A Good Word Gone Bad: The Problem With Prosperity // Six Figures (Part 1) // Pastor Michael Todd

To all my people watching by the Pando app, the first thing I want you to know is I love you. And I believe this new series we're starting called Six Figures is about to transform your life because it's not just about money, it's about motives. It's not just about more, it's about the life that God wants you to live of more. This series is about living the abundant life. And I know even in the place you're at right now, the enemy would try to make you think, I can't live an abundant life in here. Yes, you can. Jesus came that you might have a life and life to the full or abundantly. And this message I believe is gonna bless and transform your life. I want to title this message something that you'll understand in a minute. It's called A Good Word Gone Bad, The Problem With Prosperity. I think you're gonna be blessed. If you could, would you get out your notepad and your smartphone or dumb phone and get ready to receive God's word. I wanna pray. Father, anything I say does not matter if we don't have hearts to receive it. So today give us hearts that are soft enough for the right seeds to be planted. We've had hard weeks.

Some of us have been disappointed. Some of us have been confused about what's going on. But right now in your presence, I thank you that peace is here. It's the peace that passes all understanding. And so father, would you speak to us so that we can actually live an abundant life. Have your way in this place is my prayer. And all God's children in this place say, amen. All right, let's do this thing. Well, we're starting a brand new series today. And I get excited about a brand new series because I've been holding this one. Because the truth of the matter is this series has the opportunity to transform your mind around something that all of us are thinking about. Everybody's thinking about money. Oh no, not me. Liar. Some of you have checked your account three times today. Some of us get notifications every time something shifts in our account balance. Many of us right now are planning our lives around what the decimals say in our bank account. Some of us have joy right now because of how much we have. And some of us are in sorrow. Okay, y'all come on. Because of how much we don't have. Many of us feel great on payday. Come on, let's be honest.

How many people get an extra little pep in they step when that little cha-ching hits you like, ah? And as soon as that first payment comes out for the house you live in, you're like, God, dog. Today, I wanna let you know very clearly, we are gonna talk about money, but it's not the focus. A lot of people don't understand and realize how important it is to be able to bring God's truth around things that we all deal with. But because there's been people who have done wrong around the topic, people stay away from it. My job as your pastor, I'm not everybody's shepherd, but I'm yours, is to make sure you understand the things that God says that you are supposed to have and how you're supposed to interact and connect with him. So today, this new series is called Six Figures. Everybody say six figures. How many people in here would love to make six figures consistently? Monthly? Oh, come on, I'm talking to somebody. Six figures weekly, huh? Huh? Somebody had the crazy faith, I'd make it daily. No, okay. Everybody wants to make six figures. It's like last 10 years, it's been like a culturally coined phrase. Like, I'm just trying to get six figures. Or what type of man do you want?

You got to make six figures. Come on, let's talk about it, let's think about it. Many of us are trying to raise to a certain level. But I started to think about this cultural phrase and I was like, I know a lot of people that make six figures who aren't fulfilled. I counsel plenty of people that have not just six figures, seven figures, eight figures. And you were like, I wish I could see what they talking about. We can trade places. But the truth of the matter is the number or the figure you have in your account does not mean you will be fulfilled. And I thought, what are the six figures that God wants to expand and shape our life? Faith around and so for the next few weeks. I'm gonna be talking about six figures That shape your faith to live an abundant life See cuz God doesn't want you to just have money he wants you to have an abundant life He wants you to be able to walk in a lifestyle that doesn't add sorrow with it And so in this series I want you to be able to listen because I'm gonna have to challenge watch this some of your cultural constructs I'm coming for some of your family ideas I'm coming for spirits that have been on you that have been borrowed from people You didn't even find out the source. They got it from okay, and Today, I want you to understand the six figures God cares about so that you can live a life of abundance

