We often think obedience is successful when we see the outcome. But it’s really successful when we give it. It’s not about us receiving. It’s about doing what God has told us to do, when He told us to do it. Today, Pastor Mike shows us that we are not controlling the clock. He teaches us that we won’t have forever to do what God has called us to do. Our obedience matters, and He’s calling us to obey today! If you’re someone who has been battling with obedience, this message is for you! #CuffingSeason #CuffedToTheClock #obedience Join us for service online every Sunday at 11am (CST), Monday’s for Monday Night Prayer at 6pm (CST), and Tuesday’s for Rebroadcast at 6:45 pm (CST). If you received Christ through this message, text SAVED to 828282. We would love to hear how God is touching your life through this ministry! Tell us your story by emailing [email protected]! If you would like to support TC financially you can give through the TC app, or online through our website by clicking here https://transformchurch.us/give/
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we are in week 17. golly of a series
that we are calling cuffing season and
um as we’re coming to the end of this
very extensive Deliverance series
that’s what it is like it’s a series
that like if you need to be delivered
for something you can’t be delivered if
you don’t know you’ve chained up
so the truth of the matter is most
people think their chains are jewelry
you think it’s fashionable to be
addicted to certain things
because culture says it’s okay we think
Christ is applauding our chains but
being a control freak being a boss
God never applauds bosses
we didn’t start it this early
God is not looking at you being like
yeah you on your grind that’s what I’m
talking about there go my child he’s not
clapping
for the same thing culture is clapping
for
the number of zeros in the bank does not
make you worth or Worthy
it many times takes us away from worship
and I just wanted everybody at the end
of this year to know that God wants you
free
he wants you free from the things that
you feel like you always have to be
chained to you don’t always have to be
dealing with those same things but that
means you have to identify what you are
cuffed to
and then you have to allow God to free
you from that and so in this entire
series it’s been 17 weeks we only got
two left today and Thursday I told you
it was tough till Christmas
and now I want to probably come to the
culmination of everything we’ve been
talking about
because God challenged me as I went to
pray about what I was supposed to speak
today and then he started checking me
see I went to God about you and he
started checking me
I hate that
I hate when I’m praying for somebody
else and out of prayer he starts
revealing stuff
that you actually ain’t even qualified
to pray for them right now
you need this prayer for yourself okay
can I be real how many people have
thought they was going to God for
somebody else and then God start reading
them
okay
that’s what happened
because every one of these messages is
honestly y’all know I told you I can’t
preach anything that God’s not doing in
my life every secret every one of the
messages that I preached I needed first
when I started talking about being
cuffed to control
cuff to cake
cuff to cap
God said you better not get up there and
preach nothing
that you are not allowing me
to work in
on you
oh like oh shoot because I have some
other really good ones
I said I really did have some other good
c words that God said you can’t talk
about that until you let me touch it
can’t talk about that to you let me
touch it until you let me tell you what
you’re supposed to do with that and so I
said okay God well what am I supposed to
tell the people he said tell them what I
told you
so what are you gonna do with all this
information you now have
and I was like what you mean I’m gonna
get uncuffed from control and I’m gonna
get uncustomed he said that is all a
bunch of hot air
until you put action behind the
instruction
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and I said what do you mean he said I’m
tired of my children having a form of
godliness
but they have no power
because they have put no action after
the instruction
and so many of us have binders full of
instructions
timeline’s full of what God Said we’ve
been telling everybody in our small
group What the Lord Has impressed on my
heart
and haven’t made one move
to obey what God Said
and God said at the end of this year
he’s asking all of us what you gonna do
let me bring it back
because the truth of the matter is is
God has been telling us the same thing
in different ways for years
if we’re all honest in this room
the first instruction that we ever got
should have been the last instruction we
ever got from God
but because we’re stubborn and don’t
listen a lot of times he has to keep
showing up and different seasons saying
the same thing in different ways hoping
that we get it this time
and God really was dealing with me
Michael he said it like this how my my
mama used to say it to me don’t make me
say that again
y’all I’m talking about God talking to
you
Don’t make me say that again
I’ve been telling you to get away from
that friend group for seven years
don’t make me sick don’t make me say it
again
I’ve been telling you to start that
Bible study since August
Don’t make me say it again
I told you to enroll I don’t care if you
do not have the money yet there’s a
scholarship waiting if you would
actually put in the action to do what I
said obey me Don’t make me say that
again
and as we end this year
it would be irresponsible of us
to be talking about we uncuffing from
cash and the cuddle and comments and
then God gives us an instruction and we
do not obey it
the church
is at the most Obe disobedient State
it’s been in in decades
because everybody has an opinion about
when and where they should obey God
so as I begin to think about what could
I talk about how could I begin to do
this God told me Michael tell the people
I’m ready to deliver but Deliverance
starts with a decision write it down one
more time I said it in another message
but God said today I need you to decide
are we going to be at the end of 2023
praying
about the same issues we’re praying
about right now
and if you want Deliverance it starts
with the decision to obey God
yep
don’t ask for another word and you
didn’t obey the last one
is this what we gonna do again
we’re going to hit a whole nother rerun
of you acting like I didn’t speak to you
clearly
are we gonna act like I I some of y’all
God told y’all too dead you’re in whole
careers that are out of the will of God
for your life
and everybody around you is applaudible
while God is like um
see I’m talking too real today because
some of us have disobeyed God so long
that we convinced ourselves we’re in his
will
I mean I guess I must be in this will
because I got peace about it and I’m
being successful no that’s the skill and
the gift he gave you the gift is without
repentance you’re gonna still be able to
produce in that area anyway because he
gifted you and he not gonna take that
back but you want the favor on your life
you want the peace that comes along with
it you want the blessing the adds no
sorrow you only get that in obedience
you’ve been disobedient
and I said God will people gonna need
help he said give them your favorite
scripture in the Bible Philippians 2 13.
