Faith vs Fantasy // Is It Truly From God? // Crazyer Faith (Part 3) // Michael Todd

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this may be unusual for some people that

are watching us like i thought he would

be funny by now

and i’m gonna try to do everything i’m

gonna try to present god’s word

in a way that will

be engaging and exciting

the one thing that i never want us to

get into as a church

is missing god because of the package it

comes in

like

god has been maturing me and putting

himself in different packages that’s so

good

god’s been speaking to me through all

kind of stuff

and i used to only could receive god in

a certain package

and honestly that’s a sign of immaturity

my daughter gia

can only eat food right now from a

breast or a bottle

that’s the only way

she can receive

nourishment because if it comes in

anything outside of that she has not

matured enough to be able to know how to

chew it

cut it up digest it

or be able to even understand what it is

if i put a steak in front of her right

now she’s just gonna slap it

but when you get older

you’re able to receive different ways

and so today

i believe i’m an assignment to teach you

some things about crazier faith

that i’m going to intentionally

not be like hype today

why not pastor mike i want you to get

this

and not be distracted by anything except

the words that are coming out of this

message

i’m gonna intentionally and now i can’t

help myself i’m gonna be myself

but i i really want you to get it

everybody say i wanna get it

because

the next

i see these things in like books and

volumes

the next like five messages i have to

speak

are going to blow your mind

like

because they don’t blow mine already

like it is

hold on god wait a minute me doing that

like ah that why like it’s that type of

stuff

but i would be irresponsible

as your pastor

to give you the license

to drive without the parameters to drive

in

if i don’t

give you the parameters

and let you know that you got to stay in

your lane

and you can’t drive

into oncoming traffic

and you probably should keep your eyes

open while you’re at the wheel

it’s only going to damage you in the

long run

and not allow you to be able to

experience the fullness of what god

wants for you

and so today

in week three

of a series we’re calling crazier faith

today i want to teach you about

imagination because last week we

unlocked something in y’all

and a lot of people

have been imagining all kinds of how

many people right now in the chat all in

the room how many of you have been

imagining yourself at a different place

imagining yourself in different in

different spheres of different influence

okay

we’ve been imagining

all kinds of stuff

but god told me specifically michael now

i need you to go back and tidy some

things up to help people understand

where their imagination has to be and

what it is not

so um

yeah

let’s go and get into this

y’all got y’all notes

y’all ready for this

see this is the beautiful thing about

being the pastor because i show up next

week too

and like i get to walk you through this

journey not just pizal and then go away

like i want to walk you the greatest

thing for you is to become spiritually

mature and this stuff actually work in

your life i do not want you walking

around like that’s my past the powers

are my past the god is good and nothing

changes in your life if it doesn’t

change in your life there’s no proof and

no evidence of what we’re even talking

about and so today’s message is going to

help you go deeper and understand the

beginnings

of what god wants you to do living in

crazy or faith let’s go to it um

i ran into a high school friend this

week

um i was at a fast food establishment

getting something for my kids because we

was fasting and uh

and i walked up and he was like mike

talk

my dog

i was like and i looked at him and i was

like oh snap i remember you from high

school and he was like and for some

reason he kept saying this he said i

would have never imagined

i would have never imagined bro i would

have never imagined you

you and then i started to get offended

like hold on like what do you mean

he’s like i would have never imagined

and as i went back to the car out of

every word see all the words he could

have used

out of everything he could have said i

just finished speaking a message last

week on the anointed imagination and

this man keeps saying i would have never

imagined

and i started to examine those words joe

i would have never imagined and

something rose up in me and said why not

why wouldn’t you have imagined

imagination is free

imagination can happen in a current

situation that does not look like what

it looks like ray why wouldn’t you

imagine yourself whole why wouldn’t you

imagine yourself free why wouldn’t you

imagine your family together why

wouldn’t you imagine yourself forgiving

them uh-oh

you won’t even about you’ve imagined

yourself being mad at them for the next

decade

and going to their funeral and sitting

there stank faith

but why wouldn’t you imagine the great

things that god has for you

and something in me said i will never

not imagine

the good that god has for me

i will never not imagine it

see and many of you right now are

sitting here as like well if i imagine

it and then it doesn’t happen then does

that like make god a liar help help help

pastor mike i will the true manner of

what you need to know is this write this

point down the obedience to believe is

my job

but the outcome is his

i don’t have to believe and make it

happen

my job is to believe god

if he does it or not he’s sovereign he

has the ability to say yep i’ma do it no

because i got something better you won’t

understand that you’re not ready for

that right now but my job is to believe

somebody say my job

is to believe

say it with your chest my job

is to believe

the truth of the matter is most of you

have skipped out on your job

you do not believe god you will not

imagine yourself healthy

you can imagine yourself healthy putting

the donut in your mouth

like you can be sitting with a dozen

krispy kreme donuts

and you can get an image of yourself

saying one day

i will not have to go to this for

comfort

i’m about to step on some people’s toes

you can be sitting there with the blunt

and imagine yourself

not calling the weed man

and having him on speed dial you can

imagine yourself while you’re in the bed

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waiting for them to come temporarily

