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Withholding Nothing // Triggered (Part 11) // Pastor Michael Todd
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WEEK 11: TRIGGERED // TRAIN YOUR TRIGGERS: WITHHOLDING NOTHING // PASTOR MICHAEL TODD Someone is waiting for you to stop withholding what God has given you! When you live triggered you will withhold your faith, your forgiveness, your finances, your...
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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. Amen. And for the rest of this year, I'm gonna be rocking with this notion that our faith has to believe God for something differently than what we've seen already. If you're not believing for something greater, you're believing for something less than what God has for you. And so for 10 weeks, this team has talked to you about your triggers. For ten weeks, beautifully, masterfully. I mean, Charles had the whole universe up here last week. I mean, full galaxy mode. What our intention was. Listen to me. Was to validate that those triggers actually have hindered you. Because many times people can't move on if nobody acknowledges what happened. And today, for 10 weeks since after conference, we have said your parents may have triggered you, that job may have triggered you. They may have looked over you, they may have used you. In that last season, that relationship did take something from you. We have been trying to let you know we see you and this human experience is real. But now we have to transition into, what are we gonna do about it? Cause the truth of the matter is, most people wanna identify their triggers and then make their triggers their excuse. So the reason I'm not gonna do what God said is. Cause this happened to me back here. That was four decades ago. That was 14 days ago. That was 14 months ago. And many of us have turned our triggers into the excuse for disobeying God. So today I'm asking us to actually accept, as a matter of fact, for anything that they couldn't say, I want to stand in proxy right now. And they is whoever hurt you, they is whoever did not have the emotional intelligence to say I'm sorry. They is whoever you had to walk out to actually protect yourself and set a boundary. But you still never got to hear I was wrong. Today I want to say I'm sorry. I'm sorry that it happened to you. I'm sorry that they didn't see you. I'm sorry that they never acknowledged how that pain set you back. Today I want to take a moment and I want to give empathy to what has been a stumbling block for you to move in full reckless abandon towards the thing God has called you to. It's worth pausing. It's worth taking a moment and saying it shouldn't have happened. And for 10 weeks, we've been trying to lovingly help you understand that? We get it. We all get triggered. We all crash out. But at the end of the day, before you were formed in your mother's womb, God laced inside of your DNA a purpose that came with an expiration date. The number of days that you are on this earth are numbered. And the enemy is trying to steal your days with the distraction of being triggered. Hear what I just said to you. He's trying to make you not write the book. He's trying to make you not reach the audience. He's trying to make you not draw the thing. He's trying to make you not produce what he placed inside of you to produce. Because the enemy's trick of this last season was not to steal the thing. It was to steal the thing behind the thing. You thought the enemy came after your relationship. He was coming after your confidence. So the relationship didn't work. But what he was really trying to steal is your ability to try ever again. And that's why you become a man basher. Ain't no man ever gonna be good. And ain't nobody ever gonna do this. And ain't nobody. That was Jerome's fault. He hurt you. Jerome hurt you. And because you never forgave him, because it was the second man that hurt you because your father was never there. Now you've summed up that everybody. And the reason the Enemy's trying to steal that is because you're actually called to heal relationships. And so he wasn't trying to steal the thing. He was trying to steal the thing behind the thing. I feel this thing right now. Some of y' all have stopped giving encouragement. Cause you were in a season that somebody discouraged you, and the enemy allowed you to lose that job. And then that was embarrassing in front of everybody. And then they lied on you. And what you said is, now, I will not be who I am. Cause the enemy wasn't after that job. You can get another job. He was trying to steal the thing behind the thing. Your words of encouragement for others. Because when you walk in the room and you start spreading life, people's life lights up when you come in. You're an atmosphere changing. And the thing that you are called to do, you are no longer doing. You're withholding it because you don't have the faith to believe that God can turn this bad situation into good. And today I came to encourage you because I see too many believers that are allowing their trigger to be the point where they've gotten tranquilized. I'm frozen at my trigger. Oh, no. When People talk loud. Come on. It can be little stuff. I mean, some people was triggered just a second ago when Will talked about offering. And because you were in a church where they did abuse the building fund, and you gave to the building fund, and ain't no building. Come on, y'. All. Come on, y'. All. We ain't never seen a building air conditioner broken. Children don't got clean carpet. That was 15 years ago in the church that your mom was a part of, and you saw them abuse her volunteer service. And so you made a decision that instead of being an agent of change, that you would actually be somebody to actually harbor resentment and never give. You started withholding. What was the thing that is your wealth. Wealth is not just monetary. It is the thing that you uniquely have value in. And there are many people right now withholding their wealth to the world because you were triggered by something that has not healed. And God is calling you out of your excuse today, and he's telling you, you got to trade this trigger for something else. You gotta trade this trigger. It's gonna happen. There is no perfect world. And God's saying, when are you gonna use what I put