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It is hard to believe but the year
2006 is here. I believe that God has so much in store for
His church and we are right in line for blessings. The word
that God has spoken to us for this year is “Worship”. The
very foundation word that came to this house in its
inception in 1950’s was “teach my people to worship me in
spirit and in truth.” God has done great things in the past,
but He is doing awesome things right now, for those who are
hungry and thirsty for more of Him. In the story of the
woman at the well in the fourth chapter of John, they were
talking about thirst and Jesus let her know that whoever
drinks of Him, something incredible was going to break out
on the inside of them a fountain coming up. You see whenever
we get a fresh word from the Lord it will break something
free on the inside of you, for it is a creative word. As
they talked the conversation ended up on worship and Jesus
revealed to her what the Father was seeking. John 4:23-24 it
says the following “But the hour is coming, and now is, when
the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and
truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24God
is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit
and truth.”
A true worshipper is
what the father is seeking, those who will embrace the Holy
Spirits moving and who will come in full agreement with His
heart. To truly worship the Lord you must get hungry for
truth, you must get hungry for the word of God and the
moving of the Holy Spirit who is called the Spirit of Truth.
If you are not hungry for truth that reveals that you have
allowed the deception of the age and the lies of the enemy
to become your source. And according to Psalms 115:8 you
become like what you worship. Your life becomes dark and
misdirected. Your priorities shift to the temporary things
rather than the things of the Kingdom of God. You become
hard-hearted, dull of hearing, lose of vision, and
insensitivity begins to fill your emotions. But when you
come to God and see Him in His greatness and you begin to
worship you will see a transformation take place in you. You
will begin to gain your vision back, you will begin to hear
again and compassion will be birthed in you. This comes as a
result of your focus upon God for you are becoming like that
which you worship. We must become spirited about the Lord
that is, we must get involved in the truth that we have
received. It is amazing to me that we can be so free until
we get in church and somehow we think that we are being
emotional.
The other day the Lord spoke to me
that I was more spirited about my anger than about His word.
We will communicate extreme body language when we are trying
to get our point across in a heated discussion. But when it
come to the truth of who God is to us we go numb. I believe
God is raising up a people who are not ashamed to express
their worship and praise to God. David danced before the
Lord with all of his might. He held nothing back, I believe
he was spirited in his worship to his Lord. We need to allow
the Holy Spirit to consume our spirit so that we come to the
place where we don’t care what anybody thinks, all we care
is that we give the Lord all of our worship and praise
without reservation. The greater our worship to the Lord the
greater our lives are going to be transformed and changed.
You show me a person who is truly worshipping the Lord in
spirit and in truth and I will show you a person who is on
fire for God and is taking great ground in their walk with
Him.
Begin to pray and ask the Lord to give
you a fresh revelation of worship and praise, and then
position yourself to do it. Whether you are in the car or at
home or in the church services, let go and let God move in
you. Position yourself to be filled with the Spirit on a
daily basis. The greater your revelation of God the higher
your worship and praise will ascend. God is calling his
worshippers to a new level and we must arise and shine for
this is the year of great things in God. Seize the day of
blessing and take hold of all that God is doing in His
church! Our desire is to be a church that worships the
father in spirit and in truth, holding nothing back, but
pressing into his heart without shame or reservation giving
glory and honor to his wonderful name, JESUS!
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