In the second week of our new series, Paper Chasers we learned about the soil of our hearts. What kind of soil does your heart contain: Vacant, Vulnerable, Violated or Valuable soil? Giving is all about the heart. We encourage you to ask yourself these questions as you watch this message. Make sure and share this powerful message with a friend or family member this week!
oh oh good morning transformation
hey i feel the presence of god
thank you lord hey the joy of the lord
is your strength i need somebody to do
something right now if you’re next to
somebody i want you to just smile big
show all your teeth even if you bought
them i want you to show
smile somebody needs to get out your
phone and take a selfie
you need to smile and send it to
somebody there
is joy that i feel that is welling up on
the inside of you
and it’s not going to be because of your
situation
and it’s not going to be because of your
circumstance it’s going to be because of
the god
you serve is still good somebody say
he’s still
good he’s still good
and today i i just sense that that
somebody needs
joy and and i want you to know that your
situation’s not gonna give you the joy
it’s not going to be the turnaround it’s
not going to be
the thing it’s going to be the one who
looks over it all
and his name is jesus and so today
i just feel so strongly that you’re
supposed to be a conduit of joy to
somebody
else and i’m just giving everybody an
assignment today
before the day is over bring somebody
else joy
no i don’t know like i don’t know how
you’re gonna do that in your
um i’m sphere of influence but if we’re
called to represent god to the lost and
found
for one reason transformation in christ
what if
the transformation in christ somebody
needs started
with an act of kindness from you
what if it wasn’t a a paying off
somebody’s house
like we just did did y’all just see that
yo y’all fake like
we just paid off somebody’s house and
was able to give them a salary everybody
say we did that
no say i did that like you if you give
to a part of this
you did that but what if you could make
an
impact on somebody’s life today that
didn’t take hundreds of thousands
what if it was six dollars at starbucks
what if it was your parking spot
y’all know how we act with parking spots
but what if you knew that’s where and
the holy spirit says no the person
behind you give it to them
they might not even i want the joy of
the lord that you have experienced in
your life
i want it to overflow into somebody else
this week
and so i’m i’m grateful for the
opportunity to be christ hands and feet
and today i’m deploying transformation
nation
today everybody say today i’m gonna help
somebody’s joy
if you’re gonna do it give god a shout
of praise in the building right now
wherever you’re at amen all right y’all
sit down i got a lot of word to get
through
and um there’s people all around here
and all around the building and
there are people that are watching
online from all over the world
i’m so grateful that you have decided to
tune in and it’s week two
of a series we’re calling help me pay
for chasers
now this is the crazy thing about week
two when we do a series like this
only the real ones come back
like week one that’s when everybody is
like oh yeah i wanna be a purpose chaser
but i’ll check back with pastor mike
in transformation church at easter
because the principles that god is about
to teach us through this series are only
for those who are going to the deep
yeah and if you know anything about
transformation church our word for 2021
is what
anchor we’ve decided we’re going to be
anchored and we decided that you do not
need an anchor if you’re going to live
in the shallow
so if we’re actually going to the deep
we got to talk about stuff
that’s deep and some of the deepest
stuff in our life
is finances money generosity stewardship
this is the thing that i counsel more
people
about about how they deal with
like have you ever been in a position
where god told you to do something but a
decision you made in a different season
kept you trapped to that season
have you and i’m just trying to help you
like what if god says
go and you say but i just bought
what if god says give that away but your
identity is attached to giving that away
what happens and i’m just telling you
right now
that when i got the truth that god is
going to present to you
through this series it transformed my
life
i went from existing to living a
everybody say bless life and that’s what
we want
for you in this series so last week if
you haven’t watched it you need to go
back and watch it over 200 000 of you
have watched it and that gets me so
excited because the potential
in seven days to change the culture of
your life
when you do things a kingdom way
somebody say the kingdom way
when you do it the kingdom way it
changes everything and last week we made
a decision we’re not going to be
paper chasers we’re going to be purpose
chasers
if you’re going to be a purpose chaser i
need you to put purpose chaser in the
comment right now
if you’re gonna be a purpose chase i
need you to make some noise in the room
listen the reason why this is so
important is because of this simple
truth and i need you to write it down
and i’m gonna say it probably every
sunday
the paper without purpose is pointless
there are tons of people i know that
have tons of paper
and they’re void of purpose and so when
they look at their account
and they look at their fulfillment
something is in the negative
what does it look like for you to have
positive accounts
and negative fulfillment
the paper without purpose
is what pointless and that’s why
culture tells you that’s what we’re
supposed to go after the paper
but the bible tells us we’re supposed to
go after purpose to seek first the
kingdom
and right standing and everything else
will be added
and that’s why we have to divorce and
i’m just asking you i’m begging you just
at least for the next four weeks
would you divorce what your uncle told
you about money
what what what school taught you about
money because they don’t teach you much
about it
could you divorce what what what rap
stars
and and and people who are um social
media
um um success story could you divorce
all of these
self-help programs and books that you
have applied to and all could you
divorce it for a second and can we make
the word of god
the standard for how we look at
generosity and stewardship just for four
weeks
and maybe if you would open your heart
for the next four weeks to look at it it
could change
the generation generational cycles of
poverty
and change the generational cycles of
selfishness
because we either have one of the two
and god wants you to live a everybody
say with me bless life
okay i got to get to the word because
some people don’t understand
that god has standards man has
suggestions
god has
and man has what such as
there’s a standard god wants us to live
to when it comes to this thing
about handling resources but we have
many times settled for the suggestions
of men who didn’t create these things
god has principles man has opinions
god has a supreme strategy and man has
strongholds
what’s a stronghold pastor mike i just
heard my big mama say that when we was
in
the kojic church she said i’m breaking
every stronghold like that’s a churchy
word
but it has a very practical meaning a
stronghold is a mindset or a pattern
because this is going to help you
understand why some things are hard for
you to do
and why some things are are easy for you
to do
because there are areas in your life
that there is a everybody say stronghold
i broke it down to this a stronghold is
anything that attempts to redefine
anything that god has already defined or
manufactured
so when god says there’s a way that you
do marriage but then you watch
reality tv and
for the past decade you’ve been forming
the ideal woman
in your mind based off of things that
aren’t real
now when god brings the woman of god
into your life that you’re supposed to
be with
you don’t know if you can settle down
and you’re talking to your brothers like
bro i don’t know if she’s everything
that i’m supposed to be
you’re supposed to help cultivate her
into the things that god has called her
to be
because you’re supposed to be in
addition to that let me stop
to the relationship you’re not going to
roll up on the finished product
god never gives finished products in
relationships he gives raw materials
i’m preaching right now and somebody
needs to understand
that what you’re fighting is not the
person you’re fighting a stronghold
the reason it’s been so hard for you to
give and to tithe
is because you’re fighting a stronghold
a
mindset of something that your parents
gave you
something that your cousin gave you
something that tv
gave you something that shark tank gave
you that you were trying to now
work against but it took you decades to
build up a stronghold
and it’s going to take us at least four
weeks to tear it down
the reason i’m doing this series and the
reason why god wouldn’t let me preach it
is because i was still working through
my stronghold
nobody talk like this no more charles