in you? Well, I'm a pastor. You know, pastor. I'm over 50, and it just feels like I got. My retirement's in three months. Three months. I get to retire. Actually, it's two months, 16 days, and 32 hours. And I just feel like for the rest of my life, I'm just. I'm gonna let the young people just. I'm gonna let the young people rise to the top. God's not done with you yet. He wasn't done with Sarah. He wasn't done with Moses. He wasn't done with Noah. He wasn't done. By Bible standards, you a teenager. Oh, at 60, maybe they was popping their kids at 90. What is. Get on my level. My question to you is, what are you withholding? We're coming to the end of 2025. What did you withhold that you had to give all year? What did you. Because of fear, what did you willingly take out of the equation because of a past situation? Today, I'm going to ask you in the last month of this year to stop withholding. And so what you got, Pastor Mike? Sow what I got, I don't care how much it is, and I'm not talking about money. So what you got? What do you have that nobody else has at this current moment that you could sow? Some of y' all got more time than you've ever had in your life. And you literally waste it on Netflix series. You wasted. Filling your mind scrolling. You wasted. And you have years of teaching ability that you won't give away. You have years of just being a helping hand, somebody that could administrate, somebody that could help somebody else. Do you know somebody's praying for what you got? Do you know that there is somebody crying out to God? And when people cry out to God, he starts talking to solutions. Okay? You don't believe me? When the children of Israel were trapped in Egypt, they were crying out for a deliverer. He was talking to Moses. Hey, Moses. Hey. And some of y' all been ignoring the cries of God's people because you are not listening. When God tells you to stop withholding what you have, you're waiting to do it until you get more money. And God says this whole thing is about stewardship. I give to people who will sow what I give them. You ain't getting no more until you sow what you got. That was somebody's whole message right there. You don't believe no more because you're hoarding. What God said was holy. I need you to give this away to somebody. Okay? Ecclesiastes 11:4. I just want you to hear me. Because some of you, your trigger has paralyzed you. It's tranquilized you. But today, by faith, I believe you're about to get out of that place of stillness and you're about to be active. Somebody say active? Your faith is about to get active because it may not have been your fault what happened to you, but it is now your responsibility. God's not giving you a pass this next year on what he put on the inside of you. Withholding nothing. Say that by faith. Withholding nothing. Say it one more time. Withholding nothing. What God has placed in you, I'm not holding it. The goal, Miles Monroe said, is to die empty. The wealthiest place in the entire world is the graveyard because everybody's dying with what he placed on the inside of them. Still on the inside of them. But by faith. I believe there is some faith being activated right now that you are not going to leave this assignment called Earth without leaving. I feel the presence of God without leaving the deposit that God placed on the inside of you. This is not career specific. You may be provided for in the medical field, but what he wants do to to do is give you to a whole group of people of how to be kind to people. See, we have attached our purpose to a paycheck. Oh, God. Okay, you have attached the thing that I make money at to the thing that God wants me to do. Let me help you. They're not always aligned. He may be providing you for somewhere that you can eat and then calling you to do something where somebody else can. Can eat from you. Okay, y' all not ready for real teaching. Okay, so let's go. It's time for this. This group of believers to get unstuck. Ecclesiastes, chapter 11, verse 4. This is where we're going to start. Farmers who wait for the perfect weather never plan. I mean, I want to keep reading, but we could just stop right there. What are you waiting on to sow? What you got? Well, I don't have enough followers on Instagram for. I wouldn't put out my Bible study. It's so robust, it's so. It's so foundationally vast that I need to build my counts, my followers, as well as my YouTube to a certain level. Are you waiting for a perfect time? Well, if I have some more money. Well, if there was a few people that recognize my gifting and talents. Farmers who wait for a perfect weather pattern never plant. If they watch every cloud, they never harvest. Just as you cannot understand the path of the wind or the mystery Jesus, the mystery of a tiny baby growing in its mother's womb, so you cannot understand the activity of God who does all things. So let me give you an anecdote. Plant your seed in the morning and keep busy working it all afternoon. For you do not know if profit will come from one activity or another. Or my favorite part. Or maybe both. Not both with the f. Both. Look at your neighbor and say both. Yeah. I found out in this last season of me being triggered and having to work through it with faith partners and in therapy that the enemy was not after me being on a platform and speaking to people. When I went through people talking about me and people leaving and having to understand criticism and building my skin, he was trying to steal my generosity. He was trying to make me hate the people I'm supposed to help. It was the thing behind the thing. He wanted me to withhold my life, which is the evidence of me representing. It's me serving God and loving my wife and giving to people. And when I could do it for myself, like, no, let's bless other church. He wanted to be like, bump all of them. Forget them. Forget all these church people. Forget all these other pastors who wouldn't stand up for me. Forget all he was after. The thing behind the thing. He was like, I'll let you Preach. But I want you to be bitter. I'll let you get up and worship, but I want you to actually have hate in your heart. This is too real for y'. All. This is. I'm trying to help you from real life. The enemy is after the thing you're to clinging called to do, not the thing you're necessarily doing. I am called to this earth to