March 31, 2025 • 32 mins
Are you tired of settling?
🔥 Do you sense a holy discontent stirring within you—a relentless fire that pushes you toward more? In this powerful conclusion to the Overflow series, Apostle Mike Signorelli explores "The Covenant of More," revealing how holy discontent is God's tool for driving us into our destiny. Discover how your current frustrations, challenges, and irritations might actually be divine invitations into greater purpose.
Dive deep into Hannah's story in 1 Samuel and uncover powerful insights into turning personal pain into prophetic promise. It's time to move beyond grumbling into groaning—beyond irritation into divine activation. Don't miss this timely message!
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I want you to just say thisphrase with me.
Holy discontent.
Oh, man, this is a good.
This is a good congregation here.
Okay, let's do it one more time.
Because I couldn't hear Miami,they were too quiet.
Holy discontent.
All right, come on, let's gotake our seats.
Let me message like, hit thismessage, okay?
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Holy discontent.
This is going to be the basisof this sermon.
And this may be one of themost important messages that you've
heard in your entire life,because it's going to shift you into
what's next.
Holy discontent.
Holy discontent is when youknow, deep in your spirit, it is
not supposed to be like this.
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You know that feeling you getwhen you're driving around Brooklyn
looking for parking and you'relike, it ain't supposed to be like
this.
Or you look at.
Or when they tell you that therent just got jacked up higher, you're
like, it ain't supposed to belike this.
You know, we all have thesethings in our lives, varying degrees
of frustration, but there'sthis holy discontent.
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This is what I want to talk toyou about.
Holy discontent is.
It's the fire that won't letyou settle.
Holy discontent is the firethat won't let you settle.
And let me just tell you, ifyou got in your car in northwest
Indiana and got all your kidsready and you drove to church, you
have a fire that won't let you settle.
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I'll tell you what, most ofy'all who are sitting in seats right
now, you did not come to church.
You came to meet God.
You came.
You're like, this ain't evenabout church.
Church is just facilitating meencountering him.
I have a fire that won't letme stop.
I have a passion that won'tlet me quit.
Is there anybody that can sayon the inside of them, there's something
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that's saying, I did not fightthrough all hell just to give up
now.
I did not get this far just toget this far.
I did not cancel five suicidalattempts just to give up now.
There's a fire that shut up inmy bones.
Is there anybody who knowsabout that?
Fuego.
Are y'all asleep on me today?
Is there anybody that can justgive God a 10 second praise break
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that you didn't quit, youdidn't give up, you didn't back down.
Because there's a fire thatnever quits.
There's a fire that never gets.
Come on.
See, the devil has endurance,but we got more endurance.
We will outlast him.
There's a Reason why I'm thelast man standing?
Because there's a fire insideof me that said, I'm not giving up
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on New York City.
I'm not giving up on Long Island.
There's a holy discontentuntil I see the world start to look
like the vision that I see onthe inside of me.
Is there anybody that sees avision of what things should be?
Come on.
I keep seeing a vision of whatmy body is supposed to be.
Why are you laughing?
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Why do they laugh when I say this?
You know how I know Iaccomplished that vision is when
I say these jokes and no onelaughs anymore.
I'm coming back fromsabbatical looking like a ninja turtle,
let me tell you.
Are you getting a visual?
Well, you know, I'm bald, youknow, so I have the.
Okay anyways.
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But it's like I have a visionfor my body.
I have a vision, but itdoesn't come into alignment.
So there's this holy discontent.
It's what turns ordinarypeople into chain breakers.
The way that you get a diamondis pressure.
It's gotta be.
It's coal in its barbaric form.
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It's this black chunk of coal.
But if you subject it to theright conditions in the right process,
you can make a diamond.
Coal has value, but diamondhas greater value.
And what's the difference inthe value?
It's the process that it wassubjected to.
What if I told you that God istrying to increase your worth?
He's trying to increase thevalue of your life by putting you
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through a process that willturn you into something that you've
never seen in your familybefore, that you've.
Am I the only one that youstart looking around?
You're like, I'm less and lessrelatable to my family.
I might have this same eyecolor, but I have a different vision.
Oh, come on.
I'm speaking to somebody.
We might share genetics, butin the spirit.
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I've been grafted intoAbraham's lineage.
It's like we got the same eyecolor, but we've got a different
vision.
Like, there's something aboutthe deeper you go on this journey.
It's a process that willchange you.
As a matter of fact, the Biblesays that we go from glory to glory.
It might feel like I'm goingfrom pit to pit, but, baby, if you
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look at the trajectory, I wasalways going higher.
I might have temporarily gonelower, but over the long haul, I
was always going higher.
Sometimes God will take youlower to readjust you, to take you
higher.
Sometimes he's repositioningyou, but you're always headed higher.
But there's something that yousee that you're convinced of what
I'm saying.
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That's why you didn't allowyourself to stay depressed.
That's the reason why youdidn't allow yourself to even stay
at home.
Because you see something, andyou can't be convinced otherwise.
Because faith is the evidence of.
Come on, help me.
Faith is the evidence ofthings hoped for.
And the.
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Oh, no.
Come on.
No, come on, Come on, come on.
They don't know their Bible.
In Miami, they were all, let'stry it again, Church.
Faith is the evidence ofthings hoped for and the substance
of things not seen.
So my physical reality, Idon't see it.
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But by faith, I'm certain thatit exists.
Oh, we're about to go into therealm of faith.
We're about to go into therealm of faith.
We're about to go into therealm of faith.
First Samuel, chapter one.
I feel the power of God right now.
I'm about to shout.
I'm about to take off running.
It's not the caffeine.
It's the Holy Ghost.
First chance.
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You know why?
Okay, we're gonna get there.
Because I believe this for you.
I'm not gonna let you staywhere you're at.
This is why I'm excited,because I'm gonna grab you and I'm
gonna pull you up and I'mgonna push you into what's next today.
Cause I believe it for you.
Oh, I feel the fuego.
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Some of y'all just needed it.
I believe it for you.
Because the Lord had closedher womb, her rival used to provoke
her grievously to irritate her.
Oh, we all got some of thesepeople in our lives.
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You might be sitting next toone of them.
Because the Lord had closedher womb, her rival used to provoke
her grievously to irritate her.
Therefore.
Therefore, Hannah wept andwould not eat.
Let me break this down.
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If you're a man, you can stillbe a prophetic Hannah in this sermon.
