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"The Warfare Of Worship" Part 2 - Pastor Jennifer Field - Jul. 14. 2024
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"The Warfare Of Worship" Part 2 - Pastor Jennifer…
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So on Wednesday night, I knew to preach on worship. It's actually the warfare of worship. So I'm continuing that this morning. And it was actually. I started with something that the Lord had said to Norville Hayes that Pastor Nancy talks a lot about and actually has a book on it called Worship, and I recommend it highly. But so on Wednesday night, I brought out the four different points of that paragraph that God said to Norval. And I will read it again this morning. But as I was preparing this part, God took me to Second Chronicles, chapter 20. And it was just a little note in all my notes, and he said, I want you to start there. So let's start there. We'll see how far we get this morning. Okay, so turn with me, 2nd Chronicles 20. And let's start at verse 12. O our God, this is King Jehoshaphat. And they're in a heap of trouble. And there's a battle arrayed against them, and it means certain death. And it's not just one group of people. It's the Ammonites, it's the Moabites and the people of Mount Seir. And they formed a coalition to take out the people of God. And they're outnumbered. The people of God are outnumbered and surrounded, really. And we're going to see the different points that caused them to overcome. Now, every point that is made, we have to bring it through the cross. This is for us. Remember, the Word says, these are examples that were written so that we would know what to do in our New Covenant, New Testament times. It's the same thing for us. It's just. It operates a different way. It operates a greater way because he's in us. The Holy Spirit is in us. Okay, so, O our God, wilt thou not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us. Neither know we what to do. Our eyes are upon thee. You know, when we go before the Lord, our enemies are not flesh and blood. They're not. They may be moving like puppets, flesh and blood, but they're not the source of our problems. Our problems are of a spiritual nature, from a spiritual enemy called the devil and his demons. And he's got them in rank and file. But I love what he says here. He says, will you not judge them? So we have every right when things are coming against us pointed at the source of our enemy, the devil. God, we're working with you. We're co laborers with you. And we're calling on judgment in this situation that our enemy be judged. And when our enemy is judged. He is made to cease. Whatever he had planned is stopped. Whatever fruit he wanted to gain is aborted. And so we in our prayer and in our time, with God, in our praise with God, it is to bring judgment against our enemy. Because the word says, you know, oh, my enemy, when you rise against me, don't rejoice, right? It's just. Because why? Because there's judgment coming on you? God's going to move. Because I know God. I know how to talk with God. I know how to work with God together, you know, he's promised he'll never leave you. He's promised he'll never forsake you. He's promised you the victory. And I know when we sit in church and we're growing in the things of God, we can look back over our life. We have victories and we also have testimonies of where things got missed, where things were defeat. But that's because we got to know, we have to know this co laboring process with God. When we come into knowing the enemy is defeated in those areas he cannot win. We are promised a fleeing when we stand, when we resist him. Because God already brought to bear the power that destroyed his work against us. Amen. And all Judah stood before the Lord. Look at this scene with their little ones, their wives and their children. So when I saw it, I thought, lord, little ones, that must be the babies, right? Their wives and their children that were of greater age probably. And they're helpless. They're standing there before the Lord gathered together. Then upon Jahaziel, the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jael, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph came the Spirit of the Lord in the midst of the congregation. This is a beautiful scene. They gather and they. They wait on the Lord. And does he disappoint? He never disappoints. And the Spirit of the Lord comes upon this man, this, this Levite, and he said, hearken ye all Judah and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem. And thou, King Jehoshaphat, thus saith the Lord unto you. So the Lord immediately starts speaking. And it's his words that we're waiting for. Always waiting for instruction. Always not trying to do it on our own, not pulling every lever. We're waiting for his words. When we get his words, when we get his words, when he highlights something in our spirit, that instruction that will bring us victory every time. Thus saith the Lord unto you. Be not afraid. I love the way the Lord speaks. He is such a conqueror. He does not know defeat. He does not ever have a thought of fear. That's not his flow. It's not in him. And he doesn't want it in you, actually. He forbids that flow of fear and dismay in you. So you can see that whatever is in you, which is the Holy Ghost, is far greater, far greater than anything that you can see. They're looking at armies, they're looking at death, they're looking at plunder, they're looking at everything that they love being destroyed. And not just destroyed, but destroyed in flesh front of them. That's horrifying. And the first words that comes out of the Lord, I love it. Fear not. He never gives out empty words. He never gives out words he can't back up. He never gives out words of power, and there's no power to back them up. Never, never. His words are sure. You can count on his words. Be not afraid, nor be dismayed by reason. That's an interesting word, reason. Mental. What you can see the mental arena, the emotional arena, right? By what you can see by reason of this great multitude. So he acknowledges, yeah, they're great. There's a lot of them. For the battle is not yours but God's. It's not yours, it's mine. That's what he's saying. So every battle that we face, everything take a step back, Every. Take a step back and disengage from what is surrounding you. Stop and remember who you are, what's back, who's backing you and what's backing you, which is his power. You always stop and step outside, and you do that with your spirit man. You do that with the word. You do that by engaging with God. You step outside and it's fine to assess, to know the details. They knew three armies, a coalition. They're coming for us. It's okay, I would say, to assess it, but you assess it first by an absolute refusal of, I am not afraid. I will not be dismayed because