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Trigger Something Different // Triggered (Part 12) // Michael Todd

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

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

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

  4. God will transform your life.

  5. Do today's message thank God for the faith that's in

  6. the room.

  7. I have an assignment.

  8. Today and I'm gonna get right into it because I

  9. need all the time. I want to let you guys

  10. know that this is a season of great faith for

  11. our church. And you've heard it over and over. You've

  12. heard beautiful testimonies. You've heard Pastor Charles and Pastor Bris

  13. and even the testimony of the Young Lady this week

  14. and last week talk about how this crazy faith time

  15. of sowing is an opportunity for us to.

  16. Exercise our faith. I just need to let everybody know

  17. something real quick. Who's in here or watching online.

  18. This is not a ploy for the church to get money.

  19. I need to say it because right now a lot

  20. of people you're thinking, we fine, We're gonna be fine.

  21. God provides for this. I gotta say this.

  22. This is an opportunity for your house to transform. I'm

  23. telling you because this has changed my life. I would

  24. not be up here talking to anybody about giving to

  25. God's house unless this was biblical, unless it was patterned

  26. in the Word, And there's tons of places I could

  27. go to. Most people would do a giving series at

  28. this time. But I always fight that because I want

  29. it to be a byproduct of our obedience. I don't

  30. want to convince you to do what God.

  31. Has already told us to do.

  32. And a lot of times in this moment, if we

  33. were trying to do something to build something, people would

  34. try to be doing stuff. All I'm giving us next

  35. week is an opportunity. Somebody say, an opportunity. I'm giving

  36. you an opportunity to exercise the one thing that God

  37. says it's impossible to please him without.

  38. It's your faith. And a lot of times.

  39. Some of y'all think y'all strong until you need to

  40. move to bed. Come on, let's be honest. You'd be like, oh, yeah,

  41. I can get that. In the same thing happens with

  42. our faith. Many times, a lot of us feel like

  43. we got strong faith until God says, hey give this,

  44. shed that, let that go.

  45. And every year as a church, we make it an opportunity.

  46. And I'm thinking about, you know, we.

  47. Represent I'm thinking about changing crazy faith offer to another

  48. time of year. I'm thinking about making it in April

  49. or June or July, because I need everybody to know

  50. this is not about anything except will you obey me.

  51. When I tell you too?

  52. Because the truth of the matter, Pastor Charles, is I

  53. be getting asked to give stuff away all year long.

  54. I want to say, the life of a believer and

  55. obedience is not just a one time of year's thing.

  56. The life of an obedience is God, what are you

  57. requiring of me?

  58. Somebody say today?

  59. What we do at Transformation churches, we make one time

  60. a year for everybody. And this is the great thing

  61. about it. And I'm so proud as a pastor. The

  62. majority of the people in this room that call Transformation

  63. Church their home, they do this every month as they

  64. set aside tithe and say, God, you don't got to

  65. give me one time a year. I'm gonna I'm gonna

  66. trust you every single time. I get increased, as the

  67. Bible says, And that's what I applaud, because one time

  68. in the gym is it's not as good as fifty times.

  69. You go one time and lift one hundred pounds and

  70. come out and you videotape it and have a full

  71. thing and everybody clapping, you get a thousand likes. That

  72. ain't gonna make you no strong. You just be sore

  73. for the week. Everybody got what I'm saying. But if

  74. you go every day and all you lifting is ten pounds,

  75. the compounding of ten pounds over time is gonna produce

  76. a much stronger for this example, faith than lifting one

  77. hundred times once. What I'm inviting everybody into is a

  78. step of your crazy faith. And I know there's real

  79. situations going on. I know that people have been furloughed.

  80. I know that some people's investments have gone down, while

  81. other people have made the most money they've ever made

  82. in a year. The difference with believers is that the

  83. circumstance is not supposed to dictate our obedience, and this

  84. is where trust and faith comes. I've been doing the

  85. same thing with my finances for over fifteen years, and

  86. in some of those years I did not make barely

  87. any money. And let me give you a secret, it's

  88. harder to obey God when you have more money. Nobody

  89. tells you this, but giving ten dollars is way easier

  90. than giving ten thousand, Not because the amount doesn't feel

  91. the same. It's because you start to think of all

  92. the things you could do with it. Well, Lord, I

  93. could get out of.

  94. Debt more, and Lord, I could bless this person, and Lord,

  95. I could go on vacation. And you told me, and

  96. God said, I give seed to the sower. I'll give

  97. you more. But would you saw more?

  98. And the truth is many of us I can't say

  99. it for ourselves, but many of us wouldn't because we haven't.

  100. Let me say it again, many of us wouldn't because

  101. we haven't. I'm challenging transformation church. I don't care if

  102. you're on government assistance.

  103. Ask God, what are you supposed to do?

  104. Because if you don't have money, you don't have to

  105. give money.

  106. But this is my challenge.

  107. Give something, even if you can't give it to the church,

  108. give it to somebody in need, because your faith can

  109. be stretched in this season and change everything in your life.

  110. And today I'm not asking you for amounts. We're not

  111. doing thousand dollars lines. All the rich people stand over here,

  112. all the poor people stand over here.

  113. Partner up with two broke people so you could get

  114. we're not doing that. That's dumb.

  115. Guys, and I know it's just stuff that's happened to church.

  116. If you're new to the church, courture, do worry about us.

  117. We're just trying to correct something. We're not doing that

  118. because the end of the day, when you look at

  119. the Bible, there was a woman that had two mites.

  120. In a form.

  121. She didn't have a lot, but she's a standing in

  122. the temple. Said, everybody stopped and notice what this woman's

  123. doing right here. And they're like, no, they're in the

  124. back making it rain. Look at oh, big big boy

  125. over there and making Jesus said, they're giving out of

  126. their abundance. But that woman right there, she's giving a

  127. sacrificial gift.

  128. Bus some mike, how do you know it's a sacrifice?

  129. You say, ouch, I'm trying to be real practical with you.

  130. It's not a sacrifice you feel like that was, if

  131. you don't say ooh. And today, for anybody that think

  132. there's manipulation or anything in this the Bible tells us

  133. what to do with that. Do not give if you

  134. feel like there's manipulation or compulsion. I'm trying to be

  135. as real as you can. Also as a pastor and

  136. a leader, cannot stop inviting you into what the Word

  137. is inviting us all into.

  138. If you want to move.

  139. To your next level of faith, this is an opportunity

  140. for you to join us as a church to move

  141. into it together.

  142. Give me that real quick.

  143. I was planning to do this at the end of

  144. the sermon, but I felt God telling me to do

  145. it right now. This is a black box that I've

  146. had in my closet for three hundred.

  147. And sixty five days.

  148. Because I am trying to be a good father. I'm

  149. trying to teach my kids the value very early of

  150. honoring God. So I have a beautiful daughter who, like

  151. her father, liked money at a young age.

  152. And my daughter. You can guess which one it is.

  153. But my daughter.

  154. Really likes the ability to have her own money. She

  155. don't need her own money. She doesn't buy anything with

  156. the money she gets, but she likes having it. And

  157. instead of killing that in her, I'm trying to develop

  158. stewardship in her at a very young age.

  159. And so I told her.

  160. I showed her the scripture last year that said, hey,

  161. we have to honor God with our wealth. And she

  162. had a season in her life last year where she

  163. was bawling. She started selling some things. People started buying

  164. them from her. I was getting all these cash shaps.

  165. She wrote down my cash shap and put it on

  166. a piece of paper, took it to the lobby, and

  167. was using nepotism to feel her pockets.

  168. I just want to call it what it is.

  169. And she did it for about three months, and she

  170. came to me and she was like, Dad.

  171. Look at this.

  172. She was counting money on my bed and say, I

  173. have this much money and all this other stuff. Listen,

  174. she's under the age. She's still in single digits in age.

  175. And I said, so, what's the first thing we're going

  176. to do. Oh? Yeah, we gotta honor God with our money.

  177. I said, what do you mean you understand why?

  178. Right?

  179. Yeah, Because if we honor God with our money, then

  180. he gonna give us some more money.

  181. I said. I said, you're on the right track.

  182. And I took her to the story of the people

  183. who stewarded over what God gave him and how the

  184. ones that he stewarded over it, well, he gave him

  185. more to manage. And so right there, I was like, Hey,

  186. we're gonna give what do you want to give? When

  187. do you want to give and I told her about

  188. the tide, but I wasn't gonna pressure her.

  189. I just wanted to teach her.

  190. She came back about forty five minutes later and threw

  191. some money on the bed and I said, baby, what

  192. are you doing? She said, If I don't give it

  193. to you now, I won't give it to you.

  194. And I said, this ain't for me. I said, this

  195. is for you, because you're obeying God.

  196. She said, okay. I said, when do you want to

  197. give it? Because I wasn't gonna tell it, go give

  198. it this up. I just when the Bible says without compulsion,

  199. without without.

