Fresh Vision: The Power of Shared Vision // Fresh Fruit (Part 2) // 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 y'ad will transform your life. Do today's message? You ready?

All right, y'all? Y'all ready? I said, y'all ready,

because today is week two of a series we're calling help Me Fresh Fruit.

And this year we have decided as a church that we will not settle for

anything crusty, old, or stale. Y'all didn't seem convinced about that,

But everything in my life has to be what fresh? And I want fresh

relationship? I want fresh ideas. I want fresh wisdom. I want fresh

instructions, fresh perspective. What else you want to be fresh in your life?

Yell out at me? Put it in the comments. You want fresh?

What? She said? Relationships? I already said that one, but

you wanted to make sure it was clear again? She said, ah,

fresh relations What else y'all want fresh? What? Fresh? What? Revelation?

Friendship? What did I hear? Fresh? Communication? Come on?

Anybody else? Fresh? Finances? Somebody said I need some fresh money,

give me some new money. Okay, somebody just shout at me fresh.

It's gonna be fresh by faith. Though we're not just looking for new things.

We want fresh things, things that God's hand is on. We want

to live in a place of fresh fruit. And so the word of the

year at this church is fruit. And God said, for the next how

many ever weeks, I want you to walk the people through what I am

calling a vision of being able to get everything in your life fresh. And

today is Vision Sunday, and I'm excited about it because I'm gonna show you

and share with you how to get vision, and then the vision of this

church and what we're going to be doing going forward. And I want you

to know that this applies to you because everything that I'm going to tell you

is from the word of God. And whatever God's given you a vision on

you can apply copy and paste these principles to it to be able to see

this level of freedom and access in your life. And then you're going to

hear about God's plan and how he planted you in this church so that you

could produce more fruit than you could by yourself. And there's a lot of

people that think that you're better off outside of church, and I want to

let you know come close, You're not. You might be more isolated,

you may not have to be accountable. You may be able to get and

do whatever you want, to say whatever you want because I'm my own people

and I'm living my truth. And you might be doing all that. But

God cuts off the favor because you're not attached to anything. And today I

want to let you know that the House of God is still God's plan to

produce the greatest version of you, so that you can go out there and

actually produce everybody shot at me fruit, okay? And the John fifteen sixteen

is our anchor scripture. I want you to study this. I want you

to read it every day. I want you to post it up on your

mirror. I want you to tattoo it on you if you need to.

But I need you to remember this because this is God speaking in the form

of Jesus. He said, you did not choose me, but I choose

you, and I appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit.

I don't know my calling bear fruit. God, I just want you to

clarify your will for my life bear fruit. But God, if you could

give me a specific prophetic word, Jesus did over two thousand years ago,

I called you and I appointed you to do something bear fruit. And so

it trips me out when everybody wants to know exactly what God has for them

right now, I ask them, what are you doing? Where you're at?

Is where you're at fruitful? No? I hate this job? Good?

But have you have you dropped any fruit there? I can't stand where

I'm at. I can't stand where, and God's like, okay, cool,

But since you're there, you might as well represent me and do what

I asked you to do, bear fruit. And some of us are so

hung up on our preferences of the season we want to be in that we

do not bear fruit in the season that we actually are in. Well,

I'm being strong today. I want you to understand that God is a god

of stewardship. He's watching what you do with what you already have. And

you're sitting here asking God for something new. And he said, I'll make

what you're doing already fresh. You bearing fruit. There is that relationship bringing

any fruit, he says, And I don't want you to just go and

bear fruit. Watch this, Oh, I want you to produce fruit that

will last. So even going back to that job scenario. You hate where

you at, but God saying bear fruit there. Yeah, then he's gonna

say, and I don't want you to just bear fruit that stays when you're

there. I want you to be so fruitful that when I progress you to

another place, what you did wasn't lasting there. Okay, I can't even

touch that. That's a leadership course in itself, it says, and so

that whatever you ask in my name, the Father will give you. Now,

I don't have time to break this down because it's not really my message

today, but there is something connected to you getting your prayers answered, you

bearing fruit wherever you're at. I need you to. It says, I

want you to be in a place because I appointed you to be there,

bear fruit, fruit that will last. And so whatever you ask in my

name, the Father will give to you. It don't really make sense to

me until I remember that God as a god of stewardship, he's not giving

anymore to anybody who's not using the footprint that they have to create fruit.

Right now, Okay, that made you mad? Okay, So acronym for

fruit, it's gonna be my faith repeating until it transforms. So go back

to that job scenario. I'm in a situation, an internship, a job,

a housing situation that I hate. But today I'm changing my perspective.

If you watch last week's message by getting gratitude, and then it will become

fresh to you. And when it becomes fresh, you can then produce fruit.

When I then begin to produce fruit, I start trying to produce fruit

that remains. And when I produce fruit that remains, watch this. The

only way I can do that is by doing the same faith step over and

over, repeating it until whatever I'm looking at transforms. You want to see

something change in your life, keep doing the same thing that you know will

bring you results. You want to lose weight. I'm so proud of the

people of Transformation Nation and Transformation Church. A few weeks ago, I gave

a fitness challenge and we decided that we were going to be fit to finish.

And every morning, whether it's four o'clock, five am, six am,

I'm getting notifications on my Instagram of people walking for at least thirty minutes

all over the world. And I'm from Honolulu to Paris, to California to

Tulsa. That like, yeah, y'all could clap for that, especially if

you're not walking, you could definitely at least clap because the truth of the

matter is you're gonna be mad come June and you're gonna cancel vacations because of

how you look in that bathing suit. Okay, let's just be honest,

and then it's gonna work on your self esteem and then you're gonna start drinking

again. See, y'all gotta understand that the enemy plays on our insecurities,

and so how can walking today keep me from having a baby seven months from

now? Because you know, once you start get a little loose, you

start answering dms that you would ignore usually, and Trey Kwante is gonna get

up in your DMS and take you to cheesecap factor. What I'm saying is

if your faith repeating today and tomorrow and the next day, I'm not talking

about being extreme. I'm talking and being intentional. What are you saying out

of your mouth every morning when you wake up, today is going to be

a day full of favor. God's hand is on my life. When I'm

in unfavorable situations, I am still favored because God is with me today.

I will make a difference. Wherever I go and wherever I am, fruit

will be left because of the love that is in my life. What are

you saying? But if you say that every day, I watch Charles and

his son today in the back say a confession and Arlo is how old?

