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Stop Settling for Less: Moving from Ziklag to God’s Promised Expansion
About this episode
Pastor James Coffey of The Harbor Church in Laleah, Tennessee joins Philip Cameron to unpack the powerful message behind his new book, Stop Settling for Less — and the remarkable revival story that inspired it. At the close of 2024, Coffey received three words from God: pursue, advance, expand — a divine mandate he unpacked as "pursue my presence, advance my kingdom, and I will expand your borders." What followed was months of intense opposition, building challenges, and municipal battles that tested the church's resolve before a scheduled summer revival changed everything. Drawing on the story of David at Ziklag (1 Samuel 30), Coffey explains how discouragement can cause believers to settle far short of their God-ordained inheritance. "Ziklag may be a place for a season, but it's not a place to settle," he says — and the fruit proved it. In the 15 weeks following their revival, The Harbor saw 174 people commit their hearts to Christ, baptized 53 in a single service, and broke their 11-year attendance record three Sundays in a row after launching a second morning service. Stop Settling for Less is available now on Amazon. If you or someone you love is pressing through a Ziklag season, this episode — and this book — will reignite your pursuit of God's best.
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Quotes worth sharing
“Ziklag may be a place for a season, but it's not a place to settle. If you stop settling for less and you realize this isn't where he has called me — he's called me to live in Judah. And that's why David and his men left Ziklag. They were moving back to the place of praise. And when they moved to Judah, the inheritance was waiting on him.”
“If you allow yourself to be distracted, you'll dwell in discouragement. And that's where he ended up.”
“If you pursue my presence, if you advance my kingdom — which is preach the gospel, demonstrate the gospel, and preach the gospel — and if you do that, he said, I'll expand your borders.”
What's Discussed
Pastor James Coffey of The Harbor Church in Laleah, Tennessee shares how three God-given words — pursue, advance, expand — launched a year of intense trials and ultimately historic revival. Drawing from David's story at Ziklag (1 Samuel 30), Coffey's book Stop Settling for Less challenges believers, pastors, and families not to camp in seasons of discouragement. After months of opposition and a scheduled summer revival, The Harbor saw 174 salvations in 15 weeks, baptized 53 people in one service, launched a second Sunday morning service, and broke their 11-year attendance record three consecutive weeks. Coffey wrote the entire book in 72 hours, available on Amazon.
- Three Words God Gave for 2025
- Planning a Summer Revival Against the Odds
- Opposition as a Sign of Breakthrough
- David at Ziklag and Settling for Less
- 174 Salvations and Church Growth Explosion
- Writing Stop Settling for Less in 72 Hours
- Moving from Ziklag to Judah's Inheritance
- Prayer for Those in a Ziklag Season
Scripture in this episode
Episode Transcript
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Intro
Philip:Hey, welcome to Daily Faith. My name is Philip Cameron, and I am delighted to have you with us. God has a plan for your life. You're not a mistake. We have mission work in Moldova and Ukraine that we've been conducting for 35 years. It's the most amazing thing. We get these kids that have been, have spent their life in an orphanage, being told by the staff in the orphanage that you're garbage, your mother doesn't want you. Your mother didn't want you, and she put you in this orphanage. Your father doesn't want you, nothing. Plus nothing will always be nothing. And the miracle thing is when grace reaches them and we take them into our homes.
Philip:We have an amazing village of homes called Vatra Village. And instead of being put on the street, they come to us and they are incorporated into our great big Orphan's Hands family. We put them back to school and tell them, if you are born, God has a plan. You are not a mistake. And these amazing kids go back to school, and then all through the summertime they evangelize. In the wintertime they feed families that are in need, widows. Every girl you're looking at right now — if a trafficker gets her, she's worth $300,000 a year to a trafficker.
Philip:And these homes were made for rich people to have a summer home, to spend beside the lake. And they poisoned the lake with chlorine to kill the algae in the lake, and they killed the whole project. And what was meant to be for rich folk ended up being a place for young kids, orphan kids, to come and have their lives changed. And one of our girls came in recently, and here's our testimony. Listen to this.
