IN | Dr. Matthew Stevenson | Set Yourself

join me if you will as second chronicles the 20th chapter and we're going to be reading the 16th through the 25th verse can I give you a word real quick can I give you a word real quick what the Lord is trying to do through you is going to require your deeper praise and worship you are about to be challenged by the Spirit of God to go into a different place of praise and worship and it's going to contain the song but it's going to be deeper than the song the Lord is looking for praising people and a worshiping people so that he can teach them through praise and worship how to handle his plan here is the summation of that anon praising non worshiping people can't handle the plan of God because the plan of God is not cerebral say yes and the plan of God is not solely say yes so there's certain things that can only happen through you as you grow to become a praiser and a worshiper and we live in a culture that encourages reservation and it only encourages you to be expressive when the motivating emotion is anger or frustration but there's a lot of you who are about to have your tongue loosed to praise and your hands and lift it to worship and this is not just so for you I think this is coming upon your children one of the mistakes that we make in child-rearing is we don't teach them praise and worship and we get shocked when they have attention deficit issues in school praise and worship teaches concentration and if we can teach our children to trace we can teach them to pray I think as Christians we've got to reorient ourselves around the devotional crisis of our children and not project God on them at 18 and 19 when they've already got a personality that's not responsive to the Holy Ghost we've got to teach them the power of the presence of God as soon as they start saying mama and daddy because a part of what that does is teaches him there's gonna come a day when mama and daddy are gonna do everything they can but it's wrong to make your children idolize you I don't know why this is coming on strong if you make them think that you're their hero now then when they see your humanity they're gonna crumble and find an addiction point them kids to God now that way when they find you and your husband are you and your wife arguing they don't leave God because of y'all's dysfunction point them children to him by teaching them to lift their hands sorry so I'm gonna look gripped about this issue a praise and worship and I'm Allah excited about second chronicles the twentieth chapter and the sixteenth verse are you guys gonna put it up what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna read it verse is 16 through 25 just as soon as my computer reboots praise the Lord and until it does that put it up on a screen and we're gonna make a few observations second chronicles 16 says tomorrow go ye down against them behold they come up by the cliff of Zee's and ye shall find them at the end of the brook before the wilderness of Jael ye shall not need to fight this battle but set yourselves look at somebody say set yourself come on to somebody else set yourself Stanley steel and see the salvation of the Lord with you Oh Judah and Jerusalem fear not nor be dismayed tomorrow go out against them for the Lord will be with you and Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the Lord worshiping the Lord and in the Levites of the children of the KOA thights and of the children of the Christ stood up to praise the Lord God of Israel with a loud voice on high and they rose early in the morning and went forth into the wilderness Toccoa and as he went forth Jehoshaphat stood and said hear me o Judah and he inhabitants of Jerusalem believed in the Lord your God so you shall be established and believe his prophets and ye shall prosper and when he had consulted with the people he had appointed singers unto the Lord and that they should praise the beauty of holiness as they went out before the army and to say praise the Lord for His mercy endureth forever and when they had began to sing and to praise the Lord set ambushment against the children of ammon of Moab and of Mount Seir which were come against Judah and they were smitten for the look for the children of Ammon and Moab stood against the inhabitants of mouse ear utterly to slay and to destroy them and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir everyone helped to destroy another and when Judah came toward the watchtower in the wilderness they looked under the multitude and behold there were dead bodies fallen to the earth hallelujah nobody escaped can I tell you real quick if you will go up in a new level of praise and worship not one of your enemies will be successful you will have no successful enemies look at verse 25 and when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them they found among them in abundance both riches and dead bodies and precious jewels which they stripped off for themselves more than they could carry away and they were three days gathering the riches because it was so much look at somebody say set yourself set yourself come on tell somebody else set yourself set yours my name is matthew stevenson 2/3 and i'm appraiser and i'm a worshipper and I'm a man who boughs and a man who has made his life's goal to seek God and to find him in worship we live in a very peculiar generation where relational difference and relational interaction is under siege the