My Mode Just Changed: Need, Greed and Seed // Six Figures ( Pt 5 )// Pastor Michael Todd

To my people watching on the Pando app, first thing I want you to know is I love you. Second thing, I'm praying for you. And third thing, there are big things on the way with your name on it. I can't share them yet, but I believe God is doing some amazing things in the correctional facilities. And today's message is really going to, I believe, transform your life. I tell a story at the end of this message about one of you, somebody who is currently serving a sentence, but decided to get the principles that I'm about to teach in this message and do something about it. And I hope it inspires you. Today's message is called My Mode Just Changed. Seed, need, and greed. And I hope that this blesses you and gives you wisdom of how to move forward in the area of generosity and stewardship. I'll see you on the other side. Today, I have an assignment to help you understand really my favorite part about generosity, giving, sowing. Last week was the one that everybody takes a big gulp on when I start talking about the tide. And I think last week, everybody got it. It was like, yeah, God's going to give me a test. I'm going to pass the test because I'm prepared for the test. I already know every time I get increased, 10%, it belongs to God. So I'm not going to hoard what is mine. I had somebody I really love, just is in her sophomore year at college, came up to me after church out the side of the car. And she was like, Pastor Mike. I was like, what? She was like, I tithed for the first time. And I mean, her family was around, everybody was hooping and hollering. And I just went up to her and I was like, I am so proud of you. And I just started just because at that age, the principle that got into her heart at this level is going to unleash this next level that I'm about to talk about today. See, look at your neighbor and say there's levels to this. And a lot of us spend our time fighting with the basement of blessing. Oh gosh. Should I tithe? Should I give? Should I do this? The church just want my money. You are on the basement floor of what God wants to do in the area of blessing your life. Today, I want to show you the future as you surrender to God and give him what you, watch this, may not understand fully, but you will get an understanding as you walk in it. The whole journey of trusting God is a faith walk. And most people want a plan to walk. There's nowhere in the Bible that you find God saying, do all of these steps and then I'll, I'll show you everything. And then it will be fine. Cause you know, the outcome, he told Abraham, go to the land. I'm going to show you, hold on. Wait, I'm going to make you the father of many nations, but I ain't got no kids.

I go there, leave these people. It's always like somebody's got to take a step of faith. And so today I want to give you, when it comes to your finances, generosity, giving, being abundant. I want to give you, um, what I'm calling the best way to go about walking into this level of life. And I'm going to start with scripture. Second Corinthians chapter nine, verse six, second Corinthians chapter nine, verse six. It says, remember this, what are we supposed to do? Come on, help me preach. We're supposed to remember this. Whoever sows or gives sparingly or a little will also reap sparingly and whoever sows generously will reap generously. Each of you should give each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to bless you abundantly so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. Somebody say, amen. Now, most people who've been in church your whole life have never heard that scripture outside of offering time. Nobody's actually going to preach on this scripture. So I am today so that you can get an understanding so that you will never be played by not knowing what the word of God is talking about. So we're going to jump right in verse, um, um, chapter six, verse one, remember whoever so sparingly will reap sparingly. Could you underline circle in your Bible, the word, whoever, because I just need to know, I need to ask you a question. I need you to pick up the context clues. Who's the Bible talking to in this scripture? Whoever. He literally says, whoever. How many people in this room qualify as a whoever? If I said whoever gets to this stage first gets $1,000. No, I didn't, sit down. What I'm saying is, at the moment I said whoever, that would literally be based on your ability to believe. If I said all men, that would segregate. Or if I said all short people, depending on the height, that would segregate other people. But the Lord really wants everybody to get

that the principle he's about to share is for whoever. Whoever. So this is the point I want you to put down. Whoever can sow whatever. Today I have to focus on the thing that distracts many believers from giving. Because a lot of people don't give because you say, there are people who don't serve God and go against God. And people who do debauchery and they live on the world and why are they so blessed? Because they picked up the principle. There are whoever. The reason I'm telling you this is because this principle works even if you are not connected to God. Oh my gosh. The reason I have to tell you this is because people have used the Bible to fear you into serving God. And today I wanna extract all fear out of giving. God literally says about this one principle on giving, I don't care who you are and I don't care what you do. If you put this principle into play, it'll work in your life. And the crazy thing is people who don't believe in God work a principle made for his children. And we still up here fighting about the semantics of things and we're not walking in the abundant life that he put out here for you. But he said, whoever believes this, whoever walks in this, whoever gets this, they get the promise.

