Don't Waste Your Faith // Mustard: The Seed That Can Change Everything (Part 1) // Pastor Michael Todd

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We are starting a brand news series today and it's

called help Me Master. Yes, I'm not gonna do it

every time. I can't do it every time, just saying

wit me, say my son.

Somebody had to do it. Somebody had to do it,

all right, all right, all right.

I'm excited about this series because I believe it's about

to change something in the fabric of.

The way you think about God.

Okay, I need everybody to hear me say this. This

is not just a catchy titles so we can lack substance.

I'm trying to bring as many people into this because

I believe it can change the fabric of their life.

And the Bible talks about.

Us having the faith the size of a mustard seed.

And today, as I was approaching this text, I was

trying to figure out, God, what do.

You want us to do?

He said the same thing I told you at the

beginning of the year.

Focus.

I want you to focus on your faith because your

faith is so important to.

Everything you're believing.

For, and most people have anemic faith.

Your faith is malnourished.

Your faith doesn't get to work out, your faith doesn't

have what it needs. And we're believing God for big

things with barely any faith. And today I feel like

I have a spiritual gift to impart to everybody that

would have ears to hear. This is something that I

believe that God has gifted me to live.

I'm not saying that from a.

Standpoint of being hopeful that God.

Will do some things that I'm believing.

I have seen God take my mustard seed faith and

turn it into the building you're sitting in.

You don't hear what I'm saying to you.

I have seen God take my mustard seed faith and

turn it into the movie set that I just came

off of yesterday.

You missed it, Charles.

Could you pass me a mustard seed real quick?

Please? I just need the people to.

See how large, how expansive, how massive.

You can't even you can't find it. We've just seen it.

You got it?

Come?

Oh Lord, he dropped it?

God? Is it gone?

You got one? I just need one. I just need

one mustard seed.

Just one. Oh you don't talk. Wow, you got another one? Alright,

there you go, Thank you, bro. You got three more

if I need it. Huh.

It's so crazy that the thing the Bible tells us

can move a mountain. It's so small I can lose

it if not taken care of. The thing that God

says can literally change an entire your geographical.

Standpoint starts off so small.

That I could honestly not even see it without y'all

can't even see it. Come ooh four K, that's some

that's an expensive camera. Now look how much magnification has

to happen for anybody to see What could change my

next year. This could change the family line that I

come from. This could reshape the financial trajectory of everybody

with my last name. This could give me the ability

to forgive somebody who is unforgivable. Okay, so y'all thought

the must seed was for things, But some of us

need God to do a miracle. That's gonna take this

much faith to believe that God can heal the disease,

to believe that God can undo the damage that has

been done to us. It takes somebody, say a little

bit of faith and as I started to think about

this mustard seed, I was like, I don't really want

to talk about it until next week, because the truth

of the matter is most people don't understand faith at all.

So I can tell you can have the faith the

size of a mustard seeds.

This is an analogy.

But if you don't understand the essence of what faith is,

and how faith is used, and how imperative and important

faith is to your life, you will think this is

just another message instead of something that needs to be

built into the foundation and of the fabric of who

you are. Somebody say I'm a person of faith.

You didn't say it with no faith.

Somebody say I'm a person of faith. Every believer should

actually be a person of faith because you can't get

saved without it. Okay, this year, I want us to

focus on our faith over the next eight weeks. I'm

believing that there is gonna be something that happens on

the inside of you.

That will be undeniable.

That people who have been at the starting line afraid

to do what God said to do are gonna find

that thing on the inside of you that's gonna make

you step out and be everything that God called you

to be. I'm telling you, I believe that there is

something that is about to be awakened on the inside

of you, that something is about to be stirred up.

I'm getting happy already that something's about to get stirred

up on you. That's gonna make your current situation frustrating.

It's gonna make you look around and say, this is

below what my God promised me. You're gonna turn around

and you're gonna say, I can no longer live another

year in this paralytic position. I'm about to get up

and walk. This will not be my story forever, and

this will not be the place I.

Choose to stay.

Somebody's faith is about to get shaken, So be careful

listening to these sermons because your personality is about to.

Change the traits that you've been like, well, I'm just

the You're gonna have to denounce some of the things

you've just been to walk into what God is calling

you into.

Well, I'm a background person, but I will come up

front if God is calling y'all gotta hear me. Ha.

I'm used to being here, but if God's calling me

out there, I'm gonna do everything that God's called.

Me to do. This is the moment where you don't

just have a mustard seed, you plant it.

See the problem with most believers is we have something

we've never planted, and we would rather show people a

mustard seed. Look, I got seed like them. I gotta

I gotta say it's like a mustard seed. And God said,

put it in some soil, prove, prove that this has life.

On the inside of it.

Water this thing, take care of it, cultivate it. And

most Christians are walking around with jars.

The mustard seeds.

I shouldn't be able to see your mustard seed.

It should be under.

Something I shouldn't be I should not be able to

talk about.

