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I have been a worship leader at my local church for more than 20 years. My greatest desire is to live out my Christian faith in fellowship, worship and prayer.
I am writing this blog to share my love for the Lord and my passion for worshipping Him. I want to encourage and inspire you in your faith, and to call you to worship the Lord with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind.
Ramona Denton
WorshipByNumbers@gmail.com
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The Hour I First Believed
I was “born again” into faith in Jesus Christ on September 21, 1984 at the age of 22. I was at a home Bible study group in South Pasadena, California, where a seminary student led a discussion about these first few verses of Psalm 32.
How blessed is he
whose transgression is forgiven,
Whose sin is covered!How blessed is the man to whom
the LORD does not impute iniquity,
And in whose spirit there is no deceit!When I kept silent about my sin,
my body wasted away
Through my groaning all day long.I acknowledged my sin to You,
And my iniquity I did not hide;
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD”;
And You forgave the guilt of my sin.~Psalm 32:1-3,5
I did not, at the time, really believe in sin. However, the stuff about wasting away and groaning all day long sounded all too familiar.
The part about forgiveness was the main point of the lesson. The leader explained this concept of forgiveness with various illustrations. What forgiveness means legally: being absolved from guilt. What forgiveness means financially: having your debts cancelled or paid at another’s expense. What forgiveness means personally: being accepted and loved by a person when you did nothing to deserve it.
So, if this forgiveness is the free gift of God, the leader asked, how do we get it? One of the people there answered with this verse:
And without faith it is impossible to please Him,
for he who comes to God must believe that He is,
and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.
~ Hebrews 11:6
When I heard this verse, I got it. I understood. We get it by faith. I believed it. I suddenly knew what it was to do something by faith. And it made sense. I felt some kind of movement in my heart. Physical movement. It was like a click, like a key turning, unlocking my heart. That was the moment I first believed. Without faith it is impossible to please God. That night I believed. And my faith was born.
25 Years and Counting
September 21, 2009 marked the 25th anniversary of that hour. As I write this, it is 25 years later. I have believed in Jesus, and worshipped Him as King of Kings for 9,131 days or 219,000 hours. That’s only about 13 million minutes.
If I could worship continuously, like the creatures in Revelation 4-5, and my song took one minute to sing, I would have sung it only 13 million times by now! That is a large number, but not a very, very large number by today’s standards. Certainly, a number we can count and imagine.
But it makes me wonder. What will it be like to worship Him in heaven, in His very presence, for all of eternity? I can’t get my mind around it. I do know it will never cease. But I do not understand HOW it can never cease.
One thing I desire, that as long as I have breath and life on this earth, I will never cease trying to worship Him more fully. I want to press in as deep and as high as wide as I can go.
And day and night they do not cease to say,
“HOLY, HOLY, HOLY is THE LORD GOD, THE ALMIGHTY,
WHO WAS AND WHO IS AND WHO IS TO COME.”
~ Revelation 4:8
May God grant us hearts of wisdom!
Worship by Numbers
Ramona Denton
September 21, 2009
I believe in Christianity
as I believe that the Sun has risen:
not only because I see it,
but because by it I see everything else.
~C. S. Lewis:
