Securing Your Life for 2025: Batten Down the Hatches | Apostle Mike Signorelli

But go to first Timothy, and we're going to start at chapter one,

and we're going to talk about that in a second.

Let me just start by saying this.

My good friend Rick Renner is a global, apostolic voice to the

body of Christ, and he's extremely accurate in the realm of

the prophetic.

And he had released a word for this year that a storm was coming

and that it was actually time to.

To batten down the hatches.

And so what I'm going to be doing is kind of like tag team ministering

with him, and I'm gonna be extending off of the prophetic word

that he released.

And we're gonna look at what the hatches are that we need to close

on the ship of our life.

And so I just wanted to start by honoring Rick Renner.

By the way, Rick Renner is going to be with V1 Church in February.

And so I'm super excited to have him, and it's gonna be a good

time together.

But batten down the hatches.

That's the message today.

That's the sermon that I'm going to preach to you.

And we're going to look at the hatches.

But let me just start with first Timothy, chapter one, verse

18.

Did you find it?

Say amen if you found it.

Come on.

Where are my old school people at this charge I entrust to you?

I'm going to start with 18.

This charge I entrust you, Timothy, my child, in accordance

with prophecies previously made about you, that by them you

may wage the good warfare holding faith and a good conscience.

By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith, among

whom are.

And he names their name.

Come on.

And he says, I have handed over to Satan that they may learn

not to blaspheme.

Come on, let's just pray.

Heavenly Father, I know that you've given us a very clear word,

that it's time to batten down the hatches.

And Father, as the storm approaches, your true bride will

be ready because we're going to close every single gap.

And Lord, the storm around us is not going to become the water

inside.

And Lord, we will survive to the other side.

And I thank you for.

For preserving us and keeping us through your wisdom and your word

in the scriptures and everybody said across all locations,

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

So this is very important.

Let me break this down.

Let's look at first Timothy together.

And please take notes with me.

Okay?

He says, I charge you.

I entrust to you, Timothy, my child.

My child.

Let me just start by saying this.

God does give fathers in the faith.

Now, a father in the faith is simply an extension of the heart

of our Heavenly Father.

Can I get an amen on that?

But Paul uses the word when he talks to Timothy child.

So I just want to say you're going to hear people say things like

there's no such thing as spiritual fathers.

Of course that can get distorted and abused.

But we do see the Apostle Paul, the dynamic of relationship

with the one that he was over Timothy calling him.

And so I do believe that there is a basis for having a relationship

with somebody in the faith.

And it's not necessarily that they are your Father as much as it's

they are an extension of the heart of the Father who is Jesus

for you.

Amen.

So he uses the term child and it's just to show a term of endearment

as he is helping to lead Timothy in his destiny, like his

God given calling.

And then what he says is in accordance with the prophecies previously

made about you, that by them you may wage the good warfare.

Can I just tell you that prophecy is still for today?

We believe that the gifts of the Holy Spirit are still active

and in operation today.

We believe that people speak in tongues, both the tongues of angels

as well as the tongues of men, and that they also interpret those

tongues.

We believe in the gift of wisdom and knowledge.

We believe in the gifts of the Spirit.

Does anybody at this church believe that the gifts of the Spirit

are for today?

Okay, I'm just trying to establish a few things because what

the Apostle Paul says is, Timothy, remember the prophecy that

you receive.

Because if you can remember that prophecy, it becomes good, a

part of good warfare.

This is so rich.

Can I just tell you that if you're thinking like God, just give

me a new word.

Sometimes God will say, go back and remember the old word.

See, sometimes the reason why God doesn't give you another word

is because you haven't been faithful to the old word.

Or sometimes it's not a faithfulness issue, it's an endurance

issue.

And God says the old word is getting ready to come to pass.

So why don't you rest in what I already said?

I'm not going to say it again because the first time I said it,

it was done.

And so coming into this storm, it's a global storm.

In order to rage the good warfare, we gotta go back to the

old word.

And now can I also go another step further?

And I say this in gentleness, there is a movement that's happening

among the Spirit filled Pentecostal charismatic circles that

are suggesting that we don't need to do spiritual warfare.

As a matter of fact, they're starting to claim that things like,

well, we just need to rest in Jesus and we just need to pray more

and we just need to read our Bible more.

We just need to listen to more worship songs.

But can I tell you, we cannot delete the entire book of Ephesians.

And we have been empowered by Jesus to make good warfare.

And so if Paul's saying, remember the old prophecies over

your life, Timothy, that you would make, that you would actually

make good warfare.

What that insinuates is that there's bad warfare.

So bad warfare is not.

Is what happens when you don't use the authority that Jesus Christ

gave you.

Matter of fact, Jesus isn't going to rebuke the demon because

he gave you the authority to rebuke the demon.

All y'all are too quiet.

What happened?

Did you lose your salvation over Christmas break?

Do I got some Holy Ghost filled, fire filled, tongue talking,

devil stomping Christians up in this church?

So here's the thing, because there's this.

We're just gonna abide in Jesus and abiding in Jesus is our

warfare.

No, you actually have to delete the New Testament scriptures

where Jesus sent them out two by two and he said, you cast the

demons out.

Matter of fact, you will do everything I do and you will do greater.

And so as a church, we have to believe that we have been empowered

by Jes to do good warfare.

And Jesus says, take heart, I have conquered.

I have overcome the world.

But we have to enforce what he overcame.

That's the way to understand the paradigm of good spiritual warfare

is that no, we are not fighting for victory, we are enforcing

the victory that was already won.

Does this make sense?

So when somebody is like, I'm just going through depression and

I just need to abide in the Lord, I just.

No, we've got to fight good warfare.

Depression is a deception of a false future.

Remember the prophecy that was spoken.

That's your future.

That's what Jesus said.

Now wage some good warfare right now.

So no matter what this storm looks like, the storm doesn't dictate

the future.

The prophecy is the anchor through the storm of what my future

future will be.

I will be who he said I will be.

I will do what he said I will do.

And I'm gonna clap back on any other voice that's contrary to the

voice of prophecy.

That's good Warfare.

If the Lord told me my spouse is gonna be saved, then I don't care

what this storm looks like.

The prophecy is certain.

I'm gonna wage some good warfare in my prayer closet until

my husband starts sounding like a priest and a prophet instead

of a punk.

I'm gonna raise some good warfare up in here.

Cause I know what the prophecy said.

I'm trying to wake you up.

A storm is coming.

Batten down the hatches.

It's not the water around that sinks the boat.

As a matter of fact, the boat is actually made for water, but it

stays on top of the water.

When you close the gaps.

Come on, push your neighbor and say, close the gaps.

