Bamboozled By The Blessing // What To Do After A Blessing // Crazyer Faith (Part 8) // Michael Todd

what would make you wake up go to your daughter's room open up your laptop write down impossible things get in a borrowed 15 passenger van drive over to a 54 million dollar arena take this picture and tell everybody you will one day own it crazy fake what makes you get back into the 15 passenger van go to your current situation get on a platform in front of skeptical people and say this we're going to have to go to another place crazy faith what would make you turn down two million dollars give to other people when you were in need say you will have no debt and believe not just for a building but for the entire block crazy faith what would make you embrace the tears after the confirmed diagnosis acknowledge the lies and the fears but still believe for the healing in your child crazy faith what would make you stop waiting on the crowd to agree with what you know but they cannot see stop playing it safe on the boat it's time for you to do the impossible and walk on the scene you've got to see it before you see it yeah maybe it might sound crazy but baby your purpose can't afford for you to be lazy it's only crazy until it happens yeah they think i'm crazy [Music] good morning transformation church today we are in week eight of a series we are calling crazier faith and if you're just joining us um i want to encourage you to go back and watch all seven parts that have come before this and then all 19 parts that came before that you have a new job i want you to get crazy faith and crazy your faith in you because this principle truth and lifestyle can change everything in your life when you start living walking acting and loving and crazier faith it changes everything and around here if you're just joining us i'm sorry but i haven't announced it meant to make it's bamboo season at transformation church and if you don't know what that is it is a season of unusual acceleration somebody say that with me unusual acceleration i believe that in this season in this time in this moment god is taking things that took a long time and he's accelerating them things that you may have sown and things that you may have saw or things that you may have tried to see before god saying this is the season of unusual acceleration and a lot of people don't understand why would you just call it bamboo season because a bamboo tree goes under and it's planted for three years and literally when it breaks forth somebody shot at me break forth y'all didn't shout it at me somebody said break forth when it breaks forth out of the ground out of the position of being under out of obscurity it has the ability to grow two inches every single hour that is unusual acceleration within 24 hours it can grow four feet god told me to tell transformation church prophetically and anybody who has the faith to believe it that this is your bamboo season we have less than 50 days left in 2021 god only needs three to change the whole world y'all missed it he only needs three to do the greatest miracle ever what could god do in the next two months in your life somebody shot at me bamboo season i found a scripture that i want us to stand on in this season of unusual acceleration it's found in genesis chapter 26 verse 12. it says and isaac sowed in the land and reaped in the same year what hold on he sold it usually takes some year it said he sowed in the land and reaped in the same year a hundred fold and the lord blessed him when i see stuff like that that ties in the last two weeks messages together like that i gotta go look it up in the amplified version and when i seen this in the amplified version it pulled these whole things together look at genesis 26 and 12 in the amplified it said then isaac planted seed remember we talked about having faith like a farmer in the land as a farmer and wreaked in the same year a hundred times as much as he had planted and the lord blessed and favored him this ain't for everybody but there's some people that in this season of an open heaven where there's unusual acceleration god said whatever you sow you're about to see a hundred times that thing in the same year this is bamboo season and i'm coming to encourage you don't stop sowing now i want you to be a serial sower don't stop showing your time your talent oh y'all thought i was just talking about money your time your talent there are things you can do right now for people that you just stingy with the gifting that god's placed in your hand and god said sow it now sow it now because ten years from now two months from now ten days from now there needs to be a harvest for you and you cannot get the harvest if you have not exercised the spiritual faith gift of sowing the seed and so as i began to look at bamboo seeds and i got excited because even this week i've started hearing testimonies of people that have sold in different ways and god is paying off debts and opening up jobs and giving scholarships and promotions and realigning family i'm not talking about stuff i'm thinking about these are actual people that these things are happening and then god as a pastor i get all pumped and i'm like lost go i rejoice with those who rejoice and i'm born with those who more so i'm going and then god said michael i'm about to open the floodgates and pour out blessing they don't have room enough to receive i'll still lost oh god has bad boys hey and he said remind him of the backside of the blessing i said no that's not as fun as telling everybody it's bamboo season he said but you're responsible to make sure they're prepared [Applause] so today i need us to walk in a way that prepares us for this season of unusual acceleration and blessing is anybody believing for god to do something that is all extraordinary not ordinary i said extraordinary so today i have to prepare you for that because as we yell it's bamboo season today i want to let you know that there are many people in bamboo season that get bamboozled by the blessing matter of fact that's what i'ma call the message today write that down bamboozled by the blessing see because we talk to people about what to do to get the blessing but we never prepare them of what your action steps are to do after the blessing comes after you get the house after your emotional um stability comes back after the family is restored after you get the car after you wifed up after they recognize you you get the promotion after the loan clears what do you do after the blessing and most people today pray fast believe so get the blessing and then they get bamboozled by the blessing the word bamboozle means to be deceived or tricked what happens when the very thing you prayed for tricked you out of intimacy with god uh-oh what happens when the very thing you believed for god we needed the house we needed more space and then it broke up and isolated the family now you got 5 000 square feet and no intimacy bamboozled by the blessing i cried out i prayed i drove from texas in kansas and california to get my crazy faith offering and god did the miracle now what and if we don't prepare for what god is going to do we will be left in the trap that humanity gets in over and over we get bamboozled by the blessing have you ever been bamboozled now maybe it's just me but there are some people that have tricked me before and and and the crazy thing about being bamboozled most times you don't know you're getting bamboozled why you being bamboozled it's not a sudden like i'm about to exploit you and take advantage of you nobody's doing that it's the people that get close to you and uh y'all want to be fake today it's the people that you once called best friend it's the people that you gave a position to it's the people that you put on and then somehow you look up and i might be a little too close to home this morning but i remember this one time i'm gonna make it a little lighter because some of y'all just really just went back you the crazy eyes just came out of you just start thinking about i'm gonna go i'm gonna find him like i'm down i remember this one time uh my one of my best friends john he actually styles me and does all this stuff so we've been in the clothes for a very long time and um we were in the clothes when we were broke and um what what that means is that all the stuff you want to buy you can't buy because you ain't got no money so anytime you see something that's gently used or maybe a size or two bigger or you know i'm saying you make it work has anybody ever grown up making it work now some of y'all bougie all your life but there's some of us that had to take something that was not even and make it work well there was this one time where we've been sneaker heads a long time and it was the first time these new yeezy shoes were coming out and john comes up to me he's like mike i found the plug and john's my friend so when my friend comes up and tells me like i found the plug there's like questions i don't even ask cause you're my friend you so he's like i found this chick on instagram she can get the yeezys for 350 and send them right to us i said bro you lying you know that mugs is like 900 on the aftermarket he said bro i promise you look here's a picture of her shows me a picture of this lady i was like oh okay and she kind of cute and she work at finish one issue okay cool cool i scraped together every dollar dime nickel penny that i had you know when you broke when you start going to the couch to look for the money just hold on like loose change other people's car ashtrays i was everywhere i got my 350 together and gave it to my friend with full confidence i'm talking about i was imagine you talking about see it before you see it i saw myself with them shoot i had started planting outfits based on one week goes by two week goes by i mean shipping you know three weeks go by and we start encouraging each other like bro you already know they on the way bro you know they we doing all this other four weeks go by i said john um i've missed some meals because of what i uh gave to this endeavor that we're on right now have you heard anything bro i i i dm'd them i i let them know and they promised me they'd be here next week five weeks goes by six week goes by now i'm a little aggravated john he's like bro i got my money in it too you dumb too we end up finding out that it wasn't a young