How To Prevent A Heart Attack // Six Figures ( Pt 3) // Pastor Michael Todd

To all my people watching, Transformation on the Pando app, number one, I love you. Number two, I'm praying for you. And number three, today there is a word that is going to meet you right where you're at. Many of us are in a situation where God is challenging us to be more generous. And I know, you could think, in my situation, how can I be more generous? I think today's message is going to help you understand that your give has to be big. It'll make sense in just a minute. Let's get into today's message called, How to Prevent a Heart Attack, because giving is all about the heart. Well, I have an assignment today. Get out your notepads, because we're about to go crazy today on Mother's Day. One of the things that we do at Transformation Church, if this is your first time, is I always feel like I have an assignment that helps people move forward in their transformation journey. And the word of the year at Transformation Church is, say it like you got faith. Say it like that's where you're moving. We're moving forward. And I don't know about you, but I have sensed a shift in my life since that prayer conference a week ago. And if you haven't, it's okay, you can jump on this train right now. We're moving, everybody shout at me, forward. One of the areas that we need to move forward in is in the area of how we deal with finances. The reason I have to say this is because God talks about finances, generosity, money in the scriptures. Almost one third of the time he speaks publicly, it's about these issues, because he knows it's the issue of the day, because the truth of the matter, your attitude is actually good or bad based on that account you just checked. Some of y'all didn't come to church this morning because you checked your tank. Come on, come on. Last night you got home and it was like, uh-uh, that's got to last me till Wednesday.

And the way these gas prices is set up right now, I'll catch it online. Some of us in the room right now, we have everything we need financially, but we are very stingy. There are things that are happening around us, watch that, are affecting how we live and it has to do how we see finances, generosity, and stewardship. And so today I'm going to walk us in week three of a series we're calling Six Figures, How to Live a Life of Abundance. How many people, when I just say that, desire to live a life of abundance? I need hands in the chat or in the room. Desire. Okay. So if you desire to live a life of abundance, I want to give you the key to understanding abundance. Watch this. If you don't get anything else, I say, I need you to get this word right here, humility. If you think you know everything, you can't learn anything. I'm telling you right now, humility is the way to gain a life of abundance. But the problem is there are people in this room right now that's like, what this little boy going to tell me about some money? I've been grown and doing my budget since before he could say, good, good, God, God, look at him. No, I know. I see how you're looking at me. I get the comments. I see what's going on. And the truth of the matter is this is not my playbook. This is God's playbook. And you got to realize no matter the vessel God uses, he may be trying to give you a new vision for your life. So today I'm not going to ask you to believe me because it's me.

Now I do got some proof. I just want to say in my own life, I got some, I used to be greedy, stingy, broke and impoverished. Oh y'all. Okay. I thought we were in a humble, open and transparent church. I thought we was hot. Let me take you one step further. I used to be all of that as the pastor of this church. Ooh, look at you. I just, I want to let you know, I did not understand how to live a blessed life, an abundant life, a life that was watch this, not centered around me when it came to finances and generosity. And so instead of acting like I had it all together, I have proof in the room. When I became the pastor of Transformation Church, February 1st, 2015, my first series was a series about how to break poverty off of our church. And I did not teach it. I found somebody else who had great teaching on it. And we watched the video on Sunday morning together. Am I telling the truth I would say hey y'all He's your pastor, and you know what I really want all of us to live a blessed life and notice how I said all of us and I don't have this revelation yet so I found the revelation and I would pray you would be humble enough for us to learn it together and I would say play the video and come sit on the front row Now most of y'all would leave if I did that today Because you want your pastor or whoever's leading you to know everything instead of taking a posture of humility But I would rather give you the right content, okay Then act like I have the car I could get up here and and yeah And this is what but knowing that wasn't real in my life and for three years

We did this every single year and every year. I was like God you think I could teach more now. He said nope sit your butt down I'm not making this up y'all, and it was the third year of the series God said you can preach one message And I preached one and I said for the next six weeks come for movie time And there were a group of people that came consistently and faithfully since that moment That I was humble enough to say I'm not gonna front in front of the world And really it was only like 200 people in my mom's prayer group, but at that time But I'm not gonna front in front of the world. I'm gonna. I'm gonna be humble enough to actually learn it God said that's something I can work with and What God has done since then has allowed my life to expand because I actually got the principle So what I'm saying to you for the next four weeks. I want to give you what I got This is not just a series of information It's a series of impartation if you will hear what I'm saying to you practically and prophetically this could actually Change your entire life and your relationship with finances stewardship generosity giving all of it You will never be scared when it's time to give and you will never be Manipulated when it's time to give you will be steady and steadfast God will speak to you you will have investments going over here You will have blessings coming over there the reaping will overtake the sowing somebody should be shouting right now Because I want you watch this to understand that giving is all about the heart It's not even about money God just uses money as a tool to expose what's in your Okay So today, I just need to stop and acknowledge That many of you depending on where you came into this Christian journey there may have been some abuse and manipulation around how finances were taught to you watch this or the manipulation around how they were trying to get it from you and For that I want to apologize There is nothing in the Bible That tells us to form thousand dollar lines The Bible says like each man should give in his heart what he's already

