1 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:11,289 Well, hey, my name is Mike Signorelli, and I'm the apostle over 2 00:00:11,337 --> 00:00:11,897 this work. 3 00:00:11,961 --> 00:00:12,761 It's a move. 4 00:00:12,873 --> 00:00:16,953 It's a move of God in the earth as we're breaking hard territories 5 00:00:17,049 --> 00:00:21,057 and we are launching and planting churches and making disciples 6 00:00:21,121 --> 00:00:22,473 that make disciples. 7 00:00:22,649 --> 00:00:26,857 And it is just an absolutely absolute honor and privilege to be 8 00:00:26,881 --> 00:00:27,929 with you today. 9 00:00:28,097 --> 00:00:30,433 And, you know, today's going to be exciting. 10 00:00:30,489 --> 00:00:33,645 And so I'm just going to ju right in, and we're going to be looking 11 00:00:33,685 --> 00:00:37,117 @ Joshua, chapter one, verses one through nine. 12 00:00:37,221 --> 00:00:41,549 And this is a very prophetic message for all of us. 13 00:00:41,717 --> 00:00:45,077 If you're watching this right now, I just want to remind you that 14 00:00:45,101 --> 00:00:47,285 the Bible is not the story of what happened. 15 00:00:47,325 --> 00:00:49,565 It's the story of what always happens. 16 00:00:49,725 --> 00:00:52,997 And although God was talking to the people of Israel in these 17 00:00:53,061 --> 00:00:57,093 passages, I believe it displays his heart for all of his 18 00:00:57,149 --> 00:00:57,629 people. 19 00:00:57,757 --> 00:01:01,731 And I believe that it gives us a picture into the attributes of 20 00:01:01,763 --> 00:01:03,307 God concerning our life. 21 00:01:03,411 --> 00:01:07,387 And we're not Joshua, but I believe that we are a Joshua people. 22 00:01:07,531 --> 00:01:10,499 And we're not going into a physical Canaan. 23 00:01:10,587 --> 00:01:14,531 But I do believe that we are to go into a spiritual Canaan and 24 00:01:14,563 --> 00:01:19,427 to subdue and take territory and to obtain all that God has for 25 00:01:19,451 --> 00:01:22,923 us in our generations for the glory and honor of God. 26 00:01:23,019 --> 00:01:25,651 I believe that we need to build more churches. 27 00:01:25,763 --> 00:01:29,331 I believe that we need to have schools that actually teach not the 28 00:01:29,363 --> 00:01:31,779 doctrines of demons, but the word of God. 29 00:01:31,827 --> 00:01:31,995 I. 30 00:01:32,025 --> 00:01:35,327 I believe that we have to have thriving young adults ministries 31 00:01:35,391 --> 00:01:38,679 and thriving teen ministries and thriving churches. 32 00:01:38,727 --> 00:01:39,463 And I. 33 00:01:39,559 --> 00:01:40,275 Come on. 34 00:01:40,855 --> 00:01:44,575 So although this is about physical Canaan, how many of you 35 00:01:44,615 --> 00:01:47,679 believe that there is a promised land here on earth? 36 00:01:47,727 --> 00:01:52,495 Jesus said, thy will be done, your kingdom come, God, your will 37 00:01:52,535 --> 00:01:55,375 be done on earth as it is in heaven. 38 00:01:55,495 --> 00:02:00,205 And so the gospel is not an escape plan to get to heaven. 39 00:02:00,365 --> 00:02:04,425 The gospel is God's plan to bring heaven to earth. 40 00:02:04,765 --> 00:02:12,749 Oh, so we are to colonize, colonize all of the different places 41 00:02:12,797 --> 00:02:15,625 that we live with the culture of heaven. 42 00:02:16,045 --> 00:02:20,821 Christian businesses, Christian schools, Christian like 43 00:02:20,853 --> 00:02:24,733 to colonize to say, God, your kingdom come right here in this. 44 00:02:24,829 --> 00:02:25,789 In this environment. 45 00:02:25,877 --> 00:02:29,189 So I want to read this because it's a very prophetic message. 46 00:02:29,237 --> 00:02:31,309 So let's just reverence the reading of the word. 47 00:02:31,357 --> 00:02:34,373 Joshua, chapter one, verses one through nine. 48 00:02:34,509 --> 00:02:38,341 After the death of Moses, the servant of the lord, the lord said 49 00:02:38,373 --> 00:02:43,077 to Joshua, the son of nun Moses, assistant, how many of you 50 00:02:43,101 --> 00:02:46,333 know that God will take you from being the number two to make 51 00:02:46,349 --> 00:02:47,545 you the number one? 52 00:02:48,285 --> 00:02:51,693 Joshua was the assistant who ended up becoming the leader. 53 00:02:51,869 --> 00:02:55,005 There's an incredible lesson about how you should never be put 54 00:02:55,045 --> 00:02:57,625 in authority until you've been under authority. 55 00:02:58,045 --> 00:02:59,385 There's an incredible lesson. 56 00:02:59,445 --> 00:03:02,985 And that God will start you as an assistant and then move you up. 57 00:03:03,145 --> 00:03:07,245 And so there's something about this message just in the first verse. 58 00:03:07,625 --> 00:03:08,505 It's so powerful. 59 00:03:08,545 --> 00:03:12,265 And it says in verse 2, Moses, my servant, is dead. 60 00:03:12,425 --> 00:03:14,185 Now therefore arise. 61 00:03:14,345 --> 00:03:18,369 Go over this Jordan, you and all this people. 62 00:03:18,417 --> 00:03:20,125 Somebody say all this people. 63 00:03:20,945 --> 00:03:24,165 If you want to go fast, go alone. 64 00:03:24,545 --> 00:03:27,355 If you want to go far, go together. 65 00:03:28,215 --> 00:03:29,279 All the people. 66 00:03:29,407 --> 00:03:29,791 Come on. 67 00:03:29,823 --> 00:03:32,675 Tell your neighbor at every location you're going with me. 68 00:03:34,055 --> 00:03:34,607 Come on. 69 00:03:34,671 --> 00:03:37,191 When you used to sin, you didn't sin alone. 70 00:03:37,303 --> 00:03:39,375 You brought your friends with you to sin. 71 00:03:39,495 --> 00:03:41,519 Come on, we're all going to do this. 72 00:03:41,567 --> 00:03:43,063 We're all taking a shot. 73 00:03:43,159 --> 00:03:44,591 We're all smoking it. 74 00:03:44,663 --> 00:03:45,599 We're all going to do. 75 00:03:45,647 --> 00:03:47,335 We're all going to Cancun. 76 00:03:47,455 --> 00:03:47,879 Come on. 77 00:03:47,927 --> 00:03:50,303 Well, we're all going to the promised land now. 78 00:03:50,399 --> 00:03:52,359 We're all going to get sober now. 79 00:03:52,447 --> 00:03:54,455 We're all going to get delivered now. 80 00:03:54,535 --> 00:03:55,807 We're all going to get free. 81 00:03:55,871 --> 00:03:59,495 Come on, somebody tell your neighbor we're all going to Canaan. 82 00:04:00,675 --> 00:04:01,535 Okay? 83 00:04:02,275 --> 00:04:04,403 If you want to go fast, go alone. 84 00:04:04,539 --> 00:04:06,495 If you want to go far, go together. 85 00:04:07,115 --> 00:04:09,855 Come on, we're all doing this thing now. 86 00:04:10,475 --> 00:04:11,787 Praise God. 87 00:04:11,971 --> 00:04:13,455 Did that really happen? 88 00:04:14,035 --> 00:04:17,443 We're all sitting in the dark here on Long Island. 89 00:04:17,499 --> 00:04:21,707 Okay, Then it says this. 90 00:04:21,851 --> 00:04:25,395 Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon, I will 91 00:04:25,435 --> 00:04:26,499 give it to you. 92 00:04:26,667 --> 00:04:28,735 Somebody say, he's given it to me. 93 00:04:29,755 --> 00:04:32,011 Now there is going to be a fight. 94 00:04:32,163 --> 00:04:34,323 But you're not fighting for the victory. 95 00:04:34,379 --> 00:04:37,147 You're fighting from the place of victory. 96 00:04:37,331 --> 00:04:40,747 You're fighting to enforce what was already given to you. 97 00:04:40,891 --> 00:04:42,875 You're not fighting to obtain it. 98 00:04:42,955 --> 00:04:44,515 You've already inherited it. 99 00:04:44,555 --> 00:04:46,935 But you have to enforce what you've inherited. 100 00:04:47,355 --> 00:04:50,483 This is the real understanding of spiritual warfare. 101 00:04:50,659 --> 00:04:53,027 And because there's going to be warfare. 102 00:04:53,171 --> 00:04:55,969 And then it says, verse 4. 103 00:04:56,097 --> 00:04:59,129 From the wilderness of this Lebanon as far as the great river, 104 00:04:59,177 --> 00:05:02,449 the river Euphrates, and then the land of the Hittites, to the 105 00:05:02,497 --> 00:05:06,953 great sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory. 106 00:05:07,009 --> 00:05:07,857 Verse 5. 107 00:05:08,001 --> 00:05:12,137 No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. 108 00:05:12,201 --> 00:05:13,605 Oh, I like that. 109 00:05:13,985 --> 00:05:16,137 No man will be able to listen. 110 00:05:16,201 --> 00:05:19,041 Man can't stop you because man didn't start you. 111 00:05:19,153 --> 00:05:22,457 Man can't cancel you because man didn't call you. 112 00:05:22,561 --> 00:05:25,961 Man can't take your gift because they didn't give the gift. 113 00:05:26,113 --> 00:05:29,569 God Almighty, if he gave it he's going to see it through. 114 00:05:29,657 --> 00:05:30,785 And that's our promise. 115 00:05:30,865 --> 00:05:33,985 Ain't no man going to be able to stop us on Long Island. 116 00:05:34,105 --> 00:05:36,465 No man can stop us in Miami. 117 00:05:36,585 --> 00:05:38,649 No man can stop us in New Jersey. 118 00:05:38,697 --> 00:05:39,233 No man. 119 00:05:39,329 --> 00:05:39,729 Come on. 120 00:05:39,777 --> 00:05:41,841 Because God started this thing. 121 00:05:41,953 --> 00:05:46,765 He puts a provision on it, and he will see it through until completion. 122 00:05:47,465 --> 00:05:50,801 People will be like, but do you know how hard Miami is? 123 00:05:50,913 --> 00:05:51,841 I don't care. 124 00:05:51,913 --> 00:05:54,497 That is my land flowing with milk and honey. 125 00:05:54,601 --> 00:05:58,677 I don't need the mayor's permission, because I got permission 126 00:05:58,741 --> 00:06:00,373 from the one above the mayor. 127 00:06:00,469 --> 00:06:02,693 The king is the one calling the shots. 128 00:06:02,789 --> 00:06:04,301 And he'll give me favor with. 129 00:06:04,373 --> 00:06:07,765 Do you know how hard it is to get a building on Long Island? 130 00:06:07,885 --> 00:06:10,389 No, it's harder to have unbelief. 131 00:06:10,517 --> 00:06:14,173 But if you will believe, God will make the impossible possible. 132 00:06:14,309 --> 00:06:17,265 We're crossing the River Jordan together, y'all. 133 00:06:18,605 --> 00:06:20,265 But this is what it says. 134 00:06:21,045 --> 00:06:22,701 It says, Verse 6. 135 00:06:22,773 --> 00:06:28,243 Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause those people to inherit 136 00:06:28,299 --> 00:06:28,923 the land. 137 00:06:29,019 --> 00:06:31,015 Sounds like a book somebody wrote. 138 00:06:31,875 --> 00:06:36,891 Inherit, inherit the land that I swore. 139 00:06:36,963 --> 00:06:39,763 Now, here's the point, though, and I want Brooklyn to hear me say 140 00:06:39,779 --> 00:06:41,935 this, because Brooklyn is way too quiet. 141 00:06:42,755 --> 00:06:45,083 This is why I need you to hear. 142 00:06:45,139 --> 00:06:46,155 You need me to say this. 143 00:06:46,195 --> 00:06:48,459 I need to hear you through the screen right now. 144 00:06:48,587 --> 00:06:53,267 He says, be courageous, for you shall inherit the land that I 145 00:06:53,291 --> 00:06:55,375 swore to your fathers. 146 00:06:55,735 --> 00:07:00,519 See, what happens is there are things that were supposed to come 147 00:07:00,567 --> 00:07:05,983 in the generation before us, and it feels like delay, but it actually 148 00:07:06,039 --> 00:07:07,007 wasn't delay. 149 00:07:07,071 --> 00:07:08,195 It was laziness. 150 00:07:10,775 --> 00:07:15,095 See, because it was going to take us moving, walking in, stepping 151 00:07:15,135 --> 00:07:15,863 in, putting. 152 00:07:15,959 --> 00:07:18,231 You know, God doesn't bless our butt prints. 153 00:07:18,263 --> 00:07:20,195 He blesses our footprints. 154 00:07:21,015 --> 00:07:24,009 And God will drag you only so far. 155 00:07:24,167 --> 00:07:27,021 But you gotta get up and walk this thing out. 156 00:07:27,213 --> 00:07:28,389 You gotta walk, y'all. 157 00:07:28,437 --> 00:07:31,445 I just started working out again last week, and I came limping 158 00:07:31,485 --> 00:07:32,945 into service today. 159 00:07:33,845 --> 00:07:35,905 I was like, Lord Jesus. 160 00:07:36,885 --> 00:07:40,013 But the thing that I want to get across to you is that there are 161 00:07:40,069 --> 00:07:42,245 things that were supposed to get to the generations. 162 00:07:42,365 --> 00:07:45,829 And it's not that they didn't have access, it's that they didn't 163 00:07:45,877 --> 00:07:46,825 take action. 164 00:07:48,005 --> 00:07:52,661 And so action gives you the access, like the Lord gives you permission, 165 00:07:52,733 --> 00:07:54,749 but your action is how you unlock it. 166 00:07:54,837 --> 00:07:57,801 And what he was simply saying, saying was, Moses could have had 167 00:07:57,833 --> 00:07:59,713 this, but he didn't go all the way. 168 00:07:59,889 --> 00:08:01,041 And so this is. 169 00:08:01,113 --> 00:08:02,649 This is going to take action. 170 00:08:02,777 --> 00:08:04,105 And then this is what it says. 171 00:08:04,145 --> 00:08:04,649 Verse 8. 172 00:08:04,697 --> 00:08:09,193 This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall 173 00:08:09,249 --> 00:08:10,105 meditate on it. 174 00:08:10,145 --> 00:08:11,065 Day and night. 175 00:08:11,225 --> 00:08:13,885 Now, let me talk about the implication of that. 176 00:08:14,745 --> 00:08:19,449 Reading scripture, meditating on it day and night has to become 177 00:08:19,537 --> 00:08:20,633 who you are. 178 00:08:20,769 --> 00:08:22,113 The book of law. 179 00:08:22,249 --> 00:08:23,049 What does that mean? 180 00:08:23,097 --> 00:08:25,409 Jesus said, I didn't come to abolish the law. 181 00:08:25,457 --> 00:08:26,927 I came to fulfill it. 182 00:08:27,081 --> 00:08:28,099 So what does that mean? 183 00:08:28,147 --> 00:08:32,011 It means that we have to understand the word of God and meditate 184 00:08:32,043 --> 00:08:33,059 on it day and night. 185 00:08:33,147 --> 00:08:36,135 As a matter of fact, confusion is coming. 186 00:08:36,475 --> 00:08:38,347 More confusion is coming. 187 00:08:38,491 --> 00:08:42,615 I don't know if you know this, but another pandemic is coming. 188 00:08:42,955 --> 00:08:44,763 I know you're not ready for it. 189 00:08:44,859 --> 00:08:48,547 I know some of you think I'm a conspiracy theorist, but I'm telling 190 00:08:48,571 --> 00:08:51,971 you, I'm a prophet, and I'm trying to prepare you. 191 00:08:52,083 --> 00:08:55,821 It's like what happens in life is you come out of a storm and you 192 00:08:55,853 --> 00:08:57,437 go into another storm. 193 00:08:57,581 --> 00:08:58,693 This is life. 194 00:08:58,829 --> 00:08:59,901 And so I know some. 195 00:08:59,973 --> 00:09:02,477 Some of you want to get into the fetal position right now. 196 00:09:02,581 --> 00:09:05,509 And you're like, pastor Mike, please be one of those. 197 00:09:05,597 --> 00:09:06,997 Please be Joel Osteen. 198 00:09:07,061 --> 00:09:08,949 Can you encourage us this morning? 199 00:09:09,037 --> 00:09:11,837 Please tell us everything's going to be all right. 200 00:09:11,981 --> 00:09:13,277 Everything's going to be all right. 201 00:09:13,341 --> 00:09:15,989 See, Jesus was sleeping in the midst of the storm. 202 00:09:16,037 --> 00:09:18,117 It's not the absence of the storm. 203 00:09:18,221 --> 00:09:20,685 It's his presence in the midst of the storm. 204 00:09:20,805 --> 00:09:24,589 And God will use another pandemic to get you to where he was 205 00:09:24,637 --> 00:09:26,637 trying to get you during the first pandemic. 206 00:09:26,741 --> 00:09:28,605 He told you to start the business. 207 00:09:28,725 --> 00:09:29,981 He told you to step in. 208 00:09:30,013 --> 00:09:31,445 He told you to write the book. 209 00:09:31,525 --> 00:09:33,301 He told you to start doing that thing. 210 00:09:33,373 --> 00:09:37,581 And what happened was, every travesty is an opportunity for a 211 00:09:37,613 --> 00:09:38,505 next level. 212 00:09:39,365 --> 00:09:41,109 But why do I say this? 213 00:09:41,277 --> 00:09:45,309 I say this because he has to tell Joshua. 214 00:09:45,357 --> 00:09:46,573 Have I not commanded you? 215 00:09:46,629 --> 00:09:48,109 Be strong and courageous. 