It
is our desire through our offerings of praise and worship, to create
a Psalm 22:3
habitation in which our God can dwell and move among His people,
bringing salvation, healing, and revelation as they draw closer and
closer to
Him.
Psalms
148, 149 and 150 exhort us to praise our God and tell us a great deal
about how our God wants to be praised.
These "Spirit-breathed" words tell us who is to praise Him (Psalm 148),
where and how to praise Him (Psalm 149) and why (Psalm 150). Psalm
150 expands on the how-to's and finishes with a most explicit exhortation,
even a command: "Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. [You] Praise
the Lord!"
ZionFire's
reason-for-being is to honor and glorify our God and to beautify His
house, making it "exceeding
famous throughout all lands". Our vision is to bring our music
and banners, and to integrate them with the local expression of
the Body
of Christ, using their flags, dance and other interpretive movement
people, ministering with them in pageantry. We see a specific pattern
for worship in the Psalms and in Revelation 4:6; we believe that
our God has specific intentions for the praises of His people:
- to
celebrate
Him (Psalm 149:2);
- to
simply praise or worship Him (Psalm 149:3);
- to
evangelize (dramatizing the written Word, that others might see,
hear and believe-Romans 10:14-15; singing aloud the praises,
that others would believe-Psalm 147:18)
- to
do spiritual battle (seeing the Lord's banners causes the enemy commanders
to
flee- Isaiah 31:8-9; praise, a non-carnal
weapon, pulls down strongholds-II Corinthians 10:4;
this inflicting of God's vengeance is the privilege of the saints-Psalm
149:2);
- to
prophesy (forth-telling rather than fore-telling,
we seek to visually portray what the Word of God says about
Christ, His Bride and things to come, thus provoking faith in the
congregation
of believers; several prophets dramatically portrayed events
to come: Ezekiel laid on one side for 390 days then the other
for forty days, Hosea married Gomer, Agabus, bound his own
hands and feet with Paul's belt, prophesying that Paul would be bound).
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