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8th September 2024 Infill Service - KV Cherian - Knowing God Through Worship

An Inspiring Word from RCF, Egham, Runnymede,

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  1. H hallelujah.

  2. Oh man, that worship just took me off, and all

  3. that I had on my mind right now is just

  4. gone to say. All right, okay, so today we get

  5. into our topic. Before we get into a topic, knowing

  6. God through Okay, that means you can see the screen. Okay,

  7. that's a good check.

  8. All right.

  9. So we're going to play a game before that. Okay,

  10. so this is gonna be Team A and Team B,

  11. don't you know? So you say, you're very clear, this

  12. is Team A, all a ce Team A and Team B. Right,

  13. So it's an easy, very easy game. This is something

  14. that can would would have you guys, would have played

  15. it before in some other format. But this is a

  16. very simple game of guessing the song, all right. All right,

  17. So you're going to see uh lyrics, part of the lyrics,

  18. and you need to guess the song. So whichever team

  19. the lyrics would be shown first to Team ME and

  20. then to Team B. If you know the song, you

  21. need to shout it out, all right, and if you

  22. don't know, it's going to be passed on to the

  23. next team and they get a point. All right, ready, okay, good,

  24. can we have the first slide please? Yep, Team A,

  25. this is your song. Shout out, please chill. Oh my god,

  26. she's too good. She's too good. Okay, yes, you're right,

  27. you're right. Which which can you guess the lyrics?

  28. The name of the song? No?

  29. No, no, Team B? That's there, that's there. Definitely very close.

  30. Come on, anybody?

  31. Yeah, but which song? Which is what's the name of

  32. the song? Anybody else?

  33. Teammate? Come on, I still go.

  34. I'm still gonna give it to Team A because Jill

  35. was really close?

  36. Is Elson John Candle in the wind? Right right?

  37. Okay, I'm still gonna give it to you because Jill

  38. was spot on there. Okay, Team B, next song? Please,

  39. you just need to complete the last line. Okay, that's good.

  40. You are my all nol Jesus Lamb of God. You

  41. are my strength when I am weak. Familiar not familiar,

  42. I've never heard about it. Okay, Okay, one one, Okay,

  43. Team A again, this is your turn.

  44. Next SLI please.

  45. Yeah, Oh my god, Jill, I think I think this

  46. is unfair for Team B though she's on her role here,

  47. absolutely right, Jill, this is she loves you.

  48. Okay.

  49. Either I am too old in this room or I'm

  50. too ancient in this room, and you guys are too

  51. young because you don't know this song. It's Beatles, She

  52. Loves You. Nobody heard about this song, teammate except for Jill. Jill,

  53. you're the happening person in this room, right, Okay? Team

  54. B next slight? Please? Hmmm.

  55. I think Jill and Debbie.

  56. Should be put in a separate team.

  57. Anybody heard that song?

  58. How many feel heard that song and liked that song? Okay, yeah,

  59. that's good.

  60. That's uh.

  61. I think it's Farrell Williams, right happy. I hope I

  62. got that name right. I usually confuse the names. Last

  63. song for Is it for Team Team A now, yep?

  64. T A?

  65. Yeah, absolutely, Shout to the Lord, Shout to the Lord,

  66. all the earth familiar?

  67. Okay? Good?

  68. Is that?

  69. Is that the last light? John?

  70. Oh?

  71. There's one more? Right, Oh, there's one more for Team B,

  72. Tim B next. It's an easy one yet. Oh yes, Nikki,

  73. you got it on spot. I think it's Stevie Wonder,

  74. Yeah right, okay, you know it's it's not that I

  75. know these songs. I just googled up in the night

  76. last night, and that's how I know exactly who sang

  77. it and what was the no name of the song. Well,

  78. that's so both of the teams did really well. The

  79. stars of the day is Jill and Debbie and Nikki.

  80. Wow.

  81. Good, good, one good one good. Okay. It's so interesting

  82. when you listen to a song. I don't know about you,

  83. but whenever I listen to a song, a particular event

  84. or an emotion is evoked in my mind. You know, example, happy,

  85. you know, even though the most of us may not

  86. may never even remember the exact lyrics of that song,

  87. but when you play that song, you kind of automatically

  88. get happy.

