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The worship culture in the kingdom of God is realized and animated because each one who is born again cultivates a culture of worship in their own personal life.

It's not worship just because you go to church on Sunday morning and sing.

What are you doing the rest of the week?

While many believe they can worship God in their own way, God gave us 9 Hebrew words for worship and showed us how we can use them to worship Him in our own person lives seven days a week!

Show Notes For This Foundational Podcast:

Psalm 150:6

"Let everything that has breath praise the LORD."

Are you breathing? Then you ought to be praising and developing a culture of worship in your own heart and life.

9 Hebrew Words for Worship and How We Use Them

That culture of worship in your life is cultivated as you

• Acknowledge God's greatness and His nature
  • He is omnipotent
  • He is omniscient
  • He is omnipresent
  • He is love
  • He is immutable
• Remember His mighty acts
  • What has God done for you?
  • Reflect on His redemptive work

Every kingdom has an enemy; a kingdom that hates that kingdom and culture; a kingdom that wants to overthrow that kingdom.

God's kingdom has an enemy

And he hates you, and wants to destroy you.

But God has given you mighty weapons to destroy the enemy.

"And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” Matthew 16:18-19

"And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. John 14:13

"And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” Mark 16:15-18

Our mighty weapons:

• Keys of the kingdom
• The mighty name of Jesus Christ
• The whole armor of God - Ephesians 6:10-18

The mightiest weapon we have is the most overlooked weapon - the weapon of worship

"O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth, who have set Your glory above the heavens! Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, because of Your enemies, that You may silence the enemy and the avenger." Psalm 8:1-2

"Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand, To execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples;" P

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The kingdom of God is a culture of worship.

So often men neglect worship because they think it's a "woman thing". But when we look at the Bible, we see that it was a manly thing.

David was a worshiper.

But the worship that King David had was lost by the time Jesus was born

Show Notes For This Foundational Podcast:

John 4:24

"But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."

2 Foundational Truths the Church Needs to Know About Worship

By the time Jesus was born, worship had become very controlled. The spontaneity was gone. Instruments weren't allowed. Only certain people could sing

• Worship is a matter of the heart
  • When our heart is full of offense and bitterness, we can't worship
  • American culture is saturated in offense today
  • We need to learn to stop living in the spirit of offense
  • You can't develop a heart of worship when you have a heart of offense
• Worship in Spirit and in truth
  • Spirit is an expression of the heart
  • When our heart is free we can have a spirit of worship
  • Truth is God's Word as the foundation for our life
  • God prescribed worship in the Bible

"Make a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands! Serve the Lord with gladness; Come before His presence with singing. Serve the Lord with gladness; Come before His presence with singing. Know that the Lord, He is God;
It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name. For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting, And His truth endures to all generations." Psalm 100

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5 Things the Church Must Do to See the Fire of God

4 Things the Church Must Do to Refocus Worship

Two Mistakes Being Made in Worship Today

Which Jesus Do You Worship

Three Ways to Know if Worship Music is Biblical

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The kingdom of God is a culture of worship.

So often men neglect worship because they think it's a "woman thing". But when we look at the Bible, we see that it was a manly thing.

David was a worshiper.

But the worship that King David had was lost by the time Jesus was born

Show Notes For This Foundational Podcast:

John 4:24

"But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."

2 Foundational Truths the Church Needs to Know About Worship

By the time Jesus was born, worship had become very controlled. The spontaneity was gone. Instruments weren't allowed. Only certain people could sing

• Worship is a matter of the heart
  • When our heart is full of offense and bitterness, we can't worship
  • American culture is saturated in offense today
  • We need to learn to stop living in the spirit of offense
  • You can't develop a heart of worship when you have a heart of offense
• Worship in Spirit and in truth
  • Spirit is an expression of the heart
  • When our heart is free we can have a spirit of worship
  • Truth is God's Word as the foundation for our life
  • God prescribed worship in the Bible

"Make a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands! Serve the Lord with gladness; Come before His presence with singing. Serve the Lord with gladness; Come before His presence with singing. Know that the Lord, He is God;
It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name. For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting, And His truth endures to all generations." Psalm 100

More Articles Like This:

5 Things the Church Must Do to See the Fire of God

4 Things the Church Must Do to Refocus Worship

Two Mistakes Being Made in Worship Today

Which Jesus Do You Worship

Three Ways to Know if Worship Music is Biblical

If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider leaving us a review. This helps the Foundational podcast reach more listeners. 