  200. Pressure, Daddy could have easily. I said, when do you

  201. want to give it?

  202. She said, I want to give it that crazy faith offer.

  203. Now I'm thinking, like, dang, that's a year away.

  204. But I wanted to honor that, and so I took

  205. what she gave and I put it in one of

  206. my glasses box. And this morning, as I was coming

  207. to church and picking up my watch, the Holy Spirit

  208. took my eyes to this box. And inside this box

  209. is the money we put there three hundred and sixty

  210. five days ago. She does not even remember this, I

  211. promise you right now, she has no clue. But this

  212. was the moment this morning where the Holy Spirit said,

  213. if you, a regular earthly father, can remember the sacrifice

  214. that your daughter put us, that's honoring your word and

  215. my word.

  216. How much more.

  217. Do you think that I see every dollar, dime, every sacrifice.

  218. You think that I'm doing this to create something? And

  219. what she doesn't know is I'm still her provider. She's

  220. doing this like she gave something up, But she ain't

  221. missed one meal, she has not pitched in to family vacations,

  222. She's been on plane rides several times.

  223. Her money watch. This is no good here.

  224. What I was looking for is if she would obey.

  225. No.

  226. This is a small example, but I would just challenge

  227. all of us to do two things. Pray, God, what

  228. do you want me to do? What do you want

  229. my family to do? What do you what are you

  230. calling from me? My business? My startup?

  231. Father? We're in a position. What do you want? And

  232. then obey, I'm a college student. Obey, I just got

  233. out of this divorce. Obey.

  234. And I've seen time and time again when people have

  235. stepped out on crazy faith to do what God says

  236. to do, of how he does the impossible the unexpected.

  237. Watch this, not even in the same way we gave it.

  238. I need to help.

  239. Everybody because somebody think they're gonna put ten and get

  240. one hundred back, and I need you to know that's gambling.

  241. Should go to O Sage for that, and they gonna

  242. take all your money. You may give ten here and

  243. get forgiveness over here.

  244. Something money can't. You may sow something.

  245. Practical here and get something supernatural over here. You've been

  246. wanting the break. I tell people this all the time.

  247. Something that broke the back of pornography off of my

  248. life was me actually obeying when God told me to

  249. be generous because I would not obey to give anything,

  250. so I couldn't obey to turn that stuff off.

  251. My obedience was broken, not just in that area, in

  252. every area.

  253. And He said, you can train your obedience by when

  254. I say turn it to give this, you can give it.

  255. So when I say to turn it off, you know

  256. that same lever. And I'm not saying that's the same

  257. thing for everybody. But what I am saying is God

  258. is faithful to do what he said he's gonna do.

  259. So today, before I get into the sermon, I want

  260. to pray for everybody that desires to give it. Don't

  261. even matter if you got it or wont to at

  262. this moment, But if you desire to, I'm gonna pray

  263. that God gives seed to the person who has decided

  264. to sew. And if you not, and you're saying by

  265. this time next year, I'm gonna have something to do,

  266. I'm praying that God would stirt that work in you

  267. right now. Your pastors in it for the long haul.

  268. I'm not in this for some superficial right now.

  269. We got it.

  270. Know, if it got to be two more years for

  271. God to really take this thing and it be real,

  272. we're gonna walk with you.

  273. That's what that does. That is not good for the

  274. bottom line.

  275. If it's your revelation, nobody will ever steal it from you, though,

  276. And whether you go to this church or somebody else church,

  277. I want you to understand the principles of God. And

  278. so today, if you desire to give, I just want

  279. you to receive this prayer. Whether you're in this room

  280. or watching online, are thousands of people in Transformation Nation.

  281. I'm believing that we're gonna take this step into twenty

  282. twenty six by faith.

  283. So Father, I thank you.

  284. I thank you that you talk about generosity and your

  285. word more than almost any other topic, because you know

  286. where our treasure is.

  287. Our heart follows.

  288. Father, forgive me for putting my heart in other places.

  289. And I thank you today that you would make me

  290. over again. Here I am at the altar asking you

  291. to do a work in my heart that it would

  292. be prepared to obey whatever you say.

  293. Father.

  294. Right now, as real situations are looming in the face

  295. of so many today, I thank you that you are

  296. increasing our faith to believe.

  297. Just like Moses.

  298. Standing at that seat with the whole Pharaoh's army behind

  299. him and a group of people following him. God, what

  300. am I gonna do here? You made a way out

  301. of no way. As he did what he could with

  302. his faith. He lifted up that staff.

  303. That was his act of faith.

  304. He sold faith by lifting up that staff, Father God,

  305. and you did a miracle. I am praying that same

  306. anointing on your people right now, Father God, for every

  307. husband and wife that has to come in agreement, for

  308. every college student, every high school student, every person that's

  309. in their first job.

  310. Father, whatever is going on, whether they are.

  311. A sea over fortune, five hundred company watching this Father God,

  312. and feel like, ah, that's not good for my taxes. God,

  313. I thank you that you are moving them supernaturally into faith,

  314. to believe and obey. Father, this church will be known

  315. for its crazy faith, and we won't back up off

  316. of what you have given us, not for a second,

  317. not if culture changes, not if anybody leaves. Father, God,

  318. your word is true and we're standing in promises right now.

  319. So today we have faith, but help our unbelief. I

  320. thank you that this week, Father, no matter what comes,

  321. you will speak clearly, and as your children, we will obey.

  322. And I thank you that faith will be ignited all

  323. over this world. We will see you do miracles, signs

  324. and wonders. Put see in the hands of those who

  325. have decided to sew, and we will give you glory.

  326. We will give you honor, and we will give you

  327. praise in Jesus name.

  328. Somebody say we agree, Say it with faith, say we agreed.

  329. We expect amen.

  330. If you go sewing crazy faith, let's give God some

  331. praise in this place.

  332. Holly Lujah. Hey, listen, what I.

  333. Want you to do is connect your faith practically with

  334. your faith written down. Writing on this doesn't mean that

  335. you get in this because you gave that. I'm trying

  336. to activate two faith muscles at the same time.

  337. Does everybody understand what I'm saying?

  338. So the two arms of faith is faith with that

  339. works is say it again, faith without works is so

  340. our sewing is a practical faith act.

  341. But Rebecca Touto says, it ain't even real if you

  342. don't write it down.

  343. So some of us are believing for things that are

  344. up here. It's not real yet. Write the vision and

  345. make it plain. And I can't tell you how many

  346. babies I've held that used to be on this card,

  347. y'all don't hear me. I can't tell you how many

  348. relationships have been restored that used to be on this card.

  349. I can't tell you how many people got jobs in

  350. places that they called it because they had the faith,

  351. the crazy faith to write it down.

  352. Many of you are the product of that.

  353. So I want you to go ahead and do that,

  354. and if you real wild, you'll post it online because

  355. you never know, you'll put it up somewhere because you

  356. never know.

  357. There are people that God.

  358. Speaks to to not just need a prayer answered.

  359. Doctor Clark. They don't understand. There are some.

  360. People that they've graduated to the place where their whole

  361. mission and minute street is to see what the need

  362. is and to help people get their need met. And

  363. I'm just telling you there are things that have happened

  364. outside of the church, people saying God, I need a job,

  365. and and somebody sees the crazy Faith card.

  366. And God answers prayers. So I'm asking us to activate.

  367. Somebody say activate. I want you to activate your faith.

  368. And this is about to be the best week ever

  369. for anybody traveling in for this. We can't wait to

  370. worship with you next week. This is gonna be a fun, fun.

  371. Fun time. We're believing for you.

  372. And I have a word that I'm gonna go right

  373. into the heels of me just saying this, because the

  374. truth of the matter is all of this means nothing

  375. if you're not full of faith. So get your notes

  376. out and I'm gonna try to help you. As we're

  377. about to end this Triggered series next week, I may

  378. take it to Christmas, because y'all, y'all, y'all been crashing out,

  379. So I might take it to Christmas. But I felt

  380. very compelled this week to take the power out of.

  381. The trigger.

  382. Because we've been talking about triggers.

  383. For three months, and.

  384. I think we've given the trigger too much power, because

  385. there is no way that if you were in the

  386. human experience that you will not be triggered by something.

  387. How many people were hot, humble, open, and transparent. How

  388. many people were triggered by something this week hands I

  389. need hands, triggered by something at your job, oh my god,

  390. triggered by something one of your kids did, or a

  391. family member did. Lord two hands, and somebody just went

  392. down pastraight okay? How many people were triggered by something

  393. they weren't expecting to be triggered by, like you saw

  394. something or a post, or somebody says them, why is

  395. that bothering me so bad?

  396. Okay, you do? But would you do? Somebody said, let

  397. it go? Who're gonna be honest? How many people.

