Welcome to my blog page. The discussion on this page will be about worshiping God and or any topic in the book #ACALL2WORSHIP.
Please feel free to ask any question or raise any point you may have about worship.
I would like to start off with the question, What is true worship unto God?
The first thing I want to say, is that, worshiping God is a lifestyle and not a onetime event. There are many different definitions that we can use to define the term “True Worship unto God.” Please tell us your definition and let’s discuss it. I would like to use the definition from David Peterson, “Worship of the true and living God is essentially an engagement with God in the terms that He sets and in the way that He alone makes possible.”
What does this mean?
God sets term for the way we should engage with Him. We can’t engage God the way we choose, so, What are these terms of engagement?
I believe that the first term of engagement is to acknowledge God for who He is. Some other terms for acknowledgement are; to recognize, to admit, to accept, to appreciate, to confess, just to name a few. When we acknowledge God, we confess that He is the creator of this universe and that He made us. He created the universe and everything within it. “Our Father which art in heaven hollowed be thy name” (Matthew 6:9 ). These are the first words that God told us to say when we pray. “Hollowed be thy name” is declaring that God is holy. It is an acknowledgement of who God is. “Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10). The second line is also an acknowledgement that God rules the heaven and the earth.
To acknowledge God is to recognize, to declare with our mouths and with our attitudes that we know who God is, knowing that it is He who made us.
Whether we choose to acknowledge God or not it really does not change who God is. However, we have to choose to make Him LORD over our lives. We have to choose to surrender ourselves to Him, but we have to first acknowledge Him.
There are many people today who don’t acknowledge God. Some people don’t believe that He exist or that there is a God. Some say that the universe started with ” The big bang.” Well, that Big Bang was when God said, “Let There Be Light” and there was light.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. (Genesis 1:1-5 NIV)
I want to tell those people out there that there is a God. He exist, and He is the creator of this universe. He is the creator of you and me. He is El Elyon ” God most high.”
What are your thoughts?
What are the other names of God that you can recall?
Charlene Audrey
April 25, 2019 at 2:29 amGood morning, i do like what you Saïd about Worship.
I just want to add that, #Worship is a Spirit.
In john4:24 the bible says that God is looking for worshipers, not only worshipers, but them who will worship him in SPIRIT and in Truth.
In SPIRIT 1st, why?
Because He is a Spirit.
Secondly, because to those who will dispose themselves to worship, He will give the Spirit that is needed for that.
That Spirit will be the one to attest whether the worship is genuine or no and will bring it to God.
In this End times, God is indeed looking for Worshipers, but much more He is looking for his Spirit in their worship.
Finally, I will add that worship is the overflow of the Love we bear for God,.
Well, we receive first his love, 2ndly we are so filled with it that we are now able to love him more and thirdly, we now so love him and we can’t contain it to the point that it is visible, manifested in everything we do, then we begin to worship in when we are talking preaching praying singing sleeping eating and doing any kind of activity.
Let God’s Love flow that we may love and worship Him today more than yesterday and yesterday more than today in Jesus’ name, amen!
Rayon Baugh
April 30, 2019 at 10:04 pmThank you Charlene for your comment and insight.