Work It // Wicked: The Worship Of Wealth (Part 4) // 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 to today's message.

So today I have a message to give to this

church that I believe is gonna change your life. And

I'm telling you, if you open your heart to be

able to receive this today, it's gonna change everything.

Amen.

What's the word of the here at Transformation Church? What

is it? One more time? Say it with faith. I'm

believing supernaturally, you're coming into a season of divine focus

for your household, for your business, for your mind, for

your life. Distractions, you will be allergic to them. You

will see them, you will identify them, you will acknowledge them,

and you will not advance towards them. You will be

able to divinely walk away from what looks enticing but

yet has the opportunity.

To take you off.

Of course, and some people think it's a good phrase

or a good word, I'm telling y'all, there is divine

focus coming to your life, to your energy, to your momentum,

to your money.

There's divine somebody shot at me. Focus.

I'm prophesying to somebody, and there are a few people

in here receiving it. Some people think I'm just talking

before I get to the scripture, but I'm telling you

there's a.

Divine focus coming to God's.

People who have the ears to hear things that used

to be hard for you to stay on task with

God is allowing there to be a new ease as

well as a new figure, a new passion to do

what God's called you to do. The next level of

faith is going to require focus for you. And that's

why we can find not just comfort, but we can

find a witness in God's word and Hebrews twelve to one,

it says, therefore, since we are surrounded by such a

great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything.

Somebody say everything.

It's time for a lot of things to exit your life.

It's time for a lot of things to exit your life.

And watch this. God's not gonna take them. You have

to throw them off. God's not taking him away. God's

not taking her away. Well, Lord, if you don't want

me to just remove her, you gotta throw it off. Okay,

throw off everything that hinders you, especially the sin that

so easily entangles you. And let us run with perseverance

the race marked out for us. Fixing our eyes on

who Jesus somebody shot at me one more time, Focus

the pioneer and the perfector of our faith, for the

joy that was set for him. So Jesus had to

do this too. Jesus had to focus, do y'all know.

Jesus had to remind himself across the people, across the people,

the cross, the people.

I could be the king the cross, the people.

I could call ten thousand angels and smite them all.

Focus across the people.

All he did was focus on what God said the

end was gonna be, and it allowed him to endure

the painful parts. I want you to get a better

vision of what the end is going to be, a

better vision, a more clear, a more vivid vision of

what God's saying is in your future. And you cannot

know that without going to the Word, without spending time

with him, he.

Said, for the joy that was set before him.

He endured the cross, scorning at shame, and he sat

down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Write this point down. I've given it to you every

week since we introduce this word, and I want you

to keep writing it until you get it. Fixing your

eyes on Jesus gives you the faith to focus. If

you make Jesus the priority, he will speak to you

about everything under him. If you make Jesus the priority,

the supreme, he will speak to you about your wife,

your husband, your family, your future, your finances, your frustration.

He'll speak to you about everything that's under him. But

if it's not under him. And that's why so many

of us are focusing on the things we need to

be fixed, but we have not made Jesus the priority.

That's why I say this every week.

Fixing your eyes on Jesus gives you the faith to focus.

And one of the things that we have been.

Walking through in the past four weeks is we've been

focusing on what Jesus says about our finances. And I

just want to say, as the pastor of a church

who listens to God's word and listens to these messages,

y'all to call this given church in history. You can

celebrate about that right now. Specily, people did y'all see

what we got to do for a church today?

If you're just watching the message we were able.

To watch this go back to the side of town

that this church was started in in North Tulsa, on

the other side of the tracks where the Race massacre

happened in nineteen twenty one, where our bishop and first

lady were told to go there to reverse the curse,

and they begin to plant and sow seeds in that area.

God started to bless this church so much that there

was no building in North Tulsa that would fit all

that God was doing. So God took us to the

other side of town and gave us an arena that

the city of Bitch be built. And that is set

and we paid that thing off in five months.

I just want to watch.

But God told us that our seed would never.

Leave the place where it started. There was a.

Church that emailed us because we got known for helping

churches in need or helping nonprofits in need. And the

only way we can do that is because the faithful

giving tithing and understanding of the principles we're talking about

of the people of this house. So they called needed

to close on a building by faith did not have

the money money. Our team saw the email was moved

with compassion. Hear what I just said, was moved with

compassion because everything that comes in. We can't do everything,

but God has put us in a position to do

some things. And you do for one what you can't

do for all, because that one God will honor. And

we were moved with compassion. We were able to help

that church and they are now sitting in a brand

new building in North Tulsa. Come on now, watch past

some Mike. Why are you saying that? Because we were

able to do that with less than ten percent of

the people in this church participating in consistent giving. But

can I give you a good report since we started

this series, people who have decided to tithe has gone

up thirty five percent. Y'all got to hear me. Past

Some Mike, why are you celebrating because the church has

more money? The church is fine, But the people were

able to help. The churches were able to help, the

ministries were able to help. We get to do more because.

We honor God.

And for years people are gonna still say it's all

about money.

This is not all about money. It's all about being

a resource.

And because of that, because of what God is doing

here and people not just being hearers of the Word,

but doers of the word. I want to say I'm

proud of you as your spiritual leader, because can't nobody

make you do nothing. You have to decide. And I

just want to say I am believing God. This week,

I was praying earnestly prove yourself to your people, God Father,

for every person that's stepped out in this new place

of faith.

We even had.

Staff members and people that have been attached to the

ministry getting new understandings of this stuff and start stepping y'all.

This is not about keeping the lights on. This is

about being the light of the world. Oh my God.

And I know it's hard to believe because you haven't

seen many churches do it. But we've been called to

do one thing, represent God. And at the end of

the day, it will be said, when it comes to finances, stewardship,

and generosity that this this place would be one of

the Yeah, let me be careful because I don't want

to give no ammunition to our haters. But this place

will be one of the greatest distribution sinners in the

Kingdom of God for the expansion of His work in

the earth. Today. If I can just get at least

a thousand people to give God praise with me for that.

So proud of you.

That's what Mike, that's how you want to start discernment. Yes,

we're doing it. I don't. There's thirty five percent more people.

I'm not convincing, And I just want to say for

every family and I that it is taking this step.

This is the place that you get to step into

a whole new level that I'm gonna talk to you

about today.

But before we go to.

The next level, I gotta stop, and I gotta address

a couple of people that may be on the fringe,

that are not bad people, not rebellious people.

They have a real quandary. And I heard it.

Somebody came up to one of our pastors in the

lobby last week. And I've heard this every year that

I've done this, and I was like, Holy Spirit, could

you just give me a concise way.

To be able to share with the.

People your heart on this, because most people, when it

comes to it, they were like, but it's an Old

Testament principle, it's under the law, it's all Testament. And

I want to come to say, yes, it is an

uptithing is an Old Testament principle. Did everybody hear me

say that. I just just for everybody that wants to know.

But that's an incomplete statement if I stop there, So

write this down. Tithing is an Old Testament principle that

came through the Cross with New Testament power.

