hi my name is Bri and I have the

privilege of serving as Chief of Staff

here at Transformation Church at TC our

vision is to represent God to the lost

and found for transformation in Christ

and we just want to say thank you so

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that God has a word just for you so

let’s jump into today’s message I I have

an assignment to speak a word to you um

that is both challenging and

transformative so if you came in here

today to be entertained um you may want

to turn on YouTube right now and go

watch something that that just makes you

feel good today my assignment is to help

you

transform so the weight of my words are

not just my words they’re the word of

God going

into watch this his word or his breath

in

life he he he put his hand in

dirt

us so today his word is going to speak

to his

word oh my

God what do you have to use to say words

breath sir what he created you

with sir so he’s going to use the breath

that he breathed in his word to

speak to the bre breath he put inside of

you and I believe today there’s going to

be a

transformation that comes for those

whose hearts are open to receive it okay

so so I need you I need you to be

attentive today I only got a few minutes

with you today and I got a lot of

content but I think the way that this

transformed my life it has the potential

to do the same for you and um even as it

is my job and my duty and my command

from God to lead you on a spirit

spiritual journey I want to tell you

about something that’s coming up that is

going to be an opportunity for us to

take another step everybody say step in

our spiritual journey and if you know

anything about Transformation Church we

follow the pattern of God not a Playbook

of how to build a church so I go back to

the word and and and I try to find

things um that we can put in place in a

modern way to help us take a step

together and um one of the things that

we have done for I mean several years is

at the end of every year we pick a date

that we are going to as a church come

and give in Crazy Faith an offering that

is above our tithe and above our

offering to help expand the vision of

this house and be able to help move

things forward but we do it with no

campaign behind it we do it

intentionally with like oh now this is

going to help the children’s ministry or

this because a lot of times if our

giving is motivated by what we get it

really isn’t

generosity I know everybody wants it to

be like Oh I’m giving so I get this but

at TC we made a decision that every year

God whatever you say to give if it’s $2

or $2

million only one come on at the 2

million and I appreciate you I pray God

blesses you real big but the truth of

the matter is when I say that number

some people have never fathomed gift giv

that

away they only desire to have

it but God gives seed to

the and he’s never going to leave you

empty and so sometimes we got to take

our faith up and step outside of what

we’ve done and so I’m telling you

December 8th as a church all those who

are in this room and those who are

around the world and transformation

Nation we’re going to be having our

crazy Faith offering where people come

from all over the world where they give

where they come where they sit down and

teach their children ask their husbands

and wives what are what is God speaking

to us to give and this year I felt like

God strongly told me that I was supposed

to retitle this this this wasn’t

supposed to be the crazy Faith offering

it was supposed to be the crazy fruit

offering as this was a year that God

said I want you to produce fruit in your

life at another level well I begin to

think about it there has never been

fruit without seed

and I just believe that it’s our time to

take another step in our journey there

is no manipulation no I’m telling you

weeks in

advance I’m not saying today we give I’m

not saying stand up everybody that got a

100 I’m not doing none of that stuff cu

the Bible says very clearly that you

should give what has already been

purposed in your heart to give with no

compulsion nobody making you feel bad no

and and and so that’s why I’m trying to

do this with time God’s going to speak

to you and all I’m asking you as a

church is say God what am I supposed to

give and if he tells you something don’t

say that is the

devil cuz the devil will never tell you

to

give cuz he does the opposite than God

for God so loved the world that he it’s

God’s character it’s what the devil

hates and whatever he says to do all I’m

going to ask you to do is obey amen so I

wanted to put that out there so you can

begin to put that on your prayer list

and put that on your refrigerator start

beginning to talk about that with your

husband and wife on date night and we’re

going to see the kingdom of God expanded

because of our gener generosity

amen well welcome to week six of a

series we’re calling somebody help me

say show me the

receipts receips and I feel like God has

um told us that there should be nine

receipts that we have proof of our

relationship with

him he outlin finds them in his word as

the fruits of the spirit it’s proof that

you have relationship with God and the

truth is many people who quote

scriptures don’t have proof that they

spend time with

God many people that wear crosses don’t

have proof that they spend quality time

many people that sing gospel

songs don’t have proof and the world

right now is saying to all churches all

believers whether you’re on a platform

or you’re in a barber shop they’re

saying show me the

receipts give me proof that you

different than me yeah I do this yeah I

do that y I do but you get angry just

like me that’s right you have the same

reaction that I have you ain’t got no

peace neither like what is the

difference and the Holy Spirit

says come spend some time with

me abide with me stay with me get in my

presence let me develop in you the fruit

of the

spirit because if those are not

developed the fruit of your flesh will

be

developed and I want you to hear me say

this very clearly and very

precisely these nine

fruits are what God wants our life to

look like at the end of the day that

people would not be able to say your

name but they would be able to describe

your life by these things right here

Galatians

5:22 they need to be able to say yeah I

know them they’re filled with

love

joy

peace patience yeah they’re person of

kindness goodness faithfulness man

they’re gentle and they have selfcontrol

and they didn’t do that on their

own these things were divided through

the power of the holy spirit so if you

look at any of these fruits of the

spirit and you’re trying to figure out a

natural way to get them without God you

are already setting yourself up for

failure every other thing is a cheap

counterfeit and so today I said Lord how

do you want me to bring people into this

next fruit because we’ve talked

about Joy we’ve talked

about patience

but this next

one I needed a little help and the Lord

begin to minister to me as I was reading

something to my children and for all of

those that sometimes say you know

Transformation Church just a bunch of

hype and you know what I’m saying I need

to get to the Deep things of the word

and I need to I need to go

deeper I’m glad that you said that cuz

today the word comes from a well-known

um

author Dr Seuss

see I don’t need you to be impressed

with me I need you to get what the word

is trying to say and so I looked as I

was reading this to one of my kids this

story is called Horton Hatches the Egg

