Don’t Get It Twisted // Wicked: The Worship Of Wealth (Week 1) // Pastor Michael Todd

What's going on, family? I am so glad that you are joining us for today's message. We are starting a brand new series called Wicked. And no, it is not about the movie or the Wizard of Oz. This is about what Jesus calls wicked and our relationship to wealth. And if you can't figure out why you don't have wealth, or you can't figure out why you don't know what to do with wealth, or you can't figure out why wealth has fear attached to it for you, today, this message is going to help you get the right relationship with wealth. And I believe the principles I'm going to share have the opportunity to change not just your life, but the life of your children's children's children. Today, I want you to open up your heart and get ready to receive a message that's going to help you no longer worship wealth, but walk in wisdom. Enjoy today's message.

Today, um, I have an assignment to start a series that I think may go down in history as one of the most impactful series that I've ever spoken because if you get the principles that I'm about to share with you, it's not just going to change your life, it's going to change generations that come after you. That's right. Hear what I just said to you. This series is worth you taking notes, wrestling with hard questions, investigating, reading other books about it, seeing what the Bible says, and hear me. I want everybody in Transformation Church to be literate in the word of God. So, I'm telling you, don't take my word for it. Go study it for yourself. Like, I just want to be clear, 'cause some people like, "All right, Pastor Mike said, okay, cool, cool, cool, cool." And I work hard to make sure that what what I'm saying up here and what any communicator is saying up here is backed in the word of God so that you on a Monday, on a Tuesday, any day of the week can go for yourself and research what God says about it because you know what? He can give you a better, better revelation than I can. And so today, I want to take us on a journey. Somebody say, "We're going on a journey." On a journey. We're going on a journey to talk about money.

Now, the word of the year at Transformation Church is what? Focus. Say it again. Focus. And do you know what? Most of the time you're focused on money. How much you have or how much you don't have. Who owes you some? Oh, y'all know y'all y'all y'all see that dude that owes you $6 from the seventh grade? Jammarcus, I can't stand him. Why? He owes me $6 still. What? And I found that as I was going through the theme of things that become a distraction to us, I found that money, finances, dinero, what's some other names for money? Cheese, guh, cheddar, bands. Come on, help me. What'd you say? Bread. Why do I have so many food analogies? Lettuce. Whatever you call your money, coin. That coin. Most of us at some point on our journey with Christ have been distracted by money. Yeah. Can I make sure I'm in the right room? How many of us on our journey with Christ, heading first, giving honor to God who's the head of my life? Like you with Christ have been distracted at some point in your journey by money? Hands, hands, hands. We're in the right room today. So I thought it would be important for us to take the next four weeks. All I'm asking you to do is lock in for four weeks so that you get in total, in totality, the revelation that God wants to give to each one of you. I promise you, it was a series like this that changed my family's future. It was a series like this that allowed me to actually give God my heart at the level that he couldn't just change my, um, what was in my hands, he changed my habits. I'll tell you in a later, um, sermon how pornography was eradicated from my life through my generosity and putting God first. 'Cause all money is is a tool for God to see, watch this, where he stands in your life. Hear what I just said to you. All money does is locate you. And I can locate every person in this room by where they put their money. And it's going to be quiet in here a couple times. And it's okay. I amen myself 32 times before I came out here in the mirror. But the truth of the matter is money is one of those things that make people act funny. Have you ever known somebody that was real nice until you messed with their money? I mean, was was just right there, but you get in business with them or you, you cheat them out of something or you didn't do what you said you was going to do and it ruins everything because most people have a, watch this, intimate attachment to money. Let me just talk about it. You may not classify it as that, but why do you feel different when you have it, right, sir? When payday comes, you, you, you, you act like you lost weight and and and y'all know what I'm talking about. You get cute the night before you felt busted. That little notification comes in your phone, you're like, "Oh my god, it's time to go outside." Just come on, let's be honest. Why? When tax season, if you get a refund, that'll be brand new. What, what, what happens when you lose something? A car gets repossessed? Why did the repo of the car make you feel inferior and insignificant? It's an intimate attack. It's more than just embarrassment. There's some type of intimate attachment to finances, to money, to more. And today, I want us to, everybody say, focus. Focus. I want us to focus on what God has for us in this world realm and culture of wealth. Hebrews 12:1 and 2. I told you I'm going to read it all year long. Therefore, it's our scripture of the year. "Since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything, every weight that hinders, especially the sin that so easily entangles us. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus." Somebody shout to me, "Focus." Focus. The pioneer and the perfector of our faith. For the joy that was set before him, he endured the cross, scorning its shame. And now he sat down at the right hand of the Father, by the throne of God. Every week, I must say this, fixing your eyes on Jesus gives you the faith to focus.

Most of us have not asked Jesus what he wants to say about money. We learned it from people who didn't learn it. When you think about all the places you learned about money, they weren't really in the places you was probably supposed to learn them in. I know in school, I had one class about personal finances, one at home. I knew my parents had money, but there was never a class teaching understanding on money 'cause everybody's doing the best they can with what they got. And the truth of the matter is most churches stay away from the topic or they manipulate the topic. Okay, let's talk real about it. They either stay away from it because I don't want anybody to think we're a part of the prosperity gospel and that we don't need anything. And then you have people who are a part of the poverty gospel. Broke-minded, can't help with nothing, always need something. Not because that's where you started. It's just you've never been taught out of that. And then you have people that make $100 lines for everything. Right, sir? Today we're reading Psalms 100. Everybody that get a $100 seed in your hand, get a 100 pennies, get a $100 dime. Get a 100 quarters. Get a 100. There's nowhere in the Bible that Jesus ever took up an offering because of another number being a part of it. So, I just want to expose and acknowledge that there's been some things that have been done around money, especially in church, that leave all of us a little confused and, watch this, secret about our money. Most people, the thing you don't talk to them about is that money. You, you judge and try to sum up what you think somebody has. Carry the two minus the three. I know how much them shoes cost. I. But actually talking about it, actually asking people like, "How do you do your budget? How do you do this? How do you honor God in this? How do you invest? How do you?" Like unless you know, you know. But if you don't know, you'll never know.