fulfill an insecurity that has been

there since you were 14 and you’re not

even gonna remember his name

but you can imagine yourself laying down

in a bed that is yours with somebody

next to you who loves you and cherishes

you you can imagine that

somebody say imagine that

i made a decision a long time ago

that believing was my job

but the outcome is his

and too many people won’t believe unless

they know the outcome

that’s not faith

so today i need you

to take a different stance in faith with

me

i’m gonna believe no matter what

it doesn’t matter what it looks like

what they said what happened for them

brian i’m gonna believe

no matter what no matter what they gave

me the the diagnosis they told me what

my son would be able to do but i’m gonna

believe no matter what

the outcome his job believing my job

i’m trying to get somebody to understand

this because you’ve been waiting for a

guarantee on what you’re believing and

god’s waiting for you to believe no

matter the outcome

you’re standing in the middle of a

situation that can change but your job

is to believe god’s job

is the outcome

so what do you do

i obey god

i believe god

it doesn’t matter what it looks like

and so

as i was talking about imagination last

weekend we were looking at how we need

to be more kitty and be able to trust

god and be able to believe god and obey

god and follow god and imagine what god

has for us and we learn that imagination

is purified in intercession it couldn’t

have come at a better time when we just

as a church went in seven days of prayer

and fafsa when i’m telling you what god

did this week tammy

what god did this week charlie y’all the

prayer that happened this week changed

the trajectory of our church

i can’t fully disclose what has happened

but what i’m telling you right now

is because we took our imagination to

intercession

god purified it

and it changed the future

but now

as i look at this journey we’re going on

i want to lay out the framework of our

faith so you can all know where we’re

going okay so everybody write this down

okay the framework of faith our faith

starts with imagination everybody say

imagination

this is the spiritual womb

okay

and once we get something

in our minds that we can see before we

see it the next step for you to do

is write the vision down and make it

plain so the next step it goes from

imagination to vision everybody say

vision

and vision is the receipt or the

evidence of something in the future that

is going to come but i got the receipt

now

see one of the things how many people

shop online right now how many people

shop online one of the things they give

you when you shop online

at the end of your purchase is a receipt

why because the package is not in my

possession yet

but when i have that receipt it is proof

that i have paid for something now

that i am going to be receiving

at a later time

when you get a vision that’s your

receipt

when i wrote this down 37 days after i

became the lead pastor

this was my

receipt it wasn’t just in my imagination

i had the audacity to write it down and

it went from imagination to vision what

has god given you in your imagination

that you have not been bold enough to

turn into vision

i need

your imagination to go to intercession

to be purified and turn into vision

because now i got evidence

can’t nobody tell me god didn’t tell me

this i’m preaching in the building

six years later that i wrote down

in my daughter’s room i got the receipt

so even if it didn’t happen in my

timetable i could take the receipt to

the

owner y’all missed it

there’s another level of authority i

have with the receipt

y’all know how some of y’all excuse me

can i talk to your manager please

i was given evidence

that the healing was coming

i was given evidence that i would be

free from that

i was given evidence that i would be

joyful and not depressed all the days of

my life i was given evidence

i need you to make good

i can’t even talk about that today okay

imagination turns to vision

vision once you get vision i’m just

laying out the journey for you

once you get vision

vision has to be fueled by faith

and the fuel of faith is everybody say

hope

at least hope for it

like

like

don’t reason why it can’t happen like

if i if i came to you and ask you do you

hope your family’s back together next

christmas

a lot of people would start telling me

why it can’t happen yeah well

that ain’t never gonna happen because

i didn’t i didn’t ask how it’s gonna

happen

everybody shouted me hope

hope to be out of the apartment

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well i just signed a 36 month lease

first off why would you do that and then

second off

but i’m just asking like

would you hope for it yeah

because if you go from imagining it to

writing it down and making it a vision

and then just putting a hope for it i

want you to understand every step that

we’ve said so far is f-r-e-e

you don’t need a college education to do

any of these steps

you don’t need a committee to agree with

you to do any of these steps to imagine

to get a vision and to ask god to help

you hope

it’s

free

and when you get hope

hope

turns in

to crazy faith

see when i started hoping for this

building

started hoping for what god was going to

do

i started talking different

i started telling people it’s like well

what about this no no no no no no no no

no

until god does it this way

i don’t even want to see it

my faith got stirred i do you know i

live in north tulsa i live 35 miles from

this building do you know how much gas

like regular glass not hope not fuel for

my faith like petrol like actually gas i

use to come over here and just circle

the building

my crazy faith

made me come into this building

several times acting like i was looking

for somebody and i wasn’t looking for

nobody

they’d be like can i help you yeah john

is done

john here

we’re like we don’t have any john’s here

i was like i know but i’m just i just

need to be in here

and start making me move in crazy faith

crazy faith is believing

believing enough

to do something

my question is will you believe enough

to just do

something

just

something

i saw one of my friends

this week after last week’s imagination

a message put this into practice

and um

she posted on uh

instagram

that she was starting a crazy faith

account

an account for abundance

and within like two hours somebody had

given her a hundred dollars i think into

the account

and i said

hold on

she went from imagination

to vision she wrote it down put it on

instagram to hoping for it to believing

god could do it and it happened

in an hour

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and at that moment other people started

giving

and god began to speak to me at that

moment because faith is contagious

she don’t know this but a thousand

dollars is hitting her cash app after

service

because god told me in that moment y’all

missed it

he said

i just needed somebody to believe

me i got resources ready i just need it

now look at all the people right now on

instagram you turning the thing off

trying to put it up there hold on

but a thousand dollars is going to hurt

cash up after this

because god told me he said michael she

did all the free steps

and then she believed me enough to walk

to wait and walk it out

and that’s when you go to crazier faith

i’m just giving you the progression and

what i need you to do this week is

honestly

evaluate where you are in this process

because some of y’all

ain’t on the board

i didn’t want to clown you

and i didn’t want to make you feel bad

but the truth of the matter is

you’re somewhere over

here and it’s okay

because that’s where i started

i’m not going to imagine anything

i’m going to live by instinct

do you know what separates humans from

every other creation

it’s that every creation

that god made lives by instinct

what naturally comes up

when i’m faced with the situation what i

do naturally what i want to do

but god said i’ve given you a tool in

imagination

to be able

to look at a situation that your

instinct wants to take over and say hold

on god has given me

a picture

of something different

than what i’m about to naturally do

that’s why when

old girl walks by with a pretty face and

a little waist and everything pop

popping where it needs to pop

as a male i have an instinct

y’all want to be fake today

there’s an instinct

on the inside of me to say hey

god bless you

look what god has done through you in

you on you

but because i’ve imagined myself a man

of valor

because i’ve imagined myself loving one

woman until the day that i die because

i’ve imagined myself being able to stand

and my kids standing up and calling me

blessed

because i’ve imagined myself being able

to stand in the face of temptation and

be able to be somebody who passed the

test

i don’t live by instinct

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i live by the imagination that god has