thought and the idea of seeking anything is considered shameful when you've got to run after when you've got to pursue when you've got to look for something that is not readily available there is almost a shame or an embarrassment because this generation believes that you don't make yourself vulnerable if the outcome is not secure so I'm not gonna put myself out there unless I know what's behind there so this is why we apologize last talk to me this is why we ask folk to be friends last we are people who don't mind responding we are just people that don't know the power of initiation the pride of this generation has been further developed because of its rejection and its insecurity through our in ability I said the lack of desire to admit need we are in a time that sees having to need as a weakness as something that puts you in a disadvantage or as something that exposes you to attack so that there's a fear as it were a vulnerability and a fear of having to need and there is a resentment of having to pursue a challenge with all of that is there's certain things that will never and I may never happen to your life until you have mastered having to need God wants his people to need and there's a way to need and not be needy the devil works very early on in people's lives to convince them that if you're going to make it in life you've got to do it on your own don't need nobody don't need nothing having them around is good but don't need them and so your need faculties become contaminated in the flesh and by fear so now you gloat on the fact that you don't need anybody and you don't need no man you don't need no woman before you know it you end up growing in your life in a demonic independence well you have now sentenced yourself to your own resources and your own strength and your own wisdom and your own perspective next then you got to find that there is power in pursuit you know we're people who are only taught to pursue money even when people are encouraging us in knowledge they are encouraging us with knowledge to the end of money so no wonder everybody's greedy we were taught that the purpose of education was money that the purpose of marriage was money that the purpose of friendship is money that the purpose of career was money we learn to enjoy what we do after we have already committed to it for money sake so now we have a people who only find prosperity and only find passion in that that is already their pursuit is something that's gone and I can prove it where is chivalry I'm gonna get there in a minute there was a day when men didn't mind looking at a woman and making a decision I know you want me to turn my plow but I'm gonna do everything I can to get this woman to feel about me what I feel about her but no that ain't the day no more we are living in a day where the masculine species is now afraid to pursue they are afraid to announce pursuit to publish pursuit to be to fund pursuit what they want to do is be met halfway and when you don't pursue you don't protect you will find everybody that does not pursue is incapable of protecting the devil is after you'll pursue last consequence of a generation like that as I said my story line up is it's dangerous to get saved a quiz and not be taught to seek God when you get saved there's a lot of motivating factors behind why you do it some people do it for fear of Hell some people do it because they've exhausted all of their other opportunities and don't know else what to do somebody do it for social reasons and for social pressures others do it as a moment or a statement of maturity I'm an adult I need to change my life and almost see salvation as a settling down but just because you get saved does not mean you learn how to seek and the entire purpose of praise and worship is to grow in your seat of God if you do not become a seeker you do not become a finder and just because you hear of him does not mean you have found him the Bible distinguishes those that seek him from those that come to him he that cometh to God must believe that he is that's level one but level two is and he is a rewarder you won't talk to me in his car but he is a rewarder none of them that come to him but of them that diligently slap somebody's eye will seek him I've got to make this rich for you to appreciate this text you seek things because number one they exist you don't seek things in the hope that they exist the premise of your seek is that something is there I just can't see it the premise of your seek is that something is there but I complexity and finding it now in case you ain't noticed life is complex you won't talk to me love is complex success is complex friendship is complex and just in case somebody misled you your pursuit of powder will also be met with complexity and here's why in your immaturity it's going to be a lot more easy for you to know where he is and what he's saying and what is what but the closer you get to him and the more you know about his word the more complex he's going to make it so you can develop the Seekers skill for the thing he's got for the future you must become seekers don't see the strength of your seekers not what you see you are in a maze right now and the name of that maze is purpose the name of that maze is destiny and the name of that maze is potential and every maze is erected by complicated walls and turns when you are in a maze there things erected and all of them look the same and the only way