they want everybody to think
but you know a stronghold applies to
every area of your life
and some of us have had mindsets and
thought patterns
and ideas i’m feeling old and churchy
today
i’m here to tear down the stronghold of
financial poverty
i’m here to tear down the stronghold of
financial greed
i’m here to tear down the stronghold of
selfishness
do you know how much spiritual
opposition there has been this morning
trying to get this word to you
[Applause]
because the thing the enemy would love
more than anything
is to allow the truth to be presented to
you when you leave it on the plate
the thing about taking kids to expensive
restaurants
is that the filet mignon that you put on
the plate
may be there after the dinner is over
because their palate is not used to that
level
of eating
[Applause]
and what we found with our kids is
sometimes we have to pack chicken
nuggets
at the 130 dollar a plate restaurant
until their palate becomes
mature
this paper chaser series is going to
mature your spiritual palate
so that the things that god has in your
purpose
how you gonna be claiming purpose chaser
but you can’t handle the paper
it is not that the purpose is supposed
to come without paper it takes paper to
do purpose
there is nothing great you’ve ever seen
that was done for free
god has no problem with paper
he just has to make sure he’s the
priority
and that’s why in this blessed life
series
called paper chasers i’m ministering
from
everything that i’ve experienced
i’m telling you who i was that’s why i’m
so passionate that’s why five minutes
into this
i was chasing the paper i was chasing
the connections
i was going after the next the big and
god said that
you got that from somebody else
can i be honest real honest do you know
one of the most culturally
shaping things for strongholds in my
life was mtv
cribs now i know people don’t break it
down that simple
i used to watch mtv cribs all the time
and watch how these people did money
and episode after episode
there was a stronghold being formed in
my mind that if i was successful this is
what it had to look like
and i had to have babes in a jacuzzi and
i had
and i had to have a house where i forgot
how many bathrooms and how many
and y’all gonna be fake and act like i’m
the only one that’s allowed something
from pop culture
to form my mentality of what success
looks like
you may have had a big homie on the
block or you may have had a ceo
family friend at the country club i
don’t care where it is
but if you did not get the principles
from the word of god let me help you
it’s wrong
they’re going to be mad at me but i’m
coming to tear down the stronghold write
this down
paper chasers live for passions
but purpose chasers live from principles
if you’re a paper chaser you’re just
following your passions
i’m going to do this and then i’m going
to do this and then i’m going to go here
and then i’m going to have that
and then i’m going to go there and then
i want to do this
but if you’re a purpose chaser you live
from principles can we be honest
what were your passions 10 years ago
for most of us they’re not the same
passions we have today
because passions are fleeting
i have a passion this year that i won’t
have two years from now
i want to go with the passion which many
times translates
i want to go with the trend
uh-oh i’m going to get in trouble right
now i want to go with what they’re doing
and god says if you’re going to be a
purpose chasers you have to
value principles
over passions
[Music]
guess what i was passionate about when i
was 10.
yo-yos and pogs
y’all remember pogs some of y’all’s like
i don’t even know what that is
but they’re like little coin type of
things and you had them in this thing
some of y’all getting on google right
now used to play a game
and like and then i’d love yo-yos and
then when they start having to light up
yo-yos and walk the dog
and rock the cradle some of y’all too
young for that
you all know nothing about that but your
boy used to be rocking the cradle
now watch i can’t remember the last time
that i even thought about that but in a
season of my life
that was my passion it’s where all my
money went to oh my god
it’s where my allowance went to it’s
what i associated with people
with and for it was my passion
but i can’t think about too many
principles that i had when i was 10.
and the problem is the things that
outlast passion is principles
and even some of the things that are
negative in your life the reason they
keep showing up
relationship after relationship is
because there’s a principle that you
have formed i’ll never be alone
that’s your principle your principle i
can’t be alone for two months
because you formed that principle at 15.
the passion has been reiki the passion
has been ronaldo
the passion has been raequan and the
passion has been richard
but your principle has outlasted every
one of your passions
yikes i’m trying to get you to
value passion less
i’m not saying you don’t have passion
i’m saying it’s not as powerful as the
principles you live by
and so many people i want to be a
purpose chaser that means you have to be
a principal keeper
[Applause]
perpetrator principle keeper
and in god’s word he lays out the whole
thing for all of humanity
a hundred years ago none of us was here
but his principles were
200 years ago none of us were here but
his principles
that’s why the scriptures say that the
grass withers
and the flowers fade but his word or his
principles last for
if we get these principles of the
blessed life of living with stewardship
and generosities
this is something i can pass on to my
kids how many times
do your parents pass on passions
a good man leaves an inheritance for his
children’s children what people try to
do is pass on their passions
and the only thing that sticks is your
principles
i gotta i gotta get off of this just
just just know write it down in a point
principles are more powerful than
passions
like the principle of covenant in
marriage
is more powerful than the passion of a
one-night stand
do y’all see what i’m saying like yes
it’s real yes i feel it
yes i’m passionate about it but we got a
value
everybody shot at me principles can i
have an honest conversation with you
right now
i have a bunch of principles i need to
share with you today
and i’m scared
i’m scared that
you don’t have the ability to receive
the principles
and actually value them i told
pastor charles before i came out here i
said
this is it this is what i’m supposed to
share but i’m not
sure that it’s going to go into
good ground and be received
and then i was i was going through my
head in the bible and i was like is
there anywhere that it talks about
because i know the principles i got to
share with you they’re good
these are good ain’t nothing wrong with
the principle ain’t nothing wrong with
the seed that i’m about to
give you i just don’t know if it’ll
actually have
the impact on your life and then i went
to the bible in matt mark chapter four
and in mark chapter four
there’s these parables talking about
seed and soil and the soil of your life
has to be ready to receive the seed of
god’s word
i’ma say it again the soil of your life
everybody say my life has a soil
and my question to you is are you ready
to receive the principles or the seed of
god’s word
so i thought today what we would do is i
i thought we would survey the soil
survey the soil of your heart
because i’m about to share these
principles but four
different responses are going to come
from the same seed
i’m going to put out the seed but your
soil is going to determine what grows
and what most people aren’t aware of is
that
you are sitting next to somebody who
will have a different harvest
because they have different soil and if
you didn’t know that that’s why you ever
been in church like why it happened for
them
and then why it happened for them and
why it didn’t happen for them and why
it’s because the same seed
fell on different soil
oh this is about to be good okay so
so i need to tell you according to mark
chapter four that there are four types
of soil of the heart it says um verse
14. let’s start there this is jesus
talking
he says the farmer plants a seed
by taking god’s word to others so what
i’m doing right now is i’m
taking the principles of god’s word and
i’m trying to give them to you right now
and he’s painting this picture verse 15.
the seed that fell
on the footpath represents those who
hear the message
so everybody right now is hearing this
message
but this person only
they hear it and satan comes at once
another translation says
immediately and takes away
the seed that was sown pastor mike
is trying to sow a seed in your life
that tells you
how to handle finances
and just as quick as it goes in today
before this service is over there’ll be
an instagram ad that comes up on your
phone
and steals the seed that
god was trying to give you and next week
you’ll come
and there’ll be another seed but there’s
nothing here and
just as fast as it is deposited
and this has been the pattern of many of
you spiritual life
january 2019 i’m gonna be released
nope january 2020.
