Worship

Worship. What is it? An act of sacrifice, an offering to God. How do we do it? With singing, reading his word, with words in prayer, with our lives. Why should we worship? Because God wants us to,and he deserves our worship, for all that he has done for us. What is God's view on worship? He wants us to surrender all to him. What does worship mean to me? Taking time out to spend with my God. For the last week I have been looking at worship, I luv worship times at our church we sing some amazing songs to God with really powerful and meaningful words. But I've learnt that worship is not only for church on Sundays, that it is something that God wants us to do as often as possible, that it isn't just about singing songs and that true worship can really affect our walk with God and our daily lives.
That God wants all of our lives not just the parts that we are willing to hand over. Just like when God asked Abraham to sacrifice Issacc. He tested his faith to see if he was awilling to sacrifice his most prescious possession. What are the Issaccs in my life, until I rid of them how can I worship God freely and totally in my life?

Today I cant worship God enough, I have had an easy morning, the kids were good going to school, we were on time, I've done my cleaning job, the house is clean, I'm meeting a friend from work for lunch so all's good! So it is easy for me to praise, to sing songs to God and pray to him, because I feel I want to as I'm having a blessed day :). But when I am not having such a good day, if the kids have played up, forgotten something to take to school, I'm late, it's raining, etc... You get my drift? Then it's not so easy to praise is it, but it's at those very times that if we only praised instead of complaining or arguing that God can uplift us and our day wont seem quite so bad after all.

Our whole lives are worship to God also, how we are as individuals. Do we do our very best in all we do? Because we should, as this is a part of our worship, being pleasing to God. We can worship God at church at home anywhere we like, but God does insist that as well as having private times of worship, that together to worship as a church. In the back of my bible it says, "Hearing others worship, encourages others to worship, which gives more power to the praise given to God, and that we are to focus on God alone not the musicians, or others around us. "

A couple of scriptures on worship. 1Chronicles 16v29, "Ascribe to the Lord, the glory due his name, bring an offering and come before him, worship the Lord in the splendour of his holiness."

Psalm 95v6, "Come let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our maker." The whole of this chapter is about praising God, it's brilliant. About giving him praise and thanks, singing for joy, for our salvation, with thanksgiving, with music and songs. It says that God is our great king, above all gods, that the sea, earth adn mountains are his, that we are his flock and he cares for us and that we shouldn't harden our hearts to his word. Amen!!

Mathew 2v2, "The wise men came to worship Jesus".

John 4v24, "Jesus says that God should be worshipped in spirit and in truth."

Romans 12, I love this chapter, here we see what I said earlier about our lives being a worship to God. The chapter starts off talking about us being living sacrifices to him, as I said in an earlier blog, surrendering all to him. We must offer our bodies to God holy and pleasing, this is a spiritual act of worship. We are not to conform to the world or evil, we are RENEWED, TRANSFORMED, amen! We are not to test God's will, but be pleasing to God and approving, humble also, as one body with different gifts and uses. The next part of this chapter speaks of love, that we are to be sincere, to hate evil and cling to what is good, to be devoted to eachother, to have zeal and joy, to serve God and eachother. We are to pray, be faithful, help those in need, share what we have. Bless those that curse us, mourn with the mourners, rejoice with those rejoicing. We are not to be conceited, not to seek revenge and do right infront of all, and overcome evil with good. Wow what a chapter, really blessed me!!! As well as that it has challenged me greatly!!

Hebrews 10v25, "From v 19 on I've read and again it is words of encouragement an blessing and challenging. We are to persevere, with confidence, we can enter the holy place Amen! Again it says we are to be sincere, with full assurance of faith, with hearts cleansed, bodies washed!!! Woop Woop! Thankyou Jesus! We must hold unswervingly onto the hope we profess, for he that has promised is faithful!! Amen!! We are to spur one another on, and not give up meeting together, and to encourage eachother.

Lord i praise you and thankyou for all that you are and all that you mean to me, I want my life to be a living sacrifice to you. I love you Lord and praise your holy name, for you are worthy to be praised. Help me to worship you all the time, no matter what is going on in my life, for you deserve the highest praise, you are my God and king, my master and my friend, my everything.!!! Luv ya heaps you are amazing God!! xxxx

To finish my worship blog I will share some of my fav worship songs with you happy readers!!

Light of the world you stepped down into darkness, opened my eyes let me see,
Beauty that made this heart adore you, hope of a life spent with you.
So here I am to worship
Here I am to bow down.
Here I am to say that youre my God.
Your'e alltogether lovely.
Alltogether worthy.
Alltogether wonderful to me.
King of all days oh so highly exalted,
Glorious in heaven above.
Humbly you came to the earth you created.
All for love's sake became poor.

Into your hands I commit again, all I am to you Lord
You hold my world in the palm of your hands
and I am yours forever
Jesus I believe in you
Jesus I belong to you
Youre the reason that I live, the reason that I sing with all I am
I'll walk with you wherever you go through tears and joy I'll trust in you
And I will live in all of your ways and your promises forever.

In your presence there is fullnes of life
healing flowing for body soul and mind
God of miracles God of power is here, God is here
God is here let the broken hearted rejoice, lift up your head
God is here, let the sick say I am well, all sufficient one
God is here, let the weak say I am strong, let the weak say I am strong
God is here, his wonders to perform
In your presence, there is perfect peace
in the stillnes I behold your deity
God of power, God of the impossible is here, God is here.

Sing praises to your God this and every day, hope This blog has blessed you like it has blessed me. xxxx