  89. Right.

  90. There's those small, bodily micro moments if you're in workplace

  91. and if you're on the road, you're just going all

  92. over you know. I don't care who sees me, you know,

  93. I just want to be happy because I have a

  94. painful situation at worker at home okay, or a grumpy husband,

  95. you know, either one. So every song there's an emotional response,

  96. not just an auditory response, not just singing the song,

  97. but there's an emotion to that song. That's something I

  98. wanted everybody to understand. And that's why I wanted some

  99. songs that are very famous to be brought upon.

  100. I'm sure.

  101. When Jill thought about those songs, Jill was thinking about

  102. her teenagers and how fancy that was compared to the

  103. current age.

  104. But yeah, so.

  105. Let's start looking at some ninety five please, all right,

  106. let me read the verse, first verse pal a call

  107. to worship and obedience. Oh come, let us sing to

  108. the Lord. Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of

  109. us salvation. Very complicated terms there, especially that word shout

  110. that has come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let us

  111. shout joyfully to him with psalms. All Right, today we're

  112. going to look at what worship is, not according to you,

  113. not according to me, not according to evangelical services, not

  114. according to any established religion, but according to the Word

  115. of God. Because that's our standard. Let's let's let's take

  116. an agreement on that. Right, you and me agree on

  117. one thing, and that's the Word of God. You don't

  118. disagree with, not that we may disagree about the spice

  119. level that we eat, but were not the word of God. Right,

  120. So let's keep that as a standard, and let's see

  121. what God calls as worship.

  122. Right.

  123. I can come up with my own definition, and you

  124. don't have to agree to it. But let's see what God,

  125. God expects us worship, because end of the day, you're

  126. not worshiping a person, you're not worshiping an established religion.

  127. You're worshiping the Living God.

  128. Amen. All right.

  129. So in Psalm ninety five, it starts with come before

  130. his presence.

  131. Let's stop there, Come before his presence. Amen.

  132. Jesus says, when two or three gather, what does it complete?

  133. What did he say, when two or three gather? I

  134. will not be there. Oh, I think that's the truth.

  135. He will not be there. He will be there, Amen,

  136. he will be there. So when you come together with

  137. another believer, the presence of the Lord is already there.

  138. He's there, and so it is important that we gather twogether.

  139. It's very important because when you are alone, that's the

  140. right environment for the devil to play around with you.

  141. But when you are in the presence of another believer

  142. and you agree upon what the Word says about your life,

  143. the devil can't come there. You know why not, Because

  144. you're such a strong believer. You got it all right. No,

  145. because the Lord, who is your shepherd, he is there.

  146. Because that's his promise. He will be there. Let's come

  147. with him. Let's come before him with thanksgiving. Let us

  148. shout joyfully to him with sums, nothing but songs. Right,

  149. letter's shout is a very difficult terminologies. I will demonstrate

  150. you what that shout means so that you can then

  151. reciprocate or do. Shout is a very technically complex process

  152. wherein we need to draw the breadth from our lungs

  153. and then send it out from our mouth.

  154. Right, So it's like this, hallelujah. Okay, I know it's

  155. very complicated.

  156. But hallelujah. You don't have to be an a minor

  157. C sharp minor F sharp minor. No, you don't have

  158. to be in.

  159. A particular God. All you've got to know.

  160. All you've got to do is shout or the other

  161. example would be, you know, when you I don't know

  162. if anyone of y'all get angry because you all don't

  163. look like that.

  164. I look like one. You know what?

  165. You Usually when normal people get angry, especially somebody close,

  166. they usually yell.

  167. An if you all know what's yelling means a loud.

  168. Voice talking a loud voice, right, But that that shows

  169. that we all have the capacity to increase our volume.

  170. But we don't, you know, when you know, I'm yet

  171. to see maybe I would see soon, but yet to

  172. see a stadium full of quiet people, dignified people who

  173. are just watching Liverpool and Chelsea playing. Yes, let's go

  174. there and the ball, okay, pass it on, oh hit

  175. the goal, yeah, go go go.

  176. No.

  177. Have you have you seen any match when people are

  178. just standing there and their eyeballs are going that's it.

  179. Nothing has no other parts of the body. In a stadium,

  180. everybody is going bonkers. You know why, because they're celebrating,

  181. you're cheering. That is what means. Come, come joyfully, shout.

