our sounds and our songs and our motions
because the Holy Spirit is inhabiting us.
When we have given ourselves to God,
when we've given our bod to God.
Give your bod.
Our bod is expressing
under the leading of the Holy Spirit.
There's something about giving ourselves more.
God promises in Joel 2, 28,
to pour out his Spirit on all humanity.
Welcome to Global Outpouring.
Are we content for that promised outpouring?
We equip for that outpouring
so that we may engage in that very outpouring.
I'm Philip Bus.
And I'm Sharon Bus.
Welcome to the podcast today.
We're going to bring something
that is a follow up to last week's episode
with Dean Braxton.
If you were listening last week
and if you didn't go back and listen to it,
Dean was sharing with us
some of the things that he's been through physically
and how the Lord spoke to him
that he hadn't given his body to the Lord yet.
And that brought some very deep conviction
and repentance.
And we found it very sobering.
So we are going to go a little deeper
into give your body to God.
So before we get started,
just want to encourage you,
if you hadn't already done so,
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And especially, especially, especially,
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for Global Outpouring Convention 2025
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at the St. Louis Airport Marriott Hotel.
Please, this is going to be a family camp.
It's going to be for all ages.
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come and get connected
and we'll become family to you.
It's going to be an amazing time
in the anointing of the Lord.
So today we're going to talk about
giving your body to God.
So Philip, what do you remember about that?
It was our youth group and our church.
And I was probably maybe a freshman
in high school if that, you know,
so that was that was the late 60s,
actually early 70s at the expression
that was going around the church.
Give your body to God.
Of course, not a lot of them did.
It's just expression, you know.
Yeah, I mean, it was it was cool.
It was our slang in those days.
We use the word body
when we were talking about our bodies.
I mean, this is back when you had used the word cool
and you had the word groovy.
Yeah, right. Groovy, we kind of lost.
Yeah, cool, cool.
I don't know what happened to groovy.
I thought it was pretty cool.
Well, at least we still have cool.
Anyway, the thing that we were hearing
in those days was talking about Romans,
chapter 12 and verse one.
I want to read it out of the amplified classic.
I appeal to you, therefore, brethren,
and beg of you in view of all the mercies of God
to make a decisive dedication of your bodies,
presenting all your members and faculties
as a living sacrifice,
holy, devoted, consecrated and well pleasing to God,
which is your reasonable, rational,
intelligent service and spiritual worship.
Now, we heard sermons about that back in those days,
and maybe you've heard sermons, too, as you well should have.
If you haven't, you should.
But I want to go a little deeper with the kind of things
that Dean was sharing with us last week
about how he was really touched by the Lord.
And I'm telling you, for me, that was very sobering.
Yeah.
And I felt like, okay, I feel like we need to go deeper.
There's something deeper here that we can follow into.
I remember, and I've told this story before
and even fairly recently, that when I was 18 years old,
I heard the Holy Spirit say, I want you,
I want you 100% and I want you right now.
Well, 100% means 100%, right?
You know, we think of ourselves
as being spirit, soul and body.
And as the Lord spoke to Dean,
you have given me your spirit
and you've given me your soul 100%
and you're working on it.
You're bringing it into heart.
That's the hardest.
But you never gave me your body.
And so we've just been meditating on this.
And this scripture here that I just read,
make a decisive dedication of your bodies,
presenting all your members and faculties
as a living service.
Now it starts out with,
I appeal to you therefore, brethren.
So whenever you find the word therefore,
you have to go up above it
to find what the therefore is there for.
There's a reason for this word being there.
So what is it that Paul is building on
when he's saying, for this reason,
I'm asking you, I'm begging you, please,
present your bodies, a living sacrifice.
So if we go back up into chapter 11,
what do we know about chapter 11?
Well, that deals a lot with Israel,
the covenant that God has with Israel
and how we're grafted in.
Yes, exactly.
And how in verse 28, it says,
as concerning the gospel,
they are enemies for your sakes.
Because a lot of the Jewish people,
particularly the Pharisees,
were rejecting Jesus.
Their leaders did, so they did.
You know what I mean?
We'll just follow the leader.
So as concerning the gospel,
they're enemies for your sakes.