Decided the problem is most of us don't pray about what to give before we come So it's a twofold thing. I can't be convinced if I've already gone to him But if I haven't gone to him about what I'm supposed to give then when somebody says we're reading Psalms 103 I just feel like you need to give a hundred and three dollars times ten And everybody I can do that get in the line right here and then I'm gonna pray for you because you've given that's demonic Okay What it does is I understand the concept but it's a lack of teaching And so that's why I've decided during our series. We don't ask for any money. You don't have to give a dime We actually give money away last week at the end of service on prophet Prophet Sherman Dumas that was here. We were able to send a hundred thousand dollars to their Oh, come on transformation Turn to their church and bless them. They had a tragedy, but that's because there are people who have already understood The figure of Faith that it takes to give because giving is all about the heart Okay, so so so maybe you never taught and maybe you were taught wrong And maybe there's some cares of this life that have really been weighing you down and I want to let you know I see all that but I believe this series is gonna help you move Forward and you're gonna be able to live in a life of abundance John 1010 This has been my anchor scripture. The thief does not come except to steal Kill and what? But Jesus has come that you might have life and that you might have life more abundantly write this down God desires For me to live an abundant life God desires for you put your name in there god desires for Michael to live an abundant life. Let's try it again god desires for Michael to live an abundant life. Some of you have never said that never believed it never even thought it was possible But god desires for all of us to live an abundant life and abundant life is not just finances. It's god's overflowing grace spiritual fullness material provision and generosity And that's why i've told you every week of this series you have permission to prosper

I'm speaking to your soul right now You're looking at all that debt piled up in them student loans that are looming over you you done deferred and deferred and deferred and deferred And deferred you waiting for sally mae to die. You're just deferred Hopefully she goes away Y'all got what i'm saying But what I want you to understand is you have permission to prosper just somebody say that over your life I have permission to prosper So so so if you're going to have permission to prosper I have to do a little Representing or i'm going to call it correction of how some scripture has been presented to us All my life i've been in church and anytime I hear luke 6 38 give And it shall be given to you. All y'all boss Y'all know the race good measure Press Shaken together And running ah, it's running over Will men give unto okay. All right The only time i've ever heard that scripture is that offering time Nobody would ever say it any other time. It's give But what I found out is context is king Yeah So if you go to matthew chapter 7 I want you to see that this whole verse is not in the context of giving I want you to just see If you see the word giving Or giving money anywhere in this verse matthew chapter 7 verse 1. It says do not judge Or you too will be judged For in the same way you judge others You will be Do you see the theme? It says and with the measure you use It will be measured back to you say that with me with the measure you use It will be measured back to you one more time for the people in the back with the measure you use

It will be measured back to you was the word giving in that at all It was in the context of judging and if you read Closer we're going to go to the parallel passage in luke 6 38 and i'm going to show you this whole thing And in the middle luke put something that we hear but I want you to get the context luke 6 37 It says do not judge and you will not be judged Do not condemn And you will not be condemned forgive And you will be forgiven And if you skip down to 39 it says and with the measure you use it will be measured back to you But verse 38 look at this one give And it will be given to you Give what in this context is judgment condemnation and forgiveness You give judgment it's coming back You give condemnation it's coming back You give forgiveness. It's coming back give it and then it says like this and with the measure you use It'll be measured back to you not just measure back to you. How good measure Yeah, press down Shaken together and running over will men give judgment back to you Condemnation back to you Forgiveness back to you Now the thing that I wanted to bring to everybody's attention is that giving Is the main subject? It's not what you give That's the main subject. It's the fact that you give it so if giving Is god's theme of the bible for god so loved the world that he We're the subject of the bible, but the theme of the bible giving

Oh god I heard somebody ask a pastor. How many times do you preach about giving in a year? And the pastor said every every week And the person said you preach about giving every week. He said I think you meant to ask How many times do I preach about giving money? Because I can't talk about grace if I don't talk about jesus giving us grace And I can't talk about us giving our life to him or salvation if we don't talk about giving I can't even talk about marriage because marriage takes two people giving If you're not a giver your marriage won't work It's not 50-50. It's a hundred a hundred. You've got to all the married people should say a man Okay So the theme of the Bible is what giving and that's why the enemy is playing you so hard to be stingy Playing you so hard to be your own source Playing you so hard to think that God has forgotten about you and what I need to let you know that God is saying I Want you to be generous. I want you to give and Whatever you give is coming back You give the comments You give opinions Okay, okay, okay, all right some of you are living in a harvest of what you've already given I Nobody's around me, but you the best ghoster You leave people high and dry all the time I'm not answering that takes message and then when you and your time of needs like why is nobody here for me harvest time? Okay Y'all don't want to hear that it's harvest time We want to scream harvest when it's about something good, but will you scream harvest when you've been sowing gossip for the last six years I? I don't even understand why they would make something up like that with me. It's harvest time Okay What I'm saying if it was me if this principle really works. I'd be trying to give good things And that's why when people hear this they don't understand write this down that giving is big to God

Giving is big to God Giving is not a small thing. I'm not talking about money yet I'm talking about giving period I'm trying to separate this for you you stingy with your fruit loops All y'all know Y'all know there's certain cereals you to tell your kids don't uh-uh. This is my cereal This is my cereal if you want you get fruity O's, but the actual fruit the name-brand ones them is mine Got your kids stealing fruit loops in your own house No, I'm saying apply it where you are some of y'all got cards won't let your children or family members use them Now some of y'all got good reason not to let your family members use it, but some of y'all is stingy You See people struggling have something to meet their need I guess they need to learn oh Come on III mean, I mean, I guess God's trying to work on them What I'm saying is giving is something that God presents to us all the time to see if his reflection is in us You ever been somewhere, and you heard that they was some money short You at the thing you see them struggling to pay the bill at the end He's like I told him to come early. I'm trying to get out of here. I'm and God somehow got you sitting there and It's your waitress and the car. I don't know the car. Let's try another card, and they didn't try seven cards And you just sitting there Why might God let that happen Right next to you But they don't know they don't know they don't they don't know they don't know what I got going on they have no idea what's coming and God's like I'm looking for my reflection I'm looking for somebody to meet a need when they see and they don't know their salvation is attached to that seed You're gonna pay for they cheddars, and it's gonna lead them to me You don't know that they just prayed and asked God you have no idea But He's working with people who have not fully bought in to the heart of Generosity, and that's why giving is big to God how we hear scripture is like this

