You can take different positions in worship, but a great
position in which to worship God is to go flat on your face on the ground. Do
you know this is still the practice in Heaven?
Revelation 4:10 says, "The four and twenty elders fall down before him that
sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast
their crowns before the throne, saying,"
When you go on your face before God, you are telling God
that you are not in any way competing with Him. You are making yourself of no
reputation in His presence. It means everything you have amounts to nothing.
This is why the 24 elders in their highly exalted position in Heaven push their
crowns aside, lie flat on their faces before God, and worship God. Some of us
are still very proud when we say we have come to worship God. The clothes we
wear are far more important to us than the worship we need to offer to God. How
much is that cloth? When your life is not even enough to worship God, is it a
cloth of a few thousands of Naira, Pounds, Dollars, or Euros that will be of
greater worth to you?
When you lie on the ground before Him, you are saying, 'Not
I but thou be seen, heard and feared oh Lord1. If you can, this is a great
position to take whenever you truly want to worship the Lord. It is a position
of complete and absolute surrender. It is a position of showing your depth of
weakness so that His strength can take over. It is a position that shows you
count yourself as nothing so that He can take you up. It is a position that
will definitely get something out of God. How do you worship God? If you go to
Him telling Him that you are strong, He may either let you go just the way you
came or even take away the strength you think you have. But a broken and a
contrite heart God cannot despise.
Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and
power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were
created." Revelations 4:10-11
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