Baby Faith // Crazy Faith (Part 2)

Baby Faith // Crazy Faith (Part 2)

Good Morning Family Prayer For Today:Father, thank You for blessing me and calling me according to Your purposes. I receive Your Word which is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. I will hide Your truth in my heart that I might not sin against You in Jesus’ name. Amen. ???? Keep God First…………….

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ready for the word tonight all right got

your notepads because we are in part two

of a series that we are calling help me

crazy

now you gotta say it like you mean it’s

a crazy faith oh I’m gonna like this

service tonight we have been talking

about what it looks like to not just

live at a place of mediocre Christianity

but what it looks like to actually live

out the life that God called us to live

a faith at our church when we started we

wrote down these 12 things that we

called our culture culture code and one

of those things was faith we would be a

church that has faith and this was the

statement when we wrote down we said we

have faith in God faith in people and

faith for miracles somebody say that we

have faith in God faith in people and

faithful miracles just one more time we

have faith in God faith in people and

faith for miracles what I’m believing is

through this series that that that would

grow in every single person in this room

that your faith in God would become so

planted that when waves of life and

issues come you don’t move that your

faith in people would be so optimistic

and hopeful that even though they

crossed you two times before that maybe

this is the time that God did a work in

them and on them and some of y’all like

our Nami Pastor Mike because if you

cross me once

shame on me cross me twice shame on you

like like like we think that we’re about

to do this and it’s not no no no God

says how many times are you supposed to

forgive seventy times seven a day

some of y’all thought it was seventy

times seven for a lifetime and it

according to my calculations I only have

16 people left forgive like it’s 70

times 7 everybody say a day yeah and so

you got to extend that same thing and

have faith in people and then this last

thing we’re gonna have faith for

miracles I don’t believe God’s greatest

miracles we’re done in the Bible days I

believe that what my Bible says is that

greater works it’s like like like he

healed the blind he cast out demons he

he pulled taxes out of a fish’s mouth he

did all of these different things and

then he looks at us and says guess what

you’re gonna do greater works see but I

can tell in the room you don’t believe

it

because we have really not sold out to

this idea of having crazy faith but I

wanted last week to be like the climax

of the series like and we shouted and we

jumped it we had news reporters and all

that other stuff now I’m gonna walk you

back as a pastor and a teacher today

and let you understand that you don’t

just get to a point of crazy faith crazy

faith is not not where you start at you

start at the title of my message today

write it down baby faith see crazy faith

is a result of you exercising baby faith

and most people don’t want to do

anything on a small scale like but there

is power in small faith I’ll prove it to

you there was a story in Matthew chapter

17 where the disciples were sent out

with authority to be able to heal sick

and cast out demons so they thought they

was doing it and they going around

touching people people are getting

healed

and his father brings his son and his

son literally says my son is

demon-possessed can you pray for him the

disciples like we’ve done this before

let’s get this baby healed and they walk

up and they lay hands on him and nothing

happens and the father like many of us

when you’re working with somebody and

they don’t know what they doing he said

come please see your manager

y’all know when the person that you’re

working with can help you you ask for

the manager of the boss and they bring

him to Jesus and Jesus touches the young

man and he’s healed instantly and they

walk away to the back and and and the

disciples like Jesus why didn’t it work

when we tried to touch him and look at

his response he said you have such

little faith now these are people who

have walked with Jesus who have seen him

do miracles who like not and invisible

Jesus like the actual like Jesus where

you’re scaring so soft today like Jesus

right there with them and he said y’all

have such little faith he said I’ll tell

you the truth if you would have had the

faith like a mom like something small

now I want you to see have a mustard

seed here this is all the faith you need

to get everything that God’s purpose in

your life to get done this is it well

how do you know that Pastor Mike because

Jesus goes on with his analogy he said

if you would have had the faith of the

mustard seed you could have could uh you

could have told and he looked for the

largest thing in the vicinity and he saw

a mountain he said you could speak to

that mountain and tell it to be thrown

into the sea and it would have to obey

you if you had baby faith and I’m trying

to tell somebody in this room tonight

that what you need is not as much as you

think you do to see the miracle that you

want to see cuz I know all of us want

that Moses parting the Red Sea faith we

want we want

faith we think if only is valid in it’s

only God when it’s an impossible

situation and the armies behind us and

there’s a sea in front of us and we hold

up the staff and then the Seas part and

we see Nemo and Shamu floating past us

and that was God and God was like yeah

that’s crazy faith but all crazy faith

starts with baby thing and many of us

have stopped believing God this thing is

so small that most of y’all think I’m

just holding my my fingers together and

it’s so small that I can throw it at you

I just through tons of faith out there

and it was so small that people looking

at me couldn’t even recognize it but God

says it doesn’t matter if nobody else

can recognize it I can see baby faith I

