 Today, we're going to continue to talk on topic of worship as we go through the series of true worship and I love I love talking about this subject and it's this subject is very dear to my heart because it Through this I've learned a lot and I've grown a lot with God and my personal relationship with God as well as I've seen What worship is able to do in my personal life and a life of people? How many you love worshipping God and just spending time in his presence come on There's no better place to be than in the presence of God This is worship changes us more than We benefit from worship sometimes not sometimes all the time more than leaving God benefits from us God loves when we come we adore him and thank you in things and we honor him But when he comes with his presence he begins to change as he begins to move Things within us he means to cleanse as he begins to purify he begins to rebuild us And many times we end up benefiting more from it than God benefitted himself, right as pastor Vlad said last Last few Sundays this race said that worship is a gift Is the only gift we can bring to God that he hasn't given it to us himself? think about it Everything you have in your life Everything I have in my life the family the friends the ability to walk with two feet the ability to see the ability to hear the ability to function in our body an ability to breathe an ability to perceive the world through our eyes Every all the giftings that we have on inside of us all the talents that God placed on in all of us Everything that we do have in this world is given by God to us The money that we work for You know, that's why that's why tithing is not called giving to God It's called bringing back to God because he's given us the strength in the first place to Make that money everything in our life We don't give it to God. We really just bring it back. We return it But there's one gift that you can give God today That he himself has not given to you and that's worship and that's adoration and that's that's giving that's praise that's Pouring your heart out in adoration and acknowledgement of who he is and what he has done in your life That's the gift. God is seeking today, you know All of us are seeking God all of us aren't pursuit of God We say many times when we see God through prayer. We see God through worship. We see God through reading of scripture How many God seekers do we have in this house? And all of us, you know, honestly even if you are not even a Christian you see God You just might not know which God you're seeking People all around the world every civilization that was discovered every new tribe that was discovered every time new New civilization was discovered. They was always discovered. They worship something or someone. It's a it's a need within us It's what we were born to do Worship is it's a big part of us. It's how we connect with God and we can't escape it. We can just choose Who to worship? You know, we were born to worship and you know, I have little kids and Anytime the music comes on and they just They just start dancing. It's just like shaking. They just move This is moving they start singing without even knowing words. It's it's just who we are who we were born to do It's what we were born to do. Actually, I do have a few clips few second clips That's this morning she was getting her worship on we were born to worship come on, let's put our hands together for God we We are born to worship God We just choose who we worship and how we worship and Pastor blood covered many different subject in many different ways How how we worship what it means to worship and I just want to want to take it just a little bit a little bit a little bit Further today and talk about about talk about few things worship is simply Recognizing God worship is simply acknowledging who God is It's simply coming with the heart of things giving independence on him. That's all really what the worship is about It's not necessarily about the words that we say because many times we say the words, but we don't mean them worship is not about It's not about clapping or dancing or shouting even though that's a part of worship That's the way we express our worship, but worship comes down to acknowledging who God is acknowledging him Recognizing him and thanking him for who he is for what he has done. How many of us Have gone to the place to the party to the church to Hopefully it's not this church To some kind of a gathering you came in and nobody noticed you You nobody said hi to you. Nobody shook your hand. Nobody introduced Themselves to you. It's kind of a if you're more outgoing person you're if you're like my wife For that she's gonna go and she introduces herself to everybody if you're like me I'm more kind of introvert I come in there and I'm like, yeah, I don't know who you are, you know And so but how many how many of you felt really comfortable and like the place to be in a place where you're not acknowledged I mean, I don't know about you like any time I find myself in situation and the moment The meeting is done the moment the gathering is done whatever the gathering whether Christian not Christian whatever and I don't know people and nobody acknowledges me. Nobody says hi nobody. I'm looking for the exit sign I'm looking. Where's the door? I'm out of here and you know in those moments 30 seconds seems like 30 minutes Because you know