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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