Vision Sunday 2025 // Michael Todd

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Well, today's vision Sunday Church. And I believe that God

has given me a word that is not just prophetic,

not just powerful.

It's timely.

You know, the right thing at the wrong time is

a curse. Right. You know? If I gave my daughter Ava,

who just and I'll just say this because some people say,

why was she up there? Because she's my daughter. I

want to be clear. I'm trying to work my kids' gifts.

And at the moment she came to me this morning

and was like that, I want to get on stage.

Do you ill?

Said, you want to say?

She said no, don't look at me, don't talk to me,

don't say nothing.

But she doesn't know. She's practicing for her future. She's

practicing for her future.

And so I brought her up here and she was

worshiping and she looked at y'all and then she looked

back and then see herself on the screen and start dancing.

And it's fine because what we're trying to do in

here is allow all of our children to.

Not have to be represented to.

We want to present to them what God.

Can do with their lives. And so as I.

Look at what God was showing me about what I

need to speak about today, he said, Michael, this is

not just powerful, and it's not just prophetic.

It's timely.

Because with my daughter Ava, if I gave her the

keys to the car that me and her mama want

to give her when she's sixteen, if I gave it

to her today, it would be detrimental because she is

not mature enough yet to make decisions and handle that

type of power. And many times when God has held

back revelation from us, it's because we didn't have watched

this the maturity to handle that level of power yet.

But I believe as we step into this tenth year

under me and Pastor Natalie's leadership, I believe that God

had Yeah.

That's man, we made it ten years.

Y'all shot too, I'm shot.

I am flabbergasted.

But in February second, we're going to be celebrating our

church anniversary. In as I've been reflecting on how good

God has been in this process.

I've realized there's.

Certain things I couldn't speak until I came to a

certain level of maturity.

And it's not a bad thing.

It's just the way that God works because He loves us.

So today, when I talk about vision, I need to

let anybody that's joining us for the first time know

a few things about me. And this topic of vision.

Vision my thing, not sing Tha n G. Vision is

my thing. If I could only speak on one topic,

maybe two, I would speak on faith.

And vision because everything you've ever seen.

From Transformation Church, my Todd Past, Natalie, all it came

from is not skill, not connection. People.

Oh you know that person? You know I didn't know.

None of them.

Wasn't nowhere, had no money or he said that because

he got money. I promise you he's broke. But what

I did have.

Is I had a.

Vision and I had faith. Somebody say vision and faith.

I'm telling you the untruth. I had vision and I

had crazy faith. I had the faith to believe what

scared other believers. I had the faith to say things

out loud that could make me look dumb. Five years

from now, you are standing in faith, you are watching

me on faith. I need you to hear me say

this to you. The fact that this is being streamed

around the world at this current.

Moment is vision.

With my first act as the lead pastor of Transformation

Church was to buy a camera. I want to let

you know that, in the face of people watch this

who left the church because I wanted to upgrade the

cameras left, you would spend other cameras. Why would you

spend that much money out on cameras? Yet, God knew

when he told me that instruction that the only way

the world was gonna find out about what he was

doing here was not through a mass email in an invite.

It was through a relationship goes message that came through

that same camera. All I'm trying to let you know

is that if you have a vision and crazy faith,

God can do things that were impossible a generation ago.

So today I have to be honest with you that

as I was praying about giving vision, because vision is mine.

Damn y'all know, Damn, I.

Have to make a confession.

That when I talk about vision, everything I've been saying

is true. I've been telling you. Vision is what you

see when your eyes are closed. Sight is what you

see when your eyes is opening. But the Bible tells

us that we don't live by what our site is

telling us. We walk by faith and not by because

our sight will to us, your bank account will lie

to you. Oh, come on, some of y'all'll site. I'm

not even never again, hold on, stop you negative seventy two. Yes,

but God is gonna make a way.

Do y'all hear me.

Sight is not the indicator of what God can do.

And that's true. But I realize what.

I've been teaching about vision is true and incomplete. And

so today I feel, as your pastor, I need to

take you into another progression so that vision is not

something just happens at your church. The worst thing in

the world would be for this place to be blessed.

And your home is not a reflection of heaven. Oh

my gosh.

The worst thing in the world is to get miracles

in here and it be a mess out there. And

here is not where it counts. It's out and when

we lay our hands on the sick and they recover,

that's when it becomes a mirror. Okay. So I'm trying

to give you accurate tools so you can work your

faith around vision. And this is what I found out

and the Holy Spirit illuminated to me. Vision is not

what you only see with your eyes closed. Vision is

first about what you hear before you see anything. I

couldn't say it like this. Vision starts with hearing. Most

people are calling a good idea vision from God, and

you have been mistaken because he never said it.

You just saw.

Somebody else do it and copied in paste. Your vision

is counterfeit because it didn't come from heaven. Okay, just

because you cut out a picture and put it on

a board, it does not mean God had that in

his will for your life. I'm sorry to disappoint you,

but a lot of your disappointment in life is coming

from mismanaged expectations. You have said something that God never said.

You have told people something and God at tattoo of

something that God never whispered. You are out here claiming

this is what God is saying, and thirteen years later

you are sitting there now doubting the Creator because you

created something he never co signed. Vision is first about

what you hear. That's why in Genesis, before there was

anything created, God said, let there he spoke something, and

all the void responded to what it hurts, y'all. Don't

hear me.

You got avoid in your life.

Find what the word of God says about utter darkness,

find out what God says about nothing. Find out what

God says about.

It, and speak his word.

Everything has to respond to God's word, even nothing that

is so nasty.

Mike, I'm no boy. That good preaching right there?

Sometimes you go, Do you hear what I just said?

Everything has to respond to God's word, even nothing when

there's nothing there. Ah, Faith is the substance of things hope.

For when there's nothing.

And many of us have been so frustrated because we

haven't taken the time to hear from God a vision

for our life. How some like, why is this important?

Is because write this down. What we hear shapes what

we see. What we hear shapes what we see. If

you were raised in an abusive household, the words that

you heard shaped how you saw all relationships. Some of

you are still being rid and cleansed of the film

you saw in dysfunctional trauma, bonding abuse. Like you, it's

years and you weren't even in it. You were just

around it. They didn't hit you, but you heard the hit.

They didn't say it to you, but you heard how

it impacted and what happened, and you saw the tears.

You were trained not by what you just saw. You

were trained by what.

You That's why the Bible said faith comes by and

hearing what the word of God. What I'm trying to

let you know is the vision is attached to what

you hear first, because everything you hear shapes what you see.

So my prayer at the end of this message, and

at the end of this series we're about to start

that I can't tell you the title of until the end.

Oh yeah, oh yeah, because I'm about to give you

the Word of the year.

And I'm telling you this thing, okay, for.

