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"The Warfare Of Worship" Part 1 - Pastor Jennifer Field - Jul. 10. 2024
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"The Warfare Of Worship" Part 1 - Pastor Jennifer…
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Tonight I wanted to get into the Word on the warfare of worship. The warfare of worship. Isn't that a beautiful graphic? Peter sent that to me today. I think that's so pretty. The warfare of worship. They almost sound like they don't go together, those words, Right? The warfare of worship. But that's exactly what worship is. That's exactly what it is. And when my husband was giving that message on Sunday about worshiping the Lord with our offerings, remember God spoke to him on the plane and corrected him about some things and then talked about it only being half through the worship by just instructing and that we need to learn how to worship. Have y' all been doing that in the last couple of days? It's amazing. Worship is like. When you worship, it's almost like. You ever see one of those great big. It's not a spotlight. It's like one of the. I guess it is a spotlight, like a beacon. It's like nothing gets in the way of that light. It's a force. It's not diluted. Worship is like that. You've got to get out of yourself sometimes. Or you got to get past some mechanics sometimes. But really, it's about getting down in your spirit. And worship is a fast track. It's a fast track to the realm of the spirit. It untangles you very quickly and gets you into the realm of the spirit. It's like our Nexus card. My husband and I have a Nexus card when we travel, and we feel it when we travel with the kids. Now, they're worth it, but they don't have a Nexus card yet. We're working on it, but for us, it's a spirit. And as we stand there, listen, y', all, it's 50 bucks and a little interview. It'll change your life. And we look at each other and go, how come everyone doesn't do this? It's so amazing. When you travel. Worship is like that. Worship is like that. It throws things off you. It takes away delay. It equips you to just have a single eye, a single focus, and then as you're worshiping, you step over. You can't always just leave it with the mental. The mental arena. I'm telling you, there is something God wants us to get into. That's why he said that to my husband. That's why that came out for this past Sunday. You know, I didn't tell him what verse I was doing for the offering, but that was about, enter into his gates with thanksgiving, into his courts with praise. Just a little while ago, there was a great emphasis on righteousness. Did you notice that God wanted us to really be firm in who we are so that the devil wouldn't be able to take advantage of us and that even if we're going through something or being corrected or whatever, we wouldn't wallow in the wrong part of it. Because your righteousness makes you stand up, makes you very aware not to be condemned on purpose, makes you very aware of how to operate. So God emphasized that. But I knew in my spirit when I heard my husband speaking on Sunday that he was emphasizing worship, he was emphasizing praise. And so there's something that he wants to put in you tonight. And we'll just see where he leads. I've got my notes. I always do. But I love it when things start bubbling up from the inner man. That's the highest form. That's the highest form of teaching the word. Amen. So I was listening to Pastor Nancy, and she was talking about a statement that God said to Brother Norval Hayes. So we're going to start there. I think you guys have heard it, but I want to drill down a little bit on it tonight. I don't think I can drill down more than Pastor Nancy, but this church needs what comes out of her spirit. Amen. What she emphasizes, we need. So this is what the Lord said to Brother Norval Hayes. He said, my children basically love me. So there's no extra in that word, basic means. He acknowledges that love goes up toward him. He says, but they live in poverty and sickness and defeat. So you can see a direct correlation that loving God is not enough actions required. Otherwise we live in sickness, poverty, and what a terrible thing to have something paid for and not be able to access it because you don't have enough knowledge or you don't have action in the listening. God is emphasizing worship in this church. But please don't treat this as church as usual. We've got to get to another level. And this is, like I said, it's a fast track. And there's a way of engaging in worship that gets you in your spirit, because God, with this church, wants this church to be a worship hub. We have the songs, and more songs are coming to get us worshipping. But it's different when people gather together and they know how to worship in spirit and in truth. It's more than just singing truthful words. It's more than singing beautiful melodies. It's more than just even just loving God. It's engaging fully in that act of worship and praise. It's Key. It's so important for every revival. And it's an abandon to God, and it's very, very powerful. And so I wanted to get into this because we need to put a focus on it so that revelation can come. We want the whole church filled with worship. Not singing. Worship, worship from God to God. He says they don't live in heaven's blessings because this is God speaking. Because they don't worship me enough. Now, I'm going to break that down. He is not talking about works. He's not talking about you don't do it enough so you don't get my attention. You don't get my hand to move for you. That's not what he's saying. Remember, he's done everything for us. So everything that he's doing is to move us into it. Everything. To make difficult things very easy through revelation. Okay? He said, you're teaching faith and confession. He's saying this to Brother Norville. You're praying for the sick. But you need to worship me more. And you need to teach my people to worship me more. I'm their God and they're my children. See, he's possessive over us. If you'll teach my children to worship me more, I'll do great and mighty things for them. So I'm here tonight to teach you how to worship him more. Because he wants to do great and mighty things. He's grieved. He's talking to Brother Norval because he wants to move people into a place where they can receive mighty and great things that he has for them. We have to gain knowledge. And as Pastor Nancy always says, this is her key word, gaining skill. Gaining skill with the Word so that we know how to operate in worship. The second statement of what I just read says, they don't live in heaven's blessings because they don't worship me enough. So I