1 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:12,880 How many of you know that we serve a good God, a mighty God, a 2 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:18,280 healer, a restorer, a redeemer, a friend that will never 3 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:19,920 leave you nor forsake you. 4 00:00:20,080 --> 00:00:20,600 Come on. 5 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:22,200 The wheel in the middle of the wheel. 6 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:26,080 The alpha and the omega High and exalted above every name. 7 00:00:26,080 --> 00:00:27,040 He's matchless. 8 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:28,320 He's wonderful. 9 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:28,920 Come on. 10 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:32,360 Is there anybody who can testify to his goodness in this place? 11 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:33,120 Come on. 12 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:34,520 Has he been there for you? 13 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:36,480 The comforter in the midnight hour. 14 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:37,080 Come on. 15 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:38,040 A provider. 16 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:39,640 Does anybody know Rafa. 17 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:40,680 Does anybody. 18 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:41,080 Come on. 19 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:45,400 Does anybody know Jehovah Nisi Lord, over my victory. 20 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:50,920 Is there anybody knows El Roy, the God who sees me, he saw me when 21 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:51,680 nobody else. 22 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:54,760 Can somebody testify to who he is? 23 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:59,150 Does somebody here know Jehovah Jireh, my provider? 24 00:00:59,700 --> 00:01:01,300 Does somebody know him? 25 00:01:01,460 --> 00:01:02,420 I know him. 26 00:01:02,580 --> 00:01:03,780 Do you know him? 27 00:01:03,940 --> 00:01:05,180 He's my best friend. 28 00:01:05,180 --> 00:01:06,580 Is he your best friend? 29 00:01:10,820 --> 00:01:13,140 How many names do you call him by? 30 00:01:13,860 --> 00:01:16,260 As many names as you need, daughter. 31 00:01:20,500 --> 00:01:22,500 How many names do you know him by? 32 00:01:23,220 --> 00:01:25,620 As many seasons as you've needed him. 33 00:01:26,960 --> 00:01:29,280 Every season unlocks another name. 34 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:31,600 Every season unlocks. 35 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:32,160 Come on. 36 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:34,720 Every season unlocks. 37 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:36,120 Oh, I've never been here before. 38 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,040 Well, you're gonna know me in a way you've never known me before. 39 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:40,840 Oh, God. 40 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:41,440 Oh, God. 41 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:42,280 I have a need. 42 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:43,760 Well, I've got a supply. 43 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:45,920 Oh, God, I feel this way. 44 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:48,160 Well, here's faith instead of feelings. 45 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:50,640 Do you know him? 46 00:01:52,570 --> 00:01:57,690 Oh, the greatest relationship of my life has been with him. 47 00:01:58,490 --> 00:02:00,250 Does he wake you up with a kiss? 48 00:02:01,530 --> 00:02:02,970 Does he send you to bed? 49 00:02:04,970 --> 00:02:06,810 Does he run his fingers through your hair? 50 00:02:08,730 --> 00:02:09,610 Come on now. 51 00:02:11,770 --> 00:02:12,450 Somebody said. 52 00:02:12,450 --> 00:02:13,450 Okay, that's the line. 53 00:02:17,700 --> 00:02:18,420 Come on now. 54 00:02:19,700 --> 00:02:21,700 Father, I commit this time to you. 55 00:02:22,180 --> 00:02:27,300 Through the foolishness of preaching you transform lives. 56 00:02:28,020 --> 00:02:31,020 Because your word is sharper than any two edged sword. 57 00:02:31,020 --> 00:02:33,860 It divides asunder even the soul from the spirit. 58 00:02:33,940 --> 00:02:38,020 And your word, it never comes back void. 59 00:02:38,180 --> 00:02:42,340 It will always accomplish that which it set out to accomplish. 60 00:02:42,910 --> 00:02:46,630 And Lord, I thank you that under this roof tonight, Lord, you 61 00:02:46,630 --> 00:02:50,830 form us into a clearer image and a better reflection of your son, 62 00:02:50,830 --> 00:02:51,390 Jesus. 63 00:02:51,710 --> 00:02:53,870 And everybody said, amen. 64 00:02:54,830 --> 00:02:56,510 I gotta preach fast for real. 65 00:02:56,990 --> 00:02:58,110 So this is send off. 66 00:02:58,110 --> 00:03:00,430 I've already, for all the Catholics like you done preached 67 00:03:00,430 --> 00:03:01,710 15 sermons already. 68 00:03:02,990 --> 00:03:06,390 But let me just tell you briefly, like I went before God for 69 00:03:06,390 --> 00:03:08,830 weeks and was like, what do you want me to say? 70 00:03:08,830 --> 00:03:09,630 Send off Sunday? 71 00:03:09,710 --> 00:03:12,790 I have been more nervous for this Sunday than any Sunday I've 72 00:03:12,790 --> 00:03:13,310 ever done before. 73 00:03:13,310 --> 00:03:14,270 And let me tell you why. 74 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:18,680 Because not only am I a legitimate introvert, and there's 75 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:20,200 my mama Am I lying, Mama? 76 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:22,760 I'm a real introvert. 77 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:26,680 But the thing I recognize today, and I never noticed this before, 78 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:32,160 is that ministry is a safe haven for introverts because it's 79 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:33,800 not about us, it's about Jesus. 80 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:38,240 So for all these years, I've been building this church, and it 81 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:39,480 hasn't been about me. 82 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:43,080 So I felt safe in an environment that wasn't about me. 83 00:03:44,180 --> 00:03:47,460 And imagine what happens to an introvert when they walk into their 84 00:03:47,460 --> 00:03:53,060 church and see 350 printouts of their face on popsicle sticks. 85 00:03:54,740 --> 00:03:58,820 And you know how hard it is to convince people I'm not a cult leader. 86 00:03:59,700 --> 00:04:02,500 And you're gonna go and print my face. 87 00:04:04,020 --> 00:04:05,220 I mean, y' all. 88 00:04:05,460 --> 00:04:07,460 I am so embarrassed. 89 00:04:09,300 --> 00:04:10,420 That's weird. 90 00:04:12,420 --> 00:04:13,140 I don't even. 91 00:04:13,470 --> 00:04:14,590 Whose idea was this? 92 00:04:14,590 --> 00:04:15,790 So I could fire them? 93 00:04:17,550 --> 00:04:19,470 Oh, this is so bizarre. 94 00:04:19,470 --> 00:04:21,030 I literally woke up this morning. 95 00:04:21,030 --> 00:04:22,110 Like, I don't want to go. 96 00:04:22,110 --> 00:04:23,470 God, I don't want to go. 97 00:04:26,350 --> 00:04:27,670 My own mom's in it. 98 00:04:27,670 --> 00:04:29,150 You brainwashed my mom. 99 00:04:35,390 --> 00:04:36,510 She said, I'm keeping. 100 00:04:36,510 --> 00:04:36,990 That's why. 101 00:04:38,590 --> 00:04:39,230 Come on. 102 00:04:39,740 --> 00:04:42,020 Come on, Minister Juliana. 103 00:04:42,020 --> 00:04:44,540 I mean, somebody said, I'm taking it to the hospital. 104 00:04:44,620 --> 00:04:45,460 I'm putting it up. 105 00:04:45,460 --> 00:04:47,380 People, that's weird. 106 00:04:47,380 --> 00:04:48,380 Don't be doing that. 107 00:04:48,860 --> 00:04:51,380 But I want to just teach you briefly in the Word what the Lord 108 00:04:51,380 --> 00:04:54,380 showed me and try to unpack what he gave me in the scriptures. 109 00:04:54,380 --> 00:05:00,060 But in all seriousness, I think at our church, we love well, 110 00:05:01,100 --> 00:05:04,300 and it's not with our own love, because our own love is so 111 00:05:04,300 --> 00:05:05,580 broken and fragile. 112 00:05:05,820 --> 00:05:08,140 It's just the love of the Father through us. 113 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:11,640 And we have just created such a significant bond. 114 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:15,880 And the relationship that we formed is so intense because especially 115 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:17,480 for the visitors here tonight. 116 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:21,640 If I could narrate the intensity, it's like when there's 117 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:24,639 people in this room that they're the only Christian in their 118 00:05:24,639 --> 00:05:25,560 entire family. 119 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:30,640 And they literally abandoned their family's religion, their family's 120 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:32,920 faith to step into the gospel. 121 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:34,520 And so it really. 122 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:39,260 I think V1 Church almost has, like, persecuted church feeling to 123 00:05:39,260 --> 00:05:40,780 it because we've. 124 00:05:40,860 --> 00:05:45,420 Many of us have paid such a high cost to walk this narrow road. 125 00:05:45,820 --> 00:05:48,740 And so when we come together, it's like this celebration almost 126 00:05:48,740 --> 00:05:53,020 seems necessary because it's just simply a counterbalance to the 127 00:05:53,020 --> 00:05:56,420 gravity of the sacrifice we've made in our personal lives. 128 00:05:56,420 --> 00:05:57,020 Am I right? 129 00:05:58,140 --> 00:06:00,820 So I want to talk to you just super briefly. 130 00:06:00,820 --> 00:06:04,020 And I promise I'm looking at the clock, but they, you know. 131 00:06:04,020 --> 00:06:04,820 Cause I know there's. 132 00:06:04,820 --> 00:06:05,300 We're, you know. 133 00:06:05,450 --> 00:06:12,410 Yeah, I'm almost scared, but there's a man in the Bible that I 134 00:06:12,410 --> 00:06:14,890 have come to identify with most. 135 00:06:14,890 --> 00:06:16,330 And his name's Jacob. 136 00:06:16,570 --> 00:06:18,890 And the reason why I identify with Jacob is. 137 00:06:18,890 --> 00:06:20,410 Okay, help me finish this sentence. 138 00:06:20,490 --> 00:06:24,730 It's the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 139 00:06:24,810 --> 00:06:27,770 Okay, let me tell you what it was supposed to be. 140 00:06:28,010 --> 00:06:30,810 The God of Abraham, Isaac and Esau. 141 00:06:32,630 --> 00:06:36,990 But the reason why it never happened is because this man was 142 00:06:36,990 --> 00:06:40,670 so indignant that as his brother was being taken out of the 143 00:06:40,670 --> 00:06:44,510 womb first because he was a twin, he grabbed before he learned 144 00:06:44,510 --> 00:06:50,870 culture, he knew the struggle before he had language, he had desperation. 145 00:06:51,430 --> 00:06:56,630 And he reaches and grabs the heel of his twin brother, almost 146 00:06:56,710 --> 00:06:59,670 instinctively knowing that because he wasn't first out of the 147 00:06:59,670 --> 00:07:00,990 womb, he wouldn't get the blessing. 148 00:07:00,990 --> 00:07:02,940 And he was not okay with that. 149 00:07:03,970 --> 00:07:06,690 Oh, you know, one of the things I hate about being a Christian 150 00:07:07,490 --> 00:07:10,130 is the false humility in Christianity. 