Trauma wants to steal your ‘try,’ but there’s triumph in trying. On this Crazy Faith Offering Sunday, Pastor Mike ignites our faith to walk in obedience even when it feels crazy. We dived into the story of Naaman, who had leprosy and received instructions for his healing that seemed abnormal. Sometimes, small changes can activate something supernatural in our lives. Let’s end & begin our year in crazy faith to try again! Scripture References: 2 Kings 5:8-17 NIV 00:00 – Intro 11:31 – With God, triumph is always on the other side of trauma 20:29 – The most tragic part about trauma many times is that it silently robs you of your try 28:12 – 2 Kings chapter 5 verses 8 through 17 NIV 40:42 – The outcome is not the proof of faith… obedience is 42:40 – The supernatural is often activated by something simple 49:07 – Obedience is the main ingredient in miracles 55:38 – The church having crazy faith is incomplete if you don’t have crazy faith 55:49 – If He said it… try it! Join Transformation Church for our live Sunday experience. Plug into community, engage in live worship with Transformation Worship, & hear a powerful word from God. ABOUT US We Exist to REPRESENT God to the lost & found for Transformation in Christ. This is the vision of Transformation Church, led by Pastor Michael Todd and based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. NEXT STEPS Have you made the decision to follow Jesus? Fill out the form below so we can help you on your journey toward Transformation in Christ: http://transformchurch.us/saved
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thank you so much for tuning in today
and being a part of this amazing moment
that you probably don’t even know you a
part of today at Transformation Church
this is a special Sunday because every
year at this time we ask God how we are
supposed to sacrifice and give above
what we normally do and partner with the
vision in Crazy faith and today is crazy
Faith offering Sunday and I wanted to
come and personally let you know that
this message is not all about giving
it’s about God changing something in our
heart or transforming something in our
heart so that we can see everything that
he has for us so I want everybody to
take a deep breath right
now relax we don’t want something from
you God wants something for you so as
you listen to this message I want you to
see if God’s speaking to you in any way
because I believe your best days your
future is attached to your faith see
faith is believing now what’s in in the
future and bringing that thing into your
present and I believe that many of us
have been damaged by things that have
happened in our past and now God wants
to heal those things and take you to
another place of Triumph so if you are a
part of transformation Nation you
already know what it is if this is your
first time I love you thank you and I
hope you come back but this is going to
be an important message for I believe
not just this year but for all the years
to come I hope God blesses you and
speaks to you in this message message
God bless you Leslie we made a decision
that this year we were going to end in
Triumph and I just know that many of you
I heard my sister Abby even say it the
the from the grief to the to the sadness
to the loss some of you you lost four
years ago and you’re just now realizing
it some of us it’s it’s almost feel like
and I don’t want to even okay I I’m
many of us have have just realized that
the pain
happened this is the first season you
actually fill
it you’ve been running on adrenaline for
the past 2 and 1 half
years you’ve been
meditating so you could make
it and God is saying to some of you
today that that the reason why this
season has felt so
hard is because you’re on the brink of
getting
healed now here what I’m saying to you
these aren’t just rhyming words this is
a prophetic declaration to
you you had to fill
it so that he could heal
it and I believe that’s why God has been
taking our church I ask God like first
off I didn’t want to write the book
damaged but not destroyed I just wanted
to be healed and write a book called
heal and
hopeful I mean it probably would sell
more copies and more people be attracted
to it like but God said I need people to
understand I am
not going to heal them and not deal with
the
damage I’m not going that’s called
dysfunction so we’ve been in almost
three
months of talks about dealing with our
damage and and for some of us it’s week
11 and it’s the first time you’ve been
saying
ouch I do think I’m
bitter how I’m sharp at my kids that
comes resentment from how my parents
raised
me oh why do I always live for the
weekend oh the weekend is where I feel
that I can go medicate
without anybody’s judgment
that’s why I go to the club that’s why I
do the Kickbacks that’s why like it’s
the first time you’re
feeling oh I go to church but I’m not
the
church I I I participate in worship but
I’m not a
worshipper it’s the first time that many
of us are feeling and I want to let you
know your
feelings are okay and this
family now I know I know I know cuz cuz
in your family you was you was told to
suck it
up or even if you had a lot of emotions
and you couldn’t control it like oh you
know there she go
again she you know she going to be
emotional about every she going to cry
about
everything God gave you those emotions
as
indicators but he doesn’t want you to
live in
them he doesn’t want want you to be
driven by
them and and today as we’re walking in a
moment of crazy faith I just I ask God
to really really really help me convey
to people who have not stepped out in
Crazy faith
yet how and why they should
wow I don’t want to
really thank you thank you bro cuz they
they I I need them to hear every word
I’m saying right
now
I don’t have to preach this message to
live
it cuz I already live
it so as I Was preparing this
week I had to ask the Holy Spirit to
connect me back to a time where I didn’t
just believe
him because for over 15 years now my
default is crazy
Faith like and I know that that’s not
everybody’s default let me be very clear
I know that’s not most people’s
default most people’s default is cuss
you
out most people’s default is make a plan
that if God is involved cool but if he
ain’t I got to
survive okay y’all want to be
fake most people’s plan is going back to
the abusive
relationship most people plan is getting
a second third fourth fifth job to make
ends meet
most people’s PL and and I found out in
my in my life for some reason I need to
acknowledge cuz this is very pastoral
today cuz I want to help people I I want
to bring you from where you are to the
place that I believe God wants for all
of us to be and I need you to stop hear
me stop listening for somebody else
right
now this is not a message for them it’s
a message everybody say for me for me
this message is for me this message is
for me if if you don’t receive it like
that you’re going to miss the Revelation
that I believe that God wants to give
divinely and uniquely to you not your
wife not your husband don’t know you
hear that stop
it somebody say this is for
me the truth of the matter is you can’t
live off of somebody else’s
Faith you can be inspired by it you can
be ignited by it but it will not keep
the flame burning if you don’t have
faith for
yourself and what I found out in my walk
I was raised by parents that were full
of Faith but somewhere along the line
their prayers didn’t make it happen in