They were persecuting the Christians.
But as touching the election,
they're beloved for the Father's sakes.
Okay, if you think back about Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
and all the promises that were made to them
and to Jacob's sons,
who became the fathers of all the tribes,
the promises for the land,
the promised land, were made to these people.
And, you know, Joshua brought them in from Egypt.
Moses had gotten them out of Egypt.
Joshua brought them in,
and they were given the law to live by,
because there was a promise.
Because there was a promise there.
Yeah, and God keeps his promises.
God keeps his promises,
because he keeps his covenants.
Okay, he made covenantal promises.
Verse 29 says,
"'The gifts and callings of God are without repentance.'"
In other words, they're irrevocable.
That's why you see the nation of Israel today
that's based mostly on the tribe of Judah,
and they are more so.
They're more creative than any other people group.
They're more brilliant than any other people group.
They have more awards and more discoveries.
They're the best lawyers.
They're the best doctors.
I remember seeing a page of all the couple pages,
or more of all the Jewish inventions.
That was just astounding.
They're more so.
More so, yeah.
These gifts and callings are irrevocable.
Yeah. Okay.
So even if they're not looking at the new covenant
the way we look at the new covenant,
and even if they're walking as atheists,
the covenant of God toward them,
the mercies of God toward them are still for them.
Yeah. Let me paraphrase if I can.
This is Paul,
because like the believers,
the Christians say, well, they're not part anymore,
but what it says in 16,
you might say the branches were broken off,
so I'm grafted in.
Well, because of unbelief, they're broken off,
and we stand by faith.
So don't be high-minded, but fear.
For if God spared not the natural branches,
which is Israel, take heed lest he also spare not you.
Exactly.
This is an eye-opener,
and a lot of churches don't have understanding on Israel,
and they don't read Romans 11.
Right.
So I don't want to get too deep into Romans 11,
but I want to bring out this about verse 30.
It says, for you in times past have not believed God,
or not obeyed God, as it says in the margin,
yet have now obtained mercy.
Okay?
Mm-hmm.
Remember in verse one of chapter 12,
I beseech you therefore, brethren,
by the mercies of God.
Okay?
So let's look at these mercies.
You've obtained mercy through their unbelief.
Even so have these now not believed or not obeyed
that through your mercy,
they may also obtain mercy.
This word mercy here,
there's two words for mercy in this part of the chapter.
One of them is eliu, and I'm no Greek scholar,
but just from what I can read about these words, eliu,
it means to be compassionate, to have pity, to show mercy.
This is what God has given to us.
We have obtained mercy, this compassion, extended help,
and the Septuagint, which is the Greek translation
of the Hebrew scriptures.
This is the word that's used for chanan,
which means to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior.
In other words, God, our great Father,
is bending down in his kindness to extend mercy to us
who don't deserve mercy.
Oh, wow.
So then it goes on to say in verse 31,
that through your mercy, your elios,
and this is kindness or goodwill towards the miserable
and the afflicted, joined with the desire to help them.
Okay, so as we look at people who need mercy,
whether we're talking about the Jewish people,
whether we're talking about Muslims,
whether we're talking about Buddhists,
whether we're talking about atheists, Hindus,
whosoever, the neighbor down the street,
when we recognize that they are miserable in their sins,
our mercy, our kindness extended toward them
gives them mercy.
And then in verse 32, it says that God has concluded them
or shut them up together in unbelief
that he may have mercy upon all.
So it's like he's putting everybody into one sack
so that they are like one body of miserable people
that need mercy, so that he can have mercy on all of them.
It's a beautiful thought.
And then verse 33 is I think a key verse here.
Oh, the depth of the riches,
both of the wisdom and knowledge of God,
how unsearchable are his judgments
and his ways past finding out.
So it goes on to verse 36, for of him and through him
and to him are all things to him
and to be glory forever.
We did a whole podcast on that one verse recently.
So this is what the therefore is there for.
It's about the mercies of God.
And this is a little bit different word for mercy
in chapter 12, verse one.
I beseech you therefore, brethren,
by the mercies of God.
This mercies is oik tirmos.
And it's the Septuagint word for rahamim.
