His Glory Is Where You Want to Be

Each Wednesday in The Sanctuary we set aside to teach and educate on the importance of Worship. Worship is important to the individual and to the Body of Christ. As a matter of fact both are powerless without worship.  If you don’t worship as an individual down through the week there is no way you can truly worship during a church service or fellowship. Why? Because worship is a lifestyle and not just something that we do at church.

Worship is how we get into the presence of God. The Bible says in Psalm 22:3 “But thou [art] holy, [O thou] that inhabitest the praises of Israel”. We take this scripture and say give praise because God inhabits the praise of His people; however, for us to come into His presence we must worship Him.  If we don’t go into the presence of God we cannot grow spiritually, therefore we die spiritually.

When we come into the sanctuary to worship we need to get our minds off all the stuff and negative things in life and concentrate and focus on God. Understand that we can’t worship God if our focus is everywhere but on God.  The heart must be focused on Jesus in worship. Worship is what brings revival. Worship brings us into the presence of God and in the presence of God is where you want to be.

Worship with the power of the Holy Ghost produces breakthrough, deliverance, peace, and victory. When we worship in spirit and in truth, we are preparing the way of the Lord. When His way is prepared, He steps in and does a great work in the lives of people. And the devil can’t do anything to stop it. He can’t stop you from receiving your breakthrough, from being delivered, set free, cleansed, made whole, and getting the victory. 

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Repeatedly in Scripture, we see that whenever God calls someone into His service, He first reminds the person of His enduring presence. We see this in the stories of Moses (Ex. 3:11-12), Joshua (Josh. 1:1-9), Gideon (Judg. 6:12), and Jeremiah (Jer. 1:6-8), to name just a few. These men discovered, as we can, that the awareness of God’s presence energizes us for our work.

Why does God repeatedly assure His followers of His presence? He does so because we need to be reminded of the reason for our confidence. He essentially says, “You can be strong and courageous because I am with you. Victory isn’t about your abilities, your strength, your skill, your armor, your gifts, or your dedication; it has to do with My presence. You can be strong because I will be strong in you.”When Jeremiah trembled at the thought of the difficult ministry ahead of him, the Lord strengthened him with these words: “They will fight against you, but they will not overcome you, for I am with you to deliver you” (Jer. 1:19). 

The adversary knows if we don’t worship we become weak and frail and easy to defeat; therefore he will do whatever it takes to distract you to the point that you don’t feel like worshiping God. But that’s even more reason why we should do everything in our power to be in His presence, in His presence we find the strength to get up out of that current condition and go on to higher heights and deeper depths in God. The adversary knows if we don’t worship we become weak and frail and easy to defeat; therefore he will do whatever it takes to distract you to the point that you don’t feel like worshiping God. 

When did you last feel the presence of God in your life? I don’t mean a merely intellectual recognition that He is with you, for He is everywhere. Rather, when did you last recognize in your heart that the Lord is personally, intimately abiding in you?

If you are like many believers, it may have been a while since you really felt His presence. Too many people go about their lives without a genuine sense of God’s closeness. Today, worship God in spirit and truth and tell Him that you will do anything for Him, just see Him, to behold Him as your King. Tell Him that you want to be "Where He is"!

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