Speaker 1: Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to
the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so
glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe
God will transform your life. Do today's message.
Speaker 2: If you could, Would you get out your notepad and
your smartphone or dumb phone.
Speaker 3: And get ready to receive God's word.
Speaker 2: I want to pray, Father, anything I say does not
matter if we don't have hearts to receive it. So today,
give us hearts that are soft enough for the.
Speaker 3: Right seeds to be planted. We've had hard weeks.
Speaker 2: Some of us have been disappointed, some of us have
been confused about what's going on right now.
Speaker 3: In your presence, I thank.
Speaker 2: You that peace is here. It's the peace that passes
all understanding. And so Father, would you speak to us
so that we can actually live an abundant life away
in this place. It's my prayer, and all God's children
in this place say amen.
Speaker 3: All right, let's do this thing.
Speaker 2: Well, we're starting a brand new series today, and I
get excited about a brand new series because I've been
holding this one. Because the truth of the matter is,
this series has the opportunity to transform your mind around
something that all of us are thinking about.
Speaker 3: Everybody's thinking about money. Oh no, not me, liar.
Speaker 2: Some of you have checked your account three times today.
Some of us get notifications every time something shifts in
our account balance. Many of us right now are planning
our lives around what the decimals say in our bank account.
Some of us have joy right now because because of
how much we have, and some of us are in sorrow.
Speaker 3: Okay, y'all, come.
Speaker 2: On because of how much we don't have. Many of
us feel great on payday.
Speaker 3: Come on, let's be honest.
Speaker 2: How many people get an extra little peppine step When
that little chiching hears, You're like ah, And as soon
as that first payment comes out for the house you
live in, you're like God.
Speaker 3: God.
Speaker 2: Today, I want to let you know very clearly, we
are going to talk about money, but it's not the focus.
A lot of people don't understand and realize how important
it is to be able to bring God's truth around
things that we all deal with. But because there's been
people who have done wrong around the topic, people stay.
Speaker 3: Away from it.
Speaker 2: My job as your pastor, I'm not everybody shepherd, but
I'm yours it's to make sure you understand the things
that God says that you are supposed to have and
how you're supposed to interact and connect with them. So today,
this new series is called six figures.
Speaker 3: Everybody say six figures?
Speaker 2: How many people in here would love to make six
figures consistently monthly?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Come on, I'm talking to somebody six figures weekly. Huh huh.
Somebody had the crazy fathure I make your daily. No, okay,
everybody wants to make six figures. It's like, last ten years,
it's been like a culturally coined phrase like I'm just
trying to give six figures or or what type of
man do you want?
Speaker 3: He got to make six figures?
Speaker 2: Come on, let's talk about it. Let's think about many
of us are trying to raise to a certain level.
But I started to think about this cultural plaze, and
I was like, I know a lot of people that
make six figures who aren't fulfilled.
Speaker 3: I counsel plenty of people that have not just.
Speaker 2: Six figures, seven figures, eight figures. And you were like,
I wish I could see what they talking about. We
can trade places, but the truth of the matter is
the number or the figure you have in your account
does not mean you will be fulfilled. And I thought,
what are the six figures that God wants to expand
and shape our faith around? And so for the next
few weeks, I'm gonna be talking about six figures that
shape your faith to live an abundant life. See, because
God doesn't want you to just have money.
Speaker 3: He wants you to have an abundant life.
Speaker 2: He wants you to be able to walk in a
lifestyle that.
Speaker 3: Doesn't add sorrow with it.
Speaker 2: And so in this series, I want you to be
able to listen because I'm gonna have to challenge watch
this some of your cultural constructs. I'm coming for some
of your family ideas. I'm coming for spirits that have
been on you that have been borrowed from people you
didn't even find out the source they got it from. Okay,
And today I want you to understand the six figures
God cares about so that you can live a life
of abundance. So these are the six figures we're gonna
talk about that are gonna shape your faith. We're gonna
talk about work three amens. But the truth of the
matter is most of you think your job and your
work are synonymous, and God gave Adam work even though
all his needs were supplied. We'll talk about it later.
We're gonna talk about rest. How many people can use
some more rest. We're gonna talk about it. We're gonna
talk about motives. We're gonna talk about multiplication, We're gonna
talk about priority, and we're gonna talk about generosity. And yes,
we're gonna talk about money. And the reason I say
this is because one third of all of the message
that Jesus gave publicly were about money, generosity, and possessions.
And the reason why Jesus talked about it so much
is not because he cares a lot about money.
Speaker 3: He knows you do, He knows we do. He knows
it's the reason.
Speaker 2: Why I can or cannot be a blessing on all occasions.
He knows that it changes my attitude. There are people
I don't like because I think they have.
Speaker 3: More money than me. You don't even know.
Speaker 2: And God's saying, your heart and resources are connected. And
what I want is to correct the thing that no
one can see.
Speaker 3: This series is an inside job.
Speaker 2: It's going to challenge the things that you think and
your neighbor ain't gonna know what's going on on the
inside of you the ten and that's going on the wrestle.
And God wants to reveal these things because I believe
he wants you to live in abundance. But the thing
that can mess up the money, the influence, the platform
he gives you is the mindset. And today I'm coming
to change and challenge the mindset of God's people around
this idea of living and abundant life.
Speaker 3: John ten ten.
Speaker 2: The thief, the enemy, our adversary, does not come except.
Speaker 3: To do what steal, chill and destroy it.
