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I’m gonna just go right in okay so like
no warm-up no warm-up y’all okay with
this we can just go okay I’m gonna just
give you the title off real okay
the title of today’s message is history
in the making because the thing that I
was challenged with when preparing this
message is how do I stand at 21 years of
a ministry going and we’re right in the
middle of what seems to be like the
beginning of it like it’s been going 21
years but after 21 it feels like the
beginning and how do we bring faith to
our present while honoring the past but
but believing and building momentum for
the future and this this phrase
encapsulated all of those things history
in the making history talks about the
past in is my present cuz I’m in it but
then the making like there’s a phrase
that can honor the past be fully
committed to the present and know that
it ain’t nothing compared to what’s
about to happen in my future now for
some people in this room I’m gonna have
to unpack this whole truth through
testimony in the Word of God but it’s
not seeing more clearer then in Isaiah
43 and I’m gonna read up a large chunk
of Scripture because number one we in
charge like I don’t know why people’s
like well that was a long Scripture
you don’t eat there in the week I told
you no warmer
what would happen if you ate on Sunday
and then eat till next Sunday physically
no no for real for real like go after
church
get your McDouble and then you didn’t
eat till next week you will be
malnourished the problem that I feel is
that we are packed in this building to
celebrate and you’re hoping to eat a
meal today to last some of you for
another month if you don’t start
consuming this Bible everybody say daily
how many times do y’all eat everyday
by hands how many times do y’all eat
some of y’all don’t got enough hands
look at y’all who’s like I don’t know
but that’s why we’re gonna read the Word
of God in this house Isaiah 43 14 it
says this is what the Lord says your
Redeemer the Holy One of Israel for your
sakes I will send an army against
Babylon I’m forcing the Babylonians to
flee and those ships they’re so proud of
I am the Lord your Holy One Israel’s
creator and king I am the Lord he keeps
telling us who he is I am the Lord your
Holy One the creator and the King I am
the lord who opened a way through the
waters making a dry path through the sea
I called forth the mighty army of Egypt
with all of its chariots and horses and
I drew them beneath the waves and they
drowned their lives snuffed out like a
smoldering candle with verse 18 is where
we gonna focus I did all of that
I saved you I redeemed you I put you in
a place you didn’t deserve to be in our
healed your marriage restored you I
brought you back from that addiction a
change I changed how people viewed you
are when you when you left me I came
running after you
some of y’all are remembering right now
like you were able to start the business
that you couldn’t qualify for any of the
loans or any of the things I helped you
do what you were supposed to do but
forget all that forget it cuz it’s
nothing compared to what I’m gonna do
this thing go preach this ownself
somebody say forget all that mmm so I’m
about to do something new see I have
already begun do you not see it
this is 2020 when anybody talks about
2020 what what are they usually
referring to do you not see it I will
make pathways through the wilderness
I’ll create rivers in the dry wasteland
the wild animals of the field will thank
me the jackals in the house Burcu thank
you y’all don’t read the Bible it says
yes I will make rivers in the dry
wasteland
so my chosen people can be refreshed the
funny thing about the scripture is this
is Isaiah talking but it’s God speaking
through Isaiah to a group of people
who’ve already seen crazy things like
most of us that are sitting in this
building it’s the grand opening of a
building that’s already been open like
we’ve been here since September but all
of you came today because this is a
crazy faith miracle but what do you do
when you’ve seen God do some crazy
things how do you process it and stay on
the edge of faith when you’ve already
been a part of a move of God when you’ve
already seen God answer some prayers
I found this formula it’s really
encapsulated in that phrase history
in the making somebody say it with me
history in to make just one more time
for overflow history in the making and
the first thing that I realized is that
you can’t skip history to build momentum
for your present what most people try to
do is blaze a new trail without
referencing the trail that was already
there I’m trying to help some people in
this room most of us want to be like all
they never did what we did and we bout
to do something that’s never been done
and what that is is arrogance I got to
talk to all generations in the room
today because what’s happening is
because some of our forefathers never
reach the the lights and the status and
and and and a claim that somebody for
doing dumb stuff can get like you can do
a tick-tock and and and be and be
popular or famous but you have nothing
on the inside of you that’s worth okay
how do I say it let me I don’t want to I
want to be sensitive to the momentum and
I think that in our society right now
we’re very conscious of what is poppin
are popular now but we don’t consider
what had to happen before that the
history of it and and today if we’re
