The Worship Experience!

Have you ever asked yourself what is worship, and why do I worship?

Worship--Reverent (deep love and respect) honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage or to any object regarded as sacred (intense love & passion).

We worship because God has commanded us to worship him and this is how we get closer to God and enter into His presence.  (Psalm 42:1-2) As the deer pants for streams of water so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.  When can I go and meet with God?  This is worship, when you desire, thirst, have a deep passion to go to a place where it is just you and God. You don’t worry about who is looking at you; you are in a place that secret place with no one else but you and Him. When you worship you may experience tears of joy, deep thankfulness, when you go deeper there are all types of feelings.  Your emotions are so deep others will not know what is going on. You may jump, run, raise your hands, and kneel wherever God takes you this where you will go. You go so far into the presence of the Lord nothing but peace and joy engulfs you.

Looking at King David how he danced before the Lord with all his might, Sauls daughter was upset because of how he danced and said to her I will celebrate before the Lord.  I will become even more undignified than this (2 Samuel 6:14-23). When we are in the presence of the Lord we can’t worry about who is looking at us or what others are saying.  We can’t be ashamed of him or He will be ashamed of us. (Mark 8: 38)

How do we get there to that place of worship and deep intimacy with God?  By wanting to go! Asking God to take you deeper with Him, It’s not about you it’s about being in his presence.  Being obedience to what he has commanded us to do.

Different types of worship:

Deuteronomy 6:5-7 Love the Lord your God with all your hearts and with all your soul and with all your strength.  These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts.  Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Exodus 23:25 Worship the Lord your God and his blessing will be on your food and water.  I will take away sickness from among you.

Psalm 100:1-5 shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.  Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.  Know that the lord is God.  It is he who mad us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.  Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.  For the lord is good and his love endures forever, his faithfulness continues through all generations.

God wants all of us for He is a jealous God, Deuteronomy 6:15.

Be Still and Know!

Be still and listen

Be still and hear

Be still for that small voice that whispers in your ear

Be still and know it’s tried and true

Be still and know Jesus is watching over you

Be still and know His love is so dear

Be still and know His love for you is like no other

Be still and know He sees your tears

Be still and know He really cares

Be still and know, no sorrow so deep He will take from the weak

Be still and know, He washing your pain

Be still and know and hear Him say, I love you my dear just the same

Breaking The Chains Of Bondage!

Breaking the chains of bondage I must do

The bondage of hate, hate of being here, hate of the world around me, hate for my brothers and my sisters

Breaking the chains of bondage I must do

The bondage of bitterness that was caused, not being able to achieve things in life because

Trials and tribulations that was put upon me

Breaking the chains of bondage I must do

The chains that have me bound where I am unable to escape from the things that causes me to do the things I do not want to do

Breaking the chains of bondage I must do

Oh tell me is there anyone, anything that holds the key to these chains that keep me

Is there a way out, out of this dark and cold world

Is there hope, is there any trust

Oh please someone tell me

My world is so dark I cannot see

So much hate, so much misery

So much so much I cannot see

I heard of a man who died on Calvary that holds that key to eternity

His name is Jesus won’t you come and set me free

6/21/98

A Childs Cry For Help!

Why is there so much pain so much agony

Why do I not feel so worthy  

So many question can someone please tell me

I am only a child oh can’t you see

I should not have to face this pain that’s within me, why must it be

So dark, so dark within me

One day up one day down always going round and round

Can someone please answer this question for me

I am only a child of can’t you see

Molested by many I thought I can trust; beat by those I thought I could love

Why me why me I am only a child oh can’t you see

Pain within I tried to hid my life is filled with such a dark side

I am only a child oh can’t you see

Forced to grow up at such a young age, being a child not knowing where to go

A mothers child was call many name 

Words cut so deep, deep like a knife into my heart that one cold night

I am only a child oh can’t you see the pain is so evident come rescue me

5/16/04

A change is coming!

John 15:1-8
 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. ² He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes^[a] so that it will be even more fruitful. ³ You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. ⁴ Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. ⁵ “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶ If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. ⁷ If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. ⁸ This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

During this winter season it is a time of reflection, a time to re-evaluate things around us. I look at all the seasons that God has created and He has created something so awesome. Many of us wish that we can have warm and hot seasons all year round. There are many places that are like that. With this cold weather among us we do not want to dare to go outside in that frigid air and freeze. But we know that we must brave it and get out into it for one reason or another. This is life! We all experience cold frigid seasons in our spiritual life. We all go through natural seasonal changes of the weather, and we also experience spiritual changes. We need to be able to recognize these changes that are going on in our lives. 

