually feel bad for them.

That is so sad that your vocabulary is that limited,

that you are that insecure that you have to talk

to me like that. God bless you. But your whole

day is ruined now because what does you write this down?

Building with standards is wise, Building with standards is. Building

your relationship with standards is wise. Building your family with

standards is wise. Building your business with standards is why.

Building your friendship with standards is wise. Where are the standards?

Why can people talk about people to you? Why can

they vent to you so easily? Why no, I'm they

don't even know it's not okay for them? To do that,

and you're now weighed down with problems and issues that

ain't even yours. But you get a compliment. You just

always there for me. I don't need to be there

for you like that. Oh, y'all, don't hear me. You've

worn it as a badger honor that all you get.

I can just type, No, they're dumping on you. They're

putting trash on you. Now you're looking at other people

crazy and they ain't even do nothing to you. There

she go, look at her. Yet, now you have turned

something that isn't even your burden and just something you

have to work through. Wow, God, building with standards is wise?

Did your family know there's boundaries? Quiet? Does your family?

Did your Does your mama know that she can't talk

to your wife like that? Yeah? Building your marriage with

standards is wise. You you know that cousin can't talk

to your kids like that? Well, when I was worries

any uncle and auntie so sorry, you got to earn

the trust to reprimand my kids. You could talk to

me about it. And if I trust you, you will

know I trust you because we've talked about the standard.

Correct them people in my life, they know they can

correct my kids that they've been given authority. But just

because you old don't mean you smart. Oh, let me stop.

Let me get back to the message. Just because you

got great don't mean you got wisdom. I know some

dumb old people, but some of you have subjected your

children to unnecessary, abnormal use by your family members because

you have not clarified the standard. Oh god, how many

of us. Never mind, I'm not even gonna go there

because I just felt I felt we was about to

build up some family trauma right there. Matthew seven twenty four.

Let me go back to the words. So y'all can, okay,

Matthew seven twenty four. Therefore, everyone who hears these words,

this is Jesus talking. Everyone who hears these words of

mine and puts them into say it with me. Practice

So you can't just hear it. You gotta practice it.

Coming to church on Sunday and not practice it does

not help your life. Therefore, everyone who hears these words

of mine and puts it into is like a wise

man who built his house on the rock. Oh, this

is the song we sang. The rain came, the streams rose,

and the winds blew and beat against the house, Yet

it did not fall. May that be your testimony of

twenty twenty six that whatever comes, I'm not gonna fall.

I built my house on the rock. You can talk

about me, but I'm not gonna fall. You can say

whatever you want, but I'm not gonna fall. This family,

this church is built on a solid rock. I'm not falling.

I can't fall because I'm attached to something. Sure it says,

yet it did not fall because it had watched this word.

It's foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these

words of mine comes to church every Sunday, listen to

podcast while they're working out, listens to the Bible app

and the Bible Plan, and does not put what they

hear into practice. Is like a foolish man who built

his house on the sand. Do you know what the

sand represents? Something that can shift. So if you build

your life on money, it shifts every day. That's why

it's called currency because it has to move. So it's moving,

and the stock market goes up and the stark market

goes down. You're depressed when you get more money, are

depressed when you get no money, and you're happy when

you get more. It's not something to build your life on.

You have to build your life on something solid. You

can't build your life on somebody's opinion of you, because

one decision you make could make them feel different about you.

You have to build it on a sure foundation, which

is the Word of God about to prove it to

you and the Bible. The rain came down on this

person too. The streams rose, and the winds blew and

beat against the house. But they didn't have the same

testimony as the wise builder. It fell with a great crash. Today.

I came to give you a warning that the crash

is coming if you do not build on Christ. I

know people whose marriage is hanging on by this little

piece of thread. I know people whose sanity is hanging on.

And sometimes listen, maybe I'm being too vulnerable. Sometimes I'm

just praying, all right, God, just let it crash now,

because some of y'all just need to start over. Some

of you are so because you won't get it until

you hit rock bottom. And sometimes I'm not saying it's

for everybody, but I feel very strong to say this,

stop lying, stop trying to hold it together in secret,

let the consequences be what they may, and surrender what

you have done to God into those around you that

still love you and be able to watch him rebuild, resurrect, restore.

But right now you're in limbo because you will not

let go of what can't help you anyway. Write this

point down going forward without the foundation, it's foolish. The

first thing that you build when you build the house

is what Building a foundation is not sexy, Like after

you clear I've built a house before. So when you

clear the land and you do all the other stuff,

and they're like, we're about to pour the foundation, Like, yes,

the foundation. We want to see walls and plumbing, and

we want to see we want to decorate. But what

they don't understand is if you get a fire, if

you get a tornado we're in Oklahoma, if you get

any type of thing, they can rebuild the house. If

the foundation is good today, I'm asking you to pay

attention to I didn't say a foundation, I said the foundation.

