I felt strongly in my spirit this beautiful afternoon to write ✍️ about worship and the worshiping mode proper.
My personal opinion though.
Worship is not the warm-up. It is the weapon.
The church has treated worship like a transition. A mood-setter. Something to get people ready for the “real part” of the service.
But that is not what Scripture shows.
In 2 Chronicles 20, Jehoshaphat sent the worshippers out first. Not the soldiers. The singers. They walked toward the enemy with praise on their lips before a single weapon was raised.
And the enemy destroyed itself.
Because worship doesn’t just change the atmosphere in a room. It releases the presence of God into the middle of whatever you are facing.
The battle you’ve been trying to fight in your own strength? Worship has a vital point to play if you would engage in it.
The anxiety that won’t leave? Worship it out of the room. The heaviness that settled over your home? Lift your voice and watch it lift.
You don’t worship because everything is fine. You worship because God is still sovereign when nothing feels fine.
That’s not denial. That’s warfare.
Stop treating your worship like a formality and start treating it like the powerful act of spiritual aggression it actually is.
Because when you open your mouth and exalt God in the middle of your mess, darkness doesn’t know what to do with that.
It wasn’t expecting a weapon. It was expecting your silence.
Don’t give it that.
It's your handsome friend John Petra you're reading from 🤎
