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Find the safety and acceptance needed to bring your real self before God, whether you feel broken, hopeful, or just searching for meaning.
Pastor Barbie shares honest stories from childhood to adulthood, showing how worship becomes a personal exchange—a place for fear to be lifted, hope to break through, and identity to be restored. Experience the difference between routine and relationship, and receive practical ways to express your heart, even without words. You are not alone on this journey—step into a community shaped by compassion and genuine transformation.
Key Insights
- You belong in God’s presence just as you are, without fear or pretense.
- Authentic worship means personal exchange—giving your story, pain, or joy, and receiving renewal in return.
- Transformation starts with honesty, not performance.
- Your struggles and doubts do not disqualify you from closeness with God.
- Practical worship may mean a heartfelt word, a poem, or silent gratitude. There is no one-size-fits-all.
- Every step toward authenticity in worship strengthens you and the community around you.
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I love the way that the Lord confirms things through His
Speaker:Word and through His worship leaders and everything
Speaker:else. I'm excited about what the Lord has tonight.
Speaker:I have had the privilege of jumping around in all of the
Speaker:Gospels and then jumping over to some of the red
Speaker:letters in Revelation, and I just
Speaker:I am constantly floored by the continuity of the Word and
Speaker:challenged by the way it just weaves itself
Speaker:into the next. And so, I'm excited about tonight. Tonight, we are going
Speaker:to— we are entering into week 7. We have one more week of
Speaker:this particular study. Then we will have
Speaker:our conference, which will be so exciting. We're going
Speaker:to share information with you Sunday regarding— I know you saw
Speaker:some stuff online, but we're going to share some more with you this coming Sunday
Speaker:to give you an idea what's heading in your direction and
Speaker:what you can get ready for and be equipped for.
Speaker:So this week, next week, going to conference, and then we have a
Speaker:new series that's going to begin called— and it's entitled
Speaker:"The Sermon of Sermons." And I'm excited about the
Speaker:pillars of faith that are going to be sharing that study with you.
Speaker:Okay, so let's jump into the Word. This— today we're
Speaker:going to talk about a new song. We're actually going to be talking about
Speaker:worship because Jesus addressed worship in
Speaker:And if He addressed it, we want to find out what He had to say
Speaker:about it, right? Okay, the very first thing that we're going
Speaker:to start with is this. And let me put my glasses on so I can
Speaker:actually see. In John 4, if you've got your Bible, John
Speaker:4:19-16, that's where we're going to
Speaker:start. That's where we're going to begin.
Speaker:John 4. 15 through 16.
Speaker:He said
Speaker:this, "Sir," the woman said— this is woman
Speaker:at the well— "I can see that you are a prophet.
Speaker:Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim
Speaker:that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem."
Speaker:"Woman," Jesus said, "believe me, a time is coming—" I'm
Speaker:gonna need this— "A time is coming when you will worship the Father
Speaker:neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans
Speaker:worship what you do not know; we worship 'What we do know,
Speaker:for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time
Speaker:is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will
Speaker:worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are
Speaker:the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is Spirit,
Speaker:and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in
Speaker:truth.' Then a little further down it says, 'The woman said, I know
Speaker:that Messiah called Christ is coming, and when he comes, he
Speaker:will explain everything to us.' Then Jesus declared,
Speaker:"I, the one speaking to you, I am
Speaker:he." Father God, I thank you so much for your word. I thank you for
Speaker:the light and the life that is in it. I thank you for the breath
Speaker:on the page. Lord, I need it. And so, Father, I ask that you just
Speaker:breathe over this time and, and these people tonight, Lord, and that
Speaker:we would sense your presence. And Lord, that the Holy Spirit would just
Speaker:unfold your truth in this time together. Lord, I thank you for
Speaker:the upward call of these words that you've left for us. Pray that my stuff
Speaker:fall and yours stand, in Jesus' name.