216 00:09:48,237 --> 00:09:51,037 Do not be frightened and do not be dismayed. 217 00:09:51,061 --> 00:09:53,405 For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. 218 00:09:53,485 --> 00:09:56,473 Now, listen, when God has to do, tell you more than once not to 219 00:09:56,489 --> 00:09:59,645 be afraid, you better buckle up. 220 00:10:00,225 --> 00:10:01,921 You better put your helmet on. 221 00:10:02,033 --> 00:10:02,489 You better. 222 00:10:02,537 --> 00:10:04,393 You better oil up your shield. 223 00:10:04,529 --> 00:10:07,137 If the Lord tells you multiple times, be courageous. 224 00:10:07,201 --> 00:10:08,793 He's trying to prepare you. 225 00:10:08,929 --> 00:10:12,489 And so this vision Sunday is a preparation. 226 00:10:12,617 --> 00:10:14,561 But I've got good news for you. 227 00:10:14,713 --> 00:10:18,241 The giants in Canaan are big, but so are the grapes. 228 00:10:18,393 --> 00:10:19,785 I got good news for you. 229 00:10:19,825 --> 00:10:21,169 The provision is there. 230 00:10:21,257 --> 00:10:23,193 It's flowing with milk and honey. 231 00:10:23,289 --> 00:10:24,633 I got good news for you. 232 00:10:24,689 --> 00:10:27,581 None of these things that are inhabiting the land that we're going 233 00:10:27,613 --> 00:10:30,277 to possess are greater than our God. 234 00:10:30,381 --> 00:10:35,101 And we will lay hold of it, and Jericho's walls will fall and 235 00:10:35,133 --> 00:10:37,997 we will have the marriages God destined for us. 236 00:10:38,101 --> 00:10:41,733 And our kids will walk in purity and righteousness, and our 237 00:10:41,789 --> 00:10:45,637 finances will flow, and we will be a benefit to the nations. 238 00:10:45,741 --> 00:10:48,437 And we will walk out the fullness of the problem. 239 00:10:48,541 --> 00:10:51,909 So I say to every uncircumcised Philistine, the people 240 00:10:51,957 --> 00:10:55,933 of God are getting ready to move into Canaan, and you will not 241 00:10:55,989 --> 00:10:58,145 stop us this time in 20. 242 00:11:00,945 --> 00:11:03,645 So this is Vision Sunday. 243 00:11:03,985 --> 00:11:08,641 And, you know, I just want to break this down for you as we kind 244 00:11:08,673 --> 00:11:10,841 of go through some of these big announcements. 245 00:11:10,913 --> 00:11:15,289 But if you look at this, you know, what is V1? 246 00:11:15,377 --> 00:11:19,265 The number one question that we get asked is, what does V1? 247 00:11:19,305 --> 00:11:21,217 Is it victory one? 248 00:11:21,401 --> 00:11:22,897 Is it vision one? 249 00:11:23,001 --> 00:11:23,961 Is it what? 250 00:11:24,033 --> 00:11:25,121 What is V1? 251 00:11:25,193 --> 00:11:27,341 What does V1 church mean? 252 00:11:27,513 --> 00:11:31,541 And I want to explain to you what V1 means to get us all on the 253 00:11:31,573 --> 00:11:35,333 same page today, because you may or may not know this story. 254 00:11:35,509 --> 00:11:37,781 So I started preaching. 255 00:11:37,893 --> 00:11:39,861 Now, by the way, I want to do this. 256 00:11:40,053 --> 00:11:43,309 I've got one of my first Bibles. 257 00:11:43,357 --> 00:11:46,901 Now, by the way, this was my first first Bible, and I still have 258 00:11:46,933 --> 00:11:47,533 it. 259 00:11:47,709 --> 00:11:51,749 And I was given this Bible when I was in elementary school. 260 00:11:51,877 --> 00:11:53,453 And you'll notice there's no cover. 261 00:11:53,509 --> 00:11:56,445 And you'll notice black electric tape. 262 00:11:57,425 --> 00:12:02,849 Because I have read every page of this version of the Bible many, 263 00:12:02,897 --> 00:12:03,641 many times. 264 00:12:03,753 --> 00:12:10,433 And what I liked about it is it had pictures, and so Abraham gets 265 00:12:10,449 --> 00:12:11,489 a new name. 266 00:12:11,657 --> 00:12:14,097 And this is Genesis 13 through 17. 267 00:12:14,201 --> 00:12:15,985 And I would read this. 268 00:12:16,065 --> 00:12:19,913 Look at it, the COVID This is my first Bible as. 269 00:12:19,969 --> 00:12:23,343 And so in elementary school, I read this many times. 270 00:12:23,529 --> 00:12:25,267 Then when I became 15. 271 00:12:25,331 --> 00:12:26,563 And I want to show this. 272 00:12:26,659 --> 00:12:29,779 I want to get this on video for those that challenge the timeline 273 00:12:29,827 --> 00:12:30,355 of my life. 274 00:12:30,395 --> 00:12:36,339 For all the Investigators, this is 1998. 275 00:12:36,387 --> 00:12:38,483 Now, this is a letter my mother wrote me. 276 00:12:38,579 --> 00:12:40,003 And I want you to do the math. 277 00:12:40,059 --> 00:12:43,563 Now go to my Wikipedia page and you see when I was born. 278 00:12:43,699 --> 00:12:45,915 And then you do the math on 1998. 279 00:12:45,955 --> 00:12:49,387 Now, people are going to say this is AI doing this presentation 280 00:12:49,451 --> 00:12:51,339 or that this is fake. 281 00:12:51,387 --> 00:12:54,553 And I wrote this in there and dated it because it's never enough 282 00:12:54,609 --> 00:12:56,005 for the investigators. 283 00:12:56,345 --> 00:12:58,577 But let me just show you 1998. 284 00:12:58,641 --> 00:13:02,265 My mom said I had the privilege of watching you preach 285 00:13:02,305 --> 00:13:03,605 your first sermon. 286 00:13:04,025 --> 00:13:09,705 I was 15 years old, and this Bible was a gift to me to inaugurate 287 00:13:09,745 --> 00:13:13,609 the beginning of my ministry as I started to preach all over. 288 00:13:13,737 --> 00:13:14,169 And I. 289 00:13:14,217 --> 00:13:16,297 And this is called a Dake Annotated. 290 00:13:16,441 --> 00:13:18,001 And this thing is wild. 291 00:13:18,193 --> 00:13:19,361 I dare you to read this. 292 00:13:19,393 --> 00:13:21,289 Now I'm going to Open this one up and show you what this. 293 00:13:21,337 --> 00:13:23,743 Now, there are no pictures in this one like that. 294 00:13:23,889 --> 00:13:25,495 Oh, look, it's highlighted. 295 00:13:26,315 --> 00:13:29,091 It's almost like I've read every page of it. 296 00:13:29,243 --> 00:13:32,971 And this gives you the Greek because, yes, I do understand the 297 00:13:33,003 --> 00:13:33,219 Greek. 298 00:13:33,267 --> 00:13:36,083 I'm getting straight A's in my master's program right now, by the 299 00:13:36,099 --> 00:13:36,491 way. 300 00:13:36,603 --> 00:13:38,255 Talk to my professors. 301 00:13:39,555 --> 00:13:42,195 And I highlighted this and read it for years. 302 00:13:42,235 --> 00:13:45,435 It has the Greek, Hebrew, and it goes in the historic count. 303 00:13:45,475 --> 00:13:48,787 And there's four columns on every page, and the middle two are 304 00:13:48,811 --> 00:13:51,095 the Scriptures and King James, by the way. 305 00:13:51,495 --> 00:13:54,807 And you know a real saint when they start throwing the King James 306 00:13:54,871 --> 00:13:55,475 around. 307 00:13:55,935 --> 00:14:00,847 And I read every page of this, and I feasted on this Word and I 308 00:14:00,871 --> 00:14:01,599 go back to. 309 00:14:01,687 --> 00:14:03,231 I kind of find my way going back. 310 00:14:03,263 --> 00:14:08,015 And look, somebody's life is not falling apart if their Bible 311 00:14:08,095 --> 00:14:08,715 is. 312 00:14:09,775 --> 00:14:13,991 And then when I launched this church, this was the Bible that I 313 00:14:14,063 --> 00:14:15,543 launched the church with. 314 00:14:15,719 --> 00:14:17,915 And I don't know why I was. 315 00:14:18,295 --> 00:14:20,675 I thought it would be cool to have a little Bible. 316 00:14:21,335 --> 00:14:23,515 This was the counterbalance to this. 317 00:14:24,855 --> 00:14:27,191 And I read this Bible, I mean, through and through. 318 00:14:27,223 --> 00:14:32,279 And I would take this Bible to the shores of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 319 00:14:32,407 --> 00:14:36,519 and every single week, I would get alone and I would take this book 320 00:14:36,567 --> 00:14:39,487 out in every weather, and I would look out to New York City, 321 00:14:39,511 --> 00:14:42,111 I would look out into Manhattan, and I would read this 322 00:14:42,143 --> 00:14:44,731 and I would say, God, what would you say to your people? 323 00:14:44,903 --> 00:14:47,339 And this was when we only had one location of the church. 324 00:14:47,387 --> 00:14:50,747 And I launched three locations of the church with this Bible. 325 00:14:50,891 --> 00:14:55,475 And every page just poured over this. 326 00:14:55,555 --> 00:14:57,935 Matter of fact, this is the Message version. 327 00:14:58,275 --> 00:15:03,259 And this actually, to go from King James to Message was an indicator 328 00:15:03,307 --> 00:15:05,175 of who I was leading. 329 00:15:05,475 --> 00:15:08,651 And it was because the people of Long island were new to the Word. 330 00:15:08,683 --> 00:15:11,731 And I was going back and I was saying, okay, Lord, how do I make 331 00:15:11,763 --> 00:15:12,875 this make sense to them? 332 00:15:12,915 --> 00:15:17,093 And so I got a modern English vernacular version so that I could 333 00:15:17,149 --> 00:15:19,425 serve the people of Long island better. 334 00:15:19,765 --> 00:15:20,621 And I read this. 335 00:15:20,653 --> 00:15:21,877 So I have read the Bible. 336 00:15:21,941 --> 00:15:26,941 And I'm not saying this in any way to peacock or to puff myself 337 00:15:27,013 --> 00:15:30,549 up, but these are just three of my Bibles. 338 00:15:30,677 --> 00:15:33,557 And I've read the Bible, Genesis to Revelation many, many 339 00:15:33,621 --> 00:15:38,237 times, and I get a new revelation every single time. 340 00:15:38,421 --> 00:15:42,805 But I say that because as I started my ministry, I. 341 00:15:43,385 --> 00:15:47,273 You know, I've been a preacher, I've been an evangelist, 342 00:15:47,409 --> 00:15:50,105 I've been a prophet, and I've been many things. 343 00:15:50,145 --> 00:15:51,605 I was a worship leader. 344 00:15:51,985 --> 00:15:54,649 Sometimes I wish I still was only a worship leader. 345 00:15:54,697 --> 00:15:58,337 I Used to think that season was so hard, and now I'm like, lord, 346 00:15:58,401 --> 00:15:59,409 please bring it back. 347 00:15:59,457 --> 00:16:03,113 Just let me only play the guitar and, you know, rock out every 348 00:16:03,169 --> 00:16:04,689 week instead of all this. 349 00:16:04,737 --> 00:16:07,345 And so I've been through many different seasons, but when the Lord 350 00:16:07,385 --> 00:16:12,569 called me to plant a church, I was going through a very hard time 351 00:16:12,697 --> 00:16:16,449 wrestling with it because the Lord specifically told me to uproot 352 00:16:16,497 --> 00:16:18,929 my family and move to New York. 353 00:16:19,057 --> 00:16:21,297 And specifically he said New York City. 354 00:16:21,441 --> 00:16:26,225 And so the story goes that I didn't want to go to New York. 355 00:16:26,265 --> 00:16:27,685 I wanted to be sent. 356 00:16:27,985 --> 00:16:31,193 Because all the times I've read the Bible, from when I was a 357 00:16:31,209 --> 00:16:35,113 little kid all the way till now, I've noticed there's two kinds 358 00:16:35,129 --> 00:16:36,485 of people in the Bible. 359 00:16:36,665 --> 00:16:41,101 Those who do something, and those who are told to do something. 360 00:16:41,293 --> 00:16:45,117 And those who do something always get shut down by God. 361 00:16:45,301 --> 00:16:46,413 And then those who are. 362 00:16:46,469 --> 00:16:49,901 Who do what they're told by God always end up getting the blessing 363 00:16:49,933 --> 00:16:53,189 and favor of God in their life, even in the midst of persecution. 364 00:16:53,357 --> 00:16:56,677 And so it was very important that I didn't come to New York City 365 00:16:56,781 --> 00:17:00,229 because I felt like it, because I wanted to be cool, because 366 00:17:00,277 --> 00:17:02,409 I thought it was better than Northwest Indiana. 367 00:17:02,517 --> 00:17:05,681 It was important that I was sent to New York, which means a group 368 00:17:05,713 --> 00:17:09,393 of apostolic leaders believed in the vision that God gave me, and 369 00:17:09,409 --> 00:17:12,089 they were backing me and holding me accountable to that. 370 00:17:12,257 --> 00:17:13,481 And so I did that. 371 00:17:13,593 --> 00:17:16,465 But before I did that, there was a moment where I was at a church 372 00:17:16,505 --> 00:17:17,769 planning conference. 373 00:17:17,937 --> 00:17:20,513 And at that time, I had made, you know, just. 374 00:17:20,569 --> 00:17:21,881 I was the executive pastor. 375 00:17:21,913 --> 00:17:25,497 I was a number two, like a Joshua, an assistant. 376 00:17:25,561 --> 00:17:29,761 I was an assistant to Moses, and I was number two at a large church. 377 00:17:29,793 --> 00:17:35,617 And I made $330 a week after taxes, and I tithed off of that, 378 00:17:35,641 --> 00:17:36,529 and I gave offerings. 379 00:17:36,577 --> 00:17:39,765 And I lived in a little apartment down by the river. 380 00:17:40,425 --> 00:17:41,905 It was in Chesterton, Indiana. 381 00:17:41,945 --> 00:17:43,433 There was a train that went through. 382 00:17:43,529 --> 00:17:46,297 And every time the train would go through, it would rattle my entire 383 00:17:46,441 --> 00:17:47,257 apartment. 384 00:17:47,401 --> 00:17:51,645 And I'd be like, well, I wonder why the rent is so cheap. 385 00:17:52,065 --> 00:17:53,065 Because all night long. 386 00:17:53,105 --> 00:17:54,409 And Everly was a baby. 387 00:17:54,457 --> 00:17:57,545 And so, like, you know, that place would wait, it would rock. 388 00:17:57,585 --> 00:18:00,441 And Everly was a baby, and she'd wake up, and she's never stopped 389 00:18:00,473 --> 00:18:01,965 crying since that day. 390 00:18:03,105 --> 00:18:07,081 And so, you know, and I think there was something about being back 391 00:18:07,113 --> 00:18:11,897 in Northwest Indiana and yet and having a family and knowing that 392 00:18:11,921 --> 00:18:14,801 I was just down the street from where I used to own a home. 393 00:18:14,913 --> 00:18:19,297 I felt ashamed that I wasn't a good enough provider for My family. 394 00:18:19,441 --> 00:18:22,545 And I knew I was in the will of God, but I felt ashamed because 395 00:18:22,585 --> 00:18:24,249 I had two value systems. 396 00:18:24,337 --> 00:18:25,673 And I want to say this to everybody. 397 00:18:25,729 --> 00:18:29,897 Across all six locations, you got to determine are you going to 398 00:18:29,921 --> 00:18:31,725 serve God or serve Mammon? 399 00:18:32,225 --> 00:18:35,921 Because Mammon is the demonic system of finances. 400 00:18:36,113 --> 00:18:38,569 And there's so many people that they really don't serve God. 401 00:18:38,617 --> 00:18:42,569 They actually like the number one slot is Mammon, which is finances, 402 00:18:42,617 --> 00:18:44,369 and God is number two still. 403 00:18:44,537 --> 00:18:49,681 And so I was really wrestling between God and Mammon and I just 404 00:18:49,713 --> 00:18:50,529 felt bad. 405 00:18:50,657 --> 00:18:54,489 And so we went to this conference by my apostolic oversight. 406 00:18:54,657 --> 00:18:59,325 And I said, julie, I'm just going to quit ministry and I'm gonna 407 00:18:59,365 --> 00:19:03,069 start my businesses back up and we're just gonna live a good 408 00:19:03,117 --> 00:19:03,709 life. 409 00:19:03,877 --> 00:19:06,621 And you know, I'm sorry I did this to us. 410 00:19:06,653 --> 00:19:08,333 I'm sorry that we live down by the river. 411 00:19:08,389 --> 00:19:11,765 I'm sorry that the train comes all through the night and wakes us 412 00:19:11,805 --> 00:19:12,385 up. 413 00:19:12,765 --> 00:19:15,989 And I just was like deeply repentant as a husband. 414 00:19:16,037 --> 00:19:19,789 Cause I felt like my priority to provide for my family, I was not 415 00:19:19,837 --> 00:19:22,197 doing that as well as I should. 416 00:19:22,381 --> 00:19:25,341 And Julie put her lovingly, put her hand on my shoulder and said, 417 00:19:25,373 --> 00:19:28,853 mike, you know, we are going to plant a church in New York City. 418 00:19:28,989 --> 00:19:31,501 And now that's like the Hallmark movie moment. 