In the first week of our new series, Paper Chasers we were posed with the question, “Are You Chasing Paper?” Despite what the world tries to tell us, money is not the answer to our problems; God is always the answer to our problems! We learned that we are either a Paper Chaser or a Purpose Chaser. Which one are you? Make sure and check out this message and share it with a friend!

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well good morning transformation

church come on it’s a good day to be in

the house of the lord

hallelujah hey listen

i am excited about what god is going to

do today

hey listen wherever you’re watching this

from no matter

what has happened this week no matter

what is going on

i believe that god is in the business

of touching your situation and um

i want to let you know we prayed for you

this week

and right now i just feel led to pray

for people right now in the comments

right now uh

there’s many different ways we start

service but in the comments i need you

to put your prayer requests right now

i i just feel that that the bible says

that my house should be called a house

of

prayer and i just feel at the top of

this service i got goosebumps all over

me

that somebody was about to give up and

somebody is facing something that you

don’t even have the words to articulate

but right now there’s tens of thousands

of people all around the world and

and and there’s a word called

intercession so right now i want you to

put in the comments what you need prayer

for

but don’t pray for it somebody else is

gonna pick up your prayer request

and and we’re gonna begin to intercede

right now

i want everybody to pick somebody out

that needs to be prayed for

everybody that’s here team i need you to

begin to pray

we’re about to move heaven the bible

says the fervent effectual prayers

of righteous people not perfect people

but people who are in right standing

with god they work

they avail and right now i just feel

that prayer needs to go forth come on

lift your hands all over the world

father in the name of jesus i need you

to pray

i believe that you are the healer

and you are the god that answers your

children’s prayer

and today before we go into anything

we’re asking you

and inviting you into every single

situation you are omniscient that means

you’re all knowing you know every detail

you know every fear you know every pain

you know every doubt and god i’m asking

you

to be a miracle-working god i declare by

tomorrow

some of the reports are gonna begin to

turn around

by next week some of the reports are

gonna begin i need y’all to pray

that by this time father god in an hour

pain is leaving people’s bodies peace is

coming

i feel the presence of god

father in the name of jesus

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we’re asking for every person that is

dealing with depression and anxiety

the spirit of suicide we curse you at

the root

father god i thank you in the name of

jesus that those who got negative doctor

reports

and doubt is trying to sit on people’s

chest we command you to get out in the

name of jesus

i pray over every persons whose marriage

father god

has seemed like a turmoil to be in i

declared the peace of god to come into

that marriage

families that have been at each other’s

throats i thank you that the joy of the

lord

would come in and be there straight for

all of my people who feel lonely

and single and isolated

even around people they feel that

i’m thinking you father that you will be

a comforter that you

stick closer than a brother god i’m just

thanking you for your love come on just

wrap your arms around yourself right now

this is god hugging you father i thank

you for your love

i thank you for your love that’s coming

to each one of us

to make us whole and to make us new

father god even as prayer requests are

still coming in right now

father i thank you that you would put a

burden on us as the church

you said that your house would be called

a house of prayer

even though we’re not in one building

father that makes us more dangerous

that we’re all over the world right now

and your house

our house is a house of prayer

god when the miracles and the

testimonies start coming in

we won’t take credit like we did

something but father god

as we pray to you in faith today we will

give you all the glory

all the honor and all the praise in

jesus name everybody say we agree

we expect amen

come on let’s give god a shout of praise

all over the world

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hallelujah

if you near somebody high five them give

them a hug if they’ve cleaned their

hands and socially distanced and

all of those other things i just i just

love that there’s no distance in prayer

and um i thought that would be the way

that we needed to start off today

because i don’t know if you knew this

but we in a brand new series

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today is week one of a series we’re

calling

paper chasers and um

i’m super excited about this series

because um

this series changed my life and um y’all

already know your pastor i can’t do

nothing

halfway and i can’t do nothing fake we

have a humble open and transparent

church

and um one of the crazy things about

this series is this series is about a

topic

that most people don’t talk about

because they don’t really want to talk

about the real things that are happening

in their life

but as a church we decided that that we

would be anchored this

year and we were going into the deep

somebody say we out here

so if if you haven’t gone back and

watched what god said about 2021 that

this is the year that we would be

anchored uh i need you to go back and

get that but i thought as we launch into

the deep the first thing we need to talk

about

is stewardship and generosity

uh oh already

that quick i thought we was going to

inch our way no no no no no if we’re

going to be

successful in what god has called us to

do we cannot

negate how god has set up

a way for us to deal with finances

money our increase

and i want to be very clear about this

that this topic and this subject

affects everybody’s household and peace

everybody is affected by

finances some negatively some positively

but god speaks about money in his word

as the number two topic in the entire

bible

i i want you like you can research it it

is the finances generosity

money he speaks about it only one other

thing he speaks out

about more than this and i believe

through the truths in this series

i feel the presence of god already i’m

i’m going to fight through some of the

generational cycles that have been in

your life of poverty

and in this series we’re going to fight

through some of the generational cycles

of

selfishness

i feel an entitled spirit of somebody

about to click off right now this could

change your life

but but i’m telling you right now that

the reason i’m so passionate about this

in the first

three minutes of this message is because

this is the message that changed my life

this message is based off of a teaching

from the word of god that god gave to

somebody that i consider

a spiritual mentor pastor robert morris

um he he wrote a book called the blessed

life and

um i am um

a very expressive

amazing man of god who can make you

believe

all kinds of stuff but when i started

pastoring i had no real revelation

about generosity and stewardship i know

nobody will tell you that

because they’re the pastor but i was a

pastor with a poverty mentality

and some of you are parents with a

poverty mentality

and some of you are politicians with the

poverty mentality

i’m just telling you just because you

have a position doesn’t mean you have

the right perspective

and some of your positions are

outweighing your perspective

and that’s god’s grace giving you a

position to grow into

but will you have the humility to learn

how to grow into the position

god called you to i don’t know who i’m

talking to right now

but some of you need to understand that

your perspective has to change

to match the position that god gave you

and for me as a pastor i got the title

february 1st 2015

but there were areas of my life where

the perspective did not match

the priority that god had given me in

people’s lives

and i read this book called the blessed

life and pastor robert began to talk to

me through this book i had never met the

man at the time he began to talk to me

and challenged me

on how i thought about finances and and

i found out that i was selfish on the

inside and i found out that there was

some greed on the inside of me

and i found out that i didn’t honor god

with my money and i found out i honestly

didn’t honor them with anything i

didn’t honor them with my time and i

didn’t honor it started exposing all

these things in my heart

and then it’s just like god

february first i became the pastor i

taught about vision like i did

um this year and we do every year and

then god said

the next series that you’re going to

preach at this church is called the

blessed life

and i was like oh great i get to go fake

it for the people lord okay

great i don’t know how to live a blessed

life when when we did the blessed light

the first time i had negative bank

accounts

can i can i be humble open and transfer

okay i had negative bank accounts

i had debt so much debt i had just two

weeks earlier

gotten out of a a lean situation on my

home

and god says go and do and give the

people the blessed life

and i thought god wanted me to in pride

go

and be somebody i wasn’t yet

but it actually was an opportunity to be

humble before the people god asked me to

lead

and so i said all right lord well i’m

gonna get up here and i’m gonna teach

you he said no

you’re not but god i thought you said

that we’re supposed to do the blessed

life you are

so i got to get up there and teach i’ve

only been a pastor for four weeks i got

to get up there

and tell the people and tell them that

we got to live a blessed life he said

you would be lying

and they would be hurt

so god how am i supposed to do the

blessed life if

i’m not supposed to do the blessed life

he said pastor robert’s going to teach

it by video

and you’re going to sit on the front row

and learn it with them

no they’re not going to believe in me he

said it doesn’t matter if they believe

in you

i’m trying to see if you’ll obey me

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and my mother and father sit here as my

