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so y’all ready for part 7 of crazy faith
all right get out your notepads cuz we
bout to go in today we are starting part
7 of a series we call it help me you
gotta say it one more time because we in
an arena right now this series is tall
we’ve been talking about the irrational
things that God calls people to do when
they start actually living for him this
definition of crazy faith it means
thoughts and actions that lack reason
but we are trusting fully and what you
cannot explicitly prove and we’ve gone
through all these different types of
faith we started with crazy faith then
we went to baby faith and then we talked
about maybe faith and then and then we
we talked about wavy faith and then
pastor Jeremy last week
hazy faiths the week before that Bree
taught us about daily faith and I got
one for you today but let’s go to the
scripture furnace Matthew chapter 26
verse 40 and I’m gonna read this from
the message version cuz it captured me
it says when when he came back this is
Jesus when he was in the Garden of
Gethsemane and good cemani and II was
trying to pray before he went to the
cross and he asked his three closest
disciples Peter James and John to just
wait with him and pray for a little bit
he caught them napping and they said
when he came back to the disciples he
found them sound asleep snoring drooling
he said to Peter Peter can’t you stick
it out with me for a single hour and I
bet Peter was like Jesus are winning
Miss Lee I wouldn’t even sleep her for
real dog I was resting my eyes
that was my line as a kid I would tell
my parents obviously all the rest of my
eyes are knocked out it said stay alert
be in prayer so you don’t wander into
temptation without even knowing
that ain’t what I’m preaching today but
isn’t it crazy like when you sleep when
your eyes are closed to things that are
right in front of you you find yourself
tempted when you keep scrolling and
watching things that you’re not supposed
to but you’re dead to it and and
temptation just shows up at your front
door yeah that’s not the message but it
says you’re in danger when that happens
this is the part I want you to focus in
and says this is Jesus talking he said
you know what y’all there’s a part of
you that is eager and ready for anything
in God like there’s a part of you that
has crazy faith like God whatever you
say let’s do it let’s go let’s move
let’s let’s conquer but then look what
he says but that’s another part in you
too that’s as lazy as an old dog
sleeping by the fire today I don’t want
to talk to you about the part of you
that’s ready to go and the crazy faith
today I want to talk about the other
side of you that’s in the same body the
part of you that on Sunday will be
jumping and hyping and then on Monday
won’t do what it takes to see the
breakthrough you believed for today I
want to talk to the part of you that
that is not gonna get instagrammed and
nobody’s going to praise you for the
title of today’s message is some of
y’all guessed it lazy fat yeah yeah I’m
gonna help you because this is the part
that will keep us from the promise if we
do not submit the lazy parts of us to
the all-powerful creator and some of
y’all are sitting here like I’m passing
my daughter and me I’ll work hard I’ll
do everything though I’m the one and
yeah in some areas that you let us see
but if we’re honest we all have areas in
our life where we do not have the strong
eager faith to do it and we have lazy
faith can you think right now so you
don’t point to your neighbor do you know
an area in your life that your faith is
lazy come on lift your hands if you got
one and if somebody lift your hand back
there surely I’ll see you and you don’t
have to admit it to me today but what
you do have to is come face to face with
that so that God can correct that and
what I’m finding out so many times is
that people are eager for the promise
but they’re too lazy to pick up their
pen uh-huh
they’re eager for the healthy marriage
but they’re too lazy to go to marriage
counseling some people in this room are
eager for the relationship but they’re
too lazy to work on their reality I
wanted to be six six and fine and have a
degree you don’t even brush your teeth
in the morning you know either like you
don’t do your hair no more you wear the
same outfit every week like you won’t
even work on your reality but you want
something and so many people in this
room will come in here and get inspired
and get crazy faith but never deal with
the lazy faith the thing that’s on the
inside of you that knows God can but you
won’t do the work to make sure it does
happen and I know this won’t be popular
so I a man myself before I came out here
today but some of y’all are eager for a
successful business but you’re too lazy
to budget
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at the end of every month you vote but
you make sure you take your pictures
with your coffee from Starbucks that you
don’t even finish and you really can’t
