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This is the Potter's house podcast. We're here to keep you filled with the spirit and guided by the scriptures.
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I'm grateful. I want you to go to Habakkuk or Habakkuk ever how you want to say it. I know everybody says it different, but I want to go in here and pick up one verse, chapter two, verse 14. Thank you Pastor Chris Baker for being with me today. Thank you Rose for being here. Verse 14 and it says for the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. This is a promise. The earth shall be filled. Put your hands on your earth right now. This is your earth. Your body is Your earth. And the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. Flip over to Isaiah, chapter 6. Isaiah, chapter 6. In verse 1, in the year that King Uzziah died, oh, look at your neighbor and say, sometimes some things have got to die and it's okay. In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord. Not just the Savior, not just the Christ, but when this thing in my life died, I saw the Lord. If you want to see the Lord, then you got to be willing to pronounce a benediction on certain things in your life. I saw the Lord sitting up on a throne high and lifted up and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims. Each one had six wings. With twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet. And with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another and said, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God of hosts. The whole earth put your hand on your earth. The whole earth filled with his glory. And as they cried one to another, the Bible said that the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried. Okay, so if you ain't opening up your mouth, don't expect nothing to move. It's the voice of the crier. It's the one that is opening their mouth. It's the one that is declaring glory, holy, holy glory, holy glory. The earth is filled with the glory of the Lord, the voice of him that cried. And the house was filled with smoke. Look to your neighbor on the right and say, neighbor, it's a post moving praise. Look to your other neighbor, say, neighbor, I'm about to worship until something moves. If you don't like it, you might want to move because I gotta have some things move in my life. It's down to where I gotta have it move. It's moving. It's moving. Spirit of God, I thank you for this house. And only you know how much I thank you for this house and what this house represents. I pray God that you would feed the flock of God today that have gathered in this place. We have opened our hearts, We've opened our ears. We've worshiped. And now, God, we want you to speak to us. Speak until we recognize that it's you. Talk to us, God, and we'll give your name. Every ounce of the glory and the honor and all of the praise in Jesus. Name somebody that loves him one more time. Hold your head back, clap your hands and tell him thank you. Come on, tell him thank you for
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what you're about to eat. You are so worthy to be praised.
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God, come on, one more time. Clap your hands and give him glory.
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Give him all of the glory. Give him all of the glory.
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There's an unusual glory in here today.
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You ought not walk out of here sick. You ought to not walk out of here bound. There's an unusual glory
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in this house. It's here for you. It's here for you. Y' all may be seated. I'm going to try to preach, but I promise, when God says stop, I'm going to stop, no matter where we're at in the process. Earlier I, I, earlier this year, we did a series at the church, and we were talking about worship. We sat down and we started talking and working our way through a series, and we said, let's talk about worship. That kind of sounds easy because it's, it just sounds a little easy. But when you really have to, to look into the Word and you start digging into the Word and, and you find the roots that are associated with worship. In doing so, I found myself feeling overwhelmed. And I thought that I knew what worship was. But the more I dug into the Word, I became more overwhelmed because I said to myself, well, where do you begin? Because no matter how far back I look, I had to look further than that. So I look back, I started looking at Solomon's Temple, and I was so impressed with that. But in order to, to look back at Solomon's Temple, I, I realized I had to go back a little further, and I had to look at David's tabernacle. And then I had to go from. And as I looked at David's tabernacle, I realized that I had to go to the tabernacle of Moses. And if you've never heard our bishop preach on the tabernacle, I don't know how in the world you are, where you are doing what you're doing for God. Because this, it was masterful. And we need to truly understand the tabernacle. Tell somebody I am the temple of the Holy Ghost. One of the things that I discovered in all of my looking back, I mean, if you could take it all the way back to creation where, where God himself looked at what he created, and he said, that is good. So worship goes all the way back. It goes all the way back. But one of the things I discovered as I looked backwards was that that one thing I knew. And I walked out of my searching knowing. I walked out of there knowing that God has always wanted to be with man, and man has always Needed to be with God. I said God has always wanted to be with us and we have always needed to be