planted in me

because i have lived my life by the word

of god

and the saddest thing many of us are

still living on instinct

something happens something comes that’s

why fear grips you

they gave us a bad doctor report what do

we do instinct freak

out instinct start calling everybody

showing fear into everybody

you ain’t even heard what the doctor

said they just called me they just

called me and said death bed hospital

funeral

that’s all you heard

now you tell everybody else

and now instinct

has seeped in

now we all freaking out

instead of living by the imagination of

god

doctor calls before i call anybody

father you said in your word

that i could speak to disease

see y’all

it’s so crazy that we come to church

every day and you don’t believe this

stuff

go somewhere else

do so like honestly like do something

else because until you start believing

what god’s word says

you only live out of instinct

but god’s trying to give you an anointed

imagination

that then moves into a vision

that then goes into hope that then turns

into crazy faith

and then you get to a level where it’s

just crazy your faith like i didn’t even

believe for this and god knew that he

could partner with me and we’re about to

do something that didn’t even come

across my mind that’s the scripture that

says eyes haven’t seen ears haven’t

heard neither has it entered into the

imagination of those who love i didn’t

even think it is

but god wanted to do something so then i

started looking at hebrews chapter 11.

i’m just taking today i’m just teaching

you i’m taking you on a bible study with

me this is what happened to me during

the week god said just walk them through

it hebrews 11 verse 3.

it says by faith

we understand that the worlds were

everybody say framed

underline that circle that in your bible

it says by faith we understand that the

worlds were framed by the word of god

so that the things which are seen now

were not made of things which are

visible that goes back to what we talked

about last week

that god framed the whole world

by words

but he did it

with invisible

how did he do it

with things that weren’t here

things that weren’t yet here

he framed the whole world and made it

reality it took me back to the phrase

that we said god’s imagination created

us

we are created in his image therefore we

can create with imagination what are you

saying

god saw it before he saw it

you have to see it i don’t know what it

is for you

but you gotta see it before

you see you gotta see yourself

being

joyful before you see yourself actually

in real life being joyful you gotta see

yourself being able to manage a lot

before you see yourself actually being

able to do it somebody say see it

before you see it

so when i looked at this scripture and i

realized everything that we’re looking

at right now god saw before we saw it

this word right here framed kept messing

with me so i looked up y’all i loved the

bible i looked up this world framed in

different passages look at psalms 103

verse 14.

it says for he knows

our everybody say frame

and he remembers that we are dust

so now i started doing a real pastory

thing

and i went to look this word up in the

hebrew and the greek

let me tell you y’all not gonna believe

this

the word frame

in the original hebrew is a word

called yetzer

y-e-t-s-e-r

yet sir

ain’t never heard of a yetzer in my life

don’t know where to find the yetzer and

this had to be god

do you know

what the word yetzer means

imagination

if you look it up

the word it says

for god knows our imagination

and he remembers that we are dust you

can see the same word in genesis chapter

six verse five first chronicles 29 18

this is for all the bible nerds that

need to go study it which should be all

y’all first chronicles 28-9 god knows my

imagination

let me say it like this to you your

imagination frames your life

whatever you’re imagining

is the frame that god is building your

whole life on

the life you have right now you framed

it

stop blaming everybody else

it’s not your family no more you don’t

even live in that house no more

you are framing

your life

with the thoughts that you are thinking

right now

and god told me to tell you it’s time to

change the frame

what are you saying pastor michael let

me give you an example that kind of hits

close to home this is a drum set that i

want to show y’all from like

uh

probably 1821 i don’t even know this mug

is old

this drum set

was top of the line

world class drum set when it came out

but it only has the frame

for one symbol

a cowbell

and a snare

that’s all

the frame can hold

this

is our drummer tony’s drum set

this mug is huge than a mug

now i want everybody to see this real

quick

this drum set

is

huge

it has a frame

that can hold all of these that come

with me because they don’t even know

they seeing it from the front i want

y’all to see

how

crazy this little boy has gotten with

this drum set no no come on back here

i’m exposing it right now there’s

symbols everywhere there’s electronic

pads there’s all kinds of stuff there’s

electronic double basses there’s four

pedals down here do you need a what’s

the difference between this drum set

and that drum set

it’s the frame it was built on

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i might help them

this

is what the frame

of that drum set looks like look at this

this

right here

is the frame i need somebody camera come

on y’all somebody come over here so they

can see this

this

is big enough

to be able

for me to imagine

when i

build my drum set on this frame

there’s all kind of options

there’s all kinds of toms and symbols

and

everything that’s the only reason that

1921

drum set

doesn’t have the frame

to be able to build something great

god said to me michael the saddest part

about this crazier faith

message i’m trying to get to people

is most of them do not have the frame

big enough for what i want to do in

their life

they don’t have they’ve not believed me

they haven’t taken the limit off of me

and today

when i looked at that word yetzer

and it said that the worlds were framed

or imagined and that god knows our frame

our imagination

god said michael the music i want to

make in your life

depends on the frame that you have

see

many people don’t know this but i’ve

played drums since i was two

the difference between

this drum set

and that drum set on the screen

is there’s a lot more options here

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hmm

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hey

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stop let me stop let me stop let me stop

