You need fresh faith to believe again! Sometimes, we need our faith refreshed in our walk with Christ. Pastor Mike walks us through 4 Keys to keep our faith fresh. When you have a fresh perspective, reminder, expectation, and anticipation, you posture yourself to see what God has in store for you. We pray that this message reignites you to get into God’s presence and refresh your faith! Scripture References: 1 Kings 18:42-46 NIV 1 Kings 18:1-2 NIV Ephesians 3:20-21 NIV Join Transformation Church for our live Sunday experience. Plug into community, engage in live worship with Transformation Worship, & hear a powerful word from God. ABOUT US We Exist to REPRESENT God to the lost & found for Transformation in Christ. This is the vision of Transformation Church, led by Pastor Michael Todd and based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. NEXT STEPS Have you made the decision to follow Jesus? Fill out the form below so we can help you on your journey toward Transformation in Christ: http://transformchurch.us/saved
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hi my name is Amberly and I have the
privilege of serving as one of our
executive pastors here at Transformation
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message
um I was going to end the series this
week and then the holy spirit said I
didn’t tell you to end
it and I was like cool so what so I’m
done but what you want to do and um he
said you’re going to take this series
two more
weeks and and and and you’re going to
take it through Easter I thought I was
going to do a a different message for
Easter he said the the title for the
Easter message on Sunday morning is
fresh
start and I said God what are you
talking about he said my ending was
everybody’s Fresh Starts
said when I said it’s
finished he actually gave everybody an
opportunity for a fresh I said God
that’s good I I you know what you better
than me
yeah and and then he said the week after
that and I feel a little intimidated
saying this but because I don’t got the
full message together but the Holy
Spirit told me to say it the week after
Easter he told me to preach a message
called Fresh
failure
and I ain’t about to act like I know
what that’s about
yet but the the little bit that God told
me he said your your your relationship
with failure determines your
relationship with
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faith he said so many people don’t see
what they want in faith cuz they scared
to
fail he said but a righteous man
falls seven times but what does he do
get
I I don’t fully know what that is
yet but it’s
cooking but today I I felt that I had to
give you a core ingredient to make all
of this fresh fruit stuff actually
work like like all year we are declaring
what God Said over our church
prophetically that this would be a year
of fruit but it wouldn’t just be a year
of fruit that gets stale like it
wouldn’t be peace that we had in April
but by October we frantic and in living
in anxiety
again the seasonal peace the seasonal
love the seasonal awareness of
kindness God said you don’t have to be
like that in Psalms it says you could be
like a tree planted by the rivers of
Living Water bearing fruit in every
season like your leaves never with like
I want to live like
that and he said that means you don’t
just need fruit you need fresh fruit
somebody say fresh fruit fruit so today
in week seven of fresh fruit God told me
very specifically he said Michael give
him the title at the top top of the
message write it down today I’m going to
teach you how to have fresh
Faith cuz most people don’t see fresh
fruit cuz they don’t have fresh
Faith you living off of faith of an old
season trying to ask God to do a brand
new thing with crusty
Faith you’re asking God for a new
revelation with molded
faith and God’s saying it’s not going to
work because faith is literally the
gasoline to the entire Christian Life
how do you get saved by
faith he literally said without
faith it’s impossible possible to please
me not cuz you’re a bad person cuz you
can’t do this Christian Life without
faith and if you want to please God you
got to obey him you can’t obey him
without and Faith begins watch this
where understanding
ends and most people where your
understanding ends you end yeah think
about it you stop walking you stop
talking you stop believing this doesn’t
make sense and you’re like all right God
come get me when it makes
sense and some of y’all have been at
1987 Waiting for God to come pick you
up are just waiting on God that is the
dumbest
statement because people are like I’m
just waiting on
God he is
waiting on you I promise you there is
something in the instruction that you
have not done to
100% And like well God I asked the one
person he said ask 10 and you thought
cuz you asked one yeah I did what you
said you partially did what I said so
partial obedience is what disob would
you get a fresh faith and this message
is for not just new Believers this is
for believers who have been toiling
working persevering for years that I
believe that God by his spirit in this
message through his word is going to
give you a fresh Faith to able to
believe him again cuz some of us the
truth of the matter is we saw God do
something in one season and we got tired
of what it took to see that thing
happen and so it’s kind of like Lord if
you want to do it again do it without
me don’t act like you not you’re not
here with me cuz so many times you’ll be
in one I gave in Crazy faith I did it in
Crazy faith I moved in Crazy faith I did
all this other stuff and now God ask you
just to go talk to your
neighbor you moved from another coast of
the country and now you can’t move
across the
street it’s because you need a fresh
Faith so today I’m going to walk you
through it because I believe this is one
of the things I was talking to some of
my friends earlier before service I said
I feel like faith and having a fresh
faith is one of the unique giftings that
God has allowed me to understand I’m
always believing God for what is next
if you catch me on a Tuesday or a
Thursday or after a bad day you can ask
