Oh My Goodness // Receipts: The Proof Is In The Fruit (Part 3) // Michael Todd

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When we hear the word “goodness,” we often try to define it by our own standards. However, in Greek, goodness means “to do good,” and it’s more than just an action—it’s an attitude and an attribute that reflects God’s nature. Only God can set the true standard of goodness because He is good. In Week 3 of the Receipts Sermon Series, Pastor Mike teaches that our goodness is the evidence of a relationship with God through the Holy Spirit. We hope this message inspires you to examine your motives and live out God’s goodness in all you do! Scripture References: Galatians 5:22-23 ESV Genesis 1:3-4 NLT Psalms 145:3 KJV Exodus 33:18-20 NLT Matthew 25:21 NLT Romans 7:15-25 NIV Galatians 6:10 KJV Psalms 23:6 KJV Join Transformation Church for our 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 & based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. GIVE To support this ministry & help us continue to reach people all around the world: https://transformchurch.us/give/ STAY CONNECTED

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hi my name is Amberly and I have the

privilege of serving as one of our

executive pastors here at Transformation

Church we just want to say thank you so

much for tuning in from wherever you are

watching from and if you haven’t already

be sure to like And subscribe we believe

that God has a word for you so let’s

jump into this amazing

message I’m about to get into the

message cuz I think it’s going to um in

heighten our revelation of how good God

is um but before I get into the message

today

I I want to just say thank you again for

being a part of something that God is

doing um every morning that we get up we

have choices to

make and uh the fact that you choose to

come worship at this place with this

crazy bunch of people um that are

unashamed about the message of Jesus

Christ and no matter what anybody writes

or blogs or makes YouTube videos about

there’s only one name to to be praised

at this church and his name is Jesus

somebody shout his name real quick say

Jesus um and and the fact that thousands

of you would come and watch and be a

part of this move of God I just came to

declare that the best days of this

church are in front of us and I don’t

need 45,000 people to agree with me I

just need 50 strong people I said that

the best days of this church the impact

we’re going make in this city the

ripples we going to see around the world

I just need 50 people some of y’all too

boo you ain’t never been a part of a

move of God but I need 50 people to

believe that the rest of this year is

going to be the best of this year that

2025 we’re coming into something brand

new that God is about to take us from

glory to glory and strength from

strength

yeah sometimes you got to look at Giants

and speak to them y’all scary but David

said who is this uncircumcised

Philistine that comes against okay I’m

sorry I’m tired of weak

Christians that look at adversity as an

opportunity to back up I look at

adversity as an opportunity to show you

how big my God

is oh the god that we serve is bigger

than the economy the god that we serve

is bigger than the election the y’all

don’t hear me the god God we serve is

bigger than cancer bigger than War

bigger than

perversion somebody shout at me bigger

y’all don’t hear

me I didn’t come to play

today and and the reason I’m saying this

to you right now is because some of your

faith needs to be

shaken you’re looking at stuff thinking

that God is weaker than your

situation and the truth is is somebody

shout at me he’s

bigger

yeah Charles I just had to declare some

things I did this before but I felt

inclined this morning to do it again

when I was at 1519 I stood when there

was empty seats everywhere and I told

everybody I said y’all better get ready

I said record this cuz we going to come

back and I feel the unction to do it

again right now this is the smallest

this church is ever going to be y’all

don’t hear

you better get ready cuz there’s going

to be multiple Services coming in here

people you don’t like is going to be

sitting on the row with you cuz the holy

spirit is about to pour out of this

place through the fruit that is being

worked in our lives and they’re going to

be like where can I find what you got

I’m telling you right now if you don’t

like the parking situation now you might

want to find somewhere else because

they’re coming from the north the South

the East y’all better help me and the

West we call them for the drunks the

Liars the addicted the broken the

hurting the frustrated the angry the

upset y’all don’t hear me if you thought

this was a country club for believers

who want to keep their hands dirty or

Hands Clean you might want to roll cuz

this place will represent God to the

lost in F for transformation in Christ

and if you’re with me make some noise to

our God

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I just had to let you know in case you

forgot we was about it about it when

nobody was

coming we were sacrificing in canvas and

streets and I believe that God is about

to raise up a Remnant in this house let

me prophetically say that it will

irritate you to not be in the game from

this Sunday

on hear what I just said to

you being a part of this God brought you

here in this moment for the great

Revival that’s about to come out of this

church oh

God and I’m telling you right

now consuming is going to become agile

meditating if all you do is consume and

you’re not actually putting anything out

it’s going to become the the Lord is not

going to let what’s in you be

comfortable in just

consuming so some of y’all need to go to

family dinner tonight cuz this was your

last Sunday to be sitting

down what are you saying Pastor Mike God

has need of your gift he has need of

your smile he has need of your expertise

well I give 40 hours to that job every

week but I’m trying to call you into

purpose is what God said to you and he’s

trying to use us beyond what we’ve been

used

before sometimes I think it was prophet

Kendrick that said sometimes you just

got to pop

out and today I needed to pop out and

let you know what type of church this is

we not in the we we not tuck back in

this colda sack that God gave us the

entire complex to be

quiet he didn’t give us a piece of this

city so that we could sit here and do

church he wanted us to rescue people who

are going to hell that are lost that are

broken that are religious and cannot

find

him and I heard the Holy Spirit say to

me this morning I have need of

you somebody say God has need of

me say it one more time God has need of

me God has of

me people see this church and they think

that we don’t need

anything many people don’t give many

people won’t serve many people won’t do

things many people won’t invite cuz if I

invite then that mean my parking spot

may be gone God has need of

you he is

asking will you be the one to go tell

him the table is

ready I prepared a meal and some were

too busy with their cars and their

vehicles and some were busy with

youtubing and blogging and gaming and

others were busy with makeup and

tutorials and becoming an entrepreneur

but the meal is

ready so go out to the highways and

byways y’all don’t know the Bible go out

to the places where they don’t want

people to come go to the gyms in the

school come on

somebody the police officer that gave

you a ticket give him an invite do you

hear what I’m y’all don’t hear me

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somebody shout at me represent represent

