A Sudden Switch // End in Triumph: Damaged But Not Destroyed (Part 10) // Michael Todd

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

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

we believe God will transform your life to today's message. For ten weeks,

we've been talking about the concept of being damaged but not and part of

us going from the trauma to triumph is like we've had to I've literally had

to convince the church that they was damaged. Like we all see it,

you just don't see it. You've believed so much faith talk and you believe

so much. How do I want to say this? You believe so much

that God is gonna come through, that He's gonna bypass your issues. He's

gonna take you into the Promised Land unhealed, which would be a curse.

And since God does everything well, he has taken our church, and I

believe many of you that are watching right now into a season of saying I

got it up ahead for you. But it and all of that don't mix.

See the blessing of the next season. You may have to give some

of it to your enemy. Oh oh, so the person you haven't forgiven

may be the recipient of God's faithfulness to you, so he cannot release it

until you deal with the issue. So I didn't know how long the series

was gonna be because I felt like I had to plow through a lot of

self righteousness as well as religion. Oh no, no, no, Me

and God, we all know that there's issues in there. And I feel

like we're just coming to the point where people are really starting to say,

you know what, I'm gonna do what's necessary. I'm gonna get in community,

I'm going to therapy. I can't tell you how many people I've gotten

emails and dms and running too in the hallways that said past the mic,

I'm getting my family therapy sessions for Christmas. I said what I said.

I started therapy last Thursday. I started doing that. I'm trying to get

us to a point where it's no longer in. It has to come,

but it has to come out in a way that doesn't destroy more stuff.

And most of us we get into a place where we let it happen until

you get a little break and then you just explode on everybody, and God

saying I'm gonna allow you to deal with the damage in a different way through

my word and with others, and so for ten weeks we've been here.

But as I was praying, God, where do you want us to go?

How do you want us to end this year? The Holy Spirit said,

Michael, it's time to make a transition. You're still gonna be in

a series called Damage but not Destroyed, But you've been talking about the trauma.

I want you to transition people in the last month of the year to

get crazy faith for the triumph. So today we're just we're just stepping over

the line of talking about the damage and the trauma and we're starting just a

mini series inside of a series called end in Triumph. Say it with me,

end in Triumph one more time? Say end in try Why Because the

way you end the thing is the way you start a thing. So many

people act like when they get a fresh start. If you was mean and

slow and hurt back here. When the date changes, nothing magically happens.

It's the perspective, the patterns, the things that you do on the inside.

And God told me to come and prophetically tell his church this year we're

gonna end in triumph. It is not over, the story is not complete.

We will have faith for the mountaintop again, and some of us have

become so familiar with the valley that we have stopped believe in God for mountaintops.

We would rather prepare for the coal of the sun not hitting down that

low, than to make steps to go up to find sun again. But

today I told you I came to pull, push, and drag you out

of complacency when it comes to your faith in God. I feel my health

coming on right now. You are about to believe that God can do more

with a little and a lot of faith than you could ever do by yourself.

Somebody shot at me one more time, with all the faith you got.

End in Triumph Isaiah, chapter forty three, verse fifteen, I want

to read this over you. I am the Lord, your holy One,

Israel's creator and King. I am the Lord who opened up away through the

waters, making a dry path through the sea. He's trying to jog their

memory right now. I called forth the mighty army of Egypt, with all

their chariots and horses. I drew them beneath the waves and drowned them.

Their lives snuffed out like a smoldering candlewig. He said, I blew out

your enemies like a birthday cake candle. Do you the imagery? I get

right there? The big thing that you're scared of. God just says that

boss, that job, that career, that thing is this one for I'm

about to do something new, saying with me, I'm about to do something.

See, y'all late, I've already begun it. Everybody that gets to

twenty twenty four, God's gonna be standing there like y'all late. See,

I've already. I came to Transformation Church on the first Sunday in December,

and I told them, by faith, I've already started dizzle what God is

about to do. I've already begun it. And then he asked you do

you not see it? What's wrong with you? Clear your glasses, clear

your sight? Do you not see what I've already been trying to do.

I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in dry

wasteland. Oh, that's exciting to me. The wild animals of the field

will thank me. The jackals in the house too. I don't even know

what animal that was for giving them water in the death. Oh my God,

Yes, I will make rivers in the dry wasteland. So my chosen

people can be say this word with me refreshed. I believe we're coming into

a season of refreshing. But God will not give you what you won't even

have the faith to believe. For now, I'm asking you to engage your

faith to believe that there is greater on the other side of the trauma.

Okay, it's going to end in triumph, Brent, It's going to end

in triumph. Haley, it's going to end in triumph. Mama, Dana,

it's going to end. And try I'm gonna say it until you get

it in your soul, filling your name. What is your name? It's

going to end in triumph. If it's still going on right now and you

still don't see your way through the wilderness and it looks very dark in this

season, I came to tell you keep stepping because it's going to end.

And what and some of y'all can't even fix your mouth to say it,

because what if it doesn't happen, then God is still working it out for

your good h See, your timetable does not affect God's goodness. I'm gonna

say it one more time. Well, God, I wanted you to do

about end he said, but you wouldn't have been ready for what I was

about to do then, and there was a couple of snakes around you,

then that would have they would have got you, and you would have been

passed out anyway. So my timing is perfect. But as long as I'm

in it, it's not finished. It's going to end. In Romans eight

twenty eight, and we know that God causes who causes it? Some of

y'all have been planning without faith. You've been planning, and God loves the

plan, but a plan that he's left out of. He steps back and

says, go ahead. No no no, no no no no no no

no no no no no no no no, try it. That's what you're

gonna do for twenty twenty four. That's where you're going to school. That's

the job. That's how you're gonna leave. Okay, no, no,

no, I'm here. I'm with you. I'll never leave her forsake you.

