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hey what’s going on everybody I am so
glad that you clicked on this video
because with what’s going on in our
world right now I know you need hope and
you can consider transformation church
your hope dealer we are here to really
empower you with faith in the midst of
all of this fear and I’m gonna tell you
something in this message that’s more
contagious than Korona and I am so glad
that you are a part of this so let me
tell you we are praying for you we’re
believing God for you
we are standing with you and we’re gonna
get through this the same way that we’ve
gotten through everything else with
prayer and faith I want you to join us
every day online at noon as we’re gonna
be praying together until we see this
thing move
we need to pray as the Bible says if my
people who are called by my name would
humble themselves and do what pray seek
my face turn from their own wicked ways
then God would hear us and heal us and
we need God to hear us and heal our land
so I want you to join us at noon and I
want you to enjoy this message well is
anybody ready for the word this morning
I’m excited for what God is going to do
and I want to let you know that our
church really is built for this almost
five years ago a little over five years
ago I became the senior leader and with
my wife of transformation Church and God
told me for some reason that my first
act to budgetary wise was to buy new
cameras and some of the people that are
in this room some of our lead team were
there when when we didn’t have any
cameras and I felt like the Holy Spirit
said buy cameras and people left the
church over and we spent 80 thousand
dollars on new cameras and many of the
messages that you watch during the week
and all through they were filmed on
cameras that we bought in faith and it
just teaches me of God’s goodness when
we sit at moments like this in an arena
that God provided for us that can fit
5,000 people and less than 200 people
are in this room right now but it’s
going to the entire world because of the
faithfulness of a few and so for every
volunteer for every person who’s ever
given for everybody that usually
works the parking lot but you couldn’t
come today I just want to say thank you
oh come on
even if you don’t know him they’re
helping make this happen let’s give God
praise I love you and I miss being able
to hug your neck but we gonna be back as
soon as they tell us it’s okay
but that ain’t gonna stop this word from
coming forth today so um you can text a
friend and tell them we’re live right
now cuz we are starting week five of a
series that we’ve been calling help me
secure the back and somebody who’s like
that’s Mike you know shouldn’t you talk
about something else instead of secured
the bag I believe God gave me this
message for this day like like this
message God knew he’s not surprised by
anything this is not a shock to him and
I thought about switching it up and he
said no no no I put you on assignment
because what people don’t understand is
this whole thing about generosity in
giving comes to really test you in a
season where where where anxiety tries
to make you selfish uh-huh and it’s in a
season where people to fight and over
test you if you’re fighting over tissue
what will you do over real money and and
God said see Michael this is all about
who is people’s provider right now
because cuz we’re out of hand sanitizer
and tissue and stuff like that
people are now becoming their own
providers and they said the reason that
we are talking about stewardship and
generosity at the moment of crisis hits
because this is gonna prove who you
trust I’m coming for you right to your
house on your living room in your lazy
boy do you hear me who do you trust and
I want to let you know that as a church
we’re gonna trust God when I look
through the Scriptures every famine that
happened every economic downturn every
plague every disease the people of God
were sustained through every season that
the world
went through because they put their
trust in him and so I just want you to
declare this out of mom out of your
mouth say my trust is in the Lord say it
one more time cuz some of y’all still
trying to believe it my trust
it’s in the Lord third time’s the charm
say it with all your might my trust is
in the Lord and you’re gonna have to
tell yourself that every day you’re
gonna have to believe that even when it
doesn’t look like it because when your
trust is in the Lord you are secure the
whole reason we call this thing secure
the bag is because people think they
really have to secure the bag but when
you’re secured by God you trust God and
he secures everything about you and
that’s not just when things are good
that’s even in this moment right now
Church do you know that this is the
greatest opportunity for us to rise up
and be actually a difference if you
respond the same way all your unsaved
friends respond you’re not worried about
Korona you drinking Corona cuz you worry
too
some of y’all been on the corona like
what I’m telling you is we have to
respond differently and you only respond
differently when you are absolutely and
resolute that your trust is in the Lord
so today the title of my message is more
contagious than Corona yeah I want to
tell you and talk to you about something
that’s more contagious than any virus
that that’s more transformative than
anything transmitted uh-huh okay I’m
gonna just go ahead and tell you do you
know what’s more contagious than Corona
it’s extravagant generosity when people
start giving to people it’s more
contagious than any disease do you know
why the opposite even when this um plan
Dimmick is happening the enemy wants to
office
to happen in this time he wants
everybody body to start withholding
don’t share anything it’s opposite of
the Spirit of God he wants people to
share he wants people to give and what’s
happening is the the spirit of fear is
coming to try to grip people now let me
help everybody understand this whole
thing about fear because fear is
different than the spirit of fear I’m
gonna teach you something fear is a
natural emotion that we have right now
if somebody jumped up from behind me and
I wasn’t expecting I’m like there would
be an emotion of fear the spirit of fear
isn’t me anticipating that every moment
somebody’s behind me ready to scare me
and it starts to dominate my thoughts to
where it starts affecting my actions so
right now many of us are working in the
spirit of fear because we are out
playing and playing things that’ll never
happen
and now it’s dominating our actions and
our ideas I went in a quick trip the gas
station to get something to drink and
there were 70 people in the ATM line 70
people they literally line from one side
of quick trip to the other side cuz the
spirit of fear done it got them said
you’re not gonna have access to no money
there’s not gonna be anything so draw
everything out right now or you’re gonna