witness and there’s a few people in this

room

the first time we did the blessed life

and now you got to understand pastor

robert morris is white

he white white dry comedy

very i mean 28 minutes and he ain’t none

of this ain’t none of this with pastor

robert

and i was like well people may leave and

people he said it doesn’t matter he said

the ones who need to get this revelation

are going to get it and if nobody gets

it you need it

and i sat on the front row with my

church

and i said ladies and gentlemen today um

glad you’re here

pastor robert is going to preach to us

and i went and sat down and that

changed everything in our ministry

it unlocks something in my heart it

transformed

the level of belief i had in god to

trust him with everything that he

blessed my hands with

it allowed me to walk into business

meetings

not having enough and knowing who my

provider was

it allowed me to look at generational

cycles of poverty and debt

and say that is the last time that that

will be associated with the todd

household

that is the last time that we will deal

with these type of things why

because god gave me a revelation that

was transformation

and that’s what i’m believing for you in

this series

that somewhere in the next five weeks

god would give you a revelation i don’t

know how he’s going to do it

but i believe that god’s going to give

you a revelation that will be for your

everybody say transformation

and ever since that day that i decided

to humble myself

and learn from somebody who

authentically had it

i can stand here five years later

and let you know that it was a hard

obedient step to every year

like literally every year god will only

let me preach one message

so 2015 i didn’t preach none of the

blessed life

2016 i was pumped i was like all right

here we go bless life again bless life

again

here we go i got it god he said no you

don’t

he said you can teach one message in the

rest of them or video the next year

same thing we titled it something

different and i was like wait till i get

my money right

and we was gonna do it he said you only

get to preach two messages in this

series

he said because i’m working something in

you

remember what we always say this journey

is about progression

not perfection and could it be that

god’s trying to work something so deep

in you

so foundational that you can be anchored

on so then when he does the blessing

it doesn’t throw you off i can stand

here

six years removed from taking that step

with my church

and actually tell you with no lie

i am living a blessed life you missed it

no no no no you missed it i can preach

every message of this series now

because god has worked this message into

me

and i got proof

you need proof that it works to tithe

you’re looking at it

you need proof that it takes to be

generous you’re looking at it

you need proof to know that god is a

provider and in the middle of the

darkness that you’re in

he will send anybody to provide your

needs

you’re looking at them

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so today and for the next five weeks i

have a burden

this is like a baby on the inside of me

i keep looking at pasta now she pregnant

and fine and pregnant and

you look good girl i love all your

lovely lady lumps

but when i look at her and i see how

pregnant she is that’s how i feel

spiritually for you

i feel like this series is something

that’s been in me growing

up and i gotta get it out to you and

that is why

this series paper chaser is not an

option for anybody that’s going to the

deep

this is preparation everybody say

preparation

do you know that god blesses what you

prepare for not what you hope for

he doesn’t bless what you what you wish

for he blesses

what you prepare for preparation

is one of the biggest faith steps that

you can ever make

before it happens i know the knowledge

before it happens i open the bank

account before it happens

i sat down and asked somebody who knows

about that everybody shout at me

preparation

this series for many of you is going to

be confirmation

but for others of you it’s going to be

preparation i believe by the spirit of

god the next 24 months i feel this i’m

going to prophesy this

there is a a wealth transfer

somebody needs to receive this there is

a wealth

transfer that is happening in the

universe

and over the next 24 months i see god

looking at who he can trust

with resources to be able to

fund the kingdom work that he is called

to get done on the earth somebody needs

to lift your hands right now

and the sign of your ability

and availability will be everybody say

preparation

i speak over the people that are

watching this right now

that there would be a divine passion for

preparation

that people will begin to make budgets

and see

lists and study new ideas and be able to

understand currencies

and be able to understand tech i feel

this thing so strong

that god is going to be able to look at

our preparation

and see how much we can handle god i

thank you that stewardship will become

our new lot in life

that we wouldn’t look at a little and

say it’s a little but we will look at a

little and say it’s preparation

that you see what we have and you see

how we stew it

and you would be able to trust us with

more father i thank you

that transformation nation will be

prepared

in jesus name somebody say i agree

i feel this thing so strong in me y’all

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why is this important look at proverbs

11 24. i’m gonna read it out of the

message version

it says the world of degeneres gets

larger

and larger but the world of the stingy

gets smaller and smaller

i’m thinking about it in every one of

our lives

counter-cultural culture tells you to

keep it

so you can have it the bible tells you

kingdom culture

says when you give it you get more

and i just want you to know that the key

to doubling it to taking it to another

level

is not becoming a reservoir it’s being a

river

see the problem with many of us when it

comes to this thing of money

that many of us are a reservoir it can

come to us but it stops with us

but god says could i find a group of

people

that would be a river that if it comes

to you it passes through

you and it can get to the channel it

needs to go to

it is more blessed for you to give

than it is to what and some of y’all

it was hard for you to say that because

your world has been getting smaller and

smaller

smaller because of stinginess

and it’s the trick of the enemy well i

ain’t got enough to do anything right

now so i’m not going to do it but the

bible says somebody

needs to write this down proverbs 11 24

the world of the generous gets what

larger and larger but the world of the

stingy gets smaller and smaller that’s

why this year we have to be everybody

say anchored

and we got to be anchored in the area of

our finances and generosity because this

is the area

that many people drift

like this is the area that i have seen

people be spiritually on fire

and one financial thing takes them out

one one debt collection comes and throws

their whole faith

walk off and in american society it

doesn’t help us

because there’s some very sad statistics

that i’ve seen

that the average american household is

seven thousand dollars in credit card

debt 190 thousand dollars in mortgage

debt

27 000 in auto loan debt 56 000

in student loans or higher education

debt don’t have more than one thousand

dollars in savings

or and are one paycheck away from being

broke

now when i look at those real statistics

and then i compare it to

deuteronomy 28 12 where it says you will

lend to many nations

but you will never need to borrow from

them

one is culture and one is kingdom

culture

one is i’m in debt up to my eyeballs

and one is i’m able to lend and not have

to borrow

like the reason this is important is is

we have to be anchored in our generosity

we have to be anchored in our

stewardship and i know

they make sexy words but they’re

significant

and they’re going to be significant to

you and the generations to come after

you

and every year when i ask god how do i

represent this how do i show this

in a new in a new way and somebody is

saying well i’ve already heard this no

baby you haven’t heard it with this oil

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you haven’t heard it with this oil

