If You Say Sow: How To Continue The Overflow // Livin’ In The Overflow (Pt 11) // Michael Todd

Welcome to Transformation Church podcast, where we represent God to the lost and found

for transformation in Christ. We're so glad you're here and wherever you're listening from,

we believe God will transform your life. Do today's message. I gotta

deliver this message because I believe it is honestly the culmination of this overflow series.

This is the last week of this series called Living in the Overflow,

and I'm about to take a break from the pool pit. I want to

be very clear and I never hide this since for ten years now in the

summer, the Holy Spirit has instructed me, through mentorship as well as his

word, to take a season off of preaching on this platform for a couple

of reasons. Number one, so I never get too used to the light.

He wants me to know what it feels like to be able to function

with everybody not looking at me, with Him actually searching my heart, and

with a lot of people in this position going through a lot of moral failures

and situations and different things. I think one of the best ways to protect

me and my family to do this for a long time is to make sure

that when God tells me to go to places of obscurity, that I obey

and I have to be honest with my church. This year, for the

first time in ten years, I don't feel like I need a sabbatical,

which is a miracle like now some of you don't understand, but like having

a phone call at two o'clock in the morning with somebody saying they died,

or being able to have to navigate some of the things that come with pastoring,

just carrying people and doing that. I'll never stop doing that. That's

my honor. I pray for y'all all the time. But then on top

of that, like searching God's word and like preparing a message to give an

hour talk every week to people who already ready to clip it up and say

you a false prophet. That's a lot of pressure. And Sundays keep coming.

And I told somebody the other day, I said, pastoring is the

pastoring and being a doctor of the only two professions where you get beat up

and you don't get an off season. It's a professional contact sport. And

so I'm not trying to make anybody feel sorry for me. I'm trying to

let you know that I've decided to set a boundary that I stay healthy.

Okay, so I'm gonna be gone for a little bit, but you shouldn't

be gone for a little bit. Now. I have to say this because

well, tell me when Pastor Mike is up and back. If the only

way that you can receive is from me, then I must conclude you are

a baby Christian. Now, I just like you know you the only one

that I really feel this. Maybe God's trying to mature all of us because

the only people that can eat one way is a child where you got to

crush everything up and you gotta make sure it's mushy. And some of us

this summer need to pull out our knife and fork and say, God,

speak to me. If you want to use this person, that person a

donkey, speak to me, if you want to use my neighbor a hater,

if you want Darth Vader, speak to me. Somebody say speak to

me. And so I'm gonna ask our church to mature. Do y'all feel

how packed it is in here and how full and how amazing it should be

like that next Sunday, Well, Pastor Mike is not there. I'm not

the star of this show. There's only one name worthy to be praised.

There's only one name by which men can be saved. It's Jesus. So

I set this precedent because most of my pastor friends hide to leave the church,

and I will not be prisoner to what God's given me purpose in do

y'all hear what I'm saying, and I'm saying it out loud because they're CEOs

and people who run companies that it's been running you. And until you trust

God with the thing that he gave you, you will never be able to

live a full life. So today I want to model this in front of

you. This is not my message, but I had to pastorally communicate what's

about to happen. And we're starting a brand new series next week called Friends.

How many people love the sitcom Friends? Some of y'all, okay,

only watch one episode, but it's a great title. And so for the

next few weeks, we're gonna have some of my friends, some of the

greatest speakers in the world. The one thing I ain't never gonna do is

let nobody get on this stage who don't have a word from God. And

so you want to show up every week, I'll just give you who next

week is. Next week, Pastor Travis Green is gonna be in the house.

And if you've never met Pastor Travis Green, he's the one who sang

that song you made away. But the crazy thing is he's almost a better

preacher than he is singer. And I promise you he's gonna have a word

for this house. I want you all to get here, I want you

all to be engaged, leaning, and I want us to see what God

would do through this summer. Amen. All right, So everybody get your

bibles out because this message I'm taking the filter off. And some of y'all

be like, yun't you do that every Sunday? And the truth of the

matter is kind of I wish that people were holistically mature enough to handle the

word of God and practical application without fluff. Because if I could just say

what I have to say, we could be gone in fifteen minutes, Like

if Charles, isn't that true? If I could just say what I have

to say, you believe it because it's God's word, and you would do

it, then we'd be gone. But I gotta do examples, and I

gotta break it down from this side and that side and that side, and

let oh oh, oh oh, and then you leave and be like,

what are you talking about? I don't remember what it was good? So

then I gotta come back three weeks from y'all got what I'm saying. And

today the Holy Spirit just told me to be unfiltered and to just say the

truth and leave it. I'll be gone for a few weeks anyway, So

I'm gonna say this and then I'm gonna walk up out of here, and

I'm gonna feel good about what the Lord told me to say because I'm gonna

be obedient. But let me start off with a story because you need it.

This week, me and my family went to see the mouse in Orlando.

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How let your boy? But we went to visit that mouse and his friends

in Orlando, and my kids are in a brand new environment and I'm and

they're asking for it everything. They're asking to go swimming at six am,

they're asking can we go into every store and buy things? They're asking for

all types of things. And then you know, because it's a new environment,

they want things and see things and can we go here? Can we

go there? All the billboards, all the things, and then finally I'm

like, hey, it's time to go to bed, and they're like,

we don't want to go to bed. We want to stay up and draw

on the walls and do all kinds of ridiculous things. And finally, at

some point I was giving my kids because I was trying to practice gentle parenting,

and so you know, I'm sitting up there explaining a lot of stuff

to my kids and why can't we go now? Well, because the park

opens at this time, and I'm doing all of these extra words, and

at some point I lost my last explanation word. I don't know if any

parents can agree with me, but there's a point where where you're going,

you're going, You're going, and you knew that was that was it?