Speaker:Tonight, I really believe I'm going to have one section in
Speaker:here that I know will be a little bit repetitive, but I feel like that's
Speaker:a really good thing because I don't know about you, but I need to hear
Speaker:things more than once so that I will retain them. Actually, I probably need to
Speaker:hear them daily, you know, if I'm going to really grab hold of
Speaker:them, but especially in things like this. But I want to talk to you about
Speaker:worship and, and actually kind of 3 different sections of my life
Speaker:where the Lord has kind of transformed my life through worship,
Speaker:and given me some pivotal moments that I just kind of want to share
Speaker:with you and lace them in with the Word and the directives of the
Speaker:Holy Spirit in this particular passage, and see what the Lord
Speaker:shows us in it. This is what I do believe.
Speaker:Oops. Okay, we're going to go back to that one. In
Speaker:our interactions with Christ, However great or small, there is
Speaker:always an invitation for exchange.
Speaker:Something happens. Something happens when you come
Speaker:into the presence of the Lord, and when you come in with a
Speaker:heart posture just to worship Him,
Speaker:just to acknowledge who He is and what He has done,
Speaker:there is this exchange that takes place. And the Lord kind
Speaker:of shared this with me even as I was a young child. I
Speaker:want you to know that anytime You
Speaker:feel drawn into His presence, and I don't know if
Speaker:you've ever experienced this. I hope you have, but have you ever like been in
Speaker:an altar space, or in a quiet place in your home, and you
Speaker:just begin to pray and seek the Lord, and you begin to worship
Speaker:Him? "Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name." You just begin to
Speaker:worship Him, and man, it's almost like this
Speaker:liquid love just kind of begins to flow over you.
Speaker:It's like this warmth, this anointing that comes in
Speaker:as His presence just pervades There's an exchange in that.
Speaker:There is a promise of the reality of Christ, and there is
Speaker:a hope that is wrapped in the middle of that exchange. And
Speaker:there's an awareness that happens when you come into His presence to
Speaker:worship Him. The Lord kind of taught me this when I was a small child.
Speaker:I was probably about 8 years old, and I was in my dad's church. And
Speaker:I remember it so clearly because of what the Lord taught me.
Speaker:I'd always been a little bit fearful in a lot of things, but my dad
Speaker:was preaching one night, and And he just, he
Speaker:stopped and he just looked and he said, "Hey, Barbie, come up here and
Speaker:sing a song with me." And of course, everything in me just kind
Speaker:of went, "No!" But I did it. And I
Speaker:just remember I walked up on that platform. You know, I use the
Speaker:word platform lightly, because it was just a little storefront mission. I mean,
Speaker:it was like this. You know, it's like a 6-inch step and I was on
Speaker:the platform, but it felt like miles. Because it was a challenge in
Speaker:my spirit. And my dad grabbed his guitar and he began to play,
Speaker:it's an old song called "Born Again." Satan tried to tell
Speaker:me I just thought I got saved, and he tells
Speaker:me what a fool I have been. But
Speaker:when my mind goes back to that old bench where
Speaker:I prayed, I know that I've been born again.
Speaker:And I just remember his rich baritone voice. He had the
Speaker:best voice. And I just remember joining in to
Speaker:sing, sing with him. And I remember distinctly, I
Speaker:refused to look at the congregation. All I could do was
Speaker:look at him. I wanted to look at him
Speaker:while he was singing, and I wanted to sing with him
Speaker:and communicate with him And
Speaker:there was something that happened in that time. It's like just
Speaker:looking at him and singing this song, my fear
Speaker:left, my anxiety left. I was
Speaker:okay because my eyes were where they were supposed to be. And we
Speaker:were singing this song to a God that we both loved. And I
Speaker:remember when the song was over, I just remember him reaching down
Speaker:and taking my hand to walk to the edge of that huge
Speaker:platform. And I just remember him taking a moment
Speaker:and looking at me with these blue-gray eyes.
Speaker:And I just remember looking at him, and I remember him smiling
Speaker:and these crinkles in the corners of his eyes. And I felt
Speaker:like in that moment I knew him.
