There’s Triumph In Trying Again // End in Triumph: Damaged But Not Destroyed (Part 11) // Michael Todd

Thank you so much for tuning in today and being a part of this amazing

moment that you probably don't even know you are part of. Today at Reservation

Church, this is a special Sunday because every year at this time we ask

God how we are supposed to sacrifice and give above what we normally do and

partner with the vision in Crazy Faith. And today is Crazy Faith offering Sunday.

And I wanted to come and personally let you know that this message is

not all about giving. It's about God changing something in our heart or transforming

something in our heart so that we can see everything that He has for us.

So I want everybody to take a deep breath right now. Relax.

We don't want something from you. God wants something for you. So as

you listen to this message, I want you to see if God's speaking to

you anyway, because I believe your best days, your future is attached to

your faith. See faith is believing now what's in the future and bringing that

thing into your present. And I believe that many of us have been damaged

are things that have happened in our past, and now God wants to heal

those things and take you to another place of triumph. So if you are

a part of Transformation Nation, you already know what it is. If this

is your first time, I love you, thank you, and I hope

you come back. But this is going to be an important message for I

believe, not just this year, but for all the years to come.

I hope God blesses you and speaks to you in this message. God bless

you, Leslie. We made a decision that this year we were going to

end in triumph. And I just know that many of you I heard my

sister Abby even say it, from the grief, to the to the sadness,

to the loss. Some of you you lost four years ago and you're

just now realizing it. Some of us, it's almost feel like and I

don't want to even Okay, many of us have just realized that the pain

happened. This is the first season you actually feel it. You've been running

on adrenaline for the past two and a half years, You've been medicating so

you could make it. And God is saying to some of you today that

the reason why this season has felt so hard is because you're on the brink

of getting healed. Now, hear what I'm saying to you These aren't just

rhyming words. This is a prophetic declaration to you. You had to feel

it so that He could heal it. And I believe that's why God has

been taking our church. I asked God, like, first off, I

didn't want to write the book damage but not destroyed. I just wanted to

be healed and write a book called Healed and hopeful. I mean, it

probably would sell more copies and more people be attracted to it. But God

said, I need people to understand I am not going to heal them and

not deal with the damage. I'm not going that's called dysfunction. So we've

been in almost three months of talks about dealing with our damage, and for

some of us, it's week eleven and it's the first time you've been saying

out. I do think I'm bitter. How I'm sharp at my kids.

That comes resentment from how my parents raise me. Oh, why do I

always live for the weekend? Oh? The weekend is where I feel that

I can go medicate without anybody judgment. That's why I go to the club.

That's why I do the kickbacks. That's why, Like it's the first

time you're feeling Oh, I go to church, but I'm not the church.

I participate in worship, but I'm not a worshiper. It's the first

time that many of us are feeling and I want to let you know your

feelings are okay in this family. Now. I know. I know.

I know because because in your family you was told to suck it up,

or even if you had a lot of emotions and you couldn't control them,

be like, oh, you know, there she go again. You know

she gonna be emotional about every She's gonna cry about everything. God gave you

those emotions as indicators, but he doesn't want you to live in them.

He doesn't want you to be driven by them. And today, as we're

walking in a moment of crazy faith, I just I ask God to really,

really really help me convey to people who have not stepped out in crazy

faith yet how and why they should. I don't want to really thank you,

bro, because I need them to hear every word I'm saying right now.

I don't have to preach this message to live it, because I already

lived. So as I was preparing this week, I had to ask the

Holy Spirit to connect me back to a time where I didn't just believe him

because for over fifteen years now, my default is crazy faith. I know

that's not everybody's default. Let me be very clear. I know that's not

most people's default. Most people's default is cuts you out. Most people's default

is make a plan that if God is involved, cool, but if he

ain't, I gotta survive. Okay, y'all want to be fake. Most

people's plan is going back to the abusive relationship. Most people plan is getting

a second, third, four fifth job to make ends meet. Most people's

plan and I found out in my life for some reason, I need to

acknowledge because this is very pastoral today, because I want to help people.

I want to bring you from where you are to the place that I believe

God wants for all of us to be. And I need you to stop

hear me. Stop listening for somebody else right now. This is not a

message for them. It's a message everybody say for me. This message is

for me. If you don't receive it like that, you're going to miss

the revelation that I believe that God wants to give divinely and uniquely to you,

not your wife, not your husband. Don't you hear that? Stop

it somebody say this is for me. The truth of the matter is you

can't live off of somebody else's faith. You can be inspired by it,

you can be ignited by it, but it will not keep the flame burning

if you don't have faith for yourself. And what I found out in my

walk, I was raised by parents that were full of faith, but somewhere

along the line, their prayers didn't make it happen in my life. The

way my prayers did, my obedience couldn't be based on what they believed God

to do. And I just believe that there are many people in a house

crazy faith. This is a house of crazy faith, that the crazy faith

has not translated to your house. And I could be a pastor who was

like cool, as long as the lights is own, as long as the

led screen is big, as long as people keep coming, let's keep rocking

it, because that's what people are doing all over the world today. They

are part of a house, a church, house of crazy faith, and

do not care if it translates to people's houses. I will never stand up

here and ask God to bless this and not bless you. Okay, I'm

gonna say it again. This does not matter if it doesn't show up in

your family, if it don't show up at your job, if it doesn't

show up. And the crazy thing about it is more y'all are okay with

that? You're okay being attached to something that God's doing instead of being right

in the middle of what God's doing. Okay, I'm passionate about this because

it's been fifteen years that my default has been crazy faith. What do you

mean, pastor Mike. If I don't got enough, I so a see

like that's how my like my brain works. You don't have enough people for

your team, go find somebody else's business and give them what they need.

