Worship Is Your Warship - Pastor Nicole Crank

[Music] you know there is a lot of programming there is a lot of planning and god does not god is not a god of chaos he likes planning and every monday morning we go into this meeting one of the first things monday it's 11 o'clock 11 a.m uh we walk into this meeting and there's all these people from the different campuses around the table actually i brought a picture of what this weekend leadership meeting looks like and every monday if all these people get around the table we talk about the campuses we talk about the life change we talk about what happened we talk about how we can do it better we talk about how we reach more people and as everybody was sitting around this past monday i got like this crazy revelation um from pastor jordan all of a sudden pastor jordan he's on his phone he's looking something up and he's like oh man he's like oh my gosh i accidentally deleted it all i got to do is shake my phone and i'm like and he's like and it's going to come back i'm like what what do you mean you delete it and you shake your phone and what you accidentally deleted comes back he's like yeah it's like a function on the iphone i'm like shut up i was visibly shaken like i couldn't talk i'm like the whole meeting stops because i'm just like what who did not know this should be shook right now i was totally shook so like okay like if i accidentally delete this email i'm like snap i deleted the email you shake the phone shake it check it and it's like oh do you want to undo that yes i'm like what if life had a shake it off feature i just shook it again now do you want to redo the i archive we could play this game all day you just shake it and then you go and then you shake it and and you undo it and ah man there's so much like that's been shaking in the world and if you notice if you don't line up with everybody who's around you have you noticed that people get really really judgy like so quick judgy like like stay off my instagram if you're all judgy because i'm just not judgy i'm like lovey because it does not say judge people it says judge not lest you be judged and it says that the love of god draws men to repentance and how the judge he freaks me out but i figured out it's kind of normal and i figured out that all these little snakes all these little haters all these little vipers all this stuff that's been biting you in the tail i was gonna say butt can you say button church okay biting you in the butt cause that's two b's and it's alliteration it's really fun to say in english so and all this stuff has been bite you in the butt you can shake it off you can shake it off you guys know that that taylor swift song shake it off shake it off shake it off do you guys know that song oh yeah i love that song it's a lot of fun but there was like a whole backstory as to why she wrote it i wrote it down the back story is she says i've learned a pretty tough lesson in the past couple years that people can say whatever they want about you at any time and we can't control it we can't control kovat we can't control furlough we can't control people we can't control haters we can't control red lights we can't control police officers who see us going too fast we can't control any of these things she says the only thing we can control is our reaction to that she said you can either let it get to you or you can come on all campuses you can okay that's enough you can have fun in church and the holy spirit move isn't that cool like god says that a merry heart does good like a medicine i was actually reading that a cure to a lot of diseases i was i'm reading a book called the spiritual root to disease and that a root to mouse disease is a rottenness of the bones that is cured by a merry heart with the thought of that let's do it one more time you can uh-huh that's what paul did right so paul gets on this island it's in acts 28 if they kind of want to follow along as i tell the story i'm not going to read it paul lands on this island bunch of strangers they um are not sure about this guy but they gave him a lot of kindness they gave him a lot of hospitality he's building a fire and then in this fire there's this snake that jumps out and it attaches himself and i don't know when i hear the story i just see the snake getting him right here and the snake gets him like and holds on right here and so then everybody's walking around all judgy everybody say judgey they're like oh no surely he's done something wrong oh no god must not be happy with him oh no he must be we're gonna have to stay away from him oh no he's cursed we gotta get him out of the camp and i thought at that point what he had to shake off wasn't only the physical problem he also had to shake off all the emotions that were coming at him from all the people and i just had to think about it and wonder if he had gotten offended spiritually at what was attacking the the invisible snakes that were attacking his ears i wonder if what happened was it says in verse five we can put it up and then it says and then paul simply as if it was no big deal then paul simply shook off the creature into the fire with no ill effect and i have to wonder if the snakes coming in his ears had gotten into his soul when he shook the snake would it have been able to hold on was it a spiritual power that took the viper because see the thing that really freaked him out is that the viper was a poisonous snake so then they start watching paul and they're like okay bro you shook this off but she about to die you're like don't swell up we're going to watch this oh man god is going to judge you dude it just started by now like it's been an hour it's been two hours