And today, I'm going to be a living testimony for you. I'm Michael, and I used to have a poverty mentality. Over 10 years ago, before I became the pastor of this church, I knew that I was supposed to be able to handle resources and have wealth. I did not have it. I was in debt collections up to my eyeballs. I did not understand credit. I had no investments. I did steal from establishments. I'll tell the Oh God. Now, will how real should I actually be? [Music] Today, I, I don't know what the statute of limitation is. Am I good? Okay. I used to go to discount stores and change tags to sell tags. Okay. I cannot, I can't be real. I, I'm, I'm, I'm going to, I'm, I'm going to tell you how much poverty I wanted to look like I had it. So much so that I put my freedom in jeopardy. I just want to, I just want to make sure you know I'm not talking down at you. I'm not trying to tell you you need to do something that, that hopefully one day we all get to. When I started this series, all I had was faith in the principles that God showed me in his word. And for the past decade, I've worked these principles that I'm about to share with you. And so today, and for the rest of this series, I'm not sharing with you as one that is hoping to reach this level because of the faithfulness of God and my obedience to his word. He has changed my relationship with money forever. My children's children, I'm not telling you this so that you could be like, "See, he's doing..." No, no, no. My children's children already have resources. Now, why are you not hiding that from us? 'Cause I want you to have it. I don't, I don't, I don't want. And this is not, this is not because I'm the pastor of this church. I need everybody to hear me. This is because I have decided that God's principles actually are the governing factor of my life and either they work or they don't, and we'll never know if I don't go all in. So 10 years ago, I went all in. I said, "God, either tithing works or it doesn't. So every time I get any increase, I'm going to give you 10% of it." And God in his word, this ain't even my message today. He said, "Test me. See if I won't open up the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing you don't have room enough to receive." I'm telling you right now, I am a recipient. I'm getting excited because I didn't believe it could happen until it happened to me. But I just wanted to let you know where I started so you don't think this is something that I already had a leg up or a hand up in. Right. I think it was Prophet Drake that said, "Started from the bottom, now we here." I just want... Okay.

The reason my relationship with money was very toxic is because I had gotten some of the principles that Jesus called important. Watch this. Twisted. Say the word. Twisted. Twisted. When we think about twisted, that word, it means that something is is tied around something else. There, there's, there's something that has now been turned and and formed into something that now takes on a different shape. It's just a little bit out of sorts. And when I started to think about the title of this series, I said, "What has been more twisted in church than money?" Nothing. There are people who will not come to church right now and their whole excuse is, "The church just wants my money." Now, not to mention the fact you ain't never gave them the money. But like, I'm saying, you're holding strong on yours, but you won't even go to church 'cause like, "They just want my money." Like there are a lot of things that are twisted when it comes about work and providing. There are a lot of things that are twisted when it comes to, "What's the difference between an offering and tithe and generosity?" It's just. And today I want to clear all of that up. Today I want to give somebody for the first time the ability to see it how God sees it. Amen. And today, I, I know there's some people in here that have already made your decision. You've been walking with God for a long time, and you've already made a decision that this is how I'm going to stay with God, and you've made a pact. And today, he's calling you into the deep. He's asking you to come out a little bit deeper. This series is called Wicked. Not just because that movie is out and everybody wants to sing that last, uh, little run that, that's, that's not why we did this. I almost got it. I just. That was close. If I practice a little more, I could. No. But this series is called Wicked, the worship of wealth. And when I started to look up what the word wicked means, do you know one of the definitions for wicked is twisted? Have you ever seen wicked furniture before? Wicker furniture. Okay, there we go. Thank you. Y'all had them. We don't get them no more. But back in the '70s, they had a whole bunch of wicker furniture and it would be a lot of stuff twisted together to make something solid. It was twisted. Today, I wanted to title this sermon, "Don't Get It Twisted." Why, Pastor Mike? Because if you have a twisted perspective of money, it complicates, confuses, and constricts the life God intends for all believers to live. If you have a twisted perspective of money, it complicates, confuses, and constricts the life that God intended for you to live. Today, some of y'all have to be unbound or unwound. When it comes to the money, don't get it twisted. Giving is not about amounts. It's about obedience. Somebody say, "Don't get it twisted." 'Cause some of y'all are sitting here like, "But I don't got a lot." God said, "I don't need a lot." He's not asking you for something you don't have. Very good. Somebody say, "Don't get it twisted." The church doesn't want your money. God wants your heart. Now, you may have had a bad experience in some other church, but this church, we're a church that during this whole series, we are going to be giving to other churches, other nonprofits, other people. Y'all got to understand this is not an offering we're about to take. There is no building fund that's not going to get built. There is no, there is no feed the children. There's nothing because of the faithfulness and the generosity of people that have heard this message over the years and been proactive with it. God has provided for his house. I'm trying to invite other people into this life 'cause there's a better life than you've been living. I feel like somebody who's gone on a trip outside of the country. How many people have been outside of the country before? Been on a vacation outside of the country? I'm gonna tell everybody this just for your expansion. If you do not have your passport, get it. Oh my gosh. If you do not have your passport, get it. God has made a big world that many of us do not have the faith or the resources to explore yet. But I believe just by that one act of faith, I believe there is something that God is going to do for your mind and your heart. Because some of y'all need to travel. Yeah, you need to see more than you've ever seen. Pastor Mike, why are you saying this? Because I've been to some places. And I've been the one to come back and tell other people, "That's a good place to go. This place has beautiful things here." This is how I feel on this journey of trusting God with generosity and and stewardship. I've gone on this journey and I'm coming back to tell Transformation Church, "Hey y'all, there's some good things out here. There's a life that you did not even know." Where the scripture says, "It is more blessed to give than it is to receive." Most of us have never experienced that. And what I'm telling you is this is the level God wants you to live at. And right now, I'm fighting people's generational, watch this, fear. I can feel it. Some of us have held on to mechanisms and welfares and and and and and programs and things that you think are making your life easy. I'm not saying not to use the assistance that you get, but what if I told you there was a better way that would take off the shackles from your life's existence? What if I told you that He who owns everything, desires to make you a dispensary, not a weed, but of resources? Oh, God. What if I told you that He wanted the people that you're around to be blessed because you're around? What if I told you that you were supposed to be a secret agent of answering prayers? That God would allow you to hear things that you don't even got to say nothing about. And you can walk around and take care of things on God's behalf. Come on. I stopped praying that God would just answer my prayers. And I started praying that He would make me an answer to prayers. [Music] But the only way that happens is if we actually have faith to believe that God's word is true. [Music] And that's why I don't want you to get it twisted. You can only help at the level you have. So good. Did y'all hear what I just said? You can only help at the level you have. So today, I'm asking you, start helping at the level you have. Many of you have this magic amount, this magic time, this magic job security point that, that's when you're going to be generous. It's the truth. That's when you're gonna trust God. "If I could just pay off this car, if I could just pay off this debt, if I could just..." That's when I'm gonna start. And I want to say, you're a liar. I just want to be very frank with you right now. 