Withholding Nothing // Triggered (Part 11) // Pastor Michael Todd

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Man, and for the rest of this year, I'm gonna

be rocking with this notion that our faith has to

believe God for something differently than what we've seen already.

If you're not believing for something greater, you're believing for

something less than what God has for you. And so

for ten weeks, this team has talked to you about

your triggers for ten weeks beautifully, masterfully, I mean Charles

had the whole universe up here last week, I mean

full galaxy mode. What our intention was Listen to me.

What's to validate eight that those triggers actually have hindered you?

Because many times people can't move on if nobody acknowledges

what happened. And today, for ten weeks, since after conference,

we have said, your parents may have triggered you. That

job may have triggered you. They may have looked over you,

They may have used you in that last season, that

relationship did take something from you. We have been trying

to let you know we see you and this human

experience is real. But now we have to transition into

what are we gonna do about it? Because the truth

of the matter is most people want to identify their

triggers and then make their triggers their excuse. So the

reason I'm not gonna do what God said is because

this happened to me back here. That was four decades ago,

that was fourteen days ago, that was fourteen months ago,

and many of us we've turned our triggers into the

excuse for disobeying God. So today I'm asking us to

actually accept, as a matter of fact, for anything that

they couldn't say. I want to stand in proxy right now,

and they is whoever hurts you. They is whoever did

not have the emotional intelligence to say I'm sorry. They

is whoever you had to walk out to actually protect

yourself and set a boundary, but you still never got

to hear I was wrong. Today, I want to say

I'm sorry. I'm sorry that it happened to you. I'm

sorry that they didn't see you. I'm sorry that they

never acknowledged how that pain sets you back. Today, I

want to take a moment, and I want to give

empathy to what has been a stumbling block for you

to move in full, reckless, abandoned towards the thing God

has called you to. It's worth pausing, it's worth taking

a moment and saying it shouldn't happened. And for ten

weeks we've been trying to lovingly help you understand, and

we get it.

We all get triggered, we all crash out.

But at the end of the day, before you were

formed in your mother's womb, God least inside of your

DNA a purpose that came with an expiration date.

The number of days that you.

Were on this earth are numbered, and the enemy is

trying to steal your days. With the distraction of being triggered,

hear what I just said to you. He's trying to

make you not write the book. He's trying to make

you not reach the audience. He's trying to make you

not draw the thing. He's trying to make you not

produce what he placed inside.

Of you to produce.

Because the enemy's trick of this last season was not

to steal the thing. It was to steal the thing

behind the thing. You thought the enemy came after your relationship.

He was coming after your confidence, so the relationship didn't work.

For what he was really trying to steal is your

ability to try ever again. And that's why you become

a man basher. Ain't no man ever gonna be good

and ain't nobody ever gonna do this? And ain't nobody

that was Jerome's fault. He hurts you. Jerome hurts you,

and because you never forgave him, because it was the

second man that hurt you, because your father was never there.

Now you've summed up that everybody, and the reason the

enemy's trying to steal that is because you're actually called

the healed relationships.

And so he wasn't trying to steal the thing.

He was trying to steal the thing behind the thing.

I feel this thing right now. Some of y'all have

stopped giving encouragement because you are in a season that

somebody discouraged you and the enemy allows you to lose

that job and then that it was embarrassing in front

of everybody, and then they lied on you. And what

you said is now I will not be who I

am because the enemy wasn't after that job. You can

get another job. He was trying to steal the thing

behind the thing, your words of encouragement for others, because

when you walk in the room and you start spreading life,

people's life lights up.

When you come in.

You're an atmosphere changing and the thing that you are

called to do you are.

No longer doing.

You're withholding it because you don't have the faith to

believe that God can turn this bad situation into good.

And today I came to encourage you because I see

too many believers that are allowing their trigger to be

the point where they've gotten tranquilized.

I'm frozen at my trigger.

Oh no, when people talk loud, come on, it can

be little stuff. Oh uh uh.

I mean some people was triggered just a.

Second ago when weill talked about offering and because you

were in a church where they did abuse the building

fun and you gave to the building fund and ain't

no building. Come on, y'all, Come on, y'all, We ain't

never seen a building air conditioner broken, children don't.

Got clean carpet.

That was fifteen years ago in the church that your

mom was a part of, and you saw them abuse

her volunteer service, and so you made a decision that

instead of being an agent of change, that you would

actually be somebody to actually harbor resentment and never give.

You started withholding what was the thing that is your wealth.

Wealth is not just monetary. It is a thing that

you uniquely have value in. And there are many people

right now with holding their wealth to the world because

you were triggered by something that has not healed. And

God is calling you out of your excuse today and

he's telling you you got to trade this trigger for

something else. You gotta trade this trigger. It's gonna happen.

There is no perfect world. And God saying, when are

you gonna use what I put in you?

Well, I'm a past you know, pastor.

I'm over fifty, and it just feels like I got

my retirements in three months, three months I get to retire.

Actually it's two.

Months, sixteen days, and thirty two hours, and I just

feel like for the rest of my life, I'm just

I'm gonna let the young people just I'm I'm gonna

let the young people.

Rise to the God's not done with you yet.

