I have just returned from a wonderful evening worshipping with Godfrey Birtill. Right at the start he said that our churches need to be delivered from 'lovely times of worship'. He referred to Paul and Silas in prison when they began to worship God and sing His praises. Then the earth trembled and the gates were opened. The jail keeper was so afraid he wanted to commit suicide. We know how the rest of the story tells us how he and his whole family came to accept Christ as Saviour. Godfrey with a smile commented, 'I don't think Paul and Silas went on their way that night saying, "Well that was a lovely time of worship!"'
So much of our worship is just singing 'nice songs' and wanting a kind of 'feel good' factor. It can so often be only about us and what we like and how we feel. For Paul and Silas, worship was about shaking the foundations of strongholds and opening the gates to let in God's power.
We spent the next 2 hours really worshipping. I reckon some foundations of enemy strongholds were shaken tonight.
1 comment:
hi Mavis, yeah I've noticed the differance.the outer court is 'nice' but it is the secret place under the shadow of His wings in the holy of holies where we are to 'dwell'.it is for the individual to shape the corporate so 'you' go for it through the open door and others will follow.
Shape or be shaped.form by not being conformed.fill any space with His Glory.
disposess to posess to fill to overflow
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