lady it was a man that posted a picture of a young lady at a shoe store we sent him our money and that man disappeared for at least three weeks me and john felt worthless because as grown men who paid taxes and had wives this wasn't like like i'm married at this time like at least there should be some sun i felt bamboozled if i see that person today i'm stealing them out on site [Applause] but what i begin to understand about this moment of being bamboozled is i let the idea of what i thought was going to be a blessing distract me from deception write this point down because y'all are about to come into blessing you've never seen before you're about to come into relationships that you've never seen before you're about to have resources and access like you've never nobody's believing it with me you're about to have resources and access like you've never seen before but never let the blessing become such a distraction that you fall into deception i was so distracted by the blessing that was coming that i didn't even look and see that the person only had two pictures on their instagram you know when somebody has two pictures on they thing it's a scam but i didn't look at it one time till after i had been bamboozled after i had been taken advantage of and god is telling you the blessings on the way but when the blessing comes don't be so distracted by the house don't be so distracted by the new relations don't be distracted about who they worked with and who they've done music with and what tv show they've been on and who they know do not be distracted to the place where you fall into deception can i bring it real spiritual don't let the promotion keep you from praying uh-oh now you got it you prayed for it and now no more relationship with god don't get distracted don't let the new heart the new house harden your heart from generosity don't let uh oh single ladies single men don't let the relationship cheap in your routine with god you used to have a routine with god oh let me talk to married people oh it's the kids and it's the thing and god said i still gave you 24 hours and somehow you managed to binge watch netflix but you had no time to be with me and in the morning you're gonna need me to go back to that job but you gave me no time to give you what i needed the reason why you can't be distracted by the blessing even though it's good watch this it's because distraction distractions jeopardize discernment when you're distracted you can't discern what's going on when you're distracted you don't pay attention to stuff that's obvious have y'all ever seen your friend going into a relationship that was going to end in disaster before it even started oh come on but they can't see it why because they distract it well he loved me and he bought my nails and he did the opposite than my last boyfriend jerome and this and that and the third and you like i don't know this look like jerome in a different outfit [Music] but their discernment is down because their distraction is up what i'm telling you the reason you don't know what college to go to is because the distraction is up and the discernment is down the reason why you don't know if you're supposed to put your kids in that school or that school is because the distraction is up and the discernment is down and this is how people get bamboozled by the blessing because they can't discern anymore i just did something and it worked so then i go and that's when the enemy creeps in and says all i needed them to do was exhale i just needed them to get off of it for a second i just needed them to stop fasting i heard a man of god once say he said don't fast every once in a while live a fasted life he said because at the moment that god does the victory it's not a time to say i'll do that again on 21 days of prayer and fasting next year that's a lot of time that my discernment is down where i'm not as keen to hear the whispers of god and some of the blessing that you're about to come in you got to hear every direction the steps of a good man and a good woman are i got to be able to hear the whisper of god i got to be able to hear stay in that lease for six months and on the seventh month i'm gonna bring something to you you gotta be able to hear the details the level of of responsibility i walk in now the details matter [Music] [Applause] and if we lose our discernment as a church if we lose our discernment as a body deception is just around the corner the biggest blessing in the world and god's like it's okay it's okay that i did that once but my plan wasn't to have one season [Music] of unusual acceleration i wanted this to be your life and i don't know who i'm here to encourage today this is the kick in the pants that lets you know like hey stop being distracted and get your discernment to another level god is speaking to some of y'all right now and he can't even get a word in because cnn fox news your instagram feed what happened at astroworld what happened on this celebrity will and jada again is this that third new and god said i've been speaking the whole time but your discernment is distracted can i show you a picture of somebody who had something amazing happen to them and then their discernment just shut off this is what most of us look like after we get the blessing check this out go down stay fast listen that child is going to be a pro athlete did y'all just see what happened he tells his daddy think fast throws it to him like ah and his mama says that boy is gonna be a pro bam what he told his dad to do think fast he didn't have the discernment to think the ball was coming back and many of us god is telling us to do something and then we stop doing the thing that gets us in a place of watch this protection he didn't even put his hands up charles he was so caught off guard by that he had no discernment that it was even coming back and some of y'all been trying to hold your laugh in that was that little boy got knocked and he will always forever have a mark he will never forget the time that he was distracted by the compliment of his mother don't this sound like us this boy this girl this employee is hit just for a moment he was so distracted by the blessing of encouragement that he lost all discernment i do not want you to be bamboozled by the blessing the bible says when god blesses we still watch and pray let me move on see because the backside of the blessing whatever it is if it's your business doubling if it's the promotion if it's you being able to be in emotional stability for the first time after decades of emotional trauma god said i'ma bless you with it but the blood the backside of the blessing always comes with three things you have to watch out for it tries to give you an opportunity to walk away from god and to establish independence identity and entitlement [Music] whenever god blesses you and does amazing things what ends up happening is you have an opportunity to walk away from god and declare your independence to find your identity and to walk in entitlement let me break it down just a little more your independence from god is always an option after god uses you beyond what you deserve every day i get up here and minister to you i can go to instagram afterwards and get filled with people saying how amazing i am that would give me the opportunity to declare my independence from god y'all did do good on that sermon those analogies what did you see the farmer and the way he killed that every sunday when i get off this stage and before anybody in the room knows i get i don't care what i have on i get on my hands and my knees and i ask god in humility father if you would just one more time use this broken shell of a man that is me and would you speak through me and take all of my ignorance and all of my know-how and would you form it together somehow god i'm dependent on you if you used to watch back in the day i would say tag team back again holy spirit i need you to do this with me i am completely dependent on god and when god blesses you you get an opportunity to be independent and some of y'all god's done it and he don't hear from you until you need him to do it again this is the backside of the blessing it doesn't just come with independence from god then you start trying to find your identity in the blessing i can't tell you how many times people have now gotten a car or a home or a corner office and now they are up can i be real or they become a pastor and now their identity is in not who from who called them their identity is in what they do the reason i respect bishop mcintosh so much is because while he was still able to walk in the office of pastor his identity was only found in christ so what he had been doing for 16 plus years he was able to hand to somebody else and walk away from why because his identity was not in the title uh-oh some of y'all's identity is entitled wife who are you if you're not a wife uh oh oh who are you if you're not a husband who are you if you're not a ceo who are you if you're not an athlete who are you if you're not and the biggest plague on the world today is that when god blesses us then somehow we attach our identity to it i'm a musician i'm a fashion designer i'm an author god said you're my child and before you or any of that and after you're all of that you'll still be my child and the reason why people cannot walk away from what has been successful is because the backside of the blessing has been that they have formed their identity and the thing that god blessed them with i tell our team all the time i don't know how long i'm gonna do this i know it's cracking right now but if the holy spirit tell me five years from now 10 years from now 15 years from now 20 years from now mike start over and go be a plumber i'm gonna do it with all my might crack and everything i'm gonna pull it out i'm gonna do it why do plumbers they don't feel that okay anyway um it's just almost like comes with the job like any plumbers out there dm me um why why could i walk away and be a plumber because my identity is not in the platform or the position my identity is in a person and his name is somebody shot at me jesus so you cannot declare your independence from god and you cannot find your identity in the blessing see because then this last one takes over a lot of people if you do not watch yourself you will be bamboozled by the blessing because then you