Worship: Understanding Dynamic of Spirit
While the Lord is dealing with each individual worshiper, He is also moving the congregation forward in faith.
While the Lord is dealing with each individual worshiper, He is also moving the congregation forward in faith.
In corporate settings, the unity of all the believers singing the same truth at the same time with the same emotion is a vital force in the life of the church.
There is too much at stake in today’s service to be coy with our praise and selfish with our worship.
We have put praise and worship on the clock and we have lost the sense of tarrying, of waiting on the Lord. No wonder our strength is not often renewed.
The idea is simple enough: when we worship in Spirit and Truth, we provide the Lord with an earthly place to do His work.
When we enter the realm of the splendor of His majesty and sovereignty, miracles, signs, and wonders happen.
The aroma God loves is the spiritual scent of hearts being emptied before Him, the self-inflicted wounding of our human pride.
How transforming it would be if our worship leaders and rank and file worshipers would see themselves as priests unto the Lord, a Kingdom of Priests.
We see the passionate heart of David as he actively pursued the presence of God just as Jesus did the presence of His Father.
This was the glory of God, the weight of the significance of His Dwelling Place given to the Israelites as the sign of their Covenant with God.
True effectiveness as a believer in the Lord Jesus begins and is maintained in the Secret Place of prayer.
Signs and wonders, gifts and revelations, anointings, and deliverances don’t slide very easily into modernistic slots.
As we worship, that human spirit within connects with the Spirit of God and we cry “Abba, Father!”
As Christians who believe that God created the heavens and the earth, we take from this conviction the idea that a standard of beauty exists in creation itself.
Worship is not something we do “for” the Lord as if we could somehow add to His glory.
The theology of worship–its truth–comes down from heaven in His Living and Written Word.
It is time for congregations to venture forth up the heights of Mt. Zion to stand with clean hands and pure heart, lifting our hearts to God in the Holy Place.
A theological shift took place. The worship service became a ministry to the worshipers themselves and to seekers looking on.
With tears flooding from his soft brown eyes the King left that building site in search of someone who would build Him a house.
Without this turn, we will find ourselves in a “worship land” where the tastes of the “worshipers” form the rules of conduct.
If there is no personal spiritual relationship between the pastor and music pastor, there is little hope for a public display of God’s power on the platform.
When the church has gathered to worship there are disciplines involved that do not exist in private prayer.
In every patch of weeds, the enemies of God wait like snakes to strike the passer-by.
Both of these liberating Gospel narratives reveal the brilliant colors of a colorblind Kingdom.