The River Family Worship

1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-11
KNOW YE NOT THAT THE UNRIGHTEOUS SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD?
BE NOT DECEIVED: NEITHER FORNICATORS, NOR IDOLATERS, NOR ADULTERERS, NOR EFFEMINATE, NOR ABUSERS OF THEMSELVES WITH MANKIND, NOR THIEVES, NOR COVETOUS, NOR DRUNKARDS, NOR REVILERS, NOR EXTORTIONERS, SHALL INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. AND SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU: BUT YE ARE WASHED, BUT YE ARE SANCTIFIED, BUT YE ARE JUSTIFIED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS, AND BY THE SPIRIT OF OUR GOD.

PHILIPPIANS 3:13-14
BRETHERN, I COUNT NOT MYSELF TO HAVE APPREHENDED: THIS ONE THING I DO, FORGETTING THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE BEHIND, AND REACHING FORTH UNTO THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE BEFORE, I PRESS TOWARD THE MARK FOR THE PRIZE OF THE HIGH CALLING OF GOD IN CHRIST.
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DEAR MY MOST PERIOUS HEAVENLY FATHER, YOU ARE MY EVERTHING, WITH OUT YOU I AM NOTHING. PLEASE SEND YOUR HOLY SPIRIT TO HELP US UNDERSTAND YOUR WORD. GIVE ME THE ABILITY TO PRESENT THIS WORD AS IT HAS BEEN REVALED UNTO ME. LET IT NOT FALL ON DEAF EARS LORD, BUT LET IT BRING FORTH FRUIT TO BLESS YOUR NAME AND TO GIVE GLORY AND HOHOR AND POWER TO YOU FOREVER AND EVER, IN THE NAME OF JESUS, AMEN AND AMEN! WE ARE GOING TO LOOK AT SOME VERY INTRESTING THINGS. I BELEVE THIS WORD HAS COME FROM THE THRONE OF GOD AND HAS PRICKED MY SOUL THAT I MUST SHARE IT WITH YOU ALL.
STANDING OR TO STAND (look at definitions)
Stand [stand]
Get up on feet: to get up into an upright position from a sitting or lying position
Be in particular place: to be situated or positioned in a particular place
Remain motionless: to remain in a particular place without moving or being used
Remain valid: to continue to be in effect or existence
Submit to something: to submit or be subjected to something
To fight resolutely or give battle, often after having been in retreat


PSALM 94:16 WHO WILL RISE UP FOR ME AGAINST MY EVILDOERS? OR WHO WILL STAND UP FOR ME AGAINST THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY?

PSALM 109:31 FOR HE SHALL STAND AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE POOR, TO SAVE HIM FROM THOSE THAT CONDEMN HIS SOUL.

NOW THER ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT THEIR SOUL PURPOSE IS CONDEMN THE SAINTS OF GOD, FALSELY ACCUSE, AND TO BRING SHAME TO US. BUT THERE IS JUSTICE THROUGH THE POWER OF GOD. PSALM 109:6 SET THOU A WICKED MAN OVER HIM: AND LET SATAN STAND AT HIS RIGHT HAND.

ZECHARIAH 3:1 AND HE SHOWED ME JOSHUA THE HIGH PRIEST STANDING BEFORE THE ANGEL OF THE LORD, AND SATAN STANDING AT HIS RIGHT HAND TO RESIST HIM.

BUT BE OF GOOD CHEER, I’VE GOT GOOD NEWS!! WE LOOKED IN THE BOOK OF EXODUS EXODUS 14:13-14 AND MOSES SAID UNTO THE PEOPLE, FEAR YE NOT, STAND STILL, AND SEE THE SALVATION OF THE LORD,WHICH HE WILL SHEW TO YOU TO DAY: FOR THE EGYPTIANS WHOM YE HAVE SEEN TO DAY, YE SHALL SEE THEM AGAIN NO MORE FOR EVER. THE LORD SHALL FIGHT FOR YOU, AND YE SHALL HOLD YOUR PEACE. BUT INORDER FOR THE LORD TO MOVE MOSES HAD TO MOVE FIRST. BY RAISING HIS ROD.

WE SEE IN ESTHER WHERE THE JEWS WAS GRANTED TO STAND FOR THEIR LIFES!
ESTHER 8:11 WHEREIN THE KING GRANTED THE JEWS WHICH WERE IN EVERY CITY TO’GATHER THEMSELVES TOGETHER , AND TO STAND FOR THEIR LIFE, TO DESTROY, TO SLAY, AND TO CAUSE TO PERISH, ALL THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE AND PROVINCE THAT WOULD ASSALT THEM, BOTH LITTLE ONES AND WOMEN, AND TO TAKE THE SPOIL OF THEM FOR A PREY.
ESTHER RISKS HER OWN LIFE TO SAVE HER PEOPLE. SHE WENT BEYOND THE ORDINARY. BY DOING SO SHE MOVED HEAVEN INTO ACTION.