can see what nobody else can see I can

see when you wrote down the vision and

made it play I can see when you went to

the bank account and open it up with

fifty cents in it and said one day this

will be an account that will be made

just for blessing people I can tell

y’all don’t want to talk to me today I

can see baby faith and he said I don’t

need crazy faith first cuz faith is a

muscle and most of us have not worked

the muscle of faith it would be the

equivalent of me being like I’m about to

hit the gym today for the first time in

six months about to kill this mother put

300 on the rat three you heard me full

three honey I don’t know why you got to

get like gangster and thugs when you

about to were you about to lift weights

and it it wouldn’t matter how much I

tried these muscles right here you see

I’m flexing got my hands these muscles

right here would never be able to lift

that type of weight because I have not

been conditioned for it

it’s not that I could never lift it it’s

just that I would have to spend time

working that muscle to be able to lift

that type of weight there are many

believers even after last week’s message

that have gone out maybe like about

crazy faith but you’re about to lift

something you’ve not been conditioned

for you’re about to try to get something

in your life that you’ve never believed

ever before God’s saying you want me to

do this but you won’t even believe when

you have a cold that I could heal you I

don’t there’s nothing wrong with

medicine but you go to the sudafed and

the Tylenol PM and everything else and

won’t even pray about it when you know

the cross around your neck represents

crucifixion it’s not just a chain it’s

it’s when Jesus went to the cross and

died for all of our infirmities and our

sins and he said by His stripes we were

no nonot are were healed that means you

have healing available if to 39 stripes

for your healing but you will not even

believe him or have the faith that it

works so you will go to your medicine

cabinet and not even pray about the

common cold but I believe God do you

really and I’m not coming after you I’m

trying to challenge you that we could

see mountains move with this much faith

so maybe the goal for us as a church is

not to start off with crazy faith maybe

the goal is we need to ask God for the

ability to consistently live in what

baby because if we could ever live in

baby faith we would be able to see God

move mountains that nobody has been able

to move in our family addictions that

have been a part of our line for years

would be eradicated hate that has filled

our mouths for years and gossip and it

could be eradicated if we had the faith

the size of

mustardseed now you know that didn’t hit

you he dug to like Hitler the crazy

thing about it is the crazy thing about

what I’m saying to you today as most of

the faith we have God is in our head and

we think God could maybe do something

but in this series what I want the faith

that you have is to move from your head

to your heart and move from your heart

to your hands I don’t want you to live a

life not seeing what God has promised

believers and so I need you to know that

we’re gonna start this thing at

everybody say baby faith now let me

remind you what crazy faith is crazy

face your thoughts and actions that lack

reason but trusting fully in which you

cannot explicitly prove and that’s why I

told you last week faith is not a

foundation faith is the foundation if

you don’t have faith you can’t do

nothing if you don’t have faith you

can’t be saved according to John 3:16 if

you don’t have faith you can’t pray all

you do is wish but when when you when

you have faith you stand believing that

the Father in Heaven is hearing you and

he’s answering and working on the

affairs of his children but you have to

have faith and so when I look at this I

said okay God you gotta show me how to

teach your people how to walk in baby

faith and he said I had to teach my

disciples to look at the next chapter of

Matthew Matthew chapter 18 and we’re

gonna start in verse 1 God just had that

whole situation where he proved to the

disciples that he was who he said he was

and he’s like you gotta have faith the

size of a mustard seed then the

disciples start talking crazy amongst

themselves it says about that time the

disciples came to Jesus and asked a dumb

question who is the greatest in the

kingdom of heaven like why do you even

need to know that but many times when

we’re insecure in our spot in God we’re

always trying to compare ourselves with

other people we do not have faith that

God has a plan for our life we’re always

trying to get God to show us that we’re

better than somebody else and this goes

all the way back to the people who

walked with Jesus so don’t think that

it’s strange when it’s happening in your

life okay

the greatest in the kingdom of heaven

and Jesus said come here little Ricky

come here and he called the baby a child

the scripture says he said come sit

right here with me

he said um I tell you the truth unless

you turn from your sins for one

instruction repent and become like

little children unless you get more like

babies like like unless you come up off

of your high horse and humble yourself

he said you will never not just be the

greatest in it you won’t even get into

the kingdom of heaven

so anyone who becomes as humble as this

little child as this baby is the

greatest in the kingdom of heaven and

anyone who welcomes a little child like

this on my behalf

is welcoming me but if you cause one of

these little ones you’re about to get

the key this is what makes this is what

Jesus is qualifying this child as a

child oh babe he said it’s a child

because if you do this to one of those

who trust in me like the thing about

children is they trust adults like what

makes a child a child if they don’t

worry about certain stuff that adults

worry about

they just trust like my daughter she

comes up to me every Sunday cause she

know it’s a time where daddy’s just glad

that service weren’t good or something

