Today was a very special Sunday as Pastor Michael revealed our Vision word for 2021. We learned that Vision is VALUABLE, Vision needs a VEHICLE and that God gives vision in VALLEYS. If you are needing vision for any area of your life today, this message is for you! Make sure you are joining us in 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting. For more information, check out our social media platforms and our website!

the truth is

vision is so valuable see our church

made a decision a long time ago when we

were in the dark

that we don’t move without it

so through prayer god gives us a word

a word that we gather around a word that

gives us direction

a word that grounds us

and god tells us every year mark my word

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in 2017 the word was beyond

god was going to take us beyond our

wildest dreams

in 2018 he said stride find the pace of

grace

in 2019 he said the word was released

that i’m going to release you into and

release you from and in 2020 the word

was stronger

in 2021 god has spoken again

and he said

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oh come on if you’re excited about what

god’s doing today

oh come on wherever you’re watching from

let’s give god

the god of the universe the god that is

still good

a big shot of praise in this place

hallelujah god you’re worthy

hey listen this is my first sunday

preaching

in 2021 and i feel like something

special is gonna happen

i didn’t know that i was gonna be

dressed like an angel in heaven today

but i feel like god is doing something

heaven is coming to earth

and not just in this arena but he’s

coming to your house

i’m excited about what god

has for us today if you’re excited will

you do me a favor on your couch

in your home wherever you are run on

track will you put your hands together

and give god

a shout of pray i said will you put your

hands together and give god

a shout of praise hallelujah

see this year we’re going to figure out

who are the people that just came to

watch and spectate

and who are the people that are going to

participate with god this year

and i’m just grateful for a church who

has decided

everybody say i decided that we weren’t

going to let a pandemic

a presidential election whatever is

going on we’re not going to let it keep

us from the one thing that rules over

all things

which is our relationship with god and

this year

i feel a special um

like i don’t know i don’t know what else

to say it’s just like there’s another

level of confidence that i feel

that our church is right where we’re

supposed to be

at the exact time we’re supposed to be

at doing

exactly what god has called us to do and

i’m just grateful that you are joining

us today

wherever you’re at i need to see where

you’re at right now in the chat i need

you to tell me where are you watching

from today

because i believe god has given me a

word and y’all know what

so god has been speaking to me for six

months about what i’m about to share

with you today

now i don’t know about you but some

people can cook

but other people cook and they cook with

love y’all know when they start the

night before or two nights before and

there’s stuff that’s

that’s just simmering and and it’s just

sitting there this word that god has

given me the word for 2021

has been literally simmering in my

spirit

for over six months and i’m so excited

to be able to share it with you but

today

i don’t want to share something that

your heart is closed to

yeah the right seed

on the wrong ground never produces fruit

so before we start sharing anything on

the first sunday

that your pastor is preaching in 2021

could we just

take a sign of humility would everybody

just lift your hands i know this may be

a little strange and not just lift them

like this i want you to lift them like

you’re ready to receive something

yep because i don’t got what you want

but god does i want you to know that i’m

just a vehicle this is just

an atmosphere we are just a vessel but

the god of the universe wants to give

you speak to you the holy spirit

is ready we’ve been praying y’all last

night we’ve been in seven days of prayer

and fasting

and last night something broke off in

here we went off the live stream and for

a whole nother

hour we were praying and and miracles

and signs and wonders we were praying

for your family

i’m telling you god is ready to do

something but are you ready to receive

somebody in faith say god i’m ready to

receive

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some of you are waiting for something

else to happen but when when you say god

i’m ready to receive then you gotta wait

on it

the very thing the very healing the very

confirmation

the security that you need it’s not

coming in what i’m preaching it’s coming

from god

somebody just say it again god i’m ready

to receive

whatever that means god for 2021 i thank

you father as a church we’re ready to

receive i

stand father god as the lead servant of

this house saying i’m ready to receive

god i know i know what you’ve told me

but i’m ready to receive whatever

addition or adaption that you have god

i’m ready to receive father god i know

that many of us have made our plans

and father god but today we’re saying

we’re ready to receive whatever you want

to do whatever you want to change

whatever you want to take out

whatever you want to correct whatever

was our flesh whatever father god is

supposed to produce fruit

god we’re ready to receive father we’re

ready to receive father god not just the

blessings but the correction

we’re ready to receive oh y’all want to

really pray right now god we’re ready to

receive

we’re ready received father god

everything that you have for us father

god you’re the only one that

knows not just what we want but what we

need

so today father god as a community

we stand and i stand and we give this

church back to you

it’s yours we give our families back to

you

they’re yours we give our purpose and

our career back to you

they are yours and we are ready to

receive

whatever you have for us have your way

in this place today father

holy spirit i can’t do this without you

tag king back again i need you to come

into this place

and overrun us with your presence god

for every person who’s watching that

hasn’t been a church in a long time and

is skeptical

i thank you that your love is rapping

all around them right now

thank you father that we are ready to

receive in jesus name we agreed

if you believe it will you give god one

big shout

come on clap your hands though you

people shout unto god with the voice of

triumph

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yo all right let’s go

we are starting part one

of a series that we are calling can’t

tell you yet

because i have to

really the word is i have to walk you to

the word of the year this year

i got to walk you to it because

sometimes one thing that i’ve noticed

i’ll start like this

one thing that i’ve noticed is that um

when you don’t have a value for

something

um your your reception of it is not what

it should be

let me give you a prime example i have

three beautiful children

and one on the way shout out to my baby

mama cooking

our last baby you look good girl

um i’ve noticed that my oldest daughter

isabella needs help

receiving the level of gift that she

is getting let me help you um

at christmas time um she doesn’t know

how much nothing cost

she has no concept of how many people

i had to fight to get the toy how i put

my life

in danger of coronavirus to be able

to wait in the line how she has no idea

of what it is

and so many times when we when we go to

give her something

that she has no clue of what the value

is of it

she does not appreciate it in the way

that it should be appreciated because

she has no value

attached to her gift

and what i’ve found is that even though

i

put a lot into it if there’s not an

understanding of what it is and where it

came from and how much it cost you can

treat it as something very common

i have seen my daughter treat the 250

toy the same way she treats the dollar

tree toy now all my parents know what

i’m talking about

which makes me just want to go to the

dollar tree

and only give her those things but until

i set her up to understand no no no baby

we don’t leave that outside

because this costs too much

to leave outside no no no no no no

no we don’t spill putty

we don’t paint on this you can paint on

that

but you have to put some value on this

because it’s worth more than what you

think it is

one of the things that i found is when

god gives vision

many of us are treating it as cheap

suggestions

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we’ve not governed ourselves to

