Michael Todd - Fractured Faith
I got an assignment in y’all; somebody’s faith is just trying to derail my assignment today. Um, God, but today I feel like I have been given, specifically, a message for a group of people who have been going on this journey of crazy faith with us. Today, I pray that you’re seen; like, I know that in the loud, rambunctious, and real strong bravado of crazy faith, there’s a group of people that kind of get lost in the sauce. God stopped everything and said, «Michael, on this; I told y’all it was crazy till Christmas, and that means we only have two more weeks.» God said, «Today, I need you to talk to a specific group of people in week 12 of crazy faith, who may be in a place where they’re not ready to believe out loud and strong because of the damage that has happened to them.»
I know there are some people in this room, but today I want to talk to those whose faith has been fractured. Today my assignment in week 12 of crazier faith is to talk to people who have fractured faith, and I don’t know what the situation is or what the circumstance is; I don’t know where you lost something, but for some reason, every time you get ready to believe God, there’s something in you that feels eerily devastating about stepping out again. Wow, yeah, yeah. Today, some of you may have masked so well under church lingo and language, shouting, and all the different things that you don’t even realize that when it comes time for you to do the one thing that God requires to please Him—without faith, it’s impossible to please God—there’s a standard.
It’s like every time I get here, God, I ain’t got nothing to give you. Wow, I don’t have any more belief in me. God didn’t come through the way I thought He was going to come through when I prayed that one time; I gave Him the crazy faith offering two years ago, but I still don’t see some of the things that I believed for then coming to pass in my life—fractured faith. See, fractures are the things that don’t fully break. They didn’t make you stop going to church; it didn’t make you stop listening to the worship music; it just made you not believe it as much. It made you not really be able to identify and put your weight on what God says.
When we sing songs, «All of my help comes from You, Lord,» you say it, but what you feel is some help. Like, I’ll say the right thing, but I feel different, 'cause my faith is fractured. Today, if your faith has been fractured, I’ve been in a meeting with God about you. Yeah, all week, He’s been wrecking me about you. He said, «Michael, you can rally the truth, but I don’t want you to leave anybody behind.» Last week and the last couple of weeks, people have been rallying in crazy faith and giving and believing and all this other stuff, but there’s a small group who was like, «Well, they can go ahead and do that.» God said, «Everybody, stop. We’re going back to get every one of them who felt unseen and unheard, and we’re going to help you understand what God can do with fractured faith.»
Someone in the Bible whom I thought of while studying is Joseph— not Jesus' daddy, Joseph. I’m talking about Joseph with the coat of many colors. Remember Joseph? His daddy loved him a lot, so he got him a real nice colorful Gucci jacket and gave it to him in front of all of his brothers. Maybe not the wisest decision, and he didn’t get them anything—not even a Forever 21 jacket—but just got him this big Gucci down. I have to really paraphrase this whole story, and I want you to study the Bible on your own time this week. This story takes place in 11 chapters of the Bible, so today I can’t specifically go to every one of them, but I want to jog your memory on what happens in Joseph’s life.
What ends up happening for this young man in Genesis chapter 37 is that he starts his life with favor. Somebody shout at me, «Favor!» He starts his life with favor he didn’t ask for. Now, I need everybody to understand that certain things happen in your life and you ain’t even asked for it. Joseph didn’t put on his crazy faith card, hoping his daddy would give him a coat of many colors; he didn’t ask for anything. He found favor with his natural father, and he was given favor he didn’t ask for. But what ends up happening is this favor that he didn’t ask for was the start of his first fracture. Come on now, I need you to see this. Joseph was gifted by God to have dreams; he goes to sleep and has these dreams. He has dreams that one day these bushels would bow to him and all this different stuff, and what it did was represent that, one day, his brothers would be bowing to him.
Joseph was immature in his ability to process what God was doing in his life, and I just want to encourage somebody right now: everything that God tells you is not for everybody else. Because sometimes God’s doing something in you, and the greatest time to kill something is when it’s in seed form. You can’t always say everything to everybody because you might cause uncalled-for warfare. This was warfare that Joseph was going to have because he told his brothers his dream. He tells his brothers, «Yeah, one day this is going to happen.» They say, «We hate you, we hate you, and we’re going to kill you.» Joseph was like, «Hey, it was just a dream.» But this favor and these dreams produced the fracture, and literally, his brothers threw him into a pit.
Now, I need everybody to see this; write this point down because it may apply to you: many of our first fractures come from family. Jesus, I don’t want to go into a family therapy session today, but there are some things that your family called you. Come on, come on. «Oh, look at you; you’re just over there, always doing stupid stuff. You’re just always dumb; why do you do that dumb stuff?» Wow, wow. Somewhere in your mind, after hearing that from age two, three, four, five, and six, «Oh, we see you; you always want to be seen; you’re good at everything.» Wow, look at you, straight A’s; aren’t you supposed to be? Wow, wow! But your own insecurities about how you feel now have made you your seed, and now you ask, «Why do you talk so white? You mean proper? Why do you talk so black?» I’m telling you, this is real. What ends up happening is that the life God’s called you to lead in a perfect, clear, clean, pure way, what you’re supposed to see, somehow becomes disfigured.
What was supposed to be beautiful for years, what was supposed to be undefiled in a clear picture, now has fractures. «That’s what my mom said, that’s what my dad didn’t say.» Oh, you thought fractures could only be caused by what was said? No, fractures can be caused by what was not said. Wow! That was the classmate; that was the cousin you only saw twice. You didn’t even know how they were related in the family, but somehow, when they came around, they made you feel less than about yourself because you didn’t have the Jordans, or you didn’t have the Polo boots, or you didn’t have… I’m just saying real stuff. And now you’re living your life all the time, «Well, I don’t have hair like that or we don’t have money like that.»
Many of our first fractures come from family. Joseph’s first fracture comes from his own brothers, and he literally gets thrown in the pit. So, I just want you to think about Joseph sitting at the bottom of the pit, fractured, trying to figure out, «I just wanted to be like my brothers. I just wanted to be around them,» and how did I end up here? But when you’re fractured, watch this—here’s the grace of God—you can still find favor. See, what the enemy would like to convince you of is that your fracture has now disqualified you, and now you’re a failure. But I came to tell somebody today who may be fractured in an area of your life that the fracture does not disqualify you and make you a failure. The fracture is now a testimony that God can still use broken things, and you can still find favor when you’re fractured. Let me prove it to you: the original intent for Joseph was not to throw him into the pit; it was to kill him.
So, the pit was actually God’s provision. Some of y’all are complaining about where you are right now, but it could have been way worse because the enemy’s original plan was to kill you, to kill the dream, to kill the relationship. Oh, but I’m telling you, you may be in the pit, but you can find favor even in the pit. The fracture was supposed to be fatal, but God sent a Reuben. A Reuben is a brother of Joseph who was conspiring to kill him, but something in him would not let the other brothers go through with the full plan.
So, he was a part of it, but somehow, God raised him up to spare him and bring favor. What are you saying, Pastor Mike? I’m praying that God, in your pit situations right now, would raise up a Reuben—that what the plan was for your business and for your family, even if they’re the ones trying to do it to you, something will rise up on the inside of them and say, «We can’t kill him.» Some of y’all live perfect lives, but in my life, I need some Reubens to rise up. You can hate on me, but you can’t take me out, and Reuben was used to be able to be God’s favor. Yes! Even though Joseph was in a pit, can we stop and think for a second how many places we hate that we’re in, but it may be God’s provision? Wow! Oh my God, it didn’t take away the fracture, but it was supposed to be fatal, and we found God’s favor.
Pastor Mike, what are you saying to me right now? Because they didn’t kill him, his story didn’t end. He finally gets a rope and somebody’s pulling him up, and if it was me, I would be like, «Ah! They came to get me! This was a joke; y’all punked me.» Okay? And it wasn’t his brothers anymore; come on, it was slave traders, and Joseph now has been betrayed by his brothers, but now sold out by his brothers to somebody else, right? These people are about to take him from everything that he’s ever known: language, culture—he’s not going to stay in the same place; he’s going to Egypt. And many times, when God moves you out of your comfort zone, another fracture occurs. «How am I supposed to be fruitful here? You’re going to take me from everything that I know and still not change the requirement of my purpose.»
See, a lot of people think that the fracture changes the expectation. This mirror was created to produce an image back to me, and even though it’s fractured, it still has to do what it was created to do. How many of us have put an «out of use» sign on our lives—God, no longer usable? Oh, because of the fracture? No, it’s not ideal, but if the point was to be able to see, I can still see, even though this mirror is fractured. I don’t know who I’m talking to right now, but this is a prophetic sign of what God is telling you right now: I know you’ve been fractured; I know they left you; I know they ostracized you; I know you were left for dead; I know they sold you out; I know that it didn’t happen in the timing that you thought it would happen, but there is still use for you.
He’s fractured, and now he’s sold to Potiphar’s house, and he goes to Potiphar’s house, but he still finds—everybody say—favor! I’m trying to help somebody who has been in a paralyzed position thinking that God can’t use you until you have no fractures—that He’s not requiring your faith and your action, but in Genesis 39, verse 2, it says—oh, I love the Bible, 'cause you can take what God has already said and adopt it to your life—the Lord was with Joseph. There is another level of confidence that you can walk in, even when you’re fractured, when you know that the Lord is with you. Somebody say, «The Lord is with me!» The Lord—you didn’t say it like you meant it—say, «The Lord is with me!»
The Lord is with me, and the Lord was with Joseph, so he succeeded in everything that he did as he served in the home of his Egyptian master. He’s a slave succeeding, right? He’s a slave; that means he doesn’t make his own hours, do his own thing—he is still succeeding in a game that is rigged against him! I came to tell somebody who’s saying they can’t flourish at the job that they’re at, that you can’t do what God’s called you to do 'cause you don’t have the resources. God says He will make you succeed in an arena that is rigged against your failure, if he’s with you, okay? Potiphar noticed this and realized that the Lord was with you. Hold on; God will make the people who are supposed to be controlling you recognize that the Lord is with you. I just want you to see this: this pleased Potiphar, so he soon made Joseph his personal attendant. He put him in charge of his entire household.
How is a slave running the entire household? Some of you are about to walk into a season where your title and your authority don’t match. You can call me a slave if you want to, you can call me a servant if you want to, you can call me the vice, vice, vice, vice, junior president over the janitor’s closet if you want to, but my title does not match the authority that I’ve been given. It doesn’t say that the title was changed, but it was over the entire place. And if you could be humble enough—uh-oh, there’s that word again—humility, if you could be humble enough to not need them to know who you are as long as He knows what He’s given you, Brother Billy, you’ll be able to call the shots, make changes, influence culture, and they won’t even have to know.
Let me stop; that’s crazy! They don’t even have to know! Wow! In an era where we want everybody to know, we want to be able to Instagram, Facebook, and tweet that we just got the job. As God said, would you rather be impactful or just have influence? Take all my followers, as long as I can get the message of Jesus to culture. However you want to do it, God, you can do it. And that’s where we have to get to a place where, even if they don’t know, that ain’t even in my notes. But He put him in charge of his entire household and everything he owned. Amen. From the day Joseph was put in charge, listen to this: from the day that he was put in charge of his master’s household and property, the Lord began to bless Potiphar’s household for Joseph’s sake. You might want to watch how you treat me, 'cause the favor that’s on this is attached to me.
Some of you, Joseph, don’t even understand that God has put His favor on your life even though you’re fractured. And God said, «When you show up, don’t look at the fracture; walk in the favor. When you show up, don’t point out the fractures; step into your favor.» I don’t know who I’m talking to. When you show up, don’t maximize the fractures—that’s good! Step into the favor! Do you know how many times I’ve walked into rooms knowing my deficiencies, and God would tell me, as I hit the threshold of the door, «They don’t know who you used to be, and they don’t know who I’ve created you to be.»
So when you step into this room, step in the authority I’ve given you. I’ve sat with billionaires, millionaires, bank presidents, athletes, superstars, and every time I’m sitting there, I’m not showing them, «Oh, look at all the things that God has done,"—no, no, no, no, no. We’ll deal with that, but while you’re fractured—the church has done a bad job thinking that God only blesses you at the end of your deliverance, at the end when everything’s gone. God said, «I’ll still raise you up, still favor you, and still use you with your fractures.» Watch how you treat me, 'cause the favor that’s on this place ran smoothly. Yes, and his crops and livestock flourished.
Come on! So Potiphar gave Joseph complete administrative responsibility over everything he owned. With Joseph there, he didn’t worry about a thing; come on, except what kind of food he ate. What I’m trying to say—write this point down: when you’re fractured, you can still be fruitful. I’m coming to encourage somebody who feels like everything has to be put back together before God uses you. Joseph was fractured by his family, fractured by his own blood brothers, fractured by the title of slave. He was never a slave where he came from; he was his dad’s favorite. He probably never did any of those jobs at his own home. He gets completely taken out of the context that he’s familiar with and brought into this place. He’s fractured, but somehow God still makes him fruitful.
I prophesy over someone watching right now that your fractures will no longer keep you from being fruitful. If you receive it, why don’t you give God some praise right now? So he’s fruitful, but fractured; favored, but fractured. And then in Genesis 39, he has an encounter with the cougar of compromise. He has an encounter with the cougar of compromise. If you all don’t know the story, Potiphar’s wife says, «Oh my God, you’re looking good over there!» and takes an interest in Joseph while he’s being fruitful and while he’s fractured. Oooh, watch this! This is a dangerous place to be: being successful and fruitful, but still having very broken pieces on the inside of you. This is where the enemy always comes to try and get you to compromise. Beware when everything’s working and you have not healed internally. The people that are coming into your life are going to present you with compromise.
Some of you right now are living with decisions that you made because inside, you got to a platform, but you were still insecure. So you used the platform along with the Gucci and the Louis and this and that, and him and her, to make you feel better about yourself. And now compromise is coming into your life. I’m just saying that everybody’s going to face this. This woman comes up to Joseph and tries to fracture him again. Now I want everybody to see this: most people wouldn’t even be mad at Homeboy. Can we be real? You’re a slave; this is the boss’s chick, and she’s trying to bless you! She’s trying to lay hands! Nobody will ever know! Oh see, because compromise is not about what you do that everybody sees; compromise is about what you do that God sees.