with Him. See, as, as mere human vessels, human beings, man has this innate need to be secure. We long for security and so therefore we will spend our personal resources and our energy and we'll spend our time just to make sure that all of our essential needs and the needs of our families, they are met. But when our man made securities start to form, fail us and our established systems, and I can't even go there today because they are everywhere. But when I. When we start looking at how things around us is changing, then things that used to give us peace no longer give us peace. It is in those moments that we began to search for the reality of a living God. I don't know about you, but I need a living God. I need a God that is real. I need a God that will bring tangible solutions to my life. I. I need God to be there when the world around me has begun unraveling. I'm talking about the God that is real. The God that can bring you lasting security. When the earth all around you is sinking sand. And you know Jesus, you can climb up on the rock rock, and though everything is shaking, you can stand firm. Because his word, he will never fail. And regardless of what the. The economic trends are trying to tell us, regardless of governmental failures, regardless of natural and as well as man made disasters, I am grateful that we have a God that we can wholly lean on and holy trust in his name. I grew up in church and I grew up hearing old people sing a song that, that went like this. The lyrics were, in times like these, you need a savior. In times like these, look at somebody and say, these times, the times, in times like these, we need an anchor. And the song said, be very sure. And then it said it again. Be very sure that your anchor grips and holds the solid rock. Our only real hope is to find a place of abiding rest in God's manifest presence. And that's what I felt like. I felt, I felt when I walked in here today. I felt like I could feel the. The manifest presence of God. See, when in the Old Testament, when those who were singers and those who were praisers and those who were dancers started to precede the children of Israel as they were going into battle, it was never their song and it was never their dance, it was never their instruments. It was none of that that caused their enemy to be afraid of them. The thing that actually caused their enemy to be afraid was the Manifest presence of God that was on them. So without their song, without a tambourine, without an organ, without anything as they would worship, it caused the enemy to shake in their in right where they were. That's why we got to understand how important and powerful that our worship is. You might not have a praise team, but you ought to open up your mouth while you're driving your car just to let every devil in hell know I'm not by myself. I want you to know today that I am not alone. It's. And it is no different today as it was back then. Having the genuine manifest presence of God on our life is vital. However, the supernatural presence and manifest presence of God does not come and it does not flow on us just because we want it to or just because we saw it flow on somebody else or just even because we needed to. No, it. It flows because there are a people within a people that are determined. I am not going to live without the presence of God. It flows because within a people there is a people that are desperate for the river of God's supernatural power. They're desperate for the provision of the Lord and they will do. Do whatever it takes in order to find it and to stay in it and to point others in the direction of it. It flows because there is a people within a people who will contend for it.
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Today.
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There were some contenders in this room. I said there were some contenders in this room. It wasn't just happening up here. You could sense it happening out here. I looked over here and I saw some contenders. I looked back there and I saw some contenders. I saw a people worshiping God. And for the, for the, for the most part, many of you really wasn't paying a whole lot of attention to what was happening up here. And at one moment in the service, I couldn't tell if the prayer praise was coming from up here or if it was coming from out there. I was like, who's leading this today? Is it the crowd? There is a place in God where this room should overtake those that are standing up here worshiping God and leading us into his presence. Look at somebody and tell them your part is up to you. There has to be something in you that contends for the presence of God. And for those of us who have called a vision and, and we've, we've bought into opening up to a paradigm shift where we are no longer driven by just a few people on a platform, but we are driven by a hunger that Bishop was talking about today that when that happens, when that that cry within you says God. I feel a little greedy today and maybe I shouldn't ask for more, but something in me wants more. I want to see you walk among us. I want to see you heal somebody. I want to see you deliver somebody. I want to see you touch somebody's child. Oh, listen, that, that's not the kind of word worship that comes from just a praise team, that comes from a praise church, that comes from a worshiping church. And when you get to where you contend for the glory, then you are not just, you are not waiting on a worship leader. I am so grateful I have been a worship leader and I'm grateful for worship leaders and I'm grateful for worship teams. But it is not their job to jump start us and to build a fire down deep in our soul. Because the very presence of God is a burning fire that is living within me.
