Don’t feel like Worshipping GOD? | Prakruthi Angelina & John Giftah | Christian Podcast

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0:41 Speaker 1: Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John GIFTA.

0:47 Speaker 2: How do you worship God when you don't feel like it?

0:52 Speaker 3: So there's two things to this, right, And I was thinking about this this morning. Our feelings are something that we have always learned to suppress or ignore or avoid. And I think even this question comes up because of that, right, Like, Okay, in a sense, like our feelings either take the place of everything we are just led by our feelings we want to do what we feel like, or we ignore it. You know, I've found that I think maybe four or five years, if you'd asked me this question, my answer might have been different.

1:22 Speaker 2: But now God is not.

1:27 Speaker 3: First of all, God is not an autocrat. He's not like worship me now. You know, He wants us, He wants the whole of who we are, right, And so I think it would be nice to look at our emotions as part of us and just even acknowledged, take take a moment to even acknowledge, why don't you feel like worshiping God? You know, I don't think we necessarily have asked that enough. Why don't I feel like worshiping God right now? What's really going on here?

1:55 Speaker 2: You know? And then to be okay with whatever's going on?

1:58 Speaker 3: Okay, Maybe there's angle, maybe there's frustration.

2:01 Speaker 2: Maybe there was a season in.

2:03 Speaker 3: My life where I was offended with God for something. I didn't even know it until there was this worship moment. And you know, worship has a way of doing that, and you're in the presence. Music has a way of doing that that's it reaches your soul, it brings out things. And I was like, oh my gosh, I didn't even know that there was this pain and anger towards God in my heart. I was fine with God. I was struggling to connect with him, but I didn't know what was happening. So I really think it's beautiful to ask, Okay, what's actually going on, and I allow God to shed some light and truth into that area and then meet him.

2:36 Speaker 2: In that process.

2:37 Speaker 3: God, right now I'm feeling this, just acknowledge that and say, but I still acknowledge the truth of who you are in my life. You are still faithful, you are still good, you are still kind, and you are unchanging my feelings. Yes, they are temporary. I'm feeling this right now. I may not feel this another hour from now, or maybe I might right, But to just allow God into that journey your own emotions, I think is one way to worship Him with your emotions as well. And there are sometimes when you can't figure out what's going on when you don't know, and there are sometimes when you need to set your mind and say no, I'm going to worship God no matter how I feel.

3:16 Speaker 2: But I think it's helpful to do both.

3:20 Speaker 4: Don't ignore your feelings, right, like, don't ignore your emotions. And I think that's where intimacy again comes in line with what I was just sharing, Like sometimes people have that diplomatic relationship because where it's like, you know, I hate you, but I still smile because you know, like the way politicians do that, right, oh God, Yeah.

3:40 Speaker 2: So don't do that. You don't have to do that before God.

3:44 Speaker 4: Be yourself before God, open up yourself and say God, you know what, I don't feel like doing this. And I think that is really the heart of worship. Yeah, being open and not just faking it for the sake of you know, Oh, I need to get this song.

3:59 Speaker 2: Do you know somebody?

4:00 Speaker 3: God cares about you in that time, right, Like we were made to worship him. So if something is stopping you from worshiping him, there's something going on and God wants to help you with that. But many times we look at God as I need to come before him perfectly to worship him. But it's a relationship and He is for us, Like why would he give us the Holy Spirit if not for that Holy Spirit is there inside of us in the innermost places where we may not know our emotions. But God knows exactly what's going on, and so yeah, he cares about us.

4:30 Speaker 3: That's the bottom line.

4:32 Speaker 2: And many times when I