That last word it was, And then they have this three letter word that

goes down on the inside of you and pulls up this response that you didn't

know was there. But my kids kept asking why, oh, y'all know,

and I would try to explain it over and over, and then finally

y'all have to admit I did something that I told myself I would never do.

I remember, at thirteen years old making a pack with myself. I'll

never do this stuff. I'll never say that to my kids. And it

was like a movie. Ava asked me something and I said, no,

baby, we can't do that, and she said why and it was like

Dune and y'all know what I said, and that because I said it,

y'all, I was never so liperated. No other words had to come out.

It just it put a stamp on the moment. She was taken aback.

She was like, and the Holy Spirit spoke to me and he said,

Michael, will you ever get to the point of maturity that you'll obey

me without explanation, that you'll do it just because I said so? I

said, ooh. I was taken aback because I wasn't expecting God to parent

me how I was parenting my child. But he is a good father and

I was trying to be a good father. He said, there's certain things

that are working behind the scenes that don't need your understanding to actually get your

obedience, And will you be the child who will obey just because he said

so? The conviction of the Holy Spirit came on me in that Airbnb and

he said, Michael, tell my people, this next season may not have

an explanation attached to it. Do it because I said so. There's a

certain point of maturity that we obey our God just because he said so.

And today I need to take away all the excuses watch surrounding sewing because he

said so. See, most of us will do everything God says to do

if it doesn't require the thing that we love, our things, our possessions,

our money. I bought this, I work for this, then my

shoes. But what if God said give it away? Would you obey him

because he said so? And you sitting here with the same stuff you had

since nineteen eighty four, calling yourself a collector, Yet you have damned up

the overflowing your life because you are not a river. You're a reservoir.

And whenever God gives you something, it stops with you. But if he

told you give the collection away? Would you do it? If he said

so? And the heart of this message is to unlock the flow of overflow

continually. If you're going to live in the overflow, you have to know

part of the responsibility of having more than enough is giving all the time you

missed it. Most of us will never live in the overflow because we are

greedy, and God does not overflow unless he can reach others. So if

you are not in a heart posture to give more than you receive, you

will never live in the overflow. You'll visit it, you experience it,

you might even have a season with it. But that perpetual thing that you

never run out more than enough. Jehovah Jarrah, my provider. It doesn't

matter where it's coming from. I know it's coming God. You can get

it to me because you can get it through me. If you don't have

a heart posture of generosity, you stop the overflow in your life. And

my question to this generation is will you give it if he says so Ecclesiastes

eleven six, in the morning, sow your seed, and that evening withhold

not your hand. So it says so in the morning. So at night,

what is it saying every opportunity you find to Oh, so if you

say so, he's saying, so when you get up, figure out what

you're gonna give today. I mean on Sunday, every day, give encouragement,

Give an extra cup of coffee, Give that dress that you know you'll

never fit because you don't work out. Let's just be honest not you're not

getting into that and going outside. Y'all knows some of the dresses you wear

inside like girl, look, but you ain't gonna let nobody see you in

that. Give it if he says, But most of us don't even have

the eye or the heart to be able to look at the things that God

has placed around us and say, God, is this mine anymore? You

missed it there? I dare you to walk around house and ask the Holy

Spirit, is this mine anymore? Oh my gosh, it says. In

the morning, sow your seed, and that evening, don't withhold your hand,

for you do not know which will prosper this or that. The reason

I'm finding every opportunity to sew because I don't know which one God's gonna throw

his favor on. I have no idea if it's gonna be the gift card

I gave to that person that I bought two weeks ago, that the Holy

Spirit said, just carry it in your wallet until I tell you to give

it. And I'm outside of the quick trip and I hand the person to

get I don't know if it's that or if it's when I come in here.

Then the Holy Spirit tells me to get for an extra one hundred dollars,

and I just obeyed it, and I was gonna go shopping with that.

But now I'm gonna actually just get like I don't. So he's saying,

I ain't gonna tell you which one gonna do it, cause if I

told you which one was gonna do it, you would do it only because

you thought there was a reward in that one. So I want you to

embrace watch this the mystery of God. This ain't no slot machine, this

ain't no casino, this ain't no let me try God. Let me give.

And that's where a lot of bad teaching has come, is that it's

given. You'll get. What I have learned is give, and you'll become

more like God because you would rather have a million dollars than be more like

him. And some of y'all like, well, hold on carry the three.

But when you become more like God, he says, I can trust

you with things. I can trust you with connections. I can trust you

with money. It says. In the morning, so you're seed, and

at evening, don't withhold your hand, for you do not know which one

will prosper this or that or whether watch this this is my favorite part,

or whether both both alike might be good for you, which is like our

God. So I ain't telling you which one about to blow up this that

boom. What it tells me is he's trying to create a heart posture and

watch this a pattern. He wants a pattern of generosity, not us doing

it because we think it's just gonna prosper us. Okay, all right,

here we go. So what if we took the generosity thing and just go

with me for one second. This is where I'm gonna be unfiltered. What

if giving wasn't a debate about is it in the Old Testament or New Testament?

Because some people I've had people argue meet down about giving, Well,

it's under the law, and then and then and then and then what about

grace? And if if you have grace, then you don't have to give.

And it's like when people are you giving that much, it'd be like,

ill keep it, Like I don't care this. I didn't say it,

he said it. It's his character. If this wasn't a God thing

or a church thing, if it wasn't I have a bunch or I have

a little What if we just sold wherever God told us to sew, because

he said, I'm just trying to come out at a different angle. I'm

not trying to manipulate nothing. I'm not trying to get We're not doing a

second offering. I'm just trying to teach you how to keep the overflow going.

Whenever what God says it ain't chows no more, give it away.

Whenever God says, hey, take your last, throw it over there,

do it fast. If he said so, would you. And the sad

truth about most of us is if God came in person form looking like one

of the Kardashians, you would still have to debate if it was him,

because there's times you've known God's told you to do something. If I'm honest,

there's times when I knew it was him. Why Because number one,

the devil never tells you to give. It's the opposite of his nature.