Anybody's like word of the year, y'all keep saying this

word of the year. God literally shapes the focus of

this local body by a word or a phrase that

allows us to gather our faith in obedience. And every

year we have ten years of consecutive proof that when

God spoke it to me and I said it to

y'all and we obeyed it, he did exceedingly abundantly above

all we could ask, think or imagine. So if you're

waiting for it to be proven to you, take your time.

But there's some of us that already know that this

word is going to be confirmation for many of us,

that it's going to be an eye opener for some.

And that's why I have to build the value of

vision to you, because many of us are just existing

and we have no vision. And the Bible is very

clear about what happens to people with no vision. The

Bible says that where there is no vision, the people

cast off restraint. Another translation says they stop caring. The

another translation says, they wander around in circles. What has

your life's been like? Has it been a wandering circle?

Same relationship, every cuffin season, different God, different state, same circle,

business after business, same circle. I'm telling marketing, now I'm

in crypto, and now I'm in this and get a vision.

I'm not saying none of those things are bad, but

same circle.

And what God wants to do to you today is

give you the value of vision so that you can

at the end of this I'm praying, I'm praying, at

the end of this month, be able to say this

statement right here, and I want you to write it down.

I know what I heard.

Somebody say it with face somebody say I.

Know what I heard. I know what I heard.

See, when you hear God, you can't unhear him. You

can try to ignore it, you can try to flip it,

you can try to do it. But when you hear God,

when God tells you something for real, when you know

it wasn't you, when it was deep on the inside,

when you felt that thing and it was like, I'd

never say that to myself, and God was like, uhhh,

that was me. I'm believing that God gives you a vision.

So strong.

That even in the face of opposition, your resolve is I.

Know what I heard. Y'all leaving.

I'm sorry, can't leave because I know what I heard.

You done with this relationship. I'm sorry and you my

Gods you find but I'm gonna stay here cause I

know what I heard. You friend, you're not going on

this journey of walking out sanctification with me.

I know we got great laughs, but.

You're not pushing me towards destiny. I gotta part ways

do sis cause I know what I know what I heard,

And until you can say that, you're relying on somebody

else's word to make you stay in the thing.

God called you to.

If I only did this based on what people said,

I would have quit in twenty twenty two, false prophet.

Look at him up there, a Pazzi Tao pee poppet

poo pick. The problem is, I know what I heard.

God told us to do ransom. I know what I heard.

God told us to represent God to lost people and

found people. And the found people got mad because you've

been hogging all of the space for the last twenty

years and don't want lost people to get into the house.

But God told me to represent to the loss and

the faust. Ah, no what I heard, y'all better quit.

I know what I heard. I know he told me

to be a generous church.

I know what I heard when I stood up there

and we took an offer for eighty three hundred dollars

and we gave it away, and then eight years later

we gave eight million dollars away. I know what. You

don't gotta see it, and you don't gotta believe it.

But I can stand and look myself in the mirror

and say God is for me because I obeyed him

and I know what I heard. And if you can't

say that about something, I would challenge you have never

got to the space where you have made God the

priority of the vision that you're going to live in.

Money can't be the priority of the vision. Status can't

be the priority of the vision.

You have to get a.

Word, and once you know what you heard, then you

can get what you see together because everything has been

shaped by what I heard God say to me.

And I just came to.

Lovingly submit to you that there are many of us

calling it a vision, but it's just a good idea,

and I want you to move from I know what

I heard to I know what I saw. So so

when God allows you to hear something, then he allows

you to see something right. And this is where I'm

submitting to you that many of us need to rip

up our vision boards.

And start over.

No, no, no, no, I'm just I want to say

admit to you that you may need to retool your

goals for this year after a significant time of prayer

and fasting, because if you don't get closer to God

and see the value of vision, you make up a

counterfeit one and write this point down. You can get

good ideas without God, but you can't get vision without

a visitation from God. I am not acting like you

can't get a good idea without God. But when you

get to the end of your life and you sit

and show God all the trophies that you made according

to culture success metric, and God says, man, that is

so good that you did all of that. But all

I wanted you to do was be a good father

and raise that son because he was the one that

was supposed to change his generation. You gave him generational

wealth as well as generational trauma. Now he doesn't even

want to think about having a relationship with me because

you showed him that wealth was more important than a

relationship with God. Never had time for church on Sunday,

never made it an actual thing to pray with the family. Yeah,

you built all of this and fumbled the assignment. Y'all

know when people say they understood the assignment, and usually

they talking about somebody's dress. They're talking about like, oh, oh,

she ate and she understood the assignment and I'll fight

beat and.

Why it's all abusive terms.

When you look good, it's like, dang, she beat and

well that's bad. But they're like, she understood the assignment.

What if you get to heaven and God cannot clearly

speak to you and said they understood the assignment. This

is why I'm asking us to go back and hear

from God Proverbs nineteen twenty one. Many of the plans

in a person's heart, but it is the Lord's purposes,

his will, his wants, his design, his desire for you

that will prevail. And So today when I thought about vision,

and I thought about the story of this church, and

I thought about you, Holy Spirit told me I was

supposed to speak about Nee Mayah's journey to building something

because I believe it's going to be a prophetic symbol

of what God's about to build in your life. Some

of y'all have not seen what God is trying to

build through you. This next ten years is about to shock.

Some of y'all.

Somebody has faith to believe me. You thought that up

until this point, God had done something for you.

Once you get in the will of.

God, when there is a vision that is from Him,

that's when provision comes. That's when people come, that's when

money comes, that's when connections come.

That's when God. Some of y'all ain't seen nothing yet.

I need thirteen people to believe me. Right now, you're

about to build something. Somebody say, build, baby, build yes,

saying with faith, build baby, build yes.

Some of y'all are about to get.

The most beautiful callouses on your hand because you're about

to touch something. You are going to actually have the

fortitude to see God move and it be lasting. And

so I had to go to Nehemiah's story because he

was one that God called watch this off of another

whole career path. He called him off of his comfort zone.

He was working in a palace, living a okay life.

And then God said I have need of you. You

think you're living in a blessing. Now it's time to build.

And when I went to Neemiah's story, I was looking

from the whole book of Namiah. You need to read

it as we are in this time of prayer and fashion.

But Namiah chapter one, his brothers come to talk to him,

and Niamiah just casually asked, hey, how's everything.

Going back in Jerusalem?

Because he's a Jew, but he's actually in a foreign

land and he's serving the kingdom right there. He said,

how's everything going on back home? And this was their

response Niimiyah one verse three. They said to me, those

who survived the exile and are back in the province

are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem,

the protection of Jerusalem.

The Jerusalem is vulnerable.

The wall has been broken and its gates have been

burned with fire.

Verse four.

This is Neamyah's response to hearing the state of something

that had already been planted in his heart, but he

now gets to see where it is without his intervention.

When I heard these things, I sat down and wept.

I want to introduce to you a biblical term that

is not popular in twenty twenty five, but will be

imperative for every person under the sound of my voice

to have to get a vision from God.

