This series is all about the power of expectation. Not merely wishing. Not assuming, presuming or even just believing. No, this is something greater. This is The Expect Effect.

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this message is from our series the

expect effect pastor Michael explains

what happens when we get the revelation

of expectation

I’m so excited about this series that

we’re going into today I want everybody

to say the dis title with me say expect

effect expect effect okay now I begin to

get this title almost it probably was

six to seven months ago um then I begin

to say Lord what do you want to talk

about in 2016 he said Michael if you are

going to see he was talking to me

personally he said if you were going to

see the amazing things that I have for

you in 2016 he said it’s not going to be

able to happen without you expecting it

many of us are living this que sera sera

life what that means is whatever will be

will be we deal with circumstances we

deal with situations but we don’t expect

for the great things that God has for us

and I begin to allow God to speak to me

I said alright god it’s it’s go time

see when we talk about expecting

something this is a sermon series about

faith and expectation somebody say faith

and expectation these two things are

your key to everything you ever want to

see and many of us in different seasons

have one of the other but rarely do we

have both working at the same time in

our life many of us have faith to see

something happen but we don’t expect it

some of us have expectation for

something but we don’t have faith to

believe it and so what we’re gonna do in

the next five weeks the entire time of

January we are about to go through a

series that is about to empower you to a

place that you have never been before I

am so pumped to teach this series this

is my thing I couldn’t sleep last night

I literally was rolling in my bed saying

faith faith expect effects faith it’s

fake I woke up at one moment because I

know this is about to unlock somebody’s

future I literally got up at 5:45 before

my

long went off this morning and I begin

to walk around my house and pray I said

God get him up get him here let him see

it because I’m telling you today you’re

about to get a key that unlocks

everything in your life starts with the

expect effects so I’m gonna give you a

principle that we have here at

transformation Church it’s what we call

one of our culture codes at

transformation Church we have 12

principles that we call our culture

codes and it’s the thing that dictates

how we do what we do and why we do what

we do and one of those things is faith

and if you’ve never seen this culture

code you can look it up online and get

all 12 of them or you can get one of the

magazines out there and get them but I

want you to know this because this is

being a part of this local body it’s

what we do so this culture code of faith

says this we have faith in God we have

faith in people and we have faith for

miracles I want everybody to say that

with me we have faith in God we have

faith in people and we have faith for

miracles I want you to say it one more

time we have faith in God say we have

faith in people we have faith for

miracles this is how you have to live

your life faith in God faith in people

faith for miracles the reason that we

set that as one of our culture codes at

this church is because we are not going

to see the amazing thing God wants to do

in our lives if we don’t have faith and

many of you I can look at your faces I

can see your situations I can look at

your Instagram posts and I can see that

your faith has waned your faith is at a

place where it’s kind of low or no you

know how your your car if you have gas

in it but it’s getting to that place

where the gas is on empty and some of

y’all y’all know how much further pass

II your car can actually go before it

stops and you praying and you wishing

and it’s putting and put put put put put

put that’s where a lot of people’s faith

are right now you can’t believe God to

go anywhere because you don’t have the

fuel of faith

to get there you can you can want to see

a destination but the faith has not been

filled up to the point where you can get

to that place and today you’re coming to

a filling station and some of the faith

that you’ve been lacking to take the

step some of the faith that you’ve been

lacking to start the business some of

the faith that you’ve been lacking to

step away from situations you’re about

to get it in this series because the

eyes of your understanding are about to

be opened and you’re going to see that

faith is the foundational thing that you

need we will have faith in God faith in

people

and faith for miracles somebody just

needs to declare that one more time over

their life for 2016 in 2016 I will have

faith in God faith in people and faith

for miracles some of y’all got to faith

in God part but the faith in people part

now they don’t hurt me too many times

now I’ve seen I’ve seen how they act now

in this church and my last church I was

only and I was serving I was doing

everything but I got hurt so i’ma stay

in the back God says that what’s

happened to you is not what’s going to

happen to you and some of us in this

room are cheating on our future with our

past you your future is the thing that

God wants to take you to but every time

he tries to show you it you look back to

see what your past is and so your future

is always delayed by your past it’s time

to let that go this year you’re gonna

have faith in people well pastor I don’t

want to be ignorant and go back into

that same situation again baby girl you

so closed up right now darkest in the

right person and you’d still say no but

it’s time for our faith in people to be

ignited but that’s only gonna come

through God and faith for miracles this

is that thing that church people say and

it’s a cliche and people will live their

whole Christian life and never see one

miracle not me and not this church when

we read in the Bible of people’s limbs

going back that Jesus touching people’s

eyes and their sight being restored when

we

read about him meeting resources to pay

the government taxes and he said he got

the money in it and he literally picks

up something and pulls out money out of

it why don’t we see miracles like that

today

number one cuz you don’t expect it

number two because you don’t have faith

to believe God can do it

what do you mean pastor that stuff don’t

happen no more is because you don’t

believe no more anywhere in the Bible

where God healed somebody the woman with

the issue of blood she literally had

been through every doctor in the u.s.