no shout at me represent represent I’m

going have to do a whole a whole culture

series cuz some people think that we

just got here by shouting Hallelujah

loud but we were called here to

represent represent and represent God

same

word we got to show God differently give

God differently and Pro promote him

differently how do we promote him with

the fruit of our

lives so that’s why we’re in this series

I just had to pop out today and this is

not a part but I felt the constricting

nature of people’s

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opinions and today I just wanted to flex

and tell you we going to do everything

God called us to do if you believe it

will you give him a shout of Praise In

This

House I need y’all to help me I don’t

need everybody but I need you to help

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me some of y’all don’t know the

spiritual warfare it is to stand up here

every

Sunday can I be can I be

honest there is a tax coming at me from

Friday

night until when I pray on the side of

this stage

because if the enemy could take

away what God wants to do through this

house there is a group of people that

are left

uncovered because we’re out of

position and so what I just did there

for everybody was like is he always this

intense no it’s usually a welcome when I

come in okay welcome to Transformation

Church and I still feel that in my soul

but I hate the

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devil and I will not allow what God C

what I know he’s called us to do yes be

threatened because of

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intimidation here I’m trying to teach

you how to contend For What God Says is

yours there is no place in the Bible

when he said I’m giving you a land

flowing with milk and honey there were a

whole generation of people that did not

enter the promised land cuz they didn’t

want to fight for what God told them was

already

theirs so an entire generation of people

except Joshua and

Caleb they literally forfeited their

promise cuz they thought it was too much

to actually go contend when God said I’m

giving it to

you and God told us that we would have

an impact in this city an impact in

this y’all going to have to give me five

extra minutes okay for my message I I

got to do sometimes you just got to like

this is me being an unders sheeper and

see the Sheep right here and I see sheep

scattering I see more sheep at the mall

and at Target and I see people broken

and I see people that were once plugged

into the God and serving in the house

and in community and I see the enemy

trying to pick people off in

isolation and today I’m coming with as a

shepherd and I’m asking everybody get in

the

fold I don’t know how else to say this

stay with the other sheep I don’t know

how else to say this don’t wander off

trying to do your own thing so that the

enemy can pick you off in isolation this

is if you’re in transformation Nation

stay plugged in watch the messages I

understand you got to work but be here

give serve do whatever I’m telling you

right now the body of Christ is about to

get stronger than

ever if I was telling you I was going to

give you a million dollars somebody be

shouting right now but if I say God’s

bride the body of Christ is going to get

stronger some

he’s not coming back till we actually do

this

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thing all

[Applause]

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right I love us too much to allow us to

come in here any Sunday and play

church either we going to live this word

out or we’re

not either we’re going to love people or

we’re not either we’re going to

represent God when people are looking

and when they’re not or we’re just not

going to do this whole thing and today I

just I want to call us all as somebody

say

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higher there’s a maturing happening this

last quarter of the year did you hear

what I just said some of the fruit that

has not grown in your life for a long

time is about to grow a whole

bunch and I’m great I’m grateful for

what we’re about to see happen in this

place amen all right well

today I got a message but I got to make

an announcement real quick this will be

a good transition just play the video

and then that’ll let me be able to get

into the message week three let’s go

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now I told you we had more music on the

way our brand new album undefeated

Champion drops November

15th okay now now the reason why people

are excited and they’re like like

screaming and stuff is cuz a few people

in here have heard a little bit of where

we’re

going um

and um I’m telling y’all right now part

of the way that we’re going after a

generation is we’re going to get into

their Spirits through

music and um I need Transformation

Church transformation Nation to support

this um November 15th is actually my

birthday like my actual birthday so

that’s cool how that worked out and it

will be the completion of me obeying God

to release these four albums and I’m

just going to lay out in the spirit and

be done be like God I did it um so so I

want to tell you a couple things the

album will be available November 15th

November 17 transformation Nation you

want a good Sunday to come in It’s Album

Sunday on November

17th and you never know who might pop

out okay um and this is what this is

what I want to do and I need everybody

to listen to me I want to release the

single undefeated champion before the

album comes

out y’all you need this for your workout

you need this to pump you up to get them

kids up in the morning you need this to

brush your teeth you need it to

do it’s one of them it’s going it’s

going to make God bigger and make you

feel energy to be able to do what God’s

called you to do I want to release it

before the album comes out the people

that are trying to tell us the things

said that if we don’t have a certain

number of people that pre-order the

album we probably shouldn’t do it I said

you don’t know Transformation Church and

you don’t know transformation Nation we

done proved it three albums in a row

watch this so if we get 2,000 pre-orders

it’s 599 if we get 2,000 and there’s

thousands tens of thousands of people

watching right now and in this room we

can release it watch this on October

25th so I that’s two

weeks two weeks away all I’m asking you

is so that we can be in the car like

undefeated Champion I I’m asking

you do what you do and um we’re going to

see God you can text uh Champion to

82828 to you can get it right now or you

can go to represent store.com and you

can order it and it’s going to be all

good um I’m excited for what God is

going to do the reason I’m so excited

about this song is because and this

whole album is because the chorus is

very strong and um uh Zach give me the

key real quick I’m not supposed to do

this okay but this is going to get it I

can’t wait

till November 17th and y’all have had

this for like 3 weeks playing it in your

car and then everything in here is going

to be talking about how good and big and

awesome God is and then and then the

chorus goes like this it’s it’s just so

simple it’s like he’s The Undefeated

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Champion the king is

here undefeated Champion make room take

R the king is here undefeated undefeated

Champion

oh the king is the king is here

undefeated undefeated Champion make room

make room the king is undefeated

Champion undefeated Champion like

imagine

hell in one corner

and

imagine Our God in the under other

Corner undefeated

Champion imagine God coming out for a

heavyweight fight hey and we screaming

we

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say when Cancer’s in the other corner

and depression’s in the other Corner we

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yell okay say undefeated undefeated

make gr make the king the king is it

undefeated undefeated

Champion oh yeah oh

yeah I’m hood and holy I just need to

make that announcement right now I mean

there’s some songs that I can’t fight

the devil to you know what I’m saying

it’s

[Music]

like like I need some

undefeated I need okay I don’t am I the

only one that sometimes need to be

like okay

iated I got a whole section of people

looking at me like wow this is

ridiculous

[Music]

undefeated all

[Applause]

right uh-uh y’all better quit

undefeated undefeated

[Applause]

