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| Challenging the Congregation to Worship with all their hearts |
Last Sunday (21 November 2010) was a good day of worship and ministry in our church.
During the worship, I was prompted by the Holy Spirit to walk up the stage and challenge our congregation to worship freely. It was an unusual move. The usual sequence of our service is for the worship leader to hand the stage to the person making the announcement.
However, on that day, the Holy Spirit was ready to do a deeper work. Many were indeed touched by His presence.
After the service, I totally forgot about this matter until a Pakistani brother told me a strange request that he had made.
During the worship, this Pakistani brother was praising God as the worship team led. However, he was not spiritually satisfied and felt he needed to go further in depth in worship. He prayed for "pastor to go up and take over the worship".
In fact, he and his family were sitting one row behind my wife and me. It's amazing that he was actually making such quiet request. The Lord heard him and that was why the prompting was extremely strong for me to take over the worship.
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| High Praisers dedicating their lives to the Lord at the end of the service |
Through this incident, I learn that I must never be afraid of tradition. I may never have done it this way at High Praise Church before but I must remain obedient to the voice of God.
When the Holy Spirit makes us do strange things or things that are out of the norms, He has His own intention. We are, but servants! We have to listen carefully or else those who need to be blessed by Him may miss out of such blessing.
Rev Albert Kang
Pastoral Advisor
High Praise Church
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