What Happens With A Word // Anniversary Sunday 2024 // 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? Well,

we have been in a series called Start Sharp. Has anybody been blessed by

the messages that has come through this series? Okay, this is a little

different pace from me than I usually do because I usually give y'all the Word

of the Year right at the top of the year. But this is why

it's good that you go back and ask God what he wants you to do,

because I was about to run the same play and the Holy Spirit said,

no, they need to value what you're gonna say. So you need

to teach for a month about how to start sharp, and then today I'm

going to give you the Word of the year. Now, I need everybody

to understand what this means. This is not a marketing campaign. Word of

the Year at Transformation Church is not a cool idea to get people engaged in

church at the top of the year. This is a pattern that is biblical

that allows people to understand and gather around a word that God speaks most people

don't do this because they're trying to protect God's reputation. And He's never needed

you to protect his reputation. So for me to get up here and stand

and say, I went and sought the Lord and he gave me a word.

I believe it's a corporate word for our church, and time will prove

if I heard from the Lord. Most people don't want that type of pressure,

but I was built for it, and we have proof that every time

the Lord has spoken a word in this house for the last nine years,

when we get to the end of the year, we'd be like that was

God. I even tell you. During the pandemic, we got up here

and I yelled and screamed that the word is stronger, stronger. God's gonna

make us stronger. Six weeks later we were shut down. I said,

I know, I miss God. Maybe the word should have been little,

closed done. But the truth of the matter was is that by the end

of the year, from all the pivoting and planning and changing and transforming and

revisioning we had to do, by the end of the year, we were

So today I'm gonna release this word to you at the end of the message.

You know, I can't tell you right now because your attention span is

this can't tell you yet. But people have traveled from all over the world

to be here, and I just want to say I'm honored that you would

come, and these words that we speak from this platform are leading and guiding

your life. I am honored, I'm humbled. I am sober to think

that God would trust us to speak with him. And so today I've been

carrying this like a baby, like It's changed the way I've walked, It's

changed the way I've planned. I've been trying to lead y'all, and I've

almost let it out at least nineteen times. After I say the word,

you're going to go back to messages and find me saying it and other messages

in my eyes going like this by myself. Because when you're carrying something that

you know is going to transform people's lives, you want to get it to

them. And so today we are gathering around this word because watch this transformation.

Church knows the value of a word. Let me tell you a story.

Let me bring it up because some of y'all we went to deep right

now. He's like, dang, he gonna be deep all day let's bring

it up. This year, I was out of town in an undisclosed city

visiting a friend, and I learned the value and the power of a word.

Now, some people's words don't matter. Let's be honest. There are

certain people in your life that can talk. It don't move you. They

can scream, they can yell and be like that's just them, but that

there's other people's words that they have to use. They words very carefully because

when they use they words, stuff start just shifting. Well, I was

about to leave this city and I was with a couple of people in this

room, and I got word that a person who's done a lot of significant

things in the world that everybody would know if I called their name, I

got word he wanted to meet me, and I said okay, were about

to leave, and then they said the word again, and that changed the

plan. See a word from the right person, yea, yeah, yeah,

can change your plan. A word from the right person, watch this,

it can change your access. We pulled up to something we drove by

earlier to just look at, and we were escorted into it because of a

word. I'm just trying to make sure you know the value of a word.

Because of that word that this person spoke. It expanded my world in

three hours. No no, no, no, y'all don't understand what I'm

saying. It literally changed the fabric of my brain. What I got to

see changed my world because of a Okay, so I'm sitting with this person

in their home, mind you, two hours later, I mean two hours

earlier, I'm on my way to Chick fil a. Two hours later,

I'm in the home of this person who has a powerful word. And that

person is very perceptive. So they started noticing that I was checking my phone

and texting a lot and all this, and the person asked, what time

is your flight? Because we were in a different city and Natalie don't play

about when Daddy needs to be home. So I was checking, I was

He said, when is your flight? I said in about fifteen minutes.

But the words he was speaking, the gyms he was dropping, was too

valuable to leave that moment where he was speaking these words, And so I

had made it up in my mind, and the people that were with me

is like, if we got to take a train, if we got to

get a greyhound, if we got to catch a red eye, we're not

messing up this moment, and at that moment, out of his almost annoyance

because we were distracted when he was speaking, he picked up a cellular device

that looked similar to the one I have, except I couldn't do with my

cell phone what he did with his cell phone with no hesitation, anxiousness,

or any type of intimidation. He picks up the phone and says, Hey,

Jack, where's the airplane? Yeah? Yeah, Oh, I'm good.

