Note: If you are satisfied with the patty-cake worship going on in most churches in this hour this article is dangerous for you.
The church is on the front edge of a great restoration. There will be many things restored in this hour to the church. But before this happens there must first be a repentance unto the kingdom. (if interested in more on that message, it is well documented on this blog)
Years ago when reading from Ps 69:4, I caught a glimpse of what the Lord was requiring of me. (that voice you can't get away from) Repentance always begins with revelation of our present state. He called me to restore something I did not take away. This according to the text was to be done against the backdrop of people who hate me.
Psa 69:4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, [being] mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored [that] which I took not away.
How will I restore that which I did not take..and what is it?
Through process I found worship was the thing he most desired, and my call was to restore it. This scripture in the Psalms was key in this discovery.
Psa 50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world [is] mine, and the fulness thereof.
I thought: "What would the Lord hunger for?" Ah... Worship.
So I was called to restore something that for the most part the Church thinks they have a handle on, and therefore they resist almost all change that one would purpose.
In this day, the Lord has again begun to speak to me about the blessing of worship or Judah. Yet, how can one restore something he does not have control over?
I've have had the revelation for years, that there are blessings that the church is missing, and it is the out of order governmental system and fleshly worship, that holds them back.
Ordered worship is the key to unlock a kingdom dimension never known here-to-fore.
In this day Jah is restoring the fallen tent of David. David found a key for his day, that unlocked greater worship. We must find a key for our day. There are dimensions in worship. There is always more in Jah. It is the glory of a king to search out a matter.
I am called to do my part in what Jah is doing. David was a man after Jah's own heart. He took the praise in Israel to a whole new level. Jah is calling Judah to bring the Church to a whole new level. David was a warrior and a worshipper. It is not that there is not now any worship in the church.
Israel was always called to worship the Lord. Before David there was Judah.
Deu 33:7 And this [is the blessing] of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help [to him] from his enemies.
These are the blessings of Judah from the mouth of prophet Moses:
1) Bring him to his people.
2) Let his hands be sufficient for him.
3) Be thou a help from all his enemies.
Prophetic praise is a great weapon we can employ against our enemy. We must not let the distractions, the accusations, and the misdirection of the enemy cause us to ver off of our appointed course and call of glorifying Jah in all the earth.
Mat 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
True worship must be restored to the body of Christ. I speak not here of a church paradigm worship with boy teachers in fancy clothes, purporting their fame, and advancing their ministry base. Nor do I speak of young men prone to folly cranking up their amps to ear deafening levels, grabbing their 15 minutes of fame. I speak not here of the TBN boys who grab more and more of an ever-shrinking financial pool. Although there may be some praise found in some of these efforts, it is not enough.
Yes, praise is comely to the upright, but it is not all that is required. We need to worship the Lord in the spirit of holiness. There may be no greater need in the body of Christ than to worship the Lord, in holiness. I speak of a brokenness in worship, I call, “spirit and truth worship”. True worship leads to the upright way.
Lev 26:13 I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
Our Lord often uses Judah to lead the upright (the way of Truth) way!
Moses first proclamation before Jah for Judah was that Jah would: “Hear Lord the Voice of Judah”:
We of course know Judah as a tribe of worship therefore it is of great need that they would sing and use their instruments, to bring earthly Praise unto the Lord. The voice is our first musical instrument. Sing unto the Lord!
In the order of this Moses’ word, the Lord then would upon hearing the voice of Judah, bring them to his people.
1) There is a people, for Judah-the worshippers.
The worship I speak of here is best characterized as true expressions of Love for God. No matter how deep you go with the father, you will never find any aspect of Him greater then His love. God is love. He desires we be what He is. The love I speak of goes far beyond feeling good about ourselves because we have won some victory over sin in him. I speak of a love that is totally surrendered to Jah. A love marked by a resolve that, no matter what he asks, we will obey.
Disobedient people can give some praise to Jah. They can never worship. Worship is from human broken-ness. This is what our Lord desires. It is our choice.
