More Than Money // Triggered (Part 13) // Michael Todd

Welcome to Transformation Church podcast, where we represent God to

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

I really pray that God meets you at the point

of your expectation and your need today. Today's service is

a blessing to see thousands of people here in the

room and then help me welcome thousands of people online

right now. Transformation Church. Oh, y'all can do better than that.

I just want you to know that just because you

are not in this room, it does not mean that

you are a vital and valuable part of this ministry

and mission. I could make an argument that you might

be the most valuable part of this mission because most

of the people who are in here didn't start here.

They found us through this camera. Okay, let's just do

a survey. How many people found Transformation Church not coming

to the church first, but seeing a clip of video,

a YouTube, Instagram. Look around. Okay, I just I just wanna.

I just want to say that every person in this

room potentially represents hundreds of people, and the fact that

we are all gathered here today in crazy faith is

a testimony to what God is doing to enlarge his

church globally as well as the transformation that's taken place

in people's lives. And today I am grateful and honored

to stand here for the tenth time doing what we're

about to do today, asking our church to take a

step of faith by actually moving in generosity. And today

I'm gonna get right into the sermon because as a pastor,

I have a heartfelt burden to help God's people understand

the Bible says. And all you're getting getting not a quickening,

not a feeling, not goosebumps. The Bible says the greatest

thing that you can get when you're a part of something.

Is get an understanding.

And I think there are a lot of people that

have been in church a long time and when it

comes to offerings and things that churches do, you just

tolerate certain stuff and be like this will be over soon,

and like let's just move on to the stuff that

I like. But I think people are missing the actual

spiritual nature of what God is trying to do in

his children when he gives us opportunities to participate in

things that watch this are uncomfortable. I've never been to

the gym where it was comfortable. Now one time have

I all gone to the chiropractor and they said, just

sit here, this is going to be comfortable. What it

does do is help me. What it does do is

give me long life. But the actual process of what's

happening usually requires a level of watch this patient waiting

and trusting. When that man put his hands on me

and twists me away, and I don't know you, and

you're not my wife or my mama, and you say

breathe in deep, and.

I'm supposed to trust the school you went to.

And somehow when he tells me to breathe in deep,

and then he sets his whole body weight on me,

and I hear immediately the fear turns into thankfulness immediately,

like oh, whoa, I don't care where you went to school.

Thank you for putting me in a position that caused

me to get mobility back. Today, as we step into

this journey, as many of us have already decided and

prayed about what God is calling us to do, and

others are still undecided, and you came to Treasure today

and you're like crazy faith offering what are you talking about.

I got two dollars to my name. I don't care

nothing about what y'all talk about. Encourage me, Preachermaine. I'm

glad for whatever reason you're here, But my assignment is

to lovingly invite you into this faith walk.

The Bible says that just shall live by says.

This is what I've called you to do. And so

today as I speak this word, I speak it knowing

that if there was any year that I wanted to,

like ask God for a pause on the crazy faith

offering or this moment, it would be this year. Not

because God has not been good, but the climate of

our world right now is very unstable. I mean, we

don't know if the government's gonna be open or shut down.

We don't know if benefits for those who are need

and underserved are gonna be there. We don't know if

our healthcare is about to skyrocket in eighteen days. We

don't know a lot eggs prices, gas prices, daycare prices.

Some of y'all wouldn't have as many kids if you

knew how much.

If it to just watch them so you could have

a job to then.

Pay the people to watch your kids.

It seems like the air like you notice the air

on more and the heat on more.

You know when your parents.

Say, close my door, what you're trying to do? Heat

up the neighborhood like? And you you didn't get it

until twenty two twenty five, where some of us have

had the best year fiscally and financially ever to God

be the glory, while other people are like, carry the

two minus one.

And who can I pay later?

Life has been lifing, So why in the world would

in the middle of life, when people are grieving and

people are moving, and then there's this big holiday that

everybody puts so much pressure on called Christmas that Christ's

name is in it, But really it just feels like stress.

Miss oh okay. I thought I could be humble, open

and transparent today at TC the stress of getting addressed

for the Christmas party and I don't even want to

be in a dress, and trying to pay off this

credit card so I have enough to the gifts on

it to be able to then pay, and then trying

to figure out and in my car just and again

it's not everybody's situation, but I just wanted to get.

Up here as your pastor and let you know.

I understand that our life situations many times can affect

the way we approach our faith. Somebody's actually going through

a divorce right now and have made it up in

their mind. God wouldn't require this of me while I'm

going through this crap. And there are so many times

that we make up rules, regulations and hopefully passes when

we're just handling hard stuff. And so I just wanted

to come up here as your pastor and let you know,

like the crazy faith pastor, the one who wrote the book,

the one that was on the building like this year.

I wanted to be like, Lord, you really want me

to get up there and tell these people, this is

your plan for us is to not act in faith situationally,

but to live in faith consistently.

Can you begin to.

Remind me of his consistence that his grace and mercy

are new. Doesn't matter who's the president, doesn't matter, what's

going on in your school, doesn't matter what he said,

Grace and mercy, you can depend.

On it every morning, he said.

What I'm trying to teach my children is that consistency

and faith.

Is better than this loud, big look at me faith.

He said.

I want you to be consistent.

And so today I'm standing in my pastoral duty with

all the faith that I can muster up to tell

you that I'm aware of the climate, but that does

not change the conditions of being a Christ follower. I'm

gonna say it again, I'm aware of the climate, but

it does not change the conditions that God ask us

to live by. And that's why somebody's faith is going

to grow today. That's why my faith has been stretched

a decade into doing this. God said, do you believe

your words are my words? I said, that ain't even

a question. I'll be lying to myself all the time.

I said I wouldn't go to have no cake at

that birthday party, and there it was in my mouth.

I'm I'm just trying to identify with the humanity of

being a Christ follower. So today I want you to

hear me from leading you just a step in front.

I almost called this message a step in front of you,

because I don't want you to ever think that we

get so far in our Christian walk, even if you're

the pastor, that it doesn't require you to still have faith.

I don't want you to think that this is something

like oh passing Mike gets that this week I have

thought and contended for my faith, and today I wanted

to come with that level of honesty because I could

get up here and fake it, but y'all know me.

God won't let me preach nothing I ain't going through.

And so this week I'm gonna give the devil hell

and a black eye when I preach this message. No,

I'm saying this if this ain't for nobody else, it's

for me to remind me that if you don't contend

for your faith, the enemy will rob the very thing

that has brought you to this place you're at now.

And I believe by this honesty that I'm about to share,

God is going to invigorate, ignite, and give you another

ability to.

Trust God on a different level.

And so today I just want to approach this with

another level of reverence. Today, at the end of this service,

we're gonna have an opportunity to give some people have

already given, and I wanted to teach a message that

helped us understand that money is not the focus of

this act of faith. And the reason that I have

to help you with that because our natural mind goes

to how much how much we have, how much.

We don't have.