First Corinthians, three ten. I'm giving you a lot of scripture,

but I want you to build for the future. I

want you to build on Jesus. First Corinthians, chapter three,

verse ten. It says, because of God's grace to me,

I have laid the foundation like an expert builder. Now

others are building on it. I want all of us

to build something that others can build on. Isn't the

testimony that it wasn't just for me, but it was

something that other people could build on after me. Okay,

but whoever is building on this foundation must be very careful,

for no one can lay any foundation other than the

one we already have. Jesus Christ. You want to know

what to build your life on the foundation he has

a name, Jesus Christ. You want to build your marriage,

build it on Jesus Christ. You want to build your family,

build it on Jesus Christ. Verse twelve says anyone who

builds on that foundation. I love this. I love God

including all of us in the story. He said, as

long as you got Jesus as the foundation, you can

use a variety of materials. You can use gold, several jewels,

would hay straw. I love this because he says all

of us don't have to build the same thing. We

just gotta build on the same thing. Oh God, we

don't got my house don't got to look like yours.

You might like an old colonial traditional style situation me

I'm gonna have a mind. Don't give me no circles,

give me straight lines, big tall museum. But guess what's

the same. That's why I can celebrate other churches that

do things differently, because as long as the foundation is

Jesus beild, baby beal, y'all don't hear what I'm saying. Well,

I don't like that, and I don't like that. It's okay,

it's the foundation. Jesus bild baby veal. Well. They sing

loud songs, they sing quiet songs. They sing with drums,

they sing with strings. It don't matter. Is the foundation.

Jesus build baby Bill, he said, Bill will gold, bell

with silver, Bill with hey, bill with straw.

But guess what It's gonna be judged. But on the

judgment day, fire will reveal what kind of work each

builder has done. The fire will show it if a

person's work, WHOA, here's our word, has any value. If

the person's work has any value, values are important to

the vision that God has placed in your heart. My

wife says it to me all the time, like this, Michael,

is not okay that we get there. It's how we

got there. You you ever, you ever showed up to

an event and you got there and you were smiling,

but it was hell getting there. You almost threw your

kids out the car. And come on, let's let's have

we said some words we had to repent for and

your hair wasn't working. Come on, anybody else do you

wear a hot church? Come on? And even getting the

church this morning? You sitting here smiling right now, But

you gotta say sorry after this, because sometimes we're so

concerned about getting to the thing we saw that how

we get there, we leave carnage behind. When you have values,

it makes going to the vision. Watch this healthy. We

can't build the house that God wants us to build,

the life, the family, the ministry, the nonprofit. We can't

build it. And there be bodies behind it. And too

many people have built the thing but killed more people

along the way, no good relationships. Everybody speaks bad about you.

Why because they saw the vision more than they put

it inside the values that God gave them. So today

I'm going to give you the values of this church.

In the next twenty five minutes, we're gonna be we're

gonna be closing it. But I need to let you

know that the values of this church is how we're

about to build for the future. And I want you

to know I don't believe these are just values that

are for this church. These are values for the church.

I'm not just talking about the organization. I'm talking about

the organism that if you would embrace what God has

given me as the thing that we're calling the Grade eight.

You can write that down on your paper right now,

because over the past ten years, you know, I've had

the ability to try some things and see some things

and figure some things out. And once you've been in

something for a decade, you tell what you can tell

what fits and what doesn't anymore, you can tell what

was aspirational and what actually is authentic. And so today

I stand here like I did almost eleven years ago,

with full confidence. My knees aren't shaking today because I

have too much proof of the type of church that

God has called us to be. I have empirical data

in the church walls and in culture as well that

God has given us. And I want you to know

what you have the opportunity to be a part of,

because only what you do for Christ will last. So

I need your help and going through these eight things,

just put it on the top of your your page

and put it on the wall. The grade eight eight

is easy. We used to have fifty two things that

we used to have the staff try to remember. Let

me be honest, we wanted to talk about everything. You

gotta be this and you gotta be that, and then

we try to tell the church and it's like nobody

remembers none of this. Can we make it simple? And

can we make it memorable? And can we make it

the things that we know are the unique things that

God has called this church to do. And so as

I give you these, there are gonna be ones that

I'm praying that stick with you forever, and I want

you to see how they actually impact your life and

how you can become them by faith. These are the

things that you want to move forward towards. These are

the things that are gonna be the culture code of

our church. Why you saying culture because the culture of

what you put a vision in is the thing that

either expands it or limits it. Everybody has a vision,

but culture eats vision. For breakfast, you ever been somewhere,

It's like, we have a vision to love everybody, but

the culture is mean. It don't matter if you smile.

Everybody feels the culture more than they see the vision.

And a cold bishop said this to me before I

was going over my message with him. He said, a

code is something that unlocks into something else. If you

find the culture and the cold, this unlocks the great

things that God has forward. So today you have a

part in this. You're gonna ask me a question. You're

gonna say what type of church are we? Now, this

is your only part. If you've never been a part

of a choir, this is time for you to get

in unison. Okay. So I'm gonna say like this, and

you're gonna say what type of church are we? And

then I'm gonna answer you. Okay, you're ready to practice?

One two three? Okay, that was good, but you didn't participate.

Neither did you. I saw, but I'm just playing. So

we're gonna say it. I need you to do it

to me loud. Okay, here we go, one two three.

We are a church that values crazy faith. We believe

God big, We do what seems small, and we see

the impossible because it's only crazy until it happens. I'm

not suggesting this to you, I'm telling you who we are.

Well I'm usually in fear. No, you're a person of

crazy faith. You gotta see it before you see it.