Look, look what Look. It should be.

Under prayer, It should be under decisions, it should be

under actions. My mustard seed's got to be under something

for it to grow.

Okay, let me stop.

I'm getting ahead of myself. I ain't even touch my

notes yet. All I'm saying to you. All I'm saying

to you is this is the season.

Where you no longer use what.

You haven't had as an excuse for what God can

give you. One year, one decision, one choice. It can

change your entire life, and today I just want to

show you how important faith is to your entire your

entire faith journey. Write this down. Faith is paramount. It's paramount.

Now. I know y'all have only heard that word when

you see in a movie.

The paramount pictures that you've only seen. But the reason

it's a mountain there is because it's the top, it's

the peak, It's the paramount. If you're gonna get anything

out of this journey with God, you need to know.

Faith is something.

That is so important to God that he weaves it

into the fabric of every area of our spiritual walk.

He requires somebody shot at me faith, y'all. Okay, y'all

gonna have to wake up today somebody shot at me Faith.

There it is.

I'm just gonna give you some facts about faith, and

I'm gonna give.

You a bunch of scripture.

And I'm about to rattle these things off because I

feel my health coming on right now, and I don't

think I'm gonna get through this whole thing. Because when

I start to talk about faith, I start to see

invisible things happen. I start to see see when I

start talking about faith, something on the inside of me,

the devil mess stuff and have me do this series,

to let me do this series, because I knew God

told me to do it. But as I'm standing here, Charles,

there's another level that's about to come out of me.

And see, this is the thing.

I've used my faith so many times, and I've seen

God do so many things that now it almost feels

like I'm waiting for other people to catch up. But

I just made a decision right now that I'm about

to die empty that everything that God showed me when

nobody was here, I'm gonna see it come to pass

that everything that He placed in my spirit, I'm gonna

do it.

I will not.

Stop believing what God said to me. I will not

stop DUMBOO. I will not dumb down his word because

if he said it, it's settled. He needs me to

be faithful. Oh my God, something just happened on the

inside of me.

I'm sorry, y'all.

Okay, I'm gonna try to contain myself for the rest

of this. Okay, Hebrews eleven three. Every time you see

the word faith, I'll need you to shout it out. Okay, Okay,

he Brewis eleven three. Put it on the screen if

you can for me, all right, he brewis eleven three

and we'll go NLT version. It says, by faith, how

is it done?

How is it done?

Not intellect, not planning, not resources, not connection. By I

need you to understand that that because all of those

other things are are necessary, they're just not the starting ingredient.

And many of us get stopped because we need our

We want our starting ingredient to be something more dependable.

I need the starting agreement.

To be an investor by an investor, I started by

a guarantee, by.

A promise.

By and and this is the blueprint of how God

formed the world. So he's trying to set a precedence

that what we need before we need anything.

Is what faith. He said.

By faith, we understand that the entire universe was formed.

So for everybody worshiping the universe, you can't worship it

because it was a creative thing.

Just real quick, just need.

Just just the universe, but no God brought you.

Okay, let's stop.

By faith, we understand the entire universe was formed.

At God's command.

That what we now see, every person, every piece of technology,

every piece of shape, where you're wearing.

All these share y'all know some people is uncomfortable.

All of these screens, all of the food. It says, literally,

what we now see did not come from anything that

can be seen. Guys, let me give it to you.

And in just the Mike Todd version of it, write

this down.

Faith formed the world.

Faith form the world. It was God having faith to

show us a blueprint.

He said, I'm gonna show them.

I'm gonna show my kids how to do anything on

this earth, no matter what family they come from, no

matter what generational patterns that have been in their life.

I'm gonna show them how to do anything. By faith.

By faith, I can raise these kids. See, by faith,

I can step into this position that I don't have

any education to do and I cannot just hang on.

I can innovate. I can become a leader. My deficiencies

actually are the thing that make me a perfect candidate

to be able to find a new way to do

something that my education would have dumbe down. I can

beat I don't know, somebody shot at me. By faith,

by faith, God can use this marriage that was broke

and deformed and jacked up and turn it into something

that is a life giving force to other. Couples that

are older than me or younger than me are more

broken than me.

Somebody shot at me by faith. Worlds are formed by faith.

You want a new world, Start with faith?

What about your world? Do you not like? Start with faith?

Start with seeing what God says about this? Okay, I

gotta keep moving Ephesians two eight and nine.

For it is by grace that.

You have been saying, Oh we ah, thank God for

his grace. But it's not grace alone. It's by his

grace through y'all. Stop yelling faith, y'all that quick. I

gave you one scripture and I give you one more.

You forgot about faith just that quick. And I think

think it's an example of how quick we can see

God come through for something, and then we try to

get another formula the next time we need to use

our faith. I can't tell you how many times we've

seen God. We believe God and he did it, and

then hopefully the next time it don't take all that

Hopefully on goda believe like that. Hopefully God does it

a different way. Because that was a lot. And I

just want to let you know that faith is always

going to be attached to anything.

