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Hi, I'm Grant Dufresne, and welcome to Dufresne Ministries podcast channel. We believe that as you listen to this message, your faith will be stirred and you will be encouraged in whatever you are believing God for today. Stay tuned at the end of this message to find out more information about our ministry. God has said a couple of things to me recently. And one of the things that he said to me, he said, the turnaround is right around the corner. I like that. The turnaround goes right around the corner. Turnaround is right around the corner. And every. Every time I'm at home and I say that, the anointing comes on me. Hi. It's so great to know what to say. And then I was for the. I just got back on what day? Thursday, from Virginia. And for three days, the anointing kept coming on me in a strong way. I mean, not. I'm not talking about to minister, but privately. And so I was on the plane and flying back, and God said to me, he said, you're standing at the threshold of destiny. Amen. I go, ho, ho. Amen. We're going there together, right? We're going there together. And then Pastor Ruby said that Pastor Noel prayed out. I don't know when, last week, Tuesday. This past Tuesday. And he said. He said this by the Spirit. He prayed this out. No more skinny cows. No more skinny cows. I'm all for that. You know, if there's no more skinny cows, you know what's left. Fat cows. Fat cows. That's what's left. Amen. Some of you who might not know. Fat cow. Skinny cow. In the time of Joseph, there were seven years of abundance and seven years of famine, which were. The skinny cows came and swallowed up the abundance, but no more. No more. Amen. Why? Because the turnaround is right around. Amen. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. We have been. We have been. How many of you did not get to come over? We were with the keys over in Fireball. What was it, last month? Two months? March. March. I have no idea what month I'm in. It's crazy that we're already so far into the year, right? So in March, how many did not get to come to those meetings over there? Oh, oh, oh, oh. There were so many. Well, the room was full, so it looked like it couldn't hold all that. But God began dealing with me because I want to continue along that line. We were preaching along the subject of worship, and God just keeps talking to me more and more about this, and we'll see how Far we get into it, but I'll retell it for those who weren't there when I was with the keys in Fireball, Brother Norville Hayes went home to be with the Lord. And I'm not quite sure when. Do you know, Pastor Ruby, what month he went home? Maybe Tony, do you remember? But not too long ago, like last August. And so the last several months, I kept having this stirring to look up his stuff online. And so I kept watching his sermons, and Pastor Debbie said, she's doing the same thing, and Morgan was doing the same thing. None of us knew it, but we're all doing the same thing. And it came up in my heart. And I know I didn't think of it because I wasn't even thinking along these lines, but it came up in my heart that since he's brother Norval has gone to heaven, someone needs to steward the revelations he brought. And that just came up in my heart. And I said, well, Father, I want to do my part. I know others may also have that same thing on their heart, but I want to do my part on that. And so I had it in my heart to teach on the subject of worship while we were in Fireball, because Brother Norville taught on faith and healing, but he taught on it from the place of worship. And this is something that God dealt with him dramatically about. And it changed his life in ministry. When God began dealing with him about that, it changed the whole course of how he conducted his ministry. Happy Caldwell, who, I don't know. Have you ever heard of him? A precious man of God. And he was at our church a couple of years ago, and he was telling about the time that they had brother Norville in their church and. And he stayed in their home. Brother Norville did not like staying hotels. He wanted to stay in homes because he loved for people to cook for him and take care of him. And he loved a home setting, and he made himself quite at home. And so he was staying with the Caldwells and he was doing an evening service for them. He might have done several, but on this one particular day, he was preparing for an evening service and. And they could hear him in the bedroom worshiping God. They said all afternoon he was just laying on the bed and worshiping God for hours and hours and hours. And so after the service that he had conducted, he was getting ready to leave. And Happy Caldwell's wife, Jeannie, her sister, was coming in to stay in their home, and she had had extreme back problems, and she was getting ready to have surgeries or had had surgeries or something. Very, very dramatic. And she really had a lot of issues with her back. And Pastor Happy Caldwell said, don't change the sheets on brother Norval's bed. Now, see, this is a man who's thinking. And so they didn't say anything to her, but she came, stayed the night. The next morning she woke up and they said, how's your back? She said, I have more back trouble just laying in the bed where worship had gone on. What was it? It brought the anointing. You know, Grant said to me, my son Grant, he said, mom, what do you want me to do with this mattress? I think Joelle, because Grant has his house and Joelle, I think Joelle has a room there. And for a period of time, I think Joelle was using the bed. I'm not sure. But Ed and I had a California King mattress. And I mean, we had it like 20 years. It was a great one. And so I just didn't want to get rid of it, you know, because you got. It broke in good, you know. And so like a year or so before he went home to be with the Lord, we got us a new one. And so when Grant got his house, he put that mattress in there. And then he got a smaller bed because it's a big mattress. And then he said to me, he said, mom, what do you want me to do with this mattress? I said, there's something in me says don't get rid of it because the man of God laid on it. Yeah, yeah. Yes. Amen. Amen. I mean, he had visits with God on that mattress, you know, because I'm aware that that anointing can be stored. And I'm not trying to be weird, but you're more aware. I'm so thankful that Pastor Happy was aware