[Music]

Champion I like it I like it

say we talking about our God we talking

about our God we talking about our God

we

[Music]

[Applause]

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say all right all

right I I love this

[Applause]

shirt all

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

right all

right spoke the world with his words

King Of Heaven and Earth for Generations

he shown he’ll never leave you alone he

took off his royalty took off his

royalty just like you and me when out on

the limb defeat s so we can have

Victory W okay all right all right all

right all right it just came out of me

undefeated Champion undefeated champion

no matter where I go no matter who’s

there say he’s a undefeated Champion

undefeated

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Champion Ro we might need to work this

in the worship yes sir

okay this only for the hood and holy

people okay

just that God got that you got the Lord

I Lift Your Name on High and you got

knck if you bucking you

just that’s not everybody

okay all right sit down so I can speak

to you from the word of

[Applause]

God

yeah Mama Chloe that’s going to be good

when you in your thing you like I I I

like that Mama Chloe I like that hey hey

hey hey hey hey hey hey

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hey hey he’s The Undefeated you better

walk with it talk with

[Applause]

it oh my God I love

my all right here we go undefeated

undefeated

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escort her back to her seat Charles she

going to act up we done gave her a

little Spotlight she about to take that

all the

way

yes oh I love our

church all

right we we we ask God to allow the joy

of the Lord to be our strength and I

know for some people in this room you’ve

been in a church that have sucked the

joy out of

it hear what I just said to

you if you if you allow the enemy and

religion to suck the joy out of your

experience with God you get no

strength cuz the Bible says the joy of

the Lord will be

our smile

again laugh

again Mama Chloe is is a seasoned

Saint and the fact that she just got up

here and with

joy begin to dance this is

multigenerational multi-ethnic

multiplying it’s going to be multicampus

this is what God is doing here and so

grateful for it um today is week three

of a series that we have been talking

about called show me the

receipts and I don’t know about you but

God has been calling for some receipts

in my life he’s been asking me where is

the fruit that you actually spend time

with

me and and the truth of the matter is

people can clock their hours in church

but not their time spent with

God did you hear what I just

said people can list off a bunch of

things that they’ve done out of

Duty but they haven’t walked in the cool

of the day with

God going back to what Adam and Eve did

a lot of people know a lot of

scripture they don’t have any fragrance

of being with

God the beautiful thing about my

daughters is I wear a lot of

cologne and and and and and it’s one of

the things that I didn’t realize until

people started to tell me like when I’m

not

there they can smell me like if I walk

into a room and I touch something people

will come in after I came in and be like

that’s my here yeah

and I didn’t understand it until I

experienced it and one time I was gone

and my daughter Bella came up to me and

she said daddy could you spray your

cologne on my

pillow and I said why she said because

it reminds me of being with

you that there was a fragrance of us

being

together that there should be something

that comes off of me because we were

close to each other my question is do

you smell like you’ve been with

God does it register at all when you

walk out of the room can somebody say

God’s been

here because they came in contact with

you and if they cannot good news we’re

doing a whole series on how to have

proof that you are in relationship with

God and that’s why we have to show the

receipts here on Earth and in heaven of

how we actually have relationship and

beautiful thing Galatians

5:22 the Lord gives us nine fruits of

the spirit that are receipts or proof

that we have relationship with him and

and it’s so simple it says but the fruit

of the spirit is love somebody say love

love say them with me joy peace patience

kindness goodness faithfulness

gentleness and self-control against such

things there is no

law so today I want to talk to you about

a fruit that honestly if I can be honest

with you I was trying to

avoid somebody said longsuffering that

was last week a different word patience

okay

uh but go back let them cook

okay but this week I was avoiding this

one honestly if I can be hot humble open

and transparent because anytime I’ve

heard it talked about it was so Bland

yeah yeah y’all know when y’all like

hear messages about stuff and it be

like it’s kind of like I don’t know what

church you grew up in but for some

reason at my church when we did

communion they they they said that this

was a cracker but it was not a cracker

it was a styrofoam plate and I don’t

know y’all know what I’m talking about

y’all was raised in the same church and

and they thought it was convenient

because like it came on the cup but it

was like Styrofoam is that healthy for

us this is not food like where is this

and what is this

but the thing the thing that happened

when I would eat that it it would just

be

Bland it tasted like

nothing and many times when I heard

people preach on this fruit of spirit or

I even tried to study it in my own life

it was very Bland until this

week this is why you got to ask the Holy

Spirit give me a new

revelation like when I open your word

say something different to me so the

title of today y’all know what y’all

know what fruit I’m speaking on today

come on today I’m talking about

goodness and I want you to write down my

sermon title and say it just like this

oh my

goodness come on somebody say it with me

oh my

good I found myself saying this over and

over and over again as I was discovering

how good goodness

is how good God I was reading the Bible

I was like oh my

goodness okay let’s see if we grew up in

the same church people in church would

say something like this God is good all

the time and all the time God is good

now replace God’s name with your

name would the statement still be

true Michael is good

all the

time and all the time Michael I’m lying

do you understand what I’m saying at

this point I’m

lying what

if God desired for that statement to be

true about every

believer that Paul is good and people

could Echo all the

time and all the time Paul is

good just let’s practice say your your

name and let’s say that phrase 1 2 3

Michael is good all the time and all the

time Michael is

good what if that was the

goal no come on what if goodness was the

goal and and what I found is that to to

be and do good you need God

yes and people are trying to get good

without God did y’all hear what I just

said I’ve tried to do it for years I’m

just going to be a good person I’m just

going to do good I’m just going to be

gooder than my brothers I’mma Be y y’all

saw that good her I’m

a my goal is just to be a good person

but the problem with me trying to be

good without God is that it can’t be

defined by

me okay write this point down goodness

must be produced in Us in order for it

to flow from

