Audacious Faith: The Access To My Authority // Mustard: The Seed That Can Change Everything (Part 2) // Pastor Michael Todd

Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to

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

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

God will transform your life. Do today's message, okay?

So one of the things that I always want to

do is make sure we balance our expression with our information.

You see how little the Amen's got right there, because

we would rather feel something than understand it. But in

all you're getting the Bible says, get a what not

a feeling. So I want to validate what you just felt.

That thing in me that just wants to lay out

and act like none of y'all is here. That's a

real feeling, okay. But without the information from his word,

then the enemy can come and rob us of our

experiences because we do not having understanding. So today, in

the next forty minutes, I need you give you forty minutes.

If your food was late, you would stay until you

got your to go box. So today I just want

to give you, in the next few minutes a message

that is going to change your life. Tassa, Mike, why

are you saying it's gonna change your life? Because it's

changed my life. And today we are in week two

of a series we're calling help me my stand. Yes

it is weak.

Two man, what happened?

No quit now, don't do it now, don't do it now.

Don't do it now. They were still laid out in worship.

But but I'm speaking on faith. Somebody shot at me faith,

I said, shout it at me. Say faith today and

for the rest of this series. What I want to

do is try to enlarge your ability to believe. Leave God.

Many of us have faith in things that don't matter.

We have faith in things some of us. I told

somebody this this weekend. You have more faith in Wi

Fi than the Creator. Some of us like, no, no, no,

I know it's gonna work.

I pay the bill.

No no, no, no, no, I know it's gonna work. I

reset the system and Wi Fi like, God is something

you can't see, but something you have to believe in,

and the only way you know it's real is because

of the results.

Many of us have.

Skipped over the results that God continues to show us. Everybody,

take a deep breath in, let it out. How much

you pay for that? How many good acts did you

do for that breath? And the Bible says, let everything

that have praise the Lord. I'm I'm trying to get

give you context of how ingratiated our faith is into

our life. But if we don't recognize that God wants

to enlarge our faith, we will walk around watch this

misusing what is so powerful and could change our lives.

And so today I want to take us into a

deeper dive into this series. Did y'all like that song

sign me up that the worship team sang today. That

song is going to be available this Friday on all

streaming platforms to get your summers started off right. And

I'm asking that everybody sign up for this life of

faith that God would do something on the inside of

you that would replace all the fear and bring you

into a space where you can really believe.

And so wherever you're.

At right now, I believe that God's going to do

something special.

If you would for me.

I want us to understand this simple point.

Write it down.

Faith perform its best.

When there's a demand on it.

Faith performs its best when there's a demand on it.

My question to you today is when is the last

time you actually.

Used your faith.

I'm not talking about like, oh, if I just plan

or do better, or make it happen myself, or save enough.

I'm talking about something that if you told somebody this

is what you were believing, they would back up. When

is the last time you had a faith statement declared

out loud that you knew would get pushed back from

people you love. It's quiet in here because most of

the time we're using our faith for something very fundamental,

very low, very middle of the road. But today I

came to put.

A demand on your.

Faith, and I'm asking you to get into a place

where every day that you wake up you believe that

through your belief in God. Somebody say in God, not

belief in a course, not belief in an education system.

All of those things are great, But your belief in

God can create things that are not seen. I'm gonna

say it again, your belief in God can create things

that is currently not seen. And I'm fighting right now

through culture who tells you to have to show how

everything happens. All the way back to elementary school. You

know when you could, they had you do your a

math problem. And what did the teacher always say, show

your work. It's the right answer four day and the

teacher wants to know how did you get there? When

it comes to faith, you have to unlearn that principle

because it's not going to add up. Okay, And what

hinders most of us is we're trying to make it

make sense even though we have the right answer, and

we're trying to convince people. Well, it was how I

went about the meeting, and then once I used my

skills in the meeting, it rolled over to a great

relationship that then turned into.

You're not they're good.

How did God take the real you, not the presented you,

the real you and put it in that position, gave

you that type of responsibility, gave you that type of

understanding of this thing. It's it's not gonna add up.

So the sooner that you realize you don't have to

have the answer because you know the answer, y'all missed it.

I don't have to have the answer because I know. Okay,

I'm not trying to tell you what I'm figuring out today.

I'm trying to tell you what I know.

And today I want to give you the audacity to

believe God. Everybody say audacity, Now when you usually use

that term, watch this, it's not positive. Most people when

they use it. This woman came in the store today

and she had the dacity to ask me if she

can try on nine items when it says eight right there,

And I told her, uh uh, because I'm in the stop.

Come on this player, he come off the bench and

he had the audacity to take the game winning shot.

That's when you be ready to kill somebody if this

is your team and then there's no name God come

off the bench and he's like, ah, why. But I

started to look at the word audacity different when it

came to me exercising my faith, and I believe that

if you understood what audacity actually meant, then you would

be one that would believe God. For the title of

my message today, audacious faith. You need audacious faith, not

say faith, not secure faith. Those are oxy morons. You

cannot step out and stay in. Oh God, you can't

be out of the boat and in the boat, Peter,

you can't have my trusted than you God and the

security plan. It's time for believers to walk in. Somebody

say audacious faith, okay. Audacity is a willingness to take

bold risks, a willingness to take what bold risk? When's

the last time your faith did something bold? Think about

it for real, when's the last time everybody wasn't doing

the same thing you was out there walking by yourself.