afford but you want God to bless the
promise but you’re too lazy to Stuart
over what he’s giving you already
somebody shot at me lazy faith I’m in
somebody’s business right now cuz that
outfit you’re wearing is delaying your
promise the car that you’re driving is
delaying what God has for you
that Remy those extensions
your nails are making your promise no
you are in a place where if you don’t
come into the place where you can
evaluate where you really are God has an
amazing promise for you but if you don’t
confront your lazy faith you will stand
outside of the promise that God has for
you see this is something I want you to
write down people are willing to get a
prophetic word but they won’t do the
prophetic work everybody wants a
prophetic word but they do not want to
do the prophetic everybody say work do
you know your work is prophetic see when
you work right now on whatever God’s
placed in front of you like it’s
something already it’s speaking to your
future it’s calling your future into
alignment when I was speaking to a youth
group with no microphone and I was
sweating and sweating out of suits and
doing examples and doing all of that
stuff and 135 people in the room I spoke
this into existence with my work God
already spoke it over my life but if I
never cracked the Bible if I never took
the challenge to speak in front of
people if I never tried I would be
sitting here with a prophetic word but
no prophetic work to match it and I dare
say to you in this place today there are
too many people in the body of Christ
waiting on God and he’s waiting on you
well I just wish to hell remove me out
of this house you haven’t even raped the
leaves in 17 years
nobody nobody would even want this
because you haven’t put your hands to it
and taking care of it and God is saying
I’m a God of stewardship I watch what
you do with what I’ve already given you
and I’m gonna speak the word over you
I’m gonna tell you what I want to happen
here I’m gonna give you an impression
but you have to start doing everybody
say the work now I’m not talking about
striving cuz some of y’all just heard
that’s what I knew I was just supposed
to go out and just take over no no
you get instructions in the presence of
God not not striving but striding and
when God puts something in front of you
you kill it when God tells you to go you
go full force and what I’m seeing in
this is that the prophetic work looks
different for everybody else
for some people it’s physically doing
something forever
other people the work is not doing
something see some of y’all the work you
need to do is stay home you want to be
everywhere doing everything but God says
I need you to stay in a place where I
can speak to you and develop you into
who I want you to be but some of you the
work is going out well I’m just a
natural introvert but God’s called you
to touch the world so are you going to
allow your your preference or your
personality to rule your life are you
gonna tell your purpose that no no God
has something greater for me than what
my personality says and now my
personality has to submit to my purpose
but that’s gonna take everybody say work
uh-huh and some of us are just too lazy
for that how many people in your mind
like you see people going all out and
just be honest you say it don’t take all
that come on some of y’all think that
about me every Sunday let’s have some
eyes like sit on the stool like it don’t
take all like it don’t take all that and
for somebody else they could sit on a
stool up here and do it because
everybody’s not gifted and called to do
the same exact thing but when I get up
here I know what God’s put in me and if
I sit up here and give you 30% of what
I’m doing I did not put my prophetic
work with his prophetic word and some of
you you say well I don’t have all of
this you got a pen in a paper you
haven’t even write written the vision
down and make it plain and I’m trying to
move you from getting hype in a series
to seeing it in your house
I do not want you to thank God for what
he did for our church
the real testimony is when I come to
your address the real testimony is when
we look at your family life y’all better
hear me the real testimony is when your
marriage has been changed by not faith
that we just talked about but faith that
people can see do you know that you’re
the only Bible some people will read
they’re waiting for it to come alive in
the book of Turkey so I know we read
John and Luke and but they want the they
want to see it in the book of Travis in
the book of Larnell and the book of Bob
that’s where they’re gonna find out that
Jesus is real so we have to do the work
everybody said work that God has called
us to do and that’s why I’m coming to
you today and I’m gonna confront your
lazy faith forgive me right now for
coming at you this hard on this first
service that I’m preaching but somebody
needs to be shaken out of complacency
and somebody else do you be shaken out
of the lethargic way that they’ve been
living look at what look look what this
