- I get excited when I talk about worship.
It makes me wanna preach.
My father was a Pentecostal Holiness preacher.
He got excited. - Come on.
- I get so excited (laughter) talking about worship,
talking about worship as a lifestyle.
A lot of the times, we spoke about this,
a little earlier, we think about songs
are the ministry moment as our worship,
but it's so much more than that, it's our lifestyle.
I was thinking about, there's a scripture in Luke 10:38,
I'm gonna read it, it's one of my favorites.
It says, as Jesus and His disciples were on their way,
He came to a village where a woman named Martha
opened her home to Him, she had a sister called Mary,
who sat at the Lord's feet, listening to what He said.
As far back as I can remember, my father,
he was a man of very little words,
but when he spoke, it was profound,
and it carried so much weight,
and he would always say to me,
when we ended our conversation,
Tasha, stay at the feet of Jesus.
When I was younger, I didn't understand
what he was imparting into me,
he was imparting something into me.
Even at a young age, he saw something great inside of me
that he needed to cultivate, and he would always say,
Baby, stay at the foot of Jesus.
And now, when I think about that,
I think about this scripture,
and in this scripture, we find Martha,
who opens the door of her home to Jesus Christ,
and after she opens the door,
she retreats back to doing her work.
But Mary, she recognizes something different,
she recognizes the supreme authority,
the power that Jesus Christ carries,
that when He opens His mouth,
the only thing I need to do is sit at His feet,
and a lot of times, we wanna knock Martha,
but let me just say it this way.
Sometimes, many of us are like her in many ways,
we've grown familiar with Jesus just being around,
we feel comfortable with the fact,
as long as He's around, I'm good,
as long as He's in the other room, I'm good.
But Mary had this desire to ponder
about her that said, everything that I am,
everything that I have, my businesses, my talents,
my gift, I lay them at the feet of Jesus.
When He's present, there's nothing else that matters,
I'm not comfortable with You just being around,
I want more of You, I wanna know how You think,
I wanna know what pleases Your heart,
and that was the heart of Mary.
So when I pray the prayer,
Oh God, I don't wanna be someone
who just sings pretty songs
or does all of this melismatic running singing,
I wanna know You, to be able to reverence You
for the sovereign God that You are,
and the only way that I can get to know You
is to submerge myself into Your Word,
to hunger after Your Word.
The Bible says that He is the Word. (chuckles)
The Word was with God, and the Word was God
is what the Bible said,
and I was just kind of thinking,
OK, Tasha, if you could come up
with a definition of worship, what would it be,
and I say worship is a relationship and reverence.
Reverence is recognition of His sovereignty,
and I will never know the value of His sovereignty
if I don't know Him.
So every day, I have to seek with everything that I do
to get to know You.
If I know You in the fellowship of Your suffering,
so Bible talks about the fellowship of His suffering
and all that He is and all that He has
and all that He can do,
and that He's the greatest supreme power
is what sovereignty means.
I can't know that without knowing Him
through the Word of God.
So ways that I was kind of thinking of ways
that I would seek to get to know Him more,
is to find a way every day
to submerge myself in the Word of God.
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