See this term audacity has fired something up on the

inside of me, because I believe that it is God's

plan for every person who calls him savior to actually

walk in audacious fate. When I look at the stories

of the Bible, do you know how bold you had

to be to tell everybody that I'm building a boat

and it's never rained yet. Noah was audacious, had to

convince his kids to get up every day, his wife

to bring him sandwiches, and to actually come out and

build a boat, not that there's not just a body

of water big enough to him, there's never been rained yet.

Do you know how audacious you had to be to

leave your business after meeting a man who came and said,

throw it on the other side, throw it on the

other side, had the biggest day of business, text it,

and did not stay to capitalize on the business. They

left everything to follow Jesus. Do you know how audacit is?

Audacis it is to do that without a guarantee? Do

you know how audacious it is to be associated with

Jesus when people are coming out the woods as ops

trying to kill him. Y'all know, everybody down until somebody

pull out that thing. H y'all know what I'm talking about,

and somebody like, let's fight. Everybody like, oh, hold on fighting.

I don't fight. I'm gonna fight. But somewhere along the line,

I think we have subscribed as believers to save faith,

the safe that the faith that we can calculate, the

faith that makes sense to our mother in law and

our business partner, the faith that makes sense to our

bank account and our savings. Okay, I'm gonna have to

work today, and I see it because some of y'all

sitting here like crossfile looking at me, and I'm gonna

help you today. Let me let every believer know why

you can have the audacity to believe God, the audacious faith.

I can have audacity because Jesus gave me authority. The

reason why you don't walk with your chest being, and

the reason you don't walk into places and believe that

the atmosphere is gonna change because you don't know what

you've already been given. The reason why I am audacious

with my faith and I can believe God for stuff

nobody in my family has ever seen, and I can

believe God to write down thirty seven days after I

became the lead the church that this would be a building,

and when we got here five years later, we paid

it off in five months. Why did that happen? Because

my faith was audacious. Look, if it didn't happen, it

wasn't because I didn't supply the ingredients. And some of

us are trying to be God's protection and we mask

it as I don't want to get my hopes up.

I don't want to put that demand on God that

God really say that. I don't think. I think that's

a little much to be able to believe like that.

If it don't happen, He's still God. His place in

the universe didn't change, and maybe he's trying to teach

you something different about your space in this place. But

most of us won't even supply the ingredients to make

the cake. You won't even put the faith into play.

And this is why it needs you to know that

your audacity to believe God in faith comes from your authority.

Anytime somebody has audacity, it's because they have a say

it with me, you have audacity because you have authority.

You can have audacity because you, by Jesus, have been

given a You don't even believe it. Matthew twenty eight eighteen.

This is Jesus. So let's establish who has authority. Jesus

came and told all his disciples, I have been given

all authority. Well, where you've been given authority in this hunt,

in this town, in this city, I've been given all

authority in heaven and on earth. So Jesus comes to

let you know, hey, allow me to reinduce myself. My

name is jay E s U. He literally says, I'm Jesus,

and everything you've ever seen, I've been given authority over that.

But let me tell you I've been given authority over

things you can't see either right heaven and earth. Then

let's go over to Luke ten nineteen. So we just

established Jesus has authority. Say that with me. Jesus has authority.

Say it one more time. Jesus has, But we gotta

amend it because it said all, and if you forget all, then.

You will forget that.

He doesn't have authority just in small sections. Okay, Jesus

has all authority. This series musta. There's some words we

gotta elongate. Okay. So Jesus has authority, because sometimes you

gotta remember it's not just the thing you praying about

that he has authority over the person you hate. He

had authority over them too. That's why you pray scriptures

like this. When you will learn you authority and how

the word can change things. Father, the heart of the

king is in the Lord's hand like water. You can

turn it. See when you understand who has all authority,

it changes the way you walk in audacity. Okay, okay,

I'm trying to give you the formula. So Jesus has

all authority Luke ten nineteen. This is Jesus talking to

them same disciples. Look, anytime a sentence starts with look,

that means they already tried to say something you ever

been telling your kids, like hey, look, I ain't gonna

tell you again it's bad time. Jesus starts this sentence

off like this, Look, I have given I'll read the

Bible you he in Matthew twenty eight eighteen. He says

I've been given all authority. Now he's saying, look, let

me tell you again, I have given you authority over

there that word again, all the power of the enemy.

Hold on, not all the power of the enemy, Not

the anxiety that keeps hitting me at night, not those

temptations that keep coming ho hold on, not those suggestions

of suicide. Not that all. He said, I have all authority.

Now I give you authority, over all the power of

the enemy.

That makes me feel like I can.

Go and bust some heads. And he says, and you

can walk among snakes and scorpions and crust them. Why

because nothing will injure you. Imagine being on the sideline,

scared of something you're supposed to crush. This is how

the church will looks like, Look, look sneaks over there.

But look, look, there's people that don't like me over there.

There's critics over there. There's people who don't want us.

They don't, they don't. Oh, come on, y'all, I don't

know if I feel welcomed. This notion that every space

that God takes you into is supposed to be comfortable

is a lie from Hell. That's why he says, I

will prepare a place. I will prepare a table in

the presence of your Now, why does everything I see

these quotes in these memes like if you're not celebrated,

don't tolerate it, then Jesus would have gone nowhere. We

are called into spaces to be the change there. So

when you first show up, they may not be clapping

for you. Okay, when you first show up, they may

not be because you're an interrupter, a disruptor, a light bringer,

a kingdom citizen. And so many of us have believed

the lie that I have to be liked to be effective.