'Cause I made those same promises too. And what happens is God tells us in his word that how we practice one thing is how we do everything. He said, He, He said, "Be faithful over a little. I'll make you ruler over much." What He's saying is money magnifies who you are right now. Who are you right now? Are you generous right now? Are you faithful right now? 'Cause if God drops a hundred thousand, fifty. That's. Drop it, Lord. I heard you. I like that faith. Mama Chloe, if God drops a hundred thousand, ten thousand, a thousand, a hundred on you, the. This is what money does. It many times gives you amnesia. That's good. Y'all going to leave me up here by myself. When it comes in, somehow I know I'm supposed to do something. I know. But them boots. But that vacation. But I deserve a break. I need to go. So, so instead of waiting for an appointed time, I have to practice, watch this, principles. And so today, I want to bring you to Proverbs 11:24 that says, "The world of the generous gets larger and larger." I'm gonna read it out of the Message version because it feels real good. "The world of the generous gets larger and larger." Somebody say, "I will be generous." I will be generous. Come on. By faith, I will be generous. I will. One more time to break generational patterns. Somebody say, "I will be generous." And some of y'all, it's so hard because it's from the family you came from. They, they weren't generous with juice. Oh, y'all know some of y'all stingy juice people. Uh-huh. One glass. One glass. And and y'all know what I'm talking about. And and now you done found yourself, you live in a whole different tax bracket than your family. And you do the same thing to your kids. How many cups of lemonade is that? I just want you to evaluate. Where did that come from? If you can't be generous with juice, and you can fill in the blank for whatever your thing is, right? I want your world to expand. "The world of the generous gets larger and larger. But the world of the stingy, the juice jackers, gets smaller and smaller. 'Cause the one who blesses others is abundantly blessed." You want to live a blessed life? Be the biggest blesser you know. You want your world to expand? Look around and see what you can give to somebody right now. You want your world to be exploding? Go find somebody who's where you used to be and give them what you wish somebody would have gave you. Y'all don't hear me. The world of the generous gets larger. Yeah. But you can't be neutral in this. If you're stingy, it constricts you. And so that's why I found out in my journey, write this down, generosity is all about the heart. Money is just a neutral tool that gets directed by the heart and the hand of the person who holds it. So you give me money, it's going to do something different than if you give my daughter Ava money. Not because she's a bad person, but where her heart is right now, right, is on squishies. And I don't know if any of the parents know what squishies are, but they're pointless. Little things that have some type of gelatinous material on the inside and they cost $20-something dollars in different colors. So when Ava gets money, her heart says squishies. So her hand goes into her pockets. She has started a whole business. She's selling bracelets. She got Charles. She got Jay. She got Vic. She got her grandpa. Today, I'm not playing. For a week and a half, she's been making bracelets at the house so she could come to the place where she knows there's a captive audience. She's a businesswoman, y'all. And she is selling them from $5 to $12. Got my Cash App. She has already made $50 this morning. Asked if she could come early with me to church. As soon as she sees people, "Hello. Would you like to buy a bracelet in a Ziploc bag?" I bought. But what I'm telling you is when she gets the money, her heart and her hand are focused on squishies. Now, it's squishies for Ava, but it might be a mortgage for you. It's squishies for Ava, but it might be shoes for you. Okay, let me just read the scripture. Matthew 9, Matthew 6:19. Hey y'all, this is Jesus talking. "Don't store up for yourselves all your treasures here on earth where moths and vermin destroy and where thieves can break in and steal it. But what, what I want you to do instead," this is Jesus talking, "store up for yourselves, hold on, treasures in heaven." Hold on. I can make an investment here on earth that shows back up in heaven. I can make an investment today that is eternal. Tell me more. "Store up for yourselves treasure in heaven where moths and vermin do not destroy it and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." I got this scripture twisted for years. And I thought it said, "Where your heart is, right? Your treasure will be." It's reversed. Wherever you, by faith, put your treasure, your heart follows it. Put your treasure in your home. Your heart is making sure nobody gets scuffs on the floor. Take your shoes off. Take your shoes off. Take your shoes off. Because you can't. Y'all got people who can't even sit on their own couches. Plastic on couches. Y'all know what I'm talking about. You go to your granny's house, you can't eat at silverware you can't use. Uh-uh. That's the fine china. Wait, that's a fork. But wherever you put your treasure, your heart pops out. 22. This, this is where it's telling you to focus. This is Jesus talking. He said, "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light." He's saying that if the person who is handling whatever it is has light on the inside of them, everything is going to be light about that thing. That's why when people like, "Money is bad, money is bad." No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. "The love of money is the root of all evil." But money, He said, if you're pure in your intentions, you got light in your heart, you want to be generous, you want to do the right thing with it. He said, "When I give you money, that thing works for the kingdom." But if your focus, I'm trying to give y'all the principles. Here we go. But if your eye is, watch this, and I love that they say unhealthy, if your perspective is unhealthy, if you were raised by parents who, who, who did money in an unhealthy way, if you got in a hard time and you developed some habits that are kind of sketchy but not quite illegal, that's claiming people on your taxes who don't live in your house. That's a lie. No, I just. But if your eyes are unhealthy, watch this, your whole body will be full of darkness. And if then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness? Verse 24, watch this. "No one can serve two masters." Do y'all see how chronologically important it is for Jesus to talk about all of this? He says, "Don't put your treasures in just the stuff you see around here." He said, "Your, your, um, treasure is the place that is going to locate your heart. And don't make sure that make sure that your eyes are not in darkness, they're in light. And then it says, 'cause no one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other.' Listen, you cannot serve both God and money." Jesus makes this so clear that I have to make it even clearer to you because most of us get this twisted. And I want to just acknowledge one more time that church many times has done a horrible job at painting this picture. Watch this. Without a request attached to it. So it feels like manipulation. It's like, "You're going to tell me all these things I need to do and now I need you to take from what you do not have and I need you to give it." And what that leaves people feeling is used. And I want to apologize for any leader that has stood on a platform that has been raised and used money as a tool to manipulate. That is wicked. Today, I want to take the power out of that problem and I want to put our focus on the actual principle 'cause the enemy wants to twist it. That's what he's done from the beginning. He takes the truth and he twists it just a little bit so you can get distracted. And so when it comes to money, most people have taken the little truth that they have like, "I know I should be doing something with money, but I don't like the way they do it." And as long as it's twisted, he can keep you in a place that is either full of greed or full of poverty. And today, I feel a passion and a burden to help move you and progress you forward in trusting God on the principles that He's called you to. Somebody shout at me, "Amen."

