Drop Some Sticks - Brokenness in Worship!

INSPIRE Devotionals With Emmanuel Afiawari Sunday, July 6, 2025 Topic: DROP SOME STICKS (Part 6)! Memory Verse: "Therefore he said, 'Pick it up for yourself.' So he reached out his hand and took it" -  Kings 6:7 NKJV Bible Text: 2 Kings 6:5‭-‬6 NKJV 5. But as one was cutting down a tree, the iron ax head fell into the water; and he cried out and said, “Alas, master! For it was borrowed.” 6. So the man of God said, “Where did it fall?” And he showed him the place. So he cut off a stick, and threw it in there; and he made the iron float. INSPIRATION: Mark 14: 3 tells the story of a certain woman who broke her box of Alabaster oil as a sign of her worship to Jesus. It was recorded that the cost was like a year's salary. However our focus is not on the cost but on the action. Until she broke it, the fragrance did not come out; until we're broken, our worship is not released; until we're broken, our fragrance in worship will not ascend. Worship is more than a song we sing, it is an action portraying our yieldedness and submission to the Lordship of Christ. If Christ is not at the centre of your worship, you've not truly worshipped. Until she dropped the box, it did break; until it broke, the fragrance wasn't released. God wants us broken (Ps. 51:17; 34:18) so we can release ourselves wholly unto Him. When she broke the box, she broke with it her fears, her insecurities, her addictions, her low self-esteem, her faulty paradigms, her unbelief, her unfaithfulness, her poverty, her inadequacies, tendencies and proclivities, etc; everything that casts a shadow on her true identity got broken as she broke the box. True worship stems from a broken spirit, it releases you from strongholds and stranglehold intended to keep you away from accessing God. TODAY'S TAKE HOME: Jericho walls and prison chains still break today in the place of genuine worship. You want your fragrance released? Then offer true worship, and watch God move your mountains. PRAYER: O Lord, please deliver me from offering You cosmeticised worship; may my worship cost me everything but You, may it be one that flows from a broken heart that is willing to drop everything to gain You, in Jesus name, Amen.