quote says it said hard work pays off in
the future but laziness pays off now
some of us are living in the fruit of
our laziness and so and so we have to
confront this notion that we want the
promise without the process but God says
it’s time for you to embrace the process
and that means you’re gonna have to let
go of lazy just say that let go of lazy
yeah I’m gonna be real practical today
let go of lazy some of us will die
because of the way we eat can I be
honest with you doing funerals for
people who are obese is is one of the
quickest ways to snuff out the purpose
and praying over people’s lives because
so many people die with purpose y’all
know the richest place is the graveyard
all the ideas all of the things that
we’ve never heard of before it’s in the
grave right now
because people were too lazy in their
everyday life to become who God called
them he called you to be it he called
you to do it he called you for more
you’re too lazy to go to a counselor you
have issues in trauma from your
childhood you don’t know how to
communicate and you 58 years old and you
had kids but you still when you get
angry you go into rage but you’re too
lazy to confront the issue that happened
to you or wouldn’t end when you were 10
remember we say stuff like this I don’t
take all that and y’all know some people
that shutting me off right now cuz I’m
tap dancing on your business
I’m in your house right now but we can
never get the prophetic promise and the
prophetic word if we don’t do the
prophetic work okay okay okay I think
y’all got this now so today I’m gonna
show you a group of people who didn’t
have lazy faith and they didn’t let
nothing stop them from believing that
God could do a miracle and I hope that
you’re gonna see the type of lives that
God’s called transformation Church and
transformation nation to live right now
I want you to go to Luke chapter 5 verse
17 because the opposite of lazy faith is
active faith everybody say active faith
it’s faith that’ll move when God says
move it’s faith that will figure it out
it’s faith that we’ll go and do what
God’s called him to do and we run into
these guys and the title of it is jesus
healed a paralyzed man it says one day
while Jesus was teaching some Pharisees
and teachers of the religious law were
sitting nearby and the Lord’s healing
power was strongly with Jesus so Jesus
was killing all types of people verse 18
some men carrying a paralyzed man on a
sleeping man they came and they tried to
take him inside to Jesus now I want you
to put this picture in your head right
now is that Jesus is healing everybody
you got a call boom oh is that a hand
wizard it’s your sinuses clogged up like
he just healing everybody so words start
spreading and these guys we don’t know
exactly who they are at this moment but
they think about their friend and they
say yo Jesus is healing people
why don’t we go get your own and the
other friend was like I want to go get
your own right now but this may be
drones only opportunity to come out of
this paralyzed position that he’s in and
this is what lazy faith would have done
lazy faith won’t carry what seems
insignificant to Christ see when you’re
lazy you’re in a situation where Christ
is doing something
and you’d be like yeah that don’t matter
my broken situation doesn’t matter to
God my my family issue doesn’t matter to
God what’s happening at my job doesn’t
matter to God but these dudes had active
faith they had crazy faith lazy faith
would say it doesn’t matter
but these dudes said we don’t carry our
friend to go see Jesus now I want you to
get the picture of this they went to
where he was what a blow me wrong
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we heard Jesus is healing people don’t
move he was paralyzed don’t move we bout
to take you to Jesus and they had to use
their own strength their own faith this
is what crazy face is to actually pick
up and carry you to a place where we
believe you don’t even believe it yet he
didn’t ask to be taken there
it was the faith of these guys who said
we know God’s in the healing business so
we have the faith some of y’all are
gonna have the faith to speak life over
family members safe to speak allall
y’all don’t hear me over businesses they
not even asking for it but lazy faith
would have left them there but what
crazy faith does is it says hold on
we’re gonna carry you and these dudes
carry him to Jesus why would you carry
something insignificant to Jesus it’s
because he cares and I don’t know who
this is for but I need to minister to
somebody right now some of you have been
in this room and you have not been
taking the things you really need to
take to Jesus to him because you don’t
think he cares you think that it’s
that’s not enough to bother God with
that but look what the Bible says in
first Peter 5:7 it says cast all your
cares upon him why because he cares for
you and today I don’t know what you’ve
been carrying in faith but some of you
have been carrying it to friends some of
you have been carrying it to a bottle
