Aug. 14, 2025

Why You Continue To Procrastinate Even Though it Hurts..

Why You Continue To Procrastinate Even Though it Hurts..

What if the reason you're stuck isn't the devil, but your own delay?

In this prophetic and soul-piercing message, Pastor Mike Signorelli brings revelation from the life of Abraham's father, Terah, showing how comfort, compromise, and convenience often keep us from the promise God intended. Drawing from Genesis, Hebrews, and personal testimony, this word exposes the root of spiritual procrastination and calls you to finish what your family started.

🔥 Whether you're tired of cycles, frustrated by half-built dreams, or wrestling with fear of the unknown, this message will challenge you to move beyond Haran and into your Canaan.

🔑 What You'll Discover:

  • Why some believers stop short of the promise
  • How procrastination disguises itself as "wisdom"
  • The danger of settling for "better" instead of God's best
  • How generational patterns are broken by one radical decision
  • What it means to dream bigger in the Spirit and why it matters now

💬 "God didn’t bring you this far just to bring you this far."

Don't let procrastination rob you of purpose. Break free from the comfort zone. Finish what God started in your bloodline. Step fully into your calling.

🌍 Get equipped for breakthrough at www.mikesignorelli.com

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Genesis chapter 11, verse 31.

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Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot.

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So you have three generations.

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Everybody say three generations.

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And his daughter in law Sarai, his son Abram's wife.

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And they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to the land of Canaan.

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But when they came to Haran, they settled there.

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Tap your neighbor and say, don't settle.

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God is doing something and I am showing up to you.

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If you're a Sozo member and you're covenant to this house as an apostolic leader to say don't settle, don't go halfway on your journey.

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God wants you to go all the way.

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If you're here and you're visiting and you're a guest, can I just tell you, don't get comfortable.

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Don't exchange free indeed for just free er, than you used to be.

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See?

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Oh come on somebody.

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You know, I'm about to preach this thing.

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And so it's, we'll exchange.

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You know, instead of God's best, we just have better.

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And it's like, I don't want a better marriage.

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I want the best marriage that I don't want.

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I don't want to just be free.

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I want to be free indeed.

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I don't want to be free er, than I used to be.

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I want to be completely free.

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I don't want to just feel a little bit better in my body.

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I want complete and total healing in my body.

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Is there anybody who wants all of what God has for you?

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Come on, you know.

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So God is trying to provoke you.

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So now you know, when you look at Abram's father Terah, he originally set out to lead this large family from Ur to Canaan.

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And that was the journey they were going on.

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And when they got about halfway to Canaan, Terah decided to settle in Haran instead of pressing in.

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And so Haran actually represents the land of comfort.

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But sometimes we can exchange Haran for Canaan.

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Canaan represents the land of promise.

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I came here to show you that you should not exchange comfort for the promise.

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See, these are two different things.

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And a lot of you have got to this point in your Christianity where you're like, thank God I'm not this weak, lukewarm, compromised Christian I used to be.

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And you're celebrating that you got halfway through the journey.

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But God is saying, don't exchange comfort for the promise.

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We've got to go all the way in.

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And sometimes you'll be like, well, I don't club like I used to club.

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Yeah.

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Cause you're older, and you're just tired.

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That's not sanctification.

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You're just wore out.

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Some of you like, well, I don't party like I used to.

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Yeah.

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Cause you're old now.

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If you were young, you'd still be struggling with that sin.

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It's like sometimes we try to justify this.

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God wants you to go all the way to Canaan.

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Don't settle.

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Let me tell you what's at stake, though.

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Because what you do incrementally, your children will do exponentially.

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So if you drink a little bit, they'll drink a lot.

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If you cuss a little bit, they'll cuss a lot.

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If you're like, well, we go to church sometimes.

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They'll never go to church.

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See, when.

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Oh, come on.

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I'm speaking into something right now.

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Okay.

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Now, do you love me?

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I'm your friend, and I'm like a surgeon.

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I came here to cut out some cancer.

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But when you're a surgeon, the goal is kill the cancer, not the person.

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And so if I made you laugh leading into this sermon, it was to anesthetize you enough to stab you.

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You'd be like, am I bleeding?

