Michael Todd - History In The Making
I’m just going to dive right in, okay? No warm-up, no warm-up. Y’all okay with this? We can just go. Alright, I’m going to give you the title off the bat, okay? The title of today’s message is **History in the Making**. The challenge I faced when preparing this message is how I stand here after 21 years of ministry, right in the middle of what feels like the beginning. It’s been 21 years, but it feels like a fresh start. How do we bring faith into our present while honoring the past, while believing in and building momentum for the future? This phrase encapsulates all those things: **History in the Making**. History speaks to the past; my present is right now because I’m in it. But the phrase «in the making» allows me to honor the past, be fully committed to the present, and understand that what’s coming is far greater than what has already happened.
For some people in this room, I’ll need to unpack this whole truth through testimony and the Word of God. It’s seen most clearly in Isaiah 43. I’m going to read a large chunk of Scripture because, number one, we’re in charge. I don’t understand why some people say, «Well, that was a long Scripture.» You don’t say that during the week! I told you no warm-up. What would happen if you ate on Sunday and didn’t eat again until the next Sunday? Physically, you would be malnourished. I feel the same way in this packed building, celebrating together, and you hope to eat a meal today that lasts for some of you for another month. If you don’t start consuming this Bible, everybody say «daily.» How many times do y’all eat every day? By a show of hands, how many of you eat? Some of you don’t have enough hands! Look at y’all! Who’s like, «I don’t know?» That’s why we’re going to read the Word of God in this house.
Isaiah 43:14 says, «This is what the Lord says, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake, I will send an army against Babylon, forcing the Babylonians to flee. And those ships they are so proud of? I am the Lord, your Holy One, Israel’s Creator and King. I am the Lord.» He keeps telling us who He is! «I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Creator and King. I am the Lord who opened a way through the waters, making a dry path through the sea. I called forth the mighty army of Egypt with all its chariots and horses and drew them beneath the waves; they drowned, their lives snuffed out like a smoldering candle.»
Verse 18 is where we’re going to focus. «I did all of that! I saved you, I redeemed you. I put you in a place you didn’t deserve to be. I healed your marriage, restored you, and brought you back from that addiction. I changed how people viewed you. When you left me, I came running after you.» Some of y’all are remembering right now. You were able to start a business when you couldn’t qualify for any loans or anything else! I helped you do what you were supposed to do. But forget all that! Forget it, because it’s nothing compared to what I’m going to do! This is where I need you to go preach this to yourself. Somebody say, «Forget all that!» Mmm. «So I’m about to do something new! See, I have already begun. Do you not see it?»
In 2020, when anyone talks about 2020, what are they usually referring to? «Do you not see it? I will make pathways through the wilderness; I’ll create rivers in the dry wasteland. The wild animals of the field will thank me, the jackals and the owls. Yes, I will make rivers in the dry wasteland so my chosen people can be refreshed.»
The funny thing about this Scripture is that Isaiah is talking, but it’s God speaking through Isaiah to a group of people who have already seen crazy things, like most of us sitting in this building. It’s the grand opening of a building that’s already been open! We’ve been here since September, but all of you came today because this is a crazy faith miracle. What do you do when you’ve seen God do crazy things? How do you process it and stay on the edge of faith when you’ve already been a part of a move of God, when you’ve already seen God answer some prayers?
I found this formula, and it’s really encapsulated in that phrase: **History in the Making**. Somebody say it with me: **History in the Making! ** Just one more time for overflow: **History in the Making! **
The first thing I realized is that you can’t skip history to build momentum for your present. Most people try to blaze a new trail without referencing the trail that was already there. I’m trying to help some people in this room. Many of us want to say, «Oh, they never did what we did, and we’re about to do something that’s never been done!» What that is, is arrogance. I need to talk to all generations in the room today because what’s happening is that, because some of our forefathers never reached the heights, the status, and the acclaim that someone can gain today for doing silly things, like making a TikTok and becoming famous, they lacked substance.
How do I say this? I don’t want to be insensitive to the momentum we’re building. I think that in our society right now, we’re very conscious of what’s trending, but we don’t consider what had to happen before those trends. The history behind it! Today, if we’re going to move toward the things God wants for us, we need to stop and reflect on history. Write this point down: «The arrogance of an amateur values the experience over the remembrance.»
