The Book of Revelation: The Theology of Worship

Speaker: Greg Sanders

Passage: Revelation 4:1-11

REFRAMING OUR WORSHIP CULTURE AT VINTAGE

This Sunday morning, we’re starting with the Bible before worship, and I know that might freak some of you out. I think liturgy and systematic processes are fine. They’re normal. It’s part of who we are as people. How many of you, when you go to a restaurant, within two or three items, you probably know what you’re going to order? I can tell you within one item. I just hate disappointment so much that I just know what I like, and I get it.

So we’re predisposed to systems, we’re predisposed to order, and we’re predisposed to having a rhythm. My goal today in this is in no way, shape, or form to disrupt that. There’s an intentionality.

We’ve been in the Book of Revelation, and we happened upon the beginning of chapter 4, where John recites what the Lord says to him. The Lord says to him, “Come up here. Let Me show you what things must happen”. Remember when Jesus said to the disciples, “On earth as it is in heaven”? This is how you’re supposed to pray. I want you to contend for, pray for, and live towards this idea. That Heaven, the Heavenly reality, if we can call it that, is to become the earthly reality through the people of God. The agenda of our King was that Heaven would invade Earth through us.

Think about what happens in Revelation chapters 1, 2, and 3. John is a church planter. He plants seven churches in Asia Minor; really more than seven, but seven of them get called out. Then Jesus says to John about the seven churches: here’s what’s right, here’s what’s wrong, here’s what’s missing, here’s what’s confused, and so on. And John is, understandably, a little put off by that, upset and hurt by that. He’s planted these, he’s probably put blood, sweat, and tears into these.

I love the transition where Jesus says, Come up here and I will show you what must take place after this. I think what Jesus was aiming at was to show John, Here’s what’s going on in the Earth. Here’s what’s going on in the Heavens. I want the Heavens on the Earth. And then Jesus wants John to take it back and implement it in his churches.

I have studied worship. I was a worship pastor for the bulk of my life in ministry. I started youth pastoring, and within about a month I realized, Church without worship is awful. I didn’t have a worship leader, I didn’t have a sound system, and I didn’t have a space.

I began to work really long hours, rebuilding a space and teaching myself guitar. I became the worship pastor and youth pastor, and so we built youth around worship. We would just get together in a room. We started with four of us; the band was as big as the room. But it rapidly began to grow. Everybody kept asking me, What’s your secret? And I’m like, I don’t have one. I just think the presence of God attracts people.

In fact, Jesus says, If I’m lifted up, I draw all men. This whole idea of building a church so we attract people is ridiculous. Our job is to elevate the King so that we attract people. That where the glory is, the people will be.

There are times when the glory shows up, and the people scatter because the glory of the Lord is too much. That’s called the winnowing of Heaven. We’re not responsible for the growth index of the church. We’re responsible for the glory index.

I believe the worship culture in the picture Jesus is revealing to John is intended to become our worship culture. Let me say that clearly. What we’re looking at in Revelation 4 is supposed to be what we experience every time we gather.

You might be wondering if I want a demonstration. The picture we see in Revelation 4 is not a demonstration. It’s almost like an automatic response to the presence of God. It’s like they can’t help but do what they’re doing.

You might ask, Hey, are you concerned that it might get weird? I call it the Grateful Dead index. Humanity’s weird already. So it might get weird, I don’t know. But what I do know is the remedy for weird is the King. The remedy for chaos is glory. Get the glory of the Lord in the room.

Here’s my deep hunger, and it’s something I’ve been hungering for my entire life. There’s a moment in Solomon’s life where the glory of the Lord settles on the people of God so heavily that they get on the floor and lay before Him. They cease doing anything. They no longer have to sing. They no longer have to pray. They just lay before Him. That’s what I’m hungry for.

Can you imagine walking in here on a Sunday morning, and the Shekinah glory is so thick and so weighty that everybody’s just passed out before the Lord? New visitors walk in, and they’re like, What is this? See, that’s the right question. The wrong question is, What are we doing?

The glory of the Lord answers the cry of the heart in humanity. The glory of the Lord has always witnessed the reality of God to unbelievers.