But I came to tell you that the impact comes

from my anointing and my assignment, not your cosignments. Yell,

y'all are waiting for a co sign for somebody who

can't call you, and their co sign means nothing if

God put his hand on your life. Some of y'all

need to find the people that have been trying to

get you to stay on the back because you don't

have what it takes. No, I got audacity, and I'm

about to big step into every space. God has called

me too, and I'm gonna do a God. Okay, somebody

yell at me, audacious faith, Let me put my glasses

on to be a little more dignified. Jesus said, look,

God giving you authority over all the powers of the enemy.

And so this is what I found out that most

believers have not accepted the truth of the transfer. Jesus

has the power and he transferred it to us. What

if I told you right now that I was going

to transfer one hundred thousand dollars into your bank account. Now,

the crazy thing about it is some people are laughing,

and there are a few people in this room that

feel like, hold on, is he serious? Is this right?

Is this is he playing?

Now? The thing about a transfer, when you start working

in moneies that exceed like the single digits thousands, you

usually don't carry that amount of cash around.

They usually do electronic transfers.

They do different types of wires, is what they call them.

And what ends up happening is.

If you don't know that somebody's transferring you one hundred

thousand dollars, you don't act like you got one hundred

thousand dollars. So if you had five hundred and sixty

two dollars in your bank account, but somebody transferred you

one hundred thousand and you didn't know, you would still

be living like you had five hundred and sixty two

dollars in your account. The truth of the transfer is

it was made, but you just ignorant of it. O day.

Could it be that Jesus is saying, when you accepted

me at salvation, there was a deposit put in your

account of authority that would give you the audacity to

believe even with see with faith the size of a

mustard seed that you can say to a situation, a person,

a different thing be removed and it would completely change.

But you are ignorant of the transfer. So the reason

why you're walking around timid is because you have not

accepted that the transfer has already happened. Some of you

are trying to earn what God has already given you. Okay,

if you didn't know the one hundred thousand dollars had come,

you would be living at the same level of resource,

the same level of restriction, and the same level of

reservation because you didn't have a revelation.

Today, I want.

You to understand that you can have audacity to believe

God because you have been given authority by God. Okay,

let me break it down even more. My daughter Ava

and Bella have come into this space where they want

to pay for stuff. So like, no, none of that

he let me pay for it, none of that. He

let me pay for it. And I don't know if

this is a good thing or a bad thing, because

I feel like I'm training them in the way they

shouldn't go right down to take my card when they're older.

But there's something about there's something about how they like

to have the authority to be able to walk up

to the counter and hit the little tap thing. The

other day, we was in Quick Trip and Bella and

Ava went and asked for some slushies after ransom, and

they had danced in ransom and done such good, and

I promise might get him some slushes. So they go

into Quick Trip and Abe asked for the card before

we got out the car. Now, she usually asked for

it when we get up to the desk, but she asked, Daddy,

can I see the car because I want to pay

for it? And I was like, okay, I wasn't even

think about it. I gave it a card. That baby

looked at that car when she walked into that store.

That baby did not come to play.

I promised her a slushy.

She picked up candy, a pizza chips. She had the

audacity to pick up a donut, look at it, and

put it back. She had the audacity to ask Bella,

did she want anything else? She had the audacity to

look back at me and say, Daddy, did you love something?

But she was walking in the authority that I gave her.

And until the body of Christ walks in the authority

that their father has given them, that baby doesn't know

how much money's in my account. She has no idea

how the transfer even happens. All she knows is that

she had access to her father's authority. Y'all better hear

what I'm saying to you today. If you don't go

to that job and stop A didn't like you are

scared and you step in there and like I got

the wisdom for this. No, I ain't never done this before.

But I have access to all knowledge, to all understanding.

Somebody shot at me, access authority, audacity, Stop playing scared?

You want that house? Well? The government in the economic downturn,

somebody get in the house right now. See okay, all right,

let me see you want to change that neighborhood. Somebody

buying a neighborhood right now that you don't got the audacity,

didn't believe Okay, Okay, there's nothing worse than having access

and being completely unaware. Nothing worse then going to the

concert and one of your friends works backstage and they

give you a badge, and then you start asking where

your seat is, and now you're feeling bad because you

never looked at the access that you had. The badge

he gave you was not for a seat. It was

access to explore. It was access to not find where

your seat was in the nosebleedze. It was access to

be on the side of the stage. But if you

don't know, you can't walk in that authority. You show

up timid, you show up scared, you show up begging.

And today I just went to on week two, I

want to activate and unlock your audacious faith.

Let me prove to you.

God's giving you everything you need two Peter one to three.

It is divine power. So this has nothing to do

do with you. God has given somebody, say us, everything

we need. Stop right there. By God's divine power. He's

given us everything we need for living a godly life.

We have received all of the authority, all of the peace,

all of the patience, all of the love. When we

get Jesus, we get the whole thing by coming to

know him. This is about not being ignorant of it.

Why do we read our Bible because we get to

find out what comes with the package. There's features in

your faith that you ain't even unlocked yet because you

won't read the manual. Okay, and I know some of y'all.

Just take it out the box and turn it on people.

Oh where y'all at? Come on right now? Look, nobody

want to raise their hand.

And it's just I don't know.

You ain't read an instruction in years, and now what

you do divine the specific function you want? You just

go to YouTube, chat GPT. I'm fine with it in technology.

Please don't bring that to your faith though, because if

you if you don't, if you don't bring the Sikh

to your faith, you won't find the treasures.

Okay, all right, all right, let me stop.

He said, We receive all of this by coming to

know him, the one who called us to himself by

means of his marvelous and glorious excellence.

