A HEART OF WORSHIP

Do you have a Heart of worship?

What is worship anyway?

First let me tell you what it’s not.    Simply put…. worship is NOT just being at church.    Worship is a matter of the heart.    

Worship is losing yourself in the presence of the Lord to think about the greatness that He is and what He has done for you and I.    Worship is being totally engaged with God and not really having a sense of who else is around you.   Worship is nothing about us but it’s ALL about Jesus.   The Lord expects and deserves our heart of worship no matter the circumstances that we are walking through at any point.   When we gather in a church service and the hearts are united and focused on the Lord then the Holy Spirits presence is at liberty to move upon the congregation and upon each persons heart and the worship can be out of this world.    Worship has many emotions.   Worship is not sitting like a knot on a log, but it’s going spiritually past where you are at that moment and you allow the Lord to move in your heart and sometimes tears fall at the thought of just how amazingly holy Jesus is and sometimes it’s lifting our hands towards Him to reach out and be closer to Him, or it’s thanking Him for His goodness, grace and mercy that He freely gives.    

What should you not do during worship?

You should not pretend to have a clean heart before Christ when fellowship with Him and intentions of your heart are not sincere.    You don’t raise a hand to worship God when it’s not in sincere honor and glory of the Lord.    

His Word tell us in 

John 4:24  God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. (KJV)

When you worship Jesus then our hearts become different and His spirit will burn within us.  

Luke 24:32  And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures? (KJV)

When we worship in spirit and in truth and our hearts begin to burn within us then we find ourselves lifting our hands without even thinking about what we are doing… because we have lost ourselves in the presence of the Lord.   

For me….the Lord most always takes me to an attitude of prayer while I’m worshiping.    

1 Timothy 2:8  I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. (KJV)

During a time of worship then praise God for taking our sins upon Himself and dying on the cross, and thank Him for not staying there but for conquering death, hell and the grave so that we can have eternal life never being separated from Him again but getting to live in a heavenly kingdom where we get to worship Him for all of time.   

Deuteronomy 32:40  For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. (KJV)