The Covenant of More | Overflow | Apostle Mike Signorelli

I want you to just say this phrase with me.

Holy discontent.

Oh, man, this is a good.

This is a good congregation here.

Okay, let's do it one more time.

Because I couldn't hear Miami, they were too quiet.

Holy discontent.

All right, come on, let's go take our seats.

Let me message like, hit this message, okay?

Holy discontent.

This is going to be the basis of this sermon.

And this may be one of the most important messages that you've

heard in your entire life, because it's going to shift you into

what's next.

Holy discontent.

Holy discontent is when you know, deep in your spirit, it is

not supposed to be like this.

You know that feeling you get when you're driving around Brooklyn

looking for parking and you're like, it ain't supposed to be like

this.

Or you look at.

Or when they tell you that the rent just got jacked up higher, you're

like, it ain't supposed to be like this.

You know, we all have these things in our lives, varying degrees

of frustration, but there's this holy discontent.

This is what I want to talk to you about.

Holy discontent is.

It's the fire that won't let you settle.

Holy discontent is the fire that won't let you settle.

And let me just tell you, if you got in your car in northwest

Indiana and got all your kids ready and you drove to church, you

have a fire that won't let you settle.

I'll tell you what, most of y'all who are sitting in seats right

now, you did not come to church.

You came to meet God.

You came.

You're like, this ain't even about church.

Church is just facilitating me encountering him.

I have a fire that won't let me stop.

I have a passion that won't let me quit.

Is there anybody that can say on the inside of them, there's something

that's saying, I did not fight through all hell just to give up

now.

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

I did not cancel five suicidal attempts just to give up now.

There's a fire that shut up in my bones.

Is there anybody who knows about that?

Fuego.

Are y'all asleep on me today?

Is there anybody that can just give God a 10 second praise break

that you didn't quit, you didn't give up, you didn't back down.

Because there's a fire that never quits.

There's a fire that never gets.

Come on.

See, the devil has endurance, but we got more endurance.

We will outlast him.

There's a Reason why I'm the last man standing?

Because there's a fire inside of me that said, I'm not giving up

on New York City.

I'm not giving up on Long Island.

There's a holy discontent until I see the world start to look

like the vision that I see on the inside of me.

Is there anybody that sees a vision of what things should be?

Come on.

I keep seeing a vision of what my body is supposed to be.

Why are you laughing?

Why do they laugh when I say this?

You know how I know I accomplished that vision is when

I say these jokes and no one laughs anymore.

I'm coming back from sabbatical looking like a ninja turtle,

let me tell you.

Are you getting a visual?

Well, you know, I'm bald, you know, so I have the.

Okay anyways.

But it's like I have a vision for my body.

I have a vision, but it doesn't come into alignment.

So there's this holy discontent.

It's what turns ordinary people into chain breakers.

The way that you get a diamond is pressure.

It's gotta be.

It's coal in its barbaric form.

It's this black chunk of coal.

But if you subject it to the right conditions in the right process,

you can make a diamond.

Coal has value, but diamond has greater value.

And what's the difference in the value?

It's the process that it was subjected to.

What if I told you that God is trying to increase your worth?

He's trying to increase the value of your life by putting you

through a process that will turn you into something that you've

never seen in your family before, that you've.

Am I the only one that you start looking around?

You're like, I'm less and less relatable to my family.

I might have this same eye color, but I have a different vision.

Oh, come on.

I'm speaking to somebody.

We might share genetics, but in the spirit.

I've been grafted into Abraham's lineage.

It's like we got the same eye color, but we've got a different

vision.

Like, there's something about the deeper you go on this journey.

It's a process that will change you.

As a matter of fact, the Bible says that we go from glory to glory.

It might feel like I'm going from pit to pit, but, baby, if you

look at the trajectory, I was always going higher.

I might have temporarily gone lower, but over the long haul, I

was always going higher.

Sometimes God will take you lower to readjust you, to take you

higher.

Sometimes he's repositioning you, but you're always headed higher.

But there's something that you see that you're convinced of what

I'm saying.

That's why you didn't allow yourself to stay depressed.

