How to Focus Entirely on God During Praise & Worship feat. Ron Kenoly

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Hello everyone, I'm James Lasher with Charisma Media and we have another reaction video for you

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And just like Pastor John Hagee's first reaction video that we did this one is an amazing video that we highly recommend you check out

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This is by Dr. Ron

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Kenoly, that's right the man who brought us from the early 90s

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I believe 92 is when the album came out Oh ancient of days

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The that song was a part of my childhood growing up and then he was also on the cover of Charisma magazine

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circa February 1994 if that isn't just the greatest print ever

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That sums up the 90s and how all these photoshoots used to go with the nice little sweater vest and everything

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We love Dr. Ron Kenoly here and he is still as a worship leader preaching the word of God

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Across the world and so what we have here is a short clip

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We're gonna play and we're gonna react to what he is doing during the middle of a praise and worship set at

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a church and just how

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strong and anointed in the Lord that this man really is and just he got me really

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Centering myself and asking myself am I making the Lord God the center of my praise and worship or is there

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Distractions around that I'm allowing to enter into this time of intimacy with the Lord

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And so let's go ahead take the clip and see what dr. Kenoly has to say and the honor

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So we

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Stop pastor how much authority do I have?

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Do I have authority

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Okay

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Okay now listen

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One of the things that bothers me the most

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It's when I try to get intimate with God and somebody's taking pictures of me

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No, you know

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You know our goal is to know God. Oh

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Okay, tune and real quick. Let's just say Dr. Kenoly

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Knows God what was the first thing he did?

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He he went silent for a second there and you saw him

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Listening to what the Holy Spirit was telling him

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He was being guided by the Holy Spirit and just stopped the whole thing and what did he do after that? Which really?

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When you look at as many videos in the media and everything that we do here at charisma

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You know, we we look at a lot of things he as a worship leader submitted his self to the

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authority of the pastor at that church. He acknowledged. This is not my church

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He said pastor how much authority do I have and you heard a little bit of sound coming off the stage?

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And then when he asked do I have the authority you you can distinctly hear the pastor say yes, sir

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and and that is just an

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incredible

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example to me and to all of us of

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Of what that Christian submission is you even when you're in a position of authority like Dr. Kenoly is he is he is a world-renowned?

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Worship leader. He still submitted himself to the authority of the pastorship at the church. He's leading worship in

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What what an amazing example of what a Christian really should be in all that. Let's continue

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No, God, you know

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You remember in the Bible when it says Adam knew his wife

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Abraham knew Sarah that in other words, they had an intimate time together

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Who's married is a married couple in here where that's your wife with you right there?

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I'm talking that's your wife. Oh, okay. Now listen

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when you and your wife

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are being

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intimate

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I'm talking about intimate with your clothes off

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Do you want people taking pictures of you?

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Nope

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Okay

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now two things as a worship leader, I

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Appreciate the fact that you love me

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And you have demonstrated that over the years over the 43 years of ministry

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But well, thank you

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Thank you

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But I want to get something clear. I

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Am not an artist

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I am not an artist

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Hmm. I'm a worship leader

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and and my goal

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My my only goal my only gift the gift that the father put in me

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Was to get teach you how to worship him properly

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Okay. Now we are singing a song

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That dictates the appropriate behavior. Okay

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Most of you are from West Africa, right?

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And you have Kings, right?

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Okay, what is the first thing that you do when before you go to the king?

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What do you do when you come in the presence of the king?

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You bow so you don't know I have to teach you that

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Okay

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Now the Bible tells us the appropriate behavior when we experience his manifest presence

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Okay, and it says it right here in the song you deserve the glory

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You deserve the honor so we lift our hands in worship

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Okay

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Now I don't mind teaching you because I feel like I have failed if I don't teach you now we started that song

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a little bit just a little bit ago and

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A lot of you were being very casual in the presence of God and I'm not rebuking you

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And I'm not rebuking you because I love you

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Well, let me put it let me let me just refresh. I'm rebuking you cause I love you

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That's right. And let me tell you everything that he is saying

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You can tell in his in his tone in what he is saying and how he is saying it. Dr. Kenoly

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As he said in 43 years of ministry is doing this in love. He didn't get angry

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He didn't strong arm the audience and and just throw

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Anger their way

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He showed them love as a teacher as an elder as somebody who has been in this position and as the pastor said

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But as also the Lord has placed on him the authority of the worship leader to teach and instruct to

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To lead those into the worship of God, but also maintaining that it's not him on stage. It's not the worship band

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It's not the singers. It's not the audience. It's not the pastor. It is the focus on

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God and the Lord and we enter into his gates with thanksgiving and praise

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And then it is the worship that we just delve deeper into his presence and that he said he would

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It would be a failure on his part if he didn't teach and instruct that and that's

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these people are getting a sermon within the praise and worship of it that is just

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Outstanding that this isn't just

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For this church audience. This is for all Christians everywhere to like he said they are being casual about the presence of God and that is

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And the complete opposite of what?

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Must be taken seriously

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The presence of God is a serious matter an important matter and an intimate matter

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So when your focus isn't on the Lord, it's on

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Maybe you have a celebrity worship leader or something and you're taking these pictures

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You're taking these videos your focus is on that person

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You're not focused on worshiping the Lord and that's that's something that people around the world maybe

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Even how he addresses it

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It's not that they're doing it

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out of

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An intent to disrespect the Lord. It's it's a casual attitude that they have

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About the worship of God that needs to be taken more serious because he is holy

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He is worthy of praise and to be glorified just oh he could do a whole sermon on this

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Okay, now we're gonna do this song again

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And if you're not hired to run a camera

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Put your camera down and let's just worship the Lord. Okay

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You deserve the glory

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So that's where we'll leave it today just a short clip of dr ron cannoli

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having a short

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educational

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You know discussion with the church that he's at that is so important to the Christian church as a whole today

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That we need to take this time with the Lord seriously

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And we can't just have it be okay. We're going to sing three to four songs and then get on with the sermon

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No, you need to focus on the Lord and let the

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Holy Spirit

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Move how he wants to move just like recently

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here in the united states

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free chapel by

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By pastor Jentezen Franklin and evangelist Perry Stone

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They they just had revival surfaces for nearly two weeks and they said we don't know how long this is going to go

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We don't know when it's going to end. We just know that the holy spirit is moving

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We're not going to get in the way of what the Lord has planned

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And that's along the exact same spirit of what Dr Kenoly is preaching about praise and worship is

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Put the focus on the Holy Spirit. Let the holy spirit lead

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this worship of the Lord and it's just

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Something the Christian church really needs to get back to for our edification

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And but more importantly for the glory of God to to put him back at the forefront to not be

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You know seeker friendly and have everything just organize, you know

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This is what we're going to do and we're not going to let anything

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Alter our organization and don't get me wrong

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I'm somebody who loves an organized, you know calendar. I like oh, this is what I have coming up

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This is what we're doing

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But sometimes we need to be able to submit ourselves to the movement of the holy spirit and abide by

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His schedule what he wants to do and we do that when we make him the focus of these moments of opportunity

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These praise and worship services that we have on Sunday mornings or Sunday evenings or Saturday evenings or or midweek services or

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Time alone in your car time alone and time alone in your home

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Whether you're just in the living room or you know, whether you're going for a walk

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We need

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To just enter into praise and worship with the lord with the right heart the right attitude the right mentality of taking

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This time with him seriously and make him our focal point

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So that's what we have for you today

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An amazing mini sermon if you will by dr

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Ron Kenoly who is still over four decades in he is still teaching and leading people into the worship of the Lord

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So I'm James Lasher with Charisma Media. God bless you