To Wit he says:
1 Pet 5:5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all [of you] be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
God resist the proud and gives grace to the humble. Therefore we should humble ourselves before the Lord that he might lift us up in due time. In that place we can then cast all our cares upon He who cares for us.
1Pe 5:6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
1Pe 5:7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
This is the first step the church must take if worship will be restored in the way our Lord desires.
The tabernacle must be restored. This we have heard for thirty years. Judah’s worship is a key to this day.
You might say, “but we worship at our church”. Hummmm.
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Friend, I fear the church has too much Identified with the facilitation David gave worship in his tabernacle and not the broken-ness of that worship.
I personally appreciate the restoration of musicianship in the church in this day. But I do not equate that with Worship in Spirit and Truth.
Indeed we have seen the church, grow in musicians, and programs, and finances with buildings that rival all but those of the greatest wealth in the world. But do we possess a great power in this world for our gain.
Godliness with contentment is greater gain, than any material thing, we could possess.
1Ti 6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.
For the world as in the church, I have heard that there must be a return of justice in our land. Justice and judgment are the foundation of the throne of Christ.
Psa 89:14 Justice and judgment [are] the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
2Sa 8:15 And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice unto all his people.
Isa 28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner [stone], a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
There will be mercy wherever there is justice and judgment. True worship is a key to restore justice and judgment. If we will have Christ’s rule, it will be established in this earth in our broken-ness in worship.
So a church which worships the Lord in Spirit and Truth, is the first element in a restoration of our land, and it is also the first step in taking back the dominion that man lost in the fall.
There is increase on the way for the true church. This increase will be directly proportional to our increase in giving and worship.
When God so loved the world he gave His best, his fullest. To worship is to give our best, our fullest.
Concerning Justice and Judgment:
There is so little justice in the world, for there is so little love in the church. There is almost no faith working in love in our giving or our living.
We face uncertain time because we do not honor Jah with our giving. A discontented heart cannot give honor to Jah. Restoration of Worship connects to everything we lack. There is no lack in a church, which worships in Spirit and Truth.
Spirit and Truth worship is Jah’s order.
Judgment is not so much, bringing damning edicts as some might think. Jah’s judgment is his wisdom applied to our need. His correction so that we might come into His true prosperity.
Pockets of Restoration:
Because the church is out of order, we will see restoration come in pockets or specific places. If that revival brings order to that place, that order, will spread to others, and this will bring restoration into the land.
Salvation starts with the mercy washing of regeneration. Revival starts with the mercy renewing of the Spirit. It is a Holy Ghost thing.
Tts 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
When we choose the worship the Lord, we connect ourselves to the full benefit that the Spirit and Truth of God affords.
Praise will do many things and answer some questions. But worship is a door to fullness. Obedience is a key to worship.
Praise may be tolerable to the unbeliever. Worship is not. Worship is a dividing line. Spirit from Flesh, Truth from Error, and Life from Death.
Many a churchman would hold up their praise service as true worship. Some would preach liturgical worship, some would say never vary from the old Hymns and the KJV. Some would say we have hip new worship. But if your church worship times, do not flow from hearts that are broken, and being broken before the Lord, you really have only entered praise at best.
True Worship changes men’s hearts. True worship daily, slays the old man daily.
Praise, prayer, and teaching of the Word, may be a part of worship. But if the heart is not humbled and yielded to the Lord in that time, we have not entered worship.
For most of the church, there will be no entering into worship, without a renewing of the Holy Spirit. A renewing of the Holy Spirit is not something we initiate. It is called of God.
If Jah himself is calling me (Judah) to restore something I did not take away, I can know that it is in Him alone will that this thing will be done. There will be no churchman able to bring about this kingdom dimension I speak of, when I speak of restored Worship. But it is a call to Judah. I am one of the tribe of Judah. Are you? It is from the depth of the Spirit that this call must be embraced.
Psa 42:7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Deep worship divides a man, from they who are fleshly in worship. But it also connects us to all who are of the Spirit.
He has come not to bring peace, but a sword. The Spirit is a sword. Spirit Word, will divide flesh from spirit. It does so, in word, and song, and life.