let’s say and nobody could heal her but

her face and her expectation mixed to a

place where she convinced herself nobody

gave her a word if I just press my way

and touch the hem of His garment I know

not I think not it’d be nice I know I

would be healed

that woman crawled scratched tugged push

bleeding the whole way uncomfortable no

pads or tampons go in to the thing of

God oh I’m for real

now get the picture in your head you

think you got a circumstance she pressed

her way and after moment her faith and

expectation met she was delivered healed

and set free she saw a miracle in when

she was so cold with her faith and

expectation that God wasn’t even looking

at her and he said oh shoot some just

left me he looked at his disciple and

said who touched me and there was like

everybody is touching you Jesus your

celebrity for inner MOSFET he said no

there’s a lot of people around but

there’s somebody with faith there’s a

lot of people in this building there’s a

lot of people that claim to follow me

they’re following it but there’s

somebody here with some faith and they

touched me with their faith and their

expectation

see I’m trying to get you to understand

that there is nothing that you will ever

see in this life that is too big for God

to deliver into your hands a healing he

can completely eradicate your body of

any disease that it is filled with at

this very moment any STD any terminal

disease and any cancer but see we have

more faith in what the doctor says then

in the faith of what Jesus Christ did on

the cross for us and so what happens is

faith works no matter what you put it in

when you apply your faith to a negative

report your faith begins to grow in the

negative report some of you have heard

all your life that you’ll be broke that

you’ll be on welfare and then something

happens to reinforce it and your faith

gets strengthened in it I thought I was

going to school on a full-ride now I got

all these student loans I got to my

third year of my degree and now I had to

drop out because I got pregnant it just

seems like I’m a being the system

forever it just seems like I’m the devil

as a liar I’m coming in to declare to

you that if you can get the faith the

size of a mustard seed Jesus said I

don’t even need a lot of it I just need

you to have some and don’t doubt that

little bit and if you can have that

amount of face some of y’all so scared

to step out in business like you even

got something to lose

think about everything you got right now

could you get that back in your lifetime

yes you ain’t even got nothing oh god I

just don’t know come on step out in

faith and believe God to give you ideas

and put face with your works and see

something amazing happen

stop sitting on what God has given you

to show himself strong imma say it again

cuz you missed it stop sitting on what

God is giving you to show himself strong

if you could do it in you you would have

done it but he knows you’re gonna need

him put your faith in Him and he’ll

begin to show himself strong is that’s

the person that used to work at Taco

Bell that now owns three years later a

multi-million dollar communication

company yeah and I don’t even know how

to work my cell phone but I have not put

y’all on hear me but I put my faith we

stopped believing we we’ve heard what

what has been presented to us and we

take that as face value and before we

ever get to the expect effect we have to

have a foundation of faith so today

before I go into the four weeks of the

the actual expect effect next week I’m

going to talk about expectation

revelation and how when you did an

expectation and you get a revelation of

it it’ll change everything in your life

but before I go there I have to first

make sure you have a foundation of faith

because faith and expectation are the

wings of the same bird it’s the wings

two different wings of the same plane

and what happens is many of us have

taken flight with only one wing we have

a hope we have a dream and that’s the

body of the plane and then we get our

faith out there I’m about to take off

and I’m gonna see a whole new you get

out tells you you think you’re gonna fly

and you start speeding up and you go

and what happens is because you don’t

really expect what you have faithful

it’s a short flight to the ground then

you get discouraged and you hobble back

and many of our dreams and plans are

sitting in hangars they’re sitting on

runways waiting for somebody to come and

fix us now submit to you that God

through his word and through revelation

is about to give some of y’all another

wing today that things you tried last

year that that literally weren’t able to

go cuz you just didn’t have faith and

expectation he’s about to give you both

of them and literally it’s gonna be easy

to fly this time cuz you’re gonna

believe it you’re gonna hope for it and

then you’re gonna expect it somebody say

faith foundation okay so I want

everybody to just think for a second

close your eyes just get focused on all

the things you desire to happen in 2016

come on just think about it some of

y’all want your homes paid off some of

you want to be promoted on your job some

of you want to walk free from the

addiction come on the things you desire

the things that you want in this year

some of you wanna get marry some right

now when I walk in abundance where they

can bless other people be generous okay

open your eyes now I ask you what you

desire and we could have spent the next

30 minutes talking about what we desire

but now my question is how many of you

expect those things to happen now after

my pep talk some of y’all like yes Amen

but for many of us that list would have

gone down considerably because we want

it to happen we don’t expect it to

happen we think thoughts like this it’d

be nice if it would man that would be

great but we don’t expect it and what

God is telling all of us in this place

that we have to go back to a place that

all of us were at one time you had a

level of faith and expectancy that was

outmatched

to anything you’ve ever experienced as

an adult it was when you were a child

when you were a child just go back with

me for one second does anybody remember

Christmas as a child or the day before

your birthday when you was young before

your dreams got shattered before you

knew how much stuff costs before you

understand what I’m saying before your

parents heard you get a job do you

understand what I’m saying before all of

that do you remember your birthday your

Christmas and landing your bed at night

and so much exhilaration and an

anticipation for what was about to

happen that you could barely sleep you

literally were looking at presents

trying to figure out what they were

you lose something amazing was gonna

happen to you the next day you heard any

noise and you wake up and start looking

you couldn’t wait until you weren’t even

hungry the next day they’re like we’re

gonna eat breakfast I’m not hungry I

just want to see what had a tech spec

tation and my question is when’s the

last time we felt like that concerning

anything that God promised us when’s the

last time that we woke up and said I

can’t do anything else except wait to

see what God has for me in this day that

means we’ve lost our expectation and God

tells us this in Matthew 18:3 he says I

tell you the truth this is Jesus talking