That's the reason why you didn't allow yourself to even stay

at home.

Because you see something, and you can't be convinced otherwise.

Because faith is the evidence of.

Come on, help me.

Faith is the evidence of things hoped for.

And the.

Oh, no.

Come on.

No, come on, Come on, come on.

They don't know their Bible.

In Miami, they were all, let's try it again, Church.

Faith is the evidence of things hoped for and the substance

of things not seen.

So my physical reality, I don't see it.

But by faith, I'm certain that it exists.

Oh, we're about to go into the realm of faith.

We're about to go into the realm of faith.

We're about to go into the realm of faith.

First Samuel, chapter one.

I feel the power of God right now.

I'm about to shout.

I'm about to take off running.

It's not the caffeine.

It's the Holy Ghost.

First chance.

You know why?

Okay, we're gonna get there.

Because I believe this for you.

I'm not gonna let you stay where you're at.

This is why I'm excited, because I'm gonna grab you and I'm

gonna pull you up and I'm gonna push you into what's next today.

Cause I believe it for you.

Oh, I feel the fuego.

Some of y'all just needed it.

I believe it for you.

Because the Lord had closed her womb, her rival used to provoke

her grievously to irritate her.

Oh, we all got some of these people in our lives.

You might be sitting next to one of them.

Because the Lord had closed her womb, her rival used to provoke

her grievously to irritate her.

Therefore.

Therefore, Hannah wept and would not eat.

Let me break this down.

If you're a man, you can still be a prophetic Hannah in this sermon.

So I want you to hear this.

I'm talking to the women as well.

So this is for everybody.

Everybody.

This is for everybody.

Because there are some things that you keep blaming on the devil,

but in fact, it's God that did it.

Because that holy discontent is what he's trying to use to push

you into your destiny.

So here's the thing.

Well, she could have said, oh, the devil is attacking my womb.

Bring me the intercessors.

Bring me the prayer warriors, we're gonna cast this demon of infertility

out.

But it wasn't demonic in its origin.

The Lord had closed her womb.

Can I take you to school?

Can I take you to school?

There are some things that you blame on the devil that in fact,

God has done to orchestrate his will in your life.

And if you'll stop complaining and you'll stop criticizing and you'll

actually allow that thing to shift you into intercession and prayer,

and you'll let it provoke you to what's next, you'll get to the

other side of it.

But stop blaming it on the devil.

Stop blaming it on your geography.

It's not your city's problem.

It's not your boss's problem.

It's.

Oh, I'm talking to somebody right now.

You blame.

But see, Hannah intuitively understood this is between me and

God.

As a matter of fact, she even had arrival before her arrival.

She had arrival before her arrival.

Let me just tell you, if you think you're gonna get haters after

you're successful, you haven't lived yet.

People will hate you before you even succeed because they know

you're headed towards it.

See, this rival was speaking to her future.

Sometimes when they talk about you and they criticize you and they

taunt you and irritate you, all they're doing is prophesying

what's getting ready to happen?

What does the devil inside of them know about what's up ahead of

you?

That they're trying to criticize you out of the promise.

Come on.

I'll take a demonic prop.

Some of you, like, the Lord hasn't sent a prophet.

He did in the form of your rivals.

It's opposite day.

You say it's over.

The Lord said it just began.

They say that I'm nobody.

The Lord says that I'm a royal priesthood, a chosen generation.

Oh, they said I'm always gonna be broke.

But the Lord says, I see overflow.

Your seed is actually gonna.

Oh, come on.

I'll take.

Sometimes if God doesn't send one of his prophets, the devil send

one of his.

And I'll say the it's opposite day devil, because I know that if

you're lying, it's the.

What God is revealing is that the opposite is true.

So she had a rival.

But here's the thing.

The intention was to irritate her.

Let me just tell you.

Are you being irritated or are you being stirred?

Are you being irritated or are you being stirred?

Stirred.

Stirred.

I remember when they told me you can't simulcast in New York City?

No, New York City churches simulcast.

People don't want to watch sermons on a screen.

But I said, but I know what the Lord told me.

