The Joy and Triumph of Singing Scripture

00:00 hi I'm Wes Gorospe and we are Songs of
00:04 Scripture is our ministry this is part
00:08 two of this of the summary of singing
00:13 the scriptures and the actual subject of
00:16 this particular part is the joy and
00:20 triumph of singing songs of Scripture
00:23 now let me just give you a little bit of
00:26 a summary of last week but before I do
00:31 let's pray Heavenly Father thank you
00:33 thank you thank you that you have given
00:36 us your word Lord God and your word is
00:39 true
00:40 lord thank you that we can rely on your
00:43 word and thank you Lord God that when we
00:47 sing your word Lord God you attend your
00:49 word with such power so Lord as as we
00:54 look into singing your scriptures
00:57 tonight I pray father God that you'd
00:59 bless each one of us here tonight in
01:01 Jesus name Amen
01:05 so in summary from last week we talked
01:09 about Jesus was joyful and triumphant
01:14 like we all want to be and ourselves
01:19 it's our tongue that gets us in trouble
01:23 and that's what kind of throws us off
01:28 our game Jesus gave us the authority
01:31 over the devil and the devil tries to
01:36 lie and steal that authority from us
01:39 here's the problem we let him do it by
01:43 cursing ourselves with our tongues and
01:47 but but the Word of God is powerful to
01:51 build faith and to heal and to deliver
01:54 and when we know and we use the word and
01:59 when we when we say the word and keep
02:05 the word in our hearts it allows us to
02:10 the strength to keep our authority
02:12 being stolen by the devil and singing
02:15 the word helps us keep our hearts and
02:19 our minds
02:20 in alignment with God's Word last week
02:24 we sang the scripture he sent His Word
02:26 and healed us and delivered us from our
02:29 destructions from Psalm 107 and maybe we
02:34 can try it again remember we just we
02:41 just did it in a monotone and and I'll
02:44 sing and you guys can sing too okay
02:47 it's he sent his word and he healed us
02:51 and deliver us from our destruction he
02:55 sent His Word and healed us and
02:58 delivered us from our destruction he
03:01 sent His Word and healed me and
03:04 delivered me from my destruction he sent
03:09 His Word and healed me and delivered me
03:12 from my destruction
03:14 [Music]
03:15 singing the word is as simple as that
03:18 it's just taking the scripture and
03:20 singing it back to him and you know you
03:24 can just do it with one note like that
03:26 or you can do it when you can make up
03:30 your own melodies like so many of us do
03:32 I've I've done that with a lot of
03:34 Scripture and created songs from it so
03:38 this week what I want to talk about is
03:41 is in singing the word I want I want to
03:45 give you a little bit of a testimony of
03:46 of what my singing coach told me years
03:51 ago he said sing from your diaphragm and
03:56 so if you don't know what you thought
03:58 your diaphragm is this in here he said
04:01 sing from your diaphragm because it
04:03 makes a fuller and more powerful sound
04:07 so this week I was praying and the Lord
04:13 spoke to me about that he said the Lord
04:16 told me when we sing the word from our
04:20 diaphragm it's even more powerful
04:24 because out of your belly is flowing
04:28 rivers of living water so the Spirit is
04:33 attending his word from our diaphragm
04:38 this is where out of your belly shall
04:41 flow and the second thing that the Lord
04:44 showed me is that when when we're
04:48 singing the scriptures that is it's the
04:52 washing of the water of the word so so
04:56 we can wash ourselves we can we can be
04:59 more powerful but we can also wash
05:01 others with the word say he's such a
05:06 powerful weapon in the Old Testament
05:12 there was a king named Jehoshaphat back
05:16 in second chronicles it talks about how
05:19 Jehoshaphat was facing three different
05:24 armies the Moabites and
05:26 different i'ts and in facing those
05:29 armies that the people went to prayer
05:32 and then the Lord told Josh bet I will
05:38 fight this battle for you but I want the
05:40 singers to go first into the battle and
05:45 what the Lord was showing in that
05:47 scripture as well is in in some
05:50 sixty-eight where they put the singers
05:53 in front of the army and by the way the
05:57 Lord won the battle for them they didn't
05:59 even have to fight the the battle was
06:02 worn by the time they got to the
06:03 battlefield what the Lord was saying in
06:06 that is that there's power in worship
06:12 and and not only do we recognize that