start walking in entitlement because of the blessing i deserve that it's about time they recognize who i am if god didn't do it now i promise you he was going to do it somewhere else the exact opposite of gratefulness thankfulness like like and there are so many people acting like god owes them something past the breath that you took to get up this morning that was grace and mercy and it's new what every morning everything after that is his favor and his kindness and his goodness and his grace on our life see nobody wants to talk about this you think you deserve a new house you deserve to be in leadership hold up what [Applause] it is a blessing and a privilege but that spirit of entitlement comes in and see this equation that i just gave you you didn't know it was an equation but i want to put it in an equation for you if you have independence plus identity found in the blessing plus entitlement found out of the blessing it equals the same thing every time it's one big word that the lord hates pride this is the problem with the backside of the blessing when god does it you have an opportunity to walk in pride and this is what stops charles unusual acceleration faster than anything else when god starts doing it start feeling entitled attach your identity to it stop praying and acknowledging god in all your ways so he can direct your path be independent and what creeps into your life is pride put that big pride up there what is right in the middle of the pr in the d.e i when i takes over you are about to be shut down from heaven and i've watched it over and over and believe i've watched it ministry rise and ministry fall business rise and business fall first marriage second marriage third marriage fourth marriage because of pride i know nobody talks about this no more because your graphic was dope but we don't have to use it it was a privilege that god put you in a position to use the skill of your hand and it actually blessed somebody but you think it's all of that and now you don't have to do it on time and put it on the deadline oh i'm i'm talking to a couple of people right now cause you that dope you're walking in pride i've been married for five years i don't need no marriage counseling what they gonna tell me how they know what i'm going through and i'm doing this and you won't even sit down with the person you committed your entire life to to become better for better or for worse in sickness and health in the good and in the bad and you won't even listen to somebody who has way more training than you the only reason you don't sit down is because of pride the reason you've been in that church for 15 years and ain't picked up nothing won't open the door you're so entitled at that church that you think that you should be praised for coming we don't care if you come i'm gonna say what your pastor should say to you i don't care after covert i'm a little ignorant like i ain't had like i don't care if you come as long as he comes it don't matter who else show up but you are shutting down the blessing of your own life because of pride and when you make the blessing that god has given you the thing that you have independence from him for you find your identity in the blessing and you feel entitled to the blessing what you form is an idol some of y'all live in the thing you [Applause] oh worship nasty some of y'all drove to work this week the thing that gets more of your worship here's my worship all of my worship receive my worship all of my worship you give more time to that steel rubber and metal you have a house for it you built a garage you built an altar for it and god's saying to you you should have no other god ain't got no other gods if you worship it more than you worship god if you express your love to it more than you express it to god some of your bibles are so dusty you could get a disease just by opening it but instagram is nice and lubricated facebook is part of your daily foundation [Applause] and god is saying i need you to kill the idols because it has you walking in pride and it has you stopping me from blessing you cannot the enemy has not changed the tactic since the garden adam and eve in paradise with god is only three of them like you can't mess this up why are you what are we talking about every tree except one like come on just eat everything else but what did the enemy come to suggest independence from god ain't that what he said no no he don't oh god he always talking your identity should be in knowing the difference between good and evil eat this blessing and your identity will change and matter of fact why would god say entitlement why would he say you could eat from every other tree and not this one pride came in and why did adam and eve get kicked out of eden pride why did satan get kicked out of heaven all he's doing is putting a copy and paste on your life based on what happened in his life why would we get kicked out of a season of unusual acceleration pride it's here it's coming the next few days weeks years god is about to blow our mind how long we stay in this season is dependent on how humble we can be while god continues to open up the windows and pour out a blessing we don't have room enough to receive james 4 6 this is why pride is so ghetto god opposes the proud i can't even i'm holy like i can't even like i love you but that like it's literally it for god walk in pride walk away from god think that you're all of that god says be it have it do it i'll be over here until i smell humility humility has an aroma have you ever met somebody and they ain't even said nothing to you but you can tell the type of person humility leaves it leaves a fragrance and god said uh i smell pride can't do it he opposes the problem but he shows favor to the what humble okay pride will get you kicked out of paradise wherever you think god is taking you if you start walking in pride i'm just trying to help somebody not lose the thing that god is bringing into your life it's bamboo season don't be bamboozled by the blessing it's bamboo season don't get tricked when it actually happens somebody be like it's only crazy until it happens this is true i've seen people be on top and then they ask him for five dollars why because it was crazy that god did it and it was crazy that he took it away why because pride crept in this is why we have to tear down every idol and this is why that what you worship is more important than anything else in your life why this is what i say it to to my wife all the time never worship a noun never worship worship a person a place or a thing don't ever worship never worship a noun when people try to blow pastor mike you were so you were this and you were that i tell people to god be the glory and some of my friends they're like you just always be saying this churchy answer i said no no no that's not a churchy answer for me for me that's the thing that keeps me humble because people situations other dynamics will have you confused about who you really are i know me it is only the grace of god that i'm standing up here and all y'all don't be sending me messages in jail y'all laughing i'm serious it is the grace of god and see some of y'all are so bougie like oh my god pastor mike but if we opened up your nasty life and really saw what you thought and what you texted and deleted it was in your heart it came out if we really saw what you look at never mind [Applause] [Music] but how do we stay in this place we have to stay everybody shout at me humble sit down was that prophet kendrick lamar [Applause] he says a word in there that's not good but the message is very potent can i give you the secret of how to combat pride i told y'all this is the most important message in the series because whatever you're believing god for in crazy faith can be gone in a moment because of pride all that god has done at transformation church be from the time we was at 15 19 believe in god to hire two people to they just told me that i think we have a staff of over a hundred and what is it now 27 107 people on staff this time last year it was half that how do we go from that and god said there's a lot of factors but the one thing that i keep opening up the heart to see is if there's still humility in there and humility is not based on who you talking to humility is what you think and you feel when nobody's there and what you think and you feel when everybody is there god is looking for a church and a people that will be humble enough to be blessed over and over and over again and this is how we keep pride out how do you combat pride with humility how do you stay humble here's the secret through service who are you serving not who's serving you because that's the western's world of success we look at successes how many people are serving me the kingdom looks at the exact opposite how many people are you serving and some of you by world standards would be at the top of the list and god's gonna say get away from me i didn't even know you because you called my name but never had my posture you called my name you shouted and you did all this but you never had the posture to serve nobody you were too big to get low i don't know i might have called the message drop it low somebody needs to hear me say this you have six figures but who have you served you prayed for the private practice but now you won't practice what you preach you'll tell other people to do it but you never do when the last time you handed somebody money they didn't earn from you who are you serving and i made a decision a long time ago that whenever i show up i'ma show up serving somebody say show up serving when you go to the birthday party show up serving when you go to your kid's school show what can i do how can i help do you need any help miss johnson do you need anything and some of y'all being you better treat my kid right you get bad we all know that [Applause] have you showed up serving when i walk into something that is made for me people who are on my team will tell you they'd be trying to pick up stuff and do stuff i'm like ah let me carry my own bag matter of fact give me your bag cause i have to keep myself in a position uh y'all don't hear me some of y'all not prepared for the blessing but this is for the people who are about to go to a whole nother level of unusual acceleration i'm trying to tell you how to keep it going put yourself in a position to