Overflowing In The Ordinary // Livin’ In The Overflow (Part 6) // Michael Todd

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

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

we believe God will transform your life. To today's message, Welcome to

week six of a series we're calling Living in the Overflow. If youre going

to live in the overflow, give God one big shadow praise. All right,

we have gone through a bunch of weeks of this series, and if

you have not caught any of them, I need you to go back and

watch all the other five because it leads up to today's message. Okay,

and this is what I can't really take a bunch of time, so I

got to cut straight to the point. First point. Overflow is connected to

ordinary. The world lives their life in spectacular and sensational, and the Bible

talks about how God pours out his spirit on ordinary people doing ordinary things consistently

in obedience. And so many of us want the overflow of God. And

he says, because you won't do the ordinary, I can't release the overflow.

Oh. I just felt people get tight in here, so I'm gonna

have to break this down. And this is a fun analogy. Me and

Natalie got to go to one of the playoff games in Dallas a week ago.

And you know, anytime I go to a game or anything like that,

I'm representing Transformation Church or representing So I get a text from my friend

it's like, we see you, and I was on ESPN. Yo,

I don't got no same. I turned it around, showed them Transformation Worship

and then and all the people were reposting it because you know what I'm saying,

If I'm a beast somewhere, I want them to know who I represent.

And so last thirty seconds a game, I'm on there with my represent

sign cheering for Oklahoma City Day. He lost anyway, sim prayers. But

then I had somebody comment it must be nice to go to date night court

side at the game, and the answer is, yes, it is really

nice. But let me be let me be clear. Top tier okay,

but but thank God for the person who gave us those tickets. It was

a blessing. Although you know how much those killing you don't know what's going

on. But anyway, the truth of the matter is that was an extraordinary

date night. But most of me, and that's day nights ordinary fifty two

weeks and a year, fifty two date nights for us, Only about four

of them are extraordinary. The rest of them are are sitting in the car

outside of our house, eating food that we just drove to pick up to

go, and talking about what we desire to do when our children are out

of the house. It's ordinary. And it's the backdrop of ordinary that makes

our love extraordinary. It's the backdrop of taking the trash out and actually saying

I'm sorry and actually, hey you good. Do you want the temperature down?

Okay, it's okay, I'll freeze tonight, Natalie. And that's my

life every night. It's the ordinary. And I have to bring this to

our church because if we do not fall in love with the blessing of ordinary,

we despise most of our life. Okay, okay, okay, because

the goal of life. Watch this. I'm gonna really offend a few people

right here, but I need you to hear me. The goal of life

is not goosebumps. Oh I felt that? Ooh, that was so good.

They gave me good smumps, and the church has done a bad job

at that. Is you come to this Sunday experience, this is a sensational,

amazing presentation of what we do with creativity and singing and excellence and production

and programming and anointing and power and prayer for two hours once a week.

But this is not where you develop as a believer. Some of y'all want

a gold star for showing up to the but you never show up to practice.

Or let me reverse it. You want a gold star for showing up

to practice. This is practice. The Bible says, this is to equip

the saints to go out and minister to people. And you never show up

Monday through Saturday at the game, at your job, I went to church,

You went to practice and ain't made one shot, and you haven't even

taken a shot in the real game. Well, I don't want them to

be offended by They're dying, they're lost, They're in a lifestyle they don't

want to be in. They dress it up to make themselves feel better and

get a like on a social media platform, but they're waiting for somebody to

have the bondness to step across the line of comfortable and tell them that there

is a Jesus that loves them unconditionally and that you were at the same spot

that they were at. And don't be fooled by what I look like today,

because I was a wretched mess. Be for Jesus found me. Where

are the real people in this building? But if you're looking for the goosebumps

every time God moves, you'll miss God because the overflow comes out of the

ordinary. Okay, Romans twelve one. This is our foundational scripture as a

church when we talk about transformation church. But I want to read it out

of the Message version today. It says, so here's what I want you

to do. God helping you do this. Okay, take your every day

ordinary life. You're sleeping, you're eating, you're going to work, you're

walking around, and place it before God as an offering. What if the

greatest offering you give is not an amount of money. What if the greatest

offering that you give is how you eat, how you sleep, how you

go to work, how you show up, how you love your ordinary life?