419 00:19:31,653 --> 00:19:34,173 And all of you here are probably thinking, man, I wish I 420 00:19:34,189 --> 00:19:36,141 had a spouse that supported me like that. 421 00:19:36,253 --> 00:19:38,425 But in the moment, it didn't even work. 422 00:19:38,845 --> 00:19:41,785 And I was like, julie, just leave me alone. 423 00:19:42,125 --> 00:19:46,185 I'm tired of that Pentecostal spirit filled crap. 424 00:19:46,645 --> 00:19:48,917 Don't tell me it's going to be okay. 425 00:19:48,981 --> 00:19:49,869 I'm tired of this. 426 00:19:49,917 --> 00:19:52,165 And this leader fell and this leader did me dirty. 427 00:19:52,205 --> 00:19:52,533 And this. 428 00:19:52,589 --> 00:19:54,185 I'm like, you know how it is. 429 00:19:54,655 --> 00:19:55,863 So I go to the conference. 430 00:19:55,919 --> 00:19:58,319 I'm walking around this whole conference looking at these guys, 431 00:19:58,367 --> 00:19:59,435 hey, what's up my. 432 00:20:01,455 --> 00:20:04,679 You know, because all the church planters had the same haircut, 433 00:20:04,807 --> 00:20:08,327 they all wearing skinny jeans, they all wearing bomber jackets. 434 00:20:08,471 --> 00:20:10,575 It was like a starter kit back then. 435 00:20:10,615 --> 00:20:13,255 You know, it's like, you buy your church planter starter kit. 436 00:20:13,335 --> 00:20:15,487 They all had their Nikes, the Pandas. 437 00:20:15,631 --> 00:20:17,375 You know, it's just like, what's up, man? 438 00:20:17,415 --> 00:20:18,695 What's up, bro Systems? 439 00:20:18,735 --> 00:20:22,809 Yeah, you know, that was the whole church planner world. 440 00:20:22,937 --> 00:20:26,001 So I'm seeing all these guys and they're all second generation 441 00:20:26,073 --> 00:20:29,201 ministries with dads that are going to fund their church and all 442 00:20:29,233 --> 00:20:29,625 this stuff. 443 00:20:29,665 --> 00:20:32,257 And I was just like in the worst mood. 444 00:20:32,401 --> 00:20:36,033 And then we get to the end of the day and when we get to the end 445 00:20:36,049 --> 00:20:40,825 of the day, the last session was this guy, Juan Veriken, and Juan 446 00:20:40,865 --> 00:20:42,085 Varikin was. 447 00:20:42,425 --> 00:20:43,465 He is still. 448 00:20:43,585 --> 00:20:47,013 He's the number two for the John Maxwell organization over all 449 00:20:47,029 --> 00:20:48,253 of Latin America. 450 00:20:48,389 --> 00:20:51,413 And he gets up there and he gets to the end of his message, and 451 00:20:51,429 --> 00:20:55,453 he said, this morning, I was in prayer, and I got this prophetic 452 00:20:55,509 --> 00:20:55,813 word. 453 00:20:55,869 --> 00:21:00,133 I could hear this husband and wife in a car having a conversation 454 00:21:00,189 --> 00:21:02,725 in a parking lot, in our parking lot. 455 00:21:02,845 --> 00:21:06,005 And I start freaking out because the first thing I think is, 456 00:21:06,045 --> 00:21:07,945 I can't get away with nothing. 457 00:21:08,845 --> 00:21:10,061 Anybody else like that. 458 00:21:10,093 --> 00:21:11,181 Where it's like, you just. 459 00:21:11,253 --> 00:21:14,659 The Lord, there's something on your life and you have friends. 460 00:21:14,747 --> 00:21:17,251 Everybody can get away with it except for you. 461 00:21:17,363 --> 00:21:18,707 And you try to run from it. 462 00:21:18,731 --> 00:21:20,683 And the Lord's just like, yeah, keep playing games. 463 00:21:20,739 --> 00:21:21,963 I'm coming for you. 464 00:21:22,099 --> 00:21:23,123 That's me. 465 00:21:23,299 --> 00:21:24,227 That is me. 466 00:21:24,331 --> 00:21:26,579 So all of a sudden, when he said there was a husband and wife 467 00:21:26,627 --> 00:21:29,219 having a conversation in the parking lot, the first thing I thought, 468 00:21:29,267 --> 00:21:30,787 lord, you can't let me. 469 00:21:30,891 --> 00:21:32,415 I can't do nothing. 470 00:21:32,835 --> 00:21:35,331 Then all of a sudden he said, and I heard them. 471 00:21:35,363 --> 00:21:38,539 And it was like the husband was trying to give up the vision. 472 00:21:38,587 --> 00:21:39,667 The husband was trying. 473 00:21:39,771 --> 00:21:41,937 And the Lord says, you will do the vision. 474 00:21:42,051 --> 00:21:43,949 You will do what God called you to do. 475 00:21:44,037 --> 00:21:45,693 And he's saying that from the stage. 476 00:21:45,749 --> 00:21:47,453 And I'm feeling the presence of God. 477 00:21:47,549 --> 00:21:50,225 And he says, it's time to go V1. 478 00:21:50,685 --> 00:21:52,533 Now, I didn't know what V1 meant. 479 00:21:52,629 --> 00:21:54,621 And he begins to explain it on stage. 480 00:21:54,653 --> 00:21:57,117 And he said, I was in an airplane with John Maxwell. 481 00:21:57,141 --> 00:21:58,485 It was a private jet. 482 00:21:58,605 --> 00:22:02,461 And he said, as the plane took off the Runway, the moment we got 483 00:22:02,493 --> 00:22:05,989 off the Runway, I heard the pilot say, V1. 484 00:22:06,157 --> 00:22:09,317 So when we got to cruising altitude, I walked up to the cockpit 485 00:22:09,341 --> 00:22:10,611 and I said, hey, I got a question. 486 00:22:10,733 --> 00:22:13,295 What does V1 mean, out of curiosity? 487 00:22:13,415 --> 00:22:17,319 And he said, oh, we have to calculate the distance of the Runway. 488 00:22:17,447 --> 00:22:20,703 So when you get to the end of the Runway, that's called V1. 489 00:22:20,759 --> 00:22:22,463 It's the decision speed. 490 00:22:22,599 --> 00:22:25,951 And what it means is this thing is going to fly whether the 491 00:22:25,983 --> 00:22:29,535 end, there's engine failure, if the tire blows out, this thing, 492 00:22:29,615 --> 00:22:32,855 the force of nature has taken over because the plane's going too 493 00:22:32,895 --> 00:22:33,287 fast. 494 00:22:33,391 --> 00:22:34,727 It has to take off. 495 00:22:34,831 --> 00:22:36,055 It's the decision speed. 496 00:22:36,095 --> 00:22:38,055 You cannot abort takeoff. 497 00:22:38,175 --> 00:22:42,129 And the Lord was saying through him, it's time to go v1. 498 00:22:42,257 --> 00:22:44,113 You cannot abort takeoff. 499 00:22:44,169 --> 00:22:46,105 It's time to fly, man. 500 00:22:46,185 --> 00:22:46,849 Crazy. 501 00:22:46,977 --> 00:22:48,097 And he's like, it's time. 502 00:22:48,161 --> 00:22:51,905 He's literally screaming this, if that's you, grab your wife's hand 503 00:22:51,945 --> 00:22:53,241 if you were the person in the car. 504 00:22:53,273 --> 00:22:56,801 And I grabbed Julie's hand, you know, and I'm just bawling my 505 00:22:56,833 --> 00:22:57,417 eyes out now. 506 00:22:57,441 --> 00:22:58,833 And I'm like, I'm so stupid. 507 00:22:58,889 --> 00:22:59,885 God, please. 508 00:23:01,025 --> 00:23:03,577 And all of a sudden, he's like, let me pray for you. 509 00:23:03,601 --> 00:23:04,729 It's time to go v1. 510 00:23:04,777 --> 00:23:06,835 So it sealed it. 511 00:23:06,995 --> 00:23:09,643 Then all of a sudden, we come walking out in the parking lot, and 512 00:23:09,659 --> 00:23:12,095 Julie's looking at me like, you idiot. 513 00:23:12,595 --> 00:23:13,107 You're like. 514 00:23:13,131 --> 00:23:15,507 She has that look like, I told you. 515 00:23:15,651 --> 00:23:16,851 I told you. 516 00:23:17,003 --> 00:23:19,587 So I look back at her and I said, well, because we didn't have 517 00:23:19,611 --> 00:23:22,851 a name for our church yet, because we've been telling people 518 00:23:22,883 --> 00:23:24,875 we were going to move to New York to plant a church. 519 00:23:24,955 --> 00:23:26,131 And they said, well, what's the name? 520 00:23:26,163 --> 00:23:27,275 And I would say, I don't know yet. 521 00:23:27,315 --> 00:23:28,531 God hasn't given me a name. 522 00:23:28,643 --> 00:23:30,827 So I turned to Julie and I said, well, you know the name of 523 00:23:30,851 --> 00:23:33,295 our church now, it's got to be V1 church. 524 00:23:33,715 --> 00:23:37,195 So for those of you who've never heard the meaning of the name, 525 00:23:37,315 --> 00:23:40,843 and there's many that haven't, I want to re pour that vision. 526 00:23:40,979 --> 00:23:43,255 It is the point of no return. 527 00:23:43,835 --> 00:23:44,779 It is we. 528 00:23:44,867 --> 00:23:46,803 This thing is going to fly. 529 00:23:46,939 --> 00:23:48,107 It is V1. 530 00:23:48,171 --> 00:23:49,019 That's what it means. 531 00:23:49,107 --> 00:23:49,939 No turning back. 532 00:23:49,987 --> 00:23:52,015 Somebody shout, no turning back. 533 00:23:53,435 --> 00:23:57,251 Now, we're eight years into this thing, and we planted seven 534 00:23:57,323 --> 00:23:57,835 locations. 535 00:23:57,915 --> 00:23:59,313 But let me just tell you this. 536 00:23:59,419 --> 00:24:01,869 There's been many other times I've wanted to quit. 537 00:24:01,997 --> 00:24:04,305 Some of y'all have made me want to quit. 538 00:24:04,965 --> 00:24:07,425 I'm telling you straight up, you're the reason. 539 00:24:07,725 --> 00:24:10,125 It's like a mom, you know, I feel like a mom and a dad. 540 00:24:10,165 --> 00:24:12,517 Like, y'all are the reason I want to quit now. 541 00:24:12,701 --> 00:24:15,189 And there's been many times where I've wanted to give up. 542 00:24:15,277 --> 00:24:15,573 But. 543 00:24:15,629 --> 00:24:20,573 But the thing about V1, it's a perpetual commitment to no turning 544 00:24:20,629 --> 00:24:21,133 back. 545 00:24:21,269 --> 00:24:25,557 Joshua and Caleb, they had to make a decision to go V1. 546 00:24:25,701 --> 00:24:26,413 And this is. 547 00:24:26,469 --> 00:24:28,755 It means to give yes completely. 548 00:24:28,885 --> 00:24:31,943 So will you turn to the person next to you and say, will you give 549 00:24:31,999 --> 00:24:32,995 your yes? 550 00:24:34,855 --> 00:24:35,271 Come on. 551 00:24:35,303 --> 00:24:38,275 Turn on the other side and ask him, will you give your yes? 552 00:24:40,455 --> 00:24:43,471 Okay, now I want you to ask him again another way. 553 00:24:43,583 --> 00:24:44,447 Ask them this. 554 00:24:44,551 --> 00:24:47,075 Will you give your yes completely? 555 00:24:49,855 --> 00:24:50,495 Come on, now. 556 00:24:50,535 --> 00:24:51,887 Ask the other person again. 557 00:24:51,991 --> 00:24:54,475 Will you give your yes completely? 558 00:24:57,935 --> 00:24:58,375 Come on. 559 00:24:58,415 --> 00:25:01,527 Because there's a difference between giving a yes and giving a 560 00:25:01,551 --> 00:25:02,675 yes completely. 561 00:25:03,455 --> 00:25:06,127 There's a lot of times people give their yes, but they don't give 562 00:25:06,151 --> 00:25:06,983 it completely. 563 00:25:07,079 --> 00:25:11,775 In numbers chapter 13 and 14, it's like Joshua and Caleb were the 564 00:25:11,815 --> 00:25:13,959 only two that gave their yes completely. 565 00:25:14,007 --> 00:25:16,655 It wasn't a maybe, it was a yes completely. 566 00:25:16,695 --> 00:25:20,289 So on my worst days over the last eight years, I've said, God, 567 00:25:20,407 --> 00:25:22,741 I give you my yes completely. 568 00:25:22,893 --> 00:25:26,141 So if you're taking notes, I want you to write this down. 569 00:25:26,253 --> 00:25:30,877 In order to go v1, you need a ground crew and you need a flight 570 00:25:30,941 --> 00:25:32,493 crew and you need fuel. 571 00:25:32,549 --> 00:25:34,345 We're going to learn how to fly today. 572 00:25:34,885 --> 00:25:39,629 You need a ground crew, you need a flight crew and you need fuel 573 00:25:39,757 --> 00:25:42,125 and so let's talk about a ground crew. 574 00:25:42,285 --> 00:25:45,165 Let me talk about the ground crew because we're about to take 575 00:25:45,205 --> 00:25:45,845 flight. 576 00:25:46,005 --> 00:25:47,869 So yeah, check this out. 577 00:25:47,957 --> 00:25:49,165 No turning back. 578 00:25:49,285 --> 00:25:50,397 Oh, I like that. 579 00:25:50,501 --> 00:25:51,585 I like that. 580 00:25:52,165 --> 00:25:53,065 Come on. 581 00:25:53,405 --> 00:25:57,493 So In Romans chapter 12, verse 13, it says, Contribute to the needs 582 00:25:57,549 --> 00:26:01,341 of the saints and seek to show them hospitality. 583 00:26:01,453 --> 00:26:03,141 So here's what a ground crew is. 584 00:26:03,213 --> 00:26:07,197 It's the person opening up their home early on a Sunday morning 585 00:26:07,261 --> 00:26:09,765 in Canada for a watch party. 586 00:26:09,925 --> 00:26:13,521 It's the person opening their home for a watch party fueled by 587 00:26:13,553 --> 00:26:15,377 the hospitality that they see. 588 00:26:15,441 --> 00:26:18,325 Modeled in Romans chapter 12, verse 13. 589 00:26:18,745 --> 00:26:20,161 What else is a ground crew? 590 00:26:20,233 --> 00:26:25,073 It's the person driving across Long island to open up this storage 591 00:26:25,129 --> 00:26:28,617 closet and pull out the kids equipment and begin to set things 592 00:26:28,681 --> 00:26:29,289 up. 593 00:26:29,457 --> 00:26:30,601 What is a ground crew? 594 00:26:30,633 --> 00:26:34,809 It's the person brewing coffee to hand it to a first time guest 595 00:26:34,897 --> 00:26:37,645 who was nervous about walking through the doors. 596 00:26:38,185 --> 00:26:39,601 What is a ground crew? 597 00:26:39,673 --> 00:26:42,569 It's the members that facilitate the environments we're 598 00:26:42,617 --> 00:26:46,677 healing and deliverance from demons and salvation and biblical 599 00:26:46,741 --> 00:26:48,661 formation begin to happen. 600 00:26:48,813 --> 00:26:53,021 In Joshua chapter six it says they are like the ones who prepared 601 00:26:53,053 --> 00:26:55,445 the way for Joshua to conquer Jericho. 602 00:26:55,565 --> 00:26:59,413 They may not be on the front lines, but they play this very vital 603 00:26:59,469 --> 00:27:01,005 role in God's plan. 604 00:27:01,125 --> 00:27:05,037 So Joshua was, was the leader, but, but there were those that had 605 00:27:05,061 --> 00:27:07,661 to march around those walls and they were saying, we're doing 606 00:27:07,693 --> 00:27:10,153 our part, we're all going to make a noise, we're all going to 607 00:27:10,169 --> 00:27:11,041 blow our trumpet. 608 00:27:11,113 --> 00:27:14,121 When it comes time, we're all going to do what God's called us 609 00:27:14,153 --> 00:27:14,585 to do. 610 00:27:14,665 --> 00:27:17,913 And that ground crew was on the ground of Jericho. 611 00:27:18,009 --> 00:27:21,497 And as they all marched around those walls, when it came time to 612 00:27:21,521 --> 00:27:23,577 make their sound, those walls came down. 613 00:27:23,681 --> 00:27:25,073 We need a ground crew. 614 00:27:25,169 --> 00:27:27,441 Every airport has a ground crew. 615 00:27:27,553 --> 00:27:32,049 And no, no plane goes into the air without the ground crew. 616 00:27:32,137 --> 00:27:35,833 We need ground crews in Brooklyn that will take the subway 617 00:27:35,929 --> 00:27:39,449 and they'll get out on their station and walk to that venue and 618 00:27:39,497 --> 00:27:41,681 open up the doors and plug everything in. 619 00:27:41,753 --> 00:27:44,553 And they're the ones that facilitate all the ministry that 620 00:27:44,609 --> 00:27:46,753 happens where the walls begin to fall down. 621 00:27:46,849 --> 00:27:48,325 Are y'all with me? 622 00:27:48,705 --> 00:27:50,889 And so we need to fl. 623 00:27:50,937 --> 00:27:52,393 We need a ground crew. 624 00:27:52,569 --> 00:27:55,673 And if you're in the dream team, you're the ground crew. 625 00:27:55,849 --> 00:27:59,545 And you're the ones who say, now, when I first moved here, I remember 626 00:27:59,625 --> 00:28:03,059 saying, I have a vision where people are going to wake up at five 627 00:28:03,107 --> 00:28:06,083 in the morning and they're going to get all showered and dressed, 628 00:28:06,099 --> 00:28:08,547 and then they're going to come and they're going to load in at a 629 00:28:08,571 --> 00:28:10,451 movie theater and set it all up. 630 00:28:10,563 --> 00:28:15,347 And all the pastors out here said, bro, you're from the Midwest. 