The problem is, we’re in a day and time where the church has forgotten the most precious thing to her: that she was always called to carry His presence. She was never called to orchestrate His system. She was called to follow the Holy Spirit as He leads us and guides us and teaches us into glory.

To that end, we’re going to study this passage in Revelation 4 some more. We’re going to use it as a map for how we develop our worship culture here at Vintage. Most of my commentary is going to deal specifically with our gatherings.

Some of what I’m going to share is my understanding and my perspective, from study, from my own history. But in the last several weeks, I would say maybe in the last two months specifically, I have felt this fresh new push from the Lord in this area.

I’ve become really discontent with where we’re at. And not discontent like I’m upset. But like there’s this deep hunger of, This cannot be it. There’s got to be more. To put it in more of my normal speech: Yeah, if this is it, I’m out. Not a threat, but just this hunger.

REVELATION 4

So, let’s start in Revelation 4:2.

“At once I was in the Spirit, and there in Heaven stood a throne, with one seated on the throne! And the one seated there looks like Jasper and Carnelian, and around the throne is a rainbow that looks like an emerald.”

Do you notice that instantly we shift tense? We go from him recounting a story of the past to him declaring a reality of the present. That’s not accidental. What John is saying is that this thing is currently happening. It’s not a past event. So at this moment, what he’s describing is still happening.

“Around the throne are twenty-four thrones, and seated on the twenty-four thrones are twenty-four elders, dressed in white robes, with golden crowns on their heads. Coming from the throne are flashes of lightning and rumblings and peals of thunder, and in front of the throne burn seven flaming torches, which are the seven spirits of God, and in front of the throne there is something like a sea of glass, like crystal. Around the throne, and on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and back: the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with a face like a human, and the fourth living creature like a flying eagle.”

Holy Spirit, as already stated You’re the guide. You’re the teacher. Lord, I am coming at this with a clear agenda, and that is I think You’re trying to teach us something about worship for this house. So Lord, we open our hearts to You. We open our minds to You. We surrender our wills to You. Would You lead us and guide us into all truth? In Jesus’ name, amen.

THE ONE UPON THE THRONE

The first thing I want you to notice is that John was in the Spirit instantly upon his choice to enter. Jesus asks John to come up so He can show him things, and John says okay and instantly he’s in the Spirit.

Here’s why I want to highlight that. It wasn’t an emotional reality that John responded to, it was a mental reality. I believe that the same promise is available to us if we will learn this discipline.

That phrase, “the One upon the throne”, we sing a song to the One who’s seated on the throne. There is something very right about that statement. But the One upon the throne is the direct focus of this whole passage, and the language is really important because the first thing John notices when he steps into the Heavens is the authority of the One on the throne.

Why is that important? Because true worship for us begins with a realization and a surrender to His Lordship and His authority. It doesn’t begin with a surrender to the emotion of the moment. It doesn’t begin with some kind of lackluster like, Okay, whatever. This isn’t my favorite part of church. Worship is rooted in a surrender to His authority.

Said differently, you can’t offer worship to Jesus and refuse His way. You cannot live contrary to the Kingdom and then walk in and hope to offer true worship. What will happen if I screw up? Repentance has to happen.

Here’s why I love worship: it was intended to be this barometer for us to where every time we come before the throne to offer worship, we’re instantly convicted. If there are things in our life that haven’t been dealt with properly, we can fall face down and go, Lord, you have to forgive me because I want to go vertical. I cannot miss what’s on the other side of this.

It’s supposed to be this rhythmic pattern for us where I come before the Lord, I come into the house of the Lord, I get with the people of God, and my hunger for His presence causes me to want to walk right. So you cannot offer to worship without complete surrender to Him.

JESUS IS TO BE THE OBJECT OF OUR WORSHIP

The other thing I see here is that true worship has a very specific and direct object. It’s Jesus. He is to be the object of our affections, our attention, our songs, our focus. In our gatherings we put Him first, we invite the leadership of the Holy Spirit, and then we yield to what He desires. That should be the rhythm of the church, that we invite the leading of the Holy Spirit and we let the Holy Spirit actually lead us through the gathering.

I want you to notice that the elders and creatures sang about Him to Him if you look at what’s going on in the passage. They sing about Him to Him. Why is that important? They sing, Holy, holy, holy, You are worthy to receive glory and honor and power.