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And so I have a river of
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fire within me and it is flowing. And when I release my river and you release your river and they release terrible. The river of God overtakes this room. And God will heal people. Sitting on the very last row. You may never come to the front, but you'll walk out of here delivered, you'll walk out of here saved, you'll walk out of here with a desire changed in your life. And yet there will be something in you that longs and has a passion for the face of God. And if that ever happens to you, nothing will satisfy you any le. Nothing any less will ever satisfy you. Tell somebody I am a part of the great multitude of worshippers. I am a part of those that John was talking about in Revelation 7 and 9 when he said, after this I looked and behold a great multitude. Multitude. Tell somebody, that's us. That's us. After I looked and behold a great multitude that no one could number. They came from every nation, from every tribe, they came from every people, they came from every language. And they were standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed in white robes, they were clothed in righteousness. They were clothed and they had palm blood branches in their hands and they were crying with a loud voice saying, salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne and unto the Lamb. And all of the angels were standing around the throne and they worshiped God around the throne with the elders and the four living creatures. And the Bible said that they worshiped until they fell on their feet faces before the throne and worship God saying amen. Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and forever. Amen. Don't be surprised if you come into church late in the days ahead and you think you know where they're at on the timeline. Because when the glory of God hits this room, you're gonna come in and
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find us all on our faces before God. Tell somebody, I'm hungry like that
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when I tell you when people are hungry. The worship of heaven it is. The worship of heaven is multitude, multitude driven. Somebody say multitude driven. That's you and me. The real worship of heaven is multitude driven. It is not platform driven.
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I said it is not platform driven. And when John caught was caught up
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in the Spirit, he did not see platform driven worship. He saw multitude driven worship. John saw the worship of heaven. In Revelation 9, my friend Bob Sorge said it like this. He said, had John been caught up in the spirit and seen one of our worship services today, he would have said it like this. And I, John, beheld. And lo, there was a platform. And on the platform was a microphone. And at the microphone there stood a leader. And slightly behind the microphone with the leader were four singers with a microphone. And the leader's microphone was louder than the others. And lo, I saw a king keyboard. And lo, I saw a guitar. And lo, I saw a bass. And lo, I saw drums and I saw sound systems and lights and I saw speakers. And the sound that was coming from the platform was so powerful that you couldn't tell if anybody in the audience was actually singing. But what I want to point out to you today is one of the differences between Heaven's worship and our worship is that Heaven doesn't have a worship leader. Do you hear me today? No, they had one. His name was Lucifer, but he got kicked out. And they needed. Heaven has not needed a worship leader.
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But.
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But let me tell you something. They don't need it because they don't have the need. There's nobody in the audience of Heaven that has the need to be motivated. Come on, put your hands together. Give him the glory. Give him the honor.
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Let me hear your praise, God.
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I long for the day that when we come out and we say, we put your hands together and worship, that we have to ring a cowbell to get you to stop.
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You want miracles and you want glory.
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That's what's going to cause miracles and glory. Heaven's worshipers are engaged. They have a river springing up within them. They are looking into the face of God. Nobody has to excite them. Nobody has to exhort them. Nobody has to touch your neighbor and wake them.
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Up.
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Because they are a part of the river of God that is flowing. It's in their hearts. And nothing can extinguish the flame that is burning on the inside.
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And you and I are no different. There ought to be something burning in us. We are part of that great multitude.
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There is a veil between us and them. But that veil is so thin. I said that veil is so thin. But it tells me that I can contend for the same in your face, at your throne, dynamic, in worship that they too have. And when we rise up and we recognize who we are and the power of our worship, then I'm telling you, miracles will flow among us. Marriages will be healed, families will be healed. Bodies will be healed.
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Why?
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Because we know who we are and we know what we are assigned to do and when. Know that there's something about the sound of my voice that makes him stop dead in his. And because of that, we can boldly cry out. Don't worry about the lights. It's all right. We can boldly cry out,
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your glory, God. Show. Come on, church, somebody holler. Show us. Show us your glory.
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Glory is the invasion of heaven coming into the earth.
