November 24, 2025 • 50 mins
In this urgent and prophetic message, Apostle Mike Signorelli exposes the invisible war that determines your destiny: the battle inside your mind. Before God elevates you, you must win the internal fight against hesitation, fear, and the instinct to hold something back.
Drawing from the Go V1 foundations of battle, break, and burn, this sermon reveals why so many believers never fully commit to their calling and why private obedience is the key to public breakthrough. You’ll learn how to:
🔥 Push past mental hesitation and override your brain’s resistance
🔥 Break the escape hatches that sabotage covenant and consistency
🔥 Burn away self-preservation and step into full surrender
🔥 Win the private battles God sees even when no one else does
🔥 Walk in the bold obedience that positions you for elevation
🔥 Confront the lions in the pit before they confront you in public
Apostle Mike takes you deep into the story of Benaiah and shows how hidden victories prepare you for visible promotion. This message is a wake-up call for anyone who feels stuck, divided, or held back by old patterns. God is raising warriors who will battle, break, burn, and go V1.
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Foreign.
So this leads me to the sermon.
Your brain is wired to stopyou before God sends you.
In.
Aviation V1 is the criticalmoment in takeoff where the pilot
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is fully committed.
Now, here's the thing.
If the engine fails, ifthere's turbulence, if a warning
light flashes, you still go.
Because you have so much speeddown that Runway that that thrust
and lift, the greater force ofnature takes over and you begin to
fly.
You cannot abort takeoff onceyou've gone v1.
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The problem is, most of us inour life have never fully gone V1
yet.
And so last week I gave three Bs.
And my expectation is that ourentire church understands this.
In order to go V1 number one,you have to battle like Caleb.
Caleb said the promised landis filled with giants.
I don't expect God to give methe promise without giving me problems.
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Because the problems are howhe does something in me.
The problems are my teachers.
Your teachers are not yourcurriculum in college.
Your teachers are pain and suffering.
And some people pass thewritten test, but not the living
test.
Come on.
And so you battle like Caleb.
I didn't expect anybody togive me Long Island.
The kingdom of heaven suffersviolence and the violent take Long
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island by force.
Come on.
I don't care if it is a soccer stadium.
It's gonna be a church.
Because I said.
And I can battle like Caleb.
If you're sitting in thatBrooklyn location right now, you're
sitting in that locationbecause I showed up and I said, I'm
not expecting anybody to giveme Brooklyn.
I'm taking Brooklyn.
And me and Heather Wrigley, weprayer walk that joint.
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And we got that venuesupernaturally that you're sitting
in right now.
So somebody shall battle.
Come on.
Oh.
To my single people in thiswhole section right now, God is gonna
give you a spouse.
But when you reach thepromised land called marriage, there
is going to be giants in there.
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Giants called pastwoundedness, past rejection, fear
of failure.
Come on.
Low self esteem.
Just because you get marrieddoesn't mean that you step into perfection.
Hello.
And so you gotta learn how tobattle for your marriage.
Right?
I fought everybody.
Oh, it must be nice.
Yeah, work harder.
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You can have it, too.
Must be nice to have amarriage like Mike and Julie's.
Well, do you want mycounseling, Bill?
Just like you want my marriage.
Come on.
Do you want my date night, Bill?
Just like you want my marriage.
Come on.
Yeah, it must be nice.
It's nice if you'll fight for it.
Okay, y' all with me.
Somebody shout battle.
Okay, this is A good.
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This is a good series.
This is helping people.
10,000 plus people logging infor this.
Come on, somebody shout, login number two.
So you go from battle, yougotta break.
You gotta learn how to break.
You gotta learn how to break.
You gotta learn how to break.
What do I'm talking about?
Most people, they spritz, theyfragrance, they essence, but they
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never break.
I don't know about V1.
I'm gonna hold it in reserve.
I've even got staff memberswho act like that sometimes.
I don't know if this is for me.
I don't know if this is aforever thing or it's a now thing.
No, no, no.
V1 is a covenant church, not a commitment.
Ch going to work out if you're coming.
Trying me out like a local restaurant.
It ain't like that.
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It's not.
Choose your flavor.
If you don't like the flavor,come back into the kitchen and help
me work.
If you don't like the church,join the team and make it better.
This is a covenant thing.
Come on.
And so when people.
I don't know what I think about.
I don't know what heaventhinks about you, because you've
never battled, you're never broken.
Come on.
And I don't know what I thinkabout Mike.
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I don't know what heaventhinks about you, but I know what
hell thinks about me.
And I'm looking for somepeople that will break with me, some
people that'll just take abreak with me.
Anybody will go on a vacationwith you, but who will go into battle
with you?
The US Military doesn'tadvance because we got a whole bunch
of fair weather people.
Well, I'm here for the GI Billto go to college.
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Well, you can die trying toget that college money doing it for
that reason.
And why are you treating thelocal church the same way?
I'm here to receive, but I'mnot here to give.
That's dangerous.
The kingdom of heaven has onlybeen advanced by those who covenant.
And the apex of commitment is covenant.
Somebody say break.
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The alabaster box was not one woman.
It's supposed to be every woman.
After the.
After the cross, the alabasterbox was not just one person.
It's supposed to be all of us.
After the cross, when theystuck Jesus with that.
With that spear and waterbegan to pour out of his side, what
was actually happening washe's saying, I've poured my life
out.
Now will you pour yours out too?
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Are you with me?
So this church on Long Island,I don't know if I feel like I want
to go this Sunday.
What if Jesus said, I don'tknow if I feel like going to the
cross today?
It's not about church attendance.
It's about the representationof covenant and what this church,
this church is extreme.
We are, we are not a cruise liner.
We're a warship.
Right.
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And that's the thing is if youwant a cruise liner, you go sign
up for the Mickey Mouse program.
I tried to sign my own wife upfor the Mickey Mouse program.
I tried to get on the Disney cruise.
Y' all heard the story lastweek, but my wife said no, we're
a warship and we're goingthroughout the earth and we're doing
what God called us to do.
And so it's not about, I don'tfeel like attending.
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I'd rather you to show up tochurch unshowered, dirty, wrinkled
shirt.
But you're here because everyclass has a role, every army has
an enlistment, every team hasa roster.
And so show up to church everyweek and say, God, you can count
on me.
I'm praying with my church.
I'm giving with my.
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This ain't popular prayer preaching.
Because everybody wants to becommitted, but only very few want
to be covenanted.
But the way we're going tochange Long island is covenanting
to each other.
We're going to change Brooklyn.
Not because Brooklyn was atemporary thing or I felt like a
thing, because Brooklyn is theonly plan.
It's plan A.
There is no plan B for Manhattan.
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There is no plan B.
How many of you want a covenant?
Battle.
Battle.
Break my life open.
God.
Last but not least, burn.
Burn.
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Burn.
Burn.
Burn God.
Burn me up.
Burn up my selfish desires.
Burn up my man made strategy.
This is why.
This is why prophets are morepopular than pastors.
Because people always want aword from God, but they don't want
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to work for God.
See, burn me up, God, I wantto work for you.
I want to do.
What does that mean?
If you're a nurse, go into thehospital, work for God.
If you're a student, go intothe school, work for God.
It says the harvest is vast,but the laborers are few.
It means that those who arewilling to work are few.
There's a lot of peoplewilling to talk.
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There's a lot of peoplewilling to come on somebody.
A lot of people willing to watch.
But there's very few willingto work.
And I'll tell you somethingchanges in your life when you say
God.
If you can use anything, youcan use me.
Take My hands, Lord, and myfeet touch my heart.
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Y' all don't even know this song.
That's what's wrong with you.
Do you not know this song?
Oh, we need to bring it back, Julie.
When I was growing up, we usedto sing this song.
If you can use anything, Lord,you can use me.
And you know, the millennialsaid I was used by the local church.
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That's the whole point, Lord.
If you can use anything, use me.
Somebody say, I'm willing to burn.
Come on.
And by the way, this is notthe advanced class.
This is the basics.
Well, I'm telling you, go v1.
And what happened at a certainpoint in my journey was I launched
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this church.
And I remember telling God,God, I cashed everything out.
My retirement, my savings,sold my house.
Look, Lord, look what I'veburned for you.
And you know what God told me?
Congratulations, Mike, you'venow just become a normal Christian.
So here's the thing.
Oftentimes when God is askingsomething of us, we go before God
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like, it's such a big deal.
But the reality is, the thingshe's asking for us to give, we don't
have them.
They have us.
So God is trying to get usfree by burning some things in our
life.
Anybody want freedom on thenext level?
Burn, burn, burn.
So that leads us to the lastand final section of the sermon,
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because I had to do a lot of review.
But your brain is a.
Is wired to avoid everything Itold you.
So what's happening is yourspirit is saying yes to everything
I preached, but your.
Your actual body, your, evenyour biological brain is saying,
no, no, no.
Anybody know what I'm talking about?
For the spirit is willing, butthe flesh is.
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So modern psychology actuallyshows us that your mind, it'll generate
hesitation within five secondsof a decision that feels risky or
uncertain.
When I was in the service of aman with a multisite massive church
in America, and he was raisingmoney to buy cameras to actually
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put his sermons in the Middleeast to Muslim nations, the Holy
Spirit to me and said, Give $5,000.
Sow it into this man.
And again, as soon as the HolySpirit spoke that because the things
of the spirit are quantum,they are faster than your mind can
compute.
And so you're.
You have to train your mind toactually submit to the spirit, because
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the things of the spiritoperate significantly faster than
the things of the.
Of the natural mind.
Do you all understand what I'm saying?
So on a quantum level, Ireceive give $5,000, and so it into
his ministry But I begin tohesitate because my brain, and it's
doing what we learn in modern psychology.
So I get out my phone, I scanthe QR code, and I put in 5,00, because
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$500 is still a lot of money.
But that's not what God said.
And.
But here's what I think makesme different than most people you've
met, and this is what I'mtrying to impart to you as your pastor,
is that I will hesitate, butthen I will push through the hesitation.
And I'm learning that I feelmany of the same feelings as other
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people.
But I've trained myself in thethings of the spirit to do something
different than what I feel.
Are y' all with me?
So I put the extra zero on,and Julie elbows me, and she goes,
mike.
She goes, mike, the HolySpirit told me to give $5,000 as
well.
And I watched you wrestle with it.
Yes, let's give it.
So I gave that money.
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On a side note to this story,you will always have an audience
for your obed, and you willalways have an audience for your
disobedience.
My wife was watching, and so Igave that money.
That was in 2019.
What happened in 2020?
