The purpose of worship is to open the heavens.
Yes. That's the purpose of worship. And you can
think yourself as a drill, just drilling holes
through the darkness. God promises in Joel 2
.28 to pour out His Spirit on all humanity. Welcome
to Global Outpouring, where we contend for that
promise outpouring, we equip for that outpouring,
so that we may engage in that very outpouring.
I'm Philip Buss. And I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome
to the podcast today. We're so glad that you're
with us. This is going to be a wonderful discussion
as we continue in this series of strategies for
defeating your enemy. And we've been using some
of the books that were written by our founder,
Gwen Shaw. This time, we're going to talk about
this book, God's End Time Battle Plan. We're
going to be talking about many different things
that are battle plans that God will use in your
life that will help you to overcome your enemy.
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And we travel to the nations too. We've been
to lots of places and we love the nations. The
nations are in our heart. God has a plan for
the nations. So we want to help you build your
ministry. So today we are talking about God's
end time battle plan. And some of these things
actually... Sister Gwen, our founder, she put
them in this book, but she also put like a bigger
emphasis on them. So one of the things that is
in this book, the first thing is praise. And
of course, we dealt with that in episode, well,
I'm not sure which episode it was, I think 299
or 298 about the power of praise. Power of praise,
yeah. So did you have something you wanted to
bring on that, Philip? Yeah. There's many, many
books out there, you know, dealing with praise,
worship and that. But what it comes down on an
individual basis is where are you with God? True.
You know, what is your walk? How are you walking?
Are you staying clean? Are you staying pure?
And in Psalm 24, now I just want to read some
of the verses here. Who shall ascend into the
hill of the Lord or who shall stand in his holy
place? He that has clean hands and a pure heart,
who hasn't lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor
sworn deceitfully, he shall receive the blessing
of the Lord and righteousness from the God of
his salvation. And for us today, this is the
generation of them that seek him, that seek thy
face, O Jacob, Selah. Lift up your hands, O ye
gates, lift ye up the everlasting doors, and
the King of glory. Amen. Amen. So this pertains
to us today. Even though this was written...
Way back a Psalm of David, way about 3 ,500 years
ago. But it holds true. But this is the generation.
It's now Generation X, I think, is where we're
at. And Z. Z. What's after that? I think they're
going back to Alpha. They're going back to Alpha.
But every generation, you know, needs to walk
and worship. And every generation, things change.
Worship changes. The styles change. And because
it changes the atmosphere. You know, worship,
praise changes the atmosphere. It'll change your
atmosphere because if you can walk in praise,
you know, wake up in the morning, just praise
God. If you can maintain that level of praise
and worship, that will just lift you above circumstances
that would normally just drag you down. In order
to really defeat the enemy, you have to live
a holy life. True. You can read all the books
you want on spiritual warfare, the scriptures,
but if you're not living a holy life, Satan has
a legal right that will keep you from pressing
through and in victory. And I told our daughter
back when she was young, You know, if you're
a worship leader, actually anybody in ministry,
you have a bullseye on your back. True. And the
devil is going to try to shoot you. Target. So,
you know, you have to know that he's there and
he has arrows, but don't let him hit that bullseye.
That's the thing. And you can keep him out of
the bullseye by living a holy life, a life of
worship, a life of praise. And that is how you
grow in God. Right. Your scriptures, you keep
praise. It's in Philippians, the fourth chapter,
singing hymns, songs and hymns and spiritual
songs, making melody in your heart always unto
the Lord. Right. Who would know this more than
Paul? Right. Paul knew the scriptures. Paul was
taught under Gamaliel, one of the greatest teachers
of its time. And still he didn't recognize the
scriptures of Jesus, of Yeshua, Mashiach, the
Messiah. But when he had that visitation. You
know, when he was blind for three days, you know,
if you get blinded, you know, God blinds you
for three days. Yeah. You're going to listen
because you can't do nothing else, really, you
know. True. And so he grew rapidly and he spent
time in the desert and he learned to find God.
And so the churches of all the epistles and many
of these epistles, it's centered on certain things
for that particular church. And we can use those
today for us and how he deals with things. But
this is one of the keys to a renewed mind, you
know, is keeping in the presence of the Lord.
So praise is one of the big things. And we covered
that singing, you know, Jehoshaphat, you know,
when he went out to battle, the praiser sends
you to first and the battle. Remember that song
we used to sing? Send Judah first and the battle
will be won. Send Judah first and. We shall overcome,
I don't know. Don't remember the words. Glory
to the Father, praise to the Son, send you the
first. Something like that, pretty close to it.
But so it's scriptural and it works. You know,
when you're even as a worship leader, you know,
you wake up in the morning, you know, Sunday
morning, whatever. And sometimes the devil, there's
a term we used to use, my dad used to throw a
monkey wrench. You know, into the mixer. Yeah.
And it's kind of like putting something in the
spikes of your bike and make you fall off. That's
what Satan is going to try to do, especially
at a key time when God wants to use you in a
certain way. The devil is going to try to trip
you up, you know, somehow, especially if you're
leading worship in the morning, you're going
to work and he's going to try to derail you off
your tracks. Any way that he can do it, he can
use the car in front of you. He can use a message
on your phone to try to trip you up. And so we
have to maintain this level of worship and praise
unto the Lord so you don't give the devil a legal
right in order to have something for happen.
Can I interject? Yeah, you go right ahead. What
I'm seeing as you're talking about this, Philip,
is that as you worship, as you... keep that atmosphere
of praise around you, it creates a bubble of
protection of the presence of God. The presence
of God himself is going to be this bubble around
you, protecting you. You're going to be under
the blood of Jesus. When you're living a holy
life, you're going to be in this place of protection
where those arrows can't get through. And that's
why this worship and this praise is such an important
thing to keep the presence of God around you,
keep his glory around you. And you know, that
makes the devil run. Yeah. Wow. Praise God. Excuse
me for interrupting. Carry on. No, that was good.
