| How I love the tender hearts of my people. How I love to hear the praises and the thanksgiving of the outer courts. I have been watching you as you offered up your sacrifice of praise. The sound of your heart was so beautiful. Please don’t stay in the outer court…enter in. The veil that once kept you out is gone. It was torn the day I died for you. I so long to be close to you. Come closer, closer…enter in. I can see the people around you, I know that some desire only the outer courts. Yes, I can see them but I know that your focus is on me. I see your heart and know that your desire is to come into the Holy of Holies. I am waiting for you. Please…enter in. Come into my chambers and kneel at my throne. I have been waiting for you. I long to hear your heart’s cry. I love your praises but long for your worship. I’m waiting, please…enter in. tsf |
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| "But the hour is coming, and now is, when true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is a spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth."
John 4:23-24 |
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| The veil being rent from top to bottom is a fact of history. The profound significance of this event is explained in glorious detail in the Letter to the Hebrews. These things were shadows of things to come, and they all ultimately point us to Jesus Christ. He was the veil to the Holy of Holies, and through His death, the faithful now have free access to God. |
| The purpose of our worship however is not to experience the hand of God it is to see the face of God. Worship is for God! He is the giver and the receiver of worship. All true worship has God at its center. It's all about Him. I Corinthians 6:20 reads, "For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's." Nothing in our lives has to do with us. Saint and sinner alike have been bought with the blood of Jesus and we are not our own. If our lives are not centered around us how much more our worship. Though we benefit greatly from worship, the purpose of worship is not to make us feel better. It is to glorify God. Worship has one agenda; GOD. |
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| By Bob Sorge 1. Worship is conversation between God and man, a dialogue that should go on constantly in the life of a Christian. 2. Worship is giving to God and involves a lifetime of giving to him the sacrifice he asks for: our total selves. 3. Worship is our affirmative response to the self-revelation of the triune God. For the Christian, each act of life is an act of worship when it is done with love tht responds to the Father's love. Living should be constant worshiping, since worship may be said to provide the metabolism for spiritual life. 4. Worship was the outcome of the fellowship of love between the Creator and man and is the highest point man a can reach in response to the love of God. It is the first and Principal purpose of man's eternal calling. 5. Worship is one's heart expression of love, adoration, and Praise to God with an attitude and acknowledgment of his supremacy and Lordship. 6. Worship is an act by a redeemed man, the creature, toward God, his Creator, whereby his will, intellect and emotions gratefully respond in reverence, honor, and devotion to the revelation of God's person expressed in the redemptive work of Jesus Christ, as the Holy Spirit illuminates God's written word to his heart. 7. Worship means "to feel in the heart." Worship also means to express in some appropriate manner what we feel. 8. True worship and praise are "awesome wonder and overpowering love" in the presence of our God. 9. Worship is the ability to magnify God with our whole being — body, soul, and spirit. 10. The heart of true worship is the unashamed pouring out of our inner self upon the Lord Jesus Christ in affectionate devotion. 11. Worship is fundamentally God's Spirit within us contacting the Spirit in the Godhead. 12. Worship is the response of God's Spirit in us to that Spirit in him whereby we answer, "Abba, Father," deep calling unto deep. 13. Worship is the ideally normal attitude of a rational creature properly related to the Creator. 14. Worship is extravagant love and extreme obedience. |
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Please Remember The Lighthouse She Falls There is My Father If Only I Had My Baby’s Eyes Two Men The Gap This Day He Walked Between the Rows Revolutionary Perspective Welcome Home You Are Faithful I Remember Walls Enter In The Little Lamb The Sail Where the Blood Fell The World at My Doorstep Another Day at the Office The Valley Another Second Chance I Want to Fly The poems on this website were written by my husband. I pray that the Lord will speak to you through them. **Feel free to share these poems with others. We only ask that you leave the TSF at the end of each and that you place a link to our website (http://www.geocities.com/shout_2_the_lord) with it. Thanks. |