But I'm not blessing that. So use all your energy and all your

effort and all your connections to make that happen. That's why Proverbs three five

says, what acknowledge God in all your ways, and then he will get

in the middle and he will direct your path. But playing without him take

the path he always can reroute you. You just lose time and maybe run

into things you weren't supposed to ever see. Okay, what are you saying,

pastor Mike? Watch this with God? Triumph is always, somebody say

always, It's always on the other side of trauma. If you've been in

a season of continual disappointment, a bunch of letdown, a God no,

when is you gonna get off my head? If you've been in a consistent

season of why is this relationship not working? Why can't I seem to get

the traction? Why are we missing it? If you've seemed to be in

that place, take courage today. If you've been in a season of true

the one thing trauma promises you when you're in God is on the other side

of trauma. There's a ways what trium the cross French is this. This

is the gospel and the good news that when Jesus was crucified, he had

to take a scourge in What's humiliated was spit on everything happened, and then

he died Trauma it looked like the end, but it is in the core

character compency of our God to let things look traumatic for dramatic effect. I

mean, if you just watch how he does stuff. Lazareth let him die,

marrying him, walk up and say if you would have been there.

He said it was on purpose because y'all wanted me to heal him, and

for dramatic effect. I wanted a resurrection. I wanted people in twenty twenty

three to understand that even if it looks dead, the trauma will allways.

And watch I feel faith coming right now. I always wondered why Jesus didn't

die and then hit a peekaboo, like, you know what I'm saying.

If it was me, Okay, I just see stuff in movie. If

it was me, I would have been like, it is Finnish for you.

I don't know what they do. You'll be with me in paradise today.

H got you like I would have you know what I'm saying. I

would have proved my power quickly like that was where he like, you know

what I'm saying. But why would God let an entire day? Why would

he allow for a Saturday? Why would he allow the people that he loved

to be in trauma for a whole night it's because if he would have done

it quickly, it would have made us say, oh, that was just

Jesus. Only Jesus could do that. He allowed there to be a season

of trauma so that he could prove that, no matter how long that season

lasts, on the other side of that season is what true. I'm excited

because some of y'all everything is about to change. No no, no,

no no, this is If you don't have faith to believe it, that's

fine, but that I don't need to scream it to you. Something connected

with your spirit. For many of you, everything is about to what chance?

Let me go ahead and give you this crazy faith scripture that my mama

gave me. An Amus. Now, I know this is a this is

a book of Bible. Y'all be skipping over. I know, Amos ain't

been on your top Bible hits a list in a minute, But I understand

why because if you look culturally at the context, like God is going off

on the children of Israel because they've been disobedient. Now I know nobody in

here has been disobedient to God this year. Now you've done everything. It's

just the woman over here saying I have God dog it, She said,

I have. But if we're honest, we know that God healing us starts

with our honesty. If we're honest, that many of us, some of

the trauma and the drama that we've gone through has just been because of disobedience

God has been trying to protect. Don't be in that relationship, but God,

look at his abs. I just don't know how you would create something

so muchiful and then tell me not to touch it. Don't be at that

job. But God, they paying me so much money here, and I

need more. He said, no, you don't. You need stewardship,

but stay there. Some of us, it's time to correct what we've disobeyed

God on all year. I'm gonna leave it right. But for others of

us, we approach Amos trying to see God even in your correction, Are

you trying to tell us something? So? Even as God is correcting the

children of Israel, because they worship of the gods and done things like the

world and have been disobedient after God has given him instruction, his grace still

somehow shows up in their disobedience. This is why the only religion I can

ever rock with is the Christian religion. Because God's grace gives us what we

do not deserve. Every law we've broken, every measuring stick to some of

the like. Well, not everyone be quiet, because the Bible says all

have sin and fall in short of the glory of God. That's why y'a

have to send Jesus. And so whence he sends Jesus. God is trying

to show us in this Old Testament passage as a type and of a type

and a shadow to something he wants to do in our life. He said,

even when I'm correcting you, even when you're in a correction season,

I'll show you grace and let you know I'll take you to a brand new

season. Amos chapter nine, Team it said, and I'm gonna read it

out of the message version because it did something to my spirit. Okay,

yes, indeed, it won't be long now, God decrees this. Somebody

say it won't be long now? What if we woke up every day and

said that phrase. What if you wake up in the morning and say it

won't be long now. I don't know what you're believing. For it may

be a restoration of relationship, It may be your mind getting back to a

place of peace. But even if it's not in that place, what if

you woke up every day and said, you know what, just a few

hours closer. Won't be long now when they asked you at Christmas, when

you getting married. It won't be long now. Okay, some of y'all

about to get the face to this. When you're moving out of that house.

It won't be long now, because every day that I live is a

step closer. When you're gonna start that business. It won't be long now

when that album releasing, it won't Some of y'all been sending us hate letters

for the Transformation Worship album. I came to decree it won't be long now.

Okay, this shot at one more time with crazy faith, it won't

be long now. Things are going to happen so fast your head will swim

one thing fast on the heels of another. You won't be able to keep

up. Everything will happen at once and everywhere you look. Blessings, blessings,

blessings, blessings, blessing. Somebody's about to receive this, Blessings,

blessings everywhere I look down. Blessings, Oh, blessings around, blessings.

Somebody shot at me blessings. What if God told you that you're about to

be in a season where you won't be able to keep up with a blessing.

Why would God want to put you in a place that you can't hold

it all? Because when you can't hold it all, that means you have

to give some of it away. I need to talk to the people who

know the next season you're gonna be blessed to be a blessing. You're not

gonna need to pray about it. You'll be the answer to the prayer.

Okay, I'm trying to control myself. I'm on point one. What'd you

say? I said, what'd you say? Say you with crazy saith?

It won't be long now. Everywhere look at my job, blessing, in

my relationship, blessing when I'm leaving my last season, blessing when I'm walking

into a place and I don't know nobody. Everywhere I look blessing, blessing

like wine pouring off the mountains and heels something. I was like, Lord,

that's the blessing. I want wine off of heels. Then it says

I will make Oh, this is the encouraging part to me. I will

make everything right again. From my people. I just believe that God is

coming to let you know that it hasn't felt right and you don't know how

to make it right. And he said, that's not your job in this

situation. He said, an I will make everything everybody say right again.

And then it goes into this next part. Watch it. It says they'll

rebuild their ruined cities. That word ruin means damaged, everything that is damaged

around. He said, I'll let you rebuild the ruined cities. They'll plant

vineyards and drink good wine. They'll work their gardens and eat fresh vegetables.