be stuck but your ATM card I don’t work
like your credit card but it’s not about
what it is it’s the spirit and I came to
bind the spirit of fear that God has not
given us that spirit but he’s given us
some different spirits love power and a
sound and that’s why what the sound I’m
preaching this to you flat-footed today
that what’s more contagious than Corona
it’s extravagant generosity and in this
season of scarcity I believe God is
going to challenge the church to be
extravagant and giving
and I didn’t mean transformation Church
not the organization the organism you
need to be listening to what God tells
you to do you need to be listening that
when when you walk into that store are
you doing those things and God says hey
bless them huh Lord no no no no no no no
no I came in here for the last roll of
toilet tissue and there it is and he
said give it to her right now that’s
extravagant generosity and God says do I
have your heart and many times he
doesn’t have your hand because he
doesn’t have your heart and that’s why I
want us to go here and I just pray I
literally pray because the church the
truth is the church has not gotten to
this point of extreme generosity in our
own lives we do it as a church all the
church gave away three hundred and
thousand dollars during the month of
generosity but did you feel it did after
we did this as an example did you feel
the tug or the urge to be able to bless
somebody in your sphere of influence and
the truth is we would rather the
organization do it than the organism and
God says that’s why I can’t bless you
with everything I have for you because
if I give it to you you will become a
reservoir instead of a river and I’m
looking for somebody that it can pass
through that it can go through that I
can make my name grateful but that means
we have to get to another level somebody
say level up yeah I think prophetess
Sierra had it right when she said level
up we got to level up and get off of
this low level of giving this low level
of helping people that’s barely just
enough that’ll do you can have that she
already got a house don’t see her car
looked better than mine and where we’re
trying to judge if they deserves to be
given to by us cuz uh-huh the truth is
you’re only a lot of times give the
people that are less fortunate than you
but what happens when God tells you to
give to somebody that has more than you
uh-huh
you missed it cuz are we always gonna
help the poor and we’re gonna always but
you don’t know what somebody’s needing
and God says to somebody hey I need you
to go do this and you’re like ah ah they
dress better than me the kids look
better than mine
and they always got Starbucks use
somebody else and God says see I
couldn’t trust you
I wanted to take you to the next level
of extravagant generosity but you still
stuck at all you know level and so I’m
coming to help everybody level up and
get to this level of generosity and
anytime anytime you’re gonna go to a
whole nother level I really believe you
have to be exposed to a whole nother
level that’s why I’m talking to you some
of the greatest things that I know today
was because I was exposed I thank God
for my mama
and my dad y’all saw my mama up here
praying with that fire a minute ago
y’all can see where I get my light
gangster from like she been like that
since I was born um but but but I think
God for my mom and dad because they
never made us an excuse they have five
boys and what they did with all of us is
they exposed us at a young age so we
would travel all over the country and
when they were talking about Mount
Rushmore in school we had seen it twice
when they were talking about Hawaii we
had been and and my my parents exposed
us and I thank God for that exposure
because anytime something becomes
contagious it first has to be exposed
the only reason that something can
become contagious is because somebody
was exposed to something I’m about to
preach this thing the only reason that
we’re not meeting all together and in
this venue is because we don’t want to
help people get exposed to the wrong
thing but in the same way I’m gonna help
you get exposed to the right thing and
the right thing is being generous that’s
why we put put on the screen who we’re
giving to and what we’re trying to like
just start something on the inside of
you that says I don’t have to do it at
that level but I can obey God at what
level I’m at and I remember the day I
was exposed um there was a young lady
that that I was friends with when I was
in I think I was 18 or 19 and this is
when my mind got blown really and I
realized there was levels to stuff um
she was like I should come to my house
for spring break it was around this time
she was getting out of college and
like oh yeah and then and then a few of
my friends one of my friends who went
with me is in the room right now and and
then it’s like yo I heard they got a
really big house and I was like a really
big house see because I had been exposed
I thought two really big houses because
my parents were very smart
they had five boys and they played these
games that were economically friendly
and and and and and took up a lot of
time what they would do with us is they
would put us in a van together and ride
through wealthy neighborhoods and roll
down the windows and play a game called
that’s my house
I later realized they were cheap and
didn’t want to take us to Chuck E Cheese
and so and so what ended up happening is
we had so much fun playing this game
because we were going to all these
wealthy neighborhoods and be exposed and
we would be like that’s my house that’s
my house so so by the time I was 19 20 I
thought I’d seen some really nice houses
we pulled up to this compound NOLA the
driveway was two to four miles long had
a limousine parked out in front of the
house like one of those reader Digest
pictures cover that means they don’t
drive it literally walked up to a nine
car garage and every car in the garage
was white chandeliers and wallpaper in
the garage I literally turned to my left
and they had checked this out a master
bedroom two car garage with a bitly and
a rolls-royce sitting there I was
overwhelmed you know how you know how
you try to act like you’ve been
somewhere but you ain’t never really
been there I couldn’t even look like a
aah overwhelming the master bedroom was
10,000 square feet
no no y’all didn’t hear what I just said
I don’t know how big your whole house is
the master bedroom was two stories in
10,000 square feet Olympic sized
swimming pool mama you went with me
didn’t you you saw the whole thing she
said glory to God and then they were
like where I was like where we staying
that there was like y’all was staying
out back I said no we aren’t slavery is
over I’m not staying in the outhouse I’m
going home mama come on but she said no
no no when my family built this property
they decided to put in a couple of
things they put in a 500-seat ballroom