the battle is not mine. It's not your battle. Well, I need this. And it doesn't look like it's coming. In the covenant he promised in the blessing of Abraham, it's been given. So everything that you can think of that would try to make you feel like you're alone, like he's not with you. The word says he's with you. The word says he'll never leave you. The word says this battle's not really yours. It looks like it's yours. It's picking on you. It's pressing on you, it's talking to you, but it's not yours. Whatever sickness, whatever lack in whatever form I say lack. People think money, money is just one form of lack. What about an inability to learn things? What about spirits of poverty following you around that you have been given dominion over? What about threats that you have no idea how to disentangle or untangle or get someone you love out of it? I'm telling you. But God says, don't be afraid. The first thing he did was remind them of him in their midst. You always step back, you always assess to remember that if it's coming against me, he takes it personal. And not only that, he's saying, you might see it, you might be right there in the midst of it. Now, I'm going to give you instruction to exactly what to do. And I guarantee you this, it's never complicated. If anything, the testimonies that are so great are super simple. They're so simple. Why? Because our part's simple. It's his power. And we just watch him do it. We might say this. We might do this little thing and there's great miracles because of it. Always remember, always remember, it's not your battle. Well, yes it is. You're in the mental arena. He's trying to get you out of that place so that you can remember that he said he's right in the middle of solving that problem for you. Solving? Listen there. We're talking about people that are going to be murdered together in mass, okay? In creative ways, I'm sure. When you're hated and your enemy comes against you, right? And God is. Do you notice he's not in a rush. Look how simple this was. So the enemy is beating on them, but just look how simple. They gather together, they acknowledge the Lord, and then in their midst, the spirit of the Lord right away starts moving. Right away, God starts moving. Did it say they held 12 hours of worship? It didn't. Right. It says they gathered together and they looked to the Lord and then a Levite in their midst. The spirit of God immediately showed up to begin to do a comfort session. That's the first thing he did. Don't tell me he doesn't know the feelings of your infirmities. Don't tell me he does not understand human flesh. Don't tell me he doesn't understand the emotional realm. First thing he does, he moves into comfort. He did not move in to tell them the instructions of battle array yet. First thing is comfort. First thing is to cause them to trust Him. That's the first thing. That's the first thing. Glory to God. Now listen. Tomorrow, go ye down against them. So this is a non retreating God. Go ye down against them. Behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz. And ye shall find them. Look, he's telling the secret things. You'll find them at the end of the brook before the wilderness of Jeruel. Hope I'm saying those names right. But anyway, praise the Lord. Now I love this. You shall not need to fight in this battle. Can I tell you something? In battles of the spirit, you don't fight. You stand. You speak, you worship, you take instruction. You never. Aren't you glad that we've forever been delivered of having to fight a natural enemy? We don't have to ever fight, and we shouldn't. Our fight is in the spirit. That's why here we're always teaching get in the spirit. Get in the spirit. And the warfare of worship gets you in the spirit. It gets you in there quicker. And if I get to it today, I'll explain it a little more, but I talked about it a lot on Wednesday night. You shall not need to fight in this battle. And I love this. I love this. Listen to this. Sit yourselves. The Word has been given to us. We sit ourselves always on the Word. What does the Word say? We sit the Word. That's where. That's the victory that's already been given. We set ourselves and it says, stand ye still. I told you it was easy. I told you it was easy. Stand ye still. That's peace. They're not running around in chaos. There's no frantic pace. If anybody had the right to be frantic in the natural. And look at what God's people do. Look at what God's people do. They turn to him. He begins to instruct. They make sure there's no fear. They set themselves in peace. Then they set themselves on the Word. And be still. Oh, this is glorious. This is glorious. We're still while his power moves into operation. And don't you forget it, you're still. While his power moves. There's a stillness that comes from being in the realm of the spirit. If you're moving and moving and moving and trouble, he is still saying to you, be still, don't be afraid. Don't be dismayed. I'm with you. That's what he's saying. Stand ye still. Sit yourselves. Stand ye still. See the salvation of the Lord with you. And this is the Lord. He will cause you to be still. So that peace comes. So that even before the rolling out of the total victory, you'll stand there and you'll anticipate and you'll watch before that answer is perfectly complete. Because his peace is completeness. He says to us, my peace I give you. Not as the world gives, Give I unto you. It's a totally different thing. The peace that comes from heaven is given way before answers show up in the natural. Our job is to walk in perfect peace. Perfect peace. Perfect peace. Let me repeat this. Set yourselves on the word, Stand ye still in peace and see. They're all S's. I love that stand. It says, sit. Stand and see the salvation of the Lord with you. O Judah and Jerusalem. O promise of life. Amen. Fear not be not dismayed. He's saying it again. He's bringing out something. This is not just words of comfort, and they are comforting. These are words for battle. There's no fear. It's not allowed. Not allowed. Not allowed. Root out fear. Drag it out into the light and put your foot on its neck. Tomorrow, go out against them, for the Lord will be with you. And King Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground. He's grateful. He is honoring God. This is the right stance when instructions come forward for us to worship. Amen. And all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the lor worshiping the Lord. Now, in the next few verses we know, and I'll read them, that the army starts with the worshipers. But I took pause here because this is the first place, right where they all bowed before the Lord. So there's worship throughout this. It was worship when the word of the Lord came down on the Son, the Levite, the Son of Asaph. This is all a process of worship. And I want to show you through the Word. It is not