It’s time to check your settings! To get the best out of any device you own, your settings must be up-to-date. In Week 3 of the Start Shap Sermon Series, Pastor Mike shows a powerful illustration of the settings we need to check and how they impact our transformation. If you’re ready to start sharp and stay sharp, it’s time to check your settings of faith, friends, and spiritual formation. In order to flourish this year, what settings do you need to update? #StartSharp #CheckYourSettings #spiritualdevelopment Scripture References: Psalms 92:12-14 NIV Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 NIV Proverbs 18:24 NIV Acts 2:42-47 NLT 00:00 – Intro 12:12 – 1. Setting of faith 18:26 – Psalm chapter 92 verses 12 through 14 NIV 28:58 – The settings of faith will make you flourish 29:52 – 2. Settings of friends 33:11 – Ecclesiastes chapter 1 verses 9 through 12 NIV 42:43 – Proverbs chapter 18 verse 24 NKJV 43:27 – 3. Setting of spiritual formation: cultivated 46:03 – Acts chapter 2 verses 42 through 47 NLT 01:04:41 – Don’t desire the fruit of the early church if you won’t commit to the formula of the early church Join Transformation Church for our live Sunday experience. Plug into community, engage in live worship with Transformation Worship, & hear a powerful word from God. ABOUT US We Exist to REPRESENT God to the lost & found for Transformation in Christ. This is the vision of Transformation Church, led by Pastor Michael Todd and based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. NEXT STEPS Have you made the decision to follow Jesus? Fill out the form below so we can help you on your journey toward Transformation in Christ: http://transformchurch.us/saved
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hi my name is Bri and I have the
privilege of serving as Chief of Staff
here at Transformation Church at TC our
vision is to represent God to the lost
and found for transformation in Christ
and we just want to say thank you so
much for tuning in from wherever you’re
watching from if you haven’t already be
sure to like And subscribe we believe
that God has a word just for you so
let’s jump into today’s message today on
day 14 of 21 days of prayer and fasting
I have I have more of a um template than
I do a
sermon cuz C cuz in my life I like
people to tell me like forget all the
fluff tell me what
works you know how some people like they
could have text you instead of brought
you to a
meeting I don’t know about you but like
if it could have been bullet points
instead of me getting
dressed and looking at you and having to
hug you and it smell your bre if if it
could have if it could have just been a
thorough email
give me what I’m supposed to do so we
can keep moving in church a lot of times
we take a lot of times telling them
trying to like like like prove that we
smart enough to tell them what we
telling
them that sometimes it can Cloud the
real
message so today I just want to give you
a template watch this of what
transformed my
life y’all hear me tell my testimony
every Sunday
at time for at when it’s time for people
to receive salvation I tell you I was a
liar what else I say addicted to
pornograph see y’all know it I was a
manipulator I had bad things held of my
heart it’s so beautiful some of my
friends be making fun of me do do your
friends know your
testimony cuz when I read my Bible it
tells me the way that I overcome the way
that I get over this thing is by the
blood of the Lamb that’s what he did but
the words of my my own testimony it
makes me question are you
overcoming cuz nobody knows your
testimony you married to people that
don’t know your
testimony and so for me I share my
testimony all the time but a lot of
people they be they think I just arrived
there they feel like one day I woke up
transformed I
wish there was a watch this
word
process shout that word at me process
you cussing in
church if we do not embrace the process
of transformation this year we will end
up very
frustrated because we’re watching the
same
rerun with a different date over and
over
again I don’t want your life to be a
syndicated series series wow no more new
episodes of Family
Matters no more new episodes of friends
if you ever see
those it’s what’s already
happened you be acting like it’s new no
you just missed it last time but it’s
still
old and so many of us are playing reruns
of the same thing cuz we will not
embrace the everybody say the word
process one more time process so today I
want to give you a template of the
process C that transformed my life that
took me from being a liar to a man that
lives in
Integrity that took me from being
somebody who was greedy to a man that’ll
give you everything like I’m so I’m
generous to the point where God
sometimes like I didn’t tell you to get
it that that wasn’t me I God I thought
you say he said I a say you need that
one but that’s not that’s my nature now
okay so when I look at this I wanted to
Simply um tell you a story and then give
you the title of my message um how many
people um get updates on their phone
like updates on their phone okay if you
don’t get updates on your phone you have
a flip phone God bless you we’re praying
for
you but um the iPhone has done some new
little
things and and and it’s so funny that
you know I don’t really be keeping up
with when the updates happen I just find
out there’s an update when my stuff sto
working now I don’t know if anybody else
is like that but how you you like I’m a
creature of habit so once I figure out
how to do it just keep doing it like
that st stop switching my
stuff cuz I don’t have time for the
switch UPS you already done switch my
plug
twice got all these first generation
iPhone chargers I need to make a
necklace out of them I got so
many I’m acting like they going to come
back with the first one again they not
now my my laptop and my phone got to
charge on different
cords am I just complaining right what
what am I what’s the point okay oh yeah
um so so my phone started acting up a
while back but my little brother I have
a I have I’ve blessed to have older
brothers and younger brothers and my
little brother comes in and his phone
that is not as good as
mine it’s doing stuff my phone can’t
do and I’m looking at like he tapping my
tapping stuff and my phone like did like
this y’all know what I’m talking about
right tap my phone my phone said ah I
said what are you possessing my phone
are
you some all the Android users are
[Applause]
like it’s time for the upgrade I’m I’m
just playing
so so so I’m going through this whole
thing and and he said two things
Mike there’s an update
available you didn’t know the update was
available it had been
weeks since the update was
available I just had to watch this
accept the
terms
and I don’t really like all of the the
the reading that goes
on with the ex some of y’all know what
I’m talking about they could be like I’m
going to eat your hair I am going to
take away and you just be like Boop
except except accept so my phone
can he said you got a you got an upgrade
available and then he said he said what
you really need to do Michael is you