us you can’t give goodness to anybody

cuz you have not let it be produced in

your

life this is why we’re short with people

that we see people in need and easily

can turn and and focus on how busy our

schedule

is it’s quiet in here this

morning but if I liveit at my own

life and I’m supposed to be the

representative on Earth of what goodness

looks like would I be a good

representative for

God based on my actual

actions when I look this word up in the

Greek the original word means write this

down to do good

how much good do you

do not how much good do you do that

benefits you and which makes sense for

you to do good so you put yourself in a

better position I’m saying just good for

the sake that’s a good thing to

do it’s good for me to hold the door

open for this young lady coming

in it’s good for me to actually not lie

to my parents

it’s so quiet in here I can I can feel

your

angst it’s good for me to spend time

with God it’s good for me to take care

of my

temple does your goodness reflect God’s

goodness I’m I’m starting slow cuz I

want this this concept to start to get

mundane enough to drop

deeper like I want you to think like

what is he talking about is he talking

about just being good is he talking

about doing good like what is it okay

let’s go my whole life I have to make a

confession I’ve defined what was

good now most people won’t admit this

but like somebody will come like oh I

love that restaurant I’ll be like that

wasn’t

good or somebody will be like yo I love

that movie and under my breath it’s like

I’m not going to tell them but that

movie would is not that

good I love your outfit could be better

that outfit is not

good

secretly and sometimes

honestly most of us are defining good

all day for

ourselves where you live I want to make

sure I live in a good

neighborhood yet God might have called

you to one that’s at risk cuz that’s

where you’re

needed they missed

it if you are the definer of good in

your life is it really

good cuz I know a lot of people that

were with a good man till they turned

into a bad

man oh oh seven months ago they was

good ain’t nobody better than

him can’t nobody knew matter than him

your family your friends your mama the

everybody told you get away from him but

no no no no he’s a good

man my man my man my man yeah I

know but how did something watch that

you define good

yeah term bad is because if you’re the

one if I’m the one if we’re the ones

defining good it might might not be good

to begin

with how many people have ate something

that was good to you but not good for

you oh come on and so they say how was

that oh my God it was good they don’t

see you on the toilet at 4:00

a.m. you in there like what you’re in

full

Warfare battling for your

life was it good or

not I’m trying to make a very big

concept come very small for you to

understand that if it starts with us it

might not end

good if the good starts with us it might

not end good maybe rather should we look

at the Creator who actually defines good

yeah and go off of his standard of good

cuz life can give you the illusion that

you get to grade what is

good write this point down but only God

can set the standard of

good I’m G say it one more time only God

can set the standard of good God tells

us in his word what a good man

is so if he’s fine and got a six-pack

and got everything that you think he

paid and all that other stuff but he’s

not a man that will be honest

yeah

yeah he’s not a man that will pray for

his wife he’s not a man okay he’s not a

man that will protect this home he’s not

like he’s already given us a def a

standard of what good is so when we go

outside of God to find what is good it

don’t ever end good oh my gosh that’s

why we need more of his

goodness we need to understand it and so

when I went on a deep dive to understand

what God’s goodness is I I I had to make

a decision in my mind and I need you to

make this decision that God’s standard

is

good I don’t know how you were

introduced to the faith I don’t know if

this was just a bunch of rules and can’t

dos and uhuh God don’t want this but if

you were introduced to God like that it

messes up your view of him and if you

don’t see God as good it is his nature

and that his standard is good and it’s

for our protection and our prosperity

then you will never approach God’s

standard as a good thing but let’s do a

hard reset in this place

today let’s let’s y’all know how your

computer you just got to hold it down

and right now we just going to hold it

down and reset God’s standard is good

say it with me God’s standard is good

one more time by faith God’s standard is

good we’re reset we’re going to believe

that by faith that When God says don’t

have sex until you get married it’s a

good standard my

God When God says to honor God with your

wealth it’s a good he knows what’s up

he’s trying to work greed out of you

it’s a good

standard when he says to love your

enemies when he says to it’s

a it’s

hard I didn’t say it had to be

easy but it’s a good stand I need three

people um who need some money I I’m

going to give three people some money

I’m going to give you $100 okay come

here right here my man you come here

right here hold on real quick I need

somebody of the Caucasian persuasion

come here come here yeah come on y’all

come up to the stage come up real fast

okay all right come come come come real

quick all right so so um before you guys

came up here I want y’all to stand right

here just stand right here just in a

line one two right here right here three

but facing me facing me right there

right there right there right there

what’s your name Kayla Kayla Cedric

Cedric Tanner Tanner okay perfect um all

I want you to do is I want you to go 21

feet

and

21.5

ft okay and whoever gets 21.5 ft look at

him trying to measure his shoes huh big

feet you got okay whoever get you got 10

seconds so I don’t I’m not telling you

how long the stage is but I want you to

go

21.5t y’all go back to the corner though

cuz I want you to go from the corner cuz

I don’t want you to think I’m cheating

at the end of it okay from this corner

how long is 20 and I need y’all to help

them if they you think it’s too far too

little I want you have you got 10

seconds Ready set go

21.5 ft and stop wherever you think it

is

five

4 3 two okay here we go

just hold it right

there hold it right

there

now my

sister I need come come here camera

man this is

21.5

ft now now right here now now now listen

to me

I I didn’t I didn’t make up

inches I didn’t make up

feet I didn’t set the standard I’m just

trying to hit

it so so they’re not bad people they

just didn’t know where the standard

was they weren’t able to receive what

was

available at the

standard now

watch I had enough for all of

them cuz my plan was that they would

all but it’s only now I again I didn’t

make up the

standard I wasn’t I didn’t say

centimeters inches I didn’t say anything

but the goal was for us to go and this

is the problem they went where they

thought the standard

was that’s TW that’s 21 ft in his mind

that’s 21t and her and it doesn’t matter

they could stand there all day and be

like but this is 21 and 1/2 ft but

because there’s a standard

already do y’all hear what I’m saying

I’m giving y’all three seconds to get to

the

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standard this is called the grace of