So if you hear or feel a prompting that God is telling you to give

something, that is when you don't just automatically do a listen. If you

have a spouse, you got to talk, You got to communicate. Don't

get in divorce court because you gave away y'all house no, I need to

say this because y'all be like pelstor Mike said, no, shut up,

you need to talk to your wife. Y'all need agreement unity. But what

I am saying is God may have to speak to an individual, then speak

to the other individual, and y'all come in agreement. And it may type

minutes, days, hours, years, But whenever there's agreement and you do

what God tells you to do, there is nothing more powerful than sowing a

seed that God said so, and you never know what will be produced.

And I found in all my years of preaching this is why I've got to

be unfiltered. Most people get stuck on the semantics of giving rather than the

surrender of giving. Well, how much do ill get to the church?

How much y'all give? There's homeless people out here. You should be taking

that morning and giving to the homeless. You don't do that. You put

an expectation on other people that you you got sandwich, meat and bread and

leftovers and wingstop you didn't eat and you were saving it. And now it's

moldy because it's a week and a half old, and you warmed it up

because you thought you was gonna eat it. But then you looked at it

and there was something green on it that but you don't go take it downtown

and the pass. I'm like, why are you saying this, because it's

not watch this the church's job as an organization to be generous for the organism.

I'm not hear what I'm saying to you that God will call you to

a corporate thing and an individual thing at the same time. And as you

mature, you're like, well, I gave my two dollars. I didn't

know hear what I'm saying, And I don't want nobody to miss this because

I'm trying to unlock the overflow in your life. If God says so,

so say it with me. If God says so, I'll sew our humber

time with faith. If God says so ours, if you love your stuff,

you have twenty seconds to get out of this service. I'm giving you

a warning right now, because when I share the revelation God's giving me for

the rest of his message, You're gonna look at your stuff differently. All

my stuff is a seed God, This ain't this all my stuff, all

my money, all my clothes, all my bundles, all my eye all

my cars, all my boats, all my equipment, all of it.

Everything I have is seed. Oh my gosh, you talking about you want

to live a life full of fruit? How do you get fruit? Somebody's

got a plan A. So I'm gonna give you four reasons why people don't

give write them down. We're gonna go through them real fast. Why don't

people give missing teaching? The reason why I teach about giving, the reason

why I do it, even in the face of everybody saying prosperity gospel and

this, that and all that. The reason I do it is because Jesus

did it. And if people don't understand it, they will abnormally use it

or abuse it. So I have to talk about it because more than almost

any topic in the Bible, he talked about money, generosity, and resources,

and I need to teach us. All right, I'm not doing a

serious today. This is just how I'm closing the series. But I promise

you from this poolpit you will not be missing teaching about it. If you

need to get teaching right now, go back every year I've done a series,

Wait till I get my money right. What's some more paper chasers,

get your ducks in a row. There's a easy money. I've done series

after series on generosity, stewardship, heart posture, tithed, ma'am, and

I've spoken about the whole thing because I did not know, and I was

dealing with my relationship with resources, finances, money in poverty mindset, and

I looked JET up. But I was a broke minded and I don't want

us as a church to be living below what God has called us to do.

So I want you to know that people don't give just because they've miss

missing teaching. The second reason that they don't give is because of misinformation.

You've been taught, but you've been taught wrong. Everybody right now, turn

the song one thirty three and while you turn in there, get one thousand,

one hundred and thirty three dollars in your hand and stand up. And

if you give that today, I think that this miracle water that I just

got out of the back bathroom, you put it on your doorpost. You

put it on, and after you then bunched your whole house in that dirty

water, something in you dies because you can't trust. I'm sorry. I'm

sorry that people have gotten on platforms like this and use their authority to give

you misinformation. Let me say it very plainly. God does not give to

you because you give to him. He gave to you before you ever could

give to him. For God's soul loved the world that he Our giving is

a response to his goodness to us, not because that's what makes us have

a relation. This is not transactional. This is relational. But if you're

not taught that, if you're taught that God's a genie, if you're taught

that, you never learned the heart posture that responds to giving. So I'm

telling you that maybe you're in that category that you don't really give because of

misinformation. Two more, maybe you don't give because it was mis represented like

somebody made given to God look really bad. Okay, you won't settion eight,

you won't take care of your kids, everybody ashy, but you give

your last thousand dollars to the church. Now your kids begging for food,

you asking everybody for money, and you got put out your third house,

your children sitting there like I will never, I will never, And to

pass up there, I feel the spirit. That person needs financial peace,

that person needs a class. You don't need to take anything from them.

You need to show them how to handle what they have. Okay, y'all

don't want to be real. And because it was misrepresented people have I'll never

do that. And last thing, the reason why people don't give is because

somebody was a part of the giving that had wrong motives. Now, how

we don't have air conditioning in this church and you driving that car? Come

on, we've all seen it. How in the world we don't never give

nothing away, but we always need something. Let me give you the five

reasons why we give. I'm cutting to the chase you all ready, the

five reasons why we do give. It's a principle of the kingdom. It's

what God does. When you don't do it, he still does it.

Oh my gosh, do y'all know how consistent God is with the principle of

giving. Every day you wake up, he says, grace, mercy.

Now they're gonna mess it all up. They're gonna use all of it today,

tomorrow. It's new every morning, Grace, mercy, Salvation. Yeah,

they only gotta accept me one time. They gonna jack it up a

thousand times. But I'm gonna ask them to repent and turn back to me.

And I'm gonna keep over and over extending grace and mercy to them.

They don't know how to receive what I got to give them, So I'm

gonna overflow them with what they don't even know. They mama couldn't give it

to him, They daddy couldn't give it to him. Does he still love

me? I never loved you more. I'm gonna give them what they it's

his. It's the kingdom principle. The second reason why we give. It's

the pattern of Jesus. Like take New Testament, Old Testament, everything away.

