Approach to worship

I recently started reading God Chasers by Tommy Tenney. After reading the first chapter, I realized that I enter into praise and worship for the wrong reasons. I tend to enter into praise and worship to get something out of it. Lately, it has been for physical healing from the various aches and pains that I am encountering. Sometimes it is to seek emotional help or financial help. I tend to bring my needs before God during praise and worship and look for them to be met. This entry in my blog isn't to say that some of those needs haven't been met. They have and I have been truly blessed. God has truly been great to me. I am a blessed man.

 
 

That being said, I believe that my (and really most people's) approach towards praise and worship is wrong. 2 Chronicles 2:14 states "if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. " What the verse doesn't say is that if you bring all your troubles before God that He will make everything better. That is the WRONG reason to enter into praise and worship. That approach has a "Me-Centered" approach. It makes praise and worship all about what it can do for ME and not what it does for God.

 
 

I am going to change my attitude towards praise and worship. Instead of bringing all my issues before God in praise and worship, I am going to simply seek His face. I am simply going to enter into praise and worship and wait upon the Lord to show His face to me. I am simply going to stand in the presence of our King and then in turn stand in the promise that He will heal our land.

 
 

I will NOT be satisfied until I see His face. I will not settle for a simplistic approach to worship that leaves me wanting more. I will not stop until God reveals himself to me.

 
 

Father I am ready to fully, completely, totally submit to you and seek Your face.