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
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Speaker 1: God will transform your life. Did today's message.
Speaker 2: Today?
Speaker 3: I have an assignment to help you understand. Really, my
Speaker 3: favorite part about generosity giving sewing last week was the
Speaker 3: one that everybody takes a big gop on when I
Speaker 3: start talking about the tide, and I think last week
Speaker 3: everybody got it. It was like, Yeah, God's gonna give
Speaker 3: me a test. I'm gonna pass the test because I'm
Speaker 3: prepared for the test. I already know every time I
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: sophomore year at college, came up to me after church
Speaker 3: out the side of the car and he was like,
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: was hooping and hollering, and I just went up to
Speaker 3: her and I was like, I am so proud of you,
Speaker 3: and I just started just because at that age the
Speaker 3: principle that got into her heart at this level is
Speaker 3: gonna unleash this next level that I'm about to talk
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: the basement of blessing. Oh gosh, should I tie? Should
Speaker 3: I give? Should I do this?
Speaker 2: The church just want my money? Dah da dah. You
Speaker 2: are on the basement floor.
Speaker 3: Of what God wants to do in the area of
Speaker 3: blessing your life. Today. I want to show you the
Speaker 3: future as you surrender to God and give him what
Speaker 3: you watch. This may not understand fully, but you will
Speaker 3: get an understanding.
Speaker 2: As you walk in it.
Speaker 3: The whole journey of trusting God is a faith walk,
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: and then I'll I'll show you everything, and then it
Speaker 3: will be fine because you know the outcome. He told
Speaker 3: Abraham go to the land. I'm gonna show you. Hold on, wait,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna make you to father many nations. I ain't
Speaker 3: got no kids, Hey, go there, leave these people. It's
Speaker 3: always like somebody's gotta take a step of faith. And
Speaker 3: so today I want to give you when it comes
Speaker 3: to your finance's generosity, giving being abundant. I want to
Speaker 3: give you what I'm calling the best way to go
Speaker 3: about walking into this level of life. And I'm gonna
Speaker 3: start with scripture two Corinthians, chapter nine, verse six. TEWO Corinthians,
Speaker 3: Chapter nine, verse six. It says, remember this, what are
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: 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,
Speaker 3: not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver,
Speaker 3: and God is able to bless you abundantly, so that
Speaker 3: in all things, at all times, having all that you need,
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: understanding so that you will never be played by not
Speaker 3: knowing what the Word of God is talking about. So
Speaker 3: we're gonna jump right in verse chapter six, Verse one.
Speaker 3: Remember whoever so sparingly will reap sparingly? Could you underline
Speaker 3: circle in your Bible the word whoever? Because I just
Speaker 3: need to know. I need to ask you a question.
Speaker 3: I need you to pick up the context clues. Who's
Speaker 3: the Bible talking to in this scripture?
Speaker 2: Whoever?
Speaker 3: He literally says, whoever. How many people in this room
Speaker 3: qualify as a whoever? If I said, whoever gets to
Speaker 3: this stage first gets a thousand dollars, but no, I
Speaker 3: did sit down.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying is.
Speaker 3: At the moment I said whoever, that would literally be
Speaker 3: 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,
Speaker 3: that would segregate other people. If I said, but the
Speaker 3: Lord really wants everybody to get that, the principle he's
Speaker 3: about to share is for.
Speaker 2: Whoever.
Speaker 3: So this is the point I want you to put down.
Speaker 3: Whoever can sow whatever? Today I have to focus on
Speaker 3: the thing that distracts many believers from giving because a
Speaker 3: lot of people don't give because you said, there are
Speaker 3: people who don't serve God and go against God, and
Speaker 3: people who do debauchery and they live on the world,
Speaker 3: And why are they so blessed because they picked up
Speaker 3: the principle there are Whoever, the reason I'm telling you
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: this is because people have used the Bible to fear
Speaker 3: you into serving God. And today I want to extract
Speaker 3: all fear out of giving. God literally says about this
Speaker 3: one principle on giving. I don't care who you are,
Speaker 3: and I don't care what you do. If you put
Speaker 3: this principle into play, it'll work in your life. And
Speaker 3: the crazy thing is, people who don't believe in God
Speaker 3: work a principle made for his children, and we still
Speaker 3: appear fighting about the semantics of things, and we're not
Speaker 3: 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,
Speaker 3: whoever gets this, they get the promise. Look at your
Speaker 3: neighborh and say you're a Whoever whoever gets this principle
Speaker 3: gets the promise. So I want you to get this please.
Speaker 3: Whoever includes Joe haters, whoever includes people who hurt you,
Speaker 3: Whoever gets this principle includes the people that live like hell.
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: the first thing God's telling us is, whoever sows like
Speaker 3: this is gonna reap like this? What is the way
Speaker 3: that they sold? If they sow a little, they're getting
Speaker 3: a little. Bad newsflash, it works even if you do
Speaker 3: it at the smallest level. Whoever so sparingly still gets
Speaker 3: back sparingly, but they still.
Speaker 2: Got something back.
Speaker 3: And whoever sows generously or largely, they get back at
Speaker 3: the same level. What I'm trying to tell you is
Speaker 3: if sowing works, if seed works, why don't you do it?
