"God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding... God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness" (Psalm 47:7-8)
We find much of spiritual astonishment and wonder in the book of Acts. You will always find these elements present when the Holy Spirit directs believing men and women.
On the other hand, you will not find astonished wonder among men and women when the Holy Spirit is not present.
Engineers can do many great things in their fields, but no mere human force or direction can work the mysteries of God among men.
If there is no wonder, no experience of mystery, our efforts to worship will be futile. Thee will be no worship without the Holy Spirit!
Worship has to be in the Spirit and by the Spirit. The notion that just anybody can worship is all wrong. The notion that we can worship without the Spirit is all wrong. The notion that we can crowd the Spirit into a corner and ignore Him, quench Him, resist Him and yet worship God acceptably is a great heresy which we need to correct.
~A. W. Tozer~
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