it’s time to get stronger uh you’re
gonna be weak
oh my goodness january 2021 this one is
for me
i’m gonna be anchored as soon as you get
it
he comes to steal it what i’m telling
you
is that if you’re in this place if this
is the soil
you have a vacant soil
the soil of your life is vacant
and what you need to understand is god
wants to fill you up because there’s
nothing there now
it’s okay if you’re in this place in
your life right now
i want you to understand that god loves
you
he sees you and his grace sent me
in a hot pink vest
to let you know there is another way
to be able to get fruit out of your life
than living empty okay okay okay okay
okay okay okay okay okay
yeah some of y’all sitting real still
right now
cause the truth of the matter is no
matter what i say it’s empty
not because of the seed because of the
do you know when people be like i didn’t
get nothing out of that message it
wasn’t the person who preached
as long as they were preaching the word
as long as they had
jesus in the middle of it it doesn’t
matter if it was
monotone and dry it doesn’t matter if it
was done in comedy
it was sung as long as there was a good
seed there can be fruit
my question to you is it the seed or is
it the soil
i tell people all the time i can get
anything from anywhere
as long as it’s good seed i’m good soil
somebody say i’m good soil some of y’all
just lied because listen to the rest of
this real quick
some of us have vacant soil verse 16.
there was another seed
that fell on rocky soil and this
represents those who hear the message
and immediately they receive it with joy
i get it
i’m gonna be a purpose chaser but since
they don’t have
deep roots they don’t last long
they fall away as soon as they have
watch this problems or are persecuted by
family members people on instagram
people that don’t think it’s real for
believing god’s word
for some of y’all all it takes is one
post and you out of here
one person says something tithing ain’t
real and you have
lost everything because you are still
in the shallow
god said you got the word you believe it
but there’s not enough for it to
really get under and have any roots
and so as soon as somebody talks about
you
and as soon as somebody comes to say
that they don’t believe this or you know
pastor mike a false prophet i made a
youtube video about it
as soon as somebody does that
you weren’t anchored enough
you weren’t far enough in the deep to be
able to handle
a conviction that came with criticism
you can really be able to understand
if you are maturing is when your
conviction
offends somebody and you can handle the
criticism and still love them
and still give to them and still pray
for them i’m trying to mature somebody
and transformation nation today oh you
thought this was just about money no
it’s about your life
because until god can plant seeds on
good
soil the enemy keeps coming to rob you
and i got principles to share i want to
share them with you but i just don’t
want them to get
snagged i don’t want this to be your
sunday religious activity and not be
transformative
to the generations that are coming after
you all i’m asking you to do today is
survey
your soil somebody say i’m going to
survey my soil so
one of them had vacant soil
but this one watch this they had
vulnerable soil
there’s something here you’ve got a
couple scriptures you know
you know you you gave a couple times you
did it but when god sows
the seed your seed is vulnerable
and that’s why so many of us have to
watch the circle wheel around
because god will speak something to you
and because you don’t have deep roots
they don’t add dirt to it
they they pick it up
out of you and say there is no way that
can happen for you
and there’s nobody that’s ever done that
baby i serve a god
who is sir uh that does the impossible
with man it might be impossible with my
god
nothing you better check your circle
when i’m talking about people who are
purpose chasing don’t come to me
with that weak sorry vulnerable
talk come to me with that crazy faith
talk
come to me with that i’ll go to the bank
which you talk
uh come with me but i’ll circle the
neighborhood and you pray on that block
and our prayer
[Music]
[Applause]
when we started believing god for this
building i didn’t tell everybody
because i knew that everybody didn’t
have deep enough faith to believe with
me
as soon as god would give me the word
because of your vulnerable soil
you’d be trying to pick up what god was
trying to plan in
so i got with people who were heavy
hitters i got with bishop
and pastor debbie and my mom and and
brie
and charles and my wife and i said yo i
need y’all to believe with me
that we’re gonna be able to do it and do
you know what they said
well if god’s gonna do it it would have
to be him
it’s gonna have to be him it’ll be for
his glory
and when you get people around you who
have seen god’s faithfulness
the seed can go in and it doesn’t even
make sense
but because you have protected that seed
and it’s not vulnerable
you can see everybody shot at me fruit
remember what we said last week
is that we don’t focus on money
money should be the fruit
and that’s why i’m trying to figure out
what kind of soil
am i am i planting this seed on what
kind of soil
are you today let’s just survey the soil
some people have
vacant soil other people have vulnerable
soil
but look at verse 18 it said
the sh the seed that fell on the
thorns represented this one is crazy
others who hear god’s word so you on
this live stream right now you’re
watching on the rebroadcast
all these people heard the message we’re
not talking about people who are not
listening
we’re talking to people who are hearing
god’s word okay
be clear but all too quickly
no no i want to go down to verse 20.
yeah no no where am i at verse 18. the
seed fell among thorns
and represented others who heard god’s
word verse 19.
but all too quickly the message is watch
this crowded out
by the worries of this life
it’s not even bad stuff it’s just
a lot of stuff
what happens when what you doing ain’t
bad is just too much
you ever heard somebody be like you’re
doing too much
what if i came to the body of christ to
say that god has been planting good
principles
and good word and good seed and the
reason it’s not producing fruit is
because you’re doing too much
you ever had a friend that just do too
much like be quiet sit down don’t wear
that
you’re doing too much i came to tell you
spiritually
that some of the seed that god is trying
to plant on your life right now
is not because you’re a bad person or
you’re doing the wrong things it’s
because it’s been choked out
by the worries of this life the lure of
wealth or the spirit of mammon and the
desires for other things
the thing you got is enough but you
desiring something else
so this is the saddest part about it so
no fruit is produced
that’s what it says because you heard
god’s word
but the worries of life the lure of
wealth the desires for other things
means you don’t produce fruit so the
same thing
god wants to put where
where in the world can i even get this
in
is it between the new coming to america
too
or is it after the bachelor
can i get this word in
can i can i get it in
between seasons of the mass singer
or can i i really got a word and if you
get close up on this
it says there’s thorns
so the seed that god tries to plant in
these
people’s lives who doing too much
it’s not that it’s just vacant or
vulnerable
these seeds i love it
these things because it hurts right here
it’s something that if i tried too much
i’m gonna actually not just not this
can i say it like this this is what a
lot of your leaders feel like
it’s dangerous to plant anything in you
you’re doing so much that when they try
to plant in you
principles that will help you
be a better man or a better woman
principles that will help you
they end up getting hurt
because you doing too much and then you
leave saying they didn’t want to invest
in me we tried and we have
scars to prove it
and that’s why you go from business to
business church to church
i’m trying to give you principles right
now i know you’re not going to like me
but a lot of people right now are done
with you because you’ve hurt them
because all they were trying to do was
give you seed but your soil
it wasn’t the seed it wasn’t the church
it wasn’t the business
it was the soil
and what happens is you don’t just have
vacant soil or vulnerable soil
you have violating soil
when people try to plant in you you
violate them
i’m not i’m not i’m not late
we have surveillance
like we got what are you what are you
talking about
one of the greatest problems with my
generation is we’re not self-aware
that somebody can tell you something and
you will go after them
for trying to give you principles
that will help you do what god’s called
you to do you want to be a purpose
chaser you better make sure your soil is
right
cause god will bring people in your life
to help you
but will they leave bleeding
i got to leave that alone
verse 20 and then some seed fell on good
soil
and it represented those who hear
and accept god’s word and produce a
harvest watch this
there’s levels to it of 30
60 and even a hundred times
as much as had been planted
this is what i’m believing for everybody
watching this series
this won’t be your whole family’s
testimony cause some of them are
in this category of soul
but what i’m believing as we plant the
truths of this principle
deep see i can’t even reach the bottom
i’m trying to but the soil is so good
that it has now taken this seed
and buried it and some people think a
planting and a burying
are are devastating but this is the
place where god develops the thing
the reason i had to get this revelation
and then wait six years to be able to
give it to you like this
is because the seed went in 2015.
