When you put yourself aside
To open up your life to what he has for you what he wants for you to do that is worship
You are called to be in fellowship with the father
today on the believers voice of victory Gloria and Kelly Copeland encourage you to allow God to draw you need to worship and
Boldly come into his presence. Here's Gloria
Hello everybody welcome to the believers voice of victory broadcast Kelly
And I are going to share some things with you cuz she asked me to read a portion
In this book by Gloria Copeland. I Gloria Copeland. It's appropriate
Don't you think yes, so just one of my favorites um no yesterday? We talked about what worship?
how God don't I talked about how my story about how he changed me with worship and
So we started reading your story cuz I've in this book
We're giving these away, but I want I found this story about you and worship
And what God did to you so I started reading it yesterday?
But I'm kind of glad we ran out of time because I thought I want you to read it
But she did sack it interrupt, so just lesbian rude. She got me permission all right. I can't see what so there you go
It's really a good imade
Obey, everything God tells you to do today isn't that a revelation right well then again tomorrow. That's the top of the page here
following the Spirit of God
Is the only way the church will ever do the job God has called them to do has called us to do
We cannot do it in our own solar sound we cannot operate in the supernatural and have our souls
Minds will the motions in command of our lives. We must walk in spirit to walk in the supernatural
we must be willing to go beyond what we can see with our natural eyes and
walk after God by faith
We must learn to look through the eye of faith now that is a key
Everything look at it through the eye faith not through
Not through disappointment not through sadness not through fear, but through the eye of faith. I made this commitment
God I will do anything you want me to do teach me and lead me
At this time ken did not have a day time service and by direction of the Lord I started teaching on Friday mornings
I was always already
teaching
Healing on Saturdays. I prayed quote father. We are just
Giving you this time we are turning it over to the Holy Spirit
Whatever you want us to do tell us
I tell people to prepare themselves to set aside these days for the Holy Spirit to do whatever he wanted
These services lasted sometimes three or four hours
I just endeavored to teach the people the word and follow the spirit and minister to the spirit
I said God. I will do anything you tell me to do. I don't care what I look like
To people is there anyone if there is anyone who has cared what they look like the people it had to be me
Sister adder would were that her from days of old
Caused this a man fearing spirit what am I gonna look like if I do this a man fearing spirit?
I wanted to be dignified and nice
I never wanted to look foolish to anyone on top of that I was timid, but I reached a place where it was more important
What God thought about me than what people thought?
You
That is worship you when you put yourself aside
To open up your life to what he has for you
What he wants for you to do that is worship. You know
the Bible call it and when we make our life a sacrifice a
Living sacrifice not laying on the altar to die talking about but though our everyday living is open to him
that's our reasonable sacrifice that is our reasonable service to the Lord and it is a worship and what you did I
Want to point something out here many times what she called a man pleasing spirit?
Many times people have all kinds of things on the inside of this is what I learned
After becoming a worshiper. This is one of the things the Lord showed me
People have all kinds of things on the inside that drive them
to need certain things from other people
Affirmation yeah we need to
Please other people in an unhealthy way like so we accepted mm-hmm
So we don't get in trouble that can come from everything from you know something in your childhood
I mean just some I mean you know my story. I had abandoned man issue and it went even a real thing
it was when I was almost three, and we were in that car wreck and
Dad put me in the car long story short God had showed me this
Because I opened up my life to him to a greater degree
in my soul I let him in and
He showed me this
He knew what's in there Psalm 19 12 says how can you know all the sins lurking in your heart well guess what you can't?
you don't there was a place in you that needed people to think well of you beyond
What it should have been and God just got in there and that quick you?
Lost that mom you stopped being or you got rid of but God burned it up out of you you got
Done with Karen what people have a smothered image you know?
But you know what things my husband is rather outgoing right?
