Trigger Something Different // Triggered (Part 12) // Michael Todd

Summary

Podcast Summary: Trigger Something Different // Triggered (Part 12) // Michael Todd

Podcast: Transformation Church
Episode Air Date: December 7, 2025
Speaker: Pastor Michael Todd
Episode Theme: Trigger Something Different (Triggered Series Part 12)
Timestamps follow MM:SS format.

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Episode Overview

Pastor Michael Todd wraps up the "Triggered" series by challenging listeners to reconsider their reactions to life's inevitable triggers. Rather than focusing on minimizing or avoiding triggers, Mike Todd emphasizes the importance of what we are "filled with"—faith or fear—when those triggers are pressed. Through biblical stories, personal anecdotes, and engaging illustrations, he urges the Transformation Church family to pour out fear and fill up with faith, so that when squeezed by life's pressures, what emerges is Christlikeness and positive transformation.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Reframing Giving and Obedience

• Faith over money: The current "crazy faith" offering is portrayed not as a ploy for church fundraising but as an opportunity for individual transformation through obedience and faith. (03:00)
  • “This is not a ploy for the church to get money... This is an opportunity for your house to transform.” — Pastor Mike Todd (01:51)
• Obedience is year-round: True obedience and faith are not seasonal but consistent practices, likened to regular gym attendance rather than occasional bursts of effort. (04:10–05:00)
  • “One time in the gym... it’s not as good as 50 times. The compounding of 10 pounds over time is going to produce a much stronger... faith than lifting a hundred pounds once.” (04:55)

2. Personal Stories on Stewardship and Sacrifice

• Teaching children about obedience: Mike shares a touching story about his daughter learning to tithe, emphasizing the heart behind giving rather than the act itself. (10:08–12:24)
  • “If I don’t give it to you now, I won’t give it to you.” — Pastor Mike Todd’s daughter (12:16)
• God as the ultimate provider: Even when we give sacrificially, God continues to provide, just as an earthly father remembers and honors his child’s sacrifice. (13:24–15:07)
  • “If you, a regular earthly father, can remember the sacrifice your daughter put aside... how much more do you think that I see every dollar, dime, every sacrifice?” (13:24)

3. Triggers: The Real Source of Power

• Triggers are neutral: Pastor Mike explains that triggers only reveal what's already inside us.
  • “Triggers don’t do anything but give access to whatever’s on the inside.” (25:35)
• The content, not the trigger, determines the outcome: Using powerful object lessons (like squeezing an orange or a spray bottle), he illustrates that being full of fear, bitterness, or faith determines what comes out when we’re pressed. (33:53–34:17)
  • “What do y’all think is gonna come out of here if I squeeze this?...Because it's an orange... And it wouldn’t make sense if apple juice came out of an orange.” (34:00)
  • “The problem is we’re so used to fear being readily available...God has been trying to change out our content.” (33:09)

4. How to Refill: Faith vs. Fear

• Filling up on the Word: Faith comes by hearing and the Word of God; we must intentionally fill ourselves up with scripture and positive influences.
  • “Faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God... Church, you cannot fill up too much on the word.” (38:59–39:51)
• Personal transformation: When filled with faith through God’s Word and Spirit, being triggered releases Christ-like behaviors and impacts those around us—especially our family and children. (53:20)
  • “What I’m full of is going to get on them.” (53:20)
• Fruit of the Spirit: Pastor Mike calls for listeners to shift their default responses (anger, bitterness, fear) to the fruits of the Spirit when triggered.
  • “Be filled with these fruits of the spirit. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, self-control.” (89:58–90:18)

5. Biblical Example: Joshua, Caleb, and the Israelites

• Story of the spies (Numbers 13): Ten spies return full of fear; only Joshua and Caleb are filled with faith. This leads to 40 years in the wilderness for an entire generation.
  • “Joshua and Caleb are a part of being delivered from Egypt... They still were able to come out of a really bad situation with faith.” (63:06–64:09)
  • “An 11-day journey turned into a 40-year death. Why? Because of disobedience.” (68:48)
• Protecting the seed of faith: Even if faith isn’t popular or shared by many, protect it, nurture it, and believe longer (not just stronger).
  • “How do you trigger something different? Believe what others don’t... Protect the seed of your belief... You believe longer, not necessarily stronger.” (78:16–83:41)
• Generational impact: Faith leaves a mark on subsequent generations, just as fear does.

6. Practical Calls to Action

• Evaluate your content: Ask God for help replacing negative internal “content” with faith. (86:36)
• Listen to scripture: Fill daily routines with God’s word—faith ‘comes by hearing’ (87:59)
• Respond differently: When triggered, aspire to release faith, joy, or compassion, not old patterns. (89:45)
• Guard your environment: Protect your faith “seed” with boundaries, just as a garden is protected from being trampled. (80:53)
• Believe uniquely: It’s okay if only a few stand in faith; God honors even the minority who believe.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the neutrality of triggers:
  “Triggers are neutral. Triggers don’t do anything but give access to whatever’s on the inside.” — Mike Todd (25:35)
• On faith and obedience:
  “The circumstance is not supposed to dictate our obedience.” (05:08)
• On sacrificial giving:
  “It’s not a sacrifice if you don’t say ‘ouch.’” (08:04)
• On filling with faith:
  “The difference between this orange and you is that you're a vessel and you get to choose what goes in.” (35:26)
• On generational impact:
  “What you’re full of is marking your children. What you’re full of is marking your co-workers.” (57:28)
• On faith as evidence of a future:
  "Faith is the evidence that you believe God gonna do something up there. I'm using my faith right here." (43:19)
• On our choices:
  “You get a chance to fill up with the right thing or the wrong thing. You can fill up with faith or you can fill up with fear.” (37:04)
• On popular faith:
  “2 out of 2 million...faith may not be popular, but with God, it will preserve you.” (77:26–77:42)

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Important Timestamps & Segments

• Call to transform giving & faith: 01:46–07:01
• Story of his daughter’s offering: 10:08–14:11
• Object lesson with spray bottle & orange: 28:31–35:05
• Biblical teaching on being filled: 37:09–41:16
• How faith is built: 38:59–40:23
• Impact on next generations: 53:09–59:00
• Practical application: 80:53–84:08
• Story of Joshua and Caleb: 63:06–72:11
• Challenging the listener to be different: 86:12–88:57
• Concluding prayer and salvation call: 90:42–94:43

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Three Methods to “Trigger Something Different”

1. Believe What Others Won’t: Stand in faith, even in the minority (78:16)
2. Protect the Seed of Belief: Guard your faith, set boundaries (80:53)
3. Believe Longer, Not Just Stronger: Endure in faith, even if it’s not loud or impressive; persistence matters (83:41)

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Closing Challenges

• Evaluate what you’re truly filled with; faith or fear?
• Intentionally replace old, negative patterns with God’s Word and Spirit.
• Let your responses under pressure be transformed so that your life leaves a mark of faith on others—especially your family.

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Summary by Transformation Church Podcast Summarizer — December 2025

Transcript

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Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast where we represent God to the lost and Found for Transformation in Christ. We're so glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe God will transform your life through today's message.

[Pastor Mike Todd]

Thank God for the faith that's in the room. I have an assignment today and I'm going to get right into it because I need all the time. I want to let you guys know that this is a season of great faith for our church and you've heard it over and over. You've heard beautiful testimonies, you've heard Pastor Charles and Pastor Bree and even the testimony of the young lady this week and last week talk about how this crazy faith time of sowing is an opportunity for us to exercise our faith. I just need to let everybody know something real quick who's in here or watching online. This is not a ploy for the church to get money. I need to say it because right now a lot of people you're thinking we fine. We going to be fine. God provides for this house. I got to say this. This is an opportunity for your house to transform.

