Our Guest Kerry Kirkwood
Sid: My guest is Kerry Kirkwood, we’re talking about worship and on yesterday’s broadcast you were talking about worship literally create a habitation, a dwelling place for God; would you finish that thought?
Kerry: Well, when we worship and again that worship is to bow, to kiss, to love, to adore, so it’s not just listening to worship music. But as you begin to worship the Lord then the presence of God overshadows and light destroys darkness and as we worship the Lord then that creates a light habitation, a light of Glory and it pushes back the darkness. You can worship in the home and you can worship around the neighborhood and it begins to set a parameter against the enemy because worship is a very thing that Lucifer wanted to have but he couldn’t have. And so we the saints of God are the redeemed to the Lord and we carry the song of the redeemed that no one else can sing and so when we worship the Lord we literally magnify the Lord and then everything else has to shrink and come under the submission of His presence.
Sid: I’ve see so many people that go through tragedy in their life such as a wife whose husband has died and they grieve for weeks, months, even years. How would worship help them?
Kerry: Well, I remember one particular woman that had lost a close family relative and they couldn’t get past it and she was asking God why and just all of the reasoning and you know blaming one thing and how the devil get in and all that thing. And so in a worship time where that the Holy Spirit just took her to where He was showing her how to worship the Father, loving Him, trusting God and at that moment she was caught up into the glory of God in such a way, and she could see by revelation that family member that she had been grieving over wasn’t grieving at all but they were enjoying the very presence of God. That she got a small glimpse of in worship. In a moment of grieving before that and after a moment of worship she was completely set free and never did carry that heavy thing again that feeling of just rejection and why me God?
Sid: And tell me real briefly about the young kid that was delivered of the demonic that was sticking his tongue out?
Kerry: Oh yeah it was in a counseling session and the whole family was in there and they couldn’t deal with them, of course the husband was cursing the mother, the mother the dad, I mean it was just a whole just convoluted mess that as a counselor I couldn’t wrap my brain around what was going on, and I was confused. I mean I had felt that the demonic presence there and all I could do was just start singing the song of the Lord. “Lord Your worthy of all praise, I bless Your name, there’s none greater than you oh Lord God, who is like unto You in tall the earth; blessings and honor and praise oh God.” And as I started singing that song it just like cold water fell on them and extinguished that anger, then they just kind of set there. I don’t know if they were kind of stunned at me or I don’t know what was happening but that demonic presence left and then I could begin to share with them out of the word what was the problem, but it was the presence of God that drew that thing out of there. Much like David as a young harpist when Saul had that demonic that spirit that came from the Lord that was just tormenting him and that David began to play and that spirit lifted. And so worship can lift that thing off of a person like nothing else can.
Sid: I want you to tell me A-B-C for someone listening, they want to get up early every day and worship God; give me some steps.
Kerry: I think what’s the easiest part is that we start by just we call praise. Praise is simply that way of saying I’m just thanking the Lord for bringing into remembrance of things that God has done over my life you know salvation, is such a great place of thanking the Lord. And I thank You Lord for my health, I thank You for the times of healing and as you begin to do that the Holy Spirit kicks in. I mean kicks in I mean now the anointing because you’ve invited the Holy Spirit to join you in the your temple, your spiritual temple there. Now He can worship through you and He begins just whisper things. “Hey say it like this, and here’s something you honor the Lord.” And the next thing is there will be scriptures to you and when we use the scriptures to speak back to the Lord Himself and it moves from just thanking Him for what He’s done. Now it’s worship is loving on Him, not about what He’s done or what He’s going to do but just loving Him for who He is. Whereas Isaiah came in the temple, in Isaiah 6, and he said, “The presence, the glory of God filled, that His train filled the temple.” And then he said he saw the glory of God, it wasn’t in focus what hadn’t been happen or what need to happen but it was just simply the focal attention was on the goodness and the greatness of God. And so when we become overwhelmed by that there’s something that then we’re anointed to worship, we’re no longer trying to just you know come out of a routine or a rote of what we should say to Him but now we’re anointed to worship. We’re saying things about Him and loving Him and adoring Him in ways that we never thought before because we’re not anointed to worship, not just appointed to worship. There’s people that are appointed to worship like music leaders and worshipper and that, they’re appointed, but when they get anointed it kicks into a whole other level and the Spirit of God, the moving in the Holy Spirit starts happening, people are healed, demons are driven out because at the very presence of God no unclean thing shall be able to stay there. I’ve seen people get so uncomfortable in that kind of setting where they could hardly stand it because He comes and sets among us and works with us. And then as we begin to worship then I would just have a dialog with the Lord and just write down some things. What is He saying back to you? Because He’s not only hearing what you say to Him but now He says some things back to you. You begin to capture the thought into your mind because in that setting of worship He begins to say things that are out of this world. He begins to give you creative ideas, he may say things about you that heal your heart to say “You know that time that when you were rejected,” He said, “Let me just put my hand on that heal that hurt.” And so those kind of things happening just in that one on one time during the day.
Sid: Tell me about; speak just a little bit towards declaring God’s attributes why that’s so important.
Kerry: Because the ancients believed those Old Testament writers they saw that whatever they declared His Name to be that God manifested Himself in that way. Like when they declared Himself to be Jehovah Rophe, “You are the Lord thy God who heals me,” then He would declare Himself in that way. Or You are Jehovah Shema “You’re the Lord God who is with me now, You are the present with me.” So when they would begin to worship him as those names are, then He would manifest and interact with them in the same way.
Sid: I think I would like to take the next few minutes and have you worship God as if you were alone, what would you be doing Kerry?
Kerry: Well, I would have a picture of the Lord and I have this picture many times out of Revelation 11 that I begin with. And it says “There was given a measuring rod” to John and someone said, this is the angel saying to him “Rise up and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship in it. Leave out the outer court which is outside the temple and do not measure it for it has been given to the nations.” Which we believe Joel 3 says “The nations that try to divide Israel’s land, don’t even measure them, they’re not part of this covenant.” And so when I see that the Lord is measuring me as a worshipper and He measurers me for the idea of wanting to add to me; do you have the capacity for Me to pour in? So when that happens I just start thinking of Him and I just start declaring unto Him. [Singing] “There’s none like You oh Lord my God in all the earth who does wondrous things, blessing and honor and glory to You who sets on the throne. You’ve provided a table in Your presence, a table for me in the midst of my enemies. I will eat, I will rejoice, I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. You’re my God and King, I bow my heart before You for there’s none other that does what You do; oh I’m waiting, I’m longing, I’m looking for that shout when You say Your returning for me, Your returning for me and I have that marriage supper, I can eat the supper with lamb and communion with You oh Lord My God. For worthy, worthy is the Lord most High who keeps covenant and mercy with me. I bow and say to You, Come quickly Lord Jesus, I long, I love, I desire for You.”
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