Give money That's how we hear God wants us to give money I Mean like what does God want us to do give money? The thing that's big in that is money but switch it The give gotta be big what God is saying is give money Give money, and then I'll say give encouragement Give Encouragement oh y'all don't hear what I'm saying you you think The money is big the encouragement is big it's the giving that he wants to be big on the inside of you Whatever he says give that's what we should do Give time Help me yell give give time Oh, yeah, I like that one mama. Chloe. You said give love let's try it give love What about peace give peace? What would happen if the give was big What would happen is at that job you went in there and they knew you as a giver Of what needed to be given at the time. It wasn't what you was given. It's the give Today I came to let you know That the give is supposed to be the big it don't matter what comes after it It might be give of hair shoes. It might be give some time. It might be give a donut It might be y'all know what i'm saying, but what is big And my question to you is the give big in your life Is there any evidence that giving is bigger in your life than keeping Is there any evidence that giving is bigger And today I want to challenge you That god is looking for people who would say hey god my give is too small

I need you to help me learn how to get my give big You want a new prayer god help my give get big God do whatever you got to do on the inside of me to help my give get big father Let me not be somebody who hoards let me be a river not a reservoir god It can come through me father god. You don't have to stop it with me I get to touch it on the way through father god. Give me this house so I can give it away Give me that car so I can give it away. Give me this business so I can give it away god. Let my give get big And you don't have to hit the lottery for your give to get big You can start right Here because whatever you give It's coming back to you Good measure Press down Shaking together And what running? Will men not god God doesn't give back the blessing he uses men to Some of y'all are giving it's like god's gonna know god's gonna speak to them and they're going to Y'all not ready for this thought Can I represent something to you? What if you're the one that's not looking to receive but what if you're the one god's looking to give through Jared they don't understand. That's my job See, see i'm trying to shift your mind transformation because some of y'all are waiting Oh, I just can't wait till it comes back. What if you don't need it to? So like what if what if I don't need it to come back because everything that god's done It's blessed so much that when god says men will give And put it in your lap. You don't want to be like, yeah, i'm i'm the man that puts stuff in the lap I'm the lap lap devil. Let's stay away from that. Let's Let's y'all got what i'm saying, let's go the other way here we go

Giving Is all about the heart, okay So here we go I found out as I looked at this and I passed it for almost 11 years. That's crazy to even say I passed it for almost 11 years amen Let's just pray. We're making another three. Okay, here we go um Many people are suffering from heart attacks Because your treasure and your heart are attached Today I need to title this sermon how to prevent a heart attack All right, because if giving is all about the heart what's keeping keeping you from giving is your heart is being attacked And what I found out through my my small study on chat gpt about a heart And heart attacks Is that a heart attack is caused because there is a blockage of flow Yeah There's something that comes to block or make a barrier and flow stops eventually stopping all life from coming Could it be? That many of us have stopped the flow in our life because something has gotten into the ventricles of our thinking That has blocked us from understanding hold on this is what god wants me to do he wants me to be generous he Wants me to be able to give on every occasion he wants me to even while i'm saving Even while i'm building Even while i'm trying to get out of debt. He wants me to honor him with my resources And today I need everybody to hear me say this because this is going to change your life This is things your parents should have told you but probably didn't have the language to today Generationally, you need to sit down with your children and make them watch this so they can get it in their spirit I'm telling you the understanding of this revelation can change your world forever The bible tells us you have to guard your heart

above all else Because out of that place flows every issue of your life You cannot guard From what you're not aware of Did you hear what I just said if the bible says remember giving's all about the If the bible says now guard your heart above all else Because out of that place flows every issue of life. You will not guard from what you're not aware of So today I want you to make you aware of some things that come to attack your heart Because the truth of the matter is matthew 6 21 for where your treasure is There your heart will be also this bible is nasty and it comes together like legos. Y'all hear me? It's nasty so so watch this Guard your heart because out of that heart everything flows Then he says you want to locate your heart. Where's your treasure? Where have you put your money because your treasure does not Follow your heart your heart follows your treasure You want your heart in the kingdom put your treasure there You want your heart in your family put your treasure there You want your heart in the next generation put your treasure there not just your opinion This generation don't did this generation don't expose them to something Take them somewhere teach them something have enough grace to impart into them But you want to judge from afar and never give them anything Okay, it got quiet in here. Okay wherever your treasure is your heart will be also Question to everybody listening whether you're in the penitentiary. You're watching at a gym. You're in this room. Where's your treasure? No, i'm not talking about ethereally open up your bank account some of y'all treasure is in your stomach