I'm telling you because this has changed my life. I would not be up here talking to anybody about giving to God's house unless this was biblical, unless it was patterned in the wor. And there's tons of places I could go to. Most people would do a giving series at this time, but I always fight that because I want it to be a byproduct of our obedience. I don't want to convince you to do what God has already told us to do. And a lot of times in this moment, if we were trying to do something, to build something, people would try to be doing stuff. All I'm giving us next week is an opportunity. Somebody say an opportunity giving you an opportunity to exercise the one thing that God says it's impossible to please him without. It's your faith. And a lot of times.

Some of y' all think y' all strong until you need to move to bed.

Come on, let's be honest. You'll be like, oh, yeah, I can get them in.

The same thing happens with our faith. Many times a lot of us feel like we got strong faith until God says, hey, give this shed that. Let that go. And every year as a church, we make it an opportunity. And this is. I'm thinking about, you know, we represent. I'm thinking about changing crazy faith offering to another time of year. I'm thinking about making it in April or June or July. Because I need everybody to know this is not about anything except, will you obey me when I tell you to?

Because the truth of the matter, Pastor Charles, is I be getting asked to give stuff away all year long.

I want to say the life of a believer and obedience is not just a one time a year thing. The life of an obedience is God, what are you requiring of me? Somebody say today, what we do at Transformation Church is we make one time a year for everybody. And this is the great thing about it. And I'm so proud as a pastor. The majority of the people in this room that call Transformation Church their home, they do this every month as they set aside tithe and say, God, you don't got to give me one time a year. I'm gonna. I'm gonna trust you every single time. I get increase, as the Bible says. And that's what I applaud. Because one time in the gym is. It's not as good as 50 times.

You go one time and lift 100 pounds and come out and you videotape it and have a full thing, and everybody Clapping, you get a thousand likes. That ain't gonna make you no stronger. You just be sore for the week.

Everybody got what I'm saying. But if you go every day and all you lifting is 10 pounds, the compounding of 10 pounds over time is going to produce a much stronger for this example faith than lifting a hundred times once. What I'm inviting everybody into is a step of your crazy faith. And I know there's real situations going on. I know that people have been furloughed. I know that some people's investments have gone down while other people have made the most money they've ever made in a year. The difference with believers is that the circumstance is not supposed to dictate our obedience. And this is where trust and faith comes. I've been doing the same thing with my finances for over 15 years. And in some of those years I did not make barely any money. And let me give you a secret. It's harder to obey God when you have more money.

Nobody tells you this, but giving $10 is way easier than giving 10,000. Not because the amount doesn't feel the same. It's because you start to think of all the things you could do with it. Well, Lord, I could get out of debt more. And Lord, I could bless this person. And Lord, I could go on vacation. And you told me that. And God said, I give seed.

To the sower. I'll give you more, but would you sow more? And the truth is, many of us, I can't say it for ourselves, but many of us wouldn't because we haven't. Let me say it again. Many of us wouldn't because we haven't. I'm challenging Transformation Church. I don't care if you're on government assistance.

Ask God what are you supposed to do? Because if you don't have money, you don't have to give money. But this is my challenge. Give something.

Even if you can't give it to the church, give it to somebody in need. Because your faith can be stretched in this season and it change everything in your life. And today I'm not asking you for amounts. We're not doing thousand dollar lines. All the rich people stand over here, all the poor people stand over here. Partner up with two broke people so you can get. We're not doing that. That's dumb, guys. And no, it's just stuff that's happened in church. If you're new to church culture, don't worry about us. We're just trying to correct some things. We're not we're not doing that because the end of the day, when you look at the Bible, there was a woman that had two mites.

In a mount form. She didn't have a lot. But Jesus standing in the temple said, everybody stop and notice what this woman's doing right here. And they're like, no, they in the back making it rain. Look at old big big boy over there making. Jesus said, they're giving out of their abundance. But that woman right there, she's given a sacrificial gift.

Pastor Mike, how do you know it's a sacrifice? You say, ouch.

I'm trying to be real practical with you. It's not a sacrifice. You feel like that was.

If you don't say, oh, and today for anybody that think there's manipulation or anything in this, the Bible tells us what to do with that. Do not give if you feel like there's manipulation or compulsion. I'm trying to be as real as you can. I also, as a pastor and a leader, cannot stop inviting you into what the Word is inviting us all into. If you want to move to your next level of faith, this is an opportunity for you to join us as a church, to move into it together. Give me that real quick. I was planning to do this at the end of the sermon, but I felt God telling me to do it right now. This is a black box that I've had in my closet for 365 days.

Because I am trying to be a good father. Hey, this is Sarah.

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[Pastor Mike Todd]

I'm trying to teach My kids, the value very early of honoring God. So I have a beautiful daughter who, like her father, liked money at a young age.

And my daughter, you can guess which one it is. But my daughter really likes the ability have her own money. She don't need her own money. She doesn't buy anything with the money she gets. But she likes having it. And instead of killing that in her, I'm trying to develop stewardship in her at a very young age. And so I told her, I showed her the scripture last year that said, hey, we have to honor God with our wealth. And she had a season in her life last year where she was bawling. She started selling some things. People started buying them from her. I was getting all these cash apps. She wrote down my cash app and put it on a piece of paper, took it to the lobby and was using nepotism to fill her pockets. I just want to call it what it is.

And she did it for about three months. And she came to me and she was like, dad, look at this. She was counting money on my bed and said, I have this much money and all this other stuff. Listen, she's under the age. She's still in single digits in age. And I said, so what's the first thing we're gonna do? Oh, yeah, we gotta honor God with our money. I said, what do you mean? You understand why, right? Yeah. Because if we honor God with our money, then he gonna give us some more money. I said.

I said, you're on the right track. And I took her to the story of the people who stewarded over what God gave him and how the ones that he stewarded over it, well, he gave them more to manage. And so right there, I was like, hey, we're gonna give. What do you want to give? When do you want to give? And I told her about the tithe. But I wasn't going to pressure her. I just wanted to teach her. She came back about 45 minutes later and threw some money on the bed.

And I said, baby, what. What are you doing? She said, if I don't give it to you now.

I won't give it to you.

And I said, this ain't for me. I said, this is for you because you're obeying God. She said, okay. I said, when do you want to give it? Because I wasn't going to tell her, go give it this. I just. When the Bible says without compulsion, without. Without pressure, Daddy could have easily. I said, when do you want to give it? She said, I want to give it that crazy faith offering. And I'm thinking like, dang, that's a. That's a year away. But I wanted to honor that. And so I took what she gave and I put it in one of my glasses box. And this morning, as I was coming in church and picking up my watch, the Holy Spirit took my eyes to this box. And inside this box is the money we put there 365 days ago. She does not even remember this.

I promise you, right now she has no clue. But this was the moment this morning where the Holy Spirit said, if you, a regular earthly father.

Can remember.

The sacrifice that your daughter put aside, that's honoring your word and my word. How much more.

Do you think that I see? Every dollar, dime.

Every sacrifice. You think that I'm doing this to create something? And what she doesn't know is I'm still her provider.

She's doing this like she gave something up. But she ain't missed one meal.

She has not pitched into family vacations. She's been on plane rides several times. She her money watch. This is no good here.

What I was looking for is if she would obey.

I know this is a small example, but I would just challenge all of us to do two things. Pray God, what do you want me to do? What do you want my family to do? What do you. What are you calling for me? My business, My startup father, we're in a position, what do you want? And then obey. I'm a college student. Obey. I just got out of this divorce. Obey. And I've seen time and time again when people have stepped out on crazy faith to do what God says to do of how he does the impossible, the unexpected. Watch this. Not even in the same way we gave it. I need to help everybody because somebody think they gonna put 10 and get a hundred back.

And I need you to know that's gambling.

