The Danger of Transactional Faith: Why Prosperity Gospel Fails

• Faith and Prayer [00:02:11 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor argues that prayer works and encourages believers to have faith even when others do not believe, using the testimony of a church receiving a building as proof.
• Divine Provision and Miracles [00:03:01 ▶️ 📄]
  > A detailed account of a church in Kansas receiving a fully renovated building and church account from a partnering church, illustrating God's ability to provide beyond expectations.
• Financial Stewardship and Generosity [00:08:15 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor introduces a series on financial stewardship, explaining that the $100,000 given to the Kansas church was a fruit of the congregation's previous seeds, teaching that generosity leads to abundance.
• Mindset Shift (Survivor vs. Thriving) [00:13:20 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor challenges 'mindsets of greed and poverty,' urging the congregation to move from 'survivor mode' to 'thriving' and to become a 'reservoir' rather than just a 'river' for God's resources.
• Abundant Life [00:16:29 ▶️ 📄]
  > Citing John 10:10, the pastor defines the Christian life as having 'life more abundantly' or 'to the full,' contrasting this with the thief's intent to steal, kill, and destroy.
• Abundant Life vs. Materialism [00:15:11 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor contrasts the cultural desire for money ('six seven eight figures') with the biblical definition of abundance, arguing that while money is powerful, it is not the ultimate source of fulfillment, and God desires spiritual and material fullness for believers.
• Grace and Truth Balance [00:16:12 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor introduces the pedagogical framework of the series, stating that transformation requires a balance of grace and truth, anchored in John 10:10.
• Generosity and Tithing Principles [00:18:20 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor addresses the topic of money and giving, clarifying that the teaching is not about church financial needs but about the individual's spiritual health and obedience to God's promises, distinguishing between legalistic obligation and relational generosity.

• Sermon Illustration [00:03:01 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor recounts the story of 'Faith Walkers Outreach' (Pastor Orlando) from Kansas. They came with 'crazy faith' for a building. The pastor prayed for them, and they received a building that was already renovated, fully equipped, and included the church account with $100,000 from the partnering church, rather than the dilapidated building they originally sought.
• Sermon Illustration [00:04:33 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor shares a personal anecdote about meeting a group of people at Woodland Hills mall who had been converted through a prayer service held in the mall, demonstrating how miracles can lead to church attendance.
• Sermon Illustration [00:10:38 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor reflects on his own church's journey from 2015, where they struggled to pay employees and clean carpets, to their current state of abundance, illustrating that their current blessings are the fruit of seeds sown by hundreds of people.
• Sermon Illustration [00:13:20 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses an analogy of a 'river' versus a 'reservoir' to explain stewardship: a river lets water pass through, but a reservoir holds it. He argues God needs people to be reservoirs so His blessings can pass through them to others.
• Sermon Illustration [00:14:33 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor shares a humorous interaction with his daughter about the term 'six figures,' explaining it as a number with a one and five zeros, and using it to discuss how money can corrupt if not framed by biblical principles.
• Sermon Illustration [00:17:03 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses an analogy of pouring a cup of juice, explaining that he likes to leave a little space at the top to prevent spilling, and asks if the congregation's lives are so 'full' of God's abundance that they need to take some off the top before moving.
• Sermon Illustration [00:20:25 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor shares a personal anecdote about buying a diamond necklace at age 18 with his first paycheck from producing music for Wayman Dale, admitting it was a frivolous purchase driven by insecurity and a lack of understanding of God's promises.

• Pastoral Charge [00:02:36 ▶️ 📄]
  > Engage with a neighbor verbally to acknowledge the time of testimonies.
• Pastoral Charge [00:03:27 ▶️ 📄]
  > Physically point towards the visiting church from Kansas.
• Pastoral Charge [00:03:55 ▶️ 📄]
  > Engage in corporate prayer for the miracle of the visiting church.
• Pastoral Charge [00:13:45 ▶️ 📄]
  > Prepare to take notes for the upcoming teaching.
• Pastoral Charge [00:08:57 ▶️ 📄]
  > Verbally express joy and praise.
• Pastoral Charge [00:17:42 ▶️ 📄]
  > Write down the statement that God desires an abundant life for them.
• Pastoral Charge [00:19:27 ▶️ 📄]
  > Actively apply the biblical principles of abundance and stewardship in their current context.

[00:00:00] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:00:00] what's going on family today is the day that God has made and I hope you are rejoicing and being glad in it if you tuned in today you are in for a treat because there is a word in the house just for you and I promise you you're going to see something that you probably have thought about before in a completely different way but I got two announcements I need to tell you number one this week we are having a prayer conference that's right the gap
[00:00:30] friends. My parents have been doing this work of prayer and ministry for almost 30 years. And this year we are partnering and we are going to see miracles because our prayers work. And I'm asking
[00:00:42] you to join us this Thursday, April 30th through May 2nd. And listen to this special thing we're doing for the first time ever in Transformation Church history. On Saturday, we are having a 12 our prayer from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. We're going to have special soaking worship with Doe Jones.
[00:01:00] We are going to have some other special guests, pastors from the community. We're going to be having a time of miracle signs and wonders where we're praying for people and we're believing for God to meet us right here. So if you can get to Tulsa, get here, but we will be streaming and
[00:01:14] you'll be able to participate. Let's make room for God so that he can do what only he can do, Because I'm telling you, miracles are on the way.
[00:01:23] Second thing I want you to know is if you have not become a part of this community yet and you want to be, I want you to text APART to 828282 because we believe being planted
[00:01:34] in the house of God allows you to flourish.
[00:01:37] And I believe that many of you are watching, you are participating, and this is your time to join in to what God is doing because God wants you to live an abundant life.
[00:01:46] And as we start in week two of this series called Six Figures, I believe you are going to learn, watch this, about work and your job.
[00:01:56] Yes, I know some of y'all be like, I don't like either one of them.
[00:01:59] But the title of today's message is This Job Isn't Working, What to Do When Purpose Isn't Paying.
[00:02:06] And this sermon started off a little different.
[00:02:09] I think you're going to enjoy it.
[00:02:10] Let's go right into the message.