on the west wing two kitchens a house
for the cleaning service and they built
for 2,000 square foot houses for when
guests come yo I never wanted to come
back but what I realized at that moment
it’s everything that I had seen up to
that point was a low level and my
exposure to something at a higher level
made me have the ability to desire more
and what I want you to hear me say it’s
that in this series of stewardship and
generosity the goal is not that you
start tithing the goal is that you get
to the level of extreme generosity that
when God looks for somebody to be a
blessing to somebody y’all hand this up
Oh pick me let me and my family change
somebody else’s family let me in my
business be able to write off somebody
else’s business let me be able to pay
for it but because I believe the church
has been on such a poverty level when it
comes to giving we never leveled up so
today I’m just gonna I’m gonna try to
get us to the place where you can level
up and realize that there is levels to
this thing and it starts with
understanding them and most people do
not understand the Word of God when it
comes to the area of finances generosity
and stewardship and the Holy Spirit as a
pastor can I be very clear while I was a
pastor he told me there was a passage of
Scripture that I was teaching wrong and
I needed to repent and teach it right
when last time you heard a pastor say
that
he said you had the wrong understanding
so today I want you to give people a
fresh understanding from Malachi chapter
3 now it’s probably one of the most
famous scriptures that pastors and
leaders use when they talk about tithe
and offering but they’ve been using it
all wrong literally in my prayer this is
what me me and God’s conversation went
like he said you need to repent I was
like for what he said you’ve been
teaching Malachi 3 wrong I was like okay
he said you got me all messed up and me
got I got a real kind of like gangster
relationship and so he was like you got
me all messed up I was like God he was
like you have misinterpreted my heart
behind the scriptures and that’s why
people don’t want to have nothing to do
with churches because they think I want
them for their money and he said I don’t
want them for their money and if you
ever teach that again he said we gonna
hand we’re gonna have words said I don’t
want them words so so I want us to look
at this but I got to give you the
revelation first how many people have
heard that scripture can a man Rob God
can a man Rob God and usually when
people say this people are trying to
infer that if you don’t give tithe and
offering you’re robbing God of money and
when I read that that’s what I thought
forever and God said you got me all
messed up he said what they’re doing
when they don’t give tithe and offering
is write this down he said you’re
robbing me of an opportunity to bless
you he said so when you don’t tithe when
you don’t give offering you’re robbing
me of an opportunity to bless you so
right this point down don’t rob God of
an opportunity to bless you God don’t
need your money you need to give your
money because every time you give or
return the tithe you have just now
qualified yourself for an opportunity
for God to bless you and that’s why with
that revelation I want to read Malachi 3
again and I hope like bulbs start going
on everywhere that this is not about God
getting anything from you
this is about God
making a system that at any moment you
want to obey his word he can get
something to you
so Malachi chapter 3 verse 8 he’s
basically saying I want to bless you I
want to open the windows of heaven but
you’re not doing it my way but but don’t
rob me of an opportunity to bless you
look what it says will a man Rob God of
an opportunity to bless him yet you
robbed me of many opportunities to bless
you but you say ‘we have we robbed you
of an opportunity to bless us in tithes
and offering
see the whole concept of tithing and
offering is not for god’s sake it’s not
for the kingdom sake it’s for our sake
because if god wants to get something
done in the earth he can use anything to
do it well was our money around when he
decided to develop the heavens in the
earth note was our money around when he
decided to pick up dirt throw dress in
it and make me and you nope
when Isaiah was in the middle of a
desert and he had nothing to eat he sent
Ravens the first ubereats to feed them
he don’t need us the children of Israel
were in the middle of a wilderness and
they didn’t have anything to eat
he changed the molecules of rain and
made it become manna so that every
morning they would wake up and say what
is it and he said it’s what you’re about
to eat and they would eat manna from
heaven and it sustained them 40 years in
the wilderness and when they needed
water and there was no River around
he said strike the rock and rodder came
from a rock God doesn’t need your
resources what he’s trying to do is give
all of us an opportunity to be blessed
and and that’s why when I read this
scripture it makes so much sense
Oh God wants for all of his children
like I want for my daughter is them to
do what I say how I say to do it so that
they can receive the benefit of being my
child and all the parents say
yeah cuz if you tell your child hey all
I want you to do is clean the dishes and
they sweep the the laundry room and and
they clean up the drapes and they rake
and they mow the lawn but they don’t do
the dishes all of the extra things that
they did were nice but they were still
disobedient and the crazy thing is we
come to God and say well I go to church
and I help on this team and I do this
stuff and I serve at this anybody said
with the returning of the tithe than the
offer for the job you didn’t even
qualify for and now I blessed you to be
able to get up in there anyway
you won’t even do it you keep robbing me
of an opportunity to bless you and I can
see God in heaven right now be like oh
it’s the first they don’t do it this
time
I know they’re gonna do it this time
hold it back it up they tied my head I
was ready to bless them but they robbed
me of the opportunity to bless him the
way I wanted to you’re still saying see
that’s the thing that people think this
is about well God still love me duh he
still loves you while you were yet a
sinner he gave his life for you this is
not about salvation and that’s why many
believers live their lives with their
eternal salvation secured but their life
is a living hell
saved and in bondage so you’re going to
heaven but you can never seem to get
beyond this moment of poverty you can
never break the lack off of your life
and I found that it has to do with the
heart of generosity let me tell you
about five years ago the Holy Spirit
really rocked my world cuz I used to I
tell my testimony all the time that I
dealt very heavily with torn ography and
I dealt very heavily with lying and
manipulation that’s my testimony and a