A lot of you have not compromised in your actions, but you’ve compromised in your heart. You haven’t even had the opportunity yet, but you know that if you were presented with the opportunity—oh, come on! Okay, so back when we were in high school, the dudes would basically be like, «Okay, if Halle Berry came up to you, but nobody would find out, what would you do?» That’s how I’m going to say it, 'cause that’s not what we said. Y’all may need to find another pastor, but I’m just being authentic! They’d be like, «What would you do?» And everybody would be like, «You know what I would do!» What that started to do in my life when I played those games was have me start practicing compromise.
What I was saying was, «I committed to something, but if nobody would find out—yeah, yeah, yeah, I would still do what pleases my flesh and what others would judge me on if I didn’t do it.» You had a chance to be with Halle Berry, and many of us in our hearts have been practicing compromise. I can’t even stay there, but some of us have lied on our taxes for years. You’re claiming dependents that don’t even exist, and you gave a crazy faith offering, but God can’t promote you 'cause you still have the heart of compromise.
So if you do it for $38 off of your tax bill. I don’t know what your encounter of compromise is, but all of us are presented with it. But this is what I love about Joseph: it says in Genesis 39:8, «But Joseph refused.» Look, woman, that’s what it says! He told her, «Look,"—woo! —'cause don’t think it’s easy. Don’t think she might have been like, «Joseph, who?» And what I’m saying to you is he said, «Look, my master trusts me with everything in his household. No one here has more authority than I do.» Wow! He’s held back nothing from me, and I see you trying to do the same thing, but you’re his wife. How could I do such a wicked thing? «Wicked"—how could I do such a wicked thing means twisted, like furniture where the wood is twisted. It just means, «How could I do such a twisted thing?»
But watch what he says to end it: «It would be a great sin—not against Potiphar. He deserves this. I should smash his wife for what he’s done to me for putting me into slavery.» He said, «Even though he deserves it, even though I would be justified, even though this feels good, this would be a great sin against God.» What happens when your decisions aren’t informed by who it hurts on Earth but by who it hurts in heaven? When you lie, you hurt God. When you—it’s not just a little white lie. There’s no such thing as a little white lie in heaven. It’s recorded. They lied for what? Because you were late and you watched the TV show and didn’t leave when you were supposed to—just own it! Like, God would rather you be integrous.
Here’s another cut word: Integrity. Integrity is something Bishop has taught me. It’s something that you hold yourself to a standard because you know God’s watching. It’s what you do when people are in the room and what you do when people aren’t in the room. It’s handling yourself in a way that allows you to—this is what God told me: integrity is working out so that when the weight of compromise comes, you can lift it. Most people have not worked on their integrity enough that when compromise comes, you have no strength to move it. And Joseph, where there could have been another fracture, I need everybody to see this: Joseph stopped it. Wow, wow, wow! We’re talking about people who have been fractured in their faith, but when compromise came—this is my prayer for you—that when compromise comes and it looks easy, that you would stop.
You would stop and say, «No, I would have to lie about my credit score to get into this apartment, but that wouldn’t be integrity. So I’m going to tell you it’s a 540, and I know that probably will get me out of the running, but I just wanted to be honest because God is doing something on the inside of me.» And I’m telling you, for people who walk like that, watch God! Watch God! But it may not happen immediately. 'Cause what happened to Joseph was not immediate, but he didn’t forfeit. Write this point down: when you’re fractured, you don’t have to forfeit. He could have forfeited—not his position in Potiphar’s house, 'cause he’s going to lose that. And that’s where we think we forfeit.
We think we forfeit the things that man can give us. He’s still going to lose his job! He did the right thing, and the wrong thing happened. And I don’t know, but as I’m walking away and getting sent to jail, the thoughts—man, I should have just—oh y’all going to act like you’ve never had a moment where you did the right thing and the wrong thing happened, and then the enemy, «See, I told you you should have"—but he came out of this with a W even though on Earth he lost. A heavenly win and an earthly L. See, I’m trying to shift you! He got a W with God 'cause he didn’t forfeit God being with him, but he got an L in his position. Think about it: we know the end of the story. He went from the pit to the head of Potiphar’s house.
Now he’s going to prison. What the— «I should have just slept with her and kept my position! I should have compromised and kept my blessing!» But he didn’t forfeit! Somebody say, «I won’t forfeit!» I don’t know who’s making me continue to say this, but somebody says, «I will not forfeit!» There are things God has been showing you and telling you that He’s going to do, and you did the right thing and still lost the job. You gave, and the water still got cut off. You did it, and God said, «Please know that I got everything under control.» Got it?
So what happens to him? He did the right thing, but the wrong thing happened. He got put under the prison, under the palace. So you sold me; my brothers betrayed me, got sold into slavery, and now I’m in prison for the rest of my life—fractured. And this is the picture that many of you are trying to live, love, and give out of. If we’re going to be honest—if we’re not going to play fake church and we’re not going to act like depression and anxiety and what your family did, and the trauma you’ve been dealing with and the reason why you always have to be first is because nobody ever picked you, and like all these different things that are happening— in Genesis 40, he gets thrown into prison, but he does something that I don’t know if I would have the wherewithal to do: he still functions in his purpose.
Even in prison, if I’m in prison, I ain’t talking to nobody. After all that has happened to me, all the fractures that I have experienced—forget y’all! But there was a baker and a cupbearer who had these dreams, and they started saying, «We don’t know what they mean.» Joseph was like, «I know what they mean.» If I were Joseph’s friend, I’d be like, «Bro, shut up! We’re down here. Do you know where we were last week? We were on top of the world! If you would have just given her a little bit of respect…» But he said, «No, I’m still going to function in my purpose even though I’m fractured and stuck in this prison.» He was still being faithful.
Write this point down for all my fractured people: when you’re fractured, you can still be faithful. I know people sometimes coddle the places in your life that aren’t healed and give you excuses, but God never does. Come on! I need to talk to the person who’s been evading leading that small group, writing that book, releasing that song, and doing the things God has placed in your heart. But God, I wasn’t expecting to lose that relationship! He said, «I know that it hurts you, but the requirement is still the same. I need you to still be faithful even though you’re fractured.» But God, I wasn’t expecting to lose my husband! I wasn’t expecting to lose that child! I wasn’t expecting to see my friend die of COVID! I didn’t expect any of this!
And God says, «That’s why I weep with you and bottle every tear.» But the question is not why are they gone; the real question is why are you still here? And if you’re still here, there is purpose for you! I cannot excuse you from the purpose I created you for just because you are fractured right now. I need you to still be faithful. Even though you’re fractured, he interpreted the dreams for these guys, and they came to pass. Joseph made one simple request: «Hey, when you’re out there doing your thing—well, you’re about to die—but when you’re out there, don’t forget me. Remember me.»
Have you ever done something for somebody, and then it’s like they forgot? You don’t remember when we… now you had to come up but you’re okay? Okay, okay, okay, so watch where Joseph is. He’s not just fractured—watch this: he’s forgotten! There’s no fracture worse than being forgotten after you helped someone. I prayed for you, and you wouldn’t pray for me when I went through the same situation that your marriage went through! You talked about me, and you forgot that we prayed together that God would restore your marriage. They didn’t heal your kid, and as soon as my kid had an episode, it’s crazy. It takes crazy faith to be fractured like this, forgotten, and still be faithful.
I want to commend every person who has served God faithfully through your fractures. You have the spirit of Joseph! I feel this! You showed up, helped, saved others, served others, prayed for others, stood for others, were an intercessor, held other people’s kids, and did things that were hard for you to even get out of bed to do. And you did it, fractured and faithful anyway! God told me to stop this entire series and tell you that there is about to be—y’all better hear me—I’m prophesying to somebody right now, and I don’t know who has the ability to receive it, but if you do, lift your hands right now! There is a repayment coming for everything! I can’t do it; nobody on Earth can do it! God saw every tear, every bit of pain, everything you gave up. He saw the moments that you stayed diligent and faithful, and God says, «I’m about to—this is the word He gave me—restore!»
I’m about to—everybody shout at me, «Restore!» Some of y’all lost your childhood because somebody took it away from you illegitimately. God’s about to restore your childhood! You’re about to have fun in the next 20 years of your life like you’ve never had before! Somebody is—somebody’s receiving it! You’re going to get joy from things that you never thought you would! God is going to—everybody shout at me, «Restore!» This is what God does for Joseph with his fractures. One day, Pharaoh was having a dream that was tormenting him, and he was like, «I need somebody to interpret this!» All the magicians and all the people couldn’t do it, and the cupbearer—was it the cupbearer? Yeah, it was the cupbearer—finally remembers: «My bad, bro! There was a dude that was with me when I was in prison who could interpret the dream.»
They bring Joseph up, and now this is the moment where Joseph could have been so bitter. This is the place the enemy wants to get you! It doesn’t matter if you’re fractured; at the point where God wants to do unusual acceleration, He wants you to be so jaded and bitter that what’s inside of you, you won’t even give up. There are some of y’all who are supposed to be on this platform helping us lead worship, but the last two churches you were at damaged you so bad that you are so shut down that now when God’s calling for you, and you feel the unction, and you know God’s telling you to do it, you’re so bitter that it’s time for unusual acceleration. You can apply it to any situation! Yeah, but Joseph still had a soft heart even though he had a hard life! I know the world tells you to cover yourself, do your thing, and don’t let them in.
Y’all need to stop listening to all these Instagram memes! You have to stop listening to people who don’t have successful relationships telling you how to be in a relationship! You have to stop listening to people who are unhappy with their lives but are showing you material things and think they know everything! The word of God is the only thing that will last on this Earth. This man still had a soft heart even though he had a hard life. With all these fractures, he gets up and interprets the dream, saying, «Basically, this means there will be seven years of plenty, and then there will be seven years of famine. God wants you to store up for the seven years of plenty so that you’ll never experience the famine.»
Why could none of y’all tell me what he just told me? His favor— even though he went through all these different things, the favor was still on him! Oh, somebody say, «The favor is still on me!» That thing you had in high school, that thing you had in college—it may be buried, but the favor is still on you! If I trace back in my life, the same favor that’s on me right now was on me in elementary school! The enemy tried to snuff it out! He tried to pervert it, twisted it, but that same favor is still on me! And in one moment, he goes from the bottom of prison straight to—this is, you know, Prophet Drake when he says, «Started from the bottom, now we’re here.» I think this is the epitome of it right here! From jail one night to second in command, this man gives him a model wife and says, «There she go! That’s your wife!» He gets put in charge of everything.
This is where he becomes —watch this—fulfilled! Everybody say that word, «fulfilled!» I pray that everyone gets to a place in your life that this is not a dollar amount! This is not a status! This is something that only God can do on the inside of you! Joseph was—everybody say it—"fulfilled!» Fulfillment is one of the most dangerous places for believers because this is the place where your crazy faith can become lazy faith! Joseph is now fulfilled. So true! He’s eating good every day. Yeah, he’s in the best place he has ever been in his whole life, and now God gives him an instruction. Because Joseph was going through all of this crap, God had to take him this way to get him in position to be in charge at a pivotal moment of transition for others. Yes!
All of your fractures, all of your pits, all of your worries—everything! Every prison! Yes! And even the upgrade to the palace was to get you in place for a specific time so you could be God’s man or woman in position to help transition—everybody say «others!» Joseph is set for the rest of his life! He doesn’t have to do another thing! But the reason God put him there is that his heart would do the right thing for others! I’m trying to teach you something. Write this point down: when God does something for you, He’s always thinking of others. Our tendency is to think of ourselves, but the house God gave you was for others to come and find peace and love. You’ve been in that house you prayed for, and nobody’s been over! When He gave you that car, and you used to walk, when He gave it to you, He was thinking of others! When God blessed you with more wardrobe, it wasn’t for you to go sell it all!
Let me stop because I know that well, «I’m being a good steward.» No! Sometimes you’re not supposed to make anything off of this! You’re supposed to go and take that and give it to somebody who could never afford it! When He gave it to you, He was thinking of others! When He gave Bishop this church, Greenwood Christian Center was not planted for Bishop Gary and Debbie McIntosh! When He gave him the church, He was thinking of others! He was thinking of North Tulsa! He was thinking of my destiny! What would have happened if Bishop said, «I don’t need a church; I can just keep going on the road?» He would have robbed me! When God does something for you, He’s always thinking of others.
What’s the last thing He did that you thought was about you? I need us to have a real evaluation! Joseph gets into this position and has a decision to make: either it starts with me or it stops with me. When God blesses you, you get a decision. When you get to the place of fulfillment, you have a choice. It either starts with me or it stops with me! Seven years go by; they have plenty. People are bringing a portion of all their grain and storing it up. Now it’s time for there to be a famine! God wanted to prepare so that nobody in Egypt ever experienced famine, even though it was labeled that way! Oh my God, do not believe the labels of the season because God had already given provision for what other people were calling famine!
There’s provision that God has already given to people if we wouldn’t believe in that label! Yes! This is the greatest time of division in the church! Don’t believe that label—there’s provision! This man decided it’s not going to stop with me. I’m actually going to start something! He starts distributing resources to the entire nation of Israel, and people outside of it were so blessed that they were able to sustain people who weren’t even from Egypt! Wow! God wants to know—with your fractures, can He trust you to put you in a position to use what He blesses you with to bless others? So much so that you can begin to bless people who used to be your enemies! I don’t—half the people are gone right now!
Can you bring me that example of the water, please? Yeah, this is how some of your lives look, but God still called you. If nobody was around and I needed to know what color my hoodie was, it’s still usable! There’s a brown hoodie, and from here I can’t see it, but even when I look into a fractured mirror, I’m seeing things in a different way! Like, hold on! There’s some creativity that God is showing me in the midst of these fractures! I never would have seen it if it was perfect, but it looks like the flaws are giving me a whole different vibe of what I thought was there! God can still use what is fractured! Do you know that some of the most expensive art in the world comes when you take broken pieces of glass and put them in the hands of an artist or creator? He begins to form them in different ways, and they call it a mosaic!
