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. Did today's message.
Speaker 2: Today?
Speaker 3: I have an assignment to help you understand. Really, my
favorite part about generosity giving sewing last week was the
one that everybody takes a big gop on when I
start talking about the tide, and I think last week
everybody got it. It was like, Yeah, God's gonna give
me a test. I'm gonna pass the test because I'm
prepared for the test. I already know every time I
get increased ten percent, it belongs to God.
Speaker 2: So I'm not gonna hoard what is mine.
Speaker 3: I had somebody I really love, just Is in her
sophomore year at college, came up to me after church
out the side of the car and he was like,
pass a by.
Speaker 2: I was like what. She was like, I tied for the.
Speaker 3: First time, and I mean her family was around, everybody
was hooping and hollering, and I just went up to
her and I was like, I am so proud of you,
and I just started just because at that age the
principle that got into her heart at this level is
gonna unleash this next level that I'm about to talk
about today.
Speaker 2: See look at your neighbor and say, there's levels to this.
Speaker 3: And a lot of us spend our time fighting with
the basement of blessing. Oh gosh, should I tie? Should
I give? Should I do this?
Speaker 2: The church just want my money? Dah da dah. You
are on the basement floor.
Speaker 3: Of what God wants to do in the area of
blessing your life. Today. I want to show you the
future as you surrender to God and give him what
you watch. This may not understand fully, but you will
get an understanding.
Speaker 2: As you walk in it.
Speaker 3: The whole journey of trusting God is a faith walk,
and most people want a planned to walk.
Speaker 2: There's nowhere in the Bible.
Speaker 3: That you find God saying do all of these steps
and then I'll I'll show you everything, and then it
will be fine because you know the outcome. He told
Abraham go to the land. I'm gonna show you. Hold on, wait,
I'm gonna make you to father many nations. I ain't
got no kids, Hey, go there, leave these people. It's
always like somebody's gotta take a step of faith. And
so today I want to give you when it comes
to your finance's generosity, giving being abundant. I want to
give you what I'm calling the best way to go
about walking into this level of life. And I'm gonna
start with scripture two Corinthians, chapter nine, verse six. TEWO Corinthians,
Chapter nine, verse six. It says, remember this, what are
we supposed to do?
Speaker 2: Come on, help me preach. We're supposed to remember this.
Speaker 3: Whoever sows or gives sparingly or a little, will also
reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will read generously.
Speaker 2: Each of you should give. Each of you should.
Speaker 3: Give what you have decided in your heart to give,
not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver,
and God is able to bless you abundantly, so that
in all things, at all times, having all that you need,
you will abound in every good work.
Speaker 2: Somebody say, amen.
Speaker 3: Now, most people who've been in church your whole life
have never heard that scripture.
Speaker 2: Outside of offering time.
Speaker 3: Nobody's actually gonna preach.
Speaker 2: On this scripture.
Speaker 3: So I am today so that you can get an
understanding so that you will never be played by not
knowing what the Word of God is talking about. So
we're gonna jump right in verse chapter six, Verse one.
Remember whoever so sparingly will reap sparingly? Could you underline
circle in your Bible the word whoever? Because I just
need to know. I need to ask you a question.
I need you to pick up the context clues. Who's
the Bible talking to in this scripture?
Speaker 2: Whoever?
Speaker 3: He literally says, whoever. How many people in this room
qualify as a whoever? If I said, whoever gets to
this stage first gets a thousand dollars, but no, I
did sit down.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying is.
Speaker 3: At the moment I said whoever, that would literally be
based on your ability to believe.
Speaker 2: If I said all men, that would segregate.
Speaker 3: Or if I said all short people depending on the height,
that would segregate other people. If I said, but the
Lord really wants everybody to get that, the principle he's
about to share is for.
Speaker 2: Whoever.
Speaker 3: So this is the point I want you to put down.
Whoever can sow whatever? Today I have to focus on
the thing that distracts many believers from giving because a
lot of people don't give because you said, there are
people who don't serve God and go against God, and
people who do debauchery and they live on the world,
And why are they so blessed because they picked up
the principle there are Whoever, the reason I'm telling you
this is because this principle.
Speaker 2: Even if you are not connected to God.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, the reason I have to tell you
this is because people have used the Bible to fear
you into serving God. And today I want to extract
all fear out of giving. God literally says about this
one principle on giving. I don't care who you are,
and I don't care what you do. If you put
this principle into play, it'll work in your life. And
the crazy thing is, people who don't believe in God
work a principle made for his children, and we still
appear fighting about the semantics of things, and we're not
walking in the abundant life that he put out.
Speaker 2: Here for you.
Speaker 3: But he said, whoever believed this, whoever walks in this,
whoever gets this, they get the promise. Look at your
neighborh and say you're a Whoever whoever gets this principle
gets the promise. So I want you to get this please.
Whoever includes Joe haters, whoever includes people who hurt you,
Whoever gets this principle includes the people that live like hell.
It does not matter somebody shot at me.
Speaker 2: Whoever, so why not you?
Speaker 3: If whoever can work this principle, why not you? So
the first thing God's telling us is, whoever sows like
this is gonna reap like this? What is the way
that they sold? If they sow a little, they're getting
a little. Bad newsflash, it works even if you do
it at the smallest level. Whoever so sparingly still gets
back sparingly, but they still.
