Transformative Power of Praise and Service
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"For the Spirit of grace has much to say. And in my heart, I hear the Spirit of grace saying, you have read, and so you know it to be true. That I inhabit the praises of my people. But I inhabit the praises of my people because I choose to. For your praise speaks to my joy. And so in the place of abundance of praise, there shall always be. There shall always be an abundance of joy. So the Spirit of grace is saying to you in this season, indeed in every season, let your praise make your heart merry. Let your praise make your heart merry. And your weakness will be swallowed up in strength. And the darkness will be swallowed up in light. And through the strength of his joy, your situation will be made right." [00:30:29] (110 seconds)
"Something that we have done in years past, and I'm going to explain it to you. Probably you're familiar with it, but then we're going to do it a little bit different. I'm just going to ask you to go ahead and stand up and do it now. Okay. But we have the opportunity to be a blessing to people that are in what I be a miss if I called it a nursing home, rehab center, nursing home. And, you know, my wife and I have learned over the past two and a half years of our journey, how many families put their parents, their loved ones in nursing homes and never go see them again. And it's sad. It's deplorable. It's disgusting that we treat our elderly that way. And, you know, for the past two and a half years, my wife and I have heard every time in every different facility, you know, we've gotten commended because we show up." [00:47:41] (56 seconds)
"Purposeful conference earlier this year called the voice of god and the purpose of the voice of god was this to bequeath gift god's people the courage to believe that they hear the voice of god and the body can rise up and do the work of the ministry how many of you know that the entirety of the work of the ministry does not belong to the apostle prophet the evangelist the pastor or the teacher i mean i i had a guy one time he came up to me said it's not my job to build the church it's yours i said well keep believing what you want to believe um but we have to my job is to help you do your job you know and so you i want to talk about how we do prophecy because" [00:51:04] (65 seconds)
"We remain teachable. That means you've got to be teachable. I've got to be teachable. He's the teacher. OK, so we've got to remain teachable, but we also have to remain merciful. Meaning that if somebody comes to you and gives you a word in it, don't fit, don't assume they're a false prophet. Most of the time, their heart is right. They just made a mistake. Everyone say teachable. And merciful. Right. So if I came and I gave Cleve a word and it didn't fit and Cleve just tore me up and tore me down. It might take me the rest of my life to recover." [00:58:05] (55 seconds)
"The apostle said, but we all. Everyone say, that means me. We all. We all. With unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit. Some years ago, I preached a series of messages entitled Life Is. And in that series, one of the truths that the Holy Spirit brought. Out is that life is reflective. We all have this mirror -like tendency in our souls to reflect that which we behold. This is one of the reasons why the Bible says set no evil thing before your eyes. Because if you behold it, you become it." [01:03:48] (60 seconds)
"Because this reflective nature that we have is there by divine design. You don't outgrow it. But every parent knows it because you know that sweet little angel you gave birth to. You know the one that on the day he was born, the angels got together. And decided they'd make a dream come true. So they sprinkled stardust in his hair and gave him eyes of blue. My mama used to sing me that song. Well, your sweet little angel one day says he wants to go hang out with Bobby. And so you let him go down to Bobby's house and your sweet little angel comes home dropping F -bombs like nobody's business." [01:05:34] (47 seconds)
"The original purpose of your reflective nature was so you would behold God and reflect him. Yes. The same verse out of the contemporary English says, don't fool yourselves. Bad friends will destroy you. Now let's get into the message. The title of this morning's message is, Behold and Become. Behold and Become. I'm going to go back. The verse we started off with, 2 Corinthians 3 .18. But we all with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of God. The glory of the Lord are being transformed, all of us, being transformed into the same image. The image of what? The glory of God." [01:07:14] (51 seconds)
