God has a blessing waiting for us on the other side of our faith. But what happens when we get it? Will it distract us from God’s calling, or will it be proof that God will do what He says He will do? Pastor Mike reveals to us how we can stay humble when God begins to fulfill His promises in our lives. Watch this message, and share it with a friend!
what would make you wake up
go to your daughter’s room
open up your laptop
write down impossible things
get in a borrowed 15 passenger van
drive over to a 54 million dollar arena
take this picture
and tell everybody you will one day own
it
crazy fake
what makes you get back into the 15
passenger van
go to your current situation get on a
platform in front of skeptical people
and say this we’re going to have to go
to another place
crazy faith
what would make you turn down two
million dollars
give to other people when you were in
need
say you will have no debt
and believe not just for a building but
for the entire block
crazy faith
what would make you embrace the tears
after the confirmed diagnosis
acknowledge the lies and the fears but
still believe for the healing in your
child
crazy faith
what would make you stop waiting on the
crowd to agree with what you know but
they cannot see
stop playing it safe on the boat it’s
time for you to do the impossible and
walk on the scene
you’ve got to see it before you see it
yeah maybe it might sound crazy but baby
your purpose can’t afford for you to be
lazy it’s only crazy until it happens
yeah they think i’m crazy
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good morning transformation church
today we are in week eight
of a series we are calling crazier faith
and if you’re just joining us um i want
to encourage you to go back and watch
all seven parts that have come before
this
and then all 19 parts that came before
that you have a new job
i want you to get crazy faith and crazy
your faith in you because this
principle truth and lifestyle can change
everything in your life
when you start living walking acting and
loving and crazier faith
it changes
everything and around here
if you’re just joining us i’m sorry but
i haven’t announced it meant to make
it’s bamboo season at transformation
church
and if you don’t know what that is it is
a season of unusual acceleration
somebody say that with me unusual
acceleration
i believe that in this season in this
time in this moment god is taking things
that took a long time
and he’s accelerating them
things that you may have sown and things
that you may have saw or things that you
may have tried to see before god saying
this is the season
of unusual acceleration and a lot of
people don’t understand why would you
just call it bamboo season because a
bamboo tree goes under and it’s planted
for three years and literally when it
breaks forth somebody shot at me break
forth
y’all didn’t shout it at me somebody
said break forth
when it breaks forth out of the ground
out of the position of being under out
of obscurity
it has the ability to grow two inches
every single hour
that is unusual acceleration within 24
hours it can grow four feet
god told me to tell transformation
church prophetically and anybody who has
the faith to believe it that this is
your bamboo season we have less than 50
days left in 2021
god only needs three to change the whole
world y’all missed it
he only needs three to do the greatest
miracle ever
what could god do
in the next two months
in your life
somebody shot at me bamboo season
i found a scripture that i want us to
stand on in this season of unusual
acceleration it’s found in genesis
chapter 26 verse 12.
it says and isaac sowed in the land
and reaped in the same year what
hold on he sold it usually takes some
year it said he sowed
in the land and reaped in the same year
a hundred fold
and the lord blessed him
when i see stuff like that that ties in
the last two weeks messages together
like that i gotta go look it up in the
amplified version and when i seen this
in the amplified version it pulled these
whole things together look at genesis 26
and 12 in the amplified it said then
isaac planted seed remember we talked
about having faith like a farmer
in the land as a farmer
and wreaked in the same year a hundred
times as much as he had planted and the
lord blessed and favored him this ain’t
for everybody but there’s some people
that in this season of an open heaven
where there’s unusual acceleration god
said whatever you sow you’re about to
see a hundred times that thing in the
same year this is bamboo season and i’m
coming to encourage you
don’t stop sowing now
i want you to be a serial sower
don’t stop showing your time
your talent oh y’all thought i was just
talking about money your time
your talent there are things you can do
right now for people that you just
stingy
with the gifting that god’s placed in
your hand and god said sow it now
sow it now because ten years from now
two months from now ten days from now
there needs to be a harvest for you
and you cannot
get the harvest if you have not
exercised the spiritual faith gift of
sowing the seed and so
as i began to look at bamboo seeds and i
got excited because even this week i’ve
started hearing testimonies of people
that have sold
in different ways and god is paying off
debts and opening up jobs and giving
scholarships and promotions and
realigning family i’m not talking about
stuff i’m thinking about these are
actual people that these things are
happening and then god as a pastor i get
all pumped and i’m like lost go i
rejoice with those who rejoice and i’m
born with those who more so i’m going
and then god said michael i’m about to
open the floodgates and pour out
blessing they don’t have room enough to
receive i’ll still lost oh god has bad
boys hey
and he said remind him of the backside
of the blessing
i said no that’s not as fun
as telling everybody it’s bamboo season
he said but you’re responsible to make
sure they’re prepared
[Applause]
so today
i need us
to walk
in a way that prepares us for this
season of unusual acceleration and
blessing is anybody believing for god to
do something that is all extraordinary
not ordinary i said extraordinary
so today i have to prepare you for that
because
as we yell it’s bamboo season today
i want to let you know
that there are many people in bamboo
season that get bamboozled by the
blessing
matter of fact that’s what i’ma call the
message today write that down bamboozled
by the blessing
see because we talk to people about what
to do to get the blessing
but we never prepare them of what your
action steps are to do after the
blessing comes
after you get the house after your
emotional um stability comes back after
the family is restored after you get the
car after you wifed up after they
recognize you you get the promotion
after the loan clears what do you do
after the blessing
and most people today pray fast believe
so get the blessing and then they get
bamboozled by the blessing
the word bamboozle means to be deceived
or tricked
what happens when the very thing you
prayed for tricked you out of intimacy
with god uh-oh
what happens when the very thing you
believed for god we needed the house we
needed more space and then it broke up
and isolated the family
now you got 5 000 square feet and no
intimacy
bamboozled
by the blessing
i cried out i prayed i drove from texas
in kansas and california to get my crazy
faith offering and god did the miracle
now what
and if we don’t prepare for what god is
going to do we will be left in the trap
that humanity gets in over and over we
get bamboozled by
the blessing
have you ever been bamboozled
now maybe it’s just me but there are
some people that have tricked me before
and and
and the crazy thing about being
bamboozled most times you don’t know
you’re getting bamboozled why you being
bamboozled
it’s not a sudden like i’m about to
exploit you and take advantage of you
nobody’s doing that it’s the people that
get close to you and
uh y’all want to be fake today
it’s the people that you once called
best friend it’s the people that you
gave a position to it’s the people that
you put on and then somehow you look up
and
i might be a little too close to home
this morning
but i remember this one time i’m gonna
make it a little lighter because some of
y’all just really just went back you the
crazy eyes just came out of you just
start thinking about i’m gonna go i’m
gonna find him like i’m down
i remember this one time uh
my one of my best friends john he
actually styles me and does all this
stuff so we’ve been in the clothes for a
very long time
and um
we were in the clothes when we were
broke and um
what what that means is that all the
stuff you want to buy
you can’t buy
because you ain’t got no money
so anytime you see something that’s
gently used
or maybe a size or two bigger
or
you know i’m saying you make it work
has anybody ever grown up making it work
now some of y’all bougie all your life
but there’s some of us that had to take
something that was not even and make it
work well there was this one time
where we’ve been sneaker heads a long
time and it was the first time these new
yeezy shoes were coming out and john
comes up to me he’s like mike i found
the plug
and john’s my friend
so
when my friend comes up and tells me
like i found the plug there’s like
questions i don’t even ask
cause you’re my friend
you
so he’s like i found
this chick on instagram
she can get the yeezys for 350 and send
them right to us i said bro you lying
you know that mugs is like 900 on the
aftermarket he said bro i promise you
look here’s a picture of her
shows me a picture of this lady i was
like oh okay and she kind of cute and
she work at finish one issue okay cool
cool
i scraped together
every dollar dime nickel penny that i
had you know when you broke when you
start going to the couch to look for the
money just hold on like
loose change other people’s car ashtrays
i was everywhere
i got my 350 together and gave it to my
friend with full
confidence
i’m talking about
i was imagine you talking about see it
before you see it
i saw myself with them shoot i had
started planting outfits
based on