Speaker 2: Got something back.
Speaker 3: And whoever sows generously or largely, they get back at
the same level. What I'm trying to tell you is
if sowing works, if seed works, why don't you do it?
And I can't be the one to qualify if you
do or not. But what I'm saying is a farmer
never has to prove he sold seed. A farmer never
has to convince you. All he has to do is
show you the harvest. There's so many believers like I
promise I sold it to you. I promise, I'll promise
I sold good things. I promise, oh God it And
it's like, where is your harvest? Where is the trees?
Where is the fruit? Where is where is it? And
the truth of the matter is many people have not
fully believed in the word of God and the Prince.
And so what I wanted to tell you is I
don't want God to make a principle for his kids
that his kids don't work. And then people who don't
even know our father work the principle and they're living
in the blessing.
Speaker 2: That we should have.
Speaker 3: Because whoever works this principle gets the promise of the principle. Okay,
So then it goes to verse seven. It says each
of you should could you just put.
Speaker 2: It on the screen?
Speaker 3: It said, each of you should give. Let's stop right there,
write this point down. Giving is a duh to God?
Speaker 2: Did y'all hear what I just said? Given is a duh?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Y'all got it? Yours?
Speaker 3: Like, what are you telling? Given is a duh? He's
watched this. He's assuming that you already know as a believer,
this is what we do. So he's telling you each
of you should give, oh what you've already decided to give?
Because he's not trying to convince you to do what
the normal practice is of people who do what we do.
Speaker 2: That would be like a basketball player being like, do
we dribble.
Speaker 3: Duh?
Speaker 2: Do we shoot the ball?
Speaker 3: Duh?
Speaker 2: Do we play in pants?
Speaker 3: Are shorts? Put your shorts on and come. The only
people would who would ask those type of questions are
people who were unfamiliar with the pattern of whatever we're
talking about. There are too many people that when God
tells us that we're supposed to give, we act shocked.
Speaker 2: What me, God, you.
Speaker 3: Know what I'm dealing with.
Speaker 2: He's like, hold on, wait, wait.
Speaker 3: Wait wait.
Speaker 2: If you're a believer, you should already get it.
Speaker 3: In your mind.
Speaker 2: Give.
Speaker 3: I'm not just talking about money, time, treasure, connections, energy, effort, encouragement.
What is your giving record this past week. I'm not
talking about to a church, a nonprofit or organization. I'm
just talking about your giving. What's your giving record this week.
The reason why I'm saying this is because the natural
watch this, the natural state of a believer should be
one of generosity. Me and my friend was talking before
service and the comment came out this, I need people
to stop saying they serve God, and they love God
and they'll do anything for God, and they never give.
You can You can't, You can't have. You have to
for God's love the world that he It's one of
his natural characteristics. And people, I'll do anything for God
except what He did for all of us. The reason
I'm saying this is it sounds elementary. Watch this, but
it's affecting people's eternity because people are here trying to
figure out why would God ask me to do this?
And I'm trying to tell you. When God tells you
to give, he tells you to give a certain way. Paw,
somebody break it down to me just a little more.
He said, verse seven, each of you should give. Watch
this what you have decided in your heart to give,
not reluctantly or under compulsion.
Speaker 2: For God loves what type of giver? A cheerful giver.
Speaker 3: This is why giving is supposed to be a duh.
Because in Matthew you can go read it chapter six.
I think it starts in verse two, but you gotta
read the whole thing.
Speaker 2: It says.
Speaker 3: Jesus is talking. He says, when you give, when you pray,
when you fast, these are three things. If the giving's
taking you off too much. I need to let you know.
God expects every one of his children to at some
point fast, pray, and give.
Speaker 2: Not if you give, if you pray, or if you
fast when you do.
Speaker 3: Okay, self, evaluate when's the last time you fasted, you prayed,
and you gave. There are not many things that God
is saying. This is a prerequisite for you walking in
the way that I have called you to walk.
Speaker 2: And so I need you to understand.
Speaker 3: Church, we have to get it into our minds that
my disposition is generosity. That's who I am.
Speaker 2: I'm generous.
Speaker 3: I don't have a lot to give right now, but
I'm what generous. I can give what I got. All
I have is all I need. I'm out here about
to bless somebody sucks off, and by sucks I mean
this five dollars, about to really turn somebody's day upside down. No,
I'm because generosity is not about an amount. Generosity is
about a heart posture. It's about hold on, what can
I do?
Speaker 2: How can I do it? Where am I at?
Speaker 3: What do I got in my closet? How many of
these pins do I have? How many of these sandals
do I have?
Speaker 2: How much time could I give to somebody That.
Speaker 3: Lady's yard that you've been complaining about needs to be
mowed for six weeks? Go mow it, somebody. I'm about
to call the people on him, you know, to call
the people on a person you've never even talked to yet.
The Bible tells us we're supposed to love our neighbor.
Take your dusty lawnmower.
Speaker 2: Over to that.
Speaker 3: Don't ask them.
Speaker 2: There's never been in the history.
Speaker 3: Ever that somebody that you just start more on their
line and they gonna cuss you out, never in the history.