  398. Said the curse word? Thank you for being honestly, say

  399. it with me? Past the hours the one Seneca. How

  400. many people Withdrew You know what I'm saying, You got

  401. triggers like I'm going inside, I'm done with all of y'all. Okay.

  402. How many people went to prayer real churchy answer, I see,

  403. I love that bad Jack Catski Okay, how many people

  404. went to food? Oh, come on, y'all know, y'all already know.

  405. He was like, we stop, like he is out.

  406. He already know.

  407. Like some of us get triggered and you know it.

  408. I can't control that. I'm gonna go get some ice cream.

  409. Come on, don't point at your daddy. She was like,

  410. love the truth.

  411. Baby, When you get triggered, what do you do?

  412. The reason somebody said, take a nap. You've been sleeping

  413. all week, so come on.

  414. The thing that I've realized about triggers is triggers are neutral.

  415. Triggers don't do anything but give access to whatever's on

  416. the inside. If there is nothing on the other side

  417. of the trigger, nothing comes out. But if something squeezes you, whatever's.

  418. On the inside. So I need us to for second,

  419. flip this.

  420. Series because the trigger actually only exposes what's there already.

  421. If there's a bullet in there, if it's an arrow

  422. in there, if it's something already in there.

  423. That's why you tell kids no, no, no, no, no no no,

  424. don't pull the because.

  425. Whatever's in there, Ah, stay away from that, because if

  426. you touch that, that's why we put a safety on

  427. the gun. That's why we put a safety on it

  428. because if you touch it.

  429. There is no way we can get.

  430. Back what it fires because it was already watched this loaded.

  431. And what I'm trying to tell you right now is

  432. if you're already loaded with anger, and you're already loaded

  433. with resentment, and you're already loaded with bitterness, and you're

  434. already loaded with perversion, it doesn't matter if they come

  435. with pure intent, just wanting to take you on a date, Okay,

  436. if you loaded with perversion. When that, when you get

  437. triggered and you smell that, as y'all know some of y'all,

  438. just a smell will trigger you. Saved, safetified and filled

  439. with the Holy Dost for thirty two years. And that curve,

  440. y'all know, the cologne curve, y'all, y'all, y'all, it takes

  441. you out. I don't know what it is for you.

  442. But but if there's no perversion in there, if there's

  443. no if there's no crack in there, when it gets triggered,

  444. I think so many times we're trying to live watch

  445. this an untriggerable life, and that's not possible in this world,

  446. you will have trouble.

  447. That's what Jesus said, in this world, you will be triggered.

  448. In this world, you will have family members, co workers,

  449. people you don't know that are going to push something

  450. that is going to activate whatever is.

  451. On the inside.

  452. And my question to you is what is getting exposed

  453. every time you get squeezed?

  454. Okay, oh God, I'm gonna have.

  455. To make this real clear for y'all because some of

  456. y'all don't get it.

  457. This is the.

  458. Life of believers before they come to earth. When they

  459. come to earth, all they are is people who are

  460. gonna get filled with something. And right now, if I

  461. hit the trigger, nothing comes out. If I hit the trigger,

  462. nothing comes out. But this is not how you stay

  463. because as soon as you were born, you were born

  464. into a family, and as soon as you go to school,

  465. depending on what side of the tracks you was born on,

  466. there's culture, there is community. There is crazy that comes

  467. with all of that, and what ends up happening is

  468. the life of the believer. We try to not let

  469. nobody touch the trigger, but.

  470. Somebody's gonna pull this.

  471. Yeah, today, tomorrow or the next day.

  472. And don't be in church because people in church that's

  473. my seat.

  474. I've been here for sixteen nobody cares I should be

  475. singing that song. I should be.

  476. It's just some of y'all just went home for Thanksgiving.

  477. You ain't married yet, Greennie, you've had six husbands.

  478. Don't want to be like you, Jennison. Now she triggered.

  479. Now you trigger. Now they trigger? Wow wow wow wow wow. Shots.

  480. Y'all hear what I'm saying. Wooo barn wam wam. You

  481. coming in. You're ready.

  482. But the truth of the matter is the power's not

  483. in the trigger. The powers in what you're full of.

  484. So most of us get into this life and we

  485. become full of fierce. Oh Lord, the fear trying to

  486. bubble up on me. And we put on Instagram in

  487. the morning or Facebook, and we put in something that,

  488. you know, it doesn't feel that bad, it doesn't look

  489. that bad. It kind of looks like water, kind of

  490. looks like something pure. And we load up on fear,

  491. and at the moment.

  492. We go and we load up on some foolishness too,

  493. not just fear.

  494. There'd be some foolishness in there, seeing some stuff we're

  495. not supposed to see, staying longer on websites, getting angry

  496. because other people was angry, yeah. And at the moment

  497. we come to the workplace, y'all backing up?

  498. Oh, y'all don't.

  499. Y'all don't know.

  500. Why? Why don't you want to be close to me? Now?

  501. Because because the truth of the matter is.

  502. As long as I don't stay triggered, as long as

  503. nobody presses my buttons, were good. But as soon as

  504. somebody starts triggering me, Yeah, it didn't come out. How Oh,

  505. it's a sauce spring, it's a mister which feels less invasive.

  506. It's not that bad. It's just a little gossip. It's

  507. constant though, it's consistent. Though. Don't move, guys. Matter of fact,

  508. I gotta get closer to the y'all.

  509. Now, why why do you want me to stay over here?

  510. The truth of the matter is, I'm gonna get triggered.

  511. But the only reason you're frustrated or you don't want

  512. me close is not because I got triggered or somebody

  513. squeezed me. It's because of what I'm full of. The

  514. reason your kids don't want to bring their friends to

  515. your house.

  516. Is because they know what you're full. That's why they

  517. want to go away.

  518. Can I go play at such and such alt why

  519. you don't want to bring them over here. Uh, some

  520. of us don't recognize that God has been trying to

  521. change out our content. Yeah, He's trying to make us

  522. full of something different. And the problem is we're so

  523. used to fear being readily available. Everywhere we go, I

  524. can catch somebody who doesn't believe God's gonna do what

  525. he said place that I am. And this is the

  526. thing that people don't understand is whatever you squeeze, whatever

  527. you squeeze, what's on the.

  528. Inside, it's coming out as a believer. What's in you today?

  529. I just I'm just coming.

  530. To gently challenge that maybe what's been happening in your

  531. life and in your sphere of influence is because you're

  532. full of the wrong thing. What do y'all think is

  533. gonna come out of here? If I squeeze this? What

  534. orange juice? Why would you think that? Because it's an

  535. orange and it wouldn't make sense if apple juice.

  536. Came out of an orange. Right, Okay, let's see what y'all.

  537. Let's see if y'all smart, h h, come hold this

  538. for me.

  539. You just hold that right there.

  540. I'm gonna squeeze it because life is I'm not even

  541. gonna try to open it or do no getting no ninja.

  542. Uh uh, I'm gonna just squeeze it. Uh h Okay, dang,

  543. hold on, that is kind of strong. Dang mo, dang,

  544. I'm sorry for that, am dang. It's close your eyes.

  545. I think y'all are right. When I squeeze it, no

  546. matter where where the pressure came from.

  547. It's still orange juice.

  548. I'm just I'm going slow because I want you to

  549. see the anger and the bitterness that you've been trying

  550. to pray away can't go away until it's replaced.

  551. That that that jealousy.

  552. Is not going anywhere because because you've put it, you've

  553. put it in. See, the difference about from an orange

  554. to you is that you're a vessel and you get

  555. to choose what goes in. The difference between this orange

  556. and you is when God created this, the orange had no.

  557. Choice because it was an orange. God feeled it for

  558. the juice. So when you squeeze it every time.

  559. Well you're okay, close your eyes baby, Okay, But guess what.

  560. The God the word calls you a vessel. And I know.

  561. That it's so easy to walk around and blame everybody

  562. else for every thing that's going on. But today you

  563. get a chance to fill up with the right thing

  564. or the wrong thing. You can either fill up with

  565. faith or you can fill up with fear. Hear what

  566. I just said, whether the two options faith or I'm

  567. gonna leave this one empty because it should be our

  568. faith bottle. But most believers don't read the word no no,

  569. no no no, because the Bible tells us that the

  570. trigger is a thing that reveals what's on the inside.

  571. So as soon as I hit this one, something's coming out.

  572. As soon as I hit this one, nothing's coming out

  573. until it's filled with the right thing. So let's go

  574. to the word Romans ten seventeen, because today I want

  575. you to be full of faith.

  576. Somebody say I will be full of faith. I'm about to.

  577. Help somebody right now because I'm tired of helpless hope

  578. and I'm tired of powerless Christianity like you just gotta

  579. endure stuff. And God's literally telling you you can change

  580. what you are full of right now. You can put

  581. something else in and get a different result, but you

  582. have to be the one to recognize it. Fear is

  583. not gonna get you to where you need to be

  584. in this next season. Agreeing with people who don't see

  585. what God says over your life is not gonna get

  586. you to the place that you need to be. It

  587. is time for you to be full of faith and

  588. not full of.