unless you turn from your sins and

become like little children you will

never get into the kingdom of heaven

when he’s saying that he’s not saying if

you if you don’t turn from your sins and

become immature he says if you don’t

become like little children in your

faith and expectation you’ll never get

all that I have for you why is it that

when you were a baby believer God spoke

more than he does now you’ve been saved

for 10 years it’s because somewhere

along the way we started believing doubt

we started well it didn’t happen for

them the devil is a liar but yes

there’ll be times that because of God’s

sovereign this some things won’t happen

in the season that don’t mean stop don’t

stop believing I think about my daughter

Isabella she’s too

and she believes everything her daddy

says I mean literally if daddy says

we’re gonna have a popsicle

she begins not only to believe it but

she goes and declares it to other people

look what a child does she says daddy

can have a popsicle yes baby you can

have a popsicle mommy daddy said I can

have a popsicle

no need daddy said I can have a popsicle

Nana daddy said I can have a popsicle

she hasn’t seen it yet and she doesn’t

even know where it’s coming from

but she believes what daddy say that’s

the level of faith we have to have when

it comes to everything in our life what

is daddy promised you he promised that

I’d be the head and not the tail why are

you the last on that job why are you

always getting no no no no no no no no

my daddy said that I would be the head

I’m coming for your job boo see what you

don’t know is why you treating me wrong

you might want to treat me right because

daddy called me that there’s no way I

can stay at this place at this job

because my daddy called me the head and

not the tail see y’all playing but we

don’t got faith like that we’d rather

just deal with the circumstance we would

rather crown our circumstance King and

worship that will bow and submit to our

circumstance well they did tell me this

and they did take that and they did said

I wasn’t qualified enough and they did

say the devil is a liar what did daddy

say about you what did God tell you he

said that you will be the lender so how

can you stay broke if daddy has promised

you something else the only way you

can’t receive a gift is if you deny it

and many of us have been denying what

daddy’s already saying I’m here to

encourage you your faith and your

expectation that God wants you to take

you take you to a place individually

that you will be able to stand and not

declare the word you will be able to

stand and you will be living the word no

I want everybody to hear me I want

people to look at my life and see the

Scriptures walking in a six-foot-two

suit and be able to say that’s a man

that’s blessed in the city blessed in

the field blessed when he comes blessed

when he go oh that’s what it looks like

that’s a family that says that as for

him and his house we will serve the Lord

that’s a man that will stand and say his

children’s children will stand up and

call them bless oh that man is walking

with the proverbs 31 woman did you

understand I don’t want me to have to

tell them the scriptures look at my life

watch me watch me ooh watch me dearly

say what I’m saying I want them to be

able to watch me but that only happens

when our faith can take us to a place

that we really believe God Church I want

you to understand that if you don’t have

a foundation of faith nothing else you

receive will be able to last I’m gonna

make this very plain faith is the most

fundamental thing of your Christian life

and it is the most important thing that

you need to invest in you need to invest

in your faith I’m gonna say it again

you need to invest in your faith

intentionally

what do you mean Pastor Mike you have to

put things in your view in your hearing

in your atmosphere that encourage you to

see beyond what you see right now hear

me if you do not you will be at the same

place for a very long time

mad at God cuz he didn’t move but God

says I’m sitting here with everything

you need I’m just looking for the faith

to pay for it

money doesn’t move God faith moves God

so God showed me illustration he said

Michael everything you need is behind my

back all I’m asking for just for the

sake of the analogy it’s $30 worth for

faith well god only have $3 worth of

thing and it was enough to get me saved

and I haven’t done anything with this $3

of faith I’m save st. that’s why I feel

with the Holy Ghost with the evidence as

ringing in tongues but I’m not seeing

miracles I’m not seeing anything and God

says if you just get around the right

people and the right atmosphere every

time you open the word you get an

another dollar of faith see see you

missed it

the reason why some of you are so low in

your faith is because you get paid every

time in faith every time you open the

Bible if you knew you was getting $10

every time you read the word some of

y’all be reading a word all the time

some of y’all what I’m saying is you’re

getting faith every time you read the

word and God’s saying I got a whole

business for you but you gotta get your

faith up will you be able to pay for

with faith not money not experience not

not qualification with faith what I have

for you

so our foundation of faith has to be the

bedrock which everything is laid on so

I’m just gonna talk to you a few

scriptures I want to give you an

equation and I want you to write this

down because you’ll see at work in this

entire series faith plus expectation

equals miracles I want you to write it

down just like it would be an equation

faith plus expectation equals miracles

this can be applied in every area of

your life if you get faith in something

and then you did an expectation with

it will end up in result in miracles in

your life this is the key to your whole

2016 but I don’t understand well i’ma

break it all the way down for you if you

can begin to get a visual of what God

wants for you or what you even desire

this is the beautiful thing about faith

is faith don’t even have to have

permission for God it’s a principle in

the world some of y’all just got scared

over that there are people that do not

serve God who have faith in something oh

you you plant their faith in something

enough to put an expectation with it and

it turns into facebook something that

wasn’t seen he called those things that

were non-existent and he put an

expectation in the next five years

everybody will use my sub now a miracle

has happened in that baby the church

everybody begging that baby for money

why cuz a miracle happened when he put

faith in expectation together I want you

to see that believers get an added bonus

that when we put faith in expectation

together then God gives a supernatural

insight to stuff we can’t see with our

natural eyes you’re walking to a

business meeting

and God don’t say this ain’t the one

won’t even say a word and I said we’re

excited about doing business with you so

you know what I have to leave we’re not

even going see you get so you get CIA

agent Holy Spirit on your side and so

what ends up happening is you get to mix

faith expectation and foresight see when

you’re not saved you gotta run into

every wall when you are saved the word

says that good step built the steps of a