  182. Have you seen kids when they're joyful? They don't care

  183. what you think about them. They're gonna dance about, you know,

  184. sing loudly, you know, dance on the roads. Also, that

  185. is so important. God looks, you know, God says, Jesus says,

  186. unless you come to me as a child, you cannot

  187. even get into the Kingdom of God. You know, not

  188. understand these things. Man unfortunately, has a lot of pride.

  189. You know, no matter how humble you think you are,

  190. your body gives away. You can think a lot, but

  191. your body language clearly gives it away. What we really think.

  192. That's why body clues up much more.

  193. Than what you say. Amen.

  194. Number one thing is when you are excited about something,

  195. it shows on your face. Imagine I'm going to say this.

  196. You know tomorrow Rob is going to get one million pounds.

  197. I'm sure Rob is going to just sit there. Ah, yes,

  198. thank you. No, I would be excited, right, I'll be

  199. excited because I'm already planning what I'm going to do

  200. with that one million. Right, that is somehow missing in church.

  201. And I'll tell you why I'm missing in church, because

  202. that's the lie of the enemy. Because the whole point

  203. of all this is the enemy that let me be

  204. very specific, the devil wants you, wants to keep you

  205. from enjoying God's worship because he knows certain things that

  206. you don't know, or he wants to keep you ignorant

  207. about it. And man, I want to just jump into

  208. the next verse, Jonathan, Yeah, for the Lord is great

  209. and great, and the great King above all gods will

  210. come back to this verse. Next verse, please, yeah, the

  211. next Psalm hundred. I think, Yeah, what happens when we

  212. give thanksgiving and what happens when we do praise, when

  213. we tell when we come in first of all when

  214. we come together and we start saying thank you Lord

  215. for everything that you are to me. You have just

  216. entered his gates. You know you need to picture this.

  217. There's a big palace right and you've just gotten to

  218. the gates. I know I'm asking you to imagine. But

  219. in a spiritual dimension it is. It's a reality, just

  220. like you walked into this door. Is when you start

  221. thanking God, you enter his courtes. You enter his gates,

  222. and when you praise God for who he is, you

  223. enter his courts. I'm sure all of you know what

  224. a court means. Not the lawyer of that court, the

  225. judge and lawyer, not that the court of a king.

  226. You can never walk into the courts of a king,

  227. just like that, unless the king calls you, unless he

  228. gives you the audience. I know, I can't read a

  229. book an appointment with King Charles and say hey, buddy,

  230. I want to come and meet you. It will not happen, right,

  231. I just can't. What's happened and just meet him up.

  232. It's not going to happen. The gods are going to

  233. be stop me. Outside itself. But when you have the

  234. right procedure of how you do things, you will get

  235. the result. It's like telling you know, I can't bake

  236. a cake with rice, can I No? Right, you need

  237. certain ingredients and a step by step process. Then you

  238. get a beautiful cake. Otherwise you will get something else.

  239. So when you come into the presence of God, first

  240. and foremost, God loves a thankful heart. He doesn't like

  241. grumbling people, which I'm guilty of a lot, you know,

  242. but he doesn't like grumbling people. Give him thanks, enter

  243. his court with praise. Next worst place. Yeah, therefore God

  244. has been highly exalted him. Okay, I'll come back to

  245. this the previous worst place. We can do these two

  246. things only if God is our king. That's a very

  247. crucial thing. We may not feel like giving thanks or

  248. telling God's okay, praise the Lord for every single thing

  249. and all that you can do it. When God is

  250. your king. You will never see suppose we were living

  251. in kings at the times of the kings, right, you

  252. will never see another countries, the citizen of another country

  253. coming and praising this king. The citizen of that country

  254. will always praise the king there. His lives depend on that,

  255. because that king directly or indirectly supports his life. Literally

  256. his life is in the hands of the King. I'm

  257. sure you guys know it much better because you've had

  258. you still have a kingdom, format still existence. If our

  259. lives do not belong to the King Jesus, we wouldn't praise.

  260. We will struggle with it.

  261. Our praise will be depending on every single day, like

  262. the weather.

  263. Today, I'm having a good day.

  264. Praise Jesus. Brother, I love Jesus so much. Your house

  265. is in a terrible mess. You're sick with something, not

  266. going to praise God? Why did he give me sickness?