understand no no no i don’t share that

with everybody

because everybody doesn’t know how to

treat this

i can’t i can’t i cannot allow what god

showed me to be put up as a suggestion

i have to value it as something that is

going to happen

that god gave me a glimpse of that i

have to work in the middle of it

that i got to stay committed to no

matter if anybody else stays committed

to it

i need to bring you value of vision

today

because i might drop a word on you and

say it’s from god

but if you think it’s the same thing as

the motivational speaker

that you look at and scroll up to on

instagram you’ll miss what god’s trying

to do

i’m not talking about something for

marketing i’m talking

about something for a miracle i’m not

talking about something

that makes you feel good i’m some

talking about something that makes your

faith move

let me calm down i’m already a little

too hyped

when you bring value to vision

then it changes the way you treat it

and that transformation church god has

told me as a lead pastor i didn’t have

many qualifications

i could talk a bunch i understood a lot

of stuff

once it was shown to me but i didn’t

have any innate abilities

to do a lot of stuff the one thing that

i i will say

that i have done from the very beginning

or before i became a lead pastor

is i would mark down the words that god

said

that’s why i called today mark my words

because one of the things that god would

tell me to do is write this down

and i would have no idea how it would

happen

when it would happen where it would

happen

or even why it would happen but for some

reason

god would give me these glimpses of

things

and he would say mark my words

put it down

i put that on me y’all remember when you

was in elementary school i might be

dating myself or middle school

and you wanted to say something bro i

got the new jordans they were like no

you didn’t get the new jordan scene it’s

like put that on something

yeah and they would be like i put that

on everything and it was like no no no

put that on something

and then you know it was next level when

they said i put that on my mama

y’all know what i’m talking about i put

that on my mama and then they would take

it to the

i put that on me and what god began to

tell me he said mark my words and i said

god how is this going to happen he said

i’ll put it on me

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this is not about your qualifications

this

is not about what you think you can get

done

this is something that i’m telling you

and i will bring you through

so that i can get glory put it on me

everybody say mark my words

my question to you today are what are

the things that god has shown you

what are the visions he’s given you for

your family for your marriage

for your business that you marked down

not that you’re hoping will happen i’m

not talking about wishing

i’m not talking about hopeful and

positive thinking

i’m talking about where you have had

enough to not just

get a vision from god but you believed

it enough to write it down

to share it with somebody to say it out

of your mind somebody say mark my words

it makes me go back to the pattern of

god

see god has a pattern when i look at

moses

and the children of israel and when god

wanted to lead them

he wanted to give them some directions

of how to do something

so moses went up to the top of the

mountain and he got with god

through prayer our conversation and god

gave

moses some things and he said mark my

words down and that’s where we get the

ten commandments from

it was one man spending time with god

getting vision from god

and believed it enough to mark it down

and he marked it down and

thousands of years later my daughters

right now are learning the ten

commandments

because somebody marked his words

what i’m trying to encourage you is that

marking god’s words

is not about you it’s about legacy

it’s about god doing something past you

yeah

see the spoken word lives only for a

moment but when you write that thing

down

it lives forever we’re reading books

from people who aren’t here anymore

yeah yeah but did you mark down what god

say

or are you trying to protect god’s

reputation

well i don’t want to mark it down i

don’t want to say it i want to do

something because just in case

it doesn’t happen god has never needed

you to defend him

and he doesn’t need it today he’s saying

i’m looking all around can i find

somebody who would actually believe me

to mark

my what somebody say mark my words

okay let me let me get back the pattern

of marking god’s word happens like this

it happens through praying hearing

listening receiving believing

praying hearing listening

receiving believing one more time

praying

hearing listening receiving

and believing that’s why we do 21 days

of prayer at the beginning of every year

is because we’re making space for god to

give

us what we need so we can mark his words

how do we do it pastor mike i’m glad you

asked by praying what is prayer

talking to god i love prayer

because whatever your personality is

that’s how god wants to hear you pray

yo god this is trash what’s happening in

my life right now and father i need you

to come and do something

or i’m about to shake things up god i

need you

to move in my mind because i’m thinking

all kind of wild thoughts right now

and shorty is looking good to me right

now god and i want to lay hands

and pray for her in the bed and father

i need you to help me keep my way he

doesn’t care how it sounds to anybody

else

your personality is anointed

to communicate with god

somebody needs to hear me say that god

is not offended

by what you say and what you don’t say

he’s big enough to handle

every inflection every thought

every hurt god i can’t do this anymore i

don’t have words to pray

and that last stillborn baby has taken

away my last

good thing to say so today i’m going to

sit in your presence but you’re going to

have to hear my heart

do you know the bible tells us that he

understands the moan

the groan the utterance the sound

all i’m telling you is that if you’re

going to see the things that god wants

you to see you’ve got to go to him first

so you go in praying and then you have

to hear

and this is one of the things that i i

said hearing and then listening and i

know some of y’all that are really

analytical is like isn’t that the same

thing no no no

no hearing is just awareness right now

i’m hearing a lot of things i’m hearing

somebody um walk away right now

y’all are hearing your kids on an ipad

you might be hearing

the washing machine going in the

background right now you’re hearing

you’re aware

that god is in the midst you’re aware

that god is around you’re aware when

you’re listening to music

and god wants us to be aware but then he

wants us to actually listen

god and listening to god are two totally

different things

because you can be around the atmosphere

of god hearing him aware of him but when

you listen you intentionally focus

that’s why 21 days of prayer and fasting

is something that you have to do because

it gives you the space the time

and the ability not just to hear god but

to listen to him

to focus to quiet yourself long enough

to allow all your

talking to stop in your mind to be able

to see what is the still small voice god

is speaking in

and then you go from praying hearing

listening

to receiving that’s what that’s what we

were doing at the beginning god i want

to receive

from you what do you want to receive

every year we got to receive vision

everybody say vision

because without vision a lot of people

do dumb stuff

let me let me be very clear that without

vision

you are not your best self

nobody’s ever become their greatest

version on accident

nobody has ever tripped up onto

championships

nobody has ever accidentally had a great

marriage

nobody has ever um subsequently

built a fortune 500 company it was

everybody shout at me vision

and that’s why we want to receive vision

from god but it’s not enough just to

receive it then you got to believe it

believe what god is saying and today

i think that we need to take a journey

through understanding how important

vision is as i get ready at the end of

this message to share

what i believe god has prophetically

given me and confirmed over and over for

the past six months

what transformation church is supposed

to grab a hold of this year

and is going to play out in every area

of your life but i’m telling you right

now god is always speaking

the question is will you mark his word

somebody say mark my words

and let me give this to you just as an

additive you never mark god’s words by

facts

you only can mark god’s words by faith

you will never god never gives a word

to you that is already accomplished

so if your marriage is jacked up and god

says your marriage is going to be a

marriage

other couples will learn from do not

fight that

mark the word let god show you by

faith if you’re sitting here counting

your last few pennies

but god says this time next year you’re

going to be giving away money

you better mark his ah

you better mark his words cause you do

not mark his words by facts

you mark his words by

if you had it you wouldn’t need faith

but god is saying i’m trying to give you

a receipt today

for something that will arrive in a

later season

and it’s not until we mark god’s words

that we get to see

everything that god is saying this is so

real to me

because as um a young pastor um we’re

about to celebrate six years coming up

here very soon and one of the things oh

yeah we can celebrate

we made it so jesus be offense um

but as i celebrate that i remember

sitting in

in meetings with our finance people and

when i started off i hated finance

meetings

i hated that number one because we had

no money and that’s a

finance meeting with no money is torture

like and i hated thinking of all the

pluses and minuses and what would happen

and i remember uh our person that was

over finances at the time

is now over all business in our church

tammy and and we would sit in those

meetings and

bre would be in those meetings and i

would get this unction

that god would say just say something

dumb just say what i’m telling you right

now

just say something that does not look

like what you’re going i said one day

mark my words i would stand up and tell

them i mean mark my words

we gonna be able to give to other

churches and they’d be looking at me

like

yay pastor speaking by faith and i was

like no no no

no you don’t hear me mark my words we’re

going to be able to stand up

and be a difference maker in our city

when we were just

in the hood of north tulsa and not 250

people were coming to the service

i said mark my words they’re going to be

more white people that come to our

church

and i mean i would just begin to say

stuff out loud

and it was almost it’s from heaven god

was like

he believes me

wow i’ve been trying to speak this to a

bunch of people

and he yeah gabriel michael

y’all look look at them over there in

the hood

they actually know a lot we know a lot

of people read the bible

but they actually

but is he writing it down

is he sharing that with people

is he actually putting seed towards what

he believes is gonna

we gotta do it we gotta make sure the

word that i

showed him in the dark

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comes to fruition in the light