He wasn't done with Sarah, he wasn't done with Moses,

he wasn't done with Noah, he wasn't done. But by

Bible standards, you're a teenager A ohs sixty. I mean

they was probably that kid that ninety What is get

on my lab, holl My question to you is what

are you withholding? We're coming to the end of twenty

twenty five? What did you withhold that you had to

give all year?

What did you.

Because of fear? What did you willingly take out of

the equation because of a past situation? Today, I'm going

to ask you in the last month of this year

to stop withholding and sw what you got that's I

might sew what I got, I don't care how much

it is, And I'm not talking about money. Sow what

you got? What do you have that nobody else has

at this current moment that you could sell some of

y'all got more time than you've ever had in your life,

and you literally waste it on Netflix series. You waste it,

filling your mind, scrolling, you waste it. And you have

years of teaching ability that you won't give away. You

have years of just being a helping hand, somebody that

could administrate, somebody that could help somebody up. Do you

know somebody's praying for what you got. Do you know

that there is somebody crying out to God? And when

people cry out to God, he starts talking to solutions.

Okay, you don't believe me.

When the children of Israel were trapped in Egypt, they

were crying out for deliver He was talking to Moses Hey,

Moses hey.

And some of y'all been ignoring the.

Cries of God's people because you are not listening. When

God tells you to stop withholding what you have, you're

waiting to do it in until you give more money.

And God says, this whole thing is about stewardship. I

give to people who will sew what.

I give them.

You ain't getting no more until you sow what you got.

That was somebody's whole message right there. You don't believe

no more because you're hoarding what God said was holy.

I need you to give this away to somebody, Okay,

ECCLESIASIDS eleven four. I just want you to hear me

because some of you, your trigger has paralyzed you, it's

tranquilized you. But today, by faith, I believe you're about

to get out of that place of stillness and you're

about to be active somebody say active. Your faith is

about to get active because it may not have been

your fault what happened to you, but it is now

your responsibility.

God's not giving.

You a pass this next year on what He put

on the inside of you. Withholding nothing, say that faith,

with holding say it one more time, with holding what

God has placed in you, I'm not holding it.

The goal, Miles Monroe said, is to die empty.

The wealthiest place in the entire world is the graveyard,

because everybody's dying with what He placed on the inside

of him, still on the inside of him. But by faith.

I believe there is some faith being activated right now

that you are not going to leave this assignment called

earth without leaving I feel the presence of God without

leaving the deposit that God placed on the inside of you.

This is not career specific. You may be provided for

in the medical field, but what He wants to do

is give you to a whole group of people.

Of how to be kind to people.

See, we have attached our purpose to a paycheck. Oh God, okay,

you have attached the that I make money at to

the thing that God wants me to do.

Let me help you.

They're not always aligned. He may be providing you for

somewhere that you can eat and then calling you to

do something where somebody else.

Can eat from you.

Okay, y'all not ready for real teaching. Okay, so let's go.

It's time for this, this group of believers to get unstuck. Ecclesiastis,

chapter eleven, verse four. This is where we're gonna start.

Farmers who wait for the perfect weather never planned. I mean,

I want to keep reading, but we could just stop

right there. What are you waiting on to sew what

you got? Why don't have enough followers on Instagram? For

I wouldn't put out my I will study. It's so robust,

it's so foundationally vast that I need to build my counts,

my followers, as well as my YouTube to a certain level.

Are you waiting for a perfect time?

Well if I have some more money, Well if there

was a few people that recognize my gifting and talents.

Farmers who wait for a perfect.

Weather pattern.

Never plan.

If they watch every cloud, they never harvest. Just as

you cannot understand the path of the wind or the

mystery Jesus, the mystery of a tiny baby growing in

its mother's womb so.

You cannot understand the activity of God, who does all things.

So let me.

Give you an antidote. Plant your seed in the morning,

and keep busy working it all afternoon, for you do

not know if profit will come from one activity or another,

or my favorite part or maybe both.

Not both with the f both.

Like because your neighbors say both. Yeah. I found out

in this last season of me being triggered and having

to work through it with faith partners in therapy, that

the enemy was not after me being on a platform

and speaking to people. When I went through people talking

about me and people leaving and having to understand criticism

and building my skin. He was trying to steal my

general He was trying to make me hate the people

I'm supposed to help. It was the thing behind the

thing he wanted me to withhold my life, which is

the evidence of me representing it's me serving God and

loving my wife and giving to people. And when I

could do it for myself, like no, let's bless other church, he.

Wanted to be like, bump all of them, forget them,

Forget all these church people, Forget all these other pastors

who wouldn't stand up for me, Forget all.

He was after the thing behind the thing. He was like,

I'll let you preach, but I want you to be bitter.

I'll let you get up and worship, but I want

you to actually have hate in your heart.

This is too for, y'all.

This is I'm trying to help you from real life.

The enemy is after the thing you're called to do,

not the.

Thing you're necessarily doing.

I am called to this earth to make other people's

worlds bigger. I'm called to this earth to make people dream,

to save people out of burning buildings, to try to

let you see there's more in you than there. And

he wanted me to give up on the very people

I was called to help. I'm trying to give you

the keys to not quitting. The enemy's weak, and he's

trying to steal your ability to sow. He doesn't have

to steal it if you.

Won't use it.

Oh God, the enemy comes to steel, killing, destroy, You.

Won't use your singing gift anymore. So Ariel still have

your voice.

I get a dang that works because I couldn't even

sing it, y'all.