So these are the six figures we're gonna talk about that are gonna shape your faith. We don't talk about work Three a man's But the truth of the matter is most of you think your job and your work are synonymous And God gave Adam work, even though all his needs were supplied We'll talk about it later We're gonna talk about rest How many people could use some more rest? We're gonna talk about it. We're gonna talk about motives. We're gonna talk about multiplication We're gonna talk about priority and we're gonna talk about generosity and yes we're gonna talk about money and the reason I say this is because One third of all of the message that Jesus gave publicly were about money generosity and possessions And the reason why Jesus talked about it so much is not because he cares a lot about money. He knows you do He knows we do He knows it's the reason why I can or cannot be a blessing on all occasions He knows that it changes my attitude there are people I don't like cuz I think they have more money than me You don't even know and God's saying your heart and resources are connected And what I want is to correct the thing that no one can see This series is an inside job It's going to challenge the things that you think and your neighbor ain't gonna know what's going on on the inside of you the tension that's going on the wrestle and God wants to reveal these things because I believe he wants you to live in abundance but the Thing that can mess up the money the influence the platform. He gives you is the mindset And today I'm coming to change and challenge The mindset of God's people around this idea of living an abundant life John 1010 The thief the enemy our adversary does not come except to do what steal kill and destroy But Jesus is talking and he said but I've come That you may have life and that you have may have life more watch this word abundantly

Jesus is saying my whole reason for coming There's gonna be a lot of details that come But my whole reason if I could sum it up in one thing, I want you to live an abundant life What? Like that's what you want for me. Yep What about grace and mercy and it's all wrapped up in a abundant life What about resources and blessing others and being able to walk in the fruits of the spirit? It's all wrapped up in an abundant life and God wants your life to be watch this fool Some of us have lived the most empty barely making it at the bottom just enough to get by lives That's not why God gave up his only son It's so you could survive He wants your life to be just somebody say abundant say it like it's a big word abundant What if every area of your life was more than enough? Oh Y'all didn't hear me think about your marriage been like girls. I'm kissing me. Dang Our love is so abundant. It's more than enough. Think about every time you get ready to bless somebody you got to tell yourself I don't know if they ready for that That might be too much for them to handle What if every time you looked at your health you like man I've never been More healthy have more energy. I don't even need those things to stay up no more. I'm I'm living and all What if when you prayed, you were praying to see who God wanted you to answer their prayer, not just that God would answer their prayer? Abundance. What if you didn't have to be seen and you were still fulfilled? Oh, I'm talking about abundance. I'm talking about I'm not on the gram. I'm not showing you what I'm doing on Facebook and I'm actually happy. Abundance. And this is what I want everybody listening to me to know because I'm reversing some of the lies that you have believed. God desires for his children to live an abundant life. Why Pastor Mike?

Because it's a reflection of him. If you read all the characteristics of God, he's the God that owns the cattle on a thousand heels. He's the God that pours out his grace unending. There's no sin. You can do where the grace is not great. He is a abundant and then you look at his kids. Okay, y'all ever met somebody who got it all Gucci. Louie down got got all the things got all the Lululemon got all the aloe got everything and then the kids walk up. Oh, y'all know what I'm talking about. It changes the way you looking at them. Cuz oh them young kids. Why? Because the reflection many times is the way people get to understand who the person is. I believe that this is an area that needs to be represented. That's why in this church during this series. We're not taking any offerings that are outside of what we normally do. There will be no second offerings. There's no building campaign as in fact during the series. We're going to give money away. Pastor Mike. Why are you saying this? Because most people who have an aversion to resources. They like the church just want my money. You ain't gave it no way. So first off, let's let's let's be clear. We've been able to survive without your money and number two. The enemy is trying to keep you from a principle that will change your legacy. And today I I have the authority. I live this I started out in poverty. I started out with a poverty mindset.

Oh, you couldn't tell about what I had on. But but I had a poverty mindset not because it's what I was exposed to not because it was because of what I adopted in the Holy Spirit after salvation had to break off of me a mindset that was keeping me watch this from his best for me. And I'm believing through this series by faith that many people are about to walk out of the idea of poverty. I'm not just talking about money. Some of you are poor relationally. Some of you do not have enough emotionally. God's going to allow you to live say it with me one more time abundantly. Let me help you understand what abundantly is abundantly is spiritual fullness. Material provision generosity and God's overflowing grace. When God says I want you to live abundantly. He says I want you to be spiritually full. I want you to have whatever material provision you need. I want you to have generosity to be able to be a blessing to others and I want you to experience God's overflowing grace write this down because I believe it's going to be an anchor in this entire series abundance is fueled by the principle of proper management not from endlessly pursuing more. I need to give this to you very clear right now because a lot of you think abundance is a lot. Having a lot does not mean you're in abundance. Most of the time having a lot means you're overwhelmed. Come on. Let's be honest. God says I want you to properly Stewart over what you have when you become a good Stewart you live in abundance. Right now some of us have more clothes and more shoes than we know what to do