Look at your neighbor and say, you're a whoever. Whoever gets this principle gets the promise. So I want you to get this please. Whoever includes your haters. Whoever includes people who hurt you. Whoever gets this principle includes the people that live like hell. It does not matter. Somebody shout at me, whoever. So why not you? If whoever can work this principle, why not you? So the first thing God's telling us is whoever sows like this is gonna reap like this. What is the way that they sow? If they sow a little, they're getting a little back. Newsflash, it works even if you do it at the smallest level. Whoever sows sparingly still gets back. Sparingly, but they still got something back. And whoever sows generously or largely, they get back at the same level. What I'm trying to tell you is if sowing works, if seed works, why don't you do it? And I can't be the one to qualify if you do or not. But what I'm saying is a farmer never has to prove he sowed seed. A farmer never has to convince you. All he has to do is show you the harvest. There's so many believers like, I promise I sowed the seed. I promise, I promise I sow good things.

I promise, I got it. And it's like, where is your harvest? Where is the trees? Where is the fruit? Where is, where is it? And the truth of the matter is many people have not fully believed in the word of God and the principles. And so what I wanted to tell you is I don't want God to make a principle for his kids that his kids don't work. And then people who don't even know our father worked the principle and they're living in the blessing that we should have, because whoever works this principle gets the promise of the principle. Okay. So then it goes to verse seven. It says, each of you should, could you just put it on the screen? It said, each of you should. Give. Let's stop right there. Write this point down. Giving is a duh to God. Did y'all hear what I just said? Giving is a duh. Y'all got it. Y'all was like, what are you talking? Giving is a duh. He's, watch this.

He's assuming that you already know as a believer, this is what we do. Right. So he's telling you, each of you should give. Oh, what you've already decided to give. Because he's not trying to convince you to do what the normal practice is of people who do what we do. That would be like a basketball player being like, do we dribble? Duh. Do we shoot the ball? Duh. Do we play in pants or shorts? Put your shorts on and come. The only people who would ask those type of questions are people who were unfamiliar with the pattern of whatever we're talking about. There are too many people that when God tells us that we're supposed to give, we act shocked. What? Me? God, you know what I'm dealing with? He's like, hold on, wait, wait, wait, wait. If you're a believer, you should already get it in your mind. I give. I'm not just talking about money, time, treasure, connections, energy, effort, encouragement. What is your giving record this past week?

I'm not talking about to a church or nonprofit or organization. I'm just talking about your giving. What was your giving record this week? The reason why I'm saying this is because the natural, watch this, the natural state of a believer should be one of generosity. Me and my friend was talking before service and the comment came out this, I need people to stop saying they serve God and they love God and they'll do anything for God and they never give. You can't. You can't. You have to, for God so loved the world that he, it's one of his natural characteristics. And people, I'll do anything for God except what he did for all of us. The reason I'm saying this is it sounds elementary, watch this, but it's affecting people's eternity. Because people are here trying to figure out why would God ask me to do this? And I'm trying to tell you, when God tells you to give, he tells you to give a certain way. Pastor Mike, break it down to me just a little more. He said, verse seven, each of you should give, watch this, what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves what type of giver? A cheerful giver.

This is why giving is supposed to be a duh. Because in Matthew, you can go read it, chapter six, I think it starts in verse two, but you gotta read the whole thing. It says, Jesus is talking, he says, when you give, when you pray, when you fast. These are three things. If the giving's taking you off too much, I need to let you know, God expects every one of his children to at some point fast, pray, and give. Not if you give, if you pray, or if you fast, when you do. Okay, self-evaluate, when's the last time you fasted, you prayed, and you gave? There are not many things that God is saying, this is a prerequisite for you walking in the way that I have called you to walk. And so I need you to understand, church, we have to get it into our minds that my disposition is generosity. That's who I am, I'm generous. I don't have a lot to give right now, but I'm what? Generous, I can give what I got. All I have is all I need. I'm out here about to bless somebody's socks off. And by socks, I mean this $5 about to really turn somebody's day upside down. No, I'm, because generosity is not about an amount. Generosity is about a heart posture. It is about, hold on, what can I do?

