 Posted on Mon, Apr 12, 2010 I have been struggling with my church attendence lately. For the past two weeks I have not gone to church. Yes, I have been attending service but I do not feel as if I have been to church. The move out of the old building and using the school has messed me up I think. I walk into an empty room, help set things up, we have service, and when it's all over we pack it all up and leave an empty room. I am left thinking we have pack God into the trailer with the rest of the equipment or we have left Him there in that empty room. I am having a hard time wraping my head around that. I am not a traditional thinker but I guess I am not as radical as I thought I was. Not having a full time building for church is messing with me. I am waking up on Monday morning trying to remember if I went to church the day before or not. In all of my years of going to church, I have always gone to a church for Sunday morning service. Even when my family was one of the first families to be in a starter church we met in a church building. I have been to many special occasion services. Sun rise services, been to retreats on Sunday mornings and several other places but I always knew that I would be going back to my church home the next time there was a service. Now my church home is an elementary school lunch room. Something does not feel right about this. I have racked my brain trying figure out what is wrong. But as I sit here and think about the last two Sunday services one thought keeps coming to my mind. I DID FEEL THE PRESENCE OF GOD. I know that God was moving through me during praise and worship. God was in the specials that were done, I felt the Holy Spirit ministering. And the messages were annointed be because they stirred my spirit. GOD WAS IN THE HOUSE. In His house. Not the Orange County House of Pray house, even though He ministers there. But in His Holy Temple...ME. Yeah, I like the traditional four walls we call the the church but how much cooler is it that we, His children, are the church. You or I can have church anytime or place we choose. We are not bound to a location or a day to worship our God and Father. We do not have to wait for the building to open to be able to pour out ourselves to Him. We can open the altar of our heart and speak to ABBA, Father at any time. So while I would like to see you at church this coming Sunday, or at least hope you are attending the church of you choice, I am comforted by the fact that if you have made Jesus Chirst the Lord of your life that you will be having church no matter what.
In His Majesty's Service
~Kingschyld~
I must admit....I have had a very difficult time "entering in" these past two weeks. It's not that I don't know that God is where ever you worship. It's not that I don't know that the presence of God was there. It's that I've been so focused on the "work" that I've missed God. I've been so focused on "what needs to be done" that I've forgotten to focus on His presence....His Spirit....
Jesus, help me refocus my heart and my mind. Help me to align my mind with my heart.
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