it's been dinner it's all night they ended up worshiping paul like a god the next problem paul has with these people first of all they're attacking him and they're judging him and they're telling him how bad he is next problem he has with the people is same people different kind of snake they start telling him how good he is how he's a god how he's awesome and if he'd eaten that up i wonder if the poison would have taken effect you gotta shake off the good stuff you gotta shake off the bad stuff you know uh one of our spiritual fathers always says you can never read what's in the newspaper especially if it's about you because no matter if it's good news or it's bad news the next day it ends up in the bottom of the bird cage with the bird just doing its business and that's about how long it lasts everybody say shake it off say shake it off so our main text for tonight is second chronicles 20. and just in case you're wondering second chronicles 20 20 has been a foundation scripture for us this year right royal palm right sunset hills right online if you're in the chat i want everybody say amen it says some men came and told jehoshaphat a great multitude is coming against you from edom you know sometimes that doesn't mean a lot to us basically what's going on in this scripture is there are all of these different camps there's like these three different groups of people they get together they decide they're going to go to war with king jehoshaphat and instead of coming the normal way that they would have been prepared to fight him they went around the dead sea another way to come up a way that they haven't prepared a battle plan for that and somebody saw him sneaking up this back way and they come to jehoshaphat and they're like dude what are we gonna do they're coming to slaughter us it's a fight he didn't see coming and that's what i hear all the time it's like i didn't see it coming and there's a lot of things we got to shake off like there was a betrayal and i didn't see it coming there was a i went broke i went i wanted the business closed i went bankrupt and i didn't see it coming i was abused and i didn't see it coming i i'd end up addicted to something i didn't see it coming i ended up divorced i didn't see it coming i was overlooked i was betrayed i was insecure i was laid off i was ignored i was frustrated i was confused i was overwhelmed i couldn't control the fact that my dad left before i was born i didn't see it coming i didn't choose this fight but all these things get written on our life and then we're in the middle of this fight who's fighting something today say me who believes that tonight you're gonna fight this battle and you're gonna shake it off shake it off i believe god even chose certain words for me to call out because there are certain people that think i've been praying and god hasn't been hearing me that's welling up on the insider right now on me right now there are people who think they have been praying unheard prayers i've been praying god i've been asking god i don't know what else to do god how about tonight we talk about what else to do well we'll do what jehoshaphat did so jeff hosts the fat in verse three if we can put that on the screens for everybody and we're all palm so online can see it says then jehoshaphat was afraid and he set his face to seek the lord and he proclaimed a fast throughout all of judah and judah assembled to seek help from the lord from all the cities of judah they came to seek the lord and that's why i'm really glad you guys are here that's why this is like a tuesday night message not a sunday message because there are still some people that come to church on the weekend because it's a duty because it's a tradition it's because what they always did but then there's a group of people who are like hey i came on the weekend but i'm not done yet i need to lean in i need to push and i need to be closer to god and god spoke to me last week he gave me a it's funny how god can take the simplest thing and it can be so profound to you and i was just praying and he told me worship is your warship worship is your worship and all of a sudden if i could just be honest i was like nervous and excited and scared and brave and fearful like how can you be brave and fearful nervous and excited because i could see a worship and i thought okay that's strong it's big it's solid you're not gonna sink on that thing god's not leaving us in the middle of the ocean in a rowboat with no oars god then put us out in the middle of the atlantic on a kayak and say good luck with that he didn't even put us on like a little ski boat and we're out of miami and they're like you gotta make it to ireland we're not gonna make it we're not even on some kind of nice maybe yacht that we might actually not have as bad a time while we're not making it but he gives us a worship sturdy strong able provisioned and then the scary part of the worship the scary part of the worship is why is god going to give you a warship unless you're going to fight a war hmm this is how i fight my battles so i looked up on my phone um i had a question i wanted to know why do people have worships and i looked up an aircraft carrier and it says the aircraft carrier is considered the most valuable sea based asset it offers incomparable military instrument with its ability to protect tactical air power over long distances including air interdiction anti-surface warfare offensive and defensive counter air you know i thought in that interesting how the aircraft carrier is the best thing that you could have if you're in the middle of the sea or in the middle of a storm because it can take care of what's in the air and the devil