Remember in The Little Mermaid?

Was she her voice got taken? No?

It didn't. She gave it away.

Ursula just invited her. I will preach a Disney movie,

don't play with me. Ursula invited her to give away

what she didn't see value in because it was natural

to her, because it was innate to her, because she

had been doing it all of her life.

And she literally gave away.

What was her power. How many of us are sitting

here and me don't got to steal nothing from us.

We already gave it away.

Don't do people stop saying that you're called to them.

You may have to exercise new gift things. You may

have to breathe after you get in the room with

a lot of people. You may have to regulate. Come on,

let's but that don't mean you ain't called the people. God,

Can I help you? The place where the enemy attached

you most is the place that you probably have the

most power. You don't ever guard somebody in basketball on

the thing they weak at. You always come after the

thing they're good at. You're trying to take away what

could actually be their superpower. I'm preaching up here, and

some of.

Y'all have been giving away.

You've been given away.

The very thing that God said.

I put that in I put that in you so

that you could give me.

Glory with it.

But you won't sew it, you won't plan it, you

won't give it to nobody. You won't even give it

to your own children. Your kids don't know faith because

of you. They know faith because of His church. Okay,

they're literally your kids. I'm telling you right now, look

at me, straighten my face.

Your kids are literally in a tug of war.

Who are they gonna believe the God that I hear

about or the God I see my parents living out?

Because you can come in here and then you can

get in the car and cuss them out. And when

you cuss them out in the car, but say, but

when we get to church, I'll better act like I

ain't nothing happening.

They're learning disintegration from you.

Okay, I just crossed the line. It's tight, but it's right.

Some of you have not sown kindness into your kids.

I was a lot of use fair the rod use

for the child, But it was by his loving kindness

that he drew us in all. I'm trying to challenge you,

what are you withholding that God said, that's what I

want you to sew. Sew it and see what I do.

Sw what you God. You may not have much, but

sow what you've got. Men of God, come show up

and serve for these kids. All these single mothers in

here trying to raise their kids where they dead beat

dads out somewhere trying to still find some young girl.

Excuse me, you're not taking care of your responsibility, so

you put it off on us.

But there's some men of.

God that will step in and say, you know what,

I'm strong enough to get my word. On Monday, I'll

watch the rebroadcasts. They need to see what a godly

man looks like, serving with his hands and showing love

to these young ladies and young men and working side

by side with people that look a different race and

ethnicity than you. Only got one Sunday every two month.

So what you got at that job? What could you sew? Well,

they don't deserve nothing mails from me because they don't

even pay me for the time that I'm there.

Right now, you think.

The job do you think the salary is why you're there?

Some of y'all have been in purgatory at the jobs

that y'all are at right now because you have not completed.

The assignment he sent you there for Sally, but you're

so annoyed by her and annoyed.

By her emails and flabbergasted by the audacity for her

to even ask it. And God sends you there to

be specifically a siege so own in her life daily.

Yeah, he would do it for one person he leave

the ninety nine. Did he send you there?

Did He send you to this church to do something

you not doing because nobody recognized your ministry ten year

from your last church in Mississippi. No, we don't know,

and you came in here acting crazy. No, we're still

background checking you. Let me just be honest. It's a

bunch of people that thousands of people you could be.

And you were the bishop of Arches in your last church,

and I don't take that away from you. But we

got protocol here and so we were trying to maybe

but you won't even start a small group.

That's too low for you to get in a tribe.

Well, I was teaching them my last church, and God's

playbook was to sit around a table.

With disciples.

And but you're withholding because it's not on the platform

you want.

Okay, let me stop.

And so you're waiting for perfect weather to sew what

God's already given. You look at your neighbor and say,

so what you got? No, look at your other neighbors

because they didn't have faith with you. Look at your

other neighbor and say, neighbor, sow what you got. It

may not be a lot, but so what you got? Yeah,

I'm gonna make that a song this week later.

It may not be a lie, but so what you,

God say?

It may not be here.

Let's go so no you fred I quit, I quit,

I quit, I quit, I quit, I quit. That's quol.

This search will hie you up too fast. God, Okay,

it may not be a lot. We got thirty days

left in this year. Will you be guilty of making

it another three hundred and sixty five days? And you

did not give what you had because there's somebody in

here is like papasa Mike. You don't know my financial situation.

I do not know, but you do have thirteen pair

of Jordan's.

You have so many Aldo boots and nine West heels, and.

You kept the kids sizes of the kids that they

grew out of believing for the next kid that ain't

here yet. And I'm not saying nothing's bad, but none

of that. But there's a mother.

Right now.

Literally praying that God would provide shoes for her children,

and they're literally sitting in a storage you're paying for

while you're in debt, saying I gotta get some of

this stuff gone.

You could literally be solving.

Your problem and they problem if you sow what you

but you triggered. So I ain't talking to nobody no more.

Soon as church is over, I'm leaving before they What

is it also called time you moon walking out of

this place before the benediction because somebody hurts you in

the last season and you don't want anybody to close

enough to see you that you need healing and they

need help. And there's so many of us that because

we were triggered. You were triggered, you were mad, you

got hurt, you crashed out.

But now God saying, what are we gonna do about it? Now?

I need to use my faith to do something different.

So that's why I need to say this. Your triggers

being acknowledged does not excuse your faith activation. We acknowledge

your triggers, but you still have to use your faith.