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It's when God takes his glory, which
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is in eternal, in existence, in heaven,
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and he pushes it through a veil,
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a veil that separates the natural from the spiritual, the earthly from the heavenly. And he reveals in our time, in our parameters, in our space, the beauty, the glory, the power and the strength that is in Him. We still live in a veiled moment. But just because I can't see as clearly right now as I will one day, it does not negate the fact that I stand before his presence today. Look at somebody and tell them right now, right now, because of the blood
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of Jesus, I can stand.
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I'm part of that multitude attitude right now. I can stand before his throne right now. I'm burning with holy passion, holy affection and holy desire. Because I can do it right now. And I don't need a worship leader to excite me. I don't need an instrument to go through a key change to make me jump. No, all I need is to know that God has chosen me, saved me, set me free and delivered me. And like Brother Oscar said, I owe him every
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thing.
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Not to mention that it is unfair to lay the burden of getting me to worship on these people who are on the platform. That's not their job. That's not, oh, I'm gonna wait till you sing my song. I'm gonna wait till I feel it. That is not their job. And Honestly, you couldn't pay me enough to make me say I want that to be my job. Because it's exhausting trying to lead people to places that they don't really want to go.
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Their job provides an opportunity for us
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to worship, but the worship itself has to come from within us. Are you hearing me today? I said they provide a great opportunity for us to worship, but the worship itself has got to come up from inside of us. The platform is not my inspiration to worship.
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The Cross has been my inspiration. The fact that he paid a debt that he did not owe and I
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owed a debt that I could not
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pay, that is my inspiration.
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The fact that he was wounded for
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my tragedy, transgression and bruise for my iniquity, that is enough.
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The fact that while I was yet a sinner, he died for me, gave himself. Before I could ever say I love you. Thank you. He saw me and he gave himself for me.
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No.
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Because. Because he knows every mistake that I have the ability of ever making, that ought to be inspiration enough right there. The fact that he would rather go to hell for me than go to
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heaven without me, that is inspiration.
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Tell somebody around you I'm inspired to worship. It is not the worship leader's job to inspire us. Sometimes it's just when I think of the goodness of Jesus and all that he's done for me, my soul, my will, my emotions cries out, hallelujah.
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Thank God. For if you're saved, you ought to thank Him.
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If he does nothing else, you ought to have worship in you.
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Please hear me today. I'm not making light of what they do. I'm just tired of them carrying so much weight. Do you know we've killed a million worship leaders trying to get them to be our inspiration? Hello, We've killed many old preachers trying to get them to be our inspiration. But when your feet really hit the river of God, it doesn't matter who's leading you in. Worship it doesn't matter the song. It doesn't matter who is singing. It doesn't matter if it's slow or fast or old or new or high or low or loud or soft.
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The song doesn't dictate.
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Dictate your worship.
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The platform doesn't dictate your worship. The worship leader doesn't dictate your worship. It's your thirst that dictates your. I'm thirsty.
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It is your thirst that will move you into a place where you will grope after God. I said you'll grope after God. It is your thirst for more than what church has been able to provide. It is your thirst for miracles, for signs and for wonder. It is your thirst for the supernatural power of God. God to rest on your life so that no matter where you step your foot, whether it's Walmart, whether it's Neiman Marcus, whether it is a grocery store, whether it is Kmart, whatever it is, wherever your feet go, you are taking the kingdom of God. And every spirit that wants to rise up in that place, it has to calm down.
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Why?
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Because I put my foot.
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You ought to walk in place right now. Just walk. Tell the devil I put my foot down. I put my foot down. I'm about to worship God.
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Supernatural power. The supernatural power of God. Church has got a rest on our lives. Let me say it again. I'm gonna find who's gonna Amen, and I'm gonna talk to you. I said, the supernatural. If we've ever had to have the supernatural power of God on our lives, we need it today. And the church said, whoa, I gotta have it. I can't fix the society's problems without the supernatural power of God. I need to transition out of what I know as church worship over into real worship so that his supernatural power will flow in my life. Look at somebody and say, let's go, let's go, let's go. Let's make the transition. Let's stop being so easily satisfied with a song and let's reach for God. Because there is a difference between church worship and real worship. Bishop taught this. I don't even remember the message that he taught it, taught it about. But he talked about how when you tap into real worship, it opens up another world to you. I know somebody don't even get that.