is the prince of the power of the air god said i have given you the weapons of warfare to take care of what's in the air but what is our worship our worship is our worship is worship so how do we get on the war ship how do we handle it what do warships have to do with shaking things off i don't get the connection just yet stay with me for one second so jehoshaphat has these enemies they've been sneaky they snuck in a back door kovacova just melted 20 20 off the calendar your relationship just fell right apart the job dematerialized you thought you were important you suddenly feel devalued all of these things this depression why can't you shake the depression the prince of the power of the air what is our worship it's worship it says those jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of judah and jerusalem verse 5. and in the house of the lord where are you tonight before the new court and he said oh lord god of our fathers are you not god in heaven i want you to pay attention to how he prays because his prayer does not sound like i can't make it i can't do this anymore oh my god why do you want to leave me there's nobody loves me where's my dogs not even my dog love me anymore does that prayer sound familiar to anybody be honest you are in charge it's not a complaining session it's not telling god everything that's happening it's not rehearsing all of the problems it's not building up the circumstances from a molehill to a mountain he's going to god and he's saying hey let's talk about who you are aren't you god in heaven don't you rule over all the kingdoms of nations in your hands are power and might so that none are able to withstand you verse 7 did you not our god drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people of israel and give it forever to the descendants of abraham your friend and they've lived in it and built for you a sanctuary for your name saying if disaster comes upon us the sword judgment pestilence famine we will stand before this house and before you for your name is in this house and cry out to you in our affliction and you will hear us and you will save us verse 12 god are you not gonna execute judgment on them and then there's a little bit of human in there so jehoshaphat he's human too he's like okay so we're powerless against this great horde coming against us we don't know what to do but we're looking at you i got a question for you what are you looking at because there's a lot of there's a lot of words up there and we tend to focus on them there's a lot of news on tv and we tend to listen to it you know my my husband my daughter everybody's been out of the house and you know one of the things that i love about that is i don't turn the tv on i don't have to hear anything that i don't want to hear you know i'm i heard that there's an election coming up in a couple of weeks or something couple guys i don't know i just i don't have to i don't have to listen to it i heard that there's some judge confirmed knocking for i don't know i don't have to listen to it i heard there's this economy and all these things going i don't have to listen to it the problem with the problem is what you're looking at i want to look at your neighbor right now and ask them what are you looking at and answer them and tell them just shake it off so then he said listen listen listen listen that's what he said he said listen all of judah all of judah all the inhabitants of jerusalem and king jehoshaphat basically if he was from jefferson county he just said all humans all unions need to listen if he was if he was from the south florida he just said all y'all all y'all need to listen right now because somehow we tend to think that when we say all that we get left out like god's gonna take care of all of our fears he's gonna take care of all of our doubts he's gonna take care of all of our enemies we're like that's really great that the word all's in the bible except for i got this other problem turn to your name and tell them i'm part of all y'all thus says the lord to you do not be afraid and do not be dismayed at this great horde for the battle is not yours it is god's okay so i need a worship and my worship is worship and i gotta shake it off to fight a battle but the battle's not mine it's god's battle and god's gonna fight for me i don't get it it can be hard to get but i saw this video on instagram and i saved it because it was really really cute so pastor jordan and heidi have these two little kids judah and addie and addie is i think four years old she might have just turned five i'm sorry addie if i got that wrong because she will let me know and she was having trouble at school with this boy named billy and i could tell you the story or i could show you the story check this out again so there's a boy named billy in mrs blinken's class and some days he is mean to me and he says party awards and maddie yeah what did he tell you about your daddy he will punch benny will punch my dad in the face hey you ted billy you can catch these hands and my dad will fight him he'll fight him up yeah my dad who do you think would win billy or dad [Music] she's like she's telling a story and she's passionate she doesn't even know that her dad is listening across the room all she's know is as she's repeating billy says he's going to punch my dad in the face well the enemy says that i'm not going to make it and the enemy says i don't have enough money to pay my bills and the enemy says i'm going to live with this the rest of my life the enemy says i'm going to walk with the limp and the enemy says that i'm no good and the enemy says that nobody cares that him he says that nobody that i don't matter and god is