If Jesus never talked about giving, what did he do everywhere he went?

Y'all hungry? Feed him? Jesus what we feed him with? His

own disciples watched miracles that were unfathomable several times and still couldn't believe that he

kept giving away? It was his nature? Why do we give? Supposed

to be our kingdom nature? When I walk into a room, I'm not

trying to figure out what am I getting. I'm trying to ask the Holy

Spirit what am I giving? That is a different? What can I get

out of this? Mmm? It feels like the devil to me, and

many of us were trained like that. Our parents trained us like that.

Now make sure you pick up another one for your brother. Your brother wasn't

invited to the party, but if they got extra goodie bads, get your

brother. Won Okay, hold on you leftover? They had leftovers, you

could, That's what you could. You're going into places looking at what you

can get instead of what can I I'm just giving. It's the pattern of

our Jesus. Third thing, why do we give? It's practicing wisdom.

Jesus told us practice these things put the like wisdom is applied knowledge. So

when we see God do something, when I give every week I come to

this place, when I give every time that I go somewhere yesterday, tell

your story. Daughters want a snow cone back from the trip with the mouse

in Orlando, and they had the nerve to tell me. They was pored

what and so they was like, can we do something? I was like,

what y'all want to do? Said? Can we go get snow cones?

Yes? Get up to the snow cone stuff. My daughters were conduit

for me to bless somebody else. Watch this. I'm frustrated. Hot,

I don't know what kind of hell is happening in Oklahoma right now, but

yesterday was demonically hot. I'm standing out there. They should have a drive

through at them snow cone places, but they don't, and I'm I'm standing

out there melting and because of my diet restrictions, I can't even get a

snow My daughters get the snow cone. And the Holy Spirit says, pay

for the rest of the people's snow cone in line. Holy Spirit, he

said, this was an opportunity for you to sew and say nothing. Oh,

so I handed the little girl. I said, hey, this is

for everybody in line, and if there's any change, just keep it going

until it runs out. And something weird happened. The girl I gave the

money to was overwhelmed. She said, what do you mean bye? I

started repeating myself by everybody's snow cone, and she was like, I've worked

here for six years, nobody's ever done this. And the Holy Spirit told

me at that moment, he said, it wasn't for the people, y'all

miss it. His ways are not our ways, His thoughts are not our

thoughts. It wasn't for the people who need a snow cone. They wouldn't

have got in line if they didn't have the money. It was for that

young little girl to see that you could walk out a level of generosity.

She was take tears started to fill her eyes over paying for snows. But

I was practicing the wisdom I found in God's word. Fourth reason that we

give it puts God first. Do not tell me you put God first if

your wallet and your check book and your own line account does not reflect it.

Most of us put the mortgage first. Most of us put the credit

card first. And well, what I'm supposed to do? Maybe downside,

I'm standing on business. You don't even have the energy to clean that house.

In no way. You did it to stunt because all of your friends

were doing it, and they don't even come over. You don't even invite

them over. It's a weight, it's a burn it. Maybe God's asking

you to downsize, to actually find peace and to put him first. But

the only reason you wouldn't is because it would take a hit on your pride.

Nobody's ever posted. Everybody's posting, got the keys, nobody's posting.

Gave the keys back. Let's start a revolution, gave the keys back.

Bought this car? Credit was pool money? Was it overshot it by three

hundred? Them off. Looks good on Instagram, feels bad in my heart.

I got the keys, the key, They got the keys, the

keys. Give it back, gifting them keys back. Get peace back,

get joy back, get contentment back. I'm preaching right now. Get But

Bishop told me, he said a season of restraint can produce a lifetime of

freedom. You might need to move you and them three kids into an apartment

for two years, and you may find something weird that all that square footage

was separating you and these last few moments you have with them in your house.

That close proximity may bring you together. Okay, I'm gonna just but

if you're not putting God first, this is what I'm gonna say. Tithing

changed my life. This was not because I was a pastor. It's because

I put God first. Now when I tithe, it's so automatic, I

don't even think about it. The government take my money, Transformation Church take

my money. I don't get no stipend because I'm the pastor. Y'all know

I be preaching, so like, take my tow of off the No nobody

says I set my stuff up, rearcording the Todd household. Take this because

this ain't mine it's reserved for him. Well you know what you could do

with that? Yes, I do. I've calculated it sixteen times. Come

on, let's be honest. I know exactly what I could be driving.

But what is one hundred percent without God's without God's hand on it? Ninety

percent with the blessing, it's better than one hundred percent without. I know

this is making some people uncomfortable, but I don't want to make you uncomfortable.

I just want to educate you to what keeps the overflow going. And

this is the beautiful thing about the time. It don't matter how much you

got. If you make ten dollars, it's a dollar. If you make

ten million dollars, it's a million dollars. God makes it even because he

wants the heart posture to be the thing that changes you, not the amounts.

Okay. Last reason why we give? Somebody say why do we give?

It's a principle of the kingdom, It's a pattern of Jesus. It's

practicing wisdom. It puts God first. Last reason, it proves our trust.

Don't tell me you trust God and you have not trusted him with your

resources. Some people say, well past some my God don't got it.

I don't have it. And I have been in seasons where I did not

have watch this money to give. Has anybody ever been in a season where

you did not have money? Okay, somebody like, let me put my

hands and my feet up, because I'm here, pastor here I am.

There's a funny story in the Bible. In Acts chapter three, a couple

of the disciples were walking into the temple, Acts chapter three, verse six,

I'm almost done, y'all, it says. Then Peter said to this

man who was begging at the gate. He says, money I ain't got.

That says silver and gold I do not have. But what I do

have, I give to you in the name of Jesus Christ of Natharith.