complicated. It is not ritualistic, but it is of the heart. It is from a genuine place that God meets us. But it's simple. Hallelujah. So when you're facing things that are not simple in the natural, when you get down in your spirit through praise and worship, I promise you it's simple. His power is going to flow. And your reliance on his power, strong reliance on his power. Oh, he delights in that. There's no fear there. There's peace there, and you are assured of victory. So when he's telling you, you're not going to get that something that means something to you. And I'm not talking about just money. You're not going to have that in your family. You're not going to have a family, you know, that thing that's precious to you? I'm going to destroy it. This is what the enemy says. All those dreams, all those things that look like they're going a certain way. When you get in the spirit, when you praise and worship, you can turn it. I don't care what it is. I don't care if the parties look like they're on board or not. I've seen God do it. I've seen God change the minds of people that didn't look like they were ever going to turn and they didn't want to turn. I've seen it. So we have scripture. We have scripture for battle. And praise and worship is what's laced through this book. Hallelujah. And the Levites of the children of the Kohathites stood up to praise the Lord God of Israel with a loud voice on high. They rose early in the morning and went forth, forth into the wilderness of Tekoa. And as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem. Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye be established. Believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper. And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the Lord. I love this. And that should praise. The beauty of holiness. What kind of a phrase is that? What kind of a name is that? The beauty of holiness. Not just holiness, the very beauty of what holiness is. And all that he is this beauty of God. And they went out before the army and to say, praise the Lord for his mercy endures forever. And when they began to sing and to praise. Now this is key. When we worship as warfare, when we worship, when we get into a lifestyle of worship. Worship brings us down into our spirit. When we get in the spirit, then God sets ambushments. And you can expect it because you've got scripture for says the Lord, set ambushments against the children of Ammonia, Moab and Mount Seir, which were come against Judah. And they were smitten. That's all you're ever going to see in the Word. When men that are God's cooperate with him. The enemy is smitten. That's all you ever see is victory. As long as we cooperate with the Lord, as long as we take his instruction, we keep our hearts humble before him. He can do anything for us, anything that we need. But we must worship him. They worshiped him under dire circumstances. Let me say this. I believe that worship is the highest form of prayer. Dad Hagin said that because it turns off your mental and it's like a beam coming out of you. It's just one way. It's not diluted. You gotta. You get yourself into that place and that worship is coming out of you. But God is looking for a people that worship him continually. Like, just like we teach and preach a word life. Getting up in the morning and putting him first and not getting legalistic about it, but enjoying that back and forth with him. This is a call to a lifestyle of worship. Going home today and before the sun goes down, not in a legalistic way, but finding a place to worship him about something. It might be about your house, it might be about a problem at work. But listen, when I say worship. We already do so much praying, Father, you know, so and so is mistreating me at work. I need you to either, you know, move them around or, you know what I mean, you get into that prayer. But the worship that I'm talking about, yes, that can be touched. Those words can come forth. But it's more about I worship you. I worship you. I thank you. I thank you that I have your victory. I thank you. You gave me your victory. I thank you. Every enemy is defeated. I worship you. I worship you. You're the beauty of holiness. I stir up my spirit, the real me to worship with you. Spirit to spirit. I just stay here and I worship you. And it's like you get out of telling him, thank you for handling that person at my work is like step one and you're allowed to do that. This is a relationship. But you're going to go past that into worship. Praise you. Thank you. You're the Almighty. You're more than enough for this. I look at you, I only look at you. I thank you. I can't be defeated. I worship you. I worship you. And that worship grows and ascends. And you may say that one sentence 30 times, or you may say it 3,000 times, but it's a place of cultivation. So when you leave today and you're doing a lifestyle of worship, put it in like you would put in the word. Make sure there's a. You get a muscle reflex, if you will, of the spirit I need to worship him as you do. You will come, you will go out of this and you'll down in your spirit man. And there is movement in your spirit. And instead of it taking a year to figure out this problem at work, you'll just, it'll come here and either God will say something to you or he'll just do what you praised him for. And you'll look back and it's gone. It's gone because you refused to be afraid. You refused to worry about it, but you worshiped him. And then once you understand a great place of worship, then you stop thinking about worship as four songs on Sunday morning. And you stop thinking about, oh, I'm going to put this album on, which we all do. And I have music going all the time. But it gets to a point sometimes where that worship is so great, you got to turn that music off. It's noise. It might be beautiful noise and if someone birthed it somewhere, but in that moment, it's getting in the way of the worship, the high praises of him. And you'll get swept away. And you can get swept away on two sentences of worship. Two sentences of worship. And it takes you into a different place. And when you begin to recognize that place of worship, then this place, whenever we're gathered, will be something very different. It will flow out of you because you are a worshiper. You have a lifestyle of worship. All of us, I believe, know what it is to pray. We pray. We are increasing our prayer. We're increasing time tongues, we're increasing all those things. I want you to increase worship. I want you to get into a place of I'm continuously worship. And when circumstances come and you feel that pressure come, you just go down, shove yourself down on your back and you worship. You just. I'm getting from here down to here as fast as I can. Oh, I know what to do. I'm going to go and worship. That's what Pastor Nancy did when $6 million had to be paid or