in heaven like pastor jordan said emmy's gonna catch these hands [Applause] the enemy's gonna catch these hands i know pastor jordan's a good daddy but i just want to know come on royal palm i want to hear you do you think your father in heaven is a better daddy to you than jordan's daddy turn your neighbor safe he's going to are you feeling a spirit of victory come in i feel a spirit of victory but guess what you have to choose it you have to shake it off shake it off you got a what you got to shake it off you have to choose you have to choose this day who you will serve it says in the bible i put before you life and death god's going to let you pick and he says i'm in heaven telling you i'm going to catch these hands he can catch these hands but we have to choose to believe him say i choose to believe my god now we want god to stop the storm god i got faith for you to stop the storm god i got faith for you to stop the storm god i got faith for you to stop the storm and i taught this week and god isn't asking us to have faith to stop the storm he's asking us to have faith in the storm billy's going to show up at school tomorrow billy's not going to move but addy's going to go up to him and say my dad's gonna fight you up he's gonna fight you up and he's gonna win he's gonna catch your hands or you're gonna catch his hands or you guys are gonna play catch i don't know but my dad's gonna fight you up you don't even have to know all the lingo you just know that god is in heaven and he's gonna look at your enemy and say i'm gonna fight him up i've got this i am able and i am willing and god doesn't cause the fight god doesn't cause sickness god didn't give you a disease to teach you something he didn't injure you so you would learn no what would would jordan ever do that daddy jordan's like hey babe i got corona come here i want to sneeze in your face but you hope you get it addy would jordan do that no so why would we say that god would do that that's sick it's sick and twisted for us to say that about god god doesn't give people sickness and disease and illness but god will use it well how can you dare to say that because god works all things together for the good of those who love christ jesus god uses covid for those who love christ jesus god will use betrayal for those who love christ jesus god will use divorce for those who love christ jesus god will use abuse for those who love christ jesus god will use insecurities for those who love christ jesus god will use layoffs for those who love christ jesus god will use ignored for those who love christ jesus and write this down if you're a note taper taker being in a fight might cost you something but it can pay you a lot you got to know the contract because the contract says the contract is the bible the contract is meditate on this law it is the law right right our pc is the contract the law if the contract is the law if the bible is the law say amen so it says you got to know the contract it says if the enemy takes from you he will be made to pay seven times restitution somebody got it over here everything that the enemy stole from you the fight might cost you something but get this i got a plan when i leave here i'm planning on going to chick-fil-a for the second time today just to be honest it's gonna cost me something to eat at chick-fil-a but i'm willing to pay it why because it's going to cost me something but it's going to give me what i want sometimes we're always so scared of the fire i don't know they're finding the right the fight being scared of the fight is worse than the fights you're coming out on the other side of this thing you're not gonna smell like smoke you're gonna shake it off shake it off you know i had one of these when i was a kid i was terrible at it i couldn't really figure out how to make it do what i wanted it to do the awesome thing about it is every time i messed it up i could shake it and start over i got a clean slate so i know you screwed up and i know you said something to him that wasn't nice and i know you went home and you felt bad about it and i know you sat there guilty but you don't know how to fix it you know what you can do is you can go to god and you can repent and his goodness his grace his mercy his righteousness shakes it off every time and every time we shake it off we go back to a clean slate why is that important that's important because a lot of times we won't worship because there's a problem i can't worship because i'm sleeping with my boyfriend i can't worship because i'm still using drugs i can't worship because i got drunk last night i can't worship because i'm watching porn i can't worship because you know i'm not really stealing from work i'm just kind of borrowing some stuff that they're not really using i i can't worship because i'm talking bad behind their back but i'm so stinking mad at them i can't worship because i'm using language i know i'm not supposed to use but i'm just so angry and frustrated it flies out of my mouth i can't worship because what happens is our problems become the reason we can't worship and the problem with that is our worship is our warship so god he's willing to fight the battle the battle's not yours it's god's but let's go to verse 17 because we don't totally get out of it he reiterates he makes sure he knows he says you will not need to fight in this battle but here's what you do need to do number one you need to stand firm number two pastor austin tell them you gotta hold your position number three you gotta see the salvation of the lord on your behalf do not be afraid do not be dismayed listen to this number four tomorrow go out against them and the lord will be with you