Let me help you understand this.

Maybe the Christian walk is less about getting more and

more about uncovering what's already there.

Okay, if I already got it.

Somebody say, I already got it, already got the faith.

I need to move the mountain to change the situation,

to walk into a new thing. What's covering it up?

And until you start on earthing this stuff, you walk

below your authority. So this is what I'm gonna do.

I'm gonna say a point, and then I'm gonna give

you seven.

Things and we go home.

Okay. The transfer of authority you need for transformation is

not in transit. It's yours for the taking. This is

your prophetic word. God's not sending the faith you need.

It's already here. You don't even believe it. It's just

under doubt, and it's under depression, and it's under anxiety,

and it's under all of these things in God's seeing.

And that's why all you need is the faith the

size of a mustard's heed. Because if you could start

believing that you already got it, you would start walking

completely different.

Somebody say, I already got.

It, say it with audacity already. Okay. Seven things audacious

faith does. If you're gonna walk and have audacious faith,

these are seven things audacious faith does. Number one, Audacious

faith attacks apathy. If your faith is gonna be like

I'll take a bold risk. I'm gonna do it. I'm

gonna go. I ain't know anybody else that's going, but

I'm about to If you gonna do that, it actually

is an emathy, enemy against apathy, okay James two twenty six.

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so

faith without what works is dead. Also, let me help

you understand this. It's not faith until you add work

to it. Stop telling me about what God's about to do,

and you ain't done nothing. God's about to bless me

with a thing you don't have a bank account to

receive it. Yo. Come on, y'all, God, God's about to

restore my relationship. Well, why are you still playing with

the old ones? But I love the analogy that it gives.

It says, for the body without the spirit is dead.

It's likened to this glove. We were made in the

image of God. This glove was made in the image

of my hand. But this glove has no purpose unless

my hand is in it. The same way your life

has no purpose unless God is Okay, And so the

reason why we present the gospel and tell people about

Jesus is because they have an image of a life,

an image. It looked like a hand. But this thing

by itself, what is that keeping warm? What is that protecting?

What is that doing nothing? It's not an until the

hand gets in it, that purpose is revealed for it.

It's not until God gets in your life and in

your heart that purpose is revealed. Do it without God,

It'll still be dead. Do it without God, have the

career and the money and the things and all the

other stuff. Do it without God, It'll still be dead.

But God can take a little bit of faith and

if he's in the midst of it. But I love

that this is not just a gospel message. He turns

the gospel into a metaphor for your faith.

He said, in the.

Same way you talking about you got crazy faith. I'm

believe in God big, and you don't pull out a

pencil and paper, and you don't write down trademark what

He gave you, and you don't study to figure out

how the laws work around what you're believing for He said,

your faith without putting some work into it is dead today.

Some of y'all need to get a glove and make

a decision. You need to write faith on the outside

of it, and you say this week, I'm putting some

work in this week.

I'm not just gonna talk about it.

I'm putting work because we're praying for what God's already

given us, the power to walk in. Second thing, audacious faith.

Watch this. You don't want to miss one of these points.

Audacious faith agitates average. I have to I have to

make a confession. I'm annoying to people. No, no, no,

I am fully aware. No no, no, not everybody. But

there is a segment of our society who doesn't like

how audacious I am. They'll find anything to try to

tear down what God's doing in my life. It can

be a piece of cloth, or it can be the

way I say something. But the truth of the matter

is my audacity to believe God, my audacity to be

committed to one woman who's find my audacity to actually

raise my kids, my audacity to encourage people who were

broken and lost and back and tell them that God

can transform that life, that that agitates people who he

think he is coming up here where man is and

doing that. And just a child of God who believe

the promises of God, who's gonna walk in him. Whether

you like it, or not. But what audacity does? It

offends the average. You can find average people all around you.

As soon as you start doing something audacious. I'm going

back to school. Why would you do that? You'll do?

Oh what you're gonna use that degree for? Shut up?

I ain't even told you anything, but those people who

have been averaged for years and you you ain't even

done it yet. You just say it, and they try

to put a lid on what God is trying to

launch you from. Yeah, you write in a book, what

you got to talk about? Hold? Wait, you met me

three years ago.

You don't even know my life.

The reason I have to tell you this is because

many times you will want to step back.

When when when you start getting.

The attacks from average, the attacks from average are to

make you shrink. And I'm just coming because I wish

somebody would have told me this, because everybody yelled crazy

faith until you do it, and they they cheered for

you while it while it was not sure, and then

when it happened, and it happened again, and then it

happened again, and it happened again, and then it happened again.

They don't like it because why why would it happen

to you. I'm just I'm I'm I'm.

Encouraging the people who are about to build the future.

I don't know who I'm talking about right now, but

I need to encourage the people who are about to

build the future. When the attacks come, Please do not

take a step back. Please do not lose your audacity,

because that is exactly what the enemy wants to do.

And it's not new. They did it to Jesus. Who

are you to heal somebody on the Sabbath? Bro didn't

have an arm. That's your cousin. Why wouldn't you want

your cousin to have an arm. Bro's arm grew back,

he got sight, and the only thing you could see.

You did it on the wrong day, you know. They

also did it to Daniel and Daniel Chapter six, Daniel

had the audacity to pray even when the rule came

from King Darius that we were for thirty days.

They were only supposed to pray to him.

And Daniel was like, yo, God, God is my God,

and I can't really violate that. And so he was

put in a trap by the people around him, and

he had the audacity to still do what got him

to the place he's in right now.

