AWT Worship

God saves men to make them worshipers.

WORSHIP MEANS “TO FEEL in the heart.”

To feel in the heart is acurate but seems so shallow as a definition.I like romans 12 vs 1 our very lives---24/7 are a spiritual service of worship.Some days I don't feel in my heart much of anything.A good example of worship in action is Gen 18 the very actions of Abraham. Look at how he served the Lord. He ran out to meet him---great excitement to see Jesus---he bow to the ground before Him --- he had them sit under the shade---concern for thier wellbeing---he feed them(served them)Probably Jesus and the 2 cheribim on the mercy seat.Then hecommuned with Jesus in intercession.If you can look into the very heart of Abraham there are some precious gems here.I don't have time to write this out and give it the attention it deserves.God Bless

"To feel in the heart is acurate but seems so shallow as a definition".Don't worry...More items will be added.L.W.

OUT OF ENRAPTURED, ADMIRING, adoring, worshipping souls, then, God does His work. The work done by a worshiper will have eternity in it.

THE GREATEST TRAGEDY in the world today is that God has made man in His image and made him to worship Him, made him to play the harp of worship before the face of God day and night, but he has failed God and dropped the harp. It lies voiceless at his feet.

WE’RE HERE TO BE WORSHIPERS first and workers only second. We take a convert and immediately make a worker out of him. God never meant it to be so. God meant that a convert should learn to be a worshiper, and after that he can learn to be a worker.

GOD ALMIGHTY SENT HIS Son Jesus Christ into the world for a purpose, and what was the purpose? To hear the average evangelist nowadays you’d think that we might give up tobacco; that Christ came into the world that we might escape hell; that He sent His Son into the world that when at last we get old and tired we might have someplace to go. Now all of these things are true. Jesus Christ does save us from bad habits and He does redeem us from hell and He does prepare us a place in heaven, but that is not the ultimate purpose of redemption.\tThe purpose of God in sending His Son to die and rise and live and be at the right hand of God the Father was that He might restore to us the missing jewel, the jewel of worship; that we might come back and learn to do again that which we were created to do in the first place—worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness, to spend our time in awesome wonder and adoration of God, feeling and expressing it, and letting it get into our labors and doing nothing except as an act of worship to Almighty God through His Son Jesus Christ.

THE FARTHER ON WITH GOD we go, the farther up into Christ’s heart we move, the more like Christ we’ll become; and the more like Christ we become, the more like God we’ll become; and the more we become like Him and the nearer we are to Him, the more perfect our worship will be.

WHILE GOD WANTS US TO worship Him we cannot worship Him just any way we will. The One who made us to worship Him has decreed how we shall worship Him. He accepts only the worship which He Himself has decreed.

GOD IS SPIRIT AND THEY that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in truth. Only the Holy Spirit call enable a fallen man to worship God acceptably. As far as that’s concerned, only the Holy Spirit can pray acceptably; only the Holy Spirit can do anything acceptably.

BECAUSE WE WERE CREATED to worship, worship is the normal employment of moral beings. It’s the normal employment, not something stuck on or added, like listening to a concert or admiring flowers. It is something that is built into human nature. Every glimpse of heaven shows them worshipping.

IT IS DELIGHTFUL TO WORSHIP God, but it is also a humbling thing; and the man who has not been humbled in the presence of God will never be a worshiper of God at all. He may be a church member who keeps the rules and obeys the discipline, who tithes and goes to conference, but he’ll never be a worshiper unless he is deeply humbled. “A humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe.”

We of the nonliturgical churches tend to look with some disdain upon those churches that follow a carefully prescribed form of service, and certainly there must be a good deal in such services that has little or no meaning for the average participant—this not because it is carefully prescribed but because the average participant is what he is. But I have observed that our familiar impromptu service, planned by the leader twenty minutes before, often tends to follow a ragged and tired order almost as standardized as the Mass. The liturgical service is at least beautiful, ours is often ugly. Theirs has been carefully worked out through the centuries to capture as much of beauty as possible and to preserve a spirit of reverence among the worshipers. Ours is often an off-the-cuff makeshift with nothing to recommend it. Its so-called liberty is often not liberty at all but sheer slovenliness.

WORSHIP MEANS TO “EXPRESS in some appropriate manner” what you feel. Now, expressing in some appropriate manner doesn’t mean that we always all express it in the same way all the time. And it doesn’t mean that you will always express your worship in the same manner. But it does mean that it will be expressed in some manner.

THE REASON GOD MADE MAN in His image was that he might appreciate God and admire and adore and worship, so that God might not be a picture, so to speak, hanging in a gallery with nobody looking at Him. He might not be a flower that no one could smell; He might not be a star that no one could see. God made somebody to smell that flower, the lily of the valley. He wanted someone to see that glorious image. He wanted someone to see the star, so He made us and in making us He made us to worship Him.

IF THERE IS NO FEAR OF God in our hearts, there can be no worship of God.

THE UNBELIEVING MIND would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none.