Okay, so here we go. The first thing I want to change about money is your mindset. Money always starts in the mindset. So that's why we have to talk about your heart. When you think about somebody being wicked with money, okay, when you think about somebody who's greedy or rich or something that's not positive, what are some of the images or the people that come to your mind? When I thought about it, this goes to my childhood. I thought of this picture right here of this cartoon character. Can you put it on the screen for me real quick? Um, he was a duck, um, that had a lot of money and there was a part of me that loved him swimming in the coins, the diving board into the coins. This is Scrooge McDuck. I love that. But there was something about him that seemed very wicked. It seemed like he ain't never shared with nobody. He had them nephews that were orphans and it seemed like they was always begging. It just felt not good. And then I thought of this guy right here, um, Bernie Madoff. Now, many of you may not know who he is, but this guy right here is responsible for the biggest Ponzi scheme in US history. The, the, when we looked him up, it said he is responsible for the disappearance of almost $65 billion. People lost their retirements, their homes, their investments, and obviously he made it disappear. He's like, "Watch this magic trick. It's like gone. Okay." That's what I thought was wicked. But do you know when I started to search my heart and started to ask myself what have I classified wicked? I came up with a very vulnerable answer that I want to, I want to submit to you today. Many times, wicked is people who have just a little more than us. We think people are wicked if they have just a little more than we have. "Why they spend their money on that? How they get that? They done gone on two vacations this year." I, I'm, I'm exposing just little foxes that you don't even think about, but they've, they've started to take root in your heart. Right. Many times we start to classify people who we don't even know by little things that we do know. And today, the Holy Spirit said, "Michael, I'm going to define what's wicked. And today I'm going to give you two things and then we're going to move on so you're ready for next week." The end of Matthew 6:24. What does Jesus call wicked? Just, just write that down. What does Jesus call wicked? Y'all don't miss this. "No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other because you cannot serve both God and money." The first way to be wicked, write it down. Worshiping wealth instead of God is wicked. This is what wicked looks like. Us climbing the corporate ladder. Doing everything we can to get a dollar. Giving up relationships so that we can get more resources. Walking in, watch this, greed and stinginess to make sure that we're the only ones positioned. God says if you stand on this mountain, you're wicked. Think about it. Because when you worship wealth, you express your love to it. Worship is just expressing your love to something. Some of y'all, God can say something, you won't get up. If that job says something, you're up at 6:00 AM. You worship this. I'm just trying to, I'm just trying to tell you like, what the real deal is. God asks you for a little more time, you say, "What's the point?" If your job asks you for a little more time, overtime. He calls this wicked. Your family needs you to be there for them, and you would rather replace your presence with presents. "I'll buy you the new Jays. I'll get you the new PlayStation. I'll get you." And they need affirmation. They need you to say, "I'm proud of you." They need you to say, "Hey, I'm here. No matter if you fall, no matter if you fail, but I'm giving you the life I never had." Do you know you're ungrateful? "When I was a child, I wouldn't do..." No. And they said, "But you still needed the same things I need. I needed to be seen and heard and loved." And God says, "When I trusted you with a child, but you put the career before the child, I call it wicked." Y'all, this is not about just a bunch of money. And you mean this is about worshiping something that was meant to be a tool. This is like going to the hammer that will build the house and praising the hammer instead of being in awe of the house the hammer builds. And God says the whole system has made us turn into people who God never intended for His children to be 'cause we want to be on this mountain with a bunch of wealth. But this is not the only mountain. I just want to make sure everybody knows. We're almost done, but I just need you to hear this revelation. This ain't the only mountain 'cause there's half of us that are on this mountain. And if you're honest, all the stuff on your Instagram feed, you're trying to figure out how to get a Lamborghini, rent a Lamborghini, start some type of business, be able to scale it, 10x it, 10x it, 10x it. You're trying to do. No, I'm not. And I'm not mad at any of that. But is it tainting your heart in the process? And today, I'm believing that some people who are on this mountain are going to take a step down. And you're going to say, "You know what? Maybe this is not the right place for me to build my life." I'm not saying ain't nothing wrong with money. I want you to have lots of it. I want you to be able to help people. I want you to be able to take care of all your needs. I want you to live debt-free. Do y'all hear what I'm saying to you right now? How many people want to live debt-free? The Bible says to owe no man anything except to love him. How many people want that to actually happen in your life? Y'all don't even want it. That's crazy. But worshiping wealth instead of God is what? Wicked. Say it with me. It's what? So if there's any place in your life that resources have more say-so than God, you might be living a wicked life, twisted. And today, I believe by the Holy Spirit, you can be untwisted.

Okay. Matthew chapter 25:19. Oh, I love the Bible. Because this is a story about, um, that that most people know, but they, they miss the context of what Jesus is saying here because the, the person who loves money and worships it, they're twisted. They're wicked. But there's another person that I think y'all skip out on right here. Matthew 25:19, "A master goes away and he entrusts, um, these guys with his resources. One with five, one with two, one with one. Verse 19, it says, 'After a long time, their master returned from his trip and called them to give an account of, watch this, of how they used his money.' Whose money was it? 'Cause the master gave it to him. They used his money. Verse 20, 'The servant to whom he had entrusted,' I like that word, he trusted him with something. He trusts us with something. He trusts us with resources. He entrusted them five bags of silver. He came for it and and he had five more bags. He doubled it. 'Master, you gave me five bags of silver to invest and I earned five more.' The master was full of praise and said, 'What?' Two words. Well done. Now, everybody talks about the well done being only in heaven. When I get to the pearly gates, all I want to hear God say is, 'Well done.' Well, let me tell you, He'll say it down here. He'll give you a well done before heaven if you follow His principles about finances. I'm trying to get a well done this month. I'm trying to get a well done this week. I'm trying not to wait to heaven to get a well done. I want a well done. Right. Okay. He said the master was full of praise. 'Boy, you did it. Boy, boy, you did it. Just like your daddy. Well done, my good and faithful servant. You have been faithful in handling this large amount.' Now, the one with five had the most. He gave one five. He gave one two. He gave one one. But he called the one he gave the most to a small amount. Could it be that what God has trusted you with so far was just the tester of what He actually wants to do in your life? The most you've ever had. He still calls it a small amount. That makes me happy because in my best years when God was blessing from the left, the right, the east, and the west, I hear Him still saying, "That was just a small amount." Okay? He said, 'You've been faithful with a small amount.' So now there is a reciprocating action. There's a chain reaction. When you're faithful with a small amount, I will give you many more responsibilities. I like that, and I could preach a whole another message about it, is because when you handle money right, He doesn't just give you money. When you handle money right, He gives you responsibilities. And when He gives you responsibilities, responsibilities are attached to resources. So this is why when people are scared of work and scared of actually doing what God's told them to do, you're not ready for money. 