We eating good in the next season, and I'll plant them, plant them

on their own land. This next season has ownership in it. Okay,

everybody don't have eyes to see this and ears to heal this. But there's

some owners coming out of this season into the next season. I'm gonna be

able to make some decisions. All my decisions ain't gonna be made for me.

I'm gonna have options. Okay, they'll never again be uprooted from the

land I've given them. How can you say that? How can you say

that? How can you say that? God? Yo, God uddh,

This makes me happy. Because there's people in here that we claim the same

God, but we don't believe he could do the same thing. WHOA Okay,

you believe God is just a headache, takeaway God, and I believe

that he can transform somebody's head like he can take something. No, you

missed it because you think the headache is a miracle. But somebody who was

steeped in perversion and lust and jacked up, he can transform their mind to

living purity. I'm talking about real miracles. He can take an unfaithful husband

and make him into a man, a valor, a mended man. Oh

you keep believing for a house. I'm a belief for the block. We

served the same God, he said, God, Yo, God, he

said, which lets me know that many people are claiming God. But that

doesn't mean you believe he can actually do it. And I know there's some

people. Oh okay, that's the old Testament. I need a News Testament

equivalent for what you're saying. Our Regalatian six. So let's not get tired

and doing what it's good because at just the right time, somebody says,

suddenly, at just the right time, we will reap a harvest of blessing.

If we don't give. What I came to you in the last thirty

days of the year is to tell you don't give up. If you've been

believing all years for your family to be restored, don't give. If you've

been on the brink of financial room, but somehow God has made ends meet

every month, but he promised you something is gonna change. Don't give up.

If you've been fighting that fight of lust and temptation, but you made

it this far, don't give. Don't give up. Because at the right

time, me and my friend Carl were talking to the back and we started

looking because you know, some of these analogies in the Bible, we just

think we just say them, and it was like that was back in their

day. But when you really like break it down and like get into the

context of what they're actually saying, it literally says, here we will reap

a harvest of blessings. Remember what it said in the Amos Grisher everywhere I

look, blessing blessed. If you were to go out on to fifty acres

of land where there was something planted, and you stood in the middle of

it, everywhere you turned, it would be harvest you would literally have to

look at the edge of the property to find a place that did not have

harvest. So then we started talking and we thought about it, and we

act like harvest is a one day event. But anybody who's ever been a

farmer knows it's not harvest day, it's harvest season. Okay, I don't

know. I told y'all we're about to end this thing in triumph. You

can't pick up all the blessings. There's not enough time in the day,

in the week. Some of y'all gonna have to hire people to manage the

blessing. Oh God, I'm in my bag today. I'm telling you right

now, somebody look at your neighbor to say, it's harvest season, brit

We're not harvesting for a day. If we've been planting for years, could

we reap for years? Oh? The scripture says there's a season where the

Oh God, there's a season that comes that if you've been playing seas long

enough, the reaping will overtake the soul. I just came to transformation from

church today to declare it's the season of a sudden switch. Somebody say a

sudden switch. I'm talking about it's gonna look like night and then back it's

gonna look like that. I'm talking, it's gonna look lonely, and then

it's gonna be a relationship. Everywhere. Somebody say a sudden switch. Oh

my god, woo, somebody needs to receive that by faith right now.

Say it again, A sudden switch. It's Tanya, it's a sudden switch.

Season. You're not gonna know the day that it happens. You're gonna

go to sleep, discourage one day and wake up and say, hold on,

where did this come from? Huh? Hold on, you're gonna have

to watch this realize the miracle one more time with crazy fake shot at me.

A sudden switch, the same energy and how quickly you go into a

room that's dark and you flick that switch book, I feel profit, Drake,

I just flipped the switch. I don't know all my analogies are coming

out, but somebody's gonna walk into a room and you're just gonna turn on

the light and you're gonna feel something. Uh, because it's gonna be a

prophetic sign of how quick leave and it's not that dimmer situation turn that demmer

off. Y'all know them demurs that you've pissed a button and like, uhh,

go find you, Go find you. Everybody say switch today. I

want to give you the secret to suddenly. There's a secret to suddenly.

There are steps to be able to walk into your suddenly. It's at the

end of that aim as scripture. And many times I will be honest that

the church gets excited about the promise and we do not look at the principles.

And part of my job as your leader is to make sure that we

do not just yell crazy faith and write down a wishless on a card hoping

the church fulfills it. Who is not God? Okay, now just for

two people I had to say it. But we don't look at the pattern

or the concrete or the instructions that God wants us to work around. And

so I want you to look at it. Right here. It says they'll

rebuild the ruined cities, they'll plant vineyards and drink good wine, they'll work

their gardens and eat fresh vegetables, and I'll plant them plant them on their

own land. Now, when I look at the scripture, I always look

at what do I have to do? And what does God do? So

We're going to read that one more time, and I just want you to

underline what you think your job is. They'll rebuild the ruined cities, they'll

plant vineyards and drink good wine. They'll something's like I thought, we don't

cuss in church. Some of y'all. They'll work. It's not a cuss

word. They'll work their gardens and eat fresh vegetables, and then I'll plant

the first three are you you you rebuild, plant work, then I'll plant

them in their own land. See when I read this, I got excited

about the it's plumbing. There's a fast one. Heel off another takeover.

You won't be able to keep up. And I started shouting crazy be got

but I couldn't reconcile the sudden and the slow language. He said, suddenly,

and we all just souted over. Suddenly tomorrow do that. I'm God

like, we do that, But then God uses slow language. Who has

ever seen anybody rebuild a city suddenly? No? Come on, if anybody

lives in Tulsa Memorial, they've been working on this street, I mean,

not even a mile of the street for three year. What the heck where

are our tax dollars going? If they can't rebuild a street of the city.

How is God's saying suddenly, but then they'll rebuild. Okay, I'm

trying to manage your expectations for a season of suddenly because many times we get

disappointed because God didn't do it. Well, hold on, maybe He is

doing it. But your suddenly it's tied to something slow. I'm talking about.

What if your sudden transformation in your body is tied to slow progress and

consistency over the next year, them collapse is getting weaker and weaker. Right

now, did you feel that all that? That's good? That is good?

My good? He said, they'll reveald. Look, they'll plant.

