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I want to teach um in this series part 19 part 19 of a message in this series called help me Christ y’all got to say it for the visitors who came from transformation nation what’s the name of the series and today I brought this prop out here and I don’t really know is what’s happening to it cuz it was bigger a minute ago but if somebody would check that out cuz this really has a big deal to do with my message you know in week 18 last week we talked about Hell knowing that our church has faith like we would have a faith that would be recognized and this week I felt like I came real hard last week I thought I was like going in last week like I came out of six weeks sabbatical and I came in swinging on everybody in the Holy Spirit really dealt with me he said Michael that was one group of people in the room that was one group of people that have been walking in crazy faith that’s one group of people that know that God is ready and standing willing to meet every single one of their needs but there’s another group of people that I want to be empathetic towards today that in this whole series we’ve been talking about going bigger and going stronger and God doing more but the truth is everybody’s not in that season at this moment some of you barely made it in this room today the weight of life has been trying to crush you the pain of your past has been trying to tell you that you’re not worth it and I know that on a giving Sunday where I could come in here and we just be screaming the whole time and talking about crying why would God give me a message like he’s about to give me but what I think it’s going to do is allow everybody to understand the multi-faceted God that we serve that he’s not just able to meet somebody’s need in the high times but he’s able to get down in the depths of your valley y’all don’t hear me get in the midst of your mess and be able to change your life so the title of today’s message is fading fading cuz nobody really wants to talk about it but if we’re honest a lot of us are fronting in here like we got crazy faith but if you go to the house and you pull up your bills when you look at your relationship status over the past 13 years see a lot of times we can have faith in an area but in another area our faith is fading and I want to talk to anybody by the Holy Spirit I feel God already that if you are in a place or in a season of your life and your faith is fading hold on this started off as a big old balloon and my crazy face was right-side up and it was floating but why in the world is what I built everything on now in a grounded position just a few minutes ago it was up in the sky just a few minutes ago I was yelling I’m a child of God but later this week when that thing happens with that relationship why does it feel like my faith is fading I tried to do it right I tried to live in purity I tried to marry the right one and save myself but now we can’t have kids and we’ve tried every fertility treatment and we’ve given and we’ve sold and we’ve helped other people adopt kids but where I had crazy faith now I have fading faith I watched other people’s kids I helped everybody else’s family but then when I had a son he had autism he’s four years old and he can’t tell me what he wants and at one moment I had crazy faith but what happens when the thing that you were believing God for doesn’t happen how do you respond when crazy faith goes to fading faith now the reason I have to do this is because the church would love to act like life is not real we would love to praise our way out of every situation we would love to shout our way after every situation but there’s some stuff in this fallen world that comes to our doorstep that is going to challenge everything that you believe that a pastor just said that heylia what why you say that Pastor Mike because you don’t know what the last four years have been like for me in my life when I have to stand up and and and speak faith to everybody else and then take my child to therapy two times a week and just pray that one time he’ll say daddy [Applause] and the the truth is on some days I believe he will can I be real no can I be honest can I like beat like this is not usual for a pastor to say this but there’s some days that I feel like yes he’s gonna talking today is the day and then there’s other days it feel like Saul I have is a shell of the faith that I talk to everybody else about but the thing I need you to know write this down crazy faith turns to fading faith because of loss and the crazy thing is everybody experiences loss we just don’t experience loss in the same way and so I don’t know what loss you’ve experienced some of you have experienced the loss of relationships that you love thought we’re gonna last forever some of you have experienced loss of money some of you have experienced loss of time because you wasted it addicted to a substance or in the wrong business but I’m telling you that your faith can begin to fade in the area because of loss when I think about this I think about all the people who have been put out a church or have been turned off from church because we make it seem like you can’t be in a process of your belief and still be here I’m coming for the one today you know how Jesus left the 99 and he came off to the one today this message is for the one so everybody who’s ready and crazy face don’t let me take your heart but there’s somebody that was going to give up and that was going to stop because they’re still wrestling with the doubt in their heart and god I thought you were gonna keep them here forever and then they died and how do I still have faith when my faith is fading I’m gonna help you see the thing about the Word of God is no matter what season you’re in if you would be open to it it speaks to your situation and so I went to the and I found this guy and it’s a story in John chapter 20 verse 19 and let me give you some quick context real quick Jesus has been crucified he’s died they’ve taken him off the cross they put him in the tomb okay three days goes by and Mary goes to see where he is but he’s not there and everybody’s like where is Jesus and Jesus appears to Mary and lets her know yo something about to happen I got y’all but nobody else knows what’s going on none of his disciples the guards who were supposed to be watching him nobody knows what’s going on and then this happens in John chapter 20 verse 19 it says on the evening of that first day of the week when the disciples were together with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders they were scared because they thought because they were associated with Jesus that wants to kill Jesus they were next so they got in the house locked the door and then Jesus did something so miraculous something that was just crazy Jesus came and stood in the same room with them among them and he said these words peace be with you after he said this he said y’all check this out look at my hands this is where they thought they killed me but I got proof that I survived everything that hell tried to throw at me hey feel my side this is where their pierced me and thought they were gonna keep me down and at the moment that God did this crazy miracle in front of the disciples look what it said the disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord they had crazy faith because they touched a miracle they saw a miracle and the miracle was specific it wasn’t just some man that came to them it was their leader the leader that they thought they lost he now comes and meets them in the moment of their situation and y’all if this would have happened to any of us this would have been a crazy faith miracle and we would have all been hype this whole place some of y’all would be hanging from the lights y’all be like yes like that would that would have happened because God showed up for them have you ever had God show up for you now just for two seconds if you’ve ever had God show up for you in a moment that you needed him the most would you give God some praise in the building right online go ahead and clap it if he showed up for you if he took you from the place you thought was gonna take you out okay some of us remember God showing up somebody say thank you for showing up but that’s