God that even when we don’t hit the

standard

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somebody needs to shout about the grace

of God cuz even when we don’t hit the

standard he will give us an opportunity

to repent both of them

turned can we give it up for these

amazing people amen y’all go have good

lunch

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somewhere now watch if I if I said I

want to I want 10 more people to hit the

standard hold on no everybody sit now

stop

stop it would be much

easier to actually find a

standard if somebody was standing at

it if there was a church that would hold

the

standard if there was a couple that

would hold the standard if there was a

small group that would hold the standard

I wouldn’t have to get up here and go

searching for myself oh there’s a group

of people that I know that walk in love

joy peace patience kindness and goodness

this is

the but this standard was not defined by

me or

you the standard is defined by God so so

if we then go to Genesis 1:3 let’s see

if we can find the standard of God on

day one in the beginning he created

light and he called

it and day two

he created the sky and he called it now

this is before anybody’s opinion this is

before anybody’s ideas this is like God

could have called it anything

extravagant extraordinary amazing super

cal frag he could have called

it but the third day dry land sees

plants and trees and he called it the

sun and the moon and the stars on the

fourth day and he called it on the fifth

day he made fish and birds and he called

it and on the sixth day he made land

animals and humans and he called

us so if the standard is that when God

breathes his life into a human yes sir

the expectation is

goodness what happened to

us what what what what what is happening

that we are fighting against the

goodness of God watch this not to just

experience it because God his goodness

never runs out we just sang

it but what if the whole goal is not

just to experience goodness what if it’s

to give goodness

away

okay and this is why we have to allow

the fruit of goodness to be worked in

our lives through the holy spirit

because if I was defining the fruits of

the spirit it would have been love joy

peace patience kindness greatness

most of us want the goodness to be

greatness most of us want to be

successful and people are know our name

and for God to get Glory kind of through

the expertise and the Excellence of me

and then I’ll throw it back to

him we would so love for a fruit of the

spirit to be

greatness but he decided that I don’t

want

great I want what uhoh

cuz greatness write this down is already

reserved for

God greatness is reserved only for God

that’s why Psalms um 145 says great is

the and greatly to be praised I thought

about it differently great is the Lord

like that that area of greatness is the

Lord you can’t handle the glory that

comes with greatness

that’s why you see people fold turn to

addiction tur into somebody else you

were not meant to hold the glory of

greatness so that’s why he said this is

reserved greatness is the Lord’s but

goodness is

yours and some of us need to divorce the

idea of being great and become

familiar with the consistency of being

good sir see because the difference

between greatness and goodness is watch

this greatness enlarges people’s view of

you and goodness enlarges people’s view

of

God think about it if I’m being great

they’re like my Tod is great but if I’m

walking in goodness they say my God how

does God do that through

that I know him I seen him like how how

is God’s good goodness being seen in

their

marriage how was God’s good man they

make me want to go to counseling cuz I

remember how they cussed each other out

in front of

Chipotle I was acting like I wasn’t

listening but I was recording it and

y’all know y’all

messy and now to see them leading a

tribe with other married couples yeah

how did the goodness of God change their

situation into this other situation

okay I need everybody to write this down

and I’m submitting this to you as a

thought what if the goal is no longer

greatness but only

goodness I know this is going to Rack

some of y’all’s brain cuz you’ve been

running from an insecurity since you

were

eight and you know the only way that you

got mommy and daddy’s attention anytime

that anybody said anything good about

you is that you had to be

great Pastor Mike how do you know this

because it’s my story I’ve told it so

many different times like I I made a

decision at 12 years old good was not

good enough and I put my standard above

God’s standard and it almost killed

me today I want to bring value to the

fruit of the spirit of goodness see

goodness can do more in your life than

you actually think it can watch this

Exodus 33:18 there’s this beautiful

story of Moses spending time with God

being in the presence of God and it said

and this is what Moses asked for he

asked for something great look it said

then show me Lord your glorious presence

and the Lord replied you can’t handle

all that I will make all my goodness

pass by

you he wanted the great thing God Show

Me Your

Glory and literally God was like I’ll

just let my goodness pass by

you you want this big thing good is

enough if I let you experience my

goodness you will have no choice but to

transform into something different so

when I looked at this and I studed to

study all of the different things that

went before him Moses would spend time

on the mountain with God his goodness

would pass when he would come off the

mountain and get back with the people

the people was like whoa Moses whoa bro

put a cloak on dog you shining too

much we know you’ve been with oh

my oh my

goodness they literally couldn’t take

the

radiation because of their

relationship oh my could you walk into

that job and because you spent time with

God in his goodness not in his greatness

but in his goodness could you walk into

that job and be like man you just got

too many

answers for the prop man you seem to

always walk in peace and this is a

stressful situ

man when I think about the goodness of

God I think about me having to actually

adjust my

focus because this is so important that

the Bible tells us in Matthew that it

will be the standard by which we are

judged when we stand before

Jesus everybody say goodness goodness

can I say it just real plain our

goodness is what’s going to Define our

life not how many allight prayers you

did no hear me not how many millions you

gave to

nonprofits if those things are

disattached from the goodness of God and

you’re doing them for pride and selfish

reasons and motives that aren’t edified

by God he’s going to say depart from me

I never knew you and some of us right

now are doing good things for the wrong

reasons

it’s called manipulation not

goodness okay but this is what Matthew

25:21 I’m just trying to raise your

value somebody say oh my

goodness I’m telling you this Revelation

Got Deep from me it said the master was

full of praise and the statement he said

to the good servant was well done

my my good and faithful servant you have

been faithful in handling this small

amount so now I will give you many more

responsibilities let’s celebrate

together why in the world would he say

my good and faithful servant it could

have said my dedicated and faithful

servant it could have said my my my

zealous and faithful

servant but I think goodness is a bigger

part of our Christian walk and the fruit

that we must bear because it watch this

reflects

God God’s been good to you for no reason

it says stuff like this in the Bible

before we were while we were yet

sinners when’s the last time you was

good to somebody for no

reason that’s

goodness you pull into the parking spot

and you saw somebody about to come and

your old nature rose up in you it’s like

I beat

you when the last time you backed

up rolled the window down no no no you

can have it no you can have it and go to

the furthest

spot that’s

goodness now if you did that if you saw

