Are you feeling spiritually dull, lacking sharpness in your life? Pastor Mike draws from the tale of the young versus the older lumberjack to illustrate the significance of a sharpened ax. This message serves as a reminder: it’s time to get your edge back! The pathway to staying sharp this year lies in the practice of prayer and fasting. This sermon delves into techniques for regaining your edge: embracing food exit, engaging with the Father, forfeiting entertainment, and directing our focus toward the eternal. Welcome to your best year yet! Scripture References: Ecclesiastes 10:10 NLT 2 Kings 6:1-7 NLT #StartSharp Join Transformation Church for our live Sunday experience. Plug into community, engage in live worship with Transformation Worship, & hear a powerful word from God. ABOUT US We Exist to REPRESENT God to the lost & found for Transformation in Christ. This is the vision of Transformation Church, led by Pastor Michael Todd and based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. NEXT STEPS Have you made the decision to follow Jesus? Fill out the form below so we can help you on your journey toward Transformation in Christ: http://transformchurch.us/saved
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what’s going on my name is Will and I
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serving as one of the leaders here at
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let’s jump into this amazing
message this is week
one somebody say week one one of a
series that I’m about to do called very
simply start
sharp everybody say start sharp start
sharp say it fast start
sharp everybody say it
loud we are about to start 2024 sharper
than any year as a church that I believe
I’ve been in leadership of um in this
this capacity this going to be our
sharpest
Year God gave me this vision and and and
the plan is a little different usually
on the first Sunday of the year somebody
else preaches usually I’m away right now
just trying to make sure the word of the
year is right just trying all right Lord
one more time confirm it to me tell me
this is it he confirmed what he was
going to do three days into my sabatical
in
July the word of the Year this year
going to change everybody’s life but
then he gave me new instruction he said
you cannot share the word of the year
until you build value into what I’m
going to
say cuz many of us fumble what God gives
us because we didn’t think it was
valuable it came in a regular package so
I guess the seat some of the greatest
advice that I’ve ever gotten is from the
woman I sleep next to every
night and because her voice is familiar
if somebody else that was on a big
platform said it I’m telling on myself
right now i’ be like oh that’s such
Revelation but she said it last night
while I was on my way to sleep she said
stop fooling with them people and I was
like but they and then somebody else say
it and it’s like oh he gave me a
revelation no no no no you devalued the
package you you became too familiar with
the way that it
came and God said the word of the year
is simple this year but if you don’t
find it valuable you’ll fumble it
again so I’m about to spend four weeks
building value of how we start sharp and
then I’m going to release the word that
God gave me and then I literally y’all
ever seen like um um Star Trek where
they go in the warp speed some of like
Star Trek Star Wars star
okay but there there’s there’s a mode
that happens when you when it acceler
Ates
everything and I believe that’s what God
is about to do in this year but I got to
do it how God told me to do it so
everybody say start sharp start sharp um
I’m going to go ahead and start with an
analogy that really really really really
changed my life I was reading a book
called The fasting Edge by Jensen
Franklin and there was this story in it
um that really captured my attention and
um I’m going to set this story just for
everybody the mind of everybody’s
imagination I want to set it in like a
forest back in the day no
chainsaws no uh um no modern technology
there were two
Lumberjacks and um there was a young
Lumberjack that was
jacked strong buff and there was a OG
Lumberjack older hands big and
callous and the young man wanted to make
a name for himself so he came to the
older man and he said hey OG I want to
challenge you to a tree chopping contest
and the OG said Young
Buck I don’t even got energy for all of
that and the young man said come on what
you scared you think you you still got
it and the old man said pick up your
ax and they went and the goal was to
spend all day chopping down as many
trees as
possible so the young man said I’m about
to kill this OG I’m young I am fit and I
got way more energy than him it comes to
the point where it’s time to start all
the other Lumberjacks are around putting
their bets in on who’s going to win and
this young Lumberjack goes
to trees falling everywhere
and the older
gentleman is sitting
down and watching the younger
gentleman the Young Guy’s like oh my
gosh I’m about to kill him tree after
tree they Fallen he looks back again and
the Old
Gentleman sitting on the
stump they’re waiting at the end of the
day for the official count of the trees
and the young man’s chest is pumped up
sweat dropping saying hi to the
ladies cuz he knows he has this in the
bag the official count comes
back and the young man chopped about 20
trees and the older man chopped about 40
trees and the young man said what in the