151 00:07:12,370 --> 00:07:13,650 False humility. 152 00:07:14,370 --> 00:07:16,370 And I want to free you of all that. 153 00:07:17,250 --> 00:07:21,010 Oh, by and by, it's just the Lord and I. 154 00:07:22,930 --> 00:07:23,730 How you doing? 155 00:07:23,970 --> 00:07:26,850 Well, made it here on the bus. 156 00:07:29,810 --> 00:07:31,410 Haven't eaten in three days. 157 00:07:33,010 --> 00:07:35,730 You know, there's something about Christian. 158 00:07:35,730 --> 00:07:39,690 You know, what it is, is so many Christians operate in the realm 159 00:07:39,690 --> 00:07:43,130 of condemnation that it will make you feel guilty for wanting 160 00:07:43,130 --> 00:07:44,610 the blessing of God on your life. 161 00:07:46,210 --> 00:07:48,530 Oh, that's prosperity gospel. 162 00:07:48,610 --> 00:07:57,630 Well, please, sir, show me the poverty gospel and what I love about 163 00:07:57,630 --> 00:07:58,270 Jacob. 164 00:07:58,270 --> 00:08:01,670 Because, you know, I was raised in the church in the 80s and 165 00:08:01,670 --> 00:08:02,110 the 90s. 166 00:08:02,110 --> 00:08:04,830 And the preachers would get up and say, you have a purpose. 167 00:08:06,270 --> 00:08:06,670 Yes. 168 00:08:06,670 --> 00:08:10,190 You, daughter, you have a plan for your life. 169 00:08:10,990 --> 00:08:11,790 Receive it. 170 00:08:15,230 --> 00:08:16,190 Did you feel that? 171 00:08:18,750 --> 00:08:24,160 And to be honest with you, I was raised in a trailer park with 172 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:26,840 a single mom on welfare with five kids. 173 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:31,800 And when preachers would say, God has a purpose for you, my response 174 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:33,880 was, I don't want that purpose. 175 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:34,760 I want more. 176 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:39,360 And, like, that's really was my heart cry, like. 177 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:40,360 And I just. 178 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:41,320 I was in an environment. 179 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:44,920 I was in a context that just felt like, man, this. 180 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:47,660 This can't be all there is. 181 00:08:47,980 --> 00:08:49,820 Is there anybody knows what I'm talking about? 182 00:08:50,300 --> 00:08:53,500 There can't be this can't be it. 183 00:08:54,780 --> 00:08:56,660 I mean, come and I fought. 184 00:08:56,660 --> 00:08:57,500 And so, Jacob. 185 00:08:57,500 --> 00:09:01,580 So if you go To Genesis chapter 27 and chapter 28, if I could 186 00:09:01,580 --> 00:09:06,460 summarize Jacob, in desperation, he deceives his father 187 00:09:06,540 --> 00:09:10,700 Isaac, and he steals his twin brother Esau's blessing. 188 00:09:11,260 --> 00:09:16,020 Then if you go further down in Genesis 27, Esau actually plans to 189 00:09:16,020 --> 00:09:16,700 kill Jacob. 190 00:09:16,700 --> 00:09:21,640 So the twin brother plans to the other brother and Rebekah, who's 191 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:25,960 their mom, this is Isaac's wife literally says, hey, your brother's 192 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:26,760 plotting to kill you. 193 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:29,400 You need to escape so you can get away from this. 194 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:33,320 And then Jacob leaves a place called Beersheba and heads towards 195 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:35,440 Haran, alone and afraid. 196 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:37,000 This is Maury Povich. 197 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:37,960 This is. 198 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:38,800 What's that? 199 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:41,400 You know, Jerry Springer. 200 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:42,680 What's another one? 201 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:44,280 Ricky Lake. 202 00:09:48,090 --> 00:09:48,330 What's. 203 00:09:48,330 --> 00:09:48,970 What's her name? 204 00:09:49,530 --> 00:09:50,410 Martell. 205 00:09:50,730 --> 00:09:51,850 My man Montel. 206 00:09:51,850 --> 00:09:53,130 I forgot about it. 207 00:09:53,130 --> 00:09:53,730 Yeah, you. 208 00:09:53,730 --> 00:09:56,490 And you didn't go to school when you were supposed to go to school. 209 00:09:57,290 --> 00:09:58,810 You just outed yourself. 210 00:09:58,890 --> 00:09:59,770 You know, there ain't. 211 00:09:59,770 --> 00:10:02,570 My tail don't come on when kids get home. 212 00:10:04,170 --> 00:10:05,570 I forgot about that show. 213 00:10:05,570 --> 00:10:09,090 That's okay. 214 00:10:09,090 --> 00:10:09,690 Okay, enough. 215 00:10:10,420 --> 00:10:12,740 Some of y' all know more television shows than Scripture, 216 00:10:12,740 --> 00:10:14,420 so that's why you got problems. 217 00:10:14,900 --> 00:10:15,380 Come on. 218 00:10:15,380 --> 00:10:15,940 I got you. 219 00:10:15,940 --> 00:10:16,900 Don't play with me. 220 00:10:17,060 --> 00:10:18,580 I'll take y' all on here. 221 00:10:20,020 --> 00:10:23,220 But listen, this is family drama. 222 00:10:23,860 --> 00:10:28,660 But if you think about it, the drama was, in fact, the result of 223 00:10:28,660 --> 00:10:29,140 Jake. 224 00:10:29,140 --> 00:10:30,180 I'm about to preach this. 225 00:10:30,420 --> 00:10:33,300 Jacob wanting more than he was supposed to get. 226 00:10:33,540 --> 00:10:37,020 See, everybody in your family's gonna be okay with you as 227 00:10:37,020 --> 00:10:38,100 long as you're under them. 228 00:10:40,190 --> 00:10:43,190 Nobody's gonna have a problem in your family if you want less than 229 00:10:43,190 --> 00:10:43,950 what they want. 230 00:10:44,670 --> 00:10:48,070 But when you start believing for the blessing and favor of God 231 00:10:48,070 --> 00:10:51,830 upon your life, when you start trying to be the first, I'm telling 232 00:10:51,830 --> 00:10:54,509 you, you're gonna get attacked by the people who think they know 233 00:10:54,509 --> 00:10:56,350 you, but they know you the least. 234 00:10:57,710 --> 00:10:59,310 This is Jacob's life. 235 00:10:59,310 --> 00:11:02,670 Isn't it funny how your same family members who took you into 236 00:11:02,670 --> 00:11:06,670 the garage to smoke weed will complain about you coming to church? 237 00:11:09,130 --> 00:11:12,530 The same family member that introduced you to alcohol is mad 238 00:11:12,530 --> 00:11:14,410 when you introduce them to worship. 239 00:11:15,530 --> 00:11:17,530 What in the world is going on? 240 00:11:17,610 --> 00:11:19,850 I'm telling you're violating a principle. 241 00:11:20,170 --> 00:11:23,850 A prophet in his hometown is without honor. 242 00:11:25,130 --> 00:11:28,330 The closer you get to the epicenter of those who you're related 243 00:11:28,410 --> 00:11:30,490 to, the less they can relate to you. 244 00:11:35,940 --> 00:11:38,180 Y' all, I'll take the gloves off for this last one. 245 00:11:39,380 --> 00:11:43,220 And you know how I know that Mike ain't no pastor. 246 00:11:44,500 --> 00:11:46,180 Mike ain't no preacher. 247 00:11:46,660 --> 00:11:49,459 Oh, I heard he's trying to be an influencer now. 248 00:11:50,420 --> 00:11:52,500 Send some of that YouTube money to me. 249 00:11:54,500 --> 00:11:55,140 Come on. 250 00:11:55,780 --> 00:11:57,780 Heard he's driving a cybertruck. 251 00:12:01,710 --> 00:12:02,270 Come on. 252 00:12:02,750 --> 00:12:03,390 Come on. 253 00:12:04,350 --> 00:12:07,230 See, they like you when you struggle because they struggle. 254 00:12:07,230 --> 00:12:10,190 And they feel comfortable around you being at the same level 255 00:12:10,190 --> 00:12:10,910 as you. 256 00:12:13,150 --> 00:12:16,470 But, see, when you break that mold of mediocrity, you start to 257 00:12:16,470 --> 00:12:20,670 expose their mediocrity when you start Struggling for more. 258 00:12:20,750 --> 00:12:23,550 You actually expose their lack of struggle. 259 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:29,320 And, oh, I'm speaking from experience because I'm the hobbit 260 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:31,400 that's gone farther than any other hobbit. 261 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:34,200 I'm standing before you as Bilbo Baggins. 262 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:36,600 I'm about to put the ring on and disappear for three months. 263 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:40,840 I've gone farther than anyone from my family. 264 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:44,520 I'll tell you, the price that you'll pay is wanting the acclaim 265 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:48,120 and the applause of people that share your last name but don't 266 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:49,480 share your same destiny. 267 00:12:53,410 --> 00:12:54,370 This is Jacob. 268 00:12:55,890 --> 00:12:58,210 I can't wait to dine with Jacob. 269 00:12:58,610 --> 00:13:01,410 We're gonna be sitting there having a good old time, and Esau's 270 00:13:01,410 --> 00:13:09,290 gonna walk by, and we'll be like, you go to Genesis, chapter 271 00:13:09,290 --> 00:13:09,530 20. 272 00:13:09,530 --> 00:13:11,810 Some of you are like, I love reading the Bible with Mike. 273 00:13:11,970 --> 00:13:14,450 This is what I call my ADD translation. 274 00:13:14,610 --> 00:13:15,730 I hope you like it. 275 00:13:16,930 --> 00:13:18,690 When I read the Bible, it's full color. 276 00:13:18,770 --> 00:13:21,570 I got, like, the vision pro on when I'm reading glasses. 277 00:13:21,730 --> 00:13:23,570 Okay, so Genesis 28. 278 00:13:24,050 --> 00:13:25,570 But here's what happens, though. 279 00:13:25,570 --> 00:13:28,610 I said all that just to make this point I'm about to make now. 280 00:13:29,090 --> 00:13:31,650 Jacob knew how to wrestle. 281 00:13:32,050 --> 00:13:33,970 He knew how to fight and struggle. 282 00:13:34,530 --> 00:13:36,650 But then something different happens. 283 00:13:36,650 --> 00:13:40,770 He shifts into a mode that he had not entered into up until this 284 00:13:40,770 --> 00:13:41,090 point. 285 00:13:41,500 --> 00:13:46,780 According to the narrative, Jacob stops to rest, and he uses 286 00:13:46,780 --> 00:13:48,300 a stone for a pillow. 287 00:13:49,740 --> 00:13:54,780 And then in Genesis, chapter 28, verse 12, he dreams from that 288 00:13:54,780 --> 00:13:55,580 place of rest. 289 00:13:55,820 --> 00:13:59,580 And he dreams of the heavens opening and this ladder with angels 290 00:13:59,580 --> 00:14:01,100 ascending and descending. 291 00:14:01,420 --> 00:14:06,100 And then as he awakens in verse 13 through 15, God says, I 292 00:14:06,100 --> 00:14:09,600 am the Lord, the God of Abraham, your father, and the God 293 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:10,240 of Isaac. 294 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:14,400 The land on which you lie, I will give to you and to your offspring. 295 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:15,920 I did not catch this earlier. 296 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:17,200 I just caught something. 297 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:19,280 The land, okay? 298 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:23,760 He told Joshua everywhere you put your foot, but he told Jacob, 299 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:25,360 it's the land where you lie. 300 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:29,680 Some of you need to learn how to take territory by laying down, 301 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:31,520 not marching in. 302 00:14:34,890 --> 00:14:36,170 You learn how to march in. 303 00:14:36,170 --> 00:14:37,930 You need to learn how to lie down. 304 00:14:38,250 --> 00:14:39,130 He said, the. 305 00:14:39,210 --> 00:14:42,570 The land where you lie down, I will give it to you. 306 00:14:42,810 --> 00:14:44,170 I'm preaching to myself. 