Now rahamim is one of the most important words.
It's the first word that God says about himself
when Moses is up in the mountain with him
and asking to see his glory.
The first thing he says about himself,
he shouts his name, roars his name, Yehovah, Yehovah!
And he uses this word rahum.
So he's saying about himself that he has mercies
like a mother has mercies for the child of her womb.
It's womb mercies.
So this is by the mercies of God.
So this is how God looks on us as his children.
He's looking on us as the offspring of his very being,
okay, his innermost being as though it were a womb.
Okay, he's got that kind of mercies.
So by those mercies, Paul is begging us,
present yourselves, present your bodies, okay?
So let's look a little deeper
at what this body thing means.
We're being presented,
we're presenting our bodies a living sacrifice.
Now it's interesting that a sacrifice
is something that's done in a temple.
In a temple, right.
So where do we see that our bodies are the temple
of the Holy Spirit?
Yeah, Paul says that.
In 1 Corinthians 6, 15 to 20,
and this is out of the Passion Translation.
Don't you know that your bodies belong to Christ
as his body parts?
Should one presume to take the members of Christ's body
and make them into members of a harlot?
Absolutely not.
Aren't you aware of the fact
that when anyone sleeps with a prostitute,
he becomes a part of her and she becomes a part of him?
For it has been declared, the two become a single body,
but the one who joins himself to the Lord
is mingled into one spirit with him.
This is why you must keep running away
from sexual immorality.
For every other sin a person commits
is external to the body.
But immorality involves sinning against your own body.
Have you forgotten that your body is now the sacred temple
of the Spirit of holiness who lives in you?
You don't belong to yourself any longer,
for the gift of God, the Holy Spirit,
lives inside your sanctuary.
You are God's expensive purchase,
paid for with tears of blood,
so by all means then use your body to bring glory to God.
So give your body to God.
Exactly, exactly.
So our bodies are sanctified
by the presence of the Holy Spirit,
and that's why we have to keep them holy.
We have to flee sexual immorality, that's a huge thing,
especially these days.
These days the world has transformed the minds
of people who are learning from the world,
learning from TikTok, learning from YouTube,
learning from movies, learning from TV,
learning from whatever's on the internet,
learning from illicit books and pornography
and all those kind of things.
All of those things are defiling
and they don't belong in our bodies.
When you allow your eyes to take in something,
that's part of your body, right?
When you allow your eyes to take in pornography,
you are polluting your body.
You're polluting the place
that is inhabited by the Holy Spirit.
Now it's interesting to me that the word in Greek
that's used here for the word temple,
that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit,
that word refers to the most holy place,
like the Holy of Holies in the temple.
If you look at the temple of God,
like Solomon's temple and Herod's temple and so on,
this is the word that's used
to express the Holy of Holies.
So that's even more so.
But it's interesting to me that Romans 12.1
talks about being a living sacrifice.
Well, sacrifices are something
that are done in a temple.
Right.
So even when the high priest goes once a year
into the Holy of Holies,
first of all, he puts incense in there
to burn and fill the place with the smoke of the presence,
to protect him from going in there
because he's a mortal too.
A mortal, not immortal.
He's a mortal, but he has to come in with blood then,
a sacrifice.
Well, we know that Jesus did the blood sacrifice for us.
So because of his sacrifice that he did for us,
we who have asked him to come and be Lord of our lives,
we have this connection to him
that should make us want to present ourselves
a sacrifice all the time, every day, 24-7.
So Romans 8 also goes into the idea of the difference
between the physical body and the spirit.
And what I want to do ultimately
is bring some more information from Dean Braxton
from his book, Deep Worship in Heaven, in just a moment.
But I want to grab this connection that we have
with the Holy Spirit to our bodies.
Because this is what's been working in me
since we had this conversation with Dean last week.
It's like, as I've given myself more to the Lord,
I'm finding that I'm feeling more of the Holy Spirit
operating in me in a more conscious way than before,
which I'm always longing for more, right?
Yes.
So I'm finding this difference that's taking place in me
like an awareness, more of an awareness
of the presence of God.
