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.
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Genesis chapter 11, verse 31.
Speaker ATerah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot.
Speaker ASo you have three generations.
Speaker AEverybody say three generations.
Speaker AAnd his daughter in law Sarai, his son Abram's wife.
Speaker AAnd they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to the land of Canaan.
Speaker ABut when they came to Haran, they settled there.
Speaker ATap your neighbor and say, don't settle.
Speaker AGod is doing something and I am showing up to you.
Speaker AIf 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.
Speaker AGod wants you to go all the way.
Speaker AIf you're here and you're visiting and you're a guest, can I just tell you, don't get comfortable.
Speaker ADon't exchange free indeed for just free er, than you used to be.
Speaker ASee?
Speaker AOh come on somebody.
Speaker AYou know, I'm about to preach this thing.
Speaker AAnd so it's, we'll exchange.
Speaker AYou know, instead of God's best, we just have better.
Speaker AAnd it's like, I don't want a better marriage.
Speaker AI want the best marriage that I don't want.
Speaker AI don't want to just be free.
Speaker AI want to be free indeed.
Speaker AI don't want to be free er, than I used to be.
Speaker AI want to be completely free.
Speaker AI don't want to just feel a little bit better in my body.
Speaker AI want complete and total healing in my body.
Speaker AIs there anybody who wants all of what God has for you?
Speaker ACome on, you know.
Speaker ASo God is trying to provoke you.
Speaker ASo now you know, when you look at Abram's father Terah, he originally set out to lead this large family from Ur to Canaan.
Speaker AAnd that was the journey they were going on.
Speaker AAnd when they got about halfway to Canaan, Terah decided to settle in Haran instead of pressing in.
Speaker AAnd so Haran actually represents the land of comfort.
Speaker ABut sometimes we can exchange Haran for Canaan.
Speaker ACanaan represents the land of promise.
Speaker AI came here to show you that you should not exchange comfort for the promise.
Speaker ASee, these are two different things.
Speaker AAnd 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.
Speaker AAnd you're celebrating that you got halfway through the journey.
Speaker ABut God is saying, don't exchange comfort for the promise.
Speaker AWe've got to go all the way in.
Speaker AAnd sometimes you'll be like, well, I don't club like I used to club.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker ACause you're older, and you're just tired.
Speaker AThat's not sanctification.
Speaker AYou're just wore out.
Speaker ASome of you like, well, I don't party like I used to.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker ACause you're old now.
Speaker AIf you were young, you'd still be struggling with that sin.
Speaker AIt's like sometimes we try to justify this.
Speaker AGod wants you to go all the way to Canaan.
Speaker ADon't settle.
Speaker ALet me tell you what's at stake, though.
Speaker ABecause what you do incrementally, your children will do exponentially.
Speaker ASo if you drink a little bit, they'll drink a lot.
Speaker AIf you cuss a little bit, they'll cuss a lot.
Speaker AIf you're like, well, we go to church sometimes.
Speaker AThey'll never go to church.
Speaker ASee, when.
Speaker AOh, come on.
Speaker AI'm speaking into something right now.
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker ANow, do you love me?
Speaker AI'm your friend, and I'm like a surgeon.
Speaker AI came here to cut out some cancer.
Speaker ABut when you're a surgeon, the goal is kill the cancer, not the person.
Speaker AAnd so if I made you laugh leading into this sermon, it was to anesthetize you enough to stab you.
Speaker AYou'd be like, am I bleeding?
Speaker AIs Mike stabbing me?
Speaker AYes.
Speaker AI'm cutting the cancer out of you.
Speaker ABelieve me, the only thing that's going to die is mediocrity.
Speaker AAfter this, the only thing that's going to die is compromise.
Speaker AAfter this, I'm trying to cut it out because God wants to, will.
Speaker AHe's giving you an apostolic leader.
Speaker AYou can take the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker AAll the conditions are right.
Speaker AYou have everything you need to run, rush on over the devil.
Speaker ABut now it's not the gen.
Speaker AThe enemies in front of you.
Speaker AIt's the enemy inside of you.
Speaker ASome of you got delivered from a demonic enemy, but now it's the enemy of me.