The word is write this down burden.

The reason Namiyah started to cry is because he got

a burden. It didn't affect him. Your burden is not

necessarily your plight. Burden is not necessarily setting it up

so it affects you.

Good. He could have heard things is.

Going wrong back in Julie and be like, good thing,

I'm here, Come on.

Think about it. Many times when we hear things.

Some people are being desensitized by seeing the stuff happening on.

Social media and news about.

La And they said Oh, thank God, I living talk,

So hold.

On, wait, wait, wait, wait wait.

As a believer, we should have a birth for the

loss and disenfranchised and the ones who are broken. But

some of us, our heart has become callous. And what

God was showing me about a vision?

Who is that?

A vision from God is always empowered by a burden.

It's not a vision if it's not attached to a burden.

If it's just to make money so you can be good,

it ain't a vision if it's just so you can

stunt or you can just not be like your daddy.

That's why I tell people all the time, being successful

running from a trauma is actually a failure.

When you run from how your daddy was and.

That makes you successful, it's actually a failure because you

didn't actually see what God wanted you to do and

you could have actually been healed. Okay, So a vision

from God is empowered by a burden. Nih Mayah hears

about what's happening in the wall is torn down in Jerusalem,

and he gets a burden.

And this is what I found out.

A burden makes you do stuff you wouldn't normally do.

When you get a burden, you'll wake up at three

am and start praying. When you get a burden, you'll fast.

When you get a burden, you'll give your last to it.

When you get a burden. When you get a burden,

it requires something of you. And if what you feel

like God has called you to does not require something

of you, it is not a vision because it's not

attached to a burden. Listen, hear me, Because going to

that D one school and playing ball and doing all

that other stuff that could be a part of His

will for you. But it's the burden to get those

young ladies or those young men saved. It's the burden

to be able to change financial education and literacy.

Where is the And as I've.

Watched the church today, I found a few things in

life that I.

Need to point out.

I've seen a lot of people that have a vision

to preach, no burden for people. How you want to

be up here telling people what they're supposed to do

with their life and you won't talk to them, you

won't be around them the man of God.

No, you're a man.

And I understand I understand there being boundaries and securities

and all the different things. But if nobody could touch you,

nobody's around you, not accountable to nobody, not submitted to nobody,

not sub to the mission to nobody. You got a

vision to preach, but no burden for people. I found

a few other people. There's a bunch of people that

have a vision for the beautiful family photo, but no

burden to sacrifice. How do you want.

Her but won't commit to her?

I gotta talk to these sorry men real quick, who

are actually no, no, no, no, no, I said it.

They didn't say I said it.

You're so scared of commitment because you have been dibbling

and dabbling in habits that have you unsure of yourself.

And what you need to do is get disciplined and

allow the Holy Spirit to give you a vision.

And you need to hear that's your wife.

Well God, this one got this and this you shouldn't

even know that you actually should, You actually should hear

what God is saying and then plant seed and water

it so that you can grow the wife and the

family that you desire. Sorry, sorry, sorry, I don't know

what just happened, But you cannot have a vision of

a family and not have a burden the sacrifice. Okay,

I gotta talk to all the entrepreneurs, I mean entrepreneurs

that you have a vision to be a CEO, listen

to me, but you do not have a burden to

be a faithful employee.

Oh I'm gonna.

Buck on my suit on this one and stand ten

Tony's dad, how are you stealing from that company? Coming

in late and leaving early, writing your vision him plan

on day paper, not turning in your assignments, and not

adding to the culture, taking away from it, gossiping and

adding division. But you think that God is going to

put you in a C suite and you don't have

a perdon to serve where you're at. David became king

because he served solwell. When spears were coming at him,

he still.

Was playing his guitar ducking.

He was still he was still like come on, he

still had a spirit of excellence even though he was

an employee under attack. Tell every person that works anywhere

you always read what you saw, be careful, praying for

a vision, and you have.

Been sown good seed.

And I got to talk to my younger generation who

my generation has a burden to be famous, but don't

they have a vision to be famous, but don't have

a burden to bring God glory. God has no problem

with you having eyes on you as long as you

point them to him. If the end goal is you.

It's not a vision from God. It's a scheme so

you can be able to not live in the place

you lived. But God is saying, if I be lifted up,

I draw them in. What I'm trying to give you

the value of is the value of a burden that

then leads to a God given vision. And when you

have a burden that leads to a God given vision,

there is nothing that is in power. Well write it

down in a point. A burden from God is fuel

for when the vision fades. See mone of Many of

us have not been consistent with the vision long enough

to know that you don't always feel.

Like you felt at the beginning.

Oh, I need some people who have built something to

talk to me. I need to dang, ain't nobody here, Okay,

I need okay, I need somebody like like what you

saw in the beginning. It's sexy.

Can I be honest? It feels good.

People are clapping. When I hit my first New York

Time bestseller, I got congratulations from everybody. Everybody passes, everybody

this everybody, Oh my God, Man of God, gud's hend

it's done your life and give its gonna get, It's

gonna get. It's getna, kid's gonna The second one heard

you wrote another book, and then the third one, I

like you said, y'all keep outing, see because their congratulations

didn't dictate my actual obedience. But it made me wonder

what happened. Because sometimes when you're moving a vision forward,

the support the people who come and leave, the people

who take credit and then use what they know about

you to try to make you look bad like I

don't know, it makes sometimes the vision start to fade,

and I.

Just want to be honest with you.

There are times that I know God said it, I

know what I heard. Y'all ever heard it like that?

Because earlier he was like, I know what I heard?

And then you got to get up again, and it's like, dang,

I know what I heard. But the only thing that

keeps you going when you feel like that is when

I walk out and I give a guy a hug

of fifty seconds of friends this morning, and I said,

what's your name? And he told me his name, and

I could see in his eyes the pain, and I

don't know when the last time he was in church,

and I don't know the next time.

He will be.

And so I took that moment and I just wrapped

him up. I don't know if he's ever had a

six foot black man to hug him like I did.

I didn't care, and he cried on my shoulder in

fifty seconds of friends sitting right here, and I got

another whoo those boys tears.

It pumped me up at another level.

If all y'all left and it was just me and him,

I'd swept myself out of this suit. Not because the

audience is big, It's because I got a burden. What

holding the vision together? It's a burden.

I got to move.

And I was looking at all of the things that

are going on in La.

It's devastating.

But I thought about a man of God who got

a burden and then got a vision. There was a

pastor that almost ten years ago, Pastor Matthew Barnett, got

a burden to help the city of La and that

man started something that he saw.

He know what he heard, start a ministry.

