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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. Y' all know the race. Good measure, press on shaking and gilly and running. Ah, it's running over Will men give unto. Okay, all right. The only time I've ever heard that scripture is at offering time. Nobody will ever say it any other time it's give. But what I found out is context is king. So if you go to Matthew chapter seven, 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 puts 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 measured back to you. How good measure pressed 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. 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 100. 100. You got two. All the married people should say Amen. 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. All right. Some of you are living in a harvest of what you've already given. Nobody's around me but you, the best ghoster. You leave people high and dry all the time. I'm not answering that text message. And then when you in your time of need, it's like, why is nobody here for me? Harvesting 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 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 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 Froot Loops. Oh, y' all know. Y' all know there's certain cereals you need to tell your kids. Don't. Uh, 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 Froot Loops in your own house. No, I'm saying apply it where you are. Some of y' all got cars, 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 are stingy. Okay? You see people struggling, have something to meet their need. I guess they need to learn. Oh, come on. I, I, I, I 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 have to think. You see them struggling to pay the bill. At the end, he's like, I told them to come earlier. I'm trying to get out of here. And God somehow got you sitting there and it's your waitress and the card, I don't know the card. Let's try another card. And they done tried 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, they don't, they don't, they don't. 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 a need, they don't know their salvation is attached to that seed. You gonna pay for their cheddars and it's gonna lead them to me. You don' that they just prayed and asked God. You have no idea. But he's working with people who have not fully bought into the heart struggling

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And that's why giving is big to God. How we hear scripture is like this. Give money. That's how we hear it. God wants us to give money. Pastor Mike, 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 he'll say, give encouragement. Give encouragement. Oh, y' all don't hear what I'm saying. 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. Yo, 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. Might be give a pair of 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? Give. And my question to you is to 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 is coming back to you. Good measure. Press down. Shaken 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 going, no, 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. To write? 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 the man that puts stuff in the lap. I'm the lap giver. Let's stay away from that. 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 pastored for almost 11 years. That's crazy to even say I pastored for almost 11 years. Amen. Let's just pray we're making another three. Okay, here we go. 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. Because if giving is all about the heart, what's keeping you from giving is your heart is being attacked. And what I found out through my. My small study on ChatGPT about a heart and heart attacks is that a heart attack is caused because there is a blockage of flow. 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 think 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 say 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 is 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 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 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, no, I'm not talking about ethereally. Open up your bank account. Some of y' all treasure is in your stomach. And it's in there. Good measure. Press down and it's overflowing over that belt line. I'm telling you right now 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 a lake house. Some of your treasures on the golf course. You, you, you, you live in an apartment, but you have a country club. There's a word called priorities, brother. Where's your treasure? Some of your treasure is in your children. 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.

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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 demonstrative and overt. Maybe your greed is silent in your head and comes out in very calm actions. 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, oh, oh, they had another child. Good for them, baby. 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. 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? It's like, I need more. I gotta have more. And the reason I'm saying this is you have to understand that greed will stop up what God wants to do in your life as far as generosity and giving. And it blocks the areas that he wants to use you. And that's why I'm telling you, you gotta 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, 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 claiming it, he's saying, the Lord gave it to you. He 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 wide 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 eye 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, 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 them nothing because next year is the year of release, and if they don't pay me back by that time, I'm not going to be able to claim my money no more. He said, don't have that thought. Stop that. Because that thought is a greedy thought. That thought is a selfish thought. That thought is. Watch this. Wicked. I heard the cast of 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. Whiz. It's a W. The Wiz. Y' all here, too. 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? Ease on down, ease on down the road. Y' all gotta park for me. Don't you carry. Okay. Never let me stop white people. The Wiz is great. I, I, 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, 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 one, but you end up taking the box anyway for later. Be careful, because greed. Watch this becomes 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 had the argument later, but you took two donuts. Now you about to get fired. Somebody asked me, what's an area pastor, Mike, that you're still greedy in? See, I like the people around me because we. We don't just preach about stuff. They be trying to dig. They 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 they were like, you're generous with finances. You're generous with this. Like, where are you greedy? And I said, ah, 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. Like, even today, it's Mother's Day, And my children are going to present my wife with some amazing gifts. And. And I. I have been diligent on asking them what they want to get their mother.

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And there's going to be some. A quandary of how Gia got her hands on $140 at 5 years old. And. And I'm. I'm saying this to be funny, but they're going to get praised and. And their mom's going to be like, oh, my God. This is exactly what I wanted. 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. 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, O God, know my heart. I still need some work on my heart because 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, 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 going to 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 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 indulged 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 a 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 y' all hear what I'm saying? Do you know how many times I've gone into Quik Trip and gone up? Watch this. I don't even have a car that need gas. So my intent was to go there to bless somebody. And I watched Scott know it. We'll go into Kwik Trip and I'll look out there and see where there's 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 into Quid 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. I love my church. The next condition that comes to attack your heart is. Watch this. The wrong grip.