want to say this. Praise and worship brings the anointing. And it's the anointing that breaks the yoke. So worshiping God makes you get into a place quickly where the anointing can come and break yokes. God does not want us struggling with things year after year, even month after month, sometimes a lifetime. It's because we're not getting in the spirit. That's why we're not getting in the spirit. There's no condemnation because he's telling us, how much easier can it be than praise and worship? Praise and worship. I mean, that's not even a list of things to say and do. It's an adoration of him and his power. It's almost like throwing your hands down to your sides and going straight to the top, straight to the top to worship him. To put yourself in a place where your spirit begins to percolate with worship. When your spirit begins to percolate, begins to be heightened because you're worshiping him. It means then that you can feel your spirit, man. And it shifts you out of what you can see, out of the mundane, out of the everyday, out of the facts and the figures, and it shifts you into the realm of the spirit. Now, when we get in the spirit, the anointing comes. And Pastor Nancy has shared so many stories about how. Remember the three years, every 10 years, three years of struggling with being harassed by a demon, and God said, just praise me. Now, to the mind that's untrained, what that sounds like is okay. And it doesn't even sound bad. It sounds acceptable. God is asking Pastor Nancy to do some work. That's what it sounds like, right? Praise me. Okay, so in this instance, he's giving me an instruction, and I'll follow it and he'll help me. But it's deeper than that. Why is he saying praise me? Because she's not in her spirit. She's throwing everything at it, as we should. But there's a deeper skill level. When he spoke to her to praise me, he's not giving her some arbitrary little runaround thing to make her work. He's giving her a fast track to get her into her spirit, man. That's all it is. When he said. And she said, when she started, she said it was dry. Why was it dry? Because she. And listen, there's no criticism. She tells us these stories because she had to learn, just like we're learning, right?
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Same thing.
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So when she shares them, what was God trying to do? She said it was dry. She said there was no. It was praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. I think she did it for, like, two or three days. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. What was happening? God is asking her to do something so that revelation can come, so that he can get her in her spirit. As soon as she got in her spirit, he said, now, speak to it from that place. Now the devil will tell us. That's Pastor Nancy, right? Yeah, that's Pastor Nancy. Listen, when a demon's coming against you, you're not pastor, apostle, evangelist. It's just you. It's just you. When he told her to do that within a short period of time, she said it was like something like a Drop down in a slot in her spirit. Now look how fast. There was no fanfare, there was no music. Look how fast when she did what he said. He gave her the instruction to give her wisdom so that she would get out of her mind, get down into her spirit. As soon as there was that click, her spirit opened up. She basically got down into her spirit. And then he said, now speak to it. And she said, basically, it was very, very, very. A simple sentence commanding it to leave her. I think she went to the bathroom to do it and it was done. Now, when you dissect that story, you can't leave it at. Well, that was the instruction at that time. Listen, we can get there so much faster by recognizing the power of worship. Because if I worship, I'm engaging my spirit man. And when I engage my spirit man, remember, we're spirit. It's spirit to spirit with God. The faster I can get down in my spirit and speak from that place that destroys yokes, the anointing destroys yokes. And so when you begin to understand that the walk, our Christian walk, is all about getting into our spirit man, then things begin to make sense. Why? Years and decades have passed and things seem elusive. Things. There's defeat, there's some victories. It's almost like we don't know Him. Listen, worshiping God brings you into intimacy and we have got to know Him. That is the highest call. It's not laying hands on the sick. It's not traveling around the world, it's not books. And it's not being a great singer if you are one. It's nothing like that. It is about knowing him. I would recommend. I think it's Steven Porter is his name. He writes books about a German gentleman named Walter Butler, B E U T T L E R on Amazon, who was from Germany. He actually died in 1974, but he wowed people because he was not a charismatic figure whatsoever. But he wowed people because of his intimacy with the Lord. And he wowed them because he waited on God and he curated something in his life that was the opposite of go, go, go, go, go. Energy, energy. Do this, do that, pull this lever, run around. It's noise. And he went the opposite way. Worship brings us into a knowing him, we have to know him. You can't let what you see around you dictate how you're going to know God. You can take the good and there's plenty, and God plants us in places so that we can go faster and further. But there's things out in that realm. That no one's experienced. Experienced. Knowing him has to be our absolute utmost. So he's not saying we have to earn anything from him. Okay, Praise and worship. Obviously, you bring a grateful attitude in to the place where you're worshiping the Lord. But it's about lifting up your hands and worshiping him and exalting him above all the circumstances or all the things that you're believing him for and allowing the anointing to begin to stir. Even if it's. It doesn't matter if it's finances, it doesn't matter if it's healing, it doesn't matter if something's following you. It doesn't matter because he has made a way where he becomes the utmost in such a simple act of worship and adoration. And he's telling Brother Norville to tell the body, I want to do great and mighty things for them, but they don't worship me enough. What does that mean? They don't get in the spirit. They don't know what it is to cause the anointing to come. And I'll destroy yokes. I'll bring answers far beyond what they could ever think up. And you know what? We need those answers. We need those provisions. We need those miracles. We need those deliverances. We need those things power to put things back together. And we need to know him