In the past week our site was blessed with the opportunity to learn from and worship with Tim Bartsch, a worship leader from Calgary, Alberta.
Throughout the four days Tim spent with us we had a lot of fun practicing some new Spanish worship songs to help us prepare for Guatemala. But we also learned that worship runs deeper than singing praises to God. Tim taught us to evaluate within ourselves how we can live out worship to God by giving worth to Him in specific ways during our every day lives.
Some of the other topics that Tim spoke about included the power of speaking God’s truths out loud, the idea of worship as a community endeavor, hearing from God and spiritual gifts.
Having often felt unsure about knowing if I’m hearing from God, I was especially interested when we discussed this issue. What I learned was that I need to question the truth of the matter by checking if it lines up with Scripture, inviting the Holy Spirit to give discernment and asking for insight from someone who I know is walking with Christ.
To give a simple demonstration of this, Tim asked for four volunteers to step up. We then prayed as a group, asking God to open our hearts and speak to our inner spirit specific encouragements - Scriptures, images, words, etc.- for those who had volunteered. Then we waited on God. Soon individuals began sharing what had been revealed to them, blessing one another with God-given encouragements. Again we prayed, asking God’s blessings on the truths that had been revealed and rebuking anything that was not God’s truths. By the time we ended our session, we had heard many encouragements from God and were able to strengthen and up-lift each other in community!
By Linda Fehr
Site 2 Party!
15 years ago
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