one week goes by
two week goes by i mean shipping you
know
three weeks go by
and we start encouraging each other like
bro you already know they on the way bro
you know they we doing all this other
four weeks go by
i said john um
i’ve missed some meals
because of what i uh
gave to this endeavor that we’re on
right now have you heard anything bro i
i i dm’d them i i let them know and they
promised me they’d be here next week
five weeks goes by
six week goes by now i’m a little
aggravated
john
he’s like bro i got my money in it too
you dumb too
we end up finding out
that it wasn’t a young lady it was a man
that posted a picture
of a young lady at a shoe store
we sent him our money
and that man disappeared
for at least three weeks
me and john felt worthless
because as grown men
who paid taxes
and had wives this wasn’t like like i’m
married at this time like at least there
should be some sun i felt bamboozled
if i see that person today i’m stealing
them out on site
[Applause]
but what i begin to understand about
this moment of being bamboozled
is i let the idea of what i thought was
going to be a blessing
distract me from deception
write this point down because y’all are
about to come into blessing you’ve never
seen before you’re about to come into
relationships that you’ve never seen
before you’re about to have resources
and access like you’ve never nobody’s
believing it with me you’re about to
have resources and access like you’ve
never seen before but never let the
blessing
become such a distraction
that you fall into deception
i was so distracted by the blessing that
was coming
that i didn’t even look and see that the
person only had two pictures on their
you know when somebody has two pictures
on they thing it’s a scam
but i didn’t look at it one time till
after i had been bamboozled
after i had been taken advantage of
and god is telling you the blessings on
the way
but when the blessing comes don’t be so
distracted by the house
don’t be so distracted by the new
relations don’t be distracted about who
they worked with and who they’ve done
music with and what tv show they’ve been
on and who they know
do not be distracted
to the place where you fall into
deception
can i bring it real spiritual don’t let
the promotion keep you from praying
uh-oh
now you got it you prayed for it and now
no more relationship with god don’t get
distracted
don’t let the new heart the new house
harden your heart from generosity
don’t let uh oh single ladies single men
don’t let the relationship cheap in your
routine with god
you used to have a routine with god
oh let me talk to married people oh it’s
the kids and it’s the thing and god said
i still gave you 24 hours and somehow
you managed to binge watch netflix but
you had no time to be with me and in the
morning you’re gonna need me to go back
to that job but you gave me no time to
give you what i needed
the reason why you can’t be distracted
by the blessing even though it’s good
watch this it’s because distraction
distractions
jeopardize discernment
when you’re distracted you can’t discern
what’s going on
when you’re distracted
you don’t pay attention to stuff that’s
obvious
have y’all ever seen your friend going
into a relationship that was going to
end in disaster before it even started
oh come on but they can’t see it
why because they distract it
well he loved me and he bought my nails
and he did the opposite than my last
boyfriend jerome and this and that and
the third and you like i don’t know this
look like jerome in a different outfit
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but their discernment is down because
their distraction is up
what i’m telling you the reason you
don’t know what college to go to is
because the distraction is up and the
discernment is down the reason why you
don’t know if you’re supposed to put
your kids in that school or that school
is because the distraction is up
and the discernment is down
and this is how people get bamboozled
by
the blessing because they can’t discern
anymore
i just did something
and it worked
so then i go
and that’s when the enemy creeps in
and says all i needed them to do was
exhale
i just needed them to get off of it for
a second
i just needed them to stop fasting i
heard a man of god once say he said
don’t fast every once in a while live a
fasted life
he said because at the moment that god
does the victory it’s not a time to say
i’ll do that again on 21 days of prayer
and fasting next year that’s a lot of
time that my discernment is down where
i’m not as keen to hear the whispers of
god
and some of the blessing that you’re
about to come in you got to hear every
direction
the steps of a good man and a good woman
are i got to be able to hear the whisper
of god i got to be able to hear stay in
that lease for six months and on the
seventh month i’m gonna bring something
to you you gotta be able to hear the
details the level of
of responsibility i walk in now the
details matter
[Music]
[Applause]
and if we lose our discernment as a
church
if we lose our discernment as a body
deception is just around the corner
the biggest blessing in the world and
god’s like it’s okay
it’s okay that i did that once but my
plan wasn’t to have one season
[Music]
of unusual acceleration
i wanted this to be your life
and i don’t know who i’m here to
encourage today
this is the kick in the pants
that lets you know like hey
stop being distracted
and get your discernment to another
level god is speaking to some of y’all
right now
and he can’t even get a word in because
cnn
fox news your instagram feed what
happened at astroworld what happened on
this celebrity will and jada again is
this that third new and god said i’ve
been speaking the whole time
but your discernment is distracted
can i show you a picture of somebody
who had something amazing happen to them
and then their discernment just shut off
this is what most of us look like
after we get the blessing check this out
go down stay fast
listen that child is going to be a pro
athlete
did y’all just see what happened
he tells his daddy think fast throws it
to him like ah
and his mama says that boy
is gonna be a pro bam
what he told his dad to do
think fast
he didn’t have the discernment to think
the ball was coming back
and many of us
god
is telling us to do something
and then we stop doing the thing
that gets us in a place of watch this
protection
he didn’t even put his hands up charles
he was so caught off guard by that
he had no discernment that it was even
coming back and some of y’all been
trying to hold your laugh in that was
that little boy got knocked and he will
always forever have a mark
he will never forget
the time
that he was distracted by the compliment
of his mother
don’t this sound like us this boy
this girl
this employee is
hit just for a moment
he was so distracted by the blessing of
encouragement
that he lost all discernment
i do not want you to be bamboozled by
the blessing
the bible says when god blesses we still
watch and pray
let me move on
see because the backside of the blessing
whatever it is if it’s your business
doubling if it’s the promotion if it’s
you being able to be in emotional
stability for the first time after
decades of emotional trauma god said
i’ma bless you with it
but the blood the backside of the
blessing always comes with three things
you have to watch out for
it tries to give you an opportunity to
walk away from god
and to establish independence
identity and entitlement
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whenever god blesses you and does
amazing things what ends up happening is
you have an opportunity to walk away
from god
and declare your independence
to find your identity
and to walk in entitlement let me break
it down just a little more your
independence from god
is always an option after god uses you
beyond what you deserve
every day i get up here
and minister to you
i can go to instagram afterwards and get
filled with people saying how amazing i
am that would give me the opportunity to
declare my independence from god y’all
did do good on that sermon
those analogies what did you see the
farmer and the
way he killed that
every sunday
when i get off this stage and before
anybody in the room knows i get i don’t
care what i have on i get on my hands
and my knees
and i ask god in humility father if you
would just one more time use this broken
shell of a man that is me and would you
speak through me and take all of my
ignorance and all of my know-how and
would you form it together somehow god
i’m dependent on you if you used to
watch back in the day i would say tag
team back again holy spirit i need you
to do this with me i am completely
dependent
on god
and when god blesses you you get an
opportunity to be independent
and some of y’all
god’s done it and he don’t hear from you
until you need him to do it again
this is the backside of the blessing it
doesn’t just come with independence from
god then you start trying to find your
identity in the blessing
i can’t tell you how many times people
have now gotten a car
or a home
or a corner office
and now they are up can i be real or
they become a pastor
and now their identity is in not who
from who called them their identity is
in what they do
the reason i respect bishop mcintosh so
much is because while he was still able
to walk in the office of pastor
his identity was only found in christ so
what he had been doing for 16 plus years
he was able to hand to somebody else and
walk away from why because his identity
was not in the title uh-oh
some of y’all’s identity is entitled
wife
who are you if you’re not a wife uh oh
oh
who are you if you’re not a husband who
are you if you’re not a ceo who are you
if you’re not an athlete who are you if
you’re not
and the biggest plague on the world
today is that when god blesses us then
somehow we attach our identity to it
i’m a musician i’m a fashion designer
i’m an author god said you’re my child
and before you or any of that and after
you’re all of that you’ll still be
my
child
and the reason why people cannot walk
away from what has been successful
is because the backside of the blessing