How many people have ever planted anything that is slow? Suddenly slow? Suddenly

slow? Your suddenly is always connected to something slow. Let me put it

in a point. Suddenly is sometimes slowly. They'll work gardens and eat fresh

vegetables. How was this suddenly? God? He said? He said,

I'm trying to prepare you for the suddenly. If I don't put something slow

a part of the suddenly, you'll get swallowed. He's a good father.

He knows if he trusted you with the income you would have ultimately and you're

still in that addictive cycle right now. It would kill you and take you

out of here because you would have access to everything you don't have access,

not because you don't want it right now, just because you can't afford it

right now. So he tells you you have this urge to be an entrepreneur,

a business person, take over. Dought it. He said, that's

the suddenly you feel it's coming. But I attached a slow process of sobriety

to it so that when the suddenly happens, you'll be able to not be

swallowed. oOoOO. This is big scripture right here. See, this is

why you cannot define anybody else's season and come into their book at whatever chapter

you think they're in and think you know what's going on. Write this down

as a point. Suddenly is defined by the scene you've seen. Suddenly is

defined by the scene you've seen. See. If you came into Transformation Church

when we got into this building, you might get the wrong impression of who

we are. You might think we don't need no help. Every church you've

been in is raising a building fund for seventeen years for a building that never

got built. We paid this off in five months, so they don't need

my money. So you came into this in a scene where you think you

could define the season. Well, I'm about to give in crazy faith.

They already got Look at that big old screen up bigger than the IMAX.

That's bigger than that. And people come in at this scene trying to act

like they know what are suddenly looked like. But what you don't know is

that we we were in the north side of Tulsa with less than three hundred

people, less than a decade ago, believe in God, in crazy faithful

stuff that had never been seen. It's normal. Now are you talking about

that big church over there on Memorial You didn't say that ten years ago.

Oh gosh. And this is why I need everybody to understand. Do not

be worried about anybody else's process. Do not be looking to the left or

the right trying to figure out what they're doing. They did not chart the

course of your purpose. And so when I was in North Tulisa that I

told our church gonna we're gonna break the spirit of poverty. There was less

people than we're in this section right here, and I said today we're gonna

raise an offering. It was our first unofficial crazy faith offering because them people,

they didn't. They looked at me crazy. I'm like, what,

no, hold on? I told him. I said, today we're gonna

raise an offer and we're gonna give all of it away to churches in this

community. See people seeing us give millions of dollars away to churches. That

started with three hundred people who had no guarantee of us ever being on YouTube,

me ever writing a book, ever being passed on Mike Todd. There

was no guarantee of success. There was just people there who knew that if

we were gonna experience its suddenly, we had to do something. Slow.

People see me now as like, oh, he's an overnight sensation. Shut

up. You don't know me. You don't know all the years that I

was sowing seeds in obscurity. And I'm glad you wasn't there because you might

have got me distracted trying to critique my process. But I thank God for

the wilderness season. I thank God for the dark, I thank him for

the valleys because you cannot tell me what God has been doing in my life

because you wasn't there, and most of y'all haven't seen the seasons that created

my suddenly. But there's no way. When God told me we were supposed

to do an end of the year offering every year to accelerate the vision,

there's no way he would tell me to do that and tell our church.

And I wasn't gonna be the first one to feel the hit. I'm not

gonna tell you how much money I've given to the Body of Christ. We

could have bought a lot of other stuff. Hear what I'm saying to you,

But in that eighty three hundred dollars offering, me and Natalie gave a

thousand dollars so guarantee that one day I'd have anything to rub together more than

that. No contracts, no book did We didn't know if the church would

work. Bishop was so encouraging, like you're doing great, passive. I

knew I wasn't doing great. We were praying. He had crazy faith to

just believe, and then everybody shot at me. Suddenly there was a switch,

but you thought it was suddenly, but it actually was slow. Okay,

why does it have to be suddenly and slow, cause if it's if

it's actually quick, you won't be equipped. If it happens too quick,

you won't be equipped you'll lose what God wanted you to live in. And

that's why God says it's suddenly season. But in many areas it's gonna look

slow. Why I've been forgiven this many times? Some of y'all be like,

I forgave him three times. The Bible's clear seventy times seven mathematicians.

What's that for? Ninety a day? Y'all miss it? She said,

a day, drag drag. Some of y'all know that he's ever, she

said, a day, four hundred and ninety times a day. You're supposed

to be forgiving. You're such a compassionate person. There's been a lot of

slow forgiveness. Okay. See See you can't come in on this scene and

think that it just happened suddenly. It's gonna feel like suddenly. But as

somebody who's been rebuilding their marriage, is it slower suddenly? Ask somebody who's

been planting new patterns and overcoming addiction? Is it slow or is it suddenly?

Ask somebody who's working on the vision that God gave them but they don't

got no support yet, Ask them, is it slow or if it's suddenly?

See, God uses the process to perfect the purpose everybody wants the purpose,

but God would be unkind if he gave you the purpose without the process.

Ask the children of Israel. He delivered them from Egypt and told them,

this ain't the shortest way. Like what if Siri told you calculating the

not shortest way to your destination. Most we'd stop driving to find a shorter

route. But God told the children of Israel, this is not the shortest

way, because I need to make sure what you were in is offer you

by the time you get to what I've promised you. So he took the

long way and watched this. The long way was eleven days. But because

as soon as he told them I'm putting you through a process, they started

doing what complaining. Somebody said, tripping, Yes, I love my church.

They started complaining, tripping, grumbling, doing exact opposite of what was

commanded for them to do, and they turned an eleven day journey into a

forty year death. Now the process looks short after you see the penalty.

I bet they were looking at year forty one like, dang, we should

have just listened, We should have just went through the process. But God

said it's gonna be sudden. I bet you eleven days seemed like a suddenly

compared to forty years. They would if at year eleven, they was like,

this is all we had to do? Shoot eleven years eleven days were

taking that suddenly, but they didn't want to go slow, so they missed

everything that God had for them in the promise. So watch this. I'm

gonna give you the secret. I told you the secret of a sudden switch

is write this down steady. You want a sudden switch, get real,

steady. What are you doing consistently? What are your Bible reas habits?

What's your prayer time? What songs are you currently worshiping to? Now?