Okay, I have some friend here that need to get to Tulsa this

afternoon. Yeah yeah, fly the jet here and picked him up. All

right, I'll talk to you soon, y'all. Did you just call somebody?

I mean, I'm on the American App. I'm on the Delta app.

Like I'm trying to find if I can get a ten thirty nine out

of D sixty eight. But at his word, somebody who was sitting at

home had to put on clothes. Yah, yeah, fuel up a plane

that was in another city, bring it to where we were at, to

then take us to where we needed to be. Based on one man's word,

If a man that lives on this earth has power like that in his

words, why in the world would I sit here and act like the God

of the universe. Don't have all power and his bird. All I need

is a word from God. And many of us have a catalog of words

from God, and still no obedience at his word. Stars are still in

place at his word, Sees open up at his word, Giants fall at

his word. Dead people get up out of grain. Y'all, don't I

say his word? And you still worried about rent. I'm not saying your

situation is invalid. I'm saying many of the problems that we deal with are

because we did not obey his And so now the enemy has you preoccupied in

things that you're not supposed to even be worried about because the word he gave

you six years ago to write the book, you've still disobeyed because you didn't

graduate from that class. But all I need is just one today. I

want to title this message what happens with the word? What happens with the

because this is the story of my life. Yeah, all I do is

get a word from God and I don't let up off of it. Pastor

Mike is not special. I just stay with his word longer. That's it.

Like the things that God's told me, they are crazy, but I

just choose to believe it, and I will not let up until he tells

me, watch this, that ain't the word for you no more, you

missed it. Not until he confirms the word again and again. I grab

onto the word. If he says it once and he never has to say

it again, I'm gonna keep rocking that word until he tells me, Mike,

get up off that word. You missed me. That wasn't it for

you? And many of us need nineteen confirmations, seventeen proclamations, and four

prophetic utterances. No, no, no, for real? God? Would

you he's just confirming God? Was you just confirming God? What'd you to

confirm it? How many more times does he have to tell you? Get

out of that relationship? You walking around with a black guy still asking God?

I just stepped onto something. I felt the whole room goo. I

didn't know the way of how to pastor lead a family, lead an organize.

I didn't know I had a and I just came to encourage somebody.

If God has given you a word, you have all you need. Everything

else you get when you walk in that way. God is not going to

pack you up with everything you need to fulfill the word. When you're at

the starting life. He's asking you to walk in the direction of the word

he gave and you will get everything that you need. Everybody say on the

way, somebody's like, pass some Mike. I need you to philosophically and

scripturally break down what a word is. A word is threefold to me,

and I'm about to give you the cheat code. Okay, now I'm gonna

unpack this. What is a word? First off, it's a person.

John one one in the beginning was the and the word was with God.

As matter of fact, the word was God. You need a word at

salvation? You get it. I need a word. I go to the

word. Some of y'all run into Google and Facebook and Instagram and TikTok for

a word. Let me let me share this with you. Oh, somebody

said something so powerful. Somebody said something I'm that's great. Yeah, But

if you go to the Guru instead of God for a word for your life,

you have meant from the beginning it was God. So what is a

word? Everybody say a person number two? A word is printed. You

need a word from God. Read your Bible. You see how like everyone's

like Oh that thing that's holding up my coffee table, the thing I bought

for esthetics instead of anointing. I no, I need this white Bible and

I need to Okay, you got the Bible, but it's displayed, but

not displayed. Do you want a word? Yeah, it's printed. It's

a love letter to you, it's instruction to you. It will be here

after you, and it was here way before you, and so many times

I want to just dispel this because people build manipulative ministries off the fact that

they convince you that the only way that you can get a word is from

them. Okay, I know I just stepped on some people's nonprofits, But

what I want to tell you is that God does not need a person to

speak to you if you have the ears to hear what He's trying to illuminate

to you in the printed word of I can't tell you how many times the

people around me did not know what God was telling me to do. But

I found myself in the Word and it spoke directly, directly, prophetically,

and precisely to what I was going through. Some of you don't need another

church service. You need time and a highlighter. Okay, let me stop.

What is the word? It's a person. Everybody say, person is

God? What is the word? It's printed last one, And this is

the one I want to camp out on because this is where I get the

philosophy of having the word of the year for our church. A word of

the year is watch this personal. So God is the word. His words

are actually in the earth. And I'll just give you scripture because I know

somebody I'll be like words of the scripture for that Isaiah forty eight. The

grass withers and the flowers will fall, but the word of our God endures.