going to be able to go to the thing that
God wants for us to do I need us to stop
and I need us to look at history right
this point down for me the arrogance of
an amateur values the experience over
the remembrance I’m gonna explain it to
you the arrogance of an amateur values
the experience that we did the
experience that we had the experience
that we made over the remembrance of
what God has already done
and this is the place where many of us
are at right now because we have stopped
remembering where God brought us from
and we’re looking for the high in our
next experience that’s why some of y’all
are actually here right now because you
had FOMO you were chasing the high of
being where everybody else was gonna be
at and you’re looking for this thing
that’ll never fulfill you and you could
get the same level of energy if you
would just stop for a second sit in your
room that ain’t got no furniture in it
and think about how broken you were five
years ago
and if you really started to remember
the goodness of God you would be more
thankful for the remembrance of what
happened for you then the next
experience that you’re about to go to
and what I’ve what I’ve said at this
moment in our church history I can just
get up here like we bout to take over
everybody nobody can stop us we are in
overflow in the parking lot like I could
just but the Holy Spirit would be like
that’s an amateur move you ever been
somewhere and you can tell the person
ain’t never been there before it may be
true that it that is their first time
there but there’s some things people can
do to tell you and guarantee you ain’t
never been here before I think about
some of the rooms that God has afforded
me to go into in this past year and a
half and you know when people get bougie
and they got money they start eating
complicated I don’t know why eating gets
so complicated the more money you have
it should be more convenient but they
bring out five-course meals and they’re
all little portions split up over an
hour and a half bring me all my food
please
I don’t want this liver rip em in a
drink of Tytos
give me it just gets more complicated
but one thing that I’ve learned to do is
follow the person that I’m eating with
because what they do is they give you a
lot of cutlery four Forks seven knives
thirteen spoons and then they put soup
in front of you and I’m like mmm like me
I just want to take the bowl in life
y’all know yes stop acting faking here
so what I do is I I sit back twirl the
thing that buddy is this is really happy
to be several times and so I’m replaying
it in my head I sit back mess with my
napkin
haha that’s funny bail Oh Oh when we go
eat and then I I watch him pick up or
her pick up something and then I watch
where it was compared to where I am and
now watch how slow they’re eating in and
I don’t do it at the moment that I think
I know I wait I usually wait until they
stop eating for a second and start
talking and then I remember what they
did and because I remembered what they
did I’m able to now execute at a level
of proficiency that that would have been
taken away from me if I arrogantly would
have walked in there and be like what is
all these spoons for juice I’m only
using this one and like if I started
doing that and what I’m afraid of is
that many of us are walking into
situations where we’re so arrogant about
what God’s called us to do that we don’t
take a moment to pause and observe and
remember the sacrifice of other people
to get us to this place and I can’t help
but think of why God through Isaiah
takes two verses to remind the children
of Israel of what happened they were
ready for their next experience and God
through Isaiah takes them back to
remembrance look what he says I am the
Lord oh I do remember that who opened up
the way Dan you did do that do the
waters snap that is when we saw Willy
and Nemo and all in him and I’m making a
dry path he did do that through the sea
I call forth the mighty armies of Egypt
with all of its chariots and horses and
I drew them beneath the waves and they
drowned your enemies weren’t able to
touch you because I snuffed them out
like a candle win God took a moment to
everybody say remember
and today as we stand at this amazing
moment I don’t want to rush it because I
want to remember what it was like when I
stood on a platform and 200 people
showed up because it was a snow day I’m
gonna I’m gonna I’m gonna take all of
this in during worship I barely could do
anything but look around because I want
to remember the last time we did an
anniversary like this was the day that I
became the pastor of the church and I
didn’t sleep the night before because I
was painting the walls to make sure that
it was proper for God’s people to come
in and I would stay up all night to
paint a black wall and at 6:45 in the
morning the usher started coming in can
my friend Aaron who was on the worship
team today said Mike you got to go get
dressed you’re about to be installed as
the pastor I need to remember I’m not
just trying to have an emotional moment
right now I’m just trying to remember
that this is not the pentacle of
satisfaction
hear what I’m saying when you get the
house you need to remember the dorm room
when you’re complaining about the family
you prayed for you need to remember
being lonely and single and frustrated
see some of y’all have lost the art of
remembering but I dare you to take five
seconds right now and think about what
