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WORSHIP IS MORE THAN A FEELING
Worship 200: Will you Choose to Worship God by Katherine Duke
Please check our our NEW SECTIONS A Time to Worship Resources and Study Guide for some great information on how to become a better minister of worship and some free give aways. Check out our Scheduled Events Section and come worship with us. Join in the fun and interaction at our NEW DISCUSSION GROUP for Worship Leaders & Ministers of Music. Its our goal to learn from one another on how to be better Ministers for the Lord by sharing experiences and knowledge. You're invited!! God bless you.
God is revealing Himself in a fresh way in today's worship services. We sense the Lord pouring fresh oil upon us and sense God's love and presence as we humble ourselves before Him in worship and praise. What is enthralling to me is that the posture in worship seems to be not so much what we can get from God, but what we give to God in true adoration. During this latter rain, it appears that the intent of the devotee is to show God how much we love, respect and appreciation Him for all that He is to us.
This opportunity to experience intimacy with God is available to us because God, as the initiator of worship, continually calls out to us to be near Him and communion with Him. The believer chooses to worship God as a response to that call. The Bible ensures that "none come unto God unless the Spirit draws him."
Amid all that is going on in the world, it is God's delight to have an intimate relationship with His people. As far back as the Garden of Eden, Adam is said to have fellowshipped with God every day in the "cool of the day." Throughout the Bible, we see God's plan unfold to draw us back to Himself and to have a people that will allow Him to be the center the focal point of worship. With God's provision, however, He does not coerce or force us to respond. He does not want that kind of worship because He has made us a people of free will. Instead, it is a discipline in which we reverberate, "I will bless the Lord at all times, and His praise shall continually be in my mouth." When we sit and pout, refusing to give God glory, we are simply refusing His invitation to us. As believers, we unwittingly shun His love, mercy and grace that He has freely given to us. God is calling us to worship Him privately and corporately. He wants us to move beyond the exhilaration we feel in worship and worship because we want to please Him.
Each believer must make a conscious effort to worship when we feel like it and when we don't. We must cultivate fellowship in worship with God that is based upon the discipline of obedience to our Lord. While the feeling of worship can be breathtaking, the discipline of worship should not be ignored.
Oh Lord, May our fellowship with You be our continual habitation.
(Excerpt from book, Prayer Praise and Worship to be released Winter 1999)
Copyright 1998 by K.M. Duke. No reprint or electronic transmission is permitted without express written permission of the author.
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