I want to be very clear about this.

It is an Old Testament principle that was passed through

the Cross, and Jesus brings it up in the New Testament.

It made it pass the drop off point. There are

Old Testament principles that when Jesus came to fulfill the law,

he made some of them die, and then he said,

you get a pass because they gonna need that over there. Okay,

all right, right, just make sure you wrote down the point.

Tithing is an Old Testament principle that came where through

the cross, and now it has New Testament power. Let

me prove it to you in Jesus's words after chapter five,

verse seventeen. Don't misunderstand because a bunch of y'all misunderstanding me.

Let me tell you why I've come. I did not

come to abolish the law of Moses or the writings

of the prophet. I didn't come to tear everything up.

I said to him, who did God? Who did Moses

go to talk with on the mountain? God's not censor

frinded he didn't say something then that he didn't know

what he was gonna say and how it was gonna

impact there. He made the laws so unreachable that you

would not be able to live this life without him.

So when Moses went up got the ten commandments, they

also got almost four hundred and forty commandments that they

were supposed to follow. And what he's saying is, I'm

gonna make this list so exhaustive that they realize they

can't do this without me and some of us geniuses

in this human flesh skin was like, no, I'm gonna

do all four to forty. I'm gonna do all of

them right the list, Dell check one, check two.

Check three.

And people since the law has come have been trying

to work their way into heaven instead of actually relying

on the promises in the Word of God. So what

ends up happening is Jesus says, this ain't working.

They can't keep the law.

They're fighting about everything, they don't know nothing. I gotta

do it, Jesus go and beat the bridge to a

better contract. The old contract don't work. I need a

new covenant to be established. So Jesus comes dies on

the cross, and there are things that were said in

the Old Testament that Jesus comes to either fulfil and

remove or he upgrades the principle and he raises it.

Everybody, hear what I'm saying. Y'all still with me right now?

Old Testament principle, Jesus comes, write it down. Jesus didn't

come to lower the bar. He either removed it or

raised it. Okay. So I know there's some people that's like, Okay,

you gotta explain this. There are principles that got through

the cross. Can you bring me the cross because if

they see it, I need them. If they see If

y'all see this, it's gonna change you forever. Because right

here it's all my issues, all my That was the

nicest boss up that this is the Old Testament. This

is me trying to work my way. Me and my

kids play this game called the floor is lava. Let's

just act like if I all right here, the floor

is lava, you just stay right there. And what happens

is my flesh wants to jump to it. My flesh

wants to make it happen, but Jesus said, don't jump

because you're gonna fall. And some of y'all right now,

is like, that's not a big jump. There's our position

that you that is unvisible right now, that you can't

see that when you try to jump to it. But

that's the new coven it over there, that's the new promise.

That's grace and mercy, that's God forgiving me. That's everything

that I need.

And so I.

Can't do it by myself here, so he said, I'm

sending Jesus, and what this cross is gonna do is

not be a barrier. It's gonna be a bridge. Yeah, Jesus,

I need you to die because they actually can't make

it on their own.

And so there's an Old.

Testament lifestyle that Jesus comes to be the final sacrifice,

the lamb that was slain.

So okay, so let me let me help you.

One of the Old Testament principles that didn't make it

past the cross was animal sacrifice. So when Jesus came,

he said, I'm gonna be the lamb that was no

more animal sacrifice because I died. So you can believe

in me and come to this New Covenant, and so

many believers are leaving principles that God wanted to actually

transform your life over here because it started over here,

but he tried. Let me give you another one that

that that that made it through because y'all don't like

to tithe them one the tithe them when you want

to stay over here. Y'all don't want that one over there.

I know you don't want the time to give in

the money. No, no, keep that in the Old Testament. We

are not under the law.

Okay, coo cool, coo cool.

But honor your mother and father and the Lord, for

this is right and will lead to long life.

Y'all know where that's found.

That's an Old Testament principle that made it through the

Cross into the New Covenant. So it's an Old Testament

principle with New Testament power.

Do y'all hear what I'm saying? So I gotta walk

back over here and get some of y'all.

Because there's some people camped out. That tithing's an Old

Testament principle, but it made it through the Cross because

Jesus talks about it, and literally when he talks about it,

he talks about it kind of annoyed. Y'all don't believe me,

Matthew twenty three, twenty three. I'm just gonna read the

part he literally says in the New Testament, what Testament

we talk about? That's over here? It made it through

the Cross. He said you should tithe, and literally in

the scripture it just says yes after it. And I

love when that happens because it's like God answering the

question that he knew we was gonna ask, and we

weren't even there to ask it. You should tie todd. Yes,

that's how it reads. But then he gets a little

frustrated in his tone. But don't neglect the more important things,

y'all still talking about tithing.

There's more important things. We should be talking about, returning

a portion of.

What I gave.

You.

Don't forget the more important things.

And this is the enemy's trick, and I want to

expose him today. Arguing about the tithe keeps you from

the more important things, which is called a distraction. And

God has told Transformation Church this year to do what

folk and so I want to just give this framework

that the principles that make it through the Cross have

another level of power when you actually obey them in

the New Covenant.

So watch this, write this down.

Don't waste all your faith on the fundamentals of giving.

Graduate to the fund of generosity. If I could come

to tell you anything, because the enemy would love for

you to stay over here fighting about something that keeps

you at a low level. And it's fundamental the literally,

there's a place in the Bible that says this is

ordinary behavior for believers. This is ordinance ordinary. And I

just believe there's some people that's like, this is under

the law. Yes, it's an old Testament principle that made

it through the cross, that has New Testament power.

Are you going to hell if you never tithe?

No? Can I be very good? People try to use fear,

But the Bible tells us that when we give, we

should give with no compulsion. No, we shouldn't be sweating,

We shouldn't be scared of nothing. No no, no, no, no

no no no. I give I return. I'm generous because

I understand who first gave from me. And number two,

I understand that this is a principle. Watch this that

works on the just and the unjust. Okay, okay, let

me stop because some of y'all gonna get mad because

you're looking at people who don't serve God, who've cherry.

Picked the principle.

If you go look at most organizations, they have a

certain allocated amount of money, usually more than ten percent

that goes to charities, nonprofits, widows, orphans. Some of y'all

in the business arena know what I'm talking about. They

literally have cherry picked the principle and have worked the

principle without watch the God of the principle and still

seeing results that we mad at. Yet we're over here

arguing about the fundamentals and never get into the fund

of generosity. Okay, because the Bible says in Acts twenty

thirty five, I'm just giving you scripture for all of

this that there is a place you can get where

you leave the fundamentals and you get into the fun

of generosity where and I've just pray this for everybody

it will be more blessed to give than Can you

imagine that? Because most of us for years, I was like, ah,

really like getting Oh, come on, y'all, giddings pretty much

better than giving. Would really love somebody to give me money,

would really love for.

Somebody to give me a break. I would really love.