and and I don’t know if some of y’all

are too grown for something like this

but I can find God in

everything and y’all when I tell you

this book started ministering to

me this is about an elephant that meets

a bird and a bird is tired and wants a

vacation yeah and so this elephant

decides to take on the responsibility of

being consistent for this bird so that

an egg could

hatch so I’ll preach this for the 40

minutes I have I promise you I

will so so the bird goes off on vacation

but the elephant decides to make a

promise that he will stay in place until

this egg hatches and and you got to read

the whole thing on your own time but we

going to have a little trans Church

story time right

now it says very well said the elephant

since um um since you insist you want a

vacation so go fly off and take it I’ll

sit on your egg and I’ll try not to

break it I’ll stay and be

faithful I mean what I

say I said

okay stay and be faithful then I went a

couple more pages and said and he sat

all the day and he kept the egg warm and

he sat all night through a terrible

storm now some of us experienced a

terrible storm last night here in Tulsa

Oklahoma you still ain’t got no power

okay here we

go it poured and it lightening it

thundered and it rumbled this isn’t much

fun the poor elephant grumbled I wish

she’d come back cuz I’m cold and I’m

wet I hope that that bird doesn’t forget

and I don’t know if you’ve ever been a

in a place where you’re doing something

for somebody

else and it seems like they forgot about

the sacrifice that you were making but I

don’t know I don’t know about you but it

it it hit

me then I want a couple more pages I’m

just sharing some highlights You should

really go get it it’s real

nice so Hardon kept sitting there day

after day and soon it was Autumn the

leaves blew away and then came winter

the snow and the sleep and icing icicles

hung from his trunk and his feet but

Horton kept sitting and said with the

sneeze

I’ll on this egg that’s what it said why

y’all said with a sneeze I’m just trying

to bring it to

life and he said with a

sneeze I’ll stay on this Egg and I won’t

let it freeze

I mean what I said and I said what I

meant an elephant’s

faithful

100% at this point I was reading a GG

and I was hey I was doing a pastor roll

hey yeah I

was

okay it said they laughed and they

laughed he he stayed consistent when

people were ridiculing him

they laughed and they laughed then they

all ran away and Horton was lonely cuz

he wanted to play but he sat on the egg

and continued to say I meant what I

said and I said what I meant and

elephants

faithful

100 I’m gonna read one

more this is the point

where hunters

came to kill him because he was more

valuable to them

dead he’s sitting there with Hunters

pointing oh my God this hits me it said

did he run he did not Horton stayed on

that nest and he held his head high and

he threw out his chest and he looked at

the Hunter

as much as to say shoot if you must but

I won’t run

away I meant what I

said and I said what I meant an

elephant’s

faithful

100% when I begin to read

this I feel I felt like the Holy Spirit

asked me will you be that faith

F will you be

faithful through the

storm will you be faithful when the

seasons

change will you be faithful when they

slander

you and most of us unlike Horton have a

Breaking Point to our

faithfulness come on let’s be

honest today I want to talk to you about

the fruit of the spirit of faithfulness

which is only

provided through the holy spirit because

the type of faithful that will look at

somebody trying to threaten you and stay

when you know God said to

stay it can’t be good

intentions it has to be something that

is empowered by him so today I want to

set the foundation for you so that you

can be faithful somebody say 100% 100%

I’m not just talking about being

faithful to the things you can see and

the things that people

know I’m saying being fully faithful in

every season no matter what happens and

this watch this is hard to

do and this is why God is telling us you

need the Holy Spirit you want to be

married you need the Holy Spirit you

want to work the job you need the holy

spirit this is not just about speak

speaking in tongues this is you getting

the ammunition you need to actually be

everything that God has called you to be

so when I look at this there’s a couple

things that I have to realize right now

number Point number one God is

faithful I just need to start with the

foundation say it with me God is

faithful everybody didn’t say you looked

at me so I’m going to give you one more

chance to do it everybody say it with me

God is faithful I’m prove it to you in 2

Timothy 2:13 I’m going to give you some

scriptures so you can go home knowing

the type of God that we serve okay it

says if we are Unfaithful I love how

this verse

starts because it starts with my

Frailty it starts with my nature it

starts with me not being able to measure

up to the things that I even say I want

to do and it says if we are Unfaithful

how many Unfaithful people have been in

here you made a promise of God you you

said God if you get me out of this

situation I will never and then you did

it next week come on y’all better not

leave me up or I’ll start calling you

out okay all of us in some area of our

life have been

unfaithful okay but it says if we are

Unfaithful he remains

faithful for he cannot watch this I love

this part he can’t deny who he

is God is

faithful it don’t matter it’s who he is

so when you mess up and you go back on

God he is like man can’t stop showing up

for

him I hate you God you left me you said

this would never happen and I’m walking

away from you and I’m walking towards

you y’all missed it God is faithful walk

away from him he’s right there

you don’t want to sing worship anymore

it’s

okay you don’t want to go to church no

more it’s all

right oh you want to live an alternate

sexual lifestyle still love

you oh the religious people are offended

by that but I’m not cuz I made you and

you’re my child and I can’t it’s who I

am

I am

faithful until you understand the

fundamental the fundamental premise of

who God is you will treat him like one

of your family

members family is the beautiful thing

that God has given us and also the

source of most of our

dysfunction can we be

honest cuz the truth of the matter is a

lot of times the people who supposed to

be faithful to you for no reason when

you choose the wrong college that wasn’t

their armor

martyr they won’t pay for it no more so

because of a decision that didn’t align

with what they

wanted no longer

faithful we put stipulation so it makes

us think that God’s doing the same

thing and it’s not who he is just say it

with me one more time I’m just setting

the foundation say God God is is

faithful Faith so that means for all of

us we have to recognize God’s

faithfulness write that down recognize

God’s faithfulness Deuteronomy

79 understand therefore that the Lord

your God is indeed God he is the

faithful God who keeps his Covenant I

love this for a thousand Generations

and lavishes his unfailing love on those

who love him and obey his commands it is

in God’s

character to have faithfulness to not

just

you but to your children’s Children’s

children’s Children’s children’s

children children’s children children

times a

thousand what this is unlike anything

I’ve seen on Earth before EX

exactly cuz you need to know who God is

and how he operates so once you watch

this understand and recognize God’s

faithfulness write this down you need to