And I went from being irritated to being stirred.

Now I'm on a mission.

Matter of fact, there's a pastor who actually has a multi side

church in Manhattan and he hit me up the other day and he said,

you have given me vision and you've proved that we can simulcast

and be one house with many rooms.

And he said, I don't even know if you know this, but you're the

very first pastor to simulcast in New York City.

But let me just tell you this.

I had to choose.

Am I going to be irritated or am I going to be stirred?

See, I don't know if you noticed this, but your rivals can

actually fuel your next levels.

I don't know if you've recognized this, but the difference

is you have to bless those who curse you and you have to pray for

those who despitefully use you.

Because it's actually not about them.

It's about you and God and what God's trying to do.

As a matter of fact, the Bible says that promotion does not come

from man.

That promotion comes from.

Oh, help me say it louder.

Promotion does not come from man.

Promotion comes from God.

Oh, so your boss can't hold you down.

So the problem is not between you and your boss.

It's between you and your God.

Why hasn't your God promoted you?

See, Hannah understood this because she doesn't respond to her

rival.

Hannah wept and she would not eat and she was deeply distressed

and she prayed to the Lord and she wept bitterly.

Oh, we gotta talk about this.

And I'm talking to some of the men.

You better learn how to cry.

You better learn how to cry.

All the men, I ain't gonna cry.

I ain't gonna cry.

But then your favorite quarterback retires and you cry.

Let me tell you, your feelings don't dissipate.

They get displaced.

If you don't learn how to get them through your eyes, they're gonna

end up in your lower back.

If you don't learn how to get your emotions through your eyes,

they're gonna end up in your stomach.

They're gonna end up in your heart.

See, there's a physical connection to what is disease.

Dis ease.

So what happens is, if you don't learn how to get that dis ease

out of your body, it becomes dis ease in your body.

See, I'm trying to help you.

You've got to learn where to take your feeling.

And let me just ask you this.

Why do you keep calling your friends?

Do you want attention or do you want transformation?

Because.

And men do it, too.

Men do it, too.

Yo, what's going on, bro?

Nothing, bro.

What about you, bro?

Yeah, bro.

My wife, bro.

Church, bro.

My boss, bro.

The lie, bro.

8094, bro.

The Dan Ryan, bro.

The Bears, bro.

Come on, bro.

I'm trying to help you.

Hannah wept.

She knew where to take her feelings.

She knew where to take her emotions.

As a matter of fact, she took them to the altar.

And the Bible says that the Eli who was over the temple actually

thought she was drunk because she was weeping so bitterly.

But I'll tell you what wasn't happening.

Her feelings weren't getting displaced.

They were getting dispersed.

And what happens was she became an empty vessel that became

a candidate to conceive a baby.

See, sometimes you gotta release feelings so that God can

fill you with the spirit.

Sometimes you gotta get something out so something new can

come in.

You gotta learn how to turn that grumbling into groaning.

You gotta learn how to turn it into intercession.

And this.

I'm trying to help you.

I used to never cry.

And then I started surrendering.

And through the surrender, the cry started to happen.

And you know what else happened?

My lower back got healed.

See, you don't understand.

You're carrying this stuff, and the Lord wants to help you get

rid of it.

And this.

She was deeply distressed.

And.

Look at this word.

And she was deeply distressed and prayed.

Watch this.

Here's how most of us walk out our faith.

He was deeply distressed, but he stopped praying.

See, we're using the coordinating conjunction, but when

it should be.

And I'm going through it, and I'm still fasting, I'm being tempted,

and I'm still praying and crying out, give me an.

And Kind of people.

Not a but kind of people.

I live in New York City.

It's extremely.

It's extremely expensive.

And I'm the blessing of God through Abraham to this city.

And there's financial prosperity on my life because I've

aligned with his will.

Give me an.

And look at this.

When you can't tolerate it anymore, I want to shift you now

into the next portion of this.

Discontent is actually a sign that you are on your way to transformation.

But here's the thing.

Hannah, she was barren.

She couldn't have a child.

She couldn't conceive.

