Michael Todd -Do the Words You're Speaking Embody Faith

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I want you to divorce any talk that's not faith talk.
You know, the other talks like like fear talk, which
some of you are fluent in.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
You're so fluent in fear talk that when.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
God blesses you, your automatic reaction it's to.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Think and say, what can happen to go wrong?

Speaker 1 (00:29):
I'm gonna take it up one more notch today cause
I can.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
I can I.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Talk to you like we friends, like I have authority
in your life and I can say something and you
won't be mad at me afterwards because I'm gonna tell
you the truth even though it stings a little bit.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Can I be real this morning?

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Now? I'm asking you first because I need permission before
I go into what I'm about to do. Can I
be real this morning's transformation?

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Chr Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Today, I want to talk to you about the way
that you talk. I'm coming straight for it today because
the church always talks and communicates and has seminars on
walking by faith, but most people are deprived of talking

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by faith. Your talk cancels your walk.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
You will believe on Sunday for something that you will cancel.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Out with your words before you pray at Crackle Barrel,
It don't even take three hours of you saying, God,
help me to forgive, and then somebody frustrates you in
the parking lot and you done picked up a whole nuther.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
There are fits and talking about See.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
That's why I don't come to church, and I'll mess
with church people and ain't them in there. And you've
done done, and you've literally canceled out.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
The walk which you'll talk.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
And one of the things that I am very concerned
about as we write down our crazy faith and as
we believe God and we stand and we give, is
that many of us are going to literally make all
of our faith steps canceled out with our words of death.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Let me say it the way the Bible says it.
Idle words. It's not about saying bad things. It's about
saying pointless things.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
It's not just about what and cuss, it's but did
you sew division? And you know you can sew division
by somebody saying somebody's name.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
And you don't even really say a.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Full word, you know, susan Mmmm, that was an idle
word that Heaven has now recorded. And you will have
to stand and give account for every because the same

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faith that you need when you're walking into rooms that
you don't even know who's been talking to you about
you reap everything you saw, and there are people that
are leading, that.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Are greeting, that.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Are on the worship team, that are in the stands,
in the in the choir stand doing everything that God
says to do, and that gossip is digging a hole.
I'm coming for your secret conversations, the ones with trusted friends,

(03:58):
because there's people we feel feel comfortable telling and they
know our hearts and we've been through so much together
that they know like I would never really say that
to them, but I'm just venting. Venting is not a
spiritual practice. Venting is not a fruit of the spirit,

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and some of us are canceling out the very promises.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Of God that we believe for with the words we
are saying.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Today, I want to engage and empower.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Your faith talk.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
I want what comes out of your mouth to be
speaking good into the present and producing fruit in the future. Now,
this is going to change who some of you can
hang around, because if you don't get a revelation or
revealed truth of what God is trying to do in
your life, you'll use your words frivolously because you think

(05:06):
that they don't matter. Baby, My vocal cords were created
for victory.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
When I talk, things change. Uh, We're about to see.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
A delineation right now between the people who have crazy
faith and the people have crazy faith. Let me say
it to you like this. It takes crazy faith to
write the vision down. It takes crazier faith to say
it out loud. And most of you are writing down
what you are scared to say. If God called you

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up right now and said, tell them what I told you,
but like you would turn into because.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
You don't actually have the faith.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
If somebody's crazy, you don't know they actually crazy, like
actually insane, or something's not there. You don't know it
by just looking at them.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
The way you can tell somebody is.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Crazy when they start talking. The way the enemy is
gonna know that you serious about staying pure this time,
The way that your family's gonna know they can't come
to you with the foolishness they used to come to
you with, the.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Way that all of heaven and all of Hell is.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Gonna recognize your faith is not just by what you think,
it's by what you say. Everybody say say it. That
means you've got to have faith talk. And too many
of us, because of our upbringing, have learned to have

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talked that copes with deficiencies around us. And this is
where many of you need therapy. You need therapy and theology.
I'm gonna give you the theology, and then some of
y'all need to go see doctor Schnortski. Yeah, because your environment.

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Many times to deal with what you didn't like, you
would use words to be able to create an environment
that was okay, okay. Let mean so when the family
didn't have no money, you would make jokes.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
About it using your words. I'm so broke. We can't
even pay attention a look at your hair, look at
them Edgines, and we just would go and go and
go to.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
Try to find hope in a situation that felt hopeless.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Now you have been trained.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
In speech that works against God's promises for your life.
I'm just telling you what actually happens, and I'm just
talking about one instance. We can bring this to every
different facet of your life. But what you say when
you're getting pressed exposes what's really in there. You can

(08:05):
tell by if somebody slams they hand in the door, boom, Oh,
what comes after the oh is what's.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Really in there?

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Pressure exposes because the Bible says out of the abundance
of the heart, the mouth speaks. Everything you've been saying
is exposing the crevices of your heart. My question to you,

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are you talking faith? Because everything God wants to do
in your life is going to take the payment of faith.
He doesn't need fame, he doesn't need fortune. He does
it need fans. What God is going to require, whether

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you are a CEO or you are a single mom
trying to raise three boys, is shout at me faith, faith,
And so today I want you to divorce any talk
that's not faith talk. You know, the other talks like

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fear talk. What some of you are fluent in it.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
You're so fluent in fear talk that when.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
God blesses you, your automatic reaction is to think and say,
what can happen to go wrong?

Speaker 2 (09:42):
You're so fluent in it. Hey, I want to give
you one hundred dollars. What's the catch? What do you
want from me? Who are you with? What do you
And God is like, oh is this try to bless you?

Speaker 1 (09:58):
But what you've been trained then comes out of your mouth.
We gotta divorce fear talk. We gotta divorce frustration talk.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Some of y'all be mad at nothing.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Why they get to go first going down the line
at Thanksgiving? Look it hit somebody over there, somebody there
was conviction on this side.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Why do they get to go first. They're not even part
of the family.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
You know, they already had uh And we don't even
know if that's the real okay, and you're getting frustrated
about stuff. No more frustration talk, no more failure talk.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
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Speaker 1 (10:51):
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