the people that walk with me they be
like Mike how you doing I’m here today
and I’m believing God’s going to do
something
crazy why do you just lost something but
God’s about to do
something why would I focus on losing
when I serve the God who can do
everything and today I want to give you
I believe four keys to keeping a fresh
faith and I found
the this story in second king 18 and I
want you to turn to it and this is about
Elijah and I’ll I’ll give you some
context in a minute but I’m just going
to read it so Ahab went off to eat and
drink but Elijah climbed to the top of
Mount Cara he bent down to the ground
and put his face between his knees to
pray go and look towards the sea he told
his servant and he went went up and
looked the servant said um there’s
nothing
there he said seven times Elijah said go
back back somebody say go back go back
say it with faith go back go back the
seventh time the servant reported um a
cloud as small as a man’s hand is rising
from the sea so Elijah said go and tell
Ahab pinch up your chariot and go down
before the rain stops
you that is nasty Bible and for most
people they’re like I missed it what
what just happened let me give you some
context right now um this man of God is
just coming off of one of the greatest
victories that has ever been seen in the
world at this moment y’all remember the
story of the prophet of baales where
there was 400 prophets that believed in
Baal And Then There Was Elijah and he
said hey if God be God like let’s see
let’s have uh verses right now y’all
remember the verses battles where
artists would come to he was like let’s
have a Biblical verses and he said it
can be 400 of y’all on this side and
y’all put out the bull and then ask your
God to answer and then I’m going to put
out the bull and I ain’t going to be on
the bull cuz God’s going to actually
answer me and they cutting themselves
doing all of these different things and
calling out out to bail he never
answered Elijah gets gangster with it he
says throw water on the
sacrifice do it
again do another one he did it three
times cuzz you know water is supposed to
quench the fire and then he just praise
the god
boom lights up the fire everybody like
oh my God
literally and they all start serving the
god of Elijah you just got it
like so so watch while everybody’s
celebrating great while everybody’s
turning up what does this man of God do
he said as Ahab the king went to eat and
drink Elijah climbed to a secret place
on Mount
Carmel he bent down to the ground and
put his face between his knees to pray
how do I keep fresh Faith number one you
have to get a fresh
perspective and let me go ahead and just
help you with this you get a fresh
perspective in the presence of
God Elijah had an opportunity to go
party with the King and he chose to pray
great what do you do at the point of
your answered
prayer what do you do when you actually
win the victory that’s good what do you
do after the platform expands most
people go
party when you need to go
pray cuz when God expands your platform
the truth of the matter is you didn’t
get yourself there right and what we
will do many times is start walking in
Pride after our platform expands and you
think I’m talking about this platform
but your platform as a parent you go
from no kids to one kid you have a brand
new platform and many times you don’t
pray the same way you prayed to have a
kid after you have the
kid God if you would just touch my womb
if you would just give me father if you
would just and now they here and you
like shut your butt down I’mma beat your
butt Lord help me not kill him that’s
your
[Applause]
prayer your platform expanded but you
forgot about the presence
and what I am learning to keep a fresh
faith that when God expands your
platform when he gives you the promotion
when you get one more person on your
team when you become the president of
the PTA when God allows you to expand in
any moment will you get on your
knees in a secret place and posture
yourself in a place of God I can’t do
this without
you father God I know the victory that
everybody’s celebrating I know that
wasn’t
me God I need you to answer me again
what’s
next who do I hire who do I let go who
do I trans transition father God where
should I
live I got the opportunity to go I got
the money to do whatever God but I will
not move without you father give me a
fresh
perspective and the problem is that many
people will not take that posture after
a
win how do you keep fresh Faith you
don’t act like that what God did you
did most people after what God has done
in this church would
start a podcast about how to grow your
church okay let me stop after what God’s
did here most people that have
experienced what God has done here would
start a Master Class
on how to expand your
influence the reason I can’t do that I
don’t got time
to cuz my
posture is God I don’t know what to do
with all of this if you would just speak
one more time and somebody’s like why
does he keep getting in that position
because the posture of prayer is
vulnerable and most of you are so
concerned about how you look to people
that you won’t get in the posture that
got you to the place that God has you
right now and other people are so
worried about how does does it look to I
don’t care how it looks to you when God
is the one who orders my steps I have to
stay in the place that he tells me to
stay to get the perspective and the
instructions that only he can
give yes sir how do you keep a fresh
Faith you have to have a new
posture if God expands your platform
don’t leave his
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presence most people the song blows
up and the next time you hear about God
is when they’re accepting an award in a
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thong
no they’re in a thong on a platform in
front of thousands of people like first
all I would like to give thanks to God
for no come on y’all y’all see it
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every the craziest thing is we talk
about people that may be far from God
doing that but the truth of the matter