Six? Four years old? Dang, you know when you're getting old you

just start putting out numbers. How old is he? Nineteen? It's four

years old. And this little boy is saying this confession strong and it's just

his faith being repeated every day until confidence is instilled in him. He gonna

be twenty five in a hard situation. And when he starts getting pressed,

guess what's gonna come out of him? Like I'm just saying, somebody shot

at me. Fruit. Faith's repeating until it transformed. For nine years,

when it's been time to share vision, I've gotten up here really excited because

I think vision is my thing. Like if I was only if I only

could speak on one thing for the rest of my life, I can make

people believe in the vision that God's given me. How do you know we

hear? Like if you saw where we started, if you saw how this

thing got cracking, if you saw how many of y'all wasn't there, And

when I still stood up with my knees shaking and ashy ankles and ashy hands

in and just said what I felt like God said to me. And now

some of y'all have moved. How many people just in the room have moved

from another place to be a part of this church. Looky, y'all got

to give it up for that? That is w I l d wild.

All I'm saying is, if you're new around here, vision's a big deal

because the Bible tells us and Rebecca too too, that you're supposed to write

the vision and make it plain on tablets that he may run who reads it.

Now, I started to thinking about that, and it's parallel with another

scripture says where there is no vision, the people do what that means they

die. Like I want to make this a very literal, hard in your

face translation. Where you don't have vision, people die, purposes die,

dest needs die. Have you ever met somebody who was super gifted and didn't

know what to do with their gifting? I mean, like people who is

like if I had one sixteenth of your ability, what I would do with

it? It's because they have no everybody shot at me vision, and so

when I started to think about vision, God has done a transformation in me

and on me as a leader, and I have to be very transparent with

you today. I'm gonna keep humble, open and transparent because we're hot at

this church. Every time I've gotten up here until today, I felt like

I was trying to sell vision. I'm letting you see my evolution as a

leader in front of you. I was selling vision because the truth of the

matter is a lot of times I didn't know if it was gonna work.

And it's crazy how God sometimes calls you to a position to get out there

and lead and you still question it stuff. I mean, it's almost like

being a parent. It's like, oh, hold on, y'all, just

gonna leave me with them, y'all not coming to the crib with me,

like after that two days and they'd be like, all right, God bless

you. It's like we're okay. No manual, no tutorial, just trust.

That's how vision is. No manual, no tutorial, just trusting what

you heard from God. And I decided this year that I was not going

to be selling vision. I'm just gonna share it. I'm just gonna share

vision because I know now nine years in, if God said it, no,

no, no, no, I'm not even This is not blowing smoke

to you, like if he's now if I say it, question it,

like if it's just my plan and my idea. Maybe, But I'm talking

about a word from God. And that's why I want to make this a

point, just so it's stamped in time. I'm not selling my vision.

I'm sharing his vision. Okay, So today I don't want you to I'm

just the vessel. Today. I'm just gonna tell you what happened transparently,

and I'm gonna share it with you. I don't even want to preach at

you, because at the end of the day, I don't want you to

get happy about something that ain't even mine. I want you to get happy

about what's his. And if you take a hold of what I share with

you, oh my goodness, that song we just sang, Build Joe Church,

build it from the ground up. I'm telling you you have never seen

a revival like what we're about to see in this city and through this movement.

I need at least fourteen people to be with me. I said,

you've never seen a movie Azuza was not the greatest movement of God that happened

in Tulsa. I'm telling you there's something that is about to happen. But

it's got to start in a church. It's got to start in a house

with people who actually believe. It's got to start with the people who are

actually surrendered, who will give up things they like for things that God loves.

Okay, that's too much. Then the Lord answered me and said,

Rebecca too, to write the vision and make it plain on tablets. That's

why we got represent everywhere. That's why it's on the clothes, That's why

it's on the shirts, that's why it's on the billboard. Well, they

talking about representing that that ain't no scripture. This the vision He gave us

to represent God to the lost and found. For one reason, what is

it transformation in Christ? We want people to meet Christ and be transformed.

So if it's through drawing them in through a ransom play, do y'all know

they were over how many people got saved during ransom It was like six hundred

and something people that got saved, and they was mad that we use a

Beyonce song that they knew you knew the song. But if getting church people

mad who have religious and won't even share the gospel with anybody, to get

six hundred plus people saved in a weekend, we'll take it. Oh and

we're doing ransom again this year, so please don't get it twisted. Oh

y'all thought y'all was gonna run us off. Haha. We done better than

it it's ever been. Why are you saying that, Pastor Mike, Because

the truth of the matter is there's more lost people who are not gonna come

and hear me speak for an hour and free ten minutes, but they gonna

come see the dancing and the fire. And that's why Broadway is what it

is. People fly all over the w I'm just trying to give you all

a little vision behind what and why we do the things that we're doing.

Because we're supposed to go into all of these worlds. It didn't say going

to all the earth. It says go all in going to all the worlds.

The financial world means systems, going to the music system, the financial

system, the real estate system. People want to just stay in the church

world. Okay, this was not a part of any of my notes,

but I'm sharing vision and it just comes up out of me. Okay,

I want you to see the goal of Habeka Tutu. It's not just to

write the vision, and it's not just to put it plain. It says

that he may run who reads it. Vision is supposed to be shared.

Most people write vision, make it plain, and then don't share it.

Who knows what God's placed on your heart? Where is it visible? Where

are you continually repeating until it transformed? Where are you putting your faith at?

Where is the fruit? And it stops many times like oh, I

did what you said during twenty one days of profest. I wrote the vision,

I made it plain, and God said you gotta put it in a

place that people can read it who are supposed to help you run with it.

So if vision is not shared, watch this, it's stale. Let

me make it a point. Vision that is not continually shared becomes stale.

And some of you have vision from God God that is so crusty, not

because it is not anointed, it's because you've stopped sharing it. You stop

sharing that you are going to open a daycare one day for single mothers.

You stop sharing that you are going to write that book about what you've been

through in the first twenty years of your life. You stop sharing that your

dream is to go in with athletes and lead them to Christ through nutrition.

You stop sharing because you got disappointed or it didn't happen in a season.

You stop sharing that you want to build the block, and you stop sharing

because right now you don't even have your family in the house you desire them

to be in. So you feel like a fraud because you're believing for something

bigger than what you're seeing in your own life. Oh, I'm in somebody's

business right now. God called you a pastor, but you won't even do

a small group because you're scared you don't know the Bible good enough. You

need to stop watching all of those critics talk about and tearing down everybody.

Paul didn't have no training, but he started proclaiming the Gospel to everybody.

He was killing Christians on a Tuesday, and by Friday he was bringing people

to Christ. Do not let people keep you from the thing that God has

called you to. But if you don't share that vision, it becomes stale.