  267. Why did he give me that? Why did he give

  268. me this? We just complain. We don't praise God for that,

  269. and that's that's not that's not telling that God's.

  270. The king of your life.

  271. You know, I think it was yesterday my son was saying,

  272. you know, actions speak louder than words, and it's so true.

  273. We can tell one hundred things about God and claim

  274. all sort of claims, but.

  275. End of the day, what is our action talking?

  276. Is our action saying that no matter what my situation is,

  277. no matter what I'm going through, I am still going

  278. to praise God because he is God, he is King.

  279. That's not changed my situation. Yes, it's not changed, but

  280. God's not dependent on your pray. Issuldn't should never be

  281. dependent on your situation. It is dependent only on God.

  282. Amen.

  283. Come to that next verse, John, Yeah, this is in

  284. Philippians Philippians Tandards chapter two. Therefore this is what the

  285. Lord is saying. Therefore, God has exalted him, highly exalted him,

  286. and given him the name which is above every name.

  287. Next word is please at that name of Jesus, every

  288. knee should bow, of those in heaven, of those on earth,

  289. and of those under the earth, that every tongue shall

  290. confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of

  291. God the Father. If you look at the previous verse,

  292. verse ten, it says every knee should bow, not only

  293. in heaven, on earth and under earth. Maybe somebody I'll

  294. speak on that under the earth. But if you see

  295. at the name of Jesus everything bows, and the next

  296. verse eleven, that's the crucial one. Every tongue that confesses

  297. Jesus Christ is Lord. You know, if you remember how

  298. you got saved, it's Romans ten, verse nine. Right, you

  299. are saved when you confess Jesus is Lord. So if

  300. we really have that surrender of giving our lives to God.

  301. That mean we will bow down. Because worship often has

  302. a bodily expression. You cannot separate worship from bodily expression, definitely.

  303. You know. I love one thing about back in India

  304. about Catholic churches. You know they all have these what

  305. do they call it. It's like a small pedestal where

  306. you sit where you actually can kneel down, you know,

  307. when you pray, and that is a support for the handles.

  308. I used to love that when I used to go

  309. to college and I used to spend my first fifteen

  310. twenty minutes in a chapel close to my college and

  311. then go and people to People used to think I'm Catholic,

  312. but I was not. So that's a good set up here.

  313. The idea and the intention is very very good. Where

  314. you kneel before God's presence. And what used to amaze

  315. me was, you know, people who are really old used

  316. to be there kneeling and I used to kneel for

  317. ten fifteen minutes. I'm like, for today, this is enough. Lord,

  318. I have knelt enough for today. My knees are hurting.

  319. Can I go?

  320. I had all sort of funny conversation with the Lord,

  321. you know. But I used to be like, how in

  322. the world do these people need for half an hour?

  323. I don't get this. But you see, when it's an

  324. expression of service to God, expression of your heart, then

  325. you're no longer bound by the pain or what you

  326. can do what you can't do. But what I'm trying

  327. to say is, either you can bow, you know, a

  328. simple thing. You can bow your head. You know, when

  329. we pray, if you bow your head, that's a mark

  330. of surrender, humility, humbling yourself, you know, bow your head

  331. when you pray. You know, sometimes you may think, okay,

  332. I'm praying. If I have to pray over my food

  333. at my workplace, what will others think? So you don't

  334. want to bow your head? You just oh Jesus, yes, yes, yes,

  335. that's it. Sometimes people have asked me, you know, when

  336. at my workplace, when I'm bowing my head and praying

  337. over my foot, they think I've lost something down, you know,

  338. something fell down, you know. And I've given funny responses

  339. to that too. But yeah, but people can ask you

  340. all sorts of questions.

  341. But it's not for the people that I'm doing.

  342. I'm doing it anyway for the Lord who's twenty four

  343. bar seven with me, And that's the reality I live in.

  344. It's all a question of what is the reality that

  345. you live in. You want to live in a reality

  346. that the devil is built up around you in your

  347. mind saying you're all alone, nothing's going to work, You're

  348. going to dialight this.