A nonprofit that helps drug addicts and homeless people and

feeds and shelters, and his burden for La became the

vision called the Dream Center. And this week nobody could

have saw the fires, but the Dream Center has become

the epicenter of helping families who are lost, displaced, hungry,

the basic utilities. Not because he was reactive to something

that happened yesterday. God had to speak to him a

decade of goat and he got a bird. What if

the burden was just for what had Oh, my God,

just for what happened this past week. But if you

won't make time to hear God, you can't get a burden,

then your vision is invalid. Pastor Matthew, we love what

God is doing in your church and transformation church all

around the world stands with you. So we're sending you

a check of one hundred thousand dollars to continue. Oh

come on, y'all, come on Church. We're sending one hundred

thousand dollars send to La Dream Center to help with

relief and everything that's happening with the fire. Oh oh,

which brings me to my next point. True vision from

God always brings provision from God. He didn't wake up

knowing we was doing that today, but because he got

a burning and had a legitimate vision. Now God can

send what provisions. And while we're at it, our other partner,

convoy of hope that's on the ground in La right now.

Because there was over eight fires that happen. I want

you to know there's one hundred thousand dollars coming to

you as well. Come on, Church, this is our general,

this is us making a difference. Okay, now listen, listen.

Listen to the lie of the enemy that church don't

need my money. That's a lie. I didn't just have

to raise an offering and ask everybody with ten dollars

to stand up, and everybody with fifty dollars stand up,

and everybody with twenty dollars. We get to go home

early because people already believed in the burden and the vision.

Why do we tithe? Why do we give offering? Why

do we honor God?

First? It's because when there is a need, there will

be food in the storehouse so that we can go

and do this. We don't got to manipulate and twist

nobody's arms. We already know what it.

Is got, Mike, We are.

The ones who have a burden. Everything I have comes

from the Lord. But most people are reactive instead of proactive.

What God wants everybody to do is get a burden

so that they can have a vision. I ain't done yet.

Stop the music because you're trying to close me. And

that felt good, Zach, but uh uh, I.

Had to tell him he was trying to lulla by

us out of here. Give me a second.

Nehemiah after he gets a burden. I want you to

see what his action was when he got a burden

verse four. When I heard these things, I sat down

and wept, but he didn't stay in the weeping For

some days I mourned, but he didn't stay in the morning,

he fasted and prayed. We're in twenty one days of

what fasted and praying.

It sounds like we're in just the right space. This

is the right time to.

Actually get a burden from God, because we heard him.

He said, he sat down, he fastened, and he prayed

before the God of Heaven.

And this is what I want you to know.

When a point vision is maintained in prayer. So I'm like,

I got a vision, but I can't do nothing.

You could pray about it.

And most people think that prayer is some invisible treadmill

exercise that it's a bunch of work, but it don't

go nowhere. But God tells us that our connection with Him,

our prayer life, refines the vision.

Our prayer life is.

A thing that corrects us when we're eye. And so

why am I telling you this is because all he

did when he got the burden. If you can't do nothing,

you can make a commitment to pray about it. God,

I don't know what's going to happen with the school system,

but I got a burden for the school system. I

got a burden for elementary kids. I have a burden

for kids with autism. I have a burden.

And whatever that burden is, I can't do nothing yet.

I don't know what to do. I don't have a

plan yet.

I Father, in the name of Jesus, thank you that

every step of my life is.

Going to be ordered. Father.

I thank you that I don't just run into random people.

I thank you that I run into the right people. Father,

I thank you that you are bringing me into education

and wisdom. Let me watch the right videos, Let the

right things scroll up on TikTok at least till the

twenty nine.

Lord, give me something that.

I if you can't do nothing else. You can pray,

and once he begins to pray. It's so funny about prayer.

When you get a vision and you start praying about it,

then movement actually does come.

And what ends up happening to Nia Maya.

Oh I wish I could teach just how I want to.

When you start praying. Be careful.

When you start talking to God about something. Be careful

when you start thinking somebody else is gonna do it.

Be careful when you think it's the church's responsibility to

take on the burden that God gave you. I have

more people, and when we gonna start the fishing ministry,

we ain't.

That's show burden. When we're gonna start to make.

Up minute Ah, God gave something to you. Do not

trying to farm out the responsibility that God has placed

in your hands to everybody. He ain't say that to me.

And you're stuck because you think you need agreement when

Heaven is back in you. Oh my God, you can

have all of them and steel fail. But if God

before you, then who Nehemiah began to pray, and when

he began to pray, this was God's response to him.

You got to go build something you gotta build it.

He's sitting in a different spot with a burning now

got a vision, and God says, all right, you prayed

about it, now you got to build it. What are

you praying about that? God's now calling you to build?

Build it, build it, build, build your family back. You

start with therapy. They won't go to therapy.

You won't either.

Build your mental health back. So you can deal with

they flip out. If you're emotionally mature enough to know

they're gonna flip out right here, you don't even have

to respond to it. But as soon as they flip out,

they here's your trigger. You ready to fight, and you

cuss them out to and then you have to repent

in the car. That sounded personal. What come on, hear me?

Build it, build build it.

You think that the church have better movies and I

don't want to see this attrition.

Build it.

What you're doing? And the church has become professional critiquers

on something they would never have the fortitude or courage

to start building themselves. It's easy to judge me up

here because I put myself out here every freaking Sunday.

I don't put all my business in a book.

You can read all of them.

At least you have to pay to talk about me.

What I'm telling you is, if God gave you something,

it's time to build it. Okay, let me stop, I'm

getting loose.

Write it in a point.

God gives you a burden when he wants you to build.

You will never have a burden and He doesn't require

you to build some part of it so that you

always roll past and be like, why wouldn't somebody just

We're waiting on you. Generations are waiting on you. Why

why do churches always just they always seem so broken.

They build what you're supposed to build, so you can

have money, so you can give it. We wouldn't have

to take one offering ever, if the people of God

who have resources are would if they would just allocate

what God calls. But most people that would give.

It are broke.

Because they won't build what God asks them to build.

I'm not even gonna stay on that because some of

y'all just got offended. Some of your plight, some of

the struggle is because you didn't obey. In a different season,

you was outside when you needed to be in. She

would turn it up off the COVID when God was

trying to get you to cultivate something, and because you

did not, you're in a season of famine when you

should be in a season of plenty. All right, shout

at me, but in faith, somebody say build it.

All right, y'all gonna have to go home and read

the rest of it. Chapter two, he goes to the.

King that he's working for, and he asks for favor,

and he gets favored it from the King to be

able to travel and go back.

And build the wall in Jerusalem.

Chapter three, he gathers a bunch of families who were

there but didn't have the courage to build, and he

galvanized the team, and families took portions of the wall

to be able to build, like families in this room

since the beginning of nineteen ninety nine have taken portions

of this vision and build it.

I think of the McCord's family.

I think about Tracy and Leroy Gibbs. I think about

Oscar p and Tammy P. I think about people that

God has assigned.

I think about Diane Mays.

And I think father about man that my mind is going.

I think about Miss Kay and I think about all

the people you'll never know.

Who.