How can I do it? Where am I at? What do I got in my closet? How many of these pins do I have? How many of these sandals do I have? How much time could I give to somebody? That lady's yard that you've been complaining. about need to be mowed for six weeks, go mow it. Somebody, I'm about to call the people on him. You about to call the people on a person you've never even talked to. Yet the Bible tells us we're supposed to love our neighbor. Take your dusty lawnmower over to that, don't ask them. There has never been in the history of ever that somebody that you just start mowing their lawn and they gonna cuss you out. Never in the history, well, is there a lawn I don't wanna trespass? They will let you trespass to mow their lawn. But watch the, but if your heart is not set on giving, you won't give your time to that, you won't give your sweat to that, you won't give. And God's saying, I need you to be like me. And watch this, I need you to decide before it's time to give. Uh-oh, this is where people get in trouble. Right here, write this down. You can't be manipulated when your mind's already made up. Me and my wife decided a long time ago,

I showed you all that gray book that I talked about our finances being able to change as we honored God and put out our budget and wrote everything down and put our tithe there and all this other stuff. God has continued to increase us in different ways. But one of the things that me and my wife had to learn is like our disposition on giving. Because we have now become so generous in our giving that we gotta check with each other because sometimes it gets reckless. And when I say reckless, I mean, it's reckless like, it's like at the moment she'll look at somebody or see something or feel something in her spirit. And she was like, I think we're supposed to do this for such and such. And I was like, whoa, that's crazy because God told me we're supposed to do this for such and such. And she was like, whoa, did he tell us at the same time we're supposed to do this? And why I'm saying this is we've already decided, talked about, prayed through, started to wade through, looked at our budget. Before it's time. The reason why people get manipulated and feel like people are trying to get something from them is because they're undecided. And a double-minded man is unstable in all of his ways. But you can't be decided on something

you've never thought about. And most people don't think about giving. So when it comes to your thing, God's like, hey, one of the things I need you to pray for is what you're supposed to give. And I need you to pray it before you're supposed to give. Because when you know what God said before, you're not swayed. My question to you today, I got a lot of questions. When's the last time you asked God, what am I supposed to give? Before. Before offering, before somebody has a need, before, there are things that I have planned for things that I currently have. Like I currently have them. Mo, you already know this. I've told the people close to me, I was like, yeah, when I'm done with this, I'm giving this to sir and so. Done. I've already planned it in my head. I'm still using it right now and I'm taking good care of it right now. But when I'm done with this, I've already, watch this, sent my seed. My seed is like a missile. My seed has to be directed. My seed is something that I place in places for a future. So even though I'm here right now,

I'm sending my seed somewhere. My question is, when's the last time you prayed, God, where am I supposed to send this seed? When I'm done with these shoes, when am I supposed, who's supposed to wear these? Father, when I'm done with this house, who am I supposed to give it to? God, when I'm done driving this car, who am I supposed to sow this into? God, what am I supposed to do with what you've placed in my hand? And listen to me, I'm trying to give you the secrets. If you don't pray about it before, you have two responses, to clinch up in fear or to give frivolously. And I have to say this because there are people who have given what they needed to keep because they were poor stewards. I gotta say this because there's some churches you go to and be like, give the light bill, give the thing, give the thing, give the thing. And now that person is destitute on the street, nowhere to go and they felt like they were doing it in faith. but what they were doing it was in out of order. There was no priority to what was happening. Now, this is where you gotta check your priorities because some of the things that we're calling essential are actually luxuries. So if God is calling you and asking you to do something, you have to evaluate, God, what are you asking me to do?

What are you asking me to cut off? What are you asking me to give up for a season so that I can honor you? The reason I'm saying this is because God will require what you have, but he will never require what you don't. Oh, God, and there are people that think maybe this is what God wants for me, is just to be broken, white around the mouth and begging. No, but he does want you to figure out your budget and he does want you to know how much debt you have and he does want you to stop door dashing when you could get up and go pick up that Taco Bell. Oh, come on, y'all. Okay, I see the resistance. Pastor Mike, why are you saying this? Because if you never think about what you're gonna give, watch, it's hard to see it come out in your hand if it hasn't started being thought about in your head. Because the progression is it goes to my head, maybe I can give this. Then it drops to my heart, God, is this what you're asking me to give? Then it comes out in my hand, here it is, God. Most people wanna start with their hand. Well, I got it, uh-huh. And your head's like, why do we do that? We don't have enough money to do that. Where in the world is that coming from? And God says, he's not a God that just wants you to do.