Speaker 3: And I can't be the one to qualify if you
Speaker 3: do or not. But what I'm saying is a farmer
Speaker 3: never has to prove he sold seed. A farmer never
Speaker 3: has to convince you. All he has to do is
Speaker 3: show you the harvest. There's so many believers like I
Speaker 3: promise I sold it to you. I promise, I'll promise
Speaker 3: I sold good things. I promise, oh God it And
Speaker 3: it's like, where is your harvest? Where is the trees?
Speaker 3: Where is the fruit? Where is where is it? And
Speaker 3: the truth of the matter is many people have not
Speaker 3: fully believed in the word of God and the Prince.
Speaker 3: And so what I wanted to tell you is I
Speaker 3: don't want God to make a principle for his kids
Speaker 3: that his kids don't work. And then people who don't
Speaker 3: even know our father work the principle and they're living
Speaker 3: in the blessing.
Speaker 2: That we should have.
Speaker 3: Because whoever works this principle gets the promise of the principle. Okay,
Speaker 3: So then it goes to verse seven. It says each
Speaker 3: 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,
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: watched this. He's assuming that you already know as a believer,
Speaker 3: this is what we do. So he's telling you each
Speaker 3: of you should give, oh what you've already decided to give?
Speaker 3: Because he's not trying to convince you to do what
Speaker 3: the normal practice is of people who do what we do.
Speaker 2: That would be like a basketball player being like, do
Speaker 2: 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
Speaker 3: people would who would ask those type of questions are
Speaker 3: people who were unfamiliar with the pattern of whatever we're
Speaker 3: talking about. There are too many people that when God
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: What is your giving record this past week. I'm not
Speaker 3: talking about to a church, a nonprofit or organization. I'm
Speaker 3: just talking about your giving. What's your giving record this week.
Speaker 3: The reason why I'm saying this is because the natural
Speaker 3: watch this, the natural state of a believer should be
Speaker 3: one of generosity. Me and my friend was talking before
Speaker 3: service and the comment came out this, I need people
Speaker 3: to stop saying they serve God, and they love God
Speaker 3: and they'll do anything for God, and they never give.
Speaker 3: You can You can't, You can't have. You have to
Speaker 3: for God's love the world that he It's one of
Speaker 3: his natural characteristics. And people, I'll do anything for God
Speaker 3: except what He did for all of us. The reason
Speaker 3: I'm saying this is it sounds elementary. Watch this, but
Speaker 3: it's affecting people's eternity because people are here trying to
Speaker 3: figure out why would God ask me to do this?
Speaker 3: And I'm trying to tell you. When God tells you
Speaker 3: to give, he tells you to give a certain way. Paw,
Speaker 3: somebody break it down to me just a little more.
Speaker 3: He said, verse seven, each of you should give. Watch
Speaker 3: this what you have decided in your heart to give,
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: Because in Matthew you can go read it chapter six.
Speaker 3: I think it starts in verse two, but you gotta
Speaker 3: read the whole thing.
Speaker 2: It says.
Speaker 3: Jesus is talking. He says, when you give, when you pray,
Speaker 3: when you fast, these are three things. If the giving's
Speaker 3: taking you off too much. I need to let you know.
Speaker 3: God expects every one of his children to at some
Speaker 3: point fast, pray, and give.
Speaker 2: Not if you give, if you pray, or if you
Speaker 2: fast when you do.
Speaker 3: Okay, self, evaluate when's the last time you fasted, you prayed,
Speaker 3: and you gave. There are not many things that God
Speaker 3: is saying. This is a prerequisite for you walking in
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: I'm what generous. I can give what I got. All
Speaker 3: I have is all I need. I'm out here about
Speaker 3: to bless somebody sucks off, and by sucks I mean
Speaker 3: this five dollars, about to really turn somebody's day upside down. No,
Speaker 3: I'm because generosity is not about an amount. Generosity is
Speaker 3: about a heart posture. It's about hold on, what can
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: these pins do I have? How many of these sandals
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: mowed for six weeks? Go mow it, somebody. I'm about
Speaker 3: to call the people on him, you know, to call
Speaker 3: the people on a person you've never even talked to yet.
Speaker 3: The Bible tells us we're supposed to love our neighbor.
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: paths to mow they lawn. Yeah, but watch it. But
Speaker 3: if your heart is not set on giving, you won't
Speaker 3: give your time to that, you won't give your sweat
Speaker 3: to that, you won't give And God saying I need
Speaker 3: you to be like me and watch this. I need
Speaker 3: you to decide before it's time to give.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Oh, this is where people get in trouble. Right here,
Speaker 3: write this down. You can't be manipulated when your mind's
Speaker 3: already made up. Me and my wife decided a long
Speaker 3: time ago. I showed you y'all that gray book that
Speaker 3: I talked about our finances being able to change as
Speaker 3: we honored God and put out our budget and wrote
Speaker 3: everything down and put our tithe there and all this
Speaker 3: other stuff. God has continued to increase us in different ways.
Speaker 3: But one of the things that me and my wife
Speaker 3: had to learn is like our disposition on giving, because
Speaker 3: we have now become so generous in our giving that
Speaker 3: we got to check with each other because sometimes it
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: look at somebody or see something or feel something in
Speaker 3: her spirit and she was like, I think we're supposed
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: such and such. And she was like, whoa did he
Speaker 3: tell us at the same time, we're supposed to do this.