  589. Fear Romans ten seventeen.

  590. So, so faith comes from and hearing the word of God.

  591. Why do you come to church? Why do you read

  592. your Bible? Why do you listen to past on Mike

  593. on podcast?

  594. It's because you're trying to get your faith up. Why

  595. are you always listening to that preacher? Because you don't

  596. help my faith?

  597. Come on, be honest.

  598. People will try to literally come against you. I mean,

  599. he just a man, and that's just a woman. And

  600. y'all you always listen to them worship songs. Hey, it's

  601. helping my faith, and so I don't go off the

  602. next time that I come in contact with some of

  603. your craziness, and so that when situations squeeze me, what.

  604. Comes out is good.

  605. I have to get faith, and the Bible tells me

  606. faith comes by hearing and hearing the words of God.

  607. Church. You cannot fill.

  608. Up too much on the Word, contrary to cultures belief.

  609. You can't become too churchy. By reading the what God says,

  610. he will reveal and change and maneuver and.

  611. Correct and construct.

  612. The reason why you need a pastor so bad is

  613. because you could get the transformation at your house if

  614. you let God do the work and you could just

  615. be a man and me like, Yep, that happened to me.

  616. Yep, I seen that.

  617. But there's too much I'll say it how I feel it.

  618. There's too much revelation happening in church. Hear what I'm saying.

  619. You should have already got the revelation. This should just

  620. be confirmation. This should not be the first time that

  621. God's trying to deal with you about this self. This

  622. should not be the first time that God said you

  623. kind of got an attitude. If you spend time with

  624. Him looking at the Word as a mirror, it's the

  625. only two edgines sword that is able to cut through

  626. bone and marrow. It can cut through the culture you

  627. were raised in, and can cut through everything that you

  628. picked up along the way. It's the only thing that

  629. will reflect to you who God is and who we're not,

  630. and why we need him and how we become more

  631. like him. But if this is the first time you

  632. see a mirror.

  633. People be in church like, oh that's so good, Oh

  634. wo yes. And the only reason is because you didn't

  635. read at all what.

  636. He said you could have at your house now. The

  637. Bible also says, don't forsake the sembling, the assembling together,

  638. but all your revelations should not come from.

  639. Past the mic.

  640. And I know the church is crazy with manipulation because they.

  641. The man of God. I should just be.

  642. The man of God who confirms what God already told you,

  643. Oh God. And if you're in darkness, I should be

  644. the man of God that leads you to the light,

  645. which is Jesus, who brings life. But if every revelation

  646. comes from.

  647. Me, it means you're not full of faith, Oh God,

  648. Oh God.

  649. And I know this goes against it being built on

  650. a personality. I'm not trying to build you towards me.

  651. I'm trying to equip you for the works of ministry.

  652. So when you in the.

  653. Streets and you on that Amazon truck, and when you're

  654. in that CEO suite, you're supposed to be the one

  655. when you get squeezed. Christ is supposed to come out.

  656. Faith is supposed to come out. Love is supposed to

  657. come out. Generosity is supposed to come out.

  658. But we getting.

  659. Squeezed in acting like somebody full of fear, full of faith.

  660. Come on, y'all, we full of foul when we get squeezed.

  661. We acting just like everybody else that don't have a

  662. prayer life. Oh God, all right, Hebrews eleven one. I'm

  663. just giving you some scriptures to load you up with

  664. the right thing for your faith. Faith shows the reality

  665. of what we hope for. The Bible says it in

  666. another trance, like faith is the substance of things that

  667. I don't see yet. It's the evidence of things that

  668. are to come.

  669. When you fill up with faith, it proves you have

  670. a future.

  671. He says. Faith is the evidence that you believe God

  672. gonna do something up there. I'm using my faith right here.

  673. I got faith to believe twenty twenty six is gonna

  674. be my best year.

  675. Yeah. You say that every.

  676. Year, and I'm gonna say it every year until I

  677. see it.

  678. Every year.

  679. I will supply God with faith. I have faith that

  680. my next relationship is gonna be my spouse.

  681. Well that's that's girl.

  682. You kind of believe in a lie. But I'm not

  683. going to sew doubt. I'm not going to sew what

  684. I don't want. I'm gonna sew what I do want.

  685. And if you are not full of faith, fear is

  686. the only thing that you have. Church, are you full

  687. of faith today? I'm trying to put it in. Put

  688. your faith in a place where you can grow because

  689. faith is contagious. Faith is one of those things that

  690. if you get connected to the right people, they can

  691. stretch you beyond what you've been stretched before. This is

  692. why it is important who you marry, because you can

  693. get with the right person and your faith being mixed

  694. with their faith can create a generational legacy that you

  695. never thought was possible.

  696. But if you get with the.

  697. Wrong person, they will pull down the things that you.

  698. Know God is saying. And what I'm saying to.

  699. You is it's time to fill upload the gun with

  700. faith because you're gonna get squeezed. So what you triggered,

  701. what comes out? Your kid's gonna break something soon, I

  702. prophesy it. I don't have to prophesy that you got kids.

  703. When your kids break something that you worked hard for,

  704. what's gonna come out? Are you gonna treat them how

  705. Your loving Father in Heaven treated you. When you broke promises,

  706. we forget about what we needed.

  707. When it's time to give.

  708. Are you gonna give compassion and grace and love and understanding?

  709. Are you gonna give what you got from your mama? Neil?

  710. Have you have you?

  711. Have you replaced that bitterness you were full of and

  712. got real love to place in there. I'm just gonna

  713. give you a few more scriptures and then I'm gonna

  714. let you go home. Tewod Corinthians five to seven. For

  715. we walk bye, we walk by faith. I'm full of

  716. faith because this is the only way I can walk.

  717. What's gonna happen.

  718. Tomorrow don't know, but I'm full of faith and the

  719. expectation that God is going to do something.

  720. How's the church gonna be next year?

  721. Don't know, But I'm full of faith that God is

  722. not done. He that began a good work on the

  723. beginning of the inside of this situation, It's gonna be

  724. faithful to complete it.

  725. How's the fam crazy?

  726. But I believe that God is reconciling us back together

  727. and we're gonna deal with our issues.

  728. I'm going to walk talk live by fan.

  729. And it's so crazy even right now in a church.

  730. I'm having to convince people.

  731. To believe it's because of what we're fit full of

  732. right now.

  733. You're so filled with fear and anxiety and what the

  734. news said and what Instagram said and what Twitter said,

  735. and what your favorite podcaster has proclaimed.

  736. Over your life and over the next year.

  737. And you better start watching this because when this happens,

  738. this is gonna.

  739. What did the Word say? What did God say about

  740. the situation? What has our father already tonight?

  741. These people are gonna be dead and gone.

  742. And the question is the old folks would have said,

  743. whose report will you believe?

  744. And the old says, if I was in an old chase,

  745. they would.

  746. Say, we will believe the report of the Lord.

  747. And most people aren't even on his newsfeed. You're not

  748. getting what God's same daily. You're getting what everybody else

  749. is saying. You're filling up on fear. And today I'm

  750. just asking you just simply trick or something different.

  751. That's the title of my sermon.

  752. That's all I want you to remember, Trick or something different,

  753. Because this same bottle and this trigger, if it's filled

  754. with all of this content and I start doing this,

  755. it's going to only bring out what's on the inside.

  756. But but give me something to pour this out in.

  757. But this same vessel, this is what we Then we

  758. just sing a song altered. Here's my sacrifice.

  759. God.

  760. Today, I'm pouring out fear, and I'm pouring out years

  761. of control, and I'm pouring out all of the perversion

  762. that was put in since I was six years old.

  763. And God, here I am pouring out my love for

  764. alcohol and my addiction to substances. Here I'm pouring out,

  765. Father God, the jealousy that I've had for people, Father God,

  766. all around me, my whole life.

  767. And Father God, I don't want it anymore.

  768. And this is where the enemy convince you to feel

  769. back up on the same thing because you are empty.

  770. This is a very vulnerable position to be in church,

  771. that you have to be around the right thing. This

  772. is why you don't go to church and cry at

  773. the altar and then go to the club the next night,

  774. not because the club is some magical place. It's just

  775. gonna feel you back up with the same thing you've

  776. prayed to get rid of. So now you're at the

  777. club with only a little bit of clothes on, trying

  778. to actually get somebody to bring that jellya back home,

  779. so y'all can make some peanut butter and jelly and

  780. you actually want somebody to actually love you.