For these kids, y'all know what I'm saying. I would

really love somebody to give me a raise. And when

you stay nothing's wrong with all those things. But when

you stay in giving or no excuse me, stay in

getting yea. When you stay in getting, you can never

fully unlock giving. I'm trying to break the things that

keep you in the place to see what can I

get out of it? Instead of seeing what can I

give to it? Jesus never showed up anywhere and it

was like, hmm, there's a lot of people here, what

can I get out of this? He always showed up

everywhere and says, what am I about to add value to?

What am I about to give? Who am I gonna heal?

Where is there a need? Where can I be an answer?

And until we even start thinking like that, I'm not

saying you gotta do it yet. I'm just trying to

get you thinking like that. I'm trying to get you

thinking of Who's Christmas you're gonna pay for this year?

It's April. It's April. You can plan a cruise and

go own it for six thousand dollars on Christmas or

you can ask the Holy Spirit Father, what am I

supposed to do with this extra resource that you gave me?

Am I supposed to answer something that I see around

me or that I don't even know right now? That

you're gonna give me the wisdom to do something with

just a suggestion. It's more blessed to And some of

you are so low in your resources, or it has

such a grip on your heart that the thought of

that feels Watch this offensive. No, that's what I'm about

to get. You'll never say it like that. But the

Holy Spirit told me to come challenge you, because if

you get into the fun of generosity, then you get

to unlock the principle. Watch this of multiplication. Now, I

didn't like a lot of subjects in school. A lot

of them I just hated. But there was a certain

level of math that got me excited. Now, when you

got into a's and b's and angles and the things

starting the equal letters, I was out of there. It

was a rap. But the place where I felt like

I excelled was multiplication. I got twelve on twelve forty four.

I'm like, do you know what I'm saying?

You could get? And then there's little tricks that you

could do to do bigger numbers and one hundred and

twenty four like if you get you know what I'm

saying that multiplication. I had that thing, and I started

to think about it as most believers live in addition

and subtraction. What can I add to this? What are

they taking away from me? But Jesus I found in

the word. His favorite form of math was multiplication.

Y'all know.

He started out with twelve disciples, right, three main ones

y'all know at the end of his ministry that were

over five hundred people following him.

They don't even name all the other people.

But somehow everywhere Jesus showed up to it started off

small and then drastically multiplied.

Somebody just saying multiply, ooh we we If you get

this principle of actually doing the fundamentals, you get to

unlock the next level, which is multiplication. So today, for

all of the people plus the thirty five percent who

have stepped into this next level, and I believe the

other fifteen to twenty percent that about to step into it,

I want to teach you a principle that you're gonna

be able to use for the rest of your life

to unlock more.

And it's the principle of multiplication. Here we go, Luke,

Chapter nine, verse ten. Today I'm gonna teach you how

to work this principle. Somebody say work it now, some

of y'all when I say work it, there's only one

thing that come to your mind. You just start going low.

And all I'm saying to you today is I'm gonna

teach you another way to work it. Luke, Chapter nine,

verse ten. It says, and the apostles, when they had returned,

told him all that they had done. Then he took

them aside privately into a deserted place, to the city

called Bethsta. But when the multitudes knew it, they followed him.

This is the multiplication. He tried to sneak in and

people was just following when him everywhere. This is Jesus,

and he received them, and he spoke to them about

the Kingdom of God, and he healed those who had

needs of healing. When the day began to wear away,

So just get the picture, Jesus rolls into town.

Bunch of people come up. They say it's about.

Twenty to twenty five thousand people that day. They believe

most theologians that it's the biggest sermon, the biggest crowd

at one time he's ever preached to. He was like,

all right, I gotta feed these people. And he starts

a sermon series, not a sermon, a sermon series.

How do we know that?

Because he said he started printing in the morning, and

it said when.

The day begin to wear away.

Now I don't know what time that exactly is, but

if you are at the point where you said the

day the day is woe out, it's probably late. It

says when the day begin to wear away. The twelve

disciples said, we are hungry. This is too much, this

is powerful, but we need to go. How are we

gonna get up out of here? They said, we got

a plan. We're gonna tell Jesus. The people is hungry.

Chick fil a church is chicken about to clothes. People

need something to eat. We ain't got nothing here. So

they go up to him and say, send the multitudes away, Jesus,

that they may go to the surrounding towns and countries

and lodge and get provisions for we are in this

deserted place. But when Jesus heard what they said, listen,

to how he ignored what they said and gave them

a responsibility. Lord, the people need something, so they need

to go to a place that has it. You give

them something to eat. Hold on, wait a minute, Jesus

the plan was to let the people go to a

place of provision. Jesus said, I put them with people

of provision. They wanted to send them to a place,

and he wanted to raise a people. And many times

most of us as disciples want to farm out the

responsibility to meet the need instead of become the well

that people drink from. Oh God, He's trying to teach

the disciples an eternal lesson so that we can know

every problem doesn't have to be solved out there. There

are places of faith where you become the solution to

the problem. That is everybody else's okay, here we go.

Just to let everybody know we're not taking up an

offering today. There's one hundred dollars lines after this. We're

not doing anything. This is not leading to any place

of manipulation. Because I can feel people starting to hold on,

Wait a minute, hold on, they're gonna ask for something.

Don't need nothing from you. I want you to get

this principle, because some of you are about to unlock

something that's gonna change generational habits, patterns, and mindsets that

have kept people from doing God's will. And I'm so excited.

Y'all ready to go with me? I'm about to teach

you all.

Right, here we go.

So Jesus says, you give them something to eat. Look

at your neighbor and say you feed them. Come on,

come on to look at your neighbor. Pick the other one.

You didn't say nothing to say you feed them. Do

not be surprised. Do not be surprised. If God tells

you to feed the people He's placed you around.

The church should really do something hm.

Hm. And they talking to you now, I'm gonna send

an email hm or no organization that does that. While

would God bring them to one of his representatives? Let

a need be presented. But the disciples had the reaction

most of us, I would say. And the disciples said

verse thirteen, in the middle, we have no more than

five lows and two fish that we stole. There was

a little boy with a long john silver snackpag, two fish,

and five hossepuppies turtle sauce. They jacked a little boy

and said this all we have unless we go buy

and buy food, unless you plan fun to go buy

food for all these people. So they thought that it

was preposterous.

The disciples heart posture.

Is being so exposed. The disciples thought it was preposterous

to actually get food for these people. What they did

not know is that that very scene of what they

thought was impossible, God was about to use that moment

to create a miracle that would never be forgotten. And

the disciples do like us. They was trying to remind

Jesus of the numbers. They said, it'd be crazy for

you to ask that.

Of us, because all these people and then to go

buy some food for there were about five thousand men there,

and back then they counted families, so they counted the men,

but per capita there would be two to three children

plus a wife.