631 00:28:15,411 --> 00:28:16,619 That's Midwest stuff. 632 00:28:16,667 --> 00:28:18,099 That's Bible Belt stuff. 633 00:28:18,187 --> 00:28:19,659 That doesn't happen on Long Island. 634 00:28:19,707 --> 00:28:21,175 I said, watch me. 635 00:28:23,275 --> 00:28:25,675 And I have an acronym in my book called. 636 00:28:25,795 --> 00:28:26,907 I have a book called. 637 00:28:27,051 --> 00:28:27,659 What's it called? 638 00:28:27,707 --> 00:28:29,215 From Chaos to Clarity. 639 00:28:29,515 --> 00:28:31,655 No Turning Back's the subtitle. 640 00:28:33,555 --> 00:28:36,659 And it was called Go V1, but I changed it. 641 00:28:36,747 --> 00:28:39,027 And then this is where I'm drawing a lot of this. 642 00:28:39,171 --> 00:28:42,603 What we're talking about and what I told people is there's an 643 00:28:42,619 --> 00:28:44,095 acronym for haters. 644 00:28:44,435 --> 00:28:46,735 Having anger towards everyone. 645 00:28:48,035 --> 00:28:50,455 Having anger towards everyone. 646 00:28:50,995 --> 00:28:52,175 What's the R? 647 00:28:53,245 --> 00:28:54,465 Something Success. 648 00:28:55,645 --> 00:28:58,865 And it's like, as you begin to achieve success. 649 00:28:59,845 --> 00:29:00,525 Yeah. 650 00:29:00,645 --> 00:29:01,725 Realizing success. 651 00:29:01,805 --> 00:29:04,985 I think it is whoever read the book, stand up and shout it out. 652 00:29:05,725 --> 00:29:08,605 But what will happen is as you start to move in the direction of 653 00:29:08,645 --> 00:29:10,665 kingdom success, you're going to have haters. 654 00:29:11,285 --> 00:29:14,621 And one of the things that we learned very early on is even when 655 00:29:14,653 --> 00:29:17,205 our church was 50 people, we had haters. 656 00:29:17,365 --> 00:29:19,541 Some people are like, I don't know if I can go to V1 church. 657 00:29:19,573 --> 00:29:22,567 I can't stand seeing the way they talk about Pastor Eddie. 658 00:29:22,671 --> 00:29:23,967 I'm like, well, guess what? 659 00:29:24,071 --> 00:29:26,575 If you achieve your destiny, they're going to be talking about 660 00:29:26,615 --> 00:29:27,435 you too. 661 00:29:27,775 --> 00:29:30,159 I don't like the way they talk about Pastor Sandra. 662 00:29:30,207 --> 00:29:30,943 I love her. 663 00:29:31,039 --> 00:29:31,607 Guess what? 664 00:29:31,671 --> 00:29:33,007 You're the next Sandra. 665 00:29:33,111 --> 00:29:35,951 And when you rise up to accomplish what God has for you, 666 00:29:36,023 --> 00:29:37,647 they're going to be talking about you. 667 00:29:37,791 --> 00:29:41,983 And so it's like, anybody that realizes success and reaching success, 668 00:29:42,079 --> 00:29:42,927 praise God. 669 00:29:43,031 --> 00:29:47,073 Having anger towards everyone, reaching success, those are haters. 670 00:29:47,209 --> 00:29:49,249 It's like it makes them angry for you. 671 00:29:49,337 --> 00:29:49,633 Why? 672 00:29:49,689 --> 00:29:51,205 But let me tell you the secret. 673 00:29:51,545 --> 00:29:55,225 It was when I came to Long island and said, I can get a group 674 00:29:55,265 --> 00:29:58,897 of people that will wake up and get dressed and come early to 675 00:29:58,921 --> 00:29:59,809 set everything up. 676 00:29:59,897 --> 00:30:01,017 I didn't realize it. 677 00:30:01,081 --> 00:30:03,001 They weren't actually mad at me. 678 00:30:03,113 --> 00:30:05,525 I was disturbing their comfort level. 679 00:30:06,305 --> 00:30:08,937 And they had convinced themselves that they couldn't have 680 00:30:08,961 --> 00:30:10,433 a revival on Long island. 681 00:30:10,529 --> 00:30:13,367 And I was coming and disrupting these lies that they've. 682 00:30:13,441 --> 00:30:15,955 And they were telling themselves, let's just readjust our 683 00:30:15,995 --> 00:30:16,667 expectation. 684 00:30:16,771 --> 00:30:19,523 Then when I came to New York City to plan our first church, all 685 00:30:19,539 --> 00:30:22,379 the New York City pastors said, hey, I just want to set your 686 00:30:22,427 --> 00:30:22,963 expectation. 687 00:30:23,019 --> 00:30:26,475 You'll only get one thing done a week if your church exceeds. 688 00:30:26,555 --> 00:30:30,779 Tim Keller's team told me, and by the way, Tim Keller's church was 689 00:30:30,827 --> 00:30:33,211 a 5,000 person church. 690 00:30:33,403 --> 00:30:37,987 And they told me, and I honor them, but they told me, if you achieve 691 00:30:38,051 --> 00:30:41,095 100 people in New York City, your church is thriving. 692 00:30:42,045 --> 00:30:44,109 And I said, but you've achieved 5,000. 693 00:30:44,197 --> 00:30:45,653 Teach me how to do that. 694 00:30:45,829 --> 00:30:48,397 And they're like, well, no, but that's a special grace from God. 695 00:30:48,461 --> 00:30:51,665 Okay, get the anointing oil out and put it on me. 696 00:30:52,805 --> 00:30:57,365 Like, I want to be special because I can't live in a city with 697 00:30:57,405 --> 00:31:02,825 10 million people and only surrender to 100 is thriving. 698 00:31:03,245 --> 00:31:06,925 And so the reason why I say this, but what it was like me believing 699 00:31:07,005 --> 00:31:09,291 for more disrupted the bubble. 700 00:31:09,363 --> 00:31:11,363 So some of you don't realize they don't hate you. 701 00:31:11,419 --> 00:31:15,655 They hate the inconvenience that your dreams cause. 702 00:31:15,955 --> 00:31:17,419 They don't hate you. 703 00:31:17,507 --> 00:31:21,335 They hate the fact that you're disrupting the lies that they believed. 704 00:31:21,755 --> 00:31:22,779 And so guess what? 705 00:31:22,827 --> 00:31:26,547 I'm thankful for all the ground crew that showed up that said, 706 00:31:26,611 --> 00:31:30,003 pastor Mike, we're just as crazy as you, and we used to be out 707 00:31:30,019 --> 00:31:34,811 in the clubs until 6am so surely we can wake up at 5am and 708 00:31:34,843 --> 00:31:36,939 set up in a movie theater and a nightclub. 709 00:31:37,027 --> 00:31:38,429 And we're the wild ones. 710 00:31:38,507 --> 00:31:40,097 And your ground crew is here. 711 00:31:40,201 --> 00:31:41,073 Let's take flight. 712 00:31:41,129 --> 00:31:42,793 Let's get this thing up off the ground. 713 00:31:42,889 --> 00:31:45,785 And eight years later, we're still setting up. 714 00:31:45,865 --> 00:31:49,201 But now we're setting up in six physical locations around the 715 00:31:49,233 --> 00:31:49,689 U.S. 716 00:31:49,817 --> 00:31:53,425 we're still waking up early and going to bed late because this 717 00:31:53,465 --> 00:31:55,285 thing is not stopping. 718 00:31:56,225 --> 00:31:57,125 Come on. 719 00:31:57,785 --> 00:32:01,569 So we need a ground crew that says, I'm wild and I'm not going 720 00:32:01,577 --> 00:32:04,245 to do more for mammon than I will for God. 721 00:32:04,555 --> 00:32:07,571 And if I do it for money, I'll do it for ministry. 722 00:32:07,723 --> 00:32:11,619 If I would wake up early for money, I'll wake up early for ministry. 723 00:32:11,747 --> 00:32:13,043 Y'all feel me? 724 00:32:13,219 --> 00:32:15,427 Okay, I'm talking to the 9am so they're like, chill. 725 00:32:15,491 --> 00:32:16,667 We just moved to your next point. 726 00:32:16,691 --> 00:32:18,455 We're at the 9am we get it. 727 00:32:21,395 --> 00:32:22,795 So then you need a flight crew. 728 00:32:22,835 --> 00:32:24,375 Everybody say flight crew. 729 00:32:25,835 --> 00:32:27,455 What is a flight crew? 730 00:32:27,795 --> 00:32:29,763 A flight crew is necessary. 731 00:32:29,819 --> 00:32:33,667 So on every airplane, they have a flight crew, and you need 732 00:32:33,691 --> 00:32:35,535 a flight crew on that airplane. 733 00:32:35,835 --> 00:32:37,411 And this is what a flight crew is. 734 00:32:37,443 --> 00:32:41,155 A flight crew is the people driving to a Panera restaurant and 735 00:32:41,195 --> 00:32:44,843 pushing the tables together so that when the rest of the group arrives, 736 00:32:44,939 --> 00:32:47,323 married couples can find healing together. 737 00:32:47,499 --> 00:32:47,955 This is. 738 00:32:47,995 --> 00:32:49,691 This is what a flight crew is. 739 00:32:49,803 --> 00:32:50,099 It's. 740 00:32:50,147 --> 00:32:54,115 Man, I just want to shout out, man, come on, we got RJ and this 741 00:32:54,155 --> 00:32:54,475 guy. 742 00:32:54,555 --> 00:32:59,003 I mean, he is multiplying marriage groups out of his marriage 743 00:32:59,059 --> 00:32:59,635 group. 744 00:32:59,795 --> 00:33:00,731 And you rewind. 745 00:33:00,803 --> 00:33:04,915 Not only has God restored his marriage, but then he actually leads 746 00:33:04,955 --> 00:33:08,187 a flight crew where he's saying, your marriage has taken flight, 747 00:33:08,251 --> 00:33:08,691 too. 748 00:33:08,803 --> 00:33:12,443 And their biggest problem is, Pastor Mike, how do we multiply more 749 00:33:12,499 --> 00:33:13,571 marriage groups? 750 00:33:13,723 --> 00:33:15,195 So these are flight crews. 751 00:33:15,275 --> 00:33:19,459 It's the people in a Brooklyn apartment, the young people who are 752 00:33:19,507 --> 00:33:22,723 breaking bread, and they're praying for each other as they journey 753 00:33:22,779 --> 00:33:24,587 through young adulthood together. 754 00:33:24,691 --> 00:33:25,805 That's a flight crew. 755 00:33:25,845 --> 00:33:27,325 They're taking flight together. 756 00:33:27,445 --> 00:33:29,029 They're holding each other accountable. 757 00:33:29,077 --> 00:33:30,485 They're praying for each other. 758 00:33:30,645 --> 00:33:34,773 It's the people in Zoom that are meeting across countries, and 759 00:33:34,789 --> 00:33:38,285 they're taking turns sharing their thoughts and feelings and reminding 760 00:33:38,325 --> 00:33:40,389 each other of the truth of God's word. 761 00:33:40,517 --> 00:33:43,469 It's the people in that Zoom meeting that are grounding their 762 00:33:43,517 --> 00:33:45,549 discussions in the truth of God's word. 763 00:33:45,637 --> 00:33:49,221 You know, Colossians, chapter three, verse 16, it says this. 764 00:33:49,293 --> 00:33:54,139 Let the word of Christ dwell in you, richly teaching and admonishing 765 00:33:54,187 --> 00:33:58,851 one, each one of, in another, in all wisdom, singing psalms and 766 00:33:58,883 --> 00:34:03,203 hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 767 00:34:03,299 --> 00:34:07,795 What I love about this is James says that we should have designated 768 00:34:07,875 --> 00:34:08,547 teachers. 769 00:34:08,651 --> 00:34:11,131 But then in the book of Colossians, it says, but there's 770 00:34:11,163 --> 00:34:13,459 a low level of teaching to one another. 771 00:34:13,587 --> 00:34:14,411 And what does that mean? 772 00:34:14,443 --> 00:34:15,883 Just hold each other accountable. 773 00:34:15,979 --> 00:34:18,733 When someone says, oh, I'm afraid, then you say, no. 774 00:34:18,789 --> 00:34:20,981 Perfect love casts out all fear. 775 00:34:21,093 --> 00:34:23,181 When somebody feels, oh, no, I'm sick. 776 00:34:23,253 --> 00:34:24,069 No, come here. 777 00:34:24,157 --> 00:34:26,525 The Bible says, forget not his benefit. 778 00:34:26,605 --> 00:34:30,157 It's like there's a low level of dispensing the word of God to 779 00:34:30,181 --> 00:34:30,781 each other. 780 00:34:30,893 --> 00:34:35,301 And it's the men, the men of valor who come together, and they 781 00:34:35,333 --> 00:34:38,821 put worship music on, and they begin to pray for their families. 782 00:34:38,893 --> 00:34:40,085 That's the flight crew. 783 00:34:40,165 --> 00:34:43,145 Ask the person next to you, did you find your crew? 784 00:34:44,855 --> 00:34:47,755 Come on, Ask the other person, did you find your crew? 785 00:34:49,575 --> 00:34:50,815 You listen. 786 00:34:50,935 --> 00:34:52,855 You can have the Ground crew. 787 00:34:52,975 --> 00:34:56,031 But if you don't have the flight crew, you're still not making 788 00:34:56,063 --> 00:34:57,275 it to your destination. 789 00:34:58,175 --> 00:34:59,875 But then you need fuel. 790 00:35:00,575 --> 00:35:03,135 And I just want to break this down in numbers. 791 00:35:03,175 --> 00:35:09,095 Chapter 13, it says they are like the spies who went ahead with 792 00:35:09,135 --> 00:35:12,423 Joshua and Caleb, scouting out the land and bringing back a good 793 00:35:12,479 --> 00:35:13,133 report. 794 00:35:13,319 --> 00:35:16,153 They encourage and support each other on the journey. 795 00:35:16,329 --> 00:35:17,337 And guess what? 796 00:35:17,441 --> 00:35:20,521 It's like when you're sitting in that marriage crew and you're 797 00:35:20,553 --> 00:35:23,057 looking at each other and you're like, I don't know if my marriage 798 00:35:23,121 --> 00:35:24,921 can ever be healthy. 799 00:35:24,993 --> 00:35:27,265 And by the way, can I tell you something about marriage that I'm 800 00:35:27,305 --> 00:35:30,825 learning is that you need to learn how to have a good marriage 801 00:35:30,865 --> 00:35:32,845 at every phase of your marriage. 802 00:35:33,425 --> 00:35:34,209 Because what. 803 00:35:34,297 --> 00:35:37,649 And I'm learning that because I'm right now I'm re upping on God 804 00:35:37,697 --> 00:35:41,763 help me to be a good husband to Julie at this stage in this age. 805 00:35:41,939 --> 00:35:43,971 And so sometimes we think we graduated. 806 00:35:44,043 --> 00:35:45,707 Oh, I graduated. 807 00:35:45,771 --> 00:35:46,563 No, no. 808 00:35:46,699 --> 00:35:50,483 You get into another season and you need another flight crew 809 00:35:50,539 --> 00:35:52,095 to get to a new destination. 810 00:35:52,675 --> 00:35:55,867 And so what does it mean to be healthy in this season? 811 00:35:56,011 --> 00:35:59,035 You know, the teenagers need each other parents. 812 00:35:59,075 --> 00:36:03,355 I don't know if you know this, but every single time that the youth 813 00:36:03,395 --> 00:36:09,413 meet at all of our locations, we actually do Alpha curriculum and 814 00:36:09,429 --> 00:36:13,237 we are installing a biblical worldview into your teenager's mind. 815 00:36:13,341 --> 00:36:16,941 And we're trying to delete a secular humanistic worldview. 816 00:36:17,133 --> 00:36:20,181 And then they get into groups and they talk about it and they're 817 00:36:20,213 --> 00:36:23,253 going through a process of memorizing the scriptures together. 818 00:36:23,389 --> 00:36:26,773 And our youth leaders are doing an incredible job across all 819 00:36:26,789 --> 00:36:30,709 of our locations of working with the Alpha curriculum and getting 820 00:36:30,757 --> 00:36:32,901 a biblical worldview into. 821 00:36:33,013 --> 00:36:35,597 But what it is is like it's the Joshua and Caleb's. 822 00:36:35,661 --> 00:36:38,685 It's the young adults that are leading the teenagers who are saying, 823 00:36:38,725 --> 00:36:40,421 hey, I'm just up ahead of you. 824 00:36:40,453 --> 00:36:44,645 I've spied out the land and I made some of the mistakes you made 825 00:36:44,685 --> 00:36:47,293 as a teenager and I'm going to teach you. 826 00:36:47,389 --> 00:36:48,557 Moses is dead. 827 00:36:48,661 --> 00:36:50,285 This is a Joshua generation. 828 00:36:50,365 --> 00:36:54,141 Let's move into purity and righteousness and sobriety. 829 00:36:54,293 --> 00:36:55,581 Let's memorize scripture. 830 00:36:55,613 --> 00:36:57,117 Let's get this biblical worldview. 831 00:36:57,181 --> 00:36:59,421 You don't have to make the mistakes I made. 832 00:36:59,573 --> 00:37:03,411 It's like it's RJ saying, hey, when I met Pastor Mike in Brooklyn 833 00:37:03,443 --> 00:37:06,027 for the first time, my marriage was almost over. 834 00:37:06,131 --> 00:37:09,107 But he told, he looked me in my eyes and said, one day you're 835 00:37:09,131 --> 00:37:10,539 going to be leading a marriage group. 836 00:37:10,627 --> 00:37:11,739 And I didn't believe him. 837 00:37:11,787 --> 00:37:15,739 Now I'm leading a group of groups because God's multiplied, 838 00:37:15,787 --> 00:37:16,115 and. 839 00:37:16,195 --> 00:37:16,435 And. 840 00:37:16,475 --> 00:37:19,979 And I've spied out the land, and I've got up ahead of you. 841 00:37:20,027 --> 00:37:21,563 I know how to make the journey. 