but 2016 17 18 and 19
i was growing roots and what god has
done now is allow me to walk in a place
that what is coming out of me what you
see
is just the fruit of the seeds
that have been planted a long time ago
and what i’m believing for your
life is that these principles of god’s
word on generosity and stewardship
would go into good soil somebody say i’m
good soil
say it like you mean it i’m good soil
say it one more time with faith say i’m
good
soil if you’re good soil
then it goes in and it produces fruit
30 60 100 full i’m believing by faith
by this time next year as you begin to
apply these principles
you will have never seen the hand of god
on your life
and your hands like you’re about to see
him right now
because you’re allowing the principles
of god’s word somebody needs to lift
your hands and receive this right now
i’m prophesying over somebody right now
you’re like what is he doing i’m
speaking over your destiny
and i’m believing that as you stick in
this series
and you value the principles of god over
the principles of man that god is going
to allow you
to be able to experience a new level of
living a blessed life
not just a blessed wallet but a blessed
life a blessed marriage
a blessed business a blessed family i
feel this thing
god is going to allow you to be blessed
to be a blessing
when you walk in blessing just showed up
when you come into the room
blessing follows you everywhere that you
go
if you believe it somebody give god a
shout of praise
i feel this thing the blessing of the
lord is going to make
us rich and add no sorrow it’s not
because of the seed it’s because of the
soil that
that means good soil is
valuable soil
so i don’t want vacant soil
i don’t want soil that is vulnerable
i don’t want soil that violates me and
violates others
i want valuable soil
and can i say it like this the seed
is always subject to the soil
so from now on when something doesn’t
work in your life
don’t evaluate the seed first
check the soil
how are they advancing in the company
and you’re at the same place
you’re in the same meetings
you got the same handbook
you work the same hours it ain’t the
seed
what is it that’s enough somebody about
to go home and be
like dang i’ve been in 17 relationships
it must be me
yes betty it’s you it’s the soil you’re
insecure you’re jealous you’re gonna
like him
okay let me stop it ain’t the seed
see people call this um this this
passage of scripture
a lot of times they call it the parable
of the sower and then others call it
the parable of the seed but it honestly
is
the parable of the soil
and i just got one question has your
seed been sabotaged
by the soil and can it be very clear
because something like okay what is the
soil the soil is your heart
it’s not this big like your heart
is either vacant it’s vulnerable
it’s violated or it’s valuable
well talk about the money pastor mike
i’m talking about it right now
like like like that’s why the bible
tells us proverbs 4 23
guard your heart it didn’t say guard
your phone some of y’all guard that with
your life
anybody try to use your phone they can’t
see it cause you acting a fool on it
but guard your heart not your checkbook
i mean it could have said guard your
witches guards your wealth
it says guard your above everything else
above everything you do guard your heart
above all else for it
out of it determines the course of your
entire life if there’s one thing you
want to get right it’s the soil of your
heart
because out of the soil of your heart
everything
comes from that if you’re a mean person
it started in the
heart if you’re a selfish person it
started in the
heart if you’re a perverted person it
started in the
whoever you are you can find its
origination
in your heart
and that’s why i have to talk about
generosity and stewardship because many
people are teaching give to get
and that is not the word of god at
transformation church we decided
that we will teach give to give we don’t
give to get we give
to give and these truths in this book
and in this series
i said this book because i need some of
y’all to buy the blessed life i don’t
get not a royalty
nothing from this but reading this book
by pastor robert morris
transformed my life the principles in
here is what i’m teaching you with a
little sauce on it right now
you need to read this book because it
has the chance to change your marriage
change your health change your family
change your life
and let you live a blessed life
can i take you into god’s word are y’all
ready for the principle yet
okay matthew chapter seven verse um
let’s go to chapter seven verse one
it says judge not that you
be not judged for with the judgment you
judge
you will be judged and with the measure
you used
it will be measured back to you let me
ask you one simple question
is the word money mentioned anywhere in
that verse
did y’all see money in there at all okay
the context of this is judging
so say this with me everybody in here
everybody at home say
judge not and you will not be judged
with the measure you use it will be
measured back to you
now i need to now i need you to say it
with your chest okay say judge not
and you will not be judged
and with the measure you use it will be
measured back to you
now look at luke 6 37 first verse and
the end of
verse 38 it says judge not and you will
not be judged
yet no y’all don’t have to say it with
me i know some of y’all said it this is
me now
judge not and you will not be judged
condemn not
and you shall not be condemned forgive
and you will be forgiven
give and it will be given to you good
measure
press down shaken together and running
over will it be put into your bosom
for with the same measure that you use
it will be measured back to you now this
may shock you
but the word money does not appear
anywhere in
luke 6 38. but most of the time when you
hear this verse is that offering time
give hey elbow and it will be given back
to you ha
good measure press down yeah
shaking together harlem shake it
together running over running over
will men put it in your lap put it in my
lap big daddy
and it’s crazy i’ve heard that all my
life and i’ve even done it sometime when
i didn’t have a revelation
but this is not about money at all
and that’s the trick of the enemy that
any time
you hear the word give you think
negatively because you think people want
your money
right now anytime you hear hey will you
give you first thing you think
money and this is especially
in church i was one time listening to a
pastor
and he did a magazine interview and
somebody asked him he said how often do
you talk about giving
and he said how often do i talk about
giving i talk about getting every sunday
and the reporter was like you talk about
giving every sunday
he said yes he said what i think you
meant to ask me
is how much do i talk about giving money
because giving you can’t talk about
the bible without talking about giving
for god so loved the world that he it’s
the theme of the bible you can’t have a
successful marriage
if you don’t have two people that are
willing to give
this is the primary theme of the bible
and you have to understand that it’s not
just about finances
it’s about the principle of giving
and i’m here to redeem that today
because giving applies to every area of
your life
write down the big principle i’ve spent
40 minutes trying to tell you
giving is all about the heart
if you’re going to be generous it’s
going to happen in your heart
way before it shows up in your hand
i want to be a purpose chaser god okay
let’s go to the garden of your heart
and let’s see if god
is the priority in your heart because
giving
is all about the heart i was surveying
some young
some young whippersnappers out here and
uh
i was asking them like what do you want
to be when you grow up and the most
interesting thing i mean very successful
bright people that have a lot of success
i started asking them what do they want
to be when they grow up and they all had
different paths of how they felt that
they wanted to be successful