before see

you think the information you don’t need

information you need an impartation

you need something to jump out of this

screen and get up onto your mind

and your life and your thoughts this is

fresh oil what we will do at

transformation church if you stay with

us any length of time

we will always give forever truths

with brand new revelation

we’re not trying to trick you into

something let me show you something

you’ve never heard there is nothing new

under the sun is what my bible says

but we want fresh revelation on forever

truths

and so as i began to think about how i

was going to represent this message

of a blessed life and i did say a

blessed life not a blessed wallet

just to make sure you understand this is

not about money this is about your life

i begin to look at our culture and how

everybody is hustling

and grinding and positioning themselves

and plotting and scheming

and manipulating and other people are

tired and they’re missing out on what

really matters and they’re forfeiting

their family

and the holy spirit dropped this term in

my mind he said michael they’re paper

chasers

these people are running after something

i give to people who are in purpose

they’re using all their effort or energy

trying to catch and randy moth

something that i will set in their hands

if they would get in

my will for their life and then i began

to look through scripture

and i could not find one significant man

or woman of god

that god used to their fullest capacity

where their priority was the paper

where the mountaintop was money where

the king was cash

where they were committed to the coin he

always used people

who were committed to the kingdom

i’m going to show you my favorite verse

in scripture matthew 6 33 what is going

to help you

but seek first

the kingdom of god and his right

standing are his righteousness

and then i love this part everything

else is going to get added

like like the money everything else

what do you need you need connections

you need networking everything else will

be added

if you would seek everybody shot at me

first

god doesn’t have a problem with paper he

just wants

priority this is

the essence of everything that god is

trying to teach us

through this series you are paper

chasing which makes something else the

priority

god does not care about paper he has

paper

the streets of heaven are paved with

gold

to give us imagery that money don’t mean

a thing

what he’s trying to see is where are

your priorities

and for many of us the paper are above

parenting

your kids haven’t seen you in two weeks

they’re raised by netflix and youtube

disney plus is parenting them

the only reason i’m saying this is

because somewhere along the way you

bought into the lie

that the paper was more important than

parenting

and because you can take them to disney

world now somehow that’s going to make

up for the affirmation that they need

from you being there when they fall

some of you have bought into the lies ah

i gotta come straight for it today

because there are people right now

that are sitting here thinking you’re

doing the noble thing when god says

you’ve chosen the wrong priority

you chose the paper so that you could

have a 401k plan to do and ain’t nothing

wrong with all of that but it’s out of

priority

your marriage is more important than the

money and now you’re going to lose all

of it 10 years from now because you’re

gonna have to divorce her

and you didn’t sign a prenup and so she

gonna get 50

anyway because you would not be in the

place where you put god as the priority

so you chose so you chose the avenue

where you have to travel every week

and now pornography is the priority

they want to be fake today and talk

about how we have

chosen how we look

and how people perceive us over the

kingdom

of god and the purpose he has for us

write this point down

money should never be the focus it

should always be the fruit

money should never be the focus it

should be the byproduct

it should be it should be the thing that

comes after the focus that’s why that

scripture says seek first

the kingdom and then i’ll make you

fruitful seek my purpose for you i’ll

make you fruitful

you want to do what i am a living

testimony of when i sacrifice my plan

of what i thought i was gonna be and

thought i was gonna do

and thought what i had to sacrifice god

said you did it

you sought first my kingdom so you want

to be a producer i’ll do that too

you want to perform on this i’ll do that

too you want to be an author i’ll do

that too you want to make a movie

that’s in the works the y’all don’t hear

me

everybody seek first

it’s not about paper it’s about priority

and we got to focus back on our our

purpose on what god has called us to do

because if if we make money to focus

then we get

bad fruit

that’s why people can have 50 million

dollars in the bank and kill themselves

because if the money was the focus i get

bad or rotten

fruit and my question to you is money

the focus

or is it the fruit

i can look at your bank account and tell

it i can look at your closet and tell it

how in the world do you have a mercedes

mercedes-benz

and no let me stop

you don’t own a home

yet you have a hundred thousand dollar

car

something’s out of

you got every new shoe that came out

and you still live with your mama

something’s out of pride

you’ll stand in line for a video game

come on you already know some of you

like uh oh jerome that’s you oh my god

oh my god one that was you last week

like

you’ll stand in line for a video game

that will be outdated in a year

but you won’t honor god with the

increase of your hands

something is out of pride

that’s why we can’t focus on the money

we that has to be

the fruit and that’s why transformation

church is blessed

because we decided in the dark when none

of y’all was here that we would not

focus on finance

that finance would be the fruit of what

we focused on

and do you know what we focus on it’s so

easy it’s in the vision

we are representing god to the lost and

found for one reason what

transformation we gonna focus on

transforming people’s lives

we don’t focus on giving people

encouragement

we’re going to focus on giving people

jesus we’re going to focus on telling

people that they can make it

we’re going to focus on helping homeless

people when it’s cold outside

and be the hands and feet of jesus and

if we would

focus on that

then resources and finances would be the

everybody shot at me fruit

i’m just asking you to line up with the

vision of this house

that is the vision of god that we would

seek

first our focus would be on him first

his purpose

first and everything else would be

planted so i just have a question for

you

today and it’s the title of my message

and i can’t answer this question for you

but you have to answer it for yourself

are you a paper chaser

are you chasing paper are you

using all your effort and energy to go

after something that god will give you

if you get in the right positioning

i can’t answer that for you but the

thing is if you’re in that place i can

identify with you because i used to be a

paper chaser

i used to think that it

was my job to provide for me

so the gifting and the talent that god

gave me

was it these are your tools and now

go make a name for yourself and even

being an african-american male

in our culture there are certain things

that we are taught that are passed down

historically that aren’t biblically

so what ends up happening is we say

stuff like you’re a black male you got

to work two and three times harder

and i got this thing on the inside of me

that became very performance based

and and and i had to be the best and and

walk the best and

do the best and outperform and have no

sleep and all of those different things

and what it ended up

doing is robbing me of what i was doing

in the moment

and god said would you i’m not saying

anything’s wrong if that’s

that’s how you felt and that’s where

you’ve been but i’m saying is

it’s not biblical and and god challenged

me he said would you give me back your

wrong ideas

and would you let me romans 12 to you

could i transform you

by renewing your what my

that’s all i’m trying to do through this

series that’s why you can’t miss one

week

of paper chasers because all and oh oh i

need to tell them

give me the dis let me give you the

disclaimer for everybody’s like i knew i

shouldn’t have watched this thing all

they gonna be doing they’re talking

about money

and i know it’s coming they’re gonna ask

for some money let me help you baby

during this series there will be no

second offerings

we’re not in a building campaign we’re

not asking anybody for any money

as a matter of fact because of the

generosity

of the people who’ve already bought into