That's why every time you see me, I got something represent on I

was on National TV on Friday represent pain right there. The lady when I

got off, she said, what does that mean? I said, Oh,

I'm so glad you asked. I was able to share the gospel with

one of the anchors. Why are you saying this, Pastor's because the vision

has to be shared. So that's why we do vision every Sunday here.

That's why when Charles and Abbey got up here and they said, you know

the vision of our church, and some of y'all been here twenty two years

can't recite it. It's really hard to live out what you can't remember.

It's very, very difficult. And I'm saying this one sense. You know

every Drake song, oh, some of y'all. You know every Reba McIntyre

song. Come on, you know every Ariana Glade song. And you know

every Stevie Wonder song. I think I hit everybody. Hold on, No,

you know every Fred him His song. Okay, I got everybody die.

But you can't remember vision because vision hasn't become valuable to you. And

where there is no vision, let me give you another translation. It says,

people cast off restraint, let me give it. Let me give it

to you a little, a little deeper. Where there is no vision,

people stop caring. Any area of your life that you don't care in,

you don't have vision in. So if you don't care about a budget,

it's because you don't have a vision for your money. And that's why every

end of the month you stressed, because when you got the paycheck, you

mysteriously ended up at the mall to pick up one lotion from Bathroom body Works.

One and you know they always have a sale. How does Bathroom body

Works always you buy two candles, then you get six lotions, and then

you get nine deodorizers. What, Okay, give me two of them?

Like what? But the only reason you can stop caring is because you didn't

have vision. What I'm asking everybody to do is make a fresh commitment that

you want vision for your home, vision for your relationship, vision for your

marriage, vision for your friendships. And that's why I have to share vision.

Somebody says share vision. As a matter of fact, I want to

share fresh vision. Put that on the screen. This is the title of

my sermon, Fresh Vision, The Power of shared Vision. Do you have

friends that don't know the vision God's given you? Because if your friends don't

know the vision, they don't even know what position they're gonna be playing in

their life, in your life. See that's why a lot of times,

when you get ready to make a stamp, your friend group jack's you up

because you never gave them a vision. Like I'm not gonna be sitting here

cussing and sleeping around with y'all for long. I'm trying to be real up

in here. I know I'm willing out right now, but God's placed inside

of me a ministry for women who are virtuous, and so I'm gonna bust

up the club with y'all tonight one more time, one more time for the

one time. But I'm I'm but tomorrow. But what I'm saying is this

is why it's so hard many times to break away, because even if you

can't live it out yet, you've never shared the vision. Y'all. Remember

last week when I put on those Apple pro situations. I want to do

that again real quick, because I found out a way to connect them where

y'all can see what I'm seeing. Shout out to the tech team. Okay,

so like this is so crazy, Like okay, is it all?

Okay? Here we go? All right, here we go? Can y'all

see it yet? Wave at me if you can see me? Oh my

goodness. Okay, so watch this, y'all. Watch this. I'm gonna

show y'all some photos. Look, I'm gonna pick this up and it over

here, and I'm still looking at y'all, but it's right here. Cat,

What do you say to people who come into church? Okay, Cat,

you didn't say nothing. Oh hold on, hold on, hold on,

hold on, hold on? Oh I like this. Oh I gotta

turn the sound on? Is a sound on? Y'all? Sound people turn

the sound on? Well, y'all can see that? Okay, let me

there we go? I did hear play? Is it not playing for y'all?

I'm gonna do something else. Let me facet on somebody where, Charles

at h Do y'all see this? Y'all can't see what's happening? Oh my

gosh, can y'all see it? Now? I'm a FaceTime Charles. Y'all

look at this? Can y'all see it? What is up? Broke?

And I'm gonna put you back here in the balcony over here? Do y'all

see how crazy this is? Like? His head is right there, y'all?

Right here, Cat, Williams right here. I'm just trying to share

some vision with y'all. It went off again here, hanging up, I'm

hanging up on you. Charles is back. Can y'all see this now?

It looks like I could walk off this, but I'm gonna stop because I

know the stage is somethingwhere right around where I'm at. But I'm in another

place right now. Imagine praying up here, you telling her and then coming

back to see yo baby's kids just right here like now. Now. The

only reason y'all can see this is because I'm sharing it. I could be

up here all by myself and nobody's able to see it. But it was

glitching a little bit because you didn't actually have it on. Scott, where

are you at? Come here? Come here, Scott? Now, Scott

travels all over the world with me, and uh I love y'all give it

up for Scott. He comes. Sit it right here, Scott. I

want you to try this, because there's no power unless the vision is so

even if it glitches, for fans and for people that are out in the

crowd, if I actually put the vision on somebody, they'll be able to

see what nobody else can see. How you're feeling Scotty crazy. Look at

him. You don't even know what you're doing, just pinching things. What

you're doing right now, Scott? Listening the cat? Now they can't hear

cat, but you can because you're fully immersed in the vision. That's good.

That's good. Now what you're doing, Scott, because you look stupid

to all of us, But the truth of the matter, you're experiencing something

that none of these thousands of people are experiencing because you're fully submersed in the

visual. And he would not have this unless I shared it. And you

know what, Scott, this actually is yours now, I no, thank

you, because it's not enough just to share the vision. You got to

own the vision. Come on, take it. That's yours. Now.

What happens this is not Macaiah's or Kylin's, Scott, that is yours.

I need everybody to see. What happened is that because somebody was willing to

let me share it with him, they became the owner of it. This

is how vision works. This is not pastor Mike's vision, This is not

Transformation Church's vision. This is God's vision that then he allows us to share

in until we feel like, uh oh, I'm an owner of this.

I don't represent at church, I represent everywhere I go, when I am,

when I'm mad. I got to remember that representing God to the loss

and found for true, that's the and whatever God has given you as a

vision. My question to you today is do you own it? Or is

it on loan? Is it borrowed? And most of us have never seen

fully what God wants to do because you won't own the vision he's placed in

your hand. What do you say, in pastor, Mike, don't just

observe the vision, own the vision. You know. What I've learned is

that the place where vision is released is not the place where it's received.

So today I'm releasing vision to you, but this is not where God spoke

to me. Matter of fact, I need to change my posture right now.

I'm gonna change this. Take this down because I'm about to get real

vulnerable with y'all. So I need to change my position because I was in

a I was in a position like this. M God, help me.