06:15 power but he recognizes the power and he
06:18 and he he gives us that tool which we
06:24 can use to to fight the enemy even
06:28 though he is the one that's really
06:29 fighting our battle for us so when we
06:35 look at this you know of being being in
06:39 an army fighting the battle through
06:41 songs of Scripture one thing we need to
06:46 do is we need to have the mindset of a
06:51 soldier of being in the army of God and
06:56 this is so important because if an army
07:04 is united and all of the members of the
07:08 army are united everybody has each
07:12 other's back everybody knows what
07:14 they're doing everybody is engaged in
07:17 what they're supposed to be doing the
07:20 results can be devastating to their
07:22 enemy but on the contrary if if the Army
07:29 is undisciplined and if the army let's
07:34 say that certain parts of the army
07:37 decide that well I don't want to engage
07:40 I don't want to be part of the army
07:42 today then what can happen then is just
07:47 the opposite is that you can be the
07:52 result would be terribly disappointing
07:54 and can be terribly devastating to to
07:59 the army and to yourself
08:01 and so what God wants us to do is God
08:04 wants us to be engaged think about a
08:07 sports team we just finished the final
08:10 four at the basketball tournament and
08:13 you look at those guys and everybody has
08:16 a role but these are the championship
08:20 players and everybody is engaged in the
08:25 battle so if you're not engaged in the
08:28 battle then chances are or let's say
08:33 that you disengage let's say that you
08:35 decide ok I'm on the team but I'm gonna
08:39 take a couple of plays off I'm not gonna
08:42 I'm not gonna engage during the second
08:45 quarter or whatever chances are you're
08:50 not gonna be on a winning team chances
08:53 are that that that by you not engaging
08:57 in the warfare in the battle in the game
09:01 that the whole team is gonna suffer
09:05 because of it you know and and
09:08 unfortunately this happens too often
09:13 sometimes we asked a question why why
09:21 are the results from foreign nations
09:25 you know the spiritual results from from
09:29 missions and foreign nations why are the
09:32 results so much greater than they are
09:34 here at home in the u.s. why is that and
09:38 I would venture to say that has to do
09:45 with engagement has to do with
09:51 non-participation because if you know in
09:56 any sport in any battle everybody has to
10:01 have each other's back you know when you
10:05 talk to a soldier that has just come
10:07 back from from the battle that they will
10:12 always tell you you know that the most
10:15 important thing is is I know that I have
10:19 her back and I know that she has my back
10:21 you know and so that I can do what I'm
10:25 supposed to do and don't have to worry
10:27 about what's going on behind me you know
10:30 and unfortunately in in many cases that
10:35 is not the case
10:37 there's too much non-participation going
10:40 on where as Jesus said if if we can
10:47 agree if two or three or four or five or
10:49 ten or twelve can agree as touching
10:52 anything you know and be engaged in it
10:56 you know great things can happen great
11:00 things can happen and and I think you
11:03 know in many of these other countries I
11:06 think the hunger for the move of God is
11:09 so much more desperate than here because
11:14 we're a things are good here you know
11:18 and and but you know we can go doctors
11:22 and this can but some of those places
11:24 don't have doctors and so they're
11:26 desperate for God and God shows up God
11:31 shows up so that the idea is in in
11:40 engaging with the word and engaging in
11:43 song you know we have to ask ourselves
11:50 am I going to be a spectator or am I
11:53 going to be a participant am I going to
11:56 engage you know in in whatever it is God
12:01 is calling us to are we engage
12:04 you know as Psalm 1 says we delight in
12:08 in the word he delights in the law day
12:13 and night day and night you know it says
12:17 we can make melody in our heart another
12:20 price in scripture says rejoice in the
12:23 Lord always another place in the
12:25 scripture says pray without ceasing
12:28 now all of these activities praying
12:32 without ceasing or rejoicing in the Lord
12:35 always these are things that help us to
12:43 overcome mediocrity you know and and if
12:47 we want to be as as the the title of
12:51 this this this teaching is if we want to
12:57 be joyful triumphant overcoming
13:01 Christians you know it have joyful
