The Lord has that unique ability to feel our pain. To worship Him in the midst of a dark place brings Him incredible joy-this move’s His heart deeply-what a privilege!
To worship Him in the midst of blessing is one thing self is able to do. A true worshiper is able to worship the Lord in extreme difficulty times- only this can the Holy Spirit do! God is seeking true worshiper’s those who are enabled by His Spirit, to worship in spirit and truth.
God imparted His eternal life into our spirit; our soul and body still need to be transformed. We have a human nature of unbelief. Our soul becomes attached to things which we die to. Death to self is a wonderful experience when God grants us the ability to embrace it.
We know we are dead to self-when things that mattered to us so much, no longer matter.
We experience deep pain when our soul becomes attached to something that we desire and that desire does not come to pass. Our soul (self-life) is deeply rooted in fear and unbelief.
As we lose our life (soul), as our soul dies to the things of this world, somehow it no longer matters because we are living in a different realm; we have a walk in the Spirit.
To worship him in the midst of pain causes Him to marvel. It is part of how we love Him with all our heart. It is a great opportunity to change the atmosphere.
When we learn the secret of changing the way we feel, through our connection with the Spirit of God, then we enter an atmosphere of the Spirit, that enables us to change circumstances, to walk in the supernatural, which is what a walk in the Spirit is all about.
When we are enabled by the Spirit to walk in the Spirit, we have authority over the natural realm. Jesus had authority over the natural realm-to walk on water, to cause a storm to cease by speaking the word, but He was dead to self, he only did and only did what he saw the Father do, and say what he heard the Father say.
As our soul desires change through our growth in God, God is able to possess more of our heart. Unfortunately, a lot of energy is spent as these ties on our soul drain us of experiencing God’s life, but we grow out of them in time as we focus on our intimacy with the Lord.
We change the atmosphere in our worship, which changes our circumstances. Job is a type of a true worshiper, who worships in Spirit and in Truth. He experienced everything that could go wrong, go wrong!
Job’s name means hated. I guess because of Satan’s hatred toward him.
Job 1 20 Then Job arose, tore his robe, and shaved his head; and he fell to the ground and worshiped. 21 And he said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; Blessed be the name of the Lord.” 22 In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong.
God is the God of repetition, what he does for one He does for another. In our walk with God, we go through identical experiences with the Lord. We experience what Jesus did when he walked upon the earth, but not to the same degree, but it is an identical experience. Our destiny is to be conformed to His image, by being transformed on the inside.
The gospel is very simple, God loves us with all of His Heart, and He desires us to love Him with all of ours, this is why we must be born from above. This love is divine and is imparted to us. It is a supernatural love that takes possession of us when we enter into the atmosphere of His presence.
When we are enabled to worship God, no matter what! We enter into the atmosphere of His Spirit-Heaven. Then heaven comes down into the natural realm, and changes natural circumstances-thy Kingdom come!
God is after one thing, Worshipers! “ those who love Him with all their heart”, when God gets what He wants, then He adds to us all the things the natural man seeks after, but those things take a secondary place, they never take His place in our heart-nothing compares to knowing Him, in knowing Him we become one with Him-and inherit everything!
We change the atmosphere in our worship.
We change seasons in our worship.
We create Kairos moments (the opportune, right, or critical moment) in our worship.
2 chronicles 20: 20 So they rose early in the morning and went out into the Wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, O Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem: Believe in the Lord your God, and you shall be established; believe His prophets, and you shall prosper.” 21 And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed those who should sing to the Lord, and who should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army and were saying: “Praise the Lord, For His mercy endures forever.” 22 Now when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushes against the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were defeated.