Welcome to our summer series, FUN MONTH! This week we have a special guest, Pastor Mike Jr.! PMJ or “Pastor Mike Jr.” is Pastor of Rock City Birmingham, one of the fastest growing ministries in the south. He is also a 2x Stellar Award Gospel Artist and Dove Nominated Artist. He is a father of five and is married to his beautiful wife, JaQuetta.
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tc nation what’s up
no you can do better than that tc nation
what’s
up do me a favor if you’re excited to be
alive
just type a fire sign in the comment
right there if you’re excited to be
alive
i want you to type a fire sign in the
comments this is the day
that the lord is made come on church
this is the day
that the lord is made we will rejoice
and be glad
in it i’ve been waiting a long time to
say this
i’m at transformation man
no i’ma say it again i’m at
transformation
do me a favor i need some water behind
no i want everything pastor mike has i
need bushes
i need three lions i need jesus i need a
storm
it’s this not i’m gonna say this and if
you agree show me some love
the best church in the world man i
mean this so i want to say
shout out to my brother pastor mike my
sister
natalie the entire family that beautiful
baby girl
oh my lord i almost said i wanted one
but i have
five god bless you i am done to my
beautiful wife who’s watching right now
i love you baby girl to xander michael
mason mckinley
and miles see when you got a lot of kids
you have to say it real slow
i love you guys so much the rock city
church i know many of you aren’t even
watching our service today you are
rocking with us at transformation
and i am so excited about it do me a
favor tc nation
let’s shut the the web down put your
city in the comment right now
right there let’s go put your city where
are you watching from no hear me where i
don’t think i’m
where are you watching from right now
dallas detroit birmingham atlanta
london put your city in the common let’s
shut it down i am excited
about what god is doing or should i say
it’s time to re-present
and i am excited about what god is doing
in your life i am excited so do me a
favor i want to i want to pray just
repeat after me say lord
your will nothing more
nothing less nothing else
in jesus name amen
well my name is pastor mike junior
pastor in birmingham alabama rock city
church this has been an incredible month
for me
i mean it’s from the bottom of my heart
i was blessed to take home three gospel
stella awards this month
one being artist of the year i mean this
my son
mason is starting on his football team
which is so incredible
i am excited about that and now i am at
the most powerful place on the planet
where transformation is taking place and
progress is everything so i’m so excited
about what god is doing so take your
seats in the room and if you’re watching
at home i want you to prepare your heart
because i necessarily don’t want to
preach a sermon i just want to have a
conversation
that points you to jesus but honors your
man of god
is that critical because so many times
when you’re busy lifting up jesus who
lifts up the lifter
that you catch what i just said and i
want to talk about that why pastor mike
because i want you to understand one of
the most common misconceptions
about pastor mike todd is that he’s just
popular
one of the most miscommon misconception
most common misconceptions about mike
todd
is that he’s just popular when in
actuality he’s
popular but he’s also also influential
so i’m already talking do me a favor
take really good notes because there’s a
difference between influence and
popularity
there’s a difference between influence
and popularity see
when you’re aiming to be popular it is
more about what you want
from people aiming to be influential is
about what you
want for people if you catch what i just
said
aiming to be popular is about what you
want
from people while aiming to be
influential is about what you want
for people see when you’re popular
people know you
when you’re influential people believe
you and i want to submit that all of our
lives are forever better
not because of his popularity but
because of his influence
somebody just typed influence what what
if i told you early in this little
easter speech of mine
that your family would treat you better
if they realized it was the
influence on your life that was going to
get them
to another level and what i am
suggesting as we prepare for a fun
month as we prepare and celebrate a fun
month please don’t allow the fun to make
you think we’re foolish
because there’s a defend line between
being fun
and being foolish fun is intentional
foolishness is ignorance and so many
people
think they’re having fun but they’re
really being foolish see you’re having
fun when you understand
who you are and whose you are and why
are we so excited about what god is
doing here at transformation church
and through the life of pastors mike and
natalie todd
it’s because they are helping people
rediscover who they are in christ
rediscover who they are in christ that’s
so important why bmj
because if you live long enough you’re
going to encounter two types of people
are you taking notes live long enough
you’re going to encounter two types of
people please put this in your notes
pallbearers and armor bearers
pallbearers and armor bearers now
most of us have been to a funeral a
pallbearer is that with person who
carries you
to your grave while an armored bearer is
the person
who carries you to your destiny
there’s a difference there’s a
difference the pallbearer
will carry you to your grave while an
arma bearer
carries you to your destiny and i would
like to challenge all of us
in tc nation that we should level up in
our support
level up in our intercession because it
is our responsibility to be
armor bearers not pallbearers
but sadly so many people will never
become what god
has predestined and ordained them to be
because they do not like pain
that’s critical they do not like pain or
adversity
someone type someone say adversity
adversity
is the price that we pay for advancement
adversity is the price that we
pay for advancement make that make sense
pastor mike
if you want to go far you have to pay a
price call
pain and sadly so many of us
finish uh short of what god desires for
us to be
because we run from the thing that’s
actually developing us
now this may be a tweetable moment this
may be a tweetable or ig moment right
here
god won’t take you out the storm but he
won’t let the storm take you out
i don’t think you heard what i said god
won’t take you out the storm
but he also won’t allow the storm to
take you
out why pastor mike my name is pastor
mike i’m at pastor mike’s church so when
i say pastor mike if you listen closely
it almost feels like pastor mike is
preaching but he’s actually not
preaching
but i’m preaching but i’m pastor mike
and if pastor mike was here he would
look at you and say look at me when i
say this
it is the pain of being you that creates
the power
of being you do i need to say that again
it is the pain of being you that created
the power
of being you see i only want you to
praise god at home or in this room
if you’ve been through some stuff
survive some stuff
but you can say this morning here it is
i’m still alive
i wish i had a thousand people who would
just type i’m still alive
that after everything that i’ve been
through in spite of the drama of my past
and the pain of my mistakes i’m still
alive
when that nefarious nemesis known as the
devil tries with all of his might
to the wart our thinking and attenuate
our faith
we’ve assembled that transformation to
say though he slayed me yet
will i trust them somebody shout i’m
still alive