Speaker 2: Well, is there a line?
Speaker 3: I don't want a trustpath? They will let you trust
paths to mow they lawn. Yeah, but watch it. But
if your heart is not set on giving, you won't
give your time to that, you won't give your sweat
to that, you won't give And God saying I need
you to be like me and watch this. I need
you to decide before it's time to give.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Oh, this is where people get in trouble. Right here,
write this down. You can't be manipulated when your mind's
already made up. Me and my wife decided a long
time ago. I showed you y'all that gray book that
I talked about our finances being able to change as
we honored God and put out our budget and wrote
everything down and put our tithe there and all this
other stuff. God has continued to increase us in different ways.
But one of the things that me and my wife
had to learn is like our disposition on giving, because
we have now become so generous in our giving that
we got to check with each other because sometimes it
gets reckless.
Speaker 2: And when I say reckless, I.
Speaker 3: Mean it's reckless, Like it's like at the moment, she'll
look at somebody or see something or feel something in
her spirit and she was like, I think we're supposed
to do this for such and such.
Speaker 2: And I was like, whoo, that's crazy.
Speaker 3: Because God told me we're supposed to do this for
such and such. And she was like, whoa did he
tell us at the same time, we're supposed to do this.
And why I'm saying this is we've already decided, talked about,
prayed through, started to wade through, looked at our budget
before it's time. The reason why people get manipulated and
feel like people are trying to get something from them
is because they're unders and a double minded man is
unstable in all of his ways. But you can't be
decided on something you've never thought about, and most people
don't think about giving. So when it comes to your thing,
God's like, Hey, one of the things I need you
to pray for is what you're supposed to give, and
I need you to pray it before you're supposed to give,
because when you know what God said before, you're not swayed.
My question to you today, I got a lot of questions.
When's the last time you ask God? What am I
supposed to give.
Speaker 2: Before?
Speaker 3: Before offering before somebody has a need before. There are
things that I have planned for, things that I currently have,
like I currently have them.
Speaker 2: Moh, you already noticed.
Speaker 3: I've told the people close to me, and it's like, yeah,
when I'm done with this, I'm giving this a certain
soul done.
Speaker 2: I've already planned it in.
Speaker 3: I'm still using it right now and I'm taking good
care of it right now. But when I'm done with this,
I've already watched this scent. My seed, my seed is
like a missile. My seed has to be directed. My
seed is something that I place in places for a
future so even though I'm here right now, I'm sending
my seed somewhere. My question is, when's the last time
you prayed? God? Where am I supposed to send this seed?
When I'm done with these shoes? When am I supposed
to Well? Who's supposed to wear these? When I'm doing
with this house?
Speaker 2: Who I'm I supposed to give it to.
Speaker 3: God? When I'm done driving this car? Who am I
supposed to sol this into God? God?
Speaker 2: What am I supposed to do with what You've placed
in my hand?
Speaker 3: And listen to me.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to give you the secrets.
Speaker 3: If you don't pray about it before, you have two
responses to clinch up in fear or to give frivolously.
And I have to say this because there are people
who have given what they needed to keep because.
Speaker 2: They were poor Stuarts.
Speaker 3: I gotta say this because there's some churches you go
to and be like, give the light, deal the thing,
get the thing, and get the thing, and now that
person is destituo on the street, nowhere to go. And
they felt like they were doing it in faith, but
what they were doing it was an out of order.
There was no priority to what was happening.
Speaker 2: Now. This is where you got to check your priorities.
Speaker 3: Because some of the things that we're calling essential are
actually luxuries. So if God is calling you and asking
you to do something, you have to evaluate. God, what
are you asking me to do? What are you asking
me to cut off? What are you asking me to
give up for a season so that I can honor you.
The reason I'm saying this is because God will require
what you have, but he will never require what you don't.
Oh God. And there are people that think maybe this
is what God wants from me is just to be
broken white around the mouth and begging no. But He
does want you to figure out your budget, and he
does want you to know how much debt you have,
and he does want you to stop doing dashing when
you could get up.
Speaker 2: And go pick up that top. Gobail. Oh, come on, y'all.
Speaker 3: Okay, I see the resistance, gos I Mike, Why are
you saying this?
Speaker 2: Because if you never think about what.
Speaker 3: You're gonna give watch, it's hard to see it come
out in your hand if it hasn't started being thought
about in your head. Cause the progression is it goes
to my head. Maybe I can't give this, then it
drops to my heart. God, is this what you're asking
me to give? Then it comes out in my hand.
Here it is God. Most people want to start with
their hand. Well I got it, uh huh. And your
head is like, why did we do that?
Speaker 2: We don't have.
Speaker 3: Enough money to do that. Where in the world is
that coming from? And God says, He's not a god
that just wants you to do think about it. Think
about it and I'll show you and it'll drop to
your heart and then you will move by faith and
it'll come out in your hand. So this is where
I need everybody to understand. This scripture is giving us
the playbook. Don't give under manipulation. Do not give if
you feel like your arm is being twisted. Do you
You ain't never heard no pass to say this I'm
trying to do. Not give anything if you feel like
somebody's trying to lean on you emotionally, even your family. Oh,
you thought I was talking about the church, because the
problem is most of you are in financial ruin because
you're helping somebody that won't help themselves. Okay, He's giving
you principles that are supposed to help your whole life,
not just everybody want to use it when it comes
to the church, but you don't use it concerning babe.