need to check your
settings cuz what happens when you do
the upgrade
yeah but it still didn’t show up like
yours showed up great great he said
Michael you you didn’t check your
settings it’s about
to and today on week three of a series
we’re calling start
sharp how do you stay
sharp we said last week we have to
strengthen our
strengths and then the Holy Spirit told
me to prophetically come and tell you
check your
settings check
them what settings are you planted in oh
you thought I was just saying go through
and tell us your
preferences yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah I said check your
settings who are you sitting with
who are you talking to what has your
attention check your
setting if you get your Edge back if you
strengthen your strength and you check
your settings you will be in for the
best year of your life Pastor Mike how
do you know these things
transformed my
life and and again I want to clarify I’m
not not talking about your
preferences I’m talking about your
places what settings do you constantly
find yourself
in good are they
websites are they are they social chat
rooms are they break
rooms are they gossip
threads check great your set your spirit
yeah can be filled with the word and not
flourish because of
theuh uhuh I can’t be I Chang the
stings I’m a thermostat not a th I’ll
turn it off when I come in
okay
okay well you must be greater than
Jesus cuz when he was going out
throughout the towns doing Miracles he
went back to his familiar
setting his hometown yeah yeah yeah and
he was ready to heal all his homeboys he
was ready to change everything and he
said oh we got to get up out of here
this is the wrong setting for
miracles it’s familiar but it doesn’t
have
faith I there are people that actually
want this they calling me Mary’s Boy not
Jesus we got to get out of here and the
Bible literally say says he could not do
many miracles there because of the way
the
people saw him in that
setting I’m just asking you are the
things that God is strengthening in you
powerless because of the setting my God
he’s made you a leader but every time
you walk into that environment
insecurity overtakes
you God saying I need you to check your
setting
this bottle of water right
here is going to preach to you because
this I have found out in my years of
travel it it it greatly um increases in
value depending on the
setting at the gas station this bottle
right here is
$2.50 but when I get on an airplane and
go through the airport and I want this
same bottle
of water it’s
$88 the content didn’t change the B they
didn’t even put any name on it you got
to know it’s
water $2 at the gas station $8 at the
airport when I take my kids to Disney
[Applause]
[Music]
World this bottle of water is
$12
what
changed could you be more
[Applause]
valuable could you be worth so much
more could you actually be gar
garnishing and garnering the attention
affluence and influence you actually are
worth if you were in the
right so according to acts 242 this is
going to be my anchor and then I’m I’m
I’mma whip it back around at the end
there are three settings that every
believer should be in okay the first one
you need a setting of
Faith now a lot of people have different
think thoughts that come to their mind
when I say this I’m going to make it
very plain everybody needs a
church I think the construct of church
is outdated that is why I am not
constructing I’m
deconstructing this ability
yes every church has problems cuz people
are
there and if you find a perfect church
when you show up it’s not going to be
perfect
anymore yes great but you don’t throw
away the thing that God
says is the answer to Humanity’s problem
and the thing that’s going to create in
you who you supposed to
be because somebody’s done it wrong and
I’m so proud of transformation church
because we’re a church that really does
believe in gathering together but there
are a lot of people that the statistics
tell us that they come to church once
every two
months and be really entitled like like
give me coffee roll out the red carpet
let me know I’m special give me a
t-shirt I’ll be back in two
months and and and I just I have to
believe that that’s not what God in in
intended for us he wanted us all to have
a consistent setting of faith my
question to you is how often are you in
this setting of Faith great great we’re
talking about starting sharp and staying
sharp if if you here because you’re
doing a fast and we don’t see you again
to
Easter come
on you’re not a bad person and you’re
going to heaven still if you’ve accepted
Jesus
Christ you just might not be in the
setting that’s going to keep you
[Applause]
sharp and and I just want to say to
everybody you need a church and let me
be clear it don’t got this
one I want I want to realize I am very
self-aware we’re not everybody’s cup of
tea and I’m cool with that we got to
love each other brothers and sisters in
Christ we got to high five each other we
got to pray for our enemies all that
other stuff but I I’m going to be loud
I’m going to be expressive we’re going
to make up
songs and I’m going to sing them even if
I don’t know the words I’m going to wear
pants that are big with paint splatter
on them that I bought like
this I’m going to wear glasses with no
lenses in
[Applause]
them cuz I want to look smart but I
don’t want it to fog up by now if the
lenses was in here this mug would be a
full
fog hey I’m going to keep it hot humble
open and
transparent until I need glasses all of
them on
camera
somebody like oh my
[Laughter]
gosh I’m not everybody’s cup of
tea my mama going to get up here and she
going to but
she this
is you never know what Charles’s haircut
is going to be and
if he may like come on it’s
it’s okay
yeah what I’m saying is find a place
that you feel the freedom to be who
God’s called you to
be what we do our brand of church is
based on the Bible and Jesus it just has
our seasoning on it and if you want
Bland chicken there’s tons of
places I said too
much
but how come you want your movies a
certain
way but you want your church to not
emotionally move you not be able to you
don’t all I’m saying
is find you a
consistent setting of
Faith there are tons of people who were
here for a season that helped us build
this and they’re right up the street
worshiping at another place I see those
people our kids go to school together I
hug those people I thank them for their
investment here but if the season
changes and they need a setting of faith
that they can be consistently at we are
one body many members that means I’m not
hating on somebody cuz they hanging out
at the thumb and you want to go to the
foot as long as you still connected to
the
okay does it hurt sometimes yes cuz we
love
you but if if if we’re acting like we
the only church come on yeah great
that’s
demonic and it’s
manipulation you can grow spiritually at
tons of
places the problem is we’ve made where
to go a bigger deal than if we
grow me step on the
[Applause]
tip I’m I’m on the edge right now do you
hear what I’m saying to you well I don’t
go there because they don’t see my
favorite s and I don’t go there because
the pastor you know he a celebrity
pastor and I don’t go there cuz it’s too
small and I don’t get you don’t go
anywhere and the truth of the matter is
you’re only hurting
yourself because according to Acts
2:42 these
people they they they they saw the value
in the setting of
Faith look what Psalms 212 says it says
the righteous will flourish like a palm
tree they will grow like the Cedar of
Lebanon those who are
planted in the house of the Lord they
will
flourish in the courts of our God they
will still bear fruit when they
old
Hallelujah they will stay fresh and
green let me break it down you
consistently plant yourself in the house
of God this
year you will be like a palm
tree and a Cedar of Lebanon now we are
in Oklahoma so both of those trees
Escape
[Laughter]
us okay so a palm tree is one of the
most beautiful I can’t a palm tree
ministers to
me every time I just see it
just it blesses
me but the thing that is powerful about
a palm tree is palm trees are meant to
withstand
storms sir what a palm tree will do in
the midst of a storm it bends I feel
like I need to be a dancer
today I’m wild it
bends but it
doesn’t when you’re planting in the
house of God he said yeah the storm’s
come and you’ll
B but you won’t break and then it gives
another example it says the Cedar of
Lebanon now I’ve been to Lebanon it was
my one random mission trip that I went
with with some other pastors and I for
the first time in my life saw the
biggest tree I ever seen in my life you
couldn’t see the top of it you couldn’t
get your hands around it it was hum you
could drive cars through
it they were what God’s saying in this
you will be able to provide
shade
rest
shelter when you’re planted you can’t
give away what you have not been planted
in long enough to grow
into the only way a tree can be used as
wood for a house is that it stayed
planted long enough to grow to the fact
that I had anything to give away and my
greatest concern right now for the body
of Christ is so many people don’t have a
setting of Faith where they stay long
enough to grow big enough to actually be
useful for
[Applause]
anything you cutting down the tree at
plant form yeah yeah yeah what you going
to build out of
it what what what what what are you
going to do for a tree to become big
enough to actually be useful for a table
or a chair or something that we actually
put our weight on it has to grow there
for
years great great and
every person that gets offended
frustrated or doesn’t like what’s
happening in 2024 in church what they do
is they
become a potted
plant they put themselves in an isolated
place so they can only grow grow to the
level that the container will allow
them and that’s why you can put them in
your window
seal and you can put them in your
apartment many of those trees were meant
to be so large that they couldn’t fit in
there but when you take them out of
their right
setting we call what they do in our
house
beautiful but it wasn’t their original
intention
and could there be many believers who
are getting hand claps for being
beautiful in a small
area when where if they stayed planted
somewhere they would grow into something
that could be very useful okay TC Nation
I want to tell
you this living like this planted in the
house some of y’all have been more
faithful to showing up and being a part
of what God is doing in this place from
thousands of miles away yeah yeah yeah
then people who right up the street and
they don’t even know if they can clap or
not cuz they don’t know if it’s a disc
to
them but but I need to I need to
acknowledge your commitment yeah yeah
yeah there are people here that I meet
in airports that’s like oh yeah last
week when you talked about that they
know the messages they know the titles
they made their own t-shirts stop
bootlegging the t-shirts we’ll send you
one you get the the represent is off I
just
I well all I’m all I’m saying to you is
I love you buddy all I’m saying to you
is is is thank you for your dedication
and intentionality about being planted
and I’m saying to you there may be a
church that God’s calling you to to not
just get full as a tick because you are
a part of Transformation Church part of
being in the church is you got to give
it
away you can watch this Monday Tuesday
Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Sunday at 5: you can watch this but
maybe this is supplemental content maybe
this is something that God’s calling you
and I’m not saying it’s for everybody
but I am saying it’s probably for
somebody cuz if the whole church is
online how does the person that’s
hurting and been through your testimony
ever get
healed is he building up his church or
tearing it down there is enough people
in this world yeah yeah yeah for this
building to be filled 13 times over good
but there are other people that are
waiting on you
to take your place in a setting of faith
I’m going show you this could y’all
bring my church up here real quick and
I’m going show you what a setting of
Faith write this down because I wrote
this down because this has transformed
my life and it’s what the word says I am
at my best when I’m in church sitting
serving sharing sewing sacrifice and
saving I am at my best when I’m in
church sitting serving sharing caring
sewing sacrificing and
saving let me show you what this looks
like
everybody should have a
place that they sit
in in a setting with other people who
jacked up like
them I don’t know what she going through
she
cute but I know there’s some things in
her that don’t make her better than me
and when I when I focus on
Jesus and I Look to Him through the
person who God has called to speak
that’s why at TC it don’t matter who’s
on that platform God can use
anybody if if he speak in front of Bible
there is a word in that place for me and
so every person like do y’all see just
the difference in style that’s on the
stage mama got on the p she came ready
to kill them
today she didn’t know she was going to
be on stage but you see that youth in
her right now I don’t even know where
you get a pink stocking cap
from but you look
good man of God what’s your name Robert
Robert how old are you 76 76 year old
what what made you come to
Transformation Church today I love being
in in a church that believes in Jesus
Christ only he loved being in a church
that believes in Jesus Christ only What
ethnicity are you I’m Italian he said
I’m
Italian
now now now now I want you to see most
people if you put it on paper he would
never be in the church that I’m
leading he black with
braids we we we might not vote the same
way we might not have came from the same
background the thing that connects every
everybody on this platform is
Jesus do do you understand like like
like and and the last piece of that that
that that that little thing that I wrote
out it said that everybody should be
sharing and sewing and all this stuff
but the last one it said they should be
saving and I’m not saying saving
somebody from sin cuz you can’t do that
but you should be saving a seat for
somebody that you’re
inviting cuz if this thing actually
transform your life why would you keep
it to
