When it comes to money, people often have two mindsets: poverty or prosperity. But what if there was another? God wants to give us His mindset when we think about our finances. He doesn’t mind us having money, but doesn’t want money to have us. He has a purpose for our money. Pastor Mike teaches us how we can have that mindset of God. He shows us that money is not the answer to our problems, but God is.
this series
is a series on stewardship and
generosity and it’s week one
and i’m telling you over the next five
weeks
i’m about to take you on a journey this
series is gonna be all in your business
this series is gonna seem like i had
surveillance on some of the thoughts
that you had because this series is
going to confront
your heart issues through your wallet
see most people don’t understand that
your finances your generosity your
giving even if you don’t have a lot or
even if you bawling
everything that you are doing right now
your money and your heart are attached
to each other
and what god wants you to do in this
life
is not be attached to a tool
he wants you to manage that tool
but not love it
and in this series i am the best person
to talk to you about this because i was
completely blinded when it came to money
cash guap give me some more uh term
cheese dinero
loot what is it
cheddar pesos come on give me a couple
type it in the uh chat what what did you
say the fatty what
bread
the tortilla
i don’t know i never heard of it but i
don’t say
the vegetables the lettuce
the chips
well i have these food analogies
the coins
the bag the benjamins
give me two more what we got
the moolah
the paper there it is
the bacon
never heard of the bacon before oh bring
it on the bag okay all right all right
all right
okay all right
so so so
whatever you call it
i’m gonna start with confession
money used to control me
it used to dictate my thoughts
my actions
my associations
as well as my self-worth
not gonna talk about you today
but i’m gonna talk about me
money
used to make me feel better about living
and it used to make me feel worse if i
didn’t have it
most of us get a small dopamine hit on
this every day that it’s payday
now don’t act fake with me today
you know the first and the 15th or
whenever you get paid
you just
breath still stinking
i still crusty
this day you don’t check instagram first
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today gonna be a good day
why do we why do we feel like that
when we get a tax return
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why does it feel like life got better
when we found an extra twenty dollars
it was your 20 to begin with you just
lost it
but when you found it it’s like oh shoot
god is blessing rain rain on me like
the truth is many of us
are attached
to this thing
that god called us to manage
steward over and watch this give away
abundantly
it’s very hard to give away what you’re
attached to
it’s hard to let go of what’s holding
you
and through this series i want to walk
us
in a very
cautious manner through a subject that
many churches fumble
the reason the church don’t like to talk
about this and i’m just putting all the
disclaimers out here first to let you
know that i’ve thought through
everything that we’re about to do and
the end of this is you living a blessed
life somebody say bless life
not a blessed wallet but a blessed life
he wants every area of your life to be
blessed
but there’s a connection
between your resources and your
relationship with god
and so
as we walk through this i’m going to do
it delicately but i want to give you a
few disclaimers everybody first off take
a deep breath in
let it out
and everybody say relax
there will be no second offerings
we’re not in a building campaign
you don’t have to look for the bait and
switch like what is he doing what is he
doing what is he doing
there’s no hundred dollar lines
there’s no prophetic prophecies that you
need to pay for there’s no oil from
israel that you just paid 333 dollars
for and jesus spit is in that let’s not
talk about spit
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all i’m saying
all i’m saying is there’s no gimmick
with this
my heart’s passion
is that god’s people
would form
a right relationship with resources
and there are too many people in god’s
house that have a wrong relationship
with resources and if you have a wrong
relationship with resources you can
never be able to be a conduit to give
those resources away and all of the
things that god wants us to do as the
kingdom of god takes us having resources
to be able to be a resource you cannot
be a resource without a source and you
cannot be a resource if you do not give
resources to other people and so we have
to get a biblical principled idea and
thought process around generosity and
stewardship or we’re stuck
and most of the church is stuck
when it comes to finances generosity and
stewardship
so i’m going to be so real with you
through this whole series
that it’s going to make you confront you
and when you confront you with god’s
help i’m praying that it will bring
everybody say transformation
so let me just tell you
my goal up front
i through this series along with god’s
help
want to break generational cycles of
poverty
and through this series we want to break
generational cycles of selfishness
uh-oh
both of them
are evil
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poverty is evil
selfishness is evil
and most of us
do not want either one of them but live
at one of those polls
and so i need us
to be able to get principles that help
us live a everybody say it with me one
more time bless life
so let me tell you where this came from
um i was a broke 25 year old and um i
went to a conference um
in dallas texas with pastor robert
morris and tim ross our now oversight
pastor he took me to this bookstore and
he bought me 300 worth of books cds dvds
and he basically
and he basically told me don’t call him
until after i read and listen to all of
this stuff
and i felt like it was kind of rude at
the moment
cause i wanted to be mentored and helped
but he wanted me to make an investment
and he said i’ve spent time with you
i’ve made an initial investment but
don’t talk to me again until you read
these things
a month went by
two months went by he was serious
he hit me up
and i said well maybe i need to read
these books in the middle of those books
was a book called the blessed life
as a 25 year old with debt
credit card problems
been around church and god all my life
seen money manipulated for as well as
seen people have millions of dollars and
seen people unhappy in both scenarios
i was trying to figure my way out
through this and i began to read this
book called the blessed life and these
principles jumped off at me in such a
way i started telling everybody about it
i even came back to transformation
church and at the time i was the
executive pastor um here at
transformation church and i told bishop
we got to do this series called the
blessed life he read the book he was
like this is good i said let’s do it
2014 this week as i was going through
the archives i found the dvd box set
of the blessed life that we did here
bishop at transformation church
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these dvds
contain some of the raggediest footage
in history
but as i was going through
week number five for some reason bishop
let me preach
and the title of the message it says
transformation church
sunday morning
michael todd
seed need and greed
and i looked at this and i said
god what were you saying i went and
bought a dvd player this week
let’s just say they’re not easy to find
when i bought a dvd player
and i put on this message that i began
to preach
and to listen to myself when i was broke
in credit card debt
trying
to tell a group of people who was
looking at me cross-eyed like what this
little boy got to say
and the faith that i stood with
to begin to declare that i would be
somebody that would live a blessed life
it inspired me and gave me a passion
to come to you today
and give you a word that will have the
potential to change the trajectory of
your life
as i watched myself knowing my situation
and seeing what god was saying to me
eight years ago to the month it was
march
2014
i stood on this same platform
and i preached the blessed life for the
first time
a year before i became the pastor and to
look at my life eight years later
and to know
that everything i’m going to say to you
in this series is not from an idea
it’s not from a theory
it’s not from something we’re
experimenting with the person that
you’re standing that is standing before
you have lived out these principles and
i have watched god
turn my life from something that was
broken dejected and
really really ugly to something that is
somebody shouted me blessed
i
live
a blessed
life
does that mean i don’t have problems no
does it mean there’s not suffering and
situations i wish would change no
but because i’ve honored god in the area
of finances stewardship and generosity
he has everybody say transformed
and what my prayer is for you i’m just
saying it up front is by the end of this
series if you would not be distracted
by things that feel better
but you would dial into this series
i promise you
the principles that we’re about to talk
about will transform your life are you
ready to receive right now
i said are you ready to receive right
now
all right
so let’s go
um
why don’t we talk about this
why do we do this and for all the people
again who are like oh god here we go
we’re about to talk about money during