it happens in the church every
day now you’re the leader over the
greeters and pride just creeps
in there’s no more presence you used to
be kind that’s why you got the position
and now you’re mean because you work
with so many people that they come to me
with all their problems that’s what a
leader is it’s a person that solves the
problems I’m just all of these people
and all these different attitudes and
everybody ask f
and you didn’t go back to the
presence to get a watch this fresh
perspective if you’re going to keep your
faith fresh you got to see it
differently trials become training with
a fresh perspective
that’s the trials you’re going through
this is just training sir this is God
preparing me for something but you will
take a season that will make you Le in
another season and you will count it as
something that you have to hate and
endure because you have the wrong
perspective do you know what all of this
media attention has trained me to
do is develop the
skin that can be able to handle
adversity at a level that is uncommon to
church and I said God why did you do
this and I told y’all last week there
are things that are happening in the
pipeline that are going to put us into
culture to be able to bring people into
the
kingdom that my skin wasn’t ready for
two years
ago so if I saw this last two years as
just something that I have to endure and
I’m persecuted and no it was
training the perspective changes the
pain oh my
gosh if I’m going into the doctor and
they say it’s going to hurt but it’s
going to heal
you because they give you the
perspective that you will be able to
walk in another level of healing the
pain changes because of the
perspective
okay it is preaching Mama
Chloe and my my question to you today is
did the platform kill your
posture
did the promotion kill your
posture I know people that were great
volunteers servant leaders and they got
a job and became
trash like I I it it baffles me how
people were killing it with a whole
another
job and then you start paying them to do
it and they just become horrible not and
it’s not cuz they changed their posture
did
wow did the answered prayer request
change your
posture cuz if your only relation to
Christ is
Crisis when there’s no crisis your
posture
changes see this is why I got to break
this theology that the only time we come
to God is when we are in
need the church has thrived on that
toxic mentality so it just draws broke
people what happens when we get
rich people walk away from the faith
because all we’ve taught them is to be
with God when you need God yeah yeah
yeah okay I can’t even touch
this I wrote it down in a point so I
could be succinct if crisis is the only
thing that brings you to Christ you are
missing the value he brings after
Victory the reason why Elijah goes to
pray is cuz he just in front of the
whole nation wins the biggest Victory
400 against one God Answers by fire
salvations are coming in and my man says
can’t party got to go get
perspective cuz if I listen to what
y’all saying your Praises can throw me
off as well as your
criticism so I’m going go talk to the
one who actually called me to
this I just want us to see that it’s
okay to come to God after
victory that is the posture of keeping a
fresh Faith somebody say fresh faith and
Elijah kept this posture that remembered
the promise that God had given him now
watch this because if you’re going to
have a fresh Faith somebody say fresh
Faith fresh Faith number two you need to
keep a fresh
reminder the reason I I believe what God
says daily is cuz I am always reminded
of what God Said and what he’s already
done okay let’s be hot humble open and
transparent has anybody in the last two
years had God show up in a way that blew
you away like in just any area of your
life he did something that was like
whoa how often do you think about
it
somebody said every day and other people
was like I just remember when you said
that if you want to keep fresh Faith you
have to always keep before you a fresh
reminder some of y’all need to put a
picture on the refrigerator of the
apartment you used to live
in cuz you complaining about the exper I
always got to clean this house by myself
ain’t nobody want to help me and nobody
and God’s like hold on now
this extra square
footage is what you prayed
for this is an answer well I I mean I’m
doing this Bible study and nobody coming
I’ll be putting my little Graphics from
canva up there and ain’t nobody ain’t
nobody doing this hold on you ask yeah
yeah for me to give you
discipline and so now you mad cuz
nobody’s showing up but the discipline
is not found in the
results the discipline is found in The
Obedience and you mad cuz ain’t nobody
coming but you ask for this yeah yeah
yeah great some of us need to literally
get our phones out and set
reminders you prayed for
this you ask me to give you this level
of
understanding you ask me
to be a light to my family God if you
would just change me enough that I could
be a light to my
family he said yeah you going to have to
shine where it’s
dark well I hate going home for holidays
cuz you’re the only light in that
Darkness you asked for
this and without that reminder you don’t
have fresh Faith to believe that God can
work in that
situation you become frustrated where
you should have faith
how do you know this Pastor Mike because
we’re all the way down here in in fir
Second Kings
18:42 but in verse one God gave Elijah a
promise let me show it to you first
Kings 18 verse one after a long time
after how long a long time after how
long a long time okay I just want to
make sure we know it was after a long
time in the third year the word of the
Lord came to Elijah it didn’t come to a
group of people it didn’t come to to a
family it didn’t come to a word it
didn’t come to a small group it came to
him in a famine it says go and present
yourself to Ahab and I will send rain on
the land so Elijah went to present
himself to Ahab now the famine was
severe in
Samaria I like the setting of
Faith cuz the setting of faith is
opposite than what you
see
oh
God everybody’s trying to see what God
said he’s going to say what he