yourself and the truth of the matter is
God brings people into your life every
single day that he’s saying tell them
bring them tell but you can’t even bring
them cuz you don’t know if you
coming the very answer that they need is
wrapped up in your connection with them
but you have not committed to a setting
of faith
yet I’m asking every person under the
sound of my voice
2024 I want you to
flourish how are you going to flourish
according to Psalms you’re going to
check your setting and you’re going to
have a consistent setting of
faith I’m not going to show up every
other week I’m here every time you don’t
do that at your
job
it seems like we’re more committed to
things that we
hate date night is optional for you but
that’s the person you decided to marry
for the rest of your life yeah yeah yeah
church is optionable for you but this is
the relationship that always brings you
back to sinner when you want like I just
want us to flip it for a second this
year and I want you to commit to being
in a setting of Faith somebody say I
will I will commit commit to being in a
setting of Faith setting of Faith let me
tell you why write it down the setting
of faith will make you
flourish great it makes you flourish I
was telling Charles earlier I said I
can’t imagine a different setting that
allowed me to go from the sound man to a
lead Pastor to a New York time
bestselling author to a music producer
to a graphics designer to there this
church allowed me to become the man of
God that I was supposed to be not
because I’m on the platform it gave me
something to be accountable
to it had made me get people that are
around like and I’m just telling you
everybody else is trying to build a
master class for you to go
to and the
master has already given us a
[Music]
class make sure you have a setting of
Faith number two here we
go the other setting that you need to
have
is a setting watch
this of
friends I like this one cuz most church
people don’t have
friends they have faith they don’t have
friends they have prayer
Partners
Honda no
friends can prophesy
next year I see
you transformed it’s like yeah and next
year I see you with nobody else around
you you have no friends on but when I
look at the model of Acts
242 these people had
friends I think that we’ve made it too
deep in
church like friends don’t mean I I walk
up to you and say what did God give you
in Romans 6 six this
week no no no no I feel like you have a
word you have a word right now Roman 6
Roman
6 if if Revelation comes out of me
naturally because of what I’m walking
through that’s cool but stop being
weird no no no I need to say this this
this is some of y’all
are
just
weird like I’m not no I this is no sh
like have all the scriptures in you but
like if I say how you doing and you say
hallelujah that’s not even a answer to
the question I said how are you doing
Hallelujah that’s not an
answer here and I’m I’m not coming at
anybody I’ve just found that most people
who are strong in their faith still need
friends and if you don’t have them
nobody that’s in your life with you for
a
a season or a lifetime it’s how the
enemy can allow you to become
self-righteous faith without friends
turns into
self-righteousness cuz you’re
disconnected to the people that God’s
actually called you to help so does it
seem weird that all the people with the
most scriptures are
mean on
God that woman who was at the the
mothers of the church they’re not known
for being
nice they’re know come on I’m talking
about churches All Over America no
matter where they they they known for
being and if the power of God comes in
and they’ll lay you out and give you a
[Laughter]
mint but are are the Elders of the
church known for
love
many times that happens because they do
the right things but they’re not sharing
it with enough
people and when you do the right things
and don’t share it with anybody you
become
self-righteous so for me I’ll just put
it in the word e Ecclesiastes
4 verse 9 two are better than
one because they have a good return for
their labor if either of them falls down
one help the other up but pity any faith
filled person who falls alone and has no
one to help them also if two lie down
together they can keep each other warm
but how can one keep warm
alone the one one may be overpowered two
can defend themselves a court of three
hold on they we can have more than one
person a court of three strands is not
quickly or easily broken I got some guys
that I hang out with y’all come to the
stage real quick um I I want everybody
to understand that it’s not enough to
just be committed to this
setting this setting’s not
enough being at church every time the
doors open it’s not enough yeah my
friends they they know where I be at
what up dog y’all good it’s good to see
you what’s up but that no matter where
they’re at in their life they not
changing where I’m putting myself right
because I got to be in a setting of
Faith but I have to leave this setting
so nice to meet you my man God bless you
you look beautiful I love that represent
hat baby you killing that to you what’s
up let’s go get some pizza okay here we
[Applause]
go I know where to take you know where
to take me H is Tony going to be there
yeah
[Applause]
okay
but I need to be able to fluently move
from this
atmosphere to this one and not become a
different
person this is what the church has done
a bad job
at we Hallelujah over here glory to the
most high I will forgive and then be
like what the f is
all where the OES
at
why y’all acting
shot and and and and and and and this is
the truth of the
matter I if if you come into the right
setting I could be like that and this
setting would change me
right see the truth of the matter is I
should be able to sit in a setting like
this and be myself and if myself doesn’t
line up with the word of God it should
challenge
me and too many of us are in settings
that don’t challenge
us and so what ends up happening is we
think that it’s okay to go from there
and that is powerless to change the
living
room so either nobody’s here or the
people here are so weak with their
convictions that I never feel like I
need to do nothing
better and I just want you to What’s the
title of the Ser sermon check
your if all your boys is cool with you
cheating on your
wife the reason they cool with is cuz
they doing it
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too you might need to
check you can literally come in and tell
them that you fig bro I figured out to
hack bro we don’t got to pay taxes no
more I was on
YouTube I seen this Tik
tock and we never have bro all you have
to do is find one person who’s under 4
foot make him a part of your family on
paper and then claim a
disability and there be people your
friends really be leaned
in taking notes trying to see who’s
under four feet and I’m literally making
this up but there’s wild stuff like that
that
happens in SE what what I’m saying to
you this year I want you to check your
settings of
friends real story I was with some
people on this platform that I will
leave and remain
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nameless
