Revealing Some Mysteries in Worship

There is a reason we Worship before the Word

2 Kings 3:15-16

[Elisha said] “Now bring me a musician."  Then it happened, when the musician played,

that the hand of the Lord came upon him. 16 And he said, "Thus says the Lord:”

Why does God need or want Worship before He gives a Word?

God made man in His image & after His likeness & gave man dominion over the earth

Everything in God is Finished & He is in a position of Rest

Heb 4:3-4

For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said:

"So I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest,'"

although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

4 For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way:

"And God rested on the seventh day from all His works."

We are charged with the work:

“Manifesting in the earth what He has finished in heaven”

That’s why we pray “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven”

• Dominion & Authority
• Binding & Loosing
• If we want a mountain to be moved, we have to speak to it

God’s movement is not based on Work, but on Worship

“The Father is seeking worshipers” – John 4:23

Eulogize Him (Eph 1:3) "speak well of"

God goes, not where He is given a job, but where He is celebrated

Do you know how God moves?

In the wilderness God lead them with a cloud

When the worship is good, His Shekinah is in a glory cloud

On the Mount of Transfiguration, God speaks from the cloud

He comes on the Clouds

•   Ps 104:3.  He makes the clouds His chariot
•   Isa 19:1.  Behold, the Lord rides on a swift cloud
•   Acts 1:9.  Jesus was received up into a cloud
•   Matt 24:30.  Jesus is coming back on the cloud

Where do Clouds come from?

Job 36:27-28

For He draws up drops of water, which distill as rain from the mist,

28 Which the clouds drop down and pour abundantly on man.

We Create the Clouds

John 7:38.  Out of our bellies will flow rivers of Living Water

Ezek 34:26.  Showers of Blessings

The enemy works to shut down our Worship to shut down God’s movement

He understands the mysteries of Worship, because He was there…

Ezek 28:12-14

You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

13 You were in Eden, the garden of God;

Every precious stone was your covering: the sardius, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx,

and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold.

The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes was prepared for you on the day you were created.

14 You were the anointed cherub who covers.

Is 14:12.  Lucifer:  Heylel (celebrate)

         He began to think he was the reason for the worship…

Heylel – Yah (Celebrate God) 

  God kicked Satan out

Satan Creates “Hell” (in our lives) – an environment to stop worship

Worship can get you out of Hell

Jonah 2:9.  I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving

Remember: God is looking for Worshipers – He moves to it

         If God shows up, it won’t be Hell anymore

                  So, Hell has to kick you out

So, don’t let anything stop your worship

Isa 30:29-32

You shall have a song…

30 The Lord will cause His glorious voice to be heard…

31 For through the voice of the Lord [the enemy] will be beaten down,

As He strikes with the rod.

32 And in every place where the staff of punishment passes,

Which the Lord lays on him,

It will be with tambourines and harps; and in battles of brandishing He will fight with it.

We Worship to receive a Word

Everything in God is Finished & He is in a position of Rest

God’s movement is based on Worship, not work

He moves on the Clouds

We Create the Clouds

Satan works to shut down our Worship

Worship gets us out of Hell

So, don’t let anything stop your Worship

Let’s have a Concert!