for everybody that’s been struggling
obeying God and doing what he said God’s
saying to you right now for God it’s
working in you huh giving you both the
desire everybody say desire
and power say power
to do what pleases him I don’t care how
hard the task seems now God says if you
decide I will give you the desire and
the power to do what pleases me somebody
say I gotta decide
some of y’all so wishy-washy with the
will of God
but one day I’ma serve him the next day
I don’t
today I want to live pure but tomorrow I
went a while out
and God’s saying god dog it
would you just
would you just everybody say decide
the rest of this year is about your
decision
are you gonna live pure are you going to
be everything that God called you to be
are you going to write the vision down
and make it plain are you going to
forgive
are you going to forgive are you going
to go actually sign up for therapy are
you going to actually serve in the area
that God said are you going to work on
that thing he told you to work on that
doesn’t make sense right now but he told
you to do it at night after you come
from your job because you got a
responsibility but you also have a
destiny that you got to fulfill are you
going to actually do it decide
and God said if you decide I’ll give you
the desire and the power
to do what pleases me but this is what I
found out he can’t give you the power
if you are loyal to your old pattern
he can’t give you power for something
new and you still loyal to your old
pattern
but this is how this is I mean this is
me
this is what I do
this is how I always maneuver this is
how I got here and God said here is not
where I want you to stay anymore
I want you to go to the preferred future
I have for you but you have to become
disloyal to your old patterns
and some of us
you would rather die than change
you would rather you would rather lose
everything God has for you than
disappoint a few people who have been
committed to an old version of you that
you ain’t even you don’t even like that
person no more
oh
you don’t even like who you used to be
but every time you get around them you
gotta fall back into that old version of
you cause you gotta Play Your Part in
that situation some of y’all about to go
home and you’re going to go around
family that you about to fall back into
the character you gave up five years ago
but for five days you’re gonna put up
the makeup put on the makeup and you’re
gonna look like a clown
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you’re gonna go back to the old thing
and do the same song and dance
instead of walking into that place
and being committed to the new thing
that God wants to do in your life
but that requires something
I may have to have
a serious conversation with a parent
to shed the old version of me
I may have to be vulnerable enough to
let somebody know how what they did made
me feel how it made me feel
not just like I was I mean you know I
was cool when that happened you know I’m
saying I’m a Gangster I don’t cry and
everything was cool but you know what
I’m saying I just don’t do that no more
what
no when you did that it hurt me so much
I didn’t want to call you again
I’m only here today because I was hoping
that we could start repairing what was
breached a decade ago
One Clap
it it’s fine
because most of us live our lives in the
same cycle
it’s a new year same you
New Year same you post that
this year I want everybody to post what
is really going to be New Year same me
cause your attitude hasn’t changed
your decisions haven’t changed your
circle hasn’t changed it is a brand new
year
same you
and we’ll be here at the end of the year
like what it was called I thought you
said he said I did
but you would not everybody say obey
and this is this is the truth of the
matter how strong it came to me and my
spirit is God said Michael when are you
going to obey me
when are you gonna do what you know I
called you to do and sometimes we try to
complicate it and make it like God I
don’t know all the things I’m supposed
to do he said no no no no no no there’s
one thing
that all of us know we supposed to be
doing right now that we are okay let me
just take a poll how many know there’s
something that God wants you to do that
you just have not done hands raised all
over the building online
okay that’s almost everybody in the room
and the ones who didn’t raise their
hands they’re lying
you’re a liar cuffed to the cap go back
and watch that
to obey God you don’t have to do
everything you need to do the one thing
what’s the one thing Osby that God said
what’s the one thing Trish that God said
what’s the one thing Chris that God said
because while you’re trying to be
confused about everything you should be
doing you know there’s a one thing that
he told you to do that you still haven’t
somebody said I will
obey
but this is this is this is what you
have to understand because God’s gonna
be telling you things and showing you
things even as we in this year this is
the thing that I I had to come to the
realization for myself there’s always an
obligation after revelation
if God reveals a truth to you
now you’re responsible
and many of us God has shown you
something you’re called to work with
children
and now he revealed that to you there’s
an obligation well God I don’t know what
to do
and he said
just start reading about children
go serve with children
you all know parking lot t
come on let’s not get the common sense
why don’t you go serving TC kids
like like like I’m calling you to
children and you’re around no children
you don’t even like children you you out
loud say you don’t like children dumb
dumb come here
God is telling you to do something with
what he told you to do
every Revelation has an obligation
and until you start obeying the
obligation that comes with revelation we
live in delusion
God’s about to do it not if you don’t
obey
there are many of us that have kept
ourselves or limited what God can do
because we not would not follow simple
instructions
God’s telling some of y’all
you need to stop eating as much
oh
I’m trying to be very practical I don’t
want to be up in the clouds talking
about the seventh heaven and you can’t
stop eating Devil cakes
he said you got us you gotta you got you
have a purpose
that has to last the next 50 years
but you have a habit that’s going to
kill you in 27.
you’re cuffs to the cake would you
please watch this obey me
would you please just do the thing that
seems difficult at this moment some of
you The Obedience step is just a
conversation
you need excuse me some of y’all The
Obedience step is just blocking somebody
you don’t need to know what they do ever
again
they are no longer a part of the destiny
of your life
you don’t need to be aware of anything
that has to do with their existence but
we once had a real connection and it’s
going to tangle you up and keep you out
of the will of God for your life
obey me
foreign
what I’m figuring out is God’s trying to
teach all of us something
but the only way you know if you’ve been
taught is if you’ve been tested
2022 for many of us has been a test
am I the only one that feels like 2022
has been a it feels like God dog it
when is this
I thought 2020 was the year
maybe I got the delayed situation
because 2022 just felt like one thing
after the other after the other after
after the other
but with the Holy Spirit revealed to me
Michael
you don’t know if you learned
until you’re tested
the things that God has been showing you
in other Seasons this is the season
where he said let’s prove it
and the truth of the matter is it’s very
difficult to obey God
it’s very difficult to do what he says
in a season where you feel like
this may not even be worth all that I’m
going through
I’m just talking from personal
experience today
there’s some things that God’s been
requiring of me that’s like I don’t even
know if this is worth it
do I gotta obey you like that
do I gotta sacrifice like that
he said there’s elevation on the other
side of the test
but I gotta know you learned what I
tried to teach you
so Pastor Mike what are you saying to us
the test is not a punishment it’s proof
the tests you’ve been going through is
not a punishment maybe this is like a
therapy session as we’re starting this
right now this is for me but it’s for
you too God told me Michael the test is
not punishment it it’s actually proof
proof that I’ve been with you let me
just be all the way real
2022 started off real uh
Rocky for me
my first sermon preaching in 2022 it
seemed like four years ago
but my first sermon of 2022 was the
Sunday that I effectually have titled
when the spit hits the fan
you may not have heard about it but
little incident with saliva and it was
just like
a whole thing that happened
and God revealed to me just recently he
said that was the beginning of the test
he said this whole year I’ve been
testing to see what I’ve put in you for
the last decade if it was real
I needed to make sure you came to me in
prayer
I needed to make sure that when when
things got hard you didn’t run back to
the old vices
I needed to make sure because where I’m
about to take you Michael we can’t even
be fooling with that type of stuff where
we’re about to go there can be no
question the level I’m about to take you
to the altitude that I’m about to take
you to We Can’t be fooling with that
little stuff so I had to test you this
whole year
to make sure
we’re not still dealing with those same
coping mechanisms
I had to test you this year to make sure
I had to touch your trauma this year
to see if you would actually talk or
would you bottle it in like you always
done and become a volcano and Shake It
Up Until you explode on somebody
he said the test is proof
of what I’m about to do this wasn’t
punishment
2022 was not punishment it’s proof
that you’re not the same person you used
to be
this testing
even of positioning this year has been a
year of a lot of people being demoted in
ways
I’m talking about what I know by the
spirit God has intentionally taken
position
title ranking money he’s taken people
lower to see if their service was
dependent on a seat
I’ll serve if I have a certain seat
and God said I’ve got to get rid of all
of that
for where I’m bound to take you
it don’t matter how they see you it
matters how I see you
and God has been challenging you Michael
every little thing that I’ve told you to
do obey me
I have been one of those um
how do I say
I think the right word way to say it is
I sometimes have been a um when I feel
it
obeyer
like there’s sometimes I feel like hear
God
today’s the day I’ll do your will Lord
whatever you ask me to do and then other
days like really today
you want me to pray for somebody
today and a lot of my obedience has been
based on my feelings
I feel I feel like obeying so I will but
I when I don’t feel like obeying
maybe I’ll get another opportunity to do
it
but James chapter 1 verse 2 says like
this dear brothers and sisters when
Troubles of any kind come your way
consider it
and opportunity for Great Joy hold on
problems trouble come in my way get
happy
about the test
for you know that when your faith is
your endurance has a chance to everybody
say grow
Let It Grow
Let It Grow Let It Grow
late
don’t be disobedient anymore
Let It Grow Let It Grow
God’s ready to open a door
here I am now it doesn’t let me say
y’all say y’all saw her like
but you have to let it grow
but what God wants to grow in your life
cannot grow with disobedience
he he said Let It Grow for when your
endurance is fully developed you will be
perfect and complete watch this part
needing nothing
how many people want to live at a place
in your life where you don’t need
nothing
now now let’s get past the material
things
I don’t need to go find peace nowhere
I don’t need to go find love any like do
you know what it would feel like to not
need nobody’s approval
to be completely secure in the way God
made he said if you would obey and let
your faith grow let that thing grow you
could get to a place on this Earth as a
Believer where you would need nothing
you want to talk about overflow
that’s living in the Overflow
but this is the thing I need you to know
if I want things to overflow write this
point down overflow starts with
obedience
I’m gonna keep saying the same thing
different ways this whole message
until it clicks on the inside of you
oops I’ve been disobedient
oops I’m living in a house I’m not
supposed to have
you already know
like like they’re oops I’m sitting with
somebody that should not know me
intimately
it’s all
oops I’m sitting here watching you but I
should be serving at my local church
you have been disobedient
and God’s saying don’t ask for it to
flow
and you won’t let your obedience grow
let’s just be honest let’s keep it 100.