God is a part of.

You.

Always will have to use your faith, for it.

Is by grace you have been saved through through what

And this is.

Not from yourself.

It is a gift of God, not by words, so

that no man can boast. Let me write it how

I would write that faith is the guts of the Gospel.

Anybody that's gonna see God do something and somebody be saved,

they gotta have faith that when I talk to them,

God's gonna make something change in their heart. I was

at the airport yesterday and the Holy Spirit told me

to walk up to this guy in the bathroom and

invite him to church. And I'm gonna be honest. I

miss that opportunity. Oh y'all don't want me to tell

the truth. I'm gonna be humble, open and transparent. I

was like, my God, God, I don't wanna dap him

up in here.

I ain't seen nom wash his hands yet. This is awkward.

But what I told God is if you give me

another opportunity, if my man is not gone, I'm just

being honest. I said, I'm gonna tell him me Mas

my witness. We get to the carousel to pick up

our luggage. I walked straight up to the dude and

I'm like, yoh, and he's tall.

He looks like an NBA player.

This dog gets like seven to one, probably sick something,

but it felt seven.

I was like, yo, what's up?

Bro?

I was like he had his headphones in.

So I did fifteen seconds of my speech.

Thinking he could hear me.

That is embarrassing.

Hey, bro, you know what I mean?

He like he did the pop out, so I had

to start again and I said, hey, Bro, you live

in Tulsa. He was like yeah. I was like, amen,

you ever heard a transformation church?

He was like no, he was.

I was like, perfect, I got a church for you

to come to. Bro, you should come this Sunday. He's like,

for real, where it's at? And I was like it's

And then I started. I said can I get you

on Instagram? And then I started this conversation and he

was like, let me just give you my number, and

then I started payingcking. I was like, give him my number?

And does he know who I am? You don't know

who I am. I don't know who he is. And

God said, invite him to church. He said, I want

you to have faith that I guided you to him.

I want you to have faith that I've been setting

this up before you were born. I want you to

have faith that it doesn't matter who you are and

where you're from. He needs to be any thing. And

I don't know if he's here today. If you hear

bro what up? I just told our story. But all

I'm saying is I text him, Text them the location,

text them to think. Because the guts of the Gospel,

it's gonna take.

Somebody having faith. Here we go, let's keep going.

I'm just giving you some facts about faith in the

Bible Hebrews eleven six. But without faith, it is impossible

to please God. He who comes to God must believe

that He is and that He is a rewarder of

those who diligently seek him. I always like to flip

this one because sometimes the negative doesn't inspire you, but

the positive will.

Watch this. How I put it, faith pleases God.

It doesn't matter if the outcome of your faith is

the result that you want it.

Every time you use faith, God's like.

There, my boy, go there my daughter is they stepped

out on faith? No they didn't get the job. No

they didn't work out for them. No, they didn't get

married to them, but they exercise that faith. They all

they getting strong in their faith. See, too many of

us are attaching our faith to an outcome. When faith

is attached to obedience, your obedience to do what God

said may not change the end result, but it changes you.

I still trust God, I still believe God. I still

will stand on this word. And this is where too

many believers get messed up because we think faith is

the result and faith is the action. Did y'all hear

what I just said? Don't miss this. Your faith working

is never the result because God may have wanted something

different to happen, and in your ability in that moment,

you may be using all the faith you have in God.

Was like, look at the little dumb selves down there believing.

That that person they just met as their husband.

Oh no, but they are really praying about it, and

they're coming to me, and they're acknowledging me in all

their ways, and they're giving me an opportunity to direct

their path. And that's why I had to expose wrong

wrong so she wouldn't get caught up with him, because.

That was a front.

And I really got Johnte over here ready and willing.

He just got a couple more things he's getting in order.

But it's never about the outcome. It's about the obedience.

Okay, some of.

Y'all looking like as you said, come on, Dante, come here, Dante,

get at the gabl Okay, So we just told you.

Faith form the world. Faith is the guts of the Gospel.

Faith pleases God Hebrews eleven one. Now, faith is the

substance of things hope for the evidence of things not seen.

Let me put it in my terms. Faith is the

future your faith.

Most people think that the future is waiting on them.

The future is being created by your faith today.

What do you have faith in and for today? Because

that is what's going to show up in your future. Now,

how would you live if you really believed.

That your future was based on your faith?

Today?

Most people life is happening to them. They are not

understanding they have been deputized to be a part of

the creation of their future. Oh my gosh, this is

why I can't get no amn's there because they don't

understand this.

Brent.

But if you could get the understanding that God has

decided to partner with you to be able to engineer

your future.

This is not a It just happened to me, And

that just happened to me. And this just happened to me.

God said, would you please get in the game, Would

you please.

Put your faith in action? Would you please.

Allow yourself not to be held back by excuses anymore

and actually become an engineer, build something with what God's

given you. Pastor Mike, how can I do that? You

can actually start using your faith?