No, I'm not talking about that one Maverick City song from three years ago

that you know the words to the first chorus. I'm talking about is there

something frush stirring? Where's the song that God gave you to write? I'm

talking about everybody shot at me steady. If you want suddenly, it comes

from being I had to keep serving my wife in seasons where it felt like

we wasn't connected. I had to be steady. Do you know how many

date nights we went on? Mad? Okay, see, y'all want to

be faking here, but I'm talking about we are mad at each other?

Kids? Where are you going to day? Night? But if I would

have stopped being steady in a season where I felt strained, I wouldn't have

gotten the suddenly in our relationship. Now that that girl walked by and I

just I don't just want to take a bite. I want to give her

a compliment. I want to do it because the seasons of being steady have

produced a sudden passion in our marriage, a sudden understanding. And too many

people in the church want to suddenly without the steady I'm talking about, it's

gonna take crazy faith to be steady, and I believe God wants us to

have this suddenly with steady practices right now. Decide in December what you're doing

till next December. Forget the first of the year, to start walking.

Start tomorrow. Roll okay, but my knees, but they not getting no

better sitting on that lazy boy. It's not about the speed of the walk

of the run, and some of us will I used to be able to

do a mile in five minutes. Now it's gonna take you five hours.

But it's okay. What are you gonna get shot at me. Steady in

We're doing Steady date night every week. We don't got no money. We

just gonna go sit in the car and listen to R and B jams.

Oh y'all, y'all wanna be fake. We gonna carve out this time.

We're gonna hit the block. Matter of fact, we can't waste that gas.

We just gonna roll the window down. You remember you remember that made

your new playlist to day on Spotify. I'm not talking about spending money.

I'm talking about getting Okay. I'm telling you every sun, that same light

switch cannot turn on if there is not a steady supply of what electricity.

It's there the whole time that current is flowing, the whole time the switch

gets flipped because of something. Oh, the Holy Spirit is reminding you of

stuff. He told you to be steady on four years ago, said I

want you to be a part of that small group. I want you to

get with the I'm not gonna be hurt like that. Irble again, that's

a lie. I want to tell you. As long as there's people on

the earth and you have love in your heart, you have an opportunity to

be hurt. But God is the one that walks with you through all of

your pain and all of your hurt, and you will not be able to

experience the love to its fullness if you're not vulnerable to the hurt at its

fullness. The person that can hurt me the most is Natalie Diane Todd.

Why because I love her the most And I'm just trying to tell somebody right

now, God gets steady back in relationship, be steadying, serving in the

church, forget serving in the church, be steadying, coming some of y'all,

come on, you'll be here today and we'll see you January nineteenth.

Is that God has been really working on me and taking some time and just

spend time with all the things that our time to be able to do,

and time to just be with him. You're a liar, You're on your

truck, You're at the blake, you're at the bow. And I'm not

saying nothing wrong with that, but part of your purpose is to give what

God's done in your life away and you won't even serve in his house and

He's already built yours. Okay, okay, passing Mike. It's gonna take

crazy faith for me to be steady because I'm I'm everywhere, some of us.

I mean, if some may move, and I'll make a move.

Come on, we outside, like y'all, y'all be outside, y'all be

playing stuff. No nobody even want to come. You'd have made a whole

party nobody wants to come to. But you're just trying to She said,

Dang, you're just trying to make stuff happen. And what God's saying is,

maybe this year, the most spiritual thing you can do is pick forward

things you'll be steady at. What if you'll be disciplined this year? What

if you'll actually be accountable. What if you'll be steady at saving fifty dollars

a month? Because every time something happens, it's a crisis, and God

told you to save two years ago. You would have had everything you needed

at the moment of the crisis if you didn't buy them Crocs, I'm in

your business right now. I got Pingchquark, got SPONGEBOBSPI, I got Spider

Man's crows. I got high heels cross I got low heel crossing. What

I got the little widgets? I got my kids' faces on them. Look

y'all cute? That is and as soon as there's a need, you feel

like God abandoned you. What if it was because we weren't slow enough to

be steady? Ooh, it's a challenging word, even for me. I

hear myself. I hear you, Lord, I hear what you're saying to

me. I hate this. I want to turn my iPad off. How

do I stay steady? I'm gonna give you the three ways you stay steady.

You submit to the process. If God is asking you to do something,

you need to become sub to the mission. I need to say,

you know what, I do not like reading, but I'm gonna read my

Bible every day. I'm just gonna be steady. I'm gonna do something I

don't like. Welcome to life, okay, I'm I'm actually gonna wake up

thirty minutes early to make sure I prepare for my kids' school. So I'm

not angry at them because they're kids, and I got up at the time

they got up, and so we about to be late because they got distracted.

And now you cussing at your kids before they go start their day in

a place where they don't love them, but they would rather be there than

in the house with you because you just woke up on the wrong side of

the bed. Okay, well that felt personal. What if this year you

were gonna be steady and getting up and making sure you were prepared because you

you're gonna take on a day from perspective of the honor it is to raise

these children. Yeah, what if I decided I'm gonna be steady and communicating

with my accountability this year. I'm not gonna see them in the streets and

be like, hey, bro, you ain't called me. Accountability is not

when the person you're supposed to be accountable to calls you accountability. Y'all know

what happens when you go to jail and you get a parole officer. You

are accountable to that parole officer. Some of y'all too safe for this,

but some of y'all know what it is. Y'all know what it is when

you get out in your freedom, they tell you every week it is not

up to your po officer to come find you at wingstop. It doesn't matter

where you are, you have to go check in with them. What if

you made a decision that you would stop using it as an excuse that people

have lives and you make it an effort. I'm gonna be steady with accountability

this year. I'm not gonna let the enemy pump me in isolation because I'm

actually gonna be steady just one more time. Stay steady. That means just

actually submit to the process. Some of you, God's been trying to put

you in a process and you've been fighting it and all he's saying is you're

not gonna win. You're just wasting time. How long will you delay your

obedience? How do I stay steady? Number two? Stay in proximity.

There are environments that you know that bring life out of you, bring faith

out of you, point you in the right directions, and somehow we get

stuck in the environments that don't. We're in places more time that tear us

down, that make us frustrated, that give us anxiety. And God saying

would you stay in proximity? Would you stay? And that word just means

close, stay close to the places and the people who give life. Everybody

shot at me life. I wrote it down like this. You need to

stay close to the voices, the vehicle and the vision God has for you.