and every Sunday after church she says

daddy this Bella you did so good said

Thank You Bella I said what’s up can I

get a slushie after we leave here

and I say yeah baby we can get a slushie

after we leave Church at that moment

I’ll tell her she can get a slushie she

does not think about it again unless she

has to remind me that I said what makes

her a child she didn’t ask have you paid

all the bills dead she didn’t ask did

the finances line up with the budget

this week she didn’t ask do we have gas

in the car she didn’t ask did you and

mommy discuss this first when she heard

her father say it she completely trusted

it and God is saying that to many of his

children have become so mature that they

have stopped trusting his word and he

said and if you want to be the greatest

in the kingdom you’re going to have to

have faith like a little child that

trusts when God says you’re gonna be

healed it’s not like what would it what

happened if it I’m gonna trust what my

father say I’m gonna trust my family’s

gonna be reconciled I’m gonna trust that

my child who keeps crossing me all this

money and disappointing me because

they’re doing everything against what we

taught them I’m gonna trust that somehow

God you’re gonna carry their heart back

to you I’m going to trust you the

problem is most of us don’t have faith

like that we we we hope God will do it

but we don’t believe he will and I’m

praying that through this series that

you will begin to believe like these

disciples didn’t believe at this time

that if the way that you’re going to

walk in crazy faith is having baby faith

the ability to just trust God at His

Word the ability to say God if you said

it if you told me you were gonna protect

me if you told me you were gonna turn

all these situations around if you told

me you would acquit me for everything

you called me to if you told me that

before I was formed in my mother’s womb

you lose

and you had a plan for me a plan to

prosper me and not to harm me a plan to

give me a hope in the future I’m gonna

take you at your word I trust you God

and I put my faith on it but I can tell

by how you’ve planned your whole life

without him

that you don’t really trust him because

because all of us have areas in our life

that we’re mad at God because he didn’t

line up with our timetable come on cuz

if God was really listening I’d be

married by now because if God was really

about his business but my children’s

college would be paid for I’d have a

little money in the 401k and God says if

you plan me out of your life you cannot

be dependent on me and the only way you

can have faith is to bring it down to a

place of dependency trust my babies

don’t get up and ask where their next

meal is coming from

they trust the provider in the house

that when they wake up every morning

everything they need will be there

my daughter has never asked daddy are

the lights coming on tomorrow because

she’s not even worried about those

things cuz she is trusting she has faith

in her father and my question to you is

do you have faith in your father and I

need to be very sensitive in this moment

as we talk about this because in in

Psychological terms they tell us that a

lot of us have association habits and

tendencies where if we were hurt or

damaged by somebody that was supposed to

be a father figure or a parental figure

in our life then we usually associate

that when we start to talk about God and

it’s very hard to have faith in

something that you can’t believe in and

and and so so like if you had a deadbeat

father an absentee mother and they said

I’m gonna come pick you up this Saturday

and they don’t show up and they’re like

well maybe they were busy and then you

wait next Saturday and they’re like well

maybe they were really busy

and then and then you come the next week

and they don’t show up and then you

start feeling like maybe they don’t want

to come and they don’t show up the next

time you’re like they’re never coming

and then they show up at your 18th

birthday or your graduation from high

school and be like that’s my baby look

at you look just like your daddy like

like cuz you’re like you haven’t been

here any of the time and what happens is

you don’t they say well I want to take

you out for lunch today and you don’t

put any faith in it because they

disappointed you time and time again and

then you find Christ somewhere along the

way and they tell you he’s a heavenly

father and that you can trust him and

he’s a good good father but what happens

is you can’t get past the faith that

you’ve seen in real life and so you

associate what people have done with you

and you put it on God and so when it

comes to being dependent or trusting or

having faith it’s very hard to do

because you’ve never seen it in real

life and all I’m asking you on behalf of

God is could you take him off of the

standard of humans could could you

please release what they did to you

and give God an opportunity to be Abba

the father who will never disappoint you

the father who will be there in the

midst of a trial cuz that’s the only way

you can truly trust you can’t have faith

in something that you don’t believe in

and I ain’t even talking about crazy

faith I’m talking about baby thing and

today I believe God’s changing some of

the ideas that we’ve had and you’re

gonna be able to walk in this so how do

I do that Pastor Mike well let me just

give you a couple of points to so you

can walk away with something today as we

start this series number one faith in

God comes first like like like a lot of

us have faith in a lot of things but I

need to tell you if you’re gonna really

walk in baby faith that turns into crazy

faith you need to realize that faith in

God comes first you have to believe that

it’s God’s will for you to be healed

delivered to prosper to live a life that

is abundant like because if you don’t

believe it you won’t expect it and if

you don’t expect it you will

hope for it and if you don’t hope for it

you have now taken the fuel of faith

because remember what faith is according