Okay. But then sometimes for all of us that knows that God still

speaks, he flexes on us through the Holy Spirit, and he gives us

words that are everybody say personal. There have been times where nobody could have

known what I was going through, and nobody could have been able to articulate

what the season up ahead was going to be. And God would send some

random woman, some random man, some random person is like, oh my

God, God just showed me you and one of them is here today.

I have to honor her. My Godmother Prophet is pan Vanetta sitting right over

there in the green. You look beautiful. Now. Now, now let

me tell y'all why this makes sense. Because I'm sitting in a prophetic word.

She spoke over my life. Me and Natt. I told this story

before, was out here doing stuff we wasn't supposed to be doing. Can't

late for church one day, came in holding hands and as soon as we

came in the church, messing around the night before, acting a fool,

asking God to wash us on the way into the door. Y'all know how

you singing and prepared to prepared your whole repentance speech, living that double minded,

lukewarm life. Can I just be honest about where I was at.

It ain't always been like this. We humble, open and transparent, and

some of y'all just got comfortable because that's what you did yesterday, welcome home.

What I'm telling you, what I'm telling you is I was doing that.

We walk in and Robert is, Pam is on the stage in the

middle of service. You're supposed to be preaching, woman of God, and

we walk in. Michael and Nali come here. I know I got ghosted.

I know my whole spirit jumped out of my body. I said,

we getting exposed today. I knew I was about to get caught up.

I was holding Oatalie's hands. She said, get off me, like what

she didn't want me to touch. I said, you weren't saying that last

night. I said what I'm saying to you, baby, I'm sorry I

didn't check with you before. I said, Oh, bring it up in

counsel on Thursday. And this woman of God brings us up to the front

and she says, personal word, that's what I'm talking about. She said,

Wow, you've known this for a long time, but you're gonna preach

the gospel. I see crowds people. I see you're not gonna be relegated

to youth ministry. There's gonna be young and old, and you're gonna use

humor and irony, and you're gonna bring people from all over the world.

And I'm thinking, this woman lost, huh at this. I've never spoken

a message. I'm living in sin, but there was a personal word that

did not speak to my presence. It spoke to my future. And I

just want to let you know that there are words that God will give you

in season for years, for seasons of your life that will speak to you.

Somebody shot at me, future now watch this, write this definition down.

A personal word is a personal prophetic picture of God's preferred future for you.

So I want to make it clear what she saw was accurate from God.

What I did after I heard the word determine what it actually happened,

right, Because I see so many people talking about I got a word from

God, but your word is stale because you're never gonna obey. And that's

why I want to draw attention to a personal prophetic picture of God's preferred future

for you and what I found out in my life. When God gives a

word like the word of the year, I'm about to tell you in a

few moments, the word of God. Watch this can be a catalyst or

a container. It can be a what catalyst or a camera man? Follow

me real quick. I found out that many people treat the word of God

like this trampoline. What's y'all? Why are y'all owing an eye? Y'all?

Seem is forty foot poline in here. I got a word. I

got a word, went to Transformation Church of Day and boy, what a

I'm touching it right? Thank you Lord, from a word. Thank you

Lord for the word. Y'all look at my word. Look what God has

given me, big old word, an expansive word. I'm sitting on my

word. But the potential for this word to actually take me higher is based

on what I do after I get it. And most people when they get

a word from God, it's not a catalyst to take them higher. It's

thing that becomes pressure that they get under. Or you wasn't expecting the example

to go here. But most of us, God gives us a word,

and when God says jump with it, it contains us be everything. How

many years will I not reach what the word was supposed to do. I'm

trying to stand up on this word, but for some reason, the word

is so vast, and I'm thinking about how unequipped I am, and how

much team I don't have, and how many how many people have left me

before? And so now I'm under the word, just out here obeying God,

trying to trying to get this word off the ground, trying to get

this business off. And what people become is discouraged and tired. But what

would happen if we crawled up from under the word that God has given us

and we actually believed it was true and it no longer was a container,

but it became a catalyst. This is a complete different experience. I will

believe what the Word has said and what he said over my life. And

some of y'all are scared because you've never jumped that high before. You would

rather me get on a word of God and sit on it. I know

y'all can see me. So this is the word that God's given me.

When God said, if you would put your if you will put your faith

on it, it could go from something that merely is something that can hold

you up. And this is the thing. Most people they get a word

from God and they do this. Ooh, look at that. We nowhere

no annoying. You can do this in your own strength. I could do

that on the ground. I could do this, but I've never been able

to dunk in my whole life. But if you give me this trampline ten

feet twelve feet, you could take that mug up til fourteen. I will.

