To understand what worship is PROGRAMME SEMINAR To

• To understand what worship is PROGRAMME SEMINAR • To understand the importance of worship in our lives • To understand how to get to a place of worship and where that place is • How to worship and what to expect when we do • To become a worshipper

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WHAT IS WORSHIP? • “Worship, the highest activity of the human spirit, relates us to the holiness of God” – Derek Prince • ”Our response to the presence of God” – Richard Glazebrook

“But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. ” John 4: 23 -24

WORDS FOR WORSHIP • In English, Worship. • In the OT, Shachar. • In the NT, Proskuneo

Therefore, WORSHIP is a response to the presence of Who He is we worship. Worship can only be Face to Face

WHO WE WORSHIP • We worship our God. • God is an awesome God. • God adopts us into His family.

“For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father. ” The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God. ” Romans 8: 15 -16

THE PLACE OF WORSHIP IN OUR LIFE • Mary and Martha – Luke 10: 38 -42 • Isaiah 6: 2 • The Lord’s Prayer

Intimate worship will always be our highest calling and aim in this life and then we pass on it’s only going to get better Brian Doerksen

PATHWAYS TO WORSHIP “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name. ” - Psalm 100: 4

ENTER HIS GATES WITH THANKSGIVING - Thanksgiving is the gateway to worship - Thanksgiving unlocks the miracle power of God

And Jesus took the loaves, and when He had given thanks He distributed them to the disciples, and the disciples to those sitting down; and likewise of the fish, as much as they wanted … however, other boats came from Tiberias, near the place where they ate bread after the Lord had given thanks – John 6: 11, 23

“…you shall call your walls Salvation, And your gates Praise” – Isaiah 60: 18 b

INTO HIS COURTS WITH PRAISE Oh come, let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. For the Lord is the great God, And the great King above all gods. In His hand are the deep places of the earth; The heights of the hills are His also. The sea is His, for He made it; And His hands formed the dry land. Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture, And the sheep of His hand. – Psalm 95: 1 -7

NEW COVENANT WORSHIP Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink, ’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water. ” – John 4: 10 whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life. ” – John 4: 14 the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him – John 4: 23

1. God is seeking worshippers 2. There are to worship in spirit and truth 3. He provides the way with the living water, the Holy Spirit. 4. The time is now.

Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 1 Corinthians 3: 16

Worship of the Father is not nearly men’s spirit on earth responding to God’s Spirit on heaven. It is the Holy Spirit on us responding to God’s Spirit on God. It is the Holy Spirit worshipping through us, how much more capable is He at this that we are. Paraphrase from Judson Cornwall

WORSHIP Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, and having a High Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. – Hebrews 10: 19 -22

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