And when he.

Did his common practice in the face of attack, that's

how he got to the lions. Then I want to

let you know that most of us, when we would

get to the lions, then be like God, dang, I

was just praying to you. Come on, y'all, you could

have protected me from the lions. Then he said, I'm

not just protecting you. I'm gonna preserve you. He said,

I gotta do something to let them know I'm God.

So sometimes I put my children in impossible situations and

I keep them in the middle of it. So when

morning comes and you're supposed to be devoured and they

scream in there, Daniel, did yo, God save you? Yep?

He did again. Yeah he's still on the throne. Yep.

It killed all of them, but nothing is going to

take me out. Somebody shout audacity, And that's why you

gotta guard your faith. That's why you gotta guard your faith.

That's why even when your faith is small, you still

gotta guard it. It's like you, remember I told you

last week to have faith like a ferrari, Like you

need to raise the function of your faith.

I found a ferrari.

Now I know it's I know it's not what you

were probably expecting, but this is sometime how our faith starts.

It starts as an image in our head, and then

it starts small. I'm gonna put my faith down. Yeah. Wow,

that's power. I know y'all don't see it yet, but

but I see something in the future. Matter of fact,

I gotta protect this. I need.

I need some stanchions.

I need. I need something to protect it. Matter of fact,

I'm gonna just wait on me. Yeah, grant me that

stanchion real quick. Yeah. Give me one more. Yeah, give me,

give me one more. Yeah because one day Yeah, just

nobody can come. They can't mess Yeah, give me because

I don't know how people are gonna treat this, but

they may can't see it yet they make it. Yeah,

I'm gonna put in some work because I gotta protect

what God has given me. I know, I know some

of y'all don't see what God is doing yet. I

need one more. Yeah, bring it. Take it off of that.

They don't need to protect that camera. You need to

protect you need to protect my ferrari.

Thank you so much, Gabby.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, no, no, don't mess

up now yeah. Oh no, yeah, dank.

Oh, everybody's watching it.

Sometimes you gotta get.

You gotta engineer it.

It's nice. Yeah yeah, y'all can come and see it

for a dollar a pop. Matter of fact, cue come here,

uh yeah, come here, fair here. I need you to

stand right here and protect it. Just saying right here,

right here. If anybody tries to come and get it,

come on, you know what to do. Yeah, yeah, all right,

I feel safe now.

Most of you.

If I hired these men to guard this for eight

hours a day and paid them and really charged the

dollar to come see this, you would think I was

crazy because that doesn't look like much. And this is

what Mustard t. Faith looks like. God gave you that

business idea, He told you what it was going to do,

and you just let anybody walk up and touch it.

You let people come up and kick around what God

gave you as something that he's going to use to

transform your life. See. See, this is how God will

do because you were faithful over this. Nah, I can't

touch it yet because God hadn't told me to stop

believing and confessing that thing.

I'm gonna just yeah, I'm gonna step.

Out of there. Yea, father, I believe one day you're

gonna turn that into something. One day you're gonna upgrade me.

And I think that day is today.

Now watch it, because some of you feel like this

upgrade it's not worth celebrating. But my faith just got bigger.

And if right now I said abrakadabra, and a fool

ferrari popped up on this stage. Everybody worry about God.

Yet who's to say that that won't happen? Oh, because

you're not seen it before, because it's not normal. Will

you protect the big thing that God gives you in

seed form that is gonna take audacity?

Thank y'all?

All right, here we go. Audacious faith increases your appetite

Romans twelve three because of the privilege. And here's that

word again, an authority God has given me. I give

each of you this warning. Don't think you are better

than you really are. I have to stop because even

when I said that, some of you are triggered into

trauma because that scripture has been weaponized to make people

feel and think small. Don't think more of yourself than

you should. It really is Jesus telling you just think

about yourself rightly. And what it should say how I

interpreted this through grace. It should say something like, don't

think you are better than you really are, but don't

forget you are who he said you are. So what

ends up happening is we forget who we are. Try

not to think that we better than we are. I

ain't better than I am, but I am who I am,

sam I am. Like, do y'all hear what I'm saying?

Like the enemy will try to make you feel like

you're not a child of God, like you're not a

royal priesthood, like you're not like you're not redeemed, like

you're not righteous. Don't forget who you are trying to

play the people who don't want you to be.

Who you are.

He says, be honest in your evaluation of yourself, that

self awareness measuring yourself? Watch this, How should you measure

yourself by the Oh my God, y'all ain't never seen

this scripture in the Bible. God said, stop measuring your

Instagram followers, start measuring your faith. Stop measuring your friend count,

start measuring your faith, Stop measuring your finances, start measuring

your faith. He said. The thing I want you to

measure is how much faith you got because everything else

comes out of by faith. The worlds were formed. Okay, guys,

he said, I want you to measure yourself by the

faith God has given each one of us, which makes

me think, write this now. My faith is not fixed.

It can grow further. Anytime you measure something is you

measure it because it has the opportunity to expand or shrink.

So God saying you can grow in your measure of faith.

Whatever level of faith you have today, grow, baby grow.

The only way that car went from where it was

to where it is is that I planted it and

I did the things that were instructed for it to grow.

How does faith grow? The Bible tells us there's several ways,

but one of them it says faith comes by hearing

and hearing the word of God. You just start playing

the Bible more in your house. Oh yeah, no, I

love music. Put on some music and just play the Word.

I told somebody this years ago. The Holy Spirit. There's

a scripture that talks about the Holy Spirit will bring

everything to your remembrance in the time that you need it.

