In thy presence is fullness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Psalm 16:11

I was in my prayer room and I was in deep worship…Tears were falling down my face as I was loving my Lord and beautiful Savior!! Early on in my new Spirit filled walk with the Lord my Father-in- Law was a man who had made fun of my dedication to the Lord and he had tormented me to the point that I would go into the rest room just to cry so he wouldn’t see me. I didn’t want him to know that he had gotten to me, but there I was in that room worshiping not knowing that he had come in the unlocked front door. As I turned around I saw this big hardened man so hardened from life standing in my doorway just looking at me with huge tears running down his face. It actually had softened his heart so much for a moment that he felt the tangible presence of God! BTW, he did get saved before he passed away suddenly not long after this.

When we worship he inhabits our praise and when people come into that presence they can’t help but be affected. I believe this causes them to have to make decisions about Him also. We as Spirit filled believers become accustomed to His presence sometimes and do not realize that there are people out there that have never felt the tangible Glory of God. It will change a person. I am not talking about some of today’s Entertainment oriented shows that we put on in “user Friendly” churches. I am talking about a person or group of people worshiping him in Spirit and in truth.

We walked in the door of our first Spirit filled Church, my brother who had been on drugs and been very lost for so many years. I had just given my life back to the Lord and wanted more than I had gotten in my childhood years as a Baptist. So we went in him and me that day. All of a sudden there was a little old woman that had been through a long battle with her husband passing and it was her first day to come back to church. The pastor asked her if she would like to say anything and she walked to the pulpit with tears running down her cheeks and she took the Microphone and began to sing in a not so beautiful voice.”I love you lord and I lift my voice… to worship you. Oh my soul rejoice…take Joy my King in what you hear…Let it be a sweet, sweet sound in your ear” As she was singing this song my brother just broke and began to bawl like a baby. He gave his life to the Lord that day… Oh if we only knew how our worship in Spirit and truth will change an atmosphere or create an atmosphere for God to reside in. If we believed it we would truly worship Him more often than we do.

God is waiting on a church that will worship him not just with good voices ,but will do whatever it takes to please our precious Lord and Savior for who he is. It will cause men to run into His presence and when they do it will be something that they are not accustomed to, and it will cause them to want to know the God of this presence!! I will end with this. There was a woman who came into a house of Pharisees and gave her most valuable thing she had to worship Him in all the shame that she knew that she would endure. She broke that alabaster Box and the aroma filled that room. Oh she was being intimate in the face of these men that would ridicule her. She gave her best. She worshiped him with the only thing that was valuable to her. The fragrance or atmosphere changed. Instead of entering in to worship they were embarrassed by the whole ordeal. But Jesus said that she would be remembered wherever the word was preached forever. When we worship him it will cause some like David’s wife Michal to be embarrassed or it will cause them to come face to face with a living God. And in His presence like when my brother came to him when that little elderly woman sang out of her heart and gave a sacrifice of worship to Him in her pain. I believe we do not see miracles because we have exchanged true worship for the God of entertainment!!

God is calling His worshipers in this last day to change the Atmosphere wherever they are. One more story… I have been substitute teaching for 20 years almost. The kids sometimes would begin to sing songs and I would join them. I have been a worship leader and they would say,”Mrs.Stevens will you sing for us?” and I would say “well I only know Christian songs for the most part.” Then they would beg me to sing, and so I would sing Amazing Grace to them because they knew it. Well once I was singing that in Middle School to this class and I looked up and a boy in the very back of a row was sobbing and saying “Stop singing that song it is making me cry” I didn’t realize that his mother and father were getting a divorce, and he was having a really hard time with it. It touched him so because the atmosphere changed in that room. As God came in as I nervously would sing to these kids not knowing what kind of ridicule might come forth. You can change your atmosphere in your place of employment or your home or wherever. If you will be willing to just worship him unashamed. I dare you, and see what eternal change will be made in someone else. That boy is now serving the Lord and lives a Christian life I am told!! “We Love you Lord, and we will lift our voice!!”

Written by Jo Ellen Stevens

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