And so I wanted to do something very very simple

to let you know that our obedience to God when

we walk in crazy faith, listen to this, write this

point down that I'm gonna give you a scripture crazy

faith will always be defined by obedience, never amounts. If

you are going to do everything that God has called

you to do, he is always asking you for obedience,

never an amount, and He will give you specific amounts.

He will give you specific directions, He will give you

specific things. But God really don't care about that more

than he cares about obedience. How many things have been

free that we have disobeyed? How many times did he

to us to go call that person, to go to

that person's shop to say I'm sorry? And God is

saying to us that you're missing the principle if you

think that it is about how much the truth of

the principle of obedience is how quick, golly, I'm apprecia

this thing. No matter if you get it or not.

Obedience is about somebody say how quick. What God wants

is for him to be able to say something and

before he even finishes the sentence, our ability to begin

to move that direction has already started. How many of

us know, anybody with kids? How many of us know

that there is a sentence that you say often enough

that your kids know the sentence you are about to say.

Okay, come on, all of us have one of those.

And my children know, hey, just at the hey hey hey,

they're already aware if they just put the stuff down

and did not put it where it goes and they block,

hey hey, my children already have assumed that there is

about to be an instruction.

I have seen aba turn around on.

The hey hey, hey, hey, hey, not when I said

go pick up your shoes and put them in the cubby.

It was they already knew their her heart was postured

to obey before they even heard the instructions. My question

to you is if God says, hey hey, hey hey,

are you like hey hey, hey, hey hey, y'all know

what I'm talking about where we have a stand up,

Well God, hey, what do you? And God is saying,

I'm looking for my children to have quick obedience. And

the Bible says it like this, and we know this scripture,

but I don't know if we've taken into account how

much it means Fir Samuel fifteen twenty two.

But Samuel replied, does the Lord delight.

In the burnt offerings and the sacrifices as much as

in obeying the Lord? He's given a rhetorical question right here,

he said, you think God cares about them bigger mounts

you're about to drop? He said, The more valuable matter

is your obedience. He said, to obey is better than sacrifice.

Obedience is better than what now. I know some of

y'all are triggered because that was the scripture your parents

use before they beat you.

And I know because I was one of them.

And so what I'm saying to you is it took

me some years to undo the trauma because anytime I

heard obedience is better than sacibaire, you better do what

I say, Oh my boh bab.

And this now, I just need to let you.

Know how Mom wasn't at huh pray for me, and

this this means I had to actually stop and look

at it from God's perspective. God said, Michael, you praying

every day and disobeying me, is not it? Your obedience

to put down the weed is better than the sacrifice

of you leading the Bible study I'm gonna say some

real stuff to you right now. Your obedience to forgive

your husband is better than the sacrifice of you running

that nonprofit.

Well, I'm helping so many children.

But what I told you.

Was forgive him. I told you to forgive him.

But God, look at all the other children out of

displaced that I'm helping, and God said, I'll take care

of those children. Those are mine. I told you to

forgive him. God is trying to tell us that they're

watch this is there is a value system that is

more weighty than money. Obedience is more valuable to God

than your money, your time, your talent, and your treasure.

And if you really believe that, your offering.

Would have already started with the apology, your offering would

have already started by signing up for the gym membership.

He told you six years ago you were supposed to

get in shape. I'm walking back because if you throw

something at me, I want to have room to be

able to duck. For some of you, the sacrifice that

God wanted was not monetary. First, it wasn't coming out

of a bank account. It was going to require a

transaction of humility. And he's trying to tell us as

a church. Hey, I'm just bringing you to the end

of this year, and I'm using this little offering to

prick up some things in your heart.

I'm using this moment.

To make you search your heart, he said, because you

think it's about one hundred dollars, and I asked you

to get at one hundred dollars to test your obedience,

because there's about sixteen other areas that I've asked you

to be obedient in and you're still fighting. What's truly

value book, Your.

Obedience is better than your what And for so many

years we thought what we did for.

God and how we showed up for God, and how He.

Showed up for his church is what he wanted most.

And I came here to tell you that if you

don't give a dollar in this offering, would you please

give your obedience to God. I'm coming to set the

precedents forget any amount of money, a credit card swipe

do it? Would you please just obey him because on

the scaling system of Heaven, that weighs way more.

Do y'all hear what I'm saying to you right now?

Okay, So the title of today's message is very simple

and it's going to come from my burden to do

what Exodus eighteen twenty tells me. The Bible tells me

that my job as your pastor is to teach you

the way that you must walk and the work you

must do.

The way you must walk and the work.

You must do, so that means we gotta be moving

and we gotta be working. So right there, if this

year you have not been walking in the way of Christ,

and you have not been doing any work in the

name of Christ, this is where I'm inviting you into

this story. My job is to help you walk and

to know which way that we're going. That's why Exodus

eighteen twenty you can look at it. Teach them his

decrees and instructions and show them the way they are

to live and how they are to behave. So that's

why today I'm going to anchor this scripture in Matthew

chapter twenty six. And if y'all would just give me

just a few minutes to walk you down this, we're

going to actually get to a place that I think

is going to change our faith forever. Matthew twenty six,

verse six. It says, while Jesus was in Bethany, in

a home. In the home of Simon the Leper, a

woman came in with an alabaster jar, a very expensive perfume,

which she poured on Jesus's head as he was reclining

at the table. When the disciples saw this, they were indignant.

Why are you wasting all of this on that this

perfume could have been sold at.

A high price, and the money given to the poor.

Jesus said, chill, chill, chill, chill, chill, chill, chill. Aware

of this, Jesus said to them, why are you bothering

this woman?

She has done a beautiful thing to me.

The poor you will have with you always, but you

won't have me always. When she poured this perfume on

my body, you didn't understand what she was doing. She

did get it to prepare me for my burial. Truly,

I tell you, wherever this gospel is preached throughout the

entire world, what this woman just did in this room

with y'all sitting around, will also be told in memory

of not God, in me of her. Today, I am

fulfilling the prophecy of Jesus that he gave to them

in this room. I am talking about a woman who

actually gave in an extravagant way, a sacrificial way, in

the midst of people who did not think that it

was saying you could have said it might have been crazy.

But God literally stops them and says, hey, I don't

think y'all recognize y'all been walking with me, but you

not actually doing what I'm asking you to do. This

woman did something to prepare me for what she don't

even know is gonna happen. I've been telling y'all, I'm

gonna die. I've been telling y'all I'm about to go

be crucified for the sins of word.

Y'all still don't believe me.

So God had to call in somebody else from the

outside who would obey. I want you to see this story.

This woman is going to obey God in the midst

of people who call themselves believers, in the midst of

people who have seen all type of miracles. Mary wasn't

there when the fish were multiple applied to feed.

Twenty five thousand. She wasn't there when all.

Of these different miracles have The disciples.

Were there, and yet they.

Were close to Jesus but still did not have generosity

that looked like him. They were close, but so far,

And I don't want us to be a church that

is close. But we're so far because we haven't developed

the heart of this woman that we're talking about today. Today,

I found out in this story, this beautiful woman, it

was more about her heart and what God was doing

in her than what God did with what she had.