he see it’s funny CU we all actually
spend time together so this is
great for me I have the mic um this we
were talking the other day and many of
my brothers that are here Vic is my
trainer I work out with him every day um
Aaron’s been my best friend today’s
Aaron’s Birthday y’all it’s Aaron’s 39th
birthday we love you baby we love you
baby don’t leave me hanging I’ll slap
you
okay uh John um styles me and has been
my friend for years the wheels these are
the will of God for my life these wheels
right here are brothers that just hold
me up and push this Vision forward and
so when we get together we just talk
about everything and real stuff we talk
about our
wives we talk about not
um we we we talk about when when that
punctuation comes every
month that’s
real look at them they all blushing like
and you just got to to sit there and
pray and Terry and
fast as God does his work on the inside
of them and and we
talk so he just got it then I was
like we need some more friends here
uh so so we we we we we talk about where
we’re winning we talk about where we’re
failing hear me hear me hear me hear me
and the other day I know that a couple
of my brothers dealt with some of the
testimony that I have of being faithful
and pornography and all that other stuff
because we share our
testimonies there’s nobody in here
that’s like hiding and we know the
unedited version y does everybody know
the edited version of your testimony or
do they know the names of the people so
if they walk
in
see I was I there was this one time with
this one girl she she’s sitting right
there hey bro go the other don’t come I
have text people in this room don’t come
here yeah yeah why bro I’m dressed I’m
outside go
home bro I thought
go
home why because there’s accountability
and safety when you actually have real
friends okay remember what it said two
are better than one cuz if I get backed
up against something I got somebody
that’s seeing something else so a real
story happened last week I was telling
some of my friends I was like I don’t
really trust people people that have
privacy screens on their
phone and a lot of my friends have
privacy screens on their
phone and so one of my friends was like
bro you don’t trust me I said to an
extent cuz I know you don’t work for the
CIA and I know the stuff on your phone
is not governmentally
important and I said bro I said I come
from a life of
hiding
so anytime I’m around somebody I want to
be transparent with and I can’t see
what’s on their phone when they trying
to show it to me one of my boys was
trying to show me what was on his phone
and I couldn’t see I was standing this
close to him and I had to
go and it was because they had a privacy
screen on their phone and I was like why
do you have that oh bro I just don’t I
said I
just and because we have real
relationship in that moment he was like
bro I don’t need this privacy screen
took took it off of that phone and then
I realized he had a second
phone two
phones and and he took it off of both
phones and handed them to me and in that
moment wow wow what I learned over
here about having the right people in my
life was proven over here and an actual
action that made somebody live
different this proves that that works
yes
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sir show me proof that you’re full of
love give me proof that you walk in
Grace give me proof that you turn the
other cheek and you pray for your
enemies that is only
actually proven
in a context without a pastor that’s
good good true check your
settings if you don’t have friends in
2024 I want to give you a secret to get
friends it it’s worked every time
Proverbs
18:24 a man who has friends must himself
get ready be
friendly you are you you are not
friendly change your resting
face I could have said something else
you know what it
is CH why are you walking into places
like you’re getting ready for a
fight can I get a smoothie assai
ball how are you ordering an assu
mad come on y’all
the final setting you
need and this one gets skipped over a
lot but this year God has told me to
make it um
illuminated every person according to
acts 242 needs a setting of spiritual
formation you need a place outside of
your place of
faith that is growing you spiritually
what another night what what am I
supposed to do listen all I’m saying to
you is the transformation that happened
to me in the setting of faith and the
setting of f friends was
exponentially accelerated when I started
wanting to eat for
myself you know this saying the thing in
church where people like I don’t get fed
there I I don’t get fed there the only
people in my life that say they don’t
get fed in real life are people people
who can’t
cook so my kids are the only people in
my life to say I didn’t get fed tonight
cuz they can’t
cook so when a Believer comes to me as
an adult with hair on their
back
says says to me I don’t get fed
there
yeah my question to you is do you know
how to take the the ingredients that
were
given chop it up put a little L on
it and the truth of the matter is we
have been putting so much emphasis on
what the church provides wow as opposed
to what God
provides but when God provides it it
takes your
decision so what happens if God’s
require you to learn some stuff we don’t
teach that
year when they going to do a series on
relationships I can’t to pass my cuz the
relationship goals walking over first
off there’s a
book and the series is on
YouTube but what if God wants you to
read some things and go to some
counseling and become a student again
and it’s not applicable to what God told
me to give to you in the setting of
faith and Your Friends dumb they don’t
even know they don’t even know what God
he’s trying to make you a leader in that
so where is the place that you are
spiritually
forming Acts 2:42 this is where we going
to end and all the
Believers
devoted
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themselves to the apostles
teaching hold on no no no no that’s not
how I got taught in America you supposed
to devote yourself to making sure I get
taught P pastor’s word wasn’t he was
killing today it’d be funny for me to
hear like people’s comments after I
preach it’s like he was killing today no
you was listening
today I’m killing every
Sunday I’m sorry sometimes I got to
encourage myself in the
Lord I’m killing every Sunday yes sir
now depending on where you’re at and
what you’re listening into and the diet
you had before you got
here it might impair how you’re hearing
or feeling what’s being said yeah do
y’all see what I’m
saying and that’s why I’m saying this
year I believe God’s saying you need a
setting of spiritual
formation everybody got a desk for
podcasting
now do you have a desk for
study you giving away information that
you just got from somebody else’s page
what I’m asking you is are you studying
and is God giving you a fresh revelation
of anything yeah so good before you get
a mic to say something know
something and the Believers everybody
say devoted themselves devoted
themselves this is the beautiful thing
about it nobody can devote
you you got to devote