with right now. We can't even get to our bathroom because we got to step over mountains heels and valleys. Come on. Let's be honest. Some of us got storages for our storage. Y'all got what I'm saying? What I'm telling you is a lot does not equal abundance. Proper stewardship doesn't we're gonna talk about that as we go today is just a foundation because I believe that God Wants you to live a life of abundance, so just write this point down very clearly very simple I've said it several times, but God desires for me to live an abundant life That's what he desires for you a lot of people. I've heard it said like this love God love people use money But a lot of people mix those up They use God love people and love money Or they love God use people and love money. Oh Come on y'all But the proper order for everything that we have to do when it comes to resources is we love God somebody say love God love people Use money It's a tool It's just a tool This is not the thing I live and die for It's the thing that I use to live Okay, I'm gonna walk you through this and many people have gotten that out of order so as I teach you this series I'm teaching from a place that I have walked out of poverty Into a level of purpose that allows me to understand the concept so I'm going to identify with every person in this room To be able to help us walk into a brand new mindset and get a revelation and what is a revelation? It's just revealed truth. It's a truth. That's already there, but we don't see it yet And I believe God is gonna allow so many people to see the truth that God wants you to live an abundant life

Can I get one big amen? All right, so there's this thing that's been happening to me lately as I'm getting a little older Um, I'll be 40 this year and uh, yeah, I'm excited about being 40 Like it feels like my life is just beginning. I mean, I don't know what 75 feels like Bishop, but 40 feel good You know I'm saying I know what to and what to what not to do for me I understand how my body works now, and I'm I'm figuring out what I like to do and what I don't like to do I sometimes you know get it wrong of how athletic I still am I've had a nagging injury that has gone from my ankle to my knee now to my brain, but But I consider myself a pretty pretty relevant Person and um, I was I give compliments. I'm an encourager. So like if you know me you're around me I'm gonna tell you like man you look nicer da da da da so I was talking to a guy the other day And I said man you're handsome and Out of the blue. I heard somebody say hey, yo Paul And I looked at him all like hey yo Paul's what do you mean Paul's I've been getting paused a lot And I wasn't clear what pausing was Until I asked my daughter. I was like what is Paul's it's like It's like you know when you probably like what you said meant one thing But because of the cultural definition of it it now means something else That's why I was like so I can't tell another man. He handsome It was like a yo Paul's And I was like what hold on what are you talking about and I'm confused I'm frustrated Some of the older people are looking at me like I still don't get it what they're saying is If I tell another man, he's handsome Somebody might think that maybe I like him in a way that I don't like him and it's not just a compliment It's more than a compliment and maybe this could escalate to something that and I was like shut up. I Said I'm a double-down you not just handsome. You're God's masterpiece Like whoa hey yo pause like What why can't I get somebody else to come why can't I do it and what I what I realized that that pause idea that Pause perception is fueled by ignorance and many times immaturity I

Just want to say I know the youth section y'all be pausing all day pause like What what I'm saying is um when something has a meaning But it gets twisted You can be saying one thing, but somebody take it as something else And and what I've figured out is that um in 2026 there are some phrases that God gives us that have been hijacked because of ignorance and Today I just I feel like it's part of my job in the beginning of this series to to literally Dismantle one of them so you can receive what God has called you to receive in this series and As a pastor this is my job, so I stand flat-footed ten toes down today To tell anybody and everybody that God Has watching this that we have to come out of ignorance Ignorance Translated in the Greek actually, um comes down to darkness Wherever there is darkness in your life. You're ignorant in that area You can't see it. And when you begin to study out scripture, I need everybody to understand that understanding actually means light So when you're ignorant you're in darkness when you get understanding you're in light. That's why the Bible says and all you're getting I Need you to get an understanding. That's why we can't take tick-tock clips And create theologies around it Because you didn't even get an understanding you didn't check the source You don't know who them people are just because the lighting was good and the video was high-quality and the voice sounded convincing Doesn't mean it's true This is why you can't believe everything you hear about me online Well, isn't he isn't he you ain't never met me you ain't even been around me you think I'm short in real life I I Can't tell you how many people when they meet me in real life. They're like dang. You're so tall this screen lying to you I'm almost 6 2 what I'm telling you is you cannot form Things in your conscience off a clip This is a dangerous time in church in life people are putting things in their body because of a clip Y'all don't order stuff off of Amazon cuz somebody was selling something on tick-tock shop