but all of them came to this last point
this last destination
of something like this and then i just
want to be a philanthropist
i just want to be able to give and every
one of them
i asked them so how are you doing that
now
and they always like no no but when i
get it
and when i get to that place then i’m no
giving is a muscle that will have
out uh what do you call it alpha tree
what is the um
atrophy it’ll have atrophy let me say it
a different way it’ll be paralyzed by
the time you have money
because you never worked it with the
little you have in your hand right now
some of y’all could set in your budget
that i’m gonna give five dollars away a
week
and you’re so stingy right now that you
would not extend your five dollars
beyond yourself to be able to become a
conduit
of christ’s love do you know how many
times five dollars that quick trip the
gas station
would have transformed my life back in
the day
but because you won’t work the muscle
why because it’s not in your heart
it’s in your head but it ain’t dropped
to your heart
[Applause]
giving is all about the heart don’t
tell me that you honor god let me see
your bank account
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
you can lie to me but you can’t lie to
god
i knew i knew it i knew it the church
just wants my money no the church
doesn’t want your money god does
because it’s proof that he has your
heart they don’t believe me
matthew 6 21 for where your treasure
is not where you promise it’ll be not
when you get a settlement
not when it’s all said and done where
your
treasure currently is
there your heart will be also that boy
preaching
do y’all see how i’m walking you i’m the
teacher today okay
i’m walking you how all the way through
the bible how you see
how important guarding your heart and
having the right soil of your heart is
because if you’re going to be generous
and live the blessed life
we got to deal with the heart we got to
deal with the soil because generosity
and giving is all about the heart
and your heart is following
your treasure
and honestly that’s why in many of our
lives right now
god is not after anything but your heart
that’s why i tell people all the time
that that that when you
give god your heart he’ll help you
change your habits
church has done a bad job of trying to
get behavior modification
instead of transformation what we try to
do is stop smoking
stop drinking stop having sex with those
people stop going to the club
stop doing this all that is is behavior
modification
and it doesn’t last because it’s not
based on principles
it’s a passion at the moment that’s why
you’ve been saved four times
and you go to the altar because it was
your passion in him oh i’m doing too
much
but it was your passion in the moment it
was your passion after you got caught
it was a passion after you got her
pregnant it was your passion after 9 11
but it wasn’t a principle
and so it faded i’m gonna need security
getting out of here this is tight
but it’s right but what i’m telling you
if god gets your heart
he’ll help you change your habits
and if god could ever get your wallet
it’s proven he has your heart
i ain’t say it don’t be mad at me jesus
said
your heart follows your treasure
your treasure wherever you put your
money has a gps tracking device and
wherever that is
that’s where your heart is right there
so today
i thought there was only one thing to
title the sermon
if if the heart is where everything
flows from
generosity and money are you all ready
i said are y’all ready y’all ready
okay where the money resides where the
money resides where the money resides
where the money resides where the money
resides where the money resides where
the money resides where the money are
y’all
yo today
i’m titling this message where the money
resides
[Applause]
because you can tell me that it’s in
something
but it’s all in your heart
and everything that flows from your hand
comes from the heart
ask your name neighbor where the money
reside
yeah because that’s what god’s trying to
figure out right now
proverbs 4 23. i said it again but i’m
saying i’ve said it before i’m saying it
again guard your heart above all else
because out of it
everything flows some of you you put
your
put your treasure in a stock and now you
start checking that stock
why because that’s where the money
resides
you never checked the stock ever before
but the reason you checking it now
is cause that’s where the money resides
some of y’all put your money in fashion
and let somebody spill something on it
let somebody step on your shoes
you ready to fight you ready to swap why
because that’s where your treasure is
that’s where the money resides
some of my men right now you restored an
old car that you used to have when you
was in high school
and that mug is bad and now nobody can
drive
it because you put your treasure there
it gets more bass than you
because you take care of things where
your money
resides you want your heart in the
kingdom
put your treasure there and when god
says
what are they doing he can find where
the money
resides giving is
all about the what heart okay
now that we’ve established that and you
understand what i’m saying and how
intentional this is the principle that
we have to apply
is one that does not consult with
everything that culture has told us it
means we need to develop
a generous heart everybody say i want a
generous heart
just say it again i want a generous
heart you may not have one yet and i
know this is tight and somebody’s like
i’m logging off
you may stifle your kids kids
because you don’t get these principles
so i’m going to give you something out
of deuteronomy 15
that’s going to help you develop a
generous heart and then we’re going home
and next week oh i got a big surprise
for you next week
next week is going to be next level
deuteronomy chapter 15 verse 7
it says if there is among you a poor man
of your brethren within any of your
gates in your land which the lord god
is giving you who gave you the land the
lord okay just want to make sure that
you know the lord has given you
everything that you have
you shall not harden your heart
it’s all about the heart nor shut up
your hand
from your poor brother but you shall
open your hand
wide and willingly lend him sufficient
for his need whatever he needs four
things that
every purpose chaser needs to develop to
have a generous heart
this is the thing that we have to do
number one we have to deal with the
selfish heart
look at verse 9 deuteronomy 15 verse 9
beware
lest there be a wicked thought in your
heart it’s all about the heart
saying the seventh year of the lord the
year of the release is at hand
and your eye be evil against your poor
brother and you give him nothing
and he cry out to the lord against you
and it becomes
sin among you notice selfishness
is wickedness in god’s eyes and becomes
sin
let me break this down because you got
to study a little bit so there was an
economic system
that the children of egypt had that
every seven years
that they would forgive all debts can we
stop right there
who would like to reinstate that system
of economic if student loans gone every
seven years
all that some of y’all shouting too much
that ain’t happening but
but this is this was watch this a
principle of god
that then man tried to do something
better then and now we’re in debt
anyway this scripture is saying to him
right now he’s like if your brother
comes to you and says hey my crops were
bad this year could you lend me
something my family’s going to suffer
could you be able to do that and you
have the money
he says don’t think hold on one two
three four
five six uh-uh no it’s six months until
the year of release
and i know jerome ain’t gonna pay me
back so no i lended him
a dang thing he said don’t think like
that
don’t act like that because it is
selfishness that turns into wickedness
that becomes sin in your heart
don’t think selfish like this i want you
to give
generously i want you to be like me and
i have to ask you this question why do