  349. That's your choice.

  350. But I choose not to live in the reality of

  351. the lives of the enemy, but live in the reality

  352. that God has died for me. Jesus died to give

  353. me a reality called abundant life. And unless that's true,

  354. you cannot follow this. You cannot practice this. Even lifting

  355. up your hands, it's a mark of surrender, you know,

  356. when we lift our hands. You know there are times

  357. when even that in church, when I lift my hands

  358. and I'm like, oh Lord, you know, I'm worshiping you,

  359. and after in two minutes, like, Lord, my hands, can

  360. I bring it a little down? All of that because

  361. you're so conscious. You're so conscious about yourself. But in

  362. worship the only thing you supposed to be conscious about God.

  363. You know, we pray that people will become more God

  364. conscious than themselves when you focus on yourself. That is pride.

  365. You only think about yourself when you get into worship.

  366. Think about God because that is whom you came to worship.

  367. You can imagine all of this. You come and some

  368. of us like me, others, you know, we'll come praise God,

  369. shout hallelujah and all sort of actions.

  370. You know.

  371. I can stand upside down on my head ALDSA and

  372. praise God. You can do all of that.

  373. But can you come to the next verse, John, Yeah,

  374. next one, next, Yeah.

  375. This is the crucial verse in some ninety five. This

  376. is what I want to come to. I can do

  377. all of this at the end of in my worship.

  378. If I've not heard God, then I've lost the point.

  379. I'll give you an example. Does anyone know what is

  380. the longest flight and he frequent flyers your from your.

  381. Okay, okay, Australia, right, Australia.

  382. Right now, I'm going to book British Airways business class

  383. and I'm going to go to Australia.

  384. How many hours would that be? Twenty hours?

  385. That's okay, it's almost a day, all right. So I

  386. booked this twenty hours flight. I get into this business class,

  387. executive business class or maybe next to the pilot itself.

  388. Who knows.

  389. You know, I booked this flight and I go all

  390. the way to Australia, I reach Australia airport and book

  391. the flight back again to UK.

  392. Are you looking like I did something weird?

  393. No?

  394. I did the right thing. I went to Australia, I

  395. came back. I took twenty hours flight. I went there

  396. and I came back. But don't you think it's a

  397. little bit common sense that if I did all that effort,

  398. paid all that money, took all that twenty hours of effort,

  399. went to Australia. Should shouldn't I even get out of

  400. the airport, look around Australia and come back. That's com sense, right? No,

  401. I don't believe in all of that. But the point

  402. is this. We get into worship, we sing the songs,

  403. we shout hallelujahs, but we don't hear the Lord. We

  404. don't get that space to hear the Lord. But today,

  405. when I worship, what are you talking? Because the Lord speaks.

  406. The Lord speaks, especially when you worship him, the Lord speaks.

  407. And if we didn't hear the Lord, then there's something

  408. wrong with it. The point of worship, you know, even

  409. in the even in the heavens. The beautiful thing is this.

  410. When I was preparing for this, you know, and when

  411. I was walking back on the way, I kept laughing

  412. about it, and people would have thought I'm mad, because

  413. in my mind I was thinking about this, you know,

  414. the previous verse when we read the heavenly Ohs, the angels,

  415. the elders, the saints.

  416. Even we sang that song.

  417. Today everybody is bowing down and throwing their crowns, and

  418. they're literally on the floor. And I can see myself

  419. and other wonderful believers like me standing there and going, oh, good, good,

  420. very good, Yes, very good, Lord, Yes, Oh, praise the Lord,

  421. Praise you Lord, wonderful. I think still some of you

  422. are still to get it, but I will repeat that.

  423. You know, imagine this, All of us go to heaven

  424. and then there are these huge angels. I'll describe one angel.

  425. One angel is a set of him, is a fiery angel.

  426. Imagine the whole sun looking at you, son, sun right,

  427. Imagine the entire sun looking at you.

  428. That's the kind of description of an angel.

  429. And that angel is bowing down before the Lord, and

  430. we're all just standing there and saying yes, yes, yes,

  431. praise the Lord. Harley Loujah. I'm from UK, Lord, so

  432. don't expect too much. I'm from your brethren, from an

  433. Anglican background. This is how we worship.

  434. You.

  435. Just take this Nope, for all you know, the Angel

  436. may strike you down saying you have no idea what

  437. you're doing here. You know some of mysts may do

  438. it out of ignorance, but being in the deception of

  439. the enemy is the most dangerous things you know. Think

  440. about it. He's never made anybody feel that. When you

  441. go to a rock concert, just be dignified. When you

  442. go to a sports win, big didignified. When you are

  443. celebrating the birthday of your son or daughter, be dignified.