that that’s for the people in the room
and the people in the chat who if you
had to summarize
the last three years of your life you
can have an old-school testimony service
all by yourself and simply say
i’m still alive
come here come come here now most of
y’all are young and fly
so you don’t know about old school
church i’m from alabama
i’m from birmingham we had old school
church right
so you would get to church and you would
sit in the back and it wasn’t praise and
worship
there would be a deacon who would line
up across the front they didn’t have
harmonies
they didn’t have a musician they would
sing songs like let the church say yes
yes and grandmama would start rocking
then all of a sudden the pastor would
come up he wasn’t fly like your pastor
he would have on a full robe
and he would stand there and say well
it’s testimony time and somebody in the
room who wasn’t on the program
would just raise their hand and walk to
the front
then they would say now if you’re really
churchy i want you to finish this
statement in the comments
first giving honor to y’all church is
all get out
first giving honor to who’s the head of
my
to the pastor saints and friends
it is good for us that god is good
and all the time and they would do
something in this service that would
flip the whole church she would get up
and say well y’all know i only had seven
dollars in the bank today
and the doctor said i needed my medicine
and i didn’t know how
i was gonna get my medicine but i went
down to the drugstore
and it was a man at the drugstore who
paid for my medicine
then she would say and i just wanna
thank you
and even though it had nothing to do
with the people over here
they were so excited to see god do
something for her
that they praised god like he did it for
him
see you are a hater if you can only
praise god
for the stuff you got but i’m crazy
enough to praise god
for everybody connected to me why
because when god blesses you
here it is if he blesses my neighbor
that means he’s in my
neighborhood somebody shout god’s in the
blessing business
but until you go through something you
do not properly
understand what god desires to do in
your life
somebody say adversity adversity
is the price you pay for advancement
and it’s the pain of being you that
creates the power
of being you in other words it’s your
testimony
the bible says in the book of revelation
we are
by the blood of the lamb and by the
words of a testimony and i want you to
understand that there are two types of
adversity
you will face in your life are you
watching are y’all watching y’all
rocking with me
two types of adversity you will face in
your life it is
external adversity and internal
adversity
oh if i was at my church i would have
yelled michael
external adversity and internal
adversity see external adversity is me
versus my enemies
internal adversity is me versus me
jesus external is me versus them
see this is my problem with so many
people because if all your battles are
about your haters
you are not advancing because true
growth
isn’t when you kill goliath true growth
is when you deal with the demons that
are on the inside of you
i don’t know who’s gonna be honest but i
wish i had seven
people in the chat who will say pastor
mike you are preaching to me
because my worst enemy is the enemy in
me did you catch that my worst
enemy is the enemy in a me
there was a man am i doing all right
there was a man who was among the tombs
and the bible says every night he would
scream
and he would holler and he was in the
tombs cutting
himself nobody cut him yeah
i don’t i don’t know nobody cut him hear
me now it’s one thing
if the enemy was cutting him up it’s one
thing if his haters were throwing stones
at him but this man was cutting
himself and i want to speak to some
people who are watching me right now
who are mature enough to say that there
were certain seasons of my life
where i cut myself stop blaming your ex
for all the pain you went through five
years ago you picked them
i cut myself stop blaming everybody for
the reason you don’t have the finances
you should have had
you were buying stuff you probably
shouldn’t have bought you cut yourself
see
anybody can talk about who hated on them
but i’m mature enough to understand
there were seasons
when i cut myself somebody say preach
michael
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because if you’re going to be great
you’re going to be great
we can use uh pastor mike’s todd life as
a euphemism or a metaphor
to a formula called greatness because
when we look at paul he is a nagalas
to somewhat of pastor mike todd because
both of them go through purpose
and pain yeah they go through purpose
and pain and when it comes to purpose
and pain the two
aren’t mutually exclusive you can’t have
one
without the other it was purpose that
made david rush to the front line to
fight goliath
but it was painful when his brothers and
his father didn’t think he was good
enough to be king
it was purpose that made joseph dream
and find favor on another level
but it was painful watching your father
and your brothers your brothers rather
sell you into slavery it was purpose
that made that perfect palestinian jew
named jesus
look into a cup it was purpose it was
purpose that made that perfect
palestinian jew named jesus look into a
cup
and suggest nevertheless thy will be
done
but it was painful and during the
crucifixion
might i submit to someone watching us
today that if her
pain was his death certificate
purpose became his birth certificate
that sadly many of us need to thank god
for our church and our leaders
because so many churches are developing
a generation on
celebration not suffering we are
conditioning a new generation of
christians
on celebration not suffering we are
teaching them how to praise
but we are not teaching them how to pray
we are teaching them to have energy but
we
are not teaching them to endure when the
truth of the matter is
there are going to be seasons of your
life where you have to survive
some of the craziest seasons of your
life it is called purpose and it’s
called
pain and when we tiptoe into the
corridors of today’s text
we find ourselves situated and
acculturated in the book of acts
and in the book of acts we are
introduced to paul i love
how my professors put it they said paul
that talented
tit maker from tartus who constantly
tentates us
with tough theology it is paul who
constantly tentates us with tough
theology
paul is so cold-blooded and i know what
you’re looking at me like i see you this
is tall so this is from across the
country
pastor mike who is paul to tell me
anything
i grew up in the hood and i know
firsthand that before you tell me
anything i need to hear your resume i
often say
don’t give me constructive criticism if
you haven’t constructed something
cause ain’t it crazy how people try to
tell you how to build yours
when they’ve never built theirs
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michael paul said mike since you had
transformation and they keep it real
tell them i’ve been through some stuff i
survived some stuff and i
live to tell the tale please tell them
at transformation i’ve been beaten so
many times and i can remember
left for dead one time i got off a boat
and i hooked up with my brother silas
and we were on our way to pray
but then we bumped into a sister by the
name of lydia and the bible says
lydia was an entrepreneur she was a
seller of purple what does that mean
pastor mike she bumps into paul and
salas paul saves her but the bible
doesn’t stop there and this is enough to
just have church all in your living room
the bible says when lydia heard a word
here it is
her family got baptized