yourself what does devoting mean I I
have a vote I don’t want to read that
I’m devoted taking my vote away I’mma
read
it I am
devoting where I would usually say my
opinion taking my
vote so good God I don’t feel like
getting up it’s the only time you have
I’ll be
devoted I’m not a morning person but you
got four kids devote
yourself you ask me for the kids and you
ask me for
Revelation I’m sick of firing these
people working with these people I’m
sick of this business you pray for
it so I need you to be devoted to
learning so you can lead
them ain’t nobody ever led me
ah but I’m trying to make you better
than what you
experienced so so you got to have a
place where I can speak to you that has
nothing to do with where you’re sitting
serving sharing like I so like I’ll
speak to you there I’ll speak to you
there and I’ll speak to you here watch
this watch this watch this watch this I
did this series called who’s the
minister here a few years
ago and and and and I want you to know
that I’m not the minister
here everybody look at your neighbor and
say you’re the minister here come on you
you you look at you with your
ministering
cell cuz the Bible tells us that my job
is to equip you for the works of
ministry so I’m just asking everybody
this year could you get a setting watch
this where you are no longer the most
successful in the
room a setting where you go back to
student Romans 122 okay I I know this
one oh shut
up C no the reason I say that is because
just because you know something doesn’t
mean you have a new revelation on
it students are quiet while the teacher
is talking but being a student takes
humility do you know how many things
I’ve enrolled in and how many classes I
have that that nobody asked me to take
and how many things I read and study and
listen to old tapes I got a tape player
so I could go back and listen to pastors
that they their words weren’t on CDs or
on YouTube but they had Revelation and
it was anointed and I had to go find a
tap player where do you buy a tap player
thank God for Amazon and I got a tap
player and I’m listening to these things
why because I need to be a
student so that means I got to see
things differently and I brought I
brought Amber Lee up here because I want
you to understand that anybody can teach
you the white man trying to keep me down
the white woman is my
teacher so would you rather stay see
some of y’all just offended you right
now and I see I see your flesh Rising
what I’m saying to you is would you
rather forfeit your growth because of
the package it comes
in or would you rather be everything
that God ain’t no woman tell me nothing
a bunch of white women have told me a
lot of
things all my counselors look at my
brother’s like I don’t even know she
ain’t been through my plight she don’t
know my thing what I’m saying is God
does and maybe some of the things that
you needed come in packages you didn’t
know you needed them
in when me and my wife has gone through
counseling I have had middleaged to
older white women counsel me through
some of the toughest places in my life
they my aunties
now and it is literally changed my life
because of the information they had but
my ability to be humble enough they know
I’m a pastor they know all y’all come
and they literally don’t
care and you if you are not in a setting
that does not care about your
accolades does not care about how many
businesses and boats and and and if
you’re not you will never be able to be
everything that God has called you to be
and my question to you is if I came up
to you right now one onone could you
tell me where this setting is
the sad truth is most Believers can’t
they think that first setting is this
setting come on well go to church no no
no no no I’m talking about reading books
about the name of God so when you
worship it’s not just what the worship
leader
says call him something different call
like look up some other things that you
could
like this is where I don’t need nobody
to feed me
yeah oh you can read books on
finances relation God will speak through
all of that but you’re saying God what
are you trying to say to me and the
greatest thing that you can read is this
word outside of
Sunday this is what will spiritually
form you if you don’t have a setting for
Spiritual
formation it’s going to cause you not to
be able to see everything that God has
called you to see what are you saying
Pastor Mike this year I’m challenging
our chur
church not by the end of the
year by the end of this
quarter
January
February
March by March I need you to on paper
out of your mouth as well as in action
be able to tell somebody where all of
these settings
are you want the best year of your life
check
your
settings because I’ve been faithful in
all of these settings it has
transformed my life because how me and
Pastor Charles actually got together is
we went to a setting of spiritual
formation I called him after he told me
he didn’t want to join with me and
become the Golden State Warriors for
Jesus another story for another
time the Holy Spirit told me to invite
him to Pastor School
in Dallas Texas led by Robert Morris and
me and him went to a spiritual formation
class and one of the guys in there begin
to talk and said some of y’all are
spiritual orphans you’re out here trying
to do your own thing and it’s because
there’s a deep wound there and God is
telling you not to do that and to follow
his voice and I’m like wow that’s crazy
and I look over and dra
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[Laughter]
like
I was at the time I was still working on
empathy and getting with emotions so I
was just kind of like dang
bro I’ll never forget it I never forget
it we go to lunch break my man is like
light bright so he’s red everywhere on
like from the crime and we’re standing
in in what was the store uh uh West
what’s the uh Nine West not 9
West no it was some West not Kanye West
but one of them we’re standing standing
in the store and Charles is like I know
God told me I’m supposed in the shoe
section we were in the shoe section of
the store and uh he said I’m God’s
telling me to give up my church and I
was like
wow I honestly didn’t know what to say
to him said wow it’s like well I mean if
he’s saying it you know what I’m saying
God he’s going to do it and he he’s
going his word is fine you know I I just
was and it was just awkward but we were
together stayed in the same hotel room
had to go to another day of session had
to drive all the way back to Tulsa had
to drop him off at a church
service wow that he was about in the
valley of decision of if he was going to
do this I found him a week and a half
later and he was like yep shutting down
my church and God told me that I’m
supposed to come and Serve and Protect
you I was like I don’t have a job for
you no this is
real I heard
God you don’t have to pay me I said
great cuz we have nothing
to hear me a lot of people think Charles
just came up and he’s a he
didn’t please don’t judge anybody from
where you meet them in the
story for 6
months he came to Transformation Church
in North Tulsa every day on time for no
money had a family had a wife but just