awesome when he does show up but it’s not as awesome when he don’t show up or when you miss the moment that he showed up okay look at verse 24 it says now Thomas also known as didymus which means twelve to twenty one of the twelve disciples was not with the disciples when Jesus came now I gotta stop right here because the Bible doesn’t say why he wasn’t with him the Bible doesn’t say Oh Thomas went with him because he was out sinning thomas was wiling out and he cursed god so that’s why he wasn’t with him he could have been going to get some food for the rest of the disciples we don’t know why Thomas wasn’t there but he missed a moment take down this point that I believe is gonna give life to some people in this room fading faith isn’t always your fault everybody usually tries to figure out why something happened to somebody like oh they got a divorce that’s cuz he’s still wild and she don’t don’t act like you don’t do it when bad things happen to people you try to justify if she wouldn’t talked about they kids her kids wouldn’t be nothing yall already know if that was the truth all y’all be cross-eyed because ok but in this moment Thomas does nothing to deserve missing the moment it’s just life and I want to help some people in this room because you’ve been trying to figure out why you were born into that home where abuse was prevalent you’ve been trying to figure out why they introduced you to those images at a young age you’ve been trying to figure out why it happened to you why you didn’t get picked why you did get picked on why this happen to you and I want to come and free you today I don’t want to condemn you I want to be your defense it might not have been your fault that you lost something see the reason why that balloon went down is because there were holes poked in it that you couldn’t see and every person behind there Instagram post and behind the six figures and behind all of the things that they do there are holes in them that nobody can see and what we do is we talk about crazy faith but slowly we’re leaking out from the parent who wasn’t there and from the disappointment of not getting accepted to the school and the child that we lost and the things that nobody ever even prayed for us for and crazy faith goes to fading faith this is what happens to Thomas right here and the problem is everybody around him is hype like most people who are discouraged in this woman and you come in a transformation Church you feel a little out over place because everybody’s like sighs I’m giving my kids away I’m giving my money away I’m getting right up here’s my cloud light and on the inside you feel like I don’t even have a smile to give away and so Thomas misses the moment where Jesus shows up and he comes back and the disciples are high and they’re like yo John chapter 20 verse 25 Tommy guess what just happened bro guess guess no for real guess that’s not it JC did I abracadabra puh Dow and he didn’t even use the door bro I promise tell him yeah bro Jesus came Jesus showed up for me Jesus made a way for me to be accepted to the College Jesus gave me good kids Jesus allowed my high school sweetheart to actually end up my wife I didn’t have to go through all that you we watch and we compare our situations and how Jesus came through for them and how he kept how he showed up but we missed the moment and Thomas was like yo that’s good for y’all but the person that I followed is gone and your little miracle that you’re saying you saw that don’t give me no faith matter of fact y’all on my nerves yeah y’all on my nerves with all this Jesus talking you missed it I’m bout to fight you but let me give you a piece of my mind and look what happens right here it in the scripture lower in verse 25 he says unless I see the nail marks in his hands unless I put my finger where the nails were and unless I put my hands in his side y’all can miss me with all that crazy face stuff I will not believe and I would be foolish to think that there are not people in this room and watching online right now that are at the point of so much loss where they’re saying I don’t care if he does it for you I got to see something for myself and you can fake and act like you’ve never been at that moment but I want to let you know your pastor has been at the moment where I said God if you don’t show me something and most people like oh my god don’t do that to the all-knowing the Almighty the ammonite oh my god but can I help you that God is not offended by your questions Oh y’all didn’t hear me he is not detoured by your doubt and I know I’m messing with some people’s theology cuz like no we’re gonna speak in faith we’re gonna talk in faith we’re gonna do that faith that just means nothing real has ever happened to you keep living it will and at that moment when you need God to show up for you what are you gonna do what are you gonna say everybody talking about crazy faith offering but somebody just got laid off y’all want to be fake in here and act like somebody hadn’t been living off of their life savings for the past six months and then we talk about we’re gonna give it at Christmas are they crazy cuz my faith is fake I could do it when I was in crazy faith but right now I’m down everything there are people who stayed at home today cuz they couldn’t get up enough faith to wake up this morning and come to church they’ve seen Jesus do y’all know Thomas walk with Jesus he saw the feeding of the 5000 it’s not like he was an oblivious unbeliever he was somebody who knew what Jesus could do but he lost him and it’s crazy what happened to somebody when you know what Jesus can do and then you take a loss it’ll turn crazy faith into what fading faith oh but let me tell you our fading faith happens right this point down fading faith is a result of only hearing about what you desperately wanted to see Thomas heard about a miracle that all the other disciples experienced he wanted to believe he wanted to see the miracle he wanted to be in that moment and that’s why I got a problem with the the label that culture has given him literally in the Bible they called him doubting Thomas that’s messed up cuz if if that’s the case then everybody in here should put doubting in front of their first name I’m doubting Michael that’s doubting wheel that’s doubting Bri that’s doubting Sally that’s doubting Joan because what people try to do is label you from a season of your life because if you read the Bible Thomas wasn’t always doubting Oh y’all don’t believe me let me look at like let me help you John chapter 11 Lazarus dies and word comes that Jesus is boy lazzy they were boys came to her aid lassies dead Jesus is like cool we’ll go see him in a few days what and they waited four days and then Jesus was like hey let’s go back and heal Lazarus he’s sleeping and the other disciple is like yo if he’s sleeping let him sleep you know we walk with you all the time and we be tired so let him sleep and the Bible tells us that he wasn’t actually sleeping he was actually dead but Jesus his faith was he’s just sleeping I’m about to go wake him up isn’t it funny how Jesus looks at dead situations just as like they’re in a state of not being awake and that at the moment that he speaks to it at the moment that he speaks to it that thing can come alive so then once one very logical disciple said hey Jesus this is great the Lazarus thing no you can do it but do you know the last time we were in that area they tried to kill you we probably shouldn’t go back there and look what Thomas says in John chapter 11 verse 16 Thomas nicknamed the twin so we know it’s the same person he said to his fellow disciples y’all trippin last guy and if Jesus is gonna die let us die with him oh I never had that friend that’s way too height and if you don’t have that friend you are that friend dr2 said I’m saying where the way to hide friends right now everybody okay so but do you know what type of crazy faith it takes for you to know your leader about to go die and you convincing everybody else I guess today’s the day I woke up ready to die let’s go Jesus what does this prove to us just a few chapters before Thomas had crazy faith and then he went through a moment of loss and his crazy faith turned into fading things so what I want you to know is fading faith always starts