to Hebrews 11:1 faith is the confidence

in things that we hopeful and so what

happens is most of us have stopped

hoping therefore we stop expecting

therefore when we stop expecting we stop

believing and then we don’t believe so

we don’t have faith in what ends up

happening is God’s got a bunch of Hollow

Christians who come to church and don’t

have the one thing that pleases him you

all know what the Bible says it says

it’s impossible to please God without

faith not because he’s trying to give

you an identity complex because when you

accept Jesus into your life and you give

him your whole life he says you’re your

identity is secure you’re a son you’re a

daughter he said but it doesn’t please

me because what pleases me is my will

being done on the earth through your

life and when you don’t have faith I

can’t do what I plan for you in the

earth and so a lot of people are going

to heaven but living in hell a lot of

people your eternity is secure because

you had faith enough to believe for

salvation but you do not have faith

enough to walk in purpose cuz you don’t

trust that God will hold you up I’m

teaching a whole bunch right now and I’m

just like I’m trying to hope it gets

into your soul right now that that is

the reason we have to start at baby

faith that you have to start believing

that God has good things for me that

when I read the word that applies to my

life even if it didn’t apply to anybody

else and I don’t see the results of it

there’s something different about me and

when you start to believe that you put

faith in God first let me tell you

another story that happen in Matthew

chapter 11 verse 22 Jesus is walking

with the disciples and Jesus is hungry

and I like that just it makes me feel

good that all my problems in this

midsection maybe Jesus had a belly and

gonna be hungry anyway but Jesus was

hungry one day and it was walking past

the fig tree he’s like I’ll bet I’m

about to give me some fake news right

here

and he went and he was like funnel the

thing that’s supposed to be producing

fruit is no longer producing fruit this

isn’t how I created it

you’ll never produce fruit again shrivel

up and die and didn’t break stride he

just kept walking like a gangster into

the city the disciples like wow that’s

interesting John did you see that

Peter Wow woof but they didn’t see it

shrivel up and die at that moment but

they heard because God is Jesus and

Jesus is faith he spoke to something do

you know how the world was created it

said by faith the worlds were formed

like it was by faith he spoke it into

existence

so now Jesus is here and he tells

something shrivel up and die and the

disciples like okay Jesus tell us stuff

the shrivel up and die they come back

the next day and Jesus walked past the

same fig trees like yeah and then and

then Peter sees it and it’s like yo

Jesus now I don’t know if you know you

did this Jesus but yesterday when we

walk by you was a little dizzy I think

you were you you’re not yourself when

you don’t eat I think Snickers made a

commercial you were hangry and you spoke

to it it’s dead I believe Jesus gave him

the look that he gives us many times

when we’re surprised when he does what

he says like I don’t know in my mind

like sometimes like God you did it

anyway

and look what he said to him in verse 22

he said have faith in God like like like

that’s why I said faith in God comes

first

he was like y’all ain’t got no faith in

me y’all walked with me

you’ve seen me meet your needs you’ve

seen my grace pour over your life you’ve

seen me save us time and time again like

many people in this room you’ve seen me

let you into doors you aren’t supposed

to get in

you’ve seen me keep your mind when your

family was crazy you saw me make a way

out of no way have faith in God and I

feel like he got a little perturbed

because like like he said I tell you the

truth and back in Bible days like that’s

like can’t believe y’all I tell you the

truth I can’t believe y’all he said man

I’m gonna tell them you could say to

this and he found the biggest thing he

could find again you could say to this

mountain this is the second time in two

chapters back-to-back where he has told

them if they just had a little baby

faith that they could speak to the

biggest thing around and commanded to

move you think depression has a hold of

your life you think divorce is gonna

ravage your family I feel this thing you

think that financial debt is gonna come

in God says if you had a baby thing you

could speak to the biggest thing in your

life and you could tell it to be lifted

and thrown into the sea and look what

the Bible says and it will everybody say

will it will happen but you must really

believe it like that’s why I keep coming

back to life but do you really believe

but do you really have faith I know you

come to church but but but do you

believe on Monday

cuz I know like I know brain do is come

in but on Tuesday by faith I see a

miracle but on Wednesday and many of us

do not take the faith that we feel and

we have charged in this atmosphere to

that to that job we don’t like tomorrow

and God says that’s where I want to show

myself strong that’s where I want you to

believe that peace can come into this

atmosphere that’s where I want you to

stand up and be my representative and

you thought that your face was for the

church he said this is a huddle we got

to go run the play what would happen if

a football team just stayed in the

huddle y’all we gonna run this blue

point two six nine up the middle but we

never ran the play and so people senior

like you are we about to tell them about

the whoa whoa and they jumping around

and the other team like that’s what the

church looks like

a bunch of people like I know I know I

know if you know to play running if you

have faith if you have faith show us if

you believe the Word of God let the Word

of God run the play look at three people

and say run the play

come on run the play

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run the play either God is a provider or