And he heals the man, and he walks. The thing that I used

to always get caught up is caught up on. Was like, dang,

that dude did a miracle. But the thing the Holy Spirit brought me to

he said, he just gave what he had. What you do half Holy

Spirit told me to put this in the message this morning. And then he

said, Michael, what do you have? I said, Lord, what

you mean? What do I have? Silver? And gold? Have I

not, But he asked me what do you have? And he took me

on a divine walk around my house and the Holy Spirit begin to direct me

to take stuff that I already had. He said, you don't need no

money to do this. Take the stuff you love, the stuff you like,

the stuff you wasn't thinking about giving. And I'm telling you it's not

yours no more. I walked around my house with my eyes closed for six

minutes. Not, Lord, I see not a thing, My Lord?

Is I have no idea what you would have me to bring it? Is

there a little boy here that likes basketball? Somebody under ten? Somebody in

ten? We're at hey, everybody found this little ball that had represent on

it. What's your name, buddy, Josiah? This is a custom represent

ball and this is something for you to take your family out to lunch.

Okay, God bless you man. Is there a little girl here that likes

like purses, like loud color persones? Where are you at that baby?

She little little she ain't she don't need no purse? They holding up?

Come here, baby? What's your name? Oh? Now? A couple

of people, No, you come on, this is a little purse.

Okay, and there's something in here that I had, and that's really nice.

But you're gonna take your family out to lunch today too. Okay,

you're welcome. Baby. Okay, somebody says, what do I have?

Hey, George, come here now, there might be a lot of George's

the George got baptized, that got seventeen muscles in his neck. Where are

you at, George, George, where are you at? Did you leave

George that got baptized? Did you get baptized and then leave? He had

to go up. He'd tell him to come here. I have something for

George. Okay. Anybody doing photography trying to get their Instagram up doing their

come here, Mark. Okay, I got some random little digital thing that

follows you. I got like a polaroid. I went on an error trying

to figure out how to become an Instagram sensation. Here's a digital camera,

here's some film, and here's some stuff for you at college. Okay,

little token. Okay, Now, this one may be the hardest one to

give away from me, because there's a shortage in the country right now.

The Holy Spirit convicted me. Oh, y'all think this is a game.

You want some sirocha, Bro, come here, like he said, yes,

come here now. I sent people all over the world trying to find

me a stockpile. This is my last unopened bottle of siracha and hot chili.

And the truth of the matter is this don't matter. There's a gift

in there that's gonna bless you for what God's doing in your life. Bro,

I love you man. Somebody say, but what I do have Every

person under the sound of my voice could do this today, and what it

would do was start a heart of generosity on the inside of you that would

allow God to trust you with more. Because the Bible says He gives seed

to the I just figured out the cheat code. Decide to give. If

you decide to give, God will fund the giving. He gives seed to

the If you said so some of you, the greatest thing you could do

is decide I will tithe from this point on. The greatest thing you could

do is say, at the end of the year, my family will give

fifteen percent of whatever God brought into our house into the House of God.

I'm only telling you, I'm only what y'all doing. Can I have something

for my brother? She didn't even want it for her. I don't even

know what I got for you. Hold on, let me see. Can

I have something for my brother? Listen? What is that? What is

what's your name? What's your name? What's your name? Adriana here?

Take this and get it to you and your brother, but give it to

your mama and then tell everybody else don't send their kids up here. Okay,

let me be clear, because y'all was like you your, get your,

get your, get you, the Marco get you. I told you

to get you. Sometimes I rest a comedian so I could do it.

I get you one. Oh my gosh, Hey, who's trying to start

music production or like like make some music? Who's trying to come here?

Doc? If you said so, there's an interface some headphones and I can't

take the piano. But you got a flight tonight. You can't take the

piano. Why you flew in this morning? You can't take a keyboard on

a flight. Baby. Somebody helped him figure this out. Let me you're

about to miss your blessing. Ben. There's an envelope in there that will

help you figure it out. God bless you. I appreciate you. He

said. He flew in from Florida to give his life to Christ. Y'all,

oh my God, and he goes back tonight. Can we give God

praise for that? If you said so, yeah, yeah, I have

to. I have to do this because you think that this is about me

doing something. I'm just trying to spark something in you that allows you to

be able to see, like, God don't care about things, He said,

seek me, and all the thing would be added. Things don't matter

to God. O man, second row blue short, stand up. Let

me see how big you are? Stand up? Yeah, you're about the

size. Come here. I wore this jacket a couple of weeks ago.

You loved it. I loved it. I've seen this, I've seen your

life. You've seen it. You loved it. The whole fit was I

know. Here. Hey, hey, hey, hey bro, hey hey

check the pocket. If he says, what would happen if all two thousand

of us and the ten thousand of us that's watching online plus would decide this

week? I was gonna sew what would the Church of Jesus Christ look like?

How many testimonies would we hear? And we see? Okay, I'm

looking for a very specific person right here. Okay, no, somebody said

me, stop. Did George leave? He went home to change his son

is here? Tell him to get back here, Tell him to come because

he can't get this unless you here. God give it to somebody else,

which is a lesson. There are some things that only come when you're in

the right place to receive them. Hear what I'm saying to you, Well,

God will get it to me. He'll get something to you, but

you may miss the thing that he was specifically trying to give you. Okay,

y'all text him. That's some good friends over there. Okay, I

need a husband and wife. Stop because y'all was like, y'all, no,

stop, I need a husband and wife where the wife wears a size

nine in women's and the husband where's the thirteen? Where anybody on this out?

Come on, come on down here, Come on down here, he

said, And they just got baptized. Y'all. Come on. That's that.

I like that. I like that hype right there? All right,

come here real quick, y'all come up here, all right? So I

had to wake my wife up to do this, okay, and she said,

thank you, no, come up here. What y'all doing? The

snares right there people get lost when God start blessings. What's your name?