i think i’m in the wrong church this
morning i don’t think you caught that
when
lydia got a word the whole family
got delivered see i am not preaching to
everybody only the somebody who’s
listening this morning
who’s crazy enough crazy faith crazy
and crazy faith crazy enough to believe
that if i get a word from god everybody
in my family is going to be blessed
now i’m about to ask you to do something
real crazy right here
but only do it if you got crazy faith
what would happen
if you tagged every member of your
family
and said whatever you doing stop what
you’re doing because there’s a word
on transformation church this morning
that will shift
our whole family i need five people
to just say god i thank you for the word
that my mother is getting delivered my
father is being delivered
my cousins are being delivered my family
is being set free healed and delivered
because i got a word
he bumps into lydia can’t you see paul
paul is just doing his thing right he’s
walking then out of nowhere boom
he bumps into lydia he sets lydia free
whole family gets blessed and he’s
continued to walking then all of a
sudden he sees a girl
and the bible says this girl had a
spirit of divination
she should have she should have been a
prophetess
but because she was in the wrong hands
they turned her into a fortune teller
y’all woo you missed what i said she
should have been a prophetess
but because she was in the wrong hands
they took her gift
and twisted it might i submit to you
that sometimes the problem isn’t you
it might be whose hands you’re in
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michael so so let’s answer answer this
question for me
if i buy basketball from walmart how
much is that ball worth
about 15 in my hands but if i put
put it in lebron james hands it’s worth
25 million
how much is a pair of golf clubs in my
hands i can’t play a lick
probably 50 dollars but but if i put it
in tiger woods hands
it’s worth about 50 million how much are
groceries in my hand
i can’t cook i burn the whole kitchen up
but if you put it in big mama’s hands
or grandma’s hands she can feed the
whole family
see the problem isn’t the basketball the
golf club or the groceries
the problem is who’s i wish i had seven
people who would just put hands up in
the comments
i i hope you don’t take out running what
if your ex
wasn’t wrong about what he said what
what if your ex was wrong about what
they said when they said you’ll never be
nothing
no i’ll never be nothing in your head
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that that’s why they want you back
that’s why go ahead and delete your
inbox
because the reason they want you back is
because when you left they thought you
were going to fall off but they didn’t
realize the favor
stayed with you somebody type i’m in the
right hands
this is why this is why this is why
your job irritates you because you’re
too gifted
to be in their hands that this is why
being a part of this ministry has
revolution
revolutionized your life that people at
your last church
literally said there was nothing for you
to do but now you’re promoting in the
prophetic and you’re helping in
different ministries
and you’re growing like crazy why i’m in
the right hands
yeah somebody ought to just type i’m in
the right hands
that this sister that this young girl
hear me now paul paul is walking and he
bumps into this young girl and she’s
following behind him saying
these are men of the most high god these
are men of the most high god
these are men of the most high god the
problem isn’t
what she’s saying she’s saying the right
thing
she’s saying it with the wrong spirit
be careful because every compliment
ain’t pure
jesus hear me when i say this and paul
looks at her and says
in the name of jesus come out
now here’s the problem that i see paul
having
but i also see pastor mike having
because
the people who were benefiting from her
brokenness
got upset because there are certain
people who profit off your pain
benefit from your brokenness live
off of the areas in your life that are
less than status quo
when they saw she got delivered they
beat paul
now this is cold blooded this is cold
blooded this is cold blooded because i
wonder how many people in your life
like you better broken
michael i wonder how many people in your
life
like you limp you know they they like
you limp cause
if you ever get whole you’ll move too
fast
so so they like you with a limp because
when you walk
with a limp they don’t have to be who
they are they can just keep up with you
see there are certain people who like
you better broken see this is why
they will go out with you but won’t come
to church with you
this is why they will spill the tea but
since that transformation we understand
our prayer is the sauce
they want the tea not the sauce because
they don’t understand
i want to have fun only but we don’t
just have
fun the reason we have fun at
transformation is because we’ve already
been
fueled by god did you catch what i just
said right there
paul is now caught between a rock and a
horror spot
so much like pastor mike because the
problem that pastor mike faces sometimes
is not that he’s saving people he’s
saving the right
wrong people
see see the world didn’t matter didn’t
care when people were transferring
churches
they can’t stand when people come out
the world
and what’s happening now because they
were benefiting from her brokenness
the bible says they beat paul and silas
and i love
the way they did it if i had to
succinctly summarize what happened to
paul and silas they were beaten
bruised broken bloodied but breathing
they were beaten bruised broken
bloodied but breathe if i was at my
grandmama church right there
three old ladies would have took out
screaming right there because they know
what it’s like to be
beaten bruised broken bloodied but
breathing and the text says they were
stripped
now most people speed past this little
nuance called stripped
but they don’t understand the historical
implications of being stripped
the historical implications of being
stripped is this during historical times
they believed in classes and ranks
because they believed in
classes and ranks people who were of
noble
respect wore clothes or a leaning ephod
or
a nice silk robe remember i told you
earlier
lydia was a seller of purple she sold
material for those who could afford it
but slaves and commoners just covered
their private areas
so the first thing they do before their
they beat them is strip them
because they were trying to send a
psychological message to paul
that maybe if i take your stuff i will
take you
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and see everybody’s not going to say a
man right here only the people who’ve
been stripped but survived
i was stripped of my confidence when i
dated this person they told me
everything i was not
and for the last three years i’ve been
trying to find myself
and i thank god for my church because
everything that was stripped got
restored
i was stripped in a season when i had to
live paycheck to paycheck and i think
didn’t think i was worthy to be
who god called me to be but god restored
such a one see anybody
can shout because you’ve been saved and
my problem
with the 21st century christian is that
you celebrate your recovery
but you speed past your process
yeah we’re it’s almost like easter
we’re quick to celebrate the
eschatological impact eschatology end
times
we’re quick to celebrate the
eschatological impact that we
breeze past the existential reality what
is that pmj
we’re so ready to say he got up that we
speed past the fact that he went down
and so many people feel i’m um unworthy
because when you get around christians