Think about it. Think about it and I'll show you and it'll drop to your heart and then you will move by faith and it'll come out in your hand. So this is what I need everybody to understand. This scripture is giving us the playbook. Don't give under manipulation. Do not give if you feel like your arm is being twisted. Do not, y'all ain't never heard no pastor say this. I'm trying to, do not give anything if you feel like somebody's trying to lean on you emotionally. Even your family. Oh, you thought I was talking about the church. Oh, cause the problem is most of you are in financial ruin cause you helping somebody that won't help themselves. Okay, he's giving you principles that are supposed to help your whole life. Not just everybody wanna use it when it comes to the church but you don't use it concerning baby. You paying for this young man's stuff or you paying for this young lady's stuff. You flying somebody out. You paying for this thirst trap on Instagram. You paying for all of these different things and you don't ever have no pressure or no problem giving to them. You look so strong, big daddy. What do you mean?

Ain't worked out in 10 years. What do you mean? Oh, this old thing, stop. I'm trying to teach you. Don't you give to that with manipulation. If you know somebody's preying on your weakness right now. If you know that, oh, I just have a God there. Some of us are suckers for sad stories. Y'all know y'all, y'all know who y'all are. Y'all know that y'all always give to them little puppies that come on like, with the eyes of the angel. And all they put is them sick dogs on there and you're like, $9.99. Y'all know that's manipulation. They know they don't put no healthy dogs on there. All them dogs. Like all, every dog, every dog ain't been given no water. Get a dog some water. But they do that on purpose. Why? Because if I can prey on their emotions for a second, maybe I can get something out of them. God's telling you, I don't care if it's at church, if it's at your house, if it's at the family reunion, if your cousin is in jail, do not give if there's manipulation involved. I'm trying to give you a principle that will work whether you believe or not. Okay? What does it say to give?

You should already decide it. You got a brother or cousin or a son in jail? You should decide. This how much money I'm gonna give them till they get out. Before they start asking. Oh God, I'm trying to save your family. You should decide. I'm gonna put $500 so I can do it at $50 an increment. I can do it at $1 an increment. I can do, but you should decide and don't tell them. Wisdom. I'm saying that. Decide. Pastor Mike, why are you going so hard on this? Because when you give to the wrong thing out of the wrong motive, you don't have what you need to give to the right thing when God asks you. I'm trying to save you from not being ready to sow when God tells you to. Okay, all right, here we go. So write this down. You shouldn't make up your mind in the moment. When it comes to giving, you should never make up your mind in the moment. At the end of the year, every year, we give an offering. We call it a crazy faith offering. We give, I'm telling you right now, you should start praying in May. God, what is the gift that me and my family

are supposed to give in December? So you don't have to think, oh, shoot, it's December. It's Christmas time, it's this, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm telling you in May. I'm gonna tell you again in October. I'm gonna tell you, because I don't want anybody in this church to ever feel that there is an ounce of pressure when it comes to give, why? Because God wants us all to give cheerfully. This is the attitude, write this down. The attitude is greater than the amount. The attitude of giving is more valuable to God than the amount of your giving. And most people usually give with an attitude. Okay, here, God, finally. And God was like, I don't want that. I would rather you give and be excited, skipping, cheerful about it, knowing my character as a good father, than to feel like I'm taking something from you. And today, I need you to understand there was a woman in the Bible that gave two mites, and Jesus is there, all the big ballers is out, they making it rain and throwing stacks, and God calls the disciples over, and he said, you see that woman right there? She just gave two mites, and they're like, so? He's like, but the attitude in which she's giving this is sacrificial.

This ain't about amounts. He said, anywhere the gospel is talked about, this woman is going to be remembered, why? It was because of her attitude of giving, not the amount of giving. Today, what I'm trying to do is teach you that God wants your attitude to be one that is cheerful, but we have to get into the right idea and thought processes about giving. I'm just a giver. This is what I do. It's how I show up, it's how I wake up, it's how I go to sleep, every day. And y'all are saying, Pastor Mike, that's so easy for you to say. I got proof. When I was younger and didn't have nothing, I've always been, I decided, watch this, I decided to be a giver. Yeah. Pastor Mike, how do you decide? Decide. Y'all try to make stuff so spiritual, but the truth of the matter is, today you could decide, I'm going to be the most generous person I know. Think about it. Who's the most generous person you know? Think about it in your head. Somebody saying me?