when you in an awkward situation where you in the no man's land you just That's what worship is about worship is acknowledging God in our life in our space In our heart acknowledging that it is by him that we're sustained It is by him that we have our being it is by him that we have made it this far If it wouldn't be for him, I wouldn't be here today. That's what worship is really about It's about lifting a hand say thank you Jesus for saving me. Thank you Jesus for this day It's about caring attitude of gratitude attitude of thanksgiving and worship amen Everybody likes to be acknowledged We created an image and likeness of God And God likes when we're acknowledged so next time you get into prayer next time you get into worship Don't rush to say things that you don't mean don't rush to say words that that that you don't mean first Acknowledge him acknowledge him that he is here in this place. Acknowledge his greatness Acknowledge his magnitude You know, there's a scripture in Psalms says magnify the Lord It's not that God Needs to be magnified because he's so little he's a little ant like crawling there and you just want to see bigger And you just take the magnifying glass and you know, he's insignificant No, we could what what a lot of times happens is that God does things in our life God brings blessings God does many things in life about what happens throughout life We kind of go on and forget and we actually sometimes even start complaining like Israelites in the desert They're eating heavenly bread They got it by this pillar of The pillar of cloud and pillar of of fire by night. I mean come on. This is supernatural you think like how in the world Can you complain in that moment? But a lot of times our hearts get dull We forget the goodness of God. We forget what he's done and he's doing that's like David calls upon us. He says magnify The Lord not that he needs to be magnified But in our minds it's grown dim. It's grown little. We begin to more murmur and complain That's what David calls to magnify the Lord We're talking about worship Worship is an attitude and action Many times people come to to church or come up to me or talk to the pastors or say, you know, I You guys a bit crazy, you know, I I'm not sure about this whole thing. I worship God in in my heart And it's good Definitely we have to have heart involved in our worship But worship is not just about heart and just about thought Yes, our heart has to be connected and our mind has to be connected to what we're doing But worship is also an action Throughout the bible we'll see we see that worship Worship involves a physical expression And we can read some of the physical expression the bible covers it says Among the physical expression of worship final scripture are kneeling clapping hands raising hands verbalizing praise sinning hymns and psalms We've been left in bearing witness allowed like saying a man Praise God reading the word aloud postrating before the Lord speaking in tongues dancing before the Lord giving public testimony standing Uh silence and spiritual songs if you noticed all of those things had to do with action everywhere throughout the bible God calls us To act as a sign of worship. So next time we get together Feel free to dance feel free to to clap feel free to to to get loose and just Just thank God not to care about what your neighbor is thinking not to care about who's standing beside me And most importantly to forget about the issues the things that you're going through in focus on God Amen church In saw in romans 12 verse 1 and 2 says therefore I urge you brothers in view of God's mercy to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice Holy and pleasing to God. This is your spiritual Act of worship Notice that apostle paul says offer your bodies Not your heart and emotion in your thoughts But your bodies a body has to be involved when we worship Especially when we get together in corporate settings We have to go all out your heart your mind your body your voice Everything has to go out go go all out. You have to leave the altar of worship Knowing that you left a hundred percent how many times How many of you can say that you know today? I left a hundred percent during worship altar Don't raise your hands. I don't want you to be lying but In reality if we examine ourselves Do we feel like when worship comes and the altar is open? I'm not speaking of physical art I'm talking about worship as a living sacrifice Do we give ourselves to God and that also includes in our private time with God They also includes when we're driving in the car there's nobody around We could listen to some worship and we can praise God and pray and we can lift them up and we can begin to build ourselves Or are we just Do nothing or doing nonsense or listening to nonsense We have to be a people that Build a platform of worship for God amen I want you to go in the scripture and we i'm going to give you a few points From that scripture and we will We will take a few nuggets for ourselves from there As Isaiah chapter six and we're going to read first eight verses. We're just going to break it down Isaiah chapter six verse one goes like this in the king that In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the lord high and exalted seated on a throne and the train of his Row filled the temple above him were seraphims each with six wings two With two wings