You need to stay close to the voices. If listening to the transformation

in church helps you and you know this is one of the voices that helps

you make right decisions. You need to listen to it every day, not

just on Sunday. It needs to be your background music. Faith comes by

hearing and hearing the word of God. All I'm in here doing is trying

to help you hear the word of God in a different way. Maybe some

of the time, you just need to do it. And I don't care

who you listen to, as long as they point you to Jesus. If

there's a certain timber and tone and dynamic that helps feed you, stay close

to the things that bring you life. Stay close to the people who bring

you life. Why this false humility, real insecure bit that a lot of

people are doing right now. Why just know you're busy. I just know

you got a lot going on. You ain't ask me what I had going

on. You're already projecting on to me what you've decided because you don't want

to experience the possibility of rejection. Okay, I'm talking real deep right now.

But some of us don't have friends because we won't just ask somebody what

y'all doing this Friday? Because you scared that if you ask them what they

what I do on this Friday, They'll be like, hell, get away

from me. You discuss me. You smell like gross onion, like you

have like somebody's about to and you project onto people. And God said,

but you know that's a voice that helps you. You know that there's wisdom

when you're talking about your feelings in there. So stay close. That's how

you stay steady. I'm telling you right now, if it wasn't for Natalie

Todd, Bree Davis, Tim Ross, Aaron Charles Bishop and I could keep

going. If it wasn't for the people, the voices and the people who

understand the vision around me, I wouldn't have been able to be steady for

nine years pastor in this church. I woke up the other day shocked that

I made it this long because I know me Like we was talking about the

calendar and it's like this year in February, we'll celebrating nine years of you

being a pastor. I said, oh my god, Because if somebody would

told me in twenty fifteen February first that I would be here nine years later,

I would have been like, ah, I really see a good two

a possible. Three. Some of y'all play spades. How many books do

you have? Two apost but nine. But the reason that I've been able

to stay steady because I've stayed in proximity to people who understand my value understanding.

Do you know how many people tell me I can't do stuff like uh

uh, you can't go there? No more. I'm a grown man,

I have kids. I'm not a kids, but we care. So if

you show up there, if you do that, if you say that,

stay in proximity. Last one, how do I stay steady? You have

to switch your mind into the promise. It's got to be for the joy

that's set before you. That's why I'm trying to encourage your crazy faith right

now. You may not be in it, but you gotta switch your mind

to the promise gave. What is God said about me? What is he

said about my life? What is he said? What are the promises in

his word? What is he said? And I I just want to encourage

somebody. If you don't switch your mind into the promise right now, you're

gonna be in twenty twenty four acting like, oh now I gotta get geared

up for a new year and God said, I've already wanted you to be

in it. Make the resolution. Now, make the decision. Everybody shot

at me now, because if you do what's slow now, it's gonna pop

up and look to everybody else like a what suddenly. Okay, okay quit

recap of Amos so you understand what God was saying to them in chapter one

and two. Israel is just like all the other nations. They wiling out

in chapters three through six the prophecies against Israel. Prophecies come against Israel because

they are unfaithful to God and they have been all ready given a mandate.

Chapter seven through nine, they get five visions of what the judgment will be

like. But then God's grace intercedes for them in the middle of their judgment,

and God says, but I can give you a sudden switch. This

is powerful for us to remember that in the midst of God correcting us,

he's always working on a redemptive plan. So when God tells you no,

He's always trying to find a way for you to get to the promise.

That's his love for us. Says Yes, indeed, Amos nine thirteen.

It won't be long. God decrees things are going to happen so fast that

your head will swim. Somebody say, sudden, suddenly, suddenly. Somebody

say, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, this container has been touched

and filled up. This container has just been changed. Suddenly. It was

sitting empty, nothing was in it. I came to it, I touched

it, I put something in it, and suddenly it's different. Shot at

me suddenly, and I suddenly walk away from it. Yeah, things are

going to happen so fast your head will swim one thing fast on the heels

of another. You won't be to keep up. Everything will be happening at

once and everywhere you look. Blessings, blessings, blessings, blessings, blessings,

blessings, blessings. Say it, blessings, blessings, blessings, blessings,

Believe, blessings, blessings on my blessings on my job, blessings,

blessings, blessings. Like wine pouring off the mountain in the hills, write

this down. My last point, A sudden switch comes from a subtle switch.

I believe the big thing God is about to do in your life is

going to come from a little adjustment that you make in yours ooh, I

want to shout it, but I think I think you need to hear it

just as soft as I'm saying that. A subtle shifting perspective, a sudden

a subtle shift in your patterns. Do y'all see what happened back here?

Like all I did was something very subtle. I came over here, and

I turned on a switch, and I put water in the container and I

put the top on it. Those weren't drastic changes to what was happening over

here. They were all subtle. But I don't know if you can hear

what's happening. But there's a lot of movement that's happening. I don't know

if they can really see. Get closed. Do y'll see them? Little

bubble they percolating. This water that is stagnant in this container is starting to

get a lot of movements in this container. They both clear, but it

was the suddle switch that is creating a sudden switch. We're gonna let this

sit there for a second, keep the camera right there so they can see

what happens. What's happening, what'd you say? It's bubbling, steam is

coming out, there's activation, there's movement. Something Hold on if enough heat

get on it, it might have a little overflow. Look at me,

everybody, Look at me. Everybody, look at me, everybody. Whoa,

Hold on, there's some action happening right there. Hold on. I

want to you attention back. But right now this whole thing has captivated our

entire attention. Not because of something great that is happening. It was a

subtle switch that caused a sudden switch. Oh shoot, hold on, now

this thing is steaming. Hold on. This wasn't a part of the example.

Hold on, this mug is Hold on Jesus, hold on, fresh

win, fresh wind, freshmen. Hold on. Oh it's starting to move.

It's starting to Could this be a prophetic symbol of everything in your life

that has not had any movement for the past five years, and God says,

I'm not about to have to do something big for you. It will

be a subtle switch that, oh this might break. Hold on. Whoa

whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa woo whoo whoa whoa?

What did you just say? This is moving and it's making this move.