So they think it's twenty to twenty five thousand. People

could have been more because they didn't have TV. Some

of y'all all get that later, it said, then he

said to the disciples. Then Jesus said to the disciples,

make the problem. Sit down in groups of fifty, organize

your problem. We don't got enough to feed them, this

is all we got organize it. And the disciples had

enough sense to obey Jesus and they made all of

them sit down in groups of fifty. Now, this is

a miracle in itself. Nobody talks about the miracle of

getting these people to sit down. I have four kids,

can't get them to sit down. Do y'all understand what

I'm saying? Twenty five thousand people, no microphone, no led screen,

no megaphone, twelve men, They hungry, they angry. The day

has long away, which tells.

Me there's a miracle of organization.

Some of y'all are sure overwhelmed by all of the

bills in the debt and the payback and the Robin

Peter to pay Paul and I ain't never had no money,

and I'm in overdraft, I'm and I'm living off credit

cards and I'm and you're so overwhelmed that there will

be a grace that God will give if you obey

him to take what is overwhelming and organize it. And

some of the believers, real miracle will not be in

the multiplication yet, It'll just be organizing what feels overwhelming.

I'm trying to be practical today to help somebody walk

into a whole nother level. Okay, here we go, this

is straight from scripture. Then Jesus what after they organized it?

The miracle cannot happen till you know the numbers.

Y'all want to be practical. She don't know how much

debt you in.

You have no idea what your loan payment is, what

your loan payment payoff is. And some of us have

believed the lie that will never get.

To that point, so we don't even think about it.

We ignored, and we're paying that twenty six dollars or

that two hundred dollars you just paying interest and sending

people on vacation.

Have no idea. At least they didn't take the car.

You're gonna end up paying for that car three times over.

And by the time you pay for it, it's broke

down and you need another one, and they wrap it

into another thing that gets you locked up in jail

for another. And I'm not trying to make anybody feel bad,

but the enemy prays on our ignorance and then the

superpower we have of faith to get out of those situations.

He lets us feel like it will never work, and

so he stills watch this our hope, and hope is

the fuel for faith because faith is the substance of things.

You can't go nowhere without hope. And so you're not

hoping to pay off that house. You not hoping to

get out of debt, you not hoping to not live

on credit cards.

You're not hoping.

So you don't even have the faith to believe that

God could do a miracle in that situation. And so

every time you move forward, you were like, I might

as well buy some shoes or come on, y'all, I

ain't gonta no hope of this house, ain't never gonna

be paid off all I'm be in this house when

all my kids gonna live in this house.

And you're telling your kids you're gonna live in this house.

It's a generational gym. No, it's broke down.

I don't want this.

But at the end of.

Don't give me your burden, because you couldn't believe.

A good man, a good woman leaves and then not bills.

Not that.

I'm just trying to help you.

We are transformed by the renewing of our and some

of us our mind is messed up when it comes

to this stuff.

Okam, it said.

Then Jesus, after they organized it, after they got their

numbers in their spreadsheets, and asked the friend that's better

with numbers to come over and have a debt collect party.

I just made that up, it says.

Then he took what was not enough. Then he took

the five, which was not enough for the disciples. I mean,

the disciples were hungry too, and there were only two fish,

five lows. It wasn't enough. Not just for the crowd,

it wasn't enough for the disciples. Jesus took what was

not enough, and he looked up to heaven and he

did two things.

He blessed it and he broke it. Hold on the

blessed was okay, but why you.

Break it because it already wasn't enough. And then you're

gonna ask for some more of it. And then he

gave them the broken pieces to the disciples to set

before the multitude. Can you just put yourself in this,

this this scene for one second. Jesus takes what's not enough.

They give it to him. He blesses it, he braces it,

and he says, here you go, Peter, here you go, John,

Now go give bro Did you hear what Jesus is

told to do. He said to get this away. This,

This ain't enough for me and you. Bro, Let's just

eat it. That's what we do. Bro, This ain't this

ain't enough to give to nobody else. If we give

it away, you gonna be hungry, and I'm gonna be hungry.

And you know he like to walk. We gotta get

our car about drates up.

This is gonna be an all night affair.

He gonna keep preaching. Everything's gonna be closed. Eat it.

If you eat it, I eat it. You better be

careful who you're around when God asks you to do

something that seems crazy. Eat it, bro. Nah, Bro, let's

just let's give it to a little to carry on,

give it to to carry on. And y'all know somebody

named the care and so here you go, here you go,

here you go. Just take a little, not too much.

You see all them people over there, take a little.

And somehow what was not enough when it was blessed

and it was broken and it was given away in

the disciples hands, it multiplied. I bet it when something

like this, take just a little, just a little, this

is it. Take song? Yeah, you take song.

You're hungry, No taste.

No, come on, get some more. Huh, you need something?

Go on seconds anybody.

The attitude changed.

When they saw the multiplication of what started off as

not enough. Okay, how do you know this? Passor Michael,

verse seventeen. So the people they ate and were filled,

and the multiplication happened so rapidly and so much that

afterwards there was twelve baskets of leftover fragments. They what

was not enough turned into go boxes. And I don't

think it's a coincidence that it was twelve of them left.

How many disciples were there just to prove the fact

what started out as not enough, when it's blessed, it's broken,

and it's given away. You unlock the principle of multification.

So let me give you. Let me give you the points.

Number one, it must be blessed before it is multiplied.

And the Bible tells us how we rebuke the devour

for our sake and our resources are blessed. Is watch

this you return to tithe they get they I didn't

say give it, they returned it. And I'm not gonna

preach about this anymore. I've preached about it. I've taught

you what the word says about it. All I'm trying

to say is you cannot unlock multiplication if you don't

do the first part. And I hear people be like, oh, yeah, man,

I gave an offering today and they've never tithed before.

And I was like, you you didn't.

You didn't give no offering, and they really think they did.

I just gave an offering. No no, no no no no

no no no.

You've never died, so it.

Doesn't register in heaven as an offer because you've never

done the requirement.

God.

What you just did was start on the requirement.

And what I'm saying is this is why I'm not

telling anybody. That's why sometimes when people doing.

Them one hundred minds and thousand dollars.

Lines and stuff, that's stupid, because the more poiant thing

to make a disciple would teach them to.

Be consistent with whatever little God gives them.

Not a thousand dollars one time, be faithful with ten.

Every week.

Do what God requires you to do every time. He did.

If you're trying to build somebody that's not not not

swayed by economy and swayed by what's coming and going,

he said, just do it my way, and I promise

you'll never have lack. And so what I'm telling you

is it has to be blessed before it's multiplied. Second thing,

it must be given away before it's multiplied. Okay, I

want you to think about this. And it hit me

a few years ago when I was preaching this. The

miracle did not happen in Jesus's hand. The miracle happened

in the hands of the disciples. The miracle you're looking

for in your resources, in your finance and your business

is not gonna happen anywhere else than in your hands.

When you obey God to give it away.

You gotta work it.

Somebody say work it. Say it like you mean it,

say work it. If you work this principle, it changes everything.

This is the principle of multiplication. I'm gonna give you

an acronym that I hope you never forget.

And then were going home. We got one more week in.

This series that's gonna be life changing, and then it's

Eastern And what we're going to do is we're gonna

celebrate all God's done in our lives, and we're gonna

celebrate his resurrection, and we're gonna invite people, and we're

gonna do that.