So in Romans chapter eight, it's talking about
there is no condemnation, and here's another therefore,
so you have to go back up into Romans seven,
that it's because of Jesus Christ
that we can serve the law of God with our minds.
And then the flesh is busy with the law of sin.
So what I'm seeing here is this transfusion.
Is that even the right word?
Like a transfusion of the Spirit into our bodies,
that we walk in the nature of the Spirit.
Verse one of chapter eight,
there is therefore now no condemnation to them
which are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh,
but after the Spirit.
So the more we cultivate a submission of our bodies to God,
the easier it is to let his Spirit lead us.
Yes, that's true.
You get the flesh under control,
it's easier to follow God.
Yeah, because you're letting the Holy Spirit control you.
Instead of, you know, lots of times
we try to keep our flesh in check by our flesh, duh.
Duh, yeah.
It doesn't work very well.
You know, we try to do it by setting our will.
I'm not going to do this, or I am going to do that
like your New Year's resolutions.
Yeah, or like something fasting for something.
If you're just fasting,
but you know, you have maybe the right intent
with what you're fasting for.
But if you're not spending time with the Lord,
you know, it's kind of like a hypocritical fast maybe.
It's a little strong,
but it's kind of like what Jesus says.
They fast and let their faces be long,
and you know, until I'm fast and you know,
I'm on day number five and I feel it, you know.
Of course, you know, you can do that
if somebody asks you, why do you feel like this?
Or, you know, and all that, but you don't broadcast it.
It says, he'll reward you in secret.
Right.
You know?
But the thing that I find sometimes,
at least when I'm fasting, when I'm fasting by the Spirit,
I've done the other kind too,
that the more you submit yourself to the Lord,
the more his Spirit comes out in front.
And that's really what we're after,
is the interaction between the Spirit and the flesh, you know?
Verse nine of Romans eight says,
but you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit,
if it is that the Spirit of God dwells in you.
So in other words, are we letting the Holy Spirit
so indwell us that he's making a difference in us?
Are we letting him work all those fruit
of the Spirit into us?
You know, the fruit of the Spirit is just
as wonderful as the gifts are.
If you don't have the fruit of the Spirit,
you're gonna be a clanging symbol.
Yeah.
You know?
So moving on, the idea is that,
if so be that the Spirit of God dwells in you.
Now, if any man have not the Spirit of Christ,
he's none of his, and if Christ be in you,
the body is dead because of sin,
but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Now, a lot of times before this conversation
we had last week, we have had the idea that,
okay, the body's dead, we just need to treat it
like it's dead and, you know, kind of abuse it.
We have had a tendency to abuse it,
but I think that this has been a wake-up call
to see that our Father really loves our bodies too,
and that he wants us to present our bodies
in a way for him to work with.
Kind of different than what we've been thinking, you know?
There's a scripture in the Psalms that says,
"'As a father pities his children,
"'so the Lord pities them that fear him,
"'for he knows our frame, he remembers that we are dust.'"
Okay?
So he's being this pitiful, kind, compassionate father
where, you know, we've kind of thought
that we just need to take a whip to our bodies.
Because, I mean, there is a scripture about,
Paul talks about keeping his body under.
And don't they do that in some Catholic nations?
Yeah, the Philippines.
Philippines, flagellation.
Yeah, they self-flagellate, they crucify themselves
on crosses, you know, during Holy Week.
That's not what the Lord is after.
But what he's after is our submission of our bodies
to him so that he can operate in them.
So verse 14,
"'As many as are led by the Spirit of God,
"'they are the sons of God.'"
That's that yos-sonship that is the mature son
that knows how the father operates
and can operate in the family business
as a mature son able to write checks
and make contracts for dad, you know?
Those kind of things.
So what I wanted to share beyond these scriptures
is a few thoughts from Dean Braxton's book,
"'Deep Worship in Heaven.'"
I just love this book.
And I've been listening to the audible version of it
over and over.
And the more I listen to it, the more I get.
And the more I'm seeing that this is helping
to answer the prayer,
"'Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth
"'as it is in heaven.'"
Because when we can see into heaven how it is in heaven,
we get an idea of how it should be on earth.
Here's how we should be operating on earth
because his spirit is working in us.
Yeah.
