Sid Roth

1. Sid Roth - ISN MINISTRY DUSTIN SMITH sid-roth.blogspot.com/2019/11/sid-roth-isn-ministry-dustin-smith.html [MUSIC] AUDIENCE: [APPLAUSE] SID: Oh, you may be seated if you want or [joking] you can stand or you can stand on your head if you want, by my guest, where the spirit's Lord there is liberty. Now would you like to hear some more of Dustin? Those that don't you can leave because you're gonna affect the anointing. I'm going to tell you something. These two guests, was I embellishing or was I right? AUDIENCE: You were right! [CLAPS] SID: Weren't they wonderful? Before I turn it over to Dustin, the Meisner's, are you here? C'mon up here for a second. AUDIENCE: [APPLAUDS] SID: What I would like to know is has God put something in your heart as to what's gonna happen when people all over the world hear your testimony, what is going to happen? AUDREY: Well I feel like the Lord restored our marriage but it's not a marriage story as much as it's a gospel story. That Jesus really did die for our sin and shame. And I personally just because I'm a woman I see so many women walking and living with secrets, with things that they've never told anyone and they feel like they're a disappointment deep inside and I really want, I want people to know how loved they are unconditionally but then I want them to on the flip side of that I want people to see the destruction that sin brings, that sin is so much pain, sin always results in pain. And if I could just tell my girlfriends, don't play around with it because you know the enemy says it's gonna bring pleasure but believe me it's just a season for, a pleasure season and then it's all pain and at the right hand of the Father are pleasures forevermore and there's nothing more satisfying and beautiful and just incredible than a relationship with Jesus. SID: Bob, I want you to just briefly, between you and me, [Audrey laughs] I see, I see so much love pouring out of you for your wife, and by the way [to Audrey] I also see so much love pouring out of you for your husband. I mean an amazing amount of love. How do you do have all this love? BOB: [Audrey and Bob laugh] It's actually pretty easy. You know, and this is what worship is about. Because in worship that's where you experience God's love. And His love is 1/13

2. something to be experienced, because we can't afford just to give mental assent to it, but what we need to do is every single day experience His love. In the midst of my deepest moments, what happens is that selfishness left unchecked will grow. And so what I wanted to do was take circumstances into my own care. And I- before entering a freeway I thought I'd take my life that day simply because of the pain. I mean we got a world that's out there that's hurting. They're in a lotta, lotta pain, and all they wanna do is silence or medicate that pain. That's why there's drug addiction, that's why there's alcohol, that's why they'll fall into another affair. You know whatever it might be simply because they want to silence the pain. But for me what I wanted to do is I wanted to escape, I wanted my own evacuation. But before entering that freeway something supernatural happened. I turned on the radio and a song came on sung by Russ Taff of the Imperials. And it says this: “When you're up against a struggle that shatters all your dreams, and your hopes have been truly crushed by Satan's manifested schemes. And you feel the urge within you to submit to earthly fear; don't let the faith you're standing in seem to disappear. Praise the Lord. He can work through those that praise Him, praise the Lord.” I got my eyes off of my circumstances. And I became the worshipper that I had always been. You see, in that place of worship all of a sudden the Father, because Father's speak identity into their children. My Father in the place of worship began to speak to me my identity, my value, my worth. You see? No one else can give that to you. And that's the trouble that happens in marriages. Is that we're becoming so needy that we're tryin' to get it from that other person. You know you need to make me feel happy, you need to make me feel satisfied, you know and you're not therefore I'll divorce, I will remove myself from you. No, your satisfaction is to be found in God and God alone. You see we are- complete in God in Christ, therefore lacking nothing. SID: Thank you so much. BOB: My pleasure. Thank you, Sid. SID: Now, he said such profound things in those few minutes. But I've got a question for Dustin. Here's my question for you, Dustin. I know you know what right worship is. What's wrong worship? DUSTIN: Well, worship without a heart. And I know that's hard to, sometimes it's hard maybe to judge from the outside, but you know Jesus said Isaiah was right of you when he prophesied that your people praise me with your lips but your hearts are far from me. He said because your worship is just rules taught by men. And he said, You hold on to the traditions of man but you let go of the commands of God.' And I realized growing up for my whole life what was wrong, you see I didn't grow up a drug addict. I think it's easy for us to put on, 'Oh, they're bad, they're the bad people.' I didn't grow up that way, I really didn't grow up a bad kid in that sense. But I grew up with no regard for God. SID: Would it be fairer to say there was really no healthy fear of God in your life? 2/13

