Entering Into the Fullness of Christ: A Total Worship Experience

By Katherine L. Savage

Once we become consistent and spiritually mature, God will begin to reveal in depth our purpose, calling, and destiny.

--KL Savage

"Entering into the Fullness of Christ" was conceived from a series of workshops that my husband and I taught to encourage the Christian believer to mature and develop spiritually through the practice of total worship. Worship allows us to experience God in the most intimate way possible. Developing an intimate relationship with God will alleviate fear and promote prophetic movement that will glorify God. As we move prophetically, we will begin to hear and understand the sounds of heaven, which ultimately will free us. Therefore, this level of worship experience will unleash the manifested power of God in our lives and the nations of the world. In the reading, you will find out how to successfully embrace "A Total Worship Experience" and apply it to your everyday living. Christianity is a lifestyle, not a religion. Through your intimate experiences with the Father, your individual life will become empowered with scriptural promises and principles and vibrant with a kind of love, joy, and peace that only God can provide. God has a plan for your life, and the concepts in this book will enrich that life as you journey down the path that He has especially prepared for you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Aug 22, 2022
• ISBN: 9798885409001

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Entering Into the Fullness of Christ

A Total Worship Experience

Katherine L. Savage

ISBN 979-8-88540-899-8 (paperback)

ISBN 979-8-88685-969-0 (hardcover)

ISBN 979-8-88540-900-1 (digital)

Copyright © 2022 by Katherine L. Savage

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods without the prior written permission of the publisher. For permission requests, solicit the publisher via the address below.

Christian Faith Publishing

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1

Prelude to Worship

Chapter 2

A Personal Intimate Relationship

Chapter 3

Entering God's Presence

Chapter 4

Physical and Spiritual DNA

Chapter 5

Why Praise? Why?

Chapter 6

Worship: Intimacy with God

Chapter 7

Come Let Us Worship Together

Chapter 8

We Must Fight to Win

Chapter 9

Don't Stifle the Flow!

Chapter 10

A Sound From Heaven

About the Author

To Jesus Christ, my Savior, my Lord, and my Master and the entire Body of Christ for the uplifting and building of the Kingdom of God on earth.

Acknowledgments

I would first like to acknowledge my husband, Curtis, who has pushed and challenged me to get this book written. He never stopped believing that this literary work would change the lives of people.

My pastor, Dr. Rhonda Travitt, who—through her pandemic rescue platform Transformation of a Nation series—reignited my desire to overcome my insecurities that were hindering me from completing what I had started.

Pastor Dana Powell, my first minister of music and friend, who initially asked my husband and I to takeover teaching her course on praise and worship, which eventually provoked us to create and develop the workshop Entering into the Fullness of Christ.

My dear friend Matthew Witt who believed with unwavering faith that I should write this book, which is the first of many more to come. His continual encouragement inspired me to keep pressing to complete the book.

Minister Candace Daly who labored with me in editing the spiritual content of the book and quickly grasped the vision of what I was trying to accomplish by writing this book. Her input was invaluable.

To all of our workshop students throughout the years whose growth and development was substantially influenced after taking the course. These results led us to believe the importance of writing this book and reaching out to the world to help more people.

Each of you provided a necessary component that I needed to complete this book. Thank you!

Foreword

We live in an age where sound bites and viral video clips make up a good portion of the Christian's diet. Many who came to the Lord in recent years know little of Wednesday night Bible Study, Sunday School, or Fall Revival service. And while the advancement of technology has made the gospel more accessible overall, at times the depth of the Christian faith seems to be sacrificed at the expense of the broad reach that is now possible.

While some may feel discouraged about this reality, Katherine Savage has chosen to light a candle in our present age of digital darkness, so to speak. Her book is a manual for new and seasoned Christians who are determined to have a total worship experience and not just brief encounters with God during corporate church meetings or an online platform.