guy came up to me I was like Mike how
did you break free from that how did it
really change in your life and it had to
do with when I honestly started giving
to God let me help you it’s what I call
the
equation of treasure where your treasure
is your heart is so you give your
treasure and when you give your treasure
God gets access to your heart when God
gets access to your heart he can
transform your habits when he can
transform your habits you end up living
a blessed life how pornography lost its
hold on my life cuz I thought I was just
gonna say a prayer God give me pure and
every time I would say that I’d do it
again
and promise that would be the last time
it’s when I started faithfully honoring
God with my treasure
how does my treasure have to do with my
attitude
how does my treasure have to do with the
outcome of these desires in this
frustration and the anger that I have
when you give God your treasure you are
saying you have my heart when he has
your heart then he can rearrange your
habits when he has your habits you live
a blessed life and most people will
never get to this place because they
think that changing the habit is
behavior modification and what God wants
to do is transformation and
transformation only happens in the heart
that’s a whole nother message for a
whole nother time but maybe that’s the
thing you came here to hear today is
that your treasure giving ties or
returning ties and giving offering may
have more to do with the life you’re
living than anything about money so how
can a man Rob God he can rob them of the
opportunity to bless him and verse 9
says and cuz y’all won’t do it my way
man cuz y’all keep trying to go on these
self-help schemes and make all these
other plans he’s like now your curse
would occurs for you’ve robbed me of
opportunities to bless you even the
whole nation can we stop there and talk
about our nation
then at the moment we took God out of
everything
took him out of schools took amount of
government took him out of everything
what we did was not a curse on the
nation what we did is we robbed god of
the opportunity to bless us and now
we’re in the middle of crisis and
everybody’s trying to go back to the the
one who got us here in the first place
the the the the one our country was
formed on these biblical truths and we
go farther and farther and farther and
farther away but we still want the same
blessing that was honest before and God
says y’all got to go back to the
ordinary things the regular principles
that I’ve put in place so that I can
bless you and now we’re trillions of
dollars in debt and making up money
every day
and God says y’all won’t even have to be
doing all it is if you honor me verse 10
bring all the tithes into the storehouse
that’s the local church that there may
be food in my house and try me now this
is my favorite part
that means prove let me prove it to you
test me this is the only place in
scripture where God says test me I dare
you to do it matter of fact i double-dog
dare you and i don’t know what happens
at the double dog dare but when you was
at school if they double dog dare you
like i gotta do it like i don’t even
know what’s happening but I double dog
dare you to test me in this sense the
Lord of Hosts see if I will not open up
the windows of heaven and pour you out
such a blessing that there will not be
room enough to receive it now why would
God give you so much that you can’t
receive it cuz he wants you to give it
away what God is trying to get us to is
the level of extravagant generosity
where he can POW so much on us where it
seems ignorant just to keep it for
ourselves there’s no way I’m living off
of last year’s income now we need this
right now
where do I need to so who do I need to
bless who do I need to give a handout
that or a hand dunk that I didn’t have
but the problem is we on a low level
God saying can I take you to another
level he said and I will
buuuut the Devourer for your sake not
the kingdom sake not the church’s sake
for your sake this further convinces me
that this is why God invented giving he
said so that he will not destroy the
fruit of your ground that’s your
business your land your home nor shall
Devine fail to bear fruit in your field
it says verse 12 and all the nations
will call you blessed people that don’t
even speak your language oh my god she
is bliss that’s what it says they’ll
stand up and say you are blessed for you
will be a delightful land since the Lord
of hosts why because you gave God an
opportunity to bless you what I’m trying
to tell everybody is there’s levels to
this and I just want everybody to get to
the last level of extravagant giving but
you can’t get to the last level without
starting at the first level so let me
help you the first level we’ve been
talking it it’s time let’s not talk
about this no more because you saved
right here but when you step up and
return 10% of everything that God gives
you to him first
you leveled up and I’m so proud of
transformation church because after I’ve
talked to our team from the beginning of
this series to right now there’s a been
over a 90 percent growth in people who
are y’all don’t hear me who have started
tithing for the first oh y’all gotta
shout oh oh I forgot y’all were shouting
for the money I was shouting because
hearts have changed you missed it you
missed it we don’t know how much money
they have they could be tithe and off
for two dollars it doesn’t matter about
the amount it matters about the what I’m
saying is we went to a whole nother
level through this series as a pastor in
an empty arena I’m telling you we’re
stronger than we’ve ever been because
God had
transformation churches and
transformation nations heart can we give
God praise right there so if you’re not
tithing I’m telling you get on this
blessed life with us cuz we going up
levels everybody say levels we’re going
up levels we going up levels but can we
go to the next level I said can we go to
the next level see the next level is
giving offerings and see some of y’all
are confused right now because you
thought when I when I sit that money to
the to the church now that wasn’t tithe
and offering Lord he said no no no the
10 percent was you returning back to me
when I gave you but then I’m gonna just
nudge on your heart say put a extra 50
on that give to that person over there
in that organization yeah you see that
girl right there that’s walking in quick
trip yeah I know I know you already
pulled out pull back in so so so so $100
that was my hundred dollars for my dress
yeah you won’t be able to fit it anyway
the truth anyhow go give that because
what people don’t understand is when you
return the tithe it gets blessed but
when you step into offering it gets
multiplied you missed it
see multiplication is God’s favorite
math he don’t like addition he likes
multiplication I can prove it to you go
to I believe it’s Matthew or let’s go to
Luke Luke chapter 9 verse 12 because