I’m going to explain it. The arrogance of an amateur values the experiences we had over the remembrance of what God has already done. This is where many of us are at right now; we have stopped remembering where God brought us from and are instead looking for the high in our next experience. That’s why some of you are actually here right now: you had FOMO (fear of missing out). You were chasing the high of being where everybody else would be and looking for something that will never fulfill you.
You could feel the same level of energy if you would just stop for a second, sit in your room—all by yourself—and think about how broken you were five years ago. If you truly started to remember the goodness of God, you would be more thankful for the remembrance of what happened for you than the next experience you’re about to embark on.
What I’ve discerned in this moment in our church history is that I could just get up here and say we’re about to take over; nobody can stop us. We are in overflow in the parking lot! I could just do that, but the Holy Spirit would say, «That’s an amateur move.»
You ever been somewhere and could tell that the person had never been there before? It may be true that it’s their first time, but there are some things people do that indicate they ain’t never been there before. I think about some of the rooms God has allowed me to enter in the past year and a half. You know when people get bougie because they have money, they start eating complicated? I don’t know why eating gets complicated once you have money; it should be more convenient. But they bring out five-course meals in little portions spread out over an hour and a half. «Bring me all my food, please! I don’t want this liver! Just give me my meal!»
But one thing I’ve learned to do is follow the person I’m eating with. They put a lot of cutlery in front of you: four forks, seven knives, thirteen spoons—and then they put soup in front of you. I’m just sitting back, twirling my napkin, thinking, «This is funny!»
Then I watch that person pick something up and observe where it was compared to where I am. I notice how slow they’re eating. I usually wait until they stop eating for a second and start talking, and then I remember what they did. Because I remembered what they did, I can now execute with a level of proficiency I would have lost if I had arrogantly walked in and said, «What are all these spoons for? I’m only using this one!»
What I’m afraid of is that many of us walk into situations so arrogantly focused on what God has called us to do that we don’t take a moment to pause, observe, and remember the sacrifices of other people that got us to this place. I can’t help but think about why God, through Isaiah, takes two verses to remind the children of Israel of what happened. They were ready for their next experience, but God, through Isaiah, takes them back to remembrance.
Look what He says: «I am the Lord.» Oh, I do remember that! «I opened the way.» «Yeah, You did do that! You opened the waters!» That was the time when we saw the miracle! «I made a dry path through the sea!» «You did that!» «I called forth the mighty army of Egypt with all its chariots and horses, and I drowned them beneath the waves.» Your enemies couldn’t touch you because I snuffed them out like a candle!
God took a moment to say, «Everybody say remember!» And today, as we stand at this amazing moment, I don’t want to rush it. I want to remember what it was like when I stood on a platform, and 200 people showed up because it was a snow day! I want to take all of this in. During worship, I could barely focus on anything but looking around because I want to remember that the last time we did an anniversary like this was the day I became the pastor of the church. I didn’t sleep the night before because I was painting the walls to make sure it was proper for God’s people to come in. I would stay up all night painting a black wall, and at 6:45 in the morning, the ushers started coming in.
My friend Aaron, who was on the worship team today, said, «Mike, you’ve got to go get dressed; you’re about to be installed as the pastor!» I need to remember! I’m not just trying to have an emotional moment right now; I’m trying to remember that this is not the pinnacle of satisfaction! Hear what I’m saying: when you get the house, you need to remember the dorm room! When you’re complaining about the family you prayed for, remember being lonely and single and frustrated. See, some of you have lost the art of remembering, but I dare you to take five seconds right now and think about what God has brought you from. Remember!
When you remember the history, it changes the way you approach your present. I approach this moment with faith because I have more than I’ve ever had. Many times, it happens in reverse for people. When they have more than they’ve ever had, they start protecting what they have. God told me, «Michael, this is the year you’re not going to play it safe. You’re ready to step out in faith!»
I thought I was already out here, and I thought, «No, this feels pretty okay.» But then I learned something. Watch this: you can’t appreciate the value of a victory without remembering the magnitude of the moment. See, a lot of people get a victory and lose the value of it because they forget the moment they were in when God gave them that victory.
