Fresh Faith // Fresh Fruit (Part 7) // 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

was gonna end the series this week, and then the Holy Spirit said I

didn't tell you to end it. And I was like, cool, so

what so I'm done? But what you want to do? And he said,

you're gonna take this series two more weeks and you're gonna take it through

Easter. I thought I was gonna do a different message for Easter. He

said the title for the Eastern message on Sunday morning is fresh Start. And

I said, God, what are you talking about? He said, My

ending was everybody's fresh starts. He said, when I said it's finished,

he actually he gave everybody an opportunity for a fresh fow. I said,

God, that's good, you know what you better than me. And then

he said the week after that. And I feel a little intimidated saying this,

but because I don't got the full message together, but the Holy Spirit

told me to say it. The week after Easter. He told me to

preach a message called fresh Fail and I ain't about to act like I know

what that's about yet. But the little bit that God told me, and

he said, your relationship with failure determines your relationship with faith. Man,

he said, so many people don't see what they want in faith because they

scared to fail. He said, but a righteous man falls seven times,

but what does he do get? I don't fully know what that is yet

cooking, but today I felt that I had to give you a core ingredient

to make all of this fresh fruit stuff actually work. Like all year we

are declaring what God said over our church prophetically that this would be a year

of fruit, but it wouldn't just be a year of fruit that gets stale,

like it wouldn't be peace that we had in April. By October we

frantic and living in anxiety again. The seasonal peace, the seasonal love,

the seasonal awareness of kindness. God said, you don't have to be like

that. In Psalms, it says you could be like a tree planted by

the rivers of living water, bearing fruit in every season like your leaves never

with Like I want to live like that. And he said that means you

don't just need fruit, you need fresh fruit. Somebody say fresh fruit.

So today, in week seven of fresh fruit, God told me very specifically,

He said, Michael, give him the title at the top of the

message. Write it down. Today, I'm gonna teach you how to have

fresh faith because most people don't see fresh fruit because they don't have fresh faith.

You living off of faith of an old season, trying to ask God

to do a brand new thing with crusty faith. You're asking God for a

new revelation with molded faith, and God's saying it's not gonna work. Because

faith is literally the gasoline to the entire Christian life. How do you get

saved by faith? He literally said, without faith, it's impossible to please

me. Not because you're a bad person, because you can't do this Christian

life without faith. And if you want to please God, you gotta obey

him. You can't obey him without and faith begins. Watch this where understanding

ends, and most people where your understanding ends, you end. Think about

it. You stop walking, you stop talking, you stop believing. This

doesn't make sense, and you're like, all right, God, come get

me when it makes sense. And some of y'all have been at nineteen eighty

seven, waiting for God to come pick you up. I'm just waiting on

God. That is the dumbest statement because people are like, I'm just waiting

on God. He is waiting on you. I promise you. There is

something in the instruction that you have not done to one hundred percent. I'm

like, well, God, I asked the one person, he said,

ask ten, and you thought because you asked one, I did what you

said. You partially did what I see it. So partial obedience is what

this soil? Would you get a fresh faith? And this message is for

not just new believers. This is for believers who have been toiling, working,

persevering for years that I believe that God, by his spirit, in

this message, through his word, is going to give you a fresh faith

to be able to believe Him again because some of us, the truth of

the matter is, we saw God do something in one season and we got

tired of what it took to see that thing happen. And so it's kind

of like, Lord, if you want to do it again, do it

without me. Don't act like you're not here with me, because so many

times you'll be in one seat. I gave him crazy faith. I did

it in crazy faith. I moved in crazy faith. I did all this

other stuff, and now God asked you just to go talk to your neighbor.

You move from another closet of the country, you can't move across the

street. It's because you need a fresh faith. So today I'm gonna walk

you through it. Because I believe this is one of the things. I

was talking to some of my friends earlier before service. I said, I

feel like faith and having a fresh faith is one of the unique gift things

that God has allowed me to understand. I'm always believing God for what is

next. If you catch me on a Tuesday or a Thursday, or after

a bad day, you can ask the people that walk with me. They

be like, Mike, how you doing. I'm here today and I'm believing

God's gonna do something. Crazy. Why do you just lost something but God's

about to do something? Why would I focus on losing when I serve the

God who can do everything? And today I want to give you I believe

four keys to keeping a fresh faith. And I found the this story and

Second King eighteen and I want you to turn to it. And this is

about Elijah, and I'll give you some context in a minute, but I'm

just gonna read it. So Ahab went off to eat and drink. But

Elijah climbed to the top of Mount carm he'd bitten down to the ground and

put his face between his knees to pray. Go and look towards the sea,

he told his servant, and he went up and looked. The servants

said there's nothing there. He said. Seven times. Elijah said go back.