307 00:14:56,490 --> 00:14:57,450 Give it to me. 308 00:14:57,450 --> 00:15:00,580 God, do the thing that I can't do. 309 00:15:00,580 --> 00:15:03,740 God, give me what I don't deserve. 310 00:15:03,740 --> 00:15:06,660 God, give me what I could never afford. 311 00:15:06,660 --> 00:15:09,260 God, give it to me while I sleep. 312 00:15:09,260 --> 00:15:11,980 God, give it to me while I slumber. 313 00:15:11,980 --> 00:15:15,380 God, let it be a rebuke to the intelligent ones. 314 00:15:15,620 --> 00:15:17,860 Let it be a rebuke to the rich ones. 315 00:15:17,860 --> 00:15:36,110 God, for your glory, your Offspring shall be like the dust 316 00:15:36,110 --> 00:15:36,750 of the earth. 317 00:15:36,830 --> 00:15:40,350 And in you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth 318 00:15:40,350 --> 00:15:40,910 be blessed. 319 00:15:40,910 --> 00:15:44,790 Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go and will 320 00:15:44,790 --> 00:15:46,270 bring you back to this land. 321 00:15:47,070 --> 00:15:49,310 When Jacob wrestled, he got a name change. 322 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:52,640 When Jacob rested, he got an open heaven. 323 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:56,760 We got a lot of Christians with a new name, but not access to 324 00:15:56,760 --> 00:15:57,760 what the name gives. 325 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:03,160 See, I want to teach you how to fight. 326 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:05,520 But if I teach you how to fight but not how to rest. 327 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:07,320 See this. 328 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:11,080 But if I teach you how to rest but not fight, I believe I'm here 329 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:12,960 to give a revelation to the body of Christ. 330 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:14,960 Of a both and not an either or. 331 00:16:15,690 --> 00:16:17,490 Is V1 church a deliverance church? 332 00:16:17,490 --> 00:16:19,490 Yes, is V1 church. 333 00:16:19,490 --> 00:16:21,290 But they couldn't be a discipleship church. 334 00:16:21,290 --> 00:16:22,490 No, no, we're that too. 335 00:16:22,730 --> 00:16:24,730 Oh, but they can't be a theology church. 336 00:16:24,730 --> 00:16:26,090 Oh, yes, we are that too. 337 00:16:26,330 --> 00:16:28,610 Oh, they can't be a movement worship church. 338 00:16:28,610 --> 00:16:29,850 Oh, yes, we're that too. 339 00:16:29,930 --> 00:16:32,170 But they can't be an entrepreneurial church. 340 00:16:32,170 --> 00:16:33,290 Yes, we're that too. 341 00:16:33,370 --> 00:16:35,290 They can't be an education church. 342 00:16:35,290 --> 00:16:36,410 Yes, we're that too. 343 00:16:36,650 --> 00:16:39,450 Oh, yes, it's a both and not an either. 344 00:16:39,610 --> 00:16:42,490 Don't put me in a box just because you're in a cage. 345 00:16:46,330 --> 00:16:48,490 I'm about to preach this to somebody. 346 00:16:52,010 --> 00:16:54,250 Y' all got me feeling like I'm 23. 347 00:16:58,730 --> 00:17:03,930 Bethel, don't tell what the angels can bring up and down that 348 00:17:03,930 --> 00:17:04,490 ladder. 349 00:17:05,210 --> 00:17:06,730 Let them carry it up and down. 350 00:17:06,730 --> 00:17:07,530 It ain't my job. 351 00:17:07,530 --> 00:17:08,490 I'm sleeping. 352 00:17:11,050 --> 00:17:13,530 Tell me what the angels can and cannot carry. 353 00:17:14,330 --> 00:17:15,370 I'm here laying down. 354 00:17:15,370 --> 00:17:17,690 Let them bring what they want to bring from heaven. 355 00:17:19,050 --> 00:17:25,530 Someone finna get sent out, tell me what I can't be. 356 00:17:28,090 --> 00:17:30,650 I don't need you to affirm it for me to be it. 357 00:17:31,610 --> 00:17:34,410 I don't need you to acknowledge it for me to operate 358 00:17:34,410 --> 00:17:34,890 in it. 359 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:36,480 This. 360 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:37,400 This is what J. 361 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:38,040 This is. 362 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:40,360 This is the mantle of Jacob. 363 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:43,560 Jacob would survive in New York City all. 364 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:47,240 Jacob's the kind of guy that within seven years would go from 365 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:50,680 18 people to a sold out stadium because he's not asking for 366 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:52,040 permission, he's taking it. 367 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:55,440 This is what I'm trying to get into you. 368 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:58,720 But come on. 369 00:17:58,720 --> 00:17:59,360 That was good. 370 00:17:59,360 --> 00:18:00,400 It's interactive. 371 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:01,360 We're not Methodist. 372 00:18:01,360 --> 00:18:02,040 Praise God. 373 00:18:02,820 --> 00:18:05,300 It was a little loud and obtuse, but we'll take it. 374 00:18:07,140 --> 00:18:14,860 But what if I told you that God might be withholding your next 375 00:18:14,860 --> 00:18:16,500 level until you learn how to rest? 376 00:18:17,700 --> 00:18:20,860 What if God doesn't trust you with more until you learn how to 377 00:18:20,860 --> 00:18:21,540 rest more. 378 00:18:22,660 --> 00:18:25,060 That's the message that I got out of this. 379 00:18:26,420 --> 00:18:28,990 You know, I don't. 380 00:18:28,990 --> 00:18:29,470 I don't. 381 00:18:29,790 --> 00:18:31,310 I just gotta wrap this up. 382 00:18:32,270 --> 00:18:33,390 So let me fast forward. 383 00:18:34,110 --> 00:18:39,150 So basically what happens is God tells Jacob to go back to Bethel. 384 00:18:39,310 --> 00:18:41,150 And of course he doesn't. 385 00:18:41,630 --> 00:18:45,070 Just like all of us have a problem resting. 386 00:18:45,630 --> 00:18:47,550 We're tired, but we can't sleep. 387 00:18:47,550 --> 00:18:48,670 Are y' all with me? 388 00:18:49,390 --> 00:18:51,070 And so there's something about that. 389 00:18:51,230 --> 00:18:54,900 And he's kind of struggling, and he's wrestling with all that, 390 00:18:54,900 --> 00:18:57,700 and his family goes back into dysfunction. 391 00:18:57,700 --> 00:19:01,460 But because God has enlarged his family, it just increased his 392 00:19:01,460 --> 00:19:02,100 problems. 393 00:19:02,900 --> 00:19:06,820 See, sometimes the more God gives you, you're not graduating 394 00:19:06,820 --> 00:19:08,020 into an easier life. 395 00:19:08,260 --> 00:19:10,660 You're graduating into greater problems. 396 00:19:11,220 --> 00:19:14,900 Because to whom much is given, much is required. 397 00:19:15,700 --> 00:19:20,100 And so leadership is simply God entrusting you with bigger problems. 398 00:19:21,570 --> 00:19:25,170 Because the first round of problems that Jacob has is his immediate 399 00:19:25,170 --> 00:19:25,570 family. 400 00:19:26,050 --> 00:19:30,170 Then you read later on in Genesis, chapter 31, 32, 33, and 401 00:19:30,170 --> 00:19:34,930 34, and he has graduated to having many families and many family 402 00:19:34,930 --> 00:19:35,650 problems. 403 00:19:35,890 --> 00:19:38,570 So some of you are like, as soon as I get married, the problems 404 00:19:38,570 --> 00:19:39,090 are over. 405 00:19:41,090 --> 00:19:41,890 No, no, no. 406 00:19:41,890 --> 00:19:43,970 You just graduated, man. 407 00:19:44,530 --> 00:19:49,210 From taking care of yourself to now taking care of a bride, you've 408 00:19:49,210 --> 00:19:50,050 just graduated. 409 00:19:50,050 --> 00:19:50,490 Come on. 410 00:19:50,490 --> 00:19:54,370 Stop treating him like a Tamagotchi on your phone, trying 411 00:19:54,370 --> 00:19:56,530 to keep him alive through a text message. 412 00:19:57,330 --> 00:19:57,970 Come on. 413 00:19:58,770 --> 00:20:00,370 This is a relationship. 414 00:20:01,570 --> 00:20:02,050 Y' all. 415 00:20:02,050 --> 00:20:02,690 Remember that. 416 00:20:03,570 --> 00:20:04,049 Come on. 417 00:20:04,049 --> 00:20:06,930 Trying to keep a relationship alive electronically. 418 00:20:07,890 --> 00:20:08,530 Come on. 419 00:20:08,530 --> 00:20:10,930 They need more than a text message, let me tell you. 420 00:20:14,590 --> 00:20:15,510 Come on, y' all. 421 00:20:15,510 --> 00:20:19,110 You know, you killed so many Tamagotchis, you know you couldn't 422 00:20:19,110 --> 00:20:20,550 even keep a Tamagotchi alive. 423 00:20:20,550 --> 00:20:22,430 You're trying to ask me to make you a preacher. 424 00:20:22,510 --> 00:20:23,470 Get out of here. 425 00:20:24,350 --> 00:20:24,950 You can't. 426 00:20:24,950 --> 00:20:25,710 Come on, now. 427 00:20:27,950 --> 00:20:28,790 All right, all right. 428 00:20:28,790 --> 00:20:29,550 Stop laughing. 429 00:20:33,870 --> 00:20:36,830 Somebody's trying to download the Tamagotchi app right now. 430 00:20:38,110 --> 00:20:40,950 But what happens is he graduates these greater problems 431 00:20:40,950 --> 00:20:43,600 in Genesis 31, 32, 33, and 34. 432 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:48,280 Then God sovereignly and divinely calls him back to Bethel. 433 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:51,320 This is Genesis 35:1 and says, Arise. 434 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:53,040 Go up to Bethel and dwell there. 435 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:54,000 Everybody say dwell. 436 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:59,040 Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled. 437 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:06,520 So in other words, stop waiting for a problem to bring you 438 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:12,330 back to Bethel and actually learn how to dwell in Bethel. 439 00:21:14,010 --> 00:21:14,690 This is the thing. 440 00:21:14,690 --> 00:21:17,570 If your prayer life is dependent on problems, God's probably 441 00:21:17,570 --> 00:21:19,210 going to keep sending you more problems. 442 00:21:20,570 --> 00:21:23,330 Stop reading the Bible to solve a problem and start reading 443 00:21:23,330 --> 00:21:25,730 the Bible for intimacy with the one who solved it. 444 00:21:25,730 --> 00:21:29,450 All like, God's trying to get something to you. 445 00:21:29,690 --> 00:21:33,050 And when I see, he says, arise, go up to Bethel, dwell there. 446 00:21:34,500 --> 00:21:38,460 So then when Jacob goes back, he has this divine encounter with 447 00:21:38,460 --> 00:21:38,660 God. 448 00:21:38,660 --> 00:21:40,100 And he says, we're gonna do three things. 449 00:21:40,100 --> 00:21:42,740 He tells his entire family, we're gonna do three things. 450 00:21:42,740 --> 00:21:45,140 The first thing we're gonna do is put away all these idols. 451 00:21:45,460 --> 00:21:50,140 Because up until this time, Jacob had been divinely called by 452 00:21:50,140 --> 00:21:54,580 God and blessed by him, but allowed mixture in his family. 453 00:21:55,620 --> 00:21:58,140 And see, I think that many of you, if you're like, what was life 454 00:21:58,140 --> 00:21:59,140 before V1? 455 00:21:59,790 --> 00:22:03,310 It was the last church you went to was your first time at Bethel, 456 00:22:03,630 --> 00:22:06,510 and you've been introducing mixture into it. 457 00:22:06,750 --> 00:22:10,910 And the reason why I screamed all across America, 99% obedience 458 00:22:10,910 --> 00:22:12,110 is 100%. 