Cutting may be painful, but being cut by God is a promise of more fruit in your life. In this compelling message, Pastor Mike reveals the transformative power of God’s cutting process. Drawing from Matthew 7:18-20 and John 15:1-3, he unpacks how God’s cutting eliminates what isn’t producing and expands what is. We pray this message encourages you to embrace surrender and trust in God’s plan for growth and transformation, knowing that His cuts are ultimately for your good and His glory. Scripture References: Matthew 7:18-20 NKJV John 15:1-3 NLT Hebrews 11:6-11 AMP Proverbs 27:6 AMP Matthew 27:50-52 NLT John 15:5 NLT 02:21 – The proof is in the fruit 06:15 – Matthew chapter 7 verses 18 through 20 NKJV 07:07 – I’m not trying to prove them wrong. I’m trying to produce God right 16:37 – John chapter 15 verses 1 through 3 NLT 20:21 – You’re getting cut either way 22:50 – Being cut by God is a promise of more fruit 27:40 – A cut gives you the edge 32:30 – Hebrews chapter 12 verses 6 through11 AMP 35:16 – What is the CUT of God? 1. Correcting 41:24 – Proverbs chapter 27 verse 6 AMP 41:53 – What is the CUT of God? 2. Unveiling 42:50 – Matthew chapter 27 verses 50 through 52 NLT 45:49 – What is the CUT of God? 3. Testing 46:57 – Proverbs chapter 3 verses 5 & 6 NLT 50:33 – Don’t focus on the pain of the cut but on the promise of the cut 52:39 – How do you embrace the cut? Surrender 52:29 – John chapter 15 verse 5 NLT Join Transformation Church for our live Sunday experience. Plug into community, engage in live worship with Transformation Worship, & hear a powerful word from God. ABOUT US We Exist to REPRESENT God to the lost & found for Transformation in Christ. This is the vision of Transformation Church, led by Pastor Michael Todd and based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. NEXT STEPS Have you made the decision to follow Jesus? Fill out the form below so we can help you on your journey toward Transformation in Christ: http://transformchurch.us/saved
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hi my name is Amberly and I have the
privilege of serving as one of our
executive pastors here at Transformation
Church we just want to say thank you so
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jump into this amazing
message welcome to Transformation Church
where we believe in worshiping God and
I’ve never actually um started a ser
without my suit jacket and um because of
the worship that just went forth I had
to take that mug off it was making me
look crazy my collar was up cuz I was
praising so hard and that was a
distraction in the spirit and the
natural looked at myself on the screen I
said oh no like take it
off um welcome to week four of a series
we’re calling somebody say fresh
fruit and um at Transformation Church we
believe that this year God has given us
a prophetic word and the word is
fruit that out of our lives out of our
marriages out of our money out of our
businesses out of our thought processes
there needs to be what is the word
fruit many of us have not seen fruit in
our lives in
decades it’s been the same cycle but I
believe by the power of the Holy Spirit
and the Revelation through teaching and
and and the spirit of God that is in
this place and your desire to continue
to hunger and thirst after those things
that God has saying I believe this year
is going to be a turnaround year for
many of us now you don’t have to believe
that but those who
do there’s something that happens to you
the Bible always tells us according to
your
faith and you might as well you have
nothing to lose by actually believing
God and so today in the two minutes that
I have to preach this word to
you um I I’m going to try to do
something that that leaves a mark in
your head that will never ever leave you
ever
again the the name of this series is
fresh fruit but there’s a tagline that
we have not emphasized and today I felt
by the Holy Spirit I was supposed to
emphasize it to you the the name of this
entire series is fresh fruit the proof
is in the
fruit write that down the
proof is in the
fruit and and I need to say this to
Believers now if you’re not a Believer
yet I love you I’m going talk to you in
just a second just hold on you can
listen into this private conversation
that I’m about to have with people who
have confessed Jesus Christ as their
lord and savior don’t care if you smoke
don’t care if you had sex last night
it’s all good I’m just glad that you’re
here I know other Christian people won’t
tell you that but your boy I’m with you
why cuz I was there before but hold on
let me have a conversation with my
[Applause]
family um for
believers you talk too
much
you talk about what you going to do talk
about the bible plan you going to finish
talk about the weight you going to
lose talk about being vegan talk about
being a virgin talk
about but may I submit to you that you
could save a lot of
words by just actually being the
proof of what you desire to do
the proof is in the
fruit cuz nobody can argue with
fruit they can they can act like it
ain’t there but they got to step over it
to move
on and there are too many Believers that
are out here with no
fruit so we have to talk about
everything that we’re going to do and
hypothesize and then because we’re not
producing fruit we criticize
anybody that is cuz it ain’t the type of
fruit that I would you ain’t got nothing
to show for everything that God told you
but you have a lot to
say
okay and I need to free the church that
wants to produce everybody say more
fruit more fruit from the chains of
trying to prove
yourself
there are too many people that are under
the sound of my voice with Jesus Christ
on the inside of them that are trying to
still prove
things you dressed a certain way
today God real
quiet some somebody’s like hold on what
is he going to say I’ll leave it alone
just so y’all hear what I’m saying to
you many of us are doing things trying
to prove things to people who won’t even
see
it you missed it you’re doing things
today in real life trying to prove
things to people some of them that are
in the
grave still trying to prove to your mama
that you’re worth it still trying to
prove to that coach that you can cut it
trying to prove to that boss who
wouldn’t give you a promotion that
you’re worth it and what I came to free
you from today is that monkey that that
gorilla that’s been on your back
listen the need to prove things comes
from the inward doubt of producing
things so when you don’t believe you can
actually produce it cuz you did what you
said you was going to do you start
trying to prove that I am enough that I
can make it happen you don’t believe in