Somebody said go back, say it with faith. Go back. The

seventh time, the servant reported, a cloud as small as a man's hand

is rising from the sea. So Elijah said, go and tell Ahab,

hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain stops you. That is

nasty Bible. And for most people that are like I missed it what just

happened. Let me give you some context. Right now, this man of

God is just coming off of one of the greatest victories that has ever been

seen in the world. At this moment, y'all remember the story of the

Prophet of Bial's where there was four hundred prophets that believed in bail and then

there was Elijah, and he said, Hey, if God be God like,

let's see let's have a versus right now. Y'all remember the verses battles

where artists would come to here, he was like, let's have a biblical

versus. And he said, it can be four hundred of y'all on this

side, and y'all put out the bull and then ask your God to answer.

And then I'm gonna put out the bull and I ain't gonna be on

the bull because God's gonna actually answer me. And they cutting themselves doing all

of these different things and calling out to bail. He never answered. Elijah

gets gangster with it, and he says, throw a water on the sacrifice.

Do it again, do another one. He did it three times,

because you know water is supposed to quench the fire. And then he just

praised the god. Boom lights up the fire. Everybody like, oh my

God, literally and they all start serving the God of Elijah. You just

got it. It's like a ah. So watch while everybody's celebrating, while

everybody's turning up. What does this man of God do? He said?

As Ahab the King went to eat and drink, Elijah climbed to a secret

place on Mount Carmel. He bent down to the ground and put his face

between his knees to pray. How do I keep fresh faith? Number One?

You have to get a fresh perspective, and let me go ahead and

just help you with this. You get a fresh perspective in the presence of

God. Elijah had an opportunity to go party with the king and he chose

to pray. What do you do at the point of your answered prayer?

What do you do when you actually win the victory? What do you do

after the platform expands? Most people go party, when you need to go

pray. Because when God expands your platform, the truth of the matter is

you didn't get yourself there. And what we will do many times is start

walking in pride after our platform expands. And you think I'm talking about this

platform, but your platform. As a parent, you go from no kids

to one kid. You have a brand new platform, and many times you

don't pray the same way you prayed to have a kid after you have the

kid. God, if you would just touch my wound, if you would

just give me father, if you would just and now they're here and you

like shit, yo, but damn, I'm a beach y'all, bud,

Lord, help me not kill them. That's your prayer. Your platform expanded,

but you forgot about the presence and what I am learning to keep a

fresh faith that when God expands your platform, when he gives you the promotion,

when you get one more person on your team, become the president of

the PTA, when God allows you to expand in any moment, will you

get on your knees in a secret place and posture yourself in a place of

God. I can't do this without you, Father God. I know the

victory that everybody's celebrating. I know that wasn't me. God. I need

you to answer me again. What's next? Who do I hire? Who

do I let go? Who do I transition? Brother? God? Where

should I live? I got the opportunity to go, I got the money

to do whatever God, but I will not move. What helps you?

Father? Give me a fresh perspective? And the problem is that many people

will not take that posture after a win? How do you keep fresh faith?

You don't act like that? What God did? You did? Most

people, after what God has done in this church would start a podcast about

how to grow your church. Okay, let me stop. After what God's

then here? Most people that have experienced what God has done here would start

a masterclass on how to expand your influence. The reason I can't do that

I don't time to because my posture is God. I don't know what to

do with all of this. If you would just speak one more time and

somebody's like, why does he keep getting in that position? Because the posture

of prayer is vulnerable and most of you are so concerned about how you look

to people that you won't get in the posture that got you to the place

that God has you right now, and other people are so worried about how

does it look to me? I don't care how it looks to you.

When God is the one who orders my steps, I have to stay in

the place that he tells me to stay to get the perspective and the instructions

that only he can give. How do you keep a fresh faith? You

have to have a new posture. If God expands your platform, don't leave

his presence. Most people, the song blows up, and the next time

you hear about God is when they're accepting an award in a thong. No,

they're in a thong on a platform in front of thousands of people.

Are like, first of all, I would like to give thanks to God

for no Come on, y'all, y'all see it everything. The craziest thing

is we talk about people that may be far from God doing that, but

the truth of the matter, it happens in the church every day. Now

you're the leader over the greeters, and pride just creeps in. There's no

more presence. You used to be kind, that's why you got the position,

and now you're mean because you work with so many people that they've come

to me with all their problems. That's what a leader is. It's the

person that solves the problems. I'm just all of these people on all these

different answers, and everybody has them. And you didn't go back to the

presence to get aid. Watch this fresh perspective. If you're gonna keep your

faith fresh, you got to see it differently. Trials become training with a

fresh perspective. The trials you're going through, this is just training. This

is God preparing me for something. But you will take a season that will

make you lethal in another season and you will count it as something that you

have to hate and endure because you have the wrong perspective. Do you know

what all of this media attention has trained me to do is develop the skin

that can be able to handle adversity at a level that is uncommon to church.