and the reason i can stand here so

confident i don’t need no notes today

i’m talking from my life

i can stand here boldly and tell you

that when you

mark the words that god says that you

can take it to the bank

when you mark the way it may not come

when you think you need it

it may not come in the form and the

version that you wanted it

but i’m telling you when god begins to

give you vision you can mark

his words i’m standing here because it

is our routine

it is our ritual to take the first month

of the year and say god

what are you saying because if you don’t

say it we’re not going

and the problem is many of you are often

running in 2021

and you have false started

cause you never got clearance i’m

talking to somebody right now

you’ve already told everybody on

instagram what your plan is and god says

go ahead and run with that but i’ll be

back here

because until you come and get vision

from me

all of that is in vain vision without

god is in vain

but once you get a vision from god

you can begin to run with it and that’s

why

as we start off on this vision sunday

this is the start

of a vision month you cannot give me one

sunday to talk about vision it’s all in

my bones it’s like jeremiah shut up in

my bones

i’m going to bring you to a place where

you value vision so much

that many of you are going to stop

listening to external

voices that have good ideas

because a good idea is not a vision

it has to be a god idea for your life

and when you get that god idea then you

can move

and so transformation church every year

i want you to know whether you just

started with us or you’ve been with us i

want you to know

that vision is more important than

anything else in your life and it’s more

important

than anything in this church because i

want you to understand that it is

important to god look at proverbs 29

18 and i want you to take this very

simple scripture

and memorize it tattoo it on your heart

make sure that you’re repeating it and

saying it to yourself

all the time where there is no

vision the people perish

whatever area is dying in your life

is a result of no vision

your relationships keep dying

you don’t have no vision for them

your business keeps flailing

it’s because where there is no vision

another translation says where there is

no prophetic

declaration where there is nothing that

god

said to show you what’s happening in the

future when you don’t see yourself

in the way god sees you where there is

no vision the people

perish another translation says they

cast off restraint

that means the vision keeps you in your

lane

the vision keeps you in restraint and

when you don’t have a vision that’s how

you can go this way

end up with that person start this

bidding

this business is because when there is

no vision

you stop caring and the result that you

are living

in today is partly because

many of us have no vision

no prophetic word from god

nothing that you can say i don’t know

about all of this but i know god said

this

what is the one thing that you know that

god told you to do

i’m not saying a million things but what

do you know and i’m telling you

if you don’t know anything it’s not

because god’s not speaking

it’s because you haven’t made time to

listen

why do y’all meet 21 days every night

stop eating doing all this other stuff

because vision right this point down is

most valuable

vision is more valuable than money

you missed it look at me vision

is more valuable than money

vision is more valuable than your

marriage

vision is m why are you saying that

because without

that vision for the money for the

marriage

for the business it will perish

some of y’all’s friendship groups are so

jacked up

cause you don’t got a vision for your

friendships wow

wow i’m gonna leave that right now but

you always talking about how depressed

and lonely you are

it’s cause you will not get a vision

for your friendships

i’m talking about stuff that don’t

nobody want to talk about but the reason

why

you’re overweight is because you don’t

have a vision for health

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you’ve never oh god you won’t

see and this is what i’m telling you

until you get a vision until it becomes

the most valuable thing

you always continue to wander

you’ll always continue to let what

happens happens

some of y’all are so traumatized and you

post about trauma

and you talk about mental health but you

don’t have a vision of counseling

now you just spent 500 on a playstation

5 for a baby daddy that’s going to leave

you next week

but you won’t get a vision for your own

mental health

vision uh is most

valuable and let me help you understand

this that vision

is valuable whether you believe in god

or not

it’s a principle of the earth let me let

me let me help you understand

vision takes man to the moon

somebody had to sit in their room and

say let me get a vision

of going to the god dropped a vision

vision makes man go to the moon vision

makes an

airplane being built in a bicycle shop

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vision makes a man take off from the

free-throw line

nobody told him to do that that was

not something that had been done but

something he

saw before it was seen something he saw

before it was seen vision uh

vision makes you build a car with no

motor

we’re talking about tesla being the most

um um valuable car company that

came from somebody’s vision before it

was ever seen

vision makes a man build a ark when it’s

never rained

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ask my boy noah vision makes you put

your baby in a basket

when they’re killing every baby to and

under and

vision allow you to still be able to

raise him

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vision makes you leave your successful

fishing business

and follow a man that claims to be the

christ

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vision will make you sit in a room

at 7 30 in the morning and write down

all of these outlandish things that god

tells you and mark the date in your

daughter’s room that’s what

vision will do

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vision will give you the audacity

to climb up on a cross and die for

people who may not even receive you

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for the joy that was set before me for

the vision that i

saw that none of y’all saw father please

forgive them cause they didn’t see the

vision

somebody shot at me vision it is

most valuable and the problem with many

of us is vision ain’t that valuable to

you

that that’s the truth of the matter you

you don’t really care about vision you

you just go with whatever comes or

you see the next opportunity and you

just see the next thing that is a trend

and god’s saying

that ain’t how i operate i will give you

a glimpse

from heaven into the future and ask you

to hold and obey and stand

and be steadfast and be consistent even

when everything else doesn’t look like

it’s going to come to pass

that’s what i do i give vision

but this is the crazy thing about vision

being valuable

something can be valuable and still not

be your value

okay there’s when we say valuable

everybody can recognize the price of

something

but when i say it’s your value that’s

the priority that you set on it

so there’s a difference between vision

being valuable yeah we need vision

and vision being your actual value

it’s the difference between worth and

you actually thinking it’s worthy of

your time

worthy of your effort worthy of and what

i’m telling you is as we walk on this

journey this year

as a church i’m not trying to raise no

milk fed christians

that just need the little tibialis i

just need something to make my week feel

better

i’m talking about let me stop i’m trying

to raise some people

that come hell or high water if they

shut it down

if they tell me i can’t that i have

something on the inside of me that’s

holding me

that it’s worth what god has told me to

do somebody shot at me one more time

vision

and that’s why i i need everybody to

understand that vision

just doesn’t need to be recognized as

valuable vision needs to become your

value

your value everybody recognizes in 2021

that health

is valuable but it has not become

everybody’s value

wow health is valuable

yeah but right after this fast

some of y’all are going to do worse

things to your body

than you did leading all the way up

because

what’s valuable does not equal your

value and what i’m begging you church

is let’s in 2021 make

vision your value

i will have vision for my family i will

have vision for my wife

i will have vision for my husband i will

have vision for the children we’re going

to raise

i will have vision for my singleness

i will have vision for my finances

i will have vision for my future

somebody shot at me vision all right

so so vision is most valuable but

vision must be a value

okay and tester how do i get vision

i’m glad you asked right this point down

vision is always

vertical you can never get a vision

horizontally

friends don’t bring vision i need

everybody to hear me say this

friends don’t bring vision

can you hear me very clearly friends

don’t bring vision

my company doesn’t bring vision

vision has to be vertical vision comes

from god

god is the source of my vision

now i know this comes against a lot of

stuff that people will tell you

but what i’m telling you right now is

your vision

has to come from god one of the things

that i think about all the time

is that if a vision doesn’t come from

god it is void

because god is the source of all vision

look at colossians

chapter 1 verse 16.

