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What is Worship?
Worship?
INTRODUCTION Why was David dancing?
Synonyms for Worship: Take a moment and define worship in your own words.
o Awe
o Respect
o Service
o Love
o Admire
o Bow down Read the following eight verses and write down some of the different ways that
people worshiped in the Old Testament:
Insight: The Old Testament word for worship is Shachah which means “to bow down
oneself”; “to prostrate oneself as an act of respect before a superior being”; “a way PSALM 149:3 PSALM 63:4
of showing submission.” The New Testament word for worship is Latreia which
means “to serve a superior.” So if we take these two terms for worship and combine
them they together would mean something along the lines of – “the act of
surrendering your life to your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
PSALM 150:3-5 PSALM 47:1
Insight: Paul is begging us to worship God by surrendering our lives to Him. Paul
tells us that giving our lives to God is the proper response for all that He has done
for us. God won’t settle for 90 percent of your life; He wants all of it. You might
have been a follower of Jesus for years, but you still have areas of your life that
you are holding back from Him. What are those areas? Only you know that.
Read PSALM 150:6
What is supposed to praise the Lord? What has God done for you?
“Worship changes What areas of your life have you given to God? (ex. speech,
the worshiper into family, time. etc.)
the image of the One
New Testament Worship worshiped.”
Insight: In this famous Biblical story, we find Jesus speaking to a woman at a well
in Samaria. Jesus is Jewish and the woman is a Samaritan. The Jews and the
Samaritans did not get along at all. However, Jesus goes to Samaria and meets this What areas of your life are difficult to give to God? (ex. relationships, thoughts,
woman and is very kind to her (very Un-Jewish, but very Christ-like). The woman words, etc.)
takes this opportunity to ask Jesus where the proper place to worship is. Samaritans
had a mountain that they worshiped at and Jews had the temple in Jerusalem. So
she wanted to know who was right. Jesus tells the woman that worship is not a
place (ex. the Temple, church), but worship is in the heart. We can worship God
anywhere as long as it is in spirit and in truth. In Spirit simply means to surrender
our lives to the Holy Spirit as we worship and in truth means to worship according Why is it so hard to give every part of our lives to God?
to the Bible.
If you desire to give God everything in your life, write a prayer offering God
everything:
In what two ways are we to worship God? What do these mean to you?
The Bible tells us that our body is a holy temple for God and it was bought
with a high price (Christ’s death on the cross). Therefore, we need to
respect our bodies and glorify God through our bodies. The Holy Spirit
resides within you and you a temple for God. Think about that – God is in
you if you follow Christ. So we need to make our body a place that God
would want to be. Pray this prayer over your life regularly and surrender
these areas of your life to God that try and pollute your body.
“Dear Father, I know that my body is a holy temple for you. You
sent your Son to the cross for my life and I know that I need to
respect my body and offer it to you. Lord, I refuse to get involved
with drugs and alcohol. I refuse to smoke cigarettes, even when
pressured by friends. I will care for my body through exercise and
a proper diet. I will save sex for marriage. I know that sex is a
sacred thing that you have reserved for the covenant of marriage.
I refuse to lust after another person. I refuse to look at sexually
explicit things that the media tries to distort my mind with. I will
not dress immodestly. I will honor You with my clothes. I will give
you everything because I want my body to be a holy temple for
You. I pray this in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.”
SPIRIT