Speaker 2: But Jesus is talking, and he said, but I've come
that you may have life, and that you may have
life more. Watch this word abundantly. Jesus is saying, my
whole reason for coming. There's gonna be a lot of
details that come, but my whole reason, if I can
sum it up in one thing, I want you to
live an abundant life.
Speaker 3: What like that's what you won't for me? Yep? What
about grace and mercy and it's.
Speaker 2: All wrapped up in an abundant life? What about resources
and blessing others and being able to walk in.
Speaker 3: The fruits of the spirit.
Speaker 2: Is all wrapped up in an abundant life, and.
Speaker 3: God wants your life to be Watch this fool.
Speaker 2: Some of us have lived the most empty, barely making
it at the bottom, just enough to get by lives.
That's not why God gave up his only son and
so you could survive.
Speaker 3: He wants your life to be just Somebody say abundant,
Say it like it's a big word. Abundant. What if
every area of your life was more than enough. Oh,
y'all didn't hear me.
Speaker 2: Think about your marriage been like girls, I'm kissing me, dang.
Speaker 3: Our love is so abundant. It's more than enough. Think
about every time you get ready to bless.
Speaker 2: Somebody, you gotta tell yourself, I don't know if they're
ready for that.
Speaker 3: That might be too much for them to handle. What
if every time you looked at.
Speaker 2: Your health, you'd be like, man, I've never been more healthy,
have more energy. I don't even need those things to
stay up no more. I'm living an uh.
Speaker 3: What if when you prayed, you were praying to see who.
Speaker 2: God wanted you to answer their prayer, not just that
God would answer their prayer.
Speaker 3: Abundance.
Speaker 2: What if you didn't have to be seen and you
were still fulfilled. Oh, I'm talking about abundance. I'm talking
about I'm not on the GRAMD. I'm not showing you
what I'm doing on Facebook, and I'm actually happy abundance.
And this is what I on everybody listening to me
to know, because I'm reversing some of the lies that
you have believed. God desires for his children to live
an abundant life. Why, pastor mic Because it's a reflection
of him. If you read all the characteristics of God,
He's the God that owns the cattle on a thousand hills.
He's the God that pours out his grace unending. There's
no sin you can do where.
Speaker 3: The grace is not great. He is abundant. And then
you look at his kids. Okay, y'all ever met somebody
who got it all?
Speaker 2: Gucci, Louie down, got got all the things, got all
the Lulu limb and got all the Awlo, got everything.
And then the kids walk up. Oh, y'all know what
I'm talking about. It changes the way you looking at them, because,
oh them, you those your kids. Why Because the reflection,
many times is the way people get to understand who
the person is.
Speaker 3: I believe that this is an area that needs to
be represented.
Speaker 2: That's why in this church, during this series, we're not
taking any offerings that are outside of what we normally do.
There will be no second offerings, there's no building campaign
as in fact, during the series, we're gonna give money away.
Fessor Mike, why are you saying this because most people
who have an aversion to resources, they like the church,
just want my money.
Speaker 3: You ain't gave it no way.
Speaker 2: So first off, let's let's be clear we've been able
to survive without some money. And number two, the enemy
is trying to keep you from a principle that will
change your legacy. And today I have the authority I
live this. I started out in poverty. I started out
with a poverty mindset. Oh you couldn't tell about what
I had owned. But I had a poverty mindset, not
because it's what I was exposed to, not because it
was because of what I adopted. And the Holy Spirit
after salvation had to break off of me a mindset
that was keeping me. Watch this from his best for me.
And I'm believing through this series by faith that many
people are about to walk out of the idea of poverty.
Speaker 3: I'm not just talking about money.
Speaker 2: Some of you are poor relationally, some of you do
not have enough emotionally. God's going to allow you to live.
Say it with me one more time, abundantly. Let me
help you understand what abundantly is. Abundantly is spiritual fullness,
material provision, generosity, and God's overflowing grace. When God says
I want you to live abundantly, he says, I want
you to be spiritually fool. I want you to have
whatever material provision you need. I want you to have
generosity to be able to be a blessing to others,
and I want you to experience God's overflowing grace. Write
this down because I believe it's going to be an
anchor in this entire series. Abundance is fueled by the
principle of proper management, not from endlessly pursuing more. I
need to give this to you very clear right now,
because a lot of you think abundance is a lot.
Having a lot does not mean you're in abundance most
of the time. Having a lot means you're overwhelmed. Come on,
let's be honest. God says, I want you to properly
Stewart over what you have. When you become a good steward.
Speaker 3: You live in abundance.
Speaker 2: Right now, some of us have more clothes and more
shoes than we know what to do with. Right now,
we can't even get to our bathroom because we got
to step over mountains, hills and valleys. Come on, let's
be honest. Some of us got storages for our storage.
Speaker 3: Y'all got what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: What I'm telling you is a lot does not equal abundance.
Proper stewardship does. And we're gonna talk about that as
we go. Today is just a foundation because I believe
that God wants you to live a life of abundance.
So just write this point down, very clearly, very simple.
I've said it several times, but God desires for me
to live an abundant life. That's what he desires for you.
A lot of people I've heard it said like this,
love God, love people, use money. But a lot of
people mix those up. They use God, love people and
love money, or they love.
Speaker 3: God, use people and love money. Oh, come on, y'all.
Speaker 2: But the proper order for everything that we have to
do when it comes to resources is we love God.
Somebody say love, God, love people use money. It's a tool.