you get around is by either making the wrong turn or about making the right turn and so it makes no sense to think that you're going to get out of a maze by your ability to see beloved you could have 20/20 vision and be stuck in a maze but what makes your exit from a maze possible is your ability to follow instruction I don't want to talk to a seeker this morning when you are a seeker you have got to rely on the sight of somebody else and be sensitive to their instructions to get up two steps to the left now go back two steps to the right so when God has you in a and go seek season he is after your ability to obey not your ability to see your obedience is more important than your sight you will never be able to see everything you want to see when you think you want to see but what you do have under your control is the ability to obey and the ability to deepen your capacity to follow but here is the problem grows in obedience as an intellectual worshiper as a detective worshipper as a social worshiper we find a powerful speech and set in chronicles 20 from one of my favorite Kings Jehoshaphat and here's my favorite for a lot of reasons because he had a lot working against him that would justify his idolatry in history of chronicles and Kings you find that there is a series of Kings who either do right in the side of the Lord or they do evil in the sight of the Lord and when a king did evil in the sight of the Lord it was for two reason number one they did not follow the instructions of a godly father or number two they erected idols in the name of another God whenever God assessed the king it was based upon how well they continued a legacy you're not ready for that though and when he assessed the king it was also based upon how passionate they were from protecting the nation from idolatry and we found that Jehoshaphat was one that did right in the side of the Lord and based upon what the other chapters in chronicles tells us he actually was a skill man he did not have his strength abated he knew how to fight he had military experience but he pleased God not because of what he could do in his strength let me help you with that you are not going to be pleasurable to the Lord by impressing him with what you've got in you to do without him it does not please God to look at you and see how strong you are and how mighty you are and how stable you are without him what pleases him is your consistent acknowledgment that even in best day I'm nothing without you even when I win I'm nothing without you even when I get it a ride I'm nothing without you and so praise and worship is that justice that balance that keeps you sober about your success you won't go with me a non worshipping manner or non worshipping woman will get intoxicated by the wine of their winner but if you stay a worshipper and if you become a praise you will deflect all of that attention and all of that glory to the only one who has it in him to give it to you again this is why many people win and that's it but they can't win again because they're not a worshiper but the way to win again is to lift them hash bow that knee I don't put my Jehoshaphat is a dress singing army he is a dress single war let me ask you a question but love it have you ever and if you lied to me you're gonna stump your toe how do you ever felt so wrong almost as if everywhere you went there was adversity you don't want to be honest if you if you've never reached a crossroad where you try this and it didn't work and tried that and it didn't work and try this and you were certain that this was going to work because you exhausted your options with that and this and got there there are always enemies fighting you from the past and then if that were not enough there going to be some enemies that fight you in today they're in cahoots glory with what's in your past but their purpose is not to fight the past you it's to keep you in today and then if that were not enough elder Brown there are some things that are trying to prepare for your arrival to the future if you are unmarried or if you are not a mother or if you are not a business owner yet I believe the forces of darkness have studied you and mastered you so that even if you break free from history and you make it through today we're gonna be ready for your evolved self we're gonna be ready for when you wax stronger than what you've ever been and for when you are surrounded by God's help we're never going to decrease our effort toward you and Jehoshaphat was facing a nation of that found surrounded but we find in his strategy several things and the first of them is that in verse 16 he tells them tomorrow go down in other words there is a battle that is appropriate for the future God God God is interested in preparing you for tomorrow's battles he really is but you're gonna do more than do push-ups and do laps there are some personal corporate preparations everybody needs to make for tomorrow's Wars which means it would behoove you not to be overwhelmed by today's Wars cuz you ain't even got started yet if today's Wars is messin with you then you can say forget it to your potential if today's Wars is enough to make you quit you might as well find the nearest sauna and move it in there because you're not even ready for tomorrow's Wars here's how it works well every level of influence with every level of promotion up with every level of responsibility there is a new army and a new resistance and a new