This exchange was about more than money. So today the

title of my sermon is more than money. I just

want to make sure that everybody knows that what we're

doing today is about more than money, because God would

never require it unless people had certain amounts and different levels.

He said, this is more. This ain't about money. Money's

a tool that I'm about to use to expose something

that's greater. This woman found out that God would respond

differently when we actually listen to his heart. Think about

this woman, Think about her for one second. The Bible

tells us. Sometimes we don't read the Bible. For the

Bible tells us she brings in an oil to this

dinner party worth a year's worth of wages. Let's not

theologically go down the road of how much that actually was.

Let's just use your money. Waking up every morning going

to that job, whatever it is, whether you like it

or you're not, on your own business, come and thrive

and booming.

Let's just take.

Everything you made since January first, last year, all the

way to this year, put it in some type of

container that is liquid, and take it to somebody that

you've heard does miracles and that you've seen in a

different way, and then pour out.

The entire thing. How long did it take to make

and how long did it take to pour out? It

took a year.

To make and a minute to pour out. Just think

about it. She's literally watching days, hours, minutes be poured

out for the cause of Christ. Now, most of us,

let's be honest, would have had the same reaction as

the Disciples. What no, bro, bro, you know, we don't mention.

You know, we stand from airbnb to airbnb in all these.

Cities, you know.

I mean, he just asked us a few days a

going to feed five thousand plus they baby, mama and

they kids. We could have used this much, I mean,

at least we could have used it for the poor.

There's some other way that would make more sense to

me for this money to be used than for the

cause of Christ. And I know this is hard for

us to understand, but this is the text of the day.

This woman pours out a year's worth of wages, on Jesus,

why you giving that money to that church? On Jesus,

nobody asks you why you're giving money to cable. I

have never had one person ask me why I'm paying

my AT and T bill. Not one time have anybody

ever had been you paying your mortgage your mortgage that money.

Could be saved and given to the poor.

Not one person has ever told me not to take

my family on a vacation. They actually what an active father,

whether they look at him up there just doing. But

it's so crazy that anytime we get ready.

To give and extend our faith.

And I'm saying it very broad because some of y'all

feel this way, like I'm trying to keep it real

general and let the conviction of the Holy Spirit hit

you wherever it may. Because the truth of the matter,

if some of us have already decided in our heart

for God, for this church, for more lights.

That's probably going for passing Mike's suit.

Oh yeah, he wearing that suit. I bet my five

dollars you ain't paid.

For nothing on me, period.

And nomen I know.

I'm just sure. I'm trying to help you. I got

a job just like you do. This is my job,

and I don't get paid enough of this.

I'm gonna tell you that, I.

Just this is a calling.

This is about more than money. So when I come

and God requires something of me, why is it at

that moment that the enemy tries to remind you how

much you can do with the money you about to

give to God. The enemy never reminded me when I

was doing things that I wasn't supposed to do with money.

How much money you spent on things that help you sin?

How many hotels? How many many bottles, how many club appearances,

how many outfits? How many panty hose? Let me stop,

let me stop? How how many peel prescriptions? How many

how many come on y'all? How how many? How many

videos and movies and subscriptions, and how many things? At

that moment, nobody's like you should take that money and

give it to the poor. Some of us have five cars.

Ain't nothing wrong with five.

Cars, but you haven't given one of them awaerever.

Oh, it just got tight. I just I just I just.

Felt it was wrong.

Motherfuck came. My daddy gave me a car, and no, no,

no no. And there was one time when you said, God,

if you would ever bless me, I'd obey you. I

do what you said we do. And it's somehow that

when we get to that place, somehow those thoughts mixed

with these actions never materialize in generosity. Because there are

four things that I found in this story that were

more valuable to God than money. I'm gonna give you

all four of them. The first thing that God values

more than money is your heart posture. This woman had

a heart posture that was ready to give to God,

even if it meant that it was everything she had.

This heart posture made other people that were around her

think that she was crazy. And this is where Matthew

six point twenty one comes in. It says, for where

the treasure is, your heart will be Also. Can I

just tell you your money and your heart have a

GPS tracking system on them. Wherever you put your money,

your heart goes to that place.

Some of you are wearing your heart today, and.

If somebody's spilt coffee on your heart, you would act

out a character. There would be no Christ's love in

you because they got some coffee on what you spent

money on some of you. Your home is your heart.

Everything pristine in there, don't matter if we're not talking.

This house is nice, okay stuff some people. Our heart

is in our children, Our heart is in our vacations.

Our heart is in I don't I don't know what

it is. But wherever your heart is, watch this. There

is money there. Show me where you put your money.

You care about it? Yah, think about it?

Well, you know I don't.

I don't splurgsh like this often. Come on, we know

what we tell ourselves. I don't do this but once

a year. But I know when the cell is coming.

Y'all know what I'm talking. Y'all see you, Mama, Chloe,

I see you over there. I know when the cell

is coming. And I don't do this often. Why Because

there's something we value. Do you know what God values

more than money? The right heart posture. And this is

the thing about I need everybody to hear me. This

is the thing about money is God is not in

a competition with money. And so he tells you one

of them is going to be your God, him or

the money. He literally tells you he doesn't compare himself

to anything else in the Bible except the spirit of Man,

which is the spirit that tells you if you have

more resource than you won't need God. And about ten

years ago I had to actually confess to myself, I

believe that I believe if I had enough m's in

the bank, these prayers is cool, but I could just

solve the issues. It's gonna be lonely up here today

because some of y'all right now, at that thirty five

fifty thousand, sixty thousand dollar job, you'd be like, if

you gave me.

Three MS, we don't got to pray about it.

I'm gonna solve that problem. I'm gonna solve that problem.

But I have the opportunity to counsel people with money,

and I'm here to report back.

Just in case you don't know that there are things

that money cannot solve. If you have greed in your heart.

That won't make you take out of your own children's

mouth to prove a point, even when you have so much.

I'm telling you what I know, not what I think.

And that's why God is like, hey, I want your

heart to be that watch this of a manager, not

an owner.

The problem with believers is.

You think that you own what you have instead of

being a manager.

But you can go back to the story of.

The talents when they got one, two, five, all of

them were gifts to them. They did not work for them.

This is what God says, I give you the ability

to produce wealth, and somehow when we produce it, now

it's mine. And God says, hey, something that I value

more than money. I'm fine with you having money, I'm

fine with you being blessed. I'm fining with you balling.

But something I value more than the money is your

right heart posture. And this young lady had the heart

posture that literally said, I know I've worked this entire

year in this culture of male chauvinism. Because you got

to remember the culture of this time. The only reason

she would have status is because she had money. Because

in this society, women were not at the same level

as men. So literally for her to come into the room,

the only reason they probably didn't stop her is because

they saw she carrying stacks like that.

They trying to see what's about to happen, and it

was watch this.

Watch what money is in most cultures and in today

it's significance. She was willing to pour out her significance

for the cause of Christ. Y'all didn't hear what I

just said. This is why God values a heart posture

more than he values money, because watch what a heart

posture exposes trust when you have the right heart posture.