me watch this and what ends up happening
is the enemy distorts the motivation of
your
change did you hear what I just said
many of you are doing the right thing
with the the wrong motivation cuz the
enemy creeped in at the point of your
insecurity and started
flipping your motivation so that you
think you’re getting the right results
but it has a bad
root oh
my Matthew
718 a good tree cannot bear bad fruit
did you hear what the word said a good
tree cannot bear bad fruit but at the
same token a bad tree cannot bear good
fruit every tree that does not bear good
fruit is cut down and thrown into the
fire therefore by their
fruits you will know
them everybody gets exposed by their
[Applause]
fruit did you hear what I just said
so this is the thing I want everybody to
switch that has freed me in this new
season of being fresh somebody say
fresh I’m not trying to prove them wrong
I’m trying to produce God
right I’m going say it one more time I
am no longer waking up going to work
dressing to prove them wrong I’m trying
to produce God
right and if you wake up every morning
trying to prove them
wrong you need to
repent I know it actually made you go to
the gym because they said I’d never ever
be able to do it and I’mma show them
I’mma get this I’mma get this and I’mma
Be this and I’mma I promise you but
what’s happening is when you reach it
then where does your motivation come
from what happens when you attain the
thing that was motivated by something
negative today I want you to everybody
say
repent if there’s any area of your life
that you’ve been doing I’mma prove them
wrong repent what does it
mean I’mma produce God
right did y’all just see how easy that
is
see what every Christian Life should
look like where that backpack at um uh
does anybody got that backpack pass it
to me what the Christian Life should
look like is US walking
around how y’all doing Turn the Lights
up I’m at the
gym hey
Tammy what’s up brother you good what’s
your name man Alan Allan nice to meet
you bro what’s that baby that baby like
orange juice
that baby got a chain on that baby need
a orange look baby two days old with a
chain black people here we
go you want an orange thank where y’all
go to school nowhere nowhere you look
young you but you you you you’re
blessed what’s up B here you go what’s
up fam you good it’s good to see you you
want fruit your daddy get he want the
fruit dad
I give you another one what’s up Vic you
be telling me to eat fruit all the time
come on it’s my trainer right here take
all this
fruit what’s up big
daddy you should be able to see the
impact of my
life not by where I tell you I’ve
been oh it’s dark on the camera it
doesn’t matter where I’m at you can see
my
fruit
oh you want some he said over here over
here do you see what
happens when you start to produce fruit
you become
desirable I haven’t stopped to watch
anybody eat the
fruit I just produce it and drop it
off at the gym at the job when I
wherever I go my life should be
producing fruit fruit the saddest part
about this moment right now are there
are thousands of people around me that
desire the fruit but the bag is
empty so until I flipped it over nobody
did even knew that I still didn’t have
any
fruit and this is the season where God’s
exposing
people he’s turning the bags
over seeing that marriage look good on
Instagram no
fruit that business they act like they
drive a Lamborghini they in so much debt
no
fruit
no
fruit so what happens when the church
tells the world come and see our
Jesus no
fruit come and meet the that changed my
life didn’t he change your life 15 years
ago yes what has happened since then
nothing I just carry around my fruit
sack I judge other people for not
bearing
fruit your fruit should be riper than
that man of
God where have you dropped off any
fruit
preaching Pastor I
know from now on I’m not going to try to
prove anybody wrong I’m going to just
say this small phrase in my head look at
my
fruit people can say anything they want
about this church I’m not perfect I mess
up daily I’m still trying to figure out
how to be a pastor if anybody wants to
take my position you can have it this is
not sexy this is not fun this is not all
oh yes I want to be a pastor that was
never my
dream and I’m scared of people who wake
up like
that just want to get on the platform
and give God
[Applause]
okay and one thing that I will be able
to stand on when I stand before
God I’ll be able to say Lord I I messed
up several times I did the wrong thing
tons of times time but I always repented
and came back to you but God I I hope
that what I did there was some
fruit the reason I sleep at night when
comments is going
crazy is cuz I know that for every
comment there’s a
kiwi y’all missed it for every comment
there’s a
[Applause]
cantaloupe
this this is where the church has to
move to because if we’re going to be
effective on any level if we’re going to
reach those people who actually need
Jesus we’re not going to be able to
explain to everybody everything that’s
happening and why we did what we did and
all the this is the reason why and I’m
just telling you pastorally as a church
this is the reason why we’re doing
Ransom again now listen hold on before
you cheer before you cheer before you
cheer before for here we learned some
things last year we learned our platform
was way bigger than I thought we learned
that there were a lot of people who were
looking for
things to be able and I was like oh
shoot if this was at the P or the
Performing Arts Center they would love
it cuz it was on the wrong day at the
wrong venue and it was kind of
good now let’s be real they want me to
come out here and whip somebody and like
spray some ketchup and it’ be like Jesus
is
blood come on let’s be honest and they
will clown the church about it and we
were like they didn’t come to Christ
because of that no it wasn’t excellent
at all we saw the Hinds in the
guys so cuz there was it was like Ah
that’s too much and y’all done rewrote
Beyonce’s song and I I mean I know the
song and that wakes my spirits up and I
just
I get
you so do we stop doing it oh
no because there
was over 600 people got
saved but what but watch this but watch
but we’re not prideful to say yeah we
just going to do it the same no we’ve
been cutting on
it we’ve been submitting it we’ve been
looking at we done rewrote almost all
the songs we’ve we’ we’ve taken the
things that we said could we do this
better and what we’re going to do is
this year we’re going to perfect it in
house this is why it’s not going to be
live online for everybody to see and I
know all my transformation Nation
people’s like forget them Pastor Mike
forget them I’m in Georgia I can’t come