Mihaela:My name is Mihaela. I'm a first year student studying pedagogy and chemistry and biology. One of my biggest dreams is to finish my studies successfully. I lived through very difficult moments. I've known loneliness, I've known hunger, pain, and shame. I've never met my father, and I was raised by a stepfather. Later I was sent to an orphanage where I stayed for a year.
Mihaela:No one came to visit us. Many times my mother would promise she'd come the next day. We would get our clothes ready, but she never came. When we finally returned home, my mother had become colder. She no longer gave her attention to us. Together with her partner, she made us suffer. He used to beat her very much. I used to hide the knives, the axes, anything he could use to hurt my mother. Many times we were kicked out of the house. I slept outside with our dog and cat because they kept me warm. Other times I would walk the streets at midnight crying and asking myself, why is this happening to me? Why are some families happy and we are not?
Mihaela:One day my mother decided to take us to a Christian church only because she knew that people there were kind and would help us with food and clothes for the winter. But I personally liked it there, not because of the food, but because of the love and warmth. I felt something I never felt at home. Whenever my mother threw me out of the house at night, I would just look at the sky and pray that God would grant me four wishes: to have a phone, a bicycle, but above all, to have parents who were not addicted to alcohol, and a home that wouldn't fall apart.
Mihaela:I never wanted to go back home. Whenever I visited other families, I wished I could stay there forever. One day after school, I came home and found my mother drunk, surrounded by many men. I ran into the middle of the street not knowing where to go, and then God brought me to the Orphan's Hands. I'm very grateful that there are good people who care about me. I'm so thankful for everything I have, and I never throw anything away. I appreciate every single little thing I have. Thank you. Thank you for giving me a chance.
Philip:The story of grace never fails to amaze me, how a broken heart that has been abused and abandoned and lived in terror — these, I can't describe. In fact, we've just been given and sent from Moldova — our kids make those videos. That's not made by a professional crew. Our kids make those videos and send them to me, and you see them as we receive them. And we've received some videos from some of our girls' testimonies, and we are still debating whether we can show them because of the graphic abuse that they have suffered. And they come to us broken beyond anything we could imagine and you could imagine. And when the gospel reaches them, the lives are transformed. Our houses in Moldova, Vatra Village.
Philip:And we are now opening two more houses that will allow us to take in small kids between the age of four and 16. And all that we do there is done by someone like you giving $1 a day. $1 a day won't change the financial equation of your life. You can't buy a can of Coke for a dollar anymore. You can't fill your car with gas for $30. But you can forever change the life of a young girl that has no hope other than what we offer to her.
Philip:Being God's hand extended is the closest you will ever be to manifesting God's love in this world. He's told us very clearly, care for the widow and the orphan. And the amazing thing is that these kids that we rescue — the Orphan's Hands — go out into the highways and byways and find widows and find broken families and feed them and care for them. So it's like a double gift. You make place for them, they make place for others.
Philip:So we're looking for folk to join with us. These two new homes that we have will require 300 new partners, each giving a dollar a day. And you can contact us very simply by the Orphan's Hands, PO Box 25, Clinton, Tennessee 37716. You can use Daily Faith TV also — there's a giving page there. And whatever you designate this gift towards, if you say this is for the support of the new house, or you might want to give a one-time gift, we are still short to pay these homes off.
Philip:And I believe that God could speak to someone today to make a substantial gift, a legacy gift, to help us finish off these two new homes that will allow us to take 50 more kids into our homes. And Daily Faith TV — also you can go and call. This is what I would do. I'm an old-fashioned kind of guy. Just dial 1-833 and then type Daily Faith into the keypad of your phone. And a real life person, not a machine, but a real life person will take your call and just say, hey, I'm watching Philip on Daily Faith and I want to be one of the 300 people to give a dollar a day to make a miracle happen.
Philip:You can change someone's life forever. The house parents that are in the homes today were once orphans that we've rescued, and now they're married with their own babies and they're now the house parents looking after kids who are who they were once before. So please let the Lord speak to your heart today. We really need to hear from you.