above all. He's the sweet spot. He's everything. He is everything. We're to worship long enough. So how much is long enough until the anointing comes to destroy that yoke? But we have so many examples that once you get in the spirit, it doesn't take very long. It doesn't take long because the enemy is a defeated entity. And the anointing, when that shows up, he runs in terror. You notice he's not terrified of the human race. When David ran to meet Goliath in the Old Testament, everything was a symbol. It was very specific for the New Testament church because David as a young boy was no match in the physical, natural realm for that giant. That giant was sophisticated. He was sophisticated at warfare. He was very trained. Our giants, the enemy in our flesh, they're more sophisticated. They're spiritual beings. But the anointing came on David and he ran. My God. That's what the anointing looks like. That's why the Lord said to me all those years ago, he said, it doesn't matter the size of the enemy, whether it's the lion or the bear or the giant. It matters that you have the anointing. Why? Because he's going to destroy that thing for you. He's going to do it. He's going to work as a co laborer with you. But he makes our part easy. When things are hard, we're lacking revelation because God never did anything but make anything easy for us. And you can tell by the people that we're under, like Pastor Nancy and Brother Randy. They talk about those places in the spirit. And you notice they never make it sound hard. They talk about once they step in, the Lord just shredded that attack, how it ceased. Remember when Brother Randy was here and he was talking about that attack on their finances? Right. Once he got in the spirit. We're talking about praise and worship tonight. And I'm not sure that he didn't bring out that particular point. But getting in the spirit, okay, we're talking about it through praise and worship. All of us qualify praise and worship. But he's talking about when he saw was over, it was over.
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Being in the spirit means it's over.
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And worship brings us into that place. Hallelujah. Listen to this. Isaiah 10:27. And it shall come to pass in that day that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder. Now Isaiah is talking about the invading armies over Israel. But you understand we're spiritual Israel. So when you take it through the cross, he's talking about the enemy's burden is taken away from our shoulder and the yoke from off our neck. And the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. No matter what the yoke is, people are not experiencing freedom from yokes because they're listening to the enemy say that they can't be free. But most people are not trained how to get in the spirit. Right? They're not trained. And that's why we're seeing yokes remain. But oh, to worship him, he turns hard things easy. He turns hard things easy. And you get to enjoy him. You have to worship him. The anointing comes from the realm of the spirit. Accessing it is vital for the Christian because we communicate with God, spirit to spirit. So we don't live in heaven's blessing sometimes because we don't worship long enough for the anointing to come into manifestation and destroy the yoke. That's why he told Norvo to say, they don't worship me long enough. I'm repeating some things tonight. I wanted to go into your heart. I'm doing that on purpose. Poverty, lack, sickness, defeat and failure are yokes. Depression and fear are yokes. They are. And all of these yokes We've been redeemed from. We have been redeemed from. We have every right to walk above it. Every right. Many times, if not every time. The length required to get us into the realm of the Spirit is indicative of our fellowship and intimacy with the Lord. He is not standing off from you. He is not. When I begin to pray, my brother and I go out and pray. When I begin to do it on a regular basis, I always prayed. But when I began to commit to times, season in, season out, day in, day out, I noticed that the first year it took longer to get in. But now, as soon as we get in the car, as soon as we get in, he's there. It's noticeable, it's tangible. The anointing is there to pray. I would say it's because of the intimacy developed, and it's because we know how. Does that make sense? We know how to worship. We know how to not pay attention to any drag. We know what's waiting for us. There's an excitement brought in. There's a refreshing. It's just. You just step in. Dad Hagin talked about that. He would say how it was very easy. In a moment he could step into the realm of the Spirit. God is not looking around and saying, okay, I'm going to make it easy for him, hard for her. He's not. And if you don't really think about it, you can almost feel that that's the way that it is. Some people are good at it, some people are bad. No, it's not that. It's getting in, worship. Getting in, worshiping. So when you leave tonight, I want you to go out armed with, I'm going to worship. It's not just, yeah, yeah, praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Yeah, I need to worship more. I'm going to worship. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Go home, pick something and start worshiping about that. And then do it every day until whatever that is is removed. And worship. Worship him for the provision that you don't see yet. Cultivate, cultivate, stay there. Worship him. Worship him. Don't get bogged down. Begin to magnify him, because. What's he saying? He's saying, I want to do great and mighty things for them. Well, he's saying he can't because they don't worship him enough. So if we go out and we're worshiping excessively and the first thing out of our mouth is worship and praise, then we're engaging with him. And I'm telling you, the anointing of God will flow into those areas. And what has seemed dry, not accessible, like you're pulling on a lever and you don't know which one to pull. It's all simplified by praise and worship. He's going to do what you can't. And when you praise him, praising is an act of faith. You don't see him. You don't see what's coming. You don't see the provision he has for you. But praise and worship is a direct act of releasing faith. And faith is of that realm. And when faith is released, oh, the anointing comes. He can do what he wants. He's not held up anymore because you're busy looking at the problem or looking down because you have got your face up to God and you are worshiping and worshiping and it never gets old. And you worship him and. And you worship him. And he allows that anointing to come.
