If you know
what different people in the church do during worship, you are a spectator. If
you have no clue what other people do because you are busy worshiping God, you
are a participator.
Today I
want to speak to the spectators.
Be careful
what you think and say about the worshipers in the church. The lady that dances
in the passage, the man behind you whose vocal ability leaves nothing to be
desired, the person next to you who maybe claps his hands out of beat, the woman
who always start singing in tongues etc. These people are worshiping and you
are spectating. You are in a very dangerous
situation.
In 2 Samuel
6 we read about David who was bringing the Arc of the Covenant back. He was
worshiping while they bringing the arc back.
2 Samuel
6:5
David
and all Israel were celebrating with all
their might before the LORD, with castanets, harps, lyres, timbrels, sistrums and cymbals.
They were
celebrating WITH ALL THEIR MIGHT! That must have been one noisy worship
session! Unfortunately, there was a spectator and her name was
Michal.
2 Samuel 6: 20 -
23
When David
returned home to bless his household, Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet
him and said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself
today, going around half-naked in full view of the slave girls of his servants
as any vulgar fellow would!”
David said to
Michal, “It was before the LORD, who chose me rather than your father or anyone
from his house when he appointed me ruler over the LORD’s people
Israel —I will celebrate before the
LORD. I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in
my own eyes. But by these slave girls you spoke of, I will be held in
honor.”
And Michal
daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.
Michal
criticized David's worship and the result was that she was barren for the rest
of her life. You see, what other people do when worshiping is none of your
business. They are busy with God. Be careful that you don't act like Michal
did. You might just become spiritually barren. If you are praying and it feels
as if your prayers bounce back from the ceiling, sit and think whether you have
been a Michal at some point. That person who worships in abandonment, in real
'David style', is pleasing to God.
John 4: 23 -
24
Yet a time is
coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the
Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father
seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers
must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
Is noisy worship
and the loud band a problem to you? Get used to it! Heaven is not going to be
quiet!!! In Revelation 19 you will read that worship in heaven with be like
thunder!
Repent today of
being a worship spectator. Become a worship participator.

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