has been that they have formed their
identity
and the thing that god blessed them with
i tell our team all the time i don’t
know how long i’m gonna do this
i know it’s cracking right now
but if the holy spirit tell me five
years from now 10 years from now 15
years from now 20 years from now
mike start over
and go be
a plumber
i’m gonna do it with all my might crack
and everything i’m gonna pull it out i’m
gonna do it
why do plumbers they don’t feel that
okay anyway
um
it’s just almost like comes with the job
like
any plumbers out there dm me um
why why could i walk away and be a
plumber
because my identity
is not in
the platform
or the position
my identity is in a person
and his name is somebody shot at me
jesus
so you cannot
declare your independence from god and
you cannot find your identity in the
blessing see because then this last one
takes over a lot of people if you do not
watch yourself you will be bamboozled by
the blessing because then you start
walking in entitlement because of the
blessing
i deserve that
it’s about time they recognize who i am
if god didn’t do it now i promise you he
was going to do it somewhere else
the exact opposite of gratefulness
thankfulness like like and there are so
many people
acting like god owes them something
past the breath that you took to get up
this morning
that was grace and mercy and it’s new
what every morning
everything after that is his favor and
his kindness and his goodness and his
grace on our life see nobody wants to
talk about this you think you deserve a
new house
you deserve to be in leadership hold up
what
[Applause]
it is
a blessing and a privilege
but that spirit of entitlement comes in
and see this equation that i just gave
you you didn’t know it was an equation
but i want to put it in an equation for
you if you have independence plus
identity found in the blessing plus
entitlement found out of the blessing it
equals the same thing every time it’s
one big word that the lord hates
pride
this
is the problem with the backside of the
blessing when god does it
you have an opportunity to walk in pride
and this is what stops charles unusual
acceleration faster than anything else
when god starts doing it start feeling
entitled
attach your identity to it
stop praying and acknowledging god in
all your ways so he can direct your path
be independent
and what creeps into your life
is pride put that big pride up there
what is right in the middle of the pr in
the d.e
i
when i takes over
you are about to be shut down from
heaven
and i’ve watched it over and over and
believe i’ve watched it ministry rise
and ministry fall business rise and
business fall first marriage second
marriage third marriage fourth marriage
because of
pride
i know nobody talks about this no more
because your graphic was dope
but we don’t have to use it
it was a privilege that god put you in a
position to use the skill of your hand
and it actually blessed somebody but you
think it’s all of that and now you don’t
have to do it on time and put it on the
deadline oh i’m i’m talking to a couple
of people right now cause you that dope
you’re walking in
pride
i’ve been married for five years i don’t
need no marriage counseling what they
gonna tell me how they know what i’m
going through and i’m doing this and you
won’t even sit down with the person you
committed your entire life to to become
better for better or for worse in
sickness and health in the good and in
the bad and you won’t even listen to
somebody who has way more training than
you
the only reason you don’t sit down is
because of pride
the reason you’ve been in that church
for 15 years
and ain’t picked up
nothing
won’t open the door
you’re so entitled at that church
that you think that you should be
praised for coming
we don’t care if you come
i’m gonna say what your pastor should
say to you i don’t care after covert i’m
a little ignorant like i ain’t had like
i don’t care if you come as long as he
comes
it don’t matter who else show up but you
are shutting down the blessing of your
own life because of
pride
and when you make the blessing that god
has given you
the thing that you have independence
from him for
you find your identity in the blessing
and you feel entitled to the blessing
what you form
is an idol
some of y’all live in the thing you
[Applause]
oh worship nasty
some of y’all drove
to work this week the thing that gets
more of your worship
here’s my worship
all of my worship
receive my worship
all of my worship you give more time to
that steel rubber and metal
you have a house for it you built a
garage you built an altar for it
and god’s saying to you
you should have no other
god
ain’t got no other gods
if you worship it more than you worship
god
if you express your love to it more than
you express it to god some of your
bibles are so dusty you could get a
disease just by opening it
but instagram is nice and lubricated
facebook is part of your daily
foundation
[Applause]
and god is saying
i need you
to kill the idols
because it has you walking in pride
and it has you stopping me
from blessing you
cannot
the enemy has not changed the tactic
since the garden
adam and eve in paradise with god is
only three of them like
you can’t mess this up
why are you what are we talking about
every tree except one
like come on
just
eat everything else
but what did the enemy come to suggest
independence from god
ain’t that what he said
no no he don’t oh
god he always talking
your identity should be in knowing
the difference between good and evil
eat this blessing and your identity will
change
and matter of fact why would god say
entitlement
why would he say
you could eat from every other tree and
not this one
pride came in
and why did adam and eve get kicked out
of eden
pride
why did satan get kicked out of heaven
all he’s doing is putting a copy and
paste
on your life
based on what happened in his life
why would we get kicked out of a season
of unusual acceleration
pride
it’s here it’s coming the next few days
weeks years god is about to blow our
mind
how long we stay in this season
is dependent on how humble we can be
while god continues to open up the
windows and pour out a blessing we don’t
have room enough to receive james 4 6
this is why pride is so ghetto
god opposes the proud
i can’t even i’m holy like i can’t even
like i love you but that
like it’s literally
it for god
walk in pride
walk away from god
think that you’re all of that
god says be it
have it
do it
i’ll be over here
until i smell humility
humility has an aroma have you ever met
somebody and they ain’t even said
nothing to you but you can tell the type
of person humility
leaves
it leaves a fragrance
and god said uh i smell pride
can’t do it
he opposes the problem but he shows
favor
to the what humble okay
pride will get you kicked out of
paradise
wherever you think god is taking you
if you start walking in pride i’m just
trying to help somebody not lose the
thing that god is bringing into your
life it’s bamboo season don’t be
bamboozled by the blessing it’s bamboo
season don’t get tricked
when it actually happens
somebody be like it’s only crazy until
it happens this is true
i’ve seen people be on top
and then they ask him for five dollars
why because it was crazy that god did it
and it was crazy that he took it away
why because pride crept
in this is why we have to tear down
every idol and this is why that what you
worship is more important than anything
else in your life why this is what i say
it to to my wife all the time never
worship a noun
never worship worship a person
a place
or a thing
don’t ever worship never worship a noun
when people try to blow pastor mike you
were so you were this and you were that
i tell people to god be the glory
and some of my friends they’re like you
just always be saying this churchy
answer i said no no no
that’s not a churchy answer for me
for me that’s the thing that keeps me
humble
because
people
situations
other
dynamics
will have you confused about who you
really are
i know me
it is only the grace of god that i’m
standing up here and all y’all don’t be
sending me messages in jail
y’all laughing i’m serious
it is the grace of god and see some of
y’all are so bougie like oh my god
pastor mike but if we opened up your
nasty life
and really saw what you thought and what
you texted and deleted it was in your
heart it came out if we really saw what
you look at never mind
[Applause]
[Music]
but how do we stay in this place we have
to stay everybody shout at me humble
sit down
was that prophet kendrick lamar
[Applause]
he says a word in there that’s not good
but the message is very potent
can i give you the secret of how to
combat pride i told y’all this is the
most important message in the series
because whatever you’re believing god
for in crazy faith can be gone in a
moment because of pride
all that god has done at transformation
church be from the time we was at 15 19
believe in god to hire two people
to they just told me that i think we
have a staff of over a hundred and what
is it now
27
107 people on staff this time last year
it was half that
how do we go from that
and god said there’s a lot of factors
but the one thing that i keep opening up
the heart to see
is if there’s still humility in there
and humility is not based on who you
talking to
humility is what you think and you feel
when nobody’s there and what you think
and you feel when everybody is there
god is looking for a church and a people
that will be humble enough to be blessed
over and over and over again and this is
how we keep pride out how do you combat
pride with humility how do you stay
humble here’s the secret
through service
who
are
you
serving
not who’s serving you because that’s the
western’s world of success we look at
successes how many people are serving me
the kingdom looks at the exact opposite
how many people are you serving
and some of you by world standards would
be at the top of the list and god’s
gonna say get away from me i didn’t even
know you
because you called my name but never had
my posture
you called my name you shouted and you
did all this but you never had the
posture to serve nobody
you were too big to get low
