Holy Spirit has placed this upon my heart for a few days now. He reminded me of an event that occurred years ago while I was in the choir at church. This is just as serious today as it was years ago. This is what happened back then ... we would gather in a room to pray as the choir before we would go out on the platform to minister. It started to get lax at one point and the prayer time gathering was almost being treated like a club you joined. Meaning prayer time was still taking place but there was added snacking in that room before we ministered. One Sunday I happened to look down and saw chicken wing bones on the floor from the snacks being consumed in the room of prayer before ministry. Holy Spirit placed a burden on my heart then and I shared with the music director/minister that what we do is not a club or a group one joins. It is a ministry unto the Lord and it needs to be treated in that manner
It was almost like something that was sacred was turning to be not as sanctified. I know we were not on the platform ministering when this took place but we were in a back room preparing to minster before we went out to minister. Does this make sense to you. For some reason I am being shown that it is like when Jesus turned over the money changer tables operating in the church. The church should be a place of worship, preaching the word of God and ministry, not a club sort of atmosphere. To me seeing the chicken wing bones on the floor was a distraction to me and it should not have been at all. We were there to pray before going into the main sanctuary to minister with the congregation.
Is church getting too loose in their practices today. Coffee bars and being able to bring drinks into the sanctuary? I was at a church once and actually saw people bring in their breakfast sandwiches and eat them during the church service. I am a pretty focused/detail oriented person and things like that distract me and throw me for a loop. I could not beleive what I was seeing and that distraction is not needed when the word of God is coming forth. Cannot people wait until after the service to eat and maybe participate in a bit of fasting and holding off in consuming food in the sanctuary? Just a thought.
Guess what Holy Spirit had lined up for me tonight after work. I went to the greenway to walk and I multi tasked at the same time. I talked with a ministry person while walking. I should have told them in the beginning I was walking and talking at the same time. They wondered why I sounded like I did because I was walking. I felt led to go to a local Christian store to pick up a few of the Amish series novels my mom loves to read. I did and while there I felt led to go to TJ Maxx also. I pulled my car into a parking spot and in front of my car I saw a young lady crying in her car. I went to her car and asked her if she was ok. I then asked her if I could pray for her. She said yes and I prayed for her. The beauty in all of this, a word of encouragement came forth to encourage her. I think I spoke those words over and over to her again a few times. She thanked me and I said to thank Holy Spirit. I noticed an initial necklace she was wearing and I asked her about it. Guess what, her first name is the same as my daughter's first name. I then said to her that I would hope if my daughter was ever sitting in her car crying that someone would come and pray for her. There has to be a bit of humor in this. As I look at my car parked it was a little crooked in the parking space (I was inside the parking spot lines though) and we laughed. I went about my shopping @ TJ Maxx. Praise God. See, He has a plan for each of our lives and all we have to do is follow His prompts because it is not about us but about the one that needs prayer. I even found at the Christian book store a 0.98 Kathy Troccoli CD I picked up too. I do beleive I have my travelling music all set for when I travel. God is good, God is Great and He is most definitely greatly to be praised.
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