So I want you to hear this.
I'm talking to the women as well.
So this is for everybody.
Everybody.
This is for everybody.
Because there are some thingsthat you keep blaming on the devil,
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but in fact, it's God that did it.
Because that holy discontentis what he's trying to use to push
you into your destiny.
So here's the thing.
Well, she could have said, oh,the devil is attacking my womb.
Bring me the intercessors.
Bring me the prayer warriors,we're gonna cast this demon of infertility
out.
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But it wasn't demonic in its origin.
The Lord had closed her womb.
Can I take you to school?
Can I take you to school?
There are some things that youblame on the devil that in fact,
God has done to orchestratehis will in your life.
And if you'll stop complainingand you'll stop criticizing and you'll
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actually allow that thing toshift you into intercession and prayer,
and you'll let it provoke youto what's next, you'll get to the
other side of it.
But stop blaming it on the devil.
Stop blaming it on your geography.
It's not your city's problem.
It's not your boss's problem.
It's.
Oh, I'm talking to somebodyright now.
You blame.
But see, Hannah intuitivelyunderstood this is between me and
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God.
As a matter of fact, she evenhad arrival before her arrival.
She had arrival before her arrival.
Let me just tell you, if youthink you're gonna get haters after
you're successful, you haven'tlived yet.
People will hate you beforeyou even succeed because they know
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you're headed towards it.
See, this rival was speakingto her future.
Sometimes when they talk aboutyou and they criticize you and they
taunt you and irritate you,all they're doing is prophesying
what's getting ready to happen?
What does the devil inside ofthem know about what's up ahead of
you?
That they're trying tocriticize you out of the promise.
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Come on.
I'll take a demonic prop.
Some of you, like, the Lordhasn't sent a prophet.
He did in the form of your rivals.
It's opposite day.
You say it's over.
The Lord said it just began.
They say that I'm nobody.
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The Lord says that I'm a royalpriesthood, a chosen generation.
Oh, they said I'm always gonnabe broke.
But the Lord says, I see overflow.
Your seed is actually gonna.
Oh, come on.
I'll take.
Sometimes if God doesn't sendone of his prophets, the devil send
one of his.
And I'll say the it's oppositeday devil, because I know that if
you're lying, it's the.
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What God is revealing is thatthe opposite is true.
So she had a rival.
But here's the thing.
The intention was to irritate her.
Let me just tell you.
Are you being irritated or areyou being stirred?
Are you being irritated or areyou being stirred?
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Stirred.
Stirred.
I remember when they told meyou can't simulcast in New York City?
No, New York City churches simulcast.
People don't want to watchsermons on a screen.
But I said, but I know whatthe Lord told me.
And I went from beingirritated to being stirred.
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Now I'm on a mission.
Matter of fact, there's apastor who actually has a multi side
church in Manhattan and he hitme up the other day and he said,
you have given me vision andyou've proved that we can simulcast
and be one house with many rooms.
And he said, I don't even knowif you know this, but you're the
very first pastor to simulcastin New York City.
But let me just tell you this.
I had to choose.
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Am I going to be irritated oram I going to be stirred?
See, I don't know if younoticed this, but your rivals can
actually fuel your next levels.
I don't know if you'verecognized this, but the difference
is you have to bless those whocurse you and you have to pray for
those who despitefully use you.
Because it's actually notabout them.
It's about you and God andwhat God's trying to do.
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As a matter of fact, the Biblesays that promotion does not come
from man.
That promotion comes from.
Oh, help me say it louder.
Promotion does not come from man.
Promotion comes from God.
Oh, so your boss can't holdyou down.
So the problem is not betweenyou and your boss.
It's between you and your God.
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Why hasn't your God promoted you?
See, Hannah understood thisbecause she doesn't respond to her
rival.
Hannah wept and she would noteat and she was deeply distressed
and she prayed to the Lord andshe wept bitterly.
Oh, we gotta talk about this.
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And I'm talking to some of the men.
You better learn how to cry.
You better learn how to cry.
All the men, I ain't gonna cry.
I ain't gonna cry.
But then your favoritequarterback retires and you cry.
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Let me tell you, your feelingsdon't dissipate.
They get displaced.
If you don't learn how to getthem through your eyes, they're gonna
end up in your lower back.
If you don't learn how to getyour emotions through your eyes,
they're gonna end up in your stomach.
They're gonna end up in your heart.
See, there's a physicalconnection to what is disease.
Dis ease.
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So what happens is, if youdon't learn how to get that dis ease
out of your body, it becomesdis ease in your body.
See, I'm trying to help you.
You've got to learn where totake your feeling.
And let me just ask you this.
Why do you keep calling your friends?
Do you want attention or doyou want transformation?
Because.
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And men do it, too.
Men do it, too.
Yo, what's going on, bro?
Nothing, bro.
What about you, bro?
Yeah, bro.
My wife, bro.
Church, bro.
My boss, bro.
The lie, bro.
8094, bro.
The Dan Ryan, bro.
The Bears, bro.
Come on, bro.
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I'm trying to help you.
Hannah wept.
She knew where to take her feelings.
She knew where to take her emotions.
As a matter of fact, she tookthem to the altar.
And the Bible says that theEli who was over the temple actually
thought she was drunk becauseshe was weeping so bitterly.
But I'll tell you what wasn't happening.
Her feelings weren't getting displaced.
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They were getting dispersed.
And what happens was shebecame an empty vessel that became
a candidate to conceive a baby.
See, sometimes you gottarelease feelings so that God can
fill you with the spirit.
Sometimes you gotta getsomething out so something new can
come in.
You gotta learn how to turnthat grumbling into groaning.
You gotta learn how to turn itinto intercession.
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And this.
I'm trying to help you.
I used to never cry.
And then I started surrendering.
And through the surrender, thecry started to happen.
And you know what else happened?
My lower back got healed.
See, you don't understand.
You're carrying this stuff,and the Lord wants to help you get
rid of it.
And this.
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She was deeply distressed.
And.
Look at this word.
And she was deeply distressedand prayed.
Watch this.
Here's how most of us walk outour faith.
He was deeply distressed, buthe stopped praying.
See, we're using thecoordinating conjunction, but when
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it should be.
And I'm going through it, andI'm still fasting, I'm being tempted,
and I'm still praying andcrying out, give me an.
And Kind of people.
Not a but kind of people.
I live in New York City.