you think god created giving
i’ve asked people this several times and
some people are like he created it so
that his work could be done in the earth
really do you think the same god
that spoke the moon sun and stars
into existence needs our
made-up money to keep his work going
did the light bill in heaven get too
high
did they run out of gold to pave the
streets with
i truly believe and i’m convinced of it
of every part of my life the only reason
god
created giving was to give us an
opportunity to be like him
you missed it you want to be like god
you want to do the things that god does
you want to be people who actually make
a difference in people’s lives
give give to people who don’t deserve it
give to the homeless man on the street
well i know he out there hustling
because i know some of y’all
he hustled he made more money than i do
if you give with the right heart it
doesn’t matter what he does with it
if you gave it trying to meet the need
god didn’t judge your harvest on
your god didn’t judge your harvest
on what they did with it when it was in
their hand he judges your harvest on
what you did with the seed he gave you
oh that’s a good bible right there how
do you think
god feels when everybody is giving
hoping they’ll get something back he
said they’re not
they’re not acting like me that’s that’s
gambling
give a hundred
get back a thousand everybody does that
that doesn’t take faith to live like
that
that’s chance and god says they’re
getting the revelation of getting
not giving god wants us to get the
revelation
of giving but we have to deal with the
selfish
heart now ladies come close okay there’s
one
area of selfishness that every man
is never going to grow out of and i
think i should let you in
we don’t want to share our food
i should be hearing some amen’s from the
men and we asked you at the drive-thru
did you want some fries and what did you
say to me
i think maybe this is just me no i don’t
want none
five minutes later you asking for some
of my fries baby i’ll buy you two
fries for yourself but you ain’t getting
none of mine and the fries at the bottom
of the bag
they mind you i feel the spirit of god
coming over me right now
we need to deal with the selfish heart
maybe that was just for me
okay um we got to deal with the selfish
heart number two we have to deal with
the grieving heart
so it’s not just enough to deal with the
selfish heart we got to deal with the
grieving heart deuteronomy 15 10
you shall surely give to jerome
and your heart should not be greed i
don’t know if your name is jerome and
you ever watch these services
i’m sorry but that’s always the name
that comes to me you shall surely give
to romy rome
and your heart should not be grieved
when you give to him
because for this thing that’s giving
with the right heart
the lord your god will bless you in
watch this all your works
hold on if i give with the right heart
everything i touch works if i give
with the right heart everything i do
works and in all which you put your
hands
like i need everybody to understand
that this principle works if you believe
in god or not
uh oh if you go check
oprah’s giving records bill gates giving
records
elon musk giving records they’re not
giving to the kingdom of god
but somehow they’ve adopted the
principles knowing that they cannot just
amass it all
but there is a principle of reciprocity
that when i start giving it comes
back to me in a different way the
problem is when they get
to heaven many of them it’ll still all
be pointless
because they didn’t do it with purpose
can i say it to you like this
selfishness attacks us before we give
but grief tries to attack us after we
give
have you ever given something or made a
commitment or or said you were going to
bless somebody and then right when you
do it your washer break
like right when you say your tire bust
right when you say it that
is the enemy trying to convince you that
don’t work the principles of god
don’t work and even as i’m sitting here
teaching this i’m thinking
i’m going um to lunch after this
and i don’t actually have any money to
feed my daughters my daughters are here
and they want some food
and i don’t actually have any money
what’s up charlie
what’s up bro you got me a honey
bro i can actually go to cheesecake
factory or something
with a hundred thank you lord now why
was charles so quick
to get up and give me this hundred
dollars because i gave it to him before
service
it’s easy not to grieve when you
remember
where it came from
the problem with many of us
is that we feel like this was ours
i earned this i went to work but who
gave you the activity of your limbs
and who blessed you to be able to move
to that city
and who allowed you to be able to go to
that place to learn that skill
to then be mentored by that person to be
able to even stand in that position with
some level of competency
it was the lord who made a way
but somewhere along the way
we thought it was our wit our smarts
our knowledge and you only grieve what
you thought was yours
i’m teaching so good up here
[Applause]
who told you this before who’s shown you
the principles of god
that work in your life and it’s so easy
charles come back here
it’s so easy for me to trust charles
with this and this is this is real life
example my man came to me
needing a real need met how long ago was
that
two weeks ago and because i adopted the
principles now we live a real life like
me and charlie this is
this is not oh he’s the pastor and he
works like this is for real
and he told me what he needed i called
my wife
and i said babe we came into a little
extra
and my brother it’s this exact i’m
realizing it at this moment
it’s this exact scripture lived out
and i told them i said hey bro i’mma
lend you this money
as long as you can have me pay back but
and then i told you i said never mind
pay me back whenever you can
talk to abby figure out what needs to
happen and the reason i’m sharing this
transparently
is because i’m recognizing in this
moment
come on that’s good this is
transformation for me i just need i just
need you to understand it’s happening
before like you ever seen a butterfly
come out of a cocoon like this is what’s
happening right now for me
i’m realizing at this moment since the
moment i gave you that cashier’s check
i have not thought about that money
again
wow i’ve not thought about getting it
back yeah yeah i’ve not thought of
because the motive of giving it yep
wasn’t
to receive it back from the place i got
good
see some of y’all think that the place
you give is the place you receive from
but when i give i’m giving as unto the
lord
and wherever god decides to bless me
from
i may be given over here but he’s
working something out for mj over here
i may be sowing right here but he’s
causing provision to come
you may not be able to see where it’s
coming from
but when i sow with the right heart when
i’m not grieving
god got every way he wants to to get it
back to me
somebody needs to give god some praise
right there
that’s why psalms 24 says the earth is
the lord’s
and the fullness thereof it’s not yours
this church ain’t mine it’s not my car
i’m driving it’s god’s
and some of you like no pastor mike i
have documents that tell me right now
that the deed to my house is my okay
baby if this is your reward
keep it if this
is what you want keep it and god’s
saying i have so much more for you
if i could just get access to your
everybody say heart
all right let’s keep going okay we have
to
to develop a a a generous heart or grief
we have to get excuse me we have to get
out of
dealing with the selfish heart and then
we have to deal with the grieving heart
and this third one we have to develop a
generous heart okay
verse 14 it says you shall supply jerome
liberally a lot
you know like when god tells us to do
something we try to do the bare minimum
oh y’all gonna just leave me out here
there ain’t nobody like okay how much
exactly did you say no 22
okay because i just want to make sure it
wasn’t 222.