Speaker AWhat do you do when you get delivered from demons?
Speaker AAnd now you're the problem.
Speaker AOh, look, everyone's like, I don't like him anymore.
Speaker ADon't invite him back anymore.
Speaker AWhat happens when it's the enemy of me?
Speaker AWhat happens when you can't blame a demon anymore?
Speaker AWhat?
Speaker AI see and.
Speaker AAnd I believe, like, the first time I came to you, it was.
Speaker AIt was for deliverance, and it was to agitate, and it was revival.
Speaker ABut now I feel like the Lord put on assignment to say, don't block what he's trying to do through you.
Speaker ASo I'm pushing you to the next level.
Speaker AYou know, at first, now, I assume, biblically, that Tara opted for the comfort of this new, like, Mesopotamian home that he had.
Speaker ABecause, like, why would you stop halfway?
Speaker AMaybe there's some unforeseen challenges.
Speaker AMaybe it was like that old school game, Oregon Trail.
Speaker ASomebody dies of dysentery, you know, somebody gets scarlet fever.
Speaker AThe children of the 80s know what I'm talking about.
Speaker AThis guy shouted more for Oregon Trail than Jesus.
Speaker AWe'll deal with that later.
Speaker ABut, but we have these, you know, so when I'm looking at Tara, why would Tara stop halfway?
Speaker AWhy would he not go all the way?
Speaker ABut then when I read Abraham's testimony from Joshua's standpoint, it gives another perspective.
Speaker ASo now I want you to turn to Joshua, chapter 24, verse 2.
Speaker ASo now we have this same story from a different perspective.
Speaker AThis is Joshua, chapter 24, verse 2.
Speaker ALong ago, your ancestors, including Terah, the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates river and worshiped other gods.
Speaker AIf you get offended by messages about giving financially, it's just because you worship the God of mammon.
Speaker ABecause when you have accepted salvation and you have been freely forgiven of all your sins, you will live in a posture of God.
Speaker AWhatever you want, I'll give it to you.
Speaker AI'm reckless, abandoned.
Speaker AI mean, how could I ever repay you?
Speaker AMy life has been ransomed.
Speaker AAnd so whatever God you serve is revealed in what you choose and what you do.
Speaker AAnd so when you look at this man, it said they worship other gods.
Speaker AYou know, sometimes when your marriage is.
Speaker AThere's friction in your marriage, it's because.
Speaker ABecause you worship this other God, this God of sensuality, this God of pleasure.
Speaker AYou know, sometimes when it's like it reveals the worship, because we're all made and designed to worship.
Speaker AWhat is worship?
Speaker AIt's the direction of your affections.
Speaker ASo you never stop worshiping.
Speaker AYou just change the direction.
Speaker AIs this helping anybody?
Speaker AAnd so we're all worshiping all the time.
Speaker AIt's just, what are you worshiping?
Speaker AAnd so what it says is many gods.
Speaker AAnd so yeah, you come to Sunday and you worship the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.
Speaker AAnd 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.
Speaker AAnd 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.
Speaker ABecause here's what's at stake.
Speaker AIt's the generations, it's the inheritance, it's the lineage.
Speaker AThere's something that God's trying to pass down through you.
Speaker AHe's Trying to get it down.
Speaker ABut 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.
Speaker AAnd so this is.
Speaker ALet me.
Speaker ACan I go a little bit deeper?
Speaker ASo I took you on an old covenant, Old Testament journey.
Speaker ALet's go to the new New Testament.
Speaker AHebrews chapter 11, verse 4.
Speaker AThis is.
Speaker AThis is going to give you a deep, profound understanding.
Speaker AI'm going somewhere.
Speaker AFollow me.
Speaker AHebrews chapter 11, verse 8.
Speaker AHebrews 11.
Speaker A8.
Speaker ANow, if you realize, if you were there last night, I'm giving you the part two to last night.
Speaker AIt's all connecting by faith.
Speaker AEverybody say by faith.
Speaker AOkay, you're getting a deep revelation.
Speaker AAbraham.
Speaker ASo he's doing something that his dad never did.
