You Lord, You are worthy

And no one can worship You for me

For all the things You've done for me
And no one can worship You for me (lift it up)

Here's my worship
All of my worship
Receive my worship
All of my worship
Here's my worship (all of mine)
All of my worship (Father, receive my)
Receive my worship (all of my worship)
All of my worship

And I will not be silent

I will always worship You
As long as I am breathing
I will always worship You (saying "I will")

I am Thine, O Lord, I have heard Thy voice,

And it told Thy love to me;
But I long to rise in the arms of faith,
And be closer drawn to Thee.
Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord,
To the cross where Thou hast died;
Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord,
To Thy precious, bleeding side.

This morning, We will be looking at a spiritual exercise that can greatly

help us this year. With the way the country is, what can I do to be at
peace.

Leave the country

Topic “ Climb up the mountain”

Away from naira scarcity, fuel scarcity, rumors of war, social medias,
conspiracy theories, away from the world

Do I strike you as a man who go to the mountain to pray, let me assure

you, I have never tried it.
But I am sure our pastor has been to the mountain many times. He is a
tall man his body is well suited for climbing right, I am just a short ijebu
man

So this morning we are not referring to a physical mountain. Let’s look at

the following texts:
Isiah 2:3 , Micah 4:2, Mathew 14:23.

So when I say go up the mountain,

What it is not

1. I’m not talking about receiving more of God because that's not
possible you can't receive more than all of him.

now we understand that God resides in us, all that we need has been
given to us by the Holy spirit

2. i'm not talking about receiving more power that's not possible you
can't receive more than all of the power of god which resides in
you already0;

luke 10: 17-20

Luk 10:17  And the seventy returned again with joy, saying,
Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. 
Luk 10:18  And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning
fall from heaven. 
Luk 10:19  Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents
and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and
nothing shall by any means hurt you. 
Luk 10:20  Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto
you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven. 

When a man becomes born again, the Holy spirit comes to dwell in a
man, the Holy spirit comes with His gifts and fruits. The power of God
comes to dwell in a man when the Holy spirit comes in

Rom 8:9  But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now
if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 

When you give birth to a child

So also is the born again christian

 everything you need to pray

 everything you need to understand the word
 everything you need to worship
 everything you need to evangelize boldly
 everything you need to drive outdemons
 everything you need to heal the sick
 everything you need to preach the gospel
 everything you need to have confidence in your salvation
 everything you need to receive instruction from the lord
 everything you need to understand the word

By going up the mountain, I mean ascending higher places in your walk

with God

It is about allowing that which is in you to become manifested around

you

about releasing that which god has deposited in you already

Once you have started climbing that mountain, your nature begins to
disappear and God’s nature begins to shine.

i'm talking about truly being alive in christ

Galatians 2:20 

Gal 2:20  I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life
which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for
me.
 this means that where i step my foot the christ steps
 when i go to lay my hand christ in me goes to lay his hand as well

so let us go into Exodus 24

TO see a man who climbed the mountain after being given a royal
invitation by the most high

Exodus 24
We will read from Verse 12

Let us understand the context here is Moses was called to the top of the
mountain

God picked him out of all of the children of israel god picked him out to
lead god marked him god sanctified him when he encountered the
presence of the holy spirit in exodus chapter 3 and it produced in him a
desire to bring deliverance to a people

so moses gets a royal invitation to come to the top of the mountain and
fellowship with God

the mountain signifies a place to spend an alone time with God, it

represents
removing all distractions and standing before him just you and him
let's go to verse 12.
New Living Translation
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain. Stay
there, and I will give you the tablets of stone on which I have inscribed
the instructions and commands so you can teach the people.”

SAY STAY THERE

When God invites you to come with him on top of the mountain he
commands us to stay there
the issue is that many of us make contact with god but we don't abide in
the manifested presence we don't abide in that time with him
the issue with some of our mindsets regarding the presence of god we
imagine that there is this coming and this going of the presence of the
holy spirit but

spirit does not come and go jesus said i will send you another he will
be your advocate and he will never leave you that's what jesus said

Joh_14:16  And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter,
that he may abide with you for ever;

so when i go to this place of prayer i must understand that this is not a

place that i visit this is a place where i abide and it's in the abiding that
we find true fellowship.
when you go to the top of the mountain some of us we find the presence
and then we leave

Let’s see how that looks

he calls us to the top and as we move we're attached to the world by the
things that distract our heart and mind how many times have you gone
to pray
maybe 20 30 minutes go by and then you realize i didn't do much praying
or you begin to try to commune with god and suddenly all of the things
that were corrupt or sinful or shameful in your past begin to distract you
To come up the mountain and abide, you have to understand that in
order to ascend the mountain you must disconnect from the flesh

so how do you disconnect from this body

go to philippians 4 6-7

Php 4:6  Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer

and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made
known unto God. 
Php 4:7  And the peace of God, which passeth all
understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through
Christ Jesus. 