good man our move to the left move to

leave that job take that job they get

ordered and so what your faith does is

it starts to produce a life that you get

to reap the benefits of living a saved

life see miracles happen be an example

for God and you get to do it while

looking good look at you

I’m trying to help somebody see that

faith plus expectation equals miracles

now let me bring this clarity to you

faith and expectation are not the same

thing but they were always meant to go

together they were meant to go together

like peanut butter and jelly and I say

like Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen

they were meant to be together like

jasmine and Aladdin they were meant to

be together like sriracha and anything

else maybe that last one was for me but

they were meant to be together okay

so I want to talk about expectation and

real bad the Holy Spirit rang me back he

said tell him about the faith foundation

someone give you six things about faith

that you need to know as we move in this

series number one faith in God comes

first

faith in God comes first if you don’t

believe that it’s the will of God for

you to be healed delivered walk in

abundance be set free you won’t expect

God to heal you deliver you and set you

for you won’t expect it if you don’t

believe that God can you don’t believe

that he will Point Blank period let me

give you another analogy you never

expect anything from somebody you don’t

believe in if you have a deadbeat dad

okay and he says I’m gonna be here on

Saturday and I’m gonna take your family

is separated and you said I’m gonna be

here on Saturday and Saturday comes and

they’re not there the first time you

like okay well maybe you’ll come next

one next Saturday I’ll be there the next

Saturday comes he won’t be there and so

then you just give up and then by the

time you’re 18 then they want to make

another charge back into your life and

at that point you say I’m coming to give

you your graduation gift and in your

mind you like graduation gifts I don’t

expect anything from somebody I don’t

believe in

that’s why we have to make sure that our

faith is really in God not this church

irreligious I believe your God I’m

talking about in your heart because

until you believe him you can’t expect

nothing from me when a situation in a

circumstance happened you don’t turn to

God you turn into whatever one that you

believe in that’s why believers can come

to church but they get in a tight

situation they believe in alcohol more

than they believe in God so they expect

that the alcohol will relieve their pain

instead of God giving them peace so they

turn to the alcohol does everybody

that’s why we have to have a faith

foundation that’s why you think that

your relationship with God is is it’s

just a good relationship to have it’s

the relationship to have because

everything you need is found in God but

what we do in this earth suit is we walk

around and we try to feel God holes only

places that he can feel with things that

feel good for a moment but they never

last us and so what happens is it begins

to wear on our faith and so we stop

believing in God we start believing in

other things and we still left empty at

the end of the day how many people have

tried it your way and still felt empty

at the end of the day here’s what I’m

saying to you if you don’t have faith in

God first you won’t expect God to do

anything for you okay does everybody

understand that go to mark 11:22 and I

want you to see this because it’s funny

because this is how we do a lot of time

let me set the backstory Jesus and His

disciples are leaving a city and going

into another city and Jesus was hungry

and this just makes me excited I say

this every time I talk about this

scripture because it just lets you know

the humaneness

of Jesus Jesus like man I am hungry and

there is no McDonald death around

anywhere this smug I want to make

doubles and I don’t I can’t find one and

so what he says is he walks up to this

fig tree and he was like okay I’m gonna

give me some figs off this tree and the

fig tree was not producing fruit and

Jesus y’all know you can’t be called the

fig tree and not producing no fruit he

said I curse you fig tree you will never

ever produce any more fruit wither up

and die

and this was on a Tuesday and he walked

into the city on Wednesday he came back

and they was just walking past because

they were going on their journey and

Peter said robot yo yo check this out yo

Jesus this fig tree actually died and

then Jesus looked at Peter like he looks

at many of us when we find out his word

is true you you’re shocked that what I

said I did and this is where we pick up

on the conversation mark 22 verse of

mark 11 verse 22 it said then jesus said

to the Stifel look at this

have faith in God this is first the

first thing he says to them is have

faith in God he said I tell you the

truth and this is God speaking to you

you can say to this mountain

may you be lifted up and thrown into the

sea and it will happen but you must

really believe it will happen and have

no dark doubt in your heart I tell you

you can pray for anything did it say

some things you can pray for anything

and if you believe that you’ve received

it it will be yours but when you are

praying first forgive anyone you are

holding a grudge against so that your

father in heaven will forgive your sins

to what Jesus is saying to us is I’m

always gonna do what I said I’m gonna do

all you gotta do is have faith in God

believing don’t doubt see this is the

thing that I have been um I’m gonna say

obsessing over but continuing bringing

before the Lord because I know this is

the key to everything that God wants to

do in my life if I just believe him and

don’t doubt there is nothing impossible

for God and so many of you this word is

having to wash over you because I’m

coming against yours

disappointment I’m coming against years

of broken promises yeah I’m coming

against years of you stepping out and

feeling like nobody was with you listen

this faith walk I do this alone

me and Natalie have been believing God

for things that people are aged and

people that have our qualification

haven’t believed for in years and let me

tell you what God has done for me he

said because of your audacious faith to

believe I’ll take you to places people

can’t even think of this is not a group

decision can I just be real with you if

y’all don’t get this I don’t care cuz my

faith is that God as I put my trust and

my belief in him for me and my household

he’s gonna raise us up to a place that

will be able to be said that nobody gets

the glory except God do you know that

this is where hating comes in the church

cuz some of y’all just got mad when I

said that right there how to pass that

out that he don’t care listen Pookie cuz

you hear me because you don’t want this

it’s available to you but you’re gonna

have to sacrifice something again it’s

available to every one of us but our

faith in God comes first everybody say

first and then Paul gives us more

insight to this in 2nd Corinthians 5

chapter 5 verses 6 and 7 it says and and

this is how we know that we have to have

faith in God but not just for heaven we

have to have faith in God on this earth

okay so many people just trying to make

it to heaven we’re gonna be there for

all of eternity