play R for me I got
[Applause]
you I love transformation Nation y’all
are ride or die but hear me
but but here what I’m saying is I have
enough wisdom to know that if we if we
get it right this year then maybe we can
take it on the
road see you miss it you miss it I don’t
quit on things that produce fruit just
because they weren’t
[Applause]
perfect and how many things has God made
fruitful that you just said never mind
they didn’t like how it
looked the first version the second
version the third version didn’t go over
how I
thought God’s saying go back and cut on
it somebody say cut on
it John 151 say cut on it again cut uhoh
I am the true grape vine and my father
is the gardener he cuts off every branch
of mine that does not produce fruit and
he prunes which also is another word for
cut he cuts the branches that do bear
fruit so that they will produce watch
this even more somebody say more fruit
say it like you believe it more fruit
say it like it’s going to happen in your
mind and your life more say it like your
finances is going to reflect it say it
like your family is going to change more
fruit when I look at my bank account
this week more
fruit I don’t care what it says when I
walk into my house what am I saying more
I might be at the brink of divorce but
I’m calling it by faith more
[Applause]
fruit that’s good but for more fruit
there’s a
formula we’ve been talking about fresh
fruit and fresh vision and a fresh
Church you want more fruit how many
people want more fruit in the
building get ready to scream for the
title of the sermon it’s going to take a
fresh
[Applause]
cut
W
oh wo
[Music]
woohoo hold on a a fresh cut
Pastor a
fresh cut you’re witnessing history
right now um after 10 years of pastoring
um I’ve never ever come on any platform
without a fresh cut
and today I am up here straight off of
vacation where I spent time a lot of
time in the sun Su n and with the Sun s
o n as you can see by my
complexion
um I I didn’t get a a fresh cut so I I
decided to use this as an illustration
of what God’s going to do in our lives
and I’m going to get a haircut on stage
in front of you something that is
usually done in private sir sir I’m
gonna do it openly in front of
you so that you can see the benefit of a
fresh cut um Aaron my Barbara and friend
is going to come y’all give it up for
Aaron real quick as he comes
now uh this is my dog and um he I’m
going to let him send but he is actually
terrified of what we’re about to
do because what I’m about to do is very
dangerous cuz the level of passion that
I preach
with and the level of wanting you to get
it um really affects
potentially the way that somebody um
could actually cut my hair and this is
not rehearsed or planned or practiced
this is about to be very
[Applause]
fresh but I want you to know from the
scripture watch this point write it down
I’mma preach this whole time while he’s
cutting me he got the brother how are
you feeling right now are you
feeling feeling you’re feeling great our
friendship is on the
line um write this down you’re getting
cut either
way you’re getting cut either way you
about to no I don’t no no no not this
black thing today is watermelon I don’t
want this use my
[Applause]
cake there we
go got to be on brand thank you
Jesus somebody say you’re getting cut it
either way cut
either this is God’s process cutting is
God’s process of eliminating what isn’t
producing
fruit and it’s also his way of expanding
what is producing
fruit so if you don’t Embrace God
cutting you you are not actually getting
the best out of what you
have yeah and one un cut is going to
cause you pain remember the scripture
says anybody who’s not producing fruit
he cuts them off and throws them
away but the people who are producing
fruit he cuts them so that they can have
more fruit what I found out is one cut
is full of pain and the other cut is
full of
promise what I’m trying to get everybody
in this room under the sound of my voice
to realize is God in 2024 when you yell
by faith more fruit in my marriage more
fruit in my finances more fruit in my
business more fruit in my family he says
let me grab my
[Music]
scissors are you ready to
be
cut the thing that really brought me a
lot of Peace cuz when I was asked that
by the Holy Spirit am I ready to get cut
my answer was
no cuz all my life cut has been
associated with something that is either
bad hurtful painful or or an accident
that could end
deadly don’t no don’t play with them
scissors since you’re
young no no no no no no no no no no
don’t use that
knife but God said to me he said Michael
being put cut by me is a promise of more
fruit he said so when I start to cut on
your life I’m promising you I’m planning
to use you
again see what I don’t know if anybody
ever played on a basketball team but but
I was one of those on a team that the
coach would always ride me harder than
he would ride anybody else and I was
like coach you don’t be telling them
that he said shut up and
run Co they the shot too he said I’m not
talking to
them
coach I got I was a crier when I got
angry like when I got really Ang do I
got any angry like when you get like
real the tears just start falling they
Thug tears believe that you better
believe that yes sir but you get so
overwhelmed it’s got to come out
somewhere
[Applause]
you
and one day the coach brought me to the
side he said Michael the
reason that I ride you so hard and I
correct you so hard and I talk to you so
hard is because I know that you actually
have potential to go where none of these
other people have potential to go so if
I don’t cut you
now you won’t be ready when it’s time
for the
competition
and I just came to tell
somebody that the church has been a bad
done a bad job in this last
season of emphasizing how comfortable
serving God would
be I need to say this to you like just
come to God and all your fears and all
your tears and he bottles them and he’s
going to coddle them and and we make you
feel like when you come to God then
somehow it gets
easy and I just I want to let you know
that our desire for
Comfort has made us despise his
cut I’mma say it one more time you think
if God tells you no you’re getting
punished instead of if God tells you no
he’s protecting
you you think if God doesn’t allow you
to get the position you prayed for that
somehow he hasn’t heard your cry but he
actually is answering the prayer you
didn’t know how to form in your Li with
your lips by not letting you get into a
position that you would be locked into
because he knows you’re a people pleaser
and if you got that position you
wouldn’t leave there for 15 years and
three years from now he’s going to open
up the actual Destiny step that you need