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But.
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But I'm talking about when you really tap, there is. Is a place in God. Let me tell you today, in case you don't know, there is a place in God that will open up an entire different world to you, it will open up the spirit world to you and you will find yourself seeing things that you know that you know that you know that you know that you saw in your spirit. And it's just a matter of time until they manifest in the earth. Because real worship transitions us. Real worship moves us. Real worship carries us and transports us out of one dimension into another dimension. And if you ever tap into it,
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nothing can hold you back.
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Loose me and let me go. Worry can't hold me back. Fear can't hold me. There is no prison. There are no chains.
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There's no bonds, there's no sickness, there's
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no weakness, there's no depression, there's no anxiety that can hold me back. When I tap in to real worship and I gotta tap into it, I gotta tap into it because when I tap into takes me to a place that things that were after me can't follow me. You ought to look behind you and say, not today. You can't go where I'm going, Joy. I'm tapping into real. No trouble, no proclivity, no sin, nothing. It might follow you to work, it might follow you to bed, it might follow you to church. But if you ever tap into real
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worship, whatever's got you tied up has to loose you and let you. I thought somebody I both sides and say, take me into worship. I wanna go. I gotta go. I need to go. Why should I be limited at Mount Sinai when Zion is calling my.
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For you have come to Mount Zion unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem and the innumerable company of angels. See, when you cross over. Sit down for just a minute. I just need about 10 minutes. When you cross over from just church worship into that thing that is called real worship, Lord, help me, Lord, help me to tell it today, when you make that crossover, something in you realizes, I am not by myself. I'm not alone. I telling you, there's something in you that connects to an innumerable company of angels. You are connecting with the spirits of just men that have been made perfect. Oh, you have to tap into real
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worship to get what I just said to you.
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But I bet there's somebody in this room that knows what I'm talking about. Somebody that, that says, I have tapped in and felt like I was not the only one there. For those of you that don't get it, let me say it to you like this. Have you ever been driving in your car? Nobody was in your car but you. You just started saying, God, you're holy and I thank you. You're worthy and I thank you. And all of a sudden you just break out into worship. Cause your car is filled with the glory. That's what I'm talking about. All of a sudden it feels like
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heaven has just invaded your car. Anybody but me ever been there. When you tap into real worship and you cry, holy, holy, holy. Not out of your head, but out of your heart.
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It will not be long until you find yourself joining in with the angelic host, the four, and the 20 elders who cry day and night and night and day. They cry, holy, holy, holy. Because you see, real worship is always going on. Tell somebody. It's always going on. Real worship is happening in the heavens 24 7. It happens around the clock. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday doesn't end just because church ends. I said real worship doesn't end because church ends. That means Monday at midnight. I could say, holy, holy, holy out of my heart. And I'm tapped in to an entire innumerable amount of witnesses on Wednesday morning at 5:00 o', clock, if I need
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God, I can say, holy, holy, holy.
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Oh, somebody is crying. Hallelujah.
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Somebody.
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Somebody is crying.
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Glory. Somebody is tapping it. Worthy is the Lamb.
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Have you ever woke up in the middle of the night? Oh, God. I've done this recently. I woke up in the middle of the night. I was sound asleep. Nothing, nothing but God was waking me up. But I woke up saying, thank you, Jesus. Thank you. I rolled over and said, thank you, Jesus.
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Oh.
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And all of a sudden, I could feel the presence of God fill my entire room. That's because I tapped in to a worship service that was already in progress. It was already going on. Angels were bowing before him. Heaven and earth was adoring him. And where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. I have been to a place where I went to bed troubled. I went to bed concerned. I went to bed worried about something. But when he comes in the room, sometimes he's got to knock you out to get you out of his way. And he'll let you fall asleep. And while you're sleeping, he'll release the greatest peace that you have felt. Your situation may not change, but you have transitioned. Why?