  444. Don't go crazy around your kids.

  445. No, only when it comes to worship the devil puts

  446. in your thought.

  447. Be dignified.

  448. Be as cold as a cucumber and straight as a stick. No,

  449. that clearly is the lie of the enemy, because he knows.

  450. The moment your soul, your heart gets connected and you

  451. put all in, you will be set free. Breakthroughs will happen,

  452. healings will happen. People are set free, broken hearts are

  453. made new, broken minds are set free. He knows that

  454. the only way to keep you set in those ways

  455. is say this is how you're supposed to do it.

  456. That's the same dirty lie that he's been telling Eve

  457. from the beginning. He's telling us. He's telling us the

  458. same don't move too much, don't shout too much, don't

  459. sing the song. Just look at everybody else worshiping. What

  460. did you gain? You're like me if you went, if

  461. you took the flight minto Australia and came back, you

  462. didn't get anything. You just spent your time which you

  463. could have done something else with. I don't know if

  464. you are aware of this, but for the general knowledge

  465. of everybody, we are made of three parts. It's gk question,

  466. not a biological question. Though we are made of three parts.

  467. Body soul. What's the last one?

  468. Not ghost? No? Okay, body soul spirit. That's all.

  469. Repeat that body, body, soul spirit, Body soul spirit right,

  470. body soul spirit. The highest of this is your spirit.

  471. The moment you accept Jesus, did you turn from being

  472. black to white?

  473. No?

  474. Really, did you become tall few inches the moment you

  475. accepted Christ? Or become shot or take this as a killer.

  476. Did you become from fat to slim beauty the moment,

  477. no right, nobody. Nothing changed on the outside, but something

  478. really did change inside. Sometimes I wonder where did that

  479. change happen. I still feel the same thing. I still

  480. feel bad about myself what I've done in the past.

  481. I still have anger is shoes, I'm shot tempered guy still.

  482. But where did the change happen? It happened in your spirit.

  483. Your spirit, which was dead, is now alive. Your spirit.

  484. You couldn't understand a word of the Bible before, even

  485. though you've read, but now something at least makes sense.

  486. That word suddenly becomes alive to you. How it's because

  487. of your spirit. And the more your love your spirit,

  488. the more your soul and your body witnesses that change.

  489. To give you an example, your spirit, the moment you

  490. walked in this door, not this door the other door,

  491. is going all ballistic worshiping the Lord and praising why

  492. and he guesses because the Lord is here even before

  493. you walk into this place, because He is more excited

  494. to meet you than you are. So the moment you

  495. walked in that beginning dough, your spirit is going all

  496. excited worship. It's like a small child meeting its parents.

  497. After a long time. All right, it's going all bonkers

  498. about it, excited about it. But your spirit has to

  499. pass your soul. That's how you feel. Maybe the greeter

  500. didn't do a good job today. So when you walked in,

  501. the greeter was looking like you came now, you know,

  502. and you felt like this is the way to greet me.

  503. I'm such an important person. Not even a smile. I

  504. don't like this, So you just come and sit in here. Right,

  505. So you're already upset that your emotions is already gone.

  506. Your spirit is like, oh my God, praise Jesus and

  507. all that. But your spirit is your soul is like,

  508. I'm not in such a good mood to praise God today.

  509. I don't feel like it. Let me see what the

  510. songs are today. It fancies me I will sing other reason.

  511. I'm just gonna watch everybody sing, and then the body,

  512. because the soul is very much controlled by your body.

  513. How many of your life like ice creams? See see

  514. I didn't even say it, raise your hands. See that

  515. that's the point. I didn't say raise your hands. That

  516. soul automatically remembered how the ice cream and the hands

  517. just went out. I don't think I need to say

  518. anything further. So your soul is so closely linked to

  519. your body. There are so many things that you do

  520. without even your knowledge. Just like today, you know you

  521. raise your hand even without me saying anything about it.

  522. But what the spirit feels, it can tell your soul,

  523. and from the soul it goes to your body. And

  524. that's how you start raising up your hands, praying. Sometimes

  525. in worship, you needing, sometimes you're crying. All that happens

  526. from your spirit. But imagine this, which is a reality,

  527. and a big population entire the Christian arena is this.