We just sang all these songs about trust in God, and.

Then you get to do it.

And when it comes time to do it, it's like, Lord,

would you please send another way? But the Bible tells

us that we are supposed to in Proverbs three five.

Trust in the Lord with all our hearts.

Listen to the second part and lean not to our

own under this.

Don't make it. This is crazy.

Why you would ask me to step out and do

something like this in this moment of faith? God, this

is crazy. But my heart is postured towards you. So

even though this hurts, I'm aa be obedient. Even though

this doesn't make sense, I'm gonna be obedient. Watch this,

even though I'm young. I'm gonna be obedient. Young people

under the age of eighteen. Just because you do not

have a full time job doing all these other things,

God gives you wealth. He many times gives you things

through the things that you get through the things. Why

are you telling me this, pastor, Mike, Because I learned

my first gift of over one thousand dollars was at

the age of seventeen, and I was using what God

had given me to play drums to make money.

And I was doing all of this stuff and one day.

God topped tapped on my shoulder and said, hey, Mike,

is that yours or is it mine?

I said it is mine. Oh, y'all gonna be faked

with me real quick. It's mine.

It's all mine, and the Holy Spirit, that's fine, keep it.

And then he started to slowly introduce me to the

concept of generosity. And I remember sitting in prophetic age

ministry conferences and my parents' prayer conferences, and at Greenwood

Christian Center. I remember going to see Miles Munroe and

him asking, Hey, is there anybody here that believes that

God has called them.

To be generous and finances?

And I raised my hand and he was like, well,

you need to pray and ask God to sow and

then I'll put my hand down and go to the bathroom.

Can I be.

Honest with you, because the truth of the matter is

I trusted what was in my account more than what

was in my heart. Can I say how I feel it?

I trusted the God in my account more than the

God that was in my heart. And today I don't

know if that's your scenario, but I need you to

take inventory. Do you trust the God in your account

or the God in your heart? And this woman right here,

she had a heart postured towards God.

Why is this important?

Because I'm going to give you a formula right now,

and I want you to write it down and never

forget it. Posture leads to principles. If you have a

right posture on something, then you will embrace the principles

that help your heart stay in that place. If you

have the right principles, you develop the right pattern and

then you'll do it consistently. And when you get the

right pattern, then you develop power. And most people, the

power that God wants you to have is not there

because you haven't postured your heart to receive what He

has for you.

So he says, posture your heart to trust me.

And once you posture your heart to trust me, then

I will get you into a place where you embrace

my principles. That's why I'm teaching you about this. That's

why in March we're gonna do a series about stewardship

and finances and generosity, and we're not gonna ask you

to give anything in that series because I want you

to just understand the concepts, the principles so that you

can actually believe God and faith for what He can

do in your life. I don't want you to be

giving because of compulsion and manipulation. If you feel any

of that, please do not give anything. Go to God

and pray. We told you about this eight weeks ago.

This is if you just hearing about it because you've

been not at church. And this is what I'm saying

to you is I want you to know that's not

our heart. Our heart is to give you time to pray,

to think, to ask God to wrestle within yourself, because

at the end of the day, He's saying this principle

is all throughout the Word, and if you don't practice it,

you'll lose power. No one can serve two masters. They

will either love one and hate the other, or hate

one and love the other. And today I know that

you want to remodel your back porch. Guys, come on, y'all,

I know you've been planning to get a new car

because it's about to be cold and the heat is

real mid But I'm asking you, have you even considered

that God may be requiring something from you. This woman

had the right heart posture, and because she had the

right posture, but she did the right thing. The second thing,

God values more than money, values your sacrifice more than

he values your money. This is the reason I want

to say this is because a lot of people think

that everything you give is a sacrifice and it ain't.

Oh God, does anybody remember being broken college?

Okay? Come like okay?

Anybody remember? So for you to get like a good

cooked meal when you was in college, that was different

because you really had to go to somebody's house. Somebody

had to invite you over that had to be something,

or you came home and somebody cooked a meal for you.

And that was more valuable in college than it is

today for most people, because right now you can hit

a button and uber eat something and something good will

be at your house within forty five minutes. What I'm

trying to say to you is there are things that

may have been costly in one season that because of

the blessing of God doesn't cost you nothing, no more,

and you are counting it as an equal sacrifice because

it's the same actual act.

And it's not the same.

Sacrifice because you don't feel it as much because you're

more blessed. So you okay, I don't know how else

to say. This is anybody tracking with me right now?

Y'all doesn't look at me like I was giving you

doctor suits.

You is like hem I am sam jam am. Okay,

I'm gonna break it down. In one season of your life,

giving fifty dollars to somebody would have been astronomical because

you only had a hundred.

Where's my church today, boy, I'm talking about y'all looking

at me crazy. It's fine. I'm gonna keep going.

Then you prayed, then you asked God to use your gifts.

Then you got that degree, and now to give fifty dollars,

you'll give that when your kids go to spend the

night at their friend's house for the weekend.

Here, don't call me, just here. What used to take

prayer for you.

To give away doesn't even take a thought. But then

when God asked you for someone, it's like, we're gonna give.

I'm gonna get a fifty no sacrifice because he expanded

your capacity. So the thing that I've realized as we're

talking about value is value is not based on what

you give. It's what you give in correlation with what

you have. There was a season of my life that

what I gave it was so valuable because of what

I had, or I could say like what I.

Didn't have, I didn't have a lot, So it cost

a lot.

To give this.

And this is why so many people are actually.

In a place where they are working against the work

God wants to do in them because they forgot about

the promises they made to God. You told him God,

I will always serve you, I'll always honor you.

I'll give what you tell me to give.

And giving half of one hundred thousand, it's different than

giving a half of a hundred if your heart is

not postured right because everybody has a number, that's like ooh, even.

Though it's the same thing. If all you got is

one hundred dollars and God ask you for fifty, you

give it.

Hold God make way be the God that gets me

through this red seat.

Lord, I'm trusting and I'm saying my fullly because you man, you.

Move no, dude, I'm saying, we start praying, we start,

and then God gave you a job in the contract

that you made one hundred thousand this year, he said,

give me fifty thousand. Hold on, wait a minute, wait, wait,

hold up, God, do you know what I could do

with fifty thousand, he said, exactly, there's no more sacrifice.

And what we reason that ten is good.

Ten is good. Last year, I get fifty dollars, but

it didn't cost the same.

Oh God, I got The reason why this woman goes

down in the Hall of Fame of generosity is because

of how much it costs compared to what she had.

And everybody wants to always talk about tithing and it's

Old testamenty and it's Old Testament and.

Giving ten percent.

Y'all better embrace tithing because everywhere in the New Covenant

they ask for all of it.

In the Old Testament, they like, just get ten.

Percent, Just get ten percent, Just get ten percent. Everybody,

just get ten percent.

If you just get ten percent.

In the New she poured out on Jesus her entire

year worth the work. You're talking about ten percent. And

God's like, hey, the Covenant didn't come to abolish it.