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In like a river and begin to break and snap those things that are standing against you.
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And you just revel in his power and in his glory and in his presence. And you watch him wash it away.
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You watch him do what you couldn't.
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Do, and he will do it for you. And he told Norval, I want to do great, great things, mighty things. But love's not enough. Loving him is not enough. You got to know how to worship him. You got to know what to do. And you notice. It's easy, easy, easy, easy to worship him. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Praise the Lord. Oh, he's a faith God. But faith is more than just. It's more than just. I use my faith. I believe. Faith came out of God. It's supernatural. And he put it in your spirit, man, because that's where he lives. So he doesn't want you to live anything beneath what he is within your spirit. He's married to you. He's tied to you. So faith gives you the eyes to see. When you're releasing your faith, he begins to put those things in you so that you have supernatural eyesight. You can see that other realm. Oh, thank God. Thank God. We are not tethered to this realm. We're going for that realm. That's where we want to be. Glory to God. When we worship God, we're acting in faith. And God's power always meets faith. His power, expectancy of power, expectancy of the supernatural, expectancy of great and mighty acts. I am so grateful for the supernatural part of this life. You know, when we were in East London with Pastor Nancy, I think it was Was it the first night? It was the first night, yeah. We got there and went straight into service. You know, I didn't think I could do that. If you had asked me, I'd travel across the world and get my clothes on and go straight to service. I would have thought, uh, no, no, we didn't have jet lag. We walked right into the service as if we were walking in the air. I'm so grateful. I'm so grateful for the people that I follow and the things that they preach and teach. And so in that service, Pastor Nancy was. She had the healing at the end of the service, and miracles were popping like popcorn. People were throwing away their walkers, getting out of wheelchairs. I'm serious. It was beautiful. And it was so easy. She wasn't working nothing. It was so easy. She's just walking in. That divine call of hers, had the people line up. And as she's walking through and laying hands on people, an angel hit me hard, the hardest I've ever been hit. Didn't hurt, but he hit me on my right shoulder like that. And I. And I went, I know you're here. What is it? And he said, watch. Watch how she operates. Watch. Pay attention. How she operates. And I said, yes, sir. And so why am I bringing that up? Supernatural life. That's where every one of us. Every one of us. Supernatural life. And aren't you glad? Praise and worship gets you there? I have a dream for this church. There's a revival coming to this church. The seed of this church is here. And on Sunday, there'll be some more. But what's coming is a revival where God gets to do what he wants. And one of my dreams for this place is for it to be filled with the worship of heaven. And then he can do what he wants. He can heal, he can deliver, he can set free. And it'll be easy because that atmosphere is charged. And the anointing comes to break yokes. Amen. Glory to God. So the third statement in that statement to Norval, I'm breaking it down into four parts. He said, you're teaching faith and confession. You're praying for the sick. But you need to worship me more. And you need to teach my people to worship me more. And that's what I'm doing tonight. I'm actually asking you, I believe, under the office of a pastor, worship him more. Make it your mission when you leave tonight, I'm going to worship God. I'm going to be a worshiper. I'm going to know what it is to stir my spirit with that intimacy with God where I'm worshiping him and he gets to perform the things that I simply can't do. And he'll do them so easily for us. Hallelujah. It's right to teach faith and confession and pray for the sick, but it doesn't take the place of worship, right? Oh, glory to God. Listen, when opposition arises, we have to worship him more because the temptation in the adverse circumstances is to turn and watch those circumstances and flip out of the realm of the spirit into the mental arena, which includes the emotional arena. I love this because I listened for Pastor