The King Has Arrived | Christmas Eve 2024 | Apostle Mike Signorelli

On this holy night, we gather to celebrate the birth of a king.

Somebody say, he's my king, but he's not just any king.

We celebrate the king that no one actually expected.

A king that was born in the humblest of circumstances, a king

who was rejected by his own people, and a king who came down

from heaven.

I want to read Isaiah, chapter 9, verse 6 and 7.

Isaiah 9:6

And it's a prophecy that was given.

For those of you that have struggled with your faith, can I

just tell you that the universe has an origin.

And the origin is that it was spoken into existence by God Almighty.

And this has been confirmed many times over.

The one thing that I love about Scripture is that it is filled

with prophecies that came to pass.

Prophecies that were given by men under the inspiration of God

and then hundreds or even thousands of years later with, like,

I mean, unmatched accuracy.

It could not be fabricated.

It could not be an educated guess.

It had to have been divinely inspired.

Those prophecies come to pass.

And so my hope and my prayer in the next several minutes is that

you understand that we are not celebrating a historic figure.

We are not celebrating a historic figure that was born and

died and stayed dead.

We are, in fact, celebrating the king of all kings who actually

conquered death, hell, and the grave, and on the third day rose

again, and then for four, 40 days, walk the same region where

he was crucified in front of hundreds of people and then ascended

to heaven, but said, I'll leave you my Holy Spirit.

And actually, after my Holy Spirit comes upon you, you will receive

power.

And so I really believe that across all of our locations right

now, that you can get a revelation that the Holy Spirit is

here, which is the Spirit of Jesus in the lives of believers.

And so, believe me, when the music was playing and you felt chill

bumps, you were, in fact, not having an emotional experience.

You were having a supernatural experience.

Because what happened was your spirit is starting to recognize the

Holy Spirit.

And that is the very thing that you've been craving the most,

is a connection with.

With the God that breathed you into existence and life.

Separated from him is hell on earth.

But Jesus said, I came that you might have life and life more

abundantly.

And he actually called heaven down and said, your kingdom come,

your will be done right here on Long island, in Brooklyn, in New

Jersey, Miami, as it is in heaven.

And so those moments when you're in worship, you're having

an experience with God Almighty.

He breathed your spirit into this physical dirt body.

And when we worship we're breathing back to him.

And there's something that many of you have been longing for.

You know, when you look at Isaiah, chapter 9, verse 6 and 7,

Isaiah 9:6

it says, for us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the

government shall be upon his shoulder.

And his name shall be called Wonderful Calvin.

Counselor.

Mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of peace, of the increase

of his government and of peace there, of his peace there will be

no end.

And on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it

and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness, from this

time forth forevermore, the zeal of the Lord of hosts will do

this.

Can everybody say amen?

Come on.

Good job, buddy.

Good job.

Got a little preacher over here on Long Island.

He's milking it now.

He's milking it now.

We have a king.

And the thing that I want to help us recognize in just the next

few moments is that when Jesus was born in a major to a teenager

named Mary and Nazareth, and then they migrate to Bethlehem for

this census, it was because even the thought of a Jewish king

was so intimidating to Herod that he said, I'm going to kill all

the firstborn.

So the thing was that it wasn't intimidating for there to

be another healer.

It wasn't intimidating for there to be another person claiming

to be Messiah.

But the intimidation was that Herod would have a rival in the form

of a king.

And so can I just tell you, many of you have been to these church

services your whole life, and maybe you've heard a preacher get

up and say, he can be your savior and forgive you of your sins.

And then maybe you say, well, you know what?

I don't really need a savior, because what I'm doing is not that

bad.

I'm just a guy trying to live my life.

I'm just a woman trying to.

I don't need a savior.

Maybe you've heard some of those old school Pentecostal preachers

say that he can be your healer.

And now we'll lay hands on you.

You'll have a supernatural miracle.

But maybe you're at one of our locations saying, well, I don't really

need a healer.

I'm okay.

I have doctors, I have physicians.