serve and this ain't sexy this is serving uh this ain't sexy this means your hands gonna get dirty this means that you're gonna have to do things that may mess up your outfit this means that somebody who's not as old as i know for the ogs this means a lot well what they gonna tell me they ain't never been through okay but if god put them in position you do everything you do as unto the uh oh so you've been messing up your season of unusual acceleration because you looked at age instead of anointing i might be 34 years old but i'm anointed to be people's pastor if you look at my age and not my qualification you will miss the thing that god wants to do in you because of pride i'm not just a cereal sower i'm a cereal server [Applause] when i come in i'm not just planting seeds i'm i'ma serve somebody in the midst of it write this down bamboo season is always an introduction to a greater season of service you get a promotion on your job greater service become a leader on that team greater service hire your first team member or employee greater service you go from being single to married greater service got doggett i'll be telling my what you didn't you didn't pass the thermostat on your way to the room you just got i've been in the bed baby could you just please turn it up too ding things dude think this you just got why did you get in the bed the first thing you let me go to the bathroom real quick i go to the bathroom come back my taco's gone i ask you did you want i'm just trying to be real did you want something well at the time i really didn't want it but then when i smelled the aroma of what you was doing and every time you do it it'd be looking so good and so i just took a bite and then once i took a bite then i took another bite and then i was like when is he coming back and then i just ate the whole thing but if you really love me you could go get us some more tacos [Applause] at midnight you you want to be married [Applause] you go from mcdonald's to chick-fil-a literally greater service have more kids y'all know mcdonald's people i want to alter call for them because they just be so mad what kind of fries oh never mind like never mind i didn't want the fries sweet and sour sauce one 25 cents after what i got okay i got a 30-piece mcnugget but okay [Applause] chick-fil-a like you got eight eight nuggets they've been like here here's sauce here's sauce here's but chick-fil-a is in a season of unusual acceleration see they understand that service i'ma preach this thing service will make me go an extra five miles to find a chick-fil-a service y'all don't hear me we talking about all this stuff but if you get what's on your crazy faith card what that means is greater service break this point down in the kingdom service is the secret to success [Music] in the kingdom of god what you wanted it to say and what church has made it is status is the secret to success and god looks at people with status and be like they'll be here today and gone tomorrow the people who gonna be able to see this thing keep going it's people who have committed their life in crazy or faith this is crazy why are you preaching this in crazier faith cause this is anti-cultural our culture does not look at who they can serve can i go ahead and if the church when they have the lgbtq parade would go out there with waters and just [Music] i i i didn't say convert them pray for them play oil on them i just said if we would go out there and serve [Applause] [Music] i i i can't even fool with y'all today but you are mad at people you've never served [Applause] you are disgusted with people you've never even come in contact with close enough to see what the need actually is and i just decided that transformation church is gonna be a place where we don't even have to agree but i can serve whoever god places in front of me if that's gonna be your crazy faith mission in a world who looks to get what they can get will you give god a shout of praise right now in the kingdom of god service is the secret to success matthew 20 28 for even this is our example the son of man came not to be so it's not just serve he said i'm going to tell you the antithesis the exact opposite i did not come to be served it's not just i come to serve it's i did not come to be served don't serve me i came watch what it says to serve others black people others white people others republicans others democrats others transgender others pastors others drug addicts other it didn't say i came to serve say it others to give his life when you serve he's going to take a sacrifice he couldn't just serve he had to sacrifice he said to give his life as a ransom this word always messes me up for many there's no specificity what is it no they not specific about who he died for many so i'mma serve people and never get the credit it's just as long as you served others your sacrifice is gonna affect many see that's why transformation church i love the generosity at our church because when people give and we do stuff it's not like and then we give and it's going to do this exact thing it's like when we give we serving others and it's going to impact many matthew 23 11 i got to give you all word this is jesus strongest statement on serving the greatest among all of y'all will be your servant the disciples were trying to figure out if their instagram feed made them look better to god if the miracles they had done if the amount of cars sitting on them things made them feel successful if they're kids accomplishments because i know i've been talking about a lot of materialistic things but some of y'all worship your children uh-oh well they are and they are and they got accepted too and they're a gold medal number one honor roll this then third the fourth day and they're going to leave you and when they get out of your house like and this is the thing that i'm saying yes you're called to serve your children but not at the expense of serving god some of y'all haven't prayed since you popped little peter out since peter came god doesn't have any time with you you go to wine more than you go to the whale your peace uh let me stop and god's saying to you today i need you to serve me and serve others more than you do anything else i said it earlier but write it as a point you have to serve it before you see it not just see it before you see it or sow it before you see it god's telling you if you're gonna see everything i have for you you're gonna have to serve it before you see the goal is not to have one season of unusual acceleration the goal of any famous tv show is to have multiple seasons grey's anatomy i think has 18 seasons why is it going to go down as one of the greatest shows not because it had a good episode because it had great seasons when i think about that david was one of those people that in his journey of faith crazier faith he had several bamboo seasons he had season after season of unusual acceleration y'all remember when david is in the field just doing what he has been called to do tending to the sheep they throw a party don't invite the bro he's not in there trying to be like yo what's up i heard the music he's not trying to be in nobody's business he's minding his own doing what god told them staying at the last place god told them and spending time with god and in that place they call for him and when they call for him samuel standing there in front of all of his brothers who despised him he anoints him the king of israel and then they send him right back to the field that he was in before what happens when god puts you in another stratosphere by anointing but sends you back to the same job i'm trying to teach you what happens when he calls you by name and gives you great things in your future and then sends you back to the same crazy family lord as you're upgrading everything would you just upgrade my family lord just give me another one this is what happens to david and then look what happens in first samuel chapter 16 verse 14. i'm gonna help somebody today oh multiple seasons of unusual acceleration i don't know who that's for but this ain't gonna be a one-off this ain't gonna happen one time god said i want it to keep happening it says now the spirit of the lord had departed from saul and an evil spirit from the lord tormented him i can't even stop and preach that but if you look at that that's gonna mess with your theology and an evil spirit from the lord tormenting him let's keep moving saul's attendant said to him see an evil spirit from god is tormenting you they said it they even recognized it so everything bad that's happening to you isn't the devil it's not the thing that's going to take you out it's the thing that's going to develop you what god was trying to do to solve before this moment is work the fruits of the spirit in him before they were called the fruits of the spirit when he was not waiting on samuel to come he got impatient and god was saying the delay wasn't a denial i was trying to give you something that you would need in the next season but he never got it and that's why the evil spirit came to torment him from the lord he said i got to make room for the next person who's actually going to do it did you all know we were never supposed to meet david everybody talks about david like saul wasn't chosen by god saw if he would have been able to be the one to do what god called him to do we would have never had david defeating goliath and i know it's your favorite story but david was the backup [Music] [Applause] and because this man did not stay in his place god had to call up the third string quarterback to play for the team and some of y'all the reason god's giving me this word to tell you right now is because you're walking in pride and because you're walking in pride every time i say it something changes on the inside of you yeah well it's not in every area but in that one area if you don't address it it will keep you away and because he was walking in pride god said i gotta find another one and he said the evil spirit was tormenting him verse 16 let our lord command his servants there's that word here to search for someone who can play the liar or the guitar he will play when the evil spirit from god comes on you and you'll feel better have you ever noticed when you read this story that david's first time to the palace where he would ultimately be seated was not in a position of