God is saying to you today, «With your fractures, I want to create a masterpiece!» He told me to specifically tell everyone who has fractured faith, «I see you! I’m sorry, I see you! I’m sorry! Now it’s time! It’s time to step out in faith again! The fracture is no longer an excuse because I will give you favor! I can make you faithful, and I can make you fruitful even if you’re fractured!» Wow! Today is the day where everything changes! In crazy faith, when Joseph gets to this place, he has a decision to make.
Write this point down: when you’re fractured, you have a decision to release a flow or release a famine. Joseph is in a place where God pours into him, blesses him, and goes to the next level of what God’s going to do for many of your lives, and now God says, «I bless you!» What you’re going to do now is just a container that does not produce anything for anybody else; it doesn’t even have the mechanism to flow. But this thing is something that God says, «If I get it to you, sir, if I get it to you, will you allow it to flow?» Everybody say, «flow, flow!» Joseph became a flow for the entire world, and so what did God do to Joseph? He said, «Oh, I’m going to take the cap off of this.»
Somebody shout at me, «No cap!» Bring me some more water from anywhere; just give me water. If you have a water bottle out there, just come on up here and put it in here. What ended up happening? Yeah, just throw it in there! Is God could trust Joseph with so much more? Yeah, just put it up there; just go! He knew that if he had it, there would be everyone shouting at me, «A flow!» Yeah! And so when people started to come from all over the world, God kept pouring into Joseph. Yeah, come on; put it up there, thank you! God kept doing it. Why? Because it would never run out. There it is. Now watch this! Even when the people that created his original fracture—come on, come on, come on—even when he was this size—come here, Juliard, come here, hold this for me—his fracture was created when he was this size, and then God raised him up to be in a position to the very brothers that tried to kill him needed him.
And this is my last point: when you’re fractured, you can forgive. He could have not let them boys eat anything, and he did have some back and forth; it was a little evil what he did to them—you’ve got to read the story! Just like, «I’m keeping your brother, and I do this—go get your daddy!» He can’t come. Like, it was a lot! He needed counseling—like your position does not exclude you from needing therapy. You need therapy and theology. I think I need to do a series called «Therapy and Theology» 'cause y’all need both of those, but Joseph didn’t release famine on everybody, even though he could; he released a flow. Everybody say, «flow!» It was a flow of generosity; it was a flow of overflow.
One of the things that I thought about is in that dream, God told him there would be seven years of famine, and then I’m going to allow you to be the one that releases a flow. We’re coming up on our seventh year of ministry, and God told me today, «Michael, I need you to do something for those who have faith that has been fractured. I need you to show them what it looks like when there’s a—everybody shout at me, 'flow! ' A flow of generosity.» Joseph could have hoarded all of this stuff, but he released a flow on the people, and I believe as a church, that is what my assignment is to lead this church into—a flow of generosity.
And today, um, y’all know we’re a generous church. God spoke to me very clearly and our team very clearly that this year we were supposed to do something that has never been done in our church history. In a season where God has fulfilled our church—yes, sir, we don’t need anything! Wow! When I tell you I’m standing on the same platform that I was on seven years ago, saying that God told me that this church would be multigenerational—some of y’all were here—multiethnic, multiplying, and multi-campus—and everybody thought it was crazy until it happened!
And God said, «Michael, in this year, I’ve blessed you beyond your wildest dreams.» This church has bought up more property in this city, we’re planning to expand into other cities, we’re believing God in crazy faith! Yes! And God said, «Mike, the people—not just your people—the people who can’t give you nothing, the people who have no affiliation, the people in other denominations, the people who do organizational work that has nothing to do with what you all are doing, they need nourishment right now. After COVID, after the loss, after the heartache, after the fractures, they just need to know that there’s somebody that will turn on the faucet and allow there to be a come flow.»
So today, if y’all ain’t got nothing else to do, I’m going to take a few minutes and start the flow! Matt, they don’t know what’s about to happen, but some people in crazy faith know that when God starts to flow at Transformation Church, it becomes history in the making! So, I heard about a few organizations—y’all better come get this 'cause it’s about to happen! I heard about a few organizations. Number one, there’s an organization called Youth Guidance that counsels and mentors students who’ve experienced trauma. Can somebody find them on Instagram or the internet and tell them there’s a check for $25,000 on the way to them? Oh, and Wings of Hope! Wings of Hope International is an outreach to people in Haiti that does medical and food work. Let them know that coming across the water is a check for $25,000! Lindsay’s House! Lindsay’s House helps with resources for single mothers overcoming addiction. $25,000 is coming to you right now! Somebody shout at me, «Flow!» Oh, I felt that thing! Say «Flow!»
Bridge International—no, no, no. Cornerstone Community Center—there are many ministries that distribute meals here in West Tulsa. Everybody throw the West! There’s a check for $25,000 coming to you so you can keep doing what you’re doing during this holiday season! Bridge International empowers and supports survivors of human trafficking. Think about those ladies and how they’ve been fractured. So what we’re going to do today, on behalf of God and Transformation Church, is we’re going to send you a check for $25,000! Check this out. The Calm Center is a safe place for youth experiencing crises. 180 Ministries, which is a rehab center, supports people dealing with substance abuse. Lisa’s House Ministry offers temporary housing for mentorship and young adults, and Rachel’s Tea House is an organization that helps teen single mothers and their children. All y’all are getting a check for $225,000! Somebody shout at me, «Flow!»
See, when the flow starts, it starts to change something on the inside of you. I heard about this organization right here in North Tulsa. Yes! See, one of the things that I said when I was up here is that God was going to make us a church that was multigenerational. Being a multigenerational church does not happen accidentally; it happens intentionally. And I just think there’s something about honoring those who paved the way for you even if you don’t know how they paved the way. There’s a senior citizens' home here in the city, Sarah’s Residential Living, and they help people 65 and up.
I heard a story that they buried and did two funerals for a mother and daughter; they were both up in age—they did the funeral for the mother and the daughter a week apart—and they’re caring for these people with limited backing. The crazy thing about it is they make these people on fixed incomes still pay for housing and have to pay rent, and they can’t work. So, Transformation Church and the team decided we would start a flow and start their 2022 right. And for the first four months of the year, nobody at that senior citizens' home will have to worry about their rent! We’re paying up to $50,000! Y’all better help me; somebody shout at me, «Flow!» We are going to help them be able to live January, February, March, and April—no rent! Somebody shout at me, «Flow!» Will y’all give God praise like God is doing something?
Hey, Pastor Charles, there’s not enough for there to be a flow happening up here! I think I’m sending the flow of faith out to you. Tell me that there’s something happening! Come on, Transformation Church! Can you make some noise? The flow of faith! Oh, come on; there’s a flow of faith happening! Hey, listen, we’re going to keep this thing going! We’re going to keep it going! Hey, listen, as a church, Pastor Michael said it, but our vision, our mission, is to be a multiethnic, multigenerational, multiplying, and multicampus organization, and we have seen God do that! One of the beautiful things that God has done over this recent time is He has continued to expand our influence and impact, specifically in the Hispanic community, and we’re actually working on something specific! Come on, you can make some noise for that! Come on! We’re seeing God expand!
Hey, listen! One of the amazing things we did is there was actually an organization we found, the Business Resource Unlimited Education Center. They provide resources for the Hispanic community in East Tulsa, and they are doing an amazing job reaching and impacting them. So we had to partner with them! But I need my friend Banna! Banna, can you come help me? Everybody give it up for Banna! Briana, I need you to say it! People think 'cause I got a mustache and a tan that sometimes I can speak, but I need you to tell them because of the generosity of Transformation Church what is happening today. Banna, tell them what’s happening!
Transformation Church, $50,000 is on the way! Come on, Transformation Church! Can you give it up? Thank you so much, Briana! Hey, listen, we’re going to keep the flow going! You’re good, Banna; thank you! Hey, listen, there’s an organization, Griffin’s Promise. You guys know that our pastor, Michael and Natalie, had a beautiful son, MJ, who is a miracle in motion! Can we give it up for MJ, seeing God move in his life? Listen, there are so many families who are navigating and parenting children with autism, and we want to come alongside them. This organization comes alongside them, provides resources, provides help, and assistance. So I need somebody to tell Griffin’s Promise that there’s a check for $50,000 coming their way! Come on, there’s a flow! We are seeing God do amazing things! Pastor Michael, I’m throwing the flow back to you. Can you take it? Oh, come on, somebody shout at me, «Flow, flow!»
Now, I want you to see this; none of these organizations know that they just walked into a flow. None of these people have a vested interest with us, right? But God has blessed us through the faithfulness and generosity of us, with our fragile selves still walking in—somebody shout at me, «Crazy Faith!» It allows us now to start a flow when some people could be experiencing famine, right? So, I’m one of those people who told God I don’t want to just be impactful in the church; I want to make sure that we can get into the highways and byways and affect things that happen in culture. A few weeks back, there was a shooting in Memphis of a rapper named Young Dolph, and it was tragic.
There’s just so much foolishness happening out here, and I started reading more into the situation in Chicago and Memphis and all these rap wars and gang stuff, and they’re killing each other; it’s just foolish—it’s wicked, is what it is; it’s evil. And I said there’s nothing I can do physically for Young Dolph to come back except pray for his family and pray for his children that now don’t have a father. But the one thing that God put on our heart and our team’s heart is to find out what else is going on in Memphis to be able to impact young men and young women from a young age. We came across this story, and I think y’all need to see this. Check this out real quick. Okay, hey! Heee! We up for him right now! One, two, three! Y’all give it up for him real quick! Come here, real quick! Hey! Shout out! Y’all can—oh, y’all can do better than that! These babies are from Memphis! Good job, bro! That baby ain’t letting his STS go!
That’s what I’m talking about! This is the man that God has been using to rescue these kids and help them in Memphis. What you’re doing is beautiful; you will never know the harvest from the seeds that you’re sowing with these young men. You’re being a part of the solution. So, we heard that there are some things that y’all need back in Memphis to make it happen. Y’all came up here and did your little performance, but y’all are taking a big check for $50,000 back home to be able to do it. It’s okay; it’s okay, you can smile! He said $50,000 is going back to do it! Oh, come on! We started the flow! Yeah, yeah, you can smile, dog! Yeah, can we give God praise? Thank y’all so much! Bro, somebody shout at me: Flow! I just lived out one of my childhood dreams. Thank y’all so much for being out here, and keep doing what you’re doing. Allow God to work in you, amen? Let’s give it up one more time for this amazing group!
Okay, so just real quick, just so y’all will be able to know: she said it’s that crazy faith; it’s only crazy until it happens. We are going to affect these young people’s lives! But the other thing that you need to know is that there are churches doing amazing work out there. We don’t just want after-school programs; we want them saved; we want their eternity transformed. So, there’s a church in Memphis that we found; I believe it’s called the Church at the Well. Dr. Kia Moore, you know who that is? Well, when you go back to Memphis, tell her that there’s a check for $50,000 on the way to the Church at the Well! Oh, y’all better come on; we just getting started! I said we just getting started! See what happens when God allows it to flow! And it’s just the beginning! Somebody say, «Start to flow! Start to flow!»
There’s a collective that I heard about in Atlanta who’s doing something unconventional to represent God to people who are lost, and it’s led by this young lady named Gloria Umana. She’s the visionary and creator of something called The Hope Booth. They literally take a booth that has recorded content of hope and faith and set it up in places like London and New York, and people come to listen to it, and they start crying while God ministers to them. We’ve heard that they started a campaign to take The Hope Booth to a bunch of different cities, and it would take $50,000 or $40,000 to do it. Well, on behalf of Transformation Church and the flow that started in Crazy Faith, we’re sending you a check for $50,000 so that you can do everything and spread hope to the entire world. Let’s give God some praise right there!
So, hope Memphis! Yes! See, there’s that sex trafficking issue. I watched a documentary earlier this year about how foul and evil that thing is, about how people are groomed into it. As a church, this is one thing I want everybody to know: we can’t do everything, but we can partner with people to do everything. You missed it! We’ve decided as a church, we can’t do everything, but we can partner with people to do everything. And this is what we’re going to do! So we’re going to partner with A21, and we’re going to give them $100,000 to keep doing what you’re doing! Let’s end sex trafficking around the whole world! And then one of our strongest, most consistent partners, who is on the ground every time there’s a tragedy and every time there’s a disaster, is Convoy of Hope. They are a partner with Transformation Church, and today we want to let you know there’s more to come, but we’re sending a check for $100,000 today to keep the flow going! Somebody shout at me: Flow!
Hey, um, is Evan Do Good here right now? Evan? Hey, Ev, come here real quick, bro. Come here! You know I love you, man. This is a young man who is part of our church and has a strong call of God on his life. But one of the things that I’ve been so impressed by is that everything God has blessed him with, he did what Joseph did. When he received a blessing, he knew it was for others. This man has taken his calling to help the homeless community in our city, literally putting all his needs to the side to be a blessing to men and women who can’t do anything for him—who literally can’t do anything for him!
Last year, Transformation Church partnered with Be Heard, and on your Crazy Faith card, you wrote that you wanted a mobile shower truck so that these people could take showers in dignity. Something as simple as taking a shower, which we take for granted! We get mad because the water isn’t hot enough, or we’re upset we don’t have a rain shower head. And because of Transformation Church’s crazy faith and crazy generosity—I’m correcting myself; y’all have that shower truck, right? Yeah! And it’s running everywhere; it’s running! And then someone came and bought them a truck to pull the shower truck! So the crazy faith kept going, and they’re believing for more stuff to serve this community.
I told the team that God has really been dealing with me about finding partners that can be empowered to do what God’s called them to do. So, I don’t know what you need right now, but the way you’ve stewarded what has been given to you—and done what you said you were going to do—Transformation Church today wants to partner with Be Heard with another $100,000! Oh, y’all can rejoice because there’s a flow! Let me show you the reason why this is happening: it’ll flow to you, but it’s going to flow to the homeless people. But then it hit me, and I was like, «Ah! We could do that; that’d be easy, like turning on $100,000 in the flow.» But then God started speaking to me, and I told Charles and Brie: God spoke to me and said there are going to be some things this next year; he said this is probably the last year we’re going to do it like this. Yeah! He said, «I’m going to show you some places that I want you to start deep generosity.» I said, «What does that mean?» He said, «I want you to invest deep; I want you to go deep.»