God, I don't know what to do. God, there's thousands of people

showing up. I didn't ask for this. Search my heart, O,

God, there's anything in me. That's not like you. Could you remove

it? Father? I repent for every moment that I got in the way

of what you were trying to do. God, I can't go back to

this church if you don't speak to me. I need you, like,

why are you? Why are you doing? Because I'm want to show you

for real how you get vision. It's not loud on a platform. It's

quiet with your real emotions. God is not scared of what you're scared of,

and he's not fearful of what you're fearful of, but he needs you

to bring it to him. And so two years ago, can I be

like super real with y'all today? Okay too. It's even a little weird

for me to even coin this Vision Sunday because two years ago I had a

really traumatic situation on Vision Sunday. We were closed for COVID and just had

about two hundred and three hundred people in fifteen nineteen while they were finishing the

construction here, and I went up and preached the message about seeing vision clearly,

and I mean it was powerful. And I did this little example with

saliva and it kind of turned into a big deal. It wasn't what I

was planning. I know that now, but back then, I'm on TMZ

and CNN and all your family is talking about me, asking you why you

still go to that church. And I shared a screenshot with some of my

brothers earlier today that I cannot repeat on this telecast, But people basically had

written off every good thing that I'd ever done because of one thing that wasn't

a sin. It was just gross. It is disgusting. But I can

think of a lot of other things y'all do with spit too. Anyway,

y'all, I haven't talked about this in two years, Okay, So I'm

trying to be vulnerable. I'm trying to posture. I need another pillow,

Hoddle. I need to posture myself. I need a wait and blanket up

here. What I found out is vision is often cultivated in valleys. Did

you hear what I just said? If you're in a low moment, if

you're in a moment that doesn't feel like a mountaintop, I want you to

know that many times, if you would just sit, steal and wait on

God, it's the place where he uncovers the vision for the mountaintop. There's

too much light at the top for you to get the vision. So he

puts you in a dark place, a place where there's no light on you,

a place where you feel torn down, and that's when He whispers to

you. And today on the reason I changed my posture and I didn't want

to yell on vision Sunday and scream and try to convince you is because I

told you I'm not selling this no more, just sharing it. I got

my foot up. I feel that the only thing that made me feel better

is my wife's sitting here. Because the truth of the matter is real vision

is always write this down. Real vision is always vulnerable. If you don't

feel vulnerable when God gives you a vision, it's just a good idea.

If it doesn't seem bigger than you, if it's not like, oh my

gosh, there will never be a way I can do that, then that's

just a good idea that you need plans and people for. But a real

vision from God always makes you vulnerable. So I have to The spit hit

the fan. Me and my wife were on a staycation in the city,

and I had to formulate an apology and address it because I didn't want my

sheep. The members of my church fighting for something and I hadn't said anything

about it. I know you got my bag, but it's not your responsibility

to be the shepherd when I'm called to. And I understood that, and

so I had to say something, even though I just wanted to fight.

Can I be honest, y'all? I wanted to line every comment up.

I'm good with my words, y'all. I would have. I would have,

And the Holy Spirit said through my wife, turn social media off and

get away from Tulsa. Well, my friends happened to be leaving the next

day to go to Napa to celebrate a birthday. And like, Napa is

not like a place that I would ever pick to go because it doesn't have

a beach. And to me, if I'm going anywhere, that's not for

ministry. I need sand, water, little shells. I needed it all.

But I didn't have time. I was so clouded. I was like,

I just need to be with people who care about me right now.

And so we were on a plane twenty four hours after being on the stage

to Napa. Now, if anybody knows about Napa, Napa is a place

for rich people and why like, no, it really okay? So y'all

looking at me. It's like Napa, It's like rich people, and why

I don't drink wine? And I was not rich. So I was like,

why am I here? And I found myself on a balcony and for

the first time in my life, I'm every morning waking up and I'm sitting

looking out at a vineyard and I'm like, God, why am I here?

And he said, just keep reading your word? And somehow in my

daily devotion, I got to John fifteen and I'm literally sitting out here every

single day. I got a picture of it. Can you show them the

picture that y'all see? Look at how struggling I am. I was going

through after I heard people I prayed for their children and gave them money personally

when the houses were about to before closed, on seeing them do podcasts on

me, watching pastor friends that I built, their conferences, take me off

of the flyer. I'm saying, it's all right now, but in the

moment, I want to be real, and now I feel all right.

I wasn't singing the songs we firm found as I was singing why why like?

But then I came to John fifteen, and I want you to leave

these pictures up. As I read this, it says, I am the

true grapevine, and my father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch

of mine that does not produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do

bear food so they will produce even more. Now I'm sitting here every day

watching these guys. Y'all see him back there in the orange vest, like

over there, y'all see him. And there's one over there. There's dudes

in orange vests coming out at six am every day to what I think is

a dead field to me with no education. It's like I thought there was

supposed to be big greats here. I thought there was supposed to be but

I guess wine grows in another season because it's just twigs. And every day

they would come out there, like fifteen of them. This whole thing is

huge, so you can't see. And they're literally like paying so close attention

to these twig leaves and they're going next. And literally I'm watching him do

this as I'm like he is, and there's and God said, look at

the scripture again. He said, I am the true grape vine, and

my father that means God. That means yahweh. The one we're praying to

is a gardener, and he has something in his hand that cuts because verse

two said, he cuts off every branch of mine that doesn't produce fruit.

And at the time I was too prideful to even think that. God,

I'm fruitful. Look at all the people getting saved, get all the thing.

God, why is this happening to me? He said, there were

some things in you, Michael that weren't producing fruit, and I had to

cut on you so you could realize that you didn't need them. I think

I'm being too vulnerable right now. Y'all gonna use this as ammunition, But

I just feel there's a few people in here that need to hear the real

of what it looks like to be used by God. And then this is

the part that messed me up for real. And he prunes the branches that

do bear fruit. Now, prune is another word for cut. Hold on,

wait, so I get cut if I don't bear fruit, and I

get cut if I do bear fruit. The revelation is you get cut either

way. So so many times it feels the same, but it's not.

And the enemy would like to discourage you that the cutting of The last season

meant that God has done with you. He cut back the friendships, cut

back the relationship, cut back the influence. He ain't done with you.

He's cutting on you because he has use of Okay, just read the rest

of it. He said he brunes or cuts the branches that do bear fruit

so that they will produce even more fruit. The last cut is for more

fruit. God took me through a two year pruning process. Because God's measure

of maturity is not more fans, not more followers, not more finances,

not more fame. God's measure of maturity is more fruit. I don't care

if you got more money. Is there more fruit in your life? Are

you more generous? Do you walk in more love? Do you have more

peace? Because all of those things without the fruit means nothing. So for

everybody in here who has a vision, I just want to give you a

vision for fresh fruit in your life. And I'm just gonna give you three

things I learned in the last two years so that you can apply them to

your life. Okay, real quickly. The first thing you need to know

is if you're gonna get fresh fruit, your faith is gonna be tested.