sees and then you have to act like you
see it wow I just that is a bar you
missed it cuz some you want God show me
he said no I said
it I said it now you got to act like you
see it move like you see it talk like
you see it believe like you see it bring
people into the vision like you see it I
said it now you act like you see
it if
he if he if you see
it it’s easy for you to say it that’s
common
sense if it’s raining and he said it’s
going to rain you like ah yeah it’s
raining but if it’s a
famine and he says get up and go tell
somebody I’m about to send
rain Lord the setting is completely
opposite of what you are saying he said
but when I say
it things begin to change I’m just
looking for a partner with faith to
believe that what I said is Sign Sealed
and Delivered I feel Stevie Wonder
anointing coming on me right now I’m
telling you that if you can believe what
you don’t see that is the breeding
ground for God to do what he said okay
oh I might have to work this for a
couple weeks cuzz y’all sitting here
looking at me like you just drank lemon
juice I need to hear I need you to
hear oh that’s what it
is many of us believe the lie when it’s
dry when there’s a famine when there’s
no money when the relationship is cold
when the we believe the lies of the
enemy when it’s
dry but this what is what gets God glory
he speaks something into
nothing can we go back to Creation in
the
beginning what was there the Bible says
there was a void emptiness
darkness and he did
not he did not show them a PowerPoint
presentation of what he was about to
make and the Bible says and he said
yeah
let whatever happened after
let happened cuz his word is that
powerful I came to get
somebody to get a fresh perspective and
a fresh reminder of the word God spoke
over
you it can be completely
contrary to what you are seeing right
now your family can be so scattered
believe in all kinds of stuff but God
gave you a world that your family would
serve God
together and right now you have stopped
praying for it you’ve stopped inviting
him you’ve stopped sending messages
you’ve stopped because your faith has
waned and I get it when you haven’t seen
anything in a long time it makes you
kind of back up off of it cuz you don’t
want to feel crazy but I know that there
are a few people under the sound of my
voice that need to have fresh faith
today that if God said
it and I’m not going to convince
you today I’m just telling you how to
keep your fath faith
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fresh if you had an important meeting
with the top person in your um field
tomorrow and you just found out about it
in service right now and this meeting
had the opportunity to change the course
of your life at the tune of eight
figures some of y’all that just blew
your mind just a thought of eight
figures you didn’t know how much money
that
is just I’m just giving you a
hypothetical but the only thing about
this person is they had to fly out of
the city at 8 a.m. so the meeting had to
be at 5:00 am. in the
morning and you’re not a morning person
I
am somebody said I am
today what would you do to
ensure that you got up for that
meeting how somebody say set an alarm
how many alarms would you
said what what did you say somebody said
all of them you said the house alarm the
car alarm you okay now now now think
about it why would you have to set the
alarm at a
reminder and and some of y’all y’all
would go further than that y’all would
tell somebody Hey listen call me call me
y’all know hey hey hey call me at 4
a.m. if I don’t answer by
4:15 get in your car some of y’all know
come to my house beat on the door if I
don’t answer the door go to my
[Applause]
window you you would be so
intentional about being reminded because
of the potential of what could change
your
life do you know at the word of God that
he spoke over you before you were in
your mother’s womb some of y’all need to
be reminded that he said before you were
in your mother’s womb knew you I called
you I have plans for you plans to
prosper you and not to harm you plans to
give you a hope and a future and you
won’t remind yourself of
it a matter of fact you don’t have a
tribe that will remind you of
it most of y’all got tribes people oh
them my dogs that’s my girls that’s my
besties
[Applause]
I you doing all these things but they
won’t they won’t remind you that you’re
worth more than dating
him you remember the promise that God
gave you that you would be a woman that
would be valued and cherished and taken
care of and he won’t even claim you in
the
daytime but they jealous that he
not with
them and so they’ll let you stay in
foolishness
I’m I’m just saying like business
partners that won’t deal in Integrity to
make sure that we get up and then once
we get to a certain level then we’ll
start being integrous no you won’t
you’re practicing dysfunction yes sir
yes sir and many of our tribes won’t
remind us we’re people of
Integrity no no no no no no bro we can’t
do it like that no we’re going to lose
in this first round we’re not going to
make no money but we will have the
blessing of God Amen good oh
God somebody say fresh Faith fresh Faith
the reason that everybody needs to get
in a tribe and tribes are open today and
and they’re open and somebody’s like
they are yes we did a whole video
announcement did everything where was
you
at but we want everybody in this church
in a tribe I don’t want you to just come
to this big Gathering because I can talk
to you but you can’t talk to me right
now so some of you need to say something
back
great great and and and in this form
it’s not the place but there is a tribe
where Pastor Mike what does it mean all
we’re all we are is together talking and
transparent yeah we have taken out all
the things like somebody about to teach
me about no no no no no no no there is
something spiritual that happened in
Acts 242 when people got together around
food cookies chips
barbecue and they just started sharing
life together how was your week bro I
almost snapped on that person at work
today
did you snap I did hit him I hit
him come on where you can be I I slapped
