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Am I Spiritually Fit?: Disciplines for a Fulfilled Life || Pastor Diego Mesa
June 29, 2025 · 51 min
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Adam Mesa is Lead Pastor of Patria Church and speaks to a congregation of 12,000 about how the gospel of Jesus Christ brings purpose to every life. Patria
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0:00 Room. I want you guys to check this out. The team's gonna follow me here. We got a really big room that we're building for here as well because oftentimes, sometimes we do kind of group0:11 therapy or we meet with the family as a whole. And so we kind of need a bigger space to be able to sit down with families and to be able to walk through blended families together. And so this space was0:23 really important to us because when we looked at how many people we meet with in our church regularly, we wanted a space that was going to be able to serve as a time where families can be ministered to and families can0:34 be reached with what they're going through. And so I want you to see this. A lot of times our youth ministry is working with group teenagers and processing things together. We do a little bit of group therapy at times at0:46 biblical counseling. And so we'll do it in groups. And so this room kind of glass walls are right here. And this is going be a group space where there's going to be a big round table here at the center and people are0:58 going to be able to work through some things together as a group. And so we've thought through this entire counseling wing. It's a large section of our office because meeting our community where they're at is critical1:10 to our church and our leadership team. And so I just wanted to see a couple other things. We obviously were building some bathrooms here and this is our main lobby for our church. So our1:21 headquarters isn't just a place where we're going to be sending out all of our youth and children's curriculum, all of our youth and children's videos to all of our future campuses and current campuses. It also serves1:32 for our Rancher community, the place where we walk through seasons of life with individuals. And so I want to thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for being part of this generosity. I also want to thank you for1:42 believing in the Beyond campaign. Dollars 13000000 committed, dollars 1000000 given. I wanna share this with you. If you not made a financial contribution to the Beyond campaign or made a commitment,1:54 out in our foyer, we have commitment cards if you wanna join us for the next 3 years, or maybe you just wanna give today to what you see God doing at Patriot, then be sure to go to our website and type the beyond2:06 campaign and give today. On top of that, if you want to regularly give your tithes and offering for the regular needs of the ministry, then you could do so at all of our campuses. You could tap the seat in front of you.2:17 You can go to any of the foyers and give at our giving kiosk, or simply go to our website, patriot. Faith, select your campus at the give button, and you can give today. From the bottom of my heart, I just wanna thank2:28 our Patria family for believing in the vision to seek the lost, teach the found, and send the disciples. God bless you family.2:38 All right. Well, praise God. We're gonna have a good time today. Right? And I'm sure you're curious about what we're gonna2:50 talk about or some of you are smart enough to fill in the gaps. I wanna welcome our Alameda campus. Big cheer to A Town. And I wanna welcome P Town, Pomona. And I think you3:02 guys are doing an amazing job to reach Pomona and all the surrounding areas as well as Alameda. And I just speak continual increase to these campuses. Thank3:14 you for being part of the family. Thank you for coming to church. Thank you for inviting people to church, and we are just 1 happy family. I wanna talk to you a little bit about a series that we we are in3:25 now. Excuse me, I'm gonna move this. It looks a little too thick. A series that we've been in for the summer that our beloved pastor has simply challenged us with. And these are questions3:37 for life. And we're dealing with the questions that you might have. Overall, these are people that are dealing with, I want to know about adversity, marriage. I wanna know about how to overcome.3:49 And so today, I want you to listen to the questions that you guys asked, and we're gonna preach from that.3:56 Question for life is how do I deal with the enemy getting in my head with certain intrusive thoughts and also how to deal with4:06 making tough choices. When you're, like, in the moment and you're, like, deciding, I wanna kill my flesh. I wanna be loving to this person, but this person is being rude or mean and, like, it's not going the way you want4:18 to. How do you quickly, in that moment, shift