Somehow writing this is uncomfortable to me. Most worship leaders would write on this subject of worship beyond the music.
I've notice in my years around ministry is that worship through music is one major part of any worship service. We open and close the service with a songs. But as the songs have become a part of our service that encourages us and focus our attention on Christ, it also hinders our true worship with Christ.
Wait before you throw stones at me and beat down my door let me explain.....
So many times in Churches I go to or people I hang around I hear phrases like "I can't worship to that music because its a bunch of hymns" or " I can only worship to Contemporary, Gospel or prophetic style worship"
I've heard these phrases over and over in the last couple of years.
I has completely made my stomach turn upside down.
I've grew up in a church that was completely gospel.....black gospel....to a church where is a bunch of hymns, around prophetic style worship and now in a contemporary church.
The problem that I have is that we as believer have over the years missed something.
That something that we have missed is the fact that no matter the style of worship....its still the same God.
That we can't become people that are moved by a style or song, more than we are moved by Christ himself.
God began to speak to me in saying "can you still worship me fully beyond the music, if it wasn't your style or even if there wasn't a note played on an instrument, could you still worship me with everything"
Honestly I stopped, looked at myself and realized I couldn't
That somehow over the years I've been moved by the emotion of the song more than moved by God himself.
I've realized that songs get old, people loss the original feeling and heart of a song. But God stays the same forever. He never gets stale or dull.
That my worship is consumed in a song but it is consumed in who the song is about. It is about the only true and living God. The one who makes a way our of no way.
That when I truly worship God with everything in truth, Hell becomes nervous over me. Hell is nervous now because satan knows that my eyes and heart have caught a gaze of true worship. That when I understand true worship I am a treat to the kingdom of darkness and that makes it nervous over me.
The devil realizes you are a treat when you understand real worship. The devil doesn't care if we get emotional in a song or life our hand. He doesn't care if we dance either if we are doing because we are moved by a song and not God.
Lets go beyond the music and set our gaze on God and be truly moved by him and nothing else.....
Lets make hell nervous over us.....because we are armed and dangerous to the kingdom of darkness!
--Kenny
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