And I said, God, why did you do this? And I

told y'all last week there are things that are happening in the pipeline that are

gonna put us into culture to be able to bring people into the kingdom that

my skin wasn't ready for two years ago. So if I saw this last

two years as just something that I have to endure, them persecuted and no,

it was training. The perspective changes the pain. Oh my gosh.

If I'm going into the doctor and they say it's gonna hurt, but it's

gonna heal you because they give you the perspective that you will be able to

walk in another level of healing, the pain changes because of the perspective.

Okay, it is preaching, Mama Chloe. And my question to you today

is did the platform kill your posture? Did the promotion kill your posture?

I know people that were great volunteer servant leaders and they got a job and

became trash like. It baffles me how people were killing it with a whole

nother job and then you start paying them to do it, and they just

become horrible. And it's not because they changed their posture. Did did the

answer prayer request change your posture? Because if your only relation to Christ is

crisis, when there's no crisis, your posture changes. See this is why

I got to break this theology that the only time we come to God is

when we are in need. The Church has thrived on that toxic mentality,

so it just draws broke people. What happens when we get rich? People

walk away away from the faith because all we've taught them is to be with

God when you need God. Okay, I can't even touch this. I

wrote it down to the point so I could be succinct. If crisis is

the only thing that brings you to Christ, you are missing the value he

brings after victory. The reason why Elijah goes to pray is because he just

in front of the whole nation, wins the biggest victory, four hundred against

one. God answers by fire. Salvations are coming in, and my man

says, can't party. Gotta go get perspective because if I listen to what

y'all saying, your praises can throw me off as well as your criticism.

So I'm gonna go talk to the one who actually called me to this.

I just want us to see that it's okay to come to God after victory.

That is the posture of keeping a fresh faith. Somebody say fresh faith,

and Elijah kept this posture that remembered the promise that God had given him.

Now watch this, because if you're gonna have a fresh faith, somebody

say fresh faith Number two, you need to keep a fresh reminder. The

reason I believe what God says daily is because I am always reminded of what

God said and what He's already done. Okay, let's be hot, humble,

open, and transparent. Has anybody in the last two years had God

show up in a way that blew you away, Like in just any area

of your life he did something that was like, WHOA, how often do

you think about it? Somebody said every day? And other people is like,

I just remember when you said that if you want to keep fresh faith,

you have to always keep before you a fresh reminder. Some of y'all

need to put a picture on the refrigerator of the apartment you used to live

in because you're complaining about the expand I always gotta clean this house while myself,

ain't nobody want to help me? And nobody in God's like. Hold

on, now, this extra square footage is what you prayed for. This

is an answer, pret Well, I mean, I'm doing this vital study

and nobody coming. I'll be putting my little graphics from Canva up there,

and ain't nobody ain't already doing this? Hold on, You ask for me

to give you discipline, and so now you mad because nobody's showing up.

But the discipline is not found in the results. The discipline is found in

the obedience. And you mad because ain't nobody coming. But you asked for

this. Some of us need to literally get our phones out and set reminders.

You prayed for this. You asked me to give you this level of

understanding. You asked me to be a light to my family. God,

if you just change me enough that I could be a light to my family,

he said, Yeah, You're gonna have to shine where it's dark.

Why hate going home for holidays because you're the only light in that darkness.

You asked for this, and without that reminder, you don't have fresh faith

to believe that God can work in that situation, you become frustrated where you

should have faith? Kay, how do you know this, pastor mic?

Because we're all the way down here in the Second King's Chapter eighteen, verse

forty two. But in verse one, God gave Elijah a promise. Let

me show it to you, First Kings eighteenth, verse one. After a

long time, after how long? After how long? Okay? I just

want to make sure we know it was after a long time. In the

third year, the word of the Lord came to Elijah. It didn't come

to a group of people. It didn't come to a family, It didn't

come to a word, It didn't come to a small group. It came

to him in a famine. It says, go and present yourself to a

have and I will send rain on the land. So Elijah went to present

himself to a have. Now the famine was severe in Samaria. I like

the setting of faith, because the setting of faith is opposite than what you

see. Oh God, everybody's trying to see what God said. He's going

to say what he sees, and then you have to act like you see

it. I just that is a bar. You missed it because you want

God show me. He said, no, I said it. I said

it. Now you gotta act like you see it, Move like you see

it, talk like you see it, Believe like you see it. Bring

people into the vision like you see it. I said it. Now,

you act like you see it. If he's if you see it, it's

easy for you to say it. That's common sense. If it's raining and

he said it's gonna rain, you'd be like, oh, yeah, it's

raining. But if it's a famine and he says, get up and go

tell somebody I'm about to send rain Lord, the setting is completely opposite of

what you are saying, he said. But when I say it, things

begin to change. I'm just looking for a partner with faith to believe that

what I said is sign sealed and delivered. I feel Stevie Wonder anointing coming

on me right now. I'm telling you that if you can believe what you

don't see, that is the breeding ground for God to do what he said.