what i was able to do

and the sounds that came out

and the expressions i was able to make

were based on something that was built

on a frame

that was big enough

for me to hold

what i

imagined

pastor mike what are you trying to say

could you imagine for more

i just

i feel like it’s

the rest of the weeks for most of you

are going to be futile

if you don’t get this one point

make the frame bigger

take the limit off of god

he will not go past your belief

to bring you into a place and a space

that he already ordained for you

ask the children of israel

the promise from the beginning is i’m

taking you to

a land flowing with milk and honey

i’m about to take you to a promised land

these people could not believe it

these people literally was like we want

to go back to slavery

kill the guy who brought us out

let’s worship golden calves

they turned an 11-day journey

into a 40-year death

because they could not get a bigger

frame

for what god wanted to do

and what i’m telling you right now

is a lot of y’all are out here being

like yeah if god would just do this and

god was like that is so little

that is so low

that is so whack you just want to be

married

that’s it

you don’t want to impact people with

your marriage

you just want to be married you just

want to be able to have sex with not

feeling guilty

what

you don’t want to raise generation after

generation after generation that stands

up and changes the trajectory of other

people’s life do you just want to have

money

or do you want to be able to change the

trajectory of communities and be able to

walk into situations and not pray for it

but be the answer to the prayer would

you just widen the brain

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i feel like an alien up here preaching

