Worship and Peace – April 23
In order to get into a mode of worship, we need to still our souls. We can never become still and quiet if our souls are loaded with conflicting thoughts. The minute we get into a mode of still, we can focus on worshiping our Creator. Worshiping is powerful!
We all go through periods of darkness where we cannot commune or talk to our Divine Maker. In the midst of a dark gloomy night, when all hell breaks loose and things go wrong, it is very difficult to even look to the Heavens to pray. There is a little small thing we can do. it may start as a small little whisper, and then shrill into some noise, but we can start, and when we do, it is potent and powerful. We need to start to sing to God by faith!
There are no words in the Holy of Holies. It is in the Holy of Holies that God can meet us in a new dimension and fill our hungry souls. In the Holy of Holies, we are not asking, not seeking, not knocking. It is still and quiet, but very powerful, like a roaring waterfall cascading around us.
In that meeting with the Lord, He transports on those Wings of Worship to walk on a new plane, the Highway of Holiness and when we walk out of that secret worship place, we are equipped with a new power from the Lord where no negativity, fear, or bad spirit has the power to touch us.
If we can walk into the closet of worship, just adoring the Lord, asking for nothing, we will have a Divine Encounter with Him. We will come out of the closet of worship, glowing, filled with God’s presence. The more we have these wonderful worship times with the Lord, we will fly up on the Wings of Worship living on a higher realm even on Earth! We get new strength for our situations.
Amazing things happen when we learn to sing in dark times, it may start as a weak whisper, but will soon become a powerful torrent under the Holy Spirit in His glorious Presence.
Nithau Simick, Pastor Enos Simick’s wife shares in her testimony of how eighteen years back, she was in the last stage of cancer and says she was dying. She developed gallstones that were terribly painful, but these could not be removed due to heavy chemo and other surgeries she had to go through.
One night, she had intense pain and in pain, she slept off. Then, she had a dream where she started singing. She saw her father who had passed years back in her dream, and they were singing together. When she awoke from the dream, she was filled with joy, and to her wonderful delight, discovered that the gallstone agonizing pain had left her forever! Such is the power of song, praise and worship!
Psalm 149:6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, And a two-edged sword in their hand.
Keep singing and worshiping the Lord and play worship music aloud. Saturate the atmosphere with worship and negativity, hatred and fear will depart.
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God. Abraham Joshua Heschel
“I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.”—A.W. Tozer
“You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.”—Augustine of Hippo
“We are perishing for lack of wonder, not for lack of wonders.”—G.K. Chesterton
“Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.”—Charles Spurgeon
“Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can’t contain Him. Isn’t it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?”—Francis Chan
“Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through music.”—Martin Luther
“Work becomes worship when you dedicate it to God and perform it with an awareness of HIS presence.”—Rick Warren
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