make other people's worlds bigger. I'm called to this earth to make people dream, to save people out of burning buildings, to try to let you see there's more in you than there. And he wanted me to give up on the very people I was called to help. I'm trying to give you the keys to not quitting. The enemy is weak, and he's trying to steal your ability to sow. He doesn't have to steal it if you won't use it. Oh, God. The enemy comes to steal, kill, and destroy. You won't use your singing gift anymore. So Ariel still have your voice? I. Dang. That worked because I couldn't even sing it. Y' all remember in the Little Mermaid where she. Her voice got taken. No, it didn't. She gave it away. Ursula just invited her. I will preach a Disney movie don't play with me. Ursula invited her to give away what she didn't see value in because it was natural to her, because it was innate to her, because she had been doing it all of her life. And she literally gave away what was her power. How many of us are sitting here? Enemy don't got to steal nothing from us. We already gave it away. I just don't. Do people. Stop saying that. You're called to them. You may have to exercise new giftings. You may have to breathe after you get in a room with a lot of people. You may have to regulate. Come on, let's. But that don't mean you ain't called the people. God. Can I help you? The place where the enemy attacks you most is the place that you probably have the most power. You don't ever guard somebody in basketball on the thing they weak at. You always come after the thing they're good at. You're trying to take away what could actually be their superpower. I'm preaching up here, and some of y' all have been giving away. You've been giving away the very thing that God said. I put that in you so that you could give me glory with it, but you won't sow it. You won't plant it. You won't give it to nobody. You won't even give it to your own children. Your kids don't know faith because of you. They know faith because of this church. They're literally your kids. I'm telling you right now. Look at me straight in my face. Your kids are literally in a tug of war. Who are they gonna believe? The God that I hear about or the God I see my parents living out? Cause you can come in here and then you can get in the car and cuss them out. And when you cuss them out in the car, but say, but when we get to church, y' all better act like ain't nothing happening. They're learning disintegration from you. Okay, I just crossed the line. It's tight, but it's right. Some of you have not sown kindness into your kids. You spared the rod, you spoil the child. But it was by his loving kindness that he drew us in. All I'm trying to challenge you. What are you withholding? That God said, that's what I want you to sow. Sow it and see what I do. So what you got? You may not have much, but sow what you got. Men of God come show up and serve for these kids. All these single mothers in here trying to raise their kids with they deadbeat dads out somewhere trying to still find some young girl. Oh, excuse me. You're not taking care of your responsibilities, so you put it off on us. But there's some men of God that will step in and say, you know what? I'm strong enough to get my word on Monday. I'll watch the rebroadcast. They need to see what a godly man looks like. Like serving with his hands and showing love to these young ladies and young men and working side by side with people that look a different race and ethnicity than you. I only got one Sunday every two months, so what you got at that job? What could you sow? Well, they don't deserve nothing else from me because they don't even pay me for the time that I'm there right now. You think the job. Do you think the salary is why you're there? Some of y' all have been in purgatory at the jobs that y' all are at right now because you have not completed the assignment he sent you there for Sally, but you're so annoyed by her and annoyed by her emails and flabbergasted by the audacity for her to even ask. And God sent you there to be specifically a seed sown in her life daily. One he would do it for one person, he'd leave the 99. Did he send you there? Did he send you to this church to do something you not doing? Cuz nobody recognized your ministry 10 year from your last church in Mississippi. No, we don't know. And you came in here acting crazy. No, we still background checking you. Let me just be honest. It's a bunch of people. There's thousands of people you could be and you were the bishop of arches in, in your last church and I don't take that away from you. But we got protocol here and so we, we're trying to make it. But you won't even start a small group that's too low for you to get in the tribe. Well, I was teaching at my last church and God's playbook was to sit around a table with disciples and. But you're withholding because it's not on the platform you want. Okay, let me stop. And so you're waiting for perfect weather to sow what God's already given you. Look at your neighbor and say so what you got? No, look at your other neighbor because they didn't have faith with you. Look at your other neighbor and say neighbor. So what you got? It must may not be a lot, but so what you got? Yeah, I'm going to make that a song this week. It may not be a lot, but so what you got? Say it may not be a let's go so. No, I quit. I quit, I quit, I quit, I quit. This church will hype you up too fast. God. Okay, it may not be a lot. We got 30 days left in this year. Will you be guilty of making it another 365 days? And you did not give what you had because there's somebody in here who's like, but Pastor Mike, you don't know my financial situation. I do not know. But you do have 13 pair of Jordans. You have, you have so many Aldo boots and nine west hills and you kept the kids sizes of the kids that they grew out of believing for the next kid that ain't here yet. And I'm not saying nothing's bad with none of that. But there's a mother right now literally praying that God would provide shoes for her children. And they're literally sitting in a storage you're paying for while you're in debt saying I gotta get some of this stuff gone. You could literally be solving your problem and they problem if you sow what you. But you triggered. So I ain't talking to nobody no more. As soon as church is over, I'm leaving