world is going on there’s no way this
old man beat me cuz because every time I
looked at him he was taking a
break and the young the young man
Furious went up to the older man and
said I guess you
won and the older man looked at his a
and he said Son every time you thought I
was taking a break I was sharpening my
axe the young man used all his effort
and
energy because his axe was
dull and every time that that old man
sat down to everybody else it looked
like nothing to everybody else it looked
like fanatical Christians doing
Christian things to everybody else it
looked like y’all y’all y’all going oh
that’s what religious people do no no no
we’re taking the first 21 days of this
year and we’re putting friction on our
faith
and we’re
sharpening our
act what would happen if this year it
was the less you had to swing in the
[Applause]
natural what if this year your finances
went up because of the direction God
gave you as you were not three
jobs three instructions oh what if this
year you didn’t go through relationships
to find the right one but what if this
year in sharpening God says it it’ll be
around
May don’t accept any
counterfeits until I confirm it and
everybody find coming after you starting
February
14th but God gave you a word while you
were sharpening your
act most people are starting this year
dull and they’re going to get tired and
worn out
relationally spiritually mentally
because they will not set aside time to
just what are you saying
father God I know that was a plan for
last year but what are you saying this
year God I was successful at
that but what are you saying
today
see the hardest thing for many of you is
to stop doing what worked in another
season you think success is that it
worked success is
obedience so if God told you to do it in
one season and it worked and now he’s
telling you to
stop but many of us won’t stop long
enough to even
see and I have one question for
everybody that came to church today and
this is is very
simple it’s very and I need this is not
for your neighbor this is just for you
everybody say just for me not the hair
product but this is a word from
God and I need you to really answer this
internally on the first Sunday of this
year have you lost your
Edge I can’t answer it for
you but is there an area of your life
that you’ve lost your Edge
have you lost your age in your
speech so loose with words now
everything that comes out is
negative no faith anymore no
expectation have you have have you lost
your Edge in your
thinking every morning you wake up
you’re thinking about what could go
wrong and why why why should I even try
have you lost your age I believe believe
that God is coming to ask his
people do you want your Edge
back do you want to walk into situations
and barely have to use any of your
effort and energy but because you came
into that thing
short do you want to be the solution to
the problem or do you want to just keep
complaining about the problem and hope
somebody else becomes the
solution God is saying to every person
in this room when I thought about that
analogy I wrote this down the Trees of
trouble in your life fall faster when
you’re spiritually
sharp most of our life looks like this
let’s be
honest there’s stuff this could be a
house this could be a a boat this could
be but it’s all in a form that has to be
removed to find out its
potential God doesn’t give us house he
gives us
trees God doesn’t give us boats he gives
us
trees and God’s saying there’s some
things in your life I need you to chop
down but you are going to be too tired
to even do the work after you chop the
tree
down cuz you did not sharpen your
Edge now the only thing that I want to
say about sharpening an axe cuz most of
us don’t mess with axes unless you’re a
fire person in of in this place the only
way you sharpen an axe is through
what
friction so this year I just want to let
you know that the friction is not always
bad okay I I know I know you want to be
comfortable but before you get
sharp something has to rub
off the parts of
you that cannot no longer go into this
next
season so hello everybody I’m your
pastor and I’m about to be friction to
your faith this
year oh no no no no no no no no no no no
we going to laugh we going to cry we’re
going to shout and I’m going challenge
you cuz some of us have not taken a step
forward in our faith in a
decade and you think God is proud cuz
you
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here you think that he’s jumping up and
down he said I would rather them
actually obey what I say to
do then to get brownie points for
sitting in a chair and not
participating
okay hello I’m
friction and the reason I have to be
this is because I spiritually did not
develop until somebody challenged
me and if you want a church where you
can get three points in a poem and
nobody body’s ever going to challenge
you and ask you to do anything go up the
street but the sign of spiritual growth
is spiritual maturity and what we have
to do is grow up I have a prophetic word
for you it’s not the word of the year
but it’s the word for every year of your
life grow
up some of y’all complaining about stuff
God asked you to do every single day and
it’s been 13 years and you’re mad at the
outcome but but you are not mad when he
ask you to do the step it’s time to be
obedient I’m on another level today
church because I don’t want you to be at
this altar at the end of the year