i don’t know i might have called the
message drop it low
somebody needs to hear me say this you
have six figures
but who have you served
you prayed for the private practice
but now you won’t practice what you
preach
you’ll tell other people to do it
but you never do when the last time you
handed somebody money they didn’t earn
from you
who
are you
serving
and i made a decision a long time ago
that whenever i show up i’ma show up
serving
somebody say show up
serving when you go to the birthday
party
show up serving
when you go to your kid’s school
show what can i do how can i help do you
need any help miss johnson do you need
anything and some of y’all being
you better treat my kid right you get
bad we all know that
[Applause]
have you showed up
serving
when i walk into something that is made
for me
people who are on my team will tell you
they’d be trying to pick up stuff and do
stuff i’m like ah
let me carry my own bag
matter of fact give me your bag
cause i have to keep myself in a
position
uh y’all don’t hear me
some of y’all not prepared for the
blessing but this is for the people who
are about to go to a whole nother level
of unusual acceleration i’m trying to
tell you how to keep it going put
yourself in a position
to serve
and this ain’t sexy this is serving uh
this ain’t sexy this means your hands
gonna get dirty this means that you’re
gonna have to do things that may mess up
your outfit this means that somebody
who’s not as old as
i know for the ogs this means a lot
well what they gonna tell me they ain’t
never been through
okay
but if god put them in position
you do everything you do as unto the
uh oh
so you’ve been messing up your
season of unusual acceleration because
you looked at age instead of anointing
i might be 34 years old but i’m anointed
to be people’s pastor
if you look at my age and not my
qualification you will miss the thing
that god wants to do in you
because of pride
i’m not just a cereal sower
i’m a cereal server
[Applause]
when i come in i’m not just planting
seeds
i’m i’ma serve somebody in the midst of
it
write this down bamboo season is always
an introduction to a greater season of
service
you get a promotion on your job greater
service become a leader on that team
greater service hire your first team
member or employee greater service you
go from being single to married
greater service got doggett
i’ll be telling my what you didn’t you
didn’t pass the thermostat on your way
to the room
you just got i’ve been in the bed
baby could you just please turn it up
too ding things
dude think this you just got why did you
get in the bed the first thing you
let me go to the bathroom real quick i
go to the bathroom come back my taco’s
gone
i ask you
did you want i’m just trying to be real
did you want something
well at the time i really didn’t want it
but then when i smelled the aroma of
what you was doing and every time you do
it it’d be looking so good and so i just
took a bite and then once i took a bite
then i took another bite and then i was
like when is he coming back and then i
just ate the whole thing
but if you really love me
you could go get us some more tacos
[Applause]
at midnight
you you want to be married
[Applause]
you go from mcdonald’s to chick-fil-a
literally greater service
have more kids y’all know mcdonald’s
people i want to alter call for them
because they just be so mad what kind of
fries oh never mind like
never mind i didn’t want the fries
sweet and sour sauce one 25 cents after
what i got okay i got a 30-piece
mcnugget but okay
[Applause]
chick-fil-a like you got eight eight
nuggets they’ve been like here here’s
sauce here’s sauce here’s but
chick-fil-a is in a season of unusual
acceleration see
they understand that service
i’ma preach this thing
service will make me go an extra five
miles to find a chick-fil-a
service y’all don’t hear me
we talking about all this stuff but if
you get
what’s on your crazy faith card
what that means is
greater
service
break this point down in the kingdom
service
is the secret to success
[Music]
in the kingdom of god
what you wanted it to say
and what church has made it
is status
is the secret to
success and god looks at people with
status and be like they’ll be here today
and gone tomorrow
the people who gonna be able to see this
thing keep going
it’s people who have committed their
life in crazy or faith this is crazy why
are you preaching this in crazier faith
cause this is anti-cultural
our culture does not look at who they
can serve
can i go ahead and
if the church
when they have the lgbtq parade
would go out there with waters
and just
[Music]
i i i didn’t say convert them pray for
them play oil on them i just said if we
would go out there and
serve
[Applause]
[Music]
i i i can’t even fool with y’all today
but you are mad at people you’ve never
served
[Applause]
you are disgusted with people you’ve
never even come in contact with
close enough to see what the need
actually is
and i just decided that transformation
church
is gonna be a place where we don’t even
have to agree
but i can serve
whoever
god places in front of me if that’s
gonna be your crazy faith mission in a
world who looks to get what they can get
will you give god a shout of praise
right now
in the kingdom of god
service
is the secret to success matthew 20 28
for even this is our example
the son of man
came
not
to be
so it’s not just serve
he said i’m going to tell you the
antithesis the exact opposite
i did not come to be served
it’s not just i come to serve
it’s i did not come to be served
don’t serve me
i came watch what it says
to serve
others black people others white people
others
republicans others democrats others
transgender others
pastors others
drug addicts other it didn’t say
i came to serve say it others
to give his life
when you serve he’s going to take a
sacrifice
he couldn’t just serve he had to
sacrifice
he said to give his life
as a ransom this word always messes me
up for many
there’s no specificity what is it no
they not specific
about
who he died for
many
so i’mma serve people and never get
the credit
it’s just as long as you served others
your sacrifice is gonna affect many
see that’s why transformation church i
love the generosity at our church
because when people give and we do stuff
it’s not like and then we give and it’s
going to do this exact thing it’s like
when we give
we serving others
and it’s going to impact
many
matthew 23 11 i got to give you all word
this is jesus strongest
statement on serving
the greatest among all of y’all
will be
your servant
the disciples were trying to figure out
if their instagram feed made them look
better to god
if the miracles they had done if the
amount of cars sitting on them things
made them feel
successful if they’re kids
accomplishments because i know i’ve been
talking about a lot of materialistic
things but some of y’all worship your
children
uh-oh
well they are and they are and they got
accepted too and they’re a gold medal
number one honor roll this then third
the fourth day and they’re going to
leave you
and when they get out of your house
like
and this is the thing that i’m saying
yes you’re called to serve your children
but not at the expense of serving god
some of y’all haven’t prayed since you
popped little peter out
since peter came
god doesn’t have
any time with you
you go to wine
more than you go to the whale
your peace uh let me stop
and god’s saying to you today
i need
you to serve me
and serve others
more than you do anything
else
i said it earlier but write it as a
point
you have to serve it
before you see it
not just see it before you see it or sow
it before you see it god’s telling you
if you’re gonna see everything i have
for you you’re gonna have to serve it
before you see the goal is not to have
one season of unusual acceleration the
goal of any famous tv show is to have
multiple seasons grey’s anatomy i think
has 18 seasons
why is it going to go down as one of the
greatest shows not because it had a good
episode
because it had great
seasons
when i think about that david was one of
those people
that in his journey of faith crazier
faith
he had several bamboo seasons he had
season after season of unusual
acceleration y’all remember when david
is in the field just doing what he has
been called to do tending to the sheep
they throw a party don’t invite the bro
he’s not in there trying to be like yo
what’s up i heard the music he’s not
trying to be in nobody’s business he’s
minding his own doing what god told them
staying at the last place god told them
and spending time with god and in that
place they call for him
and when they call for him samuel
standing there in front of all of his
brothers who despised him he anoints him
the king of israel and then they send
him right back to the field that he was
in before what happens when god puts you
in another stratosphere by anointing but
sends you back to the same job
i’m trying to teach you
what happens when he calls you by name
and gives you great things in your
future and then sends you back to the
same
crazy family
lord as you’re upgrading everything
would you just upgrade my family lord
just give me another one
this is what happens
to david and then look what happens in
first samuel chapter 16 verse 14. i’m
gonna help somebody today
oh multiple seasons of unusual
acceleration i don’t know who that’s for
but this ain’t gonna be a one-off this
ain’t gonna happen one time god said i
want it to keep happening it says now
the spirit of the lord had departed from
saul and an evil spirit from the lord
tormented him i can’t even stop and
preach that
but if you look at that that’s gonna
mess with your theology and an evil
spirit
from the lord
tormenting him let’s keep moving saul’s
attendant said to him see an evil spirit
from god is tormenting you they said it
they even recognized it so everything
bad that’s happening to you isn’t the
devil
it’s not the thing that’s going to take
you out it’s the thing that’s going to
develop you
what god was trying to do to solve
before this moment is work the fruits of
the spirit in him before they were
called the fruits of the spirit when he
