Worship

Worship is a word that when it comes across most peoples minds they picture a band on a stage with lights flashing and loud music blaring with a body of believer lifting their hands towards the heavens, while experiencing something bigger than them. While, this might be a true vision of a worship experience in a common church today, that is not what worship truly is. Worship is a way of life. It is the way that we live our everyday lives. We as a body have fallen into the lie that a church service is where and when we worship. I hope that we can awake from our deep slumber and realize the truth. The truth being we should be worshipping everyday of our lives without the loud music, guitars, and lights. I’m not saying those things are bad, but when we rely on them to depict worship in our lives, and then yes I think they are dangerous.

The true definition of worship in the dictionary is this: reverent honor and homage paid to God or to any object regarded as sacred. Notice that it also says “or to ANY object regarded as sacred”. Does this mean that we can worship other things in our lives? Absolutely!! Most people do it without even knowing it! However, worship was designed and intended for us to make little of ourselves and much of God. To reflect everyday on just how small we are and how amazingly big our God truly is. The bible tells us multiple ways that we are to worship.

The first can be found in John 4:23. “But the time is coming-indeed its here NOW-when true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. The Father is looking for those who will worship him that way. For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.”
Notice this verse is telling us that we have to learn how to worship God from our human spirits. The letter “s” in the word “spirit” is with a small “s.” This means it is talking about our human spirits. The apostle Paul tells us that we have three parts to our being – body, soul and spirit.

I believe the Lord is trying to tell us two things with the specific wording of this verse. First, we have to learn how to worship the Lord from our spirit, which means that we have to learn how to worship Him from our heart.

The second thing is that we must learn how to worship the Lord in the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit lives and dwells in our human spirits. The Holy Spirit enters into our human spirits the moment we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior and have become saved and born again.

We also find in Romans 12 it says this: “And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice-the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship.”

Here Paul is PLEADING to us to give up ourselves in worship. Scratch out our desires, our wants, and even our selves and sacrifice them at the feet of Jesus. Sometimes we must lose ourselves to find God. When we lose ourselves and surrender ourselves over to the Holy Spirit, the supernatural can take place. If we don’t then all we will focus on is what our human minds can fathom which is nothing compared to what God can do when we submit and soak in the Holy Spirit! We have the honor and the privilege of coming into the presence of the Holy Spirit in worship everyday of our lives. We don’t have to go through a priest or sacrifice meaningless animals before God. We don’t even have to say a special prayer to enter into the presence of God. All that we have to do is submit and come as we are. And God is faithful to fill us and restore us in his presence. So I encourage you all to have a heart of worship everyday of your lives!