Okay, Oh, I might have to work this for a couple of

weeks because y'all sitting here looking at me like you just drank lemon juice.

I need to hear. I need you to hear. Oh, that's what

it is. Many of us believe the lie when it's dry, when there's

a famine, when there's no money, when the relationship is cold, when

we believe the lies of the enemy when it's dry. But this is what

gets God glory. He speaks something into nothing. Can we go back to

creation in the beginning? What was there? The Bible says there was a

void, emptiness, darkness. And he did not He did not show them

a PowerPoint presentation of what he was about to make. And the Bible says,

and he said, let whatever happened after, let happened. Because his

word is that powerful. I came to get somebody to get a fresh perspective

and a fresh reminder of the word God spoke over you. It can be

completely contrary to what you are seeing right now. Family can be so scattered,

believe in all kinds of stuff. But God gave you a world that

your family would serve God together. And right now you have stopped praying for

it. You've stopped invited him, you've stopped sending messages. You've stopped because

your faith has waned. And I get it. When you haven't seen anything

in a long time, it makes you kind of back up off of it

because you don't want to feel crazy. But I know that there are a

few people under the sound of my voice that need to have fresh faith today

that if God said it. And I'm not going to convince you today.

I'm just telling you how to keep your faith fresh. If you had an

important meeting with the top person in your field tomorrow and you just found out

about it in service right now, and this meeting had the opportunity to change

the course of your life at the tune of eight figures, some of y'all,

that just blew your mind, just the thought of eight figures. You

didn't know how much money that is. I'm just giving you a hypothetical.

But the only thing about this person is they had to fly out of the

city at eight am, so the meeting had to be at five am in

the morning. And you're not a morning person. Somebody said, I am

today. What would you do to ensure that you got up for that meeting?

Somebody said, set an alarm? How many alarms would you set?

What'd you say? Somebody said all of them? You said, the house

alarm, the car alarm. Okay, now think about it. Why would

you have to set the alarm as a reminder, and some of y'all.

Y'all would go than that. Y'all would tell somebody, hey, listen,

call me. Y'all know, hey, call me at four a m.

If I don't answer by four p fifteen, get in your car. Some

of y'all know, come to my house. Beat on the door. If

I don't answer the door, go to my window. You would be so

intentional about being reminded because of the potential of what could change your life.

Do you know at the word of God that he spoke over you before you

were in your mother's wombs. Some of y'all need to be reminded that he

said, before you were in your mother's womb, I knew you, I

called you. I had plans for you, plans to prosper you and not

to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future. And

you won't remind yourself of it. As matter of fact, you don't have

a tribe that will remind you of it. Most of y'all got tribes.

People my dolls, that's my girls, that's my dad sees you're doing all

these dumb things, but they won't They won't remind you that You're worth more

than dating him if you remember the promise that God gave you that you would

be a woman that would be valued and cherished and taken care of. And

he won't even claim you in the daytime. But they're jealous that he not

with them, and so they'll let you stay in foolishness. I'm just saying,

like business partners that won't deal in integrity, to make sure that we

get up and then once we get to this certain level, then we'll start

being integrated. No, you won't. You're practicing dysfunction. And many of

our tribes won't remind us we are people of integrity. No, no,

no, no, no, no no. We can't do it like that.

No, we're gonna lose in this first round. We're not gonna make

no money, but we will have the blessing of God. Oh God.

Somebody say fresh faith the reason that everybody needs to get in a tribe and

tribes are open today and they're open, and somebody's like they are. Yes,

we did a whole video announcement, did everything. Where was you at?

But we want everybody in this church and a tribe. I don't want

you to just come to this big gathering because I can talk to you,

but you can't talk to me right now. So some of you need to

say something back, right and in this form, it's not the place.

But there is a tribe where pass mike. What is me? All we

are is together, talking and transparent. We have taken out all the things

like somebody about to teach me about no no no, no, no no

no. There is something spiritual that happened in Acts two forty two when people

got together around food, cookies, chips, barbecue and they just started sharing

life together. How was your week? Bro? I almost snapped on that

person at work today? Did you snap? I did hit him? I

hit him? Come on, where'd you get be eyes? I slapped him

open handed and I don't do that. That was better than the punch.

And so what I want to say y'all is I may progress and you need

a tribe that will be like all right, okay, all right, where's

the root of that? Bro? Bro? I've always been a fighter.

I just feel like nobody will take up from me. And so at the

moment where somebody disrespects me, like I ain't gonna be disrespected, come on

hey today, bro, We're not gonna try to fix it. We're just

gonna pray that God gives you a piece that passes the understanding when you find

yourself in that situation, anybody else is going through something, bro, Bro,

I was looking at booths all week. Oh y'all Okay, Oh,

y'all want to be fake because some of your marriages will be held together if

there is a place that some of these people can actually say what they've been

doing the church. Did y'all feel the booties get tight? Oh? My

goodness, y'all want to be fake? It's not full on pornography, but

in my head what I've seen on the Explore page everybody working out? Why

are you working out like that? What is that working out? Hey?

