Worship is not about you

If there is an area in the church today that is being held hostage by Satan it is that of worship. For worship to be genuine we must understand that worship is not about us. It's all about God. But we have made worship about us and for us to worship it has to be the way we like it. Here is a litmus test to show you if selfishness ever intervenes in your worship. When you find yourself driving home from church noting which songs that morning you liked and which ones you didn’t like, you have made worship about you. Whenever someone in the church says, “I didn’t like that song,” my response is, “That’s okay, we weren't singing to you.” This is an easy trap to fall into because we are all born with a selfish desire. I can prove it. Who's the first person you look for in a group picture? Yourself, of course. Folks, listen, whenever we make worship about us, worship is no longer about God and when worship is not about God, worship is not happening at all. One of the greatest ways that Satan holds worship hostage in the church is by getting Christians to make worship about them and their preferences when it should be all about our God and his attributes.