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How Worship Transforms You
Shane Idleman

Shane Idleman (1972 - ). American pastor, author, and speaker born in Southern California. Raised in a Christian home, he drifted from faith in his youth, pursuing a career as a corporate executive in the fitness industry before a dramatic conversion in his late 20s. Leaving business in 1999, he began studying theology independently and entered full-time ministry. In 2009, he founded Westside Christian Fellowship in Lancaster, California, relocating it to Leona Valley in 2018, where he remains lead pastor. Idleman has authored 12 books, including Desperate for More of God (2011) and Help! I’m Addicted (2022), focusing on spiritual revival and overcoming sin. He launched the Westside Christian Radio Network (WCFRadio.org) in 2019 and hosts Regaining Lost Ground, a program addressing faith and culture. His ministry emphasizes biblical truth, repentance, and engagement with issues like abortion and religious liberty. Married to Morgan since 1997, they have four children. In 2020, he organized the Stadium Revival in California, drawing thousands, and his sermons reach millions online via platforms like YouTube and Rumble.
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This sermon emphasizes the contrast between the world's distractions, addictions, fears, and anxieties that we carry, and the transformative power of worship to push out these negative influences from our lives. The speaker highlights how genuine worship forces out doubts, guilt, shame, lust, addictions, fear, and anxiety, making room for God's presence and cleansing. The message underscores the impossibility of holding onto addictions while truly worshiping God, as worship overcomes and removes the mess in our lives.
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I want you guys to picture this. This is the world. This is all the junk, all the distractions, all the addictions, all the fear, the anxiety. This is the world. This is what we carry around. This is how most people walk around, don't they? Just full of the world, full of the junk, full of all this. And I'm talking about worship. They don't want to hear worship. They don't love this, but they're full of this, the unhealthy desires. Everything you can think of that you just don't like, from lust and addictions, everything. This is the world, fear and anxiety. So this is the world. This is worship. Right? I'm trying to get you to worship, but junk. So what happens when, again, let's hope this works. When we begin to pour worship in, it should begin to push all these other things upward and out of our lives. So see, as we worship, well, hold on. As we're worshiping, this is what should happen. All the junk, all that just comes out, you're worshiping, you're worshiping, you're worshiping, you're worshiping, you're worshiping, you're worshiping. That's what happens. You can't, you just keep worshiping and worshiping God. All the junk has to fall out and it cannot dwell in the same place as worship. It can't. Sure, there's a little junk in the trunk. There's a little leftover. That's our sinful nature. It's not all going. It's not all leaving on this side of heaven. There's a little bit of stuff in there. But as you start to worship, what happens? What happens? There's my doubt. There's my guilt. There's my shame. There's my lust. There's my addiction. There's my fear. There's my anxiety. Worship forces it out. It cannot stay in the same vessel. That's the same with us. Worship, worship cannot stay in the same vessel. When you worship, all these things have to come out. They can't stay there. So I told my wife, I hope I preach just as good tonight as I did this morning in the garage when God was breaking me and getting all this junk out of my life. Let the bitterness go. Let the gossip, let the slander, let the addiction, everything must go. You cannot worship God and hold on to addictions at the same time. It's not possible. You're either loving one or the other. People would have problems with addictions. I always say, get into worship like you never have before. You cannot sing Worthy is the Lamb and down a 40. It's not possible. You can't. You can't toke it up and put on Worthy is the Lamb. It's not possible. It's not possible. You can't sit there and click on porn and have Hillsong on the other side. You can't worship overcrowds all of that and pushes it out. That's why I'm so passionate about this because that's what it does to the mess in your life. It takes it out. It gets rid of it. That's worship. That's why we need a call to worship. That's why I want to worship. That's why I have to worship. Ask my wife. My whole day is centered around, guess what? My kids, my family, my job, nope. Worship. Worship in the morning because that's how I become a better father. That's how you become a better mother. You don't need more books. You don't need more CDs. You need to worship. Get on your hands and face and break before Almighty God.
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Shane Idleman (1972 - ). American pastor, author, and speaker born in Southern California. Raised in a Christian home, he drifted from faith in his youth, pursuing a career as a corporate executive in the fitness industry before a dramatic conversion in his late 20s. Leaving business in 1999, he began studying theology independently and entered full-time ministry. In 2009, he founded Westside Christian Fellowship in Lancaster, California, relocating it to Leona Valley in 2018, where he remains lead pastor. Idleman has authored 12 books, including Desperate for More of God (2011) and Help! I’m Addicted (2022), focusing on spiritual revival and overcoming sin. He launched the Westside Christian Radio Network (WCFRadio.org) in 2019 and hosts Regaining Lost Ground, a program addressing faith and culture. His ministry emphasizes biblical truth, repentance, and engagement with issues like abortion and religious liberty. Married to Morgan since 1997, they have four children. In 2020, he organized the Stadium Revival in California, drawing thousands, and his sermons reach millions online via platforms like YouTube and Rumble.