I will because what's not possible for me without a word, It's possible

when I have a word from God. It's time for you to stand on

the word of God. And this is the thing. It takes action from

here. While I was telling you last week to get fit to finish.

It's because I can't even think about doing this example. Three years ago,

I was too fat to finish this example. I said, it you can

like, it's okay. I said, it's like, oh my, oh

okay. What I'm saying is God is speaking words to us, and we're

okay with just being around it. But it's time for you to start not

just standing on it. I'm gonna write the vision. I'm gonna tell people

about it. I'm gonna be known for it. They don't even have to

actually happen tomorrow, but I'm gonna have faith for it. I'm actually gonna

build my stamina. I'm actually gonna do something. But what would happen if

everybody started flipping on the things that God told him to do? What if

we started getting the hype? We would be like a city on the hill.

Oh, we would be able to be seen. Y'all was scared that

I would fall, But a righteous man falls seven times and he gets back.

Y'all better stop, y'all stop. And this is why it's important you

have friends with faith. Because as high as I could jump by myself,

if I call Brent him up here, and I called Charles up here,

and I called Travis up here, and we started jumping. And I want

to do it so bad, but the lawyer told me not to. How

high I jumped alone would be exponentially increased because of who jumped with me.

Thank you for being with us for the last nine years. But if you

don't have faith to stand on God's word, I don't need you in this

next season. I only need people who'll go have faith where the people gotta

gon have faith to stand on what God has told them. Somebody shout just

one word, just one word, Miss Twila, just one word to Mario.

Somebody say just one word. What can a word from God do change

everything? Just one word? Did I know? And this is all I'm

asking you to do is believe what he tells you enough to put your weight

on it. I could have done that whole example and sat down and at

the end of my life would have had so much potential, but no purpose

actually reached. What are you trying to say? A personal word from God

always requires action to be activated. If you don't believe the word until you

do something. Hear what I'm saying. God tells you to give a certain

amount of money to a person. You don't believe that word until you actually

do it. And so many people think that they're obeying God at thought.

You just missed it. I heard you, Lord. When my kids hear

me and don't do what I tell them to do, it's more frustrating than

when like I would or rather you not heard me. Boo. As a

church and a society, we have gotten this thing. I hear you,

Lord, I hear you, Lord, Lord. It's clear. It's clear,

he says, So do it, stand on it, talk to them,

believe for it. And so I'm gonna just tell you what we do

real quick. Whenever you get a word, the first thing I need you

to do is why receive it? Because somebody can give you a word and

you can reject it, and the Bible tells us sometimes you need to reject

it. There's some people that gave me words. I said, the Lord

is gonna have to pick a different vessel because you ah, because the spirit

says you can test this by the spirit. But there are many things that

God's saying and you are denying it because of your personality. Wow, you're

denying it because of your type of communication style. You're denying it because nobody

in your family's ever done anything like this. He said, I can change

all those things, but I need you. Everybody, say receive it?

And can I say it like this? This is how I felt to say

it to you. You're worthy of hearing a word from God. So many

people have felt like they've disqualified themselves that they need to be perfect to hear

from God. But when I look at the Bible, God speaks to people

who he's perfecting, not who are perfect. And you deserve to hear from

God and put your weight on it and see that thing become a catalyst in

your life. So the first thing we do with the word from God is

what receiving. The second thing we do write it. I tell people all

the time. People come to me with plans now all the time because we

generously give to organizations and churches and stuff, and they be acting like it's

my money. So they come to me. But past I'm like, I

got this great idea, Da da da dah. Is like, first off,

I don't have the money for that. Second off, it's an idea,

not a vision until it's on black and white paper. I don't listen

to ideas, because I can come up with a thousand ideas right now.

I can come up with good ideas, bad ideas, and different ideas come

on right now. If somebody is like, what you want to do after

church? How many ideas could we get in this room? But God does

not recognize what he's saying to you an idea for him. He recognizes it

when it's written down. Rebecca tells us what to write the vision and make

it plain. But see this takes faith as well, because when you write

it and make it plain, he's telling you why he said. Because I'm

gonna send other people to room with you and they need you won't have time

to explain to them all of the foundational principles of why you did what you

did. So you got to write it down so they can read it while

you're on the run. So we receive it, then we do what write

it. I thought about it this the other day. Like this jacket right

here says represent on the back of it is one of my favorite jackets that

we've ever gotten made, and it has the vision and all the church anniversary

stuff on it. But I remember that the vision of this church to put

represent on the back of the jacket and to put the vision right here.

