True worship of God is when we love Him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. It's when we praise God above everything else and put Him first in our hearts.
As it says in Deuteronomy 6:4-5, “The Lord our God, the Lord is one!
True worship is any expression of obedience, praise, honor, adoration, and gratitude offered to the true God by a regenerate soul who knows the truth about God and loves him.
Ron Kenoly Quotes:
‘True worship begins in the heart and manifests in emotions and actions that are signs or evidence that God is with us’.
Everything do is for us every prayer, every offering, every sermon etc.., only thing that we offer to God is our Worship.
Michael W. Smith Says
I think worship is a lifestyle, first of all. Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet. Not everyone can lead worship.
Darlene Zschech quotes
Worship is an act of obedience of the heart. It is a response that requires the very principal of who you are, to love the Lord for who He is, not just for what He does.
(Jn 4:23)
“But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.”
(Jn 4:7, 19–20)
A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” . . . 19 the woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”
Jesus’s discussion with the Samaritan woman reveals a contrast between true worship and false worship.
In 722 BC, when the northern kingdom of Israel was conquered by Sargon, the Assyrian, and scores of Israelites were taken away, the only ones left in the north were the poor. Over time, these poor Israelites intermarried with idolatrous pagan people, and their descendants constituted the hybrid group known as the Samaritans. The Samaritans developed their own kind of worship at Mount Gerizim—a simple approach based on what they knew from the Pentateuch, and that alone; none of the history books or literature or prophets informed their worship. They had their own kind of worship. However, their worship was vain.
Worship Based on God’s Commands
How did this Samaritan woman, with only the Pentateuch in her religious background, know that a relationship with God was defined as worship?
She would know that because she knew the Ten Commandments, the first three of which clearly articulate the worship of God as central to a relationship with him.
Worship Based on the God’s Commandments
A. The first commandment identifies whom we are to worship: (Exod 20:1–3)
And God spoke all these words, saying, 2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 3 You shall have no other gods before me.”
B. The second commandment addresses how God should be worshiped, (Exod 20:4–6)
Or rather, how he should not be worshiped—by means of any visual representation:
• You shall not make for yourself a carved image,
• or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above,
• or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
Vs: 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
Vs: 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
C. The third commandment lays out very clearly the responsibility of any human being before God to make certain that he or she never takes the name of the Lord in vain: (Exod 20:7)
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
The Samaritan worship would have also known well the Shema, the central statement of faith for an Old Testament Jew:
(Deut 6:4–6)
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.
The Pentateuch is clear about the importance and nature of true worship. On the negative side, do not take the name of the Lord in vain, or you will not be guiltless; on the positive side, love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and might. So this woman knew that a relationship with God is defined in how that individual conceives of the divine being.
A. Psalm 100: 1-5
1 Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.
2 Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
3 Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
5 For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
B. Psalm 96:9
O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.
C. Mark 12:30
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
Did David dance Naked?
2 Samuel 6:14-22
No, David did not dance naked, he felt out his royal robs and wore a rob service to the lord, and expressed his humbleness to God before all the Israelites.
David danced on the street like a crazy man when his wife the daughter of soul watched him out of the window.
But they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: David offered the sacrifice to the Lord.
• David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
18 And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts.
Rev. Alwin Thomas says
“We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.”
1. Worship to the Lord should be meaningful.
2. Worship to the Lord should be Spirit filled.
3. Worship to the Lord should be Powerful
Rev. NORMAN BERNAD
BANGALORE, INDIA
+919036696832
normanmab07@gmail.com