Yeah And it's in there good measure press down And it's overflowing over that bell line i'm telling you right now I'm what i'm telling you y'all hear me. Where's your treasure some of y'all treasures in your car Some of your treasures on cosmetics i'm not here to judge you some of your treasures on the lake house Some of your treasures on the golf course You you you you live in an apartment, but you have a country club membership It's a word called priorities brother I'm, where's your treasure? Some of your treasure is in your children Some some of your treasure is in designer clothes some of your treasure. I just want you to can you locate your heart? Because until you can locate your heart you cannot tell god he can have it Okay God you can have my heart. Where is it? Okay, so today I want to teach you four This is what I want to do I want to teach you how to prevent a heart attack by giving you four conditions that attack Your heart. Okay. Let's do this. Number one. The first condition that comes to attack your heart is greed It's greed now most of us in this room would never ever ever Admit to being greedy, but maybe greed is not as um Demonstrative and overt Maybe your greed is silent in your head and comes out in very calm action I mean some symptoms of greed is you're never satisfied constant comparison obsession with more identity tied to your success inability to celebrate others Some of y'all just greedy with celebration oh They had another child oh Good for them Maybe kind of ugly. Oh y'all know y'all do it. Oh And instead of just celebrating

Thank you God for life. Thank you God that you give him more grace God, thank you for thank You might be dealing with greed Always watch this here's another symptom always chasing the next thing Contentment avoids you As soon as you like your room you go to Pinterest and like oh my god, I gotta redo it Come on Could there be something in there's like I need more I gotta have more and the reason I'm saying this is is you have to understand that greed will stop up what God wants to do in your life as far as generosity in giving and Blocks the areas that he wants to use you and that's why I'm telling you you got to understand this every time you give you Remind your soul that money is a tool not a God Every Single time you give you're saying no no no I use this this don't rule me. Oh God Deuteronomy 15 I Want you to see how many times God's directly trying to deal with our heart He says if there is among you a poor man or a brethren within your gates in the land Which the Lord your God has given you notice that he's saying the Lord God has given you everything you got So even though you claim in it, he's saying the Lord gave it to you. He said said you shall not harden your Heart say it with me. You shall not harden your Or shut your hand. That means your heart and your hand are connected if Your heart becomes hard your hand becomes closed Don't harden your heart because at the moment you harden your heart you close your hand Okay, it says nor shut your hand to your poor brother But you shall open your hand why To him willingly so your giving should be wide and willing Okay Lend him sufficient for his need whatever he needs Beware lest there be a wicked thought in your

heart Saying the seventh year the year of release is at hand and your I be evil against your poor brother and give him nothing And he cry out to the Lord against you it will become sin among you Let me explain this to you God had an economic system in play back in this time that said every seven years was the year of Jubilee and on that Seventh year all debts were released How many people wish that that could be the plan again? Trump go back to the Bible. We need that in the plan. Okay. Um, but hear what I'm saying to you The Bible is saying don't get in the sixth year and somebody need to borrow some money from you and being like, hold on I ain't giving him nothing cuz next year is the year release and if they don't pay me back by that time I'm not gonna be able to claim my money no more. He said don't have that thought Stop that Cuz that thought is a greedy thought That thought is a selfish thought that thought is watch this wicked. I Heard the cast the wicked is here. Shout out to y'all. Whoever y'all are wherever y'all are. I love you. Okay. Amen Thank you for coming to church today. God bless you Wiz It's a W the Wiz y'all here to God bless you. It's in the same. Is it the Wiz? Is that y'all? What's up to the cast of the Wiz? He's on down. He's on down the road. Y'all got a part for me Don't you carry? Okay, never let me stop White people the Wiz is great. I want to let you know that too. Okay, it's like the black version of okay Never mind. We'll talk about that later. I Love our church. Okay, here we go. I Need everybody to I need everybody to hear me say this that that the scripture says greed turns into selfishness and Selfishness turns into wickedness I'm not wicked. Are you greedy? I'm not wicked. Are you selfish? Because this is the natural progression of how you get into wickedness and look what the Bible takes it up another level

He says then it becomes sin in the eyes of God So I just want you to think like if you've ever Gone to get one donut, but you saw two And you know, you only need He won, but you end up taking the box anyway For later be careful Because greed watch this become selfishness Selfishness becomes wickedness wickedness gets counted as sin What's the what's the point take one donut What I'm saying is take sufficient for the moment Don't don't try to hoard everything Maybe somebody else needed their glucose level to go up in the office and they needed a little sugar high They would be less hangry y'all know what I'm talking about hungry and angry and you could have left that and you wouldn't have The argument later, but you took two doughnuts Now you about to get fired I Somebody asked me what's an area pastor Mike that you're still greedy in See, I like the people around me because we don't just preach about stuff. They'd be trying to dig They'd be like so where you still greedy man of God And I took a second to think about it because I invite those type of questions because I don't want God to stop working on me and And they were like you're generous with finances you're generous with this like where are you greedy and I said I found it I'm still having to kill the need for credit Okay, I may be the only one But there's moments where I know I did something I know I helped and I know I did something that thing in me will raise up and be like you did that and God be like it don't matter And I'd be like, yeah, yeah like even today it's Mother's Day And and my children are gonna present my wife with some amazing gifts And