I went to Forever twenty one before I did the vision message and I found

a printer and I paid for the first ever represent jacket and I still have

it. It's too big, thank God. But I believe so much in

this vision that I wanted to write it down, not in a conventional way.

I wanted to wear it. And I have video proof of me on

stages I never qualified to be on, from London to Elevation Church. I've

been all over wearing this same jacket, all the clips you saw and stuff,

and wearing the same jacket different colors with the vision on it because I

believed in what God said when nobody else did. Today, I'm telling you

there's some things that God has given you a word on that will seem normal

in a different season, that seem absurd right now for me to put represent

on anything. It's gonna sell out today with the words felled wrong on the

merch. Somebody's gonna be like, this is my opportunity. I'm a buy

it. But when I first did it, I couldn't pay nobody to wear

it because nobody believed in the word except the one who gave it to me,

and I came to encourage somebody before I give you this word. I

know God's given us. I want you to value a word. And the

reason I know that most of us don't value a word from God is because

we don't value our word to ourselves. You can't even value the word of

the God you don't see because you will tell somebody I'll be there at six

and won't get there till six forty five. You don't believe your word.

Okay, I got to get up. I felt a fence rising up right

there. We'll tell somebody to pray for them, But you won't love your

enemy. You don't believe your own word. But when God gives a word,

we receive it. Say, receive it, write it, number three,

work it. If you don't work the word, it will not produce

what it was set to produce. Every cake is just ingredients. Have you

ever had her upside down? Oh? My God, that cake was the

same flowers, sugar until somebody put their hands on it and did what.

I'm gonna have work that word. I'm saying, like, what are the

things God told you to do that you have not worked yet? Yeah?

There are some areas of my life that God said, Michael, I've spoke

to you on that. I'm gonna expose myself, okay, because some of

y'all don't get it until, like I tell you, like real life examples.

I've always been musical, always been musical. That same woman prophesied over

me when I was a day old that I'd be able to master many instruments.

And I mastered one and I got I got I got complacent. I

got enough compliments because I could kill the drums. I got enough, I

got enough money, I got enough accolades. I got enough. It was

like I don't need anymore. And God said the word was you would master

many instruments, but you stopped at the one that everybody clapped for. So

now you're valuing their word over my word. Okay, all right, I'm

just trying to I'm just trying to encourage you. And so this year I've

already told my wife Ann said the budget that I have to go take piano

lessons. Now now you're saying yes, but that's frustrating to me, only

because I'm going to start piano back at beginner and I'm gonna have to be

humble enough to not be good anymore. There will be nobody clapping for me

when I'm gonna and then all the finger and anything. And I'm gonna want

to win at the damn tamen, damn pmping did again? I want I'm

gonna want to do that. Can I be honest? I'm gonna be I

want to make a track. I'm gonna want to turn it into a beat.

And God said, and my daughter is in there talking about playlett Mary.

I had a little lambage, Sit down, go to bed. But

will you work what God said? Somebody shot at me? Work it,

receive it, write it, work it James two twenty six. For as

the body is without the spirit is dead. So faith without works is what

it's deceased. But that means faith with works is a lie. Next one,

speak it. Everybody says, speak it. Many of the visions God's

given you, you got it all the way down to the work it stage,

but you won't tell nobody. And I found out my help comes when

I tell other people what God's doing in my life. Okay eighteen twenty one.

The tongue has power of life and death, and those who love it

will eat Its true. That's gonna be important five. Refine it. We

receive it, write it, work it, speak it, refine. The

version that God gave me may have revisions. And if I only hear God

one time and spend time with Him one time and never go back to him,

I may be off by the time it's time to see what he said.

This is why I have a pattern of withdrawing and getting with God so

that he can say, yeah, you heard me in part. No,

No, you're going the right way, but get in this lane right.

If you don't allow God to refine the vision he's given you, it usually

ends up not what he wanted in the first place. So what do we

do with vision? Receive it? What's the next one? Write it,

work it. And the crazy thing is some of y'all not even writing this

down. The crazy thing. As a pastor, I am giving you the

cheat code right now, and you're just looking at me. And then you're

gonna go home and ask God for a word, and you set here for

two and a half hours. Receive it, write it, work it,

speak it, refine it, last one, rehearse it. I keep playing

it back. Yeah. The Spirit Bank event center will be Transformation Church.