Nope, you missed it! Look what happened! Isaiah 43:16 is right here in the Bible: «I am the Lord who opened a way!» Oh, great, that’s a victory! God opened a way! But you only see the value when you realize the magnitude of the moment. He opened a way through some water! Y’all missed it—my enemies were back here, and I was scared! I was running away from the ocean, and I can’t swim!
We’re going to rebuke that demon! In 2020, we’re having transformation swimming classes for y’all! This situation is ridiculous! You don’t value what God did if you don’t remember the magnitude of the moment. My enemies were behind me, and then I came to our position, and God said, «See? Move!» Some of you have faced opposition, and you’ve forgotten the value of victory because there was no way you should be here! There was no way you should have made it this far! At school, there was no way you should have your right mind, but God made a way through the sea. If He made a way to receive for you, why don’t you give Him some praise in the building?
See, y’all are forgetting and stopping to remember what God did, so you can’t understand the value of the victory if you don’t understand the magnitude of the moment. It’s like Bishop and Pastor Debbie; they started a church in 1999. Greg, another person in Tulsa, started a church; they’re everywhere, but you missed the magnitude of the moment. You don’t understand the value of that victory. They were leaving something familiar, and they were walking into planting a church in the hood. And if you’ve never seen Bishop and Pastor Debbie, they are white—excuse me, they are white, white, like not the rhythm, like not Justin Timberlake white.
Okay, I’m just trying to make sure y’all understand. I love this shirt, but watch— the only reason you can understand the value of the victory is that you take time to remember the magnitude of the moment. They stepped out, and Bishop took his shoes off on Greenwood and Archer, and he looked around in North Tulsa, and God said, «Reverse the curse.»
See, y’all don’t know that in 1921 one of the worst race massacres happened right here in Tulsa, Oklahoma. They don’t teach this in Oklahoma history. They don’t teach this, but they wiped out and oppressed part of our city, and God called a man and a woman to look at a seed, and He said, «I’m about to make a way through the waters.» Y’all don’t hear me in this place! Yeah, there would be no Transformation Church; there would be none of this if they did not step forward and see God give them victory when the moment was speaking everything against them.
Why am I telling you this? I’m telling all of you this because I don’t think your next victory is in thinking about what’s to come yet. I think your next victory—guess what? —you don’t need any money to remember. You don’t need anybody to co-sign you to remember. You don’t need a cheering committee. You don’t need a leader to approve you. If you just sit in a quiet space and remember where God has brought you from, it will begin to give you faith and fuel for what God has called you to do. I just need somebody, before I move on, to remember that the same God—the same God that told Bishop and Pastor Debbie to reverse the curse—is the same God that’s in the building right now. He’s the same God that stands outside of eternity, and He’s the same God it’s the same. Somebody shout at me! He’s the same God! Say it again! He’s the same God! In the overflow, He’s the same God. That’s why we have to look at the past. I don’t want a good memory lane with me. Do you?
Okay, see, the same God that told Bishop to reverse the curse was the same God that after I wrote down on a piece of paper that Transformation Church would be meeting in the Spirit Bank Event Center, it’s the same God that my third call was to Bishop. We came over here; we broke in. I admit we broke in, and Bishop, before we left out, said, «Mike, this is your building now.» You okay?
Yeah, we’re in here now. You don’t understand the value of the victory because you weren’t in the magnitude of the moment at that time. In the church, we had less than 350 people consistently coming. We had a very low budget; we were believing God to meet our needs so we didn’t have to fire people who had been with the church for 10 plus years. We were in a moment where it looked like the sea was closed in front of us. And guess what we did in that moment? Bishop said, «Stand there, Pastor Mike; I want to take a picture of you in the building that you will one day own.» If you’ve got that picture, put it on the screen real quick because I need people to see. Oh, y’all don’t hear me. You don’t understand the value of the victory of us being here unless you understand the magnitude of this moment.
