Worship

It has been an interesting week. God has been rekindling a few passions of mine these past months, and this past week, I really saw one of my passions emerge. I never really realized how much I longed to worship God through music until a few months ago. It has been a slow but beautiful process seeing The Lord reveal to me how He made me.

I went to a mission conference in Waco, Texas last January that really changed a lot of things in my life. God spoke to me through some really Godly brothers about how He has gifted me and what my specific purpose and passions are here on Earth. I was told by someone in Waco to "listen to the whispers of my past" in regards to finding my God given passions and gifts. Since I was 16 I have loved to worship, loved to pray, and desired to disciple men the way I was discipled. Those are the pillars of my life: worship, prayer, and discipleship. Those are what I care most about and what I desire to do and to see most in the Church. God has been so good, and has blessed me with a few opportunities to lead worship. The past few weeks, I have been thinking a lot about it. I have really been struggling with leading. But, in the midst of my struggles, I see why I struggle. Satan does not want me to use the gifts God has given me. He does not want any of us to use our gifts. He was us to be unproductive and ineffective for the Kingdom of God. But God has called us to let our light shine, and let it shine so bright that all men would see it and bow down in worship of the Creator. I have realized that when I do not use my gifts... more specifically, when I choose not to worship with all that I am, pray with all that I am, and love people in discipleship with all that I am, I am actually not pleasing God.

God does not want His Church to be idle. He wants us to be alive. He wants us to shine. And He tells us to run with perseverance the race that is mark out for us. He tells us to be steadfast and immovable, always abounding in the work of the Kingdom. If we, the bride and body of Jesus Christ are not using our gifts, we are dishonoring God and not being the people we are made to be. We are not fulfilling our purpose.

1 Corinthians 15:58 is one of my life verses, and it is my prayer for the global Church today. Let's carry the torch. And let us be worshipers of God in Spirit and in Truth, being unhindered as we eagerly await for the arrival of our King.



JN