was planting himself they had been to TC
one time before they shut their Church
down to come I know Abby was sitting
there like oh my God
like what I’m saying is it doesn’t have
to make sense cuz God saw the plan up
ahead but he was looking would you put
yourself in the right
setting and he has come to me several
times over Abby’s come to me several
times over and said thank
you cuz if we would have done that by
ourselves we would have been successful
but we might not be
married I’m so grateful that God put me
in the right
setting why cuz when you’re in the right
setting you
flourish would everybody stand
please I’m going to read acts
242 to let you see thank y’all thank you
can y’all give it up for all of my
people who have been so
gracious what I’m challenging everybody
to do this week hold on the service is
not over don’t leave yet you going to
miss the moment you going to miss the
moment the moment ain’t happened yet
Acts
242 this is Jesus’s plan to build his
church it says and all the Believers
somebody say I’m a believer I’m a
Believer devoted themselves to the
apostles teaching and watch this to
Fellowship it didn’t say
teaching that then turns into to me
preaching to you and we call it
Fellowship there were two separate
things it was the apost
teaching their faith being inspired and
then it was just Fellowship what’s up
dog what you doing baby you feeling good
I like that chain bro them glasses if
you poke the lenses off them I could I
could rock with them up you
know how was the game what’s going on
how’s you and your wife let’s pray about
that what’s going it wasn’t
weird it was it was the apostles
teaching where we’re we’re in a place of
Faith but then we just Fellowship
what does it take to Fellowship three
simple things it takes us being together
it takes transparency and it takes
talking we’ve made it too deep in
church we get together and we we we get
around acts
six and I’m saying that’s cool but I’ve
seen people gather around act 6 and be
be dealing with
suicide how did you try to overdose last
week we was just together
what happened they weren’t talking about
what was really going
on do y’all got what I’m
saying it says it says and they shared
meals together you don’t have to be
spiritual to
eat right
now our church is
hungry for the things of God and other
things do you hear me Wingstop has never
sounded so get behind me
Satan children really are a distraction
on a fast and I just that’s not part of
my message but man I wish I could fast
without
kids that was just for
me but sharing a meal that’s not
weird that’s just fellowshipping and
eating you know you can do that with
people who don’t believe like
you great let me give you a very weird
concept you can eat and fellowship with
somebody who loves the same
sex I know they going to clip it
up have fun I hope your finger gets
carpal tunnel no I’m just playing I’m
just
playing what
what what I’m saying where would Jesus
have
been we talk about zakus like like he
was a upstanding man he was Despicable
yeah yeah he was manipulating and
stealing from people right in front of
their face and Jesus was like yo the
person everybody hates I’m eating at
your house
tonight can you cook yeah it don’t
matter we we’ll talk we’ll talk when I
get
there how come the church is so far away
from the people that need Jesus
I’m not saying bring those people into
your friend group
immediately but what I am saying is
fellowship at
eating he’s given us the blueprint of
transformation right here yeah he said
they devoted themselves to the apostles
teaching and the fellowship and the
sharing in meals including the Lord’s
Supper a lot of people say it’s just the
Lord Seer it says including the Lord so
we can eat chicken
and we can remember what Jesus Christ
did by breaking the body and shedding
his
blood and everybody say prayer prayer
that’s why this thing is rumbling in our
church right now and I want everybody to
get here tomorrow for miracle Monday I
don’t know what’s going to happen but I
just feel God said get everybody here on
Monday as many people can get right off
work come here join us online we’re
going to pray together this is the
blueprint it says watch this this is
what I’m praying for our church this
year a deep sense of awe came over all
of them
and the apostles performed many miracles
signs and wonders why cuz it was the
right setting on and all the Believers
met together in one place and shared
whoa hold on everything they
had they sold their property and Poss
not my house not my car not my gooey not
gooey not my Louie not my
Gucci it says
they sold all their property and
possessions and shared the money with
those
in they worshiped together at the temple
each day and then they met home to home
for the Lord’s supper and then they
shared in meals with
great joy and
generosity all the while through every
one of these
settings they were praising God and
enjoying the Good Will of all all the
people everybody’s win was everybody’s
win and each day watch how the church
grew and each day the Lord added to
their Fellowship those who were being
saved I just wonder how many people were
on the way to the to the church party
and met somebody and was like hey what’s
your name James oh hey bro I’m about to
go with some of my people and we just
going to eat and talk like you want to
come yeah how how could they magically
been added to daily
thousands if people weren’t so
transformed by having the right
setting that they were inviting people
to it but you can’t invite somebody to
something you haven’t committed
to what I wrote down after I read this
is something I want to leave us with
don’t desire the fruit of the early
church
if you won’t commit to the formula of
the early
church God checked me as a leader and he
said Michael I need you to simplify this
whole thing and I want you to create a
easy formula based off on acts
242 that gives every person that you’re
a leader over the ability to have a
place to strengthen their faith
find
friends and spiritually
form Sunday morning every time you come
here this the place of
Faith it’s the place of crazy Faith
you’re standing in it you’re sitting in
it we going to inspire you every week to
go closer to Jesus and to do what’s
uncomfortable but that will yield the
greatest results for your life and if we
not your cup of tea there’s Victory Life
Church there’s Metropolitan there’s
Fellowship Church I’ll list them on my
Instagram this week and I’m going have
cards cuz I don’t care that it’s this
place I care that you have a place amen
I said
amen and I’m about to tell y’all this
for anybody who’s been a part of
transformation these two squares right
here in the next three months I’m about
to roll out a plan for our church that
is going to transform how we make
friends and how we spiritually form I
cannot tell you the details today
because my team won’t let
me I am
submitted what I’m telling you when I
roll it out just do
it this will be the greatest year of
your life we have prayed we have labored
we have worked we have asked God what
are you trying to do and he said go back
to what I did in the
