Wednesday, March 7, 2007

What is worship?

This is not a doctrinal paper but a building of a conceptual thought into a firm reality.

Worship is singing, praise, prayer, breathing, listening, humbling, declaration, posture of spirit.

Worship happens when we sing, praise, pray, breathe, listen, bow, declare, and prostrate our spirit.

Where can we worship?

Worship is at church, listening to music in the car, in the living room, in the garage, at work, any where we can go and God is there.

Worship is a posture of our spirit: prostrating ourselves before the God of the universe anywhere we are prompted into the presence of God.

What does it feel like?
How can you describe sitting at the feet of God who spoke the universe into existance? I just finished reading a great book, called Ninety Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Life and Death.
Don Piper is involved in a horrific car accident and dies. He is dead for ninety minutes. He vividly recalls what heaven is like and meeting with friends and family and singing, all the while moving up to the gates of the throne room. Every sense is more intense and every sight is more beautiful than on earth.
What does worship feel like? Is it gladness, humilty, holiness, cleanness, joy, sadness, terror, hope, silence, calmness, everything fading away. Yes, all of the above and more. God interacts with each of us a little different, because we are all a little different from each other.

I want to end with an story from Joshua Revolution conference last year. We walked into the convention center it was clear outside. The whole conference was on the book of Revelation. We closed the session out with singing "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty" and the band walked off the stage, nobody left, we sang acappella for 40 minutes each of us just entering the presence of God, stating how holy He is. When we came out of the convention center fog had covered the city and you couldn't see more than a block!

God reveals Himself in many different ways. Ask God to reveal Himself to you today, He will.

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