but it said you shall supply liberally
from your flock from your threshing
floor
from your bank account from your 401k
from your closet from your shoe
collection oh
is it making somebody really he really
needs some new shoes and y’all wear the
same size
you’ve been clowning them for three
months but you wear the same
size it’s not a hand issue
it’s a heart issue he said supply him
from your wine press from what the lord
your god has blessed you with you shall
give
to him god wants us to be generous not
selfish and this is the thing you have
to know
you’re born selfish but you’re born
again
generous anybody that’s saved
it comes into you when you accept jesus
that you want to be generous now we have
to break down the strongholds
by the renewing of our why do i
take five weeks every year
to talk about this it’s because many of
you got saved last year but we still got
to break down the strongholds
your eternity is secure but your history
is going to be jacked up
if we don’t get the strongholds down
and in the area of finances stewardship
and generosity
i’ll be bold enough the truth is most
pastors won’t talk about this
most people won’t do this because they
don’t want
anybody to think bad at them the church
doesn’t need your money did y’all hear
what i just said to y’all
before this thing happened god has
blessed this church because we chose in
the dark
i’m not trying to get something from you
i’m trying to get something to you
we’re giving away half a million dollars
over the next four weeks
we gave away a house 20 30 minutes ago
and paid somebody’s salary for six
months and and
be heard that works with the homeless is
in the building right now and
and we’ve supplied them with living
quarters and blank
like this is not about us giving or
getting something it’s about
getting you something
and that means you’re going to have to
develop a generous heart honestly we’re
like children
like what’s the one thing you got to
teach your kids
share share
hey stop share
i got three and a half kids
i mean y’all know i got three out the
womb and then one finished bacon
now you’re a fine oven um
i love my wife pregnant um but this is
over um i’m just having a lot of
thoughts right now
i think about all my kids at this
current moment and how many of them i
have to teach
this same principle
share my kids right now they’ve won
playing with something
and then the other one wants to play
with them it’s like there is 500 things
to play with in this house
why y’all all playing with this same
thing and then i’ll be like ava
share and then i’ll be like bella share
mj
share and i just have to keep telling
them to share
why does that come innate in them
why didn’t why why didn’t they come
built already
included to be kind
and to share it’s because we’re all born
with a sin nature
you don’t have to teach your kids to be
selfish
you have to teach them to be generous
oh that sounds like god you don’t have
to teach your kids
to be selfish we’re already that
that’s why uncle sam doesn’t ask you do
you want to give your taxes
he takes them before you even see your
check
the gross in the net is gross because he
about to rob you like it
he’s going to take his and you just get
the net
that’s how i always feel like this is
gross and when i see what i actually
make
and what i actually get to keep cause
they don’t trust you
but the thing about god is it can’t be
love if there’s not a choice
the reason why god doesn’t make you give
because if he made you give it wouldn’t
be love
it couldn’t come from the heart and so
what he does
is he says i give you this choice and
still
we got to grow up i literally have
uh a image when i was preaching this a
couple years ago that i found this week
that i want to share with you of me
trying to tell my daughter ava
to share and she looks like me
as an adult in different situations and
she may look like you
check this video out real quick hey
share
ava are you saying that
mine no you share
it’s good to share do you understand me
ava
yeah are you going to share
are you going to share
ava say share
that’s my daughter but doesn’t that
sound like some of us
god share uh uh share
are you gonna share
and it’s cute because she’s a kid
but after a while of that same behavior
if she doesn’t everybody say mature i
know that’s a cuss word for some of
y’all if she doesn’t mature
and start acting like her father the
water that she had she didn’t pay for
the rubber ducky she was playing with
she didn’t pay for the tub
or the lights or the towel but she still
hadn’t formed the principle of sharing
at some point i would say when are you
going to grow up
and i think that’s what god’s
challenging us in in this paper chaser
series
i’ve blessed you i’ve given you more
than you deserve
i kept you i’m blessing the works of
your hands
do you remember where you were five
years ago and what i’ve done for you
today when are you gonna grow up and be
like your daddy who loved the world so
much that he
gave and he gave on a maybe
there was no guarantee you were even
going to believe him and receive
what he had for you we have to develop
a generous heart last one we need to
develop a grateful heart
this one always hits me differently
because deuteronomy 15 15 it says you
shall remember
oh this one always hits me right when i
start to read it
you shall remember that you were a slave
in the land of egypt
and the lord your god redeemed you
therefore i command you this day
be generous give do more than others
have done
why would god say i command you to give
what authority
does he have to command us again it’s
because
everything we have came from him
and sometimes if you have a hard time
giving
and i say where does the money reside it
resides in the heart
it’s because you forgot what god
delivered you from
this week i remembered what god
delivered me from as i was going through
some papers
there’s this yellow piece of paper that
i have and it moves my release
form from doing community service
and uh many of you don’t know this about
your pastor
but i tell you every sunday because i
have nothing to hide i’m humble open and
transparent
i used to be a manipulator i used to be
conniving
i got in some trouble for car insurance
fraud and um it was a felony
and i ended up being able to by the
grace of god
be able to serve community service and
get it expunged
and um many of you didn’t see me at my
lowest point if if you saw me at that
point you would have canceled me
but god
and as i was looking at that paper and i
remember
picking up trash all over tulsa being a
youth pastor
i was a youth pastor at the time i was
doing community service bishop is here
and pastor debbie i had to get on the
platform
with my mom and bishop and helen
trowbridge and i had to tell
the entire church what i did see a lot
of us
we make mistakes and we want god to
erase the consequences it didn’t erase
the consequence that i had
but i wasn’t and i didn’t have to live
in shame
guilt or condemnation
and i remembered what god did for me
and people say pastor mike it seems so
easy for you to give it ain’t easy it
hurt every time
the first and the 15th when my 10 comes
out and then god tells me to give above
and beyond that it hurts so much that i
just tell them take it don’t even this
is the amount just take it
it doesn’t it’s not like it doesn’t
matter i just
live by a principle that’s higher
than my passions
and the reason it has become easier to
give
is because i’m grateful i remember
where i was when god found me
and he said with the case
i’ll use you at my lowest moment i was
picking up trash downtown
and god said people are going to hear
this story all around the world
and it’s going to bring me glory and at
the moment i’m sitting there
i’m saying god how in the world i was
trying to save some paper and i lied
about insurance and it’s like but i’ma
use it for my purpose
it’s not paper chasing anymore michael
it’s purpose chasing and as
i get grateful on where god has brought
me from
it changes how i deal with what’s in my
hand
because i know who holds my heart
and today i’m asking you to survey the
soil
the next three weeks are gonna be
life-changing principles
but generosity giving
is all about the heart
and today i want to pray for your heart
i want to pray for your soil i’m not
asking you to wear a sign over your head
that says vacant soil
i don’t want you to to name i want god
to do the heart surgery on you
and at this moment i want you to realize
it doesn’t matter what you have it
doesn’t matter what others think you
have
god wants to know do i have
your heart and that’s the only question
that you need to answer today because it
doesn’t matter how much money you have
if your heart is bankrupt
doesn’t matter how much money it doesn’t
matter if when god looks at this thing
he’s nowhere to be found in it
where does the money reside in the heart
and where does god want to reside
in your heart
hands lifted all over the world oh i
feel this thing god’s doing heart
surgery right now yeah
yup yup yup yup that’s what’s happening
right now
and there’s a surrender happening at
this moment there’s something
that that people who have been guarding
their heart or there’s been nothing
there
or it’s been it’s been violating or
vulnerable god’s saying right now i’m
going to heal your heart
yep yep yep right now just let him do
the work oh i feel the presence of god
he wants to come to where the money
resides in the heart
and he don’t want to just change your
finances he wants to change
your feelings about how you are his
he wants to let you know that you are
more than what you make
he wants you to be assured that he loves
you right now but it takes you
surrendering right now lift it up
said i surrender
come on right now to you right now i’m
surrendering everything in my heart
everything everything that’s been there