I know I'm a Christian now, y'all Church people made me go back and

renew my Christian card. No, I know, I know, I know

I actually believe in God. Now, I know I can turn the other

cheek. I gave people severance pay who I knew was talking about me.

I know I know that I can love my enemy now. But if you

think your faith being tested is a punishment, you don't understand the God that

we serve. It's actually watch this. Your faith being tested is not a

punishment, It's a privilege. Ask Job, have you considered y'all not ready

for this word? Because I'm not screaming. You don't understand. God chose

Job to go through all those trials, and the reason some of y'all like

but not me. He'd never choose you because you would leave him the moment

he took your apartment away. He would never you too weak in your faith.

He'd never choose you because one person be offended. But your faith being

tested is a privilege, and I didn't know it at the time, but

I know it now, and I'm coming to tell you because God's gonna give

you a vision and your faith is gonna be tested. You're gonna be sitting

there like, God, was this you? What the heck? All the

people I thought was gonna be here with me and this is gone? Where

the money at. My husband's doubting me. My wife is doubting me.

My parents can't see why I'm God least, okay, you gave me the

vision. Tell somebody else so I'm not out here alone, he said,

I gave it to you. I don't give vision to a committee. I

give vision to a man or a woman, and it is their responsibility to

write it down. It is their responsibility to keep it fresh. It is

their responsibility to share that vision and transformation church. I just thank you for

being a place that I could come to every Sunday. And even though I

was the pastor of this church, this was my place of faith. I

would come in here so many days and not have any energy to do anything.

Another staff member just left and all they said was it's because God called

them somewhere else. After six years, you can't even tell me the real

reason, but you do subliminal Instagram posts. I'm being too real up here,

but this is real. But I would come in here and I would

see the people who stayed. I would see the black sheets over all the

sections that used to be filled with thousands of people and praising worship would go

forth, and y'all would worship like this place was packed, and it just

gave me just enough to get up and do what I knew I was called

to do, for every encouraging word, for every prayer, for every person

that still came, for every person that joined in the middle of all of

this stuff. And you're like, why everybody a little okay, I don't

even know, but I'm here like, thank you. Because when my faith

was tested, this church was a place of faith for me. The very

thing that I had given my life for became a life source to me.

This is why I tell you that your faith being tested. It's gonna happen.

Somebody say it's gonna happen in your marriage. Your faith is gonna be

tested. You're gonna be looking at them, like God, I made the

wrong decision. Look at them, look at them, look at him.

But you go, but you it ain't even real until it's been tested.

Oh God, how do you know gold is real? It's been tested?

In fire James Chapter one, verse two. It says, dear brothers and

sisters, when trouble of any kind come your way, any kind, consider

it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is

testing, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow.

Somebody say let it grow. Let it grow. For when your endurance is

fully developed, watch this. This is the promise you will be perfect and

complete, needing nothing. What if you don't need more money to feel complete.

What if you just need your faith to be tested to the point where

you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing. That means everything God does

is a cherry on top. It ain't even the cake, it ain't even

the meal. This is just extra. So if you want vision for fresh

fruit, your faith is gonna be tested. Number two, If you want

vision for fresh fruit, watch this. You need to have friends that are

trusted. And the reason I put the word trusted is because a lot of

us have friends. We don't have a lot of trusted friends in a world

where I mean literally on Facebook like those are my Facebook friends? Like we've

watered down the words so much that I had to put some more weight on

the back end of it. Do you have trends friends that are trusted?

Have you found your tribe yet have you found the people that it's like,

if we going to war, we're going together. Or if we crying,

we crying together. And if we turned up, we turned up together.

And if and if and if we're hurting, we're and the truth of the

matter is in the place where we should find more of that in the church.

It's very, very scarce. The only thing that got me through this

season of testing was I had trusted friends. Brian Aaron came to that hotel

room that I was in with Natalie and my wife is sitting there holding me.

I'm a grown man and I'm curled up in a fetal position because of

the thoughts of what this might mean. I was overwhelmed. I wanted to

punch people. I wanted to punch walls. I wanted I wanted to get

up and say, this doesn't even this the third time I've done the example

stoopid, like I want okay. But God was like, uh, I'm

cutting on you. He said, it's not them, They're just the tool.

I'm using what happens when you pray to let God get back at everybody,

And he said, I'm using them to get something out of you.

So I just gotta let this happen, yep, because I'm with you,

and if I be for you, who can be against you? He said,

let me cut Because I'm a surgeon. I know how to cut you

in such a way that it'll keep all of your passion but take off all

the perversion. Y'all know that's what the Word of God does. It says

it can cut through bone and may row. Do you know how precise of

a cut it would have to be? I thank God for my trusted friends,

thank God for Aaron and Breath. I thank God for Scott and mo

I remember Scott. He's sitting here and we play it right now. But

the reason it's so easy for me to give Scott whatever that man saw me

in the back when I did not want to come out here. Praise and

worship has started and I'm in the back and he sees me sitting there,

tired out of my mind, and he just prays for me and close the

door. You need anything else? I'm like, no, He said,

you got this today. God's with you. I'm with you, you got

this, and he would just encourage me. I can't tell you how many

times mo I would tell him, mo I can't. I can't even do

nothing from that on Date Night? Can you just go pick something out from

me? Because I still got a water to see that God has called me.

Even in this season where I feel depleted and Moe would bring back stuff,

It's like, hold on, bro, you're doing too much. Brother,

I'm gonna I'm gonna have to keep this up when I get better.

I'm just being real right now. Y'all can't tell you how many times my

brothers would just come over. I'm checking on you. Mike, you good,

Brent, you good. Heybro almost had to kill somebody in the comments

the other day. Bro, the ain't not gonna mess this blood gang here.

I ain't gonna like it. And I'm like, hold on, calm

down, calm down. But I'm kind of like yes, yes, like

come on, you wanna know who fight for you? You know what I'm

saying, Like this is too real day. I'm but I didn't want I

didn't want to. I didn't want to sell you vision. I just wanted

to share it with you. And I remember going to NAPA and thinking of

Proverbs seventeen seven. A friend loves at all times, and a brother is

born for adversity. And this is what I pray for every person, because

your faith will be tested. I'm praying that at some point your trusted friends

turn into brothers and sisters. Can you put when we was on the balcony,

this is what we did. Every morning, I was up praying and

every night can you put where we were on this balcony sitting around a campfire,

and all Aaron would ask me is how do you feel today? And

they would just let me talk. They weren't praying for me, like come

here, lift your hands, You're gonna be delivered tonight from hurting day.