You paying for this young man's stuff, or you paying
for this young lady's stuff.
Speaker 2: You flying somebody out, You.
Speaker 3: Paying for this thirst trap on Instagram.
Speaker 2: You paying for all of these different things, and you
don't ever have no pressure.
Speaker 3: Or no problem giving to them. You look so strong,
big daddy. What you mean ain't worked out in ten years?
What you mean, Oh, this whole thing stop, I'm trying.
I'm trying to teach you. Don't you give to that
with manipulation? If you know somebody's praying on your weakness
right now, If you know that, oh I just have
a guard. Dad. Some of us are suckers for sad stories.
Speaker 2: Y'all know, y'all, y'all know who y'are.
Speaker 3: Y'all know that y'all always give to them little puppies
that come on like with the eyes of the age,
and all they put is them sick dogs on there,
and you're like nine nine, y'all know that's manipulation. They
know they don't put no healthy dogs on there. Autumn dollar,
every dog, every dog ain't been giving no water, get a.
Speaker 2: Dog some water. But they do that on purpose.
Speaker 3: Why Because if I can prey on their emotions for
a second, maybe I can get something out of God's
telling you, I don't care if it's at church, if
it's at your house, if it's at the family reunion,
if your cousin is in jail, do not give if
there's a manipulation involved. I'm trying to give you a
principle that will work.
Speaker 2: Whether you believe or not. Okay, what does it say
to give?
Speaker 3: You should already decided you got a brother, cousin or
son in jail. You should decide this how much money
I'm gonna give them till they get out before they
start asking, oh God, I'm trying to save your family.
You should decide, I'm gonna put five hundred dollars, so
I can do it at fifty dollars the increment.
Speaker 2: I can do it at one dollar increment.
Speaker 3: I can do.
Speaker 2: But you should decide and don't.
Speaker 3: Tell them wisdom. I'm saying that decide howsin Mike, Why
are you going so hard on this? Because when you
give to the wrong thing out of the wrong motive,
you don't have what you need to give to the
right thing when God asks you. I'm trying to save
you from not being ready to sew when God.
Speaker 2: Tells you to Okay, all right, here we go.
Speaker 3: So so write this down. You shouldn't make up your
mind in the moment when it comes to giving. You
should never make up your mind in the moment at
the end of the year. Every year we give an offering.
We call it a crazy faith offering, and we give.
I'm telling you right now you should start praying in May, God,
what is the gift that me and my family are
supposed to give in December? So you don't have to think, oh, shoot,
this December's Christmas time.
Speaker 2: It's visit.
Speaker 3: No no, no, no, no, no, no, no no. I'm telling
you in May. I'm gonna tell you again in October.
I'm gonna tell you because I don't want anybody in
this church to ever feel that there is an ounce
of pressure when it comes to give. Why, Because God
wants us all to give cheerfully. This is the attitude.
Write this down. The attitude is greater than the amount.
The attitude of giving is more valuable to God than
the amount of your giving. And most people usually give
with an attitude okay here God finally, and God was like,
I don't want that. I would rather you give and
be excited, skipping cheerful about it, knowing my character as
a good father, than to feel like I'm taking something
from you. And today I need you to understand there
was a woman in the Bible that gave two mites,
and Jesus is there. All the big ballers is out dropping,
they making it rain and throwing stacks, and God calls
the disciples over and you say, you see that woman.
Speaker 2: Right there, she just gave two mites.
Speaker 3: And they're like, so, He's like, but the attitude in
what she's given, this is sacrificial. This ain't about amounts,
he said. Anywhere the Gospel has talked about this woman
is going to be remembered.
Speaker 2: Why it was.
Speaker 3: Because of her attitude of getting giving, not the amount
of giving.
Speaker 2: Today, what I'm trying to do is.
Speaker 3: Teach you that God wants your attitude to be one
that is cheerful. But we have to get into the
right idea and thought process is about giving. I'm just
a giver.
Speaker 2: This is what I do.
Speaker 3: It's how I show up, it's how I wake up,
it's how I go to sleep every day, and y'all saying,
cousdent Mike, that's so easy for you to say. I
got proof when I was younger and didn't have nothing.
I've always been I decided, watch it, I decided to
be a giver. Cousin, Mike, how do you decide? Decide?
Speaker 2: Y'all try to make stuff so spiritual.
Speaker 3: But the truth of the matter is, today you could decide,
I'm gonna be the most generous person I know.
Speaker 2: Think about it.
Speaker 3: Who's the most generous person?
Speaker 2: You know? Think about it in your head?
Speaker 3: Somebody said me, would anybody else say that? The question is,
would anybody else say you're the most generous person? If
you have multiple people bragging on you that they're like
that when you're not in the room, they're so generous
they Wow, you're starting to get into the territory. Watch this.
That speaks Jesus no matter what room you're in. Okay, okay,
all right, some of y'all want to go in there.
Speaker 2: Bless that head.
Speaker 3: App I'll called skin tailor bed skoshki Taya. And you're selfish,
and every time you come into the room, you suck
all the energy.