Speaker:I felt like I saw him, and I felt like
Speaker:he saw me. And there was something that happened in that
Speaker:moment that confirmed something in me because of
Speaker:the, the intimacy of that moment that I wasn't expecting. Expecting. There
Speaker:was this exchange that took place between my father
Speaker:and I at that time, and, and I will never forget that.
Speaker:It impacted me because what it did was it birthed
Speaker:something in me that in later years I would understand that
Speaker:when I enter into that place with the Lord, when I enter into
Speaker:that place where it's not about anybody or anything
Speaker:except me and him, I can see Him.
Speaker:Now, I'm not talking a physical see Him. I'm talking I
Speaker:can see Him, and I know that He sees me.
Speaker:And there's an intimacy in that exchange with Him,
Speaker:and that is the invitation that He offers to us.
Speaker:And as we go a little bit further in the scripture, I want you to
Speaker:see how He begins to tie all of this
Speaker:together. But
Speaker:our interactions with Christ, however
Speaker:great or small, something always exchanges
Speaker:hands. Something is always offered that we can grab
Speaker:onto. There is a revelation in your time
Speaker:with Him. There just is, if we will
Speaker:receive that. The definition exchanging says, "Give
Speaker:one thing of value in return for another." to give
Speaker:something up in order to get something else.
Speaker:And see, sometimes we have to give something up in order
Speaker:to get something else. And I don't know about you,
Speaker:but I want something else. I want something
Speaker:else. I want more of Him. What's interesting to me is as I begin
Speaker:to talk about exchange, and as I begin to seek the Lord on that,
Speaker:He took me to Isaiah 61,
Speaker:And in Isaiah 61, what we do is we begin
Speaker:to see what our exchanges with the
Speaker:Lord actually look like because he says, "The Spirit of the
Speaker:Sovereign Lord is on me. The Lord has anointed me to proclaim good
Speaker:news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the
Speaker:brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for captives and release
Speaker:from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord's
Speaker:favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to to comfort all
Speaker:who mourn and provide for those who grieve in Zion,
Speaker:to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the
Speaker:oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise
Speaker:instead of a spirit of despair or
Speaker:heaviness. The exchange that happens with
Speaker:the Lord, He always takes what we have
Speaker:and, and exchanges it for something so much better.
Speaker:So much better. It's not like we can come before Him and offer
Speaker:Him something grand and something glorious, but what we do
Speaker:is bring our raw selves to
Speaker:Him. And He sees us,
Speaker:and He takes all of this that we're carrying,
Speaker:all of this that, that we're wearing, all of the things,
Speaker:the weights of the world, all of it, and the
Speaker:exchange is made because of what He has
Speaker:done, because of what He's done, because of His great
Speaker:mercies. And what we are encouraged to do according
Speaker:to scripture, it says, this is what we
Speaker:offer. In the view of God's mercy, we
Speaker:offer our bodies as a living
Speaker:sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, because that is our
Speaker:true and proper worship. What?
Speaker:It's not dancing and jumping or
Speaker:anything. No, it's all of us. It's
Speaker:everything that we are that we offer to Him. And then it goes
Speaker:on and it says, "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be
Speaker:transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then
Speaker:you will be able to test and approve what God's will
Speaker:is, His good, pleasing, and and perfect
Speaker:will. Do you see the exchange in
Speaker:that? Do you see that when we take
Speaker:ourselves and give ourselves to Him, He
Speaker:begins to help us conform and allow
Speaker:our minds to be renewed and transformed so that we can
Speaker:begin to discern His will?
Speaker:We give Him ourselves and He gives us
Speaker:Himself. And guys, it's just not even. At
Speaker:all. It's just not a fair trade.
Speaker:Aren't you glad it didn't have to be a fair
Speaker:trade? Oh my goodness, worship houses an exchange that
Speaker:happens nowhere else in our walk with Him, and I believe that.