God has brought you from and remember
and when you remember the history it
changes the way you approach your
present see I approach this moment with
faith because I have more than I’ve ever
had and many times it happens in Reverse
for people when they have more than
they’ve ever had they start protecting
what they have and God told me said
Michael this is the year that you’re not
gonna play it safe you ready to step out
in faith I said I thought I thought I
was already out here I thought it got
mean this feel pretty uh okay but then I
learn something watch this you can’t
appreciate the value of a victory
without remembering the magnitude of the
moment see a lot of people get a victory
and they lose the value in it cuz they
forgot the moment they were in when God
gave them that victory nope you missed
it look what happened Isaiah 43 16 it’s
right here in the Bible it says I am the
lord who opened away oh great that’s a
victory God opened away but you only see
the value when you realize the magnitude
of the moment he opened up all the way
through some water y’all missed it my
enemies back here we scared the ocean
they trying to kill me I’m running the
ocean I’m black can’t swim we’re gonna
rebuke that demon in 2020 we’re having
transformation swimming classes for
y’all this is foolish slavery is our sea
you don’t value what God did if you
don’t remember the magnitude of the
moment my enemies behind me I come up to
our position and God says see move and
some of you that’s what he’s done in
your life you’ve come up against and I
feel this opposition and y’all have
forgot the value of the victory cuz
there was no way you should be here
there was no way you should have got
into that school there was no way you
should have your right mind
but God made a way through the sea if he
made a wave to receive for you why don’t
you give him some praise in the villa
see y’all forgetting you stop
remembering what God did so you can’t
understand the value of the victory if
you don’t understand the magnitude of
the moment see it’s like bishop and
pastor Debbie they started a church in
1990 1999 Greg another person in Tulsa
started a church they’re everywhere but
you missed the magnitude of the moment
you don’t understand the value of that
victory they’re leaving something that’s
familiar and they’re walking up to
planting a church in the hood and if
you’ve never seen bishop and pastor
Debbie they white excuse me they white
white
like not the rhythm like not the Justin
Timberlake white like the like okay I’m
just trying to make sure y’all
understand like I love this shirt but
watch the only reason you can understand
the value of the victory is because you
take time to remember the magnitude of
the moment they stepped out and Bishop
took his shoes off on Greenwood and
Archer and he looked around in north
Tulsa and God said reverse the curse see
y’all don’t know that in 1921 one of the
worst race massacres happen right here
in Tulsa Oklahoma they don’t teach this
in Oklahoma history they don’t teach
this but they wiped out and depressed a
side of our city and God called a man
and a woman to look at a see and he said
I’m bout to make a way through the
waters y’all don’t hear me in this place
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah there
would be no transformation Church there
would be none of this if they did not
step and see God give them victory when
the moment was speaking everything
against them and why am I telling you
this
I am
I’m telling I’m telling all of you this
because I don’t think your next victory
is in thinking about what’s to come yet
I think your next victory and guess what
you don’t need no money to remember you
don’t need nobody to co-sign you to
remember you don’t need a cheering
committee you don’t need a leader to
approve you if you just sit in a quiet
space and remember where God has brought
you from it will begin to give you faith
and fuel for what God has called you to
do and I just need somebody before I
move on to remember that the same God
the same God that told Bishop and pastor
Debbie to reverse the curse it’s the
same God that’s in the building right
now he’s the same God that stands
outside of eternity and he’s the same
God it’s the same somebody shot at me
he’s the same guy say it again he’s the
same guy in the overflow he’s the same
guy that’s why we have to look at the
past you I don’t want a good hell memory
lane with me do you okay see the same
guy that told bishop to reverse the
curse was the same guy that after I
wrote down on a piece of paper that
transformation Church would be meeting
in the spirit Bank event center it’s the
same guy that my third call was to
Bishop and we came over here we broke in
I admit we broke in and Bishop before we
left out he said Mike this is your
building now you you okay yeah we’re in
here now you don’t understand the value
of the victory because you weren’t in
the magnitude of the moment at that time
in the church we had less than 350
people coming consistently we had a very
low budget we were believing God
to meet our needs so we didn’t have to
fire people who have been with the
church for 10 plus years we were in a
moment where it looked like the sea was
closed in front of us and guess what we
did in that moment Bishop said stand
there Pastor Mike I want to take a
picture of you in the building that you
will one day own if you got that picture
put it on the screen real quick cuz I
need people to see Oh y’all don’t hear
