The Fruits & Benefits Of Extended Praise & Worship
So why is extended praise and worship so important? First of all, the longest extended praise service that is taking place right now has been going on continuously in heaven from before time began. Do you think we are honoring God when we just allow for twenty minutes of praise and worship on Sunday morning? Why don't more churches have at least one or two worship service each month set aside for at least three hours of pure worship?
I personally long for three hours of praise time before a twenty minute sermon. But realistically, an hour and a half praise time before a half hour sermon is not too much is it? How much time do you spend watching football or TV in general on Sundays? Why not give God more praise time in our church time! Why bring the McDonald's fast food mentality into the worship and praise time on Sunday morning. It is an abomination before God.
On a "frequently asked questions" page of an alive church website (this is the kind of church that should know better) this question and answer appears. Question: "How long are your services?" Answer: "We respect your time so our services last approximately 90 minutes and start promptly at the given service time." So what this amounts to is approx. ten minutes for announcements, thirty five minutes for worship, and forty five minutes for the sermon. Come on now, is that amount of time alloted for worship really respecting God's time? no, No, NO!
In the days of King David, he established a tabernacle that had singers and musicians who ministered to the Lord day and night. Therefore, how much more glorious and prolonged in these post-Pentecost days should the length of the praise services and the singing and praise creativity be that the Lord inspires in his New Covenant spirit-filled saints! Does thirty five minutes really honor and respect the Lord's time on Sunday morning? If David had twenty four hour a day and seven days a week worship services why should we have anything less than this?
On the Sid Roth show in an interview with a man who actually had a conversation with an angel, it was reported that the angel told this man being interviewed that the angels cry when worship is cut short. Does that mean that God cries also when we cut short our worship to twenty or thirty or forty minutes? I do not think so because God is so full of mercy and radiates tons of forgiveness toward his people who lack knowledge!
But why not give the angels cause to rejoice instead of making them cry? Why not give God something to rejoice about also instead of depending on his mercy and forgiveness for the short McDonald's type worship services that most churches serve up to God and their congregation in a styrafoam carton of twenty minutes each week? Why not please God instead with a praise and worship time of sixty to ninety minutes or even more?
When Israel had twenty four hour and seven days a week praise and worship going forth from her midst the benefits to the nation were peace, prosperity, provision, and victory over her enemies. These fruits and benefits of extended worship and praise can be read about in detail by clicking here. After clicking on and reading that whole page from top to bottom, please return to this page you are now reading and continue reading below.
But what about our Sunday morning worship times? How long is enough to please and honor God? How long is enough time of praise and worship to cause the angels to rejoice instead of making the angels cry by worship that is cut too short? The New Testament does not clearly inform us, but let us look at some real life experiences of a worshiping congregation that has successfully maintained revival in its midst to ascertain how much is enough.
Let us look at more fruits of extended praise and worship by looking at a congregation called Bethel Church in Redding, California which regularly has long extended praise and worship services. This writer (founder of Heaven's Worship Restoration Ministries) is not a member of this church, but developed this creative praise expression ministry within a church that is connected with Bethel Church and part of the Global Legacy church group.
One of the fruits of extended worship is the Glory Cloud that can appear during the worship service. The cloud appears after there is a strong presence of the Spirit of God created through a long time of passionate praise and worship. The Glory Cloud consists of gold dust particles that appear mid air throughout the sanctuary and float on the breeze. You can see the Glory Cloud on this video - https://vimeo.com/32069789
The person who filmed it said: "It was a blessing for me to capture it... actually I was in the church just ready to put my camera away.. and the Holy Spirit told me to go right in a certain spot and cause He is about to do something... the cameras from iBethel TV media department were closed... so I was the only one with an HD camera... so I had my camera ready and went to the place Holy Spirit told me.. and so I captured it... praise to Him !!! it blew my mind." Another person has this to say: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y_B8tJCjt0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcPkOR4Lwj0 - On this You Tube video Bill Johnson shows a clip of a Friday night service where the glory cloud was billowing up and he said this happened about three times late from about 11:30 P.M. to 12:15 A.M. and there was such intense worship going on. Thank you Bill Johnson for being obedient to God in creating an atmosphere of valuing the presence of God with extended praise and worship services.
So if a service starts at seven o'clock and there is an hour and a half of sermon and testimonies. Then this glory cloud manifestation must have started taking place after about three hours of worship.... Do the math yourself and you will come to the same conclusion. So what is so significant about the glory cloud? Well, the real significance is in the glory that is in the cloud and the glory is a heightened presence of the Spirit of the Living God.
"The Glory is a realm of the ease of the Spirit. It is a wave where we all get into this place where God is manifested in his beauty and in his power and majesty. That is the glory of God. The glory is God and God is the glory. When he reveals himself people get healed and
people get delivered from bondages. It is the glory that creates that atmosphere where everything can change for us as we worship him and that exchange comes from heaven.
In the glory you do not have to lay hands on people or pray for people...they just get healed..... people get healed from arthirtis in worship and blind eyes can be healed, metal can disappear during high praise. God is doing it and HE gets all the glory. These healings are not touched by man's hand and it is all God. The more you begin singing and the more you begin declaring in worship..... what you are focusing on is being empowered by your words." The above quotation are the words of praise and worship leader Steve Swanson when he was being interviewed in 2015 by Sid Roth on the show It's Supernatural.