because i’ve been to a planet that a lot

of people never get to

i’ve started believing god for stuff

that i can’t say to people because it

make you it changed the way you thought

about me

now when it happens you’re gonna say i’m

a man of faith

but right now

amberly there’s stuff that god has shown

me in the past two weeks

since we started this series

i dare not utter

because it would fry the belief

of people who say they believe

and i said god

why is this he said cause the frame is

too small

make the frame bigger write that down on

your piece of paper i’m gonna make the

frame bigger

because your imagination

frames your life now the one thing you

got to know about imagination and i told

you today i’m not preaching to you i’m

teaching to you

imagination

is neutral

i want you to understand this

your imagination is neutral

your imagination can work for you

and your imagination

can work against you

oh but it’s always working

like brianna it’s

your imagination right now some of y’all

are imagining about what you’re going to

eat after this fast is over

right now some of y’all haven’t seen the

steak you already seen the chinese food

i have seen the chinese buffet the nasty

dirty one i go in there i love that

stuff hey my god i feel it

i’ve imagined it i’m there right now

wong tongs and all you understand what

i’m saying

okay

but but the thing you got to understand

is your imagination is always working

your imagination is neutral though

it depends what you feed it

of how it’s going to produce for you

okay i’m trying to help you all of this

mental um health that everybody’s

talking about right now do you know

where all of these mental health issues

come from

your

imagination it’s taken me all this time

to get here but i thought it would be

imperative as a pastor to teach you the

difference between faith

and fantasy

faith

versus fantasy

because last night we opened a can of or

last week we opened a can of worms that

had people imagining all kinds of stuff

and as a pastor it would be it would be

wrong of me to tell you go out there and

imagine everything in crazy faith and

not tell you there’s a difference

between faith

and fantasy

let me give you a point you need to

write down

perverted imagination remember last week

we talked about the anointed imagination

a perverted imagination is fantasy

and all the word perverted means is

twisted

wicked

wicked twisted

so when you take the thing

and you twist it it becomes a fantasy

write this definition down a fantasy it

messes me up

a fantasy is the process

of creating especially unrealistic

mental images

in response to a psychological need

the crazy thing about this definition

that i love is that it came from a real

need

i had a real need to be loved

so what i did was use my imagination to

make something unrealistic come into my

images

and now i’m trying to live out a fantasy

instead of letting god lead me in an

anointed imagination

yeah yeah i know nobody talks about it

but the reason why you’re in an

emotional affair with the guy at work

it’s not because you don’t need to be

seen or loved or noticed

it’s because that legitimate need

now has found a way to get twisted

and now you’re imagining like what if my

husband

talked to me like he talked to me

i’m just trying to tell you how it

happens

what what if we went out to dinner like

as a business thing

but we just stayed a little longer and

had a couple of drinks and like just

talked about just got to know each other

because it will really help our work

performance if you really know the

people you work with

i’m in your business i counsel these

people

see it starts very subtle

what’s the difference between an

anointed imagination and fantasy

is says somewhere along the way it got

perverted no god told me i was gonna

have money

why

yeah

because many of us are trying to run

away from something that we were born

into

and god’s saying i want you to have

resources so you can bless other people

but you want to have resources because

so you can make other people feel like

you used to feel

perverted

and it’s become a fantasy that’s why the

bible talks about vain imaginations

second corinthians 10 5

casting down imaginations

in every high thing that exalts itself

against the knowledge of god and

bringing into captivity locking it up

every thought to the obedience of christ

the thought can come

but you’re the sheriff

and some of y’all are letting fugitive

thoughts

one ramp it in your mind

and you have not yet locked up these

fantasies

god’s not going to bless

you to be married to somebody else’s

husband

god is

you need to take that

and lock it up y’all don’t hear me right

now

god is not going to bless your business

with stolen money from the last place

that

he is not you need to take that thought

captive

and cast down every imagination

god is not going to allow you

to minister

to people about forgiveness

and you still

holding unforgiveness against them you

need to lock up your pride

and you need to let god do the work on

the inside of you

pastor mike you preaching good i know

because at the end of the day

your fugitive fantasies

are wrecking your life

you the sheriff just letting everybody

all these vain thoughts just run around

your mind

and god said i need you to get these

thoughts under control romans 1 21

because

when they knew god oh that’s like us we

come to church we know transgender

church imagination on set we love god

they glorified him

they hold on they glorified him not as

god

neither were

thankful we know god

but he’s just an additive on our daily

routine

and we’re not thankful for what he’s

done i got myself here i’ve grinded i i

hustled i did all this okay

what that produces is they became vain

in their imaginations

and their foolish heart

was darkened

y’all didn’t know imagination was this

much in the scripture

because i didn’t know

and what god was saying he said michael

if you don’t tell this church

to allow me to anoint their imagination

and stop dealing in fantasy

they will never be able to see what i

already have planned for them

there was a group of people some of

y’all remember this in genesis chapter

11 it was a group of people that decided

that they were going to do their own

thing and build a tower to god they was

like we don’t need god we’re going to go

ahead and get unified and build the

tower to god and look what god says he

had to come down and confuse their

language for one reason look it said 11

genesis 11 verse 6 it says and the lord

said

behold

oh shoot

these people are one

and they have all one language

and this they begin to do and now

nothing

will be restrained from them

which

they

have

imagined to do

what

god said if i don’t confuse their

language they’re going to do everything

they imagined to do

that means your imagination is working

no matter what you do it’s either

working for you

or it’s working against you let me say

it another way your imagination is

either bringing you towards god

or taking you away from god you can i oh

i got money but did it take you away

from god

oh i got status but did it take you away

from god oh my family is gucci but did

it take you away from god it’s either

taking you towards him

or it’s taking you away from him

and it starts from birth

genesis 8 21 i’m just giving you

scriptures to study because god is

planting a seed that’s going to come out

of your heart as we go into this next

level of crazier faith i have to lay

this anchor what’s the word of the year

what’s the word of the year

an anchor makes you not drift away

and if i start unlocking these

principles that god’s given me as we go

through these weeks but you have not

been anchored by the truth of god’s word

some of y’all are going to drift out

into places that there’s no return from

so today as a pastor i’m coming to let

you know

right after

god destroyed the entire world and it

brought noah and his family to rebuild

it genesis 8 21 it said and the lord

smelled

a soothing aroma then the lord said in

his heart i will never again curse the

ground for man’s sake although god

dogged it

the imagination of man’s heart

is evil from his youth

what

god what’s wrong

with what’s on the inside of me without

god

we will fantasize and ask god to bless

it with our faith

we’ll be believing for things that god’s

nowhere in

never been around

doesn’t have a desire to do in your life

and you’re out here believing god and

said god’s gonna give me this during the

third some of y’all been in front of

houses and posting cars that god ain’t

gonna give you

this is not a prosperity gospel

this is not name it and claim it

this is

god if you said it i i imagined it but

if i bring it to you and you give it

back to me and then i walk these steps

out then i know this is going some of

y’all gonna tune off right now but i’m

trying to give you proper expectation

this is not a fantasy where you rub the

lamp and god becomes a genie

this is the part of it that nobody wants

to teach because people leave after this

i don’t care go

at the end of the day

what god wants you to know

is that he has something for you that is

specific to you

that has to be purified

by it being in his will for your life

all right let me keep just moving

can i help you understand what fantasy

is fueled by remember that imagination

then you need vision and vision that you

get hope let me tell you what fantasy is

fueled by fantasy is fueled by the flesh

any time you start dreaming of stuff

that god ain’t nowhere in

your flesh is empowering that

well pastor mike how do i know the

difference

between fantasy and anointed imagination

i’m glad you asked this is what i’m

going to tell you today fantasy is

fueled by the flesh

but anointed imagination is fueled by

the spirit

okay

this is why you cannot live a victorious

christian life

without being empowered by the holy

spirit to live out this life

and i know for somebody like what what

scripture is that in it’s in a lot of

them

but this is the part where we give up

control and we don’t just make god our

savior

he becomes our lord

everybody wants jesus to save them

but they want him to save them for us to

then live however we want to live

he doesn’t just want to be your savior

he wants to be your everybody say it

it’s a cuss word to some of you

lord that means he’s in control

that means i have the money to buy the

house and god says don’t buy it

huh

he said am i savior and lord or am i

just

savior and so many people

are gonna make it to heaven not obey not

having obeyed anything after they said

yes to jesus

how sad will it be

for you to see the things that god had

planned for you charlie

and never be able to reach any of them

because you still want to be lord

today i’m asking you

to give up being lord

let him be savior and everybody say lord

so that means you have to live a life

that is empowered by the spirit

okay so so let me just give you four

things how you know and then we’re gonna

end this up this is very heavy in here

for y’all some of y’all look like y’all

been baptized in pickle juice some of

y’all’s just like whoo

at some point this message is going to

be the anchor for this whole series

we gonna get out into space and then i’m

gonna say go back and listen to message

number three

and make sure that this is not just

fantasy

make sure this is the anointed

imagination that god has given you so

how do i know pastor mike

one way you know if it’s fantasy or it’s

anointed imagination if it does not

glorify god it’s a fantasy

if it does not glorify god it’s a

fantasy

well i’ll just you know what i’m saying

i believe god has given me this song for

the nations

called drop that a

and i just see people all over the world

lifting their hands and dropping

they i just feel like the lord is like

drop that hey drop that and i just see i

just see i just see i mean i just see

him everywhere all over the nation just

just cellulite just just bouncing all

over the world white booties and black

booties and hispanic booties and i’m

telling you it was a vision from god

[Applause]

i’m being dramatic but this is what we

do

award shows i just want to give god

glory and honor

but let me

be able to be here and use

what

[Applause]

what

i just want to thank god for blessing my

sixth marriage and i got tons of kids

with tens of what

what

you have made a fantasy for yourself

and you’ve started living out a fantasy

that doesn’t bring god any glory

[Music]