she would lose the properties that they had built for how many years? How many years in ministry? And it wasn't just like, well, okay, we'll lose the one building. There's no defeat in Christ. But even if she had thought that, she wasn't safe to think that because one affected the other affected the other. The devil came to destroy the ministry as well as take doctor Home early. But something had been put in her by the Holy Ghost. What is it God told her to do? Practice peace. What is practicing peace? Worship. You can't get into peace faster than worshiping. I said it on Wednesday night. It is a nexus card. If you know what a nexus card is, I'll explain it. It gets you in a different line at the airport. It has saved us countless hours. It's 50 bucks. It's an interview. If you travel a lot, I highly recommend that, you know, it just cuts you through the line. It's Amazing. The benefits. It's so easy. Worship is that way. It's like there's all of this coming against you, and there's a little elevator right here. And you just step into it, push the button. Worship and get right down into your spirit. That's what it is. That's what worship does. It's not about God. He wants your praise because it's his flow, but it's to put you somewhere. He wants you to worship him in his greatness because then his power is allowed to flow. Your faith gains movement when you praise Him. And the church has dumbed it down to God, needs to hear us sing a few songs, tell him how great he is, and he's great and he's worthy. But that's not where we stop. It's about getting into the flows of heaven. It's about activating our spirit man. If you don't know your spirit man worship will get you there very quickly. If you're listening to the sermons that are being preached and you're like, I still don't really know. I still feel like I don't. I can't feel my spirit man. I don't really know what it is. Worship. Worship the Lord. Because what does He. His spirit will just grab ahold with you and just take you into that place because he's the one that wants to guide you in that place. It's a place. It's a place. The Spirit holds places. And you need the Holy Ghost to lead you through. So he is our instructor. He is our great teacher. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Now listen to this. Wow. Here we go. For the children. It says they were smitten. And then it goes back to describe. It goes back to describe more details. It could have just stayed there. But God is talking about a conquest of his people. Okay. For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir. Hold on. Something's going wrong here. They're in coalition. And I love that the Bible doesn't. It doesn't always explain it, it just states it. But we know what happened because it says right utterly to slay and destroy them. So something's gone wrong with their battle strategy. One third of them, if they were in equal numbers, it might have been higher than one third. But one third of this company is now attacked by the other two. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. Right? Wow. Utterly to slay and destroy them. And when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy another. Take a pause, people. This Is not a small thing. This is not normal. No one does this. This is beyond reason. This was not done with normal thought. This was. I believe it was the power of God. Plus, we know angels work. But he used them. Their bodies, their minds, their weapons. He came upon. Is there an. I mean, we know God came upon a donkey and he kept hitting Balaam into the wall. Hitting Balaam. And then he spoke. So God came upon that donkey and caused a miracle. But this is the same operation. It's like he filled them and used them. That's amazing. They helped to destroy. They helped to destroy one another. What did they do? One holds the other one. It doesn't make sense. And yet it happened. And when. Listen. Judah was not there yet. Judah saw the outcome of this. Judah saw it when it was done. I love that. I love. Do you know how troubling it is to watch people kill each other? They didn't even have to watch the enemy destroy one another. They weren't there. That's amazing. And when Judah came toward the watchtower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude and behold, there were dead bodies fallen to the earth. And none. None escaped. Listen, when you're believing God for something, remember this. Nothing escapes. When you're in the spirit and you're taking something back that looks like it's destruction, that looks like it's never coming back, nothing escapes. Not when you listen to the instruction of the Lord. Not when you send the praisers out front and worship the beauty of holiness so that the fullness of his power, see, they didn't get in God's way. They did what he said, which was simple. And then they let his power flow. And when his power flows, nothing escapes. So what we're believing for when we're turning things around and God starts using phrases like, instead of the thorn tree, came up the myrtle tree. He calls us cedars in Lebanon, bringing forth fruit in our season. When he talks about that, we're getting our cues from the Almighty. Our expectation is set by the word. The renewed mind believes, the fullness. I'm taking back all of it. Well, how are you taking back all of it? I believe and I speak. I believe and I speak and I praise. Because this is about worship. This is about worship, speaking, believing and worshiping for the impossible. Oh, glory. I just got. Father. Thank you. Thank you, Lord. In this garbage can of a world, Lord, you know, there's beauty in the world, too. I don't mean that, but thank you. This is our portion. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Father. That Our eyes would be filled with nothing but provision, nothing but victory, nothing but no fear when our enemies show up to slay us. Glory to Jesus. Hallelujah. None escaped. And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away. What? What did they come to take away? The spoil matters after every fight. You don't leave the fight without the spoil. When he writes it down for us to remember, you take the spoil. You take all of the spoil from the enemy that you're taking back. You're taking back hope. You're taking back his life. For that situation. The enemy is now dead. But the enemy which came against you now has something that it has to pay. Because it came against the children of God. And God released them to go and get the spoil. Now listen to this. They found among in abundance. At the end of every battle, there's something there for you to take in abundance. I'm not making this up. This is what the word says. Both riches with the dead bodies and precious jewels. So there was equipment, clothing, garments, personal items and precious jewels. Now listen to this. Which they stripped off for themselves. Listen. We're