me so you don’t understand the value of
the victory of us being here unless you
understand the magnitude of this moment
somebody else on the building at this
time somebody else was trying to get it
but the value of the victory we stand in
now it’s cuz in that moment I had faith
what are you trying to say Pastor Mike I
I’m just trying to fuel your face so
that you remember that whatever you’re
facing right now God’s already brought
you through he’s already brought you
through so much why are you tripping now
it’s like it’s like this is where you
think I believe you like this is where
you think I’m gonna play you right now
I’m the same guy that brought you out of
that crazy family that saved you from
all of that crafted and this is where
you’ll go play me like I’m sure Hobart
right the God who will provide I am the
healer I am
somebody better give God praise because
the same God who did it back then is the
same God that’s gonna do it man
somebody shot at me remember the old
folks would say when I think of the
goodness in Jesus
some of y’all too young for this and all
he’s done for me my soul cries
hallelujah see what I’m trying to do
today is I’m trying to make a commitment
to everybody that no matter what God
does in this ministry no matter how big
it gets we won’t be arrogant and we will
remember our history
I remember when tons of people left the
church and as a 26 year old pastor I
took every one personal we’re leaving
God’s doing great things but we out
you’re called for this but we not gonna
be here you have such a bright future
we’re gonna throw shade like what and I
took everyone personal but there were
there were people in this room that I
remember who stayed with me people like
Miss Tami mcquarters and Scott
mcquarters people yeah yeah see you
don’t you don’t know them
cuz you weren’t there in that moment but
I remember see it doesn’t take everybody
to clap for it to be significant see see
see everybody can clap but the question
is are the right ones clapping are the
people who saw your sacrifice that’s why
I can’t stand you getting your
validation from Instagram and Facebook
they weren’t there when you pretend they
weren’t there when you began the work
and God says I rejoice to see the work
begin it doesn’t even matter if there
was only 50 views God said I see you I
see what you’re doing I see you being
faithful and that’s why I remember
people like Eddie Evans and Calvin Webb
Eddie Eddie you in the building
Calvin Webb you in the building y’all
come up here real quick I remember these
men of God and I’m just trying to give
y’all I need y’all to come quick come on
I need you to remember I’ve been
remembering what God did I remember
coming in and preaching my first message
not in a suit and at our church at that
time the culture you are suit and if you
didn’t wear a suit you didn’t hear from
God
you weren’t anointed and matter of fact
you was backslide and lift your hands
and they were you mean over the soup and
I remember being called into a meeting
cuz the ushers was pissed off
I remember cuz I asked everybody to wear
a orange shirt that said transformation
Church on it so that our visitors would
know who they could ask for help and
these men said I don’t spit $400
they see me they know that I’m in charge
I said brother
a transformation church this is brother
Calvin Webb
how do you about seven new wine now I
[Applause]
remember
do you remember y’all on the fit over
not wearing suits yes I mean they was
mad but it doesn’t it’s funny that in
this moment where we could be talking
about all the great things that we’ve
done as a church this week when I was
remembering I remembered you because out
of all the people who got mad and left
who got mad and talked about us
you and your wife kept tithing kept
serving the reason why it took him so
long because he was ushering in that
section over there today okay no can we
give God pray I remember and cuz I
remember you know I’m a sneakerhead so I
had this guy make some custom represent
Nike Blazers that said transformation
Church here v Tulsa Oklahoma established
in 1999 and I got a made in your size
and you may never wear them
he said oh I’m aware of but I want you
to know that I remember what you did by
staying and being faithful to this
vision when everybody didn’t know if it
was gonna work and God saw it can we
give God
I love you son
let me teach you something next
generation that’s the way that we’re
gonna get an inheritance we’re so used
to being abandoned without anything but
the way we get an inheritance is through
this little cuss word that starts with
an H honored so everybody needs to
remember see the great thing about
remembering is right this point down
remembering produces rejoicing see when
you really start remembering what God
has done then you start rejoicing for
all that he’s about to do and again you
can rejoice in the middle of it
everybody say in the middle of it in the
middle of pain in the middle of
frustration you can still rejoice in the
middle of everything not working out in
the middle of loss you can still rejoice
do you know how many times I had to
praise God when everything looked
contrary to what was happening but that
is the weapon God gives you is he gives
you joy in the midst of sorrow and I
need somebody to understand what
Philippians chapter 4 verse 4 says it
says always be joyful in the Lord and
again I say rejoice
and this is the thing that I need
