Do we really know how to Praise God

Do you know how to Praise the Lord? I just didn't get it until I started watching my Son. I would sing and lift my hands, but I really didn't see the full picture. Gabrian is 2 1/2 years old. He knows how to truly Praise the Lord. He doesn't care what the world thinks, he is just spending time with his Heavenly Father.

When I watch him I see something that is real. He puts his hands in the air, runs around, jumps up and down, singing(a lot of the time in tongues), shaking his head from side to side, clapping, and I think to myself, 'he doesn't hold back.' He doesn't care what you think, it's not about us. He has the Father-Son relationship we all long for. This is his time with God. I finally realize it's not when or for how long you worship, it's how you worship. Is your heart ready for true worship? Do you long for a intimacy that is stronger than of a Husband and Wife? I have learned a lot from my Son. I was 27 years old before I met God. I have played around with Church, but hey you've got to go somewhere till the malls open. My Son at 2 1/2 years old got it before me on how to worship, because I was 30 years old before I saw real worship. I have seen other adults and said 'that can't be real'( just to name a few- Micheal and Mary of Nebraska, some of the crazy people from WOLC in St. Jo, and some from my Church NLCC (Rockwood) in Nashville ). God bless them. They had something that I thought was strange but really it was something I longed for. I just didn't think my Son would lead me.

Psalms 149:1-3
1 Praise the LORD!

Sing to the LORD a new song,
And His praise in the assembly of saints.

2 Let Israel rejoice in their Maker;
Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
3 Let them praise His name with the dance;
Let them sing praises to Him with the timbrel and harp.

I believe those are my Son's verses. Me or my Wife can put on some music, or a Hillsong kids worship DVD, or Veggie Tales CD or DVD, and my Son will jump up and sing his song to God.
When me and my Wife join in it gets loud, it's awesome.

He is only 2 1/2, and as we teach him, he also teaches us. You probably have heard the phrase, He is a Man or Women of God. I now think that phrase is wrong, we are Children of God, when we are down, sad, or in need we call out DADDY. So when we are worshiping God we call out DADDY. We are his kids and He loves us more than I love my Son, and that might be hard to bite, because I love my Son more than words can describe. God loves you.

Every child has a hero, but I have found that Jesus is my son's hero.


Bondservant4christ

Who's in my Seat

Who’s in my Seat

Have you ever noticed that when you go to a ball game, concert, etc., you wonder if someone has your seat or who will sit beside you. Or, when you're at the movies if that one guy's phone is going to keep ringing - or the one couple that talks all the way through is going to be behind you. You always want to sit in the back where you can see it all. It’s like you have the best seats in the house, Luxury, Comfort. When the theater was first introduced the worst seats, the poor, commoners, were in the back.

I think I figured it out. If you sit in the back, you can get up when you want to go potty, and best of all leave out first. It’s like a race to see who can get out first. I see this in the Church now. We all sit as far back as we can. Is it to get out first? Is your heart that hard that you can’t sit there for 30 minutes? 1 hour? Or is it so that you get up ever 30 minutes. When the first Churches were started, people would STAND ALL DAY just to hear the Gospel. What's wrong with this picture? IT’S THE SAME GOSPEL. We have just gotten to comfortable in this day & time. We don’t know what real worship is. Do we even need our Bible anymore? Most would say 'No, they project it on the screens.' Why? How have we gotten this way? Why? God is just as powerful now as he has always been. When I’m in the main service( I teach God’s wonderful word to the Children) I like to sit up at the front. Why? I don’t want to miss anything.

When you go to the movies, you will get there 25 minutes early. Why? To get a good seat, but yet we come to Church 25 minutes late and settle for whatever is left which is usually up front. This bothers me, as you can tell if your still reading this. If you ask someone as they are walking in the door of the Church why they are here, the answer you will get is to hear the Word of God. We come once a week to a nice A/C building with nice seats and toilet paper- don’t laugh. Do you think the people of Corinth cared about this? Well, I guess there probably was not a such thing as this. They came for one thing, to hear the WORD. They would wiggle their way to the front just to make sure they could hear.

The church today is this beautiful building with A/C, comfortable chairs, coffee machines, child care services, bookstores, and all kinds of things. WRONG! The Church is YOU! The building is useless with out the body. Let’s get back to that old time religion, not of our grandparents but of Paul, Peter, Silas, Philip, and Barnabas, when the important thing was Christ.