'Cause when God gives you responsibilities, He's asking you to work something else. There is no indication in the scripture of what that man did to get five more. God, he could have been selling bracelets like Ava. He could have started a, a coffee-making business. He could have. We don't know what he did. All we know is he gave him one responsibility and he flipped it and came back with five more. He said, "Because you were faithful over this, I'm gonna give you more responsibilities which equal more opportunities for resource." I could teach a whole another thing about that. Okay, here we go. And what Jesus says after He said, "Let's celebrate 'cause you did what I asked you to do." The servant with two, he came back with two more bags of silver. "Master, you gave me two bags of silver to invest and I have earned two more." The master said, "What? Well done, my good and faithful servant. You have been faithful in handling this small amount. So now I will give you many more responsibilities. Let's celebrate together." Do y'all see the pattern? When God gives you something, He wants you to at least double it. That is good. When He gave the one five, he came back with five more. He doubled it. When He gave the one two, he gave him two more. He, when He gives you an idea, double it. When, when He gives you resource, double it. Yeah. When, when He, when He gives you a relationship, double it. Make that relationship turn into another thing that, like somebody say, double it. Double it. Every time, no matter where you start, if you just double it, He says, "Well done." Think about the areas in your life where you maintained and you were supposed to double. I'm not just talking about money. Now, some of you, God has given you ideas that you won't even write down. Okay. Then verse 24, "There was a servant with one bag of silver and he came and said, 'Master, master, master. I know you are a harsh man, harvesting crops you did not plant and gathering crops you did not cultivate. I was afraid I would lose your money. So, I hid what you gave me in the earth. I buried what you gave me. I did not show what I could do 'cause I was scared it wouldn't work. Look, look, look. Here's your money back. Look, look, look. Here's the singing gift you gave me at six at the same level of maturity. Look, look, look, look. Here's my same acting ability. Look, look, look. Here's the same.' He said, 'I put gifts in you that you did not earn and you hid it because of, watch this, fear. God has not given us the spirit of fear.' You're not supposed to be afraid of money. You're not supposed to have fear in handling money." And that's where the enemy has twisted. Some of y'all, y'all get money and don't even know what to do with it. Just like, "Oh my god, I got money. I got money. Money." Other people get money and all you do is hide it. Preparing in fear for when something goes wrong. And today I just want to show you what Jesus thinks about this last way of handling wealth. Verse 26. "But the master replied, 'You wicked and lazy servant!'" God dog, that's not a well done. "If you knew I harvested crops I didn't plant and gathered crops I didn't cultivate, why didn't you just deposit my money in the bank?" Which means the bank is not the first place you should be trying to deposit your money. This is a whole. Oh, God. I got to tell you, I've learned a lot on this journey. He's saying, "You that should have. You at least should have done what everybody else does." He said, "Okay, why didn't you deposit my money in the bank? At least I could have gotten some interest on it." God's saying, "When I give you something, I, I at least want something back." Verse 28. "Then he ordered," this is really, I, I really had to work through this 'cause this is very emphatic, direct consequences for being wicked in a way that is not about greed and a bunch of money. It's about waste. Can write this down at a point. Wasting wealth instead of working it is wicked. So, so, so the worship of wealth is wicked. But guess what else is wicked? The wasting of wealth. And I would dare to say that most of us in here have stood on this hill. Yeah. You don't know where your money went. No clue. God increased you and you're still the same level of broke. No. Come on, y'all. It's happened to me. God got, got an increase in pay. Something turned back in. Uh, inheritance was left for you. Got an extra bonus. Same amount of broke. How in the world do you not know where your shoes are that you just bought and you bought two pair of the same shoes 'cause you thought that you living in a house and using your at Starbucks every day for a picture and that's $7.99 over a hundred pays is $800. So when your tire pops and you got to go to the cash payday loan place and take out a loan for $300 with 7 million% interest, but they tell you the minimum payment is $21 a month. Your children's children's children have an inheritance now of debt 'cause of your coffees and one popped tire. I know y'all don't want to hear it, but more of the things we pray for at the altar are a result of not wickedness because of more than enough. It's wickedness because of waste. And if I don't touch on this, the enemy would love for us to stay twisted and stay in the dark. You can look like you have money and be wasteful. If you don't have a budget, you're wasteful. 'Cause there's no way you know where your money is if you're not telling it where to go. Oh my God. Don't come back for the rest of the series and stay broke. Don't come back for the rest of the series and stay in a wicked pattern. All I'm trying to tell you is God says there are two types of people who are wicked. Those who worship money and those who stay in the worship of wealth, and those who waste it. And I just want to know, are you in either one of these categories? 'Cause if you are today, what I'm asking you is take some steps of humility. See that position is high. Because when you get in that position, it's a position of pride. If you are wicked because you're wasteful, you are prideful because you think more is coming. You have developed an entitlement mentality that God is going to provide for me and going to do more for me and going to do this. Let, let's just go to the word real quick for those who are wasteful. Verse 28, "Then he ordered," the master ordered, "take the money from this servant and give it to the one with 10 bags of silver, to those who will use well what they are given." Somebody say, "Well." Remember he was saying, "Well done, well done" for those who use well, steward, actually have some type of principles around it. "For those who use well what they are given, even more will be given to them and they will have," I love this word, "an abundance." Do you know that it's God's desire for you? I don't care where you are economically right now, how many people you owe, how much you're in overdraft. It is God's desire for you, His child, to live in abundance. What does it look like for a king's kid to be struggling with basic necessities? Oh, God. If my children, as blessed as God has made us, were were begging to eat, that wouldn't be a reflection on them. 'Cause if they walked into this church, everybody would feed them. If, if Ava came in here crusty around the mouth, asking for some McDonald's, I know somebody would get her some. But after a while, y'all would start asking, "Why?"

He wearing that jacket? And why do he have why is why does he look like that? And they live like this. Could it be that God from heaven is saying, "Y'all could y'all please do it how I intended for y'all to do it cuz y'all making me look bad."

The world has it twisted. They think I'm a big God that just want something from them cuz y'all won't obey me. Y'all won't put me first. Y'all won't tithe. Y'all won't trust me. You won't. You won't do it how I said to do it. And so the struggles, the consequences of your disobedience got them thinking that I'm a bad God. And you just a disobedient child. We all look bad. Yes, sir. When you won't obey.

Pastor Mike, why are you saying this? Because I think all of us have an opportunity to change this narrative. Here we go. The best way to handle wealth is with God's wisdom. So, I'm just asking everybody today to by faith put yourself in this position. If you're up here and you worship wealth and you grinding and you hustling, no days off. Make that money. Rise and grind. Rise and grind. Y'all know all the sayings that we be saying like some things got to be done and we we going to sacrifice. We going to make sure if you're on this, pride comes before a fall. And what I'm telling everybody is I know really wealthy people who still don't have peace. I know really wealthy people that would give anything to actually be able to sleep at night without having to take some type of medicine.

So, if you're in this room, listen to me, and you're at a place where you've been worshiping wealth today, we're stepping down. And in the same way, there's some people over here that your plan after church was go to waste the resources that God gave you. Come on. I'm just going to tell it. Do you know how much a box of Crispy Creams donuts is right now? I found out the other day and almost had a conifion. It's $24 for 12 glazed plain crispy cream dough. That's sugar and air. 20 and I can't. Yeah. And I can't tell you how many times I frivolously have promised my kids donuts as a reward. I'm not saying they ain't never going to get donuts again cuz I'm not trying to get up here and play you. What I am saying is I'm taking account of every one of them donuts now. And and and hear what I'm saying. Because I w because it was out of my mind and out of my sight and it was just a swipe. I was wasting and God's telling some of us, it's time to take an account. And you're going to have to step off and watch this. You're going to have to get in a humble position which is in the middle. Not the worship of wealth. Not the waste of wealth, the wisdom with wealth. This is where I believe by the end of this series, everybody will be. If you hear what I'm saying, you will be walking in wisdom with wealth. So, all you have to do is pray and identify. Are you dealing with a heart that can be humble enough to get to this place? For years, my heart was not humble enough. I had to have money. I had to have it even if it wasn't right. It wasn't legitimate. I. And then when I got some, I wasted it. I can't tell you for how many years it wasn't until my taxes came that I was like, I had that much money this year. Oh my goodness. And I'm the same level of broke.