Pastor Mike coming that would be

manipulation you missed it I think

that’s Pastor Mike hold on let me pastor

Pastor you no no no no man of God you

take my if

you maybe if I give him the parking

space he’ll give me a parking

space I’m talking about good doing good

for no foreseeable

gain If we’re honest and we take

inventory of our goodness most of our

good is attached to what we can

gain the Holy Spirit been whipping me

all week he said why did you do

it so they can see you better or so they

can know me

better why did you do

it and I think a lot of us got to check

our motives because watch this goodness

is not our

nature let’s be

honest it’s not our nature but it’s

necessary and that’s why our goodness is

the receipt of a relationship with God

through the Holy

Spirit Paul um says it real clear I’m

going to read a little bit of Bible real

quick and then we going to get out of

here because I I need somebody to leave

this week and make a decision that I’m

going to be a reflection of God by

showing goodness to somebody that can’t

do nothing for me just so that I can be

a reflection that I spend time with him

right did you hear what I just said well

what’s it in what’s in it for

me

nothing will you still do it well I I I

should get paid for

that yes you should get paid for that

but what if God is asking you to do it

for no

pay no no no no no no they not going to

use my idea and not give me credit for

it I’m holding what if God said that was

the seed for the thing I’m about to do

but you won’t even sew it out of the

goodness of your heart oh gosh Romans

7:15 this is Paul I do not understand

what I do god dog it for what I want to

do I do not do but what I hate I

do I I can yo this some cold Bible right

here I relate with this real real

nice verse 16 and if I do what I do not

want to do I agreed that the law is good

as it is it is no longer I myself who do

it but it is sin living in me who made

me do it for I know that good itself

does not dwell in me that is my sinful

nature for I have the desire to do what

is good how many people got the desire

to do what is good like you like if I

really be wanting

to like I really I really do he said I I

desire to do what is good but I cannot

carry it

out for I do not do

the good I want to do but the evil I do

not want to do this I keep

doing this is some of the realest

Bible I be trying not to do what I be

doing cuz I don’t really want to do it

but every time I won’t want to do it

I’ll do

it that’s what this is

saying verse 20 now I do what I do not

want to do it is he just keep going with

the do do

that baby

said okay now if I do what I do not want

to

do it is no longer I who do

it watch but it’s the sin living in me

that does

it so I find this law at work although I

want to do good evil is right there with

me for in my inner being I Delight in

God’s law but I see another law at work

in me waging war against the law of my

mind and making me a prisoner of the law

of sin at work within me what a Wretched

Man I am I hate

this I can’t stand when I say I’m not

going to sleep with them and

I why do I keep doing this I was done

with that drink and that alcohol and I

was done with L and I was why do I keep

going to

this can we be real

why do I keep letting

rage

and my

words I want to be loving I want to be

kind but I just I can’t seem to do what

I want to do I made a decision I wrote

it down I said affirmations this morning

and I still ended

up said it’s the sin in me who will

rescue me from this body that is subject

to

death and then he switches it to

Thanksgiving cuz he’d experiened God’s

goodness thanks be to God who delivers

me through Jesus Christ Our Lord hey

hear what I’m saying to you if you’re

wrestling and Waring right now there’s

an answer and his name is

Jesus and when you get Jesus he gives

you a gift of the Holy spir spirit and

when you get the Holy Spirit and you

stay close to him and let him walk with

you and you surrender to him then he

works in you the fruit of the spirit of

goodness somebody say oh my

goodness

good so not doing bad listen to me we’re

almost done not doing bad is not the

same thing as doing

good oh my gosh most people are okay

with living a life where they say I

didn’t do nothing

bad

avoiding

hiding abdicating responsibility is not

doing

good just playing defense God said I

want you to play

offense I need you to actually go out

with the I need you to pull money out of

your account Sir with the intention of

giving it away

if every time God asks you to give it’s

a surprise you’re

disobedient no hear me cuz God says in

his word he says I want you to give what

you’ve already decided in your heart

that means he would have a pre-con

conversation with you somewhere else you

putting on them shoes he’s like they

make your shoes no more give those away

oh not the

JS Lord ask me for something else not

those only worn them twice no creases

not giving them away

and then when your brother comes over

and asks for some shoes for his outfit

and he puts them on and the Holy Spirit

says again those aren’t your shoes

they’re his why does it seem so

personal and I’m still ignoring and then

I’m getting mad cuz they ain’t brought

my shoes back hey bro I let you wear my

shoes the other day and the Holy Spirit

said booy if you don’t stop he tried to

deal with me three times

that out of the goodness of my heart I

was supposed to give them

away but every time it felt like a

surprise it felt like God was taking

something from me because I hadn’t

decided that I was going to do good

works

okay so what must we do to to to

actually do good somebody say I’m going

to do good Galatians

6:10 as we have therefore

opportunity let

us do good unto all

men especially unto them who are in the

household of

faith at every opportunity we get

supposed to do

good and especially when I come into

this

church into my small group at the family

dinner I should be looking for somebody

to to show God’s

goodness

too want last time you came to church

ready to give away

goodness when the last time you showed

up at the park ready to give away

goodness Pastor Mike that’s beautiful

what does that mean three things that’s

going to help you walk this out goodness

is an

action that means you got to make a move

somebody say make a move a if if if if

goodness doesn’t have an action attached

to it you didn’t do anything you might

have thought about it you might but God

literally said says to us be my hands

and feet if I was in flesh what would I

do if if if you would say if Jesus were

here you know WR with that what would

Jesus do you’re his

representative what would Jesus do show

me well somebody should go over there

and do something do

it I mean if Jesus was here he go over

pray for them

do it if Jesus were here he would get a

a campaign together and raise money for

this family who doesn’t have anything

right

now do

it but we relegate our responsibilities

as Believers to an organization or a

group of people that are never

coming cuz

we are his goodness on this

Earth and once you experience his

goodness you got to give it away yeah I

hear that Red Hot Chili Pepper song Give

It Away Give It Away give it away now I

know some of y’all too saved for that

it’s like give it a white if I did it

like I really wanted to do it I would go

crazy but if God has how many people in

this room and watching online how many

of you have experienced the goodness of

God so now I have a message for you give

it away give it away give it away

now give it away

okay so goodness is action it needs to

move goodness is an

attitude that means you got to check the

motive so so so I’m just saying like you

ever met somebody and they was just a

good good

person like let me let me be very honest

with you I don’t want Bella to bring

home a great

guy I want him to be a good

guy because a lot of times the great

guys is hiding stuff

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can I be honest like oh he’s great at