But as I get older and I go on this journey of the faith, I've come

to a recognition that he is the king.

And so we must understand this revelation of him.

So.

And I know this is crazy, because Christmas is when we celebrate

him and his birth.

But the thing that makes his birth so special is that he was born

a king.

He was born a king.

And so here's the thing.

When I looked at Matthew, chapter 2, verses 1 through 12, these

Matthew 2:1–12

wise men come from the east, and they were trying to find whether

it was drones or plasmoids or orbs in the sky.

Kidding.

Everybody here is like, I have not read the Bible in a long time,

and I need to open it back up again.

So they were looking, but they were men that looked into the skies

and they tried to discern, based on the stars and the positions

of planets, what was unfolding in the world around them.

We're living in a time right now, especially here in the Northeast,

where we are looking to the skies.

We're taking out our phone and we're looking in New Jersey.

We're looking in the skies in New York City.

Here on Long island, we're looking.

Is it an orb?

And there's this increasing awareness of the supernatural.

The veil is being pulled back, and people are starting to question,

is there more?

And can I just tell you the answer?

The answer is yes.

We're right around the corner from the Amityville Horror House,

and this is our last service in this building right now.

And there's many people who've joined our church not because they

got a revelation of who God was, but because demons and Satan

and the existence of the demonic and darkness was exposed

to them.

And the reality of the darkness actually confirmed the reality

of the light.

And I don't know about you, but over the last couple of years,

and I'm speaking to the parents right now, it's become abundantly

clear that there is, in fact, a battle.

Good versus evil, darkness versus light, angels versus demons,

God versus Satan.

Can anybody give me an amen?

If you agree?

It's becoming increasingly obvious.

So these men are looking to the skies, and whatever they see,

the only conclusion that can be drawn is that this, the position

of this star and what we see in the skies is acknowledging the

fact that the king has arrived.

Not just a healer, not just a savior, but in fact, the king.

And it actually says that they show up and think about this crazy

story.

There's a manger, there's a teenage mother, but then the daddy

is not the baby daddy, but they're betrothed for each other.

But somehow it was divinely set up by God, a virgin birth.

And for those of you who struggle with the supernatural, we

got into this thing believing on the supernatural.

Am I right?

As the Holy Spirit overshadowed Mary, she conceived

Jesus.

Nine months later, she Gives birth and then divine destiny.

Perfect timing.

Here come the wise men.

Can I just tell you, there's going to be some times in your life

where things seem very scary, but God's timing is perfect.

He may not show up when you want him to, but he shows up when

you need him to.

And can I just tell you, as Mary was holding the king of all

kings in her arms, here comes the wise men.

As if she needed another confirmation, she already had Gabriel

the angel.

But how many of you know, when God's trying to do something in your

life, you need as many confirmations as you can get.

And can I just tell you, if you're here at any one of these locations

and you have separated yourself from God, this is your sign

from God.

This is your confirmation to come home.

This is your confirmation to surrender to the king.

This is.

This is your sign.

What's happening in the skies is your sign.

You know there's more and.

Oh, but I don't like the religion and tradition of my family.

Well, neither do I.

That's why we started V1 Church, because we're not good at

following rules, but we are good at following Jesus.

And this is what the wise men were doing.

They were following Jesus.

They were following the signs.

Then it led to him for this ultimate.

This ultimate confirmation.

And they bring gold and frankincense and myrrh.

This is the gift that you give to royalty.

Is it all right if I just.

If I go there?

Can I go there?

When he's your Messiah, you come to him to receive forgiveness.

When he's your healer, you come to him to receive healing.

But when he's the king, you go to him to give to Him.

See, there's a lot of people that use Jesus, but there's not a

lot of people that give and serve Jesus.

And if you.

If you're here, and maybe you're in Brooklyn, I saw just incredible

footage of the violinist on the stage in Brooklyn.

Or maybe you're in Indiana right now and you're like, I've never

seen a church just so full of all of these people and from the

sound and the production and all the instruments.