him open-handed and I don’t do
that that was better than the punch and
so what I want to say y’all is I made
progress and and and and you need a
tribe that will be like all
right
okay all
right where’s the root of that bro
bro I’ve always been a fighter I just
feel like nobody will take up for me and
so at the moment where somebody
disrespects me like I ain’t going to be
disrespected come
on hey today bro we’re not going to try
to fix it we’re just going to pray that
God gives you a peace that passes the
understanding when you find yourself in
that situation anybody else going
through something bro I bro I was
looking at boobs all
week oh y’all okay
oh y’all want to be fake cuz some of
your marriages will be held together if
there is a place that some of these
people can actually say what they’ve
been
doing the church I did y’all feel the
booties get tight that’s so good oh my
goodness y’all want to be fake that’s
real it’s not full on pornography but in
my head that’s real what I’ve seen on
the Explorer page wow
everybody working
out why are you working out like
that what is that working
[Applause]
[Laughter]
out hey
bro there’s this app that can um let us
know if you ever go to a website
that’s that’s illegal for the type of
Men of Integrity we’re supposed to
be would you be down to share this with
a couple of us BR I’ll try and we going
to hit you up like all right
yeah that’s good great where
else where else are you going to find as
a 35y old grown man where you can do
whatever you want
on nobody’s going to force you to do
this and your wife is tired of asking
you she can’t stand that she knows their
secrets and she fills them every time
you lay in the bed with
her but you won’t get in a tribe of
people who will actually tell you the
truth and be able to say I used to deal
with the same
thing and they remind you of what God’s
brought them
from and what he’s brought them to and
I’m using a mail somebody’s pulling on
me right there but it’s for all of us if
you want to have a fresh Faith you may
need to get in a place where faith is
reminded that’s why I come to church
it’s cuz my faith gets reminded in this
building I don’t get to stay in the
doubt and the depression it’s not that I
don’t have it it’s just I don’t get to
stay there when I start to look at
Destiny being up here worshiping God
after having cancer when I look at Osby
up here leading worship when they said
his baby would have to have a tube in
her throat and 3 weeks ago that thing
was taken out when I y’all it gives me
fresh
perspective somebody say fresh Faith FR
Faith okay here we go we’re about to end
this to have fresh Faith this is the one
I love you got to have a fresh
expectation and when I look at this
story I find the fresh expectation see
see cuz remember you got to get a fresh
perspective that comes in the presence
of God through prayer then you have to
have fresh reminders what did God say
but then when you remember what he said
then you got to act like he going to do
it and some of y’all remember what God
says and they act like he is going to do
the exact
opposite like he’s going to leave you
hanging and it’s so crazy to watch
people tell other people to believe who
don’t believe
wow like like like when you get a fresh
expectation it makes you do things
differently look at it 2 Kings Verse 18
um uh I mean chapter 18:43 he tells the
servant go and look towards the
Sea and the servant watch
this he
went and
looked now put your self in the place of
the servant real
quick it’s a
drought it’s dry
everywhere clouds just beautiful
Sun just shining it’s
hot
Lord what do you want me to do it’s
about to
rain
okay okay so what you want me to
do send your servant to move from the
place he’s in right now and go look cuz
it’s about to
rain there’s sky over me right now why
would I have to
move to see if it’s going to
rain tell him to go and look to see if
it’s going to
rain hey
servant I know you saw the prophet of
bell thing God really did his thing back
there didn’t he he killed it huh fire
you know what I’m
saying go look and see if you see any
rain
clouds cuz the Holy Spirit just told me
it’s about to
rain now depending on the perspective of
this servant yes depending on how this
servant moves in faith this story goes a
lot of different
ways go look
this
servant literally does
it it says and he went let me go see if
there’s some rain back here let me see
if there a cloud oh praise him praise
him praise him praise him praise him
praise
Him IA what he said
Elijah I ain’t see nothing
did what you said I ain’t see nothing
Elijah go back go back God go
back I just
went I just made a face
step I just used the
energy I just used my
money go
back
let me go see what he talking
about yeah
nothing I’m going count my
steps
Elijah nothing
man go back now
okay this is where most of
us okay all right
God I did what you said
twice I ain’t seeing
nothing and it almost feels
disrespectful at this
point no come on that you would ask me
you’re God right you know where the rain
is and when it’s
coming why would you tell me to go
back and you know ain’t nothing
computer maybe it’s not about the rain
at this
point maybe it’s about the attitude
disposition and expectation of the
person at some point this servant had to
get the attitude of expectation
that like hey man if he going to keep
telling me to go back maybe this will be
the
time I’m
expecting something’s going to happen
time three
well maybe third time is a
charm
darn third time is not a
charm Elijah not four
times five times yeah yeah six
times go and look towards the sea he
told his servant and he went up and
looked there is nothing there he
said write this down nothing is the
perfect breeding ground for
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something most people look at nothing
and get
discouraged but people with fresh Faith
look at nothing and say uhoh this is
tons of space for
something that’s the attitude of
expectation that you got to get
again no no there’s no prospects for me
to be
married a lot of room this is a lot of
room for God to bring
him see you’ve lost your expectation my
God and when you lose your expectation
