The Need For Worship

We need true worship to connect with Heaven. We need worship to hear clearly from God. Worship will shut out all the other voices in our minds. Either God will speak or we will have silence and peace.

Psalm 29

We need the powerful voice of our Lord. The kind of worship that we are used to will not bring the change that we need.

Matthew 15:8-9

A pure worship is a form of communion. We worship by faith and honor through a laying down of our lives. This is how we get the attention of our Lord. We cannot worship Him with a form of Godliness, it must be through spirit and truth.

John 4:23-24

From the hour our Lord died the true worshipping started. After Jesus’ death the disciple’s love for Him was stronger. This is when true worship started, when they realized who He was and what all He had done for them, and most of all how much He loved them.

2 Samuel 22:1-4

David called on the Lord who is worthy to be praised. Our God is worthy of all our praises. Look at what the Lord has done. He could do so much more in our lives if we would praise Him all the way through to breakthrough.

Joshua 5:13-15

God appeared to Joshua as the captain of the Lord of hosts. Our worship could be in the place that we would see Him and that we could hear His voice. God is the only one who says remove your shoes you’re standing on holy ground. Very few times have we experienced His presence like this. Our worship should come to this degree every time we come together. In pure worship we discover that we’re not alone and that He is who He says He is. Do you want to hear God say, “Remove your shoes, you’re standing on holy ground”?

Hebrews 11:4

Abel’s offering came through his faith in God. How can you worship someone in which your faith is not really in? Is your faith in God or in yourself? We cannot please God without faith, so how can we truly worship Him?

1 Chronicles 16:23-29

We have to get into His presence and then stay in it until He reveals Himself. There is glory and honor for Him. We need to bring an offering of praise, not a work like Cain did. We need an offering of pure worship worthy of our Lord. The word says to worship in the beauty of holiness. This is the holy of holies, this is the place where we cannot just quit. When we get to this place of worship this is where God deals with our hearts. This is where we are broken and humbled before our Lord. This is where we wait on Him. This is where we hear from Him. This is the throne room.

Isaiah 6:1-5

Our praise and worship together should usher us into the holy of holies. Together we can create an atmosphere of worship fro our King. You can’t see him, but He is high and lifted up. We can come boldly to the throne of grace by His Spirit. We waste too much time just singing songs instead of singing to Him. His train, which is His glory, fills the temple. His glory is in us, there is no reason good enough as to why we cannot go into worship like this. We need this people! We need His holy presence. We need just one touch of His glory to be changed forever. It’s worth waiting for. How will we know that we are undone without it?

There are changes that will need to take place. We need everyone’s cooperation. There needs to be a reverence when the Holy Spirit is moving, and a willingness to wait on the Lord’s presence. How can we cut off His presence?

Two Kinds Of Lost

The first is those who have never heard the gospel. There are some who may have heard bits and pieces and are becoming ready to be harvested.

Matthew 9:10-13

My spirit-filled commentary gives a good note here, it says that Jesus likens himself to a physician who goes where there are needs. Just as Jesus cannot refuse to treat sinners, neither can physicians refuse to treat the sick. He is drawn to the lost and because He lives in us, should we not be feeling the burden of the lost?

Luke 19:10

Our Father, came by the way of His Son, He came for one reason only, to save all who were lost. To provide all the way back to Him and to give us access to His throne day or night.

Matthew 5:13

We are the salt. If those who are saved and called by His name cannot season another life then what good are we? If you really know Jesus, then you have salt because He is the salt. He is the word and it is the word which brings seasoning to a life. If you have no salt then how can you be salted? (if the salt loses it’s flavor how then shall it be seasoned?) We are to be seasoned or salted daily through His word. (but id we don’t have Jesus (salt) then how will we receive His word (seasoned or salted)?)

Ezekiel 34:16

Jesus is the true shepherd and if He lives in us then are we hindering His work? And have we become the bad shepherds of Ez 34:4? I think so!

Mark 16:15-18

Tells us to do the very same thing that we read in Ez. 34 and Mk 16. We read what a good shepherd wants to do. This is the great commission, to go after that which is lost and to reap the harvest (put in the sickle). There are those who are lost and those who have fallen. The second is those who have fallen away.