Be sure to tell a friend about the Foundational blog and podcast, and share with them about the free Bible Reading Challenge journal they will receive when they subscribe to receive my newsletter!

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In last week's podcast we learned about how to prepare for Jesus' second coming.

There are two more very essential things we need to do in order to prepare our hearts and lives for His coming, and to help His kingdom grow here on earth.

If we want to be wise servants of God, while we eagerly wait for His rapture of the church, there are two things we need to cultivate in our hearts and lives.

Show Notes For This Foundational Podcast:

Isaiah 33:6

"Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times, and the strength of salvation; the fear of the LORD is His treasure."

• We need the fear of the Lord
  • Hate evil
  • Pride
  • Arrogance
  • The evil way
  • A perverse mouth

• We need to learn to be faithful
  • Love is faithful
  • Love cannot function without faithfulness
  • Be faithful in the little things
  • Faithful in money management
  • True riches

2 More Ways You Can Prepare for Jesus' Second Coming

Learn how you can read the signs of the times through the prism of history in this powerful course Where Are We At On God's Timeclock

Get 30% off when you use the coupon code: timeclock

 

If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider leaving us a review. This helps the Foundational podcast reach more listeners. 

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In last week's podcast we learned about how to prepare for Jesus' second coming.

There are two more very essential things we need to do in order to prepare our hearts and lives for His coming, and to help His kingdom grow here on earth.

If we want to be wise servants of God, while we eagerly wait for His rapture of the church, there are two things we need to cultivate in our hearts and lives.

Show Notes For This Foundational Podcast:

Isaiah 33:6

"Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times, and the strength of salvation; the fear of the LORD is His treasure."

• We need the fear of the Lord
  • Hate evil
  • Pride
  • Arrogance
  • The evil way
  • A perverse mouth

• We need to learn to be faithful
  • Love is faithful
  • Love cannot function without faithfulness
  • Be faithful in the little things
  • Faithful in money management
  • True riches

2 More Ways You Can Prepare for Jesus' Second Coming

Learn how you can read the signs of the times through the prism of history in this powerful course Where Are We At On God's Timeclock

Get 30% off when you use the coupon code: timeclock

 

If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider leaving us a review. This helps the Foundational podcast reach more listeners. 

Be sure to tell a friend about the Foundational blog and podcast, and share with them about the free Bible Reading Challenge journal they will receive when they subscribe to receive my newsletter!

Grow in your relationship with Christ with these discipleship manuals:

Learn how you can read the signs of the times through the prism of history in this powerful course Where Are We At On God's Timeclock

Get 30% off when you use the coupon code: timeclock

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Will You Be Caught By Surprise

God Is Speaking To His Church

3 Ways to Prepare for Jesus' Second Coming

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The message in the parable of the 10 Virgins that Jesus told in Matthew 25:1-13 can be boiled down to two words:

• Watch
• Be ready

They didn't know when the bridegroom would come for them, but the five wise virgins had made themselves ready for him.

I have a question for you.

Are you ready for Jesus when He comes for you? What are you doing to prepare for His second coming?

Show Notes For This Foundational Podcast:

John 14-15

"'Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know.' Thomas said to Him, 'Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?' Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.'"

• Jesus was describing a wedding ceremony
  • While we may not fully grasp the picture Jesus was painting, every Jew fully understood.
  • The more romantic the Bridegroom, the closer they will wait until the midnight hour to get the bride
  • Sometime beforehand, the father of the bride and the father of the groom sealed the covenant by drinking a cup of wine together
    • The night that Jesus gave that parable, he had drank the cup and sealed the covenant
    • He had chosen Himself a bride - every person who would receive Him as Savior

3 Ways You Can Prepare for Jesus' Second Coming

2 Peter 3

• We are very close to the time when God will tell His Son, "Go get your bride".
• In the meantime, while He has tarried, there are those in the church who have taken their eye off the prize
  • They have begun to live like the world
  • The church is embrace things of the world that is polluting the house of God
• They don't realize that in the meantime, we are drawing very near to His coming.
  • They are like the five foolish virgins
  • They are not behaving wisely

Learn how you can read the signs of the times through the prism of history in this powerful course Where Are We At On God's Timeclock

Get 30% off when you use the coupon code: timeclock

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17

"For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord."

If this were to happen now, are you ready?

