The power of worship

"Whatever the issue in your life is, the key is to worship a holy God who created you and knows everything about you - your failures, shortcomings, insecurities, besetting sins and fears. He sits on His throne, omniscient, and says something like this: 'I know your final destination, and I know how to get you from where you are now to where I want you to be. I know why I created you. If you'll worship Me, I will visit with you. I can tell you how to get untangled from the snares in your path and how to move forward. I can even reveal to you things to come that are pertinent to your life and world.'"  Chuck Pierce with John Dickson

There is power in worshipping God. If we want to see breakthroughs in our life and in the lives of others, than this is the time to enter into deeper levels of worship both personally and corporately. It is only as we ascend to the throne room in worship that we can descend back into the harvest field here on earth, praying and warring for victory in every area of life. When you and I come boldly to God's throne in worship, He gives us His plans and strategies for our lives here on earth. There is no way that we can walk in His peace, power, and perfect plan without a lifestyle of worship.  

To ascend is to arise, come up, increase, recover and restore. God wants us to rise up. He knows what He is doing here on earth. He can make sense of things that are happening and can show us the way through challenges. He can strengthen us in prayer and intercession and give us keys during our seasons of worship that unlock the path before us and bring glory into our situations here on earth. It's time to devote our self to a greater worship of the Lord.

Worship changes our lives and how we see our circumstances.  

**adopted from Intercessors Arise**

Italy

• Ask God for Italian believers and missionaries who will be persevering, self-sacrificing, and effective in bringing the gospel message to an increasingly hopeless and depressed society.
• Pray for Italian believers to stand for the cause of Christ with passion and vision that goes beyond their own local churches and denominations. Pray that thousands of churches will be started so Italy’s unreached towns will have a gospel presence.
• Millions of refugees use Italy’s coastline as an entry point for the rest of Europe, many coming from Albania. Desperate circumstances can easily lead to involvement in, or victimization by criminal networks.  Ask God’s protection for these vulnerable refugees.

Israel

• Pray that salvation for the Gentiles will continue to “make Israel envious,” envious to know and walk with the Lord of Lords, and envious to receive God’s salvation. (Romans 11:11)
• Psalm 83 is a powerful picture of neighbor nations conspiring against Israel. This conspiring continues today. Pray through Psalm 83.
• Israel is home to Jews, Arabs, Muslims, Druze, and Bedouin, all of whom have faiths that deny Christ. “Let them know that you, whose name is the LORD—that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.” Psalm 83:18

Stormie Omartian

“We were created to worship God. It’s a state in which our soul finds true peace, rest, and purpose. But it must become a condition of the heart, a way of life, a pattern woven into the fabric of our being. Worship must become so ongoing that it is no longer even a decision that has to be made because the decision has already been made. Worship must become a lifestyle. When you make worship a lifestyle, it will determine in whose image you will be formed and what you become. Sometimes praise and worship will be the only thing you do in a situation. You will stand and praise God while the tornados of life whirl around you, and you will see God move on your behalf. And then you will understand the hidden power of praise. When you understand that concept, it will change your life.”   Stormie Omartian

Greece

• Much of Western thought (wisdom) stems from Greek philosophers such as Plato and Socrates. Pray that the power of the cross of Jesus will become wisdom for the people of Greece. 
• Pray for revival in Greece as people are discovering the gospel in the patristic writings and the Bible. May Jesus be the center of their hopes and desires. 
• Twenty centuries after Paul visited cities in Greece for the first time, the people of those cities need the gospel as much today as their ancestors did then.  Pray for God’s purposes to be fulfilled in all He has for Greece.

France

• As Zechariah states, pray that it would be “not by might nor by power, but by the LORD Almighty and his Spirit” that the French people would turn their lives over to Him, that they would receive Him and follow Him. (Zechariah 4:6)
• Praise and declare with the church in France that God reigns. He has all authority and is worthy of worship and our whole lives. Pray that the church will unite in Him.
• France’s global leadership has been somewhat diminishing in recent years.  Pray that God would bring France back to Himself and, as St. Remi prophesied, that France would be a defender of the things of Christ and His Kingdom.

Egypt

• Pray that Egypt will be a “sign and witness to the LORD Almighty,” that many Egyptians will “cry out to the LORD” and that the “LORD will make himself known” to them.  (Isaiah 19:20-21) 
• Recently, the Church in Egypt has started to grow more in unity. This is very positive. Pray that unity would continue to develop among this people. 
• God is doing something among the Egyptian Christian children. They have been meeting together to pray. May God continue to bring prayer and praise from the lips of the children and allow the little ones to come unto Him. 
• Keep “asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you [Egyptians] the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.” (Ephesians 1:17)