was not waiting on samuel to come he got
impatient and god was saying the delay
wasn’t a denial i was trying to give you
something that you would need in the
next season but he never got it
and that’s why the evil spirit came to
torment him from the lord he said i got
to make room for the next person who’s
actually going to do it did you all know
we were never supposed to meet david
everybody talks about david like saul
wasn’t chosen by god
saw if he would have been able to be the
one to do what god called him to do we
would have never had david defeating
goliath and i know it’s your favorite
story but david was the backup
[Music]
[Applause]
and because this man
did not stay in his place god had to
call up the third string quarterback to
play for the team and some of y’all the
reason god’s giving me this word to tell
you right now is because you’re walking
in pride
and because you’re walking in pride
every time i say it something changes on
the inside of you yeah well it’s not in
every area but in that one area
if you don’t address it it will keep you
away
and because he was walking in pride god
said i gotta find another one
and he said the evil spirit was
tormenting him verse 16 let our lord
command his servants there’s that word
here to search for someone who can play
the liar or the guitar
he will play when the evil spirit from
god
comes on you
and you’ll feel better
have you ever noticed when you read this
story that david’s first time to the
palace where he would ultimately be
seated was not in a position of status
it was in a position of service
so this is where you’re going to be
but i’m going to send you in there
without
authority first
i’m gonna have you serve somebody who
has characteristics
and things that you are gonna need in a
different season but i’m gonna allow
your voice to be muted
because they don’t need to hear you
right now
you need to go into that position and
you need to shut up and serve
i know they don’t teach like this no
more but some of us
are so ready to be seen that we won’t
shut up and serve
and the greatest lessons i’ve learned
is not when i was being on a platform
being great and showing people what i
had it was when i shutted
and when i shut my mouth
and i served the people that god placed
in front of me
see when he asked you to serve he’s
testing your heart your honor and your
humility
oh my god luke 16 12
and if you have not been faithful
and what is another man’s
who will give you what is your own
now this scripture is talking about
finances and different things like that
but there’s a principle here that i
learned a long time ago about serving
other people’s visions
if you won’t serve somebody else’s
vision
why would god trust you
to bring anybody else to your little
thing
well my llc and my business and my
non-profit god said your hands is so
fresh
no scrapes no cuts no no you ain’t got
dirty with nobody else
and you want me to open the flood you
didn’t sow service
you didn’t sow serving so you can’t reap
it you never did it for anybody why are
you expecting it to come up and god told
me he said what will one day be your
seat will always start out as your
service
david goes into the palace serving and
the place where one day he will have a
seat it started out as his service
can i have
my people come up who gonna help me
demonstrate what service looks like
see because if we would ever be ones to
really get in a place and to stand and
to come into a place of service what
would end up happening is we would
change the way we wait
see anything
that
you do as a server at a restaurant your
job is to wait
on the person that you are
in front of
and the thing that god told me to tell
transformation church
is your weight
is ugly
the way you’re waiting has no posture to
it
the way you’re waiting and your
character and your attitude you might as
well not even be here
because of the way you’re serving
[Applause]
all of these people up here are standing
in a certain position at attention
waiting to serve
and most of us
don’t look like this in the spirit
we should be saying god whatever you
want me to do at your surface how do you
want me to help the people you want it
to be a little hotter you want it to me
to be a little cold i’m talking too much
i’m not talking enough well lord i’m an
introvert but you need my purpose to
come out so i’m gonna allow my purpose
to override my preferences god however
you want me to do it you want me to
serve in the children’s area but i don’t
like kids that much oh give them the
name tags i can give them the name tag i
will serve
we’re not going to get a lot of amens on
this one but you are
blocking the season
of unusual acceleration because you’ve
been bamboozled by the blessing
you thought god gave you that position
so you could stunt
he gave you the position so you could
serve
[Music]
so let me just very quickly because we
got to get out of here some of y’all
can’t take no more of this
seven steps to kingdom success
i didn’t say to worldly status
seven steps
to kingdom success
let me just spell it out for you
s
e
r v
i c
e
service
if you serve it’ll change everything the
seven steps to kingdom
success is service s
be submitted
could you step down here for me chad
you charming
gentlemen could you take this off please
yeah see what ends up happening
is he listened to instructions that i
gave him
and he was sub to the mission
submitted gets such a bad rap especially
in church because of toxic people who’ve
never found their identity in christ
but just because people have done it
wrong and bad does not mean it’s
not a principle that god still works by
we have to be everybody say it with me
it’s a cuss word to some of y’all
submitted
you got to be submitted you got to be
subbed to somebody’s mission
whose mission are you under
a sub marine the reason they call it a
submarine is because it goes under
the water
whose vision are you
under
now i know
you’re starting to think about everybody
abusing you and everything that could go
wrong and all that god when your heart
is open and ready to be in a place of
service he will send you people show you
things that you are supposed to be
submitted
to
that’s why i tell people don’t just go
to any church
i’m glad you watch here at
transformation church but if god is
telling you you need to be in a local
church
get sub to somebody’s mission you can
watch us every monday tuesday wednesday
thursday friday well i just want to be
at the house because transformation
church my church some of y’all that’s
the truth others of y’all are lazy
and you do not want to be bothered with
people and you’ve been allowing your
preferences to override your purpose and
god told you six months ago you were
supposed to be back in somebody’s church
but you saying well trans man nobody
does it like passing like they ain’t got
to do it like me but they can have an
anointing that will cover your life
that’ll change i know pastor saying this
i don’t care
that you be a part of this if it’s not
where you’re supposed to be
you need to be submitted
i think about over my life there has
been four strategic people that god has
made me sub to their mission and i want
to show you this practically there was a
guy named terrell taylor he was my first
youth pastor back at higher dimensions
and um terrell came to me one time and
said michael i want you to help me start
this gospel group called one generation
of praise and and literally i would go
to terrell taylor’s house and i would
sit there and he introduced me to the
mpc 2000 xl and he introduced me to the
end sonic and we had death and all this
other stuff and he would have me doing
stuff and finding sounds and all this
other stuff and i found myself at 14
years old sub to his mission it wasn’t
my idea to come up with the group it
wasn’t my idea to come over there every
day after school but something in me had
the audacity to serve
and i can’t tell you how this man
serving with me and me serving with him
prepared me for my next level of service
there was a man named waymon tisdale
that god called me to serve he saw me
playing at one of the last azusa
conferences and he found out who i was i
was playing drums and he said i need you
to come be my studio musician i need you
to be my studio drummer i was in 11th
grade and literally we never talked
about money
he didn’t pay me
he never said be my studio magician for
this rate
i could have had a job at wendy’s
it would have not prepared me
for what god had called me to do uh
get your bag
the bag is not always the biggest form
of blessing
the bag is not always the biggest form
of blessing i’m telling somebody
something right now well they’re not
just gonna use me do you know what you
can get in certain atmospheres that
money can’t buy
[Music]
dale is my witness i would come over
there every day after my 11th grade year
i had to give people vision i had to
convince my dad to take me to mingo and
41st every day after school and then
come pick me up at 10 o’clock at night
why
because i was subbed
to the mission
and he ended up taking me all over the
world in my senior year i only went to
school from monday to thursday because
every friday he would come and get me
and in a different season not the season
i started out in the season that was
after that season he started paying me a
thousand dollars for 45 minutes of doing
what i loved
i played drums for 45 minutes as a
senior in high school
and i got paid a thousand dollars
staying in my own hotel room or having
per diem every day y’all know how fat i
got
ordering milkshakes and cookies and
cream i didn’t have to pay for none of
it i had my own flying first class
getting picked up in limos why
because god was trying to show me
what would happen
if i served
and then it went from
waymon to my parents
and some of y’all like well your parents
you always serve them in some see this
is the one thing there’s things that you
have to do
and then there’s things you choose to do
like at 18 many of the people that are
were part of my life like at 18 they
stopped fooling with their parents
like 18 and the sad thing about is a lot
of people’s parents stopped fooling with
them at 18.