that there was a man of God in this bed, you know, and it matters. It matters what you remember. And so Brother Norville demonstrated this life of worship. And as I was getting ready to preach, you said it was in March at the Keys Church. So I had. I was getting ready to go the first night, and we were going to leave the hotel at 6:15. And at 5:30, I was finishing getting ready, and I looked and there was an angel that was standing by the bathroom door. You say, did you see it? No, I just knew it by word of knowledge. I could tell you where he's standing. And in my spirit, I hear what is being said. Now, Ed could have told you what he looked like. Yeah. Because he would have the discerning of Spirits and see them, but it more with me. It operates the word of knowledge. And so that angel was standing there and he said, I have come to impart the utterance for the revelation given to Brother Norville. So I thought, how interesting, the wording. I've come to impart the revelation for the utterance. No, I've come to impart the utterance for the revelation given to Brother Norval. And notice, just because you hear a sermon doesn't mean you have the anointing to deliver it. You have to have something dawn on your spirit so that it can hit the target with people. And so I recognize. And then after I sat down, after that experience, when I sat down to see if you'll keep your spiritual antenna up at a time like that, God may continue to speak because there's an atmosphere when an angel comes in. There's an atmosphere. And so when I sat down, God continued to speak to me about it. And he said to me, it matters how you treat a man of God at the end of his life. If you don't honor him enough at the end of his life then you're not honorable enough to pick up the revelation and be a steward of it. And so I won't go into all of that, but it does matter. And God said to me, if Elisha would have only honored Elijah when he was at the peak of his ministry he said he would have never ended up with a double portion. He had to stay to the end to get the double portion. I tell you what, people. There's not a lot of people who know how to stay till the end. They don't know how to stay to the end with a certain revelation. They'll exchange one revelation for another. You stay to the end of it when it comes from God. And so with that, God just begins speaking and unfolding to us more and more things. Now, it's not my assignment to take Brother Norville's sermons and preach them. It's my assignment to take the message. And I'm not saying I'm the only one God would have do but I just know that God wanted that to not be lost. And so it's interesting because we were talking to the man who took over the headship of Norville Hayes ministry. Our office was talking to him and he said, God spoke to me and said, brother Norville's ministry will have one more lunge moving ahead. And here he went home. Well, it's the message they're talking about. So I want to. I looked through and I don't know if you've made this the book of the month yet. Brother Norville's book on worship. Have you had that one? So you have that in that book. You need to reread that one regularly. It's such a wonderful book. But in that, he tells what God told him. And this is what I want to pick up. And again, articulate. And God said to Brother Norval, he said, my children basically love me. Listen to that word, basically. Doesn't it give you this idea? Generally, they generally love me. You know, like you love pizza or you love hot dogs or something. But it's a specific. We have to have to really lay hold of what God has. We have to have on purpose. We're loving him, not just generally, you know. So he said, my children basically love me, but they live in poverty and sickness and defeat. So notice this basic love still gets sickness, poverty and defeat. Yes, that's right. Yeah. Amen. Then he said this. Now, this is God speaking to him. They don't live in heaven's blessings because now notice this. If we're not living the life God has for us, there's a reason. Find out the reason. God wants us to know the reason. He doesn't want us to be cheated out of the best. So he said, they don't live in heaven's blessings because they don't worship me enough. Now, in quoting that, I always go back to what dad Hagin said to us. He said this to us often. Praise brings the anointing, and the anointing destroys the yoke. Well, is there scripture for that? Well, God inhabits the praises of his people, so that's perfectly scriptural. How does God inhabit the praises of his people? With the anointing. Amen. When we praise, it brings his anointing into manifestation. When we worship and praise, it brings him into manifestation through his anointing. Amen. So I read this phrase this way, and it helps me to understand what God was saying even more fully. My people don't live in heaven's blessings because they don't worship me enough. We could say it. My people don't live in heaven's blessings because they don't worship long enough for the anointing to come and destroy the yoke. Too many times we're wanting God to do something to destroy difficulties in our life, get rid of hardship in our life. And he's wanting for us to take the step that invites his anointing to do that. It's not about getting God to do it. It's about us Cooperating. So he said, they don't have my best because they don't worship me enough. And you've heard me say it like this before, but if Pastor Debbie said, you know something, we want to show you a little bit of the area here, we'll come pick you up. And they come to the hotel, pick me up and say. I say, I've got 20 minutes. Well, I can go 10 minutes one direction, then 10 minutes back to the hotel. I'm not going to see much, but if I tell them I've got four hours to do that, I'm going to see more. What time helps you to see more? The more time you give to something, the more you'll understand it, the more you'll see it. It's the same thing with worship. The more time you give to it, the more you'll understand and see things that belong to you. Amen. And so it's not about earning something with time. It's about giving time, taking time so that we can be shown more. So he said, they don't live in heaven's blessings because they don't worship me enough. Or if I could say, long enough for the anointing to come and destroy the yoke. Now listen, it's not worshiping out of the mind that destroys the yoke. That