I ain’t doing nothing else
until you obey what I told you to do
but what about his grace and his Mercy
it’s his grace and his mercy and killed
you
no no no no oh my God it’s his grace and
his Mercy that you get to wake up and
smile and be disobedient every day
foreign
expose you for the trash you’ve been
living
that’s his grace and mercy pencil Mike
what is
the grace and mercies you still have a
job and you’ve been lying there for
years the grace of Mercy is your
children don’t haven’t found out that
you’re doing the very thing you tell
them not to do it’s his grace and mercy
that he ain’t exposed to
but don’t look for elevation and
overflow when we you won’t obey the last
thing he told you to do
God
I started evaluating for myself
people who don’t obey God bad people and
then I started looking at myself am I a
bad person
come on let’s be honest
and what I found out is that people who
disobey God are slow to obey God they’re
not bad people the truth of the matter
is a lot of times they’re not terrible
they just think they have more time
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like I I will obey you God let me just
finish doing this a couple more times
and let me get through my birthday
weekend
and then
and then let me make sure I mean when I
get out of college like I’ma actually
like and when I have kids then I’ll
actually am and when I get married then
I’ll actually well when the kids get out
of the house I’ll actually
and we use all of these excuses
not because we’re terrible
it’s just we think we have more
I missed it this time but I’ll get it
big man upstairs
disobeyed you this time next time I got
you
and the Holy Spirit told me he said
Michael
every time you do that every time you
disobey me because you think you have
more time it proves to me that you’ve
been cuffed to the clock
I said cause to the clock
what you mean comes to the clock he said
Michael
being cuffed to the clock is you being
frustrated when I don’t do it on your
timetable
but you being indifferent about obeying
me on my timetable
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though oh my God
the level of audacity for us to be mad
at God cause I’m not married at this
time and because I didn’t have a kid at
this time and I thought I was going to
be promoted by this time and I thought
God you was going to show them my worth
and I was going to be elevated to the
elevations of the elevated
[Applause]
how mad we are with God how frustrated
and and and and and God I’m not going to
do this until you do this he said you
have the audacity
to be frustrated with me because I don’t
do things on your timetable but you’re
indifferent
about obeying me on my timetable you’re
cuffed to the clock
and I said all right Lord You’re gonna
have to unpack that he said allow me
y’all look at this
he said Michael
you don’t run the clock
I do
and I was like hold on like what do you
mean he said I stand outside of time
I created time as a construct for you to
be able to process my vast nature
but when I created time I stepped
outside of it
so when I speak for you to do something
it’s not just in that moment affecting
everything that you will ever do and it
will Echo throughout all of eternity
you thought you just missed the moment
he said you messed up miracles
[Applause]
your Disobedience doesn’t just mess up
moment
it echoes through eternity and it makes
you miss other miracles
you don’t know what that one
conversation would have done you don’t
know what’s stopping in the line and
praying for that person through the
drive-through you wait there 10 minutes
for them to make a fresh chicken
sandwich for you
but you’re frustrated when God asks you
for 30 seconds to reach your hand out or
even stretch your hand to pray for that
work it don’t matter if it feels weird
to them the oh God the proof of
obedience is not in how it’s received
it’s in you actually obey it I’m about
to teach y’all something
we think obedience is successful based
on the outcome
obedience is successful when it is
accomplished
so you can say can I pray for you and
they can say no great Lord in the name
of Jesus
y’all missed it
you God can say give them four hundred
dollars and he said God told me to get
I’m not accepting this put it in a
pocket and run away
because the obedient step is not about
you receiving it
it’s about me obeying what God told me
to do I’m getting happy God is requiring
another level of obedience that is not
dependent on outcomes
[Applause]
we only think it’s successful because
they saw it
they acknowledged it
God said I don’t told you to do stuff
that you frustrated about doing because
enough people won’t know about it
okay
say you cuff to the clock
say you don’t run the clock Pastor Mike
what’s running the clock
running the clock watch this is the
arrogance to assume that you will have
the option to obey later
when you think you run the clock
when you think you’re the one in charge
of your time this is my life I I set
this up this is me all of this self-talk
that’s going on right now about how I
control my destiny
you think you run in the clock
and running a cart is the arrogance to
assume that you will have the option to
obey God later
nobody in here knows if they’re gonna
make it to Christmas Day
we assume we will
we’re planning like we will
but the audacity to think
that you are in control of the breaths
that you take
nobody knows when the timer runs out on
this life
and God has given us opportunity after
opportunity to obey him and we have the
arrogance to think that maybe there’ll
be another year another day another week
another person that then I can obey God
with and he said you think
that you run in the clock
it’s time to get uncut from the clock
you don’t run nothing around here
God said you better obey me and you
better obey me
now cause you do not know if you’re
gonna have the option later
no I’ll write the book just after I
finish
who told you you finishing that
some of y’all I know because I begin to
really evaluate what did God tell me the
illusion is if you do a lot of things
that God has blessed that somehow you’ve
been obedient
oh my God
do you know you can actually be
successful in the wrong thing
do you know the greatest tragedy is to
win at the wrong thing
I was at my daughter’s basketball game
the other day and and that is high level
stress for me I I probably will never go
again Imma have to watch through
FaceTime I’ll be done almost cussed out
the referees uh it is it is bad y’all
and I have to maintain my pastorship and
it was a lot going on anyway I’m gonna
be quiet because some of the people
watching so this is what I’m saying
one of the girls from the other team
went and almost scored on our basket
and we was losing
and everybody on the team on our side
was like yes and everybody on their team
was like no because she was about to win
at the wrong thing
maybe some things you missed was the
greatest thing that happened
cause if you would have made it you
would have won at the wrong thing
okay
I gotta talk to these these people who
are cuffed to the clock because some of
y’all are game clock Christians just
identify yourself
put on the game clock
you’re a game clock Christian
you
only obey God when there’s a ovation
when the when the lights are on when
it’s time for the game you obey God
but you won’t practice obedience in
private
you’ll only do it when there’s a
platform
you that’s what you are a game called
Christian
first quarter oh
my God I’m gonna obey God so they can
see
second quarter I’m gonna oh give me the
ball it’s the last 30 seconds I’m gonna
obey God in crazy things
and God said I would trade all of that
crap in
for you to actually honor your wife
that’s a written down commandment
you want a fresh Revelation let me give
you one stop lying
you only want to do the things that get
ovation
and you’re a game clock Christian but
some of y’all
your grandfather clock Christian
oh yeah
just old and setting your ways
let me just say it like this if you’re a
game a grandfather clock Christian your
obedience is old
you are holding on to one season where
you obeyed God but you have no new
resume of obeying God
you talk about the one time in 1995 when
I moved here from Kentucky and God told
me to join the church you don’t even go
to church no more you don’t do nothing
we don’t even see the fruit of your life
cause your grandfather clock Christian
your obedience is old
your kids don’t even see you trusting
God no more
you broke men to size this season of
your life when you really were on fire
for God and they haven’t even seen smoke
in years
just identify yourself I don’t know who
you are
some of y’all are Gamecock Christians
only obey for Ovation grandfather clock
Christians your obedience is old and
this is where a lot of y’all are y’all
are cuckoo clock Christians
Goku
everybody say Google the reason your
cuckoo God Christian is because you obey
the outlandish requests from God but
ignore the obvious ones
I moved here from Antarctica to start a
Ministry to homeless people in this one
block dang
that’s crazy
but you won’t show up to work on time