i know this is tight

but it’s right

unfollow cool

it don’t matter

because at the end of the day

the bible tells us that he who builds a

house

that doesn’t build it with god

his house is built in watch this word

vain

unless the lord builds the house

all your labor all your grinding all

your working all your awards all your

accolades they gonna burn up

i know

it doesn’t work for your instagram

aesthetic because you think that god is

rewarding you based on followers he only

needs you to be a follower of one

he needs you to follow him

and if

whatever imagination you have doesn’t

bring god glory it’s a fantasy

when i wrote this

down this was an anointed imagination

because i wasn’t writing this down

for me to get glory

i wasn’t right all of this stuff is

about other people

all this stuff is about god doing

something that would show people that

regular regular people like me who had

all kinds of problems and issues could

get a vision from god and write it down

and hope for it and all this other stuff

this was anointed imagination but i

could have easily had michael todd’s car

lot on here

michael toss luxury cars

because i want to be able to stunt on

everybody

with the new

beamer benzer bentley

and i’ll give some people a discount i

could have made up a whole situation

i’m gonna tell them myself

that’s kind of a true story

[Applause]

i

i um

i can’t believe i’m standing

[Applause]

i researched for three weeks

what it took to become

a a car salesman uh no not not a car

salesman what is it uh the dealer have

get your dealer’s license

and in my mind

i thought

it could be used for the glory of god

but more for the glory of me

to be able to get expensive cards at a

cheap rate

stewardship

y’all acting like

like i want what the world wants

but i want to keep kind of the

god in the mix and

maybe i can bless them

it wasn’t to get god glory

it’s so i can make you feel small

because if i search my heart

without the things i felt small

i know nobody’s teaching like this

but at the end of the day

i need you to bring everything that

you’re imagining

and ask yourself

is this going to bring god glory

because if it doesn’t bring god glory

what you’re imagining is a fantasy let

me tell you something else if it doesn’t

produce

fruits of the spirit

it’s a fantasy

[Applause]

it might produce finances

but if it doesn’t produce the fruits of

the spirit

it’s a fantasy let me go back to our

trustee um no uh no whatever this is

this

worked on all the fruits of the spirit

patience

it was five years from writing this down

long suffering

love

i had to keep loving

a group of people who was telling me

that this couldn’t happen

self-control i almost slapped our

realtor several times

kept showing me buildings with poles

i mean

to be able to believe

it was one of the things that god is

saying to you

is this working

my character in you

is this making you more like me

because i promise you

it’s not a fantasy

if the fruits of the spirit are coming

out of you

it’s like why in the heck

am i being gentle about this situation

i’m usually oh

do it

make it happen

push it i can’t tell you how many

situations i come to and i’m about to be

like and god’s like well that makes

sense

we need to wait a little longer i’m like

that ain’t you

go back and be different all right bad

mike go back and be different like talk

to him about

i need us to wait and pray on the lord

why is this

opposite

it’s because

this is the anointed imagination that

god wants you to have not a fantasy let

me give you one more

if it is a birth and deception

it’s fantasy

some of y’all have been in a straight

lie asking god to bless it

i had this guy one time come to me and

asked me

to pray

that god would bless

his new relationship

and and i was like okay god bless you

you know people ask me to pray all the

time i said how did y’all meet he was

like well we met two years ago at my

work and i was like okay that’s amazing

and i was like how long have y’all been

married well that’s the thing um we’re

getting married next week and i was like

okay and i was like um what’s going on

he’s like well you know i just

um i feel like i should tell you that uh

i’m still married right now

but

but that that was not god that was not

god but god is specifically in this how

did y’all meet well

let me just let’s be hot humble open and

transparent faster todd i just want to

let you know we met on a one-night stand

but as as as we got all of the like uh

out of us

then god

you

you are in a full fantasy right now

you’re in a full fantasy

you want god

to bless

the mess

that you won’t even acknowledge and ask

him to help you get out of

you are in straight delusion

and the sad part about it is there are

so many people in the body of christ

right now

they’re living in a fantasy

because it started in delusion and god

said until we correct this

until we until we go back to the heart

of the matter

until we we submit ourselves a new one

afresh to god

that’s a fantasy

thank you son my son is

saying amen

last one

if it’s all about you

it’s a fantasy

if it’s selfish

if it’s only about you

it’s a fantasy god don’t he don’t he is

not obligated to make that happen

because what he’s trying to do is make

his name great through you to others

many of us our whole life is wrapped up

in us

and we’re living in a fantasy this is

not aladdin y’all

this is not a genie

this is not god saying what do you

imagine you have three wishes

no i’ll put it on the screen because

y’all know aladdin

this is not this is not

tell me your wish

[Music]