a people of love, but when we deal with our enemy, we're ruthless when it comes to getting the spoil. We're not leaving the rings or the precious jewels or the garments or whatever it was you packed away in your tent to come against me. It's now mine. It's now mine. Listen to this. Now. Get a picture in your head. More than they could carry away. More than they could carry away. More than they could carry away. The spoil. And they were three days. Three days gathering the spoil. Why? Because the enemy was far greater in number. Look how God sees this. Reverend Dan, look at this. God saw. That's some spoil for my people. Three days. No fear gathering up. Listen, there's spiritual implications for us here. When our enemy comes against us and it gets turned. You're watching the spoil. You're building it. You're taking it. You're enjoying that spoil, Nancy and Gus. You're enjoying that spoil from the turnaround of that battle that came to kill, steal and destroy you. Gather it up and the joy will carry you. The joy will be so great, so much greater than the battle. Much greater than the time, length of the battle. The joy of the spoil is what you're going to take home, is what you're going to enjoy. That's what the word says. That is what the word says. Hallelujah. They found among them in abundance riches, precious jewels. They stripped off for themselves more than they could carry away. And they were three days gathering of the spoil. It was so much. Hallelujah. And they came to Jerusalem. Here we go. You ready for this? With psalteries, harps and trumpets. Where? Into the house the Lord they came worshipping into the house of the Lord. And the fear of God. I love this was on all the kingdoms of those countries of their enemies. The fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those countries when they heard that the Lord fought against the enemies of Israel. So the realm of Jehoshaphat was called quiet. For his God gave him rest round about. Hallelujah. Amen. We can expect to come into rest if we'll worship, if we'll hearken unto the Lord, if we'll set ourselves on his word, if we'll stand still, we will see the salvation of God. Hallelujah. Father, we thank you. Thank you for the battle instructions. Thank you. Thank you. That worship is a weapon. Thank you, Father. Worship. Worshiping you. Worshiping you. So you can do beautiful things for us, mighty things for us. Outlandish things for us. Abnormally great things for us. Miracles for us. Setting us in a high place. Thank you for that, Father. Thank you for that glory. Well, Father, I can see why you wanted that chapter read this morning. I have a little bit more time. Glory to God. I'm not going to get to my notes today, I don't think. Let's go to Acts 16. These are other notes. They just weren't written down. Amen. Let's go to Acts 16. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. His spirit of might is here today. Glory to God. Let's go to verse 25. Paul and Silas have cast the devil out of a young girl that's doing divination. And she's possessed. And you'd think that they would be thanked, but they're not thanked. The owners are mad because this gift allowed them to make money. And she can't do it anymore because she's free. So they gather them up and they cast them in prison because this citizen and has complained. And at midnight, 16, 25. Okay. And at midnight, and at midnight, when it looks the darkest. And at midnight, Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God. This is key. This is key. This is not them not knowing what praise can do. Paul was a man of the Spirit. He wrote the epistles completely under the unction of the Holy Spirit. He called them his books, but only the unction wrote them. Okay? So he was a man who was charged with getting the New Testament church out of the Jewish rituals of the past into a walk of the Spirit, because now Jesus was living inside, okay? And he ran into all kinds of trouble. How would you like to get centuries of routine and ritual that was ordained in the beginning by God out of people to step over into their spirit? When the Spirit is compared to the wind, you might not be able to see it, but you can see everything that it does. So he was charged with getting us and. And everyone back to his time with getting in the Spirit. So he. The first thing he does in dire circumstances is sing praises. Why? Because he knows something. It's great to sing praises, but not every song will lead you into victory and not every song will give you an earthquake and get you out of prison. There's lots of churches praising and there's no power there. Well, singing, but worship of the Spirit, you can worship with your mind. Obviously you can. But the worship that God is talking about is a worship again. And I'll allude to it to get you out of your mind down into your spirit man and worship from that place. Because the anointing that comes out of that place will break the yoke. So Paul and Silas start, and if you praise for very long, the Spirit of God shows up. He shows up. When you praise sacrificially when you need something and you just throw your hands up and you just start excessively praising. You just praise him in the morning, you praise him at night. You just praise him. The Spirit of God starts percolating and moving because that's faith in action. And he goes where faith puts him. That's what the word says. So they started praising in the worst kind of shackles. They're beaten, they're in pain, they're traumatized. I don't know how many of you have been punched in the face or kicked by a mob. That's not a light thing. It takes a moment to wipe the blood off yourself and decide what you're gonna do. Okay. The fury. You ever had anyone scream in your face? You know what I mean? It hits you. It hits you. There's something. And a mob is filled with demons. That's why they do that to other people. And they decide they're going to sing and praise because they're going to get down in the Spirit and sang praises unto God. And the prisoners heard them, so they weren't very quiet. Praise will do that. It. It takes you out of secret Christianity into. You just don't care. You just going to worship him because you can feel him. You can feel him when you worship him. And suddenly it did not take very long. Do you notice that when God is drawing attention to timestamps and suddenly and suddenly. Suddenly he was there. Suddenly. Your walk with God deserves us. Suddenly. Your praise and worship will bring him Suddenly. I promise you the days of praying and praying and not feeling him. That will leave you in worship. It will leave you in worship. He is always there. But you will be able to engage him. You will get down in your spirit. So fast and suddenly there was a. Not just an earthquake, a great earthquake. God shook the earth. God shook the earth. Yes. It's a wow. God shook. He shook