It came to confirm it, and some people watch this

will never get to experience what it's like to live

at the level of God's provision because they will never

release what's in their hand. There are some things.

That God only supplies when.

You let go of what He's already supplied. He's asking

you to trade hands. Trust me, I give seed to

the one who will actually And that's why this woman

gets Jesus's attention because she did not so based on

a percentage. She gave it all. Pastor Mike, what are

you saying to me? This opportunity to give is not

equal amounts, but equal sacrifice.

I may be given only.

Five dollars, fine, but what God is looking at is

was that a sacrifice based on what I gave you

and what I told you. How do we know this,

Pastor Mike, because you can go study Luke twenty one

with a woman with two mites. She had two mites.

This was a fraction of a penny in today's society.

And this woman walks into the temple when our offering

is going on and all the disciples is making it rain,

and all these Pharisees and Sadducees are stowing money up

in the air, and they bringing bags of coins, and

they're trying to impress Jesus. And the thing he gets

up and is impressed by is a.

Woman who walks in with two mites.

Because the value was not in the amount, it was

in the sacrifice. And she drops the two mites in

and in Luke twenty one, you can go read it,

he says. Everybody, stop, Look what she just did. I

know I don't want to bring no attention to people's

giving and all that other stuff, but I'm about to

do it right now. Look what she didn't get, nothing

but two mites, and you gave a whole bunch, but

she gave out of her Today, Church, I'm inviting you

into the spiritual principle of actually trusting God. How do

you know you trust God is that you actually will

sacrifice and believe that he will do what he said

he was gonna do. I don't gotta back up plan.

I don't got another way that this is gonna happen.

I don't know what's gonna.

Happen tomorrow, but I know who holds tomorrow, and today I'm.

Gonna obey him. What I got in my hands.

Number three, something that God values more than mommy money.

God values memory more than money. See, most people don't

realize the context of where this story sits. Does anybody

know who Mary's brother is? Who's Mary's brother rus? In

just a few chapters earlier, Mary is crying out for

Jesus to come because her brother is dead. Jesus does

not come at the time. He's trying to prove a point,

and so he lets Lazarus die. They wrap him up

in the grave clothes, and they literally are doing the

celebration when Jesus walks.

Up and he says, why, why y'all what I miss?

And they said, Lazarus, we call for you. If you

had been.

Here, this is the same woman. If you had been here, Jesus,

we say, you do miracles. If you would have been here,

he would be alive.

Watch her faith.

But even now he's dead, he's wrapped up.

They're singing the funeral songs.

But even now, if you decide you want to do

a miracle in this, I feel my help coming off.

Somebody say, even now now, even I'm looking at the

bills at the end.

Of this month. But even now, even as I'm sitting here.

Trying to figure out my emotions in the midst of

this situation. Even now, if you decide you want to

do something in the situation, I have the faith to

believe you. Somebody shot at me even now, saying with

faith even now, Mary remembered because she was there, emotionally

drained from crying for four days and still using the

little mustard seed of faith that she had left to say, God,

I know you can still do a miracle.

And she showed, she shows us how to soul what

she has left.

She sold in that moment what she had left, which

was her faith in God. That's all she had. So

we thought, because at this same moment, that jar of

oil was sitting at her home, at that same moment,

she had something accruing in the background that she watches

Jesus bring her brother back to life, turn up party,

celebrate Lizy, Lizzy lazy back e sad like we're turning

up because my brother once was dead. Not yet. She

could have celebrated in that whole moment and not said

this requires a response. See, we think the shouting is

a response. We think the clapping is a response. So

I came to church to day, and I gave God

everything he deserved. That made you feel better. You've been

depressed all week. Lifting your hands in worshiping God.

It did something in you. Did you really give God

what he asked for?

Some days later, this woman finds out there's a dinner.

We don't know theologically if she was even invited, but

she said, this is my opportunity. I don't know how

much longer we have him, because he keeps telling us

that he's going to prepare a place for us. And

I don't know what that fully means right now, but

I know that I have an unction in my heart

to pour out what I have, not just in an

ethereal mode. I want to do something practical. She walks

into this room, thinking they are going to stone me.

This is not protocol, and every step of fear, she said,

but I remember, I remember where God brought me from

the Bible tells us watch this. Lazarus is sitting at

the table. So anytime she was about to doubt one,

she just looked at her brother, laughing and eating and

praising and.

Said, I got to do what God told me to do.

I don't care how this looks to y'all, I don't

care if this doesn't make sense to you.

This may think, this may make you think I'm crazy,

but I'm about to pour out this oil.

I'm gonna break my alabaster box on the one who

actually gave everything for me. And I'm just challenging y'all

man to remember the one who gave everything for you.

How much would your salvation cost? None of onll for real,

like if people had to pay two point five million

dollars for salvation. I just want you to think about it,

like you would work your whole life to know you

made it to Heaven. You were forsake trips and visits

you and God said, I love the world so much

that I demonstrated this act of generosity. He loved the

world so much he did what Dad.

I'm gonna show you what love looks like.

It looks like sacrificial generosity.

Oh sacrifice.

I was the lamb that was slain before the foundations

of the world for while you were yet sinners. I

went to become a sacrifice for you and your children

and your mistakes and your mess ups and your hurts

and your pains and your trauma and your drenchers I

went to do it all. And all I'm asking you

to do is when I speak to you, with what

I've already given you, would you be able to make

a sacrifice for me? And it's not for him, it's

for the other children that don't know the sacrifice that

He's made. The reason why God asks us to give

to the churches because the church is supposed to be

an extension of His hands and feet to the world.

And I am sorry that some men and women have

gotten in these positions and manipulated and abused and misused

people's resources.

I cannot be responsible for what they have done. But

what I can.

Stand here is it in is in full transparency and

purity that since God has blessed this church, excuse me,

before He blessed this church, we have been sowing seeds

into the community, into people's personal lives. It would take

us all day to go through the testimony of how

we have been the hands and feet, how we have

been the hands and feet when a hurricane go to Jamaica.

Money's sitting before y'all even get to church. When somebody

is in a place of need. We have been doing

stuff for years. The reason I'm telling you this and

not making it a PowerPoint presentation because I don't want

you to be I don't want you to be compelled

to give because you see it's a good cause. Now,

because I could convince you this is a good investment.

It doesn't take faith to give in a good investment

that you know you're getting a return on. It takes

faith to obey God at his word. Were just saying

that just to take him at his word, And most

people won't trust God at his word. And I know

this starts to bother the things on the inside of us,

and we start to say, passing, how you're doing it.

I'm coming and I'm on your side too. I'm appreciing

it's just one step ahead of you. I had to

go back and say, God, why am I giving? Why

are you requiring this of me? I'm trying to figure

out what I'm doing for my son's schooling, and I'm

trying to figure out what I'm doing with this. God

can use money in a lot of different areas. Why

are you requiring this to me? He said, Because this

is about more than money. This is about your heart posture,

This is about your trust in me. This is about

your sacrifice. This is about your memory and the last

thing it's about. This is the last one, and we're

going to give, he said, Michael, when you actually trust

me with your finances, you got to realize that God

values eternity more than he values money.