praying for things that you can make a
decision to change
today oh God y’all see them clap I’m
going to need help from the sanctuary
because the western church has gotten so
comfortable with frictionless
faith
I want it to change but please don’t
touch
me I want it to grow but I’m not really
good with my hands in the dirt is there
a way we can artificially inseminate
this growth can we get a hydroponic
growth um chamber where everything is
bacteria
free how we going to get fruit and we do
not have any dirt on our
hands how are you okay ah and I think
the church today is playing themselves
because we want to be effective and we
have no proof of wanting to rub up
against
anybody some of us haven’t come we come
late on purpose so we don’t have to talk
to nobody
Okay the reason you got to talk to
somebody is because you’ve been hiding
all those things that God wants to
expose but you cannot get exposed by
yourself and God’s bringing people in
your life to be what
frictional the reason we read the word
of God every day is cuz it rubs up
against my flesh every day forgive them
I want to slap
them but when I read that scripture it’s
friction to my
faith pray for my enemies I’ll pray they
die come on y y’all come
on but when I do that if you are not
having your flesh against some friction
you will never become
sharp Ecclesiastes
10:10 using a dull axe requires great
strength so sharpen your
blade like the Bible is telling you at
the beginning of this year for what I
have for you to do you’re too
dull you’re too
apathetic you’re too
like you want the purpose of God in your
life you want to be in a healthy
thriving relationship I mean I guess
like you’re going to use your finances
to further the kingdom of God if I have
enough everything is he says sharpen
your blade that’s the value of wisdom it
helps you succeed have you lost your
Edge the title of my sermon today is is
really to talk to every person that has
become dull and and I want you to
understand this all of us at some point
in our life no matter how close we think
we are with God have become
dull your pastor has areas in his life
that I used to be very sharp in that the
holy spirit said
ooh that don’t even that doesn’t even
excite you me or anybody you’re you’re
so dull in that area that now I’m going
to have to reframe reshape remake you in
that
area and and I just want to encourage
everybody cuz somebody like 2024 he just
telling me I’m dull no no no no no no
dullness comes from
discouragement many people are dull
because you actually been
fighting and I’ve been chopping at
something that I haven’t seen no
breakthrough in and I’ve really been
trying to fight for my marriage and I
really been trying to fight for my
children and I really been trying to
fight for my mind and I really been
trying to fight for my Purity but
nothing has changed and so something
that once was very
sharp if this was real
sharp there’s no way I should be able to
put this axe up to my
neck there’s no way I should be a
there’s no way
if it was actually sharp it could this
be what happens when your co-workers run
into
you could this be why the church is
ineffective in
culture because at the moment we rub up
against somebody they said that
tickled I thought you were a Christian I
thought you had the word of God on the
inside of you I thought the word was
sharper than any two-edged
but the the word of God in your mouth is
don’t
when stuff comes up in your life you
reach for the meds before you
pray I’m not saying nothing wrong with
the medicine or the aspirin but you
didn’t go to the father that created the
body to say father in the name of Jesus
I’m experiencing a headache father you
know this body and I thank you that by
your stripes I am
healed you used to say it but you don’t
say it no more because that scripture in
your heart got
though but I Believe by the presence of
God at the end of this series somebody
say I’m getting my Edge
back I’m getting my Edge back somebody
say by faith I’m getting my Edge back in
my finances I’m getting my Edge back in
my mind I’m
[Applause]
getting somebody say I’m getting my Edge
back there’s nothing where than being D
has anybody opened up a fresh bag of
chips and then they was all stale and
D I mean that is one of the things that
takes me out that’s one of the things
that frustrates me who put this crusty
bag of
Doritos and then you bite into them no
crunch nobody wants to be dull but many
of many of us live in that tension every
day I’m going to tell you a secret that
will help change you and get your Edge
back what’s going to help everybody get
your Edge back what’s helped me every
time I’ve gone through something get my
Edge back is prayer and
fasting now I I know cuz some of y’all
anytime prayer and fasting comes in your
mind that something in you shuts
off cuz the one thing you love is
food you somebody said preach I am you
you love your food actually it’s has
become a stronghold in your
life and I’m not talking about weight
class or big bone I’m not talking about
anything I’m talking about
self-control I’m talking about some of
y’all God can say it but if Wendy says
it come on and now they got GrubHub and
uh what’s the other one Uber Eats and
what door look at y’all door
shut
[Applause]
D you have more faith than door Dash
than you do in the god of the
universe don’t even care if these people
put their hands on your food dirty cars
all kind of stuff as long as your
McDouble get