That was just really excellent. So did you have
anything more on praise or through singing? That
was my two cents worth on that. That was your
two cents worth. You know, even singing. Yes.
That is a key for yourself is singing. And I
remember when we had our wreck, we had an incredible
wreck. And it's what I called going through the
dark night of the soul. You know, we were damaged
so bad. Our hands were damaged, couldn't play
guitars or anything like that. And Sharon would
always have a melody. She was always singing.
I'm always either humming or whistling or singing,
or it's just going around in my head. And my
mom used to be like that. It would drive me crazy.
You know, because, well, I was one to believe
her. I was kind of backslidden. She's always
humming or this or that. And when we had that
wreck, it's just like Sharon lost her song for
quite a while. For weeks. And I did not even
realize that I'd lost my song until I got it
back. When I started humming again or whistling
again or something, I don't remember which it
was. All of a sudden, it was like, it's back.
I hadn't even realized it was gone. But now it's
back. And I was shocked to realize that I had
completely lost it during that period of time.
It was tough. It was a tough, tough time. And
when you don't have it. You know, it was just
the trauma that we had been through, that we
were experiencing the pain and the grief and
the loss of our expectations of what we were
going to be doing. Can you ever play guitar again?
I remember. It didn't look like it. I remember
when, you know, we're still in the car and the
car is on its side and I'm up above you looking
down at you and I'm looking at your hand and
the damage on your hands. My hands were all,
you know, tendons tore and it was, you know.
I don't think you voiced it, but I knew that
you were wondering, will I ever play guitar again?
That was the first thing I thought when I really
gained consciousness in the hospital. You know,
I'm out on flat on my back, propped up with my
hands on pillows, all bloody nails tore up and
tendon tore. And I thought, will I ever? I said,
my God, will I ever play guitar again? That was
the first things out of my mind. Not thank you,
Lord, I'm alive. Yeah. You know, I was looking
at grief. It was grief. Because this happened.
It was grief. Right. Though I should have been
killed or end up in a wheelchair. Right. So I
thank God later for that. And I used to do that
every day when I think about it. Thank you, Jesus,
I'm alive and I'm not in a wheelchair. Yeah.
But that will keep you out of depression. Right.
You know, because that's one of the biggest things
the devil will use, especially if you don't get
it your way or things happen. that will just
knock the song out of you. It's learning to get
over that. Yes. You know, over that, when you
get over the initial shock of something that
has happened, a death. You know, it could be
a spouse or something. And an instant grief comes
in. You know, it could be anything. You know,
all of a sudden you get this letter in the mail
that you owe the IRS $3 ,000, you know. Or $30
,000 or $60 ,000. That can make you lose your
song real quick. Yeah. You know, and it's just
learning to step and abide in that. Right. And
that way you can help you to overcome. And when
you know someone who has just gone through something.
That's where intercession comes in. You need
to pray for people, especially people who have
just lost a loved one or have been through some
tragedy or they're being faced with some kind
of sickness that is unto death. you need to be
praying. We need to be praying for each other.
That helps to keep the bubble around us. So if
I can't sing and you can, you need to sing on
my behalf or I need to sing on your behalf. I
think that would really help because the victory
that we get through singing, the victory that
we get through praise has to do with hosting
the presence of the Lord. Our worship and our
praise. And, you know, sometimes even just breathing,
just breathing can be healing. Like the Lord
showed me to breathe in his presence and breathe
out worship. It doesn't have to be with words.
It can just be with the thoughts of your mind
worshiping, even if you can't. Or even... just
breathe, just breathe. You know, when you get
into a situation where that's all you can do,
just breathe and God will raise up intercessors
to help you. You know, the world kind of says
something happens, count to 10, you know, take
a deep breath, count to 10. It helps you get
over that initial few seconds of. of what others.
So, so that's a real depression. Keep you out
of, you know, just learning, you know, and yeah,
we've been in ministry. I've been like 44 years
and sharing 48. And so, so what we're sharing
with you is things that we have learned that
we have had to walk through, you know, and through
situations and, and many things like that, especially
even as worship leaders and, you know, and even,
On a daily basis, we always have our time of
worship. We get our guitars out first thing in
the morning. And on my phone, you get these reminders
you put on your phone, and you have one daily.
And one of mine that always comes up says, host
his presence. So you want to be a host of the
Holy Spirit in your life, a host of his presence
and his glory. Well, one of the things, you know,
because everything here is scripture, what we're
sharing, and that's to use some musical instruments.
Yes. You know, we covered before David that he
was out with his sheep, with his harp, and just
worshiping God. He goes, he gets anointed king,
goes back to his sheep. Right. But he took down
Goliath. Right. He took down the one everybody
else was afraid of because he spent time. in
the presence of the Lord. And when you spend
time in the presence of the Lord, you can do
things you would not do otherwise because he
gives you a holy boldness. And then you can do
things that he asks you to do when you feel that
unction come upon you. So musical instruments
is a big part. And so David had a harp. And the
Bible has different words. They have a harp or
a lyre, psaltery, sackbut, lute. Get some of
these. I'd have to really look up in the Hebrew.
And in the Psalms, many times in the Psalms of
Asaph, it'll say in the beginning of it, you
know, on Higamoth or something. And what it is,
it's an instrument. And that's what Asaph, they
would play this instrument while they would sing
this psalm. Call it psalming. Maybe that's another
word that you could call it. So if you see that
at the beginning. A lot of Bibles that will have
that. Yeah. Or to the chief. This is Psalm 22,
a Psalm of David. To the chief musician upon
Aieleth Shachar. Okay. I don't know what it is.
