How to worship God

"Worship is the most important thing we can do!"


However, worshiping the true God means entering into a personal relationship with Him, through His Son, Jesus Christ (John 14:6).


How to worship God?


Physically:


1. By bowing down our head (Gen. 24:26).

2. By bowing our knees (Ps. 95:6).

3. By lifting our hands (1 Tim. 2:8).

4. Putting hands over our face (Ex. 3:6).

5. Bowing our face (Gen. 17:3).



The bottom line : It's not the position of your body; It is the condition of your heart (Mark 7:6).

You can do all the ritual, and all the forms, but have no worship (2 Tim. 3:2-5). You can have the ritual, but no reality. Have the form, but no faith.


Spiritually:


1. In truth. You cannot worship the true God in other, but the truth (John 4:24; 14:6; 17:17).


Worship God by the Holy Spirit (Phil. 3:3).


1. Worship in our spirit

2. Worship by the power of the Holy Spirit.

3. Worship through Christ the truth.

4. Worship based on God's Word (the Bible) which is the truth.


God is Spirit and can only be worshiped the way He is. God is truth and cannot be worshiped by error.

Some may say, that's too doctrinal! That's too theological! But you can't be too doctrinal or too theological. For true worship is "based" on the truth, and any worship that goes on, that is not in accord with truth, is not true worship.


We also worship God...



a. By praise (150:1).

b. By dedication (1 Sam. 1:28).

c. By prayer (Phil. 4:6; 1 Thess. 5:16-18).

d. By spiritual dance (Ps. 150:4; 2 Sam. 6:12-14).


Note: It was a spiritual but not carnal dance.


Dance when it elevates your spirit, by not gratifying your flesh.



e. We worship God in our offering (Ezekiel 46:2; Rom. 12:1).

God would rather have our self than our substance.


We worship God by beauty (which reflects God's nature). For all beauty reflects God (Ps. 29:2; 27:4). We also worship God...


1. By instruments (Ps. 150:4-5).

2. By singing (PS. 64:6).


In worship: It's not about the experience of God. It's about the God of our experience. The emphasis should be centered in God, not us. It's not centered in our experience, but centered in the God of our experience.


Worship is not based on our feelings, but in God alone.


"Feelings come and feelings go and feelings are deceiving. My warrant is the Word of God, not else is worth believing."


You see, it's not about how you feel. It's about how God is! He is good, He is great, He is awesome. When we acknowledge that, we worship Him."


It's not about feeling but fact.


We can feel good about falsehood.

Or, we can feel bad about truth.


One can feel bad in true worship (Job 1:20).

One can feel good in false worship (Ex. 32:6-7).


True worship is the most important thing you can do.


It's what the angels will do in heaven. And it's what your gonna do in heaven! You want to get a head start to heaven....Worship!





Norman Gesiler: What is Worship?


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