god
from family members to culture god i’m
saying you can have it all with whole
thing nothing oh i feel this thing
somebody needs to let it go
with ho god i’m giving you everything in
my heart i surrender
yeah right there make this place an
altar
and give god your heart right now
everything that’s been evil everything
that’s been wicked
everything that’s been selfish i’m
withholding nothing withhold
god i’m giving you everything
god you’re doing surgery right now
withholding
god i’m giving you everything
come on somebody needs to stand up say i
surrender say
i sir in your house right now
lift your hands turn that place into an
altar
said everything
god i’m giving you everything i’m giving
it to you
you can have my whole heart withhold
oh i feel the presence of god invading
the dark parts of your heart
[Music]
withholding nothing
with holding nothing come on build it up
i give you all of me somebody say i give
you
[Music]
whoa i feel this i give you god you can
have my whole heart
[Music]
father you can have everything i need
you to change my habits
but it all starts in my heart everything
that’s good
but not god i give it all to you god
i give you all
[Music]
if you know there’s an area of your
heart that has been selfish or grieving
and you want to develop a generous heart
and a grateful heart i need you to stand
up wherever you are and just lift your
hands i’m about to pray for you
this takes you identifying where you’re
at okay
everybody this is not for everybody but
this is for people
who are saying i’m not just gonna say
i’m a purpose chaser
i’ma listen to the principles and father
god you’re about to develop a generous
and grateful heart some of y’all need to
mark this day down
god is transforming your life today
father i pray
for my brothers and sisters all over the
world and i declare and i believe come
on
receive this right now some of your soil
is
ready for god to do a work in you and i
declare father god
that every bit of greed and grief
that has still been residue in our lives
and has literally been the foundation
that everything has been built on
today we tear down the stronghold
and i thank you father god that in this
moment
you are building us up in the
generosity that you’ve already extended
to us
father you loved us so much that you
gave and today god
i’m thanking you the same spirit that
was in christ jesus
would now be in us father god that we
would not just have the strongholds that
have been in our minds
but father god that we would have the
mind of christ i
pray that the lies of poverty
and the lies of selfishness and the lies
of greed
and the lies of self-preservation and
the lies of
debt and the lies father of doubt
would erode off of your people right now
and father i thank you that
people would begin to obey your
principles
in faith i’m talking about crazy faith
father today somebody is making a
decision that they’re going to obey the
principle of tithing
and they obey the principle father god
of sowing
and reaping obey the principle of being
generous everywhere they go
god i’m asking you develop in our church
father this is not for everybody this is
not for the world
this is not for the ones who have not
given their life to you but we can be
grateful
because we’ve experienced your goodness
and today we are deciding
we’re withholding nothing lift it up
come on sing it out of your mouth
withholding
got every area in me i made a
progression but i’m not perfect god
do a new work in me god take me from the
30 to the 60 to the hundredfold
god do a work deep father let the roots
be so deep that my children’s children’s
children
get an inheritance father not just of
money
but a principle scott we trust you i
surrender
i sir
[Music]
i feel this thing somebody’s heart is
being transformed
and every
[Music]
here i am here
[Music]
if you’re in this room and in your room
on your track and in your car and you’ve
never accepted
the generous gift of grace
of salvation today
i want to give you the opportunity to
experience what god
gave before he asked you to give
anything
[Music]
it is the greatest one decision that
i’ve ever made
[Music]
it took me from being a liar a
manipulator addicted to pornography
somebody who had bad stuff in my heart
made poor decisions
was basing my life off of the the
principles of culture
and not the principles of the word and
when i gave my life fully to christ and
i said god i’m gonna live by your
principles
it didn’t make me a perfect man it made
me a progressing man today i stand
before you raw
authentic giving you everything that god
has given me
and where i am today is not where i’ll
be two years from now but where i am
today is only because of the grace of
god
and today i remember and that’s why i’m
speaking with so much conviction
some of you are at the end of your rope
and you’ve tried everything you’ve tried
the paper
and it was pointless you tried the pills
and it was pointless you tried
everything
out here and god’s saying would you give
me a try
would you would you allow me to have
this moment
to come into your heart and to transform
you if you want to be added into that
prayer do you know the amazing thing
is over 700 people last week gave their
life
to christ oh can we celebrate y’all that
is
huge
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and i told god i said god i’d never
preach a message
without giving people the opportunity to
receive you
that’s why this church is blessed is
because it’s not about us
what we want for you and today
i believe there’s hundreds more that
for some reason this has been playing
all day and you’ve been trying to ignore
it but your heart has been beaten fast
this whole time that’s the holy spirit
the bible says he’s drawing you to him
his love
that’s what you feel this joy you sense
from me that’s jumping off the screen
that you can sense in my sweat
that’s the love of god saying yes
there’s a better way to live
and remember if god gets your heart
he’ll help you transform your habits
if you want to be a part of this prayer
we’re about to pray i just want you to
slip your hand up in the air on the
count of three whether you’re watching
this live on rebroadcast the holy spirit
is there with you right now
you can be at your lowest moment i need
y’all to pray right now you can be in
your lowest moment right now but god is
right there with you
and he’s inviting you into a new way of
living a blessed life
and right now one you’re making the
greatest decision you’ve ever made to
i’m proud of you but more than that your
name is gonna be written in the lamb’s
book of life
three shoot your hand up all over the
world i believe
right now that god is seeing your hand
go up and more than that he is now
invading your heart
i want everybody to pray this prayer for
the benefit of those who are coming to
god y’all i feel this thing there are a
lot of people right now
that their life is changing they are
repenting are
turning right now and they’re gonna be
transformed
i want everybody to pray this prayer say
god thank you
for giving me jesus
today i’m grateful because i need a
savior
i believe you lived you died
and you rose again just for me
at my worst you saw me
at my best and today
i give you my life invade my heart
change my habits transform my mind
i’m yours in jesus name
amen can we give god all come on
let’s give god a shadow praise let’s
give him glory all over the world
hallelujah heaven is turning up
over one person getting saved and
hundreds of people
just gave their life to christ glory to
god
this is what i want you to do i want you
to if you just gave your life to christ
text save to the number on the screen
that’s all i want you to do i want you
to take saved and we’re going to help
walk with you
we have some videos and some content and
some resources
we’re going to be a church that walks
alongside of you
and this thing is not about perfection
because that’s what the enemy tries to
remember those buckets
somebody right now the seed was just
dropped
in you don’t let the enemy steal this
seed
[Music]
don’t let us being shallow steal this
seed don’t let doing too much still
deceive
today god has given you a new generous
heart protect that soil
because out of that blows everything in
your life
go back and watch damaged goods on
youtube go watch relationship goals
go watch planted not buried that
probably is a really good series right
now
for some of y’all to watch watch these
go back and watch anchored and see what
the lord told us about this year
i’m telling you this will be the best
year of your life
if it is your best year spiritually and
we’re going to be here to walk with you
i’m so proud of you and transformation
nation
i’m so proud of you do you know i just
preached for 90 minutes
about stewardship and generosity this is
the same length as a pixar film
and the reason i had to do it is because
your purpose
is going to be dependent on the
principles of god
i’m proud of you as a church i feel us
going deeper
i feel like i got about 20 000 anchored
people
oh y’all better help me i feel like i
got about 20 25
000 anchored people if you’re anchored
in the comments can you put on the acre
we’re gonna see god do it next week
i have a huge surprise i’ve been keeping
from you you gotta get here
for week three of paper chasers and this
week share this with
everybody now remember you got an
assignment today
is to go out and show the joy of god to
somebody else
father i thank you that this will be our
best week ever
that we will look like you everywhere
that we go
father that blessings are looking for us
as we steward over what’s in our hands
father i thank you that we will divorce
the paper chasing
and be committed to the purpose chasing
in jesus name we agree we expect
amen go out and live a transformed life
glory to god