Alabaster Worship

Sometimes while worshipping the Lord, I get distracted...we all do. I will look around, think of what I may want to eat later on, even think of other things I could be doing...


It's a ploy of the enemy.


I love to worship. I desire so greatly to just sit at the feet of God..I HUNGER after it...yet when the time comes, I get fidgety, restless and sometimes tired. Why? Because it is what Jesus desires...it is where the anointing comes...the breakthroughs...the victories are won in the midst of praise and worship. And the enemy knows this.


I've always loved to dance and enjoy music more than most anything in the world...and now that I am a Christian and realize how beautiful and pleasing it is to God, I love to do it even more.
But there is an adversary that wants to silence the music in our hearts and decrease our dancing into crawling...he wants to wipe away our desire to even begin to dance...to even begin to sing to our God. He knows the POWER that is in worship and praise...and he hates it.


I was sitting at my desk today and just asking God to help me...


I need him to fill me and to show me his love...in the moments of rejection or sorrow, he is always my source of strength...what he spoke was beautiful. He said, "you worship me, but do you use your most expensive perfume?"
I was amazed and immediately reflected on the story of the alabaster jar.

Jesus Anointed at Bethany

⁶While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of a man known as Simon the Leper, ⁷a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table.

⁸When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. "Why this waste?" they asked. ⁹"This perfume could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor."

¹⁰Aware of this, Jesus said to them, "Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing to me. ¹¹The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me. ¹²When she poured this perfume on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial. ¹³I tell you the truth, wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her."

Is our worship to Jesus..beautiful?? Is it pleaseing to him? Are we using our most expensive perfume to bless him? Or are we getting by with a cheaper substitue? A few minutes of praise and worship each day? A few glances of our heart towards him during church..but the rest of the time thinking of anything but him?

I was so blessed that he showed me this today. I need clarity and resolution within my soul and the only way that is going to come is by sitting with him...basking in his presence...anointing HIM, as he anoints me...