Why Worship Gives Us The Right Perspective
Diego Pineda

The perspective of one seated in heaven is such as the little boy who peers down the window of an airplane as it takes off the airport. Buildings and cars seem to shrink as the aircraft gains altitude, and all that seemed so big when on the ground, is now only the size of a toy. That’s how our earthly problems should appear to us, when we consider the size of our God, and the realm on which we stand in Christ.

Try it right now. Compare your problem with the Almighty God. Is it too big a problem for Him? I can assure you it is not. If you doubt it, I suggest you read the Psalms.

King David, the author of most the Psalms, had the perspective of one seated in heavenly places, even though he lived a thousand years before Christ and had no chance to read the book of Ephesians. As a worshipper, David trained his soul to focus on God, to sing of his attributes and his works. He knew the greatness of the power of his God. Psalm 136 is a great example of this:

Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever. Give thanks to the God of gods, for his steadfast love endures forever. Give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his steadfast love endures forever; to him who alone does great wonders, for his steadfast love endures forever; to him who by understanding made the heavens, for his steadfast love endures forever; Psalm 136:1-5
David begins exalting God for who He is, his nature of goodness and love. Then he goes on to praise him for his wonders as a Creator. Later in that Psalm he recounts how God brought Israel out of Egypt, and closes with the provision of God for all his children. David exalted the Lord over every situation and need.

And here is a secret for us: worship focuses our mind toward God and away from our problems—it gives us the real perspective of things, because the realm of God’s promises is more real than the physical reality.

Only a worshiper with the right perspective of his authority in God, could do what David did when he faced Goliath. In the natural, it seemed like a lost battle; but David knew better.

And David said to the men who stood by him, “What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?” 1 Samuel 17:26

In the earthly reality, the army of Israel was nothing but a bunch of cowards, afraid of confronting the giant Goliath. In the heavenly reality, Israel was the army of the living God. And only David could see it that way.

“Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. And I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, and that all this assembly may know that the LORD saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give you into our hand.” 1 Samuel 17:45-47

Others in the Bible, such as Joshua and Caleb, lived with the same revelation that David had about the power and authority of God. While ten of the twelve spies sent out by Moses to scout the land of Canaan came with the report of cowards (they described themselves as grasshoppers), only Joshua and Caleb focused on the size of God instead of the size of their enemies.

“But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.” Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.” So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height. And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.” Numbers 13:30-33

These “grasshopper spies” did not enter the promised land, they lost their inheritance, because they ignored the power of God that was at work on their behalf. Don’t let this happen to you.

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About the author:
Our inheritance in Christ is not just for heaven but for this life as well! Diego Pineda will teach you how to claim your inheritance so you can live full of the power of God, exercising divine authority, walking in the fruit of the Spirit, and fulfilling your call in the body of Christ.