But the most important part of her story is that she refused to

Accept the dysfunction.

She refused to accept that as her reality.

She refused to accept her reality as her final reality.

See, let me show you something.

Hannah lived with bareness.

Everyone else adjusted, but she didn't adjust.

Since when did you accept the fact that you will always have anxiety

attacks?

Do you remember your life before anxiety?

Do you remember your life before the panic attacks?

Since when did you adjust?

See, the real issue here is what are you allowing?

What have you accepted?

See, there's some times where we just say, you know what?

I guess I'm gonna manage it.

Oh, come on.

I guess I'm gonna tolerate it.

But see, the Lord is asking some people today, are you going

to actually continue to accept it?

Are you gonna continue to manage it, or are you gonna believe

beyond it?

See, because sometimes you could say, oh, this is just the way

I'm gonna be.

This is just what I'm gonna have in my body.

Let me talk to the queens real quick.

Let me talk to the queens.

All y'all got real ready for church today.

I got my queen over there.

Matter of fact, when I looked over, she was like this.

Don't be flirting with me while I'm preaching.

It's inappropriate.

But let me just say.

Let me.

Let me just say this.

Since when did you let that man start to talk to you the way

he talks to you?

You are a queen.

You are the daughter of the Most High.

Since when did you accept verbal and physical abuse?

It's never appropriate for him to lay his hand on you and stop justifying

what God has not justified.

Stop accepting what God has not accepted.

Let me talk to the kings real quick.

Come on.

I told one of our team members, I said, man, you're amazing.

I said, does your wife know how amazing you are?

He said, tell her I'll go get her right now and tell her, but let

me talk to the Kings.

Since when did you accept people treating you like you're common?

You're not common.

You're a royal priesthood.

You're a peculiar person.

You're a chosen generation.

Come on.

This is the thing about it, is sometimes, and I say this all the

time, but sometimes we have to change our circles to change our

levels.

There are times where our current friendships cannot sustain

our future destination.

There are times where we have to stop giving ear to them because

they are not in alignment with where you're going.

Those friends, they were in alignment with where you used to

be, but they're not in alignment with the new assignment.

And sometimes you have to shed some relationships off because they're

helping you.

Oh, Lord, help.

They're helping you conform to an identity that God wants you to

break out of.

You need the kind of friends who say, I do not accept the fact

that you're always going to be riddled with anxiety.

And.

And when you call them on the phone, here's how you know you got

a real friend.

When you call them on the phone and you're like, I just need

to talk this through.

Hey, hang up with me and talk to God about it because he's gonna

be the one that heals you.

I'm not.

Come on.

There's something about friends that redirect you instead

of friends that actually confirm the mess that you're in.

And can I just give you a side note?

Some of them like you being in pain because it comforts their own

mediocrity.

Some of them like you not writing the book because they never

finished theirs.

Some of them like you not starting the business because they're

failed.

Some of the.

Some of these friends like you being a loser because they've lost

too.

And sometimes when you begin to get a holy discontent, they don't

like that fuego because they didn't blow on the embers of their

own fire and their fire smoldering.

But yours is.

See there.

I'm telling you to get what God has for.

For you.

There's going to be a gap.

And the gap is going to be between your friends who are actually

frenemies.

They're enemies of your future.

That's what it is.

They're not your friends, they're your frenemies.

They're enemies to your future.

They don't want you to read the Bible more because it exposes

how little they read it.

They don't want you to pray more because it exposes the lack

of their prayer life.

So there's going to be a gap when you abandon that friendship.

And then all of a sudden, there's going to be a season where

you have to learn how to be alone but not lonely.

Oh, single people, look me in my beady Italian eyes.

You can be alone but not lonely.

Because God declares, I will never leave you nor forsake you.

I will be with you to the end until Jesus becomes your husband.

You ain't ready for another groom because you can be alone but

not lonely.

You'll carry that loneliness into your marriage because you'll

make a man an idol when only Jesus is enough to satisfy.

You gotta learn how to be alone but not lonely.

There's a gap.

Hannah was Going through.

Oh, I'm going in for you today.