Like, this doesn't make sense. I know it's crazy, but my faith

is that if I give what I need that somehow God is going to make

some like But I would be dumb and irresponsible to come and talk to an

audience of thousands of people and act like that's how we all feel if we're

humble, open and transparent. Most of us barely made it today. Okay,

I'm trying to be honest. A bunch of us was arguing with our

spouse, and you ready to divorce them. Be quiet, look forward,

look at me, blink twice if okay, somebody's like am. The truth

of the matter is some of us are about to pull the plug on the

business, about to not apply for the next semester, about to give up

in the middle of the miracle. Today I came to encourage your faith because

we got twenty one days left in this year, three weeks and when God

told me that the last four messages of this series damage but not destroyed,

need to focus on triumph, I got excited because I really do believe it's

a prophetic word of how we're coming into twenty twenty four, that how you

end a thing is the way that you begin a thing. There's nothing magical

that happens on January first, But I believe that God's asking us to end

in triumph. Somebody just say end in triumph, saying with faith, end

in just one more time, end in triumph. The thought process behind us.

Write it down if you didn't hear last week's message, and I want

you to go back and get it that with God, triumph is always on

the other side of trauma. You can be confident in that. So if

I'm being hot, I've gone through some traumatic situations in my life and as

I've gone through the traumatic situations, The situations were not the thing that God

wanted from me. He wanted my response to acknowledge Him and most of us

when we get in situations that are traumatic, our response, Okay, I'm

gonna say it nicely. Our response is based on how we were conditioned.

Many of the way we respond to anything is based on how we were conditioned,

how we were raised, how we were brought up. So for some

people, if somebody say what's up, they'd be like, what's up.

For other people, depending on how you was raised and where you was raised,

if somebody say what's up, they're like, what's up? Okay,

y'all just say yes. Some of y'all acting too brand new. But the

very same thing gets a different response because of how I was conditioned. So

when I say crazy faith, some people are like, oh God, I

believe you. I'll trust you. You're amazing. And for some people,

I say crazy faith and they're like, I can't afford to lose. I

don't know if God's gonna come through for me. When I say crazy faith,

it invokes fear instead of faith. My mom believed all that time and

nothing ever, Oh today, I want you to take back from your story

or your trauma, or your training. I want you to take back authority

and put it in Christ. And I want you to now see through a

lens of what God says about you, not what they conditioned you to believe.

Okay, because what I found out is most people in this room,

I'm starting slow, so you can just walk with me. I'm taking you

on a journey with me. Most people have been trained in trauma. You

are professional, You are an expert. You should get paid for as much

trauma as you've been through and survived. Lady on the front row said,

where are they giving jobs out for trauma? You've been trained in it?

And I've been trying to think about, like, what would make somebody not

believe God? Like he knows the number of hairs on your head. The

sun is still in place, right one foot closer. We all burn,

but somehow on a word he spoke one time, the sun is steal sat.

The stars show up every night, The moon is a like did you

yet? He don't know what to do with my life. I can trust

in a job more than I trust in God. It doesn't make logical sense

until you acknowledge how hurt or damaged people have been. And what I've started

to realize is, yes, God wants us to have triumph. But in

the area of using our faith. Somebody shot at me faith because it's the

one thing that God says. Without faith, it's impossible to please me.

We skip over that scripture. But it's like doing everything God wants me to

do logically only because without you can't even be saved without. But I just

want you to I just want you to see how much of a cornerstone faith

is supposed to be in your life, and how much of our lives has

been. I don't really trust you God today. I want to explain to

you what faith really is. Faith is trusting it in a manner that you

can put your weight on it. Nobody in this room or sitting at home

prayed before you sat down in the chair you're in. You had faith that

whoever built it was stilled enough. Now they don't know how much you weigh,

and some of y'all are blessed, but you still set your bless but

in that chair, not knowing the maker, but you had faith enough to

put your weight on it. Everybody, stand up, Come on, just

one time, everybody sit down. You didn't have to pray about that.

You den'ty your community group, you didn't need to fast, You did not

need to see God confirm it. Confirm it over again. Confirm it,

Lord, confirm it. Father, confirm to me that this is what I'm

all you heard was an instruction and you obeyed because you have seen before that

people have set in these chairs, and you yourself may have set in these

chairs. So I no longer have to be convinced of what I already know.

The chair is capable of. Okay, but the story would be very

different if I told you to stand up and sit down and your chair broke.

That would be traumatic for other people would be hilarious. I don't know

why we do that, but when we see people fall, it's like,

ah, are you okay? Like that proves we're evil on the inside without

Jesus, every man. But just think about it, if out of thousands

of people, everybody stood up and sat down and only your chair broke,

you might come to Transformation Church and stand in the back. Or before you

get to your chair, you hey, can you sit right here real quick

and let me like you beating? Put somebody else in danger switch with me,

and I just came to say, I get it. I understand how

your faith may have been damaged if you experienced trauma in so many churches,

they was like, just have faith, and it's like, I'm hurt.

I want to I desire to move in crazy faith, but I'm just trying

to make sure this doesn't hurt me again. I was a part of a

church who did an offering. They called it something different, it was the

it was the Living Life offering. But we found out that the pastor was

crooked and was stealing the money in and he ended up hurting one of my

kids. And it's a it's a miracle I'm in church at all today listening

to anybody because in the same place I tried to use my faith at one

point, I was hurt in that area, okay. And what I found

out as the most tragic part about trauma is when you go through a traumatic

situation, specifically in your faith, what it steals is more important than the

moment you're in. Does anybody know what trauma steals from you? Watch this?

The most tragic part about trauma is many times it silently robs you of

your try. Most people have stopped trying because they got robbed at a spot

of trauma. You won't do it ever again. You won't in community,

you won't even be friendly to people because your last friend robbed you of the

ability to even want to try. And I found out that most people,

when it comes to living in faith, walking in faith, moving in faith,

most people have just lost their try and the try gets lost at a

point of trauma. Okay, that's why we gotta heal, because trauma wants

to steal your try. PUSD Mike, why are you saying it sixteen different

ways? Because you've been trying to figure out why you feel stuck. You've

been trying to figure out what God didn't let me go to the next level.

