Face Down

When was the last time that you found yourself laying face down on the ground before the Lord?

In my life, it has not been often enough.  The times I did lay there, were my most desperate and broken moments.  These were the times when nothing else mattered except for the complete surrender of my heart to Him.  Out of desperation, I laid still and humbly cried out to Him.

If you think about it, there's really no reason or purpose in our daily lives to lay face down on the ground.  Perhaps this is one of the reasons it seems so awkward.  Sleeping on your stomach is as close as most will ever come to it.  Even the thought of worshiping God while laying face down is just too crazy, odd or radical to even conceive of for most people.

Well. God has been calling me to a deeper level of surrender in my life and a deeper level of worship.  He's called me to crucify my flesh and put my worldly desires aside.  He's called me to separate myself and walk according to His will.  And, as awkward as it may seem, falling down and worshiping before the Lord is becoming increasingly, more important in my walk with Him.  For when I lay humbled and broken before Him, that's when He is able to finally use me.  When I remove my "crown" of my own plans and accomplishments, and place it before Him, then He is able to move in my life.  You see, in my weakness, He is made strong.  All Glory and Honor to God.

Will you join me in worshiping our Father -- face down?


Revelations 4:6-11
"Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne and lives for ever and ever, the twenty-four elders FALL DOWN before him...... they lay their crowns before the throne.

Revelations 5:8
"And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders FELL DOWN before the Lamb"


Revelations 5:14
"The four living creatures said 'Amen' and the elders FELL DOWN and worshiped."


Revelations 19:4
"And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts FELL DOWN and worshiped God that sat on the throne"