Speaker 3: And why I'm saying this is we've already decided, talked about,
Speaker 3: prayed through, started to wade through, looked at our budget
Speaker 3: before it's time. The reason why people get manipulated and
Speaker 3: feel like people are trying to get something from them
Speaker 3: is because they're unders and a double minded man is
Speaker 3: unstable in all of his ways. But you can't be
Speaker 3: decided on something you've never thought about, and most people
Speaker 3: don't think about giving. So when it comes to your thing,
Speaker 3: God's like, Hey, one of the things I need you
Speaker 3: to pray for is what you're supposed to give, and
Speaker 3: I need you to pray it before you're supposed to give,
Speaker 3: because when you know what God said before, you're not swayed.
Speaker 3: My question to you today, I got a lot of questions.
Speaker 3: When's the last time you ask God? What am I
Speaker 3: supposed to give.
Speaker 2: Before?
Speaker 3: Before offering before somebody has a need before. There are
Speaker 3: things that I have planned for, things that I currently have,
Speaker 3: 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,
Speaker 3: when I'm done with this, I'm giving this a certain
Speaker 3: soul done.
Speaker 2: I've already planned it in.
Speaker 3: I'm still using it right now and I'm taking good
Speaker 3: care of it right now. But when I'm done with this,
Speaker 3: I've already watched this scent. My seed, my seed is
Speaker 3: like a missile. My seed has to be directed. My
Speaker 3: seed is something that I place in places for a
Speaker 3: future so even though I'm here right now, I'm sending
Speaker 3: my seed somewhere. My question is, when's the last time
Speaker 3: you prayed? God? Where am I supposed to send this seed?
Speaker 3: When I'm done with these shoes? When am I supposed
Speaker 3: to Well? Who's supposed to wear these? When I'm doing
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: supposed to sol this into God? God?
Speaker 2: What am I supposed to do with what You've placed
Speaker 2: 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
Speaker 3: responses to clinch up in fear or to give frivolously.
Speaker 3: And I have to say this because there are people
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: to and be like, give the light, deal the thing,
Speaker 3: get the thing, and get the thing, and now that
Speaker 3: person is destituo on the street, nowhere to go. And
Speaker 3: they felt like they were doing it in faith, but
Speaker 3: what they were doing it was an out of order.
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: actually luxuries. So if God is calling you and asking
Speaker 3: you to do something, you have to evaluate. God, what
Speaker 3: are you asking me to do? What are you asking
Speaker 3: me to cut off? What are you asking me to
Speaker 3: give up for a season so that I can honor you.
Speaker 3: The reason I'm saying this is because God will require
Speaker 3: what you have, but he will never require what you don't.
Speaker 3: Oh God. And there are people that think maybe this
Speaker 3: is what God wants from me is just to be
Speaker 3: broken white around the mouth and begging no. But He
Speaker 3: does want you to figure out your budget, and he
Speaker 3: does want you to know how much debt you have,
Speaker 3: and he does want you to stop doing dashing when
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: out in your hand if it hasn't started being thought
Speaker 3: about in your head. Cause the progression is it goes
Speaker 3: to my head. Maybe I can't give this, then it
Speaker 3: drops to my heart. God, is this what you're asking
Speaker 3: me to give? Then it comes out in my hand.
Speaker 3: Here it is God. Most people want to start with
Speaker 3: their hand. Well I got it, uh huh. And your
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: that coming from? And God says, He's not a god
Speaker 3: that just wants you to do think about it. Think
Speaker 3: about it and I'll show you and it'll drop to
Speaker 3: your heart and then you will move by faith and
Speaker 3: it'll come out in your hand. So this is where
Speaker 3: I need everybody to understand. This scripture is giving us
Speaker 3: the playbook. Don't give under manipulation. Do not give if
Speaker 3: you feel like your arm is being twisted. Do you
Speaker 3: You ain't never heard no pass to say this I'm
Speaker 3: trying to do. Not give anything if you feel like
Speaker 3: somebody's trying to lean on you emotionally, even your family. Oh,
Speaker 3: you thought I was talking about the church, because the
Speaker 3: problem is most of you are in financial ruin because
Speaker 3: you're helping somebody that won't help themselves. Okay, He's giving
Speaker 3: you principles that are supposed to help your whole life,
Speaker 3: not just everybody want to use it when it comes
Speaker 3: to the church, but you don't use it concerning babe.
Speaker 3: You paying for this young man's stuff, or you paying
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 2: don't ever have no pressure.
Speaker 3: Or no problem giving to them. You look so strong,
Speaker 3: big daddy. What you mean ain't worked out in ten years?
Speaker 3: What you mean, Oh, this whole thing stop, I'm trying.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to teach you. Don't you give to that
Speaker 3: with manipulation? If you know somebody's praying on your weakness
Speaker 3: right now, If you know that, oh I just have
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: that come on like with the eyes of the age,
Speaker 3: and all they put is them sick dogs on there,
Speaker 3: and you're like nine nine, y'all know that's manipulation. They
Speaker 3: know they don't put no healthy dogs on there. Autumn dollar,
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: a second, maybe I can get something out of God's
Speaker 3: telling you, I don't care if it's at church, if
Speaker 3: it's at your house, if it's at the family reunion,
Speaker 3: if your cousin is in jail, do not give if
Speaker 3: there's a manipulation involved. I'm trying to give you a
Speaker 3: principle that will work.
