Returning To The Heart of Worship

WORSHIP GOD WITH MY LIFE - ALL OF ME

Mark 12:30 (NKJV): And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.

Mark 12:30 (AMPC): And you shall love the Lord your God out of and with your whole heart and out of and with all your soul (your life) and out of and with all your mind (with your faculty of thought and your moral understanding) and out of and with all your strength. This is the first and principal commandment.

Ecclesiastics 12:13 (AMP): When all has been heard, the end of the matter is: fear God [worship Him with awe-filled reverence, knowing that He is almighty God] and keep His commandments, for this applies to every person.

Deuteronomy 32:3 (AMP): “For I proclaim the name [and presence] of the Lord; Ascribe greatness and honor to our God!

Romans 12:1 (NLT): Christian brothers, I ask you from my heart to give your bodies to God because of His loving-kindness to us. Let your bodies be a living and holy gift given to God. He is pleased with this kind of gift. This is the true worship that you should give Him.
2 Chronicles 16:9 (AMP): For the eyes of the Lord move to and for throughout the earth so that He may support those whose heart is completely His.
(MSG): God is always on the alert, constantly on the lookout for people who are totally committed to him.
Romans 12:1 PARAPHRASED: I beseech you therefore, I implore you, I beg of you, because of the mercies of God, that you present your body, soul, and spirit a living sacrifice; constantly re-dedicating yourself to the altar of God, because this is your true and your proper worship - this is what God deserves, and this is what He requires'.
Romans 12:1 (MSG): So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
2 Samuel 24:24 (MSG): But the king said to Araunah, “No. I’ve got to buy it from you for a good price; I’m not going to offer God, my God, sacrifices that are no sacrifice.” So David bought the threshing floor and the ox, paying out fifty shekels of silver. He built an altar to God there and sacrificed burnt offerings and peace offerings. God was moved by the prayers and that was the end of the disaster.

A. What Do You Call Your Time of Testing?

Genesis 22:1 (AMP): Now after these things, God tested [the faith and commitment of] Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he answered, “Here I am.”

Genesis 22:1 (VOICE): After a period of time, God decided to put Abraham to the test.

Verses 2-5 (AMP): 2: Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” 3: So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. 4: Then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off. 5: And Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; the lad and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you.”

Job 2:10: “Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity”. In all of this, the Bible says, Job did not sin with his lips.
Job 3:15: Job was reduced to sitting in the rubble of his once-prosperous life. After the loss of everything he held worthwhile, he still proclaimed: “Though He [God] slay me, yet will I trust Him”
Job 19:25: He later proclaimed: “I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth”
Job 1:20-21 (AMPC): Then Job arose and rent his robe and shaved his head and fell down upon the ground and worshiped 21: And said, Naked (without possessions) came I [into this world] from my mother’s womb, and naked (without possessions) shall I depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; blessed (praised and magnified in worship) be the name of the Lord!
Job 1:21: Despite his difficulties Job said, “The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord”
Job 14:14 (AMPC): If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare and service I will wait, till my change and release shall come.
Job 42:12: So Jehovah blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: and he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.
Hebrews 13:15 (AMP): Through Him, therefore, let us constantly and at all times offer up to God a sacrifice of praise, which is the fruit of lips that thankfully acknowledge and confess and glorify His name.
Genesis 22:3: tells us that Abraham “rose early in the morning.” He made all the preparations for his journey, saddling his donkey and summoning two servants. Then he awoke his son, Isaac.
Psalm 100:4: Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give him thanks! Praise his name!
Psalm 100:4 (MSG): Enter with the password: “Thank you!” Make yourselves at home, talking praise. Thank him. Worship him.
(AMPC): Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and a thank offering and into His courts with praise! Be thankful and say so to Him, bless and affectionately praise His name!


WORSHIP God In A Way That Pleases Him

Hebrews 12:28 (EXB): So let us be thankful, because we have [are receiving] a kingdom that cannot be shaken. [As a result; or In this way] We should worship God in a way that pleases him with ·respect [reverence; devotion] and fear [awe].

Psalm 103:1: Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name".