They just held space for me. They let me cuss. I know church

people, I know where I know, but I was hurting. They let

me say things. They let me And I was getting texts from people like

Jay and John, and I was getting text from people like Leucrae and Kean

Henderson and Tim Facetimed. I was just surrounded by people who were built for

the adversity. Can I just tell you they're not a friend. If they

are not built for adversity, call them something else. But if they can't

go through a hard season with you, they weren't a friend to begin with.

And it's beautiful when you go through seasons like this because it clears things

up real quick. I found out who people were work real fast. And

that don't mean I'm not going around. I go around some of them right

now, but I know who they are. Now. You're not gonna trick

me no more. Oh bro, you should no, No, I don't

trust you, but I'm here, God bless you. What's up? Picture

A, let's go. I know who that is. Now you need that.

You need trusted friends. Third thing, and this week we're gonna end.

You're gonna have to You said, send them, Lord, She said,

send them Lord. You have to be what you want. So I

want to tell you how to get trusted friends. Be one, sow the

seed into it. Who are you encouraging every single week, every single day?

Who do you know has lost something and you took your six dollars and

made something and just went And it's gonna be It's gonna be difficult because it's

not hard. I mean, it is hard many times to be generous to

people because most people won't even want to accept it. But I'm just saying,

if you want this type of friendship, be this type of friend The

reason Aaron and Bree were there when I was in my is because we were

there when they were in their value. Why when they were about to get

a divorce we showed up at their house. I'm not telling their business,

they said on this stage and already told everybody. We showed up at their

house. And it was like hell to the naw, no, no,

And they were convinced, like this is what we're gonna do. And I

was like, over my dead body, have you tried this? Have you

tried this? Have you tried this? When they didn't have the will to

fight for themselves, they had friends that would get in the fire with them.

I'm trying not to get too happy, but I'm just telling you everybody

needs a space of faith where your faith is okay to be tested. You

also need friends that are trusted, and this last one, you need spiritual

formation training. I don't care how saved you are. If you're not still

learning something, you're actually becoming vulnerable to the enemy. It was David where

it says at time, at the time where kings were supposed to go to

war, when he was supposed to be fighting again, he stayed back.

The only reason he saw Bathsheba is because he was not still doing the things

he had been trained to do. And can I just say that nobody is

exempt from falling no matter how long you've been in the game. If when

it's time to train, you don't spiritually train, if you don't do the

fast that God tells you to do, if you don't read the Word,

if you don't have quiet time, if you won't worship, if you won't

do those things. I'm telling you right now, what you're doing is setting

yourself up to be vulnerable to the enemy. And how did I spiritually form

during that time? There were no classes for me, There were nothing.

I went to books. I read this book right Here by John Mark Comer,

The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry. This book transformed my life. I read

this book Leadership Pain by Sam Chan This book changed my life. It was

spiritually forming me for the next season of what God had for me. I

read The Blessed Church. I read other books by Miles Monroe, The Purpose

and Power of a Leader. I was being spiritually formed, but I devoted

myself to it. Nobody told me to do this. And the sad thing

about the church today is everybody's waiting for a program for their progress. What

if you don't get a program for your progress. What if you don't get

a podcast for your progress? What if it's on you? Acts two forty

two it says they devoted what's the next word themselves? This year, I'm

praying that every person would devote themselves Tustin, Mike, why did you just

tell us this? Because two years ago I started on this journey of transformation.

This is what produced so much fruit in my life. Simple equation.

Faith plus friends plus spiritual formation equals fruit. We're yelling fruit and fresh fruit

this year. This is how you get it. Faith plus what friends plus

what spiritual formation equals what fruit? So this division for our church from now

on, all we're gonna do is provide an opportunity for you to have a

space of faith, to actually make friends and have a place for spiritual formation.

I told our team, we're canceling everything else because everything else doesn't produce

fruit. Some of the stuff just we like to do. I'm gonna make

an announcement we're not doing conference this year. Oh that's how serious I am

about this. I said, I want to take all the creative energy all

the money, all the effort and energy, because at the end of the

day, I don't want just a hype experience and there's real transformation that happens

at the conference and we don't do the conference. Again, don't get it

twisted. But this year, he said, Michael, I want you to

double down on what produces fruit. And it's not a conference, Prince.

What produces a fruit in this is doing the things that our faith needs repeatedly

until it transforms. So, Pastor Mike, what do you want us to

do? First thing? I want you to make a commitment to God's house

this year. I told the mended men. I said, I don't want

you to miss ten practices. I said, you can only miss ten practices

this year. And they was all looking at me and I said, when

we come to Sunday service, this is practice. Y'all thought this was the

game. I said, the game is out there. It's when we're on

those jobs and with our relatives that don't believe, and when we're in the

grocery that's the game. And everybody coming to church like we have the game,

this is practice practice. What I'm telling you right now is that when

you miss practice, you don't know how to run the place. And the

reason why the enemy's able to run up the score on you out there,

why you can't get your control of your browser history, why you cannot say

no to those temptations, it's because you keep missing practice. I'm telling the

whole church, you get ten getting You got ten weekends off. Some of

y'all already used up eight of them. But what would happen if you made

a fresh commitment to the House of God this year and that every week you

knew you were at least one time in a space that He could speak to

you, that on my hair, come with a hat on, like we

don't care here. Your other church might have cared how you looked. I'd

rather you be in a space where somebody can see you, that you could

experience what I experienced when I didn't want to be here. Somebody else's Holly

Lujah helped me. Okay, And we're putting new emphasis on on Tulsa campus,

and we're putting new energy here. So if you are in Tulsa,

I'm saying this because I know Transformation Nation is watching and you're gonna keep getting

all the things that you already get. But if you're in Tulsa, don't

watch from the house. They don't want me to pass to them. Today.

You're still hiding, and can I be real vulnerable with you? You're

lazy. I know it is more convenient, but the calling of Christ is

not about convenience. What I'm asking you to do is get in the place

that somebody can see you. Second thing, how are you gonna get friends?

We're now changing B Groups and we're giving it a new name because God

gave me fresh vision. Somebody say fresh vision. There were a couple of

things about B Groups that I wanted to change, and I'll tell you them

today just so you can be aware. Number One, the logo had to

change because it was a puzzle piece and many of you didn't know that.

But how things look and what it says means a lot to me. And

the puzzle piece Now that me and Natalie have a son that is currently on

the autism spectrum, that means something different to us. And so I was

like, that doesn't completely describe what I want this to be. And the

second thing is what we were trying to do in the small groups is we

were trying to put the teaching discipleship with the fellowship, and it can get

weird, like when you come in trying to make friends and they're like,

what did God give you out a room in six today? It's like,

come on, let's be honest, Like sometimes I just want to talk about

the game and what's going on, and we can pray together and stuff.