Pastor Mike, why are you saying this? Because this year, I'm believing by faith. That every person that will take this journey with me, they're going to walk in wisdom. How do I check my heart? Two things. Write them down. And this is going to be in your prayer time this week. You need to ask yourself and ask God, "Do I have a generous heart?" Now, I'm not talking about the like, "Oh, will I give this little kid my last lollipop?" I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about for real like if God asked you to be generous to honor him to not do it sometimes to be consistent with it. Do you actually have a generous heart? Deuteronomy 15:7 it says if there is among you a poor man of the brethren within any of the gates in your land which the Lord God has given you. Who gave it to you? The Lord. The Lord your God has given it to you. You shall not, watch this, harden your heart, nor shut your hand. So your heart and your hand is connected. You shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from the poor brother. But you shall open your hand wide to him and willingly lend him sufficiently for his need, whatever he needs. Beware, lest there be a wicked thought in your heart. Beware that you don't get a twisted thought in your heart saying the seventh year of the the year of release is at hand and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing and he cry out to the Lord against you and it becomes sin among you. Let me explain this to you. In the Old Testament, every seven years they released all debts. Would anybody like that to actually come back to uh Okay. Amen. So every seven years they released all debts. And what this is saying is if your brother comes to you right before the seventh year and says, "Can I borrow something?" He said, "Don't be like, "No, cuz they ain't going to pay me back. And if they don't pay me back in 6 months, the debt is released. I ain't doing that." Y'all know how we do. They said, "Don't do that, cuz if you do that, it's wicked. He said, and that wickedness, watch this, can turn into sin. Come on. Your twisted thought. He said, "I want you to be generous." And my question to you is, are you really generous? If God told you to give it and you're not getting getting it back, would you do it? No. Hear what I just said. If God told you to give it and he told you you're not getting it back, would you do it? If God told you to give it and you need to release the debt right now, would you do it? Some of y'all love I got my own family. And God said, I'm trying to provide for him. He said, but I need a heart whose hand is connected. So the first question is, do I have a generous heart? Second question is, watch this. Do I have a grieving heart? See, because the thing that comes to attack you after you give is grief. Have you ever given something to somebody and then went back and be like, "Dang, I could have Oh, shoot. I look good on them, but it look better on me." Come on, let's be honest. You ever given somebody some money and was like, "Oh." What the enemy tries to do is get you to stop giving, to twist, to make giving wicked, right? Because you could you may feel some grief. I was thinking about it after church. My daughters and my son came to church with me today and I got to take them all to eat. I told him I was going to take him uh to uh you know all of the little places with the kids stuff and I just realized I don't got no money. I don't got my wallet. I don't got I don't have anything to uh Charles. What you doing? Hey Charles, you got something for me? Oh, how much you got? That's 300 for you. 300. One, two, three. I do. I got kids. Thank you. Now, Charles is so sweet. Now, now let me tell you about that example. Charles is not grieving right now cuz before service, I gave him this $300. There is no grief in his heart because I told him, "Hey, I'm I'm going to say I ain't got no money. And when I say I don't got no money, come give me this money back." He's smiling right now because he know where the money came from. There was no moment in the whole time he was holding the money that he took ownership of it. He was just the manager of it. So when I called for it back, he wasn't like, "Oh, God, you this is the money." No, no, no. Cuz I gave it to him in the first place. The problem with many of us and why we grieve when it comes to our finances is because somehow in the mix you thought this was your money. But my Bible said it is he that gives us the ability to produce wealth. The earth is the Lord and the fullness thereof. He is the one that everything comes from. But somehow we got it twisted. And so the whole reason that I needed Charles to give me this money is not cuz I had money. It's because at this moment I needed to bless somebody. Come here, sweetheart. I saw your hand over there. Yeah. Come here. Yeah. Yeah. Come here. Come on. Come with come with urgency. Come like somebody giving you something. Come on. What's your name? Dvita. Dvita. David with a David. David with a a Dvita. This is for you. The only thing I ask Thank you is that out of that you ask the Holy Spirit who you're supposed to bless. I'm not telling you at what amount. I'm not telling you it can be 10. It can be 20. It can be whatever you want. But all I'm saying is when God blesses you, it is a part of our responsibility to bless somebody else. Can we give God praise right there? Amen. I love you. [Applause] That's it. Where you at? Has money, finances, generosity, and wealth been twisted? And I know people who have served and pastored churches for decades, and they still are twisted and wicked when it comes to this thing called wealth. Everybody's standing all over this place. Hey, listen. We're about to leave in a moment, but I need you to hear me real quick. Um, this series is going to be paramount to changing your relationship with resources. I'm going to tell you something that I've I've um I'm going just tell you cuz y'all my church and I I want to live this journey out real in front of y'all. Um, the Holy Spirit reminded me before this series some places that he blessed me and I wasn't being intentional in returning the tithe to him. And it was not malicious. It was just like, "Oh, God, you did bless me with that. Oh, you did bless me about like and I have my tithe already set up on reoccurring." Like, so literally when I know how much I make, I go to transformationurch.org cuz I don't want to think about it. I don't want to give the devil no opportunity to distract me. So, as soon as my check hit, boop, I'm I'm honoring God. Somebody say first. I'm going to talk about that next week. But but but I realized, watch this, that God had increased me more than I was being intentional. That is so good. And I got convicted because I was like, "Well, God, I don't I don't ever want you to think." And he just pointed in my prayer time before this series, he pointed out to me. He said, "You never honored me with how I blessed you right there. You never honored me with how I blessed you right there." And I was like, "God, you know, if I got it, you got it." He said, "But I don't got it." And before this series, the Holy Spirit impressed upon me. He said, "I need you to do something you've never done before." And I said, "Holy Spirit, Red, tread lightly. You y'all know I y'all know." So, I need you to do something you never done before. I need you to trust me with a month of your income. I went crosseyed and got weak at the knees. cuz I've never I've never done I never I'm just I'm there's levels to this. So y'all I'm I'm just trying to be honest. He said I need you to trust me with a month of your income. I said Lord you know what I have to do in a month. You understand all? He said I know. He said but I blessed you in ways that you could never even pray for. and I just need to know that you're going to walk in wisdom. And at the moment he said, "I walk in wisdom." The enemy attacked my mind and said, "This ain't wisdom." Oh, can I be honest? That's not wisdom. You got a family. You got bills. You got this. And the Holy Spirit said to me, he said, "Write the check and see what I do." My God, Mo's my witness before this service. I said, "All right, God. Yes, sir. If y'all see me on Highway 75 with my I'm just playing. I just believe God's word. And I'm I'm telling you this cuz I will never preach to you somewhere that God's not actually actively leading me to that next place. And today, the reason I'm telling you this is not an amount, right? It's obedience. And this is making sure for me that I don't get on this place where I'm worshiping wealth. And I don't get in this place where I'm wasting it no more. I want to be led and guided by the wisdom of God. Today I want to pray for you that as God speaks to you that you would just obey this no offering. There's no offering. There's nothing. But if God tells you to do something, you better obey. The next few weeks I'm going to give you understanding. I'm going to give you scripture. I'm going to give you examples. I'm going to give you It's going to be such a good series. The next three weeks is going to be good. You don't want to miss one of them. It's going to keep unlocking revelations. But what I'm saying today is God doesn't want you to live wicked anymore. And today, the only way we untwist this thing is by surrendering. If