my life the way my prayers
did my obedience couldn’t be based on
what they believed God to
do and I just believe that there are
many people in a house of great crazy
Faith this is a house of crazy faith
that the crazy faith has not translated
to your
house and I could be a pastor who was
like
cool as long as the lights is on as long
as the LED screen is big as long as
people keep coming let’s keep rocking it
cuz that’s what people are doing all
over the world
today they are a part of a house a
church House of crazy faith and do not
care if it translates to people’s
houses I will
never stand up here and ask God to bless
this and not bless
you okay I’m going say it
again this does not matter if it doesn’t
show up in your
family if it don’t show up at your job
if it doesn’t show up and the crazy
thing about it is most of y’all are okay
with
that you’re okay being attached to
something that God’s
doing instead of being right in the
middle of what God’s
doing
okay I’m passionate about this because
it’s been 15 years that my default has
been crazy Faith what you mean Pastor
Mike if I don’t got enough I sew a seed
like that’s how my like my brain works
you don’t have enough people for your
team go find somebody else’s business
and give them what they
need like this doesn’t make sense I know
it’s
crazy but my faith is that if I give
what I need that
somehow God is going to make some like
but I would be
dumb and irresponsible to come and talk
to an audience of thousands of people
and act like that’s how we all
feel if we’re humble open and
transparent most of us barely made it
today
okay I’m trying to be honest bunch of us
was arguing with our spouse and you
ready to divorce some be quiet look for
it look look at
me blink twice if
okay somebody’s like
a the truth of the matter is some of us
are about to pull the plug on the
business about to not apply for the next
semester about to give up in the middle
of the
miracle and today I came to encourage
your
faith um because we got 21 days left in
this year wow three
weeks and um when God told me that the
last last four messages of this series
damaged but not destroyed need to focus
on Triumph I got
excited because I really do believe it’s
a prophetic word of how we’re coming
into
2024 that how you end a thing is the way
that you begin a thing there’s nothing
magical that happens on January 1st like
but I believe that God’s asking us to
end in Triumph somebody just say end in
Triumph in say it with faith end in just
one more time end in
Triumph the the thought process behind
this write it down if you didn’t hear
last week’s message and I want you to go
back and get it that with God Triumph is
always on the other side of
trauma you can be confident in
that so if I’m being hot I’ve gone
through some traumatic situations in my
life and as I’ve gone through the
traumatic
situations the situations were not the
thing that God wanted from me he wanted
my response to acknowledge
Him and most of us when we get in
situations that are traumatic our
response okay I’m going to say it
nicely our response is based on how we
were
conditioned many of the way we respond
to
anything is based on how we were
conditioned how we were raised how we
were brought
up so for some people if somebody say
what’s up they like what’s up for other
people depending on how you was raised
then where you was
raised if somebody say what’s up they
like what’s
up okay y’all just some of y’all acting
too brand new but the very same
thing gets a different
response because of how I was
conditioned
so when I say crazy Faith some people
are like oh God I believe you I trust
you you’re
amazing and for some people I say crazy
faith and they’re
like I can’t afford to
lose I don’t know if God’s going to come
through for me when I say crazy faith it
invokes fear instead of Faith that’s
right my mom believed all that time and
nothing ever uhoh
and today I want you to take
back from your story or your trauma or
your
training I want you to take back
Authority and put it in
Christ and I want you to now see through
a lens of what God says about you not
what they conditioned you to believe
okay cuz what I found out is most people
in this room I’m starting slow so you
can just walk with me I’m taking you on
a journey with me me most people have
been trained in
trauma you are
professional you are an
expert you should get paid for as much
trauma as you’ve been through and
[Applause]
survived lady on the front row said
where are they giving jobs out for
trauma you been trained in it and I’ve
been trying to think about like what
would make somebody not believe God like
he knows the number of hairs on your
head the sun is still in place right one
foot
closer we all
burn but somehow on a word he spoke one
time the sun is still the Stars show up
every
night the Moon is a per like do
y yet he don’t know what to do with my
life I can trust in a job more than I
trust in
God it doesn’t make logical sense until
you acknowledge how hurt or damaged
people have
been and what I’ve started to realize is
yes God wants us to have Triumph but in
the area of using our faith somebody
Shout At Me
Faith cuz it’s the one thing that God
says without faith it’s impossible to
please
me we skip over that scripture but it’s
like doing everything God wants me to do
logically
only cuz
without you can’t even be
saved
[Applause]
without but I just want you to I just
want you to see how much of a
Cornerstone faith is supposed to be in
your life and how much of Our Lives has
been I don’t really trust you
God today I want to explain to you what
faith really
is Faith is trusting
it in a manner that you can put your
weight on
it nobody in this room or sitting at
home prayed before you sat down in the
chair you’re
in
you had
faith that whoever built
it was skilled
enough now they don’t know how much you
weigh and some of y’all are
blessed but you still set your bless
butt in that chair not knowing the
maker but you had faith enough to put
your weight on
it
everybody stand up come on just one
time everybody sit
down you didn’t have to pray about
that you didn’t need your community
group you didn’t need to
fast you did not need to seek God
confirm it confirm it over again confirm
it Lord confirm it father confirm to me
that this is what
[Applause]
I’m all you heard was an
instruction and you
obeyed because you have seen before that
people have sat in these chairs and you
yourself may have sat in these chairs so
I no longer have to be
convinced of what I already know the
chair is capable of
okay but the story would be very
different if I told you to stand up and
sit down and your chair
broke that would be
traumatic for other people it’ be
hilarious I don’t know why we do that
but when we see people fall it’s like
are you okay
like we that proves we’re evil on the
inside with without Jesus every
man but but just think about it if out
of thousands of people everybody stood
up and sat down and only your chy
broke you might come to Transformation
Church and stand in the
back or before you get to your chair
you hey can you sit right here real
quick and let me like you be done put
somebody else in danger switch with
me and I just came to say I get
it I I understand how your faith may
have been damaged if you experienced
trauma and so many churches they was
like just have faith and it’s like I’m
hurt I want to I desire to move in Crazy