you’re cuckoo
to think that God only lives
in these humongous
moments of Miracles and doesn’t care
about the Deep he asks you to just read
your Bible daily
and you were like I wrote the entire
Bible in tattoo on my chest all the way
down to my toe I’m a living epistle
you’re a cuckoo clock Christian
you’ll do the extreme stuff
and won’t do the ordinary
the last one I want to camp out here
some of us are stop clock Christians
and we think that we can press a button
and stop it
we we think that we have some type of
control let me let me give you the
definition I came up with a stopgot
Christian you obey on your own time
because you think you own time
this right here
is what got a lot of us in trouble right
now
is that somehow you think that one day
I’ll turn it on one day I’ll start
serving God one day I’m gonna obey one
day I’m gonna stop doing this one day
I’m gonna stop smoking one day I’m gonna
stop sleeping around one day I’m gonna
start not lying on my tasks this one day
she’s laughing at the line on the taxes
because you know it’s true you ain’t got
no kids got five dependents on your tax
frame
like like what I’m saying to you is
that level of thinking that you can stop
the clock and obey on your own time
it’s such a level of delusion
but I did it
yeah when you wanted to
think about your kids for everybody
who’s a parent
and you’re telling them to do something
because you have something prepared
y’all going somewhere you’ve prepared
something amazing for them but all you
need them to do is a couple of things
and they never do it
never do it
please just wash the dishes and they
steady making dishes
but they will never wash them they’ll
never do what you ask them to do
at some point as a parent
you say I cannot let you experience
the level of blessing I’ve prepared for
you because of your blatant
disso be
it’s already provided for it’s already
done your name is in rooms on papers
that you have not even known I was
putting you on but because of how you
acted right here with what I told you to
do
and I’ll just say it this clear for
every Christian who is confused partial
obedience is disobedience
there is no participation trophy
for obedience
oh yeah after 16 years you obeyed me
God’s God’s hand
everybody say now
say it with urgency now
say it one more time say now
is the time to obey
and I begin to look at a stop clock
Christian in the Bible
named Saul
and I want you to go back and study his
life because I think we can learn a
lesson from somebody who thought they
could obey God on their own time
how they wanted to when they wanted to
and I want you to see if we can learn
something from his life to see if this
is what you want in your life or do you
want a different outcome see Saul was
the first king of Israel and when Saul
came into this position he wasn’t
confident but God said I’ve called you
to do this you can make this happen but
I just need you to everybody say obey
since you don’t know how to do this just
obey me I’ll tell you how to do it I’ll
give you the power to do it I’ll send
people to help you do it just obey me
and what ends up happening is God gives
him an instruction to go conquer a city
but it was the first city he was
supposed to conquer out of many cities
and we know that the principle of first
is that the first belongs to God so if
you do something God says give me the
first of it and the rest of it is
blessed that’s why we tied that’s why we
do all the things that we do God you can
have the first so God literally tells
him the first city you’re about to
conquer I want you to destroy everything
bring all of the spoils and I want you
to sacrifice it to me he was like I got
you goes into the city kills everything
but keeps
the best of a few things
like I obeyed you
but I thought this
was okay for me to
keep playing around with even though you
told me to give everything
we’re gonna pick up this story
at first Samuel chapter 15 verse 15.
is it true this is Samuel talking to him
that the Army spread spared the best of
the sheep the goats and the cattle saw
admitted
but they are
going to sacrifice them to the Lord your
God
we have destroyed everything else I was
doing it for God
I didn’t obey but I thought what I was
doing because it was around the church
would still be okay
no I told you to do that specific thing
none of that other stuff that they ask
you to do well I thought it was for God
so
no
he literally said then Samuel said to
Saul stop
listen to what the Lord told me last
night he said what’d he tell you
and Samuel told him although you may
think you are little
oh Jesus although you may think little
of yourself
are you not the leader of the tribes of
Israel
this points back to Saul’s trauma
because when God came to find him and it
was time to anoint him he was hiding
behind some suitcases he didn’t think he
was qualified for the work that God had
chosen him for and because he wasn’t
qualified in his own mind he thought he
was little he thought that his obedience
was a little thing to God too
and and he literally was like I’m just
from The Tribe of Benjamin he always
always thought little of himself so he
thought the consequences of his actions
would be little too but God said that
your obedience matters
no matter how little you think you are a
part of this story
everybody say my obedience matters
write that down yeah your obedience
matters
it says the Lord has anointed you the
king of Israel and the Lord sent you on
a mission and told you go and completely
destroy the Sinners the amalekites until
they are all dead why haven’t you obeyed
the Lord that’s the question he’s asking
us right now why haven’t you obeyed the
Lord
why did you rush for the plunder and do
what was evil in the Lord’s sight
but I did obey
obey the Lord
I carried out the mission he gave me I
brought back King agag but I destroyed
everyone else he’s in such delusion that
he said he did it and then in the next
thing said but I kept this
but I did do it
what
then my troops brought in the best of
the sheep goats cattle and plundered to
sacrifice to the Lord your God and
gilgal but Samuel replied what is more
pleasing to the Lord
your burnt offerings and sacrifice
or your obedience to his voice
listen
this is what I want everybody to leave
here with
obedience
is better
than sacrifice
my obedience to whatever God said to do
is better than any crazy Faith offering
I’ve ever given
my obedience to do the little thing that
God said is better than any Grand
presentation that I can do for the Lord
I gave up smoking I gave up this I gave
up this and God said yeah we will get
all to that I need you to tell your wife
what you did
I need you to tell your husband where
the money actually went
we got quiet
obedience
somebody say obedience
why Pastor Mike why you just camping out
right here
cause some of y’all think y’all have
time
you think you have time
to do it later
just with some of the recent events that
have been happening all over the world
I’ve been I’ve been
I’ve been challenged to look at my life
like y’all I was just like yesterday I
was just 21.
no I’m not even like how I feel on the
inside
I was 21 yesterday
and now I’m 36.
I’m four years away from 40.
I’m halfway to 80. like you start then
like you start like
hold on that means
how did it happen that fast
10 years from now I’ll be 46. that’s not
that bad except that means Bellow b19
Bella at 19.
but that’s how quick
it’s our quick life
begins to move and you still got the
audacity to think you have an option to
obey when you feel like it
write it down little obedience is better
than big sacrifice
I’m not trying to Hype you up today I’m
trying to help you
God through this entire Series has given
all of us instructions
and some of us didn’t even need the
series to get instruction you’ve been
knowing what you were supposed to do
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but now it’s time to actually decide to
do it
little obedience is better than big
sacrifice verse 23 it literally says and
submission is better than offering the
fat of rims Rebellion
is as sinful as witchcraft
y’all be talking about people burning
sage and The Vibes and the chakras you
doing witchcraft too
cause you don’t obey God
he told you to forgive them he told you
to write the letter he told you to fill
out the application and you might as
well put on a hat with a pointy top
cause you is witching too because
Disobedience Rebellion is as witchcraft
y’all don’t hear the word
and stubbornness is as bad as
worshiping idols
yo I cannot make this stuff up that me
is talking to two groups of people right
here if you rebellious you’re saying
Imma Be disobedient I’m not doing it
but if you’re stubborn you say I’ll do
it on my time
some of you are stubborn
spiritually
God’s been telling you to deal with
stuff that you feel like it’s not worth
dealing with right now
this is what I want to say disobedience
is witchcraft
and delayed obedience is idol worship
it’s that message they’d be like oh skip
that one skip that one it’s gonna
actually uh
watch 16 of the messages but at 17.