the blessed life that are part of

transformation nation

during this series over the next four

weeks we’re gonna give away

five hundred thousand dollars

oh i thought it said in the word that we

would lend

or maybe we don’t need it back so we’ll

give it to you

our culture says we give just to give

and not to get

and what i’m telling you is i’m not

trying to get something from you i’m

trying to get something to you

we’re going to help different

organizations and we’re going to help

different people and we’re going to help

different ministries

there every week we’re going to give

away money why because i want you to

know this is not about us getting

something

this is about you getting something that

can change your family

that can change your children that can

change the trajectory of your life

and something god revealed to me is that

you either fall in one of two categories

and i don’t know where you fall today

but i need you to decide so we can move

from there

you are either a paper chaser or a

purpose chaser

period poo

i thought what they say period poo

you’re either

a purpose chaser or a

paper chaser and i don’t know

when when god showed me that there was

this commercial i saw a long time ago

it’s how i used to be it was um i think

it was a geico commercial or something

like that

and there was this old man that he had

uh put he had a dollar

on like a fishing line and then he was

like um

putting it up in front of yeah there it

is and the woman is trying to you know

she acting like she didn’t need it but

she like

kept chasing after that was me and

that’s honestly a bunch of y’all right

now

like i’m chasing i’ma get it i’m gonna

get it i’m gonna get it

and and and god began to tell me he said

michael

that is a representation of what many of

us

look like day after day week after week

year after year

that we’re chasing paper instead of

chasing purpose

how many of you are doing things that

you hate doing because of the paycheck

uh-oh i’m getting into deep waters right

now how many of us

have given up the thing that god told us

to do because we didn’t see the

financial lucrativeness

of the in that moment and god said it

was six months up the road but i needed

you to commit when it looked like

nothing

so that you could see the benefit you

were looking at the seed i was looking

at the harvest

and right now you can’t uh you can’t

experience what i had for you

because you were a paper chaser instead

of a purpose chaser

transformation church right now did not

look like this when god asked me to

commit to it

y’all wasn’t here people was talking

about me

there was nothing that looked like this

led wall we didn’t have led lights

on our cell phones

i’m trying to be practical with you but

something in me said i’m not going to

chase the paper

practically i had skills in my hand

that i could have gone and chased paper

because people think oh you’re a pastor

so you had to settle for less than you

know i’m saying no no no baby

when i was 22 years old i got offered

a hundred thousand dollar contract to be

able to go produce for a major record

company

for one year and they were gonna pay me

take care of all my room my lodging my

boy wherever i was gonna move to new

york

and and go for a hundred thousand

dollars and i had the presence

of mine to pray because i got a praying

mama and a praying father

and i was like yeah i’m gonna do it i

didn’t even i was engaged to be married

to natalie

i didn’t even talk to her about it

because i knew i had to go to god first

because i could convince somebody it was

god when it wasn’t

uh oh i just because it’s a good

opportunity doesn’t mean it’s purpose

just because it looks good and has

enough zeros doesn’t mean it’s god

it looks good but it ain’t god there are

some of us that have chased the paper

because it looked good

but i had the presence of mind to pray

and this is exactly what the holy spirit

told me in my quiet time

he said if you do this you will be

successful

but i’ll take my hand off of what you’re

doing

the scariest place to be

is in a place where god isn’t

oh that’s nasty the scariest place to be

is to be in any place that god

isn’t and that’s why we have to decide

we’re going to be paper chasers

and we’re going to go after god that’s

why in luke 16 verse 10 i want you to

look at it

this is talking about stewardship and

why we need to and how we need to it

says he who is faithful

and what is least is faithful also in

much

and he who is unjust in what is least is

unjust

in in in much this means that how you

deal with what you got now is a preview

of how you’re going to deal with

whatever you think you’re going to have

and it says therefore if you have not

been faithful in

unrighteous mammon underline that word

mammon

write it down because i’m going to teach

you something this is a vocabulary

word of the day if you have been if you

have not been faithful in unrighteous

mammon

who will commit to you the true riches

and if you have not been faithful in

what is another man’s

who will give you what is your own watch

this

no servant no person

no woman no man can serve two masters

for either he will hate the one

and love the other or else he will be

loyal to one

and despise the other or he will be a

paper chaser

or a purpose chaser you cannot serve

god and mammon

now somebody are like okay cool uh yeah

god and mammon let me understand because

a lot of people translate that

you can’t serve god and money but it’s

so much deeper

than just money you you can’t be a

purpose chaser and a paper chaser

that word mammon actually is an aramaic

word that

jesus uses and in only one other time in

the scripture like this

to directly contrast himself to

something else

most stuff is not even worth contrasting

to god

he said i’m so much bigger than

everything else

that is not even worth the comparison

but when it comes

to this word mammon he directly wants us

to know

you cannot serve me

and mammon so that means we need to know

what

mammon is it’s an aramaic word that

means riches

and in er in in syria that was a syrian

god that people worship so he was

telling them

you cannot worship the god of riches and

the god of the universe

you cannot do it and actually it came

from babylon

and babylon comes from the tower of

babel y’all remember that in genesis 11

where there was a group of people that

thought they could

in their own power make it to heaven

without god

and babel if you need to remember how

what it is just say it a little

differently babble

on you ever met somebody who just

babbles on and

and the word means confusion

or sown in confusion babylon was a group

of people who felt like they could get

to god on their own

can i tell you what the spirit of mammon

is

the spirit of mammon is a belief that we

don’t need god if we have riches

that’s what i’m fighting in this series

god don’t have

no problem with paper he has a problem

with paper replacing him

and some of y’all as soon as you get the

check you stop praying

and some of y’all as soon as god gave

you the house it was no longer holy

and as soon as god gave you the

relationship your relationship with him

cut off

you have the spirit of mammon

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it believes that i can do it without god

it’s an

arrogant spirit it’s a prideful spirit

it’s a spirit that’s sitting right next

to some of y’all as you’re watching this

right now

and it looks to riches and money other

than god

can i tell you something i found out

firsthand and i want you to write this

down because i’m telling you from

experience

mammon promises everything only god can

deliver

that spirit that comes on us to think

that we can make it if we have money

we can take care of everything we can do

everything we need to we can candle our

family

we can deal with crisis god says that is

not me

and that spirit promises what only god

can give it promises

identity if i got money

i’m somebody oh don’t act like y’all

already know every time we get paid

how you feel after you’ve checked the

account

and you got a fresh wig or a fresh

haircut you like ain’t nobody touch me

you fancy huh you fancy huh i said hair

done nailed it

everything you feel so good

and i’m not saying there’s anything

wrong with that but on that day did you

pray

because two days later when you were

scraping and eating ramen noodles

you needed god

but that spirit of mammon comes to say

if i got money

if i got things it’ll give me identity

it tells us that it’ll give us security

it promises what only god can give it

tells us it’ll give us significance

you ever walked into a place and

somebody let you know they was rich

without saying nothing

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you you need me like they like