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I seen him. I seen him high. I seen him lifting it up. I saw the Lord.
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The problem with U.S. church, though, is that we're so easily satisfied. I said, we are so easily look at somebody and tell them, don't be so easily satisfied. You gotta reach, you gotta press, you gotta stop.
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Stretch.
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You've Got to unite. You've got to come together. Because once we come together and once we come into agreement, once heaven and earth comes into agreement, that is where God comes in. And he sits down on our unity. And on that unity he releases supernatural power and wants his supernatural power in invades the room once it invades our lives and our situations and what's troubling us and what's tormenting us and what's burdening us and what's overwhelming us. When he sits down on it, it will change. Marriages are changed in real worship. Yokes are broken in real worship. Health is restored and real worship.
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Victory is released
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in real worship. But watch out, because once you tap into it, you are ruined. I said, when you tap into it, you are ruined. Because you can never go back. You can never go back. You love people back there, but you can never go back. Oh, I pray for you. But I've heard something that called my name. And I'm not satisfied with just two little songs and two little stanzas and all of that. It's wonderful. Maybe you're okay. Stay there until you can. But I can't. I can't stay there anymore. And people will look at you like you're crazy. But you don't really care because your thirst has torn you loose from your tradition. And you said, I'm following hard after God as a deer panteth for the water brook. So long with my soul after Thee, O God. You can't help but think about the Shulamite woman who had gotten ready for bed. She laid down in her bed and she heard a knock on the door. Oh, I know that's my beloved. I have already laid down for the night. Must I get up again?
Rose (Congregation Member or Co-speaker)
Must I stand up again? I've already clapped my hands five times. Must I clap them again?
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I've already washed my feet. I don't want to get them dirty. I love you, but can I love you from a dist time? Don't require anything from me. I want to love you from a distance. I want to be able to say I know you. And I want you to be able to say, you know me. But I want to do it from a distance. Don't be like Solomon's lazy bride. She got too comfortable. And when he knocked on the door, she started giving one excuse after another because the cost of intimacy seems way too high. Oh, I know you will do it, but it's just too hard for me. I don't have to know God that bad. I just don't have to do that, you know, take all that from me. Oh, you better watch out because life
Rose (Congregation Member or Co-speaker)
can switch upon you on a dime
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and you'll find yourself.
Rose (Congregation Member or Co-speaker)
Say, I was glad when they said I never let us go into the house. Get me in the house. I gotta get in the house. I don't care where I sit, but
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get me in the house. She is apathetic. And now she's moving too slow and she's moving too casually when her beloved knocks at the door. All of a sudden the knocking stops. That's the one sound you don't want to ever hear.
Rose (Congregation Member or Co-speaker)
Stop,
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I said you don't ever want to hear. Oh, but he did warn us and say, in the day that you hear my knock harden not your heart.
Rose (Congregation Member or Co-speaker)
Oh, in the day that you hear me.
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When the knocking stopped, she jumped up and she runs to the door. Whoever I'm talking to want to tell you today, stop playing hard to get with God. Stop playing hard to get with God. She ran to the door because, see now, when you don't hear that knock, you don't take it for granted. Oh, and when she didn't hear it, she got up and she didn't care nothing about her feet getting dirty. She didn't care for the fact that she was laying down. All she knows is I live by the knock. I live by every. I live by the knock on my heart. I live by the presence of God. I live by the manifest presence of God.
Rose (Congregation Member or Co-speaker)
And none of these things matter when
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I don't have him.
Rose (Congregation Member or Co-speaker)
If I don't have him.
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I don't care about about a good bed. I don't care about my feet being clear. I don't care if I don't have him. She opened the door and asked everyone around. I've opened. I'm looking for my lover, but my lover has left. He was gone. He was here, but he's gone. My heart is sank to the very bottom. I'm looking for him, but I cannot find him. I've called for him. I've called, but he is not answering me. And can I tell you that this is the sad state of the overly contented church in 2026. So if you have heard him knock and if you feel. Feel his wooing power, you ought to put a praise right here in this moment.