Type it in the comments section right now.

Close the gaps.

See, if we were on a ship together and I was the captain, I

would tell you, batten down the hatches.

In other words, I'm looking up ahead, I see a storm coming.

But let me just give you wisdom.

If you don't batten down the hatches before the storm, battening

down the hatches during the storm is too late.

Because if you go on the top of this ship in the midst of a storm

and try to close gaps, you're not gonna physically be able to do

it.

So batten down the hatches is an old phrase that was used by sailors,

and what it meant was, a storm is coming.

Let's close the gaps before the storm.

And I believe that this message is prophetic.

And I believe that God is giving you a message to close the

gaps before the stor and you're gonna make it through.

Oh, if I'm the captain.

If you're the captain of your ship, we're gonna make it through.

Somebody say, batten down the hatches.

So there are seven hatches that we are going to batten down.

And battening down basically means covering the openings with

strips of wood that prevented water from entering the ship and

sinking it.

That's what it means.

So we're gonna close the gaps.

So now let's go to the seven spiritual hatches that we need to

secure.

Now, these are seven foundational disciplines for all

believers.

So what I'm teaching now are the fundamentals of the faith as

prescribed by the scriptures.

Now, pastor Mike, why seven?

Because I said so.

There could be 15, there could be three, there could be four, but

we're gonna deal with seven.

And these are just simply New Testament prescriptions for all believers

that I think is good, regardless of your denomination or

whatever.

Like, this is just, like, 100% lock it in it's true.

But what I will say is that as I tried to partner with the Holy

Spirit to deliver this sermon, I tried to do this in a sequence

where one thing connected to the next.

And you could see that in succession.

So number one of the seven spiritual hatches that we're gonna

close before the storm is the hatch God's Word, the hatch of God's

Word.

We are going to close the gap and we're going to read God's word

every single day.

Read your Bible, pray every day.

And you grow, you grow, you grow.

Cha, cha cha.

Read your Bible, pray every day.

Some of y'all think you're too spiritual for this song, but you

don't read your Bible every day, so you're not spiritual.

Read your Bible, pray every day.

And you grow, you grow, you grow.

And how many of you have been doing your daily growth journal?

Okay, okay.

How many of you?

I'm gonna confess.

So I'm the person who commissioned the creation of the

journal.

Like you're looking at Willy Wonka right now.

Like, I was the one who was like, we're doing a 365 day devotional.

I don't care what it takes.

Let's make it.

And even in my own family, we have been doing it at 11:30 and we're

finishing at 11:59.

Am I the only one?

Come on, let's confess our sins to one another.

I mean, somehow or another we get.

The whole day goes by and I'm like, get the girls out of the bed.

Get downstairs right now.

You know, and then we're all at the table and we're reading the

Bible together.

How many of you know it is very easy to leave that hatch open.

Very easy to leave that hatch open.

We must read the Bible.

Can I just tell you the reason why there's so many false prophets

in America?

Is because we platform them through our biblical illiteracy.

We would rather hear from them via video than hear from God via

the Scriptures.

Don't be mad at false prophets.

Take the responsibility of saying God, I'm not reading your

word.

Okay?

And so expose yourself.

Let's become biblically illiterate, right?

Let's become biblically literate, right?

So we have to get to the Word.

Matter of fact, when you read the Bible for yourself, you'll find

it sort of reveals how many people haven't read the Bible.

And so what I'm looking at, and this is Matthew, chapter 7, verse

Matthew 7:24

24.

So let's go there.

Matthew, chapter 7, verse 24, Matthew chapter 7, verse 24.

Matthew 7:24 Matthew 7:24

And when you found it said amen.

Some of you are fast.

You're cheating.

You're on the Bible app.

Matthew Ch.

It's all right.

It's all right.

I got Bible reading plans on the Bible app.

As long as you're subscribed to them, it's okay to use that.

Matthew, chapter 7, verse 24.

Matthew 7:24

It says everyone then who hears these words of mine and does

them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

So here's what I love.

Say the word, everyone.

Okay, that to me is pretty obvious.

Everyone.

That means it doesn't matter.

You don't have to be in full time ministry.

You don't have to be, have been saved a long time.

It's just universally everyone who then hears these words of mine

and does them.

So let me just tell you, hearing the word is not enough.

Saying the Word is not enough.

Satan hears the Word, demons hear the Word.

And by the way, Satan even basically preached a bad sermon,

a demonic sermon to Jesus upon the mount.

Am I right?

Did Satan not use the Word?

So even preaching the Word is not it.

Oh, this is deep.

It's obeying the word.

Satan preaches a word, but that he doesn't obey.

So beware.

There's people who know the Bible, there's people who preach

the Bible, but it says you must hear and obey.

So it's obeying.

Matter of fact, how many of you noticed in the daily growth Journal

that it says one of the commitments that you sign was to

immediately do whatever you read?

Okay, that's biblical.

Why?

And it says you will be like the house that's built on the rock.

So I really believe that as the storm comes, if we close the

gap, if we batten down the hatch of daily discipline of reading

the Word, we will survive it.

And I'm now convinced that the biggest threat to Christianity is

not Islam.

The biggest threat to Christianity is not atheism.

I am now convinced that the biggest threat to Christianity is

Christians who do not act like Christ.

Christians who don't love like Christ, Christians who don't obey

like Christ.

And I'm telling you because Satan himself came not with a pitchfork

and horns, but as an angel of light.

So it will not be light versus darkness in this era.

It will be light versus false light.

It'll be led versus flame.

Some of you glow, but you don't burn.

No, because I'm trying to discern this.

I'm looking up ahead of the storm and it's Christians who are

who are not like Christ.

That is the threat that is.

It's going to be the false light.

It's going to be the.

It's going to be people who are biblically illiterate, who don't

know how to distinguish between those who glow and those

who burn.

I want to be a burning one.

I want the fire of Espiritu Santo.

I want that fuego.

I want to be a burning one.

I want to be one that comes.

Oh, come on.

That comes up out of the scripture with a fresh revelation.

Who says?

God.

You're still speaking to me through the word.

And by the way, you can learn the word.

My 10 year old, the first day we started reading scripture together

this year, she was like, dad, can you help me?

Dad, can you help me?

We're four days in and yesterday she was getting the revelation

of the word.

And in four days, and what I believe I'm watching is a supernatural

increase in her understanding.

The bi.

Listen to me, young man.

The Bible will take a simple minded person and make them wise.

The Bible will take your understanding.

It's not like school.

Got to get that out in school.

That's the natural realm.

But this is the breath of God.

This is spirit.

And when you read the Bible, it will take somebody simple and

make you wise.

You will suddenly it will become real to you.