459 00:22:12,110 --> 00:22:16,430 Disobedience is because the second time you go back to Bethel, 460 00:22:16,430 --> 00:22:18,590 you finally destroy all of your idols. 461 00:22:19,390 --> 00:22:22,590 So many of you are here to hear this message. 462 00:22:23,230 --> 00:22:24,670 It's not 99%. 463 00:22:24,670 --> 00:22:25,550 It's 100%. 464 00:22:25,550 --> 00:22:26,910 And this is what Jacob does. 465 00:22:26,910 --> 00:22:28,030 He goes all in. 466 00:22:28,630 --> 00:22:30,430 All in reckless abandon. 467 00:22:30,430 --> 00:22:33,830 Then he says, our family's gonna go through a process of purification. 468 00:22:33,910 --> 00:22:36,390 And lastly, we're gonna change our garments. 469 00:22:37,350 --> 00:22:42,430 And if you read the Torah, which is Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, 470 00:22:42,430 --> 00:22:47,430 Deuteronomy, Joshua, or no, Deuteronomy, it basically the first 471 00:22:47,430 --> 00:22:49,910 few books of our Bible we share with Judaism. 472 00:22:50,790 --> 00:22:54,510 And the priests were given a prescription for when to change their 473 00:22:54,510 --> 00:22:57,190 garments and even change the appearance of their garments. 474 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:02,120 Because what happens in a system when God gives you consistency 475 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:06,400 is that he has to introduce novelty into the consistency so that 476 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:07,560 you stay consistent. 477 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:10,480 And for those of you who didn't understand anything I just 478 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:11,640 said, can I break it down? 479 00:23:13,399 --> 00:23:17,840 If you wear the same clothes every day, eventually they're going 480 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:18,440 to stink. 481 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:20,920 Eventually, you're gonna get tired. 482 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:24,890 So even the priest, if you read the Scriptures, were given a 483 00:23:24,890 --> 00:23:26,370 prescription for what interval? 484 00:23:26,370 --> 00:23:29,290 To change their garments because it keeps it fresh. 485 00:23:30,330 --> 00:23:33,890 And you know, the single greatest way to change the way you 486 00:23:33,890 --> 00:23:35,690 feel is to change the way you dress. 487 00:23:36,650 --> 00:23:37,370 Am I right? 488 00:23:38,330 --> 00:23:41,050 Like, when you put a suit on, don't you feel different? 489 00:23:41,530 --> 00:23:44,370 I'll be walking around with that suit on like I'm the Wolf of 490 00:23:44,370 --> 00:23:44,970 Wall Street. 491 00:23:46,650 --> 00:23:48,850 You know, you could have $6 in your bank account. 492 00:23:48,850 --> 00:23:51,470 You put a suit on, you're like, yeah, what do you want, peasant? 493 00:23:52,830 --> 00:23:53,630 Am I right? 494 00:23:54,350 --> 00:23:56,910 You change the way you dress, you change the way you feel. 495 00:23:56,910 --> 00:23:57,550 Am I right? 496 00:23:58,510 --> 00:24:01,870 So Jacob is telling his family, you've, oh, I'm about to 497 00:24:01,870 --> 00:24:02,510 preach this. 498 00:24:02,510 --> 00:24:06,830 You made all these associations with those garments, 499 00:24:07,070 --> 00:24:09,390 but it's time to change your clothes. 500 00:24:09,950 --> 00:24:11,150 The idolatry. 501 00:24:11,150 --> 00:24:12,670 And you know, this is why. 502 00:24:12,750 --> 00:24:14,190 It's not about modesty. 503 00:24:14,190 --> 00:24:15,470 It's about idolatry. 504 00:24:18,420 --> 00:24:19,860 It's about the association. 505 00:24:19,940 --> 00:24:24,020 If you wore that to the club, you might want to disassociate that 506 00:24:24,020 --> 00:24:25,700 outfit from that lifestyle. 507 00:24:25,860 --> 00:24:27,260 It's not about modesty. 508 00:24:27,260 --> 00:24:28,900 It's about idolatry. 509 00:24:29,140 --> 00:24:33,900 Change your garments the second time you go to Beth El, the 510 00:24:33,900 --> 00:24:34,740 house of God. 511 00:24:35,860 --> 00:24:39,220 So I got this hat on that says Dolittle. 512 00:24:39,940 --> 00:24:46,060 Because half of my lineage is Italian, Sicilian, and the other 513 00:24:46,060 --> 00:24:48,700 half is mountaineer from West Virginia. 514 00:24:49,420 --> 00:24:51,100 And I know you don't believe it. 515 00:24:51,100 --> 00:24:52,780 I know you don't believe it. 516 00:24:54,380 --> 00:24:58,540 But when I was in my mother's womb, and she's sitting right here, 517 00:24:58,540 --> 00:25:00,620 which is a tremendous honor to have her here. 518 00:25:01,180 --> 00:25:01,820 Thank you. 519 00:25:06,940 --> 00:25:09,030 And so when I'm the firstborn. 520 00:25:09,270 --> 00:25:13,350 And so she married my father, whose name is Michael Signorelli 521 00:25:13,350 --> 00:25:13,830 Sr. 522 00:25:14,470 --> 00:25:16,870 And she got pregnant with a boy, me. 523 00:25:17,590 --> 00:25:23,150 And unfortunately, because my father had so many issues, he subjected 524 00:25:23,150 --> 00:25:25,030 my mother to domestic violence. 525 00:25:25,590 --> 00:25:27,550 He would punch her in both of her eyes. 526 00:25:27,550 --> 00:25:31,950 She'd have double black eyes, broken ribs, literally grab her by 527 00:25:31,950 --> 00:25:35,250 the hair, drag her down the hallway, throw her in a closet, and 528 00:25:35,250 --> 00:25:37,170 even kick her womb with me in it. 529 00:25:37,570 --> 00:25:40,050 But how many of you know it wasn't my father doing that. 530 00:25:40,290 --> 00:25:43,810 It was demons in my father who knew the destiny of my mother. 531 00:25:43,970 --> 00:25:45,570 And my destiny as well. 532 00:25:45,890 --> 00:25:49,250 Cause we don't wrestle against flesh and blood, but principalities 533 00:25:49,250 --> 00:25:50,290 and powers and rule. 534 00:25:50,290 --> 00:25:50,770 Come on. 535 00:25:51,490 --> 00:25:55,250 And so somebody sent me a prophetic word from our V1 Church 536 00:25:55,250 --> 00:25:57,970 Indiana location, who said, the Lord showed me that. 537 00:25:58,130 --> 00:26:02,320 Mike, you haven't even rested from the womb, not even knowing that 538 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:02,640 story. 539 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,600 And it actually got me thinking about that story. 540 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,080 Cause, you know, when a mother drinks alcohol, the baby drinks it 541 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:09,760 through the blood. 542 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:14,480 When a mother is traumatized and there's fear and adrenaline that 543 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:16,000 comes in through the blood as well. 544 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:18,440 And so remember that song? 545 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,440 I'm no longer a slave to fear. 546 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:25,680 I am a child of God. 547 00:26:26,330 --> 00:26:26,650 Come on. 548 00:26:26,650 --> 00:26:31,770 Remember that song, Songs of Deliverance? 549 00:26:33,370 --> 00:26:34,010 Come on. 550 00:26:36,330 --> 00:26:37,530 You remember that song. 551 00:26:38,410 --> 00:26:40,170 I am Surrounded. 552 00:26:40,170 --> 00:26:40,810 Come on. 553 00:26:42,650 --> 00:26:48,050 That song was so monumental in my life because I remember that God 554 00:26:48,050 --> 00:26:52,010 in that season was trying to release me from fear that had gone 555 00:26:52,010 --> 00:26:52,890 back to the womb. 556 00:26:54,570 --> 00:26:59,210 And so what happened at that time was when I was born, my mother 557 00:26:59,210 --> 00:26:59,850 brought me home. 558 00:26:59,850 --> 00:27:03,450 And at that point, my mom and my dad had divorced. 559 00:27:03,690 --> 00:27:06,410 And so my mom could only afford to live in a trailer. 560 00:27:06,410 --> 00:27:07,770 Do y' all know what a trailer is? 561 00:27:08,809 --> 00:27:09,330 And just. 562 00:27:09,330 --> 00:27:10,370 And so she Brought me home. 563 00:27:10,370 --> 00:27:12,090 And my grandmother saw me. 564 00:27:12,250 --> 00:27:15,650 And because I think now looking back and reflecting, she 565 00:27:15,650 --> 00:27:17,610 was triggered by my dad's name. 566 00:27:17,930 --> 00:27:20,410 Because my dad was the one who abused her daughter. 567 00:27:21,290 --> 00:27:25,290 So imagine you hate this guy named Mike Signorelli who abused 568 00:27:25,290 --> 00:27:26,010 your daughter. 569 00:27:26,010 --> 00:27:30,170 And then your grandson's name is Mike Signorelli. 570 00:27:30,730 --> 00:27:35,130 So my grandmother literally said, we'll never call him Michael. 571 00:27:35,210 --> 00:27:37,530 We will all call him Doolittle. 572 00:27:39,770 --> 00:27:41,690 So my nickname was Doolittle. 573 00:27:42,410 --> 00:27:45,210 And none of you even know what that means. 574 00:27:45,770 --> 00:27:48,010 Cause you're not as hillbilly as we are. 575 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,400 But there was a country music star named Loretta Lynn. 576 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:54,440 And Loretta Lynn was, like, pretty much one of the most famous 577 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:55,560 country stars ever. 578 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,360 And she had a husband named Doolittle. 579 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,320 And he saw her gifting and her talent. 580 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,920 And he just basically said, I'm gonna make you famous. 581 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:05,080 We're gonna tour all over. 582 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:08,600 And she rose from rags to riches and ended up accomplishing 583 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:09,400 amazing things. 584 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:11,880 There's a movie about it called Coal Miner's Daughter. 585 00:28:12,360 --> 00:28:14,120 Coal Miner's Daughter. 586 00:28:15,670 --> 00:28:17,030 So there's, like, this other side. 587 00:28:17,030 --> 00:28:19,590 So imagine I'm a weird dude. 588 00:28:21,110 --> 00:28:23,430 My whole life, nobody called me Michael. 589 00:28:23,430 --> 00:28:24,470 They called me Dolittle. 590 00:28:25,270 --> 00:28:28,390 And then when I got older and I took responsibility and helped 591 00:28:28,390 --> 00:28:32,110 my family and, you know, took over before Dean showed up. 592 00:28:32,110 --> 00:28:32,870 Praise God. 593 00:28:33,190 --> 00:28:34,390 And Dean showed up. 594 00:28:34,390 --> 00:28:37,670 And I said, dean, thank you for being a real man. 595 00:28:38,230 --> 00:28:40,470 You know why they call him a stepfather, right? 596 00:28:40,890 --> 00:28:44,090 Because they stepped in when the other man stepped out. 597 00:28:44,650 --> 00:28:47,290 They stepped up when the other man stepped down. 598 00:28:47,690 --> 00:28:49,290 So we salute you, sir. 599 00:28:54,410 --> 00:28:57,450 Come on, Papa Dean. 600 00:28:59,770 --> 00:29:03,650 See, but the point is, as I was preparing for this sermon, and 601 00:29:03,650 --> 00:29:08,980 this is my close, the Lord told me, mike, I said, I don't even 602 00:29:08,980 --> 00:29:10,100 want to go on sabbatical. 603 00:29:10,100 --> 00:29:11,900 Cause you guys can tell I love this. 604 00:29:12,700 --> 00:29:16,460 I have operated on this principle of those who refresh others. 605 00:29:16,460 --> 00:29:18,780 Will they themselves be refreshed? 606 00:29:19,020 --> 00:29:22,739 So the mystery of ministry is, the more I refresh you, the more 607 00:29:22,739 --> 00:29:23,620 I'm refreshed. 608 00:29:23,620 --> 00:29:25,340 Because I'm sowing refreshing. 609 00:29:25,420 --> 00:29:26,540 So I reap refreshing. 