It's extremely.
It's extremely expensive.
And I'm the blessing of Godthrough Abraham to this city.
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And there's financialprosperity on my life because I've
aligned with his will.
Give me an.
And look at this.
When you can't tolerate itanymore, I want to shift you now
into the next portion of this.
Discontent is actually a signthat you are on your way to transformation.
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But here's the thing.
Hannah, she was barren.
She couldn't have a child.
She couldn't conceive.
But the most important part ofher story is that she refused to
Accept the dysfunction.
She refused to accept that asher reality.
She refused to accept herreality as her final reality.
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See, let me show you something.
Hannah lived with bareness.
Everyone else adjusted, butshe didn't adjust.
Since when did you accept thefact that you will always have anxiety
attacks?
Do you remember your lifebefore anxiety?
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Do you remember your lifebefore the panic attacks?
Since when did you adjust?
See, the real issue here iswhat are you allowing?
What have you accepted?
See, there's some times wherewe just say, you know what?
I guess I'm gonna manage it.
Oh, come on.
I guess I'm gonna tolerate it.
But see, the Lord is askingsome people today, are you going
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to actually continue to accept it?
Are you gonna continue tomanage it, or are you gonna believe
beyond it?
See, because sometimes youcould say, oh, this is just the way
I'm gonna be.
This is just what I'm gonnahave in my body.
Let me talk to the queens real quick.
Let me talk to the queens.
All y'all got real ready forchurch today.
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I got my queen over there.
Matter of fact, when I lookedover, she was like this.
Don't be flirting with mewhile I'm preaching.
It's inappropriate.
But let me just say.
Let me.
Let me just say this.
Since when did you let thatman start to talk to you the way
he talks to you?
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You are a queen.
You are the daughter of theMost High.
Since when did you acceptverbal and physical abuse?
It's never appropriate for himto lay his hand on you and stop justifying
what God has not justified.
Stop accepting what God hasnot accepted.
Let me talk to the kings real quick.
Come on.
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I told one of our teammembers, I said, man, you're amazing.
I said, does your wife knowhow amazing you are?
He said, tell her I'll go gether right now and tell her, but let
me talk to the Kings.
Since when did you acceptpeople treating you like you're common?
You're not common.
You're a royal priesthood.
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You're a peculiar person.
You're a chosen generation.
Come on.
This is the thing about it, issometimes, and I say this all the
time, but sometimes we have tochange our circles to change our
levels.
There are times where ourcurrent friendships cannot sustain
our future destination.
There are times where we haveto stop giving ear to them because
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they are not in alignment withwhere you're going.
Those friends, they were inalignment with where you used to
be, but they're not inalignment with the new assignment.
And sometimes you have to shedsome relationships off because they're
helping you.
Oh, Lord, help.
They're helping you conform toan identity that God wants you to
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break out of.
You need the kind of friendswho say, I do not accept the fact
that you're always going to beriddled with anxiety.
And.
And when you call them on thephone, here's how you know you got
a real friend.
When you call them on thephone and you're like, I just need
to talk this through.
Hey, hang up with me and talkto God about it because he's gonna
be the one that heals you.
I'm not.
Come on.
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There's something aboutfriends that redirect you instead
of friends that actuallyconfirm the mess that you're in.
And can I just give you a side note?
Some of them like you being inpain because it comforts their own
mediocrity.
Some of them like you notwriting the book because they never
finished theirs.
Some of them like you notstarting the business because they're
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failed.
Some of the.
Some of these friends like youbeing a loser because they've lost
too.
And sometimes when you beginto get a holy discontent, they don't
like that fuego because theydidn't blow on the embers of their
own fire and their fire smoldering.
But yours is.
See there.
I'm telling you to get whatGod has for.
For you.
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There's going to be a gap.
And the gap is going to bebetween your friends who are actually
frenemies.
They're enemies of your future.
That's what it is.
They're not your friends,they're your frenemies.
They're enemies to your future.
They don't want you to readthe Bible more because it exposes
how little they read it.
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They don't want you to praymore because it exposes the lack
of their prayer life.
So there's going to be a gapwhen you abandon that friendship.
And then all of a sudden,there's going to be a season where
you have to learn how to bealone but not lonely.
Oh, single people, look me inmy beady Italian eyes.
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You can be alone but not lonely.
Because God declares, I willnever leave you nor forsake you.
I will be with you to the enduntil Jesus becomes your husband.
You ain't ready for anothergroom because you can be alone but
not lonely.
You'll carry that lonelinessinto your marriage because you'll
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make a man an idol when onlyJesus is enough to satisfy.
You gotta learn how to bealone but not lonely.
There's a gap.
Hannah was Going through.
Oh, I'm going in for you today.
I'm earning my Chicken McNuggets.
Let me tell you, I'm almost done.
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Let me tell you, God is tryingto divinely speak to you.
Do you want attention or doyou want transformation?
Do you want to be heard or doyou want to be healed?
See, this is the exchange thatyou have to make.
This is what I'm trying to getyou to understand.
But you're going to have a gap.
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See, Hannah had rivals.
Holy discontent doesn't adjustto dysfunction.
It groans for something more.
Everybody say this word with me.
Groan.
Yeah, even the word soundslike how it sounds.
Groan.
What is groan?
It's the realm beyond wordswhere there's only noise, there's
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only sound.
There's a groaning and atravailing and a longing.
Let me just tell you this.
Sometimes God will sovereignlyand divinely let your situation get
bad enough to where youactually start praying like you should
have been praying the whole time.
Sometimes God will let it.
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Some of you, you only open theBible to find the answer to the problem
that was perplexing you.
And by God's mercy, he causedyou to suffer enough to actually
become the disciple you weredesigned to become.
And this is what I'm here totell you.
Do not expect, accept anyfalse gospel that promises once you
say the sinner's prayer, yourlife is going to get better.
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I'm telling you the opposite.
Once you confess Christ assavior, all of hell is going to do
everything to get you back.
There's going to be a war overyour mind, a war over your emotions.
Because hell doesn't give up ageneration easily knowing the implications
for the generations after.
Can I just tell you, yourlife's going to get worse because
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now you got a target.
But suffer well, soldier,armor up.
Fight the good.
Fight.
Fight.
Push back on the devil andsay, I'm never going back to you.
I've decided.
As for me and my house, wewill serve the Lord.
I'm not going to adjust tothis dysfunction.