Matthew 18:11-14

We are also like shepherds. We carry with us the Good Shepherd. We need to tend to the flock and if one has gone astray we must go after the lost one, the one who has lost his/her way.

Galatians 6:1-5

None of us have arrived yet. Where is the love of God in us? Where is His heart for His people? Unless these which have gone astray be restored, they could be lost to the kingdom forever. V.4-5 Everyone of us will have to give an account for our own walk with the Lord. We are called to repair and restore that which is lost or broken. Beware of self-pride when dealing with one of God’s children who has gone astray.

1 Corinthians 10:12

Our attitude should be full of mercy and compassion for those who have fallen. It can just as easily be one of us. We are called to go after those who are lost.

Matthew 4:19-21

They were mending nets. In Jesus our nets are mended, but if we never cast it out how can we be fishers of men?

Hebrews 11:3

The word “framed” means to arrange, set in order, equip, adjust to, complete what was lacking, to make fully ready, repair and prepare. The word of God has called and prepared a net to catch multitudes. A harvest of souls. This net has been pulled and torn apart through many trials and errors. But we are called to mend the broken parts of our net and to continue our work in Him. (the spirit of the lord is upon me, He has anointed me…) Many souls are sliding through the cracks and holes in our nets. We are losing multitudes.

John 21:5-11

We have Jesus to mend our nets. We need to bring back that which is lost. If they don’t come back or flat out refuse to hear the gospel then their refusing is not to us, it is unto God. We need to mend, then cast on the right side of God and He will make us fishers of men. There are two kinds of lost people. Let the Lord direct your path to one of them.

Which Suffering?

1 Peter 4:13-17

There are two kinds of suffering, the one that we cause because of iniquity, and the one because we choose to suffer the wrong. Which one is better? Both will cause suffering. The first one cannot be better. This suffering leads to death in everything we touch, including our souls. This suffering is caused from a carnal state of mind. In a carnal state we cannot fight a spiritual problem. The second suffering will bring rewards in this life as well as the life to come.

2 Corinthians 10:3-5

If we choose to walk according to our flesh we will suffer. We will cause our situation to become worse and worse. You can stay there long enough to become a victim. Victims suffer loss, Victors gain victory. Which way do you want to suffer?

Romans 10:17

Faith to overcome comes by hearing the word of God spoken, the word of God read, and seeing the word in action. Our walking in faith pleases God. It draws people to God. Become a dominator of your circumstances instead of becoming a slave to the conditions that surround you. Yes, you may have to suffer some things like persecutions and such. But most of our sufferings can be avoided. But only by our faith in God, not in our self. Become a dominator over the enemy in your life. Look at Moses, God told him why cry unto Me? Lift up your rod and command the sea to divide. The three Hebrew children believed while going into the fire, their faith dominated the fire. Peter’s faith dominated gravity when he walked on the water.

Matthew 8:26-27

Jesus said, oh ye of little faith. Not the kind I just mentioned. Jesus is saying why can’t you come and walk with me, walk like I do, talk like I do? Why can’t you dominate your surroundings when I have given you everything? Why do you suffer in the pit?

1 John 4:4

We give Satan our consent to rule over us, forgetting who we have living in us. My, my! How can this be? And why? Because we walk by sight and not by faith. The sad truth is that most of the body of Christ is here. The word is Jesus, it is truth, God is not a man that he should lie. Therefore to fight the spiritual problems in our physical lives we need to know that the One who is in us is greater than the one who is working against us. Every problem is caused by spiritual wickedness and this will be getting worse. If we fight with out God then our suffering will get worse.

Mark 11:22-24

There is an order to prayer and it is to be followed in this order: 1.) What things so ever you DESIRE, 2.) When ye PRAY, 3.) BELIEVE that you receive, 4.) You shall HAVE them. This shows faith in the work that has already been done.

Romans 10:11

If we trust Him in faith, because His word tells us to, and we believe every word to be true, then we will be victorious and we will not be ashamed. This is not shame on God, it is shame on you, of what you could have had and what you could have done. There are no limits in God. The limits are in us.

1 Corinthians 2:1-5 (read entire chapter)

We cannot go by feelings. We must know and believe the word of God. Mark 11:24 is in order, this is how a miracle is made.