and church people they’re so busy to
tell you about their comeup
that they always ignore they’re going
down and see i wish i had somebody in
the comments who would be honest enough
to say
i’ve been down see it got real quiet
right there
if you was here you would see how quiet
it got because we live in a culture
where we sing songs like all i do is win
win win no matter what and we want to
talk about the celebration
i got a really big team and i got some
really big rings and i had enough sense
to write a song in kaido big so now
everybody’s saying pastor mike
it’s gonna be big but what happens when
it’s small
weeping may endure for a night
watch this but here’s what we shout but
joy
it’s coming in the morning when in
reality if we don’t condition
people for the night they will never
make it to the morning
and i don’t need a church full of people
who are going to say i survived
i need some people in the comments to
say i know what it’s like to be down
i wish i had somebody who would say
pastor look at me
know what it’s like to survive a divorce
i know what it’s like to have no money
in the bank and
have to trust god i know what it’s like
to be in between jobs i know
what it’s like to be pregnant with
vision
but it’s aborted by lack i know do i
need to say that again
i know what it’s like to be pregnant
with vision
but it’s aborted by lack that that i
have a million
dollar dream on a hundred dollar budget
i know what it’s like to ride by
builders and be like oh that can be my
spot right there
but don’t have the resources to make it
happen and god says if you be faithful
over a little stuff i’ll make you ruler
over many and paul paul is beaten
bruised broken bloodied
but breathe
and so many times we glamorize the
gospel
we make it cute this is not a cute
situation he’s beaten
he can’t see paul
and he’s trying to check on silas salads
you’re good
because he’s been being and it’s crazy
because he can probably barely breathe
his swords are open there are no ace
bandages in bennett yet there there’s no
ointment there’s no medication there’s
nothing
and paul and they throw him in the inner
jail
and paul’s tripping because i didn’t get
beat for living wrong
i got beat for doing right
see because one of the common
misconceptions about being saved
is that you only catch hell when you
wrong but i come to submit to some of
you that sometimes you catch hell
for doing right and the bible says they
throw paul
and silas in jail and here’s a scripture
that should tear the whole way up it
should tell the whole online campus of
tc nation
you should go berserk i should get 20
million fire signs
in the comment when i say this because
there are certain scriptures that you
have to properly build the bridge of
contemporarization from the original
audience to now properly harmonizing
your hermeneutics with relevant
homolytics making sure
you have syntax in context you got to
make sure you give the historicity of
the text and
make sure they see it in a very real way
but then there are certain scriptures
that when you read it some end you ought
to go crazy and this scripture says
and at midnight now
i’m somewhat flammoxed or confused about
what midnight
is it’s midnight today or tomorrow i i’m
confused because i know 11 59 is today
and i know 1201 is tomorrow but what is
midnight i i’m confused because
11 59 is today then 1201
is tomorrow but but but what is midnight
it’s midnight
the first of tomorrow or the last of
yesterday
and i believe if i had to succinctly
summarize or mcclearize
what midnight is if 11 59 is today and
1201 is tomorrow 12 o’clock midnight is
transition
and many of you are catching hell right
now and frustrated because you’re not
who you used to be and you’re not who
you’re gonna be
but you’re stuck in transition
see this is what i wish i had a hundred
people who would just type i’m in
transition
i’m in the wrong church rod i’m in
transition
say it again mike i’m not who i used to
be
then i’m not who i’m gonna be
i’m still in transition but here’s the
beautiful thing in that transformation
church
one of our hot words at transformation
church is progress
and i never forget in studying i
discovered something called
progressive sanctification it’s called
progressive
sanctification that this means i am in
process
it means obama oh lord i’m scared to say
this in front of mama
cause she may come pop me on the hand
when i say this captain may run up here
and say boy keep your mouth closed
but what if i told you the reason some
churches are dying
because you got people who think they
have arrived but the reason
transformation is growing by leaps and
bounds
is because you’ve accepted people who
are in process
see see i don’t want the perfect people
all my perfect folk you can sit this out
but everybody who’s in transition
say preach pastor mike preach pastor
mike preach pastor mike
how do i know i’m in transition because
i’m saved but i might hit you if you
cross me the wrong way
how how do you know i’m in transition
cause i can speak in tongues
and my slip up and cuss if you mess with
my kids pray for me
grandmamma said please be patient with
me
god is not through with me
yet i am in transition
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[Music]
[Applause]
it was michael eric dyson who said many
of us are stuck in anesthetizing
conformity
it was michael eric dyson who said many
of us are stuck
in anesthetizing conformity anesthesia
it puts you to sleep anesthetizing
anesthesia it puts you to sleep you’re
so busy trying to fit in
you forgot god called you to break out
so so the culture or the climate that
you find yourself in has become
anesthetizing it’s put you
to sleep so now you walk like everybody
else talk
like everybody else pray like everybody
else want what everybody else got
and the problem with many of you
watching me is that you fell in love
with your am
but you forgot your bee
all right you fell in love with your am
but you forgot your beast see
i am blessed but i used to be
broke yeah i i am
saved but i used to be a hot mess
i am in church on sunday morning but
five years ago i would have been
in the bed because i was out all night
the night before and i’m not
who i need to be but i’m a whole lot
better than where i
come from paul is locked away in jail
and the text says and at midnight
paul and silas prayed and sing praises
unto god
so much so that the prisoners heard them
and immediately
their bands were loose wrong
my problem with my generation is that
that we preach uh an inaccurate gospel
we preach an incomplete gospel my
problem with the 21st century church
is not that we preach an inaccurate
gospel we preach an incomplete gospel
make that make sense pastor mike we say
hand at midnight paul and silas
prayed and sing praises unto god so much
so that immediately the doors will open
and the bands will lose that is
incomplete
because the text says while they were
praising the text says god caused an
earthquake
see you can’t leave that out because if
you leave that out it makes the text
incomplete
because if you tell church members that
when they prayed and praised the door
open
it makes them leave church believing
that the power to open the door is in
their mouth
no the power to open the door is not in
your mouth it’s in your ability to
submit to the timing of god
because if you shout before the
earthquake all you’re doing is making a
noise
but if you shout when god moves doors
open
michael and what i’m trying to get you
to realize is
praise without pain is just a
performance
praise without pain it’s just a
performance
which is why the absurd sign is when you
scream to the top of your lungs and
don’t feel nothing