So in this book,
he describes what worship is like at the throne of God
and how everything in heaven is alive and intelligent.
Every blade of grass is alive and intelligent
and can talk to you.
The mountains, the atmospheres, the colors,
every single thing is an entity unto itself.
And it is totally individual and totally operating
with the presence of God, operating together.
And he talks about how everything brought its own praise
and everything had its own sound.
Everything had its own motions
that were individually expressed.
You know, like when the music is going,
some people wanna get up and dance.
Other people wanna tap their toe.
Other people wanna sway.
Other people want to do something,
but they haven't let their bodies do it.
And those are some of the people I wanna speak to
and encourage you, go ahead and do what your body wants to do
in worship to the Lord.
Because every movement, every single movement
is its own expression of worship to God.
And he sees it that way and he loves it.
He absolutely loves it.
So obviously I can't read you the whole book.
I would like to, but we're not gonna take time for that.
But I wanna just read a few paragraphs here and there
that give you an idea of here's how God sees
worship in heaven.
So let's translate that into our bodies here on earth,
letting Holy Spirit work through us,
letting Holy Spirit express through us,
letting Holy Spirit give us a new mindset.
Because that's the next verse in Romans 12, verse two.
It says, be not conformed to this world, but be transformed.
And that's like metamorphosis,
like going from being a caterpillar into a butterfly.
Be transformed by the renewing of your mind
that you may prove what is that good and acceptable
and perfect will of God.
So we want to participate with the Holy Spirit on earth
as it is in heaven.
So let me just give you some picture
of what it's like in heaven.
So here's Dean talking
and he's watched these other beings giving praise to God.
Now it's his turn.
Here I was about to give him praise,
a personal song of love.
I was so excited.
It brought me exceptional delight
in what I was about to do.
I was going to tell my father how much I loved him.
All the time that the angel of God was calling me to praise,
I had been looking forward to that moment
that I would glorify my father.
Being produced in me was a song of love for him.
As this was taking place,
I was moving into a more joyful moment, a happier moment.
I was moving again from glory to glory.
As the praise song developed in me,
I was moving deeper into his glory.
It was not that the moments before were not great.
It was just that the next occasion of singing to my father
was making every second in heaven even greater.
It was like the moment I had been in before had not existed
because the moment I was about to enter into
was more remarkable.
It was like I had been so alive before,
but now I was about to access newer life.
Things seemed to get better and better every moment in heaven
as I worshiped my father.
I knew this was happening because of each sound
of pure praise that was coming out of me.
As each love song and real love tributes came out of me,
I was fulfilling my purpose in worshiping him.
I was complete in praising my father
along with all of his creations.
The Holy Spirit residing on the inside of me
was enhancing the praise that was coming out of me.
This great tribute that I was presenting to my father
and great zeal in a love song
joined with his passion
and I had the privilege to give it to him.
It was much more than any love song I had ever sung before.
I had only one agenda with this song of devotion
that was to honor him.
I desired to honor him
as I had never honored my father before.
I wanted to sing to him how much I welcomed his love for me.
I knew in that worship of praise that he cherished me.
I wanted my song to bring my father great joy.
It was my personal song of love to him.
I was expressing my affection for him in a song
because I could.
It did not matter who else could hear me give my gift
to the gift giver.
I received a gift from him,
a gift of love created by my father for me.
He also created me for his gift of love and I knew it.
I wanted to thank him with my praise song.
I understood my voice was a gift from him.
He gave me a voice to thank him.
He created my voice to rejoice in him.
My voice of love was made for my father to hear me.
What a gift.
He would listen to me.
I had received the pleasure of knowing
that he is hearing me.
My father is hearing my love song made for him.
I was satisfied with the two of us.
He was hearing me and knowing how much I loved him.
Now was the time to stand.
As I started to rise to my feet
and stand with my arms at my sides,
my excitement grew as I moved inch by inch upward.
As I moved to stand to my feet,
I knew I was moving into a posture,
a stance that had been appointed by God Almighty
for me to take on in worship.
I then started to move my arms,
lifting them from my sides.
As I elevated them upward with my palms open,
I knew I was going to give my praise to my father as a gift.