I'm earning my Chicken McNuggets.

Let me tell you, I'm almost done.

Let me tell you, God is trying to divinely speak to you.

Do you want attention or do you want transformation?

Do you want to be heard or do you want to be healed?

See, this is the exchange that you have to make.

This is what I'm trying to get you to understand.

But you're going to have a gap.

See, Hannah had rivals.

Holy discontent doesn't adjust to dysfunction.

It groans for something more.

Everybody say this word with me.

Groan.

Yeah, even the word sounds like how it sounds.

Groan.

What is groan?

It's the realm beyond words where there's only noise, there's

only sound.

There's a groaning and a travailing and a longing.

Let me just tell you this.

Sometimes God will sovereignly and divinely let your situation get

bad enough to where you actually start praying like you should

have been praying the whole time.

Sometimes God will let it.

Some of you, you only open the Bible to find the answer to the problem

that was perplexing you.

And by God's mercy, he caused you to suffer enough to actually

become the disciple you were designed to become.

And this is what I'm here to tell you.

Do not expect, accept any false gospel that promises once you

say the sinner's prayer, your life is going to get better.

I'm telling you the opposite.

Once you confess Christ as savior, all of hell is going to do

everything to get you back.

There's going to be a war over your mind, a war over your emotions.

Because hell doesn't give up a generation easily knowing the implications

for the generations after.

Can I just tell you, your life's going to get worse because

now you got a target.

But suffer well, soldier, armor up.

Fight the good.

Fight.

Fight.

Push back on the devil and say, I'm never going back to you.

I've decided.

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

I'm not going to adjust to this dysfunction.

I've got a holy discontent on the inside of me and I won't let

the.

Come on, somebody jump to your feet and give me a 10 second praise

break.

Somebody shout unto God.

Holy discontent.

I'm not dead, so I'm not done.

Holy discontent.

Just sit on your feet.

Bring the worship team up.

Let's drive this thing.

I told you I was eating chicken nuggets.

But here's what I'm trying to tell you.

This church is not a cruise liner.

It's a battleship.

If you want to go to another church, go to the cruise liner.

There's a great Disney church down the street.

And we love them because sometimes you need a cruise liner

season.

But we're running a battleship.

And it takes holy discontent to say, I'm not okay with human trafficking

in New York City.

I'm not okay with extreme poverty in northwest Indiana and

Miami.

And the things that make you angry are the problems that you were

put on this planet to solve.

Your anger is a sense of injustice.

That is your purpose.

And let me just tell you, God's got a way of raising up a people

who say, I am tired of being tired.

I'm sick of being sick.

I am not.

Oh, come on.

That's.

That's what I'm trying to preach into.

Sometimes things gotta get bad enough and we have to suffer enough

for us to actually start stepping in enough.

So here, let me.

Let me finish the story of Hannah, because Romans, chapter 8,

Romans 8:22

verse 22 and 23 says, we groan inwardly.

Inwardly as we wait eagerly.

What does that mean?

You're driving onto work.

You're groaning inwardly.

What are you groaning?

See, some of you thought it was depression.

Some of you thought it was discouragement.

It's holy discontent.

You should put a smile on your face because it's the opposite of

apathy.

Think about this.

Some of you been saying, I'm so frustrated.

I'm so angry.

But guess what you're saying.

I'm not numb anymore.

I'm feeling something.

I'm alive.

There's something that's awakening, happening inside of you.

You're not numb anymore.

See, that anger that you're experiencing, that's a good thing.

Because that anger is the evidence that you see something by

faith.

It's still possible that I could do this thing.

Come on.

Here's the thing about Hannah.

Her tears were not weakness.

They were prayers in disguise.

See, right now you might be.

I'm so frustrated.

Good.

That frustration is the proof that you're not dead.

Even when people say, I'm so frustrated with the local church.

Good.

You haven't given up on it yet.

Because indifference is way worse than frustration.

It's when people say, I don't care anymore.

See, it's the opposite.

What you're saying is, I still care.

And God wants to take that, turn it into a faith moment.

Let me show you one more thing, because we're about to pray.