he’s not either he’s Jehovah Jireh or

he’s not even it’s the God with us or

he’s not run the play that’s what he’s

telling the disciples he’s like man if

y’all would just if y’all would just

listen to me and run this play

you got stopped and blocked in the last

chapter cuz you didn’t have enough faith

and now you sitting here surprised that

when I ran the play it worked and he

said I’m trying to show you these things

so that you can have faith verse 24 he

said I tell you you can pray for

anything do you really believe it

because Moses was done for a very long

time of my Christian life I felt like

certain things were below the God care

meter right like God don’t care that I

get a good parking spot here but then

when I looked at this Bible it’s like do

I really believe this or not cuz it says

I tell you you can pray for anything and

I don’t know we want to pray for like

John needs a healing he has stage 4

cancer

and will die tomorrow everybody get

together let’s pray that is definitely

the right time to pray but also the

right time to pray is when somebody

things come to my mind and then I have

to tell myself nope don’t say that

how’s it so y’all just seeing me think

out loud all right but but but it’s also

time to pray okay I’ll tell it like this

now I’m just gonna tell the story that’s

all early okay I’m just good timing so

my wife um my wife when we were first in

our relationship she gonna kill me

okay so I’m just trying to think where

I’m asleep tonight so so when when me

and Natalie started datin and I think we

were engaged to be married I read the

scripture and my faith was building like

my faith was building building and so I

started really putting my weight on

these scriptures in like I read this

mark chapter 11 scripture and it says

you can pray about anything and my wife

was complaining to me one day because

her eyebrows had went rogue like she

started losing hair or her eyebrow said

one eyebrow was karate-chopping the

other and it’s just one acting right and

you know for a lot of y’all like oh my

god that’s so uh like well I really

believe this cuz I was hearing her talk

about it and I looked at description so

you can pray about anything and I know

some of y’all y’all wouldn’t even bother

God with this but you’re living beyond

your privilege or below your privilege

so I asked Natalie straight up I said do

you want our brows

I said cuz the Bible tells us that we

can pray about it she said baby I want

some eyebrows I said in the name in my

brows I’m not lying to y’all I’m telling

you the truth and we pray that God would

allow whatever follicles were in her

hair that weren’t dyed what we’re we’re

dying or anything we prayed them things

back to life and see people like ha ha

ha but she got eyebrows now so you can

hate if you want to but prayer what do

you believe it it ain’t where she wanted

to be but they ain’t where they used to

be hear what I’m saying and I’m being

funny right now

but I’m dead serious the simple fact

that Jesus himself this isn’t reading

your Bible said you can pray about and

you still don’t believe it you don’t

even have baby faith like you want crazy

faith for God to give you a company

doing eyebrow makeup but you don’t even

pray that he could let your own perhaps

and I’m using it apply it to your life

apply it to your situation may be crazy

faith is a song of you consistently

working baby faith when I wrote down

that the Spirit event center would be

transformation Church and we would pay

for it in ten point five million dollar

that wasn’t my first time exercising

faith that was crazy faith but when I

was in middle school I read the

scripture that said write the vision

down and make it plain and so I started

drawing Jordan tennis shoes

funny again huh hahahahaha

except I became a prophetic artist cuz

everything that I would take my time on

it I would make sure the language right

I’d use protractors I would trace see

the thing is I wanted to make sure what

I had I presented to God in excellence I

don’t have money I don’t have any of

these things but it was funny but I was

working my faith muscle and when one

shoe went from my paper to my feet I

started drawing the level and and what

that was happening is for some reason as

vain as it was I believe God was

allowing it to happen because I was

building my faith that I could pray and

believe and follow his word on anything

and it could happen so then I graduated

from tennis shoes and I told my dad I

wanted a custom-made drum set and my

father I thank God for my parents cuz

they never crushed my faith parents hear

me just cuz you didn’t have the faith to

believe for it do not tell your children

what they can or cannot do

y’all see them golf claps over there

well it’s not realistic that is not and

they will have exactly what you did but