They ain't never take it they just get paid for it you want they results they don't even do it Okay, and today I have to go in and I believe it's part of my my pastoral responsibility To help you be able to redeem a word that has been hijacked That if I was to say it in Christianity a lot of people would say pause Can I give you the word? Y'all ready for it prosperity Hey, yo pause Cuz right now in the world if I say the word prosperity and Then I put the word gospel behind it There are people who have no idea What it actually means but they stay away from it Prosperity pause. Oh, that's a prosperity church. Oh, they teach in a prosperity gospel. Oh, they all they only about prosperity Have you studied it Have you checked the source? Do you know where it came from? Do you have any? context Around that phrase and right now it's being not just hijacked. It's being weaponized And today I need us to pause or let me say say la Which actually means pause and you don't just need to pause you need to pause in Because if you say la and get the understanding and then you come to the conclusion I don't want nothing to do with that cool But many of us have walked away watch this from a principle and a promise of God Because it has bad cultural connotation The word gospel means good news But I have to acknowledge that people have gotten involved So when somebody says if you're new to church or you've never heard this idea or this theme I'm gonna help you because you're gonna be so ahead of the game because you're not gonna have to filter through a bunch of Toxicity and all kinds of stuff, but I want to put everybody on the same playing field when people say Prosperity gospel it is culturally complicated Because what they mean by that is that this prosperity gospel is centered around manipulation around money deceptive motives an

opulent lifestyle Lottery living I'm gonna give God something. He gonna change my chain Hit me back with tenfold Selfish gain a Pyramid skin give ten get twenty give twenty get a thousand And it's been around exploiting vulnerable people and praying on people's ignorance You got a church that ain't got no air, but the pastor has a private jet Come on let's we're gonna talk about it. Okay if we're gonna talk about it. Let's talk about it the building fund ain't nothing ever got built Come on people and gave they life savings granny done done it but no actual actual evidence. And because people have gotten involved, I want to give you the title of my message today, A Good Word Has Gone Bad. Today, the title of the message is A Good Word Gone Bad, The Problem With Prosperity. I got to help you because if you don't get your own understanding from God about this word, you will let culture rob you of a promise that God gave before any of us was here. If you want to know the problem with prosperity, it's three things. Let me tell you. The problem with prosperity is people, perception, and perversion. When you bring prosperity into it, people have manipulated people in the name of a word that God gave us that have nothing to do with him. And as long as there will be people on this earth, somebody will try to twist what God says is good. Can I tell you all the way back in Genesis, when God told Adam and Eve, like, hey, you protected, you good, you can eat from any tree except this one. What was the enemy's first conversation with man? Did God really say? He was trying to pervert what God said was good into something that was bad. So anytime you see the word prosperity, think about the people who are talking about it. And then you have to think about the perception. What is the perception behind it? And has it been perverted? Pastor Mike, why is this important? Because prosperity is biblical. If I said prayer was biblical, you'd be like, amen, glory to God, pray for me, pastor. If I said healing is biblical, everybody would want healing. If I said love is biblical, for God so loved the world, oh my God, that he gave, prosperity is biblical. Let me prove it to you. Because y'all looking like, give me scripture, Deuteronomy 28, 11.

Listen to this. The Lord, who will? The Lord. Who will do it? The Lord. The Lord will grant you abundant prosperity. There's our two words. The Lord will grant you abundant prosperity. Stop, think. What would abundant prosperity from God look like? The Lord will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and your crops of the ground. He's saying your business will prosper. In the land, he swore to your ancestors to give you. This is a promise that was started before you. The Lord will open up the heavens, my God, the storehouses of his bounty to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but we'll borrow from none of them. The Lord will make you the head and not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the Lord, your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, that means there's obedience attached to abundance. Did you hear what I just said? Obedience is attached to abundance. It says, if you do what he says, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. Bible. That's not enough for some of you because you're a skeptic. Proverbs 11, 25, a generous person will say the word with me prosper. I know it's like a cuss word. I don't want to say it. What if somebody sees me? What if God promised it to you? What if it's a benefit of being in the kingdom of God? Nobody, no good father would ever tell their child. I don't want you to prosper. Okay. I would never go to my children and be like, I hope you stay the same. I hope you really hit a like a loop in your life. Like real cyclic, real cycle, cycle, son, cycle child. No, I want you to prosper. I want you to prosper in your thinking. I want you to grow in your ability to perceive. I want you to understand your emotions. I want you to be able to manage things. I want you to, this is the same thing God's saying about you because you're his child. He said, if you're generous, you're going to prosper. Whoever refreshes others will be refreshed. Pastor Mike, both of those are Old Testament examples. We are under a new covenant. Y'all want some new, you want some New Testament on that? I want you to understand we're under a new covenant, but we serve a God with the same character.