won't bring the anointing. It's got to. At some point, we have to connect to our spirits when we worship. You say, what do you mean connect to your spirit? Really mean. It really mean comes from here. It's not just something you're saying because you should. It's not just something because pastor says, let's just raise our hands and worship and you go worship. If the heart doesn't get engaged, the anointing won't come into manifestation because the anointing doesn't meet the mind. It meets faith. And faith is in your spirit. Your spirit has to be engaged so many times when he says, my children don't live in my blessings because they don't worship me enough. Couldn't we say it this way? They don't worship long enough to get connected to their spirit. They worship out of their mind, or they worship out of a feeling, or they just worship because it's church time. Can I help? Every one of us needs something so that we need to understand some things about our walk with God. We must make time with God right throughout the day. But what we cannot do is turn it legalistic. If we turn it legalistic, the letter kills. But the spirit gives life. If we turn it legalistic, we take the life out of the thing. It becomes a duty rather than a privilege. Right. Anybody know what I'm talking about? That you want to spend time with God. Well, I'm going to do it this time. And that time I remember because, see, we all struggle with knowing where is that place, how, you know, because my day is so diverse. Some of you, you know, you have a very set schedule. That's great. Others don't have a set schedule. Then you try to set a time that you're going to be with God. And if you don't do it that time, the devil and the mind starts accusing and then it starts getting you under a cloud. Well, I, you know, and then it becomes a works thing and then it takes the life out of it. Right? So I remember one day I was struggling with this some years ago, and God said to me, he said, it's not about a devoted devotional time, it's about a devoted life. And I don't have that at hand. He wrote, he told me, like a whole page. God is not trying to bring us into. From 7 to 8 in the morning, we spend time with him. From 10 to 10:30, we spend time worshiping him. Worship is not about a time and a place. It's about a life. It's us learning throughout the day that our worship of God weaves in and out and in and out. That that flow is woven throughout our day instead of segmented times of our day. Amen. Because then it becomes mental and legalistic. And worship, that's mental misses the target. So what we need to do is just to learn. It's about all throughout the day, turning our attention, turning amen. With our hearts. Turning our hearts. Not just our mind, turning our hearts. Now don't misunderstand me. You got to start out in the natural, you know, you know, you're in the car. I remember God said something to me, not just months ago, he said, every time you get in the car, worship me for your healing, for your health. So I'm endeavoring to put in place every time I get in the car. Father, thank you that I'm healed. Thank you that your healing power is working. I thank you that you renew my, my youth like the eagles. And I start saying healing scriptures. Why, that's a point of context, so to speak, to where I automatically start engaging my heart about that. Amen. Well, you can, you know, Brother Copeland said, he says, I pray for my partners every day. And he said, so I decided I was going to have to connect that with something I did every day. So he said, I take a shower every day. So as soon as I get in the shower, I start praying for my partners. So what's he doing? He's bringing it into the flow of his day instead of setting it a segment time that you might miss. Worship is to be part of our life that we're not going to miss it because we weave it into throughout our day. And what that does is that keeps our heart constantly turning toward him throughout the day. That at different times we turn our affection and we turn our attention and our hearts toward him. Amen. Why? Because he's our Father. You know, how would it work in your marriage if you said your spouse, I can talk to you from 8 to 8:30 tomorrow morning. How would that work out on Mother's Day? No more than a human relationship can thrive under a mentality like that. Neither can a spiritual fellowship with the Father. It's got to be a flow of our life and not a segmented time that we say, here is when we talk to you. Now, don't misunderstand me. There may be times that we take. We set aside to read our Bible and stuff, but all throughout the day, talking and worshiping is one of the best ways to talk. Amen. Well, praise the Lord. So he said, here they don't live in heaven's blessings because they don't worship me enough or long enough to get our spirits involved. Because when our spirits get involved, you know, there's an anointing in you. There's an anointing that abides in you and every believer there is an anointing to. Because the Holy Ghost is in there. And he does. He isn't in there without the anointing. So when you get your heart connected, the anointing that's in your heart starts moving. And his anointing meets that. I mean, it can come up on you in a very tangible way. Right? So we want to make sure we worship long enough for the anointing that's within us to get stirred. Amen. And Jesus said, what is it? It's like a fountain springing up into everlasting life. Right? So going on with what God said to Brother Norval, he said this. He said, you're teaching faith and confession. You're praying for the sick. So that's right to teach faith, it's right to teach confession. It's right to pray for the sick. He said, but you need to worship me more. So notice this teaching on faith, teaching on confession and Praying for the sick will never be a substitute for worship. They each have their role. So he said, you need to worship me more and you need to teach my people to worship me more. If we worship more, we worry less. If we worship more, we fear less. If we worship more, we are less apt to be depressed, right? Why? Because there's no depression in your spirit. There's no fear in your spirit. There's no worry in your spirit. And worship that he's talking about comes out of your spirit. Fear, worry, depression are all assaults against the mind. Get out of the mind. That's it. Amen. Get out of the mind. Quit conducting daily