Watch this word now.

Did you see the beginning of that thing? It said,

now faith That means wherever you're at, you can start now. Oh.

I love the Bible because it lets you know that

in the broken place. Now it's the time to start

building that future in prison.

Now is the time.

To start creating a life of integrity. Why you're walking

back out of debt. Now is the time to begin

to think and act like a millionaire.

Why am I saying that?

Because your present faith.

Is creating your future.

One Corinthians thirteen thirteen, and now these three will remain faith, hope,

and only one person yell faith to that. I appreciate

you back in the back. Thank you, thousands of people

you in the pink.

I see what God is doing in you, here we go,

and first.

Corinthias thirteen thirty, it says, and now these three remain,

saying with me, faith, hope, and love. But the greatness

of these is love. I love that God gives us that.

In the beginning it was faith. And when everything.

Else passes faith, they'll still be there.

Put it in a point, faith finishes when everything else faiths.

It said by faith.

The worlds were formed, so at creation faith by faith.

And he said, when everything else is said.

And done, I will not look at your accolades. I

will not look at how much money you made. I

will not look at how many people liked your photos

on Instagram and Facebook. I will not take an account

of how many people you influenced. I'm gonna see how

did you exercise your faith? How did you put your

faith to work daily? How did you put your faith

on display for the world to see. I'm a person

of faith? What does that mean? No'm I have faith

in what?

Yeah?

No, no, no, no, My faith is on display?

Where Now?

I want you to ask yourself these real questions. How

would somebody know that you're full of faith because you

come to church there are faithless people sitting in the

crowd right now.

No, no, no, I'm not.

I'm not going to be ideal in this, because when

we stand before the throne of judgment, God's gonna be like, so,

what did you do with them seventy two years? What

did you do with them thirteen years? What did you

do with those thirty two years? What did you do

with those ninety five years? The Bible says in another scripture.

I didn't put it in my notes, but it says,

when the son of Man returns, he said, will I

find faith?

Not will I find big churches? Not?

Will I find people that's balling out? Not?

Will I find people.

Who's aesthetic is physically pleasing?

He said, will I.

Find So it must mean that faith is important. I

just would like you to know that if you've been

using your faith as like a side thing in your

Christian walk, you have mislabeled what God thinks about faith. Okay,

So now somebody's like, all right, Mike, I.

Need some faith.

I need some faith. Well, how much faith do I need?

Pass the mic? And my question would be what you're

gonna do with it? Because the amount of faith you

need is determined by what you're gonna do.

With the faith. Okay, if somebody asks me how much

how much faith do I need? I'll be like to

do what?

And this is the problem, and I have to make

this clear, is that many people are wasting faith because

faith is the substance that formed the universe. Think about

how powerful that is. It takes invisible things and ideas

and brings it into the actual. The clothes you're wearing

right now weren't real accepting somebody's mind, and they had

faith to go into the invisible realm and grab something

out of there.

And struggle and strain and.

Go through haters and go through opposition and have to

get in patents and figure out new technology and be

able to lose family members and walk away from guaranteed

money to pull something out of the invisible.

So you could put it in your closet. That car

you drive, somebody grabbed that.

Out of the invisible and had to work through fear

and had to work through being judged, and had to

work through not having enough, and had to work through

not having cars designed like that, and they.

Had to throw it. I'm trying to give y'all a picture.

The airplane the Wright Brothers in North Carolina had to

get together. They had to have some agreement, and they

had to pull out of the invisible with all of

their strength, with failed tests, with people even dying, and

they had to pull airplanes. It's so common now we

forget that it was invisible at one point. And if

you downgrade or devalue what faith can produce, you'll never

use it. Right One of the biggest epidemics in the

body of Christ right now is people use their faith wrong. Okay,

let me give you five things not to waste your

faith on. Write them down, because this is why some

of y'all came today. Don't waste your faith on things

discipline can delete.

Unbelieving God.

Then when I go take this test, I don't have diabetes.

That's a fork problem. And now we're in a huddle

praying for you, believing God by faith to do what

putting down the fork would do. And so now you

use all your energy, your time, your effort and everything.

To use my Oh God. They said, if I could

just lose the.

Weight and get my A one ceed down, and if

I could take this, and I can do that, and

I'm on ozimpicing and I did this, and I did that,

and I did all that stuff, And I'm not saying

nothing's wrong with that. All I'm saying is when you

get done using your faith for that, a lot of

times we don't have no more faith to believe for miracles.

Okay, people, why don't we see.

Miracles like they see in the East and all that

other stuff, because we got too many options. Miracles come

with desperation, and over here in the West, we got

too many options.

When the doctor can't see.

You because there's no doctor and you actually have to

believe God, then it changes your desperation. But us, we

can decide to.

Know we on the verge of diabetes. Yes, steel hit wingstop.

Okay, that's too heavy for y'all. And many of y'all

are wasting your faith on things that discipline could delete

out of your life.