guys there’s no rush for that we’re

gonna be there but enjoy life I’m not

talking the world standards of enjoying

life I’m talking about the life that God

tells us that he said I came that you

might have life and have it more

abundantly that the fruits of the spirit

would abound in your life that you would

walk in joy love

he’s kind of those are the things that

will allow you to join like listen

heavens coming and if you want to go

okay you know Mary Mary had I want to go

to him I skip that song every time no

I’m not I’m not ready yet I want to see

my kids you understand what I’m saying

honor I want to see some things when if

he comes I’m ready but um okay anyway

and many believers all the world is

going down the word is going to hell in

a handbasket you ain’t doing nothing to

change it God sent us here to be

ambassadors of heaven we’re supposed to

be reflecting what’s happening up there

here on earth and you’re trying to get

there anything I need you down there

okay so this scripture Paul tells us

that we’re supposed to trust in God and

walk in faith on this earth 2nd

Corinthians 5 verses 6 & 7 it says so we

are always confident knowing that while

we are at home in the body in the body

we are absent from the Lord so we’re not

in heaven we’re on earth now what does

it tell us to do on earth for we walk by

faith and not by sight Paul is trying to

give us a key of how to live this life

you don’t live it by sight you live it

by faith can can I help you let me let

me paint a picture for you when you see

how you walk naturally is you see where

you want to go and you begin to move

that way that’s how we naturally walk we

see if there’s if there’s an obstruction

in the way we see it and we move there

and then we walk where we want to go

Paul is saying in the spiritual on this

earth we don’t use how we see we use our

faith so we faith where we want to go

and walk that way

my nitro site will tell me one thing but

my faith tells me another thing so I got

a doctor’s with support that said I have

a chronic disease but my faith says that

I am healed delivered and set free so I

do not walk by this doctor’s report I

walk by faith and I head that way

see the problem with most of us is that

we would rather believe what we see than

what our faith says and so we walk by

what we see see the thing is when a

situation arises in your life you’re

supposed to respond first with faith not

fear if they call you right now as soon

as you got out church we are sorry to

tell you this mr. Johnson but you have

lost your job some of y’all just right

there if your last name is Johnson your

heart started beating fast because

automatically we start to think what

that means for what we see our house

kids think I know I have a family I was

about to pay off this loan did that I

doubt it out of that I’m at the moment

tribulation comes to me you say what who

did what they take him wet cool god I

remember your promise to me and you said

there would be no thing in this world

that I would have to lack because I

trust you and I honor you so I know what

I see but my faith sees me whole

prosperous and walking in abundance so

I’m gonna make this next step not in

fear but in faith so I’m gonna face my

way into this next move and I’m going to

see it y’all better not mess with me

because I’ll faith my way into a

promotion I’ll faith my way into a new

home see what you don’t understand is

you’re waiting for your money to line up

and God is waiting for your faith to

line up

hear what I’m saying the relationship

you’re looking for is not gonna come by

just you going to counseling your face

has to begin to believe that God is

about to move on this situation you that

you got to faith your way into some

situations that’s why that’s why your

faith in God has to come first

can I tell you a real-life story God

begins to show me he said Michael cuz I

used to when I was he God worked this in

me at a very young age I’ve been

believing God big for a long time like I

can remember when I was eight and nine

believing for stuff that was just stupid

no see am i telling the truth always at

fourteen years old I got a dream that I

wanted a brand new drum set and boy uh

you know I could have had any type of

drum set but I wanted a custom made now

I’m 15 with no job some of y’all just

y’all tell your kids shut up and sit

down but I’m thankful for my parents cuz

they never crushed my dream not one time

I’m thinking about it there is nothing

that I ever said that they said that’s

impossible

parents hear me don’t crush your kids

dream because you didn’t have the faith

to believe it no hear me no don’t don’t

diminish what God’s trying to birth in

them and actually it was supposed to

happen three generations ago but they

got it cuz everybody passed it up

don’t crushin them what God’s trying to

build I begin to believe God at 15 years

old for a drum set and I didn’t have

money this drum set cost ten thousand

dollars fifteen just want you to put the

equation together fifteen Dave Eiland

fifteen ten thousand dollar drum set and

he said well believe God son that’s all

the license I needed so word tells us

that faith without words is what I have

no money couldn’t get a job so what did

I do

I drew the drumset I took ten days to

get a protractor y’all member with a

protractor is I got a protractor out a

ruler shading pencils and I can’t draw

no I’m serious and I had one sheet of

paper

good erasers and I spent time drawing

every detail of that drumset and I hung

it up in my wall in my room and I told

everybody some people went to school

with me I had it in my binder as a

picture people would literally be

looking at my binder my father never

like what is that I said that’s the drum

set I’m about to give and see some of

y’all so confused right now she’s like

that is too much when our drum set you

don’t have to be in my face okay this

ain’t about you boo but this is what he

said if I asked for anything I want you

to bring this down to the most basic a

drum set do I need a drum set to be

saved no but I wanted it see God is not

interested in just meeting your needs he

wants to give you the desires of your

heart

but you scared the dream you scared to

ask God for anything but other than your

bills being paid I’m sick of seeing the

church so oppressed and depressed over

some wack little bougie sleaze like that

beating Carla’s to be poor he called us

to reach the poor and help the poor but

it’s gonna take your faith going to

another level I begin to draw that thing

I put it on display I told people listen

I had enough faith to ask people for

money I’m 15 years old walking around

for my birthday don’t give me nothing

just give towards my drum set I have

friends at school giving to my drum set

back then I was still you know a little

player player so I would be talking to

the girls like girl this drum set

it’s drug sales down trying to get it to

be able to play

I had them giving me a little lunch

somewhere I ain’t care God was still

working on me you understand but listen

he won’t even work to your stuff if he

sees faith y’all long story short the

drum set that you saw me play for the

little drummer boy that was the drum set

that I got on my 16th birthday

that was my faith in action now hear

what I’m saying to you it didn’t come