[00:02:11] i want you to realize that prayer works and a lot of you haven't seen it work in your life because um it's easy to believe god by committee like everybody can believe when everybody believed
[00:02:24] in but i want your faith to grow to where you can believe if nobody else is believing and this is why i want you to come into this environment to learn i want to tell you a
[00:02:36] testimony it's testimony time look at your neighbor and say it's testimony time now some of y'all ain't never been in church where they had testimonies and you know what i'm saying and testimony time can go real wild do you understand what i'm saying people can get up and tell too much business
[00:02:49] but today i'm gonna give you a testimony time um there was a church that came here in crazy faith about a month and a half ago and and some of y'all were gone but after service the presence of god
[00:03:01] was moving and this church and this pastor were believing god for a miracle for a building in kansas and they came here on a sunday morning with crazy faith shirts and they were believing god and they sowed a seed into this house and they were just believing for their own thing
[00:03:16] and at the end in in a time of worship we just prayed for this church i just want you to go back to this moment real quick and i want you to see because i got a testimony on the other side
[00:03:27] of our prayers working check this out real quick father i pray for the church that came from kansas that's believing. Everybody in the arena, just point to them. Father, I declare and I believe as they're believing for a crazy faith building, Pastor Orlando and his wife, I believe they came
[00:03:45] with 17 people in faith. And today, Father, I declare and I believe, Father God, that you are about to move mountains for this church in the name. I need y'all to pray. We're standing in a
[00:03:55] miracle right now. I pray, Father God, that you would move everything that needs to be moved for them to walk into that school and father not just enough but more than enough in the name of jesus
[00:04:07] i thank you that it's only crazy until it happens and father i thank you for an impartation of faith we declare and we believe father god that eyes have not seen ears have not heard and neither
[00:04:19] has it entered into the hearts of man the things you have planned father god for faith walkers church we declare it we believe it and we thank you this moment happens in service what most people
[00:04:33] don't know is the night before my wife sent me to the mall on a missions trip to get I don't go to the mall unless I have a mission and I went for a missions trip at 8 30 to get one of my kids a
[00:04:45] piece of technology I had no reason to be in the mall on Saturday night and I run into this group of people in the mall on Saturday night you can see it in the middle of the mall right here we
[00:04:55] begin to have a prayer service in the middle of Woodland Hills mall people are stopping he said pastor we're coming to church tomorrow you don't know me from anybody but i just want to let you
[00:05:05] know we came to sit under the same grace that caused this miracle to happen here and and right there in the mall we prayed and once we prayed in the mall then they came to church and we prayed
[00:05:16] for them again and then they went back to kansas as they were believing god for a certain building it came up to the day where the building was about to be auctioned off by the city
[00:05:26] and and literally there were four people in the running and god brought this whole thing together for them to get here and them to award the building to an apartment complex pastor mike why are you telling this story because i need you to know when it doesn't
[00:05:45] happen how you think it should happen it doesn't mean that god has not stopped working this building that they were going to go into was going to cause them to have to have hundreds of
[00:05:57] thousands of dollars worth of renovation but they had faith to believe god well two weeks later they got a call from the church that they had been partnering with to use their facility in the afternoon and the pastor said god is transitioning me to another place so we've
[00:06:14] talked to the board of elders and we just did a brand new renovation and we want to give you the building that you have been we want to give you and everything that's in it y'all don't know when
[00:06:28] the shop but god did more than they could even believe the story's not over so the building that they've been partnering with somebody to be in it's now their building they left all the children's
[00:06:45] equipment all the technology redid the bathrooms y'all don't hear what i'm saying so i facetimed pastor orlando and i said god is not just good he's also kind because the blessing of the lord maketh rich but addeth no if they would have got the other building they were believing for the
[00:07:06] pressure of trying to outfit it they wouldn't have been able to be in there until some years later but they have their first service in their new building may 17th and we shout unto god with the
[00:07:19] voice of trust prayer works now you know it gets a little crazier than that because this church is transitioning the pastor and the board of elders said we want the investment of the people who
[00:07:35] been in this church to stay in this city so we're not just giving you the building we're giving you the church account Charles you didn't we're giving you the church account and every bit of money that
[00:07:50] was in it y'all don't hear me eyes have not seen ears have not heard the good things that God has planned for you it's only crazy until it happens prayer works so today we just wanted to
[00:08:15] celebrate with this amazing church and since y'all are getting a brand new account i would just like you to know we're in a series talking about financial stewardship generosity and abundance and because of the faithfulness of the people here at transformation church and around the world
[00:08:32] i just wanted to let pastor orlando and adrian know you can tell your church on may 17th The account's going to be full.
[00:08:42] I need y'all to shout with me because on the behalf of God and the generosity, Faith Walkers Outreach, there's a check for $100,000 coming to your church.
[00:08:55] Glory to God.
[00:08:57] I dare you to shout and rejoice.
[00:09:01] This is the church.
[00:09:03] This is the kingdom.
[00:09:05] This is the body of Christ.
[00:09:06] And it's only crazy until it happens.
[00:09:09] y'all better not let this become normal y'all better not let this become normal this is a miracle of god's faithfulness and look at your neighbor and say it's just the beginning y'all and it's crazy right now it's just the beginning it's just the beginning some of you
[00:09:45] are going to be able to do that personally i don't know where the faith is in the room but some of y'all are about to be able to do that personally pastor mike why are you even saying
[00:09:58] that because somebody can why not us abby will why why can't god let us see a need and meet a need pastor mike why are you talking about this because brentum we are joint heirs with christ
[00:10:14] and until we individually can live our lives in abundance we always live our lives in need but i believe the tide is shifting somebody say suddenly you missed it okay the message has already started y'all say suddenly pastor mike why are you saying this because i remember
[00:10:38] being a church y'all always thought transformation was like this y'all don't realize when we were in in 1519 in 2015 and literally we were sitting there believing god for a new camera system like we were believing god that we could pay the employees we were believing god that we could
[00:10:58] clean the carpet y'all don't understand the miracle working power of god daring you remember where we was at some of y'all was there when we was like this is impossible with man but with God and it
[00:11:13] was in a series just like this where I was teaching about stewardship generosity and a blessed life in abundance and let me be clear to you I had not fully embraced the truths that I needed to teach
[00:11:26] oh can I be real you know when you know something but you ain't lived it yet and so I had the humility to tell my church guys i know this is what we need but i don't got it yet fully
[00:11:41] so i'm going to sit here with you every sunday and we're going to watch another man of god and another church by video until we all get this mama am i telling the truth and for two years
[00:11:58] i sat on the front row with my church and i took notes and i said god one day would you please allow me to live in the abundant life that you called me to live not just financially but in my
[00:12:12] relationships in my health in my spirit and we learned as a church and we gave a seed to the other churches in north tulsa of eight thousand three hundred dollars church i want to let you
[00:12:25] know you are sitting in the benefit or the fruit of about 300 people's faith who took the little that we did have and put seed in the ground that hundred thousand dollars we just gave away
[00:12:41] is a fruit of the seed pastor mike what are you trying to teach me it's not where you start and it's not what you have now it's what you will do with what god has placed in your hands
[00:13:00] and today i am for the next six weeks going to chip away at all mindsets of greed and all mindsets of poverty that have literally bombarded people's mind. And you may not call it greed and you may not call it poverty. You can call it whatever you want, but whenever God gives
[00:13:20] you something, it stays with you. You are not a river. You're a reservoir. Everything that comes to you stays with you. And God says, I need something to pass through you. And until you get
[00:13:34] a heart and a motive, the generosity, until you get out of survivor mode, until you start thriving, you never get to embrace the principles of God. And so today, church, I'm not just going to shout
[00:13:45] with you. I'm going to teach you. Is it okay if I teach you today, church? Okay. Get out your notepads. I feel the presence of God, Charles. This thing about to go crazy. Okay. Oh, thank you,
[00:13:59] Jesus. I get excited because I know somebody's mind is going to shift today. Every time I get up here, I'm not getting up here to talk. I'm getting up here to share what I believe God
[00:14:11] shared with me. So I'm just the messenger. So I'm just telling you what I'm about to say today.