and turn it back around and let it be a spirit led moment?4:24 How can I grow in my relationship with Jesus?4:26 How do I balance trying to because sometimes I feel like I'm living for the world. I feel like I'm living a worldly life, but I wanna live a life that aligns with God's will, aligns with4:38 his word. How can I achieve that? How can I work for that?4:43 How can I overcome my temptations to sneak on things when I'm not supposed to?4:51 I feel like I say the same thing every prayer because I don't know what to say when I'm praying, does this mean I am not connecting or connected to God and have a genuine5:02 relationship with him?5:04 When it comes to spiritual discipline, the hardest thing for me to understand is where to start when it comes to fasting when it's like your first time.5:15 Alright. Great questions. Let's stand on our feet and we're gonna read God's word and we're gonna launch into this. I wanna thank pastor Adam for giving me this softball question that I get to deal5:27 with today that just seems to be my wheelhouse and something that I'm gonna enjoy very much. Notice what first Timothy 4 7 says. It says train yourself. Let's I mean,5:39 it doesn't say for me to train you. It says you gotta train yourself. So if you're flabby today, guess whose fault that is? If you get easily fatigued today,5:51 guess who that's fault is? It's not my job to train you, it's your job to train yourself. Train yourself toward what? Toward godliness. Godliness is referring to everything, the6:03 characteristic of God, the things of God, to be like God. That's what you're training toward. You're training toward a godly kind of life or a Christ likeness. He says, keep yourself6:14 spiritually fit. Notice he didn't just say naturally fit. Many of us are familiar with being naturally fit. So he's already telling us we're not talking about natural things, we're talking about spiritual things.6:26 How fit are you spiritually? How long have you been saved and does your spiritual life represent how long you've been saved? If I was to walk into your spiritual6:38 trophy room, how many trophies do you have based upon your 40 years of salvation? 1 little trophy like this? Come on. Or an elaborate of overcoming victorious things,6:49 triumphing things, service things, giving things, loving things. That's where I'm going today. So he goes on and says, for physical training or exercise is of7:01 some value, useful for a little. But godliness, this spiritual exercising that we're gonna talk about, this spiritual training is useful7:13 and value where? In some things? No. In every aspect of your life. It'll help you in your marriage. It'll help you in the raising of your children. It'll help you in your job. It will help you in your finances. It7:25 will help you in your emotional health. It will help you in your relationships. It will help you in your Christian character. He says it's useful and a value in everything and in every way. For it holds promises.7:37 God's just not telling you to exercise spiritually. We're telling you there's a reason why. There's gonna be rewards and there's gonna be benefit for this present life, but also in the life to come, I will reward7:49 you for your spiritual exercise. Come on, let's shout and we can be seated. Today, wanna talk a little bit about this lines of8:00 disciplines of faith or what we might call devotions of faith or or dedication towards your faith. What that might look like. There's something called8:12 indetermined growth, which that means that something grows until it dies. It will grow all the way until it dies. For example, in8:24 the animal kingdom, a lobster will continue to grow until it dies. A shark will continue to grow until it dies. A8:36 crocodile never stops growing. It will grow till it dies. Up north in Monterey, we have the great sequoias. They will continue to grow8:47 until they die. In the human body, don't look at your neighbor, don't get discouraged today, but your nose continues to grow until it dies. Your ears8:59 continue to This is explained in a lot to a lot of people today. They thought they were losing their mind as their nose was growing and their ears were growing. But these are areas Why is it that Christians9:11 stop growing? You grew in the seventies, the eighties, 2 it's 20 25. You're not growing in your faith anymore. And you9:23 and I are to grow, the bible says, in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ until God calls us home. This is the difference between somebody remaining remaining a9:34 baby in Christ to growing to full maturity. Just because you have the title of a Christian doesn't mean you have the lifestyle of a Christian. This9:48 is the problem. This is the answer that you ask, but this is what goes on in the body of Christ. You could come across people say, I've been a Christian since I was 7. That's wonderful. Now tell me