"Because a lot of us don't want to be seen. We don't want people to know the struggles. We have on the inside some of the thoughts that we've had that we wished we would never have. And every time we rebuke them, they come back again. And we do things that we wish we would never have done. We don't want anyone to know that. But he already does. And so we need to go before him as we are. Not as we think we ought to be. Is this okay? As I said, the veil can also be a disguise. Not just. Not just a piece of cloth, but it can be something we wear so that no one ever sees. We hide behind a mask of happiness." [01:15:15] (45 seconds)
"When we become when we behold him, we become like him and we leave his presence. Everyone's like, what happened to you? There was a transformation. Then that took place because the veil was off and we beheld each other face to face and we became like mirrors shining his glory. So that when you've seen Jimmy, you've seen. That's the goal, so that when someone looks at you, they're like, I know Christ is real because I see you. Hmm. We all become like mirrors who brightly reflect the glory of the Lord Jesus. We are being transfigured into his very image as we move from one brighter level of glory to another. And the glorious transfiguration comes from the Lord, who is the spirit." [01:30:38] (57 seconds)
"So what does it mean then to behold? I'm trying to hurry this up to behold means in. Intentional focus, setting your eyes on him, refusing to be distracted by the cares and the concerns of the world, looking at him and we look at him through the scripture when we read the scripture. And I said this to you a couple of weeks ago, and I noticed some of the people that were here ain't come back. And I think they ain't come back because they didn't hear what I said when I said what I'm about to say to you, if you don't really listen, will sound sacrilegious. The Bible's just. The book, if you don't add faith to it." [01:31:40] (39 seconds)
"The most expansive experiences I've ever had with God have been those times when I was angry and hurt. And I went before God, and I didn't pretend to be anything but angry and hurt. I don't get a whole lot out of my prayers when they're right. You know what I mean by that? When they're... scripted and I'm praying this way because that's what I was told that's how God wants me to pray the most expansive and transformative times I've ever had with God is when I've gone before God and I was just jimmy with all of my flaws fears and concerns and disappointments and I just laid it all out not in a mat not in a spirit of complaints but just in saying God I I need help up in here and when I've been real he's been a real present help in those times of trouble we've got to if we ever want to encounter grace we've got to remove the veil of self -righteousness if we ever want to know joy we got to remove the mask of happiness because it's really a whole lot better to truly be joyful than to pretend to be happy" [01:20:41] (92 seconds)
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"Something that we have done in years past, and I'm going to explain it to you. Probably you're familiar with it, but then we're going to do it a little bit different. I'm just going to ask you to go ahead and stand up and do it now. Okay. But we have the opportunity to be a blessing to people that are in what I be a miss if I called it a nursing home, rehab center, nursing home. And, you know, my wife and I have learned over the past two and a half years of our journey, how many families put their parents, their loved ones in nursing homes and never go see them again. And it's sad. It's deplorable. It's disgusting that we treat our elderly that way. And, you know, for the past two and a half years, my wife and I have heard every time in every different facility, you know, we've gotten commended because we show up." [00:47:41] (56 seconds)
"Purposeful conference earlier this year called the voice of god and the purpose of the voice of god was this to bequeath gift god's people the courage to believe that they hear the voice of god and the body can rise up and do the work of the ministry how many of you know that the entirety of the work of the ministry does not belong to the apostle prophet the evangelist the pastor or the teacher i mean i i had a guy one time he came up to me said it's not my job to build the church it's yours i said well keep believing what you want to believe um but we have to my job is to help you do your job you know and so you i want to talk about how we do prophecy because" [00:51:04] (65 seconds)
"We remain teachable. That means you've got to be teachable. I've got to be teachable. He's the teacher. OK, so we've got to remain teachable, but we also have to remain merciful. Meaning that if somebody comes to you and gives you a word in it, don't fit, don't assume they're a false prophet. Most of the time, their heart is right. They just made a mistake. Everyone say teachable. And merciful. Right. So if I came and I gave Cleve a word and it didn't fit and Cleve just tore me up and tore me down. It might take me the rest of my life to recover." [00:58:05] (55 seconds)