Speaker AHe's doing something his dad.
Speaker AI know.
Speaker AI just showed you.
Speaker AHis dad started the journey.
Speaker ACome on, Holy ghost.
Speaker AHis dad started the journey.
Speaker AHis dad said, we're all going to Canaan.
Speaker ABut halfway to Canaan stopped because it was comfortable and because he worshiped other gods.
Speaker AAnd so God says, now it has to skip now another generation.
Speaker AAnd see, there's some of you that the generation before you, God designed for them to go all the way, but they compromise.
Speaker AAnd now God's speaking this message to you, and he's saying, I want you to go all the way.
Speaker AI want to move you in.
Speaker ABut this is what it said by faith.
Speaker AWhen he was called, he obeyed.
Speaker AEverybody say obeyed.
Speaker AAnd he went out to a place he was going to receive an inheritance.
Speaker AWhat in the world are you talking about?
Speaker AThere's two kinds of inheritances.
Speaker AThere is the biological and then there's the supernatural.
Speaker ASee, when you talk about inheritance, you know, you inherited your eye color from your parents.
Speaker AYou inherited your height from your parents.
Speaker ASome of you are still mad about it.
Speaker AYou and you, you know, you inherited these things.
Speaker AThere's a biological inheritance.
Speaker ASo this doesn't make any sense.
Speaker AIt says Abraham, operating in faith, obeyed, and he went to a place that he did not know to receive an inheritance.
Speaker AHe was after a godly inheritance.
Speaker AAnd see, there's a supernatural inheritance that says there's what I have access through my biological family.
Speaker AAnd some of you received generational curses of alcoholism.
Speaker ASome of you received generational curses of divorce.
Speaker ASome of you received generational curses.
Speaker ACome on, let's talk about it.
Speaker APremature death.
Speaker AAnd that was the inheritance on that side.
Speaker ABut he said he went to another land, and he obeyed so he can receive another inheritance.
Speaker ASee, let me just tell you on both sides of my Family.
Speaker APremature death.
Speaker AOn both sides of my family, the men went to prison.
Speaker AOn both sides of my family, there's divorce.
Speaker AAnd so I had to make a decision with the Signorellis.
Speaker ABuongiorno.
Speaker AThat we were going to go into another land that I knew not.
Speaker AAnd I was going obey.
Speaker AI wasn't going to worship the gods of Playboy magazine.
Speaker AI wasn't going to worship the God of Michelob and Miller Light.
Speaker AI wasn't.
Speaker ASome of you are Bud Light drinkers.
Speaker AThat's a whole nother story.
Speaker AI wasn't gonna.
Speaker AI wasn't gonna bow down to those gods, but I was gonna go into another land that I did not know.
Speaker AAnd I was gonna become a prophetic Abraham and a prophetic Sarah, my wife being Sarah.
Speaker ABut see what happens is you don't know.
Speaker AThis is what it says.
Speaker AHe went out not knowing where he was going.
Speaker AYou 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.
Speaker ASome of you men, you never saw your dad pray for your mom.
Speaker AAnd that's why you are broken the way you are broken.
Speaker ABecause a non anxious presence of a man in a home is a healing force from God.
Speaker AAnd when a man begins to pray for his wife and lay hands on her, that actually flows oil through the whole family.
Speaker AAnd so right now you go Back to the 1919s, only 4% of all children were born to single mothers.
Speaker AIn 2023, 40% of all births are to single mothers in this nation.
Speaker AAnd so we are dealing with an epidemic.
Speaker AIt's rooted in fatherlessness.
Speaker AAnd in the absence of fathers, there's every other problem that we have.
Speaker AAnd so I'm here to speak to some Abrahams.
Speaker AI'm here to speak to some people who will go a direction they've never seen and do something they've never.
Speaker AThis is not me calling you out, this me calling you up.
Speaker AIt's time to go higher.
Speaker AAnd this message is deep inside of me because I've had to live this message out.
Speaker AWhen I first got married to my wife, Julie, I had no idea how to be a husband.
Speaker AI never seen it before.
Speaker AI was angry all the time.
Speaker AThe injustices of the world, how hard it is to make money.