Standing with arms up and palms open heavenward,
I knew I was ready to worship him.
This position was my gift to him,
my stance of praise to my father at that chosen moment.
Now, I just, I wanna back up and say that before that,
he was prostrate on the floor before the Lord.
And he had his hands extended out,
giving praise just in that expression
of his posture on the floor.
Deep within me was a substance made to present
to my father in love.
What it was, I have nothing on earth to compare it with.
I just knew that it was only for my God.
From this inner part of my inner being
was a sound of praise.
The Holy Spirit on the inside of me helped me to make it,
and it came rolling up out of my eternal body
with great joy.
Everything that is passed on the inside of me
expressed extreme happiness.
It was as if the substance of praise
was moving from the core of my spirit
and passing the inner parts of me
on its way to its destiny.
It seemed to give out life in a greater way.
It was like this praise song on the inside of me
had become my food in heaven.
As it passed each part of my inner being
on its way out of me,
everything within me was cheering it on
as it moved up through me.
This tribute ran through me for my mighty father,
the one who created me, the one who loves me,
the one who cares for me,
and the one who had brought me there
and would never let me go.
As this sound of pure love moved within me
to a place to be launched,
I experienced another expansion of excitement.
As this praise song advanced upward,
there seemed to be an eagerness from it,
and me, to be presented to my Father Almighty.
As my mouth was opening,
just the very motion of the opening of my mouth in worship,
I was filled with pure joy and love.
That movement of my upper lip,
separating from my bottom lip, was worship.
All of a sudden, my tongue started to form sounds,
and as I was ready to send forth a love song,
a song of true adoration, a song of praise,
a song of me giving myself to my Father in worship,
my mouth seemed like it had its joy,
its vibration of gladness,
and it trembled with pure joy.
It did this as I was forming it
to release my song of praise.
Just as this song of praise seemed to jump
from my tongue in joy,
another song was rising within me.
It was following after the first.
It was like the first song was pulling
the next praise song out of me.
My lips again had great joy in being part of this new song.
This tribute and song also launched itself
in its joy towards my Father.
These songs of praise that were produced in me
seemed to become faster and faster
as each left my mouth toward the throne of God.
The sounds of praise were coming from my tongue
and my lips with such happiness.
This joy was happening because I was able to tell him
how much I loved him in song and sound.
The gratitude towards my mighty Father
I could now express in song and music.
And he goes on to tell about how these sounds
that came out of him were joined by the atmospheres
and the colors and even the water in heaven
were joining their praise to his praise.
That's just beautiful.
Yeah, yeah.
And it's so hard to picture, you know.
I'm trying to comprehend what he actually saw.
Yeah, I'm just gonna read just a little more.
I'm skipping a good bit.
Yeah.
Now it was my turn to bow before him
and give him honor with my actions and with my gestures.
I lowered my hands and my arms to my side slowly.
It was like I was moving in slow motion.
Then I took my hands and brought them together
as if praying to my Father.
I was not praying, but that is how I wanted
to honor him with my hands.
I then started to bow my head
and experienced much reverence for him
as I made that motion of lowering it in praise.
Do you see what I'm trying to get to
that we begin to see that our sounds
and our songs and our motions
because the Holy Spirit is inhabiting us.
When we have given ourselves to God,
when we've given our bod to God.
Give your bod.
Our bod is expressing under the leading of the Holy Spirit.
There's something about giving ourselves more,
more so than we ever have before.
And you can feel that more when you're worshiping.
Yeah.
I think it used to be leading worship,
you know, your concentration.
You do anyway.
You have to look at chords.
Mm-hmm.
You know, you're looking at notes maybe and all that.
But you have to kind of let your spirit go to just be free.
You know, and sometimes you close your eyes
and you might mess up a chord, who knows.
But, you know, you just go on.
It's true. It's true.
And you don't stumble.
Secrets of a worship leader.
Confession of.
Yeah.
So he goes on to say, I knew it brought joy to my father.
And we have to get that.
We have to get it that the things that we do
when we're in a worship service,
and we're just, you know, sometimes it's we're doing stuff by rote.
Mm-hmm.
And that is not what we were born to do.