And I I have been diligent on asking them what they want to get their mother and And there's gonna be some a quandary of how Gia got her hands on a hundred and forty dollars At five years old and and I'm saying this to be funny, but they're gonna get praised and and their mom Every father in here knows what I'm talking about Wife I just hope you remember tonight Okay, yeah, all right Work on me Lord But let me give you let me give you a new prayer Ah He's not done with me yet All right, here we go, let me give you a brand-new scripture to pray Psalms 139 verse 23. It says search me Oh God Know my heart I Still need some work on my heart cuz there's areas in my light. I'm not just greedy with money I might be greedy with credit. I might be greedy with my time. I might be selfish With my desire to help you Okay, it says search me know my heart test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offense Or offensive way in me watch this and lead me in the way that's everlasting The cure here we go. We're not just gonna give you the condition the cure For the condition of a greed is watch this generosity Every Time you feel greed in an area give something in that area Do y'all hear me at the moment you feel like oh Let it go. Oh Y'all don't hear me, but I'm telling you this is why you have to get give big Because the Bible says the world of the generous Gets larger and larger How many people want to live in a large world? Like I'm not just talking about the earth I'm talking about your world is large your

Relationships are large you can help people near and far. He said the only people that live that type of life are people who are generous But the world of the stingy or the greedy or the self-indulgent or the wicked it gets smaller and smaller My question is will you grow your world this week? You can grow your world this week by being generous You can go to lunch after church and grow your world by leaving a tip for somebody else And you don't have to Left the tip for you you broke people Like y'all know that's how we do look at you peasants eating here at Texas Roadhouse All you came for was the rolls. Here is a tip for you The best type of generosity is the one they don't even know you did Right here what I'm saying Do you know how many times I've gone into quick trip and gone up watches? I don't even have a car to need gas So my intent was to go there to bless somebody And I want Scott know it will go into quick trip And I'll look out there and see where those cars on the thing where people are caring about gas and where the prices are going up and people are stressed and all that walk in the quick trip this week with $100 and Say could you put 20 on 6? 20 on 4 20 on 8 put 40 on 9 And walk away Don't go outside. Hello all of you broke gas people like don't do that I Love my church the next condition that comes to attack your heart is watch this the wrong grip Some of y'all got a death grip on your stuff It's my house It's my money It's my time knowing you didn't give yourself a breath today The breath you have is borrowed It's my church

Everybody know in this church. I hold this church. Just like this sometimes be trying to give it away No, y'all don't hear me. I'll be like God Damn, what's good? We made it in And God's like no no no just keep holding everything like this whole people like this if you stay open-handed that means I have your heart But at the moment your heart becomes hard. What if nothing else comes? This is my idea These my kids You some parents this ain't the point but some parents are losing their relationship with their kids because they won't loosen their grip You're a coach now You're not the you're not the authority anymore. You're supposed to cheer from the sidelines say don't do that. Oh that hurt didn't it? That's what you're supposed to do You're not supposed to bring respect and honor into decisions They had to make to actually learn that God is real in their own lives, but you got the wrong And some of y'all have the wrong grip when it comes to finances Generosity your job and stewardship Here are some symptoms that you may have fear of not having enough anxiety around finances constant control issues Where all the control freaks in the room come on? We're a humble open and transparent Church. Yeah, all right. Thank you Lord You saw him here we go He can help you with it People have a hoarding mentality Struggling to release anything trusting money more than they trust God Which in Scripture is called the spirit of Mammon? But we see this in Luke chapter 15 verse 20 you can go read the whole thing But there was a rich young ruler who came to God enthusiastically God. What must I do? to inherit the kingdom Verse 21 of Luke 15 it says looking at the man Jesus felt genuine love for him another translation says he felt compassion for him He said there's still one thing that you haven't done or there's one thing you haven't changed your grip on Go ahead and sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven

Then come follow me at this the man was like hold on Oh Jesus you must not realize who I am God I've done all of these things. I'm just saying I want to follow you. He said yeah, you got to change your grip He said you can't follow me holding on to that that tightly He said so sell that and it said the man watch this the rich young ruler didn't even try The Money had such a grip on him that at the thought of the instruction. He was like well guess I won't be following you He didn't even He didn't even bother to try because it was so ingrained in him to control This money God didn't promise him that he was not gonna. Give him something back. He said I'm gonna store up your treasure in heaven That's where he tells us, but he couldn't even get the concept because of how he had such a hard grip What do you have such a tight grip on that God's asking for? At this the man went away sad For he had many possessions watch this right this point down you can have God and have the wrong grip You can have God and still be holding money the wrong way Some of y'all don't even think about tithing don't even think about honoring God with your possessions will pray and worship and twirl and dance And no no no no I'm I'm serious. I know you I hug you. I love you Like you will do all the things, but when it comes to the way you grip money God is not your supplier He is not your source He it's because you have the wrong grip. There's clear like over and over and over again Like over and over in the world how word how he tells us to handle our resources He said honor God with your resources with your wealth He said because he's the one that gets all over the word and I'll teach you some of the scriptures But the truth of the matter is you not letting go of that grip of that $16 an hour job The way you hold on to now that you make over 60 K Over a hundred K. It's like you got stingier the more money you got How was you broken generous and now you got a savings and stingy Cuz I'll never be broke another day in my life My mama's broke my great-grandma was broke my great-grandmother, but we're not gonna be broke

the problem is The grip is Costing you watch this the blessing God has more for you. Oh god, okay How are you holding what you have? I can't answer that question, but you can is There anything that you're trembling like if God came close to asking you for it That you would be like God. I can't follow you no more Say la pause Think if he asked you to give your car away Would you stop following him? God would never ask she's Quiet There are some things he asked some fishermen to give their business away to follow him Y'all remember the first disciples throw your net on the other side They did it biggest day of day company 10x everything to next to next to next day What they would have been all over the fishermen news and Jesus said now I'm gonna make you fishers of men Lead a business follow me Most of us couldn't see our business get 10x in the next week walk away from it for the sake of Jesus We gonna keep moving Jesus looked around at his disciples and said this verse 23 He said how hard is it it for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God? This amazed them, but Jesus said again dear children, it is very hard to enter the kingdom of God In fact, it is easier for a camel. Jesus was wild and right here He just picked the wildest example he could find it would be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle what? Then for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God not because God had anything or any Ought against riches it's because he knew that when you have a lot those riches usually have you He said that's why we got to deal with the The heart the disciples were astounded then who in the world can be saved they asked Jesus looked at them intently and said Humanly speaking it is impossible