before they. Is it altar call time? You moonwalking out of this place before the benediction because somebody hurt you in the last season and you don't want anybody to get close enough to see you yet you need healing and they need help. And there's so many of us that because we were triggered. You were triggered. You were mad, you got hurt, you crashed out. But now God's saying, what are we going to do about it? Now I need to use my faith to do something different. So that's why I need to say this. Your triggers being acknowledged does not excuse your faith activation. We acknowledge your triggers, but you still have to use your faith. You were hurt, but you still gotta believe God. You weren't seen, but you still have to believe God for the next season. So James 2:17 says so you see, faith by itself isn't enough unless it produces good deeds. It is dead and useless. Easy way to say this. Faith without works is dead. And I just want you to realize that God desires for all of us to have an active faith. Part of the reason that we pick a time every year that we ask God, hey, what do you want us to give in faith towards your house? Is because that is an exercise of our faith. What are we building? My faith? No, show me something physically that we're building. Well, when people give, anytime there is a disaster, anytime there's a person in need, anytime that we're able to actually meet real needs with all of those things, how we gave that young lady Ramsey, along with that thousands of other people, we paid for it because we paid for it. It's an exercise of our faith. But there are many people right now that will never go past yourself in giving anything. And this year, I'm inviting you to come off the shore and sow what you got. Pastor Mike, you don't understand. You don't understand. I do understand. I was telling Charles and the team last earlier today is that I was trying to remember how generosity and giving got in me. And it got in me because I was triggered by poverty. Am I being too real now? I know some of y' all won't admit where it is, but you grew up in some very. Even if it wasn't ghetto situations, it was ghetto mindset situations. Okay, I'm gonna help five people. Okay? So there's certain stuff that you would see that's like, that's dope, but probably a little backwards. Like, it's dope to have a Mercedes, but not if it's a 1979 Mercedes that we still am paying for. Like, it's a 2007 Mercedes and it break down every week. But we got a Mercedes, but we paying payments that are putting us in. Like, it was like, the right things, the things that look good but backwards. And I decided, Lord, I don't want to. I don't. I don't want to live like that. I don't want to live not being able to lend when I see somebody in need. I don't want to live when your word is saying you own a cattle on a thousand hills, which was the currency back then. And I'm sitting over here and I can't eat at McDonald's. I don't want to live like that. He said, so something. I was 17 years old. I told y' alls this. I sold my first thousand dollar seed at 17 years old. I had no idea what I was doing back then. I was playing drums, flying for some pretty notable people. And I was making a little money. And all my money was basically, I still live with my mom and daddy. I only had to pay for gas and I was buying shoes. I mean, I had nothing else. And I started saving money. Cause money gave me security. It made me feel like if something happens, I'll be able to handle my business. Thousand dollars can't really handle anything. But at the time, I was balling. And the Holy Spirit came after what I had, not after what I didn't have. Because I heard, God will never ask you for what you don't have. He's so good, but he will ask you for what you do have. And I remember. And the crazy thing about it, y' all listen to me. This is not about amounts. This is about obedience. The thing that broke the power of me being stagnant in my faith was a seed that I literally gave into a church that had nothing to do with me. And God said, your obedience right there just produced a heart posture that I can trust for the rest of your life. Cause if I give it to you, you'll give it. And the Bible says he'll give seed to the. He does not give the sower seed. He gives seed to the. You missed it. Because a lot of people, like, I'm going to become a sower once I have seed. You have to already make up a decision in your mind and your heart that you are a sower. And then God will automatically provide. And now you sitting here looking at the clouds. When is the right time to plant it? Now. Cause the farmer, y' all missed It. Look at it. I don't want you to miss this. Farmers who wait for the perfect weather never plant. Why are you not seeing a harvest? Because you never planted. Why are you not seeing those relationships grow? Because you didn't plant friendliness. Why are you not seeing God give you more influence in these areas? Because you have not planted time and spaces without expecting anything back. God's saying to all of us, give what you got analogy. Just real quick, because it keeps coming up in my head, and I'm gonna just say it. I like fashion. Y' all know that by now. I don't know where I got this jacket from, but I like it. And my wife said I look good in it. So I am admitting I'm hot up here. Let me just. Because some of y' all be thinking it, and y' all be like. Like, dang, he must be hot. Yes. As a matter of fact, whatever fleece or wool this Is has added 13 degrees. I mean, I'm soaking wet under here. But in Tulsa, you cannot. If you like fashion, you can't dress based on the weather. Cause one day it'll be 85 degrees, and the next day it'll be 2 degrees. And so I don't wait for the weather to get my fits off. I wake up in the morning, I'm like, I'm wearing a full fur today. And see some of y'. All. Like, that don't make no sense. But if I wait on the weather, I ain't never gonna get the fit off. Do you understand what I'm saying? I'm just trying to come to where some people are. If you wait for the perfect situation to sew, you're never gonna get the fit off. You never gonna get. They can't tell how hot you are in pictures when you wipe the sweat. Today on the Instagram, I'm gonna look like I was cool. Do you hear what I. I'm saying? Because I got the fit off, but I couldn't. I'm making light of something. I'm