Philip:I'm so excited. I have this great young man of God, and he has a tremendous church not far from here in Lale, Tennessee. And he is just knocking everything in front of him. God's really using him. And the church is called The Harbor, and they've got amazing outreaches and God's been multiplying his church. And I wanted you to meet him because he's written a brand new book that I want him to tell you about, because I believe that this is going to impact your life as you go in your Christian faith. James, I'm delighted to have you with me, my brother. Thank you for joining us on Daily Faith.
James Coffey:Honored to be here. Thank you for having us.
Philip:You have written this book, it's called Stop Settling For Less. And there you go — I want you to get a copy of this. Tell us the impetus, what was the spark, the Holy Ghost spark in you that resulted in me holding this book?
Three Words God Gave for 2025
James Coffey:So it was actually a crazy process. We were in the end of 2024. It was right around Christmas time. Every year we will pray that God will give us a word or some sort of idea that he wants us to run with specifically the following year. And so I had been praying, and within a couple days God had given me a word: pursue. And so I thought, okay, well that's the word. So typically I would begin to pray upon it over the next, probably 24 hours. He gave me two more words — three words total: pursue, advance, expand. Hallelujah. And so I started praying about it, and okay, God, what does this mean? And as I began to pray that last week of 2024, he said, pursue my presence, advance my kingdom, and I will expand your borders.
James Coffey:Wow. And with that, he had put upon my heart — we had planted the church almost 10 years prior — and he had put upon my heart that in 2025 we would have our first revival, a scheduled revival. And so going into the first of the year, I began to share it with our team, with our leaders. And I told them, I said, this is gonna be our focus for this year. We're gonna pursue his presence, advance his kingdom, he's gonna expand our borders. And as a part of that, he wants us to have a revival. And I felt like it was supposed to be late July, late summer, which to me did not seem like a convenient time. Everybody's vacationing and things like that — didn't seem like a strategic time.
Planning a Summer Revival Against the Odds
Philip:And still warm in Tennessee in late July.
James Coffey:Yes, it is. It's lake weather. And I thought, okay. But I felt like that was what he wanted us to run with. So as I began to share that with our team from that time in December when he essentially spoke it, going on for the next several months, it seemed like anything that could go wrong could go wrong. And we just faced one challenge after another, battle after battle. And we were trying to do some expansion with our outreach, doing some renovations in our building. We were facing challenges with municipalities and things like that. And it was just a long list of several things. And so for several months we just kind of lowered our shoulder down, trying to push through it, plow through it.
Philip:Let me say this: when the devil can sense when something's about to happen. Yes. And that's when he tries to stop it. When Jesus was a baby in Bethlehem, he tried to kill Jesus. When Moses was a baby, he tried to kill Moses. He wants to catch you in. So what he wants to do is whenever you are standing on — and if you're watching me today and you're standing at the threshold of the biggest thing that's ever happened to your life — expect the devil to try to stop you. Because that's what he does.
Opposition as a Sign of Breakthrough
Philip:He can't stop you, but he tries to hinder you and discourage you and make you quit. So opposition is an indicator that God is up to something. So it's not time to back off at that point. It's time to press through, and nevermind what people are saying. Don't worry what the municipality, the county's saying, or the city's saying — press on towards the mark and you're going to accomplish what God's called you for. And that's what happened to you.
James Coffey:Absolutely. So it led to — in January I did a series focusing around those three words. And in particular, God had brought my heart to the scripture where David was in Ziklag, and what led to him being there, what happened while he was there, and what followed. It was a very trying season for him. And so fast forward a couple months, we were coming into spring and we were neck deep into some of these challenges. I was actually coming here — it was the last time that I was on set with you guys. And as I was getting ready that morning, I was thinking about what I was gonna talk about. And so my mind went back to that series that I had just completed.
James Coffey:And I thought, well, I could talk about this and this, and this could be encouraging to people. And so long story short, as I was getting ready to come down here, I thought to myself, just a random thought, man, there's so much to say on this. I could write a book on this. And the Holy Spirit spoke to me immediately and he said, that's exactly what you're going to do. Now, I never had any aspirations to write a book. But I came, I spoke with you all that day. You guys were sharing with me your experiences — of course you've done it several times. When I left here, about two days later, I sat down and I wrote that entire book in 72 hours.
Philip:Oh my goodness. Because you already had the content in your heart.