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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. This 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'd be like, God, 10 was good. We made it 10. And God's like, no, no, no, no. Just keep holding everything like this. Hold 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 are my kids. 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 authority anymore. You're supposed to cheer from the sidelines, say, don't do that. Ooh, 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 grip. 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 are 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. 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, 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 going to give him something back. He said, I'm going to store up your treasure in heaven. And 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. Write 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. No, I'm 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 in the world 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 get he's 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 60k over 100k. It's like you got stingier the more money you got. How was you Broke and generous

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now you got a savings and stingy because I'll never be broke another day in my life. My mama was broke, my great grandma was broke, my great grandmama broke. But we not going to 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. Selah pause. Think if he asked you to give your car away, would you stop following him? God would never ask. She 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 their company. 10x'd everything. 10x 10x 10x. They would have. 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'd in the next week. Walk away from it for the sake of Jesus. We gon keep moving. Jesus looked around at his disciples and said this verse 23 he said, how hard is 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 wiling 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? Than 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 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 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 got to worry. It's possible. We can do anything if you have the right heart. That's why generosity and giving is all about the heart. Watch 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 shh. 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 youe 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. Can't trust God. Can't give, can't tithe. But grief tries to come and attack you after you actually give. Has anybody ever given something and then was like, oh, shoot. Trusting you. God really wants 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. Part of my ministry of generosity that I started where I was at when I didn't have Nothing was giving shoes away. 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. Me and my brothers got that honest from my dad. He used to go to pawn shops and find stuff 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 would 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. 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 the shoes. The thing that grieved me the most. And maybe this is just me venting because my spirit is gone. 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 checked 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 generations. Anxiety from your past experiences? Stress around bills and debt? Can't find a job comparison? Shame, even trauma connected to money Struggling

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What I'm telling you is you have to trust God. I always see this meme and it and it always reminds me of the time that God was asking me to actually stop grieving over what I was giving him because he always had something better for me. Can you put that 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 a greedy heart. I want you to develop a generous heart. It says, you should surely give to him 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, 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 father flow of what God will bless you with to do it again. So many people teach give and you'll get, give and you'll get give and you'll get. That actually works greed into your heart. Part of our culture code is we give just to give and not to give. 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 going to 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. Did y' all hear me? Or you could 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 10, he said, you should just go to DraftKings and gamble. He said, but if the motive is to trust me, if the motive is to actually have a heart like mind that will look at needs and sow and share, he said, ah, you got the right motive. 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 deserved God's grace? How many people deserved a second chance? And you on your 19th life in Mario. Do y' all understand what I'm saying? You're back again. God has given you another. 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, I spent my last hundred this week on getting my kids gifts for their mama. And I was wondering, what's up, PC I got this hundred dollars for you. You got this hundred for me? Whoa, PC Bro. Thank you, dog. 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? Because I gave it to him before I came on the platform. I told him in the sermon, I'm gonna say, I need $100. Get up and give me this hundred dollars 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. Yeah. Then every time God asks 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 month. 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 that 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.

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The cure for the condition of grief is gratitude. 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. Whoo. 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, oh, he's flashy. He's. 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 standing, 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 we. I said, I get all 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 $8300 seed. I stood up in a series like this, and I said, y', all, we're going to do something. Something we probably have never done in our church before. I said, we're gonna 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, 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 what God's placed in their heart. And it wasn't a loan. 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, despite 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 subscribed 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 hits 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 and the local church and others around you. And maybe you stop 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 in 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, whoo. It look alright. Alright. 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 gotta 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 going 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 say I can't be fake and I can't. Da, da. 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 is not just about money? What if money's just a test of giving, but what if giving is 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 open 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 a 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, renamed 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? Create in us a clean heart heart and renew in 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 if 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 today, 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. 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's like, golly, they. 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 want 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 and 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? Because 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 was in there. And God said, I'm not going to make you perfect. But I'm 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. Two, 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 request up there. The team is going to feed them to me. I'mma 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 are 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. I like things my way, My coffee, my schedule and my treatment. So I talked to my doctor about self injecting with the Vivgard Hytrulo pre filled syringe which contains fgar, Tigamide, Alpha and Hyaluronidase qvfc. It's injected under your skin subcutaneously. It means I can inject in my space on my time. It's my treatment, my way. 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