It was through cameras that Ibegan to reach the nations, because
you sow into what you want togrow into.
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And now we've got 10,000people watching our livestream.
And in 2019, we had only 50people watching our livestream.
But I believe there wassomething connected to me battling
something connected to medoing what?
Break.
That was my alabaster box.
And then burning and saying,you know what, God?
I'm gonna burn.
Okay.
Oh, please, please, pleaselean in for this.
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Cause this is like, I'm gonnateach it deeper, but this is gonna
help you.
I.
You.
Okay?
Real sacrifice, real burningrequires you creating a scenario
that you cannot undo.
If you can undo it, it's notreal sacrifice.
When I look at the scriptures,okay, I see this over and over again.
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If you approach marriage,like, I am going to take these vows,
but I can undo these if I needto undo these.
If you treat it like you canundo it, you will undo it.
Because it's a covenant, notjust words.
If you show up to a church andyou're testing it and trying it out,
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and you leave an escape hatch,you will end up leaving that church
because you will cause what'scalled bias to occur.
And you will look througheverything through the lens of negativity
to justify why you go outthrough that trap door.
If you leave a trap door for marriage.
Then you will look at your wife.
You will look at your husbandthrough the lens of everything they're
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doing wrong to justify thattrap door behind you.
How many of you know what I'mtalking about?
Because it's real quiet here.
I don't know if it's becauseyou're listening or you want me to
open the altar now to repent, but.
But I'm trying to teach youthis because, oh, Lord, help me.
Help me.
Our generation doesn't evenbelieve most of what I've said for
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the last 20 minutes.
Our generation doesn't evenbelieve it.
Half of all marriages end in divorce.
I'm the product of multipledivorces, and I see that now.
I want to say on a little asterisk.
Side note, even Jesus gavejustifiable reasons for divorce a
reason for divorce.
Not all marriages.
You know, it takes two people,and that's the point of covenant.
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And sometimes one personcovenant, the other one's a covenant
breaker.
Right?
So I don't feel attacked rightnow, but.
But to these ears, many of usneed to hear this.
There.
Okay, Harvey, right now inMiami is in a building, and there
was a Baptist church in thatbuilding that had 600 people every
Sunday.
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Because what used to happen inAmerica was people went to church
because they were Christians.
And already within 100 years,we watched all of the atheism and
the deconstructing.
It diminished people's a senseof community and belonging.
And right now, a lot of thesemessages I'm preaching, they are
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some of the most importantthings that can be said in our generation.
Because if you go back intime, there was a time where if you
were Catholic, you went toCatholic church.
If you were Methodist, youwent to Methodist church.
And right now, there.
And see.
Can I just go there for years now.
Mike, why do you talk aboutIslam so much?
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Well, I'll tell you why.
Because when their birth rateis significantly higher than ours,
when they actually go to themosque, when they go to pray, when
they're filling the streets,when they're electing officials in
government.
See, as a church, we'resupposed to go into each sphere of
influence.
They are going into everysphere of influence.
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And what's happening is a lotof these sermons now, they're going
over your.
And then 40 years from now,you're gonna see all these viral
clips, and you're gonna belike, I was in the room when Mike
said that, but I didn't seewhat he was seeing in the future.
So it's like when I Tell agroup full of Christians you should
come to church every week.
It sounds like I'm saying thatbecause I just wanna grow my church
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attendance.
But let me remind you that Idid not show up on Long island to
build a big church.
And for most of you that werehere, like Angela and Nick, our church
was less than 100 for a thirdof the entire existence of our church.
But what I am saying is, asyou look at the other religions,
as you look at the othertraditions, as you look at the things
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that are in the earth, it'snot just Islam.
There's a rising of all these sides.
And I believe that asChristians, we need to actually rise
up and be Christians.
Does that make sense?
Even like the Daily GrowthJournal, it's because it was understood
that if you're a Christian,you read your Bible, but then Bible
reading, you know.
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And now we have a resurgencebecause the Lord is beginning to
give people a desire by theHoly Spirit.
But we need tools.
So these spiritual disciplinesand going to church and serving and
sitting, these were all verynormal things even 100 years ago.
But what happens is the enemycomes and deceives, but then what
happens is other religions andother traditions, they believe it.
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I told this story before, but.
But I have a friend that is a Jew.
And you know, he was tellingme about at the local synagogue,
of course, Jews all give theirtithe, but he said, we pay extra
money because we want eternal rewards.
And they even buy their ownseats at many synagogues.
Do you guys know about this?
And then you know how, like,we have volunteers that serve in
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production and variousdifferent things?
Well, they actually pay.
In many synagogues here in NewYork City, they pay extra money for
the privilege to be able toserve and to do the various different
things in their local temple.
And because they believe somuch in eternal rewards that they
are willing to pay their localsynagogue to let them serve so they
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can get more rewards.
And when I was talking to myfriend about that, he goes, I think
it's so funny how Christiansargue over giving 10% when we go
well beyond that.
And I also think it's our.
It's funny how Christiansargue when you.
When the pastor says, I wantyou to serve.
Because we fight each otherover who gets to serve and we pay
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money to serve.
So let's go ahead.
We're gonna start.
Start that right now.
No, I'm just kidding.
Everyone panic.
But.
But do you see, though, it'snot just against Islam, even within
Judaism, people who believe inthe spiritual realm, people who Believe
in the eternal.
They live their life inresponse to it.
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And they live their life in away look peculiar to other people,
but to them makes total sense.
Are y' all with me today?
And so, like, I just want tonormalize for you that going to church
every week is not weird,because in Judaism, having Shabbat
every week is not weird.
Praying every day is notweird, because if you were a Muslim,
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you would pray multiple timesa day.
Right?
It's just.
But I think what's happeningis, is our church.
Churches have become sodivided and hyper individualistic
that I now have to preachsermons and say, we have to battle
together, we have to breaktogether, and we have to burn together.
But look, there's a demonicform of what I just said, because
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a jihad is we're going tobattle together, we're going to break
together, we're going to burn together.
That's jihad.
Am I right?
When nations, evil nationsrise up, up.
And they.
And even evil nations say,we're going to battle, break and
burn.
So the Lord's been showing mea rising of both sides.
And my prayer to you with goV1 is.
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It's not about V1 church.
It's about the body of Christdemanding that as it was in the 1st
century, so shall it be in the21st century.
Are y' all with me?
And the end times church hasto look like the church in the beginning.
If you're.
If you're upset about thetithe, I've got good news for you.
The New Covenant did away withthe tithe.
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But I have bad news for you.
When it did away with thetithe, it transformed your heart
and empowered you to go beyond 10%.
I've got good news and badnews for you.
The good news is we're nolonger gonna stone you for your sin.
The bad news is if you'regonna become a Christian, you have
to kill yourself, crucify yourown flesh, and put it to death.
It may not be a physicaldeath, but it should feel like a
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physical death when you put todeath your flesh.
You see what I'm saying?
The gospel of Jesus Christempowers you to do hard things, not
just receive easy things.
The blood of Jesus Christempowers you to be new, and a new
man comes forth.
And as the new man comesforth, it says, man, I could never
pray, but I'm submitted to God.
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I'm gonna begin to pray.
I could never fast, but I'msubmitted to God.
I'm gonna fast.
I used to hesitate to givebecause my biological brain hesitates.
But then through the spiritI'm willing to step into that moment.
Through the spirit, I'mwilling to push past it.
And I don't know about you,but I'm looking for a people at V1
church that are movementmakers that say, God, I will do these
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things if you ask me to do them.
Because obedience is greaterthan sacrifice.
So last week was aboutsacrifice, this week is about obedience.
How many of you say, God, takeme through levels, right?
I want to go higher in you depth.
It's not just knowing thescriptures because even Satan knows
them.
But Satan refused to obey them.
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How many of you want to now?
How many of you say, God, makeme obedient.
I want to pray every day.
I want to be, I want to cometo church and be obedient.
I want to represent.
I want to show the light ofChrist in a dark place.
As I'm coming to a close, Iwant to show you these scriptures.
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Now the Lord said to Abram, gofrom your country.
You see this?
Go to your country and yourkindred and your father's house to
the land that I will show you.
Look at this verse.
It says, go from your country,your kindred and your father's house.
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In order to go V1, you have toleave yours for his, yours for his.
Okay, single people, I'mtalking to the ladies.
When you get married, youleave your house to join his because
marriage.
So Julie left the Owens family.
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Her last name was Owens, whichis Welsh.
And she joined the Signorelli family.
And I made a new family.
And so what happens is whenyou become the bride of Christ, you
leave your house, yourcustoms, your laws, your culture.
Come on.
Well, I'm mad like thisbecause I'm Irish.
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I drink like this because I'm Irish.
No, you're not Irish anymore.
When you became the bride ofChrist, you're sober minded, you're
not Irish.
Oh, I'm Puerto Rican.
And Puerto Ricans are like this.
No, no.
When you became the bride ofChrist, you left Puerto Rican culture.
And just because they do itlike that in Puerto Rico doesn't
mean they do that in heaven.
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It's on earth as it is in heaven.
Come on somebody, I'm tryingto talk to you.
Oh no, I'm African.
Okay, well listen, you want togo to your roots.
Your roots are Abraham, Isaacand Jacob.
Those are your roots.
And if you're putting cultureabove the.
Kingdom, then your culture isyour idolatry.
And I'm trying to tell youculture matters.
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If it's in second place.
But if it's in first place, wegot a problem.
Because in order to step up into.
This thing, we got to start looking.
More like heaven and less likeNew York City.
More like heaven and less likeLong Island.
More like heaven and less like Miami.
More like heaven and less.
Come on.
Leave your country, leave yourkindred, and leave your father's
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house, and I will show you.
I'm not going to show you after.
I'm sorry, I'm not going toshow you before.
I'm going to show you after.
God, show me the plan for my life.
We'll ditch your old plan andserve the Lord.
Then he'll show you.
Leave your culture.
Leave the things that you'vebeen holding onto, and then God will
show you, and I will make youa great nation.
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And I will bless you and makeyour name great so that you will
be a blessing.
I will bless those who bless you.
And I will.
And him who dishonors you, Iwill curse.
And in all of the families ofthe earth shall be blessed.
So Abraham went.
So Nick Garcia went.
So Stephas went.
So Execa went, so Bella went.
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This is a.
The story of our life is whenGod calls, we go.
When he tells us to do it, Iwant it to be said in my life.
And then Mike went.
Some of you have been feelingstuck, but you got two legs that
work.
Come on, somebody.
And you gotta begin to usethose legs, right?