And you will be transformed by the reading of the word if you obey

it.

Okay, can we go to the number two?

The second hatch is the hatch of prayer.

The hatch of prayer.

Philippians chapter four.

Let's go find it.

Philippians chapter four.

Some of you are saying he cheated.

He has tabs in his Bible.

Philippians chapter four.

This is close the gap on prayer.

Seven days without prayer equals one week.

It makes one week.

You cannot be weak.

You must build up your spirit, man.

Some of y'all never skip a meal, but you skip prayer.

Come on.

You never.

Come on.

Some of you, you wake up and the first thing you grab is your

phone.

But you need to grab the altar.

In the spiritual realm, we gotta prioritize prayer.

We have to be people of prayer.

We have to pray without ceasing.

But then we need to intentionally pray.

We have to pray, pray, pray.

I believe that prayer can be like we inhale and exhale.

Prayer can be something that's a reflex.

It could be automatic.

And by the way, stop praying every single time there's an emergency.

Pray so that you're prepared for the emergency.

By the way, stop praying to ask for something.

Pray and say that he realigns your desires.

So you don't even ask for something you shouldn't have.

Prayer is going to bring you into proper alignment.

Close the batten, down the hatch.

Close the gap on prayer.

So you're ready.

Because if you pray in an emergency, you're praying too late.

If you're ready for the emergency, it's because you prayed

before the emergency.

Oh, come on.

Can I read you Philippians, chapter four.

Now, I'm gonna skip back up to verse two just so I can say some

hard things.

Cause I'm establishing the doctrine of our house.

So let's go skip up a couple of verses.

I entreat Idia and I entreat Cynthia.

We're not sure how to say their names.

E and S.

I entreat.

And he says to agree the Lord.

So let me.

What's the significance of this?

The apostle in the first century had to tell a group of two

people, I entreat you to actually agree with each other in

the Lord.

How many of you know that we need supernatural unity and we need

agreement in a world full of disagreement?

Okay, I'm just gonna start there because I believe that this

reveals the heart of the Father.

But then it says in verse three.

Yes, I ask you also, true companion.

Let me just stop there.

We don't need congregants.

We need true companions.

Everybody has their church membership class.

Oh, become a member of my church.

I don't want to do that anymore.

I don't want church members.

I don't want congregants.

I want to be true companions because the Bible says true companions.

Oh, y'all are so quiet.

Let me preach this hood.

Cause you'll understand it.

I need somebody that if I'm in a fight, they're not going to run.

They're going to actually kick somebody's head in for me.

I need somebody who's gonna brawl with me.

You get my back.

I can.

Come on.

Pull the hair all the way out.

Come on.

Push their face down into the.

Come on.

If we're gonna rock together, let's rock together.

Come on.

I'm trying to preach to you.

Come on, Brooklyn, be my companion.

If I get pushed, you swing first.

Come on, be my companion.

We've all had those friends that when something happened, they

ran away.

Not in this New York.

Now.

Everything I said was spiritual realm.

I'm talking about pull demons, hairs, you know?

Of course our battle's not against flesh and blood, but you

get my point.

Like, I need a true companion.

I'm not talking about fighting people Even though you know it felt

good to say it.

But we need the kind of people that are real companions.

And by the way, a true companion will tell you, close the

gaps, batten down the hatches.

A true companion will tell you, hey, you just complained to

me for the last 20 minutes, and I think that made you feel better.

But it's not gonna make your situation get better.

And why don't you make your supplications known to the father

instead of dumping it on me?

Did my friend just knife me?

No.

It's called a scalpel.

And you'll know the difference between a knife and a scalpel because

of the results.

A knife kills, but a scalpel heals.

And a good friend will circumcise your heart for you and

be like, hey, listen, our relationship is not let's call and

complain to each other.

It's if you wanna make a prayer call, let's take this to him.

Cause he can do something about it.

See, the problem with most of you is what you think a friendship

is is free counseling.

You need to learn how to go to the counselor.

You need to learn how to go to him.

Some of you, you know how to lean on your friend, but you don't

know how to lean on him.

The Bible says, lean not on your own understanding.

So even your friend's not qualified to understand.

But in all your ways, acknowledge him and he will direct

your path.

Some of you are putting a pressure on a friend that only God

can bear.

And that's why they don't call you first.

You never call me because you're so negative.

If they need negativity, they can go online.

Why do they need to get on the phone?

My friends never call me because they don't want to be around

you.

And you need to get a job.

Your friends stop calling you because they're going broke trying

to carry you through life.

So, but.

But here's what I'm saying.

We need true companions.

Am I right?

Like, we need.

This is the hatch of prayer.

Now, look.

Look at this.

Okay, Can I keep going?

It says, but.

But help.

Okay, I'm gonna say this real clear.

Help these women who have labored side by side with me in the

gospel.

Not in the kitchen, not at the coffee section, not back there in

the kids department.

But they labored with me in the gospel.

This church believes in women preachers.

This church believes in women pastors.

This.

I'm not backing down.

They labored with the apostle in the gospel.

Not in the kitchen.

Not in the kids department, in the gospel.

So get on out of here with that junk.

I know my Bible and I'm sick and tired.

Women can't be preachers.

Well, if you were drowned in a swimming pool, she can be a lifeguard.

How much more?

Saving your life through the gospel.

Come on, somebody.

If a paramedic showed up your house because you got a gunshot wound

and she was a female paramedic, you wouldn't resist.

Exist the life saving measure.

And I say preach the gospel, women, and save lives.

Save somebody from hell.

Come on.

I'm just putting a line in the sand.

If you can't go to a church that believes in female preachers,

then you go to one of those dry, stale, boring churches where

all the men sit around and pontificate and operate in pride

together.

But this ain't it.

You know how many people on Long island have walked out when

my wife's gotten ready to preach a sermon?

And you know what I say to them?

I'll see you in heaven if you make it.

Okay, so next verse.

I read the Bible in 3D.

Can I also counterbalance that with.

We believe in strong male headship.

So it's not women ruling over men.

It's the original design that you see in creation through Adam.

But see, but what the apostle was saying is I labored side by side

with women in the gospel.

It was because he was a strong man that he was not intimidated by

a strong woman.

See, this is the ingredient list.

Like Julie is submitted to me as my wife.

And that submission is liberation because I've created a

context where her voice can go out through this church.

And so it's not the absence of male leadership, it's the presence

of strong male headship that releases women.

And by the way, not every woman who has an opinion is a Jezebel.

Huh?

Yeah.

And when you have a church like V1 Church, where we have at

every single one of our locations, we have strong female

preachers.

And guess what?

I'm okay with it.