just trying to let you know you're waiting for the right time to go to counseling with your wife at the brink of divorce. It's not the time. You should give the Christmas gift of six sessions because a new Birkin bag is not going to help y'. All. Saving them and putting them in your closet is just giving you more wedges of why you can't stand each other. Sow the seed today because it's what I got. All right, we got to get out of here. Give me an Example, Pastor Mike, in the Word, because you somebody who sowed a seed even when the situation was unfavorable. I thought of many different people. But if I could run you through Genesis real quick, the latter part of it, and we could look at Joseph's life. Y' all remember Joseph, the one who had a coat of many colors. Joseph had every excuse after he got triggered to withhold what he had. But if he would have withheld what God placed on the inside of him, he would have never ended up where God intended for him. In the end. His intention for him, the promise he gave him when he had the dream, is that you're going to be in a position of power. Your brothers are going to bow to you. You are going to be raised to a high level. And he did what most of us did. Oh God. I got a prophetic word from God. And he got excited, put his Gucci coat on and went to his brothers, like one day y' all gonna bow to me stupid. He didn't read the room. He did not read the room. His emotional intelligence was underdeveloped. And so what his brothers did, who didn't get a Gucci jacket of multicolored from his dad, they threw him into a pit. Now, I don't know if your brother. I got four actual brothers, big brothers that could actually overpower me altogether and throw me into a pit. And if they ever decided to throw me into a pit and then me into slavery, the level of vengeance. Can we just be human for a second? The level of vendetta, the amount of push ups. Y' all know I would straight prison workout. I'm at the end, I'm. Cause at some point, my mind would have switched from blessing it. My brother, my dream said, I'm a bless him. I got something I'm bless him with. Think about Joseph, though. Joseph literally gets thrown into a pit and then gets sold into slavery into a different country. And look what this man does in Genesis 37 when he is triggered by betrayal. Joseph has a dream. His brothers hate him, sold him into slavery. And he could have withheld watch his trust for people. If my brother sold me out, I'll never trust anybody again. Come on. Some of us have parent traumas and sibling traumas and coach traumas that literally are trying to exclude us from people, period. When God's word says it's not good for man to be alone, he's behind the thing after the thing. But what did Joseph do? He continued to trust people. How do we know? Because in Genesis 39 he goes and he gets sold into slavery. But he ends up at this high officials house called Potiphar. And Potiphar sees his skill. And I don't know about you, but when I show up in places and I was done wrong, I don't be really excited to give them help. Especially if you call me a slave. That is a sure way for Michael Todd not to help you. Come here, slave. Whoa. Joseph is an indentured servant in a different country, but still has the gift of leadership. And in the face of watch this. His trigger was injustice. How many people get so mad when they see injustice? Like when somebody gets done wrong or gets manipulated or gets taken like it makes your blood boil. This man did nothing but share his dream with people he loved. And he ended up as a slave in somebody's house. If anybody had an excuse to withhold something, I ain't coming in here to help y' all do nothing. Make me. Make me. You start getting. But Joseph gives his leadership away and prospers. Potiphar. He literally does not let what God placed on the inside of him die in an environment that is not conducive for his greatness. He still sold what he had at the job he didn't like. He still sold what he had at the church that didn't recognize all of his potential. He still sold what he had to help people who were never going to fully repay him. How do you know that? Because Potiphar wife took a look at Joseph as well and said, he's good at leading all these people. Maybe he can lead me somewhere. And Potiphar's old stanky grubby hand wife tried to manipulate Joseph. He's in the best position he's ever been in since being thrown in slavery because he did not withhold what he had. He gave what he got. He's in a good position. And now Potiphar's wife tries to come put them cheeks on him. Oh, you know that's what she did. And what ended up happening is that. Watch this. He was triggered by a lie. She literally made up an entire lie. Ripped his coat, ripped. He tried to take me. Look Potiphar. Look what he said. Pop, get him. Make him pay. Potty pot. Don't let nobody do your woman like that. She. She made up a whole lie about my man. How many ever people in this room have ever been lied on before? Like they just made it up. Why did you make that up? If I was gonna do it, I wouldn't have done it like dad, you be getting that mad at the lies that they told. At least give me a better lie. No, but. But when he could have withheld his trust, he still sowed it. When he could have withheld his leadership, he still sowed it. When he was triggered by the environment he was put in. Because after Potiphar believed the lie of his wife, he was thrown into jail. He was triggered by the environment. What happens when you did the right thing, told the truth, and you still end up in a prison? It was a pit. It was Potiphar's house, then it was prison. And in prison, I mean, even if he's the greatest believer and he made it through all them other tests, I mean, I would be at this point okay with him withholding what he has in prison. Like, but not Joseph. He had a prophetic edge. He could see things. He could interpret dreams. So while he's in jail, God puts two other men there who are confused. And Joseph has the clarity for their situation. And literally, in the midst of their confusion, Joseph could have been like, And what did he do? He said, I see clearly what's happening. You're about to be killed, and you're about to be. That's what he said. You got to read the Bible. You're going to be killed, and you're going to get grace. And hey, I got one request. Would you please