Eternity.

See, the thing that you got to realize is that

when we give to God's house, it shows that we

value eternity more than we value this present day. And

I know this is stuff we don't talk about because

anytime we think about he tnity, most people go to death.

And I would like to tell you at some point

in your journey, you're gonna die. No, I just need

everybody to hear me say this in church.

The one thing Aby's.

Death.

And then there's another thing you're gonna experience.

You're gonna stand before God, and the Bible says there

will be a book and books.

I just want to paint this picture. And I know

some people gotta.

Leave, but please don't miss the revelation that God's given you.

There will be a book that there will be names

written in of people who accepted Jesus, and then there

will be books. Watch this this book you get in

by grace, feel free if you believe, the books are

a record of every work that you did on earth.

And I know people don't talk about this because they

was like free gift of God. Salvation is Salvation is

definitely to get in the book free confess belief, God says.

But after salvation, you're supposed to help the calls. Don't

rep the jersey and not play. You got the jersey on, you.

Got the practice warm up, you got the bumple sticker,

and you won't play.

He said, I need you to start being recorded in

what you do in this earth because eternity matters. That's

why God told us that we were a church that

was called to the lost and the found for one reason.

What is it transformation in Christ. And until you remember

who you were, you forget that your memory.

Is your motor for generosity. Some of y'all just need

to think about your memory. If you would just.

Think about where you were, how broken your family was,

which greed was in your heart, how many relationships you

would have destroyed if God would have outed you in

that season. What you won't find is that the grace

of God has covered you every step of the way.

And what I'm telling you right now is that God saying,

would you just remember for a second, you have a

reason to be generous Matthew six nineteen, because God values

eternity more than he does money. He tells us this,

do not store up for yourselves treasures here on earth,

where moss and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in

and stel, but store up for yourselves. What does this say?

Treasures in heaven where nothing can still or destroy it,

where thieves don't break in and stell for, where your

treasure is your heart will be also Transformation Church. I'm

here to tell you that because of your generosity and consistency,

tidening and giving, because of that, we've stored up our

treasures in heaven because they're earthen vessels. And yes, we

trust this house and the stewardship, and we've been audited

and we get audited every year, and we make sure

that we do all of the practical stuff to make

sure that if anything was ever assumed about us, we're

gonna open up the books. We have people who have

been here with us for over twenty years making sure

that things are above board and have been done in excellence.

We're not just trying to represent in the things that

people see, we're trying to represent in the things that

they don't see. And there's no way for me to

tell you that except to just tell you that. And

for where most people would be like, well, I don't care.

In the church this, God's gonna do what he's gonna

do in this church period. It has been proven over

decades God has provided for his church, and I am grateful.

The thing that I'm trying to do as a pastor

is lead you into the thought that this is about

more than money. You can buy a new Gucci belt,

and have a new Ermes purse, and get you a

new car and all those different things and made no

eternal impact. Those things will not be counted When God

asked us, what did we do with what I gave

you seventy years? If we're lucky, everybody over the age

of seventy, raise your hands in here. Seventy or early,

can we thank God for longevity?

There was less than fifty hands.

I want you to I want you to see how

fragile and how blessed y'all are less than fifty hands

in a room full of thousands of people.

And every day, every moment, every hour, every dollar, God

saying what you do with what I gave you? We

decided to be a church that cared about eternity, that's why.

So what that equated to is that every dollar that

comes in automatically ten percent of it gone. The team

knows ten percent of everything that comes in.

Do you know some.

Churches don't subscribe to taking a tenth of what they

give what they get and give it away. And I'm

not judging anybody. I just told the team that we

could not expect any person do to do what the

church don't do immediately. And so it's been over a

decade of us just ten dollars come in, dollar gone.

This is how we were able to give conference away

for free this year. Do you know how many people? Yeah,

y'all gotta hear me say this. This is how we've

been able to give millions of nonprofits and organization this

year along we've given away one point eight million dollars

to people outset. Y'all don't know when to praise.

Almost two.

All right, And I know for some of y'all's just money.

It's a heart posture. I can't tell you how many

times I've looked at Tammy and been like, Oh, we

gotta keep doing what we said. Huh, we gotta keep

we gotta keep obeying God right because we could really

just you know, invest that we could really and how

in the world what I stand before.

You as a people and say God.

Has given us so much, we gotta stay consistent in

our faith. So today I just want to take all

the pressure off and I want you to go to

heart posture like this woman married. She was giving Jesus

something that other people thought was crazy. Here I am,

as your pastor to tell you, somebody is gonna think

it's crazy for you to do what you feel like

God's called you to do, but Jesus is going to

recognize it as a sacrificial obedience step that's going to

change the trajectory of your life this year because of

the generosity of people who think eternity is important. Let

me tell you how many people's lives have been transformed

in Christ to date. Get ready to shout fifteen thousand,

nine hundred and forty five salvations because we.

Care about eternity.

Glory to God. That's somebody's son, that's somebody's daughter, that's

somebody's mother, that's somebody's father, that's somebody's cousin. Do you

know how many churches we help keep their doors open,

how many people we help to believe? Pastor mic is

it that important eternity is and people knowing that God

cares about them? Today, I wanted to as you prepare

to give, some of you have already decided that you're

gonna give, if you have not been open to it

to this point, I just want to ask you to pray.

I'm not gonna tell you no amounts. I'm not gonna

tell you nothing because it doesn't matter. Remember, it's not amounts,

its obedience. And I know the people who have already decided.

There's thousands of us that decided everything I have is yours, God,

and I trust you. And there's some people that are

about to take a step for the first time. And

I'm so excited for you because what's about to happen

is you're about to watch this interrupt the generational cycle.

Some of you are about to interrupt the generational cycle

of lack and greed. You're about to interrupt the generational

cycle of fear. You're about to interrupt the generational cycle

of believing that this actually gives significance when only God can. Today,

I just it's been so heavy on my heart because

a lot of people. I'm gonna just be real with y'all.

There's a day I'm believing God for and I'm just

gonna throw the vision out here. Is not Vision month yet,

but I'm gonna just throw the vision out here. I'm

asking God to bless people so abundantly with the heart

of generosity that there are certain things we can't do

as a church legally to meet people's needs through this organization.

I've tried. I've done all kinds of things, and we

didn't talk to every tax professional everything. Because me, I

see somebody needs a house, I want to go buy

my house. That that's me. And people who are close

to me understand, somebody needs a car, Let's go buy

them a car like I'm not. I'll give them my car.

I'll find a car like that's me. I have not

been able to find many brothers and sisters that work

on that same level of generosity. And I've dreamed and

I've talked to some people close to me. I want

God to bless your endeavor and your business and your

money and your household. But it not be tainted by greed,

so that we can come together over coffee and say,

this year were not given. We're giving our money that

God told us to give to the church. But we

also add another put whatever number on it you can

think of, and me and you and that person in

this person, and gonna put money in the bank together,

and we're gonna create a board of people who when

people just have needs, the church will call us. I

gotta throw it out there because I gotta find my people.

