Worship 4/16/08

What IS Worship??

Worship comes from the old english word which means "to ascribe worth or value to something or someone."

Going back to what we have previously covered, worship has to deal with the attitude of the heart.

Habakkuk 3:17-19

17 Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls,

18 yet I will rejoice in the LORD,
I will be joyful in God my Savior.

19 The Sovereign LORD is my strength;
he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
he enables me to go on the heights.
For the director of music. On my stringed
instruments.

The following are a few different ways in which we are able to Worship God::

OBEDIENCE::

Dictionary definition:

1. Compliance with that which is required by authority.
2. The trait of being willing to obey

Deuteronomy 6:5

5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with
all your strength.

Loving the Lord wih all our heart, soul, and strength requires us to put Him first before everything in our lives. This declares to Him that He is more WORTHY of our time and our lives than all of the other things we do - thus becoming a form of worship.

1 John 2:3-6

3We know that we have come to know him if we obey his commands. 4The man
who
says, "I know him," but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the
truth is
not in him. 5But if anyone obeys his word, God's love[a]
is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him: 6Whoever
claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.

Footnotes:
1 John 2:5 Or word, love for God

"If anyone OBEYS His word, love for God is truly made complete in him."

In obeying God and His commandments, as a result, we are loving Him - thus giving worth to Him, and becoming a form of Worship.

John 14:15

15"If you love me, you will obey what I command.

This ties together what is being said in Deuteronomy 6:5 and 1 John 2:3-6.

If we don't obey Him, are we truly worshiping Him?

WORSHIP IN MUSIC::

Music as a form of worship, is a command.

take a look at the following verses:

Psalm 92, Psalm 150, Psalm 33:3, Psalm 15:1-2

sometimes we get so caught up in the musical aspects of worship that we don't give the lyrics our full attention.

Im not saying that we don't give them any attention at all. I am saying, that we don't give it ENOUGH attention.

STUDYING THE WORD AND PRAYER::

Joshua 1:8

8 Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and
night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will
be prosperous and successful.

Just as God commanded Joshua, we are commanded to study and meditate on Gods word.

Deuteronomy 11:18-20

18 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your
hands and bind them on your foreheads. 19 Teach them to your children, talking
about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie
down and when you get up. 20 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on
your gates,

on Prayer:

We are commanded to "pray continuously."

Check out these following verses:

1 Thessalonians 5:16

Philipians 4:6 "rejoice"

essentially when we are talking with God, we are praying to Him. So when we are telling Him of how great and awesome He is, we are giving Him worth through prayer.