[00:14:17] Don't get mad at me because I'm just the what messenger talk to him about what he told me to tell you. I don't know why he told me to tell you this, but you need it. And so today I believe as
[00:14:33] we are in week two of a series, we are calling six figures. And my daughter asked me earlier, she was like dad what's six figures and I said well six figures is the amount of money um that
[00:14:45] has a a one and five zeros behind it and she was like what does that mean I was like it just means you got a little a little bit of paper and she was like well what do you mean by the series six
[00:14:57] figures I said a lot of people are trying to reach that one with five zeros behind it but I believe money if not put in the right frame can corrupt people no matter if it's six seven eight figures
[00:15:11] you need to have the figures that god wants to give you as principles to grow your faith because the bible tells us there is only one thing that can be compared to god and it's money
[00:15:25] and you're saying no no no no no only my God but for many of us all of us at some point or another have said either I need God to come through or I need some more money okay where's my church today
[00:15:44] we're a humble open and transparent church has anybody ever thought said out loud or wrote down in your journal either I need God to come through or I need some more money the truth of the matter
[00:15:58] is if God does come through or if you do have the money you still need God to come through and so this is why I want to teach these principles that are going to help us walk
[00:16:12] into watch this balance grace and truth I want everybody to understand when I'm teaching this whole series this is going to be filled with grace but it's also going to be filled with truth because that's the only way that you transform okay so as we move I want to go to
[00:16:29] our anchor scripture john 10 10 it says the thief does not come except to do what steal kill and destroy but this is jesus talking he said but i have come that you would have life say it big
[00:16:46] life and that you may have life more abundantly another translation says i want you to have life to the full. I don't know about you, but I like drinking cups of juice that are full.
[00:17:03] Now, I don't know about you, but when I pour my own juice, I like to have to sip off the top just a little bit to make sure it doesn't spill. Y'all know what I'm talking about. Y'all know what I'm
[00:17:13] talking about when you got to… That's how you know it's. Does your life look like that? Do your relationships look like, hold on, this thing is so full that I got to take a little off the top
[00:17:29] before I move it. What if that was the picture of how God wants all the things in your life abundant. And when I say abundant, I need you to hear what I'm talking about. This is God's
[00:17:42] desire and design for you. Matter of fact, write that down. God desires for me to live an abundant life. Some of you don't believe it. And by the end of the series, I believe you will because it's
[00:17:53] going to be shown in God's word and it's going to be lived out in examples that you see, but God's desire for me and my family is to live an abundant life. And when I talk about abundantly, let me give
[00:18:05] you definition abundantly means God's overflowing grace, spiritual fullness, material provision and generosity. So pastor Mike, why are you talking about money? Because you care about it.
[00:18:20] And it makes a lot of people watch this disobey God. Part of a lot of people's issue is not fornication. A lot of y'all issue is not lying. A lot of your issue is stealing and I'm not talking
[00:18:42] about from the bank. They get theirs. I'm not talking about your car, your car payment. They get theirs too. Matter of fact, y'all got in on automatic. Don't even uncle Sam. He don't even ask you, but the reason God doesn't take anything from you is because he's a gentleman. He don't
[00:19:05] want it. If you don't want to give it, even if it's connected to the promises of him, rebuking the devourer, the enemy, and literally opening up the windows of heaven. But most people don't understand the principle. And let me say this very clear. You don't ever have to give an offering to
[00:19:20] this church. I want you to know that this principle is not about transformation church.
[00:19:27] This principle is about being a child of God, whatever church you feel submitted to, whatever organization you feel is the place where you get fed i'm telling you to work this principle there this is not about me this is about you this is not about tc this is about your family
[00:19:43] if you work the promises of god god's promises work this church is doing fine financially we have people that have literally made it their job to honor god with their resources so i'm not teaching this because the church needs money i'm teaching this because you need an abundant life
[00:20:03] and I wish somebody would have told me when I was frivolously spending resources on things that were feeding my insecurity and not eternity I didn't even know it I was buying things to make me feel better and vain vain ambitions around things because my confidence
[00:20:25] was low and I didn't know who I was in Christ and I was trying to wear chains and I remember buying the dumbest purchase of my life the first time I got paid for producing music for Wayman
[00:20:37] tits Dale. I got a sizable check at 18 years old. And the first thing that I did is I went to Kay's jewelers. I'm telling on myself and I bought a diamond. I'm so embarrassed about a diamond
[00:20:56] necklace that literally the diamonds were so small in it or whatever those things were.
[00:21:03] And I paid this amount of money. And I looked at that years later and I said, Michael, you are walking in ignorance. You just didn't have understanding of the promises of God. And what I want to provide for you today is another pillar in the abundant life that God has designed for
[00:21:22] you. Okay. So this is what I want to tell everybody. I brought this for you today, and I want you to go online and fill it out. This right here is called a permission slip. And some of y'all haven't had
[00:21:33] to use one of these for yourselves in many years, but today I'm giving you permission to prosper.
[00:21:41] I want you to know that this is God's promise for you.
[00:21:44] I wrote my name on it.
[00:21:45] I wrote all the things in.
[00:21:47] And I want you to know that you have permission.
[00:21:49] Somebody say, I have permission to prosper.
[00:21:54] We learned it last week.
[00:21:55] And if you haven't watched the message, you need to go back.
[00:21:57] But I want to give you a scripture in 3 John.
[00:21:59] It says, beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health just as your soul prospers.
[00:22:12] You have permission to prosper, but do you know what I found in Deuteronomy chapter eight verse 18? I found something else you have permission to do. Look at the scripture, but remember the Lord, your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth. And so confirms his
[00:22:32] covenant, which he swore to your ancestors as it is today. Pastor Mike, what are you trying to tell you don't just have permission to prosper. You have permission to produce. I'm telling you right now that there are things that God is requiring of you that you have not thought were a part of
[00:22:53] the call he's placed on your life. And today I'm telling you, we're not waiting on anybody else to do what God placed on the inside of us. You have permission to produce. Let's break this scripture
[00:23:06] down because a lot of people don't understand that god gives us the ability to produce wealth so this if we extract the truth out of it a couple of things come out god gives ability
[00:23:19] god never gives wealth did y'all hear what i just said you can pray for wealth he never gives you wealth he only gives you ability y'all saw it in the scripture right god in his generous nature
[00:23:40] gives us the ability to produce wealth. Okay. I want to put it on the screen. Let me put it in a matrix for you. It's ability. It's wealth on the other side, ability. And then there's
[00:23:57] wealth on the other side. There's something that has to be in the middle.