because you were praying without the
move
the text says god caused an earthquake
paul started shouting and then
immediately
the doors open i gotta go i’m running
out of time but the text says only paul
and silas shouted
but everybody got an open door i feel
like having a little church by
myself i wish my amen corner caught that
because it didn’t say everybody shouted
the scripture says
two people had crazy faith
two people had crazy faith two people
had enough faith to shout behind bars
but because
two folk praise god everybody got an
open door
see i only want seven people with crazy
faith to praise god from your home
praise god from your job praise god from
your car
and i want to speak by faith that when
you shout
everybody around you is getting an open
door
i’m giving you come here i am giving you
20 seconds to praise god that he’s
opening a door
for everybody connected to you eyes have
not seen
ears have not heard neither have to
enter the hearts of men
what god is about to do for you somebody
shout
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i gotta go ride ride ride
ride ride that’s two that’s too cute for
me right i need some movie music i need
something like
[Music]
and can’t you see paul and silas they’re
shouting
and when they shout one door
two door three door
we all get a door i sent one door
two door three door
we all got a door say one door
two door three door
we all got a door yeah walk up this
morning i’m blessed blessed
i’m sorry i almost snapped but but hear
me
hear me so can’t you see because the
bible doesn’t tell me
the bible doesn’t tell me and the text
says
my professor taught me when the bible is
silent you should be quiet too
i don’t know if all the doors open
together or the door open one by one
so for the sake of the story let’s just
act like we see what happened one door
oh can’t you imagine
paul door boom his neighbor door boom
the third door boom the fourth door boom
now for the sake of the argument if i
was in sale
nine i would have started the night like
y’all be quiet
ain’t nobody coming
[Applause]
because you are only a real friend
when you can shout cause you realize the
blessing
is on the way somebody type it’s on the
way
watch this 16 minutes 16 minutes all
right
but here’s the beautiful part and i told
you i
told you that my problem isn’t that we
preach an inaccurate gospel
we preach an incomplete gospel because i
was trained when i preach i go home
right there
look at your neighbor and say doors are
opening and i wish i had somebody
who can tell your neighbor don’t i’ll
get ready to open
but but that is that that is incomplete
because the text says the doors open and
the guard comes running in
and the dark come the guard comes oh my
god
the door’s open and he pulls out a knife
getting ready to kill himself
and paul says hey chill out
we still here now i’m from the hood so
you got to pray for me
i wish i could say it properly i would i
got what this is a church for everybody
so i’m gonna try to say it in
everybody’s language here it is
guard sir don’t bother killing yourself
all of us who are in currently
incarcerated are still present and
accounted for but then i believe
somebody in the hood is like yo
bro bro yeah yeah
we still here we still here that’s
enough for seven people in the comments
to just type we still here
yeah kovit tried to take us out but
we’re still here
rumors and demise tried to take us down
but we are
still here look at me here’s what i love
paul says we’re still here god can ask
you a question yes michael god
can i ask you a question yes michael
stop hating david are you always trying
to talk some stop holy spirit let me get
one question
go ahead yes god thank you um why open
the door
if they ain’t gonna leave and god says
mike i opened the door
not to let them out but to prove they
couldn’t be kept
in because every door that open ain’t
meant for you to walk out of
sometimes god opens the door to prove to
your enemies if you wanted to
only seven people gonna catch this don’t
think because i can’t
because don’t think because i don’t i
can’t if i
wanted to boo boo i could
do it and it’s this paul
who we find in acts chapter 27. all of
that was my introduction
seven minutes i’m gonna be done it’s
that paul who we find shipwrecked on the
boat
he turned to the captain and said in
acts chapter 27 i don’t think it’s wise
for us to sail at this time
the captain looks at him and says shut
up paul i’m paraphrasing paul said if
you knew like i knew we were in sales
something’s gonna happen but
the captain says boy i got this paul
says trust me i prayed about it we
shouldn’t sell the captain says no
i got experience and this is for seven
people who understand i may not have the
experience but i do have the discernment
see people try to hold their degrees
over your head and i believe in
education
but life will take you to a place where
your bachelors can’t figure it out
you need the holy spirit and discernment
it was discernment that made him write
down a prayer
to believe god for this building not
experience
it was discernment to have him take a
leap of faith and write crazy faith
it was discernment that made a pastor of
another ethnicity
hand the ministry to a young black kid
and say i’m a folly when i believe in
you that was discernment
and god will show you what books came
and paul gets on the boat right and and
they get halfway and the storm breaks
loose if i had time i would tell you
that one of the greatest tricks of the
enemy
is the fact that he calms things down
long enough to make you think it’s god
see see the devil tricks you into
getting so far out there that you
too far to turn around but not even
close to where you’re going
then boom you let the storm break loose
and everybody on the buddhist
boat is panicking everybody it’s
panicking man down
747 ship down somebody get off the boat
and they’re going crazy right then all
of a sudden
paul gets a word from an angel an angel
sneaks on the boat
and tells paul stop tripping you got to
stand trial before wrong
and paul looked at the boat and i’m
paraphrasing that for the sake of time
he says captain
y’all stop tripping we going to make it
and the moment paul says we’re going to
make it the bible says the boat
begins to break now i want to pause here
in my last 11 minutes and break
something down
because i’m a pastor but i’ve also been
a pastor’s son
i’ve sat in church and i spoke in church
so there were certain days when my
father preached a word
that i received but when i left the
church what i received was antithetical
to what i saw
he told me it was the biggest year of my
life that i call hell
paul says and i hope you catch this paul
says
paul says we’re going to make it but
then but then the boat breaks
so did paul lie no i believe that paul
was here he would say pastor mike pmj
i never said the boat was gonna make it
i said we gonna make it
which means you may lose some stuff but
you won’t lose you
and paul the bible says i’m in acts
chapter 27
276 people jump off the boat
are not in the water so so can’t you
imagine
276 people
in the boat they jump in the water and
the bible says mike don’t shout
the bible says michael don’t shout the
bible says michael get it together
you’re in
transformation church do not embarrass
yourself okay the bible says
that 276 people
made it to shore watch this off the
pieces of the boat
i only want you to shout and i only want
you to put a fire sign in the comment
if you know what it’s like to make it
off of broken pieces
that the truth of the matter is i’ve
never had
everything i needed but the lord
always made a way
make it off of broken pieces
276 people
in the water offer pieces of what they
depended on