Faith but I’m just trying to make sure
this
doesn’t hurt me
again I was a part of a church who did
an offering they called it something
different it was the it was the living
life
offering but we found out that the the
pastor was crooked and was stealing the
money and and he ended up hurting one of
my
kids and it’s a it’s a miracle I’m in
church at all
today listen to anybody because in the
same place I tried to use my faith at
one
point I was hurt in that area
okay and what I found out as the most
tragic part about
trauma is when you go through a
traumatic situation specifically in your
faith what it steals is more important
than the moment you’re
in does anybody know what trauma steals
from you watch this the most tragic part
about trauma is many times it silently
robs you of your
try most people have stopped
trying because they got robbed at a spot
of
trauma you won’t do it ever
again you won’t get in community you
won’t even be friendly to people cuz
your last friend robbed
you of the ability to even want to
try like and I found out that that most
people when it comes to living in faith
walking in faith moving in faith most
people have just lost their
try and the try gets lost at a point of
trauma
okay that’s why we got to
heal cuz trauma wants to steal your
try Pastor Mike why are you saying at 16
different ways cuz you’ve been trying to
figure out why you feel
stuck you’ve been trying to figure out
why God didn’t let me go to the next
level he’s saying because the next step
requires you to do something but you
have lost the faith to
try he told you that he was going to
bless you and take care of the business
and bring you into the right connection
but you won’t even write the business
plan cuz you had to close the doors on
one business that you started out of
your pride
honestly
like guys today all I want you to do is
get your try
back if I if I could just if I could
have faith try it
again try to do something that maybe you
weren’t taught to do
try to move in a way that doesn’t
consider the trauma first but considers
your savior
first cuz I just don’t want to lead a
church where it’s busting everywhere
except in your
life I just will not stand up here year
after year and yell crazy faith and you
cannot try to move out of the the place
that you’ve been
in because you’ve been
damaged yep trauma took your
try you were hurt in a relationship so
you don’t want to be in any
relationship no no no no I’m an
introvert
okay but that doesn’t mean you should be
in
isolation introvert means you don’t get
recharged by a lot of people we ain’t
even saying a lot of people
anybody nobody knows what you’re going
through nobody knows oh but it was the
trauma that paralyzed your
tribe I’m going to say one that’s really
specific to me that came to me while I
was in the
back there’s some fathers in here who
were bad fathers to their first two
kids and now they have an opportunity to
be a good father to the children they
have now
and you won’t even try to be good
father because of the guilt and
shame that’s attached to what you missed
out
on the trauma of that situation stole
your
triy y’all see how quiet it is in here
this a good quiet this a holy
quiet cuz I want you to evaluate the
places you’ve been stuck
and I want you to see has there been
anything that stopped me from having
faith to do it
again cuz today I wanted to let you know
I found out good news in the word of
God everybody say Triumph
[Music]
Triumph everybody thinks Triumph is at
the end of the
movie when the person’s hand is raised
with the gold medals around and
everybody’s clapping and like you did it
you beat that big giant you were like
and like Triumph but what I found out is
the title of my message there’s Triumph
in trying
again what if the outcome is not
Triumph what if the obedience step is
triumph see you’re waiting for
everything to be done and God said you
won just by showing up okay you you when
you go back to the job
tomorrow it was a Triumph cuz you tried
again the first business didn’t work but
God said at the moment you started
writing the new business
plan he said it’s a
win the moment you went to marriage
counseling after you were already
decided in your mind and your heart on
divorce it was a
Triumph the fact you let that big kid
that is spoiled and ungrateful back into
your house for one more
week cuz he said sorry
Mama it’s a Triumph because you’re
trying and if you could get this it
would take away the enemy’s power to
convince you that you’re so far away
from the destination that you should
give
up and I just feel the weight of people
like what is this going to do what is
this little thing going to do what is
this one thing going to do how is this
going to change boy if I could tell
you that every great miracle that has
ever happened in my life came with a
simple
instruction and it might have sounded
crazy but I still had to try
it and this is how the holy spirit said
it to me he said Michael I want you to
tell the people that I need them to try
again cuz I need them to give me
something to work with
[Music]
with he said I’m looking for something
to multiply I’m looking for something to
turn water into wine but there had to be
water give me
something and he said my people have
been paralyzed from trying now I can’t
even do nothing you keep praying but I
give you an instruction you won’t obey
it I told you go join that group well
God there’s so many reasons why I
wouldn’t join a group and if I join a
group then they going to make me the
leader and I don’t want to be a leader
right now I’m still damage and Lord I
need like stop you don’t know what God’s
going give him something to work
with we want God to do a miracle with no
matter
okay and you can apply it to any area of
your life but what God is requiring of
us is not something great he said if you
have faith as small as a
seed that is the smallest seed known to
man but it’s
something and God said will you give me
something to work
with cuz there’s Triumph in trying again
I found this story that’s not talked
about a lot in the Bible about this man
named non second Kings chapter 5 you can
read the whole thing if you want to but
I’m going to give you a little
paraphrase of what happened name was
successful in by all World standards he
was a commander he was killing people he
had money he was statused up and then he
ran into trauma he he got diagnosed with
Leprosy and now I know y’all don’t know
what leprosy is y’all think that’s like
something that like some acne medicine
can clear up but this is not that
people’s literal noses and ears would
fall off because of this disease back in
this day if you had leprosy people could
not be around you at all because it was
so contagious so this man goes from
having a lot of success to now being in
this this very traumatic situation what
ends up happening is he uses his
connections and he says ain’t there
somebody that can can heal me and and
and they heard that there were some
people who could heal in Israel so his
boy writes a letter to the king of
Israel and says hey um I have a friend
named uh uh non can you heal him of
leprosy the king is like what the
heck I’m not God it’s in the Bible just
like like this and he gets so anxious
and and like like like weirded out that
he rips his clothes off he’s standing
there in his kingdom in the nude like
how in the world am I supposed to heal
this man and Elijah the prophet hears