It might not even be in the Hebrew because it's
not actually part of the scripture, but it's
somewhere. It's there. Because they got it somewhere,
you know. Yeah, yeah. So stringed instruments.
And what we have today, the biggest thing that
we use of a string instrument is a guitar. Piano,
the keyboard, all this originated, you know,
they're strings. They're all string instruments.
Of course, now you have synthesizers and you
have keyboards that sound like a piano. And you
can get all these different sounds. And, you
know, sound always evolves, you know, through
the ages, even as these strings. Then you had
the mandolins, like in the 1600s. And all through
music, the Baroque era of music, you know, when
it was first getting strings. And Bach, one of
the greatest composers of all time, in the beginning
would write in the initials, Jesus, help me.
At the end, to God alone the glory. And much
of Bach's music was written for the church. True.
You know, pipe work, whether it be an organ,
it could be an oratorio, it would be many, many
things like that because music is powerful. Music
moves the soul. That's true. Music, and for one
way or another. That's true. And it can work
both ways. It can work both ways. And I remember
my mom would get on me for this back in the 1970s,
you know, when I, because, you know, rock and
roll just was really rolling back then, you know,
with wailing guitars and all that sort of thing.
And about the experiments they would do with
rats and mice. And they would blast them at different
times, a lot of times with just classical music
that was soft and melodic. Other times they would
blast them with rock and roll. And the rats and
mice that they would do that to would turn out
and they would be aggressive. You know, if you
remember reading, hearing things. So they've
done experiments on this stuff, how music affects
your soul. It's true. Because, you know, your
soul is your emotion. And music plays a big part
on your emotions. It's true. But even in grocery
stores, you know, we're in there and I'm hearing,
sometimes I'll hear a song in my head, something
out of the 60s or the 70s or something. And then
all of a sudden I'm hearing it. See, I heard
it in my subconscious. without knowing I was
listening to it. And many times this song can
bring back a memory. If I hear songs of the late
60s, it's going back when I first started high
school and all this. And songs later when, you
know, when you're out of high school. And I remember
I was then I'm backslidden by the time I had
all these and listening to all the wrong stuff.
But you can't abide in that. You know, you have
to listen to it. OK, throw it out. It's gone.
You know, you don't abide on it because it will
take you back to where you don't want to go.
Yes. And sometimes God lets those things happen
so that you can bring the blood of Jesus Christ
to bear over it. wipe it out of the memory bank,
so to speak. I mean, it's not like you actually
forget it, but if you pray into those things,
then it gives the opportunity for a cleansing
and a setting right so that it's not going to
be something that'll pull you down later on.
Yeah, that's true. So it's powerful. And then
we have percussion instruments. Sure. Now, ASEF,
you'll read about, you'll see in Psalms. Song
of Asaph. He was the lead worship leader and
he plays cymbals. Yeah. That wouldn't go over
today on stage very good. I mean, you got all
these monitors set up. Everybody's got their
own mix. And here's a head worship leader with
cymbals, you know, crash, you know, that doesn't
really fit. But back in temple worship, there
was thousands of instrumentals and singers, you
know, especially David, you know, talks about
he had like a couple thousand singers. And they
had 24 -7 worship. Today, you hear of 24 -7 worship.
We've had houses of worship, Sukkot Hallel in
Israel, with Rick Riding says 24 -hour worship
out of Jerusalem. And so they had, this was all
sent to temple, and they had trumpets. You know,
they had the trumpets would blast, the shofars,
but they had other trumpets too. And so worship
was always part of the worship in the temple
and in the tabernacle. And so you had drums,
and there was different kinds of drums and instruments.
And they had wind instruments. You know, in Genesis
421, it talks about different instruments and
even not animals. horns you know they would make
well a shofar as an animal you know that's out
of the animals horns and then they and they had
the straight trumpet the flute it was a make
a pipe, put holes in it. And David had all these
instruments because David was a creator of music
and God gave him the ability to create instruments.
So a lot of instruments we have today are a result
of David. And we have such a freedom of worship
in our conventions like nothing you've ever seen.
I remember this one family, they had these instruments
and they had this It looked like a mata, you
know. It was like a rod. It was like a rod. It
had three tambourines with Hebrew writing on
it. It had pomegranates on the bottom of it.
And when we acquired later on members of this
family and the Charismatic Renewal, had visions
of heaven, and a couple of them were taken to
David's workshop, and he was showing them the
instruments he'd make, and they modeled this
instrument after what they saw in heaven. I said,
wow, you could make these and sell them, you
know. They never did, but it was just fascinating.
So God can give you downloads on musical instruments,
tambourines. All of a sudden, you know, we have
dance troupes. using tambourines. We've touched
on Charlotte Baker, the one that did the parable
of the eye of the needle. God gave her the revelation
of putting dance and banners back in the church.
It's all part of worship. The more of changing
in time, he reveals more things about... Because
it's like Dean saw when he was in heaven. The
angels round about, holy, holy, holy. Because
they're showing God is revealing something to
them, something new about himself. As we go along,
getting more and more revelation from the Lord,
he's revealing more and more things about himself
and about what goes on in heaven. Amen. On earth
as it is in heaven. Amen. So we have drums, and
there's drums in the church. And that wasn't
there when we were kids. Not in our church. Not
in our church. We didn't have drums. We had an
organ in this corner. We had the piano over here.
