Short Brief about Worship

I won't go into detail about worship here. This is just a post of what I have been feeling the past six months.

When I spend time at A Place for the Heart during the annual Helser Men's Retreat I get filled to overflowing so that I can go and pour into other peoples lives. Freely I have received and freely I give. Here lately I have watched some things that have gotten me excited. I watch as guys like Josh Baldwin and Jonathan Helser redefine worship, I have watched young 20 year olds leave our church at Dwelling Place and head to places like Macedonia, Serbia, and Greece, and I watch the worship that is coming out of Bethel, Morning Star, A Place for the Heart, and even Dwelling Place and I get excited.

What I am seeing is a generation that knows how to worship and I see a generation that just wants Jesus. They want Him. We enjoy walking and talking with Him daily yes even moment to moment. This is a worship that is so pure that I often times see Jesus dancing waving banners during worship.

From the faithful prayers of those that have come before us I say thank you. We are indeed a generation that burns for Jesus. You have laid the foundation for us to go into another realm. Because of your faithful teachings and examples we did not have to start from the beginning. We burn for Jesus. Nothing else matters. Laying aside all earthly things and coming after the Way, the Truth, and the Life. We love you Jesus and we aren't satisfied with anything ordinary anymore.

As I was pondering this there was a thought that Jesus is coming back for His bride:

Revelation 19:7
Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory to Him for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His bride has made herself ready.

Revelation 21:2
And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband

Revelation 21:9
Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues cane and spoke with me saying "Come here, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb

Revelation 22:7
The Spirit and the bride say "Come and let the one who hears say 'Come and let the one who is thirsty come let the one who wishes take the water of life without cost'"

We are getting ready for a wedding. I have spent time in worship and felt the flood of God's love just wreck me. My ideas, my theology, my circumstances were changed. Forever.

My thought in closing is this:
I have been in a place of worship with the Father where there was not earthly feeling that could equate to the euphoria that was felt in His presence. We have not even began to scratch the surface of intimacy compared to the glory that is going to be revealed when we come face to face with Him. And that realization is dawning on this generation that nothing else matters here on this earth. We just want to worship you Jesus.