  528. Most of the born again spirits are in prisons. Are

  529. in prisons built by body and soul. The body and

  530. soul is not going to cooperate, is just going to

  531. say no, I don't feel like doing that today. I

  532. don't feel like coming to church today. Why because rainy?

  533. You still have a car? No, but still I don't

  534. want to drive right.

  535. All of these.

  536. Excuses and everything that you feel is coming from your

  537. soul and your body is just doing it. But your spirit,

  538. which is the born again, wants to do a lot,

  539. but it's imprisoned or restricted.

  540. By your soul and your body.

  541. And what is your body and your soul believe in it,

  542. believes in the lives of the enemy.

  543. That's where the deception is exactly.

  544. There's nothing wrong with your spirit, but your soul and

  545. your body believes in all the lies that the enemy

  546. has told you, saying do this, do that. So imagine

  547. when you go to heaven. You're in for a real shock.

  548. If I'm the person who's going to stand there and say, Okay, Jesus, hallelujah,

  549. hally and to whisper, you know, even the next person

  550. standing next to me will not be able to hear.

  551. Imagine the shock when you go to heaven because in heaven,

  552. when you worship, the foundations tremble. The foundations tremble because

  553. we're not talking about people's you know, say one million

  554. people just saying hallelujah, shout to the Lord. No, these

  555. are a huge, innumerable company of angels singing, and I

  556. don't want to go there if if they start singing,

  557. even the lowest pitch, everything will start shaking. And that

  558. happened continuously in heaven. You know, it's the grace of

  559. God that he has given us this life on earth.

  560. Because this is practice, rehearsal, This is the rehearsal for heaven,

  561. because if you don't practice here, when you go up

  562. to heaven, you're in for real shock. You will not

  563. be able to cope up with it. You'd be like,

  564. what in the world are these people doing. This is

  565. not my way, this is not how my church has

  566. thought me. But praise God, we have been given the

  567. grace and the opportunity to correct ourselves, to come out

  568. of the lies of the enemy and move into the

  569. direction that God has called. You know, one of the

  570. most important things this is the Lord saying, do not

  571. harden your hearts as in rebellion, as in the day

  572. of the trial, in the wilderness. So basically when his

  573. lights were let in the desert. Remember they came out

  574. of Egypt, so they were in the desert in the wilderness.

  575. This is the Lord saying, their hearts are hardened.

  576. Yes, they are people that I have called out by

  577. my strong arm with miracle signs and wonders, have called

  578. them out, but their hearts are still hardened. They don't

  579. want to hear, they don't want to listen to me.

  580. They just want to do what they feel like. It's

  581. like this, Saul, you're in the Saul.

  582. Saul.

  583. Saul one day had to give the sacrifice, the evening sacrifice.

  584. So he's the king, right, So he is like, Okay,

  585. I can't wait for Samuel to come, let me do it.

  586. He did it, and that displease God. Don't take the

  587. things of God very lightly. Imagine if.

  588. How do I say this?

  589. Imagine if I if I'm driving a car right, and

  590. I keep switching the lanes and I drive like a snake,

  591. and I say, I know to drive?

  592. Is that right? You are looking like, as it's right?

  593. We do it every day.

  594. No, no, it is wrong. We can not go on

  595. the road like a snake switching between lanes. How you

  596. feel like and say that's driving. If we give that

  597. much importance to earthly law, how much should be his

  598. significance on what God's statutes and the way God wants

  599. it as a prescribed way of doing things. You know,

  600. when Saul did that, we may think to yah, the

  601. prophet didn't come, so he gave the sacrifice, right, what's.

  602. A big deal in that?

  603. But no, God is displeased with that, and God rejected

  604. him as a king. But that didn't immediately happen, right,

  605. Nothing happened to Saul. He didn't die or anything, but

  606. he was rejected. And when God rejects, it's not an

  607. instant thing, because his grace and mercy is still there.

  608. It's expecting that you will change. You will change, You

  609. will change every single day. Okay, you will change today.

  610. He may change today, she may change. And that is

  611. God's voice saying, I want you to do the things

  612. in the right manner when we come before the Lord.