Rose (Congregation Member or Co-speaker)
Thank you, God. Thank you for knocking again. Thank you, God. Whatever you want, we got it. Whatever you need, we bring it.
Pastor Chris Baker
Because I can't live if living is without you. And if the church doesn't get itself together and they find themselves comfortable Living in the king's house without the king. Then we're going to be in a terrible place. At some point all we will have left is of him is a fragrance of what it used to smell like.
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Rose (Congregation Member or Co-speaker)
God
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help us to not be so
Rose (Congregation Member or Co-speaker)
content
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that we are comfortable with just having a memory of what it used to be. Some people are happy with that, but I can't be happy with that. I'm not interested in past visitations. Do you hear me? I'm not interested in past visitations. Josiah, are you here? Where are you baby? Where is Josiah? That's my grandson right there. That's my baby. He just graduated high school. His name is Josiah.
Rose (Congregation Member or Co-speaker)
I don't want Josiah that has to
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read about a move of God.
Rose (Congregation Member or Co-speaker)
I don't want Josiah to have to
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look up in the dictionary. What does the manifest presence of God look like?
Rose (Congregation Member or Co-speaker)
I wanted to feel the sanctuary. I wanted to feel our homes. I wanted to him to know what God's presence is like.
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Watchmen of the night. Have you seen him hit somebody and tell him the search is on? That is what's happening in the potter's house. The search is on. Somebody over here, Somebody over here. Somebody back there. Somebody back there said, I want to see him again. I want to see his presence. I want to feel him in this place. I'm longing for the courts of God. I want to bring my sick friends and I want them to come into this place in the minute that their feet cross cross the threshold. I want them to say, what is that?
Rose (Congregation Member or Co-speaker)
What is that? What is what? What is this?
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I feel it.
Rose (Congregation Member or Co-speaker)
It's the it.
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It is the it. It is the.
Rose (Congregation Member or Co-speaker)
I want it. Whatever it is, I want it in my life.
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So there is. There is a place in God and in worship where you tap in and it bursts open the Veil, you've always heard that when the earth sends up vapor, that the heaven sends down the rain. Sometimes the earth sends up vapor. And it seems like a long time before heaven sends down the rain. It's building up in a cloud. But you never know what Sunday. I mean, you never know what Hallelujah. You never know what glory be to your name, God. You never know what prayer.
Rose (Congregation Member or Co-speaker)
You never know what glory. Adios. You'll never know what is gonna make
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the cloud that is over your house, over your life, over your family, over your generation. You never know.
Rose (Congregation Member or Co-speaker)
Just keep on sending it up. I said, just keep on.
Pastor Chris Baker
And worship until you are at the point where you can't worship anymore. And you do like John told us, you just fall on your face if you cannot get beyond the little. Oh, I am uncomfortable. I done stood for 15 minutes. I done stood in these high heels. Ain't nobody told you to wear them anyway.
Rose (Congregation Member or Co-speaker)
Take them off your unholy ground.
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I want everybody from this aisle over to start crying, Holy, Holy. Holy. Holy.
Rose (Congregation Member or Co-speaker)
Holy.
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Holy.
Rose (Congregation Member or Co-speaker)
Holy.
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Y' all be quiet right here. Everybody from that side over, let me hear you crying.
Rose (Congregation Member or Co-speaker)
Holy. There's no way in the world that we're gonna be crying Holy. And we're gonna be crying Holy. And you all not feel something. You are caught up by virtue of the fact that you are in the middle of our. Holy. Holy. Holy.
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I need you to move, Jesus.
Rose (Congregation Member or Co-speaker)
Holy. We need your visitation. We need your habitation. Holy. Holy. Our next generation needs a move of God.
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And the Bible said, lord, I feel like I've just. I've tore the scripture all up, but I'm trying to make it connect with you today. In the year that King don't sit down, because I'm. I'm done. But in the year that King Uzziah died, Isaiah said, I saw the Lord. I saw the Lord. I saw the seraphims. I saw the cherubims. They were crying, holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy. He said, I saw them. And when I saw them, he said, the door posts of the house, y' all know the door posts are not supposed to move. Door posts are supposed to stand right there and hold the house up. But he said, when they cried, holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy. The thing that wasn't supposed to move, it began to move.