13:04 overcoming lives then we need to not be
13:08 mediocre in our approach to God we need
13:13 to be like the guy in Psalm one that
13:16 says I'm diving I'm all-in you know day
13:19 and night I'm going to be engaging with
13:22 the Lord with the word you know and and
13:26 this is a thing that that we need to do
13:28 on a regular basis now we can always
13:32 choose not to do that but I wouldn't
13:36 suggest it I would suggest you go all-in
13:39 you know singing the word is just one
13:42 tool in our tool belt you know there are
13:45 a lot of tools in the tool belt but
13:47 singing the scripture especially is just
13:51 one tool in the tool belt and the thing
13:55 about singing the scripture is that it
13:56 can jump-start everything else that you
13:59 do if you engage in singing scripture
14:03 putting the scripture on your mouth
14:05 engaging with it
14:07 it will help everything else you know
14:10 your reading of the scripture your
14:12 you're moving in the power of the Spirit
14:15 all of these things
14:16 we'll be easier if you sing Scripture I
14:20 found that to be true the best way I
14:23 know of really to be a joyful triumphant
14:28 overcoming Saint is to sing Scripture
14:35 that's that's just my own testimony
14:38 about that and that's why that's why we
14:42 we we record and and write and and sing
14:46 Scripture because we're hoping that
14:51 everyone that that hears these things
14:54 will say oh yeah yeah you know I want to
14:58 do that I want to sing scripture too
15:00 it's so encouraging that Psalm 89 says I
15:07 will sing of the Lord's great love
15:10 forever with my mouth I will take your
15:14 faithfulness known to all generations
15:17 and in psalm 32 it says you surround me
15:22 with songs of deliverance you surround
15:26 me with songs of deliverance you know
15:29 the cool thing about about songs of
15:33 Scripture is that it helps you remember
15:38 the scripture itself
15:41 singing singing music scientifically
15:47 it's been proven that singing music
15:50 simulates more parts of your brain than
15:53 any other human activity you know not
15:58 all music does that it's also been
16:02 proven that if you subject yourself to a
16:06 heavy metal music it'll actually destroy
16:09 parts of your brain serious you know
16:12 it's it's been proven you know and so
16:18 the opposite of e ously you want to
16:21 subject yourself to - to the right music
16:25 and the word think about David
16:30 back in first samuel when when king saul
16:36 was just just being tormented by an evil
16:43 spirit what did they do they called
16:46 David and David came and played his
16:49 heart you know and and it says that then
16:54 relief would come to Saul he would feel
16:57 refreshed and the tormenting spirit
16:59 would leave him my guess is that he was
17:03 probably singing Psalms - as well as
17:07 playing the heart you know
17:09 so what science tells us is that on the
17:16 left side of the brain is where words
17:19 flow from so that's the logic on the
17:23 right side of the brain is where music
17:26 happens so that's the creative part in
17:30 the back of the brain is where the the
17:35 melodies and the rhythm the rhythm comes
17:38 from - to put it all together that's the
17:40 organization and in the front of the
17:43 brain is the emotion that's where you
17:47 feel the music so every single part of
17:51 your brain is functioning together and
17:53 the Lord was showing me that when we put
17:57 music to the word it is you know all
18:03 parts of your brain are functioning and
18:06 is so powerful it'll just transform you
18:11 the the scripture says that that in
18:16 Romans 12 it says be transformed by the
18:20 renewing of your mind well this is one
18:22 way that you can renew your mind by
18:25 singing scripture you know in Hebrews it
18:28 says says that the word is living and
18:32 powerful sharper than any two-edged
18:34 sword piercing penetrating even to the
18:38 dividing of soul and spirit joints and
18:42 marrow is
18:43 and is the discerner of the thoughts and
18:44 intents of the heart
18:46 now if you'd you think about that
18:48 scripture it's talking about the spirit
18:50 the soul and the body what he's saying
18:54 is that my word will penetrate every
18:58 part of your being and change you so
19:06 when we think about saying the word
19:10 think about Jesus being the word okay
19:15 John John chapter 1 says that in the
19:20 beginning was the word then the Word was
19:22 with God and the Word was God and then
19:25 the word became flesh and dwelt among us
19:28 and we beheld his glory as of the only