some of you have been carrying it to an
addiction and Jesus is sitting in the
house and he’s saying hey I actually
care about the thing that’s paralyzed in
your life actually that thing that’s
deformed in your life I care about it
could you bring it to me so the faith of
these friends they realize that lazy
faith won’t carry what seems
insignificant to Christ but crazy faith
casts all cares and today somebody needs
to cast your cares before you leave this
place today you’re gonna throw something
on this altar or throw something out to
God that you’re gonna say no longer will
I carry this weight alone I’m casting
this to Jesus now look at verse 19
because something strange happens they
carried this pair of my bloods man to
Jesus but they tried to take him inside
to Jesus because in my mind that’s what
happens like oh they was probably
gassing him up bro this is your last day
crippled bro bro you about to be able to
who are you going to the league look how
long you are they was probably gassing
him up on the way to Jesus because of
the miracles they heard and they said
bro we gonna take you right in we’re
gonna lay you at his feet
he’s gonna be the Lord
I’m telling you bro just hold on it’s
coming but look what happened in verse
19 but they couldn’t reach him because
of the crowd what happens when you have
faith enough to get to a place and then
the plans don’t work out like you think
it was supposed to what happens when God
told you to move to Tulsa but then the
job didn’t come through what happens
when when you knew you were supposed to
marry the person and they all started
arguing on the honeymoon is like I made
the wrong decision like see let me tell
you what lazy faith will do lazy faith
thinks in a tilt is adequate like most
of us we would have carried that man all
the way there seen the crowd in me like
well we tried
right the business well they deny me for
the loan try to have a baby and they
told me I’d be infertile well I tried
and what happens is we think that an
attempt is adequate and we allow the
crowd that surrounds our promise to
deter us from what God has called us to
I’m preaching in this place most turn
around at the sign of turmoil you think
that’s a sign from God but turmoil
honestly is one of those things that God
uses to transform you turmoil the crowd
the obstacle to get to what God has
called you too many times it’s a test of
your faith
maybe the crowd was curated maybe God
designed that struggle for you maybe the
setback has significance maybe the
obstacle is an opportunity I don’t know
who I’m talking to in this building
today and you sitting here looking at me
like I’m a concert performer but
somebody needs to realize in this room
that me of the obstacles that you are
going through right now are proof that
you’re supposed to be there you thought
them giving you a demotion was proof
that you were supposed to leave but this
is just proof that God’s Word is gonna
come to pass in my life if you believe
it give God a shout of praise in this
world
see we’re in a season of crazy faith as
a church and if the crowd or the
obstacle would have been my sign to give
up on this place we wouldn’t be sitting
here today when they told us we’re not
accepting any offers on the spirit bank
event center what did we tell them we’ll
check back every week some of y’all have
stopped because you tried once I tried
to do the business I tried to forgive
them I tried to mend that relationship
I tried church and God sings one attempt
is not enough when you know the promises
on the other side like if you knew
everything you needed was on the other
side of a locked door what would you do
I mean if your whole year’s salary was
on the other side of a door and if you
just got in it was yours
some of y’all wouldn’t y’all put your
head through the door you you’d be
throwing kids through windows if she
said yeah who are her kids but that’s
why we need to refer back to James
chapter one verse three says dear
brothers and sisters when troubles of
any kind come your way consider it an
opportunity for great joy like when
these dudes walked up and the crowd was
there I know there was a couple people
with lazy faith because there was like
well but there was at least one person
that was like ah soon iiiiii and they
did not see the crowd as the detour they
just saw it as a platform for God’s
power to be seen they saw it that God’s
gonna have to do something real crazy
now – cause y’all better hear me he
gonna have to go over and beyond but
y’all know we serve the God that does
exceedingly abundantly y’all better help
me above all we can ask
think or even a match so so so lazy
faith thinks an attempt is adequate but
let me tell you what crazy faith thing’s
crazy face says I won’t quit
some of y’all need to get that attitude
in your heart right now you tried the
business before but I’m not gonna quit I
tried to get into that school once
before but I’m not gonna quit somebody
say I won’t quit some of y’all right now
have divorce papers ready for your