Speaker:I believe that there is a humility. You know what, I never really
Speaker:sat and thought about Jesus as a worshiper, but it talks about
Speaker:Him singing hymns, and the posture that He took in the
Speaker:Garden of Gethsemane to go face down before His Father
Speaker:to travail. That's worship. And there's an obedience. Everything
Speaker:about Jesus' life declared that His
Speaker:obedience to the Father.
Speaker:And everything that I read shows that as an act of worship.
Speaker:Shows it as a strong act, a position, a
Speaker:place of humility. Yet when you talk about Jesus, you would never
Speaker:really go, "Oh yeah, He was an amazing worshiper." His
Speaker:life was lived in obedience to the Father.
Speaker:And what does the Word say? It says, "They'll know that you love me when
Speaker:you keep our— his commandments," and we follow into that place
Speaker:of obedience. When we offer
Speaker:ourselves in worship, we open a door that leads to
Speaker:transformation by the renewing of our minds, and then
Speaker:allows us to discern his good and perfect
Speaker:Will. What? Okay, so all of the times when
Speaker:people come up and go, "I just wish I knew what God's will was for
Speaker:my life. Can you tell me what God's will is for my life?"
Speaker:No, I can't. I mean, there are a few scriptures I could give you, but
Speaker:if you will offer yourself to Him, if you will just walk in
Speaker:with arms wide and go, "God, I don't know the answers here,
Speaker:but I'm going to give you everything that I am to the best of my
Speaker:ability. I'm going to bow this will, and I am going to follow you.
Speaker:And Lord, I'm trusting that as that happens, happens, Lord, my
Speaker:mind in your presence is going to be transformed so that
Speaker:I can discern your will.
Speaker:The fruits of the Spirit, the gifts of the Spirit
Speaker:found in that exchange. Now, this
Speaker:is the portion that I have shared with you before, and I, I can't get
Speaker:away from it. So if I can't get away from it, you can't get away
Speaker:from it. Well, I guess you could. Nobody's going to grab you, but Kevin, if
Speaker:somebody starts
Speaker:I can blame Kevin because he did this whole video about the Lenten
Speaker:season, and so I have been pondering Lent, and
Speaker:I have been pondering this season and everything that our heart
Speaker:postures are supposed to be in this. And the Lord reminded
Speaker:me of a dream, and in my dream I knew I was watching the triumphal
Speaker:entry. I knew I was standing back and I was watching. I could
Speaker:hear this noise from a distance, and I. And I was standing and I was
Speaker:watching, and it was almost like I was trying to look over everybody's heads, you
Speaker:know, to see in the distance. And I could hear people crying out, and I
Speaker:could hear them calling out. And in my dream, I
Speaker:knew that it was the triumphal entry. I knew that Jesus was coming
Speaker:into that, to that area, and he was getting ready to ride in on
Speaker:this donkey. And I could— everybody, I mean, I could
Speaker:see cloaks flying, I could see things being cast
Speaker:down, I could hear everybody crying, Hosanna! Palm
Speaker:branches, all of the stuff, all the same
Speaker:thing. But then I heard this voice, and it
Speaker:was saying all of the exact same things
Speaker:that everybody else was saying. It was crying
Speaker:out, "Hosanna!
Speaker:Hosanna!" And— but it was so different. It was like it
Speaker:pierced through the darkness. You
Speaker:know, I think about that now, and I look back and I'm like, "Man, you
Speaker:know, they were— everybody that
Speaker:was there was probably there for a different
Speaker:reason." Kind of like when everybody comes to church on Sunday,
Speaker:everybody kind of comes for a different reason. Some of us come because that's
Speaker:the habit. You know, some of us come because mama and daddy said
Speaker:come, and that we've never gotten away from that. Some of us come because this
Speaker:is where our friends are and we don't want to miss out on anything. You
Speaker:know, some of us, it's just part of what we do. But
Speaker:then there are some that come in and go, "God, I just want
Speaker:to worship you. I just want to come in and I want to
Speaker:pierce this thing that has been driving me crazy,
Speaker:Lord. I want to get through this, Lord, to your presence."