And that's all there was. And we were part of
the independent assemblies of God. We were in
a Swedish. church. They were mostly all Swedes,
you know, Swansons, Nelsons, Nielsons, Karlsons,
all the sons, you know, and all that. And they
were more reserved. I mean, Swedes are more reserved,
you know. But then we got this youth choir. The
Lord spoke to one of our youth. He was a musical
guy, and he would conduct. And so I feel to start
a youth choir. Nobody had youth choirs back then.
This is about 1970. I think this started. And
so it was the first one of our denomination.
And we had like three or four churches in Chicago.
And then we went to youth camp. And our youth
camp was up in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Spencer Lake,
a beautiful place. And it's where our denomination,
that's where they all would gather, you know,
one week. Here we are with our youth choir. We
had white pants, black shirts, and white ties.
We were just really cool, you know. And we were
a youth choir seeking modern, you know, it was
Ralph Carmichael, Kurt Kaiser, which is mild
by today's standards, but they were the first
one that God used to use music that was not in
the hymn book. Let's put it that way. I guess
that's a good way to say it. And all of a sudden,
all these records are coming out now of all these
different people. And it was like a shift. And
that happened at the Charismatic Renewal. Yeah,
and the Jesus people. The Jesus people is what
started this. A lot of the rockers got saved.
The rockers got saved. They came in, and that's
why you have guitars in the church. It's true.
You can thank the hippies in the early years
that got saved on the beaches of California.
And they're all... playing, you know, guitars
and everything. I was the first one to bring
a guitar in our church. Yeah, and that is how
that started. And then the drums kind of came
in. And then we got a drummer. And that was wild,
a drum in our church and a drummer. Well, there
were other cultures that had the drums. Yeah,
there was other, had the drum. But we didn't
have them in ours. We didn't have enough soul
to have drums. Until we started to integrate
our churches. Yeah. And we did this one song.
And one of the elders of the church threatened
to take his daughter out of the choir if we sang
it because it wasn't quite fit his criteria of
worship. Yeah. But that's where it started. More
and more youth choirs. And today, like one of
our things we do Sunday morning, we like to tune
in. to Orlando to Jesus Image for the worship
that goes on there. Because they do a lot of
the older songs that we heard when we were their
age. And they're just so anointed. Yes. And the
worship is, you know, it's just such powerful.
They don't do a whole lot of praise songs. They
just go like go right into worship and they just
hang there. And it's powerful. And that's where
we need to end up is, you know, when we. The
purpose of worship is to open the heavens. Yes.
That's the purpose of worship. And you can think
yourself as a drill, just drilling holes through
the darkness because you can go into areas and
you can feel the darkness. And I remember times
we did our regional conventions and we were somewhere
in Ohio we would go. And we would have like three
meetings. And sometimes it seemed like it took
the last meeting to get a real breakthrough in
worship because of the demonic oppression that
was around. But the worship, you don't have to
be a worship leader. You are your own worship
leader. But you don't have to be on the stage
to poke holes in the heavenlies. You can do it
wherever you're at. And the more people you have
do it, that's why when you have a corporate...
gathering, corporate anointing, the glory is
all the greater. And that's what creates these
heavenly portals where the glory can just, and
you can establish places of worship in churches
that they have that breakthrough continually.
It's like a portal for the glory of God to come
down. And it can affect everything around about.
And when a real move of God happens, then it
just like comes down and like a downburst, you
know, a downburst or so. These downdrafts can
hit, you know, 100 miles an hour, hit the ground
and just go with these winds and like a derecho.
And it just takes everything in its path just,
you know, gets blown over. You know, it's powerful.
So that's the power that is in worship, in strings.
And another one is like Phil Driscoll is a good
example. He was a trumpet player. I mean, he
was just a stratospheric trumpet player. He could
just really get up there. And it was a church
in Jacksonville. It was Beaches Chapel back in
the 70s, and our founder, Sister Gwen, was ministering.
And by the Holy Spirit, she's up on the stage,
and she says, I hear you have a trumpet player
here that's really good. And everybody's pointing,
you know, kind of. And he says, you know, Phil,
come up here. And she points to somebody in the
orchestra that's on the stage. Give him your
trumpet. I want you to play something. And he
played Amazing Grace. It's in this book, actually.
I was just reading this testimony. So Phil's
playing Amazing Grace. And as soon as he's done
playing. Sister Gwen says, you can get filled
with the Holy Ghost right now. And she lays hands
on him and right in front of him. Everybody,
everything, he gets filled with the Holy Spirit.
Yes. But what she didn't know, he was not allowed
to play on the stage because he wasn't quite
living a sanctified life yet. You know, he had
gotten saved. And, you know, when you get saved,
you're not a saint overnight. Really? Really,
you know. Instant Christian changed overnight,
you know. Right. No, that doesn't happen. I mean,
you got— Well, there can be major change. I mean,
a God like that can take your addictions away.
Any addiction you have can just be gone. But
your soul tries to drag you down. There's still
things to deal with. There's still things to
deal with. So he was forbidden to play, but Sister
Gwen didn't know that because she was operating
by the Holy Spirit. And when you're operating
by the Holy Spirit, you can do things that are
out of the ordinary. True. And after that, he
just went and God just used him. as a trumpet.
And he'd come to our conventions. And I remember
on the side of the truck, he had a picture of
a trumpet blowing down strongholds. Amen. And
he had a love to be, wanted to be a pilot. And
his sister Gwen's husband was a pilot and taught
him the love of flying. You know, he'd just honor
Sister Gwen when we'd go to a concert where he
was playing and would just honor her because...
God used her in his life to turn him upside down.