everybody to understand is when you
remember you should begin to feel joy me
on the inside my situation didn’t change
but my joy is coming back this is this
is the word some of y’all came for this
week my situation is no different they
still mean they’re still ugly and they
stink themself but my joy cuz the world
didn’t give
see you don’t believe that you think
your joy can be stolen by your coworker
and your joy no your happiness can be
stolen but my joy that’s the fruit of
the Spirit the only one that can give me
joy it’s the Holy Spirit and when God
gives me joy you can’t touch it and some
of y’all been making the weakest excuse
that oh they just oh they just they just
stole my this situation just no you gave
it away let me help you anytime your joy
gets robbed from you it didn’t really
get robbed from you you abdicated it you
gave it away
you let somebody’s attitude take away
what God placed on the inside of you but
I’m making a decision in 2020 nobody
gets to joy that they didn’t give me and
when I start to remember all that God’s
done have we saved me analogies marriage
how my son is alive he not talking but
he’s alive when I begin to think of the
goodness of Jesus I get somebody shot at
me joy I’m trying to give you a playbook
don’t be arrogant and don’t remember
what God’s brought you from and when you
start remembering you need to get joy on
the inside of you okay some of y’all
need help you need a joy booster how
many people have had off a hard week
this week hands raised come on oh dang
all right well I’ve needed a lot of joy
boosters over this past five years and
they came in different ways and so today
I felt like God wanted to give everybody
a joy booster I became the pastor
February 1st 2015 March 9th God gave me
a word that this would be our building
and about nine weeks ago I stood right
there and I said um I’m believing in
crazy faith that by church anniversary
we’re gonna pay to building off
transformation church
I want to let you know because of your
crazy face
we no longer owe any money on the
building Oh somebody better give God
[Applause]
don’t tell me what God won’t do
[Applause]
and the same God that did that
you missed it in the same God that did
that he don’t do nothing for this house
said he don’t want to do for your house
you believe it what happened to the
mortgage it’s gone
[Applause]
don’t tell me what God will do if I
remember how he kept me when I lost all
the staff on the second year then when I
stand in this building and we needed to
pay ten point five million dollars for
it
when they told us that we couldn’t even
have it God said I’m the same God that
brought you from that place don’t matter
about the zeros out on the galaxy you’re
worried about the wrong thing God’s
looking for faith is there anybody in
this place went crazy faith today in the
overflow watching online in the lobby
give God a shout of play our bank
president is videoing me right now
what’s update first bank of Owosso he
texts me three days ago cuz I went to
his office
and I told him I said D we’re gonna sign
for this loan in August and it will be
paid off by our church anniversary and
he chuckled and white man chuckled
[Applause]
I don’t think they knew who he was
messing with there was a bunch of people
who had crazy faith and y’all sit in
gifts from all over the world and he
texted me three days ago and he said
we’ve been in business for 57 years
making loans to over 200 churches
congratulations transformation church is
now the fastest paid off loan and first
bank of awasum history its history
some of y’all are getting it God saying
look at the patch these faithful in the
present because I’m taking you to the
future
[Applause]
some y’all ginyan hey hey there’s a
phrase that just come hey hey come on
that mystery is to make we in disarray
it then make help me every oh hey
history it’s too late now give God
praise for right now
[Applause]
history in bacon history
[Music]
the Builder paid it for
they said I wasn’t full
but God did what he do Hey and it was
some being you
history
ah
I know you feel that in overflow oh yeah
[Applause]
[Music]
[Music]
history is the lady
yup history
for your house
for your bank account history
for your family history
for your heart this is not season
some of y’all see are all weak y’all
gonna be crew Vinny
[Applause]
now what no no it’s crazy though because
we remembered and our memory produced
rejoicing that’s what just happened but
then look what God says go to verse 18
please see we could stay there all day
and just be yelling but he said
everything I’ve done up into this point
oh you thought that was it
is that what you thought you thought I
wasn’t thought that was a limited –
what’s happened – now I need you to do
something for me forget all
we just burn the mortgage but at the
moment it happens it becomes
[Music]
so at the moment we burn the mortgage
god says I can top that
[Music]
[Applause]
some theologians fates right now as the
hominy heals your marriage he says I can
talk that at the moment he saves your
kids he says I can talk them
and the moment you get the promotion
mister like
that’s why we have to always honor his
stooge but we gotta have crazy faith in
the present because it’s not worth being
compared to the in the making
can I just came to encourage somebody
who’s been doubting has God done his
greatest miracle in your life for my
glory days behind me am I too old to be
used by God am I too young to be used by