And one leg is prayer, and theother leg is prophecy and proclamation
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and declaration.
Let me just tell you, we are apraying church.
But if all you do is pray,Long island goes to hell.
If all you do is pray, all ofBrooklyn goes to hell.
If all you do is pray, all ofMiami still goes to hell.
One foot is prayer, and theother foot is prophecy and preaching
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and proclamation.
And that's how we walk.
By the spirit.
It's.
Mike went.
I went into the nations and I preached.
I went into the nations and I prayed.
Some of you have never went yet.
Because all you've done is pray.
Some of you have never wentyet because all you've done is interceded.
But you are the answer to yourown prayers because he has empowered
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you to do it.
And you need to get out of theclassroom and get into the real world.
You got to get out of thebooks, and you got to start making
history books because you went.
Somebody shout, go v1.
Okay, you guys seem like youlike me better.
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Abraham.
No logistics, no blueprint, nogps, no strategy.
The strategy is surrender.
Surrender.
Is greater than strategy.
Because surrender in thekingdom is the strategy.
I surrender to Danny being my pastor.
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Pastor.
You're my pastor, Danny.
I'm proud to call you my pastor.
I go to your church, I serveyour church.
I attend your church.
I give 10% of all my financesto your church.
I give offerings a couple oftimes a year before that to your
church.
And I surrender to you.
I'm not trying to fight you.
I'm not trying to be right.
I'm not trying to be smarterthan you.
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I'm not puffing myself up.
I surrender.
And then guess what happenswhen you go low.
The Lord now can lift you up.
Up.
The Lord can take you higher.
The Lord can begin to lift you up.
But the problem is, we never surrender.
Because I'm an American.
I'm a Puerto Rican.
I am an Italian.
No, you're prideful.
Surrender under the mightyhand of God, and then in due season,
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he will lift you up.
But, Mike, that says.
That says, humble yourselfunder the mighty hand of God.
But Danny's not God.
When in scripture do you seeGod do something without doing it
through a man?
When God wants to deliver theIsraelites out of Egypt, he doesn't
do it himself.
He uses Moses.
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When God wants to distributeseed in a time of need, he doesn't
do it himself.
He uses Joseph.
Oh, that's old covenant.
Okay, homie, let me take youto the new covenant.
God takes disciples and makesthem apostles and puts those apostles
over churches.
Then watch this.
Those apostles write lettersto show the lineage of the heritage
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of the position.
He uses Timothy.
And then under Timothy, he has elders.
Then under the elders, he have people.
James, chapter five.
Is there any sick among you?
It doesn't just say, pray foreach other.
It says, go to the elders ofthe local church.
Have the leaders lay hands onyou, and the leaders will anoint
you with.
Oil and you will be healed.
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And some of you will say, I'msurrendered to God.
But you never surrender to a man.
And that's why you're confused.
That's why you're broke.
That's why you're disgustedwith your life.
Because God calls us tosurrender to him through a man.
And if you don't learn that inmarriage, you're going to end up
with a bad marriage.
If you don't end up.
If you don't learn that inchurch, you're going to end up having
a bad church.
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But where there is submission,where there is surrender, the glory
of the Lord reigns.
The anointing comes.
Provision comes and this isnot popular, but if the mosque has
an imam, if the local templehas a rabbi, Homie, a pastor, submit.
This is the way of the Lord.
It's always been this way.
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Well, I get my sermon on the Internet.
Well, you can get a sermon onany on the Internet and submit.
And you can sit in the roomand not submit.
I met a woman who is at theconference in Miami, and she said,
I was in Vegas, and all of asudden the Lord began to speak to
me.
And she said, I watched MikeSignorelli preaching.
And the Lord said, I calledyou to this house.
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I called him to be your pastor.
Would you submit to his authority?
She said, I physically stoodup and I took a step forward and
said, God, I'm submitted.
I'm here.
I never met that woman in my life.
She caught up to give atestimony two days ago, was bawling
her eyes, saying, my life hasbeen changed forever because of your
life, Mike, and receiving from you.
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But here's what I'm saying.
Submission without proximitystill produces power.
Power.
But no submission with all theproximity equals no power.
So what happens is you got tomake up your mind.
This is my church.
These are my pastors.
Mike is the apostle over this thing.
And I'm going to come onbattle with them.
I am going to break with them.
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I'm going to burn with them.
I'm covenanted.
If they have any mom, if theyhave a rabbi.
I have a pastor, but I have aGod over that pastor, and I trust
that God.
And we're going to take theseregions, we're going to take these.
These cities we're going to build.
Because, y', all, I'm justgetting started.
I don't know about you, but Ilook around.
This is not enough.
I say, God, let's buildschools in every city so our children
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can actually go to Christian schools.
I have a vision for right hereon Long island being the only accredited
Christian college in all ofNew York state.
I see people gettingbachelor's degrees in this building
very soon.
I see people not having to goto the secular colleges in New York,
but they come here in thisbuilding to get an accredited decree.
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I see artists rising up.
I made one movie and got third place.
My next movie is going to getfirst place in the box office because
Jesus name is going to belifted on high.
I humbled myself under themighty hand of God.
And in due season, he's goingto lift me and Evan up as we film
more movie theaters with thegospel of Jesus Christ.
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I'm just getting started.
It's time to battle.
It's time to break.
It's time to burn somebody.
But watch, if you can't do thebasics, you don't get to the advance.
So when you think about thebeginning of my sermon when nobody
was clapping, it's becauseeverybody fails in the little things.
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This is why you can't get tothe advance unless you pass the basic
serving, attending, reading,praying, leading.
Those are the basics.
Then you get to the advance.
And what many of you are doingis you're watching me be in my advanced
season while you're stillfailing in your basic season.
But I love you.
That's why I'm saying this.
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I love you.
I love you.
I want to show you one last thing.
So in the notes, skip to the end.
Because this sermon isanointed, you're going to look back
at this sermon and realizewhat God was doing.
We should be standing roomonly, every service in every location.
If you start fulfilling theGreat Commission, we should be buying
buildings, cast everywhere we go.
If you start fulfilling thegreat commitment, if I.
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If.
If I'm not the only one doing.
The advance and all y' all do.
It, God, I got people who knowthe Bible, the Greek, the Hebrew.
I got more degrees than athermometer, but are selfish.
I got people who know how to.
Preach a sermon but don't knowhow to live it.
I got people who know how tosing, but the Lord doesn't receive
it because there's noobedience connected to the song.
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I'm trying to get us alignedfor the basics.
Because come ease EasterSunday, when this church walks into
Times Square and we begin tofill it, we have to march into Times
Square praying andprophesying, praying and preaching.
I'm not going to Times Squareto put on a show.
Hey, some of y' all areplaying games.
Take off the mask and get intoalignment with me and say, God, here
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am I.
Send me.
I'm going into Times Squarewith a church unified.
A church on the same page.
A church that's in one.
One heart, one mind, one body,one heart.
Okay, I gotta show you onelast thing.
In the scriptures, I just feelthe anointing on this.
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I feel the anointing for this.
Okay, watch.
This is my last point.
Oh, this?
No, no.
My third point.
For the.
Whoever's doing the.
The computer, go to pointthree, Banaias.
Secret victory.
This is what the Lord told meto preach to you.
I went nine minutes over.
Are y' all mad at me?
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Okay, okay.
Somebody said yes.
Who is it?
Security.
Get them now.
Okay.
Is this helping you, though?
Do you feel loved?
Do you feel encouraged?
Let me just tell you, theperson who loves you the most is
not the person who lies to youwith flattery.
It's the person who looks atyour potential and says, on my watch,
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I'm not letting you kill that potential.
On my watch, I'm not let.
If you were mediocre, I would preach.
To you like you were mediocre.
I'm being serious.
When I showed up to New York.
I'm talking to you, Brooklyn.
I'm talking to you, Manhattan.
I'm talking.
I realized that the IQ has tobe significantly higher here for
y' all to survive.
And when I'm preaching to youlike I am on a Sunday, this is a
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loving word because I'mpreaching to the true you and.
And y'.
All.
Do y' all feel it?
Somebody said no.
Okay, now watch.
In second Samuel, chapter 23,verse 20.
Now we're going to go deeperfor a few moments and then we're
going to pray.
We're not talking about Davidand Goliath.
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You know that story.
We're talking about Banaia.
And most believers do not knowabout Banaiah.
And actually that's.
Oh, that'll preach in of itself.
Are we good?
Are you guys tired you yet?
Okay, I just got to cook.
You know about David andGoliath because that was a public
battle with a public victory.
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And everybody loves thosekinds of stories.
But probably none of you knowwho Bania is because it was a private
battle with a private victory.
See, this is the thing.
Everybody wants to win in public.
Nobody wants to win in private.
And what the Lord's speakingto me.
If you're going to go v1 1.
The Lord's looking at yourbank account now.
The Lord's looking at yourtext messages now.
Come on, come on.
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The Lord's looking.
And see, it's time for some of.
You can kill a giant inpublic, but you can't kill a lion
in private.
And that's why you need toknow about Benaiah for a few minutes.
Are you ready?
And Benaiah, the son of Jehoda.
That's a fire name now, isn't it?
Jehotah was a valiant man ofCapzido, A doer.
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Somebody shout doer.
Don't just be a hearer of theword, but a.
What makes you a valiant manor woman is not your thought, it's
your action.
A doer of great deeds.
He struck down two aerialslet's talk about this word Ariel.
Probably you don't know whatthat means.
Two aerials of Moab.
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Those were men that were sofierce and Ariel is a Hebrew word
for liar, lion.
So men who were so fierce thatthey were like lions and he was able
to strike them down.
He also went down and struck alion in a pit on a day when snow
had fallen.
We've got to break this down,we've got to break this down.
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So this is one of themightiest men in all of scripture.
And Benaiah had the ability toliterally he watch this.
And he, and he also also went down.
Nobody told him to go down.
Nobody assigned it to him,nobody asked him.
He did it because that's whohe was.
It was flowing from his identity.
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That's why I'm working on your identity.
It's like there comes a pointwhere no one tells you to lead anybody
to Christ.
Nobody tells you to beradically generous.
You do it now because it's whoyou are.
I want to shout out mydaughter Bella because we were on
a flight to Miami and we gotoff that flight and Bella comes to
me and she's like dad, I am so excited.
I said, why?
She goes, because the devilmessed up.
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I said, what did the devil do?
She said the devil sat a Jewnext to me on the plane and I started
talking to him about thesupernatural and the gospel of Jesus
Christ.
