Does TOD Worship Attract the Manifest Presence of God?
The addiction to physical manifestations in the current revival is often linked directly to TOD type worship. It has been pragmatically discovered that long extended and repetitive worship will usually cause God to “show up.” So worship techniques often become the prelude for God showing up in power. “Showing up” is shorthand for the whole catalogue of physical manifestations associated with the current revival. The right kind of worship will attract the manifestations which are a sign that God has shown up. Much of the teaching that praise attracts and brings God’s presence is based on an obscure verse in the OT which I believe has been misinterpreted. The KJV of Psalm 22:3 states: “But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.” Does this verse really teach that if we praise God then God will come in His manifest presence to “inhabit the church” – sometimes as a visible glory cloud of blue haze or an overwhelming sense of heaviness (glory), or whatever? Does this ve