If anxiety and fear and procrastination is clouding your thought today,

start saying it. I'm a person of crazy faith. I

see the impossible. I see things bigger than what's around me.

Right now, Right now, everything around me has to expand

because I just showed up and the God of the

universe lives on the inside of me. There's a scripture

that says everywhere my feet tried, that is territory that

I can take for the kingdom. I'm a person of

crazy faith. I got some work to do because most

of you think I'm a person of crazy faith. The

saddest testimony of this church would be if y'all watched

me this close do all these impossible things that I'm

showing you proof Like I give y'all receipts that nobody

gives y'all. I be showing y'all my misspelled words. I

be showing y'all the broken stuff. I'm trying to let

you know I'm regular. I just really believe God. Oh God,

he's no respect or persons. I got six months of

TCC education that's tous of community college, right up the

streets out no diploma, no paper, just a bill. Do

you hear what I'm saying to you? If God can

do it with me, if he can deliver me out

of pornography, deliver me out of lyon, bring me into wholeness,

give me visions that I can't make happen by myself,

He can do it for you. Your whole life can look

different three hundred and sixty five days from me, but

some of y'all got more faith than that. Your whole

life can look different one month from that, But some

of y'all got more crazy faith than that. This time

next week, I'm telling you somebody's gonna get the faith

to believe it. And there's one person in here that

will be like the woman in the Bible that says,

by this time tomorrow, if you believe God, he can

do it, and He can do it, do you make

some crazy faith knowing? Let me give you all a receipt.

I usually show y'all this paper. Y'all seen this a

million times where the Spirit Baker Vince Center will be

Transformation Church. But I got a new one to show

you today. I found this this week. This is from

May two thousand, the twenty second of May two thousand.

This says, relationship goes to the movie. Y'all never seen

this one before. Less than one month after the book

came out, in the middle of the pandemic, the Holy

Spirit said, write down what I told you, and I

wrote down that this will go from a message to

a book, it would be music, and it will be

a movie. And this seemed completely crazy until last week.

For everybody that doesn't know, Devon Franklin called me and

I was able to. On the same day, he called

me and asked me, have you ever thought about making

it a movie? God says, send them what I told you.

I didn't have to go and make something up because

he wanted to prove he gave it to me. If

you look on the sheet, put it on the screen.

The main character's name Amazon Divine. The writers didn't come

up with that. God gave that name to me. Leah's

name and Brenda's name. Breed was even my fake Leah

on the thing, bring you a superstar. Look at her,

just pride, sit down. I want you to. I want

you to see the young lady on the end. That's

our friend. That's Israel Holten's w and I knew it

needed to be somebody multi ethnic, and I put the

name Trina in the movie. Her name is Trees. I

still got the true in there. See, y'all, don't hear

what I'm saying, because you see in part you prophesy

in part you don't see the whole thing, feel the stint.

But because I had the audacity. Six years later, I

don't know if you know, but in twenty four hours,

it was the number one movie on Amazon Prize. Y'all.

Don't want to celebrate with me relationship golf with number one?

Oh my, I can't wait to find a church that

will celebrate the impossible with me. I can't wait to

find people. Okay, you don't start that. Because eyes have

not seen, ears have not heard, neither has it entered

into the hearts of man, the things that God has

prepare for you. You don't see it now, but you will. Okay,

it's only crazy now. People ask me, what when's your

next movie? Come about? Seventeen days ago, you didn't believe

one could happen. Now you asked me, you got number two? Yeah,

I do. Don't wait on me. My phone is loaded, y'all,

don't hear it? Okay, let me sigh. Write this down,

and I want you to believe this. At your core

God's plan for you. It's bigger than your plan for you.

Write it down and believe it. Say it until you

don't doubt it. I cannot think of thought that is

better for me than the thoughts that God has already

thought about me. When you start really believing that, it

may you start believing in crazy faith. And I declare

over your house, You're gonna begin to start believing God

for things your family said could never happen. You're gonna

believe God for stuff you have never seen before in

your family line. You're gonna begin to see things that

nobody has ever done. Why Because if God's gonna do

it through somebody, he might as well do it through me.

Who got that testimony? If you can use anything, Lord, huh,

who's ready to see God do the impossible? All right?

Somebody shot at me? Crazy faith? All right? This is

your turn? One two three? What type of church are we?

One two three? We are a church that values being hot.

We are humble, open and transparent. People watch this of integrity.

I've had people abuse this language and say I'm humble,

open in transparency. I'm gonna tell you how I feel.

Hold on, Wait, we're humble, open and transparent people of integrity? Why?

Because God doesn't bless who you pretend to be. He

blesses who you really are. More than half of y'all

know my testimony because I say it every week. Let's

see if y'all listen. I was a liar, a manipulator,

I was addicted to point. Okay, all right, let's stop me. Okay,

let's stop. The only reason you can repeat my testimony

is because I rehearse it. I'm humble, open and transparent

enough to tell it every time I get an opportunity,

and anybody that's close around me knows that I don't

just do it on the platform. I'll be in quick trip,

I'll be at the mall, I'll be at the basketball court,

I'll be at an NBA game. And if I get

out in a conversation with somebody, guess what's coming out

my testimony. Because at the end of the day, me

looking good to you does nothing for your salvation, and

it makes me more prideful and away from God. And

there's a few things God can't stand and he can't

stand pride. And so when I tell my testimony, it

does two things. It makes me relatable and humble. They oh,

Pastor Michael to Well, let me tell you who I

really am. You see the title, but let me tell

you who I am without the grace of God. And

too many people are trying to say faith because they

don't believe that the authentic version of them is the

anointed version of them. I'm anointed because I'm authentic. I'm

not anointed because I'm studied. I'm not anointed because I'm better.