He said, play said before God is an offering. Embracing what God

does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Embracing what

God does for you, the love that he has given, the grace that

he's shown, the ability to speak and tell other people about the Gospel.

Embrace what He's done for you. It is the best thing you can do

for him. Don't become so well adjusted to your culture that you fit into

it without even thinking about it. This Bible verse was eating me up.

Some of us are so adjusted to how culture does things that we just do

it and don't even think about it. A trend is going on, you

just do it and don't even think about what it means. There was a

trend that was going on, y'all know the I saw the trend. I

was in Egypt and I was about saying and you know, I was,

and I did the thing. And then somebody's like, does he know what

the tone means? I was like, I have no idea. I don't

know. I don't know what language that is. I don't know what is

going on. And I was going along with what was happening in culture.

A pastor don't talk about his own issues and going and God checking him.

I was just going with it without even thinking about it. Why are you

saying this? Because it can happen to anybody. That we can become so

ingratiated into the culture of money, into the culture of business and to the

church culture that you go along with things and don't even think. He said,

don't go along like everybody else. He said, instead, somebody say,

instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changing or transforming from

the inside out. Readily recognize what He wants from you and quickly respond to

it obey, unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its

level of Watch this immaturity. God brings the best out of you, develops

well formed maturity in you. It sounds like that God wants us to have

mature fruit. The word of the year at Transformation Church is fruit. And

the only way you get good juicy fruit is that it matures. It's not

undone. It's the word is. It needs to be ripe so that it

can actually have the fullness and people can taste and see that the Lord is

good. But that means we have to be okay with the ordinary. How

many days does a fruit and orange sit there and nothing changes. It's the

same as yesterday, same sun, same rain, same sun, same rain,

same sun, same way, And then one day it gets mature enough

to be heavy enough to fall off of the tree. And that's when it

gets harvedists harvests, and that's when the harvest comes, and then it gets

shipped out all over the world. So many of us want to be shipped

out all over the world, and we have not stayed in the same place

long enough to have enough weight to actually be dropped off of anything. Do

you all hear what I'm saying, and so what I'm telling you right now,

write this down. Our job is ordinary. God's job is overflowed.

If you do the ordinary thing. You keep showing up, you keep getting

them kids ready for school, you keep serving on that team. You keep

saying I'm sorry, you keep asking for clarity, you keep when you do

the ordinary, God provides. What off I said, When we do the

ordinary, God provides. And most of you have been annoyed with ordinary.

You despise it, you disdain it, you don't like it. What y'all

doing this weekend, Oh, I'm trying to turn out. I'm trying to

be outside. You need to be doing the ordinary right now. Wash your

clothes, you need to. You're going to buy more clothes because you can't

find the clothes you already bought because they're dirty. And what happens is if

you would do the ordinary. It's a small example, but think about how

much we lose not doing the ordinary. I just think about this. You

got my phone? Where my phone? I bring that up here. I'm

just thinking about how ordinary things turn into overflow, Like how very simple moments.

Remember I just said, ordinary is our job. Overflow is God's job.

Just give it to me. So this is this is what I found.

I found the original recording of me in my car at like six a

m. Literally humming the melody of overflow for the first time. This was

August fifteenth, twenty twenty two. And this is this is how this song

started. Question in myself, Oh God, oh vo flow. Oh that's

the beast in mussel. Let me show the pre churs. Watch this.

Watch. This is the first time I watched Watch It's crazy in a job,

In a job unity day now man like ordinary. I was in my

car, nobody was singing it in stadiums in Africa, nobody was jumping around,

nobody was in the studio, nobody was asking for this song. But

in a moment of me being intentional with watch the Ordinary, I got the

melody God said capture ita like and ordinary is my job. See the reason

you don't believe this is because I have seventy five other voice notes like that,

and none of them are world renowned songs. Because I have I have

mastered the art of doing the ordinary. And if I do the ordinary,

when God breathes on it, when God says that one. Now, when

God uses the moment, overflow is his job. Okay. The reason I'm

telling you this, watch this because at some point overflow does become ordinary.