marriage I feel this so strongly right
now but the reason y’all are getting a
divorce is because neither of you
actually tried it’s been lazy faith
you’ve been praying prayers I hear this
by the spirit you’ve been praying
prayers God fixed them but today in this
message I believe that somebody’s
hearing this message and they’re going
to realize that it’s not in God fixing
them it’s in you doing the work for God
to fix you and there’s gonna be
something I need somebody to just
believe with me right now because God
wants marriages to work I believe that
relationships are being restored in this
mob feel the presence of God in this
lake I believe that people are gonna go
back and say we gotta give this a real
effort now we’re not gonna walk in lazy
faith one attempt is not okay we won’t
quit somebody say I won’t quit I feel
the presence of God in this place crazy
faith won’t quit
and so these dudes get here there’s a
crowd and the crowds telling them to
quit but look what happens in verse 19
so they went up to the roof and took off
some tiles hold up
I got tons of questions they walk up to
the scene y’all fool we can’t get in you
sure that’s my cousin Reggie right there
right guy y’all know how y’all do if
y’all see a family member or a friend
anywhere we can’t get in cuckoo cuckoo
cuckoo Romi so we bout to do some a
little different
are you afraid of heights cuz we bout to
go on the roof and take some tiles off
for somebody else’s house
lazy faith write this down won’t rip off
the roof
lazy faith says the doctors gave me a
report and I guess you know it gave me
three years to live for if I do these
things and that’s the only way it can
happen she ripped the roof off faith
knows that what everybody else think is
the only way it can happen that there’s
always another way somebody say another
way I feel this thing
these dudes who looked at the door in
the windows and said ain’t no way we can
get in there but they said I have to rip
the roof off anointing right now we go
figure out a way to get on top of this
roof where nobody else is see there
enough see there comes a faith that you
might be the first one to step out and
do something there maybe out safe that
they tell you you should stay in a
converted grocery store but God called
you to be the first to go into an arena
you need to know that there was nobody
else on the roof but they had the faith
to everybody say rip the roof off in
your life what have you considered there
is no way and God’s saying there’s still
the roof I mean no way me and my dad’s
relationship will be healed
there’s still the roof that means I
would have to apologize
that means that means I would have to
drive there because I know he ain’t
coming here and he said you said there
was no way but there’s still the C lazy
faith some of y’all know right there in
it right now like you’re you’re lazy
faith is being exposed right now cuz
you’re thinking in your situation you
say it shouldn’t take all that but there
is no way that this man is going to be
healed unless they have the faith to do
something that has not been done and
this is why I’m asking everybody to
reevaluate your why cuz your why has to
be worth it when they were about to give
up they kept looking at their paralyzed
friends and say this may be his own
opportunity so i’ma rip the roof off for
him and some of you you’ve had the wrong
why you work for money that’s the wrong
why and that’s why when God asks you to
step out in faith you can’t do it
because you’re wise not strong enough to
believe so every time you look at it you
just go for the better promotion and all
this and God said I wanted you to be a
business owner but you want to work for
people all your life because you don’t
have the faith to trust me and so we’ll
keep it right here and you say well God
why am I so broke all the time cuz you
still have not gone to the roof and
today I want you to know as we sit in
this arena we didn’t we didn’t want this
arena so that we could just have a big
church because we knew transformation
church was a route rip rip the roof type
of church that we needed a place big
enough for people to come and families
to come to be able to be transformed in
Christ that’s why today I take time to
thank and honor every person who gives a
transformation Church because when you
give here you’re helping lift the roof
off for somebody else you don’t hear me
every volunteer out in the parking lot
and out in the children’s ministry and
out in there they’re ripping the roof
off for generations to be changed
everybody who comes to prayer on Monday
night and you pray over all these seats
you are making a way forego rude roof to
be ripped off of people’s lives
and this is where God wants all of us to
be see see let me help you
lazy faith won’t rip the roof off but
crazy face says hand me the hammer like
that’s that’s that’s the season I’m in
right now they told me there’s no way we
can do it hand me to him God’s gonna
give me some type of crazy instruction
