Per Usual......

It's Sunday morning and apparently, God seems to have this thing with me about waking me up at stinking 6am. Not every morning. Just Sunday morning. It would seem as though he wants to talk to me before we go to service. Mental note, don't stay up watching Live PD on Saturday nights. Shew. So this morning I grabbed my Bible and started re-reading last week scripture passage from Pastor Corey's sermon about 'No Earthly Answers.'

We worked through Job 1. I don't recall a lot of the message because my brain was scrambled from the sound freaking out on us. But I started reading Job 1. This morning I was going to mention the portion of scripture in verse 12 to the congregation about how God told Satan that he could not lay a finger on Job. But he could do whatever he wanted with the things around him. After listening to Tasha Cobbs Leonard last night at Dominion Camp Meeting things changed. She was talking about the things that Satan could take away and the one thing he couldn't take away was our worship.

Being a worship leader, that just hit right in the gut. So often we focus on things around us. Bills. Job troubles. Car troubles. The voice of the world. When we get to church on Sunday Morning we may not focus on what we are supposed to be focusing on. This is why churches are dying out. We come to church to get an encouraging word from the sermon but we don't put anything into worship. It doesn't matter about the atmosphere. Lights on or lights off. Million dollar building. Outside venue. These things don't matter, it's our hearts.

As I'm reading through Job 1 I come across verse 20 and it goes a little something like this. At this, Job tore off his robe, shaved his head and worshiped. This is right after everything was taken away from him. At the darkest moment of his life, he worshiped. Because that was something Satan couldn't take away from him. Which triggered my brain to the story of David. If we back up to 2 Samuel 12 we see the story of the death of David and Bathsheba's first born child. Where it dies. In verse 20 we see this. Then David got up from the ground. After he had washed, put on lotions and changed his clothes, he went into the house of the Lord and worshiped.

He worshiped, just as Job did. They didn't complain about it. They didn't spend 6 months in depression over it. They worshiped. I want to encourage each of you this morning that no matter what your week has been like. GO TO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD AND WORSHIP THIS MORNING! And not like you've been doing. Press in. Push for something to happen. You can't expect the same things to happen over and over and over with the same praise you've been giving. Have a great Sunday everyone!!!