19:30 begotten of the Father
19:32 well if Jesus is the word and we're
19:38 seeing the word and the word is living
19:42 and dividing dividing stuff and
19:47 organizing stuff in our lives and
19:48 penetrating every part of us spirit soul
19:52 and body then you you couple that with
19:57 Holy Spirit because you know the Father
20:00 Son and Holy Spirit are one and so
20:02 wherever the word is wherever Jesus is
20:05 is a spirit and wherever the Spirit of
20:08 the Lord is there is Liberty there's all
20:12 these benefits you know and when you're
20:15 when you're seeing the word it's it
20:17 becomes a part of you it's it's the
20:20 easiest way that I know of to to
20:25 apprehend all the benefits I mean he
20:30 sent His Word to heal them deliver them
20:32 from all their destructions you know
20:34 faith comes by hearing hearing by the
20:37 Word of God and you seeing the
20:39 scriptures you know you get faith you
20:42 know you know and and and the spirit
20:44 attends the word and so you're getting
20:46 liberty freedom at the same time
20:50 spiritual growth you name it the
20:52 benefits are beyond compare
20:56 and it's all they're just singing
20:59 Scripture so kind of running out of time
21:03 here taking up your time but I think
21:10 what one testimony I wanted to leave
21:12 with you was I had a friend of mine that
21:16 was severely tormented in her mind and
21:22 she like she would go off the rails and
21:30 I would tell her think of a scripture as
21:35 soon as you feel yourself losing control
21:38 think of the scripture God has not given
21:41 me a spirit of fear greater is He that
21:43 is in me think of a scripture and
21:45 immediately start saying that start
21:47 saying that and and she said you know
21:52 when she started doing that what she's
21:55 doing is she's the the devil is giving
21:58 her these thoughts these awful thoughts
22:00 and she's replacing those thoughts with
22:04 the Word of God and she said you know
22:07 when I did that I would gain back
22:10 control and I found that to be true my
22:16 own life you know when things start
22:18 going off the rails that that I can go
22:23 back and think about a lot of times I'll
22:28 remember one of my nice scripture songs
22:31 and start singing it to myself sometimes
22:35 in the middle of the night sometimes you
22:37 know I'm anxious and I can't sleep and
22:38 like I'm I'm thinking about my mind's
22:41 going crazy and I'll just start thinking
22:44 about you know peace I leave with you my
22:46 peace I give to you not as the world
22:50 gives you know and and sing my songs to
22:54 myself I couldn't do that for a long
22:56 time but I learned how to do it
22:58 especially driving back and forth to
23:01 UCLA you know when we need you know the
23:05 trial was so great we need
23:09 the greatness of God and His Word to
23:11 overcome that so all in all you know
23:16 what I want to leave you with is the
23:20 importance of you discovering the power
23:26 of singing the word you know and you
23:29 don't have to have a great voice you
23:31 know if you need help just just put on
23:34 one of my CDs and listen and sing that
23:37 song you know greater is He that is in
23:40 me or you know tonight at the end we're
23:44 going to sing God has not given us a
23:47 spirit of fear but of power and love and
23:50 a sound mind okay Lynn's gonna
24:05 hello you know what just came to mind is
24:09 many years ago we always played the
24:15 scripture songs in the house and our
24:17 daughter was about six years old at the
24:19 time and we had just moved into a town
24:20 home and there was a little
24:22 five-year-old that was always walking
24:24 around the streets and it's it's gated
24:26 but I still thought she's too young to
24:28 be just walking around by herself and so
24:31 she attached herself to my daughter
24:34 Nikki and so I went and I told her mom
24:37 you know is it alright if we have her
24:38 come in the house and she said oh yeah
24:40 sure and so when she came in the first
24:44 time the CD was playing we always had it
24:47 playing and she said do you have God
24:50 music and I thought that was I just kind
24:53 of like yeah yeah I guess we do yeah and
24:57 so the two of them I can always remember
24:59 the two of them dancing and singing the
25:02 scripture songs and this little girl had
25:05 a very tough upbringing and she had a
25:09 tough household and and she was coming
25:12 oh she just wanted to come over all the
25:14 time and sing and dance the scriptures
25:16 and she said my mommy won't let me have
25:19 a Bible and won't let me have any God
