Game Face
Just about everything we do in life involves some kind of preparation. We prepare to go to work by cleaning up, dressing up, and gearing up. Athletes work out, diet, study and dream, all so they will have the best chance of success on game day. The kids (sometimes adults too) prepare to go to school by studying and packing a lunch. We even prepare to “go out.” We wash, shave, primp, blow dry, and put on perfume or cologne in the excitement of getting to go somewhere special. There’s actually a mindset of anticipation about going to your favorite restaurant or dance hall , YeHaw!!!
I’ve been pondering lately on the question of how we go about preparing for our meeting on Sunday mornings. I know, I know. We have talked and talked for years now about how this whole ride is about a relationship with God and not about just sitting in a building on Sunday morning. However, since we have been called to fellowship and worship together as an extension of that relationship, Sunday morning suddenly takes on a great deal of significance. Suddenly, we understand that we are not getting out of bed to show up at the terribly early hour 10:30am to just sit in a chair and survive a couple of hours. We have the privilege to enter into a time of worship, prayer and learning in the presence of God in a corporate setting. Love, companionship, iron sharpening iron; that sort of thing.
I believe that is enough reason to make valiant effort to prepare our heart, mind, and spirit to enter into what God might want to do for us in that setting. That takes us from people rushing around all morning and sliding in at the last minute (guilty), to a body of believers that are full of hope, expectation, and a sense that their prayers and attitudes will have an incredible impact on how God moves in the corporate meeting. It’s no more than getting our “game face” on for church on Sunday or for any meeting of believers where we want to see God move. AWESOME!
Can’t really tell you how to do that, but you know. It’s prayer, seeking, asking, preparing with the same excitement we have when we prepare for other important events. Pray for our worship and our worship team, pray for the needs of the people, pray for the person in the pulpit, for visitations, miracles, healings, breakthrough. PRAY FOR GOD TO HAVE HIS WAY!
This Sunday is a good day to start if you don’t really think about it much. It’s time to get out game faces on……
Paul