Somebody else wanted the building at that time; somebody else was trying to get it, but the value of the victory we stand in now is because in that moment, I had faith. What are you trying to say, Pastor Mike? I’m just trying to fuel your faith so that you remember whatever you’re facing right now. God’s already brought you through. He’s already brought you through so much! Why are you tripping now? It’s like this is where you think I believe you. This is where you think I’m going to play you right now. I’m the same God that brought you out of that crazy family and saved you from all of that craftiness, and this is where you’ll go play me. Like I’m sure, the God who will provide. I am the healer! I am! Somebody better give God praise because the same God who did it back then is the same God that’s going to do it now. Somebody shout at me!
Remember, the old folks would say, «When I think of the goodness in Jesus and all He’s done for me, my soul cries Hallelujah.» See, what I’m trying to do today is I’m trying to make a commitment to everybody that no matter what God does in this ministry, no matter how big it gets, we won’t be arrogant, and we will remember our history. I remember when tons of people left the church, and as a 26-year-old pastor, I took every one of them personally. «We’re leaving; God’s doing great things, but we’re out. You’re called for this, but we’re not going to be here. You have such a bright future.» We’re going to throw shade, like, «What?» And I took everyone personally. But there were people in this room that I remember who stayed with me, people like Miss Tami McQuarters and Scott McQuarters. People, yeah! See, you don’t know them because you weren’t there in that moment, but I remember.
See, it doesn’t take everybody to clap for it to be significant. See, everybody can clap, but the question is, are the right ones clapping? Are the people who saw your sacrifice the ones clapping? That’s why I can’t stand you getting your validation from Instagram and Facebook. They weren’t there when you started; they weren’t there when you began the work, and God says, «I rejoice to see the work begin.» It doesn’t even matter if there were only 50 views. God said, «I see you! I see what you’re doing! I see you being faithful!»
That’s why I remember people like Eddie Evans and Calvin Webb. Eddie, are you in the building? Calvin Webb, are you in the building? Y’all come up here real quick. I remember these men of God, and I’m just trying to give y’all a shout-out. I need y’all to come quick; I need you to remember. I’ve been remembering what God did. I remember coming in and preaching my first message, not in a suit, and at our church at that time, the culture was, «You wear a suit, and if you didn’t wear a suit, you didn’t hear from God; you weren’t anointed, and as a matter of fact, you were backsliding.» «Lift your hands,» and they were—what? You mean over the suit?
And I remember being called into a meeting because the ushers were pissed off. I remember because I asked everybody to wear an orange shirt that said «Transformation Church» on it so that our visitors would know who they could ask for help. These men said, «I don’t spend $400; they see me, they know I’m in charge.» I said, «Brother, at Transformation Church, this is brother Calvin Webb. How do you feel about wearing new wine?» I remember. Do you remember y’all were upset over not wearing suits? Yes, they were mad. But it’s funny that in this moment, where we could be talking about all the great things that we’ve done as a church—this week when I was remembering, I remembered you! Because out of all the people who got mad and left, who got mad and talked about us, you and your wife kept tithing and kept serving. The reason why it took them so long is that he was ushering in that section over there today. Okay, can we give God praise? I remember!
And because I remember, you know I’m a sneakerhead, so I had this guy make some custom Nike Blazers that said «Transformation Church here in Tulsa, Oklahoma, established in 1999,» and I got them made in your size. You may never wear them, but he said, «Oh, I’m aware of 'em,» but I want you to know that I remember what you did by staying and being faithful to this vision when everybody didn’t know if it was going to work, and God saw it. Can we give God praise? I love you, son. Let me teach you something, next generation. That’s the way that we’re going to get an inheritance. We’re so used to being abandoned without anything, but the way we get an inheritance is through this little cuss word that starts with an «H"—honor! So everybody needs to remember. See, the great thing about remembering is—write this point down—remembering produces rejoicing. See, when you really start remembering what God has done, then you start rejoicing for all that He’s about to do.
And again, you can rejoice in the middle of it. Everybody say, «In the middle of it.» In the middle of pain, in the middle of frustration, you can still rejoice. In the middle of everything not working out, in the middle of loss, you can still rejoice. Do you know how many times I had to praise God when everything looked contrary to what was happening? But that is the weapon God gives you; He gives you joy in the midst of sorrow. I need somebody to understand what Philippians chapter 4, verse 4 says. It says, «Always be joyful in the Lord, and again, I say rejoice.» And this is the thing that I need everybody to understand: when you remember, you should begin to feel joy on the inside. My situation didn’t change, but my joy is coming back. This is the word some of y’all came for this week. My situation is no different; they’re still mean; they’re still ugly, and they stink themselves. But my joy, 'cause the world didn’t give it.