Speaker:And they come in with a purpose, or they come in with a clarity.
Speaker:And— that woman, the service was in full swing, we'll just call
Speaker:it that, and her voice, the
Speaker:cry of, "Hosanna!" It's like you could hear the tears in it. You
Speaker:could hear the push in it, and the closest thing I can relate
Speaker:it to was, you know, that, that hem of
Speaker:the garment when the woman pushed through the crowd and she
Speaker:touched the hem of His garment. And you know, everybody else was touching
Speaker:Him, and everybody else was crushing in on Him, but there was
Speaker:this one And the Word says He felt the virtue flow out of
Speaker:Him, and He said, "Who touched Me?" And His disciples said, "How
Speaker:can we tell You who touched You?" That's what
Speaker:her song was. Her song was
Speaker:touching the hem of His garment. Her
Speaker:song was piercing a place
Speaker:that nobody else was touching.. And in my
Speaker:dream I said, "Lord, what is that? Lord,
Speaker:what is that?" And you know, in your dream you can
Speaker:do anything, right? Not always pleasant, but you know, you can always get—
Speaker:In my dream it was like I went from here to right into the
Speaker:middle of her heart, into the middle of her spirit.
Speaker:And what I saw in her spirit was this, what I saw
Speaker:in her spirit was
Speaker:a woman standing unclothed
Speaker:in front of accusers with them
Speaker:yelling at her, telling her how bad she was,
Speaker:how evil she was, confirming in her
Speaker:own spirit everything that she had always said to herself.
Speaker:And all of these people had stones in their hand, and
Speaker:what I saw in her heart was her waiting
Speaker:for the stones. I saw her waiting with
Speaker:head bent, crouched down, waiting for the stones to hit
Speaker:as she heard the, the people
Speaker:yelling and shaming her and,
Speaker:and literally just tearing her
Speaker:apart, tearing her heart apart. And then right in
Speaker:the middle of
Speaker:that I hear, like her head's down,
Speaker:and I hear, "Let he who
Speaker:is without sin cast
Speaker:the first stone." And what I saw in her heart was waiting
Speaker:for that stone, waiting for that
Speaker:stone to hit. But instead of the stones
Speaker:beginning to hit She began to hear them drop
Speaker:one by one into the sand,
Speaker:into the dirt, and she hears footsteps
Speaker:begin
Speaker:to shuffle away, and then she hears that same
Speaker:voice go, "Woman, Woman, where
Speaker:are your accusers? And I could see her eyes just looking up for a second,
Speaker:and her going, Lord,
Speaker:I have none. And Him saying,
Speaker:Neither do I accuse you.
Speaker:Now get up. Some translations say, Go live a better
Speaker:life. Go and sin no more. But what
Speaker:happened in her heart at that moment when He
Speaker:said, Neither 'Neither do I accuse
Speaker:you.' There was a worship born in her
Speaker:heart. There was a song that only she could
Speaker:sing. And so, you know, in my
Speaker:dream when He said, 'Neither do I accuse you. Go and
Speaker:sin no more,' in my dream she didn't lift her
Speaker:head. In my dream He knelt and He
Speaker:lifted her head. And he looked her in the eyes, and
Speaker:I just remember thinking in that she didn't
Speaker:see condemnation, she didn't see hatred, she didn't see judgment.
Speaker:She saw a love and a compassion,
Speaker:and she saw
Speaker:kindness. Kindness and truth. And see, didn't we just
Speaker:talk about Sunday that the initiator The two things
Speaker:that we know genuine love carries are
Speaker:what? Patience and kindness. And she found that
Speaker:in His eyes. And so, in my dream when
Speaker:she was singing, "Hosanna," she sang from
Speaker:somewhere totally different than everybody else because
Speaker:the revelation that Jesus had given her in her life
Speaker:was a revelation of His goodness. Then when
Speaker:she said, "Hosanna," Glory to God in the highest.
