Faith in His Presence

Some while ago while on a ministry trip to Ghana in West Africa, I along with my colleagues was very flattered to receive a personal invitation to visit the king of Ghana at his palace in Accra. This of course was considered a great honour, so with great anticipation we arrived at the palace to be ushered in to a large ornate hall for afternoon tea with the king. As the king made his entrance and took his seat a few feet away from us it was explained that tradition did not allow us to engage the monarch directly in conversation. The custom was for us to address his servant who would convey our message to the king who in turn would then reply to his servant mediating for us. As you can imagine this made for rather stilted conversation, with long gaps in the dialogue very much in evidence. Pauses, brief exchanges were very much the order of the day.

Suddenly after what seemed an eternity, the king turned to us and announced we had proved ourselves worthy companions for afternoon tea, he would talk to us directly now, protocol had been dropped. We all relaxed. The free flow of conversation lasted well into the afternoon, a relationship had been formed.

Because of Jesus, we have faith that we have the privilege of direct access to our Heavenly Father; accepted and loved, we come to him knowing that he desires an open, intimate relationship with us. The worship leader’s task is to focus our attention clearly on an encounter with God for as we meet with him our faith and expectation rises. Only out of relationship comes real revelation.

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