I read a blog written by Craig McConnell last week and was captivated by the words and the thoughts behind worship and wonder that He spoke of...
With my hands raised and my heart raw, I sing out to God..."IT IS WELL, IT IS WELL, WITH MY SOUL." At that place of surrender and worship there is an overwhelming wave of peace, a filling of purpose, and an awakening of our souls. The things we carry fall to our sides, our needs and our wants fade away, and we realize that we have always had EVERYTHING we will ever need.
Our prosperity is in a God who reveals Himself to His people, who sings with them in the midst of their greatest trials and who Holds their hands high in their hardest battles.
"In His Presence All Things Fall Into Their Proper Place." Worship is our way of entering into the throne room of God. It is our way of experiencing Heaven on Earth.
Our prosperity is His Presence.
and in His Presence there is Peace.
I long for a life of prosperity, a life of living out my days in the Presence of God's wonder, overwhelmed by His peace and His joy no matter what circumstances may come.
My longing and hearts cry for worship is to be able to sing out over my circumstances---It is Well With My Soul.
Worship has more to do with the posture of our hearts than the movement of our lips; it’s what naturally happens when a person encounters the wild, beautiful and holy/other God. In the presence of God worship is inevitable—it cannot be suppressed. In His presence all things fall into their proper place: kings of the earth bow; sinners fall on their faces in repentance; death’s sting is lost; evil and its pawns are vanquished; there is no cancer, hopeless or despair; the blind see; the deaf hear; and there is joy—so much joy.He further wrote of his current battle with cancer and His desperation for worship in the midst of the unknowns and the fears...
It was new ground for me… messy, profound… deeply personal. As I cried out for relief I also found myself worshipping, praising, adoring, and thanking God for the comfort, strength, and hope of his presence. I praised him for life, for heaven, for his goodness and grace. Again and again I recited Psalm 23, clinging to the truth that, “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me.” It wasn’t poetic, but it was passionate and burning... birthed in and from my pain. None of my circumstances changed. I still had a fever and was in pain. My cancer didn’t disappear but everything faded like the old hymn says: “And the things of this world grew strangely dim.” Everything found its proper place. I was anchored to my Father, without fear. I was good. Cancer’s despair lost its grip on me and I worshipped as I may never have done before.We sang the song "It is Well" this past weekend at church and it brought me back to a place of evaluating my worship and my wonder for God. I had to ask myself the hard question, "If God gives you nothing, will you still give Him everything?" How often do we worship God seeking nothing in return? So many churches are teaching a prosperity gospel. Preaching that God is just waiting to give you promotion, money, success, fame, health. I believe that we serve a God that is capable of giving us all those things--but He never promised us those things. In fact when the disciples decided to follow after Christ and live a life of worship to Him, They lost EVERYTHING.
(http://andsonsmagazine.com/08/love-and-wonder#.VGvKl75RHww)
With my hands raised and my heart raw, I sing out to God..."IT IS WELL, IT IS WELL, WITH MY SOUL." At that place of surrender and worship there is an overwhelming wave of peace, a filling of purpose, and an awakening of our souls. The things we carry fall to our sides, our needs and our wants fade away, and we realize that we have always had EVERYTHING we will ever need.
Our prosperity is in a God who reveals Himself to His people, who sings with them in the midst of their greatest trials and who Holds their hands high in their hardest battles.
"In His Presence All Things Fall Into Their Proper Place." Worship is our way of entering into the throne room of God. It is our way of experiencing Heaven on Earth.
Our prosperity is His Presence.
and in His Presence there is Peace.
I long for a life of prosperity, a life of living out my days in the Presence of God's wonder, overwhelmed by His peace and His joy no matter what circumstances may come.
My longing and hearts cry for worship is to be able to sing out over my circumstances---It is Well With My Soul.
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