Overcoming: A Life of Worship | Pastor Whitney Cacho

Message Date: June 4, 2025
Bible

Hardship comes through:

    • Life
    • Poor decision
    • Spiritual attack

The enemy can get a foothold through

    • Fear
    • Disappointments
    • Offense

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. – Revelation 12:11 NKJV

We overcome by:

    • The blood of the Lamb
    • The word of our testimony
    • Not loving our own lives, even unto death

Worship is our appropriate response to His love and presence.

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. – Romans 12:1 ESV

For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;
    you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
    a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. – Psalm 51:16-17 ESV 

And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. – Luke 9:23-24 ESV

And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head. There were some who said to themselves indignantly, “Why was the ointment wasted like that? For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” And they scolded her. But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want, you can do good for them. But you will not always have me. She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burial. And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.” – Mark 14:3-9 ESV

So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple. – Luke 14:33 ESV 

Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.” – Luke 21:1-4 ESV 

So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. – Matthew 5:23-24 ESV

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. = Galatians 2:20 NIV 

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. – Colossians 3:3 ESV

Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ – Mark 12:29-30 ESV 

Whatever death to yourself that might be required, is an invitation to a resurrected, healed, more beautiful life in Jesus.

“You’re more likely to act yourself into feeling, than to feel yourself into action.” — Dr. Jerome Bruner, Harvard Psychologist

“When I choose to only worship him in ways that are comfortable to me, I’m choosing to honor myself over him.” — Gabriel Allred

7 WORDS IN THE BIBLE FOR PRAISE

    1. Towdah – thanksgiving, thank offering, sacrifice of praise, choir of worshippers
    2. Yadah – to give thanks with lifted hands
    3. Zamar – to sing and give praise with instruments
    4. Tehilla – to glory, celebrate praiseworthy deeds with song, to sing enthusiastically
    5. Shabach – to praise, shout and proclaim with a loud voice, to boast in the Lord
    6. Barak – to bless, to praise, to kneel
    7. Halal – means to boast, to shine, to glory, to celebrate clamorously or be loudly foolish