because two voices in the back of the prison, in the darkest part of the prison, the earth was shaken. Why? Because God was coming. Oh, it's so precious, it's so powerful. Hallelujah. So that the foundations, the foundation, what it's built on down in the earth were shaken and immediately. Do you hear the words? Suddenly shaken immediately. And all the all, not none were left. All the doors were open and everyone's bands were loosed. And let me tell you, that's physical. But when you get in the worship, when you get in that place, every door and every band that is holding you prisoner. Listen, I am not waxing poetic. I am telling you by the spirit of God, when you get into that place, when you feel like you're in shackles and the back of some sort of dark place and you begin to praise, there will come a. Suddenly, there will come a shaking of the ground. There will come an opening of the doors and every band, every band will be loose. Every, every. Every band will be loosed in that place. When you're believing for something and you get the first breakthrough and it looks big, but you're still looking at it and you can see this band is there, this band is there. This is still not normal. This is still not where I want it to go. It's still time to praise. It's still time to thank the beauty of holiness. Because he's going to shake the ground wherever it's your ground. He's going to shake the ground until the bands come out. Don't cease, don't cease. Carry through, Carry through, Carry through. And let him do what he wants to do in praise and worship. It's the most perfect form of warfare. It is so simple and so beautiful to praise him and to be equipped, to be equipped in the realm of the spirit. Hallelujah. And we're not going to talk about the jailer that wanted to kill himself, although he got Redeemed. Hallelujah. Even that. I mean, the big deal was that God got them out of prison, that he showed himself, that he showed up for them. And then because he's more than enough, he gets the jailer saved and his family. It's incredible. That's what happens when God moves. It's never this. It's this. That's what happens when God moves. So precious, so perfect. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Pastor Nancy talks about the message that Norval Hayes gave where God spoke directly to him and told him to teach the people of God. He was a traveling minister. This message was to the church. Let me read this to you. He said, my children basically love me, but they live in poverty and sickness and defeat. They don't live in heaven's blessings because they don't worship me enough. 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. I'm their God and they're my children. If you'll teach my children to worship me more, I'll do great and mighty things for them. I broke it down on Wednesday night in more detail, but I'll just quickly go through the points. My children basically love me, but they live in poverty, sickness and defeat. Which shows that loving God is not enough. It's not because he's a taskmaster. It's because action is required. You have to do the Word so that you can gain skill with the Word. It is the sword of the Spirit. It is the sword in that realm. For every enemy, it takes them down with knowledge. It is the sword of the Spirit, the Word. So loving God, you always start there. Loving God needs to happen. It's got to happen. But it's not enough. It's like saying an army loves God. Well, that's great that you love God, but how do you fight? What instructions are you acting on? It's not going to be enough. Just that he loves you and that you love him. You have to know this spirit life. He's given you an entire book to learn it and the Holy Ghost to live inside you. Second statement, they don't live in heaven's blessings because they don't worship me enough. This is the one that I wanted to talk about, and I spoke about it at length on Wednesday night. But God is not asking for us to exhaust ourselves worshiping him because nothing's enough. Oh, you didn't do this enough. Like some parent that is hard on their kids. That's Never his way. He was the one doing all the giving. He says they have to worship me more. Because when you worship God, what that praise and worship does is it gets you. And I said it before, I'll say it again. Repetition is important when you're teaching something. Praise and worship gets you out of here, down into your spirit. Quickly getting you down in a place of worship when you're in your spirit. That's where the anointing flows from. And the anointing breaks the yoke. That's why when we look into our homes with the eye of God and He wants to see us coming up against things that might destroy other people or really trouble them, and all we do is throw up our hands before God and spend the day just worshiping, worshiping. There's that stream going out when something's going out, when water is coming out of a faucet, nothing else is going back in that praise. That worship protects the mind and it causes your faith to have movement. Your faith is always moving. When it's moving, God is so pleased because that is what true worship is. True worshipers worship him in truth, which is based on the Word, and they worship him in spirit. Spirit, a full engagement, Full engagement of the heart so that he can enlarge you, so that he can put what he wants in your spirit, so that there's no fear there. That's what that worship life is. And so I said it on Wednesday night, if there was a while there where we were really talking a lot about righteousness. And I'm sure that will probably continue. But this is a time to speak on worship. This is a time to get you locked into another level of worship. I know you worship. We come together and we lift our hands and we worship God. We might even talk to Him a little bit in worship in the day. But this is not that. This is understanding. Oh, okay. This is another level of worship. This is where I continually set aside time, just like I would for the Word. And I let my hands fall to my side and I worship him and I gaze at him and I let him take me into places in worship. Because what did he say? There's great and mighty things I want to do for them. They basically love me, but they live in sickness and defeat and poverty. You know how heartbreaking that is when you've done everything to eradicate that and your church is not participating, not understanding. There's no condemnation. There's only love. There's a drawing into that place because he wants you in total victory. There is no thing that you will ever face that is worse than Second Chronicles, chapter 20. If that were to happen in Canada, we would say many things are bad, but that's the worst. They're coming to kill us and our children. That's the worst, right? Being butchered by armies that hate you. There's nothing that's going to trump that, that kind of pain. And so in