God wants us to worship Him and He loves when we want to worship Him. But there is a wrong way to worship so today we find the way to worship that pleases God.
“Do you see what we’ve got? An unshakable kingdom! And do you see how thankful we must be? Not only thankful, but brimming with worship, deeply reverent before God.” Hebrews 12:28 MSG
There are four parts to worship that pleases God: accuracy, authenticity, thoughtfulness and practicality.
KEY VERSE
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” Mark 12:30 NIV
ACCURATE WORSHIP
When we worship correctly, God is pleased. We may not realise it, but sometimes, our worship is not based on scriptural truth. To please God, we need to devote time to learning about Him and studying His Word so that we can worship in truth.
“Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshippers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshippers the Father seeks.” John 4:23 NIV
AUTHENTIC WORSHIP
God wants us to be honest with Him. He wants us to come to Him regardless of our feelings because that’s what makes worship genuine.
“The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” 1 Samuel 16:7 NIV
When we worship what we say needs to have meaning. If we don’t mean it then why do we say it? God knows when our worship is insincere. He knows what we feel He just wants us to express our feelings to Him. God can handle our feelings and He would rather we worshipped genuinely than insincerely. He wants our imperfect worship.
THOUGHTFUL WORSHIP
Mindless worship is meaningless. What is the point of worshipping when we aren’t thinking of the one whom we are worshipping?
God doesn’t want our vague prayers or words of praise. He wants us to get specific and be creative in our worship. In fact, it pleases God when we do change it up because using the creativity He gave us is worship too.
“Otherwise when you are praising God in the Spirit, how can someone else, who is now put in the position of an inquirer, say “Amen” to your thanksgiving, since they do not know what you are saying?” 1 Corinthians 14:16 NIV
Worship is thoughtful because we keep our focus on God and that requires effort. If your worship is mindless you need to think about what you are actually worshipping because it’s not God.
PRACTICAL WORSHIP
We know worship is a lifestyle that needs to be rooted in truth, genuine and thoughtful. We know it pleases God when we live this way because God wants us to live for Him.
“Dear friends, God is good. So I beg you to offer your bodies to him as a living sacrifice, pure and pleasing. That’s the most sensible way to serve God.” Romans 12:1 CEV
When we live for God we offer our lives to Him. That means sacrificing things in pursuit of the life He calls us to live. God is pleased with our sacrifices of worship and such sacrifices include prayer (Psalm 141:2), praise (Psalm 54:6, Hebrews 13:15), gratitude (Psalm 50:14), repentance and humility (Psalm 51:17); also helping others, sharing possessions and financial offerings (Hebrews 13:16, Philippians 4:18),
Such worship pleases God but more important than any sacrifice is that we love God and others (Mk 12:33).
Now we know the way to worship that pleases God there is no excuse for not pleasing Him. Please share this post with someone you know needs this truth.
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