Speaker 2: Whether you believe or not. Okay, what does it say
Speaker 2: to give?
Speaker 3: You should already decided you got a brother, cousin or
Speaker 3: son in jail. You should decide this how much money
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give them till they get out before they
Speaker 3: start asking, oh God, I'm trying to save your family.
Speaker 3: You should decide, I'm gonna put five hundred dollars, so
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: are you going so hard on this? Because when you
Speaker 3: give to the wrong thing out of the wrong motive,
Speaker 3: you don't have what you need to give to the
Speaker 3: right thing when God asks you. I'm trying to save
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: mind in the moment when it comes to giving. You
Speaker 3: should never make up your mind in the moment at
Speaker 3: the end of the year. Every year we give an offering.
Speaker 3: We call it a crazy faith offering, and we give.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you right now you should start praying in May, God,
Speaker 3: what is the gift that me and my family are
Speaker 3: supposed to give in December? So you don't have to think, oh, shoot,
Speaker 3: this December's Christmas time.
Speaker 2: It's visit.
Speaker 3: No no, no, no, no, no, no, no no. I'm telling
Speaker 3: you in May. I'm gonna tell you again in October.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you because I don't want anybody in
Speaker 3: this church to ever feel that there is an ounce
Speaker 3: of pressure when it comes to give. Why, Because God
Speaker 3: wants us all to give cheerfully. This is the attitude.
Speaker 3: Write this down. The attitude is greater than the amount.
Speaker 3: The attitude of giving is more valuable to God than
Speaker 3: the amount of your giving. And most people usually give
Speaker 3: with an attitude okay here God finally, and God was like,
Speaker 3: I don't want that. I would rather you give and
Speaker 3: be excited, skipping cheerful about it, knowing my character as
Speaker 3: a good father, than to feel like I'm taking something
Speaker 3: from you. And today I need you to understand there
Speaker 3: was a woman in the Bible that gave two mites,
Speaker 3: and Jesus is there. All the big ballers is out dropping,
Speaker 3: they making it rain and throwing stacks, and God calls
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: what she's given, this is sacrificial. This ain't about amounts,
Speaker 3: he said. Anywhere the Gospel has talked about this woman
Speaker 3: is going to be remembered.
Speaker 2: Why it was.
Speaker 3: Because of her attitude of getting giving, not the amount
Speaker 3: of giving.
Speaker 2: Today, what I'm trying to do is.
Speaker 3: Teach you that God wants your attitude to be one
Speaker 3: that is cheerful. But we have to get into the
Speaker 3: right idea and thought process is about giving. I'm just
Speaker 3: a giver.
Speaker 2: This is what I do.
Speaker 3: It's how I show up, it's how I wake up,
Speaker 3: it's how I go to sleep every day, and y'all saying,
Speaker 3: cousdent Mike, that's so easy for you to say. I
Speaker 3: got proof when I was younger and didn't have nothing.
Speaker 3: I've always been I decided, watch it, I decided to
Speaker 3: 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,
Speaker 3: 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,
Speaker 3: would anybody else say you're the most generous person? If
Speaker 3: you have multiple people bragging on you that they're like
Speaker 3: that when you're not in the room, they're so generous
Speaker 3: they Wow, you're starting to get into the territory. Watch this.
Speaker 3: That speaks Jesus no matter what room you're in. Okay, okay,
Speaker 3: 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,
Speaker 3: and every time you come into the room, you suck
Speaker 3: all the energy.
Speaker 2: You give nothing.
Speaker 3: Y'all know them people that I'm talking about. What would
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: that some of it has got to fall off of me,
Speaker 3: because I don't even need all of this. Okay. The
Speaker 3: last part of this verse EIGHTA says, and God is
Speaker 3: able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things,
Speaker 3: I love this language, at all times, having all that
Speaker 3: you need, you will abound or be abundant in every
Speaker 3: good work.
Speaker 2: That's the promise of a sewer.
Speaker 3: If you sow all things, all times, all needs men,
Speaker 3: there's not a better deal on the market when you
Speaker 3: look at the word of God. He says, this is
Speaker 3: how I want my children to live. This is the
Speaker 3: point that I want you to get from right here.
Speaker 3: The reason why it's sowing interrupts every atmosphere. Swing interrupts
Speaker 3: every atmosphere.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 3: If I was a farmer and I showed you barren Land,
Speaker 3: barren Land, if you got a picture of that, just
Speaker 3: throw it up on the screen. If I showed you
Speaker 3: barren Land right now, most people would look at this
Speaker 3: and see nothing but a farmer with faith would a
Speaker 3: bag of seed sees nothing but space and opportunity. Why?
Speaker 3: Because all I need is some land if I have seed.
Speaker 3: All I need is soil if I have seed. Some
Speaker 3: of you are looking at a situation that looks like
Speaker 3: this right now, and God's saying what we gonna do?
Speaker 3: And you let God send the rain even if I
Speaker 3: send it. You ain't got no seed in the ground. Okay,
Speaker 3: let me come over here. The seed will only be
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: hundred and sixty five million, six hundred and seventy thousand
Speaker 3: times zero is zero. I got it a on that test.