Should go to Osage for that. And they gonna take all your money.

You may give 10 here and get forgiveness over here.

Something money can't.

You may sow something practical here and get something supernatural over here. You've been wanting to break. I tell people this all the time. Something that broke the back of pornography off of my life was me actually obeying when God told me to be generous because I would not obey to give anything. So I couldn't obey to turn that stuff off. My obedience was broken. Not just in that area, in every area. He said, you can train your obedience by when I say turn it. To give this, you can give it. So when I say to turn it off, you know, that same lever. And I'm not saying that's the same thing for everybody, but what I am saying is God is faithful to do what he said he's going to do. So today, before I get into the sermon, I want to pray for everybody that desires to give.

It don't even matter if you got it or want to at this moment, but if you desire to, I'm going to pray that God gives seed to the person who has decided to sow. And if you not and you're saying by this time next year, I'm going to have something to do, I'm praying that God would start that work in you right now. Your pastor's in it for the long haul. I'm not in this for some superficial. Right now. We got it. No, if it got to be two more years for God to really take this thing and it be real.

We'Re gonna walk with you, Pastor. That does not. That is not good for the bottom line. If it's your revelation, nobody will ever steal it from you, though. And whether you go to this church or somebody else church, I want you to understand the principles of God.

So today, if you desire to give, just want you to receive this prayer. Whether you're in this room or watching online or thousands of people in Transformation Nation, I'm believing that we're gonna take this step into 2026 by faith. So, Father, I thank you. I thank you that you talk about generosity in your word more than almost any other topic because you know where our treasure is, our heart follows. Father, forgive me for putting my heart in other places. And I thank you today that you would make me over again. Here I am at the altar asking you to do a work in my heart that it would be prepared to obey whatever you say. And Father, right now, as real situations are looming in the face of so many today, I thank you that you are increasing our faith to believe. Just like Moses standing at that seat with the whole Pharaoh's army behind him and a group of people following him. God, what am I going to do here? You made a way out out of no way. As he did what he could with his faith, he lifted up that staff. That was his act of faith. He sold faith by lifting up that staff, Father God, and you did a miracle. I am praying that same anointing on your people right now. Father God, for every husband and wife that has to come in agreement, for every college student, every high school student, every person that's in their first job, Father, whatever is going on whether they are a CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Watching this, Father God, and feel like, ah, that's not good for my taxes. God, I thank you that you are moving them supernaturally into faith to believe and obey. Father, this church will be known for its crazy faith. And we won't back up off of what you have given us. Not for a second, not if culture changes, not if anybody leaves. Father God, your word is true and we're standing in promises right now. So today we have faith but help our unbelief.

I thank you that this week, Father, no matter what comes, you will speak clearly and as your children, we will obey. And I thank you that faith will be ignited all over this world and we will see you do miracles, signs and wonders. Put seed in the hands of of those who have decided to sow. And we will give you glory, we will give you honor, and we will give you praise in Jesus name. Somebody say we agree. Say it with faith. Say we agree. We expect. Amen. If you gonna sow in crazy face, let's give God some praise in this place. Hallelujah.

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[Pastor Mike Todd]

Hey, listen, what I want you to do is connect your faith practically with your faith written down.

Writing on this doesn't mean that you get in this because you gave that.

Trying to activate two faith muscles at the same time. Does everybody understand what I'm saying? So the two arms of faith is. Faith without works is. Say it again. Faith without works is. So our sowing is a practical faith Act. But Rebecca 2:2 says it ain't even real if you don't write it down.

So some of us are believing for things that are up here. It's not real yet. Write the vision and make it plain. And I can't tell you how many babies I've held that used to be on this card. Y' all don't hear me? I can't tell you how many relationships have been restored that used to be on this card. I can't tell you how many people got jobs in places that they called it.

Cuz they had the faith, the crazy faith to write it down. Many of you are the product of that. So I want you to go ahead and do that and if you real wild, you'll post it online because you never know. You'll put it up somewhere because you never know. There are people that God speaks to to not just need a prayer answered.

Dr. Clark. They don't understand. There are some people that they've graduated to the place where their whole mission and ministry is to see what the need is and to help people get their need met. And I'm just telling you there are things that have happened outside of the church. People saying, God, I need a job. And somebody sees they crazy faith card and God answers prayers. So I'm asking us to activate. Somebody say activate. I want you to activate your faith. And this is about to be the best week ever for anybody traveling in for this. We can't wait to worship with you. Next week is going to be a fun, fun, fun time. We're believing for you. And I have a word that I'm going to go right into the heels of me just saying this because the truth of the matter is all of this means nothing if you're not full of faith.

So get your notes out and I'm going to try to help you. As we're about to end this triggered series next week.

I might take it to Christmas because y' all been, y', all, y' all been crashing out. So I, I'm, I might take it to Christmas.

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[Pastor Mike Todd]

But I felt very compelled this week to take the power out of the trigger.

Because we've been talking about triggers for three months and I think we've given the trigger too much power.

Because there is no way that if you are in the human experience that you will not be triggered by something. How many people were hot, humble, open and transparent? How many people were triggered by something this week? Hands. I need hands triggered by something at your job. Oh my God. Triggered by something one of your kids did or a family member did? Lord, two hands and somebody just went down post straight. Okay.

How many people were triggered by something they weren't expecting, expecting to be triggered by like you saw something or a post or somebody saying something. Why is that bothering me so bad? Okay. What'd you do?

What'd you do? Somebody said, let it go. Who gonna be honest? How many people said a curse word, thank you for being honest? She said, it was me, Pastor. I was the one. How many people withdrew?

You know what I'm saying? You got triggers. Like, I'm going inside. I'm done with all of y'.

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[Pastor Mike Todd]

Okay. How many people went to prayer?

Real churchy answer, I see.

Okay. How many people went to food? Oh, come on. Y' all know. Y' all already know. He's like Wingstop. Like, he's like, you already know. Like, some of us get triggered, and you know it. I can't control that.

I'm gonna go get some ice cream.

Come on. Don't point at your daddy. She was like.

Love the truth, baby.

When you get triggered.

What do you do?

The reason somebody said, take a nap. You've been sleep all week.

Come on. The thing that I've realized about triggers is triggers are neutral.

Triggers don't do anything but give access to whatever's on the inside.

If there is nothing on the other side of the trigger, nothing comes out.

But if something squeezes you, whatever's on the inside.

So I need us to, for a second, flip this series, because the trigger actually only exposes what's there already.

If there's a bullet in there, if it's an arrow in there, if it's something already in there. That's why you tell kids, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't pull the. Because whatever's in there.

Ah.

Stay away from that. Because if you touch that. That's why we put a safety on the gun. That's why we put a safety on it. Because if you touch it, there is no way we can get back what it fires because it was already. Watch this. Loaded.

And what I'm trying to tell you right now is if you're already loaded with anger and you're already loaded with resentment, and you're already loaded with bitterness and you're already loaded with perversion.

It doesn't matter if they come with pure intent, just wanting to take you on a date, okay? If you loaded with perversion, when that. When you get triggered and you smell that.

Y' all know, some of y'.

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[Pastor Mike Todd]

It just. A smell will trigger you. Saved, sanctified, and filled with the Holy Ghost for 32 years. And that curve.

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It takes you out. I don't know what it is for you, but. But if there's no perversion in there. If there's no. If there's no crack in there, when it gets triggered.

I think so many times we're trying to live. Watch this. An untriggerable life.

And that's not possible. In this world, you will have trouble. That's what Jesus said. In this world, you will be triggered. In this world, you will have family members, co workers, people you don't know that are going to push something that is going to activate whatever is on the inside. And my question to you is, what is getting exposed every time you get squeezed? Okay. Oh, God. I'm gonna have to make this real clear for y'. All. Cause some of y' all don't get it.