about it and he says King put your
clothes back
on bring the man to
me I’ll prove to him that there’s a God
in
Israel so this is where we pick up the
story in 2 Kings 5:8 when Elijah the man
of God heard that the king of Israel had
torn his robes he sent this message why
have you torn your robes have the man
come to me and he will know that there’s
a prophet in Israel so non went with his
horses and chariots and stopped at the
door of Elijah’s house Elijah sent a
message to say to him go wash yourself
seven times in the Jordan and your flesh
will be restored and you will be
cleansed for most of us that would have
been like
B amen that’s all I need to do go take
seven
baths great look at his response but non
went away
angry he didn’t even want to try
it because I
thought that he would surely come out to
me and stand and call on the name of the
Lord his God wave his hand
H should b a Honda and I
thought he would stand and call on the
name of his God wave his hand over the
spot and cure my
leprosy he going to say go to the Jordan
that’s nasty
water are not abana and parar if that’s
wrong ask your
mama the rivers of Damascus better than
all the Waters of
Israel could I wash in them and be
cleansed so he turned and went off in
Rage his outer sickness was supposed to
be healed but he did not get the miracle
the way he wanted
it so he turned around and now had an
outer sickness and an inner sickness
cuz
rage he a even nobody even came at him
it was because of his own
thoughts he said our thoughts and and
let’s not act like he’s like alone
because a lot of our disappointment in
Christ comes because our thoughts don’t
line up with his thought I thought I’d
be married by now look at
me I thought they would recognize my
gift and I thought I’d be a millionaire
I thought my family would have said
Sorry by now I
thought and it’s your own thoughts that
come
against the Simplicity of how God may
want to heal
you come on okay okay
okay but thank God for the people that
were around
non non servants went to him and said
all right boss um we came all this way
and okay I know you so if if the prophet
had told you to do some great thing
would you have not done
it how much more than when he tells you
to try something
simple he literally said wash and be
cleansed so non was like all right so we
went down and dipped himself in the
Jordan seven times how many times seven
how many times seven be important he
dipped seven times as the man of God had
told him and his flesh was restored and
became clean like that of a young baby
boy he got the miracle and never was
touched by the man of
God I know that messes with a lot of
people see if I just get a
touch if you just
obey
like I just want I want to take it away
from this and this and this and th all
we believe in laying on hands we believe
and all that but
God is with you every day all the time
everywhere and if he gives you an
instruction no matter how simple it is
obey
it okay what’ you
say just
do it like why why do we need it to be
grand for it to be
God okay
okay let me say it to you like this
crazy Faith cuz everybody coming in
Crazy faith today watch this crazy faith
is about obedience more than the
[Music]
outcome I want to let you know that the
man’s outcome was he was going to be
healed but if he didn’t try to dip not
not seven times if he did not dip the
first
one this is where I want to explain what
faith looks like it wasn’t when he got
healed he was walking in faith it’s when
he decided to get in the the the water
the first
time that’s when crazy Faith was
Unleashed
cuz he
tried he tried my question to you
is where are you missing out on Miracles
cuz you will not
try so Pastor Michael what do you want
me to do I want you to do that thing
that you have been paralyzed to do
because you were hurt scared fearful in
another season and it robbed you of your
try do that thing and everybody has
something come to your mind right now
everybody got something that God has
already told them you supposed to been
released a whole album and you ain’t
written one
song you got 50 million ideas for a
nonprofit and you just nonprofi
in you just have no
[Applause]
profit why won’t
you it’s the greatest Act of crazy faith
that many of you will make for the rest
of this
year everybody say try try say it with
faith TR say it like you mean it try
you’re talking to your own
self it’s not a message for somebody
else Abby this is your
message
okay just TR you never know what God
will
do that man did not get in that water
and be like oh seen like 15 other people
dip seven times and get
healed he was mad cuz he thought it was
simple but the other reason he was mad
is cuz he thought it was
crazy what the heck there’s cleaner
water I’m dirty why would I go get in
something
dirty to get
clean why would I ain’t there better
places if this is how you want to do it
God if you want to you well if I’m
supposed to be a pastor tell M to take
me under his wing and make me a junior
Pastor come on this how we think why in
the world am I serving
kids why in the world am I working this
job tell him he speak you speak to we
going to see if he speaks
then and because everybody say we
thought we thought it should be one
way we sto trying can all right all
right I’m going to keep moving I wrote
this down in a phrase it says so many
people get discouraged by the distance
between where they are and whatever they
desire that they become disabled
believing that trying would be an act of
delusion let me say it again you got it
she said run that back so many people
get discouraged by the distance between
where I am
today and what ever they desire that
they become disabled in the present
believing that trying would be an act of
delusion it would be
crazy for me to start working
out cuz the last time I worked out it
was good I lost 22 pounds then a global
pandemic and I didn’t gain 22 I gained
44
and now every time I try to go to that
freaking gym I’m four years
older these
knees okay y’all know what I’m talking
these these knees are
kneeing and my back is back in and I
want to unfat my back but the way this
is set up right now I’m just going to be
fat and happy I okay
you
now there’s people laughing and you
should see the people that are looking
at me with the stare of death right
now cuz it be it came too close to
home cuz you’re so far away from where
you want to be and you know you should
be that the enemy has disabled your try
today but I’m encouraging to use your
faith
again I’m encouraging you to say God
okay if there’s something you’re telling
me to do I don’t got to know how it’s
all going to work out I don’t know how
it’s going to finish finish or end but I
know that I can obey you in the next
step God I will try again okay all right
all right all right all I know I know I
know I know you wanted to yell
today you wanted to shout about
something you’re not going to actually
do I’m sick of
that why why would we gather at the tune
of thousands of people to shout about
something we’re not going to live out on
Monday
that seemed dumb to
me but what if what if we could actually
get to the heart of the matter I’m
almost done and we we could all make a
collective crazy fa Faith step again and
everybody shout at me try try say it
like you mean it the outcome of anything
is not the proof of Faith obedience is
yes I’m going say it
again the church has done a bad job of
convincing people that get in the house