Kendra and Cleveland, it's not. Y'all just got baptized, yes, yes,

came from They came from Houston. They get baptized today. All right.

So since y'all gonna be traveling, I got this backpack his and hers.

Okay, So I had to wake my wife up because I started going

through our stuff and all these spirits said you were supposed to give to her

husband and wife, and I asked, I woke up. I said,

Bay, can I give away your stuff? And she was like, well,

she said what what? Hold on? What? Get out of my

face? What? And then I was like, babe, God told me

to give some stuff and we're supposed to give away. And then she was

like okay. And then I was like, and I need to give away

some shoes and she was like, give away your shoes. And I was

like, I'm doing that, but I'm supposed to do a husband wife,

and she graciously said it. So this is your backpack and then my wife

took these. She said she wanted to encourage you. Here's some headphones and

they're brand new, and here's some Jordan's for you. This is your this

is your mhm, and this is your new backpack. And there's a little

blessing in in the inside right there. And then for you it looks like

you. You know, I want to hoop. So here's some shoes for

you. Here you go, here's an apple watch, and then there's a

little God bless y'all. Now, Jay, I heard, I heard you,

and it's so beautiful. I heard you. When I said, who

is a nine and who is the thirteen? You said, that's me and

John the Holy Spirit told me to go back to the back right before I

came out here. What was my witness? Jay, come here, so

nat start giving me some other shoes to give away too. And we knew

you was gonna act the food. Check the shoe, there's something in there.

And Johnny, where are you at here? I love you. I

was freaking obedient and I'm hot. If you say nothing I gave away was

throw away. Nothing I gave away didn't mean something. Nothing. I could

make all of that work. But if you didn't feel it, it wasn't

a sacrifice. If you said, what would it look like for our church

to never have to ask for an offering? Y'all want more time in the

service. Let's cut out offering time. I want more time to worship.

I want the words. Let's cut out because we already know what we do

here. Nobody has to ask us. I sent that in when I got

to check on what day was that Thursday? That's already gone. Today's just

to overflow pastor stop talking what we need to build next? Just tell me

how much who needs help? What church do we need to bless next?

Too many times we got to convince people to do. What's a kingdom principal?

If he says so, so, it's the way to keep a continual

overflow. All right, here we go. Every miracle always starts with somebody

sewing every miracle, somebody sowing and encouraging words. Somebody swing a prayer,

somebody. So if you want to see miracles in your life, start them.

Did you hear what I just said? Everybody wants to receive a miracle,

start a miracle. You could go today and go to Cheddars and go

into that restaurant, and there are people there that are eating on their last

because they promised their son they could go to Cheddars for their birthday, and

they're sitting there counting the appetizers, the refiels, the drinks, and they're

just praying that they have enough to not get embarrassed. And the Holy Spirit

could say, go cover that meal. It wouldn't even take nothing from you.

You wouldn't even remember that. And God literally could use you. You

not even eating that cheddars. He just told you to go in there.

Pause Mike, Why you're saying this? I do it all the time.

Holy spirits say stop into Umbelos, like I don't eat. I don't want

to eat here. Go into Umbelos and I'll walk straight into Umboelos and They'll

be like, can we help you? And I'll go like this said,

I'm looking for somebody and they'll be like, who are you looking for?

Let me just I think they might be around the back, and I'll see

the people. Holy Spirits say them and them. I'll come back to that

stand and I say, hey, do you see that couple over there?

Whatever their bill is, I want to pay for that, And whatever that

table's bill is, I want to pay for that. And I'm like,

who is it? Why? And I was like and whatever the rest is,

this is y'all's tip. And I walk out now watch and I'll take

my little TC card see y'all, and I'll say, just make sure you

tell them God loves them and put this on the thing. I don't come

in there. Hello, poor people who cannot play for umbrellas. Big Poppy

is here with the case. No I know, hoody's doing that. If

that's what you want, the Bible says that'll be a reward. Say less,

pay more, stop, all right, we're going home, y'all ready

go all right, let's do it. So the Holy Spirit told me,

you know, all these people got baptized today, and I was looking at

all of the baptisms that were happening, and I was like, man,

what does it look like to live in the overflowd You can bring that trash

can real quick. And like I was thinking about, like what if our

church, not every church, but our church, somebody say, our church

became the poster. Just bring me that one, put the other one over

there, and then put the other one over there. You good, became

the poster child, will come help me real fast for sewing. Not every

church, not all churches not, but like what if we decided that our

church would be the most generous church in the world. I got four amen's.

But it's okay. The Lord will replace y'all. No, no,

no, because if he wants something done, he don't find some somebody that

would. But I'm just saying, what if our church became the motion everybody

online you were part of this, I'm talking about everybody that watches it.

What if we became the most generous church in THEO not Oklahoma, in the

world. What if NBA players tithed y'all, y'all so weak? What if?

What if? What if like people who made these big tech companies believed

in God, trillions and billions of dat ten going to the House of God.

But for that to happen, that would mean I would have to go

to a source, get my part and pour it in. The problem with

the church is there's only a few people. Yeah, and why won't you

start to helping with this? Yeah, there's only a few people. What

would happen if everybody in this front row took their vessels? Come on,

help me? Yep? What are y'all doing? Y'all? All? Take

the vessel you want, Take the vessel you're believing for in faith? There

you go make And what if no, no, no, let's all go

to the same one real quick. What would happen? How quickly, how

quickly and succinctly would this thing begin to fill up if it wasn't just a

few of us that what would have taken me years is already in now wait

now, wait, now, wait, Leslie said, let's go to the

next one. Yeah, because this one is fool. But what if my

assignment is not for us to not go from here to there? What if

it's somebody else's assignment? Second row? Come here, yeah, come on,

bring them some cups. Their assignment writch this, No, no,

come come to me, Come to me. Your assignment is to take your

cup and go from here and take it to there. See, because we

all have different assignments. Ah yeah, give them a cup. Yeah,

come on, take that. And now they're not trying to do what they've

not been called to do. See, some of us have been called to

go from this to here, and others have been called to go from there.

