Leaders, Worship Leading, Worship Theology
Worship the God of Miracles (Show #85)
#Miracles (Video Below)
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Would it take a miracle…
As worship leaders, we desire to have our churches sing. We also pray for worship to be unleashed and our people to give God unyielding praise.There is an openness, true joy and wonder that we hope for our churches to find. What does worship look like in your church? Is it brimming with joy and being shared as a celebration? Or is the worship like still waters contained in an stone jar?
It’s more than song choices and more than sermon topics. Worship is more than how the band or audio sounds. It’s about the response of the heart. It’s about worshiping the Father, Son and Holy Spirit who changes us. He is the God of Miracles. What do you think God hears when we sing? Just because someone may be silent, it doesn’t mean they are less holy. Just because someone is loud and exuberant in praise, doesn’t make them more holy.
There is not one person, no where in the New Testament where God favors one person over another. Even throughout the entire Bible, God loves all people. Good or bad, His love passionately pursues us. God hears our worship equally, because he loves us the same. How are we loving Him back? What kind of miracle will it take to break the stone cistern of our hearts?
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Where does worship begin?
Before worship begins externally in your church, worship first begins internally with God. Worship was created by God and is for God. The misuse of worship is displacing our praise onto other things, people, self or sin, rather than giving worth to God.
Worship is for God
Worship belongs to Him and means something to Him. Therefore, it should mean something to us. When we take worship out of the context of God, we turn what is rightfully His and give way to idolatry. It can only take the miraculous love of Jesus to change our hearts and minds and turn us to the Father. A Miracle is defined as an event in the external world brought about by the immediate change or divine movement of God. Miracles operate without the means capable of being discerned by the senses, and designed to authenticate the divine commission of His Message, Truth and Work of God.
It shows the intervention of power that is not limited by the laws of either matter or of the mind. It is a power interrupting the fixed laws that govern their movements – it is a supernatural power by God Himself. There are four kinds of miracles: signs, wonders, superhuman power (through God), and works of His wonderful working power. Miracles are seals of a divine mission. Writers of the Bible appealed to them as proofs that miracles were messengers of the Lord. Jesus appealed to miracles as conclusive proof of His Divine mission and Personhood. God, unseen or seen, reveals miracles of Himself that point us to the glory to God. “You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples.” Psalm 77.14
How does a miracle cause our heart to sing? We read in John 2 about Jesus and his family at a wedding. It was not a worship service, but it soon become one for the disciples. Jesus’ mother said to Him that they had no more wine. He told the servants to gather the cisterns and fill them with water.
In that moment, the master tasted the water that was changed into wine. This was the first of Jesus’ signs, through which He reveals his glory, and the discipled put their belief in Him. (John 2.1-11) You can’t force worship in a service.
The miracles of God change the heart. You can try everything in your own power, but you can’t force people to worship. Only God has the power to work through a person. However, the response of that person either chooses or allows to be changed by God or not. We are all sheep gone astray; or in this example, cisterns at a wedding. We are in the presence the King and His party, but are we joining in His worship? Instead of celebrating (through joy or pain), our hearts can be like hardened stone.
However, all of this changes when the Master comes and fills us with His new wine. Springing up inside our hearts, flows a fountain of joy and relief (John 4.14). This indeed becomes our miracle.
“God changes our hearts into fountains of praise” @BranonDempsey
It is a miracle for God to change a human heart and turn to give Him praise. Yet, at the same time, how can we not hold back our truest desires and need to worship Him? When we see the Lord perform miracles, it is a natural response to recognize His awesome power.Whether if He is worshiped or not, His Divine power is undeniable and His Sovereignty stands, they are witnessed before all created things (Heb 4.13 and Col 1.15). We as believers of the Gospel, His miracles of love and mercy, are compelled to give our lives over to His authority. We worship Him as a response because He first loved us (1John 4.10, 19) “But these miracles have been written so that you will believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and so that you will have life by believing in him.” (John 20.31) [tweetthis]God changes our hearts into fountains of praise.[/tweetthis]
Worship the God of Miracles
There is no other miracle outside of the Father, given by the Son and carried out by the Holy Spirit that can change hearts. He works His miraculous love and forgiveness to change our souls. He generously pours every gallon of grace upon grace over us. Brimming to the top, throughout the ages, He has chosen to save His very best for us – Jesus. May we drink deep with joy and gladness.Let us celebrate in His glory. May we give unhindered praise and unreserved worship by the heart. Since He has changed us by the Holy Spirit, we are forever changed; One day we will face Him from glory to glory. “And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord.” 2 Cor. 3.18 Lead worship through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Let the wonder be restored in your heart as you gather as the Church and sing: “I believe in You.” Allow Him to change the waters of your heart, and into the true blood and wine of Christ. Be enraptured only by His love, as you worship the God of all miracles.
@BranonDempsey @worshiptt
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