God am I too damaged to actually do what
I see in my heart and I came to tell you
that baby you’re still in the main
[Applause]
somebody needs to receive that now hands
lifting I speak over you that you’re in
the making that your business your
family in overflow lives your hands and
the lobby lift your hands watching a
rebroadcast lift your hands and receive
I’m telling you that whatever happened
to you how damaged you’ve broken the
inner peace tried to make you see
God sent me here to tell you that you
are in I see by the spirit I’ve got this
feeling that the urge to prophesy to
somebody that I see by the spirit that
God has wrapped you in a cocoon in this
last season and you’ve been a
caterpillar crawling everywhere using a
lot of effort and energy to make that
thing happen but God is saying in this
moment the cocoon season is coming to an
end
[Music]
listen listen and when you see things
breaking it’s what’s necessary for the
wings to spread I feel this by the power
of God don’t try to hold on to those
relationships God’s breaking don’t try
to hold on to that business idea that
God’s breaking because he’s breaking it
so you can fly baby and the only time
that you would ever need to go to a low
place again is when you decide to go
help somebody else
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is anybody receiving that right now I’m
just feeling
God says you’re in the making give not
dream your greatest dream you not you’ve
not wrote your best song you’ve not
taken the picture that the world’s gonna
see you
I hear the Holy Spirit saying some of
you have been holding back you’ve been
holding back in fear that if you let it
go too soon you won’t have another good
one I don’t know who this is for but the
Holy Spirit says you’ve been holding
things back that I’ve already given you
waiting for the right moment and he’s
saying if you don’t release what’s in
your hand I can’t release the next idea
that’s in my head
if you don’t release leap jump up here
real fast
Scott give me that um give me that bag
real quick whoever got my bag hurry okay
I need it everybody has everybody seen
is this picture of like a teddy bear and
Jesus and like Jesus having a big teddy
bear behind his back and then and then
like and they’re trying to hold on to
something so it’s like this
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so like drug money
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yeah I needed to break that that’s how
gangsters break the rap
Haley Haley God told me yesterday when I
saw you to give you this now I don’t
know why you crying I don’t know what’s
happening but what I do know is I
actually have something else for you but
the only way that I can get and give you
what’s in this hand is that you have to
trust that I know what’s best for you
see that that looks bigger but it’s $200
in one’s and this is what many of your
lives look like you’re holding on to a
bunch of singles
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and because it looks like more and it
and you can stunt with it
God’s saying right this point down when
you’re ready to release it tells God
you’re ready for release
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soli tonight can I have watch the
question can I have back what I already
gave
see the problem is many of you think
what you hold in your hands your gifts
your talents your job your house yo you
think it’s yours but can I have look at
it with tears in his eyes knowing that I
may give him something that is not as
valuable but because he trusts the
character of the one who gave it to you
at the moment he release releases this
is $500
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now watch remember what I just said when
you’re ready to release the relationship
the business idea when you’re ready to
release that tells God you’re ready for
release
now can I just hold this for one second
one looks a lot more attractive than the
other and many times God will ask you to
release something that looks like more
to actually put your hands on something
that actually is valued at more than
unison so to release celebrity to be a
husband
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release everybody liking you to obey the
will of God
lady that’s your I love you many thank
you for being used as an example Hey
apparently cuz you were faithful I’m
trying to show you the kingdom right now
cuz you were faithful to trust me and
what I gave you you can take all
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and the bag two fingers at the back too
right right
what do you say it’s time to do all that
this word is telling us to do remember
the past rejoice in our present and
release everybody say release our future
into God’s hands that’s what we’re doing
as a church as I stand here at this
five-year anniversary I don’t know
what’s next but every vision requires
revision when this church started in
1999 the vision statement was touching a
city by raising up four people I want
you to get it every vision has to have a
revision and what God saw outside of
eternity is I want this thing to last
beyond the original visionary so he gave
him touching a city by raising the
people and then he said yeah might go
serve in the salmon booth and I must
start you in an obscure place and I want
to make sure you have my heart and when
the church goes to a financial issue and
they have to lay everybody off I want