with crazy faith beware that at your hypest moment there’s still a low moment and I need you to not just know how to stay on the mountaintop but I don’t need you to know how to navigate the valleys y’all didn’t hear me see if I just wanted this to be hype about transformation Church I would just keep you hype all the time but we don’t live on the mountaintop all the time our marriages go through hail our kids as bad as hell that nothing there’s things that can I be a my in my church today that keeps it hot humble open and transparent life happens and it would be foolish of me to let you know how to shout on the mountaintop and not navigate the valley and so so what do you do what do you do when your faith is fatally well there’s a couple things that happen for Thomas in John chapter 20 verse 26 after he spazzes out on everybody and walks into the other room is like f y’all that’s what he felt in his spirit look what happened and I want you to catch this verse 26 a week later his disciples were in the house again they were in the same place they were when Jesus met them the first time but there’s just something different and Thomas was with them I have to stop and let you know that the community that had crazy faith welcomed the one with fading faith I want to let you know what type of church you’re in today that no matter where you are if you blatantly out of your mouth say I do not believe in God there will always be a seat here in this house for transformation in your life y’all got to hear me this is not a club for those who are elite this is a hospital for humanity so if you’re bleeding out because you have been hurt by life you will always be welcomed here I have to say that because some of you haven’t faced your hardest trial yet but when you do face it you need to know that there will always be a place for you in the house of God isn’t it crazy that the disciples didn’t be like well he’s he’s an unbeliever now did you hear him I don’t think Jesus is coming back he he didn’t give us a calendar date kick him out let him go they let him stay with his unbelief and because he was in the right community I love God because he stayed look what happened it says through the doors and though the doors were locked Jesus came back in and stood among them and said peace be with you he hid a rerun of what he had done before not for all ten that were left but for the one who missed it see some of y’all think that you’ve missed your moment but God will redo everything that he did before that you missed and you felt like you missed out on just to prove to you that he’s real he said peace be with you now catch this do not miss this moment right here then he did not talk to all the other disciples John would Oh baby look at the moment he said peace be with you he turned to Thomas and Thomas didn’t say Jesus I I told them if you didn’t he didn’t have to explain his issue of faith Jesus already knew what his issue was the same way that Jesus already knows the issue that’s in your life and look what he says to him I love this here you need it something real put your fingers here see my hands oh you asked for something else huh put your hand right here in my side yeah feel real huh don’t you know like that he said now stop doubting him the goal wasn’t to answer Thomas’s request so that he would be cool with Jesus the goal was to get Thomas to start believing again so Jesus met his physical need to bring back to live his spiritual need the reason that God’s gonna answer your prayers when you put this crazy faith offering in y’all don’t hear me the reason why he’s gonna allow your family to be saved the reason why your business is going to go off it’s not so you can stop it’s so that you will never ever believe again that God is not Jehovah Jireh the one who provides the goal was not the thing the goal was belief and so much of the church is trying to get you to do things in faith so that you get something God said the thing is just to prove to you who I am I want you to everybody say believe what are you trying to say pass the mic for everybody who’s in here and your faith is fading listen to this point fading faith attracts God’s crazy grace oh that’s a good point God does not throw you away when your faith is fading he actually says oh there they are the Bible says he’s close to the lowly the ones who like I don’t got nothing else he’s like oh there they go there my baby is and he’s listening attentively well I wish I had more to give he said no no no what you got well how you feeling I’m attracted to what others are repelled by and what I bring to you when you have fading faith is crazy grace Jesus didn’t have to show back up for Thomas he could have been like he gonna have to believe I got other stuff to do humanity to save got a seat at the right hand of the Father waiting on me I’m done with this world but he said hold on my chariot is ready to take me heavenly Eber will you stay here stay here for one one second I gotta go prove to Thomas that I’m real and after he saw something tangible and he felt it for himself look what the Bible says Thomas experiences God’s grace and y’all got to remember what God’s grace is it’s the unmerited unearned undeserved favor and kindness of God he experiences grace for Jesus to show back up and and and God shows up again for Thomas and the Thomas is like look what he says O Lord that is you how every time that God shows up for us and we get the job that we didn’t apply for and God heals the relationship Oh God that is you for everybody whose faith fading I found three things that happened because of God’s amazing grace can I let you know something that God will meet you at the depth of your doubt see I’m not saying stuff to get you high I’m saying stuff to get you healed this message may not mean nothing to you today but it will mean something to you in a future season and God is saying no matter how low you are right now his grace unmerited unearned undeserved favor and kindness will meet you at the depths of your doubt but do you know what God does for people who have fading faith I found it he does three things when God wants to heal fading faith he does something tangible when he told him put your fingers here tangible means something you can touch he did something that Thomas and doubt could touch and then God says cuz you don’t have the faith to be all up in the seven heavens and hear a prophetic word you need to see something real he said I’ll do something tangible and then I’ll do something visual and that’s when he said look at my hands everybody say look-see remember what Thomas request was he said if I don’t see and I said okay but many times when God shows up we don’t want to look we don’t want to see so he said I need to engage a lot of your senses right now cuz you won’t believe this is real and I know you don’t have the faith because your faith is faded right now to believe some prophetic word that I give you five years ago in your daughter’s room you need something that you can really see and so he said I’m gonna give you something you can touch that’s tangible I’m gonna give you something you can look at that’s visual and then look at this last one I’m gonna give you something that’s personal that means it’s something that’s very specific and when he said put your hands into my side how much more personal can you get the only other place in the Bible where I see God putting his hand into somebody’s side to do something is when he took Adam put him to sleep and he put his hand into Adam and pulled out a rib and he made Eve that this is the Savior saying I’m about to recreate something in you that wasn’t there put your hand in my side and I’m gonna do something everybody say personal when God wants to heal fading faith he does something that’s tangible visual and personal and that’s why Thomas believed not because somebody gave him a prophetic word thus says the Lord in 98 days Jesus is gonna appear I ain’t got the faith for that right now bro my bills is due my kids is out of control I can’t sorry but if somebody came and met the need and paid the light bill if somebody mentored that child because their father left them and so they needed a fatherly figure in the house if God actually brought something to somebody’s life whose faith was fading