opponent that you must have but thanks be unto God he never sends us unprepared I wish I had help you are the praising for preparation preparation preparation there's a lot of us that praise Him for provision but you need to start praise because he is a God that prepared oh yeah the next battle is not going overwhelm you cuz you gonna be prepared he now go stop the war but he's gonna make you ready ready ready ready please sit down Jehoshaphat says tomorrow go down against him this is a war appropriate for tomorrow and here's how he affirms the nation in verse 7 he tells him you will go down against him and you're gonna go down against him tomorrow but you need not fight this battle if this is not something that you have in your personhood to do on your own there are some battles and you better hear me there are some battles that you will win in praise and worship I realize that we are in a more intellectual and a high-minded and inflammatory and a braggadocious and ostentatious culture that thinks that everything in life you don't have to figure out but I'm a living witness today that the majority of my life's battles I wanted worship and I'm a smart manager I can't talk the best of you but there were some things that the English language although I had command over it robbed me and rendered me powerless against trying to figure out how to get over this but I fooled around and learned the power of praise and worship hear me Suns and contrary to popular opinion praise and worship is a necessary part of masculine development in the Bible the way you became a man is that you learn appraiser but in today's generation if you praise too much they sisse fire you but God is about to raise we bring men ice cut are you praising bid dancing man running man sit down you don't have to fight this one you don't have to fight this one I want you to appear I want you to show up and when you show up I'm going to show you how to fight when you show up to this I'm going to give you how to fight sit down y'all listen this is how you're going to fight give me my altar time you're going to fight by setting yourself in three times in this text Jehoshaphat uses this phrase set yourself set yourself and in our prior examinations of this we highlight a lot of the other portions of this but this is a rich lesson about the power of personal and corporate praise and worship what how praise and worship the human heart does not have access listen to me to the level of stability that they need for success because of what a lot of the Guru's are telling you is that success is about how organized you are and success is about who you can buckets to and success is about your networking ability but my Bible tells me the way God enhances your cerebral self your psychological self your relational selfi for the success that he wants her as he gives you an opportunity to set yourself up in his present now you look at me now what does that mean have you ever run a race any track runners in here there is a position for the pace you don't just get the pace before you get the position and there's a lot of you that think that your problem is paced it's not moving fast I'm not winning faster but your real problem is positional in nature on your mom you won't help me hold your mom's get ready get slap somebody say set yourself come on Sabbath and say set yourself slap them against a set yourself you don't know that potential sweetheart you lot stability you don't like gifts you like stability you don't like vision you don't like resource you are not as stable as you need to be and you don't become stable with age and you don't just become stable by personal decision and you don't just become stable by reading your favorite philosopher praise and worship throughout all of the Psalms Jordan is how a man learned to keep his heart steady praise and worship is the only environment you got to learn how to hold your soul down and give you your spirit man the opportunity to breathe I'm here to tell you you are kidding or edea to be more stable than you have already you may not have the money you want but God's gonna stabilize you you may not have the wedding yet but you are about to be stabilized if you are not stabilized now you will be traumatized by your success success can be traumatic because people come into success before they come into stability but the righteous are not Mount Zion they won't help me come on I say get stable set yourself Jehoshaphat told them set yourself and if you set yourself a part of what's gonna be born in you as stillness he's to set yourself and stand still because a man that is stable a woman that is stable a church that is stable is concentrated I want you to load know that it's easy to be distracted when you are not a worshipper many of you are not a worshipper cuz you are distracted when we are in praise you shouldn't be on your phone when we are in praise you shouldn't be talking to your friend about the mole ugly shoes a God honor when we are in praise everybody should be in praise when I was growing up if my leader was in praise I stopped what I was doing whether I felt it or not and I praise the God of my leader and hope that whatever he was doing for him and whatever he was opening for him if I kid next to him and help him dance maybe the door will open up maybe the window will raise maybe the stand yourself stand still and see the salvation of the Lord and then Jehoshaphat addresses