“We Have Come.”

There’s this worship band called United Pursuit that my team & I absolutely adore. There’s something so simplistic and spontaneous about the way that they worship. They have livestreams first Tuesday night of every month (7:30pm est), and I do my best to tune in, because hello, worship is wonderful! It’s a passion that flows in my bloodstream. Worship essential when it comes to my relationship with Jesus. I can easily connect with Him there. I need it.

I was inspired to write this post when I heard one of my favorites come on the livestream. It’s called We Have Come. It’s one of those songs that we could do on loop forever, in fact, we only really need this one song; it says so much.

“We have come to bring You glory, we have come to sing Your praises.”

There’s something about telling God who He is to us, because we indirectly are also speaking truth to ourselves. Like, I can tell God how incredible and able He is, and then I’ll realize that I’m singing to Someone who is faithful in His word, and takes care of me. It makes me worship Him harder & love Him so much more than I do. That gives me joy.

There’s something about singing to God about the good things that He’s done for this world, for us. He deserves all focus and recognition. We spend enough time asking God to do all these things for us, or requesting that everyone pays attention to us on the daily. We as a society are very selfish- very “me” centered. God deserves more than our simple praise & mere voices. Yet He knows that’s all we can give Him; He sees our hearts. Oh, how I love to sing to Him, to offer worship, and to be in His presence.

“You’re welcome in this place.”

We don’t have life if we don’t have God. He is at the core of everything. We need Him more than we realize. You see, when I realize that He is the only One who will accept me wholly , I want Him to draw near to me because I know He genuinely loves me. And He loves you too, literally more than you’ll ever care to know. He is our everlasting Friend, and He is welcome where we decide to lift our voices to Him.

“Bless the Lord, O my soul, and let all that’s within me shout out!”

The prayer of my heart when I worship. I want nothing more than for my soul to be filled with joy & happiness, so that I have no other words but the name “Jesus” to shout. It’s all about lifting Him up, and having Him know that I am grateful and that I love Him. He makes me so happy, y’all.

How does He make you feel?

 

The Love We All Crave

This Friday is worship & prayer night! I will be leading alongside my team for 50% of the evening, and our ending song will be Met By Love by United Pursuit. It’s a great song, and it might be one of my favorites that we’ve done in a long time. It’s simple. United Pursuit has a simplicity about their lyrics that I really like. The chorus really struck me, and I thought about it for the last few days.

“We can run straight into Your arms unafraid, because every time we need You we’re met by Love, and we can lift our hands to heaven, full of faith, because every time we worship we see Your face.”

Jesus comes to meet us whenever we ask Him to. He is love in human form. What is love? There’s a bible passage that encompasses all that love is.

“Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.” (1 Corinthians 13: 4-8a)

Can you see how Jesus is the human form of love?

Some of us feel like we have to earn His love and acceptance, but that’s not the case at all. All we have to do to get His love is ask Him for it! He gives it freely, at no cost (which is awesome, because I don’t think I’d have the money for it, haha)! His love is what this world looks for, high and low. We don’t need to look very far.

Sometimes I enter into worship completely messed up, and I can’t help but wonder how He doesn’t just discard me to the side. I’m in awe at how He still calls Himself my Father, and He still comes to me when I call out for Him. He just comes to my level, and sometimes I get the feeling that He’s sitting right next to me. Most of the time I don’t know how to feel- I’m just stunned. He reveals Himself to me in the coolest ways! I’m amazed at how He reveals Himself to us when we need Him. It’s really sweet to know that the Savior of the world, who sits at the right hand of God Himself, still comes to meet me when I ask Him to.

God is a simple God. It requires practically nothing to get Him to come to you. Just your request.