We all go through seasons that feel as if our life is falling apart, whether relationally, spiritually, emotionally. How can someone hold on to their faith even as things are falling apart around them? Crazy faith is hearing from God through his Word or in prayer, then obeying what he’s saying. Crazy faith allows me to give generously to somebody who I don’t even think needs what I have. It allows me to forgive.įorgiving is crazy faith. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been going through a situation and I’m just reading the Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms, and God speaks to me through his Word and it changes my situation and allows me to start walking in crazy faith. When you allow the Word of God to get inside you, it increases your faith. It’s the only book that you read it and it reads you. The Bible is one of the main ways that God speaks to us. Things that people feel are crazy now will one day be the things that people account as faith. Or, like I say, it’s only crazy until it happens. But it was only crazy until it started raining. How crazy it would seem for Noah to go out every day to build an ark and gather his family to do it. People may say, “That doesn’t really make sense.” I look at our faith heroes in the Bible. Yet the God who parted seas, who made the sun stand still, who gave Abraham and Sarah a baby in old age, is the same God in our lives today. Our generation believes in Google more than God. “God doesn’t bless who you pretend to be, He blesses who you really are.Crazy faith is trusting in something that you can’t explicitly prove. He shares freely because he wants to be an open vessel for God to use. Todd is transparent about his testimony, revealing that he cheated on his wife before marriage, was addicted to pornography, and almost went to jail while leading as the church’s youth pastor. “It’s not about the thing that provides the greatest platform, it’s the thing that God looks at and say’s that is what I proposed for you,” Todd stated. He believes that the way to do it is to not want success. The church was excelling, but Todd realized that he needed to focus more on purpose and his relationship with Christ than potential. He noted that God wanted him to stride, meaning, “walk in long decisive steps in an intentional direction.” It was a moment where God challenged me to be obedient and do less,” he remembered. There was a transition that happened for Todd and the Transformation Church. “I always try to figure out how long they have been in the darkroom,’’ he said to emphasize the point that there should be a development process before one’s success. The pastor is often suspicious of those who are an overnight success. “The darkroom is where God develops your character and the darkroom is where God keeps working those things out of you where you can still be used on the platform, but know you are nasty behind the scenes,” he revealed. The Relationship Goals bestselling author realized that the Holy Spirit was working on Todd’s relationship with God and fixing things in his heart so that he could be elevated. “There was a divine grace that came over my life on February 1, 2015, when me and my wife stepped into that role we stepped in knowing that we didn’t know anything except God was with us,” Todd realized.Īt the time, the congregation had about 300 members and his sermons were only receiving 100 views on Youtube. Todd declined the offer at first and recalled saying, “I don’t even like people that much.’’ He reconsidered after discovering it was a five-year plan. In September 2014, the Pastor at the time, Gary Mcintosh, informed Toddl that he would become the lead pastor of the church because Mcintosh believed that he had the vision for where the congregation was headed. Todd confessed that he never wanted to be the pastor of Transformation Church. Before becoming the pastor of Transformation Church, Todd served as the sound man, the youth pastor, and then the main pastor. Senior pastor of Transformation Church, Michael Toddm sat down with Matt and Laurie Crouch on TBN’s show “Praise” to talk about his journey in leadership.
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