it’s gonna actually give you the secrets
to make your life work
obey God
those four letters have transformed my
life
obey
I didn’t get a Playbook when I became a
pastor
do you know what my only instruction was
obey
I did not get a Playbook when I became a
husband
do you know what my only instruction was
obey when I became a parent I did not
get a manual that told me how to do this
God says if you stay close to me if you
read my word if you get in right
Community if you get in my presence and
just do
what I tell you to do
you will end up at places you could have
never gotten yourself
ever
but all you have to do is what’s the
four-letter word
there’s an old song that says trust and
obey
where there’s no other way
to be happy in Jesus
except trust and obey
what if that’s all that we gotta do
Trust
obey
Saul
forfeited
the plan of God for his life
because he decided to be stubborn
and be slow to obedience
look at the rest of this verse I want
you to see it
so because you have rejected the command
of the Lord
he has rejected you as king
what
like you telling me everything you
wanted me to do I can’t do because I
just disobeyed you this month
and God’s saying to all of us today
please
please don’t leave 2022
with the same arrogance
that you had the last five years
you’ve been cuffed to the clock like you
running it you don’t run the clock
I do
and today you have today
to do everything that I asked you to do
when I looked at this in my life
I summed it up you can bring the keys up
I’m in right here
found this Revelation out and it changed
my life
obedience isn’t easy but it is simple
it’s not easy to obey God
but it is super simple
all the things God told me to do was
stuff like this
stop talking to them
that’s simple
but it’s not easy
don’t go there anymore
that’s simple
but many times it’s not you
hey
read your Bible
we read more posts
we six inch posts do you know if people
may make a six inch post
must be thick
no spaces
and we just you could have read a whole
chapter
of proverbs
to get to the end and it’s like period
like the end
you know it’s the truth
you finding out about recipes you’re
never gonna cook
you looked up the whole recipe
and you know you never gonna cook this
but all God said was read your Bible
it’s simple
but many times it’s not easy
prioritize your spouse
you told in front of everybody that I
would forsake all others
and be with you but you can’t make time
in a week for date night
obedience is simple
many times it’s not easy
I think about
obedience is better than sacrifice and I
just think about in my life last week me
and my family stepped out in Crazy faith
and we so deceit to change the
generational
trajectory of all four of my kids
I’ve never given that much of anything
to anybody
I was so weak after I was weak
physically I cannot let me just be
honest
I had to sit down after I dropped
my offering off
when I went to the bank to get it and I
had to get a cashier’s check I’m just
being very vulnerable with y’all because
I don’t want to ever get up here and
Lead like y’all should know this is easy
for me like hex to the no
this year
God asked me to do something that was a
sacrifice
like I thought about it on Monday and
Tuesdays
Wednesday Thursday when I check with the
account on Friday it was the same
this morning I’m just being honored I
thought about like dang
I we we did that you know how you trying
to be confident like yeah
we did that
we did it
when I read this scripture
God was challenged me he said Michael
your sacrifice was great
but that person I told you to meet with
before the end of the year
so that you could start working on
reconciliation this is real for me
he said your obedience to make that
phone call
is worth more to me than that number you
gave to Transformation Church
and in my mind I was like well why
didn’t you just say that before I gave
it
come on let’s be honest why didn’t you
just
he said I’m requiring both
but if you want to know which one weighs
more
you want to know the one that I value
more
it’s not the thing that’s monetary
it’s the thing that
is going to require your heart
obey me Michael
and as soon as he said that I text
somebody
I got to have a meeting
and it’s going to be uncomfortable
and it’s going to be frustrating
and I’m probably gonna have to deal with
some other stuff God said but you don’t
know what’s on the other side
of this moment of obedience
it reminds me of a story I want y’all to
go look up in Acts chapter 5. have y’all
ever heard of they’re a little less
unpopular characters in The Bible but
ananias and Safara have you ever heard
of them
like only two of y’all Okay cool so if
you go read like they had this crazy
Faith moment in the church where
everybody was given all of their
possessions Acts chapter four nobody had
need like everybody was Hawking their
TVs and taking all the money it’s like
who needs something everybody was
selling all their Furniture like it
would be like that type of moment
and and God was requiring a sacrifice
from people and they were supposed to
sail their possession and give
everything they had to make sure that
the community was doing good in chapter
five we get introduced to these two
people who happen to be a husband and a
wife
and and what ends up happening in this
story it says there was a certain man
named ananias who with his wife Safara
sold some property so they were
landowners they were bosses they had a
business
God told him to sell it they were
selling it they got the money he brought
part of the money to the apostles
claiming it was the full amount
partial obedience
he brought something he did it he obeyed
but nobody would have known except him
that it was a partial amount
there are some things that look like
obedience on the outside but the only
person that knows if it’s true obedience
is you
he said he brought it claiming it was
the full amount
with his oh watch this with his wife’s
consent so they were in unity
he kept the rest
he was going to provide for himself this
is Acts chapter 5 verse 3 now then Peter
said ananias
why have you let Satan feel your heart I
bet he was like
I just gave
this huge sacrificial offering
from my property
and he said no no no no
you have lied
to the Holy Spirit
and you kept some of the money for
yourself he said bro
why didn’t you lie the property was
yours to sell or not to sell
as you wished after selling it the money
was also yours to give or not to give
you didn’t even have to be a part of
this but you decided to step into this
and say God I’m gonna give you
everything how could you do a thing like
this
when you were lying you weren’t lying to
us
but you was lying to God
as soon watch this y’all this is
shocking let me warn everybody right now
the next part of this scripture is very
shocking
as soon as ananias heard these words
he fell to the floor and died
what
how in the world
did he not even get another opportunity
to sell some other PR he could have been
like you know what never mind here’s the
rest of it don’t want to offend God
he didn’t have a chance
his Disobedience would be his legacy
the last thing he would be known for
is disobeying God
he was cuffed to the clock he thought
he had more time
and this this ain’t even the worst part
of the story
it says oh God this but when I read this
y’all this scripture alarmed me
in the best way look at it
as soon as ananias heard these words he
fell to the floor and died
everyone who heard about it was
terrified
some young men got up wrapped him in a
sheet and took him out and buried him he
had no more time
after three hours time
his wife came in
not knowing what happened
how y’all doing
well okay Hey where’s ananias
Peter says come here
so far I got a couple questions for you
um
was this the price this is all scripture
y’all was this the price you and your
husband received for the land
I think so
yeah yeah yeah no no that he did tell me
that was the price what is going on in
here uh
that was the price and Peter said how
could you too
even think of conspiring to test the
spirit of the Lord like this
that’s what Disobedience it is it’s
testing the spirit of God
he said the young man who buried your
husband this is just ridiculous to me
the young man who buried your husband
are just outside the door and they will
carry you out too
she don’t she don’t even get context of
what happened
instantly
just as soft as y’all were
some of y’all
imagine if I was there if I did
not need everybody to imagine if I just
died
and some people came and screwed me up
and took me out and buried me
she didn’t have time for explanation
she didn’t have time for a do-over
she didn’t have time to explain how she
was feeling at the time and the pressure
she just disobeyed
and something died
what are you saying Pastor Mike
Disobedience always means something dies
it may not be you physically
but there is a relationship that dies
because of your disobedience
there’s a connection that God wanted to
make that well God God says in Romans 8
28 all things
work together for the good yes they do
but he has a perfect will and a
permissible will
he has a will like this is the one this
is the way I really want it to happen
and you keep slopping over wanting his
grace to abound even more cause your sin
keeps abounding
he said would you just
obey me
so nothing has to die in the process of
your disobedience
when I read this scripture y’all
started to think yeah Disobedience means
that something dies
but obedience also means that something
dies
when I’m obedient to God
something in me dies
Pride dies
being in control when God tells me to do
something I don’t want to do something
in me has to die
it reminds me of a scripture in
Galatians it is no longer me that lives
but it’s Christ
on the inside of me this is how we’re
supposed to live
said when the young men came in and saw
that she was dead
They carried her out and buried her
beside her husband
they started in unity of Disobedience
and they died
right next to each other in disobedience
it said They carried her out buried her
next her husband 11. this is the part
that I felt great fear gripped the
entire church and everyone else who
heard what had happened and I’m not
talking about scared fear this is the
fear of God
I’m not talking about a clothing brand
I’m talking about the reverence that
when God tells you to do something this
is not like a life coach telling you to
do something when God tells you to do
something this ain’t even like your
pastor telling you to do something when
God requires something of you this is
not optional it’s an obligation when God
is asking you to give that up set that
down pick that up go there these are not
opinionated suggestions these are
commands
that have eternal implications
and in this season
because we’re about to walk into what we
hope is the best year of Our Lives
one sure way to cut that office by being
disobedient
I want everybody
to gain another level of the fear of God
I’m talking about when God speaks to you
it’s more urgent than the IRS coming to
find you
when God speaks to you it’s more
important than a landlord coming to pick
up his rent
see there’s certain places and people
who when they start talking you start
moving the big boss is coming the big
bosses come I’m talking about the one
who is in charge of Eternity has given
you an instruction right here on Earth
and you’re still debating whether you’re
going to obey or not
oh I forgot
you’re cuffed to the clock
you have the arrogance to think that
maybe you’ll have another option or
opportunity
to obey God at a later time
why do you live like you live Pastor
Mike why are you producing music writing
books spending time with your family
doing this dude cause I do not run the
clock
and when I expire
I want to make sure that I did
everything that God asked me to do
because it’s not even about this life
this life
is just the point of reference
for everything that’s going to happen in
eternity
and I know we don’t do messages on
eternity no more because you think it’s
something out of a Marvel movie you
think Thanos is somewhere in the Galaxy
about to snap his fingers and do no no
no no no no no there’s no mind stoned or
time Stone
the only one that’s in control of the
clock is God
and every day that I live I’m becoming
more and more aware
that I need to be eager to obey God
I need to be anticipating what God’s
gonna ask me to do I need to be on the
edge of my seat ready to obey as I walk
into a new year I’m not looking for God
to prove to me that he’s been good
enough for me to obey him I’m looking at
his track record and I’m seeing that God
you’ve been so faithful back there that
whatever you tell me to do I will do
wherever you tell me to go I will go
whatever you tell me to give up I will
give up and whatever you tell me to
sacrifice it’s dead
because I don’t run the clock
Proverbs 9 10.