so he told you no now to lead you to the
place of
[Applause]
purpose but if you desire
Comfort at the expense of Desiring the
cut
not from anybody just regular I’m
talking about from God you will miss out
on what God has for you I wrote it down
like this because I just came back from
the beach and I wanted to I wanted to
give a praise report I know these we
don’t do testimony service anymore in
church but I want to give you praise rep
Point I’ve been to the beach a lot of
times and me and my wife did a little
withdrawal trip and I just needed to be
refreshed and I’m encouraging every
person to pick time where you actually
get refreshed I know a pastor doesn’t
usually tell you that but Jesus modeled
it or God modeled it in creation and he
literally took a day of Sabbath to be
able to recreate and so I’m just asking
you to do the same thing but that ain’t
my point while I was on the beach praise
report I felt more comfortable in swim
clothes than I ever have in my
life now some of y’all won’t Shout with
me but you weren’t with me when I was
275 I was so ready to take my shirt
off no no no I’m just serious I was like
what we wearing today baby I was getting
my bathing suits ready I wanted to color
coordinate I want you wearing pink today
I wear pink today I
was but what I what I realized is my
comfort on the beach came from the
cutting in the
gym your comfort comes from a place of
cutting you want comfort in your
marriage go get that cutting and
counseling you want cutting in you want
comfort in your finances how many people
would love for their finances to be more
comfortable come on okay y’all come
on cut the
budget everybody wants Comfort nobody
wants
cutting but the cut watch this gives you
the
edge and this haircut by the end of this
service by the faith and crazy Faith Of
God will be
sharp because what he’s doing to me
right now now she’s cutting me sir
they’re little micro Cuts over and over
and over and over and over
again but what he’s doing right now is
shaping
me into the
image of what he sees for me because I
can’t see it for
myself and most people want to cut
themselves and I’m not talking about in
a dangerous way because I know that
people have dealt with that lie of the
enemy that tells you that you’re better
not here and I come to rebuke that right
now and I said that you will live and
not
die I understand that life I understand
that depression and that despair but I
know there’s hope for
you what I’m telling you right now is
that most people want to get in the
mirror with the Shavers of life and try
to cut the areas of their life they
can’t see J has anybody ever had a bad
haircut before
absolutely now when you see a kid with a
about haircut it’s kind of expected most
of the time it’s like oh look at little
Jimmy god
dog oh his mama wanted to save $15 and
so she put a bowl around his head and
y’all remember them chili bowl cuts like
just and Jimmy walk out like bro what
happened to you my mama bro she
just
Jimmy don’t mess with Jimmy with the
chili bow he’ll fight
you and then she try to put a part in it
the part is the size of the Red Sea
splitting it’s
just but but with kids you understand it
the thing I cannot
get is grown
men that that really really won’t humble
thems
enough to let somebody else
cut they hair and I know you trying to
save money and I appreciate that but
your haircut makes you look
incompetent I’mma tell you why you don’t
have a
woman
no okay ladies back me up when you see a
dude in his head do not look like he
care you start
judging now I’m being very superficial
at this current moment but I want you to
see the point a bad haircut especially
one that somebody does to their self
comes from somebody who is not humble
enough to submit to the vision of
someone
else I have no idea what he’s doing to
my head I have no idea what guard he has
on I have no idea if he’s feeling fruity
and wants to cut Spider-Man in the back
of my head I have no
idea but I trust
him
I’ve sat in this chair so many times
I’ve sat at dining room tables he
learned how to cut hair cutting me and
my brothers in my my parents laundry
room so when I’m on this platform
getting my haircut in front of hundreds
of thousands of people I am calm because
I’ve been here
before I trust
him when it comes to your spiritual
life have you been with God long enough
that you will trust his
cut he’ll trust when you tell when he
tells you not that
friend I know that’ll be a come up for
your social media but they not for you
well God we love all the same things and
Lord if you just gave me Conn not
them well God I I I feel what you’re
saying but I’m still around these other
people so if you really want me not to
be around them then you will remove them
from my life he said no no I won’t I’ll
let you have what you
want go ahead have it I’ll just be here
when what I try to protect you
from actually really Cuts
you see the god that we serve is a
master
surgeon the Bible tells us that his
words can cut through bone and
Marrow and so today all I all I’m trying
to ask this church to do if you want
fresh fruit you need a fresh cut look at
Hebrews
12:6 for the Lord
disciplines and
corrects and
cuts Those whom he
loves God do you love
me yes I do sit still and let me cut
you have you ever thought about God
God’s love like that
cuz most of us want God’s love to be a
big
hug Comfort Me Lord cuddle me Lord hug
me
Jesus no come on and God says I love you
so much that I’m about to cut you stay
still stop
talking don’t
move this is going to hurt just a little
bit but I promise you I’ve been cut
worse than this and I went through every
cut that you would ever have to go
through so that you could know that with
me you’re going to make it out on the
other
side he said the Lord disciplines
corrects those those who he loves and he
prunes every son whom he receives or he
punishes every son who he receives and
welcomes to his heart verse 7 it says
You must watch this
submit to correction for the purpose of
discipline God is dealing with you as
one of his
sons for what son is there whom his
father does not
discipline now if you are exempt from
correction and without discipline in
which all of God’s children share then
you are IL an illegitimate
child and not a son at all moreover we
have had Earthly fathers who discipline
us and we submitted and respected them
for training us shall we not much more
willingly submit to the father of
spirits and live by learning from his
discipline for our Earthly fathers
disciplined us for only a short time as
seemed best to them but he disciplines
us for our good so that we may share his
Holiness for the time being no