Speaker AYou 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.
Speaker AYou know that that's what the economics of that time were was very different.
Speaker ANow here, you got three side hustles, four businesses, you work full time, and you still don't have medical benefits.
Speaker AI'm keeping it 100.
Speaker AAnd so you live under that pressure.
Speaker AYou're angry all the time.
Speaker AYou're always frustrated, and the Lord's trying to raise you up.
Speaker AIt's getting harder.
Speaker AThe pressure is on.
Speaker ABut let me just tell you, the same boiling hot water that softens a potato hardens an egg.
Speaker ASo 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.
Speaker AAnd you'll say, oh, this thing, it's not making me soft.
Speaker AIt's making me hard.
Speaker AThis same pressure that I'm under is caused.
Speaker AAnd see, Abraham was under the same pressure his dad was.
Speaker ABut he said, I'm not gonna worship those false gods.
Speaker AI'm gonna worship the God of Israel.
Speaker AI'm gonn.
Speaker AI will be the one that obeys.
Speaker AAs for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Speaker AI'm not gonna bend my knee to this.
Speaker AI'm not gonna fall prey to culture.
Speaker AI'm gonna make a new way.
Speaker AI'm gonna chart a new path.
Speaker AAnd there's something about this house, there's something about this region that God is calling you out to get a godly inheritance.
Speaker ASomebody say the word inheritance?
Speaker ASee, when we talk about inheritance, we're talking about God releasing properties, God releasing houses.
Speaker AWhen we talk about inheritance, we'.
Speaker ADominion.
Speaker ASee, God will set you up.
Speaker AWhen we talk about inheritance, we talk about you being the first in your family not to die young when we talk about inheritance.
Speaker ABecause, see, you're not inheriting biologically.
Speaker AYou're inheriting supernaturally.
Speaker AAnd so what I'm speaking into right now is fear.
Speaker ABecause fear tells you, why even try?
Speaker ABecause it won't work.
Speaker AFear tells you, why even go into this area, it won't work.
Speaker ABut by faith, you see what I'm saying?
Speaker AFaith says, no, I can, I will, I shall.
Speaker AFaith says, I will go in.
Speaker AI will do it.
Speaker AFaith says, I'm not backing down.
Speaker AFaith says, I'm gonna continue to move in this direction.
Speaker ABut see, Tara didn't go all the way into the promised land.
Speaker ABecause now, here's what's crazy.
Speaker AIf you look at this.
Speaker AHistorically, he traveled over 600 miles, and he only had 450 miles to go.
Speaker ASome of you are right at the edge of your breakthrough.
Speaker AYou've already been 600 miles.
Speaker ASome of you have been through so much and you're right at that point of breakthrough.
Speaker ABut you're getting ready to settle.
Speaker AYou're getting ready to be offended over something stupid.
Speaker AYou're getting ready to get captivated by the thoughts of all the gossip around you and what other people are saying.
Speaker AIt's like Tara came 600 miles and he stopped.
Speaker AHe only had 450 miles to go.
Speaker AHe already proved he could go the rest of the distance.
Speaker ASome of you have gotten this far, but I came with good news.
Speaker AYou did not get this far just to get get this far.
Speaker AYou did not get this free not to get free.
Speaker AIndeed you did not.
Speaker AGod didn't.
Speaker ACome on.
Speaker AI'm speaking to Sozo Church.
Speaker AYou didn't get to this point just to have this location.
Speaker AGod's doubling your territory in Tacoma as well.
Speaker AAnd you will have Tacoma.
Speaker AAnd there's more.
Speaker AIt's like God didn't get you this far just to get you this far.
Speaker AYou didn't survive all the hell that you went through just to live this kind of life.
Speaker AThere is something, and you know what I feel in the spirit right now?
Speaker ADeep calls to deep.
Speaker ASomebody is listen.
Speaker AYou 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.
Speaker AAnd God is trying to call you into this realm.
Speaker AI think Tara simply got comfortable in Haran because it was better than Ur.
Speaker AAnd I want you right now.
Speaker ACause I'm getting ready to come to a close.
Speaker ABut I want you right now to think about what you've compromised in.
