Speaker 1: Welcome to Transformation Church podcast, where we represent God to
Speaker 1: the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so
Speaker 1: glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe
Speaker 1: God will transform your life. Do today's message.
Speaker 2: Well, I have an assignment today.
Speaker 3: Get out your notepads because we're about to go crazy
Speaker 3: today on Mother's Day. One of the things that we
Speaker 3: do at Transformation Church, if this is your first time,
Speaker 3: is I always feel like I have an assignment that
Speaker 3: helps people move forward in their transformation journey. And the
Speaker 3: word of the year at Transformation Church is say it
Speaker 3: like you got faith, Say it like that's where you're moving.
Speaker 2: We're moving forward.
Speaker 3: And I don't know about you, but I have since
Speaker 3: a shift in my life since that prayer conference a
Speaker 3: week ago.
Speaker 2: And if you haven't, it's okay.
Speaker 3: You can jump on this train right now. We're moving.
Speaker 3: Everybody shot at me forward And one of the areas
Speaker 3: that we need to move forward in is in the
Speaker 3: area of how we deal with finances. The reason I
Speaker 3: have to say this is because God talks about finance's
Speaker 3: generosity money in the scriptures almost one third.
Speaker 2: Of the time he speaks publicly. It's about these issues.
Speaker 3: Because he knows it's the issue of the day. Because
Speaker 3: the truth of the matter, your attitude is actually good
Speaker 3: or bad based on that account you just checked. Some
Speaker 3: of y'all didn't come to church this morning because you
Speaker 3: checked your tank.
Speaker 2: Come on, come on.
Speaker 3: Last night you got home and I was like, that's
Speaker 3: got the last meet till Wednesday. And the way these
Speaker 3: gas prices are set up right now, I'll catch it online.
Speaker 3: Some of us in the room right now, we have
Speaker 3: everything we need financially, but we are very There are
Speaker 3: things that are happening around us watch that are affecting
Speaker 3: how we live. And it has to do how we
Speaker 3: see finances, generosity and stewardship.
Speaker 2: And so today I'm gonna.
Speaker 3: Walk us in week three of a series we're calling
Speaker 3: six Figures how to Live a Life of abundance.
Speaker 2: How many people when I.
Speaker 3: Just say that desire to live a life of abundance,
Speaker 3: I need hands in the chat or in the room
Speaker 3: you desire Okay, So if you desire to live a
Speaker 3: life of abundance, I want to give you the key
Speaker 3: to understanding abundance.
Speaker 2: Watch this.
Speaker 3: If you don't get anything else I say, I need
Speaker 3: you to get this word right. Here humility. If you
Speaker 3: think you know everything, you can't learn anything. I'm telling
Speaker 3: you right now, humility is the way to gain a
Speaker 3: life of abundance. But the problem is, there are people
Speaker 3: in this room right now. What this little boy gonna
Speaker 3: tell me about some money? I've been grown and doing
Speaker 3: my budget since before he could say good, good God, God,
Speaker 3: look at him up.
Speaker 2: No, I know.
Speaker 3: I see how you're looking at me. I get the comments.
Speaker 3: I see what's going on. And the truth of the
Speaker 3: matter is this is not my playbook. This is God's playbook.
Speaker 3: And you gotta realize no matter the vessel God uses,
Speaker 3: he may be trying to give you a new vision
Speaker 3: for your life. So today I'm not gonna ask you
Speaker 3: to believe me because it's me.
Speaker 2: Now. I do got some proof.
Speaker 3: I just want to say in my own life I
Speaker 3: got I used to be greedy, stingy, broke and impoverished.
Speaker 3: Oh y'all, okay, I thought we were in a humble, opening,
Speaker 3: transparent church. I thought we was hot. Let me take
Speaker 3: you one step further. I used to be all of.
Speaker 2: That as the pastor of this church. Oo, look at you.
Speaker 3: I just I want to let you know I did
Speaker 3: not understand how to live a blessed life, an abundant life,
Speaker 3: a life that was watch this not centered around me
Speaker 3: when it came to finances and generosity. And so instead
Speaker 3: of acting like I had it all together, I.
Speaker 2: Have proof in the room.
Speaker 3: When I became the pastor of Transformation Church February first,
Speaker 3: twenty fifteen, my first series was a series about how
Speaker 3: to break poverty off of our church.
Speaker 2: And I did not teach it.
Speaker 3: I found somebody else who had great teaching on it,
Speaker 3: and we watched the video on Sunday morning together.
Speaker 2: Am I telling the truth?
Speaker 4: I would say, hey, y'all, he's your pastor.
Speaker 3: And you know what, I really want all of us
Speaker 3: to live a blessed life. And notice how I said
Speaker 3: all of us, and I don't have this revelation yet.
Speaker 3: So I found the revelation and I I would pray
Speaker 3: you would be humble.
Speaker 2: Enough for us to learn it together.
Speaker 3: And I would say play the video and come sit
Speaker 3: on the front row. Now, most of y'all would leave
Speaker 3: if I did that today, because you want your pastor
Speaker 3: or whoever's leading you to know everything instead of taking
Speaker 3: a posture of humility. But I would rather give you
Speaker 3: the right content. Okay, then act like I have the
Speaker 3: I could get up here and yeah and this is
Speaker 3: what but knowing that wasn't real in my life.
Speaker 2: And for three years.
Speaker 3: We did this every single year, and every year I
Speaker 3: was like, God, you think I could teach one now?
Speaker 3: He said, nope, sit yo, butt down. I'm not making
Speaker 3: this up, y'all. And it was the third year of
Speaker 3: the series. God said, you can preach one message, and
Speaker 3: I preached one, and I said for the next six weeks,
Speaker 3: come for movie time. And there were a group of
Speaker 3: people that came consistently and faithfully since that moment that
Speaker 3: I was humble enough to say, I'm not gonna front
Speaker 3: in front of the world. And really it was only
Speaker 3: like two hundred people in my mom's prayer group, but
Speaker 3: at that time, but I'm not gonna front in front
Speaker 3: of the world. I'm gonna be humble enough to actually
Speaker 3: learn it. God said, that's something I can work with.
Speaker 3: And what God has done since then has allowed my
Speaker 3: life to expand because I actually got the principle. So
Speaker 3: what I'm saying to you for the next four weeks,
Speaker 3: I want to give you what I got. This is
Speaker 3: not just a series of information it's a series of impartation.
Speaker 2: If you will hear what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: To you practically and prophetically, this could actually change your
Speaker 3: entire life and your relationship with finances, stewardship, generosity, giving
Speaker 3: all of it. You will never be scared when it's
Speaker 3: time to give, and you will never be manipulated when
Speaker 3: it's time to give. You will be steady and steadfast.
Speaker 2: God will speak to you.
Speaker 3: You will have investments going over here, you will have
Speaker 3: blessings coming over there.
Speaker 2: The reaping will overtake the swing.
Speaker 3: Somebody should be shouting right now because I want you
Speaker 3: watch this to understand that giving is all about the heart.
Speaker 3: It's not even about money. God just uses money as
Speaker 3: a tool to expose what's in your Okay, So today
Speaker 3: I just need to stop and acknowledge that many of you,
Speaker 3: depending on where you came into this Christian journey, there
Speaker 3: may have been some abuse and manipulation around how finances
Speaker 3: were taught to you watch this, or the manipulation around
Speaker 3: how they were trying to get it from you, and
Speaker 3: for that I want to apologize. There is nothing in
Speaker 3: the Bible that tells us to form one thousand dollar lines.
Speaker 3: The Bible says like each man should give in his
Speaker 3: heart what he's already decided. The problem is most of
Speaker 3: us don't pray about what to give before we come.
Speaker 2: So it's a twofold thing.
Speaker 3: I can't be convinced if I've already gone to him,
Speaker 3: But if i haven't gone to him about what I'm
Speaker 3: supposed to give, then when somebody says we're reading Psalms
Speaker 3: one hundred and three, I just feel like you need
Speaker 3: to give one hundred and three dollars times ten.
Speaker 2: And everybody. I can do that, getting the line right here.
Speaker 3: And then I'm gonna pray for you because you're given
Speaker 3: that's the money.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: What it does is I understand the concept, but it's
Speaker 3: a lack of teaching. And so that's why I've decided
Speaker 3: during our series we don't ask for any money. You
Speaker 3: don't have to give a don We actually give money away.
Speaker 3: Last week at the end of service on Profit Sherman
Speaker 3: Doomis that was here we were able to send one
Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars to their Oh come on Transformation Church,
Speaker 3: to their church and bless them. They had a tragedy.
Speaker 3: But that's because there are people who have already understood
Speaker 3: the figure of.
Speaker 2: Faith that it takes to.
Speaker 3: Give, because giving is all about the heart. Okay, So
Speaker 3: maybe you never taught, and maybe you were taught wrong,
Speaker 3: and maybe there's some cares of this life that have
Speaker 3: really been weighing you down.