I'm anointed because I'm authentic. That's why I say He

doesn't bless who you pretend to be. He blesses who

you really are. And if you sell out fully to

who you are right now, but you're open to Him

bringing you a little further, you'll be full committed to

that next version of you. I am not who I'm

gonna be. You've never been led by the pastor I'll

be next year. Oh God. The reason I say stick

around because I'm gonna get better. The reason that I

say keep coming back because I'm gonna get better, I'm

never gonna be stuck here, because I'm moving for I'm

not going to become a prisoner of today. But that

means I gotta be humble, open and transparent about my flaws.

I gotta be self aware about where I miss it.

I gotta be honest about about how I feel. Because

some of you have been pretending too long and now

you think it's who you really are. You've been acting

so long that you're forgetting which parts of it is

you and which parts of it you're trying to make

people feel, and thinking some of the lies you've believe

have now become the character you play. That's why you're

so tired. You're tired. The Bible would say it like this,

You're weary. Twenty twenty six has felt like a whole

year already, and it's February. I mean, come on, it's February.

What It's February eighth, and you acting like it's August.

The seasons don't even know what time it is right now.

It feels like spring time yesterday in Tulsa and it

was a snowy tundra last week. What is going on

but weariness? But there's an answer for that. On the Foundation.

His name is Jesus. He says, come to me, all

who are weary and heavy leading, and guess what I'll

give you rest. And that's why you gotta be humble,

open and transparent. Can I say it plain? Tell your testimony.

You know. One of the most beautiful things that I

saw in the movie Relationship Goes is there was two couple.

There was a young lady and a couple from our

church telling their real life testimony in the movie. Page

was one of the people telling her testimony. It's reaching

people she went to high school with. It's reaching people

that she ain't talked to in years. Moe and Connie,

we're telling their testimony. What you don't know is Mo

picked me up when I was speaking for a conference

in Miami, and I gotta tell this testimony because you

gotta see how beautifully God weaves our stories together. If

we'll surrender. He was supposed to be picking up Carl Lyntz,

and he was way higher on the totem pole at

the time than I was. And somebody's like, Mo, you

got demoted to Mike Todd. I'm a true story. He

comes to pick us up. We're nobody. Nobody knows us.

We're not even speaking at this conference and they take

us to this bougie restaurant to eat. All the food

was nasty and I was still hungry. So me and

Nat was like, hey, Mo, could you take us to

Burger King? It was the only thing open at the time.

We're at Burger King in the parking lot in Miami,

and this man begins to talk to me about his

relationship and me and that just begin to minister to him.

What we didn't know at the time is that him

and his wife were serving at this conference together but

living at two separate places. We had no idea that

at the time he was thinking about divorcing his wife.

We had no idea that it was done for them.

Yet through that conversation, God put a spark of faith

on the inside of him, and he went back home

and made everything right in his marriage. And he built

that thing up, oh, from the ground up with his

wife Tommy. And now they stand here in a movie

where two hundred and forty million people have the possibility

to see it, and talking about the testimony of their marriage.

Don't tell me what God can't do. That's why we

share our tests. He thought it was about you, but

we overcome Revelations twelve eleven says, by the blood of

the Lamb, that's what Jesus did. But you got a

part to play in it. But the words of your

what is it test? Samon write this down in the point.

There is an anointing in your authenticity. Some of y'all

about to unlock a different level of power because you're

gonna actually be authentic and you're not going to be

sold out to that version forever. You're gonna allow God

to change you. He loves you so much that he'll

accept you how you are, but he loves you too

much to leave you that way. And some of y'all

want to stay the way that you are. I'm just

being real and God saying you've been real for fourteen years.

It's time to change, trying to grow, it's trying to mature. Ooh,

I love this. I got a lot more to go through.

Somebody say, what type of church are we? One? Two three?

We are a church that values Watch this generosity. We

give just to give and not to get. Giving is

our response to God's love, not a requirement for his love.

I want you to understand that you do not have

to do anything to get God's loves except receive it.

And I know church tries to tell you do better

so God can love you. No, no, no, that's not

what God says in his word. And I want us

to be a church that displays loving people first because

that's what he did to us. Pass what Mike, does

that mean those type of people? Yes? Are they human?

Do they have blood? My response is not based on

my references. My response is based on the standard. If

Jesus was the one to go sit with the woman

at the well when those two races didn't talk to

each other, even his own disciples were sitting there, like

why are you talking to this scag if he's the

one that goes up and says to zach kiyas, Hey,

I know everybody hating on you, but I'm coming to

have dinner at your house tonight. This is what our

savior did and the reason he could do it because

he was solid. I gotta just put this in here.

