Is an open wound hindering your worship?
“So David arose from the ground, washed, anointed himself, changed his clothes and he came into the house of the Lord and worshiped.” (2 Sam. 12:20)
King David loved the Lord with all his heart. But he messed up. Yes He did big time. A man after God's heart? Certainly, he was human and fell as everyone else does. But there are some lessons we can learn from his response after the fall.
When David sinned with Bathsheba it may seem for a moment that he had no conscience, but when the child born from his sin died, David was deeply wounded. No one around him could console him. He was a broken man with a secret; the secret was that he knew where to go for healing. Are you walking around with a wounded heart or a wounded spirit and causing your personal worship to suffer? You probably may not be enjoying the corporate worship experience to its fullest either.
You are not free to encounter God’s presence the way you would like because of something you have to let go of a long time ago.
Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty, therefore He would want you to be free so you can worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. What holds true in the human realm is also true in the spirit realm: even the strongest soldiers sometimes get wounded in battle. Take your wounds to God, whatever they may be and have God work on you. You don’t have to keep hurting.
One thing is that most churches are filled with people who have a lot issues to deal with. So even in times of corporate worship they are not able to focus and keep drifting away every now and then. True Worshipers must worship the father in spirit and in truth, but we most people do one and leave the other. The two are to go together!
To worship in truth, our worship must be rooted in the word of God and must also be based on the word of God and not on our traditions or human reasoning. The word of God says “in His presence there is fullness of joy…” and that is the truth. All we need to do when we come before Him is to lay all our fears, sorrows and troubles at His feet and worship Him according to this truth, and as led by the Holy Spirit.
Are you a wounded worshiper? Come now as you are to the father, and you can be healed and restored to be the true worshiper you were designed to be.
Keep worshipping!
AB Kwarteng.
Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty, therefore He would want you to be free so you can worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. What holds true in the human realm is also true in the spirit realm: even the strongest soldiers sometimes get wounded in battle. Take your wounds to God, whatever they may be and have God work on you. You don’t have to keep hurting.
One thing is that most churches are filled with people who have a lot issues to deal with. So even in times of corporate worship they are not able to focus and keep drifting away every now and then. True Worshipers must worship the father in spirit and in truth, but we most people do one and leave the other. The two are to go together!
To worship in truth, our worship must be rooted in the word of God and must also be based on the word of God and not on our traditions or human reasoning. The word of God says “in His presence there is fullness of joy…” and that is the truth. All we need to do when we come before Him is to lay all our fears, sorrows and troubles at His feet and worship Him according to this truth, and as led by the Holy Spirit.
Are you a wounded worshiper? Come now as you are to the father, and you can be healed and restored to be the true worshiper you were designed to be.
Keep worshipping!
AB Kwarteng.
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