But those things can come from things in our past, but God will just burn them up
And that issue of enemy if you've never heard it
But let me tell it
Dad put us in a car after a car wreck
And then he turned around and walked back to the accident and the Lord told me one day
That's where
That entered in and once I knew that
And while I'm not talking like he left her by the side of the road no he put Mama's in the car
He did it
He was taking care of the family
but in my mind that was not quite three my dad after this I was in shock and walked away and
That drove me to all the issues of vanity like the insecurities
And they need an affirmation so all kinds of things can happen
Thoughts come in early on that we're not aware of but God will just drive those
You know it's the washing of the water of the word, but Jesus is the word to Jesus is the word
He'll wash that stuff right out and you are not that timid girl anymore. No I got over it
You don't care what people think in fact
I
Noted that about you later, and not much. You know as a teenager. I'm like
You don't care one of the things I think about you that I've always loved as I got older
I noticed this
I'm gonna let you go back to your story in a minute, but I noticed about my mom like at Christmastime Thanksgiving time
You know I'd be like I think left to my own
Selfish desires when my kids grew up I believe I I can't believe you're not coming on for Christmas
I can't believe you're not doing this you're gonna ruin my Christmas. That's why moms can get some time, but she was never like this
It was never about her. She's like y'all
Go do what you want to do and then later you were like I'm gonna do what I want to do
That you're just free of what everybody else does
And you're visually of every you're a very
inside healthy person
Right and you know I know
Some in some of your upbringing you had a wonderful mother. I did she was a you had a kind of a harsh grandmother
She bark at you, and what was it she used to say when you'd cry
Well don't make everybody cry Kelly all I know when I was a little girl
I stayed with my grandmother, and she was a German woman
she was she was not warm and fuzzy like some people are so I we were I was sleeping in the same room with my
Grandparents and as this floor girl, and I was singing I was in bed singing
I was happy you think and from over here, and the darkness came this drop door gene drop that
Just makes me want cry
Can you see though how?
In a little kid can be marked yeah, that could just say to you on the inside mm-hmm. Don't sing
don't get
Too far along don't do you see how that can happen, but God knows that stuff you
Out of anything, and I really believe something in that broken you right here, so keep reading all right?
I don't know where I quit long interruption. Let's say you said
I think it's right in here. You said I said God. I will do anything you tell me to do
I don't care what I look like the people
If there was anyone who had cared what they look like to people that had been me sister adder calls this a man fearing
spirit
That's sister would birth better from days of old who was a powerful woman if you haven't read after her do it I?
Wanted to be dignified and nice
I never I never wanted to look foolish to anyone on top of that I
Was timid but I reached a place where it was more
Important what God thought about me than what people thought and that is the way it should be
And those services God began to show me things to do and I would do them sometimes. They'd be little things
But I did my best not to hold back. It does not always have to be something big God
just needs to know that we will obey Him in little things and big things and
He is faithful in that which
is least
The scripture says he that is faithful in that which is least
is faithful in much
so our our
Position is all of you and me and Kelly we want to be faithful
We want to do whatever God tells us to do and I can tell you from
Past experience from the Word of God from looking to other people's lives
What he tells us to do is always to our advantage we always come out ahead when we obey God
so if you're if you're having a call to do something to preach to
Minister to people to go to the nursing home and pray for people do it do it you'll come out stronger
Spiritually every way if you just do what the Lord tells you to do
Amen and really mom that you struck something in my heart right there about faithful in the least
To be a worshiper is the least that is the that's our first duty
that's the
when I say at least I don't mean it's the least, but I mean no it's the most it's the
We have to be faithful in that or
We're not doing it all what we're what we were created to do so it's foremost
foremost and
We can't even be faithful in the other things without being a worshiper because we can't even enter in fully and told that and the
Same thing is true about spending time in the word. That's true
That's the key that's key and the Lord will lead you I've had this thought many times
I don't even think I've ever said it
But the Lord will lead you in
What you need your worship will pour out maybe in a different way than my worship
You know somebody this big and dramatic
God may not tell them to be big and dramatic to worship Him. He may make them just stand still
They drop their head
Cuz that's getting outside of themselves big and dramatic is easy well
If somebody is used to like being still and quiet
He may say you just get all over the place with my what your worship, so
Don't assume that somebody's has to be big about their worship because there's a place where just being very
Just being very still and it's not about you, and it's not about your actions and your emotions
It's easy to get up. There as a worship leader and have the right motions and do all this stuff
But make sure that it's your heart pouring out to Jesus
And it's not about what you look like or do and might do I have my worship hands going or you know?
So anyway it can look different to you at different times even go ahead. Maybe look good
Yes
one of the things he told me was to lay hands on every person that had not received the
Manifestation of healing I had rarely ever had a healing line
And I had never laid hands on that many people
After I'd been ministering for three hours on healing when I had finished. I was so tired
I could hardly close the service
I had to I had to have someone else do it after the next healing service God told me to do the same thing
But the end he said now rejoice before the Lord
Prior to that I had said Lord, I'll do anything you want me to do end quote. I had not planned
To rejoice before the Lord in front of all those people. I mean that's acting
Rejoicing it doesn't just say I rejoice you have to do some moving
but I just turned to the musicians and said let's rejoice before the Lord then I guess I I
Didn't write this in there, but I guess I waited to see what that was going to be then the Lord prepared me
prompted me now worship Me spirit soul and body don't just hold up your hands begin to dance before me I
Had never done that and had never intended to do it
I could have thought I don't believe I'm ready for that yet
But God said it and I was so
committed to obeying him that I just
began to dance before the Lord and the people joined in with me we were caught up in a
Rejoicing and had a good time worshiping in the previous meeting. I had been meeting I had
Absolutely been exhausted from ministering this time
I had ministered about four hours when I began to dance before the Lord now
This is a key right here and something happened to my physical body the Holy Spirit quicken my mortal flesh and all
The tiredness left me the Lord did not say if you'll dance before me you will be rewarded for it
You will be glad you did it will change many things in your life, and your thinking. He did not say it
That he did not say it was that important. He just said do it I?