there she said
McDouble all I’m saying is this is an
ancient spiritual
principle that has gotten people back on
the right spiritual path
path for years before any of us were
here even our savior Jesus if anybody
could have not
fasted it could have been Jesus yet
several times right after he got
baptized the Bible says and the Holy
Spirit led him into the Wilderness for a
40-day everybody shout at me this
four-letter word fast
f as a church we’re going into 21 days
of prayer and fasting tomorrow
and and and and the reason why some
people are getting excited about it is
because these are the moments that have
changed our life These are the moments
where we were going One Direction and
God said you turn these are the moments
where God gave answers and there was a
somebody shot at me breakthrough some of
y’all need a breakthrough you don’t need
a couple of things to happen you don’t
need just a little bit more money you
need a
breakthrough and I’m telling you there
is nothing that starts to move things
like when you deny your flesh and you
get hungry after the things of God okay
what is fasting Pastor Mike fasting is
abstaining from food for Spiritual
purposes and I’m going to keep saying
this because I see the eyebrows going up
people right now getting uncomfortable
in they seat they’re like not Me Maybe
not but maybe it’s the very thing that
would change the rest of 2024 for
you the fasting Edge comes back I’m
going to give you points right now get
ready to write them
down fasting Edge this is how we get it
back it comes when food exits and God
deals with your
desire you want your fasting Edge back
let food exit for 21 days some of y’all
going to do a Daniels fast no Meats no
sweets some of y’all going to do nothing
some of y’all GNA fast till a certain
time some of y’all are going to fast the
thing that you love the most some of
y’all all the greatest fast you could do
is no ice cream
that was convicting to somebody see it
took her
out no no no I I’m just saying there’s
something that needs to be denied watch
this that you
won’t fasting celery is not an issue for
me never will
be but there are some some of us need to
fast social
media cuz the thing that you are well
I’ll talk about it in a second okay food
exit so God can deal with your desires
you want your fasting Edge back watch
this you have to have father
engagement so he can deal with your
discernment we’re not just we’re just
not not eating yeah that’s a diet and
those haven’t work for you either so
what I’m telling
you let’s be
honest they got your
money okay let’s be
honest we’re not giving up food just so
we can lose 10 pounds that we could do
that a different way you just start
walking and drinking water you’re
goingon to be fine what I’m saying is I
need to be connected to the father so
every time I would sit down with a big
spread I’m going to sit down with the
bread of
life I’m going sit down with the word of
God I’m G I’m going to devour that I’m
going to pray I’m going to have father
engagement so that he can deal with my
discernment the truth of the matter is
some of y’all pick her is off
you get options and you just pick
wrong cuz you’re picking from your
trauma you’re picking from somebody
else’s comparison measure in your
mind you’re picking not even for what
you want you picking based on what the
people around you will think is
good okay and God says can I fine-tune
your discernment this year can you just
not make plans proverb says acknowledge
God in all your ways and he will Direct
he’ll give you discernment on which path
to take you want to get the fasting Edge
back third thing you need to Forfeit
entertainment we are so entertained that
we don’t think about things that are
Eternal y’all see how quiet it is in
here this is a sign that maybe some of
the things you’ve been focusing on God’s
saying that’s why you lost your a every
Tik Tock is not going to teach you where
your purpose lies you over here about to
start a business that don’t even make no
sense cuz of a Tik Tok you saw and a
woman doing something with cookies and
now you want to open a bakery and God’s
like oh my
goodness no I’m I’m I’m telling you
what’s happen cuz everybody wants
something to work so
bad that they’ll be willing to go to
sources and just put Place do copy and
paste on the things that never have
anything to do with your
purpose and God’s saying I need you to
start forfeiting some entertainment why
cuz I need to deal with your
distractions if you don’t allow God to
sit with you and you to sit with him
long enough to sharpen you you’ll never
ever be able to see what God can do not
because he didn’t plan it it’s because
you were distracted fourth thing if you
want to get your fast and Edge back you
have to focus ET eternally cuz God wants
to deal with your
direction if you do not think fasting or
eating is a big deal I just want to say
it to you like this the original sin of
man had something to do with what people
put in their
mouth Adam and Eve the reason why we
here today and not in
aan is because they could not
deny what was presented to them and
their flesh
wanted when is the last time you told
your flesh
no if as a Believer you’re not telling
your flesh no it is controlling
you okay that’s just me Pastor Mike we
know you’re the
devil cuz the truth of the matter is
many of the things that we’re doing it’s
leading us away from God and leading us
to death and God wanted me to come tell
