“When was the last time you were so tired from worshiping Me that you had to sit down and get your breath back” that is what Father has been asking me of late. Added to this Matthew 22:37 “”You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind,” has been going around my head over and over again during the last few weeks.

Often in the past I have worshipped until I could not breathe (as a big fat man that does not always take that long) I would give all my strength to God as I worshipped him. This has not happened much over the last few years. I have still worshipped him with my entire mind, soul and I guess my heart but not until my heart was pounding fast and hard.

What has caused the change? Well I think the church in general has changed the style of worship over the last decade; we have gone from a celebratory style of worship aimed at glorifying Him and exalting Him, to more intimate, personal worship about how we feel and the situation we are in. These songs are often more contemplative in nature, slower, more melodic than rhythmic, they are good songs with good words; however for me they do not hit the spot.

I really want to end worshipping my “awesome / wonderful / marvellous / powerful / saviour / sacrifice/ redeemer / King / Lord / Captain / Father / GOD” by dragging my worn out carcass back to my chair to recover my breath. I want to give him everything down to my last ounce of strength.

To do this I need to either spend hours and hours in worship until I become drained or worship with abandonment in a fast, hard, dancing, jumping sort of way. This types of worship needs a certain type of music to accompany it. This music needs to be loud, fast, rhythmic drum / bass / guitar lead, the sort of thing I listen to outside of church or in my youth (oh to be able to worship with driving music in the style of Green Day or jumping like the Specials). Music that makes you want to dance to Him like David danced (and it would not be the first time that my wife has been embarrassed by my dancing!).

I want to po-go, moon-stomp, jump, twist, shout, sing, bellow praise to my Jesus, then do it all over again. Why because He is soooo worth it, He is our awesome creator saviour, He died for me while I was still dancing to the Dead Kennedys and shouting abuse at people. Now he wants me to dance for him and shout out how much I love him. That’s why.

So let’s crank up the bass / guitar and drums and give our ALL to Jesus…….

Right now I want to jump and shout and praise him… so I’m going to put a CD on and do just that….. see you later after I recover!

( For those pedants out there I know that singing songs etc is not the only way to worship him and that we need to worship Him in all areas of our lives, this post is about worship in the meeting with singing etc!!!)