what God says in this scripture is one
of the most famous um scriptures that
Jesus does the feeding of the 5,000 but
actually most theologians believe there
are about twenty to twenty-five thousand
people there when you count the wives
and three to four kids per capita at the
time and Jesus is about to feed these
people with not enough and I want you to
see how God is the God of multiplication
but multiplication
happens in what we offer to God look at
it
Luke chapter 9 we’ll start at verse 12
it says when the day begin to wear away
so let me set up context the disciples
are sitting with Jesus and Jesus starts
preaching at 9 o’clock 12 o’clock he’s
still preaching 2 o’clock he’s still
preaching 5 o’clock he’s still preaching
the disciples are hangry at this moment
y’all know what hangry is cuz some of
y’all look at hangry right now they’re
so hungry that they’re angry and Jesus
is still going in there like yo somebody
gotta go tell Jesus to wrap this up so
we can go get something to eat and this
is what happened it says when the day
begin to wear away do you know what that
means in Hebrew when the day begin to
wear away the twelve came to him and
said hey Jesus it would probably be good
if you would send the multitude home so
uh so they could go to churches chicken
and chick-fil-a and get something to eat
because we’re in a desert place we’re in
a place that doesn’t have enough
he said we’re in these towns in the
countries you need to send them all over
there for we are in a deserted place and
doesn’t that feel like the place that
God many times asked us to give from a
deserted place a place of not enough God
I’m a college student you know I just
got out of a divorce
God you saw that I just filed for
bankruptcy God do you know that I’m
paycheck to paycheck why would you ask
me to give out of this deserted place
but he said to them yeah that sounds
good
you give them something to eat I don’t
what you want me to be a part of
somebody else’s miracle when I’m in a
place that doesn’t seem to have enough
for me so I bet he went back over to the
disciples like hey did y’all tell Jesus
to wrap it up he’s like yeah told him to
wrap it up what’d he say he said we need
to feed him what he said we gotta feed
them and I get you know all the bros
like what we don’t even have nothing to
feed them with and in my mind I see a
movie I see Peter being like if y’all
ain’t gonna eat almond imma eat and he
sees a little boy
with a long john silver’s snack pack two
fish and five husbands and he comes over
here I’m a disciple give me your lunch
and he takes his lunch he takes a bite
of a hushpuppy and he was like if y’all
ain’t gonna do this imma eat oh that’s
what it is tell Jesus this is all we
have
doesn’t that sound like what we tell God
– this is all we got
yeah I think okay once we show Jesus
this is all we got he’s definitely gonna
dismiss everybody and tell him to go
into the house and look what it says
love the Bible and they said we have no
more than five loaves and two fish
unless you want us to go and buy all the
people some food see they were at a low
level God could have asked him to go buy
the people some food but they said it
sarcastically they didn’t want to
actually meet the people’s needs they
wanted the people to go away so their
needs to get men what would happen if
the church start worrying about our
needs getting met and we were able to be
once to meet other people’s needs that’s
why we have to get to the level of
extreme generosity because if we don’t
were only worried about ourselves and so
he said um unless you want us to go buy
all these people food this all we got
look what Jesus said he’s so he’s so
gangster but there were about only 5,000
men and 20,000 people he said yeah yeah
okay and I and I think Jesus was
thinking it this moment and the guy in
his mind the disciple that’s talking to
Jesus was probably like that just makes
sense we don’t have enough there’s tons
of people he’s gonna dismiss it it just
makes sense but the things you have to
understand is tithing and giving
offering doesn’t make sense it makes
miracles
what God was trying to do was make a
miracle while the disciples were trying
to make sense you could even take it
further dollars and since we’re always
trying to make dollars and cents and
God’s trying to create a miracle
somebody say miracle yeah and so then he
says to disciples that’s enough
what you have is enough I came to tell
you with you working at that job at
minimum wage it’s enough with you on
government’s assistance somebody help me
say it’s enough with all the bills that
you have and all the mistakes you made
and the grace that God has carried you
through all of that stuff he says it’s
still enough and then he tells him to do
something that most of us won’t have the
audacity to do he says yeah tell the
people to sit down in groups of 50 he
said I want you to organize what doesn’t
seem like enough
some of y’all right now God is asking
you not to figure out how it’s all gonna
work out he’s like get the bills in
order he was like no how much you
actually owe do you know when you get
out of your car payment do you know how
much you have to pay to be out of your
school loan do you know what your kid
needs do you know what you need to fix
your credit when your parents use your
name when you were young to get ahead
and they jacked it up
do you know get in order what does it
seem to be enough if he says make them
sit down in group of 50 and then a
miracle is about to happen and up until
a couple years ago I thought the miracle
happened in Jesus is hanging like you
remember like we’re just like then he
took the the two fish in the five loaves
and he blessed it and he broke it I saw
something I’ve never seen before
look at verse 16 then he took the five
loaves in the two fish he looked up to
heaven he blessed him how does our
finances get blessed when we time he
blessed it then he broke it
and then he gave them a portion back not
the whole thing he kept the tithe and he
gave them 90% back and he told them to
go now give it away he said give me what
you got and I’m gonna bless it when you
tithe imma give you back ninety percent
with my blessing on it and now I’m going
to challenge you to level up everybody
say level up in the midst of a crisis in
the midst of a downturn in the midst of
everybody scared
he said level of this is when the Church
of Jesus Christ stands up this is when
we become the ones that change
everything he said now I want you to
give it away
go give an offering and I bet the
disciples was mad cuz they was hungry
and I can imagine that they were tempted
to eat what they were supposed to give
away they were tempted to not be
generous but to eat for themselves but
God said if they would have ate it it
would have never multiplied I’m just
trying to walk you through the
Scriptures and so what happens is he
tells him go give it to the people and I