life being dominated by that arena. Worship draws us into the heart arena, the spirit arena, which is the faith arena. Ha ha. We arrive at faith. Amen. Right? And God answers faith. God responds to faith. So worship is key to us to stay in faith, to keep our faith moving, to keep ourselves in the spirit, to keep ourselves mindful of him. It's the easiest way to stay in the spirit. The way to live in the spirit is never get very far out of it. You know what I'm talking about? You live like even if you go to work, you can get so you can in fellowship with God as you're driving to work that when you're doing your job, you're still doing the job, but you're not far out. You can just take one little push and you'll go over. I mean in to start worshiping God. And you know what I'm saying? That's what worship helps us do. It helps us to live to at a place to where at a moment's notice we're in contact with our Father. We can hear from him. We can talk to him and get results. Do you understand? And get results. Not just talk to him, but talk to him and get results. Amen. So he told brother Norville, you need to teach my people to worship me more. So notice this. Life teaches you to worry. Life teaches you to fear. Life teaches you to be led by circumstances. So something else has to be taught to you so you don't do what others are doing. Amen. Amen. We have to be taught it's not appropriate to worry when you could worship. Very good. If you worry, you have to forfeit worship. If we turn and become fearful about something, we have to forfeit worship to do that. I was saying to God years ago, after Ed went home to be with the Lord, I was dealing with, you know, so many different projects that we were finishing up, but there was One project that showed up on top of the eight that Ed had left undone, there was one that showed up that should not have shown up. And it was caused by other people. And I did not appreciate that with all that I was doing. Someone else created a problem and tried to add that to me as well. And you know, it was just disappointing because it's like, come on, I've got enough stuff without made up stuff, right? So I was sitting doing my makeup and women, you know how mindless you can be for that period of time, you're not really thinking about anything. And for some of us, it's 30 minutes, an hour, however long, you know, And I was getting ready to go to Bible school one day and I was sitting there putting on my makeup, thinking, oh, I just wish this situation were not happening, happening. It's just unnecessary. I think that's the biggest thing for me. It's just completely unnecessary. It's another expense for me. It's more time for me. It's just something else to get through on top of these other things. And it was just totally unnecessary. So I'm sitting there thinking about that and God said to me, you can think about that if you want, but if you do, you have to give up fellowship with me. Wow. I go, okay, this is not worth. This is already not worth it. But if we worry, we have to give up fellowship with him. If we fear, we have to give up fellowship with him. We have never had rich fellowship with God as we were depressed. Not possible. If we will have a lifestyle of worship, we don't have room for the other. You understand that? We don't have room for the other because we have already made a choice of what our flow will be. Not a worry flow. Not a fear flow, not a depression flow. We're choosing the worship flow. Amen. And this is what God said to brother Norville. Teach my people to worship me more. In other words, teach my people to choose this instead of what they've been choosing. Amen. Right? Amen. He goes on. See, people have to teach you what the right choice is. You have to be taught right. You have to be taught. Whenever something is a financial issue comes up, instead of the what are we going to do? Flow. Instead of the drama flow. Calling four people and reporting to them. See, the flesh loves telling what they're. What it's going through, the flesh loves telling it. And thank God we've got that phone so handy. We can do it easily, right? We have to be taught and retrain our response to circumstances. That we start worshiping instead of worrying that our first response becomes worship. When Ed went home to be with the Lord. I tell you, one of the things that was so key to me not getting under that situation was this. I just kept myself worshiping God and worshiping God and worshiping God for weeks and weeks. That's what kept me from getting under the wrong flow. Because the wrong flow was available. Sure. Yeah. Amen. Amen. It was available, but I made a choice. People have to be taught, quit choosing the wrong flow. Amen. Choose the right. Choose the flow that's going to change your life. Choose the flow that's going to change the circumstance. Worry is not going to change the circumstance. It's going to fuel it. Yeah. Amen. And this is what God said, teach my people to worship me more. This is what he told brother Norville. So instead of the mind just automatically going the direction the mind goes when it wakes up. Because what happens when you wake up? The mind starts to make, I gotta do this, I gotta do that, gotta do this. And if you're facing something, oh, I gotta deal with this and I gotta do this. And I'm gonna tell that fellow this. And you got him towed off for you and got out of bed. Right. You've done the whole scenario in your head. This is what he's talking about. Retrain the mind to go to worship. Instead of that, retrain yourself to turn toward your heart and begin worshiping rather than turning toward your mind and going through the mental gymnastics of the habits of life. Amen. Praise the Lord. Think about now, think about this. We know the account of Jairus. It says he fell down at Jesus feet and worshiped. And then he says, my little daughter lieth at the point of death. Come and lay your hand on her that she may live. Okay? He did not come up and say to Jesus, my little daughter lies at the point of death. Come and lay your hand on her that she may live. It's not what he did. First, he took time to worship at a life and death moment when time was of the essence, he took time to worship. You want to know why he did that? He had life of it. He was a ruler in the synagogue. He understood the approach to God. And the approach to God is not a crisis, panic approach. And you have to teach people