Here’s why this is important. If Jesus isn’t the focus, if His character isn’t being elevated, if He isn’t being worshiped and adored, then this isn’t the worship we see in Heaven. I want you to think about that in the context of us as believers.

The other observation I want to offer to us is that the Holy Spirit actually longs to move us into the throne room. That’s actually at the center of who He is. John was led by the Holy Spirit: “At once I was in the Spirit…” which is the Holy Spirit. Therefore, it’s where the Holy Spirit wants to lead us. If we’re willing, He will guide us and teach us to live into this.

I think we should assess how we approach worship, because I believe our approach should be with wonder and excitement to learn from the Holy Spirit how to worship. I think we are to become experts in glory. I think that’s His heart, if we’re willing to hone our awareness of the Holy Spirit.

This awareness comes through the discipline during the week of learning to hear His voice and being sensitive to His nudges. Do you understand the Holy Spirit is not the kind that will yell if you don’t pay attention? He whispers, and when we ignore Him, He goes quiet. But He’s always looking for us to say, We want You. We want to be led by You. If we do these things, we will learn how to let Him lead us into the throne room.

THERE’S A PATTERN TO PROPER WORSHIP

I want to offer a picture that is my perspective. I’m going to preface this and say I’m extrapolating something I think I see here. I believe this picture of Heaven we see in Revelation 4 is the natural byproduct of proper worship.

I would love for you to consider that what we’re seeing is a revealing of the Heavenly ecosystem of worship. This is what it looks like naturally.

Why am I saying that? Because it causes us, if we consider that, to step into that and go, That makes sense. When the glory of the Lord is not in our worship, perhaps it’s because we haven’t offered what He dwells in. I’m contending that there’s a native environment that the Scriptures reveal, and when we worship biblically and accurately, He dwells in it and on it naturally.

Too often we’ve treated this like a hope it works game. I’m just here to say that I think, biblically, there’s a pattern. There’s a process that works, because he’s a God of order and His desire is His glory on His people.

He reveals it to Israel. The thing that made them separate from every nation around them was that the glory of the Lord was to be with them and on them. It’s why the Ark of the Covenant was never allowed to be moved on a cart. Why? The principle from the beginning was, My glory will always be carried by My people.

That has not changed just because we’re in a season where the Ark is no longer the central focus of the glory of God. Why isn’t it? Something incredible happened when we came into the Kingdom. Because of Christ and our faith in Him, we were transformed into something different.

According to 1st Corinthians 6, we the people of God actually became the temple system of God. We became a physical temple, a dwelling place made up of the people of God. Why? Because the glory of the Lord was always in the temple. His desire was always that His glory would be in His people, that it would be carried with them wherever they go.

WE HAVE A CHOICE TO MAKE

At the beginning of this passage, there’s a door that’s open, and in order to participate in the encounter, John had to make a choice to enter. I want to keep highlighting that. Do you remember those commercials that said, Own your C forever? Own your choice? I think it was an anti-drug campaign. Well, I’m saying own your worship choice.

John had a door open in front of him. Again, I will say this: the Lord is never going to drag you into His presence. If you’re waiting for the Lord to drag you into the deep water of the presence of God, it’s never going to happen. It will always be his natural release when the people of God decide to step in.

We have to make the choice to enter the throne. So how do we do that? Let’s go to Psalm 100:1-5. My answer to how we do that is biblically.

“Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the Earth! Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into His presence with singing! Know that the Lord, He is God! It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture. Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise!”

“Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the Earth!” Can I highlight joyful noise for a second? Joyful has nothing to do with skilled. Joyful has to do with enthusiasm. It has to do with attitude.

John Maxwell used to use this phrase in his books; he did it in Winning With People. He did it with one of his other books, and I loved it. He said, “Your attitude will affect your altitude”.

Joyful Noise is an attitude issue. How did I come into the presence of God? Did I approach Him with joy? And if your answer is, Well they don’t really sing songs I can be joyful about, then wrong answer. Do I think there’s a pattern for the songs we should be singing that bring us joyfully into the presence of God? Yes. But joy is a choice. It’s not a response.