the fear of the Lord
is the beginning of wisdom
you want to walk in wisdom
when God speaks to you you better take
it seriously
you live in an estate for the aesthetic
and you know you’re supposed to be in
that Country Town helping that little
church
and you out here living your dreams and
denying God’s desire for you
obey him
I don’t want to move back in with my
family there’s healing that has to
happen there
six months of obedience will produce a
lifetime of freedom
obey God
I’m literally sitting here walking into
our what are we finishing our eighth
year of ministry about to go into our
ninth year
and I realized something the other day I
know nothing about being a pastor
and that may sound weird to everybody
here
but like the more God has grown this the
more God has done in my life I realize I
have no clue what I’m doing
the only reason I’m standing up here is
because God knows that I would be
somebody who would listen
and obey
I get instructions daily
I can’t run this off of plays that have
already worked
I don’t I I couldn’t I don’t got no
skill you already know I got six months
of high level Tulsa community college
education
didn’t even give me a degree or nothing
for six months I could at least got a
pamphlet or something for six months
didn’t get nothing got nothing to proof
I don’t know how to be a father I don’t
know how to be a husband
only thing I know how to do is listen
and don’t pay
and many of us are listening
but we’re still being disobedient
I would hate for us to go into another
year
in the delusion that God’s about to do
something new
and we haven’t obeyed what he said
that’s old
then my last point
I obey because I can’t afford not to
Bree I have no clue what I’m doing if I
don’t obey God
I can’t hold up what God’s placed in my
hand
I obey God
because I cannot afford not to
how I’m living now
is not as a game clock Christian
I’m not living
as a grandfather clock Christian
I’m not even living no more as a cuckoo
clock Christian because that was me for
the crazy favor do the crazy stuff
wouldn’t do the regular stuff
how I’m living now
is as an alarm clock Christian
cause I don’t know the time or the hour
that that thing is going to sound and
God’s going to require something of me
but at the moment I hear him saying
anything
I’m awake to it
I’m alert to it
I’m a tit anticipating got early in the
morning will I Rise and I’ll seek you
whatever you want to say to me whatever
you want to do I’m on alert
for your whisper
I’m on alert God
what do you want us to do let me give
you a practical example
past two years
y’all already know we’re a generous
church God told us to be generous last
year in one service
we gave away seven million dollars in
one service in generosity with no
strings that y’all can clap for that
that is
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people getting houses and cars and it
felt like Oprah as soon as I walked off
the stage Brian Charles would meet with
me and the Holy Spirit said don’t do it
again like that
I said God but they love that
they love seeing the people cry in the
thing he said don’t do it again like
that
and I had
to listen I mean it wasn’t I didn’t even
make it to the Green Room
and I literally heard the holy spirit
said that was the last time you do it
like that
you’re still gonna be generous you’re
still gonna do this stuff but he said I
don’t want you to do it I was like what
I’m gonna do he said I’ll give you
instructions
later on in the year I said we’re
supposed to give money at every offering
time every Sunday every week of the year
and it’s going to equal out to a bunch
of money at the end of the year
and God said I’m taking this is the year
of intentional limitation I’m taking all
the Fanfare out of it I’m taking all
this stuff I’m taking all the people
that’s tagging me in the crazy Faith
cards thinking I’m Santa Claus I’m not
Santa Claus
I just want to be honest with you
I’m not doing this there’s a whole team
of people and there’s all kinds of stuff
but God said don’t do it like that no
more because they’re gonna think you’re
the answer and not me
[Applause]
and all I can do Tony is listen and
this year
we have given transformation put that up
on the screen I want to show you all the
organizations we have given to you might
not even think about it but just to
churches we have given no no no no no no
go put all the things the TC cross and
all of the stuff on I want you to put
the names of the organizations up there
real quick y’all we have given to so
many different organizations churches
food pantry sex trafficking we’ve given
to schools we have given to orphans and
widows we have given to survivors we
have given y’all
foreign
just to churches this year we’ve given
three million put the number up there
just to churches we’ve given to 3
million here let me let me get the
number on the 3 million 887
000 to other churches
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and to other organizations we’ve given
two million five hundred and thirty four
thousand we’ve given a total of
6.3 million dollars away y’all need to
give God some praise right here
that’s God
foreign
church when I took over that the entire
income that came in for the first two
years was 1.2 million dollars
that was everybody’s salary that was
everything we’re doing and the fact that
God allowed us to give away almost seven
million dollars
that’s because we have made it a
practice to listen
I said listen and
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so I said all right God
what do you want me to do he said give
it away all throughout the year no no
big crazy Faith Sunday where that’s why
some of y’all came today just be honest
some people thought today is the day
God said every day you wake up you
should be expecting today is today
[Applause]
and I asked him I said how much we got
left in the budget for crazy Faith they
said not much
because we obeyed God
we did it we’re at the end of the year
we’ve been giving away all year
but there was just a little bit left and
I said God what are you what do you want
us to do he said listen and obey
the team been asking me for weeks like
pastor
God said anything I’m like no I’ll tell
you when you tell me
like sometimes you got to just be like I
I’m not gonna move
until I have instruction
and there’s a church
of a pastor and his wife that went from
a mega church helping at a mega church
and they went back to their Hometown to
start a church
this is god named will Coleman he
actually
many years before I became a part of
Greenwood Christian Center he was a part
of Greenwood and him and another
gentleman they used to be rappers in a
group called two three and they used to
serve at the foundations of this
ministry and I didn’t even know that he
was a pastor I didn’t even know that he
was doing it at last I heard he was
working at Life Church and God called
him to move back and start a work and I
saw them two weeks ago
in this Lobby and he was showing on
Instagram the lobby and how proud they
were of the walls they painted and the
tables they built
and the coffee that they would serve and
I just saw this this this this
I trusted God and I obeyed him
and so Pastor Will and kazon church I
want to let you know on behalf of God
and all the people here at
Transformation Church there’s a check
for a hundred thousand dollars
coming oh
there’s a check for a hundred thousand
dollars coming to you and your church so
that you can continue to listen and okay
somebody give God praise right there
glory is up
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that was the end of the money
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oh man maybe I’m at that was it we
listened and we obey the reward is not
people cheering or likes and Instagram
God is saying well done
cause we listened and
now God
on Thursday I’m in a finance meeting
and in the finance meeting I was like
we made it
through 2022. you know sometimes when
you when you when you conquer a year
that one this year
y’all so fake y’all want me to be fake
for y’all
as a church and as a staff we made it
through
[Applause]
we made it you gotta you gotta hire we
made it
we made it through 2022.