If you came to Christ during a previous generation, reading this book will likely remind you of teachings you heard during camp meetings, discipleship classes, or small group fellowships. If you came to Christ more recently, you will enjoy the in-depth lessons and applications needful to build a strong foundation in the Lord.

Regardless of who you are, if your heart is open to receiving the fullness of Christ that has been made available to us, you will benefit richly from this Holy Spirit-inspired book. Expect to obtain clarity and more confidence in your authority as a child of God. The Total Worship Experience is His plan for you, and this book can help you walk boldly into it.

Candace Daly,

Mableton, Georgia

Introduction

Christ's love is greater than anyone can ever know, but I pray that you will be able to know that love. Then you can be filled with the fullness of God.

—Ephesians 3:19 (NCV)

The purpose of this book is to help the believer experience the fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in their everyday living. Christianity is a lifestyle, not a religion. Many people try to make this spiritual journey without embracing all the spiritual tools God has stored up for them, and then they wonder why they experience more failures than successes. In Entering into the Fullness of Christ, you will receive scripturally based, enlightening information that will help you to (1) mature and develop in your knowledge of God, (2) experience God in the most intimate ways possible, (3) alleviate fears pertaining to worship and who God is, (4) understand and experience the indwelling and movement of the Holy Spirit, (5) move prophetically and fully utilize your spiritual DNA, (6) hear and understand what the Holy Spirit is saying to you personally and to the body of Christ, (7) seek to hear and embrace an apostolic sound from heaven, and (8) become empowered to do the greater works than these as described in the Bible.

Over time, the body of Christ has walked away from many of the fundamentals that Christ put in place for us so that we can thrive on earth in truth, power, and demonstration. We have fallen into living in the gray areas of worldly behavior and have forsaken being in the world but not of the world, which has caused us to fall asleep on the life-giving power of Jesus Christ. Awaken, sleeping giant, to the newness of life that God has preordained before the foundations of the world. Read and consume the abundant life that God has planned for you and embrace your God-given passion, destiny, faith, hope, and rightful place in this life.

Entering into the Fullness of Christ will open the door to righteousness, alignment, and successful living that will cause you to do all things in excellence, as you were initially created to do, while still giving all the glory to God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Grab your pen and journal. Read this book and become a naturally and spiritually fruitful individual, a magnification of the only true and living God, which will cause you to become a bright light to a corrupt and dying world.

Chapter 1

Prelude to Worship

As believers, we all have a desire to get to know the God that we serve. Many of us ponder how to accomplish this. God is an invisible God; so how do I get to meet Him face-to-face while I'm still dwelling here on earth? I know that I will meet Him when I get to heaven in the by and by, but what about now while I'm here on earth? God has an eternal plan for His people, which is the plan of salvation through Jesus Christ; but our walk with God doesn't end there. That's only the beginning. While Jesus walked the earth, He was God in the earth. He was 100 percent human being and 100 percent God. He was both man and God dwelling in the same person. Jesus is our model, so why would He leave us without spiritual empowerment?

In Luke 24, Jesus appears to the disciples and illuminates to them all that He had told them while He was still with them. He told them that they were witnesses to the fulfillment of prophecy, which was His death, burial, and resurrection and that they would fulfill the preaching of the gospel from Jerusalem to the nations and the world. The key point Jesus made was that they had to wait for the promise of empowerment from on high. This promise was fulfilled in Acts 2 when God sent the Holy Spirit to the earth on the day of the Jewish festival Shavuot, which we, as disciples of Christ, now call the Day of Pentecost. The Indwelling of the Holy Spirit is the prelude to worship. It is necessary to be able to draw nigh to God and be empowered to do what He has called us to do as members of the body of Christ.

What is a prelude? A prelude is a preliminary part, a preface, something antecedent. It precedes or comes before an actual event or activity. In this case, it comes before our act of worship. It enables the believer to perform worship effectively. God promised us that He would send the Comforter, the one called alongside to help, to defend, to be our advocate. Christ is our advocate in heaven. The Holy Spirit is our advocate on earth.