This is the life of believers before they come to Earth.

When they come to Earth, all they are is people who are gonna get filled with something. And right now, if I hit the trigger, nothing comes out. If I hit the trigger, nothing comes out. But this is not how you stay. Because as soon as you were born, you are born into a family.

And as soon as you go to school, depending on what side of the tracks you was born on, there's culture, there is community, there is crazy that comes with all of that. And what ends up happening is the life of the believer. We try to not let nobody touch the trigger. But somebody's gonna pull this.

Today, tomorrow, or the next day. And don't be in church. Cause people in church.

That's my seat.

I've been here for 16 years. Nobody cares.

I should be singing that song. I should be. It's just.

Some of y' all just went home for Thanksgiving. You ain't married yet.

Granny. You've had six husbands. Don't want to be like you understand? Now she triggered. Now you trigger. Now they trigger. Bow, bow, bow, bow, bow. Shots.

Y' all hear what I'm saying?

You coming in, you're ready.

But the truth of the matter is, the power's not in the trigger.

The power's in what you're full of.

So most of us get into this life and we become full of fear.

Oh, Lord, that fear trying to bubble up on me. And we put on Instagram in the morning or Facebook, and we put in something that, you know, it doesn't feel that bad. It doesn't look that bad. It kind of looks like water. Kind of looks like something pure. And we load up on fear. And at the moment, we go and we load up on some foolishness, too. Not just fear. It be some foolishness in there. Seeing some Stuff we not supposed to see. Staying longer on websites, getting angry. Cause other people was angry.

Yeah. And at the moment.

We come to the workplace.

Why y' all backing up?

Oh, y' all don't. Y' all don't. You know?

Why don't you want to be close to me now? Because the truth of the matter is, as long as I don't stay triggered, as long as nobody presses my buttons, we good. But as soon as somebody starts triggering me. Yeah, it didn't come out. How? Oh, it's a soft spray.

It's a Mr.

Which feels less invasive. It's not that bad. It's just a little gossip.

It's constant, though. It's consistent, though.

Don't move, guys. Matter of fact, I gotta get closer to y' all.

Now. Why? Why do you want me to stay over here?

The truth of the matter is I'm gonna get triggered. But the only reason you're frustrated or you don't want me close is not because I got triggered or somebody squeezed me. It's because of what I'm full of.

The reason your kids don't want to bring their friends to your house.

Is because they know what you're. That's why they want to go away. Can I go play at such and such house? Why you don't want to bring them over here?

Some of us don't recognize that God has been trying to change out our content.

He's trying to make us full of something different. And the problem is we're so used to fear being readily available.

Everywhere we go. I can catch somebody who doesn't believe God's going to do what he said every place that I am. And this is the thing that people don't understand.

Is whatever you squeeze.

Whatever you squeeze, what's on the inside.

It'S coming out. As a believer, what's in you.

Today? I just. I'm just coming to gently challenge that maybe what's been happening in your life and in your sphere of influence is because you're full of the wrong thing. What do y' all think is gonna come out of here if I squeeze this?

What? Orange juice. Why would you think that?

Because it's an orange.

And it wouldn't make sense if apple juice came out.

Of an orange. Right? Okay, let's see what y'. All. Let's see if y' all smart.

Come hold this for me.

Just hold that right there. I'm gonna squeeze it. Cause life is. I'm not even gonna try to open it or do. No get. No ninja. I'M gonna just squeeze it.

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Oh, okay. Dang. Hold on. That is kind of strong. Dang. Mo.

Dang. I'm sorry for that.

Dang. It's. Close your eyes.

I think y' all were right.

When I squeeze it, no matter where. Where the pressure came from.

It'S still.

Orange juice.

I'm just. I'm going slow because I want you to see the anger and the bitterness that you've been.

Trying to pray away can't go away until it's replaced.

That jealousy is not going anywhere.

Because you've put it. You've put it in. See, the difference about from an orange to you is that you're a vessel and you get to choose what goes in.

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The difference between this orange and you is when God created this, the orange had no choice.

Because it was an orange, God filled it full of juice. So when you squeeze it every time. Mo, you okay? Close your eyes, baby. Okay.

But guess what?

The word calls you a vessel.

And I know that it's so easy to walk around and blame everybody else for everything that's going on, but today, you get a chance to fill up with the right thing or the wrong thing. You can either fill up with faith or you can fill up with fear. Hear what I just said? What are the two options? Faith or. Here.

I'm going to leave this one empty because it should be our faith bottle. But most believers don't read the word.

No, no, no, no, no, no. Because the Bible tells us that the trigger is the thing that reveals what's on the inside. So as soon as I hit this one Something's coming out as soon as I hit this one. Nothing's coming out until it's filled with the right thing. So let's go to the word Romans 10:17.

Because today I want you to be full of faith. Somebody say, I will be full of faith. I'm about to help somebody right now because I'm tired of helpless hope and I'm tired of powerless Christianity. Like, you just gotta endure stuff. And God's literally telling you you can change what you are full of right now. You can put something else in and get a different result, but you have to be the one to recognize it. Fear is not gonna get you to where you need to be in this next season. Agreeing with people who don't see what God says over your life is not gonna get you to the place that you need to be. It is time for you to be full of faith and not full of fear. Romans 10:17. So. So faith comes from.

And hearing the word of God. Why do you come to church? Why do you read your Bible? Why do you listen to Pastor Mike on podcast? It's because you're trying to get your faith up.

Why you always listening to that preacher? Cause you don't help my faith.

Come on, let's be honest. People will try to literally come against you. I mean, he just a man, and that's just a woman. And y', all, you always listen to them worship songs. Hey, it's helping my faith. And so I don't go off the next time that I come in contact with some of your craziness. And so that when situations squeeze me, what comes out is good. I have to get faith. And the Bible tells me faith comes by hearing and hearing the words of God. Church, you cannot fill up too much on the word.

Contrary to culture's belief, you can't become too churchy by reading the Word. God says he will reveal and change and maneuver and correct and construct. The reason why you need a pastor so bad is cause you could get the transformation at your house if you let God do the work. And you could just be, amen. And me like, yep, that happened to me. Yep, I seen that. But there's too much. I'll say it how I feel it. There's too much revelation happening in church.

Hear what I'm saying? You should have already got the revelation.

This should just be confirmation.

This should not be the first time that God's trying to deal with you about this stuff. This should not be the first time that God said, you kind of got an attitude. If you spent time with him looking at the Word as a mirror. It's the only two edged sword that is able to cut through bone and marrow. It can cut through the culture you were raised in and can cut through everything that you picked up along the way. It's the only thing that will reflect to you who God is and who we're not and why we need him and how we become more like him. But if this is the first time you see a mirror.

People be in church like, oh, that's so good. Oh, yes.

And the only reason is because you didn't read.

At all what he said you could have at your house. Now, the Bible also says, don't forsake.

The assembling together. But all your revelations should not come from Pastor Mike. And I know the church is crazy with manipulation because they the man of God. I should just be the man of God who confirms what God already told you. Oh, God. And if you're in darkness, I should be the man of God that leads you to the light, which is Jesus, who brings life. But if every revelation comes from me, it means you're not full of faith. Oh, God. Oh, God. And I know this goes against it, being built on a personality. I'm not trying to build you towards me. I'm trying to equip you for the works of ministry. So when you in the streets and you own that Amazon truck, and when you're in that CEO suite, you're supposed to be the one. When you get squeezed, Christ is supposed to come out. Faith is supposed to come out. Love is supposed to come out. Generosity is supposed to come out. But we getting squeezed and acting like somebody full of fear.

Full of fake.

Come on, y'. All. We full of foul.

When we get squeezed, we acting just like everybody else that don't have a prayer life.

All right?