610 00:29:26,940 --> 00:29:28,740 That's the reason why ministers burn out. 611 00:29:28,740 --> 00:29:31,580 Because they sow discord and they reap what they sow. 612 00:29:33,100 --> 00:29:34,460 They sow discouragement. 613 00:29:34,460 --> 00:29:35,820 They reap a whirlwind. 614 00:29:36,300 --> 00:29:39,820 So what's kept me in ministry is I'm just reaping what I sow all 615 00:29:39,820 --> 00:29:40,300 the time. 616 00:29:40,540 --> 00:29:42,380 And so it makes you feel perpetual. 617 00:29:42,380 --> 00:29:43,740 But we know that's a lie. 618 00:29:44,540 --> 00:29:48,659 And so the Lord began to divinely speak to me about, you know, 619 00:29:48,659 --> 00:29:50,100 the necessity of Sabbath. 620 00:29:50,100 --> 00:29:55,100 And seven years ago, I had put in my bylaws when I only had 18 people 621 00:29:55,100 --> 00:29:58,780 in the church, that every seven years, I would take a sabbatical. 622 00:29:59,490 --> 00:30:01,650 And sure enough, the timing came. 623 00:30:01,650 --> 00:30:02,610 Two years ago. 624 00:30:02,930 --> 00:30:06,050 I told Prophet Josh, who's here? 625 00:30:06,450 --> 00:30:12,450 And I said, come on, and we begin to prepare for this moment. 626 00:30:12,530 --> 00:30:16,130 But the Lord took me back to Genesis, and he said, mike, I'm asking 627 00:30:16,130 --> 00:30:19,010 you to go back to Bethel and to change your garments. 628 00:30:19,170 --> 00:30:21,010 And I was like, what do you mean, change your garments? 629 00:30:21,170 --> 00:30:25,010 And he said, you've been a pastor, you've been a prophet, you've 630 00:30:25,010 --> 00:30:28,010 been an apostolic leader, you've been a husband and a father, 631 00:30:28,010 --> 00:30:30,680 but the thing you haven't been in a long time is Doula. 632 00:30:33,230 --> 00:30:36,030 And the title of this message, now that I'm done with my intro, 633 00:30:41,310 --> 00:30:44,510 it's, you have to go back in order to go forward. 634 00:30:45,710 --> 00:30:48,830 And see, the Bible says that we put away childish things. 635 00:30:49,710 --> 00:30:53,070 But the Bible also says that no one enters the kingdom until they 636 00:30:53,070 --> 00:30:54,270 become childlike. 637 00:30:54,750 --> 00:30:58,320 So the question is, are you childish or childlike? 638 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:03,360 Because, see, Jacob was fighting for so long, wrestling for 639 00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:07,760 so long, that God had released the greatest blessing when he rested 640 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:11,280 to prove to him that he's gonna do what he couldn't achieve 641 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:12,000 on his own. 642 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:13,760 So for me, do little. 643 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:14,680 I even think about the name. 644 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:15,680 How stupid of a name. 645 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:16,400 Dolittle. 646 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:18,560 If anything, I'd do a lot. 647 00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:20,080 I'd do everything. 648 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:25,160 But God, in his sovereign wisdom, had people call me Doolittle 649 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:29,910 for the first 12 years of my life because he was marking me with 650 00:31:29,910 --> 00:31:33,350 a both and not an either or. 651 00:31:35,350 --> 00:31:39,190 So I want to leave you with this, because this message is not 652 00:31:39,190 --> 00:31:39,750 about me. 653 00:31:39,990 --> 00:31:40,870 It's about you. 654 00:31:41,190 --> 00:31:42,790 Would you stand to your feet with me? 655 00:31:46,630 --> 00:31:47,670 Here's my question. 656 00:31:50,390 --> 00:31:52,690 When did you stop painting? 657 00:31:53,730 --> 00:31:55,970 When did you stop writing poetry? 658 00:31:56,530 --> 00:31:58,610 When did you stop dreaming? 659 00:31:59,170 --> 00:32:02,490 When did you stop believing that God could do something through 660 00:32:02,490 --> 00:32:03,010 your life? 661 00:32:03,330 --> 00:32:05,250 Sometimes you got to go back to go forward. 662 00:32:05,250 --> 00:32:05,810 Amen. 663 00:32:06,850 --> 00:32:11,090 And I think when I look at the life of Jacob, as I see such a wrestling, 664 00:32:11,090 --> 00:32:15,090 such a fighting, but when he shifts out of that into the dreaming, 665 00:32:16,050 --> 00:32:19,650 when he steps out of that, back into Bethel to rest, God always 666 00:32:19,890 --> 00:32:21,890 fixes the things he couldn't fix. 667 00:32:22,700 --> 00:32:25,300 And so I want to just briefly pray over each and every one of you. 668 00:32:25,300 --> 00:32:30,500 I know tonight's been already an amazing service, but I kept thinking 669 00:32:30,500 --> 00:32:32,540 about Revelation, chapter 2, verse 4. 670 00:32:32,780 --> 00:32:37,020 It says, For I have this against you, that you have abandoned 671 00:32:37,020 --> 00:32:39,020 the love that you had at first. 672 00:32:39,980 --> 00:32:42,700 Remember, therefore, from where you have fallen. 673 00:32:43,660 --> 00:32:46,380 Repent and do the works you did at first. 674 00:32:46,940 --> 00:32:50,540 If not, I will come to you and Remove your lampstand from its place 675 00:32:51,050 --> 00:32:52,090 unless you repent. 676 00:32:53,370 --> 00:32:58,890 And so Jacob goes back to Bethel, and he repents and destroys 677 00:32:58,890 --> 00:32:59,650 his idols. 678 00:32:59,650 --> 00:33:00,890 And he's like, all right, Lord. 679 00:33:00,890 --> 00:33:01,610 I get it. 680 00:33:02,250 --> 00:33:03,770 I'm already blessed. 681 00:33:04,010 --> 00:33:05,850 What I need to learn how to do is rest. 682 00:33:07,290 --> 00:33:09,610 So, for me, what am I about to do? 683 00:33:10,570 --> 00:33:13,890 I'll be honest with you, like, seeing what's ahead for our church 684 00:33:13,890 --> 00:33:14,490 this fall. 685 00:33:14,730 --> 00:33:17,370 The worst thing I can do is take the whole summer off. 686 00:33:18,260 --> 00:33:18,660 For real. 687 00:33:19,460 --> 00:33:22,860 But I also believe that what happened. 688 00:33:22,860 --> 00:33:24,420 Oh, I feel grace on this. 689 00:33:25,380 --> 00:33:26,660 What you all will. 690 00:33:26,900 --> 00:33:28,340 I did not say this earlier. 691 00:33:28,420 --> 00:33:29,380 This is fresh. 692 00:33:29,860 --> 00:33:32,820 But I want to say this because we got a lot of witnesses here. 693 00:33:33,620 --> 00:33:38,340 What happens to this church in my life after this sabbatical will 694 00:33:38,340 --> 00:33:41,140 prove to you the power of the pause. 695 00:33:42,500 --> 00:33:46,500 It will prove to you what happens when a Jacob learns how to 696 00:33:46,500 --> 00:33:47,100 lay down. 697 00:33:47,980 --> 00:33:51,820 It will prove to you that he's God and I'm not. 698 00:33:53,020 --> 00:33:53,380 That. 699 00:33:53,380 --> 00:33:53,980 That's. 700 00:33:54,780 --> 00:33:56,380 That's why you need both. 701 00:33:56,540 --> 00:33:59,260 We're not going to be the church that only rests and never 702 00:33:59,260 --> 00:34:02,100 wrestles, but we're also not going to be the church that always 703 00:34:02,100 --> 00:34:03,660 wrestles and never rests. 704 00:34:04,300 --> 00:34:07,580 So I've been wrestling for a long time, and I'm not afraid. 705 00:34:07,580 --> 00:34:12,280 You know, I used to say revival is spelled W, O, R, K, but 706 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,960 it's also spelled R, E, S, T. 707 00:34:16,720 --> 00:34:17,520 It's the both. 708 00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:23,280 And so I want to pray over you because I hear the Lord calling you 709 00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:28,640 back to poetry, calling you back to painting, calling you back 710 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:31,800 to music, calling you back to your bicycle. 711 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:33,840 I know that sounds crazy for somebody. 712 00:34:34,720 --> 00:34:36,720 I don't know what it Calling you back to. 713 00:34:36,720 --> 00:34:39,280 There's something that you abandoned that the Lord wants to 714 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:39,720 take you back. 715 00:34:39,720 --> 00:34:42,400 And this is what the Jews say every Shabbat. 716 00:34:43,389 --> 00:34:47,709 May you find God in your rest like you found him in your work. 717 00:34:49,549 --> 00:34:53,189 My biggest audit of myself over the last eight years of serving 718 00:34:53,189 --> 00:34:57,309 as the lead pastor of this church is that I fear that I taught 719 00:34:57,309 --> 00:34:59,469 you how to find God more in work than rest. 720 00:35:00,029 --> 00:35:03,509 But I got one more sermon before I go, and then I'm gonna walk 721 00:35:03,509 --> 00:35:05,869 out and live this sermon for the next three months. 722 00:35:06,829 --> 00:35:09,229 So may you find God in your rest. 723 00:35:10,170 --> 00:35:14,050 And, you know, the problem is, many of you say, well, God, I stopped 724 00:35:14,050 --> 00:35:16,410 doing that thing because it doesn't have a purpose. 725 00:35:17,050 --> 00:35:21,690 But what if God's message to you is that if you delight in it, 726 00:35:21,690 --> 00:35:23,330 he delights in your delight? 727 00:35:23,330 --> 00:35:24,490 That is the purpose. 728 00:35:26,010 --> 00:35:27,330 I know this is gonna sound crazy. 729 00:35:27,330 --> 00:35:31,810 I wasn't intending on saying this, but because premature death 730 00:35:31,810 --> 00:35:33,770 has ran in My family on both sides. 731 00:35:37,300 --> 00:35:40,940 I have a penchant towards saving everything because I never 732 00:35:40,940 --> 00:35:42,980 received anything as an inheritance. 733 00:35:43,700 --> 00:35:47,380 So for my whole life I've been saving everything I can save to give 734 00:35:47,380 --> 00:35:50,700 it away, to prove that I existed, to prove that my life had 735 00:35:50,700 --> 00:35:51,099 meaning. 736 00:35:51,099 --> 00:35:52,620 And the other day, the Lord led me. 737 00:35:52,620 --> 00:35:54,900 He said, mike, I want you to take something of meaning to you 738 00:35:54,900 --> 00:35:56,100 and I want you to burn it. 739 00:35:59,220 --> 00:36:01,700 Because he's teaching me the art of letting go. 740 00:36:02,850 --> 00:36:06,130 He's teaching me the art of creating for the sake of creating 741 00:36:06,530 --> 00:36:10,210 and trusting that even though I'm in a finite body, my spirit is 742 00:36:10,210 --> 00:36:13,490 eternal and I'll be writing poetry forever. 743 00:36:14,210 --> 00:36:16,850 And so it's not the poetry you save to pass on. 744 00:36:16,850 --> 00:36:19,250 It's not the poetry you publish sometimes. 745 00:36:19,250 --> 00:36:23,050 It's a poetry you burn in faith that you have a never ending 746 00:36:23,050 --> 00:36:23,570 supply. 747 00:36:24,450 --> 00:36:29,170 I know this might be too deep for some of you, but man, stop worrying 748 00:36:29,330 --> 00:36:33,250 about and fretting your life away with the little details. 749 00:36:33,570 --> 00:36:37,210 Don't waste your youth planning for a future that never 750 00:36:37,210 --> 00:36:39,490 comes because you always wake up in the present. 751 00:36:40,450 --> 00:36:45,130 Spend your life in worship and adoration in him, in your rest and 752 00:36:45,130 --> 00:36:46,130 in your work. 753 00:36:46,770 --> 00:36:48,970 And I feel something different over this campus. 754 00:36:48,970 --> 00:36:51,410 And I want to speak this last thing and then pray for you. 755 00:36:52,530 --> 00:36:57,160 Wouldn't it be just like God to teach the residents of New York 756 00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:01,360 City how to rest better than the residents of Oklahoma? 