9/25/2023 0 Comments Pastor mike todd crazy faith bookBut that's why I called this whole message that I'm giving people- It's like: This is a message of crazy faith. And I had "maybe" faith and "baby" faith and "lazy" faith and "crazy" faith. ![]() And, literally, step-by-step-by-step-by-step. And if it happened, this couldn't be us! This had to be some divine intervention. Me telling other people that this is possible. It was a little miracle after little miracle: me believing in what I wrote down. Five years later, Hoda, I got the keys to that building. And I'm like, "What?" And I had the audacity to write it down. I just hear this impression: The Spirit Bank Event Center is going to be Transformation Church. Like, 37 days after I became the lead pastor of our church that was less than 300 people. Because it's only crazy until it happens. And I began to see things that weren't natural to me seeing. And then, literally four years later, I'm the lead pastor of the church, and I'm like, "How in the world did this happen?" Like, "Somebody got the wrong person!" And I gave to this transformation - that's why our church is called Transformation Church - because I believe that you can actually change. Like, I would be fixing your mic right now if you came to my church. I started out as the sound man of our church. Where were you first when it came to your fellowship? You're pastor of this Transformation Church, and that was nowhere near where you began. I need to give her a hug and a kiss right now. Right after we get off this podcast, I'mma go find her. Like, we begin to understand, "Man, I love you even more now because we've been through this together, and because you're still here, and because we can still laugh about that." And, again, making space made us love each other even more. And, as we began to do that, we liked that person better than the one we married. And so we made an intentionality that: I am not going to pause your growth on the frame that I remember you as. What she used to like, she didn't like anymore. We got a revelation that you keep changing every five years. Our intentionality came from: If you're married more than five years, you're not married to the same person you married. ![]() Did this intention come from, 'Uh-oh, our relationship isn't working, and unless we do something.'? I met her when I was 15 years old, and we've been married 11 years, we've got four kids, we run a bunch of businesses together. And me and her are closer today than we've ever been. And when I wrote it down, when I said it out loud, when I let my intention be known, and I put that vision down on paper, it's been two and a half years, and every week we've had a date night. I had to write it down and I had to write it down to the point where it became written down in my calendar every week. Very basic, like: "I will date my wife for the rest of my life." I said that out loud, but it wasn't enough to say it. And so the first thing I did, honestly, is got a vision, and wrote the vision down, and made it plain. They're scared to even say, like, "You know what, I hope to be working a job that I have time for my family.". And most people are scared to even say what they're hoping for. I think the first thing that you have to understand is: When you say what you desire, it begins to move your life in that direction. ![]() And when I make that space every day, it's so crazy that one hour out of 24 hours can begin to set the trajectory for my life, my family, and miracles to happen in my life that really make me feel like I'm just a part of something that's way bigger than me. You know the crazy thing, Hoda, is people aren't still enough or silent enough to even listen to themselves, to be able to see how they're feeling, to be able to see what is being told to them by the people they love, and by the things that are speaking to them. And other times it's like, "Hey, pray for that family," or, "Go give to that person," or, "Read this scripture over and over and over and over again." And I just follow those promptings. And sometimes it's things like, "Go take your wife on a special date." And I just feel impressed to do that. So, something that's a practical practice for me every day is: I have what I call "quiet time." Where I do meditation, prayer, I read scriptures, and I write down the things that I feel strongly impressed on my heart. You know the crazy thing, Hoda, is people aren't still enough or silent enough to even listen to themselves, to be able to see how they're feeling, to be able to see what is being told to them.
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