Worship: Our Powerful Weapon for Transformation and Breakthrough

Worship releases a new dimension of faith. Worship changes the atmosphere. God knows some of y 'all need your atmosphere changed where you live, where you work. Come on now. Now, worship changes that. (00:00:43)

Your worship, your praise is a response to God, to your relationship with God, to who He is in your life. So when you come up in here and you see people clapping and shouting and dancing and all the things that we do and you say, is all? Is all that necessary? Yes, it is. (00:02:57)

Because it is a response to our relationship with God. What I can't understand is why some of you, God's been so good to you. He has blessed you. He's given you good health. He's given you a place to live. You've got cars to drive. You've got clothes on your back. You've got food to eat. (00:03:25)

And praise takes us from the natural realm into the supernatural. I don't really know how it happens and how it works, but I know that when we come in here and we begin to praise the Lord and we begin to sing and we begin to clap our hands, something supernatural starts happening. (00:06:25)

And he deploys angels on our behalf Because your Bible says The angels of the Lord encamp round about those that fear him And when you come into a room like this With other believers The anointing begins to collide in the atmosphere And something supernatural happens And you begin to be energized and charged with his power Faith begins to rise in you You begin to believe what the word of God says And everything changes In your family, on your job In the atmosphere where you are In your car, in your home On your job, in the Lord's house Wherever you are Atmosphere begins to change When you praise him. (00:07:01)

Singing is one of the ways that we ought to praise the Lord. We open up our services with singing. The singers are not here to sing for you. They're not singing and playing. This band, these musicians, they're not singing for you. They are playing, and they are singing, and making music and melody in their hearts to the audience of one, the King of kings, and the Lord of lords. (00:10:50)

But the reason we begin our services with singing is because we want to go into His presence. We want to enter in to the relationship. We want to leave the natural and move into the spiritual, into the supernatural. We want to leave the problems behind and move into the place where all problems are resolved, where all the answers come. And when you begin to sing, something happens. (00:11:31)

Halal is the Hebrew word where we get our word hallelujah. Hallelujah is the one universal word of praise that is the same in every language around the world. When I first started traveling many, many years ago as a young pastor doing mission work and planning my life, I found out very quickly, I'd heard it, but when I got there, when I got on the mission field, when I was in Asia or I was in Africa or I was in Latin America or I was somewhere in Europe, wherever I was, it was amazing that believers around the world would begin to say hallelujah. And immediately there was a connection. (00:14:40)

We are to dance before the Lord, which means we pick up our feet and we move our feet and we give him praise and we bless him. We might jump or spin or twirl, but I want you to understand one of the Bible ways of praising the Lord is dancing with the Lord. Dancing before the Lord, not in a seductive, lewd way. Come on, somebody. But dancing before him, because like a little child, if you watch videos of children when they're growing up, they're always dancing. They're always spinning. When they're little, they're uninhibited. They just want to dance and jump and move. You turn on the camera and they start. (00:17:35)

yada yada praise has to do with your hands yada yoda yada your hand in hebrew it's the opposite of wringing your hands oh my god what are we going to do help us jesus what are we going to how we're going to pay the bill what are we going to do with this problem what are we going to do we don't have a job we don't have any money what are we going to do we have no gas for the car what are we going to do we can't pay our insurance what are we going to do i'll tell you what to do lift your hand lift your hand it means to worship to praise with extended hands with uplifted hands lift your hands into the lord first i would that men everywhere would pray with holy hands lifted up to god yada free from sin and anger and resentment psalm 134 to lift up your hands yada lift up your hands extended lift up extended hands in the sanctuary and bless the lord brought the lord i'm not even there yet but we want to lift our hands. (00:19:59)

Psalm 63, 3. Because you're loving kindness. Is better than life. My lips shall shabbat you. Because your loving kindness is better than life. My lips are going to shout. My lips are going to open up and say, Hallelujah. Oh, hallelujah. That's dance. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I'm shouting. I'm praising. I'm dancing. I'm rejoicing. Come on, somebody. (00:24:46)

sowing how many know you cannot out give god when you give it may leave your hand but it never leaves your life and if you always want to harvest you need to always have seed in the ground the more seed you have in the ground the more harvest you have the greatest times of our ministry have been the times that we've given the most the more we give the more it comes back it's the principle of god it works that way if it's tied around your house you need to sow a seed you need to give you need to pay your tithe give a give a gift sow a seed in good soil just giving it to somebody at the gas station because you had a whim is is not necessarily good soil it's okay to do that it's okay to pay it forward to pay it back pay somebody in the in the starbucks line of the mcdonald's line if you want to pay their meal that's okay but that may not necessarily be good soil and when you read about the man that sowed the seed some of it went into good ground but some of it fell among thorns and rocky soil and it didn't yield a good harvest so you want to be sure if you want to harvest to put it in good soil don't throw it away so for the lord will greatly barack you in the land which you which the lord your god is giving you he's blessing you with to possess as an inheritance barack you're wondering what it means barack means to bow down to kneel to bless to bow with dignity to bow in quiet reverence for those of you that are quiet this is you you want to bow quietly go ahead and bow quietly it's okay it's in the bible there is a time to bow quietly i thought i'd get at least one amen you're just being quiet right that's okay i can take it psalm 104 says enter his gates with thanksgiving todah that's another one we're not there and into his courts with tehillah so we enter into his gates with todah praise but we go into his courts with tehillah praise singing what is what is tehillah singing what is tehillah. (00:28:02)