757 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:08,320 Wouldn't it be just like God in the most chaotic, expensive, loud 758 00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,920 environment in the United States to be like, I'm gonna teach 759 00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:14,840 a people how to rest better in that environment, to be assigned 760 00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:18,480 to those in the nations, you know what I'm saying? 761 00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:24,080 I've been Jesus casting out demons, been Jesus healing the sick. 762 00:37:24,720 --> 00:37:25,760 For the next three months. 763 00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:27,680 I'm going to be Jesus sleeping in a boat. 764 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,960 Come on, Father. 765 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:40,000 I pray for each and every one right now under the sound of my voice. 766 00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:44,880 You know there are marine spirits in the water, right? 767 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:49,040 And I wonder if when Jesus laid down in that boat, it was like 768 00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:51,440 Jacob taking territory over the waves. 769 00:37:53,310 --> 00:37:56,830 I wonder if he was arresting every demonic spirit over the water 770 00:37:56,990 --> 00:37:58,350 when he laid down. 771 00:38:00,830 --> 00:38:04,630 Lord, I thank you that you're going to teach us how to find you 772 00:38:04,630 --> 00:38:05,230 in our rest. 773 00:38:05,230 --> 00:38:08,750 We're going to rest in our 20s, rest in our 30s, rest in our 774 00:38:08,750 --> 00:38:12,030 40s, rest in our 50s and 60s and 70s and 80s. 775 00:38:12,350 --> 00:38:16,670 Lord, we're going to learn how to rest in you, through you, with 776 00:38:16,750 --> 00:38:17,150 you. 777 00:38:17,380 --> 00:38:21,610 We, we will find you in our rest as we found you in our work. 778 00:38:22,570 --> 00:38:27,770 And Lord, I just thank you for everybody here receiving what they 779 00:38:27,770 --> 00:38:31,970 could never receive through wrestling, through their rest in 780 00:38:31,970 --> 00:38:32,690 Jesus name. 781 00:38:32,690 --> 00:38:34,970 And everybody said amen. 782 00:38:34,970 --> 00:38:35,570 Amen. 783 00:38:35,570 --> 00:38:37,850 Come on, let's just celebrate the Lord. 784 00:38:41,050 --> 00:38:41,570 Amen. 785 00:38:41,570 --> 00:38:42,010 Amen. 786 00:38:42,010 --> 00:38:43,090 Come on, let's give it up. 787 00:38:43,090 --> 00:38:46,440 With more time for Apostle Mike in the house. 788 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:53,160 Not just your lead pastor, but your campus pastor here in Manhattan. 789 00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:54,920 Man. 790 00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:04,120 Can I just prophesy for a minute? 791 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:07,480 Can I prophesy? 792 00:39:10,050 --> 00:39:13,570 There is a mantle of prophetic evangelism at this campus. 793 00:39:14,450 --> 00:39:16,850 Not just prophecy, not just evangelism. 794 00:39:17,250 --> 00:39:18,930 Prophetic evangelism. 795 00:39:20,210 --> 00:39:22,290 And it's gonna tear through this city. 796 00:39:25,410 --> 00:39:29,970 So today, Pastor Mike knew half of something, but he didn't 797 00:39:29,970 --> 00:39:31,090 know the second half of something. 798 00:39:31,090 --> 00:39:34,930 There was supposed to be a city official that came today to 799 00:39:35,350 --> 00:39:39,750 the Brooklyn campus this morning, and he was going to give 800 00:39:39,750 --> 00:39:40,870 Pastor Mike something. 801 00:39:42,550 --> 00:39:52,310 He was going to give him a key to the city, but he didn't show up. 802 00:39:55,670 --> 00:39:58,950 And this is what I heard the moment I stepped foot in this campus. 803 00:39:59,590 --> 00:40:03,990 Pastor Mike is that he is giving you spiritual keys. 804 00:40:05,190 --> 00:40:06,630 Spiritual keys. 805 00:40:07,030 --> 00:40:11,670 The ceremonial keys can open up nothing but the spiritual keys 806 00:40:11,670 --> 00:40:18,150 open up heaven and rain down on Manhattan, Rain down in Brooklyn, 807 00:40:18,390 --> 00:40:20,710 rain down in New Jersey. 808 00:40:21,590 --> 00:40:23,750 Those keys open up nothing. 809 00:40:24,070 --> 00:40:25,870 You didn't need those keys. 810 00:40:25,870 --> 00:40:29,440 The Lord says, you don't need those keys, the Lord says. 811 00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:34,160 And he's releasing spiritual keys over his son. 812 00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:37,200 Over his son. 813 00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:39,280 And this is what I saw. 814 00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:49,040 I saw these keys not just opening up physical structures here 815 00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:49,760 in the city. 816 00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:58,020 I saw vehicles, trains, and this is what I saw. 817 00:40:58,020 --> 00:41:00,500 And I was right before, I was like, lord, what does this mean? 818 00:41:00,500 --> 00:41:01,620 Why am I seeing this? 819 00:41:01,860 --> 00:41:06,820 And I saw barges, tons of barges. 820 00:41:08,260 --> 00:41:12,380 And these keys were unlocking these barges, and these barges were 821 00:41:12,380 --> 00:41:12,900 going away. 822 00:41:12,900 --> 00:41:14,500 And I said, why am I seeing this? 823 00:41:14,580 --> 00:41:17,060 You know how garbage gets away from this city? 824 00:41:18,580 --> 00:41:23,730 You know how they send garbage away from Manhattan on barges? 825 00:41:25,890 --> 00:41:27,770 Garbage doesn't lead by roads. 826 00:41:27,770 --> 00:41:28,930 It leads by barges. 827 00:41:29,250 --> 00:41:33,050 And the Lord says he is releasing all of the sin in this 828 00:41:33,050 --> 00:41:36,370 city out of here with these keys. 829 00:41:38,050 --> 00:41:41,290 And there will be deliverances, and there will be a 830 00:41:41,290 --> 00:41:44,130 prophetic mantle released over this city. 831 00:41:47,340 --> 00:41:52,660 And there was a bunch of sin lining these streets, waiting for 832 00:41:52,660 --> 00:41:54,060 someone to take it out. 833 00:41:54,220 --> 00:41:59,100 But no one's come up until this point but Apostle Mike, me and 834 00:41:59,100 --> 00:41:59,820 Pastor Mike. 835 00:41:59,820 --> 00:42:01,740 Come on, let me prophesy. 836 00:42:02,460 --> 00:42:04,540 Let me prophesy for just a minute. 837 00:42:05,100 --> 00:42:05,740 Come on. 838 00:42:06,620 --> 00:42:08,620 This campus is special, y' all. 839 00:42:08,940 --> 00:42:10,220 This campus is special. 840 00:42:10,220 --> 00:42:15,590 And I love that we have campus pastors from other campuses, Brooklyn 841 00:42:15,590 --> 00:42:17,550 and New Jersey and Long island here. 842 00:42:17,550 --> 00:42:18,430 In unity. 843 00:42:19,070 --> 00:42:19,950 In unity. 844 00:42:20,750 --> 00:42:21,630 In unity. 845 00:42:22,430 --> 00:42:23,630 This is who we are. 846 00:42:26,030 --> 00:42:40,440 But nine years Ago, Pastor Mike and I went to Domino park nine 847 00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:42,520 years ago before V1 was planted. 848 00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:44,280 And it was just a dream. 849 00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:47,720 And Pastor Mike said, josh, you gotta come. 850 00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:48,760 We got a dream. 851 00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:49,720 We got a vision. 852 00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:52,200 And he brought me to that park. 853 00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:58,840 And we began to walk and we began to march and we began to pray 854 00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:00,120 over this city. 855 00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:03,760 And I remember sitting there in Domino park in Brooklyn and looking 856 00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:07,500 over at him saying, this is where the largest campus of our church 857 00:43:07,500 --> 00:43:08,260 is going to be. 858 00:43:08,420 --> 00:43:09,540 Here in Manhattan. 859 00:43:09,540 --> 00:43:12,860 It's going to be over here, but also we're going to have a campus 860 00:43:12,860 --> 00:43:13,780 here in Brooklyn. 861 00:43:16,420 --> 00:43:18,020 We were in Williamsburg. 862 00:43:18,340 --> 00:43:20,900 He said, we will have a campus here in Brooklyn. 863 00:43:21,220 --> 00:43:26,140 We looked at the Villain warehouse in Brooklyn, and I remember 864 00:43:26,140 --> 00:43:29,300 them saying it was going to be some astronomical amount of money 865 00:43:29,300 --> 00:43:31,510 that me and him were like, I don't even. 866 00:43:31,510 --> 00:43:33,710 I've never seen that amount of money in my whole life. 867 00:43:34,430 --> 00:43:37,070 And now it's like, what, the coffee budget? 868 00:43:39,150 --> 00:43:39,670 Come on. 869 00:43:39,670 --> 00:43:41,070 There's favor in this church. 870 00:43:41,470 --> 00:43:43,150 There's favor in this church. 871 00:43:43,790 --> 00:43:44,590 But it took. 872 00:43:45,230 --> 00:43:45,870 Come on. 873 00:43:46,670 --> 00:43:51,630 It took two immigrants from Indiana to come here in March in 874 00:43:51,630 --> 00:43:52,350 this city. 875 00:43:52,750 --> 00:43:55,470 And we said, I'm gonna take this city. 876 00:43:55,790 --> 00:43:57,310 No one's gonna give it to me. 877 00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:00,160 There's not going to be any keys given to me. 878 00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:03,520 There's no one's going to give it, but I'm going to take it. 879 00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:08,360 And we're going to see every single soul saved in this city, and 880 00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:11,920 we're going to see every single person coming to the knowledge 881 00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:14,000 of Jesus Christ. 882 00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:22,640 Jesus, Jesus. 883 00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:29,880 Come on. 884 00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:37,880 What happens when a prophet and an apostle step on a stage? 885 00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:39,680 I knew he was gonna say it. 886 00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:40,920 That's why I said it. 887 00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:42,080 You can't trick. 888 00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:43,560 You can't trick a prophet. 889 00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:45,720 I knew he was gonna say that. 890 00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:47,480 Okay, turn this mic up. 891 00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:47,800 Stop. 892 00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:49,000 Stop taking my voice. 893 00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:49,480 Okay. 894 00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:52,440 I just want to say he is a real prophet. 895 00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:55,780 Because I turn around and mouth to them, the apostle and the 896 00:44:55,780 --> 00:44:56,140 prophet. 897 00:44:56,140 --> 00:44:58,140 He goes, the apostle, the prophet. 898 00:44:59,100 --> 00:45:00,220 But let me just say this. 899 00:45:00,220 --> 00:45:02,940 The early church was not established by pastors. 900 00:45:05,980 --> 00:45:06,900 Gotta flow with me. 901 00:45:06,900 --> 00:45:07,340 Come on. 902 00:45:07,580 --> 00:45:12,940 The early church was not established by pastors. 