He's saying because the next step requires you to do something, but you

have lost the faith to try. He told you that he was gonna bless

you and take care of the business and bring you into the right connection.

You won't even write the business plan because you had to close the doors on

one business that you started out of your pride. Honestly, like guys today,

all I want you to do is get your try back. If I

could, just if I could have faith. Try it again. Try to

do something that maybe you weren't taught to do. Try to move in a

way that doesn't consider the trauma first, but considers your savior first. Because

I just don't want to lead a church whereas busting everywhere except in your life,

I just will not stand up here year after year and yo, crazy

faith. And you cannot try to move out of the place that you've been

in because you've been damaged. Yep, trauma took your try. You were

heard in a relationship, so you don't want to be in any relationship.

No, no, no, no. I'm an introvert, okay, but

that doesn't mean you should be an isolation. Introvert means you don't get recharged

by a lot of people. We ain't even saying a lot of people,

anybody. Nobody knows what you're going through. Nobody knows. Oh, but

it was the trauma that paralyzed your try. I'm gonna say one that's really

specific to me that came to me while I was in the back. There's

some fathers in here who were bad fathers to their first two kids, and

now they have an opportunity to be a good father to the children they have

now, and you won't even try to be good father because of the guilt

and shame that's attached to what you missed out on the trauma of that situation

stole. You'll try, Y'll see how quiet it is in here. There's

a good quiet. This is a holy quiet, because I want you to

evaluate the places you've been stuck and I want you to see has there been

anything that stopped me from having faith to do it again? Because today I

wanted to let you know I found out good news in the word of God.

Everybody say triumph. Everybody thinks triumph is at the end of the movie

when the person's hand is raised with the gold medals around and everybody's clapping and

like you did it, that big giant you were like and the triumph.

But what I found out is the title of my message. There's triumph in

trying again. What if the outcome is not triumph. What if the obedience

step is triumphed. See, you're waiting for everything to be done, and

God said you won just by showing up. Okay, when you go back

to the job tomorrow, it was a triumph because you tried again. The

first business didn't work. But God said, at the moment you started writing

the new business plan, he said, it's a when the moment you went

to marriage counselor after you were already decided in your mind and your heart on

divorce. It was a triumph the fact you let that big kid that is

it's spoiled and ungrateful back into your house for one more week because he said,

sorry, Mama, it's a triumph because you're trying, and if you

could get this, it would take away the enemy's power to convince you that

you're so far away from the destination that you should give up. And I

just feel the weight of people like, what is this gonna do? What

is this little thing gonna do? What is this one thing gonna do?

How is this gonna change? Boy? If I could tell you that every

great miracle that has ever happened in my life came with a simple instruction and

it might have sounded crazy, but I still had to try it. And

this is how the Holy Spirit said it to me. He said, Michael,

I want you to tell the people that I need them to try again

because I need them to give me something to work with. He said,

I'm looking for something to multiply. I'm looking for something to turn water into

wine. But there had to be water. Give me something, and he

said, my people have been paralyzed from trying. Now I can't even do

nothing. You keep praying, but I give you an instruction. You won't

obey it. I told you go join that group. Well, God,

there's so many reasons why I wouldn't join a groove. And if I join

a groove, then they gonna make me the leader. And I don't want

to be a leader. Right now. I'm still damning, and Lord,

I need to but like stop, you don't know what God's go give him

something to work with. We want God to do a miracle with no matter,

okay, and you can apply it to any area of your life.

But what God is requiring of us, it's not something great. He said.

If you have faith, that's small less a that is the smallest seed

long to man. But it's something. And God said, will you give

me something to work with? Because there's triumph in trying. Again. I

found this story that's not talked about a lot in the Bible, about this

man named naming tewod Kings. Chapter five. You can read the whole thing

if you want to, but I'm gonna give you a little paraphrase of what

happened. Naming was successful and by all world standards, he was a commander,

he was killing people, he had money, he was status up,

and then he ran into trauma. He got diagnosed with leprosy. And now

I know y'all don't know what leprosy is. Y'all think that's like something that,

like some acne medicine can clear up. But this is not. That

people's literal noses and ears would fall off because of this disease. Back in

this day, if you had leprosy, people could not be around you at

all because it was so tags. So this man goes from having a lot

of success to now being there's this very traumatic situation. What ends up happening

is he uses his connections and he says, ain't there somebody that can can

heal me? And and they heard that there were some people who could heal

in Israel. So his boy writes a letter to the King of Israel and

says, hey, I have a friend named Naming, can you heal him

of leprosy? The King is like, what the heck, I'm not God,

it's in the Bible just like this, and he gets so anxious and

like like weirded out that he rips his clothes off. He's standing there in

his kingdom in the nude, like, how in the world am I supposed

to heal this man in? Elijah, the prophet hears about it, and

he says, can put your clothes back on. Bring the man to me.

I'll prove to him that there's a god in Israel. So this is

where we pick up the story and Second King, chapter five, verse eight.

When Elijah, the man of God, heard that the king of Israe

had turned his robes, he sent this message, why have you turned your

robes? Have the man come to me and he will know that there is

a prophet in Israel. So Namon went with his horses and chariots and stopped

at the door of Elijah's house. Elijah sent a message to say to him,

go wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be

restored and you will be cleansed. For most of us, that would have

been like, bit, amen, that's all I need to do. Go

take seven baths. Great look at his response. But Namon went away angry.

He didn't even want to try it because I thought that he would surely

come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord his

God, wave his hand. Really, Bob TONDI, I'm done, boy.

