Tired of "Just Doing Church"

With deep sadness I feel like God is tired of the way we have been "just doing church" every Sunday. I feel His heart on this. God is sad over us. We have been "just doing church" without His approval or input.

I was at church a few Sunday's ago and I saw Jesus walking with His hands clasped behind His back. He was wearing a white tunic and brown leather sandals. He looked like He was waiting for us to welcome Him back into His own house. I was startled because He was walking outside the church building behind the pastor who was preaching. 

I was so drawn to Him because He is my Lord and I want to be with Him every waking moment. I desire to be with my Lord when I see Him walking alone. I was taken in the Spirit towards Him. I caught up with His walking pace.

"My Lord," I asked Him, "Why are you walking outside the church?"

"I will go back in when my people invite me back in," He said with such love and peace.

I felt like inviting Him back in with us, but I knew that He would not come. Not yet. So I dared not to ask. I certainly did not want to go back inside without Him, but I had to. My heat was sad from that moment on and until now.

I have seen the faces of many church people on Sunday morning. I feel like people are bored with church and desperate for something refreshing and real. We long for deeper worship. We long to worship with all of our hearts, but do not know how because we rarely get the chance to really engage in worship and wait on His presence corporately.

So often at church we get interrupted by announcements and lengthy sermons over the offering buckets and pomp and circumstance surrounding the stage. All the worry over presentation as the people sit hungry and bored. While God walks outside uninterested in our shenaningans.

God is looking for lovers who will walk in intimacy with Him to serve in His house offering up prayer, worship and intercession day and night. He has no interest in our Sunday services. This is why I saw Him walking outside the church. We have kicked Him out of His own house with our agendas. Why do we have so many things to do on Sunday morning? Why do have to be this or that on Sunday? 

I want to be a laid down lover of God, unashamed. I feel that it is way past time to invite Jesus back into His own house. We need His holy presence. We need His Holy Spirt to comfort us and strengthen us.

'But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient, to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of GOD- having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.' 2 Timothy 3:1-5 NIV

We need the Holy Spirit to come like a fire back into our churches on Sunday mornings! We need to put away our agendas and lists. We need imperfect worship from the heart rather than perfect worship without no meaning. 

'My soul yearns, even faints 
for the courts of the Lord
My heart and flesh cry out
for the living GOD.
Even the sparrow has found a home,
and the swallow a nest for herself
where she may have her young-
a place near your altar,
LORD Almighty, my King and my God.
Blessed are those who dwell in your house;
they are ever praising YOU!'
Psalm 84:2-4 NIV

Misty Edwards "See The Way"