that nobody else will do but I will do I
got anybody in here who’s tired of being
on the ground when your miracles so
close to you now I need you to hear me
right now and Andy and something’s
rising up on the inside of you the faith
that’ll rip the roof off somebody say
rip the roof I don’t know I feel the
Spirit of Thor coming over me in the
name of somebody about to hand me a
hammer put that picture on the screen
this is what I feel like in my spirit
right now I need everybody to see the
Avatar of what I feel like that’s what I
feel like right now hand me the hammer
but is there about 500 people that have
crazy faith to believe that there’s
another way that God can do this he’s
gonna rip the roof off for your
situation with the roof off of every
limitation he’s gonna rip the roof oh I
don’t know but that’s how I feel right
now y’all feel me
I feel that so so look what happens so
they they start taking tiles off and
ripping the roof off now I need you to
realize this wasn’t their house
so they didn’t get permission to rip the
roof off so they knew it was going to
cost them at the moment they started
believing in that type of faith they
were willing to pay the price of what it
took to rip the roof off and build their
friend down they did not have lazy faith
they were willing to work and this is
the thing I want you to see cuz there’s
a lot of the Bible don’t say so what I’m
asking everybody to do is read your
Bible all the time cuz your faith grows
by hearing the Word of God but but what
ends up having is I want you to also
read what the Bible don’t say I’m gonna
teach you how to do this right now
it said then they lowered the sick man
next verse then they lowered the sick
man on his mat down into the crowd right
in front of Jesus there is so much stuff
there that we did not talk about right
how did they get through the crowd where
did they find the ladder put the house
home that Jesus was in cuz they need to
see this they don’t they don’t
understand this right now to me in my
Holy imagination this is what it looked
or y’all mad cuz it’s a trap house but
in my mind this is where Jesus would
hang out in places where nobody else
wanted him to be I thought he came for
those who were sick and hurt y’all some
fake religious Christian but if Jesus
was here he would be holding revivals in
the trap house somebody’s like Sally the
trap house was like a mousetrap
but I imagine this is the scene and they
bring they paralyze friend up to him and
they like hey bro we gonna go on the
roof
okay now that’s not gonna work so we got
to find a way to get up there
we gotta climb the ladder with a
paralyzed man on a map
some of y’all can’t climb stairs which
old newborn baby this a full-grown man
on a mat and I just want you to see all
the things we didn’t talk about Dennis
said they lowered him they lowered him
in front of chief they didn’t come there
with a rope they didn’t come prepared to
create a pulley system to lower their
friend they might have took off their
robes and tied them together and made
some Boy Scout like we don’t know what
they did to be able to do it but they
lowered him I’m glad I wasn’t in the
group because if I was in the goober
like just drop him he already paralyzed
and what’s the worst that can happen we
believe him for his healing Jesus that
food would have just he would have fell
out in front of Jesus with like my bad
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you know he was heavy getting up that
ladder up and like beautiful like it so
healing thank God I wasn’t in this story
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Lord forgive me but I want you to I want
you to see I want you to see how much
stuff we didn’t talk about it said they
lowered him and so that means they had
to work together and communicate and
then look at the last detail it says
they lured him right in front of Jesus
that means they didn’t just start
hammering anywhere in the room
they didn’t just start making decisions
I’m about to do it they investigated
where’s Jesus it’s Jesus in this
relationship
it’s Jesus in this child there ah they
investigate it do I sense Jesus do I
feel Jesus do I see Jesus and they said
this is the spot where Jesus is so we’re
gonna rip the roof off right here hand
me the hammer and they lowered him right
in front of Jesus this is what I want to
help somebody know who has lazy faith
lazy faith won’t figure it out we don’t
talk about the mystery of God enough in
church we want the certainty of God we
want God to give us after the steps of a
righteous man on order give me the
orders Lord and I will not move until I
get an order aye aye sir but these dudes
had faith enough to be able to work and
figure out the in-between and some of
you are sitting in this room so lazy
because you’re saying well God hasn’t
told me anything well God and this is
the moment where you have to figure it
out they don’t mention what they did to
get up there it could have been ugly it
could have been nem one dude holding on
top of each other and somebody on his
