DAY 21 - GET YOUR WORSHIP ON!!!
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FOOD CALENDAR:
Juices and water until noon
DEVO: GET YOUR WORSHIP ON!!!
WHY do you worship God? Have you ever thought about it?
ROMANS 12:1 (NIV) Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.
WORSHIP is giving everything you are—spirit, soul, and body—to the glorification of God. It is taking your time, talent, and treasure and giving it to the complete service of God’s will. It is the willful surrender of your attitudes, motives, personal agendas, bents towards image management, and pride as an offering to God simply because He is worthy.
Worship at its heart is God-centered. Worship is about God. It's not about you or others. It's not centered on human need. It’s not contingent on human feeling or mood. It’s not about what your circumstances or disappointments of the moment might be. It’s not even about what you get out of it. Worship, etymologically, is worth-ship; at its roots you are esteeming God’s worth.
Worship is not about giving God a percentage of your heart along with the various other pleasures competing for your attention. It's not about your preferred style. It's not about your personal tastes. It’s not about your personality. In worship you gather and encounter the presence of the Living God, and you declare His greatness, His goodness, and His glory with your heart and soul and mind and strength.
In Scripture you discover what God finds pleasurable in your worship. So your worship is to simply prefer God’s pleasure to yours; though God sees to it that your reciprocal pleasure—a mysterious pleasure—is exceeded. God is seeking such to worship Him.
Below are some of the ways to worship God that He derives pleasure from, all enumerated many times in Scripture. They may not be your initial preferences. But because they are worship—where you meet with God and connect deeply with Him—they will become your greatest delights.
Worship Him from deep within your spirit.
Worship Him authentically, honestly, and transparently.
Worship Him with shouts of praise, celebration, and ravings.
Worship Him with extended, upraised hands.
Worship Him with dancing, joyful spinning, and showing excessive emotion.
Worship Him with verbal expressions of praise, adorations, and thankfulness.
Worship Him with tender, quiet, still, and contemplative focus on God’s person.
Worship Him with extravagant value towards His Word.
You were created to worship God. There is nothing more mysterious, wise, and medicinal than worshipping God in His preferred style. Worship is a life-giving, heart-felt activity that stirs from deep within. It touches the core of who you are, connecting you with the One you worship. Worship God today for all that He has done during this great Awakening Fast!
PRAYER:
Dear Lord God, I surrender my affections, emotions, and attention to You. I want to offer You the worship that You desire. I give You my praise; vocally, physically, emotionally, and expressively because that is what You like. I want to give Your heart pleasure. In Jesus’ Name.
PRAYER PLAN:
Extravagant Worship for Church Faith Community – That EVERY ATTENDER at my local church faith community would have the courage to worship God with what delights His heart.
Extravagant Thankfulness - Review the previous prayer items during the fast and lavish thankfulness on God for hearing and answering.
SUGGESTED READING: 1 Corinthians 13 (AMP)
If I [can] speak in the tongues of men and [even] of angels, but have not love (that reasoning, intentional, spiritual devotion such as is inspired by God’s love for and in us), I am only a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers (the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose), and understand all the secret truths and mysteries and possess all knowledge, and if I have [sufficient] faith so that I can remove mountains, but have not love (God’s love in me) I am nothing (a useless nobody). 3 Even if I dole out all that I have [to the poor in providing] food, and if I surrender my body to be burned or in order that I may glory, but have not love (God’s love in me), I gain nothing.
4 Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily. 5 It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God’s love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong]. 6 It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness but rejoices when right and truth prevail. 7 Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening]. 8 Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end]. As for prophecy (the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose), it will be fulfilled and pass away; as for tongues, they will be destroyed and cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away [it will lose its value and be superseded by truth].
9 For our knowledge is fragmentary (incomplete and imperfect), and our prophecy (our teaching) is fragmentary (incomplete and imperfect). 10 But when the complete and perfect (total) comes, the incomplete and imperfect will vanish away (become antiquated, void, and superseded). 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; now that I have become a man, I am done with childish ways and have put them aside.
12 For now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a dim (blurred) reflection [of reality as in a riddle or enigma], but then [when perfection comes] we shall see in reality and face to face! Now I know in part (imperfectly), but then I shall know and understand fully and clearly, even in the same manner as I have been fully and clearly known and understood [by God]. 13 And so faith, hope, love abide [faith—conviction and belief respecting man’s relation to God and divine things; hope—joyful and confident expectation of eternal salvation; love—true affection for God and man, growing out of God’s love for and in us], these three; but the greatest of these is love.
DECLARATION:
I worship God in spirit and truth (John 4:24). I lift my heart with intensity, focus, and emotional presence, giving God my whole heart. I worship God the way He gains pleasure, not guided by my own preferences. I know God gives Scriptural guidelines of my worshipful expressions—such as raising hands, dancing, shouting, praising, sitting in quietness, etc.—to rewire my neurocircuits and to renew my mind. His pleasure is watching me move to wholeness as I come to an awareness of His truth, grace, love, and Redemption. I honor God today by my surrender and my leaning in to feel His pleasures.
WORKSHOP SATURATION:
Workshop saturation is taking spiritual topics and listening to them until they change the way you think, believe, and live. During the Awakening fast, we encourage you to binge-listen or binge-watch our Workshops the way you would binge-watch a show on Netflix. See Workshop Saturation for more information and instructions for accessing the Workshops.
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