Speaker 2: And I want to let you know I see.
Speaker 3: All that, But I believe this series is gonna help
Speaker 3: you move forward and you're gonna be able to live
Speaker 3: in a life of abundance. John ten ten This has
Speaker 3: been my anchor scripture.
Speaker 2: The thief does not.
Speaker 3: Come except to steal, kill, and what but Jesus has
Speaker 3: come that you might have life, and that you might
Speaker 3: have life more abundantly. Write this down. God desires for.
Speaker 2: Me to live an abundant life. God desires for you.
Speaker 2: Put your name in there.
Speaker 3: God desires for Michael to live an abundant life.
Speaker 2: Let's write again.
Speaker 3: God desires for Michael to live an abundant life. Some
Speaker 3: of you have never said that, never believed it, never
Speaker 3: even thought.
Speaker 2: It was possible.
Speaker 3: But God desires for all of us to live in
Speaker 3: an abundant life. And abundant life is not just finances. It's
Speaker 3: God's overflowing grace, spiritual fullness, material provision, and generosity. And
Speaker 3: that's why I've told you every week of this series
Speaker 3: you have permission to prosper. I'm speaking to your soul
Speaker 3: right now. You're looking at all that debt piled up.
Speaker 2: In them student loans that are looming over you.
Speaker 3: You done deferred and deferred, and deferred and deferred and deferred.
Speaker 2: You're waiting for Sally May to die. You're just deferred.
Speaker 2: Hopefully she goes away. Y'all got what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: But what I want you to understand is you have
Speaker 3: permission to prosper. Just somebody say that over your life,
Speaker 3: I have permission to prosper. So if you're gonna have
Speaker 3: permission to prosper, I have to do a little representing,
Speaker 3: or I'm gonna call it correction of how some scripture
Speaker 3: has been presented to us. All my life, I've been
Speaker 3: in church, and anytime I hear Luke six thirty eight,
Speaker 3: give and it shall be given to you?
Speaker 2: Are y'all bobski? Y'all know the rece good measure? First dan.
Speaker 3: Shaken again and running of it's running over?
Speaker 2: Will men give unto? Okay? All right?
Speaker 3: The only time I've ever heard that scripture is that
Speaker 3: offering time. Nobody will ever say it any other time.
Speaker 4: It's give.
Speaker 3: But what I found out is context this king.
Speaker 2: So if you go to Matthew.
Speaker 3: Chapter seven, I want you to see that this whole
Speaker 3: verse is not in the context of giving. I want
Speaker 3: you to just see if you see the word giving
Speaker 3: or giving money anywhere.
Speaker 2: In this verse.
Speaker 3: Matthew chapter seven, Verse one, it says, do not judge,
Speaker 3: or you too will be judged, for in the same
Speaker 3: way you judge others, you will be Do you see.
Speaker 2: The theme.
Speaker 3: It says, and with the measure you use, it will
Speaker 3: be measured back to you. Say that with me, With
Speaker 3: the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.
Speaker 2: One more time for the people in the back, with the.
Speaker 3: Measure you use, it will be measured back to you.
Speaker 3: Was the word giving in that at all? It was
Speaker 3: in the context of judging. And if you read closer,
Speaker 3: We're gonna go to the parallel passage and Luke six
Speaker 3: thirty eight, and I'm gonna show you this whole thing.
Speaker 3: And in the middle Luke puts something that we hear,
Speaker 3: but I want you to get the context. Luke six
Speaker 3: thirty seven, it says, do not judge, and you will
Speaker 3: not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not
Speaker 3: be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. And if
Speaker 3: you skip down the thirty nine, it says, and with
Speaker 3: the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.
Speaker 3: But verse thirty eight, look at.
Speaker 4: This one, give and it will be given to you.
Speaker 3: Give what in this context is judgment, condemnation and forgiveness.
Speaker 2: You give.
Speaker 3: Judgment is coming back you give. Condemnation it's coming back.
Speaker 3: You give. Forgiveness, it's coming back.
Speaker 2: Give it. And then it says, like.
Speaker 3: This, and with the measure you you, it'll be measured
Speaker 3: back to you.
Speaker 2: Not just measure back to you.
Speaker 3: How good measure, press down, shaken together and running over.
Speaker 3: Will men give judgment back to you, condemnation back to you,
Speaker 3: forgiveness back to you. Now, the thing that I wanted
Speaker 3: to bring to everybody's attention is that giving is the
Speaker 3: main subject. It's not what you give that's the main subject.
Speaker 3: It's the fact that you give it. So if giving
Speaker 3: is God's theme of the Bible, for God so loved
Speaker 3: the world that he we're the subject of the Bible.
Speaker 3: But the theme of the Bible giving, Oh God, I heard
Speaker 3: somebody ask a pastor how many times do you preach
Speaker 3: about giving in a year? And the pastors say every week?
Speaker 3: And a person said, you preach about giving every week?
Speaker 3: He said, I think you meant to ask how many
Speaker 3: times do I preach about giving money? Because I can't
Speaker 3: talk about grace if I don't talk about Jesus giving
Speaker 3: us grace, and I can't talk about us giving our
Speaker 3: life to Him or salvation if we don't talk about giving.
Speaker 3: I can't even talk about marriage because marriage takes two
Speaker 3: people giving. If you're not a giver, your marriage won't work.
Speaker 3: It's not fifty to fifty, it's one hundred, one hundred.
Speaker 3: You got to all the marriage people just say, hey, man, okay.
Speaker 2: So the theme of.
Speaker 3: The Bible is what giving, and that's why the enemy
Speaker 3: is playing you so hard to be stingy, plan you,
Speaker 3: so hard to be your own source, plan you so
Speaker 3: hard to think that God has forgotten about you and
Speaker 3: what I need to let you know that God is saying,
Speaker 3: I want you to be general. I want you to give,
Speaker 3: and whatever you give is coming back. You give the comments,
Speaker 3: you give opinions.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay, all right, some.
Speaker 3: Of you are living in a harvest of what you've
Speaker 3: already given.
Speaker 2: Nobody's around me, but you're the best ghoster. You leave
Speaker 2: people high and dry all the time. I'm not answering
Speaker 2: that text message. And then when you and your time
Speaker 2: and kne he's like, well's the one to hear from
Speaker 2: me harvest time. Okay, y'all don't want to hear.
Speaker 3: That it's harvest time. We want to stream harvest when
Speaker 3: it's about something good. But when you stream harvest when
Speaker 3: you've been sewing gossip for the last six years, I
Speaker 3: don't even understand why they would make something up like that.
Speaker 2: With me, it's harvest time. Okay. What I'm saying, if
Speaker 2: it was me, if.
Speaker 3: This principle really works, I'd be trying to give good things.
Speaker 2: And that's why when.
Speaker 3: People hear this, they don't understand. Write this down that
Speaker 3: giving is big to God. Giving is big to God.
Speaker 3: Giving is not a small thing. I'm not talking about
Speaker 3: money yet, I'm talking about giving period. I'm trying to
Speaker 3: separate this for you, you stingy with your fruit loops. Oh,
Speaker 3: y'all know, y'all know, there's certain cereals you de tell
Speaker 3: your kids, don't uh uh.
Speaker 2: This is my seria. If you want, you get fruitios.
Speaker 3: But the actual fruit the name brand wants them as mine.
Speaker 3: Got your kids stealing through loops in your own house, No,
Speaker 3: I'm saying, apply it where you are. Some of y'all
Speaker 3: got cars, won't let your children or family members use them? Now,
Speaker 3: some of y'all got good reason not to let your
Speaker 3: family members use them. But some of y'all are stingy Okay.
Speaker 3: You see people struggling have something to meet their need.
Speaker 3: I guess they need to learn. Oh come on, I mean,
Speaker 3: I guess God's trying to work on them.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying is giving.
Speaker 3: Is something that God presents to us all the time
Speaker 3: to see if his reflection is in us.
Speaker 2: You ever been somewhere and you heard that they were
Speaker 2: some money short. You have the thing.
Speaker 3: You see them struggling to pay the bill at the end,
Speaker 3: and he's like, I.
Speaker 2: Told them to come earlier. I'm trying to get out
Speaker 2: of here.
Speaker 3: And God somehow got you sitting there and it's your
Speaker 3: waitress and the car. I don't know the car. Let's
Speaker 3: try another card and they don't try seven cards and
Speaker 3: you just sitting there.
Speaker 2: Why might God let that happen? Right next to you.
Speaker 2: But they don't know. They don't know. They don't, they don't,
Speaker 2: they don't. They don't know what I got going on.
Speaker 2: They have no idea what's coming.