receive God’s

faithfulness I know I’m going quick cuz

I’m trying to set a foundation to get

you to the point somebody say God is

faithful God is faithful and I have to

recognize God’s faithfulness come

on God fa and I have to receive God’s

faithfulness

these are the scriptures that make me

happy that God is God and I’m not first

John chapter 1 verse 9 but if we confess

our sins to

him he is

faithful and just to forgive us of our

sins and to cleanse us from all

wickedness did he just put in a clause

for all of my mess ups no matter what

this this is the God we serve if you’re

dealing in sin he says I will forgive

that cuz I’m faithful one thing I need

you to do confess it to

me confess you have this issue confess

you have this problem confess that sin

has been ravaging your life if you give

it to me I will forgive you why cuz I’m

faithful they may not forget but I

will I tell you when you give me your

sins I’ll ball it up and I’ll throw your

sins as far as the East is from the West

they might not forget but I

will y’all don’t hear me the only reason

he can do this is not cuz he’s just nice

and kind it’s cuz he’s

faithful

okay and some of you by the end of this

service are going to receive God’s

faithfulness that’s the reason you’re

here the enemy’s been trying to convince

you you’ve done too much wrong and God’s

saying this is my

Mo you you you’ve not been faithful

beautiful bring it to me cuz I’m the

only one that is faithful to forgive

your sins let me give you one more that

really helped snatch me out of

pornography that really helped me snatch

me out of lustful thoughts and living in

secret watch this 1 Corinthians chapter

10:13 I’m trying to give you what worked

for me cuz until I received that God was

faithful for my life I was always trying

to work to do what I could not sustain

I was always trying to work and to prove

and to to to make all these um um um

accountability structures to do what it

wasn’t in me to do

it cuz my nature was

nasty okay I’m being too real today if

you be honest what you think without God

what you say without God what you search

without

God you’re nature is

nasty but that’s why God says bring all

that to

me 1 Corinthians 10:13 there is no

temptation that has overtaken you except

what is common to man what does this

mean you ain’t the only one going

through that and you ain’t the first one

that dealt with that and you won’t be

the last this is everybody say

common and God is say it with me fa

watch how he’s faithful he will not let

you be tempted beyond what you can bear

but when you are tempted he will also

provide a way out so that you can endure

it there’s a couple things I need you to

extract from this number one because God

is faithful he not going to let you be

tempted beyond what you can bear so any

Temptation you find yourself in even if

it was made by your nasty nature he’s

saying we can get out of

this oh oh any mess that you’re in you

can still win this is messed up right

now but I’m about to provide a way of

Escape for you but the only thing you

got to do is take

it and most of us when God is being

faithful to have somebody call your

phone at 11:39 that butt dialed you

while you was about to walk into that

house you know you had no business to be

in

and you see it and God

mama why is my mama calling me right

now it was a way of

Escape you sent the email with your

resignation and hit the enter button

hard and for some

reason returned to Cinder Bo

he was trying to send

you a way of

Escape I just I just wonder how many

ways of escapes we

ignore your whole iPhone shut

off I mean you was about to do something

that was going to be Reckless and lead

you down a hole that would rob you of a

future with your children

and your phone just went

black and you where’s the charger

where’s the charger where’s the charger

a

charger looking everywhere gone to the

store to buy a new charger to

participate in

sin you about to power to

sin but what did God do many times the

inconveniences that frustrate us are the

way of Escape that God is trying to

provide for us

stuck in traffic you wasn’t supposed to

be

there okay let me

stop God is

faithful so I will recognize his

faithfulness I will receive his

faithfulness and last thing I want to

tell you because this is where I got to

camp out today cuz I all the songs We

Sing About God being faithful we kind of

put it out on him like God you’re

faithful God you’re faithful God you

never fail you sustain you all

but what I found out studying this fruit

of the spirit and this receipt we all

need faithfulness is not just for

God so if you think God wants me to be

faithful and all you think about is how

he’s faithful you’ve only got half of

the

Revelation cuz what God wants us to do

write this down is reflect God’s

faithfulness not just recognize it not

not just receive it but what’s the last

thing reflect

it see the thing is he’s been faithful

to

us and so

now I need to posture and put my life in

a

perspective you can’t see my face from

here but at the moment I put up

something that can be a

reflection there are groups of people

that are able to see

something brand new a different

perspective because I’m reflecting

now what is

here and so now there are people all

over the world trying to figure out how

am I going to understand who God is and

where he is and what he’s supposed to do

in my life and God saying they may never

see

me but what if the only faithfulness

they

get is a reflection

of my faithfulness to them through

you not just recognizing God is Faith oh

he’s so faithful oh God been faithful

great oh I receive his faithful and I

don’t got to be I’m free I’m

free but when’s the last

time that your reflection of God’s

faithfulness was the thing that Drew

somebody else to

him how have you been con

consistent how have you been

loyal how have you been

faithful if I don’t reflect

faithfulness it may mean I need to spend

some more time with the Holy

Spirit I wanted I I wish he didn’t put

it in the nine fruits of the

spirit cuz it’s easy to talk about how

faithful he

is the Sun and the Moon every day the

tide comes up to a c

he faithful and God says everything that

I put into this Earth that goes clock

that you can set your clock to he said

that’s what I want every believer to be

like in a discouraging situation I want

people to be able to set their clock

they’re about to encourage me they are

faithful to encourage in hard

situations when somebody is in need I

want my church to be faithful to give

when somebody’s in need right I I want I

want to see faithfulness in the lives of

every believer and today I’m asking you

are you actually

faithful two weeks ago I took my wife on

a date night um to see the Michael

Jackson uh Broadway experience that came

to Tulsa and it was phenomenal and it

was so good that actually some of the um

Talent came to church on Sunday in the

morning and then um we took our

daughters back that night and so I’m

sitting there about to doze off the

second time not because of of the

performance at all it’s because I was

super tired I had preached in the

morning I had done all the other stuff

and so I’m about to doze off and they

start singing this song called I’m

starting with the man in the

mirror and the Holy Spirit begin to

convict my heart in that moment as I was

listening to that song and I went back

and looked up the words cuz you know

half the Michael Jackson songs we don’t

know what he’d be saying you know what

I’m saying I’m a vegetable I’m a

