Let’s be the generation! (part 2)
- Worship is a lifestyle.
- Circumstances should not dictate our worship, but our worship should dictate our circumstances.
- Worship is all about the heart.
So often many people perceive worship to be primarily the singing and dancing on a sunday morning, but there so much more than that. Everything we do in our day-to-day lives, such as speaking in tongues, thanking God in the supermarket queue, singing at the top of your voice in your car listening to a worship CD, tithing, helping the poor, serving the brokenhearted, feeding the hungry and clothing the naked are all forms of worship because we glorifying Gods name, not just by what we say and sing but what we put into action.
It is so easy for us to go into the presence of God on a sunday morning carrying alot of baggage from the week. Anxiety, fear, stress, ill-health and many more things can become baggage that stops us from worshipping God. The Lord is calling us as a church to lay everything at his feet and worship him for who he is, because worship has the power to heal, to transform, to set free and to tear down anything that may be hindering your walk with God. Remember… when we speak to God we’re not leaving a message on the heavenly answer machine and waiting for a call back. In actual fact, God is always there listening to our hearts cry and he always responds. So I encourage you: if you have any fear, anxiety, stress, ill-health or anything like that, place it all at Jesus’ feet and worship him for who he is and he will answer your cry.
“Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.“- 1 Samuel 16:7
You may not be the greatest singer in the world, but that should never stop you from singing praises up to God, because He is not looking for ability or to see how musically gifted you are. Nor is He looking for how much equipment your church has. He’s looking at your heart… and if your heart is set on worshipping God that is what pleases Him.
God gave me a vision of a man who was very poor, but with the very little he had he bought a guitar. Equipped only with only his little shed and this very aged out of tune guitar, he began to worship God, giving him everything he had to offer. Then God said to me ‘This man has nothing but a shed and an out of tune guitar, yet his heart was in the right place.’
God isn’t interested in how musically talented you are, how much money you have or how much equipment and facilities you have. He’s after your heart.