The Spirit Bank Event Center will be Transformation Church. Did y'all know we don't

have a building yet, but the Spirit Bank Event Center will be Transformation Church.

When they tried to take me to go see kmarts, I'm not playing,

you know where? They was like, the pastor is not available.

They told us it's under contract. But God told me he gave me a

The Spirit Bank Events Center will be Transformation Church. Stop bringing me buildings with

k marts, buildings with came, stop bringing me k Marts. I rehearsed

it. I broke into this building and took a picture and I kept it

as my screen saver, so every time that I looked at my phone,

don't forget what God said. And the crazy thing about it is, I'm

I'm. I don't want this for the church. I want this for your

life. I don't I don't want I don't want us to be a part

of a church that sees God do miraculous things. And in your everyday life

you do not see it. But it may be because you don't really believe

a word. All right, that's it. Receive it, write it,

work it, help me speak it, refine it, rehearse it, and

then you'll see it. I am standing in over and over that process.

There was an old bust rhyme song that blessed me called touch It. Now.

I know we're talking about a touch from God. Okay. I don't

know if any of it all y'all ain't been saved all your life, but

I think this would help you. Tony, Can you just play that beat

for me real quick? Could you just yeah, just just just yeah,

yeah, Okay, we're gonna say this real quick. Some of y'all.

I'm just gonna help you remember it. Receive it, write it, work

it, speak it, refined it, rehearse it. Then you'll see it.

Receive it, write it, work it, speak, get refined it,

rehearse it. Then help me receive it right, work, speak it,

and then you'll see receive it. Work it. Hey, nine years

going, I'm still lying out here, celebrating twenty five walking by faith.

Yeah, Gonnus Gary Strong Foundation, Debien Gary till the day I die,

represent everything coming from God. Yeah, now by my side, see see

Nat say God graaty. All right, okay, please stop, let me

let me stop stop. Stop. I love people who ain't been saving long.

I love you. I love you, all right, go ahead,

receive it, write it, work it, speak it, refine it,

rehearse it. Then you'll see. All right, Okay, I'm giving you

the playbook. Somebody, say just one word. Twenty fifteen, God gave

us a word when Bishop and Pastor Debbie handed us to Baton. Let me

tell you what it was. It was a silent word. It was a

word to me and Natalie survived. Sometimes word ain't sexy. Sometimes sometimes when

God says something, he just says, all right, we're about to go

into a season, and all I need you to do is make it out

the other side. It don't matter how hard it was. How many ever

been in a survived season? Come on, just so let's be honest.

That's not demonic. Okay, a survived season is not demonic. It usually

is created to take things away from you that can't go with you in the

next season. So twenty fifteen, the prophetic word that God gave this church

was what twenty sixteen the prophetic word that he gave us. Put it up

on the screen. Maintain that's two words of horrible. How much vision do

you get out of that? How much are y'all just get ready? I

got a word from God maintain, not forward, not backwards, the same.

But sometime God wants to teach you faithfulness. So twenty and seventeen God

said, all right, I'm gonna give you a word that got some faith

in it for you to move forward. And the word for two thousand and

seventeen was beyond. He said, I'm gonna take you beyond where you've been,

and beyond maintaining was a blessing, and the church grew four hundred people,

and I think about four hundred thousand dollars came into our income three years

in taking over for another passage's people coming, and God said, go beyond,

and people start giving. I was on cloud a thousand because I thought

God had done what he said. I thought that's what was it. If

we would have stayed at beyond level for the next twenty years, I would

have said, God, you've done so much. But in twenty eighteen he

gave us a prophetic word that looked counter cultural. He said, I want

you to stride. I want you to stop running, and I want you

to walk. And in a season of momentum, for you to tell me

to walk, to do less, to cancel stuff that doesn't make sense.

But what I found out is everything in the Kingdom of God is reversed.

When God wants to expand something, he pulls it back. And so that's

twenty eighteen when all y'all found us, or don't act like you knew about

Translation Church before. Before the videos start going viral, nobody knew about us.

We had a few subscribers on YouTube. My mom and her friends was

watching the rebroadcast. Nobody he was checking for us. But God said,

because you obeyed my word, I'm gonna put you in every place I want

you to be. To this day, we have never ever cut up one

of those videos that went viral. I didn't have the team staff or volunteer

base to do it. We just obeyed a word. In twenty nineteen,

God said this is the year of release, and we said, oh God,

we releasing, We releasing everywhere, We releasing, We being released into

everything. And you know what God did to me. He called me off

the road. My wife was struggling as we were navigating our son having autism.