Y'ah should have bought a hyunda. And I thought he would stand and

call on the name of his God, wave his hand over the spot and

chure, my leperson ain't gonna say go to the door, and that nasty

water are not a bana and power power. If that's wrong, ask your

mama. The rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel,

could not wash in them and be cleansed. So he turned and went off

in rage. His outer sickness was supposed to be healed, but he did

not get the miracle the way he wanted it. So he turned around and

now had an outer sickness and an inner sickness because rage. He didn't even

nobody even came at him. It was because of his own thoughts, he

said, our thoughts, and let's not act like he's like alone, because

a lot of our disappointment in Christ comes because our thoughts don't line up with

his. I thought I'd be married by now. Look at me. I

thought they would recognize my gifting. I thought I'd be a millionaire. I

thought my family would have said sorry by now, I thought. And it's

your own thoughts that come against the simplicity of how God may want to heal

you. Okay, okay, but thank God for the people that were around

naming naming servants went to him and said, all right, boss, we

came all this way, and okay, I know you. So if if

the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you have not

done it? How much more then when he tells you to try something simple

he literally said, Washington be cleansed. So Nayman was like, all right,

So we went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times? How

many times? How many times? It's gonna be important? He dipped seven

times as the Man of God had told him, and his flesh was restored

and became clean like that of a young baby boy. He got the miracle

and never was touched by the Man of God. I know that messes with

a lot of people. See y'all, if I just get a torch,

if you just obey, like I just want, I want to take it

away from this and this and this and this all we believe in laying on

hand. We believe in all that. But God is with you every day,

all the time, everywhere, and if he gives you an instruction,

no matter how simple it is, obey it. Okay, what'd you say?

Just do it? Like? Why? Why do we need it to

be grand for it to be God? Okay? Okay, let me say

it to you like this crazy faith because everybody coming in crazy faith today watch

this. Crazy faith is about obedience more than the outcome. I want to

let you know that the man's outcome was he was gonna be healed. But

if he didn't try to dip, not seven times, if he did not

dip the first one, this is where I want to explain what faith looks

like. It wasn't when he got healed, he was walking in faith.

It's when he decided to get in the water the first time. That's when

crazy faith was unleashed because he tried. He tried. My question to you

is where are you missing out on miracles because you will not try? So

Pames, Michael, what do you want me to do? I want you

to do that thing that you have been paralyzed to do because you were hurt

scared, fearful in another season and it robbed you of you'll try do that

thing, and everybody has something come into your mind right now, he got

something that God has already told them. You're supposed to have been released a

whole album and you ain't written one song. You got fifty million ideas for

a nonprofit and you just nonprofit in You just have no profit. Why won't

you It's the greatest act of crazy faith that many of you will make for

the rest of this year. Everybody say try say it with faith, Say

it like you mean it. You're talking to your own self. It's not

a message for somebody else. Abby, this is your message. Okay,

Just you never know what God will do. That man did not get in

that water and be like, oh I sing like fifteen other people dip seven

times and get him. He was mad because he thought it was simple.

But the other reason he was mad is because he thought it was crazy.

What the heck there's cleaner water. I'm dirty? Why would I go get

in something dirty to get clean? Why would I? Ain't there better places?

If this is how you want to do it, God, if you

want to use a true well, if I'm supposed to be a pasta.

Tell pastor might to take me under his wing and make me a junior pastor.

Come on, this is how we think. Why in the world am

I serving kids? Why in the world am I working this job? Tell

him he's king you speaking. We're gonna see if he speaks. Then,

And because everybody say we thought it should be one way, we stopped trying.

Okay, all right, all right, I'm gonna keep moving. I

wrote this down in a phrase. It says, so many people get discouraged

by the distance between where they are and whatever they desire, that they become

disabled, believing that trying would be an act of delusion. Let me say

it again. You got it, she said, Run that back. So

many people get discouraged by the distance between where I am today and whatever they

desire, that they become disabled in the present, believing that trying would be

an act of delusion. It would be crazy for me to start working out,

because the last time I worked out it was good. I lost twenty

two pounds. Then a global pandemic and I didn't gain twenty two. I

gave forty four. And now every time I try to go to that freaking

gym. I'm four years older. These knees, okay, y'all know what

I'm tying. These these knees are kneeing, and my back is back in

and I want to unfat my back. But the way this is set up

right now, I'm just gonna be fat and happy. I okay. Now

there's people laughing, and you should see the people that are looking at me

with the stare of death right now because it came too close to home,

because you're so far away from where you want to be, and you know

you should be. That the enemy has disabled Joe. Try today. But

I'm encouraging to use your faith again. I'm encouraging you to say, God,

okay, if there's something you're telling me to do, I don't gotta

know how it's all gonna work out. I don't know how it's gonna finish

or end, but I know that I can obey you in the next step

God, I will try again. Okay, all right, I know,

I know, I know. I know you wanted to yell today. You

wanted to shout about something you're not gonna actually do. I'm sick of that.

Why would we gather at the tune of thousands of people to shout about

something we're not going to live out on Monday. That seemed dumb to me.

But what if we could actually get to the heart of the matter.

I'm almost done and we could all make a collective crazy faith step again and

everybody shout at me. Try say it like you mean it. The outcome

of anything is not the proof of faith. Obedience is. I'm gonna say

it again. The church has done a bad job of convincing people that get

in the house was fair. That's not proof of faith. When God told

you to make the budget, oh beat, everybody say obedience. That's why,

no matter what you're gonna give in this crazy faith offering, so many

people are going to They're gonna use a faith. Don't cancel out your sacrifice

by not obeying, because the scripture says obedience it's better than whatever you sacrifice.

It good. I'm giving you two hundred dollars. He's like, I

would much rather you go say I'm sorry. Okay, Is this a prosperity

godspel No, No, no prosperity. Gospel wants a page. What we

want for you is actual transformation in your life. Hear what I'm saying to

you, keep the money if you're gonna be disobedient. They won't say that

at other churches. They'll be like, give us your money and be disobedient.

No, that defeats the whole purpose. Back in so fly that we

used to say this because I was sold. I was so adamant about this.

I said, if you don't want to give, keep your Sankey dollars

and here with y'all. Remember that it was I felt so good sat because

it was not about amountains. It's always been about obedience. And what I'm

saying to you today church, as we're moving into this step of crazy faith,

don't give and then not do what God has called you to do.