But not with God Everything is possible with God. Do y'all know? That everybody uses this for miracle signs and wonders That that scripture right there with man. It is impossible. But with God all things are possible. He's talking about being generous Nobody wants to hear about that lift your hands. I'm telling you with God. He's gonna move the mountain He said I'm telling you it's impossible To be generous and take your hand off of stuff like this if that's your source, but with me You ain't gotta worry It's possible. We can do anything if you have the right That's why generosity and giving is all about the heart writes this the cure for the condition of the wrong grip Watch this. I got this from prophetess Elsa. Let it go. I Don't know that's one of the most prophetic Disney movies I've ever seen that woman coming into her identity icing up everything and she just said what let it go no I didn't ask you to sing just what I'm telling you what I'm telling you right now is if you got the wrong grip it's time to loosen it and let it go some of y'all I dare you to ask God what are you trying to say to me at this moment some of y'all gonna be scared of the answer that's why don't pray this if you're not ready to make a transformation but God where watch this where is my grip too tight the next condition that comes to attack your heart watch this one we're almost done grief so greed tries to get you before you give and the grip tries to get you to stay in the same place I can't I can't trust God can't give can't talk but grief tries to come and attack you after you actually give has anybody ever given something in them is like oh shoot trusting you God really want you to be the big one do you got to do your big one on this one man see grief tries to attack you after you obey God I part of my ministry of generosity that I started where I was at when I didn't have nothing was giving shoes away that that that has always been a thing I used to go to Ross and find the best shoes I could for $29.99 and sometimes they have Jordans in there and sometimes they be having all this stuff that me and my brothers got that honest from my dad he used to go to pawn shops and find stuff

that that cost a lot but he had an anointing to find it for it so that I think that got transferred in the bloodline so I used to have all kind of shoes and God said you want to be generous start giving your shoes away so literally people I will look at their feet and I'd be like man I could help them I could bless them I could upgrade you and I would just ask them what size shoe you wear and they tell me and if they were my size I would just be like stay right here and I'd have a pair in my car I would this was something I started a long time ago because listen to me say this you can get the spirit of generosity right where you're at now you don't need a bigger paycheck you don't need more money you don't need a new job you need a heart posture so because this was my heart posture and I wanted to be able to do this I was not even sad when I gave the people to shoes the thing that grieved me the most and maybe this is just me venting because my spirit is grieved at this current moment but sometimes I would give the too good of a shoe to somebody who didn't know what to do with it and there's certain shoes that don't go with certain outfits y'all know what I'm talking about I needed my discernment to be higher because I was like maybe you and then I would see them in the shoes and that would grieve me oh god what I'm saying and the Holy Spirit watch this the Holy Spirit check me he said it's not even yours to have an opinion on anymore when it left watch this not when it left my hand it was theirs when it was settled in my heart it was theirs oh my god I need some of y'all to hear me say this some of y'all need to settle in your heart the car you're driving you're gonna give it away you may not know where you may not have figured out the other thing but God if you can get it in your heart he'll make it happen in your hand and many of us are waiting to see how it can work in our hands to actually get in your heart that's too late today I'm challenging you make the give big what is God requiring of you and some of you need to stop grieving because of financial fear or a scarcity mindset that was passed down generationally anxiety from your past experiences stressed around bills and debt can't find a job comparison shame even trauma connected to money what I'm telling you

is you have to trust God I always see this meme in it and it always reminds me of the time that God was asking me to to actually stop grieving over what I was giving him because he always had something better for me can you put that a little meme up that I know some of y'all have seen this somewhere but it's like a picture of Jesus and he has a teddy bear behind his back and then there's a little girl holding on y'all seen this before today I brought this up because I believe this is a prophetic picture of what God is asking you would you give me what I'm asking you for so I can already give you what I've already had in store for you But this means you can't grieve or keep the grip You gotta let it go Give it away, and that's why Deuteronomy 15 10 it says you shall surely give to him This goes back to the story where God is saying I don't want you to have a selfish or greedy heart I want you to develop a generous heart. It says you should surely give to him and And your heart watch this should not be grieved what shouldn't be grieved your heart He's talking about the condition of your heart because giving is all about the heart and your heart should not be grieved When you give to him because for this thing ah the Lord your God will bless you in all your works and Into which he puts in your hand what God is saying is like if you would do What he tells you to do around giving you cannot stop the flow of what God will bless you with to do it again So many people teach giving you'll get giving you'll get giving you'll get that actually works greed into your heart Part of our culture code is we give just to give And not to get Now you cannot stop the principle That's at work watch this with the right motivation So I want to say this and I'm gonna say a statement, but I want you to know the statement is not finished Okay, stay with me real quick God Does not let me say it like this God does not bless giving Unless it's with the right heart

