Back to the basics

This past Friday or should i say Saturday morning since it was after midnight, I attend the Burn at our church. For those who don't know what the Burn is, you can check out the link here http://theburn247.com/. The mission statement of the Burn is this: "BURN 24-7 exists to fulfill the Amos 9 and Acts 15 Biblical prophecy to “rebuild the tabernacle of David and restore it, that the remnant of men may seek the Lord.” To create a place of refuge where worshippers, artists, intercessors, and minstrels can be free from agendas to pleasure themselves in the love of God and the beauty of experiencing his throne room 24 hours a day – 7 days a week. To establish a place and space where God can be glorified in the city and that a community of hungry lovers of God would again build its life around the Presence."

The past couple of months my walk with God has struggled off and on. For some reason I have allowed myself to be too busy for God and have been focused on my own needs and desires. This isn't the proper balance we need to have in our lives. God must come first and if He doesn't, things get messed up and don't flow like they should. I haven't been reading my Bible and studying like I should nor have I been focused on prayer like I should. So the last couple of weeks during worship at church I am just not into things because I have lost my focus.

I decided to put my attitude behind me and just adjust my walk with God. I began to just worship Abba freely and felt His presence descend upon me very quickly. It felt good to be in my heavenly father's presence. The woman who was leading worship was leading from the piano and was just singing from her heart. Several of the songs she sang I was familiar with and used to play while leading worship myself. I began to just get lost in God's presence. I felt God speaking to me and telling me that He loved me and wants me to begin to worship Him again as I once did, but only this time with a passion for Him and not just doing it to do it. While I am not a worship leader anymore it doesn't matter. I can worship God regardless if I am leading others or not. He wants all of our worship and all of our praise. He deserves everything. He wants our very best and wants all of us. It is up to us to give ourselves to Him. My prayer is that I decrease and He increases. We are not to worship the creation, but we are to worship the creator. Too many of us get wrapped up in the ooey, gooey over-stimulated, over-emotionalized feelings that come with music. We get upset if we don't sing a specific song, the one we got goosebumps from last time. We need to adjust our focus and just worship God. We are to worship Him with a new song. It doesn't say anything in the Bible to cling to one song that makes you feel good all over and stick with what worked for you in the past. We are to shout unto God with a voice of triumph, shout unto God with a voice of praise. Shout unto God with a voice of triumph, we lift your name up, we lift your name up! (that is from one of my favorite songs)

While I was worshiping and hearing these familiar songs I will admit I started to get wrapped up in singing the song, but then I began to remember I need to worship God. I allowed the familiarity to guide me as I worshipped the creator of all things. It is often hard for me to worship and sing out to God if I don't know the song, so it definately helps to know the songs. Since the songs were familiar with me I let loose and began to worship God intimately and felt so free. I began to lose myself in His presence and not worry what was going on around me. The music became more angelic and I could feel an annointing on the notes being played. The music was activating the annointing and allowing God to be as big as He wanted to be. I felt freedom and peace fill our sanctuary. God spoke this to my heart, It's time to get back to the basics. You have been too focused on too many other things and you need to get focused on me. Just worship me. If you love me, show me.

So that is what I am going to do. I am not going to get too wrapped up in myself and things around me, but just allow myself to be pursued by the lover of my soul.

Be blessed this week and may we all get back to the basics and worship our God.