The church will be fine. But Sally needs a car,

and we know the car dealership. Wire them twenty thousand,

get him the car, get him the title, get them

the insurance for a year, put them in financial classes.

I need somebody not to just want the church to

do it, but to step up and be the church.

Who will you it.

You want to develop houses, Let's build them. They need food,

Let's get a grocery store. But God can't trust us

with the He can't trust us with the basic matters.

Keep trying to steal something from us when he's the

one who gave us everything in the first place. This

week I heard about an organization. It tapped my heart

because this has been at me for so long. This

week I heard about an organization who, as one of

the last survivors of the nineteen twenty one race massacre,

just went on to be with the Lord this song.

And if you don't know about what to happen in

Tulsa in nineteen twenty one, I need you to study

it because it's history they're trying to.

Take away from our country.

But it really happened. It's one of the most affluent

African American metropolitan areas in the world. And literally one thousand,

two hundred and fifty six homes were burnt to the ground.

Did you hear what I just said? One thousand, two

hundred and fifty six homes were burnt to the ground

less than twenty miles away from here, less than one

mile from where our church was founded. And God told

us to come here through Bishop and PASSADEBBI and reverse

the curse. They told us to come here and reverse

the curse. How do you reverse something without any resources.

We'll just pray.

We pray.

You can't build a house with just prayer.

Ne Amiah had to pray and work Leamyah to rebuild

the wall. They needed materials. Leamyah had to believe God, but.

I can't come down.

There was work happening and somebody had to pay for it.

And it's like this idealistic thing like the church should

do the.

Most with nothing, call on God.

We give all our money to everything else, but if

God requires anything. Somebody trying to steal from you. And

I heard about this organization that's their goal is to

rebuild and help preserve one thousand, two hundred and fifty

six homes in North Tulsa and they've been doing it

for about three years now. So today, as we're about

to give in generosity to this church, we're gonna give

to the community that.

God birth this church in So.

One two five to six Movement does a check for

fifty thousand dollars from Transformation Church coming to help you

continue to reveal.

People that God cares about. Come on, y'all, let's celebrate

what God is doing.

This This is because that's somebody's daughter and son and

grandmother and more than all that as somebody's child, it's

his child. Me and Bishop made a pact no matter

what God does, we'll never forget about North Tulsa. And

you can check the record. There's been millions of dollars

that this church, even people who have never been to

Tulsa have given back to so sede into the place

God birtht us out of thank you for remembering those

who many people for God, Bishop as a white man

to go back to North Tulsa because God said to

reverse the curse when you could have easily walked away.

I need us to celebrate the crazy faith of our

founding pastor.

Oh, y'all can do better than that.

Thank you, man and woman of God. We're about to

go stand up all over this place. There's a church

in Dallas who just started. What's that point? I said?

I said, God values memory more than he values money,

saying with me, God values memory more than he values money.

I remember I took my daughters to fifteen nineteen yesterday,

even had a game out there, and I just her

grandparents lived close and we got to pass to go

to their house. I just stopped and told my daughters.

I was like, this is where God started fulfilling promises

to your mommy and daddy that I never thought he

would do. And I said, what was your favorite memory

of being here? And they talking about taking pictures on

the wall and doing all this other stuff, and I

remember walking to that church with no car as the

senior pastor of the church. I remember walking and trying

to walk early enough that none of the congreg gets

thought I was crazy because I was literally why. I

had no car, but I had faith. And I was

sitting there and trying to teach my daughters in this

moment that they don't really they can't really grasp because

it's like, as long as we've known you, Dad, you've

had everything that we've ever needed. I was like, no, guys,

I need you to know that it took faith and

dedication and trust and prayer and agreement to be able

to do what God's called us to do. And God said,

don't forget that, because there's a church that's believing for

great things right now and they need somebody to believe

in them, like Church on the Move believed in you.

And yesterday, I remember when we were at a place

of growing in our church and they sent over an

outreach pastor from Church on the Move and they gave

us a twenty thousand dollars check. It might as well

been twenty million dollars. No, no, no. The level of faith,

the level of belief the level of you see us

that happened when that check came to our church. It

gave us the fuel to go until this day. And

God said, don't forget. Remember.

And so we found a church in Dallas, Texas.

And the Fort Worth Metroplex that just out their first building,

and we saw that they were online asking anybody to

help them.

They needed to raise.

Ten thousand more dollars to be able to do the

finishing touches, to be able to get their people and

occupy that space. Well, I need somebody to call reach

City Church pastor Isaiah and Kelly Williams and tell them

there's a fifty thousand dollar check on the way from

Transformation Church. Because we remember.

Believing God and we steal what sad the fight.

To see His kingdom be built.

Will somebody give God praise.

In this place? Thank you Lord.

We could have very easily got out of this service.

Everybody give let's go home. But God said Michael, as

the leader's your heart posture. I text Tammy and Bres,

now how much do we have left to give away?

I had watched this, Can I be honest? I had

trepidation texting it.

I felt some type of way because it's like I

gotta step out in faith again, because whatever they say,

it ain't mine, it ain't the churches, it's God's yesterday.

As over two hundred people feel this place so.

Families could have Christmas.

All over the world. We packed all.

Kinds of things for people to experience. Do y'all know

that's because of the.

Generosity of the people that are in this room right

now and some that are all over the world. The

things that we've been able to do is because eternity matters,

and we know that the local church is God's plan

to reconcile humanity. No matter how broken or ugly his

bride is, it's still his girl. I don't know. You

might think it's ugly, but he's crazy about her.

Y'all ever met somebody, I think it was Kevil on

stage said she is pretty to me.

Like It's like like, no matter how broken or messed

up for people abuse it, the bride of Christ is

still the plan for people to meet Jesus. He said,

take care of my bride while I'm gone. And I

heard about a good friend of ours who was stepping

out in twenty twenty six to start a church in

one of the hardest places to start a church in

New York City, prostor Chris Theirs. And there is a

significant seed that I'm believing God to do something in

New York. And God told me that I was supposed

to lead our church in sowing a seed into that

city so that we could see a massive harvest. So

would somebody tells Chris, there're sowing his beautiful wife that

there's a check for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars

coming from transformation to church. Would you celebrate all over

this place? Come on, we want to see New York same.

We want to seek good company. Church actually be everything

that God has called them to be. We're gonna see

a harvest in New York, hear me. But you can't

spect the harvest where we don't sow today because your

internity is more than more important than money today. My

last point is not on the thing. You know what

else is more important than money? You You are more

important than money. So if you're in a place of

a space where you can't even think about stepping into

generosity because your soul has been so disconnected from the

same today, I want to let you know more than

an offering. I want you to have an introduction those

of you have decided to give. We're gonna have a

moment where the worship team is about to come up.

But I feel the presence of God. He's stirring people's

hearts right now. Watch this, not four amounts, but for obedience.