There was a time where I was believing God to preach out a big church

twenty fifteen. Oh God, if you would just allowed me to just be

invited to one. I was dealing with insecurities. I wanted people to know

that I was gifted enough. I was struggling with not being able to go

to school a seminary, and God just ripped me into this thing like a

assault, a Paul conversion, then going and preaching the gospel. I'm like,

what are you doing? I need to be affirmed by He's like,

yeah, you don't need to be affirm He said, you've been verified by

me. And I said, well Lord, if okay, that's great,

but like if there could come on, let's be honest. Sometimes God tells

us I called you, and you'd be like, that's good. Could you

tell somebody else? You called me as well, maybe with a big following,

Oh, y'all gonna leave me out here by myself. Come on.

And when I was in that season, the Holy Spirit said, yeah,

I'm going to do all of that. The Spirit Bank event Center will be

Transformation Church thirty seven days. People don't really realize what I'm saying. Thirty

seven days into me being a pastor, he told me to write down that

vision and crazy faith. When I did it, he told me, but

I was still looking for affirmation and confirmation from somebody else. Now we meet

in an arena every Sunday. Watch this. And the scary thing is it's

normal. Now. What used to be the cry of my heart is now

normal. And so if you do not learn how to be content in whatever

season you are in, when God does do the big thing, it's just

a matter of time before that thing becomes not enough. And if you don't

know how to manage in contentment whatever season God puts you in, you will

despise looking for spectacular and outstanding. And God says, I have now made

the overflow ordinary. And some of y'all are despising where you are, but

it is the place you prayed to be, and I came to help change

your perspective. Right now, I feel this thing in my toes that God

is requiring you to be okay with ordinary. Write it down like this ordinary

is okay, y'all. This is a tension of my life. I have

people in this room that could expose me of how much I want to go

and do and impact the world for the like that that's my energy. But

God gave me a wife that want to stay at home and raise kids and

go to the park. And I'm like, we can go to Peru and

She's like park And there's a tension there because every day I'm like, let's

take over the world, and she was like, take out the train.

I'm not playing, y'all. And I believe it's the best thing God ever

did to me, because I would live my life in the realm of spectacular

had God not given me a buffer to appreciate the ordinary. All my kids,

my Bella, Oh God, y'all pray for me because she's turning into

a tween and stuff is starting the stuff and she's starting to want to look

cute and from on lip gloss and have my mama, you just slick my

edges. I'm like, let them be frizzy, let them frizzy, let

them pray for me. But the truth of the matter is my daughter,

she was with me the other things. She just looked at me, she

said, Dad. I was like, what, I just love you.

If I was out doing the extraordinary, I would have missed the And I

found out then when people get older, they don't want extraordinary. After you've

done all the extraordinary, the ordinary things are what brings you the most.

This is why we can't fall into the trap of culture where they going on

vacation, what are they doing? How many business accent how many ten exes

are going to lead you to having an ex wife. I'm just telling you

how many times you turning it over and flipping it and making it bigger to

that hole on the inside of you is filled in people's business right now.

So I have to go, Okay, if you don't embrace the blessing of

ordinary, watch this. I need everybody to write this down. If you

don't embrace the blessing of ordinary, you live most of your life frustrated with

most of your life. I'm gonna say it one more time. If you

don't embrace the blessing of ordinary, you will live most of your life frustrated

with most of your life because ninety percent of your life is gonna be ordinary.

It's gonna be Father helped me today as I go to this job to

not kill nobody and not to say anything that incriminates me. Lord, give

me peace to talk nice to that man, but you call him that man,

and Father give me grace for all of them, them kids that look

like there's no uh y y oh die. Yeah, my prayer life doesn't

look like that. Every day. It's an ordinary company giving. It's ordinary

for me. Yeah, it's not a thousand dollar line that the prophet tells

me to come give in today. I feel God in this vicinity. There's

a thousand dollars miracle. Everybody in this line that stands up for a thousand

dollars God is gonna Yeah, it's that's manipulation. What well, what needs

to happen is Holy Spirit leave me today. I want to give Scott is

my witness before we walked out here. What I tell you go do?

I said, go to bank, give me five hundred dollars I gotta give

it to somebody. I just wanted to use a bath throne. I'm gonna

telling you, I just want to go back through the Holy Spirit said give

that young man that money today. I looked at my lit I didn't have

it. He said, that's not go get it. That was no offering

line. That's nobody asking for it. For me. Generosity is and this

is where we miss out on the blessing because we don't put it on the

backdrop of ordinary. What are you doing consistently that does not have to be

spectacular? That allows God to produce the overflow in your life? Okay,

we got to get out of here. The only reason I can say this

is because Jesus picked ordinary for his message overflow. The Bible tells us that

Jesus picked the ordinary guys and said, y'all gonna be the ones to take

my message to the whole world. He didn't pick people who were in high

governmental Uh. I mean, if it was me picking, I would pick

the greatest entertainers of the time. I would have picked the people in government.