Speaker 2: You give nothing.
Speaker 3: Y'all know them people that I'm talking about. What would
happen if everywhere you go you've been filled up so much.
Speaker 2: That you gotta give it out.
Speaker 3: That there's so much abundance on the inside of you
that some of it has got to fall off of me,
because I don't even need all of this. Okay. The
last part of this verse EIGHTA says, and God is
able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things,
I love this language, at all times, having all that
you need, you will abound or be abundant in every
good work.
Speaker 2: That's the promise of a sewer.
Speaker 3: If you sow all things, all times, all needs men,
there's not a better deal on the market when you
look at the word of God. He says, this is
how I want my children to live. This is the
point that I want you to get from right here.
The reason why it's sowing interrupts every atmosphere. Swing interrupts
every atmosphere.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 3: If I was a farmer and I showed you barren Land,
barren Land, if you got a picture of that, just
throw it up on the screen. If I showed you
barren Land right now, most people would look at this
and see nothing but a farmer with faith would a
bag of seed sees nothing but space and opportunity. Why?
Because all I need is some land if I have seed.
All I need is soil if I have seed. Some
of you are looking at a situation that looks like
this right now, and God's saying what we gonna do?
And you let God send the rain even if I
send it. You ain't got no seed in the ground. Okay,
let me come over here. The seed will only be
activated when it's in the ground.
Speaker 2: That's when he has to sit in the rain.
Speaker 3: But some God do a miracle.
Speaker 2: You ain't sawing nothing. Now.
Speaker 3: I wasn't great at math, but anything times zero seven
hundred and sixty five million, six hundred and seventy thousand
times zero is zero. I got it a on that test.
When we did zero times stable killed it.
Speaker 2: Killed it.
Speaker 3: That's the multiplication many of us are doing right now.
We're saying, God, multiply it. And he said, you have
not sown any seed. But a farmer with faith, a
person like you were crazy faith, all you got to
do is have some seed some time and guess what
there will be put up? What a harvest looks like
in this same place. I need you to see what
your life is about to look like. Somebody by faith
needs to see this. You've been sowing seeds for such
a long time.
Speaker 2: You've made up your mind.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna keep giving even if I.
Speaker 2: Don't see anything.
Speaker 3: The seasons have not fully changed yet. But this is
about to be my lifestyle. Go back to the other one.
But at one point that looked like this. It takes
faith to show seed when it looks like this. Genesis
eight and twenty two says, as long as the earth remains,
there will be seed.
Speaker 2: Time, and then what harvest? So to seed?
Speaker 3: Just to side on a soap pastor, Michael, you making
me a promise. I'm not making you a promise. God's
making you a promise. I ain't got nothing. I'm trying
to do this myself. I don't got nothing for you
except to tell you what the word says. And then
me and Natalie and our four kids gonna try to
live this out.
Speaker 2: And we have been.
Speaker 3: Living it out, and I'm telling you it works. I
have empirical data that my life used to look dry
like this.
Speaker 2: I need everybody to help me.
Speaker 3: I need to help you understand it didn't happen. Sometimes
I hate being a pastor because people think the things
work in my life because of my position. There are
people that think.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess you got it because.
Speaker 3: You're the pastor. No, you don't understand. I don't have
a special access point to obeying God that gets me
ahead of the line. I gotta actually do this stuff,
and it's more pressure because if I'm telling you it
work and it ain't working on my life, it's really
a lie.
Speaker 2: I can't preach nothing that ain't real.
Speaker 3: So I learned this from myself, and today I just
see so many people that are trying to figure out
does God really honor his word? And I'm trying to
tell you he does. If your life looks like this. So,
if you've hit a plateau, so whatever area you're in,
you might have a lot. But if you hit a
plateau so and your situation changes, Okay, this is this
is this is how we're gonna end this. I need
to acknowledge something. It's hard to sew when you're in
the wrong mode. Okay, just everybody hear me. A lot
of us are in modes that make it hard for
us to do what God has told us to do.
Speaker 2: In my car.
Speaker 3: Recently, I found a different mode there. I was looking
at my car and it has this button that says
off road mode and it and it looked like it's
going up a hill. And I just hit it one
day and I was on the regular street and it
started driving differently.
Speaker 2: All the wheels started doing something.
Speaker 3: And then I saw there was a fast mode, and
then then I saw there was a cruise mode.
Speaker 2: And then I just start hitting all the modes.
Speaker 3: And what I realized is that the modes were a
one button touch of one button decision to change my
car into a totally different way of maneuvering the terrain.
And I said, could it be that a lot of
believers are just in the wrong mode when it comes
to giving? And today, I'm gonna give you three modes
that you may be in today that I need you
to potentially shift or change your mode in three sol modes, okay,
identify yourself. The first one is need mode. If you're
in need mode, welcome to human. You're born needing things.
Need mode is our default setting watch this and need
mode is defined watch this by survival. If everything in
your life you're trying to survive right now, you're always
in need mode. Think about it. It's hard to be
able to give when you're always in need mode.
Speaker 2: And that mindset thrives on fear.