imagine what you can

see all of aladdin’s thing and i’m gonna

preach this in one minute real quick but

all of aladdin’s stuff

didn’t bring glory to god

he was trying to bring glory to himself

aladdin’s stuff

it was a fantasy that didn’t produce the

fruits of the spirit it actually

produced all kind of lies deceit people

got hurt all kinds of i watched aladdin

this week with my kids the the

the things that were produced out of

this it was birthed in deception

this man said he was a king or a prince

and was a street rat

and you know the thing that god wanted

him to be in the palace was who he

really was

god does not bless

who you pretend to be

he blesses

who you really are

and it was all about him not anybody

else

what are you saying pastor mike

i want us to not live in fantasy

i want us to again submit our anointed

imagination and get the right framework

and allow god

to do something in us that will change

us forever i’m going to read a long

passage of scripture and then we’re

going to go home because this ends this

message galatians chapter 5 verse 16

says so i say

let the holy spirit guide your lives

then you won’t be doing what your sinful

nature craves or your fantasies crave

the sinful nature wants to do evil which

is just the opposite of what the spirit

wants

and the spirit gives us desires that are

opposite of what the sinful nature

desires

these two forces are constantly fighting

each other that’s why it’s faith always

versus your fantasy it’s always fighting

each other

so you are not free to carry out your

good intentions

but when you are directed by the spirit

you are not under obligation to the law

of moses

when you follow the desires of your

sinful nature the results are very clear

look what gets birthed sexual immorality

impurity lustful pleasures idolatry

sorcery hostility quarreling jealousy

outburst of anger selfish ambition

dissension division envy drunkenness

wild parties and other sins like these

let me tell you again as i have before

that anyone living

that sort of life will not inherit the

kingdom of god

but the holy spirit everybody say but

the holy spirit

say it one more time but the holy spirit

produces this kind of fruit in your life

love

joy

peace patience kindness goodness

faithfulness gentleness and self-control

there is no law against these things

those who belong to christ jesus that’s

us

have nailed their fantasies

have nailed their desires

have nailed their passions

their sinful nature

to his cross

and crucified them there

since we are living by the spirit

let us follow the spirits leading

in every

part

of our lives

what’s your last point pastor mike

faith doesn’t work for fantasies

if the spirit of god is not leading you

to it

he’s not going to make it come to pass

pin drops

why because this means we got to go back

to him to check our motives

why do you want it

what is it going to do for you

what does it feed on the inside of you

does it bring god glory

are you trying to do something that

makes you look better

this thing is all about jesus

what i’ve had to do i’m going to be very

transparent with y’all

i am in a metamorphosis

i’m in the middle

of changing

my whole life i got to sit down for this

cause i can’t believe i’m telling y’all

i’m your pastor

is somebody that has always

wanted to do more greater big amazing

and the holy spirit has been asking me

all summer bishop

why

why

why why

why do you want it bigger

why do you want to why do you want to go

on crazy faith tour why why do you want

a book every year why do you want it to

be this why do you want to he has been

i y’all it feels like i’ve been in a

strainer all summer y’all like did y’all

pray for me while i was gone because i

i it was like it was like get up off me

[Music]

i thought this was all for you

and he said yeah yeah

but some of you been mixed in there

and i don’t want you to get up here

telling everybody about crazy or faith

promising them something i didn’t

promise them

[Music]

the reason i had to preach this message

is because it is the exclamation mark of

something god’s doing in my life

and i promised y’all would never get up

here and teach you something that god

has not already been working in my life

this is the first version of this but

what i know is that a lot of the things

that michael believed god for were

fantasies

and the reason why a lot of things did

not happen

is because i was praying for something

and believing for something that was not

in the will of god for my life

and i was disappointed and frustrated at

god at times because he didn’t do what

he said he was going to do for me and he

never promised to do it for me

i made it up

out of my vain imagination

god never promised me that all my kids

would be healthy and whole

[Music]

that’s what i thought

that’s what i prayed he didn’t say i

would never go through any challenge

with my family heat

but the pastor should be able to be an

example he said i’m making you one.

[Music]

i’m gonna show you how to believe me

and he’s giving me promises

and i gotta go back and make sure i’m

i’m founding my anointed imagination on

the promises he gave not just what i

desire

this is hard to say

[Music]

y’all but i don’t want to lead you to a

place of fantasy

god’s going to do this then he’s going

to do this then he’s going to do this

diddy kid’s going to do this and god’s

like nope

nope didn’t say that never was me they

ain’t even pray about that

i’m trying to bring us to a place of

maturity church

there’s a lot of people out here saying

name it and claim it

just put your feet on the ground and

it’s going to happen to you and there’s

parts of that that is real

like i believe it

but the only way that i believe it is i

make sure it’s not fantasy first

i make sure that i’m not just going

around saying stuff that brings me glory

saying stuff that allows me to look like

i know what i’m saying or doing or all

that other stuff no this is all about

god so what do i do hebrews 12 2 fixing

our eyes

on jesus

this whole summer

this is the hardest message i’ve

preached since i’ve been back

not to communicate to preach and know

what it’s killing inside of me

what do you do mike

when some of the things you wrote down

on your crazy faith board were fantasy

and i know it may be easier for me to

act like

no god does everything i put my mind to

that he does it

and i don’t want you to think that god’s

goodness is wrapped up

in his gifts

i don’t want anybody to think that

oh god’s not good because he didn’t do

what no that’s not

true he’s still good

despite whatever i see in my life

he still despite me having loved ones

be lost because of sickness

he’s still good

this is a level that

we’re going to pump you up next week and

i’m uh

i’m going to help you see

what god has for you

but i felt

and be really irresponsible

if it if i didn’t live this out in front

of you

and let you know

that god

does not want you to use faith for

fantasies

he wants you to come to him

and take all your imagination

bring it to him in intercession

let him purify it and whatever he gives

you back after that believe with all

your heart for that

the things he showed me about my son i’m

believing with all my heart for that

the things that he placed in the word of

god

concerning me i’m believing with all my

heart for that

but anything that i made up and threw in

there

hoping that he would add it in

you know how when somebody’s ordering a

bunch of food from like a fast food

restaurant and they just start throwing

stuff in and then give me some donuts

and a mcflurry and then just give me

give me y’all got cookies white then

throw in some cookies it ain’t nowhere

on the order but it’s like and then

could you just give us y’all got

slushies too get a slushie a large coke

and like it’s like where did

i’m not paying for all that

i ask for a number one with a sprite

you you can

you can do all that if you want to

but you’re gonna have to hold that up

you’re gonna have to make that happen

what i’m responsible for paying for is

what i ordered

the steps

the steps

of the righteous

are what

order by who the lord

check the order

make sure

that as we start believing in crazy

faith

that we’re not believing for fantasy

everybody say i’m believing

in faith

lord i did

to the best of my abilities which you

asked me to do today

you said be real

and authentic

about this journey

and god as people are evaluating

what they’ve said what they felt

and what they made up

god i’m asking you

to be so

gracious

and correct

confirm or cancel

anything we’ve been believing for that’s

not like you

whether it be in a relationship

or a business

or a material thing

or or a deeper revelation or a position

or a platform whatever

you did not say

we give it back to you

and we’re willing to sacrifices could

god we don’t

we don’t want to live in a fantasy world

we want to live in crazy faith

so god i’m praying

for those who are hearing this today

that as they spend time with you

that you would give them

clarity come on just lift your hands

right there god right now we’re praying

for clarity

[Music]