what Creeps in is watch this
complacency the servant just walking
around you know it ain’t about to
rain but he got me over here all the I
see I keep seeing it ain’t going to rain
it ain’t rain for the the third time the
fourth time the fifth time or the sixth
time but what would happen if everybody
every time that God told you to do
something every day that you woke up
every day that God gave you another
opportunity it’s like maybe today is the
day yeah
oh my goodness another opportunity for
me to see if it’s about to rain matter
of fact where my rain boots matter of
fact where’s my umbrella see some of
y’all missed it I sleep with my umbrella
and my rain boots next to me cuz I’ve
gone six time and there was nothing I’m
not going to deny the fact that I keep
trying this thing and ain’t nothing
happen but if
God oh my God I’m might have to do a
whole another face series it’s been too
long since crazy Faith cuz some of y’all
have lost the ability to believe what
God
Said
sir go back again somebody shout at me
go back go back go back to the
bank go back to the
book go back to that elementary school
that you know you’re supposed to help
turn
around I know they denied you before but
God is saying to somebody go back
and on the seventh time my man was like
well I guess today is the day cuz I’m
full of expectation wasn’t nothing
yesterday but today it could be
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something hold on hold on wait a
minute is
that
Elijah
Elijah Elijah
Elijah why the communication of
expectation this could be
nothing
but I love okay hold on this
actually could not really have much to
do with what I’m supposed to
do but I
see a cloud
the
size of a man’s hand rising from the
sea what the servant was saying is it’s
not much but I see
something oh that is the communication
of faith my relationship hasn’t turned
all the way around but I see something
some of y’all need to start my money has
not totally flipped but how I’m thinking
about it I see something this church is
not where it’s going to be but what’s
happening right
now I see something somebody shout at me
I see something I see and many of you
the enemy would try to make you
discount what you
see it ain’t the rain
yet but it’s something oh God somebody
say it’s something it’s something your
family’s not
healed but they text you back it’s
something oh where are the people with
faith this building ain’t filled yet but
it’s almost to the back of the building
it’s some I don’t need everybody but I
need about 300 people to say I will not
discount what God has shown
me somebody say I see something I
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most people would
discount that little
Cloud but
because that servant do y’all realize
Elijah wasn’t going to see
it his Act of Faith great was based on
who was around him there it
is why how do you need a tribe you need
somebody to be able to look at your life
and say hold on yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
you you about to Discount that no no no
baby we see something you’re a leader
you’re a owner God has made you to be
able to turn that situation I
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see that’s good this servant comes back
with
expectation I see your family being
free I see you getting healthy boy you
you lost 4 that 4 lbs came look at
you I see
something I see you being able to fit in
skinny
[Applause]
jeans you better get the right people
around
you cuz watch Elijah’s response is based
on what somebody else
saw oh God I don’t got time to go into
this oh but somebody say I see something
I see something good yeah so now the
freshh faith is at an alltime high we
about to go last point to keep fresh
Faith watch this you have to have fresh
watch this
anticipation there’s a difference
between
expectation and
anticipation most
people when they see the little Cloud
they’re like oh my God gun in it he did
what he said he’s going to
do
wow this is great
Elijah must mean it’s going to rain and
then we wait let’s wait on the
rain do y’all see what Elijah does in
this story he tells him he sees
something and
listen let me just tell you what
anticipation means cuz some of y’all
like what’s the difference between
expectation and
anticipation anticipation means it’s a
realization in
advance it’s a
foraste you ever ate a meal that’s so
consistent and so good that when you
make up in your mind I’m going to eat at
that place your body starts for tasting
it y’all now some of y’all don’t eat
good but there are certain meals saliva
comes out of your mouth yeah you start
juicing up cuz you’re like oh God I’m
going get some of
that it’s be some of y’all like I feel
it right
now but but it’s because watch your body
is now
anticipating great what you know is
about to
happen so Elijah at the at at something
at the the the the cloud the size of a
man’s hand remember the promise is
rain he doesn’t see rain he sees a cloud
will you shout over the
cloud you missed it will you
how you start acting after the cloud
proves you have
faith y’all want the r you want the drip
drop Drip drippity Drop that’s what you
want and he ain’t going to give you the
rain he’s going to give you a
cloud and now he wants to know do you
got faith
now you got fresh Faith watch Elijah’s
faith when he heard it he said said go
tell Ahab hitch up his chariots and go
down before the rain stops
him do y’all see how big that faith is I
just seen a cloud tell them it’s time to
it’s time to
go cuz if he don’t go
now the level of rain that’s coming will
stop him from moving forward
oh all I saw was a cloud but I got fresh
to Faith to believe it’s about to rain
and it’s going to
rain at a level that will stop you if
you don’t move
now what Elijah was doing was
anticipating the word of
God where’s fee is fee here come
here I I want you to to be very clear
about
anticipating cuz expectation is great
but I want Transformation Church to live
at anticipation this is my real little
brother fee okay so so if I told fee hey
I’m about to knock you
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out