25:21 music but I really want to I really want
25:23 God music and so we bought her CDs and
25:26 bought her a Bible and my daughter was
25:28 doing a Bible study with her all the
25:30 time and I just saw this little girl she
25:34 accepted the Lord and and she became
25:36 free you prayed for her you prayed for
25:39 this little girl and and I just saw just
25:45 the heart of a young one wanting the
25:48 Lord and wanting to know more she wanted
25:51 to know Scripture and that and so she
25:52 began memorizing scriptures that just
25:55 came to mind when you're saying that so
25:59 tonight I was or as I was preparing for
26:03 this I was asking the Lord we really
26:05 want to talk about corporate worship
26:07 tonight last week we talked about our
26:09 individual time with the Lord and and
26:12 singing scriptures to strengthen our
26:14 spirit
26:15 and the intimacy with the Lord and but
26:20 events so I want to get to what we bring
26:23 when we come to church on Sunday or when
26:24 we gather together and we worship the
26:26 Lord as a group but first the Lord was
26:30 talking to me about repentance and I
26:32 said well you know everybody here knows
26:34 that but the Lord said I mean it's
26:38 you've heard it pastor teaches it really
26:40 well I don't know what to say and the
26:43 Lord said to just all of us to just
26:47 receive a fresh revelation so Holy
26:52 Spirit I just ask you to flow through me
26:54 I am yield it to your to you tonight
26:58 Lord and I ask you to give us fresh
27:01 revelation of repentance it's a singing
27:10 scripture and singing in tongues
27:12 sustains our prayer time instead of vain
27:16 repetitions we connect to the Lord in a
27:18 deeper way
27:19 so I find as we humble ourselves
27:23 repentance is just a natural response to
27:25 being in the presence of the Lord when
27:29 Wes was talking about going to UCLA one
27:32 of the experiences I had in the very
27:34 beginning of our daughter's diagnosis I
27:36 was driving on the 101 and of course
27:39 singing Scripture praying Scripture and
27:41 asking the Lord for this miraculous
27:43 healing and the Lord said I want to talk
27:46 about what's in your heart and I was
27:49 thinking what what now we're just asking
27:54 for this miracle for our daughter and
27:56 I'm just focused on that miracle what I
27:58 want from the Lord and God said can we
28:02 talk about what's going on in your heart
28:04 and I you know I thought Lord I I'm so
28:07 traumatized by this I don't think I
28:09 could do that right now I don't think I
28:10 want to dig up all that all the sin and
28:13 and past traumas I don't think I want I
28:17 could do that and he said will you trust
28:20 me and I said yes and so it began this
28:24 talk and this dialogue with the Lord
28:27 this
28:27 deep presence of the Lord where I began
28:32 very to be repentant anything the Lord
28:34 showed me I was trying to deal with it
28:37 and of course in the beginning I thought
28:38 I don't know that I could carry this
28:41 burden if I start digging down deep into
28:44 the you know all the muck but what of
28:49 course I found is that Jesus wanted to
28:51 he wanted it out of there he wanted to
28:53 heal it and he wanted to bring his light
28:55 to it Holy Spirit was revealing things
28:58 to me so that I could repent and I could
29:02 be stronger so that I could carry what
29:06 he had to give me so I could hear his
29:09 voice more clearly so that I could go on
29:12 and not be weary in this it seems like
29:18 such a simple practice to sing but yet
29:21 when our hearts are heavy when they're
29:22 burdened I find it's really challenging
29:25 to to make my body sing I and I don't
29:31 know that I have the answer to all of
29:33 for all of us to how do we get from that
29:36 place of being discouraged or weighted
29:38 down and just do it just do it
29:44 and I sometimes start very feebly but I
29:48 began to get you know more wholeness
29:51 more free and of course then I can sing
29:55 out so Heavenly Father we pray for
30:00 tonight I pray for a fresh baptism of
30:02 your love we want to surrender every
30:06 part of our heart to you and enable you
30:08 to illuminate those things Holy Spirit
30:14 come and illuminate those things in our
30:15 heart that we should put on the cross
30:19 thank you for filling us with your words
30:21 so we become worshipers and spirit and
30:24 truth and thank you for the washing of
30:26 the water of the word
30:32 so we had the trial we still are
30:36 believing for our daughters full
30:37 restoration full healing full recovery