And noise; let’s talk about noise for a second.

We did the tech systems for one of my pastor buddies, and he made a statement that I loved. He said, Hey, does it have to be so quiet? We were there and running the sound at about the same volume we do here. I’m like, Do you want it loud? Because I’m used to hearing people go, Can I have the earplugs, please?

When I asked him if he wanted the music loud, he said yes. I asked him why, and he said Because I have a terrible voice. I want to be able to worship with everything I have and not make the people around me suffer. Now that’s an argument for volume. Why am I saying that? Because too often, the inner critic in us has said, Sing quietly; you have a terrible voice.

Do you want to know what one of the most powerful things in the world is for me? Somebody who cannot for their life carry a tune, but when they sing, it’s with everything they have because of who He is. There’s a vulnerability that has to happen there. There’s a statement that happens inside of them that says, I am far less concerned about the people around me and far more concerned about the One I’m worshiping, so nothing’s going to stop me.

So, if you have bought into the lie that your voice isn’t good enough, forgive yourself for believing the lie and make a joyful noise. Oh, by the way, it says “all the earth” is to make this joyful noise. There’s not a single person in this room that’s exempt. It is to be your right and your responsibility as a child of God to worship the Lord with joy.

The text goes on to say, “Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise! Give thanks to Him; bless His name. For the Lord is good; His steadfast love endures forever, and His faithfulness to all generations”.

PREPARE YOUR HEART AND YOUR MIND

So what’s the first step if we’re going to do this biblically? Prepare your heart, prepare your mind. These are the things that you should be thinking about or choosing.

This is why we provide a time before the gatherings for prayer. It’s not just because we had nothing else to do at 7:30am on a Sunday morning. It’s with the hope that the people of God would come and begin to prepare their hearts, begin to set their minds on Him and let their spirits just be stirred up and drawn up.

You have to make a choice to engage. Determine to encounter Him as an act of your love and your devotion. I encounter Him because of my love for Him. I encounter Him because of my devotion to Him.

I’m not waiting for Him to do something new so that I can come into His presence. Is the cross not enough? I don’t know about you, but He doesn’t really have to do another thing, and it was still worth the rest of my life giving Him glory and honor for the emancipation of sin.

Unless you found a different way to get clean? I didn’t; it was just Jesus. So, for the rest of my life, I just want Jesus. That’s all I care about. It’s all we care about.

SING WITH YOUR WHOLE HEART

So, “Enter His gates with thanksgiving, and His courts with praise.” The next thing is to determine to sing with your whole heart. Why? The Scriptures say very clearly, and Jesus will quote this: If men don’t praise Me, creation will step into their place and cry out.

The way Jesus presents it, it’s not like creation is like, Hey, I got you. It’s a judgment issue, where creation steps in and says, You the people of God have failed to give honor to the One. I don’t know what it looks like for rocks to cry out. I do know, scientifically, it is possible that sound frequencies split rocks apart.

I don’t think we are intended to know what it means. We are intended to understand the principle, which is to bring your song to the Lord.

When you enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise, remind yourself of who you’re worshiping. Sometimes we just forget, we’re worshiping the King of Glory. We’re worshiping the one who set us free. We’re worshiping the one who, through history, has changed time and space.

In our prayer time, we looked at Lamentations 3: “The steadfast love of the Lord never changes. Great is Your faithfulness, Your mercies never cease”. Remind yourself of who you’re worshiping, and then use His kindness and care for you as your launch point.

Rehearse the goodness of God. You may say, I don’t know if it works. I dare you to try it. Come in, and in your worship time, just begin to start thanking the Lord for everything He’s done. Thank Him for all the things around you, all the things He’s done for you, all His kindness towards you.

How many are like me, and you remember the pit the Lord dug you from? How many are like me, and you remember the pit you kept jumping back into, and He had to pull you back out? Use those.

Maybe your story is, Hey, I was addicted to drugs. The Lord healed me and set me free. Use it. Use it to propel yourself into the throne room. Use it to say, I remember where I was, and You saved me. You fixed me. You cleaned me. You set my feet on a rock. Great is Your faithfulness.