if you take the limits off of them and

point them to the Word of God they may

be able to live the life that you wish

you was living right now how many

security as we leave the one thing about

my mom and dad they never crushed my

faith even when it seemed crazy I was 15

years old and I said I want a custom

drum set dad he said how much did it

cost

I said $8,000 now I want you to imagine

your 15 year old self telling your

parents whoever they are I want to buy

something for $8,000 my father said Wow

son he said well if you have the faith

to believe in God can do it that’s all I

needed

I needed to permission to dream all I

needed was somebody to give me

permission to allow God to do it in my

life so what did I do

the only thing I knew how to do start

drawing again I don’t have no money I

have no job I was in high school so I

took protractors and rulers and I have

one piece of paper I have people in here

who saw me do this and I created the

most beautiful drum set on a piece of

paper you’ve ever seen in your entire

life by somebody who can’t draw and I

would show everybody this is what God’s

gonna provide for me this is what God’s

gonna provide for me this is what god I

used to carry it on the outside of my

binder

you know the binders where you can slip

something in to see some of y’all don’t

know nothing about that because you

didn’t take books to school but for the

rest of us I slipped it into the outside

so when I was walking down the hallway

people would something be like what’s

that oh this is the drum said that I’m

that I’m gonna get one day my sixteenth

birthday one year later my dad said we

got something for you I said what you

mean you got something for me he said

you know that money that you’ve been

saving up I’d save $2,000 at 15 years

old for this thing that I didn’t even

know could happen he said give me the

money you’ve been saving I gave it to

him he said go look outside and there

was the most beautiful eighth piece

custom a drum set that I’ve ever seen in

my life and he said your faith produced

that now watch now watch now watch cuz

some of y’all pessimist here like know

your parents produce that my parents was

broke it was my faith that attracted the

finances through them they were not the

source they were a resource that God

used to be able to make his word come to

pass in his child’s life and so many of

us do not have the faith to believe that

God could do anything like that for us

but I’m here to say let faith arise let

faith or Allah start hoping again that

God could do something like this

for me so I’ll tell you the truth pray

for anything and if you believe that

you’ve received it I need you to get

this in your mind that you have to not

just only think God can’t do that you

need to visualize that you have already

received it God’s giving us a formula to

walk out baby faith he said I’ve given

you amazing tool called your imagination

it’s the only thing where you can be

sitting in the exact opposite of what

you want and close your eyes and see

yourself receiving what you want think

about it you can be in a full cast and

you can close your eyes and you can see

yourself healed and walking again and

you can see yourself running again God

says I need my people to believe they’ve

received it some of y’all need to just

turn off everything and start stay in

the apartment that is where you can cook

and use the bathroom and sleep within

one arms-length you need to think about

that and then you need to believe that

you’ve received keys to your new home

and that it’s paid for and that you’re

sitting there having barbecues in July

and you’ll v see y’all don’t even

believe it over here you need to believe

that you’re healed you need to believe

you need to see that your family is

around the Christmas table and

everybody’s laughing and giggling and

there’s no arguments and Uncle John

ain’t drunk outside and y’all know we

got a Uncle John but you don’t even

believe you’ve received it he’s given us

the formula and if we could ever do that

start using the imagination God’s give

us to visualize what he’s called us to

have he said you can have anything he

said if you believe that you’ve received

it it will be yours

I want you to say he’s not using like

qualifiers like it might be it could one

day be if the sky is 78 degrees and it

feels good outside it he said it will be

yours but when you are praying just just

make sure this one thing because a lot

of y’all about to get disqualified and

this one verse 25 cuz I could have

stopped it but I got a I got a pass to

you but when you’re praying oh shoot

first forgive anyone you are holding a

grudge against dang it cuz now 75% of

you wouldn’t be able to walk in baby

faith not crazy faith baby faith cuz you

won’t let those people go he’s saying

the thing that is the sedative to your