they covered their face with two covered their feet and with two they were flying And they were calling to one another holy, holy, holy Is the lord galler mighty at the sound of their voices The doorpost and threshold shook and the temple was filled with smoke and the whole earth is full of his glory He prophet Isaiah He finds himself In a great atmosphere of worship Prophet Isaiah finds himself through this vision At the throne of god Where there is great worship I want you to know this first thing is that There is no whining or complaining around a throne of god I want you to notice that in heavenly atmosphere There is worship There is adoration there is acknowledgement of who god is and if we want to live in our life If we want to recreate the heavenly atmosphere in our families in our lives In in in our marriages and our a place of work in our place of business We got to live a lifestyle of worship That simply means a lifestyle of acknowledging god A lifestyle of worshiping god of expressing our love towards him expressing our thanksgiving expressing our Gratitude that means not to live a life of complaining and whining But whether going through life constantly being grateful and acknowledging god in your situation Amen church I want you to notice first thing that worship does first worship makes you look upward The first thing that has that key Sorry prophet isaiah he begins to do is he starts looking up to the throne of god When you get into when you begin to worship god first thing that you have to do is you have to lift your eyes up Don't begin to start digging in your life in your situation Don't be stuck in that mud and the problems in the chaos of your life Don't be stuck in a confusion and just even the busyness of your life You have to you have to lift your eyes up And see the king of glory You have to lift your eyes up and despite of your situation despite of what you're going through you have to begin to Acknowledge him and honor him. You have to begin to cry out holy You have to begin to cry out worthy The first thing that worship must do in in you when you begin to worship is to lift your gaze up Away from yourself away from your situation and away from your troubles and problems and focus on who god is I promise you one thing the moment you're going to begin to focus on god The moment you're going to begin to focus on his greatness The moment you're going to begin to focus on his power and his might The lesser and the smaller the problems and situations and the and the things you're facing will become Because worship is kind of like the airplane when you get on an airplane and it takes off The things that seem big the things that they seem Answer Big and you will not be able to overcome them as you begin to elevate It's not that they disappear and they become smaller. It's your perspective begins to change Your paradigm shifts Your vintage point changes and when you when you and when you look at those buildings when you look at those Roadblocks and those obstacles they seem small not that they are gone It's just because you begin to look upward It begins you be because you you begin to move upward When in our worship you have to start with acknowledging god you have to start with worshiping god You have to start focusing on who he is What he's done What he is doing and how great he is We have to like uh, david says in the psalm have to begin to Magnify him and the moment you begin to magnify god automatically other things Begin to look smaller Just like they are Come on church It's not always easy Especially when you're going through things to look upwards That's why David and it's in his psalm says I look up to the hills where my help comes from When you look up you're knowing that Yeah, I might be going through these things today But I know the one who can help me go through it I might be stuck in this place today But I know through my worship as I begin to cater to his presence as I begin to worship him as I begin to uplift him as I begin to usher him The things He when he comes he can bring a solution to it. He can take me out When we shift our focus from our mess to our master The master can begin to take the mess In shape in something beautiful. He can begin to take The things that were struggling he can take those those scars of ours that that the hurt I have gone through He can turn into a testimony you turn into stars. He can take the mass and turn it to a testimony he can In worship when we begin to worship god as god Then he can help us go through the rest of the things a man church in a story When king joseph had was facing an overwhelming odds against him And the armies that came against them were numerous and that he had he didn't stand a chance Everybody knew it. He knew it The other people were already rejoicing for the victory because they knew they were gonna crush him. There were nobody In their eyes But one thing that they didn't count on they they didn't count on worship And that's something that king joseph had said, you know what? We are done. We are in trouble. We can't get out of this So if we're gonna go out Let me go out with worship If if i'm gonna if we're gonna be destroyed Let me be destroyed with thanksgiving in my lips. Let me be destroyed with praises on my lips He knew the secret though. He knew that there's no way god's gonna let him lose that battle If god is on the front on