you there’s a way to get your Edge back
there’s a way for you to actually be so
sharp this year when stuff comes in your
way when people start hating you’ll be
able to see all oh that’s just a
distraction there’s no way that I’m
going to get off course for that you
going to be like Nehemiah you said um
the work I’m doing is too great I cannot
come off of building this wall to go
meet with somebody else that will bring
me down this is the year you get your
Edge
back and I want to be a pastor that
keeps it a 100 with you not 99 and a
half
100 somebody’s like Sally 100
100
okay fasting is not a
requirement see I I like to do real
church you can be saved and never
fast you can go to
heaven and never
fast my question is but why would you
if you go to the
hotel and they say we got the penthouse
suite for you for no extra
charge why wouldn’t you take the
upgrade fasting is not a requirement
it’s a
choice but it’s a choice that breaks the
routine in your life and draws you
closer to
God so I’m trying to tell everybody some
people are making a decision right now
they’re hearing me right now it’s like
fasting I’m done with you you I’m done
with this church I’ll see y’all when you
do something on relationships
cool but so you don’t get brokenhearted
again so so you don’t start another
thing that God has to allow to
fall why don’t you get closer to him by
doing this spiritual PR practice that
watch is a gateway through which God
releases his Supernatural power into
your life but it’s still a choice you
can hear it and go with it or you can
ignore it so watch this fasting is a
short season of sacrifice that produces
long-term
success Pastor Mike how are you telling
me that cuz all my life I have not known
what to
do everything that God has called me to
I was not prepared for didn’t have a
degree for it didn’t have a certificate
for it didn’t have nothing God was like
I want you to lead this
how come here sharpen
yourself I’ll tell
you what do that
mean when you on vacation this year
fast but Lord we’re going to Disney
World and the only thing that helps me
make it
through this
horrible
family
drudgery of walking all day is is them
Cinnabons
slushies and God said but I’m calling
you somewhere
higher I’ll give you instructions if you
come
close I’m not going to yell these
instructions I’m going whisper
them this really is not about a
corporate
fast we’re doing this together so that
everybody can get in the Rhythm but I
really believe we’re not supposed to
fast one time a year I think we’re
supposed to live a fasted life
some of us have so much that God’s doing
that I can’t walk into this without
Clarity put the year on the screen for
me put 365 days on on the screen just an
example of it like if you got something
that could show what it looks like for
it to be a whole year y’all got it yay
nay okay 21 days of prayer and fasting
there it is this is the whole year show
me what 21 days looks like in this whole
365 day Continuum I
have would you give up sacrificially
that
much to have the rest of this
blessed some of y’all can’t even see it
on the screen right now there like Come
a Little Closer all right come on put
the shot up get get get get the shot
bigger this little
bit
this little bit right
here this is what God’s
requiring for all of
that to have his mind wisdom and
blessing on it now I need everybody to
see this because you think somebody’s
trying to take something from
you and what God is trying to do is get
something to
you but if you do not see what God is
doing you will take the
first and not allow God to bless the
rest okay so this is this is how we go
second Kings chapter 6 and then we gonna
go she like I need some more Bible for
this okay second king chapter 6 one day
there was a group of pro prophets in my
mind they’re like a gang they all wore
red and they were like we’ll prophesy to
you but it’s just this is in my mind
they came to Elijah and told him as you
can see the place where we meet um it’s
too small let’s go down to the Jordan
River where there are plenty of logs and
there we can build a new place for us to
meet they wanted to build something new
they wanted to come into a new place
they wanted to come into a new territory
just like we’re coming into a new year
all right he told them go ahead please
come with us someone suggested he said
I’ll come so he went with them when they
arrived at the Jordan they begin cutting
down
trees but as one of them was cutting a
tree his ax head fell into the river oh
sir he cried it was a borrowed
axe I ain’t even pay for
this I borrowed this where did it fall
the prophet said when he showed him the
place Elijah cut a stick and threw it
into the water and at that
spot then the ax head floated to the
surface grab it Elijah said and the man
reached out and grabbed it
I’ve been talking about sharpening your
Edge but the truth is some of y’all have
lost your ax
head the reason why none of the message
up until this point has even like
resonated with you cuz you don’t even
feel that at
all you talking about sharpening
something ain’t nothing
there you talking about getting stronger
stuff it fell
off I’m here out of ritualistic I’m I’m
here cuz I want something different but
I don’t even have it no more I started
good but somewhere along the way I
dropped that thing so how do you get
your Edge back o I love this story
because it’s so simple and this is how
you going to get your Edge back the
first thing you have to do is admit you