that was tangible visible and personal maybe they the opportunity to everybody say believe say it like you made it the whole reason that God will ever do something that’s tangible visual and personal is because he wants it to be believable the whole reason that God gave us this building and that we’re sitting in faith of people who gave last year do y’all know we were at 1519 West pine having five services when we took a offering and and I said we’re giving to the future of transformation Church I don’t know what God’s gonna do but we’re believing but four years earlier God gave me the plan but I didn’t see how it was gonna happen and he said there were people who gave when they didn’t see and now we’re sitting in the miracle the reason he’s doing it is cuz he’s saying yo every time you come to church on Sunday I want you to sit in something that lets you know unbelievable so if I did this what is cancer if I did this what is lupus if I did this what is your family y’all don’t hear me in the place today if I did this what is your marriage being restored if I did this what is your tuition being paid off if I did this what is the car that you he does it so it can be everybody shot at me believable so Thomas says Lord it is you and then Jesus says yo Tommy it’s been me two whole time bro look at verse 29 this is so important you don’t miss this then Jesus told him I understand where you were at and I understand how bad you were hurting so because you’ve seen me you had something happen to you that was tangible visual and personal you’ve believed me I’m glad you back baby but he used this moment to teach the disciple something very clear that I want to teach to everybody in this room bless their dough’s though who ain’t gotta prove myself – blessed are those that will give and they don’t know what we’re giving towards blessed are those who put their faith in me and sell out to me and I don’t have to give them a road map to everything that’s gonna happen blessed are those that have not seen me and yet have believed both of those people are in the room today so there’s tons of people in here who are ready and crazy faith to give and there’s other people your faith is fading so I begin I begin to ask the Holy Spirit what do you want to do he said I came to the church today for the one the ninety-nine with crazy faith I’m about to blessed it I don’t care if they give one cent that they found in the couch this morning I’m about to black cuz blessed are those who give and they don’t even know you ain’t got to prove God I don’t know what you about to do but ha here it is everything but not for doubting Thomas cuz I’m taking away that label from him today but for Thomas for Jill for Sarah what did you say your name was for key on this is for key on I said this is for kid if everybody else in here is ok this is for you key on this is so that the faith that’s been fading in you I feel the presence of God right now that God is about to take this thing to it I said this is four key on transformation [Applause] so I say God what do you want me to do he said today on the season where you’re supposed to be giving as a church to what God’s doing Michael I want you to be irresponsibly irrationally generous I said what he said there’s people in here that are ready to give but there are people who I don’t have their heart yet and they’re not gonna get it until I tell them here’s something that you can touch something you can see in something that’s personal and acts 20:35 it says it’s more blessed to give than it is to do what some of y’all don’t believe it but we’re gonna say it one more time it’s more blessed to than it is to okay so I need everybody to bear with me we’re about to give in just a minute but one thing that happened when when I became the lead pastor of transformation church is the Holy Spirit said Michael I can never let you teach a principle that the church is not doing for itself so we teach the principle of tithing and we give 10% of everything that we give we in our paychecks and stuff we we give that to the Lord and some of you today I’m so excited I heard one guy’s testimony today instead of giving up over and above his tithe and offering he was like I’m just gonna start doing my tithe and offering cuz I’ve been doing that and he said I’m just gonna be more faithful and consistent at that and and for hear me God would rather consistency than one drop in the bucket at one moment cuz it rebukes the Devourer for your sake and it opens the window of heaven and pour you out a blessing that you cannot receive and I’m encouraging somebody that maybe you’re crazy faith is to say God I’m gonna step out and I’m gonna start honoring you with ten percent of my income every every time I get paid every time I get increased well when I became the pastor we didn’t have no money as a church I want to mean no money it was some money but it might as well been no money and all these spirit says start tithing 10% and at that moment I started giving away two missions missionaries organizations all this it could not help transformation Church it had to help other people and God says when you are somewhere that I can get money to and then I can get it through I can keep giving you more cuz God gives seed to the he give seeds it up so the first year that I was a pastor some of y’all were here I stood up with my knees shaking it at transformation Church and I said God told me today that we’re gonna be a generous Church I believe it in my heart guys I really do I believe it I said it’s in the future vision and I said today I want to take an offering and what we’re gonna do with this offering is we’re gonna give it away to other churches and that day we raised eight thousand extra dollars miss Tammy was there and that next month we gave away eight thousand dollars to churches that were in better position than we were financially and God said you just sewed a seed into the ground that is going to produce fruit for the rest of the ministry yeah you could thank God right there cuz we wouldn’t be here we wouldn’t be able to impact community we wouldn’t be able to do what we’re doing okay so this year we’ve been more generous than we have ever been at our church history and that’s not because of me that’s because you giddy no hear me as a pastor I want to take a moment if you’ve never had a past to do this for you welcome home hear what I’m telling you because of your generosity and your faithfulness to honor God with ten percent and get your ducks in a row and get your money right and do all of these different things that we’ve taught you how to do nobody can make you do it but but but you’ve done it transformation Church has had the most money we’ve ever had to go out and bless organizations can I show you what we did this year do you put those organizations up on the screen this year alone because of your generosity we’ve been able to give over 250,000 dollars oh no y’all don’t hear me to end sex trafficking to build churches in America and abroad to help children get back from foster care systems to help people re-enter in society after they’ve been locked up Oh y’all don’t hear me we have been able to help schools and sponsor people because of what you’ve done but the Holy Spirit’s a mic you can do more for all these organizations I said what you mean he said check the missions account I said Laura when did you magically put this money in the missions account he said in front of the entire world cuz millions will watch this he says I want you in transformation Church to do a miracle that is tangible visual and personal so to the foster care system one one one project we’re giving you 20,000 extra dollars today sitting back in 20,000 extra dollars our churches to help build churches 50 thousand extra dollars hope is alive $25,000 a 21 to stop sex trafficking 20,000 more dollars to Charles page $15,000 to just the beginning $10,000 to Griffin’s Autism Center $20,000 to pearls of Hope $20,000 to solid foundation $10,000 God can get it to us and he can get it through us somebody give God some praise that’s what we’re doing sit down you gonna beat some of y’all they had exercise all week welcome to your fitness class for today I promise you you don’t want to leave because what God’s doing is something that