But we're going to be primarily in Proverbs, chapter 29, verse 18. And I'm going to read you this version of that. It says, where there is no prophetic vision, the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law. Say this verse together. This is Proverbs, chapter 29, verse 18. And let's say all together across all of our locations. Repeat after me. Where there is no prophetic vision, the people cast off restraint. But blessed is he who keeps the law. Okay, let's pray.
Heavenly Father, we come before you as a church. Every age and every stage of life, from the youngest to the oldest, God. We come to you and we ask that you would humble us, Lord God. Lord, that we would submit and surrender our selfish ambitions, our carnal desires to you, God. We get up on the cross and we die to self right now. We die to our own vain imaginations about the way things should be. God and Lord, we say, have your way, God. We decrease so that you would increase, God.
We submit and surrender to your mighty hand, God. We are under your authority, God. And all, every single one of us. We lay aside the pride of life, the pride of knowledge, God. And we say, teach us, Lord. Break us, mold us, shape us, God. And we, Lord, as a church, we come before you and say, we don't want to be a haughty, prideful church.
We want to be a humble church, a contrite and broken church before you, God and Lord, in a time where everybody is obsessed with their opinions, God, may we be people of prayer and intercession. Lord, I'm asking that you would make us a people of prayer. That you would birth in us a desire to pray. That we would wake up wanting to pray and go to bed wanting to pray. That we would pray in the midday, God. That we would be known as a praying church, God.
There's social media churches that are posting churches. But I want us to be a praying church more than we post we pray, God. I want us to be known as a church that prays. So I'm coming before you, Lord, and I'm saying, let every past season die. All the bad programming of the religions and traditions of men, we submit it to you, God. Oh God, we come before you asking, free us from the chains that bind us. Free us, God, from Leviathan Pride.
Free us, God. From Jezebel and Ahab's control and their manipulative spirit that's always wanting to rob relationships. Free us, God. We cry out as a people, Lord, y'all. Some of Y'all gonna have to learn how to pray with me right now because it sounds way too quiet in Brooklyn right now. It sounds way too quiet in New Jersey. God, we come before you and how we exit is how we enter. And we want to exit 2024 submitted. We want to exit 2024 humble. We want to exit 2024 empty.
God, where we gave all that we were to give. And Lord, I ask you, Lord, that you would just use us in a great mighty way to establish your kingdom. Lord, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Lord. Oh, God, I'm so are sorry for bringing our own agenda. We are sorry for bringing our own opinion. God, we want to know your word. Give us a hunger to read your word. Give us a hunger to eat the scroll. Oh, God, that we would read the Bible on our work break.
That we would read the Bible on our coffee break. That we would read the Bible before we go to bed. God, that your word will be on our lips. God, that we would speak your word in a season. Oh, God, we cry out as a church that you would make us people of prayer and people of the word. God. O Lord, in a generation that's obsessed with music, they're obsessed with songs, make us true worshippers. God, in a generation that's obsessed with production, they're obsessed with the sound.
God, let our worship be pure. God, that we would rise up as true worshipers. Jesus name. Father, we ask you. I come before you, Lord, asking. I commit these people to you, Father. I commit these people to you, God. Oh, Lord, forgive us for even entertaining the idea of divorce. Forgive us for even entertaining the idea of escaping and running away. Father, forgive us for. I just. We need to go through a time of repentance right now. Now, some of you are supposed to get divorced.
It's permissible under certain conditions. I'm not judging you, but I'm talking about those. And you know who I'm talking to. There's many of you right now that there's been this desire to escape, this. Desire to run away. This desire. And right now we need to bring it up under the blood. We need to sanctify our minds. We need to sanctify our wills. So, Father, we submit it to you right now. And, Lord, forgive us. Wash us with your blood. Wash us.
Make us pure and holy and acceptable before you, Father, that we can come boldly before the throne of grace right now and we can receive a fresh oil, a fresh anointing. God, Lord, that you would purify us. That you would sanctify our ears from all that we've entertained to listen to, and you would sanctify our eyes for all those things that we've entertained to see, God. And I pray, Lord God, that you would refresh and renew us right now. And wash us with your blood.
Oh, God, that you would iron out. Every wrinkle in your bride right now. Iron out every wrinkle. That you would blot out everything, God, that you would make us pure, pure, pure right now, Jesus. And we lay it all before you, God. We lay it all before you. All gossip, all slander. Come on. All accusation. God, forgive us. Wash us, Lord God, as we get ready to step up over this threshold, as we get ready to step up over this threshold, God, may we not bring our filthy rags.
May we not bring our past and bring all these things, God. But forgetting what was past and pressing forward towards the high calling, the high mark which you have for us, Lord. Forgetting what was past, forgetting our old pastors forgetting the way worship used to be. Forgetting how we used to do church. Forgetting what was past and pressing forward for the high mark, that calling that awaits us, Lord. Wow. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. We need supernatural vision.
We need spiritual vision. In your mighty name. We in el nombre de Jesus, ye men. Yeah, man. Yes. Is it just me, or did it. Feel like it physically got brighter in the room? I'm not kidding. I'm not trying to be hokey or weird, but I'm like, wow, that was crazy. So I promised to preach. I promised to preach a short sermon, but I didn't promise to pray short. So, Jill, react. Relax, some of you. That's the longest you prayed all week. And that's why you had a bad week. All right? I love you.
I love you. I love you. Come here, let me give you a hug. Now, you know that awkward moment where your parent beats you and then they ask you for a hug? Come over here. Give me a hug. You're like. Come over here. Give Papa 6 a hug. Oh, Santo. Proverbs 29:18. It says, where there is no prophetic vision, the Hebrew word there is kezzah. Everybody say kezzah. You're a Hebrew scholar. Isn't that amazing? Kaza means to see. It means to see.
Now, many pastors have perverted this scripture to suit their own agenda. And there's a very high likelihood that you've heard this verse before but never heard it properly interpreted, because pastors use this scripture to convince people, well, where there's no vision, the people perish. And then what they proceed to tell you is their selfish vision that they need to employ all of you to do.
And so what I want to do is I want to tell you what the Bible really says and what this is, this scripture is about, because I think it's even better, because let me just tell you, and I want to get this on record because we're filming right now, the vision of this church should not even be my vision as the lead pastor, because my vision will fail.