"The apostle said, but we all. Everyone say, that means me. We all. We all. With unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit. Some years ago, I preached a series of messages entitled Life Is. And in that series, one of the truths that the Holy Spirit brought. Out is that life is reflective. We all have this mirror -like tendency in our souls to reflect that which we behold. This is one of the reasons why the Bible says set no evil thing before your eyes. Because if you behold it, you become it." [01:03:48] (60 seconds)
"Because this reflective nature that we have is there by divine design. You don't outgrow it. But every parent knows it because you know that sweet little angel you gave birth to. You know the one that on the day he was born, the angels got together. And decided they'd make a dream come true. So they sprinkled stardust in his hair and gave him eyes of blue. My mama used to sing me that song. Well, your sweet little angel one day says he wants to go hang out with Bobby. And so you let him go down to Bobby's house and your sweet little angel comes home dropping F -bombs like nobody's business." [01:05:34] (47 seconds)
"The original purpose of your reflective nature was so you would behold God and reflect him. Yes. The same verse out of the contemporary English says, don't fool yourselves. Bad friends will destroy you. Now let's get into the message. The title of this morning's message is, Behold and Become. Behold and Become. I'm going to go back. The verse we started off with, 2 Corinthians 3 .18. But we all with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of God. The glory of the Lord are being transformed, all of us, being transformed into the same image. The image of what? The glory of God." [01:07:14] (51 seconds)
"Because a lot of us don't want to be seen. We don't want people to know the struggles. We have on the inside some of the thoughts that we've had that we wished we would never have. And every time we rebuke them, they come back again. And we do things that we wish we would never have done. We don't want anyone to know that. But he already does. And so we need to go before him as we are. Not as we think we ought to be. Is this okay? As I said, the veil can also be a disguise. Not just. Not just a piece of cloth, but it can be something we wear so that no one ever sees. We hide behind a mask of happiness." [01:15:15] (45 seconds)
"When we become when we behold him, we become like him and we leave his presence. Everyone's like, what happened to you? There was a transformation. Then that took place because the veil was off and we beheld each other face to face and we became like mirrors shining his glory. So that when you've seen Jimmy, you've seen. That's the goal, so that when someone looks at you, they're like, I know Christ is real because I see you. Hmm. We all become like mirrors who brightly reflect the glory of the Lord Jesus. We are being transfigured into his very image as we move from one brighter level of glory to another. And the glorious transfiguration comes from the Lord, who is the spirit." [01:30:38] (57 seconds)
"So what does it mean then to behold? I'm trying to hurry this up to behold means in. Intentional focus, setting your eyes on him, refusing to be distracted by the cares and the concerns of the world, looking at him and we look at him through the scripture when we read the scripture. And I said this to you a couple of weeks ago, and I noticed some of the people that were here ain't come back. And I think they ain't come back because they didn't hear what I said when I said what I'm about to say to you, if you don't really listen, will sound sacrilegious. The Bible's just. The book, if you don't add faith to it." [01:31:40] (39 seconds)
"The most expansive experiences I've ever had with God have been those times when I was angry and hurt. And I went before God, and I didn't pretend to be anything but angry and hurt. I don't get a whole lot out of my prayers when they're right. You know what I mean by that? When they're... scripted and I'm praying this way because that's what I was told that's how God wants me to pray the most expansive and transformative times I've ever had with God is when I've gone before God and I was just jimmy with all of my flaws fears and concerns and disappointments and I just laid it all out not in a mat not in a spirit of complaints but just in saying God I I need help up in here and when I've been real he's been a real present help in those times of trouble we've got to if we ever want to encounter grace we've got to remove the veil of self -righteousness if we ever want to know joy we got to remove the mask of happiness because it's really a whole lot better to truly be joyful than to pretend to be happy" [01:20:41] (92 seconds)
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