thoughts on Doxology ...
do not underestimate the power Christ releases through doxology. Through the singing of His name...we tap into an alternative reality! The true reality.
From singing to This greater One. This Free One. This Good One. This Wild One. This Restoring One. We are sourcing hope, energy, and we are redefining our perception. And by this, our Great God is glorified.
Our language, what falls from our lips, will define how we see what's around us. To use the despairing hopeless language of the culture around us will only perpetuate doubtful, angry, confused hearts. Using the language of doubt, despair and confusion will not create newness within us or around us. We must, from our lips, speak the name of Christ and dare to believe He is good and that His intentions toward us are sourced in Love.
We must come to Him in honesty, and in this we are asked by Him to bring our requests...to lament. Keep in mind, lamenting is very different from complaining. Lamenting is pouring out a fragrant offering of hurt at His feet and at it's root...desperation, brokeness and a heart that is looking for Him.
Let our lamentations be poured out before Him. As we lay these before Him, may faith rise up within us and may we begin to sing to Him with abandon and a rooted belief that He is good, He cares, He sees us, He knows us and He delights in us!
This singing, this worship, this doxology will definately change our perspective...through it, He will definately comfort our hearts but we can't stop there in our thinking. Speaking the powerful name of Christ, together in song...songs based on the truth of Christ....it is our greatest weapon in warfare.
But to speak His name, to proclaim this Kingdom...this kingdom that is within us will create an alternative perception. A perception based on a Benevolent True God. As stated in the previous paragraph, He not only changes our perspectives as we sing of His Greatness, He also can change our current reality.
For this reason, the prophet Isaiah says to the barren, "sing o barren woman" and this exhortation comes before the prophecy of her newness..she is exhorted to sing before His promises to her are brought to fruition.
Before He does a work of newness within her.....He exhorts her to sing!
For this reason, God tells the warriors in Chronicles, the battle is not yours...it is mine. God himself sends out singers to go ahead of the armies.
We, my dear brothers and sisters, we cannot fall victim to the doubt that is permeating our hearts. We cannot fall into the unbelief of our culture...
Rise up.
True worship of God cuts through our despair. True worship of God creates within our hearts the ability to trust, hope and know that He is for us! We are no longer surrounded by darkness and despair but we are confronting it.
And some of our brothers and sisters are going through very dark times. They have not the energy to pray or sing. We must, on their behalf sing. Hold their arms up in battle. Pray that their hearts are filled with comfort and that faith replaces the doubt, anger or confusion they may be suffering.
Let's love them well.
Let's love Him and honor His Name with song.
Let's sing.
If there lurks in most modern minds the notion that to desire our good and earnestly to hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, I submit that this notion has crept in from Kant and the Stoics and is no part of the Christian faith. Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. ~cs lewis.
do not underestimate the power Christ releases through doxology. Through the singing of His name...we tap into an alternative reality! The true reality.
From singing to This greater One. This Free One. This Good One. This Wild One. This Restoring One. We are sourcing hope, energy, and we are redefining our perception. And by this, our Great God is glorified.
Our language, what falls from our lips, will define how we see what's around us. To use the despairing hopeless language of the culture around us will only perpetuate doubtful, angry, confused hearts. Using the language of doubt, despair and confusion will not create newness within us or around us. We must, from our lips, speak the name of Christ and dare to believe He is good and that His intentions toward us are sourced in Love.
We must come to Him in honesty, and in this we are asked by Him to bring our requests...to lament. Keep in mind, lamenting is very different from complaining. Lamenting is pouring out a fragrant offering of hurt at His feet and at it's root...desperation, brokeness and a heart that is looking for Him.
Let our lamentations be poured out before Him. As we lay these before Him, may faith rise up within us and may we begin to sing to Him with abandon and a rooted belief that He is good, He cares, He sees us, He knows us and He delights in us!
This singing, this worship, this doxology will definately change our perspective...through it, He will definately comfort our hearts but we can't stop there in our thinking. Speaking the powerful name of Christ, together in song...songs based on the truth of Christ....it is our greatest weapon in warfare.
But to speak His name, to proclaim this Kingdom...this kingdom that is within us will create an alternative perception. A perception based on a Benevolent True God. As stated in the previous paragraph, He not only changes our perspectives as we sing of His Greatness, He also can change our current reality.
For this reason, the prophet Isaiah says to the barren, "sing o barren woman" and this exhortation comes before the prophecy of her newness..she is exhorted to sing before His promises to her are brought to fruition.
Before He does a work of newness within her.....He exhorts her to sing!
For this reason, God tells the warriors in Chronicles, the battle is not yours...it is mine. God himself sends out singers to go ahead of the armies.
We, my dear brothers and sisters, we cannot fall victim to the doubt that is permeating our hearts. We cannot fall into the unbelief of our culture...
Rise up.
True worship of God cuts through our despair. True worship of God creates within our hearts the ability to trust, hope and know that He is for us! We are no longer surrounded by darkness and despair but we are confronting it.
And some of our brothers and sisters are going through very dark times. They have not the energy to pray or sing. We must, on their behalf sing. Hold their arms up in battle. Pray that their hearts are filled with comfort and that faith replaces the doubt, anger or confusion they may be suffering.
Let's love them well.
Let's love Him and honor His Name with song.
Let's sing.
If there lurks in most modern minds the notion that to desire our good and earnestly to hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, I submit that this notion has crept in from Kant and the Stoics and is no part of the Christian faith. Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. ~cs lewis.