NOW, THAT WAS JUST A FEW PLACES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT I WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU. WHEN PEOPLE GOT TIRED OF WHAT AND WERE THEY WHERE IN THEIR LIVES AND DECICDED TO CHANGE.TO DO SOMETHING TO GET THE ATTENTION OF GOD. LET’S MOVE ON TO THE NEW TESTAMENT. THIS IS WHERE WE WILL GET TO THE HEART OF THE MESSAGE.

MARK 14:62 AND JESUS SAID I AM: AND YE SHALL SEE THE SON OF MAN SITTING ON THE RIGHT HAND OF POWER, AND COMING IN THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN. MATTHEW 26:64 JESUS SAITH UNTO HIM, THOU HAST SAID: NEVERTHELESS I SAY UNTO YOU, HEREAFTER, SHALL YE SEE THE SON OF MAN SITTING ON THE RIGHT HAND OF POWER, AND COMING IN THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN. LUKE 22:69 HEREAFTER SHALL THE SON OF MAN SIT ON THE RIGHT HAND OF THE POWER OF GOD. THIS IS WHEN THE HIGH PRIEST AND THE COUNCIL SOUGHT FOR A WITNESS AGAINST JESUS SO THEY COULD KILL HIM. SO WE SEE THAT JESUS HIMSELF SAYS HE WAS GOING TO SIT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER. IN HEBREWS 1:3 PAUL SAYS: WHO BEING THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS GLORY, AND THE EXPRESS IMAGE OF HIS PERSON, AND UPHOLDING ALL THINGS BY THE WORD OF HIS POWER, WHEN HE HAD BY HIMSELF PURGED OUR SINS, SAT DOWN ON THE RIGHT HAND OF THE MAJESTY ON HIGH. HEBREWS 8:1 NOW OF THE THINGS WHICH WE HAVE SPOKEN OF THIS IS THE SUM: WE HAVE SUCH AN HIGH PRIEST, WHO IS SET ON THE RIGHT HAND OF THE MAJESTY IN THE HEAVENS. HEBREWS 10:12 BUT THIS MAN, (OH, HOW I LOVE THAT SAYING..”BUT THIS MAN”) BUT THIS MAN, AFTER HE HAD OFFERED UP ONE SACRIFICE FOR SINS FOR EVER, SAT DOWN ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD. EPHESIANS 1:20-21 WHICH HE WROUGHT IN CHRIST, WHEN HE RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD, AND SET HIM AT HIS OWN RIGHT HAND IN THE HEAVENLY PLACES, FAR ABOVE ALL PRINCIPALITY, AND POWER, AND MIGHT, AND DOMINION, EVERY NAME THAT IS NAMED, NOT ONLY IN THIS WORLD, BUT ALSO IN THAT WHICH IS TO COME. COLOSSIANS 3:1 IF YE THEN BE RAISED WITH CHRIST, SEEK THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE ABOVE, WHERE CHRIST SITTETH ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD. OK, SO WE NOW KNOW WHERE JESUS IS, RIGHT? HE IS SITTING ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD IN HEAVEN. WE KNOW HE IS ALWAYS WATCHING US, ALWAYS LOOKING OUT FOR US. BUT, SOMETIMES WE LOSE OUR WAY AS WE WALK AND WE NEED SOME HELP. OR WE HAVE LOST CONTACT WITH THE FATHER. MY POINT OF THIS MESSAGE IS TO GET THE ATTENTION OF JESUS.
MATTHEW 20:30-34 (READ IT ALOUD) THESE MEN DID SOMETHING BEYOND THE ORDINARY, BUT MOREOVER THAN THAT THEY WOULD NOT SIT IDLELY BY WHILE JESUS WAS PASSING BY. EVEN WHEN THE MULTITUDE REBUKED THEM THAT THEY SHOULD HOLD THEIR PEACE. I LOVE WHAT THESE MEN DO!! THE BIBLE SAYS THAT “THEY CRIED THE MORE” OH!! GLORY!! AND BY THIS, THESE MEN GOT THE ATTENTION OF HEAVENS BEST. THE BIBLE SAYS THAT “JESUS STOOD STILL” WOW!! THAT’S WHAT WE GOT TO DO. WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET THE LORDS ATTENTION. IT MAY BE THE ACT OF OBEY A SIMPLE REQUEST. WE MAY THINK IT IS NOT IMPROTANT, WE MAY THINK IT’S FOOLISH OR GOING OVER BROAD. I KNOW HOW IT IS WHEN YOUR MIND (FLESH) STARTS TALKING. TELLING YOU YOUR GONNA LOOK STUPID. JUST STAY IN YOUR SEAT IT’LL BE OVER SOON AND YOU CAN GO BACK TO YOUR NORMAL LIFE. OR MY FAVORITE “IF YOU DO THAT THING THAT GODS WANT YOU TO DO, YOUR GONNA BE A DISTRACTION TO THE REST OF US” EVER HEARD THAT ONE? OR THAT’S JUST A SHOW, IT’S NOT REAL.
