I Was Made for Worship

I Was Made for Worship

By Pastor Gary Wayne

Text: 1 John 4:18, Isaiah 61:1-4

I want to look at the principle found in ver.3 – garment praise for the spirit of heaviness…”

When I respond to circumstances that normally bring anxiety, fear, anger, etc – when I respond by turning my focus to worshiping God, it alters the atmosphere.

I put on a garment of praise. That is a prophetic action.

What I learn and experience in worship is for me to take out of that worship experience to use when I'm not in the middle of that setting.

Have you ever had unique revelation take place as you worship? All of a sudden divine truth just seems so elementary and clear.

Something happens when you worship, somehow you become more aware of the heart of God. And from that place prayer flows it's more pure.

Derek Prince - if you only have 10 minutes to pray, take seven or eight of them and worship. You can pray for a lot of things in 2 minutes.

Have you ever noticed how many times in scripture people prayed just one line prayers and everything changed.

What happens when you replace worship with worry?
Complaining is faith in reverse - it is to Satin what our worship is to God.
It draws his attention. Just as stink draws flies, when I let my heart and mouth be involved with negative action, it draws the demonic.

It empowers them or gives them legal right to harass me.

1John 4:18
Perfect love casts out fear. Fear brings torment.

When there is the presence of fear in me, it means there is a love deficit in me.
Amplified – “he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of love …”
When my heart is anxious, worried, angry, - it points to a fact that I need to snuggle up with God and bathe myself in His love.

Think through every fear that you live with.
The roots are: I don't believe God can handle this, or
- I don't believe God will do anything, or
- I think I have to do this one on my own.

In 2 Kings 3, when Jehoshaphat needed a word from God, he went to Elisha.
Ver.15 Elisha said: “Bring me a musician” and when the musician played, the hand of the Lord came upon him” and he began to say what God was saying.

In 1 Samuel 16:23, when an evil spirit would come and torment Saul, David would play his harp in worship, and the spirit would leave.

“Put on the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.”

Do you remember what a prophetic act is?
Holy Spirit inspired physical action that disrupts the atmosphere.
Obedient physical action precedes spiritual breakthrough.

In Exodus, when the Israelites put lamb’s blood over the doorpost, that was a prophetic act.

The physical act didn’t save them.
The Lamb’s blood didn’t save them.

But for the people who obeyed God’s instructions, - when they aligned themselves in obedience, they experienced a spiritual covering - something took place in the spirit realm.

Physical obedience brought spiritual breakthrough.