hair
them creating a pulley system to get
everybody up and so it could have took
it could have took them hours we read it
like it just happened in a moment we
read it like it was like and then they
just hopped up on the roof but the fact
is they got to the place that they
needed to be to rip off the roof and
figured out how to get their friend
right in front of Jesus
lazy faith won’t figure it out but crazy
faith can’t settle some of you there’s a
righteous like frustration that God is
bringing in you for situations and
things that are going in your life like
this ain’t it
this can’t be it and what that is is
your crazy face starting to rise up and
say I can’t settle somebody say I can’t
settle and some of you have been so lazy
that said hey this is I guess this is
what God has for me and there’s
something in you that’s starting to get
a fire as we go through the series and
say I can’t settle somebody one more
person say I can’t settle these men had
crazy faith but they had the same
opportunity to have lazy faith obstacle
after obstacle trial after trial not
having all the directions and all the
instructions but they had to figure it
out and then one last thing happened
that mess me up
because because you need to know that
God wants to work in you and give you
the power to do what he’s called you to
do look at Philippians chapter 2 verse
13 probably my favorite scripture and
all the Bible says for God is working in
you giving you both the desire another
translation says the wheel and the power
to do what pleases him
I believe those guys had inspiration
from God to figure out how to get on the
roof and nobody else around all the
crowds they didn’t have the wisdom but
these dudes said God you see our broken
paralyzed distraught situation our why
is bigger than what we feel right now so
we’re gonna have crazy faith to believe
that you can do something and they
moving in it and then verse 20 the
craziest thing happens look at it says
Jesus he probably got some like dust
particles like falling on his head and
he was trying to like play it off like
oh my god but God me I say like what are
y’all look what he says singing there
what does that word whose faith who are
they verse 18 gives us the slightest
clue to who they are some men they have
no names they have no titles they aren’t
the pastor of the church they aren’t the
CEO of the company Jesus seeing their
faith it made him active see active
faith makes Jesus he said now hold up
not knowing the ladder out there y’all
just lowered this man right here in
front of me like that y’all go up give
him on this is a good talk but y’all
y’all faith interrupted me what happens
when you have a faith that interrupts
what God was already doing and makes him
say like I could go past this but I
gotta pay attention to this type of
faith and they had no names and it said
some men ah
he said because of your faith their
faith turned Jesus attention to the
young man hey nice a young man hey all
your sins they’re forgiven he say no
sinner’s prayer he didn’t make him
confess what he did he said in the
atmosphere of faith I can take stuff
that looks completely paralysed and
bring it into a brand new place of
transformation now
get it I want you to hear me I want you
to say this and please we’re only gonna
be in here just a few more minutes
please don’t distract people by leaving
in this moment okay lazy faith wants
credit for the effort they put out the
way you know somebody’s lazy and their
efforts is they want to make sure they
get credit for it like if it was some of
us we’d be like hey y’all putting a
story in the Bible right like I put my
name in there my name is gyrus Jerome
Jenkins I need to be right there next to
Paul Samuel even barn if it’s like
getting me in the book the Bible says
some men because lazy faith gets once
credit for their effort but let me tell
you about crazy faith crazy faith gets
credit in eternity like the things God’s
gonna call you to do won’t be seen on
this side of heaven and that’s why
Colossians 3:23 says whatever you do
work everybody say work work at it with
your whole heart as working for the Lord
not for human masters since you know
that you will receive an inheritance
from the Lord as a reward it is the Lord
Christ you are serving so many people in
this room right now like those men who
have an opportunity today tomorrow to
either lean into crazy faith or lazy
thing and today those are the two
nature’s that are fighting you every day
I remember this poem that really
impacted me and says two nature’s beat
within my chest one is foul and one is
blessed when I love and when I hate the
one I feed will dominate
and I’m asking you the Bible clearly
tells us we all have a side of us that’s
eager to do what God’s called us to do
and then we had that other side of us
that’s lazy as an old dog sitting by
fire and my question is what are you
gonna feed this week how are you gonna
feed your faith are you gonna give
yourself an excuse not to read your word