Some of you can't be generous the way you need

to be because you don't have enough integrity to stay

the same when you come in contact with people who

have different values than you did. Y'all, hear what I

just said? You can't go into certain spaces because those

spaces would turn you out. The reason why most pastors

and church people can't be trusted around people with money

because they want the money. And you can feel people

who need something from you. Well, let me just share

my plan with you, brother, let me let me just

I'll get my elevator pitch, like, what their soul is

more important than whatever you're trying to sell. And what

I'm saying to you, you cannot be called to an

environment that you need something from You can't. You cannot

be called to actually change it if you're trying to

get something from it. The reason Jesus could sit with

za Key is because he didn't need nothing from it.

Do y'all hear what I'm saying? And this is where

the church has to get. This is why we have

to be skilled. This is why we have to use

our brains and use the ability to produce wealth. This

is why we have to be innovative. And I'm gonna

talk about it in a second. Because we are called

to people that have things that we don't have, but

they don't have the thing that they need. I can't

spend the time that I want to the reason why

you have to be okay, the reason why you have

to get out of love with money, the reason why

you have to get out of love with their affirmation,

the reason you have to fall out of love with

their opinion, is because you might be called to a

space and a place that you're not going to get

that thing from. And it's time for us to be

generous on every occasion. You heard the stat last week

that this church, because of our collective generosity, has given

away in the last eleven years, over thirty six million,

three hundred and sixty one thousand, five hundred and one dollars.

Can we give God praise for that? We could literally

shout for the next for the next thirty minutes if

we wanted to adjust on that. Hey, look at your

neighbor and say we did that. Come on, if you

gave one cent, if you gave the one cent or

that one dollar, somebody say we did that. Huh, okay,

it all gets counted in heaven. We did that. Now

forget it. There's a way we could get that in

a year. Deep. I gotta say stuff to bust your bubble.

What would happen if this church it was usual for

us to give ten million dollars away to causes outside

of this church yearly, yearly. I'm not talking about every

church in the community. I'm talking about us, the people

in this room online. If everybody tithed, we could do

that without blinking an eye. But some people still don't

trust God with their finances. And so I'm always teaching, hey,

this is the word, this is the generosity, and I'm

not gonna beg you for it, because this is your

soul is more important. But we have the answer if

we would obey the standard. But see, y'all think it's

about the thirty six million we can record. But let

me tell you about something that happened at Christmas time.

There was somebody in our church that somebody found out

that this single mother her furnace went out right before

Christmas and they were living in one part of the

house so that they all could stay warm, this single

mother and her three daughters. And somebody found out about

it and put it on a group text to some

other people. Not can the church raise it off? Just

some people in the church, not the organization, but the organism,

and just right before Christmas, they raised eight thousand plus

dollars and gave it to this single mother so that

her and her family. Y'all don't hear me, Generosity is

giving just to give, not to get. What group text

message are you own? Is every thread you owned? You

asking for something? But what if you could change it?

And I'm saying eight thousand, I'm saying eight eight dollars

eight fifty. What if this week you went to the

gas station with the intention to put twenty dollars in

somebody else's tanks and you just did that until you

could buy somebody a car. God gives seed to the

you're waiting to have enough to buy them a car.

And God said, just put gas in the car. Every

week you take ten minutes and go with a twenty

and just go in there and say put an extra

twenty on fifteen. Do that for the rest of the year.

See if God doesn't expand your y'all don't y'all can't.

I can't talk about it right now. But Proverbs eleven

twenty four says, the world of the generus gets larger

and larger, but the world of the stingy gets smaller

and smaller. I gotta keep moving one two three. What

type of church are we? We are a church that

values innovation. We go first, we take creative risk, and

we do anything short of sin to reach people who

don't know Christ. Everybody can't have this a part of

their mission statement because everybody ain't bout it about it.

I don't know where that just came from Master B

and the No Limit Soldiers. That's just dating me right now.

A lot of people are scared. Everybody wants to reach

people until it's time to reach people. Why do we

do things like ransom? Why do we put out movies?

Why do we go out in the street, Why do

we forgive people? Why do we let people who talk

bad about us on Instagram come back and be a

part of the church Because we Yeah, I said it,

Because we practice what we preach, and sometimes you gotta

go first, go on first, sucks. I can give you

tons of examples of things we have done as a

church since the very beginning, and now it's very popular

to do, but we got crucified for it. It's part

of what we're called to do. I counted up the cost.

This is a part of our unique DNA. We innovate,

We're gonna try things, We're gonna take risks that means

sometimes watch this church, We're gonna fail. We're gonna fail

forward though, huh, some of y'all are so scared to

do the thing. But that thing you're scared of is

actually the barrier to the breakthrough that God has in

your life. Do the podcast well, it sounds stupid, there's

a group of people that need that tone with your

voice and your experience. Do what he told you to do,

and when you do that, you'll be walking in what

God told us to do in Luke in nineteen ten.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to

save those who were lost in Mark sixteen fifteen, and

he said to them, go into all the world and

reach the Gospel to every creature. This is the parallel

of Matthew twenty eight nineteen. That word, if you break

it down in its original language, the world means systems.

God's saying, go into every system and make disciples. The

problem is many of us aren't skilled enough to go

into the systems. That's why we have to innovate. Church.