Would anybody else say that? The question is, would anybody else say that you're the most generous person? If you have multiple people bragging on you, that when you're not in the room, they are so generous. They, wow. You're starting to get into the territory, watch this, that speaks Jesus, no matter what room you're in. Okay. Okay, all right. Some of y'all want to go in there. Okay. And you're selfish. And every time you come into the room, you suck all the energy. You give nothing. Y'all know them people that I'm talking about. What would happen if everywhere you go, you've been filled up so much that you gotta give it out. That there's so much abundance on the inside of you that some of this got to fall off of me because I don't even need all of this. Okay. The last part of this, verse eight, it says, and God is able to bless you abundantly so that in all things, I love this language, at all times, having all that you need, you will abound or be abundant in every good work.

That's the promise of a sower. If you sow, all things, all times, all needs met. There's not a better deal on the market. When you look at the word of God, he says, this is how I want my children to live. This is the point that I want you to get from right here. The reason why. is sowing interrupts every atmosphere. Sowing interrupts every atmosphere. Right now, if I was a farmer and I showed you barren land, barren land, if you got a picture of that, just throw it up on the screen. If I showed you barren land right now, most people would look at this and see nothing. But a farmer with faith, with a bag of seed, sees nothing but space and opportunity. Why? Because all I need is some land if I have seed. All I need is soil if I have seed. Some of you are looking at a situation that looks like this right now, and God's saying, what are we gonna do? And you're like, God, send the rain. Even if I send it, you ain't got no seed in the ground. Okay. Let me come over here. The seed will only be activated when it's in the ground. That's when he has to send the rain. But some of, God, do a miracle. You ain't sown nothing.

Now, I wasn't great at math, but anything times zero, seven hundred and sixty-five million, six hundred and seventy-two thousand times zero is zero. I got an A on that test when we did zero times table. Killed it. Killed it. That's the multiplication many of us are doing right now. We're saying, God, multiply it. And he said, you have not sown any seed. But a farmer with faith, a person like you with crazy faith, all you got to do is have some seed, some time, and guess what there will be? Put up what a harvest looks like in this same place. I need you to see what your life is about to look like. Somebody by faith needs to see this. You've been sowing seeds for such a long time. You've made up your mind, I'm gonna keep giving even if I don't see anything. The seasons have not fully changed yet, but this is about to be my lifestyle. Go back to the other one. But at one point, that looked like this. It takes faith to sow seed when it looks like this. Right, right, right, right. Genesis 8 and 22 says, as long as the earth remains, there will be seed, time, and then what? Harvest. Sow the seed. Just decide I'm gonna sow. Pastor Mike, are you making me a promise?

I'm not making you a promise, God's making you a promise. I ain't got nothing, I'm trying to do this myself. I don't got nothing for you except to tell you what the Word says. And then me and Natalie and our four kids gonna try to live this out, and we have been living it out, and I'm telling you, it works. I have empirical data that my life used to look dry like this. And I need everybody to help me. I need to help you understand, it didn't happen. Sometimes I hate being a pastor because people think the things work in my life because of my position. Why? There are people that think, well, I guess you got it because you're the pastor. No, you don't understand. I don't have a special access point to obeying God that gets me ahead of the line. I gotta actually do this stuff. And it's more pressure because if I'm telling you it worked and it ain't working on my life, it's really a lie. I can't preach nothing that ain't real. So I learned this for myself. And today I just see so many people that are trying to figure out, does God really honor his word, and I'm trying to tell you, he doesn't. If your life looks like this, so. If you've hit a plateau, so.

Whatever area you're in, you might have a lot, but if you hit a plateau, so. And your situation changes, okay? This is how we're gonna end this. I need to acknowledge something. It's hard to sow when you're in the wrong mode. Okay, does everybody hear me? A lot of us are in modes that make it hard for us to do what God has told us to do. In my car recently, I found a different mode. Mode there. I was looking at my car and it has this button that says off-road mode And it and it looked like it's going up a hill And I just hit it one day and I was on the regular street And it started driving differently all the wheels started doing something and then I saw there was a a a fast mode and then I then I saw there was a Cruise mode and then I just started hitting all the modes And what I realized is that the modes Were a one-button touch a one-button decision to change my car into a totally different way of maneuvering the terrain And I said could it be that a lot of believers are just in the wrong mode when it comes to giving? And today i'm gonna give you three modes that you may be in today that I need you to potentially shift Or change your mode in three so modes, okay identify yourself. The first one is need mode If you're in need mode welcome to human You're born needing things Need mode is our default setting watch this and need mode is defined watch this by survival If everything in your life you're trying to survive right now, you're always in need mode Yeah Think about it. It's hard to be able to give when you're always in need mode and that mindset thrives on fear When you're in need mode, maybe we're gonna run out

