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