that knee jerk reaction of drama and crisis and panic in your voice is not the appropriate approach for God's people. If you're unsaved, that works for you, fine. Because your life is entrenched in that but for someone who has been given a better life, a better way to live, then there's a better approach. Now think of it. It says, he fell down at Jesus feet and worshiped. And then he said, my little daughter lieth at the point of death. Come lay your hand upon her that she may live. He thought, right. And he said, right. Because he knew who he was dealing with. He's dealing with life. He said, she's at the point of death. Come lay your hand on her. She'll live. Think of this. And it says the next phrase. And Jesus went with him. Who does Jesus go with? People who worship. Who does power go with? People who worship. Amen. Now, what if he would have done this panic approach stuff? Let me read to you. I think I have it in these notes. I want to read to you the passage with. Yeah, The. The Syrophoenician woman. I want to read the wording of the Amplified with her. The Amplified. This is in Matthew 15 and in verse 22, but I'll just read it to you. This is the Amplified. It says, behold, a woman who was a Canaanite from that district came out and with a loud, troublesomely urgent cry, begged. Different approach. Crisis, panic. And it says loud. Oh, my gosh. Some people love to loudly tell their need. They tell it to everybody. Everybody knows what you're going through. Because they're not happy till everybody knows. Loud, troublesomely urgent cry. Begged. Didn't worship. Begged. Have mercy on me. There is no acknowledgement of who she's dealing with. No recognition on her part of who she's dealing with. Her approach is wrong. Why? Because she lives this way. That crisis response to every problem. It's a crisis and a begging and urgent. There are a lot of people that beg when they pray. And they don't get anything. No, that's right. It doesn't work. Why? There's no faith in it. There's no faith in it. So she came and begged, have mercy on me. Now that sounds good. Right? It's right words. But the thing is, it's not from a place of faith. It's from a place of panic. Have mercy on me, O Lord, son of David. So we know this. You've heard me say it before. She's a Syrophoenician. These are not the words that belong to anybody. But a Jewish. He's the son of David to a Jew. He's not the son of David to a Canaanite woman. That phrase does not even fit. It would just be like someone from another country coming and treating President Trump like he was their president. He's not your president. He doesn't belong to you. He's not their leader over your people. Right. It's the same thing. And so she comes up, oh, Lord, son of David, my daughter is miserably and distressingly and cruelly possessed by a demon. Listen to this. But he would not answer her. No response, no help. Why? First of all, you're coming in panic. No faith in that. You don't even know who you're dealing with. You're saying words that flatter me, Son of David. They sound good. They sound like you know who you're dealing with, but you don't. Because if you believed I was the Son of David, you wouldn't be begging here. You wouldn't be in a panic if you believe I was who you called me. He knew her actions don't line up with her words. There are a lot of people who come to church and they say, I worship you, Jesus. But where were you Saturday night? Seriously, actions and words must match. She's speaking flattering words of worship, but they don't fit what she knows or believes about Him. And he will. God is not flattered into helping us. Amen. God does not move because there's a need. You need to learn this. Your need does not provoke God. It's faith that provokes Him. Amen. So this is what this woman, she's trying to appeal to him based on her need instead of appealing to him based on her faith in him. So he won't answer her. Why? Because if he answers that, he's training her. Next time you have it, act this way. Next time you have a problem, you fall apart just like you're doing. He's not going to train us in our flesh. He's not going to train us in our mental and emotional arenas to respond to him. If he answers us when we're operating out of those, he's teaching us the wrong thing. Right. So when she approaches him, this begging, calling him something, but she doesn't believe it because she wouldn't be begging if she did. He won't even answer her. There are a lot of Christians who are not getting answers. Why? Wrong approach. Wrong approach. Well, I'm saved. You might be. Wrong approach. That's not the approach. He did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and implored him, saying, send her away for now. She's crying after us now he's. Listen. Jesus is. Jesus is not wanting to send her away. He's not Wanting to send anyone away. He's got to get people connected to their hearts because that's where help comes from. Yeah. So they said, send her away. She's crying after us. And he answered. And he turns to her based on their request of him and says, I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. But she came and she kneeled and she worshiped him. Ah, different approach you got. You know what he did? He was quiet enough to her. Give her time to get her emotions and her drama in check. Why panic doesn't get Heaven's help. And he will be silent long enough for you to realize, quit pulling that approach. Amen. Amen. All the begging, all the worrying in the world will not get Heaven's involvement. But she came. Now she's coming a second time. She's making a second approach. I've been on airplanes where the first approach wasn't good. They circle back around, they got a better approach now, this time. Now we can get a landing. Her first approach. Abort. Abort abortion. Go around. Let's do this again. That's all right. God will help you. He'll let you. But just because he doesn't answer you doesn't mean you can't have your help. It just means you're going to have to change your approach. He's not trying to deny us our help. He's just saying you're going to have to change your approach. Amen. So this time she comes and it says that she came and she kneeled. Ah, she didn't do that the first time she knelt. She worshiped him and she said, lord, help me. Okay? That's all you had to do. You didn't have to go through all this drama stuff. You didn't have to go through what you do with all