this series we’re not asking for any
offerings additional to what people
already do in this church as a matter of
fact because of the generosity and the
people who have already bought into this
message during this series we’re giving
away one million dollars okay y’all not
shouting but i am because i know what
god has done
is this is million dollar march
y’all missed it
we’re giving away with no strings
attached a million dollars in one month
why are you saying that pastor mike
because i want you to know we’re doing
the opposite
of what people would think we would do
in this season why because we’re called
to represent god
i don’t want you have no distractions to
receiving this message
but the reason we do this is because
proverbs 11 24 tells us listen the world
of degeneres
gets larger and larger
but the world of the stingy
gets smaller
and smaller how big is your world
i want you to look around
and evaluate how much has god allowed
you to be a manager over
the key to expanding that is be more
generous
the key to that shrinking is be more
selfish and stingy
and many people because the paper is
priority or they’ve made a mountain of
money or they think cash is king or
they’re committed to the coin they do
not follow god’s principles and that’s
why in this thing we have to make the
kingdom of god priority everybody say
priority that’s why matthew 6 33 i’m
just giving you a couple of scriptures
but seek first
the kingdom of god and his righteousness
and all these things shall be added to
everything that we need resource wise
will be added if we seek first
the kingdom of god and god doesn’t have
a problem with paper
he just wants priority
and my question to you today is what
priority is god in your life
can i say it to you in a point
money should never be the focus it
should always be the fruit
if money is your focus
on social media every day i get up and i
see all these entrepreneurs and hustlers
and grinders and most of us follow them
they have made money the focus and not
money the fruit
if you make money the focus you will
start to make it your idol
and you will worship that thing
but for us as a church we said
we’re not focusing on money
we’re focusing on what god has called us
to focus on and what is that
transformation in christ can i say it
simpler we focus on people
and when you focus on people god always
provides for people who are focused on
other people
it is literally his mo if you would give
to somebody else if you would help when
they’re in the hospital if you would
meet their needs when they have a baby
if you put yourself in the position of
an extension of god’s hands and feet on
this earth he will always supply your
hands
but most people are trying to hoard or
be a reservoir when god wants you to be
a river somebody say flow
god wants you to have a flow from him to
others
but if money is the focus it can never
be the fruit
so today i’m challenging everybody i
feel this thing there is an authority
coming over me to i’m fighting
principalities right now
i’m fighting things
that that have been generational i can
feel it up here charles like i can feel
people’s mindsets like that don’t apply
to me he don’t know my situation god
does
and i’m telling you i’m standing flat
foot i ain’t never scared i promise you
i’ve dealt with this in my own life and
i’ve break broke this back of poverty
over this church and i’m coming for you
because you have to live a blessed life
for you to help your family for you to
be able to get them out of drug
addiction for you to be able to help
that community for you to be able to
reach back and get people that were just
like you you got to get these principles
i’m not gonna let no intimidation spirit
come up on me
i promise i’m ready to fight
i’m ready to fight for your family i’m
ready to fight for your freedom i’m
ready to fight for your financial
mindset i’m ready to fight
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because you deserve to live a blessed
life
but it comes from having the right
principles
and that’s why
in an age and in a culture
where most people have at least seven
thousand dollars of credit card debt a
hundred and ninety six thousand dollars
of mortgage twenty seven thousand
dollars of auto loan fifty six thousand
dollars of student loan debt somebody
was like i wish i had that little
don’t have one thousand dollars in
saving and are one check away from being
broke
that’s the society we live in
but deuteronomy 28
12 says you will lend to many nations
you will never need to borrow from them
culture
kingdom
culture finances
kingdom finances
culture generosity
kingdom generosity
what i’m saying to you right now is
there is always
going to be two kingdoms
wrestling for your allegiance
and many people when it comes to
finances we would rather listen to a
guru
who has no spiritual backing
but because they pull up in a
lamborghini
you think somehow they have the
knowledge to help you do what god’s
called you to do
and i’m saying just for this series can
we go back to the principles of god and
make them the priority in our life as we
look at our finances generosity and
stewardship can i get one big yes
okay so these are two words that you
gotta understand they’re not sexy but
they’re going to provide some clarity
for us as we move forward preparation
okay write that word down
preparation
that’s the first word i want you to talk
to yourself about
because the blessed life is not going to
come instantly
this is not a get rich quick scheme
or get me out of debt so i can do
something crazy
preparation
it took me eight years to get here
and we are such in an instant
gratification moment
that we would not invest now to see
freedom later
but bishop told me he said a moment
right here
of discipline can produce a life
of freedom
so i’m asking people
to get in your mind that this is time
for preparation the other word
stewardship
that’s managing something that’s not
yours
now we’re gonna have to deal with that
because a lot of y’all think it’s your
money
and your house
and your breath
give somebody else one
lord
you can’t give somebody else a breath
because god gave it to you
and when you understand that everything
that you have all good and perfect gifts
come from the lord when you understand
that you realize that you’re never an
owner you’re just a manager
everything i have it ain’t mine
it is under my management or under my
stewardship he is the owner i am the
manager say it with me
he is the owner i am the manager
so why would he ask you for something
are you acting like
he’s doing something to you
instead of for you
give to who
when mama you know i work
every diaper
father man
and god said
hold on
i asked you just to manage
this life
you know you got another life right
and it’s what you do in this life
that will
prepare you
and see what you get in the next life
because of how you stewarded right
here
what is the phrase of this year here is
so maybe here and how you handle
finances and generosity and money here
is more important to your purpose and
your destiny than anything you’re
thinking about in the future god’s
saying here is holy your your debt here
needs to be dealt with your mindset here
needs to be eradicated your ability to
give here needs to go up because you’ll
never do it there
if you don’t commit to it
here
oh my god okay write this in a point
preparation releases provision
the only way god releases provision is
if he sees preparation
but then watch the last part of this
procrastination
releases poverty
oh i’m about to get in your business
some of y’all have been waiting to do
what god already told you to do and
you’re so arrogant to think that you
have another week to do it
he told you to make the budget last year
and you
literally are so arrogant that you are
telling god i got time
i got time to make the business plan
i got time to go to the bank and open up
the account god said you
don’t know
who said you got time you don’t know
what i’m trying to do and how i’m trying
to do it and pro procrastination has led
to so much poverty
that the church is now needing
organizations that don’t even believe
what they believe to give them a handout
because they will not obey in the
seasons that god gives them wisdom of
what to do in a word of knowledge and
now you’ve been put in a compromising
position
do you keep a standard
or take the money
and i know of so many people and i’m not
just talking about churches i’m talking
about you you are the church
some of y’all have taken money that was
dirty money
you knew
that it was
i don’t know if i can say it like this
you knew that the means
that those resources came
were not in a way that honored god
but because you looked at your bank
account
and you looked at what you needed
and you didn’t trust in what god was
doing in your life you trusted in a
system that god uses to give us tools
you compromised
your integrity
for a little bit of cash
i’m praying for a church that raises up
that money can be thrown at your feet
and you still choose faith in god
for some of y’all
y’all are gone at a thousand dollars
you’ll slide down a poll you’ll you’ll
give up your own kid and i’m just
telling the truth and and this is the
truth everybody got a number
charles i don’t know if i can be this
real in this series
but some of y’all for 15 000
would give up your christianity
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a hundred thousand
would literally turn you out
you give up your family
by making a wrong decision in a bedroom
with somebody who offered you money
for a cool 250.