God gathered around this vision and said, don't worry about

the whole wall.

Build this, build this portion. Get a vision for this portion.

And if you build this, and they build this, and

they build this, we'll look up and there will be

a wall. And chapter four, this is the part I

had to get to because some of y'all gonna get

out of here and be like, I got a burden,

I got a vision, And then you're gonna get played

when you get opposition, because at chapter six, that's when

opposition comes. Chapter four, it's when opposition comes. And there's

this guy named sam Ballet, who is, for all intensive purposes,

a hater. Sam Ballot Neamiah four, verse one. It said

sam Ballet was a very, very angry when he learned

that we were rebuilding the wall.

Why why does this bother you?

Why does it bother you that we do it this way?

Why are you so intent and so bothered by what

we've been called to? Bill? He was angry when he

learned about them rebuilding the wall. Watch he flew into

a rage and mocked the Jews, saying, in front of

his friends and the Sumerian army officers.

What does this bunch of.

Poor feeble Jews think they're gonna do. Do they think

they can build the wall in a single day? I

felt there was an annoying laugh in there too, but

just offering a few sacrifices. Do they actually think they

can make something of stone from rebbish heaps? Do they

actually think they can make something? They actually think they

can make something of themselves? They think, after all of that,

they can do something with that, He said Tobia, and

the Emmonite who was standing beside him remarked, the stone

wall would collapse if even a fox walked along the

top of it. They were judging the quality of their work,

and it said then near Biah he prayed. He went

back to what he did when he got a burden.

Hear us, O God, for we are being mocked.

May their scoffing fall back on their own heads, and

may they themselves become captive in a foreign land. If

you ever want a prayer, that's not a curse but

a biblical slap back. I mean it's in the word

I have prayed this God, I am being made the stopping.

I get a British accent, and I'm just like.

What I want to say to you is write this

point down. Don't let the voices invalidate the vision. Can

I say it to you this clearly? If the voice

wasn't with you in the valley, if that voice wasn't

speaking in the valley, it cannot invalidate the vision God

has given you. In twenty fourteen, when Bishop told me

that it was going to be nine years and then

he would give me when it was going to be

five years, and then he was going to give me

the church. This in twenty fourteen. I wasn't supposed to

be the pastor of Transformation Church until twenty nineteen. So

I said, bet, I got time to learn something I

don't know how to do none of this. I got

time to go to seminary. I got to in a

time of prayer and fasting. Just like this, Bishop called

me after one of the nights of prayer and fasting

where he strategically had me lead every night of prayer

and fasting. I'm just the executive pastor and he was

like this, twenty one days of prayer and fasting. I

need you to lead every night, I says, everybody else sick.

What the tenth the stamina that would take? And he

said but I was submitted. I had no idea. I

wasn't trying to become no pastor. And the Bible, the Bible.

The bishop he said to me during one of the

times where he hurt me praying, that God said to him,

if he is not the pastor by February, it will

not be good for you. That man called me and said,

change the plans. All right, listen, We're gonna install you

of the pastor February first. I said, Bishop, that ain't

even a month. This could go very bad. But he

knew what he heard. In February first, me and Natalie

stepped in and we started building what God called us

to build, he said, He said, Michael, in twenty fifteen,

all I need you to.

Do is take the vision I've given you. And all

I want you to do is what survi.

You know. This is winning in certain seasons started from

the bottle. Some of you want to thrive in a

season that was meant to kill you, and God said

the vision for you in that season was just too

I had people coming up to me and telling me

God told them to leave the church. There were eight

hundred people that came for the installation. The next week

it was three hundred five hundred people disappeared. Now, yes, you,

Mama Cloe, you was there, probably in that same fur hat.

And all y'all killing.

It with this fur the mothers that out here today.

Where do you get a pink furry for Dora? Anyway?

Excuse me, I'm sorry, y'all. We had fun at our church,

multi generational.

The whole auditorium can see you, Mama Chloe.

Everybody. Okay, look the people in the back over there,

there's you go. No, I'm just playing.

I just play. I just played.

Okay, Okay, listen what I want? You ill said, Listen

like I didn't dispek, y'all listen to me. No. In

that season, I know what I heard, Mama claud he said.

I put this on because I know what I heard. Huh.

I love it. What ended up happening, and that first

year God allowed us to survive. For every person that left,

somebody came. I saw God divinely exchange hearts that couldn't

take me from being the youth guy to leading their family.

And what ended up happening is because I did not

keep my attention on them, I was able to survive.

Twenty fifteen which brought me to another year where I

went away and prayed like me and Mayah, and God

said keep building. And somebody say keep building, say it

with faith, say it like I.

Need to keep building.

And so God then told me he said, all right, Mike,

the time has come. Now I'm gonna need some help

with this vision right here, because this mug, this mug

is a little heavy. Yeah help me, big dog, Yeah

yeah yeah yeah. Oh Lord, this built out of some

other wood.

Yeah, let's turn it this way.

See. The next year, I thought God was gonna give

us some big sexy word that would take us to

the nasense, And it.

Was about maintaining.

What happens when for twenty four months the only word

you hear from God is survive, maintain. I want you

to know if you're in a season of stewardship, because

that's what maintaining looks like. I don't want you to

discount it and act like God's not doing something. He

was building something in me. This year, the year of maintaining,

I lost my whole staff. Everybody left except Tammy and

k and I would walk through the offices when I

would come in there, this is my first job, mind

you I ain't never had a job working nowhere. This

gets crazier. So like I ain't never had to clock in.

I work for myself in production company. So I'm coming

in at nine am to nobody. And I would see

the light on in Tammy's office and I'd be like, Hey,

what's going on, Brad, Sheryl, how's the weekend? The kwan?

What's up round? I love your shoes? And Tammy will

be cracking up in her office.

She said, this boy done lost his mine.

But God told me that we would have a multi ethnic,

multi generational staff.

I know what I heard.

And so God said, just maintain and then and I

was ready for the next word to be like don't

stop till you get enough, just stay right there.

But then God shocked us. I'm gonna need some help

with this one too.

He shocked us, and he did something different that I

wasn't fully expected you go that way. And he said,

this year, I'm gonna take you beyond. And when he

took us beyond, the church grew four hundred families. The

budget grew four hundred thousand dollars. I couldn't nobody tell

me nothing. After this year, we made it. We had

one service full twenty seventeen. I was tap dancing when

you survived. And when you maintain't take it doesn't take

much to bring joy. Some of you have not looked

at it, how far God has brought.

You, And if you would just take a moment.

And look at the grace of God in your mind. No,

it's not where you're going, but look how God has.

Brought us beyond where.

We were, where we thought we would die, where we thought.

We would be finished at He took us beyond.

And so then in twenty eighteen, this one was a

shocker for me because we just started to pick up momentum.

So I was sure when I went away in July

to pray during my sabbatical, God was gonna say the

word of the year is momentum. Fast track speed racer.