I've got a holy discontent onthe inside of me and I won't let
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the.
Come on, somebody jump to yourfeet and give me a 10 second praise
break.
Somebody shout unto God.
Holy discontent.
I'm not dead, so I'm not done.
Holy discontent.
Just sit on your feet.
Bring the worship team up.
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Let's drive this thing.
I told you I was eatingchicken nuggets.
But here's what I'm trying totell you.
This church is not a cruise liner.
It's a battleship.
If you want to go to anotherchurch, go to the cruise liner.
There's a great Disney churchdown the street.
And we love them becausesometimes you need a cruise liner
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season.
But we're running a battleship.
And it takes holy discontentto say, I'm not okay with human trafficking
in New York City.
I'm not okay with extremepoverty in northwest Indiana and
Miami.
And the things that make youangry are the problems that you were
put on this planet to solve.
Your anger is a sense of injustice.
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That is your purpose.
And let me just tell you,God's got a way of raising up a people
who say, I am tired of being tired.
I'm sick of being sick.
I am not.
Oh, come on.
That's.
That's what I'm trying topreach into.
Sometimes things gotta get badenough and we have to suffer enough
for us to actually startstepping in enough.
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So here, let me.
Let me finish the story ofHannah, because Romans, chapter 8,
verse 22 and 23 says, we groan inwardly.
Inwardly as we wait eagerly.
What does that mean?
You're driving onto work.
You're groaning inwardly.
What are you groaning?
See, some of you thought itwas depression.
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Some of you thought it was discouragement.
It's holy discontent.
You should put a smile on yourface because it's the opposite of
apathy.
Think about this.
Some of you been saying, I'mso frustrated.
I'm so angry.
But guess what you're saying.
I'm not numb anymore.
I'm feeling something.
I'm alive.
There's something that'sawakening, happening inside of you.
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You're not numb anymore.
See, that anger that you'reexperiencing, that's a good thing.
Because that anger is theevidence that you see something by
faith.
It's still possible that Icould do this thing.
Come on.
Here's the thing about Hannah.
Her tears were not weakness.
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They were prayers in disguise.
See, right now you might be.
I'm so frustrated.
Good.
That frustration is the proofthat you're not dead.
Even when people say, I'm sofrustrated with the local church.
Good.
You haven't given up on it yet.
Because indifference is wayworse than frustration.
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It's when people say, I don'tcare anymore.
See, it's the opposite.
What you're saying is, I still care.
And God wants to take that,turn it into a faith moment.
Let me show you one morething, because we're about to pray.
Psalm, chapter 34, verse 18.
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted.
Why is he near to the brokenhearted?
It's very simple.
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Because brokenhearted peopledraw near to him when your heart
is broken.
Oh, Lord, I don't know what to do.
I don't know what to do withmy marriage.
I'm so broken over this.
The Lord's near.
Why?
Because in your brokenness,you begin to cry out to him.
You broke past the ritual andyou started to get into raw surrender.
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How many Hail Marys are yougonna say?
How many Our Fathers are yougonna say before you rip up the script
and you start to tell Heavenyour own words, your own language?
God, no one in my family evergot this far.
God, I don't know what I'm doing.
Lord, my mind is so finite, Ican't understand.
And then the Holy Spiritresponds and says, son, my ways are
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higher than your ways.
My thoughts are higher thanyour thoughts.
And he begins to lift you upinto heavenly places and shows.
But you're not done yet.
I want to tell you one more thing.
Let me have the prayer teammembers come up across every location.
Just come up across the front,because we're going to create Hannah's
altar right now.
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So if you're on the prayerteam and you have a badge, just come
up at every location right now.
Praise God.
Let me show you.
Just letting them line upacross every location while the prayer
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team come up.
Let me tell you something thatthe Lord showed me.
So what happens is that hebuilds a nest, and that nest is our
life.
And he builds it with thethorns and the twigs and the branches.
But then as a great eagle, hebegins to fill it with all kinds
of cotton.
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Why?
Because the baby eagles, theyneed that fluff.
They need that cotton.
But then what begins to happenat a stage of their development is
that the eagle needs to startto draw the cotton out of the nest.
And then all of a sudden, itreveals a thorn.
And that thorn begins topierce the side of that little baby
eagle.
And at a certain point, itseems as if it's cruelty.
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Like, how could my dad do this?
How could my dad take thefluff out of the nest?
Why am I so uncomfortable?
Well, let me tell you, what'sactually happening is that in the
wisdom of the eagle, it'sremoving the cotton out of the nest
to reveal the thorns, becausethe thorns are the only way to get
the eagle out of the nest.
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And what happens is it's theFather Eagle's way of saying, you
were not built for a nest.
You were built for the skies.
So what God will do in yourlife is he'll make you so uncomfortable
that you get so irritated andagitated that.
That holy discontent, you say,I can't stay in the nest anymore.
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And then you jump out of thenest, but instead of falling, you
start flying.
And he's saying, yes, it wasnot cruelty, but I did this thing
to get you into your destiny.
And so, Hannah, I shut up your womb.
But the reason why I shut yourwomb up is because when I close your
womb, I open your words, Iopen your mouth, and I cause you
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to become an intercessor.
And out of that situation camethe prophet Samuel.
And Samuel was the greatestprophet to Israel.
And so let me tell you, ifHannah could go back again, she would
not do it any different,because God's perfect will was done
in that situation.
Can I just tell you like this.
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If you will turn yourgrumbling into groaning, if you will
do that, here's what's gonna happen.
You're gonna get through this transition.
Your life is gonna begin toalign with God's will.
And then you're gonna go backand you're gonna say, lord, I understand
why you did this thing, andyou're gonna give him great glory
from it.
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But right now, what we need todo across every location is I'm gonna
count to three, and we'regonna make some time for you to actually
respond to this.
And this might not be for everybody.
I know we had a lot of baptisms.
God moved powerfully today.
But the Lord specifically toldme, let men and women come to the
front as a sign of.
Okay, Lord, I'm shifting outof grumbling and complaining, and
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I'm shifting into groaning,into intercession, into praying.
And I'm gonna pray my waythrough this thing until God does
the impossible.
So I'm gonna count to threeand across every location.
When I get to three, if that'syou, just come out of your seat and
come forward and allow one ofour prayer team members to prophesy
over you to encourage you togive you a word.
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One, I believe that for manyof you, this sermon was a major confirmation.