Bro? There's this app that can let us know if you ever go to

a website that's illegal for the type of men of integrity we're supposed to be,

right, would you be down to share this with a couple of us.

I'll try, and we're gonna hit you up, like all right,

yeah? Where else where else are you gonna find as a thirty five year

old grown man where you can do whatever you want. Nobody's gonna force you

to do this? And your wife is tired of asking you. She can't

staying that. She knows their secrets and she feels them every time you lay

in the bed with her. But you won't get in a tribe of people

who will actually tell you the truth and be able to say I used to

deal with the same thing. And they remind you of what God's brought them

from and what He's brought them to. And I'm using a male. Somebody's

pulling on me right there, But it's for all of us. If you

want to have a fresh faith, you may need to get in a place

where faith is reminded. That's why I come to church. It's because my

faith gets reminded in this building. I don't get to stay in the doubt

and the depression. It's not that I don't have it, it's just I

don't get to stay there. And when I start to look at Destiny being

up here worshiping God after having cancer. When I look at Osby up here

leading worship, when they said his baby would have to have a tube in

her throat, and three weeks ago that thing was taken out. When I,

y'all, it give me fresh perspective. Somebody say fresh faith. Okay,

here we go, We're about to end this. To have fresh faith,

this is the one I love. You got to have a fresh expectation.

And when I look at this story, I find the fresh expectation.

See, because remember, you got to get a fresh perspective that comes in

the presence of God through prayer. Then you have to have fresh reminders what

did God say? But then when you remember what he said, then you

got to act like he gonna do it. And some of y'all remember what

God says and then act like He is going to do the exact opposite,

like He's gonna leave you hanging. And it's so crazy to watch people tell

other people to believe who don't believe. Like like, when you get a

fresh expectation, it makes you do things differently. Look at it tewod King's

verse eighteen, I mean chapter eighteen, verse forty three. He tells the

servant go and look towards the sea, and the servant watch this he went

and looked. Now put your self in the place of the servant real quick.

It's a drought. It's dry everywhere, clouds just beautiful sun just shining.

It's hot. Lord, what do you want me to do. It's

about to rain. Okay, okay, So what you want me to do?

Send your servant to move from the place that he's in right now and

go look because it's about to rain. There's scott me right now. Why

would I have to move to see if it's gonna rain. Tell him to

go and look to see if it's gonna rain. Hey, servant, I

know you saw the profit of bell thing. God really did a thing back

there, didn't He killed the huh fire? You know what I'm saying,

Go look and see if you see any rain clouds, because the Holy Spirit

just tell me it's about the rain. Now. Depending on the perspective of

this servant, yes, depending on how this servant moves in faith, this

story goes a lot of different ways. Go look, this servant literally does

it, it says, and he went, let me go see if there's

some rain back here. Let me see if it's a cloud. Oh,

praise and praise and praise and praise and perison, praison. Well, I

did what he said, Elijah, I ain't see nothing. Did what you

said. I ain't see nothing, Elijah, Go back, God, go

back. I just went. I just made a face, step, I

just used the energy. I just used my money. Go back, let

me go and see what he talking about. Yeah, I'm gonna count my

steps, Lizah, nothing, man, go back now, Okay, this

is where most of us Okay, all right, God, I did what

you said twice. I ain't seeing nothing. And it almost feels disrespectful at

this point. No, come on that you would ask me. You're god

right, you know where the rain is and when it's coming. Why would

you tell me to go back? And you know, ain't nothing. Computer.

Maybe it's not about the rain at this point. Maybe it's about the

attitude, disposition, and expectation of the person. At some point, this

servant had to get the attitude of expectation that like, hey, man,

if he gonna keep telling me go back, maybe this will be the time

I'm expecting something's gonna happen. Time three, Well, maybe third time's the

tarn. Darn, third time is not a tar. Elijah nothing four times,

five times, six times. Go and look towards the sea, he

told this servant. And he went and looked. There is nothing there,

he said, write this down. Nothing is the perfect breeding ground for something.

Most people look at nothing and get discouraged. But people with fresh faith

look at nothing and say, oh, this is tons of space for something.

That's the attitude of expectation that you got to get again. No,

no, there's no prospects for me to be married. This is a lot

of room for God to bring him. See, you've lost your expectation.