and i want to submit to you i’m running
out of time i want to submit to you that
the
the that the misconception that most
people miss
is that within every miracle is a
miracle that you miss
within every miracle is a miracle that
you miss
pastor mike what are you talking about
because the text says when they arrive
safely on shore
i’m in acts chapter 28 now in acts
chapter 28 verse 1 it says and after we
have been brought
safely through we discovered that the
island was called malta
now acts chapter 28 verse 1 is enough to
shout because it says after we have been
brought safely
through there is no wasted ink in the
bible so why would they say
safely through unless there was danger
in the water
okay so cause i told you within every
miracle is a miracle
you miss okay i’m gonna read three
scriptures i’ma quote three scriptures
i wanna see if you catch the miracle
acts chapter 28 verse one
and after we have been brought safely
through
we discovered that the island was called
malta the natives because of the rain
and the cold that had set in
kindle the sticks and began to build us
a fire they showed us extraordinary
kindness but then verse three says and
paul
gathered an arm full of sticks you
missed it
you missed it pastor mike what’s the
miracle did you not remember
that i told you when paul got on the
boat he was in chains
he’s a prisoner but when we see him
after the storm
he’s walking around building a fire
it’s because you thought god broke the
boat but
sometimes god breaks the boat to break
your chains
[Applause]
sometimes god breaks the boat
to break your chains make that make
sense modernize contemporize and
mcclurize
please may bring that from antiquity to
mondernity make it make sense pastor
mike
what if god broke the relationship to
free you
[Applause]
because sometimes god breaks that to
free this and paul is now walking around
but i told you
within every miracle is a miracle you
miss because i told you 276 people
are making it to shore off of broken
pieces of the boat they are now
in the water holding on to a piece of
the boat you seen titanic
you seen jack jack jack
i’m sorry rose but that board was big
enough for both of us to get on it
no no that ain’t relationship goals
right there you on the boat calling my
name
scoop over let me on the board girl
so they in the water holding on to
pieces of wood
what’s the miracle pastor mike in the
book of genesis
god said let there be light and he’s and
it was there
then he said i’ma separate flying things
from crawling things and
swimming thing in the book of genesis i
hollered at my boy noah he told me it’s
some fish in the water
come on come on which means if god
created everything in genesis
whatever he created in genesis is still
in the water in acts
which means when they are in the water
not only are they surviving from being
drowned
god put a hedge of protection around
them to not let what was in the water
take them out
that’s what grandmama meant when she
said i’m keeping you safe
from danger scene
and
and text says look at me the text says
paul
is walking around and the scripture says
the natives
begin to build them a fire and i like
that because nowhere in the text of the
text tell me who’s the leader
that’s why i love transformation so much
i’ve been here and although i know
pastor mike is the leader
i can’t tell who’s in charge because
everybody’s a loving person
they’re hugging me they’re telling me i
walked in and everybody started clapping
and i’m hugging people and this person
fist pumping me
and i said you know what this is why
they’re growing because
when you see folk because keep in mind
paul came out the water he’s wet
he’s damp he got seaweed on him he
stinks
he smells but they love him
he don’t look like them he don’t smell
like them
he don’t talk their language because
he’s a native but they don’t look at him
and say now go take a shower and come
back
they don’t look at him and say no go get
you some church clothes they say brother
come to us
just because it’s not about clothes it’s
about souls
and i gotta go because i’m running out
of time paul
sees them building a fire and fire is a
euphemism or metaphor for praise
whenever you see elements understand
that elements have spiritual connotation
water is synonymous with the holy spirit
of baptism when
rua breath of god fire is praised no
it’s not pastor mike that’s why the
prophet said when i tried to keep it to
myself i’m not gonna preach no more i’m
not gonna shout no more i’m not gonna
preach them up
but it’s just like
fire shadrach meshach and abednego are
thrown in fire
not for stealing but refusing to praise
what they said praise
because within every miracle is a
miracle pastor mike within every miracle
is a miracle
yeah and what happens is paul says no
y’all ain’t gonna build a fire for me
or in other words i’m not gonna let
nobody beat me
praising god cause you think you know
i really know i need seven people who’d
be like no
truth of the matter is i really know
what god did for me
if it had not been
for the lord who was on my side
bro god been good to me
you’ve been good from living in an
extended stay using
roll quarters to make sure me and my
girl was good not because i didn’t have
a good father and a good mother
i was just boyhead and i was determined
to do it on my own and
so i’m out here struggling when i didn’t
even have to
and that right there is a message why
pmj because there are two connotations
of people
either you’re lost or you’re hiding
they’re not the same see here
transformation we seek to save that
which is lost not those that are hiding
yeah see loss is uh ignorance hiding is
intentional
to be lost when you’re lost you’re lost
turned by
by the store i don’t i don’t i don’t
know what story i’m i’m lost
when you’re hiding you did it on purpose
i was hiding
know what that’s like i know what it’s
like to feel like the black sheep of
your family
to have a brother who i love with all my
heart who’s sitting right there
number one football player in the state
of alabama go on to florida state and
get degrees and i’m sitting there like
man i’m his number one supporter
but i dropped out of college my sister
who graduated her degree and it’s like
they would come to the school and say
how’s darius doing yeah
house league we praying for mike
i know what it’s like to be lost
i know what it’s like to be
anointed but lost
gifted but twisted
i could sing on sunday mornings but
the anointing hadn’t re it just didn’t
register yet
and so many of you are lost and so many
of you are hiding
you’re hiding hiding
he didn’t leave the 99 to go get the one
because he was hiding
he went and got the one because the one
was lost
conversely the father didn’t go get the
prodigal son because he
was hiding
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and paul says i’m not gonna let anybody
beat me praising
and paul picks up a bundle of sticks
right all of that was my
all of that all of all all of that was
my introduction
this is my sermon okay this is my sermon
because he picks up
he picks up he picks up a bundle of
sticks right picks up the sticks and he
says boom
i’ma build my own fire and the text says
as he was laying them on the fire
ah a snake ah
jumps out of the sticks all of that was
my introduction for the next four
minutes i want to give you my sermon
topic
my sermon topic is scam likely
scam likely your your phone carrier is
doing something right now
to prevent calls that don’t serve your
purpose
they’re labeling those calls for you
scam likely
because they realize who’s ever calling
you does not want to help you
they want something from you this is a
scam this is a
scam and what do we see by definition a
scam