See, you don’t believe that. You think your joy can be stolen by your coworker? No, your happiness can be stolen, but my joy—that’s the fruit of the Spirit. The only one that can give me joy is the Holy Spirit; and when God gives me joy, you can’t touch it. Some of y’all have been making the weakest excuse that, «Oh, they just stole my joy,» or «This situation just—» no, you gave it away. Let me help you. Anytime your joy gets robbed from you, it didn’t really get robbed from you; you abdicated it. You gave it away. You let somebody’s attitude take away what God placed on the inside of you. But I’m making a decision in 2020—nobody gets my joy that they didn’t give me. When I start to remember all that God’s done—how He saved me, analogies, marriage, how my son is alive—he’s not talking, but he’s alive. When I begin to think of the goodness of Jesus, I get—somebody shout at me! JOY!
I’m trying to give you a playbook. Don’t be arrogant and don’t forget what God has brought you from. And when you start remembering, you need to get joy on the inside of you. Okay, some of y’all need help; you need a joy booster. How many people have had a hard week this week? Hands raised, come on, oh dang! All right, well, I’ve needed a lot of joy boosters over this past five years, and they came in different ways. And today, I felt like God wanted to give everybody a joy booster. I became the pastor on February 1, 2015. On March 9, God gave me a word that this would be our building. About nine weeks ago, I stood right there and said, «I’m believing in crazy faith that by church anniversary, we’re going to pay off the building.»
Transformation Church, I want to let you know that because of your crazy faith, we no longer owe any money on the building! Oh, somebody better give God! Don’t tell me what God won’t do! And the same God that did that—y’all missed it—the same God that did that is going to do for your house! You believe it? What happened to the mortgage? It’s gone! Don’t tell me what God will do if I remember how He kept me when I lost all the staff in the second year, and then when I stand in this building, and we needed to pay $10.5 million for it, when they told us that we couldn’t even have it, God said, «I’m the same God that brought you from that place.» It doesn’t matter about the zeros; you’re worried about the wrong thing. God’s looking for faith! Is there anybody in this place with crazy faith today—in the overflow, watching online, in the lobby? Give God a shout of praise!
Our bank president is videoing me right now. What’s the update? First Bank of Owasso texted me three days ago because I went to his office. I told him, «D., we’re going to sign for this loan in August, and it will be paid off by our church anniversary.» He chuckled—a white man chuckled. I don’t think they knew who he was messing with. There were a bunch of people who had crazy faith! Y’all sit in gifts from all over the world. He texted me three days ago and said, «We’ve been in business for 57 years, making loans to over 200 churches. Congratulations, Transformation Church: you are now the fastest-paid-off church in our history loan and First Bank of Awasum history—its history!»
Some of y’all are getting it. God is saying, «Look at the past, these faithful in the present, because I’m taking you to the future.» Some of y’all are getting it. Hey, hey, there’s a phrase that just came to me: «Come on, that mystery is to make us in disarray.» Help me, everyone! Oh, hey, history—it’s too late now! Give God praise for right now, history in the making. History that the Builder paid for. They said I wasn’t whole, but God did what He does! Hey, and it was something for you. History—I know you feel that overflow.
Oh yeah, history is for your house, for your bank account, for your family, for your heart. This is not a season; some of y’all see it all weak. Y’all gonna be crewed, Vinny, now. No, no, it’s crazy though because we remembered, and our memory produced rejoicing. That’s what just happened. But then look what God says. Go to verse 18, please. See, we could stay there all day just yelling, but He said, «Everything I’ve done up to this point? Oh, you thought that was it? Is that what you thought? You thought I was done? That was limited?»
Now, I need you to do something for me: forget all we just burned the mortgage. The moment it happens, it becomes so. At the moment we burn the mortgage, God says, «I can top that.» Some theologians fade right now, and as He heals your marriage, He says, «I can top that.» At the moment He saves your kids, He says, «I can top that.» The moment you get the promotion, mister, like that’s why we have to always honor His presence. But we’ve got to have crazy faith in the present because it’s not worth being compared to the things in the making. Can I just encourage somebody who’s been doubting? Has God done His greatest miracles in your life? Are my glory days behind me? Am I too old to be used by God? Am I too young to be used by God? Am I too damaged to actually do what I see in my heart?
