The Importance Of True Worship

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True worship is not about songs, hymns, choirs, and dance. Jesus tells us in John 4:23-24, "But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." Worship is not an emotion, and the church or a particular place is insignificant because worship is a relationship founded on the love of God with gratitude.
True worship should not only be the solo or praise dance a person perform in church or at a function. Worship should be when an individuals are alone with God. The Bible states that God is a spirit, so that means God cannot be placed in a boxed. God is omnipresent,
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The location of worship is an individual personal preference because it is a one-on-one conversation between God and His privileged people. Cherry mentions, "there is a mutual exchange, a holy dialogue, an invested sharing back and forth in worship. (9) The important thing is for men to worship the Lord because worship is for the most part about God. The Bible does not say how to worship because there are too much diverse of a people and style of worship in churches.
A true worshiper is when a person spirit connects with the Spirit of God. Unless a person heart/soul is involved in worship, it is only just music and lip sync, no connection with the Spirit and Truth of God in words sung. Scripture clearly says in Isaiah 29:13, "because this people draw near with their words and honor Me with their lip service, but they remove their hearts far from Me, and their reverence for Me consists of tradition learned by rote." Meaning, the people do not know Him, they just
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Worship is a regard for respect, honor, and devotion. For example, when Noah saw humanity drown in the sea after God told him to shut the door to the ark, he still respected who God is and still was obedient to God 's instructions. Because of Noah 's worship of obedience and his heartfelt for humankind, God promised not to destroy all living creation again. So, a lifestyle of a true worshiper is to live a life of love for God.
God initiates worship by pushing a person toward Him and their destiny through their struggles. The primary purpose of worship is the word of God. Worship is also kneeling before God accepting Him for who He is in the struggle and joy of life. For instance, God used Penniah to draw Hannah toward Him in prayer to conceive a child. Prayers of worship are never wasteful. A true worshiper prays until something happens and trust that God will come through on their behalf without giving up on Him and His love.
If a person is not born of the Spirit of God, he/she cannot worship God in the Spirit and know Him in Truth, because they are not aware of the Word of God. So they cannot distinguish true worship from false worship. This is revealed when the priest Eli thought Hannah was drunk and talking to herself when she was worshiping God in prayer. A person cannot worship whom they do not

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