Speaker 3: When you're in need mode. Maybe we're gonna run out
need mode. Who's gonna help me? If need mode? It
didn't work last time? So how are we going to
When you're thinking like this, you literally limit what God
can do through you. But if all you ever do
is need, watch this you become one that is a
consumer mindset. Everywhere you walk into you're trying to see
what can I get? What you gonna do for me?
How is this gonna benefit from me? And then it
starts to affect your relationships. Your relationship to become what
can you do for me? Your faith becomes how does
this benefit me? And right now I need everybody to
switch modes. If you're in a need mode, I need
you to switch modes because this mode ends up in
greed mode.
Speaker 2: I don't know where you're at.
Speaker 3: You may be in need mode. And if you're in
need mode, the international sign of need mode is.
Speaker 2: You give me sign. This also is the sign that children.
Speaker 3: Make all the time because when you come out when
you're in a place where you don't understand. You always
are looking up for somebody to give something more to you.
So when you come into rooms, give me more, I
need something. What I'm saying is it's okay. If you're there,
you don't have to stay there. A seed can interrupt
that cycle, and if you don't check this right here,
it turns into greed mode.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you what greed mode is. Greed mode is.
Speaker 3: And mode that thrives on scarcity. So a lot of
people think greedy is about rich people, because if I
say who's greedy, you would think of probably somebody that
got a lot of money. The truth of matters, you
can be greedy with barely a little bit because it's
all about me being in control with what I got,
and it thrives on scarcity. And I know there are
people in here that's like paws. I'm like, you don't
know my story. What I'm telling you is you can
change it. You can change your relationship with money. You
can change your relationship with finances, you can change your
relationship with stewardship. You can change your relationship with generosity.
By just switching modes, you don't have to live in
need mode. You don't have to live in greed mode.
What I want you to live in is seed mode.
One switch seed mode, PA's of Mike. What's seed mode? Oh?
Seed mode?
Speaker 2: It thrives on faith.
Speaker 3: It looks at what you have and says, what can
I do with this? Do you know you don't need
any more than you have right now? To live in
seed mode.
Speaker 2: Today?
Speaker 3: You could flip right now, sitting in this chair seed mode.
I'm going to give something away every day this week.
I dare you to try it. I dare you to
give one thing away every day this week.
Speaker 2: It doesn't even have to be an actual object.
Speaker 3: You could say, I'm giving thirty minutes to help somebody
do a task they are having trouble doing it every
day this week, and just at the thought of it
right now, some of y'all just got.
Speaker 2: Mad at me, my week, my day, pastor.
Speaker 3: Need mode, greed mode or what seed mode? Once you
get in seed mode, there's beautiful things that happen.
Speaker 2: The Bible says God.
Speaker 3: Gives seed to the soul. Hold on wait, So the
prerequisite for more seed is a decision to already sew.
So right now you could qualify for more seed by
just sitting in your chair and saying, God, I'm gonna sew.
And God's like.
Speaker 2: All right, send them seed.
Speaker 3: I saw that they've decided to sew.
Speaker 2: Do you know how powerful that is that right now?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna bring it to a really natural example. If
you decided I want olive garden in your heart right now,
and at the moment you decided, somebody came from the
back and handed you olive garden, you would be thinking
all kinds of thoughts, I want ice cream, and then
at the moment you thought somebody brought you ice cream,
I want abs, and then somebody brought from the back.
Think but think about the power of what.
Speaker 2: God is saying.
Speaker 3: All you would have to do is decide, I really
want to bless that family before they go back to school.
Before that family goes back to school, I really want
to be able to buy all their kids' supplies and
buy them kids backpacks and shoes. That's three months away. God,
I would really even if I can't do the whole thing, God,
I really like to be a part of blessing his
family before they go back to school. At the moment
you decided that in your heart, guess what starts happening.
Send the seed because they've decided to sew.
Speaker 2: Church.
Speaker 3: When you get this, it changes everything. It removes idols.
Thats why are you saying that? Because the only other
place that God compared himself to anything was when it
came to money. He said, I just need to let
y'all know something real quick. This is why I gotta
deal with this. You can't serve me and serve money
because he knew the human heart would be in tension
to believe God or believe money. Because some of y'all
have said either God needs to come through or I
just need some more money. You still need God to
come through if you got all the money in the world.
Speaker 2: Do y'all hear what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Passing Mike, You've been on this because I want you
to get it. Don't live in need mode, don't live
in greed mode, live in seed mode. And I'm just
gonna get this to all the real crazy people. There's
one more level that wasn't in the notes. It's beast mode.
Now I'm now don't tell nobody, but this is for
the people who to tithe. They know that's the basement,
and when they get in the offerings, like, yeah, I
live in seed mode. I give, but then there's another
level of giving. Because there's levels to this. It's called
sacrificial offerings.
Speaker 2: And I'm just telling you about it. You can read
through it all in the Bible.
Speaker 3: One of the greatest places that it's seen is with
Solomon in Ecclesiastes or No, No, no no. This was in
First Kings when God it was customary for there to
be one bull sacrifice to God. And at the moment
that it was time to sacrifice the bull, everybody else
did one. Solomon did a thousand. The requirement was one.
His offering was a thousand. This moved God so much
that he came to Solomon and the dream that night
is like, what you want, bro, I was really expecting
you to do one, two, five?