And when you lose your expectation, what creeps in is watch this complacency,

the servants walking around. You know it ain't about to rain. But he

got me over here, all of God. I see. I keep seeing

it ain't gonna rain. It ain't rained for the third time, the fourth

time, and fifth time, or the sixth time. But what would happen

if everybody, every time that God told you to do something, every day

that you woke up every day, that God gave you another opportunity. He's

like, maybe today is today, Oh my goodness, another opportunity for me

to see if it's about to rain. Matter of fact, where my rain

boots? Matter of fact, where's my umbrella? Seen? Some of y'all

missed it. I sleep with my umbrella and my rain boots next to me

because I've gone six times and there was nothing. I'm not gonna deny the

fact that I keep trying this thing and it ain't nothing happened. But if

God, oh my God, I'm gonna have to do a whole nother faith

series. It's been too long since Crazy Faith because some of y'all have lost

the ability to believe what God said. Go back again. Somebody shot at

me. Go back, Go back to the bank, go back to the

book, go back to that elementary school that you know you're supposed to help

turn around. I know they denied you before, but God is saying to

somebody, go back. And on the second time. My man was like,

well, I guess today is today because I'm full of expectation. Wasn't

nothing yesterday, but today it could be something. And hold on, hold

on, wait a minute. Is that Lijah, Lijah, Elijah, Elijah.

Watch the communication of expectation. This could be nothing, but okay,

hold up, this actually could not really have much to do with what I'm

supposed to do. But I see a cloud the size of a man's hand

rising from the sea. What the servant was saying is it's not much,

but I see something. Ooh, that is the communication of faith. My

relationship hasn't turned all the way around, But I see something. Some of

y'all need to start. My money has not totally flipped, but how I'm

thinking about it, I see something. The church is not where it's gonna

be, But what's happening right now? Now? I see something. Somebody

shot at me. I see something, and many of you, the enemy

would try to make you discount what you see. It ain't the rain yet,

but it's something. Oh God, somebody say it's something. Your family's

not healed, but they text you back. It's so Oh where are the

people with faith? This building ain't felled yet, but it's almost to the

back of the building. It's something. I don't need everybody, but I

need about three hundred people to say I will not discount what God has shown

me. Somebody say, I see something. Most people would discount that little

cloud. But because that servant, do y'all realize Elijah wasn't going to see

it. His act of faith was based on who was around him. Why

do you need a tribe? You need somebody to be able to look at

your life and say, hold on you about to discount that? No,

no, no, baby, we see something. You're a leader, you're

an owner God has made you to be able to turn that situation. I

see this servant comes back with expectation. So see your family being free.

I see you getting healthy. You lost four pounds, and four pounds came.

I look at you. I see something. I see you being able

to finish. Kennygent, you better get the right people around you because watch

Elijah's response is based on what somebody else saw. Oh God, I don't

got time to go into this. Oh, but somebody say, I see

something. So now the fresh faith is at an all time high. Were

about to go last point. To keep fresh faith, watch this, you

have to have fresh Watch this anticipation. There's a difference between expectation and anticipation.

Most people when they see the little cloud, they're like, oh my

God, consent it. He did what he said he's gonna do. Wow,

this is great. Elijah must mean it's gonna rain, and then we

wait, let's wait on the rain. Do y'all see what Elijah does in

this story. He tells them he sees something. And listen, let me

just tell you what anticipation means. Because some of y'all like, what's the

difference between expectation and anticipation? Anticipation means you it's a realization in advance.

It's a foretaste. You ever ate a meal that's so consistent and so good

that when you make up in your mind, I'm going to eat at that

place, your body starts foretasting it. Now, some of y'all don't eat

good, but there are certain meals. Salava comes out of your mouth you

start juicing up because you're like, oh God, I'm gonna get some of

that. It's because some of y'all like, I feel it right now,

but it's because watch. Your body is now anticipating what you know is a

about to happen. So Elijah act thought at something at the cloud the size

of a man's hand. Remember, the promise is rain. He doesn't see

rain, he sees a cloud. Will you shout over the cloud? You

missed it? Will you? How you start acting after the cloud proves you

have faith? Y'all want the rain. You want the drip, drop,

drip, drip it. He dropped. That's what you want. And he

ain't gonna give you the rain. He's going to give you a cloud.

And now he wants to know do you got faith? Now you got fresh

faith? Watch Elijah's faith when he heard it, he said, Elijah said,

go, tell I have hitch up his chariots and go down before the

rain stops him. Do y'all see how big that faith is. I just

seen a cloud. Tell them it's time to it's time to go, because

if he don't go now, the level of rain that's coming will stop him

from moving forward. Oh, all I saw was a cloud, But I

got fresh to faith to believe it's about to range, and it's got a

rain at a level that will stop you if you don't move now. What

Elijah was doing was anticipating the word of God. Where's fear is fear?

Come here? I want you to be very clear about anticipating, because expectation

is great, but I want Transformation Church to live at anticipation. This is

my real little brother feel okay. So if I told Fi, hey,

I'm about to knock you out now, now, I want you to see

what just happened. I want you to see what just happened at my word

his entire posture, because he's seen what I've done to my other brothers.