In today's podcast I share with you 3 ways you can be ready for Jesus' second coming.

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The message in the parable of the 10 Virgins that Jesus told in Matthew 25:1-13 can be boiled down to two words:

• Watch
• Be ready

They didn't know when the bridegroom would come for them, but the five wise virgins had made themselves ready for him.

I have a question for you.

Are you ready for Jesus when He comes for you? What are you doing to prepare for His second coming?

Show Notes For This Foundational Podcast:

John 14-15

"'Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know.' Thomas said to Him, 'Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?' Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.'"

• Jesus was describing a wedding ceremony
  • While we may not fully grasp the picture Jesus was painting, every Jew fully understood.
  • The more romantic the Bridegroom, the closer they will wait until the midnight hour to get the bride
  • Sometime beforehand, the father of the bride and the father of the groom sealed the covenant by drinking a cup of wine together
    • The night that Jesus gave that parable, he had drank the cup and sealed the covenant
    • He had chosen Himself a bride - every person who would receive Him as Savior

3 Ways You Can Prepare for Jesus' Second Coming

2 Peter 3

• We are very close to the time when God will tell His Son, "Go get your bride".
• In the meantime, while He has tarried, there are those in the church who have taken their eye off the prize
  • They have begun to live like the world
  • The church is embrace things of the world that is polluting the house of God
• They don't realize that in the meantime, we are drawing very near to His coming.
  • They are like the five foolish virgins
  • They are not behaving wisely

Learn how you can read the signs of the times through the prism of history in this powerful course Where Are We At On God's Timeclock

Get 30% off when you use the coupon code: timeclock

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17

"For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord."

If this were to happen now, are you ready?

In today's podcast I share with you 3 ways you can be ready for Jesus' second coming.

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What Happens When the Church Chooses Deception

When Happens When a Culture Gives In to Distortion

The One Thing That Will Destroy This Generation

4 Powerful Ways to Avoid Strong Delusion

How to Escape the Delusion In the Church

6 Responses When Your Church Is In Delusion

How To Know If You're Deceived

If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider leaving us a review. This helps the Foundational podcast reach more listeners. 

Be sure to tell a friend about the Foundational blog and podcast, and share with them about the free Bible Reading Challenge journal they will receive when they subscribe to receive my newsletter!

Grow in your relationship with Christ with these discipleship manuals:

Learn how you can read the signs of the times through the prism of history in this powerful course Where Are We At On God's Timeclock

Get 30% off when you use the coupon code: timeclock

More Articles Like This:

The Most Important Question You'll Ever Answer

Will You Be Caught By Surprise

God Is Speaking To His Church

 

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Do we shut up the kingdom of God to the general population?

Jesus never did that. He rebuked the religious rulers, but welcomed in the most ordinary people and those who the religious rulers thought were the worst of sinners.

When we protest by holding up our Christian signs, the majority of people don't get it.

They don't know what we're talking about.

They think we're being religious snobs and hypocrites, and that we're shutting up the kingdom of God to them and that we hate sinners.

The majority of the church isn't like that.

The majority of the church loves sinners and recognizes that but for the grace of God they're lost!

Do You Really Know Who You Are in Jesus Christ?

Show Notes For This Foundational Podcast:

• Philippians 3:1-8
  • God was uniting the church together
  • God is opening up the kingdom wide
  • Beware of those who make man-made rules for salvation

You do have to be born again, but it's not by pedigree! Not everyone will gets in.

• John 14:15-20
  • Jesus is taking our relationship to an even greater level and made it even more shocking
  • It doesn't center around the temple
  • You are going to become the temple of God

• John 15:15
  • Jesus takes it even deeper
  • You're not only a temple of God, you're a friend of God.
    • In the Greek grammar, it places them in a position of greater distinction
    • It is a relationship with God that is like an acquaintance, or good friends, but a friendship where you share life together.
• Ephesians 1:3-6
  • We are not only a friend, but an adopted son and daughter of God
  • This is so much better than being religious!

Do you really know who you are in Jesus Christ?

• Or you can live everyday in the manifest presence of God
  • Because you've accepted Jesus Christ, you can live from glory to glory
  • Even when you live in the real world, with trials and struggles, God's presence with you
  • 2 Corinthians 3:18

How do we walk in this on a daily basis?