Hebrews 11:1. I'm just giving you some scriptures to load you up with the right thing for your faith. Faith shows the reality of what we hope for. The Bible says it in another translate. Faith is the substance of things that I don't see yet. It's the evidence of things that are to come.

When you fill up with faith, it proves you have a future.

He says faith is the evidence that you believe God gonna do something up there. I'm using my faith right here. I got faith to believe. 2026 is gonna be my best year. Yeah, you say that every year. And I'm gonna say it every year until I see it every year. I will supply God with faith. I have Faith that my next relationship is gonna be my spouse. Well, that's, that's girl you kind of believe in a lot. But I'm not going to so doubt.

I'm not going to sow what I don't want. I'm going to sow what I do want. And if you are not full of faith.

Fear is the only thing that you have.

Church. Are you full of faith today? I'm trying to put it in. Put your faith in a place where you can grow because faith is contagious. Faith is one of those things that if you get connected to the right people, they can stretch you beyond what you've been stretched before. This is why it is important who you marry. Because you can get with the right person and your faith being mixed with their faith can create a generational legacy that you never thought was possible. But if you get with the wrong person, they will pull down the things that, you know, God is saying. And what I'm saying to you is it's time, time to fill up. Load the gun with faith cuz you going to get squeezed.

So what you triggered what comes out.

Your kid's going to break something soon. I prophesy it.

You don't have to prophesy that you got kids.

When your kids break something that you worked hard for, what's going to come out?

Are you going to treat them how your loving Father in heaven treated you when. When you broke promises? We forget about what we needed? When it's time to give.

Are you going to give compassion and grace and love and understanding? Are you going to give what you got from your mom and them?

Have you replaced that bitterness you were full of and got real love to place in there? I'm just going to give you a few more scriptures and then I'm going to let you go home. 2nd Corinthians 5:7 for we walk by.

We walk by faith.

I'm full of faith because this is the only way I can walk. What's going to happen tomorrow? Don't know. But I'm full of faith and expectation that God is going to do something. How's the church going to be next year? Don't know. But I'm full of faith that God is not done. He that began a good work on the beginning of the inside of this situation is going to be faithful to complete it. How's the family? Crazy.

But I believe that God is reconciling us back together and we're going to deal with our issues. Issues. I'm going to walk. Talk Live by faith.

And it's so crazy. Even right now in a church, I'm having to convince people to believe.

It'S because of what we're full of.

Right now. You're so filled with fear and anxiety and what the news said and what Instagram said and what Twitter said and what your favorite podcaster has proclaimed over your life and over the years, the next year. And you better start watching this because when this happens, this is gonna. What did the word say?

What did God say about the situation? What has our Father already denied? These people gonna be dead and gone.

And the question is, the old folks would have said, whose report.

Will you believe in the old saints? If I was in the old chase, they would say, we will believe the report of the Lord.

And most people aren't even on his news feed.

You're not getting what God's saying daily. You're getting what everybody else is saying. You're filling up on fear. And today I'm just asking you just simply trigger something different.

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[Pastor Mike Todd]

That's all I want you to remember. Trigger something different. Because this same bottle and this trigger, if it's filled with all of this content and I start doing this, it's going to only bring out what's on the inside. But.

But give me something to pour this out in.

But this same vessel.

This is what we didn't we just sing a song called Altered?

Here's my sacrifice, God. Today I'm pouring out fear and I'm pouring out years of control and I'm pouring out all of the perversion that was put in since I was 6 years old. And God, here I am pouring out my love for alcohol and my addiction to substances. Here I'm pouring out, Father God, the jealousy that I've had for people, Father God all around me my whole life. And Father God, I don't want it anymore. And this is where the enemy convince you to fill back up on the same thing because you are empty.

This is a very vulnerable position to be in church that you have to be around the right thing. This is why you don't go to church and cry at the altar and then go to the club the next night. Not because the club is some magical place. It's just going to fill you back up with the same thing you prayed to get rid of. So now you at the club with only a little bit of clothes on, trying to actually get somebody to bring that jelly back home so y' all can make some peanut butter and jelly. And you actually want or somebody to actually love you. This is hilarious to me. And you are filling back up on all of this stuff.

And then depending on how long, how long you stay in that cycle, then you have to come and say, God, it's a new year today. Father God, I want to pour out something that has been keeping me held back all year, Father, today I'm pouring out all the fear that I'll die alone. I'm pouring out the fear, Father God, of trying to provide for myself. And this is the point where you're empty. And God's saying, what are you full of? What are you putting in certain movies you shouldn't watch when you're here?

There's certain things you cannot entertain when you're here.

And this is why, when you come in contact with Jesus.

The content changes.

See, what he wants to do is fill you with his precious blood. The Bible begins to tell us that he shed his blood for the remission for the transition of our sins. So that when he gives us something, it's something that will leave us changed. Everybody, listen to me now. When I get squeezed.

Something different.

Should come out.

Now watch it now. Everybody's starting to lean back now. It's crazy that the substance that's here will leave evidence that it was there.

Oh, my God, this stuff just gonna make you wet and it's gonna dry and it's gonna make you sticky and it's gonna get you. But if you get touched with the thing that has transforming power on the inside of it, I feel my help coming up. It should change the Way you look, the way you act. Will, come help me. Oh, Bella, Come here, sweetheart. My little Bella.

Go put one on Will, too. Come here. Bells. No. Come here. Just. Okay, you gonna stay right there, okay? They told you to stay up there because of the led, huh? Use a good baby. Listen to instruction.

Now, as a parent, what I'm full of is going to get on them.

So. So when my baby is on YouTube and she sees somebody's beautiful soul who's written, don't ever watch Michael Todd. He's a horrible man.

And my daughter calls me from school and says, daddy, why would they say that about you? Why would they say that? I saw something. I wasn't looking, but I just saw. Don't ever listen to them. And now.

I don't care if you talk about me.

Okay?

Okay. I need to be real with y'.

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I don't care if you talk about me. I don't care if you try. I'm big boy. I can handle it. Come, come meet me. But when it starts to affect my family.

Now, now, now, now.

Now. The truth is, that's.

But what I did in that situation is I explained to my daughter in a hard moment, maybe there are some people that are really, really hurting.

And the only way that they know.

To actually deal with their pain.

Is to actually talk about other people. And so, Bella, anytime anybody talks about your daddy, we're gonna pray for them.

She just.

Was marked for her whole life.

By how I responded when I got squeezed.

Daddy, how do I handle when these little boys want to talk to you? Bring them to me and I'll kill them. Oh, no. I mean.

I gotta acknowledge the human nature.

But, Bells, what if I told you if you ever like a boy, what if me and Mommy told you.

I've told you a lot of things, so. Yes, but what I told you, the main thing me and Mommy told you is that you can like a little boy. But we want to do what first? I want to date him first.

So. So. So she knows. And, young man, if you're watching right now.

And.

We have multiple. Multiple.

We roll deep. It's going to be a scene of bad boys in that home. Like Reggie. Reggie. What? No.

But what. What I'm saying is. Hey, mom and Daddy don't want to shun you away from this. She's 12. I shouldn't be talking to her about this. But if you don't put an imprint on your children.

We've told her. We've had conversations about sex. We've. At 12. I need every Parent to wake up.

Wake up.

I've talked to my daughter about generosity, about giving. I've talked to my daughter about so many things because what I'm trying to do is leave a mark on her that cannot be erased. Hear me. Generationally.

She can walk away, but you've seen.

What a life of faith is. She could still while out, she could do everything. But when she needs to be reminded.

Of what has been put on her church. What I'm trying to tell you is what you're full of is marking your children.

What you're full of is marking your co workers. What you're full of. Will, come here. When God dealt with me about my weight, he had to fill me up with faith to believe I would not be overweight and unhealthy anymore. That took faith before it took my fat.