See y'all missing it like it's it's very it's very light. But the thing

that's not even connected to it is moving right now. There are family members,

there are coworkers, there are business partners, there are people on your

neighborhood. There are people on your block that once you begin to walk into

ya, suddenly, oh I feel this thing right now. There will be

a sudden switch because of your subtle switch. So shit, he said,

let's make some tea. At four hundred and eleven degrees, nothing moves.

I mean two hundred and eleven degrees, nothing moves. It's at two hundred

and twelve degrees that water boils. What if the subtle switch you needed to

make was a one degree decision, one degree the difference between making everything around

you shake this part If I ignored, it would have still taken all of

your attention because something started to steam behind me. Look, people scared right

now because it might break. The container may not be able to hold.

Like I hear the glass crackling right now, and if it's sizzling, and

if it does break, it would it would take our attention. Again,

you do not need attention if you're actually producing what God has called you to

produce, the attention will automatically go to what God has already put his hand

on I'm gonna turn it off. My whole team is tripping. I can

see all of y'all over there. Pastor y'all cut the power. I'll see

what y'all do, and they I love y'all standing everywhere. We'll go home.

Everybody shot at me a sudden switch. But what if it starts with

a subtle switch. A subtle switching perspective, a subtle switch to patience,

a subtle switch in practice, a subtle switch in your schedule. What about

a subtle switch in your seeking of God? What about a subtle switch in

your serving? Everybody listen to me. I know y'all trying to get home,

but listen, don't miss the most important part of this message. What

if it's a subtle switch in your sacrifice. I believe this is a suddenly

season, and I ask God every year when it comes to the crazy faith

offering time, I'm like, Lord, I really don't even want to do

this because I already got it. I know you can ask me for whatever

you want me to ask. On October sixteenth, they don't ask for that.

I'm yours. You got everything I got in here. It's like Michael,

that's why you have to do this. You have to give people who

have never stretched their faith beyond a certain point the opportunity to make a subtle

switch. It was a thousand dollars of me and Natalie back in the day

that changed the trajectory of our entire lives. My children's children will be blessed,

not because of what transformation Church has given me. God has chosen to

bless me from this church. I'm well taken care of. But for some

reason, people read my books. I didn't even know I could write a

book. But God told me to make a subtle switch. He literally will

tell you I was about to. I don't think I told this story publicly,

but the first time I went to Elevation Church and they asked me to

come, I knew I was gonna preach. Marked. I have in my

phone right now mock ups for marked T shirts, Marked Devotionals, Marked CDs

prayer, CDs mark I had branded. I was about to go to Elevation

and open up a shopify. I had it ready, and I was like,

I don't care what they give me. I'm gonna sell these T shirts

and the Holy Spirit. I mean spent money to get them designed everything like

that, and the Holy Spirit said, do you do it? You ever

felt like the Holy Spirit starts stuttering at you? What who? And I

literally came to bring in my wife and God said, do not sell any

products until it's something of value, and I'll tell you what it is.

And the first thing I ever sold and the only thing I've ever sold,

books, And I really was like, this is trash because I'm not a

big book person, Like it's not like I would much rather by a hoodie

than a book, especially back in that season. But I obeyed God.

I submitted to the process. I stayed steady. Do you know that writing

a book is slow? Do you know how many edits? And revenge?

Just that's how I said it. Leave it in there, like no the

actual grammatical punctuations of the shut up. It's a slow process. It took

us a year and a half maybe to do relationship. But I had to

act for help. I had to get breed or read it with me.

We had to sit in rooms for days and like, does that make sense?

Is that what they even actually have in the Holy Spirit? Just give

it and then come to all of that and now it's time for my book

to come out World Pandemic. When I when that happened, I was scheduled

to go on these shows and do all this stuff, all the things they

tell you need to do promote the book. And I was in the back

and I called my friend Carl Lynz and he face tied me and he's like,

what's going on? Like, Bro, I am stressed. They just

canceled everything because they said, you know, it's a global pandemic, and

you know you're acting like it's nothing because you don't really know what it is.

They say it's a global pandemic. I'm just what Anyway, I'm sitting

there and he said, Bro, God's about to use this. He said.

He's got everybody at home. All they have is time. He's like,

bro, people are going to read this book. It's going to be

a New York Times bestseller. And just his little encouragement. I remember I

was right back there and I was like, whoo, all right, God,

I'm going to change my perspective and my expectancy one degree. That's where

that concept of fifty one percent faith came from. People be like, oh,

I'm fifty to fifty No no, no, no, no. If

I know one percent over halfway. That is God. I'm doing it one

degree, one decision, and that book, for some reason, has sold

over a million copies now here. No, don't just don't just clap for

that. Don't just clap for that. No, just clap for that.

The clap comes because somebody let me write another book. That's where the clap

comes. Lin, hear what I'm saying to you, like, how would

God use this thing that I never even considered to be the thing that would

bless my children's children? It's because He was asking me for a subtle perspective

change. Will you let me do it? Or do you want to do

it? I would be traveling to every ca in the world had I not

written relationship goals. The way I'm able to be the family man and take

my kids to school and do all these different things is because I don't ever

have to go out and speak ever ever. Glory to God. He knew

that to build this church and to be the husband and the father I needed

to be, I needed to be home. So he gave me a everybody's

a subtle He gave me a subtle switch that suddenly changed everything in my life.

Guys, this next week, I'm asking everybody in this room and under

the sound of my voice, whether you live in here or you're in Dubai,

right now, I want you to pray and ask God, is he

asking you for the subtle switch of a sacrifice, give our money to stuff

that never even produces one piece of fruit, and God saying I want to

change everything in your life, but I want you to start with they sacrifice.

And I'm telling you this is not because the church needs money. This

is an opportunity for your faith to go from this point to go one degree

higher and get to that place of crazy faith where God can trust you with

the things that he's calling you for. Today I felt that the end of

this service is gonna hit people all different places. But next week we're bringing

our families. Mended men are gonna talk to they wives and they gonna be

like, honey, I need you to pray. I'm gonna pray. Let's

talk about a number by Tuesday. So I'm gonna come with a number and

they're gonna be like, you say, what he'sna see. I'm be like,

well, I just really thought that God, girl, you heard from

the devil. So one thing I say about that. The devil will never

tell you to give anything, because he does the opposite. He's a stealer,

he's a thief, he's a liar. So sometimes when God says a

number, I'm telling you, every time that God's given me a Naley number,

it shocks me, but then it propels me to trust him when I

tell you, whatever amount, this is not about amounts. It's about your

faith. I'm telling you this from the bottom of my heart. The literal

offering that Jesus brings attention to in the Bible is a woman who gave two

mites. He said, do y'all see this woman right here? Call this

disciples over. He said, that's crazy faith right there, They said.