We may ask God why am, I going through these changes.  Seasons represents the full cycle of our life! Seasons of change helps us to grow, become more mature in Christ and to get closer to God. God is birthing a new season in your life! With changes comes a pruning, a cutting away of old, rotten, dry areas of our life, bringing forth change. In order to make the change in our spiritual walk we need to change our habits. We need to allow the spiritual cutting away of our hearts and the things that should not be in our life. We need to recognize that there are things in our life that God is trying to bring change to. We fight the changes that are coming. We want to be blessed, we want a deeper walk with God, we want many different things but what are we willing to give up, to get what God has for us.

Ecclesiastes 3:1 says “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven.”  Even though seasons in our life changes, God’s truth remains the same, His Word will not pass away.

There is a purpose a reason why we go through a pruning, and cutting away. This makes room for new growth to start coming out.  If you look at the season’s spring, summer, autumn, and winter our life is structured like these seasons. We have times of great beauty, we are full of life. Then things start changing for us. We go through that autumn season where things start to change. If we are not rooted in God’s word when that cold winter season comes we may not survive.  We all know how to adjust with the physical seasons that come every year because we know the cycle. We know for the most part what to expect and how to prepare and adjust for these changes. But when it comes to life’s changes we do not know how to prepare for the Spiritual changes.  The question we need to ask ourselves, what season am I living in right now? What is God trying to prune to remove out of my life?

We have all gone through these seasons in our lives.  We will not always have sunny days! What will you do when you experience those days when you fall and become cold. How do you stay vibrant, how do you enjoy the seasons of joy, and peace? The answers is staying in God’s word and pray daily, worship and praising God during your seasons of life.

A change is coming!

Be Still!

2 Corinthians 12:8-10
⁸ Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. ⁹ But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. ¹⁰ That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Going through trials and tribulations is very difficult for everyone. I know I’ve been through many hard and difficult times in my life. I at times would doubt that God is real because of things that I had to and still need to endure. But each and every time I questions things about why me, God always knows how to answer me.

A few weeks ago I went on a five day fast and during my fast time I started reflecting back over my life. Where I have been and where I am now! I can truly say that most of all my dreams, things I wanted in life God has given to me. Even though I went through heartache and pain, experienced abuse I still got what I asked for. But I also know now that if I had an easy life without trials and tribulations I would not have a close relationship with God. I would be living my life my way without God being the center of my life. So for me I am embracing trials and tribulations because just like Paul when I am weak, then I am strong in the things of Christ Jesus.

Last week I was not feeling very well and I decided I wanted to go to the Dr’s.  I changed my mind because the way I was feeling I just knew I needed to go to the hospital. They kept me for a few days. The first day I was there I had a roommate that I thought had mental issues. So I though! She introduced herself I was not to particular to speak with her, but my husband spoke with her. I thought I am not interested in speaking to a nut. Here I am again thinking about self. But God had other plans for me. After my husband left she started telling me what was going on with her. Her name was Mary! Mary has been having severe shaking all over her body for over 24 hours where she cannot sleep nor eat. Her Doctor did not know why this was happening. Because I’ve worked in the medical field for eleven years I suggested that she put a request to see a neurologist sounded like a nerve issue. She contacted her daughter to call her doctor to put a request in to see one. That night she has gotten so bad that the nurses even thought like I did she was psychotic. But God put me in a situation where I thought she fell on the floor. I call the nurse to come and help her up, but she told me she needed to pray. The nurse came in and put her in a chair and left so I proceeded to rub her back and God had me pray over her. I prayed that Gods healing power will take over and that whatever is hidden will be exposed. I prayed that God will reveal to the doctors what is wrong with her. The next day I helped her eat, wiped her down, and cleaned up whatever mess she has made. I continued to pray for her and later the Chaplin from the hospital came to also pray with us. Later the neurologist came in told her what the problem was and changed her meds. A friend of mine called and also prayed with Mary. A few hours later Mary received her miracle she was up walking, talking and was not shaking at all. Not knowing that the nurses and others were standing in the door the night before listened as I prayed for Mary and they saw the miracle and said the power of prayer really works.

God will put you in a situation that you may not feel comfortable in but it is better to be obedient to His voice. I was ready to put a request to be moved to another room but God gave me peace. I try to pray before I do anything and wait on His direction.

Whatever you go through in life it is not to hider nor weaken you, it’s to strengthen you. Trust and rely on God always!