David at Ziklag and Settling for Less
James Coffey:Exactly. It's inside you. All you're doing is writing fast enough to keep up with the stream that's flowing out of you.
Philip:I know exactly how you feel. That's exactly what it was.
James Coffey:And so I wrote the book, and it led us to a place where — advance and expand — we were pursuing his presence, but we hadn't necessarily felt like we were accomplishing the advance yet, and we hadn't seen the expansion. Well, we come into our revival in the end of July, and it seemed like some things began to settle down. And we had a full-service revival and had some dear friends of ours come. They preached. We had wonderful services. But one thing in particular that caught my attention was toward the end of that revival — matter of fact, the last service of the revival — I shared with our church that we had seen 25 people commit their heart to Christ during the revival.
James Coffey:And we were seeing people saved almost every Sunday throughout the year, and it'll range maybe two or three, maybe seven or eight. So it wasn't that we hadn't seen salvations, but it was the fact that I spent several years as an evangelist before we planted the church. And you typically see people giving their heart to Christ on Sundays, not necessarily so much in the midweek. And when we closed that revival and we had seen 25 people saved, from that moment forward we saw advancement and we saw the expansion begin to take place. And the advancement came in that the 15 weeks which led us up to this past Sunday — so it's been about 15 weeks since that revival ended — we've seen 174 people commit their heart to Christ.
Philip:That's amazing.
James Coffey:In our services. And that's not counting students, kids ministry, outreach ministry. But the church is growing as well as the converts coming to the Lord. The church is growing, our recovery ministry is growing, our student ministry is exploding, our kids' ministry is growing, discipleship — we have implemented new discipleship programs to accommodate it.
James Coffey:We have seen, all the way up until the end of October, I began to share with our church in October — we were hitting a lid. Our parking was at max capacity, our kids' ministry. And so we started talking about, well, what's the plan next? Well, years ago, back in 2020 coming into 2021, we had been a two-service church. We used to have two services when we were in our old facility. Our facility at that time was about 9,000 to 10,000 square feet. This was huge compared to that. So that one was a little over 9,000. The building we're in now is a little over 36,000 square feet. So in 2021 we went back to one service on Sundays, and we never really thought we would run into a multi-service or maximum capacity issue.
James Coffey:But in October we began seeing that, and we had a baptism — we baptized 53 people in our baptism in October. And I shared with our team, I said, we've gotta make a move. God is asking us, how much do you want me to continue adding?
Philip:Don't settle. Don't settle for less.
James Coffey:Absolutely. Because if you pursue my presence, if you advance my kingdom — which is preach the gospel, demonstrate the gospel, and preach the gospel — and if you do that, he said, I'll expand your borders. And so three Sundays ago, first Sunday in November, we launched our second Sunday morning service. And I don't really know what I expected, to be honest with you, but we had more than 130 more people attend that Sunday than the Sunday before. In the very first service that we launched, our 9:30 service almost had the same amount of people in it as our single service the week before. And we broke our attendance record for a non-Easter service out of 11 years.
James Coffey:Then the following Sunday we broke it again. And this last Sunday we broke it a third time in a row.
Philip:It all comes down to keeping the pressure on. If the devil can cause you — I say to my team here all the time, I'll say, listen guys, the devil doesn't have to defeat us. He only has to distract us. With Annabelle — I've got a little granddaughter, she's the cutest thing ever, you saw her before the program started — you don't have to confront Annabelle, you just gotta shake something else that catches her eye and she forgets what she was focusing on. And the devil does the same thing.
174 Salvations and Church Growth Explosion
Philip:And I know watching us right now — I'm convinced of this — that there are people watching us just now. Maybe you're a pastor, maybe you're a mom in a family, and you feel that the Lord has got something in store for you. And in your prayer time you're sensing this, that there is a stirring. And what the devil does, he comes along and he tries to distract you, and he tries to make you settle for less.
Philip:The good is always the enemy of the best, every time. And this book, Stop Settling For Less, is a rhema word for your spirit. God is gonna talk into your heart and tell you, this is not the time to settle, pastor. All hell may be breaking loose in your church. The board might be acting up, and this and that, and the finances — there's always something. But if you determine in your spirit today to say, I am not settling for less, I'm standing up and I'm claiming what I'm ordained and destined to have, the devil has to flee.