And I have been called to speak at every major conference and they was

gonna pay me to be there. And the Holy Spirit told me in June

he said cancel every engagement from June until January. I said, Lord,

are you are you okay real quick me? And you are you sure that

you know how that impacts our family? He said, I'm keenly aware.

That's why I'm telling you. Canceled it all. And I was talking about

money and he was talking about health. I'm just being hot. Canceled everything.

But it was in the season that I obeyed God to cancel that this

building came available. I would have been on the road preaching for somebody else

at the moment when at nine they went into the meeting to close on the

building, and at nine point fifteen they called us and said, do you

still want the building? And at that moment, Me, Bree and Tammy

got in the car and came over from North Tulsa and drove over. I

couldn't have told them in two days I'll be home, because two days later

they had all the money they needed again. But because I was where God

told me, because I obeyed the word that he gained me when he wanted

to bless me, I was in watch this word position. Most of us

are missing what God has for us, not because we don't have a good

plan it's we are out of position. And he said the word of the

year was what release? He released this building to us. I thought it

was us being released to the world. Twenty twenty he said stronger, And

I tell you what happened. The world shut down and he made us stronger.

Twenty twenty one. Guess what the word was? Anchored? And I

just was telling everybody, God's going to anchor us. It's gonna be just

a special Just hold on to his word. Do you know why he said

anchored because he knew that was about to hit the fan. See, I'm

telling y'all, these words are not just ideas. He said, Anchor to

the vision, Anchor to my word, Anchor to the people who are called

to this, because I'm about to send you into a storm, and I'm

gonna send you into a two year storm. But I'm such a god full

of grace that I gave you a word before I sent you into the storm.

I told you this was the year you needed to be anchored. And

I said, okay, Lord, we're anchored. What's the word for the

next year? Here is holy my first message to give vision what spit hits

the fan? Seven days later, I announced the word of the year.

And it's almost like the Holy Spirit was laughing at me. He was like,

I told you here it is holy. You're right where I want you

to be, broken, confused, humbled, angry. I want you right

here because I want you to know what I do from this point was not

you. This wasn't your planning, this wasn't your effort. This will only

be your obedience. And I don't want you to despise the season. I

want you to call it what I call it. It's holy. So every

time you're about to respond back and go a hate message and find somebody and

have them knocked off, he said, I want you to remember I gave

you a word before it ever happened, And in twenty twenty three, he

gave us a word. He said, this year is going to be a

word that's gonna be beyond you. This word is about the entire kingdom,

and God gave us action with all of that. Last year, we gave

away over five point two million dollars to build churches, I said, we

gave away over five point two million dollars. These weren't back scratching, like,

oh, one day when we need it to hit me back like God

said, give it away, because this is not about transformation Church. It's

about my kingdom. So when I say that, when God gives a word

in this house, what can God do with a word? He can do

everything. So this year, I'm gonna give you the word of the year.

Y'all ready, Oh y'all didn't sound ready. Maybe I need a priest

for fifteen more minutes. I went on sabbatical and usually like I'm actually like

praying and seeking hard fasting, no food, no nothing, and the Holy

Spirit. It was almost like it's like, bro, I didn't put you

through a lot the past two years. I'm gonna give you a layup on

this one. July third, seven thirteen am. The Holy Spirit awakes up

and he simply says, I wrote it in my phone. He said,

this will be the year of We'll just show us. Twenty twenty four is

the year of. Everybody shot it with me fruit standing all over the buildings.

He said, Michael, this year you won't have to talk about it.

You'll have proof, he said, And I want every person under the

sound of my voice to understand that this year is not going to be about

what we can make happen. It's about sowing the seeds that produce Matthew seven

sixteen. You will know them. I don't care if they know us by

marketing. I don't care if they know us by the Instagram CLIs. I

don't care if they know us by viral moments. I don't care nothing about

that. Yeah, I want you to know this church and this ministry by

what. I have so many messages prepared to make this the most fruit full

year of your life. But hold on, stop before we before. You've

gotten words before, and they were just like that trampoline. Are you gonna

stand on top of this word and put your weight on it? Because I

know there's some people like, okay, fruit that's underwhelming. I thought it

was gonna be something like no, because it's not my word. It's a

word from God. And if you would put your faith weight on this,

I'm telling you, by the time we get here next year, this will

be the most fruit full. It's gonna be the most fruitful year of your

life. Does anybody believe by faith? Right now? I'm gonna tell you

the acronymy gave me, and we're gonna go home. God told me,

he said, Michael, this is not just fruit. Like I want you

to hear what I'm saying. This is gonna be your faith, repeating until

it transforms. He said, I'm gonna allow you to keep doing the same

thing, so in the same seeds, speaking life into the same people,

and one day you're gonna look up and it's gonna be so sweet what God

has produced on the inside of your transformation in church. I'm telling you there

is not enough seats in this place for the level of fruit. We're going

into the field and we're about to get every person. Y'all better hear me

right now, we're about to get God did not give us this arena to

have half fool. He gave us this arena stuff that he can see.