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they let you know why because for some

reason

they think the zeroes in the bank gave

them significance that’s the spirit of

mammon

the spirit of mammon prop promises

happiness

and only god can give joy

see the lie of mammon i’m teaching i

feel like teaching today can i teach you

the lie of mammon this is why you have

to be a purpose chaser not a paper

chaser because the lie of mammon

tells you if you have more money then

people will listen to you

some people have been dealing with

insignificance and nobody hears me but

if i had more money

they’d listen to me if you had more

money you’d be loved

that’s the most horrible lie of the

enemy

just like you are you’re loved right now

god cannot love you more than he loves

you right now

you may be far away from him but he’s

close right up on you right now

and all you got to do is turn to him but

the culture would allow you to think

that if i had mammon

money riches that somehow i’ll be loved

it promises everything it can’t deliver

on only god can it promise you that you

would be accepted

can i prove to you that everybody at one

place because there’s some really

self-righteous people

that are watching this right now it’s

like y’all really need help y’all need

deliverance

god is the supplier let me help you

everybody has been influenced by the

spirit of mammoth at some point in your

life including your pastor

let me tell you how cause all of us at

some point has said this

either i need god to come through or i

need somebody to give me some money

either i need god to come through or i

need somebody to give me some money even

if they give you the money

you still need god to come through

even if you get everything that you need

financially

you still know who who gave you that

breath

uh oh oh somebody just breathe in

oh money couldn’t buy that one

who gave you the ability of your limbs

money camp but there were people that

would pay millions

to be able to get another raised hand

but my god

is the one that supplies all of my needs

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but what i’m trying to tell you is we

got to get rid of this spirit we’ve got

to get rid of the spirit of mammon and

being a paper chaser and we have to

double down and get anchored

on being purpose chasers

because money is not the answer to your

problem god is always the answer to your

problem

and i know you’re saying well pastor

mike that’s not probably practical i got

145 000

in student loans somebody said that’s

me all i’m saying to you

is when you get that monkey off your

back

if you’ve lived long enough you’ll

realize once

that thing is done you will

still need god every single day of your

life

and what people have bought into the lie

is that if somehow i have enough

i don’t need god

can i help somebody that’s really

sitting in a successful place right now

and you feel like this word is below you

let me help you just because you have

experienced prosperity

does not mean you’re in purpose

you can be very successful at the wrong

thing

oh i know tons of people who are rolling

in the dough

out of god’s will

and many of you are sitting here

listening to me

and you think because you got the

degrees you got more degrees than a

thermometer you just got your dream job

but god told you six years ago that you

weren’t supposed to be doing that

anymore

but you kept chasing the paper

and because of what your family would

think about you and what your culture

says

and all the things you knew you were

supposed to be in a different field but

that field didn’t pay enough

to be able to support the life or the

lie you’ve told yourself

all of this time and so now that god is

calling you to do something different

you don’t have the wherewithal to stand

up against your own words

who said i’ll never be able to do this

and you made vows and inner vows

and promises that didn’t line up with

your purpose and now you’re

trapped in a prison that you made with

your own words

and god’s saying my grace is here for

you

would you divorce the things that you

said

and find out what i said will you stop

chasing the paper and now commit to

chasing purpose

i think about um our executive pastor

over ministries here at the church

her name is amberly bell you saw her uh

yeah we love amber lee here

um i think about her story because um

amber lee

um is was the most successful real

estate

broker in all of oklahoma got awards

got all kinds of bonuses and all kinds

of things

and she was successful out of purpose

she left security advancement

more than enough to when god called her

into ministry

it wasn’t because she hit rock bottom

she was at the mountaintop

most of us obey god when we hit rock

bottom well i guess the

best thing is to go back to church why

every r b singer

want to come back to god after a 50-year

career

of of being on top and then when you

trash now you want to sing in the choir

where are the people who have the skills

the talent and the giftedness

to do it right now but you’re saying god

i’m not going to chase the paper

i’m not going to take my clothes off to

be able to give them what they want to

sell this

i’m going to follow everybody shout at

me purpose

i know this is unpopular opinion

but seeking first the kingdom means you

may have to walk away from certain

things that look

good and amber lee walked away

from the paper to pursue purpose

proverbs 19 21 you can make plans

but it’s the lord’s purpose

that will prevail my question is to you

how many of you paper chasers are

fighting god right now

it must be tiring that must be

exhausting to continue to go against

knowing that god when you know the

integrity of the people

that you are working with and you have

aligned yourself with doesn’t line up

what god has called you to but because

the check is good

you take you keep taking being

marginalized you keep taking being

talked to down

you keep letting your voice be shut down

you keep taking sexual harassment

you keep going through all these things

cause the paper’s right

and god says stop fighting me many of

the plans of a man but it’s god

everybody shout at me purpose

that prevails this is the statement that

i want you to hang on to

this entire week because i got some more

for you next week and some more for you

the week after that

and some more for you the week after

that and all the way to easter i got

some more for you okay i want to help

you

but the paper with no purpose

is pointless

if you have the paper but you do not

have god’s purpose

it ends up being pointless

you can’t take it with you i could think

about so many celebrities that we have

idolized

and they have so much paper but they

lost sight of purpose and now can the

money bring their child back

how many lamborghinis can you have

to replace the loneliness that you have

how many xanax peels and lean do you

have to drink

how much sorak and vodka do you have to

put into your system to have peace

enough to go to sleep

the paper is pointless if it does not

have purpose

how many how many inebriated interviews

do you have to do

how many times do you have to sneak away

and go to that website

to feel good about yourself for a cert

for a moment

so you can so you can keep functioning

how many things

are you doing right now that is just

trying to maintain and sustain you

outside of purpose god’s saying you

don’t have to live like that

could you please just step into purpose

because watch this paper

follows purpose

i don’t want to be a paper chaser i want

to be a purpose chaser

and then the paper chases me you missed

it

as soon as you get in your spot and do

the things that god calls you to do it

don’t even have to come from your job

you might be in somebody’s inheritance

right now that god has

you missed it somebody’s been watching

you right now somebody said it’s me lord

somebody’s been watching you right now

and they’ve watched how you’ve done what

you’ve done in a job that didn’t pay you

what you deserved

and they put you in their wheel

cause you were in his will

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i wrote this point down like this since

december i’ve been brewing on this

series

i wrote down paper follows purpose but

this morning god changed it up he

crossed out paper

he said it’s not just paper that follows

purpose michael

i’m bigger than that he said provision

follows purpose

don’t just need money we need

provision uh see you want to talk about

living the blessed life

the blessed life is not just about paper

it’s about provision it’s about my child

needs a miracle

no amount of money can do that for mj

i need god to i’m about to get this is

getting personal for me right now

i need god as a provider

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i don’t need paper i need provision