status it was in a position of service so this is where you're going to be but i'm going to send you in there without authority first i'm gonna have you serve somebody who has characteristics and things that you are gonna need in a different season but i'm gonna allow your voice to be muted because they don't need to hear you right now you need to go into that position and you need to shut up and serve i know they don't teach like this no more but some of us are so ready to be seen that we won't shut up and serve and the greatest lessons i've learned is not when i was being on a platform being great and showing people what i had it was when i shutted and when i shut my mouth and i served the people that god placed in front of me see when he asked you to serve he's testing your heart your honor and your humility oh my god luke 16 12 and if you have not been faithful and what is another man's who will give you what is your own now this scripture is talking about finances and different things like that but there's a principle here that i learned a long time ago about serving other people's visions if you won't serve somebody else's vision why would god trust you to bring anybody else to your little thing well my llc and my business and my non-profit god said your hands is so fresh no scrapes no cuts no no you ain't got dirty with nobody else and you want me to open the flood you didn't sow service you didn't sow serving so you can't reap it you never did it for anybody why are you expecting it to come up and god told me he said what will one day be your seat will always start out as your service david goes into the palace serving and the place where one day he will have a seat it started out as his service can i have my people come up who gonna help me demonstrate what service looks like see because if we would ever be ones to really get in a place and to stand and to come into a place of service what would end up happening is we would change the way we wait see anything that you do as a server at a restaurant your job is to wait on the person that you are in front of and the thing that god told me to tell transformation church is your weight is ugly the way you're waiting has no posture to it the way you're waiting and your character and your attitude you might as well not even be here because of the way you're serving [Applause] all of these people up here are standing in a certain position at attention waiting to serve and most of us don't look like this in the spirit we should be saying god whatever you want me to do at your surface how do you want me to help the people you want it to be a little hotter you want it to me to be a little cold i'm talking too much i'm not talking enough well lord i'm an introvert but you need my purpose to come out so i'm gonna allow my purpose to override my preferences god however you want me to do it you want me to serve in the children's area but i don't like kids that much oh give them the name tags i can give them the name tag i will serve we're not going to get a lot of amens on this one but you are blocking the season of unusual acceleration because you've been bamboozled by the blessing you thought god gave you that position so you could stunt he gave you the position so you could serve [Music] so let me just very quickly because we got to get out of here some of y'all can't take no more of this seven steps to kingdom success i didn't say to worldly status seven steps to kingdom success let me just spell it out for you s e r v i c e service if you serve it'll change everything the seven steps to kingdom success is service s be submitted could you step down here for me chad you charming gentlemen could you take this off please yeah see what ends up happening is he listened to instructions that i gave him and he was sub to the mission submitted gets such a bad rap especially in church because of toxic people who've never found their identity in christ but just because people have done it wrong and bad does not mean it's not a principle that god still works by we have to be everybody say it with me it's a cuss word to some of y'all submitted you got to be submitted you got to be subbed to somebody's mission whose mission are you under a sub marine the reason they call it a submarine is because it goes under the water whose vision are you under now i know you're starting to think about everybody abusing you and everything that could go wrong and all that god when your heart is open and ready to be in a place of service he will send you people show you things that you are supposed to be submitted to that's why i tell people don't just go to any church i'm glad you watch here at transformation church but if god is telling you you need to be in a local church get sub to somebody's mission you can watch us every monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday well i just want to be at the house because transformation church my church some of y'all that's the truth others of y'all are lazy and you do not want to be bothered with people and you've been allowing your preferences to override your purpose and god told you six months ago you were supposed to be back in somebody's church but you saying well trans man nobody does it like passing like they ain't got to do it like me but they can have an anointing that will cover your life that'll change i know pastor saying this i don't care that you be a part of this if it's not where you're supposed to be you need to be submitted i think about over my life there has been four strategic people that god has made me sub to their mission and i want to show you this practically there was a guy named terrell taylor he was my first youth pastor back at higher dimensions and um terrell came to me one time and said michael i want you to help me start this gospel group called one generation of praise and and literally i would go to terrell taylor's house and i would sit there and he introduced me to the mpc 2000 xl and he introduced me to the end sonic and we had death and all this other stuff and he would have me doing stuff and finding sounds and all this other stuff and i found myself at 14 years old sub to his mission it wasn't my idea to come up with the group it wasn't my idea to come over there every day after school but something in me had the audacity to serve and i can't tell you how this man serving with me and me serving with him prepared me for my next level of service there was a man named waymon tisdale that god called me to serve he saw me playing at one of the last azusa conferences and he found out who i was i was playing drums and he said i need you to come be my studio musician i need you to be my studio drummer i was in 11th grade and literally we never talked about money he didn't pay me he never said be my studio magician for this rate i could have had a job at wendy's it would have not prepared me for what god had called me to do uh get your bag the bag is not always the biggest form of blessing the bag is not always the biggest form of blessing i'm telling somebody something right now well they're not just gonna use me do you know what you can get in certain atmospheres that money can't buy [Music] dale is my witness i would come over there every day after my 11th grade year i had to give people vision i had to convince my dad to take me to mingo and 41st every day after school and then come pick me up at 10 o'clock at night why because i was subbed to the mission and he ended up taking me all over the world in my senior year i only went to school from monday to thursday because every friday he would come and get me and in a different season not the season i started out in the season that was after that season he started paying me a thousand dollars for 45 minutes of doing what i loved i played drums for 45 minutes as a senior in high school and i got paid a thousand dollars staying in my own hotel room or having per diem every day y'all know how fat i got ordering milkshakes and cookies and cream i didn't have to pay for none of it i had my own flying first class getting picked up in limos why because god was trying to show me what would happen if i served and then it went from waymon to my parents and some of y'all like well your parents you always serve them in some see this is the one thing there's things that you have to do and then there's things you choose to do like at 18 many of the people that are were part of my life like at 18 they stopped fooling with their parents like 18 and the sad thing about is a lot of people's parents stopped fooling with them at 18. i just have to this is something i just got to get on black parents why do you keep putting your kids in a position to start from where you started from when you 18 you out of here we the only race that put our people out at 18 whether they ready or not to be able to i'm just telling you right now if you want to see the blessing of god in your life maybe you should serve them a couple more seasons imma have to that ain't just for black people i just i could talk to them because that's what i look like but so i feel crazy too my parents started a church in 2009 i believe it eight eight nine i was so unbothered by them starting their church spirit and truth praise and worship center the name was too long the services were too long the everything i was like this don't make no sense but my parents when they hear a word from god they do not care who thinks anything about it they're gonna follow god i thank god for that i did music and my parents would never ask me but one day the holy spirit convicted me he said you need to go help your parents with the music at the church and this meant on sunday nights when i'm usually waking up from a semi-comatose uh golden corral induced cowboy's about to lose the game coma because that was happening in that season i would have to get up and go to rehearsals and do this thing and god said become sub to the mission and i started serving as spirit and true praise and worship center not knowing that almost two months after i would get there my mom would come to me in this prophetic voice and say god told me on the wire hands the lord told me [Applause] you're supposed to do something with the youth i said you got four other sons one of them can do something with you i'm about to move to la new york i'm about to do the music she said god said it