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Free to worship
Worship, is such an intimate way of coming before our Precious Father. This should be should be a part of our daily lives no matter what. I don’t know about you but I love to put worship music on when I’m at home, close my eyes and let the words of the songwriter soak into my heart, into my very being. I love to be able to allow God to move and to speak to me whilst praising him. Too sometimes bow down before Him, raising my arms up to Him in thanksgiving. Telling Him how much I love and adore Him, how special He is to me, how thankful I am that He is in my life……. Sometimes I put instrumental or soaking music on and just allow the Holy Spirit to work in me. I love these times where I just wait upon God. I love being able to just listen for His still small voice. There have been a couple of times where I have felt such an intimate and powerful presence of the Holy Spirit; there have been tears streaming down my face at the wonders of His love. There was a time last year when He gave me a vision and it was amazing. There really is nothing like freely giving ourselves up to Jesus in worship and praise. When listening to worship, you can’t help but be brought into the presence of Jesus. How important is worship to you? Do you enjoy the freedom of being able to express yourself by worshipping our loving Heavenly Father? To express who you are in God? Do you make time and space for worship in your own personal daily walk with Him?
Within my church we are extremely blessed as we have so much freedom in which to worship, and so much space! We have two worship teams that rotate each week and no one Sunday is the same. We never know what God is going to do or how He is going to move. We go with an air of expectation knowing that He is going speak to us, through worship or through His Word, or both!
There is so much freedom within our church to freely express our praise to Him and each Sunday the vast areas of space are filled with an array of worshipers including children. Children express their worship through dance and through flags and banners. It is such an awesome sight to watch these little ones with no prompting from their parents, to go up on stage and just dance before Jesus. It is truly a wonderful sight.
We are encouraged some Sundays to get up out of our seats and our comfort zones, to go and use the vast amount of space down the front of the church, at the back and also the stage area. We are encouraged to allow the Holy Spirit to move in each of us, by dance, by giving words of knowledge, singing prophetic songs and by speaking out words that the Holy Spirit has prompted us with. The sounds of God’s people coming together as one in worship and praise is truly amazing. We have so much freedom and space to express ourselves in the area of dance and sometimes you can’t see the floor at all!
So wherever you are, be it at home or at church, allow the Holy Spirit to speak to you through worship. Make use of the space you have to spend time in His wonderful presence and see where God takes you!