I told somebody. It's like they were like, how do

you remember all the Bible and all all the different

things I said. Let me tell you the truth. I

don't remember a lot, but I put it in. And

if I put it in the Holy Spirit at the

time I need, it will allow something I never thought

before him, like inter season six', nine it's like it's like.

Something the problem is the enemy doesn't want you to

put in what you need so that there's nothing to

actually come. Out so when you're in a, trial that's

why that SAD r AND b song only comes out

because it's what went. In that's why the quote from

the movie is the only thing that comes. Out when

you're really needing, something you go, in but if there

ain't nothing in there that changes, you it can't come.

Out Oh i'm trying to help. Somebody here we go

audacious faith. Watch this accelerates with. Associates this is the

season to check your friend's, circle because if your friends

don't have, faith they might not be able.

To go where you are. Going if your friends don't.

Believe like you, believe or more than you, believe you

may need to get new. Friends if you tell your

friends something and they think it's, Like, okay good for, you,

Girl i'll be. Here if you know whether you know,

however you ain't got nothing to. Say you ain't got

no encouragement for. Me you don't got no proof in

your own life That god can do. It if your

friends can't point to a time Where god did something

in their, life and they always talking about how it

didn't work out for. Them and be, careful, Girl be, careful.

Bro you know What i'm. Saying the last, time you

know What i'm, Saying you was trying to be faithful

to your. Wife hold, on the last time you're trying

to be faithul to your? Wife what is going? On

that is your friend telling you not to be faithful

to your. Wife these are real. Conversations they don't have.

Faith you can transform. Faith you can put down that. Alcohol,

faith you can put down that. Habit deudonomy thirty two

thirty says how should one chase a thousand and then

two can multiply and put ten thousand to.

Fight what it's.

Saying is two are better than. One you should have

somebody that you can say something to and they become a,

lifter not a. Lid, okay where all the lifters in

the room right? Now come, on, Y'all, hey, hey if

you can't find a lifter become one When god says

something to. Them and even if it's crazy to be,

like you know, What i'm gonna be praying with you

That god give you deserming about that because sometimes the

first Thing god, says we say it and then it

has to form into what it will. Become but some

people will scush an. Ideas everybody at our church knows

do not crush the idea thinking about, money because if

we start thinking can we do? It before we think

what is? It the idea never gets a moment to.

Lift some of us have been people who's, like, WELL

i just want to be. Realistic the walk Of christ

is not. Realistic Oh, God i'm gonna have to do

a year on just faith Because i'm this is. Reprogramming

this is. Reprogramming you're transformed by the renewing of Your. All,

right let me go to the next, one because some

of y'all just looking, like oh this is.

Enough of me. Today here we.

Go audacious faith shifts. Atmospheres you know WHEN i talked

about when you walk in audacious faith, earlier that it

offends and it brings people into, like oh why are

they so? Louder why are there so bold or why

are that?

This, okay it's.

Because when audacious people walk, in it shifts the. Atmosphere

i'm just telling you right, now as a believer In,

jesus your joy should make angry people feel like. Ooh

if you can walk into an atmosphere and nothing, shifts

my question, is what are you? Carrying? Okay some of

you have made it your goal to.

Not be noticed.

When The gospel is supposed to be the change agent

in every. Atmosphere so at your, job it should be

a difference when you're, there and it should be a

difference when you out. There somebody should look around and be,

like is it the? Music is it a cloudy? Day

is what's? Happening because believers carry light and light is

supposed to change all dark plate y'all, Okay matthew five.

Fourteen i'm gonna read it in the message, version it,

says here's another way to put. It you're here to be,

light bringing out The god colors in the. World god

is not a secret to be. Kept god is not

a secret that your coworkers don't know. About god is

not a secret for Your christian. Friends he is not

a secret to be. Kept we're going public with. This

we gonna have the audacity to show up in the,

mall to show up in, government to show up on the,

charts to show up in the. Gym i'm going to

be he a. Believer i'm unashamed of The gospel Of Jesus,

frost for it is the power Of god unto my.

Salvation we're going public with. This how public passed? Them

like as public as a city sit on a. Hill

IF i make this Is jesus. Talking IF i make

you a light, bearer do you Think i'm gonna hide

it under that. Desk i'm gonna hide it under that.

Career i'm gonna hide it under your. Gifted, Yeah i'm A,

christian But i'm really trying to be like a, subtle

like secret agent of The. Word, NO i am, saying

come in with. Sins but if you've been somewhere for

two years and nobody knows you believe you're hiding, something

my my my walk With god oozes. Out you might

catch me reading My bible on the lunch. Break you

might catch me watching a. Sermon you're gonna be bumping

into something like what you're listening. To all that's just. Transformation.

Worship sign me. Up that's just. What how does my

life not? Etchoe, okay he, Said i'm not gonna hide

it under a. Bucket he, Said i'm putting you on

a light. Stand now That i've put you there on

a hilltop on a light, stand shine look at. You

don't never say, shine, baby, shine come on fire one.

More never say, shine, baby shine. Shine keith open. House

be generous with your. Lives watch, This watch, This watch.

This watch what it. Does by opening up With, God Oh,

god by opening up to, others you'll prompt people to

open up To, god this Generous father and d. Y'all

but you won't be audacious enough to walk in there

fly as you want to.

Be and it's not because you're.

Thirsty it's because you got that light on the inside Of,

okay y'all had enough, Today all, right here we go two.