was you two weeks later not wanting to do it but because i was subbed to the mission i started in a circle that we called so fly i would not be standing here today had i not been submitted excuse me if my parents would have been submitted to god to start the church that didn't look like it had any possibility so that i could get into a place where i was submitted enough to serve i was subbed to the mission which led to me being submitted to bishop mcintosh and i started i'm just trying to give y'all practical can i can i this is how i got here today not being prideful being humble and serving i started out as the sound man at this church and i went from the sound men and the bishop came to me and said why don't we do something with the youth are the churches merged together i became the youth pastor i didn't know that that was gonna happen i wasn't trying to actually get stuck youth pastoring and that's how i felt i wasn't trying to do that but i was subbed to the mission then he said i need this culture to come in the mornings and he said i'm gonna make you the executive pastor and i will sub to the mission now i need you to be in finance meetings and i need you to do stuff that you don't like doing i need you to write stuff down type stuff out be on time what but i was submitted today i stand in the position of status that god has allowed me to stand in not because of strategy not because of a system it's because of everybody say it with me submission the secret to having kingdom success is get submitted aaron would you step down here because the thing that happened in in david's life is he wasn't just submitted to what saul said he was excellent right excellent could you take that off from me oh this is what the church is missing you didn't practice the song but you want to sing in front of everybody well the holy spirit's going to cover we heard that and he left you out there that was trash and you would judge it if it was on the american idol stage and you would judge it if that's the concert you went to but because it's for god oh just wasn't the spirit high i would have rather been high then listen to that was horrible because we don't bring excellence first samuel 16 i'm trying to give you the keys to kingdom success excellence it says so saul said to his attendants find me someone who plays average and bring him to me find me someone who does not prepare and bring them to me find someone whose mama gave them a participation trophy and bring them to me it says find someone who plays well find me somebody excellent if i'm gonna do this over and over could you please find me someone who walks in excellence when you serve my question is are you serving in excellence are you serving to get it done or are you serving as unto the lord are you serving in a way that is subpar or are you serving in a way that people can see how much you love god by the way you folded the napkin how much you are intentional with what you do by the way that you just talked to that person there are people i have reached through excellence that i could never reach through eloquence it don't matter how many words i had they saw the spirit and that's what i need everybody to know excellence is a spirit there's a spirit of excellence there's a spirit that comes behind and god's saying if you are going to be successful and not get to this place of pride that means you have to serve you can't just alright imma do it and then somebody has the audacity to say that's not how we do it wasn't fine you do it [Music] you don't have me out here and you're only gonna pay me eight dollars an hour to be up here you serving with ex husbands serve your wife with ex you haven't planned a date night in six months but you expect her to to come out and be a sports illustrated model for you and you don't even take shower you not you ain't been you ain't been excellent since y'all got together wedding day was the last fully groomed you oh i'm not telling you stuff that ain't real if you would bring excellence to your service how you work the job that you know you're leaving in six months shows more about you than everything you've done before that point i've been here 17 years the worst thing you can do is leave sloppy [Applause] the worst thing you can you don't have all this time of excellent service and then you gonna leave sloppy i'm asking god's people if we're gonna walk in a level of unusual acceleration over and over and over again tony we're not just submitted but we bring excellence to it as well first samuel 16 18 i have seen a son of jesse one of the servants said of bethlehem who knows how to play the liar he is brave man and a warrior he speak well and he kind of looked good and the lord is with him not just submission not just excellence but don step down here what's the next thing that we need for kingdom success we need to be reputable what is your reputation in the room you're not in [Applause] some of y'all great on paper and great in person yeah but you are deficient when you're not in the room cause your life is speaking for you [Applause] [Music] david was not in the king's court but they had a reputation that preceded him ever making it to the palace this man is brave he knows how to play excellently he's a warrior he speaks well and he looked good and the best thing is the lord is with him what do they say about you some of us need to pray for the next six years because you was wild before grace and mercy let me not talk about y'all i was wild and one thing that i added to my prayer list be god make me a man of good reputation have you ever prayed that because the bible says a good name is better than wealth do you know wealthy people don't pay for stuff they got money to pay for when when certain names walk into places mcdonald's family don't buy mcdonald's it's because of the name what i'm telling you is god can give you a name that is worth more than anything that you could do on your own the key is if you're going to have good service you got to protect your own name can i give you a word that goes with reputation integrity integrity is what you do when they're in the room right and when they're not in the room integrity is how you handle the finances when they can see you and when the money was given under the table integrity integrity is what you do with the louis bag you found and never took to the lost and found you calling it a blessing but it's actually a curse because god just saw how you handled when nobody was looking some of y'all are carrying money let me stop your reputation is your resume when you're not in the room and so you have to be submitted you have to be excellent you have to be reputable but valencia stepped down here this the one i really like you gotta be show them first you gotta be able to do more than one thing i have met more church people who are one-dimensional all you do is pray no no i'm saying but what do you do i'm a prayer warrior i no okay but is there anything else god has gifted you intercession adoration like but okay okay after our prayer meeting pray without ceasing pastor mike okay but can can you send an email to the prayer team so that could you be just a little administrative straight up so that all of the people who are ready to pray to could know what time prayer starts so that we can make because i think the bible says one could put a thousand a flight two could put them down it's just you so i need you to become multi-dimensional in wherever god has placed you and i'm saying one thing right now but the reason david was called is because he was watch this valuable on multiple levels what happens when you're versed this is a key to service you ask me to flip the hot dogs i can do that but you asked me to plan the party and i can do that too you ask me to be the entertainment i can do that and if you ask me to clean up after everybody's gone and i didn't get to have one piece of cake i'm humble enough to do that too you can put me anywhere and i show up servant i'm a vert david just in this small passage we find out that he is versed or valuable with a stringed instrument with a slingshot with a staff and a sword he was versed give me the grilled cheese sandwiches i'll be the best uber each you've ever seen put me with the sheep i'll make sure they get where they need to go give me a slingshot i'll take down goliath give me a sword i'll cut his head off give me a guitar or a stringed instrument i'll torment the devil he was everybody say first if you're going to stay humble and keep serving you have to be you got to be god's swiss army swiss army knife drop me anywhere and pull out whatever you need i can be in any situation and you can pull out the screwdriver if you need to you can pull out the fingernail clipper you can pull out the part of me i didn't want to show people and you can pull out the part that i'm comfortable with use me god this is the key to this write this down don't let preparation be your limitation he couldn't show up to the palace in practice there was no practice time at the palace he had to already have committed a different season of his life just sowing into these gifts i'm talking to somebody right why god hasn't taken you to the palace you're one-dimensional you don't have enough to stay there he only stays in the palace for a short time because then he goes back to the field gets sent to the front lines defeats goliath and now unusual acceleration everything changed he never goes back to just playing the guitar again but he could because he was versed it's time for you to get divine dynamics in your life i want god to be able to use everything in me use my musical gift use my business savvy use my creative ability use my problem solving use my wit use my humor use me god somebody say use me god but you can't show up in practice that's preparation if i came and tested out what god's doing in me on y'all this thing will go down quicker than the titanic it'd be over but because in a different season some of y'all were there when i was at soulfly and i would preach and be like that ain't the message i preach a whole nother message 28 points y'all think what i'm doing now hour and a half is bad i used to preach three and a half hours no sweat but it wasn't televised it was in the dark on purpose so that god could prepare me for what i would do in the light okay two more three more okay here