Speaker:She meant it. She didn't sing it because they sing it— were singing
Speaker:it. She didn't sing it because it was a popular song.
Speaker:She sang it because she meant it. And when she meant
Speaker:it, this is a different note, guys. It is a different
Speaker:note. And it is what the Word is talking
Speaker:about in this first passage. He says the time's coming when it's
Speaker:not going to matter what mountain you worship on. What's going
Speaker:to happen is you're going to worship in spirit and in truth. It's not going
Speaker:to be where, it's going to be how. And it
Speaker:says, "Even now." Even
Speaker:now how we worship
Speaker:matters. The opportunity for the exchange is all over
Speaker:this, and it comes out of the revelations that are
Speaker:born in that moment with Him.
Speaker:Oh, Jesus, our worship carries our personal revelation
Speaker:of Christ. It
Speaker:testifies. It testifies. When you are standing next to
Speaker:somebody who is in it, you're going to feel it. You're
Speaker:going to know it. It is their testimony. When they
Speaker:say, "God, You are holy," they
Speaker:mean it. It testifies. It is the song that issues
Speaker:from the depths of absolutely everything we
Speaker:we have come to
Speaker:know of Him. Because there's this— praise may speak to your level of
Speaker:involvement and passion, but your worship speaks to your level
Speaker:of personal revelation of
Speaker:who He is. You can
Speaker:be a passionate praise person. You can
Speaker:get into it. You can be moved by the music. You can
Speaker:be moved by everybody else in the room being moved,
Speaker:or there can be a revelation, a personal revelation of who God
Speaker:is in your life that allows you to offer
Speaker:something that is rich and deep. And here's the thing, guys, nobody
Speaker:else can offer it for you. Nobody
Speaker:else can sing the song that you're singing, because here's
Speaker:what it is: when spirit and truth marry, when
Speaker:we worship in spirit and truth, the offspring is a new
Speaker:song.. It's a new song and it
Speaker:says— it's called Tehillah Praise
Speaker:and Worship. Tehillah Praise and Worship. I'm going to read that
Speaker:to you. It says, Tehillah worship
Speaker:is a spontaneous new song. It is a song that abides
Speaker:in your heart that only you can give words to. It is
Speaker:a song offered straight to the heart of God. It is worship
Speaker:offered when you really know, when you're Your story is strong
Speaker:enough to demand your gratitude, and your spirit in
Speaker:truth begins to move. Tehillah is
Speaker:praise offered
Speaker:from your deepest levels. Tehillah praise and worship is
Speaker:a spontaneous new song that only you can give words
Speaker:to. Only you can give words to. Now guys, when I'm
Speaker:saying a song, it may not be a
Speaker:song. It may be a word. It
Speaker:may be a gratitude. It may be a poem. It is
Speaker:something that only you can voice. That's why it's so different
Speaker:when you hear somebody sing a song that somebody else has
Speaker:written, or somebody else has done, or you hear them sing
Speaker:a song that they've written. It's different. It comes
Speaker:from a
Speaker:different place. Oh, Jesus. Um, okay,
Speaker:only you can give. I think I already did
Speaker:this. Okay, here's the thing. This particular thing, when
Speaker:it says a new song, sing a new
Speaker:song to the Lord, it says it
Speaker:is kainos odei. It's odei, odei.
Speaker:In a kainos ode, and it says,
Speaker:"It is
Speaker:at once unprecedented, uncommon, unheard of." Now listen
Speaker:to these last
Speaker:two, "Unused and unworn." That means it's original
Speaker:to you. Nobody has sang it before.
Speaker:Nobody's used it before. Nobody's worn it before. As
Speaker:a woman who actually loves a good thrift store, this is
Speaker:a groundbreaker for me. Anyway, but I grew
Speaker:up wishing for new clothes, but I inevitably wound
Speaker:up with the clothes of my older sisters, which was a blessing in and of
Speaker:itself because they had much better taste than I do. But I look
Speaker:at this and I go, God
Speaker:has a new song?