DO NOT WORRY, Worry is how your flesh prays

Sometimes when riding in someone's car as the passenger and they're

not breaking fast enough for me and i start pressing my foot onto the
floor even though there's no break there.

don't worry about anything instead pray about everything.

tell god what you need and thank him for all he has done then you will
experience god's peace which exceeds anything

So we come to the mountain with the cares of this world like a giant
backpack and i'm trying to walk up this mountain to meet with god
that backpack will make that climb very very very difficult you can get
there but it's going to take you a lot longer,

and so we start to ascend that mountain worries of the world

relationship issues
financial issues everything you could possibly imagine that would weigh
down your mind it slows your progress oftentimes, some people go back
to the base of the mountain because of the weight of the backpack

now when i make a prayer request i'm taking off the backpack and
handing it to god.

the prayer request is the removal of the cares of the world and
placing them on his shoulders

then thank him for all he has done ask him for what you need and after
you do that then you will experience god's peace

so now i give him my worry i give him my responsibilities i give

him all of those things that are on my mind and he exchanges
those things with his peace

peace is not the conclusion of prayer

it's the beginning

you see when you receive peace it's because you took the backpack off
you're starting your climb you take it off
the peace is not just to make you feel good the peace was given to you
not just to have you stop worrying
the peace was given to you so that your climb up the mountain is
easier

and we think that god's pleased with it when he's just saying hurry up put
down the backsack and get up here and then we leave His presence.

let's climb this mountain when your mind is free from distraction
when you're filled with his peace prayer is not a tedious difficult
task , when you're filled with his peace prayer, is a flow
 verse 13

New Living Translation

So Moses and his assistant Joshua set out, and Moses climbed up the
mountain of God.

i want to point out to you in fact that moses did climb

God invites you to climb the mountain, you must do the praying.

Do I hear someone say how do I start a prayer life – Just start

you see the holy spirit will give you the desire it's your part to enact the
discipline

if you desire to pray it was the holy spirit who gave you that desire in
the first place therefore the desire to is an invitation to climb the
mountain.

So i must climb i must set the time i must make my schedule, my time,
prepare my place.

Don't tell me you don't have time for prayer when you're caught up on the
latest netflix series

if you have to wake up earlier wake up earlier if you have to stay up later
stay up later whatever you have to do to rearrange your life.

we've heard this before and have done nothing about it God himself is
inviting us
 to know him, to know his mind,
 to fellowship with him

we must climb
we must set aside the time
we must rearrange the day
we must do everything we can to stubbornly cling to
our prayer lives and sacrifice it for no one

verse 14

New Living Translation

Moses told the elders, “Stay here and wait for us until we come back.
Aaron and Hur are here with you. If anyone has a dispute while I am
gone, consult with them.”

when you go to higher places

not everyone can go with you

But you have a responsibility to attend to those who are still behind. Why
is the church not filled yet, because you have not displayed the signs
Jesus asked us to display. Mark 16:15

verse 15.

New International Version

When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it,
IS it possible that I spend even a second in the presence of God
without being affected

every moment you are in the presence of God you are changing
you are growing
becoming more like christ there is not a wasted moment

but when i go before god something is happening and there's a

partnership here moses climbed, the cloud covered, all you can
do is your part, be sure that the cloud is waiting for you there,
God’s presence is waiting for you there.

verse 16

New International Version

and the glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud
covered the mountain, and on the seventh day the LORD called to Moses
from within the cloud.

here is that royal invitation, no one else being allowed it's you and God
the invitation has been sent to all believers but few of them actually
respond. People often leave the mountain before this encounter. The
Glory of the Lord showed up, you must spend time in the presence of
God, Do not be deceived, 5 minutes is not ok, 10 minutes is not, you can
start with that but it is just like ascending the mountain and going back
half way

verse 17
to the israelites at the foot of the mountain
the glory of the lord appeared at the summit like a consuming
fire i love this i love this i love this i
love this

verse 18

New Living Translation

Then Moses disappeared into the cloud as he climbed higher up the
mountain. He remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Note that He is still climbing, he is still dwelling, No distraction. He

remained. It is Joy being in the presence of God and feeling He is there.

As I said earlier before I am not a mountain man but i want to be a man

of the mountain i want to be a person who ascends

are you people of the mountain very important because people of the
mountain disappear in God, people of the mountain are friends with
him
think about the covenant he gives us
 your battles are my battles
 my resources are your resources
 your enemies are my enemies

now moses on the mountaintop received instruction for the people down
in the valley
when you're a person of the mountain. God assigns you to help the
people in the valley if you don't go to the mountaintop what will you have
to say to the people in the valley
moses went he met with god what if he came back with no instructions
This sits nicely pertaining to the sermon of Last week Get your own
instructions from the instructor.

there is no greater advantage in life than the presence of the holy spirit
no please hear me nothing can keep you down when the presence of the
holy spirit abides in you when you're a person of the mountain
it's the ultimate advantage in life and all god requires is that you ascend
what can anyone do to you no really if God is for me who can be against
me

2Ch 5:13  It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as
one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD;
and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and
instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for
his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud,
even the house of the LORD; 
2Ch 5:14  So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the
LORD had filled the house of God. 

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