I had to speak those things that were not as though they were. I'm healthy. I'm going to be able to run. I'm going to not have this joint pain. I'm going to actually be able to say no to Blue Bell cookies and ice cream. I'm going to tell you no, you do not control me.

And when I started living that life, I started telling will, by faith, I believe you can be healthy. Well, you got kids, you got a family. I believe your ministry has to go to another level.

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[Pastor Mike Todd]

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Now watch. Now watch, watch, watch, watch.

It's marked him.

Because of the faith I was full of.

They look and live different.

All I'm asking you.

Is what are you full of?

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[Pastor Mike Todd]

Because this year you will be triggered.

The trigger is not the problem.

It's what's in you that's the problem. When your kid makes you mad, when you get the unexpected tax bill when they this past week our main house TV went out.

And yeah. Oh, wow.

And the crazy thing about it, it was a nice tv and as soon as it went out I got triggered. Because the immediate thing was I'mma have to.

Merry Christmas, kids.

And a happy new Year like. And the Holy Spirit told me, do not worry about it. Chill out. Call and see if you have a warranty. Found out the warranty expired one month earlier.

Triggered again. God dar, I should have broke it last month.

Should have threw something at that mug.

Schedule the appointment. Have the people come out. And the Holy Spirit said, just choose a different response.

Trigger something different. We have played more games in our house this week.

We have. They set up little air hockey on the floor. There's just been so much other energy that's been in our house. Cause our main TV has been out. I've had more peace without bluey and Cocomelon and all of the myriad of demonic repetitive songs playing like they're not demonic.

I chose to trigger something different.

I'm just saying to you.

Fill up on faith.

Because the trigger doesn't matter if he can trust you with his content.

I'm gonna finish this by just telling you a story. Can y' all give it up for Will and Bella for me real quick? Don't take those off though.

Here we go. Watch this. I need you to go study numbers this week. Chapter 13, verse 25.

Because when I thought about somebody having and triggering something different, I thought about Joshua and Caleb.

In the face of.

So much squeezing them, they still were able to come out of a really bad situation with faith. And if you don't know the story, I'm going to give you the Cliff Notes real quick. And I have the whole thing written down. But I just feel like everybody say, trigger something different. Say it like you mean it triggers something different. I'm believing that for you and your family, you're gonna be the one to trigger something different. When it comes to all the different things where everybody gets frustrated, you're gonna trigger something different. I'm gonna speak joy and encouragement into this situation. I'm triggering something different. This is where people would usually hate. I'm gonna pray, and I'm gonna trigger love in this situation. Somebody just say, trigger something different. The reason I'm saying this to you is because it takes you out of the powerless position.

Life is not just happening to you as a believer. You have the ability to actually change it. And Joshua and Caleb triggered something different. Check the backstory real quick. This is the mat version of the Bible. Joshua and Caleb are a part of being delivered from Egypt. Moses, y' all remember Mosey? He came out, said, let my people go. Pharaoh was like, for 10 times, then lost his son, was like, dadgum it, I should have listened with the frogs. Let the people go and then forgot like, oh, no, that's not what I'm doing. I'm the bad guy in the story. So the people leaving, 2 million of them. Then he was like, nah, get the troops who do. Hoo. We're going to kill them. They start chasing them. They get to the Red sea, Moses and 2 million people, they don't got nothing else. Moses is like, God, what I do? He said, lift up your staff. Use what you got. Trigger something different. He lifts it up. Boom. The sea splits, the people walk in, and then they like, y'.

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Y' all need to be speed walking because.

They coming. And so they speed walking across the dry land and is what the Bible tells us. I've just given you the Cliff Notes so you can see the whole thing. And these people make it through. And then God is like, yeah, I'm a drown your enemy as well and close it to see up on them boys. They are literally free now. They're in a wilderness. And the Bible tells us they're in the wilderness. And they're only supposed to be in the wilderness for 11 days.

The wilderness was a purification process that God was trying to take them through. Watch this. To be filled with something different. Oh, God. He was trying to deliver them from slavery and pour their content out in the wilderness and filled them with faith to believe. He said, I just did the greatest miracle you've ever seen in your entire life. Delivered you. You came out with gold and silver, walked through on Dry land and your enemy was devoured, all in a short period of time. You should be full of faith.

How quickly we forget the miracles God does for us. These people are now in the wilderness, hungry. Nothing around. God literally creates food for them from the dew every morning. They like, what is this Food?

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[Pastor Mike Todd]

There's nothing here like you like. It's amazing miracle. And it's so crazy that we can call something we don't prefer, something that we don't need, because it's not how we thought it was going to come. But he was doing a miracle for these people in front of everybody. And literally he said, moses, you go up and you, you, you talk to me because I'm gonna give you some instructions. And what ends up happening is these people instead of staying faithful to what God is saying for them to do, because he gave them a prayer promise. He said, I'm promising you a land flowing with milk and honey. I'm promising you that you are going to walk into a season that is so much better than this. But I need you to be full of faith and emptied of fear. And instead of emptying themselves of fear, they threw a party.

And they literally took all the gold that God gave them from the Egyptians and made golden calves to start worshiping idols when they should have been literally being like, God, you're the greatest. I never thought I wouldn't be whipped and beaten to try to build something to another man. God, you. They worshiped the wrong thing.

Because they were full of fear. They worshiped. Watch this. Career worshiped. Followers worshiped growth. And God said, you worship in the wrong thing. I ain't got no problem with that. But thou shalt have no other gods before me. They were getting filled with fear, so they made up something to worship when they already had someone to worship. Oh, God, I wish I had more time. But this is the end of the end of this thing. Moses gets sick of these people.

And God does too. Then Moses remembers he's the leader. And like, nevermind God, don't kill him, please just hold him. And Moses goes back and forth so much so these people, these people triggered him so bad that the one who obeyed God to get him there started to disobey God when he was in the wilderness.

You know, other people can start to affect your faith. Obedience.

You're going to strike the rock. When he told you to do something else.

God said, moses, because you stopped being filled with the right thing when you got triggered, you did the wrong thing. And he said, because of that, you and all These wicked people will not make it into the promised land. And the reason this is jacked up is because an 11 day journey turned into a 40 year death. Why? Because of disobedience. But a lot of people missed a key factor in all of this. There were 12 spies that were sent into the promised land to go and see is it really like what God said? And they were supposed to come back? This is in that 11 day time period. I want y' all to understand this ain't years into it. This is like right when they get in. Yo, Joshua, Caleb, other guys go over there, see if it's good and let us know so we can know how to do it. This has already been promised by God. I just need you to see how we gonna attack this. They go in and the Bible says, okay, I just gotta read just a little part of it. Numbers 13. After exploring the land for 40 days, these men went and explored it for 40 days. They returned to Moses and Aaron and the whole community of Israel. At Kadesh, in the wilderness at Paran, they reported to the whole community what they had seen and showed them the fruit they had taken from the land. This was their report to Moses. We entered the land you sent us to explore. And it is indeed beautiful, bountiful, it is blessed. A land flowing with milk and honey. Here is the kind of juicy fruit that it produces. The literal. The Bible said to bring back a stalk of grapes, it had to be carried between two men.

Like just some grapes.

It says, here's the fruit it produces. But the people living there are powerful and their towns are large and fortified. We even saw giants there. And the descendants of Anak, the Amalekites live in the Negev. And the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites and the Gladys Knights live in the hill country. The Canaanites along with the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and along the Jordan Valley. Verse 30. But Caleb told everybody be quiet.

He stood before the people and Moses and he says, let's go up at once and take the land. We can certainly conquer it. But the other man was like, no, he lying. Because we explored the land with him and we disagree. We can't go up against them. They are stronger than we are. So they spread this fear filled report.

