Worship

Worship: Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration; adoration. The act of paying divine honors to The Supreme Being; religious reverence and homage; adoration, or acts of reverence, paid to God.

In order to properly worship God, I think that it requires us to first enter into worship with reverence and with awe! God is not asking us to repeat some montra or song, in fact true worship does not require music or song at all.

But music and worship do go hand in hand. Worship involves the WHOLE person, and music helps lift a person’s thoughts and emotions to God. Through music we can reflect upon our needs and shortcomings as well as celebrate God’s greatness. To truly worship God the way that He asks us to, we have to be willing to forget about ourselves, not worry about the people around us and what they think and focus only on God and His great power. Interestingly though a recent study done at a large church in New York stated that when they did a poll on their congregation about worship, 20% stated that what brought them in to true worship was the music lyrics and message, 15% said that it was the musicians skill and ability, and an overwhelming 65% said that it was the worship leaders, and other members of the congregation entering into worship that in fact was able to draw them into worship as well. So when you get ready to go to church on Sunday, be prepared… perhaps you entering into worship will allow the person next to you to have such a wonderful experience… but also realize that maybe you NOT entering into worship is holding that same person back.

PSALM 81:1-5 

¹ Sing aloud to God our strength;  shout for joy to the God of Jacob! ²Raise a song; sound the tambourine,
   the sweet lyre with the harp.³Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day. ⁴For it is a statute for Israel, a rule of the God of Jacob. ⁵He made it  a decree in Joseph
   when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a language I had not known:

John 4:23-24

²³But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. ²⁴God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

Romans 12:1

 ¹ I appeal to you therefore, brothers by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship

Hebrews 12:28-29

²⁸Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, ²⁹for our God is a consuming fire.