okay hold up okay so god here's the way that i saw this like you're gonna go fight the battle the victory is mine so i was kind of planning on staying at home taking a mental health day and you go fight the battle and let me know when you're done he says you got to show up addie's got to go to school we got to face the depression we got to look whatever it is right in the face because if we stay home okay god take care of him let me know when you're done is this a position of faith no he needs us to operate in faith it takes faith to worship when you want to cry it takes faith to worship when you are tired it takes faith to worship when you have prayed a hundred times and you haven't seen the breakthrough yet it takes faith to worship when you have run this circle over and you've gone to the doctor over and you've tried to get the job over and you keep getting the rejections and they keep being mean to you and you're like i have done everything i can do god says i will fight the battle for you but you still gotta show up you still got to show up verse 18 then jehoshaphat bowed his head and fell with his face to the ground and all the inhabitants of jerusalem all y'all all youngs everybody fell down before the lord what were they doing worshiping and all these different people you don't know the name of stood up to praise the lord god with a loud voice believe in the lord your god and you shall be established believe his prophets and you will succeed how are you going to break the stinking cycle worship worship is your worship what does that mean well i guess that means you tell google siri spotify pandora your radio your cd whatever your apple music whatever your thing is you get up in the morning and instead of turning on the news or turning on espn or catching up the ability to stats or the baseball or the stock market or you just go ahead and put the music on and you can't let the radio praise for you well you see pastor i do i just let the radio i just turn it on and i worship my house all day long no you listen to worship all day long there's a difference you have to show up you have to say it's me o lord and i trust you and i've seen it all go sideways but i'm showing up when i feel like i'm outnumbered i'm outclassed i'm insecure and god doubt and fear are trying to eke in and be full but i have to choose to pull that out and be full of faith how do you make the transition transition from being full of fear to full of faith this is how i fight my battles you turn the music on you say this is how i fight my battles when it looks like i'm surrounded god when billy is at school when my boss is a hot mess or worse god when i'm alone with my thoughts and my thoughts won't stop now you don't just worship i told you there's all these things we have to repent we're going to repent one second because all those things are going to tell you you can't worship because you're not worthy to worship and you've got to stay away from it because you did the things right no we're going to repent we're going to get ready of those rid of those and then jehoshaphat in verse 21 he took counsel with the people and he appointed worshipers and the worshipers went out before the warriors the worshipers went out before the warriors the worshipers without before the warriors and as they went before the army as they went before the army in verse 21 saying give thanks to the lord for his steadfast love endures forever in 22 when they begin to sing in praise the lord said ambushments against their enemies who would come against them you know i did this i read this study one time it was about these uh tone generators and they were two 30-inch speakers kind of like these follow me for a second kind of like these two 30-inch speakers they don't look that big this one and that one you wouldn't think they could do too much make sure that florida can see these make sure online can see these but if you hook up a tone generation a tone generator there's three different types of sound there's ultrasonic sound an ultrasound is like what they used to see a baby you know what that is that's too high for the human ear to hear their subsonic sound boom the subsonic sound but subsonic's actually too low for your ear to hear and then there's the stuff we can hear we can hear it right now if you take two 30-inch speakers and you hook them up to a tone generator with subsonic sound sounds so low you can't even hear it with your natural ear what will happen is that subsonic sound have you ever gotten too close to a sub at a concert and it like vibrated your heart well this sound is lower than that it's lower and you can't hear it but two small speakers can amplify that to such a point where it won't just vibrate your heart it won't just vibrate your fingers it will literally vibrate the walls off of the foundation of the building what am i telling you i'm saying that your worship goes into a realm and it creates a sound that you cannot hear you can hear the physical sound that it makes but you cannot hear the physical or spiritual sound that it makes and it goes out into the spirit and it starts shaking the walls that were holding back tanya shaking the walls that's holding back your future shaking the walls put you in a prison of your mind shaking the wall speaking you think you can't get out and it goes out into this spirit and it fights in the air the aircraft worship of god the worship of god makes sure that it takes care of the prince of the power of the air and he is defeated and he is struck down and he is destroyed

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Length: 35min 4sec (2104 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 29 2020