I’ M HERE TO TELL YOU FRIEND, IT IS REAL. I HAVE SEEN IT, I HAVE FELT IT, AND I HAVE WITNESSED THE POWER OF GOD. MORE OVER I HAVE EXPERIENCED IT. I KNOW HE IS REAL. SO WHAT IS KEEPING YOU FROM GETTING GODS ATTENTION? WHEN YOU’RE LEVEL OF DESIRE GETS BIGGER THAN YOUR LEVEL OF EMBARASSMENT JESUS WILL STAND UP AND GIVE YOU ALL THE ATTENION YOU NEED! ACTS 7:55 BUT HE, BEING FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST, LOOKED UP STEDFASTLEY INTO HEAVEN, AND SAW THE GLORY OF GOD, AND JESUS STANDING ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, AND SAID, BEHOLD I SEE THE HEAVENS OPENED, AND THE SON OF MAN STANDING ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD. OH FRIEND I’M HERE TO TELL YOU THAT WHEN YOU HAVE COME AS FAR AS YOU CAN GO. WHEN YOU HAVE GIVEN YOUR ALL. JESUS WILL PAY YOU SOME ATTENTION. SO I ASKED YOU WHAT IS IT THAT WE HAVE TO DO? WHAT IS IT THAT WE HAVE TO LET GO OF? WHAT IS IT THAT WE WANT THE MOST? I TELL YOU RIGHT NOW WHAT I’M SEARCHING FOR, AND IT IS A SUPERNATURAL TOUCH OF THE HOLY GHOST. I WANT HIS FIRE TO FALL ON THIS PLACE. PEOPLE WE HAVE GOT TO GET THE ATTENTION OF GOD! WE HAVE GOT TO STEP OUT OF THE ORDINARY LIFE WE LIVE AND BREAKTHROUGH THE WALLS THAT KEEP US FROM OUR FATHER. COME ON LETS FIND OUT WHAT IT TAKES TO GET JESUS TO STAND UP. BECAUSE WHEN JESUS STANDS UP, HEAVEN COMES TO ATTENION. READY TO TAKE ORDERS. THEY DON’T KNOW WHATS GOING ON. ALL THEY SEE IS THAT JESUS HAS GOTTEN UP OUT OF HIS SEAT AND IS LOOKING OVER THE EDGE OF GLORY. I CAN’T HELP BUT TO THINK THAT GABRIEL IS GRABBING HIS TRUMPET. THE ANGLES ARE GETTING READY TO FIGHT. THEY DON’T KNOW WHATS GOING ON, BUT THEY KNOW SOMETHING HAS GOTTEN THE HEART OF JESUS STIRRED UP, AND JESUS CAN NOT SIT THERE AND DO NOTHING. THE BIBLE SAYS IN 2CHRONICLES 7:14 IF MY PEOPLE, WHICH ARE CALLED BY MY NAME, SHALL HUMBLE THEMSELVES, AND PRAY, AND SEEK MY FACE, TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS: THEN WILL I HEAR FROM HEAVEN, AND WILL FORGIVE THEIR SINS, AND WILL HEAL THEIR LAND. LETS BACK UP TO 2CHRONICLES 7:1-2 NOW WHEN SOLOMON HAD MADE AN END OF PRAYING, THE FIRE CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN, AND CONSUMED THE BURNT OFFERING AND THE SACRIFICES: AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD FILLED THE HOUSE. AND THE PRIESTS COULD NOT ENTER INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, BECAUSE THE GLORY OF THE LORD HAD FILLED THE LORD’S HOUSE. SO I’M TELLING YOU NOW WHATEVER YOU GOT TO DO, WHEREVER YOU GOT TO GO, WHATEVER UNUSUAL STEPS YOU HAVE TO TAKE DO IT! BECAUSE WHEN YOU STEP OUT BEYOND THE ORDINARY. JESUS WILL STAND UP, JESUS WILL STAND STILL, AND WHEN HE DOES, ALL OF HEAVEN WILL SNAP TO ATTENTION! AGREE WITH ME, WE ARE GOING TO DO WHATEVER IT TAKES!

Thank You Micheal for revealing your heart, and a hugh Amen. God has had His hand upon me all my life with little or no regognition. I agree it's time to step out of the box. It's time for all of us to drop our Fassod and get down to the true meaning of Worship. Pastor Bob has tried countless times to break us out and let the presence of God fall, but We always seem to retreat back into our selves! Maybe it's the thoughts of others or maybe just our on pride. But I for one am willing to Build that Alter with my hands. Since our Fast began God has brought a tenderness back to my heart I thought I had lost, but Praise be to God He is still with me. I petition all of The River to get God Attention! He will inhabit the Praises of His people. (Thats it though We must be His People) Revival for Our small congregation begins with me. Troy