i thank you lord you’re giving us

clarity should we go should we stay

should we move father god

should we stay planted give us clarity

father god should we have the

conversation

should we just write it in a letter

whatever it is god should give us

clarity father god

let every vain imagination be torn down

in our lives

anything that would exalt itself against

the knowledge you have for us and where

we’re going in our will and your will

for our lives god i just thank you

today i thank you for the privilege to

pastor your people

lead them

to you

as we do what hebrews

12 2 says fixing our eyes on jesus

thank you for the spanking lord thank

you for this surgery

we know it’s a surgery because it comes

to heal us

thank you lord that in my life i’ll be

able to lead this church in transparency

and father we don’t lead them to crowds

and things we lead them to your throne

thank you for the word you gave us today

we will be spirit led

in jesus name

everybody all over the world say amen

okay listen listen listen listen listen

i want us to get used to different

dynamics of the holy spirit

i told you i’m changing right now

so like i just need everybody to know

like

we’re never into the service like this

it’s usually like

there’ll be more services ending like

this

because i want you to go home and say

lah

[Music]

pause and think

is this car i’m driving fantasy

that i wield enforced

and now the payment is killing me

and i’m asking god to make a way for

something he never wanted

like i want us to

i want us to say a lot

and i do believe

that what we’re about to do in this

crazier faith series is grow

i promise you if you stick with every

sermon of this series

for the next 9 weeks 10 we all know how

long it is

that god is going to speak something to

you it’s going to transform your life

that last scripture i said fixing our

eyes on jesus

there are people in

this moment right now who’ve never

accepted jesus as a personal lord and

savior and i need everybody who knows

how to pray i need you to start praying

right now

because this is what it’s all about it’s

not about things it’s not about

positions it’s not about all this it’s

about a loving god

who didn’t have a fantasy about us he

had an imagination about us being

together

and so he sent his only son jesus

to die on a cross just for me and you

and took me from being a liar a

manipulator somebody who was addicted to

pornography had all kinds of bad things

in my heart and made me not a perfect

man but a progressing man it’s the dude

who’s standing here before you right now

who can tell on himself that can go to

god can admit where he’s wrong didn’t

just make him my savior but made him my

lord too

and today god wants to do that for you i

don’t care what addiction you’re in i

don’t care what pain you are going

through right now i don’t care how far

you feel from god and how disappointed

you are god

is in pursuit after a relationship with

you and the crazy thing about him is

he’s not going to stop knocking

he’s not going to keep coming he’s not

going to stop coming so today

today is the day of salvation

i don’t care how you watch this and

because somebody told you about it or

this is playing in a public place or

somebody sent you the link this was

purpose for your life

[Music]

and today this year over 32 000 people

have given their life to christ but this

moment is just for you

in just a moment

we’re going to all pray a prayer

together and if you want to be

included in the prayer of salvation

i want you to just lift your hand on the

crown of three one you’re making the

greatest decision of your life too i’m

proud of you but that don’t even matter

your name is about to be written in the

lamb’s book of life three just lift your

hand up wherever you are right now in

the auditorium online wherever you are

god sees you

i’m so excited for what’s about to

change

now at tc we’re a family everybody prays

together for the benefit of those who

are coming to christ

and your life is about to change

oh i feel the presence of god

come on tc nation let’s pray this

together say god

thank you

for sending jesus

just for me

today

i believe

that you lived

and you died

just for me

for my sin

for my fantasies

for my mess-ups

today

i ask you

to be lord

and savior

i believe you lived

you died

and you rose again

with all power

just for me

come into my life

change me

renew me

transform me

i’m yours

in jesus name

amen

transformation church can we give god oh

come on you can do better than that

can we give god a shout of praise for

every person oh come on heaven is

rejoicing right now

over every person

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so proud of you

i want you if you just made that

decision to text the number

text save to the number on the screen

and our team is going to send you some

information to help you

we’re going to help you live this life

out in crazier faith

i want to say this uh real quick

um

i love pastoring this church

and i’m grateful

for

what’s about to happen

in you and through you i want to say

thank you

to tc nation um i was going to say it at

the top but god just did a whole bunch

of other stuff at the top

but um because of us rallying around

this message of crazy faith um the book

officially i found out went number four

on new york times bestseller

that no that’s a

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huge deal a

huge deal

huge

i just want to say thank you man

he is so good y’all

and we’re proving to people in spheres

that don’t care nothing about the church

they don’t care nothing about our faith

they’re buying these books and handing

them out to board rooms and taking them

to like it’s different

we’re just getting started

transformation church

and i believe that god is going to do

something specific in us and through us

this week run this message back two

times

everybody how many times

at at least

because because it was like you know

when there’s something you taste for the

first time and it’s an acquired taste

and you’re like

and then it’s like hold on that was kind

of good and then you go back and then

and by the third time it’s like can i

get some more of that

this one you’re gonna have to run back

two times

because by next week we’ll be in a place

to then receive

the ability to go to crazier faith but

without an anchor we float away

today i’m asking you to go out

and live a transformed life i love y’all

let’s give god one more big shout a

praise hallelujah i’ll see y’all next

week