Me and PC were talking about that, that the new covenant does not demolish God's old character. So if he was good, he's still gonna be good. If he did provide, he's still gonna provide. If he did love you, he's still gonna love you. Third John, New Testament, chapter one, verse two. Beloved, I pray that you, y'all gotta say it with me. Y'all scared to cuss in church. I pray that you prosper. In, no, only some of them. He says, I pray that you prosper in your business, your family, your finances, your health. I want your hair growth to prosper. I want your eyebrows to be on fleek. I pray that you prosper in encouragement. I pray that you prosper. And some of y'all wanna leave God's desire for us and his design for us on the table because of somebody else's definition. You gonna leave what God said on the table because of what Gary said? I'm gonna choose another name, Bishop, it's your birthday. Because of what Garrett said. Amen. Guys, you cannot let culture define what God's already defined. So Pastor Mike, what's your whole point today? Today, if you don't get nothing else, I want you to know this one thing. You have permission to prosper.

Somebody should get excited about that. You have permission by God's word, not Pastor Mike's word, by God's word to, it's good news. You have permission to prosper. The Todd family has permission to prosper. Transformation Church has permission to prosper. The Metcalfe family, the Heckenbach family, the DeGraefe family, we have permission to prosper. I tell my kids, you have permission to prosper. You have permission to be everything God's called you to be. My daughters today, they brought a business to church. Other day, my daughter's been into baking, Ava been into baking, and so she baked some Rice Krispie Treats. And I don't know what kind of heaven that the Holy Spirit slipped into those Rice Krispie Treats or it could just be I ain't been eating sugar like that. But I bit into that thing and you know when you eat something and it make your knees do a little, ooh, woo. So me and her mom was just hyping her up, Ava, these Rice Krispie Treats is the bomb. You should sell them, you should sell. And Ava's like me when I was little, she was like, hmm. So she employed her older sister and she has two employees. Her, her older sister and Coco have baked up 60 Rice Krispie Treats, packaged them, put pink bows on them, done all this other stuff and brought them to church

to use their nepotism to make you buy them. They have fully taken advantage of their last name. You already bought some, Moe, they already bought some. Hear me, hear me. And everything in me is saying prosper, baby. Take the little that God's given you. It may seem like nothing to anybody else but I want you to try. You're only seven years old but you gonna learn things right now that's gonna set you up to be in business and bless other people later on. Now we ain't just gonna take all that money and go spend it. We're gonna honor God with it. We're gonna teach them priority. I want you to, if me as a father with human sin running through my veins, wants my child to prosper, how much more? You have permission, I want you to feel that in your soul. He said above all else I want above all else above above praying for 12 hours Come on. Y'all we gonna do it but above that Above spending all day in worship above above I Want you to prosper in all things at the level watch this That's your soul Prospers mind will and emotion so he said I don't want you to just have all things That's why you can have all things and still not be fulfilled and that's why another scripture says what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his

God says soul needs to be wealthy and At the level your soul prospers Let your money prosper. Let your relationships prosper You have permission to prosper Pass a mic for real. Yeah Because the truth of the matter is this term was defined by God before we ever heard it And always check the source of The place you're finding out your information. I only chose three scriptures so that we could get out on time today But through this whole series I'm gonna teach you that You're right as a Kings kid It's to prosper in every air you should be the best at your job Okay, I have the advantage. I have the Holy Spirit. I can know what the meetings gonna be about for I walk into me Y'all ain't y'all don't hear me You have somebody say I have the advantage there are things in wisdom and discernment and Why would you leave the promises of God on the table just because somebody else doesn't understand it never experienced or can't define it Do we just leave the Holy Spirit out of our Christian walk? Cuz certain groups of people don't understand the Holy Spirit before any of us was here. The Bible tells us Jesus says it's better that I leave Cuz when I leave I'm sending another one He's the Holy Spirit the paraclete the one that will come alongside of you and help and he's gonna guide you in your day-to-day into all truth That's why the truth is important y'all He sets you free So so so anytime there's a a term in church that kind of gets Twisted it's a good word that goes bad. I want you to put it in this matrix I want you to put the term in and then I want you to Define it by the truth of God's Word Then I want you to see where the enemy would try to twist it and then I want you to see where he's trying to trick you

