There is biblical and spiritual significance in raising your hands during worship. (Lightstock )
All through the Bible you see scriptures of people bowing down or lying prostrate, yet some of us have had experiences where we were hesitant to lift our hands in worship. When we feel that gentle tug inside; it is the Holy Spirit within us.
We feel like we want to do something such as raise our hands, but then we see our friends and family nearby and we are concerned about what it looks like and if they are doing it. We want to worship the Lord in a new way, but we are scared. We are concerned by fear of the unknown and fear of man.
When you are praying or worshiping in any situation you can lift your hands in praise and adoration to God. When you lift your hands to God in prayer or song you are releasing the Holy Spirit, showing Him you adore Him and you are saying, “God, I am open to you and a touch of Your presence.” You are worshiping and exalting Him for who He is, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
“Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms” (Psa. 95:2). The word thanksgiving (todah), according to Strong’s No. 8426, is derived from the verb yadah (Strong’s H3034). It means to hold out the hand, an extension of the hand, especially to revere or worship with extended hands. It is to thank and praise God with one’s hands extended.
Throughout the Bible it shows us scriptures of the strength and power that comes through our fingers, hands and arms.
Fingers: Our fingers are a symbol of strength and power in our prayer, praise and worship. Look at what God did with His fingers. “Then the Lord delivered to me two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words which the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly” (Deut. 9:10). God wrote on a stone tablet with His fingers.
“This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear.” Here, in John 8:6, Jesus used His finger to convict people of their sin and set a woman free from her sin.
“When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained” (Psalm 8:3).
“Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart” (Prov. 7:3).
When you are raising your hands you are also stretching out your fingers. God gave us commandments through His fingers. What are you releasing into the spiritual atmosphere by raising your hands and extending your fingers?
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SOURCE: Charisma News
Kathy DeGraw