Okay, hear hear me, hear me. Why are you saying that pastor

might write this point down? Because the supernatural is often activated by something simple.

Ooh, the supernatural is usually activated by something everybody say simple Naming wanted

a ran presentation for his healing, for his miracle, and God was like,

I'm gonna keep this real simple. Take a bath. Now think about

this. Do you not think that he has tried to take a bath before?

Do you not think that he's tried to scrub off the leprosy before.

But this man gets a new, fresh instruction, and that's gonna be some

of y'all's problem is God's gonna give you a fresh instruction, not a new

one. Ooh, you missed it. You gonna give and you gonna want

a new instruction. And God said, no, no, no, no,

I'm just gonna give it to you a fresh Go do the same thing

I told you to do last year. Is that it, and some of

y'all will go away with the same rage. I'm done with this thing,

crazy faith. He must think I'm crazy, And I said, I've been

trying to tell you to do the same thing. The miracle is not in

the spectacular. It's in the simple. And that's why I hate the devil,

because he loves making simple things complicated. I mean literally, let's go

back to the garden. The only instruction don't eat that tree, just one.

Do you know how many other trees was in the garden with fruit?

It was everywhere, But the enemy tried to complicate a simple instruction. How

simple could your miracle actually be if you just obeyed God? Okay, did

y'all want to hear like a real story of my own life where I had

to do something simple that felt crazy. All right. So when I started

leading the church, I asked God to connect me with leaders who were supposed

to help me build this church. I found out that there was a young

couple building a church called Eden in downtown Tulsa on Sunday nights. The reason

I found out is because my little brother, Grayson would ask me to drop

him off there. And you know, I'm a fresh pastor one or two

years in, and so it was a little offensive. Y'all told me to

be hot. It's a little offensive that my little brother, knowing that I'm

a pastor, is asking with jubilation to participate every Sunday night in another church's

activities. And I was like, okay, I'm a kingdom man, Kingdom

guy, Kingdom. Come on, Grayson, get in the car, let's

go. But as I'm wrong and by I'm with the window down, like,

who else is coming to this cheam like? And then I found out

a lot of our worship singers, worship leaders, a lot of different people

we're going to this expression. And what I do is I hold people like

this. And I said, God, if this is something that you want

to do bless, I said, what is my instruction? So I want

you to do something crazy. I want you to call that young man.

I need you reach out to him and ask him what is he need?

That's crazy, Lord, because if I give him what he needs, he

gonna take what I already have. This is my flesh. Call him and

ask him what does he need. I was like, all right, I'm

gonna call him aathin and then he's like, yeah, Instagram don't have his

number, nothing like that. And then I was like, let's go to

breakfast. And so the first time I meet Charles Mencalf, we're going to

breakfast at was a camera at camera and we go to breakfast, and right

before I walk into the church to the restaurant, the Holy Spirit says,

ask him if he wants to shut down his church and join you. Now,

I need you to understand how crazy this is, because I'm not lame.

And that sounded lame immediately, because then that puts all the power in

his court that he could be like no and like why, And that's exactly

what happened. I even gave a great analogy. I was like, we

could be like the Golden State, warriors. This is when KD was there

and all of the things, and I even use it. I was like,

bro, this we could be like. He's like no. And when

I walked out of that restaurant, I felt lame. But I got a

well done from God. No, no, no, no, you missed

it because the Crazy Faith was not in if Charles became a part of Transformation

Church. It was when he told me to ask another man that already not

in the infant stage, already started the church, asking hey, let's get

together. He said, when you set it out of your mouth, that's

where the miracle happened. It would take another six to seven months with no

expectation that that was gonna actually happen until I was at the downtown library and

this young man came and found me with tears in his eyes. Not me

saying like, let's make a business plan. He said, God told me

to shut down my church and come serve and do whatever you need. And

that's where God said, what if you wouldn't have tried? No, I

just I want you to see that the Crazy Faith miracle was not something big.

It was something simple. Let me add this that might seem stupid.

I'm trying to give you cheat codes today. Let me just put it like

this, Obedience is the main ingredient in miracles. It's the main ingredient.

I know nobody's shouting about this because a lot I'm gonna say this. It's

strong. I'm telling you, I'm warning you it's strong. What I'm about

to say, Okay, braise yourself. A lot of the miracles you want

to see are not because God is not able. It's because you are disobedient.

I at least want to be the one to tell you. Some of

you, God's been speaking to you about this crazy faith offering, and you

have just said, no, I don't see it, I don't have it.

I'm not going to I'm not some of you. He's been talking to

you about things you need to do in your family, for your career,

for your business. Some of you have been telling you to move. You

are in the wrong geographical location, and you just but all my family is

here and all my things, but your favor's not there. You have just

been this oldbedient, and more than a mantains God said, could I just

please have your obedience in crazy faith? Okay, I'm almost done. Somebody

say I'm gonna try again. Whatever that means for you, whatever that looks

like. Some of y'all need to go back to school. I'm fifty.

I ain't doing another first. I get I feel you, but rarely does

God call you to something convenient. If you're actually gonna be used by God,

it is rarely convenient. And I started to think about naming, and

then I started to think about what if other people wouldn't have tried. Y'all

remember that story in One King seventeen where Elijah the prophet came and the woman

was like, oh, He was like, what are you about to do?

And she was like, I'm just about to make this little cake for

me and my son and then we're gonna die. Y'all remember that? And

then he was like, oh, yeah, cool, don't do that,

make me the cake. Huh. No, matter what her reaction is,

she still tried it. She's still she tried. And there were miracles that

unfolded over and over and over again in that woman's life because she everybody said

that me tried. Y'all. Remember Joshua walking around you cricle seven times?