I would have picked the finest person, the strongest, all the people

who could actually lead people. Jesus like you fish right, Oh, come

on, you're a doctor, not a good one. Your practice is okay,

come with ine like think about it or theinary I'll prove it to you.

Acts Chapter four, verse thirteen. This is after John and Peter were

healing a man because they had been given dominion or authority by Jesus. They

go to heal people and if people got mad about it, because there's like,

how y'all doing this? And this is where it picks up. The

members of the council were amazed when they saw the boldness of Peter and John,

for they could see that they were watch this ordinary men. The power

of God is shown on the backdrop of our ordinary lives. They were amazed,

not that they were extravagant men. They were amazed that they were or

in there. When's the last time somebody was amazed that you were ordinary?

Think about that. Amazed by your ordinary consistency, amazed by your ordinary practices,

Amazed by your ordinary principles that you instill into your kids. It says

they were amazed because they could tell they were just ordinary men with no special

training in the scriptures. But they also recognized that those men have been with

Jesus. You want to be extraordinary, Be ordinary and be with Jesus.

That's your message today. You want to do great things where people can be

like, how in the world did they do that? Be ordinary, be

with Jesus. People will be amazed. This is why, no matter who

comes or goes, Because God's called me here, I'm gonna show up.

They're gonna be like, is Mike Tod still passing that? I thought the

spirit was gonna take him out? Baby? And I'm gonna be here doing

this ordinary preaching thank you my time or that with my time bow. I'm

gonna be right here doing this ordinary preaching over and over for whoever wants to

hear it, and pointing people to Jesus and taking long worship breaks. Why

Because I love God and I love music and like I'm a and maybe somebody

that's in Europe will be watching on YouTube and maybe almost eight years later you'll

get to meet him in person and they'll kind of look like a Dale.

For everybody watching online, that's somebody that we're really hear and maybe the transformation

that's happened in their life was the amazing thing that God did because we were

ordinary and we got with Jesus, we stand all over this building. Jesus

has never needed outstanding to do overflow. That woman and second kings with the

oil and the jars. Oil and jars are ordinary. David and the sling

a slingshot. Back in that time, that was ordinary. Moses in the

st that turned into a snake and then turned back into a staff. Did

y'all see the miracle. Everybody thinks the miracle was the staff going into the

snake, but when it started moving, most people would have slithered away.

The real power was when that crazy thing turned back into something ordinary. The

fish and the loaves ordinary, a baby being born in a manger ordinary,

the cross at that time ordinary, a tomb ordinary. The Bible even says

that Jesus was an ordinary looking gud. I know, y'all see all the

bradit pictures of Jesus, and that is not what he looks like. But

you got it in your house. Blonde hair, blue out. He did

not look anything like that. But what I'm saying is we think he's like

walking in like Fabia, like the king is here like that. The Bible

says that he looked so ordinary Jesus that Judas had to kiss him to be

able to identify which one they were supposed to take. But the overflow comes

out of my obedience in the ordinary. Today, all I want to do

is pray that you would embrace ordinary. You would embrace your family dinners and

the walks in the park and the phone calls to love ones who live in

different cities, and the date nights in the driveway with takeout. What if

I told you you could enjoy more of your life and it doesn't have to

change. Think about what I just said that if you would embrace the ordinary

things some of why single people in this room's like I can't wait to be

married, en joy turning on whatever you want, having the degree set to

whatever you want, walking around and how much clothes you want to or no

clothes. My little kids, I can't even be naked in my house.

They're like, come up, I'm just but you could. You could really

embrace the ordinary and find so much more joy right now instead of wishing.