Sports and he’s great at this and he’s

great at that I want him to be good at

talking to

you I want him I want him to be like

because if it’s a spirit if it’s an

attitude at the end of my life I don’t

want to be like myard was the greatest

that man was a good husband he was a

good pastor he was a good brother he was

a good friend because at the end of the

day the well done my good and faithful

servant I’m not say telling you to set a

low bar cuz we serve a god of

Excellence but maybe you’re ex expending

energy on something you can’t even

obtain so maybe we need to ask God to

let goodness be an attitude in us so

goodness is an action it’s the move we

got to make goodness is an attitude it’s

the motive we have to have and last one

goodness is an attri attribute it

becomes our

Mo it becomes our anybody ever heard

that word that’s their MO that’s the

modus

operandi it’s a Latin term that

describes an individual or a group that

that’s habitual way of operating is now

consistent which represents a

discernable

pattern what would happen when the

church’s M Mo was they’re just good

people

oh yeah it started off as an action to

give Waters to people who were marching

out a parade for something we don’t even

believe

in and we just went out to give Waters

and tell them God loves

them and it was like well I was hurt by

the church and I was broken by the

church and I was I I’m so

sorry but here’s some

water and it’s an attitude that we’re

not going under there so that all of

them can come to church today maybe I’ll

show up at your coffee

shop and pay for a coffee or give you a

word of

encouragement or

actually hey hey your mom your mom’s

coming I just saw her come in and I’m

I’m I’m yeah you should probably just

stay right here I just just look out for

somebody else’s

kid oh y’all don’t hear me it’s just

goodness we would all agree stopping a

child from running in the street is just

a good thing to do yeah somebody like

that ain’t my kid H come here junior

come on uh don’t even look back there

what and that seems extreme but a lot of

us live like that if it’s outside of our

jurisdiction of control we won’t even

check in to see if there’s a way we can

show God’s

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goodness what if it becomes the way that

at least Transformation Church

operates we some see

somebody stopped on the side of the

road and they

can’t you don’t see no tow truck ins

sight

stop well that’s going to make me late

for worship that’s your worship

today you missed

it that you missed it that was your

worship

today is to show God’s goodness to

somebody stand up everywhere

please Psalms

23:6 sure surely

goodness and mercy shall follow

me oh y’all know that one all the

days of my

life I found real Revelation in this

scripture because

until this week I always imagine

goodness and mercy following me as an

extension of God’s love chasing me and I

think it is that but think about it

differently for one second surely

goodness and

mercy

shall follow me that means if I drop off

goodness and I drop off mercy and I drop

off goodness and I drop off mercy and I

drop off goodness and I drop off Mercy

What’s following me is a

trail see you thought the goodness and

mercy was just the about

you but God said what would it look like

if every day you was dropping off

goodness and dropping off mercy and

dropping off goodness and droing people

would say

surely

goodness and mercy has been following

them all the days of their

life that’s why the Bible tells us in

Galatians 6:9 don’t grow

weary in doing

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he said don’t let your goodness wear

out and many of us haven’t done enough

good to get

tired your goodness is on full strength

battery at a

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100 cuz you haven’t done anything to

extend beyond if we receive his

goodness we should be giving away

how is this developed through spending

time with the Holy

Spirit I want everybody to close your

eyes

please and I want you to think about

what the holy spirit is trying to say to

you through this

message when I think about it I think

about Jesus who took off greatness to

put on

goodness he took off

glory to put on this flesh to come down

here as an act of goodness for all of

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us and today if the holy spirit is

speaking to you I felt led to pray for

people who haven’t

really experienced the goodness of God

in their life in a way that’s changed

them I’m not saying the little churchy

cliches it’s like oh God is good but if

you really want to hear me experience a

fresh revelation of the goodness of God

you’re saying this is what I desire cuz

I can’t give away what I don’t

have cuz I’m talking to you about giving

it away but if you ain’t experienced it

and it’s not real to

you you won’t give it

away today I don’t want a churchy

expression today I want desperate people

hungry people if you’re watching online

you’re in this room I’m going ask ask

you to do

something if you know that you need a

deeper

Revelation watch this not just in your

head but in your heart of the goodness

of God today I’m going to invite you to

the

Altar and I don’t care who you are and

where you’re from and how much money you

make but at this moment right now if you

want a fresh Revelation today I’m going

to pray something specific but it’s

going to take you moving by faith and

this is the moment if you’re in this

room and you want this I want you to

come to the altar right now if you’re at

your home right now I just want you to

stay and lift your hands I want you to

take a posture right now and I know some

of you right now just moving remember

what I said in there there’s a there’s

some action that has to go along with

some of the things that God is about to

ask you this is just an exercise right

now this is a place of surrender this

won’t be the place where all the work

happens but today there are people that

are moving and some of you like this is

my time to leave that’s fine but this is

somebody else’s time to get

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transformed if you need a fresh