And I've never seen anything like this.

This isn't like the Catholic church I attended or the Greek Orthodox

Church or.

This is not like the church that I grew up, the Presbyterian,

the Methodist Church, the Baptist church.

Like, I don't quite understand.

Let me just tell you what you're seeing across the United States

tonight at our.

At our services.

You're seeing people who've said, I'm thankful he's Messiah,

I'm thankful he's healer.

But I'm here because he's king and I give my gift.

Oh, this stage that I'm on right now, and this is the last sermon

I'll ever preach on this stage.

This stage used to be where all of many of the biggest rock bands

of our generation came to this little stage.

Matter of fact, we first got the office 12A Broadway right next

door.

And I used to do counseling sessions as a pastor and I would

have my windows open and I saw Scott Stapp from Creed walk by and

I was like with arms wide open under.

Come on now in Indiana, they're all singing it right now.

Everybody stood up.

And I could not believe when this was a music venue how many renowned

people would take this stage.

But see, the thing is, when we turn this into a church, what we

said is we are going to give our gift back to the gift giver.

He gave the gift to us.

So we're going to give the gift back and we're going to give

with excellence at that.

And that took us from this little stage to a sold out stadium

in Chicago this year.

Because when you're faithful with little, he makes you ruler over

much.

Jesus started as a baby in a manger, but he was faithful in Bethlehem.

Aren't you thankful that we have a king?

And so what you're experiencing in this environment

is what it feels like for us to have a king.

A king.

Somebody say, he's my king.

And so they bring these gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh.

But you know, at the same time, King Herod rejects him as king.

In John, chapter 1, verses 10 and 11, you see this and really what

John 1:10

it is is this jealousy, this rivalry, you know, can I just speak

on behalf of some of the dear precious wives of our church?

If you're a husband and here, here and you're jealous because your

wife goes to church throughout the year, don't be Herod, turn into

a wise man and come with her this year.

I'm just, I know it's getting a little awkward, but that's the

gift that's going to keep on giving this year.

You know, why don't you, why don't you come to church with her?

You know, what I'll tell you is that when a man makes a decision

to lead his family spiritually, that is the legacy that

becomes the true inheritance.

Because you know what, cars break down, even houses, you know,

it's like all These things we aspire to do in our life, yes, of

course they matter.

But you know what matters most?

Passing on the heritage of faith to tell your child life is

going to be hard.

And no matter how much dad works and pays all the bills and

how many things I was able to buy us, you're going to need faith.

Because faith is the evidence of things hoped for and the substance

of things not, not seen.

So our firm foundation is not the deed to this house.

The firm foundation is the rock of Jesus Christ that we built

this house on.

Come on.

So I have a vision of some men going from a King Herod, actually,

to a wise man that'll go see Jesus every week.

I've got a vision for that, matter of fact.

I mean, Jordan Peterson is now just openly teaching the scriptures,

and Russell Brand is getting baptized, and he's going viral.

And even, I mean, people that you never would have thought are

becoming Christians.

Why?

Because they're realizing that Jesus was who he said he was.

Jesus was king.

Jesus is king.

Come on.

And so then there were these, this other group, and they were called

the Pharisees.

And they rejected Jesus because they expected the Messiah

to come in a different package.

Uh, oh, it's like, you know, the plain brown package, but it actually

has a priceless treasure on the inside.

And so oftentimes, you know, we have an expectation of what it's.

Well, I don't know.

It didn't come in the package.

I thought it would.

And, you know, I don't know this.

I don't know about this church.

I don't know about V1 Church.

It's not the package that I'm used to.

I'm used to a different package with different paper.

But how many of you know you can't judge the contents until you

open the package.

And so sometimes what God will do to create a humility in our life

and the Pharisees couldn't see this, is that the King actually came

through a family they would have never chose in a region that

they weren't looking for it.

But inside of that brown paper package was the King of all kings.

And so I really believe that some of you might be saying, God,

speak to me, and God's like I did, but you didn't pay attention

because you didn't like that bald guy in a suit on Christmas Eve.