Two, I believe the HolySpirit's been stirring your heart
to begin to press through, togo, what's next?
And you're gonna shift intothe spiritual realm.
Three, if that's you, justcome up right now across every location
and receive prayer.
I believe miracles are gonnahappen in the front right now.
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Come home.
Yeah.
Come.
Wow.
I want you to just say thisphrase with me.
Holy discontent.
Oh, man, this is a good.
This is a good congregation here.
Okay, let's do it one more time.
Because I couldn't hear Miami,they were too quiet.
Holy discontent.
All right, come on, let's gotake our seats.
Let me message like, hit thismessage, okay?
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Holy discontent.
This is going to be the basisof this sermon.
And this may be one of themost important messages that you've
heard in your entire life,because it's going to shift you into
what's next.
Holy discontent.
Holy discontent is when youknow, deep in your spirit, it is
not supposed to be like this.
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You know that feeling you getwhen you're driving around Brooklyn
looking for parking and you'relike, it ain't supposed to be like
this.
Or you look at.
Or when they tell you that therent just got jacked up higher, you're
like, it ain't supposed to belike this.
You know, we all have thesethings in our lives, varying degrees
of frustration, but there'sthis holy discontent.
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This is what I want to talk toyou about.
Holy discontent is.
It's the fire that won't letyou settle.
Holy discontent is the firethat won't let you settle.
And let me just tell you, ifyou got in your car in northwest
Indiana and got all your kidsready and you drove to church, you
have a fire that won't let you settle.
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I'll tell you what, most ofy'all who are sitting in seats right
now, you did not come to church.
You came to meet God.
You came.
You're like, this ain't evenabout church.
Church is just facilitating meencountering him.
I have a fire that won't letme stop.
I have a passion that won'tlet me quit.
Is there anybody that can sayon the inside of them, there's something
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that's saying, I did not fightthrough all hell just to give up
now.
I did not get this far just toget this far.
I did not cancel five suicidalattempts just to give up now.
There's a fire that shut up inmy bones.
Is there anybody who knowsabout that?
Fuego.
Are y'all asleep on me today?
Is there anybody that can justgive God a 10 second praise break
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that you didn't quit, youdidn't give up, you didn't back down.
Because there's a fire thatnever quits.
There's a fire that never gets.
Come on.
See, the devil has endurance,but we got more endurance.
We will outlast him.
There's a Reason why I'm thelast man standing?
Because there's a fire insideof me that said, I'm not giving up
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on New York City.
I'm not giving up on Long Island.
There's a holy discontentuntil I see the world start to look
like the vision that I see onthe inside of me.
Is there anybody that sees avision of what things should be?
Come on.
I keep seeing a vision of whatmy body is supposed to be.
Why are you laughing?
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Why do they laugh when I say this?
You know how I know Iaccomplished that vision is when
I say these jokes and no onelaughs anymore.
I'm coming back fromsabbatical looking like a ninja turtle,
let me tell you.
Are you getting a visual?
Well, you know, I'm bald, youknow, so I have the.
Okay anyways.
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But it's like I have a visionfor my body.
I have a vision, but itdoesn't come into alignment.
So there's this holy discontent.
It's what turns ordinarypeople into chain breakers.
The way that you get a diamondis pressure.
It's gotta be.
It's coal in its barbaric form.
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It's this black chunk of coal.
But if you subject it to theright conditions in the right process,
you can make a diamond.
Coal has value, but diamondhas greater value.
And what's the difference inthe value?
It's the process that it wassubjected to.
What if I told you that God istrying to increase your worth?
He's trying to increase thevalue of your life by putting you
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through a process that willturn you into something that you've
never seen in your familybefore, that you've.
Am I the only one that youstart looking around?
You're like, I'm less and lessrelatable to my family.
I might have this same eyecolor, but I have a different vision.
Oh, come on.
I'm speaking to somebody.
We might share genetics, butin the spirit.
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I've been grafted intoAbraham's lineage.
It's like we got the same eyecolor, but we've got a different
vision.
Like, there's something aboutthe deeper you go on this journey.
It's a process that willchange you.
As a matter of fact, the Biblesays that we go from glory to glory.
It might feel like I'm goingfrom pit to pit, but, baby, if you
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look at the trajectory, I wasalways going higher.
I might have temporarily gonelower, but over the long haul, I
was always going higher.
Sometimes God will take youlower to readjust you, to take you
higher.
Sometimes he's repositioningyou, but you're always headed higher.
But there's something that yousee that you're convinced of what
I'm saying.
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That's why you didn't allowyourself to stay depressed.
That's the reason why youdidn't allow yourself to even stay
at home.
Because you see something, andyou can't be convinced otherwise.
Because faith is the evidence of.
Come on, help me.
Faith is the evidence ofthings hoped for.
And the.
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Oh, no.
Come on.
No, come on, Come on, come on.
They don't know their Bible.
In Miami, they were all, let'stry it again, Church.
Faith is the evidence ofthings hoped for and the substance
of things not seen.
So my physical reality, Idon't see it.
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But by faith, I'm certain thatit exists.
Oh, we're about to go into therealm of faith.
We're about to go into therealm of faith.
We're about to go into therealm of faith.
First Samuel, chapter one.
I feel the power of God right now.
I'm about to shout.
I'm about to take off running.
It's not the caffeine.
It's the Holy Ghost.
First chance.
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You know why?
Okay, we're gonna get there.
Because I believe this for you.
I'm not gonna let you staywhere you're at.
This is why I'm excited,because I'm gonna grab you and I'm
gonna pull you up and I'mgonna push you into what's next today.
Cause I believe it for you.
Oh, I feel the fuego.
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Some of y'all just needed it.
I believe it for you.
Because the Lord had closedher womb, her rival used to provoke
her grievously to irritate her.
Oh, we all got some of thesepeople in our lives.
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You might be sitting next toone of them.
Because the Lord had closedher womb, her rival used to provoke
her grievously to irritate her.
Therefore.
Therefore, Hannah wept andwould not eat.
Let me break this down.
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If you're a man, you can stillbe a prophetic Hannah in this sermon.
So I want you to hear this.
I'm talking to the women as well.
So this is for everybody.
Everybody.
This is for everybody.
Because there are some thingsthat you keep blaming on the devil,
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but in fact, it's God that did it.
Because that holy discontentis what he's trying to use to push
you into your destiny.
So here's the thing.