Oh god, oh god. Well, everybody not at the same place. No,

they're not. We're all running different journeys.

But tell me an area that your discipline has kept

you from the place of health that it needs to be.

I'm not just talking about physically.

You keep dating the same dude, you keep going after

the same type of woman, you keep you keep entertaining.

I ain't doing that I'm just flirting. Shut up, I'm

just a nice guy. No, you're undisciplined. If you get attention,

you're like adult. Huh did somebody call my name?

Huh? Did somebody call my name?

And you sitting there undisciplined. You're sitting there undisciplined. And

now you gotta pray for God to preserve your marriage.

And now you gotta pray that she's not pregnant. And

now you got see, I'm telling you we're.

Using our faith for the wrong.

Thing because we're undisciplined. I don't care if you like it.

I'm speaking the truth.

Okay.

If the church could ever stop using their faith for

things that discipline could fix.

I'm so tired, I'm so burnout. Turn the TV off.

Must somebody had to do it. Turn the TV all,

Turn the tv.

All you watching Netflix from eleven to one pm. I'm

one am every morning because it's your time to release.

She'll time the numb out. You show time to not

think about anything.

And God's saying I need you to rest because I'm

gonna wake you up at four and give you an

idea that's gonna.

Take you out of that job.

You've got to be out at seven, but you will

not become disciplined. Okay, that's only one of five, so y'all,

hold on, hold on, hold on. You only need healing

where there's not health. You only need healing where there's

not health. So some of you, if you will become

disciplined and go into therapy and getting it out of you,

it wouldn't turn inward. And now you feel with an

edge and anger and resentment and dark thoughts.

Just because you won't become disciplined.

You'll buy a purse that nobody will notice after the

first two weeks, but will not invent and your mental

and emotional health.

I need to say this. There are too many.

Couples in here that have not invested in the greatest

asset you have, y'all. If you would become disciplined and

you invested in that house and it's cold in there,

you got two separate cars, so y'all don't have to

be together. You got these kids. They're your greatest accomplishment,

but they're just business deals. If you would invest in, y'all,

it would chancke. That's why we're doing the Relationship Goes class.

And over one hundred people were in.

There this past Wednesday night because somebody said, I'm gonna

become disciplined about that. That's why we did the stride class.

And people on Wednesday night was out there working out.

They came on Wednesday and some of y'all need to

be there this Wednesday. Bring your shorts and your standex.

And your big shirt. Okay, and get in there and

move some shit, make.

Something, drop something, do something because you because I would

rather you be inbarrassed.

At the start.

Than immobilize for the finish.

Okay, here we go. I'm trying to tell you.

How to use your faith, and you can't use your

faith if you waste your faith. Okay, So don't waste

your faith on things. Discipline could delete. I could do

a whole sermon just on that one. But let me

go to the next one because you need this one too.

Don't waste your faith on things. Communication can correct. Lord, God,

just give me the faith to go in here and

deal with these people.

Oh God, I just don't. I don't know how much

longer I can do this job. Until you provide. I

won't move, So God, give me the grace to deal

with Sally.

Lord, I want to slap sadly every day, but Father.

It showed grace and mercy that when she comes through. Father,

I just don't lean in. And I don't want you

to think about this.

I definitely think it's I think it's important to acknowledge

God in all your ways. I think pray about everything

but something using your faith.

Just to focus at your job.

Because you won't have a conversation and you've adopted labels

like I'm non confrontational. How are you gonna live this life?

No? No, no, no no. Sometimes when you.

Adopt labels, you can say I don't like confrontation, But

when you label yourself I'm non confrontational, you gotta get

over your words to do what's gonna help you. There

are too many of us that gotta jump over the

wall we built to do what's gonna help us. And

have you ever thought about this? Sometimes an apology is anointed.

The communication of that apology could could literally watch turn

an enemy into an ally. And there are too many

people believe in God for God to make another way

because you cut off the way he made. Oh God,

you're believing God to send somebody else when the person

he sent you just need to communicate with and get

a better understanding, and you wouldn't have to use your

faith for something that's not here yet. Okay, that's only

number two.

Here we go, next one.

Don't waste your faith on things a budget can build.

Now this one, this one's strong because a lot of

us use our faith to make it from paycheck to paycheck.

Come on, a lot of us use our faith to

oh Lord, if the gas don't hit on the right day,

and if the cable comes out, and and the truth

of the matter is, most people I talk to that

have financial problems have not been consistent with a budget

for more than three months.

You see how quiet it just got.

Because everybody will get the planners, we'll order something off

an Amazon, we'll have it on an app. But consistency

for more than three months. You can't even find your

real numbers. Y'all know, y'all have to guess at the

beginning of a budget, like at the beginning, but I

think I was a man about two and sixty on

gas and then about three forty five on groceries, and

you know, entertainment like two twenty. But without consistency, then

we we spend our time.

God, would you just make away.