It's just a tool. This is not the thing I
live and die for. It's the thing that I use
to live. Okay, I'm gonna walk you through this, and
many people have gotten that out of order. So as
I teach you this series, I'm teaching from a place
that I have walked out of poverty into a level
of purpose that allows me to understand the concept. So
I'm going to identify with every person in this room
to be able to help us walk into a brand
new mindset and get a revelation.
Speaker 3: And what is a revelation. It's just revealed truth.
Speaker 2: It's a truth that's already there, but we don't see
it yet. And I believe God is going to allow
so many people to see the truth that God wants
you to live.
Speaker 3: An abundance life. Can I get one big amen? All right?
Speaker 2: So there's this thing that's been happening to me lately
as I'm getting a little older.
Speaker 3: I'll be forty this year.
Speaker 2: And uh yeah, I'm excited about being forty, Like it
feels like my life is just beginning. I Mean, I
don't know what seventy five feels like, Bishop, but forty
feel good.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. I know what to and
what to what not to do for me.
Speaker 2: I understand how my body works now, and I'm figuring
out what I like to.
Speaker 3: Do and what I don't like to do.
Speaker 2: I sometimes, you know, get it wrong of how athletic
I still am. I've had a nagging injury that has
gone from my ankle to my knee now to my brain.
But but I consider myself a pretty relevant person, and
I was I give compliments. I'm an encourager, so like,
if you know me, you're around me, I'm gonna tell you, like, man,
you look nicer, da.
Speaker 3: Da da da. So I was talking to a god
the other.
Speaker 2: Day and I said, man, you're handsome, and out of
the blue, I heard somebody say, hey, yo, Pauls.
Speaker 3: And I looked at him, all like, heyo, Paul's. What
do you mean Paul's. I've been getting paused a lot,
and I wasn't clear.
Speaker 2: What pausing was until I asked my daughter. I was like,
what is Pauls. It's like, it's like, you know, when
you probably like what you said meant one thing, but
because of the cultural definition of it, it now means
something else.
Speaker 3: And so I was like, so I can't tell another
man he handsome, and it was like hey, yo, pause,
And I was like, what hold on? What are you
talking about?
Speaker 2: And I'm confused, I'm frustrated.
Speaker 3: Some of the older people are looking at me like
I still don't get it.
Speaker 2: What they're saying is if I tell another man he's
hands in, somebody might think that maybe I like.
Speaker 3: Him in a way that I don't like him.
Speaker 2: And it's not just a compliment, it's more than a compliment,
and maybe this could escalate to something. And I was like, up,
I said, I'm a double down. You're not just handsome,
You're God's masterpiece.
Speaker 3: Like whoa, hey yo? Pause, Like why can't I give
somebody else to come? Why can't I do it? And
what I realized.
Speaker 2: That pause idea, that pause perception is fueled by ignorance
and many times immaturity. I just want to say, I
know the youth section, y'all be pausing all day pause.
Like what I'm saying is when something has a meaning
but it gets twisted. You can be saying one thing,
but somebody take it as something else. And what I
figured out is that in twenty twenty six. There are
some phrases that God gives us that have been hijacked
because of ignorance, and today I just I feel like
it's part of my job in the beginning of this
series to literally dismantle one of them so you can
receive what God has called you to receive in this series.
Speaker 3: And as a pastor, this is my job. So I
stand flat.
Speaker 2: Footed ten toes down today to tell anybody and everybody
that God has watching this, that we have to come
out of ignorance. Ignorance translated in the Greek actually comes
down to darkness. Wherever there is darkness in your life,
you're ignorant in that area.
Speaker 3: You can't see it.
Speaker 2: And when you begin to study out scripture, I need
everybody to understand that understanding actually means light. So when
you're ignorant, you're in darkness. When you get understanding, you're
in light. That's why the Bible says and all you're
getting I need you to get an understanding.
Speaker 3: That's why we.
Speaker 2: Can't take TikTok clips and create.
Speaker 3: Theologies around them.
Speaker 2: Because you didn't even get an understanding. You didn't check
the source, you don't know who them. People are just
because the lighting was good and the video was high
quality and the voice sounded convincing doesn't.
Speaker 3: Mean it's truth.
Speaker 2: This is why you can't believe everything you hear about
me online.
Speaker 3: Well, isn't here? Is it here? You ain't never met me,
You ain't even been around me.
Speaker 2: You think I'm short in real life. I can't tell
you how many people when they meet me in real
life they're like, dang, you're.
Speaker 3: So tall this screen line to you, I'm almost six
y two.
Speaker 2: What I'm telling you is you cannot form things in
your conscience off a clip.
Speaker 3: This is a dangerous time in church. In life, people.
Speaker 2: Are putting things in their body because of a clip.
Speaker 3: Y'all.
Speaker 2: Don't ordered stuff off of Amazon because somebody was selling
something on TikTok shop.
Speaker 3: They ain't never take it. They just get paid for it.
You want they results, they don't even do it.
Speaker 2: Okay, And today I have to go in and I
believe it's part of my pastoral responsibility to help you
be able to redeem a word that has been hijacked
that if I was to say it in Christianity, a.
Speaker 3: Lot of people would say, pause, can I give you
the word? Y'all? Ready?
Speaker 2: For it. Prosperity a your pause, because right now in
the world, if I say the word prosperity and then
I put the word gospel behind it, there are people
who have no idea what it actually means, but they
stay away from it. Prosperity pause, or that's a prosperity church,
or they teaching a prosperity gospel.
Speaker 3: Oh they are?
Speaker 2: They all about prosperity. Have you studied it? Have you
checked the source? Do you know where it came from?