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: We're saying, God, multiply it. And he said, you have
Speaker 3: not sown any seed. But a farmer with faith, a
Speaker 3: person like you were crazy faith, all you got to
Speaker 3: do is have some seed some time and guess what
Speaker 3: there will be put up? What a harvest looks like
Speaker 3: in this same place. I need you to see what
Speaker 3: your life is about to look like. Somebody by faith
Speaker 3: needs to see this. You've been sowing seeds for such
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: about to be my lifestyle. Go back to the other one.
Speaker 3: But at one point that looked like this. It takes
Speaker 3: faith to show seed when it looks like this. Genesis
Speaker 3: eight and twenty two says, as long as the earth remains,
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: me a promise. I'm not making you a promise. God's
Speaker 3: making you a promise. I ain't got nothing. I'm trying
Speaker 3: to do this myself. I don't got nothing for you
Speaker 3: except to tell you what the word says. And then
Speaker 3: me and Natalie and our four kids gonna try to
Speaker 3: live this out.
Speaker 2: And we have been.
Speaker 3: Living it out, and I'm telling you it works. I
Speaker 3: have empirical data that my life used to look dry
Speaker 3: like this.
Speaker 2: I need everybody to help me.
Speaker 3: I need to help you understand it didn't happen. Sometimes
Speaker 3: I hate being a pastor because people think the things
Speaker 3: work in my life because of my position. There are
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: a special access point to obeying God that gets me
Speaker 3: ahead of the line. I gotta actually do this stuff,
Speaker 3: and it's more pressure because if I'm telling you it
Speaker 3: work and it ain't working on my life, it's really
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: see so many people that are trying to figure out
Speaker 3: does God really honor his word? And I'm trying to
Speaker 3: tell you he does. If your life looks like this. So,
Speaker 3: if you've hit a plateau, so whatever area you're in,
Speaker 3: you might have a lot. But if you hit a
Speaker 3: plateau so and your situation changes, Okay, this is this
Speaker 3: is this is how we're gonna end this. I need
Speaker 3: to acknowledge something. It's hard to sew when you're in
Speaker 3: the wrong mode. Okay, just everybody hear me. A lot
Speaker 3: of us are in modes that make it hard for
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: at my car and it has this button that says
Speaker 3: off road mode and it and it looked like it's
Speaker 3: going up a hill. And I just hit it one
Speaker 3: day and I was on the regular street and it
Speaker 3: started driving differently.
Speaker 2: All the wheels started doing something.
Speaker 3: And then I saw there was a fast mode, and
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: one button touch of one button decision to change my
Speaker 3: car into a totally different way of maneuvering the terrain.
Speaker 3: And I said, could it be that a lot of
Speaker 3: believers are just in the wrong mode when it comes
Speaker 3: to giving? And today, I'm gonna give you three modes
Speaker 3: that you may be in today that I need you
Speaker 3: to potentially shift or change your mode in three sol modes, okay,
Speaker 3: identify yourself. The first one is need mode. If you're
Speaker 3: in need mode, welcome to human. You're born needing things.
Speaker 3: Need mode is our default setting watch this and need
Speaker 3: mode is defined watch this by survival. If everything in
Speaker 3: your life you're trying to survive right now, you're always
Speaker 3: in need mode. Think about it. It's hard to be
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: need mode. Who's gonna help me? If need mode? It
Speaker 3: didn't work last time? So how are we going to
Speaker 3: When you're thinking like this, you literally limit what God
Speaker 3: can do through you. But if all you ever do
Speaker 3: is need, watch this you become one that is a
Speaker 3: consumer mindset. Everywhere you walk into you're trying to see
Speaker 3: what can I get? What you gonna do for me?
Speaker 3: How is this gonna benefit from me? And then it
Speaker 3: starts to affect your relationships. Your relationship to become what
Speaker 3: can you do for me? Your faith becomes how does
Speaker 3: this benefit me? And right now I need everybody to
Speaker 3: switch modes. If you're in a need mode, I need
Speaker 3: you to switch modes because this mode ends up in
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: you're in a place where you don't understand. You always
Speaker 3: are looking up for somebody to give something more to you.
Speaker 3: So when you come into rooms, give me more, I
Speaker 3: need something. What I'm saying is it's okay. If you're there,
Speaker 3: you don't have to stay there. A seed can interrupt
Speaker 3: that cycle, and if you don't check this right here,
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: people think greedy is about rich people, because if I
Speaker 3: say who's greedy, you would think of probably somebody that
Speaker 3: got a lot of money. The truth of matters, you
Speaker 3: can be greedy with barely a little bit because it's
Speaker 3: all about me being in control with what I got,
Speaker 3: and it thrives on scarcity. And I know there are
Speaker 3: people in here that's like paws. I'm like, you don't
Speaker 3: know my story. What I'm telling you is you can
Speaker 3: change it. You can change your relationship with money. You
Speaker 3: can change your relationship with finances, you can change your
Speaker 3: relationship with stewardship. You can change your relationship with generosity.
Speaker 3: By just switching modes, you don't have to live in
Speaker 3: need mode. You don't have to live in greed mode.
Speaker 3: What I want you to live in is seed mode.
