Worshipful Faith: Shout, Serve, Sing for Breakthrough

``Now you probably didn't write those words in your journal this morning. You might not have prayed those words in your chair time this morning, but you come into a room and someone's already written the words for you, and we vocalize them together. And there's something powerful that happens when you sing what you couldn't say. You couldn't speak those words because maybe of what you're going through, but you can sing those words. It happened to be on the set list, but the Holy Spirit made it fit with what you're going through. Singing has power. In singing the words of truth, the song seems to penetrate the heart deeper in ways that even the sermon can't. And so we sing to participate with the power of God through song. [00:40:55] (71 seconds)  #SingingWhatYouCantSay

I wanna give give you a Hebrew another Hebrew word, the Hebrew word for worship. It's Abad. Everyone? Abad. I don't understand the pronunciation marks. I got that. That's it's accurate, but I got four semesters of Greek and zero of Hebrew. Talked to doctor Harvey Webb afterwards for that. But it it's listen to this. It's to serve, to do labor for God. Did you see that coming? Where's the music? Some of you think you're worshiping, but you don't ever get to this part. To serve, to do labor for God. That's what we're to do with gladness. Romans twelve one defines worship worship as serving sacrificially. And so worship cannot be contained simply in the service. [00:35:48] (77 seconds)  #WorshipIsService

for you to give praise to God for what he's doing, to give glory to him in the midst of the battle, to look back and to identify, hey. I see you at work, God. Keep fighting. You know, you can't win this battle on your own. Only the power through only the power you have through the Holy Spirit living in you is capable is gonna what's make you capable to defeat the power of darkness in your life. The power of the Holy Spirit is the only thing that can bring true and lasting breakthrough. [00:52:22] (45 seconds)  #PraiseInTheBattle

In fact, we just wanna let you know, you came to an imperfect church. We may even have good Google reviews, but we're not perfect. In fact, you look left and right. These are imperfect people. But as we like to remind each other, we are perfectly loved. And, we believe that God has loved all of mankind. The bible says, love the world so much that he gave his son as a sacrifice so that we could have peace with him. So, actually, he's already done all the work. All you have to do is respond. [00:19:27] (43 seconds)  #PerfectlyLovedImperfectChurch

But there's something powerful about being in a room full of singing. It's not all perfect. Well, that's why we it's not the only reason, but the volume's loud enough in here that it's okay for you to sing off a little. You hear me? Because because we're actually not singing for everybody necessarily to hear. We're singing for him. I'm telling you, you can hear when everybody sings. Can you? Can you? You can hear it. In fact, at the back of the room at the board, you wanna know sometimes why we have to hit the volume a little more? Because you guys are singing so loud. We can't hear the leader. That's worshipful singing. [00:38:42] (49 seconds)  #WorshipfulSingAlong

And the fasting might not be popular, because it puts us in what we call a place of holy desperation. It it changes our position, not necessarily God's. God's listening to you no matter whether you eat food or not. Okay? Some of you might say, well, why would we do it then? Why are we putting ourselves through this? In in Matthew chapter six, Jesus speaks about fasting. And he doesn't say, you know, if you if your church has fasting on the schedule, do these things. He says, when you fast. In fact, there's three topics that he covers there, and he uses the word when. When you pray, when you fast, when you give. And so for Jesus, these weren't optional practices. These were pillars of what it means to follow him. [00:21:45] (48 seconds)  #WhenYouFast

And so I remember the first time I fasted, I thought I was gonna die. I didn't do anything. I didn't eat anything but juice, and my family was about to kill me because I got grumpy. Anyone get grumpy while fasting? Yeah. Just confess that to the Lord. Okay? Let me tell you. All that stuff gets a little easier as you practice. And and also, you might fast something simple. I wanna tell you I'm telling you these things because fasting doesn't have to take place on the church calendar. I want I want you to try it again. If you if you feel like you failed, try it again. Pull back a little. You you don't have to start with, you know, a water twenty one day fast. Okay? Some people do that. It's I can't I can't I'm not there. [00:23:06] (45 seconds)  #StartSimpleFast

And, in fact, we believe that God doesn't just love us out of hell. He loves the hell out of us. It's a daily process. And, well, he instantly enters into a relationship with you when you cry out to him. Him repairing us and fixing us and challenging us to be more like him every day. That's a lifelong process of the holy spirit at work in your life. And so we live surrendered to Jesus, the way, the truth, and the life. God's our boss. Love is our mission. People are our passion. And so we live our lives being love, living the truth, speaking the truth, doing it all in love so that the world can be transformed by the power of Jesus. So that's why we do what we do, and that's who we are. [00:20:11] (56 seconds)  #DailyGraceJourney