Worship

Worship is understanding that God desires to meet with us, He desires to be present with me and for me to be present with Him. Worship is about me loving on God, expressing my love for Him, who He is and what He has done for me. For me worship is to be a time and place where I can totally abandon myself in heart felt love for God and Jesus, and express it freely with all of my emotions. Using every part of my being, physical, mental and vocal to express my love and feelings for God to Him. When I go to worship with others I expect God to show up, I go seeking His presents in order to be before His face and love on Him. The scriptures say God inhabits the praises of His people, therefore if the people are Truly worshiping God in the Spirit and truth of who He is, then He will show up, be present, and that is what I go expecting, Him to show up in real tangible ways, His present known and experienced.

When I worship I do not desire to sing only songs written by others, I seek to sing my own love songs to God, straight from my heart to His. Sing about what He is doing in my life that week, day and hour. Sing about who He is, how He is loving me present tense active. Sing to Him exactly how I feel at that very moment about Him, about Jesus, what Jesus has done and is doing present tense active in my life, sing about my personal love for Him that dwells in my heart. I do it with raised hands, in dance, in a loud voice, with shots of joy, how ever I feel at that very moment. I do not like short time limits on worship, an hour minimum, once God shows up I really do not want the time to end, after all that is what worship, gathering with other believers, the church is all about. This is what happens when the love sick God picks you out of the crowed of mankind to invade you with His affections, when He begins to reveal His deep affections for me personally, when the God of creation is ravished over me personal. It is that place of knowing and experiencing that I am within His heart, and that I dwell there, it is where I came from, where I reside, I abide there just as He abide within me, this is where I go to worship.

I seek to worship not only with like minded others, but with worship leaders who are true worshipers of God, not entertainers. I measure a great worship time by was I able to worship God freely and openly, was Jesus exulted, did God show up, not how great the band was or did they sing the top 40 worship songs. But did they let me sing my worship songs to God, could I dance for God in joy if my heart desired to. I look for a worship leader who writes his own songs right up there as he is worshiping, that he is about expressing his love for and to God straight from his heart in his own words, he might sing some songs from others but most are a new songs from his heart at that moment in time.