DREAMS VISIONS PROPHECY 2018   Sept.14-16
Grace International Church  Willis,TX just north of Houston
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“I didn’t feel near this good when I got here!”  Haven’t you heard someone say that just after a worship service where it seemed as though the joyful bliss of heaven touched the pain of present earth for a couple of hours?  Normally when I have felt like that was after an evening of being in the presence of God, lost in his loving touch.  Though I was in the middle of a crowd of people who were appreciating his divine presence, I was not cognizant of their praises, their position or their voices.  On one such an occasion, in a home Bible study, about twenty of us had been standing in a circle, holding hands and offering up worship and prayer at the end of the teaching period. Suddenly, as I was releasing praises of adoration, proclaiming the character and attributes of Father God, I realized who and what I was before the awesomeness of God.  Forty-five minutes later, while on my face in the middle of the room, I suddenly became aware of the others who were present that night.  But for forty-five minutes the praises of God witnessed to my heart my great need for God on that particular night.  I realized that for all I wasn’t, and that for all I lacked, God was sufficient.  At that very moment, though it had been a long and trying week, I was rested from the weariness and apprehension that had beset me because I was insufficient for all the requirements upon me.

If some were asked why they attended church services, their response would be something like, “I go to receive a blessing” and then they very probably sit patiently on the bench until a preacher or someone actively involved in the service can “move” them so that they have received their “blessing.”

It is true that God enjoys “blessing” his people by doing things for them that edify and release them both in their inner man and in their physical man.  However, sufficient Scripture cannot be found that would show that God “blessing” people is why he created them.

In fact, Scripture lays out quite a different scenario.  After a command in Psalm 149 to “Praise the Lord” and to “Sing to the Lord a new song,” there is also the encouragement for Israel (the “blessed” people of God) to “rejoice, be glad, praise, dance, and make music… for the Lord takes delight in his people.”  Paul joins the effort by proclaiming in Ephesians 1:11-12 that “In him we were also chosen.… in order that we…. might be for the praise of his glory.”