Fruit. Shot at me. Fruit. Next week we're starting a series called

fresh Fruit, and I don't know were gonna be in it until the Lord

tells me not to be. But I promise you you're gonna value what God

is going to do in your life. I'm asking you to not use this

word as a suggestion. Make it a catalyst, not a container. Every

time you walk into the grocery store, go buy the fruit, Eyle,

pick up a grape. Well, no, never mind, by the Great,

by the great, by the great, The Lord is still working on

us all. I'm just saying, watch how many places fruit starts to show

up in your life. And I want you to take it as a prophetic

sign, God, speaking to my preferred future. Lift your hands all over

this. God, I thank you that today I didn't come to be spectacular.

I came to be evidence. God. I pray that people would see

through your word, the word that is you, the word that is printed,

and the word that has been personal in my life, that they can

believe you. God. Let them take you at your word. And I

thank you God that faith is being sparked up everywhere around this world. God,

I thank you that you gave the word fruit for transformation in church,

and we're gonna see it, We're gonna live it, We're gonna give it

away, and they will taste and see that our Lord is good. Father.

Let this word be a catalyst for how we live, we give,

how we share, how we understand what You're doing in our lives. And

I pray, Father God, for every household represented that there would be so

much fruit that they could not keep it to themselves. God, I'm thinking

you that the fruit would overflow in our lives, that we would be ones

to be the blessers and not just need the blessing. We receive the word,

somebody say, we receive the word and we will work the word.

I obeyed you, God, Thank you that this will be the year of

much fruit in Jesus' name. If you believe it by faith, will you

clap your hands and give God a shout out, Oh, for the fruit

you're gonna see at the end of the year. Let's give God real quick.

The fruit of the harvest today is that somebody give their life to Jesus.

But so before everybody runs out, that parking lot's going to be there,

listen, if there's any person under the sound of my voice who has

never accepted Jesus Christ. Today, I want to start by giving you an

opportunity to see more fruit in your life than you've ever seen before. This

decision took me from being a liar, a manipulator, addicted to pornography.

I had a whole bunch of bad stuff in my heart, and it did

not make me a perfect man, but it made me a progressing man,

a man that now can look around and see the fruit of me following Jesus.

I want to offer that to you if you're tired of doing it your

own way and you want to see the fruit of Jesus coming in your life

and making all things new, like we saying earlier today at the counter.

Three, I just want you to lift your hands. I'm not gonna make

you come up here and tell us everything you do and did. Religion tries

to put that weight on you. I hope that sometime you get in community

and find a small group and able to share those things, because that's where

healing comes. But salvation comes in your feshion, in your belief right here.

So if you want to accept Jesus Christ, I don't care who you

are, who you came with. God has appointed this moment to give you

this word. Today is the day of salvation, And if you want to

accept Jesus, just slip your hand in the air. One. You're making

the greatest decision of your life. I see you, my brother too.

I'm proud of you. But more than that, your name is going to

be written in the Lamb's Book of Life. Three. Just shoot it up.

I see transformation Church. This is the proof of twenty five years the

ministry. I see you more than I see you. God sees you.

Hey, I'm Transformation Church. Nobody praise alone. Lift your hands everybody and

say God, thank you for sending Jesus just for me Today. I give

you my life. I believe you lived, you died, and you rose

again just for me. Come into my life and change me, renew me,

insform me. I'm yours in Jesus' name. Amen. Can we set

up right? Holla? Lolli, y'all so proud of you. I want

you to get that QR code on the screen, and we want to give

you some next steps. Do not miss church next Sunday. I'm talking about

fresh fruit. I'm gonna give you the title of my message. My message

next week is gonna be never mind. I'll tell y'all next week. I'm

not gonna tell you this week because you I'll see you next week. Until

next week, go out and live a transform life. We love you so

much. Glory to God. Thank you for joining us today. If you

said that prayer and accept it Jesus into your heart, it's the best decision

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