But if it is God's vision, it cannot fail if it is God's vision, there's provision if it is God's vision, they can gossip, slander and accuse, but they can't stop it if it is God. So we need to know what God's vision is. Now, as I'm breaking this down, Kaza is to see it's a picture. And when you look at the original Hebrew, the language translation for Proverbs, chapter 29:18, it says, where there's no prophetic vision, the people cast off restraint.
Do you all remember in the 80s when we didn't have to wear seatbelts? You remember that? Nobody wore seat belts in the 80s. We were just living on the edge every day. Right. I remember being in the back. We had a station wagon. You all remember those? And all of us would be. The kids would be in the back, no seatbelt hanging out. It was amazing. Bring that back. And so. But to cast off restraint is the equivalency of. To the Hebrew word means to loosen.
So it would be like taking your seatbelt off. So it says, where there is no prophetic vision, the people, it's like they take off their seatbelt, they release their restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law. Now let's go back to the old covenant, because what is prophetic vision? According to the Old Covenant, it is the prophet that would be designated by God to speak a word to the nation of Israel. And so think about the prophet Samuel.
Samuel would get a vision from God and he would speak the vision and he would say, thus saith the Lord, this is from God. And then that would actually produce restraint, because vision produces restraint. What does that mean? Well, let me break it down for you. If you don't have a vision for your sexuality, you will. Your sexuality will be unrestrained. So. Or if you have a false vision for your sexuality, it will be unrestrained.
But when you have a biblical vision for your sexuality, you will restrain it so that you only fulfill it within the context of a healthy marriage between a man and a woman. And that is the Bible. And so what happens is pornography is a false vision that will cause you to loose restraint off of the sexuality that God gave you. Oh, it's real quiet in here. Everyone's like, can we repent again or is that time over? Are we going to do that again before the end of service?
Why do you think the phone is such a powerful device? Because the primary function of your phone is vision. And so there's a competing vision. There's the wrong vision, there's God's vision, there's Satan vision, then there's carnal vision. And so the reason why we started with prayer is we need to kill off our own selfish vision, which is carnal, but we also need to be have the demonic vision broken off of us so that way we can get down to the singular vision that God has.
And so with these local churches and the pastor gets up and quotes this sermon or this scripture, trying to raise money. It's a perversion of the scripture because we are not here to fulfill my vision. We are here to all look at the Word together and come into agreement about what the scripture says is his vision. And if we can fulfill his vision, nobody can stop us. Right? Does this all make sense? So that is in all humility.
Now listen, I pray that Jesus comes back in our generation because I'm tired. Maranatha. Lord, you can come today. You can come during this service. Lord, I'm ready. Some of them ain't ready, but I'm ready. Come on, take me home. Somebody just said take me home. Jesus, I'm tired. My kids on the way to church wore me out. I don't even care if some of them go anymore, but I'm gone. Don't clap over that. That's weird. That's weird. Oh, they're in V1 kids. You can clap. Nevermind.
My point is, you know, my point is if Jesus doesn't come back in our generation, which, I mean, if you look at the signs of the times, it seems likely he will. And that's something. I had 15,000 people on my live stream on YouTube last night at one in the morning and led hundreds of people to Christ utilizing this drone situation. Talk about a holy ghost hijacking.
I put up the video, 15,000 people came alive, by the way, that's one and a half breaker stadiums filled of people and they came in on the drone and I judo flipped it in the gospel and had hundreds of people saying, I'm weeping. I'm getting healed. I'm accepting. It was power. Yeah. Mims was there, you were up late. I know you didn't sleep enough because she was in the comment section. Come on, Pastor, the late night crew. Last night on the live stream.
My point in saying all this though is if Jesus doesn't come back, then I want to establish today that this church and whoever becomes the lead pastor after me in subsequent generations ought not to ever bring their own vision. It must be God's vision. And that is the most important thing. And that's why last week I told you the story about going V1 because I had to die to my own vision. And I said, God, I don't want to go to New York just to be a famous New York preacher.
I don't want to go to New York just to have some selfish ambition because I don't like northwest Indiana anymore or whatever those stupid ideas are. I need to know. I believe you told me to go, but I need proof. And then God divinely provided that proof during that sermon. How many of you were here last week and you heard about going V1? Okay, so that was last week. And then we talked about how you need a ground crew and you need a flight crew and you need fuel.
And we shipped out almost a thousand of the 365 day devotional journals all around the world, which is amazing. And we're going to continue to ship them out and you can get them today. And we are going to read the Bible every single day of 2025. How many of you are with me on that? All right, all right. And then we're gonna find two groups that we are going to be in deep discipleship with. And that's our ground crew and our flight crew. How many of you ready to find your people?
Okay, so that was last week. Now we're moving on to this week and we're talking about the vision. The vision, the vision. And I don't know if you noticed this, but as our church is expanding, I'm actually reducing the vision. Because sometimes, just like when you go to Central park and you get a carriage ride with the horses there, they put blinders on the horse. But the blinders are not to make the horse blind to everything. It's just to make them blind to most things.
And see, some of you have taken your blinders off and you need to put them on because. And I'm talking to my multipotentialities. Those of you are like, I don't. Know, life is life. I'm an artist, but I'M an entrepreneur, but I love the Lord, but I can do this. And I like. You know, it's like they're called multipotentialities. It's when you're good at everything but master nothing. And you're. And you can do a lot of things. So therefore you get paralyzed and do nothing. And that's.
Multipotentialities have this problem. But I. But I like art. No, you don't like art. You just. You're a Crayola level artist. Just chill. But I'm a musician. No, you're not. You know six chords. Just relax a little bit, all right? You're not even that good. Your mom said you were good. She lied to you to make you feel better about yourself. Just give it up, right? Somebody from the worship team said, preach. But one of the biggest problems of. Our generation is being a multipotentiality.
And what that means is you feel like, I can do a lot of things, and then because of the paralysis of analysis, you do nothing. And so that. And the reason why I spoke that with so much authority is because that's me. I was the guy who was like, I can lead worship. I can preach. I can do this. I'm an artist. I have this. I mean, I tried to do it all. And in doing everything, I diluted the vision.
