God put in my heart to write on worship, it took me quite sometime to complete this simple message but yet complex one. Finally the holyspirit enabled me to complete it today. I pray that God will touch each one who reads this to worship him more and more.
Few simple words to interpret worship
W hole hearted worship
O rderly lifesytled worship
R essurection power worship
S ubmission worship
H oliness filled worship
I mploding worship
P rayer and praise filled worship
Jacob's whole-hearted Worship - We have heard about Jacob wrestling with God many times, I call this the most powerful worship. When we read about it in Genesis chapter 32, Before Jacob could wrestle with God, he separated himself from all his possessions, family and servants in the night and in his loneliness he encountered a man with whom he wrestled till day break. I call him a worshiper because of the reason that he fought with God through the night and never let him overpower him and never let him go until God blessed him. God changed his name to Israel (meaning victory). True worship is to keep God in the center by separating oneself from everything he/she has,like Jacob did and not let him go until his name is glorified through us. In our loneliness there is a great worship involved...
King David's Imploding worship - 2 Samuel 6 : King David worshiped God in a might way, to the extent that he wore a holy linen vest and danced mightily before the Ark of the covenant. It is not an easy thing for a King to do so, but David did it with all his heart, mind and soul.
As an act of worship he also gave whole burnt offerings to the Lord and also gave food to the men and women of Israel. In this passage we also read about the expression of unhappiness by David's wife Michal because she felt that a King was not suppose to behave so, but the response of David was amazingly so powerful which only a true follower and worshiper of God can say..."I will celebrate in the presence of the Lord and I will lose ever more honor"....How many of us can lose our honor to give God the due praise and worship? David the King did so just to please God and to give him the worship that he deserves
King Jehoshaphat's Prayer & Praise filled Worship - King Jehoshaphat was a God centered King, he ensured that commandments of the Lord were followed by him and all the people around. When the amonnites, moabites & edomites planned to wage a war against Jehoshaphat, he called for the people to fast and pray for God to deliver his people. When he and his people bowed faced down on the ground and worshiped God and cried out, God delivered him from the enemy attack.
Scripture says in 2 Chron 20:20 on-wards that King Jehoshaphat chose men who were singers to praise God while they were in the war, and while they kept praising God, God set ambushes for the people of Edom, Moab & Ammon which led them to kill each other. Such was the power of Worship which was displayed under the rule of King Jehoshaphat.
Giving prime importance to God no matter what position we are in is a kind of worship to God. I admire this Man of God who defeated his enemies by just singing praises to God........One can imagine the power worship has, by reading this part of the Bible
Moses's resurrection power and submission Worship - Moses was a man after God's heart, there is no man who was like that of Moses who was so close to God and who saw him face to face says the scripture.
One of the incident from the Bible which I would relate to his worship is Exodus chapter 17. This passage speaks about the Amalekite attack on Israelites. Moses kept
his hand lifted up high until the sun went down for God to deliver the enemies in Joshua's hands. This is true worship, who can do such an act of lifting hands up until sun sets except for the one who is a true worshiper?
Why do I say that he is a true worshiper? - Because the scripture says that God dwells amidst of our praises, and because God was with Moses always, it means he offered his praises regularly to God, there is no chance for God to dwell in a place without worship and praises, by this I can simply say that Moses was a worshiper, and additionally another thought to it, is that, lifting up hands unto the heavens is an indication of Worship to tell God I look upon and that no one else can help me except you....
This worship is powerful, lifting hands until until the suns goes down? Oh my God, that is why they say that there has been no one like Moses..........Amazing and most powerful man of God
Briefings :
When we see the men of God with the kind of worship they offered to God, the holyspirit revealed a few points on worship that we as God's children need to follow
- Spending more time with God in singing and prayer makes way for us to worship him in a better way every day & this keeps our relationship intact with God
- Our Strong worship life can defeat the plan of the enemy against us
- Fasting and praying enables a stronger worship
- Giving generously to the poor and the needy like David is act of worship which we must follow
- Deliverance comes through worship and praise (deliverance in mind & heart)...this is reason why the scripture says we need to worship God in spirit and in truth, the spirit will deliver us from every bondage and truth will set our hearts and mind free
To my conclusion, many of us do not give the due praise unto God, we fail to worship him.
Why does this happen? We fail to give the due praise and worship because our priorities have changed to something else. Logically speaking, we worship something only when it becomes important to us, for instance - if I am working, i tend to give importance to work because I get paid for it, and priority becomes my work over anything else..when something becomes a priority it becomes worship.....
We need to start prioritizing God over everything, if Jehoshaphat wouldn't have prioritized God and praised him (& if he would have given importance to his position as a King), he and his people would have been defeated by his enemies.
If Moses would have thought that anyways Israelites dint obey God, let them go through the defeat & dint think through the mind of God, Israel would have been defeated.
If David wouldn't have worshiped God in a mighty way, he wouldn't have been a successful King and would have been killed by King Saul long ago
Let us give our quality time to God, and he will give us victory upon victory & grace upon on grace to go fight every battle and deal with every weakness we possess as human beings........Let our worship be whole-hearted which will get us on track into an orderly
lifestyle that God wants us to be confirmed to...And that will in-turn release a submissive spirit of God leading us to holiness (a holy living) and finally let praise continuously be on our lips which will ensure that our heart, mind and body will be God's permanent dwelling place.