So, on behalf of Transformation Church, we want to let you know that $100,000 is not just for this year; it’s for the next three years! So now you can plan, and now you can hire people, and now you can help! Let’s give God some praise! Somebody’s rejoicing because you see that when the flow starts up! He said, «Thank you, Lord!» His praise wasn’t for him; his praise was for who he’s able to support! Shout, «Flow!» There’s a flow of faith coming to us! There’s a flow! God, if you can get it to me, you can get it through me! If you can get it to me, you can get it through me! Somebody shout, «Flow!» The Beard Movement will be successful, and it will expand all over the world! Be able to say that!
Is the flow in this direction right now? Is the flow over here, or is the flow in this direction over here? Is the flow online right now? Somebody type in «Flow!» Pastor Charles, I think the flow is coming to you! I need a break; come on! Let somebody say «Flow!» Now listen, we’re going to flow this way, so I need you to come with me! Now, there’s a gentleman here. I think David—is your name David? How you doing? Everybody give it up for David! How you doing, man? You good? I’m so glad you’re here; it’s nice to meet you. And this is your baby? Hello! How are you? What’s your name? Elsie? Elsie, you are so cute!
Hey, listen, we’ve heard about Blue J House of Worship and what God has been doing there, and it’s beautiful to see when God connects things that are able to witness what He is doing—not just in the physical place, but online. I know you guys have seen things get crazy online and God blessing those things. And, you know, that’s really what He did through our house. We’ve seen when something blows up, and you’re trying to catch up and keep up with it. And one of the things we wanted to make sure of is that there’s nothing that would keep you from being able to obey God. That there would be nothing that would stand in the way. When it starts blowing up and everybody’s calling you, and everybody’s saying, «Come do this» or «Do that,» and you’re seeing crazy faith happen and miracles moving in worship, we wanted to partner with you so you can obey God and see Him do incredible things!
So I want you to know that because of your crazy faith and obedience, you are going home today with a check for $100,000! Thank you for everything! Oh, come on! Can you celebrate? Oh, come on! Listen, there is a flow! God is moving! Oh, come on! Transformation Church, is God moving today? Thank you for your obedience! Thank you for your obedience! We are so grateful for you! Transformation Church, can you give it up?
Hey, listen, let’s keep flowing! I need you to flow! We’re going to flow this way; we’re going to flow out to the lobby! How are you? Come on; let’s go this way! Let’s go this way! Come on, people, watch out! I feel like Oprah! Can I just throw a—uh! I just feel like there’s something—let’s go out here! Somebody say, «Flow!» Oh, come on! Somebody say, «Flow!»
All right, listen, we’re going out here. One of the amazing things that God is doing is He continues to expand His message going out. That’s the thing you need to know: God always provides where there is vision! God gives provision where there’s vision! And one of the things that God has done is expand our church—not just to be in America but around the world. Around the world, there are people being impacted and changed.
Can you bring me that—Joe, real quick, just that piece of paper? Quick! Is Carisha here? Carisha is here! Okay, first I’m going to do this one. Carisha Williams, is this—Carisha, come here! Carisha! Give it up for Carisha! You look beautiful, by the way! How are you today? Are you well?
Listen, we have heard about what you’re doing and the impact you’re making. What is the name of your organization? Tell everybody the name. Women Empowering Nations! Women Empowering Nations! And come on! We have seen the impact that you have had—giving education and helping with literacy in Africa. We wanted to partner with you today, so because of your faith and the faith of Transformation Church, you’re going home today with a check for $50,000 for Women Empowering Nations! Thank you so much! Thank you so much! Can you give it up for Women Empowering Nations? Oh, come on! There’s a flow! Thank you so much! Thank you!
Hey, listen, the flow is still going! I’m going to invite my friend Jim—can you come with me? Hello everybody! Give it up for Jennifer! Now, Asking for the Nations has been something we partnered with. We partnered with you last year, and you guys were building—what were you building last year? You were building a vocational school, is that correct?
There’s been progress there, right? Like, huge progress? Bamboo season, she said! Well, hey, listen, again this is part of us partnering with you guys and seeing the mission go forward and the flow of faith. So today, we want to partner with you and give Asking for the Nations a check for $100,000 to keep the flow going! Oh, come on, Transformation Church, to keep the flow going! Come on, Pastor, we’re throwing it back to you! The flow is still going! Come on, Transformation Church, let’s give God praise!
Y’all, my cheeks! Y’all know when you smile so much that it starts—then you’re like—what do you think God is doing right now? To see that because of the faith and generosity of people from all over the world that came together under this banner of Transformation Church, there could be a flow. I truly believe that the local church—y’all sit down because y’all gonna be standing up here in a minute for a long time. I said we’re just getting started! Some of y’all didn’t believe me! Tony, they don’t—oh, y’all want the flow to stop right now? Y’all ready to go home? Like, okay! I just wanted to make sure that everybody says, «Flow!»
Yeah, you might want to tell everybody to turn on because you don’t know who in Transformation Nation that this flow is not relegated to this room! I’m telling you right now—the blessing is about to—everybody say, «Flow!»
Thank you, Lord! This is 19 inches from the ground. This platform that I’m on right now is 19 inches from the ground; it’s not a huge stage. This was the very stage that I cried and prayed on the altar that God would bless our church to be able to bless others. And it is on this very platform I stood up in the first month of me pastoring and said, «We’re going to raise an offering today to give it all away!»
This is where the flow started. Yes, the flow didn’t begin when people started finding out about Mike Todd or Transformation Church. No, no, no! The flow began when we said, «All right,» with the room not even full, right? Let’s give in Crazy Faith! We didn’t even have that language; I think we were expecting «effect» or something like that. It got refined, you know what I’m saying? «Heart for the Kingdom,» that’s what we called it, and we gave $8,300, all of us coming together. Eighty-three. And that next month, we gave it all away!
What’s happened so far in this room has been over a million dollars! Like, I know, I know you don’t count—like, it’s like 50, 25, 25, 25. That was a lot of 25s, and then you’re like 50, then 100. It’s been over a million dollars, and we just got started! Now, I want you to see that God can take you—yes sir—with all of your fragments, with all of your fragility, and He can allow you to be somebody who is part of providing a flow for a transformation nation. If you’ve ever given a dollar to this thing, you can stand and say today, «It is more blessed to give.»
The tears that people are crying right now for the boys in Memphis and the people who are in the building and at home right now—the reason you feel that joy welling up in you is that it’s your obedience to God mixed with my obedience to God, mixed with their obedience to God, creating a flow for other people. We may never get to see, on this side of heaven, the impact of our collective faith, but I promise you we are changing the world because of your faith! Somebody say, «Your faith!» So I got to go to churches because I really do believe that churches are the hope of the world. I believe that God set up His local church, like the coming together of believers. During COVID, a lot of people experienced so much loss and so much tragedy; people stopped coming to the church or found another church, and now they’re online.
People are just trying to obey the call of God, right? But with limited resources and not having enough. We heard about a church, City Church in Stuart, Florida—Pastor Ricardo Weaver, I believe his name is. Their air conditioning for their building went out! Damn! In Florida, with no air! They need live-stream equipment, their multimedia system to stream, because a lot of their people need to do that. Can somebody go to Florida and tell them that a check for $225,000 is on the way right now? And while you’re at it, can you go to Kingdom on Earth in Hazel Park, Michigan—Pastor Shelby and Bianca Hunter? There’s a check for $225,000 coming to you right now, too! Oh come on, church! Let’s give God some praise!
Um, Pastor Charles, I think you found some other churches that needed the flow to start all over the USA. Can you tell me what those churches are that need that flow of faith? Let’s do it! Let’s do it! Hey listen, the flow of faith is still going! We have found churches all over the world, and we believe that the local church is the hope of the world. So here’s what I need you to do: I need you to find Compassion Life Church, Pastor Jesse and Crystal Moses, and tell them that there is a check for $50,000 on the way! Come on! Hey listen! I need you to go to Stockton, California, and find West Coast Church—Bishop Mark FY and Jordana FY. I need you to know there’s a check for $50,000.
Oh come on, y’all! This is us being generous to the church! I need you to find Tru City Church—Pastors KH Forbes and Chris Forbes—in, uh, in Millville, Maryland. I need you to tell them there’s a check for $50,000. Here’s what I need you to do: I need you to find No Walls Church in Wintergreen, Florida—Pastor Stephen Gage says 50% of their community does not identify with church affiliation. They are representing; they are going into spaces—the lost and the found! This is not just about building a Christian club; we’re seeing lives transform. Can you tell them there’s a check for $50,000 on the way? This is what the church is about—there is a flow! And Pastor, we’re going to keep it going! I’m going to throw it back to you for the flow to keep moving in the church.
Let’s do it! So, there’s a church here in our city that I talked about a couple of weeks ago that lost their pastor. It’s a church called Jubilee Church out in, uh, oh man, that just hit my heart again! I know exactly who it is! I just remember being in the back of that van and him encouraging me—Pastor Sears. I think there’s somebody from his family or the church. Where are they? Are any of them here? Y’all come up here! All y’all come here! Will y’all give it up for this family? They are still being faithful right now, even though they’re fractured! Come on! Help them up! I need y’all to help right now. We’re giving them encouragement. Right now! Come on! I’ve known these beautiful young ladies in this family for pretty much my whole life!
Andy, I love you, man! Andy is a musician, and I remember coming over to y’all’s church, and Mama would start singing, «We declare Your glory!» And these three white girls in the back would declare Your glory! Y’all, they can sing! I’m not even playing. They can all blow, and Andy is a beast on the guitar! Kirk is a beast on the bass! I mean, y’all lost your father, but the city lost a pillar! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! And though he didn’t have a huge church, he made a huge impact! Last week, we talked about having a legacy of faith, and the greatest thing about what your dad did is he put it in all of y’all, and so this legacy gets to go on! I asked them, «So what’s happening with the church, and what’s going on?» And they said, «Them kids are about to keep that thing going, and they’re going to see what God wants to happen!»
So because of the seeds that your father sowed into this city, into my life, into Natalie’s life, and into this church, it’s harvest time for your church! A time for something you didn’t even sow! So I want you to go back to your church and let them know that you’re coming back with $100,000 to be able to do whatever God has called you to do! It’s time for a flow! Can we give God thanks? Thank you so much, brother! We love you, bro! And this is our commitment to you; we’re here! It’s not just money—it’s whatever we got! And this is what the church looks like as we stand and we love! It’s not your church against my church, and your clique against my clique. We got to quit all of this territorialism! It’s one Kingdom of God, okay?
And these white people got souls too, y’all! Don’t even let them play you! Thank you for what you’re doing! We want to tell you to keep doing what you want, and we’re going to see Mom and Dad’s legacy go on for years to come! A legacy of faith! Can we give God a great shout of praise? We love y’all! We love you! We love you! Appreciate it! Somebody shout at me, «Flow!» Thank you guys so much! But we’re not done there! I heard about a church in Michigan! All right? All right? I heard about a church in Michigan, Journey Ministries, and I heard, you know, because so much of our ministry is done online and having to stream and do all this other stuff! I heard about this church where basically the pastor, the worship leader, and I think their tech guy have all been streaming their services on Facebook from their cell phones.
That’s the only thing! Through the pandemic and everything, they’ve been faithful, and they’ve just been using their cell phones! I don’t know how that works because like if you get a call, does everybody not get it? Or if, like, you know, what happens if somebody texts you? Does everybody get to read the text? I don’t really know what happens, and I just feel like that’s not the best way to do it. And for those people being faithful to use what they have—see, around here we have a saying: «All you have is enough.»
A lot of people, because they were fractured in their ability to get equipment, would have stopped! But these people kept doing it with what they had. And so because of that, I wanted to let them know there are three new iPhone 13s on the way to them! See, it’s the little things! Y’all can use those other phones to be able to stream services, and y’all got three new iPhone 13s headed to Michigan right now! But we didn’t think that was enough! You got $100,000 to get brand new equipment as well! Oh, y’all better come on! Somebody shout at me, «Flow!» This is the church! Oh, I felt that! This is the Church of Jesus Christ! This is the day that everything switches! We don’t need a handout! We’ll be the answer to your prayer!
See, I start getting ignorant right here because when I read my Bible, it says that He gave Adam and Eve the ability to rule, subdue, and dominate on the earth. And for some reason, we’ve taken a step back from that and started looking for God to do it in other people! And maybe we’ll just be the recipient! If you don’t want to be a part of making a difference, go somewhere else! But our crazy faith is that for the rest of this church’s existence, this will be a place of, somebody shout at me, a flow! There will be more than enough! I’m prophesying it right now! Record it! There will be more than enough at this place forever so that we can always be a distribution house for what God wants to do! Somebody shout at me, «Flow!»
And there’s nothing He does for this house that He does not want duplicated in your house! See, some of y’all thought this was Transformation Church. This is a miracle! And the miracles and signs are for the unbelievers! And unbelievers can be in church! Oh, y’all missed it! And some of y’all, by the end of this, your faith is going to allow you to give away a car. You’re going to be able to give away a house! Somebody shout at me, «Flow!» I feel that! Um, Metropolitan UMC—oh, that means that’s a church that ain’t even the same denomination as us! Is that a United Methodist Church? Well, Pastor, we don’t agree on everything! It don’t matter! We’re going to connect on the things that we do agree on, and we’re going to help you continue to help people! Because this is a place of, everybody shout at me, «Flow!» There’s a flow of faith here!
And so, will somebody find Metropolitan United Methodist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, Pastor Richard Williams? Because they have a GED program that needs laptops. So tell them that we’re sending them, oh! And they have a food pantry that feeds the community! We asked, «How much does that cost?» Ah, it doesn’t matter! We’re sending you a check for $100,000 to be able to do whatever you need to do to continue to serve that community! Somebody shout at me, «Flow!» Christian Life Church in Tinley Park, Illinois—Jerry and Chris McQuay—they’re serving youth in that area and doing major things for impact! Will somebody, um, drive over to their church today or hit them with a text message? Is there anybody from Illinois, Chicago, and Transformation Nation?