We sing of new wine. New wine can be messy. When the grapes are stomped there is a mess. But wine, joy in the Spirit is worth every thing. There can be no spiritual strength return to the church without joy. Think about it, grapes/fruit is stomped for new wine outpouring.
Neh 8:10 Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for [this] day [is] holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
Judah was responsible to bring new wine:
Neh 13:12 Then brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oil unto the treasuries.
Judah’s stomping out the new wine may be offensive. Let that offense, be a dividing sword of flesh from spirit. The Spirit is always truth. We need His renewing, we need His Truth. Judah is not one, but a tribe.
All my life, I have gone to church and heard men say one of two things, “boy God really showed up today”, or “that service was dead.”
Fact is Jah is always where we hold Him with our expectancy. God is everywhere present. He does not show up, he is released through worshipped hearts. If we do not have the Spirit we are none of His.
Rom 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
If we have the spirit we will release Him in our worship. That is true “Spirit worship”. But we must also have Truth. We can have the Spirit, and release Him, yet be in lie, and not worship.
The older covenant is full of directions for our worship. It matters just as much now, how we worship the Lord as it did in ancient Israel.
Most of the church goes home from meeting times with hunger in their hearts. That is because, they have had a man time, Our hunger betrays our hearts. They are not filled with peace. This because we need to be over-shadowed by the Lord.
One of the clearest example/ensamples of worship I know of is found in Abraham who pleased Jah by faith.
He, in His worship of offering up Isaac his only son and promise to Jah, typed the work of the Father and Jesus, who would give Jesus as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. In fact he had given the Lamb to be slain from the foundations of the world.
The elements I see necessary for ordered worship from the story of Abraham and Isaac in Genesis 22.
A call to worship. Jah always initiates worship. He has made a demand on us to bring Him glory.
Gen 22:2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only [son] Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
For us, there is a standing call of Jah to glorify Him in all the earth. Worship is always righteous.
A specific place to worship:
For Abraham is was Moriah. For us it is in Spirit and in Truth. So unless we traverse to Spirit and Truth worship we are disobedient to the call of Jah to glorify Him in all the earth.
A Required obedience:
-This is the humbling of ourselves so that he might be lifted up. Spirit and truth is not optional in worship of Jah.
-Abraham brought a knife, a provision to slay. Our worship must slay our ambition. Isaac was the promise. What Jah has promised is his greatest destiny for your and your greatest gift Your promise will be required to be surrendered.
-Abraham went on the journey to where Jah required him to go. Much of our lack of worship is because people are drawn to places they were not to be. This is often due to a fleshly seeking for personal comfort.
-Abraham brought his son, his promise. Sacrifice is part of worship. Surrender is the crux of worship.
-Abraham brought wood. Wood is that which ignites to burn for our Lord. The fuel we bring to worship is praise, thanksgiving, broken-ness, love, adoration…and really our whole bodies as a living sacrifice. I am crucified with Christ never the less, I live…
-Abraham would have to have created a fire-something of an igniter. Abraham had to bring his own unction, his faith word. It takes our faith word to change our world through our sacrificial living.
-Abraham would not have even been called upon to enter greater worship if he had not first answered Jah’s Call to leave his land.
Jah provided the Ram, the ultimate worship sacrifice. Jah said you can live Isaac, I have plans for you. Jah doesn’t want to kill us per say, he wants to fill us and live through us.
So that is the type of worship that the Lord desires. Abraham gave us example of Spirit and Truth worship. He is our living ensample.
Today, worship is not so much about traversing to a location in the world, but traversing to location in the heart. Jah’s place is “all”. We are to be filled with the Spirit, which means never waning in the seasons of life. We can only be filled with the Spirit by being full/saturated.
If the church would hear this call to “Spirit worship”, and obey this call, demons would be cast out as the kingdom comes. Demonic influence in the church is pervasive in this hour.
A Mandate to Judah:
Judah, we are responsible for the new wine. Your worship team and church group can only please Jah with Spirit and Truth worship. That is to say, a worship that is initiated at the voice of Jah, flowing from yielded hearts.