[00:24:00] what is the missing ingredient between ability and wealth what'd you say work i think somebody has got it that between the ability and the wealth you must it's spiritual it's godly it's his design you have to work and most people think that this is a punishment oh come on since
[00:24:49] you were young oh my god I gotta do this work when am I gonna be able to not work some of y'all have bought into the American dream that at some point you're supposed to retire from your work and and
[00:25:10] I understand because you might've got the definition wrong, but today I'm going to explain to you how work is holy. And if you're going to live an abundant life, you might need to change your perspective on work because it's something that has been with humanity since the garden
[00:25:27] work came before prayer work in the Bible came before healing work. Y'all don't want to, y'all don't want to, y'all don't want to talk about it. Work came before worship. Nobody was singing songs but work was a form of worship so i want to help you today reframe your mind because ability
[00:25:58] i need you to hear this is actually the power that god gives you so the gifting that you have the thing that god's placed in you that's power and then after he gives you power over here at
[00:26:13] the end he gives you the ability to produce but what we gotta fix is the perspective if work is a punishment if work is something you have to endure if work is something that you can't stand
[00:26:31] you will cut off the promise of god of living an abundant life and i know this is gonna frustrate some people because you wanted to come and hear something about your blessing and your greatness
[00:26:43] and how God's going to heal you. And this might be the word you need, because if you want to live a life that's full, you have to understand that God never gives the end result without you
[00:26:56] participating. All right. I'm going to have to tread lightly. I need you to understand perspective is so important. I remember a story. Y'all remember that story in the Bible, where it's the woman at the well and God met her and he told her all the things that she was doing. And she said, even the
[00:27:12] man you with right now ain't even your husband she was like oh my god how did you know and then and then he said if you drink from me i'm gonna give you water that never runs dry and people
[00:27:20] was mad because they was like she's a different ethnicity than than you and god was healing racial reconciliation healing her mind he was doing a lot right there and people don't get one of the
[00:27:29] strongest parts of the story was she went back into the town to tell everybody as an evangelist yo i met a man come see a man named jesus who changed my life and guess who was mad about the
[00:27:45] whole thing the disciples the church people the people who prayed and knew god they first was like why are we even talking to her she she votes differently than us okay why are we talking to her
[00:27:59] she listens to music we don't listen to she goes she eats she eats others like and jesus is like y'all being petty but look what jesus said in matthew chapter 9 he said when jesus saw the
[00:28:10] crowds that were now coming because of the testimony of this one woman they all knew her past and now these people are coming to jesus it says he had compassion on them because the people
[00:28:23] who were coming were confused and helpless like sheep without a shepherd watch the perspective he said to the disciples who had the wrong idea of work the harvest is great but the workers are few he didn't say the prayer warriors he didn't say the worshipers
[00:28:47] he did not say he said i'm about to bring a harvest and y'all seeing it wrong you see all those people i'm about to bring the greatest harvest this place has ever seen and what i
[00:29:00] can't find is nobody to work i don't need praise dancers i don't need encouragers i need workers okay and the disciples who had walked with him had the wrong idea of work he was trying
[00:29:19] to change their perspective around work he said so pray to the lord he said if you want to pray pray this pray to the lord who's in charge of the harvest and ask him not to send more money
[00:29:34] send more what if the key to our city being saved is not more airtime not more followers not more plans what if it was just more workers i'll go where you want me to go i'll say what
[00:29:58] you want me to say i'll be embarrassed for the cause of christ i'll be the one in this place to do the excellent thing and be able to get noticed not because i able showed because i did good work
[00:30:10] okay y'all the reason you're supposed to be the best at the place that you are employed right now is because your work could be assigned to people of worship yet you coming 10 minutes late and
[00:30:22] leaving 15 minutes early if the only thing god can judge you by is your work how would you grade okay okay i need everybody to stay with me i see some people getting mad and get flipping me off so
[00:30:39] watch this stay stay with me the reason why some of you have been lost up into this point in the message is because your definition of work is conflicted with your definition of job today i need to clarify for you that your work and your job are separate there are two different
[00:31:03] things and i'm telling you the revelation that i'm about to share i need you to go over it several times until this sinks down in your soul because what we find out is what most people are
[00:31:14] experience right now. The title of my message is this job isn't working. How many people have ever said that? How many people have ever had a job and you went to that job and say, you know what?
[00:31:30] This job is not working. The subtitle is so special. What to do when purpose isn't paying.
[00:31:41] Oh, I'm about to teach you today. Some of y'all are at a job right now. That's not working.
[00:31:47] And some of y'all are working a job that ain't jobbing. Y'all hear what I'm saying? It ain't enough money coming from that job to even be considered a job. This is a hobby, but this job
[00:32:01] isn't working. And the reason I have to talk to you about this, because God, his will for your life is for you to work what he places in you, but you got to understand the difference between work
[00:32:17] and a job. So I'm about to give it to you, right? Every single thing that I'm about to say down, please. Your work and your job are separate. Your work and your job are what? They're different.
[00:32:38] This is separate things. This is not, this is not a, um, all in one package.
[00:32:47] When you live in this life, most of us are going to have to work our work and our job.
[00:32:55] pastor mike can you help me a little bit yes i can help you just a little bit more let me give you a definition your job is what you do for pay your work is what you do for purpose i'm gonna say
[00:33:10] it again and i'm gonna say it slow your job is what you do for pay it's best buy it's you being a lawyer it's you actually selling things on amazon it's you um going and doing lawn service
[00:33:23] it's you making music and selling that music. It's what you do for pay. Your work is what you do for does everybody hear me? Because this is important for you to understand. Every time I say work from
[00:33:39] now on, I'm talking about your purpose. Every time I say your job, I'm talking about your paycheck.
[00:33:46] Does everybody got me? Okay, let's go a little further. Your work can be your job. And if your work is your job. Let me tell you something that's special. That is not usual. That is not
[00:34:04] required. That is not a sign that God is with you. You're not better. If your work and your job are the same, I am blessed that my work to minister the gospel and to share it with people is
[00:34:22] intertwined with my job. I get a paycheck from this church, but when I stopped being the pastor of Transformation Church. My job will change, but my work won't. I will still be responsible for representing God to the lost and found for transformation in Christ while I deliver your
[00:34:45] Amazon packages. Y'all don't hear me. Y'all don't hear me. I will be the most jolly dancing.
[00:34:55] You'll see me on your ring camera. Today's going to be a good day. Here is your new bra. Like I'm, That's going to be me. Hey, Susan, good to see you. The law looks great. That's going to be me.
[00:35:16] Y'all hear what I'm saying though? Because my job may change, but my work will be the same.
[00:35:27] And some of you right now are frustrated because God has not made your job and your work synonymous.
[00:35:34] You're mad at God and you don't want to do your work and you don't want to do that job because it's not doing the same thing for you right now. Okay. So the principle here is if
[00:35:47] you're working, your job are the same. If you get paid to do what your purpose to do, that is just special. Thank God for it. Enjoy the season while it lasts, but do not think that somehow you are
[00:35:59] better or more called that you have somehow entered the special favor club of God. If you get paid to do what your purpose to do. So let's go. Your work and your job are different. Job is
[00:36:15] what you do for pay. Work is what you do for purpose. Your work can be your job, but watch this one. Your job can pay so you can do your work. Some of you have to have a job that pays
[00:36:34] so you can have the space to do the work God's called you to do.
[00:36:43] Some of you need to stop despising God's provision for you.
[00:36:48] That job where you get paid more than you're qualified for.
[00:36:52] You know you shouldn't have that job.
[00:36:58] But ChatGPT really helped your resume.
[00:37:03] And somehow you got in that position and God provided for you that amount you've never made before, but somehow you're still ungrateful to get up and do that every day.
[00:37:12] and you're so drained and so frustrated and so mad and god said you better stop counting my provision as something that you have to endure because we can switch this thing all the way up
[00:37:27] okay i'm trying to give you the right perspective your job the thing you get paid for many times is the thing that god gives you so you can do your work if you're called to the homeless ministry
[00:37:38] how are you gonna pay for the sandwiches and so many people i'm waiting on somebody to give me a donation you could pay for it if you worked your job well i feel called to to at at risk youth
[00:37:54] how are you going to help them unless you become the best at this provision source that god gave me this doesn't define me that's why i can work any job that's why a title doesn't define me
[00:38:04] because i know this job is just helping serve my purpose this job is helping me do the thing you can say whatever you want that i work a second job at mcdonald's but the money i receive here
[00:38:15] is going to help somebody that is in need. Call me what you want, say what you want about me, but this job is a blessing so that I can do my work. And there are too many believers that are
[00:38:32] not doing the work that God has called them to do, that they've purposed to do because they're waiting for somebody else to provide for them. But the Bible says that God gives us the ability
[00:38:42] to produce wealth. And the missing link is work. Okay, here we go. Your job can pay you so that you can do your work. But watch this. If you do your work well, somebody will pay you to do your
[00:39:03] work. Did y'all hear what I just said? So the thing that your purpose to do, if you get, watch this, the principle, skilled, somebody will pay you to do what your purpose do. Can I say something
[00:39:19] it to you very truthfully. Most believers aren't good enough in their actual work to be paid to do it. The spirit is not helping you do a better job. He's helping you actually sit down and study.