3. DUSTIN: Oh, I had zero fear of God. I mean I did not reverence- SID: And I'm not talking about, you know, fear, I'm saying really, respect. DUSTIN: Yeah, I had no, well let's put it this way. I had no honor- SID: Yeah- that's the right word. DUSTIN: I had no honor. Because it wasn't an afraid thing, it was an awe thing. I had no respect, no honor for Him. But I wasn't really taught that I had to. I was taught that God was in this for me. It was about my individual personal salvation- SID: It sounds to me like you're describing American Christianity. DUSTIN: Yeah. And we affect Christianity around the world. I just got back from Uganda. And you know what they're doin'? SID: What? DUSTIN: They're wanting God to bless them. That's all they want. They want to go to heaven when they die. That's all they want. But Jesus came and he said I've got a kingdom that I'm establishing. And I want you to now be the example of it. When we worship, see one of the things revival did for me was it got me face to face with God. One of the things worship does is it reveals who He is. So you can look at Him all day, but if you're not revealing Him, if you're not reflecting Him then it doesn't mean anything to the rest of the world. And I think we're really good at trying to teach love God, love God, love God, But he say, Jesus takes it and he switches it, and he says the greatest commandment is to Love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. SID: Honor God with the greatest commandment with all your heart, all your mind, all your soul, and all your strength right now! DUSTIN: But wait! One more thing. [Sid laughs] The second greatest commandment is this: Love your neighbor as yourself. SID: Oh, it's easy to love God but not love the one that's created in God's image! AUDIENCE: [APPLAUDS] DUSTIN: So, yup! So listen to this! So what we do in worship a lot of times is we like to get this, we close our eyes and we shut ourselves off. But He doesn't want us to do that. He said you've put a new song in my mouth and a hymn of praise to my God, that many would see, many would know, and many would place their trust in you. And that's who I want to be. That's what I believe worship is designed for. That we might be able to fulfill 3/13

4. the first commandment, but even greater that we can recognize today I'm not standing in here just worshipping like this, I could have done this by myself. The power of it is I get to do it with you, and I get to do it with you, and then we become a greater reflection to the world, to the Jews, shooo, we become a greater reflection of who God wants us to be! SID: HO! [MUSIC AND SINGING] So here I am to worship, here I am to bow down, here I am to say that You're my God. You're all together lovely, all together worthy, all together wonderful to see. So here I am- Here I am to worship, here I am to bow down, here I am to say that You're my God. You're all together lovely, all together worthy, all together wonderful to me. So here I am- Here I am to worship, here I am to bow down, here I am to say that You're my God. You're all together lovely, all together worthy, all together wonderful to me. C'mon sing it again, Here I am- Here I am to worship you Lord, here I am to bow down, here I am to say that You're my God. You're all together lovely, all together worthy, all together wonderful to me. C'mon sing it out-so here I am- Here I am to worship, here I am to bow down, here I am to say that You're my God. You're all together lovely, all together worthy, You're all together wonderful to me- C'mon can you just lift your voices-let Him know that He's wonderful, let him know that He's great, let Him know that He's worthy of our praise, You're worthy of our praise, let Him know He's worthy; huh, let Him know He's great, let Him know He's worthy of our praise. You are worthy of our praise- Here I am- There is no one like You God, There is no one like You God, There is no one like You God, There is no one like You God, There is no one like You God, There is no one like You God, There is no one like You God, There is no one like You God, Oh sing it now, There is no one like You God, There is no one like You God, There is no one like you God, There is no one like You God, There is no one like You God, There is no one like You God, There is no one like You God, There is no one like You God, There is no one like You God, Oooo- Cause You are worthy of all praise today, huh. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised, great is the Lord and greatly to be praised, do you believe it today? That great is the Lord and greatly to be praised. To be praised. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised- There's no one like You Jesus, There's no one like You Jesus, There's no one like You Jesus, There's no one like You Jesus. And You have won my heart, let Him know there's no one, there's no one like You Jesus, there's no one, there's no one like You Jesus, sing it again there's no one, there's on one like You Jesus, there's no one like You Jesus, You have won my heart and You have won my heart, sing it again, There's no one- There's no one like You Jesus, sing it again, there's no one like you, you're in His presence now. There's no one like you Jesus, and You have won my heart. Some of you have heard this: It 'tis so sweet to trust in Jesus, just to take Him at His word, just to rest upon His promise, just to know thus saith the Lord. And Jesus, Jesus, how I trust You, how I've proved You o'er and o'er, Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus, O for grace to trust You- There's no one like You Jesus, there's no one like You Jesus, we declare it is true today, there's no one like Jesus. Shooo, and You have won my heart-. So I love You, Lord, and I lift my 4/13

5. voice. To worship You, To worship You, O my soul rejoice. Take joy my King, in what You hear. And let it be a sweet, sweet sound in Your ear. Sing it again: I love You, Lord- And I love You, Lord, and I lift my voice. To worship You, and O my soul rejoice, so take joy my King, in what You hear. And let it be a sweet, sweet sound in Your ear. Now just sing it to Him one more time: I love You, Lord. I love You, Lord, and I lift my voice. To worship You, O my soul rejoice, take joy my King, in what You hear. And let it be a sweet, sweet sound in Your ear. Oooo- If need a healing in your body right now will you just lift your hands to the Lord? One of the things I realize about worship is the Bible says faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. What we've been singin' is the Word of God. But one of the things that worship does is worship is a reaching out to the One who saves, but worship is always the One who saves reaching back. And He makes these statements and He says you draw close to me and I'll draw close to you. He says you seek after me and you will find me. He says those who seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, His rightness, all these things will be added to you. And I believe right now as your hands are reached out towards heaven that God's gonna reach His hand back down towards earth. And this atmosphere of worship is the atmosphere for the miraculous to take place, and some of you right now can feel the presence of God even where you stand. Somebody with migraine headaches, right now, you can feel it, it's like a pinched nerve in your neck, you feel it all the time, and right now God's beginning to release that- I also speak beyond a physical healing. Somebody when, Sid and I were talking up there, and we talked about night terrors. Somebody here, and I think you're older, you've been havin' night terrors but they're even day terrors, and it's a fear of death. You're afraid of dying. You wake up with it. You think about it all day, you go to bed with it. And I want you right now to know that God wants to set you free. Listen, you woke up today. Why have a fear of dying, when it happens you won't know it. It's over, you did it. Why are you afraid of it then? You believe in Jesus. You've accepted Him as your Savior, you have nothing to fear. Listen, the reason that some of us are afraid is because we just waited to go to heaven to meet Him. But right now He wants to meet you where you stand. When you see the presence of God you'll never fear death again. It'll cause you to do things you never would have done. You're no longer going to be dictated by fear. Just like I said to my mom, it doesn't mean that it might not come knockin' at your door, but it means it does not dictate your bow, it does not dictate your decisions anymore. That fear of death breaks off your life right now. C'mon, I pray right over your bodies, I pray right now over your minds. And I say: Jesus, come and remove the devourer from these lives. I say now be healed in the name of Jesus, by his stripes [Singing]: You have been set free, I trust you, you have been set free, I trust you, you have been set free, you have been set free, you have been set free, you have been set free, you have been set free, yeah, yeah. C'mon now, I pray freedom from the chains that bind you today. You're gonna walk out a new person. I pray freedom from the chains that bind you right now. It's time to lift up your voice and be free, it's time for you to be free, yeah, it's time to be free, it's time for you to be free. It's time, it's time to be free yeah, it's time to be set free, to be set free. Somebody else- I know these seem simple to some of ya', but somebody with lower back pain who might even have that same sciatic nerve kinda problem but it's in your lower back causes your legs to kinda give out. Is 5/13