Need mode who's gonna help me if? Need mode It didn't work last time. So how are we going to? When you're thinking like this You you you literally limit what god can do through you But if all you ever do is need watch this you become one that is a consumer mindset Everywhere you walk into you're trying to see what can I get? What you gonna do for me How is this gonna benefit for me and then it starts to affect your relationships your relationship to become what can you do for me? Your faith becomes how does this benefit me? And right now I need everybody to switch modes if you're in a need mode I need you to switch modes because this mode ends up in greed mode I don't know where you're at. You may be in need mode. And if you're in need mode the international sign of need mode is Could you give me something This also is the sign that children Make All the time because when you come out When you're in a place where you don't understand you always are looking up for somebody to give something more to you So when you come into rooms Give me more. I need something What i'm saying is it's okay if you're there, you don't have to stay there A seed can interrupt that cycle And if you don't check this right here it turns into greed mode let me tell you what greed mode is Greed mode is A mode that thrives on scarcity So a lot of people think Greedy is about rich people because if I say who's greedy You would think of probably somebody that got a lot of money. The truth of matter is you can be greedy with barely a little bit Because you it's all about me being in control with what I got Yeah And it thrives on scarcity and I know

There are people in here that's like pastor mike. You don't know my story. What i'm telling you is you can change it You can change your relationship with money you can change your relationship with finances you can change your relationship With stewardship you can change your relationship with generosity by just switching modes You don't have to live in need mode you don't have to live in greed mode What I want you to live in is seed mode One switch seed mode Pastor mike what seed mode? Oh seed mode It thrives on faith It looks at what what you have and says what can I do with this? Do you know you don't need any more than you have right now to live in seed mode Today you could flip right now sitting in this chair seed mode I'm going to give something away every day this week. I dare you to try it I dare you to give one thing away every day this week It doesn't even have to be a actual object You can say i'm giving 30 minutes to help somebody do a task. They are having trouble doing every day this week And just at the thought of it right now some of y'all just got mad me my week My day pastor Need mode greed mode or what seed mode Once you get in seed mode, there's beautiful things that happen The Bible says God gives seed To the soul, hold on wait, so the prerequisite for more seed is a decision to already so So right now you could qualify yourself for more seed by just sitting in your chair and saying God I'm gonna sow and God's like, all right Send them seed. I Saw that they've decided to sow Do you know how powerful that is? That right now. I mean, I'm gonna bring it to a really natural example. If you decided I want Olive Garden in your heart right now

and at the moment you decided somebody came from the back and Handed you Olive Garden You will be thinking all kinds of thoughts I want ice cream and then at the moment you thought somebody brought you ice cream I want abs and then somebody brought from the back Huh? Think but think about the power of what God is saying all you would have to do is decide I Really want to bless that family before they go back to school Before that family goes back to school. I really want to be able to buy all their kids supplies and buy them kids backpacks and shoes That's three months away God. I would really I would really even if I can't do the whole thing God I really like to be a part of blessing this family before they go back to school At the moment you decided that in your heart Guess what starts happening send the seed because they've decided to so Church When you get this it changes everything It removes idols Pastor Mike, why are you saying that because the only other place that God compared himself to anything Was when it came to money He said I just need to let y'all know something real quick this is why I got to deal with this You can't serve me and serve money Because he knew the human heart would be in Tension to believe God or believe money Because some of y'all have said either God needs to come through or I just need some more money You still need God to come through if you got all the money in the world Do y'all hear what I'm saying

I Said Mike you've been on this because I want you to get it Don't live in need mode don't live in greed mode live in seed mode And I'm just gonna get this to all the real crazy people there's one more level that wasn't in the notes it's beast mode Now I'm I'm I'm I'm I now don't tell nobody But this is for the people Who the tithe they know that's the basement And when they get in the offerings like yeah, I live in seed mode I give but then there's another level of giving cuz there's Levels to this it's called sacrificial offerings It and I'm just telling you about it. You can read through it all in the Bible but one of the greatest places that it's seen is with Solomon and Ecclesiastes or no no no this was in first Kings When when when God it was customary for there to be one bull sacrifice to God And at the moment that it was time to sacrifice the bull Everybody else did one Solomon did a thousand The requirement was one His offering was a thousand This moved God so much that he came to Solomon in a dream that night is like what you want I Was really expecting you to do one two five what you want Only one of the only places in the Bible where we see God literally coming to somebody say tell me what you want Cuz I saw my heart I Saw a heart that could handle abundance I Saw a heart that was not just trying to give the basic. I saw a heart that looked like mine. What do you want? And then watch how gangsta Solomon is he says God All I need is wisdom to govern your people God was like no you didn't Didn't know you didn't just ask for wisdom. No, you didn't He got excited again because he could have used that moment moment to be greedy He could have if god comes to you and says what do you want? Okay, i'm so glad you asked Let's you're upset. Come on y'all. Let's be honest. I am so glad you asked list