Do you did y'all hear me or you can say it this way God blesses giving with the right heart He doesn't just bless giving He's like if the motive is wrong if the motive is to manipulate the system if the motive is to give two and get ten He said you should just go to DraftKings and gamble He said but if the motive is to trust me It's the motive is to actually have a heart like mine that will look at needs and so and share he said ah You got the right motivation That's why on the little thing it's a heart But it says motive behind it because the motive has to be this is my response to what I've already experienced For God so loved the world that he how many people deserve to God's grace How many people deserve the second chance and You own your 19th life in Mario. Do y'all understand what I'm saying, but you're back again. God has given you another You didn't deserve it though my response Is I gotta continue to be more like him. We're almost done. I was thinking about it After service, I know my wife is gonna want to go somewhere to eat and I spent my last hundred Um, I spent my last hundred this week on getting my kids gifts for the mama and I was wondering what's up PC You got this honey for me, whoa PC bro. Thank you. Don't don't even worry about it now watch she stood up and clapped, but this is The truth of the matter is PC is not grieving this hundred dollars. You know why? Cuz I gave it to him before I came on the platform. I I Told him in the sermon, I'm gonna say I need $100 get up and give me this $100 back He doesn't have to grieve what's not his What I'm saying to you is if you think this is yours You don't think you're a manager. You think you're an owner Then every time God asked you for something back, it's like oh man God again Y'all know what I'm talking about. Oh, man, you act like your bills come every surprise the most like it's like Oh

Bills this month. It's the first And We do the same thing with God And God's saying if you would just return to me What I already gave you He said this goes from grieving to watch this this is the cure gratitude Don't take get out to Arlo or something. All right, here we go Arlo that's yours. I'm saying it publicly Arlo. That's your hundred dollars. Oh Abby said it's Mother's Day Here we go the cure for the condition of grief is gratitude Dude, the only way that I'm not grieving is that I remember the good times. I remember man. It's a blessing to even. It's a blessing to even have anything to be. God, I remember I didn't fool. I took somebody to 1519 this past week and I got emotional because I for the first year and a half of being the pastor of this church while I was still learning generosity. I did not have a car. I used to walk to church to preach to people about being blessed. What you want to talk about humility? Is when your church members are passing you asking you do you need a ride? See people think all he's flashing. He's did. You don't know my story. You have no clue what God has brought me through to develop the heart of generosity. If you I give away so much more than I have the truth of the matter is listen to me. What I'm saying is the process. God said you're not generous yet and you bought a Land Rover.

You couldn't pay to get fixed. So I'm not supernaturally blessing you. I'm gonna let that car sit in your driveway broke because of your disobedience. You should have had a Honda Accord sitting up here in a Land Rover Discovery work for six months. So walk and believe me. Walk and don't be ashamed walk and no one day you'll give away cars walk and don't think that this is where I'm leaving you. This is where I'm starting you. So you never forget who your supplier is. I'm telling you when I went back to 1519 and I was showing in the building. I said, this is the sidewalk. I used to walk with my backpack to come preach to people and tell them that Jesus loved them. I said when I go up to that building, that's almost 200,000 square feet and we own all the land. Even the land Chick-fil-A sits on and I said I get overwhelmed because it was God. Who changed my mind first? By changing my heart and when my heart changed I stood up in front of our church and I rehearsed this story all the time. We broke the seed of poverty over our church with an $8,300 seed. I stood up in a series like this and I said y'all we're going to do something we probably have never done in our church before I said, we're going to all take an offering and this entire offering is going to go to other churches in this community. $8,300 came in and we took all of that money and we gave some to friendship and Metropolitan and first back. We just gave it away and God said I can trust you. And the the amount of money it doesn't even matter the amount that we've been

able to give away. To other nonprofits orphanages to widows to girls homes to help people do a God's place in their heart and it wasn't alone. It wasn't give it back when you get it because of the generosity of these people and people like you who have believed in this vision and honestly decided to live an abundant life. It didn't just translate to the church it translated to their homes and all I'm trying to do is put out an invitation for everybody who's not yet subscribe to this level of heart posture. This is your chance to be a part of God's plan for Humanity to reflect him because God so loved the world that he would you stand all over this building? I have to address this. Please don't leave. We're going in five minutes, but there are some people in this room that the reason why this topic of generosity and finances. Hit you so hard is because there's another G word that's coming to attack your heart and it's guilt. And I need to address this right now because the Bible says there is for now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus and maybe you've been on hard times and maybe you once were really adamant about being generous to God in the local church and Others around you, and maybe you stopped for some reason, and maybe you just decided, I can't let go of this grip, and God's saying, it's time to do it. I come to rebuke guilt and shame off of you right now. Yes, the best time to plant a tree in a forest was 50 years ago, but the next best time, today, right now. So if guilt has been on you, that's been trying to attack your heart, let me give you the antidote or the cure for guilt, grace.

Today, some of you just need to experience the grace of God. He's saying, I love you so much that I'm giving you another opportunity. I put Pastor Mike and that whole sheep up there, sheep jacket, this has been hot all day. I just have to confess to you, I've been sweating like, woo. It look, all right, all right, thank you, because I'm hot. But he put me up here today, and this Mary had a little lamb. The lamb that was slain, I got to get off this stage. I'm feeling good, I'm getting excited about my wife, knowing I got her some gifts. Okay, it's time for me to go. What I'm saying to you is God interrupted everything to give you another opportunity to, hey, I want your give to be big. I'm gonna give you grace for another day for your give to be big. Hey, even on this Mother's Day, it would be probably, for some of you, a big deal for you to stop by and say hi to your mom. Give a video, give a call, write a letter. I know everything's not resolved, and I know you're saying, I can't be fake, and I can't, dah, dah, dah. You don't know how much time you have with them. There are people going on to be with the Lord. What if God, what if it would be a big give for you to give a call?