now now I want you to see what just
happened I want you to see what just
happened
at my word
word his
entire
posture cuz he seen what I done to my
other
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brothers he he
knows he knows my track
record the Power of my words changed his
posture I don’t know what I don’t know
where you a gangster bro what you trying
to do bro just here I’m just here I’m
just look
[Applause]
at and if my mere word that’s good he’s
never seen me knock anybody out he’s
never seen me in a
fight but because my
word changed his
posture he’s
anticipating
[Applause]
will the word of
God
change how you posture yourself in this
next
season because I haven’t done anything
to
him yet but he’s
anticipating watch
this
anticipation is the proof of
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expectation when I said I’mma I’mma
Knock You Out
Fe his hands
changed give me a hug
fee give me a hug okay he believe that
now I’mma knock you out okay okay
[Laughter]
[Applause]
okay here hear what I’m saying fe’s not
just expecting me to hit
[Applause]
him walking towards me man he said stop
walking towards me
man he’s not just expecting me to hit
him he’s
and
do you
see how how is it that God has told you
nine
times what he’s going to do and it
hasn’t changed your posture
yet this is the words of a mere man that
can’t even really fight I’mma shoot you
before I
before I’m just being honest we not
about to be tell about I’m no
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I’m I got Shooters all around me hear me
no I’m just funny no I’m not
I no I’m not what I’m saying to you
is what what I’m saying to you is at my
mere
word he’s
anticipating but at the word of God
you’re still sitting you ain’t open the
bank account you ain’t Tak no me you
won’t read a book you won’t get in your
word you won’t relocate to the part of
town God called you to actually minister
in you won’t you won’t do
nothing you don’t expect God to do it
cuz if you did you would start
anticipating
it Ephesians
3:20 if you really believed it it would
change the way you live
today now unto him who is able to do
immeasurably more than all we can ask
think or imagine imagine according to
not our power but his power that is at
work
within why is he choosing to use
me but he still is to him be all glory
in the church and in Christ Jesus
throughout all generations forever and
ever
amen I told you I was going to knock
Mama Said Knock You
okay now what I’m telling you is every
movement that I
make he’s moving why you holding me so
hard baby just ready man he said I’m
just watch this ready
man if we could ever get a
church who was ready for a harvest y’all
not even ready for what’s about to
happen next week you’re not even ready
for the person you hate to show up
sitting right next to you you’re not
even ready for that boss that you
praying away actually coming to know
Jesus you’re not anticipating God doing
a Revival in your school and in your
church come on come on yeah yeah yeah
thank you
Fe if you actually were ready great you
would anticipate
it how do you keep fresh faith I’m
anticipating even when it’s specifically
comes to Easter who are you inviting an
anticipation for what God could do in
their
life good you don’t anticipate because
you won’t even tell nobody you won’t
even post about it cuz it’ll mess up
your aesthetic my god well I just want
to keep the Right image for my
followers your followers when you when
you signed up to follow
Jesus the Mantra was less of him less of
me more of him but it’s been more of you
and less of him I just want to make sure
I keep an aesthetic that it’s pleasing
to both the believer and nonbeliever
they’re crying out your art was a bridge
to the Savior and you’ve made the art
the end
goal you’ve made whatever you sell the
end goal you’ve made however you look
and however you dress and you come
you’ve made that the end goal and God
said the only reason I blessed that is
so it would draw people who don’t know
me
so you don’t
expect and you don’t
anticipate the truth of the matter is
Elijah does all of this for
Ahab I want you to see like all the King
was doing was eating he was at a
party while the person that God tasked
with the with the faith assignment was
on Mount Carmel praying had to convince
and give Vision to a servant to go look
this many times as soon as he saw the
cloud the size of a man hand get excited
go back and send word to the
party I know you don’t care about
this and I know you haven’t sacrificed
for this but my faith wasn’t for
me my faith was to make sure you didn’t
get stuck
here so
Ahab get in the Chariot get off your
stuff and
go because if you don’t The rain that’s
about to come is going to stop you
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here all the faith was for somebody
else what happens when God calls us to
live by faith but it’s not just for
us I hear that Mantra that Jesus told
the
disciples he said
um the field is ripe yeah the Harvest is
everywhere yeah but the laborers are
few he telling the disciples this who
probably had lost a little bit of their
faith they didn’t have a fresh
perspective they looking at all these
people and like Jesus we just trying to
keep them away from you and he’s like
y’all do y’all see what’s around
here it’s just a bunch of
harvest but there’s nobody to actually
have the faith to believe that that they
can be
transformed and then look what he does
he tells the disciples pray to the Lord
of the Harvest he’s sitting with them
yeah he’s probably a little
mad he probably a little ticked off yeah
why don’t y y’all like prayer don’t you
pray to the Lord of the Harvest that he
would send more
laborers that he would send more people
with a fresh perspective that he would
send people with faith to believe that I
can transform
anybody and instead of being like hold
on we can believe like that they’re
probably like Lord in
the Lord would you sin and he was like
just go do
it be the answered
prayer stop praying that somebody else
would
come and you show
up Pastor Mike what are you saying God’s
about to give us fresh face for
everything in our