you’ll talk about at your workplaces this week year and a half ago there was a church called church on the move here in our city that saw what we were doing in north Tulsa and they said I don’t know much about this church but we want to show $20,000 into this church and they came over and I’m telling you that twenty thousand dollars changed everything in that moment our CFO will tell you we were at the point of making decisions to let people go and these people heard from God to sow a seed into us and so I told Ms Tammy I said if we ever get the opportunity I don’t want to just give them the twenty thousand dollars back but I want to double it so church on the move there’s a check for $40,000 in the mail for treasurer oh yah oh yah oh what a brave God with me [Applause] okay okay okay okay okay have you got afraid of touching a move texture but it don’t stop there see Bishop Gary and pastor Debbie started this church in north Tulsa and I and when he went there and he took his shoes off on Greenwood and Archer as a white man after the horrible race riots that happened in 1921 or the race Massacre is really what it was that happened in 1921 where there’s been racial division in the city of Tulsa all of this time God told the white man and a white woman can we give God praise for our founding pastor Bishop Gary McIntosh and pastor Debbie we love you guys we would not be here if it wasn’t for them thank you for your videos and your crazy failure yeah but God planted this church in north Tulsa and we still have a building in north Tulsa and when God opened this up cuz y’all was trying to kill me by having us do 4 & 5 services we had to find another location and God opened this up but we heard the rumblings well what about north Tulsa what’s gonna happen baby we ain’t never left north dollars our our building is still there and our influence is still there but I wanted to publicly help everybody understand that God is helping us meet a need that’s tangible what else miserable and what else hurts okay I love this so there was a church on Sheridan and pi pastor Lawrence people’s going hard for Christ Church he’s reaching people that mostly y’all would wouldn’t wouldn’t pass by and they just got a new building so if you know anybody had going hard for Christ Church tell them there’s a check for $20,000 in the mail and while you in north Tulsa head over there to the Dream Center where we did our outreach yesterday and gave an entire school Christmas tell them thirty thousand more dollars is on the way oh [Applause] and while you’re doing your rounds go pack tell pastor Jamal Dyer and Kim Dyer as friendship church that fifty thousand dollars we want to support you we want to help you build people in that community oh and there’s one more organization in north Tulsa called crossover Community Impact and they’re transforming the Northside through mentorship medical clinics they have a school for african-american and brown boys teaching them to value themselves housing and a church hey there’s a hundred thousand dollars in the mail now better rejoice with me this is the church this is the church this is the church [Music] somebody shout that with me this is that what happens if we stop praying about meeting needs and we actually meet them [Applause] you know what happens is the people whose faith is fading remember the goal is not the money the goal is not to think the goal is that God would do a miracle that’s tangible what else visual and what else person they woke up this morning probably having a need and they’re probably in church right now praising and they don’t even know that on the other side of town that’s how much God cares about you while you’re in here giving right now God’s somewhere working it out in your face I dare you to rejoice right now like that just happened to you I need some help on the stage I just need a couple of standings real quick y’all y’all come up here I just need I need the people to be able to see people cuz y’all don’t realize that that when we’re giving our organizations they represent people okay and these are just people that come to transformation Church but they’re different ethnicities and they’re different people that that have have probably some needs but I need you to understand that this affects people so so today transformation Church I was just skimming through some of the crazy faith cards that we we had people give and sign online and I said God how can this be real real like not just an organization in Haiti yeah we did that too but sometimes you need to see people so this is Yvonne oh did I say that right okay so what y’all don’t know is last week for Haiti’s faith I came in with 3,000 notes right before the sermon and Ivana was running the probe rose in her and she made sure y’all saw everything and I just felt this sweet spirit and I’m known CP Curtis price for a long time and I just saw just happen to see that you’re actually from Tanzania right and you guys got married but you needed 3,500 dollars to finish the legal work so that you could become a u.s. citizen till you open that box real quick it says it’s only crazy until it happens on behalf of transformation Church we’ve given you four thousand dollars [Applause] welcome to the USA I said welcome to welcome to the y’all better rejoice like it happened for you yeah y’all keep praising what’s up bro I love you Brian hey this is Brian he’s one of the amazing drummers here at transformations and so I was just scrolling through crazy fave cards and he was believing God for a lot of stuff and he’s been coming here faithfully playing drums for our church for what about a year and a half two years year and a half and I happen to play drums the other week at the Crazy praise thing and he was back there just serving and doing all kind of stuff and I was like man how often do you practice he’s like man I don’t even have a drum set I said what I said you come and serve and you come up early to practice on this drum set and you don’t even have one could you open that box please for me Brian real quick just oh just open it though just open his card says it’s only crazy to what happens hey back in the back I got you a brand new drum stick [Applause] that’s your drought it’s only crazy till it happens hey that’s this crazy fake card look what it says I have crazy faith that in addition a drum set of my own will come out of nowhere so I can practice properly come on God Joe pray are y’all is this a crepe I love you come on stand up here with me this miss Charlotte and God is so faithful lady so so Miss Charlotte has been dealing with health issues for a long time now and she was diagnosed with lupus how long ago 12 years ago and her and a prayer partner have been believing in crazy faith that she wouldn’t just have money to get treatment and stuff but that God would heal her of a disease that they say can’t be healed somebody say it’s crazy until it happens this past Thursday the doctors called her and told her ma’am I’m so sorry but we’ve checked three and four times and the lupus is the Lupus know better my god still does miracles signs and wonders I dare you to play like you just got it 12 years of an infirmity doctor’s appointment has the doctors her children having to watch them stick her with needles and try to see I feel the presence of God in this room and in crazy faith God’s Hildur bloopers soma Charlotte we can’t heal you up Lucas got none of that power but I know there’s a lot of medical bills so open your box please her says it’s crazy until it happens that’s $20,000 America [Applause] come on transformation church let’s give doc play [Applause] what’s your name bro I’m Deon breath so this was the person who yelled out right there when I said the ninety nine and he said this is for the one misses him so I told my team to leave a spot open because God was going to have somebody that I was supposed to bless and so I don’t know what your need is he said I’ve never been to this church before [Applause] but God told me this whole message was for somebody and I you called out so I got a believe it was for you and and what I’m about to do is something that’s tangible something that’s what vision and something that’s personal so in this and it’s box could you just open it real quick yeah I don’t