your other family members. I know it might work on Grandma and Mama and Daddy and all this stuff, but this doesn't work with God, doesn't work with Heaven. That's not the approach. And when she changed her approach, all she had to do was come and worship and say, help me. He loves the sincerity of that. But notice it was when she worshiped first that help me meant something. Amen. And then, now listen to this. At the end of it, you know, they go through their conversation. And then Jesus answered and said, oh, woman, great is your faith. Be it done for you as you wish. And her daughter was cured. From that moment, the King James says, within the selfsame hour, within 60 minutes, her life is changed. Now, the thing that I Want you to see she came with four fear and panic first, but then she worshiped. And what did he say? He said, great is your faith. Ah. Worship moved her from fear and panic to great faith. Amen. Get that? Worshiping. The act of worshiping took her out of the mental arena of panic, drama, emotions, and put her right in the place where the Son of God, heaven's representative, says, woman, you have great faith. And it was worship, the posture of worship. That's it. Worship did that. Yeah. Now we go back and say, let's look again what God said to brother Norval. They don't live in heaven's blessings because they don't worship enough. Here you go. Yeah, yeah. Boom. Instead of having crisis meetings of the family over the financial, just get down on your knees and worship him and then say, I need your help. Just that easy. The devil doesn't want you to know it's that easy, but it's that easy. And God wants you to know it's that easy. If we will do, I mean, there's no deep, dark, secret, hidden action in these passages we read. It's very plain, it's very simple. If we do what they did, we get what they got. If we do what she did first, we get what she got. Nothing. The drama, the emotionalism, all of that that she did to get attention of people doesn't work with God. But what does work? Worship. It brings his favor on your life. It brings his favor into manifestation. I don't know about you, but this is thrilling for me. To be able to dig around with you in these things and find out what God has said is so simple for us to do. Go to Psalms. Psalms 34, verse 1. Psalms 34, verse 1. Now I'm going to go back to what I said about devotional time. Psalms 34, verse 1. It says this. I will bless the Lord. Look at the next three words. At all times, his praise shall what continually be Where? In my mouth? Ah. It's not enough to have a praise in your heart. It has to be in your mouth. Now look at the first phrase. I will bless the Lord. Isn't that worship and praise? And all of these are all of these run together. They can be very. They can be described differently, but they all are the same flow. I will bless the Lord from 8 to 8:30, and then again at 10, 10, 30. No, I bless the Lord at all times. This is the key to the devotional life. All times? All times. It didn't say 24 hours a day, but at all times. Of your day, all throughout the day. It doesn't have to be on bended knee for 30 minutes. It can just be. It can just be a turn for maybe five seconds. Father, I want you to know I'm so grateful for your movement in my life today. He finds so much favor and pleasure in that at all times. Not just sending him to a certain location and time of your day, but bringing him into every flow of your day. This is too good. This is so simple. So simple. The way to have great favor with God is do what he told Brother Norville. Teach my people to worship me more. It's that simple. Well, praise the Lord. Now the. Then let me finish this. I'm their God and they're my children. If you'll teach my children to worship me more, I will do great and mighty things for them. Think of that. Now I want to read to you Psalms 25:14. And then we'll close with this. Psalms 25:14, the Amplified. It says this. The secret of the sweet, satisfying companionship of the Lord. Did I say it right? Psalm 25:14. The secret of the sweet, satisfying companionship of the Lord. Have they who fear, revere and worship him notice worship is nothing but showing reverence and respect for him. That's all it is. It's respecting him. When the Syrophoenician woman came up and started just in a panic, just begging him, that's not proper respect. Not proper respect. Can I tell you? I'm trying to remember. I believe it was Pastor Craig Field who told me about this. It was because in his church, he has 34 nations represented in his church in Canada, because that's a melting pot up in that. In that Toronto area. And there was a woman who. She had been a Muslim and been raised in that. And, you know, they do their prayers at a certain time and day. And a lot of times you'll find that some of these people from other religions will have very dramatic encounters with God because they have been so entrenched in demonic teaching that it takes something dramatic to convince them. Because you can. You'd be the same way if all your life you heard it was one way. Yeah. You know, and God so loves the people that he wants them reached. And some of them have some very dramatic encounters. Well, this woman was laying on her bed and she was asking Jesus if he was real. Basically, she had heard about him. But this is something completely different. And you can understand if she receives Jesus, it's, you got to walk away from your family. You got to walk away You. I mean, it could mean your life depending on. Depending on what your family's approach to this is. And so she was laying on her bed and she was praying and wanting to know the truth about it. And Jesus appeared to her in her bedroom. And she's laying there and she's talking to him. And then she keeps talking to him. And when he was standing there, he said, when God walks into your room, is that the stance you have? She kept laying on the bed. Too comfortable, too casual. He said, God has walked into your room. She got up and she understood. Exactly. Because for her own religion, she didn't just lay on the bed and say her prayers. They would kneel or do whatever that they do. And Jesus, that he didn't talk to her first about salvation. He talked about respecting me. God came in your room. Show proper respect. Amen. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost. When he showed up, you know, God said something to me. I was sitting and I was praying. Because I will say this. When you're. If you're going to sit and pray, sit circumspectly. Don't sit. You know, your leg crossed and you flopped out like you're watching a football game. There's a reverence, you know. So when I'm sitting, I don't just sit like I'm sitting on the iPad going through something. You know, I sit a certain way. And I was sitting in the chair and I was, you know, I had a posture that I normally take, not because I'm trying to earn something, but because it's appropriate. And up from my spirit came. If you really believed you were before the throne, you wouldn't be sitting. I go, you got that right. And I got up and I got on my knees. Why? Because the more you worship him, the more respect grows for him. So here in Psalms 25:14, the amplified the secret of the sweet, satisfying companionship of the Lord have they who fear, revere and worship him. So notice worship is showing respect. It's showing reverence for him. So when it says that we're to worship him, he's saying, have proper respect and reverence for me. If you do, I'll manifest myself for you. Now, see what he said to Brother Norville. The last phrase. If you will teach if they will. If my people will worship me more, I will do great and mighty things for them. Couldn't we say it this way? If they would show more respect for me, I would do great and mighty things for them. Couldn't we say it that Way. So the secret of the sweet, satisfying companionship of the Lord have they who fear, revere and worship him look at the next thing. And we could say this. Because they revere, because they respect and because they worship Him. He will show them his glory covenant and reveal to them its deep inner meaning. So notice this. Evidently there's layers to God's word that the more reverent we are, the deeper we go into his, into understanding some things. Amen. Amen. There's a lot of Christians who are just okay with skimming the surface, just skim the surface. They just want enough to get through life. But if you want to have a deep fellowship, if you want to have a deep understanding of who you're dealing with, there are people who are just okay to just have a real skimming surface of their fellowship in their marriage. And it's real apparent. Yeah, it's real apparent. They don't have a. They don't have a. Their marriage is not a joy. It's something they endure. But if you want to have a joyful marriage, you take time to really know one another, be with one another and do what matters to the other. If it matters to them, it needs to matter to you. Amen. Well, it's the same thing with the Father that those who show him proper respect and proper reverence, he'll show them more things about himself. Amen. I don't know about you, but this is a grand invitation. A grand invitation. And like I said, I don't know how long it's been since you've read the book that it was the book of the month for you, a Brother Norville's worship book. But I tell you what, it would bless you to pull it back out and read it. He says it in ways that I don't. He words it in ways that I don't. But I'm so thankful that God is showing us even more of what's connected to this thing of worship. Amen. That if we'll put it in place. How about we don't just say it. How about we take a little bit of time and do it tonight? Just stand with me to your feet. Father, we worship you. We're so grateful. We're so, so grateful, Father. So few ever really get to hear some of the things we're getting to hear. So few ever really get to be instructed in these things. Thank you. Thank you for bringing us into this instruction, Father. We're around natural things and human things so daily. Thank you for letting us know there's a higher way to live. That we're not limited to the natural, the human flow. There is a divine flow. There is a heavenly flow. We desire that flow. That's the flow that you have for us. We choose the flow of worship. Father. We lay aside all worry. We lay aside all fear. We lay aside all heaviness. We say, no more. No more. Because you have showed us there's another flow that we can choose. We choose to set our attention on you. We choose to set our hearts on you. We choose to set our affections on you. We worship you. We're so grateful. Thank you for the price that you paid paid to have children. Thank you for the price that you paid in sending your son. We acknowledge that great price. We respect that price. We reverence that price that you paid so that you could have a family. Jesus. We respect and reverence your obedience to the Father. The price that you paid so that we could become children of God and Holy Spirit. We appreciate in reverence and respect the price you paid in leaving heaven and making us your residency on this earth. We thank you for your presence. We thank you for manifesting in our midst the Father's goodness. We thank you for that. We worship you, Father. We worship you. We're so, so grateful. We're so grateful we belong to you. We can look back over our lives and we can see the many, many rescues that you have given to our lives. We're so grateful that this morning when we woke up, your mercy was waiting on us. Your goodness was waiting on us. We don't treat that lightly. If it weren't for your mercies, we would have been consumed. Our enemies would have prevailed over us. But your mercy forbid it. Thank you. Thank you for being patient with us. Thank you for repeating yourself over and over to us. Thank you for that. Thank you for giving us pastors that tell us over and over and over and deal patiently as parents with us. We say, your patience will not be wasted on us. But we come into obedience. We listen to you. We listen to you. We're just so grateful. We worship you, Father. There's no one like you. We worship you. We worship you. We thank you, Father. We worship you. We worship you. We worship you. We worship you. Think of this now. Think of this. Anytime we want to, we can choose a different view than what we're seeing. Anytime we want to, we can be in the midst of the worst absolute situation. Decide. I'm not gonna. I'm not going to allow that. I'm not gonna allow that to occupy me and we can just, with one turning toward our hearts, escape while we're sitting right in the midst of something. I love something that Corrie 10 boom. You've heard of her. She helped hide. Her and her family helped hide Jews from the Nazis. And then they were found out and themselves