The other day as I was fumbling through my basement, I found a series of tapes that were in an unpacked box. Sifting through the collected dust, I knew they were old and when closely examined, revealed the year 1997. I've been leading worship in some type of full time capacity for the last 17 years. My personal ministry has centered around helping others gain greater access or regain access to the presence of God in their life through personal, private or public worship. These "old" tapes were from a worship seminar I co-lead with a friend.
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You see we all live in three places.
We have public lives - the life we live at work, church in public meeting places; private lives - the life we live at home and around close friends and family; personal lives - the life we live in our thoughts and the deep cavities of our hearts.
God wants to invade our space. Not just on Sunday's, but Monday through Saturday, at work, in the mall and in the car. He wants to invade our thoughts and hearts with His presence and glory. You see, He changes our atmosphere with His presence.
Worship is the avenue whereby God invades our space with His grace and changes whatever is unholy into holy.
My atmosphere needed to be changed.
I was in a spiritual wilderness. A dry, barren place in my spirit. Was I in sin? No! Trouble, maybe; but more important, I was right where God wanted me......(cont.)
Ricky Hall is a author, pastor, musician and worship leader from Athens Georgia. For the last 15 years he has ministered in the area of worship through recordings, seminars and in churches around the nation. He is a published songwriter and currently serves as Worship Pastor for Church of the Nations, an nondenominational assembly in Athens.
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