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and when you’re in purpose provision

follows purpose stop being a paper

chaser

be a purpose chaser i feel that things i

feel i think so deep in me

somebody shout at me provision that’s

the god we

serve

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he is a god of provision somebody needs

to hear this because you’re facing some

things right now

that you’re trying to figure out and

finagle and thinking about going back to

some old ways

to make a way for yourself but you serve

a god of provision

god will speak to somebody that you owe

and tell them to cancel the debt

god we serve a god of shot at me again

provision

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see this happened to me a little bit ago

and i just connected the dots this

morning

that many of us need the raven

revelation can i give you the raven

revelation

y’all know my mind work a little

differently and i think about stuff a

little differently look at luke 12

verse 24 it says look at the raven

everybody say raven

now don’t nobody post no pictures of

ravens nobody talks about how beautiful

ravens are

nobody has a pet raven

and i believe this is on purpose in the

bible

um ravens were considered an unclean

bird

the least of but god for some reason

uses the least

of as an example to show his provision

to people

look at the ravens he says he could have

said peacock

that’s a beautiful bird ain’t it yeah

some of y’all like a peacock what is the

peacock you know the one with the big

he could have said a parrot beautiful

he could have said a robin gorgeous

look at the raven they don’t plant

harvest or store food in barns

for god provides for them god

feeds the ravens and then he

specifically speaks to you like i’m

speaking to you right now

and you are far more valuable to him

than any birds

the raven revelation job 38 41

god’s talking to job because he forgot

about how good god was

and then god gets a little like hold on

boy put some respect on my name

who provides for the ravens

he literally asks job this when their

young

cry out to god and wonder about

in hunger hold on the raven revelation

god provided for the dirty bird shout

out to ray lewis

and the ravens okay he provided for the

raven

but then job 38 41 says he provides for

their children too

i’m trying to give you the raven

revelation he provided for the raven

but he said and who provides for the

raven’s children

and then first king 17 says verse 2

then the lord said to elijah go to the

east and hide by kerith brook

get in purpose near where it enters the

jordan river

drink from the brook and eat

what the ravens bring you

for i have commanded them to be so

blessed

that they can provide for you

so elijah don’t chase provision

don’t try to get food don’t go after the

paper

go to the purpose i’ve placed you in

go to the brook get to the job

go to the website get in the school

get to the place of purpose for you to

be

so elijah went to the purpose placed

east of the jordan then the ravens

brought him bread and meat

each morning and each evening

and he drank from the brook the first

uber eats in history

was a raven and this is the raven

revelation that i believe

you need to get today that god will

provide even if you feel like the least

qualified

even if you feel like a dirty bird even

if you feel like

that you’re not worthy of it god said i

provided for the raven

and i provided for the raven’s children

and i would bless the raven

so much that he would be able to provide

for my servant

i’m trying to tell somebody right now

god doesn’t just want to give you paper

he wants to give you everybody shot at

me provision

provision follows purpose

if you’re still struggling to identify

the difference between

a paper chaser and a purpose chaser i’m

gonna give you two examples in the bible

and then i’m gonna save the rest for you

next week

i’m telling you if you miss one week of

this message you may be delaying your

destiny

there are truths that god has given me

right here that are going to spark

something

in you even though it’s taken a minute

to go in because your heart may have

been hard

or somebody might have played you in the

past or you used to listening to

somebody in church that manipulated for

money baby they ain’t none of that right

here

all i’m trying to do is get you this

message that’s going to allow you to

live a blessed life

and you would get off the treadmill of

life and become a purpose chaser

instead of a paper chaser matthew

chapter 4

verse 18. the title of this is the first

disciples

now jesus is looking for the people that

he gonna rock with

for the next three years of his ministry

one day jesus was walking along the

shore

of the sea of galilee he saw two

brothers simon also called peter

and andrew throwing their nets into the

water dang that looks like they were

preparing for something

for they fished for a living that means

they were an entrepreneur like many of

you out there

they were entrepreneur and they were

trying to do something jesus called out

to them

hey i know you’re doing all of that

stuff trying to be successful

come and follow me and i’ll show you how

to fish for people this was the

invitation to purpose

they had a job that was making them

paper that’s why they did it every day

and jesus walks by and invites them to

purpose

look at their response and my question

is will it be your response

and they left their nets at once

and followed him

on the most successful day of whatever

you’ve done

if jesus says never do it again and

follow me

would you follow purpose or would you

stay

faithful to the paper

this is hard like this is introspective

this is you having to deal with you

this is the metamorphosis and the

transformation i had to go through

if they give me this but god

said no would i follow the paper

and hope god would bless it or would i

follow purpose write this point down

it’s going to take crazy faith

for you to be a purpose chaser

it ain’t going to look right i bet all

his other fishing buddies that he was

like like bro what are you doing

we just found our spot where we actually

catch

and they said no no no no i’ma seek

first

the kingdom and everything else that i’m

looking for is gonna be added

and literally this is jesus pattern

everybody say pattern

see jesus has a pattern to things for

purpose chasers

if you just get in his word and spend

time with him you’ll find his pattern

right after he asked

um simon and peter and andrew to come

with him

verse 21 a little further up the shore

he was doing this as a pattern

he saw two brothers james and john

sitting in the boat with their father

zebedee now he had a family member there

that was in the business too

i want you to see how difficult this

would be and they were repairing their

nets that means they were preparing

preparing again they were doing what

they could do

and he called to them too hey come

follow me i bet they daddy said boy if

you don’t sit down

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this is a family business and ever since

you your great-grandpappy was a

fisherman

and i’m a fisherman and your sons is

gonna be that means sometimes to become

a purpose chaser you’re gonna have to

break

family norms

you may be looked at awkwardly at

christmas and easter

and thanksgiving to obey god but i

promise you

when it works out and when god begins to

bless you

and when things start moving and you

actually live the blessed life

everybody’s story changes i knew it the

whole time there was going to be a

success we’ve seen and we know you

didn’t believe in me

but i believe in god and because i

believe in god i’m a follow god and i’m

not going to chase the paper i’m a

chaste

purpose

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the disciples were purpose chasers

but the sad contrast is god gave the

same opportunity

to a young man in the bible titled the

rich young ruler

same exact story in mark chapter 10

verse 17.