know what you need but your your says it’s only crazy till it happens and we’ve given you twenty thousand dollars for whatever you need [Applause] [Music] [Applause] try Jesus will make a believer out of you that’s why Jesus will make a believer out of you we love you bro can we give God some praise for meeting people’s tangible need what do you say thank you Jesus [Applause] can we give it up for all of these people who has been crazy until it happens thanks I love y’all [Music] Cave Todd that’s my big brother you invited him I love you baby um now I don’t know where you going to lunch but ain’t nothing there as fulfilling as this right here because the Bible says it’s more blessed to than to do what because of your giving throughout the year we’ve given hundreds of thousands to organization but until it becomes tangible visual and personal there are some people that just won’t believe how much time do we have for service to be over is it you know okay can we save just for I mean if we need to go like if y’all but I feel like the generosity is just beginning to starting okay all right y’all told me y’all told me sit down sit down sit up so the crazy thing about what we do is that on the other side of that lens is over 25,000 people who are watching right now transformation nation what up and the thing that you you don’t know is there as much as part of this church as every person do you know they serve they give they fly you drove from wherever your house is if you flew to be here today to give your tabernacle offering where y’all flies from where Houston where you come from Houston California LA where you come from but where New York City la where y’all come from Florida will come from Alabama and where New Mexico Texas listen listen Detroit Detroit in the building where y’all from y’all came from the UK amen like we we are impacting everybody say the world okay so this ain’t for nobody else in the room but they’re a part of the church so there’s some people I’ve seen there’s a guy named Michael Tighe not Michael time but Michael Tighe I need somebody to get my iPad just dying so I need you to get all of this stuff but Michael Tighe you you wrote on your crazy faith card that you were believing God to be able to come to transformation Church and be able to thank me and and some of the other leaders for the transformation that’s happened in your life so our church anniversary is February 2nd where we celebrate 21 years as a ministry in five years of me and pastor Natalie being the pastor’s we’re gonna fly you out take care of all your hotels your room and board and and it’s only crazy till it happens you can rejoice with him because he’s watching right now okay I’m gonna keep going Ashley cologne at Ashley underscore Lotte we relate more than you know because you have a young son on the autism spectrum and you’ve been believing God to to do something so me and my wife went to this program called the sunrise program in Massachusetts and so on behalf of transformation Church we want to send you and one other person to go get training so you can help your autistic son so we don’t take care of the hook y’all don’t want to pray y’all tired of praise them with people hey Ashley healed at Ashley H underscore you said that you only had eighty nine hundred dollars to pay off all your college loans and be debt-free when you graduate so on behalf of transformation church your debt-free you better place in this place boom boom Katie Gene Smith at Katie G neck so I think you know who that is well um Katie wrote out all this stuff on her crazy faith car and something caught my eye she said I’m praying to be debt-free from every one of my bills except my mortgage why are you doing I mean if you gonna have crazy face for him to do all the other stuff like why you ain’t just you know he’d still have to do it and so I don’t know what your mortgage is but on behalf of transformation Church we’re gonna do something tangible y’all better help me preach this message and what you just got fifty thousand to retire to help retire your mortgage loan right now let’s give God praise for that that’s transformation nation we love alright we almost done we’re almost ready to give I just need a few more people to come out here and just real quick real just real fast this is way funner than it looks so so like I literally told our team I was like I mean what what’s too much like when is when is it too much and then I thought to myself did Jesus when he was on the cross sacrificing did he did he be like where’s the lemon where’s the wine like he gave it all and so what I wanted to do with the people that are on this stage right now this is my man right here this is Justin Sally right here transformation church I love you bro just how do you 18 don’t be trying to make you a voice off deep cuz you wanna go dude you know your voice ain’t that deep okay Justin has been faithfully serving and our praise team you’ve probably seen him up here on a Sunday shredding on the guitar and he’s been doing it faithfully for over four years with no transportation and um I just was like that can’t happen and so we wanted to do something that’s never happened for me before I don’t know if it’s happened for most of these people but out in the lobby there’s a Kia Soul just open the box over the box it says it’s crazy till habit and there’s the keys to your new car [Applause] Hey can we give your praise [Applause] come here God seen your needs before you knew how to even ask for it God is restoring to you everything that you thought you lost Oh y’all can give God praise right now for this this is meeting a need this is healing oh and by the way we’re paying the insurance the tags the titles will pay forever you ain’t got to pay no money vilandra hey how you doing this young lady faithfully serves and what department in our church she look at smile for him a she greets you when you come in and I saw you right down with joy almost that that somebody stole your card it’s past week they stole it stole it in front of your house and she she literally said on her card that God’s working everything out for her good could you open that box real quick on behalf of transformation Church it says it’s crazy to heaven and that’s the keys to your brand-new car [Applause] hey if you got keys in his place full amount hey aya I need some keys my zombies cookies that is the case so out out in the lobby that’s there’s a 2020 Kia Optima and it’s paid for and insurance and tax entitle all of that can y’all praise God with her real quick this is nuts part [Music] [Applause] [Music] y’all hear that I think I think that’s the heart of the doubting person boom boom boom boom I couldn’t prophesy to let them see that God was real we had to heal their heart by doing something tangible visual and what okay it’s one more hey Kim hey Kim come here don’t run from me don’t run from the blessing of God you look you got your little stilettos all your Malone you lookin good got your our pony you can’t do it but I can so on your crazy faith card I saw you wrote down that mama’s getting a brand-new vehicle and you’re a single mother beautiful son are you seeing on the worship team and the thing I love about you is every time I see you you bring your son with you he’s into rehearsals until 10 o’clock at night sometimes and she’s sitting there playing on his iPad and she decided not to make her tragedy an excuse for God using her life and how literally it’s like oh yes she’s believing God for a car and I just I just cuz tons of people believing God for a car and in the Holy Spirit said go back and look at it and for some reason you put your odometer up there and it had 200 in what 47 thousand miles on your car two hundred and seventy two thousand miles now it’s more because you came to church today and so on behalf of transformation church could you open that box real quick your your says it’s crazy till it happens and there’s the keys to your brand-new car in the lobby right now oh we all rejoice women yeah y’all come oh yeah come okay so so it really is more blessed to give than it is to receive this the Thomas family now mostly I don’t know the Thomas family but you felt their impact gods ask y’all to really move here y’all y’all sold everything y’all moved here what it