tomorrow again he says and here's going to be your guarantee tomorrow you're not going alone grab somebody's hand real quick and tell him tomorrow you're not going alone Jehoshaphat was about to give the nation a very necessary lesson and the lesson he was going to give Jehoshaphat was if you want the Lord to go with you you got to learn the discipline of praise and worship praise and worship is more than a devotional issue it must be a personal discipline and it's gonna be a discipline cause you're not gonna feel like doing it just like going to the gym or changing your diet or learning how to do homework you must discipline yourself in prison and discipline yourself and worship and here's now where it changes Jehoshaphat tells him God is going with you in your tomorrow and they will I a man praise God you didn't told us to set ourselves we didn't worked on ourselves but how is this gonna happen at now Jehoshaphat becomes the icon of our nation wins their war and what he did was before he went up he went down because it's one thing we don't teach our sons and another thing we don't teach our churches we act like the only thing God wants for them is he up with life and the upward rule and to go up from here and while honor that's good school is down you train for up by downing this is why I tell all of you all the time you can trust a leader that Bowser you can trust a boyfriend that Bowser you can trust a wife that bow cause you ain't gonna bow and be a gold digger wish I had help when a woman pals God get the idolatry out of her when a woman bowels God says even if I send you a man I'm still your God you can't worship Him come on go with me and you can't Revere him until you reveal me somebody scream jehosophat is the king and Jehoshaphat is the leader and right after he assured the nation tomorrow is a done deal don't ever worry about the future then he embodies the wisdom he becomes the first partaker of what he wants him to do and what he does is he stops talking and he shows him the position that's necessary for them to win and he takes the position of bowing with his face to the ground and after he bowed the Bible said that the inhabitants of Jerusalem bowed after him God is dealing with the priests people pero la we're all talking about how bad the body of Christ is but the real crime is non bowing leaders people that we cannot follow into the future because they are afraid to worship we need men whose sensitivity has been protected we need princes who show us the way to celebrate a victory that they don't even know is coming we need Kings who are not afraid to show us how to win their lives Wars when the leader boughs the people bow when the elders bow the team's bow when the 5-pole bowels the kingdom and after they bow they stood up and got loud because there is something listen to me about bowing that increases your courage if you the courage you need spend some quality time in worship here is the genius of that in worship you cannot be self-conscious wish I had help that's why the devil don't ever want you to be a worshiper cuz he loves the fact that you can't get over yourself he loves the fact that you protecting your personality and your right to be an introvert and all that crap so you won't ever look crazy for people but if you will look crazy on the behalf of God for people you won't ever run anything you need for the future God is looking for people that all look foolish I wish I had the top meet me at 10:30 if you are afraid to act a fool for him favor is too big for you if you afraid to act a fool for him the fire of God will not go before you God is looking for people that all rod and that all dance and that all skip I was reading where David said this morning on the day the Lord delivered me from my enemies I started to whistle God is looking for some whistling there is a realm of praise and worship breaking into these charts the nation bowed now Jehoshaphat in verse 20 I got five minutes he chose him after that shout believe the Lord your God and you'll be established set yourself but there is a new possibility of prosperity when the God that establishes you sends a prophet to prosper you because if you are in worship and somewhere in there you don't find a word you are in worship to yourself you will know when you have really gotten in God's presence when he starts talking to you about what he's doing to you y'all don't want to go to church you came to look at me power to the people when you really in God's presence you find some principles there that become the compass as it were to where we shake a unit in worship there is a word in worship there is a word in worship there is a word in worship there is a word and if you need a word I said if you need a word hey if you need a word don't try to get the attention of the Prophet try your best to get in God's presence and if you get in God's presence the prophets are coming because the presence of God is the signal to the Prophet then they can handle the prophecy well I'm working in here he told him if you believe God you will be established but in the presence of God God's gonna highlight some messengers to start to clarify to you what's going on before you and now it changes cousin 21 now the people have hope and they have courage God's got a word for me put your hand on your chest I want to activate this in the month of August it's time for you to hear I hear God saying he that it's hearing Caesar come