Because we're not intimidated by strong women.

Matter of fact, when the men are leading, well, then we actually,

I'm gonna go take a step further.

Sometimes when we pray for wisdom, God gave it to our wife,

and we would be wise to listen to her.

Not all the time, but you see what I'm saying to you?

Under strong male headship, you will see strong women thriving.

And I'm okay with that.

And you see that in the Bible.

Okay, next, it says in the Gospel, together with Clement and

the rest of the fellow workers whose names are in the book of life,

verse 4.

Rejoice in the Lord always.

Again, I will say, rejoice.

Let your reasonableness be known to everyone.

The Lord is at hand.

Verse 6.

And do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer

and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be

known to God.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will

guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

I'm gonna simply transition on this.

I really believe that if you will become a person of prayer in

this next season, your life will change and the peace of God

will guard your heart.

Here's what I want you to do.

Make your request known before God.

Because when you do, God will speak back to you.

Sometimes he'll say, no, daughter, it's not time yet.

It's the right thing in the wrong time.

Oh, yeah, yeah, he's the right guy, but I'm not done developing

him.

Come on.

Yeah, hey, good.

Good discernment, daughter.

You finally picked somebody who's not toxic.

But he's still a little toxic.

Let me work on him.

See, sometimes it's the wrong.

It's the right thing in the wrong time.

Or then sometimes when you submit your request to God through

prayer, then he will speak to you and say you're totally off base

and that's the wrong thing.

And by the way, you know it's wrong.

You've been knowing it's wrong and stop after it.

Like, you always go after it.

Because your pattern is self destruction.

Your pattern is self deception.

Your pattern.

Oh, come on.

I'm just gonna turn this white while say it is.

There's many of you that suffer from self sabotage because

you do the thing that you know you shouldn't do.

But when you submit it all to him in prayer and say, God, am I

really supposed to move to North Carolina?

And he's like, no, you just don't like Bushwick.

That's a New York joke.

Everybody at the other locations, what is that?

Don't tell them, guys.

Don't tell them.

Don't tell them.

The Lord might call them here.

Don't bias them.

But it's like, sometimes what happens is we let our preferences

cancel his purposes.

And when you bring your petitions before the Lord, let your

petitions end up aligning with his purposes instead of your preferences

canceling his purposes.

And I'll tell you, that's what happened with Long Island.

The original branding of this church said V1 Brooklyn.

I didn't even want to go to Long Island.

And that's not me being Mean, I just didn't have vision for it.

And the Lord says, mike, but there's grace on Long Island.

And I just yielded to that in prayer.

I brought it before the Lord and said, lord, I thought I was going

to be in Brooklyn.

What's going on?

And the Lord says, but I've given you a double portion, son.

And now look, we've got a beautiful building on Long island,

which, by the way, we had so many people respond financially with

generosity that we're now able to fix the roof.

Isn't that amazing?

So God had truly answered that.

But I could have said no to what God was saying yes to.

Does that make sense?

Okay.

Uno, dos, tres, cuatron.

Okay, that was a test.

3.

The hatch of worship.

Close the hatch.

Now.

Acts, chapter 16, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and then Acts.

Acts 16 · chapter mention

So Acts, chapter 16, verse 25.

Acts 16:25

Say amen when you found it.

So Acts, chapter 16, verse25.

Acts 16 · chapter mention

Oh, this is such a.

I'm gonna try to be good.

I'm gonna try to be good.

This could be a whole sermon, this one.

We must close the gap of worship.

There are people who pray every day.

There are people who read the Bible every day, but they don't worship

every day.

So we have to bring these things together.

And when you look at Scripture, there's a convergence

of these things.

Look at Acts, chapter 16, verse 25.

Acts 16:25

And about midnight.

Come on.

Well, Paul and Silas were praying and singing.

See, if I was to preach this old school, I would say some of you

are praying but not singing.

And there's some of you who sing but don't pray.

But the breakthrough happens when you pray and you sing.

Oh, I'm talking to somebody.

You need a song that comes out of you.

And when that song.

And I'm talking to some of the men.

Oh, I can't sing on key.

I'll tell you.

If you're gonna lead your home as the priest and the prophet of

your home, I dare you to sing loudly, out of key.

Because as your voice comes out of your chest, let me tell you

what happens, son.

The atmosphere begins to change.

See, you got dads who have yelled in their house but never sang

in their house, and that's why their house is in chaos.

Oh, I'm talking to somebody.

If you would use your voice to do something other than yelling at

your kids, why don't you yell towards heaven a song?

Why don't you sing?

Come on, break every chain.

God, you see what I'm saying?

It's okay to sing.

And you got grown men that are too ashamed to sing in their own

house.

I rebuke that spirit of timidity.

And I rebuke that spirit of fear.

And I say to you, get a song.

Get into your house and release a song.

Come on.

Now, this is what begins to happen.

It says, and the prisoners were listening to them.

Can I just tell you that your captivity always has an audience?

You didn't hear me.

Oh, God, why am I going through this, Lord?

Because you have an audience.

And you have to teach them how to get through it.

What if the prison wasn't for Paul?

It was for the prisoners.

See, God will put you in a situation just to cause an audience

to hear how a true believer deals with it.

You need to sing on your job.

You need to learn how to pray and sing on your job.

Come on.

If the Muslims pray five days or five times a day, you pray five

times a day.

If the smokers get a smoke break, homie, take a prayer break.

Take a worship break.

Take a praise break on the job.

Come on.

What if I told you it's not your boss that's a problem?

It's your prayer life that's the problem.

It's your worship life.

Oh, these people get on my nerves.

Yes, because your nerves haven't been crucified yet.

But if you crucified your nerves, you can't get on nerves that

are crucified.

Come on, I'm trying to help you.

We've got to learn how to sing and pray in prison because we got

an audience.

I want my kids to remember when dad was under pressure.

Well, I got a song in me.

Don't let the devil silence your song.

Don't let the critics take your song.

Sing when there's no music.

Because a song comes from your spirit when it's worship.

And I just.

Man, I'll tell you, you have an audience.

And let me tell you this.

Your kids need to hear you sing.

Your kids need to hear a song come out of you.

And I believe that God's gonna give you a song.

How many of you read yesterday's Daily Growth Journal?

Yesterday's.

Okay, let me give you a revelation out of that.

Cause it's gonna help you.

So we actually had Herod, who hated the wise men because they got

a dream.

And that dream actually caused them to go this completely other

direction.

And when he found out about that, he said, I'm going to kill

all the firstborn.

Y'all remember this from your reading yesterday?

But let me just help you understand something.

It said that when the Dream came to Joseph.