And on that plane we had thisgreat conversation and he said that
he's going to come to churchthis Sunday.
And so if you're here in thisservice, we love you and we're glad
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you're here and we love theJewish people because my savior Jesus
was a Jew.
Come on somebody.
And we, and this, this is.
But, but what I'm saying is ifI can't pastor my daughter to lead
the lost, then why would youtrust me to pastor yours?
It's not what we say, it'swhat we do.
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The Signorelli is our soul winner.
So their church will be a soulwinning church.
The Signorellis are generous,so their church will be a generous
church.
Let me ask you this.
If, if everybody in the churchwas like you, would it die in a few
weeks?
If everybody was like you,would it thrive in a few weeks?
This is discipleship.
It's not a program, it's an apprenticeship.
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Everybody wants a programbecause it's easier than an apprenticeship.
Apprenticeship is what you do.
It's not head knowledge, hisfoot knowledge.
My feet hurt, my legs ache.
But I'm gonna press Forward.
I don't.
I know this thing throughexperience, even if I don't know
it through my mind.
And that's.
Was Kebzil, a doer of greatdeeds, and he struck down two men
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who were like lions.
But he also went down andstruck a lion in a pit on a day when
snow had fallen.
And if I were to end thesermon, this.
I'm gonna end it.
Nobody told him to go in the pit.
Pit, it was snowy, which meansit was slippery and it looked like
it was impossible.
The other thing I love about apit is he went V1 because there's
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no escape hatch in a pit.
I'm going to go down and fightthis lion.
And only.
Only one of us are coming out alive.
See there.
There's some.
Some of you are in the fightof your life.
If you're fighting for yourmarriage, you need to jump down into
that pit, that snowy pit.
Pit.
And say every one of my familymembers, my father, my great.
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This is why you.
I'm wearing the breakers gear today.
You're about to see it.
Because somebody has to riseup and go into the pit and say, there's
no other way out.
It's do or die now.
This is irrevocable.
I'm gonna fight this thing.
And only one of us are comingout alive.
And if you're fighting foryour marriage and I'm speaking to
the men, jump into that pitand kill that lion.
And it'll be a private victory.
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But I'm telling you what, itstarts as a private victory and then
it ends up becoming a public victory.
Because what you win inprivate becomes the curriculum for
what you teach in public.
And this is called authority.
Authority.
Authority.
And see, whatever it is,nobody knows if you're dealing with
addiction, nobody may know it.
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Nobody's going to grab yourphone and see what you look at.
Nobody's going to go throughyour bank account and audit your
stuff.
But the Lord knows.
Knows and see, you got to jumpinto a pit sometimes and say, I am
the generational bloodlinecurse breaker and only one of us
are coming out of this alive.
And I'm gonna fight this thingprivately so that God gives me influence
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and authority publicly.
And nobody may see this seasonof my life.
This is what I love about this.
The pit offered no escape.
How much would you fight for achurch if there was no other church?
See, maybe we have too many options.
That's the problem.
How much would we fight forthis thing if there weren't thousands
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of other churches?
We could choose how would youfight for your marriage if you believed
that they were the only onebecause you made that covenant?
It's.
I feel like the Lord's beentelling me, bring your church into
the pit and have them nowbegin to fight that line in that
they've been ignoring for along time.
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But I got good news for you.
You were built for this.
You were built for this.
You were built for this.
And Benaiah, the son ofJehoda, was a violent, was a valiant
man.
But I want to show you onelast thing.
Would you stand to your feetwith me?
There was no crowd, noapplause, no Instagram live, no.
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No battlefield of snowy pit.
He fought a line in a pit on asnowy day in the worst conditions.
And it was a hidden act ofcourage that became the foundation
for his elevation.
How many of you want to go v1.
You got to go into the pitwithout any escape so that you can
get elevated out.
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Now here's what I thought wasinsane because I went a little bit
deeper.
Private obedience, privatecourage, private sacrifice, Private
discipline.
Discipline.
On December 18th, we're gonnahave a moment of.
A private moment with God togive sacrificially to believe that
we're going to be able tobuild a.
A stage for this church.
We don't have a stage.
We're preaching on the floor.
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We're gonna.
We're gonna believe that acollege is going to be birthed in
this building I'm in right nowthat provides accredited degrees.
We're gonna believe that Godis gonna take us higher.
I see mortgage burningceremonies for Indiana and Long island
coming.
Coming.
That we are not going to bethe debtor.
That we are to be the lenderand not the borrower.
Does anybody believe that?
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But this is where greatness is forged.
It's forged in the snowy,snowy pit.
And confidence is not built by hype.
It's built through privatevictories, small wins, quiet disciplines,
the daily growth journal.
Nobody's going to come to yourhouse and see if you filled it out
every day.
Nobody's going to come to yourhouse to see if you grabbed your,
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your, your spouse and prayedwith them.
Nobody's gonna know.
You could walk right past that pit.
You can walk right past that lion.
You can walk.
You can even make excuses.
It's snowy.
Oh, but I work too much.
I work overtimes.
I work doubles.
I work triples.
I'm tired.
Oh, but I take my family everyonce in a while.
Oh, but I give enough.
Oh, but it's.
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I disagree with the scriptures.
I don't think I like Mike, butthe way he preaches, I don't agree.
You can make all these.
These excuses and walk pastthat pit and walk past that lion.
But I'm asking, who wants tojump into that pit and say, I'm going
to confront this thing.
Watch.
Because it's when that liongets out of the pit that you're going
to end up having to fight it.
And you don't have theadvantage of calculating how you
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fight it.
See, there's some things thatif you don't confront them in another
season, they're going toconquer you.
What's not confronted ends up conquering.
What's not to going confrontedends up taking you out.
And so there's a window of time.
I see a window of opportunity,a window of time where you can do
this.
It's a small win.
It's a quiet discipline.
The lion, the pit and the snow.
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The lion, the pit and the snow.
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Everybody says, climb up.
Sometimes you gotta climb downbefore you climb up.
Climb down into the pit.
Come on.
He wasn't pushed down there.
He wasn't trapped down there.
He went there on his own.
This reveals a major, major thing.
We're gonna pray in a few moments.
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When he was killing the lion,Benaiah wasn't seeking glory.
He was actually protecting people.
If that line went out.
See, here's the thing.
I was going through mypictures and my videos last week,
and I was looking at theprivate areas of my life.
I saw the video and thepictures of me performing at the
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Rosie o' Donnell foundationfundraiser show in Manhattan.
When I showed up duringHurricane Sandy, I saw the pictures
and the videos of my wife andI going to Katz Deli in Manhattan
and staying in the bunk bedsof Ron Mandil's place in Bushwick,
Brooklyn.
As we were distributing food,I went on this journey, and it was
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a journey of sanctification.
It was me going down into thatpit and facing some things.
Financial insecurities, facingthem, facing the issues of my marriage,
the questions I had aboutJulian, our past.
And I just.
Facing it, facing it, facingit, facing it.
And it was just absolutelyblown away.
I'm going to show you some ofthis next week.
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It's going to be a time tolaugh together.
It's going to be a time to cry together.
And there's a heritage that'sgoing to be handed to all the pastors
that were ordained, that aregoing to be ordained next week.
But the reason why thismessage is burning in me is because
the Lord is saying Everybodywants to be David.
Nobody wants to be Benaiah.
See, the thing is, Benaiah waslike, I did it because it was the
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right thing to do.
And I think in America, forthose of you listening, the right
thing to do is what you'redoing right now.
That's why you're at church.
But don't stop halfway.
I started this sermon with aman named Abraham.
Abraham's father.
Does anybody here even knowAbraham's dad's name?
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Right, but did you know thatGod gave a promise to Abraham's dad,
not Abraham?
But Abraham did not go.
Abraham's dad only stopped halfway.
And Abraham was the one whosaid, I'll go the whole way.
So he received a promise thatwas actually supposed to go to his
dad.
And then let's talk about Benaiah.
I started looking up this manbecause I felt so convicted while
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I was writing the sermon.
Like, I've got to bring ourchurch to be like Bania.
Then I found out thatBenaiah's dad was a Levite.
And I gasped.
What?
Because Levites passed theLevitical heritage down to their
children.
So that means that God calledBenaiah to be a warrior, even though
his dad was a worshiper.
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So that means there was ashift in the generations for a greater
calling out from the Leviticalinto the warfare.
And I don't know who.
Who I'm talking about, butsometimes you'll look at your family
line and see that God hascalled you to do something different.
And you become a breaker.
And you're the one who says,listen, I'm gonna have to pray like
you never prayed.
Give like you never gave.
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Serve like you never get served.
And there's something.
There's a shift.
And for Benaiah to go from aLevitical lineage into warfare.
Lineage means nobody taughthim courage.
Nobody taught him sacrifice.
Nobody taught him warfare.
It was who he was being activated.
So the thing I want to say tothe entire church right now is I.
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After this Sunday, I am doneteaching you certain things.
I want to see what you're made of.
Either you're gonna get offthe bench and do it, or you're gonna
keep whining and complaining.
Either you're gonna rise upand be a warrior, or you're gonna
keep being a worrier.
I'm done trying to force you.
This is the last word week.
I'm drawing a line in the sand.
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Either you march with me, oryou stay on your pity party in the
back.
But as for me and my house, Ihave decided that we will serve the
Lord.
I'm gonna lead the loss to thecross at any cost.
I want to know who goes with me.
I'm gonna read my Bible every day.
Who's reading with me?
I'm gonna be in a group inclose accountability.
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Who's grouping up with me?
I'm gonna serve.
Who's serving with me?
Me.
Come on.
Lift your hands towards heaven.
If you're with me.
Only if you're with me.
Come on.
This is V1.
When your hands are lifted,everybody has a revelation of son.
But this generation needs arevelation of slave.
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The apostle Paul calledhimself a prisoner, a prisoner to
the gospel.
I think sometimes we don'tunderstand what freedom is until
we've been a prisoner for alittle while.
Loud.
Come on, somebody.
And so what God wants to doright now is he wants.
Even in a 9am sermon.
I know some of y' all, like,Mike, you preached so hard today.
Why would you do that?
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Because I want you to leavethis place saying, all right, I'm
going down to that pit.
I'm destroying it.
See, first you blame thedemon, and then you got delivered
from a demon and you wentright back to it.
It's because you need now to be.
A banaya, to go down into thatpit and destroy that line and do.
The thing that God's calledyou to do.
And so with your hands liftedtowards heaven, if you're willing
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to go there with me, this isthe true go v1 message say, Heavenly
Father, I surrender all.