lost your
Axe and some of y’all so prideful in
this place that you won’t even do what
this man did he
chops and he literally looks up and all
he got is
this and this is what some of y’all year
has been looking
like effort and
energy but I don’t even have what I
need to get anything
done and God said would you let
me do a miracle Mike why would this be a
miracle because iron does not
float this is an ax head this is heavier
than water so when it falls into the
Jordan it’s
lost cuz some of the things we lose our
spiritual Edge in are things that are
dark we lost it when we lost that loved
one
we we don’t even know we’re so far in
grief right
now that we can’t see and some people be
like just pick the picked it up he he
hit it he lost his Edge pick it up
that’s what religious people tell you
they act like everything’s so simple
yeah yeah just
worship you don’t think I’ve tried
that just just get you don’t think I’ve
tried that see the thing about the
Jordan River if if you’ve ever seen it
the Jordan River actually is Muddy it’s
murky you you you can’t see to the
bottom of it and so this would be a
miracle but the young man does this he
cried
out as soon as it happened boom oh
shoot I lost
it I lost my mind this past
year I lost my Purity I don’t even care
no more
I’ve lost
discipline I don’t stick to a
budget I’m talking about real things I’m
not talking about spiritual God’s saying
if you want it to be sharp again you got
to cry out and you got to tell me where
it’s at I
lost my ability even want amend the
relationship with my
family I don’t want to forgive no
more I want to be bitter
I lost
it I was Hur in the last church I don’t
want to do Church no
more cry
out this is the way that The Miracle
Worker knows where he needs to work the
miracle he needs his children to
identify be specific during this 21 days
of prayer and fasting be
specific of what you are believing God
somebody shout at me cry out cry out if
this young man would have lost his ex
head and was like oh shoot okay
well well maybe nobody will
notice
yeah I’mma
just playing the water what y’all
doing what y’all
doing
like starts entertaining people
cuz he doesn’t want to admit he lost
something I think the most spiritual
thing we can do this year is admit we
lost it I wasn’t excited about this
prayer and fasting cuz last one I quit
on day
two and so now it’s praying fasting and
it feels like another thing I’mma fail
at and I work in the food industry
I work at chick
fila come on these are real people’s
issues I’m a caterer for a living how
how I’m a how I’m a not and I
not come on let’s be
real and God said would you just do me a
favor and admit you lost the AE and this
is the other thing cuz there’s some
religious people in here that I I feel
you right now stop denying your
doll
your prayer life hasn’t been on fire in
16
months today
God is is asking us y’all know there’s
two two two rivers in Egypt right it’s
the Jordan and what
denial and some of y’all dog Christians
been in
denial okay all I’m asking you to do
today is cry out third thing do the
natural so you can experience the
miracle did y’all see what Elijah did
Elijah didn’t walk over to it and go
deep sea diving for the
axe he took a
stick something very practical and
everybody else would be like what is he
doing he did something very natural
threw the stick into the water and then
something Supernatural
happened which lets me know that natural
unlock
Supernatural somebody’s like how’s this
fast going to help anything it’s just a
natural part of it when we push away
that food when we make that declaration
when we decide to do this it’s just the
natural part of it what we believe is
that God’s going to get somewhere in the
mix of this and he’s going to do
something everybody say Supernatural
superal nobody was expecting metal to
float after a stick was thrown
in and nobody will be expecting the
Miracles that happen in your life as you
do 21 days of prayer and fasting we
going to meet here every night some of
y’all can’t come every night that’s okay
I want you to watch online put it in the
background while you meal prepping do
the different things as many of y’all
can get in here I want you to bring your
kids this was the atmosphere the fire of
God was birthing me in I wasn’t paying
attention I was just in the atmosphere I
was affected while I was coloring and
playing on the seats and my mom and dad
was praying this is the change for your
whole family husbands and wives you
can’t talk talk together right now but
you can pray and God will be speaking to
you while you walking over there and God
will be speaking to you while you crying
over there and God can make you meet in
the middle I’m talking about we going to
do the natural and God’s going to do the
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supernatural but even right now you’re
looking for it to make
sense and God said I use the foolish
things to make sure none of y’all can
take credit for this I use it to
confound the wise I’m telling you right
now if some of y’all take this
challenge this spiritual growth Journey
moment to go on a fast with us it’s
going to change everything last
thing how do you get your Edge back you
have to take action and pick your Edge
back up what do you mean Pastor Mike the
man loses his ax
head he cries out Elijah throws the
stick in there the miracle happens but
watch this Elijah doesn’t pick it up and
hand it to him