He went to Nazareth, and he actually got to Nazareth because

Herod hated him.

If I could just break this down.

Some of you want to get to the right destination without the hatred.

You need a Herod, because Herod's hatred will actually cause

you to get to your destination.

It was actually Herod's hatred and his desire to kill all the firstborn

boys that brought them to where Joseph and Jesus and Mary got

to Nazareth.

Was it not Pharaoh hardening his heart that caused the children

of Israel to go out into the wilderness?

See, God will use people who hate you to put you in a different

position.

Let me just explain to you.

Paul and Silas were in the jail cell.

And by God's infinite wisdom, it was people persecuting them that

actually put them in the position to reveal God's power.

Can I just tell you?

Let them hate you.

Let them persecute you.

Let them talk about you, because their persecution is your

promotion.

Their persecution is your publicity.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Let them do that, because they're going to send you to Nazareth.

Oh, come on.

God is in control.

That's why we don't worry about it.

We learn how to sing in every situation.

Matter of fact, here's what happened.

There was an earthquake, so that the foundation of the prison

was shaken, and immediately all the doors were opened.

I had this amazing moment with the Daily Growth Journal where all

of a sudden, we were doing communion together as a family.

And I, you know, the Holy Spirit dwells within your spirit,

but there's also the manifest presence of God, which is the glory

of God.

And so there's his presence in you, indwelling through the Holy

Spirit, but then there's his presence around you in a tangible,

more manifest way.

And Christians understand the paradox of his presence.

Are y'all with me?

The paradox of his presence is that God could both be dwelling inside

of you and yet increasing your awareness of his presence and glory

around you.

Does this make sense?

So when I was growing up, there was a moment where my mother

and my brothers and sisters and I were learning these sacred

ways of God, and we were learning worship and prayer and how

it all goes together.

And all of a sudden, here's how I pray.

I pray like this.

This is my physical motion.

Anybody else?

That's why we have to have hardwood floors, because I'll burn

that carpet up.

This is how I pray.

So in this old house of ours, I went to go pray in the.

In the hallway, because there was this small hallway that led to

the living room.

And we had this atmosphere of praise and worship and praying, and

the whole house was just filling with the.

With the sound of our worship.

And it was my brothers and sisters, and we were younger, and

it was my mother at the time, and she was in her early 40s, and

we were just in the house, and we were learning all this.

We didn't know this.

We didn't know about all this.

And all of a sudden, I went to go in the hallway to just walk the

floor and intercede.

And as soon as I took the first step into the hallway, I fell

over under the weight of his glory.

And I get to the ground, I'm laughing and I'm crying.

And.

Have you ever just been hysterical in the presence of God

before?

And I tell my mom, mom, come into the hallway.

Jesus is in the hallway.

And she's like, do little.

Stop.

You know, because we didn't know the glory.

We didn't understand the glory.

So she was like, oh, stop messing around.

We're being serious.

We're praying.

I said, no, no, come and see.

And my mom goes to walk in the hallway, and she falls over under

the weight of the glory, and she's laughing and she's crying,

and then here come my siblings, and we're all in this hallway.

One of my favorite memories of my life was me and my single mom

and all my siblings laughing hysterically and crying under the

weight of God's glory in that little hallway.

See, can I just tell you, some of you, your home is filled with

technology, but not filled with the glory.

Some of you, your home, it's filled with entertainment, but it's

not filled with his presence.

Because a couple nights ago, we were getting ready to do communion.

And, you know, I believe that this is more than a symbol.

I believe that communion, his very presence is in this communion

spiritually.

And as a family, we were taking communion together.

And all of a sudden, it was like I closed my eyes and I was leading

my family through prayer.

And I could.

It's like through my mind's eye, I guess is the best way I could

say it.

It's like I had a vision of Jesus standing in my kitchen.

And so I was praying, and my daughters were there, my wife was

there, and I just said, jesus, would you come closer?

Now, of course, I know his spirit dwells within us, but I was

talking about the glory.

I was talking about his manifest presence.

I said, jesus, can you come closer?

And I feel like I had this experience where he just walked by

and he came and sat down on this Bench at our kitchen table by

Bella.

And I didn't tell.

I didn't say anything.

Then when it was over, I asked my family.

I said, tell me what was happening.

What was it like?

And all of a sudden, Bella said, dad, it was so weird because

it was like Jesus.

It's like he was in the kitchen.

And then when you were praying, come closer.

I felt like he walked around and just sat right here next to me.

And she pointed to the exact spot that I saw the same thing.

And I just was overwhelmed by the presence of God in that moment.

Why do I say this?

Because I'm trying to be like salt so that I create a craving inside

of you for Jesus, that you want to go home.

That for those of you watching online in your home right now, you're

looking around saying, could this happen in our hallway?

Could this happen in our kitchen?

Are we having encounters with Jehovah?

Are we having encounters with Jehovah?

Rapha, Jehovah.

Nisi.

Come on.

Jehovah.

Jireh.

Do we know him in all these ways?

Is he walking in the bathroom?

Is he walking down the hallway?

Have we invited him?

Have we spent more time inviting our friends than inviting

our Savior?

Have we set the table and said, jesus, I know you dwell inside

of me through the Holy Spirit, but come sit down with me.

Batten down the hatches.

The only way you're gonna survive this storm is if Jesus is

sleeping in your boat.

Come on.

Are you with me?

The hatch of faith.

Number four.

Uno, dos reis, quatro.

The hatch of faith.

Somebody say faith in espanol?

The hatch of Faith.

Mark, chapter four, verse 39 and 40.

Mark, chapter four.

So go ahead and find it.

Matthew.

Mark, we're almost done.

Mark, chapter four, verse 39.

It says this.

And when he had entered, he said to them, why are you making

a commotion and weeping?

Oh, no, no, no.

Sorry.

I was like, that is not it.

Here it is.

Mark, chapter 4, verse 38.

Mark 4:38

38.

But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion.

You all know Jesus gets the cushion if he's in the boat, right?

And they woke him and said to him, teacher, do you not care that

we are perishing?

Let's just stop right there.

Couple things to acknowledge.

What did they call him?

Teacher.

Rabbi, let me just tell you what titles do.

Titles determine how you receive.

If you re.

If you call him teacher, you receive him as a teacher.

But titles also limit, because he's more than just a teacher.

And he was getting ready to tell them, oh, yeah, yeah, you're

calling me teacher, but I'm going to show you that I'm the alpha

and the omega.

I'm going to show you that even the winds and the waves actually

acknowledge my voice.

I am the Word.

See, sometimes we limit God.

There's some churches where God's allowed to be Rabbi, but he's

not allowed to be deliverer from demons.