Philip:Tell us about the book.
James Coffey:So to me, there are so many things. If you go back and you read the story of how David ended up in Ziklag — he was never meant to be there. He was running from his destiny because he was discouraged. Exactly what you said. He was working for the Philistines. He was working for the same Philistines whose giant he had defeated. He said to them, if I defeat you or if you defeat me — and he was now back working for the people he defeated. If you allow yourself to be distracted, you'll dwell in discouragement. And that's where he ended up.
James Coffey:And if you go back to the beginning of this year, those first six, seven months of this year — if you had told me that all of that was going to be okay, it would've been hard to believe. Now, granted, by faith we know he works all things together according to our good. We all know Romans 8. That's the theory. But when you're in the storm, it doesn't quite ring true, does it? When you're in it, it's hard to stop looking at the wind. And when you're sinking, to realize that while you're sinking in the waters like Peter did, Jesus isn't sinking. And you're standing close enough to him — if you just pursue him, keep going.
James Coffey:If Peter had stopped short of Jesus, Jesus wouldn't have been able to reach him. But if you keep going to where he's at, you have to continue to walk until you can't walk anymore. And for Peter, his distraction brought him down right before he was reaching Jesus. And so he was close enough. So we were pursuing, we never stopped praying, fasting as a congregation. But going through that, if you had told me that we would see right now — and I was sharing this with you before the program — we're on track right now for what we have seen God do in the first 11 years, which was amazing. Our church has almost doubled in less than six months.
James Coffey:And if you had told me that earlier this year, that would've been really hard for me to comprehend. But one thing that I noticed is Ziklag was the distraction. It was the discouragement. It was the place where David ended up. But Ziklag was the last stop before his inheritance began. As soon as he would make up his mind, I'm leaving Ziklag.
Writing Stop Settling for Less in 72 Hours
Philip:You're almost connected. Ziklag and your blessing are almost — it's a yin and a yang, it's the same end of the same miracle.
James Coffey:Absolutely. If he had stayed there, rather than taking the spoils and going to Judah and presenting them as gifts, staying faithful to what God had called him to do, he could have died in Ziklag. And where would we have been? Where would the church be? Because if we understand the lineage of David, what happened as a result of his faith and his work for God, and how Christ would later on come as a result — came through the lineage of David.
Philip:Absolutely.
James Coffey:If we stay faithful and we realize that Ziklag may be a season, but it's not a place to settle. If we can keep that in our hearts.
Moving from Ziklag to Judah's Inheritance
Philip:Say that again.
James Coffey:Ziklag may be a place for a season, but it's not a place to settle. If you stop settling for less and you realize this isn't where he has called me — he's called me to live in Judah. And that's why David and his men left Ziklag. They were moving back to the place of praise. And when they moved to Judah, the inheritance was waiting on him. And that's what this book is all about, to encourage people in ministry, business, families, parents, children — whatever the case is. If you're praying for your parent, you're praying for your church, you're believing God for a miracle, you started a business and things aren't going as well as you thought they should — you have to make sure that you understand, Ziklag is only a season, but I can't settle here. And if I keep moving, he's faithful and he'll do what he said he would do.
Philip:As we're talking, James, I can feel the Holy Ghost speaking to me saying, there's someone watching today and the devil is trying to make you quit. If he can just make you slow down, if he can discourage you enough to just let you think, well, I'll take a break — this is not the time to rest and break. This is the time to press through.
Philip:And your Ziklag experience is only temporary. The harvest and the blessing is the next step. And I want you to get this book. What I like about it — I was glancing through it before we came on the air today — it's a book that will take you 30 minutes, an hour to read, but the principle of it will live inside you forever. And if you love your pastor, if you love someone you know that's going through a tough time, and you're praying for them and your heart's sick for them — and you're thinking, it's like Job, as one yet spoke, someone else came with more bad news. But God has a plan beyond what your and their circumstances are. Get this book today.
Philip:How can they, how do they reach it?