  781. This is hilarious to me.

  782. And you are filling back off on all of this stuff.

  783. And then depending on how long how long you stay

  784. in that cycle, then you have to come and say, God,

  785. it's a new year today, Father God, I want to

  786. pour out something that has been keeping me held back

  787. all of your Father. Today, I'm pouring out all the

  788. fear that I'll die alone. I'm pouring out the fear,

  789. Father God, of trying to provide for myself. And this

  790. is the point where you're empty, and God saying, what

  791. are you full of?

  792. What are you putting in movies? You shouldn't watch when

  793. you're here.

  794. There's certain things you cannot entertain when you're here.

  795. And this is.

  796. Why when you come in contact with Jesus, the content changes. See,

  797. what he wants to do is fill you with his

  798. precious blood. The Bible begins to tell us that he

  799. shed his blood for the remission, for the transition of

  800. our sins, so that when he gives us something, it's

  801. something that will leave us changed. Everybody, listen to me,

  802. Now when I get squeezed, something different.

  803. Should come out. Now watch it. Now, everybody's starting to

  804. lean back. Now.

  805. It's crazy that the substance that's here will leave evidence

  806. that it was there.

  807. Oh my god, this stuff just gonna.

  808. Make you wet, and it's gonna dry, and it's gonna

  809. make you sticky, and it's.

  810. Gonna get you.

  811. But if you get touched with the thing that has

  812. transforming power on the inside of it, I feel my

  813. health coming up.

  814. It should change.

  815. The way you look, the way you act. Will come

  816. help me? Oh, Bella, come here, sweetheart, my little Bella

  817. go go put one on. Will to come here? Bells, No,

  818. come here? Just okay, you're gonna stay right there. Okay,

  819. they told you to stay up there because of the

  820. LED huh. Use a good baby listen to instructions now.

  821. As a parent, what I'm full of is going to

  822. get on them. So when my baby is on YouTube

  823. and she sees somebody's beautiful soul who's written don't ever

  824. watch Michael Todd. He's a horrible man. And my daughter

  825. calls me from school and.

  826. Says, Daddy, why would they say that about you?

  827. Why would they say that I saw something I wasn't looking,

  828. but I just saw don't ever listen to him.

  829. And now I don't care if you talk about me.

  830. Okay, okay, I need to be real with y'all. I

  831. don't care if you talk about me. I don't care

  832. if you I'm big boy, I can't handle it. Come

  833. come meet me. But when it starts to affect.

  834. My family, now now, now, now.

  835. Now, the truth is, that's my emotion.

  836. But what I did in that situation is I explained

  837. to my daughter and a hard moment, maybe there's some

  838. people that are really, really hurting and the only way

  839. that they know to actually deal with their pain is

  840. to actually talk about other people. And so Bella, anytime

  841. anybody talks about your daddy, we're gonna pray for them.

  842. She just was marked for her whole life by how

  843. I responded when I got squeezed.

  844. Daddy. How do I ha when.

  845. These little boys want to talk to you, bring them

  846. to me and I'll kill them.

  847. Oh no, I mean.

  848. I got to acknowledge that human nature. But Bell's, what

  849. if I told you if you ever like a boy?

  850. What if me and Mommy told you, Jay, I've told

  851. you a lot of things. So yes, but what I

  852. what I told you. The main thing me and mommy

  853. told you is that you can like a little boy,

  854. but we want to do what first. I want to

  855. date them first, so so so she knows. And young man,

  856. if you're watching right now and we have multiple multiple

  857. we rolled deep, it's gonna be a scene of bad

  858. boys in that home.

  859. Like Reggie. What did no Just.

  860. What I'm saying is, hey, mom and Daddy don't want

  861. to shun you away from this.

  862. She's twelve. I shouldn't be talking to her about this.

  863. But if you don't put an imprint on your children,

  864. we've told you. We've had conversations about sex at twelve.

  865. I need every parent to wake up. Wake up.

  866. I've talked to my daughter about generosity, about giving. I've

  867. talked to my daughter about so many things.

  868. Because what I'm trying to do is leave a mark

  869. on her that cannot be a race. Hear me.

  870. Generationally, she can walk away, but you've seen what a

  871. life of faith is. She can steal, wild out, she

  872. can do everything, but when she needs to be reminded

  873. of what has been put on her church, what I'm

  874. trying to tell you is what you're full of it's

  875. marking your children. What you're full of is marking your coworkers.

  876. What you're full of will come here. When God dealt

  877. with me about my weight, he had to fill me

  878. up with faith to believe I would not be overweight

  879. and unhealthy anymore. That took faith before it took my fact.

  880. I had to speak those things that were not as

  881. though they were. I'm healthy, I'm gonna be able to run.

  882. I'm going to not have this joint pain. I'm going

  883. to actually be able to say no to Bluebell cookies and.

  884. I straight, I'm gonna tell you no. You did not

  885. control me.

  886. And when I started living that life, I started telling

  887. Will by faith, I believe you can be healthy. Well,

  888. you got kids, you got a family. I believe your

  889. ministry has to go to another level. Well, I think

  890. that this needs to actually.

  891. Not be the size hoodie you wear, because this would

  892. have been a five.

  893. X and now it's large because I see you in

  894. the future.

  895. Now watch now, watch, watch, watch, watch.

  896. It's marked him because of the faith I was full of.

  897. They look and live different. All I'm asking you is

  898. what are you full of? Because this year you will

  899. be triggered. The trigger is not the problem.

  900. It's what's in you that's the problem.

  901. When your kid makes you mad, when you get the

  902. unexpected tax bill when they This past week, our main

  903. house TV went out and yeah, oh wow. And the

  904. crazy thing about it, it was a nice TV. And

  905. as soon as it went out I got triggered because

  906. the immediate thing was.

  907. I'm gonna have to merry Christmas, kids.

  908. And a happy New Year like and the Holy Spirit

  909. told me, do not worry about it, chill out, call

  910. and see if you have a warranty.

  911. Found out the warranty expired one month earlier. Triggered again. Done.

  912. I should have broken laugh, mother should have through something

  913. at that mug schedule, the appointment, have the people come out,

  914. and all these spirits said, just choose a different response,

  915. trigger something different.

  916. We have played more games in our house this week.

  917. We have.

  918. They set up little air hockey on the floor.

  919. There's just been so much other energy that's been in

  920. our house because our main TV has been out.

  921. I have more peace without Bluey and Cocoa.

  922. Melon and all of the myriad of demonic, repetitive songs

  923. playing like they're not the money. I chose to trigger

  924. something different. I'm just saying to you, fillip on faith,

  925. because the trigger doesn't matter if he can trust you

  926. with his content. I'm gonna finish this by just telling

  927. your story. Can y'all give it up for Will and

  928. Bella from me real quick? Don't take those off though.

  929. Here we go watch this. I need you to go

  930. study numbers this week. Chapter thirteen, verse twenty five because

  931. when I thought about somebody having and triggering something different,

  932. I thought about Joshua and Caleb.

  933. In the face of.

  934. So much squeezing them, they still were able to come

  935. out of a.

  936. Really bad situation with faith.

  937. And if you don't know the story, I'm gonna give

  938. you the cliff notes real quick, and I have the

  939. whole thing written down. But I just feel like everybody

  940. say trigger something different, say it like you mean it,

  941. trigger something different. I'm believing that for you and your family,

  942. you're gonna be the one to trigger something different.

  943. When it comes to all the different.

  944. Things where everybody gets frustrated, You're gonna trigger something different.

  945. I'm gonna speak joy and encouragement into this situation. I'm

  946. triggering something different. This is where people would usually hate.

  947. I'm gonna pray and I'm gonna trigger love. In this situation,

  948. somebody just say trigger something different.

  949. The reason I'm saying this to you.

  950. Is because it takes you out of the powerless position.

  951. Life is not just happening to you.

  952. As a believer, you have the ability to actually change it.

  953. And Joshua and Caleb triggered something different. Check the backstory

  954. real quick. This is the m At version of the Bible.

  955. Joshua and Caleb are part of being delivered from Egypt.

  956. Moses, y'all remember Mosy. He came out said let my

  957. people go. Pharaoh was like eh for ten times, then lost.

  958. His son was like, Dad, gummt, I should have listened

  959. with the frogs, let the people go, and then and

  960. then for good like all, no.

  961. That's not what I'll do. I'm the bad guy in

  962. the story.

  963. So the people leaving, two million of them. Then he

  964. is like, nah, get the truths. We're going to kill them.

  965. They start chasing them. They get to the Red Sea,

  966. Moses and two million people. They don't got nothing else.

  967. Moses is like, God, what I do? He said, lift

  968. up your staff, use what you got. Trigger something different.

  969. He lifts it up. Boom, the sea splits, The people

  970. walk in and then they're like, y'all, y'all need to

  971. be speed walking because.

  972. They comment, and so they speed walking across the dry land.

  973. Is what the Bible tells us.

  974. I'm just giving you the cliff notes so you can

  975. see the whole thing. And these people make it through.