You were hurt, but you still gotta believe God. You

weren't seen, but you still have to believe God for

the next season. So James two seventeen says, So you see,

faith by itself isn't enough unless it produces good deeds.

It is dead and useless. Easy way to say this,

Faith without works is dead. And I just want you

to realize that God desires for all of us to

have an active faith. Part of the reason that we

pick a time every year that we ask God, Hey,

what do you want us to give in faith towards

your house? Is because that is an exercise of our faith.

What are we building my faith?

No, show me something physically that we're building. Well, when

people give anytime there is a disaster, anytime there's a

person in need, anytime that we're able.

To actually meet real needs with all.

Of those things, how we gave that young lady Ramsey

plus along with thousands of other people. We paid for

it because we paid for it. It's an exercise of

our faith. But there are many people right now that

will never go past yourself in giving anything. And this

year I'm inviting you to come off the shore and

show what you got. Guys, I'm like you don't understand.

You understand, I do understand. I was telling her the

team last earlier today is that I was trying to

remember how generosity and giving God in me, and it

got in me because I was triggered by poverty.

Am I being too real? Now? I know some of

y'all won't admit.

Where it is, but you grew up in some very

even if it wasn't ghetto situations, it was ghetto mindset situations. Okay,

I'm gonna help five people.

Okay. So there are certain stuff that you would see

that's like.

That's dope, but probably a little backwards, Like it's dope

to have a Mercedes, but not if it's a nineteen

seventy nine Mercedes that were still in paying for, Like

it's a two thousand and seven Mercedes and it breaks

down every week. But we got a Mercedes, but we

paying payments that are putting us in Like it was

like the right things, the things that.

Look good, but backwards. And I decided, Lord, I don't

want to I don't. I don't want to live like that.

I don't want to live not being able to lend

when I see somebody in need, I don't. I don't

want to live when your word is saying you own

a cattle on a thousand heels, which was the currency

back then, And I'm sending over here and I can't

eat at McDonald's. I don't want to live like that.

He said, so something. I was seventeen years old. I

told you I was this. I sold my first thousand

dollars seed at seventeen years old.

I had no idea what I was doing. Back then.

I was playing drums for some pretty notable people. When

I was making a little money, and all my money

was based I still live with my mom and daddy.

I only had to pay for gas, and I was

buying shoes. I mean, I had nothing else. And I

started saving money because money gave me security, me feel

like if something happens, I'll be able to handle my business.

Thousand dollars can't really handle anything. But at the time,

I was balling, and the Holy Spirit came after what

I had, not after what I didn't have, because I

heard God will never ask you for what you don't have,

He's so good, but he will ask you for what

you do have. And I remember, and the crazy thing

about it, y'all listen to me. This is not about amounts.

This is about obedience. The thing that broke the power

of me being stagnant in my faith was a seed

that I literally gave into a church that had nothing

to do with me, and God said, your obedience right

there just produced the heart posture that I can trust

for the rest.

Of your life, because.

If I give it to you, you'll give it. And

the Bible says he'll give seed to the He does.

Not give the sower seed. He gives seed to the You.

Missed it because a lot of people are like, I'm

going to become a sower. Once I have seed, you

have to already make up a decision in your mind

and your heart that you are sower, and then God

will automatically provide. And now you're sitting here looking at

the clouds, When is the right time to plant it now?

Because the farmer y'all missed it. Look at it. I

don't want you to miss this.

Farmers who wait for the perfect weather never plant. Why

are you not seeing a harvest cause you never planted.

Why are you not seeing those relationships grow because you.

Didn't plant friendliness?

Why are you not seeing God give you more influence

in these areas because you have not planted time in

spaces without expecting anything back. God's saying to all of us,

give what you got analogy, just real quick, because it

keeps coming up in my head, and I'm.

Gonna just say it. I like fashion. Y'all know that

by now.

I don't know where I got this jacket from, but

I like it, and my wife said I look good

in it.

So I am admitting I'm hot up here.

Let me just cause some of y'all be thinking it,

and y'all be like, like, dang, he must be hot.

Yes, as a.

Matter of fact, whatever fleece or wolf that says has

added thirteen degrees. I mean, I'm soaking wet under here.

But in Tulsa you cannot. If you like fashion, you

can't dress based on the weather because one day it'll

be eighty five degrees and the next day.

It'll be two degrees.

And so I don't wait for the weather to get

my fits off. I wake up in the morning, I'm

be like, I'm wearing a fool fur this day. And

see some of y'all like that don't make no sense.

But if I wait on the weather, I ain't never

gonna get the fit off. Do you understand what I'm saying.

I'm just trying to come to where some people are.

If you wait for the perfect situation to sow, you're

never gonna get the fit off.

You're never gonna.

Get They can't tell how hot you are in pictures.

When you wipe the sweat.

Today on the Instagram, I'm gonna look like I was cool.

Do you hear what I'm saying? Because I got the

fit off, but I couldn't. I'm making light of the

I'm just trying to let you know, is you're waiting

for the right time to go to counseling with your wife.

At the brink of divorce. It's not the time.

Okay, you should give the Christmas gift of successions because

a new burking bag is not gonna help y'all. Saving

them and putting him in your closet is just giving

you more wedges of why you can't stand each other.

Sow the seed.

