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
[Applause]
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
[Applause]
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
[Applause]
i don’t need paper i need provision
[Applause]
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
[Applause]
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
[Applause]
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
[Laughter]
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
[Applause]
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