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In our previous posts, we’ve explored ways to effectively prepare for our Worship Services. In the first two parts, we discussed the importance of releasing our burdens to the Lord to ensure they don’t hinder our worship. We also emphasized the need to approach each service with great expectation for God’s presence.

In today’s post, I want to encourage you to ensure that your heart and actions are filled with honour as part of your preparation for your worship service. This is crucial because honour is the language of heaven. That’s a truth I’ve heard many times from my spiritual father, prophet Shyju Mathew. Without honour, the blessings meant for you during the service might pass you by. Honour reflects humility, while dishonour reveals pride.There’s a scary verse in the Bible that warns us that, “He gives grace to the humble but resists the proud” (James 4:6, ESV). Even if you have prepared yourself by fasting, praying, releasing your burdens to the Lord, and you have great faith and expectation in your heart, a dishonourable heart and attitude can render all your preparation futile because the Spirit of God cannot abide in dishonour.

When you gather with your fellow brethren, do you honour the security that’s helping you park? What about the usher that sits you down? Do you honour your worship ministers? Do you honour your man or woman of God? And the brother or sister that’s sitting next to you, do you honour them? If you cannot show honour to the people around you, what makes you think you truly honour God? Honour is in your actions, in the way you respect your church’s protocols, and in how you interact with those enforcing them. Honour is shown in the way you respond to the leading of your worship ministers. It is shown in the way you respond to the word of God when it is preached and also in the way you receive the vessel that is carrying the word.

If you go to meet a king, simply honouring them in your heart will never be enough. If you don’t display honour through your actions, you will definitely be escorted out of that palace! While you might not get kicked out of your church, remember that God is always watching!

I hope you learned something from this post!

until next time,

shalom.

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