  976. And then God is like, yeah, I'm gonna drown your

  977. enemy as well and close it to sea. Up on

  978. them boys, they are literally free. Now they're in a wilderness,

  979. and the Bible tells us they're in the wilderness, and

  980. they're only supposed to be in the.

  981. Wilderness for eleven days.

  982. The wilderness was a purification process that God was trying

  983. to take them through. Watch this to be filled with

  984. something different.

  985. Oh God, he.

  986. Was trying to deliver them from slavery and pour their

  987. content out in the wilderness and fill them with faith

  988. to believe. He said, I just did the greatest miracle

  989. you've ever seen in your entire life. Delivered you. You

  990. came out with gold and silver, walked through on dry land,

  991. and your enemy was devoured all in a short period

  992. of time.

  993. You should be full of faith.

  994. How quickly we forget the miracles God does for us.

  995. These people are now in the wilderness, hungry nothing around.

  996. God literally creates food for them from the do every morning.

  997. They're like, what is this foo fool?

  998. There's nothing to share, like you like, it's a miracle,

  999. And it's so crazy that we ca calls something we

  1000. don't prefer, something that we don't need.

  1001. Because it's not how we thought it was gonna come.

  1002. But He was doing a miracle for these people in

  1003. front of everybody, and literally he said, Moses, you go

  1004. up and you talk to me, because I'm gonna.

  1005. Give you some instructions.

  1006. And what ends up happening is these people instead of

  1007. staying faithful to what God is saying for them to do,

  1008. because he gave them a promise. He said, I promising

  1009. you a landflorwing with milk and honey. I'm promising you

  1010. that you are gonna walk into a season that is.

  1011. So much better than this. But I need you to

  1012. be full of faith and empty to fear.

  1013. And instead of emptying him themselfs of fear, they threw

  1014. a party, and they literally took all the gold that

  1015. God gave them from the Egyptians and made golden cash

  1016. to start worshiping idols when they should have been literally

  1017. being like, God, you're the greatest. I never thought I

  1018. wouldn't be whipped and beaten.

  1019. To try to build something to another man.

  1020. God, they were the wrong thing because they were full

  1021. of fear. They worshiped to watch this career worship. The

  1022. followers worshiped growth, and God sae, you worshiping the wrong thing.

  1023. I ain't got no problem with that, but thou shalt

  1024. have no other gods before me. They were getting filled

  1025. with fear, so they made up something to worship when

  1026. they already had someone to worship.

  1027. Oh God, I wish I had.

  1028. More time, but this is the end of this thing.

  1029. Moses gets sick of these people, and God does too.

  1030. Then Moses remembers he's the leader and like, never mind, God,

  1031. don't kill him, Please just hold them. And Moses goes

  1032. back and forth so much so these people triggered him

  1033. so bad that the one who obeyed God to get

  1034. him there started to disobey God when he was in

  1035. the wilderness. You know, other people can start to affect

  1036. your faith obedience. You're gonna strike the wrong when he

  1037. told you to do something else. And God said, Moses,

  1038. because you stopped being fooled filled with the right thing.

  1039. When you got triggered, you did the wrong thing. And

  1040. he said, because of that, you and all these wicked

  1041. people will not make it into the Promised Land. And

  1042. the reason this is jacked up is because an eleven

  1043. day journey turned into a forty year death. Why because

  1044. of disobedience. But a lot of people missed the key

  1045. factor in all of this.

  1046. That were twelve spies that were.

  1047. Sent into the Promised Land to go and see is

  1048. it really like what God said? And they were supposed

  1049. to come back. This is in that eleven day time period.

  1050. I want you all to understand this ain't years into it.

  1051. This is like right when they.

  1052. Get in, Yo, Joshua, Caleb, other guys go over there,

  1053. see if it's good, and let us know so we

  1054. can know how to do it. This has already been

  1055. promised by God.

  1056. I just need you to see how we gonna attack this.

  1057. They go in, and the Bible said, okay, gotta read

  1058. just a little part of it. Numbers thirteen twenty five.

  1059. After exploring the land for forty days, these men went

  1060. and explored it for forty days.

  1061. They returned to Moses.

  1062. And Aaron in the whole community of Israel at Kadesh

  1063. in the wilderness at Paran. They reported to the whole

  1064. community what they had seen and showed them the fruit

  1065. they had taken from the land.

  1066. This was their report to Moses.

  1067. We entered the land you sent us to explore, and

  1068. it is indeed beautiful, bountiful, It is blessed, a land

  1069. flowing with milk and honey. Here is the kind of

  1070. juicy fruit that it produces. The Litteral of the Bible

  1071. said to bring back a stalk of grapes, it had.

  1072. To be carried between two men, like just some grapes.

  1073. Okay, it says, here's the fruit it produces. But the

  1074. people living there are powerful, and their towns are large

  1075. and forty five. We even saw giants there, and the

  1076. descendants of Ani. The Amalek heights live in the Najiev

  1077. and the Hittits, and the Jebusites, and the Emirates and

  1078. the gladys Knights live in the hill country, the Canaan Kits,

  1079. along with the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and along

  1080. the Jordan Valley Verse thirty. But Caleb told everybody big quiet.

  1081. He stood before the people and Moses, and.

  1082. He says, let's go up at wants and take the land.

  1083. We can certainly conquer it.

  1084. But the other man was like, no, he lion, because

  1085. we explored the land with him and we disagree.

  1086. We can't go up against them. They are stronger than

  1087. we are.

  1088. So they spread this fear field report. They spread the

  1089. bad report about the.

  1090. Land among the Israelites.

  1091. And the land we traveled through and explore will devour.

  1092. They are now exaggerating it literally says, have the land

  1093. that we will go through with devour anyone who goes

  1094. to live there.

  1095. You just came back. You was there forty days.

  1096. And you're still here telling us about it. It devours anyone.

  1097. All the people we saw were huge guys. They were huge,

  1098. and we even saw science there, the descendants of anac

  1099. next to them. Here's their insecurity. We felt like grasshoppers,

  1100. and I think that's what they thought too. They projected

  1101. onto the people because they believed, and they were full

  1102. of fear when they should have been full of.

  1103. Church. Let your faith trigger something different. Period. This message

  1104. honestly is not for everybody. For this year.

  1105. I'm trying to get you started, so by the time

  1106. we stand here next year, you will have empirical data

  1107. that when you started or gave in the crazy faith offering,

  1108. or started working out, or started saying today, when you

  1109. go apologize to your kids, mommy is sorry for talking

  1110. to y'all.

  1111. When I get mad a.

  1112. Certain way, I am going to try my hardest to

  1113. let everything that comes out of my mouth be edifying.

  1114. I know that's gonna take some of y'all. Your pride

  1115. just stood up right there. You just got triggered by

  1116. what I said because it was a challenge to live

  1117. like God. The Bible literally says, let everything, let no

  1118. corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth except that which

  1119. is edifying to the hero. So when I just triggered you,

  1120. what came up?

  1121. Some of you?

  1122. The thing that came up was the thing that we

  1123. got to replace. Bring up something, What comes up, abstinence?

  1124. What just came up? There are people in here that

  1125. nothing came up because you married. There's other people in

  1126. here that you've been yet holding on.

  1127. Hold to this hey like and and and what I'm

  1128. what I'm saying to you is.

  1129. If you already said I can't do that, if you've

  1130. already declared like God wouldn't require that.

  1131. If you.

  1132. What comes up when God is asking for you to

  1133. give sacrificially.

  1134. Is it fear or is it faith?

  1135. The reason I'm asking this is because I remember when

  1136. I traded. My friends were telling me earlier as I

  1137. was talking about this, it's like, you're so freaking pumped

  1138. up to talk about faith and what God has done,

  1139. and like, did you always been like this? And I

  1140. was like, no, I'm not always been like this, but

  1141. I remember when it changed. I remember when I made

  1142. the decision that either God's word is true or it's not.

  1143. And I started acting like if it's true, then I'm

  1144. gonna actually do the stuff, like I'm gonna actually do

  1145. the stuff. And they were like, most people think fear, fear, fear,

  1146. and then somewhere down here it's like faith. And you

  1147. were like you think faith, faith, faith, and then somewhere

  1148. down here there might be some fear.

  1149. I was like, that actually is the truth.

  1150. Like when something happens, I'm like, God's gonna work this

  1151. out like and then if he don't, it's like, well, maybe.

  1152. He wanted to work it out a different way.

  1153. And then when he didn't do it like that, maybe

  1154. he's trying to teach me something.

  1155. And then when he's.

  1156. Trying to do like, man, dang what I didn't learn

  1157. like and then it's like.