it says for in him that’s in god all

things were created

everything everything was created in god

things in heaven i love this scripture

and on earth visible and invisible

whether thrones or powers or rulers or

authorities

all things have been created through him

and for him can i help you understand

that

anything god wants to get done in the

earth he’s going to give vision

and vision always comes from god can i

help you

the most inadequate object is supposed

to be giving god glory

so he gave somebody a vision for this

and he asked them to allow it to be

released on the earth

and when this washcloth is functioning

in its greatest capacity

it gives god glory the bees when they

buzz

they’re giving god glory everything that

has ever been created y’all read the

the verse right everything in heaven and

earth

was created from god

what i’m trying to say is that god has

no lack

of vision he has lack of vessels

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it’s already created in heaven

and he’s waiting for a place to deposit

it on earth so it can actually come to

pass

you don’t gotta go searching all around

to this motivational speaker and this

thought

and this thing to find vision all you

got to do is get in his presence

you don’t believe me and that’s why i

said it like this when i said that

out loud i was i was preparing and i

said well charles said oh that’s good

i said god is he’s showing me something

i’ve never seen before

watch this write this point down vision

is god’s investment

when god gives somebody on earth a

vision

it’s god’s investment from heaven

and he says yeah i can trust bri with

that

i’ma go ahead and give her this idea

and i’m gonna invest and nobody invests

not to see a return

on their investment this is not a gift

it’s got to come

into me multiply i gotta work it and i

gotta release it in the earth

and i’m telling somebody right now that

god is looking for people

at 20 21 that heaven is full

of vision that has not been released on

the earth you’ve never heard the best

song

because it’s yet to be made you’ve never

seen the best graphic

because it’s yet to be made your

favorite movie ain’t gonna be your

favorite movie

cause there’s something that is still to

come and god

is way down with vision waiting to

invest it my question is

are you a good investment

can god give you a glimpse of what he

wants to do in the earth brentham

and you would be willing to pray it

through to sow into it

to give up other stuff for it to be

steadfast around it

to be able to believe when nobody else

is believing are you a good investment

and i came to tell god today

with about 30 000 other people that here

we are god

whatever you want to do in me

transformation church is a good

investment michael todd is a good

investment

my family is a good investment if you

want to give vision to the earth you can

do it through me

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somebody put that in the chat i’m a good

investment

why can’t god give you the next uber

you missed it well it’s too much and i

don’t have a computer background and i

don’t know and god said you a weak

investment

you tr i was going to give you the idea

and you tried to figure out how it was

going to happen

all i needed you to do is be the conduit

that i use it from

why can’t you how is the kingdom of god

going to advance

until god can start dropping vision on

us and we be

faithful enough to not just keep it to

me and my little family but god if you

want me to release this to the world

if you want me to represent to the whole

world i

will do it i’m a good investment

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the next amazon is watching right now

they don’t even believe it enough to

even say amen

the next idea the thing you’re giving

your money and your resources

the cure is in you

if you are available to let god give you

vision

all marriages could be healed through a

tip that god gives to your marriage

but you’re a bad investment

when he gives it to you won’t even write

it down

he’ll give it to you in prayer and

you’ll chomp it up

that it’s it’s just you

that was just that was just and god’s

saying i

keep dropping heavenly investments

and i can’t find people who would

watch over them to see them actually

happen in the earth

vision is god’s heavenly investment for

an earthly

return i don’t know why god does this

but he don’t do nothing in the earth

that he doesn’t use a person to do

the sad truth is god’s first stop

to get all vision into the earth is his

church

but many times because he can’t find

faith he has to look at the church and

say they’re not ready

and he has and he has to go to somebody

else

who doesn’t y’all i’m telling you what

happens why if god wants the kingdom of

god expanded

are all of these ideas happening outside

of the kingdom because they have

the ability to take the idea or the wind

of god it said all things come from god

everything we created

in heaven and earth is because they have

the audacity

to believe and you have the audacity to

ask somebody to pray with me

to see if maybe god had kind to say it

don’t you talk to him don’t you claim to

hear it

and what i’m asking us i don’t know

there’s just something in me that is

saying

that we have to stop cowering in the

face of what we see

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god told me that this would be the

greatest year of the church

now i can look at what’s happening in

society right now

and be like oh god what’s going to

happen i do not look at

sight i look at

vision vision is what i see with my eyes

closed

sight is what i see with my eyes open

close your eyes where do you live next

year

some of y’all saw your same room

close your eyes where is all your family

three years from now

are they saved healed

denouncing old lifestyles come on i’m

telling you

this is vision what i’m talking about

where do you see your ability to bless

others

six weeks from now oh see y’all wanted

it to be six years from now

but i serve a god that can do something

like that y’all missed it

god does not need a bunch of time it

only took him three days

to conquer death hell in the grave what

can he resurrect in your life

if he could find faith luke 8 18 the

second part says but the son of man

when he returns how many will he find on

the earth

who have faith faith that a vision

cannot be here today but be here

tomorrow

see the thing i found out is that that

god

wants to invest in somebody his vision

and

every vision write this down needs a

vehicle

vision needs a vehicle

god is trying to ask you will you be the

place i can sit

to make this thing happen

vision needs a vehicle

in my mind what kind of vehicle would

you be

no no for real like

today after this i want you to post what

kind of vehicle

you would be and before you post the

ferrari

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no no no no i want you to think about it

because some of us are hoopties

for the vision of god we break down at

every obstacle

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come on we don’t want anybody to see us

in public

we don’t want it to be on front street

come on some of us are hoopties when it

comes to god’s vision

god will show us something we don’t want

anybody to ride with us

we won’t put enough oil on it

i’m saying what type of vehicle will you

be this year and this is the beautiful

thing at the start of 2021 you get a

chance

to choose something different it doesn’t

matter what you were

i’m challenging you to bring value to

vision today

so you can choose differently god is

saying be the ferrari

of the vision let me sit in something

and when i sit in you you have no

limitations

that you can go fast that you can go you

can stop

you can do whatever i ask you to do what

type of vehicle would you because vision

always needs a vehicle and

when you get the vision of god then

rebecca 2 2

comes into play and this is why i’m

taking this

much time to bring you to the word of

the year because i want you to value it

we’re not just about to tell you a word

and then we’ll talk about it next year

no no

no every sermon series every decision we

make

every dollar we spend in money has to be

centered

around this prophetic word that god

gives us because we

value vision most here

and if you start valuing the vision of

god for your family and for your house

and for your life i’m telling you there

is no limit

to what god wants to do look what

rebecca 2 2 says and then the lord

answered me and said

write the suggestion

no it oh it did not say suggestion write

the opinion

no no no no no write the idea

it says write the vision

and make it plain on tablets that he

may run who reads it another translation

in the message version i love it it says

and then god answered write this write

what you see not with your eyes open

with your eyes closed write it out in

big block letters so that it can be read

on the run what is coming

why i’m so passionate about this is

because i stand here today

because i wrote it down and i wrote it

in big block letters

so that people who saw it on the

instagram post

and people who saw the vision when they

watched one message their cousin sent

them

some of y’all are a product of somebody

sending this to you

or sending you something from

relationship goals or sending you

something come on put

i in the in the comments if it’s you

that you’re on you’re a product of it

because the vision god gave me when

nobody was around

was a vision that i had enough faith

to write down and when i wrote the

vision down

it became something that god now could

begin to back on the earth

i’m asking you right now not to just

write down your idea i need you to write

it down

because you got in god’s presence and it

came from something vertical

it came from god he’s the source of our

vision but then when you write down that

vision

i want you to know that you don’t have

to make it happen you have to work with

god

to allow him to make it happen through

you you just miss

a huge point and that’s why so much of

this self-help

grind hustle make you happen all of this

stuff

has got people wore out with no results

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you keep listening to them and you can