People are dropping stacks and racks everywhere. How was that crazy faith? Everybody

else is given out of their overflow, but she gave from her need.

Wherever I tell this story of the Gospel, we're gonna remember this woman's story.

It's not about amounts, it's about obedience. I'm gonna say it one

more time for the people who are getting over old religious mindsets. And maybe

you came from a church or a place that manipulated for finances that don't happen

here. I'm trying to increase your faith. That's Mike. Why does it

have anything to do with money, Because where's your treasure is? Your heart

follows your treasure, especially in this Christmas season where you about to get your

kids some toys they don't want anyway, they're gonna play with them for exactly

seven hours seven mark. My words are there be broken or they will not

be able to find the remote. This year, God's trying to move you

to another level. I just want to pray for you at the end.

Could you lift your hands. I'm gonna pray for our church because this is

a church of faith. Father, I thank you, I thank you for

the sudden switch that's about to happen. Father God, I'm not praying for

anything except a perspective change. Maybe the process you're putting us in, and

you have us in right now. It's so that you can prepare us for

the promise. Today. I'm looking at people, Father God, who are

about to walk into another level. God. I feel it, I sense

it so strong. God. I thank you that our suddenly comes with something

slow. Father, thank you for making us steady. God. I thank

you that this will be the most spiritually steady year we've ever had. I

think you it'll be the most financially steady year we've ever had. I think

you it'll be the most relational steady year we've ever had. God, I

thank you that this will be a year of steady joy, steady peace,

and steady seek and steady serving and steady sacrifice. Father, you know the

season we're walking in, and Father, you've already been starting to talk to

me and Father at every level, it's relative you're requiring our faith. It's

not a sacrifice, Father, unless it makes us say out so today God,

I thank you that you would increase us to have faith, Father,

to believe beyond what we see. Father, not just for an offering for

our lives of obedience. I thank you that there will be subtle switches that

turn into sudden switches. Thank you that this will be the most fruitful year

of our church history, because you're going to do a work from the inside

out. I pray against fear and doubt, and I thank you Father that

faith is rising in your people. Today. Speak, Lord, your servants

are listening. Thank you that we will hear and obey have your way as

our prayer, even in that same mode right there. If you're here and

you've never accepted Jesus as your personal Lord and savior, you've been running from

him. I want to let you know he's running to you. Today is

the day of salvation. The subtle switch you need to make is you need

to get out of the seat of Lord in your life and you need to

let the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords sit down in that seat

today. I believe that God wants to transform your life with a subtle switch.

Make him your personal Lord and savior. If you're watching this, if

you're in the room, no matter if somebody send this to you, if

you're watching rebroadcasts, the spirit of the Lord is here right now, and

I'm telling you something is moving, just like we saw that water starting to

bubble. Maybe the one decision, the one degree that needs to change,

is you saying, Jesus come into my life. Passa mike. Can it

really make that much of a difference. I'm here to tell you that it

changes everything. It took me from being a liar, a manipulator, somebody

who was addicted to pornography, somebody who struggled with a lot of dark things

in our heart, and it didn't make me perfect, but it made me

start bubbling up to become a progressive man. Today, I stand here telling

you that God is no respector of persons. What he's done for me,

he'll do the same for you. And today he wants to take you from

the shame, take you from the bitterness, take you from the suicidal thoughts,

take you from being trapped in lust and pornography and greed. And he

wants you to bring you into a life and eternal life. So, if

that's you, if you're watching this or you're in the room, on account

of three, I'm gonna ask you to just raise your hands if you want

to make Jesus Christ your personal Lord and savior. Some of you have been

backsliding, running far from God, deep into crap that you know you never

want to be in. Hands are already going up. One, you're about

to make the greatest decision of your life. Two. I'm proud of you.

But more than that, your name is gonna be written in the Lamb's

Book of life. This is your subtle switch. Three, lift your hands

up if you want to make Jesus Christ. I see you, sir,

I see you, man. I see you, sirch Transformation Church. Let's

give God praise. I see you, brother. Glory to God, Glory

to God, Glory to God. You can put your hands down. We're

not gonna bring you up and make you confess everything. But we do hope

that you get into a small group where you can confess, because that's where

healing happens. But today we're gonna confess that Jesus Christ is Lord altogether.

In that Transformation Church, we're a family. Nobody prays alone. So I

want everybody just lift your hands big and wide and just say God, thank

you for sending Jesus just for me today. I give you my life.

I believe you lived, you die, and you rose again just for me.

I want you to switch my life into purpose. Have your way in

every part of me, change me, transform me. I'm yours in Jesus'

name. Amen, Hey, Transformation in Church. How do we celebrate when

we get new family in the kingdom? Oh, that's the best you got.

How do we celebrate? How wya listen? You just made that decision.

A QR code is coming up on the screen. I want you to

screenshot that or do the QR cold thing and We're gonna give you all the

information you need. We're gonna walk with you. And next Sunday, y'all,

I want you to come in here with your crazy faith. There are

gonna be cards. I think we have physical cards here in the building that

you can take. Some of y'all need to take them and fill them out

by faith. Somebody shot at me by faith, some of you, everybody

watching online, there'll be digital ones. We want you to get those and

print them in. Every day we're gonna be praying. We're gonna ask God

what he wants to do. And next Sunday I want you to bring your

family and your kids and invite people. We're gonna see God do something extraordinary.

Father, bless these people, give them everything that they need to continue

to serve You. Let us have the best week we've had in a long

time. God, thank you for joy around every corner. Father, thank

you that everywhere we turn around, it's blessing, blessing, blessing, blessing.

Today we give you all the glory, all the honor, and all

the praise. And Jesus name somebody say we agree, say we expect Amen,

go out and live a transform life. Give God one shot of praise

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