842 00:37:21,619 --> 00:37:26,731 We need a fly crew, people who've gone up ahead of us. 843 00:37:26,883 --> 00:37:30,343 I remember there was a juncture for our church where I didn't 844 00:37:30,399 --> 00:37:32,355 see that many old people. 845 00:37:32,735 --> 00:37:35,447 And every Sunday, I would come out and I would say, lord, I can't 846 00:37:35,471 --> 00:37:37,555 be the only bald one in this church. 847 00:37:38,255 --> 00:37:39,575 And I'd say, lord, I can't. 848 00:37:39,615 --> 00:37:41,695 I need to see some gray hair in this church. 849 00:37:41,735 --> 00:37:44,423 And I would look out, and I remember one time I went before the 850 00:37:44,439 --> 00:37:49,263 Lord and I said, lord, if I don't see the older generation come 851 00:37:49,279 --> 00:37:51,355 to this church, I'm shutting it down. 852 00:37:52,055 --> 00:37:54,007 And I said, I love the young people now. 853 00:37:54,031 --> 00:37:57,849 The millennials annoy me so much, but I love them. 854 00:37:57,977 --> 00:37:59,305 And I'm wrestling for real. 855 00:37:59,345 --> 00:38:02,329 You know, millennials are hard to lead, being to the fact that 16 856 00:38:02,377 --> 00:38:04,377 times I'm Florida Google. 857 00:38:04,561 --> 00:38:05,965 Just chill, bro. 858 00:38:06,345 --> 00:38:07,073 Just chill. 859 00:38:07,129 --> 00:38:09,329 You don't know what you're talking about because you watch three 860 00:38:09,377 --> 00:38:10,393 YouTube videos. 861 00:38:10,489 --> 00:38:12,409 I've been reading the Bible for a long time. 862 00:38:12,457 --> 00:38:14,513 Just relax and just become a learner. 863 00:38:14,689 --> 00:38:17,685 Yeah, but Gemini and Chatgpt told me, just chill. 864 00:38:18,505 --> 00:38:21,249 You talking to Chatgpt more than the Holy Spirit. 865 00:38:21,297 --> 00:38:23,005 That's why you got problems. 866 00:38:23,985 --> 00:38:24,889 Just relax. 867 00:38:24,977 --> 00:38:25,569 Read the Bible. 868 00:38:25,617 --> 00:38:26,417 Let's sit down. 869 00:38:26,481 --> 00:38:27,891 Just become a student. 870 00:38:28,003 --> 00:38:31,595 You're not ready yet, you know, so it was like I would go through 871 00:38:31,635 --> 00:38:33,907 this process, and I would cry out to God. 872 00:38:33,931 --> 00:38:37,147 I would say, God, bring me the lead generation. 873 00:38:37,251 --> 00:38:37,971 Bring me. 874 00:38:38,083 --> 00:38:38,819 Bring me the old. 875 00:38:38,867 --> 00:38:42,667 And then all of a sudden, they started to come, and I said, lord, 876 00:38:42,731 --> 00:38:44,011 now this is a church. 877 00:38:44,083 --> 00:38:46,931 And then there was a season where I said, I know. 878 00:38:47,043 --> 00:38:50,571 Don't be offended, because I'm technically a Caucasian myself. 879 00:38:50,723 --> 00:38:53,375 But I said, God, this church is too white. 880 00:38:54,375 --> 00:38:54,999 And I was. 881 00:38:55,047 --> 00:38:57,703 And I'm mad, God, because we. 882 00:38:57,759 --> 00:39:00,935 We got the kind of people that don't season their chicken in this 883 00:39:00,975 --> 00:39:07,635 church, and they need deliverance from that spirit of blandness. 884 00:39:08,455 --> 00:39:11,355 And we need some flavors in this church. 885 00:39:11,815 --> 00:39:12,231 Come on. 886 00:39:12,263 --> 00:39:13,327 It's all right. 887 00:39:13,511 --> 00:39:14,715 It's all right. 888 00:39:15,015 --> 00:39:15,959 Technically, I'm white. 889 00:39:16,007 --> 00:39:18,875 I'm just a white person deluxe, because I've learned. 890 00:39:21,545 --> 00:39:23,925 Now I'm joking, but I'm not joking. 891 00:39:24,905 --> 00:39:27,065 And then the races started to come. 892 00:39:27,105 --> 00:39:30,065 Because, I'll be honest with you, the most segregated America 893 00:39:30,105 --> 00:39:30,305 is. 894 00:39:30,345 --> 00:39:31,605 Is on Sundays. 895 00:39:32,705 --> 00:39:36,849 And listen, then when we started to see people of different 896 00:39:36,897 --> 00:39:38,313 races, then guess. 897 00:39:38,369 --> 00:39:39,817 Guess what the new problem was? 898 00:39:39,921 --> 00:39:42,565 They were segregated in the auditorium. 899 00:39:43,225 --> 00:39:45,201 And I was like, wow, who said that? 900 00:39:45,233 --> 00:39:45,761 This is the. 901 00:39:45,793 --> 00:39:46,201 The. 902 00:39:46,313 --> 00:39:48,633 This is the Argentinian section. 903 00:39:48,689 --> 00:39:50,113 This is the Mexican section. 904 00:39:50,169 --> 00:39:50,721 This is. 905 00:39:50,833 --> 00:39:54,113 Because I didn't even realize it sometimes breaks down even across 906 00:39:54,209 --> 00:39:54,885 races. 907 00:39:56,345 --> 00:39:58,865 And I'm like, okay, it's not just African Americans. 908 00:39:58,905 --> 00:40:00,169 Then some people say, no, I'm. 909 00:40:00,217 --> 00:40:01,081 I'm African. 910 00:40:01,153 --> 00:40:03,905 African, and I don't know if I want to be American. 911 00:40:04,065 --> 00:40:07,537 And I was getting corrected every day, and I was learning all 912 00:40:07,561 --> 00:40:11,987 the different divisions, and I said, lord, heal this church and 913 00:40:12,011 --> 00:40:15,131 make us an epicenter of racial reconciliation. 914 00:40:15,323 --> 00:40:17,635 And we started to grow on that journey. 915 00:40:17,715 --> 00:40:20,203 And then all of a sudden, now when I look out, you. 916 00:40:20,259 --> 00:40:22,735 You don't understand what you see in these services. 917 00:40:23,835 --> 00:40:25,335 We had to conquer. 918 00:40:25,675 --> 00:40:29,027 We had to get some spies that went up ahead and say, I see a version 919 00:40:29,051 --> 00:40:32,779 of V1 that's different than this version, and we're fighting 920 00:40:32,827 --> 00:40:33,259 for this. 921 00:40:33,307 --> 00:40:35,595 And I see this is what this church is. 922 00:40:35,635 --> 00:40:38,295 It's a Joel 2 and Acts 2 movement. 923 00:40:38,685 --> 00:40:40,581 It's Joel 2 says every. 924 00:40:40,653 --> 00:40:42,565 Your old men will dream dreams. 925 00:40:42,605 --> 00:40:44,773 Your sons and daughters will prophesy. 926 00:40:44,869 --> 00:40:45,213 It's. 927 00:40:45,269 --> 00:40:45,525 It's. 928 00:40:45,565 --> 00:40:45,925 It's. 929 00:40:46,005 --> 00:40:46,341 Man. 930 00:40:46,413 --> 00:40:50,045 Last week, I was in the kids department in Brooklyn, and I heard 931 00:40:50,085 --> 00:40:50,909 this singing. 932 00:40:50,997 --> 00:40:54,333 And then I went back there when Jeff Morris was preaching and 933 00:40:54,349 --> 00:40:55,749 I heard this beautiful singing. 934 00:40:55,797 --> 00:40:58,813 I thought that they had a kids album that they were playing. 935 00:40:58,869 --> 00:41:02,693 And I came back and they were holding up a megaphone to this little 936 00:41:02,749 --> 00:41:04,461 girl who was just singing. 937 00:41:04,573 --> 00:41:07,485 And as this little girl was singing, I was weeping, and I said, 938 00:41:07,525 --> 00:41:12,425 lord, what treasure do we have in every generation of our church? 939 00:41:13,765 --> 00:41:16,225 And so what is spiritual formation? 940 00:41:17,125 --> 00:41:22,901 Spiritual formation is at every stage and at every age and 941 00:41:22,933 --> 00:41:27,505 in every race, we start to reflect the image of Jesus. 942 00:41:28,245 --> 00:41:32,165 So my goal is not to make you like me. 943 00:41:32,585 --> 00:41:35,685 Heaven forbid you become like Mike Signorelli. 944 00:41:36,745 --> 00:41:39,405 My goal is to make you more like Jesus. 945 00:41:40,145 --> 00:41:43,233 What does Jesus look like as an entrepreneur? 946 00:41:43,409 --> 00:41:45,961 What does Jesus look like as a husband? 947 00:41:46,113 --> 00:41:48,625 What does Jesus look like as a friend? 948 00:41:48,785 --> 00:41:52,161 What does Jesus look like as an older person? 949 00:41:52,313 --> 00:41:54,849 What does Jesus look like as a teenager? 950 00:41:54,977 --> 00:41:59,831 The whole reason why this church exists is because I want you 951 00:41:59,903 --> 00:42:03,935 to become more like Jesus in every stage, in every age of your 952 00:42:03,975 --> 00:42:04,555 life. 953 00:42:04,895 --> 00:42:07,983 So here's what we're going to begin to do, and I'm announcing this 954 00:42:08,039 --> 00:42:08,695 right now. 955 00:42:08,815 --> 00:42:13,655 It's like a first major announcement is that we are now going 956 00:42:13,695 --> 00:42:16,887 to ascend the seven mountains. 957 00:42:17,031 --> 00:42:21,447 We have our ground crew, and we now are going to find our flight 958 00:42:21,511 --> 00:42:22,135 crew. 959 00:42:22,295 --> 00:42:26,751 And in 2025, we are going to begin to ascend and take that flight 960 00:42:26,863 --> 00:42:30,407 to the top of the mountain that God has called us to summit. 961 00:42:30,591 --> 00:42:33,591 Because not all of you are supposed to be pastors within the 962 00:42:33,623 --> 00:42:34,655 local church. 963 00:42:34,815 --> 00:42:35,983 Some of you are, actually. 964 00:42:36,039 --> 00:42:39,591 And listen, I got invited to the White House last week. 965 00:42:39,783 --> 00:42:43,143 And as I walked into the White House, I thought, lord, in one generation, 966 00:42:43,199 --> 00:42:45,887 you took me from the trailer park to the White House. 967 00:42:46,031 --> 00:42:47,863 I had Secret Service agents. 968 00:42:47,919 --> 00:42:50,631 Literally, I can't believe I get to meet you. 969 00:42:50,663 --> 00:42:51,951 I'm so glad you're here. 970 00:42:52,023 --> 00:42:54,715 And I'm like, you're glad that I'm at the White House? 971 00:42:55,095 --> 00:42:56,103 Like, I can't believe it. 972 00:42:56,119 --> 00:42:57,127 And I said, why am I here? 973 00:42:57,151 --> 00:42:59,343 And they said, because we're starting this program. 974 00:42:59,399 --> 00:43:03,375 We want to bring somebody in to pray and intercede from the White 975 00:43:03,415 --> 00:43:03,615 House. 976 00:43:03,655 --> 00:43:07,263 And you're the first person that we invited to come to the White 977 00:43:07,279 --> 00:43:09,635 House and pray over the White House. 978 00:43:11,055 --> 00:43:13,743 And as I walked through the different rooms of the White House, 979 00:43:13,839 --> 00:43:17,063 I got to the very end, and at the end, there was a hallway, and 980 00:43:17,079 --> 00:43:20,279 they had decorated for the holiday season, all in dubs. 981 00:43:20,367 --> 00:43:23,003 And they said, pastor Mike, do you remember your sermon? 982 00:43:23,099 --> 00:43:24,851 It's not about the elephant or donkey. 983 00:43:24,883 --> 00:43:25,907 It's about the dove. 984 00:43:25,971 --> 00:43:27,335 Look, the doves. 985 00:43:30,675 --> 00:43:32,827 I begin to pray outside of the White House. 986 00:43:32,851 --> 00:43:35,291 And I had a Secret Service agent on one side. 987 00:43:35,403 --> 00:43:37,547 On the other side, I had a woman of faith. 988 00:43:37,651 --> 00:43:39,515 And it was black and it was white. 989 00:43:39,595 --> 00:43:41,595 It was Democrat, it was Republican. 990 00:43:41,635 --> 00:43:44,611 And as I began to pray, I looked and I saw the tears streaming 991 00:43:44,643 --> 00:43:45,451 down their face. 992 00:43:45,563 --> 00:43:48,865 And I said, lord, the dove has come to the White House. 993 00:43:49,025 --> 00:43:50,361 God is at the White House. 994 00:43:50,433 --> 00:43:53,657 And I'm telling you, as an apostolic leader in the faith, the 995 00:43:53,681 --> 00:43:57,185 Lord took me to the White House to say, you've been faithful 996 00:43:57,225 --> 00:43:58,177 with your house. 997 00:43:58,241 --> 00:43:59,809 Now you're going to the White House. 998 00:43:59,897 --> 00:44:01,785 The White House will have the dove. 999 00:44:01,865 --> 00:44:05,657 And I believe it was a sign for America that America is going 1000 00:44:05,681 --> 00:44:09,473 to experience an awakening like we've never seen before for 1001 00:44:09,529 --> 00:44:10,769 such a time as this. 1002 00:44:10,857 --> 00:44:16,283 And God has called you to go into arts and entertainment when. 1003 00:44:16,339 --> 00:44:20,915 When Evan Wilson made a movie and the arts and entertainment, and 1004 00:44:20,955 --> 00:44:24,347 we debuted that movie from the same place. 1005 00:44:24,411 --> 00:44:27,851 For those of you who have an interest in being in arts and entertainment, 1006 00:44:27,883 --> 00:44:31,451 I want you to understand this church started to do this vision 1007 00:44:31,563 --> 00:44:33,619 in 2023 and 2024. 1008 00:44:33,707 --> 00:44:37,139 And in arts and entertainment, Evan Wilson made this movie called 1009 00:44:37,187 --> 00:44:41,275 Domino Revival, which, by the way, it comes out streaming platforms 1010 00:44:41,315 --> 00:44:42,179 around the world. 1011 00:44:42,267 --> 00:44:42,895 January. 1012 00:44:44,275 --> 00:44:49,067 So you see how we're starting the new year Amazon. 1013 00:44:49,251 --> 00:44:53,003 When we talked to Amazon, they said, this is like the modern Romans 1014 00:44:53,059 --> 00:44:53,587 Road. 1015 00:44:53,731 --> 00:44:57,275 And people are going to find this movie by the algorithm of Amazon 1016 00:44:57,315 --> 00:44:59,091 that never even knew it existed. 1017 00:44:59,203 --> 00:45:01,979 And millions of people are going to watch the Domino revival, 1018 00:45:02,107 --> 00:45:05,067 Apple, all the different streaming platforms, they're all 1019 00:45:05,091 --> 00:45:06,331 going to open up January. 1020 00:45:06,403 --> 00:45:08,123 It's a divine timeline. 1021 00:45:08,299 --> 00:45:09,867 But we did this movie. 1022 00:45:09,931 --> 00:45:14,403 It went to 2,000 theaters in America, and that was arts and entertainment. 1023 00:45:14,499 --> 00:45:18,211 And I told the movie industry that we were doing the, you know, 1024 00:45:18,283 --> 00:45:21,255 the Avengers Endgame of revival. 1025 00:45:21,595 --> 00:45:25,267 And did you know that in God's sovereign, serendipitous ways, that 1026 00:45:25,291 --> 00:45:29,283 the movie premiered in the same theater where Avengers Endgame 1027 00:45:29,339 --> 00:45:31,043 premiered in New York City? 1028 00:45:31,219 --> 00:45:33,067 You can't make this up, y'all. 1029 00:45:33,131 --> 00:45:36,823 We are a move of God, arts and entertainment. 1030 00:45:36,919 --> 00:45:39,863 Our team came together and brought all their gifting and talent, 1031 00:45:39,959 --> 00:45:44,535 and we charted singles above Drake and Taylor Swift within the 1032 00:45:44,575 --> 00:45:46,035 last 18 months. 1033 00:45:46,495 --> 00:45:48,071 This doesn't happen. 1034 00:45:48,263 --> 00:45:49,191 So what does that mean? 1035 00:45:49,223 --> 00:45:50,615 It means we're going deeper. 1036 00:45:50,735 --> 00:45:51,175 We're going. 1037 00:45:51,215 --> 00:45:51,503 We're. 1038 00:45:51,559 --> 00:45:52,791 We got our ground crew. 1039 00:45:52,863 --> 00:45:54,303 We're going to find our flight crew. 1040 00:45:54,359 --> 00:45:56,823 We're going to summit the mountain of arts and entertainment. 1041 00:45:56,919 --> 00:46:00,639 And I believe that more singers, more artists, more musicians, 1042 00:46:00,767 --> 00:46:04,439 more painters, more graphic designers, I believe that more are 1043 00:46:04,447 --> 00:46:05,151 going to begin to rise. 1044 00:46:05,183 --> 00:46:07,923 So across all locations right now. 1045 00:46:08,019 --> 00:46:11,035 If you feel called to arts and entertainment, I want you to stand 1046 00:46:11,075 --> 00:46:11,655 up. 1047 00:46:13,155 --> 00:46:15,795 If you feel called to arts and entertainment, I want you to stand. 1048 00:46:15,835 --> 00:46:16,227 You know. 1049 00:46:16,291 --> 00:46:17,251 Yeah, only if you feel. 1050 00:46:17,283 --> 00:46:19,139 We're going to go through all of them right now. 1051 00:46:19,267 --> 00:46:19,571 Okay. 1052 00:46:19,603 --> 00:46:20,835 I want you to look around. 