beginning
and I’m telling you our first
commitment get here every Sunday now we
not legalist like where were you today
stop it ain’t nobody got we growing up
in here nobody got time for all
that but what I’m saying is if we don’t
see you in a month we’re going to assume
something’s
wrong because we love being together
they was doing it every day imagine
going to church every day that’s what
they were it said they met in the temple
daily
we just once
week but when we get here yeah and let
me be very clear it’s going to be normal
that if somebody doesn’t know you here
they going to ask you your
name let me just go ahead and normalize
this right now you will not be able to
be a stranger here for
months I ain’t never seen you before
I’ve been here for six years I know it’s
a big church what’s your
name a big church becomes small when you
know somebody’s
name you can walk into an Arena of
millions of people and somebody says
Mike I’m like oh I’m home
now be that for
somebody small
groups and this little thing over
here is
coming but I can’t roll it out until you
desire
it lift your
hands thank you Lord that you have given
us the Playbook to transformation today
that our faith would be
strengthened that we would have genuine
friends who would lead us and help us
and correct us and care for
us and father that we would be devoted
ourselves enough to actually start
growing and learning in the things that
are going to make us who we’re supposed
to be today God I thank you that there
would be a value added to doing what
your word says is and I thank you that
this this
church is coming to a place of
maturity not based on how much we
know based on what we
do God could you please unify our church
like never before from transformation
Nation to everybody in this room let
there be something on the inside of us
that says we want to flourish so we will
be
planted we need people with us so we
will have friends and father God we need
to grow so we will continue to
spiritually
form have your way on the inside of each
one of us is our prayer God and I just
thank you for the Lost person who was
invited by somebody who took the real
Great Commission
seriously and they were saving a seat
for them they they told them today I
thank you that today is their day of
salvation thank you for transformation
for all of us I thank you that this is a
holy
moment because our minds are changing
this is not emotional this is a
decision and I thank you that this
decision will impact how we live and
ultimately Lord make us look more like
you we trust you we believe you and we
thank you for your word if you’re in
this room and you’ve never accepted
Jesus today is your
day this the whole reason we meet meet
this is what we’ve been praying for and
people who who have been in this we went
through here and prayed for every seed
in this place if you’ve been going your
own way and you you’ve been lost and
you’ve been frustrated with what’s going
on in your life and you want a fresh
start today I don’t want to just give
you a fresh start I want to give you a a
a way to have eternal
life through the work of Jesus Christ
and what are you saying Pastor Mike
everything just changes I’m saying
saying that everything can change
because of what Jesus did he took
somebody like me liar manipulator y’all
know the next one addicted to
pornography y’all know it cuz I share my
testimony and he didn’t make me into a
perfect man but a progressing man and
all I’m asking you to do right now is
give your creator a
chance to transform your life if you’re
in this room I see you up there if
you’re in this room and today is the day
of salvation for you on the count of
three I just want you to lift your hands
there’s no embarrassment there’s nobody
going to come and shine a light on you
and start interrogating you that none of
that’s going to happen and I need my
church to start praying cuz you know
this is where hell starts telling people
oh no you can’t change you can’t get at
up this is the only faith that if you
give God your heart he’ll help you
change your
habits the things that you’re scared of
showing him he already knows them and he
wants to walk with you through them he
walked with me through pornography he
walked with me through lying and
manipulate he walk with me through that
stuff and he wants to walk with you and
not just alone he wants to set you in a
house of faith and give you friends and
allow you to develop an appetite to
spiritually form I’m just saying to you
today you got to make the decision for
him if you’re in this place and you want
to make Jesus Christ your lord and
savior or you’re watching online or
rebroadcast on count of three just
boldly shoot your hand up one you’re
making the greatest decision of your
life two your name is going to be
written in the Lamb’s Book of Life
forever
three come on shoot your hand up I see
you right there I see you young people I
see you my man come on I see you glory
to God I see you I see you sir and more
than I see you God sees you and at
Transformation Church we’re family
nobody praise alone everybody lift your
hands and say God God thank you thank
you for sending Jesus sending Jesus just
for me just for today today I admit I
admit I need a savior I need a and I
Choose You you change me transform me I
believe you lived you died and you Rose
again just for me just for me I’m yours
I’m your in Jesus name in Jesus name
amen Transformation Church how do we
celebrate I said how do we celebrate
Hallelujah we thank God for you and we
want to walk with you there’s a QR code
on the screen if you’re watching online
or you’re in the room do that we’re
going to give you next steps we have a
bible plan that has all the days of
fasting and praying I want you to join
us tomorrow right back here at 6:00 for
1 hour a power we’re going to see God do
something beautiful if you need prayer
for anything we done put some chairs
down here so we going to have to
maneuver around them today but if you
need prayer don’t leave without prayer
there’ll be altar workers right here up
here at the front if you need prayer for
anything we want want you to come get
prayer ton today and we believe that God
is changing Us From the Inside Out Lord
bless these
people let it be the best week of
fasting we’ve ever had God thank you
that we have favor on our jobs and all
around keep us safe as we go we give you
all the glory we give you all the honor
and all the praise in Jesus name
everybody say we agree we age we expect
amen go out and live a transformed life
I love you so much thank you so much for
watching this message we pray that it
encouraged you we also want to say thank
you to our faithful partners and givers
here at Transformation Church it’s
because of your generosity that this
Vision has been made possible if you
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can text give to 8
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our other sermons as well as our live
Sunday experience that begins at 10:45
a.m. Central Standard time now go out
and live a transformed
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life