Having necessity to be out of town last Sunday we went to our daughters church Gospel City, Elkhart, Ind. We took seats in the front near the stage. My first reaction was: "this is loud." But then the Holy Spirit spoke to my heart this: "It's a lot louder here!"
True corporate worship should be exuberant, spontaneous, lively, impassioned with joy, humbling, and fervent! Some will be moved to weeping, lifting of hands, dancing, quite intimacy with God, or all of the above, but for sure it will be freedom in what the Holy Spirit is leading you (or others) to do. David "danced before God" when they moved the Ark of the Covenant and his wife complained. God exulted David and rebuked Michal with barrenness.
Here's the account:
2 Samuel 6:14-23
4 And David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
16 And as the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart.
17 And they brought in the ark of the Lord, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
18 And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts.
19 And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. So all the people departed every one to his house.
20 Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!
21 And David said unto Michal, It was before the Lord, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the Lord, over Israel: therefore will I play before the Lord.
22 And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.
23 Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.
Lesson:
Don't judge others expressions of worship or you may inherit spiritual barrenness.
Food for thought.
Love
Jerry and Elise
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