what you've done10:00 now that you are 67 in the kingdom of God. Tell me your faithfulness. Show me your fruit. Show me what you finished. Show me what you accomplished. So let me ask you10:12 this question. What kind of shape are you in spiritually? What kind of shape? Not naturally. I'm not talking about physic. What kind of shape are you in spiritually? This is10:24 my diagnosis of being in spiritual shape. How strong or weak are you against temptation? Can can you handle temptation? I don't know what your temptation is.10:36 Temptation of curse, temptation of lying, temptation of lust, temptation to be offended. I don't know what your temptation to overeat, temptation to gossip. It reflects your how how10:47 fit you are spirit. Just a second. How strong or weak against fear? Are you governed by fear, worry, anxiety, trouble? It's a sign that you are not spiritually fit.10:59 Third thing, are you strong and weak against the devil's attacks? Do you know how to rebuke him? Do you know how to stand on the word of God? Do you know how to resist him in the faith? Do you even know what that looks11:11 like? It's a reflection of how shaped you are and how strong are you in your character? Your Christ likeness or character, Christian character, is your unselfishness11:22 and your selflessness. Do you finish what you promised? All of that reflects the kind of shape that you and I are in. Let me read you a great11:34 scripture here today. It's found in first Corinthians 9 27. Amen Alameda. Amen Pomona. I got you. Watch this. But like a boxer, I buffet11:46 my body and handle it roughly, discipline it by hardships and subdue it. For fear that after proclaiming to others or telling them that I'm a Christian,11:59 the gospel and the things pertaining to it, I myself should become unfit and not stand the test, be unapproved and rejected12:10 as a counterfeit. When we exhibit unwillingness or or unreadiness, inactivity, laziness, or avoidance, like kind12:22 of being a roller coaster Christian in and out. A tumbleweed Christian kind of blowing in and blowing out. Sitting in the bleachers rather on the field kind of thing. On the injured12:34 reserve list as a Christian, am I a in Christian? It's a sign that we need to get spiritually fit and exercise some disciplines and faith.12:46 I heard this the other day. You might get a kick out of it. I heard this on an Instagram line. It says this. Are you The question was, are you a practicing Christian?12:59 I said, what the heck is that? Is that some kind of new terminology that is coming out of today? Are you a practice What13:11 is the opposite? I'm an unpractic What kind of witness is that? Hey, I'm an unpracticing Christian. Praise the Lord. But there's probably some13:23 truth in that because that's the watering downness of our Christian faith today that we've allowed the culture to come in and we're not being as committed to Christ and the13:34 gospel as we should be. That somebody actually can think and I'm not here to judge. I'm just here to deal with that thought that somebody could say I'm a Christian. I'm just not a practicing13:46 Christian. So you and I don't wanna fall guilty of this unwillingness of of of unavailability as this as this scripture would try to13:58 challenge us with. I love this 1. In Philippians 2 in verse number 12, it's 1 of14:03 my14:03 favorite scriptures. It says this, therefore my beloved dear ones as 1 as you have also obeyed my suggestion. So now only with14:15 enthusiasm you should show in my presence much more because I am absent. Work out and carry out the goal fully completing your salvation. Old King James says this, work out your own14:27 salvation with fear and with trembling. Amen. Work out. Work out is not easy. Right. As much as people naturally don't wanna break a14:39 sweat, scripture Spiritually Christians don't wanna break a sweat. That's too hard. It's too difficult. I can't be faithful to 1 woman. I I I can't go to church all the time. It's too14:50 hard because you're out of shape. You have to learn how to work out your salvation. Now, what am I saying? I'm not saying you're trying to earn your salvation. If you accepted Jesus Christ15:02 as your Lord and savior, you are saved. You're saved, you're born again in the spirit, but you still have this cardinal flesh with all its desires. So that which is in you must now work out15:14 itself in the outside. And that's what we fail to do. I'm saved, I'm born again, I'm a Christian on the inside. I just don't have the mannerisms. I don't have the actions. I don't have the lifestyle because you've not15:26 worked out your salvation. That which is inside has got to come out. You have a conviction.15:39 I am convicted that Jesus Christ died on the cross for my sins. Where's your expression of that? Let me follow that now to your job. Do you act like a Christian on your job? Let me follow you to your15:51 