vegetable I I don’t know what that

brother I don’t know what kind of diet

he was on when he wrote that so I went

to look at the words and again God’s

just been speaking to me through things

and I know this not may not be churchy

for enough for some of y’all but I I ask

God like speak to me through

everything show me yourself like I don’t

know how to do this I may not look up

the right scripture so as I do as I’m

faithful and spending time with you you

can speak to me outside of my quiet

time you can speak to me outside speak

to me through everything and when I

looked up the word he said I’m starting

with the man in the mirror I’m asking

him to change his ways and no message

could have been any clearer if they want

to make the world a better place take a

look at

yourself and make the

change this is Transformation

Church and maybe all of the change that

we want to happen in the

world starts with the

man so today as we talk about

faithfulness I don’t want anybody else

to look at your spouse to look at your

kids to look at

that crazy neighbor you

have today I want you to pick up your

own spiritual

mirror and say I know I’ve done some

good stuff but have I been faithful have

I been faithful enough not watch this

not just to

God see this is the

problem faithfulness all of these fruits

of the spirit love joy people it’s not

just to give love back to God and joy

back to God it’s supposed to be fruit

that other

people so I never thought about it like

this but my faithfulness should be

nourishment to somebody else y’all

missed it the way that I conduct my life

the way I show up and serve the way that

I give to people the way that I love the

way that I treat my

wife that should be a reflection of my

relationship with God and the truth of

the matter is culture is fighting

faithfulness there is no place in your

life where anybody’s making you be

consistent you need no contracts for

cell phones no

more matter of fact your new company on

your cell phone plan will buy out your

old

contract cuz they telling you don’t be

faithful to

them come to us now I’m not I’m not I’m

not I’m not sponsored by any cell phone

company telling you this I’m just saying

there are so many places in our life

where we don’t have to stay with the

same thing no

more think about

it where where in your life is

faithfulness being

developed

okay so today the title of the message

is very simple I’m starting with the man

in the mirror reflecting God’s

faithfulness and I want to give you a

definition of faithfulness I’m almost

done I just I just want you to self-

evaluate

today am I letting the Holy

Spirit work in me the fruit of

faithfulness and if not I may need to

surrender watch this surrender because

getting more fruit doesn’t mean that I

work

harder getting more fruit is I Surrender

faster getting more fruit in your life

if it’s not like oh I got to do this and

I got to do this then I got to read that

book then I got to go here then I gotta

no

it’s I Surrender the so soil of my heart

God I Surrender this soil whatever you

want to plant in it that is going to

produce the fruit in my life that I’m

supposed to I Surrender I’m not going to

pluck up anything that you put there but

it is my responsibility to get these

weeds and these distractions and these

things out of my heart that keep trying

to choke out the words you are planting

in my heart so father I need more

faithfulness I am not consistent in

anything I say one thing I do the other

Holy Spirit I surrender to the processes

and the plans and the

people and the accountabil

and the

structures faithfulness it means

steadfast

loyalty consistent ability to stand

firm a steadfast that elephant is in a

branch sitting on an egg that’s not his

right

and he kept saying the only reason I’m

doing this is because I meant what I

said and I said what I he stood on

business he had a steadfast loyalty

watch this to somebody that wasn’t even

loyal to him he told him he was going

away for a second that bird was

gone if you read the story that bird was

flying everywhere having a vacation why

because it wasn’t about what they do

isn’t a it’s it’s not about what they

say it’s not about how consistent they

are that’s why when you on teams and be

like well nobody else is running

Labs what was the

instruction what was the steadfast

loyalty that you made and most of us

only want to be faithful when there’s a

crowd I got to say it that faithfulness

to God is usually authenticated in the

dark

when nobody sees

you that’s when God calls it

faithful okay all right I got to keep

going and some people are thinking okay

Pastor Mike how do I get this steadfast

loyalty how do I get consistent ability

to stand firm and and and I know even

your mind is going right now because

there are a few different people in the

room right now some people are thinking

today I’m faithful a little

bit like I’m you know I’ll be faithful

to C I’m faithful a little bit and then

there’s other people in the room that

say I’ll be faithful in a little

bit you think you have time to grow into

faithfulness like I’m young man you know

what I’m saying I’ll do my thing right

now that’s why people have three and

four

marriages cuz many times the quality of

the the commitment they made at the

altar already in their mind it was able

to be broken when they said it before

God

y’all know it we don’t say it but there

are certain people that stand there and

say yeah till death do us part or you

make me mad

enough in sickness or health or until I

get sick of

you they never say it but it’s so when

you already

think that the Covenant has the

opportunity to be broken you you did not

have the

faithfulness that you needed to commit

like that that’s why I be telling young

couples like hey if you ain’t ready to

be faithful when you don’t feel

it just keep

dating no no hear me that’s why if

you’re not ready to be faithful when

it’s watch this not

fair faithfulness does not take into

consideration if it’s

fair I can’t tell you how many times I

don’t feel like doing this and I be

telling God this is not

fair and he said will you be

faithful yeah I will everybody open up

your Bible this week

98 somebody say I’m going to be

faithful fa if I was saying I’m going

have a million dollars I’mma Be a

business owner I’mma Be an entrepreneur

you would be loud proud screaming

believing God write it on your crazy

fruit card

but I’m going to be

faithful why why is

faithfulness why doesn’t it make us

excited I think we’ve hit something that

the body of Christ is

missing a fruit that is required of us

to be able to get everything that God

wants us to get at the end of our life

what is the thing that we’re hoping that

he says to

us

well done my good and

faithful if it is if it is what we want

to hear from God in the

end how much work are we putting

in to the faithfulness category of our

life some of us will be able to say Well

done my good and

put in your

blank uhoh good and lazy

servant I’m just saying can faithful be

in there for

you this convicted me so hard and made

me start appreciating the consistencies

of my life that I have not enjoyed up

until this point oh God all right I got

to get out of here Matthew chapter 25:23

is where you can find that scripture um

it says well done my good and faithful

servant watch this you have been

faithful in handling the small

amount so so so so so I want you to see

remember I said there’s a few people in

here there’s some people in here that

say I’m I’m faithful a little bit and