i just have to this is something i just
got to get on black parents
why
do you keep putting your kids
in a position to start from where you
started from
when you 18 you out of here we the only
race that put our people out at 18
whether they ready or not to be able to
i’m just telling you right now if you
want to see the blessing of god in your
life maybe you should serve them a
couple more seasons
imma have to
that ain’t just for black people i just
i could talk to them because that’s what
i look like but so i feel crazy too
my parents started a church in 2009 i
believe it eight eight nine
i was so unbothered by them starting
their church
spirit and truth praise and worship
center the name was too long the
services were too long
the everything
i was like this don’t make no sense but
my parents when they hear a word from
god
they do not care who thinks anything
about it they’re gonna follow god i
thank god for that
i did music
and my parents would never ask me but
one day the holy spirit convicted me he
said you need to go help your parents
with the music at the church
and this meant
on sunday nights when i’m usually waking
up from a semi-comatose
uh golden corral induced
cowboy’s about to lose the game coma
because that was happening in that
season
i would have to get up
and go to rehearsals and do this thing
and god said become sub to the mission
and i started serving as spirit and true
praise and worship center not knowing
that almost two months after i would get
there my mom would come to me in this
prophetic voice and say god told me on
the wire hands
the lord told me
[Applause]
you’re supposed to do something with the
youth i said you got four other sons
one of them can do something with you
i’m about to move to la new york i’m
about to do the music she said god said
it was you
two weeks later
not wanting to do it
but because i was
subbed
to the mission
i started in a circle that we called so
fly
i would not be standing here today
had i not been submitted excuse me if my
parents would have been submitted to god
to start the church that didn’t look
like it had any possibility so that i
could get into a place where i was
submitted enough to serve i was subbed
to the mission which led to me being
submitted to bishop mcintosh
and i started i’m just trying to give
y’all practical can i can i
this is how i got here today
not being prideful being humble
and serving
i started out as the sound man at this
church
and i went from the sound men and the
bishop came to me and said why don’t we
do something with the youth
are the churches merged together i
became the youth pastor i didn’t know
that that was gonna happen i wasn’t
trying to actually get stuck youth
pastoring and that’s how i felt i wasn’t
trying to do that but i was subbed to
the mission then he said i need this
culture to come in the mornings and he
said i’m gonna make you the executive
pastor and i will sub to the mission now
i need you to be in finance meetings and
i need you to do stuff that you don’t
like doing i need you to write stuff
down type stuff out be on time what
but i was
submitted
today
i stand
in the position
of status that god has allowed me to
stand in
not because of strategy
not because
of a system
it’s because of everybody say it with me
submission
the secret
to having kingdom success
is get
submitted aaron would you step down here
because the thing that happened in in
david’s life is he wasn’t just submitted
to what
saul said
he
was excellent right excellent
could you take that off from me oh
this is what the church is missing
you didn’t practice the song but you
want to sing in front of everybody
well the holy spirit’s going to cover we
heard that
and he left you out there
that was trash
and you would judge it if it was on the
american idol stage and you would judge
it if that’s the concert you went to
but because it’s for god
oh just
wasn’t the spirit high
i would have rather been high then
listen to that was horrible because we
don’t bring
excellence
first samuel 16 i’m trying to give you
the keys to kingdom success excellence
it says so saul said to his attendants
find me someone who plays average and
bring him to me
find me someone who does not prepare and
bring them to me
find someone whose mama gave them a
participation trophy and bring them to
me
it says find someone who plays well find
me somebody excellent
if i’m gonna do this over and over could
you please find me someone who walks in
excellence when you serve my question is
are you serving in excellence
are you serving to get it done or are
you serving as unto the lord
are you serving in a way that is subpar
or are you serving in a way that people
can see how much you love god by the way
you folded the napkin how much you are
intentional with what you do by the way
that you just talked to that person
there are people i have reached through
excellence that i could never reach
through eloquence
it don’t matter how many words i had
they saw the spirit and that’s what i
need everybody to know excellence is a
spirit
there’s a spirit of excellence
there’s a spirit that comes behind and
god’s saying if you are going to be
successful and not get to this place of
pride that means you have to serve you
can’t just
alright imma do it
and then somebody has the audacity to
say that’s not how we do it wasn’t fine
you do it
[Music]
you don’t have me out here and you’re
only gonna pay me eight dollars an hour
to be up here
you serving
with ex
husbands
serve your wife
with
ex you haven’t planned a date night in
six months
but you expect her
to
to come out and be a sports illustrated
model for you
and you don’t even take shower you not
you ain’t been
you ain’t been excellent since y’all got
together
wedding day was the last fully groomed
you
oh i’m not telling you stuff that ain’t
real
if you would bring excellence to your
service
how you work the job
that you know you’re leaving in six
months
shows more about you
than everything you’ve done before that
point
i’ve been here 17 years the worst thing
you can do is leave sloppy
[Applause]
the worst thing you can you don’t have
all this time of excellent service and
then you gonna leave sloppy
i’m asking god’s people
if we’re gonna walk in a level of
unusual acceleration over and over and
over again tony
we’re not just submitted but we bring
excellence to it as well
first samuel 16 18 i have seen a son of
jesse one of the servants said of
bethlehem who knows how to play the liar
he is brave man and a warrior he speak
well and he kind of looked good
and the lord is with him
not just submission
not just excellence but don step down
here what’s the next thing that we need
for kingdom success we need to be
reputable
what is your reputation in the room
you’re not in
[Applause]
some of y’all great on paper
and great in person yeah
but you are deficient when you’re not in
the room
cause your life is speaking for you
[Applause]
[Music]
david was not in the king’s court
but they had a reputation
that preceded him ever making it to the
palace
this man is brave
he knows how to play excellently he’s a
warrior he speaks well and he looked
good and the best thing is the lord is
with him
what do they say about you
some of us need to pray for the next six
years because you was wild
before grace and mercy
let me not talk about y’all i was wild
and one thing that i added to my prayer
list be
god
make me a man of good reputation
have you ever prayed that because the
bible says a good name
is better
than wealth
do you know wealthy people don’t pay for
stuff they got money to pay for
when when certain names walk into places
mcdonald’s
family don’t buy mcdonald’s
it’s because of the
name
what i’m telling you is god can give you
a name
that is worth more
than anything that you could do on your
own
the key is if you’re going to have good
service you got to protect your own name
can i give you a word that goes with
reputation
integrity
integrity is what you do when they’re in
the room right and when they’re not in
the room integrity is how you handle the
finances when they can see you
and when the money was given under the
table integrity
integrity is what you do with the louis
bag you found
and never took to the lost and found
you calling it a blessing but it’s
actually a curse
because god just saw how you handled
when nobody was looking some of y’all
are carrying money
let me stop
your reputation is your resume when
you’re not in the room
and so you have to be submitted
you have to be excellent you have to be
reputable but valencia stepped down here
this the one i really like
you gotta be show them
first
you gotta be able to do more than one
thing
i have met more church people
who are one-dimensional
all you do is pray
no no i’m saying but what do you do
i’m a prayer warrior
i no okay
but is there anything else god has
gifted you
intercession
adoration
like
but okay okay after our prayer meeting
pray without ceasing pastor mike
okay
but can
can you send an email to the prayer team
so that could you be just a little
administrative straight up so that all
of the people
who are
ready to pray to
could know what time prayer starts
so that we can make because i think the
bible says one could put a thousand a
flight two could put them down it’s just
you
so i need you
to become multi-dimensional
in wherever god has placed you
and i’m saying one thing right now
but the reason david was called is
because he was watch this valuable on
multiple levels
what happens when you’re versed
this is a key to service
you ask me to flip the hot dogs i can do
that but you asked me to plan the party
and i can do that too you ask me to be
the entertainment i can do that and if
you ask me to clean up after everybody’s
gone and i didn’t get to have one piece
of cake
i’m humble enough to do that too you can
put me anywhere and i show up servant
i’m a vert
david
just in this small passage we find out
that he is versed or valuable with a
stringed instrument with a slingshot
with a staff and a sword
he was versed
give me
the grilled cheese sandwiches i’ll be
the best uber each you’ve ever seen