But what happens after Eastern what happens after we celebrate?

Do we make this cross null and void because we

stay away from the principles that would transform our lives?

And this group of people who've already bought into the

narrative of what God is doing in this earth, I'm

telling you, I want you to get principles that help

you live after the celebration. And today I want to

give you the keys to actually practical, keys to actually

get into the place where you can give. And it

begins to multiply the first one number one work. Oh no, no, no,

there's nothing that comes after this. Say it with me.

There is an epidemic in the body of Christ and

in the world right now of people who are allergic

to work. And I just want to let you know,

no matter how much technology comes into the world, no

matter how many times you have gotten a check from

government assistance, no matter how much your money comes from investments,

that does not absolve you.

From working.

And there's this American dream thing that has come into

the Western culture that is not biblical that at some

point you're going to retire.

You might retire.

From a job, but you're never supposed to stop working.

You reframe it. You may not need the money, but

you need the work.

Work was given to man in the garden before he

had a woman. He had something to do, He had

an assignment to complete. He had a responsibility that was

on his should. I don't care that all you your

parents worked hard, left you millions of dollars. The goal

for your life now is to never worry about money.

But you still gotta find that thing that God is placed.

On the inside of you.

And you got a say it with me. Work.

And there are too many.

People escaping the process of development that God has for

you because you have found a cozy spot, just a

little cozy spot, got some girl paying for all your stuff,

won't marry her, but your insecure got her up there

flying you out. I'm sorry that felt personal. You done

found a cozy spot where the requirement can help you survive.

But your purpose is withering away because you won't work.

And if you're gonna ever unlock this principle of multiplication,

God gives this to people who work. Let me just

prove it to you. Proverbs fourteen twenty three. Work brings profit,

but mere talk leads to poverty. Colossians three, twenty three,

twenty four. Y'all, I had to cut this down. I

had so many scriptures. I was just gonna cut up.

I'm gonna have to do a series called work, work, Work, work, work,

because there is no I'm not even playing. There are

so many principles in God's Word about work. And I'm

not saying you gotta work at a job. But if

you're gonna be a stay at home mom and you're

gonna be.

A parent, work, You don't gotta be.

Your husband's taking care of the situation. Work them kids

should know some stuff that other kids don't know. No,

I'm saying, okay, I'm saying work that position, like I'm

saying make it intentional, like I'm saying, don't be scrolling

looking what everybody else is doing. You're distracted and you're

not cus some mic because I don't have no formal job.

It's okay, I'm retired from job.

I got three pensions.

Like it's okay, but you still need to work. This

is the beautiful time where you could go up to

a nonprofit, or go to that school, or actually go to.

That business and actually be a light in the midst

of darkness.

Instead of watching soapropers all day, you can actually go

and be a light in the midst of darkness. This

is why Colossians three twenty three says.

Whatever you do, I love it.

Whatever you do, some of y'all could just start mowing

lawns for.

People you like mowing lawns. Don't mow everybody's line.

Don't need no money, don't need you pay.

Go give something.

Do y'all know what work is. Work is a development

tool to figure out what you can give. It's a

reason to keep you in a process long enough to

discover what you have to give, and then a con

constant practice of giving it. And most people why is

work important because most people would never give what's not required.

So the first thing Jesus did, the first thing God did,

is say, Adam, get in this garden and work. Oh

another thing. Name all these animals zebra zebra, that look

like a zebra. Uhrrr Rhina rhinas, right, rhinoceros. Think of

the creativity, Think of the intentionality, think of the spelling.

The find he was working.

Whatever you find to do, work at it with all

your heart, as if you were working for the Lord,

not for no humans, since you know that you will

receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward for work.

The inheritance from the Lord is for work.

It is the Lord Christ you are serving when you work.

It's not about impact first, It's about the investment. All

I'm saying to every person in this room, I don't

care if God has blessed you to not have the

clock in nowhere. I'm not even telling you to get

up early. I'm saying get up whenever you can, because

if I could get up at twelve every day, glory

to the most. I God can't four point thirty am

every morning. But what I'm saying is, when you do

get up, what are you investing in? Number two, get

out of debt. Okay. I know I shouldn't be talking

about this in church. Yes I should, because they're scripture

that tells us to oh, no man anything.

Except to love them.

Some of you can't witness because you need they money.

I can't tell you how.

Good it feels to walk into rooms with people who

are loaded and don't need nothing than from them. There

are certain people around me that know this is the case.

NBA stars actors, dah da dah. Every Christian that comes

around them is trying to figure out how they can

get an offering from them. Hey, doc, I want you

come to my church.

I want you to preach on my stage.

They ain't never preached a message into day life, but

you'll give somebody a platform that thinks you're gonna get

into their pocket. Ya ain't never seen nobody up here

talking nothing crazy to y'all because we don't mean I'm

behind the scenes. Tell them, Abro, text me when it

gets hard on the road, Abro, watch this sermon.

Listen to this song. The only way you can do

that in many instances.

And I'm not just talking about celebrity. I'm talking about

with your cousins that you got money owed to. They

not gonna hear Yo Jesus today, get they one hundred

and fifty back. Yo Yo da yoda. Shut up with

all your talk. I need my money and you had

come to Easter come get my money. And what it

does is it shames you and backs you up from

even speaking. You see their life being ravaged and destroyed,

and you can't even witness. You can't even tell them

about the God you serve because you still owe them

from three years ago Romans thirteen eight. I told y'all

owe nothing to anyone except for the obligation to love

one another. If you love your neighbor, you will feel

the requirements of God's law. Oh is that another one

that made it past? See it was an old law

that because of the cross. He said, Oh, now it's

got a new Testament power. I hope y'all never forget this,

so that you can actually see everything was Jesus said himself.

I came to either fulfill it and remove it or

raise it. And this is why we got to get

out of debt. Can I tell you how we did

it as a church. We decided as a church that

we were going to get out of debt, and because

of bishops foresight and his intentionality. And I thank God

for this man, because when I didn't even understand what

I was about to step into as the passor of

a church, he said, I cannot hand this building over

until he has a paid off building. And there are

people in here that gave to that building being paid off.

And we paid off fifteen nineteen. And he handed me

the keys, and he said, all right, now, what you

do from here is on you. He said, I've done

my part. I've shown you, I've taught you these things.

Nine you work.

From that day on, I went to Tammy and I said,

I really think that we need to be very systematic

with our intentionality around tithing. The church had always given,

always met people's needs. I wanted to be able to say,

every dollar that comes in, we're giving this much money

away because we'll never ask you to do a principle

of tithing, and we don't do it as a church consistently.

And I'm telling y'all.

And we came in and some of y'all were there

when we gave that first eight three hundred dollars to

another church on the north side of Tulsa, and we decided,

every dollar that comes in, we're gonna do that. We

begin to honor God with the principle of the tithe

and then watch this we plan to give. We never

are surprised to give because it's a part of the

plan all the time. Some of y'all, when God asks

you to give, you be like, oh, oh no, because

it wasn't a part of the We plan trips, we

plan outfits, we plan cars, we plan.

