Near to God: Worship, Unity, and Spiritual Freedom

Worship takes place at the giving station, at coffee time, with the message at prayer time, and it continues all week. I choose to be a worshiper. But as for me, it's good to be near God. That's my confession. That's my purpose. Sometimes things aren't all that great. And and life is. Okay? Nobody nobody's saying it's not. But here's our focus. All of this rough and tumble in my life. The stresses, the hard parts, the not so pleasant parts. But as for me, Lord, it's good to be near you. [01:23:23] (47 seconds)  #WorshipEverywhere

If you want the blessing of god in your life, if you want the freedom of the spirit moving in your life, as a congregation and I know it's pastor Adam's heart that we're gonna see people saved. We're gonna see people healed. We're gonna see people set free from the work of the devil. Amen. We're gonna see, you know, god wants to do some things here. A lot of you people have joined us because there's a sense that God is doing something, and he is. And he wants to do more, but lets us individually not be blockages to what god wants to do in our church. [01:34:59] (40 seconds)  #OpenToGodMove

All of this rough and tumble in my life. The stresses, the hard parts, the not so pleasant parts. But as for me, Lord, it's good to be near you. It's just good to be near you. It's just good to be near you. And you know what he said? You get close to me and I'm gonna be close to you. That's what he says. Draw near to me. He says, get close to me and I'll be close to you. Worship is not just an emotion We like emotions anyway. Don't we like emotions? [01:23:58] (46 seconds)  #DrawNearToGod

They were in jail. And it says about midnight midnight, and and they were locked. They were in irons. They were in a locked jail cell. And when Paul said, he said, but as for me, it's good to be near god. This is not my favorite place. I don't in fact, I don't really like it. But as for me and Silas, it's good to meet your god. And they were worshiping. They were praising god. And about the midnight hour, guess what happened? You know the story. All of a sudden, there was an earthquake. Okay? And the lord set him free. [01:22:26] (49 seconds)  #WorshipBreaksChains

We need to make some effort toward our worship. Lord, I consciously worship you. And that's the worship that means something to God. To come to him and say, father, thank you. Thank you for setting me free. Thank you for rescuing me from all of the stuff that the devil is doing and has done. Yes. And some of us are in here this morning and, you know, the devil might say, you know what? This and this and this and this. Well, there's freedom from that. Yes. We gotta come to the Lord and say, Lord, I wanna be clean. I want you to cleanse me. I want you to forgive me. I want you to talk to me. I want you to talk to me. [01:38:30] (49 seconds)  #IntentionalWorship

But as for me, it is good to be near God. I have made the sovereign Lord my refuge, and I will tell of all your deeds. Maybe it's hot. Maybe it's cool. Maybe it's soft. Maybe you hear what I'm saying. But as for me, it's just good to be near god. It's so good to be near god. You know, we come from the rough and tumble of our lives every day or through our week and I believe, you know, we need to have our own worship time reading the word, studying the word, praying, just worship [01:20:44] (42 seconds)  #DailyWorshipPractice

Whether you're driving or wherever you're at. I've got a little bit of mind time. You say, lord, I just love you. I just worship you and god, it's so good to be near you. It's so good to be near god. I've made the sovereign lord my refuge. Life can be hard. Lord, can life can be hard. It can be soft. It can be all of these things. But as for God, I've made the sovereign Lord my refuge. I will worship. I will worship. [01:21:26] (41 seconds)  #LordMyRefuge

And god will tell you, you know, and I don't believe we have to get into condemnation but I believe we need to hear from the lord and I'm telling you what, we've got stuff in our lives. We can have stuff in our lives that we've swept under the rug because I'm right, you know. Because I'm right. I had a situation like that That's what I told the lord and you know what he said? So what? So what? You're still wrong. You know, understand. You know, okay. Maybe the situation but how you're dealing with it is is still wrong. [01:33:05] (45 seconds)  #ConfessDontJustify