[00:39:42] He's leading you to the truth, but you got to read still on purpose to be a singer, but you don't know how to sing on key. So the reason we're not paying you to be on the praise and worship team
[00:39:56] is because you can't sing and you're mad that you're still working at Costco and you're singing there. And there's a few customers that tell you, you have a great voice. They haven't heard you at
[00:40:09] full volume. Come on y'all. The truth is somebody should tell you in love. You're not good. And maybe you're good for your family's talent show. Every semester. Oh, auntie Jean. Oh my God, girl you need to record that she can listen to that but until you get more skilled stop believing
[00:40:36] that somebody's going to pay you to do your work when your work's not good and i just wish we would be honest there are people walking around that think they're good at things that they're not
[00:40:56] good at and it's watch this not that you can't get good but if you want to get good guess what you're gonna have to do and you're allergic to it oh that's too much we shouldn't have we shouldn't
[00:41:13] have to do all of that that's a lot of time if any of those things are phrases that you go to especially when you see somebody else working that's a lot really because anybody that works
[00:41:31] knows what work produces work produces everything everybody wants but it requires what barely anybody will do okay all right okay here we go even if you don't need a job you still need work i pray as your pastor that one day you do not need to go to a job to pay your bills
[00:41:57] somebody should say amen somebody okay i don't know i'm praying as your pastor that one day you have resources coming in residually you make an invention that somebody buys that somebody leaves you an inheritance somebody
[00:42:16] needs to be like I'm praying that you get in a car accident with the right person I know I'm let me listen to scratch that one but what I'm saying is y'all know what I'm I just
[00:42:28] ain't nothing like getting a car accident with the person ain't got no insurance that is horrible get off the road I know that was me anyway only he can do it he redeemed me oh what i'm saying is i'm praying listen to this very
[00:42:53] closely i'm praying that sometime in your life sooner than later you don't need a job but what many of you heard me saying is that you're not going to have to work and what i'm telling you
[00:43:12] to do even if you don't need to go to that place for pay you will still need to wake up every day and seek the father of what you're supposed to do for your purpose this is revelation y'all okay
[00:43:29] so so this is the last thing that i need you to understand that principle if you don't need a job you still need work that's scripture okay i want you to know this is not something i'm just making
[00:43:39] up and you can be called to work and still need a job i just want you to realize that it's okay that you have to end this world right now that was actually perfect at one moment and then sin
[00:43:58] entered in and then we all had to get jobs. I'll show you in the scripture in just a second because y'all don't think it's there and it's so there. I want you to know it's okay to have to do both
[00:44:09] to be able to make sure that you do what God has purposed in your heart to do.
[00:44:15] what if nobody's gonna pay for the book that you have to write will you die with that on the inside of you and 70 pair of heels your book is literally sitting in your closet with shoes and purses and
[00:44:37] leggings you don't wear but yeah oh my gosh and you're saying god i can't do what you asked me to do and he said yes you can if you understand this is your work and this is your job all right
[00:44:53] I got to give them more scripture. You need proof. Genesis chapter two, verse 15.
[00:44:57] I love the word of God. This is in the beginning. This is just Adam. It said the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden. Who put him in the garden? The Lord put him in the garden.
[00:45:11] He said he put him in Eden too. He didn't put him in the garden to pray. He didn't put him in the garden to worship he didn't put he said he put him in the garden to not rest not take a break
[00:45:33] not have a mental health day we're weaponizing things that are supposed to help us in a season to be the thing that we can't do the work he called it he put mankind in the garden to say
[00:45:46] work he said work it and that means i think you could do it a little dance hey he said work it and take care of it. Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground, the wild animals and all the
[00:45:59] birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what the man would name them. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. So the man gave names to all the livestock.
[00:46:12] This was his work, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam, there was no suitable helper that was found everybody goes to the relationship part they're like oh that's what
[00:46:24] it is because he needed a helper before a relationship god gave work fellas i want a baddie you need to i was about to go crazy you need to work before everything else that you're
[00:46:47] doing i'm fine that your hobby is video games i'm fine that your hobby is pickleball i'm fine that you're but you should not be doing that more well you don't know what i do you don't know
[00:47:00] you know every stat of lebron in the last 16 seasons and you arguing down somebody else's purpose and have no idea what god says about you you dying on the hill of lebron or michael jordan
[00:47:15] and ladies don't think i forgot about you you got every shade of lip gloss you know how to put in hair extensions you know what eyebrow person will get your eyebrows perfectly right and then take
[00:47:27] I'm not saying any of those things are bad. What I am saying is, is it making your work be sacrificed? Okay. So let me give you three truths about work that we see right here in Genesis
[00:47:46] chapter two. Oh God, I feel your presence right now. Revelation is happening to people right now.
[00:47:51] The truth about work. Okay. God purposes work in this scripture. Adam was not searching for what to do it literally said god produced the animals the livestock the bird out of the ground watch this and adam was placed in eden which lets me know when god purposes something for you there
[00:48:21] will be evidence by just your environment of what you're supposed to be doing i'm purposed to create music so there was evidence from prophetic words to natural giftings to the way i hear there was
[00:48:38] evidence in my environment that it was like man i'm gifted this is part of my purpose i didn't get paid to do that for 25 years so did it make it less purpose no it just meant i needed to know
[00:48:53] what to do to be able to pay a car payment until my purpose started paying me okay god so god purposes work it was part of the plan the whole time watch this let me just say it like this
[00:49:10] number two and God provides work y'all didn't see it it said God brought all the animals to Adam Adam wasn't out there trying to wrangle zebras God brought the zebras to him which means it's not your purpose if you have to chase it some of y'all are chasing stuff that is
[00:49:41] not a part of your purpose. Well, I want to be a pastor and I want to do this and I want to be a billionaire and I want to be an entrepreneur. And God said, I ask you to do all that. If you would
[00:49:51] stay in my face and know that I'll put you in the right environment, even if it's not time yet, and I'll bring the word to you. Why did they ask me to oversee this little project? God's trying
[00:50:01] to reveal purpose to you. He's trying to bring you into, I don't even like people. He's trying to get you. Do y'all know how many things that are not natural that you're still purposed to do?
[00:50:15] it being natural doesn't mean that it's the thing God requires you to learn and develop even to become what he's called you to be I need you to listen to me y'all I'm telling you right now
[00:50:30] that part of the problem with the body of Christ is if it's not natural we don't think it's God but do you know how many skills I had to develop to lead this church God called me to be the pastor but he knew I was dumb okay I was dumb watch this and willing
[00:50:52] I was dumb and humble I let me say it better because y'all can't I was ignorant in a lot of things but I knew that if God gave me an opportunity I would be enlightened but I am not
[00:51:10] who I was and I cannot be who I am to go to where he wants me to go. I still have to become.
[00:51:20] And what if I told you that everything that God promised you is on the other side of a different version of you, but the only way you get it is through. So God purposes work. God provides work.
[00:51:39] you know what i even see this in a lot of other people's lives like david never gets called to the palace if he was not working the field as a shepherd never meets goliath if he's not working
[00:51:55] when nobody's looking okay i just want to drop it for you i'm gonna just keep moving no i can't god's tendency is to pick people who have jobs and he calls them to work can i prove it to you you remember the first disciples when he meets them they're out on a
[00:52:21] they fished all night they're professional fish they had job this makes you know that there's something that god see when somebody is disciplined enough to do the job he says they've learned discipline there they've learned consistency there they've actually learned to be submitted
[00:52:37] to authority. They've, uh, they've learned teamwork and, and, and, and actual unity.