you've been in one of these two categories, you need to identify. I'm not asking you to come up. I don't want you to open up your bank account. I don't want you to do I don't want you to care about anybody else. But if you know that you've been walking in a level of wickedness, either by worshiping wealth, doing too much for it, or wasting it, would you just do me a favor and lift your hands? I want to pray for you. Yeah. Here we go. If you're at home right now, I want to pray for you. Father, in the name of Jesus, today, God, I'm asking you to be Jehovah Gyra, our provider. That's not not just the provider of resources, that's also the provider of wisdom. And so today, God, for every person under the sound of my voice, today we are collectively coming and saying we repent. We are turning. We are walking down the steps to a place of humility to say, God, we're going to take our place in the middle of both of these things that culture tries to build up. Today we take the humble position and say, "God, give us wisdom." We may have lived years, made tons of money, not had enough, not had more than enough, but today, God, we're making a fresh commitment that we would live in wisdom when it comes to wealth. And Father, we're praying that as we obey what you speak and we learn your principles that our world would get larger and larger so that we can be an extension of your kingdom. Father God, I thank you that those who have come from broken backgrounds today, you are breaking generational patterns over their life. For those, Father God, who have seen greed and seen, Father God, misuse or Father God, have seen people use money to get identity. Today, I thank you that our identity is found only in you, Holy Spirit. We need to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. So today we look to you and I thank you father that from this moment on there will be revelation after revelation after revelation after revelation father god of how we are supposed to use our hands to produce [Music] wealth and how we are supposed to have your heart so that we can help those in need. I declare by faith that as we step out, Father God, and we are faithful over a little, I thank you for supernaturally, God, increasing your people into abundance like never before. God, by faith, I thank you that our wisdom grows, so our wealth grows. I thank you that it will be first practical and spiritual and then natural. And I thank you by this time next year, there will be testimonies all over the world of people who have trusted you with what you've placed in their hands. And I pray that this message gets into young people. God, I thank you, Father, for those who are young. Father God, would never have to relearn something because they learned it the right way. Father God, I thank you for young millionaires and people to be able to manage wealth and understand wisdom from a young age. Father God, give us the ability, Father God, to stay focused on you cuz we want a well done today. We honor you and we declare we will be wise with wealth. Jesus name. Even in this moment, in this atmosphere, I feel the presence of God. For God so loved the world that he The principle we're talking about of generosity is the only reason we can be saved is that God invested Jesus. Just think about it. Jesus was the tithe for the rest of his children. Just think about it. He gave the first so that the rest of us could be redeemed. Today. If you've never accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, what you're doing is you're you're you're missing out on the greatest return on investment. Cuz there was a man that died and bled so that you could walk in freedom and have eternal life. And today, if you've been steeped in depression and lost and feeling far from God and leaning on things that aren't dependable, today I want to give you the opportunity to meet Jesus. The [Music] one who became sin. He became pornography. He became lust. He became all of the things that we deal with. He became it and died the most gruesome death so that you and me could live if we just watch this one word believe. Like he all he's saying is like believe that I did this and you will be saved according to Romans 10:9. And so today whether you are in this room or you're watching online right now I believe that today is your day of salvation. We've been praying for you. There are people I need the church to start praying right now. There are people that have been praying for you. Your whole life has lined up to this moment right now. God really wants something for you. And this takes you accepting him as your Lord and Savior. Right now, on the count of three, I want you to shoot your hand up in the air if you want to make Jesus Christ your personal Lord and Savior. One, you're making the greatest decision of your life. Two, I'm proud of you. But more than that, your name is about to be written in the Lamb's Book of Life. I see you, my brother. I see you, my sister. Three. Shoot your hand up in the air. I see you, my brother. I see you, my brother. Oh, come on, y'all. Church, let's praise God. I see you, my sister. Glory to God. I see you, my brother. And more than me seeing you, God sees you. Come on, raise your hand online right now. Come on, church. Let's celebrate what God is doing. You can put your hand down cuz what I want you to know is that we not going to judge you cuz all of us have been through it. But what we're going to do is walk with you and pray for you. And as a church, nobody prays alone. So, could everybody just pray this prayer? Lift your hands and say, "God, God, thank you. Thank you for sending Jesus just for me. Just for me. Today, I believe I believe that you lived. You died. You died. And you rose again. You rose again. For my salvation. From my salvation. I give you my life. I give you my life. Change me. Renew me. transform me. I'm yours in Jesus name. Amen. Come on church, let's celebrate all over this place. Hallelujah. Hey, listen. Today's a new day for you, bro. Today's a new day for you, brother. Today's a new day. And if you made that decision, I want you to text save to 828282 right after church. If you want to hear about our church and you want to meet me and some of our pastors, we're going to be across the hall and we're going to do this thing called meet the pastors in about 15 20 minutes. But before we do that, if you need prayer, I want our altar workers to come. They'll be here at the front and in the back. And I don't want you to leave this place without getting agreement. Some of y'all, there are financial things that are heavy on you right now and you need agreement. The Bible says we can pray about anything. And even those who are online, stay on. I'm going to jump in the back and I'mma pray with you about your prayer request. I just believe God's doing something important and impactful. And God's going to change us into people who live with wisdom. Father, bless them is my prayer. Let this week be the best week we've ever had, God. I thank you that this week we're walking in wisdom, Father God. And we declare, Father God, that no lie of the enemy, no twist of the enemy will get us distracted. Keep us focused on you. And I thank you that we will live in big faith, in crazy faith in Jesus' name. Amen. Until next week, go out and live a transformed life. I love you so much. [Music] Put our trust in. You are enough. You are enough. But it will be perfect. Every circumstance you are, you are enough. Come on, we sing it again. [Music] You are enough. Oh, you are. I will be content. I will be content. Every circumstance. Every circumstance. You are. You are enough. One more time. We sing. You are. You are enough. Oh, enough for me. You are. You are enough. I will be every circumstance. Every circumstance. You just [Music] you're forever enough, always enough. What's going on transformation nation? I am so grateful that you are on here and I want to pray for you. Today's message was helping us understand that God has a way that he desires for us to view wealth and he doesn't want us to get it twisted. And today, if you found yourself in one of those categories where you've been one who's been worshiping wealth or you're one that has been wasting well, today I just want to specifically pray that you would walk in wisdom. Come on. I want you to identify in the comments. If you've been wasting well, say I've been wasting it. Come on. If you've been worshiping it, say, "I've been I've I've I've made it higher than God." Come on. Cuz when you're honest, it changes the way that God can move. I say it all the time. But God doesn't bless who you pretend to be. He blesses who you really are. And so today, I believe it's the start of God changing us and making us ones who walk in wisdom when it comes to wealth. And today, I'm praying for everything. So, if you have a prayer request, over 15,000 of you are still on here. And and and every Sunday I can I get back here cuz I want you to know that this is real. That our team is picking up these prayer requests right now. And we're going to agree in prayer. So, if you have a specific prayer request, I want you to put it in the caption right now on Instagram, on YouTube, wherever it is. And our team is going to begin to pray. There are those who need healing right now. If you need