we go submitted excellent reputable verse this is the next thing david was first samuel 16 21 saul liked him very much and david became one of his armor-bearers now i used to just read over this scripture but this has a lot more implications than a lot of us would know can you come down and show me the next one please zay if you're gonna serve you have to actually be invested [Music] most of us serve hands off well if it don't work if it don't that ain't my business that ain't my family that ain't i mean i did i did what you asked me to do and that's it and god said yeah um that's not that's pride cause who's gonna trust you with your own vision and you can't be trusted with another man's vision you're not invested in this how does this apply to david when you become somebody's armor-bearer that means you carrying their armor on the front lines of war with no weapon i'm out here sacrificing too i'm invested he's the armor he's holding the slingshot and the sword and whenever so i mean saul's right here david back here like oh shoot oh what do you need you need the slingshot 3000 okay here here you go he's has his own life in danger [Applause] to serve somebody else's vision if you're not invested in whoever you're serving enough to sacrifice something go somewhere else [Applause] if you're not invested in that marriage if you're not invested in that church if you're not invested in that child if you're not invested you are not really serving if you're not sacrificing someone i got to get up at 6 00 am you're invested well i got to give some of my hard-earned money you're invested that's why i love transformation church there are thousands tens of thousands of people who are invested in the vision of representing god to the lost and found for transformation in christ why because they sacrifice something they give their time talent and treasure we've had people before not be able to have any money but they had the ability to make bracelets and they've made bracelets for us to give to people it's not about amounts it's about a heart posture that is humble enough to serve and give what you have one of the greatest most extravagant gifts in all of the bible was a great investment that was small monetarily it was the woman with two mites and as the ballers were dropping stacks and making it rain jesus called his disciples and said did you see how invested she was did you see this widow who lost her husband lost her source of income lost her protection but she took what she had and invested it in my cause this this woman gave more than all of them combined why because she sacrificed something don't ever call it service if there's not sacrifice don't ever say i'm serving that church but everything's convenient it's going to cost you something submitted excellent reputable versed invested come on down here malia the other thing david was was what covered if you're gonna serve don't serve out here willy-nilly don't be out here just doing stuff be everybody say covered now right here in verse 19 after these men tell saul hey there's this dude david he has a great reputation he'll be invested he'll draw this up look what it says then saul sent message to jesse not to david like if you want to get a message to me come to come to me but the king knew that david was subbed to the mission and covered by his father so the king didn't come and talk to david he went and talked to his covering and he said i'm just trying to teach the word it said and he sent message to jesse and said could you send me your son david who is with the sheep and in verse 18 the end of it said and the lord was with him saul didn't talk to david saul didn't talk directly to the person he talked to the person he was submitted to my question to you that you may not have an answer for who are you covered by and i know in a day of toxic authority and leadership it's very difficult to submit to people whose hearts are not submitted to god and i want to apologize on behalf of spiritual leaders for not living a life worthy of following and not being able to be one who is stable enough in your convictions and in your character to be able to submit to but i believe that there is in this end time a group of people rising up that will be able to be seen as ones that can be followed in integrity because it's dangerous to be out here serving with no cover and this is the thing i need to tell you right this point down you might get understanding on it about three weeks from now but spiritual authority and earthly authority are not optional it's essential in this it tells us that god was with david spiritual authority but he had earthly authority his father god's with me i know it when he gave me the vision when he showed me all the stuff i know he's with me but it was not enough for me to just have heavenly authority or spiritual authority he also gave me earthly authority he gave me tommy and brenda todd he gave me bishop gary mcintosh he gave me tim ross these people can come into my life and say don't buy that car because this really happened tim ross when i first became a pastor he said do not buy this car that i really wanted and i was believing for and i had gravy for but i was about to be bamboozled by the blessing he said don't buy this car because this car is going to make people see you instead of hear you and i didn't understand it at the time but i was submitted and i bought a chevy what car was that bree not a malibu what was it impala and i loved that car it was almost like the anointing of god was on the lesser decision by man standards but i submitted to my earthly authority and god blessed the crap out of me what i'm saying to you is these are things that you may need to pray for because if you're going to be in service there are people that need to be around you who can see what you don't see and help you understand what you don't understand when charles shut down his church and came over here the first thing he said to me when we were at the downtown library is god told me to come and submit my life to you i need you to cover me and i'm here to serve and protect those were the two words he told me people asked me how where you find charles at how is he up here doing all of this other stuff his heart came in here with no ambition just obedience and he went through seasons of unusual accelerating if i was to leave the earth tomorrow this church would be okay why because somebody has been walking with me who has seen me serve this church in a way that has changed the way he serves his wife and serves his family and serves the thing and what ends up happening is he's safe and covered i'm telling somebody right now that the reason some of the things have been stopped is because if you got out there on your own it would be more damaging than it would be divine i gotta move last one can i just is jesus our example or not no no let me just is jesus our example okay jesus was covered by spiritual authority and earthly authority let me prove it to you he was the son of god so let's spiritual authority kind of that got it but he had earthly authority too do y'all remember when he was 12 years old and he was in the synagogue and he was reading all of the the scrolls and telling them this is what they mean but he forgot to text his mama and tell her where he was going to be he forgot they're looking for jesus everywhere jesus jesus jesus christ jesus jerome christ and they finally find him in the synagogue she said she don't she said it's how my mama i just picture my moment boy if you don't get over here he said woman [Music] that's that's what that's what it would have happened right there [Applause] woman don't you know that i'm doing my father's business and we don't hear from jesus again for another 18 years i this is the bible we hear from him at 12 the next time we hear from jesus he's 30. read the bible baby caught all the seats she says yo damn but what does that tell us that even the son of god [Applause] [Music] with all power in his hands i had to still be covered by earthly authority i'm giving y'all cheat codes right now oh god all right here we go last one could you step down for me jeff if you do all of this if you stay submitted you're excellent in your service you're reputable and integris you're versed you're invested you're covered it ends in this you get equipped so many people are trying to get to a place that they can get what they need to get to the next place service equips you all along every place i served gave me what i needed for the next place i was going and instead of searching and running and networking and trying to get in and do all of these things god said if you would just stay humble and serve i'll equip you for whatever is happening write the point down the season of service equips the seat of anointing so so what happens is when i serve my seat is being prepared that i'm anointed for i'm only here because of how i serve terrell taylor i'm only here because of how i serve wayman tisdale i'm only here because of how i serve my parents at spirit and truth i'm only here because of how i serve bishop it equipped me for things i didn't even know i would be walking into that's why i always say all you have it's all you need because if i serve the season that i'm in right now god says i'm preparing you for the seat that i have for you the seat comes from serving thank you and so today i wanted you not to be bamboozled by the blessing don't walk in pride cause this is the thing thank you lord this is why it seems like every year transformation church god's doing something bigger it went from the arena to the whole complex out there to millions of people watching what we're doing and being blessed by it to now the towers i don't know what god's going to do next but the thing i do know is it will be huge why because this team and this leadership and myself have decided that we're going to stay humble and not be bamboozled by the blessing of god we are here for service we want to serve tulsa we want to serve transformation nation we want to serve the community of bixby we want to serve our neighbors we want to serve our haters we want to serve and the reason why god can keep unusual acceleration and happen around these parts is because we've committed to the keys of the kingdom that bring success service being submitted being excellent being reputable actually