Speaker 2: What you want?
Speaker 3: One of the only places in the Bible where we
see God literally coming to somebody say tell me what
you want.
Speaker 2: Because I saw my heart.
Speaker 3: I saw a heart that could handle abundance.
Speaker 2: I saw a heart that was not.
Speaker 3: Just trying to give the basic I saw a heart
that looked like mine, what do you want? And then
watch how gangster Solomon is. He says, God, all I
need is wisdom.
Speaker 2: To govern your people.
Speaker 3: God was like, no, you didn't, No, you didn't just
ask for wisdom.
Speaker 2: No you didn't. He got excited again.
Speaker 3: Because he could have used that moment to be greedy.
He could have if God comes to you and says,
what do you want? Okay, I'm so glad you asked.
Speaker 2: Let's star you upset. Come on, y'all, let's be honest.
I am so glad you asked lists like.
Speaker 3: What was Solomon's request? What I need need to help them?
Give me wisdom to govern your people. It was an
act of generosity. I'm not gonna use this moment to
hoard something to me. I need to get what I
need so I can give them what they need. And
God was like, you know what, because I see my
reflection in you, I'm not begging you, I'm not taking
them from you really want this because you want to
be generous. He said, Now I'm gonna bless you with
the wisdom and I'm gonna give you all the resources.
There's a beast mode to sewing that has nothing to
do with what God requires. It has everything to do
with you trying to respond to God's goodness.
Speaker 2: And one day I'll do.
Speaker 3: A whole series on it, because it's gonna have to
be people who are ready for this level. But there
is a level that you get to where the harvest
overtakes the sewing, where you start telling other people, somebody,
come and get some of this, Dad. There's a level
that you can get to where you're saying, my boat's
sinking too many fish. If I keep getting this type
of load, I'm gonna drown with all of this.
Speaker 2: Some my competition, come get some of this.
Speaker 3: Some of y'all businesses is gonna be so blessed you're
gonna be able to call your competition, y'all, don't hear me.
Some of y'all are about to walk in abundance where
you're gonna be able to tell your neighbors, Hey, I
can't deal with all of I don't eat.
Speaker 2: I can't manage all of this.
Speaker 3: Oh God, I just decided I want to be accused
of abundance. If I'm guilty, that's something I want to
be guilty of giving. That's why I want to be
blasted for blessing people. You want to blast me for
something always blessing somebody. What if that was the disposition
of God's people that's what we were known for. Forget everybody,
that's what you was known for. Today I asked all
these spirits how I was supposed to end this message,
and something really awesome came and fell into my lap.
This right here is somebody's faith from prison. Many of
you know that we have a partnership with God behind bars,
and we have put a significant investment in providing inmates
all over the world who the Bible many times calls
the least of these, those who are forgotten about. We
want them to have a way to connect with God
and people on the outside. And so we've bought hundreds,
if not thousands of tablets through the generosity and giving
of people in this church, and it's going into prisons
all over the country. I was gonna call with the
people from God behind bars, and they were telling us
all the stats, and these beautiful people who made bad
mistakes and ended up in jail, some of them for life,
are still souls that God cares about. I thought I
was gonna get more amens than that. And these people
write in send us letters, tell us how the messages
transformed their life. And I got this. I'm gonna not
say the name, but a young man that was in
prison heard a message similar to this and decided to
start honoring God with a tithe and the offering off
of the money that was coming in from his family
for a commissary. Now, listen to me say this to you.
Listen to me say this to you. So impacted by
the revelation and how many years he just didn't know.
Speaker 2: His whole thing is, I just didn't know. Nobody told me.
And he saw the.
Speaker 3: Scriptures and went through. He was like, I'm gonna honor God.
Speaker 2: And now if you.
Speaker 3: Don't know what commissary is, this is where people literally
send you money and then you can get like twinkies
and Ramen noodles and all that stuff. It's their only
exciting thing that they can do. And some people it's
like this, what'd you say, bricks, ritz, crackers, Okay, bricks whatever.
Speaker 2: That was some prison talk.
Speaker 3: I don't know what he said, Uh, text me later,
But what I'm saying is people, people, people, this is
their enjoyment in prison. This is two dollars and fifty
cent here here here, hear what I'm saying. And this
person wrote the letter and basically said, I want to
live how God asked me to live and this is
my faith. Step in walking this out and put this
in an envelope and sent a letter to the church
with two dollars and fifty cents to this brother lives
in seed mode because it wasn't about an amount. This
was his faith. And today this is going on the
ground and for somebody else, you're gonna be able to
give two thousand dollars and twenty five hundred dollars and
it wouldn't even matter. But what if we all got
into seed mode and said, God, I'm gonna honor you
at the top that's yours already, but I'm gonna ask
you beforehand, what do you want me to give? How
often do you want me to give? What you want
me to do? God, open my eyes to see like
a farmer, to know that every seed that goes in
has to produce fruit. It interrupts every atmosphere. I have
gone into places where I know I was hated, and
I sold a seed and it changed the whole atmosphere.