Glory to God. So instruments, trumpets, you know,
all these things are used of God. So that praising
and worshiping and singing and instruments are
all some of these battle plans that you can use
to defeat your enemy. So the next one in this
book has to do with dancing. And if you'll recall,
there was a time that the Red Sea, you know,
when Egypt was defeated at the Red Sea. Well,
Miriam starts dancing. Moses is singing. Miriam
is singing and she's dancing with the tambourine.
And there's something about breaking free in
the dance. Yes. And I remember if you know who
Ruth Heflin. was, she still is, she's in heaven
now, she had a revelation from God that if you
want to go to the nations, you have to dance.
Yeah, I remember her brother. Yeah, and so her
brother didn't want to dance. And so, but she
obeyed the Holy Spirit because he spoke it to
her. She had that revelation. And so she would
dance and dance and dance and dance and dance.
And even When she was in an airplane, she would
go into that little tiny, tiny restroom in the
back of the airplane. And she's about six foot
tall. And she was a large woman. And she would
still somehow manage to dance in that little
tiny space because she was honoring the thing
that God told her to do. And she went to nation
after nation after nation. God used her in many,
many nations. But her brother didn't want to
dance. And he wasn't going to the nations until
one day the Lord dealt with him. he had to agree
with what the Lord had said to his sister, he
started to dance. Under the power of the Holy
Spirit, he began to dance, and he danced, and
he danced, and he danced, and he started going
to the nations too. And I've heard of other people
who have had a similar experience where, oh,
wasn't Sister Dorn? Yeah, I was going to, I was
waiting. Go for it, go for it. Yeah, one of our
Bible teachers, you know, Sister Dorn was just
an amazing teacher, and she was, she's Norwegian.
Very staid. Very staid, maybe because of the
climate, too. It's called the Church of the Frigidaire.
It's what her husband would say. Papa Dorn, he
called the Church of the Frigidaire, you know,
the frozen chosen. So the Lord was dealing with
her, and they're in a church, and he's speaking
to her, you need to dance. And she's just refusing.
She says, I'm not going to do that. And then
the Lord spoke to her, if you do not dance, I'm
going to remove my anointing from off of you.
That's too scary. And so she just jumped up.
She started dancing. She danced all around the
church. She went out the door, danced outside.
And God gave her the revelation of the dance.
And even in their church, I remember one time
when the worship was going on, it was she's sitting
at the organ. Yeah, she was the organist. And
she took a break. She just stopped and looked,
and the organ is playing by itself. The keys
are all going down. And she calls to the, was
it the worship leader? She waved at him, yeah.
Yeah, the worship leader, she waves at him. And
she points down at the keyboard, and everything's
moving by himself, and she's not touching it.
And he gets slain in the spirit, just collapses
on the stage. So if you're obedient, God will
release things. Into you, into your church, into
your ministry that you never dreamed of before.
Very true. Very true. One of the things that
Sister Gwen brings out in this book of scriptures
on dancing, Ecclesiastes 3, 4 says that there's
a time to dance. But first it says there's a
time to mourn and a time to dance. And the point
that she makes here is that mourning probably
might have to come first. And sometimes in the
spirit realm. In the spirit when we're travailing.
Now, we talked about travailing intercessory
prayer in one of these sessions called Pour Out
Your Heart. We were talking about that book.
And that intercession, that travail, that groaning,
that groaning, that weeping, that time of mourning.
And when you know that you've prayed through,
when you know that God has heard your prayer,
the answer is on the way. You may not see a thing,
but you know it in your knower that it's time.
And then you can get up and dance. You can get
up and shout. You can shout and you praise and
you raise your hands and dance. And, you know,
dancing makes a difference. Whenever I hear a
good thing. When I hear a good report, what do
I do? You do a happy dance. I get up and I turn
around. I can't do it here because I'm wired.
You'll pull your headphones off. I would pull
my headphones off. But I would just get up and
do a little dance in a circle. It's my response
in the spirit. When I hear some good report,
I just get up and dance because I'm honoring
the Lord. I'm honoring the joy that comes from
my spirit. in response to something that he has
done. You know, when I hear great testimony,
that is one of the things that dancing will do.
It sets you free and it honors him. And remember
how David danced before the Ark of the Covenant.
You know, he danced with all his might. He just,
he danced leaping. Like Sister Doris said, he
danced in his linen underwear. Well, I think
an ephod was probably a little bit more than
a linen underwear. But even so, he didn't have
his royal robes on. He didn't have his royal
robes on. And he was honoring God. This is a
way that we can honor him. So if you haven't
danced yet, I just want to encourage you. You
can do it quietly in your room. Put on some music
that is going to inspire you to dance. Or just
if you hear a glorious testimony, jump up and
give him some movement of your body. It's honoring
to the Lord. It gives him glory when you step
up and do what the word says to do. You honor
him in the dance. Saul were going out to battles
and they were coming back having defeated the
Philistines the women met them dancing It's a
it's showing victory. It's a victorious Dance.
OK, remember, you've probably seen pictures or
videos of when Israel became a nation, when they
declared statehood and the people were dancing
in the streets. They were they were doing those
circle dances that that that the word commands
us to do. You dance before the Lord. Some of
those words for dance means to dance in a circle.
It really does. You know, like back when when
we were kids, I was. nazarene church pentecostal
church yeah and dancing was a sin i mean you
yeah there wasn't any anybody up front dancing
in the church or no no that that that didn't
exist and and my grandma when the holy spirit
would fall on her you know she would whoop and
holler she was a nazarene you know yeah she would
whoop and holler and she'd go out through the
congregation She was the preacher, and she'd
go down, whoop and holler, praise God, slap people,
shake them. I can still remember that. Well,
didn't she shake your grandfather? Probably did.
I think that's what that was. She'd shake him.
Charles. Charles. Because God was just moving
on her. That was prophetic of what was to come.