do this and you wake up and it’s just

determination

and self-will and god says it’s not by

might and it’s not my power

but it will be by my spirit if you see

y’all i’m telling you

i’m talking kingdom talk and you’re

listening to motivation

i’m talking what jesus says and you’re

looking at what jesse said

but i’m telling you one of these will

last

and i’m a living witness that when you

allow the spirit of god

to begin to give you a vision and help

you do the things and stay consistent

then you can mark god’s words

and i think about it all the time that

when i wrote down that vision

that i wrote down all of these things

the vision of transformation church is

very simple

it’s representing god to the lost and

found for one reason what is it

transformation i’m gonna say it one more

time representing god

to the lost and found for transformation

in christ

that’s why we exist

but do you know when i got that vision

and this point

is going to help somebody tremendously

god gives vision in the valley

i need everybody to hear me say this so

clearly

god doesn’t give vision on mountaintops

he gives vision in valleys

do you know when god gave me

representing god to the lost and found

for transformation christ

nobody came to the church i had people

that told me god made the right decision

with you being the pastor

but the wrong decision for my family and

walked out the church

i had when god gave me that vision

bishop

when god when god was telling me that we

didn’t know who was going to stay and

who was going to go

everybody was unsure of what god was

doing

there was no nobody saw we didn’t have

and not one

led nothing our cell phone lights wasn’t

led you hear me

there was nothing and what that proves

is that god never gives vision in the

spotlight

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god never gives vision on the

mountaintop

god is going to give you vision in the

valleys and this should be good news for

somebody right now

because how you feeling and how 2020

left you feeling and what’s been going

on in your finances

this is the perfect time for you to shut

everything

down and get quiet with god and join us

for the next 14 days of this prayer and

fasting and if you’re watching this

later just take three or four days and

allow god to speak to you

because god’s saying i will give you

vision in the valley

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that’s where god speaks because then it

