For a couple of months now the holy spirit has been speaking to me about worship and what it truly means to worship him, for many years I had a narrow view on how to worship God and I realised that my perception of worship was distorted. I had limited myself on how to worship him and what I deemed was acceptable unto Christ. It is crazy because I have always been someone who liked to sing and I was somewhat involved in the church, up until I went to university but I lost the passion to worship because I believed that singing was the only way I was able to worship him.
During the pandemic, God started to work on me and he began to shift my perspective not only on him but also on the way I worshipped him. It wasn’t the easiest thing for me because I had to unlearn a lot of things that I had been accustomed to for years. John 4:24 (NLT) says that “For God is spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth” however, the holy spirit revealed to me that I was worshipping him out of a fleshly place. I was focused on the outward things such as the way I looked, I even struggled with wanting people to see that I was ‘worshipping’ God by lifting my hands in the air and singing the lyrics to the song out loud. I think about that time and I honestly just cringe, I concentrated on how I felt after the worship or how good the worship leader sounded, I relied on the songs, instruments to feel God’s presence not knowing that God’s presence was already there.
The questions that I had to ask myself was – are you worshipping God to satisfy yourself or are you worshipping God to please him and him alone? and it was simple I was not, I only worshipped when I felt like it and I noticed that it started to become a me thing and how I felt instead of realising that worship is not about me at all but it all about God. I have question for everyone, what habits do you need to unlearn regarding worship? What does worship mean to you and what God has revealed to you in this season?
Father Lord, I thank you for your children and I thank you for what you are doing in their life in this season. I pray that you give them a deeper revelation of you and they understand what it means to truly worship you. If there are habits that are not of you that they have been accustomed to regarding worshipping you I pray it is revealed to them and you give them the grace to unlearn it in Jesus’ name Amen.
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