And so what this says is, where there is no prophetic vision, the people, loose restraints, and then they do everything, which ends up turning into a form of sin. So vision is a restraint. It's a limitation that's placed on you. And so I'm going to give you three things. That vision is for your notes. And then I'm going to be announcing what God's getting ready to do in this church. It's going to be powerful.
But I want to help you understand vision because God, of course, you're a multi potentiality. But some of that stuff is supposed to be your hobby, not your career. And some of us get that mixed up where it's like, no, you play the guitar for fun, but God called you to something else. Oh, you draw for fun, but. Or sometimes you need to switch it and you gave up a dream for a career, and you need to go back to the dream. So this is when you delve into the realm of vision.
But vision can be complicated because a lot of times we don't spend enough time dying so. So that we can receive his vision. And so we. That's why prayer is so important, because you must empty yourself and decrease in your. All of your selfish ambition and Then say, okay now, Lord. And sometimes he'll show you something you don't want to see. Like, I know y'all don't believe this, but I wanted to be a famous music artist. And my wife knows this. That's what I. That's what I wanted to be.
That was my vision. And I thought, oh, I'll pastor when I'm super, like, way older. And after I'm done with this very successful, lucrative music career. Why are you laughing? And I toured all over the world, and I met all these famous people, and I had singles that charted on US Radio that none of you have ever heard. But you want to know why? Because the greatest grace is on God's vision, not on your own.
And when I canceled my music career and then started loading in and loading out and join my ground crew to set up kids, the anointing started to flow in northwest Indiana. And I was in the place of. Of. Of most obscurity. But most anointing. And oftentimes you will find the greatest anointing in the greatest obscurity. Why? Because you're being tested. You're being tested over the vision. See, this. This is the thing, is the vision. There's a difference.
And now, if you're taking notes, in Genesis chapter one, there's a distinction that needs to be made between create and made. In the beginning, God created, then he made. And if you pay attention to the words of the. Of Genesis 1 and the Hebrew account of creation, there's a distinction being made between create and made. And nobody even pays attention. You just assume that instantly, everything. No, God created it, then he made it. What is it? It's blueprint, and then it's product.
So before God, Before God makes, He creates, there's a blueprint, then the blueprint becomes reality. And so let me give you some Old Old Testament examples of this. It's Joseph gets a dream. The dream is the blueprint. God created a future for Joseph, but the process is how God made it for him. And so watch this. The anointing had to touch the head of David before the crown touched the head of David. The anointing comes first.
God created in him this king, but then he made him a king years later. Create is the blueprint and made is the product. But that only happens with a process. And so I got good news for you. If you've been wondering what God's been doing in 2024, he's been taking you through a process. And I believe, and I'm not saying this as hype, I'm saying this under a prophetic unction is that 2025 is when you cross from create to made. 2025 is when you cross from the blueprint to actual physical reality.
And I got some proof here today. I'm about to unload in a few moments, single people before you ever make them, before you ever make a marriage, you need to create a marriage. Have you created it? Have you thought more about your sex life than you did your spiritual intimacy with your spouse? So you have more vision for your physical intimacy than your spiritual intimacy, which is why you are not ready to make a marriage even though you've created one. Oh, come on. This is a principle.
This is a principle. You've created a business, but you haven't made a business. And when you created the business, you spent more time determining how you're going to spend the money you haven't made than making the money, which is why you haven't made the business. So a lot of times when we're. Oh, come on. Everybody's like, can you hug me again? Do we get a hug yet? I'm telling on myself. Anytime you ever hear the oohs and.
The ahs in the crowd, it's literally me preaching to a younger version of me and just telling me what I learned the hard way. So the pastoring is you getting an accelerated version of what I got the hard way. Is that a good deal? So the thing is create and made, and what God wants to do is. So sometimes demolition is necessary in the meanwhile. So he needs to destroy some. This is why prophets said that we need to pluck out and tear down, and then God will rebuild.
So some of 2024, was God destroying false relationships to make room for the real ones. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Don't ever come back. Bye. I hope I never talk to you again. Maybe I'll see you in heaven. Probably not. Probably not. The way you act, the way you talk. Probably not. Not gonna lie and say, I'll pray for you. Cause I already did. It didn't work. Cause you don't. Cause you didn't respond to the will of the Lord. So, bye. Bye. Bye. See you later.
Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Abraham had to say goodbye to Lot so that he could get a lot. He had to say goodbye to Lot so God could increase him, because the land couldn't sustain that relationship. Bye. Bye, Lot. Bye. Oh, you're going to Sodom and Gomorrah. Oh, that's great. Bye. If you know the story. Oh, that's where you want to go by. Oh, you want to go back to. The clubs and drinking and smoking by? I'll be over here reading my 365. Day journal, filling it out.
Over here secretly rebuilding my life. Secretly taking from create to made. I'll be over here in the prayer closet. I'll be over here serving in kids. I'll be over here. Oh, I'm good. Bye. Bye. Oh, yeah, you're going on a cruise. You're going on. Yeah, it's the Titanic. Okay, bye. I'll stay here on the land. It's going to be fun till it sinks. Bye. I know I'm helping somebody. This is. This is vision. This is vision.
Can you imagine being mad at your friend who got to go on the Titanic when you had to stay at home? Some of you are mad about somebody. Else'S blessing, not really realizing it's a curse. Bye. Bye. Bye. See you later. Leonardo's gonna play you. Bye. Y'All. Listen, there's one anointing that I have as your pastor, and it's the anointing to outlast. I've got the cockroach anointing. You can run your mouth, you can talk about me, you can slander me. The only thing you can't do is.
Stop me because I don't want to be a pastor. I don't want to be a preacher. I don't want to start churches. I don't want to do this, but. I have to because he told me to do it. And when somebody submits and surrenders, hey, guess what? I'm already a dead man walking. What are you going to do? Kill me? I already killed myself for the sake of the gospel. What are you gonna do? Talk about a dead man that's in the grave? You're talking about a carcass.
No longer it is I that live, but Christ in me, the hope of glory for the world. What you gonna do? Bye. Bye. Come on, somebody. Some of the pastors on Long island who said that this would never happen are not even pastors. Bye. Bye. And I'm not being mean a little bit, but I think you have to have this attitude because it says where there is no prophetic vision, the people cast off restraint.