brings him glory

because when he gave it to you when you

were low he can take credit for it when

you’re high

there’s no way you got here by your will

and your ideas

and your connections god said it had to

be me

and i don’t know who i’m talking to

right now but you feeling your lowest

moment

and you feel like your marriage is on

the last leg and you feel like your kids

will never be back together

and you feel like everything that you

lost in the last bankruptcy has taken

everything and god’s saying to you today

if you listen i’ll give you vision in

the valley

i’ll make what the enemy told you was a

setback and i’ll turn it into a set

up i’ll take every test and i’ll turn it

into your testimony

you can be a miracle in motion

if you would get vision in the valley

do you know one of the things that

happened bishop when i got vision in the

valley

write this point down vision must be

visible and vision must be vocal

i didn’t just get the vision i wrote it

down and i said something

and some of us are so scared to say what

god has said

why why are you so scared

that what god showed you would actually

come to pass

i made a decision a long time ago if god

said it

i’ll believe it if i believe it

i’ma say it if i say it

and it doesn’t come to pass i can point

back to him

what do i lose

wha why why why am i scared if god said

it

i’ma believe it and i’ma say it

and if it don’t happen i guess god

wanted to do something different

i guess god had a different plan i guess

god is sovereign but that don’t stop me

from believing and what happened so many

times

it’s like god said it and it didn’t

happen and i said it i’m so embarrassed

and i don’t know if i can believe god

again and i don’t know if he’s going to

do what he said he’s going to do it

and i’m saying like what

if it didn’t happen how you thought it

was it was for your good

if it did not happen how you thought it

was going to happen

it is still for your good

we praise him all the time for what he

does we don’t praise him all the time

for what he didn’t do that we don’t know

what would have happened

if he would allowed it somebody needs to

take five seconds right there

and give god a praise for what you

didn’t know

no no no y’all acting too cute right now

but in the chat i dare you to praise god

for the things that he didn’t allow to

work out that your feelings got hurt but

it was still for your good

wow i dare you to say it

i dare you to tell your husband where

y’all will be next year

yeah bonus point vision always makes you

vulnerable when i

stood up here and i said on the first

day of us being a church

in the transition that we will be a

multi-ethnic

multi-generational multiplying

multi-campus

church i was vulnerable because we were

none of those things he felt like i was

standing up there

bucket naked y’all know that bucket

naked

just exposed and let me help you

that’s what true vision makes you feel

like

do you know how noah must have felt to

just tell his wife

i’m about to spend the next couple

decades

i know what i said about vacation next

summer but i got a vision from god

and so i’m going to be spending i

honestly i need

our sons and they why matter of fact

everybody y’all birthed

i need everybody to help me cause

somebody gonna go have to go rile up the

animals

and then somebody gonna have to help me

with this wood and somebody’s like

do you do imagine how vulnerable it must

have been

for abraham to walk back to sarah

and say um hey baby no hear your readers

here here you go

oh

no no let me let me get your catheter

right okay here you go baby

um because she was old

she she was dusty baby hold on let me

move your wheelchair okay

let me tell you what god told me he gave

me a vision

and he said look up into the stars

and number em if you can that’s how many

descendants i’m gonna give you

so i just came to tell you um i’m gonna

put it down and you’re gonna get

pregnant

do you know do you know how vulnerable

it must have felt for

i just need everybody to see this when

god gives you a real

vision if you don’t feel vulnerable

just a little bit it might be invalid

it where your where your marriage is and

i just keep coming back to this cause i

just feel like somebody’s marriage

is on the rocks right now where your

marriage is it would be

for you to say my marriage is going to

succeed and i’m going to enjoy

being in this home to say that out of

your mouth

may have you feeling a little vulnerable

some of y’all are gonna be saying my

mother’s

me and my mother’s relationship is gonna

be healed

and we’re gonna like spending time

together that would be a vision

that would make some of y’all vulnerable

we’re not just talking about houses and

cars

forget that that’s stuff that comes and

goes

but i’m talking about stuff that affects

the soul the mind

the wheel the emotion god’s saying to us

it might be a little vulnerable but i

want you to be vocal about it

i dare you to say it i dare you to

believe me for it

i i could keep talking about this but i

i’d rather show you

i’m gonna show you a time

where i was scared to say

what god had shown me but i said it

anyway

this is january 2016

in a vision series called beyond and

what i’m standing in today

i said back then because god gave me a

vision

i want you to take a look at this real

quick

when i talk about vision i’m not just

talking about this church i’m talking

about your life he wants you to see

something with your eyes closed

see you have sight you only regurgitate

what you actually see

when i look out at this audience i don’t

see y’all

y’all are beautiful y’all are wonderful

but i don’t see this

i close my eyes and i see the auditorium

of 10 000 people per service coming into

this experience and i see it and so

that’s why i give everything

like y’all i don’t come up here and be

like oh there’s only a few people

i preach the same for my staff you could

ask

you know on wednesdays i’d be sweating

at staff chapel

why because i don’t see what i see

i see what he’s shown me

if you could open your eyes of faith

not to be limited by sight but be able

to get a vision

and see i am standing

in a place that i did not have sight for

but that god gave me vision for

y’all got to help me unders

listen what are you saying pastor mike

if you don’t get anything else from this

message i want you to understand

how important your vision is because

god gives vision

in the valley that for me was my valley

and i don’t know where your valley is

but when you get a vision from god write

this point down

vision is god’s view

vision is god’s view

the reason why god wants to give you

vision

is because when it comes to your career

this is what i see

i don’t see inside of it i don’t see

on top of it i don’t see

but i just see a piece a portion

of what god wants to do and honestly

it’s bigger than me

honestly it’s something that i can’t

fully

be able to understand the weight of

what’s happening

but when god allows you to get a vision

remember not what you see with your eyes

open but what god

shows you with your eyes closed what he

does is this

come up a little higher

yeah yeah i know you don’t know what to

do with your career

but i’m gonna make you a successful

business person

and you’re going to be able to bless

people in the community you came from

and all i need you to do is not go after

the opportunities that are there but i

need you to stay faithful to the

assignment

because this is the thing that’s going

to allow you to learn the character that

you’re going to need to lead at the next

level follow my view

and then what god does ah is he doesn’t

let you stay here we don’t live in

vision

he gives you a vision god’s view the way

he sees

into it and over it and around it and

then he asks you to come down

and live like that vision is very vivid

and some of you have been asking god

what am i supposed to do with my career

get in 21 days of prayer and fasting and

get god’s view on it

get up here and let god show you where

you’re supposed to be

and what city you’re supposed to be in

and how you’re supposed to do

get god’s view on it and then come down

here with diligence

see right here is where we try to forget

what we saw

this is where the enemy tries to make us

feel like there’s no way this is going

to happen

and that’s why god tells us write the

vision down write what you see up here

write down what you see so when you get

down there you don’t forget that god

showed me this

he showed me that our church would

impact the world he showed me that my

family and my marriage

is going to be right he showed me and

that’s why oh

i got it written down and i made it

plain

so now when i come down here i’m not

going to be distracted

by the ignorance that comes from

different people because i got god’s

view on it

see some of y’all it’s not your career

that’s the problem

here it is it’s your family

yeah yeah your family is the thing that

you need god’s view on

what are you saying the vision is

valuable go to god in prayer

god for the next 14 days all i’m gonna

do is cry out to you

and ask you for vision show me my

marriage healed

show me show me my daughter not running

from boy to boy

to fulfill the void of her daddy not

being here

show me father god come on you can pray

real prayers remember god wants you to

pray in your personality

god show me my family being able to

bless other families

god give me a vision and when he gives

you the vision

write it down say it out loud

be vocal about it god told me that my

family was gonna be able to impact the

earth

my dad always told us from a young age

he said michael

the toddler name is gonna leave a legacy

on the earth

he said y’all this name has weight on it

this name and when we were believing god

for groceries

when we were believing god when they

stepped out in in ministry full time and

my dad left state farm

and they were going to just be itinerant

ministers he would always tell us that

your last name

your family god showed me a vision of

you impacting the world

god gave me a vision of you and all your

brothers making something and today as i

stand here

in 10 and 15 different countries all

around the world making an

impact it was what my daddy saw from

god’s view

that allowed me to get a vision and down

here i’m

living out as it was in heaven

let it be here on earth and what god’s

saying for somebody

is not your family but it’s everything

it’s my whole future

god what is my future he said it’s

already

prepared in heaven i

ain’t no lack of it ain’t no shortage

well god i want to do what the trend is

god said that ain’t gonna last

i want to do what’s what’s what’s

popular now he said that analyzed i have

an intended future for you

before you were formed in your mother’s

womb i knew you i planned something for

you

so why don’t you get vision or god’s

view

what do you have for my future

i’m in the music field so i guess you’re

gonna do something with music right

yeah i’m gonna give you a vision of you

impacting people

through music right yeah

i’m gonna give you a vision of impacting

people and you’re using all of your

gifts

to be able to bring me glory after

grammys right

see he that’s why the bible says we see

in part

we hear in part we prophesy in part when

you get a vision you just get god’s view

on it

and i had enough to know i was going to

be great

i didn’t have all the details i didn’t

but i

knew enough to obey what he said and

that’s why i want to give you

this last point because vision has

versions

see i’m just trying to help you

understand that god had a plan for my

future

but i have to keep coming back to him to

get his view on

it because during the seasons that i’m

in there are different versions

of division

and that’s why it comes down to whatever

you want to put in the blank

this is your square go ahead and take a

picture of that

where do you need god’s view

where do you need god’s view

when i come to this year

i need god’s view for something that’s

more important than anything material

i need god view in my life for my son

forget everything else

god showed me as we sit here

and take him to therapy

and we sit here and we try to understand

what he’s saying and he celebrates

his fifth birthday god would you just

give me

your view of his healing

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just give me just give me give me your

view

of what the future looks like i can

handle whatever it is i just need

a vision from you i just need to know

what you’re saying i need to know

that that you’re a part of this so that

i can go down here and i can help my

wife

and i can go down here and encourage

other families that have children with

autism

if you would just give me your view

and i don’t know what your mj is

and i don’t know what you’ve been just

trying to believe without god but

the reason why you need a vision is

because vision is god’s view

and vision has versions

can i tell you y’all move this real

quick i

as i come to 2021 and i think about

what god is doing in our church

this is not new what god is doing

this is just the 2021 version

of representing god to the lost and

found

for transformation in christ and the

reason i say it’s the 2021 version

is because every year since we started

this church

i go to god for his view on our ministry

can i prove it to you in 2015

me and natalie took over as the lead

pastors of transformation church

and that year god gave me a personal

word

and this one that’s going to sound super

spiritual to a lot of y’all but the word

would survive

i literally had people telling me to my

face i wasn’t qualified

i literally had people tell me i was too

young

that that what can you tell me about

god’s word

i mean literal church people christians

people who claim jesus wear the cross

and everything honk if you love jesus

those people

i i literally would be in my car

sometimes before going into meetings and

say god this

couldn’t have been your will for my life

you’re better than this

there’s no way he said

but you can’t look at what you see right

now

you have to remember what i said and

hold on to the vision

so then in 2016 we survived 2015.