not forget about me? When God does and performs his word in an environment that was not set up for his success, he still sowed what he had. And then verse 41, he literally gets forgotten. Let's be clear. Let's stop and talk about him being in jail for more years because the dude who got out based on his prophetic word and his accuracy forgot about him. Have you ever had anybody break a promise to you? I mean, nothing kills your outstretched hand like a broken promise. Are you not showing up for me and I show up for you? Cool. Got you. But even in that where there were years where he was never even acknowledged, he didn't stop sowing what he had to the point where the pharaoh had a dream and then, oh, yeah, there's a guy in prison who could interpret my dream that came and found him. And at that point, he's in this king's jail. So I'm mad at you for building the jail. I'm mad at the guards for working at the jail. I'm mad at the people who get the food after. Like, I could have built up bitterness, but he's literally standing in front of the king and he still gives. And because the Enemy was not after Joseph's life. He was after the power of his surrender. He was trying to steal his generosity because the promise that God showed him in the dream about his brothers bowing to him, it was coming to pass through unfavorable circumstances. And if he would have let the trigger keep him from sowing, he would have never gotten to the place that God said in the beginning. Some of you are cutting out your journey to the thing that God's promised you the whole time because you're withholding what you have now, waiting for a better time or better weather to sow it. And God says, give it to those kids. Give it to your husband. Give it to those co workers. Give it to your church. Give what you got now because it's the key to your next. He literally tells the king, and the king promotes him to second in command over the entire country tree because he did not withhold what was in him. A few chapters later, guess what happens. A famine hits the entire land. Verse 45, verse 42. His brothers come back into the scene. Now, what should Joseph's response be when he finds out that. That the brothers who put him in the pit in the first place, if it wasn't for them, none of this would have happened to him. They come back in need. Can God trust you to be able to sow into the people who hurt you severely? Could God trust you to have a heart that would be refined like his? To be able to even say, okay, y' all did this to me. But what the enemy meant for evil, this is what he said. God turned it for good. I know what your intentions were, but God was using you. All things are working together for the good. Somebody say, it's got to be good. Say it with faith. It's got to be good. When he was triggered by his past and his brothers came for food, he could have withdrew his grace and everybody would have been like, it's cool, bro. Kill them dudes. Y' all know friends who will help you do the ratchet and wrong thing. Yeah, if it was me, it ain't you. And that's why God's calling some of us as believers to a higher level. You gotta forgive them. Why? Because you're not trying to be more like them. You're trying to be more like me. You gotta let them go of the debt. You gotta forgive them. And they didn't apologize. You gotta try again. You were meant to be loved. But you got to let that other person who abused you, you got to let them go. You got to Stop following their Instagram and Facebook. You got to stop pain shopping and managing misery. I need you to let that go. Because he was triggered by his past. As soon as he saw his brothers watch this, he knew who they were, but they didn't know who he was. So he could have manipulated the situation and killed them, and they didn't even know it was him. But he didn't withhold his grace. He still sowed it. He still gave what he had. There are times where I feel like, dang, I don't got nothing else to give. And God's like, well, put a little something in there you might not have accounted for. I'm not asking you for what you don't have. Give what you got. And I've come up here many times, and the team will tell you in the back, they've prayed for me, and I'm like, God, just. I don't know if I have. I mean, whoo. And it'll be like, there'll be just one little spark or something. And God was like, that's all I needed. Just that. Just that encouragement, just that smile, just that faith, just that little worship. That's all I. That's all. I'm not asking you for what I didn't put in you, but could you give what you got? Genesis 45. Joseph gets triggered by truth because everything comes out. And he could have withheld his forgiveness, but if he would have withheld his forgiveness, he would have canceled out the promise that God showed him when he first got the jacket. His brothers bowing to him. Thank you. His dad getting to see him before he passed. Family reconciliation happened because one person kept sowing the seed. None of his brothers deserved it, but one person kept sowing the seed. Who will be the one person to keep sowing today? Church, as we step into this season of crazy faith, I'm asking you to withhold nothing and actually anchor all of the things that are triggers in your life to faith. So when I get triggered. No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not. I'm. I'm training my triggers to actually move me into action by faith. Like, I'm not just gonna be mad. That means if I get mad and want to cuss them out, I need to say something nice to somebody. You missed it. You need to train your triggers to do the opposite by faith. You feel like you don't have money. You need to figure out somebody you can bless. I didn't say with money, because you ain't got that. But what do you have? See, until you do something to counteract what is coming to put you back in a cycle. The seed interrupts cycles. Lord, I'm gonna need four weeks. A seed interrupts. Ask any woman. It's too deep for y'. All. The only thing that interrupts biologically a woman's cycle is a seed. And you've been in the cycle of depression. Sow a seed. You've been in a cycle of going back to those old habits. Sow a seed. You've been in a cycle of doing what is not good for your purpose. Sow a seed. Well, I don't got a big seed. He said it could be the size of a mustard seed. Sow what you