My surrender is my strategy now.
I will war like Benaiah.
I'm going into the pit.
I'm fighting the lion.
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Like, come on.
Come on.
I feel the anointing flowingright now.
I don't know if y' all canfeel it.
I don't know if y' all canfeel it.
Say this with me like Abraham.
I'm breaking the curse on my bloodline.
I'm going all the way.
I'm walking by faith.
I'm walking by the spirit.
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Come on, help me out, Angela.
Come on, help me out.
Let's just begin to work, Sam.
Foreign.
So this leads me to the sermon.
Your brain is wired to stopyou before God sends you.
In.
Aviation V1 is the criticalmoment in takeoff where the pilot
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is fully committed.
Now, here's the thing.
If the engine fails, ifthere's turbulence, if a warning
light flashes, you still go.
Because you have so much speeddown that Runway that that thrust
and lift, the greater force ofnature takes over and you begin to
fly.
You cannot abort takeoff onceyou've gone v1.
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The problem is, most of us inour life have never fully gone V1
yet.
And so last week I gave three Bs.
And my expectation is that ourentire church understands this.
In order to go V1 number one,you have to battle like Caleb.
Caleb said the promised landis filled with giants.
I don't expect God to give methe promise without giving me problems.
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Because the problems are howhe does something in me.
The problems are my teachers.
Your teachers are not yourcurriculum in college.
Your teachers are pain and suffering.
And some people pass thewritten test, but not the living
test.
Come on.
And so you battle like Caleb.
I didn't expect anybody togive me Long Island.
The kingdom of heaven suffersviolence and the violent take Long
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island by force.
Come on.
I don't care if it is a soccer stadium.
It's gonna be a church.
Because I said.
And I can battle like Caleb.
If you're sitting in thatBrooklyn location right now, you're
sitting in that locationbecause I showed up and I said, I'm
not expecting anybody to giveme Brooklyn.
I'm taking Brooklyn.
And me and Heather Wrigley, weprayer walk that joint.
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And we got that venuesupernaturally that you're sitting
in right now.
So somebody shall battle.
Come on.
Oh.
To my single people in thiswhole section right now, God is gonna
give you a spouse.
But when you reach thepromised land called marriage, there
is going to be giants in there.
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Giants called pastwoundedness, past rejection, fear
of failure.
Come on.
Low self esteem.
Just because you get marrieddoesn't mean that you step into perfection.
Hello.
And so you gotta learn how tobattle for your marriage.
Right?
I fought everybody.
Oh, it must be nice.
Yeah, work harder.
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You can have it, too.
Must be nice to have amarriage like Mike and Julie's.
Well, do you want mycounseling, Bill?
Just like you want my marriage.
Come on.
Do you want my date night, Bill?
Just like you want my marriage.
Come on.
Yeah, it must be nice.
It's nice if you'll fight for it.
Okay, y' all with me.
Somebody shout battle.
Okay, this is A good.
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This is a good series.
This is helping people.
10,000 plus people logging infor this.
Come on, somebody shout, login number two.
So you go from battle, yougotta break.
You gotta learn how to break.
You gotta learn how to break.
You gotta learn how to break.
What do I'm talking about?
Most people, they spritz, theyfragrance, they essence, but they
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never break.
I don't know about V1.
I'm gonna hold it in reserve.
I've even got staff memberswho act like that sometimes.
I don't know if this is for me.
I don't know if this is aforever thing or it's a now thing.
No, no, no.
V1 is a covenant church, not a commitment.
Ch going to work out if you're coming.
Trying me out like a local restaurant.
It ain't like that.
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It's not.
Choose your flavor.
If you don't like the flavor,come back into the kitchen and help
me work.
If you don't like the church,join the team and make it better.
This is a covenant thing.
Come on.
And so when people.
I don't know what I think about.
I don't know what heaventhinks about you, because you've
never battled, you're never broken.
Come on.
And I don't know what I thinkabout Mike.
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I don't know what heaventhinks about you, but I know what
hell thinks about me.
And I'm looking for somepeople that will break with me, some
people that'll just take abreak with me.
Anybody will go on a vacationwith you, but who will go into battle
with you?
The US Military doesn'tadvance because we got a whole bunch
of fair weather people.
Well, I'm here for the GI Billto go to college.
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Well, you can die trying toget that college money doing it for
that reason.
And why are you treating thelocal church the same way?
I'm here to receive, but I'mnot here to give.
That's dangerous.
The kingdom of heaven has onlybeen advanced by those who covenant.
And the apex of commitment is covenant.
Somebody say break.
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The alabaster box was not one woman.
It's supposed to be every woman.
After the.
After the cross, the alabasterbox was not just one person.
It's supposed to be all of us.
After the cross, when theystuck Jesus with that.
With that spear and waterbegan to pour out of his side, what
was actually happening washe's saying, I've poured my life
out.
Now will you pour yours out too?
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Are you with me?
So this church on Long Island,I don't know if I feel like I want
to go this Sunday.
What if Jesus said, I don'tknow if I feel like going to the
cross today?
It's not about church attendance.
It's about the representationof covenant and what this church,
this church is extreme.
We are, we are not a cruise liner.
We're a warship.
Right.
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And that's the thing is if youwant a cruise liner, you go sign
up for the Mickey Mouse program.
I tried to sign my own wife upfor the Mickey Mouse program.
I tried to get on the Disney cruise.
Y' all heard the story lastweek, but my wife said no, we're
a warship and we're goingthroughout the earth and we're doing
what God called us to do.
And so it's not about, I don'tfeel like attending.
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I'd rather you to show up tochurch unshowered, dirty, wrinkled
shirt.
But you're here because everyclass has a role, every army has
an enlistment, every team hasa roster.
And so show up to church everyweek and say, God, you can count
on me.
I'm praying with my church.
I'm giving with my.
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This ain't popular prayer preaching.
Because everybody wants to becommitted, but only very few want
to be covenanted.
But the way we're going tochange Long island is covenanting
to each other.
We're going to change Brooklyn.
Not because Brooklyn was atemporary thing or I felt like a
thing, because Brooklyn is theonly plan.
It's plan A.
There is no plan B for Manhattan.
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There is no plan B.
How many of you want a covenant?
Battle.
Battle.
Break my life open.
God.
Last but not least, burn.
Burn.
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Burn.
Burn.
Burn God.
Burn me up.
Burn up my selfish desires.
Burn up my man made strategy.
This is why.
This is why prophets are morepopular than pastors.
Because people always want aword from God, but they don't want
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to work for God.
See, burn me up, God, I wantto work for you.
I want to do.
What does that mean?
If you're a nurse, go into thehospital, work for God.
If you're a student, go intothe school, work for God.
It says the harvest is vast,but the laborers are few.
It means that those who arewilling to work are few.
There's a lot of peoplewilling to talk.
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There's a lot of peoplewilling to come on somebody.
A lot of people willing to watch.
But there's very few willingto work.
And I'll tell you somethingchanges in your life when you say
God.
If you can use anything, youcan use me.
Take My hands, Lord, and myfeet touch my heart.
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Y' all don't even know this song.
That's what's wrong with you.
Do you not know this song?
Oh, we need to bring it back, Julie.
When I was growing up, we usedto sing this song.
If you can use anything, Lord,you can use me.
And you know, the millennialsaid I was used by the local church.
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That's the whole point, Lord.
If you can use anything, use me.
Somebody say, I'm willing to burn.
Come on.
And by the way, this is notthe advanced class.
This is the basics.
Well, I'm telling you, go v1.
And what happened at a certainpoint in my journey was I launched
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this church.
And I remember telling God,God, I cashed everything out.
My retirement, my savings,sold my house.
Look, Lord, look what I'veburned for you.
And you know what God told me?
Congratulations, Mike, you'venow just become a normal Christian.
So here's the thing.
Oftentimes when God is askingsomething of us, we go before God
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like, it's such a big deal.
But the reality is, the thingshe's asking for us to give, we don't
have them.
They have us.
So God is trying to get usfree by burning some things in our
life.
Anybody want freedom on thenext level?
Burn, burn, burn.
So that leads us to the lastand final section of the sermon,
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because I had to do a lot of review.
But your brain is a.
Is wired to avoid everything Itold you.
So what's happening is yourspirit is saying yes to everything
I preached, but your.
Your actual body, your, evenyour biological brain is saying,
no, no, no.
Anybody know what I'm talking about?
For the spirit is willing, butthe flesh is.
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So modern psychology actuallyshows us that your mind, it'll generate
hesitation within five secondsof a decision that feels risky or
uncertain.
When I was in the service of aman with a multisite massive church
in America, and he was raisingmoney to buy cameras to actually
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put his sermons in the Middleeast to Muslim nations, the Holy
Spirit to me and said, Give $5,000.
Sow it into this man.
And again, as soon as the HolySpirit spoke that because the things
of the spirit are quantum,they are faster than your mind can
compute.
And so you're.
You have to train your mind toactually submit to the spirit, because
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the things of the spiritoperate significantly faster than
the things of the.
Of the natural mind.
Do you all understand what I'm saying?
So on a quantum level, Ireceive give $5,000, and so it into
his ministry But I begin tohesitate because my brain, and it's
doing what we learn in modern psychology.
So I get out my phone, I scanthe QR code, and I put in 5,00, because
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$500 is still a lot of money.
But that's not what God said.
And.
But here's what I think makesme different than most people you've
met, and this is what I'mtrying to impart to you as your pastor,
is that I will hesitate, butthen I will push through the hesitation.
And I'm learning that I feelmany of the same feelings as other
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people.
But I've trained myself in thethings of the spirit to do something
different than what I feel.
Are y' all with me?
So I put the extra zero on,and Julie elbows me, and she goes,
mike.
She goes, mike, the HolySpirit told me to give $5,000 as
well.
And I watched you wrestle with it.
Yes, let's give it.
So I gave that money.
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On a side note to this story,you will always have an audience
for your obed, and you willalways have an audience for your
disobedience.
My wife was watching, and so Igave that money.
That was in 2019.
What happened in 2020?
It was through cameras that Ibegan to reach the nations, because
you sow into what you want togrow into.
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And now we've got 10,000people watching our livestream.
And in 2019, we had only 50people watching our livestream.
But I believe there wassomething connected to me battling
something connected to medoing what?
Break.
That was my alabaster box.
And then burning and saying,you know what, God?
I'm gonna burn.
Okay.
Oh, please, please, pleaselean in for this.
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Cause this is like, I'm gonnateach it deeper, but this is gonna
help you.
I.
You.
Okay?