I'm just saying, what if the giving's not just about money? What if money's just a test of giving? But what if giving's God's big deal? Today, I'm asking you, if you've been having the wrong grip, if you've been actually being attacked in the area of greed, if you've been attacked in the area of guilt, if you've been attacked in any one of these areas, today, I'm telling you the cure for it is give. And I'm going to impart and pray that a spirit of generosity would come over you, that your eyes would be opened to see, how can I be like Jesus in any situation and give? If you want to receive that, lift your hands all over this place. Father, in the name of Jesus, if you're watching online, this is for you. Father, I thank you that your word is eternal, everlasting, and strong. And today, I delivered your word, but God, I thank you that it's going into people's hearts because giving is all about the heart. Today, we want a heart like yours. We want a heart that sees a need and meets a need. We want a heart that is not greedy. We want a heart, Father God, that flows with abundance. We want a heart, Father, that goes against the generational patterns that we may have learned.

Today, God, I thank you that you're interrupting bloodlines right now with Revelation. And today, we're asking, start with us. Let us pass down generationally a spirit of generosity. If our children and our family know us for being a certain way, God, I thank you that you would do the work so deep on the inside of us that we would get relabeled, re-named in the people that are around us. Father, I thank you that you can do the transformation. Today, God, we are asking, in the areas that people may not see, would you search our hearts? And would you expose anything that may be offensive? Creating us a clean heart and renewing us the right spirit. Father, change our motives. Because once we can give, our world gets larger and larger. So today, God, I impart the gift of faith around giving. We will have the faith to trust you. You are the supplier of every one of our needs. If the birds don't worry about what they gonna eat and that the flowers are not going shopping for what they're gonna be dressed in, how much more for each one of us, your children that you love? They make the give big in our life so that we never have to have a heart attack. We trust you. We believe you. And we thank you in Jesus name. Let's listen to me real quick.

The place you need to let Jesus into is your heart. He's the only one that if you let him into your heart, he'll help you change your habits. So some of y'all were about to go at this and be like, all right, I got my points. I know what to do. I'm about to make this happen. And God was like, golly, they missed all of it. All of it points back to me. I want to be in relationship with you. I don't want you to just see me once or twice a year or call me when you're in need. I want to walk and talk with you. I'm going to lead and guide you. I don't want to just be savior. I want to be Lord, but you got to let me into your heart. And today some of y'all have been feeling the spirit whispering to you. Today's the day to come home. Today is the day of transformation. I'll do it next week. I got to clean up. God said, you can't clean up what I'm made to clean up. If that's you, you want to let Jesus into your heart. He already gave his son. All you have to do is receive him. So watch this. He gave his son. You give your life. You get to practice giving right now. He gives away. You give up your way. You get to practice giving right now. If that's you, and you want to make Jesus Christ, your personal Lord and savior on the count of three, I want you to lift your hands and we're going to pray. You're saying pastor include me into that prayer. I want my name to be written in the lamb's book of life. I want to give control over to God. I want my eternity to be secure. And I want my history to be healthy. This is what God gives us the ability and pastor Mike, why are you so passionate about this? Cause it's the thing that took me from being a liar, a manipulator, addicted to pornography, bad things in my heart, stuff that nobody could see that was around me, but I knew what's in there. And God said, I'm not going to make you perfect, but I'll make you progressive. And today that's somebody's future. And if that's you, man, woman, boy, or girl, I don't care how old, how long you've been around church. You know, God needs your heart. Today is your day. One, you're making the greatest decision of your life to your name is going to be written in the lamb's book of life. I'm proud of you. But more than that, heaven is about to rejoice. If you want to receive Jesus three, shoot your hand up in the air in the room. I see you. I see you. I see you, my brother, transformation church. I see you, my sister, more than that. God sees you. Come on, TC. Let's give God praise. Hey, listen, as the altar workers come right now, as a family, we're going to pray. Nobody at TC prays alone. We're a family and we all been there. Can we say this prayer together? Say God, thank you for sending Jesus just for me today. I give you my heart. I admit I've sinned. I repent

and I turn to you. Here's my life. Change me, renew me, transform me. I'm yours forever in Jesus name. Amen. Hey, can we celebrate with every person? Oh, come on TC. All of heaven is rejoicing right now. Hey, listen, if you just said that prayer in the room or watching online, I want you to text SAVED to 828282 or click the QR code. We want to send you some information. We got some videos me and the team have made to let you know what your next steps are and how to go on this journey. And I'm telling you, get in a good Bible-based church. TC will always be here for you. If you're in the city or anywhere around, come to church, man. This is not just Mother's Day. This is every Sunday and we want to love on you and help you grow. And for every person that's in this room, that's dealing with something, maybe grief, maybe greed, maybe something's going on and you need prayer. God gives us the technology of prayer that transforms our life. I'm telling you from all over this room, as the worship team sings, I want you to come get prayer. And if you're online, stay and worship us with us for a minute. I'm going to come in the back. Go ahead and type your prayer requests up there. The team is going to feed them to me. I'm going to pray for you. But today I believe God's going to do something to change our hearts. Amen. Father, bless this church. Give them hearts that are big enough to receive all the blessing that you were giving them. And today, God, alter us right here at this altar. Have your way in Jesus name. We agree. Somebody say, we agree. We expect. Amen. Go out and live a transformed life. Hallelujah.