Speaker 3: And God's like, I'm looking for my reflection. I'm looking
Speaker 3: for somebody to meet a need. When they see a need,
Speaker 3: they don't know their salvation is attached to that seed
Speaker 3: you're gonna pay for.
Speaker 2: They sheddars and it's gonna lead them to me. You
Speaker 2: don't know that.
Speaker 3: They just prayed and asked God.
Speaker 4: You have no.
Speaker 3: Idea, But He's working with people who have not fully
Speaker 3: bought into the heart of generosity. And that's why giving
Speaker 3: is big to God. How we hear scripture is like this,
Speaker 3: give money.
Speaker 2: That's how we hear it. God wants us to give money.
Speaker 2: That's mike, What does God want us to do? Give money?
Speaker 3: The thing that's big in that is money, But switch
Speaker 3: in the give gotta be big. What God is saying
Speaker 3: is give money, give money, and then they'll say, give encouragement,
Speaker 3: give encouragement. Oh y'all don't hear what I'm saying. You
Speaker 3: think the money is big, The.
Speaker 2: Encouragement is big.
Speaker 3: It's the giving that he wants to be big on
Speaker 3: the inside of you.
Speaker 2: Whatever he says, give, that's what we should do.
Speaker 4: Give time, help me yo, give give time?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I like that one. Mama Clay, you said
Speaker 2: give love. Let's try it.
Speaker 4: Give love?
Speaker 2: What about peace? Give peace? What would happen if the
Speaker 2: give was big? What would happen? Is at that job
Speaker 2: you went in there and they knew.
Speaker 3: You as a giver of what needed to be given
Speaker 3: at the time, it wasn't what you was given. It's
Speaker 3: the give. Today I came to let you know that
Speaker 3: the give is supposed to be the big. It don't
Speaker 3: matter what comes after it.
Speaker 2: It might be give of hair shoes, it might be
Speaker 2: give some time. It might be give a donut, it
Speaker 2: might be You'll know what I'm saying. But what is big?
Speaker 3: Gif? And my question to you is the give big
Speaker 3: in your life? Is there any evidence that giving is
Speaker 3: bigger in your life than keeping?
Speaker 2: Is there any evidence that giving is bigger?
Speaker 3: And today I don't want to challenge you that God
Speaker 3: is looking for people who would say, Hey, God, my
Speaker 3: give is too small. I need you to help me
Speaker 3: learn how to get my gift big. You want a
Speaker 3: new prayer? God, help my gift get big. God, do
Speaker 3: whatever you got to do on the inside of me
Speaker 3: to help my give get big. Father, let me not
Speaker 3: be somebody who hoards. Let me be a river, not
Speaker 3: a reservoir. God, it can come through me. Father, God,
Speaker 3: you don't have to stop it with me.
Speaker 2: I get to touch it on the way through.
Speaker 3: Father. God, give me this house so I can give
Speaker 3: it away. Give me that cause so I can give
Speaker 3: it away. Give me this business so I can give
Speaker 3: it away. God, let my give get big. And you
Speaker 3: don't have to hit the lottery for your give to
Speaker 3: get big. You can start right here because whatever you give,
Speaker 3: it is coming back to you good measure, first down,
Speaker 3: shaken together and what running?
Speaker 2: Will men not God?
Speaker 3: God doesn't give back the blessing he uses men to.
Speaker 2: Some of y'all are giving. It's like God's gonna know.
Speaker 3: God's gonna speak to them, and they're going to y'all
Speaker 3: not ready for this thought. Can I represent something to you?
Speaker 3: What if you're the one that's not looking to receive,
Speaker 3: but what if you're the one God's looking to give through.
Speaker 2: Jared. They don't understand. That's my job.
Speaker 3: See See, I'm trying to shift your mind transformation because
Speaker 3: some of y'all all, wait, oh, I just can't wait
Speaker 3: till it comes back.
Speaker 2: What if you don't need it to.
Speaker 3: So wright? What if I don't need it to come back?
Speaker 3: Because everything that God's done, it's blessed so much that
Speaker 3: when God says, men will give and put it in
Speaker 3: your lap, you don't want to be like, Yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: the man that puts stuff in the lap, I'm the
Speaker 3: lap givel. Let's stay away from that.
Speaker 2: Let's let's y'all got what I'm saying. Let's go the
Speaker 2: other way. Here we go.
Speaker 3: Giving is all about the heart.
Speaker 2: Okay, So here we go.
Speaker 3: I found out as I looked at this and I've
Speaker 3: passored for almost eleven years. That's crazy to even say
Speaker 3: I passed for almost eleven years. Amen, let's just pray
Speaker 3: with making another three.
Speaker 2: Okay, here we go.
Speaker 3: Many people are suffering from heart attacks because your treasure
Speaker 3: and your heart are attached. Today, I need to title
Speaker 3: this sermon how to prevent a heart attack, because if
Speaker 3: giving is all about the heart.
Speaker 2: What's keeping you from giving is your heart is being attacked.
Speaker 3: And what I've found out through my small study on
Speaker 3: chat GPT about a heart and heart attacks is that
Speaker 3: a heart attack is caused because there is a blockage
Speaker 3: of flow. There's something that comes to block or make
Speaker 3: a barrier, and flow stops, eventually stopping.
Speaker 2: All life from coming.
Speaker 3: Could it be that many of us have stopped the
Speaker 3: flow in our life because something has gotten into the
Speaker 3: ventricles of our thinking that has blocked us from understanding.
Speaker 3: Hold on, this is what God wants me to do.
Speaker 3: He wants me to be generous.
Speaker 2: He wants me.
Speaker 3: To be able to give on every occasion. He wants
Speaker 3: me to even while I'm saving, even while I'm building,
Speaker 3: even while I'm trying to get out of debt. He
Speaker 3: wants me to honor Him with my resources. And today
Speaker 3: I need everybody to hear me say this, because this
Speaker 3: is going to change. You're like, this is things your
Speaker 3: parents should have told you, but probably didn't have the
Speaker 3: language to today. Generationally, you need to sit down with
Speaker 3: your children and make them watch this so they can
Speaker 3: get it in their spirit. I'm telling you, the understanding
Speaker 3: of this revelation can change your world forever. The Bible
Speaker 3: tells us you have to guard your heart above all else,
Speaker 3: because out of that place flows every issue of your life.
Speaker 3: You cannot guard from what you're not aware of.
Speaker 2: Did you hear what I just said?
Speaker 3: If the Bible says, remember givings all about the If
Speaker 3: the Bible says, now guard your heart above all else,
Speaker 3: because out of that place flows every issue of light.
Speaker 3: You will not guard from what you're not aware of.
Speaker 3: So today I want you to make you aware of
Speaker 3: some things that come to attack your heart, because the
Speaker 3: truth of the matter is Matthew six twenty one.
Speaker 2: For where your treasure is there, your heart will be. Also.
Speaker 3: This Bible is nasty, and it comes together like legos.
Speaker 2: Y'all hear me. It's nasty.
Speaker 3: So watch this guard your heart because out of that
Speaker 3: heart everything flows. Then he says, you want to locate
Speaker 3: your heart? Where's your treasure? Where have you put your money?
Speaker 3: Because your treasure does not.
Speaker 2: Follow your heart.
Speaker 3: Your heart follows your treasure. You want your heart in
Speaker 3: the kingdom. Put your treasure there.
Speaker 2: You want your heart in your family. Put your treasure there.
Speaker 3: You want your heart in the next generation. Put your
Speaker 3: treasure there, not just your opinion.
Speaker 2: This generation.
Speaker 3: Don't did this generation.
Speaker 2: Don't expose them to something.
Speaker 3: Take them somewhere, teach them something, have enough grace to
Speaker 3: impart into them.
Speaker 2: But you want to judge from afar and never.
Speaker 3: Give them anything. Okay, it got quiet, didn't hear Okay?
Speaker 3: Wherever your treasure is, your heart will be also question
Speaker 3: to everybody listening, whether you're in the penitentiary, you're watching
Speaker 3: at a gym, you're in this room, where's your treasure?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: No, I'm not talking about Ethereally, open up your bank account.
Speaker 3: Some of your treasures in your stomach and it's in
Speaker 3: their good measure. Press down.
Speaker 2: And it's overflowing over that beltline. I'm telling you right
Speaker 2: now what I'm telling you, y'all hear me? Where's your treasure?
Speaker 3: Some of your treasures in your car, some of your
Speaker 3: treasures on cosmetics.
Speaker 2: I'm not here to judge you.
Speaker 3: Some of your treasures on the lake house, some of
Speaker 3: your treasures on the golf course. You live in an apartment,
Speaker 3: but you have a country club membership. It's a word
Speaker 3: called priorities. Brother, you, where's your treasure? Some of your
Speaker 3: treasure is in your children. Some of your treasure is
Speaker 3: in design or clothes.
Speaker 2: Some of your treasure I just want you to Can
Speaker 2: you locate your heart?
