David, The Worshipper (Part 2) The Lifestyle of a Worshipper

BANGALORE, India - Dec. 14, 2013 - PRLog -- [full message @ our site]

It is clear in Scripture that Worship is more than something we do during dedicated hours of singing. True worship really is a lifestyle. It includes offering up of our bodies as a living sacrifice which is our act of worship (Romans 12:1,2).

True worship is a lifestyle. For a worshipper, everything is as unto the Lord, to glorify Him, to declare His praises. A true worshipper worships even when he is not singing a song.

We become like unto whom we worship. Our lifestyle, attitudes, choices, behaviour, etc become transformed into the image and likeness of the One we worship.

How did David's worship affect his lifestyle? Or How did David's lifestyle reflect His worship of God? Here are some things that we can observe about David's lifestyle:

#1, A worshipper from his youth

David must have been in his early teens, taking care of his father's sheep. Even in those days - as a shepherd, guiding his sheep through the pastures, he gained a reputation among people. This is what people said about the teenage boy David:

Key Point: Become a worshipper now. The most opportune time to worship God is now!

#2, A lifestyle of personal worship

David worshipped while he went about his daily task of taking care of sheep. He worshipped not because he had an audience among men, or a congregation to lead. He worshipped because He was in love with God.

Psalm 23, possibly one of the most well-known psalms was written as a reflection of his encounters with God as a shepherd boy - his encounters with God in private.

Key Point: A true worshipper worships God in private. He has a lifestyle of personal worship. What he does in the congregation (or up on stage) is only an overflow of what is already happening in private.

As we saw last Sunday, many of David's psalms were an expression of his personal pursuit of God.

Psalm 63:1 O God, You are my God; Early will I seek You; My soul thirsts for You; My flesh longs for You In a dry and thirsty land Where there is no water.

#3, Bold in battle, Wise in daily life

David experienced great triumph over Goliath because David knew his God (1 Samuel 17:34-37,45-47). And yet after such a great victory, when people celebrated him, when he was promoted in the kingdom, and when even king Saul was jealous/fearful/hateful of David - David behaved wisely.

1 Samuel 18:14,30

Key Point: A true worshipper is unalarmed about spiritual conflict, because He really knows His God and is so obsessed with His God that the enemy is of no significance. He walks with boldness and wisdom that leaves the enemy in disarray.

The more you worship God, the less important the devil becomes.

True worshippers pay little attention to satan, because they know how big their God is.

True worshippers are not really concerned about what the enemy is bringing against them because they recognize that they are in a place of immunity - in the secret place of the most High, where the God of this universe is their hiding place.

#4, Honoring God's anointed

A very remarkable example set by David is in his honoring of king Saul - even when Saul had departed into a place of disobedience.
Saul attempted to kill David in many ways - so much so that David has to hide to protect himself. David had two great opportunities to kill Saul - and yet he refrained from doing so. His primary reason for restraining himself was that he would not raise his hand against God's anointed.

David respected the fact that God had appointed and anointed Saul.

What you respect (honor) you will attract in to your own life. What you despise (treat lightly) you will loose from your own life.

Key Point: A true worshipper demonstrates honor of man, because of his honor of the God who appointed the man.

#5, A worshipper listens to God

just one example:
1 Samuel 23:1-5

Key Point: A true worshipper has a heart in tune with God, that seeks know and to do what pleases God.

#6, Undignified and unrestrained

David's worship of God went beyond the ordinary.

2 Samuel 6:14-23
Key Point: A true worshipper is unafraid to express his adoration of the Lord, even if he is despised by man, in doing so.

THE SERVICE OF A WORSHIPPER

We now move to consider how a true worshipper serves God. The ministry of a worshipper. How does the worship of God affect our service to God?

Perhaps one of the high points of David's service unto God was the Tabernacle he built - a place of worship - known as the Tabernacle of David.

In his planning, organizing, establishing and building of the Tabernacle, we see David's heart in his service to God:

   David recognized God's worthiness of everything he did in service to God
   David was extravagant in giving and the people followed his example
   David went beyond doing just the bare minimum for the house of God
   David laid it all down to give God his best


Important Features of worship in the David's tabernacle

1, Extravagant Worship & powerful intercession
2, Prophetic worship
3, Orderly worship with Excellence

The finger of God
God points to the Tabernacle of David as a prototype and foretells that it will be rebuilt.
Amos 9:11-13

With the rebuilding of the Tabernacle of David, the Lord foretold that
1, the Gentiles will come seeking God
2, the harvest will be so plentiful, that it will continue into the next "seed time", so that as the plowman begins to plow and sow, the harvesters would have not completed gathering in all the harvest from the last season.

The Church
The Church is the spiritual fulfillment of the Tabernacle of David being restored
Acts 15:13-18

After the 1000 year dark ages, and the restoration of the Body of Christ, we are in a time when the Tabernacle of David is being rebuilt in our generation.

God is calling us to this kind of worship - a heart of worship, a lifestyle of worship, a service of worship - that is extravagant.

As we give ourselves to this kind of worship and intercession, we will see a mighty ingathering of souls and a harvest beyond what we have ever experienced or imagined.

The hour in which we live
The generation we are in - is the hour in which God is rebuilding the temple of praise - the tabernacle of David, where there is extravagant, Spirit-inspired and yet orderly worship and intercession with excellence.

We are the David generation!

Will you give yourself to the call to be an extravagant, prophetic worshipper - at all times!

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