Well, she could have said, oh,the devil is attacking my womb.
Bring me the intercessors.
Bring me the prayer warriors,we're gonna cast this demon of infertility
out.
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But it wasn't demonic in its origin.
The Lord had closed her womb.
Can I take you to school?
Can I take you to school?
There are some things that youblame on the devil that in fact,
God has done to orchestratehis will in your life.
And if you'll stop complainingand you'll stop criticizing and you'll
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actually allow that thing toshift you into intercession and prayer,
and you'll let it provoke youto what's next, you'll get to the
other side of it.
But stop blaming it on the devil.
Stop blaming it on your geography.
It's not your city's problem.
It's not your boss's problem.
It's.
Oh, I'm talking to somebodyright now.
You blame.
But see, Hannah intuitivelyunderstood this is between me and
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God.
As a matter of fact, she evenhad arrival before her arrival.
She had arrival before her arrival.
Let me just tell you, if youthink you're gonna get haters after
you're successful, you haven'tlived yet.
People will hate you beforeyou even succeed because they know
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you're headed towards it.
See, this rival was speakingto her future.
Sometimes when they talk aboutyou and they criticize you and they
taunt you and irritate you,all they're doing is prophesying
what's getting ready to happen?
What does the devil inside ofthem know about what's up ahead of
you?
That they're trying tocriticize you out of the promise.
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Come on.
I'll take a demonic prop.
Some of you, like, the Lordhasn't sent a prophet.
He did in the form of your rivals.
It's opposite day.
You say it's over.
The Lord said it just began.
They say that I'm nobody.
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The Lord says that I'm a royalpriesthood, a chosen generation.
Oh, they said I'm always gonnabe broke.
But the Lord says, I see overflow.
Your seed is actually gonna.
Oh, come on.
I'll take.
Sometimes if God doesn't sendone of his prophets, the devil send
one of his.
And I'll say the it's oppositeday devil, because I know that if
you're lying, it's the.
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What God is revealing is thatthe opposite is true.
So she had a rival.
But here's the thing.
The intention was to irritate her.
Let me just tell you.
Are you being irritated or areyou being stirred?
Are you being irritated or areyou being stirred?
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Stirred.
Stirred.
I remember when they told meyou can't simulcast in New York City?
No, New York City churches simulcast.
People don't want to watchsermons on a screen.
But I said, but I know whatthe Lord told me.
And I went from beingirritated to being stirred.
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Now I'm on a mission.
Matter of fact, there's apastor who actually has a multi side
church in Manhattan and he hitme up the other day and he said,
you have given me vision andyou've proved that we can simulcast
and be one house with many rooms.
And he said, I don't even knowif you know this, but you're the
very first pastor to simulcastin New York City.
But let me just tell you this.
I had to choose.
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Am I going to be irritated oram I going to be stirred?
See, I don't know if younoticed this, but your rivals can
actually fuel your next levels.
I don't know if you'verecognized this, but the difference
is you have to bless those whocurse you and you have to pray for
those who despitefully use you.
Because it's actually notabout them.
It's about you and God andwhat God's trying to do.
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As a matter of fact, the Biblesays that promotion does not come
from man.
That promotion comes from.
Oh, help me say it louder.
Promotion does not come from man.
Promotion comes from God.
Oh, so your boss can't holdyou down.
So the problem is not betweenyou and your boss.
It's between you and your God.
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Why hasn't your God promoted you?
See, Hannah understood thisbecause she doesn't respond to her
rival.
Hannah wept and she would noteat and she was deeply distressed
and she prayed to the Lord andshe wept bitterly.
Oh, we gotta talk about this.
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And I'm talking to some of the men.
You better learn how to cry.
You better learn how to cry.
All the men, I ain't gonna cry.
I ain't gonna cry.
But then your favoritequarterback retires and you cry.
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Let me tell you, your feelingsdon't dissipate.
They get displaced.
If you don't learn how to getthem through your eyes, they're gonna
end up in your lower back.
If you don't learn how to getyour emotions through your eyes,
they're gonna end up in your stomach.
They're gonna end up in your heart.
See, there's a physicalconnection to what is disease.
Dis ease.
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So what happens is, if youdon't learn how to get that dis ease
out of your body, it becomesdis ease in your body.
See, I'm trying to help you.
You've got to learn where totake your feeling.
And let me just ask you this.
Why do you keep calling your friends?
Do you want attention or doyou want transformation?
Because.
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And men do it, too.
Men do it, too.
Yo, what's going on, bro?
Nothing, bro.
What about you, bro?
Yeah, bro.
My wife, bro.
Church, bro.
My boss, bro.
The lie, bro.
8094, bro.
The Dan Ryan, bro.
The Bears, bro.
Come on, bro.
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I'm trying to help you.
Hannah wept.
She knew where to take her feelings.
She knew where to take her emotions.
As a matter of fact, she tookthem to the altar.
And the Bible says that theEli who was over the temple actually
thought she was drunk becauseshe was weeping so bitterly.
But I'll tell you what wasn't happening.
Her feelings weren't getting displaced.
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They were getting dispersed.
And what happens was shebecame an empty vessel that became
a candidate to conceive a baby.
See, sometimes you gottarelease feelings so that God can
fill you with the spirit.
Sometimes you gotta getsomething out so something new can
come in.
You gotta learn how to turnthat grumbling into groaning.
You gotta learn how to turn itinto intercession.
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And this.
I'm trying to help you.
I used to never cry.
And then I started surrendering.
And through the surrender, thecry started to happen.
And you know what else happened?
My lower back got healed.
See, you don't understand.
You're carrying this stuff,and the Lord wants to help you get
rid of it.
And this.
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She was deeply distressed.
And.
Look at this word.
And she was deeply distressedand prayed.
Watch this.
Here's how most of us walk outour faith.
He was deeply distressed, buthe stopped praying.
See, we're using thecoordinating conjunction, but when
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it should be.
And I'm going through it, andI'm still fasting, I'm being tempted,
and I'm still praying andcrying out, give me an.
And Kind of people.
Not a but kind of people.
I live in New York City.
It's extremely.
It's extremely expensive.
And I'm the blessing of Godthrough Abraham to this city.
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And there's financialprosperity on my life because I've
aligned with his will.
Give me an.
And look at this.
When you can't tolerate itanymore, I want to shift you now
into the next portion of this.
Discontent is actually a signthat you are on your way to transformation.