You know, in a lot of your denominational churches,
they do the doxology.
Yeah.
I love it.
So right after the offering.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It goes back.
Everybody stand, the piano organ hits the chord.
Praise God from whom all blessings flow.
And we love it.
We love to sing it.
But how many people realize what they're singing?
I know.
Creatures here below.
Here we are.
You know, we don't have a comprehension of his glory.
Mm-hmm.
Because we go by what we feel.
Yeah.
Unless, you know, you can see your eyes are open
that you can see in the spirit.
Right.
You know, it's just like, wow.
And people that do that, the experiences,
they can see angels and.
Yeah.
What's going on in heaven?
Like Dean, I remember he was sitting on the stage once.
He says, you know, I can I live in two realms.
I live in two realms a lot of time.
I'm watching what's going on in the audience.
He wasn't the speaker, but I'm watching what's going on in heaven.
Because he's been there.
Right.
You know, and he has that direct connection.
Exactly.
Hotline.
So as we give our body to God, even when we're singing something
that we sang a hundred thousand times already without really getting it.
Yeah.
Now we can start to get it.
Now to get it.
That this is bringing real genuine praise to our heavenly father.
And he is enjoying it.
And, you know, let our hearts be joined to it.
Let our hearts be connecting with our father while we're doing this.
So let me just read a little more.
I knew it brought joy to my father.
All I could do was put a smile on my face.
It was not just any smile.
It was a smile of knowing I had brought joy to the one who made me glad.
I knew from that moment that joy was and is a part of me.
I could now rest in that joy forever because of the happiness I brought to my father.
So that brings us back to last week's podcast with Dean about the importance of rest.
Being a part of our authority.
That's so good.
As we rest in him, as we trust in him.
It's the interaction that we have with him that increases our authority.
Yeah.
You know, sometimes you hear people have an experience and they're flat on their back and
then they're quiet enough, you know, because they're not moving around.
They can't, you know, and they can hear God better.
And sometimes I've heard people say, you know, God, let this happen to me so I would hear him better.
You know, God doesn't do it to you, but he lets things happen.
Yes, he puts us in a position where we have an opportunity.
You have to hear it.
Yeah.
Every terrible thing has a door to God in it.
Wow.
So I just want to finish with this.
I've skipped a whole bunch and it's about dancing before the Lord.
So it's my turn to dance.
Now it became my turn to stand up to meet the others in the sky to dance.
I started to lift off the ground and into the atmosphere of heaven.
I too was being carried upward by the sounds of praise coming from the music of the skies,
the voices of honor coming from the children of God and the music crafted by the precious creations of God.
As I took my place, I started to dance with the atmospheres, trees, grasses, mountains,
flowers, and much, much, much more.
I danced in celebration to my father because of what Jesus had done.
Everything about me wanted to dance.
I seemed just to vibrate with love and joy for my father.
There were no words on earth created to give even a close description of how I danced in praise.
My dance style was very multifaceted in itself.
I did not want to stop.
I, a creation of God and a child of the Almighty, had every reason to dance in praise to my Creator.
Beautiful.
You know, let everything that has breath praise him.
For he's the Lord.
And that's about giving our body to God.
Our body has breath.
So that's why we are connected in life to him.
And because we've been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb,
and because we overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony,
we have an opportunity to go beyond what our minds have allowed us to do before.
Because there's more.
There's always going to be more.
And I just want to challenge us all to give our body to God in a whole new way.
I've got way more material on this that I think we can go into next time.
And I just want to pray.
Father, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we thank you for this challenge
that you have given to us to enter into a new mindset of what it means
to give ourselves to you as a living sacrifice.
Lord, you are the one who lives inside of us.
And we are clothed in you.
We're clothed in your righteousness.
We're clothed in your glory.
Lord, help us to grasp even more day by day in the way that we give ourselves to you, Lord,
that your purposes will be accomplished in us daily as we give glory to you
for what you have done for us to redeem us from the curse of the law,
to redeem us from the fallen ways that our bodies are accustomed to.
Lord, we just thank you that you are giving us a glimpse into heaven
so that we can live on earth as it is in heaven.
In Jesus' name.
Amen.
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