faith is the people you won’t release

your faith can’t go to where I want it

to go cuz you won’t forgive your father

who wasn’t there and yes he did you

wrong and yes he didn’t deserve to treat

you like that and yes you have a right

to be frustrated for the rest of your

life but that means that you will

forfeit the blessing of God for the rest

of your life too and this at

transformation Church 2019 is the year

of what release and God saying if you

would release them I would release it if

you will release them I would release

you if you would release them I will

release my savour and my blessing and my

influence on your life but you all

forgive so your faith is useless I

wonder if we could ever become a church

that will let people go cuz if we let

people go that’s why my wife is like why

are you so friendly with them and you

what they did I can’t let them stop what

God’s doing in my life I don’t have to

be uh uh I don’t have to be all around

them and be like oh but I’m not going to

harbor anything in my life in my heart

that’s gonna stop my faith from working

and that’s what some of y’all came for

today you you are crazy faith but you

can’t even qualify for baby faith

because unforgiveness is cancelling out

the promise of God in your life so what

do you want us to do Pastor Mike I want

faith to arise in your life how is that

gonna happen I’m gonna give you one

point and then we’re gonna pick up next

week and it’s gonna be crazy okay

read your Bible no that can’t be a fast

enough you see them claps it’s like okay

wow yeah I found out that there’s only

way faith happens and is ignited in you

and it’s found right here in Hebrews 11

chapter 1 it says now faith

no no not Hebrews chapter 11 1 let’s go

to imma go to Romans 10:17 it says so

then faith comes by hearing and hearing

by the Word of God

it’s amazing how illiterate Christians

are in the one book that has all our

answers

we think it’s a historic book we think

it’s like a fiction novel like oh I like

that David and Goliath won I like that

that’s a good winner and this is the

only book that when you read it it reads

you this is the only book that you can

be feeling temptation and you start

reading it and the Bible says in Psalms

119 how does a young man and young woman

keep his way pure he hides himself in

the Word of God even I just don’t call

me don’t do that no no no you need to

read your Bible you hadn’t bothered

it’ll cool you all the way now y’all

want to be faking the veil then today

open up open up Acts when you get a

booty call when you’re angry

put proverbs up when you about to do

something you know you’re right like you

feel it Matthew and see if it won’t

start speaking to you but the problem is

our faith is not built in the only thing

that can build our faith we build our

faith and other things and that’s why

you got to understand that faith as a

principle that God is placed in the

earth so if faith comes by hearing it’s

your faith is built in whatever you’re

hearing so if you’re hearing a bunch of

doubt and lies and division your faith

is getting built in that thing if you’re

trying to stay pure but you bump in

every sex song and I like to be and this

is the rapid this is the thing and all

of your relationships in like a Beyonce

song to the left to the left you’ve been

in 15 relationships but it’s because

faith comes by here and that’s all

you’ve been hearing you’ve been building

your faith in something that cannot help

you to stand you get angry and all your

relationships in like Game of Thrones

because faith comes by here and it’s

built in whatever you’re hearing and so

many of us will prefer our preference

over God’s purpose he was like man if

you could just get faith like a mustard

seed

I don’t need crazy faith from you all I

need to do what I want to do in your

life is baby what would happen if we

just were a church who didn’t like like

act like we were saved and act like I

was doing a miracle in our life and act

like it but really walked it out so what

you want us to do Pastor Mike this week

everybody under the sound of my voice

from watching online I want you to read

your Bible for 15 minutes every day I

loved it that’s if I got to do an hour

you don’t you don’t you’re more

consistent and checking Facebook

then you are seeking his face so I’m I’m

not trying to I’m not trying to create a

crazy fake moment Church I want us to

read our Bible for four hours every day

cut off PV cut off social media let’s

not start with crazy let’s start with

baby everybody in this room can take 15

minutes 15 and read your Bible this week

well pastor I don’t know where to start

great that’s why we have a team and a

church here that’s gonna help you you

can go to the Instagram the website the

app and all this week starting tomorrow

you’ll be able to find places to be able

