Basildon Healing Mission
(Eastside World Outreach Ministries)
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Worship
What is worship?
Can we identify why different churches are led to show different types of worship before the Lord, what is the lord looking for in our worship?
What are we doing when we worship the Lord?
Is 29:13 And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near Me with their mouth and honor Me with their lips but remove their hearts {and} minds far from Me, and their fear {and} reverence for Me are a commandment of men that is learned by repetition [without any thought as to the meaning],
It is not endless babbling of dead words which mean nothing.
Matt 15:8 These people {draw near Me with their mouths and} honor Me with their lips, but their hearts hold off {and} are far away from Me.
Neither is worship just opening our mouth and singing empty words, performing in public and offering up rehearsed words something that the Lord finds foul and empty. It is not seeking the lord for more of this or more of that, it is not to stand and complain; it is not shouting or making a fuss.
Worship is to lift God up, to lift Jesus higher to adore Him and give Him
Reverence to get on your knees before Him and Give Jesus all the Glory.
No matter how you are feeling, no matter what has happened Give Jesus all the glory.
Worship is love; it is true adoration of one so amazing that all we can think about day and night and talk about is that person.
You know what its like when someone is in love for the first time, they wont stop telling you how wonderful this person is, how he or she does this and that what he or she says. After a while you learn things about that person you never knew or really wanted to know. So should our love be with the Lord it should be an infectious love infecting those around you. They may never really have wanted to hear about Jesus at all but now are wondering who this great God is and how they can get to meet Him. When we are in love with someone it is sometimes said we worship the ground they walk on.
All we want to do is be near that person, when we are away we morn for them, longing for when we can be together again they become a part of us a part of our very lives and when they are not there its like a gapping hole which nothing will fill.
That is what life is like without Jesus, empty you may try everything to fill it, things may satisfy for a short while, but then you are left empty again.
But when Jesus comes into your life you are never the same again – Amen.
Once you have tasted the fruit off the vine nothing else satisfies or comes close. We serve a living God one who meets all our needs and loves us no matter what. How wonderful He is and how worthy to be worshiped He is.
Worship true worship needs to come from the heart from our very being.
Worship is so much more than just coming before the Lord and singing to Him, worship is showing your love for Him. True worship is opening ourselves up before the Lord and showing our love for Him. Remember to cast off your tattered garment and put on your garment of praise when you come before the Lord.
Worship brings us closer in a personal way to the Lord as we connect with Jesus in a way nothing else could.
It brings us into contact with the Lord into His very presence, there is healing in his presence, there is Joy in His presence. In the Presence of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords there is holiness and liberty.
Worship breaks through the veil of the flesh and brings us into a spiritual closeness as our spirit touches the spirit of God; we need to walk in spirit and truth if we are to be true Sons of God.
John 4:24 God is a Spirit (a spiritual Being) and those who worship Him must worship {Him} in spirit and in truth (reality).
Lets look at the following passage of scripture from the Gospel of Luke:-
Luke 7:36 One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to dine with him, and He went into the Pharisee's house and reclined at table.
Luke 7:37 And behold, a woman of the town who was an especially wicked sinner, when she learned that He was reclining at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment (perfume).
Here we have a woman who hears that Jesus is in town, the woman must have heard about Jesus and the miracles that He performed enough to convict the woman that she needed Jesus. We all need Jesus and when she discovered that He was nearby she was convicted of her sin. She goes and buys this alabaster box of perfume, it probably cost her everything she had, when we are in love with someone and realize we have done them a mighty wrong how far would we go to make it right with that person.
This woman knew who Jesus was, She knew she had to see Him.
Luke 7:38 And standing behind Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with [her] tears; and she wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed His feet [affectionately] and anointed them with the ointment (perfume).
She loved on Him and poured out her heart through her tears, dried His feet with her hair, such love that the woman poured out on Jesus. Then she kissed His feet and anointed them.
Luke 7:39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw it, he said to himself, If this Man were a prophet, He would surely know who and what sort of woman this is who is touching Him--for she is a notorious sinner (a social outcast, devoted to sin).
The Pharisees only saw with there eyes they had judged and condemned this woman, Jesus saw her heart, the humility that she would do this in front of such a crowd to show her love for Jesus. That through this Jesus saw her change of heart and her repentance, her conviction of her sin.
Luke 7:40 And Jesus, replying, said to him, Simon, I have something to say to you. And he answered, Teacher, say it.
Luke 7:41 A certain lender of money [at interest] had two debtors: one owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
Luke 7:42 When they had no means of paying, he freely forgave them both. Now which of them will love him more?
Luke 7:43 Simon answered, The one, I take it, for whom he forgave {and} cancelled more. And Jesus said to him, You have decided correctly.
Luke 7:44 Then turning toward the woman, He said to Simon, Do you see this woman? When I came into your house, you gave Me no water for My feet, but she has wet My feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.
Luke 7:45 You gave Me no kiss, but she from the moment I came in has not ceased [intermittently] to kiss My feet tenderly {and} caressingly.
Luke 7:46 You did not anoint My head with [cheap, ordinary] oil, but she has anointed My feet with [costly, rare] perfume.
Luke 7:47 Therefore I tell you, her sins, many [as they are], are forgiven her--because she has loved much. But he who is forgiven little loves little.
Luke 7:48 And He said to her, Your sins are forgiven!
Luke 7:49 Then those who were at table with Him began to say among themselves, Who is this Who even forgives sins?
Luke 7:50 But Jesus said to the woman, Your faith has saved you; go (enter) into peace [in freedom from all the distresses that are experienced as the result of sin].
How much does Jesus mean to you, what would you do to tell Him, the woman in the story went out and bought the alabaster box with oil, a gift that cost her all she had.
He woman was able to draw near to Jesus because He was in the flesh, like the oil she poured out her life to Him as a sacrifice she laid it down at His feet – are you hearing me!
What would you do for the Lord what gift will you bring before Him to lay down at His feet. The alabaster Box was a gift from her heart, it contained all her offering all her pain, everything she had what would you give for Him?
Worship is a reverence of who Jesus is an outpouring of your love showing Jesus just how important He is in your life. Experiencing His very presence, His Holiness and knowing that through out all this Jesus loved us first.
Ps 73:28 But it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the Lord God {and} made Him my refuge, that I may tell of all Your works.
Heb 4:16 Let us then fearlessly {and} confidently {and} boldly draw near to the throne of grace (the throne of God's unmerited favor to us sinners), that we may receive mercy [for our failures] and find grace to help in good time for every need [appropriate help and well-timed help, coming just when we need it].
If we are to have that true intimacy with Jesus then we need to love Him
and let Jesus love us.
God bless Bishops Tony and Marilyn
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