The other thing you may not need to cut off is access to everybody else's

ordinary, because the quickest way to kill something is to compare it to something

else. So you could have joy in your life until you see they want

on vacation this week, I got a and it was like, but that

was okay for you until you compared it to somebody else's because you lift your

hands all over the world. God help us all. God, I am

up here preaching this message needing your help with it right now. Help me

embrace the ordinary, because I know you want to overflow in my life and

in every life that is listening today. Father, we're asking that you would

give us the ability to not be conformed to the patterns of this world,

because the truth of the matter is, we will never ever be able to

quench that sensationalism desire on the inside of us, because it just keeps growing

until we change the goal, until we change the focus to You. Father.

We can hope for a bigger house, but let us fall in love

with the one we got. Yes, God, we can believe for a

better relationship, but God, let us treat the relationships we have with intentionality

and love. God. I can want more members in this church, but

Father, God, let me know the ones that got right here. God,

would you overflow out of our ordinary, our ordinary prayers, our ordinary

worship, our ordinary offerings, the things we do consistently, Father God,

would you make us more consistent in them? But then, would you just,

on the backdrop of us doing and falling in love with the things you

ask us to do, would you just do what you do, do the

exceedingly abundantly above all we can ask, think, or imagine. The ordinary

is our job, but the overflow is yours. So we step out of

your position, God, and we stay in ours. And today God,

I thank you that you are going to do something amazing in the lives of

all your people. Even in that same attitude, there are some people in

here that don't know Jesus, some people watching that may not know Jesus.

And I need our church to begin to pray right now because there are souls

in the balance. It's so crazy that our Savior was an ordinary man that

did an ordinary thing but with supernatural instructions, and it caused freedom for anybody

who would believe. Now, it's so crazy that God would allow our eternal

salvation to be hinged on something very ordinary. If you confess and believe,

those are two very ordinary things. But according to Romans ten to nine,

if you confess that Jesus Christ is Lord and you believe that in your heart

you will be saved. This is not an extraordinary ritual or process that He

makes us go through. It's something very, very what ordinary. So today

I want to offer you the overflow of God's goodness and grace and mercy and

healing and deliverance and correction. And I mean it's an over I could list

all the things God will do for you when you come into salvation, but

it happens with something very ordinary. And on account of three. If you

want to make Jesus Christ your personal Lord and savior, I want you to

just shoot your hand up in the air. This is the thing that took

me from being a liar, a manipulator, addicted to pornography, somebody who

had a lot of bad things in her heart and was hated on a path

of destruction. And I accepted Jesus as my personal Lord and savior. And

it did not change everything in my life. It gave me the one who

does change everything in my life, and today the man I am. It's

not perfect, but it is progressing because I did the ordinariest step of saying,

Lord, I can't do this alone. Will you come do it with

me? If that's you I want you to raise your hand in the room

or online. One. You're making the greatest decision of your life. Two.

We've been praying for this day for you for a long time, and

your name is going to be written in the Lamb's Book of Life. Three.

I want you to shoot your hand up in the air. I see

you. I see you. I see you. I see you. Oh

my goodness, I see you. I see you. I see you.

I see you. Come on, Church, thank you Lord, I see

you. And even if I don't see you, God sees you. And

that transformation Church. We're a family. Nobody prays alone. So what everybody

just lift their hands and say God, thank you for sending Jesus just for

me today. I believe he lived, he died, and he rose again

from my freedom, changed me, renew me, transform me. I'm yours.

I'll do the ordinary, and you do the overflowed in Jesus' name.

Amen. Can we say break with heaven? Oh y'all, come on,

hey, I am praising God. The Bible says heaven is turning up over

one person that gets safe. If you made that decision, I want you

to text saved to eight two eight two eight two we want to walk with

you. I want to meet you. Our team wants to to help you.

I believe this is gonna be the greatest season of overflowing your life because

we're gonna do the ordinary. Amen. Hey, listen, if you need

prayer, right back in the back of the building, there are people ready

to pray for you. I'm gonna ask the worship team to come up.

We're gonna sing one more song. We're just gonna worship him. If you

want to stay in this presence, if you want God to correct you in

some areas or give you vision. If not, we have an amazing,

amazing, amazing church service plan for you next week. Come back, invite

some friends. We love you, and we just want to go out here

worshiping the God of everything that we have. Somebody say his name. Yahweh

ky, Sir Charles. I know you here somewhere. I don't know if

I'm supposed to announce something, but I feel the presence of God in his

place right now. I love y'all so much, and I believe that God

is going to do something specific as we do the ordinary. Amen. Amen,

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