discipline brings Joy but seems sad and
painful yet to those who have been
trained by it afterwards it yields the
peaceful
fruit of
righteousness right standing with God
and a lifestyle and attitude that sinks
seeks um Conformity to God’s Will and
purpose if you’re not submitting to the
cut you will not be able to produce more
fruit so Pastor Mike very
plainly what is the cut of God very
simple
cut correct
ing if you’re getting cut by God he’s
correcting you like Aaron is correcting
the
sweat that is coming oh dang all in my
mouth sometimes when God
is correcting
you it feels like dang could you could
you not do it a different
way has anybody God ever done something
you be like but this was the way you had
to do it
but but but but but here what we just
heard that when God’s correcting you
it’s because he loves
you I I want to bring back to every
person in this room the idea that God’s
correction is God’s
love so when God tells you no more
sleeping with
them Pastor you said that in church
you’re doing it at your house
when When God says stop spending money
on that
grand When God Says join the church well
God I was heard in my last’s church he
said I’m about to correct some
things but you have to submit to my
corrections watch this and this is the
big thing if God is not correcting you
be
concerned any area of my life where I’ll
be like every area of my life is good
and God ain’t got nothing else to do i’
be like
uh-oh either I’m not listening or he
stops
speaking and the church needs to be
awakened to the fact that as long as we
are in this Christian walk there will be
something that God is trying to get off
of
us okay so hear me and I I know a lot of
y’all used to be running around jumping
around and doing all the other stuff and
you’re like man this is different just
watching him sit there I am not going to
walk around all week looking
crazy because I wasn’t still
enough to be in the place that I needed
to be to get cut
on and the crazy thing about a
correcting cut many time God uses other
people to correct us and you would be
fine if it was God
Almighty the big man upstairs going to
correct me he know how to get my
attention and he sent you a
wife and he gave you kids you okay buddy
you you good right there do I need to do
I need to stop for a second cuz you know
you on the front part good good good
okay I’m going just take a second I’mma
pause for the calls
all
right oh hold on you can’t
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okay no no no go back go back to that go
back I’m just going they going to have
to
wait
now we saying wait on the
Lord and I told him the cutting area and
as soon as he started I
moved no no no no I’ll wait on you I’ll
wait on you I’ll wait on you I’ll wait
on you
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IIT
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this is how a lot of our Christian life
looks that God has you in a position
he’s trying to cut on you he’s trying to
do something and every time and then you
start doing stuff like this what if you
kind of
like like what if
no no no no what if you kind of like
turn it
on you know why God doesn’t turn on a
lot of the
blessings it’s cuz your hand is still on
it it’s it’s because you trying to
direct where it’s going he said this
will hurt you too much if I turn this on
right now if I turn on the favor if I
turn on the blessing if I turn it on I
need you to sit yes
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sir that’s so
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good and so as I sit
here I’m letting somebody else cut
me God doesn’t give me haircuts Aaron
does many times God does not speak to me
about my attitude Natalie does
y’all are missing it many times God
doesn’t directly speak to me about my
inconsistencies Bella Ava MJ and Gia
do and he’s using
people to correct you and you won’t
listen cuz they ain’t live this life
like I have I’m the bread winner of this
house grown man I’m you can’t teach you
can’t teach your old dog new
trips come on think of all of the
colloquialisms we say but Proverbs 27:6
says faithful are the wounds are the
cuts of a friend who corrects out of
love and
concerned but the kisses of an enemy are
deceitful because they serve his hidden
agenda some of y’all are being killed by
kisses and God’s saying you need to
desire for me to cut on you again cuz
when I cut you it means I love
you so the C and God cutting stands for
everybody say correcting the U stands
for watch this one
unveiling when I come to the barber
shop it’s one of the most vulnerable
positions all men
know when when somebody starts washing
and touching on your
head and and shampooing and cutting you
just start telling business and Ladies
we already know what y’all be doing in
there if they coloring don’t let be
getting a color and a and a a a layering
and all the other stuff that’s happening
y’all just be telling all your
business God said why would you tell a
person that’s cutting your hair all your
business and you won’t tell
me everything that’s going on I know it
anyway but you won’t bring it to me and
when God starts cutting on you he wants
there to be oh watch this an
unveiling the reason that I use this
word unveiling is because there there
was an unveiling that
happened through what Jesus did for all
of us in Matthew 27:50 it says then
Jesus shouted again and he released his
Spirit at that moment the curtain in the
sanctuary of the temple was torn into he
tore the veil from the top to the bottom
the Earth Shook and the Rocks split
apart when Jesus Christ went to the
Cross died for us rose again
what he did is he tore the veil between
man and
God what are you saying Pastor
Mike he said that there has to be no
separation between
us so if he did that work for the veil
or the cover or the separation to be
torn he said if you ever put anything up
between us again I’mma cut
it you put put success between me and
you I’mma cut
it put your family between me and you
I’m going to cut anything I’m telling
you this is why the Bible tells us he
said don’t make anything else an
idol don’t serve any other gods before
me it doesn’t say um any other gods
won’t be
there he said there’s other things that
you will
value but if they’re before me they come
between us I’m cutting
it he said I tore the veil once and I’ll
cut all the other
ones is there anything in your life that
has become a curtain between you and
God I can’t answer it for you but if God
starts cutting you he’s going to start
doing it first with correcting you and
the second thing he’s going to do is
start unveiling things do not be
surprise for the rest of 2024 when God
starts to pull the curtain back on stuff