the front of it And so we see that the god as they were worshiping as they were praising god caused a huge confusion in enemies camp They start killing each other and they came out of the problem A a woman from a new testament a woman that had a daughter severely possessed She was crying out to jesus as jesus. Please help me jesus. Please help me disciples already got annoyed said jesus Can't you hear that she's annoying us? Just do something not not even for the sake of compassion, but she just will not leave us alone And she kept pressing through she kept asking and when she saw that asking is not doing any good for her She ran ahead of them. She bowed and worshipped Jesus couldn't overstep worshipper Jesus could not step over worshipper. I don't know what you're facing today with I don't know what struggles you're going through I don't know what family issues you you're you're facing with I don't know what financial situation you're going through or marital situation you're facing or health thing But I know one thing for sure god can't step over worshipper We see that many times in the bible We're worshiped open a doorway To a supernatural change and man church How many of us will be worshipers? Second thing worship helps us to look inward Worship helps us to look inward what that means is In in in the light Of his worthiness we begin to see how unworthy we are In a light of his greatness in the light of his magnificence We begin to see how insignificant we are no sometimes We think too much of ourselves It's true Many times we think too much of ourselves Many times we rely too much on our own strength many times we just Think we've achieved something or we've got something going But when you get into the presence of god and you realize That you are sustained by his breath When you realize that you have what you have Because he gave it to you When you realize that I was no more than a myri clay and he plucked me out of it And he put my feet on a on a steadfast rock and today I am here where I am at when you begin to look inward and begin to see what he has done for your life you when you begin to focus on On why are you grateful what he has done? First when you start looking upward You begin to see the greatness of god the magnificence of god who he is as in general the creation that he That that that he created the the universe the stars just his his overall power and and and Glory but when you begin to look inward you begin to realize How much you need him? And out of that place you begin to worship out of that place you begin to draw closer to him because You began to understand that you're dependent on god And this is the best place this is the best soil where god can begin to work with us See because when you begin to realize that you're dependent on god You surrender to him and a surrender to vessel is the best kind of vessel that he can use A surrender vessel is a vessel where he can begin to shape and mold and and make it as as pleasing to him worship Helps us to focus Helps us to see inward and realize How much we need god And the third thing Before I go to a third to a third point in revelations chapter 4 11 It says the lay down the crowns before the throne and said you are worthy of lord and god To receive glory and honor and power for you created all things in and by your will They are created and have their beings see when you realize when you look inward During worship and you realize that you dependent on god What what what begins begins to happens next is you begin to lay down your crowns What does that mean? That means you begin to lay down all of your achievements You want to escape pride? worship Because during worship you lay down your crowns you see You take your true position in god You see exactly where god is and where you are in relation to him And that's a a proper place. This is a place where god can begin to work with you see when you When you worship you look towards god you magnify me exalt him When you worship it helps you to look inward to begin to realize how dependent on you and him you begin to surrender The third thing begins to take place is worship empowers you to go forward worship empowers you to go forward and Verse eight then i heard the voice of the lord saying whom shall i send And who will go for us and i said here i am send me see when you Find yourself in that Atmosphere of worship when you live the lifestyle of worship through worship you will be empowered to say god I'm ready to do your will I'm ready to go where you send me god. I'm ready To do what you ask me to do. I'm ready to surrender these things. I'm ready to To take on and take take risk. I'm ready to walk by faith because i've surrendered it all worship Empowers us to go forward In the story of three hebra boys Shadrach Meshach and Abednego They They were facing with a big problem actually life or death problem The king of Bacchanazar he built this golden statue and he said that everybody at the sound of the instruments Everybody has to bow to the statue and worship it And they found that these three hebra boys they did not worship so king got angry. He brought them in He explained to them once again said licks listen. I like you guys. You are my uh, they were ahead of his departments. They were Ministers of different departments. He said look, I like you guys. You're doing a great job for me and all But listen, I've