And I came to tell you that, baby, you’re still in the making. Somebody needs to receive that now. Hands lifted! I speak over you that you’re in the making; that your business, your family, you’re overflowing! Lift your hands in the lobby! Lift your hands watching a rebroadcast! Lift your hands and receive! I’m telling you that whatever happened to you, no matter how damaged you feel, broken, the inner peace tried to break you. God sent me here to tell you that you are in the making!
I see by the Spirit. I feel the urge to prophesy to somebody. I see by the Spirit that God has wrapped you in a cocoon. In this last season, you’ve been a caterpillar crawling everywhere, using a lot of effort and energy to make that thing happen. But God is saying in this moment that the cocoon season is coming to an end. Listen! When you see things breaking, it’s what’s necessary for the wings to spread. I feel this by the power of God! Don’t try to hold on to those relationships God’s breaking! Don’t try to hold on to that business idea that God’s breaking because He’s breaking it so you can fly, baby! And the only time you would ever need to go to a low place again is when you decide to go help somebody else. Is anybody receiving that right now?
I just feel God saying you’re in the making. Dream your greatest dream! You’ve not written your best song; you’ve not taken the picture that the world is going to see. I hear the Holy Spirit saying some of you have been holding back. You’ve been holding back in fear that if you let it go too soon, you won’t have another good idea. I don’t know who this is for, but the Holy Spirit says you’ve been holding things back that I’ve already given you, waiting for the right moment. And He’s saying if you don’t release what’s in your hand, I can’t release the next idea that’s in my head!
If you don’t release, leap! Jump up here real fast! Scott, give me that bag real quick! Whoever’s got my bag, hurry! I need it. Everybody has seen this picture of a teddy bear and Jesus, where Jesus has a big teddy bear behind His back, and they’re trying to hold onto something. So, it looks like this; you’re holding on to both. I need you to break that. That’s how gangsters break the rap.
Hailey, Hailey, God told me yesterday when I saw you to give you this. Now, I don’t know why you’re crying; I don’t know what’s happening, but what I do know is I actually have something else for you. But the only way I can give you what’s in this hand is if you trust that I know what’s best for you. See, that looks bigger, but it’s $200 in ones. This is what many of your lives look like: you’re holding onto a bunch of singles, and because it looks like more, and you can stunt with it, God’s saying, «Write this point down: when you’re ready to release, it tells God you’re ready for release.»
Solemnly tonight, can I have back what I already gave? See, the problem is many of you think what you hold in your hands—your gifts, your talents, your job, your house—you think it’s yours! But can I have it back? Look at it with tears in your eyes, knowing that I may give you something that is not as valuable but because you trust the character of the one who gave it to you. At the moment you release this, it’s $500. Now watch! Remember what I just said: when you’re ready to release the relationship, the business idea, when you’re ready to release that, it tells God you’re ready for release.
Now can I just hold this for one second? One looks a lot more attractive than the other, and many times God will ask you to release something that looks like more to actually put your hands on something that is valued more than the one dollar bills. So, release celebrity to be a husband. Release everybody liking you to obey the will of God. Ladies, that’s your calling. I love you! Thank you for being used as an example.
Hey, apparently because you were faithful, I’m trying to show you the kingdom right now. Because you were faithful to trust me with what I gave you, you can take all this and the bag. Two fingers at the back too, right? Right? What do you say? It’s time to do all that this word is telling us to do. Remember the past, rejoice in our present, and release—everybody say release—our future into God’s hands! That’s what we’re doing as a church. As I stand here at this five-year anniversary, I don’t know what’s next, but every vision requires revision.
When this church started in 1999, the vision statement was «Touching a city by raising up four people.» I want you to get it: every vision has to have a revision. What God saw outside of eternity was, «I want this thing to last beyond the original visionary.» So, He gave them «Touching a city by raising up people.» And then He said, «You might go serve in the salmon booth, and I must start you in an obscure place, and I want to make sure you have my heart.»