6. there somebody in this room like that? I want you to walk up here to the front. I know, I know, it's- I want you to walk up, I know, I know it's happening right now. The healing power of God is here to set you free. But listen, yeah, just stand right here- now listen those of you that struggle with this, I prayed for a lady once, look at this, wow, you know the cool thing about this, I told my mom when she got healed of cancer I said this: I said now your testimony becomes somebody else's prophecy. You know when you testify the Bible says that the spirit of prophecy, I love that, Sid talked about that, the spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus. You ain't prophesying nothing new. We're prophesying Jesus right now. Jesus is a healer. But I came off the stage one time in the middle of worship, and I just kept singing nobody knew what I was doing, I just randomly will walk off the piano, and walked down and I'm just walking among the people just worshiping, we got about 7 - 800 people in there. And there was one lady, she had been sitting down, and I watched her walk in with a limp. And my first reaction was that's not right, it's not right, it's not right. Listen, some of you, you got to get rid of that theology that Jesus is trying to teach you a lesson. Just learn it, be over with it, it's done. Like, oh, I learned, I'm done. Some of you are just stubborn learners then, that's the problem right? He ain't trying to teach you a lesson. Jesus did not make you sick. And the devil can't stop you from gettin' well. I believe Jesus is a healer. So I walked off the stage and I'm walking by this lady and I was frustrated for her throughout the whole service because she had to sit. You could tell she was a worshipper, she didn't want to sit. So I walked over to her and I said, 'Honey'- I called her, an older lady, Honey, she was probably in her sixties, she probably about spanked me, bent me over her knee just let me have it. I said 'I think right now it's time for you to be healed.' I said 'I want to pray for you,' everybody's still worshipping. And I said 'I want to pray for you right now.' And she's like 'Okay, thank you.' So I prayed for her. She just set there. She's like thank you. And I go, Honey, you're gonna need to stand up. She's like, 'O Lord.' I said, 'C'mon.' So I helped her stand up. She stood there real wobbly for a second. I said 'Honey, you're gonna need to move your legs.' [Dustin laughs] She's like, 'Oh Jesus.' I said, 'That's the One, right there, just say His name several more times' [audience laughs] You're getting it, you're connected - [he says to guitarist: keep playing that] So she started doing this, real slow, started moving her legs. And I was like, 'All right honey, you ready to walk?' And she's like, [weakly], 'Yeah.' So her faith level isn't real high at that time, right? I take her by the hand and I start pulling her. So she's a little bit stumbling over herself then all of a sudden she starts picking up steam, she starts goin'- 'Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah!' She starts dragging me around the sanctuary. Now I need healing [audience laughs] because I'm just overweight and slow [audience laughs] so, and I saw all those testimonies of people with supernatural weight loss, sign me up, yeah we need to meet some of those guys [audience laughs]. But you know what, she took off running and all of a sudden around that room: backs, boom, boom, legs, boom, boom. You know why? Because all of a sudden faith was in the room. But listen, faith is not a thought process. If I pray for you and you stand there and think I believe, I believe, I believe, you ain't believin' if you ain't movin'. You only believe it if you're gonna show some activity to it. You start moving your leg, and you start moving your back, and you start testing it out and I promise you, listen, as you do this and you practice this healing, some of you are gonna feel really stiff at first and all of a sudden as 6/13