on say God's got a word for me come on say God's got a word for me here and here's what you do when the Lord has a word for you you got to find the song of the season our halogen 10:30 but every season has a song and the problem of many of us is that we have strained our soul by not reinforcing it with a song you got to realize that your mandate has a melody and your ministry has attacked them what God is doing and every season can be earmarked by the lyrics that time the happenings of that epoch you ain't ready but what God is doing next is putting a song around the heart to help it rehearse Revelation up and help it repeat revelation that's the meaning of meditation prophet Ariza is some murmur to yourself that's why the wrong songs can cancel prophecy and the wrong songs can reverse the fruit you need to get a song in your heart I got two minutes in Jehoshaphat's wisdom he's got this whole nation hopeful and whenever you got hope you've got to provide the atmosphere that hope grows in people are hopeless because their leaders don't explore to the presence of God that's the only reliable place that hopes come from it and what he did was he appointed singers I don't have time I'll get there in ten thirty but this is the hour of the appointed singer not necessarily the best of the greatest but one of the worst corruptions or one of the worst devastations on a nation is the corruption or the contamination of its all miss and it's minstrels I'll get there at 10:30 but a nation is going to die if those that direct their devotion are not focused this is why the devil laws for people to be double-minded and sing because as they sing that indecision the hearts of men rock back and forth this is exactly why I'm committed to raising thousands of singers and thousands of musicians that know in whom they have believed I wish I had help in here that knew how to make a people tabernacle with their God knew how to concentrate their people to prepare for what was coming down the pipeline you're pointed singers laid hands on singers and said your job is to focus us your melody is great your music is wonderful but without a singer we will be distracted the song has the ability to stabilize as it were the heart and the verse 22 it says that they started to sing and to praise all of a sudden there was an activity where the word of the Lord came to pass now God told them you don't have to fight but he didn't say there wouldn't be a fight God said you don't have to fight but that's going to be a fight I am a man of war you don't want to go with me Here I am a jealous God fight for the future all the time God is fighting for you right now while you are in here there are Wars that you have no clue about this is why you ain't had a nervous breakdown this is while you still got hope even if if just a little laptop God is fighting for you I love God because he made me like him and the way God is is what he loves and he fights for you what he loves you he protects you by fighting battles for you but how does God want you as he's fighting for you he don't need your help slap somebody and say you don't need your help come on grab that Negro tell him he don't need your help you are used to trying to help God and when you help God you open yourself up to nervousness a far yes you do when you help God you open yourself to anxiety you ain't big enough for the wars of el-shaddai there's going to come a turning point in your life where the way you fight is by lifting your hands Oh August that's where God wants you to bow me and the lifted head up because he's kidding come on touchy people say he's fighting for me come on somebody say he's fighting for me as as as they say and as they praise the Lord sent ambushment against their enemies and I believe that the reason he could do that is because as their enemies watch them prays they took their time to mop them you got three armies looking at Judah look at them don't they know we about to kill them we're about to find their pregnant women slice open their bellies and burn their children we're going to send chemical and guerrilla warfare after them and they're out there with these singers talking about his mercy and do it forever because praise and worship always comes found your adversarial if you want to confuse the devil find a hallelujah if you want to confuse the devil because he's been mastering you so when you praise and worship cuz they underestimated you guys glory to God I said they underestimated Judah and the way they underestimated Judah is that they could not see Judas connection to Jehovah there are some things that are looking at you sizing you up you ain't got the ability to retire you ain't got the ability to have this company you ain't got the ability to break out of this but the problem is they're looking at you to get a real estimation of who you are they should be looking at your God because the way God does it for worship is a-- is everything i'm not he is everything i don't know he does [Laughter] [Laughter] while they were worshipping and praising God was working on their behalf this is my corporate praise and worship is so important because you gotta give God something to work with as long as you're focused on him he's gonna deal with them but when you can't focus on him because of them then you've got to fight them but whenever they come up against you and whenever they surround and whenever they try to kill you you got to take