put me with the sheep i’ll make sure
they get where they need to go
give me a slingshot i’ll take down
goliath
give me a sword i’ll cut his head off
give me a guitar or a stringed
instrument
i’ll torment the devil
he
was everybody say first
if you’re going to stay humble and keep
serving you have to be you got to be
god’s swiss army
swiss army knife drop me anywhere
and pull out whatever you need
i can be in any situation and you can
pull out the screwdriver if you need to
you can pull out the fingernail clipper
you can pull out the part of me i didn’t
want to show people and you can pull out
the part that i’m comfortable with use
me god
this is the key to this write this down
don’t let preparation be your limitation
he couldn’t show up to the palace in
practice
there was no practice time
at the palace he had to already have
committed a different season of his life
just sowing into these gifts i’m talking
to somebody right why god hasn’t taken
you to the palace you’re one-dimensional
you don’t have enough to stay there he
only stays in the palace for a short
time
because then he goes back to the field
gets sent to the front lines defeats
goliath and now unusual acceleration
everything changed
he never goes back to just playing the
guitar again
but he could because he was versed
it’s time
for you to get divine dynamics in your
life
i want god to be able to use everything
in me
use my musical gift use my business
savvy use my creative ability use my
problem solving use my wit use my humor
use me god
somebody say use me god
but you can’t show up in practice
that’s preparation
if i came and tested out
what god’s doing in me on y’all
this thing will go down quicker than the
titanic
it’d be over
but because in a different season some
of y’all were there when i was at
soulfly
and i would preach
and be like that ain’t the message i
preach a whole nother message
28 points y’all think what i’m doing now
hour and a half is bad i used to preach
three and a half hours
no sweat
but it wasn’t televised
it was in the dark
on purpose
so that god could prepare me
for what i would do
in the light
okay
two more three more okay here we go
submitted excellent reputable verse this
is the next thing david was first samuel
16 21 saul liked him very much
and david became one of his
armor-bearers
now i used to just read over this
scripture but this has a lot more
implications than a lot of us would know
can you
come down and show me the next one
please zay
if you’re gonna serve you have to
actually be invested
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most of us serve hands off
well if it don’t work
if it don’t
that ain’t my business
that ain’t my family
that ain’t i mean i did i did what you
asked me to do
and that’s it
and god said yeah
um
that’s not
that’s pride
cause who’s gonna trust you with your
own vision and you can’t be trusted with
another man’s vision you’re not invested
in this
how does this apply to david
when you become somebody’s armor-bearer
that means you carrying their armor
on
the front lines of war
with no weapon
i’m out here sacrificing too
i’m invested
he’s the armor he’s holding the
slingshot and the sword and whenever so
i mean saul’s right here
david back here like oh shoot oh what do
you need you need the slingshot 3000
okay here here you go
he’s
has his own life in danger
[Applause]
to serve somebody else’s vision
if you’re not invested
in whoever you’re serving
enough to sacrifice something
go somewhere else
[Applause]
if you’re not invested in that marriage
if you’re not invested in that church if
you’re not invested in that child if
you’re not invested you are not really
serving if you’re not sacrificing
someone i got to get up at 6 00 am
you’re invested
well i got to give some of my
hard-earned money you’re invested that’s
why i love transformation church there
are thousands tens of thousands of
people who are invested in the vision of
representing god to the lost and found
for transformation in christ why because
they sacrifice something
they give their time talent and treasure
we’ve had people before not be able to
have any money but they had the ability
to make bracelets and they’ve made
bracelets for us to give to people it’s
not about amounts it’s about a heart
posture that is humble enough to serve
and give what you have one of the
greatest most extravagant gifts in all
of the bible was a great investment
that was small monetarily
it was the woman with two mites
and as the ballers were dropping stacks
and making it rain
jesus called his disciples and said did
you see how invested she was
did you see this widow who lost her
husband lost her source of income lost
her protection but she took what she had
and invested it
in my cause
this this woman gave more than all of
them combined
why because she sacrificed something
don’t ever call it service if there’s
not sacrifice
don’t ever say i’m serving that church
but everything’s convenient
it’s going to cost you something
submitted
excellent
reputable
versed
invested come on down here malia
the other thing david was was what
covered
if you’re gonna serve don’t serve out
here willy-nilly
don’t be out here just doing stuff
be everybody say covered now right here
in verse 19 after these men tell saul
hey there’s this dude david he has a
great reputation he’ll be invested he’ll
draw this up look what it says then saul
sent message to
jesse
not to david
like if you want to get a message to me
come to come to me
but the king knew
that david was subbed to the mission
and covered by his father
so the king didn’t come and talk to
david
he went and talked to his covering
and he said i’m just trying to teach the
word
it said and he sent message to jesse and
said could you send me your son david
who is with the sheep
and in verse 18 the end of it said and
the lord was with him saul didn’t talk
to david
saul didn’t talk directly to the person
he talked to the person he was submitted
to
my question to you that you may not have
an answer for who are you covered by
and i know in a day of toxic
authority and leadership
it’s very difficult
to submit to people whose hearts are not
submitted to god
and i want to apologize on behalf of
spiritual leaders for not living a life
worthy of following
and not being able to be one who is
stable enough in your convictions and in
your character to be able to submit to
but i believe that there is in this end
time a group of people rising up that
will be able to be seen as ones that can
be followed in integrity
because it’s dangerous to be out here
serving with no cover
and this is the thing i need to tell you
right this point down you might get
understanding on it about three weeks
from now but spiritual authority and
earthly authority are not
optional it’s essential
in this it tells us that god was with
david spiritual authority but he had
earthly authority his father
god’s with me
i know it when he gave me the vision
when he showed me all the stuff i know
he’s with me but it was not enough for
me to just have heavenly authority or
spiritual authority
he also gave me earthly authority
he gave me tommy and brenda todd he gave
me bishop gary mcintosh he gave me tim
ross these people can come into my life
and say don’t buy that car
because this really happened tim ross
when i first became a pastor he said do
not buy this car that i really wanted
and i was believing for and i had gravy
for but i was about to be bamboozled by
the blessing
he said don’t buy this car because this
car is going to make people see you
instead of hear you
and i didn’t understand it at the time
but i was submitted
and i bought a chevy what car was that
bree
not a malibu what was it impala
and i loved that car
it was almost like the anointing of god
was on the lesser decision by man
standards
but i
submitted to my earthly authority
and god blessed the crap out of me
what i’m saying to you is
these are things that you may need to
pray for because if you’re going to be
in service there are people that need to
be around you who can see what you don’t
see
and help you understand what you don’t
understand
when charles
shut down his church
and came over here the first thing he
said to me when we were at the downtown
library is god told me to come and
submit my life to you i need you to
cover me and i’m here to serve and
protect those were the two words he told
me
people asked me how where you find
charles at how is he up here doing all
of this other stuff his heart
came in here with no
ambition
just obedience
and he went through seasons of unusual
accelerating if i was to leave the earth
tomorrow this church would be okay why
because somebody has been walking with
me
who has seen me serve this church in a
way that has changed the way he serves
his wife and serves his family and
serves the thing and what ends up
happening is he’s safe and covered
i’m telling somebody right now
that the reason some of the things have
been stopped is because if you got out
there on your own
it would be more damaging than it would
be divine
i gotta move last one
can i just
is jesus our example or not
no no let me just is jesus our example
okay
jesus was covered
by spiritual authority and earthly
authority
let me prove it to you
he was the son of god
so let’s spiritual authority kind of
that got it
but he had earthly authority too
do y’all remember when he was 12 years
old
and he was in the synagogue
and he was reading all of the the
scrolls and telling them this is what
they mean but he forgot to text his mama
and tell her where he was going to be
he forgot
they’re looking for jesus everywhere
jesus
jesus
jesus christ
jesus jerome christ
and they finally find him in the
synagogue
she said she don’t she said
it’s how my mama i just picture my
moment
boy
if you don’t get over here he said
woman
[Music]
that’s that’s what that’s what it would
have happened right there
[Applause]
woman don’t you know
that i’m doing my father’s business
and we don’t hear from jesus again
for another 18 years i
this is the bible
we hear from him at 12
the next time we hear from jesus he’s
30.