in 2016 i thought the word was going to

be something

a little more encouraging

and it wasn’t the personal word god gave

me maintain

what the heck

survive and maintain two years

two years of being planted

but it felt like i was buried

two years of week after week having

people come and tell me

that they leaving the church two years

this is a picture of a few of them

uh staff some volunteer leaders

like this was everybody like and some

people that ain’t even supposed to be in

the picture but we just throw them in

the picture

it’s just because we want it to look

like we have more people

no see like i think this was a volunteer

rally or something like the leaders of

stuff

that was transformation church church of

imagination

that’s us maintain it

because i showed you a glimpse i told

you before that this thing was going to

multiply

i told you that it was going to be

multi-generation there is almost

all know all black people in this

picture

he told me on the first day it would be

multi-ethnic but for two years

but i had to hold on to god’s view

2017 we got a breakthrough

he said michael the word i’m gonna give

you when we were looking like this is

beyond

he said i’m gonna take you beyond

everything that you thought

i could do i’ma take you beyond and

y’all we begin to believe

god family started coming to the church

people started getting saved

people started getting baptized and we

spoke that word out we were vocal with

it

we put it on shirts i did a staff

advance around i said we’re going beyond

and everybody was yelling beyond

and god did in 2017

at the end of it when we looked back we

saw that it was our prophetic

declaration

our belief in the vision that produced

the result

at the end of the year that took us

beyond 400 families joined the church in

that year

nobody could have told me nothing that

was the best year of ministry for me

because god did what he said but i

marked this word before it happened

and then in 2018 god did something that

i couldn’t even believe

at the height of what’s going beyond and

more is happening and greater is coming

then god gave me a word i never used

before

in my vocabulary this how you knew it

had to be god

he said stride he said you’re running

and i want you to walk find the pace of

grace

no there’s no

not at the moment that we’re getting

breakthrough you want us to slow down

and do less and take things off the

calendar

and not be as productive

and god said that if you do less i’ll do

more

and y’all i remember us going into

meetings cutting stuff

i remember us deciding we can’t do that

because that’s not striding

that’s striving using all of our effort

and energy to make it happen

and god said if you obey me watch what i

do

and in 2018 y’all that’s when everything

blew up

the relationship goals went viral our

church went from one service

to five services i’m talking about

people were coming on everywhere there’s

some people in the room right now we

used to be

backed up on the highway if you were

coming to church you

literally had to come two hours early

because there were people

backed up all the way on the highway i

said god what are you doing he said i’m

being true to my word

you got the vision at the beginning of

the year what if i thought the word

was more in the year god said stride

i would have forfeited the blessing of

obedience

and there are so many people that are

trying that doesn’t add up kingdom math

doesn’t add up

it makes miracles god says do less

i obeyed and god did more it made a

miracle

and then in 2019 i’m getting excited

god said michael now it’s my time i’m

about to release

i’m about to release you into the world

i’m about to release you from

certain things and i’m about to release

my power unto you

and y’all that’s my mama up there you

looking good mama didn’t mama be

preached so good last week

that’s my mom look at you girl

we preach stride i mean and then we

preach release

and that year i don’t know what happened

but there was a boldness that came up on

our church

and that was the year that god released

this building

that i’m standing in right now many of

you don’t understand this right now

we are in the process of sound proofing

our entire

lobby we are in soundproofing our entire

auditorium

we are in the lobby of our church

having church right now there’s no way

we could have done this

in our old location but god said i’m

about to release 192

000 square feet to you i’m going to pay

for it i’m going to do all of these

things i’m going to release you

gifted and talented leaders from all

over the world people started moving

from california in florida and people

started moving here and saying i don’t

have a job

i don’t have anything but god told me to

be here he started releasing people from

their last assignments and sending them

to this assignment

he started releasing people and god did

what he said because we marked his word

and then in 2020 god told us at the

beginning of last year

he said the word for the year is what

stronger

now who could have known that

literally two months after i declared

this was the word god had given me

after praying and fasting we would hit a

global pandemic

who would have known it would have been

the most televised

season of racial tension and racial

racial injustice

who would have known that we would have

been smack dab in the middle

of elections and all of these different

things and god said yeah yeah

this year i’m gonna make the church

stronger do you have faith to believe me

that this is what i’m gonna do and i

said god

i guess we’re gonna have to believe

you’ve done it

before and you did it again

and again and again

and again so why

would i not believe you now and if you

will look at your life

and just play back what god has done in

your life you could

turn around and say and he did it before

and he’s done it

again and again and again

and so why would you give up on god

so this year god’s spoken again

yeah yes y’all ready and god told me

back in august he said michael

every word i said has come to pass

and he said and i’ve done it in a way

that

matched what happened spiritually and

numerically

no no no no because i i almost was not

going to do it but i need somebody to

see this because some of y’all it don’t

click until it makes like

sense and what i’m saying since it’s

dollars and cents let me help you

there’s never been an ounce of

manipulation we don’t believe in the

prosperity gospel

we don’t believe in none of that stuff

all we do is put god’s word out there

we believe in people we’re generous and

then we just let god do what he’s going

to do

so all of these years i want to show you

something very clearly that happened

financially because we’re transparent at

transformation church we we keep

everything

i’ve started like this and i want to

continue to move like this

when we moved in in in the survive year

before

2014 1.2 million dollars came in that’s

what

everything that was given that year and

the year god said to survive

he kept his word and where most

transitions the finances and the people

go down

god allowed it to be 1.2 million dollars

again

and then when we got to maintain i

thought he was going to above it just

a little bit but he didn’t he kept true

to his word and he maintained it and it

was 1.2 again

but then god gave a word and he said he

was going to go what beyond

and when he went beyond we grew 400

families and 400 000

and it went to 1.6 million dollars but

then god said stride and told us to do

less

and he would do more now watch this when

you obey god

he does not do addition he does

multiplication

god’s favorite math for your life as a

believer is multiplication

we went from 1.6 million dollars did

less and then god took it to 7.2 million

dollars

i need everybody to understand it is

about the results of obedience and this

is not what god just wants to do

for this house he wants to do it for

your house and i’m telling you

this is a result of obedience and

following the vision

where there is a vision people stay in

their lane people finish the course

people do what god says where there is

no vision they cast off restraint

we are going to follow the vision and

the year that god said release

are you ready for this we went from 7.2

million dollars coming in

to 22.5 million

y’all ain’t never led nothing you don’t

understand what happens

because of your faithfulness and your

giving and your generosity we were able

to

move into this building and pay it off

in seven months we owe no man nothing

but to love them

ah y’all want to pray about the word we

want to be about the word we were able

to help people

we gave away money we gave away so much

because

we followed everybody say the vision

can i tell you what god did this past

year

if he don’t ever do it again can’t

nobody tell me

when i was back here

believe in god when i only could get

god’s view a vision of it

god said michael five years from now

i’m going to show you in real life what

i showed you

in your daughter’s bedroom

and literally we went from surviving to

maintaining

to going beyond to stride to release and

then god said i want you to get stronger

in the midst of pandemic

because of your faithfulness your

generosity the largest end of the year

giving we’ve ever had people giving from

countries

that i can’t even pronounce

not huge gifts but committed gifts from

a bunch of people

saying that god i’m putting my faith in

you in 2020

when everything was closing up we got

stronger transformation church

51 million dollars

i’ll shout by myself glory

to god do you

hear me

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vision from 1.2

to 51 million vision

from nobody coming

to not knowing how many people are

watching

vision from being insecure

about what god called you to do

so if nobody comes i’m secure and what

god has called me to do

somebody shout at me vision

and the word for this year god spoke it

to me so clearly

is that in 2021 it is time for

transformation church

to be anchored somebody give god

oh i feel this this

is the year we’re about to be anchored

this is the year our marriage gets

anchored

our finances get anchored our

mind is anchored

god told me so clearly he said michael

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i have built this church for such a time

as this

and now i’m going to make you

get anchored and i said god what does

that mean

he said an anchor is something with

weight

that drops and connects

so that whatever it’s connected to does

not drift

and i feel this thing all over me god

told me prophetically

that 2021 is the year we get anchored

and it is the year of the anti-drift

that every area in your life where

you’ve been drifting

your marriage has been drifting your

purity has been drifting

your faith has been drifting the vision

for your life

everything that has been drifting god

says

this year it’s getting anchored your

health is going to be anchored this year

i’m prophetically speaking to somebody

that your fam your relationships are

getting anchored somebody shout at me

anchored

say i will be anchored

say it again i will be anchored

i want you to begin to think of the

areas in your life that you’re about to

be anchored

for some of you things that have been

flowing it’s been generational drifting

oh i felt that

it’s been generational drifting you’ve

been habits and hobbies and addictions

and god’s sake this year it’s time to

get anchored

i’m gonna allow you to become a steady

force

something that is able to with la

withstand

and withhold no matter what storm comes

no matter what is presented to you you

will be anchored

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yep some of you like anchored