Today, because it's what I got, all right, We got

to get out of here.

Give me an.

Example of somebody in the word, because somebody who sold

a seed even when the situation was unfavorable. I thought

of many different people But if I could run you

through Genesis real quick, the latter part of it, and

we could look at Joseph's life. Y'all remember Joseph, the

one who had a coat of many colors. Joseph had

every excuse after he got triggered to withhold what he had.

But if he would have withheld what God placed on

the inside of him, he would have never ended up

where God intended for him in the end, in his

intention for him. The promise he gave him when he

had the dream is that you're going to be in

a position of power. Your brothers are going to bow

to you. You are going to be raised to a

high level. And he did what most of us did.

Oh God, I got a prophetic word from God, and

he got excited, put his Gucci coat on and went

to his brother's like one day, y'all gonna bow to me. Stupid.

He didn't read the room.

He did not read the room. His emotional intelligence was underdeveloped.

And so what his brothers did. Who didn't get a

Gucci jacket of multi colored from his dad?

They threw him into.

A pit. Now, I don't know if your brother I

got four actual brothers, big brothers, that could actually overpower

me altogether and throw me into a pit. And if

they ever decided to throw me into a pit and

then sell me into slavery. The level of vengeance, can

we just be human for a second, The level of vendetta,

the amount of push ups. Yo, No, I would a

straight prison workout. I'm at the end because at some

point my mind would have switched from blessing it my brother.

My dream said, I'm a bless him.

I got something blessing with.

Think about Joseph, though, Joseph literally gets thrown into a

pit and then gets sold into a slavery into a

different country. And look what this man does in Genesis

thirty seven when he is triggered by betrayal, Joseph has

a dream his brothers hate him, sold him in the savory,

and he could have withheld watched his trust for people.

If my brother sold me out, I'll never trust anybody again.

Come on, some of us have.

Parent traumas and sibling traumas and coach traumas that literally

are trying to exclude us from people.

Period. When God's word.

Says it's not good for men to be alone, he's

behind the thing after the thing. But what it Joseph do?

He continued to trust people.

How do we know?

Because in Genesis thirty nine he goes and he gets

sold into slavery, but he ends up at this high

officials house called Potiphar, and Potiphar sees his skill.

And I don't know about you, but when.

I show up in places and I was done wrong,

I don't be really excited to give them help. Specially

if you call me a slave. That is a sure

way from Michael Todd not to help you.

Come here slave?

Whoa Joseph is an endentured serve it in a different country,

but still has the gift of leadership. And in the

face of watch this his trigger was injustice. How many

people get so mad when they see injustice, like when

somebody gets done wrong or gets manipulated or gets taken

like it makes your blood boiled. This man did nothing

but share his dream with people he loved, and he

ended up as a slave.

In somebody's house.

If anybody had an excuse to withhold something, I ain't

coming in here to help y'all do nothing make me

like me? You start getting cry by. But Joseph gives

his leadership away and prospers potfer.

He literally does not let.

What God placed on the inside of him die in

an environment that is not conducive for his greatness. He

still sold what he had at the job he didn't like.

He still sold what he had at the church that

didn't recognize all of his potential. He still sold what

he had to help people who are never gonna fully

repay him. How do you know that? Because Potterphar's wife

took a look at Joseph as well, say he's good

at leading all these people, maybe he can lead me somewhere.

And Potterphar's old, stanky, grubby handwife tried to manipulate Joseph.

He's in the best position he's ever been in since

being thrown in slavery because he did not withhold what

he had, He gave what he got. He's in a

good position. And now Potiphar's wife tries to come put

them cheeks on it. Oh you know, that's what she did.

And what ended up happening is that watch this.

He was triggered by a lie.

She literally made up an entire lie, ripped his coat.

He tried to take me look good of fuh look

like he said ma pie, get him, make him pie,

toddy pie.

Don't let nobody tell y'all want to.

Like that she she made up a whole lie about

my man.

How many people in this room have ever been lied

on before? Like they just made it up? Why did you.

Make that up?

If I was gonna do it, I wouldn't have done it,

Like Dad, you'll be getting that mad at the lies

that they told. At least give me a better line. No,

But when he could have withheld this trust, he still

sold it. When he could have withheld his leadership, he.

Still sold it.

When he was triggered by the environment he was put

in because after Potiphar believed the lie of his wife,

he was thrown into jail.

He was triggered by the environment.

What happens when you did the right thing, told the truth,

and you still end up in a prison. It was

a pit, it was Potiphar's house, then it was.

Prison and in prison.

I mean, even if he's the greatest believer and he

made it through all them other tests, I mean I

would be at this point okay with him withholding what

he has in prison. But now Joseph, he had a

prophetic edge. He could see things he could interpret dreams.

So while he's in jail, God puts two other men

there who are confused, and Joseph has the clarity for

their situation, and literally in the midst of their confusion,

Joseph could have been like, and what did he do?

He said, I see clearly what's happening. You're about to

be killed and you're about to be That's what I said.

You gotta read the Bible. You're gonna be killed, and

you're gonna get grace. And hey, I got one request.

Would you please not forget about me? When God does

and performs his word in an environment that was not

set up for his success, he still soled what he

had and then verse forty one, he literally gets forgotten.