Do you have any context around that phrase? And right
now it's being not just hijacked, it's being weaponized. And
today I need us to pause, or let me say
say law, which actually means pause.
Speaker 3: And you don't just need to pause, you need to pause.
Speaker 2: In because if you say law and get the understanding
and then you come to the conclusion, I don't want
nothing to do with that. Cool, But many of us
have walked away watched this from a principle and a
promise of God because it has bad cultural connotation. The
word gospel means good news.
Speaker 3: But I have to acknowledge that people have gotten involved.
Speaker 2: So when somebody says, if you're new to church or
you've never heard this idea or this theme.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna help you because you're gonna be so ahead of.
Speaker 2: The game, because you're not gonna have to filter through
a bunch of toxicity and all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 3: But I want to put everybody on the same playing field.
Speaker 2: When people say prosperity gospel, it is culturally complicated because
what they mean by that is that this prosperity gospel
is centered around manipulation, around money, deceptive motives, an opulent lifestyle,
lot of reliving. I'm gonna give gods some it. He
gonna change change, hit me back with tenfold selfish, gain
a pyramid, skin, give ten, get twenty, give twenty, get
a thousand.
Speaker 3: And it's been around.
Speaker 2: Exploiting vulnerable peace people and praying on people's ignorance. You
got a church that ain't got no heir, but the
pastor has a private jet.
Speaker 3: Come on, if we're gonna.
Speaker 2: Talk about Okay, if we're gonna.
Speaker 3: Talk about it, let's talk about it.
Speaker 2: The building fund ain't nothing ever got built.
Speaker 3: Come on.
Speaker 2: People then gave their life savings Granny undone.
Speaker 3: It but no actual evidence.
Speaker 2: And because people have gotten involved, I want to give
you the title of my message today, A good word
has gone bad.
Speaker 3: Today.
Speaker 2: The title of the message is a good word gone bad.
The problem with prosperity I gotta help you, because if
you don't get your own understanding from God about this word,
you will let culture rob you of a promise that
God gave before.
Speaker 3: Any of us was here.
Speaker 2: Okay, you want to know the problem with prosperity, it's
three things.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you.
Speaker 2: The problem with prosperity is people, perception and perversion. When
you bring prosperity into it, people have manipulated people in
the name of a word that God gave us that
have nothing to do with him. And as long as
there will be people on this earth, somebody will try
to twist what.
Speaker 3: God says is good.
Speaker 2: Can I tell you all the way back in Genesis
when God told Adam and Eve, like, hey, you protected
you good. You can eat from any tree except this one.
What was the enemy's first conversation with man?
Speaker 3: Did God really say?
Speaker 2: He was trying to pervert what God said was good
into something that was bad. So anytime you see the
word prosperity, think about the people who are talking about it,
and then you have to think about the perception.
Speaker 3: What is the.
Speaker 2: Perception behind it and has it been perverted? Pastor Mike,
why is this important? Because prosperity is biblical. If I
said prayer was biblical, you'd be like, Amen, Glory to God,
pray for me.
Speaker 3: Pastor.
Speaker 2: If I said healing is biblical, everybody will want healing.
Speaker 3: If I said love is biblical for God's oh love
the world, Oh God, that he gave prosperity is biblical.
Speaker 2: Let me prove with you, because y'all look at like
give me Scripture Deuteronomy twenty eight eleven.
Speaker 3: Listen to this. The Lord who will the Lord who
will do it? The Lord, the Lord will grant you
abundant prosperity. Therese are two words.
Speaker 4: The Lord will grant you abundant prosper Stop. Think what
would abundant prosperity from God look like. The Lord will
grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your womb,
the young of your livestock, and your crops of the ground.
Speaker 2: He's saying, your business will prosper in the land he
swore to your ancestors to give you. This is a
promise that.
Speaker 3: Was started before you.
Speaker 2: The Lord will open up the heavens, my God, the
storehouses of his bounty, to send rain on your land
in season, and to bless all the work of your hands.
You will lend to many nations, but will borrow from
none of them. The Lord will make you the head
and not the tale. If you pay attention to the
commands of the Lord your God that I give you
this day, and carefully follow them. That means there's obedience
attached to abundance.
Speaker 3: Did you hear what I just said? Obedien is attached.
Speaker 2: To oh bn Okay, it says if you do what
he says, you will always be at the top, never
at the bottom.
Speaker 3: Bible.
Speaker 2: That's not enough for some of you because you're a
skeptic Proverbs eleven twenty five.
Speaker 3: A generous person will say the word with me, prosper.
I know it's like a cuss word. I don't want
to say it.
Speaker 2: What if somebody sees me. What if God promised it
to you? What if it's a benefit of being in
the kingdom of God? Nobody no good father would ever
tell their child. I don't want you to prosper.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: I would never go to my children and be like
I hope you stay the same. I hope you really
hit a like loop in your life, like real cyclic,
real cycle cycle, son cycle child. Don't want you to prosper.
I want you to prosper in your thinking. I want
you to grow and your ability to perceive. I want
you to understand your emotions. I want you to be
able to manage things. I want you to This is
the same thing God saying about you because you're his child.
He said, if you're generous, you're going to prosper.
Speaker 3: Whoever refreshes others will be refreshed God some Mike.
Speaker 2: Both of those are Old Testament examples. We are under
a new covenant. Y'all want some new you want some
New Testament on that. I want you to understand we're
under a new covenant, but we serve a God with
the same character. Me and PC were talking about that
that the new Covenant does not demolish God's old character.