But do you plan to give.

If you knew that it was the vehicle that God

used to get.

More to you, would you do it?

Everybody says yes when they see it in front of them,

But then my question is what are you planning to do?

I started an actual fund, Natalie will tell you in

our account A long time ago. When I had no money,

I said money to give away. We started an account.

You know how much it costs to start the account,

zero dollars. It was all that I had to start

my faith at that moment. This is the storehouse, and

we will give from this. Some of you just need

to plan to do it, and when you plan to it,

you'll work the plan and get out of debt. The

last thing that we decided is we finish what we

start as soon as possible. A lot of people have

grand openings at Transformation Church, we celebrate grand closings.

If we take on any debt, we not.

Saying, oh yeah, thirty five years great, I'll be out

of here by then, the building won't be paid off

and the people will be fine. I took an approach

that God, if you're gonna do this, we're gonna be responsible.

Some of us have big debts as our house. I'm

not saying that you can't carry that responsibly. What I

am saying is, do not play yourself and be in

a place where you cannot obey God. I'm just trying

to somebody's gonna watch this back in a different season

and be like he was bearing bars because what I'm

telling you right now, and I know it's hard for

some people to see because you're looking at what you

have right now, You're like.

The disciples, this is not enough. This is not enough. God.

I just told you last week I'm about to lose,

and God saying yeah, I'm trying to give you a

principle so you can get a plan and a vision

of where we're gonna go. And I'm trying to give

you the plan. I'm directing your steps before I give

you the resources, because if you can get this into

your heart, then I can release this stuff to you

and you can walk into another level of walking in abundance.

And this is what I'm trying to give you. When

I decided that we were gonna plan to give, and

I decided that we were going to get this building,

I'm gonna tell you a story I've only told a

few times. When we got this building, the bank president

of the first bank of a Wassaw bishop had given

us the given me his cachet and started a relationship

with that bank president.

For about four years.

I would go meet with this bank president out in

a wassow and he would I would ask him questions

about finance. I would go home and study things. I

was got to get my language up. I didn't have

finance language. I just knew, can you please let me

have some money? That's all I.

Oh, come on, y'all.

Some of us were not educated in the thing. So

he would say a word, I'd write it down and

then and then I would go study it.

I read financing books.

I did this when it came time for us to

get this building, as a thirty something year old man.

We got the loan for this building over a text message.

I had built the relationship rapport with this man that

I text him we had found a building. We need

ten point five million dollars.

This is in a text message. Can we have that?

He said? Done?

Now? Watch now watch. That was a lot of investment.

There was what's that W word.

That was put in to get into that place. After

we worked it and got the investment.

I had the.

Audacity to say something crazy. This was in August, I

think it was when we bought this building August September.

I told him, I said, we're gonna pay this off

before the end of the year. We did not have

its pay it off before they but I just felt

like I had I had done ministry for the first

four years of our church without the burden of a

debt over us. And when I when ten point five,

I don't know if you've ever carried around ten point five.

I don't know if you ever woke up and went

woke up the next morning with ten point five on you.

But I didn't want to.

I didn't ever want to manipulate for finances.

I didn't ever want to feel the pressure.

And then I changed what God wanted to say because

we needed an offering, and so we believed God in

crazy faith. December, right before the year ended, I get

a phone call and say, congratulations, Passive Todd Transformation Church

is the fastest loan payoff in first bank of a

wash soul.

His story, y'all don't know. In the shout okay cool.

But we had a grand opening and five months later

we had a grand closing, and some of y'all missed it.

Just at the end of the year.

That big building that God gave us over off a highway,

seventy five transformation towers, we paid that off as well. Guys,

casta mike, why are you telling us about all the

things we're paying off? Because then we get to do more.

All right, here we go Number three. This is why

I'm being so transparent. And it's kind of annoying to

some people because like talk about something. But this is

where people will mess up if they don't be transparent

and intentional with talking about this. You allow the enemy

to creep in and put lies into your head. And

this is number three. We remove all manipulation. Gosund like you,

you just always talk. I'm telling you the real deal

Tewod Corinthians, nineteen seventeen. You must each decide in your

heart how much to give. You must each decide in

your heart how much you are to give. Say it

with me. You should meet each decide in your how

much you should give. Nobody should convince you to give nothing,

not one thing. Decide in your heart in prayer with God,

and don't give Watch this reluctantly or in response to pressure.

If you feel pressure, keep it.

I didn't say conviction. I said pressure.

Sometimes conviction and pressures feel like the same thing. But

if somebody's like, you need to do this, you need

to do this, you need to do this, and be.

Like, I'm a prayer about it, I'm a pray about it.

I'm pray about it. Don't do that. But if God's

telling you to do something, pray about it and do it.

But he said, don't ever do it under pressure. For

God loves a person who gives cheerful. How do we

put that into play at this church? We made it

a culture code. We say we give just to give

and not to g Yes, some of y'all know that

giving is a response to God's love, not a requirement

for his love. Does everybody hear me say this? You

know another practical thing we did. We stop passing buckets.

I almost got fought by all the ushers at our

church because that was the main thing we passed, the buckets.

If you've been at Transformation Church for any amount of time,

you've never seen the basket passed. We made a decision

that those who want to give, we'll do it. We're

not gonna or put them in a book. Take a twenty,

take a five, take something, take to change. No, I'm

you can come here and eat this meal and never

pay for it, and ain't nobody checking you. Ain't nothing

gonna happen to you. You're gonna always be able to

come and eat. Do y'all hear what I'm saying. There's

little kiosk outside, there's people that give online, there's people

transformation nations so faithful they got recurring given set it up,

and people said, nobody will give.

If you don't set a time.

In service to do it. You can blink and miss

our offering time. You can say how too. And it's

like and people get used to us like, oh shoot,

I didn't have to give that. Don't hinder what God's doing.

It hinders what God can do through you. He gives

seed to the I'm trying to get this principle so

you can see it. And so because we stopped doing that,

it was almost like God was like, all right, I'm

gonna blow your mind what I'm gonna do here. And

that's why it came to point number four. No, when

to give, as we have been accountable and transparent with

everything that God has done at this church. I think

the team told me for the last decade as a church,

we somebody say we that's people watch this that aren't

even at this church anymore. I want to be. I

want to be intentionally in honoring the people who were

here for stages and seasons that were used strategically by

God to be a part of pushing this vision forward.

I want you to know that nobody that was here

in a different season ain't still a part of this.

Their seed is in the ground and growing right now

all over the world. When we were in Canada, the

impact that Transformation Church has had in Canada, I had

no idea. My parents was in Africa, people stopping them

in airports, restaurants talking about their Transformation nation.

Y'all.

We can't go for stories that seed has come from

the generosity and what people.

Are doing right here.

And they tell me we're almost at thirty six million dollars.