I would have took any of those. Guess what he

told us, who somebody shot at me? Build it?

You turn it?

Here we go.

Yeah, how frustrating, How frustrating for right when you're ready

to run, God tells you to walk.

When you're ready to.

Be like, ah, let's take over the world. He said,

find a pace of grace. You said you didn't want

to lose your family. I got to teach you some

stuff Right here. You said, you want to still have

a real relationship with me. I need to slow down, God,

I ain't done enough to slow down.

By whose standards? Who are you trying to please?

I canceled all of the preaching engagements I had to

every big conference in the world twenty eighteen. The relationship

gold thing blew up.

In twenty nineteen.

Every conference I paid to get in was asking me

to come to speak, and they was gonna pay me.

And I saw that my wife was going through a

season dealing with depression after our son had been diagnosed

with autism, and the crazy faith. God could have either

gone after what the world would have known me for,

or I could have made the sacrifice to actually see

my burden, which is my wife and my family be

healed and healthy. And Brent was with me in my office,

and Brent was my assistant at the time, and I said,

Brent were counseling everything, and Brent's a businessman.

He said everything.

Brent was like Mike, Mike, hold on, think about this

real quick.

And I said, look at her crying.

How am I going to go out there and tell

everybody else to put God first in their family. And

I'm not doing this, Brent, what marriage yet? Though? But

he got to see in real life what it looked

like to lay it that to sacrament.

And God.

When we begin to strive and we decided to believe

that less was more, God took this ministry on a

rocket ship that only he could slow down. And so

what happened after stride? Then he gave me another word. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

you got me.

I got this one.

He got a little light on. He said, this was

the year of what somebody shotted me build it. People

tried to tell me we had done enough.

Right here, you did it.

You made it one, two, three, four, five, you made

it five years. You ain't cheated on your wife, do

regular church. But that's not what he said, and that's

not what I saw. And in twenty and nineteen, when

I was sitting in my house and I got this

vision paper that the Spirit Bank Event Center would be

Transformation Church, I found it on my computer and I

walked over here. I drove over here, but I walked

in because the door was open. I had only been

here one other time for a Ndri and John Legend

concert and I was sitting over there, and I didn't

know that when I walked in here that time, I

was standing in the faith that would actually manifest into

something that we own. But when God gave me a burden.

When we went, we had five services in two thousand

and nineteen, y'all was trying to kill me. I have

a picture of me on oxygen. The Charles got the picture.

I'm on oxygen ivs everything after Easter, I'm just sitting.

There, like, Lord, take me, I said, uh.

Uh, I knew that God had something for us. Long

story short, we got this building. It was a crazy

faith miracle. We paid it off in five months.

Y'all can shout about that.

Paid it off in five months because of people who

had a burden. This is why we got to keep building.

Because when we got to release, God said, I'm.

Not done with this.

I released this building, I released this stuff, but now

it's time to make you watch this. Come on, get this.

Twenty twenty, God said to us real clearly that he

was gonna do something to make us. Whoo did he

do it? Because he shut everything down? God dog, I

mean think about it.

It is God though.

When you want something, he gives you the opposite. We

needed strength, so he took away the thing that was

bringing all the momentum, and we got stronger in that year.

And as we navigated, God began to speak to me, said, Michael,

wants you to go deeper because I'm about to I'm

about to take you through something I don't I don't

really want to go.

Should you be like.

He said, no, no, no, anytime God makes you stronger, it's

because he's going to use the strength. Okay. So after

he said we were getting stronger, then this is what

he did. He took us this one. Okay, here we go,

and he said, hold on, I need you to be anchored.

And I thought it was for everybody else.

Honestly, if I can be honest, I got this word.

It's like, yes, oooh, we need to be angry to

the rid of God. Wow.

We just need you know, so.

We don't drift, No drift, stay anchored, stay planted. And

God said, did you hear it? That wasn't for the church,

it was for you first. This is why I'm telling y'all, y'all,

the reason vision is so valuable to me is because

I got a burden to represent God to the loss

and found for transformation God Christ, and then he gave

me a vision and all of the things, y'all, and

this ain't.

It, This is not it. Why need you to get.

Off of the sidelines and stop watching and actually get

in the game. It's because we have something to build.

Somebody shot at me, build it. And after twenty twenty

one when he said get anchored, then ugh, yep. He

told me very clearly, he said here is holy and

I thought this is gonna be beautiful. Took my feet

off and took my shoes off, showed everybody my feet.

I got a pinky toe that does like this. Some

of y'all remember from a time of being. This willbeit anyway,

just listen. But on the Sunday before I preached this message,

there was a little incident that happened with spit and

it was almost like seven years of consistency, seven years

of intentionally there's.

Never been a story.

Five weeks before the spit hit the fan, we had

given away eight million dollars, not one news story, not

one social media feed, not one.

But y'all, sa, I just got choked up.

But as soon as the spit hit the fan, he's

a false pride. I knew there was something wrong with him.

I tap and then the Holy spirit. He said, I

taught you how to survive, maintain, go beyond, find the

pace of grace and stride. I released you into something.

I made you stronger, and I told you to be anchored.

So why would you act like I'm not with you?

Here is hard And I can't tell you how many times,

with tears rolling down my faith, I said, this is

right where I'm supposed to be. This is right where

you have me. God. If there's anything in me that's

not like you, God, if there's any bit of pride,

if there's anything in me that wants to be famous

God and.

Not bring you glory, get it out of me. I

promise you.

I don't give a cur about any type of worldly

metrics because now I know. But I had to go

through the fire to be purified. See everybody thinks that

when it happens to you, it's a punishment. When God

turns on the fire, it's to purify. And he purified

our church, He purified our motives. And then what he

said is all right, it's time to go to a whole,

not a level. He said, So now I don't want

you to even think about Transformation Church no more. I

want you to only think about the Kingdom. And he said,

I want to make sure you know that everything that

I'm doing is not just for TC. It's supposed to

be replicated all over the world, and I want you

to touch the entire world and make sure they know

that it is a holy rebellion rising up that's gonna.

Make a difference.

Somebody shot at me, build it, And then last year,

some of y'all know what we did.

Look at my look at.

Look at my fruit.

Last year was a year of fruit.

And what I demonstrated for you is a structure now

that was not there, that had to be built over

time because I had a burden consistently to obey God.

When I build what God asked me to build, I

get a different perspective.

When I build what.

God asked me to build, I go to new heights

when I build. When I build, How y'all doing up

there in the balcony, Hey, the only reason I can

see what I see now. I had to go higher.

But I couldn't go higher if I did it, build it.

Some of us have been too low. We've still been

in gospel. I don't got time for gossip. I got

something to build. I don't have time to worry about

what they're doing. This is heavy enough, and some of

us have been too worried about what others are building

on their part of the wall that they're still a

gaping hole where He's calling for your vision to be built.