was Faith yeah that’s not proof of
faith when God told you to make the
budget OB everybody say obedience
obedience that’s why no matter what you
going to give in this crazy Faith
offering so many people are going to
they’re going to use up fa Faith don’t
cancel out your
sacrifice by not
obeying cuz the scripture says
obedience is
better than whatever you sacrifice it oh
God I’m giving you
$200 he’s like I would much rather you
go say I’m
sorry
okay is this a Prosperity Gospel no no
no no Prosperity Gospel wants a
paycheck what we want for you is actual
transformation in your life right here
what I’m saying to you keep the
money if you going to be disobedient
right they won’t say that at other
churches they’ll be like give us your
money and be disobedient no that defeats
the whole
purpose back in Sly we used to say this
cuz I was so I was so adamant about this
I said if you don’t want to give keep
your stanky
dollars and it y’all remember that it
was it I felt so good s because it was
not about
amounts it’s always been about without
obedience and what I’m saying to you
today church as we’re moving into this
step of crazy Faith don’t give and then
not do what God has called you to do
okay hear me hear me hear me why are you
saying that Pastor Mike write this point
down cuz the Supernatural is often
activated by something
simple oh the Supernatural is usually
activated by something everybody say
simple simple simple non wanted a grand
presentation for his healing for his
miracle and God was like I’m going to
keep this real simple take a
bath now think about this do you not
think that he has tried to take a bath
before do you not think that he’s tried
to scrub off the leprosy before but this
man gets a new Fresh instruction and
that’s what going to be some of y’all’s
problem is God’s going to give you a
fresh instruction not a new one ooh you
missed it you going to give and you
going to want a new instruction and God
said no no no no I’m just going to give
it to you a
fresh go do the same thing I told you to
do last year
uhuh is that
it and some of y’all will go away with
the same
rage I’m done with this thing crazy
Faith he must think I’m crazy and God
said I’ve been trying to tell you to do
the same thing the miracle is not in the
spectacular it’s in the
simple and that’s why I hate the devil
cuz he loves making simple things
complicated I mean literally let’s go
back to the Garden the only instruction
don’t eat in that tree just
one do you know how many other
trees was in the garden with
fruit it was everywhere but the enemy
tried to complicate a simple
instruction how simple could your
Miracle actually
be if you just
obeyed God
okay
okay y’all want to hear like a real
story of my own life where I had had to
do something simple that felt
crazy all right
so when I started leading the church I
asked God to connect me with leaders who
were supposed to help me build this
church um I found out that there was a
young couple um building a church called
Eden in downtown Tulsa on Sunday nights
the reason I found out is because my
little brother Grayson would ask me to
drop him off there and you know I’m a
fresh Pastor one of or two years in and
so um it was a little
offensive y’all told me to be hot it’s a
little offensive that my little brother
knowing that I’m a pastor is asking with
Jubilation to participate every Sunday
night in another Church’s activities and
I was like okay I’m a kingdom man
Kingdom guy Kingdom Come on Grayson get
in in the car let’s
go but as I’m rolling by I’m with the
window down like who else is coming to
this Kingdom like then I found out a lot
of our worship singers worship leaders a
lot of different people were going to
this
expression and what I do is I hold I
hold people like this and I I said God
if this is something that you want to do
bless I said what is my instruction so I
want you to do something crazy I want
you to call that young man I need you to
reach out to him and ask him what does
he need
that’s crazy Lord cuz if I give him what
he needs he going to take what I already
have this is my
flesh call him and ask him what does he
need I was like all right I’m going to
call him ask and then he’s like yeah
Instagram don’t have his number nothing
like that and then I was like let’s go
to
breakfast and so the first time I meet
Charles
manave we’re going to breakfast at was
it Chimera at
Chimera and we go to breakfast and right
before I walk into the church to the uh
restaurant the holy spirit says ask him
if he wants to shut down his church and
join
you now I need you to understand how
crazy this
is because I’m not lame and that sounded
lame
immediately cuz then that puts all the
power in his court that he could be like
no and like why and that’s exactly what
happened I even gave a great analogy I
was like we could be like the Golden
State Warriors
I this when KD was there and all of the
thing and I even used I was like bro
this we could be like he’s like
no and when I walked out of that
restaurant I felt
lame but I got a well done from
God no no no you missed
it cuz the crazy Faith was not in if
Charles became a part of Transformation
Church it was when he told me to ask
another man that already not in the
infant stage already started the
church ask him hey let’s get together he
said when you said it out of your
mouth that’s where the miracle happened
it would take another six to seven
months with no expectation that that was
going to actually happen until I was at
the downtown library and this young man
came and found me with tears in his
eyes not me saying like let’s make a
business plan he said God told me to
shut down my
church and come serve and do whatever
you
need and that’s where God said what if
you wouldn’t have
tried no I I I just I want you to see
that the crazy Faith miracle was not
something
big it was something simple let me add
this that might seem
stupid I’m trying to give you cheat
codes
today let me just put it like this
obedience is the main ingredient in
Miracles it’s the main
ingredient I know nobody’s shouting
about is because a lot I’m going to say
this it’s strong I’m telling you I’m
warning you it’s strong what I’m about
to say okay brace yourself a lot of the
Miracles you want to see are not because
God is not able it’s because you are
disobedient I I at least want to be the
one to tell you some of you God’s been
speaking to you about this crazy Faith
offering and you have just said no I
don’t see it I don’t have it I’m not
going to I’m not some of you he’s been
talking to you about things you need to
do in your family for your career for
your business some of you he been
telling you to move you are in the wrong
geographical
location and you just but all my family
is here and all my thing but your favor
is not
there you have just been
disobedient and more than amounts God
said could I just please have your
obedience in crazy
Faith okay I’m almost
done somebody say I’m I’m going to try
again going to try
again whatever that means for you
whatever that looks like some of y’all
need to go back to
school I’m 50 I ain’t I ain’t doing
another
paper I I I get I feel you but rarely
does God call you to something
convenient if you’re actually going to
be used by God it is
rarely
convenient and I started to think about
non and then I started to think about
what if other people wouldn’t have tried
y’all remember that story in First Kings