There's.

Oh, come on, I'm trying to help you.

There's some churches you go into on a Sunday.

And Jesus can be your healer, but he can't be your deliverer from

demons.

We limit Jesus and we give him one title.

But I say, let's give him every title.

He is our all in all.

Let's take the limitations off of Jesus and let's stop telling Jesus

what he can and can't do.

And say, God, you can do all things.

Somebody shout all things.

Yes, all things.

They said teacher.

But here's the other thing they're saying is, don't you care

that we're perishing?

How many of you have prayed that prayer?

God, I'm dying down here.

Don't you care that I can't go to this job one more day?

Don't you care that I'm fed up with this marriage?

Don't you care I'm dying?

Look at this picture of a storm.

This is the storm.

There's going to come moments in your life.

We're like, lord, don't you care that I'm going through this?

But this is what he says.

He awoke and he rebuked the wind and said to the sea, peace,

be still.

And the wind ceased and there was a great calm.

But this is what he said to his disciples.

Why are you so afraid?

Have you still no faith?

Let me just talk to some people who've been a Christian for

a while.

What he didn't say, oh, you don't have any faith.

If you look at the text, he says, why do you still not have faith?

I want to talk to some of you who've been in this thing for a while.

He healed your body before.

Why would he not heal it again?

He already worked in your finances before.

Why would he not do it again?

He already made a way where there seemed to be no way.

He already opened the door that no man can open before.

Why would he not do it again?

Why do we still not have faith?

I want to be that kind of person that finally believes.

Is there anybody with me that's saying, this time I'm going

to operate in faith?

Faith is the evidence of things hoped for.

Faith is the substance of things not seen.

God, I know based on your track record, if you did it before,

you're going to do it again.

I know based on your track record, you have never left me nor

forsaken me, so you're not going to forsake me again.

And it was almost like what Jesus was saying in the boat was,

guys, I'm here.

Have I not always caused it to work out?

Why are you still lacking faith?

So let's close the hatch and let's operate in faith.

Who's with me?

What if here's how you know that you're mature in your faith,

is when your first response to tragedy is to actually acknowledge

the joy that's been set before you and to say, God, you must know

something I don't know.

Oh, come on.

Did that hit different?

God, you must know something I don't know.

And you must see something I don't see.

So by faith, reveal it to me.

Because you know what's bad theology?

Bad theology is teaching people that as soon as they accept

Christ, they're not going to go through any storms.

That's bad theology.

But I thought you said Jesus is going to make my life better.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

He's going to use the storm to do it.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

You're.

He's.

He's got a mentorship and the mentors that he assigned you, one's

name is pain, and the other's name is suffering.

And as soon as you learn how to get an A in both of those classes,

you'll go to your next level.

Come on.

I'm helping y'all.

This is really what it comes down to is.

The difference is there were many boats that were in this storm

that we see in Matthew 24, but there is only Jesus in one boat.

See, right now, with what's coming into the earth, there's going

to be many, many lives that are affected by the storm.

But the question is, is Jesus abiding in that boat with you?

Y'all with me?

Hatch, number 5.

Relationships.

Relationships.

Everybody say relationships.

Galatians, chapter 6, verse 2.

Galatians 6:2

Galatians, chapter 6th, verse 2.

Relationships.

Now, here's why this is important.

Galatians is a hard book of the Bible to find.

It's towards the back.

Galatians, chapter six, verse two, says, bear one another's burdens

and so fulfill the law of Christ.

But let me back up.

And can I read verse one?

If anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual

should restore him in A spirit of gentleness.

You know, I'm thankful for the word of God because if we would have

read that nowadays, it would say, if any one of you are caught

in transgression, you should cancel and expose them immediately.

What the Bible actually says is you should restore him in a spirit

of gentleness.

The next line, I think, is even more important because it doubles

down on it and it says, keep watch on yourself.

It's almost as if the problem was that we're looking at everybody

else but themselves.

What if I told you that God wants you to pay attention to yourself?

This year, I believe that one of the most powerful things that

you can do is say, God, show me me.

Because have you read that scripture that says you're pointing

out a beam or speck in somebody else's eye, but there's

a beam in your own?

You want to know why we do that?

Because it comforts us to know that somebody else is struggling.

It comforts us to know that somebody else has something wrong

with them, because then we can justify what's wrong with us.

But if we all look to ourselves this year, then what's

going to begin to happen is there's a healing that will occur

in our life.

And matter of fact, your stress will be reduced because God

has not given you the ministry of policing everybody else.

You know what that's called?

Control.

Did you know that witchcraft is control?

Hello.

Santeria is control.

Santeria is control.

Obia, come on, where's my Jamaricans at?

Y'all don't think I know it's control.

What?

Witchcraft is control.

And by that definition, many of you need to repent of witchcraft

because you stopped doing the sacrifices, but you're still doing

the conversations.

You stop lighting the candles, but now you're just lighting controversies.

You're still involved in witchcraft, but the witchcraft has

changed its form because Satan is not coming with pitchforks and

horns.

He's coming as an angel of light.

And it's going to be false righteousness.

It's going to be prideful, arrogant righteousness.

That is self righteousness.

That is demonic righteousness.

That is no righteousness at all.

That focuses on other people more than it focuses on yourself.

Man, I know this word is needed right now because we are stronger

together.

I need you, you need me.

We need each other, and we need to bear each other's burdens.

You know, I just want to hover on this because let me tell you what

a good church does.

A good church is a different expression of Jesus to each other

based on Their need.

So if Julie can't afford food, then the Holy Spirit, which is the

presence of Jesus in and through me, I feed Julie physical

food because that's.

Because that's the expression of Christ she needs.

Does that make sense?

If.

If we have somebody in this campus.

Come on, man of God that has devoted themselves to going into

the prison systems to preach the word of God.

So if you're a prisoner, what happens is the expression of Christ

is, I'm going to be Jesus that visits you in prison to give you

this word.

Does this make sense?

So it's like we bear each other's burdens.

Means that all of you have a ministry because the minister is

on the inside of you.

The minister is Jesus.

Okay, can I go a little bit deeper?

Look at the text.

Because the text says it all.

For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he

deceives himself.

So even a prophet, if you're an accurate prophet, it is the spirit

of Jesus through the Holy Holy Spirit, that is prophesying to that

person.

So do you get credit for an accurate prophecy, or does Jesus

get credit for being the prophet?

Y'all feel me?

Or if you lay hands on somebody and you pray for them and

get healed, did you heal them with your power, or was it his power

through your hands?

So who's the healer?

Is that Mike Signorelli?

No, it's the Holy Spirit.

It's the presence of Jesus healing through our hands.