And you see that if you took away any piece

of the vision, the entire.

Thing becomes faulty. But this is the thing about getting

a vision. At some point you have to come down

off of the vision, and you have to go where

nobody can see you. And this is what my sabbatical

is getting in the presence of God, where people see

what has been built, but they can't see me.

Father, I don't know how to do this.

Again. Here I am God, asking you to give me

clarity on how to lead your people, Holy Spirit. If

I knew what to do, Father God, I would have

done it. But without you I cannot go. I have, Father, God,

the determination like Moses, I won't go if you do

not go with me. So Father, give me clear vision.

Father God, renew the burden in my heart.

Let it burn like never before before.

God, give me a vision change my vision, revision me.

If I need to God show me what it is,

at least for the next twelve months, consider all your people.

And that's when I come off with sabbatical and I

pop back out and I get to come to you

on this Sunday and get to tell you what the

word of the year was. This was not a word

that came up on a dictionary trivia that I liked.

This is something that God gave me and confirmed over

and over. This vision has been built over time. But

I just need to let everybody know. Sam Ballad didn't

go away. He tried to distract ni Amayah from building

the wall over six times, and.

Ni Amiyah's response was very simple.

He said, I.

Can't come.

Down, and I prophetically hear the Holy Spirit saying that

whatever God is calling you to build, you're going to

have to set your eyes even in the midst of

naysayers and opposition. There's a point in this story if

you read it, that he tells all of the families, Oh,

I love this imagery. To have a tool to build

in one hand and a sword to fight in the

other hand. Sometimes to protect the vision that God has

placed in your heart. You're gonna have to have a

hammer in one hand and a and a hammer of

the y'all, hear what I'm saying, you might have to

fight and fix. And the church has not been anointed

to be ambidextrious. We haven't used both of our hands.

Let me tell you the Word of.

The year, y'all ready, because I can't even preach it today.

That starts next week.

So if you don't get back in this river next week,

you're gonna miss out on how we go today. I'm

just gonna give it, were gonna shout, We're gonna praise

God for some of y'all's gonna be confirmation.

But then I'm gonna teach you how to do this.

In July eleventh, standing right here, we were practicing for

Dominion album. Sunday team was up here killing and out

of the blue, I'm watching everything and I just see

out of the corner of my eye a black blob.

I'm like, what's going on?

And the people around me they saw I was a

little distracted, and I'm rubbing my eye and I'm doing

all this other stuff, but I'm just trying to stay

in that. Next day, I'm preaching black blob in my eye.

Two days later, we fly to go to the Stellar

Awards and I'm like, nat something is wrong with my eye.

And she was like, what's wrong with your eye? I

was like, I have no idea, but it's like like

I'm looking at you, but like there's something obstructing my vision,

something obstructing my So I began to look and me

and Natalie were supposed to go on vacation.

We went.

We went to the most beautiful place in the world

to me. As we went to bor Bora. I took

my wife to Bora Bora.

It's so nice.

Got to say it to life. Oh over there, and

I'm looking at this beautiful mountain, but I want to

try to let you see what I saw. This is

what it looked like. I'm sitting out there looking at

this beautiful kool aid blue water, but in my eye

floating around. I'm trying to worship, trying to focus, but

it literally looked like a blob in my eye. And

I was like, Holy Spirit, what are you trying to

tell me? He said, I'm trying to get your attention.

I said, you could have just told me in prayer,

he said, but no, no, no, no, no, I'm trying to I'm

trying to tell you where the church is at, where

your life is at, where the Body of Christ is at.

They have something that.

Is obstructing them from seeing me and seeing my people.

I said, it's floating around and it's making them. When

I came home and I started to drive, I would

always catch myself like looking because I thought something was

coming out of my peripherial and it wasn't anything. It

was this blob floating around in my eye. It made

me cautious about things when there was no danger, and

it made.

Me suspicious of things and lose.

Sight and trusting myself because I had something that was

obstructing my vision. I was having full conversations with people

only seeing half of their face. They're right in front

of me thinking it's normal. But there's something that was

in my vision. And as I begin to think about

what God wanted to do in our church, I begin

to pray because everything that happens in the natural for

me goes to the spiritual. I said, God, what are

you trying to show up to show me? He said,

Michael that two thousand and twenty five, everything you've built

has been great, But go to the blurred graphic of

what we're about to do. He said, this is what

it looks like when what I've shown you is there,

but it is not clear. He said, So many of

my people can see around about version of what I

want to do in their life, but they have not

seen clearly what God is ready to do. And so

he told me in one sentence, he said, the word

of the year for twenty twenty five for Transformation Church

is focus. He said, I'm bringing everything. Oh, somebody needs

to shout, because there is about to be faith in

this place to focus standing all over this building. The

key ingredient to building the wall was not the plan,

was not the people. It wasn't the manpower. It was

the fact that every time there was a distraction, it

was the fact.

That every time there was a detour.

It was the fact that every time there was another

family that tried to quit.

He said, I can't come down.

Because God has divinely asked me to focus on what

I heard and.

What I saw. I speak over your life right now,

hands lifted that this will be a divine season where

what God shows you and he gives you in a burden,

that you will be able to build the vision, and

no matter who comes to tell you that it can't happen,

God is going to give you the faith to focus. Hey,

before you walk out, you're gonna miss the subtitle.

Get into your car. Not gonna help you win tomorrow.

Listen to this. God clarified it for me, and this

is gonna be the title of our series, he said, Michael.

The only way that you can focus is this has

to be the year where you put.

Death to distraction.

And over the next five weeks, I'm gonna teach you

how to do a funeral for the things that have

been trying to.

Take you out this year.

As a church, we will be focus this year, and

our family, we will be focus in our careers, in

our colleagues, we will be in our prayer life and

our devotion. We will be this casey, this is the

year of focus. I can't come down ten years then, y'all.

We gotta build this wall big enough that all of

us can stand up here. Y'all didn't even hear me.

My kids gotta be able to sit on these steps.

God is about to divinely align and realign priority in

your life. And I believe so clearly that there's about

to be more fruit because this church is gonna do

what fuckus that means. I've even told my staff and

team we reevaluating everything. We've been having talks about what

is God?

What is our burden?

Now?

What do churches do?

What is our bird? What is God blessed here? So

I'm just telling everybody we may not have a fishing ministry.

And fill in the blank, will my last church go back?

Because that might have been there burden, But I will

not fake carry a burden to please a segment of

people that will wear me out from building. Because once

you don't understand is I'm building with this hand and

I'm fighting with this hand.

We shouldn't be fighting people.

That's on the same team. This is what we're gonna do.

As you write this word, as you pray around it

in this twenty one days of prayer, fascining as you

as you actually set it out as something you want

God to speak to you. I just gave you the

firm of you you need to hear from God. So

so day eight of twenty one days of prayer faston tomorrow,

guess what we're praying? Surrender? Oh God, hook that up

for us. And guess what I told the team to do.