17 where Elijah the prophet came and the
woman was like oh he was like what you
about to do and she was like I’m just to
make this little cake for me and my son
and then we going to die y’all remember
that and then he was like oh yeah cool
don’t do that make me the
cake
huh no matter what her reaction is she
still tried
it she
still she
tried and there were Miracles that
unfolded over and over and over again in
that woman’s life because she everybody
said at me
tried
y’all remember
Joshua walking around Jericho seven
times do y’all know how dumb that
instruction
was no no no no I need you to hear Lord
we’re about to take over the city what
do you want us to do walk around it
seven times get trumpet players and blow
on the seventh time and then take some
jars and smash
them and you want me to go I can tell
the troops the ones who are built to
actually fight with
hands sometimes God will call you to do
something that goes against your
training why so he can get the glory out
of your life
okay Pastor Mike why are you so
passionate about
this cuz as I went back to 1519
yesterday
I went back to West Pine and I walked
into that church and I sat in those
green chairs where there were about 300
people filled with
faith there was no visual on our screens
when we first gave in Crazy faith of all
of
this there was no
YouTube there was no crazy Faith there
was no mic Todd there was no
relationship goals there was nothing it
was just a
vision and 30 100 people believed in the
vision that we could have a multiethnic
church look
around look
around that we could have a multiplying
Church look
around that we could have a
multigenerational church look
around I was 27 years old standing up
there like crack voice
cracking God gave me a in
and it was a simple step that God said
if you going to be a blessing bless
somebody
else it was
simple and I’ve told this story but I’m
always tell it because it’s my testimony
people like how did you become this
crazy faith God by obeying God in simple
stuff and I stood up and I said Church
we’re going to raise whatever money
comes in and we’re going to give it away
$8,300 we raised and we gave it to
churches in North
TSA that was the craziest Faith thing I
had ever done as a pastor up until that
point and it unlocked something that
allowed me to live at a place that has
transformed not just my life but the
life of so many but I will be darned and
I didn’t want to use that
word if I have a church that displays
crazy faith and a people who don’t live
in it
Jesus I don’t want to do this if it’s
going to be
fake I don’t want to do this if you’re
struggling for 10
years to just pay your
bills and the church seems like I don’t
want to do this either it works for our
marriages and raising kids and changing
our communities or it
doesn’t God is Not praised by just
having a nice
building he wants to live in
something that looks
like walking
Faith the Bible says the just shall
live by faith I wrote it in a point the
church having crazy faith is
incomplete if you don’t have crazy
Faith all right so what are you trying
to say Pastor Mike if if he said it try
it if he said
it what do you have to
lose step out in faith and try if he
said it try
it example um one of my friends brought
this to my attention as I was telling
them what I was going to preach and it’s
crazy I’ve told y’all several times um I
wasn’t the best at school not because I
wasn’t smart cuz I just didn’t apply
myself I really like to make people
laugh more than I liked language
class and so um Maxwell I um Miss
Maxwell you don’t call my teachers names
don’t do that Mama Chloe you know my
people I love you Miss Maxwell I gave
her the blues oh my
god
um but when God told me to try to write
a book called relationship goals I was
fearful cuz I didn’t think I had in me
what it took to make it seem like a real
book can I be honest a real book smart
very intelligent people write
books
me I sit things on top of
[Laughter]
books I have books for
aesthetic
at that
time like my book collection was like
three books that people gave to
me and what did God say to me he said
try
it I remember opening my laptop and
literally typing relationship
goals I literally remember it and I
closed my
laptop w
that was a
Triumph you missed
it oh my God if you could get it I open
my
lifetime relationship
goost thank you
Lord if you don’t celebrate
that if you don’t get some energy and
expectation around that you will be
waiting forever
and um my friend brought this out the
back he said what is this literally
asked what is this I said oh that’s
relationship goals in
Hungarian he said what do you
mean I said I don’t know how to say any
word inside of this book The only words
I can read is Michael
[Laughter]
top and I guess handsome black men don’t
make covers and hungry they changed my
whole art Direction
but there’s like take his face off of it
put a
dart but I’m okay with it cuz the check
still cleared I y’all missed it y’all
missed it you missed it
[Applause]
but but what what I was reminded
of is that the faith didn’t come full
manifest when it was in a different
language it was when I opened my
laptop and I wot relationship
goals God said there it is you gave me
something to work with now now I thought
that was enough but I called one of the
people on my team I was like ain’t the
book in other languages they said yeah
relationship goals is in Spanish
Hungarian Russian Chinese Norwegian
Portuguese Dutch and French I said I
ain’t been to none of them
[Applause]
places it couldn’t have
multiplied without a try okay and crazy
faith is in Swedish Russian Hungarian
Dutch if you gave me a map most of those
places I can’t point
out but God was able to do a
miracle with a
try what you what you want me to try
Pastor Mike
whatever the simple instruction God gave
you
is everybody say try it try it I’m going
back to
non cuz
non he got a simple
instruction that seemed crazy or stupid
and he had to do it I just want to paint
this picture for you real
quick
oh cuz this is how dumb it’ll seem to
other
people
oo
oo that is
cold
[Applause]
that felt like enough to
[Applause]
me
but half
obedience is
Disobedience how many more do I
[Applause]
got this seems
excessive
this is
[Applause]
cold this feels stupid nobody else is
having to do
this this feels like a
[Applause]
mess but if he said seven
times but if he told me to
forgive but if he told me to give
how many more do I
got somebody said two somebody said
three how many do I
got look people looking around now like
it which one carry the
[Applause]
[Music]
two this water is so
cold hold up Mike
Jo oh shoot three more
[Music]
[Applause]
be
[Applause]
number
my outfit is
ruined hold on hold on hold on hold on
hold
on I may not be accepted in some places
like
[Applause]
this here here I’m I’m just trying to
make it real for
you like like this is
altered how you might see
me cuz if you weren’t with me when I
started this process
and you just saw me on dip number
four you may judge
me but I can’t let your
opinion stop me from being
obedient y’all say number five when I go
down this time y’all ready all right
here
[Applause]
we
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
one more and I’m
Healed one more and my family is
delivered one more and I’m the lender
and not the
borrower come on I I need y’all to hear
what I’m saying one more obedience step
in Crazy Faith I’ve done it over and