Like What was solomon's request what I need to help them Give me wisdom to govern your people. It was an act of generosity I'm not going to use this moment to hoard something to me I need to get what I need so I can give them what they need And god was like, you know what Because I see my reflection in you I'm not begging you. I'm not taking nothing from you really want this because you want to be generous. He said now I'm gonna bless you with the wisdom and i'ma give you All the resources There's a there's a beast mode to sowing That has nothing to do with what god requires It has everything to do with you trying to respond to god's goodness Yes And one day i'll do a whole series on it because it's gonna have to be people who ready for this level But there is a level that you get to Where the harvest overtakes the sowing? Where you start telling other people somebody come and get some of this Dad, there's a level that you can get to where you're saying my boat's sinking Too many fish If I keep getting this type of load i'm gonna drown with all of this Some my competition come get some of this Some of y'all businesses is gonna be so blessed. You're gonna be able to call your competition Y'all don't hear me. Some of y'all are about to walk in abundance where you're gonna be able to tell your neighbors Hey, I can't deal with all I don't eat. I can't manage all of this Oh god I just decided I want to be accused of abundance If i'm guilty of something I want to be guilty of giving I I that's I I I want to be blasted for blessing people You want to blast me for something that boy always blessing somebody

What if that was the disposition of god's people That's what we were known for Forget everybody that's what you was known for Today I asked the holy spirit how I was supposed to end this message And um something really awesome came and fell into my lap this right here Is somebody's faith From prison Um many of you know that we have a partnership with god behind bars and we've put a significant investment in Providing Inmates all over the world who the bible many times calls the least of these those who are forgotten about We want them to have a way to connect With god and people on the outside and so we've bought hundreds if not thousands of tablets through the generosity and giving Of people in this church and it's going into prisons all over the country I was on a call with the people from god behind bars and they were telling us all the stats and um These beautiful people who made bad mistakes and ended up in jail some of them for life um Are still souls that god cares about I thought I was gonna get more amens than that And um These people Write in Send us letters Tell us how the message has transformed their life and I got this I'm gonna not say the name but a young man That was in prison Heard a message similar to this And decided to start honoring god With a tithe and an offering off of the money that was coming in from his family for a commissary

Now listen to me say this to you Listen to me say this to you So impacted by the revelation And how many? Years he just didn't know his whole thing is I just didn't know nobody told me like and he saw the scriptures and went through He was like, I'm gonna honor God and now if you don't know what commissary is This is where people literally send you money and then you can get like Twinkies and ramen noodles and all this is it's their only Like exciting thing that they can do and some people it's like this. What'd you say? bricks Oh Ritz crackers, okay bricks, whatever that was some prison talk. I don't know what he said Uh text me later, uh But what I'm saying is people people people this is their enjoyment in prison This is two dollars and fifty cent Here here here here what I'm saying and this person wrote the letter and Basically said I want to live how God asked me to live and This is my faith step in walking this out and put this in an envelope and Sent a letter to the church with two dollars and fifty cents I This brother lives in seed mode Because it wasn't about an amount This was his faith and Today this is going on ground and for somebody else you're gonna be able to give two thousand dollars and $2,500 and it wouldn't even matter

But what if we all? Got into seed mode And said God I'm gonna honor you with the time that's yours already But I'm gonna ask you beforehand. What do you want me to give? How often do you want me to get what you want me to do God open my eyes to see like a farmer? To know that every seed that goes in has to produce food it interrupts every atmosphere I have gone into places where I know I was hated and I sold a seed and It changed the whole atmosphere And that in that room where you know, your co-workers don't like you bring coffee every Thursday Just bring it that I'm just saying maybe you could interrupt the things that are happening in that atmosphere If you thought more like God standing all over this building This Morning I Was reminded of I fly a lot and when I fly one of the most One of the most troubling things about flying is going through the the security checkpoint And I don't know if you've ever flown there But part of it is you have to think about what you have on You got think about if your shoes got metal in it You got think about if you had a surgery and your knee got a screw in it You got to think about all this other things and to bypass all of that. There's this thing called TSA pre-check and if you get TSA pre-check what you do basically is you send all your information ahead and They know where to find you if anything is wrong and the goal of Actually going through TSA is to be able to go through it without getting stopped My friend and I were talking earlier and he said the goal in heaven is To go through the TSA before you get to heaven and not get stopped because you've already emptied everything out Think about it Think about it. The thing is gonna beep in heaven for many of us deep deep deep. Oh you got so much steel