just cuz I wanted it it came because I

believed and I had faith that would

believe in God first I knew if it was

going to happen God had to do it even if

he was going to use my parents see some

of us act like it’s not God because you

see who it’s coming from Tommy and

Brenda did not have eight thousand extra

dollars sitting around my faith

attracted money to their account you

missed it see you think it’s them but

it’s my faith bringing money to a

conduit to get me what I need

I’m telling you believe in your faith

God will attract money to the business

so you can get the raise day you need

God will use anything to meet his

children at the level of their faith

he’ll use anything okay so I want you to

know that your faith in God is first go

to Hebrews 11:1 this is a familiar

passage to everybody but but I’m about

to hope to give some revelation some

revealed truth in it right now um it

says now faith is the substance of

things hoped for the evidence of things

not seen

okay now that just what happened is how

I hear it every time I say now faith is

the substance of things to–for my momma

said uh-huh

it’s the evidence of things not seen and

what happens is that’s what it becomes

in our mind is a cliche if we can’t it

become something that we’ve heard and we

realize but it’s become powerless over

time because we don’t really know what

it means so I’m gonna take those two

things and show you what faith is

point number two we have point number

one with faith and God comes first

point number two faith is a result of

hope it says now faith is the substance

it’s a matter it’s a thing that comes

from you hoping for something my

question is what are you hoping for what

are you desiring what are you

anticipating in this year the sad thing

about it is most of us have stopped

hoping for God to do something we’ll

take whatever you got God just let us

get through the year and he’s saying

once you realize your faith in God is

solidified now start hoping for

something I hope that your house gets

paid off this year for some of y’all

when I said that even though I’m only in

the second year of debt fine take the 30

years that that don’t bother God but he

has access for you to get something

different see he is asking us to start

hoping for things today prophetically

I’m taking the limit off of your hope I

believe by the spirit that you’re gonna

begin to see things in your dreams

you’re gonna begin to see things that

you desire and you’re going to begin to

everybody say hope if you don’t hope for

the business to be successful if you

don’t hope for multiple locations

if you don’t hope no one had happened

yet but that will stop me from hoping

but some of us are so feel fearful and

we’re fear I’m fearful of failure and

we’re so concerned about what people

think of us that it will cut us from

hoping and God says your hope and your

faith is a product of your hope the

reason you ain’t got more faith because

you ain’t hoping for nothing

that’s what the scripture says faith is

the substance the byproduct of things

that you’re hoping for God why is my

face so low cuz you’re not hoping for

anything and I release you to begin to

desire I release you to begin to hope

for things well what if it doesn’t

happen what if it does well what if it

does what if it doesn’t manifested the

way I want it to what if it does

manifest the way you exactly you want

what you wanted to listen my thing is in

God my hope is in him that’s what the

word tells us that we put our hope in

God and so once we do that we can begin

to hope for other things we can hope

that our attitudes change I’ve been this

way for 15 years but you can hope to

change it and this is what I want to let

everybody know is that your faith then

begins to increase because it’s the

byproduct of you hoping for something

look at first Peter 1:3 says praise be

to God our Father and our Lord Jesus

Christ in his great mercy he has given

us a new birth into a Living Hope God

wants your hope living again I literally

see you know when somebody’s dead and

then they bring the ambulance and they

rub the things together and they say

clear that’s what God is doing to some

of your hope this morning he’s waking it

up hope for the things that seem

impossible hope for the things that are

out of your reach think big

everybody say think big stop thinking

small that’s why when I talk about this

church I’m hoping that the doors built

off of this place with people look at ya

I’m on ya I don’t care cuz there’s a

visionary of this house God gave me

faith in hope to believe yourself I

believe I am come fully convinced that

this trucks will have doubled by this

time next year

thank you for the four people of faith

here but this is the great thing about

faith and hope that all of that can work

just on my hope in my face

I don’t need your agreement I’ve got

enough to believe that God can do what

he said he would do because he said it

to me and I faith to believe it stop

looking for agreement and look for faith

I want somebody to see that your hope

will produce faith in your life look at

Romans 8:24 25 it says we are given this

hope when we were saved you got it when

you got saved you got a Living Hope when

you got saved now watch a doc this is

NLT version it says if we already have

something we don’t need to hope for it

how many y’all in the car that you

driving to me like I hope for this car

that I’m driving you’re always hoping

for the new year the better mileage is

the bet you understand what I’m saying

look the word knows everything it says

but if we look forward to something we

don’t yet have it gives us criteria of

how we hope we wait patiently and

confidently see these are two things

that really become the the testing of

our faith either we wait patiently but

we started getting doubtful or we wait

confidently and we want it to happen

right now and God says I’m gonna give

you two things that go and kind of work

against each other but they’re gonna

work for your good I need you to wait

patiently so that means it may take some

time but I need you to be confident the

whole time you wait that’s why your hope

is so important last one that I love

Romans 12:12 it says rejoicing in Hope

see member hope produces faith patient

and tribulation there gonna be some

trials but be patient in them and

continually steadfastly in prayer

that’s what we’re doing in this 21 days

of fasting and praying tomorrow I want

you to come hoping for something I don’t

want you to push away your plate and and

come for prayer on a wheel you better

have some specific hopes

I’m believing that my business will trip

I’m believing that my son or daughter

that far from God is coming back to

Christ I believe you better see some of

us we try to give God room so in case he

doesn’t do it how we think that he’s

still God Oh y’all know the prayers I’m

talking about God just changed my

situation and make it better however you

want to do that God says to come to his

throne of grace boldly I’m specific god

I need a twenty thousand dollar increase

in my income this year and I’m hoping

for it look some of y’all oh my god I

will never come to God like that you’ll

never have it never will happen I’m

trying to encourage you that God is not

intimidated by your prayers he’s not

intimidated by your plans he’s not