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Is Mike stabbing me?

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Yes.

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I'm cutting the cancer out of you.

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Believe me, the only thing that's going to die is mediocrity.

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After this, the only thing that's going to die is compromise.

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After this, I'm trying to cut it out because God wants to, will.

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He's giving you an apostolic leader.

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You can take the Pacific Northwest.

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All the conditions are right.

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You have everything you need to run, rush on over the devil.

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But now it's not the gen.

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The enemies in front of you.

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It's the enemy inside of you.

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Some of you got delivered from a demonic enemy, but now it's the enemy of me.

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What do you do when you get delivered from demons?

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And now you're the problem.

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Oh, look, everyone's like, I don't like him anymore.

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Don't invite him back anymore.

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What happens when it's the enemy of me?

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What happens when you can't blame a demon anymore?

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What?

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I see and.

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And I believe, like, the first time I came to you, it was.

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It was for deliverance, and it was to agitate, and it was revival.

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But now I feel like the Lord put on assignment to say, don't block what he's trying to do through you.

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So I'm pushing you to the next level.

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You know, at first, now, I assume, biblically, that Tara opted for the comfort of this new, like, Mesopotamian home that he had.

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Because, like, why would you stop halfway?

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Maybe there's some unforeseen challenges.

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Maybe it was like that old school game, Oregon Trail.

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Somebody dies of dysentery, you know, somebody gets scarlet fever.

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The children of the 80s know what I'm talking about.

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This guy shouted more for Oregon Trail than Jesus.

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We'll deal with that later.

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But, but we have these, you know, so when I'm looking at Tara, why would Tara stop halfway?

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Why would he not go all the way?

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But then when I read Abraham's testimony from Joshua's standpoint, it gives another perspective.

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So now I want you to turn to Joshua, chapter 24, verse 2.

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So now we have this same story from a different perspective.

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This is Joshua, chapter 24, verse 2.

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Long ago, your ancestors, including Terah, the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates river and worshiped other gods.

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If you get offended by messages about giving financially, it's just because you worship the God of mammon.

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Because when you have accepted salvation and you have been freely forgiven of all your sins, you will live in a posture of God.

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Whatever you want, I'll give it to you.

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I'm reckless, abandoned.

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I mean, how could I ever repay you?

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My life has been ransomed.

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And so whatever God you serve is revealed in what you choose and what you do.

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And so when you look at this man, it said they worship other gods.

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You know, sometimes when your marriage is.

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There's friction in your marriage, it's because.

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Because you worship this other God, this God of sensuality, this God of pleasure.

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You know, sometimes when it's like it reveals the worship, because we're all made and designed to worship.

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What is worship?

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It's the direction of your affections.

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So you never stop worshiping.

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You just change the direction.

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Is this helping anybody?

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And so we're all worshiping all the time.

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It's just, what are you worshiping?

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And so what it says is many gods.

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And so yeah, you come to Sunday and you worship the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.

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And then you go back and then you bow down at the idol of self pleasure on Monday morning and then you go and worship this other.

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And so what I come here to do is I'm trying to push you past mediocrity to destroy all the other idols for once and for all.

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Because here's what's at stake.

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It's the generations, it's the inheritance, it's the lineage.

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There's something that God's trying to pass down through you.

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He's Trying to get it down.

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But I'm just here to tell you that a little bit of compromise in one generation and the whole next generation will be completely out of the game.

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And so this is.

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Let me.

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Can I go a little bit deeper?

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So I took you on an old covenant, Old Testament journey.

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Let's go to the new New Testament.

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Hebrews chapter 11, verse 4.

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This is.

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This is going to give you a deep, profound understanding.

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I'm going somewhere.

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Follow me.

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Hebrews chapter 11, verse 8.

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Hebrews 11.

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8.

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Now, if you realize, if you were there last night, I'm giving you the part two to last night.

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It's all connecting by faith.

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Everybody say by faith.

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Okay, you're getting a deep revelation.

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Abraham.

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So he's doing something that his dad never did.

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He's doing something his dad.

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I know.

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I just showed you.

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His dad started the journey.

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Come on, Holy ghost.

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His dad started the journey.

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His dad said, we're all going to Canaan.