Okay, the drummer must be from Chicago! Okay, he lives in Tulsa now! Calm down! Well, text somebody, Tony, and let them know that we’re sending $100,000 to Christian Life Church to help them! There’s a church located in Deerfield Beach, Florida, and the pastors are sitting right here on the front row! Didn’t know that you would be here today, but God did! And so I want to let you know—oh yeah, yeah! I’m just going to come and tell you—I’m going to come! Where’s that camera right there? I’m going to go ahead and tell you! Didn’t know you were going to be here—well y’all stand up! Y’all have served faithfully, and God is about to do a bamboo season in your life right now!
So you’re going home with a check for $100,000 to go ahead and do what God has called you to do! Go back there and tell Jesus' people to proclaim that God is doing a miracle and there is a flow of faith! Somebody shout at me, «Flow!» Whoa! You don’t know that you’re sitting in a place—they didn’t know they were sitting in a place where provision had already been made! I declare that over somebody’s life right now! You’re going to find yourself in a place where provision is already going to be made! There’s a flow! Hey! There’s a flow! Somebody help me say that! There’s a flow! There’s a flow! Hey! I feel it! Come! There’s the flow! There’s the flow—whoa! And there’s the flow!
There’s a church that is starting up in Atlanta next year. It’s called Live Church, Pastor Mayo and Kai Su. I know what it is to pioneer something from a place where you didn’t have all the resources. So we want you to start in a better position than a lot of people do! So, for the church that hasn’t started yet that is starting next year, there’s a check from Transformation Church and Transformation Nation for $100,000 on its way to Atlanta right now. Audacity Church… um, is there somebody here from Audacity Church? Come here. It’s hard to get pastors from their church on Sunday, but this Transformation Church team—they’re serious about it. Y’all, come on up here. I’ve never met these people in my whole life. You guys look very beautiful. What’s your name? Ashley? And what’s your name, sir? Ronnie? The swag is impeccable today! I see what you did there.
So, I heard there was some crazy accident that happened at the church—basically, lightning struck and fried all of your equipment like cameras, lights, speakers, mics—but y’all have still been faithful, still meeting and proclaiming Jesus. I don’t even know how this story came to my team, but what we want to let you know is you can go buy all new mics, buy all new cameras, buy all new sound equipment. You’re going home today with a check for $100,000. Oh, I need Transformation Church to rejoice! I know what it is to be where you are, and God sees you. No strings attached—there are no meetings you have to attend. This is God seeing you. Go back and tell your church that God is faithful, and there is a flow.
Can we give God… this is somebody right here in the city, y’all! There’s a flow! Boy, that’s something. There’s a flow! Y’all better quit; we’re still just getting started! There’s a flow… I have to stop and say this: it’s not a flow from Transformation Church; it’s a flow through Transformation Church, but it’s a flow from God, and I need everybody to hear me say this—God is the source; we are a resource. So when I say there’s a flow, you’re not looking at Transformation; there are people—God is changing your situation right now as you’re believing in crazy faith that God can do it. Not Transformation—we can’t do everything for everybody. This is just a little taste of what our God, who knows everything, has, who is everywhere, wants to do in your life.
So I want to encourage you that there’s a flow—there’s a flow! Lift your hands! There’s a flow, God! Whatever you want to do, however you want to do it through me to you, Father God, there’s the flow! Yikes! Okay, so Audacity Church, Pastor Ronnie and Ashley—you’re here in Tulsa. I just said, you know, a lot of people in Tulsa, when it comes to church, it’s kind of like: are you at this camp, or are you at that camp? I just want to let everybody know I’m with all the camps! I will be at everybody’s church and everyone’s thing. I’ll show up at the KIC church and then I’ll go to y’all, because I really believe in the kingdom of God.
So, you were the first church from Tulsa we wanted to bless, but anybody that’s watching, will you go tell Pastor Alex and the Church at Battle Creek there’s a check for $100,000 from Transformation Church? Then go tell Pastor Paul Dhy and Ashley at Victory there’s a check for $100,000. Then go tell Pastor Matt Nelson over at City Church that there’s a check for $100,000 to help with their new building! Y’all are too loud; I can’t scream that! So, Battle Creek, Victory, and then we go to City Church—they’re building a new building. $100,000—put it towards whatever you need! And then there’s a church in AASO, um, Presents Theater, Pastor Alvin Fuer—there’s $100,000 coming to Presents Theater right now.
Then go over to Pastor Whit George at Church on the Move and tell them there’s $100,000 coming. This one is special to me because, um, when we were in our second year of pastoring, Church on the Move sent a $20,000 check to us. That might as well have been $2 million when we were sitting here believing God every week. They came and filmed something, and Pastor Whit blessed us, and they sowed seed into good ground when nobody even knew about Transformation Church. Today, Transformation Church and Transformation Nation, we get to sow it back into them—multiplied, pressed down, shaken together, and running over! Church on the Move, thank you for your faithfulness in the city. Thank you for what you do. $100,000 is on the way! Somebody shout with me, 'Flow! ' There’s a flow of faith.
So, um, I told y’all a little earlier to bring it all the way down because I will stay there; y’all are pushing me. Y’all, sit down; I can’t—if you have to leave, bye—but the flow is still going! Now, if y’all want to stop the flow, we can stop the flow, stop the flow in the chat! Stop the flow! Okay, I just wanted to make sure we were good.
Okay, there was a church—it’s a flow of faith. Do you know how much faith it took for seven years for those people to bring a portion of what they accumulated and stored? It took faith for them to follow the instructions Joseph received based on a dream Pharaoh had. What do you want to base it on? Where are the facts? All we know is that God gave him a dream; it was interpreted, and we have to obey. But that faith produced a flow. There was a church here in the city that we owned, and a few weeks ago, in the middle of the message, I just gave it away. It sounds crazy, but the Holy Spirit was like, «They just bought it from you for almost half a million dollars; give them all the money back!» My God, now that you know God, can we have a meeting on the side real quick? Essentially, you know how you try to start? He said to give it back to them.
I had no idea that this Asian church was following God in crazy faith, and our team said, «I just want you to see what happened and how God would speak to somebody and how they would obey God in crazy faith.» Pastor Kim was able to tell us a little about it; it was extensive. I only wanted to show y’all this clip to let you know somebody who doesn’t even speak the language you speak is still walking in faith that you’re walking in. Listen to Pastor Kim’s crazy faith story.
«Hi, my name is John Kim; this is my beautiful wife, my better half, my B. We are pastoring together at Flame of Love Church, one of the Korean churches in TSA. God gave me an order and vision to start a new church. I thought, 'Yes, I can do it! I could do anything because God is with me; God is my church! ' But since that time, God didn’t give me any orders or any words at all for the first three years. I felt very lonely, outcast, like I was in the wilderness. I said, 'God, are you there? Why did you give me the order, Pastor Kim Jun-gu, to start a new church? If you said so, give me any evidence or guidance! ' But since that time, I didn’t get any answer; it looked like at that moment God turned His back on me.
Finally, for the first time when I started the church, God gave me the answer: 'P. Kim Chun-gu, I know there are lots of very big and good churches around the world, but don’t forget this, Chun-gu: I am watching over you. I am watching over your church with my dreams. Even though you look like a very small sprout, I know there are lots of very big trees. But I’m watching over here—the very small seed, small sprout. That’s why don’t worry! When I received the word of God, I said, 'If you say so, no complaints at all, no fear at all. Okay, I keep going. Even if you’re not saying anything anymore, it’s okay; I keep going. Come on, somebody, God, if you say so, if you don’t speak another word to me, I’ll keep going! '»
And when we gave that church the news that they no longer had to worry about a mortgage on the building they bought less than 60 days ago, we donated $400,000 to them so they could do ministry without the burden. Transformation Nation, that’s because of your crazy faith! Can we give God a shout of praise right there?
If you talk about people who have been faithful and say, «God, if you say so,» James talks about taking care of the widow and the orphan and how this is ministry that God never finds any fault with. There’s a ministry in Texas where there have been some really challenging things that happened at this ministry, and this young lady has pioneered for decades, keeping this ministry and church going—giving away her salary, doing all these different things. I was able to have her in service; we had the opportunity to get her here. I went to Dallas on Monday. Was I in Dallas on Monday? Yes. I was sitting there like, «Please come to church on Sunday! Would you please come to church on Sunday?» She said, «I have a church of my own,» and this and that and the third and fourth and fifth. God wanted to bring you here to honor you.
Bring the camera; somebody follow me! It’s been a lot of years of you having to be faithful when nobody saw. That glass up there looked like your heart, but God’s saying today He’s about to use you, heal you, and transform your future. God wanted you to come here today so that you could be the recipient of a $100,000 check to take back to Destiny Point Church! Oh, y’all, I need y’all to give God some praise to relieve some of the pain and the pressure. She’s been doing this all by herself for over 15 years! No, 18 years! 18 years of being faithful! And God can still use you. I just want you to hear me say that—God can still use you with all that has happened. The best days for your life, Pastor Renee and Destiny Point, are right in front of you! If you believe it in crazy faith, will y’all help give God some praise?! Oh come on, I said let’s give God some praise!
Okay, so, um, I think y’all are done. I just wanted to make sure. Y’all can go whenever you need to. All right, we’re going to flow because y’all told me I could go. So, um, the word for 2021 is what? What’s the word for this year? So I found a church whose name is Anchor Church, and I was like, «Oh, shoot! If I mean maybe next year we couldn’t have done it, but this year…» So, to Anchor Church, Pastor Sean and Thessa Blatney in Florida, there’s a check for $100,000 on the way to Anchor Church so you can continue to do ministry at a high level. Y’all getting tired on me? Y’all done rejoicing with other people? Imagine if $100,000 was coming to you!
How about this? So I heard about this church plant in Colorado Springs, Colorado, called Zeal Church. I don’t know a whole bunch about them, but I saw their pastor Brandon, I believe, and I was like, so I had somebody get a FaceTime number for me, and I don’t know. We might show up at a service right now, but I’m going to go ahead and FaceTime whoever’s on this phone. Ooh, Holy Spirit, whatever You’re going to do, come on, pick up this one! You want to pick this one up? Even if you’re preaching, pick it up! Somebody text somebody; they’re going to want this call. Ooh, that’s too many rings. Oh, I got to call again! All right, I just… you know what I’m saying; it’s a live service, so I don’t know… you know what I’m saying?
Father, in the name of Jesus, let somebody at Zeal Church have the unction. In the name of the Father, the Son… somebody needs to pray. Do you have somebody on the phone? Is that somebody from Zeal Church? Is it Zeal Church? You’re at Zeal Church? Okay, so where is the pastor? Get the pastor to pick up the phone! Run and get the—this is live; he’s running! Y’all look at him! He’s running! «Pastor, get the pastor on the phone!» I’m going to try it again right here… try it one more time. Pastor Brandon, can you hear me? Okay, there’s somebody that answered the phone! Okay, is that the pastor? That’s you? Okay, you’re on two phones now! God bless you; I’m on multiple phones!
All right, Pastor Brandon, how you doing? Transformation Church is calling. Pastor Brandon of Transformation Church is listening to the glory over here! What’s up? Okay, so I’m calling you in the middle of a service. Is this your beautiful wife? It is. What’s your name? She has that next-level smile, that Crest, that American Airlines smile. I see that! Okay, so we’re in the middle of church, and we have started this thing of crazy faith and giving in crazy faith. We heard that you guys have just been pioneering and moving in Colorado Springs to really help bring transformation to so many people. Your church has exploded! You guys are believing God for a building or something?
Can you tell me just a little bit about that? Yeah, we are looking for a permanent location. We have up to three services packed out a year and are three months old, with over 1,100 people attending, experiencing salvations and healings, but we need a home. So, we are saving up to make an offer as soon as the Lord guides us. We’ve been looking at several places and are believing God for His timing and provision. So that’s a big deal. You mentioned timing and provision—okay, cool, I like both of those words.
What I’m trying to figure out is how much you are believing God for. We are believing God for exactly a down payment. We’ve been working with our Realtors, and we need a down payment of $1 million. That’s what we are believing God for during this time, so we can make that down payment and be ready to move in. So, I heard that you guys had a miracle offering or some type of offering for people to exercise their crazy faith. Was that today or last week?
It’s our Legacy offering that we have been preparing for, and people have been giving towards. Up to this point, we’ve raised about $65,000. We are thankful for that, but we will be giving in an intentional way in January.
Okay, so this is what I want you to tell Zeal Church on behalf of Transformation Church and Transformation Nation and the people all around the world who are believing in crazy faith with you guys. There’s a check for $500,000 on the way! Oh, come on! We can feel the flow—there is half a million dollars on the way to Zeal Church! My wife, Natalie, and I know exactly what it feels like to be in your position, going from one service to five services to try to create a multi-ethnic ministry. We see the same grace that is on our lives in your ministry, and we declare this is a bamboo season for Zeal Church.
We proclaim that God is about to do exceedingly abundantly above all you can ask or think. We just wanted to sow into good ground. Right now, there is a check with no strings attached. This is my first time ever meeting you all for $500,000! Y’all give God praise! Transformation Church, this must be God! Give God a shout of praise! Oh, is that the best you got? I love you! I’m going to get your number and talk to you all later. Somebody take this phone, somebody take this phone, 'cause we’re not done yet! If your faith isn’t stirred yet, if you’re waiting for something else to happen, right now shout at me—flow!
Yeah, that actually worked! That’s awesome! Thank you, God! Thank you, God, for all the people who will be changed in Colorado Springs because of Zeal Church. Thank you, Father, for the marriages that will be restored. Thank you, Father, for those who will be freed from addiction. Thank you, Father God, for all the young people who will come and find community. Thank you, Father God—thank you for a flow!
We’re going to go across the waters to Jabula Ministries International and Pastor Tutor Bismar. He has been instrumental in the foundations of my faith. Somebody tell Pastor Tutor there’s a check for $100,000 on the way to Jabula New Life Ministries. And then for Pastor Tasha and Kenneth Leonard—some of y’all know Tasha because she’s a gospel singer. God called them to start a church, and everybody doesn’t realize that when you’re successful in one thing, it doesn’t automatically transfer to another. You have to pay your dues and till the ground. They told me they were paying for everything with that church out of pocket. I said the devil is a liar! They said, «Well, we’re in a little town in South Carolina,» and I said, «God’s about to create a flow there!»