Speaker:That is unprecedented, uncommon, unheard
Speaker:of, unused, and unworn
Speaker:for me? For me? To me, again,
Speaker:that is that moment like when you
Speaker:are touching His garment. That is the moment when you press
Speaker:in, and you move in close to Him, and you You move into
Speaker:that place with Him that you hadn't been to before. Now
Speaker:guys, listen to this. This is— this, I love the way God does this.
Speaker:According to Psalm 22:3, Tehillah. There are a lot of names
Speaker:for worship. There are a lot of monikers, a lot of
Speaker:descriptives. According to Psalm 22:3, Tehillah is
Speaker:the worship that God inhabits. It's
Speaker:the worship that He inhabits! God
Speaker:inhabits the praises, Tehillah, of His people.
Speaker:It's personal, and it's intimate, and it literally is the
Speaker:picture of Him sitting down in the middle of
Speaker:that moment with you. Tehillah. It's not about
Speaker:who you're near, it's not about who's sitting next to you, it's not their worship
Speaker:that drew Him. It is your
Speaker:worship, your new song, this thing that only He can
Speaker:give you that's personal. That you offer to Him, and
Speaker:oh, He moves right into it. And that's why when
Speaker:you enter that place with
Speaker:Him, you can't stand. Literally, in those places with Him,
Speaker:you can only find a posture on your knees. You can only
Speaker:find a posture— remember when Josh was talking about, you know, he said, "You know,
Speaker:Lord, I just want to know Your presence," or, "Lord, just come and walk with
Speaker:me," and he just began to sense the
Speaker:slightest bit of the Lord's presence, and he was petrified and said,
Speaker:"Lord, I'm— no, I didn't mean it. I'm sorry.
Speaker:I'm sorry." There is
Speaker:an invitation to exchange with Him when you
Speaker:begin to offer this song that only you can offer. Now, I feel
Speaker:like I need to clarify because some of you are sitting there thinking,
Speaker:"Well, I don't really write songs. I don't really do—" That's
Speaker:not it. That's not it. You can sing this song without
Speaker:ever opening your mouth. It is a cry of your heart. It
Speaker:is a transparent place before Him that knows Him, knowing
Speaker:that He sees you, you see Him, and everything
Speaker:you have walked through with Him
Speaker:testifies in that moment. Now, let's take it to
Speaker:the
Speaker:next level. This exchange Psalm 96:1-2 says, "Sing to
Speaker:the Lord a new song. Sing unto the
Speaker:Lord, all the earth. Sing unto the Lord and bless His name."
Speaker:What does that— to me, that's
Speaker:Him going, "Everybody! Everybody! Everybody!
Speaker:Sing a new song to the
Speaker:Lord!" Not somebody else's, yours! Sing your song to the
Speaker:Lord! Share your heart With Him,
Speaker:exchange leads to
Speaker:knowing, knowing to
Speaker:revelation, revelation to worship, and worship to
Speaker:new song. But here's the thing, it's
Speaker:not just any new song.
Speaker:It is tied to everything that's happened before, everything
Speaker:that is going to happen, everything that you are in
Speaker:the middle of now. It is It is a song that to me, from everything
Speaker:that I have read and see in scripture, it is
Speaker:a song laced through, and wound through,
Speaker:and embedded through all of
Speaker:eternity. New songs bathed in spirit and eternal
Speaker:truth. Okay, what does that look like? That looks like to me some
Speaker:more of the red words.