Jesus
you sit next to people who you don’t
know who they really are and you have
two choices you either move the curtain
or you let him cut it and some of y’all
he’s been walking up with scissors
saying please just expose yourself
please just tell your wife the truth
please just tell your tell the company
you’ve been stealing just go to
the cuz when he cuts
it it’s going to expose whatever is back
there sir yes sir I’m telling you right
now that’s why Ministries and pastors
and different things are falling at a
rate that is like what in the world it’s
because God’s been telling you he does
it all the time he tries to deal with
people he loves in
private but if you won’t cut it if you
won’t remove the veil if you won’t take
this addiction and this habit and this
thing away that is between us he said
I’ll cut it
up until you have nothing but me so you
want God to begin to cut on you the C
stands for correcting the U stands for
unveiling last one what is the cut of
God it’s
testing when God begins to cut on you
he’s testing
you every time me and Aaron do this
every Sunday morning it’s a test of our
friendship cuz I’ll be preparing my
sermons and the reason he can do this is
because I’ve done this several times
before I’ve been excited about a point
and he’s got a razor on my ch I’m like
bro that is going to be a good point
right
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there and every time I do it the reason
that it was a reflex for
him is because he’s been tested in this
area and so have
I God says I’m going to cut
you but it’s not for you to be terrif
ified I’m just testing watch do you
really trust
me and Proverbs 356 says trust in the
Lord with all your heart do not depend
on your own understanding seek his will
in all you do and He will show you which
path to take the Holy Spirit has been
over and over he’s hey Michael I’m about
to cut you I’m about to expose some
things I’m about I’m about to I’m about
to correct you in a couple areas I’m
about to do this and this is all he says
to me do you trust
me and I’m coming to this body of
Believers today and I’m asking
you do you trust
God do you trust him with your life do
you trust him with your family do you
trust them watch this with your
purpose do you trust trust him
sometimes you got to shut
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up
yum
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and take
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over have your
way have your
way whatever you want to
do whatever you want to
do have way I’m not telling him what
area to work on
when he just went from my Edge up to my
mouth to the back of my head I could say
bro just do the
mouth then do the back then do the you
doing my eyebrows you you you
special I’m not telling because he sees
what I don’t
see and when you don’t trust God what
you’re saying is I see it better than
you see
it Pastor Mike why is this so important
cuz I just want you to realize that we
are going to produce more fruit this
year I’m going say it one more time we
are going to produce more fruit this
year
okay but that means there may be a fresh
cut that’s
okay
it’s fine to make people
wait while you get Cut in an area that’s
sensitive it’s fine for your family when
you going to have kids he’s cutting on
me good so
good well I thought you would be a
millionaire I thought I’d be able to
retire you should have picked a better
career
dad he waiting on me to hit the lottery
sh you need a second job
it’s it’s okay and when God gives you
Seasons where he’s not working on you it
doesn’t mean he’s not
finished don’t focus on the pain of the
cut but focus on the promise of the
cut at the end of every good haircut
there’s there’s um
alcohol now I don’t know if women go
through this I don’t think y’all go
through this do y’all go through this
this hot water okay no then white lady
is like alcohol what mimosas
what no no
no but but
when but when you’re getting a edge up
like
this there’s a bunch of many micro cuts
that are happening and there might be
some
blood it might cut me to the
point where it causes something that’s
inside of me to come out of me
and what happens with the barber is at
the end of the haircut he takes alcohol
and he
says get ready cuz every man
knows it’s going to be
spicy and he hits it and and if he’s a
good Barber he might blow on it might
have a fan or might have a something and
them gangster Barbers they just let it
Sizzle they just they just like
see
if your haircut is $25 or less they
going to let it Sizzle these days they
just throw it on there and laugh at
you yeah yeah do the whole thing bro go
for it
um but if
God allows the alcohol the
cleansing the
purifying of the cuts to burn a little
bit no that it’s so nothing gets
infected the reason why some of the
relationships have gone bad is because
you didn’t let him cleanse
them the reason why that business
partner didn’t work out is because you
didn’t let him cleanse
them so how do I embrace the cut one
word this is our takeaway
surrender this entire service I have had
to surrender to a a seat to receive the
cut that I
needed and most of us have not
surrendered I got too many people
watching me to
surrender I got too much potential to
surrender do you know what I could do
with all the things that God’s given me
and God’s saying surrender what’s
another word for surrender Pastor Mike
sit
down what’s another word for sit down
Pastor Mike stay still
what’s another word for stay still write
this one down
abide John 15:5 goes on and says yes I
am the True Vine and you are the
branches those who remain in me and I am
them will produce much fruit for apart
from me you can do nothing and another
translation it says says Those Who abide
in
me some of y’all have been moving too
much for God to cut where he needs to
and it not kill
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you and God saying would you just stay
still would you just plant in a church
would you just actually continue to go
to the be group would you actually
submit to counseling would you actually
do would you actually just stay still in
a place long enough so I can do this
surgery on you and some of y’all like
what is he doing right
now this is what in the barber World
they call
enhancements see when you get a master
Barbara and they can see what you don’t
see they can fill in the holes in the
gaps that’s good the areas y’all be like
dang Pastor Mike beard be so nice that
ain’t me that’s the grace of
God hear what I’m saying to you it
presents me in a way that my own effort
could not
present it gives me the ability to be
able to have the appearance of what’s