and God said all right Mike
you did what I asked you to do
now I want you to sow a seed into where
you’re going
and many of y’all didn’t catch it but
next year this will make way more sense
when um when I tell y’all the word of
the year but next year I’m just saying
it in faith it is my
prayer and I believe our instruction
to partner with five different churches
that we don’t have any affiliation with
at the amount of one million dollars per
church now listen that it ain’t happened
yet so just hold on
this means we gotta be faithful
it means we have to give we have to like
this ain’t no y’all ain’t never seen me
come up here and ask for no second
offering no no God said I want you to be
a beacon to the whole church and I need
you to give to places and organizations
that don’t even see it coming last week
we gave 500 000 to the Little Lighthouse
helping with special needs children they
were blown away people crying like what
at the church yeah the church
yeah us
when nobody would give the victims of
the race riot any reparations for what
they went through guess who stepped up
and did it First Transformation Church
we gave each one of them two hundred
thousand dollars which would be the cost
of a home if they would have still had
it back what are you talking about yeah
us
but that only comes from listening and
of
and so I I had this I had this burden in
my heart to give to a city right here
and to give to our church right here in
our city of Tulsa and you know um when I
meet with Bri and Tammy and Charles
um
um Charles always be on my side
like you’re like Pastor blessed God like
let’s do whatever’s on your heart like
you always need a Charles like somebody
needs a hype person that’s like if we
gonna do it we gonna do it like that’s
Charles for that that’s my dog
but Tammy and Bree sometimes
they’re very well I need them they’re
very practical and analytical and
understand all of the implications of
everything me and Charles is like loves
God like
and so I said I really feel like we’re
supposed to give this amount and breathe
was like um just want you to know
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that is over what we were allotted to
spend
I said okay
and then I sat and thought and Tammy was
just like yes she is correct
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and then the Holy Spirit whispered to me
he said you can’t have a forest if you
don’t sow seed
he said you obeyed what I told you to do
for this year but now I need you to sow
in
to what I’m about to do in this next
season
and I said Tammy what would happen
if we gave this amount to a local turf
she said we would give that amount to a
local church I said everybody get paid
she said yes I said well everybody get a
Merry Christmas
she said yes I said
I think we’re supposed to steal
do this thing in Crazy faith
and so right here
in faith that we can do this five times
next year
and it was like
okay
because many of you may not know but for
the first time in our church history we
gave one million dollars to forward City
and Pastor Travis Greene and Jackie
green
in in South Carolina
and God said you can’t do it for them
and you’re not doing it right here at
the house
so
the Holy Spirit Listen and Obey
I was scrolling through Instagram
and somebody who barely ever posts
I see this thing about a building that
they’re about to move into
and how they needed four hundred
thousand dollars to finish
they’re building situation
and I was like Lord we could get him
four hundred thousand dollars and and
help them finish he said no no they’re
gonna finish it on their own
I want you to give them this amount
so that it can launch them
into the next level of their Ministry
without care and without worry
and so this church when we had a
facility that was so uninspiring to meet
in
I’m not even lying we called this pastor
and asked them could we use their Church
offices
to come have
a meeting
where God birthed the revelation of
stride in this churches
staff offices
and they sowed that seed into us when we
needed it so today on behalf of God
and Transformation Church and people all
around the world in transformation
Nation
pastor Matt Nelson and City Church Tulsa
Transformation Church
wants to present to you a check for one
million dollars
this is for you we want you to move into
that new building
with force with faith and with
fruitfulness we love you and thank you
somebody give God some place in this
room
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are we crazy until it happens
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that’s it
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I’m tired I gotta sit down
bring the lights so I can say right here
put some light on me
that’s it
listen
and what
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there’s no other way
to happy in Jesus
but to trust and Obey do that one more
time say trust and obey
for there’s no other way
to be happy in Jesus
than to trust and Obey it’s going in
somebody’s Soul one more time trust and
open
[Music]
for there’s no other way
to be happy in Jesus
and to trust and obey
whatever he told you to do
no matter how scary it is
trust and obey
he’s speaking
are we listening
and are we obeying
I want to pray for every person
who has been cuffed to the clock
thinking that you got time to obey later
everybody say right now
bring me that clock real quick
I got this mental image
of me
um with that you remember Flavor Flav
[Music]
flavor of Flavor Flav
if anybody knows flavor flake you can
look him up he used to wear
this big clock
and I was thinking about this clock and
many of us because we’re cuffed to the
clock we think that like we have
the ability
to move the clock when we want to
and then to stop it whenever we want to
and God’s saying that this has been
something you’ve been cuffed to
[Music]
you’ve been wearing it as jewelry
but it’s actually a chain
that’s a bar
it’s actually and then y’all get it
later
you’re not in control of this
even if I’m in delusion spending the
time in my own world there’s still a
world clock that everybody else is on
and God’s saying would you uncuff
take it off
and put your times
back on the altar
put it in my hand
we’re gonna obey God hands lifted just
right where you’re at
[Music]
God I thank you
thank you Father God for the opportunity
that we have today
to repent
turn back to you
to obey you today
father we don’t know about tomorrow but
right now we can
we can do what you ask us to do
so God give us the audacity to obey you
give us father God the faith
to not live frustrated trying to make
you fit into our timetable let us be
fruitful because we obey you whatever
you say
whatever you say
God for every person in here who is
struggling
with the timing that you’ve been doing
things God I thank you that they would
trust you again
thank you
that they would know as the scriptures
say you’re not being slow like some
people may think that it’s actually you
giving us all time
to repent and come back into your will
God thank you for your grace and mercy
that hasn’t destroyed us that hasn’t
taken us out that hasn’t discounted us
thank you that today we have another
opportunity to place the clock back in
the hands of the one who really is in
control
today we’re uncuffing
from the clock we’ll trust you with the
timing
will trust you with our lives we’ll
trust you father with when we’re
supposed to get married when we’re
supposed to have kids we’ll trust you
father God but when the business is
going to pop off we’ll trust you father
God will win the conversation is going
to happen when you’re going to promote
us father God we will trust you God and
we won’t just trust you we will obey
whatever you’re asking us to do in the
middle
give us the audacity to obey
father as we’re going into this
Christmas season
where it’s usually about everybody else
father I thank you that you are you are
given us strict instructions in the last
few days of this year thank you
and no matter what it is we’re going to
obey
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have your way in the sky
do a work in US
give us the faith to believe
I feel that right there
give us the faith to believe
that if we just obey you you got
everything else under control
obedience
is not easy
but God thank you that it’s simple
that you’ll give us both
the desire and the power to do what
pleases you
today we are putting our whole Trust
back at you
I have faith to believe
you have all that I need
foreign
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just sweet right there
you control everything God
I can trust and Obey you got everything
[Music]
something’s happening right now said I
have faith
foreign
hey
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I have faith
[Music]
just one more time somebody with face
say good night
everything
[Music]
is
my times are in your hands
my days are in your hands
Nobody Knows the time of the hour but
God is controlling it all
[Music]
my God
[Music]
just real quick
I need
I need I need something to happen
we’re about to leave
but I think that there are people all
over this Auditorium and in their homes
that need to repent
for being disobedient
and we’re about to do something we got a
big arena church and a lot of times we
don’t do this but we’re about to have an
altar call
if there’s an area in your life that you
know that you have been disobedient
that God is really just it’s on your
heart right now and you need to repent I
want you to get out of your seat and I
want you to come to this altar if you’re
at your home right now I want you to get
out of your couch get off your bed get
on your floor make an altar wherever
y’all y’all there’s something about to
happen in this place y’all come on up
because I believe God’s about to do
something this is an Act of Faith right
here you you just gotta make a move it’s