there is no amount of money
in this world
that is worth me losing my relationship
with god
and this is where i’m submitting to you
that even as we’re starting this series
today
i want you to confront you
ask yourself
how much money has become your god
oh i know it’s strong
it’s strong because at the end of the
day this is the stuff nobody talks to
you about do you know how private we are
about our money
some husbands and wives don’t y’all got
secret accounts y’all got money stashed
away in purses and brawls y’all don’t
even let each other y’all know it’s the
truth
y’all literally have all of these things
set up because if something goes wrong
and god doesn’t answer money will
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and today i came to confront that thing
in you
because what god wants us to do is
prepare
to get a fresh revelation
or a new truth in everything that god
has given us around money somebody say
more money
more problems
somebody say it again more money
more problems
does anybody remember when that song
came out
diddy
mace
kelly price
i was 11 years old when it came out
faith evans was the faith evans or kelly
christ
faith evans okay all right
faith god bless you
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11 years old
1997.
i literally
was
changing to channel 39 that was mtv
when i was young and channel 40 was
b-e-t and
i only watched four channels when i was
a kid disney
nickelodeon 33 and then i just jumped to
the extreme 39 was mtv and 40 was bet in
late nights oh god
i’m just telling them myself somebody
can maybe relate y’all don’t need an
after dark
y’all nasty
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that was my life
and um
i saw mason diddy in these like shiny
suits and and they kept saying the
moment we come across the my problem and
then he was just
like he did he don’t dance he just
diddies
and i was watching this video
and from that point on
that mantra more money more problems
became something that was stuck in my
head and it began to give me a theology
that was not based in the word of god
a lot of the things that we believe
don’t come from scriptures
they come from moments in our lives
where something seemed right and
repetitive
and it then becomes something that we
adopt as a truth so i’m literally
growing up and i’m thinking more money
more problems
then i go to college and start seeing
how much it costs to go to a community
college
and i was like this is a problem
which reinforced more money
more problems i got into church
and i saw people having to figure out
how to
teach people how to give and and
encourage them and they’re not going to
give and this is that and i saw dang
more money
more problems and then i became a pastor
and i had a decision to make
was i going to take a concept that was
given to me by culture
and bring it into kingdom work
or was i going to take it through the
filter of the word of god
and i searched the scriptures guess what
i found out
more money more problems is not biblical
that literally
is nowhere
in the bible
it was something i believed
because it was something i confessed
and i said and i saw other people say
and it became my gospel truth
okay
write this down because this will apply
to you in any area of life what is
repeated and regurgitated becomes gospel
to you even if it’s not the truth
what is repeated and regurgitated
there’s stuff your family has ideas
about that is the most backwards broke
up ideas in history
but it’s what you do and say now because
it was repeated and regurgitated
racism
this is how it happens
it’s repeated and regurgitated and it
becomes your truth
even though it’s not the truth
when it comes to this thing about
stewardship and generosity god’s saying
stop believing that more money means
more problems write it down like this
more money more problems is the
confession of watch this
the poverty gospel
come on
see everybody always talks about the
prosperity gospel and how it’s bad and
and and and it’s gotten a bad rap and
i’m going to talk about that because it
is
but that’s not the only wrong gospel
we’re suffering from
people are suffering not from the
prosperity gospel they’re suffering
dying and raising kids in the poverty
gospel
and today i need you to identify where
you are everybody say here
god only can bless you from where you’re
at so today i’m going to present a few
options to you and i need you to
identify am i here am i here or am i
here because wherever you are that’s
where we’re praying god’s going to
transform you from transform you from
but if you do not identify god will not
take you or heal what you do not reveal
and there are tons of people under my
voice right now that are suffering from
the poverty gospel
you think more money more problems
more money more responsibility
more money more taxes i got to pay
i want a tax return no you don’t
do you see how many people didn’t even
know
that’s right
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a tax return
means that you gave the government in
the year
more money
than you were supposed to
and they giving you your money back
you loaned it to them for free but if
you need a thousand dollars
they’re going to charge you interest
we’re so poverty minded though
we want four thousand dollars that tax
return so we can turn up and get a tv
put some more rims on the truck
take a vacation
more money more problems
that poverty gospel
is fueled
by dysfunction and let me help you
it is motivated and fueled by watch this
word
fear
when you live
in the poverty gospel
it is motivated and fueled
by everybody say fear
what you mean
i can’t get no more government
assistance
if i actually get a job
then i have to report my income
and that means i’m not gonna get this
house for three hundred dollars
you would rather i’m in somebody’s
business y’all see how quiet it is right
now you would rather not have the
freedom to live wherever you want put
those kids in whatever school district
you want be able to do and bless other
people you would rather have a 300
dollar
payment and brag about it you know i
only paid 300.
and water and cable included
you know what that is
it’s you’ve
sold your life out to the poverty gospel
you own seven people’s netflix account
but when you start a business you want
somebody to support your business
but you reap what you sow oh
and so you’ve been stealing because
they’re a big company what happens when
you become a big company do you want you
do you want one of you as a customer
that is somebody is convicted right now
somebody signing out right now like oh
my god my great uncle bill
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you know what that is
it’s the poverty gospel
and that poverty gospel put it on the
screen poverty gospel
it’s got you so messed up
it’s got you not believing god
it’s got you looking at situations
really thinking that more money means
more problems
and it’s rooted in the opposite of what
god wants us to have it’s rooted in
fear
i need a hookup on everything
i need a discount on everything
that’s a poverty
i don’t care what gas prices go to
god is the supplier of i know everybody
is tripping out right now good process
is five dollars i’ll always have enough
money to be able to pay for gas because
i am not rooted in a fear-based
poverty mentality
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will you come into church i can’t call
the church girl
you know that might go across town
i ain’t got gas for all that
yeah you’ll drive out of town for a
concert that’s going to lay you on your
back with somebody
uh oh
did i
i’m so sorry
i’m so sorry
the poverty gospel yeah yeah charles
come here
stand right here
i want everybody to see this
because what ends up happening with the
poverty gospel it’s passed to you by
your family
and they tell you to hold it and
something is like no i don’t want i
don’t want to live in that and they’d be
like no boy this is our family
ain’t like but i can’t apply for the
school even though we don’t have the
money who gonna pay for it
well you know what i’m saying like like
dad i think i can get a scholarship well
you better get a scholarship a job you
better take care of everything else and
you better and you start holding
these ideas and mindsets and then
because your earthly father told it to
you you think now your heavenly father
is saying struggle
you gonna start that ministry well god i
felt like you told me to start it yeah
yeah yeah so you got to earn your dues
go through what i went through
like hold on
if your earthly father knows how to give
good gifts
how much more does your father in heaven
but when we have built up the poverty
gospel so much in our head we willingly
receive the struggle
because we believe watch this it’s what
we deserve
so now
oh but you know because some people are