Psalm, chapter 34, verse 18.

Psalms 34:18

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted.

Why is he near to the brokenhearted?

It's very simple.

Because brokenhearted people draw near to him when your heart

is broken.

Oh, Lord, I don't know what to do.

I don't know what to do with my marriage.

I'm so broken over this.

The Lord's near.

Why?

Because in your brokenness, you begin to cry out to him.

You broke past the ritual and you started to get into raw surrender.

How many Hail Marys are you gonna say?

How many Our Fathers are you gonna say before you rip up the script

and you start to tell Heaven your own words, your own language?

God, no one in my family ever got this far.

God, I don't know what I'm doing.

Lord, my mind is so finite, I can't understand.

And then the Holy Spirit responds and says, son, my ways are

higher than your ways.

My thoughts are higher than your thoughts.

And he begins to lift you up into heavenly places and shows.

But you're not done yet.

I want to tell you one more thing.

Let me have the prayer team members come up across every location.

Just come up across the front, because we're going to create Hannah's

altar right now.

So if you're on the prayer team and you have a badge, just come

up at every location right now.

Praise God.

Let me show you.

Just letting them line up across every location while the prayer

team come up.

Let me tell you something that the Lord showed me.

So what happens is that he builds a nest, and that nest is our

life.

And he builds it with the thorns and the twigs and the branches.

But then as a great eagle, he begins to fill it with all kinds

of cotton.

Why?

Because the baby eagles, they need that fluff.

They need that cotton.

But then what begins to happen at a stage of their development is

that the eagle needs to start to draw the cotton out of the nest.

And then all of a sudden, it reveals a thorn.

And that thorn begins to pierce the side of that little baby

eagle.

And at a certain point, it seems as if it's cruelty.

Like, how could my dad do this?

How could my dad take the fluff out of the nest?

Why am I so uncomfortable?

Well, let me tell you, what's actually happening is that in the

wisdom of the eagle, it's removing the cotton out of the nest

to reveal the thorns, because the thorns are the only way to get

the eagle out of the nest.

And what happens is it's the Father Eagle's way of saying, you

were not built for a nest.

You were built for the skies.

So what God will do in your life is he'll make you so uncomfortable

that you get so irritated and agitated that.

That holy discontent, you say, I can't stay in the nest anymore.

And then you jump out of the nest, but instead of falling, you

start flying.

And he's saying, yes, it was not cruelty, but I did this thing

to get you into your destiny.

And so, Hannah, I shut up your womb.

But the reason why I shut your womb up is because when I close your

womb, I open your words, I open your mouth, and I cause you

to become an intercessor.

And out of that situation came the prophet Samuel.

And Samuel was the greatest prophet to Israel.

And so let me tell you, if Hannah could go back again, she would

not do it any different, because God's perfect will was done

in that situation.

Can I just tell you like this.

If you will turn your grumbling into groaning, if you will

do that, here's what's gonna happen.

You're gonna get through this transition.

Your life is gonna begin to align with God's will.

And then you're gonna go back and you're gonna say, lord, I understand

why you did this thing, and you're gonna give him great glory

from it.

But right now, what we need to do across every location is I'm gonna

count to three, and we're gonna make some time for you to actually

respond to this.

And this might not be for everybody.

I know we had a lot of baptisms.

God moved powerfully today.

But the Lord specifically told me, let men and women come to the

front as a sign of.

Okay, Lord, I'm shifting out of grumbling and complaining, and

I'm shifting into groaning, into intercession, into praying.

And I'm gonna pray my way through this thing until God does

the impossible.

So I'm gonna count to three and across every location.

When I get to three, if that's you, just come out of your seat and

come forward and allow one of our prayer team members to prophesy

over you to encourage you to give you a word.

One, I believe that for many of you, this sermon was a major confirmation.

Two, I believe the Holy Spirit's been stirring your heart

to begin to press through, to go, what's next?

And you're gonna shift into the spiritual realm.

Three, if that's you, just come up right now across every location

and receive prayer.

I believe miracles are gonna happen in the front right now.

Come home.

Yeah.

Come.

Wow.