Watch this giving away, all right? It's so crazy. Our

culture has been so warped that when we talk about

giving from the church being at thirty six million dollars,

it gives a golf clap.

I want you to I want you to think about.

What we just did. I said, we've given away, with

no strings attached, thirty six million dollars. And it was like, no, no, no, no,

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

not do it now? No, I because I don't. I

don't want.

I want.

I want us to. I want us to see how

un how unusual it is to actually do what God

talks about. We don't even know how to respond to

it because we've never been a part of it. And

can I say this last thing, No one's ever given

us the type of seeds we've given away. I say

that to let you know that's a blessing. Somebody should

give us a million dollars. Somebody should give us five

hundred thousands. No, it's more blessed to than it is

to receive. If nobody gives transformitting, I'm praying it happens.

Don't get excuse me, don't get it twisted.

Don't be with you. Okay, I'm not stopping it.

But if it never does, and we're able to be

in a position to have the heart posture to do

what God's called us to do, then we'll always know

when and where to give. Look twenty one one. It

says while Jesus was in the temple, he watched rich

people dropping their gifts off in the collection box. Then

a poor widow came by and dropped in two small coins.

Jesus stopped everything and said, I'll tell you the truth.

This poor widow has given more than the rest of y'all,

for they have given a tiny part of their surplus.

But she, poor as she is, has given everything she has.

The value system is not in amounts, it's in obedience.

Jesus brings special attention to this woman's two mites, who

everybody would say that ain't nothing. Balla's is making it rain.

And there people are giving so people can see them.

Everybody is out there stunting. And she comes and puts

two mites, and Jesus says, y'all see her. That's what counts.

She trusts me with what she had with her not enough.

And I'm a blessed that last ones. Number five. How

you're gonna work this principle of multiplication. You're gonna know

that you're supposed to be an impact ambassador. You were

sent here on behalf of God to impact situation. Matthew

chapter five, verse fourteen. In the message, my friend showed

me this and it's so beautiful. Here's another way to

put it. You are here to be the light. Somebody

say you're the light bringing out.

God colors in the world. God is not a secret

to be kept.

We're going public with this, as public as a city

put on a hill. If I make you a light bearer,

an impact ambassador, you don't think I'm gonna hide you

under a bucket? Do you or hide you in a church?

Do you or hide you just in your house? Do

you I'm putting you on a light stand, now that

I've put you on this platform, on this hilltop, in

this community, in this world, on a light stand. Shine baby,

Somebody just say, shine.

Shine shine, Keep open house, Keep your house open, and

listen what he says.

Be generous, not just with your money, be generous with

your lives. This scripture blesses me because when you're generous

with your life by opening up to others. Look what

the Bible says right here. It says you prompt people,

you compel people, You convince people to be open up

to God, this generous Father in heaven.

When I open up my life, my wallet when I.

Pay for that person's meal that's in front of me,

when I go and see who I can be a

blessing to, when God speaks to me to go take

care of that person's need. When I do what God

tells me to do the way he tells me to

do it, it opens up people to get to know God.

Could there be a lot of people who are closed

off because we never opened the door. I'll tell you

about one story and then we'll go home. Knowing when

to give and being an impact person to give, it's

one of those things that you have to listen and

then obey. And there's there's a couple of instances where

I know I felt like I was supposed to do

something and I didn't have confirmation from God. And I

want to be very clear with everybody. I'm not telling

nobody to go sell all your stuff and come sit

on the porch of Transformation Church. No, I'm and then,

and then and then expect for us to do something

that God never told us to do. This is why

I need everybody to hear me say you have to

develop a relationship with God and hear for him for yourself.

I want to be clear, but there are times that

God asked you to do something that's wild, And there

have been times that God has asked me to do

some crazy given things and they don't make no sense

and they have real life consequences. Just want to be clear.

There are things we've had to do to change our

lifestyle for seasons to obey what God is asking us

to do.

But I'm here on the other side of that.

Hello, it's me, and I want to let you know

that there's not been one time that I've heard God

trusted him and gave what he asked me to give

that he has not blown my mind. And I'm not

trying to tell you to do something to get something.

I'm trying to tell you that when you do what

God says to do, his nature is to honor his

word with his principle. I've come to the place where

I don't even look for God to do anything anymore

because I know it's his nature.

It's his nature.

My kids don't wonder if they're getting birthday gifts. It's

my nature to bless them. But I believe God's calling

some of us into a season where He's gonna call

us to do something.

And the only reason we're to.

Do it is because we're supposed to impact the area

of the family, the job we're in, and when he

asks you to do it, you're gonna have to do

this last thing. You're gonna have to trust God. I

just want to tell you there's a place that you

get to give in where you work it. Where there's

a place that you're going to say, God, this is

not gonna work out, and he's gonna say, trust me.

It will not make full sense, but it will make

a miracle. Proverbs three five and six. Trust in the

Lord with all your heart. Lean not to your own

understanding in all your ways. Submit, let Him cover you,

and he will make your path straight. Somebody say, work it.

God brought to our attention a young man and woman

who have been working what God gave him. Give me

that real quick, mo. There's a guy in our church.

His name is ray Rai June. He is just He

handed me this last week. It's his devotional that he

made because God told him to make it. It's a it's

a meditational devotional. And he's a young black man who

is in love with God and he's trying to teach

people how to have a relationship with God, Meditate. He

handed me this book, great picture on the back, just

beautiful spirit. This young man I found out has an

organization called Swat.

Swap Meet. I think it is.

Is that what it is and what this young man

has been doing for years now is it's been going

into at risk schools and on his own money and

fundraising and he's been trying to go be an impact

ambassador to rescue young men and women through creative arts.

And he's been teaching him that God's play something in

them and they can make music and write poems and

do all of this other stuff. And him and his

wife just went all in on leaving their corporate jobs.

I mean, he's he's literally done all the different things

that he could do. He's been working. It's I've seen

him make music and mixtapes and go places and sells stuff.

And the who Holy Spirit told us to honor a

person who has done.

Like watch this.

The only reason I can do this is because he's

actually a nonprofit.

He went and did all.

His stuff and worked it so on. Behalf of God

in Transformation Church, Ray Ryan, we want to let you

know keep working it. There's a check from Transformation church

for seventy five thousand dollars. That's coming to you. Oh,

come on, y'all, so you can keep reaching these young

people and turning them towards God. This is where we

celebrate Hallelujah standing all over the buildings. That's what it

looks like. Somebody look at somebody to say, work it.

I need us to get some of these in the

bookstore because Transformation Church is gonna support this too, not

just in that you're gonna be able to go and

get this devotional in it and give it to your

family members and cousin. Mike, why are you saying this

because if you don't work it, you never get to

the multiplication. Last thing that I'm gonna say, I need everybody.

To hear me.

That church that we gave to earlier. Did you see

their gratitude to be in that building? And when I

saw that, I knew about the story.

I knew that we gave.

But they had a shot of the outside of the

building and the inside of the building, and the Holy

Spirit when I see it.