I was speaking, but you weren't listening.

The signs are everywhere right now.

Out of his great love for you, he's been reaching out to you over

and over and over and over again.

Matter of fact, he's reaching out to you right now.

You thought you got asked to work security for a church, but actually

it was God running security for you because he called you.

He chose you.

You thought that you got asked to help load something in or to do

a construction project.

No, no, no.

The Lord says, I'm actually, you are.

My construction project.

I'm building.

You see, this is what happens in the faith.

Oftentimes we think that we're gonna come to lay a gift down before

the king.

But that king didn't stay a baby.

He died on a cross, rose again and told those wise men, actually,

now I'm going to give back to you more than you can ever give me.

So what happens is we make this sacrifice and we say, God, I'm

gonna give you my gift.

God, I'm going to give you my finances.

God, I'm going to give you my time.

And.

And we think we're lavishing him.

And this is our gold, this is our frankincense, and this is our

myrrh.

But then guess what happens?

We end up receiving so much more than we can ever think, ask,

or imagine.

Hell, I'm telling you, he is good.

I said, he is good.

He is so good.

Jesus is the gift of this season.

And even as we're giving him a gift, he is.

You can't outgive God.

You can't outgive God.

You know, as we are getting ready to close on this message, I

was thinking about Isaiah, chapter 9, verse 6 and 7.

Isaiah 9:6

And Isaiah prophesies, this king who's really unlike any other.

Can I just brag on our king?

You know, I was in my backyard the other day, and I was one of those

weirdos with my camera, trying to see what I see out there.

Oh, is that one?

Is that one?

Oh, is that one?

And, you know, I'm in my backyard looking around, and all

of a sudden, I had the AI going.

And I've been having extended conversations with AI, which I don't

suggest you do, but, you know, it's addicting, you know, And I'm

having these conversations because I'm an information junkie.

Anybody else?

So I'm having these conversations, and I'm like, man,

this is great.

You know, my wife's asleep, and I'm like, you know, I'm just.

Here I am just talking to Gemini or whoever it was me just

hanging out in the backyard with my AI.

And as I was having this conversation, I asked, just randomly,

I said.

I asked.

The AI said, hey, what does based on all the information that

you have, what does my last name mean?

What does Signorelli mean?

S I G N O R E L L I.

What does it mean?

And the AI said, oh, it's Italian.

It means son of the Master.

And right then I looked up and I saw this little cloud and the whole.

It was a.

It was just a completely clear night.

And then this little cloud that's flying low all of a sudden

just begin to go by.

And I grabbed my phone to take a picture of it, but my phone died.

So it was like the AI's mic drop was.

Your name means in Italian.

Son of the Master.

I'm out.

And all of a sudden, you know, I'm looking at this cloud and I'm

looking around.

I don't see any other clouds in the whole sky.

And yet I see this cloud and it's hanging so low, and it's a little

cloud.

And I'm reminded of the words of the prophet that said, I see a

cloud the size of a fist.

Rain is coming.

I see a cloud the size of a fist.

But rain, torrential downpours are coming.

And all of a sudden, I started thinking about how Jesus was that

cloud the size of the fist, where it was like people were saying,

rain is coming, Rain is coming.

The Savior of the world is here.

But it just came in the size of a cloud.

It looks so insignificant.

How could this baby.

How could this changed the whole world?

And it was just such a potent reminder to me.

And I will tell you this as it was in those days, it will be in

the end days.

And for those of you who can't discern the signs of the time, welcome

to the end times.

Welcome to the end times.

For those of you who still haven't figured out why Joe Rogan

has devoted entire podcast to talking about Jesus, welcome to the

end Times.

For those of you who can't figure out why Tucker Carlson is

talking about demons and nephilim in the government, welcome

to the end times.

So I see a cloud the size of a fist.

And here's what I believe is happening.

Just because he was a baby didn't mean he wasn't king.

