The Call to War

Today i was just thinking on a few things regarding the new sound of worship the Lord wants to release (it's been a long time since i last thought or wrote about this).. I believe that this new wave of worship would carry the sound of freedom to the surroundings, to whoever hears it... And that's why the Lord is doing a work of cleansing upon our hearts- cos He wants to liberate us of the things that hold us back so that when we're truly free of them, we'll be able to worship Him from that place of freedom and release a sound from that place that calls the world to that same place of safety! remember in Exodus, the sign that the Lord delivered His people out of Egypt was the fact that they worshipped at the mountain of fire at Horeb where the glory of God descended... It was at that same time that the enemy released to them a demonic worship that drove the children of israel to depravity, perversion and idolatry in worshipping the golden calf. One of the reasons i believe they were given over to this was because they didn't heed the call of God to the mountain.. they feared the holy Voice that they told Moses "You go on up while we wait down here below.. den later you tell us what God says..." the reason why they fell to the counterfeit sound was because they refused God's offer for them to walk in a higher place and experience Him deeper.. There is coming a time in these days, like never before that worship will come with, and as a result of extreme warfare... and if we do not heed the call of God, the creative sound meant to be released to the world might just be taken over by the counterfeit.. and the influence of the counterfeit would drive world into greater degrees of sin and depravity.. we live in the day that this is gonna be a reality. The worship wars are real.

Now we worship Him at one level.. but as we heed His call to holiness and consecration.. and as He frees us from the grip of things which hold our lives, there will be such a joy and liberty in our worship.. and it will result in us worshipping Him a new, unbridled, unprecedented way.. that liberty would be expressed through song, bringing it's virtue to all who hear it. It carries truth which sets people free.. it is the expression of the reality of Jesus at work in our lives.. and the sound will be more than just music but will touch every aspect of creative arts and the marketplace to measure that we, as vessels are willing. It's a glorious sound for a glorious day. We're to arise and shine for His glory has risen upon us!

Do you know that one of the Hebrew words for praise mean to shine, to give out light?? Halelujah comes from the word Halal which means to praise and which also means to shine.. It's a picture of breaking out... it's time we break out of the enemy's yoke and shine forth in praise and release the very expression of our freedom which would in turn liberate others! That's what Moses did on the mountain- arise and shine.. He arose, met with God and went down radiating His glory! That's the mountain of worship...

Another thing God has been showing me is the fact that other religions out there have very visible and pronounced audible expressions of their worship! Take daoism for example... during their rituals and festivals, there would be banners marking out territory... and sound waves would travel a good distance with the resonance of their gongs, cymbals and bells... why then is the church so restricted in their expression of worship?? The non-daoists hear the bells and the cymbals.. but why issit that non-christians don't hear the sound of our worship? Why issit that we've been so caught up in the confnes of dignity and our own society that we don't match their exuberance, enthusiasm, and plain simple loudness?? Our God is a loud God who wants to make His praises known! Is it not biblical for us to shout our praises? Why doesn't it go on out there in the streets, in the marketplace? Why doesn't it even go on in the church? Has God changed?? Have we run out of reasons to excaim His praises? Oh.. but we don't want to offend do we? So we keep everything toned down! But when other religions clang and gong their way into the spirit realm, why not us? Don't we know that sound travels in two dimensions? How much more the sound of praise that claims terrritories and establishes God's throne in the midst of His people!

Spiritual battles need spiritual solutions.. That's why we're called to worship in spirit and in truth! Cos true worship is spiritual and meant to establish His throne and advance His purposes in the heavenly realms! Cos a spiritual war has to be won first if we're to see real victory in the natural! Where's the spiritual aggression in God's people? Where's the warrior spirit? Jesus is the Lion of thr Tribe of Judah, the tribe of praise! Hve we tamed His expression of worship through us? Cos when He releases a sound, it is a conquering sound! Demons trmble, darkness flees and the Kingdom of God advances! The reason our worship is weak is cos it's mainly made up of our expression. But when we get to the place of worship where it's His expression through us, we'll get to see the release of heaven and it's divine qualities through us, the gates! The battle has to be won at the gates! That's us! Take the gates and take the battle! Spoil the gates and destroy their destiny.. in which case satan steps in and claims them for the kingdom of darkness to release his counterfeit expression! We are in a war! We have to live like we're in a war! We have to worship like we're in a war!

Do you know that during the days of the Methodist revival, people in church metings would cry, wail, shout and scream... In fact, one might have mistaken them for a drunken mob than the people of God. But there was power and sincerity in their worship! God has set us apart to be a peculiar people. Let's live that way. Have we allowed the lion in each of us to be tamed, restrained by the social orders of our day?? There's a passionate cry that wants to break out of the norm, break out of the standards of our time and establish a new unprecedented sound... Who's willing to step up to it? Who's God's man for the hour? Who's willing to pay the price? Everyone's called but who will be chosen? Who is willing? Out of 2 million of Israel at Horeb, God only had 1-Moses.. and 1 was all He needed to change an entire generation...

Will God have you?