this place, there has to come a rising of worship. But just telling people to worship is not enough. It's not enough for us to engage with our spirits, for us to have revelation going off on the inside of our spirit that this is a weapon. It's more than a weapon. It's time in his presence. It's the greatest of fellowship and the greatest thing you'll ever enjoy. It's the highest form of living is to get caught away with him. The highest form of life is not doing things for the Lord. The highest form of life is that may know Him. That is the goal. Getting into the realm of the Spirit and seeing how far he can take us into that place. That's the goal. Listen, this thing is going to wrap up soon. The age of the church is going to wrap up soon. And we're on the right side of it. And if you're not, you need to get on the right side of it. You need to ask him in. But when this thing wraps up, this part of it's over. We want to go out worshiping. We want to go out doing great exploits for God, but not working. Like, remember when Pastor Nancy said that Branch shouldn't be working so hard to bear fruit? Because the sustenance comes right up out of the trunk, the reliance, that oneness with the trunk, knowing that it's him coming up through us. But that all comes out of worship. That all comes out of intimacy with Him. Hallelujah. He's so good to us. He's so good to us. Ah, praise the Lord. I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth. Why? Because if there's bad times, good times, it's easier. And yet we still need to do it more in the good times. Because it's a lifestyle. And people have not understood what he meant when he said, worship me. They thought it was a nice little thing to do or a nice Christian thing to do. They don't understand that it's loaded with power. It's like if I give you a math equation and you've done it and you've broken it all down, you know, all the processes if you examine me, if I examine you on it, because you've had examples. You know exact. Oh, I know. I know what to do. And it might look very complex. It's got brackets in it. It's got integers, it's got numbers all over the place. And then to top it all off, there's a line through it and there's something on the bottom. Right? So. But if you practice, if you practice, if you practice. I don't care if you feel like you're good at it or not. You practice that math problem enough, you're gonna learn it. You will learn it because it's logical. It is. A plus B equals C. If you practice it. There's a logic to it. It's not vague. The word of God, the worship of God is like that. You want muscle memory. It's like you've got hell coming against you. I know what to do. I know what to do. I know how to think. I know what to believe. I know what to say. And I know that the battle is not mine. It's his. Isn't that amazing? You just anchor yourself in that and then you worship him. Pastor Nancy, if you're keen, when you listen to her, she is always telling stories about insurmountable odds that came against her and how she overcame. And it always includes worship. That's one of the key elements of the overcoming. And some of it she can tell you how she got out of it and other things she'll say, I don't really know. It just turned. God will leave no stone unturned for us. No stone. We're the head. We're never going to be the tail. He put us above. We're not going beneath. That's who we are. That's our DNA. That's who we are. And worshiping him causes us to know him, causes our hearts to enlarge. And I talked about that as well, but on Wednesday night. But your heart's got to be enlarged because it's your spirit. And your mind has to keep pace with the renewal process, process of your spirit. Worshipping him, keeping it simple in his presence causes you to be able to receive these great promises, causes you to believe. It stirs you in your inner man. It stirs you. You don't want to be a mental Christian. Our mind gets the privilege of being renewed to the Word and to the Spirit. We don't leave our mind out. We live there every day. We. But the spirit life. The spirit life and engaging it with worship. Please go out of here today and before the sun goes down tonight. Worship him. Find something and worship him about it. Find something. Find something. It won't be hard to find something or a difficulty and worship him or just gratefulness, Thankfulness because of things that he's already done. Listen. Oh, I have to tell. This story just prompted me. When I went to. I went to Texas, the kids were so much younger. I think we went down to Dennis Haddebaugh's church. And we get on the plane, and I have got this awful pain across here, like a band. And it was a gallbladder attack. I didn't know what it was. If you've never had one, you never want one. Let me tell you, there is no position that you can get in where you're comfortable. It's like blazing pain right here. But I didn't know what it was. And so I'm on the. I'm sweating buckets. I don't want to ruin the trip. We got the kids with us, and Rosita was with us. You remember Rosita? And so it gets to a point of critical mass. We travel with, like, TD Expedia or whatever, and we've got insurance when we travel. So I get down in Texas, and they got to take me to the emergency because I'm in agony. And it gets to a point where I can't ignore it anymore. And so they do this. I think it was MRI or CAT scan. CAT scan. I think it was CAT scan. They put me in a tunnel, and you know what I mean? And I'm letting them do what they have to do. And they say, you are filled with gallstones. You can either have it done here, or we can send you home. And you have to have it out. And because, like, you're infected, like, this is a problem, you have to have it out. So they give me pain medication, and I'm thinking the pain will shut off while I take it, and I'll go home and I'll get business done. So I go back to the hotel room, and Rosita and I are sitting there, and I'm no longer in pain, but I start feeling angry because I feel. And I said to Rosita, it came out of irritation. I said, rosita, and I begin. You remember, I began to reiterate all the healings I've had in my life. And somewhere in that conversation, I went from irritation to this joy. Remember, it came into the room because I began to talk about this healing. And trust me, in my mind, I'm going home to have surgery or I'm going to have to take care of business. But in this conversation, I began to rehearse the healings. The straightening of my spine, the healing in my chest, the hips, I mean, Quinn getting healed from flesh eating disease and Cole getting his body stitched back together by the Holy Ghost. No scar. And we begin to talk. And I'm sitting in the chair with my legs up and she's facing me in the other chair. And the joy of the Lord hit me like. It hit me like a force. And I began to laugh. Do you remember? I began to