• Jesus put a condition on this
  • If you love me keep my commandments
  • You are my friends if you do what I say
  • This is how we know Him, if we keep His commandments
• But here's the difference
  • In the Old Testament, it was keeping the commandments to be righteous
  • In Jesus Christ, we keep the commandments because we are righteous - our righteousness comes from Jesus

If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider leaving us a review. This helps the Foundational podcast reach more listeners. 

Be sure to tell a friend about the Foundational blog and podcast, and share with them about the free Bible Reading Challenge journal they will receive when they subscribe to receive my newsletter!

Grow in your relationship with Christ with these di

Download MP3

Do we shut up the kingdom of God to the general population?

Jesus never did that. He rebuked the religious rulers, but welcomed in the most ordinary people and those who the religious rulers thought were the worst of sinners.

When we protest by holding up our Christian signs, the majority of people don't get it.

They don't know what we're talking about.

They think we're being religious snobs and hypocrites, and that we're shutting up the kingdom of God to them and that we hate sinners.

The majority of the church isn't like that.

The majority of the church loves sinners and recognizes that but for the grace of God they're lost!

Do You Really Know Who You Are in Jesus Christ?

Show Notes For This Foundational Podcast:

• Philippians 3:1-8
  • God was uniting the church together
  • God is opening up the kingdom wide
  • Beware of those who make man-made rules for salvation

You do have to be born again, but it's not by pedigree! Not everyone will gets in.

• John 14:15-20
  • Jesus is taking our relationship to an even greater level and made it even more shocking
  • It doesn't center around the temple
  • You are going to become the temple of God

• John 15:15
  • Jesus takes it even deeper
  • You're not only a temple of God, you're a friend of God.
    • In the Greek grammar, it places them in a position of greater distinction
    • It is a relationship with God that is like an acquaintance, or good friends, but a friendship where you share life together.
• Ephesians 1:3-6
  • We are not only a friend, but an adopted son and daughter of God
  • This is so much better than being religious!

Do you really know who you are in Jesus Christ?

• Or you can live everyday in the manifest presence of God
  • Because you've accepted Jesus Christ, you can live from glory to glory
  • Even when you live in the real world, with trials and struggles, God's presence with you
  • 2 Corinthians 3:18

How do we walk in this on a daily basis?

• Jesus put a condition on this
  • If you love me keep my commandments
  • You are my friends if you do what I say
  • This is how we know Him, if we keep His commandments
• But here's the difference
  • In the Old Testament, it was keeping the commandments to be righteous
  • In Jesus Christ, we keep the commandments because we are righteous - our righteousness comes from Jesus

If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider leaving us a review. This helps the Foundational podcast reach more listeners. 

Be sure to tell a friend about the Foundational blog and podcast, and share with them about the free Bible Reading Challenge journal they will receive when they subscribe to receive my newsletter!

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How to Walk With God Everyday

Life is really exciting when we realize that you realize that you've been delivered from the powers of darkness and translated into the kingdom of God's dear Son. So now, you're a son and daughter of God You are royalty! Begin living like royalty; because you have kingdom power and authority, because Jesus said, "I give you the keys of the kingdom." Put your hand on your heart right now and say, "Jesus, you have given me the keys of the kingdom!" Show Notes For This Foundational Podcast:

• You are never at the mercy of your enemy
  • You have the authority and power to pray blessing into your family, marriage, home, and life.
  • When we live everyday with this knowledge, we will live everyday with confidence in anticipation of divine appointments and the impossible.

With God all things are possible and God lives in me, therefore all things are possible to me and all things work together for my good. How to Walk With God Everyday

• You can walk with "historical God"
  • The God that did the things you read about in the Bible
  • Historical figure
• You can walk with "living God"
  • The God that touches you every once in a while
  • Living for that next time when God will touch you
    • All week long the glory you feel on Sunday slowly fades away
    • You can't wait until you get back to church on Sunday so God touches you again.
  • 2 Corinthians 3:13

"...unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away."

• Or you can live everyday in the manifest presence of God
  • Because you've accepted Jesus Christ, you can live from glory to glory
  • Even when you live in the real world, with trials and struggles, God's presence with you
  • 2 Corinthians 3:18

"But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord." "And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you." John 14:13-20 If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider leaving us a review. This helps the Foundational podcast reach more listeners.  Be sure to tell a friend about the Foundational blog and podcast, and share with them about the free Bible Reading Challenge journal they will receive when they subscribe to receive my newsletter! Grow in your relationship with Christ with these discipleship manuals: