Refined by Fire: The Power of True Worship

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Worship causes breakthrough. If you want breakthrough in your life, but you won't get on your hands and knees, or you won't raise your hands, or you won't clap your hands, then don't ask for breakthrough anymore. You're not going to get it. That's just the way it is. If you can't have some love and adoration for the Father who created you, if you can't humble yourself enough, if you're too worried what people might think if you clap your hands or jump around or kneel down, what are you doing? This is your only life to live. [01:30:30] (35 seconds)  #BreakthroughThroughWorship

You don't have to feel his presence to worship him. Right? You don't have to feel his, you don't have to feel in love with him to worship him. You don't have to feel anything. He's still worthy. And I promise if you begin in those dark days to worship and lift your hands anyway, when that's all you can do and stand and worship, you will begin to feel his presence again and he will heal your heart. [01:34:54] (32 seconds)  #WorshipWithoutFeeling

He doesn't say, ah, worship me when you feel like it, or think about giving me some praise and honor for creating you and the entire world with my words. He doesn't say that. He says, worship. It's a command. It's a command. [01:37:24] (19 seconds)  #WorshipIsCommanded

A people custom made, custom made to praise him, to worship him, custom made, handcrafted, all of us unique, all of us individual, yet created by one, made to worship. We were made to worship. [01:39:49] (20 seconds)  #CustomMadeToPraise

Why does he bother with us? Because we were the only creatures created in his image. The only ones. The angels were not created in his image. Lucifer was not created in his image. The cherubim were not created in his image. All the other creatures he created up in heaven and down on earth, they were not created in his image, but we were. So when he looks at us, he sees himself. When he looks at us, he sees himself. He sees himself. [01:42:58] (45 seconds)  #LoveBecauseHeLoves

He loves and because of that, we can love. That's something to celebrate. That's something to sing about. That's something to raise our hands about. He loves because he created us. He bothers with us because we look like him. [01:44:04] (16 seconds)  #SurrenderToHisWill

And when we mean that, no matter how hard, difficult, possibly painful it may be when we say, not my will, God, but yours be done, I will drink from this cup I don't want to drink from. I will do this to honor your name, to bring glory to you. When we do that, it's confirmed that he's the Lord of our life. Because we can say he's the Lord of our life all we want. But when he gives us a cup to drink and we don't drink it and we walk away from it, you're the Lord of your life. [01:45:02] (39 seconds)  #MakeHimLordToday

``Break free of the chains that hold you back. Break free of whatever happened in your past. Raise your hands. If you've never raised your hand today, raise one. If you've never raised your hand, raise one. If you've never clapped, clap. If you've never jumped, but you feel like you should jump, I encourage you, step out of your comfort zone. Worship the one who created you because you were made to worship. You were born to worship, handcrafted, singly for him, made in his image. Made in his image. [01:47:34] (35 seconds)  #WorthyOfAllPraise

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