over and over and over and over again
but if I do it one more
[Applause]
time Pastor Mike what are you saying to
us don’t quit on
[Applause]
six some of y’all like just do
it but that’s what God’s been asking you
to do for
years don’t
quit on
six non didn’t
know if the miracle was going to happen
on one or
seven but he knew he was given an
instruction and I wonder how many times
he would have done it if he knew healing
was on the other side of
it quitting on six is a
trick it’s the lie that the enemy wants
you it’s not going to work when you give
this time it’s going to be the same
thing that happened last time when you
try to serve again when you ask for
forgiveness when you show up when you
show yourself they going to do you like
the other don’t quit on
six y’all would have
nightmares if I didn’t finish this
example somebody would come dump
themselves I’m doing this in proxy for
Pastor
Mike hear me when I say this if you want
me to finish an
example how much more
does God want you to
actually obey him to the point where
your crazy Faith creates a crazy Miracle
let’s do this thing right
[Applause]
now it’s a
miracle this is the season of miracle
mirales but the miracle only
happens with simple
obedience in just a few minutes we’re
about to
give but this is not about giving
today this is about
obedience oh shoot I forgot my last
examples in my pocket like
it
well didn’t think that one all the way
through
um
so I want you to know that faith is
relative at every
level I don’t care if you balling or you
broke God will always require something
that makes you dependent on him
so me and Natalie talked earlier last
week God what do you want us to give he
told me what he want us to give and we
did not have it I said Lord isn’t it
like
you why ain’t you asking me for what I
gave three years
ago he said because I always want you to
be stretching your faith to believe
me said all right so I was in a meeting
last week with Miss Tammy
and um I had asked her cuz I work for
the church I had asked her to take a
certain amount of my paycheck and send
it to a different bank to pay for
something like when you get your direct
deposit you can allocate where the money
goes to like what bank account and so I
had done this maybe 3 years
ago and I found I remembered just
supernaturally because I had decided in
my heart I was going to obey you God
if this what you told me to give somehow
you going to get it to me cuz I’ve
decided in my heart you going to do it
well I I remembered in this meeting for
the first time in three
years and I looked at Tammy I said Tammy
and she was like
yes I said did we ever cancel that money
going to that other bank she said I
don’t think so let me look she says as a
matter of fact
no it’s all over there I said but didn’t
I pay the thing off earlier this year
she said yeah I said let me get on my
app and see if the money
is and
y’all when I decided in my
heart that I was going to obey
God he made me
forget so I could
[Music]
obey so I went to the bank on Friday
drove all the way to aaso
and I said uh there should be this much
money in the bank could you uh please
give my
money ain’t nothing like knowing it’s
there and then she said oh um that
amounts not in there I said hold on now
she said it’s not that amount it’s about
80% of that I said okay all right well
okay cool give me all of
that and I said God I thought you told
me he said I did
so I went to the bank Saturday and you
know Arvest and all our little Banks
stay open from 8: to
12 so I go in there to try to rake all
the little coins I had from all of the
little place I said my kids we eating
ryen noodles for the rest of the year no
I’m just
friend but I was I mean it’s sacri I’m
not telling y’all something I’m not
doing I want you to hear me say that
this is not something I’m not living out
so I go to scrape my things up and they
was like well this is all you can get I
said just give me that
too I said God I thought you I woke up
this
morning I’m not talking about 10 days
ago this morning said God I thought you
said you was going to do it he said I
did he said look in your
drawer now I’d look at this drawer every
day but I forgot my mother and
father-in-law brought brought me a piece
of mail that got delivered to their
house instead of my house and I never
looked at what was in
it and I opened this
up and it was a check from the
government for the exact amount that I
was
short y’all okay y’all don’t have to
believe with me but this wet piece of
paper is proof that God is
[Music]
real when the scripture says still give
seed to the
Sewer Pastor Mike why is this important
when it comes to
Faith cuz the truth of the matter is
your finances expose the priority of
your
heart I’m trying to speed up a life that
God has for you when you can obey him
with unrighteous mmon is what the Bible
calls it he says he’ll make you then
ruler of true
riches true riches has nothing to do
with dollar amounts but God can’t give
you what he really has for you cuz you
won’t get let go of what he gave
you so as your pastor I’m standing here
in wet crazy
Faith with we going to need a dryer uh
in the back
cuz but this is
proof I am
confident we are
evidence and you are faithful
you are
[Music]
God standing all over this
building here in just a moment um
they’re going to be boxes and different
things that are around them there’s
going to be a holy moment the worship
team is going to come and they’re going
to worship people have flown and drone
here drove here from all over the the
world somebody told me there’s somebody
from Canada and there’s somebody like
what y’all came from Canada and Florida
and California and like this is
crazy thank y’all thank you Detroit oh
y’all the ones drove 15
hours this
is this is
beautiful but I just don’t want you to
do an act
of giving money and not give God your
heart I want you to obey
God I want to pray for every person
under the sound of my voice that there
would be an increase of the measure of
faith in your life and hear me hear me I
want to be very clear with this if you
give nothing today that does not take
away this message that God has given you
to be able to try God won’t ask you for
something you don’t have
okay this is not about manipulation or
any what I want you to do is live in
another level that is provided for you
if you would just
try and today I believe some people are
getting their try
back you’re about to step out in faith
there’s
Triumph and trying
[Music]
again there are
cards that we have attached to our faith
oh man I didn’t even tell y’all the best
part about non’s story it’s so crazy
like he gets healed and then he goes to
Elijah and’s like I need to give you
something I need to offer a sacrifice I
need to give you some money and he’s
like no I don’t need none of that he was
like let me please do something cuz the
the response to a miracle is
sewing All Through the Bible to biblical
precedent but but but he wouldn’t let
him and so do you know what non said
said he said let me at least gather some
of the ground where this miracle
happened so I can take it back to my
land the only reason you take some of
the ground is because soil is the place
that you plant
seed he said the miracle that happened
here I need to take a piece of this soil
and take it back to my hand cuz I got to
have a place where I can see Miracles
like this happen over and over
again the Miracles that are about to
happen in our lives are going to come