So what that means is, like when you get a vision and you know this vision is from God, then you don't expect people to see what you see all the time. None of them saw what Noah saw. So when the rain came, they were shocked, but he was rejoicing. Did you hear what I just said? It's like no one saw. They ridiculed him. They mocked him. The only thing they couldn't do is stop him. And as they were all gurgling on their last breath, this is the coloring book I want to make so bad for V1 kids.
It's Noah going, bye, bye. I told you. I told you. But some of us would stop building the ark because of their criticism, instead of remaining focused on the vision, because you're more tuned to their voice than you are his. And some of you need to pick up your hammer and you need to build with us. And if you see what I see, then you're going to do what I do. You're going to build. And that's what this is all about. When I came to New York, I was like, hey, I don't have a vision.
I already proved that I died to this vision. But the vision that I am telling you, I believe God is showing me. And if it is from God, he already showed you. So I'm not giving you information. I'm giving you confirmation. So I didn't have to sell anybody on our church because the Holy Spirit already showed them what he was going to do in their region. And then when I said it, they were like, that's what God told me. I said, me too. Do it together. And that's how this church has done.
That's why I tell people, don't join this church under any compulsion or pressure. But here's the thing. If the Holy Spirit told you, you're in trouble if you don't, that's between you and the Holy Spirit. And I can't tell you how many people started reluctant and they obeyed the Holy Spirit. Then they get some distance and they say, that other church that I went to doesn't exist anymore. And all this stuff came out. And by the way, I didn't realize I had demons and I got delivered.
And then, by the way, I've actually. This is the most I've ever prayed. And now that I think about it, this church actually helped me a lot. Even though I hated it when I first came. Can you imagine that? Wait a second. I was wrong. I was. And there's so many people who are. Like, I thought Pastor Mike was a certain way, and then I got to know him, and I was wrong about him. And all those people who make videos about him, they don't even know him. This is what I'm talking about.
Go to the vision that God gave you. Go to the vision. Because YouTube is somebody else's vision. Instagram is somebody Else's vision. Go back to what God showed you. Okay, I'm going to give you three things and then we're going to, we're going to talk about what's next. Number one, Vision is a picture that God gives of what could be vision. Number one is a picture that God gives of what could be. It's a picture of what God gives that could be. This is vision. Vision. It's a picture.
It's a picture. Everybody say it's a picture. So to put Proverbs chapter 29, verse 18 in its proper context, only a prophet in the old covenant would be able to say the picture that God gave them. And that was how that worked. And so it says where that picture is being released, people have restraint. But where there is no picture being released to the picture, to the people, they release their restraint and they do whatever they want to do.
And my scripture reference for this is if you go to Exodus, chapter 32, verse 25, what happens is Moses goes up Mount Sinai, he has this incredible encounter with God. It's a burning bush experience. He receives the tablets, which is the law, and he gets the vision. But then just in the time that he was gone, the people, because there was not vision being poured into them, they released their restraint.
And then Aaron, who is a real bad campus pastor, I'm telling you, Aaron was like the worst campus pastor because all the people were like, we're going to melt down all of our jewelry and we're going to make this golden calf. And Aaron's like, I can't stop him. What am I going to do? You know, and there's a whole leadership lesson. And then we don't have time for. But you know, so then what happens is these people are having rampant, promiscuous sex. These people are full blown pagans, idolatry.
And why it very simple. Moses, he. There was a time where he wasn't in their midst manually giving that vision. And so this is the reference for it. And so it's, they need this picture, a picture of what could be from God. So let me just say sort of how this has happened. In my experience, when I showed up to New York, I showed up with prophetic pictures. God wants to establish healthy church in these regions, in New Jersey, in Miami, in Brooklyn and Long island, in Indiana.
But people needed to come into agreement with that picture. But the thing about it is when we say building the church, I don't mean building buildings because the Bible says that the church is living stones that are jointly fit together. And those Stones are individual people. So I didn't come here to build buildings. I came here to build people. And you will need buildings to house the people. But our church has never been about a building. And so guess what?
I looked at a man, Edwin Perez, and I said, I see a picture for you right now. You're estranged from the local church, haven't attended for years. You have no local church right now. You have hurt from past wounds, and you're living in isolation. But I see a picture that you're going to actually be the dean of the college, and you're going to come into V1 and you're going to thrive.
And every single time I see Brooklyn surround him and they're loving on him, I brings tears in my eyes to think that he went from isolation to being embraced by the living stones that made the church together. And by the way, he's killing it with V1 College, and we're expanding every year when. Come on. That's all right. Yeah. I had a picture, and I had a vision for your campus pastors here on Long Island. And do you know the first time I ever gave that picture to Execa?
She said, I don't want this picture. And she tried to do like Jonah and jump off the boat and do a swan dive. And she said, I don't want that picture. And I said, I didn't want this picture. And look what God did to me. Now it's your turn, you know, because. Your level of surrender is what you can call other people to. And some of y'all want your kids to be more surrendered than you are.
So I looked at Exegol and I said, if I'm here on Long island and I'm surrendered, I'm calling you to full surrender. And guess what? Thankfully, she embraced it. She came back and said, I see the picture. I don't like it. Like you didn't like it. And I said, like father, like daughter. Come on, let's do this thing together. Danny came in, and guess what? Long island is thriving because they received the picture. That was the spiritual vision that went. From create to make. Create to make.
Come on. And this is the apostolic and prophetic. How it converges is the prophet prophesies and the apostle builds it. And that's how the church was established, and that's how it's advancing 2,000 years later. There's a picture. There's a picture. I saw a picture for Miami, and all of a sudden, Harvey and Jess said, yes, I see that picture too, matter of fact.
And I Haven't told this story publicly, but the very first time I met Harvey was in Indiana at our Indiana campus, when we were meeting at a bar, in a nightclub before they got a building. And all of a sudden I look at Harvey and I said, harvey, you're going to be a pastor. And now I did not think he was going to be a pastor at our church. And I said, you're going to be a pastor. And then Pastor Josh came and, you know, Josh said, yes, I see that you're called to be a pastor.
And Harvey's real internal thoughts was like, I don't even like these people. Who does this guy think he is? Who does Mike think he is? I mean, literally, his first gut response was to rebel against it. But deep down inside, he knew it was true. And now fast forward, he's a campus pastor, him and his wife in Miami, and they're growing in disciples and they're reaching the lost in Miami. And so it's a picture of what could be.