Who cares what people think? We should learn how to hug each other and say, I want you to know I love you, but I don’t care enough about you to limit my own worship. So I’m going to go for it whether you like it or not. It would be awesome if we could all high-five and be like, That’s a good way to go. Let’s do this.

A POSTURE OF GRATITUDE AND PRAISE

So you prepare your hearts and your minds. The second step is to make the journey. Enter His gates with thanksgiving, His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him, bless His name.

Church, it always starts with thanksgiving for what He’s done and for who He is. It starts with gratitude. The next step is praise, which paves the way. What is praise? Joyfully rehearsing His character and His feats. We celebrate who He is.

Just walk into a prayer set, walk into a worship set, and begin to rehearse; Great is Your faithfulness. Lord, You are good. Your steadfast love never changes. Just start rehearsing it and watch what happens. Encounter Him in gratitude, adoration, and worship.

Enter His gates with thanksgiving, and His courts with praise. There’s a progression. Give thanks to Him, but the end result is we begin to bless His name, which is a picture of adoration. The word means to kneel down, to lay before Him, to lavish upon Him what He’s due. So you pour out your love and your affections on Him, expressing gratitude.

Have you noticed that there’s a common word in this worship idea? It’s gratitude, thankfulness. It’s a posture of being thankful and having the spirit of gratefulness in us.

WORSHIP AS A NATURAL AND AUTOMATIC RESPONSE

Revelations 4:8, let’s go back into that. “And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, ‘Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!'”

The living creatures here are revealing something incredibly important for us. They’re revealing the natural and automatic response of seeing the Lamb and being near Him.

This word holy, which they begin to sing out as a response to His character, the word means “beyond” or” otherly.” The simplest answer is it means “indescribable.” So what they say to him over and over again is indescribable, indescribable, indescribable, indescribable, indescribable. What does that mean? It means there aren’t words. Even His native environment is incapable of finding the right words to describe Him.

I want you to consider this atmosphere of Heaven, where day and night without ceasing, this song is rising. I want to highlight it for a reason. I highly doubt, based on what we see in Revelations 4, that this is a docile or quiet song being sung by a bunch of pious people. Before this verse there’s a description of the activity; it’s thunder, it’s flashing light, it’s gleaming jewels. There’s this very clear evidence of a powerful and expressive climate.

We’ve done something in the modern culture that I think is wrong. We’ve tried to make space for our lack of desire to be expressive by calling it a “worship posture.” I’m more of a thinker. I don’t see any thinkers in Heaven. It’s not that they’re dumb. I actually think it’s the opposite. The more you think about who He is, the more this native response comes out of you, and you can’t help but worship. I think as we learn to truly see Him and encounter Him, we’re going to see ourselves begin to model the same expressiveness.

I’d love to offer a couple of very conservative concepts for us to consider. No one in Heaven encountering the Lamb does so without a reaction, and no one in Heaven is worshiping with reservation. They’re all in, fully engaged.

THE LIVING CREATURES AND THE ELDERS

Let’s pick up in verse 9. “And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to the one who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall before the one who is seated on the throne and worship the one who lives forever and ever; they cast their crowns before the throne, singing, ‘You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things, and by Your will they existed and were created.'”

I believe the twenty-four Elders are humans, as best as we can tell from the language. I want you to consider that for a second because, too often, we just assume the living creatures and the Elders are like mythical beings. They’re not. This is a picture of what’s happening in Heaven.

Here’s why I think they’re humans. They’re casting their crowns, which is a sign of feeling indebted. They’re casting what they’ve earned back to Him. The angelic realm can’t know how to do that. It didn’t earn anything, nor was it redeemed from anything. Paul will say that we will stand before the judgment seat to receive reward.

I see two important things from the response of the Elders.

They’re allowing the culture of Heaven to lead them into worship. “Whenever the living creatures give glory,” don’t miss that phrase. They allow the living creatures to lead them as almost worship leaders. So there’s this very clear direction: as the living creatures begin to sing their song, we respond.

So the Elders respond in kind by joining the worship of Heaven, but they add their own journey to their song. What do I mean? Consider the song.

The living creatures, the created beings, are giving glory for who He is: “‘Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!'” But the elders are declaring a song of worship for what He’s done: “‘You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things, and by Your will they existed and were created.'”