And just because what's happening in the earth with the church

seems so insignificant, doesn't mean it's not going to bring

in the harvest of a billion souls.

Oh, I'm prophesying it from this stage is that it is time for

a billion soul harvest.

What do I mean by that?

The harvest is vast, but the laborers are few.

So pray to the Lord of the harvest, to send harvesters.

I believe that as things continue to get weirder, I believe

as things continue to get scarier, I believe as we hear about

wars and rumors of wars, as we hear about pestilence, as we hear

about these various different things, look to the skies, because

just as he came the first time, he's coming back again.

Jesus is coming back again.

Jesus is coming back again.

And so right now, we might get judged.

What?

Right now, we might get persecuted.

Oh, you really believe in your sky, Daddy?

I actually, I do.

And he's coming back.

Keep looking at the sky.

Look past the drones, look past the orbs.

He's there.

And he's coming back.

He's coming back.

And Isaiah, chapter 9, verse 6 and 7 talks about who he is.

Isaiah 9:6

So this is who we behold spiritually, and we will behold him

physically.

This is what I want to help you understand, because there's so

many people who go to these services every single year.

Maybe you are a, you know, Christmas and Easter only.

A CEO.

Some of you, like, I am a CEO.

I go to church twice a year, Christmas and Easter only.

Oh, and religion helps my family.

Oh.

My family feels comforted by the community of the church.

No, no, no.

That's not what's happening at this church.

What's happening at this church is that we have.

We behold him in the spirit, knowing and waiting patiently because

we will behold him physically.

And by the way, for the last 2,000 years, there have been people

called Christians, Christ, like that have believed this.

And what I'm thankful for in my generation is that the new punk

rock is Christianity.

You want to be a rebel?

Be a Christian in this generation.

Be sober in a world where everybody's drunk and high.

Oh, you want to be punk rock?

Have one wife Instead of going from relationship to relationship.

Oh, you want to be punk rock?

Be a father to your children and raise them in the faith.

And get a Bible open and read them a Bible.

Come on.

If this is you, you want to be punk rock.

The new rebellious thing to do is to serve Jesus Christ.

And I'm thankful for it.

I'm thankful for it.

You know why?

Because the custody battle is over.

When I was raised, my mom and dad got divorced when I was a couple

years old.

And before he went to jail and that whole situation happened, I

had to split my time between two households.

And one of the things that they did, and I don't quite understand

why they did it, but they would buy me presents, buy me toys,

and they would keep My toys at his house.

And then I would have the toys at my mom's house.

And I would go back and forth between houses, back and forth between

houses.

Anybody who can hear me, who's the product of divorce as a child,

you know the pain of a custody battle.

And so what was happening before Jesus showed up was this intergalactic

custody battle.

There was a war that was happening.

And Lucifer, all these demons were saying, no, they're mine.

They're mine.

They sinned, and I have every right to have them.

I can be in their body.

I can actually inflict them with sickness.

I can inflict them with depression and anxiety.

And there was like this big tug of war.

And the children of Israel were trying to go through the motions

to interact with God.

But it had become this dead, dry, cold, ceremonial, ritualistic

religion.

And so they hadn't seen the glory and the presence of God.

They hadn't seen the miraculous for generations.

And so what happened was when Jesus showed up as king, Jesus was

saying, the custody battle is over.

They're mine.

The battle is over.

They're mine.

The battle is over.

They're mine.

The custody battle.

You're not gonna go from house to house.

You're gonna live in a my house.

And where I'm from, my father has many mansions.

And had it not been so, I wouldn't tell you.

And I go up ahead of you to prepare a place for you, because

I am your father, but I'm also the king.

Oh, I'm so thankful to have a king.

I'm thankful that the custody battle is over.

And there's many of you under the sound of my voice, at every location

that are trapped in a custody battle.

Do I belong to God?

Do I belong to the devil?

Do I belong to God?

Do I belong to the devil?

And let me just tell you, the very first time deliverance ever

happened in the earth, you know who did it?

Jesus.

You know why?