You know, sometimes God will give you a prophetic dream wave at me if you've ever had a prophetic dream. Okay? So many, many years ago. And because this picture can come by way of dream as well. Many years ago, I had a dream that I was. That I walked into this auditorium and I could see the drum risers were here, this was there. And then later on in this dream, I got up on this stage and it was stadium style seating filled with people, and I was conducting a mass deliverance.
And all of a sudden, at that time, I was the number two for a very large church in northwest Indiana. And I said, we were going to go buy a building. And the actual realtor said, hey, this is the main auditorium. Let me open the door with my key. And I said, wait, wait, wait, wait, don't open it yet because.
And I turned to the other pastors that were there and I said, hey, if we walk into this auditorium and this is the layout, the drum riser's here, this here, stadium style seating here, then I know that this is from God, because I've already had a dream about it. All of a sudden, the realtor opened the door and we walked in and it was exactly like I said, now here's the thing that's crazy.
The realtor, he goes, hey, I just gotta give you credit, man, because the whole time you were describing the layout, he said, the drum risers were on the other side of the stage. And so I'm thinking to myself, you're gonna be wrong. And I walked in and realized since the last time we've been here, they moved him to the other side. And you were right. So that's.
But then the rest of my dream was that I did this mass deliverance in this environment, but my job was not to minister from the stage when I was there serving. My job was to do all the behind the scenes. So I said, lord, you gave me that dream. How could you fulfill one part because we bought that building, but you didn't fulfill the other part. Then during the pandemic, that church starts to go through turmoil.
And my apostolic oversight reaches out to me and says, mike, we believe that God has given you an assignment to be the lead pastor of both churches during a global pandemic. And I was like, mm. And they said, you need to help heal this church and take it through a process of restoration. And we want you to be the interim lead pastor there, as you're the lead pastor here and go back and forth. So during a global pandemic.
And I remember it was funny because during a global pandemic, I would fly back and forth between regions and serving another man's field. Keep in mind what I just said. And then one day I came out on that stage because now I had to preach because I'm their interim lead pastor. And I get up on that stage and I start dealing with the demonic and I start speaking, and all of a sudden, deliverance starts breaking out. And I look and the Lord says, now you're in the last part of your dream.
So this is what I'm trying to explain to you. Prophetic dreams are pictures that God gives you while you're sleeping because you wouldn't receive them while you're awake. Oh, I'm talking to somebody. Because he's trying to explain things to you that. And he. And you're resisting, but he's trying to get it through. And by the way, I know everybody's like, please, Pastor Mike, help me interpret my dream.
But did you know in the Bible, the only people who needed help interpreting a dream were wicked? The righteous were the ones who always interpreted the dream, and the wicked were always the ones who needed the interpretation. Now, that doesn't mean that I want you to stop asking for interpretations, but the interpretation should confirm what the Holy Spirit already taught you. And that takes you from dependent to independent and submitted.
So, of course, ask your pastors for dream interpretations. Ask. Submit it to different people, like Pastor Josh, who has a prophetic. But don't rely on them. You rely on the Holy Spirit. Amen. But but we have dreams, and God's given me many dreams. And I was telling my daughter Bella about how many things in our life were dreams that God showed me. In a dream, God showed my mom that I was going to have a yellow house. And she said, I see. I know this sounds crazy. I see a yellow house.
Sure enough, we go to buy our first house in New York. And it is a yellow house. And all of a sudden. And all of a sudden, I'm like, my mom knew, but it's a dream. My mom looks at me when we're in a stadium and in the late 90s and says, I don't know how, I don't know when, but we're going to go from the stands to the stage. She was peeking a picture, but I had to come into agreement with that picture. And then when we came into agreement, that that becomes Moses and Aaron, Joshua and Caleb.
Do you see how God works in twos? Even Jesus sent them out two by two. It was their ground crew and their flight crew. He joins you together, he pairs you together. And when you get a group of people together that believe when you get married, that's two coming together over a picture. We're going to make a family. And the devil comes in to distort that picture, to break that picture apart. But God comes to restore the picture, renew the picture, reinforce the picture.
So, number one, it's a picture. Number two, is that true? Vision from God is a reduction of options. It's a reduction of options. Some of you, you're not confused, you're overwhelmed. You're not confused, you're overwhelmed. Do less, but better. I'm speaking to somebody. I'm helping you for the new year. You're not confused, you're overwhelmed. You're doing too much. Do less, but do better. What would happen if you'd made a singular devotion to one thing and did it with all your might?
This is what the Lord is trying to focus you. Vision will focus you. You'll put your seatbelt back on and you'll lock in. It'll restrain you. It'll put blinders on your eyes. And by the way, for those of you who have lost your purity, who think, oh, I've already lost my purity, I had a vision of me being pure. Guess what? The Bible says that he makes all things new. He makes all things new, which means. He can restore the restraint on your purity.
Just because you did it doesn't mean you have to keep on doing it. Just because you did it doesn't mean that's who you are. He will give you a fresh vision that will reinstall restraint. Everybody say restraint. Restraint is a good thing. Come on. Yeah, I gained 30 pounds. But when you restrain your diet, you lose weight. See, there's something about. But that requires vision. And whenever I start overeating, it's because I have a vision problem, not an eating problem.
I'm overwhelmed, and I can't see my way out, but I can see my way into that McDonald's. I'll tell you what I see. That vision of that glowing M. Is. That my M for Michael? Come on. Is that M for mighty God? Yes. Those golden arches all over the world just beckoning me. I'm not going to tell you what Pastor Eddie ate in McDonald's when we were overseas, because that would be dishonoring. But I know he spent some extra time on the treadmill that week. But let me tell you, restrain.
Everybody say restraint. You know, it's. It's the. God wants to give a vision to us that actually restrains us. And that's the golden calf of Exodus 32:25 is like, no, we can't just do every spiritual practice. You know, there's witchcraft, there's occult practices. Matter of fact, I'm just going to tell you straight up, when you become a Christian, you can't just watch any movie you want to watch. And there are some movies that are popular, but they're problematic.
And you got to understand, like, you might not have the maturity level to be able to take that thing in. You might be seduced by something in that some of you can have social media and some of you shouldn't have it for a season because you need to exercise restraint. I don't know if you know this, but having social media is a luxury, not a necessity. And so some of you, that's a luxury. It's like, you don't need social media. And some of you are like, but it's free.
