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EVERY SERVICE IS A SPECIAL INVITATION BY GOD

The person inviting you for an occasion often influences your reaction to the invitation. You even dress to match the kind of occasion you are invited for. You take time to plan your behavior before and during the event. You imagine the people you will be meeting, the things you are expecting to enjoy . . . Most of all you prepare your heart and desire to be at your best so that you can be a blessing to someone else.

My thoughts about worship changed when one day in our Sunday morning service God vividly drew my attention to this solid truth that each time we are in His presence, it is a special invitation by Him for us to reverence Him. We must regard such opportunities as a special time with Him in the throne room with our focus on him and our being with Him.

Just imagine for moment, God giving you an invitation to come up to heaven for a five minutes worship service. What will be your reaction? How well will you prepare for it? How eager will you be to join the innumerable company of the righteous, the general assembly and the church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven . . . (Heb. 12:22-24), to a time of awesome, inspiring, overflowing worship.

We miss a lot when we approach church services and worship opportunities so casually. If you know who has invited you, you will honour him with your best in all ramifications. Every time you appear in Zion for a service, your behavior, your comportment, your participation and  involvement must be more intense, more sincere, more devoted because you are honouring a special invitation from God himself. Come at your best and offer him you’re highest, your uttermost, your very excellent worship. God’s call for you is to approach the throne of Grace with confidence, so that you may receive mercy and find grace to help you in the time of your need (Heb. 4:16). Beyond the veil, we will find Him waiting for a deep spiritual intimacy with us to fill our desperate longings as we minister before an audience of One.

Beloved, let me urge you to change your mentality about your coming into the presence of the Lord. Each time you come. You are simply honouring a special invitation by God Himself. So come at your best, offering your all to your God, the mighty one (Isa. 33:21), the rock of our salvation(Psa. 95:1), our Shepherd (Psa. 23:1) the bread of life (John 6:48), The gate (John 10:7,9), the radiance of God’s glory (Heb. 1:3), our friend (Jer. 3:4), the wonderful counselor (Isa. 9:6).

If you have a deep need and an inner thirst for a relationship with the Lord, then answer His call to the inner room for a worship service before the throne of grace. Approach every meeting with a deep conviction that you are honouring an invitation for a time of spiritual intimacy with the Lord and you will always go away from there richly overjoyed and blessed.