More audacious faith makes you an. Anomaly it makes you stick.

Out and this is a sad truth because it's not

supposed to.

The truth of the.

Matter is everybody in here should be walking in such

audacious faith that it's, like, Oh.

I'm just with my people.

Now but the truth of the matter is there will

be thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people will

watch this message and maybe three hundred will get. It

maybe somebody SAID i get, IT i get. It be

the one that gets, it because this is the. Truth

because you will walk as light in, darkness.

You will be spotted.

First, okay if we turned all the lights out and

somebody put on their cell, phone everybody would look where

the light. Was and some of us, like why they

always looking at? Me why they always judging? Me why

they always critiquing? Me you shining? Baby oh y'all didn't hear.

ME i, said you shining, baby it's the best. Compliment?

Why and some of us are trying to run from

what we. Are somebody, Say i'm like Jes so when

you walk in audacious, faith it makes you an. Anomaly

and this is one Thing i've had to learn in

this last season and this last season of my life

last three. Years because of the light Of god on

the inside of us and our, church it's drawn all

kinds of, attention some of it, good some of it,

unwarranted some of it made, up some of it. Bad

but if you weren't, shining nobody would. Care and SO

i had to make up in my mind that criticism

was not a correction From. God, okay criticism of men

is not a correction From. God many, times criticism for

men is proof That god chose, you. Okay and so

what happens is when you step into audacious. FAITH i

need somebody to remember. This it's not for, everybody but

this was for. Me. Okay remember you're not, lonely you're.

Leading just remember because because it will try to isolate

you and make you feel, like, ma'am forget, THIS i

don't need. This and then you, Remember Oh god called

me to. This my, Bad, god my. Bad you're looking

at the wrong. Thing you're looking at the criticism of,

people And god, says this is just proof your. Call

it's just. Proof you call anybody that's done anything, great any,

athlete any person of your favorite it is, protocol whether

they win or, lose that they gotta go talk to the.

Media why do they gotta.

Go talk to the. Media it's in their. Contract because

everybody's in this arena looking at. You you gotta talk

about what just. Happened, wow well you have fifteen points.

TONIGHT i score forty every other, night and tonight you don't.

KNOW i got. Diarrhea the fact THAT i was out

there was a. MIRACLE i was putting all up and

down the. Court the understand, like but we never, said

but we never. Take we never take in consideration with.

Somebody we just judge the outcome and we partake, it

not knowing it might have been a hard week with the,

family or it might have been battling depression in the,

background or it's a miracle THAT i even lifted my

hands this. Like and this is why The bible tells

us to pray for. People, okay HERE i. Stop just,

remember you're not. Lonely you're. Leading somebody came for that.

Today you're not, lonely you're.

Leading here we.

Go audacious faith advances the. Kingdom there is nothing beautiful

that has happened In god's plan for humanity without a

human doing something audacious And god backed them. Up that's

why The bible tells us In act seventeen that people

were trying to come against the, disciples and this is

how they were talked. About behind their. Back he, said

these are day who turned the world upside. Down could

anybody say that your faith has flipped something in their?

World your faith has made people look at being in

a marriage different your faith to actually love people who seem.

Unlovable it flips somebody's. View let me tell you about

a MAN i met. Yesterday his name Is. COOP i

don't know if he's here. Today. Coop you.

Here there's my dog right, there y'all give it up For.

Coop right. There, Hey, coop come up here real, quick,

man go that. Way let me tell you what happened.

Yesterday AND i. Did this Is i'm ending right. Here

i'm walking Into Woodland Hills. Mall AND i don't like

going to the mall for. REAL i only go If

i'm getting some Dirty chinese.

Food or.

OR i love Dirty chinese, food or my wife sends

me in there for. Something i'm walking out of the

mall yesterday and come, here my. Brother this is my. Brother.

Y'all H i appreciate.

You he. Didn't he. Didn't he didn't know, this BUT i.

WAS i was in a moment of dealing with something,

personally And i'm walking into the mall feeling a little

discouraged this last. Night And coop sees me walking in

as he's walking, out and he's just passing my. DOG

i was, like what's, up let's go to. Here and he's, like,

man he's looking around for, somebody AND i was, LIKE

i didn't know what he was looking. For he was just,

excited and he was, like, MAN i Watched Transformation church every.

Day and, now let me just Say coop was in

A Harley davison UH t. Shirt all white. Guy in culture,

standpoint we don't exist. Together but When god told us

that we would be a multi, ethnic multi generational, church

he didn't lie about his. Promise i'm so glad you're, here,

Going oh My, God i'm so glad you're. Here Bro, okay,

LISTEN i ain't even told the story. Yet i'm getting

goose bumps thinking about What god. Did coop told. Me

he Said december he had overdosed on Fitting all.

Several, times multiple, times.

Multiple times daily for a. Month he said he was

paying somebody to stay with him to revive. Him i'm

not talking years. Ago i'm talking about this Past, December.

Kate he, Said december thirty first was the beginning of

his journey of. Sobriety he's been sober since the simple

Y'all Transformation. Churches let's Give god praised for the. Transformation coop,

said y'all get. Ready coop, said ALL i did was

watch you and this church every, day and he, said

something came alive in, me And god started doing something

in my. Faith and he, said and he just went

to Encourage i'm talking About god use, You coop yesterday

to encourage me to get back up here and walk

in the audacity and the authority That he's given. ME

i wrote on My instagram last, NIGHT i preached For.

COOT i don't preach for. HATERS i don't preach for.

