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Instruments of Worship

The Vision

Over twenty five years ago, while working in a retail home center I had an experience that will dwell with me until its fulfillment and beyond. Having no customers and not much more ambition at that particular moment, standing next to the sixty cup coffee maker, I was gazing past the building materials counter toward the electrical department looking at nothing specific.

We've all had those moments, being someplace yet not really engaged in our physical circumstances. It really wasn't my intent to goof-off, there was just a lull in the retail assault and my mind needed a rest before it turned to jelly. My point is that not only was I not thinking about anything generally, I wasn't thinking about God in particular. This is when the movie screen descended over my vision and I was transported to another place and another time. Somewhere in the future where I was to observe an event yet to come.

I found myself standing on a platform with a bible in my right hand. The palm of my hand was facing upward and the spine of the bible was directly in the center of my hand with its left and right halves drooped over either side. I had been teaching.

There was a large group out in front of me, the number that has always rested in my spirit since this event was five thousand people. This is not the amazing part because this event was not about me, this is not self-aggrandizement. God in His sovereign will had chosen to give me a vision.

As I watched and as I listened this is what I beheld and heard. From behind me a worship team was playing instrumentally. At that moment no one was singing. It was as if the music floated past me, borne by the Spirit of God to the worshippers amassed there. As the crowd gathered there basked in the presence of God seeking His will, three specific things began to happen. Number one, people were healed of every type of physical infirmity. Number two, people were set free of every type of demonic influence. Number three, those that did not know the Living God came into relationship with Him through the provision of His Son.

There were no alter calls, there were no emotional pleas, there was only us and the King of the universe. It was an intimate gathering of five thousand drawn together in unity to worship their Creator and experience joy and liberty in His presence.

This was more than twenty five years ago. I was a young believer at the time and had never heard of anything such as people experiencing healing as worship music was played. I have since that time heard a few reports of such incidents and yet not on the scale of what I had beheld. Nonetheless God in due time will bring this forth.