What I Want :: Part 4

You want to know what else I want?

After hearing the word of God, the story of his restorative Kingdom, being preached boldly to a community longing to hear it, I want some time to absorb what I have just encountered.

I don’t want to just jump up and run out.

I want a worship leader to take me deeper in my response to the Word, to the prompting of the Spirit of the Living God. I want time to repent – the word “repent” means “to change my mind.” I want my mind renewed; I need to reflect on what I have heard. I want the kind of worship leader that knows it’s more than a “set list” and leading the band; it’s turning people’s faces to the face of God. It’s giving God what God is seeking: worship.

Sometimes it’s as brief as a blink, sometimes it is more like melting a glacier.

If worship is responding rightly to Revelation, then I want to worship.

I do not mean just sing a song, although it might be a song, or it might be a prayer. It might be that I need to raise my hands in surrender and agreement. It might be I need to get on my knees, right then and there; it might mean I need to get on my face, not later but now, in humility and with unhindered abandon. And I hunger to gather with people who feel the freedom to do the same.

Is worship as a response of Revelation what you want?