And at the moment it gets empty, it only takes one person to

put it back in and it's back to fool. And now all of us

sitting around like what should we do? Because all it takes is moe and

Leslie to stay here to keep this one full. So everybody else that started

it, let's take ours and go to the next one. And no,

no, no, not that one, because they gonna fill that up.

We gonna go to the next one. And what ends up happening? Now?

Yeah, lift it up. Let's start a new church. Let's get

somewhere overseas. Let's go find somebody that's trying to do what God's asked them

to do and don't have no backing and doesn't have what happens when everybody does

their part? Do you know how crazy this example would get if I just

use the floor, forget the whole arena, if I just invited up the

floor, it would easily become overflow church. If he says so, somebody's

saying, all the buckets will feel, Oh no, we need some more.

He everybody that's started on this one, y'all gotta make sure this one

to feel. Do you see how quickly things begin to change? Shift,

move, maneuver. Now I'm asking where are more vessels? Do you hear

what I'm saying? Because not? Do you know how long it would take

me, Charles and Angela to fill all of these up? And I want

you to realize that this may be my grace, but it's the very thing

that can take something that's already for into it's gonna happen. Is it happening?

My little bit, my little mite, my little obedience, my little

fifty dollars, my little paycheck, my little obedience, can be the thing

that takes it into overall if he says, so, what are we gonna

do as a church? So everybody's standing all over the building, thank y'all

so much. Did George ever get here? Come here? George? George

got baptized today too. You couldn't sit in in wet clothes, he said,

I gotta go get cleaned. Hey, I had something the Holy Spirit

told me to give you. So you're a gym owner, and the Holy

Spirit told me to give you this book. And there is a signed copy,

and there's a gift on the inside of some money. But the Holy

Spirit told me, he said, Michael, you have something that you need

to give away to a bunch of guys who are actually in the gym trying

to pump away what they need to give to God. So I had this

box. Yeah, pull that off from me. Better. I had this

box of damage but not destroy books. And I put one hundred dollars in

each one of these books. It's my personal money. This ain't the church,

this ain't nothing. I signed all of them in your gym this week.

I want you to be led by the spirit as you're walking in a

new found declaration of your faith in God. And God's going to lead you

to men that you're supposed to give this damage but not destroyed book too,

and it's going to be an answer to a financial need. But you tell

them the only way that they take one hundred dollars off the front, because

it's taped in there just so you can see it, is that they read

the book, because there's more treasure and what's found in the book than what's

on the book. And I want you to be a conduit of somebody else

living in the overflow. Amen. I love you, brother, Yes,

certain love you. Man. If he says church, it's what we do,

we will not be ignorant around what God has called us to do.

It's his pattern today. The only thing that I'm going to pray for you

listen all over before you leave, is I'm gonna pray for radical obedience like

the obedience that steps over excuses. Do y'all hear what I'm saying, because

let me tell you a secret that I didn't know when I started sewing,

is there's obstacles to doing it, and then you want to take them as

signs if the Lord had told you not to do it. I knew God

had told me not to a lot of times. It validates your giving.

It validates what you do when you move over the obstacle to actually do what

God told you to do. Would you lift your hands if you want to

walk into this radical obedience and keep the overflow going? Yeah? Father,

I pray for every person under the sound of my voice. I thank you

that as I shared this message that you told me to share, I thank

you that our hearts were being lit on fire with a heart like yours.

Father. You are the most generous, the most generous, loving, kind,

faithful father, and you want us to be more like you. And

there's nothing that works you and your character into us and selfishness and greed out

of us like when we give. So Father, I pray for every person

under the sound of my voice that they would receive radical obedience, that there

would be unity between husbands and wives, that teenagers would begin to say I

can start this now, that there would be children that would not be stopped

by their parents when they want to give something away that their parents think is

more valuable. No think about that. No no, no, no,

no no no. That video game system is not going to do what a

heart of generosity will do. God, I thank you that generosity, kindness,

obedience would erupt in transformation Church and in transformation nations. And I thank

you that every miracle starts with somebody sewing. Father. I thank you that

the harvest in this church would be so plentiful that we would have to have

whole teams of people to figure out where to give. God, I thank

you that you will bless the businesses of the people of this church. You

own a business, Just lift your hands real quick. Father, I thank

you for sales, and I thank you for right partnerships. I thank you

Father for all the bad ones, the areas Father that are sucking. I

thank you, Father God that those will be eradicated. Thank you, Father

God for big breaks, Father God, and reoccurring deals. And God,

I'm just thanking you for overflowing in our business. But Father God, we

will not be ones to hoard. We will be one Father, God that

will obey wherever you say, and so we'll do it. God. I'm

praying that people in this room will be written into inheritances. People in this

room, Father God, people are looking for them, and their names will

stick out on pieces of paper, and debts will be forgiven. And God,

I'm saying, if you're gonna do it for somebody, you might as

well do it for us. God, we believe you, We trust you.