or put your marriage first or spend time
with your kids or finish the assignment
keep to the word that you told people
you were going to do are you gonna say
you know what I got I got to step over
into this crazy I gotta have that rip
the roof off if I gotta have that faith
that looks at crowds and obstacles and
say God’s still calling me past this
point right here well pastor how do we
do that
we know faith comes by hearing and
hearing what the Word of God this whole
series is taking you back to the thing
that will build your faith and that’s
the Word of God next week I’m gonna
finish this story it’s gonna be lazy
faith part 2 and you do not want to miss
this cuz the next part of this is about
to take a good wig off of you but today
I want to pause right here and I want us
to close our eyes right in this place
right now come on close your eyes take a
moment for yourself and I want you to
figure out I want you to choose right
now how you gonna feed your faith I know
the doctor was report was bad I know
this was a bad week for your marriage I
know this was a frustrating time with
your children I I know the report came
back and it didn’t seem good but in this
place I want to pray for you I want to
pray that God would activate you to have
the faith to not be detoured by the
crowd to pick up the broken things and
bring them to him to find a way to
figure out what’s not working and get to
the roof so you can whip it on I’m I’m
praying that you’d have the humility
to not want credit for everything that
God’s gonna do right now but know that
some things he’s gonna ask you to do and
you’re not gonna see it until you get in
his presence face-to-face father I thank
you for this church if you know that you
need to switch over from lazy faith to
crazy faith in an area of your life
would you please just lift your hands
all over this room online right now I
want you to lift your hands I’m not to
pray for you Father you see your
children and I thank you that right now
in this place in your presence father
that you are moving us from a place that
has been unwilling to use our energy and
effort and you’re moving us into a place
that will work faith without works is
dead is what James tells us father and
today we’re asking you to move us and
give us the grace to do the work the
prophetic work that will bring forth the
prophetic word thank you that every
marriage and every family and every
business and every heart and every mind
would not be stuck in lazy for me but
today I command under the power of God
that we would move into crazy faith we
break every chain of generational habits
that have made us be the way that we are
and we step into the new creation that
you called us to be in Christ Jesus this
week we will hear the word and it will
transform us from the inside out we
praise you we thank you in Jesus name we
agree hey listen right there stay in
that same posture there’s people in here
who have never accepted Jesus Christ as
their personal Lord and Savior and I
need everybody to just stay still for
one second because this is why our
church exists if you’re in this room and
you’ve never accepted Jesus Christ as
your personal Lord and Savior today I’m
gonna give you that opportunity it’s the
thing that took me from a liar a cheater
somebody who was addicted to pornography
and it did not make me a perfect man but
it made me a progressing man today I
want to give you the chance to walk in
crazy faith well I’ve never seen God I
don’t know if he’s real you haven’t seen
wind or Wi-Fi either but you know it’s
real and today in this place the
presence of God is here to heal you if
you’re in this room we’re about to pray
and you’re saying custom Ike
I want to make Jesus Christ my personal
Lord and Savior don’t worry about your
friend your neighbor your girlfriend
anybody who came with today tomorrow is
not promised today is the day of
salvation if you’re in this room or
watching online and you’re saying this
this is for me I want to step into crazy
faith this is gonna be my rift the roof
off faith my friend invited me and
invited me and invited me and now I’m in
the presence of God and God saying
here’s your moment to get healed here’s
your moment to be transformed if that’s
you on the count of three I just want
you to lift your hands and you’re saying
yeah I wanna I want to do that Pastor
Mike I’m gonna give my life to Christ
I’m gonna rededicate my life to Christ
there’s hands going up already one two
three come on there’s hands all over
this building come on I see you I see
you I see I see okay you can put your
hands down with everybody just bow your
head and close your eyes right now
because we’re family and transformation
church we’re a big family a
transformation church but nobody prays
alone and just repeat this prayer after
me together say father thank you for
sending Jesus to rip the roof off for me
today I give you my life
change me transform me I’m yours I
believe you lived and you died just for
me and today I give you my life in Jesus
name Amen