James Coffey:You just go to Amazon, www.amazon.com. That's what the book looks like — Stop Settling For Less, Pastor James Coffey. And in this book I believe is an answer for your issues. And I just pray that God will use you, not just for yourself, but to give one away, because as you plant blessing, it comes back into your life.
Philip:Absolutely. Thank you so much for being with me today.
James Coffey:Thank you for having me.
Philip:I believe that God is going to make your church one of the great regional churches in Tennessee.
James Coffey:Thank you. That's what I'm praying for.
Philip:Because you're being faithful. You're standing the test. In fact, we've got a minute and 45 seconds to go. Can you pray for just a moment and bless someone watching that's in Ziklag, to move from Ziklag to where they're going, to Judah?
James Coffey:Absolutely. Father, I pray for every parent, for every believer, for every pastor, for every business owner that may watch this. God, I just pray that you would encourage them in whatever season they may be going through right now. Help them to realize that Romans 8:28 is a promise. It's not an encouraging text, it's a promise that you've given us, that we may not understand every step of the journey. But if we pursue your presence and we do everything we can to advance your kingdom, to help those around us find faith in Christ, to help them grow and to be encouraged, then you will expand our borders, just like you did for everyone in the scripture that followed you. You'll never leave us nor forsake us.
Prayer for Those in a Ziklag Season
James Coffey:So Father, I speak blessings and encouragement to them today. May your word be a lamp unto their feet and a light unto their path, not so that they can stand still, but so that they can continue to progress forward into what you have called them to do. And Father, I pray anybody watching this that may not know you, that they would find faith in Christ. Because the greatest promise that you have ever given any of us is that of salvation and redemption, and it only comes through your Son Jesus. So we thank you, we praise you, and we bless all of your people today. In Jesus' name.
Philip:In Jesus' name, amen. The book is called Stop Settling For Less by Pastor James Coffey. And he is pastoring the church called The Harbor in Lale, Tennessee. Thank you so much for watching us today. We love you. We appreciate you. We're looking forward to seeing God do great things in your life. We'll see you again. God bless. Bye-bye.
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Common questions
What is the book 'Stop Settling for Less' actually about?
James Coffey built the book around the biblical story of David in Ziklag — a place David was never meant to be, having drifted there out of discouragement. Coffey uses that story to argue that Ziklag is a season, not a destination, and that the moment you decide to leave it and move toward your God-given inheritance — as David did when he headed to Judah — is when breakthrough begins. The book is meant to encourage anyone in ministry, business, or family life who feels stuck and is tempted to quit.
How did James Coffey write the whole book so fast?
Coffey had already preached a full sermon series on the Ziklag passage earlier in 2025, so the content was already deeply worked out inside him. While getting ready to appear on the show, he had a passing thought that 'there's so much to say on this, I could write a book,' and he says the Holy Spirit immediately confirmed that was exactly what he should do. Two days later he sat down and wrote the entire book in 72 hours.
What were the three words God gave James Coffey for 2025, and what did they mean?
At the end of 2024, while praying for a direction for the coming year, Coffey received three words over about 24 hours: pursue, advance, and expand. He says God clarified their meaning as a single charge — 'pursue my presence, advance my kingdom, and I will expand your borders' — which became the guiding vision for his church, The Harbor, throughout 2025.
What kind of growth did The Harbor church see after their revival?
During a late-July revival, 25 people committed their lives to Christ. In the 15 weeks that followed, Coffey says the church saw 174 people commit their hearts to Christ in services alone — not counting students, kids' ministry, or outreach. By October the church had hit maximum parking and kids'-ministry capacity, leading them to launch a second Sunday morning service in November. In the very first week of two services, they broke their all-time attendance record for a non-Easter Sunday, then broke it again the following two Sundays in a row.
Why does James Coffey say opposition and hard times can actually be a good sign?
Coffey points out that the first six or seven months of 2025 — the period leading up to the revival — were filled with one challenge after another, from municipal roadblocks to building renovation problems. Looking back, he frames that season as the 'Ziklag experience': a place of discouragement that, in David's story, turned out to be the very last stop before his inheritance began. His takeaway is that if you keep pursuing God's presence through the storm rather than settling where you are, the breakthrough is often right on the other side.
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