  1158. Maybe he left me like but it takes it takes me.

  1159. My first my first reactions have turned into faith. But

  1160. that's because of how much I put faith. Today, I'm

  1161. just asking, can we change the ratio? Can we get

  1162. some more faith in there? Because without faith it's impossible

  1163. to please God. You've been widowed, you've been hurt, You've

  1164. been trying, and now God's asking you, hey, fillip on

  1165. faith because now when you get triggered, we're gonna trigger

  1166. something different. Joshua Wayne Caleb triggered something different. They said, Yo,

  1167. we can do this. We can go and live where

  1168. God told us to live. Two out of two million,

  1169. two out of two many, which lets me know that

  1170. faith might be popular, but faith might not be popular,

  1171. but it will preserve you.

  1172. Let me just say it one more time, walking in crazy.

  1173. Faith may not be popular, but with God, it will

  1174. preserve you. So guess what they did. They're the ones

  1175. that said God will believe you no matter what. And

  1176. God said, I'm gonna let all two million of them

  1177. perish and you will be the only two that make

  1178. it into the Promised Land. And so if you want

  1179. to trigger something different, three points go home.

  1180. Here we go. How do you trigger something different?

  1181. Believe what others don't? Trigger something different, Believe what others want.

  1182. The Spirit Bank of Vince Center will be transformation church.

  1183. Nobody believed that thirty seven days after I became the

  1184. pastor of the church.

  1185. Now everybody sits in it.

  1186. I want it doesn't matter if everybody believes. God's not

  1187. looking for everybody to believe He's looking for somebody. And

  1188. many of us have been thrown because we don't have

  1189. agreement from everybody.

  1190. Your faith takes you believing.

  1191. What God's challenging me and my wife to give in

  1192. this offering is scary, scary, and I want to say

  1193. that out loud so you know that I'm not back

  1194. here as a pastor like ooh yes, crazy faith offering.

  1195. I want God to give us a different way to

  1196. do this because I can't take you nowhere. I'm not

  1197. leading you in. I want you to hear this from me.

  1198. Me and my wife's looking at each other last night

  1199. like mmm mm mmmm, did you keep the leftovers from Thanksgiving?

  1200. Like Pastor Mike, why are you saying that?

  1201. Because you never get to a level in your faith

  1202. where God doesn't require a higher level.

  1203. I just want to let you know right now, no matter.

  1204. Where you get to, Oh I did it, God I

  1205. got he goes cool, gol cool.

  1206. We go from glory to glory and faith to faith.

  1207. It may not be the same thing, but I'm gonna

  1208. challenge you in a different way because I'm trying to

  1209. create something in you. I'm trying to make you dependent

  1210. on me. The Christian walk is not an independent life.

  1211. It's a dependent life.

  1212. And so God desires for you to be like I

  1213. still need you. And so the amount may go up,

  1214. the ass may go up, the sacrifice may go up.

  1215. But God saying you still need.

  1216. Me, don't you.

  1217. Yes, Lord on needs so put you write down on

  1218. that crazy faith card. Believe God for what others want.

  1219. Second way that you trigger something different.

  1220. Joshua and Caleb did it. They protect the seed of

  1221. their belief. Protect the seed of your belief. We had

  1222. some landscaping done at our house, and there's this little

  1223. portion at the front of our house that has really

  1224. for two years been getting jacked up because it's right

  1225. on the street and literally, like if the Amazon people

  1226. are the uber people come up, they just drive right

  1227. onto it. Like it's like they don't see that, like

  1228. this is my yard.

  1229. This is the yard. No no, no, no, Like we put.

  1230. Signs up, we've done other stuff, and every time the

  1231. mulch all in the street, it's like the most perfect

  1232. place for them to.

  1233. Like just pull up, get this stuff.

  1234. But that's my yard and we planted stuff there that

  1235. doesn't grow because it keeps getting run over. So this

  1236. last week, when the gods came back, they did something

  1237. we needed to do two years ago. They put up.

  1238. Barriers, boundaries and.

  1239. A whole little Fort Knox there's rocks now. And then

  1240. they put up a little like and then I.

  1241. Don't know what the official terms are.

  1242. For them, but it's protecting the thing that still needs

  1243. to grow.

  1244. If you drive up on it now, you have a chance.

  1245. That your tire gonna get popped before my plants.

  1246. Get messed up. For years, the seeds were not protected.

  1247. My question to you, are you protecting the seeds of

  1248. your faith? I bet Joshua and Caleb because y'all don't

  1249. really understand the context of this. This was not a

  1250. miracle that happened in a year God told them to

  1251. go spy out the land when they were forty. Guess

  1252. when Joshua and Caleb got into the promised lamb eighty

  1253. five eighty I bet twenty years after life.

  1254. I told these foods, we was well labeled. We still

  1255. out here eating manna. I tasted that great? Oh what

  1256. are we doing? Yeah?

  1257. Hey, man of God, Joshua, I'll punch you in the face.

  1258. You don't believe neither fool. I don't bet whether that

  1259. was Joshua or Caleb, I don't know.

  1260. Sometimes they had to encourage each other, bro, But remember

  1261. what God said, Hey, protect the word.

  1262. He told us our family would be healed. Protect that.

  1263. He told me that I beat the lender and not

  1264. to borrow. Protect that. I know I'm still borrowing money.

  1265. But hold on, wait, wait wait wait, hold on, no no, no, no, no, no,

  1266. no no.

  1267. We got to keep saying what God said. Don't be

  1268. like them. They already dismissed what God said. Protect, put

  1269. a boundary around. Don't let others talk down on no

  1270. no one. Thing you ain't gonna do is tell me

  1271. I'm not going to You don't have to believe.

  1272. But I know what God said.

  1273. That's how you trigger something different. Last point, how do

  1274. you trigger something different?

  1275. You believe longer, not necessarily stronger.

  1276. Sometimes in church we can make it feel like our

  1277. faith needs to be crazy. You're bigger and louder, and

  1278. sometimes all it needs to do is last They had

  1279. the same amount of faith when they set out to

  1280. go to the Promised Land forty five years earlier. They

  1281. just had to keep that faith until everybody else died.

  1282. They're watching their grandkids. I had to stop. They were

  1283. the only ones to be able to be in the Promised.

  1284. Land with their grandkids because it was about generations more

  1285. than it was about even them just making it in.

  1286. God was trying to do something so the whole family

  1287. could experience the Promised Land. And what I'm asking you

  1288. to do is don't stop believing. I think Journey pinned that.

  1289. Don't stop believing. Don't stop believing y'all can have the

  1290. marriage that God called you to. Don't stop believing that

  1291. you can actually go to sleep without those substances. Don't know,

  1292. I'm just for real. Don't stop believing that your kids

  1293. will be saved. Don't stop believing that your family is

  1294. going to actually be whole again. Don't stop believing that

  1295. you can get rid of that rage that's been in

  1296. your heart. Today, I'm asking you to fill up on

  1297. something different. Pass Mike, how do we do that? You

  1298. remember the one who emptied himself out so that we

  1299. could be full of something else? Well, could you come

  1300. just stand right here at the end of the stage

  1301. real quick, because I want everybody to see because time

  1302. has gone by since my faith marked Will, and I

  1303. just want you to see that there's still evidence on

  1304. Will of what happened to him. Is there evidence of

  1305. what Jesus has done for you in your life? Now?

  1306. I'm just I'm asking you. I'm not this is for evaluation.

  1307. Is there evidence Why I invite people to church, Why

  1308. I show seeds, why I pray for people not just

  1309. at the altar, but at the gas station. It's because

  1310. I have evidence on my life that's marked me forever.

  1311. Church.

  1312. As we end this year, I want something to be

  1313. triggered differently in each.

  1314. One of us.

  1315. What is the thing that's supposed to come out that

  1316. looks like God that gets on others? I can't change

  1317. it for you. You have to desire for God to

  1318. exchange what's on the inside now for what looks and

  1319. is already paid for.

  1320. The sacrifice he's made.

  1321. Thank you will today I'm gonna just pray for every

  1322. person because this one, this is an inside job. This

  1323. is an inside job by some white Why are you

  1324. coming with like this? Why are you saying all of this?

  1325. Because you're gonna keep acting the same until you say, God,

  1326. take this out of me. He's not gonna force it

  1327. out of you.

  1328. Take this out of me, creating me a clean heart

  1329. and renewing me the white spirit. God, I'm argumentative by nature,

  1330. So take.

  1331. This out of me. I wanna fight, I wanna win.

  1332. Come on, these are real things. I am competitive, I

  1333. want I want no one else to be on my level,

  1334. whether I say it or not.

  1335. And God's saying, can I take it out?

  1336. No? This is who I am, This is who I've been,

  1337. This is how people know me. This Who would I

  1338. be without it? God's calling. Just just become full of faith.

  1339. Started listening to the words. Some of y'all just need

  1340. to listen to the word. Going to sleep, waking up

  1341. in your car, cut the music, you just need to

  1342. put put it on. Faith comes by and hearing the

  1343. word of you gotta get that in you the trigger

  1344. only exposes what the gun is loaded with.