your eyes off of a and put it on here my eyes are upon you my heart is upon my lips glorify you and while you're praising him he is rectifying the problems praise is always the answer to the problem worship as always the answer to the problem while they were praising the Lord said ambushment against em he basically told the adversary don't you ever underestimate a people willing to praise me don't you ever take out your scratch paper and count one of mine out cuz as long as it can find the strength to call me I get to 10:30 they can be tired of you but if they can call me they can be with you boys comedies common these comedies come here it comes when a with the spirit of praise and the spirit of worship came under chula got so drunk in it they got so lost in it that when they open up their eyes they look like they were standing in a graveyard at the top of this I told you they were surrounded but now when their hands came down there was a national stand down people that had weapons people that made threats people that tried to taunt them we're now dead because here's how God does it for praise you will never have somebody approach you with a weapon that they don't fall on anybody that sets a trap I'm talking here anybody that sets a snare if you were worship the Lord the weapon they pulled on you will become the thing that kills that dead bodies we're all around them and after they came out of that praise session that worship session God told him now go and gather so they were scavenger hunting amongst the carcasses looking for the riches but my God shall supply I'll give it to 10:30 I said but my God shall supply [Laughter] [Laughter] [Laughter] they had so much so much they had so much that it took them three days so carry this stuff back home if you don't praise poverty is coming on your needs is one the secret to David's success was not his perfection he was a praising a man willing to embarrass himself until God was glorified God can do a lot with the worship you'll find a word there you'll find riches there you will find that your wars are going on beyond your knowledge see when you get so lost in praise and worship sometimes god blinds you to what's going on around you you can be going through all hell and folk around you'll feel it more than you you like well I guess it's bad but that's not a bad as you think why because I will lift up mine eyes I will lift up mine eyes toward a hero who's from when chiman get to the rest and next service I'm trying to help you understand there are consequences to not being appraiser you can grow in it and not being a worshipper the Lord told me consecrate this month under me you told me separate August unto me fast pray separate yourself and cling to me and deepen your worship and deepen your praise I've got something to say that requires your stability [Music] you don't know stability like you're going to know it and worship you don't have worries you'll have cares you'll have judgments you'll have rumors you don't have strife you don't have jealousy when you're doing it right after about minute for that heart starts to get drunk on the goodness of God on the mercy of God on the kindness of God you're not going into your purpose without his presence that's why we have to seek Him I'm gonna open the doors of the church this morning I was so enrolled in the anointing of this month I got on my knees to pray and couldn't get it out the only thing that came out of my mouth as I need so much I became suddenly overwhelmed with my need for more of him don't get it twisted it's not that we are strangers I don't know the way that I teach and whenever that happens in your life there's one place you can always go and not be judged there's a place you can go and not be ridiculed there's a place you can go and not have to perform it's his presence [Music] whoa I feel something coming on this day because he's trying to decrease the distance between you and him and he only does it for praisers he inhabits the Bible says the praises of his people I'm gonna give you ten seconds only because I want to open the doors of the church I want you to give God the loudest Shabbat you've got set yourself set yourself [Music] but this battle is below [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] focus on Oh Oh these party [Applause] posted [Laughter] whole story [Music] you're loving [Applause] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Laughter] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Music] Lord we sanctify we sanctify we sanctify this mock to you we separate this mock to you we consecrate this month to you [Music] whatever you have planned beyond this season we as an act of our will set ourselves and we set ourselves for what's coming make us worshipers and make us praises and teach us that there is a way to your presence that there are no qualifications we can just make the decision to become praises and worshipers and as you do this place in us all that we need for what you're requiring out of us show us that praise is the way that worship is the way and we only win as we value your presence we pronounce that this is seeking season this is the season to seek and five you want us to hear you concerning the future we will treasure everything you say we will obey in the name of Jesus we love you and we honor you come on put those hands together for

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Published: Tue Aug 07 2018