You can't be scared of AI. It's here. It's the

same thing as when you didn't have a cell phone

and you use the thing. Everybody and now you have

a cell phone. It's the same thing as not having internet,

and now you have internet and all your stuff comes.

It's the same. It's moving forward, and right now while

you're rebuking it, you're supposed to be learning it, so

then you can put the Christian values into a system

that there are tons of people already in. And you've

been saying, I'm so tired. There's things, hey, I can

do to help you be less tired if you would

learn it. You want to do it the hard way,

and God's giving you things. I'm just trying to wake

the church up because we're usually twenty years behind everything.

What I'm saying to you, we're not gonna be that.

We're gonna innovate because there are people who are lost

and we gotta go get them because we are representing

God to the lost and the fact for one reason,

what is it transformation in Christ? I gotta move one,

two three. We're a church that values worship. We bring

our best to God in song, sacrifice, speech, and spirit,

and we do not apologize for our expression of worship

in spirit and in truth. Small Story Time we wrote

that song give them Hell, and some of the church

for folks had a problem with it because we said hell.

And the one thing that I told him is like, yeah,

I said, I've been beat up the last two years

and I need to fight the devil with something, and

sometimes praise is what I do. When I woke up,

you should have the devil thought he had me, but

his best shot wasn't good enough. You under said, like,

that's how I felt when I'm in the gym and

I want to give up. It's like, no, today that

I woke up, I'm gonna give him hell. What he

thought he was gonna do to me, I'm gonna do

to him. I'm gonna save and pray and speak life

and I'm ana and I'm saying like, yeah, sometimes I

gotta turn it off when Gigi's in the car because

she will just repeat everything give him hell like. But

the truth of the matter is when I wrote that song,

I was worshiping God in spirit and in truth. And

God can't. You might not be able to, but he can.

And what I'm saying is that's the type of church

we gonna be. Let's keep going one, two three. What

type of church we are? A church that values fun?

See I know that saying in many people's church's values.

But we're gonna have fun doing this. We start the party,

we laugh loud, and we find joy in it all.

Do you know how many dark situations we've been in

and joy has been our strength through every season? Some

of y'all have been miserable because the enemy has been

able to steal your joy. I bet you in every season,

we're gonna my group of friends, y'all, we can laugh

through everything. I don't care what it is. We're gonna

find a joke. We're gonna find. We've been in seasons

of grief. We've been in seasons of loss, and somehow

we found a way to to actually find joy. That's

why Neiamyah says the joy of the Lord will be

our ship. Lighten up, laugh, turn it. The staff will

tell you. I carry around a speaker to almost all

my meetings. I walk around with music playing because I'm

changing the atmosphere. Everywhere I go. They'll be like, turn

that down, No am I telling the truth, y'all. That

is they're gonna pass the mic. I'm and I'm hoping

that what's on me some soft on you. I hope

that my joy is contagious. You know what joy is

one of two things. I gotta go. Joy is either

contagious or annoying. And you can tell where people are

in their soul when your joy makes them upset. We're

gonna leave that there. One two three. We are a

church that pops. We believe in progression over perfection. Through theology, therapy,

and community, God can turn any trauma into triumph progression

over perfection Church. I need you to know that I'll

never give up on you, because God never gave up

on me. One step forward, one inch forward, one try

better than I did last time. I'm not comparing myself

to anybody else. I'm just trying to run this race

and finish this. I'm pressing towards the prize that he's

calling me for this year. How are you going to

be better? Not compared to last year? Now we're going forward.

The thing about these beautiful values in our culture code

is that they're not just ideas. They're people. I don't

want this to be like, oh, our church does this.

I want you to know that there are people to

do this. I'm going to just introduce to you as

we close a few people that represent this in our church.

The first one is Amber. Amber. Come up here real quick.

Amber is a person of crazy faith. I want you

to just stand right there, right there. If you've seen Amber,

she's one of our worshippers. She comes and this is

the thing you might not know when you see her

singing the Amber. If God says it, she believes it.

I've seen Amber lay hands on people and pray for

them in the middle of worship, in the middle of practice,

and I've seen God do healings. I've seen Amber believe

for family members, and I've seen God believe for restoration

and things happen. And what I want you to know

is crazy faith is not just a past a thing

or transformation church. It's a It's a quality that every

person can have. Amber. Thank you for not just saying

that you believe in crazy faith. Thank you for displaying it. Oh,

you want to talk about somebody that's humble, open and transparent.

Danielle Walker, come up here for me real quick. You

stand right here. Me and Danielle went to high school together. No,

we literally grew up in church together at higher dimensions.

Her mama. Her mama used to be the usher up

in the balcony that used to pop me because I

was talking during service, and I've watched Danielle be humble,

open and transparent through many changes. I could go through

all kinds of stuff that we've been through, from your

son being almost burned to the point of death and

God healing him, to the loss of mom in lead

even me. Three weeks ago she lost her older sister

to a fit and all overdose. And yet every time

she's come. I remember when Danielle didn't even fool with

God for real. You remember that. You remember when I

would invite you to church and you didn't come. You

remember when you'd be like, boy, get the beef out

of my feet. You remember that. And yet every Sunday

she wakes up earlier, gets with her community, and comes

and serves people who are far from God and people

who are close to God. With all that she's had

to carry, she's been humble, open, and transparent. This is

what the vision looks like. Danielle. Thank you for not

just saying you're hot, but for being hot in this

mine in the strip. Y'all can celebrate that right now.