God, I shouldn't have gone on to that trip to

Acapoco with the girl's Lord, and I just God, I

was fun, but God, this is not functional. And God,

I just need you to do a miracle.

Lord. And when he does it, clock it clockea. God

did it.

God, And you do that, and then you but you

still don't make a budget, and so so and so

since so, since you won't build today what you need,

what you want to live in tomorrow. You're consistently believing

God to make ends meet and to make a miracle.

And by the time God's like, wha, believe me to tie,

the more your faith is empty. That's why half the

time while I was talking in the Money series, some

of y'all is just like like.

The whole series.

Every time came here, They're like, it's because you've used

your faith just.

To get here. And I get it. I've been there.

I've been so dysfunctional with finances at a point of

my life that it was.

Like, I can't, I can't.

I can't believe you for nothing except keep these lights on,

make this car payment that has one hundred and sixty

eight percent interest on it, Because that's all my credit

could afford. And what I'm saying to you is maybe

you can. Maybe we can believe today. Somebody say now.

That that the.

Outcome of the budget is not what God wants to see. First,

it's the faith to stay consistent to it. And let

me tell everybody that has this closed shopping thing, like,

there's a difference between somebody who has style and somebody

that just puts on fashion.

You can wear a the same outfit.

Over and over and over again if you got style,

and people will make it a thing like, oh yeah, no,

he wears the blacks she wears. Oh my god, do

you see the thing? You don't have to go and

chase new things if you're in a season of needing

to build a budget.

Bishop told me this a long time.

He said, just a season, a season of actually cutting

back and doing what's necessary can produce a lifetime of freedom.

A season of less can produce.

A lifetime of freedom. But do you have the faith

to create it. Somebody say, now, all right, here we go,

we're gonna run through these.

I don't waste your faith on things integrity can avoid.

Somebody came up to one.

Of our pastors the other day asking for God to

pray that they had favor with the judge on a

an infraction that we will keep.

Covered. But we think they did it. I mean, all.

Signs were pointing to guilty, even the conversation. And I'm

not saying like it's yes, thank God, let's pray for favor,

but the DNA and there are too many people using

faith for things that if you were just integris, we

wouldn't have to be believing for that situation to go

this one way that will get you out if you

just didn't, you didn't take things that weren't yours. Stop

stop taking stuff that ain't yours. The pillows at the

hotel aren't yours. Oh I'm in somebody's business, right.

Those aren't your pillows. And for you to bring an

extra suitcase.

To stuff those pillows down in there and then have

an attitude if they charge you on the bill, prove it,

prove it, prove it.

If they came to your house.

What I think about the situation that happened to me

where I I did car insurance fraud.

There was no reason.

I got in a car accident when it.

Was snowing outside. Hit somebody hit me.

Then drove off the highway, so I felt like it

wasn't my fault. Then I hit somebody else and I

didn't have.

Insurance at the time. The five year.

Process of embarrassment money.

I was a pastor. I had to get up in

front of the whole church and tell them, y'all, I

committed car insurance fraud. I had my parents standing with me,

business standing with me.

It was like I'd murdered somebody.

No, I'm serious. It was embarrassing.

It's on video somewhere, thank god it ain't on YouTube.

But I had to do that because I was not

a man of integrity. The consequence would have been there,

but less if I would have chose integrity in the

moment where I chose ignorance. Today, I'm asking everybody stop

using your faith for stuff you could just be in

techrists about. Okay, last one, don't waste your faith on

things a schedule can solve. Some of y'all are believing

for God to give you another day in the week.

Come on, y'all.

How many how many people said, if that was just

another day, if we could just get another day Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,

Sunday another day. But the truth of the matter is

if you got another day, you do the same thing

you're doing with this. I'm just finding so many people

using their faith at a low level. So today, on

the start of this series, I'm not even halfway through

my notes, but I think I'm about done. I'm asking

you to raise the function of your faith. Raise the

everybody say function. You're using your faith to love. You're

using your faith to love. This is the same faith

that the worlds were formed by, and you're using it

to make sure you get twelve hundred dollars for the

apartment payment. What I'm trying to tell you is God

can fix that, and he can fix it permanently through

character transformation. Oh God. And we would rather everything be

a miracle than management. We would rather God come through

every month.

I've got.

You gotta reason the praise because you didn't plan. You

gotta reason the praise because you don't have priorities.

And God made away came through.

But he said that's a low Yeah, that's what y'all using.

That's what I gave you authority. The people don't even

think about the authority we're given The cast out demons.

Not nobody think about it. We think that that's crazy.

One of the main things Jesus said is you will

be able to cast out demons, lay.

Hands on the sick. They shall recover. We are using

our faith.

To go on vacation, and nothing's inherently wrong with those out.

A vacation could be saved for.

Let me give you a mental picture as we leave

of how I believe your faith is supposed to look.

You should You should have faith like a ferrari. How

many people in this room have ever actually driven a ferrari?

Hands mow one, two three? Anybody else driven a ferrari?