We just have to be a yielded vessel that says God, I decrease

so that you can increase.

I'll get out of the way so you can have greater he that is in me

than he that is in the world.

And therefore, we don't boast in anything at this church.

But we boast on the cross of Jesus Christ.

We boast on our Jesus.

Yeshua.

Come on, somebody shout Yeshua.

So this is what it says.

But we bear each other's burdens.

That means be for me what Jesus can be through you.

Y'all aren't even catching this.

Be for me what only Jesus can be through you.

If Jesus is prophesying through you, then prophesy to me.

Come on.

Prophesy to me.

If Jesus is interceding, then intercede for me.

That's how we bear each other's burdens.

Enough of this.

Cancel culture.

Let's have encouragement culture.

Let's have restoration culture.

Let's have reconciliation culture.

Let's have healing culture.

Let's have building up culture.

Let's have construction culture.

Come on, let's talk about this.

We need one.

One of one another.

Can't even talk.

I'm almost done.

Only what?

How many hatches?

Seventeen.

Number six.

The hatch of seed.

Luke, chapter six, verse 38.

Luke, chapter six, verse38.

And we're going to do communion here In a sec.

6, verse 38.

Judge, can I go up to verse 37?

Because it goes with what I just said.

Judge not and you will not be judged.

Condemn not and you will not be condemned.

Forgive and you will be forgiven.

So the Bible doesn't say, don't judge.

You know how people say the Bible says that only God can judge

me?

No.

Your tattoo says that, but the Bible doesn't say that.

Because you or your tattoo artists both didn't read the Bible.

That's the problem.

So it doesn't say only God can judge me.

What it actually says is, judge not and you won't be judged.

And this is a principle about sowing and reaping.

It says, don't condemn other people and you won't be condemned.

Forgive and you will be forgiven.

Give and it will be given to you.

Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over.

It'll be placed in your bosom or your lap.

What does that mean?

Well, Pastor Mike, I don't believe in the tithe.

We're not under the law.

Well, praise God, I agree with you.

But grace is sufficient to cause you to exceed the law, which

means that the.

That Christ did not die on the cross for us to do the minimums.

He empowered us to do more than we thought we could ever do.

And so, praise God, we're not under the law.

I completely agree with you.

But Jesus himself said, I did not come to actually abolish the

law, but to fulfill it.

In other words, when you would give financially under compulsion,

under the old covenant, you didn't want to give that, but now

you can give freely because I have freed you.

And you know what's funny?

Because when we say that, oh, whom the sun sets free is free indeed,

but we never mean our finances.

We never mean we're free to give.

It always means another form of freedom.

But here's one of the hatches that we're going to close is we're

going to close the hatch of seed.

That's what this one is, the hatch of seed.

What does that mean?

It means that you have to sow before the storm because then you

will reap during the storm.

What are you talking about, Pastor Mike?

It's an irrevocable principle.

See, the thing is, fear tells you to withhold fear tells you to

basically to shrink back.

But faith says give.

Why do I say that?

Because you're gonna see people that take bad theology and

get.

And make an excuse to not give financially.

But see, the secret is, it's right here in the text.

Give, and it will be given to you.

Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over.

It'll be into your lap.

For with the measure you use it, it will be measured back to you.

I believe that generosity actually secures us against the fear.

And it's an identity issue.

Why do I say that?

Because if you can't see yourself as the person who's able

to give to other people, you will never become the person who

will give to other people.

And that's why, if you will begin to move in that direction before

the storm, God will cause you to make it through the storm.

Number seven is the last one.

And then we're gonna take communion.

It's the hatch of spiritual vision.

Close the gap on your eternal perspective.

The hatch of spiritual vision.

This is.

And this goes right along with that.

You guys can.

Now, can you see how I did them in order?

I did them all in order.

It's Hebrews, chapter 12, verse 2.

Hebrews 12:2

Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who,

for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising

the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

There's an eternal vision.

The world sees terminal cancer, but I see a vision of Jesus

unveiled face to face.

The world sees economic turmoil, but I see a vision of Jesus

providing for all of my needs.

The world sees New York City, where violence is increasing in our

streets, and we perpetually and continually are making the news

for all the wrong reasons.

But I see a holy remnant rising from the ashes of destruction

that are moving in gentleness and meekness and kindness and long

suffering.

I see the bride of Christ in New York City making the news for

other reasons.

Where we're showing the world what revival looks like in a time

where a storm is raging.

We have an eternal perspective.

When you have an eternal perspective, it changes everything

about how you operate in the physical realm.

And there's many of you that you brush your teeth, there's many

of you.

You take a shower, there's many of you.

You buy new clothes, there's many of you.

You eat food.

And if you looked at your day, your day is a representation of almost

exclusively protecting the physical.

But if you have an eternal existence and an eternal vision,

your bank account is going to reflect eternity.

How you use your time and your schedule is going to reflect eternity.

And when the world looks at you, they're going to say, it doesn't

make sense the way they live their life.

And that is going to be a witness to them.

Why are you always stealing away to pray?

Because when I get in that prayer closet, I meet the one whom

I'm praying to.

Why does it seem like you keep getting a raise, by the way?

I heard four stories in the last two weeks of people who increase

their giving to V1 Church, and the very next day they got a raise

on their job.

But some of you think that he's gonna part the Red Sea and then

you walk through it.

But you gotta step up to the Red Sea like Moses did, and you make

the first move, and then God will make the next move.

Move.

You gotta operate in faith, but you can only do that with an

eternal perspective.

I often think about the moments before the Red Sea parted.

What was going through Moses mind?

I'll tell you.

He was saying, God, oh, come on.

I.

You were faithful when I was in the courts of Pharaoh and I threw

down my staff and it.

I, you know, people think, was he scared?

No.

I believe in the moments before, and there's no way I can

prove this biblically, but I believe in the moments before the

Red Sea parted, Moses was going back and thinking about the

faithfulness of God and all those different miracles.

And he was saying, God, you did it then, now do it again.

So as we get ready to close, we're gonna batten the hatches.

This is not the first time we've been through a storm, and it

won't be the last time we're going through a storm.

But I do believe that if you guys will put all of these Christian

disciplines at the forefront of your life and keep an eternal

perspective, that we're gonna make it through.

And this was confirmed by a friend of mine.

His name is Joseph Z.

He's a dear friend of mine.

He kept saying, july.

I see the month of July.

And I just want to prophesy over many of you that I believe if

you can batten down the hatches and you can actually seal

up the ship of your life, that you will make it through the storms.

And I believe that by July there will be rest and there will

be a significant transition in your life.

So write that down and mark it down.

How many of you are believing for that?