Speaker 3: Because until you can locate your heart.
Speaker 2: You cannot tell God he can have it. Okay, God,
Speaker 2: you can have my heart? Where is it? Okay? So
Speaker 2: today I want to teach you four This is what
Speaker 2: I want to do.
Speaker 3: I want to teach you how to prevent a heart
Speaker 3: attack by giving you four conditions that attack your heart.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's do this. Number one.
Speaker 3: The first condition that comes to attack.
Speaker 2: Your heart is greed. It's greed.
Speaker 3: Now, most of us in this room would never ever,
Speaker 3: ever admit to being greedy. But maybe greed is not
Speaker 3: as demonstrative and overt. Maybe your greed is silent in
Speaker 3: your head and comes out in very calm actions.
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 3: Some symptoms of greed is you're never satisfied, constant comparison,
Speaker 3: obsession with more identity tied to your success, inability to
Speaker 3: celebrate others.
Speaker 2: Some of y'all just greedy with celebration.
Speaker 3: Oh oh they had another child, good for them.
Speaker 2: May become ugly. Oh y'all know, y'all do it oohoo.
Speaker 3: And instead of just celebrating, thank you God for life,
Speaker 3: Thank you God that you give them more grace, God,
Speaker 3: thank you for thank you. You might be dealing with greed.
Speaker 3: Always watch this. Here's another symptom, always chasing the next thing,
Speaker 3: contentment avoids you. As soon as you like your room,
Speaker 3: you go to Pinterest and like, oh my God, I
Speaker 3: gotta redo it.
Speaker 2: Come on, could there be something in.
Speaker 3: There is like I need more, I gotta have more.
Speaker 3: And the reason I'm saying this is is you have
Speaker 3: to understand that greed will stop up what God wants
Speaker 3: to do in your life as far as generosity and giving,
Speaker 3: and it blocks the areas that He wants to use you.
Speaker 3: And that's why I'm telling you you got to understand this.
Speaker 3: Every time you give, you remind your soul that money
Speaker 3: is a tool, not a God. Every single time you give,
Speaker 3: you're saying no, no, no, no, I use this.
Speaker 2: This don't rule me, Oh God.
Speaker 3: Deuteronomy fifteen, I want you to see how many times
Speaker 3: God's directly trying to deal with our heart.
Speaker 2: He says, if there is among you a poor man
Speaker 2: or a.
Speaker 3: Brethren within your gates in the land which the Lord
Speaker 3: your God has given you. Notice that he's saying, the
Speaker 3: Lord God has given you everything you've got. So even
Speaker 3: though you claim in it, he's saying, the Lord.
Speaker 2: Gave it to you.
Speaker 3: He said you shall not harden your heart.
Speaker 2: Say it with me, you shall not.
Speaker 3: Harden your or shut your hand. That means your heart
Speaker 3: in your hand are connected. If your heart becomes hard,
Speaker 3: your hand becomes closed. Don't harden your heart, because at
Speaker 3: the moment you harden your heart.
Speaker 2: You close your hand.
Speaker 3: Okay, it says, nor shut your hand to your poor brother.
Speaker 2: But you shall.
Speaker 3: Open your hand why to him willingly? So your giving
Speaker 3: should be wide and willing. Okay, lend him sufficient for
Speaker 3: his need, whatever he needs. Beware, let's there be a
Speaker 3: wicked thought in your heart saying the seventh year, the
Speaker 3: year of release is at him and your I'd be
Speaker 3: evil against your poor brother and give him nothing, and
Speaker 3: he cry out to the Lord against you.
Speaker 2: It will become cinema among you. Let me explain this
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 3: God had an economic system in playback in this time
Speaker 3: that said every seven years was the year of jubilee,
Speaker 3: and on that seventh year all debts were released. How
Speaker 3: many people wish that that could be the plan? Again, Trump,
Speaker 3: go back to the Bible. We need that in the plan. Okay,
Speaker 3: But hear what I'm saying to you. The Bible is saying,
Speaker 3: don't get in the sixth year and somebody need to
Speaker 3: borrow some money. From you and being like, hold on,
Speaker 3: I ain't giving it nothing because next year is the
Speaker 3: year of release, and if they don't pay me back
Speaker 3: by that time, I'm not gonna be able to claim
Speaker 3: my money no more. He said, don't have that thought.
Speaker 3: Stop that, because that thought is a greedy thought. That
Speaker 3: thought is a selfish thought. That thought is Watch this Wicked.
Speaker 3: I heard the cast the Wicked is here. Shout out
Speaker 3: to y'all, whoever y'all are, wherever y'all are.
Speaker 2: I love you.
Speaker 3: Okay, hey man, thank you for coming to church. Said that,
Speaker 3: God bless you.
Speaker 2: Wiz. It's a w the Wiz. Y'all here too, God
Speaker 2: bless you. It's in the same, is it? The wis?
Speaker 2: Is that y'all? What's up to the cast of the Wiz.
Speaker 2: He's on down, He's on down the road. Y'all got
Speaker 2: a part from me? Don't you care me? Okay?
Speaker 3: Never let me stop, white people. The Wiz is great.
Speaker 3: I want to let you know that too. Okay, it's
Speaker 3: like the black version of Okay, never mind, we'll talk
Speaker 3: about that later. I love our church. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 3: I need everybody to eat. Everybody to hear me say this,
Speaker 3: that the scripture says, greed turns into selfishness, and selfishness
Speaker 3: turns into wickedness. I'm not wicked, are you greedy?
Speaker 2: I'm not wicked? Are you selfish?
Speaker 3: Because this is the natural progression of how you get
Speaker 3: into wickedness? And look what the Bible takes it up
Speaker 3: another level, he says, Then it becomes sin in the
Speaker 3: eyes of God. So I just want you to think,
Speaker 3: like if you've ever gone to get one donut but
Speaker 3: you saw two, and you know you only need one,
Speaker 3: but you end up taking the box anyway for later,
Speaker 3: be careful because greed, watch this becomes selfishness. Selfishness becomes wickedness.
Speaker 3: Wickedness getscounted as sin.
Speaker 2: What's the point?
Speaker 3: Take one donut. What I'm saying is take sufficient for
Speaker 3: the moment.
Speaker 2: Don't try to hoard everything.
Speaker 3: Maybe somebody else needed their glue.
Speaker 2: Close level to.
Speaker 3: Go up in the office, and they needed a little
Speaker 3: sugar high. They would be less angry. Y'all know what
Speaker 3: I'm talking about, hungry and angry. And you could have
Speaker 3: left that and you wouldn't have had the argument later.
Speaker 3: But you two two donuts now that you're about to
Speaker 3: get fired. Somebody asked me, what's an area pastor Mike
Speaker 3: that you're still greedy in? See, I like the people
Speaker 3: around me because we don't just preach about stuff. They
Speaker 3: be trying to dig. They be like, so were you
Speaker 3: still greedy?
Speaker 2: Man of God?
Speaker 3: And I took a second to think about it because
Speaker 3: I invite those type of questions because I don't want
Speaker 3: God to stop working on me. And they were like,
Speaker 3: you're generous with finances, You're generous with this, like where
Speaker 3: are you greedy? And I said, I found it. I'm
Speaker 3: still having to kill the need for credit. Okay, I
Speaker 3: may be the only one, but there's moments where.
Speaker 2: I know I did something. I know I helped them.
Speaker 3: I know I did something, and that thing.
Speaker 2: In me will raise up and be like you did that,
Speaker 2: and God will be like it don't matter, and I'll be.
Speaker 3: Like yeah, yeah. Like even today, it's Mother's Day and
Speaker 3: my children are gonna present my wife with some amazing
Speaker 3: gifts and I have been diligent on asking them what
Speaker 3: they want to get their mother. And there's gonna be
Speaker 3: some a quandary of how Jia got her hands on
Speaker 3: one hundred and forty doctors at five years old, And
Speaker 3: I'm saying this to be funny, but they're gonna get
Speaker 3: praised and they're momcoming. Oh my god, this is the
Speaker 3: sadly way I wanted. Every father in here knows what
Speaker 3: I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Wife, I just hope you remember tonight.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, all right, work on me, Lloyd.
Speaker 2: But let me give you. Let me give you a
Speaker 2: new prayer. He's not done with me yet. All right,
Speaker 2: here we go.
Speaker 3: Let me give you a brand new scripture of break
Speaker 3: Psalms one thirty nine, verse twenty three.
Speaker 2: It says, search me, Oh God.
Speaker 3: No, my heart, I still need some work on my
Speaker 3: heart because there's areas in my light. I'm not just
Speaker 3: greedy with money. I might be greedy with credit. I
Speaker 3: might be greedy with my time. I might be selfish
Speaker 3: with my desire to help you. Okay, he says, search me. No,
Speaker 3: my heart tests me and know my anxious thoughts. See
Speaker 3: if there is any offense or offensive way in me,
Speaker 3: watch this and lead me in the way that's everlasting.