not really mine it kind of sounds like
salvation it kind of sounds like any man
that be in Christ he is a new creation
so when the debt comes up for all the
sin that I made I get the enhancement of
Jesus Christ being the one that stands
in front of me and fills in every Gap
every hole every area that my hair could
not grow every area that my life could
not produce he does not look at
me but he looks at
Jesus and so for every patchy place of
my
life I get the enhancement of the Holy
Spirit I’ll preach this thing right
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now and some of you like that’s fake
that’s
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favor hey and every woman judging me
shut up dyeing your hair and dyeing your
roots don’t do me oh I don’t do that you
wear wigs okay whatever no I’m
just you got your clip-ins and oh come
on I know white ladies clip-ins I know I
know come
on all of us at some time need favor we
don’t
deserve need somebody to cover us when
we don’t actually have the ability to do
it
ourselves what is it going to take for
us to surrender
courage today I want to pray for
everybody to have courage now listen
everybody that’s under the sound of my
voice right now I know some of y’all are
saying Pastor Mike if God’s gonna cut me
can he just do it in the areas
that you know what I’m saying that you
know aren’t that
serious can he just do it in the areas
you know what I’m saying like like that
that seem comfortable some of these
areas I’ve been growing too long hey
Maxwell come here real
quick I put on Instagram earlier this
week I said does anybody want to cut
their dreads
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off what’s up dog good man you good yes
sir how long you been growing them
dreads 6 years 6
years six years of
consistency of growing
something that God may
ask are you okay with letting that
go now now this is how people know
you this is this is your style this is
your swag this is your watch this
identity when people describe you know
the tall handsome dude with the
dreads what if God wants to cut an area
that people describe you by
now are you willing to not be who you’ve
been to become who God’s created you to
be oo that’s good preaching right there
and most of you are so committed to the
identity of the Season you’ve been
in that you will not embrace the cut so
you can have a brand new
identity hey
Aaron I’mma I’m going give I’m going
give my
man this
chair cuz sometimes you’re going to need
courage and you’re going to need people
around
you
did you okay this with your wife okay
okay cuz I don’t need Mary mad at me
Mary you
good put it on it you got some scissors
we need some scissors get give me some
sciss you got some shears somebody give
me some scissors you got the shears you
got the thing they didn’t bring it in
the pack Scott took them Scott go get
some
scissors we don’t mind waiting
no
what what I’m what I’m saying to you is
and sometimes that’s how God will do you
he’ll put you in the chair and he’ll be
like just wait on
me
what what like I got to just wait on
you in my hands this is
dangerous but in a master’s
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hands just just don’t do them all at the
same time what you I don’t let me I’ve
never done this before you can do this
what you what you think he he actually
said he wants it this you you
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cool 6
years a lot of
intentionality a lot of building your
life around something you a lot of
rubber bands
a lot of hot
summers and a lot of warm
Winters but this is what some people
would call
Freedom would you be willing to get cut
by God for him to place give me your
hand freedom in your hand
hear what I’m saying to
you somebody said he looks
goodes God’s not even finished with him
yet here here what I’m saying I know
this is a long analogy and we sat here
this whole time and I got a fresh cut
and he got a fresh cut will
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you will you let God cut areas of your
life that you have grown accustomed to
or will you make this the
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place that God’s done working on you
standing all over this building keep
going don’t leave my man like that just
keep going we you it can be after church
we just yeah keep that we ain’t going to
leave you like that and neither will
God if there’s an area of your life
watch this before everybody rushes out
please don’t miss this moment if there’s
an area of your life that you know that
you’re going to need courage to stay
still for God to do the cutting I need
you to lift both of your hands right now
okay we’re in the right building I’m
going to pray for courage for you today
and everybody under the sound of my
voice I believe that there is going to
be a
supernatural there’s going to be a
supernatural strength watch this to stay
still everybody talks about the strength
to fight but I’m talking about the
strength to stay still yes the strength
to to to make it through I’m talking
about the
strength to let God do what only he can
do and be still father I pray for every
person under the sound of my voice that
today as you begin to identify areas
that you want to correct them in unveil
things in and even test them in I thank
you that today as a church we will
Embrace The
Cutting because when you cut you cut
from
Love and today Father God you desire for
us to produce more fruit but God we
don’t get more fruit and fresh fruit
without a fresh
cut so father today we are saying we are
submitted to your
hand not the hand of our friends and our
family but God you are the one that can
actually cut us and it doesn’t kill us
you’re the one that can cut us and it
cultivates us
it brings us into more fruit but father
can we be honest we need courage
today for every person father who you
are placing on their heart an area that
they need to let you begin to do
surgery today Father
God would you give them the courage that
you gave Joshua be strong and
courageous would you give them the
courage you gave Abraham would you give
them the courage you gave Moses would
you give them the courage father you
gave Bishop Gary and Pastor Debbie would
you give us the courage father God that
you gave Daniel and the Lion’s then
would you give us the same courage that
Jesus had to go to the
cross that same spirit that was in him
and that raised him from the dead you
said and your word is in us so today we
believe that you have made us courageous
enough to embrace the
cut and when you do it we won’t run from
you and when you do it we won’t hide and
when we do it we won’t stand and curse