So if he was good, he's still gonna be good.
If he did provide, he's still gonna provide. If he
did love you, he's still gonna love you. Third John
New Testament, Chapter one, Verse two, beloved it.
Speaker 3: I pray that you y'all gotta say it with me,
y'all scared the cussing church.
Speaker 2: I pray that you prosper in No, only some of them,
he says. I pray that you prosper in your business,
your family, your finances, your health.
Speaker 3: I want your hair growth to prosper.
Speaker 2: I want your eyebrows to be on flee. I pray
that you prosper in encouragement.
Speaker 3: I pray that you prosper. And some of.
Speaker 2: Y'all want to leave God's desire for us and his
design for us on the table because of somebody else's definition.
You gonna leave what God said on the table because
of what Gary said. I'm gonna choose another name. Bishop,
it's your birthday because of what Garrett said. Guys, you
cannot let culture define what God's already defined. So, Pastor Mike,
what's your whole point today today? If you don't get
nothing else, I want you to know this one thing.
Speaker 3: You have permission to prosper. Somebody should get excited about that.
You have permission by God's word.
Speaker 2: Not Pastor Mike's word, by God's word.
Speaker 3: To it's good news.
Speaker 2: You have permission to prosper. The Todd family has permission
to prosper. Transformation Church has permission to calf family though,
the Heck and Box family, the Great family.
Speaker 3: We have permission to.
Speaker 2: I tell my kids, you have permission to prosper. You
have permission to be everything God's called you to be.
My daughters today they brought a business to church.
Speaker 3: The other day. My daughter's been into baking.
Speaker 2: Eva been into bacon, and so she baked some rice
Chrispy treats.
Speaker 3: And I don't know what kind of heaven.
Speaker 2: That the Holy Spirit slipped into those Rice Christ retreats,
or it could just be I ain't been eating sugar
like that, but I bit into that thing. And you
know when you eat something and make your knees do.
Speaker 3: A little ooh whoo. So me and me and her
mom was just hyping her up. Ah, these Rice Christ
retreat it's the ball. You should sell them, you should say.
And Ava's like me when I was little. She was
like hmm. So she employed her older sister and her
she has two employees.
Speaker 2: Her, her oldest son, and Coco have baked up sixty
rice Crispy trees, packaged them, put pink bowls on them, done.
Speaker 3: All this other stuff.
Speaker 2: And brought them to church to use their nepotism to
make you buy them. They have fully taken advantage of
their last name.
Speaker 3: You already bought some. Oh, they already bought something.
Speaker 2: Hear me, and everything in me is saying, prosper, baby,
Take the little that God's given you. It may seem
like nothing to anybody else, but I want you to try.
You're only seven years old, but you're gonna learn things
right now. That's gonna set you up to be in
business and bless.
Speaker 3: Other people later on. Now, we ain't just.
Speaker 2: Gonna take all that money and go spend it.
Speaker 3: We're gonna honor God with it. We're gonna teach them priority.
I want you too.
Speaker 2: If me, as a father with human sin running through
my veins, wants my child.
Speaker 3: To prosper, how much more you have permission?
Speaker 2: I want you to feel that in your soul, he said,
Above all else.
Speaker 3: I want, above all else, above praying for twelve hours,
Come on, y'all, we're gonna do it. But above that,
above spending all day in worship.
Speaker 2: Above above I want you to prosper in all things
at the level watch this that your soul prospers, mind,
will and emotion. So he said, I don't want you
to just have all things. That's why you can have
all things and still not be fulfilled. And that's why
another scripture says, what does it profit a man to
gain the whole world and lose his God says, soul
needs to be wealthy and at the level of your
soul prospers. Let your money prosper, Let your relationships prosper.
Speaker 3: You have permission to prosper. That's some way for real.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because the truth of the matter is this term
was defined by God before we ever heard it. And
always check the source of the place you're finding out
your information.
Speaker 3: I only chose three scriptures so.
Speaker 2: That we could get out on time today. But through
this whole series, I'm gonna teach you that you're right
as a king's kid. It's to prosper in every era.
You should be the best at your job. Okay, I
have the advantage. I have the Holy Spirit. I can't
know what the meeting's gonna be about for our walk
in the meeting, y'all, y'all don't hear me. You have
somebody say I have the advantage. There are things in.
Speaker 3: Wisdom and desernment, and.
Speaker 2: Why would you leave the promises of God on the
table just because somebody else doesn't understand it, never experience
do or can't define it.
Speaker 3: Do we just leave the Holy Spirit out of our.
Speaker 2: Christian walk because certain groups of people don't understand the
Holy Spirit.
Speaker 3: Before any of us was here, the Bible tells us.
Speaker 2: Jesus says, it's better that I leave, because when I leave,
I'm sinning another one.
Speaker 3: He's the Holy Spirit, the paraclet.
Speaker 2: The one that will come alongside of you and help,
and he's gonna guide you in your day to day.
Speaker 3: Into all truth.
Speaker 2: That's why the truth is important, y'all. He sets you free.
So anytime there's a term in church that kind of
gets twisted, it's a good word that goes bad, I
want you to put it in this matrix. I want
you to put the term in, and then I want
you to define it by the truth of God's word.
Then I want you to see where the enemy would
try to twist it.
Speaker 3: And then I want you to see where he's trying
to trick you.
Speaker 2: Okay, just write that down term truth, twist trick because again,
the enemy's plan is to turn everything that God says
is good into something that you think is bad. Because
the enemy doesn't need to kill you if he makes
God's promises to you powerless.