  1345. What are you full of?

  1346. And I'm declaring over you and your life, and your family,

  1347. and your business and your generational line that you will

  1348. be full of faith standing all over this place.

  1349. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord.

  1350. Joshua and Caleb got to experience something that everybody they

  1351. were around didn't get to experience, which lets me know

  1352. that you can have a different life than the people

  1353. you love. I know this is the hard one for

  1354. a lot of people to understand, but there are people

  1355. you love that won't believe. I've come to the conclusion

  1356. that there are some people that I really want to

  1357. do some certain things and God to do some things

  1358. in their life that they will not supply God with

  1359. the faith to do it. And I will not die

  1360. in a place God has called to be a pass

  1361. through because others will not believe. Today, Church, I'm asking

  1362. you to be the generational changer in your family, to

  1363. be the one that people could aspire to be like,

  1364. to be more like Christ.

  1365. And trigger something different.

  1366. I'm praying that every time you get angry, that you

  1367. would trigger joy. No think about it, that every time

  1368. you feel lack.

  1369. You would trigger generosity that every time you feel overwhelmed,

  1370. you would trigger peace. Do you know that can happen?

  1371. He said, be filled with these fruits of the spirit.

  1372. What are they? Love?

  1373. Joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, self control? He said, that

  1374. can be in there. So when they cut you off

  1375. and you get triggered, what.

  1376. Comes out self control? Oh, you better be glad. I'm

  1377. saved and God is a heaven light. There you go.

  1378. Vengeance is mine.

  1379. They were expecting you to act like somebody else, but

  1380. you were strong enough not to even fall for that.

  1381. And so now they got to evaluate their whole situation

  1382. because they was ready to fight and they looking dumb.

  1383. If you want to be full of faith, would you

  1384. your hands all over this place?

  1385. Please? I want to pray for you God. I thank

  1386. you for this moment. You are definitely in this place, Father,

  1387. as we've.

  1388. Brought honesty and reality and our experiences to your feet.

  1389. I thank you that today you are letting us know that.

  1390. We get to choose.

  1391. We can either be full of fear like the entire

  1392. children of Israel, or we can be full of faith

  1393. like Joshua and Caleb. I just thank you for the

  1394. audacity and the courage to believe what nobody.

  1395. Else will believe in crazy faith. You can do it.

  1396. You just prove to them that you could deliver them. Father,

  1397. let us never forget how you've delivered us, how you've

  1398. brought us out, and how you have a glorious.

  1399. Future for us. I'm asking that you would replace the

  1400. fear with faith.

  1401. Fill us up till we ain't got no more room, God,

  1402. and then fill us again.

  1403. Let something in our life change.

  1404. And I'm praying for every person Father, that's believing in

  1405. crazy faith for something Father that money can't by.

  1406. They need you to intervene.

  1407. God, I thank you that faith without works is completely dead.

  1408. So show us the work that we need to do

  1409. to be in step and in line with the miracle

  1410. that you're gonna do. We shall see the promised land.

  1411. I feel that we're gonna see what the promised land

  1412. looks like.

  1413. Father.

  1414. I pray for those who are wrestling right now with

  1415. their current experience and the faith that's trying to merge

  1416. even after hearing this message. God, I thank you that

  1417. they would protect the seed of faith that has been

  1418. planted today.

  1419. Father, it can be small, mustard. See faith, that's.

  1420. All you need Father, God, and you will scour the

  1421. whole earth trying to see if you'll find somebody with faith.

  1422. I thank you for husbands and wives who are believing

  1423. you right now for big things.

  1424. And I pray for this church as we step into

  1425. a season of crazy faith giving next week, for those

  1426. who will come, for those who are still asking you

  1427. for amounts and obedience.

  1428. I just thank you do what you're gonna do.

  1429. God. We trust you because you began a good work

  1430. on the inside of us, and you're gonna be faithful

  1431. to finish it.

  1432. I don't mind waiting.

  1433. I don't mind way.

  1434. I don't mind on you, Lord.

  1435. That's what Joshua and Caleb had to do. I don't

  1436. mind waiting. I don't mind. I don't mind. If you're

  1437. in this room, if you've never accepted Jesus, He's been

  1438. waiting on you.

  1439. Today is the day of salvation.

  1440. I feel the presidence of God because heart surgery is

  1441. happening right now.

  1442. There are people that are evaluating things. God speaking, the

  1443. Holy Spirit is here. He's with you as you're watching this.

  1444. Right now, something different is about to be triggered on

  1445. the inside of you.

  1446. I see it, I sense it. I feel it.

  1447. If you've never accepted Jesus. Today, I want to pray

  1448. with you, and it's a thing.

  1449. That changed my life. It took me from being.

  1450. A liar of manipulator, somebody who is addicted to pornography,

  1451. had very bad things in my heart, and it took

  1452. me on a path of repentance and progressing. Today I

  1453. want to give you that opportunity. God's trying to do

  1454. heart change. This is the last month of the last

  1455. of the this year, and God wants to do something

  1456. for you that changes trajectory of your next season. But

  1457. it comes with the act of faith, and it's by

  1458. faith that.

  1459. We are saved through grace.

  1460. So right now, if you want to accept Jesus, it's

  1461. one person in this room, and I know there's more

  1462. in here that have been far from God. There's more

  1463. that is watching online or watching from the correctional facility.

  1464. Right now, I want to give you the opportunity. I

  1465. need the church to begin to pray because you know

  1466. what this moment was like.

  1467. This is light and dark, This is light, and this

  1468. is toggling.

  1469. Through my old lifestyle and the new and right now

  1470. somebody's about to go from fear to faith.

  1471. If you were in this room and you want to

  1472. make Jesus.

  1473. Christ your personal Lord and savior on account three, I

  1474. just want you to shoot your hand up already. See

  1475. your hands, my brother one, you're making the greatest decision

  1476. in this life. To your name will be written in

  1477. the Lamb's Book of Life. Three with faith. Just suit

  1478. your hand up. Bro.

  1479. I'm so proud of you. I'm so proud of you.

  1480. Come on, if you're in this room, I see your hands.

  1481. I see your hands. I see your hands, and more

  1482. than that, God sees you.

  1483. Come on, Church, just give God praise right there.

  1484. Hallelujah.

  1485. It's a switch, bro, God's doing something new in you.

  1486. And at TC, where a family, all of us have.

  1487. Been through it.

  1488. All of us have walked down the wrong path and

  1489. God found us. And today I just want to let

  1490. you know, this is your day of salvation. He's switching

  1491. out the thing that's in. It won't be motivated by fear,

  1492. it won't be motivated by loss. It's gonna be motivated

  1493. by hope.

  1494. And joy and love. And today is a new day

  1495. for you. At TC, nobody prays alone. What everybody?

  1496. Just lift your hands for the benefit of those coming

  1497. to Christ, and just repeat after me, say God, thank

  1498. you for sending Jesus just for me today, repent of

  1499. all my sins.

  1500. And I turned to you.

  1501. I believe you lived, you died, and you rose again

  1502. with all power, and that power now lives in me.

  1503. Change me, renew me, transform me. I'm yours in Jesus' name.

  1504. Amen.

  1505. Hey, can we turn up with all I have in

  1506. right now? Oh? Come on church, hollerlujah from one soul

  1507. and there's several in here, so proud of you.

  1508. We want to give you some information.

  1509. And if you text that the number on the screen

  1510. you text say to eight two eight two eight two,

  1511. We're gonna send you some information. Is anybody's faith encouraged

  1512. this morning? Hey, all week, I want you to be

  1513. open to praying, listen and obey.

  1514. And this is the last thing that I'm gonna say

  1515. to you.

  1516. Everybody, listen. The enemy will never tell you to give anything.

  1517. So if you hear God say something, you say, oh,

  1518. that had to be the devil. That wasn't the devil.

  1519. He does the opposite For God so loved the world.

  1520. The enemy comes to steal, keel and destroy. You got

  1521. a no character, so if God tells you to give something,

  1522. it's him and we're gonna be ones to believe that

  1523. He's gonna make a way. I can't wait to see

  1524. you next week as we give in crazy faith. Some

  1525. of y'all you need to go ahead and do it

  1526. as soon as God tells you. You need to make

  1527. it happen. So you're not fighting all week. But we

  1528. are gonna honor that. And I can't wait invite somebody

  1529. next week. I have a word for you, and if

  1530. you need prayer for anything right now, you can come

  1531. to the altar. Do not leave unless you get prayer

  1532. if you need it, because we know that prayer works.

  1533. I love you until next week, go out and live.

  1534. A transform life. I love you. Thank you for joining

  1535. us today.

  1536. If you said that prayer and accept it Jesus into

  1537. your heart, it's the best decision you could ever make.

  1538. We want to celebrate with you, and we have some

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  1543. Thanks for listening. Now, go out and live a transform life,