Was so ready to obey Him that I followed through with it
You know it has been one of the greatest blessings. I've ever known in previous meetings
I would be often be so tired that I would hardly make it to the night service
But when I begin to rejoice that day the Spirit of the Lord refreshed me physically near my 10 says
For the joy the Lord is our strength is
Your strength that is what?
Busing is all about all these years have come and gone
And I've already had the physicals always had the physical strength to finish the healing service
And we've had some hours yeah laying hands on people
Usually I'm not even tired it also did something else for me it released me in the same way from being inhibited
to following God I became
quicker to obey God in the other areas that seem to be
That might seem other
Foolish or puts you in a position. Where you look foolish I
Bet broke and in inhibition that I did not even realize was there and somehow I became free
To follow after God do you know what the?
Dictionary says dignity is quote listen to this dignity. You know if you're all into being dignified listen to this
self position our
self-respect
That's dignity. I do not want to be self possessed. I want to be holy spirit controlled
But I am sure that my idea of
Dignity had kept me from being as free as I should be with the Lord
freedom happens when you follow your
Spirit you do not always know what is that the other end of an act of obedience?
And that is a very very strong truth
Your primary action should be to please God not to look good not to think am I doing it right
Not to think I might look dumb, but I want to please God
Everything the Spirit of God tells you to do or work for your good. It is always going to be to your advantage
Jesus name how that goes so free let's free ourselves up to obey God if you see somebody
He might be in a mall somewhere shopping and the Lord tells you to go pray for somebody do it
after all even if you miss God
What would it hurt if you prayed for somebody you know get an attitude like I believe God?
Naima whatever he tells me to do amen it's so funny mom because
The more when I begin to worship that was a result
Like just so free. Yeah, I grabbed the driver at the airport the other day
He had I was parked in the remote parking lot so you get on the van at the gate
or at the terminal, and then they take you out to the report to the parking lot and
So he got our bags out he had stopped the van. It was just me and
Kim Stevenson my friend travels with me so he had parked it, and he walked our bags, and he was really nice
I mean he was gonna put the bags in the car. It was very kind very helpful, so he's doing all this and and
I already knew the Lord had something in mind because he'd told me to get out twice as much as I normally
Give the driver for a tip so I got that out, and I thought Lord you're about to do something
So we get out, and I just start talking to him
Talking to him first. He was telling me about his family, and I was like well. Do you know me open the door?
I remember what he said, but it opened the door perfectly you know. I'm like do you know do you know Jesus and
he didn't and
So I started talking to him well we're his van was parked
The people were coming up the ramp, and they needed to get by and so he was hurrying up, too
And I had already started
He said yeah, he'd pray with me
And I had I was already praying with him and held his hand and so he said well
I got to go. I said, okay. I'll go I ran. He's running back to his van. I ran with him
We prayed on the run and he got in the van going yeah and pulled off
but I
It just like it's that is worship too, but when you get it to be a worship
Or you just get like I gotta share Jesus, and it makes you bold and it makes you tender towards others
and it makes you love them enough to offer him this wonderful Savior that you've
He's been so good to you
and when you worship
you said when you were eating in there talked about walking in the spirit I
Just had this thought when you were talking mom met
It's not just walking in the spirit has a two-layer meaning. It's not just that we walk yes
We walk out of the power of what's inside of us, but we also let the Spirit of God
into our soul so
We're walking with our soul in our spirit more in tandem because our spirits strong
And we've let him into our soul with the word and with words issues and our
Soul becomes strong now
He's just able to move us in any way and what you said in your book was like and I doing an act of obedience
When God tells you something will always be to your advantage
It won't be the reason that is is because he always is telling us stuff
To get us in a place he can bless us so whatever he tells us
It's not just about him or the kingdom it's gonna be about getting us where we need to be
Getting you there always
because he is
fabulously in love with you and when you become a worshiper you become fabulously in love with him and
your whole life and
Tomorrow I want to start with the scripture that kind of talks about these things your whole life
Will begin to change and fall into place and when you become an obedient worshipper
Let's can you get him in right place in you in right place. We're looking forward to this
Karina to Kelly now be right back
We hope you enjoyed today's teaching from Kenneth Copeland ministries and remember Jesus is Lord
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