Got worship?

This past Friday night (April 11, 2014) I was blessed to be able to attend Centra Fest. It was advertised as a concert, but it was a worship experience! Local churches gathered together at Calvary Assembly, to worship Christ. There were local artist, and artist/choirs from Tallahassee, not to mention the headliners Deitrick Haddon, and Tye Tribbett.

After Tye Tribbett did his first song, he began to teach/preach. He told us how he went to a lady Gaga concert, because his drummer, plays for her. He proceeded to say the people at that concert, would just randomly shout out “I love you gaga” repeatedly. He said the people in the audience would be singing her songs in unison and still shouting out how much they loved her. He said it’s a problem when worship leaders have to act as hype men to get people in church to worship God. He said those people at the concert, don’t know Gaga personally, she hasn’t done anything for them, but they praised her as if she has done something for them. Tye said, after the Gaga concert the next day he went to church, and people were just looking at the people singing. Not participating in worshiping God.

After that we began to really have a worship experience! The Holy Spirit had his way and moved in that place, it was amazing!

This month at my church it’s the month of worship. I thought it was so amazing how God afforded me the opportunity to worship with Tye Tribbett and my other brothers and sisters in Christ. People were shouting, crying, running, dancing, singing giving reverence to our Lord. See for the unbeliever it might look like “chaos”, one might ask why they are doing all this. See to someone that doesn’t know God, I mean really know God, have a relationship with Christ, they wouldn’t understand it. They won’t understand the woman that shouts Sunday after Sunday. They may not understand the person crying out to God. When you have an encounter with Christ, then you understand. When you know God on a personal level you understand, and you aren’t bothered by other people worshiping God. (if you’re bothered by people worshiping God, uhhhh you might want to reevaluate somethings)

The problem is judgment. People are too busy being judged for praising and worshipping God, because they don’t do it the way you do it and it discourages them. People are too busy trying to figure out why a person is shouting the way that they do. Too busy trying to figure out if that persons praise is real or fake. People are too busy worried about being judged that they can’t operate freely in worship.

Another problem is we come to church with so much on our minds we forget why we’re there. Don’t allow you circumstances, issues or problems to take you out of the game when it comes to worship. That is what the devil wants. He wants us focused on the people down our row, the person that sat in “your seat”, he wants you to magnify your problem to the point you can’t even hear the preacher, because you’re focused on how YOU are going to “fix” your situation.

When you’re worshipping God you aren’t concerned with what people are doing or thinking. All you should be thinking about is God, and who he is. Worship is to give reverence, and honor to God. You can’t do that properly if you’re focused on all those other things!

Today my Pastor preached from Luke 19:32-40 the title of his sermon was “The necessity to praise The Lord” These few scriptures are talking about how when the people saw Jesus they immediately began to rejoice. They rejoiced, just because of who he is. They recognized him and who he is immediately. This is how we should be time someone says Jesus, we should just shout out praises unto him. When we think about his grace and his mercy, we should shout out unto him. It shouldn’t take a hype man, or a coach to get believers to worship Christ. Also amongst these disciples were Pharisees. The Pharisees said “Master rebuke thy disciples”. Vs 40.” And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.” I don’t know about you, but I don’t need rocks crying out for me. God has been too good to hold my peace! He is worthy of our worship. He has been too good to all of us for us not to worship him. Worship him with our lives, with our giving, with everything!

I just wanted to encourage you guys, to worship God. If we can praise artist, and sports teams, because we like and support them; surely we should have NO problem worshiping an almighty God. Worshiping God should be second nature to us.

If you love someone tell them

I love you

Sincerely,

I’ve been through too much, not to worship him!

Destaynee