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But here's the thing.
Hannah, she was barren.
She couldn't have a child.
She couldn't conceive.
But the most important part ofher story is that she refused to
Accept the dysfunction.
She refused to accept that asher reality.
She refused to accept herreality as her final reality.
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See, let me show you something.
Hannah lived with bareness.
Everyone else adjusted, butshe didn't adjust.
Since when did you accept thefact that you will always have anxiety
attacks?
Do you remember your lifebefore anxiety?
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Do you remember your lifebefore the panic attacks?
Since when did you adjust?
See, the real issue here iswhat are you allowing?
What have you accepted?
See, there's some times wherewe just say, you know what?
I guess I'm gonna manage it.
Oh, come on.
I guess I'm gonna tolerate it.
But see, the Lord is askingsome people today, are you going
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to actually continue to accept it?
Are you gonna continue tomanage it, or are you gonna believe
beyond it?
See, because sometimes youcould say, oh, this is just the way
I'm gonna be.
This is just what I'm gonnahave in my body.
Let me talk to the queens real quick.
Let me talk to the queens.
All y'all got real ready forchurch today.
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I got my queen over there.
Matter of fact, when I lookedover, she was like this.
Don't be flirting with mewhile I'm preaching.
It's inappropriate.
But let me just say.
Let me.
Let me just say this.
Since when did you let thatman start to talk to you the way
he talks to you?
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You are a queen.
You are the daughter of theMost High.
Since when did you acceptverbal and physical abuse?
It's never appropriate for himto lay his hand on you and stop justifying
what God has not justified.
Stop accepting what God hasnot accepted.
Let me talk to the kings real quick.
Come on.
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I told one of our teammembers, I said, man, you're amazing.
I said, does your wife knowhow amazing you are?
He said, tell her I'll go gether right now and tell her, but let
me talk to the Kings.
Since when did you acceptpeople treating you like you're common?
You're not common.
You're a royal priesthood.
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You're a peculiar person.
You're a chosen generation.
Come on.
This is the thing about it, issometimes, and I say this all the
time, but sometimes we have tochange our circles to change our
levels.
There are times where ourcurrent friendships cannot sustain
our future destination.
There are times where we haveto stop giving ear to them because
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they are not in alignment withwhere you're going.
Those friends, they were inalignment with where you used to
be, but they're not inalignment with the new assignment.
And sometimes you have to shedsome relationships off because they're
helping you.
Oh, Lord, help.
They're helping you conform toan identity that God wants you to
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break out of.
You need the kind of friendswho say, I do not accept the fact
that you're always going to beriddled with anxiety.
And.
And when you call them on thephone, here's how you know you got
a real friend.
When you call them on thephone and you're like, I just need
to talk this through.
Hey, hang up with me and talkto God about it because he's gonna
be the one that heals you.
I'm not.
Come on.
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There's something aboutfriends that redirect you instead
of friends that actuallyconfirm the mess that you're in.
And can I just give you a side note?
Some of them like you being inpain because it comforts their own
mediocrity.
Some of them like you notwriting the book because they never
finished theirs.
Some of them like you notstarting the business because they're
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failed.
Some of the.
Some of these friends like youbeing a loser because they've lost
too.
And sometimes when you beginto get a holy discontent, they don't
like that fuego because theydidn't blow on the embers of their
own fire and their fire smoldering.
But yours is.
See there.
I'm telling you to get whatGod has for.
For you.
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There's going to be a gap.
And the gap is going to bebetween your friends who are actually
frenemies.
They're enemies of your future.
That's what it is.
They're not your friends,they're your frenemies.
They're enemies to your future.
They don't want you to readthe Bible more because it exposes
how little they read it.
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They don't want you to praymore because it exposes the lack
of their prayer life.
So there's going to be a gapwhen you abandon that friendship.
And then all of a sudden,there's going to be a season where
you have to learn how to bealone but not lonely.
Oh, single people, look me inmy beady Italian eyes.
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You can be alone but not lonely.
Because God declares, I willnever leave you nor forsake you.
I will be with you to the enduntil Jesus becomes your husband.
You ain't ready for anothergroom because you can be alone but
not lonely.
You'll carry that lonelinessinto your marriage because you'll
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make a man an idol when onlyJesus is enough to satisfy.
You gotta learn how to bealone but not lonely.
There's a gap.
Hannah was Going through.
Oh, I'm going in for you today.
I'm earning my Chicken McNuggets.
Let me tell you, I'm almost done.
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Let me tell you, God is tryingto divinely speak to you.
Do you want attention or doyou want transformation?
Do you want to be heard or doyou want to be healed?
See, this is the exchange thatyou have to make.
This is what I'm trying to getyou to understand.
But you're going to have a gap.
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See, Hannah had rivals.
Holy discontent doesn't adjustto dysfunction.
It groans for something more.
Everybody say this word with me.
Groan.
Yeah, even the word soundslike how it sounds.
Groan.
What is groan?
It's the realm beyond wordswhere there's only noise, there's
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only sound.
There's a groaning and atravailing and a longing.
Let me just tell you this.
Sometimes God will sovereignlyand divinely let your situation get
bad enough to where youactually start praying like you should
have been praying the whole time.
Sometimes God will let it.
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Some of you, you only open theBible to find the answer to the problem
that was perplexing you.
And by God's mercy, he causedyou to suffer enough to actually
become the disciple you weredesigned to become.
And this is what I'm here totell you.
Do not expect, accept anyfalse gospel that promises once you
say the sinner's prayer, yourlife is going to get better.
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I'm telling you the opposite.
Once you confess Christ assavior, all of hell is going to do
everything to get you back.
There's going to be a war overyour mind, a war over your emotions.
Because hell doesn't give up ageneration easily knowing the implications
for the generations after.
Can I just tell you, yourlife's going to get worse because
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now you got a target.
But suffer well, soldier,armor up.
Fight the good.
Fight.
Fight.
Push back on the devil andsay, I'm never going back to you.
I've decided.
As for me and my house, wewill serve the Lord.
I'm not going to adjust tothis dysfunction.
I've got a holy discontent onthe inside of me and I won't let
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the.
Come on, somebody jump to yourfeet and give me a 10 second praise
break.
Somebody shout unto God.
Holy discontent.
I'm not dead, so I'm not done.
Holy discontent.
Just sit on your feet.
Bring the worship team up.
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Let's drive this thing.
