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THE COST OF WORSHIP..........................................
Worship opens up the womb! It opens both the spiritual womb and the physical womb. (Womb of a woman). It shouldn't just be singing and raising up of hands in adoration, It must be sacrificial. A cost of sacrifice unto God, without this act of sacrifice, worship is just plain rhetoric mixed with emotions, rhythm and form. When Hannah needed a child she prayed earnestly without an answer until she finally made a covenant (to sacrifice the child God gives her) with God. This covenant in real life is a difficult one to make. This same person had endured the harsh treatment of her rival and having a child walk around in the house would be all she needed but she was willing to let the child leave and go to the house of the Lord, to serve forever and that wasn't a joke! Yet it was that act of sacrifice (worship) God couldn't resist and had to act immediately because that is the worship that honours Him. In the case of Abraham offering his son Isaac on the altar of sacrifice, God opened up the womb of a covenant that made him the father of all Nations. His sacrifice was a representation of God's promise that was fulfilled on the cross of Calvary when Jesus Christ offered up Himself willingly to save humanity from death and the curse of death. His love for the Father, and man, moved Him to a place of total surrender which is a requirement for worship. A virgin Mary, overlooking the shame, the Mosaic Law which gave power over people to be stoned to death when found in fornication, said yes to God when the Angel Gabriel visited her. She offered her body for the King of Glory to dwell in for 9 months because she knew worship requires a sacrifice and denial of self. A covenant God can't overlook. Archbishop William Temple once said "Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of the conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of mind with His truth; the purifying of imagination by His beauty; the opening of the heart to His love; the surrender of will to His purpose—all this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable."
When we read the old Testament, worship was not without sacrifice on the altar, when Jesus was offered on the altar (the cross of Calvary) God responded by opening up the Temple, dividing the curtain or veil that made it impossible for us to enter into God's presence. We can now enter boldly into the presence of God. The Apostle Paul said in Romans 12 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—His good, pleasing and perfect will.
When true worship is offered unto God by surrendering our total being unto Him, wombs are opened for miracles.
Excerpts from 'The Cost Of Worship' by George Sakyi Adade