Speaker ABecause the Lord is calling you to this next season.
Speaker AHe's calling you to this next level.
Speaker AHaran.
Speaker AThis place that he settled at.
Speaker AIt literally, it means in Hebrew, caravan route.
Speaker ASo even the name of the place he settled, it was called a caravan route.
Speaker AIt was never supposed to be a destination.
Speaker AOh, I'm going deep today.
Speaker AThis.
Speaker AThis was located on the Euphrates river and it was just a caravan route.
Speaker ABut he made a route his home.
Speaker ASome of you are about to make a route your home, and God's saying you're not staying here.
Speaker AI've got more.
Speaker AAnd I'm not talking about geographically.
Speaker AI'm talking about spiritually.
Speaker ASpiritually.
Speaker ASpiritually.
Speaker AHe's trying to break that scarcity off of your mind.
Speaker AHe's trying to break the limitations.
Speaker AI want to tell you a story.
Speaker AAnd it's just rocked me.
Speaker AWhen you see the movie, it's going to make more sense.
Speaker AMy mother was a single mother on welfare.
Speaker AWith five kids, my mother and I received the ministry of deliverance and prophecy at the same time.
Speaker AAnd we had never been taught it in our local church.
Speaker AWe were reading all these books.
Speaker AThere was a man in South Chicago named Apostle John Eckhart.
Speaker AAnd we started having demons manifest like crazy when we were praying for people.
Speaker AAnd we didn't know what to do with that.
Speaker AAnd it was all the Puerto Ricans.
Speaker AI 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.
Speaker AAnd so when we would pray for them, they'd start manifesting demons.
Speaker AAnd we were like, what do we do?
Speaker ASo at the time, there was this young man named John Eckhart on local access cable television.
Speaker ASome of the young people don't even know what this is.
Speaker AWe 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.
Speaker AAnd you know, and if you, however young you were, was who the remote control was.
Speaker AThe youngest person was the remote control.
Speaker ASome of you are getting flashbacks.
Speaker AAnd so the local access cable television, there was this guy named John Eckhart who would teach about demons.
Speaker ASo we reached out to him and we said, hey, we would love for you to come and like, would you train us?
Speaker ABecause all these demons are manifesting in our church.
Speaker AWhat 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.
Speaker ASo that was in my DNA.
Speaker AThat was who we were.
Speaker AAnd so then we started learning prophecy.
Speaker AAnd so the first person I ever prophesied over was my mom.
Speaker AAnd the first person my mom ever prophesied over was me and her oldest son.
Speaker AAnd we were co laboring and ministering together in our home.
Speaker AAnd see, listen, I'm preaching some of the biggest conferences in the United States now.
Speaker ABut see, I was faithful in the living room before he put me on the stage.
Speaker AAnd 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.
Speaker AAnd it starts in that this is where it starts at home.
Speaker AJesus had to be faithful in Bethlehem before he got released into the Galilee.
Speaker ASee, there's something at home.
Speaker AYou can't skip the process.
Speaker AAnd God's bringing you through that process before you get the promise.
Speaker AAnd so my mom and I are prophesying over each other and all that.
Speaker AWell, we started learning the power of decreeing.
Speaker AThe oldest book of the Bible is not Genesis.
Speaker AIt's Job.
Speaker AAnd 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.
Speaker AYou gotta learn how to speak those things that aren't as though they are the language of certainty by faith.
Speaker AAbraham did these things by he was learning.
Speaker AHe was learning these ways by faith.
Speaker AAnd so we started decreeing.
Speaker AWe started declaring things.
Speaker AWell, 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.
Speaker AAnd I was like, what is going on in my house?
Speaker AWhat is.
Speaker ASo I'm walking down the hall, and as I walk down the hallway, it gets louder and louder, and I could hear this muffling.
Speaker AAnd 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.
Speaker AAnd every time she hits the table, she goes, dream bigger.
Speaker ADream bigger.
Speaker ADream bigger.
Speaker AI mean, she's slamming her hand on the table, and I'm like, my mom's lost her mind.
Speaker ADream bigger.
Speaker AAndrebo Shendre Becket.
Speaker ADream bigger.