you to stay and keep serving and it was
in the season that I kept from the back
turning up microphones didn’t yell daddy
about Tony Mason you know where you at
he was right in here I saw it more in
the monitors more in the monitor
you loud you can’t hear yourself he made
our half-hour Church death for real but
it was in that place that Bishop saw me
and he said there’s something happening
right there now listen now listen when
he handed me the baton he said now
Michael you have the opportunity not to
give the original vision but to go back
for revisions and the only time you can
go back for a revision and I’m saying
this because some of y’all are in a
place and you’re trying to work a vision
that has expired I know this is tough to
hear but but we don’t release to
dishonor the past we release to honor
the future
see y’all got nah we ain’t doing it like
them no I’ve spent most of my message
today honoring what has happened so we
don’t we don’t we don’t release it some
good day and do nothing
yeah but we have to release it because
what God has behind his back for
transformation church it’s not worth
being compared what he has for your
house what he has for your life and your
family it’s not being what stop living
in your highschool trophy day when you
say the good old days that means your
days today are bad and so many people
are living in a period of their life
when God said the whole reason I say in
Jesus is that you might have life and
have life to the fool what are you
saying to us Pastor Mike everybody who’s
a part of transformation church and
transformation nation I’m so excited
that you came and you’re watching this
cuz I feel like this is a homecoming and
I can tell everybody all at the same
time we are releasing everything God’s
done up into this point great for
transformation church building great for
the thousands of people who’ve come and
been changed but my Bible says it’s not
worth being compared to what he has
planned for us what is the next five
years hold Pastor Mike I don’t know but
it’s better than this
did you see the faith in the statement
somebody’s gonna get that I don’t know
but it’s better than this where you
gonna be working five years from now I
don’t know but it’s better than my
family how your family gonna be doing
that year I don’t know but it’s better
than this house your Health’s gonna be
next week
I don’t know what’s gonna happen but
it’s gonna be better than this hands
lifted all over this place in the
overflow I speak the same anointing that
is on transformation church and in my
life I speak it over every person with
the faith to receive it I declare that
this is not just an act of faith it’s an
impartation of faith I need y’all to
receive right now this is not scary and
spooky this is spiritual all the way up
in the balcony I believe that an army is
arising of people that will believe God
beyond what they have seen our best days
are not behind us but our best days are
in front of us I declared that we are
moving forward we are saying we’re not
going back because God you’ve done some
amazing things in our history but right
now we have saved in the present because
it’s not worth being compared to what
you’re gonna do and what you have in the
making
today God I command dreams to come alive
receive this received as I feel the
Prince I literally feel first you coming
from me right now
I declare people will write things down
and live to seal I thank you Father that
bank accounts that have been barren and
dry will find themselves in overflow I
declare and I believe that creativity is
being unlocked over every business every
every artist I declared that the word of
the Lord will come to every author and
that books volumes of books
but didn’t afloat I declare everybody
who is called to be able to speak the
Word of God that there will be a
revelation that will drop in them that
will be found every time they think
about Jesus and what he’s done I declare
that every sink Bowl and every person’s
butt comes into alignment with the
thirty-nine lashes that Jesus took on
the crust
I declare divine healing and we speak in
this moment that history is still in the
making and father God because we know
your character and we know you’re a good
good who does not give his kids bad
gifts today we don’t praise you for what
you’ve already done that’s in our
history today we’re going to give you an
advanced rate in this moment my hair
if God’s out of play
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Oh
Oh
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before everybody makes some mass exodus
I want to help you I need you to look at
the whole reason that God wanted to
deliver the children of Israel out of
slavery verse 14 says that this is the
Lord your Redeemer today if you’re in
this building and you want to accept
Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and
Savior I want you to accept what Christ
has done for you as a everybody say
Redeemer if I was to put it in a point
I’d say it like this don’t settle for
being refreshed when you can be redeemed
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that’s why so many of us come to church
and we just let me get in the water to
go back out here and get beat up and let
me get enough hope to go out there and
gotta say wow why would you just come
getting this a sip
when I can I can give you the distillery
and some of you have been searching for
a feeling to just feel good get