Y'all bring them out. I told I told the team

to get me big old trash cans. Y'all got them, y'all,

come on, come on, come on, bring them tomorrow at

prayer for everybody that's in Tulsa. I want you to

bring anything that has been a distraction to you. Oh,

it just got real. There are paraphernalia. I'll just leave

it at that. Clothes you still got your ex boyfriends

jersey because it's your most comfortable nighty let them spirits

jump off on you could. Y'all just open them and

y'all can walk away after you open them. Thank y'all.

They're all empty, yep, they're all empty, but tomorrow night

they'll be full.

Tonight.

I don't just want you to surrender in your heart.

I want a sign of your surrender. And if you're

watching online, I just want you to get a trash can.

I want you to film it and I want you

to throw whatever it is away. Don't bring no guns

in here, and don't bring no knives in here. Let

me be very clear, but some of y'all need to

get rid of them. Yeah, no right to bear arms.

Right and smart are two different things. You have anger

and rage, and every time the enemy can start to

play on you on suicide as well as hurting somebody

else that.

Doesn't need to be. You've changed life.

I saw me the other day, said, who's fighting over forty?

Why would you fight?

What is the reason to fight? After you forty years old?

Yes, some people still got this hood mentality. Why you're fighting,

it's because you haven't trusted your life with the one

who's the protector. The first way we're gonna focus is

put death to distraction.

There are cell phones and apps.

Ah, y'all know the burner phones, the ones you pull

out of the drawer, the one your spou so it

doesn't even know about. Oh, I'm talking real stuff. There

are vapes, and I'm just gonna I'm gonna let your

mind wonder because there's all kinds of people in here.

So I want to be sensitive. Whatever's been a distraction

for you. And if the only thing that you can

do is write a name down on a piece of paper,

because somebody are about to have to bring Jeronna up

here and throw them in the trash, can throw that.

Maybe trash here is trash.

You may you may. We're not taking people. But what I'm.

Even looking at the number of people that are gonna

be here tomorrow night because we're gonna come in here

to pray around this word to focus. We're gonna need

some more trash cans.

I can.

I can see it now, because I don't want you

to think about it, and we're gonna dispose of it.

We're gonna make sure it's done in the right way.

But I don't want you to carry anything as a

distraction of nothing. Damn, let me pray for you. Hands

lifted God, I thank you. I thank you that you've

spoken and you've been very clear that twenty twenty five

is the year of focus. We will build what you've

called us to build, but we will build not for

a blessing, but from a burden. Give us clear vision,

bring us to the right place to build what you've

called us to build. And God, let us focus so

that we will.

Not be distracted.

And that others will be safe because of the work

that you've called us to do. Father, even as today

we're praying for the power of the Holy Spirit, would

you empower us to do what you've called us to do,

and would you allow us to give you a full surrender.

I pray for everybody that's under the sound of my voice,

whether they're in this room, watching online, watching in the penitentiary,

watching on a rebroadcast, watching out a later time. Your

Holy Spirit is with us right there. And Father, I

pray for the faith to focus, to come to every man, woman,

boy and girl, fixing our eyes on Jesus, focusing on Jesus,

who is the author and finisher of our faith. Father,

teach us how to lay down distractions, and today we

will give you all the glory, honor and praise. Now,

Speak Lord, your servants are listening.

Speak Lord.

This is confirmation for many and correction for others. Speak Lord,

no matter how old or how young. Today Father, your

children are listening. We need you, we love you, and

we thank you for your grace that would give us

the kind word to speak into our future. We believe

that what's gonna happen by the end of this year.

She eyes have not seen and ears have not heard,

neither has it entered into the hearts of man, the

things that you have prepared for us. Because we love

you and you have already.

Done the thing.

As we focus on you, have your way. If you're

in this room and you've never put your trust in Jesus,

the first thing I want you to focus on is

receiving grace.

When you receive what God.

Has provided for you, it takes out a lot of

distraction called sin, and sin will have you thinking you

got to figure out a way to get to God.

And when you focus on Jesus, you'll find out that

God provided a way for Jesus to come towards you.

And today I want to offer you Jesus. The greatest

advantage to you putting distraction down is to get a

really loving relationship with Jesus. And if you're in this

room and you know that's you on the counter three,

I just want you to lift your hands.

And I want you to lift your hand.

In the chat. I may not see you, but God

sees you, and Heaven.

Is recording this moment right now.

On the counter three, I just want you to lift

your hand if you want to make Jesus your personal

Lord and savior. Whether you're in the penitentiary watching this

at midnight or you are sitting in a high rise

right now, one, you're making the greatest decision of your life.

Number Two. I'm proud of you.

But more than that, your name is about to be

written in the Lamb's Book of Life and your eternity

is secure. Three, lift your hands if you want to

make Jesus Christ your personal Lord and savior. I see you,

I see you, I see you. I'm so proud of you.

Hand's going up everywhere Transformation Church, this is our vision. Hey,

listen at TC, nobody prays alone. So I want everybody

to just to lift your hands. Because we're a family.

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

Today.

I admit that I'm a sinner and I need a savior.

I choose you.

I believe you lived, you died, and you rose again

just for me.

Today.

I give you my life, all of me. Change me,

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

can we turn up with heaven right now? Holly, Julia,

Hey listen, if you just if you just said that prayer,

I want you to text saved to eight two eight

two eight to her, follow the QR code and listen.

If this is your first time here, I would love

to meet you. This little thing that we just started

called meet the pastor. Last week, I got to meet

two hundred people. I got to hug and kiss and

take pictures with you. I'm really wanting our church to

have a space and a place for me to touch you.

So if you would love to.

Do that, about fifteen minutes after service, meet us in

the south ballroom and I would love to meet you.

If you're a visitor, thank you for coming. I pray

that God blesses you. And this is what I'm asking everybody.

If you were here this week, I want you to

come back next week and bring a person because when

we start to teach how to focus and put death

to distraction, it's gonna give you the tools you need

to reach.

The vision God has given you. Amen.

If you need prayer for anything, you can come to

the front, and.

You can even go to the back.

And I'm gonna ask the worship team because some people

just got a revelation and confirmation, and I want you

to take this time. Somebody's already coming to lay something down.

I'm proud of you, baby girl. Hold on, y'all. They

said I'm not even gonna be able to be here

on Monday. They coming and lay it down today. This

is what we want. Father, bless these people, and I

declare tomorrow is gonna be our best day of fasting.

We thank you, Father God, that we are already more

than conquerors. Father God, and I thank you that you're

giving us the ability to focus have your way, and

until we meet again tomorrow night, we will go out

and live a transform life. Let's give God one more

shout of praise in this place. Thank you for joining

us today.

If you said that prayer and accept it Jesus into

your heart, it's the best decision you could ever make.

We want to.

Celebrate with you, and we have some tools to help

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