in September July came here with no home they had an RV and their four beautiful kids tell me names of kids Madison Alexis titus jag I like you Jay and the first time I met them their whole family was in this hallway right here scrubbing the floor not just the parents the entire family and they didn’t do it to be seen they didn’t do it to to get anything they literally were sleeping in their RV and coming up here everyday to just ask me what is the church need well they’ve done this for as long as been six months now seven months and I heard that your RV has been having some trouble lately and then it got real cold and so one of our volunteers has let your family stay with them well I found out they’re about to move and and I said well until they get their RV fix like we got to do something so there’s a minivan in the parking lot jack-jack can you open that up for me he said I don’t know how to open up for president Pastor Mike don’t worry says it’s crazy till it happens can you pass mommy and daddy the keys to their brand-new 2020 minivan King uh-oh transformation church can we give God a shout with him yeah I want to see something she said do you want to see something she pulled out oh I just got emotional this is Alexis what come here Alexis what did you ask God for in crazy faith she literally wrote down a picture of her whole family and a van [Applause] can I tell you that God will meet the needs of his children all y’all in here me [Music] thank y’all I appreciate you Joe thank you here you go thank you baby can we give God praise for the Thomas phone Jack Jack Jack dad hey J come here bro can past I might have a hug I Love You Man he’s like I don’t know it’s way can I hug thank you buddy have a hook with tears in our eyes come here baby Alexis don’t leave your pastor hanging come give me a hug I love you girl hey Alexis Alexis Alexis hey y’all come here come here what do you need more than a car what do you all need more than a car what you right there Wow she drew a house so baby girl Thomas family I want to let you know on behalf of transformation hurt you have $250,000 to go buy a house [Applause] they got the kids I love y’all listen to me don’t ever doubt again children listen to me your parents moved in crazy faith and for the rest of your life I want you to realize what you wrote down the house and the car that God did that to prove to you that he loves you so much you hear me transformation Church can we give God praise oh can we give our good God our great God a shout of praise thank you I love you I love you here y’all gotta put y’all cards in so uh I didn’t know if we’d ever be able to do that but because of the generosity of every person in this room we weren’t just that you would have paid the bills we weren’t just able to hire staff but God took us from being a church and the steeple to be in the church for the people Oh y’all didn’t hear me so for the one I’m just hoping something that was done today could help heal your fading faith cuz what God just did for all of those people he did something that was tangible something that was what fish and something that was what person but why did he do it so that everything he says will be believable hands lifted all over this room father I’m thanking you I’m thanking you right now that we will never ever doubt you another day in our life today give us faith to believe God we couldn’t meet every person’s need in this room as a church but you can and Father you got people all over this world ready and willing to move on behalf of your people so father help those who have fading faith today to believe that the dream you showed them will come to pass that the family you showed them being unified and saved it will happen in their lifetime that the business that’s going to change the world will be developed and be blessed to be a blessing that the ministry or the mission or the call that you have for them father God will be given to them and provided for god I pray that hope would come alive in every person again like never before and father today as we give we’re not giving to a church I think you that we’re giving through a church for everybody that’ll watch this on replay for every church and organization that’s been impacted when they played this father God for their staff let them watch the whole thing and let something come alive me inside of them I pray by the power of the Holy Spirit that dad things come to life right now their dreams and their visions and and even negative thoughts about themself heal us from the inside out father you cared enough about Thomas to do something tangible visual and personal and God if you did it for Thomas you’re no respecter a person you’ll do it for each one of us so today we thank you we praise you thank you that we didn’t miss the moment where you came and visited us in this room father God we praise you and we thank you in Jesus name if you’re grateful for God who is the only one that could work a miracle like that let’s give God the biggest shout Oh pray [Applause] everybody just would take a seat we’re about to give and this is what I’m gonna ask everybody to do this is a holy moment like so if you don’t got to run out and you don’t have if it’s not of emergency we understand but if it if it isn’t we’re just asking you to take this moment down every aisle and online there are cards that we have that says I’m believing God in crazy faith for and I want you to write something on that card they’re gonna pass them down the road some some of y’all and came in here with a full book already see you she said it’s me pastor that’s me read my novel but we’re gonna pray over every one of these and then we’re gonna give some of you have already given online the team has told me that you already came you couldn’t wait you gave yesterday he was like I’ve just got to get this out my account out of God paid Lord I be them spent it on some fur let me get it out thank you for your faithfulness but what I’m gonna ask is that every person in this room just for logistical reasons that everybody would at least take a car then get up and follow the directions of the usher back to your seat and we’re about to worship see the worship team’s gonna sing a song but that’s not the worship that God is saying oh yeah that’s real worship you know a real worship is it’s us obeying God and giving our bodies as a living sacrifice holy and acceptable for some of you who took your last and you’re trying to reason right now like oh my god that’s a lot of money and I could be doing this with that and you by faith everybody say by faith you drop that money in that thing God said there’s true worship when you click that button for your transaction that’s true worship when you write down that crazy faith thing and you give from your business or your savings or your 401k it doesn’t matter God’s just looking for your obedience and today some of you have been moved even in this moment like yeah I cannot not get in it don’t close today all throughout the week with people overseas you can get my paypal you can give out you can wire transfer you can call the office you can do all that some people have been calling because they’re giving large sums and they need to wire him do not let anything be an excuse for you doing what God is asking you to do because there was a woman in the Bible who she didn’t have no she didn’t have enough to why’re they wouldn’t accept her wire she had what the Bible says is a might which had to be something not a lot and when all the big ballers were coming and given in crazy faith or probably they were just giving out of their abundance and they didn’t even really bother them this woman like many of you are gonna come up to these buckets and click online and she gave out of her need and Jesus stopped everything he said hold up do y’all see what just happened you thought it was $10 but that was her faith and obedience and he said everywhere the gospel is treat she they gonna know about her cuz it was not about amount it was about everybody say obedience I haven’t told anybody one amount to give and I will not because the amount you’re supposed to give has nothing to do with me and has nothing to do with your neighbor one dollar 1 million dollars it don’t matter especially if God hasn’t directed