7. you move that is faith. You start walking in it, you start stepping in it, and you're gonna see healing start to happen. Some of you it's gonna be an instant quick thing, some of you it may be a slower thing, some of you it may be something you gotta work. I ain't using that as an excuse, I'm just telling you I've seen it every which way and I don't really care how it happens. All I know is today Jesus called you out and said it can happen to you. So you gotta grab onto this and then you gotta reflect it, because your testimony today is gonna be somebody else's prophecy. SID: But I have something even more exciting than what you're saying. And this is what is even more exciting. Those of you that are watching by television or DVD right now, whatever pain you have in your body, this is what you see what Dustin was speaking he was confirming it through me. I heard the same thing Dustin heard and every word be confirmed by two or more witnesses, and I tell you if you have pain in your neck, I tell you if you have pain in your back, I tell you if you have pain anywhere in your body, I tell you whether you're in the audience, or whether you came forward or you're watching by DVD that God is not a respecter of persons. Any pain that you have from arthritic fingers, knees, hips, any pain that you have, I know that as Dustin prays right now if you will do two things, both easy, the hard part is God's and He's already done it. The easy part is believe that He's not a respecter of persons, believe that He loves you as much as any human that has ever lived and believe to the point of taking a step of faith and walk right into your miracle! DUSTIN: All right now, I'm gonna start praying for you, and I want you to continue worshipping and I just want you to declare 'There's no one like you, Jesus' over and over and over again. And listen, if you need healing this isn't bringing them up here saying backs are the only thing that are about to get healed. For some of you, you just needed this as an example to really believe that this can happen. If it can happen to them with backs- Listen, He doesn't go oh today I can only heal backs, it doesn't make any sense. He's the healer. He can heal cancer, somebody might have- Listen- and let's watch it right now- Somebody else has cancer, you might have the same thing when I said melanoma stage 3, 4- you mighta just gotten that diagnosis- SID: Tumors are also- You pray tumors are going to evaporate. DUSTIN: Tumors are gonna dissolve. And you are gonna notice it. If some of you can physically feel it, some of you are gonna have to get it checked out- Listen, you gotta begin to just cry out to God and this isn't cryin' out to God hopin' He does it- The Bible says ôLift up your eyes to where your help comes from.ö Recognize this isn't about me, this isn't about my healing ministry or Sid's. This is about an opportunity for you to become a demonstration of the kingdom of God on earth. So I want you now just to begin to lift up your voices and we're just gonna sing 'There's no one like you Jesus.' MUSIC AND SINGING BEGINS] 7/13

8. DUSTIN: There's no one like you Jesus. C'mon, c'mon, you ready to become a testimony? You ready to become a testimony of the healing power of God today? C'mon. Do you believe it today? There's no one like You Jesus- C'mon. Healing gonna happen today? C'mon, are you ready, c'mon there's no one, there's no one, c'mon, right now- [MUSIC AND SINGING AS DUSTIN MINISTERS] There's no one like you, Jesus. No, no. There's no one like You, Jesus. There's no none. There's no one like You, You have won my heart, and You have won my heart. There's no one like You, There's no one like You, Jesus. No. There's no one like You, Jesus. There's no one like You, Jesus. And You and You have won my heart- DUSTIN: Okay, just stop for a second. Okay, here's the first guy we just prayed for, all right. Now just listen, one guy we prayed for. Tell me what is was feelin' like. MAN: Oh, it was getting' really bad the last few days, and it's way better right now. So it's loosened up. DUSTIN: On a scale of 1 to 10 what do you feel the difference? MAN: I feel like it was practically 90 percent better than what it was. DUSTIN: All right, 100 percent, Jesus. All the way right now, let the healing power flow. I pray that healing for you right now. [MUSIC AND SINGING AGAIN AS DUSTIN MINISTERS] There is no one, there is no one like You, Lord, no there is no one, there is no one like you Lord. Singin' there's no one, there is no one like you, Jesus. Sing it out, There is no one like You Jesus. There's no one, there's no one like You, Jesus. You are one, and You have won my heart. Yeah, sing there's no one, there's no one like You, Jesus. There's no one like You, Jesus. There is no one like You, Jesus. And You have won my heart. No, there's no one like my Jesus. There is no one like You, there's no one like You, Lord, there's no one like You Jesus and you have come and won my heart- DUSTIN: All right, now listen, I'm doing this for you. Listen, I've seen it, I've felt it, I've experienced it. But you need to hear it right away. I'm not trying to pressure anybody. If you ain't feelin' it, tell me 'I ain't feeling nothing right now.' Listen, this is what I said when I said to my mom: Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego said throw us into a fire. God can save us, but even if He doesn't we ain't gonna bow. You get thrown into the fire and all of a sudden there's Somebody standing next to you. So it ain't sayin' He ain't gonna show up. It's sayin' my situation doesn't dictate my view of who He is. I know He's a healer and I believe healing's gonna happen right now. What do you feel? MAN:I feel my toes always felt cold. And I could feel heat from my toes up. DUSTIN: And that's the first thing I said to you is circulation, line up. -Listen, it's a lie 8/13

