Worship Times at Christ Gospel Church OKC:
Sunday Morning Sunday School --------------9:45-10:50
Sunday morning Worship --------------------11:00-1:30
Sunday night Prayer and Worship------------7:00-9:00
Wednesday night Prayer and Worship-------7:00-9:00
Friday night Prayer and Worship--------------7:00-9:00

Click the link below to retrieve a map from MapQuest:

308 N Marshall DR.
Midwest City, OK
73110-6116, US

About Worship and Demonstrations

God is a demonstrative God, and He has commanded His children to worship Him in a demonstrative manner. The word demonstrations means; a showing or pointing out, an indication, manifestation, or exhibition.

When God's children repent, they demonstrate their sorrow and grief for their sins by their prayers and tears. When God's children are happy and in holy harmony with Him, they prove it beyond any possibility of doubt or contradiction by their true, strong, and invincible demonstrations of praise and worship to the LORD. Demo:

When He is enthroned on a person's heart, God breaks the normal, humdrum routine of that person's spiritual life and worship. When God pours forth His Spirit, moving, energizing, vitalizing, and empowering His people by His Spirit, there is a great demonstrative effect. Where God's Spirit is, there is life, and life must be manifested and demonstrated! There is nothing dead, inert, or dormant about life; it speaks for itself. Life makes itself known and heard.

Notice, for instance, healthy children's uninhibited expressions of joy when they are at play. Their exuberant, seemingly ceaseless energy proves that they possess life. Or, look at the ecstatic uproar created in the grandstand when a baseball player makes a home run. People leap for joy, yelling and screaming and creating all the noise they can. Emotions spill out in every form. All this is a demonstration of what the crowd feels within.

God made man an emotional creature. Man's emotional energy, which God intended to be used to worship and glorify Him, unfortunately has been repressed in churches and relegated to the secular world.

The Apostle Paul knew the meaning and value of demonstrations in his own ministry.

And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words
of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God
(I Corinthians 2:4,5)

The Apostle Paul made many invincible demonstrations, which proved beyond any possibility of doubt, the Power of God's Spirit. He preached Christ's Truths in demonstrations and power. Paul allowed God's Spirit to demonstrate His Power through him, as God worked through Paul in external operations, giving signs, wonders, and miracles performed on men's bodies. God's Spirit also demonstrated His Power through His internal influences on the hearts of men to whom Paul preached.

Again, Paul said, "For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power" (I Corinthians 4:20). God's Kingdom is neither set up, propagated, nor established in the hearts of men by plausible words of reasoning and flowery discourses, but by the external and internal Power of the Holy Ghost. In other words, it is not enough to talk about the things of God; we must be willing for the presence of God's Spirit and Power to be demonstrated in and through us if we want our hearts and lives to be changed. God's Power makes itself known and heard. God's Spirit brings life, and life manifests itself. Knowing when something is alive is evident because it moves and influences things around it.

In the natural realm, one must be alive in order to recognize and respond to life in another. So also does it take Spiritual Life for one to be able to recognize and appreciate the presence of Spiritual Life as it is being manifested and demonstrated in the lives of God's people. The Psalmist was aware of this Truth.

Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk,
0 Lord, in the light of thy countenance. In thy name shall they rejoice all the day:
and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted (Psalm 89:15,16)

Irrefutably, any person who knows the sovereignty, joyful sound, and Power of God's Spirit is a happy person. His progress is steady toward the goal of his spiritual education and moral development because he walks in the Light of God's Countenance.

Not everyone knows the joyful sound of Spiritual Life. To know means to understand and ascertain by seeing, recognition, and comprehension. Was it not so even when God Himself spoke out of Heaven to His Son?

The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered:
others said, an angel spake to him (John 12:29).

God's own Voice was heard, yet the reaction of the crowd was confused. They did not know; there was no recognition there. This is true with the unlearned who have not been exposed to the joyful sound of a Holy Ghost empowered, anointed meeting. To some people, the service may seem confused and disorderly. Some doubt. Some mock. But, others, because they are able to discern the joyful sounds of life, are drawn by the awesome workings of God's Spirit.

God's Word has much to say about the demonstrations of the Spirit. The word demonstrate means to show off, exhibit, to accredit, to prove, to manifest. A demonstration, then, is an act, process, or means of making something evident. Thus, when the Power of God's Holy Spirit is moving in a meeting, the actions of the saints will be an invincible demonstration of that fact. They will exhibit, make a visible show, manifest, make evident in some way that God is on the scene and is working in the midst of His people. When God's sweet Holy Ghost has His way, Life and excitement are manifested in the camp.

When God's Spirit works within man's heart, there is an outward evidence of His inward working. The inward quickening Life of the Spirit causes the outward demonstrations of leaping, shouting, shaking, weeping, falling prostrate before the LORD, and dancing, manifested through God's Spirit-filled children. The Life of the Spirit causes the noise of worship to be heard in the congregation of the saints.

Demonstrations of God's Spirit are very meaningful to God and to His people. In addition to showing what God is doing inwardly in a heart, they also reveal what God desires to do for His people in a worship meeting. If leaders would learn to watch the demonstrations of God's Spirit in a service, they would have clear direction as to where His Spirit wants to go in the Word. Demonstrations are some of God's ways of guiding a service in His Purposive Will.

God's Word speaks many times about the demonstrations of the Spirit. His Word explains the Spirit; and God's Spirit explains His Word. We need the Word and the Spirit. Without both, we are spiritually crippled in striding forward in our spiritual education and in our moral development.

Although it is impossible to examine all the manifestations of the Spirit, let us consider some of the demonstrations most frequently seen in a service where Spirit-filled believers are worshipping the LORD.

The excerpt above is taken from True Worship by Rev. B. R. Hicks
Links to other reports of demonstrations:
Awesome Things

Texas Testemony