Speaker 3: One switch seed mode, PA's of Mike. What's seed mode? Oh?
Speaker 3: Seed mode?
Speaker 2: It thrives on faith.
Speaker 3: It looks at what you have and says, what can
Speaker 3: I do with this? Do you know you don't need
Speaker 3: any more than you have right now? To live in
Speaker 3: seed mode.
Speaker 2: Today?
Speaker 3: You could flip right now, sitting in this chair seed mode.
Speaker 3: I'm going to give something away every day this week.
Speaker 3: I dare you to try it. I dare you to
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: do a task they are having trouble doing it every
Speaker 3: day this week, and just at the thought of it
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: prerequisite for more seed is a decision to already sew.
Speaker 3: So right now you could qualify for more seed by
Speaker 3: just sitting in your chair and saying, God, I'm gonna sew.
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: you decided I want olive garden in your heart right now,
Speaker 3: and at the moment you decided, somebody came from the
Speaker 3: back and handed you olive garden, you would be thinking
Speaker 3: all kinds of thoughts, I want ice cream, and then
Speaker 3: at the moment you thought somebody brought you ice cream,
Speaker 3: I want abs, and then somebody brought from the back.
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: want to bless that family before they go back to school.
Speaker 3: Before that family goes back to school, I really want
Speaker 3: to be able to buy all their kids' supplies and
Speaker 3: buy them kids backpacks and shoes. That's three months away. God,
Speaker 3: I would really even if I can't do the whole thing, God,
Speaker 3: I really like to be a part of blessing his
Speaker 3: family before they go back to school. At the moment
Speaker 3: you decided that in your heart, guess what starts happening.
Speaker 3: Send the seed because they've decided to sew.
Speaker 2: Church.
Speaker 3: When you get this, it changes everything. It removes idols.
Speaker 3: Thats why are you saying that? Because the only other
Speaker 3: place that God compared himself to anything was when it
Speaker 3: came to money. He said, I just need to let
Speaker 3: y'all know something real quick. This is why I gotta
Speaker 3: deal with this. You can't serve me and serve money
Speaker 3: because he knew the human heart would be in tension
Speaker 3: to believe God or believe money. Because some of y'all
Speaker 3: have said either God needs to come through or I
Speaker 3: just need some more money. You still need God to
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: to get it. Don't live in need mode, don't live
Speaker 3: in greed mode, live in seed mode. And I'm just
Speaker 3: gonna get this to all the real crazy people. There's
Speaker 3: one more level that wasn't in the notes. It's beast mode.
Speaker 3: Now I'm now don't tell nobody, but this is for
Speaker 3: the people who to tithe. They know that's the basement,
Speaker 3: and when they get in the offerings, like, yeah, I
Speaker 3: live in seed mode. I give, but then there's another
Speaker 3: level of giving. Because there's levels to this. It's called
Speaker 3: sacrificial offerings.
Speaker 2: And I'm just telling you about it. You can read
Speaker 2: through it all in the Bible.
Speaker 3: One of the greatest places that it's seen is with
Speaker 3: Solomon in Ecclesiastes or No, No, no no. This was in
Speaker 3: First Kings when God it was customary for there to
Speaker 3: be one bull sacrifice to God. And at the moment
Speaker 3: that it was time to sacrifice the bull, everybody else
Speaker 3: did one. Solomon did a thousand. The requirement was one.
Speaker 3: His offering was a thousand. This moved God so much
Speaker 3: that he came to Solomon and the dream that night
Speaker 3: is like, what you want, bro, I was really expecting
Speaker 3: you to do one, two, five?
Speaker 2: What you want?
Speaker 3: One of the only places in the Bible where we
Speaker 3: see God literally coming to somebody say tell me what
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: that looked like mine, what do you want? And then
Speaker 3: watch how gangster Solomon is. He says, God, all I
Speaker 3: need is wisdom.
Speaker 2: To govern your people.
Speaker 3: God was like, no, you didn't, No, you didn't just
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 3: He could have if God comes to you and says,
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 2: I am so glad you asked lists like.
Speaker 3: What was Solomon's request? What I need need to help them?
Speaker 3: Give me wisdom to govern your people. It was an
Speaker 3: act of generosity. I'm not gonna use this moment to
Speaker 3: hoard something to me. I need to get what I
Speaker 3: need so I can give them what they need. And
Speaker 3: God was like, you know what, because I see my
Speaker 3: reflection in you, I'm not begging you, I'm not taking
Speaker 3: them from you really want this because you want to
Speaker 3: be generous. He said, Now I'm gonna bless you with
Speaker 3: the wisdom and I'm gonna give you all the resources.
Speaker 3: There's a beast mode to sewing that has nothing to
Speaker 3: do with what God requires. It has everything to do
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: be people who are ready for this level. But there
Speaker 3: is a level that you get to where the harvest
Speaker 3: overtakes the sewing, where you start telling other people, somebody,
Speaker 3: come and get some of this, Dad. There's a level
Speaker 3: that you can get to where you're saying, my boat's
Speaker 3: sinking too many fish. If I keep getting this type
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: gonna be able to call your competition, y'all, don't hear me.