9. from the enemy that says old age is gonna dictate how you feel. No way, that is not gonna happen, you are gonna live, you're gonna live, you're gonna live, live life to the fullest. You're gonna walk with no pain. I believe that in Jesus' name. [Singing] There's no one like You Jesus, right now we say there's no one like you, Jesus, You're the healer, we declare it right now over this body we say healing-. [MUSIC AND SINGING AS DUSTIN MINISTERS] There is no one like You Jesus, You're the healer Lord. There's no one like You Jesus, our healer, there's no one like You Jesus. There is no one like You Jesus, there is no one like You Lord. There is no one like You Jesus. Cause You're my healer, You're my savior, cause there is no one like you Jesus, There is no one like you Jesus, There is no one like you Lord, There is no one like you Jesus, and You and You have won my heart. Cause there is no one like you Jesus, there is no one like You Jesus, There is no one like You Jesus, and You and You have won my heart- O there is no one like you Jesus, there is no one like you Jesus There is no one like you Jesus- [MUSIC AND SINGING CONTINUES AS DUSTIN MINISTERS] SID: Dustin, I'm going to commission you right now. And this is what I am going to commission you to do. I want you to get behind that piano and I want you to teach us what is right worship. And I want you to transfer everything that you have got by the Spirit of God to those that are listening to you right now and everyone that is listening to you will become a worshipper as you are and live in the glory and presence and majesty of the Living God 24/7! AUDIENCE: Whooo, yay! [Clapping] DUSTIN: Why don't you do this for a second, then just sit down just for a second. I won't go long, this doesn't take long..... [music stops] We'll sing again, but- I was taught my whole life how to sing. I was never taught how to see. You see a lot of you know songs. It's almost like I can, I can read a book, you know I could have read Sid's book and say well I know him, but I didn't know him till I got to sit down with him, get to hear his heart, get to see his passion, to see the energy, see the purposes of his life, it's totally different when you're standing face to face with somebody than when you just read a book about somebody. And I have been taught how to sing songs my whole life. I grew up in church- You know my dad pastored, my mom, my dad pastored, my grandparents, my great grandparents. I grew up in church. We were part of a denominational church, but we were not exuberant in our worship I'd say at all. -This was like- you know this one where you're like- And you feel like I am king of the world right now, you know 'cause I am suffering for Jesus. AUDIENCE: [LAUGHS] DUSTIN: You know this is the suffering for Jesus level right here, you know, because no one else is even doing that level. When I experienced the presence of God every 9/13

10. argument melted away. -I stopping arguing on what I shouldn't do for Him and started wanting to do anything I knew that pleased His heart. You know I grew up in tradition so much. You can test yourself- Nowhere in the Bible does it say bow your head and close your eyes when you pray, but every one of you do it. That's not bad to bow your head and close your eyes. I close my eyes sometimes in worship. I like to keep them open 'cause I like to be worshipping with you. But the Bible does say: 'shout to the Lord all the earth, let us sing.' But I think most of us have based worship on our personality and our preference more than we have establishing a purpose of who God is on the earth. And all through scripture you'll find God disappointed with Israel in the Old Testament. And then you see Paul telling Timothy even make sure that husbands and wives are getting along because they are an example of me on the earth. And one of the reasons Christianity is looked on so poorly is because we're such a poor example. And we've turned worship into a war on each other. It's about hymns and choruses. It's about organs or drums. It's about putting words up on a screen or using a hymnbook. So the very thing that we've been designed to do and the weapon that we've been given to confront an enemy with we're now using on each other. When I walked into Smithton for the first time, and I experienced the breath of God and the presence of God, I told Sid, a message was spoken and it was called “Adapted to Demons.” Pastor Steve Gray, my pastor, spoke it. And one of the things he said was, he said Jesus encounters a demoniac and the Bible says that Jesus sets him free and he's sitting dressed and in his right mind. And the people come and see him dressed and in his right mind and