![]() There’s a reason that nearly every culture and religion incorporates worship into the act of worship. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through music.”- Martin Luther “Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. If we become bored with worship, it’s likely that we’ve lost sight of this truth. It’s mind blowing to think that we can worship God for thousands of years and never exhaust his worshipful attributes. Isn’t it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?”- Francis Chan His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can’t contain Him. “Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. It isn’t until we’re able to rightly prioritize God above everything else in our world that we can begin to worship in spirit and live that truth. If our world isn’t rightly ordered, we will end up worshiping and serving things besides God. “Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.”- Charles SpurgeonĮvery human being has a natural inclination toward praise and worship. The moment we lose that childlike sense of wonder, it’s hard to worship with any real vigor. It’s critical that we don’t become deadened to wonder because astonishment is a raw material for worship. We live in an amazing world that doesn’t lack for awe-inspiring marvels of nature and technology. “We are perishing for lack of wonder, not for lack of wonders.”- G.K. Sometimes the most powerful prayer we can pray is, “God, make me a worshiper.” 4. It’s appropriate and imperative that we ask God to rekindle a worshipful spirit within us. In this world, our hunger for worship will wax and wane. “You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. We can be taught why it’s important to praise and glorify our almighty God, but until it’s a regular part of our lives, we’ll never understand how God is using it to keep us focused. God uses worship to recenter our priorities and reestablish where our security lies. I need worship because my natural tendency is toward self-reliance and stubborn independence.”- John Ortberg I need to worship because without it I lose a sense of wonder and gratitude and plod through life with blinders on. I need to worship because without it I can forget his calling and begin to live in a spirit of self-preoccupation. ![]() “I need to worship because without it I can forget that I have a big God beside me and live in fear. It will not be an activity that comes from faith, pastors, worship leaders, or duty, but will be a natural response that arises from the first-hand experience with the living God. ![]() Someday worship will be an integral part of our everyday existence. “I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.”- A.W. (You can download all these images for free to use in your worship software, bulletin, or on social media here.) 1. Here are 19 powerful Christian inspirational quotes to help you understand worship better. Paul expressed this very idea when he said, “I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.” (Rom. True worship happens when our entire life becomes a declaration of faith in God’s incredible mercy. The Christian breathes in God’s goodness and exhales worship.įor a lot of the church, worship has become synonymous with singing-but that’s just one way that worship expresses itself. Praise and worship is how we express our love, adoration, admiration, and wonder at God’s presence. ![]()
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