it says as jesus was starting out on his

way to jerusalem

a man came running up to him knelt down

and asked good teacher

what must i do to inherit eternal life

he knew

that that there was a bigger purpose but

jesus was about to test him he said why

do you call me good jesus asks only god

is truly good

but to answer your question you know

jesus is such a gangster he just be

throwing stuff in that don’t have

nothing to do with what you’re talking

about he was like only god is good but

anyway um just to answer your question

he said you know the commandments right

you must not murder you must not commit

adultery you must not steal

you must not testify falsely you must

not cheat anyone

you must honor your father and mother

teacher the man replied

i’ve obeyed all these commands i’ve been

religious my whole life

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i’ve read the youversion bible app i’m a

faithful member

at transformation church

looking at the man jesus felt genuine

love for him there is still

one thing that you haven’t done he told

him

all right this is this is going to be

easy for you go and sell

all your possessions and give the money

to the poor

and you will have treasure in heaven

then come

and what did he tell the disciples

follow me

this was his invitation to purpose like

god’s inviting you to purpose right now

it’s the same thing he asked the

disciples but look at the response

difference

at this the man’s face fell

and he went away sad for he had many

possessions

for years i used to think that this

story was about if god is going to use

you in a great way you needed to be poor

god had no problem with this man’s

possessions

he had a problem of the priority

that those possessions had in that man’s

life

can i say it to you there are things

that god has

no problem and i’m not talking no

prosperity gospel i’m not saying that

you’re going to get a car or a house or

i’m not saying all of that i’m just

saying to you god has no problem

with giving you the paper

he has no problem with you owning

possessions

his only problem is when the possessions

on you

this young man he didn’t even try

because he knew he had a lot

and a lot had him

write it down in a point god is not

concerned with

possessions he’s concerned with priority

i keep saying the same thing

some of us your houses you don’t own the

house the house owns you

some of you your shoe collection you

don’t own that

the shoe collection owns you if god told

you right now to give

every one of your shoes away you would

leave the faith

that’s simple is that all it would take

is god asking you to downgrade your home

right now so you could save more

and be a good steward and you would say

god would never take that

from me because it was a blessing ask

abraham will god ask back

for what he gave you as a promise

he he waited 25 years for isaac and then

he said give him back

uh oh oh but abraham was a purpose

chaser

he wasn’t going after the thing god gave

him he wanted god

and because he could have god god said

send the rambam

and he made a way for him not to

sacrifice

what he has been promised because he was

willing to give it up for purpose

what are you willing to give up to stay

in the purpose god has for you

i will no longer be a paper chaser

i’m going to be a purpose chaser

some of you don’t own investments your

investment’s on you

you don’t have no vacation home your

vacation home owns you

you don’t own no louis vuitton purse

that louis vuitton purse owns

you you’ll give up a friendship

over you thinking somebody took your bag

i’m in your business

there are people right now that have

makeup collections

that are more important than the people

god surrounded you with

you don’t own mac or fenty

they own you

you don’t own social media accounts

the monetization owns

you you have given up your character to

make some coins

you literally are exposing everything

that has

been laid up for the man of god or the

woman of god you’re supposed to be with

for a few thousand dollars

your great-grandchildren will see this

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and have to reconcile how the person