not in me touching it’s admitting God
right now here I am I’m saying yeah just
open that up come on some of y’all this
ain’t for everybody this is your time to
exit but for some of us we cannot afford
y’all even move move the stanchions we
need all of this space right here
because people this is your after face
right now come on lift your hands come
in this place and allow God to start
moving prayer team I need y’all down
here
staff pastors we’re about to just start
praying come on y’all come up y’all come
closer some of y’all just move yep come
on
come on I have faith to believe somebody
lift your hands inside
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[Music]
[Applause]
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if you came to the altar hands lifted it
doesn’t matter if you’re in the aisle
it’s all good
you made a step of Faith that’s your
altar right now
and now all I’m asking you to do
is I want you to talk to God
all I want you to do is talk to him
and I want you to tell them you’re
repenting for the Disobedience come on
right there father every area that I’ve
disobeyed you when I know I heard your
voice when I know you gave me an
instruction father when I when I know
you told me to leave that situation God
right now in the name of Jesus I pray
father God even as I touch my system as
a point of contact I thank you Father
God that even in this moment you are
ministering to your sons and daughters
father that every lie of the enemy that
they are disqualified today you’re
coming to eradicate that lie and I thank
you Father God there’s Swift obedience
coming to your children thank you Father
God that right now father God there will
be an urgency of Eternity that begins to
fall on your people that we will get the
fear of God again father that we would
hear your voice and we would obey I pray
for every husband that’s been passive
and sitting back and not doing what God
called them to do I think give that
courage would rise up middle Fowler men
of God rise up and be everything that
God’s called you to be I pray father God
for every single person that has been
trying to live pure but has had a
struggle father I thank you that right
now there’s another level of obedience
come for what you call them to do to
guard their Gates their minds their
hearts father God their surroundings and
today we repent father God for
everything we say and everything we did
everything we didn’t do everything we
didn’t say father today we come
believing that you’re gonna do a miracle
aside and a Wonder on the inside of us
God today we come as a church me as the
first person
and God I’m asking you to forgive me
for Every Little Instruction
that I grazed over like I had more time
today I give myself to you
I don’t just listen
I will obey
let this be a cry of a generation
don’t just speak God let us Listen and
Obey
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today God here we are
the greatest gift that we could give you
is all of us
[Music]
Give Myself Away
[Music]
give myself away
so you
can use me
I can’t come on this is the moment right
now where you’re giving God a fresh
commitment
everything that you thought you had
control of
[Music]
my relationship
my money
my business sing that again my position
my health my title
you can have everything on
my status my social media my reputation
my career
I want to obey your will for my life
guys it doesn’t matter about anybody
else it doesn’t matter what they say for
other car I just want a well done from
you God
[Music]
sing that next part
my life is
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
life is
[Music]
like
myself
[Music]
in myself
[Music]
say Lord
I’m Available
to You
[Music]
I’ll do what you say to use Me Lord
show someone the way
[Applause]
I feel the presence of God In This Place
lift your hands and tell God my swords
my stories
[Music]
that’s what God wants to know will you
obey me are you available to me I just
want to sing that one more time I’m
Available
to You
come on somebody say my will I give to
you
[Music]
I’ll do what you say
Use Me Lord
to show someone
me
this is what obedience is going to say
right now my storage
this is
[Music]
my storage is empty
[Music]
I’m not holding anything
just one more time somebody lift your
hands and say my storage
[Music]
father for every person that made a face
step in their home or in this house
I thank you today that you have seen our
Act of Faith
and God I thank you that today the
situation is turning
father God would you be so gracious
is to clarify and remind us
of what we need to do next
thank you for being a good good father
so good that you would give us another
opportunity today
father we not wait until next year
we not even wait until next year there’s
some stuff we know that we got to do
today
God I thank you
that no opposition
will be able to stop our obedience
your people have heard your word we have
listened and now we will obey father we
give you the glory we give you the honor
and we give you the praise in Jesus name
for all the obedient people in the room
would you give God a hilarious order
come on let’s give God a hilarious
hallelujah oh there’s a worship in this
house Hallelujah
[Music]
there’s somebody under the sound of my
voice that has not received Jesus Christ
as your personal Lord and Savior today
everybody shot at me today
is the day of salvation
it’s a thing that took me from being a
liar a manipulator somebody who was
addicted to pornography cuffed to the
clock cuffed to the cake cuffed to all
kinds of stuff
God said give me all of that and I’ll
help you change and all I had to do was
listen and obey
today is your day you’ve been watching
this somebody put it on you’ve been
casually listening in the background you
didn’t even want to come to the service
today and God Said Today is the Day
that the alarm is going off in you
said today I want to change your life I
want to transform it
in a Transformation Church there are no
perfect people we all jacked up how many
jacked up people do I got
everybody jacked up inside but that’s a
beautiful thing under the grace of God
we’re all forgiven
we have an opportunity to live our life
for him so if that’s you and you want to
make Jesus Christ your personal Lord and
Savior on the count of three I want you
to slip your hand up if you’re in the
room or if you’re online today is your
day one you’re making the greatest
decision of your life two your name is
about to be written in the Lamb’s Book
of Life and it will echo through all of
eternity sorry shoot your hand up in the
air I see you I see you I see you I see
you on I see oh yo there’s a Rejoice
going on I see you I see today’s oh
today is the day if one person gives
their life to Christ Heaven is turning
up
[Applause]
[Music]
Transformation Church World family
nobody prays on them
So today we’re going to pray this prayer
for the benefit of all of those who are
coming to Christ
and God knows your heart and some of
y’all like
well he don’t really know I got these
bad habits God said give me your heart
I’ll help you clean up the habits
listen and obey me I got you
let’s all pray this prayer together
everybody say God
thank you for sending Jesus
just for me today I’m going to be
obedient
to your word
and I accept
Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and
Savior I believe he lived
he died and he rose again
just for me
today I give my life
over to you
change me renew me
transform me I will obey
in Jesus name
amen can we thank God together
can we thank God together for everybody
Hallelujah
Hey listen if you just made that
decision I’m pumped it’s the greatest
decision you ever made in your life and
we want to help you text the number on
the screen we want to give you some
information to help you walk this thing
out and all I’m asking you to do is keep
coming back
watch it go back and watch series
relationship goals Grace like a flood
the upgrade I want you to be inundated
with things that are going to help you
grow
for everybody in this room
four little letters
that I want you to do
for the rest of your life
but especially the rest of this year
o b e why what does that spell
how many people know some things right
now that you needed like already the
things okay all right
let’s not leave this year
without finishing what God told us to do
just get the notepad out and start
chapter one
I have no idea what I’m doing
you know you just obeyed he says start
writing the book get yourself you’re
supposed to record an album I don’t got
money for studio time get your cell
phone out and start press and record and
and start doing the demos Over beats on
YouTube for like
all day
get the business you don’t go well I
ain’t got nobody to pay to do the logo
you knew how to draw in sixth grade get
you some color and pencil now I’m not
playing with y’all we’re looking for it
to be big and God’s looking forward to
get started
obey
maybe the strongest obedient step
is changing your cell phone number
some of y’all need to change your cell
phone number
obey me and don’t give nobody switching
it up
so if you need to contact no
you go go I’m ghosting and whoever’s
supposed to be in my life God’s gonna
bring them back in
everybody say oh back
Thursday night we’re gonna be here and
I’m telling you there’s gonna be a sweet
presence of God in this house bring your
family dress up and get ready to receive
from God
thank you for allowing us to live
and Lead like this this has been a year
we’ve made it through but I believe 2023
is about to be the best year we’ve ever
had because we’re going to obey what God
has said if you believe it give him one
shot of Praise I’ll see you next week
until then go out and live a transformed
life I love you
thank you so much for watching this
message we pray that it encouraged you
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