got. The reason I come to Crazy Faith Offering and ask God, what am I supposed to give? Not just financially, what am I supposed to give in time? What else am I supposed to give in? Resources? What am I supposed to give in? Influence. There are people that I literally ask God, am I supposed to connect them with this person? I'm the bridge between them and what they think they need. And sometimes it's not sowing money, it's sowing influence. I can set somebody up better than they can set theyself up. Hey, this is my man, Jeff. Jeff, meet Tom. Tom, if you ever work with Jeff, let me tell you what's gonna happen to your business. Your business is gonna grow, you gonna be happier, and you gonna get more sleep at night. Jeff. I know you can't say this about yourself, Jeff, but I know firsthand, Tom, you need to hire him, and you need to pay him more than you paying the other guy. Because this dude I have put. And I step out of that, and what did I just sow? I sowed my influence. How much would that cost you? Pride. Because I might not be in the equation no more. When Jeff and Tom go up to blow up, they might not remember that I was the one who made the connection. And now I'm on Instagram. Like, forget them. I'm the one. They wouldn't know each other. Matter of fact, we took a picture together. I'm going to post this picture right now. Connector locked in. Church today, I'm asking everybody to sow what you got. Over the next three weeks, God's going to require something of all of us. If you're watching online or you're in this room, this is not an accident. This is a call to activate your faith. I have more to talk to you about, but we're going to go into it next, next week. Because the way you're not going to crash out this Christmas is. You're going to interrupt the cycle. There's already a. A cycle. You can feel the anxiety coming. You felt it at Black Friday, just driving a memorial. Like, y' all know what I'm saying? Like, you can feel the anxiety of the stock market and the government and you can feel the anxiety of your family members and the pressure of deadlines and your creative juices actually not flowing the way it wants. Like you can. And God says, would you just sow, Sow a seed and interrupt this cycle? Would you have faith to believe that I give seed to the sower? Would you have faith to believe that when you step out in faith, it actually gives your future a future? See, a lot of people are waiting for the future just in time. But your future should have an expectation with it. A farmer sows and he sits back every morning with his coffee with expectation. Because it's not that he sees something, he know he sold something. There is no farmer that's like, I don't know when the harvest is coming. He's like, it may not. It didn't come today, but it's coming because I know I sold something. What's the last thing you sow? It'll change the way you wake up. It'll change the way that you love. It'll change the way I am going to sow no matter what the weather is. And I'm encouraging you. The weather may have been hard this year. The weather may have distracted you. You might have got married this year. You're like, I ain't worried about nobody. He's my son, my moon, my everything. Okay, Cool. Don't forget that in every season, I gotta sow, because who knows which one is gonna prosper. This, that, or maybe both. Standing all over this place. Over the next. Before anybody leaves, listen to me. Over the next three weeks, I'm going to tell you what's going to happen. Okay? Everybody look at me, please. Watching online. Just focus in for one second. God's going to require all of us to take inventory of what we have, and he's going to start asking us to sow seeds with it. Some of you, I don't even have to tell you right now. You got a whole closet full of stuff that you know that's gotta go. It's got to go. And let me. Let me help you. Giving is not easy. Some people think when you make up the decision, the mind. When you make up your mind to give, then it just gets easy. The enemy does not want you to be like Jesus. He wants you to give up. Before. Well, it was in my heart. God knows my heart. I tried to give it, and this couch ain't gonna get to them. And what I'm asking you to do is sow what you got. For some of us, it will be a monetary seed. And I'm asking everybody to begin to pray. Husbands and wives begin to pray. Single people begin to pray. We will not stop at the excuse anymore. In this season of crazy faith and people. I love inviting people into this because it changed my life. Specifically, that I'm not sowing to see an outcome in a thing yet. I'm sowing to see an outcome in my heart first. And today there are people in this room who have never taken that step of faith to say, you know what, God, I'm going to trust you with my finances. The Bible talks about that more than it talks about prayer because he knew it would be a stronghold for us and God. This year, I want to sow. And I'm not just going to sow money. I'm going to sow whatever you tell me. Hear what I just said. I'm a sow. Whatever you. Because some of you. Money's not the issue. You get money. You get money all the time. The issue is showing up for somebody. I'll give you money, but I'm not going to listen. Time, energy, effort, intention. God's requiring all of us to be more like him and not stop at the point of your trigger. Do you remember what Jesus did on the. On the road to the cross? Y' all remember what that's called when he was getting spit on and he was carrying his cross? The. The. It's a. It's a Latin word. How do you say it? Via dela Rosa. He literally displayed for us what it looked like to keep stepping by faith while being triggered every step. People lying on him, shouting accusations, spitting on him. And the whole aim was to steal the thing behind the thing. It was to keep him from actually sacrificing his life, giving what he had for all the people that were literally embarrassing him. And he said, if I could do it, I did it so you could be my reflection here on earth by faith. I need you in a triggering environment, situation, government. I need you to still give what I placed on the inside of you. You still have a song to sing. You still have a book to write. You still have a curriculum to develop. You still have a building to design. You still have a family to save. You still have a