An Interview with Jeremy Riddle and Steffany Gretzinger | The Altar Conference

first the worship doing this kind of setting soon and then what you guys expect about after we have true of this event in this area as well I think simply that worship is the most natural response when we behold him it's when we are most ourselves because we were created for this we were created to know him and be known by him and when we see him when we know him it's natural just to throw ourselves at his feet to worship Him and so I think in a setting like this what happens is that we return we come back to our truest sense of self the original design the thinking dreams who knew that we would be like the the people he dreamt would be his friends come back to our right minds which is the mind of Christ not our own we lose our minds and we get into his so I think that happens in a setting like this yeah I think you know it's funny I am spend a lot of we do events along you know super this is kind of like a rhythm it's like a lifestyle where we're at different events all over the earth people are gathering and they're hungry and I it does beg the question a little bit of like what is happening in this we know the Lord's in this we flan a lot of what is happening on the earth when we come together when we gather together when we worship and I just want to say to clarify though that not not all worship like not all that we call worship has the same transformative right and I and I think for one it says he's looking for the worshipers that worship in spirit and in truth I think so truth is massive how we sing about God matters the truth that we sing from his word matters and also that the word spirit Jack Hayford said it would be almost better translated for us as heart so it's like all heart like all of our heart worshiping the Lord in truth and I've found what a group of people come together and they gather and they bring their whole heart before the Lord and they worship God they sing his character they sing his nature they sing his deeds and they declare who he is that has transformational power and sometimes we see it at the event sometimes I think we we think that it's that we're supposed to do this thing and they've got the assisting right after and sometimes we don't see the fruit of what we do on the earth for four months sometimes not even years sometimes not decades so so we can't be too hasty and that sometimes we're sewing something to heaven that eventually is gonna come raining back down on the earth but we don't know when you know there's this interaction between the Earth and heaven where there's actually an altar there's an altar before the throne it's a golden altar before the throne God and it says that it's the prayers of the Saints on the altar and then there's this picture in the Book of Revelations 8 where it talks about an angel taking the sensor and the smoke of the incense of the prayers of the Saints is going and it says at some point the angel goes the altar and grabs the coals these hot fire coals he says he throws them on the earth and I just I don't know I won't pretend to know all of what that means but I do know that there's this interaction when the saints come together here on the earth and they begin to worship God with all of their hearts and minds and souls and strength and they worship Him in truth that there's something that happens in heaven and it's like an incense going up before the throne and there is there is a fire that gets released onto the earth when when we do this thing and so every single time we come together and we worship like that's that's the thing we're sewing something to heaven that we know heaven is gonna rain back down right we're gonna see him and whether we see it fully it manifested at the event or whether we see it until we may not even see it in our lifetime right you know like that's just a real thing but we know it's it because we're it says without faith it's impossible to please God so when we come to things like that's the very first thing we want to be full of faith full of faith in the one that we worship full faith that God is actually going to be God he's gonna show up and he's gonna move him when we respond in faith I give realease faith and you know in a region and we're believing for friends no like we're believing as funny I wasn't supposed to be here I'm supposed to be in Russia and I wanted to go to Russia I really wanted to be in Russia but it just didn't work out so I'm like okay Lord Fresno you're doing something here thank and you want to Marcus here and so Stefan I like we're just hungry to see was gonna burst here and now we know he's marked this thing we both felt that altar thing if you weren't talking about that but no I I think I was just gonna say like for everything in the spiritual there's a natural manifestation that happened just the way he set it up you know I mean that's kind of what we are he breathed that he existed who were only alive because he breathes them to us right and I think if you read even the science of it something doesn't take shape something doesn't become matter it doesn't exist until it's first observed observed and I think when we worship or coming to behold and it in spirit and in truth it's not the anxious worship it's like I need him to do something and so I'm screaming at the top of my lungs and the confidence that coming around it's from friendship that comes from I know who he is this is about you whatever comes out of it you're gonna do it reckon it's up to you for life we're coming to behold you there to look on you and be changed by it to be close to you yeah we have to make the agenda his presence and not the people exactly because in his presence we find what we need for the people that's right and so I think I think that idea of them coming to behold him to watch him to see him to him I think that's when in the physical and sometimes in the spirit things are becoming that we can't see when we observed the one who has created everything good yeah good things are happening they're forming like right in front of us as we were in hold him so good things are shaping in Fresno because we've gathered to build him an altar so we hold him and worship is warfare like we we cannot fathom I pray that God would give us eyes to see what's happening in this spiritual like I've actually been a real prayer of money because it's like there is something that happens over a region when a group of people come together and they just give themselves to the other one like worship does something that I think if we understood what was happening the spiritual realm if we could fathom that like the kind of warfare like that that it's that it's wreaking havoc on the kingdom of darkness when Jesus is exalted and I get wreaks havoc like on the kingdom of darkness and bit more like and again like how many people are gonna come into their right minds as we worship to come on how many people who are addicted and bondage right now are gonna come into the right minds tonight as we begin I declare the praise of the Living God how what what what what's gonna happen over this region as far as faith being released like people just all of a sudden being open and receptive to the gospel maybe something I've heard all of their lives we have no idea all the fruit and all the things that happen when we simply adore Jesus in Mass it changes something it shifts something over cities and regions and we know that so unless we know that by faith and sometimes we know that by fruit yeah but I buy it I know that something is gonna happen tonight that will leave a mark it's impossible for Jesus to be exalted with with purity and in truth without it making of leaving a mark like any not that much I'm convinced and how what we'll see tonight we'll taste it I know but we won't know the full impact but we're just excited to be a part of it so thank you so much mr. Shane is always nervous

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Published: Wed Apr 17 2019