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Wow Worship! Series
Contributed by J. Douglas Duty Jr. on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: # 1 From series "The Six Pillars of a Powerful Church."
Unfortunately churches worship in a way that get people to respond like the little girl when she was saying her bedtime prayers she said…
“Dear God, we had a good time at church today - but I wish You had been there…”
For Wow Worship as an individual and as a church - you MUST come to worship with -
An open HEART -
It is taking off the mask, letting God see what is in your heart (He can anyway). When you come with an open heart you are not pretending, you’re not being a hypocrite, you’re not putting on a show - you are simply coming to worship, to praise and thank Him
A HOLY SPIRIT focus -
It is taking a focus off of - “personal agendas” - and saying what can I give to God? It is to willingly submit to God’s desires and not your own. To submit your life to live by God’s Spirit that it would be Him alone that would be seen.
A real HUNGER and thirst -
Jesus said in Matthew - blessed are those who hunger and thirst for they will be filled… and He told the Samaritan women, whoever drinks the water He gives will be filled. When you approach worship you should come wanting God’s presence, seeking God’s presence and hungering for God’s presence.
A true HOPE -
I admit that sometimes you may not approach worship with a hope for a future… that is ok. But approach it with the hope that God has an answer, that you can find strength and a hope that in your searching you can find…
because if you come to worship with and open heart, a Holy Spirit focus and a hunger, I can assure you that while you may not have approached it with a real hope you will leave with one.
When each worshiper comes to worship in this way then there will always be a powerful moving of God’s Spirit and His presence that will equip and enable the church to move mountains.
And the church that worships in Spirit and Truth has a powerful attraction. It strips away the things that block the eyes and heart. It strips away personal agendas; it strips away false pretenses and the masks you wear and it holds Jesus up.
It becomes real and genuine. People see it, they know it, they feel it with all that they are (heart, mind and soul) and the walk away with a God sized hope, a soul hunger that is both filled and craving and a heart that knows that God cares.
True biblical worship so satisfies our total personality that we don’t have to shop around for man-made substitutes.
And family… that makes for a powerful church.
Will you decide to come - to worship in Spirit and in Truth… to walk away and say… “WOW - what an awesome God!”