then there’s some people in here that

say I’ll be faithful in a little bit but

the the truth is all of us should be

faithful in the little

bit in the little bit of responsibility

God gives you be faithful in the little

bit of money you got be faithful in the

little bit of friends group that you

have be

faithful cuz this scripture says God

judges how much he

gives in increase based on how you were

faithful with the little bit you started

with are you faithful with those few

contacts

are you Faithful in that serving

position are you Faithful at that job

that they don’t recognize you God saidou

not working for

them you working for

me so the question is this how we ending

today why would you be

faithful and when I begin to ask myself

this question I had to really dive deep

into my heart to try to speak this

message because there are certain things

that I I feel like I’ve been faithful in

but my heart motive was wrong in

it I know most pastors won’t get up and

tell you like the word that’s actually

working on them but this one whooped my

tail cuz the Holy Spirit didn’t just say

are you Faithful he said why are you

Faithful and so I begin to jot down a

few

reasons why I’ve been faithful and maybe

a few reasons why you’ve been faithful

and and and I wrote it down with this

title what fuels your faithfulness

and I want you to ask yourself this

because the first one I wrote down is

there have been seasons in my life that

I was faithful because of

fear is the reason you’re

faithful because of

fear I can think of so many times where

I did the right thing cuz I was scared

of what would

happen if I did the wrong thing and you

know what I’m not mad at that it has

kept me a couple times

but at some point it

broke that the Cravings of My Flesh

outweighed the

fear and so I would do things that I

once was fearful

of and and I actually reap the

consequences of them because I did not

have a resolve in me to be faithful that

was stronger than

fear and so I’m telling you you may be

doing all the right things right now cuz

you don’t want to get in trouble

but at some point that won’t hold you no

more I’m telling you as sure as I’m

standing here right now you only being

faithful to your wife cuz you don’t want

to see what she going to do she crazy

Hispanic woman and she’ll cut your stuff

up and da da da y’all know we have all

of these crazy ideas of uhuh you don’t

mess with this type of person you don’t

do this stuff fear will only holds

you if you are faithful only because of

fear today I want to ask

you to reconsider a better way to be

faithful second thing some people are

faithful only because of

feelings some of us feel like being

faithful at times you know I’m GNA stay

consistent at this I’m GNA be loyal with

this and you know what I’m saying I’m

going to be steadfast at this man this

is a great job like God G me this

opportunity I’m going I’m going to I’m

going to be everything he told me to be

right here I’m going to stay planted I’m

going to be right here I’m going to be

his light shining to the world right

here they don’t have to promote me they

don’t have to give me anything they just

can really look over me because I don’t

do this for anybody but hear me anyway

and this is my moment to be faithful in

the dark and be with you god Here I Am

Lord use

me some people are faithful cuz they

feel

it but what happens when you don’t feel

it no more

come on some people change churches so

often because they ain’t feeling what

the pastor preaching right

now but God planted you at that place

saved you delivered you healed you

transformed you challenged

you but it’s a six-month season that you

ain’t feeling how I I ain’t feeling what

he wearing either well look at them

pants they too tight and it’s got

multiple colors on it I what like and

people go into things about their

feeling will you be

faithful when you

don’t

feel I’m just asking you right now cuz I

had to ask myself is my faithfulness

only when I feel

it am I only faithful to encourage

people that I

like when I feel like there’s

something you know what I’m saying we

yeah yeah that’s my yeah and then when

it’s not like that no

more I have

I’m not doing the thing God told me to

do okay I’m just going to give you what

fuels your faith is it fear is it

feelings watch this one some of us have

only been faithful because it was forced

on

us I know people who were raised in

families that hey your last name is

Johnson oh come on y’all and Johnson’s

do blah blah blah blah blah

and Johns says never do dot dot dot dot

dot and some of us 39 years old 50 years

old are still held in

place because they dead from the grave

you still hear them say but you a

John and God’s asking you to do

something else he’s asking you to trade

the operating system to still be

faithful but don’t be faithful because

you were forced

to you need to be faithful for for a

better

reason and this one this one was the one

that God really had to get me he said

Michael A lot of times you’ve only been

faithful because you wanted

favor you were faithful because you

wanted a

favor there’s some of y’all that are in

business with people right now and the

only reason oh yeah brother that’s oh

man yeah I love that idea yeah yeah yeah

yeah that’s great bro

yeah and the only reason you doing that

is cu at some point you know you going

to ask them for

something what you are called is a

manipulator I just want you to know if

the only reason you are faithful to a

friendship faithful to a Ministry

faithful to a spouse is because of what

you get it as a favor you are working in

manipulation and I know nobody wants to

hear it but I’m not faithful watch this

to get a favor from

God he’s already been faithful ful to me

it should be the

reflection it should be my response but

if I give so God can give to me no he

said that’s a principle I would love for

you to give just cuz I said

so I would love for every time I as my

kids to do something they would do it

because they understand the value that

their father’s voice has in their life

and all that I provided for but every

time I tell him to do something it’s

like what you going to do for

me what

look at the clothes you got on you see

that light oh you want to drink of

water but because God is faithful he

lets us stay in that

ignorance until we get a

revelation what I found out in my walk

with Jesus is the best reason write this

down to be

faithful is because I’m

free and it’s

fruitful when I’m faithful God says it

proves you’re

free that you know who’s done this for

you and you trust

him and if you seow seeds of

fruitfulness into somebody else’s life

he said it’s going to it’s going to

actually produce so much fruit that

you’re not even going to be able to

contain this but I need you to do it not

because you’re getting something

back I need you to do it cuz I’ve

already done something for

you I’ve already proven this is my

character and I want you

to reflect

me it was

2018 January

8th um I’m three years in the pastoring

Transformation Church there’s probably

about 450 people coming to the church

um I’m feeling a little discouraged cuz

I don’t know how to grow the church I

ain’t never done nothing but gone 6

months to

TCC and uh I felt unqualified to stand

in the position that God called

me I’m sitting here with people that are

still in the room right now just asking

God what am I supposed to do do you see

me is this worth it and we had some

friends from Church on the Move um come

by that Sunday it’s a church in this

city that’s been going for years and