Speaker 3: Some of y'all are about to walk in abundance where
Speaker 3: you're gonna be able to tell your neighbors, Hey, I
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: of abundance. If I'm guilty, that's something I want to
Speaker 3: be guilty of giving. That's why I want to be
Speaker 3: blasted for blessing people. You want to blast me for
Speaker 3: something always blessing somebody. What if that was the disposition
Speaker 3: of God's people that's what we were known for. Forget everybody,
Speaker 3: that's what you was known for. Today I asked all
Speaker 3: these spirits how I was supposed to end this message,
Speaker 3: and something really awesome came and fell into my lap.
Speaker 3: This right here is somebody's faith from prison. Many of
Speaker 3: you know that we have a partnership with God behind bars,
Speaker 3: and we have put a significant investment in providing inmates
Speaker 3: all over the world who the Bible many times calls
Speaker 3: the least of these, those who are forgotten about. We
Speaker 3: want them to have a way to connect with God
Speaker 3: and people on the outside. And so we've bought hundreds,
Speaker 3: if not thousands of tablets through the generosity and giving
Speaker 3: of people in this church, and it's going into prisons
Speaker 3: all over the country. I was gonna call with the
Speaker 3: people from God behind bars, and they were telling us
Speaker 3: all the stats, and these beautiful people who made bad
Speaker 3: mistakes and ended up in jail, some of them for life,
Speaker 3: are still souls that God cares about. I thought I
Speaker 3: was gonna get more amens than that. And these people
Speaker 3: write in send us letters, tell us how the messages
Speaker 3: transformed their life. And I got this. I'm gonna not
Speaker 3: say the name, but a young man that was in
Speaker 3: prison heard a message similar to this and decided to
Speaker 3: start honoring God with a tithe and the offering off
Speaker 3: of the money that was coming in from his family
Speaker 3: for a commissary. Now, listen to me say this to you.
Speaker 3: Listen to me say this to you. So impacted by
Speaker 3: 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.
Speaker 2: 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
Speaker 3: send you money and then you can get like twinkies
Speaker 3: and Ramen noodles and all that stuff. It's their only
Speaker 3: exciting thing that they can do. And some people it's
Speaker 3: 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,
Speaker 3: But what I'm saying is people, people, people, this is
Speaker 3: their enjoyment in prison. This is two dollars and fifty
Speaker 3: cent here here here, hear what I'm saying. And this
Speaker 3: person wrote the letter and basically said, I want to
Speaker 3: live how God asked me to live and this is
Speaker 3: my faith. Step in walking this out and put this
Speaker 3: in an envelope and sent a letter to the church
Speaker 3: with two dollars and fifty cents to this brother lives
Speaker 3: in seed mode because it wasn't about an amount. This
Speaker 3: was his faith. And today this is going on the
Speaker 3: ground and for somebody else, you're gonna be able to
Speaker 3: give two thousand dollars and twenty five hundred dollars and
Speaker 3: it wouldn't even matter. But what if we all got
Speaker 3: into seed mode and said, God, I'm gonna honor you
Speaker 3: at the top that's yours already, but I'm gonna ask
Speaker 3: you beforehand, what do you want me to give? How
Speaker 3: often do you want me to give? What you want
Speaker 3: me to do? God, open my eyes to see like
Speaker 3: a farmer, to know that every seed that goes in
Speaker 3: has to produce fruit. It interrupts every atmosphere. I have
Speaker 3: gone into places where I know I was hated, and
Speaker 3: I sold a seed and it changed the whole atmosphere.
Speaker 3: In that room where you know your coworkers don't like
Speaker 3: you bring coffee every Thursday, just bring it. I'm just saying,
Speaker 3: maybe you could interrupt the things that are happening in
Speaker 3: that atmosphere, if you thought more like God standing all
Speaker 3: over this building. This morning, I was reminded of I
Speaker 3: fly a lot, and when I fly, one of the
Speaker 3: most one of the most troubling things about flying is
Speaker 3: going through the security checkpoint. And I don't know if
Speaker 3: you've ever flown there, but part of it is you
Speaker 3: have to think about what.
Speaker 2: You have on.
Speaker 3: You gotta think about if your shoes got metal in it,
Speaker 3: you gotta think about it, if you had a surgery
Speaker 3: and your knee gotta screw in it. You gotta think
Speaker 3: about all the other things. And to bypass all of that,
Speaker 3: there's this thing called TSA pre check, And if you
Speaker 3: get TSA pre check, what you do basically is you
Speaker 3: send all your information ahead and they know where to
Speaker 3: find you if anything is wrong. And the goal of
Speaker 3: actually going through TSA is to be able to go
Speaker 3: through it without getting stopped. My friend and I were
Speaker 3: talking earlier, and he said, the goal in heaven is
Speaker 3: to go through the TSA before you get to heaven
Speaker 3: and not get stopped because you've already emptied everything out.
Speaker 3: Think about it, think about it. The thing is going
Speaker 3: to be deep in heaven for many of us. Deep
Speaker 3: de deep, oh, you got so much still b beep
Speaker 3: beep you. I'm like, I'm coming and it's still. He said,
Speaker 3: that can't come in here. Don't store up for yourselves
Speaker 3: on this earth. Some of y'all are trying to take stuff.
Speaker 3: When you get to heaven, you can't take it through.