Rose (Congregation Member or Co-speaker)
I don't know who I'm talking to
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today, but there's some things in your
Rose (Congregation Member or Co-speaker)
life that says to you, I will not move. Sickness says, I will not move. Lack says, I will not move. But I dare you to stand flat footed and cry, holy, Holy. Holy. Until it all moves. If you're watching from home, open your mouth in your house and cry aloud. Holy. Holy. It's gotta move. If you're facing something today that you gotta see, move. Get out of your seat and run to this altar. Run to this altar with your hands lifted, with your mouth filled with praise. Holy. That means you're different. You're different. You're different. You're different. Are you hungry? Run to the altar. Run to the altar. The altar is back in style. I said the altar is back in style. Holy. I need you today, God. I need fresh oil. I need fresh oil. Don't miss this moment. Don't miss it. Spring up a well. Spring up a well. I can't do it without you. I can't make it without you. I don't want to make it without Sam. I humble myself under your mighty hand. I humble myself under your mighty hand. Show me what's next. Show me where to go, what to do. Show me where to put my foot next. Show me what's mine. Show me what to go after. Show me what to let. Let go of. And you are live and move and have my being. Come on. Cry out passionately. Cry out passionately. Push on this moment. Push on this moment. Do it, Jesus. Do it, Jesus. Send your glory. Send your glory. There's healing in your glory. There's understanding in your glory. There's breakthrough. Thank you, Lord. Thank you for impacting somebody. Thank you for impact from the glory. The glory is about to have you make impact. What was difficult is about to become easy because of your impact. Reach for your house, reach for your marriage, reach for your family. Reach for your lost loved ones. Yeah. God, I thank you today. Move, God. Move, God, let us go home drunk. Take today. Drunk in your spirit. Drunk by the visitation, drunk. Lord, I thank you for a fresh hunger, for your word. I thank you for a fresh hunger, a fresh desire for the word of God, your word. Have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against me? That shit. Reach for God. I dare you to reach.
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I dare you to stretch.
Rose (Congregation Member or Co-speaker)
I dare you to stretch. He's knocking. He's knocking. Tell him, Lord, I hear you, Lord, I hear you. And I'm on my way. I'm on my way. Here I come, Jesus. Back to the heart of worship. Back to your feet, back to your glory, Back to your presence. Yes. Come on, turn it up, turn it up, turn it up, turn it up. What is your body language saying to God right now? What Is your body language saying tell your flesh. Bless the Lord. Oh my God. Soul, I'm open. God, I'm surrendered. I'm thirsty. Bread of heaven, feed me.
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Date: August 2, 2026
Speaker: Pastor Sheryl Brady (delivered by Pastor Chris Baker)
Duration: ~66 minutes (summarized content only)
In this dynamic, spirit-charged episode, Pastor Sheryl Brady (as presented by Pastor Chris Baker) delivers a passionate sermon about the nature of true worship and the supernatural move of God. Emphasizing the pressing need for an authentic, hunger-driven yearning for God's manifest presence in the life of every believer, the message explores how real worship transcends tradition and transforms lives. Through scripture, vivid illustration, and fervent exhortation, the episode challenges listeners to transition from passive, "platform-driven" church worship to a personal, participatory, transforming encounter with God's glory, culminating in "a post-moving praise"—worship that literally shakes the foundations and brings heavenly change to earthly circumstances.
"A Post Moving Praise" is a bold, urgent summons to revival. Pastor Brady’s (Chris Baker’s) stirring message contends that the future of the church and the faith of the next generation depend on believers who are hungry for God’s presence, who reject mere performance or nostalgia, and who pursue the kind of worship that breaks barriers and ushers heaven to earth. "I dare you to stretch. He's knocking… Here I come, Jesus. Back to the heart of worship." (64:34–64:38)
For those who missed the episode, this sermon is not merely a teaching—it is a call to action: refuse complacency, contend for God’s glory, pursue authentic worship, and be "ruined" for anything less than His manifest presence in your life and church.