they had a transition

from the father to the Son and the son

with George I knew who he was and we had

some great interactions and without

calling me talking to me doing anything

he uh he sent his Outreach director over

and they handed us as a church a check

for

$20,000 this was

unsolicited we didn’t have a building

campaign going on there was nothing it

was almost if in that moment God use

somebody else’s

faithfulness to prove his faithfulness

to us and when I tell you around

Transformation Church for the whole year

that 20,000 might have been two might as

well been 2

million the way it lifted our Spirits

the way that we celebrated the way that

I cried and said God thank you for

seeing

us it it was just an affirmation that

God was like I’m faithful but he used

somebody else’s

faithfulness to prove his faithfulness

to us Church on the Move on that Sunday

was a

reflection and so two years later when

God changed our situation 2018 when I

was about to give up was the year that

God was about to blow everything up it’s

just right at the moment you’re about to

give in right at the moment I want to

encourage somebody right at the moment

you’re about to throw into town it might

be the precipice of the biggest

breakthrough you’re ever going to have

it was right there January of 2018 we

didn’t even know what was happening all

the sermons were going viral people were

doing all this stuff I was in the middle

of a glow up that I couldn’t

feel I couldn’t feel what God was doing

but I still had to be

faithful so two years later God changed

our financial position as a church and

one day I said you know what we’re going

to do we going we going to give back to

Church on the Move they they they were

faithful to God and faithful to show us

faithfulness in that moment and and in

in fact we’re going to double it and and

two years later we gave Church on the

Move back for their missions CA

$40,000 that’s what we did

Transformation Church that’s beautiful

but watch this after we gave it away God

said that wasn’t a reflection that was

reciprocation I appreciate that that was

honor you gave where you got it from but

I ask you in your faithfulness not to

just give it back to to the one who gave

it to you I want you to be a

reflection so three weeks ago as I’m

sitting in a meeting I told the team I

said y’all was in prayer this morning

and I feel like the holy spirit is

calling us to be a reflection to other

emerging churches around this

world and they said what are you what

are you what are you feeling Pastor Mike

I said I believe we’re supposed to give

that same $20,000 seed that was given to

us in

2018 we’re supposed to sew it into 30

other

churches y’all don’t know the right

place to Rejoice so

I’m talking about being a

reflection so

so so this is what we’re going to do as

a church today we’re going to be

faithful we’re not going to to keep what

God’s given us to ourselves we’re going

to be a reflection of his faithfulness

when God saw us he spoke to Church on

the

Move and because Church on the move and

their Partners have been faithful in

giving and sewing and and and being

intentional it blessed us and showed us

God’s faithfulness God said I don’t want

you to just do it for one I want you to

do it for 30 so y’all get ready to

Rejoice I know some of y’all got to

leave but First Baptist Mohawk Church

Reverend Emanuel L CER here in Tulsa

there’s a check for $20,000 coming to

you new har Church Pastor Ben and

Jessica cmer here in Tulsa there’s a

$20,000 check coming to L Mission Church

in Messa Vision Pastor Mel and Kyle

gonzala here in Tulsa there’s a

$2,000 y’all don’t know how to

shout presentence theater Church Pastor

Alvin and sonola fuer in aaso there’s

$20,000 coming to you Agape Church

Pastor Chad catcher in Sand Spring

there’s $20,000 coming to you Friendship

Church in North tall al pastor Jamal

Dyer there’s

$220,000 coming to

you a reflection of God’s

faithfulness but

watch this only happened cuz y’all been

faithful I need y’all to get this this

is not the church doing everybody who’s

given one

penny to this

organization it didn’t go into some

frivolous

thing it’s being

used to prove God’s

faithfulness none of these people know

this is happening if y’all knowing these

people text them cuz they don’t know

it’s happening right now and who knows

what they prayed

yesterday or this morning or how they

feel unseen or overlooked but because of

the faith faithfulness of God’s

people somebody gets to see God’s

faithfulness overflow Church in

Minnesota Pastor Luke and Jordan Chaffin

there $20,000 coming to you one Church

Pastor Filmore and Caitlyn in Seattle

there’s $220,000 coming to you Sozo City

Church Pastor long and oh I can’t even

pronounce y’all name Pastor LS and

Christine m in Chicago we going to send

it to you

okay some of y’all parents was naming

y’all interesting here we

go New Hope Church

koui Pastor Kippy and JC in

Hawaii and then New Hope Maui pastors

Dwayne and Janet in Hawaii $220,000 is

coming to you the Tabernacle in Chicago

Pastor David Wilford in Illinois

$220,000 all in church pastor Ricky and

Melissa in California $220,000 is coming

to you the High Praise um Church Apostle

Jack milk in Tennessee $20,000 is coming

to you shell Church in Florida Pastor

Shalom and Marina it’s coming to you now

listen somebody said why don’t you just

put all their names on the screen and

can cheer one

time the reason I’m doing this cuz

sometimes people need to know

individually that God sees them and the

question is will there be a

church that actually celebrates

everyone and I’m not just talking about

in this moment I know you may have

something wrong with your hands you

can’t clap you have something wrong with

your voice you can’t you can’t

okay but the heart posture yeah to

celebrate with those you may never be

able to

see to actually be thankful like it was

happening to

you being faithful over

the the little part that we play in this

is we gave and now we get to

rejoice and some people watch this some

people won’t be faithful in this

moment and God’s watching this moment

to see if you will be faithful over

much so well it’s just $20,000 okay

today okay let me

stop iner Centro

deida Pastor Olivia and ogga Springer

here in Tulsa $220,000 is coming to you

Ru Tampa Pastor Isaac and Bessa in

Florida $20,000 is coming to you rain

Church Pastor Billy and Nicole Sweeney

in Colorado $20,000 is coming to you new

generational Church RVA Pastor Mike and

Danielle haway in Virginia 20,000 is

coming to you y’all text these people if

you know them Rhythm Church in Chicago

pastor Chris Griffin Illinois 20,000 is

coming to you uncommon Church Bishop

Mitchell and Pastor Dana blue in North

Carolina $20,000 is coming to you I only

got eight more

more Community Bible Church in Odessa

Pastor Shane $20,000 is coming to you

Harvest Church International Pastor

Brian and Kelly cuff there’s an organ

$220,000 is coming to you Fountain of

Life Church in ruia so and Cesar austo

in Florida sorry

y’all purpose Life Church Pastor hson

and Sherice Williams you from that

church in New York $20,000 Is On The Way

Way Church Pastor Noah Haron in

Tennessee $20,000 is coming to you

Hallelujah Tabernacle Pastor manasse and

Sandy in Florida $22,000 is coming to

you evolv Life Church in Atlanta pastors

Mike and shamica Owens $20,000 is coming

to you Collective Church in Omaha

pastors Drew and Morgan

say it oh y’all know them

Milligan $20,000 is going to

you home Church in New Orleans Pastor