But this vision, it's not just an idea. It's people.

It's people like my man Shamari. Now some of y'all

don't ever see Show. That's what we call him. But

Show is somebody that worships God. Show. Come over here, man,

You stand right here, Amber, you stand right there on

crazy faith, you stand right here. See what you don't

see is that when the praise team is up here worshiping,

Show is behind the scenes, and he's making sure that

they can hear everything that's happening. In the end of

your manditors that if you see Show, he back there

worshiping and djaying on the ones and twos. This man

shows up at rehearsals. This man shows up when we

have to call rehearsals at random times. He's never seen,

but he worships God in spirit and in truth. And

today we celebrate you, brother as you don't just say

you worship you and body worship with your whole life.

Come on, y'all, this vision is not just ethereal, it's people.

These are two of my favorites right here. You know

there are some people that pop, some people who value

progression over perfection, and Colin and carry do that. Y'all

come up here now. I want y'all to stand right

here because I want y'all to get a good look

at this couple. This couple, it's the biggest testimony to me.

They were separated for thirteen years, and through the grace

of God, they are back together, married, serving together on

our First Impressions team, and bringing God glory with every

ounce of their life. That is progression of Can we

give God praise? This is not just principles, it's people.

Thank you for living out in front of all of

us what it looks like to continue to move forward. Okay, listen, listen, listen, listen.

It's Joe here. I don't know if Joe, Joe come here, Joe,

come stand right here in generosity, my man. Now, Joe's

face is gonna look like this every time you see him.

I've only seen him smile twice in thirteen you know,

I sai, but this is one of the kindest men

you'll ever meet, as long as she don't do nothing stupid. Look,

he didn't even smile then. But this man has a

heart of generosity. He comes and serves and protects. And

you wouldn't know it, but his whole family serves in

this church. He is a man of integrity, and he's

a man of generosity. How much money did he give,

He gives his time, he gives his treasure and Joe today, man,

I just want to thank you publicly for protecting us,

keeping us safe, and sowing seeds a generosity all over

this craft. Come on, Church, it's not just principles, it's people.

You want to talk about innovation. Charmain, come up here,

stand right there. This is Charmain, and Charmagne is one

of the wisest, smartest, cunning young ladies I've ever met.

And she is always trying to figure out new ways

that as we invite guests in from all over the world,

how to make them feel like this is home. Y'all,

we have a unique opportunity every Sunday that we have

people who travel here as a destination from all over

the world. Like they don't just watch it's like this

is my time. I've been waiting two years to come here,

five years to come here. I'm on my way here,

I'm saving up my money to come here. And Charmaine

has given us so many innovative and amazing ways to

make our first time guests feel like this is their home.

And it's her innovation and using technology and using apps

and doing things we'll never see in this room that

make people go away from here feeling like I just

came home and charmain. Today, I just want to publicly

thank you. Our church wants to say thank you for

being one that goes first and takes risk. And because

these aren't just principles, these are people. It's one of

my favorite people in the whole world. Come here, Miss Joanne.

Miss Joanne works a part of our facilities team and

has been a part of Greenwood from almost the very beginning.

Huh it's been yeah, twelve dep that's in the past, Okay.

I've seen Miss Joanne in seasons where thing was good,

and in seasons of loss, and in seasons of complete recalibration.

Come into this building early and bring every color of

mascara you could ever fine as an outward symbol of

the joy that is on the inside. And if we

start a song to party, the first one on the

dance floor, Miss Joanne. If we need to celebrate anybody,

the first one screaming, Miss Joanne. It doesn't matter if

she has overlooked for years in this church. She would

be the person to pick up everybody's trash when they left.

And today I just wanted to bring you on this

platform to celebrate you publicly. Thank you for always starting

to party and letting the joy of the Lord be

your trip. Can we let miss Joe Anne here the

appreciation for being a person of fun all right? Just

a couple of months one two, three, four, six seven,

I called it the great while left one off. What

type of church are we? One two three? We're a

church that values you being a part. We are a

people actively representing transformation. You see what we did there. Apart,

we are spiritual contributors, not spiritual consumers. We are the

Church and we exist for the world. There was a

couple I met a few years ago that I just

started seeing this beautiful woman like just put together, a

whole family put together. And I was like, who is that? Like,

you know some people you see in your church, is

like are they visiting? Are they hear what's happening? And

this woman of God and her husband and whole family

moved from Nebraska in a successful season to be a

part of what God was doing here. Brother Fred and Teray,

will y'all come up here real quick? These two serve

faithfully on several times. I can't even tell you all

the stuff they do, from worship to tribes, to counseling

people behind the scenes to meeting with people. They came

here and said, we're gonna give whatever we have to

build what God is building here. They didn't come to

be spiritual consumers. They came to be spiritual contributors. God's

put something in us and it's time for us to

give it away their whole family, and today I just

want to thank you. You don't know I've told you

this privately, but there's many times in seasons where I

was like God, is God doing? Is He still doing it? Here?