He knows, he knows my track record. The power of my words changed

his posture I don't know what. I don't know where you against her?

Bro? What're you trying to do? Bro? I'm just here. I'm

just look at it. And if my mere word, he's never seen me

knock anybody out, he's never seen me in a fight. But because my

word changed his posture, he's anticipating, will the word of God change how

you posture yourself in this next season? Because I haven't done anything to him

yet, but he's anticipating. Watch. This anticipation is the proof of expectation.

Right when I said I'm gonna knock you out, Fee, his hands

changed. Give me a hug, Fee, give me a hug. Okay,

they believe that now I'm gonna knock you out. Okay, okay,

right here here, hear what I'm saying. He's not just expecting me to

hit him towards me, he said, stop walking towards me. Man,

he's not just expecting me to hit him. He's in did you How how

is it that God has told you nine times what he's gonna do and it

hasn't changed your posture yet. This is the words of a mere man that

can't even really fight. I'm gonna shoot you before I Father with you.

I'm just being honest. We're not about to be touss about. I'm no,

I gotta shoot us all around me, hear me. Now, I'm

just saying no, I'm not. No, I'm not. What I'm saying

to you is what I'm saying to you is at my mere word, he's

anticipating. But at the word of God, you're still sitting. You ain't

open the bank account, you ain't take no meaning, you won't read a

book, you won't get in your word, you won't relocate to the part

of town God's called you to actually minister, and you won't. You won't

do nothing. You don't expect God to do it, because if you did,

you would start anticipating it Ephesians three twenty. If you really believed it,

it would change the way you live today. Now. Unto Him who

is able to do immeasurably more than all we can ask, think or imagine,

according to not our power, but His power that is at work within.

Why is he choosing to use me? But he still is? To

him, be all glory in the Church and in Christ Jesus, throughout all

generations, forever and ever. Amen. I told you I was gonna knock.

Mama said, knock you out. Okay. Now, what I'm telling

you is every movement that I make, he's moving. Why are you owing

me so hard? Baby? He said, I'm just watch this. Ready,

man, if we could ever get a church who was ready for a

harvest y'all not even ready for what's about to happen next week. You're not

even ready for the person you hate to show up sitting right next to you.

You're not even ready for that boss that you praying away actually coming to

know Jesus. You're not anticipating God doing a revival in your school and in

your church. Thank you for If you actually were ready, you would anticipate

it. How do you keep fresh faith? I'm anticipating even when it specifically

comes to Eastern Who are you inviting an anticipation for what God could do in

their life? You don't anticipate because you won't even tell nobody. You won't

even post about it because it'll mess up your esthetic. Well, I just

want to keep the right image from my followers, your followers. When you

signed up to follow Jesus, the mantra was less of him, less of

me, more of him. But it's been more of you and less of

him. Well, I just want to make sure I keep an aesthetic that

it's pleasing to both the believer and none believer. They're crying out. Your

art was a bridge to the Savior. And you've made the art the end

goal. You've made whatever you saill the end goal. You've made however you

look, and however you dressed, and you've made that the end goal.

And God said, the only reason I blessed that is so it would draw

people who don't know me. So you don't expect, you don't anticipate.

The truth of the matter is Elijah does all of this for Ahab. I

want you to see, like all the king was doing was eaten. He

was at a party while the person that God tasked with the faith assignment was

on Mount Carmel praying. Had to convince and give vision to a servant to

go look this many times. As soon as he saw the cloud the size

of a man hand, get excited, go back and send word to the

party. I know you don't care about this, and I know you haven't

sacrificed for this, but my faith wasn't for me. My faith was to

make sure you didn't get stuck here. So Ahab, get in the chariot,

get all your stuff and gold, because if you don't, the rain

that's about to come is gonna stop you here. All the faith was for

somebody else. What happens when God calls us to live by faith, But

it's not just for us. I hear that mantra that Jesus sold the disciples.

He said, the field is ripe, the harvest is everywhere, but

the laborers are few. He telling the disciples this, who probably had lost

a little bit of their faith. They didn't have a fresh perspective. They

looking at all these people and like, Jesus, we're just trying to keep

them away from you. And He's like, y'all, do y'all see what's

around here. It's just a bunch of harvests. But there's nobody to actually

have the faith to believe that they can be transformed. And then look what

he does. He tells the disciples pray to the Lord of the harvest.

He's sitting with them. He's a little mad, He probably a little ticked

off. Yeah, why don't you y'all like prayer? Don't you pray to

the Lord of the harvest, that he would send more laborers, that he

would send more people with a fresh perspective, that he would send people with

faith to believe that I can transform anybody. And instead of being like hold

on, we can believe like that, they're probably like Lord. And then

the bubbastet call y'all, Lord, would you sin? And he was like,

just go do it be the answer to prayer. Stop praying that somebody

else would come and you show up? Passer Mike, what are you saying?