No, it's actually costing you your life and your purpose. The reason why they don't charge you. To use social media media is because you're the product. They're using you. And for some of you, for a season, you don't need it. It's restraint, limiting things down. And then number three, because I'm doing real good. Praise God. Hebrews chapter one, verse one and two says this. It says that in the past, God spoke through the prophets, but in these last days, he speaks through his Son, Jesus.
So now let me put the scripture in proper placement. Now it says, and where there is no prophetic vision, the people cast off restraint. But blessed is he who keeps the law. So if in the old covenant the prophetic vision was spoken through prophets, but then in Hebrews chapter one, verses one and two, it says in the past God spoke through prophets, but in the last days he speaks through Jesus. Jesus is the vision. Not buying buildings, not starting conferences, not writing best selling books.
Jesus is the vision. Jesus is the vision. And where there is no real Jesus, the people cast off restraint. That's why at your other church they had the Republican Jesus, the Democrat Jesus. They had blond haired, blue eyed, Kevin, white Jesus, Caucasian Jesus, honky Jesus. Is that all right that I said that? But where there is a false Jesus, sin's going to be running rampant. Where there's a false Jesus in certain. Denominations, they're going to actually allow for same sex marriage.
Where there's the false Jesus, they're going to allow for the murder of unborn babies. But where the real Jesus is, he is the vision. And he said, I came that you might receive life and life more abundantly. And then people begin to conform to the image of Jesus, which is the image of God, which is the original image that they were created in. We are all image bearers. Look at your neighbor and say, you're an image bearer. You are an image bearer of God.
But we got to go back to the original picture because the devil comes and he perverts the picture. In your sexuality. Did you learn about your sexuality from the Bible or pornography? Because if you learned it from pornography, the devil gave the image. But no, you are an image bearer of God. Go back to the blueprint. Destroy everything the devil built and rebuild your sexuality according to the blueprint of the design of the being. An image bearer of God. What about your finances?
Do you know more about your finances from the world than you do from Scripture? That we've got to become people of the book, that go back and say, God, I want to do it your way. And sometimes he's got to destroy it before he rebuilds it. One of the reasons why some of you have extreme anxiety to log into your bank account is because of the picture you think you're going to see. It's a battle for vision.
And God is saying, see yourself as a wise steward and those who are faithful with little become ruler over much. It's a picture he's trying to change. Go back to the original. And there people get mad at me. Oh, Pastor Mike, he's always talking about Islam. He's always talking About Hinduism. He's always talking about the LGBTQ+IA. He's always talking about gender. No. We live in a generation where instead of receiving a picture, we tried to create our own.
And what I'm showing you is not Mike Signorelli's picture, but I am one that reveals the picture that God created. And I'm simply bringing the world back to the original design to say he created this for human flourishing. And anything else will result in a curse. But Jesus died on a cross to break that curse. He died on a cross to break that curse. And can be not conformed to the. World, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may approve. Come on.
And you may discern rather, the perfect will of God. How many of you want to know the perfect will of God in your life for this next year? Come on. We've got to become people of the book. We've got to go back to the image that he of the image of God. And we've got to conform to his image. Last but not least, we are a church where the true Jesus is welcome. Well, Pastor Mike, I'm offended when you say the republican Jesus. No, hear me.
There are Republicans who serve the real Jesus, but then there are Republicans who use Jesus for their will. There are Democrats that serve the real Jesus. They're trying their best, but there are many that use religion and use Jesus for their own will. There's social justice warrior Jesus. There's Jesus of the good moral teacher that gives you suggestions instead of commands. And that is a false Jesus. Jesus will give you a command, and. You have to obey that command. It's not a suggestion.
He's more than a teacher. He was not just a rabbi. He is the king of all kings. Last night, when I had 15,000 people. On that YouTube live stream, I said, if you serve Jesus and you're submitting him to him now, put in the comment section. Jesus is king. Because I realize that this generation wants. A teacher, but they don't want a king. They want a comforter, but they don't want a king. This generation wants somebody to bless them, but they don't want a king. No, we come to bless you, Father.
We come like wise men. We come to lavish you. We come bearing gifts everybody wants to receive, but we're here to reciprocate. I want to give to you God. I want to lay it down. Because when the real Jesus is in the room, nobody has to tell you to tithe because you'll break your alabaster box open. And lavish him with your finances. You don't have to give under compulsion, but something inside of you says, I want to give the king the best I can give.
The issue of our generation is, have you received him as teacher or have you received him as king? Because some of y'all don't know how to treat a king. But when the king walks in the. Room, oh, oh, King, O king, O king, whatever you want. Not my will, but thy will. King. Some of y'all know how to stand on business, but you don't know how to kneel before the king. Give up your opinion and say, God, what is your will? That's what this church is about. So God number three.
Vision is God's way of fighting for your future. Vision is God's way of fighting for your future. He knows that if you stay in that adulterous relationship, the end of it is death. So vision is him fighting for your future. He knows that if you don't deal with that addiction, that addiction is going to deal with you and it's going to end in death. Envision is him fighting for your future. And the Lord is trying to fight for your future. He's trying to fight for your kids future.
And I feel this on the inside of me because I've been looking at our children lately and man, we had yesterday, I had a lot of the. Youth and the teens at my house and they were doing a Friends Christmas thing. I don't know what it's called. Huh. Friends miss. They're just inventing holidays now, making stuff up, stressing me out. And as I looked at those teenagers, I remembered what I was like. And I said, I didn't have a revival church. I didn't have a church taking stadiums over.
I didn't have a church worshiping like this. I would have done anything to have this church. And I said, lord, I might not have had it when I was a teenager, but as an adult, I'm building it for our teenagers. And then I will. All of a sudden, I begin to see my daughter Everly with her friends. And I asked the little girl, how are you? And she says, I'm 10 years old. And I said to my daughter later, I said, that little girl's anointed. Your friend loves the Lord.
And Everly said, oh, she loves the Lord so much. Every time I talk to her, all she's talking about is Jesus. And I said, lord, the true king is in V1 church. We're not a perfect church, but the King is here in the midst of our Imperfections, making all things new, aligning things, humbling, breaking things out. And I am honored to actually be a part of this thing for the sake of our children and if the Lord carries our children's children, because one. Of my favorite parts of the Bible.