Speaker AAndre Chendrebeiste.
Speaker ADream bigger.
Speaker ANow, this is welfare.
Speaker AFive kids, no husband, poverty.
Speaker AMice infested home.
Speaker ANo carpet.
Speaker ADream bigger.
Speaker AAnd she's doing this over and over again.
Speaker AFinally, she's done.
Speaker AAnd I'm like, mom, are you okay?
Speaker AWhat was that?
Speaker AAnd she said, do little.
Speaker ABecause my nickname's Doolittle.
Speaker AI don't have time to explain that.
Speaker AShe said, do little.
Speaker AShe said the Holy Spirit was trying to get me to dream bigger.
Speaker AAnd I wasn't declaring it.
Speaker AI was repeating what he was telling me to repeat.
Speaker AAnd she said, the Holy Spirit, he's in the.
Speaker AShe said, like the spirit of Jesus through.
Speaker AThe Holy Spirit was in.
Speaker AIn this kitchen.
Speaker AAnd he kept saying, sandra, keep saying it.
Speaker ADream bigger.
Speaker ADream bigger.
Speaker AAnd every time I would say, this is only how far me and my five kids can go.
Speaker AHe said, no, dream bigger.
Speaker AAnd then he.
Speaker AThen I would have another dream of what we could do in our family.
Speaker AAnd the Holy Spirit would say, sandra, dream bigger.
Speaker ASay it again.
Speaker AAnd then I would dream a little bit bigger.
Speaker AAnd all of a sudden, the Holy Spirit would say, no, dream bigger.
Speaker AAnd every time she was slamming her fist, the Lord was saying, kick out the borders of your belief.
Speaker ADream big.
Speaker ABelieve more.
Speaker ASandra don't believe more.
Speaker AAnd listen, she started declaring that.
Speaker AWell, we were sitting in Toronto and I was watching the movie and it was the first time I was seeing it.
Speaker AAnd 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.
Speaker AAnd she looks into the camera and she says, if you are a single mother and you're watching this movie, dream bigger.
Speaker AAnd I felt the anointing beginning.
Speaker ASee, she was prophesying her son had the fastest growing church in America for the last five years in a row.
Speaker AShe's in a major motion picture.
Speaker ABut I know the secret.
Speaker AThe secret is like.
Speaker AJust like Abraham, she said, I'm going into a place that I do not know and I will not compromise.
Speaker AI'm not accepting best.
Speaker AWhen God has greatness inside of me.
Speaker AI'm not gonna back down.
Speaker ASometimes you gotta get a fire on the inside of you that says, dream bigger.
Speaker AThis isn't my.
Speaker AIt's his power.
Speaker AThis is not my anointing.
Speaker AIt's his anointing.
Speaker AThis is not my provision.
Speaker AIt's his provision.
Speaker AYou're not dreaming with your resources, you're dreaming with his, with.
Speaker AYou can't get it done with your bank account, but his bank account can get it done.
Speaker AYou can't.
Speaker AYou can't get it done with your relationships, but he's got the relationships to connect.
Speaker AYou dream bigger.
Speaker ADon't get mad when you're being pushed to Tacoma to double.
Speaker AGod wants to triple, to multiply.
Speaker ADon't be mad when I tell you to pray for your wife.
Speaker AGod's got something inside of you.
Speaker AYou were destined for more.
Speaker AAnd I'm calling it for today.
Speaker ASomebody stand to your feet real quick.
Speaker AI feel the power of God.
Speaker AActs chapter 7, verse 2 through 4.
Speaker AIt says to this he replied.
Speaker ABrothers and fathers, listen to me.
Speaker AThe go of glory appears to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia because he lived in Haran.
Speaker ASo 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.
Speaker AThe Bible says the glory of the Lord begin to come upon Abraham.
Speaker ASome of you don't even realize once you make up your mind, look what it says.
Speaker ABrother and father, listen.
Speaker AThe God of glory appeared.
Speaker AHe appeared to our father, Abraham.
Speaker AYou want to get a visitation from God?
Speaker AYou want God to appear in your home?
Speaker AYou want God to appear in your life?
