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    Restoring the Heart of Worship
    Restoring the Heart of Worship
    Restoring the Heart of Worship
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    Restoring the Heart of Worship

    By Benjamin Sealey

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    A book for anybody who wants to understand God's heart for worship in His church and in our lives. The book deals with worship in the Bible, worship in our personal lives and corporate worship in our churches. It explains God's heart for His people and for His worship.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBenjamin Sealey
    Release dateMar 24, 2014
    ISBN9781310101243
    Restoring the Heart of Worship
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    Benjamin Sealey

    Benjamin Sealey is a British pastor with a passion to see God's church know Him greater, and to encounter all that He has for us. If you have any questions about his works, please feel free to contact him via the links.

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      Restoring the Heart of Worship - Benjamin Sealey

      Restoring the Heart of Worship

      by Benjamin Sealey

      Copyright 2014 by Benjamin Sealey

      Smashwords Edition

      Contents

      What is Worship

      If My People

      The Levites

      Entering God's Presence - The Tabernacle of Moses

      Ascending the Hill of the Lord

      Unity In The Spirit

      Worship In the Spirit

      Restoring Worship - The Tabernacle of David

      Worship in the Modern Church

      Forward

      Worship is the most important activity that takes place in our walk with God and in our churches. The whole of the Bible, from the fall of man, through to Revelations, is the story of God's’ plan of redemption for His people. Our worship, our submission to Jesus and His purposes, is central to that.

      We were not created to be pastors, evangelists or for any other church activity, (although these have become necessary due to man’s rebellion,) we were created for one purpose; that we might be close to Him, to walk with Him, and be intimate with Him, and that we would enjoy Him, and Him us. We are Jesus' bride, we are His desire, and we are His children.

      We will never fulfil all that God had for us without intimacy with Him. Being close to Him must be the focal point of both our personal lives, and of our churches, because if He is not the centre, then we have missed the point. It is too easy to become focused upon the things of God, especially those of us in lay or full time ministry, whilst losing our focus upon the true goal, Jesus Himself. Unless we learn how to walk with Him, we will never see the fullness of His restoration in our lives. We may have all the teaching, all the activity, all the professionalism, and yet without Him, we will only have empty religion.

      It is for this reason that I have spoken across the globe, teaching on how to draw closer to God, seeing Him become the centre of all we do. Jesus is calling His bride to turn her heart to Him again, to meet Him, and to walk with Him in everything that He has for us.

      In this book, I hope to explain what worship is, and how central it is in all that God does with His people from the Old Testament to the New, and how we need to apply His teaching to both our personal lives and our churches.

      My passion is that we each grow closer to Him, and that our churches become places full of His glory, power and wonder. If you have any questions about worship, or about the content of this book, feel free to email: ben@worshipacademy.co.uk, or connect with me on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/The.Worship.Centre

      Thank you,

      Benjamin Sealey

      What is worship?

      Many people have a vague idea of what worship is, or can give a rough description of it, but if we are to understand Jesus and our relationship with Him, we must be clear about what it is we are doing when we worship, and why it is so important in our lives. If we are a minister or worship leader who does not have a clear understanding of worship, then we will struggle to lead others in it. We can only lead people where we can go ourselves. If we do not understand where we are leading people, then our leading will be unfocused and unclear, and the people we lead, and we ourselves, will never become all that He has called us into.

      To truly understand worship, we must begin at the very beginning of the Bible.

      When God created man, He did so for one reason, because He loved him and wanted to be with him. God desired fellowship with His creation. Because there was no sin in the world, no rebellion, man walked in perfect harmony with God. Man was completely submitted to God, he had no disobedience in his heart, and so because of this both man and God walked together in perfect union.

      This was how God intended it be, and how it should always have been, man living in complete submission to, and living in the fullness of God.

      It was out of this place though, that man was seduced into rebelling against God, in Genesis chapter 3. Because of man's sin and rebellion towards God, that unity between them was lost, and man was expelled from the Garden of Eden. The whole of the Bible is the story of God restoring that intimacy between Himself and man. Man could no longer walk with God as he had in the Garden of Eden, because of sin and rebellion. It

      is because of this, that He sent Jesus to pay the price for that rebellion, that we might know Him once more as God intended.

      It is important to understand this background, to fully understand worship, because we must always understand that God's first and foremost desire is that we walk closely with Him again, in complete submission to Him

      The English word worship literally means worth-ship. It ascribing worth to something. At its' core, the word worship is about surrender. In England, in crown courts, we address the judge as your worship. In doing so, we are acknowledging that the judge has more worth than us, is a higher authority than us. In worshipping someone, we are lifting them above us, and at the same time, we are surrendering to them.

      So our worship to God is our active decision to put aside our own desires and motives, and instead acknowledging God's worth, His authority, His rule and His power. It is both surrendering ourselves, and lifting Him up.

      The process of surrendering, as we will see later, is the means by which we draw closer to God. In the Garden of Eden, we lost our relationship with God through our rebellion. Now, through Jesus, when we actively decide to surrender ourselves and seek His worth over our own, we will draw closer to Him.

      Worship, therefore, is not actually the goal

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