being versed invested covered and equipped by god it spells out service you have to serve your anointing before you sit in your anointing i would encourage you to find somebody that you feel like god is calling you to walk in those paths and go up to them and don't ask for a paycheck a title or a platform what do you need me to do that would relieve you of a demon that's tormenting you david's road to the palace was tormenting what tormented his leader if you would ever start tormenting the thing that your leader or whoever you trying to go after if you torment what torments them it is a sure road that your heart will stay humble that you will be in a category for service and that you will see season after season of unusual acceleration standing all over the place right now don't be bamboozled by the blessing show up serving somebody say show up serving this week emily where can you show up serving charles where can you show up serving butch where can you show up serving you may not ever leave the house you could show up and serve that family member who you know feels lonely you can write out three bible scriptures and decide every tuesday i'm gonna text you three scriptures and i'm gonna call you and just see how you're doing and speak a life and give encouragement who can i serve right now the one thing about everybody that's up here they've been standing up here like 40 minutes an hour waiting for me to call on them and i started to think how much discipline how much control self-control how much they couldn't be distracted in this moment and it made me think that a good person that serves is a great waiter wow yeah i mean all the way down to jeff jeff had to wait while other people were being called he had the goods the whole time he had the platter the whole time but he when the first person got called in the second he had to wait on the lord wait on the lord and as he was waiting he will renew your strength so way uh somebody needs it say wait on at your service god i'll do what you say wait on the lord this is what he's gonna do and he will renew some of y'all been tired of just standing there but god says this is the way to kingdom success to wait on the lord wait on your time is coming halen your time is coming yeah come on lift your hands up say i'll wait on the lord i feel the presence of god some of y'all are about to start waiting again some of you are going to get the endurance i feel the presence of god coming over you and in you [Music] somebody said wait on the lord wait [Music] something's happening right now [Music] if you've been walking in pride in any area of your life [Music] and you need to be humble my greatest encouragement to you is the scripture that i think of all the time humble yourself under the mighty hand of god this one messes me up because there's two ways of being humble you can humble yourself or you can be humbled [Music] today i feel like as a church in this eighth week of crazier faith there's a level of humility that needs to come back to us we thought our crowns and our status and this was the thing and god's saying uh um i need you to commit to a brand new walk of service and if it's you this may not be everybody but i know it's me today if you need to stand again and say god i'm at your service i did it in a different season before the hurt before the breakup before before the failure before whatever but today a new and a fresh god i'm coming to you and i'm humbling myself and i want to be used to serve however you want me if that's you would you just put both hands in the air right now this is not for everybody but it's for me and it's for some of you come on there's hands going up in the chat right now whether you're watching this live or on rebroadcast hands up right now i'm gonna pray for you father i pray that there would be a renewing of humility in your house that every person under the sound of my voice father god would make a fresh commitment to you father god so that you could use us in whatever way that you want to father your son came here and told us outright the goal is not to be served but to serve others so today god show us who we should serve show us who we are supposed to invest in father give us the character that looks like christ when we serve others father god change us from the inside out let us be submitted father god and let us see that you can use us in any area because we've been equipped by you father i pray for the one who is weary and well doing my god father for every person who's been sick awaiting the one who feels like you've overlooked them time and time again father i speak that you would give them the audacity to wait on you god i'm asking that at this moment father there would be a renewing of strength god i thank you that out of this message and this movement there would be an army of people that would rise up and say god whatever you call me to do whether it's on the penthouse father god or if it's in the lawn father god no matter if it's on a platform father god or if it's in the pasture we will be ready to serve you wherever you place us we'll wait on you god and i thank you that people won't give up prematurely thank you for several seasons of unusual acceleration [Music] we're here to serve you god somebody say i will serve you god come on just say it one more time i'll serve you god i'll serve you god just one more time i'll serve you god [Music] if you're in this room you've never accepted jesus as your personal lord and savior or maybe you're watching this and you're on the track or you're at your office cubicle or you're at the gym you're like this is a weird place to like have this spiritual moment god's ministering to people right now it tells us the holy spirit draws us to him there's been situations and circumstances that have been leading you up to this moment right now and today is the day of salvation see when i gave my life to christ not just to be my savior but to also be my lord what ended up happening was it was the greatest decision that i ever made it took me from being a liar a manipulator somebody who was addicted to pornography had all kinds of crazy stuff in my heart and my mind and it made me a waiter [Music] it made me somebody that said god whatever you want to do for me i thought i was going to do music but you want me to be a pastor at your service i thought i was going to go do this but you want me to serve these people at your service and today i want to give you the greatest opportunity that you could ever have to make jesus christ your personal lord and savior to get covered by the god of the universe this is why i don't worship the universe because it was created [Music] see i serve the god that created the universe and he cares more about you than anything that he's ever created today we're about to pray and invite people into a loving relationship with jesus christ if you want to be included in that prayer on the count of three i just want you to slip your hand up in the air i don't care if you're in the barber shop i don't care if you're at the gym it doesn't matter this moment is more significant than anything you've ever done one you are about to make the greatest decision of your life too i'm proud of you but forget all of that your name is gonna be written in the lamb's book of life three if you make this decision for jesus lift your hand up right now oh there's people all over the world right now there are people in this room right now [Music] listen i want you to pray with me [Applause] i feel god i want you to pray with me and transformation church you already know we're a family nobody here prays alone so we're going to pray together we're going to ask god to change us from the inside out just lift your hands and say god thank you for sending jesus to serve humanity thank you for giving me a savior i believe he lived he died and he rose again just for me for my failures for my mistakes and my missing the mark today i ask you to come into my life and change me renew me and transform me i'm yours in jesus name amen if you just prayed that prayer there's about 15 000 people who are rejoicing all forget that happened it's turning up right now with everybody who just gave their life to christ if you just made that decision i want you to text the number on the screen right now and i want you to go on this journey of crazy faith i want you to get the resources that we have and i want you to keep coming back every sunday next week god has already shown me what we're going to be ministering in fact i'm going to make this whole thing a full live sermon demonstration and we're not going to be at this location next week i'm taking all the team over to 15 19. i want to go preach on the old stage next week and i'm going some of y'all never seen it except in old videos so next week i'm going to be preaching 14 inches off the ground and i believe there's going to be a next level anointing that comes you do not want to miss what god has given me for next week but this week all i want you to do all week all week is wait on the lord come on just one more time just say he will renew you i feel god so wait a second say wait on the lord [Music] just a couple more times this is ministering to somebody god [Music] so [Music] the healing virtue of god is flowing right now [Music] [Music] something's changing right now in the presence of god can we just open up one more time lift your hands stay that way sing it y'all [Music] thank you [Music] i declare that this week is gonna i got to this that thing is trying to pull me in i declare this week gonna be the best week of your life i speak favor and blessing over you somebody needs to buy crazy faith receive this right now i declare that god is gonna show you who to serve and he's going to give you grace to do it i thank you god for help i thank you for strength i thank you for wisdom and i thank you for grace to do everything you've called us to do we will wait on you father god and we will be at your service have your way in our lives and through our lives and we will be careful to give you all the glory all the honor and all the praise in jesus name somebody say we agree we expect amen go out and live a transformed life we'll see y'all next week you

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Length: 114min 15sec (6855 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 07 2021