I thank you for loan forgiveness. I thank you that people walk in

financial freedom. God. I thank you for education and understanding that a poverty

mindset will no longer be our default setting. Thank you that we're eliminating excuses

because we believe in the one who has conquered everything. Today, God,

I thank you that you would bless Transformation Church, not just to bless us,

so we can stunt bless us, so we can be a conduit of

the overflow. Let there be people that are far away from you get to

know you because of our consistency in generosity. When we go to that coffee

shop, and when we stop at that PTA meeting, and we go to

that hair stylist and when we show up in that barber shop, and when

we go to that gym, and when we show up at that country club

or at that boating club. Father God, when we go play golf,

and when we go get our nails done, let us not see that nail

tech as somebody to serve us. Let us see that we're there to serve

them the gospel. Let our generosity be the open door, the gateway to

transformation. Give us more than enough so we can bless whoever you tell us

to. And Father God, I just thank you that your word allows us

to be generous, no matter if we have a lot or we have a

little. Thank you for radical obedience. I got to read one scripture to

you because I believe this is where our church is moving. Everybody, just

I gotta read it over you. I gotta obey God. Okay, tewod

Corinthians, chapter eight. Just listen to me. Go look up. Afterwards,

it says, and now, brothers and sisters, we want you to

know about the grace that God has given to the Macedonian churches. I put

in transformation church right here. It said, in the midst of a very

severe trial, they're overflowing. I like that word joy and their extreme poverty

weld up in rich generosity. Wait, what they were in a hard situation,

but they had overflowing joy plus extreme poverty. But it weld up in

rich generosity. For I testify that they gave as much as they were able

watch this and even beyond their ability big part entirely on their own, no

offering time, no second offering. They urgently pleaded with us for the privilege

of sharing in the service to the Lord's people. May it be said over

our church that in any season, even when we're going through trials, even

when we didn't hit quarter two goals, and when we didn't that are overwhelming

joy in every situation, mixed with what we don't have, deepens our trust

in the only true source. And what it does is it overwhelmed. I

gotta give something away. I gotta saw something. If it don't meet the

need, guess what it is A seed? And they started giving in the

midst of that situation. He said, they did it on their own.

Passa Mike, what are you asking us to do? Obey God? Go

through your house this week, go through your bank account this week. Just

I ain't gotten my job. I just lost my job. You still doing

a lot of stuff that don't feel like you just lost your job. I'm

just saying, if he says so, so, I love you, I

believe in you, and I believe this is about to be the most fruitful

year of your life, because it will be the most watch this seed full

year of your life if you believe it. Give God a shot of praise

in this place. Come on, you can thank him in faith. Charles,

come here, Charles, come here, real quick, real quick.

Two things before we leave. Get him a mic. Please. I did

what I was supposed to do today. I can feel my grace lifted.

I need everybody to hear me. Though money should be easy, let me

say it differently. Thank you all the spirit. Money's supposed to be simple.

It may not be easy to give it, but it's supposed to be

simple because money's not even real wealth. So if God can't trust you with

money, he doesn't trust you with people. And if we're supposed to be

fishers of he's testing your ability to be able to handle relationships with Benji and

Abraham and Jackson. He's testing you with money because he says, who would

trust you with true riches? If I can't even trust you with unrighteous man.

And the only thing he compares himself to in the entire Bible is that

spirit of man. He says, either you serve God or money, but

you can't serve both of us. Church. If you've been agitated this whole

service, and your booy been tight, and you've been mad at me and

trying to pick a part and find the prosperity God, I'm not asking you

for nothing. I want you to have a heart like him because it changed

my life and allows me to live in the overflow. The things that Natalie

and I get to partner with God to do are unheard of. He's telling

all the stuff he's given. You don't know half the stuff that God has

allowed me to give this year. I would never because it's not for that

only reason I'm doing this stuff. I'm trying to spark somebody to let you

know this ain't about a platform. This is about obedience. And today it

would be my greatest honor for the conversation not to end on money, but

it to end on true riches, with people giving their life to Jesus.

If you're in this room and you need to give your life to Jesus on

the counter of three. I just want you to lift your hands. Pastor

troll is gonna pray over you and end the service, and we're gonna celebrate,

and then some of y'all gonna want to get baptized. And I'm just

saying, some of y'all been feeling it since you got here. We don't

got calls for you, but we do got taals for you. And if

you want to make today the day where you're saying, you know what,

forget this. Last time we had one hundred and thirteen people get baptized,

we're all ready to sing the whole praise and worship list again. What I'm

saying is, if God says sow your life, sew it. There was

one young rich ruler who missed his opportunity because he came to Jesus and says,

what must I do to inherit eternal life? And he said, man,

you've done a lot of things. Go sell all your stuff and come

on back. And the man ran away because he said it was too great

of an obedient step. I don't think it's because people have misinterpreted that scripture

and think that people want you to be poor. He just wanted the man

to realize where he had to put his trust, and his trust was in

his stuff. I believe that man would have had more than what he came

to Jesus with if he would have trusted the true source, the living water,

instead of his stuff. I don't want that for you today. I

want your name to be written in the Lamb's Book of Life. I want

you to have the God of the universe on your side to help you in

every situation. If you're watching online, if you're in jail, if this

is finding you because somebody put it on, this is your moment. We've

been praying for, this moment of salvation and transformation. Church is praying for

you right now because we know life and death is in this moment right now,

and God wants you to be whole, healed, and transformed. This

is the decision that took me from being a liar, a manipulator, addicted

to pornography, stingy, greedy, and it makes me perfect. But every

day I'm becoming more like him. Today. I want that for you.

If that's you in this room or online, if you want to give your

life to Jesus Christ on the counter. Three, I want you to shoot

your hand up with faith. I want you to be proud. I want

you to let everybody know. One, you're making the greatest decision of your

life. Two, we about to celebrate, but Heaven's about to turn up

with you. Three lift your hands. My man from Florida is the first

one with his hand up. He came all the way. I see you,

I see you, my friend, I see you. Come on Transformation

Church. I see you, my brother. Glory to God, Glory to

God, Charles. I want you to lead them in the prayer salvation,

and then whatever we do after this, man, I want to to praise

God with every person that gives their life to Christ and Baptism. Can we

celebrate those who just gave their life to Jesus. Hey, listen, I'm

gonna ask everybody if you about your heads and close your eyes. We're family

here. Nobody prays alone, so I want everybody to repeat this prayer out

loud after me. Say, Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for saving me.

Dear Jesus, I admit I'm a sinner and I need a savior,

Save me, change me, make me new in Jesus name. I pray

Amen, TC Can we celebrate people? Oh? Come on, can we

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