Just write that down term truth twist trick Because again The enemy's plan is to turn everything that God says is good into something that you think is bad Because the enemy doesn't need to kill you if he makes God's promises to you powerless Remember his job is to steal Kill and destroy pastor Charles said it a week ago He said he does not have to kill you if he actually steals the purpose in the use of the thing So your life will be destroyed if you don't think that you can be abundant So all your prayers is about God. Could you just please meet my needs? I've been a big one to meet your needs. I Know God sometimes if it was me he What But because of a mindset or a month you can be healed You can be free. It's not just with the word prosperity It's with many words that we have in the church and the enemy has tricked us to make us feel that we cannot fully believe In them so that they're powerless in our lives this is why some people can come into a service and get healed because they actually believe God can heal and There are other people that will be in that same service and need the healing but they feel nothing it's not because God's not moving It's because somewhere deep down That thing has gotten to us where it's changed our mindset About what God can do. And so what I'm telling you is marriages can be restored Do you believe it? There's a story in the Bible where a man literally went into the prostitution house To get Y'all don't want to be there. It's too real. He God said go get her out of the place of perversion Speak words of life over her Restore her and their their relationship was reckons. God can do these things Question is do you believe it and has a good word gone bad? Okay Right now if I told somebody the term I'm about to use is cold. Hey, man, she cold. Oh

Man, I do it on the basketball court. He cold Or if I said man, it's cold in here It's the same word It's the same word But depending on who's using it How they using it where they using it. It has totally different Definitions term cold the truth. It's a frigid temperature The twist could be all dang. She look cold. She look good The trick is that in the wrong situation a compliment could be taken as an insult Do y'all see if we're not working from the same definitions the right thing to mean the wrong thing and get a bad reaction Let me use the inverse hot Bro, she's hot Come on my wife's favorite one. It's hot in here like like same word But depending on who's using it where the context it can be said if I'm in the hood and Somebody says the block is hot Some of y'all know Some of y'all know if somebody say the block is hot the block Tell me y'all know cash money for the nine nine two thousand If I say the block is hot it doesn't mean we need a fan It means the popo is watching and you need to calm down whatever activities you're doing What I'm saying is If you don't define the term Find the truth You can be tripped into compromise And when it comes to the term prosperity What's the truth that God says? Abundance is what God wants in every area of your life That's what the scripture says the twist is

Perversion of a godly principle to leave you powerless and The trick is to leave you compromised so anytime you hear the word prosperity or somebody saying that's a prosperity church or a prosperity gospel or a Prosperity something you don't even investigate more You don't say God. What is the truth? You're trying to show me? What is the thing there are people that have told me I can't go to your church because you're a prosperity church because we're big You don't say that about Amazon Nobody says that about Walmart or Costco. They don't say I can't come to you because you're big like But the truth of the matter is because of the term and how people's Mindset has been preferred it. I ain't never once that you have never heard me say we're a prosperity gospel church You never heard me say that's not a claim on anything What it is is when you live God's principles though Fruit starts happening If there if fruit is around me It's a byproduct. This is what we say. It's not the focus. It's the fruit This is what God promises in our lives. You will be like a tree planted by the rivers of living water You will be producing fruit in Every seat when everybody's in recession when everybody's fearful when everything God said fruit Abundance more than enough more than enough more than enough And you want me to wither up Do you want me to deny the fruit that God promises us now if at the moment you see some crooked manipulative Jacked up. We've given millions of dollars away One thing nobody's ever said is that the check we promised them did not clear You can say you can say a lot of things and you can assume a lot of things but one YouTube video that has never been created Is that they I miss me an amount from the stage did the check and put it on the thing and we weren't able to cash it