Do y' all know how dumb that instruction was? No? No, no,

no, I need you to hear. Lord, we're about to take

over the city. What do you want us to do? Walk around it

seven times? Get trumpet players and blow on the seven time, and then

take some jars and smash them. And you want me to go back and

tell the troops, the ones who are built to actually fight with hands.

Sometimes God will call you to do something that goes against your training. Why

so he can get the glory out of your life. Okay, Pastor Mike,

why are you so passionate about this? Because as I went back to

fifteen nineteen yesterday, I went back to What's Pine and I walked into that

church and I sat in those green chairs where there are about three hundred people

filled with faith. There was no visual on our screens when we first gave

him crazy faith of all of this. There was no YouTube, There was

no Crazy Faith. There was no Mic Todd, there was no relationship goes,

there was nothing. It was just a vision and three hundred people believed

in the vision that we could have a multi ethnic church. Look around,

look around, that we could have a multiplying church. Look around, that

we could have a multi generational church. Look around. I was twenty seven

years old standing up there like voice cracking. God gave me then, and

it was a simple step that God said, if you're gonna be a blessing,

bless somebody else. It was simple. And I've told this story,

but I'm always telling because it's my testimony to people are like, how did

you become this crazy faith God? By obeying God in simple stuff? And

I stood up and I said, church, we're gonna raise whatever money comes

in, and we're gonna give it away. Eighty three hundred dollars we raised

and we gave it to churches in North Tulsa. That was the craziest faith

thing I had ever done as a pastor up until that point, and it

unlocked something that allowed me to live out of place that has transformed not just

my life, but the life of so many. But I will be darned,

and I didn't want to use that word. If I have a church

that displays crazy faith and a people who don't live in it, I don't

want to do this if it's gonna be fake. I don't want to do

this. If you're struggling for ten years to just pay your bills and the

church seems like it, I don't want to do this. Either it works

for our marriages and raising kids and changing our communities, or it does it.

God is not praised by it's just having a nice building. He wants

to live in something that looks like walking faith. The Bible says the just

shall live by faith. I wrote in in a point the church having crazy

faith is incomplete if you don't have crazy faith. All right, So what

are you trying to say, past Mike? If he said it, try

it. If he said it, what do you have to lose? Step

out in faith and try if he said it, try it. Example from

one of my friends brought this to my attention as I was telling him what

I was gonna preach. And it's crazy. I've told y'all several times.

I wasn't the best at school, not because I wasn't smart, cause I

just didn't apply myself. I really like to make people laugh more than I

liked language class. And so I, Miss Maxwell, you don't call my

teacher's names. Don't do that, Mama, Chloe, you know my people.

I love you, Miss Maxwell. I gave her the blues. Oh

my God. But when God told me to try to write a book called

Relationship Goals, I was fearful cause I didn't think I had in me what

it took to make it seem like a real book. Can I be honest,

a real book? Smart, very intelligent people write books. Me.

I sit things on top of books. I have books for a stheptic at

that time, like my book collection was like three books that people gave it

to me. And what did God say to me? He said, try

it. I remember opening my laptop and literally type in relationship ghosts. I

literally remember it, and I closed my laptop. WHOA, I was a

triumphan you missed it? Oh my god, if you could get it.

I opened my lifetop relationship ghs. Thank you Lord. If you don't celebrate

that, if you don't get some energy and expectation around that, you will

be waiting forever. And my friend brought this out the bat. He said,

what is this? He literally asked what is this? I said,

Oh, that's relationship goals in Hungarian. He said, what do you mean?

I said, I don't know how to say any word inside of this

book. The only words that I can read is Michael Todd and I guess.

And some black men don't make covers and hungry they changed my whole art

direction. But that's like, take his face off of it for the darts.

But I'm okay with it because the checks still cleared. Y'all missed it.

Y'all missed it. You missed it. But but what I was reminded

of is that the faith didn't come full manifest when it was in a different

language. It was when I opened my laptop and I wrote Relationship Goals.

God said, there it is. You gave me something to work with now.

Now. I thought that was enough. But I called one of the

people on my team. I was like, ain't the book in other languages?

They said, yeah, relationship goes as in Spanish, Hungarian, Russian,

Chinese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Dutch and French. I said, I

ain't been in none of them places. It couldn't have multiplied without a try

with that, and crazy faith is in Swedish, Russian, Hungarian, Dutch.

If you gave me a map, Most of those places I can't point

out. But God was able to do a miracle with a try. What

you want me to try? Pass them? Mike? Whatever? The simple

instruction God gave you is, everybody say try it. I'm going back to

naming, because naming, he got a simple instruction that seemed crazy or stupid,

and he had to do it. I just want to paint this picture

for you real quick. Oh, because this is how dumb it seemed to

other people. Oh oh that is cold. That felt like enough to me.

But half obedience is disobedience. How many more do I got? This

seems excessive, This is cold, this feels stupid. Nobody else is having

to do this. This feels like a mess. But if he said seven

times, but if he told me to forgive, But if he told me

to give, how many more do I got? Somebody said two? Somebody

said three? How many do I got? Look? People looking around now

like it? Which one carry the two? This water is so cold?

Hold on, Mike, Joe, Oh shoot three more. My outfit is

ruined. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. I

may not be accepted in some places like this. I'm just trying to make

it real for you, Like this has altered how you might see me,

Because if you weren't with me when I started this process and you just saw

me on dip number four, m hmm, you may judge me, but

I can't let your opinion stop me from being obedient. Y'all say number five

when I go down this time? Y'all ready, I like y'all one more

and I'm healed one more and my family is delivered more, and I'm the

lender and not the borrower. Come on, I need y'all to hear what

I'm saying. One more obedient step and crazy faith. I've done it over

and over and over and over and over again. But if I do it

one more? How some mike, what are you saying to us? Don't

quit on six? Some of y'all like, just do it, but that's

what God's been asking you to do for years. Don't quit on six.

Naman didn't know if a miracle was gonna happen on one or seven, but

he knew he was given an instruction. And I wonder how many times he

would have done it if he knew healing was on the other side of it.