Sure. And now we can just dance. freely before
the Lord. But I remember a book that I actually
saw at the Nazarene Church wrote about the sin
of dancing, you know, because back then it was
a worldly thing. God hadn't released it yet.
It wasn't time. People didn't understand. They
didn't understand. They were looking at worldly
dancing as though the word dance was only that.
But many people in the moves of God, with their
eyes closed, would just dance. They would waltz,
stepping over people. That were laid out. That
are all laid out on the floor, even though their
eyes are totally closed. Yeah. And you knew it
was God. Yeah, they could dance right over. And
I think that's what changed things. When people
saw that, they knew that that was not their own
natural thing. Yeah, there is a real dance in
the Spirit that's inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Because that's what it's like in heaven. Yes,
exactly. There's a lot of dancing in heaven.
Because they've got a lot to dance about up there.
Absolutely. On earth as it is in heaven. So let's
do on earth as it is in heaven. So another one.
Is raised hands. Yes. In the Old Testament, we'll
go back to Moses. This is Moses and Aaron and
Hur, and they're the children of Israel, you
know, out in the wilderness on the way to the
promised land. And they're fighting against the
Amalekites. They didn't have any weapons. How
did they fight? Yeah. You know, they didn't have,
but God just moved. And so Moses is up there.
He has the rod of God in his hand. And Moses
and Aaron went up to the top of the hill, and
it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand,
Israel prevailed. And when he let down his hand,
Amalek prevailed. But Moses' hands were heavy,
and he was getting tired. So they took a stone,
put it under him. He had been standing for hours.
And he sat there, and Aaron and Hur lifted up
his hands, one on one side, one on the other
side. Joshua discomforted Amalek and his people
with the edge of the sword. Amen. That means
they probably took the Amalekites' own weapons
and went after them. Yeah. I mean, that's how
I would interpret that. If they didn't have any
weapons prior to that, the edge of the sword
or the angels had swords. You know, they could
do that to them. So that was the raising of hands.
And even for me personally, when we're in worship
somewhere in a church, I can't sit down. I stand
up and I raise my hands. I don't keep them up
all the time. They'll get tired. You know, that's
just how God moves them because I can feel a
breakthrough in doing them. When I need a breakthrough,
just praising, you know, lift my hands, praising
God. And I like to think of it as your hands
as a couple of lightning rods. Yes. You know,
okay, Lord, here I am. Zap. What's in a light
bulb? You get one of these light bulbs, you can
look through it. Yeah, the incandescent kind.
Incandescent. Yeah, I have two things and you
got this little. Wire in the middle that gets
lit when the current goes through it. Yes. You
know, and you think of it that way, you know,
these two little things, how you get, let the
Holy Ghost light you up. Yes. You know, and he
can do that very well. That's true. So there's
probably other, now here it is, 1 Kings. This
is out of the book, 1 Kings 8, 22 -24. And Solomon
stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence
of all the congregation of Israel. So this would
be the dedication of the new temple. And he spread
forth his hands toward heaven and he said, Ah,
Lord, Lord God of Israel, there is no God like
thee in heaven above on the earth beneath who
keep his covenant and mercy with thy servants
that walk before thee with all of their heart.
And there's a key for you. Welcome before the
Lord with all of your heart. Yes. Who has kept
with thy servant David, my father, that thou
spake also with my mouth and has fulfilled it
with thy hand as it is this day. And when they
did that, and that's when the glory of God came
down and the priest couldn't stand because of
the glory that was there. And so something happens
when you raise your hand and you praise the Lord.
It's like, I surrender. Yes, that is the key.
And that many times in an altar call, they would
say, raise your hands and just pray this after
me. You're praising God when you're doing this.
You're giving him honor, glory when you're doing
that with your heart and it's opening up a channel
within you. Yes. So you just raise your two lightning
rods up and just let God move amongst you. That
is such a good word. It's a part of body worship.
You're getting your body involved and not just
your spirit. And this is a command. Psalm 134,
2, lift up your hands in the sanctuary and bless
the Lord. Yes. So it's a command to raise your
hands and to praise the Lord. Yes. Hallelujah.
Then here's another one. This is Hebrews 12,
verse 12. or for lift up the hands which hold
down. Yes, yes, yes. The hands of many Christians
today look like they are weighted down. They
can't lift them up. It also says, and the feeble
knees. It's a twofold command. The knees speak
of intercessory life, and the uplifted hand speaks
of a life of praise. We need both in order to
keep balance. Some always pray but never praise.
Others praise but never travail in prayer. True.
And the easiest way to receive the baptism of
the Holy Spirit is to begin to praise the Lord.
True. That's how I got it. I always lead people
who are seeking to be filled in a prayer, confession
of faith, and then I tell them to praise the
Lord. Beautiful. Yeah. And it's in the New Testament,
Luke 24. verse 50, 51. And Jesus led them out
as far as to Bethany, lifted up his hands and
blessed them. And it came to pass while he blessed
them, lifted up hands, he was parted for them
and carried up into heaven. So the last thing
we see Jesus do is raise his hands up in blessing.
And while they're lifted up, he gets taken out
of their sight into heaven. And that happens
sometimes. You can be in a worship situation.
And I just want to mention too that there are
so many wonderful places these days that you
can go and get into a worship situation, and
there's lots of them online now too, where people
are really, really worshiping. But when you lift
your hands, it's that surrender that enables
you to You're letting go. There's a letting go
that can lift you higher. That just like Jesus
ascended when he lifted his hands, he lifted
his hands to bless. And that's a major reason
to lift your hands. You bless people with your
hands. And you bless God with your hands, too.