neighborhood. Do you act like that with your neighbors? Let me follow you into your home. Do you act like that at your home? No, I don't. So we're just gotta work out more. That's what16:03 I have to do. That's what I have to do. Look at somebody and just say, come on, Petra. Come on, Alameda. Come on, Pamon. Just say, work out a little more. More. So I want you to recognize there is a16:15 reason, a purpose, and a 10 and design behind God's spiritual training and exercise. There's a purpose behind it. And I just love the purpose of what the Bible16:26 says in second Timothy 2, but in a great house or this is in the kingdom of God or in the local church or in our Christian faith,16:38 all those are synonymous, in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but there are also vessels or utensils of wood, earthenware, some for honor16:50 and noble use, and some menial and in noble use. So whosoever cleanses himself from the in noble and unclean who separates himself from the from contact with17:02 contaminating and corrupting influences, watch this, that he himself will be or herself a vessel set apart, useful, honorable, noble for the17:13 purpose, consecrated, and profitable to the master fit for his good. Oh my God. This is what it's about. This is why God wants me to be spiritually fit.17:26 Because if you're out of He can't use you. He loves you. He died for you. You're going to heaven, but he cannot use you. You and I are not useful. Instead of being17:38 gold and silver, you and I are wood, hay, and stubble. Why settle for bronze when I could be a silver Christian? Why settle for being a silver Christian when I could be a gold Christian?17:50 That's what he's challenging us with. It's not so much that God is dictating how he's gonna use us or can use us. It's we determine how useful18:02 we are in a predicament. Now I may succeed in 1 area and God says, love you for that. You are blessed for that, but I wanna use you over here and you say, God, I've never visited that18:13 exercise. And so I'm ignorant. I don't know what to do there. Right. Right. So God says, well, why don't you go over there and visit it?18:21 Wow. That's good. So18:26 the reality is this, is that God just simply wants to use us and that's the purpose. The purpose why we wanna be spiritually disciplined in our lives is the fact that God18:37 wants to use us. See, here's some keys to understanding salvation is free, but Christ likeness will cost you. Understand that please. If you're a baby18:49 in Christ, new to faith, just coming to church, coming Christian salvation is free. But if you wanna act like Jesus, talk like Jesus, think like Jesus, have the word of God19:01 and the scriptures living through you, it's gonna cost you. It's gonna cost you energy, time. You're gonna have to crucify the flesh. You're gonna have to submit. You're gonna have to come out from your old lifestyle.19:12 You're gonna have to give up some people. You're gonna have to give up some things. And again, we could say we are Christian by title, but19:23 fail in response ability. I played with that word a little bit. And again, it's not about earning salvation. When we talk about spiritually working19:35 out, it's about showing your salvation to the world. That's really what it's all about. So with that in mind, I'm now gonna go to first Corinthians 9. Where you go back there19:47 and go back to first Corinthians 9. And I wanna read as we get into the meat of the message. I said all that to set this up. So Pomona, know you're watching, high 5. Alameda, I know you're19:59 watching. Here's gonna be the meat of the message which are the apparatuses. So I'm gonna work through 10 disciplines in God's gym. You and I cannot ignore them. You20:11 cannot avoid them. They are for every Christ follower. They're all found in the Bible. And most Christians have a tendency to like 1 more than the other.20:23 So they always go here, but they never go there. So God can use you here. I'll describe what here is in a few months, but God can't use you over there because you never grown over there. You never developed yourself over20:35 there. So here's what first Corinthians 9 in verse 24 says, You've been you've all been to the stadium and seen the athletes20:47 race. Everyone runs, but 1 wins. Run to win. Say that with me. Come on, Online. Run to win. Come on Alameda say run to win. Come on Pomona20:59 say run to win. He goes on and he says, all good athletes is drawing a natural example to a spiritual application.21:11 All good athletes train hard. It's the way you and I are supposed to do. Every day. Every day I'm training hard. Every day. They do it for a gold medal that tarnishes21:23 and fades. You're after the 1 that's gold eternally. Amen. I don't know about you, but I'm running hard to finish21:35 my to the finish line. I wanna hear well done thou good and faithful servant. I'm not just