Friday, February 18, 2011

Worship Lifestyle

Worship alone is something all believers are in deep need of daily. Worship is the key point along with prayer in our relationship with God. Someone once told me, “faith moves mountains, and worship moves the hand of God”. Since that day, those words have followed me. I remember them daily, and every time I get the chance to speak to someone about worship, I tell them the same.

Within the churches of today, there are believers, or church goers, who still don’t have any clue or idea of the importance behind worship. They don’t understand the purpose, or outcome of what happens when we worship in spirit and in truth. The hand of God moves! That alone says it all. Meaning when we worship God begins to transform, deliver, heal, and save his people. He begins to cleanse all that is unpleasing before his eyes, and replaces it with his presence, power, anointing, joy, and happiness.

Worship is not something we should just do in church. It’s not about raising our hands, singing, and dancing, there is much more then that; it’s about having an intimate moment with God, about giving your all to him, so he can give you what I like to call a sample of his presence. Worship is a daily need, just as we drink and eat, so that our body survives. Our spirit is in much more need, and worship along with prayer is how we feed our spirit. Giving it what it needs to survive, giving it that extra push we need to keep moving forward. Only God can fill us with the tools we need to fight the spiritual fight. Without our participation in worship or prayer, we will not be able to fight, and we’ll surely fall.

There are people who God uses within worship to minister in a prophetic form. They are used by God to deliver a message, that impacts God’s people because their spiritual needs are being taken care of, their prayers are being answered. Others are being delivered of strongholds that the enemy has placed, and through worship and prayer, chains are also broken! All are called to worship, but not all are used to minister the same way. Some preach, teach, evangelize, and others minister through fine arts. All of these are callings from God; all must live a lifestyle of worship in order to continue being led by the Holy Spirit.

Worship is not a Sunday thing; it’s a daily spiritual need. It is our way to connect to God. It is the only way we can see God’s presence move before our eyes, and hear his truth being spoken clearly.
Matthew 5:23-24,
“Therefore if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering.”

Our worship is an offering to God! That is amazing, but if there is something within us that needs to be taken care of, stop at once, in that moment, and do what you got to do. Without love our worship is just noise, words, and dance steps or moves to God. Love is what makes our worship pure, makes it come not from the heart, but from deep within our spirit.

“Silent worship is what I do”

-Mimic

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