Nancy because this was a big deal. When Dr. Went home, how she walked on water. I saw her do it. I'm good at reading people. I am good. I know. And it was real, I'm telling you. And she said. What she did was. She said many things about it. But I heard her say this personally. She. She said, I began to worship. It was like a blockade. It was like a wall. She said, and when I begin. Right away, right away. She began to worship when she heard the news. And she said. I continued. This is. This is instruction tonight for us, she said. I continued in that worship, she said, and it became an impenetrable wall, she said, I watched it deflect things so that nothing could get in. That's how powerful it is. That's how powerful worshiping God is. Because you can't protect your mind all by yourself. The word is faith food. It's supernatural seed. So when we turn and do what it says, that power is released to be for us. But you can't protect your mind. You ever watch a carnal person try to protect their mind? Talking about the unsaved? Do you listen to all the hype and the garbage about there? What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Garbage. Do you hear that? No. It's coping mechanisms. And you survive it and you move on. But not in God, you don't. Not in God. In God, there's a totally different way where we engage with His Word. And it's his word that is the shield. It's his word that's the rock. It's his word that deflects and destroys the enemy and tears him down. Just like Goliath. Just like Goliath. There was no way to see that giant's defeat that day. There was no way you could ever assume and come to that conclusion that that monster would be lying on the ground, humiliated. And that army that mocked you and tore you to pieces for 40 days with proof that they could do what they said was not an empty threat. They traumatized them. They tore down their confidence. They had nothing left. An entire army. Covenant people with God did nothing. And then a little boy walks in the midst and they all look at him. I'm serious. This is what happened. You can't see how that giant's going down. But all you need is the anointing.
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That's all you need is the anointing. That's all you need is the anointing.
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And to throw up your hands and worship him and look at things that are trying to tear you apart. And to worship God and to get into places of worship and to stay there and to refuse to allow any of that junk to come into your mind. Why?
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Because it's his power.
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It wasn't David's power.
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It was the power of God that came on a young man.
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A young man that was not trained like Goliath. He was not trained. I don't care how much training David had. He was not trained like Goliath. He didn't have the conquests that Goliath bear or lion or not. He did not have. He did not have the past that this dread hero had. But he knew God. And what is David known for? Praise and worship? He is known for the Psalms. Let me tell you. He was not smart enough. No matter how brilliant he was. He got out there on those hills with his instruments or not, and he sang under the stars. He sang to God. And I'm going to tell you what happened. That little shepherd boy, he praised God Almighty and God began to stir anointings in David. And up came those psalms. Up came those words that are eternal. Those words are eternal. They're of the Holy Spirit. But David penned them by the Holy Spirit. He was a worshipper. And he lived out all of his days. All of his days. And let me tell you, David had more enemies. It was impossible for him to survive. He could have been beaten at any point. But God was his shield. And there you have the psalms praising God, supplicating to God, crying out to God because he knew God. And worship will bring you into knowing God. It will cause things that are dry to become well watered. Flourishing. That place of the spirit. Worship is a place in the spirit. Listen, there's nine types of prayer that dad Hagin taught us. And I could list them all. They're here in my notes. But the prayer of praise and worship accompanies all the others. It does. It accompanies the others. You can pray, but to lift your hands and worship him. It does something. It takes you out of you. It puts you into Him. Do you understand?
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He's in you.