you to give it there’s people in here you’ll never hear a pastor say this but I am don’t give more than what God told you to give I don’t know nobody would ever say that now I’ll give more abundant if if my daughter Isabella and I tell her go clean your room and she then cleans the kitchen cleans the bathroom cleans the porch off and and and even cleans my closet and I come back she said dad I’m done I said you did a lot you even did more than what I wanted you to do but you didn’t do what I asked you to do so today this is an exercise of the mature believer I just want you to give whatever God whatever you feel like gods tell you and some of y’all y’all y’all be like ooh not that number that had to be the devil but let me help you the devil never tells you to give anything but God will and he’ll show you how to do it today I want to pray for every person in this room and we’re gonna begin to worship and then the ushers and everybody section is gonna tell you how to come and giving and then I want you to worship God with everything you got for some of you there are chains gonna be broken off because your family has gotten to one point of acceptance and access but you never moved into action but I believe by the power of the Holy Spirit today generational curses are being broken over people’s life God’s about to do something for the expansion of the vision here a transformation church that will touch lives beyond us ever seeing it we’re here to build a church that represent God to the lost-and-found for one reason what is it transformation income and we pray that our giving and our sacrifice today will give us a legacy so when we’re gone when Isabella is no longer here that of all of our families and children will be able to have a place that they can come and experience progression not perfection father in this moment we honor you Father I don’t know what it took for everybody to get to this moment but I know what it took for me and my family God and it was rough but God we trust you we trust you with our hearts we trust you with your with our soul we trust you with our finances we trust you with our resources today it’s almost 4000 people in this building and tens of thousands of people online we give God we’re not giving to a church we’re giving through a church Father please accept this offering I’m God I thank you that it’s seed sown into good ground that will produce fruit for other people and residually it will produce food in our lives God I declare in crazy faith that miracles signs and wonders about to break out in this church break out in our businesses the father we will give you all the glory all the honor and all the praise in Jesus name everybody repeat it after me say we agree we expect Amen we’re about to sing a few worship songs and you can stand and sing we’re gonna worship God and I want you to follow the directions of the ushers and you can give online there’s tons of ways to give her you can give here in person but let’s worship God and give him all our praise come on hands lift it all over this place come on let’s lift our voice and lift our hands to God and let’s start giving unto the God who’s giving it all to us [Music] worse [Music] no get worse as beautiful [Music] they choose done for [Music] beautiful [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] No [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] declared well [Music] always person as long as this [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] there is no there is no Jesus [Music] there is no blood [Music] [Music] [Music] boys [Music] [Music] the truth is today that we’re free [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] every lies [Music] we can see it right now we’re friends because it’s [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] something just shifted in our church but it didn’t shift in our church because our church did something it shifted in our church because it shifted in your house and it shifted in your house cuz it shifted in you the song we just sang as we gave is there is no fun what are we believing now I don’t know what your chain is I don’t know what your chain is some of you is pornography others of you it’s been bad relationships others of you it’s insecurities fear failure it’s been a chain that’s been holding you back but what we just did is we gave in crazy faith declaring that there is no bondage so I just want you to sing it one more time and when we sing it this last time I want you to believe in faith everybody watching online everybody that’s watching on the rebroadcast the thousand 1,500 people that are still here I feel the presence of God I want you to believe that you’re singing this song this time not as a prayer but as a result no you didn’t hear me this is no longer something we’re praying this is the result of our crazy faith so I declare you to sing it out to heaven somebody just say there is no bondage sing it out declare it speak it out believe it [Music] [Music] Oh somebody’s doing it we’re gonna walk in faith stay no fear [Music] say holiday you have one come on hands lift it all over this place sing Holly you might as well worship in this moment you have just one more time can we sing that somebody say aha [Music] God is changing things [Music] come on everybody hands lift it up say Honolulu God we worship You God we praise you thank you for doing something in a steps tangible that spiritual father that’s personal and you did it after cross and what did he do somebody say [Music] that’s where Thomas dot is believed but he didn’t stay down [Music] just one more time somebody say hallelujah DUP with heaven come on if you believe it we’re shouting on the God with the voice of triumph [Music] give it to us a [Music] Dargis need [Music] you said it come on let’s declare how good our God is our God our God we might as well praise Him this is what Heaven’s gonna look like [Music] come on one more time [Music] [Music] come on there is Paris [Music] you better play them [Music] [Music] [Music] three seconds [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] whoo-hoo yeah just a voices say you have [Music] say hallo this is what angels are singing right now just one more time let’s join the Angels say there’s no way that death could hold you no way that death could hold no way that that could hold you you got up you got up you got up you gotta you got up you got up you no longer here you witness and heavenly place no longer here [Music] has everybody had an opportunity to give I said has everybody had an opportunity is this a bunch of people rejoicing about giving is this the balcony rejoicing is this hey what better way to go into the season where we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior then us to know that we put him everybody say first so proud of you as a church I’m so proud of you as a church in the room and online and all week don’t let nothing steal your joy like the old church used to say it the world didn’t give it and the world can’t take it away today I love you I believe in you let’s go out and live a transformed life what just happy you watch this video you just experienced the church being the church we want you to participate in this if you’re moved to be a part of this end-of-the-year offering this crazy faith offering I want you to give you can give by our app or you can go to transform Church to us and give you need wiring information or anything like that you can call the church but what I really want you to know it is not about amounts it’s about obedience so I’m encouraging you to even if you don’t get share this video it will bring somebody’s faith back to life that might be fading right now and I want you to share it and I want you to comment and I want you to like it I want you to subscribe because we aren’t ending this year in faith you do not want to miss what God’s gonna do next next week do our three services that we’re having for Kris and 2020 but julene God is about to do something extraordinary thank you honestly for being a part of what God’s doing in transformation nation and if this ministry has blessed you in any way partner with us and let’s see God do crazy faith things for the rest of our lives I love [Music]
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