The Difference Between Praise and Worship

This was gonna be a Facebook status, but it was way too stinkin long.

So here we go...

"Ministry to God (worship) is often put into the context of songs and not into life."  -Bill Johnson

 

I so often see the parallel between how our worship looks today and what David said many years before Jesus even came to earth: 

"You do not delight in sacrifice or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise." Psalm 51:16-17

David understood the importance of the internal sacrifices of the heart  (that bring transformation) even when external sacrifices were the practice of the day. He understood the importance of the presence of God.

Let us not merely bring our weekly external offering with just our songs on Sunday, but let us be transformed by the continuous internal offering of a sacrificial heart desperate for the continuous presence of God.

Just as the priests fell on their knees before God as His presence entered the temple (1 Kings 8:10) and as Isaiah gave His life as an offering when He was in the presence of God ("Here I am! Send me!" Isaiah 6:8), how much more should we also fall on our face and give our lives as an offering as we are being transformed from glory to glory.

I do not want my praise on Sunday to be equated with worship. Yes, it is a form of worship! Rather, my worship of God through the offering of my life spills over into the praise I bring Him through song. 

Let our lives be the offering. Everything else is just overflow.

Forever His,

Rach

Dirty Hands

Because being the hands and feet of Jesus means

 your gonna walk some dirty roads

 and touch some dirty things.




 And I'm EXCITED.



 Im excited to get messy, 

to reach into the dirt.


Because its when His hands and feet are willing to reach into the SHIT 


YES, I  said SHIT.


THAT, my friends,


THAT  is when people are brought to life.





Because He reached His hands into the shit to make you new.


And because there are so many people out there RIGHT NOW,
DEEP in shit (sorry for the cheesiness)



Who are just WAITING for someone willing to get their hands dirty.





Church, let's get dirty.




Forever His,
Rach

The one minute blog on identity.

I am writing this only because of the Lord's faithfulness and mercy in my life.

AND because I wish I would have known this prior to my long LONG road of agonizing soul searching and heartache.

This lesson has been a long time coming. But looking back and weeping over God's goodness and mercy in still choosing me after all my selfishness is something that I hope to do daily.
"It is finished." was for me.

Over 2000 years ago it was. And it still is.

Praise God!

So here it is...

"Back then, I didn't know who I was.

I THOUGHT I did.

But I didn't.

Now,

I still don't really know who I am.


But at least I know that.

And I don't think I will ever really fully know who I am.


But I have found,

that the more I seek and know Jesus,

The more I know WHO I AM.

Because He knows me.


So I will seek HIM,

And find myself.......in the process."


So thankful for the journey He has already taken me on.

And for the limitless adventure that is yet to come.


I hope never to be comfortable enough or strong enough or free enough to get through the day without Him. And that every day is crazy, so that I may fall more and more and crazier in love with the One who has given everything that I may be FREE.

Forever His,
Rach