  613. Go before the Lord and worship him the way he

  614. wants us to. Because, believe me, folks, when you start

  615. worshiping the Lord in the way he has commanded, expect

  616. your miracle because where the presence of the Lord is,

  617. there is deliverance, that is healing, there is miracles. There

  618. are things which you have not even thought about. You know,

  619. what you've been suffering, what you've been carrying all this while,

  620. is because you have believed the lies of the enemy. Well,

  621. today I'm here to tell you break down those lives

  622. of the enemy. Step into what God has called you

  623. to do. Step into the truth that the Lord has

  624. revealed to you today, act upon it. Because today, if

  625. you hear the voice of the Lord, follow him. Do

  626. not hearten your hearts do not let pride harden your hearts,

  627. but allow the Holy Spirit to work on your hearts

  628. and do the right thing and worship God the way

  629. he has told you. Because the moment you do that,

  630. see God through, see the power of God manifest in

  631. your life, because He is so waiting for you to

  632. do it right. It is not God who's holding back.

  633. It is us holding God back. Because God will work

  634. the way he has set up things. God will not

  635. work the ways of man because his ways are higher

  636. than us, and he's not going to come down to it.

  637. He will wait for you to come up to it

  638. because you are his sons and daughters. You are his

  639. living sons and daughters. He is waiting for you today today,

  640. if you hear my voice and repent and come back

  641. to the way I've told you, see the Lord move.

  642. See that red sea which is before you, which says

  643. I will not let you pass, which says I will

  644. drown you today, which says you are done for it,

  645. which says you will have to go back to your past.

  646. See that red sea split into two and make a

  647. way for you where you will walk through and reach

  648. the other side, reach the promise that you have for

  649. God has for you in your life. Reach the destiny

  650. that God has for you. Reach the promise that He

  651. asked for you in your life. That He has promised

  652. you be an overcomer. Don't believe the lies of the enemy.

  653. Amen. Let's pray.

  654. Lord, We thank you for your truth which sets us free. Lord, Lord,

  655. let your word manifest your power. Her Lord, we pray Lord,

  656. every lives of the enemy, Lord, let it be burned

  657. from the roots.

  658. In the name of Jesus.

  659. Lord, we tear down every lie of the enemy in

  660. Jesus name.

  661. Every lie of the enemy.

  662. Put in our subconscious mind, put in our soul we rejected.

  663. In the name of Jesus, we are prooted. In the

  664. name of Jesus.

  665. Lord, let your word flow like a river in our

  666. hearts and minds. I pray Lord that your blood will

  667. wash our souls, that your blood will strengthen our spirits.

  668. So Lord, that when it comes to worship, Lord, that

  669. our bodies will not be a hindrance, that our souls

  670. will not be a hindrance, But accompany the spirit of

  671. the Living God and Lord to worship you in.

  672. Spirit and in truth and in freedom. Lord.

  673. I pray Lord that you will give us the strength,

  674. Holy Spirit. I pray that you'll wash us, Lord, that

  675. you will soften our heart's Lord to respond to you.

  676. Lord, Holy Spirit. I pray that you will move through us.

  677. Lord, that we will not be a frustration to you, Lord,

  678. but a sweet incense of praise to you Lord. Every

  679. time when we come into your presence, Lord, help us

  680. put our everything into.

  681. It, Lord, and not hold back.

  682. O Lord, Lord, and I thank you Lord, as we

  683. worship you Lord with all our soul, with all our mind,

  684. and with all our heart. Lord, we thank you for

  685. there will be open Heaven's Lord in our families, at

  686. our workplaces, at our at our homes, at our Church's Lord,

  687. everywhere we go. When we lift up our voice and

  688. worship you, Lord, let heaven come down.

  689. O Master. We thank you Lord because you are able. Lord.

  690. We thank you Holy Spirit for teaching us Lord, how

  691. to approach you, how to worship you, Lord, because you

  692. are the one who teaches us, Lord to worship you,

  693. because we do not know how to do it. To Lord,

  694. thank you for guiding us in your truth today morning. Lord,

  695. Thank you Lord for helping us continue this Lord throughout

  696. the rest of the days of our life.

  697. Of Master. Help us.

  698. Lord, let these words be sealed in our hearts and minds.

  699. Lord Lord, let your blood seal these words, O Lord,

  700. and let it yield a harvest in the name of Jesus.

  701. We thank you, Lord, because you have done it, and

  702. Jesus might name me.

  703. Pray