Because Jesus was showing up.

And when it was the woman who was hunched over in her body, who

for decades was struggling with physical pain, he said, spirit

of infirmity come out of her.

And she stood up straight.

Nobody had ever seen that before.

And then when the man with.

With a legion of demons, over a thousand demons, is crying out,

and he's been cutting himself.

And every time the moon would come out, the Bible says he was a

lunatic.

Which lunar loomed the moon.

And you'll even talk to New York City police officers that say

when there's a full moon in New York City, things get a little

Bit crazier.

There's some kind of like supernatural spiritual thing that

happens.

And this man is tormented.

He has the ability to break chains physically.

Nobody can restrain this guy.

There's nobody who can help him.

And Jesus in a moment, walks up to him and tells every single

one of those unclean spirits, get out of him and go into the pigs.

You know what he was doing?

The king was operating in kingly authority.

And what kings do is kings take back territory.

Kings say, that's my body, that is my vessel, that is my son,

that is my daughter.

And so I don't know who I came here to tell this to, but as we get

ready to close.

You belong to Jesus.

And the King is taking back what the devil has tried to stole.

Come on.

Your mind belongs to the King.

Your emotions belongs to the King.

Your appetite belongs to the King.

It belongs to him and he's taken it back.

We've got to get a revelation of king.

And for those of you who are saying, oh, no, no, I don't need

this.

I can live my life on my own.

I can just do things however I want to do them.

No, you need to submit and surrender to the King.

Because the King's ways are higher than our ways.

The King's thoughts are higher than our thoughts.

Come on, I'm talking to the 45 year olds.

You need a king.

Not just a savior, not just a healer, but.

But to submit to the King.

What would 2025 look like if you said, I'm tired of doing it my

own way?

I surrender?

Because when you surrender to the king, he takes possession over

your entire life.

And let me just give you the good news.

He takes care of you better than you can take care of you.

Oh, yeah.

Yes, he does.

When I am weak, then I am strong.

Come on, man, I'm talking to you.

The Lord's been waiting for you to surrender.

He's been waiting for you to give up.

What is it?

What God's been waiting for me to give up?

Yeah.

Because when you get to the end of yourself, the end of you is

the beginning of him.

You're a bad king.

Let him be the king.

Signorelli means son of the Master.

When I got that revelation, I wept in my backyard.

Because I said, you know what?

That's really what it is.

Lord, I don't know how to be a good husband.

I don't know how to be a good pastor.

I don't know.

I don't know how to do this.

Some days I just feel so confused in the world that we live

in.

But then all of a sudden, I got that reminder.

It's about whose you are, not who you are.

Did you hear what I just said?

It's about whose you are, not who you are.

Oh, you can be the most talented slave, but you're nothing

compared to the son of the Master.

Do you get what I'm saying?

It's about whose you are.

And I said, wait a second.

And that's why demons recognize us.

Not because we have power.

But the demon says, you better listen to that guy over there.

Well, he's not Jesus, but he's the Son.

He's the Master's son.

You better listen to him.

He's the Master's daughter.

You better listen to her.

So I don't know who I came to tell this to, but as we close.

This is who Isaiah says your heavenly father is.

This is who the prophet said, your king, who's your father, who

ended the custody battle.

But you got to accept to move in.

You got to accept it's time to move in.

And some of you, you moved in, but you never unpacked your bags.

Come on, I'm talking to you.

You move in, but you keep sneaking out at night.

Come on, I'm talking to somebody.

It's time to move in, unpack your bags, and say, dad, tuck me

in tonight.

And I want to learn what it means to be your child, a son or

daughter of the Master.

I'm here to submit and surrender to you.

And the Bible says, his burden is light and his yoke is easy.

And so the Christmas present that I want to give every single

one of our congregants across all locations is you're going to

make an exchange.

You give him your backpack full of rocks.

You give him all of your anxiety.

You give him all of your fear.

And guess what?

He gives you his peace.

Isaiah, chapter nine says, he's wonderful counselor.