We could just jump into chapter 5, and this begins to play out at an even deeper level because they begin to sing, “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain.” See, the Elders’ song is one that comes from experiencing the goodness of the Lamb.

Psalm 32 says, “Oh, what joy for those whose rebellion has been forgiven,” which means there’s a response that comes out of us because of what’s been done for us. Our sin has been emancipated, it’s been washed clean, and we’ve been changed. Our nature has been adjusted and transformed by Him.

I think the Elders are an example for us. When we come together, we are to join Heaven’s song, but we are to add our own unique worship built from what He’s done in our lives. Perhaps we learn to rehearse His faithfulness to us and let that build our faith to worship and adore Him.

Let me put together a quick tutorial for us:

• We are to focus on Jesus, the Lamb, with our worship.
• We are to sing songs of joy and celebration and adoration for who He is, which is what the Scriptures in history reveal.
• We are to worship Him for what we know from our journey with Him. It’s our testimony of His faithfulness to us.
• We’re to worship until we are moved to throw all of our accomplishments at His feet because we’ve glimpsed His worth.
• We’re to give ourselves permission to be overwhelmed and overtaken by His beauty and fall down and worship before Him.
• And we’re invited into dramatic expressions of love.

THE POWER OF WORSHIP

I flipped the Sunday morning structure today because I think it would have been odd to worship first and then explain, Here’s how we worship.

I want to give you one final thought. Within Revelation 4 and 5, we see a picture of genuine worship. But it’s an interesting picture that we had never considered. God the Holy Spirit, because John says I was in the Spirit, is ministering to God the Father and the Lamb through the worshipers. I want you to consider that God is ministering to God.

The Holy Spirit leads us, guides us, and leads us back into the throne to worship God. This is what happens when we worship. The Holy Spirit is released to us for the purpose of leading us back to worship God. Why does that matter besides just being a geek out moment with the Scripture?

Because true worship is the actual right and proper response of all the created order, and when we worship, we are now following the example of God.

I had a thought this morning as I was considering this. God understands the power of worship, and because He’s perfect, He can worship himself, and it’s not egotistical. But if He understands the necessity and the power of worship, could I suggest to us that there’s something hidden in it for us that’s a gift that He wants to release. If we learn this pattern, it’s going to revolutionize our lives.

My dream and my goal is that the glory of the Lord rests on this house because we become biblical worshipers who are passionate, engaged, and energetic.

You see, we start to make this all about systems. Why are there lights? Why is there haze? When you’re captivated with the One, you don’t care what’s happening around you. I happen to personally believe God made us as atmospheric people. We have five senses for a reason. I think all of those should be used to worship Him. I think this weird idea that we should just stand before the Lord with bright lights on, and it should be more spiritual is absolutely ridiculous.

What I do know is it doesn’t matter what environment you’re in. When you choose to step into true worship, you’re instantly in the throne room. I also know that when we do this, we begin to shape a geographic location with something that it could never have been shaped with before.

The presence of the Lord has always, throughout history, changed where it’s been.

Do you want to change this city? Do you want to do the things Jesus told us to do? To go in the world and make disciples? Here’s how we do it. We become a people who know how to carry His presence at a level that when we gather together, the glory of the Lord is so thick that people want to come figure out what’s going on.

You can’t be a person who can invite the glory of Heaven without being a person who also walks out these doors and lives the glory of Heaven.

The more we worship and the more we experience His glory, the more we become like Him, and the more we take his glory out. I don’t have a single demonstrative goal in this, but I have a spiritual goal, and that’s that we get free and we get biblical.

So, Lord, we just come before You right now. We stand here at the threshold, hearing Your voice say, Come on, I want to show you what must happen after these things. Lord, when you spoke that, it was like a lightning bolt in my heart. I feel there’s something You want to release on this house. And so we just stand before You and say, would You lead us, Holy Spirit? Would you teach us? Would you guide us? Would you show us what it looks like to step into this kind of unfettered praise and worship? Where we’re free to dance, we’re free to sing, we’re free to just give ourselves to You completely. Would You stir up in us a fresh and new revival of passion for Your presence? In Jesus’ name, amen.