CRITICS i preach for, cood for every person that's lost and,

broken for every person that is the needing a. WORD

i preach For. Coop now look at the cool thing that.

HAPPENED i got goosebus telling this, story. Y'all coop leaves

the ma, ALL i walk into the, MALL i get

my Dirty chinese, food and As i'm standing, there The

Holy spirit, says Because coop gave me this little bitty

piece of. Information he, Said, man my day is just.

Change because, MAN i just, SAID i just lost My oakley.

SHADES i was trying on, something but today Now god will.

Provide i'm in here now and it's all. Good i'm

getting to meet, you and he just said it by the,

way and The HOLY i saw him. LEAVE i go,

in and The Holy spirit, says go to The oakley.

Store If coop is in, THERE i want you to

buy him the glasses he. Lost And i'm, Like, LORD

i saw. Him he was going towards the parking. Lot

AS i was going into the. MALL i walked to

The Oakley story and there is one person in the entire, Store.

Coop now. Watch it took audacious faith for me to

walk from That chinese food. Place every STEP i. Took,

see you don't count it, faith BUT i had no.

GUARANTEE i saw him, leave And god was testing my.

Faith would you just obey? Me you don't know what's

on the other side of. This And. COOP i come

in there and tell. HIM i, Say, Coop i'm replacing your.

Glasses coop, said oh My, God Lord, god and. Watch

it wasn't for me to replace the. Glasses coop started

testifying to the young Lady alexis behind The. County he,

SAID i gotta tell you this. STORY i was overdosing

on't fit, off But god have. Me y'all watch the

transformation term beguls. Out hold. It he changed my, life.

Y'all the young Lady, alexis she's watching right now from

The unkley, store me And cooper saying. Hello now watch she,

SAID i know who you. Are she, said my dad

came in town and he watches you. Faithfully and when

he was in, town he, said we gotta go To Transformation.

Church he said that PLACE i watched him every day

and it changes my. Life she.

Said god sends y'all in here to remind.

Me THAT i need to get closer to.

Him coop got his.

Glasses we hugged three or four. Times we took a picture.

TOGETHER i left, Encourage coop left seen By, god And

alexis left knowing.

That she needed connection With.

God these are they who are about to turn the

world upside. Down you was looking for somebody. Else but

as long as me And coop and about twenty five

hundred more y'all would walk in her, day says, Faith

we're gonna turn the world upside. Down somebody Give god

a shout of praise standing all over this. Building don't

you tell me he can't do? It? Cool welcome, Home.

Coop this is a place for the. Broken this is

the place for the. Loss this is a place.

For those who need a.

Savior if you're in this place and you're saying Pastor, mike,

LISTEN i know y'all need to. Know you think you

need to, leave but listen to me for one. Second

lead living this life without the faith that you.

Need it's like having this glove with no power in.

It. Today if you need to Put god into your life, TODAY.

I want to pray for you.

Because this is the first act of audacious faith to

allow A god who you have not seen come into

your heart that you feel you know very, well and

to transform your. LIFE i know you're broken BECAUSE i.

WAS i know you're hurting BECAUSE i. WAS i know

you might be addicted to something BECAUSE i. Was but

Today i'm here as a testimony to let you know

That god can take whatever has been causing you.

Disease.

And he can heal you and to make you hold.

Today if you want to Make Jesus christ your Personal

lord and savior, TODAY i want you to walk and audacious,

faith AND i want you on the counter three just

to lift your hand. Up ain't nobody gonna judge. You

ain't nobody about to put you on front street and.

Be, like what are all the sins you've?

Done ain't Nobody because if we start like sin, comparison

wooie and your boy is gonna be number. One it's

easy even at.

The foot of the.

Cross so, today if you want to Accept, jesus today's the.

Day one you're making the greatest decision of your. Life

whether you're in this room or, online today is the

day of. Salvation.

Two i'm proud of, you and everybody's going to cheer for.

You but more than, that your name is about to

be written in The Lamb's book Of. Life. Three if

you want to Accept jesus as your Personal lord and,

SAVIOR i want you to lift your. HAND i see

y'all right. There if it was all for, YOU i

see y'all back, THERE i see. YOU i see. YOU

i see, YOU i see, YOU i see. You and

more than, That god said you can we Give god. Pray, hey, listen.

Listen if you're close to, somebody just stretch your hands toward.

Them and we're a, family we pray all. Together, Everybody

just Say, god thank you for Sending jesus just for

me today in audacious, FAITH i put my life back

in your. HANDS i believe you, lived you, die and

you rose again just for.

Me so here's my.

Life change, me renew, me transform. Me i'm yours In jesus'. Name,

aymen can we celebrate all over this? Place so happy for?

You i'm so happy for.

You, hey, listen next week Is Mother's day and we're

gonna celebrate. Moms and this WEEK i want you to

go back and listen to week one and week. Two

next week we got something special for, you and then

we're about to get back into. This, Remember wednesday night

is a place you can. Grow sign me. Up Wednesday

night is a place you can. Grow relationship, goals, stride.

Fitness we have a, finance we Have bible, study we

have something for your, youth we have something for your.

Kids if you.

Want to grow In, GOD i want you to get

Here wednesday, night and if you can't for whatever, reason

we will see you next. Week this is gonna be

the best year of your. Life if it's your best, year,

spearshally and if you need prayer for, anything our all

to workers will be here at the front and at the,

back and we want to walk with. You we want

to pray with, you and we want to love you

until next. Week go out and live a transform. Life

hug two or three people and tell them you love.

Them we love you so, Much.

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