What Did I Miss?
ALTARations Pt.1 | Pastor Dharius Daniels
What Did I Miss?
Pastor Dharius Daniels- ALTARations
John 4:19-
We experience seasons of freedom, but not a lifetime of liberation
When you’re passionate about being everything that God wants you to be, you can’t be where you are, know it’s not where you’re supposed to be and be ok.
You become allergic to settling.
Many are called, but few are chosen. He has His hand on my life. I belong to Him!
Just because something hasn’t changed, doesn’t mean it cannot be changed.
There are some things that are only altered by the Altar.
We’’re first introduced to an Altar in the Old Testament [OT].
Abraham called The Place Jehovah Jireh.
The Altar was the place of alterations. Once something was put on the Altar, it became something different.
When we experience limitations in our alterations, it’s evidence that we’re practicing an Altarless Christianity.
The New Testament [NT] doesn’t remove the presence of the Altar, it just changes the place of the Altar.
Jesus was the ultimate expression of Altered Theology. The Altar is no longer limited to a geographical location, it’s wherever me and Jesus are.
In the NT, we don’t build Altars with wood, we build them with worship. Your Altar is your meeting place with God.
We’re missing regular encounters with the manifest presence of God.
Worship as a Spiritual discipline-
Singing is only worship if I mean the lyrics. Worship as a Spiritual discipline becomes a meeting place with God that leads to alterations.
In John 4, a woman is having an encounter with God that leads to an alteration.
Her well became an Altar.
Sometimes God will press pause and sit you down to prepare you for what’s coming. - A Word.
Jesus knew what she was really thirsty for.
The text shows us how God uses what we think we’re thirsty for, to show us what we’re really thirty for.
He knew where she was really seeking satisfaction and He wanted to expose that.
Jesus gives what Paul calls in 1 Corinthians 12:8 a “logo-noses” [spellcheck] or a word of knowledge.
“The word of knowledge is a Spirit-imparted truth or insight that the receipt would not otherwisae know, given to enable effective ministry, usually in a pastoral or
evangelistic context.”- Sam Storms
“Supernaturally given fact” that may be used to convict, comfort, or guide.- John Piper
It is when God lets someone know something they wouldn’t, couldn’t, or shouldn’t know unless God let them know.
She thought He was a regular man, until He gave her the word of knowledge. Then she recognizes Him as a Prophet.
Her perspective changed, she had a revelation of who He was.
Worship is telling Him who He is.
John 4:28-30-
“Could this be the Messiah?”
Her encounter with Jesus wasn’t corporate, it was individual. It speaks to worship as a private Spiritual discipline.
Making space for the Altar- don’t be so pre-occupied with what we have from Him that we don’t make space for Him.
We carry too much not to carry His presence daily.
She left her jar at the well, because she found something that filled her more than the water could. Something that she wanted more. She was willing to what she thought she couldn’t live without.
Learn to stop waiting to stop “liking things” to leave them behind and just start wanting Him more.- A WORD!