intimidated by the dreams he placed in

your heart when he told Noah build the

ark I bet know was like okay I’ll build

a little boat and he started seeing the

supplies come and he started to say hold

on this plan is bigger than what I

thought he’d say yeah cuz you got to put

two of every animal on this month what

I’m thinking is way bigger than what

you’re thinking and what God is saying

to us today I need you to start thinking

big cuz then that’s when I get to come

in because I want to do exceedingly

abundantly above all you can ask or

think or even a man if you don’t take

the limits off of your thinking and of

your hoping you tap God and you just get

the bare minimum of what he’s giving you

in this Christian life okay so so we

know that faith is the result of our

hope 0.3 it says in that scripture it

says it’s the evidence of things not

seen

point number three faith is evidence of

my future faith is evidence of my future

can I break it down for you on faith

anytime you need evidence they ask for

evidence when you need proof

if you’re in a court case they say is

there any evidence that they’re saying

is there any proof that this is

happening this is the beautiful thing of

God about God that he gives us something

that we can obtain at any place in any

state in our life and we don’t have to

have education to do it we don’t have to

have a certain amount of money we don’t

have to be married into a certain family

we don’t have to have this status or

nots that we don’t have to have anything

all we have to do is believe and God

says that your faith is proof of things

that are not yet seen so when you get

faith you get proof that something is

happening in my future that’s not in my

hand I’m going to show you this again

when our faith to believe for that drum

said I saw it before I saw it okay it’s

it’s it’s the thing that I saw in the

spirit in my imagination and in my

thoughts before I ever laid hands on it

and what happened is because I had faith

in that moment it was proof to me not to

everybody it was proof to me and God me

and God knew that we had a transaction

on the way he knew that everything in

the cosmos was beginning to line up

around my faith and it was being

attracted to me because I have faith he

said that’s your receipt son let me give

you an example faith is like the receipt

for an online order

some of y’all shop online if you don’t

you need to okay I hoped for pair of

shoes I got in the atmosphere where I

could find them I put my faith in works

together and purchase them and I get

faith as a receipt it’s not yet in my

hand but I know it’s on the way that’s

what your faith does for you it proves

you know what I don’t see this situation

changing but I have faith and so that’s

proof that my future is there

something what I see right now I want

everybody to understand that as you walk

in your faith if you increase your faith

it gives you hope for the future your

hope is encouraged

your future is encouraged that’s how you

can walk through a situation right now

and still be smiling cuz I know where my

faith is it’s not in what I’m seeing

it’s not in what I’ve experienced saying

what I know I’ve already purchased by

this faith and it’s coming to pass for

me fourth point faith pleases God

Hebrews 11:6 it says but without faith

it is impossible to please him for he

who comes to God must believe that he is

and that he is a rewarder of those who

diligently seek Him do you even think

that he’ll reward you if you’ll seek him

that’s the faith that has to come from

this and you say it’s impossible to

please God yeah why cuz faith is in his

DNA it is a core characteristic of who

God is and so that’s why it has to be a

core characteristic of who we are

Hebrews 11:3 it says by faith we

understand that the worlds were framed

he made everything by faith and it was

by the Word of God so that things which

are seen were not made of things which

are visible I want you to understand how

big faith is to God it’s the whole thing

Galatians 2:20 some of you know this I’m

just giving you scriptures to build your

faith it says I’ve been crucified with

Christ it’s no longer I who live but

Christ in me that lives and the life

which I now live in the flesh I live by

faith in the Son of God who loved me and

gave himself for me Ephesians 6 16 it

says above all taking the shield of

faith with which you will be able to

quench all the fiery darts of the wicked

one 1st Timothy 4:12 one of my favorite

ones and this is for all the young

people in the house it said let no one

despise your youth but be an example to

all believers in Word and conduct in

love and spirit in faith and impurity

those are the areas that the enemy

attacks our generation the most I want

you to look at those

he makes sure that we talking crazy he

makes sure that our conduct is is iffy

he makes sure that we love people

conditionally he makes sure that our

spirit men is dead he makes sure that

our faith is low and that our purity is

non-existent it’s time to reverse that

faith is important everybody gets that

now and forced to expect something we

have to have faith so how do I increase

my faith Pastor Mike I’m glad you asked

my fifth point faith grows by the word

what happened to you in this place today

is your faith group what happens to you

when you get in your Bible tonight and

tomorrow on this fast your face is gonna

grow what happens when you go to our

podcast and listen to the messages or

you listen to other preachers and other

things your faith begins to grow by the

word Romans 10:17 it says so then faith

this is another formula faith comes by

hearing and hearing by the Word of God

Church it’s a big topic but it’s a very

simple answer

read your Bible be ible yes that’s the

books for me stand up on the Word of God

to be ible if we looked at your life do

you do it is that’s what’s actually

happening is it I stand up on the Word

of God you only can stand on something

if it’s a foundation in your life you

got to read the Bible some of y’all are

leaders and don’t read the Bible you got

enough skirt I got enough scripture you

better get in that word again it’s life

it’s Revelation well I used to but in my

schedule I’m busy now make time do you

know I took all that I timed myself on

all the time I spent scrolling in a day

and it was over three hours all the time

I spent texting scrolling up Facebook

and Instagram it it’s a test yourself

see how much time you’re looking at

people say praise the Lord on the

Instagram me with my cousin all those

other thing your faith is not growing at

all does everybody understand and so

then when God tries to get you to

believe for something there’s nothing to

pull on

okay you got to read your word and can I

submit this to you that faith works in

Reverse too so faith comes by hearing

and it’s giving you the right answer to

the test you need to hear the word of

God but faith also comes by whatever you

hear watch so if you are hearing things

about lack poverty and and and and just

being broke your faith will increase in

those things if you’re hearing faith

come by hearing if you’re hearing things

about lust and perversion and you listen

to Chris Brown all day and you and Trey

Songz is the this is what you’re going

for Teddy Pendergrass whatever you want

to listen to something like that ain’t