[00:52:41] They've learned following a plan. I'm looking for somebody that has a job and he calls them boys off of their job into their, okay. All I'm saying is Judas was a treasurer. He had a job before he
[00:53:00] stole from Jesus. Peter and Andrew and James and John were fishermen professional. Matthew was a tax collector Paul was a tent maker God has a tendency to choose people who've been faithful on there because many times your development starts on your job and it overflows to your work
[00:53:24] last thing I want to tell you about work three truths about work I told you okay last one is God personalizes work he doesn't make you do it how everybody else would do it he literally says that he calls all the animals to Adam and says to him call it what you want
[00:53:47] Adam was like uh okay uh a rye uh rhinoceros yeah you're a rhinoceros okay what's this one uh uh uh uh a no a platypus Adam what about this one make that a hammerhead shark
[00:54:18] hammerhead shot and what about this one an otter i need you to understand that god was proud of adam's personality he did not call him to do it in a certain way he said if you work you can work
[00:54:36] it with your flair on it with your dna on it with your ideas on it with your creativity on it work it the way i called you to work it i think in heaven missy elliott was playing flip it at first
[00:54:49] said let me work it do you hear what i'm saying i just need somebody to understand he said you can do it your way but you still gotta do my work do my work your way oh my god that's why i don't
[00:55:05] preach like other people because this is the work i've been called to and i gotta do his work my way y'all gotta hear me you want something else go to their work but this right here is my
[00:55:19] swag okay let me say i'm feeling my help coming on all right don't feel boxed in because the work has a different tone a different dynamic there's somebody that needs the work the way god gave it
[00:55:43] to you. And just because everybody doesn't accept it yet, doesn't mean it's not the work he gave you. I got to get out of here. Is this helping anybody right now? Your work is what you are
[00:56:03] purposed for. Your job is what you get paid for. Okay. So write this down. I'm about to do a scripture mashup. It is impossible to please God without what faith. Somebody said work, read your Bible. Uh, it is impossible to please God without faith. Okay. Then there's another
[00:56:28] scripture that says faith without works is dead. I'm about to put this thing together for you.
[00:56:36] So that means your faith takes work. There's another scripture says that it is impossible to please God without faith. Watch this. Pleasing God takes faith. The end statement I want you to know is your work pleases God. It's impossible to please God without faith. Faith without works is
[00:57:07] dead. Your faith takes work. Pleasing God takes faith, so your work pleases God. What if your greatest worship song was how you worked? What if God hears how you produce what he called you to
[00:57:29] as the greatest hallelujah you've ever sung? What if he doesn't hear us just screaming, my miracles on the way? What if he sees your work is excellent?
[00:57:52] Have some mic. I need some more scripture for this because this is very hard for me to understand because i don't really know if i'm supposed to be working or if i'm supposed to be you know
[00:57:59] what i'm saying waiting on the lord colossians 3 23 whatever you do work heartily with your whole heart as unto the lord and not for men you no longer work for your boss you work for god so
[00:58:20] many of us are giving poor performance to the thing god's called us to do the thing he's purposed us to do because of who else is attached to it. And God says, they just there because I'm working on
[00:58:32] them. It's above them. You do everything you do as unto me. Proverbs 16, three, commit your work to the Lord and your plans will be established. Your plan is not working because your work is
[00:58:48] not submitted. Well, I just got this plan that by this time I'll be out of debt. And God said, you have not committed and submitted your work to me. First Corinthians 10 31. So whatever you eat
[00:59:03] or drink, that means whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. Whatever you do includes your work. Proverbs 18, nine. I like this one. You've listened to me. Whoever is slack in his
[00:59:16] work gets destroyed. Like I need everybody to hear me say this. Your work will lead you to the enemy's playground of idle time the times where i was most distracted i was unaware or i was
[00:59:36] avoiding work the thing that i knew god was telling me to do i was not doing it that's how i found pornography the reason i found those friends is because there was work to be done but i didn't
[00:59:48] feel like it took all of that to do the work or i had to come to another level and things found me that i had to fight off because i was not in the place that i needed to be to do work some of you
[00:59:59] are scrolling so much, are watching so many episodes of TV, are watching so many series that you are avoiding the work that God has called you. If he could just get the hours, watch this, that you stay entertained. God could do a work on this earth that he wouldn't need
[01:00:20] anybody else to actually come help with. The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.
[01:00:29] i'm glad you know how paradise ends but what will the books record in paradise when you stand before him oh you need scripture for that revelations 2012 y'all thought i came locked and loaded today
[01:00:56] i'm gonna give you everything i've got and this is the revelation john saw and i saw the dead small and great standing before god and books were opened and another book was opened which is the book of life and this is why he came in john 10 10 that we might have life and life to
[01:01:17] the full and there's a book of life in heaven and the dead were judged according to their works by the things which were written in the book when god places a purpose in you and he tells you to
[01:01:36] work it he's recording every time in heaven in a book when you do the work and when you get to heaven, he is not going to judge you on intention. He's not going to judge you on ideas. He's not
[01:01:54] going to judge you on what you was about to do when you got a little more money. Did you work what I gave you? Well, I only had two friends. Did you convince them two friends to roll with
[01:02:09] you to what God taught? What did you do with what I gave you? I don't care what they have.
[01:02:13] What do you have? This is not about comparison. Well, if we were a church that had millions of dollars we would give to you got four dollars give four he's not judging you compared to anybody
[01:02:26] but he is saying will you work what's in your hand you can find this in the story of talent to one he gave one to one he gave two to another he gave five all he was looking for was for them
[01:02:35] to all work it and the one with one said i knew you were a hard master he said you don't even know me like that well i dug it and i hid it and i hid my gift and i hid my ability and i hid my
[01:02:49] faith and I hid the courage and I hid the thing that I could have done and it could have failed but it could have hit and it could have expanded I hid that thing and God said oh give it here
[01:03:00] no I'm telling y'all the bible he didn't say oh can you get another chance he said give it to me I'm gonna give it to somebody who'll work it all right second Thessalonians 3 10 it says those who
[01:03:19] are unwilling to work don't eat some of y'all are eating too much with no work we'll just leave it right there so so so adam everybody so adam in the garden he gets work before he gets a wife
[01:03:35] okay but then once he gets a wife he gets a job and everybody know once you get a wife you better have a job i'm gonna i'm making fun of it but i want you to see it genesis 3 17 the serpent comes
[01:03:52] to trick them they eat the fruit sin enters into the equation work was not a part of the fall work was before the fall a job was after the fall do y'all hear what i'm saying nobody told me this
[01:04:14] nobody told me this if you want to live an abundant life there is going to be in the component where i gotta work and i may need a job and it's because of this sin-filled world
[01:04:25] that we live in that a job is actually not a curse it's actually a position of god's provision for us okay let me just go to the scripture genesis chapter 3 verse 17 in chapter 2 he had
[01:04:38] work in chapter 3 he gets a job watch it and the man he said and he said to the man since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree whose fruit i commanded you not to eat the ground is
[01:04:50] cursed because of you let me just say this for all of the men that are watching this it was not eve's fault it was adam's fault i'm gonna just say it real quick it's this woman you gave me that was
[01:05:03] a sorry excuse that men are still making to this day you didn't have to eat that that's why the man is supposed to lead his household and if your wife gives you something you say baby no this is
[01:05:16] not what we do and then we go to god god she ate it and i'm asking to be the sacrifice for us you miss it that's what jesus had to do he went to the cross for his bride when we messed up do
[01:05:31] you understand if adam would have went and said god who messed up and give me the punishment y'all not ready for this so i just want everybody now see it's you no it's you okay let me stop he said now because y'all both messed up the ground is cursed
[01:05:53] all your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it isn't it funny that we even still use the term make a living he said it will be a struggle to make a living because you let sin in
[01:06:12] it says it will grow thorns and thistles which means your work can hurt you though you will eat of its grain so it still will produce by the sweat of your brow you will you will have food to
[01:06:31] eat until you return to the ground from which you were made for you were made from dust and to dust you will return let me give you three truths about a job it includes sweat i'm just telling you right
[01:06:48] now you might as well be willing to sweat out your edges you might as well be willing to use deodorant you might as well be willing because because to have a job it's going to require
[01:07:03] something let me say it a different way let me say it churchy a sacrifice i gotta get up at 5 a.m to get the kids ready to actually be able to get to the job on time to actually be prepared to know
[01:07:15] what to do when it's a sack it's when sin entered in sweat entered in the second thing it's going to be the truth about a job it's gonna be a struggle there will be times when you have a job that it
[01:07:31] will include a struggle that does not mean it's demonic the struggle at your job is not a spiritual attack i'm under attack y'all pray y'all on the prayer line there's warfare going on no you have
[01:07:47] to answer your emails i've been called in three times i'm telling you there isn't a demonic the arrows are being shot at me. I need you to pray that the shield of faith. No, it's just part of
[01:08:04] the struggle of having a job. I got to talk to difficult people. They're difficult, and some of their breath stink, and some people were raised differently than me, and they don't understand.
