Pastor Oskar Sigurdsson speaks about the importance of praise and worship.  

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The Heart of Worship & The Instrument of Praise

Gethsemane is a place of pressing. The only way to extract the oil out of the olive is by applying pressure. God uses pressure not to kill us but to change us into another form. Gethsemane is a place of aloneness where we come unto pressure. Jesus was with his disciples in the Garden yet He was left alone to pray, but He came through tremendous pressure. Jacob was left alone in a place of pressure and wrestled with the angel until he was changed. God used pressure to pull the prince out of him and God will use pressure to pull out of you what He has been growing within you. 

Oskar SIgurdsson - Under Pressure

When we go through a transition or enter into a new season in our lives, the question is what do we keep and what do we let go of? Only one thing is certain that we keep His Presence " I will not fail you nor forsake you "  But we must be willing to let go off the things we have in mind. Psalm 78:41 The children of Israel limited God in the wilderness to what they had been exposed to, to their own understanding. We have the propensity to limit God to our previous experience of Him, therefore we fall back to the same old systems and places where we last felt Him or saw Him, but God has moved on

Oskar Sigurdsson - I Need a Change

God told Joshua I will be with you and prosper you whithersoever thou goest. When His presence goes with us, whatever we do will prosper, not what we say or think. To prosper means to get over something or grow stronger. God wants us to prosper and get over things in our lives, to leave behind the past and move into His promises. The story " Acres of Diamonds " is told in the message. Often we fail to see the treasures hidden in our house and keep looking elsewhere for prosperity and potential. What we sow today will be our tomorrow´s harvest. 

Oskar Sigurdsson - His Presence 3

When we go through a transition or enter into a new season in our lives, the question is what do we keep and what do we let go of? Only one thing is certain that we keep His Presence "I will not fail you nor forsake you" But we must be willing to let go off the things we have in mind. Psalm 78:41 The children of Israel limited God in the wilderness to what they had been exposed to, to their own understanding. We have the propensity to limit God to our previous experience of Him, therefore we fall back to the same old systems and places where we last felt Him or saw Him, but God has moved on. 

Oskar Sigurdsson - I Need Change

In Joshua 1:5-9 The children of Israel had mourned the death of their leader Moses. Everything is changing for them, everything is in transition. When we go through transition everything in our lives becomes unstable and the only thing that remains stable is God´s Word. Really God´s promise to us is His presence, " As I was so will I be I will never fail thee nor forsake thee "  When we seek His presence first we get everything with it. What good is the property without His presence? 

Oskar Sigurdsson - His Presence

Before God laid the foundation of the world we were chosen in Christ, hewn out of the Rock. Christ is the eternal Word, the Logos and we were chosen out of Logos. Logos is the Word. Logos means the whole concept, like a book. But there is another word in greek for word, Rhema, which means a concept out of the concept, like a verse out of the book. We were chosen out of Logos. Therefore we have a message to bing to the world, we are an epistles, a rhema word to our generation.

Oskar Sigurdsson - Chosen One

In spite Jesus knowing Judas would betray Him, nonetheless, He washed his feet. By washing the disciples' feet Jesus gave us an example and said so should we do unto one another. Our feet are a significant part of the body. It's the part touching the ground and keeping balance. Such a small part of the body yet carrying a big person to different places. It is said that emotions are stored up in our feet. Feet are a sensitive part of the body. To touch someone's feet, is an entrance into one's feelings, a level of intimacy and trust. Jesus prepared the disciples' feet and they shod them with peace because if a man rejects you, wipe the dust of your feet. We must make sure that we do not carry the dust of rejection on our feet from place to place, from relationship to relationship. The serpent feeds on the dust, therefore we need to wash our feet. The priests in the Tabernacle had to wash their feet daily before going into the holy place to minister.   

Oskar Sigurdsson - The Interloper

Jer 3:14-16 The treasure that was hidden in the Ark of the Covenant, Jeremiah prophesied would be hidden in the man. " God will give you pastors according to His own heart," God said they will feed My people with knowledge and understanding, resulting in increase and multiplication. When pastors feed the flock of God, it should result in restoration, increase, prosperity and cause the new life to spring forth in the lives of the people. Jesus said the Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in the field. A field is soil, mud, and dirt. There is a treasure hidden in every one of us. Honour is the key to access the treasure if we can´t see past the field we miss the treasure. The Jews missed their Messiah because they did not honor the man Jesus therefore, the treasure Christ was hidden to them. 