god’s saying that you will last

you will make it through

you will be dependable

you’re going to be consistent there’s

going to be weight when you’re involved

i have been given more confirmations

that this is the word that god wants us

to live out this year and for the next

four weeks

i’m going to preach to you and deliver

this message the way god’s given

it to me you do not want to miss one

week

but the reason i had to build all of

this up

is to make sure you understand this is

not a suggestion for us

this is vision this is god’s view

of what he wants for us in 2021

and now my question to you as you say i

will be anchored

this week your assignment is to write

down the areas of your life that you

know you’ve been drifting

or we’re going to get real and the areas

you want god to anchor you

and i want you to wear what god

says to you as a badge of his

faithfulness we’re going to speak it

in january 2021

and we will prove it in january 2022

you missed it we’re gonna speak it in

january 2021

and just like every other one of those

words

we will stand here and say look

at what the lord has done

hands lifted everywhere thank you jesus

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that’s our version this year of vision

vision has versions and this year the

version is

anchored father i pray for every person

under the sound of my voice

god i thank you that this word that i

spoke

i pray it brought value to vision

that father even in this next 14 days of

prayer and fasting

you’re going to allow all of us to go

to you and ask you for vision to get

your view

father god on what you want for us this

year and as you’ve spoken for our house

you don’t want anything for this house

that you’re not specifically speaking

for each one of our house i

declare that in 2021 we will be anchored

every area of our life our family will

be anchored

our minds will be anchored our hope will

be anchored in you jesus

god i’m thanking you that we are going

to be anchored and you’re going to allow

us not to drift

not to drift with the doctrine or the

thoughts or our feelings or our flesh

but i thank you that this year father

you’re gonna anchor this church

you’re gonna anchor every partner you’re

gonna anchor every listener every child

of god

the kingdom will be bigger and stronger

because it will be anchored to the only

thing that never changes

and that’s you jesus and today for the

areas

that people have been drifting i thank

you that you’re speaking

into their future right now i declare

they’re getting a vision today

of everything that is out of whack being

lined up in the name of jesus

i speak life

over every person right now and i thank

you father you’re chasing after us right

now

i feel that thing so strong right now

you’re chasing after us god thank you

god

that you’re you’re rescuing us to anchor

us back to you father god

i thank you right now that you’re doing

it by your spirit

listen to me as we end this moment in

that same heart

i really do believe that god gives

vision for victory

when i think about every pain and every

hurt

and every addiction i would have and i

think about god

sending jesus jesus had to have a vision

and it was a vision for victory he said

if there’s any other way that this can

happen

hey can we can we figure out something

else but it said that he had a vision

of the joy that was set before him and

because he had a vision he endured the

cross

so that every mess up you would make

that every pain you would have

all the shame the guilt and condemnation

that jesus could win

victory over it what am i saying that

god’s vision even to jesus was for your

victory

and today i don’t know where you are and

what’s broken and what’s hurting on you

what’s hurting in you but today god

wants to give you the opportunity

to receive victory that was paid for

by jesus christ if you want to make sure

that your eternity

is is secure today i want you

to receive jesus he is the anchor for

our soul

he is the only thing that will keep you

from drifting

and there are tons of people under the

sound of my voice

that are saying i’ve been looking and

begging for something different

and how you get a vision from god for

something new is by

accepting him today right now i need

everybody in this room and everybody

around the world to begin to pray

because there’s a war going on right now

for people’s salvation

there’s a war going on for people’s

eternity and their present their history

but right now by the power of god we

believe that the presence of god

is invading your space right now he’s

invading your home

he’s invading your your your um

apartment

and he’s coming to say receive me the

holy spirit is drawing you by his love

right now

when you accept jesus it’s the only

thing that can take you

from being like me who was addicted to

pornography a liar a manipulator thought

i could do it on my own all my good will

to being somebody that submitted their

whole life to him

and i didn’t become a perfect person but

now i’m a progressing person

and what god is saying is i have that

available for you today

i want to give that to you right now and

according to romans 10 9 all you have to

do

is believe and confess that jesus christ

lived died and rose again just for you

and you are saved if you’re one of those

who are listening this is not for your

friend or your boyfriend or your mom or

your daddy or whoever’s with you

this is just for you you can’t stand

with the committee

before god but today you can stand to

make a decision

that will change your life forever if

you want to be added into this prayer on

the count of three we’re about to pray

and all i want you to do is lift your

hand and identify yeah pastor

include me in that prayer i’ve been far

away from god i’ve been drifting i

haven’t had a vision for my life

but today mark my words i want to live

for you

if that’s you and you want to be added

into that prayer i want you to just slip

your hands

in the air on the count of three one

you’re making the greatest decision of

your life

two i’m so proud of you but forget all

of that god

is so proud of you three just slip your

hand up in the air right now

and there are people all over the world

slipping their hands up with you right

now

i’m telling you heaven is beginning to

rejoice right now

now listen put your hand down we’re

about to pray and at transformation

church

nobody prays alone we all pray together

so i want us

to all say this out loud for the benefit

of those who are coming to christ say

god

thank you for sending jesus

just for me thank you for the vision

of my salvation i believe jesus lived

he died and he rose again

for my freedom and today

mark my words i’m going to live for him

change me renew me

transform me i’m yours

in jesus name amen

can we give god praise if you just

prayed that prayer i’m telling you

we are rejoicing and heaven is rejoicing

with you

the bible tells us that if one person

makes that decision

heaven begins to turn up we are

rejoicing with you if you just made that

decision we want you to text

the number that’s on the screen and i

want you

to text this number so we can help you

we can give you some resources

we can walk with you nobody needs to

walk alone

and because of your faithfulness and

your dedication and us sticking to the

vision every version of it

do you know that last year we saw over

23

000 people give their life oh y’all

y’all awake with it 23 000

people gave their life to jesus and my

prayer is in this year it’ll be more

people who get anchored to jesus

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church i’m so proud of you

vision around here is

most valuable

we’re gonna get anchored in this year

this is what i’m gonna ask you

you wanna you want your first anchored

assignment join me tomorrow night

for a time of prayer and fasting

how are we going to get vision unless it

comes vertically

how are we going to get vision unless it

comes from god we got 14 more days on

this fast

this 14 days could change the trajectory

of everything that has to do with you

because you can get a clear you can get

god’s view on your life

and even if you’re in a valley right now

he says i’ll give vision in the valley

and tomorrow i just feel this y’all i

want to take communion tomorrow night

i i want to i want to i want to break

well bread i guess

are we we’re not eating bread okay find

something

there will be no judgment somebody going

to be like i’m breaking this pizza lord

this is the only thing i had in my house

got this pepperoni pizza i ain’t going

to be your judge but i i really want us

to take communion tomorrow night and i

want us to remember what god has done i

want us to start off this anchor to year

remember why god

made a way for us to have an anchor and

i want everybody to join us we’ve had

almost ten thousand eleven thousand

people every night in prayer tc

i am so proud of you but we just getting

started

if you thought what transformation

church has done in the past

is anything forget all that it’s nothing

worth being compared

to what god has called us to do somebody

say i will be

anchored i declare that this will be the

best week of your life

that god is going to do something to

prove his self to you in an unusual way

that we will hear god but we will listen

to him we will believe him and we will

get angered have your way

in our lives in jesus name we agree

somebody say

amen go out and live a

transformed life let’s give god some

praise