1053 00:46:20,955 --> 00:46:22,603 This is your flight crew. 1054 00:46:22,739 --> 00:46:24,075 This is your flight crew. 1055 00:46:24,155 --> 00:46:27,195 Every single one of these people in this room right now in 1056 00:46:27,235 --> 00:46:29,443 Brooklyn, if you're looking around that you're looking at your 1057 00:46:29,499 --> 00:46:31,831 flight crew, hold each other accountable. 1058 00:46:31,963 --> 00:46:33,015 You know, there is a woman. 1059 00:46:33,055 --> 00:46:34,351 I wish I would have brought it. 1060 00:46:34,423 --> 00:46:35,151 There is a woman. 1061 00:46:35,223 --> 00:46:35,455 I. 1062 00:46:35,495 --> 00:46:39,135 When I was in California, I prophesied to this woman, you are 1063 00:46:39,175 --> 00:46:40,343 going to write a book. 1064 00:46:40,479 --> 00:46:41,775 And I begin to prophesy. 1065 00:46:41,815 --> 00:46:42,631 She started to weep. 1066 00:46:42,663 --> 00:46:45,567 She said, pastor Mike, I have a children's book inside of me. 1067 00:46:45,671 --> 00:46:48,839 Did you know that that woman just mailed me that book two weeks 1068 00:46:48,887 --> 00:46:49,335 ago? 1069 00:46:49,455 --> 00:46:52,735 And she said, pastor Mike, I wanted to send you the first copy 1070 00:46:52,855 --> 00:46:54,575 because the children's book is done. 1071 00:46:54,615 --> 00:46:56,823 I finished the book, and it's in your hands. 1072 00:46:56,919 --> 00:46:58,659 Thank you for calling that out of me. 1073 00:46:58,767 --> 00:46:59,947 So this is a flight crew. 1074 00:46:59,971 --> 00:47:02,299 I want you to look around arts and entertainment. 1075 00:47:02,427 --> 00:47:05,859 I want you guys to get to know each other at all six locations, 1076 00:47:05,987 --> 00:47:09,563 and I want you to spend 20, 25 saying, we're going to take flight. 1077 00:47:09,619 --> 00:47:11,059 This is the year we do it. 1078 00:47:11,147 --> 00:47:12,083 Come on, take a seat. 1079 00:47:12,139 --> 00:47:13,055 Take a seat. 1080 00:47:13,435 --> 00:47:15,339 I want to talk about business. 1081 00:47:15,507 --> 00:47:17,275 I want to talk about business. 1082 00:47:17,435 --> 00:47:19,771 We have entrepreneurs at this church. 1083 00:47:19,883 --> 00:47:20,507 Did you know that? 1084 00:47:20,531 --> 00:47:24,667 When I was in Singapore, I came to know people on the Forbes 1085 00:47:24,731 --> 00:47:28,703 list, and I was in Singapore prophesying over the biggest entrepreneurs 1086 00:47:28,759 --> 00:47:29,743 in that nation. 1087 00:47:29,879 --> 00:47:33,391 And they told me they see the word nexus and they said, we see 1088 00:47:33,423 --> 00:47:37,103 you in the financial district, Pastor Mike, and we see you raising 1089 00:47:37,159 --> 00:47:39,423 up entrepreneurs and business people. 1090 00:47:39,559 --> 00:47:43,031 Did you know that since that word was prophesied, did you know 1091 00:47:43,063 --> 00:47:47,951 that literally we have a place in Manhattan that's off of Exchange 1092 00:47:48,023 --> 00:47:51,821 street, and we meet every Sunday night across from Wall street 1093 00:47:51,943 --> 00:47:54,105 and the New York Stock Exchange in that thing. 1094 00:47:54,145 --> 00:47:56,753 And it fulfilled that prophetic word for business. 1095 00:47:56,929 --> 00:48:00,305 And I believe that this church is called to go even deeper into 1096 00:48:00,345 --> 00:48:04,225 the realm of stewarding those that need to take flight and some 1097 00:48:04,265 --> 00:48:06,073 at the top of the business mountain. 1098 00:48:06,169 --> 00:48:09,121 So if you feel called to the business mountain, would you stand 1099 00:48:09,153 --> 00:48:11,089 up at all locations right now? 1100 00:48:11,217 --> 00:48:14,537 I'm talking business, business, business, business. 1101 00:48:14,721 --> 00:48:15,169 Yeah. 1102 00:48:15,217 --> 00:48:16,345 Come on, man. 1103 00:48:16,385 --> 00:48:18,717 This makes me want to cry because this, this is. 1104 00:48:18,781 --> 00:48:20,077 This is your mountain. 1105 00:48:20,181 --> 00:48:23,333 And we're going to get to the top of this mountain together, and 1106 00:48:23,349 --> 00:48:26,205 you're going to get all of those dreams fulfilled. 1107 00:48:26,245 --> 00:48:28,781 I want you to look around unapologetically. 1108 00:48:28,893 --> 00:48:32,389 Some of it, when you stood up, you felt embarrassed to stand up, 1109 00:48:32,517 --> 00:48:35,653 but I hear the Lord saying that you're going to grow in confidence. 1110 00:48:35,789 --> 00:48:36,229 I want. 1111 00:48:36,277 --> 00:48:37,541 Look at this young man. 1112 00:48:37,653 --> 00:48:41,837 When you stood up, I'm telling you, something shifted in you because 1113 00:48:41,901 --> 00:48:44,109 you are going to do what God's called you to do. 1114 00:48:44,157 --> 00:48:47,227 Don't let anybody tell you that it can't happen. 1115 00:48:47,341 --> 00:48:50,671 I'm breathing the breath of life into this young man right now. 1116 00:48:50,783 --> 00:48:52,767 You're going to be encouraged this year. 1117 00:48:52,871 --> 00:48:54,551 You are an entrepreneur. 1118 00:48:54,663 --> 00:48:58,215 You will launch business and you'll have employees, and you'll. 1119 00:48:58,255 --> 00:49:01,839 You'll look at what God uses you to do, and you'll see his faithfulness 1120 00:49:01,887 --> 00:49:02,875 on your life. 1121 00:49:03,175 --> 00:49:05,431 But see, look around at every location. 1122 00:49:05,503 --> 00:49:06,575 This is your flight crew. 1123 00:49:06,615 --> 00:49:07,727 You need each other. 1124 00:49:07,871 --> 00:49:08,879 Okay, take a seat. 1125 00:49:08,927 --> 00:49:09,943 Take a seat. 1126 00:49:10,119 --> 00:49:12,319 This one is the church mountain. 1127 00:49:12,447 --> 00:49:16,455 Now, listen, I just want to say congratulations and condolences 1128 00:49:17,115 --> 00:49:18,811 because this is my mountain. 1129 00:49:18,923 --> 00:49:21,579 And I'll tell you what, this mountain's a hard mountain. 1130 00:49:21,747 --> 00:49:22,075 I. 1131 00:49:22,115 --> 00:49:25,291 You know, the Christian army is the only army that shoots its 1132 00:49:25,323 --> 00:49:26,375 own wounded. 1133 00:49:28,755 --> 00:49:31,735 We're the only army that shoots our own wounded. 1134 00:49:32,275 --> 00:49:36,107 And God's called me to be a unifier in a world Full of division. 1135 00:49:36,291 --> 00:49:37,411 And what you've been seeing. 1136 00:49:37,443 --> 00:49:40,523 And the reason why people started calling me apostle, and I 1137 00:49:40,539 --> 00:49:46,759 just like saying it to offend religious people is because we need 1138 00:49:46,807 --> 00:49:48,195 apostolic leaders. 1139 00:49:48,535 --> 00:49:50,955 It's just a different way for me to serve. 1140 00:49:51,255 --> 00:49:53,623 Pastors don't break hard regions. 1141 00:49:53,799 --> 00:49:54,951 Pastors can't do that. 1142 00:49:54,983 --> 00:49:56,151 Evangelists can't do that. 1143 00:49:56,183 --> 00:49:57,875 That's apostolic work. 1144 00:49:58,255 --> 00:50:02,087 You know, you don't plant seven locations in eight years as 1145 00:50:02,111 --> 00:50:03,195 a pastor. 1146 00:50:03,575 --> 00:50:06,183 You do that as an apostolic leader. 1147 00:50:06,359 --> 00:50:08,079 And so I'm what you guys see. 1148 00:50:08,127 --> 00:50:11,235 Like, same thing with pastors don't fill stadiums. 1149 00:50:12,415 --> 00:50:14,395 But Paul did in Ephesus. 1150 00:50:15,175 --> 00:50:17,807 And so I've been embracing this apostolic calling. 1151 00:50:17,831 --> 00:50:19,871 You don't have to call me Nothing, Call me Mike. 1152 00:50:19,983 --> 00:50:21,215 Let me just put that on the record. 1153 00:50:21,255 --> 00:50:22,815 You don't have to call me Nothing. 1154 00:50:22,975 --> 00:50:25,995 Call me Mike, but don't call me late for dinner. 1155 00:50:29,055 --> 00:50:31,635 But I never did ministry for a title. 1156 00:50:32,335 --> 00:50:32,863 I never. 1157 00:50:32,919 --> 00:50:34,311 And I don't care about a title. 1158 00:50:34,383 --> 00:50:36,791 Call me whatever you want to call me, but I'll tell. 1159 00:50:36,823 --> 00:50:38,195 I'm going to do the work. 1160 00:50:38,615 --> 00:50:40,663 More churches will be launched. 1161 00:50:40,799 --> 00:50:42,879 More buildings will be purchased. 1162 00:50:43,047 --> 00:50:45,063 More and more regions will be open. 1163 00:50:45,119 --> 00:50:46,635 So this church mountain. 1164 00:50:47,135 --> 00:50:50,871 If you feel called to the Levitical call, if you feel called 1165 00:50:50,903 --> 00:50:53,671 to be an evangelist, a prophet, a preacher, a teacher, a 1166 00:50:53,703 --> 00:50:57,495 pastor, a shepherd, an apostle, a minstrel, and listen, 1167 00:50:57,535 --> 00:51:00,079 let me just tell you something about the Levites and Nazarites. 1168 00:51:00,127 --> 00:51:01,397 They can't help it. 1169 00:51:01,591 --> 00:51:04,045 They can run from it, but they can't hide. 1170 00:51:04,585 --> 00:51:07,225 So if that's you, just stand to your feet for a moment. 1171 00:51:07,385 --> 00:51:09,641 If you feel called, just do it unapologetically. 1172 00:51:09,713 --> 00:51:11,233 Don't worry about being judged. 1173 00:51:11,369 --> 00:51:13,705 If you feel like you have a ministry called don't worry about 1174 00:51:13,745 --> 00:51:17,217 being Judged, I want everybody on board that needs to be on board 1175 00:51:17,401 --> 00:51:18,849 at all six locations. 1176 00:51:18,937 --> 00:51:19,321 Stand up. 1177 00:51:19,353 --> 00:51:20,289 We'll take you. 1178 00:51:20,417 --> 00:51:20,737 Come on. 1179 00:51:20,761 --> 00:51:22,565 We're drafting everybody today. 1180 00:51:23,145 --> 00:51:29,335 Don't feel embarrassed if you feel called to the mountain of church. 1181 00:51:32,155 --> 00:51:35,051 I'm trying not to put more emphasis on this one because it's 1182 00:51:35,083 --> 00:51:38,459 emotional to me, but thank you for standing up. 1183 00:51:38,507 --> 00:51:42,015 Because the Bible says for many are called, but few are chosen. 1184 00:51:42,515 --> 00:51:43,843 And I really believe. 1185 00:51:43,899 --> 00:51:44,171 Let me. 1186 00:51:44,203 --> 00:51:45,203 Let me just tell you. 1187 00:51:45,299 --> 00:51:49,699 When we were at the women's event and I heard your testimony 1188 00:51:49,747 --> 00:51:52,735 and you started to deliver your testimony, I knew it then. 1189 00:51:53,205 --> 00:51:56,981 And I'm affirming in front of everybody on purpose and that. 1190 00:51:57,013 --> 00:51:59,725 And if you want any explanation for the kind of warfare 1191 00:51:59,765 --> 00:52:01,877 in your life, that's the explanation. 1192 00:52:02,061 --> 00:52:05,693 Because in 2025, get ready, because you're Clicking into what's 1193 00:52:05,749 --> 00:52:06,205 next. 1194 00:52:06,325 --> 00:52:09,469 And you're going to see what the devil's been fighting over for. 1195 00:52:09,637 --> 00:52:11,205 You're going to see it with your own eyes. 1196 00:52:11,245 --> 00:52:12,445 And I honor you. 1197 00:52:12,565 --> 00:52:14,909 I honor you because you've endured. 1198 00:52:14,957 --> 00:52:17,933 You have a love for the Word and it's all going to make sense. 1199 00:52:17,989 --> 00:52:18,845 You have a love. 1200 00:52:18,965 --> 00:52:20,661 Yeah, you got your journey, too, girl. 1201 00:52:20,693 --> 00:52:21,693 And I honor you. 1202 00:52:21,789 --> 00:52:24,029 Okay, everybody take a seat because we'll go into revival. 1203 00:52:24,077 --> 00:52:25,625 And I got two more to do. 1204 00:52:26,645 --> 00:52:29,105 Now, one of this one's going to be unique. 1205 00:52:29,965 --> 00:52:30,705 Education. 1206 00:52:31,205 --> 00:52:31,945 Education. 1207 00:52:32,365 --> 00:52:35,905 If you feel called to education, this administration. 1208 00:52:36,245 --> 00:52:39,069 Listen, I'm going to speak this vision now, and I've already 1209 00:52:39,117 --> 00:52:40,045 been working on it. 1210 00:52:40,125 --> 00:52:43,613 When I bought our Indiana building, our Indiana building, it 1211 00:52:43,629 --> 00:52:45,039 was a Lutheran church. 1212 00:52:45,157 --> 00:52:47,667 If you guys have never been there, it's a beautiful limestone 1213 00:52:47,731 --> 00:52:50,587 building that we've actually refurbed the whole thing. 1214 00:52:50,691 --> 00:52:53,115 It's got beautiful stained glass windows. 1215 00:52:53,275 --> 00:52:53,987 But there. 1216 00:52:54,051 --> 00:52:57,987 That Lutheran congregation at one point built a whole extension 1217 00:52:58,011 --> 00:52:59,055 of a school. 1218 00:52:59,355 --> 00:53:00,483 And my. 1219 00:53:00,579 --> 00:53:03,187 My education secularly is in. 1220 00:53:03,291 --> 00:53:05,395 Is in post secondary education. 1221 00:53:05,475 --> 00:53:05,995 It's. 1222 00:53:06,115 --> 00:53:10,011 I had a license for 5 through 12th grade education because I love 1223 00:53:10,083 --> 00:53:10,935 formation. 1224 00:53:11,385 --> 00:53:14,705 And I didn't know that it was really supposed to be a church planter, 1225 00:53:14,785 --> 00:53:16,177 not in education. 1226 00:53:16,321 --> 00:53:18,897 But I still have that hemisphere of my brain. 1227 00:53:19,041 --> 00:53:22,569 And so I'm announcing that we are actually making plans for. 1228 00:53:22,617 --> 00:53:27,753 To debut a school out of our Indiana location that is going to 1229 00:53:27,769 --> 00:53:29,505 be a Christian school. 1230 00:53:29,665 --> 00:53:31,337 And we've been working on that. 1231 00:53:31,441 --> 00:53:34,765 But I also believe it's going to be a template for Long Island. 1232 00:53:35,385 --> 00:53:38,273 I believe it's going to be a template for New York City. 1233 00:53:38,449 --> 00:53:39,801 And I believe that we are. 1234 00:53:39,913 --> 00:53:44,449 First I planted churches, and now we will begin to plant schools 1235 00:53:44,497 --> 00:53:47,601 across America, and the doors will open. 1236 00:53:47,713 --> 00:53:50,745 So if you feel called to education, would you stand to your 1237 00:53:50,785 --> 00:53:51,321 feet? 1238 00:53:51,473 --> 00:53:54,017 If you feel called to education, stand your feet because 1239 00:53:54,041 --> 00:53:55,441 we're looking for staff members. 1240 00:53:55,513 --> 00:53:56,725 Come on, somebody. 1241 00:53:57,025 --> 00:53:59,929 But I believe this is going to happen, and we're working on it. 1242 00:54:00,017 --> 00:54:03,809 And I need you to pray that we pass all the inspections in Indiana 1243 00:54:03,897 --> 00:54:05,833 and we do everything because we're going to template it. 1244 00:54:05,849 --> 00:54:08,555 But we need educators with the heart of Christ. 1245 00:54:08,935 --> 00:54:10,115 Praise God. 1246 00:54:10,855 --> 00:54:12,315 Okay, take a seat. 1247 00:54:13,095 --> 00:54:14,359 Now, this next one, it's. 1248 00:54:14,407 --> 00:54:19,431 It's closely related, but I believe that God has called certain 1249 00:54:19,503 --> 00:54:20,115 people. 1250 00:54:21,335 --> 00:54:23,311 Isaiah Saldivar is one of them. 1251 00:54:23,463 --> 00:54:29,295 Isaiah loves family, and God gave him girl after girl after girl 1252 00:54:29,375 --> 00:54:31,007 after girl after girl. 1253 00:54:31,111 --> 00:54:31,679 And he can. 1254 00:54:31,727 --> 00:54:36,907 I think Isaiah can only have girls, but he loves family and he 1255 00:54:36,931 --> 00:54:38,655 believes in family and revival. 1256 00:54:38,955 --> 00:54:41,611 And family is a big deal. 1257 00:54:41,763 --> 00:54:43,179 And there's people who feel called. 1258 00:54:43,227 --> 00:54:47,283 You know, there was one point in our church where a lot of us parents 1259 00:54:47,339 --> 00:54:49,067 were struggling with our teenagers. 1260 00:54:49,171 --> 00:54:49,995 And we brought in. 1261 00:54:50,035 --> 00:54:53,507 We actually brought in a psychologist, a Christian psychologist, 1262 00:54:53,611 --> 00:54:57,219 and we would have the parents in one room meeting with the psychologist 1263 00:54:57,267 --> 00:54:59,211 via Zoom, and the teens at the other. 1264 00:54:59,363 --> 00:55:03,203 And we were healing together because we believe in the unity of 1265 00:55:03,259 --> 00:55:03,787 family. 1266 00:55:03,931 --> 00:55:07,411 And there are people who are called specifically to minister to 1267 00:55:07,483 --> 00:55:10,775 families, and that's their call in life. 1268 00:55:11,275 --> 00:55:13,867 This could be husbands, wives, marriages. 1269 00:55:14,051 --> 00:55:15,355 It could be adoption. 1270 00:55:15,395 --> 00:55:17,939 There's people who are called to adoption. 1271 00:55:17,987 --> 00:55:18,587 They're called. 1272 00:55:18,691 --> 00:55:21,771 We actually have people in our church that take care of various 1273 00:55:21,843 --> 00:55:25,735 different children in various capacities, different abilities, 1274 00:55:26,635 --> 00:55:28,155 and they're called to that. 1275 00:55:28,195 --> 00:55:31,035 So if you're called to the mountain of family, would you stand 1276 00:55:31,075 --> 00:55:34,171 up at every location, the mountain of family in some way, shape 1277 00:55:34,203 --> 00:55:34,835 or form? 1278 00:55:34,955 --> 00:55:35,683 Praise God. 1279 00:55:35,739 --> 00:55:36,695 Praise God. 1280 00:55:37,555 --> 00:55:38,695 Praise God. 1281 00:55:39,555 --> 00:55:40,455 Come on. 1282 00:55:40,755 --> 00:55:42,211 Come on, man. 1283 00:55:42,243 --> 00:55:43,955 I felt it in New Jersey just now. 1284 00:55:43,995 --> 00:55:46,091 I felt somebody stood up in New Jersey. 1285 00:55:46,203 --> 00:55:48,491 And when they stood up, the Lord says, you've been waiting for 1286 00:55:48,523 --> 00:55:49,035 this moment. 1287 00:55:49,075 --> 00:55:51,275 And I'm acknowledging that you will. 1288 00:55:51,355 --> 00:55:53,547 You will heal even out of your own family. 1289 00:55:53,611 --> 00:55:56,931 Brokenness healing will come, and the lessons that you learn, you 1290 00:55:56,963 --> 00:55:59,087 will give to many out of New Jersey. 1291 00:55:59,191 --> 00:56:02,423 For New Jersey will be known for family, says the Lord. 1292 00:56:02,519 --> 00:56:06,439 And I will cause New Jersey to rise up as a beacon and New Jersey 1293 00:56:06,487 --> 00:56:08,719 as a lighthouse to those who are weary. 1294 00:56:08,847 --> 00:56:11,367 And there will even be those I see in New Jersey. 1295 00:56:11,391 --> 00:56:13,687 I don't know if there's somebody in the congregation that 1296 00:56:13,711 --> 00:56:17,527 has a burden for a halfway house or some kind of home, but I 1297 00:56:17,551 --> 00:56:18,839 see some kind of, like. 1298 00:56:18,967 --> 00:56:20,663 I don't know if it's for battered women. 1299 00:56:20,719 --> 00:56:21,511 I don't know if it's something. 1300 00:56:21,543 --> 00:56:25,375 But the Lord says, I will give you favor with real estate in New 1301 00:56:25,415 --> 00:56:27,831 Jersey, and you will have homes. 1302 00:56:27,903 --> 00:56:31,637 I see, like, homes, plural, for those who are battered and weary. 1303 00:56:31,701 --> 00:56:35,613 And New Jersey will be a refuge and a resting place, says 1304 00:56:35,669 --> 00:56:36,341 the Lord. 1305 00:56:36,453 --> 00:56:38,265 All right, take your seats, family. 1306 00:56:40,205 --> 00:56:44,109 Now, I just got back from the White House, and as I was in D.C. 1307 00:56:44,157 --> 00:56:47,325 for those three days, I realized that I don't have a call 1308 00:56:47,365 --> 00:56:51,093 for government because I'm way too wild. 1309 00:56:51,269 --> 00:56:54,305 I was like, I get fired the same day they elected me. 1310 00:56:54,645 --> 00:56:57,749 You know, there's a statue down the street that is actually 1311 00:56:57,797 --> 00:56:58,385 a. 1312 00:56:59,065 --> 00:57:00,641 A war general. 1313 00:57:00,793 --> 00:57:03,433 And I told my kids, I said, you know, if your dad ever got a 1314 00:57:03,449 --> 00:57:06,089 bronze statue, it wouldn't be for being the president. 1315 00:57:06,137 --> 00:57:10,001 It would be for being that savage warrior that, you know, that's 1316 00:57:10,033 --> 00:57:11,489 more My style. 1317 00:57:11,537 --> 00:57:12,685 I'm that dude. 1318 00:57:13,185 --> 00:57:17,385 But the reason why I say that is because as I was watching these 1319 00:57:17,425 --> 00:57:20,457 people in government meet each other and talk to each other and 1320 00:57:20,481 --> 00:57:24,025 shake hands, and I was like, in their world, I started to feel 1321 00:57:24,065 --> 00:57:24,641 this grace. 1322 00:57:24,713 --> 00:57:27,881 And, you know, so there's a guy that I've been mentoring for 1323 00:57:27,913 --> 00:57:28,345 quite a while. 1324 00:57:28,385 --> 00:57:29,937 His name's Shane Winnings. 1325 00:57:30,081 --> 00:57:34,217 And Shane was actually just made named the Promise Keepers president. 1326 00:57:34,401 --> 00:57:37,273 And if you guys saw that picture of him with Donald Trump, 1327 00:57:37,369 --> 00:57:40,393 I don't know if you guys saw that, but he was asked to be a part 1328 00:57:40,409 --> 00:57:40,697 of that. 1329 00:57:40,721 --> 00:57:43,865 And then since then, has gotten asked to go back to D.C. 1330 00:57:43,905 --> 00:57:47,185 to hold Bible studies with those who were in government. 1331 00:57:47,345 --> 00:57:49,641 And it's just such a unique story. 1332 00:57:49,833 --> 00:57:53,129 He was in law enforcement, and I told him, I said, the Lord's going 1333 00:57:53,137 --> 00:57:55,271 to cause you to rise up within the ranks. 1334 00:57:55,433 --> 00:57:57,875 And so why do I say that? 1335 00:57:57,915 --> 00:58:02,923 Because I believe that this church can be like a prophetic. 1336 00:58:03,059 --> 00:58:05,547 You know, think about the landing place, right? 1337 00:58:05,691 --> 00:58:08,595 Like the plane comes in the land and refuel, and then it comes 1338 00:58:08,635 --> 00:58:10,123 out and it goes on missions. 1339 00:58:10,179 --> 00:58:11,019 I believe that. 1340 00:58:11,107 --> 00:58:17,331 Senators, governors, mayors, you guys, many of you may not know 1341 00:58:17,363 --> 00:58:21,805 this, but before I moved to New York, I used to work with the 1342 00:58:21,845 --> 00:58:23,781 mayors of northwest Indiana. 1343 00:58:23,933 --> 00:58:26,981 And, you know, I just recently was with the mayor of Portage, Indiana, 1344 00:58:27,013 --> 00:58:28,485 where we have a church location. 1345 00:58:28,605 --> 00:58:29,685 And he's the new mayor. 1346 00:58:29,725 --> 00:58:32,853 And I was telling him the stories of, like, Founders park and 1347 00:58:32,869 --> 00:58:34,045 the various things that I. 1348 00:58:34,125 --> 00:58:36,357 The projects that I worked on while I was. 1349 00:58:36,501 --> 00:58:39,965 So I've always had like an intermingling with government officials. 1350 00:58:40,125 --> 00:58:44,469 And so I believe, though, that we need insiders because think about 1351 00:58:44,517 --> 00:58:44,773 this. 1352 00:58:44,829 --> 00:58:46,625 David was a government official. 1353 00:58:47,025 --> 00:58:49,297 Joseph was a government official. 1354 00:58:49,481 --> 00:58:51,441 Daniel was in the government. 1355 00:58:51,593 --> 00:58:53,577 And so it's like we need those in government. 1356 00:58:53,641 --> 00:58:56,425 So just please stand up across all six locations. 1357 00:58:56,545 --> 00:58:59,921 If you feel called to the mountain of government, just take 1358 00:58:59,953 --> 00:59:00,457 a stand. 1359 00:59:00,521 --> 00:59:01,385 Just take a stand. 1360 00:59:01,465 --> 00:59:02,265 Anybody? 1361 00:59:02,425 --> 00:59:03,217 Come on. 1362 00:59:03,361 --> 00:59:04,485 Praise God. 1363 00:59:05,665 --> 00:59:06,281 Praise God. 1364 00:59:06,313 --> 00:59:08,005 Across all six locations. 1365 00:59:11,865 --> 00:59:12,649 Praise God. 1366 00:59:12,697 --> 00:59:14,705 Well, I guess you're going to win the vote. 1367 00:59:15,355 --> 00:59:16,415 Take a seat. 1368 00:59:17,035 --> 00:59:19,655 It's a unanimous vote here on Long Island. 1369 00:59:19,995 --> 00:59:21,283 I'm just saying. 1370 00:59:21,459 --> 00:59:23,455 Pretty easy ballot tonight. 1371 00:59:24,355 --> 00:59:26,763 Last but not least, let's talk about media. 1372 00:59:26,939 --> 00:59:30,259 I had the privilege of attending the largest church in the 1373 00:59:30,347 --> 00:59:31,667 country of Hungary. 1374 00:59:31,851 --> 00:59:34,735 And Hungary, as you know, was under communism. 1375 00:59:35,035 --> 00:59:37,659 And a man by the name of Shando started. 1376 00:59:37,707 --> 00:59:40,575 And by the way, what, What a Pentecostal name, Shando. 1377 00:59:41,145 --> 00:59:42,401 What an epic name. 1378 00:59:42,473 --> 00:59:43,485 Shendo. 1379 00:59:44,625 --> 00:59:47,529 So this man started a church under communism. 1380 00:59:47,697 --> 00:59:51,017 When communism fell, his church exploded because. 1381 00:59:51,081 --> 00:59:55,017 But as you know, Media is incredibly manipulative and there's 1382 00:59:55,041 --> 00:59:56,481 a lot of propaganda. 1383 00:59:56,633 --> 01:00:00,265 And so as somebody who taught journalism and has contributed to 1384 01:00:00,305 --> 01:00:03,817 journalism for years, I've written for various different newspapers 1385 01:00:03,841 --> 01:00:04,925 and publications. 1386 01:00:05,225 --> 01:00:06,849 I know that how dist. 1387 01:00:06,887 --> 01:00:08,589 Deceptive media can be. 1388 01:00:08,717 --> 01:00:12,893 And so I believe, like Shando, this man who's in Hungary and you 1389 01:00:12,909 --> 01:00:16,157 can look at this, when, when communism fell, he actually had a 1390 01:00:16,181 --> 01:00:18,525 vision to launch his own media company. 1391 01:00:18,685 --> 01:00:23,421 And right now one of the top media company networks in all of 1392 01:00:23,453 --> 01:00:25,905 that country is actually his church. 1393 01:00:27,125 --> 01:00:32,213 And so I believe that God is calling various people into the media 1394 01:00:32,269 --> 01:00:32,501 mount. 1395 01:00:32,533 --> 01:00:33,237 So stand up. 1396 01:00:33,261 --> 01:00:37,043 If you feel called to media as that seventh mountain, just take 1397 01:00:37,059 --> 01:00:37,427 a stand. 1398 01:00:37,491 --> 01:00:38,171 Come on. 1399 01:00:38,323 --> 01:00:39,267 Praise God. 1400 01:00:39,371 --> 01:00:39,739 Yeah. 1401 01:00:39,787 --> 01:00:40,723 Praise God. 1402 01:00:40,859 --> 01:00:41,507 Wow. 1403 01:00:41,651 --> 01:00:42,083 Yeah. 1404 01:00:42,139 --> 01:00:42,859 Come on. 1405 01:00:43,027 --> 01:00:43,547 Media. 1406 01:00:43,651 --> 01:00:44,179 Media. 1407 01:00:44,307 --> 01:00:45,015 Wow. 1408 01:00:45,395 --> 01:00:46,695 That's amazing. 1409 01:00:47,235 --> 01:00:48,211 That's amazing. 1410 01:00:48,283 --> 01:00:48,603 Yes. 1411 01:00:48,659 --> 01:00:49,315 Thank you. 1412 01:00:49,435 --> 01:00:51,475 And I'm making you stand because you gotta. 1413 01:00:51,515 --> 01:00:52,755 You have to own it. 1414 01:00:52,875 --> 01:00:53,651 So look around. 1415 01:00:53,723 --> 01:00:55,211 These are your flight crew. 1416 01:00:55,323 --> 01:00:58,499 These are the ones that over the next year, in 2025, you're gonna 1417 01:00:58,587 --> 01:00:59,627 go on that journey with. 1418 01:00:59,651 --> 01:01:00,787 So you guys can take a seat. 1419 01:01:00,811 --> 01:01:01,935 We're almost done. 1420 01:01:02,355 --> 01:01:06,003 So you need a ground crew, you need a flight crew, and you need 1421 01:01:06,059 --> 01:01:06,775 fuel. 1422 01:01:08,635 --> 01:01:12,827 Let's commit to fueling our journey with God's word so that we 1423 01:01:12,851 --> 01:01:14,331 can go V1 together. 1424 01:01:14,523 --> 01:01:17,755 We don't fuel our journey with our own ideas and ambition. 1425 01:01:17,875 --> 01:01:20,907 We don't need your ideas and ambition in government. 1426 01:01:20,971 --> 01:01:23,595 We need the word of God in government. 1427 01:01:23,715 --> 01:01:26,379 We don't need your own ideas and ambition and family. 1428 01:01:26,427 --> 01:01:28,837 We need the word of God installed in family. 1429 01:01:28,981 --> 01:01:32,685 We don't fuel our journey with our own plans and our own strategies. 1430 01:01:32,805 --> 01:01:36,245 Because, young man, your own plans and strategies in business 1431 01:01:36,325 --> 01:01:37,237 will fail. 1432 01:01:37,381 --> 01:01:38,981 And we need the word of God. 1433 01:01:39,053 --> 01:01:39,957 That is our plan. 1434 01:01:40,021 --> 01:01:41,165 That is our strategy. 1435 01:01:41,205 --> 01:01:42,349 We need the word of God. 1436 01:01:42,437 --> 01:01:45,941 We don't fuel our journey with our own strength because we don't 1437 01:01:45,973 --> 01:01:46,509 have this. 1438 01:01:46,597 --> 01:01:49,941 Artists, let me tell you, for those in arts entertainment, you 1439 01:01:49,973 --> 01:01:52,941 won't have the strength to finish the project. 1440 01:01:53,093 --> 01:01:55,565 But you need the word of God to be your fuel. 1441 01:01:55,605 --> 01:01:56,905 That is your strength. 1442 01:01:57,595 --> 01:01:59,295 So here's what I'm announcing. 1443 01:01:59,635 --> 01:02:04,095 In every season of my life, it's been defined by another Bible. 1444 01:02:04,595 --> 01:02:07,843 So what we've been working on as a team and we're announcing across 1445 01:02:07,899 --> 01:02:16,135 all of our locations, today is our very own 365 day biblical journal. 1446 01:02:16,475 --> 01:02:22,041 As a church, we're going to go through the Bible 365 days, January 1447 01:02:22,140 --> 01:02:23,579 1st till the end. 1448 01:02:23,707 --> 01:02:26,911 And this is a uniquely V1 creation. 1449 01:02:27,083 --> 01:02:29,471 And today we are making this available. 1450 01:02:29,663 --> 01:02:33,639 And this starts January 1st across all of our Campuses. 1451 01:02:33,767 --> 01:02:37,879 Now, let me just tell you why this is our daily growth book is 1452 01:02:37,927 --> 01:02:41,743 this is going to change the very DNA of each and every one of 1453 01:02:41,759 --> 01:02:41,935 you. 1454 01:02:41,975 --> 01:02:45,607 And spiritual formation is not going to be a weekly thing at V1 1455 01:02:45,671 --> 01:02:46,263 Church. 1456 01:02:46,399 --> 01:02:49,319 It's not going to be a bi weekly thing with your connect group. 1457 01:02:49,407 --> 01:02:53,329 It's going to be a daily thing with your daily growth journal. 1458 01:02:53,417 --> 01:02:55,577 And I want to shout out Michelle Hamstra. 1459 01:02:55,681 --> 01:02:59,489 I want to shout out all those who work so hard to complete this. 1460 01:02:59,577 --> 01:03:03,017 I want to shout out the Charisma team from Charisma Publishing 1461 01:03:03,121 --> 01:03:05,945 that helped us get these books available for every campus. 1462 01:03:05,985 --> 01:03:07,233 They are available today. 1463 01:03:07,329 --> 01:03:09,965 But let me just tell you about this daily growth book. 1464 01:03:11,545 --> 01:03:14,537 What would happen if you actually read the Bible every day 1465 01:03:14,561 --> 01:03:15,885 of 2025? 1466 01:03:17,465 --> 01:03:20,705 Some of you will never miss having coffee, but you'll miss having 1467 01:03:20,745 --> 01:03:21,525 the word. 1468 01:03:22,305 --> 01:03:25,953 But what if I told you there's a pill that I could prescribe to 1469 01:03:25,969 --> 01:03:29,873 you, that it would actually reduce your harmful behaviors? 1470 01:03:29,969 --> 01:03:34,481 It's scientifically studied to reduce your depression, to reduce 1471 01:03:34,513 --> 01:03:34,905 your anger. 1472 01:03:34,945 --> 01:03:38,265 All you gotta do is take this pill once a day in the morning and 1473 01:03:38,345 --> 01:03:39,881 it's scientifically proven. 1474 01:03:39,953 --> 01:03:42,729 What if I told you that it's scientifically proven to increase 1475 01:03:42,777 --> 01:03:45,633 your forgiveness, make you more compassionate? 1476 01:03:45,689 --> 01:03:48,285 Some of you be giving five of those pills to your husband. 1477 01:03:49,275 --> 01:03:52,131 You'd be putting, you'd be slipping in everything he's drinking. 1478 01:03:52,283 --> 01:03:52,827 That it. 1479 01:03:52,891 --> 01:03:56,171 What if I told you that it would increase your emotional regulation? 