read the bible
baby caught all the seats she says
yo
damn
but what does that tell us
that even the son of god
[Applause]
[Music]
with all power in his hands
i had to still be covered
by earthly authority
i’m giving y’all cheat codes right now
oh god all right here we go last one
could you step down for me jeff
if you do all of this if you stay
submitted
you’re excellent in your service you’re
reputable and integris you’re versed
you’re invested you’re covered it ends
in this
you get
equipped
so many people are trying to get to a
place that they can get what they need
to get to the next place
service equips you
all along
every place i served gave me what i
needed for the next place i was going
and instead of searching and running and
networking and trying to get in and do
all of these things god said if you
would just stay humble and serve
i’ll equip you
for whatever is happening write the
point down the season of service equips
the seat of anointing
so so what happens is
when i serve
my seat is being prepared that i’m
anointed for
i’m only here
because of how i serve terrell taylor
i’m only here because of how i serve
wayman tisdale
i’m only here because of how i serve my
parents at spirit and truth i’m only
here because of how i serve bishop it
equipped me for things i didn’t even
know i would be walking into that’s why
i always say all you have
it’s all you need because if i serve the
season that i’m in right now god says
i’m preparing you for the seat that i
have for you the seat
comes from serving
thank you
and so today
i wanted you not to be bamboozled by the
blessing
don’t walk in pride
cause this is the
thing thank you lord this is why
it seems like every year transformation
church god’s doing something bigger
it went from the arena to the whole
complex out there
to
millions of people watching what we’re
doing and being blessed by it to now the
towers
i don’t know what god’s going to do next
but the thing i do know is it will be
huge
why
because this team
and this leadership
and myself have decided
that we’re going to stay humble
and not be bamboozled by the blessing of
god
we
are here for service we want to serve
tulsa we want to serve transformation
nation we want to serve the community of
bixby we want to serve our neighbors we
want to serve our haters we want to
serve
and the reason why god can keep unusual
acceleration and happen around these
parts
is because we’ve committed
to the keys of the kingdom that bring
success
service being submitted
being excellent being reputable actually
being versed invested covered and
equipped by god it spells out
service
you have to serve your anointing before
you sit in your anointing
i would encourage you to find somebody
that you feel like god is calling you to
walk in those paths
and go up to them and don’t ask for a
paycheck a title or a platform
what do you need me to do that would
relieve you of a demon that’s tormenting
you
david’s road to the palace was
tormenting what tormented his leader
if you would ever start tormenting the
thing
that your leader or whoever you trying
to go after if you torment what torments
them it is a sure road that your heart
will stay humble that you will be in a
category for service and that you will
see season after season of unusual
acceleration standing all over the place
right now
don’t be
bamboozled by the blessing
show up
serving
somebody say show up
serving
this week
emily where can you show up serving
charles where can you
show up serving butch where can you show
up serving
you may not ever leave the house
you could show up
and serve that family member who you
know feels lonely
you can write out three bible scriptures
and decide every tuesday
i’m gonna text you
three scriptures and i’m gonna call you
and just see
how you’re doing and speak a life and
give encouragement who can i serve right
now
the one thing about everybody that’s up
here they’ve been standing up here like
40 minutes an hour
waiting for me to call on them
and i
started to think how much discipline
how much
control self-control
how much they couldn’t be distracted in
this moment
and it made me think that
a good
person
that serves is a great waiter
wow yeah
i mean all the way down to jeff jeff had
to wait
while other people were being called
he had the goods the whole time he had
the platter the whole time but he when
the first person got called in the
second he had to
wait on the lord
wait on the lord
and as he was waiting
he will renew
your
strength
so way
uh somebody needs it say wait on
at your service god
i’ll do what you say wait on the lord
this is what he’s gonna do and he will
renew
some of y’all been tired of just
standing there but god says this is the
way to kingdom success to wait on the
lord
wait on
your time is coming
halen your time is coming
yeah
come on lift your hands up say i’ll wait
on the lord
i feel the presence of god some of y’all
are about to start waiting again some of
you are going to get the endurance
i feel the presence of god coming over
you and in you
[Music]
somebody said wait on the lord
wait
[Music]
something’s happening right now
[Music]
if you’ve been walking in pride in any
area of your life
[Music]
and you need
to be humble
my greatest encouragement to you
is the scripture that i think of all the
time
humble yourself
under the mighty hand of god
this one messes me up because there’s
two ways of being humble
you can humble yourself or you can be
humbled
[Music]
today i feel like as a church in this
eighth week of crazier faith
there’s a level of humility that needs
to come back to us
we thought our crowns and our status and
this was the thing and god’s saying uh
um
i need you to commit to a brand new walk
of service
and if it’s you this may not be
everybody but i know it’s me today
if you need to stand again and say god
i’m at your service i did it in a
different season
before the hurt before the breakup
before before the failure before
whatever but today a new and a fresh god
i’m coming to you and i’m humbling
myself
and i want to be used
to serve however you want me if that’s
you would you just put both hands in the
air right now this is not for everybody
but it’s for me and it’s for some of you
come on there’s hands going up in the
chat right now whether you’re watching
this live or on rebroadcast hands up
right now
i’m gonna pray for you father i pray
that there would be a renewing of
humility
in your house
that every person under the sound of my
voice father god
would make a fresh commitment
to you father god so that you could use
us in whatever way that you want to
father your son
came here and told us outright the goal
is not to be served but to serve others
so today
god show us who we should serve
show us who we are supposed to invest in
father give us the character that looks
like christ when we serve others father
god
change us from the inside out let us be
submitted father god and let us see
that you can use us in any area because
we’ve been equipped by you
father i pray for the one who is weary
and well doing my god
father for every person who’s been sick
awaiting
the one who feels like you’ve overlooked
them time and time again father i speak
that you would give them
the audacity
to wait on you
god i’m asking that at this moment
father there would be a renewing of
strength
god i thank you
that out of this message and this
movement
there would be an army of people that
would rise up
and say god whatever you call me to do
whether it’s on the penthouse father god
or if it’s in the lawn father god no
matter if it’s on a platform father god
or if it’s in the pasture we will be
ready to serve you
wherever you place us
we’ll wait on you god
and i thank you that people won’t give
up prematurely
thank you for
several seasons of unusual acceleration
[Music]
we’re here to serve you god
somebody say i will serve you god come
on just say it one more time i’ll serve
you god
i’ll serve you god just one more time
i’ll serve you god
[Music]
if you’re in this room
you’ve never
accepted jesus as your personal lord and
savior or maybe you’re watching this and
you’re on the track or you’re at your
office cubicle or you’re at the gym
you’re like this is a weird place to
like have this spiritual moment
god’s ministering to people right now
it tells us the holy spirit draws us to
him there’s been situations and
circumstances that have been leading you
up to this moment right now and today is
the day of salvation
see when i gave my life to christ not
just to be my savior but to also be my
lord
what ended up happening was it was the
greatest decision that i ever made it
took me from being a liar a manipulator
somebody who was addicted to pornography
had all kinds of crazy stuff in my heart
and my mind and it made me a waiter
[Music]
it made me somebody that said god
whatever you want to do for me i thought
i was going to do music but you want me
to be a pastor at your service
i thought i was going to go do this but
you want me to serve these people at
your service
and today
i want to give you the greatest
opportunity that you could ever have to
make jesus christ
your personal lord and savior to get
covered
by the god of the universe this is why i
don’t worship the universe because it
was created
[Music]
see i serve the god that created the
universe and he cares more about you
than anything that he’s ever created
today
we’re about to pray
and invite people into a loving
relationship with jesus christ if you
want to be included in that prayer on
the count of three i just want you to
slip your hand up in the air i don’t
care if you’re in the barber shop i
don’t care if you’re at the gym it
doesn’t matter this moment is more
significant than anything you’ve ever
done one
you are about to make the greatest
decision of your life too i’m proud of
you but forget all of that your name is
gonna be written in the lamb’s book of
life three if you make this decision for
jesus lift your hand up right now
oh there’s people all over the world
right now there are people in this room
right now
[Music]
listen
i want you to pray with me
[Applause]
i feel god
i want you to pray with me and
transformation church you already know
we’re a family nobody here prays alone
so we’re going to pray together
we’re going to ask god
to change us from the inside out just
lift your hands and say god
thank you
for sending jesus
to serve humanity
thank you
for giving me a savior
i believe he lived he died
and he rose again
just for me
for my failures
for my mistakes
and my missing the mark
today
i ask you
to come into my life
and change me
renew me
and transform me
i’m yours
in jesus name
amen if you just prayed that prayer
there’s about 15 000 people who are
rejoicing all forget that happened it’s
turning up right now with everybody who
just gave their life to christ
if you just made that decision
i want you to text the number on the
screen right now
and i want you
to go on this journey of crazy faith
i want you
to get the resources that we have and i
want you to keep coming back every
sunday next week god has already shown
me what we’re going to be ministering in
fact
i’m going to make this whole thing a
full live sermon demonstration and we’re
not going to be at this location next
week i’m taking all the team over to 15
19. i want to go preach on the old stage
next week and i’m going some of y’all
never seen it except in old videos so
next week i’m going to be preaching 14
inches off the ground and i believe
there’s going to be a next level
anointing that comes you do not want to
miss
what god has given me for next week but
this week
all i want you to do all week all week
is wait on the lord
come on just one more time just say he
will renew
you
i feel god so wait
a second
say wait on the lord
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just a couple more times this is
ministering to somebody
god
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so
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the healing virtue of god is flowing
right now
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something’s changing right now in the
presence of god can we just open up one
more time lift your hands stay that way
sing it y’all
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thank you
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i declare that this week is gonna i got
to this that thing is trying to pull me
in
i declare this week gonna be the best
week of your life
i speak favor and blessing over you
somebody needs to buy crazy faith
receive this right now i declare that
god is gonna show you who to serve
and he’s going to give you grace to do
it i thank you god for help i thank you
for strength i thank you for wisdom and
i thank you for grace to do everything
you’ve called us to do we will wait on
you father god and we will be at your
service have your way in our lives and
through our lives and we will be careful
to give you all the glory all the honor
and all the praise in jesus name
somebody say we agree
we expect
amen go out and live a transformed life
we’ll see y’all next week
you