I don't know about anyone else but personally, I don't like others to tell me what to sing or what to say to worship. If its not coming from my own heart in my own personality that He gave us, then I feel as though we are following others and not Christ Who lives in us.
I know it sounds radical to think like this but the more we are told what to say and do by others the less we are focused on Christ....just my own thoughts.
When the prophets prayed it seemed that they went away into the wilderness to be alone with God. With all the noise around us in church gatherings it is hard to keep our focus on Him alone.
Spiritual worship is marked by a leading from the Holy Spirit and not a command of men.
This is why I appreciate the worship of the Brethren when each person is led by Christ to ask for a song or pray in the gathering. This is not orchestrated ahead of time by men to evoke "feelings", but led by the Holy Spirit that the focus would be Christ.
Matthew 6:5-15
5 “And when you pray, you are not to be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they [a]will be seen by people. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. 6 But as for you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door, and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.
7 “And when you are praying, do not use thoughtless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard because of their many words. 8 So do not be like them; for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him."
In these last days of apostasy, it is difficult to find a group gathering in which the people are being led by the Spirit, everything seems to be orchestrated and calculated to evoke emotions.
When we spend time with God there will be emotions but not manipulated by what others are saying and doing, they will come from a heart that has heard from the Holy Spirit. The Spirit stirs inside of the believer causing intense joy, peace, and even conviction of sin if there is something that needs to be cleansed away.
Some of us are a "fish out of water" in modern gatherings, we are yearning for something deeper, and an intense connection with Christ in us is our desire.
Some of us yearn to go home to our Savior, to the marriage supper of the Lamb when we will be wed for eternity to Him.
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