Empowered Worship: Our Position and Connection in Christ

1. "Your power is in your position. Your power comes from your position, and we're going to talk about your position. John chapter 4. John chapter 4. It says, yet a time is coming and now and has now come when true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth. Did I underline? Yeah, those are underlined. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship him in the Spirit and in truth." [03:20] (39 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "When we worship, we are not just doing an action simply. We are not just to kind of please God. God is so strategic that he says, listen, there are, there's so many levels of why you need to worship. Again, I told you, he's not an egomaniac up there creating billions of people so he can have them all worship him. So he can feel good about himself. You know, he's not like me. And then I have to have affirmations. I have to say, didn't I do good? Didn't I do good? My wife, I'll tell my wife, I did good, didn't I? I did good. Yeah, you did good, baby. You did good. And she's good about that. She's good about that." [08:38] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "When we worship God, we have our hands extended out to him and we're worshiping him. We're opening our arms. We're opening ourselves up to him so that as we give him worship, we're actually opening ourselves to be receptive and he can actually pour into us. But it also creates that connection to where we are. Now he is then in us because we've opened ourselves up to him and we are in him. It's this divine connection we've created through worship. Remember my statement, your power is in your position. When you are in the Father and the Father is in you, that's where you have power." [10:00] (41 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "When you operate and when you're the person that God created you to be, and that is individualistic, okay? We are, we are individual. God loves diversity. I mean, look around. He loves diversity. And if you look up this way, you know He's got a sense of humor. But He loves diversity. He's created each one of us individual. And I don't know how I get off on that when I'm talking about this. But anyway, so He's in you and you are in Him." [13:45] (30 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, so shall ye be my disciples. I should have put a different version in there, but oh, ye's and ye's. What He's saying is, listen, when you're in me, and you have that life source, listen, you flourish. You flourish. Your life flourishes. See, we pastors have always tried to make it about the ministry, and your life is a ministry, okay? Y'all, okay, y'all are ministers. I dub thee ministers right now. I'll just let you know. You're ministers." [15:52] (48 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6. "We have a responsibility in ministry because of the fact that we have to live to a certain level. Brother Evan, can you turn these fans off for me? Thanks. I'm getting just a tad chilled. My nose is getting drippy, and people over there going. So God wants us to understand we have power when we're in Him, when we're in Him. That's where we have the authority to ask what we will, and it shall be done. Now, that's a pretty bold statement. That's a pretty definitive statement to say whatever you ask, but the caveat is you must be in Him, and Him in you. You must have that connection, so when we're worshiping Him, when we have a lifestyle of worship, we create that connection, and we maintain that connection, so that flow, that anointing that is flowing can go back and forth, just like electricity." [17:27] (62 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7. "The Apostle Paul, writing to the church in Galatia, he said, listen, listen, y'all, I've been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. In other words, he said, that person that tries to make his own decision, that person, he said, that guy's dead, but Christ is in me and has made me alive. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God. Who loved me and gave Himself for me. That life that I live, I live it in Him." [21:50] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8. "When you were created, he created something inside of you that's just waiting to be ignited. It just lies there dormant, just lies there dormant, and it's just waiting. It's just hungering. For that ignition source. And that's God, God's spirit. God's spirit. Amen. This word faith, it says I live by faith. And this word faith is pistis, P-I-S-T-I-S. It's belief with the predominant idea of trust or confidence, whether in God or in Christ, springing from faith in them. And trust means reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, of a person or thing or confidence. So when we have faith, it is trust. We, you cannot have faith without trust. Because if you truly have faith, then you're trusting God. You have trust." [24:28] (60 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


9. "God wants us to understand we can trust him. We can relax in him. The scripture says, enter into the rest. Enter into my rest. And a lot of us think that's reclining in a chair, but that's really good. But I'm here to tell you, when you have true faith in God, you can rest knowing that he has it. Whatever the thing is in your life that you're struggling with, we have to get to the point where we have that connection with God that we can learn to just say, I just trust you with it. I trust you with it. And that's faith. And when we does that, when we're relaxing, we're not trying to handle it and we're out of his way. And he can handle it. He can fix it." [27:24] (46 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


10. "We can be so confident in our connection, in our relationship with him. That when he comes, in the last day when he comes, we don't have to be ashamed. We don't have to worry. We don't have to... Oh, I hope I make it. I hope I make it. Listen, if you are connected with him. If you are connected through worship. And you're praying and you're communing with him daily. You're not just waiting until Sunday morning. Until Sister Martha comes up with her songs and y'all sing along. No, no, no. Daily you are worshiping him. And yes, sing. Just sing." [29:46] (39 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)