Speaker AI dare you to go a direction no one else has gone.
Speaker AI dare you to step all the way in.
Speaker AI dare you to dream bigger.
Speaker ABecause it provokes God for visitations.
Speaker AIt's like, you don't.
Speaker AEverybody's like, I want to get a visitation from an angel.
Speaker AYou get a visitation when there's a big assignment.
Speaker AWhen you step into the big assignment, it provokes some big angels to start showing up.
Speaker AI remember that when I was in New York City trying to plant our church, I got arrested on the George Washington Bridge.
Speaker AThat's a whole nother story.
Speaker AI 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.
Speaker AAnd I found out that there was a ticket I got in New Jersey five years before for not.
Speaker AFor not having my headlights on during dusk.
Speaker AWhat a bonehead thing.
Speaker AAnd so they arrested me.
Speaker AAnd then when they found out what it was for, they laughed, and I paid $90, and they let me out.
Speaker ASo that's the only time I've ever been arrested for something stupid.
Speaker ABut it was a great church planner story.
Speaker ACause my team was like, pastor's in jail right now.
Speaker AThey're like, what for?
Speaker AThey said, well, he got a ticket in 2012 for not putting the headlights on during dusk.
Speaker AAnd they're like, what?
Speaker AWhat kind of hardened criminal is that?
Speaker ABut here's what happened.
Speaker AMy box truck got impounded as a result of it.
Speaker AAnd 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.
Speaker ACan I have the keys, maybe?
Speaker AHelp me.
Speaker AThank you.
Speaker AWe're on tour together.
Speaker AAll of a sudden, I was trying to get the box truck out.
Speaker AAll this, you know, hoops you have to jump through.
Speaker AAnd we were getting ready to have our first chur service.
Speaker AAnd 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.
Speaker ABecause I had sold my home.
Speaker AI had given away a third of everything I owned to launch this church in New York City.
Speaker AAnd so now here I am, complete.
Speaker AI'm like, lord, what did I do?
Speaker AI left normalcy.
Speaker AI've given.
Speaker AI cashed out my retirement.
Speaker AI literally did everything I could to get to this one moment.
Speaker AAnd I have hundreds of people that are coming for this first service in New York City.
Speaker AOne of the most gospel godly places, God list places in the nation.
Speaker AWhat do I do?
Speaker AAnd I can't get this.
Speaker ASo finally, I get all the paperwork in order, and I Show up to get the box truck out.
Speaker AAnd it's after hours because I. I'm fighting through traffic.
Speaker AIt takes hours to go miles in New York City.
Speaker APray for me.
Speaker AAnd all of a sudden I finally get there.
Speaker AI show up, the guy's like, listen, we're supposed to be close.
Speaker AI happen to be here doing other stuff.
Speaker AI'll let you go in in to go get the box truck out.
Speaker AI show up there and I have to screw these license plates on the front of the box truck in order to get it out.
Speaker ABecause in New York you have plates on the front and the back.
Speaker AAnd I have my screw gun with me and I'm ready.
Speaker AAnd then I re.
Speaker AAnd 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.
Speaker AAnd I realized I forgot the screw.
Speaker ASo you know how sometimes it's the straw that breaks the camel's back.
Speaker AIt's.
Speaker AYou know what I mean?
Speaker AIt's that one thing.
Speaker AThey forget your fries in the drive thru.
Speaker AAnd you're like, I'm about to rage against the machine right now.
Speaker AYou know how that is.
Speaker ASo I'm thinking, we now cannot have church tomorrow.
Speaker AAnd I'm.
Speaker AI'm frustrated.
Speaker ASo I'm sitting there in the parking lot and I.
Speaker AAnd I'm like, got this screw gun.
Speaker AAnd I'm like, lord, I got arrested on the way here.
Speaker AI finally got out, got all this stuff done.
Speaker AI got church tomorrow.
Speaker AI forgot the screws.
Speaker AAnd I'm like, I'm so frustrated.
Speaker AI'm like, lord, I gave you my life for this thing.
Speaker AI went all the way east to do what you called me to do.
Speaker AAnd all of a sudden I heard this voice behind me say, hey, is this what you need?