By July, you're going to get through the storm, and July is going

to represent an oasis outside of the storm.

Now, everybody stand to your feet across all locations and take

out communion.

And this communion cup, like I said, is very special.

He said, as often as you do this, do this in remembrance of me.

But it's more than a symbol.

I believe that the very presence of Jesus through the spirit

inhabits this moment of communion.

And so you can take out your cup and take out the wafer and just

get it ready.

And once you have it ready, hold the wafer in one hand and the

cup in the other.

And then we're going to talk.

So I'll give you a moment.

Come on.

Did this message help you today?

Praise God.

So just take the communion.

I just wanted to give you a message that I felt like represented

the heart of God.

To start the year, batten down the hatches, the seven hatches that

you're going to close, the seven gaps that you're going to close.

Okay.

If you have communion ready, I want to explain something to you.

The apostle said that if you take communion inappropriately, it

can become poison to you.

In other words, there is a right way and a wrong way to take

communion.

And the reason why this is important is because if it was just

purely symbolic, it's very unlikely that there would be a wrong

way to do it.

But I believe that it becomes poison to you when you cheapen grace

by continually and perpetually going back to sins.

Can I just tell you lovingly as your pastor, that as you increase

in sanctification, as you go longer on your journey in faith,

you should be sinning less?

I'm just telling you straight up, you should be sinning less.

And by the way, I want to prophesy this over you.

This is the year you stop blaming everything on the Devil.

You've already gotten deliverance seven times.

You've already vomited in every barf bag.

You've already done John Eckhart's books.

You've already done my book.

You've already done.

Stop blaming it on the devil.

This year, this is the year you come into maturity.

And this is the year you say, I'm gonna go through a process called

sanctification.

Now, if you need deliverance, we're gonna do deliverance.

But deliverance is easy.

Taking up your cross is hard.

People are like, oh, these demons, you don't know they're so

powerful.

No, they're not.

What?

You've empowered them.

You're giving them more power than they really have.

Deliverance is not that hard.

Crucifying your flesh is where you're going to see what you're really

made out of.

And so my reason in saying that to you is that this is the year

that you go on this journey of saying, God, I don't want to go back

to this vomit.

I don't want to go back to this sin.

But can I go even deeper, Lord, show me why I keep going back

to that false comfort instead of you.

Show me why I'm still stimulated by this thing.

Tell me, show me, what's the root, God?

Oh, it's trauma.

Oh, it's trauma from my past.

This is the year that you're going to deal with your childhood.

This is a deal.

This year we're going there while this storm is raging.

We're going to batten down the hatches and down below in the lowest

levels of that ship.

We're going to deal with some things that haven't been dealt with.

Oh, I feel a grace on that.

I feel grace on that.

And you will be free this year.

Some of you are going to sign up for Christian counseling, and

you're going to see a Christian therapist, and you're going

to deal with patterns of thinking because the demons are gone,

but you're going to dismantle the nest.

Some of you are going to go to the gym this year and you're going

to start working out because you believe the lie that your back

can never be healed.

But the doctor said degenerate, and the Lord says, regenerate.

And that trauma in your body from the sexual abuse, you're going

to get into the gym and you're going to start rebuilding the temple

of the Holy Ghost.

Because in it's not your body, it's his body.

And it's time to rebuild the temple.

Feel the anointing on that for somebody.

Come on, we're about to take communion.

But I'm not going to let this communion become poison to you because

you go through the motions and you go yada, yada.

Let me go eat a burrito.

No, we need this.

So don't.

Some of you are going to fast this year, and you're going to learn

how to starve the flesh and feed the spirit, and you're going

to learn how to push the play.

Oh, Pastor Mike, I can't go more than one day.

No, no, trust me, you can.

It's called Pastor Mike.

No, no, I'm medicated.

Well, then talk to your doctor about how you can pull it off this

year.

Matter of fact, there's many stories of people fasting and not

needing their medication when it's Over.

This is the year, and I want to take you on this journey, if you'll

stop fighting me.

Let's fight the devil together, not each other.

I almost wore my captain hat today.

Jules, was that gonna be weird, batting down the hatches?

Who wants to go on this journey with me?

I'm gonna say one more thing.

Then we're gonna pray, then we're gonna take communion, and then

we've only got two hours of service left after that.

This is the year that you are consistent.

Stop missing church.

Stop making excuses.

Stop lie.

You're.

You're deceiving yourself, and you're violating your own conscience.

Oh, Pastor Mike, you just care about numbers.

No, homie, this is not a gym.

You don't scan your barcode on the way.

I'm not talking about this for me.

Me and Julie never thought we were gonna have a church bigger than

150 people.

Am I right?

So we don't.

We don't care at all in terms of trying to make ourselves feel

good.

We.

You.

You would move to Tulsa if you want to have a big church, not New

York City.

Am I right?

So this stupid fake narrative out there, it's like, go on with

yourself, lion, devil, and all your demonic propaganda.

But I will say, for your sake, you need to go to church every week,

because they don't preach this anymore.

Jules, we used to go to church three times a day.

Yeah, Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday and Friday was yours.

Yeah, they were extra holy at her church.

But here's my point.

We don't have midweek service, but we do have a service once a week,

and I want to see you every week.

And that's not because I'm trying to make myself feel better,

because I don't.

I don't need that for my ego.

But I do believe that Jesus, through the Holy Spirit in you, is

gonna bear someone else's burden.

We need each other, and I feel like, how would your life be different

if you did?

So I want us to take this moment now that I said all that,

and I said it in love.

Did you feel the love?

Let's pray together.

And I'm gonna leave a little bit of room right now to where you

all can pray across every location.

Lord, forgive me, Lord.

Wash me with your blood, Lord.

Sanctify me.

Psalm, chapter 18.

Psalms 18 · chapter mention

I love you, O Lord, my strength.

The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God,

my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of

my salvation and my stronghold.

I will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised and I am

saved from my enemies.

The cords of death encompass me.

The torrents of destruction assailed me the cords of Sheol entangled

me the snares of death confronted me in my distress I called

upon the Lord so my God, I cried for help from his temple he

heard my voice and my cry to him reached his ears Then the earth

reeled and rocked the foundations also of the mountains

trembled and quaked because he was angry Smoke went up from his

nostrils and devouring fire from his mouth glowing coals flame

forth from him he bowed the heavens and came down Come on.

How many of you are thankful?

I called to the Lord he answered and he responded Jesus,

wash us with your blood.

Jesus, forgive us of all of our sins.

Jesus, blot out our iniquities Remove even the stain, even the stench

of sin from our lives.

God, renew a right spirit within us Renew our mind.

Come on.

Everybody said amen.