I personally long for three hours of praise time before a twenty minute sermon. But realistically, an hour and a half praise time before a half hour sermon is not too much is it? How much time do you spend watching football or TV in general on Sundays? Why not give God more praise time in our church time! Why bring the McDonald's fast food mentality into the worship and praise time on Sunday morning. It is an abomination before God.
On a "frequently asked questions" page of an alive church website (this is the kind of church that should know better) this question and answer appears. Question: "How long are your services?" Answer: "We respect your time so our services last approximately 90 minutes and start promptly at the given service time." So what this amounts to is approx. ten minutes for announcements, thirty five minutes for worship, and forty five minutes for the sermon. Come on now, is that amount of time alloted for worship really respecting God's time? no, No, NO!
In the days of King David, he established a tabernacle that had singers and musicians who ministered to the Lord day and night. Therefore, how much more glorious and prolonged in these post-Pentecost days should the length of the praise services and the singing and praise creativity be that the Lord inspires in his New Covenant spirit-filled saints! Does thirty five minutes really honor and respect the Lord's time on Sunday morning? If David had twenty four hour a day and seven days a week worship services why should we have anything less than this?
On the Sid Roth show in an interview with a man who actually had a conversation with an angel, it was reported that the angel told this man being interviewed that the angels cry when worship is cut short. Does that mean that God cries also when we cut short our worship to twenty or thirty or forty minutes? I do not think so because God is so full of mercy and radiates tons of forgiveness toward his people who lack knowledge!
But why not give the angels cause to rejoice instead of making them cry? Why not give God something to rejoice about also instead of depending on his mercy and forgiveness for the short McDonald's type worship services that most churches serve up to God and their congregation in a styrafoam carton of twenty minutes each week? Why not please God instead with a praise and worship time of sixty to ninety minutes or even more?
When Israel had twenty four hour and seven days a week praise and worship going forth from her midst the benefits to the nation were peace, prosperity, provision, and victory over her enemies. These fruits and benefits of extended worship and praise can be read about in detail by clicking here. After clicking on and reading that whole page from top to bottom, please return to this page you are now reading and continue reading below.
But what about our Sunday morning worship times? How long is enough to please and honor God? How long is enough time of praise and worship to cause the angels to rejoice instead of making the angels cry by worship that is cut too short? The New Testament does not clearly inform us, but let us look at some real life experiences of a worshiping congregation that has successfully maintained revival in its midst to ascertain how much is enough.
Let us look at more fruits of extended praise and worship by looking at a congregation called Bethel Church in Redding, California which regularly has long extended praise and worship services. This writer (founder of Heaven's Worship Restoration Ministries) is not a member of this church, but developed this creative praise expression ministry within a church that is connected with Bethel Church and part of the Global Legacy church group.
One of the fruits of extended worship is the Glory Cloud that can appear during the worship service. The cloud appears after there is a strong presence of the Spirit of God created through a long time of passionate praise and worship. The Glory Cloud consists of gold dust particles that appear mid air throughout the sanctuary and float on the breeze. You can see the Glory Cloud on this video - https://vimeo.com/32069789
The person who filmed it said: "It was a blessing for me to capture it... actually I was in the church just ready to put my camera away.. and the Holy Spirit told me to go right in a certain spot and cause He is about to do something... the cameras from iBethel TV media department were closed... so I was the only one with an HD camera... so I had my camera ready and went to the place Holy Spirit told me.. and so I captured it... praise to Him !!! it blew my mind." Another person has this to say: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y_B8tJCjt0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcPkOR4Lwj0 - On this You Tube video Bill Johnson shows a clip of a Friday night service where the glory cloud was billowing up and he said this happened about three times late from about 11:30 P.M. to 12:15 A.M. and there was such intense worship going on. Thank you Bill Johnson for being obedient to God in creating an atmosphere of valuing the presence of God with extended praise and worship services.
So if a service starts at seven o'clock and there is an hour and a half of sermon and testimonies. Then this glory cloud manifestation must have started taking place after about three hours of worship.... Do the math yourself and you will come to the same conclusion. So what is so significant about the glory cloud? Well, the real significance is in the glory that is in the cloud and the glory is a heightened presence of the Spirit of the Living God.
"The Glory is a realm of the ease of the Spirit. It is a wave where we all get into this place where God is manifested in his beauty and in his power and majesty. That is the glory of God. The glory is God and God is the glory. When he reveals himself people get healed and
people get delivered from bondages. It is the glory that creates that atmosphere where everything can change for us as we worship him and that exchange comes from heaven.
In the glory you do not have to lay hands on people or pray for people...they just get healed..... people get healed from arthirtis in worship and blind eyes can be healed, metal can disappear during high praise. God is doing it and HE gets all the glory. These healings are not touched by man's hand and it is all God. The more you begin singing and the more you begin declaring in worship..... what you are focusing on is being empowered by your words." The above quotation are the words of praise and worship leader Steve Swanson when he was being interviewed in 2015 by Sid Roth on the show It's Supernatural.