But and we got some weird stuff happening in the b groups, like people

started forming their own churches, and people started like it just got weird,

and I was like, no, In Acts two forty two, they fellowship

together and they ate together. That's separate from devoting themselves to the apostle teachers.

They did that, but then they just chilled and talked and played pool

and went to restaurants together. So the major thing that we're gonna do is

we're gonna pull out the teaching aspect out of our small groups. And what

we're going to do is make it relational. Well, what does it mean,

You're gonna find your tribe? Matter of fact, that's the new of

our small groups. Tribes. Yeah, and I'm believing for every person in

Transformation Church, you're gonna find your tribe this year. I'm not talking fifty

people, But I'm talking three to ten that when you have a baby,

you don't need to hold church to come and gather around you. But those

five to seven people, they gonna make you feel special. The statistics tell

us that if three people know your name when you come to a large gather,

it feels like you own the place. You've ever been to a concert

thousands of people, but Joe Friends is there and you're looking at it.

You don't need everybody else to know you, but you need somebody to know

you. This want to ask you not to just run out of here after

church. I know you're hungry, but your soul is too, and it's

desiring relationship that you're trying to find a scream when it could actually be with

a handshake. We're gonna find our tribes. We're gonna eat together. We're

gonna play pickleball together. We're gonna we're gonna lift weights together. We're gonna

knit together. I'm gonna I don't know who's gonna be knitting, but somebody

is. I know one of y'all is gonna be knitting. And let me

say this. I need leaders for this. I need people that say I'm

not just going to observe the vision. I'm gonna own it. I'm gonna

open up my house, I'm gonna I'm gonna go to our clubhouse. We're

gonna meet at the coffee shop. We're gonna get together because I know there

are people out there like me, and watch this's different than me. Let

me very clear. We do not want our small groups to just be people

who like the same things together. Right, somebody said, I'm gonna find

my tribe. And the last thing is, we're going to create an opportunity

for spiritual formation here. On Wednesday nights, we're going to pray from six

to six forty five and that's then at seven fifteen, we're gonna have classes

all over this building. Yeah, and we're going to We're gonna teach you

things that are not coming from the platform. We're gonna teach you how to

pray. We're gonna teach you about relationships. We're gonna teach you about finances.

We're gonna teach you about parenting. We're gonna teach you we're gonna call

in people who have an anointing and a grace to do that, and you're

gonna be able to bring your kids so some of y'all just gonna have a

break. You're just gonna be like here and you're gonna throw your kids off,

and you're gonna get fifty minutes to actually know that you're growing. And

if you've already been come in to our prey with me Wednesdays. There's already

hundreds of people showing up and we're gonna be we're gonna be out of here

by eight o'clock. And some of the parents, I know, you're like

eight o'clock, it's a school night. Your kids are still running around at

your house. You're trying to give a melotonein at eight fift here, I

know, and I'll just playing. I'll just play. Some of y'all are

really own it. What I'm saying is one night investment for your spirit and

your soul to know that you're growing. Pastor that's it. That's it.

See, because a lot of churches want to do a lot of things.

Not here anymore. We're gonna focus because we want fruit to do that.

I know. There's a couple of things that I have to do. Everily,

will Charles Abby, can y'all come sit on the couch with me real

quick? So for for this to happen, when you start thinking about fruit

and you start thinking about how do you do this, you need people who

actually carry pieces of the vision. And these people have been carrying pieces of

the vision for a long time with me and Natalie. But with fresh vision,

there needs to be fresh repositioning. And so today I ain't want to

do no big thing. I just wanted to invite them to the couch so

you could see what's going to happen. This campus is about to build.

That something builds your church. I felt that thing through my toes today and

it's going to be an anthem because it's about to start going. But I

know for what God has apostolically called me to do, I cannot be the

local pastor that everybody desires me to be. I don't have the bandwidth to

build out these huge visions and get up here and speak and prepare and do

that. But I know it's necessary. That's why God gave the church fivefold,

some teachers, some problem like he didn't just do one thing. And

there's many times in church that there's not enough space for everybody because the the

pastor wants to take up all the positions, not here. So today I'm

introducing to our first location because there will be more your brand new campus pastors

Charles and Abby Medcalf. Oh this is a big deal. Y'all can give

it up. You can give it up, all right, sit down,

we gotta go. We got me. I want you to hear me say

this. I trust them explicitly. I've walked with them through valleys. I

told Abby when she got here, I said, you're gonna walk in a

high level of ministry and she left crying like Mike is trying to take away

my purpose because she was a phenomenal forographer at the time. But these two

are going to lead this campus in a multi ethnic, multi generational, loving

way that they gonna be in the lobbies and when you want to tell somebody

something, you're gonna go to them. I'm gonna be your pastor. I

ain't going nowhere. I'm gonna seek vision from God. I'm praying for you.

I'm doing what God has called me to do. But for the sheep

to actually be taken care of, you gotta have somebody you can go to.

And they gonna have a team of people. He's not here today because

he's preaching at another church to give another pastor a break. But your associate

campus pastor is gonna be Will Heckenbach. Oh, y'all can give it up

in his ascis that's my dog. And Will Heat the one where all the

tattoos has a jail record, Yeah, that's my doll. The reason I

say that is because God can redeem anybody, and I want to make sure

that people know at this church that you can start out at the bottom.

We'll start it out as an intern here and now he's going to be our

associated campus pastor, and then with our campus team, are going to be

getting the church that is here locally mobilized to transform this city. And we're

not going to do it at the expense of real relationships. And so what

I did was I talked to two people who do relationships almost better than anybody,

and I say, hey, could y'all stop doing all of that for

a second, and I need you to focus so we can get fruit because

people are being picked off because they don't have people to walk with them,

because the Bible says two are better than one. And so I found Will

and Amberley, and they're your brand new tribe's pastors at Peace we love you.

Now watch this, Watch this. These people are looking for more people

because four people ain't enough to take care of all y'all. What I'm saying

to you is now I've put leaders in place, so we can put more

leaders in place, because the goal is not this building field. The goal

is the city being transformed. I only got four claps right here, but

they don't know what we're trying to do. But it's okay, you'll see

it. We're standing up here and sitting well, sitting right now to let

you know that we got three focuses so that we can see fruit. We

will come to this space of faith and hear from God. We will find

friends in tribes, and we're gonna get spiritually formed on Wednesday nights here And

let me just say this for everybody. Transformation Nation. And everybody is like,

oh my god, I can't come on Wednesday because I work in all

that other stuff they devoted themselves. These are not the only ways to do

this thing. Everybody needs these things. So if you don't go to TC,

fine, you need to find a space of faith. You need to

have trusted friends, and you need to have a place of spiritual formation.