trying to get to heaven while the doors close behind and hit me in the butt.21:47 Like I wanna just bear I'll be happy if I barely make it in. No, no, no, no. He says, I'm giving it everything I've got. I'm being challenged by that. I don't know that21:59 I'm giving it everything I got. I'm giving it everything I got in some areas of these disciplines. But as I visit them, I'm gonna realize I don't give everything I got. Have you ever heard of somebody who's got great22:10 potential but they come out to be an underachiever? They're drafted number 1. They are predicted to be a franchise player.22:22 They're gonna revolutionize the sport and they don't reach up to their potential. We're familiar with that. So he says this, I don't know about you but I'm running hard to the finish22:34 line. I'm giving everything I've got, not sloppy living for me. I'm staying alert and in top condition. Say that with me guys, top condition. Top22:45 condition. Look at your neighbor left and right. Let's just say, do I look like I'm in top condition? I'm gonna get you mad at someone tonight. I'm not going22:57 to get caught napping, snoozing, being lazy, telling everyone else about it and then missing out myself. Okay.23:09 Here we go. We're gonna launch right now. We're gonna launch right now. We're go for a workout right now. You're gonna go with me right now on the workout. Okay. We're going into God's gym right now. How many of you23:17 don't wanna go into God's gym? God bless you. Excuse you. Thank you for coming today. It's been nice, but we're all going into God's gym right now. Okay? Now here's the reality. This is life now. You gotta understand23:28 this. You cannot do these disciplines on your own. God knew that. He knew this fallen world full of sin and the evilness that's in this world, and he said, I'm gonna give23:40 you a personal trainer. He's called the Holy Ghost because you will fail. You'll do it for a while and you'll quit just the same way you do it naturally. You go to the gym for a week and you never go23:52 back. You buy that thing apparatus online and you never use it. It's under your bed. He says, I'm gonna give you someone. So the Mark, John the fourth chapter in verse number 26 says, but the24:03 comforter, the counselor, now I like these words. He's your helper, he's your strengthener, and your standby, the Holy Spirit. He's gonna help you. So you say, Holy Spirit, I'm gonna share them right now. I know you're24:15 anxious. What are these dis Holy Spirit, I need help with that discipline. Cause I don't like that discipline, Holy Spirit. He will remind you when Cause he's a convictor. He's a24:27 chastener. He's a trainer. You don't look at him and say, look at me how good I look. He says, turn around, let me see your back. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. See, you could fool the world like this. The Holy24:38 Spirit, he knows the secret things, the hidden things. So I'm just telling you, you and I cannot do these disciplines without the help of the Holy Spirit.24:50 He's there to help you. The second question, I'm setting you up. You're anxious, you're saying, come on, get to these disciplines. I'm setting you up. Make I wanna make you run into the gym. Next thing, when you see25:01 these disciplines, you're to say this just like everybody else. How much time do I have to put into that? How many times a day or week do I have to do that? That's25:13 common. So my question to you is how good of a Christian do you wanna be? That's good, guys. I'm not here to tell you how long, how much time to put in. I'm25:25 just I don't I I don't I know my struggles. You know your struggles. It's about time. It's about frequencies. Okay? The last thing and I'm launching right now25:37 is when you and I visit these disciplines, you probably have a scale from 1 to 10. 10 means I gravitate toward this discipline. Okay? Like for25:49 an example, I'm a triathlete. So I gravitate towards swimming. Swimming is a 10. I gravitate toward biking. Biking is a 10. I gravitate toward running. It's a 10. Going to the gym26:00 and lifting weights, 0. I don't like I'm not a gym rat. So if I had time, I'm going that way all the time. I don't visit that. So you're gonna put26:12 a scale on yourself. Do I gravitate? Am I a 10 here, an 8 here, a 5 here or a 0 here? But the reality is you can't ignore26:24 any of the 9 that I'm gonna give you because then you'll be underdeveloped and the day of adversity will show it. So how many of you know, pretend with me, I could26:36 have buff arms today. 