[01:08:18] This is not a demonic attack. This is a result of the decision of sin. So if your job is a struggle, don't think that it's the point for you to run away from it okay because do you know there's
[01:08:36] many things that you ask for prayer for that a job would solve i'm not gonna stay on it long but we're financially struggling because you don't have a job you don't have a job and i'm not well
[01:08:52] i have a felony past there's lawnmowers and rakes there's there you don't have to i mean wheels a pastor at the church no i just no i just you can get a job it's still campus but i'm just
[01:09:11] it's just processing as i'm saying he has a felony past but if you let watch this if you let the perspective well everybody sees me no you see you well everybody's judging me no you're judging you
[01:09:28] if paul can go from killing christians to having a damascus road experience and then being the biggest evangelist god is saying i'll choose anybody who's willing to do the work now watch this last thing truth about a job it includes sweat it includes struggle watch this but watch
[01:09:48] the grace of god it also includes supply he said you're gonna eat from this grain you're gonna get bread from this but it doesn't take away the sweat or the struggle so even in our sin god still
[01:10:05] supplies our needs the job that you hate is actually a form of provision for you and maybe Maybe you should change your perspective on how you're looking at what God has given you in this season.
[01:10:22] Maybe before work on Monday, you pray, God changed my perspective to go in here and actually do the work you've told me to be as a believer and be light and salt and actually help people
[01:10:33] and encourage people.
[01:10:34] Even as I do this job, God, let me be honest that I don't like matter of fact, can I be real honest?
[01:10:39] God, I hate it.
[01:10:41] until you move me from this place, until you provide something else, I will not move off of a revelation. Watch this of uncomfortability. I'm going to move off of the revelation of being consistent. And father, God, I thank you that you make my work so prosperous that I don't need a
[01:11:03] job one day, but father, I'm making a commitment to you. I'll never stop my work. I never stopped the work. I'll never stop doing what you call me to do. And some of you, even I'm talking to my
[01:11:13] senior saints, God has provided a way where you do not need a job and he hasn't seen work for you in a decade. He has now given you days to do what you are purposed to do. And you're sleeping the
[01:11:25] days away and you're going to every grandparents thing, or you're going to every pickleball thing.
[01:11:32] And God said, at the end of the day, if you're not doing work while you're, I'm not, I'm fine with you relax. I'm fine with you being on the boat. I'm fine with you golfing. But at the end
[01:11:43] of the day I'm gonna have to judge them works and I put that book in you 10 years ago and I told you to go up to that elementary school and mentor those kids I have a David in there I have an
[01:11:53] Abraham in there I have a Daniel in there that needs somebody to speak life over them consistently and I asked you to do the work I need you to go feed those homeless people I need you to go find
[01:12:06] the orphan and the widow I need you to go ask to administrate that church or that ministry and tell them you're taking no money because i gave you skill to produce administration it's a spiritual
[01:12:19] gift but you want to get paid for that and i already provided for you and they've been praying god would you just send somebody to help me i'm drowning god i don't know god if you don't send
[01:12:30] somebody in three weeks we're gonna have to shut this thing down and you are at the house sipping coffee and not doing the work that god's called you to do today i just want our church to understand
[01:12:44] that a job is not bad and a work is required. So Pastor Mike, what do I do? Last two points.
[01:12:53] Do your job. If I could tell the church something, one of your biggest witnessing tools is if you did your job well. Y'all remember Daniel? What we call the Daniel's fast?
[01:13:08] The reason why this is remembered is because they were taken into captivity and God saw the skill level of Daniel and his partners and Daniel and his partners were so favored that they came to
[01:13:21] the king's table and the king said eat whatever you want because back then food was the way that you actually exhibited status so the king was like eat whatever you want but God had spoken to Daniel
[01:13:30] and said Daniel I only want you to eat grains and fruit what we call the Daniel fast and they were like no you can't do that and he said test me if you let me do it God's way I'll be greater than
[01:13:44] every one of the people that eat at this table. And because watch this, not Daniel did the fast good that people recognize this God. It's because his work was good. Even when he did it, God's way
[01:14:00] is why they said, whoever the God is that he served, that's who we about to serve.
[01:14:07] His work was a testimony of God's glory. Look at your neighbor and say, do the work.
[01:14:16] could can I say it like this worship God with your work Colossians 3 23 whatever you do work at it with all your heart as working for the Lord not for human masters since you know
[01:14:40] that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward it is the Lord Christ you are serving. Now, if you got through this whole message and you don't understand the value of job and work, I'm going to leave you with one picture. Our savior, Jesus Christ had a job
[01:15:06] and had work. What was Jesus's job? Why do you think it was important? Why do you think it was important that it let us know that Jesus had a job? Cause he's our rabbi. He's our example.
[01:15:25] he's the one we follow we know he only did work for three years but he lived for 33 years which we can safely assume he did his work more he did his job more years than he did his work
[01:15:37] he was known for his job he would be remembered for his work y'all y'all i can't i gotta stop what if you're known for your job but remembered for your work standing all over this building
[01:15:56] don't leave yet because i want to pray a prayer of impartation i believe something is going to shift on the inside of you thank you lord i want to put these clarifying things on the back led
[01:16:18] just for you to hear me say it one more time and i may do it every week just so that the spirit of deception can't enter in as you hear these truths because the enemy would love to steal
[01:16:30] this from you but i want you to understand that this is what god has designed and desires for you is having money proof you are blessed by God no can having money be used to be a blessing
[01:16:44] yes I need y'all to help me does faith always lead to financial blessing no do you need faith to live financially free fulfilled and be a blessing yes does God promise you riches if you follow him? No. Does God promise to meet your needs? Yes. If you give, are you guaranteed
[01:17:07] multiplied personal wealth? No. Does God say that being generous has a direct impact on our lives?