sitting here all bougie and hysteria
i’ve never been on welfare nothing’s
ever been cut off god is good to me
but the truth of the matter is let me
tell you what poverty gospel is
not spending money on the counseling you
need and buying a new louie bag
that’s poverty
that’s poverty mentality because you
would care what somebody thinks about
you than actually being whole let me
tell you something else that’s poverty
mentality never ever being able to pay
off your actual bills but walking around
stunning on people and judging them
because they don’t drive the car you
drive
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poverty
and there’s a bunch of people
holding on
to the poverty gospel
and it’s fueled by fear
you bootlegging everything
y’all remember
y’all remember napster and limewire and
come on some of y’all too young for that
y’all remember when literally the cd
would come out
you’d be like i ain’t paying for that
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it took me five years
to break poverty gospel
off of my mind
and some of y’all are living better than
you’ve ever lived and you crawl up in
the bed every night
with a poverty
mentality
you better shut that door
letting my air out this house
your kids are literally scared of you
you’re damaging them forever
based on seventeen dollars
of air con but where’d you get it from
it was said to you
and you held on
i’m not talking about being frivolous
but i’m i’m saying like
is it really worth damaging
the relationship with your legacy
over a couple of dollars
many of our actions
have been fueled
by the gospel
of poverty
i’m not going to ask you to raise your
hands but i need you to identify are you
here
because here
the bible said god has not given us
a spirit of
see fear
is the motivator it’s fear of running
out
it’s fear that i won’t have enough
this is very human it’s fear that i’ll
lose the job it’s fear the only reason
he’s holding on to this mentality so
long is because it’s fear hold it up
over your head charles
it’s a 20-pound
ball this is what many of you feel like
every day you go to work
it’s really work because you’re holding
a poverty mentality over you everywhere
you go
you literally can’t talk without it
you can’t love without it
you don’t meet nobody you won’t even
order the amount that you need to
actually have your business flourish you
always got to do just a little less just
in case god don’t come through he gave
you the plan
and showed you the vision
but you still are overlaying your
poverty gospel
over the plan of god
no no no keep your hands up baby
no no no no no no no no no no
you’re worshiping with the poverty
gospel
you’re serving with the poverty gospel
you’ll walk nine miles in the snow
instead of get valet because it doesn’t
make sense
to spend that money to keep your wife
safe she pregnant
why is your wife wife walking that far
to save ten dollars
but you’ll still buy a 120 pair 120 pair
of shoes
300 on the resale market
spot no baby keep your hands up
the reason he’s struggling
because he was never meant to carry this
weight
the poverty gospel
is too heavy
for god’s children
yet many of us
don’t just hold it
we pass it to our family members
let’s stay right there
there’s an example of this in matthew
chapter 25
verse 4 you struggling
are you just holding on to it now
so you went from holding it up to now
just holding on
i’m trying to show you
that the only thing that’s keeping him
up now
is the ideas of poverty
he went from being able to handle it
to now not even being able to stand up
unless he’s holding on to it so when he
hears the blessed life he like i don’t
want to talk about none of that because
i know what keeps me stable
i know i know what i can go through you
can talk about giving offering you can
talk about generosity but i know what’s
made me survive the last 15 years
that’s why i work and i grind and i
hustle
and you still have nothing at the end of
the month
and you still just barely getting by
somewhere along the way
we have let the fear
motivate us to the place where we
believe in the prospe
in the gospel of poverty
and there’s an example of this in
matthew chapter 25 just hang out right
there charles
y’all laughing at him this is how you
look for 15 years
you got more clothes than you know what
to do with
but more debt than you can handle
and still going to the mall this weekend
why would you even put yourself in that
position
people are offended
matthew 25 verse 14.
there was a man that god gave
a talent to to steward over
and he gave three men different things
according to their ability to handle it
one two five the one with two he doubled
it you can read it in matthew the one
with five he doubled it
but the one that god gave one
all he wanted from that man was to
double it but look what this man said in
matthew chapter 25
verse let’s go 25.
he said i
was
afraid
i would lose your money
i would fumble this opportunity
so i hid it in the earth i dug a hole
because of fear
i’m digging a hole because of fear
what did they call going into debt
i’m going into the hole
because of fear
whoever’s been living
in this idea
of poverty
and has been holding on to the gospel
that is rooted in fear
today
is your day
to be transformed
because more money more problems
is an idea
that god is not pleased with
and you’ve got to change your thinking
but oh shoot
there’s an extreme to this
abby come here
because one day
charles
came in with the poverty mentality but
you go on over here because the extreme
of the poverty mentality
is the prosperity gospel
and this
is where
most
people in church
have gotten the wrong idea that it’s
give and you’ll get
give and you’re getting god is not a
slot machine
this is not las vegas
he’s trying to teach you principles and
there are results from giving but it is
not the motivation of my giving and what
ends up happening is the pendulum swings
and now abby
is holding on to
the mp
not more money more problems
more money more pleasure
this
is how people think
about the prosperity gospel
if i can create some more pleasure put
it on the screen right here if i can
create some more pleasure
if i can have more possessions
the more things i have the more
significance i have the more square
footage i have the more designer i have
and people will manipulate to stay in
this place
so that they can live in the prosperity
gospel
and the truth of the matter is
god is not pleased with that either
take the middle one off the screen i i i
want them to see the dichotomy right
here between
the poverty
and the prosperity
both of them
god
is
done with
he’s sick of him
he’s sick of them dividing the kingdom
because we’re either on one of these
ends of the spectrum
and some of y’all think your lake house
is something
to be
enamored by
but you got a lake house and you escape
your children
who need you
and they’re developing habits right now
that you gave them oh
when you feel bad
go to the bar and drink as much as you
want
when you feel bad
go buy designer clothes
when you feel bad
go buy a new car and hold it abby
keep it over your head
and it doesn’t matter who you are and
where you are
if she has to hold that for any length
of time did you work out this week
she said you know i didn’t work out this
week
this is where people feel every day
and somebody like that’s like that is
not me but it’s somebody
and there’s ways that you can move from
here to here
and still be out of the will of god oh
god
watch this more money
more pleasure
is the confession of the prosperity
gospel and let me tell you what the
prosperity gospel is fueled by see the
poverty gospel is fueled by fear but the
prosperity gospel is fueled by futility
futility let me tell you what it means
pointless or useless
all the stuff we’re buying right now
pointless yeah
all the places we’re going useless
it’s not going to produce anything in
the long run for you and you’re steady
holding it up can i give you an example
of somebody who bought in to the
prosperity gospel real close to jesus
because this is where religious people
live
religious people judge other people and
tell them what they should be doing with
their money when they are actually the
ones that have not found the heart of
god around generosity and stewardship
keep it up addy stay right there baby
you’ve had three kids you’re strong
in john chapter 12 verse all she’s
thinking about right now
is how can i hold this up another day
the same way that there are many people
watching that how if one more bill comes
in
if
if that medical
actually comes back and collects
if i lose my job
what are we gonna do and god said i
never meant for you
to live in either one of these extremes
of pressure
i want you to find the gospel that will
transform your life and help you live a
blessed life i’m gonna go there in a
second but i gotta show people