Stephan stepan and Laura Deo there’s

20,000 coming to you and True North

Church Pastor Daniel and Michelle Hines

in Virginia $20,000 is coming to you can

we praise God as a church

hallelujah thank you Lord for your

faithfulness and thank you Lord that we

can be a church that reflect your

faithfulness to

others last

point being faithful to others means

that you can’t forget

how he’s been faithful to

you I had no reason to remember what

Church on the Move did after all the

Miracles that God did

except it was a moment of God’s

faithfulness to me and because I didn’t

forget

it it sparked something in me to be

faithful to

others that’s why in the middle of a bad

situation we can sing great is thy

faithfulness

said great is thy

faithfulness morning by

morning new

mercies I

see all I have

needed th hands have

provid great is Is Thy

Faithfulness Lord

unto me before everybody leaves would

you just look at

me I’m asking you this

week to

intentionally

surrender to the holy

spirit for him to show you the places

and the spaces you need to be more

faithful

the reason I didn’t give you a list of

things cuz it’s going to be different

for all of us for some of us it’s going

to be faithful and how we

eat cuz you can’t fulfill a purpose if

you’re not

here okay let me

stop I’m I’m just saying some of us is

going to be faithful in our finances

faithful to show up for your family

faithful to actually be a good

friend what what if that song could not

just be sung to God greater is your

faithfulness what if God could sing that

song to

us great is your

faithfulness great is your

faithfulness morning by morning new

mercies I see it in you boy I

see like like what if

it wasn’t just his faithfulness to

us what if it was the

reflection of his faithfulness to people

at that workplace to the people at the

record company to the

people who have nothing to give you

back there will be no advancement from

what you

do there will be no come up for would

you still be faithful

and today there are areas in my life

that I’m saying God I still need you to

work on me come on can y’all be honest

with me in this place if there is an

area in your life where you’re saying

God I need this fruit of faithfulness to

be worked in my heart at another level

would you just lift your hands I want to

pray for all of us come on

yeah father today here we

are asking you to make us more like

you father my nature is to be be

faulty my nature is to be unsure my

nature wants to switch things up and do

do things father God in a way that’s not

consistent but today part of your

character is being

consistent and steadfast and

loyal something that lives can be built

on father will you make me more like

you what whatever generational patterns

or beliefs I have to give up to be more

like you today I

Surrender today I’m asking you father

would you do a work on the inside of me

Holy Spirit speak to

me develop in me the things that culture

could not develop in me the things that

that program couldn’t do in me Holy

Spirit we know this is a fruit that

comes from you so today Father God I

thank you that you’ll show up in my

life show up in my marriage show up in

my job show up in my career show up

father in the way that I obey you inside

of church and outside of

church I want to be faithful to

you and as a reflection I want to be

faithful to others God I thank you for

strength coming to people who have been

tired of being

faithful I thank you they’ll get that

Horton

Holiness that they’ll make a decision to

say

no matter what goes

on I meant what I

said and I said what I

meant Michael Todd is going to be

faithful

100% have your way in us today is our

prayer in Jesus name somebody say Amen

give him a big clap of Praise right

now Hey listen listen listen listen

listen remember at the top of the

service I said that we have to recognize

that he is faithful but then we have to

receive that he is faithful there are

some people under the sound of my voice

that have never received his

faithfulness cuz you’ve believed the

lies of the enemy or even people that

said you need to change before you come

to God if you could have done that you

would have already done it but you need

him to do that he’s the only savior that

doesn’t tell you to just do rituals to

be close to him he said I’ll come down

and I’ll get you all you have to do is

receive me and if you’re in this room

and you’ve been living your life for

yourself and you’ve been far from God

and you feel like you got too many

habits too many addictions too many

things Oho my pastoral heart is going

out somebody’s life is in the balance

right now you’ve been you’ve been going

around in circles and you’re tired

you’ve been thinking about even ending

your life today God is coming to rescue

you and all you have to do is somebody

shout at me receive reive so all you

have to he said he is faithful

to forgive your

sins even when you still doing it

knowing that it’s the wrong thing he

said I’m faithful to do what men can’t

do for

you just receive me and today I just

feel that there are several people in

this room and watching online

potentially

hundreds that need to make Jesus Christ

your personal Lord and Savior this the

only reason I’m here the only reason I’m

here is cuz God’s been faithful to me I

could have been locked up I could have

had had kids everywhere I could have

been I could have been running from

God’s like y’all I was messed up

addicted to pornography lying

manipulating doing all these things and

God was like could you bring me

that and I’m not going to just judge

what’s going on here I’m going to

transform what’s going on

here today I want to give you that same

opportunity I’m not a perfect man but I

am a progressive man I thank God I’m not

where I used to be and it’s because of

the mercy of God that he shown for me

day after day because he is

faithful and today I want you to receive

faithfulness if that’s you on the count

of three I just want you to lift your

hands if you’re in the room you’re

online if you’re sitting next to

somebody I want you to just lift your

hands and say today I want to receive

Jesus because when you receive his

faithfulness you can’t never go back you

can try and some of us been running from

him for a long time but there he is he a

peekaboo he’s right there he’s going to

always be right there and today this is

the thing you’ve been looking for one

you’re making the greatest decision of

your life two I’m proud of you but more

than that your name is about to be

written in the Lamb’s Book of Life and

there’s about to be a party if you want

to receive Jesus three shoot your hand

up in the air right now I see you I see

you I see you my sister I see you my

brother come on right there y’all how do

we celebrate what God is doing this is

what it’s all

about with everybody stand and let’s

pray together for the benefit of those

who are coming to Christ we’re a family

nobody prays alone somebody say God God

thank you thank you for being faithful

to me being Fai when I wasn’t faithful

to you I wasn’t faithful today today I

ask you I to be the Lord of my life my I

believe you lived you died and you Rose

again with all power all power just for

me just for me today today I give you my

life I give you my life change me change

me renew me Ren me Transform Me

transform me I’m yours I will be I will

be faithful to you faithful to you and I

will be I will a

reflection of your faithfulness in Jesus

name amen can we turn up with all of

heaven right now come on the Bible says