God's about to give us fresh faith for everything in our life. Yeah,

you're gonna have to have a fresh perspective. You're gonna have to set

reminders. I'm telling you this week, some of y'all need to set reminders

on your phone. I will live and not die. Every morning you wake

up, I will live and not die. You dealt with suicide in a

different season, and the fact that you're here right now, you should be

reminding yourself I'm still here. I will live and not die. Somebody else

needs to set a reminder. I'm actually gonna live pure today the days the

enemy robbed in perversion and thoughts, you can literally remind yourself that keeps fresh

faith and then you're gonna get a fresh expectation, and then you're gonna upgrade

that thing to a fresh anticipation. Today's the day. Oh shoot, today's

the day. Standing all over this place, y'all actually did it. Y'all

actually gave you my extra fifteen minutes. Thank y'all. Would you just please

lift your hands because I wanna pray for every person listen to me. Everybody

listen whose faith has been tired. If your faith has been tired. I'm

not saying that you didn't have faith in a different season and God, but

if you're faith has been tired, would you lift your hands all over this

building. Yeah, it was the right message today. Come on online,

your faith has been tired. Everybody. Don't leave this moment without getting what

you need. I'm gonna pray for you, Father, in the name of

Jesus, I thank you today that you are renewing strength that Father, God,

where some of us have been at the party, we're about to find

ourselves in your presence. Father, I thank you that you're reminding us of

your faithfulness today and you're doing a work on the inside of us, Father

that nobody else could do. Just you today, God, would you give

us the ability to believe you like never before. Father. We've been hurt,

we've been disappointed. Some of us have seen great victories. Father,

God. But today we're making a fresh commitment to come to you and ask

you for another measure of faith. Your word says that you give measures of

faith. God, would you increase our measure of faith? Would you give

us fresh faith to believe you for our families, Believe you for the words

you've spoken. Believe us for the transform Believe you for the transformation, Believe

you for the salvation. Believe you for our children, leave you for our

neighbors. Believe you for what you've called us to do. Today. I

thank you that Transformation Church moves from a church that just has crazy faith in

expectation. But God, let us move into actually being able to make actions

of faith. Let us live in anticipation of what You're gonna do. Let

it change our posture today. God, we trust you, and I thank

you Father that we're moving this week. Father, would you give us a

boldness this week that never goes away, to be able to know that what

You're doing in our life is not just for us. Would you give us

the boldness to invite the person at Starbucks and the barista, Father God,

and the waiter, and our cousin and our family and our friends, not

just to Easter, Father God, but to a meeting with you. Father,

let our faith move beyond us. Thank you for a mobilized church,

a church that doesn't sit back and wait. But we'll go, and we'll

have the faith to go seven times to see if you're doing anything. Father.

We might not see much, but we see something. God. I

just thank you that this church will always be the one that believes in the

cloud. Today have your way as our prayer. If you're in this room

and you've never accepted Jesus as your personal Lord and savior, today I just

want to let you know that the greatest decision that you could make is to

make him the Lord of your life. Not just your savior. Listen to

me, but your Lord. And if that's you all over this room watching

online, there's hundreds every Sunday and today today, today is the day of

salvation for you. I need the church to begin to pray. There are

people that have been walking away from God, who have been lost, who

have been confused, that have been shunned, from the church, and today

God is saying, I'm calling you back home. No matter where you are.

Today is the start of fresh faith for you. God is the only

one that if you give him your heart, he'll help you change your habits

in this room, all over the building, right now, if you want

to give your life to Christ on the counter. Three, I just want

you to slip your hand in the air. You don't have to confess everything

that you've done to me or somebody else. Hopefully you get in a tribe

to do that. Hopefully you get healing when you begin to confess one to

another. But today I'm talking about your eternity being secure and you starting with

a fresh faith. If you're in this room, or if you're watching online,

or if somebody's playing this in a rebroadcast, I feel the presence of

God right now. This is your moment of salvation. One, you're making

the greatest decision you've ever made. Two. I'm proud of you. But

more than that, your name is going to be written in the Lamb's Book

of Life. And God will change you from being somebody like me who is

addicted to pornography, a liar, a manipulator, and he won't make you

perfect, but he'll make you progressing. And I'm telling you today God is

going to transform your life. Three. If you shoot your hand up in

the air. I see you, my brother, I see you, my

sister, I see you, my sister. Come on, every age,

every demographic Transformation Church, this is what we celebrate. I see you,

brother. Hey, put your hands down, because now you're part of a

community of everybody who's walking in the level of transparency that you are. And

we're a family here. Nobody prays alone. Everybody just say God, thank

you for giving me fresh faith today. I believe in Jesus. I believe

he lived, he died, and he rose again with all power just for

me. I give you my life, change me, renew me, transform

me. I'm yours in Jesus' name. Amen, Transformation Church. How do

we celebrate? Oh? Come on, y'all, it's a fresh faith 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

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