I've built this statue I put a lot of money into it a lot of gold and I want you to bow to it and worship to Worship it and if you don't i'm gonna kill you That's what's straight up like that and they said king. I'm sorry, but we won't be bound down We won't be worshiping so he got even more angry said I will The the fire pit will be seven times hotter. And if you don't do it I will kill you and they said this it is that listen king We don't worship any other god, but our god See a person that just cops in Once on Sunday worship and just lifts their hands once in a while and sings a song once in a while Those kind of worshipers that wouldn't be able to say these kind of things Those worshipper wouldn't be say wouldn't be able to say I mean come on. It's just a few bows a few seconds It's okay. Who knows in my heart. I worship god, but this is you know God will forgive me. See they it wasn't that kind of worshiper It was a true worshipper a worshipper that lived a worship style in a private time with god And they say you know what I will not exchange my worship for anything I will not give up my worship to anyone because worship belongs only to my god and only to my king And what happened next? They said listen, even if you have to die But we will not worship any other god Then the king commanded the guards to take them bind them these three Hebrew boys and toss them into the fire The the the thing is that the people that were carrying them to toss them into the fire pit they died But these three Hebrew boys they survived the fire couple things happened their bondages were broken And they were seen walking with Jesus When we worship I don't care what bondage you have in your life. I don't know what you're carrying in your life I don't care what kind of what kind of struggles you're going through But I know one thing when you get into the presence of god These things begin to melt away. They might not come off First time second time third time But the closer you get to the fire of god the further you press in through worship into his presence Those bondages will be broken those things will be burnt and that fire will consume every demonic bondage and chain worship Looses you to move forward Worship opens away for you forward and it doesn't end there When the king began to look and see what's going on what's happening in the fire pit Didn't we throw three men now? Why is there four? Jesus was with them He says call them back out and when they came out He said your god is a true god And he said he written a lie and said if anybody says anything against your god or you Will be destroyed and their family will be destroyed and their house will be brought down to the ruins even down to the foundation Because when you true truly worship god you live a lifestyle of worship when you truly Live a lifestyle where you acknowledge god where where you always exalt him in your life The problems sooner or later will crumble down and you will have a platform to move forward You have you will have a platform to show god's greatness and god's goodness in your life And not only they were spared not only their life will promote it But the whole kingdom that nabakan azer Ruled over the whole Babylonian kingdom heard of the name of god And nobody dared to say or mocked the name of god That's what true worship unlocks. That's what true worship does when we live a lifestyle of worship It opens a platform It opens a way for us to bring the gospel into even the most stubbornest corners of the earth Next thing one thing that worship does One thing I want you to notice is that through all throughout the bible and I can I have tons of scriptures to tell you But because of time Everywhere where you see worship in the bible It's almost always 95 of the time was tied to the miracle All looked through every story where there was worship It was always tied to the miracle We see a story of Jericho when I begin to shout and worship god the walls fell down supernaturally We begin to see All the all the prophets of old Most of them they won't prophesy until obsolveness Or or a musician would come and begin to play for them and worship and create an atmosphere And then they would begin to prophesy the things that they prophesied came to pass We see in a new testament We see in old testament Solomon's temple when they were making sacrifices And when they worship god when Levi's were worshiping the glory of god came in a temple so strong that people could even stand It was physical it was tangible people could actually even see it because there was true worship and surrender King Solomon received his blessing in his life because he was spending time in prayer and worship David as a man known after god's heart. I'm a hundred percent certain He found faith in god's eyes not because he was the most righteous and the most holy guy Guy, but he was a worshipper despite of everything in his life He always worshiped god today. We read his Psalms every situation. He met with worship That's why god blessed him blesses descendants. He can't he will come to sit on his throne because David build a legacy through a lifestyle A worship. Thank you for watching this content. I hope this was a blessing to you If you're like me and you like to click on things Click on this Subscribe to our channel and the content will come to you every time we post it and remember the best is yet to come