who are holding this up are you okay
abby
she’s not okay
i need to show people who are living in
the process oh y’all didn’t know they’re
married
so now when they have children
these two are married
so now the conflicting views that they
came from
are what arlo
luna and jade have to wallow through
because in conversations about the house
it’s prosperity gospel
but when it comes to where the kids get
educated
it’s poverty gospel
and when it goes from
us buying designer clothes it goes to
the prosperity gospel but when it comes
to us getting the counseling we need
because i was touched at a young age and
nobody even talked about it it costs too
much for counseling and we swing back
here we are
and guess what happens store it to me
i’m your kid
i’m getting hit
and then mom takes it back and she talks
about how i can’t play on the basketball
team because it costs you money for too
much money for uniforms and then dad
takes it back and say we’re going on
vacation and but you can’t go on an
airplane we got to drive it’s too many
of y’all
you had all them kids
you can’t believe god that he would give
you the resources so you could spend
more time at the place instead of
driving two days to california
28 years old never been on a plane
yet got every jordan
wow
come on come on do you can you see how
confusing it would be yeah yeah
and how many hits that we take because
we’re raised in two cultures that are
not kingdom
and we believe in the poverty gospel
or the prosperity gospel
just keep holding it right there
john chapter 12
why wasn’t the perfume sold for 300
denarii and the money given to the poor
um pop quiz does anybody know who said
that
judas
one of jesus’s disciples
had a prosperity gospel mentality
he was over the money
but when mary came to pour oil on jesus
feet as his only burial
judas stands up religiously and says we
should have used that to help the poor
and the bible literally says in john 12
6 judas did not say this because he
cared about the poor
but because he was a thief
as the keeper of the money bag he used
to take from what was put into it
the poverty mentality and the poverty
gospel will make you judge what other
people do knowing that you’re a thief
they gave to what
they doing what they don’t even do
nothing right with them
it’s a
prosperity gospel and this is the
beautiful thing keep holding it up abby
i want you to keep holding it up
hold it up
the reason why this is a problem
and the reason why we have to identify
where we’re at
is because god continued to give judas a
chance to transform his heart
you don’t think jesus knew
that he was a thief
but he let him steward over the money
who’s giving out the positions in
jesus’s squad jesus he said judas
you take the money
and for two years let him steward over
what he knew he was stealing
why
because of his love for judas
he said i’m trying to give him an
opportunity
to change
and it was the very thing he sold jesus
out for
30 pieces
of silver
because he had the prosperity
gospel running through his veins
okay
so can i tell you why abby you gonna be
okay
she said
no
judas along with many of us i’m just i’m
just laying uh i’m trying to be calm in
this first one i’m trying to just give
you a little bit to just sit with
judas along with many of us have the
spirit of mammon
y’all just stay up here you gonna
struggle you you just i’ma hold this for
you for a second no i’m gonna give it to
your husband
and the reason i’m gonna give it to him
because honestly
what ends up happening is we start
picking up the characteristics
of the people we’re around
and there are people that god has
brought into your life that you need to
ex out of your life
because they have been giving you
lessons from a gospel that is not rooted
in the kingdom
okay i’m gonna just leave it right there
most of us have the spirit of mammon
and now i know this is something that’s
big you see how i’m teaching flat footed
because i just need you to learn today
that there are things that are going on
in you that you’ve never
had language for but today i want to
give you language to figure out why
you’ve been where you’ve been luke
chapter 16 verse 10 thank you lord
he who is faithful in what is least is
faithful also in much
and he who is unjust in what is least is
also unjust in in much this is
stewardship verse 11 therefore if you
have not been faithful in the
unrighteous mammon underline that
circlet that’s only used three times in
the bible and two of them are in this
verse who will commit to your trust’s
true riches
and if you have not been faithful in
what is another man’s who will give you
what is your own no servant
can serve two masters
for either he will hate the one
and love the other or else he will be
loyal to the one and despise the other
you cannot serve
god
and
mammon
now this is one of the only places in
the bible now i need you to hear me that
god directly compares himself to
something
because nothing else is even worth to be
compared to him
but he says you it’s either me or mammon
and most people
just translated money but it’s way
deeper than that so i’m going to take
you on a journey to figure out what
mammon actually is if god’s saying we
should not serve that okay
mammon
is an aramaic word for riches it was a
syrian god actually named mammon and it
came from the people in babylon babylon
comes from the tower of babel y’all
remember when the people were going to
use their own strength to build a tower
up to god and if you need to remember
babylon just think of babel on have you
ever met somebody who just babbles on
and just talks a whole bunch that’s how
we remember this okay
babel or babylon means confusion this
word together means sown in confusion
babylon is a group of people that felt
like they did not need god let me tell
you what the spirit of mammon is and
write this down the spirit of mammon is
a belief that we don’t need god if we
have riches
most people feel if i got money don’t
need god
i am god
i can pay for it
you have cancer we’ll get the best
treatment
wow
you left me it’s fine i’ll get somebody
else i’m flying to miami tonight
it’s if i have resources
i don’t need god it’s an arrogant and
prideful spirit that wants you to look
to other things than god
and write this down mammon promises
everything only god can deliver
mammon promises you identity
it promises you security and it promises
you significance and only god can give
those things it promises happiness and
only god can give those things it is a
lie when we believe in the spirit of
mammon if i have more money than people
would listen to me that’s a lie
if i have more money i would be more
loved that’s a lie
if i have more money i would be accepted
if i had more money they would approve
me
and i’m about to prove to you everybody
has dealt with the spirit of men
because all of us at some point
have said
either i need god to come through
or i need somebody to give me some money
and if you’ve ever said that
you have dealt with the spirit of man
but today by the power of the holy
spirit i believe that god is coming to
break the back of that spirit that has
been over your family over your
household and over your life god wants
you to live a blessed life god wants you
to be able to be a resource and do
things that nobody’s ever done but we
got to identify where we are
here
and the truth of the matter is
most of us
are hanging out at more money more
problems or
we’re hanging out at more money more
pleasure
but where does god want all of us to
actually be
see because just because you have
experienced prosperity
does not mean you’re in purpose
people who have money
it don’t mean they’re fulfilling god’s
plan for their life
and in our culture we have equated
success
with acceptance from god
oh you were built to do that no he
wasn’t
he was actually built to be a father
but now he’s replaced finances for
fathering
and i need everybody to know
the number of zeros in your account has
nothing to do with the purpose that god
has placed on your life
and the reason that this is so hard for
many of us to even accept is because
we’ve attached our identity
to money
and you don’t see your value outside of
your value
if i could tell you anything through
this series is you’re worth more than
anything you’ll ever make
i know you don’t believe it yet
because i didn’t believe it it took me
years
just to know
that that spirit of mammon that was all
over my house that poverty that was on
me oh did you not know that you could be
living in both of these worlds at the
same time yeah
i
lived in the prosperity gospel
and the poverty gospel i know when god
saw me coming all he saw was this
whoa
why did he see that is because i would
go from here in one instance and then i
would
be over here in another instance
struggling
hurt i think i just did something to my