30:40 we still stand on that but in the trial
30:43 there were many difficulties in not just
30:47 her being hospitalized and having a
30:50 diagnosis of a life-threatening disease
30:52 but all the other things that happened
30:55 with it the enemy wanted to come in and
30:57 interfere in our marriage the enemy
31:00 wanted to interfere in our finances the
31:02 enemy with car accidents totaled our car
31:06 they're just several things of life that
31:09 were happening at the same time was his
31:11 father was battling cancer
31:13 you know just there was a lot of things
31:16 happening all at the same time so what
31:17 do we do when there's a lot of things
31:20 coming against us at the same time and I
31:23 found that I had to surrender I had to
31:27 find God in that trial and I had to let
31:31 him lead me through it I had to ask him
31:35 what are you trying to show me what do I
31:37 need to know about who you are how do I
31:40 become like you how do I allow you to be
31:45 my strength when I am when I'm this week
31:48 and I found that that's our we're here
31:55 to be trained or here our training is to
31:58 reign with Jesus and the suffering is
32:02 part of that and so it was difficult
32:05 watching our twelve-year-old suffering
32:08 and not understanding and being young in
32:11 the Lord no knowing I mean she was on
32:13 fire for the Lord and this was confusing
32:16 to her but we we found that worship was
32:23 the Keywest brought his guitar to the
32:25 hospital we would sing scripture songs
32:27 she would sing scripture songs we'd read
32:31 the word and at the first hospital was
32:33 Children's Hospital and every other day
32:38 it was a you shared a room with another
32:41 and every other day we had a new we had
32:43 a new roommate so we were we were
32:46 praying for people we were they were
32:48 joining in to sing the scriptures with
32:50 us and the very the next day after she
32:54 was hospitalized for the first time a
32:57 whole family accepted the Lord and so we
33:00 just kind of went on this journey with
33:02 the Lord it was painful it was difficult
33:05 but we saw God in it and we allowed him
33:13 to work through us we it became a
33:17 ministry I think that's kind of where
33:20 this started so we'd walk the halls and
33:23 we'd sing and the nurses would say why
33:26 is it so calm why are no babies are
33:28 crying why you know and then eventually
33:33 the nurses would say I'm gonna be a
33:36 Niki's nurse today I'm gonna be in that
33:38 room they could feel and sense the
33:41 Spirit of the Lord and we still had a
33:45 lot of challenges we had a lot of
33:46 questions we had a lot of decisions to
33:48 make that were uncomfortable we didn't
33:50 want to make but they were there and the
33:54 Lord was leading us through every day he
33:57 just had to be fully dependent on him
33:58 each day so we have challenges and
34:03 adversity while we're here on earth and
34:06 as we face our cross my question to you
34:10 is will we continue will we surrender to
34:13 God and walk through the cross to the
34:16 resurrection side where we find
34:18 everything we need what do we need to
34:22 let go of so that we can hold the
34:25 triumph the victory and the blessing
34:27 because that's what God wants to give us
34:30 but if we're encumbered with so much we
34:36 can't hold the victory and the blessing
34:42 our hearts and our spirits need to meet
34:44 God's heart and his spirit and worship
34:47 before we do the work that we're called
34:49 to do so as we're reigning with Christ I
34:51 believe we have to be trained to spend
34:56 that time with the Lord we need to fill
35:01 our hearts and our minds with the word
35:03 and spend time in the secret place so
35:05 that we know God so well that whatever
35:09 we ask in his name it will be done that
35:11 we have the faith to believe that it
35:13 will be done as we represent Jesus by
35:17 loving the father and abiding in his
35:19 love power comes from the Holy Spirit
35:22 and our Father is glorified I can
35:28 remember you know before the Lord asked
35:30 me what's what's in my heart and to give
35:33 it to him I was quoting scriptures I was
35:37 singing scriptures but I wonder if that
35:39 was just a religious thing if I just
35:41 knew to do that if I if my heart was
35:44 really in the place of connecting with
35:47 the Lord and truly worshiping the Lord
35:50 and His Word or if I was just doing
35:52 anything I could think in my power to
35:55 get my result and so I really had to
35:58 take a look at that look at my heart and