Oskar Sigurdsson - Hide and Seek

Thanksgiving and Praise is the code for access into God´s presence. What water is to the body worship is to the spirit. Worship is the sense of touch in our spirit, it is through worship we touch the LORD and once we have touched Him we are never the same again. A true worship experience is a game-changer. It is in dry places was we are tried if we are true worshippers or not, by releasing the water supply from our spirit. The children of Israel journeyed through the wilderness and the Rock Christ which followed them supplied them with water. Just before they entered into the promised land, Miriam died and the water dried in the rock. God told Moses to speak to the rock in order to release the water but Moses failed to sanctify the LORD in the midst of the congregation and smote the rock the second time and fell short of the price. Christ was crucified once and for all who believe are called into God´s promises. With thanksgiving and praise, we speak to the Rock and release the waters of worship in our midst.  

Oskar Sigurdsson - Give Me A Drink

Humans have five basic senses: touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste which all send information to the brain to enable us to perceive the world around us. Since we are three-dimensional i. e. body, soul, and spirit we have five senses in our body, our soul and our spirit. The sense of touch is considered to be the first sense that humans develop. The sense of touch in our spirit is worship. We may have touched things connected to God but touched God Himself. We connect to church but we may not have connected to God of the Church. Our senses are bombarded with negative information every day and we spend much time exercising our sensual muscles while leaving our spiritual muscles underdeveloped.

Oskar Sigurdsson - Neighbour I Need a Drink

Luke 22:31-32. Right before Peter is being baptized in the Holy Ghost, preaches his first message as the leader of the newborn Church, Jesus tells Peter how Satan desired to have him, to sift him as wheat. It sounds like a bad thing, but the truth of the matter is that wheat can never become what it was made for without going through sifting. Sifting is a messy process, but there is a message in the mess. The children of the Kingdom are likened to wheat and Jesus identifies Himself with the corn of wheat. God will take us through the sifting process to rid us of the chaff in our lives. The chaff is not a part of your destiny and where God wants to take you. Jesus prayed that Peter´s faith would not fail. He did not pray he wouldn't cry, be hurt or mess up but that his faith would not fail. If you have faith in the middle of the mess God can still use you. Faith is a " Game Changer " Once through the sifting Jesus wants us to strengthen others, for those who have been through the sifting have empathy. God wants to give it to us if it can flow through us. " Empathy is the capacity to place oneself in another's position " By giving away we enlarge our capacity for God to pour more into us, therefore we must never break the flow.

Oskar Sigurdsson - Sifted

In Luke 5:17-24 Going the “ extra mile “  is a term used to describe when someone does more than required of him. Jesus referred to the law of restitution in Exodus and the law that permitted a Roman soldier to compel a Jewish man to carry his load a mile. When people go the extra mile for us it indicates they value their relationship with us. If anyone truly has gone the extra mile for us it is Jesus, Who made Himself of no reputations and took upon Him a form of a servant and gave His life to bring us back to the Father, that´s how much He valued the relationship with us. In the text, we find four men who went the extra mile with their paralyzed friend to get him to Jesus. In spite of the opposition they faced, their faith was tenacious and the Bible says when Jesus saw their faith He healed the paralytic. 

Oskar Sigurdsson - The Extra Mile

Relationship between God and man started in a garden. The garden was there before the man. God planted the garden and put Adam in the garden. Then a breach was made in the relationship between God and Adam and the Sabbath rest broken. God no longer could meet with Adam on this personal level of the relationship. The restoration process of the relationship started in the garden. We find Jesus who is the second Adam in the Garden of Gethsemane, there He sweat drops of blood and broke the curse. The enemy tried to kill Jesus in the garden to prevent His death on the cross, thereby the relationship between God and man would not be restored. We find Jesus again in the garden tomb, where He was crucified, but also raised from the dead. The temple veil was torn and the way was opened to the Tree of Life again. Jesus appeared as the gardener on resurrection morning, but then He was revealed as the High Priest who went into the Holy of holies to atone for our sins, therefore restore the relationship and bring back the Sabbath rest. We must come to the garden of relationship alone.

Oskar Sigurdsson - Guard your Garden

The paralytic man was totally depended on the mercy and faith of his fellow man. When Jesus saw their faith it got His attention. Our faith is seen in our works. In spite of the opposition the four-faced they did not give up but found a way to Jesus. You may have to climb over walls and break through barriers to bring people to Christ, go the extra mile. Your faith and love for others can make a difference in somebody's life. Whatever life has handed us there is nothing can separate us from the Love of God.

Anne Hanssen - We Need Each Other

Welcome to Restore Church weekly program, led by Pastor Oskar Sigurdsson. This broadcast conveys messages of restoration, healing and hope for people from all walks of life.