back
i came in like a wrecking ball this is
what you look like
what is god saying
i don’t want you at either extreme
i don’t want you to believe
the prosperity gospel
or the poverty gospel
i want you to believe in the purpose
gospel
more money
more purpose
when i have more money
because my money is directed by god
more money means more what perfect
i can reach people
i can help people
i can rescue people
i can send family members into rehab
more money more perfect
i can go buy somebody else some shoes
that doesn’t have them
i could be able to be one to go into
north tulsa and ask the educators what
do you need instead of asking for a
government official to do what they’ll
never do because it doesn’t make dollars
and sense the body of christ is supposed
to raise up and be the answer to the
problem
more money save more purpose
say what you mean more money
more money
the sad truth is
most of us do not have purpose for our
resources
most of our money
is used for selfish reasons
so that’s why god stops flowing it to
you
why do you always just have enough
because you haven’t found the purpose
yet
more money
more purpose
more money more problems poverty gospel
more money more pleasure prosperity
gospel
more money more purpose
this
is purpose gospel
i spent my whole message trying to get
y’all to see something real simple
to identify where are you
is this based in fear
or is it based in futility
or the purpose gospel it’s based in
faith
i have faith that my god will supply
all of my needs
according to
so it’s not my pleasure
and it’s not
my poverty it’s his plan
when he has a plan for my life
all of my resources
have a purpose
proverbs 19 21 you can make plans
i love this because god is so gangster
in the scripture he’s like go ahead
you can make prosperity plans
and you can make poverty plans
because many are the plans of a man
but it’s god’s
purpose
that will prevail
and i’m asking everybody
to never think again more money more
problems that’s a poverty mentality
based in fear
and never again think more money more
pleasure because that is a gospel based
in futility it doesn’t mean nothing
when we think of more money
we think of more
purpose
okay
the purpose gospel is fueled by faith
and i’d say crazy faith
but this is the thing i need you to
understand
if your paper doesn’t have purpose it’s
pointless anyway
the paper without purpose is pointless
because the whole goal is god’s saying
this has to be held up
if it’s in poverty you hold it up
if it’s in prosperity you hold it up but
if it’s in the middle
this is what it looks like to live a
blessed life
none of this weight is on me
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because it’s right in the middle of the
will of god
the budget for this church
is over 20 million dollars
guess how i sleep at night
like a baby
why
because i’m not living in the prosperity
gospel
and i’m not living in the poverty gospel
you can’t get paid here do it for the
lord let him honor you i got to feed my
kids
i
have decided
that this church
will live in the purpose gospel
that as long as we’re doing the purpose
that god called this church for
there will always be watch this word
provision
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this is where provision is
i’m not holding this up i’m just
touching it
i’m not trying to make sure this stays
in place god has this in place
i don’t have to finagle and manipulate
and make away from myself and create a
new plan and allow somebody to see the
vision as long as i stay
in the place of purpose
god will be the god of everybody say
provision
this is what i want you to get in this
blessed life series
if you commit to the purpose of god for
your resources
he will always give you provision
let me say something that we started
saying oh you know this is crazy
i’m not even touching it no more
and it’s not damaging me
it’s associated with me yeah
it people look at me and be like dang
he got the mmp he got more money more
purpose
like like how did he write a book and
with new york times bestseller
purpose
i wrote a book out of my pain
and me and natalie’s problems
and tried to encourage people so they
wouldn’t go through the same thing that
we went through
i did something in purpose
and god provided provision
really well present mike how does that
work well the first thing that god
blessed
in this church i’m just giving you real
examples
was youtube
and when you get a lot of views on
youtube youtube pays you money
and one of the things that happened
one of my offerings to god before
anything happened
is god we were trying to figure out how
to tammy knows the whole story we were
trying to figure out okay how much money
goes to the church how much money goes
to you because it’s it’s content that
you made and all this other stuff and
the holy spirit said michael
give the first back to me
huh
don’t take one penny from youtube
every message you preach it goes back to
the church
now lord
i swung over to the
i swung over to the poverty because i
saw money in the moment
and i thought that’s the only way god
could provide for me
it’s already working
we might as well
get blessed from there that’s how i’m
gonna live the blessed life
and god said no
get in my purpose
okay so give give
all of it like not even a percentage i
can’t get ten percent you get ten
percent did you think i don’t you
i’m just being real y’all
he said give it all so the first
not one year later
god tells me to put out relationship
goals
in purpose
sells almost a million copies
now i don’t know who’s good at math
but i got paid more than two dollars a
book
where i was going to be getting cents on
the dollar in poverty
i got in purpose
and god sent provision
but i didn’t go ball out
and get to the prosperity gospel
i hired somebody to help me write my
second book
so i could stay in
so i wrote my second book
and god said all right michael
i want you to buy somebody a car
now lord
i don’t i mean you have been good
but i don’t know if poverty
michael you could do it right now
why are you fighting when i gave your
money a purpose
i’m telling you what to do with it
and you’re fighting me oh it’s fear
because you can be a pastor with fear
and you could be a small group leader
with fear
because really it’s the fear of failure
and god said trust me buy him the car
ah
bottom the car
you feel better michael honestly
no
but i don’t have to feel better to be
obedient
and every step of the way
god has continued to increase this ball
is huge over my head now
huge
it still feels the same
because i’m in
purpose
i don’t care how much paper you make
there are athletes and celebrities
watching this
i love you
but who you are is not based on how much
money you have
because there’s tons of people who have
killed themselves with tens of millions
of dollars in the bank
obviously
something didn’t fill them up
what i’m encouraging everybody to
identify is where are you at today
have you believed in the mmp more money
more problems
or the mmp
more money more pleasure
well what i’m believing for everybody by
the end of this series
is that you are dead set
more money
more purpose
can i give you an example of this in the
bible and then we’ll go home
solomon
y’all remember solomon in the bible
david’s son okay i got to show y’all
real quick okay okay
first kings chapter 3
it says
and gibeon
at gibeon the lord appeared to solomon
during the night in a dream and god said
now check this out
ask for whatever you want me to give you
what if god came to you tonight
fell asleep netflix is on
and the lord comes to you and says
stephen ask me for whatever you want
solomon answered look at what he
answered
you have shown great kindness to your
servant my father david
because he was faithful to you and
righteous and upright in heart you have
continued this great kindness to him and
have given him a son to sit at his
throne this very day now
lord my god you have made your servant
king in place of my father david but i
am only a little child and don’t know
how to carry out my duties i don’t know
how to fulfill purpose
your servant is here
your servant is
here your servant is here
among the people you have chosen i’m
just like all of them and these are
great people too numerous to count or
number
so this is what i’m asking if i can have
whatever i want
give your servant a discerning heart
to govern your people
and to distinguish between right and
wrong
between poverty gospel
and prosperity gospel
and purpose give me the ability to
discern
what your purpose is
to administer
justice
and know what to do with my enemy
enemies verse 12 i will do watch this i
will do
what you ask
i will give this is god’s response to
somebody who said i just want to know my
purpose
god if i can have anything
help me do what you purposed me to do
no no go back to verse 9.