Do you know we couldn't bless people if we didn't prosper Oh God If I was still in a poverty mindset, we would be building buildings and shrines to us. We've given away over 38 million dollars Why cuz we live a life of abundance It's not just for us it's for the whole kingdom. It's not just for me. It's for my neighborhood It's not just for my family. It's for the generation And if prosperity is a promise of God Where has it been perverted in you If It's just a semantic thing don't use the word prosperity use abundance That's why I titled the series six figures how to live a life of abundance, but it could very well be titled Six figures how to live a life of prosperity Cuz it's what God does I I came that you might have And a life that prospers or a life that is You have permission to prosper out of a hundred people I prayed at 62 of y'all get this This is gonna break the mindset that has kept you low I need to shrink back I need to not show nobody I need to not God says let me check your heart Let me get your motives, right? Because there's one thing he won't compete with money He says you can't serve both God And money he says I'm not competing with that and think think about it God compares himself to nobody else in the entire Bible except the idea of money Because he knows it has the potential To take his place in our hearts So next week we got to deal with that But that doesn't mean you throw away the whole principle And you don't throw away the whole promise Today you have permission to prosper Envision your home

being a place of peace With more than enough room to bring people in and host them a long table That you can feed and you don't got to ask everybody to chip in $10 to pay for the meal Well, no, they're there there's a but you still got a poverty mindset I'm not saying you don't do that why you have to But what if you can bring people to your home? And it just be freely given to them So that you could do as the Bible says in Acts 2 42 They met together and ate together and shared together and they gave one to each other Whatever the other person needed what if somebody came to you and said I need a car and all you had to do is like What kind? Mo they don't want to live they don't want to live in a pundit like and right now Some of you greed just came up in you Cuz what just happened when I talked about that level of abundance you started thinking about yourself Well before I get them another car Let me figure out what my car is doing because if I'll get in my car and I'll go get a new car What just triggered what just came up? That's what we have to address What if God told you to stay in the apartment and help pay somebody's mortgage for a year Oh, y'all don't want to live an axe 242 church they gave whatever somebody needed Pastor Mike why are you talking about this? Cuz I live it I Can't prove it to you. I won't that would be futile But there are people around me that know I Went from Thinking about Myself in every situation because that's what sin is. It's selfish. I Used to be so poor in my mindset like I used to like, you know, you go to something and like you make a to-go plate before you eat the plate that you Y'all know what I'm talking about like oh there's plenty here so let me Take it to the car Then come in with a fresh face

Poverty because I was thinking oh, this is this is free somebody provided this how do I take advantage of it? How do I get more for myself how do I make sure I have food tonight and tomorrow and the next day I Used to I used to wear stuff and place the tag gently And then take it back oh It's quiet in here some of y'all look convicted there's I just looked at somebody they eyes looked at me big Use the stuff for the party and then take back everything that you can that's stealing No, it ain't wrong was a career salient They've got your germs on it And the reason I'm saying that is some people can't divorce a Lifestyle that that is somehow good stewardship instead of stealing and that God could bless you enough To where you could just buy it and use it and then give it away to somebody You ain't even thought about that you ain't even thought like oh, you just take it back like yeah Take it back if you don't use it take it back if it don't fit I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, but if you fully put your butt in it Wear it pass gas in it Use the rest of no, I'm serious, and then you and then you take it back you're nasty And you have a poverty mindset And God's desire is for you to go into the store and see somebody looking at it and be like let me get that for you Joya I'm talking about living and up abundant life I Don't need this anymore. Well. It's exclusive. This is tight on my feet Some of y'all are in clothes right now that are hurting you They're digging into your sides digging into your pinkies Digging into your head, but because it's cool Cuz it makes you feel you are in pain. You stop listening 30 minutes And the truth will matter it didn't fit when you bought it, but the truth Is that there's there's something in your mind that says you can't get another one and So instead of being a blessing to somebody it could really be a blessing to add no sorrow to You keep it you hold it you hoard it I

Just believe by crazy faith There are some people under the sound of my voice that this is about to unlock something in you There are some people under the sound of my voice that this is about to unlock something in you That you have permission to prosper The abundant life is the fruit of focusing on Jesus and obeying what he says I Just want to clear this up two minutes, and we're out of here I I want to take this good word prosperity that has gone bad in this culture And I want to just clarify some statements just for those who will watch this and clip it up and try to make Something I didn't say be said Let me just say it and I'm put on the screen for all of those that can't hear the words that I'm saying and you need Proof in letters here. We go. It's having money prove. You are blessed by God No Can having money be used to be a blessing yes 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 not one disciple got that promise But does God promise to meet all of your needs yes If you give are you guaranteed multiplied personal wealth no Does God say that being generous has a direct impact on our lives yes Should you spend life focused on material things no don't store up on this earth Resources and treasure that's Rust he said send it to the next life Put your heart in the things that matter but our material things a tool to bless others and glorify God. Yes Does God guarantee perfect health and wealth? No But does God care about your health and wealth yes Does the Bible? Teach the prosperity gospel no He doesn't preach the prosperity gospel in the definition that culture believes But is the story of the gospel God dying so that you can prosper in this life and the next yes