Four? Maybe seven? People driven a ferrari?

Now thousands of people in here, seven to eight.

Have driven a ferrari?

Why why has not? Why hasn't everybody driven a ferrari?

What? How much can and trusts that?

Ain't nobody gonna trust you with the ferrari? So anybody else?

Why has has has not?

A multitude of people driven a ferrari?

Okay, what'd you say? No access? What if I told you.

That a ferrari is not supposed to be an every

day drive around the city car? What if I told

you the reason why most of us have never driven

a Ferrari is because we're not in the atmosphere of.

Ferrari was made for.

Our daily function to go to the grocery store and

drop the kids.

Off at school is not built for the power of

a Ferrari. Can a Ferrari go to Whole Foods?

And can it drop your kids off at the school?

But the medium speed limit that you can go go

into those places are forty miles an hour.

Do you know what speed.

The Ferrari was built to go at. What they call

on the Ferrari website is the Ferrari sweet spot. It

was made for it to be completely at top performance

between eighty and one hundred and forty miles an hour.

So using a Ferrari to go.

To sprouts.

Is an underutilization of the power.

Of the Ferrari.

And if you are, are you using your Ferrari to

go thirty stop, forty stop, fifty stop? Yeah, it's because

you don't have access to the atmosphere that it was

built to go in. So there's a place called the

auto band. It's in Germany. It's the atmosphere the Ferrari.

Was made to function on.

This is eight thousand one hundred and ninety seven miles

with no speed limit. You don't get on this highway

unless you're going a certain speed. It was created August six,

nineteen thirty two, and the common spot speed limit on

the auto band the common is ninety miles per hour.

Some of y'all ain't.

Never made your car go ninety that HANDAI ain't never

seen past seventy four. You wouldn't know what the day's

take the way, You wouldn't know what to do.

But I believe.

That the reason your faith is supposed to look like

this Ferrari, is because there is a atmosphere that your faith

can get into where it actually goes at the speed

that God called it to God that we're not just

believing for low level things, that we are believing for

the things that actually change people's lives. And this is

why I needed to come and tell you this to

raise the function of your faith today, because faith performs

at its best when there's a demand on it, and

most of us have not put a demand on the

faith that God has given us. If you get on

the autobhand, you better put your foot on the gas

because it's dangerous for you to be in that climate,

in that atmosphere, not actually using the car's full potential.

And I came to prophetically tell some of y'all, it's

dangerous for you to not use your faith at its

full potential in the season that God is calling you to.

Faith like a Ferrari.

But do you know what it takes to get on

the auto bon This is where I'm gonna start next week.

Audacity.

And most people don't have the audacity to believe God.

You don't got the audacity to actually say, you know what,

Nobody in my family ever believe God outside of.

This four mile block.

But for some reason, something is raising up on the

inside of me that God has called me to more

than this. And it doesn't matter if I don't have

a blueprint. I got Jesus, and as long as I

got Jesus, I'll be able.

To go wherever He decides for me to go.

So today I'm making a decision that I'm not going

to stay in this low level of using my faith.

That I am going to raise.

The function of my faith, and I'm gonna have.

The audacity to believe God.

And I don't know who I'm talking to in here,

but I believe something on the inside of you is

about to raise up, and you're gonna have the audacity

to believe that that neighborhood is.

Not where you're gonna stay.

You're gonna have the audacity that when you.

Walk in things change.

You're gonna have the audacity to believe that if you

speak it, things start to shift.

Around what God is saying.

You're gonna have the audacity to believe that that marriage

can be restored, that those children will be saying, that

that community will reflect Kingdom. Somebody shout ay, man, standing

all over this place. Next week, I'm gonna unlock your audacity.

I'm gonna unlike because I can't get to having faith

like a mustard seed yet. Because if you get it,

you want to have the audacity to plan it. I

got to help you understand why this is important before

anybody leaves, before anybody moves, I need you to hear

me say this right now. Faith is the greatest thing

you need to focus on, because it's by faith that

everything in your life can go from where it is now.

To watch this not where you want it to be,

where God intends it to be. There is a divine

transformation that's about to happen on the inside of you.

And today is gonna be the first impartation. Would you

lift your hands all over this place, I feel the.

Presence of God. Father.

I thank you that every area of our life that

we have wasted the faith that you literally sense your

son to die for. And you don't just give us audacity,

You gave us authority. And today, Father God, I'm asking

that we will walk in another measure of faith. Today,

Holy Spirit, give us the audacity to pray prayers that

are outlandish. Give us the audacity, Father God, to be

scared when we say it out of our mouth. Father God,

give us the audacity Father, not just to believe in

the idea of it, but put the works with it.

In the name of Jesus.

Today, God, I thank you that you're starting the engine

on the inside of everybody under the sound.

Of my voice. There is no school you can't go to.

Young man, young.

