Levels of Worship

There are many different levels in the expression of worship within the Body of Christ.  The first time I attended a Full Gospel meeting, I was disturbed by the loud audible praise, and attempted to leave.  I understood “blessed quietness,” but I had never heard everyone in a service singing and worshipping the Lord loudly and freely.  Today, I am eternally thankful that the Lord had His way and that, though slowly, I entered into this same spiritual freedom in the expression of audible praise and worship.
Worship increases our desire to experience the presence of the Lord.  It is a key to our becoming sensitive to His presence, and to our learning to recognize His voice.  As we are faithful in our expression of worship to the Lord, we will become increasingly more aware of His abiding presence, and we will more easily discern His voice.  Our vocal worship will do much in helping to develop these spiritual qualities within us.

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Pure worship

Pure worship brings unity into a Gospel meeting.  It releases the anointing of the Holy Spirit upon the meeting and creates an awareness of the Lord’s presence within those who are worshipping.  Worship both hinders and displaces the functioning of principalities and demons, as worship creates an atmosphere that is conducive to spiritual warfare and deliverance.
Therefore, when the music and atmosphere is favorable, the Holy Spirit readily “lifts” those who are worshipping into the manifest presence of the Lord, in which the quickening power of the Holy Spirit transforms lives.
This “Holy Spirit imparted” capability of flowing together in audible worship, relates to the fact that at the time of our salvation experience, we received the enabling ability to express worship to the Lord.  This “spirit of worship” abides deep within each one of us, and awaits an opportunity for its expression.  All that is needed for us to begin to worship the Lord in prophetic harmony, is anointed music and a little encouragement.

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The Life

The Christian life is something removed altogether from controversy about what we do and what we don't do. "The kingdom of God is not eating and drinking not, that is to say, to be conceived in those terms at all, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost," which are in a realm wholly different. The Christian lives, and is guided, not by rules specifying just how far he may mix with men, but by these inward qualities which are mediated to him by God's Holy Spirit. " Righteousness and peace and joy" are matters of concern in The Kingdom of God. Never let us be drawn away, therefore, into the old realm of "eating and drinking," for it is neither the prescription of these things nor their prohibition that concerns us, but another world altogether. So we who are of the kingdom need not abstain. We overcome the world not by giving up the world's things but by being otherworldly in a positive way: by possessing, that is, a love and a joy and a peace that the world cannot give and that men sorely need. We are partakers of a divine nature. Its not a life changed it is a life exchanged. I live yet not I but Christ lives in me!