Speaker 3: The cure. Here we go. We're not just gonna give
Speaker 3: you the condition. The cure for the condition of a
Speaker 3: greed is watch this generosity. Every time you feel greed
Speaker 3: in an area give something in that area. Do y'all
Speaker 3: hear me At the moment you feel like, ah, let
Speaker 3: it go.
Speaker 2: Oh, y'all don't hear me.
Speaker 3: But I'm telling you this is why you have to
Speaker 3: get give big, because the Bible says the world of
Speaker 3: the generous.
Speaker 2: Gets and larger.
Speaker 3: How many people want to live in a large world,
Speaker 3: Like I'm not just talking about the earth, I'm talking
Speaker 3: about Your world is large, your relationships are large. You
Speaker 3: can help people near and far, he said. The only
Speaker 3: people that live that type of life are people.
Speaker 2: Who are generous.
Speaker 3: But the world of the stingy, or the greedy, or
Speaker 3: the self indulged or the wicked, it gets smaller and smaller.
Speaker 3: My question is will you grow your world this week?
Speaker 3: You can grow your world this week by being generous.
Speaker 3: You can go to lunch after church and grow your
Speaker 3: world by leaving a tip for somebody else, and you
Speaker 3: don't have to.
Speaker 2: Let's the tip for you. You broke people like you,
Speaker 2: y'all know that's how we do.
Speaker 3: Look at you peasants eating here at Tennis Roadhouse.
Speaker 2: All you came for was the rolls. Here is a
Speaker 2: tip for you.
Speaker 3: The best type of generosity is the one they don't
Speaker 3: even know you did.
Speaker 2: Well, hear what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Do you know how many times I've gone into Quick
Speaker 3: Trip and gone up?
Speaker 2: Watch this. I don't even have a car to eat gas.
Speaker 3: So my intent was to go there to bless somebody,
Speaker 3: and I.
Speaker 2: Watched Scott know it.
Speaker 3: We'll go into Quick Trip and I'll look out there
Speaker 3: and see where there's cars on the thing, where people
Speaker 3: are caring about gas, and where the prices are going
Speaker 3: up and people are stressing all that.
Speaker 2: Walk into Quick Trip.
Speaker 3: This week with one hundred dollars and say, could you
Speaker 3: put twenty on six, twenty on four, twenty on eight,
Speaker 3: put forty on nine and walk away.
Speaker 2: Don't go outside?
Speaker 3: Hello all if you broke gas, people like, don't do that.
Speaker 2: I love my church. The next condition that comes.
Speaker 3: To attack your heart is watch this the wrong grip.
Speaker 3: Some of y'all got a death grip on your stuff.
Speaker 3: It's my house, it's my money, it's my time. Knowing
Speaker 3: you didn't give yourself a breath today, the breath you
Speaker 3: have is borrowed.
Speaker 2: This is my church. Everybody knowing this church. I'll hold
Speaker 2: this church just like this. Sometimes be trying to give
Speaker 2: it away. No y'all don't hear me. I'll be like God,
Speaker 2: damn was good. We met it end and.
Speaker 3: God's like no, no, no no, Just keep holding everything like
Speaker 3: this whole people like this. If you stay open handed,
Speaker 3: that means I have your heart. But at the moment
Speaker 3: your heart becomes hard, what if nothing else comes?
Speaker 2: This is my idea. These are my kids. Some parents.
Speaker 3: This ain't the point, but some parents are losing their
Speaker 3: relationship with their kids because they won't loosen their grip.
Speaker 3: You're a coach now, you're not the authority anymore. You're
Speaker 3: supposed to cheer from the.
Speaker 2: Sidelines, say don't do that. Ooh that hurt in it.
Speaker 2: That's what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 3: You're not supposed to bring respect and honor into decisions
Speaker 3: they had to make to actually learn that God is
Speaker 3: real in their own lives.
Speaker 2: But you got the wrong grip, and some of.
Speaker 3: Y'all have the wrong grip when it comes to finances, generosity,
Speaker 3: your job, and stewardship.
Speaker 2: Here are some symptoms that you may have.
Speaker 3: Fear of not having enough anxiety around finances, constant control
Speaker 3: issues where all the control freaks in the room, come on,
Speaker 3: we're a humble opening transparent church.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Lord, you saw them. Here we
Speaker 2: go can help you with it.
Speaker 3: People have a hoarding mentality, struggling to release anything, trusting
Speaker 3: money more than they trust God, which in scripture is
Speaker 3: called the spirit of mammon. But we see this in
Speaker 3: Luke chapter fifteen, verse twenty. You can go read the
Speaker 3: whole thing. But there was a rich, young ruler who
Speaker 3: came to God enthusiastically.
Speaker 2: God, what must I do to inherit the kingdom?
Speaker 3: Verse twenty one of Luke fifteen, it says, looking at
Speaker 3: the man, Jesus felt genuine love for him. Another translation
Speaker 3: says he felt compassion for him. He said, there's still
Speaker 3: one thing that you haven't done, or there's one thing
Speaker 3: you haven't changed your grip on. Go ahead and sell
Speaker 3: all your possessions and give the money to the poor,
Speaker 3: and you will have treasure in heaven.
Speaker 2: Then come follow me. At this, the man.
Speaker 3: Was like, hold on, Jesus, you must not realize who
Speaker 3: I am God. I've done all of these things. I'm
Speaker 3: just saying I want to follow you. He said, Yeah,
Speaker 3: you gotta change your grip. He said, you can't follow
Speaker 3: me holding on to that that tightly. He said so
Speaker 3: sell that, and it said the man watch this. The
Speaker 3: rich young ruler didn't even try. The money had such
Speaker 3: a grip on him that at the thought of the instruction,
Speaker 3: he was like, well, I guess I'm want to be
Speaker 3: following you.
Speaker 2: He didn't even.
Speaker 3: He didn't even bother to try, because it was so
Speaker 3: ingrained in him to control this money. God didn't promise
Speaker 3: him that he was not gonna give him something back.
Speaker 3: He said, I'm gonna store up your treasure in heaven.
Speaker 3: And that's where he tells us. He couldn't even get
Speaker 3: the concept because of how he had such a hard grip.
Speaker 3: What do you have such a tight grip on that
Speaker 3: God's asking for? At this the man went away sad,
Speaker 3: for he had many possessions. Watch this, write this point down.
Speaker 3: You can have God and have the You can have
Speaker 3: God and still be holding money the wrong way. Some
Speaker 3: of y'all don't even think about tithing, don't even think
Speaker 3: about honoring God with your possessions. Will pray and worship
Speaker 3: and twirl and dance and.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, no, I'm serious. I know you,
Speaker 2: I hug you.
Speaker 3: I love you, shot like you will do all the things.
Speaker 3: But when it comes to the way you grip money.
Speaker 3: God is not your supplier, He is not your source.
Speaker 3: It's because you have the wrong grip. There's clear, like
Speaker 3: over and over in the world. Word how he tells
Speaker 3: us to handle our resources, he said, honor God with
Speaker 3: your resources, with your wealth, he said.
Speaker 2: Because he's the one that gets. He's all over the world.
Speaker 2: And I'll teach you some of the scriptures.
Speaker 3: But the truth of the matter is you not letting
Speaker 3: go of that grip of that sixteen dollars an hour job.
Speaker 2: The way you hold on to now that you.
Speaker 3: Make over sixty k, over one hundred k, it's like
Speaker 3: you got stingier the more money you've got.
Speaker 2: How was you broken generous and now you've got a savings.
Speaker 3: And stingy Because I'll never.
Speaker 2: Be broken another day.
Speaker 3: In my life. My mama's boke, my great grandmama broke,
Speaker 3: my great gret great grandmama broke.
Speaker 2: But We're not gonna be broke. The problem is the
Speaker 2: grip is costing you. Watch this. The blessing.
Speaker 3: God has more for you. Oh God, Okay, how are
Speaker 3: you holding what you have? I can't answer that question,
Speaker 3: but you can. Is there anything that you're trembling, like
Speaker 3: if God came close to asking you for it, that
Speaker 3: you would be like, God, I can't follow you no more.
Speaker 2: Say la pause.
Speaker 3: Think if he asks you to give your car away,
Speaker 3: would you stop following him? God would never ask sheesh quiet,
Speaker 3: there are some things. He asked some fishermen to give
Speaker 3: their business away to follow him. Do y'all remember the
Speaker 3: first disciples, throw.
Speaker 2: Your net on the other side.
Speaker 3: They did it biggest day, They company ten xt everything.
Speaker 3: Next they would have been all over the fisherman news.
Speaker 3: And Jesus said, now I'm gonna make you, fishers of men,
Speaker 3: lead a business.
Speaker 2: Follow me.
Speaker 3: Most of us couldn't see our businessness get ten x
Speaker 3: in the next week walk away from it. For the
Speaker 3: sake of Jesus, we gonna keep moving. Jesus looked around
Speaker 3: at his disciples and said this verse twenty three. He said,
Speaker 3: how hard is it for a rich man to enter
Speaker 3: the Kingdom of God? This amazed them, but Jesus said again,
Speaker 3: dear children, it is very hard to enter the Kingdom
Speaker 3: of God.
Speaker 2: In fact, it is easier for a camel.
Speaker 3: Jesus was wild, and right here he just picked the
Speaker 3: wildest example he could find. It would be easier for
Speaker 3: a camel to go through the eye of a needle,
Speaker 3: What then, for a rich person to enter the Kingdom
Speaker 3: of God? Not because God had anything or any aught
Speaker 3: against riches. It's because he knew that when you have
Speaker 3: a lot, those riches usually have you. He said, That's
Speaker 3: why we got to deal with the heart.
Speaker 2: The heart.
Speaker 3: The disciples were astounded. Then who in the world can
Speaker 3: be saved? That asked Jesus looked at them intently and said,
Speaker 3: humanly speaking, it is impossible, but not with God.
Speaker 2: Everything is possible. With God.
Speaker 3: Do y'all know that everybody uses this for miracle signs
Speaker 3: and wonders that scripture right there. With man it is impossible.
Speaker 3: But with God, all things are possible. He's talking about
Speaker 3: being generous. Nobody wants to hear about that.
Speaker 2: Lift your hands, I'm telling you. With God, he's gonna
Speaker 2: move them out that. He said.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you it's impossible to be generous and take
Speaker 3: your hand off of stuff like this if that's your source.
Speaker 3: But with Me, you ain't gotta worry. It's possible. We
Speaker 3: can do anything if you have the right heart. That's
Speaker 3: why generosity and giving is all about the heart. Writes
Speaker 3: this the cure for the condition of the wrong grip.
Speaker 2: Watch this. I got this from prophetess Elsa.
Speaker 3: Let it go.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: That's one of the most prophetic Disney movies I've ever seen.
Speaker 3: That woman coming into her identity, icing up everything, and
Speaker 3: she just said.
Speaker 2: What let it go? No, I didn't ask you to sing, just.
Speaker 3: What I'm telling you. What I'm telling you right now
Speaker 3: is if you got the wrong grip, time to loosen
Speaker 3: it and let it go. Some of y'all, I dare
Speaker 3: you to ask God, what are you trying to say
Speaker 3: to me at this moment? Some of y'all gonna be
Speaker 3: scared of the answer. That's why don't pray this if
Speaker 3: you're not ready to make a transformation. But God, watch this,
Speaker 3: Where is my grip too tight? The next condition that
Speaker 3: comes to attack your heart?
Speaker 2: Watch this one. We're almost done grief.
Speaker 3: So greed tries to get you before you give, and
Speaker 3: the grip tries to get you to stay in the
Speaker 3: same place. I can't can't trust God, can't give, can't tie.
Speaker 3: But grief tries to come and attack you after you
Speaker 3: actually give.
Speaker 2: Has anybody ever given something and them is like ooh, shoot.
Speaker 2: Trust to you. God really want you to be the
Speaker 2: big one.
Speaker 3: Do you got to do your big one on this one? Man? See,
Speaker 3: grief tries to attack you after you obey God. Part
Speaker 3: of my ministry of generosity that I started where I
Speaker 3: was at when I didn't have nothing, was giving shoes away.
Speaker 2: That that has always been a thing.
Speaker 3: I used to go to Ross and find the best
Speaker 3: shoes I could for twenty nine to ninety nine, and
Speaker 3: sometimes they have Jordan's in there, and sometimes they be
Speaker 3: having all this stuff that me and my brothers got
Speaker 3: that honest from my dad. He used to go to
Speaker 3: pawn shops and find stuff that cost a lot, but
Speaker 3: he had an anointing to find it for it, so
Speaker 3: that I think that got transferred in the blood lines.
Speaker 3: So I used to have all kinds of shoes, and
Speaker 3: God said, you want to be generous, start giving your
Speaker 3: shoes away. So literally, people I would look at their
Speaker 3: feet and I'd be like, man, I could help them,
Speaker 3: I could bless them, I could upgrade ja.
Speaker 2: And I was just asking, what's that shoe you wear?
Speaker 3: And they tell me, and if they were my size,
Speaker 3: I would just be like, stay right here, and I'd
Speaker 3: have a pair in my car. I would This was
Speaker 3: something I started a long time of go because listen
Speaker 3: to me say this. You can get the spirit of
Speaker 3: generosity right where you're at now. You don't need a
Speaker 3: bigger paycheck, you don't need more money, you don't need
Speaker 3: a new job. You need a heart posture. So because
Speaker 3: this was my heart posture and I wanted to be
Speaker 3: able to do this, I was not even sad when
Speaker 3: I gave the people.
Speaker 2: The shoes, the thing that grieved me the most.
Speaker 3: And maybe this is just me venting because my spirit
Speaker 3: is grieved at this current moment. But sometimes I would
Speaker 3: give the too good of a shoe to somebody who
Speaker 3: didn't know what to do with it. And there's certain
Speaker 3: shoes that don't go with certain nowfish, y'all know what
Speaker 3: I'm talking about. I needed my desernment to be higher
Speaker 3: because I was like, maybe you, and then I would
Speaker 3: see them in the shoes, and that would grieve me.
Speaker 3: Oh God, what I'm saying. And the Holy Spirit, watch this.
Speaker 3: The Holy Spirit checked me. He said, it's not even
Speaker 3: yours to have an opinion on anymore. When it left
Speaker 3: watched this, not when it left my hand, it was theirs.
Speaker 3: When it was settled in my heart.
Speaker 2: It was theirs. Oh my God, I need some of
Speaker 2: y'all to hear me say this. Some of y'all need
Speaker 2: to settle in your heart.
Speaker 3: The car you're driving, you're gonna give it away.
Speaker 2: You may not know where, you may not have figured
Speaker 2: out the other thing.
Speaker 3: But God, if you can get it in your heart,
Speaker 3: He'll make it happen in your hand.
Speaker 2: And many of us are.
Speaker 3: Waiting to see how it can work in our hands.
Speaker 3: To actually get in your heart.
Speaker 2: That's too late. Today. I'm challenging you make the give big.
Speaker 2: What is God requiring of you?
Speaker 3: And some of you need to stop grieving because of
Speaker 3: financial fear or a scarcity mindset that was passed down generationally.
Speaker 3: Anxiety from your past experience is stressed around bill's and dead,
Speaker 3: can't find a job, comparison, shame, even trauma connected to money.
Speaker 2: What I'm telling you is you have to trust God.
Speaker 3: I always see this meme and it always reminds me
Speaker 3: of the time that God was asking me to actually
Speaker 3: stop grieving over what I was giving him because He
Speaker 3: always had something better for me. Can you put that
Speaker 3: little meme up that I know some of y'all have
Speaker 3: seen this somewhere, But it's like a picture of Jesus
Speaker 3: and he has a teddy bear behind his back, and
Speaker 3: then there's a little girl holding on.
Speaker 2: Y'all seen this before today.
Speaker 3: I brought this up because I believe this is a
Speaker 3: prophetic picture of what God is asking you. Would you
Speaker 3: give me what I'm asking you for so I can
Speaker 3: already give you what I've already had in store for you.
Speaker 2: But this means you can't grieve or keep the grip.
Speaker 2: You gotta let it go, give it away.
Speaker 3: And that's why Deuteronomy fifteen ten it says you shall
Speaker 3: surely give to him. This goes back to the story
Speaker 3: where God is saying, I don't want you to have
Speaker 3: a selfish or greedy heart. I want you to develop
Speaker 3: a generous heart. It says you should surely give to him,
Speaker 3: and your heart watch this should not be grieved. What
Speaker 3: shouldn't be grieved your heart. He's talking about the condition
Speaker 3: of your heart, because giving is all about the heart,
Speaker 3: and your heart should not be grieved when you give
Speaker 3: to him. Because for this thing, Ah, the Lord your God,
Speaker 3: will bless you in all your works and into which
Speaker 3: He puts in your hand. What God is saying is like,
Speaker 3: if you would do what he tells you to do
Speaker 3: around giving, you cannot stop the flow of what God
Speaker 3: will bless you with to do it again. So many
Speaker 3: people teach you give and you'll get given. You'll get given,
Speaker 3: you'll get that actually works greed into your heart. Part
Speaker 3: of our culture code is we give just to give.
Speaker 2: And not to give. Now you cannot stop the that's
Speaker 2: at work. Watch this with the right motivation. So I
Speaker 2: want to say this, and I'm gonna say his statement,
Speaker 2: but I want.
Speaker 3: You to know the statement is not finished. Okay, stay
Speaker 3: with me real quick. God does not let me say
Speaker 3: it like this. God does not bless giving unless it's
Speaker 3: with the right heart.
Speaker 2: Did y'all hear me?
Speaker 3: Or you could say it this way, God blesses giving
Speaker 3: with the right heart.
Speaker 2: He doesn't just bless giving.
Speaker 3: He's like, if the motive is wrong, if the motive
Speaker 3: is to manipulate the system, if the motive is to.
Speaker 2: Give two and get ten, he said, you should just go.
Speaker 3: To DraftKings and gamble, he said, But if the motive
Speaker 3: is to trust me, it's the motive is to actually
Speaker 3: have a heart like mine that will look at needs
Speaker 3: and sow and share. He said, Ah, you got the
Speaker 3: right motivation. That's why on the little thing. It's a heart,
Speaker 3: but it say his motive behind it, because the motive
Speaker 3: has to be This is.
Speaker 2: My response to what I've already experienced.
Speaker 3: For God so loved the world that he How many
Speaker 3: people deserve to God's grace? How many people deserve the
Speaker 3: second chance? And you on your nineteenth life in Mario, do.
Speaker 2: Yall understand what I'm saying. But you're back again. God
Speaker 2: has given you.
Speaker 3: Another You didn't deserve it, though. My response is I
Speaker 3: gotta continue to be more like him. We're almost done.
Speaker 3: I was thinking about it after service. I know my
Speaker 3: wife is gonna want to go somewhere to eat, and
Speaker 3: I spent my last hundred. I spent my last hundred
Speaker 3: this week on getting my kids gifts for their mama,
Speaker 3: and I was wondering, what's.
Speaker 2: Up, PC? You got this hundred from me?
Speaker 3: WHOA, oh, PC, ro thank you. Don't even worry about
Speaker 3: it now.
Speaker 2: Watch she stood up and clasps. But this is.
Speaker 4: The truth of the matter is PC is not grieving
Speaker 4: this hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: You know why because I gave it to him before
Speaker 3: I came on the platform. I told him in the sermon,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say I need a hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: Get up and give me this hundred dollars back. He
Speaker 2: doesn't have to grieve what's not his.
Speaker 3: What I'm saying to you is, if you think this
Speaker 3: is yours, you don't think you're a manager, you think
Speaker 3: you're an owner, then every time God asked you for
Speaker 3: something back, it's like, oh man, God again, y'all know
Speaker 3: what I'm talking about. Oh man, you act like your
Speaker 3: bills come every surprise.
Speaker 2: Muffl like it's like, oh bills, this it's the first.
Speaker 3: And we do the same thing with God, and God
Speaker 3: saying if you had just returned to me what I
Speaker 3: already gave you, he said. This goes from grieving to
Speaker 3: watch this.
Speaker 2: This is the cure.
Speaker 3: Gratitude. We'll take get at to arlow or something.
Speaker 2: All right, here we go. Rload, that's yours. I'm saying
Speaker 2: it publicly. Arload, that's your one hundred dollars. Oh, Abby said,
Speaker 2: it's Mother's day. Here we go.
Speaker 3: The cure for the condition of grief is gratitude. The
Speaker 3: only way that I'm not grieving is that I remember
Speaker 3: the good times. I remember man it's a blessing to
Speaker 3: even it's a blessing to even have anything to be God,
Speaker 3: I remember it is foo. I took somebody to fifteen
Speaker 3: nineteen this past week, and I got emotional because I
Speaker 3: for the first year and a half of being the
Speaker 3: pastor of this church, while I was still learning generosity,
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 2: Not have a car.
Speaker 3: I used to walk to church to preach to people
Speaker 3: about being blessed. What do you want to talk about?
Speaker 3: Humility is when your church members are passing you asking
Speaker 3: you do you need a ride?
Speaker 2: See? People think, oh, he's flashy. You don't know my story.
Speaker 2: You have no clue what.
Speaker 3: God has brought me through to develop the heart of generosity.
Speaker 2: If I give away so much more than I have.
Speaker 2: The truth of the matter is listen to me. What
Speaker 2: I'm saying is the process.
Speaker 3: God said, you're not generous yet, and you bought a
Speaker 3: land Rover you couldn't pay to get fixed. So I'm
Speaker 3: not supernaturally blessing you. I'm gonna let that car sit
Speaker 3: in your driveway broke because of your disobedience. You should
Speaker 3: have had a Honda Accord sitting up here in a
Speaker 3: land Rover. Discovery worked for six months. So walk.
Speaker 2: And believe me.
Speaker 3: Walk and don't be ashamed. Walk and no one day
Speaker 3: you'll give away cars.
Speaker 2: Walk and don't think.
Speaker 3: That this is where I'm leaving you.
Speaker 2: This is where I'm starting you. So you never forget
Speaker 2: who your supplier is. I'm telling you.
Speaker 3: When I went back to fifteen nineteen and I was
Speaker 3: showing in the building, I said, this is the sidewalk
Speaker 3: I used to walk with my backpack to come preach
Speaker 3: to people and tell them that Jesus loved them. I said,
Speaker 3: when I go up to that building, that's almost two
Speaker 3: thousand square feet, and we own all the land, even
Speaker 3: the land Chick.
Speaker 2: For Ley sits on.
Speaker 3: And I said, I get overwhelmed because it was God.
Speaker 2: Who changed my mind first by changing my heart.
Speaker 3: And when my heart changed, I stood up in front
Speaker 3: of our church and I rehearsed this story.
Speaker 2: All the time.
Speaker 3: We broke the seed of poverty over our church with
Speaker 3: an eighty three hundred dollars seed. I stood up in
Speaker 3: a series like this and I said, y'all, we're gonna
Speaker 3: do something we probably have never done in our church before.
Speaker 3: I said, we're gonna all take an offering. And this
Speaker 3: entire offering is going to go to other churches in
Speaker 3: this community. Eight three hundred dollars came in and we
Speaker 3: took all of that money and we gave some of
Speaker 3: the friendship in Metropolitan and First back.
Speaker 2: We just gave it away and God said, I can
Speaker 2: trust you.
Speaker 3: And the amount of money, it doesn't even make the
Speaker 3: amount that we've been able to give away to other nonprofits,
Speaker 3: orphanages to widows, to girls' homes, to help people do
Speaker 3: a God's place in their heart. And it wasn't alone,
Speaker 3: It wasn't give it back when you get it because
Speaker 3: of the generosity of these people and people like you
Speaker 3: who have believed in this vision and honestly decided to
Speaker 3: live an abundant life.
Speaker 2: It didn't just translate to the church. It translated to
Speaker 2: their homes.
Speaker 3: And all I'm trying to do is put out an
Speaker 3: invitation for everybody who's not yet subscribed to this level.
Speaker 2: Of heart posture.
Speaker 3: This is your chance to be a part of God's
Speaker 3: plan for humanity to reflect him. Because God soul loved
Speaker 3: the world that he would you stand all over this building.
Speaker 3: I have to address this.
Speaker 2: Please don't leave. We're going in five minutes.
Speaker 3: But there are some people in this room that the
Speaker 3: reason why this topic of generosity and finances hits you
Speaker 3: so hard is because there's another g word that's coming
Speaker 3: to attack your heart, and it's guilt. And I need
Speaker 3: to address this right now, because the Bible says there
Speaker 3: is for now no condemnation for those who are in
Speaker 3: Christ Jesus. And maybe you've been on hard times and
Speaker 3: maybe you once were really adamant about being generous to
Speaker 3: God and the local church and others around you, and
Speaker 3: maybe you stop for some reason, and maybe you just
Speaker 3: decided I can't let go of his grip. And God's
Speaker 3: saying it's time to do it. I come to rebuke
Speaker 3: guilt and shame off of you right now. Yes, the
Speaker 3: best time to plant a tree in a forest was
Speaker 3: fifty years ago, but the next.
Speaker 2: That's time today right now.
Speaker 3: So if guilt has been on you, that's been trying
Speaker 3: to attack your heart, let me give you the antidote
Speaker 3: or the cure for guilt grace.
Speaker 2: Today. Some of you just need to experience the grace
Speaker 2: of God. He's saying, I love you so much that
Speaker 2: I'm giving you another opportunity. Y'all.
Speaker 3: Put past the mic in that whole sheep up there,
Speaker 3: sheep jacket. This has been hot all day. I just
Speaker 3: have to confess to you. I've been sweating like woo
Speaker 3: and look all right, all right, thank you because I'm hot.
Speaker 3: But he put me up here today. And this Mary
Speaker 3: had a little lamb, the lamb that was slaying. I
Speaker 3: gotta get off the stage. I'm feeling good. I'm getting
Speaker 3: excited about my wife knowing I got her some gifts.