I've never been there, but as soon.

As I saw that, the Holy Spirit said, I use

you to be able to help them get into the building.

But they need help being able.

To make that thing be what I've shown that pastor

in his heart. So I text the team and I said, y'all,

can we make this happen?

And so I need, I need and.

Believe somebody to text Pastor Larry Stokes and Real Life

Outreach Worship Center back in North Tulsa where our seeds

are planted. And I didn't tell them there's another one

hundred thousand dollars comeing to them.

Oh can you celebrate?

That's what we get to do as the body of Christ.

Glorry to God. Continue to follow God and do what He's.

Asked you to do. It's better to.

Than it is to practice it this week. You don't

even have to give money away, Give shoes away, give

cooles away, give the iPod away.

They don't even make iPods. Give I'm sorry, maybe you

got one.

Give that extra apple watch, give that thing you've been saying, then,

give that hat you love. It's not even about them

appreciating it. I ain't even talking about that because the

blessing is not in their response.

The blessings in your obedience.

I don't got money to give, you got knowledge to give?

Where's that young man that you can miner. Where's that

young woman? You could give them the programs and show

them how to do it. That laptop you was about

to throw away and you.

Just got old files on it.

Clear it off, put some new ram in it, give

it to somebody work it, because until you do, you

can never unlock the principle of multiplication. Can I pray

for you? Hands lifted? Father, I thank you. I thank

you that today somebody saw something different. I thank you

that the eyes of our understanding are being enlightened and

they're being open. Father, in the name of Jesus, I

pray that Transformation Church not have a season of walking

in your principles. But I think you that we are

disciplined when disciples, and we will have a revolution of generosity.

I pray that generationally, Father God, we will be the

ones to lend and not have to borrow. I pray

for supernatural debt cancelation coming over the church, Father God

and the members, not just by somebody giving us.

Money, but give us the plan. Let us work with.

Wisdom, Let us hope again. These student loans will not

be a part of our future forever. Walking with those burdens,

Father God, even the relationship tension finances have caused. Father,

I thank you that people are getting their relationships back

because they're gonna honor you first, God, and I thank

you for blessing businesses in the name of Jesus, for

the people who have never done things, first generation entrepreneurs

and business owner. Give them wisdom beyond their years. God,

thank you that people would have courage. And I thank

you that wherever you find us, we would work.

Everything as unto you.

Let the principle of multiplication erupt in this house and

this community. And when the testimonies come in of us

being able to be a blessing. Yeah, not just as

a church, but individually. I'm praying for the houses they

will give away. I'm praying for the cards they will

buy for others. I'm thanking you for the medical debts

they will cancel for others. I thank you for the

credit cards that they will pay off for others.

With no strings attach.

Give us the ability, Father, God to bring Old Testis

committ principles into the New Testament power, and I thank

you You gave it all for us, so it is

our honor and our pleasure to give with you do

a work on the inside.

Yeah, change my heart, take my heart and molded, and

take my mind.

And transform, and take my will.

And conform to your to yours. Oh Lord, I know

it's hard for some of us, but we say, take

my heart and molded. God, I need something to happen

in my mind, and transform and take my wheel. Good

fun said to yours. If you're in this room or

watching online, if you never accepted Jesus as your personal

Lord and savior, something's happening. There's a shift happening in

this heart, in this house, with people's hearts. And I

want to say this, young people, get the principal at fourteen.

Hear me, y'all, it's a lot easier to not have

to change something if you started out right. It's like

somebody telling me they were learning a golf swing and

they just started playing golf, and they just started doing it,

and they did it the wrong way.

They said, it's better for you to learn.

The right way to have to undo everything that you

did the other way.

And I'm just telling you high school.

Students said, you kids, I'm having to teach my daughter

at seven, who's an entrepreneur about to hustle everybody for

some raceists. I'm just telling you right now, Hey, get

this principle right right now, because it'll never be a

struggle to honor God if you always did. Do you

hear what I'm saying, And if you've never accepted Jesus,

says your personal lord and savior today, let him into

your heart the only.

Reason any of this matters.

And God's gonna allow you to hear a beautiful message

next week that's gonna break this whole thing down to

why this all really matters, why money matters.

It's really not about money.

Next week you're gonna hear a message that tells you

the real reason God does the money thing. And it's

way deeper to you think. But if you have never

accepted Jesus, you never will be able to understand the

revelations that he's trying to give us. And some of

y'all just tired tired of doing it your own way,

tired of going in circles, tired of having.

To be your own savior.

I need you to rest on the finished work of

the cross, and I need you to know that Jesus

has made a way through his sacrifice for you to

have a savior. Today.

I want you to give your life to Jesus.

It took me from being a liar, a manipulator, addicted

to pornography, very dark things in my heart, things in

my mind, and my actions that did not represent God or.

Even what I wanted.

It took me from that man to a progressing man.

I'm not perfect. We just believe that God is doing

a process on the inside of all of us. But

you can't do it without Him. And today, if you

want to give your life to Jesus, everything's been leading

to this moment. Today is the day of salvation. On

the counter of Three. I just want you to lift

your hand. Nobody's gonna judge you, because all of us

are sin or saved by Chrace.

We're gonna celebrate what you One.

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

but your name is about to be written in the

Lamb's Book of Life.

Three.

If you want to accept Jesus, lift your hand in

this air. I see you, sweetheart, I see you. I

see you up at the balcony. I see you, sir.

I see you, sweetheart. I see you, I see you,

I see you. I see you more than I see you.

God sees you are right. God sees you. Hey, Transformation

Church and nobody prays alone because we all just lift

our hands and say this prayer.

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

I give you my life.

I believe you live, you die, and you rose again

with all power so I could have power today. I

give you my life, Change me, renew me, transform me.

I'm yours in Jesus' name.

Amen, Hey, can we.

Celebrate with all of those who may? Y'all? Come on,

Holley Loujah. That's Transformation at Christ. Hey, listen, if you

prayed that prayer, I want you to take save to

eight two eight two eight two, and we want to

walk with you y'all right after church. We are pastors

and team would love to meet with you right across.

The hall now fifteen minutes.

If you want to come to meet the pastors, some

of our team is gonna be there.

You can figure out how to get.

Plugged in This Wednesday, the dig starts at six thirty.

We have sent you that six thirty We have new

classes starting out and listen to me. If you need

prayer for anything, I want you to come to this

altar or come to the back. We've made it convenient

either way. The big banner back there says prayer.

There's team members. God gives us power and agreement.

If you need prayer about your finances, your mind, you're

really battling down and depression. I want you to come

and get prayer online. Stay on, I'm gonna go to

the back and I'm gonna pray with you. The worship

team is about to see and we're gonna just sing

that chorus again.

Take my heart, take my mind.

And if you need to stay in worship for a

second and let God wash over you, you're welcome.

But if it's time for you to go until.

Next week, go out and live a transform life. We

love you.

Let's sing that so tang.

Thank you for joining us today. If you said that

prayer and accept it Jesus into your heart, it's the

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