So, on behalf of Transformation Church and Transformation Nation, and in obedience to God, there’s a check for $100,000 coming to The Purpose Place. Oh, y’all better keep this energy! After you go to South Carolina, catch a flight to Las Vegas and tell Pastor Jain Chavez at City Light Church that there’s a $100,000 check coming for them to help continue what God’s called them to do!
Then get on a train and go to Pontiac, Illinois, and find Pastor Shan Jensen at Authentic Church. Tell them, «Y’all listen! I saw the video; the team has done a great job at finding these people and praying over it to see who God wants us to give to.» We saw this church, and the pastor got up two weeks ago and said, «In generosity last year, we gave $21,000,» and the church went crazy! God said, «They have rejoiced over just a fraction of what I’m about to release on them!»
So, will y’all please tell everybody at Authentic Church that an authentic check is coming for $100,000 for you to continue? Oh, y’all better keep doing what God’s called you to do! I also have some friends in Dallas, Texas, who started a church called Social Dallas. They’re less than a year old, and they’re packing out arenas! Pastor Robert and Taylor Maduk, we know God’s doing crazy things there, but you need some crazy money to continue facilitating that! So, there’s a check for $100,000 on the way to Dallas for you to continue doing what God has called you to do. This is the season of No Cap!
Somebody said, «No cap, no cap,» and then in Miami, Florida, there’s a church called Good Life Church, where Pastor Marcus Gon Gonzalez is. There is a check for $50,000 on the way to your church right now, so you can continue to do what God has called you to do. Okay, this one feels personal; this is special because I found this church. I don’t know if y’all have any pictures you can show—if not, put it in post—but there’s a church in Calgary, Canada, called Connect Church. This church was impacted by Crazy Faith so much that they literally took everything: the branding, the logos, and the—I love it!
See, church people, well that’s mine! Y’all are biting off Paul, Luke, and Mark; there’s nothing original—stop acting! God gave me a word; you read that out of the Bible: this is what the church should look like. If something impacts you and transforms your life, you should be able to recycle that and give it to people so it transforms others. I’m saying this publicly: if I ever preach a message that impacts your life and you’re a pastor or a leader, steal all of it. God gave you eyes to see it; take it! I just ask you to do it better than I did—help people get free! I hate this thing in church that says, «It’s me, bro!»
Shut up! Oh, excuse me, I need therapy still. But I saw this church; they took the branding, they did everything, and they have been giving to people in Canada. This year, this church raised $4,275 and gave it away. Oh, y’all can do better than that! Do you know what it takes for a church to do that? So I know we’ve been giving away hundreds of thousands, and I don’t want to break the flow, but they put an exact number up there, so on behalf of God, Transformation Church, and Transformation Nation, there’s a check for exactly double what y’all gave away coming to you—$28,437—on its way to Canada for you to keep walking, living, moving, giving in crazy faith! Will somebody shout unto God with a voice of triumph? Shout at me, «Flow!»
Hey, Pastor Charles, I think the flow needs to come to you. Come on! Hey, listen, the flow continues; it’s still flowing! One of the things that I love is that when God calls you to an area, He doesn’t ask you to go there without everything around you being blessed. We just learned about Joseph today—when he went to the palace, the palace got blessed! As we moved from 1519 into our new location in Bixby, we wanted to make sure we are a blessing to Bixby. So, to Bixby Public Schools, all the kids in Bixby, we’re sending a check for $225,000!
Hey, listen, the Bixby Outreach Center serves that community so well, connecting with them and providing meals during the holidays. Let the Bixby Outreach Center know there’s a check for $25,000 on the way! Listen, I want to encourage everybody watching: there are people you may never meet and people you may never talk to, but when you’re obedient—when you obey God, when you give your $5 or your $50—there are people at the Bixby Outreach Center who will receive a meal because you gave money. Somebody shout out, «Flow!»
Pastor Michael, let’s keep the flow going back to you, sir. So you were in South Tulsa, where our current location is, but today we are in North Tulsa. One of the commitments we made is that when we had to move out of this location, we would never move our presence out of helping this community. So we’ve been doing that all along the way—stuff that y’all don’t know, stuff that only a few know—but we’re going to continue today. I needed to bless, on behalf of Transformation Church and Transformation Nation, a couple of churches in North Tulsa as we are at the precipice of it being a hundred years since the Tulsa Race Massacre. This community is still feeling the effects of what happened. We as a church decided back in June that if nobody was going to give reparations, the church would be the ones to do it, so we gave $200,000 to each one of the survivors and blessed different organizations.
But we said we have to keep this thing going. There’s a church literally within running distance from here, Morning Star Baptist Church, Pastor Rodney Gro Goss. I want y’all to tell Pastor Rodney, someone, when we leave here, just roll past Morning Star and tell them we’re going to drop off a check for $50,000! And then after you do that, will you go up the hill to Apache and get Pastor Ray Owens over at Metropolitan Baptist Church? Tell them there’s a check for $100,000 coming! $100,000 to the Met, because we’re one church, same team, kingdom of God! We know it can’t just happen on Sunday mornings, but transformation—everybody say transformation! You know I like that—it has to happen all throughout the week!
God has given people the audacity to believe God in education. We heard about this academy called Solid Foundation, nurturing academic excellence for tomorrow’s leaders, and they’re doing it without a lot of support. So, on behalf of Transformation Church, we’re sending you a check for $25,000 to keep doing what God’s doing there. Is Ral Brown here? Ral, where you at? Are you here? Is he here? Tell him to hurry up! Hurry up! So, Ral, I’ve known him, and he’s done so many things for the young people in North Tulsa for years, being somebody who—y’all give it up for Ral right now!
I love you, my friend; look at the whole family—how y’all doing? What’s up, boss? You good? This family has invested their lives in helping underprivileged people in North Tulsa. One of the things that Ral did is start a radio station called The Juice Radio, which he’s been doing literally by himself, funding it. I went in there one time; the equipment was from his own house and studio, and it’s been a family ministry. We just wanted to tell you that we believe in how you believe in the young people in this community, even when nobody supports. So today, you all are going home with a check for $30,000 to continue doing what you’re doing! Come on, that’s a hug of faithfulness from God! Y’all better rejoice; you don’t even know!
So, God, you see his response is worship. What happens when God makes a crazy way? You just have to worship! Well, what does radio have to do with it? You don’t know whose life will be snatched out of darkness just because they’re occupied with a man and woman of God. Thank you for what you’re doing, brother; God bless you! Will y’all give it up for brother Ral? All right! And then we partnered earlier this year with a grocery store called The Oasis Grocery Store—the first time in 14 years that they have had fresh groceries in a food desert in North Tulsa. We did something earlier in the year, but we just said, «This year, it’s not enough.» So can somebody tell AJ and the whole management team over there that we’re partnering again with them for another $100,000 at The Oasis to feed the community? Oh, we’re going to feed the community with this. People are going to get Christmas meals. They’ll be able to—when their kids are out of school for break—they’re going to be able to feed them! Somebody shout at me, «Flow!»
So, are we done in North Tulsa? Nope! I just think I want to take this even beyond just North Tulsa; I want to talk about injustice. I know this is where people don’t touch because it gets touchy, and okay, cool. There has been a stronghold over this city and other cities, yes, of segregation and just injustice. I’m just going to say it without going into it—there’s just been injustice, and there are still things that have not happened for North Tulsa while everything else is happening all over the rest of the city. We’re building out and this and that and the third. This is not just happening in Tulsa; it’s happening everywhere.
God’s going to raise this church up to end that nonsense! I’m telling you, I’m saying it out loud now, because when we build whole communities and give people a year free of rent—mark my words, if you’ve been around here long enough, you know—we’re going to own banks; we’re going to give people loans at rates that would shock real companies. We came to transform! Come on! I thought we’ve been talking about seeing it before you see it! I thought we’ve been in 12 weeks of crazier faith! I don’t know what happened to the church, but we’re not shouting about a house; we’re shouting about a community of houses! We’re talking about teaching people how to steward and leave wills. We’re not just trying to start a GoFundMe to pray for somebody’s funeral; we’re talking about generational wealth! We’re talking about that being the vision God gave to Bishop!
Thank you, Lord, and it went from local to national! I don’t know if y’all remember us praying a few weeks back for Julius Jones, who was on death row. Lord. And the only thing I’d like to say is the effectual fervent prayers of the righteous avail much! They were supposed to kill that young man, God, and he’s still alive! Thank you, Lord! Now there’s a far way to go, but some of y’all don’t rejoice for it because he’s still here! I know we want the rest of it, but we thank God for the progression, not perfection. His mother and his sister have been fighting for 22 years—my God!
I don’t know what it must feel like to wake up and go to sleep every day fighting, but we just want there to be some relief for that mama and that sister. So, on behalf of Transformation Church, we’re sending $100,000 to you guys through Justice for Julius, and we pray that God blesses you for all the standing in the gap that you’ve done, all the praying, the rallying, and all the sleepless nights; that this would be the beginning of restoration for you—that everything the cankerworm has stolen, God would give it back! Somebody say «Flow!»
All right, I got to move through this. They said 25 minutes. All right, I’m prepared for more blessing than that. I thought I could stop, but we can stop it; we okay. Somebody shout at me, «Flow!» Wow! All right! So, one of the things that I’ve seen happen over this last season, especially in COVID, is that people have lost a lot of loved ones. People have been dealing with medical situations that are unlike anything you could imagine. We heard about a young lady who was diagnosed with scoliosis; she has a 40° curve in her back.
Her mom wrote a Crazy Faith card and said, «I have crazy faith that I’ll be able to send my daughter to muscle and brain boot camp. I don’t know how we would be able to do it, but it costs $8,200 to try to just help her brain function and her back.» When the team showed me Aniah’s story, I said we can’t just give her $8,200. I said, «Tell Aniah and her mama—they don’t know this; this is the first time they’re hearing it—that in Crazy Faith, on behalf of Transformation Church, believing that it just won’t get better, but that God’s going to do a creative miracle!» Hey, I need y’all to come with your faith with me! We’re sending a check to you for $25,000 to be able to take care of the brain boot camp and get whatever therapies you need, going forward in the name of Jesus.
And then we heard about a 31-year-old woman. I believe her name is Aisha Patterson—right here in Tulsa. Aisha, y’all know you’re creative with these names! She’s battling breast cancer, had a double mastectomy, and has gone through radiation with medical bills—the last of it is about $155,000. We came together and said, «You know what? She survived all of those fractures, and as a church, we’re going to wipe out that medical debt!» So, Aisha, I want to let you know that $155,000 is taken care of because of the generosity of Transformation Church! Is she here? Is she here? Where’d she go? Oh, y’all better! I didn’t even know! Bring your family! Oh, I love God! I love you! I didn’t know you were going to be here. Give me a hug! Hallelujah! Man of God, I didn’t know y’all were going to be here.
So, God told us to take care of that $155,000, but y’all been through a lot. It’s been a lot, and you have how many kids? Four. Four kids, and it’s probably been a lot on them too. So what we wanted to do—how old are you? It’s okay; how old is he? One? Yeah. What we wanted to do is give your family some needed recreation. So on behalf of Transformation Church, we want to take care of the medical bills, but that doesn’t change today; it’s like they stop hounding you. But y’all need something to take your mind off of everything! So we’re sending your whole family to Disney World! You have $10,000 towards a complete Disney trip for your whole family! You’re going to see Mickey Mouse! Can we give God praise for Him sending God?
Bless you, bro! Thank you for being a man of faith and a man of valor; we love you! Let’s go love Jesus. Okay, um, is Bobby and Hannah Benjamin here? Are they here? Yeah, tell them to come on up here. Y’all have to come. They told me I only got 25 minutes. Y’all got the H?
So, um, it’s so crazy how God moves people in crazy faith. They moved here in crazy faith, in the middle of a pandemic, not knowing anybody—literally just trusting God. And, um, we found out—y’all know I have a thing for widows and orphans because God cares about that. This family has adopted two babies, and it’s beautiful. What’s up? I love you, man! They’ve adopted two babies and have been walking in crazy faith. There was some medical stuff, and the team found out that some adoption matters still needed to be taken care of, and the amounts were this, that, and the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth.
So, what we decided is that we’re going to send y’all home today with a check for $25,000 to continue doing what God has told you to do and to walk in crazy faith. He sees you, hears your prayers, and you didn’t miss God. Your crazy faith is going to be spoken of all over the world. This is just the beginning and the start of a flow. Can we give God a shout? Oh, y’all playing; y’all done got tired now. Hi, baby! Hi, baby!
So, um, while that’s happening, um, I needed—should I do it? Okay. There was a young lady on her crazy faith card; she had some brain trauma, and medical bills went crazy. The debt and all this other stuff happened. JC Ryan, you’re not here; you’re Transformation Nation. I just want you to know the medical bills for $440,000, wow, that have been over your head and your mama’s head, are now no longer your problem. Transformation Church is taking care of all $40,000 of the medical bill, up to $40,000. Can y’all give God some praise right now? Hallelujah!
There’s a young lady I heard about who has bone cancer; her name is Malia, and I think her last name is Hayatt. Is anybody from her family here today? Y—where are they at? Come here, come here, Dad; come here, family. This family has been walking through a whole bunch. A 15-year-old having bone cancer, and these people have been faithful, serving, and loving. They did, kind of like Joseph—they still were going to be fruitful even though they were fractured. What’s up, Dad?
Hey, today, I just want to let you know that God heard somebody or saw something, and I don’t know—I don’t even want to try to figure out what you’ve been feeling, watching your baby go through what she’s going through. But as a church, we want to let you know, number one, we’re praying for you and with you. We’re standing for you and with you, and we want to help relieve some of that medical pressure. So, Transformation Church, on behalf of God and all the crazy faith givers, we want to relieve up to $50,000 worth of medical debt.