You have permission to prosper standing all over this building If God doesn't give Jesus and Jesus doesn't give his life We don't get to prosper I'm gonna say it one more time. The whole gospel is that we was gonna be jacked up. So God gave Jesus Jesus gave his life So that then we could give our life back to him The whole story of the gospel the good news is about giving God gave Jesus gave we give Did y'all just see it that quick? God gave Jesus Jesus gave his life so that we can give our life back to him So if we don't want to talk about giving and generosity and prospering how does our soul prosper if we don't give our life to Jesus Today You don't just have permission to prosper in financial things or material things. That's low-level. I Want your soul? to prosper Today if you don't know Jesus I Want to introduce you to the greatest gift that has ever been given You talking about giving money Try giving your only That's what God did for a chance at a relationship with me and you And some of us are still holding on to our lives because we want to do it our way And we want it to be on our terms and we want to make the own rules when we were figuring out that don't work anyway, I Need a church to begin to pray because there are people right now that this message Wasn't even about anything material for you It was for the one thing that God has been after your whole life Your soul and today God wants your soul to prosper everything else will come Everything else will come but he's saying my father gave and I gave my life

Would you give yours Would you allow me to be the Lord of your life so that you could prosper in all things? in your marriage in your relationship in your ideas in your thoughts I want to give you these six figures, but if you don't give me your heart first You're not gonna believe the things that I'm promising because they good and they're scandalous the gospel scandalous How in the world do I mess up and get the best reward? How in the world can I still have a habit and God looks beyond my faults and says yeah I'm not gonna judge you on the habit. If you give me your heart, I'll help you change your habit Who Racks up a bill and then the person who owns the restaurant comes and say I'll pay for it That's the God we serve What a mighty God we serve What a grace feel God what a prosperous God What a God that abounds in love or an abundant God He Wants you to live an abundant life But it starts with an action of surrender If you're under the sound of my voice In this building watching online watching in a prison cell and you've been far from God or you've never given your life to him before Today is the day of salvation This is the step you're about to make into an abundant life Your soul is about to prosper and I know their habits and cultural ideas and things that you've been taught Let God renew you refresh you give you a brand new heart Today is a day that you've been praying for and you didn't know it was gonna come today But do not think that this is an accident. Your whole life has been leading up to this moment and today All you have to do is receive the free gift of grace That God has given you for this abundant life. John 10 10 says it's the whole reason he came That you could have life and life Abundantly on the count of three if you want to make Jesus Christ Your personal Lord and Savior and you want to start walking into this abundant life

I just want you to slip your hand in the air or put a hand on the chat because this is saying I identify Pastor I want to be added in that prayer church I need you to pray because somebody's life is in the balance right now And I believe they're about to make the right decision one. You're making the greatest decision you could ever make two I'm proud of you But more than that your name is gonna be written in the Lamb's Book of Life and your eternity is gonna be secure If you want to give your life to Jesus and walk in this abundant life three Would you shoot your hand up all over this place? I see you my brother. I see you my brother I see you my sister. I see you my brother. I see you more than that. God sees you Can we give God praise right there glory to God? Well, I feel the presence of God hey listen that transformation church everybody's a family we all been there I've been there God It's throwing a party in heaven over one person that gives their life to Christ I mean, it's a turn-up going on y'all think the whom the Son sets free. I want to end on a praise party I know I know people need prayer But I need to end on a praise part because we're talking about being redeemed. We're deemed redeeming the word prosperity. We're redeeming life Back to people who have been dead today is the day Something's about to change in you and that transformation church world family So everybody lift your hands for the benefit of those who are coming to Christ say God Thank you for sending Jesus Just for me today I Give you my life And I repent from all sin and I turn to you I Believe you lived you die and you rose again So that I could live an abundant life Change me Renew me Transforming I'm yours forever in Jesus name

Amen can we celebrate Oh Come on TC. Let's celebrate all the new family Welcome to the kingdom you have permission to prosper