you we’ll say thank
you thank you for seeing me enough thank
you for caring enough thank you for
calling me son and daughter thank you
for loving me enough father to cut away
the things to prune me so that in the
next season I will produce much more
fruit
today I thank you that
fruit is going to be the proof of our
relationship with you
and our marriage and our families and
our businesses and the way we love and
the way we forgive and the way we get
angry father let there be
fruit cut what you got to
cut there’s a sweet presence in this
room because I found that any surgery
that you’ve ever been in they tell you
to stay
still there’s some surgeries that are so
deep and so important that they strap
you
down cuz your movement not the cut but
your movement could cause
you and I don’t know who this is for but
there’s some planting that needs to go
on in your life some of y’all need to
put down roots in places long enough for
God to do the
work some of you coming to church every
Sunday God is saying don’t miss for some
of you it’s getting in small groups for
some of you it’s going to counseling for
some of you you it’s getting in a a
place where you can actually be honest
about what you’re going in but I’m
hearing the Holy Spirit say get there
and stay
there I feel this so strong get there
and stay there some of y’all need to
move others of you need to stay you was
about to go somewhere and God said that
ain’t it you need to stay where I placed
you cuz this next season is about the
cutting stay
still and know
hold on ain’t that a
scripture be
still and know that God I don’t know
what you going to do but
know that I’m God I see it from a
different perspective your life is not
over I’m just transforming you in this
season well I’m supposed to be done with
college all my friends are done with I’m
not done with
you I’m cutting on you
and God today as a church we say I don’t
mind
waiting I don’t mind
Wai i t my
way on you
Lord do what you want to do I tone my
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way I don’t mind
way I turn my
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way on you Lord at Transformation Church
real quick I just want to let everybody
know we don’t we don’t
care that people are getting cut around
us this is not a big deal for us we’re
in the business of
transformation so when people aren’t
getting cut around us that’s the weird
thing we when when when our staff our
team this thing we getting cut on all
the time all the time why because we
want more fruit and I just want to let
you know that if you come in here and
every week you at the altar and every
week you’re in the right place cuz this
is the cutting
place let him do the work if you’re in
this room and you’ve never accepted
Jesus the one who is the
gardener today I want to give you the
opportunity to except I feel the
presence of God in this place I feel
that some people right now the thing
that you’ve been fighting God is about
to start doing a beautiful work this
time next year mark my
words the fruit because you allowed God
to do the
cutting is going to feed
Generations beyond what you didn’t even
think was
there if you’ve never accepted Jesus I
feel the presence of God so strong in
this place if you never accepted him in
your whole life today is your day invite
The Gardener into your your life I need
Transformation Church who knows what’s
about to happen I need you to start
praying cuz right now eternity is in the
balance and I want to be specific
there’s some of y’all who have known God
and accepted him in your heart but you
have not let him be Lord every time he
tries to cut on you you run away from
him and today is a day that you are
going to repent and rededicate your life
to him you hear me and you’re in this
place and you’ve been saying God I need
a sign here is your sign it’s watermelon
pink today and I am coming to tell you
that God said let me do what I want to
do in your life stop going after the
career that is not working I shut that
door on
purpose so that you would come back to
me if that’s you on the count of three I
want you to just lift your hand if
you’re watching online transformation
Nation there’s no distance in what’s
happening the holy spirit is there right
with you and he’s been drawing you all
week to this moment today is the day of
salvation if you are in this room or you
are watching online on the count of
three if you want to make Jesus Christ
your personal Lord and Savior the one
who kept cutting on me that took me from
a liar a manipulator somebody who was
addicted to pornography had all kinds of
bad things in my mind my heart and in my
actions I was a bad tree trying to
produce good fruit and God said let me
replant
you let me put some new seeds on the
inside of you and he changed me from the
inside out today is your day of
salvation young person hear me I don’t
care what Mom and Daddy are
doing God’s hand is on your life you
don’t have to be a hypocrite you don’t
have to live a double life you don’t
have to struggle financially with that
but how do you get that you find the one
who created
you and today I want to offer you Jesus
one you’re making the greatest decision
of your life two I’m proud of you but
more than that your eternity is secure
and your name is going to be written in
the Lamb’s Book of Life all over this
building and all over the world if you
want to accept Jesus three lift your
hand up all over this room I see you I
see you right here I see you I see you
oh come on Transformation Church I see
you man of God I see you I see you woman
of God and more than that God sees you
can we give God some praise in this
room why do we Rejoice why do we
celebrate cuz we
know what happens when Jesus comes in he
doesn’t make everything
perfect he makes everything
partnership so everything you would walk
with and have to carry a loone he says
let me take the heavy load of that cuz
my burden is easy and my yoke is light
can we pray all together Transformation
Church we’re a big family everybody
nobody prays alone lift your hands and
say God God thank you thank you for
sending Jesus just for me just for me
today today I admit I admit that I I am
a sinner I am a s and I Repent I repent
and turn to you and turn to you I
believe you lived I believe you you died
Di and rose again just for me just for
me change me CH renew me R me transform
me cut me cut me I’m yours I’m your in
Jesus name in Jesus name amen if you
just prayed that prayer Transformation
Church is turning up right
now we love you and we believe the best
of God for you come on let’s give God a
shout of Praise In This Place
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