Just lifting your hands in worship can help you
let go of stuff and shake off the heavy bands
that are keeping you earthbound so that you can
rise up higher into a new place in God. We sing
that song. Praise the Lord. Let all God's people
praise the Lord. Shake off. Shake off those heavy
bands. Shake off those heavy bands. Lift up those
holy hands. Let all God's people praise the Lord.
Amen. That's out of a psalm somewhere. Yeah.
So to move it along, another way we have victory
is through marching and walking. And that's a
real key. Walk the land. That's true. When you're
redeeming the land, walk the land. Prayer walking.
Yes. The Lord has so many people has spoke to
that. Prayer walking. It's true. And I remember
it was down in Melbourne, Arkansas, I think it
was. That's right. There was an intercessor there,
and the Lord spoke to him to walk the city. And
every day he would walk part of that city, and
he died. And I think the Lord told him that as
long as you walk the city. As long as you're
walking, there's protection over the city. Yeah,
and there won't be any tornadoes. And when he
died. Nobody took his place, and it wasn't long
after that a tornado hit the city. So there's
power in walking and praising, like send Judah
first. They sent the praisers first, marching
and walking. As you're walking in every place
which the sole of your foot walks, I have given
unto you. And that's what the Lord spoke to.
It was a Joshua. And Abraham before that. Your
seed will be forever, you know. And then when
Joshua, and when they put their feet in the River
Jordan holding the ark, the waters held back.
And then they walked through on dry ground, walking
through. And every place you put the sole of
your foot, and you can claim that when you prayer
walk, you know, I have given unto thee for God's
purposes and his and his alone. Amen. Amen. Also,
there's a chapter here, Victory Through the Document
of Confirmation. And I kind of, okay, what's
that mean? Can I go back and grab Victory Through
Shouting? Oh, yeah, sure, go right ahead. You
skipped that one. Yes, I did. Sorry. There's
another chapter in here called Victory Through
Shouting. And we're not going to do this entire
book. If you want more, go get the book. It's
available on our website, globaloutpouring .org.
org .net, all of them are there. All the domains
go to one place. So you can get this book and
you can get it either as a PDF or we'll send
it to you. But this chapter is Victory Through
Shouting. And Sister Gwen goes through many different
words in Hebrew for the shout. And I'm not going
to try and do all of it. But two of them are
very, very important. The teruah is also one
of the sounds of the shofar. So the shofar has
three main sounds, and there's one that's like
a long pitch, and then there's three shorter
pitches. Kind of like Morse code. Yeah, it's
like... And then you've got this... And it's
followed by... Holy Ghost Morse code. Yeah. And
this word teruah is one of those sounds, and
it also means to shout. So if you don't have
a shofar, you can achieve the same thing in the
spirit with a shout. Your shout that comes from
your spirit within you, that shout of victory,
that shout of overcoming. That shout that says
to the devil, you get out of here in the name
of Jesus Christ. That shout, it's like it increases
your authority or you're exercising your authority
when you shout. Like a parent, as a child, you
might not have listened until they shouted. Was
that you? It kind of was me a little bit. At
least maybe Dad had to show up with the flyswatter
or the yardstick before I would move. But, you
know, because he wasn't much of a shouter. But
some parents have to shout. And when they shout,
that's when the kids move. That's when there's
obedience, when you finally come to that place
of shouting. And so sometimes when we're in these
battles, we have to realize that it takes the
authority that comes in a shouting voice. Yeah,
and there's that psalm. I don't know, didn't
have time to look it up. Clap your hands, all
ye people, shout unto God with a voice of triumph.
You know, that's a song that we would sing that.
Praise him, praise him. Shout unto God with a
voice of praise. Yes. So it's there in the scripture,
you know, shout and clapping. Yeah. You know,
shouting and clapping. Shouting and clapping,
absolutely. These are all things to be, you could
use in warfare. Yes, yes. And sometimes, you
know, you just, you know, you just do that. Clap,
you know. Get out of here. You get that strength
in your spirit. When you rise up and do these
things, that you're expressing the strength of
the Holy Spirit inside of you. Yeah, when you
do something in your flesh that agrees with the
Spirit, you're connecting. Yes, exactly, exactly.
It's a real connect. And it has to do with making
your flesh obey your Spirit. And your Spirit
is one Spirit with the Holy Spirit when you're
filled with the Holy Spirit, when you've asked
Jesus to come into your heart. Your spirit becomes
one with the Holy Spirit. And so when your body
responds to what's going on in your spirit, that's
what makes it takes you from 30 and 60 to 100
fold where you get into a greater level or a
greater realm of strength that that is being
expressed. And and you have greater victory.
This is about learning to defeat your enemy.
One of the other chapters in this book, the victory
through the document of confirmation. Oh, that's
such an important one. Yeah. And the scripture
here, Habakkuk, chapter 2 and verse 2 to 3. And
the Lord answered me and said, write the vision
and make it plain upon tables. I mean, they didn't
have pen and papers in those days like we did.
That he may run that reading. For the vision
is yet for an appointed time. but at the end
it shall speak and not lie. Though it tarry,
wait for it, because it will surely come, it
will not tarry. The living Bible says they will
not be overdue a single day. Amen. So it's just
like... And many times in spiritual warfare,
the Lord will speak to people to write scriptures
on sticks or spikes and bury them in the ground,
an area where there's been demonic activity going
on. Yes. And they're praying over the land or
your own property of your own house. Yes. When
you do that, they'll put scriptures in. They
will pound the scriptures, recite them, and put
the reference on a stick, or you can write the
whole scripture on too, and you pound that into
the grum. It's written. It is written. It is
written. That's how Jesus overcame the devil.