is to gain by deception it’s when
somebody gets ahead in life
by tricking another person and taking
what they have you saw this in the old
testament when they tried to trick the
father
and say i’ma steal the birthright you
saw this when the mother was trifling
and she did her best
because the bride the father’s sight was
wrong she switched her sons
and had no idea god was gonna say
because what god has for you
the word that the bible uses to describe
scam is deceived
and the devil is also called the
deceiver
so scam likely i’m sorry the devil
if i had to succinctly summarize it the
devil
is a scammer and his mission
is to steal your identity
drain your mentality manipulate you
financially and here’s what he does when
we see this text
in the sticks is a snake
did you know when snakes enter
environments
that were antithetical to who they are
they were restricted
so the snake because it’s in an
uncomfortable place
is fronting or scamming
like a stick i’m done live long enough
you’re gonna deal with two types of
people sticks
and snakes live long enough you’re going
to deal with sticks
and snakes pastor mike jr how do i know
the difference between both of them
put them in the fire
[Applause]
put them in the fire no you find out if
they’re a stick
if you can tell them no but they love
you
you found out if they’re a stick that
when you go down
they come down with you see how do i
know you’re a stick thank you because
mom and dad believe in prayer
you are a stick when you can practice
the art of intercession without an
invitation
and without some information you can
practice the art of intercession without
information
or invitation make that make sense you
can pray for me
without me having to ask you to pray for
me and without having
information in order to pray for me
that’s when i know you will stick
see when i tore my acl up playing ball
my pastor i’m sorry
my doctor gave me some sticks i’m sorry
some crutches
because i couldn’t get along by myself
so he gave me sticks
i’m sorry crutches he said since you
don’t have the strength
to transition imma place you with a
stick i’m sorry
something that helped you make it
but you are a snake
when you can’t handle what god is doing
in my life but what if i told you before
i open the doors and somebody gets saved
and i want to prophesy
that over 500 people are going to give
their life to christ today
as i’m preaching as i’m praying somebody
has given their life back to christ
this summer you have lost your way
during the pandemic you have lost your
way
somebody has logged on by by
happenstance and said man he’s preaching
to me
you’re going to give your life to christ
today i want to submit to you
that the devil isn’t even the best
scammer
the bible says the human heart is the
most deceitful of all things
and desperately wicked who really knows
how bad it is
so i would like to submit to you that
your heart is the biggest scammer
that you know cause when your heart
broke
your head don’t work
when your hearts broke your head don’t
worry and paul is bitten
by a scam he’s holding a snake while a
snake is holding him
when he thought it was a stick with all
the anointing paul has
he still gets bit all the favor on his
life
he still get bit he preaching opening
churches around the world
still get bit writing books that are
still on the best sellers list
still getting bitten and i want to free
you getting saved will not prevent you
from being bitten
bites come with it
and can’t you see paul with a snake on
his hand
and here’s what i want to leave you with
because i know you’ve been bitten
i know you’ve been bitten i’ve been been
loved people and did the most for them
and now
they won’t even answer my calls help
people i’ve wanted more for people than
they wanted for themselves
i’ve been been i know you’ve been bitten
trusted people and
loved people and sometimes you deserve
to get big because you were wrong
life happens but here’s what i love so
much about paul
because there’s no wasting ink in the
bible nowhere in the text does paul
emote nowhere in the scripture does paul
say ouch
i know emotions are relevant because the
bible says when jesus is on the cross he
screamed
eli ila lama sabathany he emoted and one
text says jesus
wept so i know emotion is present in the
bible
that means that they left it out it was
intentional paul gets bit
but silent i want to submit that some of
you
are doing more damage than the bite
because when bit people start speaking
they don’t lead they bleed
and some of us have yet to develop into
who we are
and there are even people maybe in this
ministry and other places who have
shifted because you did not properly
handle the bite
you are no longer a leader because the
leader can move while bitten
you are now a bleeder a leader who’s
been bit
who’s now bleeding on people
and paul gets bit i hit my toe before
say ah
i got a paper cup before i said i
followed this
ah paul says nothing
i know paul has emotion because the
bible says and at midnight paul
and silas prayed and screamed he
screamed so loud that he timed his
scream
with the earthquake that the door opened
and one person said pastor mike
it’s impossible for a door not to for a
door to open
if you don’t have a key i said it is not
impossible they said pastor mike
if you don’t have a key the door can’t
open what if i told you
what if i told you what if i told you
rod can you stop playing can you stop
what if i told you paul had a key oh
rod what key is that oh
oh rod what key is that
oh oh
he found the key rod stop hold on right
what key is that that’s a key
see noise musically is called
keys so your pray is praise is not just
noise your praise is a key
and i want to prophesy that if we begin
to shout from
transformation rod there will be some
doors
opening in your home because you are
about to use
your key somebody shout
until you find the key that’s unlocking
the door
that god is about to open
in your life oh
unlock a health door oh
unlock a financial door oh
unlock a spiritual door
paul says i’m bidding
but i’m not going to say nothing
and the very people who saw him bitten
said
a murderer no doubt although he escaped
the sea
justice won’t let them live look at me
everybody’s not going to be happy when
you survive
and for many people in your life you got
to tell them either love me
or leave me alone don’t celebrate me in
verse one and two
then hate on me in verse four and five
make up your mind
oh my god make up your mind
either you’re with us over door just
make up your mind
and the bible says after they watched
him for a long time
waiting on him to swell up and die paul
shook
he shakes it off paul finds a new way to
praise because
you’re it’s called it’s called michael
michael michael michael
michael michael michael michael it’s
called a prophetic gesture
that this is when william murphy said
he’s leaning
in my that’s called i need somebody in
your home and in the studio to just lean
it’s called a prophetic gesture it means
god
is shifting things but but watch this
watch this paul
says i’m not going to praise with my
lips
or prophesy with my mouth i’ma let my
actions
speak i need a hundred people to just
shake in your living room
for the next 90 seconds i want you to
pull your cell phone out
and record yourself shaken i want you to
grab your purse
and shake your purse until your finances
get stronger
shake yourself until you get out of the
bad mood you’re in
shake yourself until your mind realizes
that god has not brought me this far
to leave me right now i feel
a shaking that is happening and god
is getting ready to free you
he shakes it off because paul
is resilient and last thing resilience
is the capacity to recover quickly