can see him going over there scared take
just a little take just a little take
just I said take just a little with your
greedy tail right wind just imagine it
cuz that’s how we do family member needs
some help you better pay me back
tomorrow oh come on you still mad at
people that owe you ten dollars from the
high school take just a little but God
said when you get to the level of giving
it away I can see the disciple at the
very last minute when there’s nothing
but a crumb left
he says go ahead and take just a little
and in his hand it multiplies did y’all
did you did y’all see how I was I looked
at the account yesterday and there was
nothing in it but I got a refund from
something that I forgot I even did but
the thing I thought I was gonna have to
pay for it wasn’t even actually broken
it was just a cord that needed to be
switched around and they did it for free
and they walk over and they’re like take
some take some attitude start to change
when you know you aren’t the supplier
you’re the way that you give changes
when you know you don’t have to provide
for it and he probably like a take
something and then they start getting
into it bread bread on top anybody want
some brigadiere bread like d understand
what I’m saying people start because the
same God that multiplied it when it was
just a little bit ah it’s the same God
that’s going to do it if you give it
away and that’s why I want you to
understand that’s why we got a time
because if we tithe it gives us access
to give offerings when we ought when we
give offering it multiplies and it gives
us enough resource to go to the last
level and when we go to the last level I
love the last level and I hate the last
level because the last level is
sacrificial offerings I thought you said
it was extravagant generosity it is cuz
you go to tithe offering the sacrificial
offerings these are offerings that hurt
these are the offerings that you fast
you give these are these these are those
these are those times of generosity
where you your body starts telling you
you making a wrong decision but you know
in your heart that God told you this is
what you were supposed to do but I want
you to understand is it’s extravagant
generosity for the one who’s receiving
it but it’s a sacrificial offering for
the one who’s giving it and what God is
saying is I want every one of my
children to live here let’s stop talking
about this low-level stuff oh you just
want the table you just want to offer no
baby
these are prerequisites you don’t play
Mario Brothers and get to level seven
without going level one two three four
five six and God’s saying is my people
who are called by my name will humble
themselves and pray because they just
want healing in an area of their body
but they need healing in the area of
their mind so they can understand that
when you do it my way and you start to
be generous then I get to use you as a
blessing to the whole world what would
happen right now if the church stood up
together and gave five billion dollars
towards the cure of kovat 19 y’all can’t
even clap for it cuz it’s so higher than
where we trying to convince people do
you know that out of the entire world
seven percent of people who call
themselves Christians tithe 7 so if 7
percent of every person every
denomination that called themselves
Christians tithe do you know how small
the number is of people that live here
and I just wanted to come and tell
transformation church and transformation
nation this is where we gonna camp out
y’all didn’t hear me nobody has the
faith to believe me but we will be a
church that lives at the place of
sacrificial offerings and extravagant
gifts I want to tell you that I’m not
asking you to do that I’m leading you in
it I’m gonna be real real is it okay if
I get real real right now this at the
end of the year we had this thing called
the crazy faith offering and many of us
participated in it and because of
everybody’s generosity we were able to
pay off this building we paid off this
building it yeah you could give God
praise right now for everybody hadn’t
been here this building was built for 54
million dollars we got it for 10.5
million dollars and we paid it off in
seven months God but why would God allow
us to do that if we weren’t gonna live
at this huh so some of y’all bills is
because that’s where you have faith to
live some of your deficit God saying
could I get you exposed to a different
level
so God talked to me he said Michael this
is gonna be the most sacrificial
offering you’ve ever given in your life
and I was like lord I really would like
you to prepare me for what you about to
do he said I’ll tell you so I’m praying
I’m seeking God and God tells me a
number and he says go tell your wife and
home I knew by the response of my wife
that it was God cuz she freaked out
because cuz the sacrificial offering is
not something you give and it feels
comfortable Oh see I forgot y’all don’t
know what sacrifice is see like that
extravagant thing it’s like when David
gave 21 the equivalent of 20 1 billion
dollars to a temple that he would never
see built his son Solomon who was gonna
build the temple when it was customary
for the king to sacrifice one boo he
gave an extravagant offering or a
sacrificial offering and where their
requirement was one he sacrificed a
thousand there was a woman in the Bible
who gave her whole year’s wages of oil
and she
on Jesus’s feet and the disciples were
like y’all should use that for the poor
and he said y’all better shut up cuz
this is the only anointing I’m gonna get
before I go to the cross and the
greatest sacrificial gift that was ever
given was Jesus and he was given for us
on a maybe see the thing that God wants
you to understand is it may hurt a
little bit but it’s gonna produce the
most transformation
so I’m sitting here I tell my wife what
I believe that God told us to give and
this years offering she said Mike that’s
the devil and I said it can’t be the
devil because the devil has never told
anybody to give anything he only he only
tells people to take and so me and my
wife for six seven days it was tension
because I felt like we were supposed to
give this amount but there’s got to be
agreement there’s gotta be unity there
because this agent my money is our money
seriously we’d be walking around the
kitchen shilling are you sure he said
okay no he couldn’t have said cuz we’re
looking at everything that we got going
on Holy Spirit said trust me so I said
I’ll count my trust let me give you the
sacrificial gift the third day go to
prayer he said oh and by the way I want
you to give that person y’all been
trying to help I want you to buy him a
car too
no no God you already know I’m
struggling with Navi you already know
we’re about to give this about we’re
trying to do and then you want us to
give a part he said do you remember what
I’ve done for you in the past and I went
down memory lane just that fast cuz in
2018 God allowed me some of y’all were