Speaker AAnd I turn around and this man has his hand open and there's two self tapping screws.
Speaker ASo all of a sudden I grab the screws and I got chills all over me.
Speaker AI'm like, yes, that's exactly what I need.
Speaker AAnd I go to screwed in and I'm like, wait a second, that was rude of me.
Speaker AI'm gonna turn around and thank him.
Speaker ASo I turn around, he's gone.
Speaker AThen all of a sudden I jump up cause I got scared.
Speaker AI'm like, what in the world?
Speaker AI'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.
Speaker AAnd I don't see him.
Speaker AI go back to the front desk, and I'm like, hey, where's the guy?
Speaker AHe looked like this, this, and this.
Speaker AI just wanted for the screws he gave me.
Speaker AAnd the guy said, bro, are you out of your mind?
Speaker AYou're alone.
Speaker AWe're after hours.
Speaker ANobody's been through here.
Speaker AAnd then I realized that God sent an angel on assignment to give me the screws that I needed.
Speaker ANow, you don't have to believe that story.
Speaker AYou don't have to believe that story.
Speaker ABut when you go to great lengths to do something for God, you will begin to provoke the supernatural in your life.
Speaker AYou will begin to provoke angelic visitation.
Speaker AYou will begin to provoke the glory of God.
Speaker AAnd so I screwed that plate in.
Speaker AI drove that out there.
Speaker AI started that church.
Speaker AAnd Muslims and Hindus and atheists and agnostics and Jews have accepted Christ as Messiah because that church was started.
Speaker AAnd so God sent an angel.
Speaker AAnd 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.
Speaker AMan, I feel such a burden being released right now.
Speaker ACan we have the prayer team come on up front?
Speaker AI want.
Speaker AI want the prayer team to come up because we're going to pray for some of you.
Speaker AWow.
Speaker AExodus, chapter 20, verse 5.
Speaker AYou shall not bow down to them or worship them.
Speaker AFor 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.
Speaker ARomans, chapter 5, verse 18.
Speaker AConsequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification for the life of all people.
Speaker ASee, this is a shift.
Speaker AThis is just by your one decision right now.
Speaker AHow many people in your bloodline, it changes everything.
Speaker ASome 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.
Speaker AYou would start getting free from drugs and opiates and start getting free from pornography and lust and start getting free from poverty mindset.
Speaker AYou would shift everything just by you.
Speaker AOne, one.
Speaker ASo right now, here's what I want to do.
Speaker AI want to pray for all of you.
Speaker AWe got a little bit of time left.
Speaker ASome of you might want to double dip for the next service.
Speaker ABut.
Speaker AAnd I'll see you at sozo night.
Speaker AAnd we're going to continue ministering.
Speaker AWe've already seen last night, medically verifiable miracles.
Speaker AI'm still getting reports to my inbox.
Speaker AI woke up to him.
Speaker AWe had multiple people surrender drugs.
Speaker AIt was an incredible experience, and we're going to keep riding this thing through until God's deposited everything he has for you.
Speaker ABut here's what I want to ask you right now, before we even pray for you individually.
Speaker AIs there anybody here just.
Speaker AAnd I'm going to ask you just as a sign to say, Pastor Mike.
Speaker AI want to be like Abraham and Sarah.
Speaker AI want to move.
Speaker AI want to be like your mom who's dreaming bigger.
Speaker AI want to be like one of those people that go all the way.
Speaker AAnd would you just lift your hands towards heaven if that's you?
Speaker ACome on.
Speaker AWe're going to make a declaration together, because this is for an.
Speaker AThis is for a region.
Speaker AThis is for a city.
Speaker AThis is for a family.
Speaker AAnd so I want everybody to boldly declare this with me.
Speaker ASay, heavenly father, I commit to your will and your ways.
Speaker AI will go where you tell me to go.
Speaker AI will do what you tell me to do.
Speaker AAll false idols, I break them now.
Speaker AEvery bit of vanity, every last bit of sin, I confess and repent.
Speaker ABreak every band of wickedness, every remaining chain, every generational curse, it stops with me.
Speaker AIn Jesus name, come on, Somebody shout amen.