me okay we’ll go orphan and fire on you

if you’re allowing those things to

continue to permeate in your mind faith

come by what are you listening to what

are you allowing into your gates

some of y’all have more faith in what

cookie and and lucious Lyon do on Empire

than you do on what the Word of God does

they’re building a kingdom that was made

up and he’s building a kingdom that’s

everlasting I’m not coming against you

for watching that but what I’m saying is

is your faith stronger and that than it

isn’t this some people had a connection

when they canceled one series one show

they canceled a show for the world

series and people’s like ah you cannot

come to church for a year and be okay

what’s your faith in see faith comes by

and it’s giving you the right answer

hearing the Word of God lasting faith is

priceless

I want you to hear me say this so

clearly that you have to start investing

in your faith and get a foundation of

faith that’s strong because it’s price

less I want you to look at this

scripture in 1st Peter chapter 1 verses

4 through 9 and it says and we have a

priceless inheritance inheritance that

is kept in heaven for you

pure and undefiled beyond the reach of

change in decay and through your faith

God is protecting you by his power until

you receive this salvation which is

ready to be revealed on the last day for

all to see verse 6 so be truly glad

there is a wonderful joy ahead even

though you must endure many trials for a

little while many trials for a little

while many trials for a little while

many trials for little I want to save

that that’s part of the plan

many trials for a little while some of

y’all should be encouraged and take joy

because it’s almost over it’s many

trials that 2015 some of us had a lot of

trials but it was many trials for a

little while I want everybody to see

that why these trials will show that

you’re don’t you love the Word of God so

this is happening to me on purpose this

is not just so that I can suffer and go

no it’s just trying to make sure that

your faith is genuine that when you lift

your hands in the presence of God and

say God you’re all I need

that’s not a cliche that’s what you

truly mean when it say father God I

don’t care who leaves me if I walk

through the valley you were there if I’m

on the mountaintop you were there

he’s just trying to make sure when you

say what you say what you post is

genuine so many trials for a little

while

does everybody get it it’s on purpose he

says so your face will be genuine

he said it’s being tested it’s fire

tests and purifies goals washes though

your faith is far more precious

than mere gold so when your faith

remains strong remains strong through

many trials it will bring you much

praise and glory and I see those are the

things that that we really want to see

they don’t mean bring much praise glory

and honor on the day when Jesus Christ

is revealed to the whole world time for

us to invest in our faith because it’s

priceless the effective expect it can’t

start in your life until you have a

foundation of faith next week

I’m gonna talk about what expectation

will do what it will bring what comes

I’m so excited to give you this but if

you don’t ask give me a fresh revelation

of having faith in you

then everything you built will be built

on sand and you’ll be frustrated

the thing that I’m finding about a lot

of Christians is they were taught wrong

and so they’ll do one step without the

other and they’ll be like what happened

but you can’t bake cake without mixing

the ingredients if you just put the

ingredients in a pan and put it in the

oven it’s not gonna come out like the

picture and what happens is many times

we miss steps and what’s happening then

we get frustrated we like forget it

but I’m trying to give you step by step

line upon line precept upon precept how

are you gonna get to the miracle part

first you have to have faith because

once you get faith then you get

expectation it’s going to produce

miracles in your life right now I want

you to put your Bibles down and I just

want everybody to close your eyes just

for a second and we’re going to do as we

do at the end of every service if you’re

watching online we want you to do this

as well

I want you to just close your eyes not

in a religious act but we just want to

ask the Holy Spirit what are you trying

to say to me in this mess

come on you ask him right now God what

are you trying to say to me and then

actually listen to you because I believe

God is trying to speak to each one of us

individually we know that there’s areas

in our life that we need more faith we

need our faith in God to be first we

need to know that when we get faith it

comes from our hope we need to know that

our faith tells us about our future that

faith pleases God and our faith is

priceless God today as a church we

desire for you to strengthen our faith

your word says that you’ll take us from

glory to glory and from faith to faith I

declare that every person will be able

to experience another level of your

faith the faith of God and this year

speak to us individually Lord even as we

start this fast thank you Father God

that we will begin to hope for some

things that no there’s nothing outside

of the scope of what you want to provide

for us but we have to believe you

without doubt God I break off fear to

believe you God and I thank you Father

that we will walk in faith like never

before we walk by faith and not by sight

if you’re in this room right now and

you’ve never put your faith in Jesus

Christ you’ve never put your trust in

him today is your amazing opportunity to

do that I’m so excited because this was

the single greatest decision of my life

to say you know what I’m not gonna do it

myself I’m not gonna live this life

alone I’m gonna live this life in

constant relationship

with the one who sacrificed everything

for me that even though I didn’t

acknowledge it he died on the cross for

my sin for my mess ups for my mistakes

and now he wants to help me live but all

I have to do is put my faith in God and

receive it it’s grace like a flood

available for every person in this room

I don’t care how far you’ve messed up I

don’t care how many mistakes you’ve made

I don’t care how much stuff you’ve been

doing behind closed doors God’s saying

I’m available I’m here and I’m ready to

help you off this out but you have to

receive it today if you’re in this place

and you want to make the greatest

decision of your life you want to make

Jesus Christ your personal Lord and

Savior I want you to pray this prayer in

your heart with me according to Romans

10:9 it just tells us that if you

believe in your heart that Jesus Christ

is Lord and you confess with your mouth

then you’re safe it’s two easy steps and

if that’s you I want you to pray this

prayer in your heart with me I just want

you to say God I need you I need you to

come and change my life I believe you

sent your son Jesus to die for me

today I asked you to be Lord of my life

come on if you pray that in your heart

God knows I don’t have to know but he

knows he searches the heart he knows

mean that with your heart say I renounce

sin and I make you Lord of my life

change me renew me transform me I’m

yours from this day forward we pray you

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