36:05 you know it's you have to connect with
36:08 the Lord and then I could sing the
36:11 scripture only after I repented could I
36:15 sing with authority could I sing with
36:18 faith could I sing with love Lord no
36:21 matter what the outcome I still love you
36:23 I still trust you I still my hope is in
36:29 you
36:36 so Lord we pray Ephesians 3:20 now to
36:40 him who is able to do exceedingly
36:42 abundantly above all that we ask or
36:44 think according to the power that works
36:46 in us to him be glory in the church by
36:49 Christ Jesus to all generations forever
36:52 and ever amen
36:54 and Lord as we are learning to behold
37:01 you and you're training us to reign with
37:04 you here on earth I think of second
37:08 Corinthians with our unveiled face
37:12 we're beholding you as in a mirror your
37:16 glory and that we are being transformed
37:18 into that same image from glory to glory
37:22 I thank you I thank you for your word so
37:30 as as we spend this time with the Lord
37:34 individually I don't know if this has
37:38 happened to you but I would imagine it
37:40 has you come to church on Sunday and
37:44 you've been praying all week you've been
37:46 connecting with the Lord
37:48 you've been worshiping on your own your
37:50 heart is full and as soon as you walk
37:52 through the door that's one of the
37:54 reasons we came to Jubilee we saw that
37:56 people came through the door ready to
38:00 worship it did the worship team didn't
38:03 have to like get us through a lot of
38:06 stuff if we were engaged as soon as we
38:08 walked through the door and I love that
38:10 about Jubilee and I think that if we can
38:15 keep our flame if we can keep our our
38:20 light bright during the week that when
38:25 we come together in corporate worship
38:27 there is there's transformation more
38:30 transformation the light becomes so
38:32 brilliant
38:33 there's healings just in worship just in
38:37 our time of singing scripture together
38:39 I feel again like God's army that we
38:44 there's so much power and God is asking
38:48 us to be worshipers
38:49 and we become like the one that we
38:52 worship I think of the unity that comes
38:58 and I think of our children when they're
39:01 all getting along when they're all like
39:03 playing a game and they get along or
39:05 they're all singing and they're all
39:06 singing the same song and and they get
39:09 along I think God looks at his children
39:11 and when we're in corporate worship and
39:14 he just loves that we are now coming
39:18 into his presence we're seeing things
39:20 from his perspective he's revealing
39:24 things to us we're receiving it and
39:26 we're we're joined together in unity I
39:30 believe as worship is restored on the
39:33 earth it will restore the fellowship
39:35 with the father that was taken away in
39:37 the Garden of Eden and I believe that
39:39 that is very very important right now
39:42 for us to reconnect with the Lord I
39:45 remember I I
39:50 when I became born again I can relate to
39:52 Jesus I could relate to Holy Spirit
39:54 I had a harder time relating to father
39:57 God and my father had died when I was 10
40:00 years old and there had been some trauma
40:02 after that his hospital stay that was
40:06 traumatizing to me then I can remember
40:11 one Sunday morning we were here in
40:14 church corporate worship and father just
40:17 completely healed my heart of that and I
40:19 just in worship and I didn't come here
40:22 asking for that or seeking that just the
40:25 grace of God healed my heart and I could
40:28 now relate to father God so much deeper
40:32 now Father Son and Holy Spirit where I
40:37 guess equal is the best way to describe
40:40 it so I I didn't have that fear I have
40:43 still in fear of God but not this this
40:47 keeping God father got at a distance I
40:51 could now relate and I think things like
40:56 that happen in worship corporate worship
40:58 releases a sound that wholly expresses
41:01 God's heart
41:02 we're in harmony we experienced a
41:05 maturity a strength and a unity as we
41:08 join our hearts to worship the Lord
41:10 we're in agreement with God's attributes
41:20 Romans 5:5 says now hope does not
41:23 disappoint because the love of God has
41:26 been poured out in our hearts by the
41:27 Holy Spirit who was given to us I've
41:30 never been disappointed after I leave
41:32 worship never never I've come in
41:35 disappointed but I've never left
41:37 disappointed I've never left worship the
41:42 same way that I came in
41:43 I've always been transformed so Lord we
41:47 thank you we thank you for your word we
