Selah

Habukkuk 2:20

Psalm 131:1

Silence in worship contains elements of revelation and response.

Revelations 8:1

Absolute silence is the greatest act of worship.

1 kings 19

God met Elijah in the stillness and quietness.

John Wesley's Worship Encounter

John Wesley's journal entry (1 Jan 1739):

Mr Hall, Hinching, Whitefield, Hutching, and my brother Charles were present at our love feast in Fetter Lane with about 60 of our brethren. About three in the morning as we were continuing instant in prayer, the power of God came mightily upon us, insomuch that many cried out for exulting joy & many fell to the ground. As soon as we were recovered a little from the awe & amazement at the presence of His majesty, we broke out with one voice, "We praise Thee O Lord, we acknowledge Thee to be Lord."

These awed and amazed worshipers went on to change the spiritual climate of a nation.

Jonathan Edwards' Encounter with God

"Once as I rode out into the woods for my health, in 1737, having alighted from my horse in a retired place, as my manner commonly had been to walk for divine contemplation and prayer, I had a view that for me was extraordinary, of the glory of the Son of God. As near as I can judge, this continued about an hour; and kept me the greater part of the time in a flood of tears and weeping aloud. I felt an ardency of soul to be what I know not otherwise how to express, emptied and annihilated; to love Him with a pure and holy love; to serve and follow Him; to be perfectly sanctified and made pure with a divine and heavenly purity.