[Genesis 12:1] Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee.

God emptied his father's house to send him out, so that he would marry and join himself to another house, and be led. In his own house he taught the word to his sons, and he went to twenty-four churches, and not one could confirm the word and say amen. It is a spirit of familiarity.

He sat under a carpenter who pastored a house built on an old well. A great company wanted to pay that man well, and God told him to be a pastor instead. The way hired him for carpentry before he ever sat under him, and then sat under him for years and paid his tithes there.

In his twenty-eighth year, still in the basement under his father's house, the way began going down on his knees every day, in secret, and praying at least fifteen minutes. That is when the dreams began. In one of them it was the future, and he had rented the old Tuesday Morning building at the outlets in Dalton and started a restaurant there. It said Tuesday Morning on the building. He was given a butcher's knife, a big one, and he thought, that's a butcher's knife, it's sweet, and he went to test it on his butcher block. He came down as hard as he could, to see how far it would go into the block, and as he came down, the serpent laid its head on the block, and he took its head off. He did not even mean to.

In October of 2008 that pastor, who knew nothing of his praying, called him out of his seat and gave the word: God is pleased with the direction you are pursuing. Do not look back. Do not look to the left. Do not look to the right. Embrace the new thing that God is doing in you, and where He is leading you. He is taking you out of the place of familiarity. For He says you shall walk in power. The power is already accessible to you, and not only to you, but to all those around you, for you have made the choice to serve. There are rewards for the obedient, rewards for the obedient, rewards for the obedient.

About that time he moved out of the basement, to a yellow house down several roads off Cleveland Highway, and he was only there a year or so. The next year, teaching the web design class at the school he had graduated from ten years before, a teacher asked him for his hall pass, and he laughed and said, I graduated in 1999. That same year an officer at the mall stopped him and wanted his ID before he could get the cookie he had ordered. He was looking for anyone born in 1991. The way was born in 1981.

It came true, and it came hard. In November of 2010 that marriage came to its end. Out of it God brought two sons, and they are the glory of it. Sixteen years after the word, at a revival in north Georgia, the way heard a pastor preach about familiarity, and the word that took him out came back to him from another mouth.