41:50 thank you that we have a voice we thank
41:52 you that you're singing you're teaching
41:54 us to sing and sing a new song we thank
41:59 you for praise rising on the earth we
42:02 ask you to resurrect our personal and
42:03 corporate worship increase and expand
42:06 our time with you teach us more about
42:09 Kingdom life overwhelm us with your love
42:13 we choose to rest in you and I pray that
42:16 we would experience your righteousness
42:18 peace and joy I thank you Father that
42:21 you would wash away all past traumas as
42:24 we repent as you Holy Spirit reveal
42:26 thanks to us that we could easily bring
42:30 them up now it's so easy to just sense
42:36 that something's in my heart that
42:37 shouldn't be there and repent and you
42:39 heal and we and we go on I pray that
42:44 your love and joy and hope and faith
42:46 would replace all the residual effects
42:49 of our past trials and that we go
42:53 forward in this springtime season in the
42:57 resurrection power and your love and
43:00 Jesus
43:10 so as we conclude here let me let me
43:17 explain something about what when we do
43:21 this it's like the agreement this is an
43:27 agreement of our body and it makes a
43:31 sound when we agree together when we
43:37 worship corporately singing scripture or
43:41 whatever we're doing it also makes a
43:44 sound in the spirit and it's a loud
43:48 sound in the spirit and you know early I
43:54 was talking about being the army of God
43:57 and how we need to be participants and
44:02 engage and not be non participants
44:05 because if we are non participants then
44:09 it puts at risk the other members of the
44:13 army especially when in we're in warfare
44:15 and we know that we're in warfare
44:17 spiritual warfare so we need to engage
44:20 now same scripture singing in general is
44:26 is kind of unnatural for a lot of people
44:31 it's a little bit scary for us that's
44:33 why so many people just like this or
44:38 maybe they're like this you know this
44:42 you know could mean a lot of things it
44:46 doesn't have to mean you're worshiping
44:48 it mean good be you're surrendering it
44:51 it could be that you're you know
44:54 whatever but but but to to engage in in
45:01 in singing it takes faith you have to
45:06 step out of your comfort zone you know
45:10 and God loves that God loves when you
45:13 step out of your comfort zone
45:15 you know the best thing I can tell you
45:20 when you do that is proverbs 3:5 trust
45:25 in the Lord with all your heart and
45:27 don't lean on your own understanding you
45:31 know in all your ways acknowledge him
45:33 and he will direct your path you know
45:36 so let's stand and I want to I want us
45:45 to engage the Lord 2nd Timothy 1:7 says
45:50 God has not given me a spirit of fear
45:53 but of power and love and a sound mind
45:56 so I'm gonna pick a note we're just
46:08 gonna sing one note okay but I want you
46:11 to open your mouth by faith and sing to
46:16 the Lord okay it's God has not given me
46:19 a spirit of fear God has not given me a
46:23 spirit of fear but of power and love and
46:26 a sound mind God has not given me a
46:30 spirit of fear but of power and love and
46:33 a sound mind is everybody doing it
46:36 anybody not doing it raise your hand
46:39 just kidding okay God has not given us a
46:43 spirit of fear but of power and love and
46:46 a sound mind now take those words and
46:49 really close your eyes and think about
46:52 it God has not given me a spirit of fear
46:55 but of power and love and a sound mind
46:58 God has not given me a spirit of fear
47:01 but of power and love and a sound mind
47:05 God has not given me a spirit of fear
47:08 but of power and love and a sound
47:13 yeah yeah you know then you can go off I
47:16 mean I wrote a whole song about that you
47:20 know and we just sing that over and over
47:22 Oh God has not given me a spirit of fear
47:26 you know and and when that's song that's
47:31 a scripture that that you can take and
47:34 just just just meditate on it and and
47:40 just let it become part of your soul and
47:42 that's a scripture that you can grab on
47:45 to in a time of need because usually you
47:49 need the scriptures when you're sinking
47:51 you know when things are getting out of
47:54 hand and then you kind of you know you
48:00 know and you can appropriate that for
48:04 yourself okay god bless you guys oh by
48:08 the way we are songs of Scripture
48:11 ministry Wes and Lynn gross B and I have
48:14 a new CD coming out in a couple weeks
48:16 called life-changing words you love it