Jesus offers wisdom.

He's a wonderful counselor.

He's mighty God.

He wields the power to save.

He's an everlasting father.

Some of you are mourning the loss of your biological father this

Christmas season and even through the next couple of days.

But we have an everlasting father.

Aren't you grateful for an everlasting father?

He's the prince of peace.

Would you all stand to your feet with me?

Let me give you the good news about having a king.

The king is in control.

The king is in control.

Cancer doesn't have the last word.

The king has the last word.

Divorce doesn't have the last word.

The King has the last word.

Come on.

Suicide doesn't have the last word.

The king has the last word.

Come on.

I got good news for you.

The King is in control.

And even when he was a baby in that manger, the three wise men,

they came and they said.

And people would say, are you crazy?

You traveled all this way just for a baby?

He's not a baby.

He's the king.

He's the king.

So I got great news for you.

The King is in control.

Abuse, trauma.

Doesn't have the last word.

The King has the last word.

Because when he heals you, he'll put together all the broken

pieces.

And you're gonna have to tell somebody you used to be broken.

Because what he can do, the way he heals, is so much greater

than anyone else.

That's why he's called the great counselor.

There's none like him.

So we have candles at all of our locations right now, and we're

going to begin to distribute those candles.

And what this is going to represent symbolically, we're going

to get ready to do that across all of our locations right now.

And the light represents the light of the King.

It represents the fact that the king.

The custody battle is over and we belong to the king and it's the

light of our father.

We're a son or daughter of the master.

And so we're gonna get that ready across every location right

now, and just we'll begin to.

And what I wanna ask you to do, it's a powerful moment, is when

you actually light your candle with someone else's candle, which

I believe is symbolic.

Like the three wise men, they didn't go alone, they went together.

And so even as we begin to light these candles, it's symbolic

that we are going to go on this journey to the King together.

We're gonna go on this journey with each other.

We're gonna be who God called us to be.

So we'll give you an opportunity to just begin to light

your candles across all locations right now.

And it's such a beautiful, beautiful picture.

As you light your candle, it's an acknowledgment that you don't

just receive Jesus as savior, as healer, but you also receive him

as king.

That you're willing to live under his leadership, that you're

willing to live under His.

The light that he brings, the Bible, is a lamp unto our feet and

a light unto our path.

And so when we submit ourselves to the King, we say we

are going to walk in the Light, many of you have been through

situations in 2024 that you felt like nothing good can come out

of this situation.

I want to speak to those right now before we get ready to pray and

then we're going to sing that maybe are looking forward to 2024

being over.

Maybe you're crawling over the finish line.

Maybe you're just thinking to yourself, I don't know if I could

do another year like this.

And I don't know.

I'm at my wits end.

I believe that in the next several moments you can feel the

presence of the Holy Spirit ministering to you.

And I want you in your own words, to just begin to speak to

him.

Because how you exit is how you enter.

And I believe that as you exit 2024, you're stepping into 2025 saying,

no, no, I'm not leading myself, but I'm following the king.

I'm not going to be pushed by some false sense of security.

Oh, I need to work harder.

No, no, I'm going to be led by the Holy Spirit.

And so would you all just pray this with me if you've resolved and

of yourself that you are going to allow him to be king?

This is unlike any message that I've ever preached because I'm

realizing more and more that what God is looking for is a people

that will submit and surrender to him as king.

And when that's the case, you'll say, not my will, but thy

will.

And when you want to quit and give up, you'll say, God, I can't

give up because you didn't give me permission yet.

Give in.

Don't give up.

Give in to the Lord.

Would you say this across all locations right now?

Would you say this prayer?

Heavenly Father, you are my king.

You are my savior.

You are my healer.

I am your child, and I'm thankful for you.

I choose to follow you.

Your word will light my path.

Your voice will guide and lead me.

I thank you for second chances and third chances and fourth chances

as you lead me out of this season into the next, I will follow

you.

Thank you, Jesus.

In your name we pray.

Amen.

Sing.