903 00:45:13,500 --> 00:45:13,900 Why? 904 00:45:14,460 --> 00:45:18,540 Because a pastor would have pet you so much that you saw comfort 905 00:45:18,540 --> 00:45:19,750 instead of the grace cross. 906 00:45:20,870 --> 00:45:25,110 It was apostles and prophets that came in with this attitude. 907 00:45:25,190 --> 00:45:26,830 Come on, now. 908 00:45:26,830 --> 00:45:32,390 Pastors are necessary, But a pastor without a prophet and an apostle 909 00:45:32,470 --> 00:45:37,350 is at risk of consoling you instead of commissioning you. 910 00:45:39,750 --> 00:45:42,430 And so we need it all together, because sometimes you're 911 00:45:42,430 --> 00:45:45,240 wounded enough that you need that pastor's touch. 912 00:45:45,240 --> 00:45:46,800 You need the pastor's counsel. 913 00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:49,520 But you also need the prophecy. 914 00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:49,960 You. 915 00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:52,600 There's something about the fivefold that's being birthed in 916 00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:53,480 this room right now. 917 00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:54,000 Come on. 918 00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:54,800 Right now. 919 00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:56,160 Come on. 920 00:45:56,240 --> 00:45:56,880 Come on. 921 00:45:57,600 --> 00:45:58,320 Come on. 922 00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:00,560 Listen, you guys. 923 00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:01,800 There's. 924 00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:03,200 There's something stirring in the room. 925 00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:03,920 Do you feel it? 926 00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:05,520 Do you feel the stirring? 927 00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:06,360 Come on. 928 00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:11,580 I see evangelists, prophets, apostles, teachers, shepherds. 929 00:46:13,100 --> 00:46:15,260 And this man said yes to the call. 930 00:46:15,500 --> 00:46:16,300 And guess what? 931 00:46:16,300 --> 00:46:18,620 Some of you guys have been complaining how to get here. 932 00:46:20,060 --> 00:46:21,820 Can I confront you for a minute? 933 00:46:23,180 --> 00:46:25,780 Some of you guys have been complaining how you come from the 934 00:46:25,780 --> 00:46:26,220 Bronx. 935 00:46:27,260 --> 00:46:30,460 It's like, this is 30 minutes and I gotta take a train and a bus. 936 00:46:31,580 --> 00:46:32,020 Come on. 937 00:46:32,020 --> 00:46:33,740 He's looking for sacrifice. 938 00:46:34,700 --> 00:46:38,450 He's looking for those that are willing to travel the furthest 939 00:46:38,450 --> 00:46:43,810 distance and say, I don't care where this building is. 940 00:46:44,210 --> 00:46:47,250 I don't care if I gotta get on a boat and go underwater and get 941 00:46:47,250 --> 00:46:48,370 scuba gear on. 942 00:46:48,530 --> 00:46:51,570 I'm going to the presence of God. 943 00:46:54,370 --> 00:46:56,210 It's time to dive. 944 00:47:01,810 --> 00:47:02,770 I just had to. 945 00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:06,280 Can you imagine putting your scuba gear on? 946 00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:07,560 It's time to dive. 947 00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:13,560 Listen, prophet, I'm just telling you, like, there's a synergy. 948 00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:14,240 And I. 949 00:47:14,240 --> 00:47:17,200 I really believe that when we stepped in a Domino park, we didn't 950 00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:19,319 know the Domino revival movie was there. 951 00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:23,080 We didn't know that that's where that first domino would drop. 952 00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:27,720 But see, this lesson to everybody here is, you will sow the 953 00:47:27,720 --> 00:47:31,550 seed from your words, and in another season, you will eat the 954 00:47:31,550 --> 00:47:32,830 fruit of your words. 955 00:47:33,870 --> 00:47:34,510 Come on. 956 00:47:34,670 --> 00:47:38,550 So if you say that you can't do it, you will eat the fruit of 957 00:47:38,550 --> 00:47:40,350 impossibility in another season. 958 00:47:40,830 --> 00:47:45,950 But if you say you can, you will eat the fruit of it becoming 959 00:47:46,030 --> 00:47:47,310 possible in the next. 960 00:47:47,550 --> 00:47:49,950 See, God always does something in two. 961 00:47:50,350 --> 00:47:50,790 Come on. 962 00:47:50,790 --> 00:47:52,670 It was Joshua and Caleb. 963 00:47:52,910 --> 00:47:55,890 Jesus sent them out two by two. 964 00:47:55,890 --> 00:48:00,090 One, one will put to flight a thousand, two, ten thousand. 965 00:48:00,650 --> 00:48:01,050 Why? 966 00:48:01,370 --> 00:48:05,050 Because if you say it, then I confirm what you say. 967 00:48:05,290 --> 00:48:05,770 And through. 968 00:48:05,770 --> 00:48:10,410 Watch this through the power of agreement, we are connected together. 969 00:48:10,890 --> 00:48:14,090 I believe New York City doesn't have to agree. 970 00:48:14,570 --> 00:48:15,770 Josh agrees. 971 00:48:16,010 --> 00:48:18,650 New York City doesn't have to get on the same page. 972 00:48:18,810 --> 00:48:19,850 We're all the same. 973 00:48:19,930 --> 00:48:24,010 The power of agreement with will command the blessing of God. 974 00:48:24,490 --> 00:48:25,690 Somebody shout. 975 00:48:34,730 --> 00:48:35,690 Let me just say this. 976 00:48:35,690 --> 00:48:40,570 When we went into Domino Park, Pastor Mike taught me something. 977 00:48:40,650 --> 00:48:42,930 And I teach it to this day in the school of the prophets. 978 00:48:42,930 --> 00:48:43,930 Shout out, S.O.P. 979 00:48:44,730 --> 00:48:45,370 come on. 980 00:48:45,530 --> 00:48:46,650 I see you guys. 981 00:48:49,860 --> 00:48:52,740 I will never prophesy over someone that I've not prayed for. 982 00:48:56,500 --> 00:48:59,500 I will never evangelize to someone that I have not Met yet. 983 00:48:59,500 --> 00:49:01,460 But I have already prayed for in my spirit. 984 00:49:02,260 --> 00:49:04,980 And this is what I was taught by this apostle right here. 985 00:49:04,980 --> 00:49:07,540 He said, josh, we gotta go to the. 986 00:49:07,540 --> 00:49:08,220 To the city. 987 00:49:08,220 --> 00:49:12,340 We gotta go to Domino, and we gotta pray for the people in Manhattan. 988 00:49:12,580 --> 00:49:13,880 Pray for the people in Brooklyn. 989 00:49:14,030 --> 00:49:14,510 Brooklyn. 990 00:49:14,670 --> 00:49:16,590 Pray for the people of Long Island. 991 00:49:16,590 --> 00:49:21,550 And before any of us knew you, before he knew you, he was praying 992 00:49:21,550 --> 00:49:22,190 for you. 993 00:49:24,110 --> 00:49:31,550 And now when he ministers to you, favor flows because he's been 994 00:49:31,550 --> 00:49:32,510 praying for you. 995 00:49:33,790 --> 00:49:38,430 And when I prophesy over you, it's because I looked at your name. 996 00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:41,120 Come on. 997 00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:45,080 This is why we tell our campus pastors, print out the list of your 998 00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:45,720 campus. 999 00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:49,000 I don't care if it's 3,000 people. 1000 00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:50,840 Do you know their children? 1001 00:49:51,240 --> 00:49:52,840 Do you know their names? 1002 00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:57,160 This is who he's calling us and you to be. 1003 00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:01,160 You guys receive that. 1004 00:50:10,690 --> 00:50:13,810 I've never felt this before in the history of our church, but tonight 1005 00:50:14,050 --> 00:50:18,410 I physically felt a transfer in from me and. 1006 00:50:18,410 --> 00:50:18,970 And us. 1007 00:50:18,970 --> 00:50:21,890 Like, there's something about, like, even the weight of ministry, 1008 00:50:22,130 --> 00:50:24,130 I feel it shifting to the people. 1009 00:50:24,850 --> 00:50:28,850 And I think the biggest travesty that ever happened in America 1010 00:50:29,330 --> 00:50:32,090 was people believing that your job is to stand. 1011 00:50:32,240 --> 00:50:33,600 Sit in a seat every Sunday. 1012 00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:34,760 That. 1013 00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:35,680 That was the worst. 1014 00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:36,480 That was the. 1015 00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:40,520 The devil said, I can't stop them from going to church, but I 1016 00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:42,560 can stop them from becoming the church. 1017 00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:44,080 And. 1018 00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:47,720 And that's why, yes, you need a seat, but a seat without being 1019 00:50:47,720 --> 00:50:50,080 sent is not enough. 1020 00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:52,560 And today I felt something. 1021 00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:54,160 And, you know, let me say this. 1022 00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:57,870 When I first got to New York City, I recognize that the reason 1023 00:50:57,870 --> 00:50:57,980 why. 1024 00:50:58,130 --> 00:51:01,890 Why you never got trained to prophesy at your other church is 1025 00:51:01,890 --> 00:51:05,290 because the pastor either didn't trust you or the Holy Spirit 1026 00:51:05,290 --> 00:51:05,810 or both. 1027 00:51:07,570 --> 00:51:11,810 And so what happens is, in this house, there's such a freedom 1028 00:51:12,450 --> 00:51:15,850 sometimes, not because I even trust you, but because I trust the 1029 00:51:15,850 --> 00:51:16,970 Holy Spirit in you. 1030 00:51:16,970 --> 00:51:19,010 Who's the Holy Spirit in me? 1031 00:51:19,090 --> 00:51:21,570 And if he's corrected me, he will correct you. 1032 00:51:22,530 --> 00:51:24,320 And then if you're correct, wrecked a bull. 1033 00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:25,880 We can go through this thing together. 1034 00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:31,160 And so there's a freedom and a unity in this house because I believe 1035 00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:34,080 that we've yielded to say, either this is God's way or it's 1036 00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:34,360 not. 1037 00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:37,160 And, you know, nine years ago, when we. 1038 00:51:37,240 --> 00:51:39,320 Well, I remember that day vividly. 1039 00:51:39,639 --> 00:51:41,600 And here we are standing in the promise. 1040 00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:46,280 We've done 15 services across seven campuses today in seven years, 1041 00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:50,930 but I pray that this is the smallest we will ever be. 1042 00:51:51,730 --> 00:51:52,130 I. 1043 00:51:52,210 --> 00:51:57,290 I pray that this was just the trial run, the test run, but I really 1044 00:51:57,290 --> 00:52:01,450 believe that the shift that needs to happen right now is the 1045 00:52:01,450 --> 00:52:02,850 ministry transferring. 1046 00:52:04,130 --> 00:52:06,370 Because let me. 1047 00:52:06,370 --> 00:52:07,050 Let me do something. 1048 00:52:07,050 --> 00:52:07,490 Let me. 1049 00:52:07,490 --> 00:52:08,370 Let me get some. 1050 00:52:08,370 --> 00:52:08,850 Let me get. 1051 00:52:08,850 --> 00:52:09,770 Like, we gotta. 