24 inch pythons right now, big boys. Why? Because I do this all day. When I go to the gym, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. So I'm strong26:48 here, but I do nothing here. So I am not strong here. So as long as my fight is here, I'll knock you out. But if my fight is here, I I I'm a sissy. I'm a26:59 wimp. And that's what Christians don't understand. These are not your disciplines. These are God's disciplines for you to live victorious in this world. And if you would neglect them27:11 and ignore them, I promise you, you are gonna struggle when that is needed. So let's go over here. Let's go to this first27:23 discipline. Okay? First discipline, I'm just gonna go here, and I'm a just do some. This is just tips. Okay? So the first discipline is prayer.27:35 Prayer. Exercise self your unto godliness. Prayer. Now prayer might be 10 to you. Prayer might be 5 to you, but you better go to prayer. Prayer is this. It's27:47 nothing more than talking to God. It's praying into you. Luke 18 1, men ought always to pray and not faint. You have to pray.27:59 Now I told you how much God you want. That's dependent on you. How long you're gonna pray? You want little prayer then little God then don't pray long. So prayer is praying into you everything you want, praying out of28:10 you, your flesh, everything you don't want. Prayer is 2 things, is the 2 Cs. It's communing with God and getting close to God. And the other C is combating against the flesh and the gates of hell.28:25 With prayer comes all kinds of prayers. I love praying in the spirit. There's not a day that I do not pray in the Holy Spirit because the Bible says beloved, build yourself up on your most holy28:37 faith praying in the Holy Ghost. So Diego bats right now probably about 98 percent in 3 65 days with prayer.28:49 And he has a certain amount of time that he knows how long he needs to pray to remain close to God so that he doesn't give in to temptation in the flesh. Just as much as I don't know how much gas29:01 you need in your gas tank to get you from 0.1 to point b, it's different for every person. 17 gallons, 35 gallon. I can't tell you. You gotta know now. The discipline29:13 of prayer needs to be. Okay? So then we'll come over here and, I'll I'll do a pull up. I'll do Alameda, Pomona, a pull up. What's the second discipline? You have to do29:24 prayer. How do I grow? How to mature? How do I get to know God? How do I grow closer to God? Prayer, prayer, prayer, prayer, prayer. Now listen, I've been saved 47 years. I used29:36 to admire as a young Christian people pray cause they could pray for an hour, not repeat a vocabulary. Their their words were very deep. And and I said, I wanna pray like that. And I felt like God said, gotta put in the29:47 time. Gotta put in the time. Gotta put in the time. Practice makes perfect. So I dumbfounded. I skipped word. I mean, said the same words. It was I watched the clock. It was dry. It was difficult. But but you keep29:58 practicing and you get good. Nobody is good overnight, but the holy spirit will help you. The second thing, discipline is the word of God. Man30:10 shall not live by bread alone, but every word that's perceived out of mouth of God. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed. How? By the renewing of your mind. Every day you need some scripture. You need30:20 your bible. I'm not here to tell you how much to read. You know yourself how close you want to get to God. But here is where faith comes. I don't have I don't have enough faith. You got faith cometh by hearing and30:31 hearing God's word. You've got to read the Bible to grow your faith. No other way. Bible, how do I fall, not fall to deception, false doctrine? How do I make30:43 good choices and decisions? You gotta know the will of God. You've got to read the Bible. It tells you who to marry, how to date, what to choose, attitude and reaction. I got a stinking mind.30:55 It's dirty, it's envious, it's hateful, it's lustful. You gotta wash your mind in the word of God. This is how you grow. You've gotta learn to meditate31:07 in the word, read the word, study the word, and confess the word out of your mouth. When you are bombarded by the lies of the devil of failure and defeat and depression, do do what Jesus said. He said,31:19 it's written, speak the word out of your mouth. Life and death are in the power of the tongue. The word will not return void, but accomplish that which I please.31:32 So so you you and I have to have prayer in our life as a discipline. You and I have to have the word of God in our lives of it as a discipline. And then we're gonna go over here to these to these weights and we'll just31:44 simply do some curls here. And this 1 represents worship. Worship. The Bible says God inhabits the praises of his people. When you31:56 worship God shows up and the atmosphere changes. Your atmosphere is full of of depression, negativity, sorrow, sadness. Start worshiping, it'll32:07 change. Psalms 1 49 says, worship is a 2 edged sword. It's a weapon. It is I have learned how to use this weapon called worship. I,32:19 I bike a lot and so, you know, as much as How many of you know people have their favorite music on Pandora? They have their favorite genre. Don't look at me like