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But halfway to Canaan stopped because it was comfortable and because he worshiped other gods.

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And so God says, now it has to skip now another generation.

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And see, there's some of you that the generation before you, God designed for them to go all the way, but they compromise.

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And now God's speaking this message to you, and he's saying, I want you to go all the way.

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I want to move you in.

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But this is what it said by faith.

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When he was called, he obeyed.

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Everybody say obeyed.

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And he went out to a place he was going to receive an inheritance.

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What in the world are you talking about?

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There's two kinds of inheritances.

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There is the biological and then there's the supernatural.

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See, when you talk about inheritance, you know, you inherited your eye color from your parents.

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You inherited your height from your parents.

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Some of you are still mad about it.

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You and you, you know, you inherited these things.

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There's a biological inheritance.

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So this doesn't make any sense.

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It says Abraham, operating in faith, obeyed, and he went to a place that he did not know to receive an inheritance.

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He was after a godly inheritance.

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And see, there's a supernatural inheritance that says there's what I have access through my biological family.

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And some of you received generational curses of alcoholism.

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Some of you received generational curses of divorce.

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Some of you received generational curses.

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Come on, let's talk about it.

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Premature death.

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And that was the inheritance on that side.

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But he said he went to another land, and he obeyed so he can receive another inheritance.

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See, let me just tell you on both sides of my Family.

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Premature death.

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On both sides of my family, the men went to prison.

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On both sides of my family, there's divorce.

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And so I had to make a decision with the Signorellis.

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Buongiorno.

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That we were going to go into another land that I knew not.

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And I was going obey.

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I wasn't going to worship the gods of Playboy magazine.

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I wasn't going to worship the God of Michelob and Miller Light.

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I wasn't.

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Some of you are Bud Light drinkers.

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That's a whole nother story.

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I wasn't gonna.

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I wasn't gonna bow down to those gods, but I was gonna go into another land that I did not know.

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And I was gonna become a prophetic Abraham and a prophetic Sarah, my wife being Sarah.

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But see what happens is you don't know.

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This is what it says.

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He went out not knowing where he was going.

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You have to be willing to do something that you've never seen someone else do and to be something you've never seen someone else.

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Some of you men, you never saw your dad pray for your mom.

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And that's why you are broken the way you are broken.

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Because a non anxious presence of a man in a home is a healing force from God.

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And when a man begins to pray for his wife and lay hands on her, that actually flows oil through the whole family.

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And so right now you go Back to the 1919s, only 4% of all children were born to single mothers.

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In 2023, 40% of all births are to single mothers in this nation.

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And so we are dealing with an epidemic.

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It's rooted in fatherlessness.

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And in the absence of fathers, there's every other problem that we have.

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And so I'm here to speak to some Abrahams.

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I'm here to speak to some people who will go a direction they've never seen and do something they've never.

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This is not me calling you out, this me calling you up.

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It's time to go higher.

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And this message is deep inside of me because I've had to live this message out.

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When I first got married to my wife, Julie, I had no idea how to be a husband.

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I never seen it before.

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I was angry all the time.

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The injustices of the world, how hard it is to make money.

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You know, my dad's generation, you could just like get a job at McDonald's and go buy a house and a car and you have a stay at home mom and then, you know, wife and then pay for college in full after each semester.

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You know that that's what the economics of that time were was very different.

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Now here, you got three side hustles, four businesses, you work full time, and you still don't have medical benefits.

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I'm keeping it 100.

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And so you live under that pressure.

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You're angry all the time.

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You're always frustrated, and the Lord's trying to raise you up.

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It's getting harder.

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The pressure is on.

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But let me just tell you, the same boiling hot water that softens a potato hardens an egg.

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So when you are under pressure, if you have the DNA of the kingdom on the inside of you, oh, it will harden some resolve inside of you.

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And you'll say, oh, this thing, it's not making me soft.

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It's making me hard.

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This same pressure that I'm under is caused.

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And see, Abraham was under the same pressure his dad was.

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But he said, I'm not gonna worship those false gods.

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I'm gonna worship the God of Israel.

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I'm gonn.

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I will be the one that obeys.

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As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

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I'm not gonna bend my knee to this.

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I'm not gonna fall prey to culture.

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I'm gonna make a new way.

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I'm gonna chart a new path.

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And there's something about this house, there's something about this region that God is calling you out to get a godly inheritance.

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Somebody say the word inheritance?

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See, when we talk about inheritance, we're talking about God releasing properties, God releasing houses.

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When we talk about inheritance, we'.

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Dominion.

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See, God will set you up.

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When we talk about inheritance, we talk about you being the first in your family not to die young when we talk about inheritance.

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Because, see, you're not inheriting biologically.

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You're inheriting supernaturally.

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And so what I'm speaking into right now is fear.

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Because fear tells you, why even try?

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Because it won't work.

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Fear tells you, why even go into this area, it won't work.

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But by faith, you see what I'm saying?

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Faith says, no, I can, I will, I shall.

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Faith says, I will go in.

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I will do it.

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Faith says, I'm not backing down.

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Faith says, I'm gonna continue to move in this direction.

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But see, Tara didn't go all the way into the promised land.

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Because now, here's what's crazy.

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If you look at this.

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Historically, he traveled over 600 miles, and he only had 450 miles to go.

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Some of you are right at the edge of your breakthrough.

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You've already been 600 miles.

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Some of you have been through so much and you're right at that point of breakthrough.

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But you're getting ready to settle.

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You're getting ready to be offended over something stupid.

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You're getting ready to get captivated by the thoughts of all the gossip around you and what other people are saying.

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It's like Tara came 600 miles and he stopped.

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He only had 450 miles to go.

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He already proved he could go the rest of the distance.

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Some of you have gotten this far, but I came with good news.

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You did not get this far just to get get this far.

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You did not get this free not to get free.

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Indeed you did not.

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God didn't.

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Come on.

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I'm speaking to Sozo Church.

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You didn't get to this point just to have this location.

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God's doubling your territory in Tacoma as well.

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And you will have Tacoma.

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And there's more.

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It's like God didn't get you this far just to get you this far.

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You didn't survive all the hell that you went through just to live this kind of life.

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There is something, and you know what I feel in the spirit right now?

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Deep calls to deep.

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Somebody is listen.

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You might not be real loud right now, but there's something kicking on the inside of your belly because it's deep calls to deep.

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And God is trying to call you into this realm.

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I think Tara simply got comfortable in Haran because it was better than Ur.

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And I want you right now.

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Cause I'm getting ready to come to a close.

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But I want you right now to think about what you've compromised in.

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Because the Lord is calling you to this next season.

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He's calling you to this next level.

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Haran.

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This place that he settled at.

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It literally, it means in Hebrew, caravan route.

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So even the name of the place he settled, it was called a caravan route.

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It was never supposed to be a destination.

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Oh, I'm going deep today.

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This.

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This was located on the Euphrates river and it was just a caravan route.

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But he made a route his home.

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Some of you are about to make a route your home, and God's saying you're not staying here.

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I've got more.

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And I'm not talking about geographically.

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I'm talking about spiritually.

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Spiritually.

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Spiritually.

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He's trying to break that scarcity off of your mind.

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He's trying to break the limitations.

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I want to tell you a story.

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And it's just rocked me.

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When you see the movie, it's going to make more sense.

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My mother was a single mother on welfare.

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With five kids, my mother and I received the ministry of deliverance and prophecy at the same time.

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And we had never been taught it in our local church.

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We were reading all these books.

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There was a man in South Chicago named Apostle John Eckhart.

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And we started having demons manifest like crazy when we were praying for people.

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And we didn't know what to do with that.

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And it was all the Puerto Ricans.

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I don't know if there's any Puerto Ricans here, but we were in South Chicago and all these Puerto Ricans had come to South Chicago and they had done all this witchcraft.

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And so when we would pray for them, they'd start manifesting demons.

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And we were like, what do we do?

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So at the time, there was this young man named John Eckhart on local access cable television.

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Some of the young people don't even know what this is.

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We used to watch these things called TVs, and you couldn't hold them in your hand and you had to actually turn the dial on them.

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And you know, and if you, however young you were, was who the remote control was.

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The youngest person was the remote control.

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Some of you are getting flashbacks.

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And so the local access cable television, there was this guy named John Eckhart who would teach about demons.

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So we reached out to him and we said, hey, we would love for you to come and like, would you train us?

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Because all these demons are manifesting in our church.

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What we didn't know is Apostle John Eckhart was going to eventually become one of the most prolific writers on the topic of demons and deliverance ever.

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So that was in my DNA.

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That was who we were.

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And so then we started learning prophecy.

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And so the first person I ever prophesied over was my mom.

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And the first person my mom ever prophesied over was me and her oldest son.

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And we were co laboring and ministering together in our home.

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And see, listen, I'm preaching some of the biggest conferences in the United States now.

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But see, I was faithful in the living room before he put me on the stage.

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And see, this is why I'm trying to tell you, like God is trying to do something in your living room to graduate you into the next level.

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And it starts in that this is where it starts at home.

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Jesus had to be faithful in Bethlehem before he got released into the Galilee.

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See, there's something at home.

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You can't skip the process.

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And God's bringing you through that process before you get the promise.

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And so my mom and I are prophesying over each other and all that.

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Well, we started learning the power of decreeing.

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The oldest book of the Bible is not Genesis.

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It's Job.

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And in the oldest book of the Bible, Job, he says, I will decree a thing, and it will be established unto to me, the power of life and death is in your tongue.

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You gotta learn how to speak those things that aren't as though they are the language of certainty by faith.

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Abraham did these things by he was learning.

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He was learning these ways by faith.

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And so we started decreeing.

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We started declaring things.

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Well, all of a sudden, I remember one day, I was in my bedroom at the other end of our house, and I could hear this pounding, and I could hear muffled yelling.

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And I was like, what is going on in my house?

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What is.

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So I'm walking down the hall, and as I walk down the hallway, it gets louder and louder, and I could hear this muffling.

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And as I got to the kitchen, I look at my mom, and my mom is praying in the Spirit, and she's pounding her fist on the table as hard as she can.

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And every time she hits the table, she goes, dream bigger.

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Dream bigger.

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Dream bigger.

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I mean, she's slamming her hand on the table, and I'm like, my mom's lost her mind.

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Dream bigger.

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Andrebo Shendre Becket.

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Dream bigger.

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Andre Chendrebeiste.

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Dream bigger.

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Now, this is welfare.

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Five kids, no husband, poverty.

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Mice infested home.

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No carpet.

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Dream bigger.

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And she's doing this over and over again.

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Finally, she's done.

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And I'm like, mom, are you okay?

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What was that?

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And she said, do little.

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Because my nickname's Doolittle.

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I don't have time to explain that.

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She said, do little.

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She said the Holy Spirit was trying to get me to dream bigger.

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And I wasn't declaring it.

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I was repeating what he was telling me to repeat.

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And she said, the Holy Spirit, he's in the.

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She said, like the spirit of Jesus through.

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The Holy Spirit was in.

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In this kitchen.

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And he kept saying, sandra, keep saying it.

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Dream bigger.

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Dream bigger.

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And every time I would say, this is only how far me and my five kids can go.

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He said, no, dream bigger.

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And then he.

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Then I would have another dream of what we could do in our family.

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And the Holy Spirit would say, sandra, dream bigger.

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Say it again.

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And then I would dream a little bit bigger.

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And all of a sudden, the Holy Spirit would say, no, dream bigger.

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And every time she was slamming her fist, the Lord was saying, kick out the borders of your belief.

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Dream big.

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Believe more.

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Sandra don't believe more.

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And listen, she started declaring that.

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Well, we were sitting in Toronto and I was watching the movie and it was the first time I was seeing it.

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And at the very end of the movie, the scene came up of my mother, who now has full gray hair and she's much older now.

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And she looks into the camera and she says, if you are a single mother and you're watching this movie, dream bigger.

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And I felt the anointing beginning.

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See, she was prophesying her son had the fastest growing church in America for the last five years in a row.

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She's in a major motion picture.

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But I know the secret.

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The secret is like.

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Just like Abraham, she said, I'm going into a place that I do not know and I will not compromise.

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I'm not accepting best.

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When God has greatness inside of me.

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I'm not gonna back down.

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Sometimes you gotta get a fire on the inside of you that says, dream bigger.

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This isn't my.

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It's his power.

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This is not my anointing.

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It's his anointing.

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This is not my provision.

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It's his provision.

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You're not dreaming with your resources, you're dreaming with his, with.

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You can't get it done with your bank account, but his bank account can get it done.

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You can't.

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You can't get it done with your relationships, but he's got the relationships to connect.

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You dream bigger.

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Don't get mad when you're being pushed to Tacoma to double.

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God wants to triple, to multiply.

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Don't be mad when I tell you to pray for your wife.

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God's got something inside of you.

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You were destined for more.

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And I'm calling it for today.

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Somebody stand to your feet real quick.

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I feel the power of God.

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Acts chapter 7, verse 2 through 4.

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It says to this he replied.

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Brothers and fathers, listen to me.

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The go of glory appears to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia because he lived in Haran.

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So now we have one more scripture that shows us what was happening when Abraham made the decision that he was moving all the way into the land of Canaan.

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The Bible says the glory of the Lord begin to come upon Abraham.

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Some of you don't even realize once you make up your mind, look what it says.

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Brother and father, listen.

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The God of glory appeared.

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He appeared to our father, Abraham.

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You want to get a visitation from God?

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You want God to appear in your home?

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You want God to appear in your life?

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I dare you to go a direction no one else has gone.

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I dare you to step all the way in.

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I dare you to dream bigger.

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Because it provokes God for visitations.

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It's like, you don't.

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Everybody's like, I want to get a visitation from an angel.

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You get a visitation when there's a big assignment.

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When you step into the big assignment, it provokes some big angels to start showing up.

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I remember that when I was in New York City trying to plant our church, I got arrested on the George Washington Bridge.

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That's a whole nother story.

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I shouldn't have said it, but I was driving our box truck on the George Washington Bridge, and I got pulled over for, like, a minor thing.

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And I found out that there was a ticket I got in New Jersey five years before for not.

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For not having my headlights on during dusk.

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What a bonehead thing.

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And so they arrested me.

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And then when they found out what it was for, they laughed, and I paid $90, and they let me out.

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So that's the only time I've ever been arrested for something stupid.

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But it was a great church planner story.

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Cause my team was like, pastor's in jail right now.

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They're like, what for?

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They said, well, he got a ticket in 2012 for not putting the headlights on during dusk.

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And they're like, what?

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What kind of hardened criminal is that?

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But here's what happened.

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My box truck got impounded as a result of it.

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And I had to go through this bureaucratic process to get it out, which, if you know anything about New York City, it's all a whole bunch of games.

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Can I have the keys, maybe?

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Help me.

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Thank you.

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We're on tour together.

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All of a sudden, I was trying to get the box truck out.

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All this, you know, hoops you have to jump through.

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And we were getting ready to have our first chur service.

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And not only the entire church's stuff was in this box truck, but also, in addition to that, all of my family's personal items.

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Because I had sold my home.

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I had given away a third of everything I owned to launch this church in New York City.

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And so now here I am, complete.

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I'm like, lord, what did I do?

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I left normalcy.

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I've given.

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I cashed out my retirement.

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I literally did everything I could to get to this one moment.

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And I have hundreds of people that are coming for this first service in New York City.

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One of the most gospel godly places, God list places in the nation.

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What do I do?

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And I can't get this.

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So finally, I get all the paperwork in order, and I Show up to get the box truck out.

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And it's after hours because I. I'm fighting through traffic.

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It takes hours to go miles in New York City.

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Pray for me.

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And all of a sudden I finally get there.

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I show up, the guy's like, listen, we're supposed to be close.

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I happen to be here doing other stuff.

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I'll let you go in in to go get the box truck out.

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I show up there and I have to screw these license plates on the front of the box truck in order to get it out.

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Because in New York you have plates on the front and the back.

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And I have my screw gun with me and I'm ready.

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And then I re.

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And then as soon as I get to the box truck and church is the next day, all of a sudden I go to screw the plate in to the bumper cause there was no mount.

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And I realized I forgot the screw.

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So you know how sometimes it's the straw that breaks the camel's back.

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It's.