he tells him you
go obey pick it up what sense does it
make for us to get instructions from God
and then disobey them right after he
gives
them the crazy thing about it is people
get what to what I call the the the
almost end of the
fast they cry out they deny themselves
food they pray God gives an answer and
then they
disobey that’s fumbling the ball at the
one yard line
what you have to do at this point is
actually everybody say take action take
AC during this fast God’s going to tell
some of you it’s time to let them
go but God you you you you already know
we got we got best friend
tattoos should have talked to me about
[Applause]
that but God I you you’ve already made
your announcement to where you’re moving
if y’all want to bless me as I’m moov
into California uh to I got a gofund me
I I made it to
La you’re going to have to send them
people their money
back
no you’ve already accepted the
job and I’m not this is why you need to
pray and fast cuz some people are trying
to make decisions off of what I’m saying
it’s not what I’m
saying it’s what he
say he may be asking you to go to
counseling twice a week and stop buying
clothes nothing’s wrong with your screen
I’m
[Applause]
just cuz the trauma you need to
unpack is going to be better for you
than anything you could pack for a
vacation why would you get an answer
from God and then
disobey
I believe
today it’s time to get our Edge
back your family needs you to be
sharper you’ve invited snakes into your
house and you’re letting your kids
befriend them
cuz you became spiritually
dope you’re actually the answer to what
the church
needs God’s been calling you to be a
leader but because of the things the
sins the weights you’re mixed up in the
enemy has convinced
you that you couldn’t let that thing
go so the church suffers as a
whole cuz you’re spiritually
dull ior Mike why are you bringing this
message God told me this year he was
going to build this church in a way that
only he could take credit
for and I’ve just been praying I said
God where are the people where where are
the people you promised me where I
didn’t set out from North we could have
stayed in North Tulsa and then I didn’t
I didn’t trust you and believe you in
Crazy Faith so we could come here and
put on a performance every
week we have to reach the whole city
God you told us that we had to take this
thing to the
nation you said I didn’t ask for
this but in a time of me stopping and
sharpening you told me to write things
down and put them on a paper and the
spirit Bank Event Center would be
Transformation Church that was in a time
where I was stopping and fasting and
praying and asking for what was next
when I was walking around 7425 Garnett
trying to figure out should I be a
pastor you told me all where are all the
people he said Michael they’re here and
they’re coming but they’re discouraged
in their
D and during this fast I’m going to give
people
back their Cutting
Edge one of my friends told me he said
in the church if we’re not on The
Cutting Edge we’re on the judging
Edge and if you look at the landscape of
the church right now
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most people are on the judging
Edge not The Cutting Edge but I declare
by the power of the spirit of God during
this 21 days of prayer and fasting
Transformation Church I don’t know about
everybody else but somebody’s about to
receive this we’re about to be on The
Cutting Edge of business we’re going to
be on The Cutting Edge of raising
families we’re going to be on The
Cutting Edge of spiritual discernment
we’re going to be I need somebody to
agree with me we’re going to be on The
Cutting Edge of knowing what God is
saying about our city about our home
about the Nation about our world we are
going to be on The Cutting Edge because
we are close to the
Creator you don’t got to yell it to me
I’m close enough to hear a
whisper I’m getting my Edge
back would everybody just
stand
today I want to pray for everybody
that’s deciding I’m not going to live
though if that’s you as we start this 21
days of prayer and fasting and I know
everybody’s going to try to rush out
just give me five minutes cuz I want to
pray you into this next season in this
year in the Bible they would call for
the Elders of the church to pray for
people and I I just feel like I don’t
want to just go into this with a program
I want to pray over
you
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this won’t be another dull year for
us it won’t be another dull year for
you by faith I’m declaring that this is
going to be the sharpest year of your
life but now we got to make a decision
how do we get our fasted Edge back how
do we get our our our our Edge sharp we
going to
fast my last example that I didn’t know
as an example is this was sharper than I
thought it
was
um when I when I did
this I cut myself at the beginning of
the
message I’ve been wiping my hand so
y’all wouldn’t notice
uh but what I found out is God told me
he said things that look
dull still have the
ability to be
sharp and some of y’all been judging how
it
looks
and God said you still got cut in
[Music]
you your greatest days were not back in
the 90s and back in the 2000s he said
look at your neighbor and say you still
got some cut in you come on hey I feel
that thing you still got some cutting
you that your greatest message your
greatest
idea your greatest
contribution may be
hidden cuz the I didn’t recognize is
