The Launch Pad

In two days I will be hosting my first "ministry event".  It is a night of worship called "Let the Worshipers Arise".  I love the Lord so much and He has transformed my life.  I sing to Him, about Him all the time.  I have longed for the opportunities to get to join in gatherings just for the sake of singing in worship to Him.

Worship is not just singing though, but giving up ones self for the adoration of any thing.  In society we are worship obsessed even though we would probably not admit to it.  God created us to worship, so we do, but most of the time it is not pointed toward the One who created us to do it.

We start by worshiping ourselves, everything (good or bad) revolves around us. Our likes, our desires, stem from this worship, which allows us to worship other things. People. Material Possessions. Position. Affluence. Sports. Food. TV. Movies. Music. Social Status. Etc. Etc. Etc. Whatever makes us "happy".  Unfortunately, self and the things that self likes to worship does nothing for our greater good.  It is only temporal and carnal.

The God who created us, created us with the purpose of worship. He gives a guideline for how to do this and it is neither temporal or carnal.  It is " in spirit and in truth."  The Truth is Jesus.  God's eternal everlasting Truth.  The truth of the fact that He is "worthy to receive blessing and honor and glory and power forever".  The truth is that because "God is a Spirit" those who worship Him must do so in the understanding of that, and that truth is given to us by His Spirit.

The way to The Father is through The Son, and the way to The Son is by The Holy Spirit.  Without the Spirit there can be no relationship with the Father, because the Father gave all His riches to Jesus and Jesus gave all His riches to the Spirit to show us what is available to us.  Worship of God led by The Spirit, through The Son is rewarded by The Father without measure for yielding ourselves to His desire and forsaking the worship of self.

Temporary happiness pales in comparison to the joy and beauties that lie in the Presence of God.  There is NOTHING like the Presence of The Lord.  I have experienced it in both great and minute measure.  I know that God's desire is for relationship with us and He longs for us as much as we long to be loved.  Our worship is precious to Him and yet we give it away willey-nilley all the time.

Another Truth is that He is Faithful. It is one of the names of God.  So Saturday night a few people who are still learning to stop worshiping self, are going to take time to worship the Living and True God who will be waiting for The Worshipers To Arise.

Stephanie Hart