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You know what I mean?

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It's that one thing.

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They forget your fries in the drive thru.

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And you're like, I'm about to rage against the machine right now.

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You know how that is.

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So I'm thinking, we now cannot have church tomorrow.

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And I'm.

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I'm frustrated.

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So I'm sitting there in the parking lot and I.

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And I'm like, got this screw gun.

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And I'm like, lord, I got arrested on the way here.

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I finally got out, got all this stuff done.

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I got church tomorrow.

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I forgot the screws.

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And I'm like, I'm so frustrated.

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I'm like, lord, I gave you my life for this thing.

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I went all the way east to do what you called me to do.

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And all of a sudden I heard this voice behind me say, hey, is this what you need?

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And I turn around and this man has his hand open and there's two self tapping screws.

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So all of a sudden I grab the screws and I got chills all over me.

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I'm like, yes, that's exactly what I need.

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And I go to screwed in and I'm like, wait a second, that was rude of me.

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I'm gonna turn around and thank him.

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So I turn around, he's gone.

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Then all of a sudden I jump up cause I got scared.

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I'm like, what in the world?

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I'm in New York City alone and it's this huge parking lot and it's gated and I jump up and I'm running in every direction looking for this guy.

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And I don't see him.

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I go back to the front desk, and I'm like, hey, where's the guy?

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He looked like this, this, and this.

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I just wanted for the screws he gave me.

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And the guy said, bro, are you out of your mind?

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You're alone.

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We're after hours.

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Nobody's been through here.

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And then I realized that God sent an angel on assignment to give me the screws that I needed.

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Now, you don't have to believe that story.

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You don't have to believe that story.

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But when you go to great lengths to do something for God, you will begin to provoke the supernatural in your life.

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You will begin to provoke angelic visitation.

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You will begin to provoke the glory of God.

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And so I screwed that plate in.

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I drove that out there.

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I started that church.

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And Muslims and Hindus and atheists and agnostics and Jews have accepted Christ as Messiah because that church was started.

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And so God sent an angel.

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And so if you want to learn how to provoke the supernatural in your life, you've got to move out of comfort into what God has for you.

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Man, I feel such a burden being released right now.

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Can we have the prayer team come on up front?

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I want.

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I want the prayer team to come up because we're going to pray for some of you.

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Wow.

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Exodus, chapter 20, verse 5.

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You shall not bow down to them or worship them.

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For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.

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Romans, chapter 5, verse 18.

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Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification for the life of all people.

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See, this is a shift.

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This is just by your one decision right now.

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How many people in your bloodline, it changes everything.

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Some of you, if you would actually stop being lukewarm and say, God, I want to be on fire for you, your whole friends, everybody connected.

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You would start getting free from drugs and opiates and start getting free from pornography and lust and start getting free from poverty mindset.

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You would shift everything just by you.

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One, one.

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So right now, here's what I want to do.

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I want to pray for all of you.

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We got a little bit of time left.

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Some of you might want to double dip for the next service.

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But.

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And I'll see you at sozo night.

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And we're going to continue ministering.

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We've already seen last night, medically verifiable miracles.

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I'm still getting reports to my inbox.

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I woke up to him.

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We had multiple people surrender drugs.

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It was an incredible experience, and we're going to keep riding this thing through until God's deposited everything he has for you.

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But here's what I want to ask you right now, before we even pray for you individually.

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Is there anybody here just.

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And I'm going to ask you just as a sign to say, Pastor Mike.

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I want to be like Abraham and Sarah.

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I want to move.

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I want to be like your mom who's dreaming bigger.

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I want to be like one of those people that go all the way.

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And would you just lift your hands towards heaven if that's you?

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Come on.

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We're going to make a declaration together, because this is for an.

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This is for a region.

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This is for a city.

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This is for a family.

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And so I want everybody to boldly declare this with me.

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Say, heavenly father, I commit to your will and your ways.

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I will go where you tell me to go.

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I will do what you tell me to do.

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All false idols, I break them now.

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Every bit of vanity, every last bit of sin, I confess and repent.

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Break every band of wickedness, every remaining chain, every generational curse, it stops with me.

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In Jesus name, come on, Somebody shout amen.