Remember where I told you my spiritual formation happened. It happened through books.

But you gotta be committed and consistent to it. So on Wednesday nights,

if you can't come, it's all good. Get a book very soon.

I'm not making any promises, but we're just trying to get the curriculum and

the technology rite Transformation Nation. You will have a Wednesday Night situation as well.

We gonna get this thing going. But what I'm saying is we're gonna

have fruit this year. Now. Somebody shot at me? Fruit what?

Everybody stand all over this building? Come y'all stay with me. Let's come

on. Would you grab hands with somebody next to you? Please? I

hope me sharing vulnerably today helped you not just observe the vision, but desire

to own it. I can't do what God has called us to do alone,

representing God to the loss and found for transformation, like all the lost

people, all the found people. There's too many of those in Tulsa just

to But what would happen if an army raised up a businessman and soccer moms

and grandparents and high school students and college athletes and judges and lawyers and tech

professionals and pastors and singers and worship leaders and musicians, police officers and firemen.

What would happen if we would come here every week and invite people here,

bring people here, and we would all change together, and you'd tell

them, like, you like church, wait till Wednesday, and I'm like,

what happens on Wednesday? Oh you'll see. Oh yeah, you're having

problems in your marriage? Go to the relationship goals class? Like, no,

y'all just come like no, I promise it's not weird at all.

And if you need prayer, like, just come at six, just come

a little early. I won't be there till seven because I got to get

the kids situated. But come at six. Everybody's friendly there. They'll just

walk in. And what if somebody would come and start learning about their finances

and relationships and they be like, Hey, I see you at the gym

all the time. What's your name? Wow? You should come to my

tribe this Friday night. What do y'all do at the tribe? We just

be chilling. We actually this this week, we're going to taste the new

food truck situation over at Mother Roads Market. You like tacos? Yeah,

they got some vegan tacos over there, you're vegan doll, but we're gonna

try it and if it don't wear, but if it don't work out,

we got a Taco spot truck on thirty first in Garnet. That's it,

Like, y'all know what I'm talking about. And just through sharing life and

at the end of that tribe, it's like, Hey, does anybody got

anything we can be praying for? Say this week, my my family is

really facing a hard situation financially, And then it goes from let's yeah,

let's pray about that, and then somebody comes over at the end and it's

like, how much you need? We're praying about it. God just gave

me a bonus last week. See because in Acts two forty two they shared

everything they had and it says that people were added to the no that we're

being saved daily. It's gonna be a Acts two forty two church, but

it can't be if the vision is just in me. That's why today I

had to share the vision. Father. We're here asking you to build your

church for every person Father God that has been in a decision phase, whether

this is their church, Father, I thank you that Today people are being

equipped to make a sound decision that is confirmed by the spirit. Today,

I thank you that in this church vision will be valuable. And God,

I shared vulnerably today. Let he or she who has the ear to hear,

let him hear, and not just here, but God. I thank

you that they will be compelled to help. God, I thank you that

there are people on the other side of this screen, on the other side

of this building, on the other side of the world, that need you

in a fresh way, and you've given us the grace and the anointing to

represent you to the lost and found for transformation in Christ. God thank you

that all the people in this room will just be a seed of all the

people around the world that will be doing this vision. And God, I

thank you that by the end of the year there will be fruit, so

much fruit that will last, so much fruit that our enemies will get nourished,

so much fruit that where we go, Father God, we leave a

lasting change, not because of our own merriage, but because of your grace.

Today we're humbly asking you to prepare our hearts to obey you, because

you will speak and we will listen and obey. Beuild your church. Build

your church, beaulded from the ground up. It's your church. Beaut geor

Church, Beauty George Church, beaulded from the ground up. It's your church.

Come on, y'all, Beauty George Church. Bel beauty from the ground

up. It's your This is not ours, beauty George Church, it's yours,

God, your church builded from the ground up with your hands. It's

come on, listen, just say it. Beauty George Church. Yeah,

build George Church, builded from the ground up. It's your church. We're

submitted Jesus, We're committed. Good church from the ground is. If you're

in this room and you've never accepted Jesus, today is the day of salvation.

I need the church to begin to pray. It's the only thing that

can take you from a liar of manipulator, somebody like me who is addicted

to pornography, and it can give you a fresh start today. If you're

in this room and you know today is the day of salvation, that you

don't want to go another day leading your own life. Today, I want

you to give your life to Christ. I'm telling you right now you have

come to a space of faith, and everybody in this room is believing for

you. Church, I need you to pray right now because eternity is in

the balance. If that's you and you want to accept Jesus and make him

your personal Lord and savior on the counter, Three, all I want you

to do is lift your hands and we're going to believe and pray with you

that your eternity is transformed today. One, you're making the greatest decision of

your life. Two. I'm proud of you. But more than that,

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

If you want to give your life to Christ, I see you.

You're waving over there. Anybody else, I see you right there, right

there there. It is glory to God. Come on transformation in church,

how do we praise God? I see you. But more than that,

God sees you. Listen before you leave. We're a family here. Nobody

prays alone. Let's pray together. Lord, Thank you for sending Jesus just

for me. Today, I give you my life. I believe you lived,

you died, and you rose again with all power. Today I give

you everything, Change me, renew me, transform me. I'm yours in

Jesus' name. Amen. Can we celebrate all over this building. I said,

can we celebrate all over He's with this building. Glory to God.

Come on, if you just can we celebrate everybody who made that decision today.

Hey, listen, if you just made that choice, do not leave

here one without telling somebody. Do not leave today without telling somebody that you

made that choice. And don't leave without telling us. There's a QR code

that'll come up on your screen if you're watching online or here at the Tulsa

campus, you can take a picture of that. It's a quick form just

for us to get to know you, to help equip you and meet you.

Listen, we are so excited for everything God is doing here at the

church. Thank you for being here this Sunday. And hey, as you

leave today, I want to mention it again. We got a fruit merch

that's out there. And as you leave today, me somebody k new,

give somebody a hug, tell them you love them. Me and Abby gonna

be out the lobby. Come give us a hug, give us. I

was about to say a kiss. Not a kiss, that's weird. Anyways,

I only kiss my wife. That was weird. Anyways, we love

you very much. Go out and live a transformed life. We'll see.

Thank you for joining us today. If you said that prayer and accept it

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

want to celebrate with you, and we have some tools to help you on

your journey. Tech saved to a two A two A two and to find

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Now go out and live a transform life.