child to adopt. Somebody's waiting on you to stop withholding what God placed on the inside of you. Today I'm going to pray that we would withhold Would you lift your hands like this? Withholding nothing, Withholding nothing I withhold nothing Withholding nothing Just sing that by faith Withholding nothing Withholding nothing Jesus Withholding nothing I'll give whatever you tell me to, God Withholding nothing I surrender say I surrender all to you, Jesus Everything yeah everything I give to you Withholding nothing, Jesus this is our prayer by faith, God. I surrender, Lord Withholding nothing Just one more time say I surrender, y' all say say I surrender all to you Everything you placed in me I'll give it back to you, God Everything I give to you Withholding nothing I'm making a decision today, God. Whatever I have is yours, God, God, I will be the answer. I will be your hands and feet. If you're under the sound of my voice and you know there is something that God has gifted you with giving you stewardship, responsibility over or literally just placed in your hand that you have not been giving as freely as you know you should, would you just lift your hands in this place? I want to pray for you because God's changing hearts right now. Just lift them high like. Yep. If you're online right now, today, Father, I pray for my brother and sister who somewhere in their journey got triggered to pull their hands back today by faith. I am asking, Father, that you would unlock their heart and you would give them the faith to believe in you as their anchor. You are the defender. You are the God that fights for us. You are the God, Father, that turns bad situations good. As we even look at Joseph's life, Father, your word was true about him. And today, Father, for those who are bothered, hurting, broken, frustrated, and have been trying to protect themselves, Father God, we Would you please wrap your arms around them right now in the name of Jesus and let them know that you are a father worth trusting. Your word is worth trusting, Father God, heal their heart and give them the audacity and the faith to believe again. Let their life change as they make a decision to withhold nothing. And I thank you that there will be evidence in their life. I feel the presence of God. I thank you that in this next 90 days there will be evidence, Father God, as they give freely, you will pour out freely. I'm going to say it again. As they give freely, you will pour out freely. We won't withhold wisdom. We won't withhold, Father, our instruction. We will not withhold, Father God, our kindness, our encouragement. We will not withhold Father. God. Even the things we've called secret to success or another love we'll give. Father, we are sowing these seeds by faith, in faith. Knowing that anybody who plants your word says that they will reap a harvest. God, our trust is in you. So we withhold nothing, Withholding nothing. Come on, say it with faith. I'm withholding nothing. Jeez, It's 12:30. All we have to leave. But I believe God is doing some hard work in here. If you are in this room and you do not have a personal, close relationship with Jesus Christ, not. You were raised around him and your big mama know about him and your cousin is a. A pastor. I don't want none of those things. I'm talking about you and him. You either need to give your life to Christ or you need to rededicate your life. Whether you're watching this in prison, whether you're in this room, or whether you are watching this on a rebroadcast, today is your day of salvation. I need the church to begin to pray. I need you to begin to pray right now. Because this is what this church exists for. We're going to lead you to Jesus by faith. And I'm telling you today is your day of transformation. I don't care how much money you've made, I don't care how many awards you've received. I don't care how broken you've been. Today I want to introduce you to the man who transformed my life. He took me from being a liar, a manipulator addicted to pornography, and didn't make me a perfect man, but a progressing man. A man that could literally come with all my flaws. And God's says, don't change your heart yet. Give me your heart. Cuz if you give me your heart, I'll help you change your habits. Today I'm standing as evidence of God's goodness. And today I want you and your family and your life to change because of Jesus. If you're in this room, you're going to need his power to transform your life. And today he's calling you by his love. This is not me telling you you're a bad person. You're God's child. He's given everything. He withheld nothing just to have relationship with you. He gave his last breath as a ransom for each one of us so that you could be reconciled to the Father. All you have to do, according to Romans 10:9, is believe that he did it and receive his grace today. And today, I'm telling you, it's your day of salvation on account of three. I just want you to lift your hand if you want to accept Jesus. I want you to be bold and loud. We gonna celebrate in here with you because we know this is the thing that has transformed our life. And heaven rejoices over one person that gives their life to Christ, whether they're in this room or watching online or in a prison cell. Right now, today, heaven is about to turn up. One, you're making the greatest decision of your life. Two, your name is gonna be written in the Lamb's book of life. Three, shoot your hand up in the air if you want to receive Jesus. I see you, my brother. If you want to give God your whole life. I see you, my brother. Oh, transformation Church, you got to celebrate online more than I see you. God sees you. Today is a new day. If for only two people, it's all worth it, this transformation in Christ. Today, as a church, we pray together for the benefit of those who are coming to Christ. Would everybody just say, God, thank you for sending Jesus just for me today. I repent of my sins and I turn to you. I believe you lived, died, and rose again with all power to defeat anything I would deal with on this earth. I receive you as my Lord and Savior. Change me, renew me, transform me. I'm yours forever. In Jesus name. Amen. Come on, church, let's celebrate. No. That should be the biggest shout of the day. Hallelujah. Listen to me. Listen to me. 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