By definition, worship creates an intimate connection between you and God. It's an honest

reflection of the condition of your heart and your relationship with Him. Today, on

insight for living, Chuck Swindall presents the final message in his classic series called

Growing Deep in the Christian Life. In this study, Chuck will help you understand the

biblical practice of praise, and there's no better model than the Psalms. One of the writers

put it this way, he who dwells in the shelter of the most high will abide under the shadow

of the Almighty.

In worship, we connect with the living Lord. It's coming to a place in one's life

either alone or with a few or with many, where one connects with the living God. The best

definition I've come up with is a human response to a divine revelation. And so worship is an

active response to God, whereby I declare his worth in an intimate manner. What happens

when that connection occurs? Well, it magnifies my God. That's one of the major

significances and purposes. My God is magnified. It enlarges my horizons. Never do I leave worship

with limited horizons. My horizons are enlarged. Third, it eclipses my fears, those things

that know at me and eat at me. I forget them. It eclipses my fears. It changes my perspectives.

I was leaving the service a couple of three weeks ago and I had my pickup parked out here

in my spot. It was a Sunday night and I had a friend tuck a note under the windshield

wiper. At first, my stomach turned when I saw something under a windshield wiper. And

I read of a change of perspective in my friend. It wasn't something I had done. I can change

no one's perspective. It wasn't the mortar and the brick and the carpet and the wood of

a pulpit or the sound system or even the music that comes from the place. It was the living

God who invaded that man's life and touched him in a wrestling spot and calmed him. And

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