thrown into a concentration camp. She was the only one of her family who came out of their life. And I love what she said. She said, learn to see God in the hard places. And even the hard places will bless you. Now, she's not such a saying that God put you in the hard places. She's saying, learn that when something is hard, you look at him, and what was meant to be hard will be a place that blesses you because you look at him. Difficulties have a way of pressing you in either one or two directions toward him or away from him. They either close you up or they open you up. And we can all look at different people's lives and see which way they tend to go when something starts pressing on them. But if you've been one who runs away and one who closes up instead of opens up and comes toward him. Learn to redirect what your attention does, what when you're under pressure. Amen. You know, you don't even have to be deep. Listen, this Syrophoenician woman, she was not a spiritual woman. She was not a churchgoer. She was not a member of the synagogue. Yet before she left Jesus presence, he says, you got great faith. And you know what it started with? She worshiped and just said, help me, help me. When you realize that he's your help. When you realize that no matter what situation's coming against you, he's your rescue out of that. When you recognize that, that's faith. Amen. Hallelujah. So no matter. Get out of all of. I say that to me, to everybody. Let's get out of what we've always done and how we've always responded to situations and say, is this the right flow? Is this the right response? Amen. And if it's not, let's change our response. And it's just as simple as just saying, I don't know what to do, but you do. I just work. She didn't know what to do with the girl. She didn't know what to do with her daughter. Can you imagine the torment in her house? Can you imagine the havoc that girl would cause? Demon possessed, living in the home. Can you imagine what she would have been like to live with? She didn't know what to do with her. She didn't have great faith because she knew what to do. She had great faith because she came to the One who knew what to do. Amen. That's faith. Amen. So let's put in practice that we turn toward our hearts instead of turning toward here, and we just start worshiping. What in your life might have been harassing you, troubling you, or just affecting you just negatively. Hopefully there's nothing you might can say. Nothing good. That's great. But if there is something, how about we say that stops. I'm done. I'm done responding that way. Done. I'm done responding that way. No, you say, well, you don't have the answer for it. I don't have to have the answer. I know what to do. I worship Him. Amen. Hallelujah. Remember what we read there in Psalms, that those who reverence him, he will unveil his covenant to them. He'll show them in His Word what to do. He will prompt. He will bring a scripture to you. He will bring a teaching to you. He will do something that will carry it. Your answer. And he'll bring it to you. If you'll worship Him. He'll get your answer to you, whether it's through your pastor, whether it's through a sermon you hear or a book you read, or him just reminding you of something you've already heard. He'll bring you your answer. But it's in the atmosphere of worship that you're going to hear your answer. It's not in the atmosphere of worry. It's not in the atmosphere of fear. It's not in the atmosphere of doing what you've always done. Amen. Aren't you glad that we're offered an easy approach? It's about putting a spiritual habit in place. A spiritual habit. Now, can I say this? We need to worship him in spirit and in truth. Meaning it's good to worship with our spirits. Or if we could even say this in other tongues. But don't just default to that just because you don't want to put forth the energy to think of words in your known language. Don't use that as a default. It's just easy to go and not put forth any effort of your own appreciation and regard. Amen. Now, don't misunderstand me. I'm not saying that spe speaking in tongues is not showing appreciation. What I'm saying is it needs to put forth some effort to recall and think of, Father, I appreciate this and I appreciate that. It's like when the kids were growing up my boys, and they would get in a fuss with each other, and I'd make one of them repent to the other, and they'd go, I'm sorry. I'd say, no, no, no, no. That didn't work. You on purpose were very specific when you said what you said to him. Now this I'm sorry stuff doesn't work. What are you sorry about? You have to say, I'm sorry I said this to you. I should not have said this to you. You know what? I'm just doing. I'm sorry. That's a flippant. I don't really care. I'm just doing what I got to do. But many times people just do worship you. Worship you for what? Put forth some effort. Come on. Put forth some effort beyond just reverting to just not being engaged mentally. Yes, it needs to come out of your heart, but your mind can recall and remember some things. Amen. Recall it. Recalling. Recount to him the times he's rescued you and worship him for that. Amen. I guarantee you start making a list and you won't have enough time in your day to recall. Go back to when you were a child. Go back to when your parents got born again. If it weren't for them getting born again, what kind of mess you'd be in. Amen. It's just never ending. To reach back into our appreciation and on purpose articulate our worship to him. Amen. Hallelujah. How would you like every day your spouse said, appreciate that? Appreciate what? What? You know that doesn't work in a marriage. Why would it work with this? The greatest of all greats, right? Amen. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Are you helped tonight? So how about we do some digging around in all this? I tell you what, you think that I'm just coming to minister to you? It's for very selfish reasons. I love preaching on this because the more I preach on it, the more it comes out. And I need it. I need it. I want it. Amen. And I'm just letting you in on it. How's that? Pastor Debbie? Thank you. We trust you've enjoyed this message. Visit us at defrayministries.org to learn of our upcoming meetings, share your testimony, become a partner, or visit our online store. This program has been made possible by the friends and partners of Defray Ministries.