revelation of the goodness of God I want

you to get to this

altar we sang that song earlier all my

life you have been faithful all my life

you have been so so good with every

breath that I am able I will sing of the

goodness of God I need y’all to come up

there’s a lot more people coming y’all

y’all scoot up come on I see that

floodgates are business people mothers

fathers Sons daughter please don’t let

this moment and your insecurity and your

fear keep you at your seat something is

going to happen by faith As you move to

this altar I’m telling you right

now today many of you are going to

experience the goodness of God and this

week is going to be the first time that

you move and giving it away brand new

it’s going to be like

clockwork it’s going to be so easy

because you’re going to be like oh my

God thank you thank you for getting me

out of that situation and bringing me

here thank you for giving me breath

another day thank you because goodness

watch this is activated by

gratitude when you actually allow the

great things that God has done in your

heart to actually take

root great things begin to come out come

on y’all I want y’all to get them all in

here come on y’all bring them in come on

I’m telling you there’s something’s

powerful that’s about to happen all

through the aisles all through the rows

I’m telling you this is somebody’s

moment you’re going to be able to mark

this as a shift in your life and I’m giv

just about 10 more seconds because

somebody’s wrestling there’s a war going

on on the inside church if you’re still

at your seat I need you to be praying

right now this is this is what this

whole moment is

about today there’s going to be a fresh

revelation of God’s goodness know it

hasn’t been

Fair know everything didn’t work out how

you thought it was but God’s still been

good and when you live from that

Revelation it will change the way that

you have relationship with everything

and everybody if you’re at this Altar

and if you want to receive this would

you lift your hands all over this place

right now I’m going to pray for you by

faith today is a change and a

transformation in your life father in

the name of

Jesus today Father God there is no

question that you have been good to us

but some of us have been desensitized to

feel and recognize your

goodness maybe because of Life

circumstances hurts

frustrations pain

sin today God we are asking you can

still come come on today God we are

asking that we would get a

fresh

revelation of your

goodness that father you’re not mad at

us waiting for us to fail again you’re

not holding us to the past as some of

our family friends and co-workers would

father today you are giving us a fresh

start you are giving us the opportunity

to repent to turn and come back back to

the standard of goodness not greatness

God but to your standard of

good thank you today that those who have

been wallowing in

depression and wrong decisions and

mistakes today Father they’re coming out

of that quick

sand and they’re going to find their

footing in again oh I feel this I hear

the Holy Spirit saying today you’re

going to find your footing again yeah

the thing that’s been feeling like

you’ve been going under you can’t go God

said you going to hit something stable

and he’s a rock that the builders

rejected and his name is Jesus he said

you’re about to hit something stable and

you’re going to be able to pull up

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again I hear the Holy Spirit saying this

whoa thank you Jesus that the fresh

beginning that you need does not happen

at the New

Year it’s not coming at the turn of a

date it’s coming to day because of a

decision it’s not going to be 2025 it’s

today wow it’s not going to be when

everybody shouts and he said it’s today

he said a decision for me a decision to

hear my voice a decision to surrender it

changes every this is a new year

today it’s a new year today it’s a new

life today I feel this thing it’s a new

day today it’s a new way today

so I speak to every

lie that you’ve

believed I speak to every lie that

you’ve believed I speak to every lie

that you believe come

down every

Idol and

idea that has tried to

crush God’s people woo I feel the

presence of God

today this situation is no longer the

place of

power God we pray like Moses now would

you let your goodness pass by us son

would you let your goodness pass by us

would you let your goodness pass by our

household would you let your goodness

pass by father God our families our

marriages would you allow your goodness

father God to take over our

conversations would you allow our

goodness father to help us make

decisions to do better when we want to

do something else God let your

goodness overtake us

cuz I will

sing of the goodness of

God yes I will

sing of the

goodness of God cuz it’s actually being

lived out in my life yes I will

sing of the

goodness of

God just one more time say I will sing

of the

goodness of God sometimes you have to

remind yourself cuz all my life you have

been

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faithful and all my life you have been

so so

good with every breath that I

am yes I will

see of the goodness

God your goodness is running after yes

sir it’s running after

me your goodness is running after it’s

running after watch this with my life

with my life laid down I Surrender now I

you everything oh I feel the presence of

God your goodness is running

it’s running out me believe this cuz

your love never

fails Runs Out receive the goodness of

God

love up he’s not mad at

you this is his goodness today

Say Never Fails it never never gives up

never runs out on me

Your

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Love listen if you’re under the sound of

my voice there is a sweet presence in

this house and I know it’s happening

online God’s

restoring no not just restoring he’s

resetting he’s resetting the standard in

your life some of y’all the stress

you’ve been

experiencing I I I just see like this

this huge 400 500 lb weight on you every

day you wake

up trying to get yourself out of debt

and trying to get yourself in the like

it’s like not just one thing you focused

on it’s like seven things that

just and God saying you you’ve been out

here trying to be great to prove to a

coach or a teacher or a

parent something I’m not requiring of

you tonight you going to sleep cuz you

know the standard is good

and you know he called you it before you

were even formed in your mother’s womb

somebody just say I’m good

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woo you can be great but I’m going be

good

yeah if you really want to be

good and you’ve never accepted Jesus as

your poral lord and savior you have an

opportunity today to actually make sure

your eternity is good

there are many of you that are up here

maybe you’ve made a decision before but

you didn’t really mean it today is going

to be the day you mean it maybe you’re

watching online maybe you’re in the

balconies and maybe you’re out here

watching this on rebroadcast today on

the count of three if you want to make

Jesus Christ your personal Lord and

Savior if you want to experience his

goodness towards

you today I want you to receive him and

all it is is a decision I know religion

tells you to clean up change yourself

get done with that

if you could have done it you would have

already done it by

yourself but the holy spirit is the only

one that allows you to

come to him with all your mess and he

says if you give me your heart I’ll help

you change your

habits today I want to give you the

opportunity to receive Jesus whether

you’re in this room or you’re watching

online I feel the presence of God In

This Place somebody’s goodness is being

restored y’all I’m telling you we’re

going to worship here in a second and

something is going to come back to you

that was stolen yes yes yes there’s

going to be action right motives it’s

going to become your youro I feel God

saying this but today some people are

trying to do good without

God and today I want to give you the

engine to doing good somebody say his

name is God

God this is the thing that took me from

being a liar a manipulator addicted to

pornography a bad person and it didn’t

make me perfect it transformed me and

every day I’m being transformed into to

the image of Our Lord but today I want

to give you that opportunity if you’re

listening to me if you hear me anywhere

right now and you know that you need to

do good but you need God to do it on

count of three I want you to lift your

hand strong bold with faith one hands

already going up two three I need thank

you Lord can we celebrate what God is

doing I see you I see you I see you I’m

not just going to do good I’m going to

do good with God

I see you hey Transformation Church

would you lift your hands too we’re a

family here everybody prays for the

benefit of those who are coming to

Christ nobody prays alone somebody say

God God thank you thank you for being

good to me for being good to me thank

you thank you for sending Jesus for

sending Jesus to die for my sins to die

for my today today I need you I need you

as my Lord and Savior and I Repent I

repent for everything for everything

that I’ve done

that’s not like you that’s not like you

and I commit my life I commit my life a

new and a fresh new and aresh to you

only to you only change me change me

renew me R me Transform Me transform I’m

yours I’m yours in Jesus name amen

Heaven is

rejoicing and so are we can we give God

a shout of

Praise thank you so much for watching

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