while I was doing the
example what was I
doing so what was
dull in run
through I did it just an hour ago and
nothing but what was
dull and run
through became sharp enough to leave a
mark y’all this ain’t going to take long
it’s going to take 21 days of us being
intent oh I feel this thing it’s going
to take 21 days of us saying God more of
you and less of me it’s going to take 21
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days and what look the
say is going to be
sharp hands lifted every oh I feel the
presence of God right here y’all lift y
hands father I pray for every person
under the sound of my voice
and I command the spiritual dullness
that’s been on our
life that’s been over our eyes that’s
been on our
minds I pray right now in the name of
Jesus that you are bringing us into
another level of
sharpness Speak Lord your children are
listening God over this next 21 days
when doubt tries to creep in I pray that
the
spirit of the Living God will come in
and give us hope wisdom joy and Faith to
continue on Father build endurance in
US father as we Feast on your word I
thank you that you are changing
situations that we don’t even know about
right now God I’m thanking you by the
beginning of February there is a
complete
turnaround in everybody’s
mind and a complete turnaround in our
situation father even in the things that
will not be finished we will see your
hand
God I thank you for every person that’s
making the decision to fast for the
first time who are in the building
watching online father I thank you that
this will become a spiritual discipline
that will be a cheap code to any moment
that they feel dull that father you’re
about to do something on the inside of
them that’s going to keep them sharp we
ain’t just going to start sharp we’re
going to stay
sharp and I pray that what we do in this
next 21 days as a church will bleed over
into every area of our life I pray the
best year over trans Transformation
Church I pray a year father of God’s
blessings understanding wisdom and
success I pray over their businesses
their families father God I thank you
for Unity and I pray that this church
will reach more
people For Your
Glory than ever before today we’re
making a decision we will no longer be
dull or discouraged that we’re starting
2024 Sharp
have your way in us and through Us in
Jesus name everybody say we agree age
say we expect we expect amen will
somebody give God a huge shout of Praise
In This Place oh come
on
Hallelujah
listen there are people that need
further prayer and there are people that
need the opportunity to accept Jesus but
tomorrow we will be right here at 6
o’clock
an hour of power come in your work
clothes come with your wig on or
off like this is not to impress nobody
this is to get with God and we’re going
to pray this thing through amen if
you’re in this room listen to me I know
there’s so many people saying God I need
more of you but some of you need to just
get him in your life for the first time
if you’re in this room and you want to
make Jesus Christ your lord and savior
in an atmosphere that is built for this
cuz it’s our church Vision this is who
we pray for every day people to come to
Christ if that’s you on the count of
three I just want you to shoot your hand
up easy and all we going to do is he
said I’m here right now come on one 2 3
I’m so proud of you what a way to start
this year I see you what a way what a
way come on I see you I see you glory to
God this is the way to start
shark Transformation Church we’re a
family nobody prays alone let’s pray
this prayer together everybody say
father father father I thank Youk for
sending Jesus just for me for me today
today I accept you accept as my Lord and
Savior Lord change me change renew me
Transform Me trans sharpen me I’m yours
in Jesus name amen can we thank God for
every person oh y’all come on these are
our first salvations of 2024 so proud of
you brother it’s going to be the best
year of your life we want to walk with
you there’s a QR code on the screen and
I want you to let us know the
information we got something for you we
got a Bible for you we have information
that’ll help you walk this out and we
want you to get plugged in next week I
got three more weeks before I give you
the word of the year you don’t want to
miss one week cuz they going to all
build on top of each other okay watch
this back share this with people if you
need prayer for anything some of y’all
just need prayer personal agreement to
start the year you’re facing something
I’m going to ask the altar workers to
come right now and people are going to
leave the worship team’s going to sing
another song if you’re online and you
need prayer for something I want you to
type it in the chat this going to be our
best year yet because it’s going to be
our best year spiritually everybody just
say start sharp start Shar after I pray
if you need prayer for anything I want
you to come to the altar thank you Lord
for what you did today thank you that we
started off this year in the house of
God and God I thank you that you’re
blessing your people thank you that this
will be the best week of our lives and
we’ll give you all the glory for it as
we start fasting tomorrow in Jesus name
we agree somebody say Amen go out and
live a transformed life we love you so
much thank you so much for watching this
message we pray that it encouraged you
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