Real sacrifice, real burningrequires you creating a scenario
that you cannot undo.
If you can undo it, it's notreal sacrifice.
When I look at the scriptures,okay, I see this over and over again.
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If you approach marriage,like, I am going to take these vows,
but I can undo these if I needto undo these.
If you treat it like you canundo it, you will undo it.
Because it's a covenant, notjust words.
If you show up to a church andyou're testing it and trying it out,
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and you leave an escape hatch,you will end up leaving that church
because you will cause what'scalled bias to occur.
And you will look througheverything through the lens of negativity
to justify why you go outthrough that trap door.
If you leave a trap door for marriage.
Then you will look at your wife.
You will look at your husbandthrough the lens of everything they're
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doing wrong to justify thattrap door behind you.
How many of you know what I'mtalking about?
Because it's real quiet here.
I don't know if it's becauseyou're listening or you want me to
open the altar now to repent, but.
But I'm trying to teach youthis because, oh, Lord, help me.
Help me.
Our generation doesn't evenbelieve most of what I've said for
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the last 20 minutes.
Our generation doesn't evenbelieve it.
Half of all marriages end in divorce.
I'm the product of multipledivorces, and I see that now.
I want to say on a little asterisk.
Side note, even Jesus gavejustifiable reasons for divorce a
reason for divorce.
Not all marriages.
You know, it takes two people,and that's the point of covenant.
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And sometimes one personcovenant, the other one's a covenant
breaker.
Right?
So I don't feel attacked rightnow, but.
But to these ears, many of usneed to hear this.
There.
Okay, Harvey, right now inMiami is in a building, and there
was a Baptist church in thatbuilding that had 600 people every
Sunday.
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Because what used to happen inAmerica was people went to church
because they were Christians.
And already within 100 years,we watched all of the atheism and
the deconstructing.
It diminished people's a senseof community and belonging.
And right now, a lot of thesemessages I'm preaching, they are
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some of the most importantthings that can be said in our generation.
Because if you go back intime, there was a time where if you
were Catholic, you went toCatholic church.
If you were Methodist, youwent to Methodist church.
And right now, there.
And see.
Can I just go there for years now.
Mike, why do you talk aboutIslam so much?
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Well, I'll tell you why.
Because when their birth rateis significantly higher than ours,
when they actually go to themosque, when they go to pray, when
they're filling the streets,when they're electing officials in
government.
See, as a church, we'resupposed to go into each sphere of
influence.
They are going into everysphere of influence.
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And what's happening is a lotof these sermons now, they're going
over your.
And then 40 years from now,you're gonna see all these viral
clips, and you're gonna belike, I was in the room when Mike
said that, but I didn't seewhat he was seeing in the future.
So it's like when I Tell agroup full of Christians you should
come to church every week.
It sounds like I'm saying thatbecause I just wanna grow my church
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attendance.
But let me remind you that Idid not show up on Long island to
build a big church.
And for most of you that werehere, like Angela and Nick, our church
was less than 100 for a thirdof the entire existence of our church.
But what I am saying is, asyou look at the other religions,
as you look at the othertraditions, as you look at the things
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that are in the earth, it'snot just Islam.
There's a rising of all these sides.
And I believe that asChristians, we need to actually rise
up and be Christians.
Does that make sense?
Even like the Daily GrowthJournal, it's because it was understood
that if you're a Christian,you read your Bible, but then Bible
reading, you know.
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And now we have a resurgencebecause the Lord is beginning to
give people a desire by theHoly Spirit.
But we need tools.
So these spiritual disciplinesand going to church and serving and
sitting, these were all verynormal things even 100 years ago.
But what happens is the enemycomes and deceives, but then what
happens is other religions andother traditions, they believe it.
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I told this story before, but.
But I have a friend that is a Jew.
And you know, he was tellingme about at the local synagogue,
of course, Jews all give theirtithe, but he said, we pay extra
money because we want eternal rewards.
And they even buy their ownseats at many synagogues.
Do you guys know about this?
And then you know how, like,we have volunteers that serve in
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production and variousdifferent things?
Well, they actually pay.
In many synagogues here in NewYork City, they pay extra money for
the privilege to be able toserve and to do the various different
things in their local temple.
And because they believe somuch in eternal rewards that they
are willing to pay their localsynagogue to let them serve so they
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can get more rewards.
And when I was talking to myfriend about that, he goes, I think
it's so funny how Christiansargue over giving 10% when we go
well beyond that.
And I also think it's our.
It's funny how Christiansargue when you.
When the pastor says, I wantyou to serve.
Because we fight each otherover who gets to serve and we pay
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money to serve.
So let's go ahead.
We're gonna start.
Start that right now.
No, I'm just kidding.
Everyone panic.
But.
But do you see, though, it'snot just against Islam, even within
Judaism, people who believe inthe spiritual realm, people who Believe
in the eternal.
They live their life inresponse to it.
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And they live their life in away look peculiar to other people,
but to them makes total sense.
Are y' all with me today?
And so, like, I just want tonormalize for you that going to church
every week is not weird,because in Judaism, having Shabbat
every week is not weird.
Praying every day is notweird, because if you were a Muslim,
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you would pray multiple timesa day.
Right?
It's just.
But I think what's happeningis, is our church.
Churches have become sodivided and hyper individualistic
that I now have to preachsermons and say, we have to battle
together, we have to breaktogether, and we have to burn together.
But look, there's a demonicform of what I just said, because
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a jihad is we're going tobattle together, we're going to break
together, we're going to burn together.
That's jihad.
Am I right?
When nations, evil nationsrise up, up.
And they.
And even evil nations say,we're going to battle, break and
burn.
So the Lord's been showing mea rising of both sides.
And my prayer to you with goV1 is.
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It's not about V1 church.
It's about the body of Christdemanding that as it was in the 1st
century, so shall it be in the21st century.
Are y' all with me?
And the end times church hasto look like the church in the beginning.
If you're.
If you're upset about thetithe, I've got good news for you.
The New Covenant did away withthe tithe.
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But I have bad news for you.
When it did away with thetithe, it transformed your heart
and empowered you to go beyond 10%.
I've got good news and badnews for you.
The good news is we're nolonger gonna stone you for your sin.
The bad news is if you'regonna become a Christian, you have
to kill yourself, crucify yourown flesh, and put it to death.
It may not be a physicaldeath, but it should feel like a
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physical death when you put todeath your flesh.
You see what I'm saying?
The gospel of Jesus Christempowers you to do hard things, not
just receive easy things.
The blood of Jesus Christempowers you to be new, and a new
man comes forth.
And as the new man comesforth, it says, man, I could never
pray, but I'm submitted to God.
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I'm gonna begin to pray.
I could never fast, but I'msubmitted to God.
I'm gonna fast.
I used to hesitate to givebecause my biological brain hesitates.
But then through the spiritI'm willing to step into that moment.
Through the spirit, I'mwilling to push past it.
And I don't know about you,but I'm looking for a people at V1
church that are movementmakers that say, God, I will do these
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things if you ask me to do them.
Because obedience is greaterthan sacrifice.
So last week was aboutsacrifice, this week is about obedience.
How many of you say, God, takeme through levels, right?
I want to go higher in you depth.
It's not just knowing thescriptures because even Satan knows
them.
But Satan refused to obey them.
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How many of you want to now?
How many of you say, God, makeme obedient.
I want to pray every day.
I want to be, I want to cometo church and be obedient.
I want to represent.
I want to show the light ofChrist in a dark place.
As I'm coming to a close, Iwant to show you these scriptures.
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Now the Lord said to Abram, gofrom your country.
You see this?
Go to your country and yourkindred and your father's house to
the land that I will show you.
Look at this verse.
It says, go from your country,your kindred and your father's house.
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In order to go V1, you have toleave yours for his, yours for his.
Okay, single people, I'mtalking to the ladies.
When you get married, youleave your house to join his because
marriage.
So Julie left the Owens family.
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Her last name was Owens, whichis Welsh.
And she joined the Signorelli family.
And I made a new family.
And so what happens is whenyou become the bride of Christ, you
leave your house, yourcustoms, your laws, your culture.
Come on.
Well, I'm mad like thisbecause I'm Irish.
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I drink like this because I'm Irish.
No, you're not Irish anymore.
When you became the bride ofChrist, you're sober minded, you're
not Irish.
Oh, I'm Puerto Rican.
And Puerto Ricans are like this.
No, no.
When you became the bride ofChrist, you left Puerto Rican culture.
And just because they do itlike that in Puerto Rico doesn't
mean they do that in heaven.
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It's on earth as it is in heaven.
Come on somebody, I'm tryingto talk to you.
Oh no, I'm African.
Okay, well listen, you want togo to your roots.
Your roots are Abraham, Isaacand Jacob.
Those are your roots.
And if you're putting cultureabove the.
Kingdom, then your culture isyour idolatry.
And I'm trying to tell youculture matters.
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If it's in second place.
But if it's in first place, wegot a problem.
Because in order to step up into.
This thing, we got to start looking.
More like heaven and less likeNew York City.
More like heaven and less likeLong Island.
More like heaven and less like Miami.
More like heaven and less.
Come on.
Leave your country, leave yourkindred, and leave your father's
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house, and I will show you.
I'm not going to show you after.
I'm sorry, I'm not going toshow you before.
I'm going to show you after.
God, show me the plan for my life.
We'll ditch your old plan andserve the Lord.
Then he'll show you.
Leave your culture.
Leave the things that you'vebeen holding onto, and then God will
show you, and I will make youa great nation.
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And I will bless you and makeyour name great so that you will
be a blessing.
I will bless those who bless you.
And I will.
And him who dishonors you, Iwill curse.
And in all of the families ofthe earth shall be blessed.
So Abraham went.
So Nick Garcia went.
So Stephas went.
So Execa went, so Bella went.
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This is a.
The story of our life is whenGod calls, we go.
When he tells us to do it, Iwant it to be said in my life.
And then Mike went.
Some of you have been feelingstuck, but you got two legs that
work.
Come on, somebody.
And you gotta begin to usethose legs, right?
And one leg is prayer, and theother leg is prophecy and proclamation
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and declaration.
Let me just tell you, we are apraying church.
But if all you do is pray,Long island goes to hell.
If all you do is pray, all ofBrooklyn goes to hell.
If all you do is pray, all ofMiami still goes to hell.
One foot is prayer, and theother foot is prophecy and preaching
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and proclamation.
And that's how we walk.
By the spirit.
It's.
Mike went.
I went into the nations and I preached.
I went into the nations and I prayed.