In that room where you know your coworkers don't like
you bring coffee every Thursday, just bring it. I'm just saying,
maybe you could interrupt the things that are happening in
that atmosphere, if you thought more like God standing all
over this building. This morning, I was reminded of I
fly a lot, and when I fly, one of the
most one of the most troubling things about flying is
going through the security checkpoint. And I don't know if
you've ever flown there, but part of it is you
have to think about what.
Speaker 2: You have on.
Speaker 3: You gotta think about if your shoes got metal in it,
you gotta think about it, if you had a surgery
and your knee gotta screw in it. You gotta think
about all the other things. And to bypass all of that,
there's this thing called TSA pre check, And if you
get TSA pre check, what you do basically is you
send all your information ahead and they know where to
find you if anything is wrong. And the goal of
actually going through TSA is to be able to go
through it without getting stopped. My friend and I were
talking earlier, and he said, the goal in heaven is
to go through the TSA before you get to heaven
and not get stopped because you've already emptied everything out.
Think about it, think about it. The thing is going
to be deep in heaven for many of us. Deep
de deep, oh, you got so much still b beep
beep you. I'm like, I'm coming and it's still. He said,
that can't come in here. Don't store up for yourselves
on this earth. Some of y'all are trying to take stuff.
When you get to heaven, you can't take it through.
So the goal is to sow as much. The international
sign for those who are in need? Is this the
ones who are in greed? Is this the ones who
are in seed? Because when we get to heaven, he said,
what did you do with what I gave you? How
many families did you help? How many lives did you transform?
How many people did you send on missions trips? How
many churches did you build? How many neighbors did you help?
I want to be found guilty of giving. That means
that I might need to switch my mode. If you're
in this room, and you might need to switch your
mode from need mode or greed mode into seed mode
or even beast mode. I want you to lift your
hands all over this place, and all of us have
a place that we can grow in journey to Father
in the name of Jesus. You see us, you know us,
you made us. And today, God, I thank you that
there was some revelation shared that could help all of
us move into another level of generosity. Father, there is
no pressure, there is no offering, There is no moment
right now that we're asking for anything. God, I'm asking
that you would speak to us clearly and move us
out of a fear mindset or a scarcity mindset into abundance. God,
I thank you that we can start living by faith
when it comes to our finances right now, with those
bills on the table, with that student loan, lingering, with
all the things that you already know. Father, God, thank
you that we're moving into a mindset that switches. So
we will be just like you. We will be ones
who give over and over and over and over again.
Speaker 2: Give us like a farmer.
Speaker 3: Let us be able to see dry and barren land
and be able to see the future because of the
seed that we possess in our hand. And God, I
thank you that your children know your voice and a stranger,
they will not listen to make us abundant, not for
a show, not for people to be drawn to us,
but so people can be drawn to you. Father God,
Today we're asking you to do a work in our
hearts so that we can be made more like you
Jesus' name. Even in this same mode, I want you
to know that God never ask you for anything without
giving to you first. So if you're in this room
and you've never received Jesus, I want you to know
that He already gave his son so that you could
have everlasting life. If you want to know what it's
like to experience overwhelming generosity, all you have to do
is receive Jesus by faith. It's the thing that took
me from being a manipulator, addicted to pornography, a liar,
a manipulator. All of those things is who I was.
That was my natural state. And God said, come on,
give me your heart and I'll help you change your habits.
And today I want to give you the same invitation.
I don't care if you're watching. I don't care if
you was at the club last night. I don't care
what you're planning to do tomorrow. I don't care if
you have tons of secrets. Right now, God wants your
heart and I need the church to begin to pray
because somebody's life is.
Speaker 2: In the balance.
Speaker 3: Whether you're watching this on the pandor app or you're
watching this on a rebroadcast, or you're watching it six
years from now, and somebody just sent you this message.
Today is your day of salvation, and today I believe
that God wants to introduce you to his son Jesus.
If that's you and you want to make Jesus Christ
your personal Lord and savior, I'm telling you it's gonna
set you on a journey of progression that will change
your life forever. But it starts with one choice, and
the choice is Jesus. If you're saying, pastor, I want
to be added into that prayer on account of three,
I just want you to slip your hand in the air.
Whether you're in the room or you're watching online, I
just want you to say, pastor.
Speaker 2: I want to be a part of that prayer. I
want to make Jesus my Lord and savior. I see you.
Speaker 3: Since already one, you're making the greatest decision of your life.
Speaker 2: I see you, my brother.
Speaker 3: Two, your name is gonna be written in the Lamb's
Book of Life. Three, just shuit your hand up all
over this place. I see you. I see you, come
on TC. More than I see you, God sees you.
Glory to God. I see you, my brother. You can
put your hand down. We're not gonna make you confess. Hopefully,
one day you'll get with some community that you trust
and you can be able to share what God's doing
in your life. But today we're gonna make a confession together.
Because at TC we're a family. Nobody prays alone. So
I want everybody just to lift your hands and say, God,
thank you for giving Jesus just for me. Today. I
admit I'm a sinner and I need a savior, and
I turn to you. I repent and I ask you
to redeem my life. I believe you lived, you died,
and you rose again with all power just for me.
Here's my life. Change me, renew me, transform me. I'm
yours forever in Jesus' name. Amen. Oh can we celebrate
with all of those Oh, come on TC.
Speaker 2: That should be the loudest shout of the day. Holley
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