Gospel star, Ohemaa Mercy has emphasized the significance of attending and participating praise and worship session at church, stating that it is an essential experience not to be missed.

According her individuals who indulge in distractions like taking selfies and other disruptive behaviors during the sacred time of praise and worship invoke curses on themselves.

"You've taken up a curse," she warned. "I'll say it again. You've taken up a big curse because you've shown you don't respect God," she added.

In an interview with the media on Thursday, July 13, 2023, she explained that what ones needs can be found during this dedicated time of praising God. It is when we lift up God in praise that He bestows His mantle, glory, and answers upon us.

According to Mercy, praising God leads to His divine presence descending, followed by His servant delivering the inspired message.

"So if you really want to see the face of God, it is through the worship you don't even believe in. It is the worship that you don't respect or value and intentionally miss. If you indeed miss it and come in when the preaching starts, you've missed a lot," the Ote Me Mu (He Lives In Me) hitmaker admonished.

Ohemaa Mercy said: "Thanksgiving is the one thing God desires from you because of the sustenance and protection he gives against the death [and other calamities] that come for others between Monday and Sunday."

To support her point, Ohemaa Mercy shared an anecdote about being invited to perform at a church.

"...before they called me up on stage, there was worship going on [involving] everybody," she narrated, "and God opened my eyes [in a vision] and I saw that there were some chairs that were empty and you know some people are in the habit of always sitting at a specific place. There was a particular lady - when I took the microphone I asked about where she was. I was told she was not present but not so long after that, she arrived - I was singing then. I told her: 'You've really missed out'."

Ohemaa Mercy said she explained to the woman how God had sent his angel to bring "your child to you but since you were not present, he took the child away".

The thing about the praise and worship session, according to the singer-songwriter, is it is a time "one is open and receptive".

"A lot of people miss out on their answers to prayers because they miss worship," she said.

The multiple award-winning artiste bemoaned that "we've become too familiar with God, the Almighty, the I Am that I Am" meanwhile, "when we go before mighty human kings we show reverential fear".