there to give away my Land Rover and I
gave away my Land Rover and I went
without a car for seven months and then
God said hey I’m a bless you with a car
somebody gave me a new Mercedes and I
got the Mercedes in the day they handed
me the keys with no payment God said
you’re gonna give that one away too and
and because what’s more contagious than
general what’s more contagious than
Corona is generosity another person saw
that they were given their car away and
they gave their car away to somebody in
that same service and then I gave the
Mercedes away last year
and God says I’ve given you vehicles to
give away now I’m asking you to give
away another one and you want to stop me
from having the opportunity to bless you
okay I said no no
let me go talk to Natalie what matter of
fact I could you talked to Natalie yes
I’ve been having some trouble in this
area and I’m telling you the day before
the offering my wife came up to me and
she said Michael I don’t know how this
is all gonna work out but I trust you
you’ve led this household and strong and
I believe if that’s what you’re telling
me God told you to give we’re gonna give
now the reason I’m telling you this
story is because of what happened next
what happened next we’re in the moment
of generosity the bucket is right down
here I’ve only told two people this
story and I wrote that check out with
tears in my eyes I wasn’t crying because
I was happy about giving I was crying
cuz I was sad but you don’t have to feel
it to obey oh let me help you you don’t
have to feel it to obey what God said I
walked off this stage and my security
guy said there’s a guy here that wants
to just have you pray over his offering
I was like ok let me go give my offer
and walk down with Bella and my wife and
I said father I’m trusting you and
everything cuz this is the most
sacrificial offering we’ve ever given
and we dropped it in the bucket and it’s
like I felt power leave me you know how
I’m one of them them spacejam movies
like she he loses all your powers I felt
it I’m just being real but the thing God
told me he said you just matured Michael
you went from a low level of just being
happy to tithe move into offering and
now you’re at the level where anytime I
ask you any time I just put it on your
heart you’ll give a sacrificial offering
I turned around a kiss of my life and
this is what I called the 62nd miracle
it wasn’t one minute later I said one I
turned around to come back on the stage
Kordell and and Scott were with me and I
stand to pray for this guy and I was
like what do you believe in God for he
was like I’m just believing that this
will be my time on my business every
month and I said let’s let’s pray and I
said god bless this man and Jesus I was
like let’s go give it together he said
no no no this is for you I said what you
mean he said I flew here from the East
Coast
cuz three weeks ago the Holy Spirit told
me I was supposed to give him the crazy
faith offering but then I was supposed
to give above that and give this
specifically to you
I said oh man god bless you god bless
you thank you and hugged him and went to
the back came up here finish the service
got in my car to go home and Holy Spirit
said I’m open that envelope not only was
it the amount that I gave but thirty
percent more than what I gave one minute
after I gave now you don’t have to
rejoice with me but what it told me is
God was not concerned about the money he
was concerned about the obedience he
didn’t let me go without it for 60
seconds and I’m believing for some of
you you thought you were letting it go
for a long time God said I’m not trying
to get it from you I’m trying to get it
to you but if I would have not obeyed
God I would’ve stopped God from the
opportunity to bless me
why are you sharing that mic because
somebody needs to hear me say this as
we’re in a time where everybody’s trying
to preserve for themselves and hoard for
themselves the Church of Jesus Christ is
supposed to walk in extreme generosity
extravagant giving sacrificial offerings
I wish the story had to stop there but
it did y’all remember he told me to give
a car away so I called the person then I
could get the car from and I said hey
I’m trying to get this single mother a
car good could you could you help me
find one he said you know what me and my
wife just finished talking about we need
to give away a car from our car
dealership he said I got a car we’re
gonna give it don’t even worry about it
I said hold on wait a minute he somehow
we lose connection he calls me back and
he was like hey my daughter overheard us
talking right now cuz I had it on
speakerphone I was gonna give you this
type of car but she’s got a brand-new
leather interior dot and the Holy Spirit
had been talking to her about giving her
car away and she wants to give that
single mother her actual car I said what
are you saying to me he said that sits
o’clock tonight come pick it up because
it’s yours and walked up and gave us a
2013 brand-new low miles everything
fixed on it and I was able to present it
to a single mother why I don’t want you
to miss this cuz God didn’t even want to
use my money
he just wanted to use my obedience at
the moment I decided in my heart that I
was gonna give that sacrificial offering
she already had everything lined up for
it wouldn’t take a cent out of my
account but I was able to give it to him
what are you saying Pastor Mike if God
can get it through he’ll get it to you
we’ve been playing in a low-level church
we got a tithe this is the end of this
series we got a time cuz if we ties we
go to the next level of giving offerings
and obeying God when he says give the
fifty give the hundred give the thousand
give the 2000 hey don’t worry cuz
something all about the tune off we’re
not taking an offering today this
message is not meant to condemn anybody
but if you feel conviction
the Bible says conviction comes from the
Holy Spirit we not gonna ask anybody to
do anything but if you feel God’s saying
something to you nothing to you and God
but what I want every person look at me
what I want you to live what I want you
to get to well I want you to make steps
and some of you over here and you say
pass the mic I don’t know how I get
there all I’m asking you to is make the
next step if you’ve never tithe before
start if you’ve never give an offering
before start if you’ve never done a
sacrificial offering before start
because when we get here the world’s
gonna stand up and call this place
can you do something for me right now
everybody that’s watching online will
you stand up everybody just stand up
come on
just stand up wherever you are if you
can’t I want you to stand cuz I want I
want you to see what God is doing he’s
trying to allow this to be contagious
you he want to generosity in this moment
to be more contagious than Korona who
can you bless this week who can you buy
toilet tissue for who can’t you pay for