through simple obedience would you lift
your hands all over this place watching
online watching on re broadcast this is
not just a moment that we’re doing this
Sunday crazy Faith offering going to be
happen the rest of this year cuz some of
y’all you’re hearing this message and
you’re like God I will obey I will try
I’m going to use my faith again I’m
going to do what you called me to do and
this is the moment where God is going to
use you to move into to another level of
Faith father I’ve done what you asked me
to do I didn’t stop on
six I didn’t quit short of the miracle
and father there are so many people that
are so
close to another level of
breakthrough but the trauma tried to
steal their
tribe today God will you restore
everything that the the enemy has tried
to
steal father I thank you that people are
trying again in relationships trying
again in service trying again to do what
you called them to do father God I’m
thanking you that this is a revelation
that leads to a
revolution I bind the spirit of
fear that would come over every person
who would say what if God doesn’t come
through you’re a good
father and God today we are reminded of
who you are you’re chasing after us you
are actually looking to do good in our
lives father because it brings you glory
when you’re children father God
are representing you on this Earth today
I thank you for all the people who are
moving in Crazy
Faith from the seeds that they
sow to the decisions that they make to
obey you God I thank you that this marks
a new moment in our
ministry this is not about amounts it’s
only about obedience and let it be said
of Transformation Church that we were a
body that was obedient to whatever God
said
thank you
Father for allowing us to experience
crazy faith and very simple
obedience there is triumph in us trying
again bless every seed bless every
business father as people are giving
even out of their need father I’m asking
you father to prove the doubt
wrong would you be God
so as non said father I know there is no
God except the god at Transformation
Church the god of the Bible father let
it be to your credit and not mine not
anybody else’s For Your Glory only today
we give you glory we give you honor and
we give you
praise if you’re in this
room you’ve never accepted Jesus we’re
going to give in a second more than
anything you could give as a sacrifice
your life is more important
today if you want to make Jesus Christ
your personal Lord and Savior if you
walked away from him today the most
crazy Faith step you can make it super
simple in a moment we’re going to all
pray together and all God’s asking you
to do is accept
him make him the Lord of your life how
do I do that Romans 10:9 confess with
your mouth and believe in your heart
that Jesus Christ is Lord It’s that
simple Church wants to make it hard
religion wants to make it hard but Jesus
said if you just do this two simple
steps he said and then I’ll help you
change all the other stuff I’ll help you
I’ll help you change your habits if
that’s
you today the greatest Miracle is
something super simple he’s going to
change your heart through your simple
confession if that’s you on a count of
three I just want you to lift your hand
number one you’re making the greatest
decision of your life number two I see
your hands sweetheart your name is about
to be written in the Lamb’s Book of Life
number three with faith and boldness I
see you my brother I see you my brother
I see you my sister I see you my sister
Transformation Church how do we
celebrate glory to God online in the
comments just put a hand we’re
Rejoice at Transformation Church nobody
prays
alone we all pray together so would
everybody just say God God thank you for
sending Jesus just for me for me today
today I Repent I rep and I turned to you
I turn to you I believe you lived I
believe you you died and you Rose again
just for me today I make a commitment to
serve you all the days of my life change
me renew me transform me I’m yours in
Jesus name amen can we shout unto God
with a voice of try I’m so proud proud
of you I’m so proud of you I’m so proud
of you and what a better
opportunity than right now to exercise
your
faith and to se if you just got saved I
want you to click that QR code we’re
going to give you some information we
want to stay connected with you and
right now we’re going SE in Crazy Faith
there’s boxes all over if you’re next to
a box I want you to um raise your hand
online you can give and everybody I want
you to fill out your crazy Faith card
this is not a slot
machine this is not a I gave and so I’m
expecting the 19 things for it to happen
the way I want it to happen remember
non’s problem is he
thought but if you say God I’m going to
obey you and what you say to give and
however you want to do
this everybody say Have Your Way have
your
way today some of you are going to sit
some husbands and wives are
renegotiating what they thought they was
going to do all I’m asking you to do is
obey God
when you obey him it
opens something for a miracle that
you’ve never seen father bless every
person as we worship and as we give from
all over this place whenever you decide
I believe the floor is going to be
ushered so everybody that’s on the sides
y’all just wait a second we’re going to
try to do this decent in order and we’re
going to worship God as we give cuz
giving is an active worship the floor is
going to give first and then everybody’s
going to come and if you need to slip
out there’s giving box and all this
stuff we’re not going to make this hard
this is simple but today we’re going to
give believing God’s about to do
something crazy in our lives amen can
y’all just lift your hands and say this
I just want to say this say
yah
yah rain
over and take over ushers just lead them
and everybody say say
yah
the spirit of God is still moving the
service is over but I believe the spirit
of God has been speaking to you this
whole time I want you to respond to
whatever God is saying to do in
obedience like did did you hear what the
message was it’s the miraculous thing
that God wants to do is wrapped up in
your try and I believe that somebody’s
getting the faith to try again trying to
go back to that place where you were
hurt before but going back knowing that
you’re there to be the answer to the
problem not needing an answer from them
trying to use your faith again to build
and not to tear down and whatever God is
telling you to do all I’m asking you to
do is obey if Transformation Church has
ever been a blessing to you or God is
speaking to you right now that you’re
supposed to sew a seed all I’m going to
ask you to do do it I’ve lived a life of
crazy faith and it’s always been the
simple things that God asked me to do
that created spectacular moments in my
life it’s not about mounts it’s about
obedience this is not a plea or a cry
this is an opportunity for you to walk
into another level of faith and I
believe that after that message what the
holy spirit is speaking to you you’re
going to try I love you let me pray for
you father thank you for my brother
thank you for my sister thank you for
that family that’s watching I thank you
Father God that you’re going to prove
yourself Strong by hearing and answering
their prayers and moving them from Faith
to Faith let us know father God that
there’s Triumph in trying to be it in
Jesus name amen I love you I’ll see you
next week
peace