You got to understand, where I come from, I inherited nothing. No legacy. I have no pictures of my descendants. I never got anything in the material sense. So imagine I'm reading the Bible and. It says, God tells Joshua and that generation that everywhere, I give you a victory. I want you to get big stones. And make a huge pile of stones. And the stones are to be a remembrance for the generations. Because there's going to come a day when your kids are discouraged.
There's going to come a day when your kids are feeling all kinds of ways where it seems like it's impossible. And then one day your kid is. Going to say, mommy, what are those stones over there? What's that big pile of stones? Because that's unnatural. What's that big pile of stones over there? Daddy, what's that? And then you'll tell them, life was not always like it is right now. And we didn't have what we have right now. But when we had nothing, we came together.
Black and white, Hispanic, Asian, young and old. And when we didn't have nothing, we had each other. And when we didn't have biological family, we had spiritual family. And we gave our money and they gave their money. We brought all of our money together, and what we did is we sewed and we built this so that your life could be better than ours. And we leave an inheritance to our children's children. The Bible says a good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children.
That's two generations. That's how you get qualified as a good man. Biblically, a good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children. You know what that inheritance is? The house of God, the church. That is the inheritance. That as the world is raging, as climate is out of control, whether it's manufactured or not, we don't know.
While there's drones swirling, while there's nuclear warheads, there's a place that we have together where the living stones are jointly fit together, and we are safe and secure, and the presence of God is released. And so what I've been laboring for. And I want you to join in this labor with me today, is I've been laboring for a living stones moment. I've been laboring for the roots to go down. So I want to tell you right now let's play this, this first video. Let's kill the music for a second.
And I want to show you guys this just this last year in review 2024, 2015 people were discipled through the Connect group. 2015 people discipled. We served the needy in Honduras, Ukraine and other cities. We trained over 60 pastors in Honduras. We equipped 750 leaders for the work of ministry. Guys, let's get loud for this. 6,636 people were fed. 760 people were baptized. And we reached 73 million people with the gospel online. Over 100,000 people attended services physically and digitally.
Thousands of youth and kids have been discipled all this year. Breakers conference gathered 10,000 people as the stadium was filled. V1 youth studied the Bible in Alpha Connect groups. Two new locations were launched, New Jersey and Manhattan in just one year. Come on, can we celebrate what happened over just the last year? How many churches do you know that launched two campuses in one year? But here's the thing I want to tell you.
How many of you remember when I showed you guys the picture of the empty stadium? Do you remember that picture? And then how many of you saw it completely filled? Create, made, create made. The blueprint, then the reality. But God doesn't create the blueprint by your butt prints. In other words, he's not going to drag you through life. You got to do it. You have to sign up and say, you know what, God, count me in. There's even when you speak in tongues, the Bible says that you speak mysteries.
You have to open your mouth and begin to speak. And there's this mysterious intermingling with God where you're coming together with him because a lot of people think that God is going to possess you like a demon and control, you know, he's going to give you self control. Self control means that you're like, I don't feel like serving, but he's given me self control and I can serve. I don't feel like giving, but he's given me self control.
I can control myself and I want to be greedy, but no, I'm going to give anyways. So the fruit of the spirit is control over yourself. And so that's why this church continues to advance. Because the Holy Spirit Espiritu Santa is is dwelling on the inside of us, giving us self control, saying, I want to leave so badly, but I'm going to stay. I want to be selfish and hoard, but I'm going to give. I want to relapse into the addiction. But I'm going to resist the devil until he flees. Self control.
So as I was looking and I was writing out all of the things that we accomplished this year, I couldn't help but hold back the tears. Because when 6,000, 636 families are fed food, let me just put it like this. When more people are fed by your church than attend your church, you're doing church the right way. How many of you believe in leading, leading them and feeding them? And so we have been a move of God.
And when the real Jesus is in the room, what happens is sometimes Jesus is feeding the 5,000. Sometimes Jesus is casting out demons, sometimes Jesus is making disciples. And what I can truly say when I look at V1 is I see Jesus everywhere. Jesus says, suffer not the little children, bring them to me. I see Jesus in every facet of what we're doing. And not some Jesus that we're using to fulfill our will, but Jesus saying, I'm going to empower you to fulfill God's will.
So here's what I want to do. I want to show you a couple more announcements right now, and let's just take a look at the first one. Hey, this is Pastor Harvey and I am right here at the Regal Theaters where we meet weekly, every single Sunday. We have seen the miraculous happen here. We have seen entire families restored, people set free, delivered, healed. And these theaters are a womb. V1 Church was birthed from a theater. V1 New Jersey is in a theater right now.
We have been praying and interceding for a space where we can grow and expand, but this is South Florida, this is Miami. This is hard. It just doesn't happen. And God has opened an unprecedented door. But we need your help. This is an incredible moment that I'm standing in right now. God has made a way and the red has parted. This is how we know that God is in it. I am right here at the venue, space that we will soon call home. This is not just walls and a roof.
This is a testimony of God's faithfulness. This is a testimony of God's goodness and all that he can just make happen. And now we have an opportunity to prepare this space to be a beacon of hope and light to the community. But as we step into this next season, there's still work that needs to be done. We need to get the building ready to welcome everyone that'll come. And that's where you can come in.
As you prepare your end of year gift, I want to invite you to prayfully consider how you can contribute to the mission. Your gift will impact and help us prepare this place for all that God has for it. And so here's the thing is that you're probably asking, what does this have to do with my campus? Well, here's the thing. I believe that if you sow into our soul soil, you will reap in your own. We truly are one house with many rooms. So let's come together as a church family.
Believe that as we step out in faith, God will do exceedingly and abundantly more than we can ask or imagine. Come on. We love you, Miami. See, when he said party the red. See, getting a building like that in Miami is impossible. I just want to tell. It's actually impossible to get a building like that in Miami. And I've been praying and I actually prayed a selfish prayer. I said, God, if you're truly with me, if you, if you desire South Florida to go to this next level, open a door.