When Moses proclaimed that Judah be “brought to his people”, it was a necessary thing to happen for worship to take place. You see we can praise and worship Jah on our own but we cannot magnify the Lord by ourselves.
Psa 34:3 O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
Psa 69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
We see the two cherubim over the Mercy seat teaching us this truth. They are facing each other, and they are in agreement, and they are the place where the Lord manifests.
The Mercy seat covers the covenant. The covenant is our relationship with Jah. In our agreement and in order upon his mercy, Jah comes and resides.
Let our hands be sufficient for us Judah, for in Jah’s presence no enemy can stand.
Did you ever wonder why when you are being undermined and dishonored, that most of it is done behind your back?
Rom 8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? [It is] God that justifieth.
Luk 18:7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
Worship is where the accuser is overcome. And that my friend is why worship must be restored.
2) Let His hands be Sufficient for Him:
Judah, prophet Moses proclaimed that our “hands would be sufficient for our work”. This work we do be it leading a song service, cleaning a church, visiting a sick brother, or meeting the world in the marketplace, will be provided for according to the prophet Moses’ proclamation.
Judah, We are not without work in a recession. We still have our call of bringing forth praise to our father. Hone your skill, take lessons from the more skilled. Embrace prophetic leaders, give your time to intercession, or share the Kingdom of Jah message. There is much to be done to see Jah’s glory in all the earth.
Your hands are sufficient for this time. Judah’s hands. Our hands joined together with the likeminded.
3) Moses also proclaimed that we would have help from all our enemies attacks. The Holy Spirit
of God will never leave us. Jah has promised to never leave, nor to forsake.
It does not matter what evil has betrayed you. Jah has a restoration for all you have lost. It may be in a different form, and he will not ask you to go back to fight an enemy again that you have already beaten. Let every victory be the epitaph to that demon who stirred evil against you.
Did a church betray you? Go forward to find kingdom people. Have you lost finances, or had them stolen? Look to a new provision in Jah. Have you been sick, seek out those who have greater understanding of Jah’s healing.
So who took away worship?
We know that Lucifer was called the anointed Cherub. It was his work to bring forth songs of praise unto the Lord. He was found with iniquity and, he desired to be praised.
“I will be like the most high.” He proclaimed.…He fell.
His place was taken and given to another. Man must now glorify Jah in all the work. We have no greater call. We were created in His Image and after His likeness, to bring Him the highest praise.
We are to Worship Him in the spirit of Holiness.
A jealous Satan came to Adam who had been given the garden. He lied and Adam believed, and
The mystery of iniquity, which took Satan, took Adam.
Was it Satan or Adam or Both who we should blame? Fact is man lost worship by agreeing with Jah’s accuser. That is still how we lose worship.
When we do not worship, we accuse. Every church split, and every broken relationship contains an element of accusation. The church will never see the greater restitution of all things until we worship in Spirit and Truth. Yet it will come. Speak life!
Act 3:21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
Notice it is the mouth of the holy prophets who have been speaking this thing from the time the world began.
If you have lost inheritance through thievery, know this: You are not the only one who lost when you lost. The restoration of all you have lost is keeping back the greater manifestation of the Anointed. (But that is another lesson) Therefore, let us speak the restitution! Agree with the prophets who through the ages have called for a day, when the Devil is defeated and Jah is lifted up and we with Him. Let us begin our journey. Judah, let us dedicate our lives to the restoration of Spirit and Truth worship.
Intercessory Prayer:
We can win against the accuser by agreeing with Jesus, in intercession. He prayed for His church, and the whole world. My friend if we spend our days cursing people, we will not inter into intercession. Without intercession, we shall not restore worship.
One of the greatest enemies in the church of restitution of all things is the demon who endorses the familiar. Familiarity makes us feel safe. But it kills spontaneity. Let Jah’s praises be found errupting from the “Naba” of the prophetic worshippers. Let those who have a heart to worship be brought together. Judah you lead the battle, others may join, but you lead. Lead us into a greater Kingdom presence!
Church is something we are, not someplace we live or go. We live in the kingdom in the king. We take the kingdom with us. Where we go, it arrives.
“Thy kingdom come, they will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.”
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