Crazy Faith Story | Michael Todd

Crazy Faith: Unlocking Your Anointed Imagination

Scripture References

Primary text

• Genesis 1:27
• Matthew 18
• Hebrews 11:1

Other references

• Proverbs 3:5
• 2 Corinthians 10:5

Overview

Michael Todd calls believers to move from “tamed” expectations to “crazy faith”—the kind that looks absurd until God brings it to pass. Drawing from his own six-year journey of impossible church miracles, he shows that great steps of faith grow out of daily “baby faith” habits and an imagination surrendered to God. When our minds picture what God can do, intercession purifies those pictures and propels us to obedient action. The message ends with a corporate invitation to dream with God again and trust Him for the impossible.

Main Points

1. Crazy Faith—It’s Only Crazy Until It Happens

• Faith pleases God; without it we cannot pray, be saved, or fulfill our purpose.
• Every Bible hero’s story—David, Peter, etc.—looked irrational before victory.
• Illustration: 35 years ago a pocket device that makes global calls and holds a Bible app sounded insane; now we panic when we misplace it.

“It’s only crazy until it happens.”

2. Personal Testimony: Transformation Church Miracles

• 2015: Became lead pastor of a 300-member church with no money or staff.
• Wrote down a “crazy” vision at 7:29 a.m.—owning the SpiritBank Event Center; even misspelled “Transformation.”
• Five years later he held the keys; applause came after fulfillment, not before.
• God then challenged him to purchase the entire surrounding business complex (including Chick-fil-A land) and later a 196,000-sq-ft tower.
  Story: Each acquisition stretched his faith and confirmed that God uses “the most unlikely character to prove He can use anybody.”

3. Baby Faith Precedes Crazy Faith

• Miracles grow from simple, repeated obedience: daily Bible reading, praying for people, buying the meal behind you, doing dishes.
• “You can’t Instagram integrity and you can’t Facebook faithfulness.”
• Small unseen acts prepare the ground for public breakthroughs.

4. Imagination: The Genesis of Crazier Faith

• Genesis 1:27—We were first in God’s imagination; made in His image, we can create with ours.
• Adults often let trauma, logic, or disappointment “kill, steal, or destroy” imagination; God calls us to revive it.
• Exercise: Closed-eyes vacation visualization showed how a free image can move us to real planning.

5. Become Child-Like to Access the Kingdom

• Matthew 18: Jesus set a little child in front of the disciples: trust, believe, obey, imagine.
• Todd’s childhood photo reminded him that boy “knew more about the kingdom” because he hadn’t learned to doubt.
  Key: “Be more kid-dy”—not immature, but quick to take God at His word.

6. Defining an Anointed Imagination

• Anointed = “God’s approval.”
• Working definition: “The ability to create new ideas or pictures not present to the senses that God approves and empowers us to live out for His glory.”
• Anxiety illustrates the flip side: fear + imagination produces torment.

7. Guarding & Purifying Images Through Intercession

• 2 Corinthians 10:5—Cast down vain imaginations.
• Prayer (intercession) does three things:
  1. Changes focus—brings blurred life into God’s clarity.
  2. Changes feelings—God can realign our emotions (e.g., from “DeMarcus” to “Daniel”).
  3. Changes the future—fervent prayers “avail much.”
• Proverbs 3:5—Acknowledge God in all plans; He directs the path.
  Illustration: Camera zoom moving from blur to sharp focus as an image of what prayer does to vision.

Key Truths

• What starts as ridicule becomes testimony when God fulfills it.
• Big public miracles rest on hidden private disciplines.
• Imagination is a God-given tool; what you picture shapes what forms in your life.
• Childlike trust reopens spiritual possibilities adults often close.
• Intercession purifies and powers our mental pictures into God-approved realities.

Response

• Write one “crazy” vision God is stirring and keep it visible.
• Practice daily “baby faith” habits—read, pray, obey in small ways this week.
• Set aside time to imagine your future with God, then bring those images to prayer for refinement.
• Cast down any recurring fearful scenario with Scripture and truth.
• Speak encouragement over someone else’s God-dream to break stinginess with revelation.

Closing

Todd ends by praying that God would “do more than we could ever think or imagine” and ignite dormant dreams. The congregation is urged to picture restoration, wholeness, and impact before they see it, and to keep partnering with God until the impossible becomes normal.

“Bring your wild imagination to Me; let Me show you what I have planned.”

Prayer

“Father, bless this people. Do more than they could ever think or imagine. Eyes haven’t seen, ears haven’t heard, nor has it entered into the imaginations of those that are listening the things You have planned for them because they’re called and You love them. Thank You for igniting our imagination. In Jesus’ name we pray, amen.”

Resources

• Crazy Faith (book by Michael Todd)
• YouVersion Bible App