Speaker 3: So the goal is to sow as much. The international
Speaker 3: sign for those who are in need? Is this the
Speaker 3: ones who are in greed? Is this the ones who
Speaker 3: are in seed? Because when we get to heaven, he said,
Speaker 3: what did you do with what I gave you? How
Speaker 3: many families did you help? How many lives did you transform?
Speaker 3: How many people did you send on missions trips? How
Speaker 3: many churches did you build? How many neighbors did you help?
Speaker 3: I want to be found guilty of giving. That means
Speaker 3: that I might need to switch my mode. If you're
Speaker 3: in this room, and you might need to switch your
Speaker 3: mode from need mode or greed mode into seed mode
Speaker 3: or even beast mode. I want you to lift your
Speaker 3: hands all over this place, and all of us have
Speaker 3: a place that we can grow in journey to Father
Speaker 3: in the name of Jesus. You see us, you know us,
Speaker 3: you made us. And today, God, I thank you that
Speaker 3: there was some revelation shared that could help all of
Speaker 3: us move into another level of generosity. Father, there is
Speaker 3: no pressure, there is no offering, There is no moment
Speaker 3: right now that we're asking for anything. God, I'm asking
Speaker 3: that you would speak to us clearly and move us
Speaker 3: out of a fear mindset or a scarcity mindset into abundance. God,
Speaker 3: I thank you that we can start living by faith
Speaker 3: when it comes to our finances right now, with those
Speaker 3: bills on the table, with that student loan, lingering, with
Speaker 3: all the things that you already know. Father, God, thank
Speaker 3: you that we're moving into a mindset that switches. So
Speaker 3: we will be just like you. We will be ones
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: and be able to see the future because of the
Speaker 3: seed that we possess in our hand. And God, I
Speaker 3: thank you that your children know your voice and a stranger,
Speaker 3: they will not listen to make us abundant, not for
Speaker 3: a show, not for people to be drawn to us,
Speaker 3: but so people can be drawn to you. Father God,
Speaker 3: Today we're asking you to do a work in our
Speaker 3: hearts so that we can be made more like you
Speaker 3: Jesus' name. Even in this same mode, I want you
Speaker 3: to know that God never ask you for anything without
Speaker 3: giving to you first. So if you're in this room
Speaker 3: and you've never received Jesus, I want you to know
Speaker 3: that He already gave his son so that you could
Speaker 3: have everlasting life. If you want to know what it's
Speaker 3: like to experience overwhelming generosity, all you have to do
Speaker 3: is receive Jesus by faith. It's the thing that took
Speaker 3: me from being a manipulator, addicted to pornography, a liar,
Speaker 3: a manipulator. All of those things is who I was.
Speaker 3: That was my natural state. And God said, come on,
Speaker 3: give me your heart and I'll help you change your habits.
Speaker 3: And today I want to give you the same invitation.
Speaker 3: I don't care if you're watching. I don't care if
Speaker 3: you was at the club last night. I don't care
Speaker 3: what you're planning to do tomorrow. I don't care if
Speaker 3: you have tons of secrets. Right now, God wants your
Speaker 3: heart and I need the church to begin to pray
Speaker 3: because somebody's life is.
Speaker 2: In the balance.
Speaker 3: Whether you're watching this on the pandor app or you're
Speaker 3: watching this on a rebroadcast, or you're watching it six
Speaker 3: years from now, and somebody just sent you this message.
Speaker 3: Today is your day of salvation, and today I believe
Speaker 3: that God wants to introduce you to his son Jesus.
Speaker 3: If that's you and you want to make Jesus Christ
Speaker 3: your personal Lord and savior, I'm telling you it's gonna
Speaker 3: set you on a journey of progression that will change
Speaker 3: your life forever. But it starts with one choice, and
Speaker 3: the choice is Jesus. If you're saying, pastor, I want
Speaker 3: to be added into that prayer on account of three,
Speaker 3: I just want you to slip your hand in the air.
Speaker 3: Whether you're in the room or you're watching online, I
Speaker 3: just want you to say, pastor.
Speaker 2: I want to be a part of that prayer. I
Speaker 2: 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
Speaker 3: Book of Life. Three, just shuit your hand up all
Speaker 3: over this place. I see you. I see you, come
Speaker 3: on TC. More than I see you, God sees you.
Speaker 3: Glory to God. I see you, my brother. You can
Speaker 3: put your hand down. We're not gonna make you confess. Hopefully,
Speaker 3: one day you'll get with some community that you trust
Speaker 3: and you can be able to share what God's doing
Speaker 3: in your life. But today we're gonna make a confession together.
Speaker 3: Because at TC we're a family. Nobody prays alone. So
Speaker 3: I want everybody just to lift your hands and say, God,
Speaker 3: thank you for giving Jesus just for me. Today. I
Speaker 3: admit I'm a sinner and I need a savior, and
Speaker 3: I turn to you. I repent and I ask you
Speaker 3: to redeem my life. I believe you lived, you died,
Speaker 3: and you rose again with all power just for me.
Speaker 3: Here's my life. Change me, renew me, transform me. I'm
Speaker 3: yours forever in Jesus' name. Amen. Oh can we celebrate
Speaker 3: with all of those Oh, come on TC.
Speaker 2: That should be the loudest shout of the day. Holley
Speaker 2: Jui j'a