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But it transfers you quickly into another place. Just try it. Just try it. Just try it. Start to worship him. Look at that problem, Hannah. Look at that problem and worship him. That's all you have to do. And he turns difficult things easy. And before you know it, it'll just be a testimony. We are God's people and his power is ours. It belongs to us. And he does not want us powerless, worshipless. He's married to us. He's covenanted to us. Glory to God. To stay in faith, we must hold our attention on God and His Word. Worship helps us do that like nothing else it does. We must be skillful at maintaining a life of worship. I have learned something about the Lord. His desire is to get us into such an easy flow that the Christian life is just heaven on earth. But I've also learned this, that the transfer, this is not God. But the transfer from flesh to spirit requires something of us. A life dedicated to the Lord is the best life you'll ever live. There is no life outside of Him. He is life. I want us to see how far we can go into that life. What it holds for us, what it looks like, what the revelations are there, what's in that house, that house of worship. But we have to learn out of flesh into spirit. But I'm telling you, listen, when you went to school and you learned math, once you learned it, you learned it, right? That's the good news, right? I'm not talking about all the calculus and all that stuff. But God's being in the realm of the Spirit is the highest life. There's nothing low about it. It's all high. But once you learn, once you learn about worship as warfare, once you learn that, oh, I know what to do once you learn it, like muscle memory, I know what to do. And you enter into it. It's yours forever. It doesn't come and go. It's not here today, an elusive tomorrow. It's a lifestyle enter in. Remember, the Word says, give him continually give him praise. And I've got the reference here, a lot of verses in my notes. But anyway, in worship, there's a flow of peace. Because nothing can get in the outflow. The outflow of worship. If you've got a faucet, when you turn that faucet on, that water going out, nothing can get back in the pipe. There's an outflow of worship. I'M telling you, he is putting an emphasis on us upping worship, living in worship, putting it in our lifestyle and staying there and graduating. You know what I mean? We never arrive, but still you get there. You do get there. You're meant to get there because there's levels. You know, when you build something and you're building levels, once you get to a certain level to go back to another level, it doesn't make sense. You don't go back to another level. You've established everything in this level to get to this level. And he said to me, he said, what? Worship is another thing that I'm building. He told me, he said, I built righteousness. And it's not that that's over, but he put an emphasis on righteousness. He said, I established something. He said, I want to establish my people in a lifestyle of worship, worship and praise. Then when you come to church, you bring it with you. But it's not for here. It's not just for here. It's who you are, the fruit of your lips, continually giving praise to him. Then the fourth statement, it says. Well, let me just finish that. Worshiping God helps hold our attention on him. Did you hear that? Worshiping God helps hold our attention on him and on his word and off of opposition. Why do you think Paul and Silas praised as not just some sweet little story? Paul knew the realm of the Spirit and he was training Silas. Silas was wonderful. He stepped right in there when Barnabas left. But he'd been with Paul before and he knew. So when they hit the roughest waters, When you know worship, when you know praise, you're not doing a hit and miss. Well, let's try this. Well, this sounds good. Well, let's be good Christians and do. No. Paul knew something deeply about the realm of the Spirit. So his way with Silas was we got to get in that realm as fast as possible. Their bodies were traumatized. And I don't know about you, but if you don't have claustrophobia and they put you in those stocks, you might get it real fast. It's horrible. And they don't treat prisoners very well. What do they do? The only reason, because Paul knew the realm of the Spirit, he knew I gotta get down to my spirit. Come on, Silas. Let's praise and worship. And look how quickly. Look how quickly God answered. Skill. No whining. Don't get me wrong, God. Listen. It says he's touched with the feelings of our infirmities. You know, he feels our infirmities more deeply than anyone else. Will ever feel our infirmities. He knows us, spirit, soul and body. He knows exactly the range that we're going through. He knows it, but he can't give you the answer there. But you have his comfort and you have his heart. He will flip you into your spirit as fast as you'll let him. Because then the anointing will come. And in this case, it broke all their chains off of them. So in these last days, God is raising up people that know how to walk in the spirit. And they're worshipers. They know how to walk up to something that's so much bigger than them and not even flinch. Because they know how to worship God. They know how to. They know his heart toward them. They know how to activate their own faith. They're not looking at what they're seeing. They're looking down into their spirit man. Because he's already declared over and over in the Word who he is in us, what he's put in us. You know, I was saying to my brother, or he said it, I can't remember who should get the credit here. Maybe it was Joey. I think it was Joey. We were walking last night and we were praying, and it was like. We discussed things. We say, you know, like, have you ever heard a sermon? Like, I'll give you an example. You know, you've got joy on the inside of you, so act out on that joy. Now, before you're used to tapping down into your spirit man, you will try to access that through your personality. I guarantee you you will, because that's the only thing you know yet. So you'll stir yourself up and you can even have results just taking the word out and, you know, trying to feel joy. And I remember when I would begin to hear, like, Pastor Noel talk about, the joy is in you. And they had to say that over and over again. And I'm sitting there going, yeah, Mm. Yeah. But until you know your spirit, you don't know what he's talking about. There is a well that it's always present. Why? The reason we don't experience is because you have, I say you, all of us, you have to learn to