Let's let's be let's let's be clear. Let's stop and

talk about him being in jail for more years because

the dude who got out based on his prophetic word

and his accuracy forgot about him. Have you ever had

anybody break a promise to you? Mean, nothing kills your

outstretched hand like a broken promise? Are you not showing

up for me? And I show up for you?

Cool? Got you?

But even in that where there were years where he

was never even acknowledged. He didn't stop seeing what he

had to the point where the pharaoh had a dream

and then oh, yeah, there's a guy in prison who

could interpret my dream. They came and found him, and

at that point he's in this king's jail.

At you for building to jail, I'm mad at the

guards for being working.

At the jail.

I'm mad at the people who get the.

Food after like I could have built up bitterness. But

he's literally standing in front of the king and he

still gives.

And because.

The enemy was not after Joseph's life, he was after

the power of his surrender. He was trying to steal

his generosity because the promise that God showed him in

the dream about his brother's bowing to him, it was

coming to pass through unfavorable circumstances. And if he would

have let the trigger keep him from sewing, he would

have never gotten to the place that God said in

the beginning, some of you are cutting out your journey

to the thing that God's promised you the whole time

because you're withholding what you have now, waiting.

For a better time or better w whether to sew it.

And God says give it to those kids, give it

to your husband, give it to those coworkers, give.

It to your church.

Give what you got.

Because it's the key to hill.

Next, he literally tells the king, and the king promotes

him to second in command over the entire country because

he did not withhold what was in him. Few chapters later,

guess what happens. A famine hits the entire land verse

forty five, Verse forty two. His brothers come back into

the scene. Now, what should Joseph's response be when he

finds out that the brothers who put him in the

pit in the first place, if it wasn't for them,

none of this would have happened to him.

They come back in need.

Can God trust you to be able to sow into

the people who hurt you severely? Could God trust you

to have a heart that would be refined like his,

to be able to even say, Okay, y'all did this

to me. But what the enemy meant for evil, this

is what he said, God turned it for good. I

know what your intentions were, but God was using you.

All things are working together for the good.

Somebody say it's got to be good, Say it with faith,

It's got to be good. When he was triggered by

his past and his brothers came for food, he could

have withdrew his grace and everybody would have been like

his cool bro killed them. Dudes, y'all know friends who

will help you do the ratchet and wrong thing. Yeah,

if it was me, it ain't you. And that's why

God's calling some of us as believers to a higher level.

You gotta forgive them.

Why because you're not trying to be more like them,

You're trying to be more like me. You gotta let

them go of the dead. You gotta forgive them, and

they didn't apologize. You gotta try again. You were meant

to be loved. But you gotta let that other person

who abused you.

You gotta let them go.

You gotta stop following their Instagram and Facebook. You gotta

stop pain shopping and managing misery. I need you to

let that go. Because he was triggered by his past.

As soon as he saw his brothers watch this, he

knew who they were, but they didn't know who he was,

So he could have manipulated the situation and killed them

and they didn't even.

Know it was him. But he didn't withhold his grace.

He's still sold it. He still gave what he had.

Now there are times where I feel like, dang, I

don't got nothing else to give, and God's like, well,

put a little something in there you might not have

accounted for.

I'm not asking you for what you don't have. Give

what you got.

And I've come up here many times and the team

will tell you in the back they've prayed for.

Me, and I'm like, God, just I don't know if

I have I mean.

Whoo, and it'll be like there'll be just one little

spark or something. And God was like, that's all I needed,

just that, just that encouragement, just that smile, just that faith,

just that little worship. That's all I that's all. I'm

not asking you for what I didn't put in you,

but could you give what you got? Genesis forty five,

Joseph is triggered by truth because everything comes out, and

he could have withheld his forgiveness.

But if he would have withheld his forgiveness.

He would have canceled out the promise that God showed

him when he first got the jacket. His brother's bowing

to him, thank you, his dad getting to see him

before he passed. Family reconciliation happened because one person kept

sowing the seed. None of his brothers deserved it, but

one person kept sowing the seed.

Who will be the one person to keep sowing?

Today, Church, as we step into this season of crazy faith,

I'm asking you to withhold nothing and actually anchor all

of the things that are triggers in your life to faith.

So when I get triggered.

No noe, no, no no no, I'm training my triggers

to actually move me into.

Action by faith.

Like I'm not just gonna be mad. That means if

I get mad and when a customer out, I need

to say something nice to somebody. You missed it.

You need to train your triggers to do the opposite

by faith.

You feel like you don't have money, you need to

figure out somebody you can bless. I didn't say with

money because you ain't got that.

But what do you have? See?

Until you do something to counteract what is coming to

put you back in a cycle. The seed interrupts cycles. Lord,

I'm gonna need four weeks. A seed interrupts. Ask any woman,

it's too deep for y'all. The Only thing that interrupts biologically,

a woman's cycle.

Is a seed.

And you've been in a cycle of depression, So a seed.

You've been in a site of going back to those

old habits.

Sow a seed.

You've been in a cycle of doing what is not

good for your purpose.

So a seed.

Why don't got a big seat? He said, it could

be the size of a mustard seed? So what you got?

The reason?

I come to Crazy Faith Offering and ask God? What

am I supposed to give? Not just financially, What am

I supposed to give in time? What am I supposed

to give in in resources? What am I supposed to

give in influence?

There are people that I literally.

Ask God, am I supposed to connect them with this person?