to read your Bible I’m just asking what

would happen if your faith was built all

week we came back in here next Sunday

night there would be miracles happening

worship what nobody would even have to

hear Pastor Mike speak because your

faith would be as soon as I touch with

one other believer my mark the word says

if two or three of us are gathered in

his name

everybody else could leave he said God

is in the myths matter of fact I got

goosebumps

I don’t even gotta make it to church I

just need to call one or two people who

actually believe that God can do a

miracle and my baby faith will turn into

crazy faith but if we can’t get it on

the small level we’ll never get it on

the big level can we commit to that this

week I said can we commit to that this

week okay I want to pray for every

person in this room cuz the day I told

Charles earlier I wanted to ride the

wave of what we did last week I we was

gonna be jumping around here doing

jumping jacks flips I had a message that

what I had us pop and the Holy Spirit

said that would be bad parenting

if you keep your kids on a high but

don’t teach him why and I’m not calling

nobody a kid but I am the spiritual

shepherd at this house and it is my job

to make sure that we’re growing we’re

gonna see more crazy miracles but maybe

God would be more pleased but not just

one offs of crazy faith maybe he would

be more pleased with consistent baby

faith hands lifted all over this

building father I pray for every person

under the sound of my voice today

something has started on the inside of

us God I’m thanking you for every person

who have felt father that maybe you

forgot about what their situation is or

what they have to do father I think you

did you care about the details of their

life today let faith arise on the inside

of us I declare and I believe father God

that you are giving us the hope to

believe in you not just a fake facade of

believing but truly putting our weight

on the things and the promises that you

say in your word this week as we read

our word for 15 minutes every day I

thank you that faith would arise on the

inside of us father I think that we

would believe your word father I thank

you that we would trust you again and

God I thank you that our baby faith

would turn into crazy faith I come

against depression I come against doubt

I come father God even against unbelief

father God that will make us say this is

crazy

this won’t work father God it’s crazy

until it happens and today I thank you

that transformation church and

transformation nation will be a group of

people that will fully believe you and

we will see crazy faith but it will

start with our baby faith in Jesus name

if you believe it will you give God a

shout of praise in astre oh come on

if you

why don’t you give God one shot

appraised

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listen just sit down for one second this

is the most important part of our art

service if you don’t have to leave just

stay right there because people are

about to get ministered to if you’re in

this room and you’ve never accepted

Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and

Savior this is about to take faith like

coz some of y’all like well I don’t

understand like how do you believe in a

God that you’ve never seen I feel you

but you’ve never seen wind either and

ain’t nobody ever seen Wi-Fi but you

believe in it

could it be that there’s something so

amazing that’s right in front of you but

you just have to receive it today would

you bow your head and close your eyes

everybody all over the building and if

you want to give your life to the only

one who really knows what to do with it

in just a moment we’re gonna pray but

it’s the it’s the one greatest decision

that I ever made it took me from being a

liar somebody who was addicted to

pornography a manipulator and a bad

person on the inside and it took me from

from not not to be in a perfect person

but a progressing president today God

wants you he want you to know that His

grace is extended for you if you’re

saying pastor I want to put my faith in

Jesus Christ or I’m gonna put my faith

back in Jesus Christ today on the count

of three I just want you to lift your

hands all over this building

and online I want you to do that there’s

hands already going up 1 2 3 there’s

hands I see you ma’am I see you sir I

see you sweetheart I see you ma’am I see

you ma’am I see you ma’am

you can put your hands down I see you

ma’am today we’re a family at

transformation church we don’t pray

alone there’s power in our prayer

together song 1 everybody to pray this

prayer say God thank you for sending

your son just for me I believe he died

he lived and he rose again just for me

come into my life and take control

change me renew me transform me I’m

yours in Jesus name Amen