life you’re going to have to have a
fresh perspective you’re going to have
to to set reminders I’m telling you this
week some of y’all need to set reminders
on your phone I will live and not
die every morning you wake up I will
live and not die you dealt with suicide
in a different season and the fact that
you’re here right now you should be
reminding yourself I’m still here I will
live and not die somebody else needs to
set a reminder I’m actually going to
live pure today
that’s the days the enemy robbed in
perversion and thoughts you can
literally remind yourself self that
keeps fresh
faith and then you’re going to get a
fresh expectation and then you going to
upgrade that thing to a fresh
anticipation today’s the
day oh shoot today’s the
day standing all over this
place y’all actually did it y’all
actually gave me my extra 15 minutes
thank
y’all would you just please lift your
hands cuz I want to pray for every
person listen to me everybody listen
whose faith has been been
tired if your faith has been tired I’m
not saying that you didn’t have faith in
a different season and got it but if
your faith has been tired would you lift
your hands all over this building yeah
it was the right message today come on
online your faith has been tired
everybody don’t don’t don’t leave this
moment without getting what you need I’m
going to pray for you father in the name
of Jesus I thank you today that you are
renewing strength that father God where
some of us have been at the party
we’re about to find oursel in your
presence father I thank you that you’re
reminding us of your faithfulness today
and you’re doing a work on the inside of
us father that nobody else could do just
you today God would you give us the
ability to believe you like never before
father we’ve been hurt we’ve been
disappointed some of us have seen great
victories father God but today we’re
making a fresh
commitment to come to you and ask you
for another another Measure of Faith
your word says that you give measures of
faith God would you increase our Measure
of Faith would you give us fresh Faith
to believe you for our families believe
you for the words you’ve spoken believe
us for the transform believe you for the
transformation believe you for the
Salvation believe you for our children
believe you for our neighbors believe
you for what you’ve called us to do
today I thank you that Transformation
Church moves from a church that just has
crazy faith and expectation but God let
us move into to actually being able to
to to make actions of Faith let us live
an anticipation of what you’re going to
do let it change our posture today God
we trust
you and I thank you Father that we’re
moving this week father would you give
us a boldness this
week that never goes
away to be able to know that what you’re
doing in our life is not just for us
would you give us the boldness to invite
the person at Starbucks and the Barista
father God and the way and our cousin
and our family and our friends not just
to Easter father God but to a meeting
with
you father let our faith move Beyond us
I thank you for a mobilized
Church a church that doesn’t sit back
and wait but we’ll go and we’ll have the
faith to go seven times to see if you’re
doing anything father we might not see
much but we see
something God I just thank you that this
church will always be the one that
believes in the cloud
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today have your way is our prayer if
you’re in this room and you’ve never
accepted Jesus as your personal Lord and
Savior today I just want to let you know
that the greatest decision that you
could
make is to make him the Lord of your
life not just your savior listen to me
but your Lord amen and if that’s you all
over this room watching online there’s
hundreds every Sunday and today today
today is the day of salvation for you I
need the church to begin to pray there
are people that have been walking away
from God who have been lost who have
been confused that have been shunned
from the church and today God is saying
I’m calling you back home no matter
where you are today is a start of fresh
faith for
you and God is the only one that if you
give him your heart he’ll help you
change your habits in this room all over
the building right now if you want to
give your life to Christ on the count of
three I just want you to slip your hand
in the air you don’t have to confess
everything that you’ve done to me or
somebody else hopefully you get in a
tribe to do that hopefully you get
healing when you begin to confess one to
another but today I’m talking about your
eternity being secure and you starting
with a fresh faith if you’re in this
room or if you’re watching online or if
somebody’s playing this in a re
broadcast I feel the presence of God
right now this is your moment of
Salvation one you’re making the greatest
decision you’ve ever made two I’m proud
of you but more than that your name is
going to be written in the Lamb’s Book
of Life and God will change you from
being somebody like me who is addicted
to pornography a liar a manipulator and
he won’t make you perfect but he’ll make
you progressing and I’m telling you
today God is going to transform your
life three if that’s you you shoot your
hand up in the air I see you my brother
I see you my sister I see you my sister
come on every age every
demographic Transformation Church this
is what we celebrate I see you brother
hey put your hands down cuz now you’re a
part of a community of everybody who’s
walking in the level of transparency
that you are and we’re a family here
nobody alone everybody just say God God
thank you for giving me fresh faith for
giving me fresh faith today today I
believe in Jesus I believe in Jesus I
believe he lived I believe he he died he
Di and he rose again he with all power
all power just for me just for me I give
you my life I give you my life change me
change renew me R me Transform Me
transform I’m yours in Jesus name amen
Transformation Church how do we
celebrate
oh come on y’all it’s a fresh faith in
this
place
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life