from difficulties toughness
i want to speak over your life because
of the different scams
you’ve been exposed to god has given you
a unique anointing
watch this to not just recover
but to recover quickly
what should have took two years by faith
is gonna take two months
pastor mike you can’t speak that you’re
looking at it
i put my first song out in 2019
in 2019 i released my first song by 2019
september
the album is number one by 2020
the song is number one by 2021 the next
song is number one
a couple weeks ago i won all of these
stella awards
and people keep asking me they keep
asking me they keep saying
how does it feel how does it feel
and they think i’m fake when i say i
don’t know
because because i believe they’re
expecting me to be excited because i am
excited or to just be blown away
but if faith is the substance
of things hoped for and the evidence
you you can’t sing big then be shocked
by it
no no i am grateful
but god made my mama promise
he made my mama a promise when i was
suicidal and on the freeway closing my
eyes driving in total my father’s car
and a lady by the name of melville
jackson stopped me one of the church
mothers pulled me to the side and said
boy you couldn’t kill yourself if you
wanted to
and i looked at him mad and she said
look at me she said god showed me you in
an arena
and people were banging on the door
trying to get in she said and i looked
behind the curtain and you were behind
the curtain
and i yelled stop playing and when they
opened the curtain it was you
you said jesus and all of these young
people got saved
at the age of 27 years old we rented
a 5 000 seat arena in our city
at that time i didn’t have that many
members to fill an arena
and when i got to the building you
couldn’t even get in
and out of all those people there to the
left of me
i saw miss melvin say
and i fell down and started crying
when our family didn’t have nothing
and all the preachers would get out of
their cadillacs and had all their stuff
and my dad
had to drive the church van but he had
excellence he would get out of the
church fan and put a stoop down and
open the door for my mother and help her
down and pick all of his kids up he made
sure our clip-on ties were nice he would
pray over us every night
and i never forget he looked at me and
said mike you’re different
he said if you ever realize who you are
god’s gonna use you
i can look at you in your eyes and
boldly tell you
god has the ability to help you recover
quickly
do me a favor i want to be very clear
right here i want to make make this very
clear
if you don’t know jesus or if you know
jesus but pastor mike i’m slipping
the world is opening again and i ran
back to stuff i was over
see i want to free you real quickly see
many of you keep going in cycles because
you can be delivered from a demon you
cannot be delivered from you
see we can pray a spirit off you it’s
hard to pray you off you
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so the problem ain’t that a demon got
you you got you
and you’re not saying pastor mike i’m
slipping so i want to be very clear
because
i’m i’m done if you don’t know jesus
or maybe pastor mike i know jesus but
i’ve been slipping man
i’m a good person had a bad week a bad
three months i just been slipping
my prayer life ain’t been where it is i
want to do something there’s a number
right there at the bottom of your screen
can you do me a favor
try jesus come on
right now all you have to do right right
right right right right where you are if
you just text saved
to 8 2 8 2 8 2.
it’s real simple eight being the number
of new beginnings three eights the
number three being the signature of god
two
being the number of witness eight new
beginning three signatures god
two number of witness and agreement
which means your new beginning it’s been
signed off by god
and the world will bear witness to what
you do today
hear me try jesus
try jesus and right now
in the comments i want i want to i want
to see because sometimes you need
motivation
if you’re unashamed to say i’m trying
jesus
or i’m rededicating my life to jesus
real simple put me in the comment right
now put me oh my god
put do you see that oh my
can we praise god do you see that look
from around the world
do you see that i see it prophetically
in the spirit
do you see that what are you waiting on
i know we don’t preach like this no more
but they taught me growing up no man
knows the day nor the hour you cannot
wake up in the morning
you can leave to go over chick-fil-a and
your car is hit by a bus
you can take a nap and not wake up
where will you wake up when you get to
the gate they’re not going to care about
your drip
they’re not going to care about how much
money you got in the bank or who your
mother was
they’re not going to care because you
sung praise and worship with
transformation
pastor mike how can i rededicate my life
i just did worship easy
just like you need to your man of god
and your leaders will respect you more
if you’re trans you’re transparent
enough to say hey
help me because it is possible to be
leading while being bit
get out and live
a transformed life
and if you do that the best
is yet to come father in the name of
jesus
i speak over their life old things
are passed away and behold
all things are made
new so for the next 30 seconds 60
seconds just find your place of peace
find your place of peace come on i’ll
see you right there find your place of
peace text it right there
yes god i’m coming out better
i’m coming out strong you shut up
i’m coming out wise
i’m coming out bed
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go out and live
a transformed life
go out and live
a transformed life
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you’re coming out stronger
you’re coming out wiser you shut up
you’re coming out better right there
you’re coming out better
oh go out
and live a transformed life
somebody’s getting excited go out
and live yes that’s got a transformed
life i feel god
you’re coming out better
you’re coming out stronger
you’re coming out wiser
you’re coming out better
it’s already done god i thank you for
pastor mike todd
i thank you for his life i thank you for
the inspiration he is not just to his
ministry but to those of us who labor
with him
i thank you god for him trusting me
enough to allow me to speak to his
people
now god i pray that everything he needs
is already done
every word that was spoken over his life
by his parents
in her womb is manifesting right now
god i lift up natalie bless her cover
she is proverbs 31
she is walking favor god i speak by
faith that the seeing gift that is on
her life
is being uh expedited that the gift and
the ability to
see those things and discern those
things you’re doing even now cover all
this babies
cover all this babies god do for little
mike what you did for my mic
god you took him from being shy and on
the spectrum of autism and so much
to now he’s bold and he no longer goes
to a separate class he’s in a regular
class and
he’s morning even before i preach he’s
he texts me the entire bio of loki
and i’m like i’m loving seeing him
become who he is because god as a father
sometimes it’s hard when you can deliver
everybody but yours
so god i lift up little mike and all
those beautiful girls and
those queens that are in his life cover
transformation cover the executive team
cover the staff cover the worship
department
bless this album that is on the way to
change the world
i speak by faith that we will never be
the same
we will go out and live a transformed
life
it’s in jesus name god bless your
transformation
god bless you transformation i love you
and until next time i’m pastor mike jr
god bless you