laugh and laugh and the pain was not really there. But then when the medication wore off, there was no pain. And I thought, but I felt something when that joy when I threw my head back and laughed and I sensed something had happened. But then I let the medication wear off. No pain. I went through the vacation work thing. No pain. I come home, no pain. No pain. And so I'm rejoicing because I'm healed. I know I'm healed. So then about a month later, Craig is traveling and I have to preach and I'm lying on the couch and this pain started and I went, oh, I know what you're trying to do, but I'm already healed from you. I'm already healed from you. It lasted about 10 minutes. Minutes it left. And there's one of two things that happened because I remember someone, they had done a scan on me and I heard, overheard the nurse saying, they didn't know I was listening. I wasn't trying to listen. I just heard, oh, she's filled with gallstones. Big ones. That's what they said. Like, thanks, poor thing, you know, and it's not bad, very attractive. But anyway, in other words, they're so large, they block. There's a problem. This should be a problem. I have not had a problem. I've never had a problem since. And sometimes, if I think about it, to give the glory to God, I'll say, and you'll never happen again because I forbid you. You'll never happen again. So I don't care if I'm chock a block, but there's a miracle happening because I'm not in pain. Or if he pounded them all to dust, I don't know. All I know is I've not had a problem since. And it was a big problem because I heard them talking about it and it wasn't just going to go away. And that came because I rehearsed and praised him in the hotel room. See what happened? He was waiting. He was Waiting. And many of us are not giving him a chance. Because in those stories was praise. Do you remember like we were praising. And it was not all formal praise God, which is a part, but remember there was a joy that broke out in the room. And it was. It wasn't just like I shared it and then I laughed. It was something came. He came into the room and he wants us. See, that's what worship holds. That's what worship holds. Remember when Pastor Nancy, she was being harassed by. By a demon. I'm going to say it again. This is a story that bears repeating. And God said, praise me. What's he saying? Is he a glutton for praise? Just sitting up there all austere with his arms folded, wanting the minions to come on. This is what the devil slanders. He slanders God. He's a liar about God and God's nature. And so it's like this instruction comes again, simple, praise the Lord. Does she feel anything? Praise the Lord. She told me herself. She tells everybody. But she said to me, she goes, it was flat. There was zero anointing. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. I praise the Lord. I praise the Lord. And on the third day, the Lord said, they were having company. She was in the living room of the Lord. She said, as she was saying under her breath, why she took it seriously. He told her to praise. I'm telling you from the word praise, worship, take it seriously. She went home. I praise the Lord. I praise the Lord. He gives her that instruction. She feels something go, well, sorry, I'm getting. Okay. She's praising. She feels something click. It's a spiritual thing. When you feel it, trust me, it's distinct. It clicks down in her spirit. And when it does, she notices. What is that movement in your spirit? What is she doing? Worshiping. What is she feeling? She feels her spirit. If you worship, you will feel your spirit. You need to feel your spirit. And those answers come. There's communication, spirit to spirit. Get up and go to the bathroom and tell it to leave you. And he said, from that place it'll go. She goes to the bathroom, she speaks to it. The way she tells it, it's very non dramatic. The name of Jesus, you leave me. And it goes, it goes. The goal is to get in the spirit. Worship will take you in the spirit. I'm repeating this on purpose. I've got all the notes. I could keep you here for another two, three hours. We have to worship, mindful of worship. Just like I'm mindful of reading the word, which is my sword. My worship is warfare. My worship gets me in my spirit. When I'm in my spirit, the anointing flows. When the anointing flows, it comes to break yokes. Yokes of depression, yokes of addiction, yokes of fear, yokes of anything that we're facing failure. Doubt. Some people find it harder to believe than others. Some people do. It's just this thing. It's like a cloud or yokes against finances. The answer is worship. Worship. What if you worshiped him for a year and you just didn't move? You worshiped him for all the breakthroughs. It says, he said to Norval, I want to. What do I want to do? It's not I want the worship, which he does, but that's I want to do great and mighty things for them. His whole goal of speaking to Norval was to move the body into worship so that he gets to do what is on his heart. Great and mighty things. This is the bar that has been set for us. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Glory to God. I don't know what to do with the Service next. It's 12 o'. Clock. Craig always talks about the holy bird in the oven. Praise God. I know we've been feeding here. We'll feed our bodies soon. Glory to God. Father, I thank you. I thank you for a mighty work being raised up in this city. I thank you that this church is a candlestick, Lord, that you have set and you're setting it in a way of the spirit. Father. We don't want the noise that comes from the flesh in church. We want your movement. We want your worship. We want a people filled with revelation and the wonder of your word moving forward in power. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. Thank you for this highlight on worship, Lord. Father, I pray that everyone within the sound of my voice, whether in the building or watching livestream, that there would be revelation on this topic today, Father God, that they would see it in a totally different light. And Father, obviously if we're worshiping at home and we're in a lifestyle of it, it will overflow the banks when we get to church because it's a collective anointing. And in that collective anointing, Lord, more yokes will fall, more diseases will fall off bodies and be burned up within and it won't be able to be brazen in the midst of your presence, but it will fall. Hallelujah. Lord, we worship. Thank you for your goodness. Thank you for your word. That battle, Lord, with King Jehoshaphat, that's written forever. That's written forever. We are so impressed with how you moved in that situation. And we're impressed that they obeyed you the way that they did. We want to impress you with our obedience. And Lord, we know that you want us to benefit from that obedience. So we thank you for it. In Jesus name, amen.