Lady, have the audacity to believe that God will fund

where He's called you to be. I feel that there's

somebody that's about to make decisons based on facts. I

dare you to add faith to the equation. I'm not

saying ignore the facts, but I am saying, fill out

the fast fall, make the presentations, do what you need

to do for the grants. There is nothing that God

will not do for those who believed. I thank you

that you're raising the faith the Transformation Church. We are

a church of crazy faith, but you never call.

Us to stay in the same place.

I thank you that you are raising the function of

my faith.

Father.

I thank you that I will believe everything you roll

on that crazy faith paper like never before. You said

this building would be filled three times over every Sunday. Father,

I agree with your word. In the name of Jesus.

I thank you, Father God, that I'm raising the level

of my faith. It doesn't matter what I see in

front of me. I stand in the clear, Father God,

that I am re upping on what you said.

Father God, I'm standing.

In promises that you made me that nobody else believed.

And so today, Father, in front of everybody, I am

making a fresh commitment to believe every word that you say.

You told me what you were gonna do for MJ. Today,

Father God, I stand in fresh faith, believing every word

that you said.

God, I will not back down.

Off of your word and your promises.

God.

Today I stand in faith, increase me God. And I

know that comes with trial, and I know that comes

with tribulation, and I know that comes with disappointment, and

I know that comes with.

Being confused sometimes.

But today God, if faith pleases you, that is right

where I.

Want to be. In the place of faith.

Father, Let this church never see any mountain and think

it cannot be moved, because you said, if we have

the faith the size of a.

Mustard seed, we could see miracles.

I speak to the one right now who is at

the end of their faith, or they wasted their faith

on a different season.

Would you renew their strength right now?

God, you said in your word, those that wait on

the Lord, we'll find renewed strength. Today, God, I thank

you that right now, there's renewed strength coming to that

mother and that father. And there's renewed strength coming to

that young lady who just got out of that horrible relationship.

And there's renewed strength for the person who just had

to file their taxes and it was more than what

they thought. There's renewed strength to the people who had

to just move from one home to another. There's renewed strength,

Father God, for the one who's burying a loved one

and trying to figure out their life all over again.

The one who's grieving and the one father who's giving.

I thank you, Father, God, that you're renewing our strength.

Today. God, we trust you and we will have faith

in God.

If you're in this room and you've never put your

faith in God, we can't talk about faith at all,

and you not be able to.

Receive the guts of the Gospel.

It's by faith, but it's by grace through faith that

we are saved today. The only reason I can get

up here and talk like this is because I've seen

God move so many times. I was addicted to pornography.

I was a liar, I was a manipulator. You just

heard me tell you I committed car insurance fraud. If

we went through all my stuff, you'd be like, how

is he talking to me?

By the grace of God?

I don't know how people live without the grace of God,

And today I want to I want to extend that

to you. Watch this now, now, faith, you can give

your life to Jesus and accept what He's done by faith.

And if that's you all over this place or watching online,

you may be in your pajamas, in your bed. You

might be on the couch at a gym, at your workplace.

Today is the.

Day is salvation, and the church here is gonna begin

to pray because we know that this is a moment

that changes everything for you. If you're under the sound

of my voice and you're ready to surrender, that means

I'm throwing my hands up God. I'm not doing it

my way no more. I'm doing it your way. If

you're ready to surrender today, God wants to take you

to a whole nother level.

He's the only one that if you give him your.

Heart, he'll help you change your habits.

Stop trying to clean up before you come to him.

He is the cleaner Today. He's gonna do what you

could never do.

He's gonna renew your name and give you a brand

new life. But you have to receive this gift on

the counter of three. I just want you to lift

your hand up online or in this room. One, you're

making the greatest decision of your life.

Two, your name is gonna be written in the Lamb's

Book of Life.

Already see my man's hand right here.

Three.

If you want to give your life to Jesus, I

see you.

I see you. Come on, I see you.

I see your transformation in church. I see you up there, Boss,

I see you. And more than that, God sees you. Hey,

transformation Church. We're a family. Nobody prays alone. Would you

just lift your hands and pray this prayer out loud.

Boldly with me?

Say God, thank you for sending Jesus just for me.

Today I give you my life. I believe you lived,

you died, you rose again with all power just for me.

And today I put my faith in you. Change me,

renew me, transform me. I'm yours in Jesus' name.

Amen. Hey, can we celebreak?

Oh, y'all can do better than that. That number just

went up from eight one hundred and eighty six. God

is adding David. Hey, listen this week I want to

invite everybody to the Dig on Wednesday night.

We have fitness classes.

Finance classes, Bible study, relationship goals classes, and I'm missing, and.

We have prayer Youth. We got everything, and if.

You want to get disciplined in some areas, you may

need to get with some other people to help you

start on that journey. This Thursday night, we'll be preaching

at the Gap Standards Conference, and I believe God's gonna

do something powerful. I feel that I'm gonna stay in

this vein and I'm about to help some people's faith.

I'm about to stir it up.

Next week we go in the week two of Mustard.

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