so give your servant a discerning heart
to govern your people and to distinguish
between right and wrong for who is able
to govern this great people of yours
verse 10 i love it the lord was pleased
with his cry to fulfill purpose
he was pleased in what solomon had asked
so god said to him since you have asked
for this
and not a long life
and not wealth for yourself
nor have asked for death for your
enemies but for discernment and
administrating justice i will do what
you have asked
because you chose purpose
because you were going to be one that
bought into the gospel of doing the
purpose that god has called you to do
i’ma do everything you asked me to do
plus oh i love this
i will give you wise and discerning
heart so that there will never oh my god
so that there will never have been
anyone like you
nor will there ever be
moreover i will give you what you have
not asked for
because you asked to do your purpose
right
i’ma give you the thing you didn’t pray
for
oh my god this blesses me
i’m gonna give you both wealth
and honor so that in your lifetime you
will have no equal among kings
and if you walk watch this so he already
promised him all of that
but then he gives him let me up it for
you
and if you walk in obedience to me
and keep my decrees and commands and
principles
as david your father did
i will give you long life
ever be
moreover
i will give you what you have not asked
for he said it again
both wealth
and honor watch this
so that in your lifetime
you will have no equal
among kings what he was trying to give
him through obedience was a blessed life
but look what he asked for
purpose
i don’t need money
i need purpose
i don’t need prosperity i don’t need
poverty i need purpose more money
more purpose
let me leave you with this
obedience
equals a blessed life
next week i’m gonna get us all hyped and
excited but i had to
i had to give you
where you may be at
because some people are driving really
nice cars still in the poverty gospel
but like it don’t matter what you got it
it matters what’s in your heart
and that’s what i got to talk about next
week because our heart is the place
where god makes and sees what’s really
in there
but if your money doesn’t have a purpose
there will be a problem
if your money does not have a purpose
and the purpose can only come from god
you can’t make a plan here and call it
purpose
so many people on they twitter
are making plans that they made
purpose but you’re in a degree that
you’ll never use
when you get in purpose
that’s why i tell young people pray now
what god is calling you to
because you’ll be more money more
poverty or more money more pleasure but
god said more money
and this is what i’m praying for every
person under the sound of my voice
that we would stop going back and forth
between poverty
and prosperity
that we would lean
this is easy for me
this is comfortable abby
leading how i’m leading now
from when i started preaching this eight
years ago charles
to right now just being in purpose
it’s more comfortable
it’s
it actually is something i can lean on
when i get more opportunity for
resources
and god doing something in my life and
in your life
i now have a filter yeah
is this a part of my
purpose
do you know how much money i’ve given up
to stay in the middle of
purpose
what i’m telling you is there’s nothing
that you will give up in purpose
that god will not give back to you
because you’re doing it his way
and for everybody who’s tired
of holding it up
charles is the perfect picture
of 90 of the people watching today
and abby
throw it over there
is the perfect picture
of everybody else
until
we submit to god
and say
you know what
i’m going to live
in purpose
today i want to pray for you
and i pray that this picture never
leaves you
i pray when you go to make decisions
when you go to buy things
when you when you go to decide if you’re
going to honor god with the tithe and
offering
i pray that you see this picture
and you and you and you literally filter
am i
am i walking out the poverty gospel
right now
the prosperity gospel
but the purpose gospel
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by the end of this series i promise you
if you stay with us in this
you are going to be so
clear
about why god gives you resources
and how he’s going to use your resource
god has no problem with money
as long as it has his purpose
and i’m talking to somebody who doesn’t
have much right now
god because your heart is open to this
message right now is about to trust you
with a whole bunch
somebody needs to receive that right now
where you’re at right now and the
enemy’s trying to convince you that this
doesn’t have nothing to do with you oh
no remember preparation and stewardship
god’s given you this message for what
he’s about to do in your life in the
next six months he’s saying i need you
to hold on to purpose right here i need
you to grab a hold of it right now
because i’m about to teach you what
mmp really stands for more money
more purpose hands lifted everywhere
god i thank you
that i’ve done my assignment for today
that god i’ve shown people very clearly
the difference between a poverty gospel
a prosperity gospel and the gospel of
the kingdom which is a gospel of purpose
god i thank you that you’re going to
align all
of our resources
around a purpose
that is bigger than us god we ask you to
break the cycles of poverty in our mind
right now
and we ask you to break the cycles of
selfishness in our mind right now
and god i thank you that wherever we are
we can say
here i am
come on somebody say that here i am
this is something you probably won’t
show everybody but i need you to
identify just say here i am
god the parts of us that have been
living
on the extremes that you are not pleased
with
god today we repent
and god anytime we think of more money
we will think more money
more purpose give us a purpose that’s
bigger
than anything we’ve ever seen before
give us a purpose that eclipses our fear
give us a purpose that is rooted in
faith
and give us a purpose as a church father
that touches the world i’m praying i’m
speaking prophetically over every person
that is under the sound of my voice
father that you would give us purpose
in a way that our generational
generational purposes yep
god give us purpose that outlast us
give us resources to pass down to
another generation your word says that a
good man and a good woman leaves an
inheritance for their children’s
children god let us get the mindset
father to be able to be so trusted
father god that you would give us
the ability to actually live out more
money more purpose
today god i’m asking you to change our
hearts
change our minds
change our actions
and let us trust you
you are jehovah jireh
the god who will
provide
so today
we honor you
and we decree money no longer for us is
rooted in fear
and money no longer is rooted in
futility
every resource that you give us
stewardship over
is now rooted in faith
we will trust you god
in jesus name
somebody say i trust you god
i want you to be very sensitive to
what’s happening right now
you’ve just become sensitive to
something that you weren’t aware of
before
remember what we did in the last series
when we say here is holy
you said here i am somebody say here i
am
and then what did you have to do
take off your shoes up you had to take
off your protection some of y’all have
been guarded this whole message
you’ve been mad this whole message but
all god’s saying is take it off
and all i want you to do now
is have sensitivity
feel
feel what i’m trying to do in you right
now
ask this very common question that you
can ask the holy spirit holy spirit
what are you trying to say to me through
this message
come on just ask ask him right now holy
spirit what are you trying to say to to
me through this message
over this next week
god’s about to make you sensitive
oh shoot
that’s a poverty mentality
oh that’s a prosperity mentality
oh shoot i’ve been doing that based out
of fear
oh shoot i’ve been doing that and it
means nothing it’s futile
and god’s going to help you recognize
that i make plans in faith
i speak life in faith i speak faith over
my kids
they can go to whatever college god’s
called them to go to it don’t matter how
much money it costs if god gives a
vision for that he will send provision
for that
we can live in whatever neighborhood
we’re supposed to and we can have faith
to downsize to obey the purpose of god
uh-oh
because some of y’all are living in more
for fourth of july and christmas
that’s the only two days your house is
utilized
then god said would you go down
in people’s idea of you
to fulfill
purpose
i promise you i’m not going to play with
you in this series
because i know the freedom it is
to actually live a blessed life
and as your pastor
i want nothing more for you and your
family than for finances to only be a
tool
it no longer is the reason why i wake up
it no longer is the reason why i work
it is no longer the thing that dominates
my mind during worship
it is only
a tool
and the only way you get there
is by committing
and when i see money
more money has no control over me i
divorce the spirit of mammon
more money
more purpose
say it with me more money
more purpose say it with me more money
more
one more time strong more money
more
i can’t wait to see the purpose
that god starts to reveal to you
just because you have this mindset now
i told charles earlier it’s crazy
to never need a hook up again
that now god would take you from being a
person to need a hooker
to be
master p has been coming up in my spirit
several times
but there was a song that prophet p said
i got the hook up
holler if you’re here uh
okay
some of y’all i’m not all the way saved
okay
this church is going to live a blessed
life
i feel very strong right now the reason
i’m standing here
because i’m just telling the devils that
are clouding your mind that i’m not
backing up
no no no no no no i need y’all to hear
me say this sometimes
you know when you can tell somebody
scared
like like they’re they’re like timid
this
all you got to do is get here every week
i’ma fight for you
i can see poverty and prosperity fight
he’s beating the crap out of some of
y’all right now
but as your pastor i’m about to get in
the ring with you
and i’m going to challenge you
because the decisions you make here
can change the rest of your life
how do you know
because i had to eight years ago make a
decision
god i want to see your purpose
thank you lord