it says, 'And they were afraid and they asked Jesus to leave.' Now see there's a power in worship and the enemy has convinced us so much that silence equals reverence. But silence doesn't equal reverence. When I'm speaking to my kids I don't tell them 'Uh, hey, I really want to tell you good job, but- it's not really my personality, but know in my heart I'm really praising you.' AUDIENCE: [LAUGHS] DUSTIN: And you have to really ask yourself have I based worship on my personality more than I have based on making a declaration of who He is. See, one of the reasons I'm unwavering is because I have seen Him in His sanctuary, I beheld His glory. When Isaiah sees him, he says: I saw the Lord seated on the throne and the trains of His robe fill the Temple. And in that day they would take the robe of a defeated king and they would attach it to their robe. And the larger the train the larger number of kingdoms they had defeated. And when he says I saw the Lord seated on the throne and the trains of His robe fill the Temple, he has overcome every enemy. But we're not fighting the enemy of Satan, we're fighting the enemy of self. So we stand in church and we sing songs- even if you sing “How Great Thou Art” with our hands in our pockets, sitting down, remote control mode, I'm not saying it has to be loud, I'm saying it has to be a response on what you see more than what you've been taught to sing. You've gotta stop being mindless when I say 'Here I am to worship, whooo, here I am to bow down.' You know one of the powerful reasons we do songs like that in church is because it puts us all in the same position. When we come in we can be so scattered in our days and in our 10/13

11. focuses. And all of a sudden you come in with a group, and you pull in, that's one of the reasons the CD's can be so powerful, because you plug 'em into a car and you're worshiping with somebody, you're listening, you're singing. And then you walk right in to a service with a bunch of other people who have gone through some of the same battles and the same struggles but we walk in and we lift up our eyes and we see the greatness of who He is, and no worship leader has to get up and go, 'Okay, can we please stand? Oh, c'mon let's please lift our hands.' Are you crazy? When you walk into church there are people in that room, okay you can worship by yourself at home, but the Bible says; one puts a thousand to flight, two puts ten thousand to flight, so what we should be having is your personal worship should be super powerful, but what you could do as a corporate body no one can stop. AUDIENCE: [CLAPS] DUSTIN: When you stand in a room and you declare in the face of the enemy, and in the face of a fire, in the face of disease, you stand in a room with a bunch of other people and you're holding hands or linking arms or looking eye to eye, and you're saying, 'I see, I've seen who you are!' I'm not making this super spiritual where you think you've gotta just see Him in a cloud, sometimes that happens, but you know what? Today when one of you began to testify I saw the Lord seated on the throne. And every enemy must bow at the sound of His name. So when we're worshipping I'm watching people and I've seen depression begin to just- I can see depression bow in his presence! As the worship gets unified and everybody stands as one voice, but we can't stand as one voice unless you make a decision as an individual that you're gonna do this. That you're gonna push away all the clutter and you're gonna see Him for who he is. You're not gonna base it on just what you've been taught or how you've been trained, but you're gonna base it on Him, you're gonna base it on what you see, and you're gonna work your days trying to see Him even greater, removing every obstacle to seeing Him. The worst thing that happened in the Bible and the worst thing that happens today is a people who proclaim who He is but their hearts are hard when He shows up. It's not the ones on the street or the ones, everybody else that we complain about. The ones that, listen, the ones that are right now rioting in Egypt have no power to stop your worship to the King of kings. Only you can stop it. AUDIENCE: [CLAPS] C'mon now, yeah, whoo, whoo. DUSTIN: So I would probably say the number one key to worship is to see who He is, not just to hear about Him. I know, we can say ah, it's my own personal relationship and I just walk hand in hand with Jesus. If you're walking hand in hand with Jesus some people are gettin' set free. The Bible says two things can't come out of your mouth, so I don't want to hear anymore 'I'm afraid.' No more do you let those kind of things come out of your mouth because I have seen Him and I recognize what you could do to my body does not worry me. [Laughs] Sin and sickness has no hold over me. And you finally stand up and you make a declaration for who God is and it's no longer based on you. And as long as 11/13