I'm the bridge between them and what they think they need.

And sometimes it's not sowing money, it's sowing influence. I

can set somebody up better than they can set thyself up.

Hey, this is my man, Jeff. Jeff. Meet Tom. Tom.

If you ever work with Jeff, let me tell you.

What's gonna happen to your business. Your business is gonna grow,

You're gonna be happy here, and you're gonna get more

sleep at night. Jeff, I know you can't say this

about yourself, Jeff, but I know firsthand Tom. You need

to hire him and you need to pay him more

than you're paying the other guy. Because this dude I

have and I step out of that. And what did

I just sew? I sold my influence? How much would

that cost you? Pride?

Because I might not be in the equation no more.

When Jeff and Tom go up to blow up, they

might not remember that I was the one who made

the connection. And now I'm on Instagram like, forget them.

I'm the one they wouldn't know.

They wouldn't know each other. Matter of fact, we.

Took a picture together.

I'm gonna post this picture right now. Connector locked in.

Church today, I'm asking everybody to sew what you got

over the next three weeks. God's going to require something

of all of us. If you're watching online or you're

in this room. This is not an accident. This is

a call to activate your faith. I have more to

talk to you about, but we're going to go into

it next next week. Because the way you're not going

to crash out this Christmas is you're going to interrupt

the cycle. There's already a cycle. You can feel the

anxiety coming. You felt it a black Friday, just driving

on Memorial Like, y'all know what I'm saying.

Like you can feel.

The anxiety of the stock market and the government, and

you can feel the anxiety of your family members and

the pressure of deadlines, and your creative juice is actually

not flowing the way it wants to be. Like you

can feel it, and God says, what you do, so

eat and interrupt this cycle. Would you have faith to

believe that I give seed to the sword? Would you

have faith to believe that when you step out in faith,

it actually gives your future a future. See, a lot

of people are waiting for the future just in time.

But your future should have an expectation with it. A

farmer sows, and he sits back every morning with his

coffee with expectation because it's not that he sees something.

He know he sold something. There is no farmer that's

like that. I don't know when the harvest is coming.

He's like, it may not, it didn't come to death,

but it's coming because I know I sold something. What's

the last thing you saw? It'll change the way you

wake up, It'll change the way that you love it'll

change the way. I am going to sew no matter

what the weather is, and I'm encouraging you. Weather may

have been hard this year, the weather may have distracted you. You

might have got married this year. You like, I ain't

worry about nobody. He's my fun, my moon, my everything. Okay, cool,

don't forget.

That.

In every season, I gotta sew, cause who knows which

one is gonna prosper this that or maybe both? Standing

all over this place over the next before anybody leaves,

listen to me, over the next three weeks, I'm gonna

tell you what's gonna happen. Okay, everybody look at me, please,

watching online, just focus in for one second. God's going

to require all of us to take inventory of what

we have, and he's going to start asking us to

sew seeds with it. Some of you, I don't even

have to tell you right now. You got a whole

club full of stuff that you know that's gotta go.

It's got to go, and let me help you. Giving

is not easy, some people think when you make up

the decision to mind, when you make up your mind

to give, then it just gets easy. The enemy does

not want you to be like Jesus. He wants you

to give up before Well, it was.

In my heart. God knows my heart.

I tried to give it and this couch ain't gonna

get to them. And when I'm asking you to do,

is so what you got for some of us. It

will be a monetary seed. And I'm asking everybody to

begin to pray.

Husbands and wives begin.

To pray, single people begin to pray. We will not

stop at the excuse anymore in this season of crazy

faith and of people. I love inviting people into this

because it changed my life, specifically that I'm not sowing

to see an outcome in a thing yet, I'm sewing

to see an outcome in my heart first.

And today there are people in this room who have.

Never taken that step of faith to say, you know what, God,

I'm gonna trust you with my finances. The Bible talks

about that more than it talks about prayer, because he

knew it would be a stronghold for us.

Thank God.

This year, I want to sew and I'm not just

gonna sew money. I'm gonna sow whatever you tell me.

Hear what I just said, I'm gonna sew whatever you.

Because some of you. Money's not the issue.

You get the money. You get the money all the day.

The issue is showing up for somebody. I'll give you money,

but I'm not gonna listen.

Time, energy, effort, intention.

God's requiring all of us to be more like him

and not stop at the point of your trigger. Do

you remember what Jesus did on the on the road

to the cross, y'all? Remember what that's called when he

was getting spit on and he was carrying his cross

the the It's a it's a Latin word.

How do you say it? Via Della Rosa. He literally.

Displayed for us what it looked like to keep stepping

by faith while being triggered every step, people lying on him,

shouting accusations, spitting on him, and the whole aim was

to steal the thing behind the thing.

It was to keep from.

Actually sacrificing his life, giving what he had for all

the people that were literally embarrassing him. And he said,

if I could do it, I did it so you

could be.

My reflection here on earth.

By faith. I need you in a triggering environment situation, government,

I need you to still give what I placed on.

The inside of you.

You still have a song to sing, You still have

a book to write, You still have a curriculum to develop,

You still have a building to design. You still have

a family to save, you still have a child to adopt.

Somebody's waiting on you to stop.

Withholding what God placed on the inside of you. Today,

I'm gonna pray that we would withhold nothing. Would you

lift your hands like this, withholding nothing, withholding nothing, I

withhold nothing, withholding nothing.

Just sing that by faith, withhold.

And nothing, withhold and nothing, Jesus, withhold nothing.

Give whatever you tell me to God, withhold nothing. I surrender,

say I, sir, to you.

Jesus everything, Yeah, I give to withhold and nothing thing, Jesus.

This is our prayer by faith God.

With hold nothing, I surrender Lord, with hold.

Just one more time. Say I surrender, y'all, Say.

I sir, Hey, everything you placed in me, I'll give

it back to you God.

Everything I give to you, Jeez, withholding nothing.

I'm making a decision today God.

Whatever I have is yours God. I will be the answer.

I will be your hands and feet. If you're under

the sound of my voice and you know there is

something that God has gifted you with giving you stewardship,

responsibility over or literally just placed in your hand that

you have not been giving as freely as you.

Know you should.

Would you just lift your hands in this place. I

want to pray for you because God's changing hearts right now.

Just lift them high like yep if you're online right

now today, Father, I pray for my brother and sister

who somewhere in their journey got triggered to pull their

hands back. Today by faith, I am asking Father that

you would unlock their heart and you would give them

the faith to believe in you as their anchor.

You are the defender.

You are the God that fights for us. You are

the Godfather that turns bad situations good. As we even

look at Joseph's life, Father, your word was true about him.

And today, Father, for those who are bothered, hurting, broken,

frustrated and have been trying to protect themselves. Father God,

would you please wrap your arms around them right now

in the name of Jesus and let them know that

you are a father worth trusting.

Your word is worth trusting.

Father God, heal their heart and give them the audacity

and the faith to believe again. Let their life change

as they make a decision to withhold nothing, and I

thank you that there will be evidence in their life

who I feel the presence of God. I thank you

that in this next ninety days there will be evidence.

Father God.

As they give freely, you will pour out freely. I'm

gonna say it again. As they give freely, you will

pour out. We won't withhold wisdom. We wont withhold Father

our instruction. We will not withhold Father God.

Our kindness, our encouragement.

We will not withhold Father God, even the things we've

called secrets to success or another love we'll give. Father.

We are sowing these seeds by faith, in faith, knowing

that anybody who plans your word says that they will

reap a harvest.

God, Our trust is in you, So we withhold nothing,

withhold nothing.

Come on, say it with faith. I'm with hood.

Jesus. It's twelve thirty.

Oh we have to leave, But I believe God is

doing some hard work in here. If you were in

this room and you do not have a personal close

relationship with Jesus Christ, not you were raised around him,

and your big mama know about him, and your cousin

is a pastor, I don't want none of those things.

I'm talking about you and him.

You either need to give your life to Christ or

you need to rededicate your life. Whether you're watching this

in prison, whether you're in this room, or whether you

are watching this on a rebroadcast, today is your day

of salvation.

I need the church to begin to pray.

I need you to begin to pray right now, because

this is what this.

Church exists for.

We're gonna lead you to Jesus by faith, and I'm

telling you today is your day of transformation. I don't

care how much money you've made. I don't care how

many awards you've received. I don't care how broken you've been.

Today I want to introduce you to the man who

transformed my life. He took me from being a liar,

a manipulator, addicted to pornography, and didn't make me a

perfect man, but a progressing man, a man that could.

Literally come with all my flaws.

And God says, don't change your heart, yet, give me

your heart, because if you give me your heart, I'll

help you change your habits. Today I'm standing out of

evidence of God's goodness, and today I want you and

your family and your life to change.

Because of Jesus. If you're in this.

Room, you're gonna need his power to transform your life. Today.

He's calling you by his love. This is not me

telling you you're a bad person. Your God's child. He's

given everything, he withheld nothing, just.

To have relationship with you. He gave his.

Last breath as a ransom for each one of us

so that you could be reconciled to the Father. All

you have to do, according to Romans ten night, is

believe that he did it and receive his grace today

and today, I'm telling you it's your day of salvation.

On a count of three, I just want you to

lift your hand if you want to accept Jesus. I

want you to be bold and loud. We're gonna celebrate

in here with you because we know this is the

thing that has transformed our life. And Heaven rejoices over

one person that gives their life to Christ, whether they're

in this room or watching online or in a prison cell.

Right now, today, Heaven is about to turn up. One.

You're making the greatest decision of your life. Two, your

name is gonna be written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

Three shoot your hand up in the air.

If you want to receive Jesus, I see you, my brother.

If you want to give God your whole life, I

see you.

My brother.

Oh, Transformation Church, you gotta celebrate online.

Brother, I see you, God sees you. Today is a new.

Day if for only two people.

Saw worthy.

It transformation in Christ.

Today, as a church we pray together for the benefit.

Of those who are coming to Christ.

Would everybody just say God, thank you for sending Jesus

just for me today.

I repent on my sins. Can I turn to you.

I believe you lived, died, and rose again with all power.

To defeat anything I would deal with on this earth.

I receive you as my Lord and Savior. Changed me,

You knew me, transform me. I'm yours forever in Jesus' name. Jesus. Amen,

come on church or celebrate.

No, that should be the biggest shout of the day. Hallejjah.

Listen to me, Listen to me. If you made that decision,

I need you to text saved to eight two eight

two eight two, and we want to help you and

walk with you on this journey.