Some of you have never went yet.
Because all you've done is pray.
Some of you have never wentyet because all you've done is interceded.
But you are the answer to yourown prayers because he has empowered
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you to do it.
And you need to get out of theclassroom and get into the real world.
You got to get out of thebooks, and you got to start making
history books because you went.
Somebody shout, go v1.
Okay, you guys seem like youlike me better.
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Abraham.
No logistics, no blueprint, nogps, no strategy.
The strategy is surrender.
Surrender.
Is greater than strategy.
Because surrender in thekingdom is the strategy.
I surrender to Danny being my pastor.
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Pastor.
You're my pastor, Danny.
I'm proud to call you my pastor.
I go to your church, I serveyour church.
I attend your church.
I give 10% of all my financesto your church.
I give offerings a couple oftimes a year before that to your
church.
And I surrender to you.
I'm not trying to fight you.
I'm not trying to be right.
I'm not trying to be smarterthan you.
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I'm not puffing myself up.
I surrender.
And then guess what happenswhen you go low.
The Lord now can lift you up.
Up.
The Lord can take you higher.
The Lord can begin to lift you up.
But the problem is, we never surrender.
Because I'm an American.
I'm a Puerto Rican.
I am an Italian.
No, you're prideful.
Surrender under the mightyhand of God, and then in due season,
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he will lift you up.
But, Mike, that says.
That says, humble yourselfunder the mighty hand of God.
But Danny's not God.
When in scripture do you seeGod do something without doing it
through a man?
When God wants to deliver theIsraelites out of Egypt, he doesn't
do it himself.
He uses Moses.
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When God wants to distributeseed in a time of need, he doesn't
do it himself.
He uses Joseph.
Oh, that's old covenant.
Okay, homie, let me take youto the new covenant.
God takes disciples and makesthem apostles and puts those apostles
over churches.
Then watch this.
Those apostles write lettersto show the lineage of the heritage
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of the position.
He uses Timothy.
And then under Timothy, he has elders.
Then under the elders, he have people.
James, chapter five.
Is there any sick among you?
It doesn't just say, pray foreach other.
It says, go to the elders ofthe local church.
Have the leaders lay hands onyou, and the leaders will anoint
you with.
Oil and you will be healed.
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And some of you will say, I'msurrendered to God.
But you never surrender to a man.
And that's why you're confused.
That's why you're broke.
That's why you're disgustedwith your life.
Because God calls us tosurrender to him through a man.
And if you don't learn that inmarriage, you're going to end up
with a bad marriage.
If you don't end up.
If you don't learn that inchurch, you're going to end up having
a bad church.
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But where there is submission,where there is surrender, the glory
of the Lord reigns.
The anointing comes.
Provision comes and this isnot popular, but if the mosque has
an imam, if the local templehas a rabbi, Homie, a pastor, submit.
This is the way of the Lord.
It's always been this way.
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Well, I get my sermon on the Internet.
Well, you can get a sermon onany on the Internet and submit.
And you can sit in the roomand not submit.
I met a woman who is at theconference in Miami, and she said,
I was in Vegas, and all of asudden the Lord began to speak to
me.
And she said, I watched MikeSignorelli preaching.
And the Lord said, I calledyou to this house.
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I called him to be your pastor.
Would you submit to his authority?
She said, I physically stoodup and I took a step forward and
said, God, I'm submitted.
I'm here.
I never met that woman in my life.
She caught up to give atestimony two days ago, was bawling
her eyes, saying, my life hasbeen changed forever because of your
life, Mike, and receiving from you.
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But here's what I'm saying.
Submission without proximitystill produces power.
Power.
But no submission with all theproximity equals no power.
So what happens is you got tomake up your mind.
This is my church.
These are my pastors.
Mike is the apostle over this thing.
And I'm going to come onbattle with them.
I am going to break with them.
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I'm going to burn with them.
I'm covenanted.
If they have any mom, if theyhave a rabbi.
I have a pastor, but I have aGod over that pastor, and I trust
that God.
And we're going to take theseregions, we're going to take these.
These cities we're going to build.
Because, y', all, I'm justgetting started.
I don't know about you, but Ilook around.
This is not enough.
I say, God, let's buildschools in every city so our children
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can actually go to Christian schools.
I have a vision for right hereon Long island being the only accredited
Christian college in all ofNew York state.
I see people gettingbachelor's degrees in this building
very soon.
I see people not having to goto the secular colleges in New York,
but they come here in thisbuilding to get an accredited decree.
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I see artists rising up.
I made one movie and got third place.
My next movie is going to getfirst place in the box office because
Jesus name is going to belifted on high.
I humbled myself under themighty hand of God.
And in due season, he's goingto lift me and Evan up as we film
more movie theaters with thegospel of Jesus Christ.
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I'm just getting started.
It's time to battle.
It's time to break.
It's time to burn somebody.
But watch, if you can't do thebasics, you don't get to the advance.
So when you think about thebeginning of my sermon when nobody
was clapping, it's becauseeverybody fails in the little things.
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This is why you can't get tothe advance unless you pass the basic
serving, attending, reading,praying, leading.
Those are the basics.
Then you get to the advance.
And what many of you are doingis you're watching me be in my advanced
season while you're stillfailing in your basic season.
But I love you.
That's why I'm saying this.
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I love you.
I love you.
I want to show you one last thing.
So in the notes, skip to the end.
Because this sermon isanointed, you're going to look back
at this sermon and realizewhat God was doing.
We should be standing roomonly, every service in every location.
If you start fulfilling theGreat Commission, we should be buying
buildings, cast everywhere we go.
If you start fulfilling thegreat commitment, if I.
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If.
If I'm not the only one doing.
The advance and all y' all do.
It, God, I got people who knowthe Bible, the Greek, the Hebrew.
I got more degrees than athermometer, but are selfish.
I got people who know how to.
Preach a sermon but don't knowhow to live it.
I got people who know how tosing, but the Lord doesn't receive
it because there's noobedience connected to the song.
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I'm trying to get us alignedfor the basics.
Because come ease EasterSunday, when this church walks into
Times Square and we begin tofill it, we have to march into Times
Square praying andprophesying, praying and preaching.
I'm not going to Times Squareto put on a show.
Hey, some of y' all areplaying games.
Take off the mask and get intoalignment with me and say, God, here
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am I.
Send me.
I'm going into Times Squarewith a church unified.
A church on the same page.
A church that's in one.
One heart, one mind, one body,one heart.
Okay, I gotta show you onelast thing.
In the scriptures, I just feelthe anointing on this.
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I feel the anointing for this.
Okay, watch.
This is my last point.
Oh, this?
No, no.
My third point.
For the.
Whoever's doing the.
The computer, go to pointthree, Banaias.
Secret victory.
This is what the Lord told meto preach to you.
I went nine minutes over.
Are y' all mad at me?
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Okay, okay.
Somebody said yes.
Who is it?
Security.
Get them now.
Okay.
Is this helping you, though?
Do you feel loved?
Do you feel encouraged?
Let me just tell you, theperson who loves you the most is
not the person who lies to youwith flattery.
It's the person who looks atyour potential and says, on my watch,
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I'm not letting you kill that potential.
On my watch, I'm not let.
If you were mediocre, I would preach.
To you like you were mediocre.
I'm being serious.
When I showed up to New York.
I'm talking to you, Brooklyn.
I'm talking to you, Manhattan.
I'm talking.
I realized that the IQ has tobe significantly higher here for
y' all to survive.
And when I'm preaching to youlike I am on a Sunday, this is a
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loving word because I'mpreaching to the true you and.
And y'.
All.
Do y' all feel it?
Somebody said no.
Okay, now watch.
In second Samuel, chapter 23,verse 20.
Now we're going to go deeperfor a few moments and then we're
going to pray.
We're not talking about Davidand Goliath.
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You know that story.
We're talking about Banaia.
And most believers do not knowabout Banaiah.
And actually that's.
Oh, that'll preach in of itself.
Are we good?
Are you guys tired you yet?
Okay, I just got to cook.
You know about David andGoliath because that was a public
battle with a public victory.
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And everybody loves thosekinds of stories.
But probably none of you knowwho Bania is because it was a private
battle with a private victory.
See, this is the thing.
Everybody wants to win in public.
Nobody wants to win in private.
And what the Lord's speakingto me.
If you're going to go v1 1.
The Lord's looking at yourbank account now.
The Lord's looking at yourtext messages now.
Come on, come on.
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The Lord's looking.
And see, it's time for some of.
You can kill a giant inpublic, but you can't kill a lion
in private.
And that's why you need toknow about Benaiah for a few minutes.
Are you ready?
And Benaiah, the son of Jehoda.
That's a fire name now, isn't it?
Jehotah was a valiant man ofCapzido, A doer.
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Somebody shout doer.
Don't just be a hearer of theword, but a.
What makes you a valiant manor woman is not your thought, it's
your action.
A doer of great deeds.
He struck down two aerialslet's talk about this word Ariel.
Probably you don't know whatthat means.
Two aerials of Moab.
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Those were men that were sofierce and Ariel is a Hebrew word
for liar, lion.
So men who were so fierce thatthey were like lions and he was able
to strike them down.
He also went down and struck alion in a pit on a day when snow
had fallen.
We've got to break this down,we've got to break this down.
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So this is one of themightiest men in all of scripture.
And Benaiah had the ability toliterally he watch this.
And he, and he also also went down.
Nobody told him to go down.
Nobody assigned it to him,nobody asked him.
He did it because that's whohe was.
It was flowing from his identity.
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That's why I'm working on your identity.
It's like there comes a pointwhere no one tells you to lead anybody
to Christ.
Nobody tells you to beradically generous.
You do it now because it's whoyou are.
I want to shout out mydaughter Bella because we were on
a flight to Miami and we gotoff that flight and Bella comes to
me and she's like dad, I am so excited.
I said, why?
She goes, because the devilmessed up.
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I said, what did the devil do?
She said the devil sat a Jewnext to me on the plane and I started
talking to him about thesupernatural and the gospel of Jesus
Christ.
And on that plane we had thisgreat conversation and he said that
he's going to come to churchthis Sunday.
And so if you're here in thisservice, we love you and we're glad
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you're here and we love theJewish people because my savior Jesus
was a Jew.
Come on somebody.
And we, and this, this is.
But, but what I'm saying is ifI can't pastor my daughter to lead
the lost, then why would youtrust me to pastor yours?
It's not what we say, it'swhat we do.
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The Signorelli is our soul winner.
So their church will be a soulwinning church.
The Signorellis are generous,so their church will be a generous
church.