Some of you are gonna walk out of here and

disobey God. And now you've decided, all right, yes, Lord,

there's some young people in this room that's like, my

fifty dollars ain't gonna do nothing. My ten dollars ain't

gonna do nothing. Yes, it will not for the church.

For you, hear me. Some of you are gonna have

to go to your business accounts and some of you

are gonna have to cash in some different things.

Oh, God wouldn't require that.

Listen to me. I don't know how this woman turned

the year's worth of wages into perfume because I don't

know if they pre paying perfume drops.

Y'all ain't thought about it, But this is how I

think about the Bible. Can you pay me in fuman drops?

I don't think she did that.

I think she exchanged her wages for what she.

Knew she had to pour out, so it took work.

I got to go to the bank tomorrow, your pastor,

I'm saying this. I had to go to go to

the bank tomorrow because I was gonna do something. And

God said that ain't what I said. That ain't what

I said. That's what you felt good with, That ain't

what I said. And when he said it, it was

only thirty more minutes to get to the bank on

a Saturday, and I didn't make it to the bank.

And then I tried to let the excuses of not

making it to the bank on Saturday, well, crazy faith

offering is Sunday. Boy. It felt like God was like, boy,

because I was trying to make an excuse because it

might have taken a little more work to do what

God told me to do, but my obedience is valuable.

At the moment I decided I was gonna do it

in my heart, God said, there it is. It's a

done deal. I told them. I was like, I gotta

go to bank on Monday. Why are you saying this

to me?

Passing like, because I'm just one step aheady.

Obeying God with you. I haven't figured it all out.

Me and my wife is having to struggle and pray

through and talk through how it's still equal sacrifice. It's

still gotta be equal sacrifice for me. Thank God he

gave me a New York Times bestselling book and thank

God is about to be a movie, and thank God

they re releasing this. Guess what that means?

More sacrifice to whom much is given.

And I'm just asking all the people who are blessed

in here, have you forgotten the sacrifice today? I remember

Gabby today, I remember Carl today, I remember Will today.

I remember that like, it's not about how much I

give it did it cost me anything? Because on the cross,

the New Testament example of Jesus is what did he do?

He gave everything.

So that you could be saved. What's more important than money?

You So today, if you've never received Jesus, I'm gonna

pray for you. And all I want you to do

is raise your hand if you want to receive Jesus.

Watching online, watching in the correctional facility.

Oh can I tell you a testimony? Because, oh my god,

I just got excited because of the generosity of Transformation Church.

About three years ago, we decided to partner with God

behind bars to actually give money to them, actually getting

iPads in the correctional facilities and so that they can

watch information church in jail. We have seen this year,

just this year, just this year, we've seen over eighty

nine hundred salvations in the penitentsary.

Can we get y'all, don't go in a shout man, Hey, thousand,

nine hundred people.

Have given their life to Quice. How many more iPads

can we give? How many more sons and daughters can

be reached? How many more parents will their prayers will

be answered because of a message that was preached on

this platform. They watched our Easter We just messed up

and put our Easter production on the pando app. Well,

how many people watch? What was it? Over two hundred

and fifty thousand watches.

Of the Easter presentation.

When I was hungry, you fed me. When I was thirsty,

you gave me a drink. When I was naked, you

called me Jesus. We didn't do this for you. When

you did it to the least of these, you did

it from me. If it was about butts and seats,

we'd be trying to get people. But who's reaching the

people in prison? Host Some Mike, why are you saying

all this? Because God cares about some stuff more than

he does money. If you want to receive Jesus and

put your name in that book, a Lamb Book of

Life on account of three, I just want you to

lift your hands in the room and watch it online.

Nobody leaves, then we're gonna give. We're gonna sing a

worship song. You can come give in the buckets, and

we have people who've already given online. The people online

were seeing your comments. Thank you for your generosity. For

some of you, you're gonna have to go and think

some more, but do not let the situation stop you

from actually being obedient to God. The Bible loves cheerful givers.

And today we're about to see this transaction happen because

somebody's soul is about to be saved because of other

people already believing before this, and then more are coming

because of what we're about to do today. If you

want Jesus number one, you're making the greatest decision of

your life to your name is gonna be written in

the Lamb's Book of Life. If today you're tired of

going on your own and being drug around by lies,

and pornography and deep dark things like I had in

my heart. On account of three, I want you to

lift your hands one two three if you want to

receive Jesus. I see hands, I see hands, I see hands.

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

I see you myself.

Come on, I see you, and more than that, God

sees you. This is what it's all about. So proud

of you, my brother, Transformation Church.

Nobody prays alone. Would everybody lift their hands for the

benefit of those coming to Jesus. Everybody say, Jesus, thank

you for sending your love to me. I believe you lived,

you die, and you rose again with all power so

that I may live in freedom.

Here's my life.

I repent, I turn away from sin, and I turned

to you. Change me, renew me, transform me. I'm yours

in Jesus' name, Jesus. Amen, Transformation Church. Can we give

the biggest shout of the day? Oh, come on in Christ,

Welcome to the family. If you just pray that prayer,

I want you to text saved the eight too A

two eight two. Listen su time for our crazy faith offering.

If you're in this room and you want to give

there's not gonna be no lines. There are buckets all

over this place. If you need to worship for a second.

If you're online and you're saying I'm going to transform

Church dot us and I'm gonna give, there should be

a QR code to be able to give. Do it

knowing that God is requiring us to be obedient to

His word. I believe that everything that you believe in

this next season is attached to your obedience to God,

not to the seed, to.

Your obedience, and we're one that are gonna sow seed.

So all over this place.

If you have your crazy Faith card, we want.

To pray for all of those states.

I want you to put those in the bucket or

put them on.

The back walls. Write it on the wall if you

are in this room or online. You can also put

them on social media. And we're gonna be praying through

those things, and you never know, there's some people that

are gonna be looking to meet those needs as well.

Because God has blessed us, Me and a couple of

partners that I believe God is raising up right now.

God is gonna do miracles, signs and wonders. Yes, I

want to pray over you. Would you just lift your

hands right now, Father, I thank you for this church

who has decided to be generous, who's decided to obey

your word. Today, God, I take the pressure off of

every person in this room to do anything other than

obey you. You will not ask us for what we

do not have. So today I thank you that you

are a good, good father, and we believe as a

church for signs, miracles and wonders. I pray, as the

shepherd of this house, would you bless your people abundantly.

I need somebody to receive this right now. Would you

bless your people abundantly? And would you maintain and create

an us, a pure heart that would be able to

sustain the blessing.

Without being tainted.

Bless their businesses, Bless their homes, Bless their investments, Bless

their little bless their two mites. Today I declare that

by this time next year, there are stories and testimonies

of your goodness in the area of us trusting you

with everything that's yours. Anyway, for those who are not

in the room, that are online, that are giving in

crazy faith, Father God, I thank you that this will

produce a harvest of souls I pray for miracle, signs

and wonders. Do it only you can't do God and

Jesus' name. We don't trust in the man, we trust

in You. So here I am living sacrifice in the

land of living. Yep, seel me cool, Please raise what

I'm giving me Cool. Thank you for joining us today.

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