turn to your spirit, dip down. And if you're familiar with your spirit, you can pull it up through praise. And it's so much stronger than just natural joy. There's nothing that compares to it. But that's why it's being taught tonight to worship him, to get down in your spirit, your mind and the attributes of your personality can't take you there. But worship will Take you there. Worship will take you there. Glory to God. Fourth statement. If you'll teach my children to worship me more, I'll do great and mighty things for them. So he's saying that that's what he wants to do. If you can get them to do this, I'll be able to do what I want for them. Great and mighty things. And you notice when God says that he's talking about great and mighty things that he considers great and mighty things. We consider certain things great and mighty, but his is always so much higher. He's talking about, from his perspective, great and mighty things. Look at the statement again. If you'll teach my children to worship me more, I'll do. I'll do so. The whole point of him talking to Brother Norval is about this. You teach them so I can do great and mighty things. That's the Lord's heart. Isn't he precious? He's so kind. Oh, glory to God. Worship enlarges our hearts. You've got to have your heart enlarged. You can't receive the things of the Spirit until you spend time with Him. And in his presence, he enlarges your heart and you're able to receive things, you're able to see. You're able to cooperate with him and take things in. Becomes the easiest thing in the world. And worship in his presence in that sweet place where you're getting to know Him. That enlarges your heart, that causes you to expect good things, that causes you to expect mighty things. And you stop being a worm. You stop thinking wrong about who you are. He made you something special. And he's held the door open for all humanity. He has. But he made us a brand new creature, a new species of being. God lives in us. God lives in us. He lives in us. We are spending our time here tonight learning how to operate in that realm, how to cooperate with the greater One who lives on the inside. How to get the anointing flow flowing so that yokes are broken quickly and forever they don't rise again. We are enlarged by God who is so great. And our enlarged hearts can lay hold of things and receive and contain more. That's why Brother Jesse, actually, let me say, Brother Winston at the table, Bill Winston. What a general. What a sweet man. You would love him. I just sat and stared at him. But he was talking about, I'm going to believe for two more planes. I'm going to get two more planes. And we're like, oh, sir, that sounds awesome. He goes, why not? I'm not Paying for them. I'm not doing anything. And what's he mean now? What is he saying? He's emphasizing it's easy. Why? Because he's trained himself to walk in the spirit on finances. He's not up here. He's not doing the math. And his faith. See, your faith between you and the Father is so personal and it's so intimate that it's a constant turning to him. I love this. In this book about Walter Butler, they said that the young people loved him because he would walk into a class and this tangible practice, presence of God would follow him in. And he would talk about himself and his friend and the great adventures that they had together. And he would say how they did, like, 33 transatlantic flights at that time around the world. And Jesus would have him go and meet him in certain places and say one time he said, I'll meet you at the pyramids. Oh, my God, that is so intimate. That is so precious. I will meet you at the pyramids. And so he changed his ticket, got to the Pyramids, and he said, as soon as he got there, Jesus was there waiting for him. That's for every one of us, guys. And he said, oh, I love this. He said, in his younger years, God began to pull out of the Word all the verses about waiting on God. Waiting, waiting, because we don't know what to do in that waiting. And I'm not sticking to my. My notes, but anyway, I'm just going. But that waiting. He said, I have done countless thousands of hours. And his wife talked about how he would set up two chairs at night in his bedroom, and he'd have a cushion. He'd get himself real comfortable. All this religious talk about being uncomfortable when you're with God, I don't understand it. I'm glad if someone wants to sacrifice, but God don't mind you being comfortable presence. So he said he would have these chairs set up every night, pretty much. I'm sure there were nights that were missed. But typically he'd go and he'd sit in those comfortable chairs, prop his legs up on the pillows and have a blanket, and he'd just wait on God. Oh, it's so precious. He said, I learned to not need to say anything because he didn't need that from me. I just wait. And he said, one time, I waited a week. Nothing like just, you know, it might have been for an hour or half an hour. And he waited. And he said, but on the Sunday I went in. And he said, the presence of God just came. And he Said it's impossible for you to wait on God and him not come. He's going to come. And I think too, what it does, it's a purging process for you and for me, that we don't need to complicate the process of sitting with the king. And when he comes, I'm telling you, yokes are destroyed. You spend time with the king, you're asking him about things, and then you're waiting on him. This is a lost art, my friends, waiting on him. Oh, but to know, like the simplicity of sitting in the presence of the Almighty and not needing to have to come up with all the right words. And then he comes. He knows anyway. He knows what we face, he knows what's in our hearts. But to have the freedom to sit, oh, is so perfect, is so beautiful. And then to worship him and not complicate it, just to worship. Just to worship. When we got home on Sunday, we got in the pool. I don't know if it was Monday or if it was on the Sunday, but I carried that instruction in my heart about lifting your hands and worshiping him. I count it my job to get. Get that property that I live on, where it needs to be. So I thought, I've decided I'm doing it by faith. But it's not going to be hard, so I'm just going to worship. So I get up and I walk my property, and it's become one of my joys. I go out and I talk to the Lord about the rose bushes I want and where I want them, and I get swept away. He's not a financial transaction to me, but I do talk to him about those things. So when I went home after Sunday, I thought, yeah, I do talk to him fair bit, and I thank him, but I just want to worship. I want