1480 01:03:56,323 --> 01:03:57,731 Scientifically proven. 1481 01:03:57,843 --> 01:04:00,575 What if I told you would increase your resilience? 1482 01:04:01,195 --> 01:04:05,091 What if I told you would actually enhance your brain function 1483 01:04:05,283 --> 01:04:09,347 and it would cause cognitive activity and even improve your memory. 1484 01:04:09,491 --> 01:04:11,651 All you had to do is take this pill once a day. 1485 01:04:11,723 --> 01:04:15,253 It would promote even your physical health because there's a 1486 01:04:15,269 --> 01:04:19,237 link between Bible reading and even improved physical health as 1487 01:04:19,261 --> 01:04:19,893 a result. 1488 01:04:20,029 --> 01:04:21,469 And so let me do this. 1489 01:04:21,517 --> 01:04:22,245 Oh, you see that? 1490 01:04:22,285 --> 01:04:24,117 Benefits of daily Bible reading. 1491 01:04:24,261 --> 01:04:28,781 Now, for all of the fact checkers, I made citations in Turabian 1492 01:04:28,853 --> 01:04:29,261 style. 1493 01:04:29,333 --> 01:04:30,405 So let's go to the next slide. 1494 01:04:30,445 --> 01:04:32,785 Here's your citations if you want to take a picture. 1495 01:04:34,365 --> 01:04:40,725 These are all the studies that were conducted that prove on a biological 1496 01:04:40,805 --> 01:04:45,067 level how people are changed as a result of reading the Bible 1497 01:04:45,131 --> 01:04:45,975 every day. 1498 01:04:46,355 --> 01:04:50,235 So there is no pill that exists in our generation that can 1499 01:04:50,275 --> 01:04:53,495 do all these things for you, but this can't. 1500 01:04:53,875 --> 01:04:56,387 So we are going to switch as a church into it. 1501 01:04:56,411 --> 01:04:57,659 Now let me just tell you this. 1502 01:04:57,747 --> 01:04:59,375 This is for the whole family. 1503 01:05:00,155 --> 01:05:03,891 And we went to the extent of actually numbering every page. 1504 01:05:04,083 --> 01:05:07,323 So like when I, when I say it's Only good for one year. 1505 01:05:07,379 --> 01:05:10,055 January 30, 2025, day 30. 1506 01:05:10,705 --> 01:05:12,641 So this is like fresh manna. 1507 01:05:12,753 --> 01:05:14,577 Next year, will they be a new one? 1508 01:05:14,681 --> 01:05:16,833 And for those of you in connect groups, what. 1509 01:05:16,889 --> 01:05:20,041 What book are we doing in 2025 in our Connect group? 1510 01:05:20,153 --> 01:05:21,005 The Bible. 1511 01:05:21,865 --> 01:05:26,017 We're living in an era where men of God, women of God are falling 1512 01:05:26,081 --> 01:05:27,129 left and right. 1513 01:05:27,297 --> 01:05:29,497 It's becoming increasingly difficult. 1514 01:05:29,601 --> 01:05:31,113 Whose voice do I listen to? 1515 01:05:31,169 --> 01:05:32,561 What book do I read? 1516 01:05:32,713 --> 01:05:33,737 The Bible. 1517 01:05:33,921 --> 01:05:35,505 We listen to the voice of the Lord. 1518 01:05:35,545 --> 01:05:36,923 We're going to take a year. 1519 01:05:37,089 --> 01:05:39,775 Every connect group, our marriage groups, our men groups, 1520 01:05:39,815 --> 01:05:42,079 our women's groups, we're going to use this. 1521 01:05:42,207 --> 01:05:46,223 And by the way, we put our connect group questions already in 1522 01:05:46,279 --> 01:05:50,919 here at each and every section so you can have them and ask those 1523 01:05:50,967 --> 01:05:52,511 questions in your connect groups. 1524 01:05:52,623 --> 01:05:55,247 And I am so excited because each day you're going to read the 1525 01:05:55,271 --> 01:05:55,767 portion. 1526 01:05:55,871 --> 01:05:57,915 It's already broken up for you. 1527 01:05:58,335 --> 01:06:00,215 And then you're going to go through and you're going to answer 1528 01:06:00,255 --> 01:06:02,239 the questions and physically write in this. 1529 01:06:02,327 --> 01:06:06,315 And husbands, I want you to talk to your wives about this. 1530 01:06:06,695 --> 01:06:08,903 Wives, I want you to talk to your husband. 1531 01:06:09,079 --> 01:06:12,127 Single ladies who are dating, you want to know if he's from God 1532 01:06:12,151 --> 01:06:12,879 or not? 1533 01:06:13,047 --> 01:06:13,615 Ask him. 1534 01:06:13,655 --> 01:06:15,355 Show me your daily growth journal. 1535 01:06:16,815 --> 01:06:18,495 Don't ask to see his bank account. 1536 01:06:18,575 --> 01:06:20,759 Show me your daily growth journal. 1537 01:06:20,927 --> 01:06:22,567 Oh, you're nine days behind. 1538 01:06:22,711 --> 01:06:23,095 Okay. 1539 01:06:23,135 --> 01:06:25,755 We need to reevaluate this relationship. 1540 01:06:26,695 --> 01:06:31,591 There's going to be a seismic shift in your life as a result of 1541 01:06:31,623 --> 01:06:34,863 this daily growth journal, and I want you to physically write in 1542 01:06:34,879 --> 01:06:37,207 it every single day. 1543 01:06:37,271 --> 01:06:41,143 It's going to be very quick, but it's going to change your life 1544 01:06:41,199 --> 01:06:41,875 forever. 1545 01:06:42,255 --> 01:06:46,031 And this is the fuel that's going to take you to the destination 1546 01:06:46,143 --> 01:06:47,799 that God has for you. 1547 01:06:47,967 --> 01:06:49,799 We're going to grow with the word. 1548 01:06:49,967 --> 01:06:52,519 In a few moments, we're going to share, like, how you can actually 1549 01:06:52,567 --> 01:06:56,015 get this book over the next several weeks because it starts January 1550 01:06:56,095 --> 01:06:58,375 1st, and we're doing this together. 1551 01:06:58,535 --> 01:07:01,743 When you come to pastor Danny and ex Gun, you say, help me. 1552 01:07:01,839 --> 01:07:03,023 Help me with my marriage. 1553 01:07:03,079 --> 01:07:03,831 They're going to say, cool. 1554 01:07:03,863 --> 01:07:05,515 Bring your daily growth book. 1555 01:07:05,975 --> 01:07:06,719 Oh, you're. 1556 01:07:06,807 --> 01:07:08,439 You haven't done this for three weeks. 1557 01:07:08,487 --> 01:07:10,791 Well, I want to help your marriage, but you're not helping 1558 01:07:10,823 --> 01:07:15,263 your marriage if you have children in your home. 1559 01:07:15,439 --> 01:07:17,463 What do you talk about at dinner? 1560 01:07:17,639 --> 01:07:18,511 Let's talk about. 1561 01:07:18,583 --> 01:07:20,275 Hey, what did you read today? 1562 01:07:21,615 --> 01:07:23,351 What thing did God speak to you? 1563 01:07:23,383 --> 01:07:24,675 And you begin to go through. 1564 01:07:24,715 --> 01:07:28,379 It's like this becomes the centerpiece of your entire home. 1565 01:07:28,547 --> 01:07:29,619 Oh, look, that's. 1566 01:07:29,667 --> 01:07:31,651 This is what it looks like in your home. 1567 01:07:31,843 --> 01:07:35,163 Just you see this thing everywhere and we got the bright 1568 01:07:35,219 --> 01:07:36,387 orange so you don't miss it. 1569 01:07:36,411 --> 01:07:38,255 It's like a construction zone. 1570 01:07:38,555 --> 01:07:42,451 You see the bright orange stop under construction. 1571 01:07:42,643 --> 01:07:46,415 Because can I prophesy to you, as we get ready to transition out, 1572 01:07:48,155 --> 01:07:51,365 2025 is the year that you move in silence. 1573 01:07:52,305 --> 01:07:55,045 It's the year that you quietly rebuild. 1574 01:07:55,545 --> 01:08:00,617 It's the year that you read the Bible every single day and you're 1575 01:08:00,641 --> 01:08:03,297 going to start to see changes in your attitude. 1576 01:08:03,401 --> 01:08:05,217 You bring your family to this. 1577 01:08:05,321 --> 01:08:06,081 You bring your. 1578 01:08:06,153 --> 01:08:09,945 I feel like as social media has increased, we need to increase 1579 01:08:10,025 --> 01:08:12,073 in gathering around the word of God. 1580 01:08:12,169 --> 01:08:13,849 We need to eat the word of God. 1581 01:08:13,937 --> 01:08:16,313 And I believe that what's going to happen is slowly you're 1582 01:08:16,329 --> 01:08:17,829 going to start seeing a change. 1583 01:08:17,957 --> 01:08:20,029 Slowly, God's going to rearrange things. 1584 01:08:20,117 --> 01:08:23,981 And I believe that next year for Vision Sunday, we're going to 1585 01:08:24,013 --> 01:08:28,341 look at this book, completely filled out, and you're going to say, 1586 01:08:28,373 --> 01:08:31,385 God, I remember who I was when I started this. 1587 01:08:31,685 --> 01:08:33,413 Look who I am now. 1588 01:08:33,589 --> 01:08:35,069 Look who I am now. 1589 01:08:35,197 --> 01:08:37,229 So in a few moments, we're going to. 1590 01:08:37,277 --> 01:08:39,813 Our campus pastors are going to come up at every location and 1591 01:08:39,829 --> 01:08:40,757 tell you how to get this. 1592 01:08:40,821 --> 01:08:45,331 Now, for as incredible as Vision Sunday 1 has been, I saved 1593 01:08:45,443 --> 01:08:48,291 all the good stuff for next week. 1594 01:08:48,443 --> 01:08:49,779 And if you're like, what do you mean? 1595 01:08:49,867 --> 01:08:52,635 Our church made a 700 page book. 1596 01:08:52,675 --> 01:08:54,371 And that's not the biggest announcement. 1597 01:08:54,443 --> 01:08:56,619 Oh, no, we're just getting started. 1598 01:08:56,787 --> 01:08:58,615 Now, what I will say is this. 1599 01:08:59,075 --> 01:09:00,415 We're going to pray together. 1600 01:09:00,875 --> 01:09:02,371 And I want you all stand to your feet. 1601 01:09:02,403 --> 01:09:06,083 We're going to do a prayer that I actually created. 1602 01:09:06,259 --> 01:09:10,919 And this prayer is a call and response between me and you. 1603 01:09:11,107 --> 01:09:14,615 So I'm going to read my part and I'm going to be crying this out 1604 01:09:14,655 --> 01:09:15,375 to God. 1605 01:09:15,495 --> 01:09:18,015 And then I want you to respond with your part. 1606 01:09:18,135 --> 01:09:21,759 And as a church, we're going to make this declaration before God 1607 01:09:21,887 --> 01:09:23,175 and step into what's next. 1608 01:09:23,215 --> 01:09:25,367 How many of you are ready to do this with me? 1609 01:09:25,551 --> 01:09:26,023 All right. 1610 01:09:26,079 --> 01:09:26,719 Are you ready? 1611 01:09:26,767 --> 01:09:27,915 Do you have those? 1612 01:09:28,695 --> 01:09:30,355 Okay, this is my part. 1613 01:09:31,175 --> 01:09:34,303 We're going to begin to pray together now as a church, we're going 1614 01:09:34,319 --> 01:09:38,393 to do this confession and declaration together across all six 1615 01:09:38,449 --> 01:09:38,881 locations. 1616 01:09:38,953 --> 01:09:40,065 Right now I need. 1617 01:09:40,145 --> 01:09:41,537 Is Julie here yet? 1618 01:09:41,681 --> 01:09:44,313 Can I have maybe exica. 1619 01:09:44,409 --> 01:09:45,681 Just grab a mic. 1620 01:09:45,833 --> 01:09:46,489 Okay, great. 1621 01:09:46,537 --> 01:09:48,441 Can you unmute her mic now? 1622 01:09:48,513 --> 01:09:51,625 Execa, you're going to be the congregation and I'll be the leader. 1623 01:09:51,745 --> 01:09:53,129 And we're going to do this together. 1624 01:09:53,177 --> 01:09:55,401 I Just want so they can hear somebody do the prayer. 1625 01:09:55,433 --> 01:09:56,089 Okay. 1626 01:09:56,257 --> 01:09:57,873 Are you all ready out there? 1627 01:09:58,049 --> 01:09:58,417 Come on. 1628 01:09:58,441 --> 01:09:59,617 Are you ready in Miami? 1629 01:09:59,681 --> 01:09:59,937 Come on. 1630 01:09:59,961 --> 01:10:00,833 Y'all ready? 1631 01:10:00,969 --> 01:10:01,473 All right. 1632 01:10:01,529 --> 01:10:03,273 Let's just make this declaration. 1633 01:10:03,409 --> 01:10:08,017 Heavenly Father, we stand before you today ready to embrace 1634 01:10:08,081 --> 01:10:11,405 the vision that you have for our lives and for this church. 1635 01:10:12,865 --> 01:10:17,233 Lord, we are your ground crew, preparing the way for your spirit 1636 01:10:17,289 --> 01:10:18,089 to move. 1637 01:10:18,217 --> 01:10:22,761 We are your flight crew, ready to soar to new heights in our faith 1638 01:10:22,833 --> 01:10:23,445 together. 1639 01:10:23,785 --> 01:10:27,009 We confess that we cannot do this on our own. 1640 01:10:27,137 --> 01:10:32,187 We need your word to fuel our journey, to guide our steps, and 1641 01:10:32,211 --> 01:10:34,015 to empower us to service. 1642 01:10:35,355 --> 01:10:41,867 As Psalms 119, verse 105 says, your word is a lamp to my feet and 1643 01:10:41,891 --> 01:10:43,459 a light to my path. 1644 01:10:43,587 --> 01:10:48,251 Illuminate our way, Lord, that our road will turn into a Runway 1645 01:10:48,323 --> 01:10:49,375 for revival. 1646 01:10:51,635 --> 01:10:56,971 Fill us with a passion for your word, a hunger to know you more 1647 01:10:57,043 --> 01:10:59,405 deeply through its pages. 1648 01:11:00,785 --> 01:11:06,857 May we, like the burdens in Acts 17:11, examine the Scriptures 1649 01:11:06,961 --> 01:11:10,765 daily to increase in wisdom for these days. 1650 01:11:11,425 --> 01:11:16,201 Help us to be diligent in our daily Bible reading to meditate on 1651 01:11:16,233 --> 01:11:19,485 your truths and to apply them to our lives. 1652 01:11:22,425 --> 01:11:25,585 As we fill our spirits with your word. 1653 01:11:25,705 --> 01:11:30,299 May we take flight in our faith, reaching new altitudes of 1654 01:11:30,347 --> 01:11:33,935 love, service and impact for your kingdom. 1655 01:11:35,355 --> 01:11:39,507 We commit to being part of the ground crew and the flight crew, 1656 01:11:39,651 --> 01:11:44,995 working together to build your church and advance your kingdom in 1657 01:11:45,035 --> 01:11:46,895 this community and beyond. 1658 01:11:48,155 --> 01:11:54,339 Empower us, Lord, to go v1, to reach our full potential in Christ 1659 01:11:54,467 --> 01:11:57,965 and to vote fulfill the purpose you have for each of us. 1660 01:11:58,505 --> 01:12:04,105 We pray this in the name of Jesus, our true pilot and our guide 1661 01:12:04,225 --> 01:12:05,569 in Jesus name. 1662 01:12:05,617 --> 01:12:08,009 And everybody said Amen. 1663 01:12:08,097 --> 01:12:08,537 Amen. 1664 01:12:08,601 --> 01:12:11,017 Come on, shout it even louder out there in Brooklyn. 1665 01:12:11,081 --> 01:12:11,805 Amen. 1666 01:12:12,465 --> 01:12:13,405 Come on. 1667 01:12:15,465 --> 01:12:15,905 Okay. 1668 01:12:15,945 --> 01:12:17,865 Can you put up that graphic for the shirt? 1669 01:12:17,905 --> 01:12:19,245 So here's what we're going to do. 1670 01:12:19,545 --> 01:12:21,645 Across every location as you leave across. 1671 01:12:21,715 --> 01:12:22,529 But don't leave yet. 1672 01:12:22,577 --> 01:12:23,497 Don't leave yet. 1673 01:12:23,641 --> 01:12:25,657 Take a seat, matter of fact, because you're going to be tempted. 1674 01:12:25,681 --> 01:12:28,129 You're going to be tempted across every location. 1675 01:12:28,177 --> 01:12:30,825 I want you to leave by getting your growth book. 1676 01:12:30,945 --> 01:12:32,561 But here's what I want you to do. 1677 01:12:32,673 --> 01:12:34,601 I want you to invite a friend next week. 1678 01:12:34,633 --> 01:12:36,441 Because next week's going to be even bigger. 1679 01:12:36,553 --> 01:12:39,945 But every single person in attendance is going to receive a 1680 01:12:39,985 --> 01:12:42,153 ground crew T shirt next week. 1681 01:12:42,289 --> 01:12:45,193 And we're going to be talking more about how God is going to move 1682 01:12:45,209 --> 01:12:45,601 in their life. 1683 01:12:45,633 --> 01:12:47,485 So come next week, bring a friend. 1684 01:12:47,585 --> 01:12:49,605 We're all getting ground crew T shirts. 1685 01:12:49,725 --> 01:12:51,621 Make sure you get your daily growth book. 1686 01:12:51,693 --> 01:12:53,157 And across every location. 1687 01:12:53,261 --> 01:12:57,333 We're going to have our pastors, our pastors come and actually 1688 01:12:57,389 --> 01:12:58,357 tell you how to get it. 1689 01:12:58,381 --> 01:13:02,789 So can you guys welcome at every location your campus pastors 1690 01:13:02,837 --> 01:13:06,485 to now tell you how to get your daily growth book this week. 1691 01:13:06,525 --> 01:13:09,821 And I'll see you next Sunday for the craziest announcements we've 1692 01:13:09,853 --> 01:13:10,205 got yet.