a bill who can you do something don’t
buy the shoes pay somebody’s gas field
what can you do this month this week
today to be generous and come to a place
where God says now I can get them so
much more I was able to give that young
lady a car because I made it up in my
heart sacrificial generosity you get it
to me God you can get it
and then it became it became a thing of
our church on that last Sunday we gave
1.2 million dollars away people started
being blessed by that but y’all know cuz
generosity is more contagious and then
Korona it just started happening
everywhere stuff we couldn’t report to
you at the beginning of this series I
called a young lady up here that said
she only had $25 to her name and and I
used her for an example and she got $500
do you know by the time she walked out
the door she sent me a text message said
transformation church had given her
$3,000 because generosity is more
contagious than anything the lady last
week that we that heard a van for her
special needs son hadn’t had been broken
and it was on the news and we saw that
and we gave her $10,000 what they did is
when she got to the car dealership they
gave her all the work for wholesale
price so she could keep some of the
money and then when it was the tag title
and um the tag entitle the person who
was doing it pulled out their personal
checkbook and wrote the money for the
y’all don’t hear me because giving is
more contagious today as we stand at the
precipice of church being done a
completely different way and there are
churches right now who have maybe older
congregations or maybe didn’t have the
finances to do the technology that
they’re struggling right now we want to
be a church that gives a sacrificial
offering to help some churches make it
through this moment
so this week I heard about two and so
we’re gonna do something about it as an
organization there’s a church in
Tennessee
venue church who today right now is
their first time streaming the pastor
called me earlier this week and said I
don’t know what to do we’re gonna try to
get the stuff together and they they
were able to make it happen cuz their
City told them they couldn’t meet with
people over 250 people and all that
other stuff so venue church on behalf of
transformation nation and everybody
that’s watching right now there’s a
check for fifty thousand dollars that
were sending to you oh yeah but we’re
gonna live at sacrificial
why does this mean that much to me
because five years ago when we took out
$80,000 to buy cameras it’s the faith of
a few that allowed us to be here to dip
me and I know what it’s like my brother
on the north side of toss the pasta
shine Jerry New Jerusalem Baptist Church
he text me earlier this week I got the
text message in my phone he said do you
know anybody who can help us get our
streaming up many of his members are
elderly it’s better for them to not be a
a gathering together but they don’t have
any technologies and I just bought a
camera but I don’t know and my heart
begins to break instead Michael I’ve
pledged transformation church to be a
blessing
he said what you believed four or five
years ago you can give to somebody today
without sweating it so New Jerusalem
there’s $100,000 check being delivered
to you so the gospel of Jesus Christ
Oh
that extravagant given hands up all over
the place I’m gonna pray for you I
declare and I believe that we have
broken the back of poverty over our
mindsets father I thank you in the name
of Jesus that every person will move
from just believing that you’re good to
trusting you father God in their heart
and tithing and they’ll move from that
level of book and they’ll level up to
being able to give offering and they’ll
go from giving offering father time to
being able to live at a place of
sacrificial offering father today
what’s more contagious than Corona is
extravagant generosity and I pray it
over every person that is watching right
now live or on rebroadcast break every
chain is my prayer father of poverty
every chain of greed every chain of
shame every chain father for stewardship
as we in this series we don’t have to
secure the bag because you are securing
us father we trust you we believe you we
thank you and because we are blessed to
be a blessing today for what you’re
about to do we give you glory we give
you honor and we give you praise
will you give God the biggest
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have their message like this now God’s
gonna start speaking to you it may not
be a car it may not be a camera maybe a
chick-fil-a gift card it may be the book
that you wanted to hatch you on it it
may be an amount of money but when you
obey God you give him the opportunity to
bless you and I want us all to live a
blessed life a man and some of you are
watching right now you like me if you
get all that money still my life is
jacked up here what I’m saying to you
it’s all about the heart these
principles in here really let me know
that Jesus is real and if you’re
watching right now you never accepted
Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and
Savior today is the day of salvation
it’s the thing that took me from
addicted to pornography a manipulator a
liar
and if right now if you’ve already
accepted Jesus you need to be praying
people’s lives are on the line right now
I feel this thing so strong it’s the
thing that took me from a bad person it
didn’t make me perfect but it now makes
me progress and because of my
relationship with Jesus I’m not who I
used to be not who I’m gonna be but man
I’m so much further and today God wants
to offer that to you and he’ll help you
take these steps he’ll get your heart
they’ll change your habits today I want
to pray free if you’re under the sound
of my voice we’re gonna say a prayer and
everybody everybody watching online
everybody that’s in the building
everybody that’s gonna watch our
rebroadcast we’re gonna say this
together because we’re a family at
transformation church nobody prays alone
but only you and God know if you really
mean this so let’s pray together
everybody say God thank you for sending
Jesus that’s the greatest sacrifice just
for me today I’m giving you my life
transform me
save me change me I believe you live and
you die just for me today I surrender my
life I’m yours in Jesus name
now listen if you prayed that prayer on
the count of three I want you to bow Lee
no matter if your friends or family
around no matter if you’re by yourself
no matter what I want you to shoot your
hand up in the air
and we’re gonna start celebrating listen
the Bible tells us that if one person
gets saved the entire heavens [ __ ]
rejoicing and there’s people hundreds of
thousands all over the world that’s
about to rejoice with you what you just
made the greatest decision of your life
– God is so proud of you and so are we
three lift your hands in the air right
now
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