Quitting on six is a trick. It's the lie that the enemy wants

you. It's not gonna work when you give this time, It's gonna be

the same thing that happened last time. When you try to serve again,

when you ask for forgiveness, when you show up. When you show yourself,

they're gonna do you like the other. Don't quit on six. Y'all

would have nightmares if I didn't finish this example. Somebody would come dump themselves.

I'm doing this in proxy for past. Might hear me when I say

this? If you want me to finish an example, how much more does

God want you to actually obey him to the point where your crazy faith creates

a crazy miracle. Let's do this thing right now. This is the season

of miracles, but the miracle only happens with simple obedience. In just a

few minutes, we're about to give. But this is not about giving today.

This is about obedience. Oh shoot, I forgot my last examples in

my pocket. Well didn't think that one all the way through. So I

want you to know that faith is relative at every level. I don't care

if you bawling or you broke. God will always require something that makes you

dependent on him. So me and Natalie talked earlier last week, God,

what do you want us to give? He told me what he want us

to give, and we did not have it. I said, Lord,

isn't it like you? Why adn't you asking me for what I gave three

years ago, he said, because I always want you to be stretching your

faith to believe me. Said alright. So I was in a meeting last

week with Ms. Tammy, and I had asked her, cause I worked

for the church, I had asked her to take a certain amount of my

paycheck and send it to a different bank to pay for something like when you

get your direct deposit, you can allocate where the money goes to, like

what bank account. And so i'd done this maybe three years ago, and

I found I remembered just supernatural, because I had decided in my heart I

was gonna obey you. God. If this is what you told me to

give, somehow you're gonna get it to me, because I've decided in my

heart you're gonna do it. Well, I remembered in this meeting for the

first time in three years, and I looked at Tammy. I said,

Tammy, yes, I said, did we ever cancel that money going to

that other bank? She said, I don't think so. Let me look.

She says, as a matter of fact, no, it's all over

there. I said, but then I paid a thing off earlier this year.

She said, yeah. I said, let me get on my app

and see if the money is. And y'all, when I decided in my

heart that I was gonna obey God, he made me forget so I could

obey. So I went to the bank on Friday, drove all the way

to Oasaw, and I said, there should be this much money in the

bank, because you please give my money. Ain't nothing like knowing it's there.

And then she said, oh, that amount's not in there. I

said, hold on now. She said, it's not that amount, it's

about eighty percent of that. I said, okay, all right, well,

okay, cool, give me all of that. And I said,

God, I thought you told me. He said, I did. So

I went to the bank Saturday, and you know, Arvest and all our

little banks stay open from from eight to twelve. So I go in there

to try to break all the little coins I had from all of the little

place. I said, my kids we eating rym and noodles for the rest

of the year, not just fla. But I was, I mean,

it's sacri I'm not telling y'all something I'm not doing. I want you to

hear me say that this is not something I'm not living out. So I

go to scrape my things up, and they was like, well, this

is all you can get us, and just give me that too. I

said, God, I thought you said I woke up this morning. I'm

not talking about ten days ago this morning, said God. I thought you

said, you what's gonna do it? He said, I did? He

said, look in your drawer. Now, I look at this drawer every

day. But I forgot My mother and father in law brought me a piece

of mail that got delivered to their house instead of my house, and I

never looked at what was in it. And I opened this up and it

was a check from the government for the exact amount that I was short.

Y'all, Okay, y'all, don't have to believe with me, but this

wet piece of paper is proof that God is real. When the scripture says

he'll give seed to the sowler cus, I'm like, why is this important

when it comes to faith? Because the truth of the matter is your finances

expose the priority of your heart. I'm trying to speed up a life that

God has for you. When you can obey him with unrighteous man is what

the Bible calls him. He says, He'll make you then ruler of true

riches. True riches has nothing to do with dollar amounts. But God can't

give you what He really has for you because you won't get let go of

what He gave you as your pastor. I'm standing here in what crazy faith

with We're gonna need a dryer in the back because but this is proof.

I am confident. We are evidence and you are faithful. You are standing

all over this building hearing just the moment. They're gonna be boxes and different

things that are around them. There's gonna be a holy moment. The worship

team is gonna come and they're gonna worship. People have flown and drown here,

drove here from all over the world. Somebody told me there's somebody from

Canada, and there's somebody like what, y'all came from Canada in Florida and

California, Like this is crazy. Thank y'all, Thank you Detroit, Oh

y'all. The ones drove fifteen hours. This is beautiful. But I just

don't want you to do an act of giving money and not give God your

heart. I want you to obey God. I want to pray for every

person under the sound of my voice that there would be an increase of the

measure of faith in your life. And hear me. I want to be

very clear with this. If you give nothing today, that does not take

away this message that God has given you to be able to try. God

won't ask you for something you don't have. Okay, this is not about

manipulation or any What I want you to do is live in another level that

has provided for you if you would just try. And today I believe some

people are getting they tried back. You're about to step out in faith.

There's triumph in trying again. There are cards that we have attached to our

faith. Oh man, I didn't even tell you all the best part about

naming story. It's so crazy. Like he gets healed and then he goes

to Elijah. On's like, I need to give you something. I need

to offer a sacrifice. I need to give you some money. And he's

like, nah, I don't need none of that. He was like,

let me please do something, because the response to a miracle is sewing all

through the Bible to biblical precedent. But he wouldn't let him. And so

do you know what Namon said. He said, let me at least gather

some of the ground where this miracle happened, so I can take it back

to my land. The only reason you take some of the ground is because

soil is the place that you plant. See, he said, the miracle

that happened here, I need to take a piece of this soil and take

it back to my hand because I got to have a place where I can

see miracles like this happen over and over again. The miracles that are about

to happen in our lives are gonna come through simple obedience. Would you lift

your hands all over this place, watching online, watching on rebroadcasts. This

is not just a moment that we're doing this Sunday crazy faith offering gonna be

happening the rest of this year because some of y'all you're hearing this message and

you're like, God, I will obey, I will try. I'm gonna

use my faith again. I'm gonna do what you caught me to do.