I told you I was eatingchicken nuggets.
But here's what I'm trying totell you.
This church is not a cruise liner.
It's a battleship.
If you want to go to anotherchurch, go to the cruise liner.
There's a great Disney churchdown the street.
And we love them becausesometimes you need a cruise liner
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season.
But we're running a battleship.
And it takes holy discontentto say, I'm not okay with human trafficking
in New York City.
I'm not okay with extremepoverty in northwest Indiana and
Miami.
And the things that make youangry are the problems that you were
put on this planet to solve.
Your anger is a sense of injustice.
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That is your purpose.
And let me just tell you,God's got a way of raising up a people
who say, I am tired of being tired.
I'm sick of being sick.
I am not.
Oh, come on.
That's.
That's what I'm trying topreach into.
Sometimes things gotta get badenough and we have to suffer enough
for us to actually startstepping in enough.
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So here, let me.
Let me finish the story ofHannah, because Romans, chapter 8,
verse 22 and 23 says, we groan inwardly.
Inwardly as we wait eagerly.
What does that mean?
You're driving onto work.
You're groaning inwardly.
What are you groaning?
See, some of you thought itwas depression.
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Some of you thought it was discouragement.
It's holy discontent.
You should put a smile on yourface because it's the opposite of
apathy.
Think about this.
Some of you been saying, I'mso frustrated.
I'm so angry.
But guess what you're saying.
I'm not numb anymore.
I'm feeling something.
I'm alive.
There's something that'sawakening, happening inside of you.
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You're not numb anymore.
See, that anger that you'reexperiencing, that's a good thing.
Because that anger is theevidence that you see something by
faith.
It's still possible that Icould do this thing.
Come on.
Here's the thing about Hannah.
Her tears were not weakness.
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They were prayers in disguise.
See, right now you might be.
I'm so frustrated.
Good.
That frustration is the proofthat you're not dead.
Even when people say, I'm sofrustrated with the local church.
Good.
You haven't given up on it yet.
Because indifference is wayworse than frustration.
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It's when people say, I don'tcare anymore.
See, it's the opposite.
What you're saying is, I still care.
And God wants to take that,turn it into a faith moment.
Let me show you one morething, because we're about to pray.
Psalm, chapter 34, verse 18.
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted.
Why is he near to the brokenhearted?
It's very simple.
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Because brokenhearted peopledraw near to him when your heart
is broken.
Oh, Lord, I don't know what to do.
I don't know what to do withmy marriage.
I'm so broken over this.
The Lord's near.
Why?
Because in your brokenness,you begin to cry out to him.
You broke past the ritual andyou started to get into raw surrender.
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How many Hail Marys are yougonna say?
How many Our Fathers are yougonna say before you rip up the script
and you start to tell Heavenyour own words, your own language?
God, no one in my family evergot this far.
God, I don't know what I'm doing.
Lord, my mind is so finite, Ican't understand.
And then the Holy Spiritresponds and says, son, my ways are
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higher than your ways.
My thoughts are higher thanyour thoughts.
And he begins to lift you upinto heavenly places and shows.
But you're not done yet.
I want to tell you one more thing.
Let me have the prayer teammembers come up across every location.
Just come up across the front,because we're going to create Hannah's
altar right now.
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So if you're on the prayerteam and you have a badge, just come
up at every location right now.
Praise God.
Let me show you.
Just letting them line upacross every location while the prayer
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team come up.
Let me tell you something thatthe Lord showed me.
So what happens is that hebuilds a nest, and that nest is our
life.
And he builds it with thethorns and the twigs and the branches.
But then as a great eagle, hebegins to fill it with all kinds
of cotton.
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Why?
Because the baby eagles, theyneed that fluff.
They need that cotton.
But then what begins to happenat a stage of their development is
that the eagle needs to startto draw the cotton out of the nest.
And then all of a sudden, itreveals a thorn.
And that thorn begins topierce the side of that little baby
eagle.
And at a certain point, itseems as if it's cruelty.
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Like, how could my dad do this?
How could my dad take thefluff out of the nest?
Why am I so uncomfortable?
Well, let me tell you, what'sactually happening is that in the
wisdom of the eagle, it'sremoving the cotton out of the nest
to reveal the thorns, becausethe thorns are the only way to get
the eagle out of the nest.
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And what happens is it's theFather Eagle's way of saying, you
were not built for a nest.
You were built for the skies.
So what God will do in yourlife is he'll make you so uncomfortable
that you get so irritated andagitated that.
That holy discontent, you say,I can't stay in the nest anymore.
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And then you jump out of thenest, but instead of falling, you
start flying.
And he's saying, yes, it wasnot cruelty, but I did this thing
to get you into your destiny.
And so, Hannah, I shut up your womb.
But the reason why I shut yourwomb up is because when I close your
womb, I open your words, Iopen your mouth, and I cause you
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to become an intercessor.
And out of that situation camethe prophet Samuel.
And Samuel was the greatestprophet to Israel.
And so let me tell you, ifHannah could go back again, she would
not do it any different,because God's perfect will was done
in that situation.
Can I just tell you like this.
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If you will turn yourgrumbling into groaning, if you will
do that, here's what's gonna happen.
You're gonna get through this transition.
Your life is gonna begin toalign with God's will.
And then you're gonna go backand you're gonna say, lord, I understand
why you did this thing, andyou're gonna give him great glory
from it.
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But right now, what we need todo across every location is I'm gonna
count to three, and we'regonna make some time for you to actually
respond to this.
And this might not be for everybody.
I know we had a lot of baptisms.
God moved powerfully today.
But the Lord specifically toldme, let men and women come to the
front as a sign of.
Okay, Lord, I'm shifting outof grumbling and complaining, and
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I'm shifting into groaning,into intercession, into praying.
And I'm gonna pray my waythrough this thing until God does
the impossible.
So I'm gonna count to threeand across every location.
When I get to three, if that'syou, just come out of your seat and
come forward and allow one ofour prayer team members to prophesy
over you to encourage you togive you a word.
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One, I believe that for manyof you, this sermon was a major confirmation.
Two, I believe the HolySpirit's been stirring your heart
to begin to press through, togo, what's next?
And you're gonna shift intothe spiritual realm.
Three, if that's you, justcome up right now across every location
and receive prayer.
I believe miracles are gonnahappen in the front right now.
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Come home.
Yeah.
Come.
Wow.
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