They spread the bad report about the land among the Israelites and the land we traveled through and except explorer will devour. They are now exaggerating. It literally says, and the land that we will go through would devour anyone who goes to live there. You just Came back.

You was there 40 days and you still here telling us about devours anyone. All the people we saw were huge guys. They were huge. And we even saw giants there. The descendants of Anak next to them. Here's their insecurity. We felt like grasshoppers.

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They projected onto the people because they believed and they were full of fear when they should have been full of.

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When I get mad a certain way, I am going to try my hardest to let everything that comes out of my mind be edifying. I know that's going to take some. Some of y'. All. Your pride just stood up right there. You just got triggered by what I said because it was a challenge to live like God.

The Bible literally says let everything. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth except that which is edifying to the hearer.

So when I just triggered you, what came up?

Some of you, the thing that came up was the thing that we got to replace.

Bring up something. What comes up Abstinence.

What just came up.

There are people in here that nothing came up because you married.

There's other people in here that you've been yet holding on.

Hold to his hand. Like, and, and, and, and, and what I'm. What I'm saying to you is if you've already said, I can't do that, if you've already declared, like, God wouldn't require that. If you.

What comes up when God is asking for you to give sacrificially.

Is it fear or is it faith?

The reason I'm asking this is because I remember when I traded. My friends were telling me earlier as I was talking about this, like, you're so freaking pumped up to talk about faith and what God has done. And like, did you always been like that? And I was like, no, I've not always been like this. But I remember when it changed. I remember when I made the decision that either God's word is true or it's not.

And I started acting like, if it's true, then I'm actually do the stuff. Like, I'm going to actually do this stuff. And they were like, most people think fear, fear, fear. And then somewhere down here, it's like, faith. And you were like, you think faith, faith, faith. And then somewhere down here, there might be some fear. I was like, that actually is the truth. Like, when something happens, I'm like, God's gonna work this out. Like, and then if he don't, it's like, well, maybe he wanted to work it out a different way. And then when he didn't do it like that, maybe he trying to teach me something. And then when he trying to do, like, man, dang, what I didn't learn. Like. And then it's like, maybe he left me, like, but it takes. It takes me.

My first reactions have turned into faith.

But that's because of how much I put faith.

Today. I'm just asking, can we change the ratio?

Can we get some more faith in there? Because without faith, it's impossible to please God. You've been widowed, you've. You've been hurt, you've been trying. And now God's asking you, hey, fill up on faith. Because now when you get triggered, we gonna trigger something different.

Joshua and Caleb triggered something different. They said, yo, we can do this. We can go and live where God told us to live.

2 out of 2 million.

2 out of 2 million. Which lets me know that faith might be popular, but faith might not be popular, but it will preserve you.

Let me just say it one more Time walking in crazy faith may not be popular, but with God, it will preserve you. So guess what they did. They're the ones that said, God will believe you no matter what. And God said, I'm going to let all 2 million of them perish, and you will be the only two that make it into the promised land. And so if you want to trigger something different, three points. Go home. Here we go. How do you trigger something different? Believe what others don't.

Trigger something different. Believe what others won't. The Spirit bank event center will be Transformation Church. Nobody believed that. 37 days after I became the pastor of the church. Now everybody sits in.

Doesn't matter if everybody believes. God's not looking for everybody to believe. He's looking for somebody.

And many of us have been thrown off because we don't have agreement from everybody.

Your faith takes you believing.

What God's challenging me and my wife to give in. This offering is scary.

Scary. And I want to say that out loud so you know that I'm not back here as a pastor, like, ooh, yes, crazy faith offering. I want God to give us a. A different way to do this.

Because I can't take you nowhere. I'm not leading you in. I want you to hear this for me. Me and my wife looking at each other last night, like.

Did you keep the leftovers from Thanksgiving? Like, Pastor Mike, why are you saying that? Because you never get to a level in your faith where God doesn't require a higher level.

I just want to let you know right now, no matter where you get to, oh, I did it. God, I. He's going to say, cool, cool, cool. We go from glory to glory and faith to faith. It may not be the same thing, but I'm going to challenge you in a different way, because I'm trying to create something in you. I'm trying to make you dependent on me. The Christian walk is not a independent life. It's a dependent life. And so God desires for you to be like, I still need you. And so the amount may go up the ass, may go up, the sacrifice may go up. But God's saying, you still need me, don't you? Yes, Lord, I need you.

So would you write down on that crazy faith card, believe God for what others want.

Second way that you trigger something different. Joshua and Caleb did it. They protect the seed of their belief. Protect the seed of your belief. We had some landscaping done at our house, and there's this little portion at the front of our house that has really, for two years, been Getting jacked up because it's right on the street. And literally, like, if the Amazon people or the Uber people come up, they just drive right onto it. Like, it's like they don't see that. Like, this my yard. This the yard?

No, no, no. Like, we've put signs up, we've done other stuff, and every time, the mulch all in the street, it's like the most perfect place for them to, like, just pull up, get. Get this stuff. But that's my yard. And we planted stuff there that doesn't grow because it keeps getting run over.

So this last week, when the guys came back, they did something we needed to do two years ago. They put up barriers, boundaries, and a whole little Fort Knox.

There's rocks now. And then they put up a little, like. And then I don't know what the official terms are for them, but it's protecting the thing that still needs to grow.

If you drive up on it now, you have a chance that your tire gonna get popped before my plants get messed.

Up. For years, the seeds were not protected.

My question to you, Are you protecting the seeds of your faith?

I bet Joshua and Caleb, because y' all don't really understand the context of this. This was not a miracle that happened in a year. God told them to go spy out the land when they were 40. Guess when Joshua and Caleb got into the promised land. 85. 85. I bet 20 years after, like I told these fools, we was well able.

We still out here eating manna. I tasted that grape.

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Man of God, Joshua. I'll punch you in the face. You didn't believe neither fool.

I don't bet whether that was Joshua, Caleb, I don't know.

Sometimes they had to encourage each other, bro. But remember what God said. Hey. Protect the word. He told us our family would be healed. Protect that. He told me that I beat the lender and not the borrower. Protect that. I know I'm still borrowing money, but hold on. Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. No, no, no, no, no, no, we're not. You gotta keep saying what God said. Don't be like them. They already dismissed what God said. Protect. Put a boundary around. Don't let others talk down on no. No. One thing you ain't gonna do is tell me. I'm not going to. You don't have to believe. But I know what God said.

That's how you trigger something different. Last point. How do you trigger something different? You believe longer, not necessarily stronger.

Sometimes in church, we can make it Feel like our faith needs to be crazier and bigger and louder, and sometimes all it needs to do is last.

They had the same amount of faith when they set out to go to the promised land 45 years earlier. They just had to keep that faith until everybody else died.

They're watching their grandkids. I had this thought they were the only ones to be able to be in the promised land with their grandkids.

Because it was. It was about generations more than it was about even them just making it in. God was trying to do something so the whole family could experience the promised land. And what I'm asking you to do is don't stop believing. I think Journey pinned that.

Don't stop believing. Don't stop believing y' all can have the marriage that God called you to. Don't stop believing that you can actually go to sleep without those substances.

Don't. Don't. No, I'm just for real. Don't stop believing that your kids will be saved. Don't stop believing that your family is going to actually be whole again. Don't stop believing that you can get rid of that rage that's been in your heart.

Today. I'm asking you to fill up on something different. Pastor Mike, how do we do that? You remember the one who emptied himself out so that we could be full of something else.

Will, could you come just stand right here at the end of the stage real quick? Because I want everybody to see because time has gone by since my faith marked Will. And I just want you to see that there's still evidence on Will of what happened to him.

Is there evidence of what Jesus has done for you in your life?

No, I'm just. I'm asking you. I'm not. This is. This is for evaluation. But is there evidence.