to get that word that I learned on Sunday. And I want to do it and do it. I want to lock it down. And as soon as we did it, Luki was with me, Caleb was with me. And I don't think Craig was even. No, he wasn't even home yet. It was Sunday. And so I said, okay, guys, okay. Remember what we learned on Sunday. Let's just worship the Lord. And they looked at each other and smiled, and then they started right along with me. And listen, I had to learn, just like you, you think I'd be doing that? I wasn't. I went home and got to it, but the presence of the Lord was so sweet, it came right away. I could feel him right away. And I Said Father, thank you for that instruction. Thank you for making it simple for us, because that's what he did. We get so much beautiful instruction, and all of it matters, but then to just kind of put it all together and worship him, it's beautiful. Don't you love him? Don't you love him? Don't you love him? There's so much that's coming that we're going to get to see together. We love him. Amen. We love him. We worship. We worship you, Father. We worship you, Jesus. Psalm 119:32 says, and I'll finish with this. I will run the way of thy commandments when thou shalt enlarge my heart. When you eat spirit food, he enlarges your heart. It's so important. His. His word, like I said, enlarges our spirits. And I'll end with this story. And I'm pretty certain I know all the details, but Lillian B. Yeomans, in her book, a classic book on healing, she talked about. She's a doctor and a minister, but she talked about how a terminal woman was brought in, no hope for her. And she wanted this woman to say a healing scripture over and over again. And so she got her like to say it over and, like, for hours. And she would come and check on her. And the woman was saying it, but she didn't really get what was going on. She said, I'm saying it. And then on day three, Lillian was downstairs in this home, and all of a sudden she heard feet hit the floor and someone came running. I think there was a shriek as well. And this woman emerged from upstairs from a terminal condition, totally healed. What happened? She ate spirit food. She didn't even understand what she was doing or what it could do for her. But just by being obedient, it clicked down into her spirit. And as soon as it did, the anointing came and destroyed that yoke. Wow. Pretty simple. Terminal disease. Saying a verse over and over. I'm serious. Listen. It wouldn't have taken that long if she'd known how to be spiritual. She had to go through the grind, from the natural into the spirit. We don't want to wait for that. We don't want to wait. Be fleshly. Get over now. Worship now. Get down in your spirit now. Amen. Father, I thank you for the emphasis on worship. I thank you, Lord. You are training up men and women and young men and young women in this church to be spiritual, to get down in their spirits to worship you, Lord, that they would know you and that great Exploits would come out of that, knowing you, Father, you want to do more for us. You want us to worship you more. So that the anointing can come and break every yoke. Hallelujah, Lord, if you did it with King Jehoshaphat, Father they put the braziers in front and the enemy killed themselves.
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It was impossible.
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But it wasn't because they worshiped you. My God, what a. What an amazing story that we look at and bring through the cross. And, Father, so we worship you. We thank you that you set up ambushments for our enemy and that they're destroyed. And that, Father, the spoil for days we clean it up because that's what's.
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On the other side of a victory. Hallelujah. When we defeat those enemies. By your power, by praise and worship.
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Worship, Lord, it's twofold. It's knowing you which is the higher. But it also destroys every enemy. That we would know you. And, Lord, you welcome us in. You long for us. And so, Lord, I thank you that the word released here tonight, Father. That it would go into each spirit in this place. That they would long for you. That they would worship you. They would watch you do a direct word from heaven that you gave to Brother Norville. Teach my people to worship me more.
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That I would be able to do.
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Great and mighty things for them.
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And so, Lord, this word has been.
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Preached to this people here tonight.
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Father, I thank you.
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They will do the word.
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They will go out with your praise high in their mouth. High, Lord, getting down in their spirit. That the anointing of God would be able to flow freely. That the joy of the Lord would come when yokes are broken. When the impossible things. When the Goliaths are face down, beheaded. And Father, I thank you. That is what that means. That's what you've promised us. And we worship you, Lord. We worship you. Lift your voice with me just for a moment. Lord, we worship. We worship you. You are the Great One. You are the almighty God. Nothing can withstand your power. Nothing can withstand your anointing. Lord, you are the most amazing God. And your power has been given in covenant to us through the blood of your Son. And we worship you.
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Jesus.
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Thank you for coming in flesh. Thank you for going to hell on our behalf. Thank you for raising from the dead to sit on a throne that is high above all thrones and having the greatest name above all names. Lord, we worship. We praise you. We thank you. We magnify you all that is you.
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We magnify.
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We glorify you, Lord, as we go out of this meeting tonight. Lord, I thank you that your praise and worship will go before us. We will do the word.
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We thank you for the education of the spirit. Oh, glory to God. Oh, you love it, Lord, when your dominion is preached. Hallelujah. That your spirit can have free course. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Thank you, master. Oh. In the name of Jesus.