That the fact I will remember y'all's testimony that He

told y'all to come from a whole nother state, never

met me, never known anything. God just said it and

you obeyed it. You moved out here in crazy faith,

and we've seen God do amazing things. But God, since

y'all here from me, what you don't know is I

have literally many times remember but God, send Toray and Fred.

There's still something I gotta do. And thank you for

not coming and waiting to be asked to give what

we didn't even know was in you. Thank you for

freely being a part You've transformed so many people's lives,

especially your pastors, and today we thank you for being

a part of this vision. Can we give God? Come

on church. It's not principles. The culture and the vision

are people standing all over this place. Don't y'all move,

because this is how the church should look. I don't

want this stage to be big enough to hold everybody

a part of this. My question is will you get

in place? My question is how many of these boxes

could you fit on? We should be able to bring

each one of us up here and we jump from

crazy faith to worship, to being hot to pop it

to being a part to generosity of fund the enemy.

Because we don't want this to just be principles. We

want this culture to be people. Last scripture, y'all one

Corinthians twelve twelve. The human body has been made up

of many parts, but the many parts make up one

whole body. So it is with the body of Christ.

Go down to verse twenty seven. First Corinthians twelve twenty seven.

All of you together are Christ's body, and each of

you is a part of it. Today I want you

to be a part of this vision like never before,

because God's about to build something for the future. This

is the last day that we look behind us to

see like what did God do back there? Everything is

ahead today. I want to pray for you. Would you

lift your hands all over this building. If you're watching online,

this is for you too. You are a part of

what God's doing. Father. I thank you that today we

have heard the call that You've called us to something,

not to just watch it, but to put our hands

to the plow. Today. Father, there is a world that

desperately needs you. And Father, as the harvest is plentiful

and the workers are few, we will be ones to

step into the gap and we'll do the work. Will

be generous on every occasion, will worship You in spirit

and truth. We will be humble, open and trans parent.

We will value progression over perfection. Father, God. We will

be people that represent you. We will innovate, Father, we

will have fun doing it God, and we will live

in generosity and give, just to give and not to get.

We're all yours today. Let this culture be tattooed on

our heart and let us embody it outside of these

church walls. Let this not be a church thing. Let's

be a thing that is our lives. Give us the

faith to live in crazy faith. Whatever you have to

change in us, build your church, build it from the

ground up. If you're in this room and you haven't

put your life your house on the foundation of Jesus

before we leave here, if you didn't hear anything else

I said, I want you to be wise today. I

want you to be a wise builder. Build your life

on Jesus. It's the thing that changed my life. Took

me from being a liar or manipulator, addicted to pornography,

somebody who was far from God, and it brought me

to a place where I knew I needed him. If

you're in this room or watching this right now and

you want to put your life in the hands of

Jesus anew and afresh, or for the first time ever

on the counter, three, I just want you to lift

your hands. One, you're making the greatest decision of your life.

Two there's hands already going up all over this place.

Three just to lift your hand. I see you, my brother,

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

Transformation Church, I see you in more than that. At home,

God sees you. Hey, put your hand down with nobody moving,

because we're about to pray right now. That's what took

me from being a liar, a manipulator, addicted to pornography.

This prayer changed my life. And we all pray together

for the benefit of those coming to Christ. Would you

pray this prayer? Everybody, say God, thank you for sending

Jesus just for me today. I want to build my

life on you. I believe you lived, you died, and

you rose again just for me. Here's my life. Change me,

renew me, transform me. I'm yours in Jesus' name. Amen?

Can we give God praise all over this place? Oh?

Come on, y'all, Heaven is rejoicing. Hey, listen. If you

just prayed that prayer, I want you to text saved

to eight two eight two eight two, And for all

my other church members as you're even leaving right now.

Everybody listen to me. If this message made you want

to make a full commitment to being a part of

this vision, I want you to text the word apart

to eight two eight two eight two. Gideon only needed

three hundred. That's a message for another day. I'm not

looking for the crowd, I'm looking for the remnant, because

what's about to happen in this place. Even if you're

watching online and you know you're a part of this,

I want you to text a part to eight two

eight two eight two, and on your way out, we're

gonna give you a card of the vision so that

you can actually put this on your mirror, put this

on your dashboard. Start remembering this thing, because this is

not about the organization. This is about the organism. I

pray this will be the best week of your life.

That you're gonna start seeing visions and crazy faith and

you're gonna have the ability to write down that no

weapon formed against you well prospered. And if you need

prayer for anything in your life, our Alta workers are

here at the front. If you know you need to

build on something solid, you're going through a hard season,

don't leave this place without prayer. And if you're watching online,

I want to pray with you. Stay on because I'm

gonna come to the back and I'm gonna pray specifically.

Put your prayer requests in the chat right now. Father,

thank you for meeting us here today, and God, thank

you that as we build this church, it won't be

by Mike and it won't be by power but it

will be by your spirit, build your church and Jesus' name.

We agree, somebody say we agree, we expect amen. Go

out and live a transform life.

I love you so much, Church, thank you for joining

us today. If you said that prayer and accept it

Jesus into your heart, it's the best decision you could

ever make. We want to celebrate with you, and we

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