Oh, y’all better come on! What we want this Christmas is for you to breathe a little differently. Can we stretch our hands toward this family right now, even believing for their daughter? In the name of Jesus, cancer, you are a name, but the name of Jesus is higher. And even for these sisters, who I can feel have had their faith fractured, God, I am asking you to bring restoration to their belief in you right now. God, protect and cover this family. Be with Mal right now, and God, we thank you that one day on this very stage, we will shout that she is cancer-free. Oh, I need somebody to see it before you see it today! I need Transformation Nation to praise like it’s happening today. Father God, we thank you in advance that she is cancer-free. Have Your way is our prayer. In Jesus' name, we agree. Amen!
Can we give God praise one more time? I love y’all so much. Thank God! Bless you! How good is God? Bri, how did we get here? Dad said it; he said, «By faith.» How did we get here? How did God sustain us? How did God make you the one who is going to bless your whole family? This is personal. Where’s Melody? Come here, Mel! Where are you at? She’s one of our worship leaders, probably one of the smartest people I know in the world. I’ve known her all my life, and I know the enemy has tried to create a lot of fractures in your faith. Your middle name is Faith, and you and Josh have been believing God for some things. One of the things you have been believing for—I remember you went to TU and did all of this stuff, and you were one semester away from finishing, but there’s been this $7,500 barrier hanging over you for years to get your degree and do all that other stuff.
Go tell TU to give you your stuff because today, your debt to Tulsa University is retired! It’s only crazy until it happens! Y’all better rejoice with them! That’s new jobs, new opportunities—bye-bye student loans! That felt good! That felt good to retire those student loans! Should we do one more? I said, should we do one more? Is Angel Smith here? Is she here? No, she might not be here. She’s not here, but somebody find Jael and tell her she’s an ORU graduate who was about to graduate with $29,434.92 of student debt. She put it on her Crazy Faith card specifically. Somebody tell her and the whole Smith family that she is going to graduate with no student loan debt! Y’all better rejoice! You better rejoice like it’s your kids! Somebody could do it for you; you better rejoice like you’re going to do it for somebody else. There’s a flow! All right, real quick, I need all these people to come up on the stage real quick—Felicia Banks, Shade Horch, and Lauren and John.
How do you say the last name? Benders? Say it again! If you know who you are, come on stage! I don’t know how your parents were that creative; just come on, stand right there, and you stand right there. Thank you! Just stand right there. If I could get Rachel Block, Rachel, could you come on stage real quick? Rachel, where you at? And then Alicia Henson, I think you are even serving in production right now—would you come for me real quick? Okay, where’s she at? Oh, she can’t even make it on stage; she’s already crying! So, what ended up happening is we found out that these people have been faithful in serving while fractured. So today in Crazy Faith, you get a car! You get a car! You get a car! You get a car! Y’all better praise God with me! Brand new! I feel the presence of God; there is a flow! Look on the screen; those are your cars! Somebody shout at me, «Flow!»
Now listen, no strings attached. You’ve been faithful for years. This young lady gave her car away in Crazy Faith; she gave it to y’all! God knew her name was on a list to receive a car before she even gave it away! Jesus, you’ve been without a car for seven days, and God has created—it! Y’all moved here from Florida in Crazy Faith, and now God has created—oh, there’s something special about you! You’re believing God for $6,000 to pay off your car, so we are giving you that too! Well, what’s she going to do with the other car? That’s between her and God, but she has a new car and she is going to be able to pay off the one she got! God said, «I see you, I see you, I hear you, and I haven’t forgotten about you!»
Today, you will remember this day for the rest of your life that God, Jehovah Jireh, is your provider! Will somebody give God a huge shout of praise? Is that how you shout? Shout! I’m just trying to make sure somebody shouts «Flow!» There’s this organization in Arkansas called Ambitious Girls that helps educate adolescent teen girls with empowerment and exposure, and we found out that they needed a 15-passenger van. Will somebody tell Ambitious Girls and their whole team that there is a 15-passenger van on the way to Arkansas right now, brand new, to pick up and do whatever you need to do? Yeah, okay, so some of y’all know that this is fun. Some of y’all know that we just moved into our new Global Headquarters at the former Unicor building. We call it Transformation Towers.
One of the things God gave us in that facility was the ability to move in with a company that rents out the first and second floors. Yeah, so come on, some Unicor people in the building! Matter of fact, hey, Unicor in the house! Come on! Matter of fact, Alicia, come here real quick! Oh, it seems like a setup to me! One of the things we’ve been doing is we decided we were going to be good neighbors, and we’ve been having dinners and lunches and giving gifts to Unicor as much as we can—just loving on these people and letting them know how much God cares about them. We may be young and play loud rap music sometimes—yeah, she said they like it! Okay, so we found out that your car is just demon-possessed and that you have to anoint it with like a quart of oil every five miles!
That’s not that bad—it’s not what I heard! So we decided that we didn’t want to just sew into Unicor as a whole; we wanted to pick somebody specific. I just want to let you know that over at Unicor, there’s a new car waiting for you; that’s your car right there! That’s your brand new car—no strings attached! Oh my God, is in the blessing business! Oh God, thank you! Somebody shout at me, «Flow!» It’s a flow of faith! If He can get it to you, can He get it through you? We just leave her up here. Somebody escort her off or something! Dang! Y’all just—she’s like, «Dang!» Y’all just come on, team. Golly! I was a visitor! Come on, get somebody over here—golly! Bewildered in the blessing! Hey, Transformation Nation!
This whole thing is moving past this studio and going to y’all. There’s a guy named Joe Rover in Springfield, Missouri. We found you on the Crazy Faith wall; I guess you came here. We haven’t met you, but God knows you! Will somebody tell Joe Rover and his family that we are believing for a brand new car in the mail this week? Oh, will y’all shout for Joe? He’s not here to shout for himself, but I bet they’re turning it up in the living room because you got the keys—the keys, the keys! Glory to God! Okay, all right, let me keep moving. Oh, do I have a camera that can follow me? Can you give me a camera that can follow me real quick? Are they here? All right, cool, follow me this way and let me go this way. Y’all with me?
Okay, no, no, no—this is for you! Oh, hey! Hi! Hey, Miss J! I’ve watched you serve faithfully, my God, for my whole life, and I’ve seen God use you to facilitate help to men and women of God all over the country. I know COVID has really fractured a lot of things, but the one thing you’re not going to be doing is catching the bus around here. So on behalf of Transformation Church, I want to let you know that there is now a new flow for you, and these are the keys to your brand new car! Oh, come on! We love you! Come on! You’re talking about somebody—that’s your car on the screen right there! That’s you! Put the car back on the screen; let her see it! Our brand new car! Glory to God!
Somebody shout at me, «Flow!» Okay, so this one is personal. Transformation Church staff, there was a cleaning staff person at our Bixby location. Her name was Miss Syvia. Miss Syvia made an indelible mark on our staff, and everybody was super sad when we moved to the building and Miss Syvia didn’t come with us. They were like, «I thought Miss Syvia just came with the situation.» We heard that Miss Syvia needed some new transportation, so Miss Syvia and her husband— I hope they’re watching right now; if not, somebody can text her. There’s a brand new car with your name on it, Miss Syvia! The Bible says the first shall be last and the last shall be first, and today your name has come up before heaven, and God wants to bless you. The team loves Miss Syvia so much; I just felt like we couldn’t just help her; we need to keep the flow!
We heard that Miss Syvia was working on her citizenship, and it could get super expensive with lawyer fees and all these different things. So Miss Syvia, we want to let you know that Transformation Church is going to help you with your lawyer fees to help you get your citizenship! Come on, y’all! And the last thing I want to let you know is that Miss Syvia has been working tirelessly for years, and I don’t know the last time she’s been on a vacation. So we’re going to give you $10,000 to just go wherever you want to go! Make sure the hotel has room service; you ain’t cleaning nothing! Y’all better help me! You ain’t cleaning! Throw the sheets up and just room service everywhere and make a mess!
Somebody shout at me, «Flow!» Hey, is she excited? Emily Stanton, are you here? Come here, Emily! Y’all give it up for Emily as she comes! Emily ain’t even going to make it! She’s not going to make it! Will you put her Crazy Faith card up on the screen? I found it—yeah, it’s okay, Emily; it’s okay! Come here, come hug your chocolate brother! Come on, here, come here! Where are you from, Emily? I’m from Tulsa! I just moved to Arizona! Yeah, she moved to Arizona, and last year she put her Crazy Faith card—see, some of us have been at this for years, right? This isn’t our first year going into this. She wrote a bunch of things on her Crazy Faith card, but she wrote that she would be in health.
And you know what? One of the things that I commend people for is knowing they’re in a place where their health could be better. A lot of times, we talk about how people got to a certain place, but we don’t commend them for taking steps to improve themselves. So, I just wanted the team to know what we could do to help her. So we got you a Peloton, and we got you—oh, y’all! We want to be practical with this! So we got you a Peloton and a subscription for a year to be able to do that so you can make that happen! But then we heard—I want to make sure I say this right—but then we heard, «Oh yes, oh yes!» that you wanted to get your finances in order. You don’t just want to be healthy spiritually; you want to be healthy financially. So we got you—bring it right here—a whole year’s package of Financial Peace University.
We want you to take this; we want you to study, and we’re giving you your first $1,000 for your emergency fund! You’ll learn what all that means when you actually go through it! You’ll learn what’s your first thousand! We got you! See, y’all want to be all spiritual, and God wants to be very practical! Jesus, is that going to help you? But we couldn’t stop there! We couldn’t just give you a vehicle that you can’t move in because the Peloton—what are you going to do? Just keep it there? You can’t even take it to the market or anything. So we got you a brand new car! It’s only crazy! Y’all, will y’all praise with Emily? That’s your car up there on the screen right there! Give God some praise! I knew she was going to make it! We praise God! We praise God! I said, we praise God! God is the one that gives!
God is the one who saved us, and Jesus is the one who gives us the ability to have generosity in our hearts. We praise God! All right, sit down; we’re almost done. Now, finally, I know you all are frustrated. Hey, I heard someone say «flow.» Okay, cool, cool, cool; I just needed to make sure we could flow in faith. Do you see how this relates back to the story? God blessed, but it could have been famine if the people had the wrong heart. If Joseph had said, «No, they don’t deserve this,» I don’t know what would have happened. No, no, no; Joseph decided to let it flow, and people didn’t experience famine because of the faith of a group of people.
Elizabeth Scoffield and Transformation Nation, we heard that you lost your father recently and, because of it, your mom has been working hard, and you almost lost the house. All you needed was $20,000 to pay off the house, but $220,000 might as well be $20 million when you don’t have it. So, Emily, that’s what she put on her Crazy Faith card—nothing for herself, but so she and her mom wouldn’t have to worry. There’s a widow who is concerned about a place to stay, so will somebody get in touch? She’s probably watching right now. Elizabeth, you can tell your mom that her house is paid off now, because we’re sending you all $20,000 to own your home. Let’s give God some praise for that!
Frank and Sophia Catal, you know who you are—another person who lost their husband; this is important to God. We’re sending you a check for $25,000 to help you. This was a crazy story. They visited our church, and we found their Crazy Faith card in the window, like nobody was here. It was before the rooms opened up; they had no one to talk to, but they drove here from another place and just said, «If I could just get on the property.» Someone from our team found it; it had no name on it, and they had to search for days, but God found you. We’re sending you $25,000 to help you with the things on your Crazy Faith card. Somebody give God some praise right now!
All right, this one—hey Crystal Cruz, come here. We heard that this last season has been really hard on your family. She came here last year as an intern, but she’s no longer in the internship, just being faithful wherever God has called her. They had some medical issues with their mother in the hospital, and due to her dad taking off work and other factors, they accumulated tons of debt. We want to let you know this is going to be a good Christmas for your family because we’re letting Mom and Dad know—call them right after this—that Transformation Church is sending $50,000. You all better worship with her! Those are real tears; that’s God coming through, that’s God performing a miracle. There is a blow that is happening; oh, I feel the presence of God. There’s worship; it’s only crazy! Thank you, Lord. We believe this is going to be the beginning. I hope you hear that the goal is that we never have to do a moment like this in service because this is how we live.
My question is, whose house, whose bills, whose car are you buying this time next year? Uh-oh, that’s where I know. Y’all thought it was coming from Transformation Church? No, no, no! What God is looking for is His kingdom to be established through everybody—say «me.» Some of you in this room, God is sparking your faith to believe, «Every year I’m going to buy somebody a car.» Since 2017, every year since I gave my Range Rover away, I have been able to give away— I don’t even know; I think we’re in double digits now of vehicles that we’ve either paid for or given away—not publicly, not all this other stuff. God just put it on my heart; this is your new normal. We’ve got to believe in Crazy Faith for it; every year, it’s not like all this is easy. Every time, it’s like «Oh, but,» and now it’s the new normal. Thank you, God. There are people you’ll see their Crazy Faith cards posted. The church is not supposed to meet their need. Come on, you were going to use that for vacation, and God is going to speak to you and say that $2,200 could help somebody else instead—someone who will benefit from it instead of buying for someone who won’t wear it.
What you need to do is to sow a legacy of Faith. What we’re doing here, I’m just trying to spark Crazy Faith in people. All I’m trying to do is get people to believe! I don’t just start businesses; I invest in them with no strings attached. What happens when you’re the one that can fund whatever God wants to happen on the earth? This is not about an organization; this is about everyone—say «an organism.» If God can get it to you, the question is can He get it through you? For many of us, we would rather people have famine than be the one to start the flow.
All right, we’re coming to the end. I found this organization out of Oklahoma City, Hope is Alive. Will you come up here real quick? I did my research; these guys do hardcore life transformation. What’s up, man? You good? I’m good. That sweater is fire. God bless you, bro. What’s going on? You good? Yeah. I heard about what God has been doing through you guys to help men come out of lives ravaged by drug addiction. You guys have been faithful, consistent, and good stewards. I remember we gave to you a couple of years ago when we were back in the hallway, you brought a whole bunch of guys, and I just spoke life over them. You all kept doing it, and some of our team went to an event you had in Oklahoma City a few weeks ago.
They came back saying, «Pastor, if we don’t do anything else…» Yes! The transformation that’s happened in these men’s lives—they need more help, more resources. These people are being transformed; their families are being restored. God is doing a work in them. I said, «Well, what do they need?» They said, «Everything.» I was like, «Okay, what does that mean?» They said, «Well, they have a home in Oklahoma City and a home in Texas, but they’re looking to purchase a home to help men right here in Tulsa.» Last year, we bought a home for a family; yes, we did. But I told the team, «What would happen if we bought a home for 12 people?»