[01:17:15] Yes. Should you spend your life focused on material things? No. Are material things a tool to bless others and glorify God? Yes. Does God guarantee perfect health and wealth? No. Does god care about your health and wealth yes does the bible teach the prosperity gospel no is the
[01:17:38] story of the gospel god dying so you can prosper in this life and the next yes it's that clear and you don't just have permission to prosper you now have permission to produce god wants you to
[01:17:58] live an abundant life and if you're saying to me pastor mike i want to sign up for that life i want to live this. I want to work the things that God has placed me on this life for purpose. I want to
[01:18:09] do the work. I want to be judged and I want my works to last through the fire. And even if I have to do a job until I die to do the work, God, I'll do it. Today, if you want a new perspective
[01:18:21] on work and on a job, I want to pray for you. I want to pray that God would expand your capacity to endure the seasons that feel frustrating and I'm praying that God will give you the
[01:18:40] willingness to do the work even watch this if nobody affirms it today if you want that I want to give you an impartation would you just lift your hands all over this place if you're watching
[01:18:53] online father in the name of Jesus I pray for my brothers and sisters who are right now walking in a new level of revelation today i'm asking you that you would expand their minds to believe that
[01:19:08] you don't just want them to prosper but you also give us the ability to produce today i'm praying that you bless their ideas bless their banks bless father god their wisdom and their stewardship bless father god everything that concerns them god i'm asking you that you would give them dreams
[01:19:26] witty inventions and ideas i thank you that you would give them the ability to stick to the plan god i thank you that you would give them the ability to trust you even when they can't see
[01:19:39] what you're doing today expand our faith to not just prosper but to produce i declare even in the next year there will be things that will come from your people that at this moment seem impossible
[01:19:56] but I thank you with man it is impossible but with you God there is nothing that cannot be done today expand our heart our mind watch this and our capacity to believe you no matter what the
[01:20:15] generational pattern has been we're interrupting the bloodline right now in the name of Jesus and we we curse the spirit of generational poverty and we curse the spirit of generational greed i thank you father that we will live in abundance through generosity and stewardship
[01:20:37] have your way in your people in jesus name even as we're in this moment there are some people right now that don't understand the abundant life because you're like the young rich ruler he had
[01:20:51] everything but he had one thing missing the ability to know that all the things weren't as important as his soul being in right relationship with God. And some of you may be fine financially, you know how to work and have a job. Some of you may be struggling in that area,
[01:21:08] but the thing that the scripture said that I want you to prosper and be in health at the level that your soul prospers and your soul cannot prosper without the spirit of Jesus living on the inside
[01:21:20] of you. So today, if you want to accept Jesus as your personal Lord and savior, whether you're in this building you're watching in a jail cell you're watching on rebroadcast somebody sent this in the family group text i want to let you know today is the day of salvation and church i need
[01:21:35] you to begin to pray if you have been far from god and you've never accepted him or you've been wandering today is the day that the prodigal comes home god is not mad at you he is not going to keep
[01:21:47] you in shame he wants to put a robe on you put a ring on your finger he wants to put sandals on your feet and he wants to throw a party for you but it's your decision if you come back to the
[01:21:57] father and today i'm telling you this is the greatest decision i ever made it took me from being a liar a manipulator someone who was addicted to pornography had very dark and bad things in my heart and it didn't make me perfect but it made me progressing and jesus is the only
[01:22:11] one if you give him your heart he'll help you change your habits don't clean up and come to him come to him raggedy jacked up messed up steal with the stuff in your car steal with the alcohol
[01:22:24] in the cupboard steal with the plan on your phone and God says I can help you change all of that what a mighty God we serve today I want to offer you Jesus you can be wealthy at the end of this
[01:22:40] prayer your soul will be prospering and today I want to offer you Jesus if that's you and you're saying pastor would you include me in that prayer on the count of three if you're in the room or
[01:22:52] watching online whether you're in the balcony or you're in the back i want you to lift your hands and lift it bold and high and i want you to say include me in that prayer pastor one you're making
[01:23:01] 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 three if you want to make jesus christ your personal lord
[01:23:10] and savior today lift your hands i see you i see you i see you in the back right there glory transformation church hallelujah i see you my brother you can put your hand down at transformation
[01:23:23] Church, we're a family. Nobody prays alone. So for the benefit of those who are coming to Christ, will we all pray this prayer together? Everybody just say, God, thank you for sending Jesus just for me today. I repent and I turn to you. I believe you lived, you died and you rose again
[01:23:46] with all power just for me here's my life change me renew me transform me i'm yours forever in jesus name amen can we celebrate with all of the people oh come on transformation church can we celebrate with all of heaven welcome to the family and if you just prayed
[01:24:16] that prayer i want you to text save to 828282 or you can scan the qr code and we want to send you some information there's some videos i want you to watch i want you to go on this journey because
[01:24:27] i believe god is about to transform you next week y'all we're going to another level and you know why it's gonna happen is because of the prayer that's about to happen this week thursday night
[01:24:40] friday night saturday bring your kids bring bring your people bring your family you don't have to go to this church it's completely free but join us thursday through saturday and then back here on sunday as the altar workers come i'm gonna have the worship team just sing for a second because
[01:24:57] god's transforming some people's mind and some of y'all need to go to lunch and then others of y'all need to stay in surgery for a second you need to let god wash over your mind and if you're watching
[01:25:06] online or you want to stay in worship for a second and you need prayer i want you to come down to the altar and get prayer agreement prayer works miracles happen and today whether you're dealing
[01:25:16] with something in your marriage or in your mind or in your heart don't leave this place without prayer let me pray for you as many of you leave and as some of you come down for prayer father
[01:25:26] we thank you that this week will be a week that we prosper we declare and we believe that your will will be done and your word will be established in our life give us wisdom to walk in your truth
[01:25:37] and we will give you all the glory, all the honor and all the praise in Jesus name. Everybody say we agree. We expect a man go out and live a transformed life. Give God some praise in this
[01:25:50] place. If you need prayer for anything, I want you to come and get prayer. Come on, lead us into worship. You have permission to prosper. And now, you know, you have permission to produce. God has
[01:26:08] given you the ability and he will provide through your job and he will actually provide for your work. I promise that if you get this revelation, you need to run this back three or four times so
[01:26:20] it can wash over your soul. Cause I believe many of you are about to step into another realm of work and God is going to give you the right perspective on your job. I know that many of
[01:26:31] you watching this right now today, God started something in you, but he's not finished. And so I want you to come back and join us for the rest of this six figure series because next
[01:26:40] week I'm taking you to another figure that's going to change everything in your life if you get the revelation.
[01:26:46] And I'm going to ask you two things.
[01:26:48] Number one, if you pray that prayer of salvation, I want you to text saved to 828282.
[01:26:53] I'm telling you, our team is ready to send you information.
[01:26:56] There's some videos that I want to help you be able to walk in your journey to know what to do next.
[01:27:01] Your life is transforming right now as you take steps of faith.
[01:27:05] And I'm so proud of you.
[01:27:06] We're cheering for you.
[01:27:07] Heaven is turning up, but we need to know so that we can help you to your next step.
[01:27:11] And number two, if this ministry has been a blessing to you, helped you in your time of need, has been water to the seeds that have been in your life, and now you're seeing fruit, I would ask you to pray about partnering with us to expand this vision.
[01:27:25] God is already doing amazing things.
[01:27:27] You even saw in the message, we were able to give a significant amount to a church that has nothing to do with Transformation Church, but literally is doing the work of the kingdom.
[01:27:35] We want to be able to do more of that. And we can only do that if we all partner together. So pray about it. And whatever God tells you, make sure you do that. I love you. And until next week,
[01:27:46] I want you to go out and live a transformed life. This is your abundant life.