And this is the moment where God is going to use you to move into

another level of faith. Father, I've done what you asked me to do.

I didn't stop on six I didn't quit short of the miracle. And

Father, there are so many people that are so close to another level of

breakthrough, but the trauma tried to steal their Try today, God, will

you restore everything that the enemy has tried to steal. I thank you that

people are trying again in relationships, trying again in service, trying again to

do what you call them to do. Father God. I'm thanking you that

this is a revelation that leads to a revolution. I bind the spirit of

fear that would come over every person who will say what if God doesn't come

through. You're a good father and God. Today we are reminded of who

you are. You're chasing after us, You are actually looking to do good

in our lives, Father, because it brings you glory when your children and

Father God are representing you on this earth. Today. I thank you for

all the people who are moving in crazy faith, from the seeds that they

sow to the decisions that they make to obey you God. I thank you

that this marks a new moment in our ministry. This is not about amounts.

It's only about obedience. And let it be said of Transformation Church that

we were a body that was obedient to whatever God said. Thank you,

Father for allowing us to experience crazy faith and very simple obedience. There is

triumph in us trying again. Bless every seed, bless every business. Father,

as people are giving even out of their need. Father, I'm asking

you, Father, to prove the doubt wrong. Would you be God?

So as Naman said, Father, I know there is no God except the

God at Transformation, the God of the Bible. Father, let it be

to your credit, not mind, not anybody else's for your glory only today

we give you glory, We give you honor, and we give you praise.

If you're in this room you've never accepted Jesus, We're gonna give it

a second. More than anything you could give as a sacrifice. Your life

is more important today. If you want to make Jesus Christ your personal Lord

and savior, if you walked away from him today, the most crazy faith

step you can make it super simple. In a moment, we're gonna all

pray together, and all God's asking you to do is accept him, make

him the lord of your life. How do I do that? Romans ten

to nine. Confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus Christ

is Lord. It's that simple. Church wants to make it hard. Religion

wants to make it hard. But Jesus said, if you just do this

two simple steps, he said, and then I'll help you change all the

other stuff. I'll help you. I'll help you change your habits. If

that's you today, the greatest miracle is something super simple. He's gonna change

your heart through your simple confession. If that's you. On account of three,

I just want you to lift your hand. Number one, you're making

the greatest decision of your life. Number two. I see your hands,

sweetheart, your name is about to be written in the Lamb's Book of life.

Number three, with faith and boldness, I see you, my brother.

I see you, my brother. I see you my sister. I

see you, my sister. Transformation Church, how do we celebrate glory to

God online? In the comments? Just put a hand. We'll rejoicing that.

Transformation Church. Nobody prays alone. We all pray together. So with

everybody, just say God, thank you for sending Jesus just for me.

Today, I repent and I turn to you. I believe you lived,

you die, and you rose again just for me. Today. I make

a commitment to serve you all the days of my life. Change me,

renew me, transform me. I'm yours in Jesus saying amen, can we

shout unto God with a void of trying me. I'm so proud of you.

I'm so proud of you. I'm so proud of you. And what

a better opportunity than right now to exercise your faith. And just so,

if you just got saved, I want you to click that QR code.

We're gonna give you some information, We're gonna stay connected with you, and

right now we're going sow in crazy faith. There's boxes all over. If

you're next to a box, I want you to raise your hand. Online

you can give, and everybody, I want you to fill out your crazy

Faith card. This is not a slot machine, this is not I gave.

And so I'm expecting the nine teen things for it to happen the way

I want it to happen. Remember naming his problem is he thought. But

if you say God, I'm gonna obey you on what you say to give

and however you want to do this, Everybody say, have your a today.

Some of you are gonna sit. Some husbands and wives are renegotiating what

they thought they was gonna do. All I'm asking you to do is obey

God. When you obey him, it opens something for a miracle that you

never see. Father, bless every person as we worship and as we give

from all over this place. Whenever you decide, I believe the floor is

going to be ushered. So everybody that's on the sides, y'all, just

wait a second. We're gonna try to do this decent in order, and

we're gonna worship God as we give, because giving is an act of worship.

The floor is gonna give first, and then everybody's gonna come. And

if you need to slip out, there's giving boxes and all this stuff.

We're not gonna make this hard. This is simple. But today we're gonna

give, believing God's about to do something in our lives. Amen. Can

y'all just lift your hands and say this? I just want to say this,

Say ye, y y take off ushers, just lead them and everybody

say yeah. The spirit of God is still moving. The service is over,

but I believe the Spirit of God has been speaking to you this whole

time. I want you to respond to whatever God is saying to do in

obedience, Like did you hear what the message was? It's the miraculous thing

that God wants to do is wrapped up in your try. And I believe

that somebody's getting the faith to try again, trying to go back to that

place where you were hurt before, but going back knowing that you're there to

be the answer to the problem, not needing an answer from them, Trying

to use your faith again to build and not to tear down. And whatever

God is telling you to do, all I'm asking you to do is obey.

If Transformation Church has ever been a blessing to you, or God is

speaking to you right now that you're supposed to sow a seede, all I'm

gonna ask you to do do it. I've lived a life of crazy faith

and it's always been the simple things that God asked me to do that created

spectacular moments in my life. It's not about a mouse, It's about obedience.

This is not a plea or a cry. This is an opportunity for

you to walk into another level of faith. And I believe that after that

message, what the Holy Spirit is speaking to you, you're gonna try.

I love you. Let me pray for you, Father, Thank you for

my brother, thank you for my sister, Thank you for that Failily that's

watching. I thank you, Father God, that you're gonna prove yourself strong

by hearing and answering their prayers and moving them from faith to faith. Let

us know, Father God, that there's triumph and trying again. And Jesus

nay amen. I love you. I'll see you next week, yes,