And when the church goes through a financial issue and they have to lay everybody off, I want you to stay and keep serving. It was during the season that I kept coming from the back, turning up microphones, looking for someone to yell to. Tony Mason! You know where you at? He was right in here. I saw it more in the monitors, more in the monitor. You were loud, so you couldn’t hear yourself! He made our half-hour church deaf for real! But it was in that place that the Bishop saw me, and he said, «There’s something happening right there.»
Now listen! When he handed me the baton, he said, «Michael, you have the opportunity not to give the original vision, but to go back for revisions.» And the only time you can go back for a revision—and I’m saying this because some of y’all are in a place and you’re trying to work a vision that has expired. I know this is tough to hear, but we don’t release to dishonor the past; we release to honor the future. See? Y’all got it! Nah, we ain’t doing it like them! I’ve spent most of my message today honoring what has happened. We don’t release it some good day and do nothing!
Yeah, but we have to release it because what God has behind His back for Transformation Church is not worth being compared to. What He has for your house, what He has for your life and family, is not worth being compared! Stop living in your high school trophy days! When you say «the good old days,» that means your days today are bad! So many people are living in a period of their life when God said, «The whole reason I send Jesus is that you might have life and have it to the full.»
What are you saying to us, Pastor Mike? Everybody who’s a part of Transformation Church and Transformation Nation, I’m so excited that you came and you’re watching this because I feel like this is a homecoming. I can tell everybody all at the same time—we are releasing everything God has done up to this point! Great for Transformation Church: great for the thousands of people who’ve come and been changed! But my Bible says it’s not worth being compared to what He has planned for us!
What does the next five years hold, Pastor Mike? I don’t know, but it’s better than this! Did you see the faith in the statement? Somebody’s going to get that! I don’t know, but it’s better than this! Where are you going to be working five years from now? I don’t know, but it’s better than this! How’s your family going to be doing that year? I don’t know, but it’s better than this! How’s your health going to be next week? I don’t know what’s going to happen, but it’s going to be better than this! Hands lifted all over this place!
In the overflow, I speak the same anointing that is on Transformation Church and in my life. I speak it over every person with the faith to receive it! I declare that this is not just an act of faith; it’s an impartation of faith. I need y’all to receive right now! This is not scary and spooky; this is spiritual! All the way up in the balcony, I believe that an army is arising of people that will believe God beyond what they have seen! Our best days are not behind us; our best days are in front of us! I declare that we are moving forward! We are saying we’re not going back because, God, you’ve done some amazing things in our history, but right now, we have faith in the present because it’s not worth being compared to what you’re going to do and what you have in the making!
Today, God, I command dreams to come alive! Receive this! I feel the presence—I literally feel it coming from me right now! I declare people will write things down and live to seal! I thank you, Father, that bank accounts that have been barren and dry will find themselves in overflow! I declare and believe that creativity is being unlocked over every business, every artist! I declare that the word of the Lord will come to every author and that books—volumes of books—will be written! I declare that everybody who is called to speak the Word of God will have a revelation drop in them that will be found every time they think about Jesus and what He’s done!
I declare that every single spirit and every person’s body will come into alignment with the thirty-nine lashes that Jesus took on the cross! I declare divine healing, and we speak in this moment that history is still in the making! Father God, because we know Your character, and we know You’re a good, good Father who does not give His kids bad gifts, today we don’t praise You for what You’ve already done—that’s in our history.
Today, God, I command dreams to come alive! Receive this! I feel the presence—I literally feel it coming from me right now! I declare people will write things down and live to seal! I thank you, Father, that bank accounts that have been barren and dry will find themselves in overflow! I declare and believe that creativity is being unlocked over every business, every artist! I declare that the word of the Lord will come to every author and that books—volumes of books—will be written! I declare that everybody who is called to speak the Word of God will have a revelation drop in them that will be found every time they think about Jesus and what He’s done!
I declare that every single spirit and every person’s body will come into alignment with the thirty-nine lashes that Jesus took on the cross! I declare divine healing, and we speak in this moment that history is still in the making! Father God, because we know Your character, and we know You’re a good, good Father who does not give His kids bad gifts, today we don’t praise You for what You’ve already done—that’s in our history.