12. worship is based on you and what you can get out of it, you're gonna always struggle. Because I believe there's three things that people tend to turn God into: They turn Him into a genie. I need you now so I'm gonna rub You the right way so You'll pop out and fix my problems. They treat Him as a policeman, they're always just afraid they're gonna make a moral mistake. Or they just treat Him as a Mother Theresa, that's just a really quiet old lady. But you know what He is: He's a King. You know what He is? He's a Father. You know what He is? He's a Warrior. [Laughs] So don't just look at Him for what you need Him to be. So those of you who just experienced healing, see He didn't come just to touch one little part of your body, He came to consume everything you are. And I've made a decision in my life- I made a decision in my life when I get up to worship- I didn't come so You could serve me. I didn't come so You could just take care of me and coddle me today. I'm not removing who He is and what He does and I'm not removing His grace and His mercy and His love. I feel that every service in the glory of God. But if I never feel anything again, whooo, I recognize who You are. Listen, I didn't come here to try to make a name for myself. You know what? One of you, it might be for one person in this room that might actually stand up against an enemy that goes far beyond anything I might be able to do- I'm prayin' for my kids that they'd stand on my shoulders. And the things that I've seen and accomplished, my kids, my ceiling is their floor. But today when we stand in this room and every time I stand on a platform if it was in Uganda, or when I was in Maylasia, or when I go to Korea, when I stand in Kansas City Missouri, or when I stand in Charlotte North Carolina, I don't go 'Man, I didn't get much sleep last night.' I didn't go 'Man, I feel horrible today, man, my back really hurts.' Every time I get up there I go: 'I'm gonna declare who You are! And I'm gonna let faith arise.' And as I speak and as I sing some of you right now faith is arising in your life. And it's powerful because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. So as I speak it goes in and it unites who you are. But the power of corporate worship is now all of us start to hear it. Let it become who we are, and then as we speak it, no longer are we just hearing it, now we are becoming the voice of it. So you can let this happen in you, but Amos 5:23, and then we're gonna sing one more song, Amos 5:23 says this: It says “I am tired of your religious feasts and I'm sick of your songs. When's the last time you just sang to Me?” He says you know what I want? He says I want justice to flow like a river and mercy to run like a stream. And every time I stand up to worship I tell God [that] what you've done to me, now I need you to do it through me. If it comes to me and it stops with me I become the dam of revival. If it stops with me then I end up damming you, and if I dam you I eventually dam myself. He has not called me to be a pool, He has called me to be connected to the living springs that never ends. AUDIENCE: [CLAPS] DUSTIN: So when we stand in this room, let's go ahead and stand back up, when you stand in this room we don't stand here just in a receiving posture, receiving is good, but we stand here in a giving posture because worship is training us. That if I'll reach out my hands to Him, then He can trust me to reach out my hands to others. If I'll use my voice for Him, in this room in a safe place, then it pretty much guarantees when I walk out of 12/13

13. here, that's what's gonna be on my lips. If I'll do it in here, I'm gonna do it out there. If I'll move my feet a little bit in worship, it's training me that He has control of my feet, He has control of my hands, He has control of my mouth, He has control of my eyes, and right now speak, You have control of my ears. So I want you to see who He is today. The greatest thing that can happen is as you heard the testimonies of the marriage, as you hear the testimonies of the healings, is that all of a sudden you start realizing, shooo, I wanna give my life to this One- [MUSIC AND SINGING] So let us hear the sound of angels singing 'Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord.' And let us see the saints and elders gathering in worship round your throne. There's only one desire in the hearts of Your redeemed. To stand deeper in the place where earth and heaven meet. And with the sound like rushing waters, we sing blessing, honor and praise. With one voice that rolls like thunder every tongue will now proclaim: Our God reigns. Our God reigns. Let us hear the saints and angels bowing down in worship at your throne. Let us see the saints and elders bowing down in worship at your throne. All majesty and power on the earth and up above. Be to the only God who was, and is, and is to come- For more blog content you can visit sid roth. 13/13