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i see some people right now
there’s a cloud over you
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of debt
devastation disappointment of decisions
you made
and the enemy’s trying to wear you out
whoo this that compassion that’s coming
i feel you
you’re saying god is there something you
can do
and god said today
i did the greatest thing i could do for
you i changed your mind
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how are you going to be transformed by
the renewing
of your
mind
some of y’all need to play this message
every day this week
not because there’s some
crazy revelation it’s because it’s got
to go deep in you
here is holy
[Music]
thank you lord
if you’re in
this moment or under the sound of my
voice somebody needs to start praying
because there’s real healing that’s
happening right now there’s real
deliverance that’s happening right now
i’m not doing it i’m not laying hands on
you but i’m telling you god’s changing
people from the inside you’re seeing
yourself differently than you saw
yourself you’re divorcing some of the
ideas that you said i would always do
this and god’s saying no no no you can
have something better than that or it’s
god’s telling you right now i’m
softening your heart to know you can
live without that and you could thought
you could never live without that and
god’s doing a work on people right now
i’m telling you mindsets are changing i
see it right now i see kingdom and
culture whirring in so many people’s
minds and hearts but today we serve the
god who gives you victory
and if you’re in this moment
and you need jesus
to come and help you in every area of
your life oh i feel the presence of god
if you’re watching right now at home
if you’re in this room
and you know that there has been another
god other than the true and living god
that has been controlling your life
today i want to get you from under the
pressure of holding that up
and i want to give you the opportunity
to rest in purpose it was god’s purpose
that every person born would have a
loving intimate relationship with him
and today is your day of salvation
i want you to know that god loves you so
much that he gave he gave his only son
before he asked you for anything so that
you could have an opportunity to be in
relationship with him and all you have
to do is receive
in this
moment i want you to receive jesus
i don’t care how broken you think you
are i don’t care what you did last night
or what you’re planning to do tomorrow
church i need y’all to pray there is
lives in the balance right now father
i’m asking you that right now that you
would soften people’s heart and allow
your word to go in because today you are
rescuing people not for a moment but for
eternity if you are under the sound of
my voice
and you want to put your faith and your
trust
in jesus christ if you want to enjoy
the actual step of walking in purpose
today is your day of salvation
and on on the count of three
i’m gonna ask you if you want to be
included in that prayer i just want you
to raise your hand it doesn’t matter
who’s around you it don’t matter who you
came with it doesn’t matter how much
money you have or how much money you
don’t have right now is a moment of
purpose
and god’s saying i need you to make a
decision to walk in purpose
here is holy
i want you to believe in the true gospel
the gospel of purpose
before you were formed in your mother’s
womb god knew you and he had a plan and
a purpose for you and today
is the next step of walking in that
one
if you ask god to come into your heart
you’re making the greatest decision of
your entire life
two i’m proud of you but forget all of
that your name is gonna be written in
the lamb’s book of life if you wanna
accept jesus as your personal lord and
savior i want you to raise your hand
right now three
it’s people in the room i see you and
there’s hundreds if not thousands that
are online watching right now and on
rebroadcast come on your church family
is excited
why
because now you’ve embraced purpose
and today i want to pray for you
i want to pray that now as you invite
god in according to romans 10 9
that everything in your life starts to
align
now transformation church we’re a family
you know nobody prays alone so i want
everybody to say this prayer of purpose
out loud strong for the benefit of those
who are coming to christ
let’s pray everybody say god
thank you
for making me
a part of your plan
and purpose
today
i give you my life
i surrender
to whatever you want to do
i believe you lived
you died
and you rose again
just for me
so i’m asking you
take my life
and use me for your purpose change me
transform me
renew me
i’m yours
in jesus name
amen
transformation church can we give god oh
y’all better help me can we give god a
shout of praise for everybody all around
the world who’s stepping into purpose
hallelujah
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i want to let everybody know something
everybody’s standing we’re about to go
the reason why we celebrate
is as a church
this is our
purpose
to represent god to the lost and found
for one reason what is it transformation
in christ they told me before i came out
here that 7
96
people have given their life to christ i
think we just went over the 8 000 mark
right here
in this year 8 000 people
why will there always be provision
because we’re walking in
i’m not teaching this series because the
church needs more money
this church is blessed
and i’m so grateful for the partners of
transformation church who over and over
and over see this is our seventh year
doing this series for some of us this is
a refresh because we’ve already started
living these principles and because of
the generosity we are able to give to
everything that god leads us to give to
in
perfect
more money
i said more money
i said more money
for the rest of your life
when god trusts you with resources
fatima more money
more purpose
is anybody excited for what god’s about
to do through this series in your heart
now listen
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today i wanted to hype you up more and
the holy spirit said heart
no hype
all hearts
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i mean with the promo and everything i
was ready to come up here at the fools
and god said but they need their heart
transformed
so this week all i’m asking you to do is
identify
where have you been
next week come
and from wherever you are
then we’re gonna go on this journey
we got five weeks left
five weeks
i’m leading you all the way to easter
and some of y’all gonna check out right
now i’ll come back at easter you’ll be
in the same broke position
this time that i’m telling you
this will be your best year if it’s your
best year spiritually hear what god has
to say about your resources finances
stewardship and generosity and who knows
god may bless you
through this series in a way that
changes your family forever
i’m praying that this week
you’re going to see that more money
means more purpose
last thing i’m going to say
prophetically get your journals ready
get your journals ready
get your get your note pads out
because anytime somebody’s heart changes
to more money more purpose
then god gives more purpose and the way
he gives purpose is through vision y’all
thought vision month was just in january
we want the vision of god sometimes god
doesn’t give you vision because your
heart can’t handle it
so you have to have revelation or reveal
truth so that now your heart so when god
says you’ll be a millionaire it’s not to
stunt
the reason you have to be a millionaire
is for the counseling facility you have
to open up and it’s going to take
millions of dollars to let people go
through that at a pro-rated rate and
people still be y’all don’t hear me
right now
more money
how you’re gonna be able to save young
ladies from sex trafficking and by you
might have to go in there and buy them
back you might have to give money to get
their life but the reason god’s giving
you resources
more money
you want to change north tulsa
and
dejected communities
you’re going to have to go in there and
build rec centers
in educational facilities
and playgrounds
and after school programs and you’re
gonna have to pay people
who these children’s parents can’t pay
y’all don’t want to hear this
more money
more purpose
charles the reason we need more
resources is because we’re going to fund
other people’s stuff
like
i’m not i don’t need anything else for
what god’s called me to do because he’ll
i want to be blessed by the way
if god can use me for his purposes
then it’s more money
more purpose
i challenge you to stop thinking
i challenge you to start thinking
beyond your position
whatever you need
i want you to begin to believe god that
you can meet that need for somebody else
this is how you start shifting into per
you need your tuition paid for
start praying and believing right now
that one day
you will pay off somebody else’s tuition
you need a car right now
begin to believe god that one day you’ll
be able to give somebody a car you need
startup money for your business
be and if you’re already there
and you got it and your money don’t have
purpose
start asking god who do i need to share
this with
i don’t need another investment account
i need to invest in somebody
more money
father bless this church
bless us in our mind and our heart and
let six months from now there be a
visible difference in our bank account
in the way we walk in the way we talk
that we live a blessed life not to
accumulate
but to distribute
let us be a river not a reservoir let it
flow god cause more money
more purpose we thank you we bless you
and we trust you in jesus name we agree
somebody shout amen
hey listen if you text saved
to the number on your screen i forgot to
say it it’s the most important part if
you gave your life to christ today text
saved to the number on your screen so we
can send you some resources and make
sure you share this all week with at
least 15 people does anybody know
anybody that’s on the poverty gospel on
that side does anybody know you know
somebody tony okay and does anybody know
anybody who’s on the prospect send it to
him
it’ll be easier for them not to like me
they don’t know me
but you could be the thing that unlocks
their whole family
so be an evangelist this week
more money more purpose i’ll see you
next week go out
and live a transformed life let’s give
god some praise
you