healing, I want you to just join your faith with mine right now. Father God, in the name of Jesus, I pray, Father, for every partner that needs healing in their life, healing in their mind, healing in their body. Father, I thank you for Anita who's in Arkansas, Father, who has gotten a heart failure diagnosis. I thank you, Father God, that the heart, Father God, was made by God. And I thank you for a creative miracle in her heart, Father God. I thank you, Father, that you are doing a work that the doctors will be confounded by. Father God, I speak specifically, Father God, to our heart and I say work as God intended for it to work. And for anybody else who is having any organs that are failing, Holy Spirit, I thank you for wisdom right now, the right doctors, the right nurses, the right treatment. Father God, I thank you that you will do in their lives what no man can do, Father, but you will use man to even give wisdom. So, Father, I also pray for Dion, Father God, as she is crying out for her son's mental health and physical healing. I pray for any person, Father, that is having any issue with mental health. Father God, I thank you that we have the mind of Christ in the name of Jesus. That our mind is sound, Father God, that you will give us wisdom, Father God, of doctors, prescriptions, whatever we need, Father God, to get to baseline and be able to actually heal from the inside out. I declare and I believe that mental health illness is a name, but your name is higher, God. So today, come on. I want you to receive this right now by faith. I thank you, Father, that peace and anxiety is is is actually being um eradicated by the peace of God. We pray for Melissa in New Jersey right now whose daughter needs freedom from shame. Father God, so many of us need freedom from shame. Even Father, hearing this message today, God, where we would be shame, ashamed, Father God, that we've wasted so much or ashamed, Father God, that we've worshiped wealth the way we have. Today, I thank you that any man that be in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away and behold the new has come. So we don't have to walk in shame, Father God, we walk in grace. We walk in mercy. It's new every morning. And today I pray for every person that needs provision right now. Father, as we starting this series on on finances and generosity and wealth, the enemy would many times try to distract with the cares of this world and and bring us um Father God um f our focus off of you because we are distracted by the provision we need. But today we call on Jehovah Gyra who is our provider. And so we pray for Stella, Father, who is believing for her home to sell. God, I thank you that you have the right buyers for that house. Come on, drop your your prayer request in the comments because right now we are praying and believing God with you. I feel the presence of God. I thank you, Father, that anything that needs to sell, Father, in these partners' lives will sell. And Father, it will sell above market value. Give a bidding war for it, Father God. I thank you that you will bless them and allow, Father God, that their next season to be empowered, Father God, by a blessing from this one. God, we're praying for, Father, for every person who's needing help with their children. Father, not just financial provision, but Father God, human resource, the right people, the trusted people, even my sister who needs a babysitter for her child so she can work and do the different things she needs to do. God, I thank you that you're surrounding people with right communities and the right people, Father God, that they will be protected, Father God. That they will be loved, Father God. And I thank you, Father, for every person that needs a job, Father, that have been putting in job offers everywhere, Father God, I thank you that the denials are redirections in the name of Jesus, and you're leading them to the right place, Father God. So, I pray for every person that needed a job, Father God. I pray for every person, Father God, that is believing for you to divinely bring them into the right situation. God, in the name of Jesus, I thank you that you are provider. You are the one, Father, that puts us in the places that we need. Gyra, you are enough. Today, we pray for every person, Father, that is dealing with relationship pains, relationship issues. Father God, I thank you for Malia who is believing for the end of division in her family. Father, that she's not the only one. That there's something that's an offense or or a division that has been breaking up unity today. Father, I thank you for for courageous conversations filled with your spirit. I thank you for counseling, God. I thank you for community, Father. I thank you for wisdom and emotional intelligence to be able to use the the the the tools that you've given, Father, on this earth to be able to have conversations that lead to change and transformation. And father, thank you for protection of people's hearts. Father, even boundaries that need to be set. God, I thank that you are a God, Father, that understands the inner workings of people and knows, Father, if they desire to change or not. Give us wisdom. Let us be led. Father, your word says that if we would acknowledge you in every way, you would literally direct our path. So God, we pray for Mallette in Colorado. Thank you for delivering her family, Father, from drugs and abuse and violence. Father God, today she's not the only one that's believing for that. Today, Father, from prescription pills all the way to hard drugs. Father God, I thank you, God, that you are delivering us from substances that are trying to literally give us a counterfeit for peace, a counterfeit for joy. Today, Father, I thank you that you will be enough. God, even as we pray, Father, we pray for Christy and Kenneth who are celebrating. God, h and watching together, Father God, what what their union and what's happening in their life. God, I thank you, God, that you would bless them. Bless everybody who's listening today. God, I thank you that you are bringing us into wisdom. God, I thank you that we won't be people who will be wicked, but we will get a well done. Bless these people's hearts to be able to be ready to do what you tell them to do with their hand. And today, God, we call you, Tyra. You're more than enough. Have your way. In Jesus' name we pray. Somebody shout, "Amen." Come on at your house, say amen out loud. Put it in the chat. I love you so much. Today is the start of what I believe is going to be a revolution with wealth. that God's bringing you, mark my words, into another level of trust and responsibility because you're going to be faithful over a little. I'm just believing. I can't wait to hear the testimonies of how God blesses your business, how he blesses your home, how he blesses your investments, how he starts your investments. Why are you saying this, Pastor Mike? Because God desires for you to be a help, but you only can help with what you have. And God is going to bless us with more so we can help more people today. I love you. I believe you. I hope you felt the heart of what I was speaking. And I just want to challenge you. Some of you are hearing the go the Lord speak. And some of you just got paid. Some of you have extra resource that you haven't honored God with. I'm going to really explain it next week. I'm going to talk about the tithe and I'm going to talk about how to do it. But some of you feel um what I felt is the conviction of the Holy Spirit that you know what, I need to go ahead and take 10% of this and I need to return it to God. I don't need to give it cuz you can't give what's already his but I need to return it. And so I'm just encouraging I feel led to do it. I was going to wait till next week but I'm just encouraging some of you know that you need to get on the app right now. You need to put God first. You need to give. If you don't go to transformation church, that's good. I want you to give to the church that you go to. I just believe that the principle works because we work it. And God is going to do something so special. I love you so much. Hey, listen. The king is alive. The song that they sang today is out now. Go stream it. Go listen to it. Make a video. Um um worship into it. Let us see it. And if you want to go on any of our missions trips this summer to Los Angeles or Tanzania, the applications closed today. So text outreach to 828282. You would love to be a part of what that looks like. Y'all know Easter's coming up. I know a lot of y'all are going to want to travel to come for ransom. Make it a weekend if you can. I'm telling you, this year's production is going to be epic. And we're going to lift Jesus up. People are going to get saved. People are going to be healed. People are going to get delivered. And we would love to invite you to come and be a part of it. It's April 20th. We're actually um doing ransom on that Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. So, you can be a part of it. If you want to go deeper in God, join us this Wednesday for prayer Bible study sent you. It starts at 6 PM. I just want to let you know I love you, church, and I believe that the best days of your life are right in front of you. We're going to walk in wisdom. Until next week, go out and live a transformed life.