Happy Monday Beauties and Cuties! (ha I just made that one up because I wanted to say like beauties and handsomes but that is what came out ;) )
Anyways seems like I haven't blogged in just a little so here i am again on a Monday sitting at one of my favorite spots with my iced chai! Coming off of another beautiful weekend due to our beautiful Jesus that makes all things beautiful. Today I want to share some thoughts and some things I learned or relearned over the weekend. Remember I am just a broken Jesus girl that loves a bountiful Jesus GOD! He is quite amazing and dare I say quite the catch. So today I want to talk about WORSHIP!
WHAT IS WORSHIP
Well glad you asked because the definition of worship is "the act of showing respect and love for a god especially by praying with other people who believe in the same god : the act of worshipping God or a god" and another definition is "extravagant respect or admiration for or devotion to an object of esteem"
Both of these definitions are found in Merriam-Websters dictionary and both are quite true. Many of us know worship as honoring respecting and devotion to our Lord and Saviour, however sometimes our worship is also towards other people and even things. Some of us may worship our jobs, families, cars, money, things, coffee(iced chais!), and many more. Now I am not saying that its bad to like those things but it is when all of our worship goes towards those people or things that we need to CHECK ourselves and check our WORSHIP. We can honor and respect those people and things but remember that our utmost devotion is to our Lord and Maker, Saviour and Creator Jesus Christ.
This week another Youth Leader and myself that help at the youth of our Church are deciding to do a social media fast. I do these every so once in a while when I find myself too often on Instagram and Snapchat, and also Facebook. I feel the need to shut it all off and just be free of it and spend time with my main source my main man (Jesus). Time after time when I do this I find burdens lifted and my eyes/ears more open and my heart changed and my worship repositioned and refocused. It is so necessary for my mind, my body, and my spirit. It is these times that I draw closer to Jesus.
There are other things besides social media that are also great to fast from - for fasting is an act of worship.
Yesterday was actually WORSHIP SUNDAY at our Church (The Church of the Hills) and it was absolutely incredible - our worship leader spoke of placing our attention on other things and laying those things down and placing our attention on Jesus and believing the LORD for breakthrough. I believe there were many breakthroughs yesterday and the presence of the LORD filled the place and shifted the atmosphere and He is still shifting the atmosphere. The glory of the LORD was all around.
Like many Sundays, I double dipped and went to Church again at Hillsong NYC which is like my second home. I met with some friends that serve there and they saved me a seat - I used to not like to ever go in by myself but there are times where the LORD has shown me just go because I will meet you there or its as if HE has me go because I meet someone either at the church or at the Starbucks or the Sephora (yes I love pampering before Church) right around the corner that I end up sharing Jesus with or inviting to Church. All that to say that John Gray preached there last night and you will never guess what he preached on............................WORSHIP! YES I thought the same thing how cool is our GOD and how real is HIS HOLY SPIRIT. He always ties things together and always reveals HIMSELF especially when we desire to make HIM number one in our lives (even in the midst of our craziness-because we all have it)!
Lovingly Jules
PS- this is PART I of WORSHIP so please read PART II after this ...also LOVE YOU!
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