Let me ask you this.
If, if everybody in the churchwas like you, would it die in a few
weeks?
If everybody was like you,would it thrive in a few weeks?
This is discipleship.
It's not a program, it's an apprenticeship.
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Everybody wants a programbecause it's easier than an apprenticeship.
Apprenticeship is what you do.
It's not head knowledge, hisfoot knowledge.
My feet hurt, my legs ache.
But I'm gonna press Forward.
I don't.
I know this thing throughexperience, even if I don't know
it through my mind.
And that's.
Was Kebzil, a doer of greatdeeds, and he struck down two men
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who were like lions.
But he also went down andstruck a lion in a pit on a day when
snow had fallen.
And if I were to end thesermon, this.
I'm gonna end it.
Nobody told him to go in the pit.
Pit, it was snowy, which meansit was slippery and it looked like
it was impossible.
The other thing I love about apit is he went V1 because there's
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no escape hatch in a pit.
I'm going to go down and fightthis lion.
And only.
Only one of us are coming out alive.
See there.
There's some.
Some of you are in the fightof your life.
If you're fighting for yourmarriage, you need to jump down into
that pit, that snowy pit.
Pit.
And say every one of my familymembers, my father, my great.
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This is why you.
I'm wearing the breakers gear today.
You're about to see it.
Because somebody has to riseup and go into the pit and say, there's
no other way out.
It's do or die now.
This is irrevocable.
I'm gonna fight this thing.
And only one of us are comingout alive.
And if you're fighting foryour marriage and I'm speaking to
the men, jump into that pitand kill that lion.
And it'll be a private victory.
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But I'm telling you what, itstarts as a private victory and then
it ends up becoming a public victory.
Because what you win inprivate becomes the curriculum for
what you teach in public.
And this is called authority.
Authority.
Authority.
And see, whatever it is,nobody knows if you're dealing with
addiction, nobody may know it.
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Nobody's going to grab yourphone and see what you look at.
Nobody's going to go throughyour bank account and audit your
stuff.
But the Lord knows.
Knows and see, you got to jumpinto a pit sometimes and say, I am
the generational bloodlinecurse breaker and only one of us
are coming out of this alive.
And I'm gonna fight this thingprivately so that God gives me influence
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and authority publicly.
And nobody may see this seasonof my life.
This is what I love about this.
The pit offered no escape.
How much would you fight for achurch if there was no other church?
See, maybe we have too many options.
That's the problem.
How much would we fight forthis thing if there weren't thousands
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of other churches?
We could choose how would youfight for your marriage if you believed
that they were the only onebecause you made that covenant?
It's.
I feel like the Lord's beentelling me, bring your church into
the pit and have them nowbegin to fight that line in that
they've been ignoring for along time.
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But I got good news for you.
You were built for this.
You were built for this.
You were built for this.
And Benaiah, the son ofJehoda, was a violent, was a valiant
man.
But I want to show you onelast thing.
Would you stand to your feetwith me?
There was no crowd, noapplause, no Instagram live, no.
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No battlefield of snowy pit.
He fought a line in a pit on asnowy day in the worst conditions.
And it was a hidden act ofcourage that became the foundation
for his elevation.
How many of you want to go v1.
You got to go into the pitwithout any escape so that you can
get elevated out.
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Now here's what I thought wasinsane because I went a little bit
deeper.
Private obedience, privatecourage, private sacrifice, Private
discipline.
Discipline.
On December 18th, we're gonnahave a moment of.
A private moment with God togive sacrificially to believe that
we're going to be able tobuild a.
A stage for this church.
We don't have a stage.
We're preaching on the floor.
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We're gonna.
We're gonna believe that acollege is going to be birthed in
this building I'm in right nowthat provides accredited degrees.
We're gonna believe that Godis gonna take us higher.
I see mortgage burningceremonies for Indiana and Long island
coming.
Coming.
That we are not going to bethe debtor.
That we are to be the lenderand not the borrower.
Does anybody believe that?
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But this is where greatness is forged.
It's forged in the snowy,snowy pit.
And confidence is not built by hype.
It's built through privatevictories, small wins, quiet disciplines,
the daily growth journal.
Nobody's going to come to yourhouse and see if you filled it out
every day.
Nobody's going to come to yourhouse to see if you grabbed your,
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your, your spouse and prayedwith them.
Nobody's gonna know.
You could walk right past that pit.
You can walk right past that lion.
You can walk.
You can even make excuses.
It's snowy.
Oh, but I work too much.
I work overtimes.
I work doubles.
I work triples.
I'm tired.
Oh, but I take my family everyonce in a while.
Oh, but I give enough.
Oh, but it's.
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I disagree with the scriptures.
I don't think I like Mike, butthe way he preaches, I don't agree.
You can make all these.
These excuses and walk pastthat pit and walk past that lion.
But I'm asking, who wants tojump into that pit and say, I'm going
to confront this thing.
Watch.
Because it's when that liongets out of the pit that you're going
to end up having to fight it.
And you don't have theadvantage of calculating how you
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fight it.
See, there's some things thatif you don't confront them in another
season, they're going toconquer you.
What's not confronted ends up conquering.
What's not to going confrontedends up taking you out.
And so there's a window of time.
I see a window of opportunity,a window of time where you can do
this.
It's a small win.
It's a quiet discipline.
The lion, the pit and the snow.
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The lion, the pit and the snow.
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Everybody says, climb up.
Sometimes you gotta climb downbefore you climb up.
Climb down into the pit.
Come on.
He wasn't pushed down there.
He wasn't trapped down there.
He went there on his own.
This reveals a major, major thing.
We're gonna pray in a few moments.
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When he was killing the lion,Benaiah wasn't seeking glory.
He was actually protecting people.
If that line went out.
See, here's the thing.
I was going through mypictures and my videos last week,
and I was looking at theprivate areas of my life.
I saw the video and thepictures of me performing at the
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Rosie o' Donnell foundationfundraiser show in Manhattan.
When I showed up duringHurricane Sandy, I saw the pictures
and the videos of my wife andI going to Katz Deli in Manhattan
and staying in the bunk bedsof Ron Mandil's place in Bushwick,
Brooklyn.
As we were distributing food,I went on this journey, and it was
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a journey of sanctification.
It was me going down into thatpit and facing some things.
Financial insecurities, facingthem, facing the issues of my marriage,
the questions I had aboutJulian, our past.
And I just.
Facing it, facing it, facingit, facing it.
And it was just absolutelyblown away.
I'm going to show you some ofthis next week.
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It's going to be a time tolaugh together.
It's going to be a time to cry together.
And there's a heritage that'sgoing to be handed to all the pastors
that were ordained, that aregoing to be ordained next week.
But the reason why thismessage is burning in me is because
the Lord is saying Everybodywants to be David.
Nobody wants to be Benaiah.
See, the thing is, Benaiah waslike, I did it because it was the
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right thing to do.
And I think in America, forthose of you listening, the right
thing to do is what you'redoing right now.
That's why you're at church.
But don't stop halfway.
I started this sermon with aman named Abraham.
Abraham's father.
Does anybody here even knowAbraham's dad's name?
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Right, but did you know thatGod gave a promise to Abraham's dad,
not Abraham?
But Abraham did not go.
Abraham's dad only stopped halfway.
And Abraham was the one whosaid, I'll go the whole way.
So he received a promise thatwas actually supposed to go to his
dad.
And then let's talk about Benaiah.
I started looking up this manbecause I felt so convicted while
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I was writing the sermon.
Like, I've got to bring ourchurch to be like Bania.
Then I found out thatBenaiah's dad was a Levite.
And I gasped.
What?
Because Levites passed theLevitical heritage down to their
children.
So that means that God calledBenaiah to be a warrior, even though
his dad was a worshiper.
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So that means there was ashift in the generations for a greater
calling out from the Leviticalinto the warfare.
And I don't know who.
Who I'm talking about, butsometimes you'll look at your family
line and see that God hascalled you to do something different.
And you become a breaker.
And you're the one who says,listen, I'm gonna have to pray like
you never prayed.
Give like you never gave.
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Serve like you never get served.
And there's something.
There's a shift.
And for Benaiah to go from aLevitical lineage into warfare.
Lineage means nobody taughthim courage.
Nobody taught him sacrifice.
Nobody taught him warfare.
It was who he was being activated.
So the thing I want to say tothe entire church right now is I.
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After this Sunday, I am doneteaching you certain things.
I want to see what you're made of.
Either you're gonna get offthe bench and do it, or you're gonna
keep whining and complaining.
Either you're gonna rise upand be a warrior, or you're gonna
keep being a worrier.
I'm done trying to force you.
This is the last word week.
I'm drawing a line in the sand.
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Either you march with me, oryou stay on your pity party in the
back.
But as for me and my house, Ihave decided that we will serve the
Lord.
I'm gonna lead the loss to thecross at any cost.
I want to know who goes with me.
I'm gonna read my Bible every day.
Who's reading with me?
I'm gonna be in a group inclose accountability.
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Who's grouping up with me?
I'm gonna serve.
Who's serving with me?
Me.
Come on.
Lift your hands towards heaven.
If you're with me.
Only if you're with me.
Come on.
This is V1.
When your hands are lifted,everybody has a revelation of son.
But this generation needs arevelation of slave.
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The apostle Paul calledhimself a prisoner, a prisoner to
the gospel.
I think sometimes we don'tunderstand what freedom is until
we've been a prisoner for alittle while.
Loud.
Come on, somebody.
And so what God wants to doright now is he wants.
Even in a 9am sermon.
I know some of y' all, like,Mike, you preached so hard today.
Why would you do that?
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Because I want you to leavethis place saying, all right, I'm
going down to that pit.
I'm destroying it.
See, first you blame thedemon, and then you got delivered
from a demon and you wentright back to it.
It's because you need now to be.
A banaya, to go down into thatpit and destroy that line and do.
The thing that God's calledyou to do.
And so with your hands liftedtowards heaven, if you're willing
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to go there with me, this isthe true go v1 message say, Heavenly
Father, I surrender all.
My surrender is my strategy now.
I will war like Benaiah.
I'm going into the pit.
I'm fighting the lion.
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Like, come on.
Come on.
I feel the anointing flowingright now.
I don't know if y' all canfeel it.
I don't know if y' all canfeel it.
Say this with me like Abraham.
I'm breaking the curse on my bloodline.
I'm going all the way.
I'm walking by faith.
I'm walking by the spirit.
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Come on, help me out, Angela.
Come on, help me out.
Let's just begin to work, Sam.
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