So, on behalf of Transformation Church and Transformation Nation, you have $300,000 to go find a new home for Hope in Tulsa. Oh, come on! This is Crazy Faith; this is Crazy Faith! Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you! Thank God, because, at the end of the day, I wouldn’t even qualify—I could be somebody in your program. Wow! I’m very in tune with the thin line of Grace that I walk that allows me to be standing here and not dead somewhere with a needle in my arm. You’re rescuing people who are the epitome of my message, that have all these fractures, but you still see the good in them.
I just have one request. I know that your program costs money, and there are a lot of people, especially minorities, who can’t afford it. The program is like $10,000. So when you build the house here in Tulsa, I need you to have a minority scholarship fund specifically for African Americans and Hispanics who can’t afford it. Transformation Church is going to fund the first $100,000. Yeah, yeah! No, no, this is real! So, $300,000 for the house, $100,000 for minority scholarships, and we’re going to see transformation! Oh, come on! Thank God! To God be the glory for the things He has done. Transformation Nation, can we give God some praise? Flow! Thank you, Lord, for letting us be a part of Your flow.
Okay, is anyone from the Tulsa Girls Home here? Are they here? Y’all come here! Give it up for the Tulsa Girls! All right, last year we bought out a shoe store and purchased all these expensive sneakers for the Tulsa Boys Home. We ended up giving all of them very high-priced sneakers that they would never be able to buy. It blessed the business and blessed the boys, and it was awesome. This year, I said, «Is there a Tulsa Girls Home?» They were like, «I don’t think so.» I said, «How can we have a Tulsa Boys Home and not a Tulsa Girls Home?» Then somebody came back saying that one had just been started. God is trying to do something in them, but they need $275,000 to secure a home for those eight or nine girls. I said, «Now, hold on. You mean that young ladies who are orphans, who have been misplaced or abandoned—whatever the situation is—by their families, just need a home, and it would only take $275,000? That’s too easy.»
So, on behalf of God, Transformation Church, and your faithfulness, you’re leaving today with a check for $275,000! Oh, y’all better help me, so we can see God work miracles in the lives of these young ladies. But hold on; these young ladies have probably never had some experiences that other kids take for granted. I mean, a home is a basic necessity—like a home! So, y’all are going to have a home, but they need somewhere to go or something to do. Could you bring that out for me? We got some suitcases for every girl in the Tulsa Girls Home. I want you to give them these suitcases because y’all are all going to Disney World! And four staff members are going to Disney World so that y’all can experience more, imagine more, see more, and dream more. It’s only crazy until it happens! Thank you, God!
To God be the glory! Y’all forgot your suitcases! To God be the glory! To God be the glory for the things He has done! Okay, I’m not done; I could get stuck right here. Hey, can Ignite Church come up here real quick? I asked them to get the pastor, the pastor’s kids, the whole family. Just tell them—the pastor needs them. Ms. Kri, I love you. This has been a very difficult year for this family. This family of five lost their father right after starting a church. His family gathered around to do what needed to be done and saw what God entrusted to you.
This is the type of stuff that fractures people’s faith. Like, God, if you knew this was going to happen, why would you call us to lead a church? Why would you put this burden on us? It’s a new church we’re starting, and we can’t pay people or do all this other stuff. This miracle is twofold because the one thing I need you to know is that the church is going to be okay. If God called y’all to do it, it’s going to work out. But we want to sow a seed into where y’all are. So, on behalf of Transformation Church, we want to give you $50,000! Y’all are not shouting like they’re shouting! You don’t know what that’ll do! Hold on—bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back. Because that’s just for the church; God is also concerned about this family.
So, here’s what we’re going to do. Ms. Katia, this is not for everybody else, because you have a lot of kids; you all did the thing. So, for each of the kids, you’re all going to get a check for $20,000. Their daddy’s gone, but their heavenly Father is still here. Their daddy’s gone, but their heavenly Father is still here. They’re in college; they need cars, and all these different things! Their earthly father’s gone, but their heavenly Father is still here! See, because this family—if one of them got something, they would take it and give it to make everything happen. That’s their hearts.
So, no, no, no, no, no, each of you is getting a check for $220,000, and Miss Katia, because that’s your heart, that would be enough for your kids to be taken care of. But you’re God’s child, and so this isn’t for the church; this isn’t for your kids. We had to set it up just like this to ensure that you would do what you needed to do to make sure that everything is going to be okay. So you’re leaving with a check for $100,000! Y’all better rejoice! God is good; He is faithful; He is consistent! I felt that—my God is consistent! My God sees what nobody else sees; my God will do what no one else will do. To God be the glory! To God be the glory! That’s who gets it— to God! This is a family worshiping right now. To God be the glory for the things He has done.
Sing that next part: «Through His blood, He has saved us; through His power, He has raised us.» To God be the glory for the things He has done. The best days for your family are not behind you; they’re in front of you. The fractures caused by all the church hurt and by serving and not getting paid, and watching your family invest and give in this bamboo season—God is about to reward you openly for the seeds you’ve sown privately. This is just the beginning! Hallelujah! This is not a finale; this is just the start of a flow! I’m prophesying to each one of your kids: you will be pillars of resource! That God, even as He raises you in stature, that’s how you will be in areas of finance, influence, and ideas! God is going to bless this family for years of sowing.
What’s going to happen is that He did it like this so you would know what to do when He brings you to a place of fulfillment. You will be a source of flow that people will come to, and you won’t cause famine because in another season they hurt you, or in another season they couldn’t see what God was doing. You’re going to allow there to be a flow! Thank you, Lord! We speak life over everything your hands touch. This is a whole other church, y’all, but from Transformation to you, we declare the blessing of God. We declare favor, fruitfulness, and fulfillment in everything that you do! Ignite Church, today is the day of a new beginning for you. You will not mourn any longer, but there will be joy to replace the spirit of heaviness. We praise God for what He’s doing in your life!
Will somebody in Transformation Church and Transformation Nation give God a shout of praise? I love y’all so much! I’m going to hug all of you afterwards; it’s ten of y’all, okay? Glory to God! I, Church, I’m tired. Thank you, God! Y’all didn’t know giving is work! Thank you for being faithful; I appreciate you! Glory to God! But no, no, no, I’m trying to teach you something right here! Yeah, yeah, I want to teach you that as hard as you prayed to get it, you have to work that hard to give it! Nobody teaches you this, but I want to teach you because some of y’all are about to walk into a level of resource that God is going to allow to flow. Do not grow weary working to give it to them!
See, because a lot of times you think, «Well, this should be easy to get.» This should be easy! Like, we have a team of people that have to do a bunch more work. It’s like we give you $300,000; okay, now we’ve got to figure out if your medical bill is real. We have to figure out who it goes to—because we’re stewards of what God has given! You say it’s $40,000; we’re going to make sure because God trusts us for the flow. We’re not going to let anyone stop the flow around here! So, what I’m saying is, this week when God asks you to turn on the flow, yes, but that means I’ve got to turn back around and go into that store, and it’s cold outside! It takes work to be a blessing, but it is more blessed to give than to receive!
I’ve got one more; I think I’ve got one more? Is Brandon Jones in the house? Brandon, come here! I know you weren’t expecting to come on the stage today. He brought his four kids! Y’all come on up here! Yeah, come here, come here! What’s up, dog? What’s your name? What’s your name, Bron? Bron, what’s up? B, you good? Man, what’s your name? B? Briden, give me five, man! Hey, Mom! How you doing? Okay, you’ve got four kids, right? Yes? All right, so come here, Brandon! Stand next to me! He doesn’t know what to do; he’s just like, «What is about to happen?» All right, Brandon is a young Black male in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and because of some circumstances, he’s raising four kids by himself. Yes, in a one-bedroom apartment!
How old are your other kids? Two, two, four, four? It’s a testimony that he’s standing here! I’ve got four kids with a wife, and some days it just be like—uh! I’m proud of you, man, and in a place where a lot of men walk away from their responsibility! Y’all bash people on the internet, but we’ve got an opportunity to thank God for someone who’s stepping up! He’s not perfect; he’s not perfect, but he’s progressing! We heard about the story, and we heard about the generation of young men that you’re raising. And we heard that your car has 300,000-plus miles on it! What? And that you’ve just been faithful! Oh, are those your baby girls? Oh my goodness! Y’all get a shot of the babies! Oh my goodness, with the Serena and Venus braids! Oh, the little beads! Oh my goodness! Okay! And like when you go home, it’s just you with them, right? Yeah, you said that so confidently! I commend you, bro!
So, the first thing we need you to know is that you can’t ride around in that car with 300,000 miles anymore! These kids need safety! So, on behalf of Transformation Church, God, and Transformation Nation, here are the keys to your brand new vehicle, my brother! He don’t even know what to do! Love! But these babies can’t be staying in a one-bedroom apartment! So I want to let you know, y’all all have an assignment this week! Come on! You’re going to get in the new car, and then you’re going to drive around Tulsa, and you’re going to put a little app on your phone called Zillow, and you’ve got $250,000 to go find a new house for you and your children! Oh, y’all better rejoice! These kids will not be in that situation! Would y’all give God praise?
Listen to me, bro! God’s saved you! I don’t know your situation, and there would be more candidates that would be perfect for this who lived a certain life, but God chose you! There’s a purpose on your life since before you came out of your mother! Today God wanted you to know it’s time to answer the call fully and completely! We believe that this is a sign of crazy faith that’s going to follow you forever! Eyes have not seen, ears have not heard the great things that are planned for you and these children! Y’all are going to touch the world for Jesus! I believe it! I see it! We speak it in crazy faith! In Jesus' name, amen! Transformation Church, can we give God some praise right there? I love y’all!
Now, is that how you shout for God? To God be the glory! To God, I’m tired; I’ve got to sit down! To God be the glory for all the things He has! All right, real quick, real quick, real quick! I don’t want anybody to ever get this twisted: Transformation Church, today was a conduit! We were not the source; we were a resource! None of these people have to do anything for us, ever! Because when it leaves our hands—that’s right! —God saw that we had the heart to give where He directed us to! Whatever happens after this, that’s them and God! At this moment, I want to challenge you to go and do the same! Yeah, yeah, yeah! You don’t get to experience all of this and stay the same! You don’t get to be in this atmosphere!
Some of y’all watching in other countries, and God doesn’t say, «Now, this is what I want you to do; share this with every person you can find this week,» because God wants there to be a revival of crazy faith and generosity that rises up all over the world! But it starts with the church! We’ve been looking for Bill Gates, for tech people, and all this stuff to do something, but we have the ability to do it if we would surrender our hearts and live in obedience to crazy faith! Today, what happened was just the beginning—not just a lifestyle of crazy faith, but a legacy of crazy faith!
Today, I want to give you the opportunity to accept Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior because it’s the only thing that could make a selfish person like me be so transformed that giving would become more appetizing and intentional in my life than receiving! We have now led a church into this level of generosity! The only reason is that God gave to me first! He gave me something more precious than any check! He gave me Jesus! He literally saw me in my addiction to pornography, in my manipulation! He saw me with a potential felony case for car insurance fraud and said, «I can transform him and change him, and then I can use him to inspire other people to believe in me! And there could be a movement that starts all over the world of crazy faith!»
Today, I want to take you back to the first thing that all of us need to allow the flow of God in our lives: it’s Jesus! Jesus is the reason we give; Jesus is the reason we love; Jesus is the reason we serve; and Jesus is the reason we live! Today, we’re about to pray, and if you are watching this or in the room right now, and you’ve never allowed God to take up residence in your heart, today! I want to give you the opportunity to accept Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior! None of this money means anything because we cannot take it with us into eternity! The only thing we can do is leave a legacy of faith that points people toward eternity! Today, God wants to give you the opportunity to live and walk in crazy faith through salvation—or let me call it saving faith!
According to Romans 10:9, if you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord, you will be saved! I even feel this right now—there have been people living lukewarm! I need Transformation Church to pray right now! There have been people who have been living lukewarm! You know the right thing, but you haven’t surrendered to God! You haven’t been obedient to Him! You haven’t been living in the ways that you know you should! Today, God says, «This is your moment! This is your opportunity! I brought you here through giving and all this other stuff right now so that I could get you the thing that’s more precious than money!» The Bible calls it true riches! It’s people whose lives now need to be transformed by the loving grace of Jesus Christ!
If you want to be added to this prayer that we’re about to do, you’re saying, «Pastor, I want to give my life to Christ! Today is the day of salvation!» I want you to just lift your hands, no matter where you’re at! If you’re at your cubicle—if you’re sitting with friends—if you just stopped drinking and smoking a blunt, it doesn’t matter! See, people care about that stuff, but God doesn’t care! He knows exactly where you are! Some of you are like, «Pastor Mike, but if I’ve got a couple of habits I need to get together.» God says, «No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! If you would give me your heart, I’ll help you change your habits! Today is the day of salvation!»
If that’s you, I want you to raise your hand, and I want you to say this prayer with me! One, you’re making the greatest decision of your life! Two, I’m so proud of you! But more than that, your name is going to be written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, and your eternity is going to be secured! Three, lift your hands wherever you are if you want to make that decision for Jesus! Listen to me; you can put your hand down! There are hundreds of hands that just went up! How do you know, Pastor Mike? You can’t see them! Every week, hundreds of people text us, «This is my name, this is my number, this is where I live, and I just gave my life to Jesus!»
Can I tell you how many people made that decision this year? Over 4,500 people! Oh, y’all better stop acting fake in this room! That’s the reason our church exists! Oh yes, Lord! Today, your name is going to be added to the names of thousands of others coming into the love of Jesus Christ! Transformation Church is a family—nobody prays alone here! So I want us all to pray this prayer for the benefit of those who are coming to Christ! Everybody say:
Lord, thank You for seeing me, with my fragments! Thank You for seeing me! Thank You for sending Jesus! I believe He lived, He died, and He rose again just for me. Today, I give You my life; change me, renew me, transform me. I’m Yours, I’m Yours. In Jesus' name, Amen.