if one person gets saved it’s a turn up

for the whole place place today we love

what God is doing Hey listen if you made

that decision for Jesus I’m going to ask

you a couple things number one can you

scan the code on the screen we want to

send you some information and we want to

walk with you number two I’m asking

everybody in this church y’all if if

you’re missing Wednesday nights and the

prayer party we are having with Bible

study you are Miss there is something

happening and I’m asking us some of us

need to finish this year strong

and I want you to finish it in prayer

and the last thing I want you to know is

that we love

you the fact that y’all came out in in

the storms and in the rains and made

your way and had to do all this stuff I

love this church and this this year

we’re going to see God do miracles signs

and wonders in this place and if you

need prayer for anything I want to let

you know the worship team’s going to

worship for a second and we’re going to

let you just stay here you can come to

the altar there’s prayer in the back we

want you to connect with somebody here

but I just feel that God wants to heal

some people through worship right now

and we’re going to just create the space

for that we love you we believe in you

there are prayer and altar workers up

here these are people that are just like

you been through all kinds of stuff they

not perfect people they’re people that

will agree with you in prayer and the

Bible says this very simply if two or

three are gathered in his name and they

pray about

anything there are husbands and wives

that need to just come pray with

somebody do not leave this prayer

without getting the prayer that you need

today I believe that God’s going to do

something specific the thing I’m asking

everybody lastly is I want us to pray

for our nation this

week now hear what I’m saying we’ve been

covering it and I’ve been praying on

Wednesday night but I would like

everybody if you can I want you to start

praying right now we want to see God

glorified no matter who is in office and

I need Transformation Church to make up

a decision right now this going to

challenge

you whoever

wins elephant or

donkey I need you to be committed and

faithful to praying for whoever that

leader

is oo you’ve talked so bad about them on

your

timeline it’s going to be hard to

reverse all them words you already

said but the Bible tells us that we pray

pray and believe and speak good over

whoever is

in any Authority so the boss you hate do

you pray

for pastor you can’t stand do you pray

for

them either we going to be Believers or

not I know it’s hard I know it’s

challenging I know you going to have to

bite your tongue and pray different

prayers like Lord I Thank

you that they

alive and just keep them there Jesus

like I I I know I know I know but who do

we want to be more

like I’ll be

faithful

Jesus there’s just a sweet anointing in

this place right now there’s something

there’s something that I really believe

that the holy spirit’s trying to like

not rush us out of and I know we got to

we going we going to close for the

stream and if you got to go and you got

to doing I know we got to pick up our

kids but I

just maybe this is the moment where God

is like

hey the Breakthrough is in your

faithfulness the think the thing that

you’ve been Desiring you’re going to

find it and being consistent with

this hey hey hey what are they going to

do about the homeless take one sandwich

from your

refrigerator every day for the next

year just one well I want to do more no

no no no no this is not about solving

the

need this is about you becoming

faithful take that make that one

sandwich and take it to

like it’s faithful in

the could you be faithful to encourage

somebody

today you need encouragement be faithful

to sew

it even with this crazy fruit offering

every year I start to break out in hives

thinking about what God’s going to ask

me and my Hey listen I got to be I got

to be honest like 2024 been a different

year for your

boy certain things that I was planning

to come in and do this is not like it

ain’t it ain’t it ain’t doing like it

was

doing and God said but I’ve been

faithful right

yeah so will

you I’m going release us cuz I don’t

want y’all to say I kept

y’all until next week like we Church to

water clock that ain’t me it’s 12:16

it’s time to

go so you a dismissed but

thank you for your faithfulness

God something’s going to change in

us I feel it changing in

me I feel it changing in us as a

church something just broke when we gave

that those resources away Tammy

something just

happened I’m telling you as we going to

be able to mark this moment something

just shifted

I’m getting emotional right now because

of

the there are just certain things that

only God can

do certain things that having more is

not going to

fix this arena being fi it’s not going

to fix it there’s only certain things

that God can

do thank you for being faithful God and

thank you that from now on it is my my

duty to reflect your

faithfulness I’m not going to put it off

on somebody

else I’m not waiting for somebody to

start a group or a team I’ll be faithful

at the

little all you need is my little

faithfulness I don’t got an album yet

I’mma write the

song I’mma just be faithful to do that I

don’t got a I don’t got a fashion line

I’m going to be faithful to make this

t-shirt I’mma make the one t-shirt I’mma

I don’t got a book yet I’m going to be

faithful to write this

paragraph somebody say faithful in a

little God’s about to give us Faith to

be faithful in a

little I don’t got the team that I need

to pull off the vision that God’s given

me but I’m going serve and love on and

give to these I’mma give to these few

I’mma be faithful

thank you

Lord yes great is thy

faithfulness said great is thy

faithfulness

morning new

come on just lift your

hands all

I

greatness Lord

Great Is Thy

Faithfulness yeah said great is thy

faithfulness

Jesus

morning my

God that’s why we can be

faithful all

thy hands

have

faithfulness I looked up the man who

wrote that

song he was going into full-time

Ministry and he was in Ministry for one

year and then he got sick with an

illness where he had to literally put

down Ministry and he became an insurance

broker and he wrote over 1,200 poems and

songs and in the midst of his

illness he wrote Great Is Thy

Faithfulness it’s just one of those

things that’s kind of crazy

that maybe the faithfulness of God and

the faithfulness that we are supposed to

give to other is only displayed in hard

moments it’s not faithful when we feel

it it’s faithful when we

don’t so um just want to encourage you

to receive his faithfulness and then

give it away father bless us as you are

lingering in this place right now thank

you that as we go your presence never

leaves us

we can have this all week

long so today God I just bless every

family every person every marriage every

child let them experience your

faithfulness at another level today God

we trust

you cuz you are

consistent and you always show up and

you never let us fall you’re the

foundation and that’s why we build our

life on you and today we will remember

remember that you never fail father

thank you that we have the best week

we’ve ever had we just thank you for

your blessings and favor all throughout

it we give you glory honor and praise in

Jesus name everybody say we agree we

agree we

expect amen go out and live a

transformed life

Hallelujah you

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