“Pray continually.”

It’s taken over four years… but Hope Centre is finally doing a 24-7 week of churchwide prayer.

So, that means that since I work during the day, I am up at all weird hours of the night to cover shifts… tonight being prime example, from 2-3am. With that having been said, I’m off to bed (early… ish)

New Zealand who?

Note the slight irony. It’s hardly peak time on Skype right now, even for the different time zones. Yet there are still almost twice as many people on Skype – one programme – than live in my entire country.

“I’m a worshipper”

There is this slightly… odd… advertisement which plays on TV for the new ecuadorian Magnum. I think the link above is the correct one, but being at home I’m on dialup and it won’t load before I go to bed in time to watch the whole one.

It has this one phrase at the end though, simply “I’m a worshipper.”

No matter what else I do with my life – and I’m in the middle of wrestling with this again: where do I want to be in the future, what do I want my life to look like, how do I make decisions that align with who God made me to be – I still think this is a pretty good description. I was given a prophetic word about six years ago which had some very specific parts… others quite vague… but one part that stood out was “God wants you to be a worshipper.” I remember because I had a disagreement with someone else who was convinced that it was that God wanted me to be a worship leader (they obviously never heard me with a microphone…?) but it’s stuck with me like few prophecies have.

Thing is, it’s a vague, general prophecy. Every believer is called to be a worshipper – every human being is a worshipper whether we acknowledge it or not. Whether we worship the One higher than ourselves, or creation, whether things, or ideas, we all place value on something that we see as worthwhile the struggle to attain. But it resonates – and maybe that’s why this ad does? I was made to worship God… whether I’m sitting at my computer completely bored with doing data entry, or whether I’m making coffee at Starbucks, or alone at a beach in one of the most beautiful spots in New Zealand… I was made to worship…

I read through all the definitions that came up when I googled worship… and liked this one the best: reverent devotion and allegiance pledged to GOD; the rituals or ceremonies by which this reverence is expressed. The English word worship comes from the Old English word worthship, a word which denotes the worthiness of the one receiving the special honor or devotion.

Why worship? He is worthy. The Bible is big on worship.

More thoughts will come on this later…