Beep beep beep you I'm like, I'm sure I'm coming and it's steel He said that can't come in here Don't store up for yourselves on this earth Some of y'all are trying to take stuff when you get to heaven, you can't take it through. So the goal is Just so as much the international sign For those who are in need is this the ones who are in greed is this the ones who are in seed And Cuz when we get to heaven He said what did you do with what I gave you How many families did you help? How many lives did you transform? How many people did you send on missions trips? How many churches did you build? how How many neighbors did you help? I wanna be found guilty of giving. That means that I might need to switch my mode. If you're in this room and you might need to switch your mode from need mode or greed mode into seed mode or even beast mode, I want you to lift your hands all over this place and all of us have a place that we can grow and journey to. Father, in the name of Jesus, you see us. You know us, you made us. And today, God, I thank you that there was some revelation shared that could help all of us move into another level of generosity. Father, there is no pressure, there is no offering, there is no moment right now that we're asking for anything.

God, I'm asking that you would speak to us clearly and move us out of a fear mindset or a scarcity mindset into abundance. God, I thank you that we can start living by faith when it comes to our finances right now with those bills on the table, with that student loan lingering, with all the things that you already know. Father God, thank you that we're moving into a mindset that switches till we will be just like you. We will be ones who give. Over and over and over and over again. Give us faith like a farmer. Let us be able to see dry and barren land and be able to see the future because of the seed that we possess in our hand. And God, I thank you that your children know your voice and a stranger they will not listen to. Make us abundant, not for a show, not for people to be drawn to us, but so people can be drawn to you, Father God. Today, we're asking you to do a work in our hearts so that we can be made more like you. Jesus name. Even in this same mode, I want you to know that God never asked you for anything without giving to you first. So if you're in this room and you've never received Jesus, I want you to know that he already gave his son

so that you could have everlasting life. If you wanna know what it's like to experience overwhelming generosity, all you have to do is receive Jesus by faith. It's the thing that took me from being a manipulator, addicted to pornography, a liar, a manipulator, all of those things is who I was. That was my natural state. And God said, come on, give me your heart and I'll help you change your habits. And today I wanna give you the same invitation. I don't care if you're watching. I don't care if you was at the club last night. I don't care what you're planning to do tomorrow. I don't care if you have tons of secrets. Right now, God wants your heart. And I need the church to begin to pray because somebody's life is in the balance. Whether you're watching this on the Pando app or you're watching this on a rebroadcast or you're watching it six years from now and somebody just sent you this message. Today is your day of salvation. Today I believe that God wants to introduce you to his son, Jesus. If that's you and you wanna make Jesus Christ your personal Lord and savior, I'm telling you, it's gonna set you on a journey of progression that will change your life forever.

But it starts with one choice. And the choice is Jesus. If you're saying, pastor, I wanna be added into that prayer. On the count of three, I just want you to slip your hand in the air. Whether you're in the room or you're watching online, I just want you to say, pastor, I wanna be a part of that prayer. I wanna make Jesus my Lord and savior. I see you sis already. One, you're making the greatest decision of your life. I see you my brother. Two, your name is gonna be written in the Lamb's book of life. Three, just shoot your hand up all over this place. I see you, I see you. Come on TC. More than I see you, God sees you. Glory to God. I see you my brother. You can put your hand down. We're not gonna make you confess. Hopefully one day you'll get with some community that you trust and you can be able to share what God's doing in your life. But today we're gonna make a confession together because at TC we're a family. Nobody prays alone. So I want everybody just to lift your hands and say God,

thank you for giving Jesus just for me. Today I admit I'm a sinner and I need a savior and I turn to you. I repent and I ask you to redeem my life. I believe you lived, you died and you rose again with all power just for me. Here's my life, change me. Renew me, transform me. I'm yours forever. In Jesus name, amen. Oh, can we celebrate with all of. That should be the loudest shout of the day.