The devil, yeah. It is written. It is written.
Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Yes. So,
you know, all of the prophetic words that we
have in the Bible, we have them because they
were written. They were written. And we have
to understand the importance of writing things
down. When you hear something from the Holy Spirit
or you get a dream from the Lord, Write it down.
It will help you when you go back to it later.
You think I will remember that and you don't.
I promise you, you just think you're going to
remember it. And what was that? Yeah, you got
to write it down. You have to. Journaling is
a huge, huge blessing to you. When you hear something
from the Holy Spirit, write down what you hear
and you're likely to get more. That's good. That's
what happens to me. I might just hear a phrase.
And if I write it down, it's like opening a faucet.
You know, there's more. There's more flow will
come as you write down the things that God speaks
to you. And so it's something that you can hold
up and say, it is written. I got this word from
the Lord and it is written. And when you're praying
for your loved ones. One of the best ways that
you can pray for them is to declare the things
that God has declared over them. The scriptures
that God has given you for them or the prophetic
words that have been given over them or just
even something that the Lord showed you. Like
I'm thinking of Pastor Joel June, Bishop Joel
June in Haiti. When he was a baby, the Lord spoke
to his dad and said, this child is going to be
used in a great way to bless this nation or bless
Haiti. Something along those lines. I don't have
the exact words. But his father was an evangelist
and a pastor, and he was out preaching someplace.
And while he was gone, little Joel died. And
they waited and they waited and they waited for
dad to come back, and he wasn't coming. So they
put him in this little casket, and they're walking
towards the cemetery carrying this little casket.
And dad shows up. And he says, what's going on?
Well, Joel has passed away. He's in heaven now.
And he says, no, God said that he is going to
be a blessing to Haiti. And he hasn't grown up
yet. And he hasn't been a blessing to Haiti.
We're standing on what God said. And he stopped
the whole funeral procession. He said, it's time
to pray. Come on, let's pray. And so they all
began to pray. pressing into God and they're
interceding and they're praying. And all of a
sudden they hear the sound of a tiny child sneezing
in the casket. And they opened up the casket
and Joel was alive. Set up. He was alive. Yeah,
he was alive. And he's grown up. He was dead.
Yeah. Three, four days. Yeah. So he's been a
mighty blessing to Haiti and he's not done being
a blessing. We have a book on that too. Yes.
Remember, I sneezed. I sneeze in my casket. Because
God cannot lie. And that's the point. You get
a word from God and you stand on it and you don't
let go and you just keep pressing in and God
is going to see to it that this is accomplished
according to his word. Yeah. And there was one
other, there was a few more chapters, but one
we're not going to go into it because we have
already and that's... The victory through praying
in tongues. Oh, yes. That's so biggie. That is
such a biggie. And I felt like we could have
talked about it more when we were talking about
the baptism in the Holy Spirit in that previous
episode, because that is a way that the Holy
Spirit prays through you. And especially when
you're praying in this activation. of fighting.
You're fighting and you're holding out, defeating
the devil. You know, when you bring that praying
in tongues, oh, you know, there's a story in
there that Sister Gwen told in that chapter that
I think I need to bring, where she was in Hong
Kong and this woman from the church was praying
in tongues. She was at the altar and she's mourning
and she's weeping and she's praying in English.
And she didn't speak English. And it was, oh,
Lord. Oh, Lord, please forgive me for my sin.
Oh, God. Oh, God, please forgive me for my sin.
I've sinned. Please help me. Please help me.
And it turns out that Sister Gwen talked with
her afterwards in English, and the woman just
looked at her blank. She had no idea what Sister
Gwen was saying. And then she questioned her
some more. Because the Holy Spirit had kind of
told on her. And so she found out that she had
been going to the horse races and gambling. Okay.
And so the Holy Spirit was being faithful to
help her to pray through in an area that she
wasn't even intending to confess. But her soul
was. troubled because she knew she was sinning.
And then there was another time, I just have
to bring this, this is so important. There was
another time that she was in Pakistan and she
heard this young man speaking out and it was
like kind of prophecy, kind of intercession.
And he was saying like this, where's the church?
Where's the church? It is so faulty. It's coming
short. Where's it going? Where's it going? So
many churches. Where's the salt? It's not his
fault. No, no. It's the church's fault. And so
he was interceding for the backslidden church.
And he didn't speak any English either. Wow.
So we've heard of other stories like that, where
in tongues you can be praying in another language,
and you can be giving people in the room instructions
in their language without you even having a clue.
Yeah, it's a way of prophesying to people in
another language, and it's a way of interceding
in a way that the Holy Spirit knows what we need
to pray for as we ought. Wow. I mean, when we
don't know, he knows what we should be praying.
So we didn't cover the whole book, obviously.
I think you'll probably want to get this book
and go deeper because we are all about helping
you to defeat your enemy. And these are several
strategies that will help you in your battles.
So let's just pray. Philip, do you want to pray
for our listeners? Well, Father, we thank you
for... Lord, your battle plan. Yes. Because,
Lord, we are all going through battles one way
or another, either for ourself or for someone
else or something else. So we thank you, Lord,
that through your word, your instruction, Lord,
that, Lord, your wisdom, Lord, when we ask you
for wisdom that, Father, that you give it, Father,
and how to pray when we don't know ourselves.
Yes. So we thank you, Lord, that, Lord, you have
so many strategies. Lord, to fight the devil.
And Lord, by seeking you and knowing you, finding
out the individual strategy for individual battles.
And Father, that we can walk in victory through
knowing you, through your precious blood, through
worshiping you, and keeping an open contact with
the Holy Spirit. So we give you all the glory
in your name, Lord Jesus. Amen. Amen. Amen, and
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