Worship Factors: 30 Days To True Worship: Global Growth Factors

By Sharon Nobuhle Williams

Do you feel like your relationship with God is growing Stagnant? Do you feel that your spiritual development has been arrested? Do you want to kindle or rekindle the fire of your passion for God?

Worship Factors: 30 Days To True Worship is a Devotional designed to help you focus more on what you can give to God than what you can get. It is also the companion workbook for Global Growth Bible College's Introduction To True Worship online course. Each devotion contains a passage of Scripture that enables you to tap into God's treasure trove of blessings through the vehicle of abounding love and praise.

While there are things you may need to seek God for, this guide will usher you into His presence and, in return, an attentive ear. This book promotes an atmosphere charged with God's manifest presence. This environment produces spirit-led intercession along with a godly lifestyle through worship. In it, you will have the opportunity to

• Rest in God's goodness and give Him your best praise.
• Transform your worship from ritual to habit to lifestyle.
• Align your soul with the Spirit of God.
• Love Jesus more profoundly.

Now is the time to put your ear to God's heart. It is your season to invite God's presence to permeate your being. Foster deeper intimacy that invokes vulnerability and transparency as your true worship grows.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sharon Nobuhle Williams
• Release date: Dec 10, 2022
• ISBN: 9781737561958

Sharon Nobuhle Williams

Sharon Nobuhle Williams is a minister, missionary, and best-selling author of "The Nehemiah Factors: Your Pathway To Godly, Effective Leadership. She is the founder of Global Growth Ministries (globalgrowthministries.org), Global Growth Publishing (globalgrowthpublishing.org), Global Growth Bible College, and host of the Globally Growing podcast. Her mission, mandate, and purpose in life are spiritual growth and development.

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Worship Factors: 30 Days To True Worship

Worship Factors: 30 Days To True Worship

A Global Growth Factors Book

© 2022 by Sharon Nobuhle Williams

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INTRODUCTION

But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

John 4:23-24 ESV

In recent years, we have entered uncertain times across the globe as macro -s tressors collide with micro -s tressors . Unfortunately, this collision between global and national trials with personal adversity has fueled the fire of individual hards hips.

Before 2020, many of us had grown weary of the political divide that most nations face. Then, the COVID-19 pandemic ushered us into a new normal no one could have imagined. It was the first global domino to fall. Things have only escalated from there.

Take the United States, for example. The coronavirus broke out, resulting in lockdowns. Civil unrest surrounding George Floyd’s death divided the country racially and politically. Mass murders are at an all-time high. And it doesn’t stop there. There’s the insurrection on January 6th, 2021, and the US’ potential involvement in the war in Ukraine, leaving some wondering if we are on the brink of World War III. Let’s not forget the extreme inflation and high gas prices. The list goes on and on.

Many current events are forcing us to process macro-stressors alongside our personal micro-stressors. These external global pressures have exacerbated the burdens we already carry from work, school, or home.

In Christ Jesus, we have a hope we can embrace through His many precious promises to help us combat the overwhelming stress we now face. In Romans 8:28, we read of God’s promise to work all things together for good for those of us who love and are called of God. Once we can rest on this promise, we can embrace many others.

For the pestilence of the pandemic, He promises forgiveness and healing in exchange for four simple heart-driven offerings: humility, prayer, seeking His face, and repentance. To address the pinch of inflation, Isaiah 1:19 reminds us that if we are willing and obedient, we will enjoy the fat of the land. To those oppressed by racism, sexism, or any other -ism, God promises to prepare a table for us in the presence of our enemies, give us justice, and pronounce woes against our offenders.

Intimacy with Christ is key to accessing all these exceeding great and precious promises. Yet, as a church, many leaders have failed to teach us how to position ourselves to receive these promises. As a result, we have been unable to empower God’s people to develop a relationship intimate enough to embrace and receive all of God’s precious promises.

Thankfully, we have a surefire means to ignite or reignite the intimacy God is calling for in these trying times. In a word: Consecration. Through consecration, we