you Pomona, be honest with me. I mean, these people32:31 today, they don't know that are telling the truth. You have your style, soul music, rock and roll, soft rock, country. I don't care what it is. What is your spiritual music? I don't know. You have a32:42 repertoire in the natural, but you don't have a repertoire in the spiritual that puts you in a place to get close to God, that gets you in the mind of Christ, that gets you in combat mode.32:55 So I have Darlene Shek on my Pandora, Darlene Shek radio. Man, if I wanna worship God, fill his presence, if I can't go to sleep, go to bed with it. I I just I'm bombarded33:07 by I I sing I sing natural song. So I have a repertoire over 47 years of songs I learned. That's why if you watch me on the prayer line, I'll just start worshiping. I don't care if I sound like a crow. When33:19 I get to God, I sound like a canary. I don't matter to me. I'm not here to impress you. I'm here to remind the devil that he used to be a worshiper and that I took his33:30 place and now I can out worship him.33:35 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.33:38 You gotta worship. Worship with your own words. Worship with the help of someone else's music. But worship. That that's why I sometimes see people and if you're young in faith and, in church and you don't know, but33:50 I see people during worship, they're sitting down drinking their latte Cause they don't know how to worship. I see them going like this during worship the whole time. Cause they don't know how to clap. They don't know33:59 the purpose of lifting hands. They don't know what kneeling is. They don't know what a shout is. They don't know what dancing is. But if I put them in a disco or a dance club, You34:11 could get it down and get it up, but you don't know how to do that in the presence of God. Worship is intimacy with God. Naturally, you don't go make love to somebody.34:23 You better know what to do. And if you're gonna make love and get close to God, you better know how to worship him. It's the protocol. Come into my presence with that. Before you ask34:35 anything, you come into the presence of a king. You worship the king of kings and the lord of lords. So worship. Then we'll come on over here34:47 and do this. We'll do some of these. Okay. So this is fasting. Prayer. Word.34:59 Worship. Praise. Fasting life. Isaiah 58. See, oh, I'm doing a 10 over here. I'm always here. Oh, once a year, the first first of the year, this is where I'm here.35:11 Oh, wait a minute. You're in trouble then. You don't understand what fasting is here. God, can you you that spiritual weapon is a dull knife. That is sharp. That's dull. So you have to35:23 have a fasted life. What does fasting do? It draws me close to God. It it breaks spiritual darkness. It crucifies my flesh because that flesh is has noises. It has a voices. It had35:34 appetites, addictions, compulsions, gravitational pull, and I gotta crucify that thing. And the only way to do it is to deny whether that's social media, whether that's35:46 TV, whether that's food, I don't care what it is, but you gotta deny yourself and crucify that flesh and and and just do random, fasting. I'm not here to tell you whether you fast a day, whether you fast35:58 meals, whether you fast things, but you need to live a fasted life because Isaiah says it breaks the bands of wickedness and darkness. Strongholds are broken when you36:09 fast. Well, come on over here and do some do these medicine balls like this. I don't know. I'm not a guy at gym rat. I told you. But that that's over there. That's church.36:21 You have to go to church. Not forsaking the assembling of yourself to Well, I'm a Christian, I just don't go to church. That's not a discipline. So you don't get fed regularly by a shepherd. Number 2,36:33 you don't enjoy the corporate anointing. Like right now is a corporate anointing flowing. You don't get to serve your community. You don't get to grow. Nobody knows you.36:45 You're not accountable to anybody. That is what the purpose of the church is for. Church attendance is a discipline. So what have we gone over now? Prayer.36:57 Prayer. Worship. Worship. Fasting. In church. In church. Okay. So here we go. We gotta pick it up now. Come on, Pomona. Come on, Alameda. What am I gonna do here? I'm gonna do some37:08 squats. That's what I'm gonna do. Do some squats. Okay? So this is tithing now. Giving. Malachi, watch this. Will a man rob God? Drop the mic. Go37:20 home. That's right. When you don't tie 10 percent of your income or grow to that because you're you're young in faith and you don't know that then you're robbing God. You're robbing God of him blessing you.37:31 Here's the main thing why God wants you to because it controls your heart. And and when you give, then God's got your heart. When you don't give, God doesn'tShow more
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