Speaker 3: Remember his job is to steal, kill and destroy. Pastor
Charles said it a week ago. He said, he does
not have to kill you if he actually steals the
purpose and the use of the thing.
Speaker 2: So your life will be destroyed if you don't think
that you can be abundant.
Speaker 3: So all your prayers is about God. Could you just
please me by need? I think I want your needs.
I know God.
Speaker 2: Sometimes if it was me, he what But because of
a mindset or a mind you can be healed, you
can be free. It's not just with the word prosperity.
It's with many words that we have in the church.
And the enemy has tricked us to make us feel
that we cannot fully believe in them, so that they're
powerless in our lives. This is why some people can
come into a service and get healed because they actually
believe God can heal. And there are other people that
will be in that same service and need the healing,
but they feel nothing.
Speaker 3: Not because God's not moving.
Speaker 2: It's because somewhere deep down that thing has gotten to
us where it's changed our mindset about what God can do.
Speaker 3: And so what I'm telling you is marriages can be restored.
Do you believe it.
Speaker 2: There's a story in the Bible where a man literally
went into the prostitution house to get y'all don't y'all
don't want to do that. It's too real. God said,
go get her out of the place of perversion, speak
words of life over her, restore.
Speaker 3: Her, and their.
Speaker 2: Relationship was reconciled. God can do these things. Question is
do you believe it? And has a good word gone bad?
Speaker 3: Okay? Right now?
Speaker 2: If I told somebody the term I'm about to use
is cold, Hey, man, she cold? Oh man, that dude
on the basketball court he cold? Or if I said, man,
it's cold in here, it's the same word. It's the
same word, but depending on who's using it, how they're
using it, where they're using it, it has totally different definitions.
Speaker 3: Term cold. The truth it's a frigid temperature.
Speaker 2: The twist could be all, dang, she look cold, she
looked good.
Speaker 3: The trick is that in the wrong.
Speaker 2: Situation, a compliment could be taken as an insult. Do
y'all see if we're not working from the same definitions
the right things you mean the wrong thing and get
a bad reaction. Let me use the inverse hot bro,
she's hot, Come on, my wife's favorite one. It's hot
in here like like same word, but depending on who's
using it, where the context, it can mean to if I'm.
Speaker 3: In the hood and.
Speaker 2: Somebody says the block is hot, some of y'all know.
Speaker 3: Some of y'all know.
Speaker 2: If somebody say the block is hot, the block, some
of y'all know, cash money for.
Speaker 3: The nine nine two thousand. If I say the block
is hot, it doesn't mean we need a fan.
Speaker 2: It means the popo is watching and you need to
calm down whatever activities you're doing. What I'm saying is,
if you don't define the term find the truth, you
can be tripped into compromise. And when it comes to
the term prosperity, what's the truth that God says Abundance
is what God wants in every area of your life.
Speaker 3: That's what the scripture says.
Speaker 2: The twist is perversion of a godly principle to leave
you powerless, and the trick is to leave you compromised.
So anytime you hear the word prosperity or somebody saying
that's a prosperity church or a prosperity gospel, or a
prosperity something. You don't even investigate more. You don't say, God,
what is the truth? You're trying to show me? What
is the thing? There are people that have told me, Oh,
I can't go to your church because you're a prosperity church,
because we're big. You don't say that about Amazon. Nobody
says that about Walmurter Costco.
Speaker 3: They don't say I can't come to you because you're big, like.
Speaker 2: But the truth of the matter is because of the
term and how people's mindset has been preferred, I ain't
never once say you have never heard me say we're
a prosperity You never heard me say that's not a
claim on anything.
Speaker 3: What it is is when you live God's principles, though,
fruit starts happening.
Speaker 2: If fruit is around me, it's a byproduct.
Speaker 3: This is what we say.
Speaker 2: It's not the focus, it's the fruit. This is what
God promises.
Speaker 3: In our lives.
Speaker 2: You will be like a tree planted by the rivers
of living water. You will be producing fruit and every
seat when everybody's in recession, when everybody's fearful, when everything
God said fruit abundance.
Speaker 3: More than enough, more than enough, more.
Speaker 2: Than enough, And you want me to wither up, You
want me to deny the fruit that God promises us. Now,
if at the moment you see some crooked, manipulative, jacked
up we've given millions of dollars away. One thing nobody
has ever said is that the check we promised.
Speaker 3: Them did not clear.
Speaker 2: You can say, you can say a lot of things,
and you can assume a lot of things.
Speaker 3: But one YouTube.
Speaker 2: Video that has never been created, it's that they promised
me an amount from the stage, did the check and
put it on the thing, and we weren't able to
cash it. Do you know we couldn't bless people if
we didn't prosper Oh God, if I was still in
a poverty mindset, we would be building buildings and shrines
to us. We've given away over thirty eight million dollars. Why,
because we live a life of abundance.
Speaker 3: It's not just for us, it's for the whole kingdom.
It's not just for me, it's from my neighborhood. It's
not just for my it's for the generation.
Speaker 2: And if prosperity is a promise of God, where has
it been perverted in you.
Speaker 3: If it's just a semantic thing. Don't use the word prosperity,
use abundance.
Speaker 2: That's why I titled the series six Figures how to
Live a Life of abundance, but it could very well
be titled six Figures how to live a life of prosperity,
because it's.
Speaker 3: What God desired.
Speaker 2: I came that you might have life, and a life
that prospers, or a life that is abundant.
Speaker 3: You have permission to prosper.
Speaker 2: Out of one hundred people, I pray at sixty two
of y'all get this. This is gonna break the mindset
that has kept you low. I need to shrink back.
I need to not show nobody.
Speaker 3: I need to not.
Speaker 2: God says, let me check your heart, let me get
your motives right. Because there's one thing he won't compete
with money.
Speaker 3: He says. You can't serve both God and money.
Speaker 2: He says, so I'm not competing with that. And think
about it. God compares himself to nobody else in the
entire Bible except the idea of money, because he knows
it has the potential to take his place in our hearts.
Speaker 3: So next week we gotta deal with that.
Speaker 2: But that doesn't mean you throw away the whole principle,
and you don't throw away the whole promise.
Speaker 3: Today you have permission to prosper envision your home being
a place of peace, with.
Speaker 2: More than enough room to bring people in and host
them a long table.
Speaker 3: That you can feed, and you don't got to ask
everybody to chip in ten dollars to pay for the meal. Well, no,
they're there. You still got a poverty mindset. I'm not
saying you don't do that why you have.
Speaker 2: To, But what if you could bring people to your
home and it just be freely given to them, so
that you could do as the Bible says in Acts
two forty two, they met together and ate together, and
shared together, and they gave one to each other whatever
the other person needed. What if somebody came to you
and said I need a car, and all you had
to do is like what kind?
Speaker 3: They don't want to live, They don't want to live
in a pundit light. And right now, some of you
greed just came up in you.
Speaker 2: Because what just what's happened when I've talked about that
level of abundance, you started thinking about yourself. Well before
I get them another car. Let me figure out what
my car is doing. Because if I'll get in my
car and then I'll.
Speaker 3: Go get a new car. What just triggered? What just
came up? That's what we have to address.
Speaker 2: What if God told you to stay in the apartment
and help pay somebody's mortgage for a year.
Speaker 3: Oh y'all don't want to live an ass two forty
two church. They gave whatever somebody needed.
Speaker 2: Pessor Mike, why are you talking about this because I
live it. I can't prove it to you. I won't
that would be futile. But there are people around me
that know. I went from thinking about myself in every situation,
because that's what sin is, it's selfish. I used to
be so poor in my mindset, like I used to like,
you know, you go to something and like you make
a to gold plate before you eat the plate that
you y'all know what I'm talking about, Like, oh, there's
plenty here, so let me take it to the car
then come in with a fresh face. Poverty because I
was thinking, oh, this is this is free, somebody provided this.
Speaker 3: How do I take advantage of it? How do I
get more from myself?
Speaker 2: How do I make sure I have food tonight and
tomorrow and the next day.
Speaker 3: I used to.
Speaker 2: I used to wear stuff and place the tag gently
and then take it back. Oh oh, I didn't hear
some of y'all look convicted.
Speaker 3: I just looked at somebody. Their eyes looked at me.
Speaker 2: Big, use the stuff for the party, and then take
it back. Everything that you can that's stealing, know it ain't,
or they can resell it. It's got your germs on it.
And the reason I'm saying that is some people can't
divorce a lifestyle that that is somehow good stewardship instead
of stealing, and that God could bless you enough to
where you could just buy it and use it and
then give it away to somebody.
Speaker 3: You ain't even thought about that. You ain't even thought like.
Speaker 2: Oh, you just take it back, like yeah, take it
back if you don't use it, take it back if
it don't fit. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that.
But if you fully put your butt in it, wear it,
passed gas in it, use the rest of you. No,
I'm serious, and then.
Speaker 3: You and then you take it back.
Speaker 2: You're nasty and you have a poverty mindset, and God's
desires for you to go into the store and see
somebody looking at it and be like, let me get
that for you. Drea, I'm talking about living an abundant life.
I don't need this anymore. Well, it's exclusive. This is
tight on my feet. Some of y'all are in closed
right now that are hurting you. They're digging into your sides,
digging into your pinkies, digging into your head.
Speaker 3: But because it's cool, because it makes you feel you
are in pain, you stop listening in thirty minutes. And
the truthful matter, it didn't fit when you bought it,
But the truth.
Speaker 2: Is that there's something in your mind that says you
can't get another one. And so instead of being a
blessing to somebody, you could really be a blessing and
add no sorrow to.
Speaker 3: You. Keep it, you hold it, you hoard it.
Speaker 2: I just believe, by crazy faith, there are some people
under the sound of my voice that this is about
to unlock something in you.
Speaker 3: That you have permission to prosper.
Speaker 2: The abundant life is the fruit of focusing on Jesus
and obeying what he says.
Speaker 3: I just want to clear this up. Two minutes and
we're out. Of here.
Speaker 2: I want to take this good word prosperity that has
gone bad in this culture, and I want to just
clarify some.
Speaker 3: Statements just for those who will.
Speaker 2: Watch this and clip it up and try to make
something I didn't say be said. Let me just say it,
and I'm gonna put on the screen for all of
those that can't hear the words that I'm saying.
Speaker 3: And you need proof in letters. Here we go. It's
having money prove you are blessed by God?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Can having money be used to be a blessing? Yes?
Does faith always lead to financial blessing? No?
Speaker 2: Do you need faith to live financially free, fulfilled and
be a blessing? Yes? Does God promise you riches if
you follow him? No, not one disciple got that promise.
But does God promise to meet all of your needs?
Speaker 3: Yes? If you give, are you guaranteed multiplied personal wealth?
Speaker 2: No? Does God say that being generous has a direct
impact on our lives? Yes?
Speaker 3: Should you spend life focused on material things?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Don't store upon this earth.
Speaker 2: Resources and treasure that's gonna rust, he said, send it
to the next life. Put your heart into things that matter.
But are material things a tool? To bless others and
glorify God.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 2: Does God guarantee perfect health and wealth?
Speaker 3: No? But does God care about your health and wealth? Yes?
Speaker 2: Does the Bible teach the prosperity gospel? No, he doesn't
preach the prosperity gospel in the definition that culture believes.
But is the story of the gospel God dying so
that you can prosper in this life and the next. Yes,
you have permission to prosper, standing all over this building.
If God doesn't give Jesus, and Jesus doesn't give his life,
we don't get to prosper.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say it one more time.
Speaker 2: The whole gospel is that we was gonna be jacked up.
So God gave Jesus. Jesus gave his life so that
then we could give our life back to him. The
whole story of the gospel, the Good News, is about giving.
God gave, Jesus gave, we give. Did y'all just see
it that quit God gave Jesus. Jesus gave his life
so that we can give our life back to him.
So if we don't want to talk about giving and
generosity and prospering, how does our soul prosper.
Speaker 3: If we don't give our life to Jesus.
Speaker 2: Today, you don't just have permission to prosper in financial
things or material things.
Speaker 3: That's low level. I want your soul to prosper today.
Speaker 2: If you don't know Jesus, I want to introduce you
to the greatest gift that has ever been given. You
talking about giving money, try giving your only. That's what
God did for a chance at a relationship with me
and you and some of us are still holding onto
our lives because we want to do it our way,
and we want it to be on our terms, and
we want to make the own rules we're.
Speaker 3: Figuring out that don't work anyway.
Speaker 2: I need a church to begin to pray because there
are people right now that this message wasn't even about
anything material for you. It was for the one thing
that God has been after your whole life, your soul.
And today God wants your soul to prosper. Everything else
will come, everything else will come. But he's saying, my
father gave, and I gave my life.
Speaker 3: Would you give yours?
Speaker 2: Would you allow me to be the lord of your
life so that you could prosper in all things in
your marriage and your relationship and your ideas and your thoughts.
I want to give you these six figures, but if
you don't give me your heart first, you're not gonna
believe the things that I'm promising, because they're good and
they're scandalous, the gospel scandalous. How in the world do
I mess up and get the best reward? How in
the world can I still have a habit? And God
looks beyond my faults and says, Yeah, I'm not gonna
judge you on the habit.
Speaker 3: If you give me your heart, I'll help you change
your habit.
Speaker 2: Who racks up a bill and then the person who
owns the restaurant comes and say, I'll pay for it.
That's the God we serve. What a mighty God we serve.
What a grace fell God. What a prosperous God. What
a God that abounds in love? Or an abundant God.
He wants you to live an abundant life. But it
starts with an action of surrender. If you're under the
sound of my voice in this building, watching online, watching
in a prison cell, and you've been far from God,
or you've never given your life to him before, today
is the day of salvation. This is the step you're
about to make into an abundant life.
Speaker 3: Your soul is about to prosper.
Speaker 2: And I know their habits and cultural ideas and things
that you've been taught. Let God renew you, refresh you,
give you a brand new heart. Today is a day
that you've been praying for and you didn't know it
was gonna come today. But do not think that this
is an accident. Your whole life has been leading up
to this moment, and today all you have to.
Speaker 3: Do is receive the free gift.
Speaker 2: Of grace that God has given you for this abundant life.
Speaker 3: John ten Ten says it's the whole reason.
Speaker 2: He came that you could have life and life abundantly.
On the count of three, if you want to make
Jesus Christ your personal Lord and Savior and you want
to start walking into this abundant life, I just want
you to slip your hand in the air or put
a hand on the chat, because this is saying I
identify pastor I want to be added in that prayer church.
I need you to pray because somebody's life is in
the balance right now, and I believe they're about to
make the right decision. One you're making the greatest decision
you could ever make.
Speaker 3: Two you.
Speaker 2: But more than that, your name is gonna be written
in the Lamb's Book of life, and your eternity is
gonna be secure if you want to give your life
to Jesus and walk in this abundant life. Three, will
you shoot your hand up all over this place. I
see you, my brother. I see you, my brother, I
see you, my sister. I see you, my brother. I
see you. More than that, God sees you. Can we
give God praise right there? Glory to God who I
feel the presence of God. Hey, listen that Transformation Church.
Everybody's a family. We all been there. I've been there.
God is throwing a party in heaven over one person
that gives their life to Christ. I mean, it's a
turn up going on, y'all.
Speaker 3: Think to whom the son says free.
Speaker 2: I want to end on a praise party. I know
people need prayer, but I need to end on the
praise party because we're talking about being redeemed, redeeming the
word prosperity. We're redeeming life back to people who have
been dead.
Speaker 3: Today is the day.
Speaker 2: Something's about to change in you. And that Transformation Church,
World family. So everybody lift your hands for the benefit
of those who are coming to Christ. Say God, thank
you for sending Jesus just for me. Today, I give
you my life, and I repent from all sin, and
I turn to you. I believe you lived, you die,
and you rose again so that I could live an
abundant life. Change me, Renew me, Transform me. I'm yours
forever in Jesus' names.
Speaker 3: Amen. Can we celebrate all?
Speaker 2: Come on, TC, let's celebrate all the new family.
Speaker 3: Welcome to the kingdom. You have permitson to prosper