Come Together to Worship

 

When we worship the Lord alone we can experience a wonderful and precious time of communing with Him.  We can really open up our hearts and pour out our appreciation and adoration for even the private things only He and you know about in your relationship with Him.  These times are needed often.

When believers meet together to worship in spirit and truth, it is even more powerful in other ways.  The Holy Spirit joins our hearts, minds and spirits together so we can experience His presence and power.

In turn, this encourages each other and can help maintain greater unity of Spirit in the community of believers.  This stimulates further spiritual growth towards maturity in Christian living and in Christ, strengthening our faith in Him.  Because of bonds of community individuals will feel less alone.  At least these are ideal advantages of meeting corporately (IN PERSON, NOT  online!!), to worship our Savior and Lord.

When we view Revelation 4 and 5, the four beasts started the chain reaction of worship.  The 24 elders took up the praise, then the thousands upon thousands of angels chimed in and even all creatures on earth and under the sea blended in their praise.  They spurred one another on to praise and worship and adore the One on the throne.  In corporate worship in our churches and other gatherings of believers, this power of praise can be at work too.

When the people of Israel were assembled together Ezra read to them out of the Book of the Law.  What they heard moved them to repentance.  For a quarter of the day they made confession!  That 'church' service lasted a lo-o-o-o-ng lime!

Confession prompted the Israelites worship.  I believe this is because God is holy and He wants us to be holy too.  His forgiveness sparked by our conviction and confession and repentance gives us joy.  It also gives us a clear and clean conscience enabling us to worship in our Lord's presence, truly in spirit and in the truth (see Nehemiah 9:3 ESV).

Let's praise and adore Him for all He has done for us.  Great is our God and greatly to be praised - together.

                                                ~ ERC  March 2025 ~

Based on Nehemiah 9:3 (ESV).

Sing Song of Repentance, along with New Wine Worship and Build My Life, along with Chris Tomlin (for group singing change the pronoun 'my' to 'our').   Also, Purify My Heart, along with  Brian Doerksen.