who in a different season is now telling

me to live a different way

they gave up the cookie for some coins

can i be that real

it might mean i don’t know it i’m not

saying you are but it might it might

mean

you’re a paper chaser

my last point would you be willing to

part with the possessions to follow

purpose

would you this is what god had to ask me

that’s what god had to that’s what god

had to literally

challenge me with michael i want you to

be a pastor

is this your purpose for me god pastors

is broke

father is this your purpose for me like

pastors don’t seem to

really enjoy their lives is this your

purpose for me god he said yeah it’s

your purpose for me

how you want me to do it represent

i want you to represent it i want you i

want you to be

in a place where you are so committed to

purpose in my kingdom

that everything that happens after it

there’s no way

i knew that relationship goals was going

to be a number one new york times

bestseller

i would have never written a book had i

not preached a message

had i not been a pastor had i not said

yes to god

in a best western in 2014 at 2 a.m

all of those steps were purpose

that now has the paper chasing

me i will never lie to you my entire

financial situation has changed

after god allowed me to release that

book and i will i will

i will forever y’all know i’m i’m i am

so authentic

like i am debt free now i have i have

no y’all don’t y’all won’t even rejoice

with me like it was you

two years ago that wasn’t my testimony

this past year i paid off my house

i was eight y’all don’t hear me i’m

telling you i’m teaching this from

proof i’m not teaching it

i paid off my house i was able to bless

somebody very

close to me to be able to for the down

payment on their own home

god has allowed me to bless the people

around me

not because i chased paper

it’s because i settled into purpose

and today all i wanted to do to start

this series out

is invite you to a blessed life

where you get off the treadmill of

chasing paper

chasing mammon chasing identity

and significance and you come to the

place where you say god i’m a double

down on purpose

god has no problem with paper

if it’s in the right priority under him

you can’t serve no man no woman no

pastor no leader

no celebrity no star no president no

government official

no one can serve god

and mammon

but do you know what i love about god is

he’s full of grace

that even when you’re a paper chaser his

love still looks at you in the best

light did y’all see it

in verse 21 it says

jesus looking at the man what did jesus

feel

jesus felt genuine love for that man

huh i came to tell you right now if this

message

has exposed we ask one question are you

a paper chaser and if this message

exposed that you are

a paper chaser that’s somewhere in your

heart you have made

money and riches more important than god

in your life

your your actions reflected your

lifestyle reflects it

maybe you don’t say it out loud but

that’s what you feel internally if

that’s you

i want to let you know one thing so

strongly i hope you hear this more than

anything else

god loves you

this young man was a paper chaser and

would walk away from purpose

but when god looked at him the only

thing he could see

was love for him

and this is your invitation

into transformation

i’m believing that over this next four

weeks

that every place on the inside of us

that

still has a little chase you might not

be sprinting

yeah come on let’s be honest some of

y’all used to be sprinting for the

people now you’re just fast walking you

don’t say

y’all know how people be you know

walking

but every little bit of strife

i’m praying that god would give us the

pace of grace to say if this is where

you want me

if this is where you want me to steward

if the average salary of a teacher

is only this in my area but i know i’m

purpose to be there

if a medical technician only makes this

father if you’re asking me to come out

of this position

and serve these people who can’t pay me

at this moment

i’m deciding that i’m going to seek

first

your kingdom your purpose your plan

i got plans but it’s your purpose that

will prevail

so i’m gonna stop fighting you and today

god i’m committing i will no longer be

a paper chaser i know this one is going

to be a uprooting for some of you

because this is why you put the career

that you have and this is why

you went and got all those degrees and

this is why you told your parents that

you was going to buy them this and do

all of that

and god’s saying would you just submit

that back to me for a second

and make a decision that you would

commit i’ll no longer be a paper chaser

i’m gonna be everybody say a purpose

chaser

hands lifted all over the world i feel

the presence of god

somebody’s heart is changing right now

somebody somebody your parents heart is

not changing

but you’re a child in the room and

you’re making a decision right now

you’re saying i’m not gonna have this

same thing who are the joneses then why

are we keeping up with them

i am going to do what god has called me

come on hands lifted

father in the name of jesus i pray

that the same audacity the disciples had

to say whatever you want us to do god

we’ll follow you

i pray that over every person that is

listening to me right now

father god the lies that the spirit of

mammon has tried to convince us of

father god

that somehow if we have money we don’t

need you

i bind that spirit in the name of jesus

and i release

the spirit of trust and dependence on

our provider

the one who sees and meets every one of

our needs

i declare and believe that today father

god

is just the first step in people’s minds

hearts and lives being unlocked to live

a blessed life i declare father oh in

the name of jesus

that people would become so enamored

with purpose that it wouldn’t matter how

much paper

and father i thank you by your grace you

would allow

the paper the resources the connections

the networking father everything that’s

added father i thank you that it would

be added because they sought first the

kingdom

let matthew 6 33 rise up on the inside

of your church

father let us know you as elijah know

you father god as one that believed you

to provide

father let us get the raven revelation

that father if you provide for things

that are least in us god

how much more will you do for us god

i thank you for the person who’s facing

eviction right now

yeah let’s be real i thank you for the

person father

whose car is getting repossessed right

now

i pray father that people know that at

the most embarrassing

darkest deepest moment of their

financial crisis

you look upon them with love

and you don’t see them for the debt they

made because you were the god that paid

the debt for us

and so father right now i thank you oh

that somebody will receive your love

because of what you did on the cross by

stretching out for us father god

every mistake we would make financially

every credit card we would max

every wrong decision that we would do

father you’re not looking at us waiting

for us to fix that on our own

but you are the god that cares about the

details of our life

father god and you’re the one that wants

to get down in that thing with us

if we would allow you to and god i’m

thinking that our heart is open

to invite you into everything father god

so that we can truly live a blessed life

and walk in stewardship and generosity

i speak it by faith

that every person that gives this

word a space excuse me

priority in their life

in the next season of their life

they will reap a harvest that was

sown in preparation

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thank you for being our provider we

trust you

we believe you we need you

we honor you and we thank you for being

good

in jesus name everybody say we agree

we expect amen

i need all my purpose chasers to give

god a shot of praise in the building

and all over the world hallelujah

hey listen if you’re watching this right

now

and your heart started moving all that

is is god just knocking at the door

and he wants to come in and help you

when i talk about god being a provider

he’s already provided everything you

need for eternal life this young rich

ruler was saying how do i inherit

eternal life

christ hadn’t died yet if you’re asking

that same question

how do i inherit eternal life god says i

already provided it

all you have to do is believe and

receive say that believe

and receive today i want to offer you

jesus

i want to give you the opportunity to

accept jesus christ

as your personal lord and savior and be

the provision

that i needed that pastor amber lee

needed that pastor bree needed

i want you that i want you to receive

the ultimate provision

it’s the thing that took me from being a

liar a manipulator

addicted to pornography somebody who had

so many dark places in their heart

somebody who was greedy just five six

years ago like i told y’all this was a

progression for me

but god’s saying i’ll get in there with

you i don’t care if it’s dirty

i’ll help you clean it up

if you want to invite the holy spirit

god and jesus into your life

we’re about to say a prayer and on the

count of three i feel this i need y’all

to pray i feel that

many people god’s going to use a series

about generosity and stewardship

to bring people to salvation i feel this

thing right now

there are people you need to share this

with because this is going to be the

thing

that draws them into the kingdom if it’s

you

i want to say today is the day of

salvation not tomorrow

not next week that’s not promised to us

but everybody say today

and i believe that god has aligned your

life to be at this moment right here at

this time

i don’t care how you get got here i

don’t care what you were doing who you

were sleeping with who you were smoking

with

i don’t care what happened yesterday

right now this is your moment

i don’t care how much pride has been in

your life how much you’ve been chasing

paper god

looks on you with love and says could

you receive it

and today on the count of three if

that’s you and you say pastor

i want to be added into that prayer i

want you i want to pray the prayer of

salvation i want to make sure my

eternity is secure

i want you to slip your hand in the air

i don’t care who’s with you

i don’t care who’s around you they’re

not going to stand before you with god

it’ll be you and him and and i believe

that somebody’s about to make a decision

for their eternity one

this is the greatest decision you could

ever make two

i am so proud of you but more than that

your name

is gonna be written in the lamb’s book

of life three i dare you to just shoot

your hand up all over the world

yeah shoot it up come on there are

people here rejoicing with you

glory to god hey if that’s you

we’re about to pray a prayer in

transformation church you already know

the drill

nobody prays alone here we’re a family

we’re an army

we we are we are all a part of this

thing so we’re gonna all say this prayer

out loud

for the benefit of those who are coming

to christ would you just lift your hands

right now

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say lord thank you

for sending jesus as my provision

today i admit

that i need you as my lord and savior

i believe you lived and you died

just for me so today

i give you my life i’m chasing purpose

with you change me renew me

transform me i’m yours

in jesus name amen

can we give god oh come on all over the

world let’s give god

a shout of praise you know heaven is

turning up right now

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more than any amount of money god

rejoices over

one soul and so we rejoice with you

hey listen if you just made that

decision

we want to walk with you i feel the

presence of god y’all

i’m so proud of you we want to walk with

you would you text the number on the

screen

and i want you to just text it because

we’re not going to harass you we’re

going to help you

we’re going to send you resources you’re

going to get some messages

from me and pastor natalie we’re going

to we’re going to just we’re going to

help you

because it takes a journey it took you

years to get to where you at

it’s going to take you um time to get

into a new space but we’re going to be

here my

my promise to you as a church is we’ll

always be here to help you

and remind you that it’s about

progression not perfection we’re going

to challenge you to go to the deep

and we’re going to stay anchored on the

word of god i love you

i believe in you and i’m so excited for

you

y’all

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this just week one

by the end of this

will be an army of purpose chasers

that know how to steward over what god

has placed in your hands

right now and it’s going to qualify us

for so much more in a blessed life

father i pray for everybody that watch

today i thank you father no matter if

they’re watching

live or watching on rebroadcast that

your same holy spirit would invade their

space

on the track on the treadmill father god

in their kitchen

in the living room father in their car i

thank you father that you are changing

their hearts father god

and you are making them purpose chasers

i declare this will be the best week of

our life

any bad news is just an opportunity for

you to be provider

i thank you father that you’re moving us

into a place of

deeper and we will stay anchored in you

as we trust you

in jesus name we pray everybody say amen

go out and live a transformed

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life

you