Why I invite people to church, Why I sow seeds.

Why I pray for people not just at the altar, but at the gas station?

Because I have evidence on my life that's marked me forever.

Church, as we end this year, I want something to be triggered differently in each one of us. What is the thing that's supposed to come out that looks like God, that gets on others?

I can't change it for you. You have to desire for God to exchange what's on the inside now.

For what looks and is already paid for.

The sacrifice he's made. Thank you, Will. Today I'm going to just pray for every person.

Because this one. This is an inside job.

This is an inside job. Pastor Mike, why are you coming with like this? Why you saying all of this cuz you going to keep acting the same until you say, God, take this out of me. He's not going to force it out of you. Take this out of me. Create in me a clean heart and renew in me the right spirit. God, I'm argumentative by nature, so take this out of me. I want to fight.

I want to win. Come on. These are real things. I am competitive.

I want, I want no one else to be on my level.

Whether I say it or not. And God's saying, can I take it out? No. This is who I am. This is who I've been. This is how people know me. This. Who would I be without it?

God's calling. He said, just, just become full of faith.

Start listening to the word. Some of y' all just need to listen to the word. Going to sleep, waking up in your car, cut the music. You just need to put, put it on. Faith comes by and hearing the word of you gotta get that in you.

The trigger only exposes what the gun is loaded with.

What are you full of? And I'm declaring over you and your life and your family and your business and your generational line that you will be full of faith standing all over this place.

Thank you Lord.

Thank you Lord. Joshua and Caleb got to experience something that everybody they were around didn't get to experience. Which lets me know that you can have a different life than the people you love.

I know this is a hard one for a lot of people to understand, but there are people you love that won't believe.

I've come to the conclusion that there are some people that I really want to do some certain things and God to do some things in their life that they will not supply God with the faith to do it. And I will not die in a place God has called to be a pass through. Because others will not believe.

Today church, I'm asking you to be the generational changer in your family.

To be the one that people could aspire to be like to be more like Christ.

And trigger something different. I'm praying that every time you get angry that you would trigger joy.

No, think about it. That every time you feel lack, you would trigger generosity.

That every time you feel overwhelmed, you would trigger peace.

Do you know that can happen? He said, be filled with these fruits of the spirit. What are they? Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, self control. He said that can be in there. So when they cut you off and you get triggered, what comes out? So control. Oh, you better be glad.

I'm saved.

And God is in heaven. Like there you go.

Vengeance is mine. They were expecting you to act like somebody else. But you were strong enough not to even fall for that. And so now they got to evaluate their whole situation cuz they was ready to fight and they looking dumb.

If you want to be full of faith, would you lift your hands all over this place please? I want to pray for you. God, I thank you for this moment. You are definitely in this place.

Father, as we've.

Brought honesty and reality.

And our experiences to your feet. I thank you that today you are letting us know that we get to choose. We can either be full of fear like the entire children of Israel, or we can be full of faith like Joshua and Caleb. I just thank you for the audacity and the courage to believe what nobody else will believe. In crazy faith. You can do it. You just can't prove to them that you could deliver them. Father, let us never forget how you've delivered us, how you've brought us out and how you have a glorious future for us. I'm asking that you would replace the fear with faith. Fill us up till we ain't got no more room, God. And then fill us again.

Let something in our life change. And I'm praying for every person, Father, that's believing in crazy faith for something, Father, that money can't buy.

They need you to intervene. God, I thank you that faith without works is completely dead. So show us the work that we need to do to be in step and in line with the miracle that you're going to do. We shall see the promised land. I feel that we're gonna see what the promised land looks like.

Father, I pray for those who are wrestling right now with their current experience and the faith that's trying to emerge even after hearing this message. God, I thank you that they would protect the seed of faith that has been planted today. Father. It can be small mustard seed faith. That's all you need, Father. God. And you will scour the whole earth trying to see if you'll find somebody with faith. I thank you for husbands and wives who are believing you right now for big things. I pray for this church as we step into a season of crazy faith giving next week for those who will come, for those who are still asking you for mounts and obedience. I just thank you. Do what you gonna do. God.

We trust you because you began a good work on the inside of us and you're going to be faithful to finish it.

I don't mind waiting.

I don't Mind waiting.

I don't mind waiting.

On you, Lord.

That's what Joshua and Caleb had to do. I don't mind waiting.

I don't mind waiting.

I don't mind waiting.

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If you're in this room, if you've never accepted Jesus.

He'S been waiting on you.

Today is the day of salvation. I feel the presence of God. Cuz heart surgery is happening right now. There are people that are evaluating things. God's speaking. The Holy Spirit is here. He's. He's with you. As you're watching this right now, something different is about to be triggered on the inside of you. I see it, I sense it, I feel it.

If you've never accepted Jesus, today I want to pray with you. And it's a thing that changed my life. It took me from being a liar, a manipulator, somebody who was addicted to pornography, had very bad things in my heart. And it took me on a path of repentance and progressing. Today I want to give you that opportunity. God's trying to do heart change. This is the last month of the last year of the this year. And God wants to do something for you that changes trajectory of your next season. But it comes with the act of faith. And it's by faith that we are saved through grace. So right now, if you want to accept Jesus, it's one person in this room. And I know there's more in here that have been far from God. There's more that is watching online or watching from the correctional facility right now. I want to give you the opportunity. I need the church to begin to pray. Because you know what this might moment was like. This is light and dark. This is light and death. This is toggling through my old lifestyle and the new. And right now, somebody's about to go from fear to faith. If you are in this room and you want to make Jesus Christ your personal Lord and Savior, on account of three, I just want you to shoot your hand up. I already see your hands, my brother. One, you're making the greatest decision in this life. Two, your name will be written in the Lamb's book of life. Three, with faith, just shoot your hand up, bro. I'm so proud of you. I'm so proud of you. Come on. If you're in this room, I see your hands. I see your hands. I see your hands. And more than that, God sees you. Come on, church, let's give God praise. Right there. Hallelujah. It's a switch, bro. God's doing something new in you. And at tc, we're a family. All of us have been through it. All of us have walked down the wrong path, and God found us. And today, I just want to. To let you know, this is your day of salvation. He's switching out. The thing that's in. It won't be motivated by fear. It won't be motivated by loss. It's going to be motivated by hope and joy and love. And today is a new day for you at tc. Nobody prays alone. Would everybody just lift your hands for the benefit of those coming to Christ. And just repeat after me. Say, God, thank you for sending Jesus just for me today. I repent of all my sins, and I turn to you. I believe you lived, you died, and you rose again with all power. And that power now lives in me. Change me, renew me, transform me. I'm yours in Jesus name. Amen. Hey, can we turn up with all of heaven right now? Oh, come on. Church. Hallelujah for one soul, and there's several in here. So proud of you. We want to give you some information. And if you text that the number on the screen, you text Save to 828282. We're going to send you some information. Is anybody's faith encouraged this morning? Hey, all week, I want you to be open to praying. Listen and obey. And this is the last thing that I'm gonna say to you. Everybody listen. The enemy will never tell you to give anything. So if you hear God say something, you say, oh, that had to be the devil. That wasn't the devil. He. He does the opposite. For God so loved the world, he. The enemy comes to steal, kill, and destroy. You got to know character. So if God tells you to give something, it's him. And we're going to be ones to believe that he's going to make a way. I can't wait to see you next week as we give in. Crazy faith. Some of y', all, you need to go ahead and do it. As soon as God tells you, you need to make it happen. So you're not fighting all week, but we are going to honor that. And I can't wait. Invite somebody next week. I have a word for you. And if you need prayer for anything right now, you can come to the altar. Do not leave unless you get prayer if you need it, because we know that prayer works. I love you. Until next week. Go out and live a transformed life. I love you.

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