refreshed got more money I’m refreshed
for a second and you’re thirsty again
and today I want to offer you the only
water table will make you never thirst
again it’s the living water but here in
this room you’ve never accepted Jesus
Christ if you’re an overflow if you’re
watching on broadcast if you’re in the
lobby don’t be distracted cuz people are
leaving
tune in to me this is the moment that
God has set up your whole life for all
your history doesn’t matter if you’ve
make the decision for Jesus and be in
this moment I promise you I’m a living
witness that’s that’s the thing that
made me and it’s still making me I went
from being a liar a manipulator addicted
to pornography somebody who had a
horrible character and didn’t see the
value in other people not to a perfect
man but to a progressing man and that
only happened because I submitted my
history in a moment God has been making
me if you’re in this room and somebody
drugged you here
and you got plans to do something
completely opposite what you know is
right today or you’ve been living the
goody two-shoe lives but you haven’t
surrendered your life to Christ all of
that’s the same thing because somebody
wants to put it on a pedestal well
homosexuality is a real sin and your
lies aren’t
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some of y’all gonna leave and not come
back but the foot of the cross is even
there’s no little white lie at the foot
of the cross and all of us need the
grace of God so today if you need the
grace of God in just a moment we’re
gonna pray a prayer and when we pray
this prayer the Bible tells us according
to Romans 10:9 all we have to do as a
believe and confess that Jesus Christ is
Lord and he died and rose for us
and he says it literally takes all of
your history sin how about some of y’all
and it says he blows them as far as the
East is from the West and he remembers
them nope
God’s already made a decision about you
once you make a decision for him
so if that’s you and you want to make
Jesus Christ your personal Lord and
Savior in the lobby in the overflow all
over this auditorium on the count of
three I want you to raise your hand and
be included in that prayer one you’re
making the greatest decision of your
life – this is why the church exists and
God is proud of you and so are we three
there’s hands already going up right now
I see I see I see oh come on I see I see
I see you I see you says oh this is a
big day in the overflow we see you in
the lobby we see now listen this means
you’re moving forward so let’s pray this
prayer together and that transformation
church we’re family nobody prays alone
everybody pray this prayer bold and
strong
everybody say God thank you for seeing
my history and putting me in this moment
and seeing my future and still choosing
me
I believe you lived you died and you
rose again just for me today I give you
my life take over change me renew me
transform me
I’m yours in Jesus name Amen
can we celebrate with the hundreds of
people
can we celebrate with the hundreds of
people
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somebody say I’m not going I’m not going
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what’s happening what are you doing
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that’s why we follow up we know it’s
character know who you are
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you haven’t gone too far he’s perfect
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so I want you to see this prophetic
picture its history in
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what they’ve sown now they they’re not
done they just step back to allow what
God’s doing now and support it so its
history and and everything God does
through us is for what he’s making you
into that’s why you come here that’s why
you stream that’s why you flew
that’s know y’all don’t hear me that’s
why you drove overnight that’s why
you’ve been waiting outside since 5:30
a.m. to start saying I’m not done yet
its history
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thank you for letting us to lead you
thank you for going with us in this
crazy faith
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so we said we would remember we’d
rejoice what else what we do we’d
release and what would God do redeem
I could sum it up in one word represent
I stand here on our fifth anniversary
with history behind me and in this
moment not knowing what’s gonna be made
and I promise I vow I declare
that for the rest of the time that I’m
breathing that’s for me in my house
we’re gonna serve the Lord by
representing godly to the lost and found
for transformation in Christ and all I
would ask is you’d make that same
commitment not to us father I bless
these people
I bless these people father God and I
asked you that your grace
before
people transfer them and bring them into
the Promised Land
the whole thing you were trying to
encourage the children of Israel and
Isaiah 43 was that you had something
better for you but they didn’t take your
route they turned an eleven-day journey
into a 40-year den I declared that we
will reach the promised land and we will
die empty and do everything that God’s
called us to do in Jesus name
can somebody give God one more shot of
crazy come on that’s good if it was for
me but till we give the king of pain
I celebrate thank you so much for
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you