And I'm telling you that door open. Now. Here's what has to do with all of us. Brooklyn listen, New Jersey listen, Indiana listen. And I'm being selfless to be selfish because when I saw that venue, I said, man, we just did Free Women Collective in Miami, which was amazing. I'm like an honorary free woman. I don't know if you know that, but we are going to be able to utilize that space. Instead of renting other people's facilities, we'll have our own.
And Miami is going to continue to expand and by faith we're getting the LED wall and the remainder of the production. But we need your help to make that happen. But see, here's the thing. God is a God of double portions. I said, God is a God of double portions. He will do exceedingly, abundantly more than you can think, ask or imagine. So when he did it for Miami, I said, okay, God, now do it. For us here as well. So that's why I'm announcing after seven.
Years of not being able to, to have our roots go down. After seven years of loading in and. Out and having leases v1 Long island got a building. Hallelujah. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Won't he do it? Won't he do it? Church, I need you to help me turn a soccer stadium on Long island into a habitation of the Holy Spirit. We're going to flip that building, we're going to come up into that place. Come on. And we're going to worship the Lord. And a sweet smelling aroma, the fragrance of our anointing.
And the oil is going to be released from this house day and night. And we're going to dedicate this unto the Lord. Don't you just feel the anointing, seeing it? So here's the thing I want to. Announce, and I'm so excited. The closing on this building is this Tuesday. Tuesday. And you heard me prophesy keys. And guess what? I said it, I saw it. And now God's going to show it off. Because Tuesday and Wednesday we're closing on the building and the keys are our. Come on, somebody.
Would you look at it? Come on. V1. Now listen, what. Here's what you. You're not looking at a building because the church is not a building. We're the church. That's why we survive. But what you're looking at is a stone for remembrance. Because when the children say, did we always have this building? Oh, no, there was a time when we were in the movie theater. There was a time where we were in that bar and there. But God Almighty, this is a stone for remembrance for the generations.
Let me just tell you, this is new construction. New construction, $4.3 million building. And some of you are like, pastor Mike, our church must have a ton of money. I rebuke you. The truth is, and I'm saying this in all humility, our church is severely underfunded. And I think one of the biggest lies is that you see all the people who attend and you assume that they're all giving. Most people of our church give about 2 to 3% of their annual income or less.
We're nowhere near to the 10% mark per person of their annual giving. And I'm not saying that as a rebuke because actually, my love for you as you've been going on this journey of generosity and maturity in the faith is evident that I saved our money for seven years so that I would have the down payment to get us into this building. Because what I. What? Yeah, come on. I have been saving and saving and saving.
And we did a brief capital campaign during the pandemic, which is the worst time to do it. And a lot of those people ironically moved out of New York during the pandemic, but I just kept saving and saving. So here's the good news that we already got pre approved and I already have the down payment. So Tuesday and Wednesday, as we're closing, that we will get the keys. We will get the keys. That's the good news. But I want to ask you today if you would consider joining in this thing with me.
And here's what that looks like. And I'm just going to shoot it to you straight because we've got one more vision I'm going to show you here in a second, but I want to leave some time where the Holy Spirit speaks to you. Now here's the thing. We're not under the law, but I do believe that Christ empowers us to fulfill the law. And so when I look at my finances, I've always asked God, how could I give reoccurring at least 10% of my income to the local church.
So if you're somebody who doesn't do that, you might be thinking, I'm going to give one time a big gift. Actually, the most generous thing you can do is give on reoccurring. Why? Because the Bible says where your treasure is, your heart is also. So if your heart's in the house, then just give repeatedly, sign up for reoccurring. And I'm going to give you a moment to do that later. But then the Lord may be moving on some of you to give a large gift.
And can I just cast a crazy vision to you right now? I know this sounds wild because all the odds are against it, but I keep going before the Lord saying, lord, you said according to the Abrahamic covenant that we are going to be the lender and not the borrower. And so I believe that we are going to have a mortgage burning service where we actually are not in debt. And how many of you believe that God can cause us to pay off $4.3 million so that we don't have. Debt as a church?
And I'm just raising my faith up and I want this to be a sign. And just like those crusty, dusty, mean. Old hearted snake pastors, when I got here. Oh, sorry, sorry. When I got here, they didn't believe. You know what? I want to mature into the older pastor that when the new pastors come to Long island and they tell me a crazy vision, I look them in their eyes and I say, I believe it. I don't want to be one of those pastors that tell somebody it can't be done.
And I believe that building that we. Showed you is going to be assigned to the Christians of Long Island. Even if you go to another church, God has taken over this law. This island, Long island belongs to the king. Long island, he come on. He's here to establish his kingdom that it's going to be assigned to everybody. So we're going to do this thing. But let me show you this last. Vision that counterbalances this. Do you like my Photoshop? So here's the thing.
For all of you on Long island, after the new year, the. Ironically, the lease on this building is up. So we did. The timing is perfect. Literally, the lease on the building I'm standing in right now is up this month, and we literally close on a new building next week. You can't make that up. You can't make that up. But we need to go through a. Process of installing the equipment, installing the stage, and actually getting approval on Long island for occupancy.
So what we're going to do is for several weeks after the new year, we are going to meet at a hotel, Ironically, the same hotel that we did the first Breakers Conference. So we're going to be meeting in the hotel where we did the very first Breakers Conference. It's here on Long Island. And we're going to be. Kim. We all join together and pray that occupancy will get approved, expedited, fast, that. We can get in there. Y'all pray, okay?
And we're going to pray that God gets us in there sooner than later so we can transition. But what I'm showing you right now is we needed a box truck short term, so that way we can house some of our gear as this campus goes into transition before we move into the building. And I actually said, you know what? It was this guy wanting a box truck so bad. Aaron's like, dad, can we please have a box truck? He is my most expensive child. And we all have one always. We need a new LED wall.
We need this, we need that. And so. But I said. I said, you know what's crazy, Aaron, about you asking me for a box truck? Is that as we got a building in Miami and we got a building in Long island, the Lord showed me a vision of us actually doing block parties where our different campuses take over neighborhoods. And instead of asking people to come to church, we bring church to them. And we have kids programming and we. Feed them, and we have a mobile church that is this.
This is the mobile church. So in New Jersey and all the different locations, how many of you are ready to do block parties over the different regions where we have churches and lead the lost to the cross at any cost? So it's both. It's not just us getting a building. It'S us getting a box truck and us coming to them. So would you just take a seat for a second? I'm gonna.