Thirty Days of Thanksgiving and Worship 预览

Our Position in Praise...

...saying with a loud voice: “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain To receive power and riches and wisdom, And strength and honor and glory and blessing!”
Revelation 5:12

Praise and worship can open our spiritual eyes to recognize and experience our position with Christ in heavenly places. As denominational president and pastor, Randy Remington, states, worship interrupts our preoccupation with ourselves. And when we truly enter His presence with our thanksgiving and praise, it opens our spirit to the Biblical truth that we are already hidden in Him and reigning with Him.

Genuine worship causes our faith to rise. Honest worship gets our gaze off our stuff and onto Who He is and who we are in Him. Holy Spirit inspired worship positions us to receive from our Father what He lavishly desires to bestow upon us. When we join the chorus of the heavenly hosts worshiping around God’s throne, our true home – heaven – starts to rub off on us.

It can be so formidable for us who have schedules to keep, paychecks to earn, kiddos to chase after, and cars to fix to remember that we are already living in the Kingdom of His love. In our daily stuff, it can be challenging to remember that we are seated with Him above principalities and powers – the devil and his minions – who would attempt to destroy our lives. And amid all that assails us, it can be difficult to remember that we are more than conquerors through Him who loves us.

Yet, we don’t worship to get. We worship because He is Worthy. Nevertheless, worship reminds us of our actual position in Christ. His cross purchased our entrance into heavenly realms even while our feet are planted here on earth.

What a sublime gift worship is.

[i] Randy Remington, President: International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, Converge Event, Santa Clarita, CA - September 23-24, 2019