Speaker 2: Okay, It's time for me to go.
Speaker 3: And what I'm saying to you is God interrupted everything
Speaker 3: to give you another opportunity to Hey, I want your
Speaker 3: give to be big. I'm gonna give you grace for
Speaker 3: another day for your give to be. Hey, even on
Speaker 3: this Mother's Day, it would be probably for some of you,
Speaker 3: a big deal for you to stop by and say
Speaker 3: how to your mom? Give a video, give a call,
Speaker 3: write a letter. I know everything's not resolved, and I
Speaker 3: know you saying I can't be fake and I can't
Speaker 3: Tha Da Da. You don't know how much time you
Speaker 3: have with them. There are people going on to be
Speaker 3: with the Lord. What if God, what if it would
Speaker 3: be a big give for you to give a call.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, what if the giving's not just about money.
Speaker 3: What if money's just a test of giving, But what
Speaker 3: if giving's God's big deal. Today, I'm asking you if
Speaker 3: you've been having the wrong grip, if you've been actually
Speaker 3: being attacked in the area of greed, if you've been
Speaker 3: attacked in the area of guilt, if you've been attacked
Speaker 3: in any one of these areas. Today, I'm telling you
Speaker 3: the cure for it is give. And I'm going to
Speaker 3: impart and pray that a spirit of generosity would come
Speaker 3: over you, that your eyes would be open to see.
Speaker 3: How can I be like Jesus in any situation and give?
Speaker 3: If you want to receive that, lift your hands all
Speaker 3: over this place. Father, in the name of Jesus, if
Speaker 3: you're watching online, this is for you. Father. I thank
Speaker 3: you that your word is eternal, everlasting and strong, and
Speaker 3: today I delivered your word. But God, I thank you
Speaker 3: that it's going into people's hearts, because giving is all
Speaker 3: about the heart.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 3: We want a heart like yours. We want a heart
Speaker 3: that sees the need and meets the need. We want
Speaker 3: a heart that is not greedy. We want our heart,
Speaker 3: Father God, that flows with abundance. We want a heart, Father,
Speaker 3: that goes against the generational patterns that we may have learned.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 3: God, I thank you that you're interrupting bloodlines right now
Speaker 3: with revelation, and today we're asking start with us. Let
Speaker 3: us pass down generationally a spirit of generosity. If our
Speaker 3: children and our family know us for being a certain way. God,
Speaker 3: I thank you that you would do the work so
Speaker 3: deep on the inside of us that we would get
Speaker 3: relabel the renamed in the people that are around us.
Speaker 2: Father, I thank you that you can do the transformation today.
Speaker 3: God, we are asking in the areas that people may
Speaker 3: not see, would you search our hearts and would you
Speaker 3: expose anything that may be offensive, creating us a clean
Speaker 3: heart and renewing us the right spirit. Father, change our motives,
Speaker 3: because once we can give, our world gets larger and larger.
Speaker 3: And so today God I impart the gift of faith
Speaker 3: around giving, we will have the faith to trust you.
Speaker 2: You are the supplier of every one of our needs.
Speaker 3: If the birds don't worry about what they gonna eat,
Speaker 3: and that the flowers are not going shopping for what
Speaker 3: they're gonna be dressed in, how much more for each
Speaker 3: one of us, your children that you love today make
Speaker 3: the give big in our life so that we never
Speaker 3: have to have a heart attack. We trust you, we
Speaker 3: believe you, and we thank you in Jesus' name. Listen
Speaker 3: to me real quick. The place you need to let
Speaker 3: Jesus into is your heart. He's the only one that
Speaker 3: if you let him into your heart, he'll help you
Speaker 3: change your habits. So some of y'all were about to
Speaker 3: go at this and be like, all right, I got
Speaker 3: my points, I know what to do. I'm about to
Speaker 3: make this happen. And God's like, godly, they missed all
Speaker 3: of it. All of it points back to me. I
Speaker 3: want to be in relationship with you. I don't want
Speaker 3: you to just see me once or twice a year
Speaker 3: or call me when you're in need. I want to
Speaker 3: walk and talk with you. I want to lead and
Speaker 3: guide you. I don't want to just be savior.
Speaker 2: I want to be Lord.
Speaker 3: But you got to let me into your heart. And
Speaker 3: today some of y'all have been feeling the spirit whispering
Speaker 3: to you. Today's the day to come home. Today is
Speaker 3: the day of transformation. All do it next week.
Speaker 2: I gotta clean up.
Speaker 3: God said, you can't clean up what I'm made to
Speaker 3: clean up. If that's you and you want to let Jesus.
Speaker 2: Into your heart. He already gave his son. All you
Speaker 2: have to do is receive him. So watch this.
Speaker 3: He gave his son, you get your life. You get
Speaker 3: to practice giving right now. He gives away, you give
Speaker 3: up your way. You get to practice giving right now.
Speaker 3: If that's you, and you want to make Jesus Christ
Speaker 3: your personal lord and savior. On the counter three, I
Speaker 3: want you to lift your hands and we're gonna prayer
Speaker 3: your same pastor include me into that prayer. I want
Speaker 3: my name to be written in the Lamb's Book of life.
Speaker 3: I want to give control over to God. I want
Speaker 3: my eternity to be secure, and I want my history
Speaker 3: to be healthy. This is what God gives us the
Speaker 3: ability and passorm like, why are you so passionate about this?
Speaker 3: Because it's the thing that took me from being a liar,
Speaker 3: a manipulator, addicted to pornography, bad things in my heart,
Speaker 3: stuff that nobody could see that was around me.
Speaker 2: But I knew what's in there. And God said, I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna make you perfect, Well, I'm gonna make you progressive.
Speaker 2: And today that's somebody's future.
Speaker 3: And if that's you, man, woman, boy, or girl, I
Speaker 3: don't care how old, how long you've been around church.
Speaker 3: You know God needs your heart. Today is your day one.
Speaker 3: You're making the greatest decision of your like to Your
Speaker 3: name is gonna be written in the Lamb's book of life.
Speaker 2: I'm proud of you.
Speaker 3: But more than that, Heaven is about to rejoice. If
Speaker 3: you want to receive Jesus. Three, shoot your hand up
Speaker 3: in the air in the room.
Speaker 2: I see you. I see you. I see you, my brother,
Speaker 2: Transformation Church. I see you, my sister. More than that,
Speaker 2: God sees you. Come on CC, let's give God praise. Hey, listen.
Speaker 3: As the altar workers come right now. As a family,
Speaker 3: we're gonna pray. Nobody at TC praise alone. We're a
Speaker 3: family and we all been there. Can we say this
Speaker 3: prayer together? Say God, thank you for sending Jesus just
Speaker 3: for me today.
Speaker 2: I give you my heart. I admit I've sind, I repent,
Speaker 2: and I.
Speaker 3: Turn to you. Here's my life. Change me, renew me,
Speaker 3: transform me. I'm yours forever.
Speaker 2: In Jesus name. Amen.
Speaker 3: Hey, can we celebrate with every person?
Speaker 2: Oh? Come on, TCE.
Speaker 3: All that happen is rejoicing right now.
Speaker 2: Hey, listen, if you just said that prayer in the
Speaker 2: room or watch it online line.
Speaker 3: I want you to text saved to eight two eight
Speaker 3: two eight to or click the QR code.
Speaker 2: We want to send you some information.
Speaker 3: We got some videos me and the team if made
Speaker 3: to let you know what your next steps are and
Speaker 3: how to go on this journey. And I'm telling you
Speaker 3: get in a good Bible based church. TC will always
Speaker 3: be here for you. If you're in the city or
Speaker 3: anywhere around, come to church. Man.
Speaker 2: This is not just Mother's Day. This is every Sunday
Speaker 2: and we want to love on you and help you grow.
Speaker 3: And for every person that's in this room that's dealing
Speaker 3: with something, maybe grief, maybe greed, maybe something's going on
Speaker 3: and you need prayer. God gives us the technology of
Speaker 3: prayer that transforms our life. I'm telling you from all
Speaker 3: over this room as the worship team sings, I want
Speaker 3: you to come get prayer. And if you're online, stay
Speaker 3: on where ship us with us for a minute. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna come in the back. Go ahead and type your
Speaker 3: prayer requests up there. The team is gonna feed them
Speaker 3: to me. I'm gonna pray for you. But today I
Speaker 3: believe God's gonna do something to change our hearts. Amen, Father,
Speaker 3: bless this church. Give them hearts that are big enough
Speaker 3: to receive all the blessing that you were giving them.
Speaker 3: And today God alter us right here at this altar,
Speaker 3: have your way.
Speaker 2: In Jesus' name.
Speaker 3: We agree, somebody say we agree, we expect.
Speaker 2: Amen, go out and live a transformed life. Hollylujah.