1052 00:52:09,770 --> 00:52:11,690 I gotta figure out who I utilize. 1053 00:52:11,690 --> 00:52:12,250 Let me get. 1054 00:52:12,250 --> 00:52:14,570 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 1055 00:52:14,570 --> 00:52:15,650 Come up on stage real quick. 1056 00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:16,000 Quick. 1057 00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:17,160 I want to show you guys. 1058 00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:23,160 And I'm going to turn it back to you, Josh, Okay? 1059 00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:24,680 I need you guys to make a circle. 1060 00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:29,320 Okay? 1061 00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:31,320 Now look, watch this. 1062 00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:34,360 I did not tell them which direction to face. 1063 00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:39,520 Okay, now hold on. 1064 00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:42,360 Now, I did not tell them to face each other. 1065 00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:44,120 But that's instinct. 1066 00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:45,880 Okay, let me get in the middle. 1067 00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:48,360 This is most. 1068 00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:48,760 Watch. 1069 00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:49,440 Hold on. 1070 00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:50,360 This is not good. 1071 00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:52,840 This is Most churches in America. 1072 00:52:54,360 --> 00:53:00,360 It's a circle facing inward, with the pastor being the celebrity. 1073 00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:05,600 And when I moved to New York City and I started this church, the 1074 00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:07,640 Lord told me, do not build this structure. 1075 00:53:08,290 --> 00:53:09,130 But here's the thing. 1076 00:53:09,130 --> 00:53:11,410 You get to know all these people. 1077 00:53:11,810 --> 00:53:14,210 There's an intimacy in this circle right now. 1078 00:53:14,290 --> 00:53:17,370 There's matter of fact, because you're facing inward and 1079 00:53:17,370 --> 00:53:18,330 you have me in the middle. 1080 00:53:18,330 --> 00:53:20,450 There's a comfortability in this circle. 1081 00:53:20,930 --> 00:53:23,650 Now do the same circle facing outward. 1082 00:53:25,810 --> 00:53:26,770 Okay, now watch. 1083 00:53:27,250 --> 00:53:29,250 This is what the Lord told me to build. 1084 00:53:29,890 --> 00:53:30,530 Now watch. 1085 00:53:31,010 --> 00:53:35,340 Now, I'm not talking to you, talking through you. 1086 00:53:37,420 --> 00:53:38,620 Are y' all getting this? 1087 00:53:40,540 --> 00:53:43,100 Now, I'm not ministering to you. 1088 00:53:43,500 --> 00:53:45,620 There's a lost and dying world out there. 1089 00:53:45,620 --> 00:53:47,260 I'm ministering through you. 1090 00:53:47,740 --> 00:53:48,460 See this? 1091 00:53:48,620 --> 00:53:50,100 I'm commissioning you. 1092 00:53:50,100 --> 00:53:54,060 And we still have a circle, but it doesn't make me a celebrity. 1093 00:53:54,220 --> 00:53:58,940 It makes me a general commanding an army to say, go, go, 1094 00:53:59,100 --> 00:54:00,770 go, go, go. 1095 00:54:00,770 --> 00:54:03,890 It's you, it's you, it's you, it's you, it's you, it's you. 1096 00:54:05,330 --> 00:54:07,650 And so every church has a circle. 1097 00:54:07,730 --> 00:54:10,690 But is your circle facing inward or outward? 1098 00:54:13,330 --> 00:54:14,170 See, this is. 1099 00:54:14,170 --> 00:54:14,490 All right. 1100 00:54:14,490 --> 00:54:14,810 Thank you. 1101 00:54:14,810 --> 00:54:15,130 Thank you. 1102 00:54:15,130 --> 00:54:15,490 Go back. 1103 00:54:15,490 --> 00:54:17,410 Go back before you fall out in the spirit. 1104 00:54:19,730 --> 00:54:23,490 But see, when the circle faces inward, it's a click. 1105 00:54:27,900 --> 00:54:30,860 When the circle faces outward, it's a clinic. 1106 00:54:33,980 --> 00:54:35,820 See, I'm trying to teach you something. 1107 00:54:37,020 --> 00:54:37,460 Don't. 1108 00:54:37,460 --> 00:54:40,940 And this is why, like, facing outward, this is who we are. 1109 00:54:41,340 --> 00:54:43,340 And I really believe that's the difference. 1110 00:54:43,980 --> 00:54:44,900 So, Prophet Josh. 1111 00:54:44,900 --> 00:54:45,380 I'm done. 1112 00:54:45,380 --> 00:54:46,300 I promise I'm done. 1113 00:54:46,300 --> 00:54:46,820 That was it. 1114 00:54:46,820 --> 00:54:47,580 That was it. 1115 00:54:47,660 --> 00:54:48,460 I'm gonna be good. 1116 00:54:48,460 --> 00:54:49,100 I'm gonna be good. 1117 00:54:49,100 --> 00:54:50,140 I'm gonna be doolittle. 1118 00:54:50,140 --> 00:54:50,460 Now. 1119 00:54:52,870 --> 00:54:55,030 This is the flow of a prophet and apostle. 1120 00:54:55,350 --> 00:54:58,950 There's no place I'd rather be anywhere in the whole world than 1121 00:54:58,950 --> 00:54:59,430 right here. 1122 00:55:02,710 --> 00:55:03,670 One Other thing. 1123 00:55:04,150 --> 00:55:06,230 The keys that the Lord is giving. 1124 00:55:06,310 --> 00:55:12,070 Apostle Mike not only unlock infrastructure, but there's something 1125 00:55:12,070 --> 00:55:16,550 about unlocking, gifting, and what's happening right now. 1126 00:55:16,790 --> 00:55:18,260 There's a withdrawal taking place. 1127 00:55:18,490 --> 00:55:18,730 Place. 1128 00:55:20,090 --> 00:55:21,290 There's a withdraw. 1129 00:55:26,170 --> 00:55:27,290 You guys want it? 1130 00:55:28,650 --> 00:55:29,610 Do you want it? 1131 00:55:30,490 --> 00:55:31,530 Are you hungry? 1132 00:55:32,330 --> 00:55:33,690 Are you still hungry? 1133 00:55:36,730 --> 00:55:43,410 Come on, come on. 1134 00:55:43,410 --> 00:55:43,730 There's a. 1135 00:55:43,730 --> 00:55:44,060 There's. 1136 00:55:44,210 --> 00:55:46,370 There's evangelism, prophecy. 1137 00:55:46,690 --> 00:55:47,650 Who wants it? 1138 00:55:48,210 --> 00:55:49,250 Who wants it? 1139 00:55:49,650 --> 00:55:50,930 Let me see your hands. 1140 00:55:50,930 --> 00:55:51,490 Come on. 1141 00:55:51,570 --> 00:55:53,250 Let me hear a desperation. 1142 00:55:54,690 --> 00:55:58,090 Come on, come on, come on. 1143 00:55:58,090 --> 00:56:03,410 Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. 1144 00:57:01,791 --> 00:57:02,351 Come on. 1145 00:57:03,951 --> 00:57:04,591 There's something. 1146 00:57:04,751 --> 00:57:06,711 There's a transaction taking place. 1147 00:57:06,711 --> 00:57:09,631 Like, I literally see, like a swipe of a card. 1148 00:57:10,671 --> 00:57:11,591 It's like there's. 1149 00:57:11,591 --> 00:57:14,991 There's something about you saying, come on, come on, come on, 1150 00:57:14,991 --> 00:57:15,711 Holy Spirit. 1151 00:57:15,711 --> 00:57:16,551 Come on, Holy Spirit. 1152 00:57:16,551 --> 00:57:17,191 I want more. 1153 00:57:17,191 --> 00:57:17,911 I want more. 1154 00:57:17,911 --> 00:57:18,631 I want more. 1155 00:57:18,631 --> 00:57:19,471 I want more. 1156 00:57:35,801 --> 00:57:36,681 Part of that call. 1157 00:57:39,801 --> 00:57:41,121 It's a real ministry. 1158 00:57:41,121 --> 00:57:43,001 I'm not saying full time ministry. 1159 00:57:45,401 --> 00:57:46,761 I'm saying ministry. 1160 00:57:49,771 --> 00:57:53,291 You could be a banker and be the best minister in the world. 1161 00:57:54,651 --> 00:57:57,771 You could be a garbage man and be the best minister in the world. 1162 00:58:00,811 --> 00:58:04,171 People come to me and they're like, pastor Josh, one day when I'm 1163 00:58:04,171 --> 00:58:06,491 in full time ministry, I'm like, yeah, that's too late already. 1164 00:58:06,491 --> 00:58:09,611 Then do it now. 1165 00:58:10,411 --> 00:58:11,291 Do it now. 1166 00:58:32,741 --> 00:58:32,981 If. 1167 00:58:33,141 --> 00:58:35,461 If we could have seen this nine years ago. 1168 00:58:36,741 --> 00:58:37,781 But here's the thing. 1169 00:58:38,821 --> 00:58:40,501 I believe that he did see it. 1170 00:58:41,571 --> 00:58:43,811 I believe that the Lord did give him a vision. 1171 00:58:44,131 --> 00:58:45,611 And it's even bigger than this. 1172 00:58:45,611 --> 00:58:46,931 This is just the beginning. 1173 00:58:47,091 --> 00:58:48,851 This is just the starting point. 1174 00:58:49,411 --> 00:58:49,891 This is. 1175 00:58:49,891 --> 00:58:52,851 And like he said, this is the smallest it will ever be. 1176 00:59:02,131 --> 00:59:04,531 If we could have the ministers come up here real quick. 1177 00:59:05,731 --> 00:59:08,371 The three ministers, this campus. 1178 00:59:23,331 --> 00:59:23,971 So what. 1179 00:59:25,571 --> 00:59:25,891 What? 1180 00:59:25,891 --> 00:59:27,971 Minister Juliana doesn't know either. 1181 00:59:28,691 --> 00:59:30,771 It's just like, our whole church is just so prophetic. 1182 00:59:30,771 --> 00:59:33,051 I'm just like, man, anytime someone says something, something, 1183 00:59:33,051 --> 00:59:34,291 I'm like, oh, if they knew. 1184 00:59:36,611 --> 00:59:38,971 So here, why don't you come up here real quick? 1185 00:59:38,971 --> 00:59:39,731 Pastor Mike. 1186 00:59:42,771 --> 00:59:43,251 Yeah. 1187 00:59:43,251 --> 00:59:44,131 Pastor Julie. 1188 00:59:45,171 --> 00:59:51,171 Arise from your slumber oh, sleeper Dry bones rise. 1189 00:59:51,651 --> 00:59:53,171 It's been a long day, y' all. 1190 00:59:55,411 --> 01:00:01,461 So the ministers got together and bought you a present with their 1191 01:00:01,461 --> 01:00:01,981 own money. 1192 01:00:02,701 --> 01:00:08,141 And minister Juliana, and she could confirm this before we started, 1193 01:00:09,501 --> 01:00:14,701 she said, we got him these shoes to represent a key to the city, 1194 01:00:18,941 --> 01:00:21,501 to represent a spiritual key to this city. 1195 01:00:21,501 --> 01:00:25,891 And I was like, man, I just want to tell her right now, but come 1196 01:00:25,891 --> 01:00:27,731 on, come on. 1197 01:00:27,971 --> 01:00:29,171 You know what those are? 1198 01:00:29,731 --> 01:00:30,851 You know what those are? 1199 01:00:30,851 --> 01:00:31,651 Manhattan. 1200 01:00:31,891 --> 01:00:33,051 You know what those are? 1201 01:00:33,051 --> 01:00:33,891 Manhattan. 1202 01:00:34,931 --> 01:00:36,091 You know what those are? 1203 01:00:36,091 --> 01:00:36,931 Manhattan. 1204 01:00:37,251 --> 01:00:53,421 Come on, come on, come on. 1205 01:00:54,941 --> 01:00:56,621 Is that not prophetic or what? 1206 01:00:56,621 --> 01:00:58,181 She's like, we're gonna give him keys. 1207 01:00:58,181 --> 01:01:00,141 I was like, wait, what did you say? 1208 01:01:02,141 --> 01:01:05,501 Come on, lace them up. 1209 01:01:05,981 --> 01:01:07,021 Lace them up. 1210 01:01:07,501 --> 01:01:08,461 Lace them up. 1211 01:01:09,021 --> 01:01:10,621 Lace him up, Apostle. 1212 01:01:11,021 --> 01:01:12,621 Lace them up, Apostle. 1213 01:01:19,831 --> 01:01:20,111 Come on. 1214 01:01:20,111 --> 01:01:21,431 This is a prophetic act. 1215 01:01:21,911 --> 01:01:23,191 These are the keys. 1216 01:01:23,671 --> 01:01:25,111 These are the keys. 1217 01:01:25,431 --> 01:01:26,551 These are the keys. 1218 01:01:26,551 --> 01:01:28,071 You wanted keys this morning. 1219 01:01:28,231 --> 01:01:30,551 The Lord says, I will give you keys at night. 1220 01:01:30,711 --> 01:01:32,591 I will give you keys to the city. 1221 01:01:32,591 --> 01:01:43,041 The Lord says, come on. 1222 01:01:47,841 --> 01:01:48,481 Come on. 1223 01:01:49,681 --> 01:02:04,561 Hey, come on. 1224 01:02:07,031 --> 01:02:07,591 Come on. 1225 01:02:09,511 --> 01:02:09,991 Hey. 1226 01:02:10,951 --> 01:02:11,431 Hey. 1227 01:02:21,351 --> 01:02:23,030 Come on, Pastor Julie. 1228 01:02:23,351 --> 01:02:23,911 Come on. 1229 01:02:23,911 --> 01:02:24,871 Apostle Mike. 1230 01:02:24,871 --> 01:02:25,351 Yeah. 1231 01:02:32,561 --> 01:02:32,881 Wow.