Speaker:If you go to Revelation 5, actually it's right after the
Speaker:red words. If you go to Revelation
Speaker:5, and we begin at verse 7. Guys, I
Speaker:want you to just— I want you to close your
Speaker:eyes for a minute and go
Speaker:here with me, okay? "Then I saw in the right hand of Him who
Speaker:sat on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides, and sealed
Speaker:with 7 seals. And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud
Speaker:voice, 'Write 'Who is worthy to break the seals and open the
Speaker:scroll?' But no one in heaven or on earth or under the
Speaker:earth could open the scroll or even look inside
Speaker:it. I wept and I wept because no one
Speaker:was found worthy to open the scroll or look inside. Then one of the
Speaker:elders said to me, 'Do not
Speaker:weep. See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root
Speaker:of David, has triumphed.' 'He is able to open the scroll
Speaker:and its 7 seals.' Then I saw a Lamb looking as
Speaker:if it had been slain, standing in the center
Speaker:of the throne, encircled by the 4 living creatures and the elders. He
Speaker:had 7 horns and 7 eyes, which are the 7 spirits of God sent
Speaker:out into the earth. And He came out and He took the
Speaker:scroll from the right hand of Him who sat on the throne. And when
Speaker:He had taken it, When
Speaker:He had taken it, the, the four living creatures
Speaker:and the 24 elders fell down before
Speaker:the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and
Speaker:they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers
Speaker:of the saints, and
Speaker:they sang a new song. They sang a
Speaker:new song, "You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its
Speaker:seals because You were slain." That's the reason Revelation, they
Speaker:know, "And with your blood you purchased men for God in every tribe
Speaker:and language and people and nation. You have made them
Speaker:to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they
Speaker:will reign on earth." And then listen to this, it says, "Then
Speaker:I looked and heard the voice of
Speaker:many angels numbering thousands upon thousands and ten
Speaker:thousands times ten thousand. They encircled the throne."
Speaker:And the living creatures and the elders, in a
Speaker:loud voice, they began to sing, 'Worthy is
Speaker:the Lamb who was slain to receive
Speaker:power and wealth and wisdom and honor and glory and praise.'
Speaker:Guys, listen here. It says, then I
Speaker:heard every creature in heaven and on earth and
Speaker:under the earth and on the sea and all that
Speaker:is in them singing, 'To him who
Speaker:sits on the throne and unto
Speaker:the Lamb be praise and honor
Speaker:and glory and power
Speaker:forever and ever.' The four
Speaker:living creatures said, 'Amen,' and the elders
Speaker:fell down and worshiped. The
Speaker:elders fell down
Speaker:and worshipped His word. Worthy is the
Speaker:Lamb who was slain to receive power, and wealth, and wisdom,
Speaker:and strength, and honor,
Speaker:and glory, and praise.
Speaker:Eternity's song. Eternity's song is
Speaker:already written on your hearts. Even as I
Speaker:read those words, I know you can imagine it. I know that you can
Speaker:see it. I know because eternity has been written
Speaker:on your hearts, and when you encounter something that
Speaker:touches that, it awakens. Eternity's song is written on your hearts, and
Speaker:I believe with everything in me that it looks like to HeLa when we were
Speaker:when we begin to worship in spirit
Speaker:and in truth, I believe the
Speaker:new song is released to join
Speaker:the song of the Lamb. When
Speaker:we begin to offer that to Him,
Speaker:I believe our voices, our
Speaker:cries, our revelation joins with the elders, joins
Speaker:with the creatures, joins with everything on land, and everything on the sea, and
Speaker:in the the sea, I believe we join with
Speaker:them in a song of
Speaker:eternal testimony and revelation of the
Speaker:worthiness of the Lamb who
Speaker:was slain. To him who
Speaker:sits on the throne and unto
Speaker:the Lamb. To him who sits
Speaker:on the throne And unto
Speaker:the Lamb be blessing,
Speaker:and honor, and
Speaker:glory, and power, forever. Forever.
Speaker:Father God, I thank you so much for your word,
Speaker:and your truth, and I thank you for
Speaker:the invitation to the
Speaker:exchange. We are blessed. Father, just
Speaker:continue to reveal this to our hearts so
Speaker:that we can offer you the song that
Speaker:only you can bring. In Jesus' name, amen.
